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Speaker 1: as the Bengals get their first win of the year
Speaker 1: beating the Panthers in Carolina thirty four to twenty four.
Speaker 1: Coming up radio replays, locker room comments and postgame analysis
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Speaker 1: thing since winning. Yep. Pretty simple. This week, it was
Speaker 1: great to say coffin nails and here lap say Bam
Speaker 1: Bam bam for the first time in eight months. In
Speaker 1: twenty two days now time for the radio replays. When
Speaker 1: Marv Levy was the coach of the Buffalo Bills, reporter
Speaker 1: asked him if an upcoming game was a must win.
Speaker 1: Coach Levy said, no, World War Two was a must win,
Speaker 1: so maybe must win isn't the proper phrase.
Speaker 2: Today, we will.
Speaker 1: Go with badly needed as the Bengals look for their
Speaker 1: first win of the season against the Carolina Panthers. And
Speaker 1: it is time for the pig skin to fly here
Speaker 1: at Bank of.
Speaker 2: America Stadium in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Chris Jenkins checks in is an extra defensive lineman at
Speaker 1: his fourth and inches. It's a handoff to Hubber. He's
Speaker 1: sworn down. The Bengals stop the Panthers on fourth and
Speaker 1: goal in side the one Dalton in the gun, two
Speaker 1: receivers to each side. The ball's on the right hash
Speaker 1: On third down and eight from the thirty four yard line,
Speaker 1: Dalton catches all out blitz coming Andy gets rid of it.
Speaker 1: It's fluttering up in the air and accepted by Von
Speaker 1: Bell running back to the forty thirty five thirty hit
Speaker 1: from behind and knock Doun the bounds inside the twenty.
Speaker 1: The pass rush led to a wounded duck of a throw,
Speaker 1: and Von Bell picked it off and ran it.
Speaker 2: Back inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: Chase Brown is the running back as Burrow waits for
Speaker 1: a shotgun snap. It's a hand on Chase Brown flies
Speaker 1: into the end zone and spikes in with the right hand.
Speaker 2: Touchdown Bengals.
Speaker 1: Dalton's in the shotgun are running back on either side,
Speaker 1: gives it to Hubbard and Chuba. Hubbard down to the
Speaker 1: goal line is in touchdown. Carolina Burrow in the gun.
Speaker 1: On third down and three, the Bengals hit their own
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Joe Looking has lots of time, has pass
Speaker 1: caught at the fifty by Jamar. Chase breaks a tackle
Speaker 1: streaking down the far sideline. He's got two teammates to
Speaker 1: walk and he will take it to the house for
Speaker 1: a sixty three yard Bengals touchdown.
Speaker 2: To pistol formation.
Speaker 1: On first and goal from the eighth, Dalton catches, extends
Speaker 1: the ball, fakes, rolls left, throws caught by Lee gets
Speaker 1: in the end zone for the Panthers touchdown third and
Speaker 1: goal from the one six seconds left.
Speaker 2: In the half.
Speaker 1: Fourteen to fourteen is the score. Burrow waiting back at
Speaker 1: the six for the snap from Ted Carris.
Speaker 2: Joe catches throws a swing pass.
Speaker 1: Moss slipped but dies for the end zone and gets
Speaker 1: in touchdown Bengals with one second left in the half.
Speaker 1: A risky call. They passed it into the flat short
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Zach Moss actually slipped but got
Speaker 1: back on his feet and scored first and goal from
Speaker 1: the two, and the Bengals are going to go hurry up.
Speaker 1: Burrow's under center, Chase Brown in at running back. They
Speaker 1: give it to the second year running back and Chase
Speaker 1: Brown lowers the shoulder pads and goes into the end
Speaker 1: zone for the Bengals touchdown. Chuba Hubbard back in at
Speaker 1: running back that he lines up as a slot receiver.
Speaker 1: Dalton throwing down the middle of the field, touchdown in
Speaker 1: the middle of the end zone too.
Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 1: Burrow repositions Zack Moss, Joe clapping his hands. He catches
Speaker 1: a chest high snap, looking in trouble, running left, spins around,
Speaker 1: running backward, turns downfield, caught by Zack Moss runs to
Speaker 1: the forty, stutters step at the forty five, and auto
Speaker 1: bounds at the fifty A miraculous extension of the play.
Speaker 1: Moneymack trying to deliver in the clutch from forty six
Speaker 1: yards away.
Speaker 2: Adam I is ready to snap it.
Speaker 1: The snap, the placement, the right footed gick on its way.
Speaker 1: It is good and that should be coffin nails.
Speaker 2: Sam bam, bam. It's about time. Eight seconds to go.
Speaker 2: Gets snapped back to Dalton.
Speaker 1: Andy forced to scramble, gets away from Logan Wilson. Dalton
Speaker 1: running down field, he gets out of bounds, but the clock.
Speaker 2: Is at zero and that will do it.
Speaker 1: Yes, the sky is not falling as the Bengals get
Speaker 1: a badly needed road victory, their first win of the year.
Speaker 1: They beat the Carolina Panthers thirty four to twenty four.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with the offense. Joe Burrow through
Speaker 1: his first interception of the year. But I think we
Speaker 1: can all live with won every four games for the season.
Speaker 1: He's completing seventy one percent of his passes, with seven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one pick, and a passer rating of one oh five
Speaker 1: point nine. And no questions about lifting water bottles for
Speaker 1: three straight weeks. And how about running back Chase Brown?
Speaker 1: He carried fifteen times for eighty yards both career highs
Speaker 1: and scored a pair of touchdowns. For the season, he's
Speaker 1: averaging a robust six point three yards per attempt. I
Speaker 1: talked to him after the game, Chase Brown, how's that
Speaker 1: w feel amazing?
Speaker 3: I mean, we needed to bring some energy to the
Speaker 3: locker room the team.
Speaker 4: You know, just.
Speaker 3: Important to social role into our first divisional game next week.
Speaker 5: In the Ravens.
Speaker 3: I just want to carry this momentum in the next
Speaker 3: week and the.
Speaker 5: Rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Is there a weight off your shoulders.
Speaker 4: In a way?
Speaker 3: Like we wanted that win really bad. We needed that
Speaker 3: win really bad. But I mean we knew what we
Speaker 3: were capable of. We know we need to do to
Speaker 3: take this team where we want to go, and we're
Speaker 3: just gonna keep on working hard on our heads down
Speaker 3: and going out there and playing good, complimentary football.
Speaker 6: And that's all we can do.
Speaker 1: Eighty rushing yards for you, that's a new career high.
Speaker 1: Two touchdown runs, your first two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 2: In the NFL. How about your personal performance?
Speaker 6: How did that?
Speaker 2: I mean, Hu Street, Who's are the whole line? They
Speaker 2: were open? Know stuff like crazy?
Speaker 7: Today?
Speaker 3: We probably should have had another fifty.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was a huge home run.
Speaker 3: Uper to me there that I gotta caught trip up
Speaker 3: on that. So, I mean, you know, personal staff one thing,
Speaker 3: but this is a good team win.
Speaker 5: It took all of us. So that's what we're focused
Speaker 5: on right now. That's what I'm focused on.
Speaker 1: You scored two on the ground and Zach Moss had
Speaker 1: the huge touchdown with one second left in the second quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great job to maintain his balance when it looked like
Speaker 1: he might slip. People were getting it.
Speaker 4: No, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean that that dude, that dude's different is builded.
Speaker 2: The brave tackles is when.
Speaker 3: You guys see it every single game.
Speaker 2: I see it that.
Speaker 3: Practice on time, So I would I would expect nothing less.
Speaker 1: Final driving the game, no passes. They counted on the
Speaker 1: O line, and you guys can drain the clock and
Speaker 1: set up Moneymack.
Speaker 2: For the game plinch raft.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal when you can do that, when
Speaker 1: the other team knows.
Speaker 2: It's tone, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean they were, they were stacking up the box,
Speaker 3: they were gapped out. But we know, you know, we
Speaker 3: know what's coming. We've been praying for those moments. It's
Speaker 3: a minute. We know we just want to put up
Speaker 3: points up at the end. And the same thing is
Speaker 3: just keep the rock on our side and you don't
Speaker 3: check that that field going to really.
Speaker 1: Push the dagger in congrandsender badly needed winning, thank you.
Speaker 1: Then there's the other Chase Jamar, who finished with three
Speaker 1: catches for eighty five yards, including that ridiculous sixty three
Speaker 1: yard TD. You've probably seen the video of him searching
Speaker 1: for his dad, Jimmy in the stands and then tossing
Speaker 1: him the football. Well, as it turns out, his father
Speaker 1: was actually the middleman.
Speaker 8: I was just giving it to my dask, so'd to
Speaker 8: give it to my grandparents. I haven't seen him in
Speaker 8: a couple of years, and they stay out here in
Speaker 8: North Carolina, so you know, I just want to give
Speaker 8: him a game ball. And you know I'm finna go
Speaker 8: see him after this, So I just want to give
Speaker 8: him a game ball.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 5: Especially about score today?
Speaker 1: So with your grandparents looking on and the first time
Speaker 1: you've seen him in a couple of years, how big
Speaker 1: was it to make a memorable play with them in attendance?
Speaker 2: It was good man?
Speaker 8: No, I told t before the game, you know, if
Speaker 8: my grand if I get the score. I'm trying to
Speaker 8: get my grandparents the ball, so I actually called it,
Speaker 8: but it was just, you know, it's just a blessed
Speaker 8: man to have opportunities still play in front of my grandparents,
Speaker 8: who's still alive at the moment, So you know, it's
Speaker 8: nothing but but a blessing at this moment.
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say those are two very
Speaker 1: proud grandparents. As for the defense, the Bengals gave up
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five yards, including one fifty five rushing,
Speaker 1: but they held the Panthers to twenty four points. That's
Speaker 1: twelve fewer than they scored against the Raiders last week.
Speaker 1: And the Bengals made that huge goal line stop on
Speaker 1: Carolina's opening drive on fourth and goal inside the one
Speaker 1: with defensive tackles bj Hill and Sheldon Rank and still
Speaker 1: out with hamstring injuries. Sam Hubbard moved inside for quite
Speaker 1: a few snaps and talked to Dave Lapham about it
Speaker 1: after the game.
Speaker 4: How many different positions did you play today?
Speaker 2: A few?
Speaker 9: I think we're down a bunch of guys and had
Speaker 9: to fill in a nose tackle and three technique and
Speaker 9: get some uh, some guys on the edge. Cedric stepped
Speaker 9: in great joseph Osa, Trey obviously was Trey, and uh yeah,
Speaker 9: whatever the team needs, I'm down for it. It's it's
Speaker 9: about win and we got that win today and man
Speaker 9: does it feel good after those rough three weeks and
Speaker 9: now we we got to start stacking.
Speaker 4: Them for four games into the NFL season, so many
Speaker 4: injuries and guys having to step up. But that's the
Speaker 4: nature of the Beasts in the National Football League. When
Speaker 4: your name is called, time to step up, right, Yeah.
Speaker 9: That's the sport that we play, you know, and you
Speaker 9: never know when your opportunity is gonna come, and uh
Speaker 9: you make the most of it. And guys that come
Speaker 9: in and you know, provide depth. You know that those
Speaker 9: teams are the most successful. It's a long season, a
Speaker 9: very long season, and we're gonna need everybody in this
Speaker 9: locker room. And I really love this this team.
Speaker 4: Sam talk about bending but not breaking. Twelve play drive,
Speaker 4: they go to the one foot line. I mean, you
Speaker 4: bend as much as you could, but you didn't break.
Speaker 4: I mean that was unbelievably important in this football game.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, especially with how we played last week defense,
Speaker 9: we really wanted to step up and to start the
Speaker 9: game like that and just you know, never vote on
Speaker 9: each other, never, never give up. It really just set
Speaker 9: the tempo for the day. And you know that was
Speaker 9: that was very important to us.
Speaker 4: Sam. It's a former offensive lineman. I hate to admit it,
Speaker 4: but looking at the inside of your bicep, they're holding
Speaker 4: you like the son of a gun man. You got
Speaker 4: you got marks and digs all over you. They're grabbing
Speaker 4: you like crazy out there, aren't they.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's real on the inside, no doubt. It's been
Speaker 9: a couple of years since I played in there, but
Speaker 9: it's a grind, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Here's helping. Reinforcements are on the way. In addition to
Speaker 1: the possible return of Hill and Rankins, Miles Murphy and
Speaker 1: McKinley Jackson are eligible to start practicing and potentially playing
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Speaker 1: Let's hear what head coach Zach Taylor had to say
Speaker 1: as he spent a few minutes with Lap after the game.
Speaker 4: Coach gad to get one man that that first one
Speaker 4: was getting a little loosive and got it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean that's sometimes it's gonna be ugly. And
Speaker 6: we found a way to finish, you know, as pleased
Speaker 6: the defense be able to get it at three and
Speaker 6: out at the end of the game, get the offense
Speaker 6: the ball back, were able to burn the clock getting
Speaker 6: a field goal range, finish it off the right way.
Speaker 6: It's not always gonna be pretty in this league. That's
Speaker 6: a well coached football team. They're only going to continue
Speaker 6: to improve as the season goes. And got a lot
Speaker 6: of respect for him. But now it's put that one
Speaker 6: to bed and show back up at home next week
Speaker 6: for a big divisional game.
Speaker 4: Coin toss win. Defer Man, did that work out? You
Speaker 4: scored touchdown with a second to go in the first
Speaker 4: half and then your score first possession in the third quarter.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't draw it up any better than that.
Speaker 6: I mean, truthfully, that's what we talked about as a
Speaker 6: team this week, is defern the coin toss offense defense
Speaker 6: because that's a chance the tone and then offense finish
Speaker 6: them off to start the third quarter. And maybe some
Speaker 6: opportunities we missed there late in the third to finish
Speaker 6: them off, But overall, was pleased with how the guys
Speaker 6: executed the plan.
Speaker 4: You rush for over one hundred and thirty yards out
Speaker 4: of your tailback position, I think probably over one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty, you know, as a football team, and then
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow is Joe Burrow thrown for two hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty plus or whatever and a couple of touchdowns when
Speaker 4: your offense is balanced like that. Scored thirty three points
Speaker 4: last week, thirty four points this week. I mean, you
Speaker 4: guys are in a nice role, and.
Speaker 6: It feel still like we're leaving some on the field,
Speaker 6: you know. So again it's I don't think we've reached
Speaker 6: our potential yet, but we're certainly playing at a place
Speaker 6: where there's a lot of confidence and so again still
Speaker 6: room to grow, and we're excited about that.
Speaker 4: What about red zone today? A red zone execution? You
Speaker 4: think you up the andy there a little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had a tough go there. You know, we're
Speaker 6: when we lost fifteen yards on a completion somehow and
Speaker 6: then got a penalty on a nice draw play. So
Speaker 6: there's still some room to grow there, But I thought
Speaker 6: the execution was good.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what, Andy Dalton, man, I mean,
Speaker 4: there were two or three I know he'd like to
Speaker 4: have back, but almost every other throw there was a
Speaker 4: chance to make a play on his teammates didn't necessarily
Speaker 4: always come up with them. But man, that guy can
Speaker 4: still put it in good spots, can't he.
Speaker 6: I Mean, there were two guys last week to go
Speaker 6: for over three hundred and three touchdowns as Joe Burrow
Speaker 6: Andy Dalton, and so he's proven that he still plays
Speaker 6: at a high level. We obviously think the world of
Speaker 6: him and all that he's done for me in this organization,
Speaker 6: and I'm not surprised that he's still effective out there,
Speaker 6: and I'm just glad to get get that one away
Speaker 6: from him.
Speaker 4: How about Sam Hubbard, He's playing nose tackle out there
Speaker 4: at the end of the football game. I Mean, here's
Speaker 4: a guy that'll do anything for his football team, won't he.
Speaker 6: That's right, I Mean, that's what a Bengle is. He's
Speaker 6: willing to do anything he's got to do and put
Speaker 6: ego aside and just go out there and play ball
Speaker 6: and try to help us where we can with our
Speaker 6: detackle situation. And you know, that's why the guy's a
Speaker 6: captain and that's why he leads us.
Speaker 4: Both of these football teams have been hit by injury
Speaker 4: and only four games in. I mean, you never know
Speaker 4: when they're gonna come, and when they come, sometimes unfortunately
Speaker 4: come in bunches.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: The guys that you know, next man up, the next
Speaker 4: guys that had to play, played pretty well for you.
Speaker 2: That's how it is.
Speaker 6: Everyone goes through a lot of adversity, everyone goes through injuries,
Speaker 6: and you got to rely on your depth.
Speaker 4: So here we go. Next opponent, AFC North Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 4: and we all know what it's like playing in the
Speaker 4: AFC North. Got to kind of get over this one,
Speaker 4: lick some wounds with their orny and get ready to
Speaker 4: roll right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, awesome opportunity, get our first home win, get our
Speaker 6: first divisional wins against a great opponent. What more could
Speaker 6: you ask for?
Speaker 1: Up next the home game against Ragning MVP Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and the Baltimore Ravens. Lamar is eight and one in
Speaker 1: nine career starts against the Bengals. I'm posting this podcast
Speaker 1: before the end of the Sunday night game, so I
Speaker 1: don't know if Baltimore beat Buffalo or vice versa, but
Speaker 1: the other two teams in the AFC North lost. The
Speaker 1: Steelers are three and one after losing an Indy and
Speaker 1: the Browns are one in three after losing in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Now time for the radio guys recap. Was a pretty
Speaker 1: palpable sense of relief in that Bengals locker room after
Speaker 1: getting that badly needed first win.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean, life in the NFL can be tough
Speaker 4: when you're losing close football games. When you lose in
Speaker 4: one score football games, I mean you're so close and
Speaker 4: just you know, you needed to make another play, any
Speaker 4: phase of it, and just didn't. In this football game,
Speaker 4: you could tell, man, there's a big xhale in that
Speaker 4: locker room. I mean, guys were happy to get that
Speaker 4: first W. So sometimes that first win can be major
Speaker 4: league elusive, and it was for these guys, but they
Speaker 4: got one on the road, and life's not easy on
Speaker 4: the road in the National Football League. To pull out
Speaker 4: of w helps A.
Speaker 1: Lot of big plays in the game, including a fourth
Speaker 1: and less than a yard stop on Carolina's opening possession.
Speaker 1: I think Chris Jenkins was the guy that led the
Speaker 1: charge in the interior portion of the defensive line. Obviously
Speaker 1: that was huge, not only to keep Carolina off the scoreboard,
Speaker 1: just but just that kind of endless sense that the
Speaker 1: defense couldn't get a stop exactly.
Speaker 4: Joe asked him about that very thing in his postgame
Speaker 4: and he said his response was that set the tone
Speaker 4: for the game. You know, that was that was something
Speaker 4: that both sides of the ball fed off of and
Speaker 4: it ended up being a huge, huge factor in a
Speaker 4: one score football game like it ended up being. So,
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, talk about bending, he've been as
Speaker 4: far as you get Ben literally there the one foot
Speaker 4: line can't bend any further. But they didn't break twelve
Speaker 4: play drive till the one foot line. You come away
Speaker 4: with nothing. That's that's tough to deal with. But I
Speaker 4: got to give them credit. I mean, they stayed in
Speaker 4: the football game. They bounced back and made it a
Speaker 4: heck of a football game.
Speaker 1: Offensively, the point total keeps going up. It has increased
Speaker 1: in all four games this season. I mean, it wasn't perfect,
Speaker 1: but anytime you score thirty plus, you got to fel
Speaker 1: pretty good about the way they're playing on that side
Speaker 1: of the ball.
Speaker 4: I agree, I think you know the fact that you
Speaker 4: get one hundred over a hundred thirty yards rushing from
Speaker 4: your two tailbacks one hundred and forty one yards overall
Speaker 4: with Borrow's ten yards scramble average four and a half
Speaker 4: yards per. I mean, defensively, Carolina was able to run
Speaker 4: the football as well against the Bengals defense one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty five yards five point three per Hubbard had
Speaker 4: one hundred yard day, so you know, I mean, the
Speaker 4: good news is Bengals ran the football. Bad news is
Speaker 4: Bengals didn't stop the run. And Andy Dalton fed off
Speaker 4: of that with a decent performance. But Joe Burrows was better.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow had a quarterback rating of over one hundred
Speaker 4: andyes was just over eighty three, so two touchdown passes
Speaker 4: and one interception each. And that's the thing I think
Speaker 4: about this game as well, Dan, is you know it
Speaker 4: was well played. Nobody put the ball on the ground
Speaker 4: in terms of a fumble. Neither football team did that.
Speaker 4: Both teams threw an interception. The penalty numbers weren't crazy
Speaker 4: five penalties for thirty nine yards, six for thirty seven.
Speaker 4: I mean, they didn't self destruct, so its a matter
Speaker 4: of who was going to make the most plays. And
Speaker 4: into the game we thought red zone was going to
Speaker 4: be a big deal with the Panthers defense. They gave
Speaker 4: up eight touchdowns and nine possessions, Bengals three for three.
Speaker 4: So now it's eleven touchdowns and twelve red zone possessions.
Speaker 4: That's that's scary. I mean, that's I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't know how you rectify that problem. That's a major
Speaker 4: league problem for the Carolina Panthers. They scored two red
Speaker 4: zone touchdowns and three opportunities themselves, and the Bengals scored
Speaker 4: twenty one points with ten minutes of possession time in
Speaker 4: the first half. That was crazy efficient. The Bengals tighten
Speaker 4: that up. I mean it was only like almost a
Speaker 4: little over two minute difference by the time the game
Speaker 4: was over with. But in that first half, you know,
Speaker 4: even scoring twenty one points, you know, all the guys
Speaker 4: felt like, hey, we just didn't have the ball. We
Speaker 4: didn't really establish any rhythm and timing of sorts. You know,
Speaker 4: just we're efficient with a dough and got twenty one
Speaker 4: on the board was big.
Speaker 1: This is the second straight game the Chase Brown has
Speaker 1: set up personal rushing high. He had eighty rushing yards
Speaker 1: in the game, a couple of touchdown runs. And you
Speaker 1: made an interesting point on the broadcast late in the
Speaker 1: game when you said, every time he gets the ball,
Speaker 1: you hold your breath a little bit thinking that he's
Speaker 1: about to break a long.
Speaker 4: One, telling you, man, that kid his acceleration is so
Speaker 4: quick that when when he takes that first acceleration stuff,
Speaker 4: it's like, well, is this going to be it? And
Speaker 4: you wonder if the crease is big enough, because he
Speaker 4: can he can work his way through some pretty tight
Speaker 4: ones with that explosion that he has. He's a He's
Speaker 4: a problem for defenses, there's no doubt. I mean, catching
Speaker 4: the ball, you know, out of the backfield, screen passes,
Speaker 4: running the football like he's able to. You know, he
Speaker 4: still has to work on the blitz pickup stuff, make
Speaker 4: sure that he's lined up the right Why they had
Speaker 4: to burn a timeout on that with a blitz pickup
Speaker 4: responsibility got to tighten tighten that kind of stuff up.
Speaker 4: But man, physically and athletically, he's a gem.
Speaker 1: A Marius Men has made his first started right tackle.
Speaker 1: I know he spoke to him after the game. Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton had a lot of time to throw most of
Speaker 1: the time. What do you think of this line right now?
Speaker 4: I think I think the Bengals offensive line is is
Speaker 4: doing doing a heck of a job. I mean, Borrow
Speaker 4: was effusive in his praise, you know, in the postgame
Speaker 4: about how well the offensive line did. There were times
Speaker 4: back there with Joe was really I mean, you know, bouncing,
Speaker 4: bouncing a few times and it's like, man, they're locking
Speaker 4: them up pretty good. You know. Marius BIMs was not
Speaker 4: surprisingly extremely humble and he said, you know, I'm going
Speaker 4: to learn a lot every single week. This was the
Speaker 4: starting point. And uh he credited both Trent and Orlando
Speaker 4: for making life easier for him. And that's the good
Speaker 4: thing is he listens to those guys. Some rookies think
Speaker 4: they know it all this, this young man understands it.
Speaker 4: These guys have been in the league for as long
Speaker 4: as they have for a reason, and they've been to
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl and won a Super Bowl and been
Speaker 4: to the Pro Bowl, and so he's going to listen
Speaker 4: to guys. And that's that's the way, right way to
Speaker 4: approach it. I think he's going to be around a
Speaker 4: long time, playing at a very high level.
Speaker 1: Man Joe had a lot of time to throw by
Speaker 1: and large so did Andy Dalton. As rush remains very
Speaker 1: much a working progress.
Speaker 4: Yeah it does. And I mean Sam Hubbard's taking snaps
Speaker 4: of nose tackle today, taking snaps to three technique, and
Speaker 4: he's doing anything the team needs him to do. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's such an unselfish player. And then Trey, I mean
Speaker 4: not exactly sure what the injury is to Tray, but
Speaker 4: everybody's hopeful that's not significant and serious. I mean, you
Speaker 4: take away that guy off the edge, that's that's your
Speaker 4: that's your guy. When you're when you're missing a guy
Speaker 4: who always is disruptive and they have to account for him.
Speaker 4: And if that, if that is not available in the
Speaker 4: football field, and that's almost irreplaceable.
Speaker 1: So bring out in the Ravens next week at pay
Speaker 1: Corse Stadium. As we do this interview, they're one and
Speaker 1: two with a home game against the undefeated Buffalo Bills tonight.
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see how that one goes. But the
Speaker 1: Bengals at least put themselves into a position where if
Speaker 1: they can be an excellent team at home next Sunday.
Speaker 1: Then they are truly right back in the hunt.
Speaker 4: And we know Dan that every time that they've done
Speaker 4: well for an entire season and been a playoff team
Speaker 4: and competitive in the playoffs, they've handled the division. They've
Speaker 4: played well in the division. So here comes division matchup
Speaker 4: number one, and we know what the AFC is all about.
Speaker 4: It's physical, it's cathlic, it's fast. I mean, it's got
Speaker 4: it all. And the fact is, with Pittsburgh going down today,
Speaker 4: there are only two games out after four games played.
Speaker 1: The sweet Nectar of Victory returned at last, nearly nine
Speaker 1: months since the last time preseason included that the Bengals
Speaker 1: won one.
Speaker 4: Sweet Nectar of the victory Gods. I thought they had
Speaker 4: deserted us. I'm like, where are the victory Gods? But
Speaker 4: that first sip tasted so.
Speaker 1: Good as well my first sip of a cold Sinsy light.
Speaker 1: When I'm finished with this podcast, here's an invitation to
Speaker 1: join us for the Bengals Game Plan Show on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: If you live in the Cincinnati area, We'll be at
Speaker 1: Oakley Greens from six to eight and Orlando Brown JUNI
Speaker 1: you're a scheduled to join us in the first hour.
Speaker 1: If you can't make it, you can listen on ESPN
Speaker 1: fifteen thirty or search for ESPN fifteen thirty on the
Speaker 1: free iHeartMedia app. Finally, it's time for this week's fun
Speaker 1: Fact segment, where you get to know the person under
Speaker 1: the pads. Time for some fun facts with tight End
Speaker 1: Mike Kasiki, a Jersey guy. Your hometown is listed as Stafford,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, which is on the Jersey Shore north of
Speaker 1: Atlantic City. Describe your hometown and some of the things
Speaker 1: you love about it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So Stafford is the you know, the town whatever
Speaker 7: I'm from, like Long Beach Island.
Speaker 5: It's just a beach town down in New Jersey.
Speaker 7: I grew up right there and from my parents grew up,
Speaker 7: and it's where my whole family's grown up.
Speaker 5: So I love it.
Speaker 7: It's I love, you know, spending my summers back in
Speaker 7: New Jersey. I now live about a half hour north
Speaker 7: of there, and you know, know, it's it's what, It's
Speaker 7: where I call home. So that's where you know. Now
Speaker 7: I'm you know, with my wife and you know we
Speaker 7: live in New Jersey and her family's there, I mean,
Speaker 7: so that's that's definitely home base.
Speaker 1: You were a star athlete in high school and football, basketball,
Speaker 1: and volleyball. Did you basically jump from one thing to
Speaker 1: the next, and do you think it was good for
Speaker 1: your overall development?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I did. Uh.
Speaker 7: I mean it was just you know, three seasons of
Speaker 7: sports in high school and I was playing you know,
Speaker 7: football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and then
Speaker 7: volleyball in the spring. I think it was great for
Speaker 7: my overall just athleticism, you know, not just focusing on
Speaker 7: one sport. And you know, obviously, you know, when you
Speaker 7: get to this level, you know, now now it's your job,
Speaker 7: it's your profession, and there's so much more into it.
Speaker 5: But when you're still developing as an athlete.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know, back in back in high school, I
Speaker 7: thought it was great for me.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And it always kept me busy.
Speaker 7: It always you know, kept me learning different things, and uh,
Speaker 7: you know, I think it always made me a better athlete.
Speaker 7: I felt like every year I came back for a
Speaker 7: football season and I was, you know, a different athlete,
Speaker 7: uh than I was the last season. So it's awesome.
Speaker 7: It's you know, made me the player that I am today.
Speaker 1: I'm visiting with Mike Asiki in basketball, you're the all
Speaker 1: time leading score at your high school. So I did
Speaker 1: a quick YouTube search. Good Lord, three sixty dunks alley
Speaker 1: you finishes spinning drives to the hoop. It was really impressive.
Speaker 1: You're six six. Did you have much interest from colleges
Speaker 1: and playing college hoops?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know I didn't. I didn't play like AAU basketball,
Speaker 7: so I didn't travel. And that was really how you know,
Speaker 7: you get recruited for basketball. So you know, a lot
Speaker 7: of my recruitment for that kind of wasn't nearly as
Speaker 7: large as the football stuff. But you know, I had
Speaker 7: you know, offers play basketball from you know, Patriot League
Speaker 7: schools like Colgate, Bucknell, schools like that. And then ultimately,
Speaker 7: you know, my football recruitment kind of picked up my
Speaker 7: like beginning of my junior year of college or beginning
Speaker 7: of junior year of high school and started to kind
Speaker 7: of see, you know, the vision of what I could
Speaker 7: be as a football player, and that was that was the.
Speaker 1: Route that I You could have gone just about anywhere.
Speaker 1: You chose Penn State and committed to play for Bill O'Brien,
Speaker 1: and then before you got there, he left for a
Speaker 1: head coaching job in the NFL. How tough. Was that
Speaker 1: for you at that age? And why did you decide
Speaker 1: to stick with the Nitney Lions.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was, you know at that age obviously you know,
Speaker 7: you make a commitment to Penn State and you know
Speaker 7: Bill O'Brien, and that was you know a lot of
Speaker 7: the main reasons why why I made that commitment.
Speaker 5: But you know, ultimately, when when Obi left, coach.
Speaker 7: Franklin came in and I had a previous relationship with him,
Speaker 7: he had offered me when he was at Vanderbilt.
Speaker 5: Then he got the job at Penn State.
Speaker 7: So definitely was excited to still go to Penn State
Speaker 7: for all the reasons you know, outside of just football
Speaker 7: that I.
Speaker 5: Was going there for.
Speaker 7: And then when coach Franklin got the job, wasn't even
Speaker 7: you know a second second, guest. You know, I was
Speaker 7: excited to continue to you know, stay committed there and
Speaker 7: all that kind of stuff, and ultimately, you know, it
Speaker 7: all worked out the way the way that it should have.
Speaker 1: You spent four years at Penn State. What was the
Speaker 1: best part of your time and Happy Valley.
Speaker 7: I think my my junior year, we won the Big
Speaker 7: Ten championship game, and uh, you know, we kind of
Speaker 7: shocked a lot of teams and a lot of people
Speaker 7: around around the country at that time, and we ended up,
Speaker 7: you know, putting together a really good season. Uh.
Speaker 5: So that was that was a lot of fun for us.
Speaker 5: We we you know, had a lot of success that year.
Speaker 7: Uh, didn't start off great, but then you know, got
Speaker 7: hot at the right time and you know, won the
Speaker 7: Big Ten Championship game, went to the Rose Bowl. A
Speaker 7: lot of a lot of fun memories were made that
Speaker 7: year with you know, a lot of people that I'm
Speaker 7: still really close with.
Speaker 1: We're visiting with Mike Kasicki. After earning All American honors
Speaker 1: your senior year, you were drafted in the second round
Speaker 1: by Miami in twenty eighteen, the second tight end selected
Speaker 1: that year. Describe your draft experience.
Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, it was, I mean definitely an exciting process.
Speaker 7: You know, something that you know, you look forward to
Speaker 7: your you know, your whole entire life growing up, and
Speaker 7: then you know, you go through it.
Speaker 5: Uh obviously, you know, you go train for.
Speaker 7: The Combine, then you go to the Combine in Indianapolis,
Speaker 7: and then uh, you know, you take a couple of
Speaker 7: visits you know, pre draft, and then ultimately, you know,
Speaker 7: then it's a waiting game and just trying to you know,
Speaker 7: figure you're out, uh where you're gonna go and how
Speaker 7: you're gonna fit and all that kind of stuff. And
Speaker 7: ended up getting drafted by the Dolphins beginning of the
Speaker 7: second round and had a you know, great experience with
Speaker 7: my friends, my family, uh, you know, everybody back home,
Speaker 7: and you know, we we enjoyed that day that night.
Speaker 5: And then after that then.
Speaker 7: It was off to Miami and get to work and uh,
Speaker 7: you know that was you know, the start of my
Speaker 7: NFL journey.
Speaker 1: In your second year with Miami, the Dolphins decided to
Speaker 1: cut the roster essentially and build up a lot of
Speaker 1: draft picks. They started on seven that year. Although you
Speaker 1: did finish strong, How hard was that especially that early
Speaker 1: in your career.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was definitely an interesting process. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: the coach that drafted me was no longer there, so
Speaker 7: then trying to you know, earn trust and earn respect
Speaker 7: from a new coaching staff.
Speaker 5: So that was that was one thing.
Speaker 7: And then once I was finally able to do that
Speaker 7: and just go out there and make plays and you.
Speaker 5: Know, make the most of your opportunities.
Speaker 7: And uh, you know, that season like you said, oh
Speaker 7: and seven, it wasn't It wasn't very fun to start off.
Speaker 7: But we actually, you know, for the situation that we
Speaker 7: were in, and like you said, you know, the roster
Speaker 7: where there was where there was trades.
Speaker 5: And there was guys that you know, probably.
Speaker 7: Could have helped us win, but we ended up going
Speaker 7: for draft picks in the future, and you know all
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff, the business side of it that
Speaker 7: the players have no control of. You know, we ended
Speaker 7: up having having a fun, a fun season of the
Speaker 7: second half of the year.
Speaker 5: Ryan Fitzpatrick was our.
Speaker 7: Quarterback and kind of got us rolling with his experience
Speaker 7: and you know some of the things that he was
Speaker 7: doing out there, and we made some plays and you know,
Speaker 7: ultimately had had a had a good second half of
Speaker 7: the season and something to build on for the future.
Speaker 1: Bengals fans will remember the next to last game of
Speaker 1: the year that year, you caught a couple of touchdown
Speaker 1: passes against Cincinnati, but the Bengals scored sixteen points in
Speaker 1: the last twenty nine seconds the for US overtime. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins ultimately won the game. Described being on the opposite
Speaker 1: sideline when that was going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, Uh it's funny to be on the other
Speaker 7: side now, you know of what people called, you know,
Speaker 7: the the Joe Burrow Bowl back.
Speaker 5: Then, and uh it is it is funny.
Speaker 7: So uh, you know that game, you know, like you said,
Speaker 7: you know, I was able to make some plays to
Speaker 7: score two touchdowns and uh we ended up winning the game,
Speaker 7: and obviously you know, Cincinnati uh ended up with with
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow after that, so uh definitely, uh, definitely a
Speaker 7: win win and it was you know, it was it
Speaker 7: was a fun game, exciting game.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, when you're when you're playing and you know
Speaker 7: you're the player in it, you're not thinking about the
Speaker 7: draft picks or anything like that. You're just going out
Speaker 7: trying to execute and do your job to the to
Speaker 7: the highest of your abilities. And that's what I was
Speaker 7: trying to do that day. But looking back now, it's
Speaker 7: it's funny to you know, be a part of that
Speaker 7: for Miami's organization and now now I'm part of it
Speaker 7: for you know, the Bengals organization.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, playing with with.
Speaker 7: The guy that you know everybody was was playing for
Speaker 7: or at that at that day.
Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with Mike Kasicki. After five years
Speaker 1: in Miami, you spent last year in New England where
Speaker 1: you played for Bill Belichick. It wasn't a winning season,
Speaker 1: But what will you tell your kids and grandkids someday
Speaker 1: about playing for arguably the greatest coach of all time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a lot of respect for Bill.
Speaker 7: Bill was an unbelievable coach, a great mentor, and a
Speaker 7: guy that honestly, uh doesn't get a lot does does
Speaker 7: not get enough credit for his personality. That's That's the
Speaker 7: one thing I always tell people about about Bill is
Speaker 7: you know, he he had a great personality with joke,
Speaker 7: laughing around. Uh, joke, joke around, laugh with these guys
Speaker 7: and have fun. Obviously when it was time to, you know,
Speaker 7: get down to business, it was time to get down
Speaker 7: to business. But learn a lot about football, learn a
Speaker 7: lot about situational football, Uh, how to win games, and
Speaker 7: you know how teams can lose games as well. And uh,
Speaker 7: I think you know, like you said, it wasn't a
Speaker 7: winning season. It wasn't something that you know, you look
Speaker 7: back on with a ton of you know, success individually
Speaker 7: or collectively as a team. But uh, there's some things
Speaker 7: from that year that you know, I'll take with me
Speaker 7: for the rest of my career.
Speaker 1: You signed as a free agent with Cincinnati this year.
Speaker 1: Describe something that's a little bit different about playing here
Speaker 1: that you enjoy so far.
Speaker 7: First and foremost, the fans are awesome. They're, uh, you know, from.
Speaker 5: The day I got here. You know, they've been super supportive.
Speaker 7: And I think, you know, just the the chemistry in
Speaker 7: the locker room with the guys, everybody's everybody's been awesome,
Speaker 7: you know, as a new guy, everybody has kind of
Speaker 7: welcomed me with open arms, and it's been made the
Speaker 7: transition very smooth. And now you know, here we are,
Speaker 7: and you know, mid mid September, you know, I feel
Speaker 7: like I've already been here for you know, quite some
Speaker 7: time now, just because of how uh, you know, just
Speaker 7: welcoming and how great the staff is and how great
Speaker 7: the players are everybody in the building.
Speaker 5: So it's been it's been a fun experience.
Speaker 1: All right. A few wild card topics now to wrap
Speaker 1: things up with Mike Kasicki. He told me during training
Speaker 1: camp that you have a jugs machine at home and
Speaker 1: catch two hundred balls a day during the off season.
Speaker 1: What's a jugs machine cost? And who feeds the balls?
Speaker 1: Into the machine.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so judge machine probably run you about anywhere from
Speaker 7: like twenty five hundred to thirty five hundred, depending on
Speaker 7: which one you get. And it's been a great investment though.
Speaker 7: I got at my rookie year, and you know, I
Speaker 7: mean so now I've used it for seven years and
Speaker 7: it's been great. I have it, you know, just set
Speaker 7: up in my backyard and I'll just I'll catch and
Speaker 7: throw it back.
Speaker 5: My wife will shoot it back.
Speaker 7: And so so we get out there and it probably
Speaker 7: takes about twenty minutes for me and her to shoot
Speaker 7: two hundred footballs and catch two hunred footballs. And I
Speaker 7: give her a lot of credit because I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: she doesn't have to be out there doing it, but
Speaker 7: I do. I do appreciate, you know, her support and
Speaker 7: her time because it helps me, you know, make these
Speaker 7: plays on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Thank you, missus Kasiki for helping out. Who is your
Speaker 1: all time favorite athlete in any sport?
Speaker 2: And why?
Speaker 5: Favorite athlete of all time is Vince Carter.
Speaker 7: I grew up in New Jersey, was grew up a
Speaker 7: big Nets fan, and that's one, you know.
Speaker 5: Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson, and those guys were.
Speaker 7: Playing for the Nets, and Vince was, you know.
Speaker 5: My favorite player.
Speaker 7: My dad got season tickets for him and I when
Speaker 7: I was in sixth grade and we would go to
Speaker 7: the Nets games, and I mean it was it was awesome,
Speaker 7: a lot of fun that year, and you know, Vince
Speaker 7: was the best player on the team and the guy
Speaker 7: that I looked up to and still to this day.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'll still catch myself on YouTube watching Vince
Speaker 7: Carter highlights.
Speaker 6: He was.
Speaker 5: He was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I hope your NFL careers as long as his NBA
Speaker 1: career was, because it was incredible. The TV show Jersey
Speaker 1: Shore has been off the air for about ten years,
Speaker 1: but we remember Snookie and Jaywow. As a person from
Speaker 1: that area, How did you feel about it?
Speaker 7: I watched it when I was younger. I don't I
Speaker 7: think there's still like some stuff going on now. I
Speaker 7: don't watch anymore, but I do remember watching a couple
Speaker 7: of episodes when I was younger.
Speaker 5: I don't claim that much of that.
Speaker 7: When I think of New Jersey and I think of
Speaker 7: my experiences in this New Jersey and all that kind
Speaker 7: of stuff I have, I can understand some of it,
Speaker 7: but I don't. That's not that's not me in New Jersey.
Speaker 7: So when you're thinking about me when I talk about it,
Speaker 7: that's not, that's not really me. But I do remember
Speaker 7: watching it when I was younger.
Speaker 1: Aside from sports, what are you good at?
Speaker 5: I think just you know, just being personally.
Speaker 7: I mean a good friend, a good you know, son,
Speaker 7: a good husband, a good brother, just uh, somebody that
Speaker 7: you know, I like to spend time with, you know,
Speaker 7: people that I care about. So when when I'm not
Speaker 7: playing football, you know, I like, whether it's in the
Speaker 7: off season, or whether it's some downtime, uh like a
Speaker 7: you know, a Monday night heading into an off day
Speaker 7: on a Tuesday, Uh, just hanging out with my wife
Speaker 7: and us doing you know something, whether it's you know,
Speaker 7: something as small as going out to eat, going on
Speaker 7: a date like that, or you know, hanging in and
Speaker 7: watching you know, some shows on TV.
Speaker 5: Whatever it is.
Speaker 7: So I think just you know, when it's outside of football,
Speaker 7: because so much of your time in this uh, in
Speaker 7: this business is put into the game of football, and
Speaker 7: so much times invested into it, and you got to
Speaker 7: sacrifice so much time that when you're out of it
Speaker 7: in the off seasons, or on those you know, down times,
Speaker 7: you got to you know, spend time with the people
Speaker 7: that help you get there, and then that's something I
Speaker 7: probe myself phone.
Speaker 1: Final question, This one's kind of deep. If you could
Speaker 1: meet anybody in history, living or deceased, who would that
Speaker 1: person be.
Speaker 5: My my dad's dad.
Speaker 7: He passed away when my dad was, you know, even
Speaker 7: younger than I am right now. So I think I think,
Speaker 7: I think it would have to be him just to
Speaker 7: kind of get an understanding of, you know, where, you know,
Speaker 7: how my dad grew up and then obviously how he
Speaker 7: raised me. So that's that's gonna be my answer here
Speaker 7: would be would be my uh my dad's dad, so
Speaker 7: my my my grandfather.
Speaker 5: On my dad's side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, A good answer and a great fun facts episode.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time, best of luck for the rest
Speaker 1: of the year.
Speaker 5: Awesome, Thank you so much.
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