WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Another One Bites The Dust 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.359 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.880 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The and another one going, and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.200 another one going, Another one bites the Dust. Addition, as 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.840 the Bengals go to Detroit and destroy the Windless Lions 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.840 thirty four to eleven. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.040 from the win, postgame comments from players and coaches, and 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.000 analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.000 week's fun Fact segment, you'll get to know a Bengals 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:38.400 team leader who definitely has the Mamba mentality, Safety Bond Bell. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.120 The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals. 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Heading 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.040 into the game, the Bengals were one of only five 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.319 teams that hadn't scored on their opening drive all year. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.040 After an eight play sixty one yard drive, you can 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.080 scratch Cincinnati off that list. Burrow with a play clock 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.880 in one, extends the hands, catches the snap, no flag 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.280 floats Akata sideline ever make baby match with his arms 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:55.480 fully extended. Touchdown Bengals one. A catch by rookie Chris 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.840 Evans a twenty four yard touchdown pass. There are very 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.080 few running backs in the National Football League with hands 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.040 like that. With samaj ap Ride on the COVID list, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.120 Chris Evans got the most snaps of his NFL career 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.400 and finished with fifty seven combined rushing and receiving yards. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.320 Here's Joe Burrow on the rookie running back. He's just 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.080 getting better and better every single week. You know, you 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.760 see what he can do. In the past game, he 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.680 got one on one and you know, really really ran 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.480 a great route and scored a touchdown for us. But 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.160 after the fast start, the Bengals offense went bone dry, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.320 empty backfield, five wides. Third down in twenty Burrow drops 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.239 back to throw the Lions rush three cover with eight 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.000 damn the passes intercepted. The Lions have it at the thirty, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.040 running down to the twenty five and the tackle has 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.440 made At the twenty three. It was deflected and Amani 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.840 o'er Warrior comes up with his third interception of the 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.639 year and returns at sixteen yards. There's a penalty flag 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.160 in the secondary. The penalty was after the interception, so 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.200 the Lions had the ball in Bengals territory. Two plays later, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.560 Cincinnati took it back. Golf drops back to three fastball 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.120 over the metal caught at the twenty five yard line, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.560 but the Bengals take the ball away. Logan Wilson has 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.040 it top out that are they blowing it dead early 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.919 on the field has been changed to an interception. It's 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.840 first intense for Cincinnati at the twenty three yard line. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.960 That gives linebacker Logan Wilson four interceptions this year. That 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.200 second in the NFL behind the Cowboys Trey Von Diggs, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.520 who picked off his sixth pass on Sunday. Here's Chitabey 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.960 a wooge on Logan Wilson. We marveled at him. You know, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.520 I don't know what he's doing, just be in my 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.400 position and that ball sticking to his gloves and all 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.200 that kind of stuff. And credits to Vam on that 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.680 play as Will forgetting the ball out. But yeah, it's 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.920 great to have Logan making those type of plays. We 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.200 need them, and it's been changing the game every time 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.840 the score remains seven nothing while Cincinnati's offense spot after 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.400 Burrow's interception, the Bengals had three straight three and outs 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.120 and with less than thirty seconds to go in the half, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.440 they face third and long, third down and ten. The 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.720 Bengals at their own forty one deep safety now for Detroit, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.440 nine defenders up on the line. Burrow back to pass, 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.320 throws a deep down field four Chase Ye Jamarrow makes 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.159 the catch inside the thirty and goes out of bounds 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.040 at the twenty six yard line of Detroit. He beat 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.960 Jerry Jacobs for a thirty four yard game, and that 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.080 means Jamar Chase has had a catch of at least 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.880 thirty four yards in every game he's played in in 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.880 the National Football League. And Dan the throws unbelievable. Running 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.000 the sideline has covered two. You got a safety coming 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.680 over the top, a corner underneath safety over the top. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.440 You have to keep it as close as you can 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.320 to the sidelines so the safety can't get there. Joe 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.600 Burrow dropped it perfectly. That long pass allowed Evan McPherson 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.440 to kick a thirty eight yard field goal on the 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.039 final play of the half to give Cincinnati Attend nothing lead. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.640 Here are Chase and Burrow on Jamar's latest big play 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:12.240 just before halftime, with this footnote, heasy stands for hesitation. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.400 I just gave the defender m hesy stepped at the 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.400 top of my route. Um, they'll cause him to slow down, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.919 and it didn't. After that, I just sped up and 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.120 ended up being wide open. The safety was looking back 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.320 in the backfield at Joe. He went't too worried about 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.279 what I was doing. And you gotta downfill. Jamar just 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.440 keeps being that spark for us, you know, they he 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.840 keeps finding his opportunities when he gets one on one 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.480 to win win down the field. And you know, when 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.880 we have a guy like that, it's and when we 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.960 have the connection that we have, you know, you can't 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.800 can't fall asleep on defense when you have that guy. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.000 Since the Bengals won their eleventh consecutive coin toss to 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.440 begin the day, the odds of that are one. In 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.400 two thousand and forty eight. They got the ball to 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.640 begin the third quarter and scored again thanks to a 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.200 brit call on fourth and less than a yard. Detroit 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.200 has several defensive live and right over the ball. The 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.440 receiver goes in jet motion BA right over. He throws 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.560 it's caught Mixon streaking down the sideline to the twenty. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.119 Chase span runs it into the end zone. What a call, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:22.440 What a block? Touchdown Cincinnati. That forty yard touchdown made 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.159 it seventeen nothing. And after the game, everybody was talking 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:30.400 about the downfield block by Jamar Chase, including the guy 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.720 that scored the touchdown, Joe Mixon. That's what a Bengal is. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.440 A physical, hungry, accountable teammate that's gonna get to do 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.040 whatever it gets a job done. And I thought, you know, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.760 he came down, man made a hell of a block. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.119 I mean it was crazy. Um, I got the ball, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.960 made a made a run. I seen Jamar try to 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.200 set up his blood and he came down running and 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.200 he just threw him down. I was like, oh yeah, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.320 but I mean that's what that's what makes him a 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.000 great player. I mean, you know, here Ricky and things 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.920 like that, he don't play like it. I mean, that's 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.360 like a Jerry Rice play. It was like an all 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.680 around performance for him on the perimeter, catching the ball 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.440 and blocking up. Like I said, I thought he did 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.320 a great case finished with four catches for ninety seven yards, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.120 and Mixon finished with eighteen carries for ninety four. Joe 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.600 added five catches for fifty nine more yards to wind 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.960 up with one hundred and fifty three yards of total offense. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.680 So what did Joe think of his performance? I think 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.560 it was average. It could have been it could have 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.720 been a lot better. But to be honest, man, we 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.240 got the dub. I thought the offensive line did a 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.080 hell of a job. Then boys on a perimeter do 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.880 a hell of a job out there, and I was 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.760 just capitalizing on my opportunities, but left a lot of 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.360 yards out there, and uh, you know, going forward has 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.640 got to figure out way to make those plays. But 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.560 I like the way we had it right now. Nevin 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.200 McPherson field goal made it twenty nothing going to the 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.560 fourth quarter and the Bengals quickly put the game away. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.200 Third down and goal from the three. Burrow under center 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.440 fakes to mix and looking back to the left, throws 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.760 into the end zones, caught for the touchdown out C 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.880 j U Summer started on the right side of the line, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.160 snuck out to the left hand, hauled in Joe burrows 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.920 third touchdown pass of the game. I'll tell you to 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.720 keep block Joe Mixon these running backs. It was a 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.280 play action passed the fake to Joe Mixon. He chopped 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.680 down the edge rusher chopped into the ground, gave Joe 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.000 Burrow time an opportunity to find Cgozamba on that crossing route. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.600 Outstanding blocking going on by all of these running backs 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.679 protecting their quarterback big time. Burrow passed for two hundred 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.640 and seventy one yards and had a passer rating of 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.520 one fifteen point seven. He's thrown at least two touchdown 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.760 passes in every game this year. In the sky's the 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.520 linen for you know, linen, some of those things that 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.959 happened in the first half. You know, plaly score fifty 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.920 points today, but you know it's the SNFL. I'm never 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.240 gonna be upset about a thirty four point game and 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.200 you're winning by as much as we did. But you know, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.080 we do have to get some things corrected, and when 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.040 we do that scared. The Lions finally got on the 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.920 scoreboard midway through the fourth quarter on a field goal 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.000 by Austin Seibert, but even with Brandon Allen at a quarterback, 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.120 the Bengals offense kept rolling. Allen takes the snap run 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.880 to the right, No, he faked, he's looking at throw. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.080 His pass caught and Audun tap takes it into the 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:23.880 end zone. Touchdown. Bengals Allen with his first touchdown pass 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.960 of the year, and Audun Tate calls it in that 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.600 put the Bengals over thirty points for the first time 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.960 this season. The Lions scored a touchdown and added a 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.040 two point conversion with about two minutes to go to 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.600 put a little lipstick on Miss Piggy, making the final 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.640 score thirty four eleven. It was the bengals seventh straight 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.680 win over Detroit dating back to nineteen ninety eight, and 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.480 it dropped this year's Lions two oz and six since 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.920 Jacksonville one on Sunday. The Lions are the only team 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.199 in the NFL without a win. By the way, Jacksonville's 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.640 win over Miami was in London, so I think it's 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.800 safe to say that urban Meyer went home on the 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.360 team plane. The Bengals improved to four and two, and 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.640 after the game, Laps spent four minutes with Zach Taylor 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.080 a winning coach. Yeah, it's good, you know, I like 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.719 the way our team finished it out. I know they 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.280 scored there at the end, those eleven points, but really 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.360 our defense came out ready to play to start the 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.040 whole game, and our offense finally caught a rhythm there 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.240 going into halftime and was able to score in every 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.240 possession after that. You know what I like as a 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:34.679 form alignment, When I see Jamar Chase in front of 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.520 Joe Mixon making a big block. When I see Joe 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.240 Mixon after a run fake cutting down the edge rush 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.440 or making a big block. When I see Evans picking 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.160 up strong blitz pick up giving Joe Burrow an opportunity 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.800 to make a big throw down the football field, I'm saying, man, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.280 everybody's doing the little things you got to do right. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.760 Our players are selfless, you know, they care about others 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.240 more they care about themselves and that's the sign of 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.760 a team that's head in the right direction. Really proud 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.320 of our guys and all three phases today and it 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.040 was a complete team effort and it was good to see. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.080 So you score over thirty points. Joe Mixon eighteen this 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.040 is unofficial eighteen carries ninety four yards, Joe Burrow almost 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.160 three hundred yards, passing two seventy one three touchdowns, interception, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.880 Chase four catches for ninety seven yards. I'll tell you man, 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.800 Burrow and Chase, it's magic. I mean the throw he 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.960 made before the safety could get there, took it to 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.720 the sideline as far as you could because you knew 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.760 the safety was coming over the top, put it in 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.880 a porthole out there. You saw a lot better than 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.800 I did. You know it was on the other sideline. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.880 So I'm still not quite sure what unfolded there. But 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.240 those two have great chemistry. They know where they're going 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.719 to be, and Jamar's continue to make plays when numbers called. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.480 So is Jamar? What's Jamar like? You know, during the 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.320 course of the game on a sideline, does he come 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.920 off the field and say, I got this dude? Man? 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.720 I mean, I can do anything I want to what's 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.199 the feedback like with him Oliver. Receivers are pretty calm, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.520 you know, and they give the information to Troy or myself, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.400 and so we always feel like we know what the 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.760 receivers are seeing and doing and saying with Burrow and 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.080 it's just really good communication all the way around. In 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.319 the second half, I think for the second time, you 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.600 scored on just about every drive, you know, And when 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.520 you're doing that, I'll tell you what that's You guys 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.360 are a handful and it's hard to handle at that point. Yeah, 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.160 we just, you know, kind of shot ourselves in the 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.120 foot there in the first half with some silly penalties 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.360 and mistakes like that, and so we need to hit 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.640 a rhythm sooner faster. But again, proud of the way 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.440 that our guys came out the second half and executed. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.240 What about your defensive football team pitching a shot? I 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.040 mean at one point, I know, I think it was 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.679 like two hundred and ten yards to like fifty. I mean, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.920 it was just they were they were suffocating the Detroit Lions. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.760 They couldn't get anything done, They had no points in 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.120 the boarding, like you said, scored eleven late. But how 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.280 about that defensive performance. How inspirational is that they've always 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.680 had confidence in themselves, but I can see it growing 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.920 from week to week. You know, now they're expectations coming. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.319 We're not gonna allow any points, We're not gonna give 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:49.960 up any big players. We're going to create more turn 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.800 rivers than we have been and so that that's really 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.680 good to see. We've got great leadership on that side 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.560 of the ball and really good chemistry. So at what 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.360 point did you feel like this is going to be 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.520 a special day? I mean, was there any point during 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.040 the course of the game in the sideline when you 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.319 thought might that this might be something extraordinary? Well, we 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.520 felt like when it was seventeen nothing, we had them 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.120 on the mat and we need to finish them off, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.560 you know, And that's that's kind of the killer instinct 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.079 we're trying to develop at this team. And our defense 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.679 went out there, got to stop. Our offense went out 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.200 there and kicked to field goal. We would have liked 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.079 to touch down there. I think we had a drop 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.440 on that series. But that's the next step for us, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.040 is getting pains down and then just just finishing them off. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.480 The finishing blow there in the second half. How rewarding 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.800 is it a play caller. When Joe Mixon is so 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.560 wide open for his touchdown, Evans makes an unbelievable catch, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.600 you know, the back half of the football for his touchdown. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.920 How rewarding is it when you dial it up and 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.360 the players executed it the way they did, it feels good, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.959 you know. That's that's where all the work comes in. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.400 And so again, our players understand what we're asking them 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.720 to do. They're doing it with great detail and precision, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.640 and big players are going to come from that. Well. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:54.560 Four and two now thirty four eleven victory done with 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:59.360 the NFC North, even Stephen two wins, two losses could 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.640 have been in. We're not going to go backwards though, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.600 as you look forward to the Baltimore Ravens. What's the 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.440 first thing that comes to mind when you think about 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.319 the Baltimore Ravens Right now? We got to be strong 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.760 in our division and this is our second opportunity. We 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.520 want to know this is a big road test again 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.360 for us, and our guys will be ready, but this 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.120 is a big game for us. There's no question. First 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.360 place Ravens are five and one after humbling the Chargers 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.440 thirty four to six on Sunday, The second place Bengals 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.520 are one game behind Baltimore and one game ahead of 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.040 Cleveland after the Browns got crushed at home by the 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:40.160 undefeated Cardinals thirty seven fourteen. Baker Mayfield dislocated his left 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.040 shoulder in that game, but expects to be able to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.560 play with the injury. Now time for some postgame analysis 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.360 with Dave Lapham. I'll be honest, I thought the Bengals 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.600 were going to win, but I didn't expect it to 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.720 be as dominant as it turned out. How about you? 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.160 I agree with you, Dan. I mean, within thirty yards 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.160 of a three hundred yard passer, you know, less than 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.120 ten yards, within what six yards or whatever it was 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.400 of one hundred yard rusher, in the same one hundred 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.240 yard receiver, you have three hundred, one hundred, one hundred. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.760 That's a big it's a big offensive performance. And defensively 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.440 they suffocated them. You know, they really when the game 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.280 was on the line, when the game meant something, they 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.360 just they didn't give an inch. It was. It was 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.920 an impressive performance all the way around. There was complimentary 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.040 football played, you know, between phases of the thing and 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.040 within the phase, you know, running game, supporting passing game, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.200 and the thing I liked in reflection talking to some 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.280 of the guys in the locker room, Jamar Chase making 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.520 the block for Joe Mixon's touchdown, Joe Mixon after the 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.040 play action fake making the block, allowing a touchdown pass 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.120 to occur. Evans Blitz pick up allowing Joe Joe Burrow 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.760 to throw a touchdown pass. So the detail of things 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.000 that needed to be done were done at a very 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.000 high level, and there was complimentary football played there too. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.160 That's good stuff. I thought the game really swung on 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.240 one play less than a minute ago. Second quarter, Bengals 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.040 up seven nothing. They had had three straight three and outs, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.360 three straight punts. It's third and ten. Looks like they're 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.360 gonna punt again. Joe Burrow drops a perfect pass to 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.560 Jamar Chase for a thirty four yard game, moving it 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.160 from the Bengals forty to the Lions twenty six. That 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.400 leads to a field goal that makes it ten nothing. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.880 That gives the Bengals momentum, and they come out in 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.440 the second half and score three touchdowns in a field 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.360 goal in their first four drives. It's crazy. I mean, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.360 they score another three points in the final two minutes, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.720 of the first half. They've scored thirty one points now 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.320 in the final two minutes of the first six football games. Nuts, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.040 then they come right out and score, you know, to 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.520 start the third quarter, which they've done. That's that's such 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.640 a huge energy emotion, you know, everything you can think of, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.720 such a huge boost in the throw extraordinary. I mean, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.520 it's a porthole. It's not a window, it's a porthole 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.840 down there. It's like you got to go over the 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.680 corner and before the safety can get there, get it 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.560 close as close to the sideline as you can. Chase 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.959 ran a route that was along those lines and exactly 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.240 where we were supposed to run it, and Joe put 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.119 the ball such an unbelievable place, I mean it was. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.960 That's one of those where you say, man, these guys 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.919 are good, These NFL players, these guys are good, no question. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.000 Unbelievable catch by Chris Evans for the bengals first touchdown. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.160 I'm saying you can't count on both hands the number 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.639 of running backs that can make a catch like that, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.160 Maybe one, not both. Do you think the Bengals need 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.160 to find ways to get him more involved on offense? Yeah, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.359 I mean, you look at him and you see, you know, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.600 a potential Giovanni Bernard, you know where. And the thing 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.840 that I was impressed with his blitz pickup was good, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.399 not just the one on the Joe Borrow touchdown. There 0:17:55.400 --> 0:18:00.479 were other instances of blitz pickup where he was, you know, unashamedly, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.800 but he his nose right in the middle of somebody 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.879 and that was good to see. So I think, um, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:07.760 you know, the only thing you can do as a 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.679 player is have some patience, wait for your opportunity. Know 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.960 you're prepared as well as you possibly can for your opportunity, 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.000 and capitalize on your opportunity. So therefore you can get 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.840 more opportunity. And that's kind of the process he's going 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.680 through as a young rookie, and he's earning it. He's 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.439 earning his chance, he's earning his snaps. I don't have 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.400 team stats in front of me. I'm pretty sure it's 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.919 less than fifty rushing yards in the game for the 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.160 Detroit Lions. Awesome job and run defense. Of course, late 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.240 in the game when I got lopsided, they stopped running. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.439 But in any case, it's been excellent by and large 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.600 for the most part this year, and it was the 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.359 best it's been all year. Today. Yeah, nothing leaked out, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.359 you know, that was that was the thing everybody was. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.600 You know, we talked about in the in the pregame 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.160 that these guys like to cut, you know, cut block, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.520 and uh, that's that's their head coach Dan Campbell is 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.600 that type of player, you know, he's a it's not dirty, 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.760 it's just it's physical, it's aggressive, and guys stayed on 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.000 their feet, stayed in their gaps, didn't give them much 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.080 opportunity to run the football. And yeah, defensively I thought, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.959 you know they were, they were extraordinary in the NFL. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.399 I don't care how bad the offense is struggling. You know, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.320 it's like they pitched the shutout for almost three quarters 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.520 you know, of the football game. Or maybe it wasn't 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.679 to the fourth quarter. I think it was three plus quarters. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.800 They pitched a shut out. When you do something like that, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.560 you've done a lot of things right. They beat a 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.359 winless team. People are going to poop poo the victory, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.400 but the dominance is what stands out to me. Like 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.320 we said at the very beginning, we both thought they 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.160 would win. But when you dominate like that, it makes 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:44.080 you think, Okay, this team might be able to sustain 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.480 this and stay in the playoff hunt. The good thing 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.920 is it was the first time for them this year 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.920 where they found themselves up seventeen and at that point, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:55.720 what do you do. Do you let a team back 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.920 in the game or do you finish it? And they 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.800 finished it. That's a good sign, he said. Maybe not 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.560 the best team by far that they're going to play, 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.919 but when you when you're up, you have a team down, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.040 like Forrest, Greg used to say, finish him, you know, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.760 don't reposition yourself and let them get a breath and 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.239 get back in the football game. So I thought that 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:21.720 was a positive sign as well. Bring out the Ravens man. 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.639 I hope that that run defense is I hope we 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:30.280 play the best gap control, responsibility running game defense we've 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.360 ever played. Because when I mean, they're they're so unusual 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.600 with they're eleven on eleven, having a quarterback like that 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:37.719 that can run it. I mean, I look at him, 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.439 Dan as you know, at least a top twenty running 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.000