WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Reminiscing 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.680 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:12.000 the Bengals Booth podcast. The will Go Dancing in the Duck, 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:20.000 Walking through the Park, and reminiscence. Addition, as Dave Lapham 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.919 joins me for a special look back at our ten 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.080 years together in the Bengals Broadcast Booth. The Bengals Booth 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.800 Podcast is presented by bud Light Seltzer. Refresh the game 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.040 and here's a quick reminder that you can have the 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.519 latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:43.160 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitch, your Google Play, Spotify, 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:49.600 or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since Prisma. 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I did it with 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.759 several pictures that were on my phone and they turned 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.200 out great. In fact, my Twitter avatar now looks like 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.039 a painting of me on the Fox Sports Ohio anchor desk. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.800 So I highly recommend a three day free trial of 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:53.280 the Prisma app. You'll wonder how Picasso and Van Goh 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.880 got a hold of your pictures. Now time for football. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.400 This week, we're going to take a break from the 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.280 draft agency for something a little different. As Dave Lapplom 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.720 and I look back at our decade together in the 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.560 broadcast booth. Since we just completed our tenth year together, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.360 I reached out to Lap and proposed the following idea, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.359 ten years, ten Plays, where we would each pick out 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.920 a most significant and or favorite play from each season, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.280 share the radio call, and then reminisce about each year. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.000 We did not discuss our selections in advance, so in 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.880 some years they're sure to be the same and another 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.440 year's very different. It's time to find out. As Lap 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:41.200 joins me for ten years, ten plays lap. Our first 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.919 year together was two eleven. The Bengals were coming off 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.200 of four and twelve season. Everybody will remember the Carson 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.600 Palmer said, I'm done. I'm retiring before I play for 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.720 the Bengals again. So what did the Bengals do? They 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.680 drafted aj Green and round one. They drafted Andy Dalt 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.079 in round two. After a one who start, they won 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.480 five straight games to get to the halfway point of 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.240 the season at six and two. They eventually went nine 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.520 and seven during the regular season, earned a playoff berth 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.679 as a wildcard team before losing at Houston thirty one 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.840 to ten. So we're going to pick out a highlight 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.920 or possibly two if we disagree on the twenty eleven season. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.320 I'm going to pick Christmas Eve, a home game against 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.000 the Arizona Cardinals, a game the Bengals eventually won twenty 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.720 three to sixteen. Who could forget Jerome Simpson with the 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.920 forward somersault and sticking the landing on a spectacular touchdown 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.120 catch from Andy Dalton. Second down, Dalton back to pass, 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.600 good pocket for Andy he Thried. Simpson makes the catchies 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:50.680 to the town. The five goes flying into the end. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:57.920 Zoe Superman style. Oh, Mark Jerome Simpson sixteen nothing Bengals. Well, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.280 I'll tell you what the Russian judge gives at a 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.720 ten point. Oh, he stuck the landing. It was unbelievable. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.839 I'm thinking it was Reggie Walker that he basically did 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.360 like a front flip over. I mean he goes airborne 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.920 and just flips himself over. Reggie Walker. I seen him 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.600 do these kind of things in warm ups. This guy 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.080 is like athletically a gymnast. I mean the way he 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.480 goes up in order and over and sticks that landing. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:28.360 Mah goodness, Nadia Coleman each would be proud of that 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.719 flip that he did. It was such an athletic play, 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:36.000 and it was on highlight after a highlight all season 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.000 long that particularly year. It's it's it's very rare to 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.840 involve gymnastics, I think in the National Football League, although 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.200 they are you know, they're so fluid, so gifted, so athletic, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.159 and Simpson no exception of that rule. So that was 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.159 the biggest highlight in both of our opinions in the 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.000 twenty eleven season. A couple of other things stood out 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.160 to me. Bruce Gradkowski and Week one coming out the bench, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.440 for an injured Andy Dalton forty one yard touchdown passed 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.760 to aj Green with less than five minutes to go, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.320 giving the Bengals a win that got them off to 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.039 a great start in the post Carson Palmer era. That 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.159 was AJ Green's only catch in his NFL debut, but 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.679 it was a game winner. In Week four of that season, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.239 they were in danger of falling to one in three. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.640 They fell behind Buffalo seventeen three at the half. Andy 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.720 Dalton rallied them back. Mike Nugent hit a field goal 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.039 at the gun to win that game twenty three to 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.120 twenty and started a five game winning streak in Andy's 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.720 rookie year. That basically was the key to making that 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.520 rookie year playoff appearance, and that as a rookie quarterback 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.720 to make the playoffs. And there was a work stoppage, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.800 so it was not an easy off season, you know. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.080 Andrew wittworked doma top Pecco, took the charge and organized 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.520 the team. They had practices, workouts and that sort of thing, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.479 but without any coaching staff for Andy Dalton and aj 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.520 Green to be able to lead their offensive side of 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.000 the football team of the playoffs as rookies, is quite 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.240 an accomplishment. And as you mentioned, Andy Dalton leading a 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.279 fourth fourth quarter drive in a field goal at the gun. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.039 That was one of many game when he drives at 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.159 the engineered I mean Andy Dalton was strong in that 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.080 area as well. He had a great career with the Bengals, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.920 no doubt, Dan, all Right, we moved to our second 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.719 season together, two and twelve. The Bengals started that year 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.680 three and one, and they lost four in a row. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.800 They were three and five at the midway point of 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.440 the season. At that point it didn't seem likely that 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.840 they would go to the playoffs for the second consecutive year, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.480 but they went seven and one in the second half 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.560 of the season to finish ten and six. That meant 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.480 another wild card playoff appearance. They went back on the 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.800 road to Houston for the second year in a row. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.000 Much closer the second time around, but they lost a 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.520 tight one against the Texans to drop their second straight 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:58.840 playoff appearance with Andy Dalton at quarterback. Looking back at 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:04.000 highlights from that season, what's your number one pick? Well, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.520 it would be the Washington football team as they're known now. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:12.400 The Bengals on the road against Washington and wide receiver. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.640 Mohammed Sanu had played quarterback, even at the collegiate level. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.160 At Rutgers, he had played quarterback, and he had a 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.080 howitzer man. He had a very powerful, strong throwing arm. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.360 Could throw it a mile. Maybe not pinpoint accuracy all 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.520 the time, but he could lay it out there. And 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.560 the very first offense, the snap of the game, they 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.200 ran a little gadget gimmick play. Jay Gruden, known for 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.160 his creativity. He came out of the box with one 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:42.080 here and Mohammed Sanu AJ Green seventy three yards later, 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.080 touchdown Bengals. Here's how it sounded. Week three in Washington. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.160 Mohammed Sanu ready to take a shotgun snap on the 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.560 first play from scrimmage for Cincinnati. This is an interesting look. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.960 He fakes a handoff, he fired field for J. Green. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.560 He's a sprinting to the ten. He'll take it into 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.040 the end zone for a touchdown. A seventy three yard 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:11.760 pass from Mohammed Sanou to Adriol Chair on my H. Green. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.440 So I was a little surprised you selected that lap. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.040 I thought you might pick a play from week twelve. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.160 It was the return of Carson Palmer to Paul Brown. Stadium. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.440 The first time he dropped back to pass, he didn't 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.240 even hit his back foot before Geno Atkins plastered him 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.440 into the turf at ball Brown Stadium. Yeah, I think 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.400 I think that was welcome back, you know, welcome home, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.560 and they really were motivated to to put it to 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.240 Carson Palmer, and they did, I mean right away. As 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.720 you say, Geno Atkins, in this prime of his career, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.760 Carson Palmer barely had time to look down the football 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.720 field and try to look up any intended receiver. He 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.040 was on his backside quickly. Bengals won that game thirty 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.720 four to ten. Carson had a passer rating of sixty 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.120 four point one, Andy Dalton three touchdown passes and a 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.079 passer rating of one oh nine. So I thought that 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.560 that was a day where Bengals fans officially said, you 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.840 know what, Carson Palmer had his moments, but we've got 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.480 our guy. Andy Dalton is going to be our guy 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.480 going forward. And obviously Andy was the man for nine seasons. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:21.360 My pick, however, from that twenty twelve season, comes from 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.720 the next to last game of the regular year. It 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.760 was two days before Christmas in Pittsburgh. If the Bengals 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.800 won the game, they would clinch a playoff berth and 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.480 they would knock the Pittsburgh Steelers out of the playoffs 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.680 on their home field. At that point, Dalton and Green 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.679 did not have a win over Pittsburgh. But you'll recall 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.000 late in that game, Reggie Nelson came up with an 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.480 interception with twenty four seconds to go. On the next play, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.559 Andy Dalton hit aj Green for a twenty one yard 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:53.000 game and that set up Josh Brown taking over at 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.960 kicker for an injured Mike Nugent with a chance to 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.520 boot the Bengals into the postseason. The target is forty 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:04.720 three yards away, eighteen feet six inches wide, ten feet 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.480 off the ground, shaped like a U, and it spells 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.880 at W if Josh Brown can split it. Huber is 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.640 the holder. Harris is the snapper from the right, Hashbark 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:22.320 snap is good. The kick is up plenty on it, yes, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.680 four seconds to go, and the Bengals have a thirteen 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.800 to ten league. Oh man, how about that clutch kick 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.920 right there? That was a thrilling win at Hinz Field. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.240 Bengals obviously didn't have a lot of victories over Pittsburgh 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.240 during the Adalton Green era. That was the biggest againting 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.560 it to propel them into their second consecutive playoff appearance. Unfortunately, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.120 they wound up losing for the second straight year in Houston. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.240 So we move on to twenty thirteen, a year that 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.000 began with the return to hard knocks for the Bengals. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.200 We learned that Giovanni Bernard drove a minivan after being 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.360 a second round draft pick. We learned that James Harrison, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.800 who joined the Bengals that year, basically intimidated everybody on 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.040 the roster. The Bengals got off to an excellent start 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.040 that year. They were seven and two with a four 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.240 game winning streak. They finished eleven and five to win 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.120 the AFC North. They were eight and oh at home 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.079 that year during the regular season, earning them the opportunity 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.400 to host the Chargers in the playoffs, and they lost 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.120 to Philip Rivers and then San Diego twenty seven to ten. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.480 I thought, of Marvin Lewis's seven playoff losses, that was 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.719 the most difficult one to stomach. I thought that was 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.440 a game the Bengals clearly should have won. Yeah, I 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.640 thought they were the better football team as well, Dan 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.839 and just did not execute the way they should have 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:45.599 in that football game. I don't know if playoff performances 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.240 or a bad playoff performances were in their heads or 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.600 whatever at that point in time. You know, there's it's 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:56.200 easier to say no, but haven't haven't been uh, you 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.440 know an NFL player, sometimes things goog get in your head, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.960 you know, likely as a football team. So the only 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.520 way to erase that kind of thing is to get 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.959 off to a good start and win a football game. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.880 And they weren't able to get that done with Marvin 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.600 Lewis unfortunately. So we'll pick out a couple of memorable 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.600 plays from that season. My selection comes from Week nine. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.080 It was Thursday night football, Halloween Night in Miami. He 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.880 was actually a game the Bengals lost, but I'm picking 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.400 this play anyway because it was so spectacular. Giovanni Bernard, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.160 on a run from the thirty five yard line, gets 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.880 slowed down at the forty five yards behind the line 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.800 of scrimmage, escapes, runs five more yards backward to the 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.480 forty five, and then eventually turns it up field, goes 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.520 to the sideline, cuts to the middle of the field, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.240 does a somersault on his way into the end zone. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:51.080 Let's listen back to the most spectacular play Giovanni Bernard's 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.800 tenure in Cincinnati. Bernard running to the right in trouble, 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.280 gets away from a tackle. He's going the wrong way. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.440 He's way back at the forty six. Now it turns 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.760 up field, the thirty, the twenty five, the twenty down 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:10.120 to the fifth. Coming back to the touchdown, Giovanni Bernard, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.760 there are no flags. He went backward ten yards, turn 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.040 the quarter, broke tackles, weaved his way through traffic, and 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.520 in the end as a thirty five yard touchdown that 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.160 could tie this game. I think he won one hundred 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.439 yards to run thirty five. All right, lap, I selected 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.600 a play from a loss. How about you? Which play 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.160 stands out for you in that twenty thirteen season, Well 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.120 that one play. One more comment on the play you 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.000 picked out, Dan, I mean, it's one of those deals 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.800 where the running back runs twice as many yards and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.640 only gets credit for half of them, you know. I 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.679 mean Giovanni Bernard was he was serpentine and everywhere on 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.320 that on that touchdown run, that was incredible. I picked 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:57.000 a defensive score play. You're playing against an NFL playoff 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.160 caliber team, the Green Bay Packers with the legendary Aaron 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.160 Rodgers at the quarterback position. When you can get an unscripted, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.880 unconventional score in a football game like that, it makes 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.319 a big difference, and they were able to do that. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.640 Terrence Newman picked up a fumble in in race to 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.760 the end zone and it stunned Aaron Rodgers and the 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.360 Green Bay Packers a little bit in that football game. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.200 And I thought it was a, you know, a big 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.160 turning point in their victory in that game. Bengals fans 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.360 will remember that play. Guess ball is out? Ball is out. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.720 The Bengals had a fourteen nothing lead. The Packers scored 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.960 thirty straight to take a thirty to fourteen lead in 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.640 the third quarter, and then the Bengals rallied. Green Bay 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.240 still had the lead. With four minutes to go, they 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.760 were up by three. They decided to go for it 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.240 on fourth and one at the Cincinnati thirty. And here's 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.040 what happened. Rodgers has it, gives to Franklin. He dies, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.720 I don't think you got it. I don't think you 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:59.880 got it. Out skipped it off running back to the 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:08.040 thirty twenty ten ye touchdown. Will it stand? Terence Newman 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:14.400 takes it back nearly seventy yards. Franklin dove trying to 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.160 pick up the yard on fourth and one, the ball 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.160 spurted out. Newman comes up with it, takes it back, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.920 and for the time being the scoreboard shows thirty three 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.480 thirty Cincinnati. Let's move on to the twenty fourteen season again. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.720 The Bengals got off to a great start lap They 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.560 were three and oz with Hugh Jackson calling up some 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.480 creative plays as the offensive coordinator. After Jay Gruden moved 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.280 on to Washington. They wound up that year ten five 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.640 and one, went back to the playoffs as a wildcard team. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.600 But you'll recall that though the wide receivers and tight 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.040 ends were battered at the end of the regular season, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.960 they had to go to Indianapolis with basically no receiving 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.640 weapons left. Rex had lined up as a slot receiver. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.760 I think Kobe Hamilton's started that playoff game at wide receiver, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.120 even though he did not have a catch during the 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.160 regular season. Won that playoff game twenty six to ten, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.760 the bengals fourth consecutive playoff loss in the Dalton Green 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:23.240 Horde Lapham era. Yeah, that season certainly was a was 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.920 a roller coaster. To say the least. And you know, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.920 injuries are one thing, but injuries to keep personnel at 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.440 the most inopportune times, that's that's, you know, quite another. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.600 And that that's where the Bengals ended up. You talk 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.520 about limping and dimping to the finish line, man, they 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.400 were just they were just flat out out of gas. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.280 There's no doubt about it. I suspect we're going to 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.600 select the same play from that season. There are a 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.200 lot of great moments. In Week one, Andy Dalton through 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.000 his seventy seven yard touchdown pass to aj Green in 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.800 the fourth quarter after they had fallen behind against Baltimore. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.880 That was the season where Andy had his two point 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.560 quarterback rating against Cleveland on Thursday Night Football and then 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.040 rallied with three straight road wins after that, where he 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.520 played great at New Orleans, at Houston, at Tampa Bay 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.880 that featured Johnny Manziel's first career NFL start. The Bengals 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.720 taunted him with his money rubbing gesture. They had three sacks, 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.199 two picks, Johnny Manziel only threw for eighty yards in 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.200 the game. The Bengals won thirty nothing. But I think 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.439 we will agree that the play that stands out from 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.040 the twenty fourteen season came in the next to last game. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.080 It was Monday Night football at home against the Denver Broncos. 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.760 At that point, the narrative had been established that the 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:43.200 Bengals could not win in primetime with Andy Dalton at quarterback. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.600 That had basically been going on for four years. But 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.480 Andy Dalton outdueled Peyton Manning in a thirty seven to 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.160 twenty eight Bengals win, and the big play came on 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.040 defense with less than three minutes to go and gestures 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.120 Pie Manning as he waits for the shotguns out. Peyton 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.040 has the football, fakes it inside handoff, throws to the 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.800 right right, hit six sick dray kerk Patrick, Henry back 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:13.840 the ten, the five touchdown. Dray pat track picks up 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.680 Peyton Manning and takes it to the house for a 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:23.159 potential clinching text out, Yeah, that that was dray Kirkpatrick. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.800 Great route recognition, great break on the football, and that's 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.200 tough to do against Peyton Manning. You know, he doesn't 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.400 usually give you that kind of a tip stare receiver down, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.680 give you that kind of an opportunity to read his 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.960 eyes and jump, you know, with route recognition, jump throughout 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.800 like Dray Kirkpatrick did, but he picked that bad boy 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.879 off and took it to the house. Massive play again, unscripted, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.639 unconventional score against a great quarterback, a Hall of Fame quarterback, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.600 and those are the kind of things that can decide 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.840 football games for you. Drey had two interceptions in that game. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.200 Jeremy Hill also had an eighty five yard touchdown run 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.399 in that game. He was so great that year. Again. Unfortunately, 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.000 the next week on the road at Pittsburgh trying to 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.280 win the AFC North, the Bengals wound up with a 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.000 bunch of injuries, so did the Steelers. Heard both of 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.000 the teams in the playoffs, and as I mentioned earlier, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:21.240 the Bengals lost at Indianapolis twenty six to ten. We 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.640 move on to twenty fifteen, our most enjoyable season together 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.840 in broadcast booth. It was an incredible year for the Bengals. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.800 They started eight and o, best start in franchise history. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.480 They were ten and two. They were the number one 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.000 seed in the AFC at the time. When Andy Dalton 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.639 broke his thumb against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and while AJ 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.199 McCarron did a great job in helping them finish twelve 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.399 and four and win the division title and earn a 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.800 home playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. We remember what 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.760 happened on a rainy night at Paul Brown Stadium, the 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.399 infamous brawl at the Pall against the Steelers as the 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.720 Bengals season came to an end eighteen sixteen, and unfortunately 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.040 they have not returned to the playoffs since. Yeah, that 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:13.040 that playoff game is such such bad memories overshadow or overflow, 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:18.359 you know the good ones in the hill fumble um pac, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.800 Dan Jones and Vantes Burfott, losing their poison composure. I mean, 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.720 all those kind of things just put an absolute damper, 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.320 to say the least, on a very very successful season. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.320 They started eight no that season, finished twelve and four, 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.840 win the division. The game. The player that I like 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.119 is Andy Dalton AJ Green beating Pittsburgh to go seven 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.760 or ozho to remain undefeated. And anytime you can beat 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.919 the Pittsburgh Steelers, that that that gets a vote. It 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:50.920 was a well timed, well thrown football. AJ Green got 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.760 himself open tight quarters, not a very long touchdown pass, 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:55.960 but it was well executed on both ends, throw and 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.399 catch Sean Williams set it up with an interception of 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.119 Penn row the spurger. Here's how that game winner with 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.159 less than three minutes to go sounded at Hines Field 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:09.400 in Week seven, Dalton takes a shotgun snap quick throw Green. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:15.920 It has a touchdown Adrill Sharemiah Green from nine yards 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.840 out and the Bengals have the lead with two fifty 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.840 seven to go. All right, lab My most memorable play 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.840 from that season came in the playoff loss to the 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:30.080 Pittsburgh Steelers. I've got to pick this moment provided by 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.160 Vantes Perfect. First in ten, Pittsburgh down by a point. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.520 Landry Jones back to throw from his five over the middle, 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:42.800 Hi Perfect, Ntest Perfect comes away with a football. The 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.840 Bengals have the ball with one minute and thirty six 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:52.080 seconds to go. Yeah, fun, test Perfect. He's sprinting toward 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.160 the locker room. He has running in cycle locker room, 0:21:56.240 --> 0:22:00.160 which makes no sense. He'd better come back out before 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.520 there's a penalty flag. The Bengals will have the ball. 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.919 There was an injured Bengal around the ten, Wallace Kilberry. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.760 He's on his feet, Paul sparling out to take a look. 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:17.240 Wallace limping toward the sideline, but a leaping interception by 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:22.240 Vontes perfect in front of Marcus Wheaton gives the Bengals 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.840 the ball with one thirty six to go. Do you 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.280 remember how you felt after that interception? I mean I 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.560 thought it was over. The Bengals had won less than 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:34.119 two minutes to go. With the lead and the ball, 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:38.920 the playoff drought in my head was over. Yeah. I 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.720 remember Vontes Burfage ran up the runway into the locker 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.920 room basically with the football and it was thunderous. I mean, 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:49.840 Paul Brown Stadium was shaking. People were going absolutely bonkers, 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.520 and you did you know you had You had a 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:57.600 big feeling that that football game had ended, but obviously 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:03.080 not obviously have unfolded, and that football game is still 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.520 when you think back on it, the things that had 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.440 to go wrong for them to lose that football game, 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.760 that did go wrong in losing that football game are 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.520 still almost incomprehensible. From that game alone, we could have 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:19.359 selected a J mccarn's touchdown pass to AJ Green that 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.439 gave them the lead. Obviously, on the negative side, the 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:26.400 Jeremy Hill fumble, which goes down as maybe the single 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.840 most destructive play in franchise history. That didn't involve an injury, 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:35.960 but for that Vontes perfect interception. Briefly, the playoff droute 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.680 was over in my brain. That lasted for about ninety 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:43.440 seconds before the very next play was the Jeremy Hill fumble, 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:48.400 and unfortunately, what should have been Marvin Lewis's first playoff 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:54.320 victory slipped through their fingers. We move on to two sixteen. Unfortunately, 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.920 that's when the playoff streak ended. The Bengals went six 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:01.920 nine and one, one close loss after another. They had 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:04.600