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Speaker 1: Hi, gain everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast The Alley Lujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Addition,

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Speaker 1: as the Bengals rejoice on Opening Day after a thrilling

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Speaker 1: overtime win over the Minnesota Vikings. Coming up, you'll hear

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Speaker 1: radio replay from Sunday's game, postgame comments from players and coaches,

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Speaker 1: and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: Booth Podcast is presented by bud Light. Seltzer refreshed the game,

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Speaker 1: and here's a quick reminder that you can have the

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Speaker 1: or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since having a

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Speaker 1: large loud crowd back at Paul Brown Stadium. After playing

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Speaker 1: their home games at limited capacity last year, the Bengals

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Speaker 1: welcome more than fifty six thousand fans into the Jungle

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and they made a huge difference. The Vikings

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Speaker 1: committed three false start penalties on their first seven attempted

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Speaker 1: plays and were guilty of five false starts. In all,

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Speaker 1: here's Joe Burrow strictly because of the fans. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's why they give us such a big advantage. And

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Speaker 1: you know we're gonna keep winning, and they're gonna keep coming,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna get louder and louder and louders. The

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Speaker 1: Jungle truly lived up to the nickname. Now let's recap

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Speaker 1: the game. Neither team moved the ball in the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings had two first downs, the Bengals only had one.

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Speaker 1: But Minnesota started rolling in the second quarter. Third down

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Speaker 1: and twenty four for the Vikings, Shotgun snap Cousins with

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Speaker 1: a quick pass caught and Osbourne breaks out of a dongal,

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Speaker 1: streaks down the sideline and picks up the first down.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals could not stop the Vikings on third and

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Speaker 1: twenty four simply because they good not tackle kJ Osborne. Man,

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Speaker 1: that's just that's a sad state of affairs right there.

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Speaker 1: You gotta finalize that play. Eli Apple not only missed

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Speaker 1: the tackle, he was later called for defensive holding in

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Speaker 1: the end zone, negating a sack by Larry Ogenjobi and

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Speaker 1: setting up the game's first score. Vikings started at their

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Speaker 1: own nine. They have it at the Bengals five first

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Speaker 1: in goal. Cousins looking to pass fires wide open his Feeling.

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Speaker 1: He caught fourteen red zone touchdowns a year ago, and

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Speaker 1: he has his first one in twenty twenty one. Eli

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Speaker 1: Apple unable to stay with Adam Feeling. That was a

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Speaker 1: fourteen play drive that took nearly eight and a half

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Speaker 1: minutes off the clock. To that point, the Bengals had

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Speaker 1: punted on their first three possessions, but things were about

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Speaker 1: to change. Two deep safeties for the Vikings, Burrow back

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Speaker 1: to throw from the pocket, his pass cock by Jamar

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Speaker 1: Chase half the Vikings forty five, a first down pick

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Speaker 1: up on third and nine, and career catch number one

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Speaker 1: fort numero Uno Chabar Chase. Chase finished with five catches

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Speaker 1: for one hundred one yards and no drops. Zach Taylor

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Speaker 1: and Joe Burrows say they weren't worried about Jamar. I

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Speaker 1: would have been concerned if his approach wasn't the right way,

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Speaker 1: if he was sleeping in meetings and showing up late

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Speaker 1: and not doing that, then I would have been concerned.

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Speaker 1: But it was the exact opposite. Had a couple of

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Speaker 1: hope jam comes to play to day. I said, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game day. He's gonna come ready to play. Chase

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Speaker 1: help set up the tying td empty backfield, Burrow looking

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Speaker 1: t Higgins, touchdown Bengals. Burrows first touchdown pass of the

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Speaker 1: year and a Bengal store with one forty seven left

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Speaker 1: in the half that tied the score at seven, and

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Speaker 1: the Bengals defense got a three and out to give

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Speaker 1: the ball right back to Joe Burrow. Mix into the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks left. Burrow drops straight back to throw again. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna fire it long for Chase. Out of his shoulder

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass with thirty five seconds left in the half.

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Speaker 1: And for Shark Griland, he's not gritty, he's on his backside.

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Speaker 1: He got beaten. They are targeting Griland twenty one has

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Speaker 1: a target on his back and when Joe Barrow saw

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Speaker 1: a man coverage Breland on Chase, his eyes got big

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Speaker 1: and he threw big down the football field. Here's Burrow

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Speaker 1: on the fifty yard touchdown pass that made it fourteen

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Speaker 1: Burrow in the gun, mixing to his right, he hands

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Speaker 1: it to Joe Mixon. Joe struggling, twisting trying to get

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Speaker 1: in touchdown Bengals as Mixon takes it into the end

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Speaker 1: zone and the Bengals have gone up by two tds.

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Speaker 1: That made it twenty one to seven, and after the

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Speaker 1: defense forced the Vikings to pun again, the Bengals got

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Speaker 1: Burrow under center, the Vikings crowd the line, the Bengals

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Speaker 1: do go for it, and Mixon spinning forward at it,

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Speaker 1: he stopped at the thirty yard line. I am stunned,

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Speaker 1: beyond belief that the Bengals went for that. Wow, it's

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Speaker 1: a victory right there. You know, we're up twenty one

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Speaker 1: right there with the fourth and one. I should have

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Speaker 1: had a better play call. You know, they loaded at

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Speaker 1: Cousins catches the shotgun snap throws slat Cock by Feeling,

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Speaker 1: guy who goes to in the red zone. They were

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Speaker 1: on fourth down he didn't look anywhere else. So the

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Speaker 1: Bengals took a twenty one to fourteen lead to the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Last year, in the nine full games that

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow played, the Bengals had fourth quarter leads in

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Speaker 1: six and only one two against the Vikings. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: first NFL field goal try will be from fifty three

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Speaker 1: Huber extends the right hand, catches, puts it down. Evan

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Speaker 1: yards away, and the Bengals have taken a ten point

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Speaker 1: lead in the first minute of the fourth quarter. To

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Speaker 1: that point, the Bengals defense had been pretty dominant, but

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Speaker 1: the Vikings have too much offensive firepower to shut down

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Speaker 1: first down in goal from the one for Minnesota. Cousins

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Speaker 1: the left, Dalvin cook slicing back toward the middle, and

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Speaker 1: Minnesota touchdown. With a three point lead, the Bengals tried

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Speaker 1: Cousins completed six out of seven passes, giving kicker Greg

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Speaker 1: Joseph a chance to force overtime from fifty three yards away.

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Speaker 1: Here comes the swing of the right leg. The kick

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Speaker 1: Tied a twenty four. In overtime, the Bengals had to

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Speaker 1: punt on their first two possessions, and it didn't look

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Speaker 1: Vikings were on the verge of reaching comfortable field goal range.

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Speaker 1: Will the Vikings run it from the Bengals thirty eight

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Speaker 1: with two minutes left in overtime? The answer is yes.

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Speaker 1: Talvin Cook knocked down by the legs near the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage a one yard and the Bengals are celebrating.

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Speaker 1: Jesse Bates was the first guy there. Yes, it is

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Speaker 1: give it to him. Yes, the officials say, the Bengals

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Speaker 1: have the football. Jermaine Pratt with the recovery. Jermaine Pratt

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Speaker 1: ripped it out and recovered it, giving the Bengals one

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Speaker 1: last chance to win the game. Three offensive plays gained

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Speaker 1: forty eight. The Bengals not only decided to go for it,

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Speaker 1: they decided to go for Broke Burrow back to pass,

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Speaker 1: has time, throws it downfield for you, zat he has

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Speaker 1: it after thirty the twenty five about in the twenty

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Speaker 1: what a throw by Joe the Magician as he floated

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Speaker 1: it down field to cj Uzama. The Bengals are well

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Speaker 1: within field goal range with thirty one seconds on the clock,

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Speaker 1: and Cjayuzava lined up at the tight end position on

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Speaker 1: Burrow feathers a ball in their perfect touch. What a call.

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Speaker 1: Burrow walked to the line with two plays to choose

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Speaker 1: from and chose wisely. Here are Burrow and use Zamba

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Speaker 1: on a thirty two yard passing play on fourth and one.

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Speaker 1: You know we hit him with QB sneak early in

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Speaker 1: in the middle, So you know we had the second

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Speaker 1: play call. That's what I got to And you know

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Speaker 1: we've we've run that play multiple times over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, and I don't think we've thrown into

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Speaker 1: CJ one time, but credit to him, he was ready

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Speaker 1: for it. And now now I think the last two

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Speaker 1: years we've hit everybody on that play. So that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a good play for us. I've gotten the ball

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Speaker 1: one time in three years of that play, and it

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Speaker 1: was this week in practice against the air because Joe

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Speaker 1: wanted to run it against the air. And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a little surprising the ball is in the air.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it honestly was the perfect look for it.

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Speaker 1: So how would use Zamba describe that play? Call ballsy?

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Speaker 1: But I can't. That's that's that's that's the trust, you know.

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Speaker 1: big coona's there um by him. And again, unfortunately we

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Speaker 1: practice that one because it usually goes a lot shorter

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Speaker 1: But again that's the trust he hasn't in us. Joe

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Speaker 1: hasn't me to loft it up and having you go

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Speaker 1: get it. The Bengals ran the clock down to five

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Speaker 1: seconds remaining and called down their twenty two year old

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Speaker 1: kicker to win the game. The Bengals field goal unit

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Speaker 1: it's good to have a guy like that because he

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Speaker 1: not only does he kick them extreme length, they're straight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's very very accurate. He doesn't he doesn't

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Speaker 1: push it, he doesn't hook it. I mean he hits

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Speaker 1: it true and pure almost every time. It's incredible. So

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Speaker 1: the Bengals think wound up with three sacks today, but

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Speaker 1: they drew all of those holding penalties as well. I

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Speaker 1: There was good edge pressure, and then the push of

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Speaker 1: was pushing the pocket, you know, the ends would get

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Speaker 1: That's that's when you have something cooking. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: they only had seventeen sacks all year last year, and

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Speaker 1: to get three in the opener, plus all the disruption

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Speaker 1: with respect to penalty holding, penalty guys lining up too

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Speaker 1: fearful of what's happening on the edge. I gotta I

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Speaker 1: gotta get back. This guy's too quick, he's going to

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Speaker 1: be around me, you know. And the officials line judge

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Speaker 1: and side judge, good move by them not allowing them

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Speaker 1: to do that, you know. And and so they got

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Speaker 1: caught with the hand in the cookie jar trying that

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Speaker 1: that trick. But I thought overall, the dens of line

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Speaker 1: played very well. This team needed a week a week

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Speaker 1: one win after winning a total of six games the

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Speaker 1: last two years and really squandering good performances on opening

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Speaker 1: day each of the last two had they let this

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Speaker 1: thing slip through their fingertips, and it looked like they

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Speaker 1: were going to at the end of overtime. This would

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Speaker 1: have been a pretty devastating loss. One score games into

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Speaker 1: two years under Zach going into this two thirteen and one.

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Speaker 1: Now they're three thirteen and one. It would have been

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Speaker 1: probably to go to fourteen and one, particularly with that,

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Speaker 1: like you said, two score lead, Uh what six minutes

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Speaker 1: to go in the in the in the second, in

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Speaker 1: the first half of three minutes to go there up

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Speaker 1: by fourteen points fourteen points, So yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: that's uh, you got you gotta finish those off. There's

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Speaker 1: no question about it. And and I think I think

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Speaker 1: this will this will go a long way. I think

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Speaker 1: they realize that there's going to be ebbs and flows,

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Speaker 1: peaks and valleys, and you can't you can't let one

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Speaker 1: play or you know, like a fourth and one not

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Speaker 1: converting turn into multiple bad plays as a unit, defense, offense,

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Speaker 1: special teams, or individually. Eli Apple had a drive in

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Speaker 1: there that you know he'd like to forget. Well, you

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Speaker 1: can't just forget the drive. You have to forget the

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Speaker 1: play because you can't make you know, like three mistakes

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Speaker 1: like he did on that one drive one bad play

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Speaker 1: can't turn into three bad plays. The same for unit.

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Speaker 1: You know, one assignment mistake or bad play can't turn

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Speaker 1: into two or three or are they going to score

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Speaker 1: on you in a heartbeat. But I do think the

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Speaker 1: thing I liked one of the things I like most

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Speaker 1: about that game, And I talked to both of them

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Speaker 1: in the locker room after the game. When Jamar Chase

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Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow saw Jamar Chase had breathing one on one,

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Speaker 1: both their eyes get big and they're like, this looks

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Speaker 1: familiar and downtown, huge touchdown, big play in a game

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Speaker 1: like this, you can go back to so many players.

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Speaker 1: I remember Bill Tiger Johnson, my first line coach, saying,

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Speaker 1: young man, these games in the NFL, for the most part,

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Speaker 1: there're gonna be some mismatches, but for the most part,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to three, maybe five plays during

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Speaker 1: the course of the whole game that's going to determine

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Speaker 1: the outcome of the game. And you don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's in the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, or

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. So you've got to play your tail off

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Speaker 1: every single snap. You feel me, yes, sir, I got you.

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Speaker 1: And that's literally how it is. In the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: There's there's no two ways about it. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing was on this game, the turnover the takeaway that

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Speaker 1: was massive obviously, and now they're five two and one

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Speaker 1: under Zach. When they win the turnover margin, you know,

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Speaker 1: small sample size unfortunately in thirty three games, but they're

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Speaker 1: own sixteen when they don't. They haven't won when they're negative,

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Speaker 1: so it's big to win the turnover margin and they

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Speaker 1: hopefully will continue that. I forgot to say it during

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Speaker 1: the broadcast. I'll say it now. Coffin nails. That's right. Bam, bam, bam.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you it took a while, but they

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Speaker 1: finally got the hammer out to pound those nails and

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Next a road game in Chicago against

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and the Bears. That's going to do it.

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