WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Hurtin' For Certain 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:05.880 Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.040 Bengals Booth podcast, the Hurting for Certain edition as the 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.360 injury ravaged Bengals followed to five and six with a 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.760 thirty five to twenty laws at home to the Cleveland Browns. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.439 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room interviews, and 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.279 Dave Lapplem will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.360 this week's fun Facts interview, you'll get to know offensive 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.880 lineman Cordy Glenn, who unfortunately wound up inactive this week 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.879 with a bad back. Join the club. All of that 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.199 is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder that 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.720 you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:46.720 right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:52.400 or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention since the library. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.880 I walked into my neighborhood branch of the public library 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.280 this weekend with my twelve year old son and said 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.600 to him, how cool is it that there's a place 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.920 where we can borrow any book, DVD or magazine that 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.920 they have for free? His response, da Dad, Like I said, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.800 he's twelve. That's an increasingly common response now let's get 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.720 to the game. Since the start of the season. Here 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.840 are some of the Bengals players who have gone on 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:26.080 season ending injured reserve tight ends Tyler Eifert, Tyler Croft 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:31.319 and Mason Shrek, defensive lineman Carl Lawson, Ryan Glasgow, Josh 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:37.959 Tupo and Adolphins Washington, and linebacker Preston Brown. Then there 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.640 are the guys who don't have season ending injuries but 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.480 had to miss the Cleveland game, a list that included 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:49.080 aj Greene, Drake Kirkpatrick, Nick Vigil, Cordy Glenn, and Josh Malone. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.800 If those thirteen names were a blur, think of it 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.040 this way. The Bengals didn't have their best wide receiver, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.560 their best tight end, two of their three starting linebackers, 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.080 one of their top two cornerbacks, and their starting left tackle. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.640 To say that injuries are just an excuse is silly. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.440 The roster has been decimated. Then there are the Browns, who, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.880 according to interim head coach Greg Williams, are as healthy 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.720 as they have been since training camp. They looked at 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.239 on their opening drive on Sunday, marching seventy eight yards 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.640 on ten plays to score. They'll line up in an 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.960 eye formation backfield, Nick chubbed the deep back, Mayfield gives 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.200 it to him and Chub scores. The rookie quarterback Baker 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.400 Mayfield was six for six on that drive. Here's his 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.120 former Oklahoma teammate, Jordan Evans. Do you think he has 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.240 given that team a confidence they didn't have before? Yeah, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:44.639 for sure. I mean, I just know that's what he 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.840 brings in any lockhoom oh. That's just the kind of 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.400 player he's always been. That's what he was at Ou 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.040 and then this is what he brought to the Cleveland 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.919 And obviously you're seeing. The Bengals answered with a decent drive, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.840 but a fifty four yard field goal attempt by Randy 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.520 Bullock was blocked, giving the Browns great field position. Four 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.840 plays later, Cleveland was in the end zone again. Shotgun snap. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.680 Mayfield looking scanning the field, moving to his left, throws 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.160 into the end zone, touchdown Calloway with the catch on 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.520 the back line of the end zone, and with one 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.400 thirty seven left in the first quarter, the Browns are 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.480 up by two touchdowns. Boy, I'll tell you it's a 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.920 hot knife through butter, There's no question about it. And 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.000 that hot knife continued to carve up the Bengals. As 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.960 the Browns third possession went ninety six yards, Mayfield catches 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.799 the shotgun snap short drop screen caught at the ten. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.880 The Joku to the five goes airborne. He is carried 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:43.840 toward the goal line and he scores. Wow. Wow, unbelievable 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.440 effort buying Joku. He looked like he was crowdsurfing into 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.000 the end zone. Incredible. It was twenty one nothing Cleveland 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.760 here again, as Bengals linebacker Jordan Evans, that's when we 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.160 knew it was kind of ugly. Obviously we didn't lose, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.960 no hope. He saw us coming back to his m 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.600 but yes, that's when it was a sly dang. We 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:03.920 got to do some right and then came in a 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.960 half Timahow makes my justustments and it came up short. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.119 But it got worse before it got better. Third down 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.560 in three at the Cincinnati fourteen yard line, shotgun snap 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.200 blitz coming, Mayfield lobs one down the sideline. It is 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.120 a catch for a touchdown on a magnificent grab by 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.520 Nick Chubb as he pulled it off the helmet of 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.680 the defender on the play, Brandon Wilson, and fell on 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.880 his back into the end zone for the contested catching 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.320 the touchdown. Boy, what a tremendous strow. I mean, Wilson 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.799 never found the football in the first half. Baker Mayfield 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.760 through for two hundred forty five yards with three touchdowns, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.760 no interceptions, and a passer rating of one fifty two 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.560 point five. Here's the reigning Heisman Trophy winner after the 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.880 game the first half to you kind of feel like 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.520 your days at Oklahoma where everything was clicking at all 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.599 or now a little bit, Yeah, we're everything's even to 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.760 be working. That's the way we wanted here in Cleveland. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.200 The Bengals finally got on the scoreboard with less than 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.880 a minute to go in the half. Three receivers out 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.480 to the left for Cincinnati. Now Ross goes in motion 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.440 to the right, mixing in the backfield at Dalton's right, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.279 Andy back to throw his pass right thought by John 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.200 Ross for a Bengals touchdown with thirty two seconds remaining 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.520 in the half, the fifth touchdown catch of the year 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.760 for Ross, twenty eight seven Browns at the break your safety, 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.599 Jesse Bates on what you have to do when it 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.040 gets ugly. I think the biggest part is just wearing 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.520 about your self control, which you can control. I'm mean, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.719 coming together as a team. Unfortunately, it's tough to do 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.359 that when you're down twenty eight zero. But you know, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.919 they just gotta play play by play. At least things 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.839 couldn't get any worse, right, think again. Dalton, waiting for 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.320 the shotgun snap play clock had won. The snap goes 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.320 sailing over his head. Daltons scrambling to pick it up, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.799 and the Browns recover it inside the ten. They scoop 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.320 up the ball and it's going to be marked at 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.360 the seven yard line. Dalton injured his thumb on the play, 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.240 went to the locker room and never returned to the sideline. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.720 According to the NFL Network, see Rappaport. X rays were 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.440 negative and Andy's thumb isn't broken. It's too soon to 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.599 say how long he'll be out. Two plays after the fumble, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.600 Mayfield established a new career high with his fourth touchdown. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.440 Pass second in goal from the six, Landry goes in motion, Baker. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.479 Mayfield will drop back to throw, looking left, looks back 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.600 to the right, runs to the right, throws into the 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.240 back of the end zone a leaping catch by Darren 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.960 Fells on the back line for a Cleveland touchdown. That 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.520 made it thirty five seven. Jeff Driscoll took over at quarterback. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.479 It actually made things interesting. Price snaps it back. Driscoll 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.160 fakes a hand off to Mix and throws it over 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.640 the middle, crossing route caught and Tyler Boyd runs into 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.919 the end zone for a Bengals touchdown, then whips the 0:06:55.960 --> 0:07:00.919 football into the crowd after hauling in Jeff Driscoll's touchdown pass. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.599 With a big lead, Cleveland stopped throwing the ball and 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.000 tried to run out the clock. Mayfield only attempted four 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.320 passes in the second half, and the Bengals pulled within 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.520 two scores first and goal at the two, Driscoll tries 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.360 to run a quarterback Snea Mixon shoves him from behind. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:22.240 The Bengals are signaling touchdown and the officials agree a 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.800 two yard quarterback sneak for the touchdown by Jeff Driscoll, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.720 and the Bengals have pulled within two touchdowns with seven 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.440 fifty seven to go. Driscoll went seventeen for twenty nine 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.240 for one hundred and fifty five yards, one touchdown and 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.240 a passer rating of eighty four point seven. We scored 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.080 some points there, and you know, got some momentum gone, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.200 and you know, I think everybody in our sideline thought 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.800 that we were going to get it done. The Bengals 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.120 had two more chances. They drove to the Cleveland twelve 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.440 yard line before a false start turned third and three 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.840 into third and eight. Two plays later, Driscoll threw an 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.240 incomplete pass to Autumn Tight on fourth down to end 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.800 the drive. Then, on the Bengals final drive, Driscoll threw 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.600 a forty six yard pass the Tyler Boyd that would 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.320 have given the Bengals a first down at the four 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.280 yard line with a minute and a half to go, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.440 but it was wiped out by an illegal shift penalty 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.320 that basically ended the threat. Here's Driscoll. We just came 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.120 up short, and um, you know that was unfortunate there 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.000 at the end, the way that I finished, but you 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.720 know it was it was It was good to give 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.360 our team a chance when when I came in there, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.760 and uh, obviously got a lot of things to clean up, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.200 and you know that that'll come come down the road, 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.079 but you know, I'm just happy the way that I 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.680 competed out there and gives chance. The final score thirty 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.080 five to twenty to end two significant losing streaks for 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.200 the Browns, a seven game head to head losing streak 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.400 against the Bengals and a twenty five game road losing streak, 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.839 allowing Cleveland to avoid tying the Detroit Lions all time 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.800 NFL record. The Bengals, on the other hand, have dropped 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.800 three straight and five out of six after a four 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.160 and one start. Here are Tyler Boyd and Jesse Bates 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.920 and where they go from here? Hate losing, you know, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.400 I'm very competitive guy, and uh, coming back in after 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.640 a game like that, you know, I'm hurt about, you know, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.280 But in theday, I'm gonna continue to play. I'm never 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.160 gonna stop play. I'm gonna give it all, no matter 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.800 what the score Births say, and I'm gonna just just 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.760 continue to try to do whatever I can to to 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.640 make place. Do you guys see the talent that we 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.560 have in this room, and you know the injuries that 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.280 we have. Hopefully we can get those guys back and 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.240 get them healthy. So we got five games left and 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.560 we're gonna see what we're about. The Browns have had 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.760 ten straight losing seasons and are still below five hundred 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.640 this year at four six and one, But that didn't 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.640 stop them from doing some serious trash talking this week. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.920 Prior to the game, safety to Marius Randall said the 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.440 following quote. If they don't have a j green, they're 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.520 getting their blanks beat. He threw a log on the 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.120 fire during the game when he intercepted a pass, ran 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.240 over to the Bengals sideline and handed the football to 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.320 Hugh jack said. Then after the game, Baker Mayfield had 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.480 some interesting things to say about his former head coach. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.559 Look like you had a very brief encounter I saw 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.959 before the game and then again after the game with 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.000 Hugh Jackson. Didn't have a chance to say anything to you. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.720 If so, maybe what did he say and what was 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:23.880 that like? Um, he said, good job, good game. Yeah 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.040 that was brief. I didn't feel like talking you or 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:33.239 him me. I don't left Cleveland, goes down to Cincinnati. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.800 I don't know. That's just somebody that was in our 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.560 locker room asking for us to play for him and 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.400 then goes to a different team. He played twice a year. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.320 Everybody can have their spin on it, but that's how 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.319 I feel. So you have a little bit of a 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.000 bad taste in your mouth. I mean, it's just like 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.719 any rivalry game. That's just how it is. Now, That's 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.320 how'm gonna treat it every time we play him. But 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.360 it's it's nothing, you know, there's no hate. That's just 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.679 how it is. That's how I'm gonna treat it, and 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:55.960 I think that's our team's treat it too. You've always 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.840 been able to find motivation and put a chip on 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.240 your shoulder and all kinds of ways. Is that now 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.920 that it's over. Did the presence of Hugh add any 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.560 of that for this game a little bit? You know, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.720 we have a lot of guys that have history with Cincinnati. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.200 Orson Charles was playing like a maniac today. He kept 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.520 saying that they're the people that cut him, so, you know, 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.320 and then our QB coach Kenney's mpez was there for 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.680 fifteen years, so we have history with Cincinnati. That's what 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.719 happens when you have a division rival you play him 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.440 twice a year. There's going to do that. So yeah, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.040 but the best thing about that is our guys handled it. Well. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.000 That's up for debate, but this isn't. The Browns won 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.319 the game and the winner gets to do the talking. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.559 The Bengals will see them again two days before Christmas, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.000 maybe with a few more healthy bodies. Now time to 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.000 bring him my broadcast partner Dave Lapham for postgame analysis, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.520 and we begin with perhaps the biggest bright spot for 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.000 the Bengals the play of backup quarterback Jeff Drescoll. He's 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.600 a pro, you know, he prepares like he's a starter, 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.160 even though he realizes that he may not get that 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.720 many snaps. But due to his preparation when because of injury, 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.440 and you hate for it to be that way, your 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.240 starter goes down to injury, you know, you have to 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:06.720 step up and you have to be ready, and he was. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.760 And his team responded because they knew he was ready 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.599 once they saw him making some of the throws he 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.960 made and doing what he was doing and competing as 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.920 hard as he was competing. They all did the same thing. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.400 He lifted the boat, you know, because it would have 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:19.800 been easy for Abay to get their chin on their 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.120 chest when Andy went down with the thumb injury. But man, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.800 he lifted him. He lifted him. I heed he led 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.920 a comeback, which is significant. Thirteen play drive. I mean, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.120 he was doing a great job of keeping the defense 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.160 off the field that was struggling. The reason their numbers. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.560 Was so much better in the second half. Is you 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.280 know they weren't on the on the field. I mean 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.120 Cleveland ran forty snaps in the first half. They went 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.000 on the field for forty snaps in the second half. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.120 I mean Driscoll took him on multiple you know, long 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.360 extended drives and yeah, I mean got an admire a 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.679 guy like him, and he's got skills. Dan, he can 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.200 really throw it. He was accurate with his feet and strength. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.840 He can extend and create plays and you know, design 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.520 quarterback runs. He can do. He can do a lot 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.040 of things for you. So you know, now they get 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.840 some tape on him and it'll be a little bit different. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.080 But he had to just execute the game plan. He 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.760 didn't run much of when Andy Dalton was getting ready 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.360 for the Cleveland Brown. So I took my cap to 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.000 the guy because it's easy to you know, talk about, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.280 oh yeah, i'm working, I'm preparing, I'm getting ready in 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.440 case they have to play. He did it, you know, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.920 in tough circumstances when they were getting they were getting smoked. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.640 He came in and faced the music and brought him 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.600 back some Right now, Lap, it feels like the nightmare 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.920 that you can't wake up from the blowout Laws to 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.520 Kansas City the Saints. Now this game that turned out 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.760 to be fairly closed but was twenty eight nothing at 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.760 one point in the second quarter. Yeah, it's it's really 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.319 it's not just losing games, it's how you know you're 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.160 losing games in this one in five stretch. That is 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.360 the most disturbing and disappointing to you know, fans and players, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.600 obviously in coaches. But there's nothing you can do about 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.400 it except you know, do everything you can to be 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.520 positive and try to turn it around. I mean, if 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.360 you're dwell on negativity, it's just going to take it 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.800 down the ativity cesspool. And that's the easier said than done, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.800 because all there's going to be in the outside is negativity, 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.760 and you know, you just have to really evaluate yourself. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.200 And it is Dan, It's I've never seen I've seen injuries, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.960 but I've never seen a team that has suffered more injuries, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.360 multiple injuries at multiple positions. I mean, you can survive 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.840 an injury at positions two, three, four or whatever, but 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.920 multiple injuries to multiple positions. I mean one of the 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.400 positions to head and suffered an injuries quarterback that's not anymore, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.560 Andy Dalton. You know, we don't know the extent of 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.040 that thumb injuries we speak right now, but man, it 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.680 could be extensive. I mean it could be the end 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.960 of the season potentially if you broke it. So, I 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.560 mean the quarterback position, running backs have you know, miss games. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.040 I mean there's there's not offensive line has has had 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.320 you know, minor injury. You know, Billy Price missed a 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.600 lot of games. But I mean when you only have 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.360 like four guys in a position group and three of 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.080 them an injury reserve, like the tight ends, and you've 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.840 been hit as hard as the linebackers has been hit, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.760 and your sign you know, three defensive linemen basically off 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.880 the street and practice squads so you can practice. I 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.000 mean you can't even give a good look. It's not 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.640 just during the games. All these injuries. The trickle down 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 effect is as you're prepared during the week, you don't 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.560 have enough bodies to prepare properly. So you know, it all, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.440 it all causes issues. And you know, people can say excuses, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.520 and yeah, you're right, I mean you can't make excuses, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.040 but man, these are hard, cold facts of life in 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.520 the National Football League and the Bengals run, you know, 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.720 an injury hecks like I've never seen Baker Mayfield through 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.440 four touchdown passes for the first time in his NFL career. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.080 He's got two or more in five consecutive games. He 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.720 only threw four passes in the second half. Otherwise he 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.480 could have had monster statistics in this game. I mean 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:48.080 his six quarter quarterback rating. The Atlanta Falcon game, he 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.720 was one fifty one point three. In the first half 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.280 of this game, he was on one hundred and fifty, So, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.880 I mean, you know, six quarters of play at the 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.160 quarterback position by rookie to have a quarterback rating of 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.240 over one hundred and fIF is extraordinary, It really is. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.800 I mean, but there were a lot of wide open 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.800 vacations or vacated areas in the in the Bengal secretary, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.800 I mean, it was linebacker level, deep level. There were 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.160 things for him to take advantage of, and he did. Yeah, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.600 he's he's a smart football player. He gets the ball 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.000 out of his hand quickly, he throws it straight, he 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.840 puts some velocity on it. He's gonna be around for 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.200 a long time. Cincinnati Bengals are looking at a Cleveland 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.520 Brown team that's ascending because of the play of the quarterback. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.800 When you have a quarterback like that that can play 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.880 at that level in this league, you know you have 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.440 a chance. And they have a lot of other players, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.320 and I mean, Chubb's the real deal. In the first half, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.000 two of the four touchdowns that they made were incredible. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.400 Chubb's catch was unbelievable, and Joeku made an unbelievable play 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.320 when he hurtled and then pushed forward and his team, yeah, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.320 just pushed everything, pushed into the end zone. I mean, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.720 that was a football team that wanted to end that 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.960 streak of losing on the road, and they did. They 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:05.960 The only thing I didn't like about the football game 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:11.080 was multiple times it turned a little bit nasty, and 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:16.560 Peppers and randall those guys. You know, hey, to the 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.520 victor goes to spoils. But you don't have to be 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.960 a jerk in being a victor. You know, be a 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.040 victor with class, don't be a victor with jerk. You 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.919 don't have to take be a jerk in victor. You 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.480 don't have to take you know, laps around the football 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.320 field and taunting the Bengals and taunting coaches on the sideline. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.240 You know Randall gets his interception and gives it to 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.600 Hugh Jackson. You know, what are you supposed to do 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.840 something like that? I thought Huge showed a lot of class. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.640 I would have fired it right back in his face mask. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.600 But you know, I mean those kinds of things I 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.959 think are unnecessary. You know, I understand that you had 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.840 a long dry spell, but um, bottom line is show 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.520 class and to me, not gonna be very hard to 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.359 get it up in the bit to play up in 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.119 Cleveland because some of the things that some of these 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:01.800 guys did during the course of that football game I 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.119 thought didn't show enough class. Last thing, you've played on 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.360 teams where for whatever reason, things spiraled. Maybe it's injuries, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.520 which is a big factor with this team, maybe it's 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.600 something else. How do you keep grinding for the rest 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.320 of the season. You have to realize you're a professional. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.480 You know, it's your job. You're being paid to do it, um, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.240 and you're being paid handsomely to do it, and there's 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.639 a million millions of people that would love to have 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.720 that job, and you have to look at it. It's 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.560 not a right, it's a privilege and just go out 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.800 and do the best you can. I mean, I thought, uh, 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.400 you know, Jeff Driscoll showed it. He got thrown into 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.320 the fire and in a situation where he wasn't really 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:47.000 expecting and stepped up and performed. And and you just can't. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.399 You can't. You just can't succumb to the to the 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.520 all the all the negativity. You know, you have to 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.240 basically block it all out. It's going to be hard, though, 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.600 you know, because if you look yourself in the mirror, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.159 you know, if you were involved in any of those penalties, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.880 you know, you may cost the football team a game, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.719 you know, and any mistakes that were made. You just 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.640 basically have to take care of your own business, you know. Rally, 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.040 your teammates. Try to be a positive impact, and your 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.760 teammates make sure you're not a negative impact. Don't accelerate 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.679 or continue the spiral downward. Try to be don't be 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.760 a reason for the spiral downward. Be a reason for 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.240 the turnaround and bringing it back up, you know. And 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.440 that's what that's what real pros have made out of. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.399 That's what true pros have made out of. And you 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.400 know people are gonna say, oh, injuries, man, everybody has injuries. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.880 That's very true. But twelve guys an injury, reserve, multiple 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.680 guys injured. You know this week, in practice, this game. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.440 It's a reason. It's a fact. I mean, you can't 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.719 run and hide from facts, but it is. You know, 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.120 it's You can say it's an excuse all you want, 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.679 but they don't have near the football team. When there 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.840 were four and one, the team that they were running 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.520 out in that football field is not the team that 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.240 they're running out there now in this one in five stretch. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.760 But everybody's got a roster spot for a reason. You're 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.000 a professional football player. Suck it up. Players do what 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.560 the coaches say. Coaches put together game plans. Players play coaches, coach, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.159 do your job turning around thanks. Lap Up next a 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.440 home game against the five and six Denver Broncos, who 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.440 ended the Steelers six game winning streak this week after 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.720 ending the Chargers six game winning streak last week. Now 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.000 time for this week's fun facts segment, where you get 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.679 to know the person under the pads, in this case, 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.280 the biggest man on the current roster at six six, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.160 three hundred forty five pounds. Time for some fun facts 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.879 at Bengals left tackle Corty Glenn from river Dale Georgia, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.880 not too far from the Atlanta airport from what I understand. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.560