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Now, time for 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.760 the radio replays from day's six point loss to the dreaded, hated, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:10.160 but grudgingly respected Pittsburgh Steelers. Tomorrow line from an old 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.840 advertising campaign. Today, the Cincinnati Bengals find out what Ken 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.040 Browning do for you as quarterback Jake Browning makes his 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:24.320 first NFL start nearly five years after his last college start, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.680 a Rose Bowl matchup against Ohio State. Today it's the 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.880 Bengals against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it is time for 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.320 the pigskin to fly. Here in the jungle. Warren Inted, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.720 running back on third and two they handed to him. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.640 Warren does not get the first down. The ball comes out, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.240 the Bengals pick it up. Turner's running it back, fastest 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.240 man of the combine this year, and he gets tackled 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.000 at the thirty nine yard line by a tight end 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.079 Connor Hayward. The ball was punched out on the run 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.919 by Jalen Warren. This will be a forty one yard 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.640 the old goal attempt for Chris Boswell. No kicker in 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.840 the NFL has been better this year than Boswell. He's 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.160 eighteen for nineteen and now he's nineteen for twenty. The 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.320 kick is right down the middle. His only miss this 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:18.280 year was wide right from sixty one yards away, and 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:18.639 he was. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.240 Good from fifty six and the penalty went from sixty one. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:21.799 And he missed. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.960 This kickoff fielded on a bounce. Travon Williams running back 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:30.000 to the thirty sideline forty forty five hand tackled just 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.680 shy of midfield by Miles killer Brew. Pittsburgh kicked it 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.680 low and it didn't bother Travon Williams at all. Fielded 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.480 it near the two and ran it back forty five yards, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.440 his longest kickoff return of the year. Play action fake 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.080 to mix and throw deflected, still caught by Jamar Chase 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.520 on his feet at the Pittsburgh thirty twenty five. Mixing 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.280 down there to block and Chase gets shoved out of 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:59.600 bounds at the sixteen yard line. Sometimes better to be lucky, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.240 been good. In this case, Jamar Chase is both caught 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.880 the ricochet and then used his great speed to turn 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.160 that into a thirty one yard game. Browning fakes a handoff, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.280 rolls left his pass caught at the eleven sample toward 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:20.400 the end zone touchdown Bengals true sample, knocking over Bowling 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.160 Pins on his way to the end zone as he 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.400 catches his second touchdown of the season and gives Cincinnati 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.120 the lead. Browning has the ball five man rush. He 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.400 throws it deep for Chase. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:32.960 What a catch. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.760 He was blanketed by Joey Porter Junior. Threw it right 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.960 over his helmet and Jamar Chase made the catch down 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.039 to the twenty one for a twenty five yard game. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:51.480 Browning catches the shotgun snap quick pass interceptive. Jamar Chase 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.839 tackles Trenton Thompson at the twenty one yard line after 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.120 the red zone pick for Pittsburgh. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:58.680 Can he pick. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.279 It is under center on first in goal from the five. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.559 The Bengals lead seven to three. It's a handoff, notje 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.800 Yes bouncing it wide to the left. Touchdown Pittsburgh is 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.920 a penalty flag down. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.240 That's a hold in the perimeter that's gonna be nullified 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:13.960 and penalizing. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.760 There's no foul for holding with over the players a touchdown. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.160 Wow, pick up that talking to picking up that flagged. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.080 Browning back to throw screens. It caught by mix and 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.880 he has Kappa in front, runs to the forty forty 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:33.240 five fifty Pittsburgh forty Steelers thirty five and he goes 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.880 out of bounds. They're gonna mark him out at the 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.440 thirty six. So the screen to Joe Mixon results in 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:45.159 a thirty nine yard game and the Bengals aren't dead yet. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.920 With two forty to go, Adam Minas snaps it. Here 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.320 comes the right footed kick and it is good. So 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.680 the Bengals make it a six point game, and now 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.719 we'll see if they can recover an on sidekick to 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.279 give themselves a chance for a miracle victory. Mcpheerson again 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.520 adjust the football straight up and down on the tee. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.760 He's about two steps away. He approaches the ball, now 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.240 changes sides, gets ready to kick it from right to left. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.200 He kicks the top of the ball, It bounces and 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.279 it's grabbed by Pickings and Jake Browning's first NFL start. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.000 The Bengals manage one touchdown and one field goal, They 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.839 turned it over in the red zone and they lose 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.919 despite holding the Pittsburgh Steelers to sixteen points by the 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.880 final score of sixteen to ten. We start our postgame 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:43.760 analysis with the Bengals starting QB. Jake Browning. Stats were 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.240 pretty good. He completed seventy three percent of his passes 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.640 and threw for two hundred and twenty seven yards in 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.880 a touchdown. That's the good news. But Jake held on 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.280 to the ball for two long on some third down 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.600 plays leading to sacks, and his red zone interception on 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.080 third and seven at the eighteen yard line when the 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.000 Bengals had a seven to three lead in the third 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.360 quarter was devastating. Here are the most interesting things that 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.360 Browning had to say in a postgame news conference. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:20.560 Some ups, some downs. Definitely not my best game. Just 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.920 try to keep fighting. I think starting with the first 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.440 drive kind of getting settled in. Felt like there were 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.760 times where I was settled in. I felt like there 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.040 were other times where I needed to play better, but 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.160 it was not up to my standard of how I 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.040 would have liked to play. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.360 You talked all week. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.000 About the aggressive how do you go out your manage 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:39.800 the line between. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.240 The push the ball and making them play. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.200 I think that's always kind of hard to snow until 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.280 you watch the tape, and it's hard to give a 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.600 generalized answer. I think there were somewhere it was good 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.320 to be aggressive, and I think there were somewhere you know, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.320 could have just checked it down and maybe not taken 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:04.440 some sacks. But I think part of me getting back 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.280 into the groove of playing and stuff like that is 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:08.920 is kind of figuring out like, Okay, where is that 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.880 line for me? And where is that line h in 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.440 this offense? And what what is that line I need 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.000 to play on in order to give us the best 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:17.720 chance to win the game. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.000 Your reaction was exactly what. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.120 Yeah, Yeah, I think I just made the decision too 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.520 early in the play, like let the play play out 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.880 and let seventeen decide if he's going to cover the 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.440 curl or cover the guy in the flat, And I 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.840 kind of made the decision without really reading it out 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.080 to OK, hey, let's just get the ball. They're very 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.960 soft on Jamar. Let's just get the ball to him, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.800 get forward, get three. This is going to be a 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.640 game that comes down to you know, it's not going 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.079 to be a shootout. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:52.640 And so. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.000 You know, that was kind of my thought process, and 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.480 in hindsight, I guess, play out the play and read 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.040 it out, don't just see something pre snap and kind 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:03.720 of make a decision. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:05.800 I mean after I mean, what. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.079 You last start is what the roller bowl? When you 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:08.800 have I. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.120 Means, yeah, I mean I think that's a little bit 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.719 of a cop out. Uh for me to sit here 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.520 and say that, you know, any any interception was because 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.040 I haven't played in a while, Like it's a cop out. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.840 I think I can read out that play and make 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.679 the right decision. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.440 Is too early to get a sense of what is 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.760 the biggest thing you'll build upon going. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:28.480 Forward from today? 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.079 Uh yeah, probably a little too early. I would say. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.040 There's just some things like maybe that don't show up 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.280 on tape, like kind of learning all right, here's what 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.080 it looks like to start a game, and and I 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:46.880 think figure out where that like I said, where that 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.680 line is I'm playing aggressive, but then also knowing that 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.480 this isn't going to be a forty two to forty 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.120 five games, So taking some of those sacks, uh, when 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.640 you're trying to make the play end up hurting in 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:03.800 some field position stuff. And and I think just the 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:08.199 overall experience I will build from and being able to 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.960 see myself on tape and critique it pretty hard will 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:12.679 be good for me too. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.400 Say you waited so long for this moment? 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.840 Yeah, now, sure, can you appreciate that? 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:18.640 Or it does the. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.040 Longest color over it? Yeah? 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.559 I think you know the nex twenty four hours maybe 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.800 or at some point it will not feel like just 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.720 pissed that we lost. Maybe it'll take a year or two, 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.160 but yeah, I think just lost a close game where 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:37.480 you feel like you didn't play your best and we 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.280 didn't play well enough on offense and only gave up 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.120 sixteen points on defense and we lost. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:42.839 And so. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.320 Yeah, I think that's kind of my primary thought in 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:47.720 my head. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.360 As Browning pointed out, the Bengals only gave up sixteen 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.640 points and that's usually good enough to win. But the 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.480 Steelers went up and down the field, running for one 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.160 hundred and fifty three yards and passing for two two 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.360 sixty eight. That equals four hundred and twenty one total yards, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:09.400 ending Pittsburgh's fifty eight game streak of finishing with fewer 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.600 than four hundred. Every other team in the NFL had 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.040 at least four four hundred yard performances in the same span. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.360 Tight End Pat Fryarmouth, who had only played in five 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.240 games this year because of a hamstring injury, was the 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.680 star of the show with nine catches for one hundred 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.640 and twenty yards. Kenny Pick had finished with a passer 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.000 rating of ninety seven point eight, and his career passer 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.600 rating and twenty two previous starts was seventy seven point seven. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.200 Mike Hilton had eight solo tackles, including two for losses, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.200 and I spoke to him in front of his locker, Mike. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.679 The Steelers obviously changed offensive coordinators this week. Was their 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:50.840 offense much different? 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.120 Not too much? 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.560 They were definitely an only thing I will notice that 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.800 they did throw over the middle little more than they'd 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.920 done in the pass and they caught us in some 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.040 mad spots, and you know, something supposed to plays over 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:01.760 the middle of the field. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.120 Pat Fryermouth has missed much of this season. He does 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.760 not have the statistics he would normally have, but he 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.720 looked healthy today and obviously he hurt. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:10.320 He did. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.240 He's one of the better young tight ends in the game, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.040 and they try to featu him as much as possible, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:15.719 and like I said, they had a good game plan 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.320 for him to work the middle of the field and 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:18.679 it has he says doing that though. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.800 It seemed like third downs in the third and fourth 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.600 quarter were really the key to the game. They converted 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.920 several in a row, and I'll give Kenny pick a credit. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.520 He made some good throws on those plays. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.880 Yeah, this just you know, them playing good ball early 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.280 early in the first half, we were getting off the 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.720 field on third down, and second half they just kept 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.920 their drives going and kind of put us intel spots 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.480 to where we couldn't get off the field and kind 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.360 of came back to bite us. So, you know, that's 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.520 something we got to go back over the field and 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.240 look at and see where we can make corrections. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.520 What'd you think of Kenny's performance, because he threw a 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.280 couple of deep balls that were really right on the money. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.760 Yeah, you know, he's a good quarterback. You know, he 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.959 made throws when he needs to, he escapes the pocket 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.000 wheel and he just does what he needs to do 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.760 for their offense. And you know today he had a 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.240 good day and you know they gotta go win. So 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:02.880 co rest of. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.520 Them, what's your mindset after this game now that you 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.160 guys have fallen to five and six. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.960 Uh, just continue to keep going. I mean, we got 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.360 a tell thee going out in Jacksonville on Monday night. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:13.960 But you know, it's the opportunity for us to turn 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.800 it around and you know, try to try to get 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:16.760 things on positive noble. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.120 Now, let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.280 three minutes with lap after the game. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.080 So it's the first thing that I'd like to know 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.040 is what the hell did they tell you when they 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.000 picked the flag up on the holding call? That's all 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.480 I mean. It affects the play, grabs, turns them around, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.440 spins them around, they score a touchdown right off that 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.680 at the point of attack, they throw a flag and 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.800 pick it up. What was their explanation on that. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.640 They saw holding and then one of the other officials 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.240 said it wasn't holding, so they just discussed it and 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:50.080 they picked up the flag. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.160 That was that was a tough one to say the least. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.080 Did Pittsburgh. I mean, that's a good defensive football team. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.000 Obviously they don't do anything differently. Did they play more 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.000 man than zone then you thought, or anything like that. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.520 Early in the game, they played a lot more man, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.439 you know, trying to put pressure on us to take 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.480 away the run and make us throw the ball in 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.560 the rain a little bit as a game win. They 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.280 mix it up kind of the things that we'd seen 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.280 it on tape, and nothing was such surprise. That's what 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.000 they did to Cleveland last week. Early in the game, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.440 backup quarterback played a lot of single high and try 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.440 to make him go win. And I thought our guys 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.080 handled it really well. I thought the first half we 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.720 played the type of game we inventioned it was going 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.640 to be, you know, I think I think key situational 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.040 things that popped up were, you know, we had a 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.280 chance to kind of pin him down there with the 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.000 punt under the two minute morning in the first half 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.120 and maybe come away with some points there if we'd 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.840 get in to stop and so we got to capitalize 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.800 on that. And then coming out the second half we 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.280 get in the red zone, we got to come away 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.040 with points not a turnover, and then there's opportunity. You know, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.800 we we punted the ball down to the eleven and 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.320 we can't let him out on the first run. So 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.840 I think just as a team, we got to really 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.320 assess all three units. We got to do a better 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.680 job capitalizing. It might just be one situation a game 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.280 that we got to be better at. And that's really 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.320 what it came down to today. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.600 Third down, they converted it like a fifty percent clip 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.640 and I think at one point, I know it was 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.800 too nine and they get all four of their sacks 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.280 on third down, they got the red zone interception on 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.520 third down. You know that that was a big difference 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.960 in the game, was the third down situations when. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.880 Yeah, those are all part of the situations we talked about, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.280 you know, and you got to be great in those areas. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.600 And again it's it's no surprise that the game ends 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.680 up being a one score game and the team that 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.200 was a little bit better in those areas wins the game. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.640 So the running game obviously left a lot to be desired. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.240 How tough is that with a quarterback with this first 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.200 NFL start, going against that defense and facing that kind 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:30.800 of situation. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.680 Yeah, we we just we didn't get enough normal down places, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.120 and that part of that is running the ball better 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.920 and throwing the ball better and getting first tallensd We 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.840 put ourselves in a position to do that. Obviously, it's 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.080 a tough sledding going against that front sometimes, and they 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.680 try to take you out of your eleven personnel runs 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.440 by playing base to eleven, so you got to throw 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.720 the ball, and so of course you get big people, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.560 and so again it was it was a challenge. We 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.440 got to find more production there. We're going to play 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.000 them here in a couple of weeks, and that's something 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.400 we're going to have to assess and be better at. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.720 What about field position overall, I mean Treyvon had the 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.400 big kickoff returning to cave you a pretty short field 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.680 and you capitalized on that for a touchdown. Overall, how 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.440 did you see field position unfolding? 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.160 Yeah, I thought there was a few more opportunities we 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.840 could have capitalized on, and it went about the way 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.560 you thought in terms of how it shook out. I 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.400 don't think he either time either team was really a 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.080 huge disadvantage that the kickoff return obviously led to points 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.680 for us, and so just moments like that with hidden yardage. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.280 Those are big moments in the game, you know. And 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.040 I thought Jamar made some good plays for us. I 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.000 got us some chunk plays as well, and stepped up 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.560 when we needed them too, And unfortunately we just didn't 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:30.800 get enough of it to get. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:31.240 Us the one. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.040 They're tied in farm Youth that had missed a good 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.080 part of the season with injury. I mean, that dude's 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:36.480 a weapon. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:37.320 He is. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.560 You know, He's been a good player and he can 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.920 win some one on one matchups. And again we'll see 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:42.920 him a couple of weeks there. We gotta do a 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:43.360 better job. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.520 The rematch in Pittsburgh is four games away. 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Now time for the radio guys recap. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.040 They are celebrating their new offensive coordinators in Pittsburgh as 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.560 the Steelers come to Cincinnati and beat the Bengals sixteen 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.240 to ten. How big of a factor do you think 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.240 that was? Because the Steelers wound up with four hundred 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.000 and twenty one yards of offense and average more than 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:45.880 six yards of play. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.639 I think they're fortunate in that they're being promoted to 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:55.600 that position at the expense of Canada's firing coincided with 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.600 farm youths coming back and being available to them. He 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.520 was huge, huge, I mean, the weapon in the middle 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.520 of the field was there the entire game. And the numbers, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.040 the numbers speak for themselves. I mean, I think he 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.919 had well over one hundred. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.480 Yards receiving nine for one for one. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.320 Twenty that's pretty impressive. And early in the game, I 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.399 mean twenty four yard completion, twenty nine yard completion, his 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.240 first two catches for fifty three yards. I mean that 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.359 got them off and running. So I think that was 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.639 another common denominator. The Bengals were hope full of minimizing 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.040 explosives and Pittsburgh Steelers were able to get too many. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.640 Again, Kenny Pickett through for two hundred and seventy eight yards, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.359 no touchdowns. He never seems to throw touchdowns, but he 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.240 didn't throw any interceptions. He set the Steelers record for 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.440 consecutive passes without a pick. But I've got to hand 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.920 it to the guy because he threw about three deep 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.399 balls that were outstanding in this game. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.720 Yeah, he really did. I thought he I thought he 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.000 played his best football game year overall. He's not a 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.560 big touchdown guy. He's not a big interception guy. I 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.440 mean he he does take care of the football. And 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.680 I think people thought he was being a little bit 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.040 too conservative at the quarterback position. I think that might 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.359 have been another thing that he was told by the 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.920 co coordinators. Air it out a little bit, take some shots. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.680 We're good. We're okay with that. You know, we're never 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.040 gonna make any unless you throw it. And if it 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.160 doesn't work out, we have a defense that'll, you know, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.520 back us up. So don't be afraid to take some 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.480 hits down the football field. And when he did, and 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.960