WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Heartache Tonight 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.519 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:12.240 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The There's gonna be a heartache tonight, 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:18.840 A heartache tonight, I know. Addition, as we look back 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.840 at Sunday's Burrow versus Baker shootout at Paul Brown Stadium 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.080 ultimately won by the Cleveland Browns thirty seven to thirty four. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.000 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments from players 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.680 and coaches, and in depth analysis for my broadcast partner 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.159 Dave Lapham. And this week's fun facts segment is with 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.480 wide receiver Mike Thomas. If you're still grumpy from Sunday's 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:47.040 final score, I promise you my conversation with Mike Thomas 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.960 will put a smile on your face. The Bengals Booth 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.200 Podcast is presented by bud Light. Seltzer refreshed the game 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.440 and here's a quick reminder that you can have the 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.680 latest edition of this podcast deliver write to your phone, tablet, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.000 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitch, your Google Play, Spotify, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.959 or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since the Bengals 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.600 media relations staff before the pandemic. I was pretty self 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.280 sufficient when it came to doing my job. The Bengals 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.160 locker room was opened several days a week so I 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.640 would get to know the players, set up my interviews, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.200 and gather the material I need for broadcasting the games 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.119 and hosting our weekly radio shows. Well that's not possible 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.040 this year. Reporters are not allowed inside of NFL locker 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.000 rooms because of COVID nineteen. So everybody that covers the 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.640 Bengals has been relying on the team's media relations staff 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.840 of Emily Parker, PJ Combs, Pete Shram, and Laura top 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.960 and they have been doing an amazing job of helping 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:55.200 us as we try to inform you. So Emily, PJ, Pete, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.240 and Laura, thanks a million from everybody on the Bengals beat. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.720 Your hard work is truly appreciated. Now let's get to 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.520 Sunday's game. It certainly started well for the Bengals as 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.040 they opened the game with a seventy yard drive that's 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.200 set up first and goal at the two yard line. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.160 Burrowing the shotgun Bernard to his left, Burrow fakes a 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.600 handoff throws into the end zone. It's patted in the 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.359 year and intercepted in the end zone. That's the second 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.000 time this year that Burrow has been intercepted in the 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.800 end zone. It happened from the one yard line against 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.799 Jacksonville when Miles jack ripped the ball away from Drew Sample, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.160 But two plays after the Brown's interception, Baker Mayfield returned 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.480 the favor. Now he takes the snap, drops back five steps. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.640 He's gonna throw it down field for Odell back two. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.200 It's intercepted by Darius Phillips, running it back to the thirty, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.840 the twenty five, and he'll be drigged down at the 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.639 twenty four yard line. So Baker Mayfield, who has picked 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.359 off twice in the regular season finale last year by 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.880 Darius Phillips, is picked off on his first throw today 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.520 by the Bengals on her back, and that led to 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.880 the game's first score. Second and goal inside the one. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.560 Burrow is under center again, takes the snap, runs another 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.800 quarterback ban Joe Burrow should be in here. Come the 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.720 officials to check it out, and there's the touchdown signal. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.480 The Bengals had an early lead, but the Browns have 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.360 Miles Garrett Burrow back to pass being chased by Miles 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.840 gard who pokes the ball away Cleveland and Cincinnati scrambling 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.120 after the loose ball, it goes out of bounds. Miles 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.800 Garrett with a strip sack and the Browns recovered before 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.440 it went out of bounds, apparently one of two sacks 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.360 for Miles Garrett, who is up to nine for the season. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.840 The forced fumble was his fourth. It led to a 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.840 field goal that made it seven to three. The Bengals 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.440 answered with a Randy bullockfield goal four minutes into the 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.520 second quarter that made it ten to three. At that point, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.480 Burrow had one hundred and fifty two passing yards and 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.640 Baker Mayfield had zero. He was over five with an interception, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.400 but the Browns quarterback would not throw another incomplete pass 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.320 until there were sixteen seconds left in the game. Cincinnati 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.520 creeping up on the defensive line, Mayfield with time his 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.480 pass caught for a touchdown by Bryants. That three yard 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.200 grabbed by rookie tight end Harrison Bryant tied the game 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.799 at ten with three forty two left in the half, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.320 and Burrow went to work, orchestrating a seventy five yard 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.599 drive that not only ended with a touchdown but showed 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.320 up the clock. Second and goal from the eleven twenty 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.839 two seconds left. The Bengals are out of timeouts. Burrow 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.039 back to pass, good pocket throws into the end zone. Yeah, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:43.880 it's intended for touchdown Bengals as Tyler Boy caught it 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.800 right on the white stripe. The ball passed the white stripe, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.719 Betty was driven back out onto the playing field, but 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.159 the touchdown signal was given with fifteen seconds left in 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.320 the half seventeen ten. Bengals. His Burrow through for two 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.640 hundred thirty four yards in the first half. Here's Aj 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.120 Green being out there with him and then watching his 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.200 demeter in the huddle that he never flinches. He never 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.600 had any doubt in his mind that we wasn't going 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.760 out down there and score. And he's special man. That 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.719 guy gonna be a great one. So I'm glad we 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.480 got him here. Aj by the way, had another solid game, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.479 finishing with seven catches for eighty two yards. The second 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.280 half became a Burrow versus Baker shootout. There were no 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.279 punts and no turnovers, just a bunch of points. After 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.400 Mayfield threw his second touchdown pass to Harrison Bryant to 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.320 tie the score at seventeen, the Bengals drove to the 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.120 Cleveland four before settling for a Randy Bullock field goal. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.200 It gave Cincinnati a twenty to seventeen league going to 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.200 the fourth quarter, but getting three instead of seven proved 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.240 costly because the Bengals could not stop Baker Mayfield. Second 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.719 and seven, Mayfield drops back to throw into the end zone. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.560 It is caught for the Cleveland Browns touchdown. David Najoku 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.320 with the catch, and the Browns have taken the lead 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.679 in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter. Good throw. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.160 The coverage by Von Bell was good, but it was 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.200 a perfect throw by Baker Mayfield, and former first round 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.960 draft pick David Njoku hauled it in. After starting the 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.600 game over five, Baker Mayfield set a Brown's record by 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:25.080 completing twenty one consecutive passes. The NFL record is twenty five. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.400 Here's Zach Taylor. He was hot. He was hot, you know, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.120 and you gotta give credit to him. And we gotta 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.080 make some plays. There was a bunch of snaps a 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.800 man covers there where they made the plays and we 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.120 did not. And yet Joe Burrow kept bringing the Bengals 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.160 bad second and ten at the Cleveland sixteen yard line, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.320 empty backfield for Joe Burrow. He catches the shotgun snap 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.560 Burrow bouncing in the pocket. His throw, caught at the 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.000 ten yard line, breaks it the five yeah and runs 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:57.440 in straight into the end zone. Touchdown Bengals. It's a 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.520 tee him. The Bengals have the lead in the fourth 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.360 quarter with eight forty five to go. That lead lasted 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.599 for roughly four minutes. Mayfield swings it out to the left, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.280 caught by Kareem Hunt, and he will cruise into the 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.720 end zone with nobody within five yards. The Browns have 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.040 the lead again with four minutes and fifty three seconds left. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.600 Touchdown past number four for Mayfield. The Browns up by four. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.800 In the fourth quarter. Once again, Burrow calmly marched the 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.880 Bengals down the field like a ten year veteran, twelve 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.040 yards to t Higgins, fifteen to Tyler Boyd, twenty five 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.320 to Mike Thomas, and a twelve yard quarterback draw for 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.520 a first down on third and eleven. After nine plays, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.119 the Bengals faced a critical decision with time winding down 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.360 one o nine left in regulation. The Bengals trailed by 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.640 four points. They have it fourth and inches near the 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.080 Cleveland Browns two yard line. Burrow is under center, the 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.960 running back is p Rhine. Burrow with a long count, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.240 stops the right foot. Te Higgins goes in motion notes 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.800 actually Giovanni Bernard gotta. Burrow throws for Bernard, he catches 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:14.240 the touchdown. Bengals gutsie call and the Bengals capitalized as 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.840 they throw it on fourth and inches and Burrow throws 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.680 that touchdown pass to Giovanni Bernard. I'll tell you what, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.000 Joe Burrow, you talk about, Joe cool, here's Giovanni Bernard 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.800 on the go ahead score. It was just a good call, Um, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.120 And I think one of the things that I appreciate 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.920 is a coach, Hay, They're giving me that opportunity to 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.319 be able to, you know, to do the play you know, um, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.160 and to have called it. You know, it's just one 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.920 of those situations and UM and a play that you know, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.640 you work on for a while and you know you 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.640 bring it out when you need it most, and it worked. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.080 Burrow finished with a career high four hundred six passing 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.280 yards with three touchdown throws and one touchdown run. Most impressively, 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.280 he directed too long to drives in the fourth quarter 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.960 that turned deficits into leads. You know, it is exciting, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.880 but you know, I expect myself to do that every week. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.760 On my hand, at the end of the game, I'm 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.880 comfortable and confident that I'm going to go down and 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.640 make the play to win. Unfortunately, Baker was playing, playing 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.040 out of his mind and led that that two minute 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.160 drive after us. The Bengals left sixty six seconds on 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.720 the clock after their go ahead touchdown, and that was 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.760 more than enough time for Mayfield. He's going to throw 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.480 it for the end zone, and Donovan People's jones, he 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.520 comes down with a ball for a touchdown. Are you kidding? 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.280 With eleven seconds to go? Are you kidding me? Unbelievable 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.640 touchdown pass number five, a new career high for Baker Mayfield, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:49.000 topping his previous mark of four, also against Cincinnati. The 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.800 Bengals returned the subsequent kickoff to the forty two, giving 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.280 Burrow a chance for a last play miracle. The Browns 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.520 have four defenders about forty yards down field, four seconds 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.720 on the cl the Bengals at their own forty two. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.480 No pass rush at all from the Cleveland Browns, so 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.160 Burrow waits for the receivers to get down There here 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.440 comes the high hail Mary down toward the goal line 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:15.720 at the end zone and didn't complete man. The final 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:21.000 score Cleveland thirty seven, Cincinnati thirty four, another heartbreaker in 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.920 a seven week stretch filled with them. What did Zach 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.360 Taylor say to his team stick together? It's obviously in 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:34.600 an emotional locker room and for the right reasons. And 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.120 it is guys that in that moment after locker room 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.120 that that's tough to find those words because you felt 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.679 in control, you felt like you're gonna win, and then 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.920 you don't. And that's happened to us a couple of times. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.560 And this is a team that well leaves that we 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.080 can put together a winning streak, a one game, winning, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.120 two game, three game, four, game, five game like we 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.760 believe in it, and we just we just haven't done it. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.439 We haven't proven it to the outside world. But we're 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.599 gonna stick together. I can promise you that it's a 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.720 it's it's a it's a group of men on proud 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.679 to coach, and we're gonna stick together. We're gonna get 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.280 through this and the uh, there's much better days ahead. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.640 The Bengals are one five and one, including two losses 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.720 by three points one by four, another by five, and 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.600 a tie where they gave up a seven point lead 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:25.160 with twenty one seconds left in regulation. Excruciating. Here are 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.960 Joe Burrow and Giovanni Bernard, and we got a bunch 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.280 of great guys in this locker room and great Collagy staff. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.920 You know, Zach's gonna get us to where we want 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.320 to go. Um. You know, I know everyone is down 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.840 in the dumps right now. The fan base is is 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.560 frustrated just as we are. We're one five, but you 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:45.839 know we got we got a great guy at the 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.400 helm and Zach who who called a great game today, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.040 he really did. And you know he's he's gonna keep 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.680 us together. He's the leader of our team, the leader 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.720 of our own organization. UM, and he's gonna keep us together. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.960 We freaking want to win, Mike, We just want to win. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.600 In that's it. Obviously, we've come up short. We know it. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.120 It sucks, we hate the feeling. But all we can 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.880 do is just continue to keep working. Unfortunately the same 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:14.440 cannot be said of Carlos Dunlap. After another Instagram post 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.199 on Saturday complaining about his role on defense, Dunlap appeared 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.840 to argue with coaches on the sideline after the game, 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.240 and then chose Twitter to Ariis Grievance's moments later with 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.160 a snarky post about putting his house up for sale 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.520 that put Boyd and Bernard in the uncomfortable position of 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.040 having to answer numerous questions about their long time teammates 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.719 behavior after a difficult loss. We're a team and we 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.679 hold each other accountable, no matter what coach it is, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.000 no matter what fan it is, we are in it 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.480 together as players. So for him to do down the 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.240 style and I don't agree with it, but I mean 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.400 I ain't trying to get into it. So I'm gonna 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.280 just continue to practice and trying to get one. It's 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.880 tough to talk about. You know, it's a situation that 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.000 he's going to have to handle. But you know, I've 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.920 always been the type of person then you know a 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.720 lot of the guys in the locker room have been 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.160 this way. Is you know, we can only worry about, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.600 you know, the guys that want to be here, the 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.520 guys that want to take care of business and do 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.600 it the right way. Um. We know what coach Taylor, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.199 you know, has preached since day one is protecting the team, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.040 and um, you know It's just one of those things 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.880 that we got to continue to do that. UM. We 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.080 can't worry about the guys that you know that don't 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.400 follow that. You know that that idea, UM. But you know, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.480 I've always been a firm believer and you know everything 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.240 that Coach Taylor has really been doing around this UM, 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.440 this organization. UM, you know, it's it's just it breaks 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.040 my heart, man, to just to know that, you know, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.880 he's had to deal with a lot of different things. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:42.960 A lot of people don't see, you know, these things 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.880 that have happened, but he not only deals with you know, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.000 the offense and you know, being the head coach, but 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.880 there's so much other crap that he has to deal with. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.439 And UM, you know it's one of those things that 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.600 Rich shoot, man, I just want to win for him. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.800 You know. It's it's just a difficult situation, and UM, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.240 it's obviously frustrating. We all know it's frustrating, but we 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.840 know the type of team that we have, and we 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.960 just have to worry about the guys that better here 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.440 day in and day out put in the work. We 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.160 can't focus on things that we don't have control over. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.640 We just go in and just do our jobs period. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.520 Up next the home game against the Tennessee Titans, who 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.440 are five and one after a three point lass to 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.720 the six and o Pittsburgh Steelers. The Bengals Booth Podcast 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.640 is presented by Bud Light Seltzer. It's light and refreshing 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.480 with a hint of fruit flavor. Now, let's get some 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:37.320 postgame analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lap Joe 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.040 Burrow summed it up pretty well at the end of 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.360 a four hundred and six yard passing performance. Quote. Football 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.280 is not a game of numbers. It is a game 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.960 of letters, W and L. Well done, rookie QB. Well 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.680 he's got one W, five l's and one T for 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.040 a tie. This team has had the lead in the 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.920 fourth quarter five times in seven games and has one win, 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.840 three losses In the tie. It's almost it's almost incredible 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.080 the last two weeks for them to lose games the 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.240 way they did, have a twenty one point lead, give 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.120 it all back and lose. To have a fourth quarter lead, 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.120 take it to lead back, lose the lead, take it 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.120 back again, lose the game is just I mean, it's 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.520 gut wrenching. It's a gut punch It's like they're, you know, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.600 manufacturing ways to lose football games, and losing teams figure 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.440 out ways to lose football games, and winning teams figure 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.800 out ways to win football games. And Cleveland's now five 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.040 and two and the Bengals are won five and one. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.800 Baker mayfield first pass of the game was intercepted oh 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.520 for five in the first quarter, and then he completed 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.440 twenty one in a row before a spike, and then 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.200 through the game winning touchdown pass, five touchdown passes in 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.800 the game five and one and six starts against the Bengals. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:59.520 They have no answers for the guy. It's amazing. Seventeen touchdowns, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.960 seven interceptions now in his career against the Bengals. If 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.440 he played against the Bengals every week, he'd be a 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:10.200 consensus All Pro and a unanimous Hall of Fame electoral vote. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.480 I mean, it is, it's ludicrous. And the thing is 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.760 when he got hot, I'm telling you, he put the 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.120 ball in spots that they were they were as tight 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.960 a window. When he gets going, he throws the ball 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.920 as well as anybody. And if you need to have 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.760 your career resurrected in media and fans to get off 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.080 your back, like Philip Rivers and Baker Mayfield did come 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:36.120 to Cincinnati schedule the Bengals, I mean, all is forgiven, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.840 all is healed because you have almost perfect quarterback rating 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.360 games when you play against his football team. To think 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.240 where they were as a past defense a month into 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.120 the season and to think where they are now, it's frightening. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.920 Receivers aren't just open. They're open by country Miles. I mean, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.680 they're not supposed to be as open as they're open 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.800 in the National Football League. It's just not supposed to 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.920 have And it's happening too many times in football games. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.360 It's happening with too much, too much regularity. It's it's 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.520 mind boggling, it really is, you know. And once players 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.680 get their confidence, you know, Baker Mayfield thinks I can 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.560 make any thrown, as receivers think I can make any catch. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.880 I mean, it gets to be a contagious thing. And 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.760 when they had to make plays, when they at crucial moments, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.720 when they had to make plays, they made plays. And 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.000 a lot of times the Bengals did too, but they 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.480 made mistakes again, you know, at pivotal crucial times too. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.800 You know, it kills me that people are saying Zach, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.800 what are the four plays that could have been the 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.960 four plays that there's more than four plays in every game. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.359 Zach didn't mean he couldn't think of a play. He couldn't. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.920 He couldn't put his finger on which one of multiple 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.280 plays in every single game that they've lost, when they've 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.479 gone into the fourth quarter with the lead. It's not 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.320 just one play every game. It's a myriad of plays 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.760 every game that if one of them went the other way, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.000 it's a different outcome. That's what people are talking about 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.840 when you're losing all these football games by one scoreless. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.000 Now they're what one, twelve and one in games to 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:10.560 side a by eight points or less. Unbelievable. Here's what 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.119 I find staggering. Odell Beckham Junior left the game early 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.159 with a knee injury. It's feared to be serious. I 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.000 hope that's not the case for his sake. Jarvis Landry 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.320 is playing with a broken rib. But he played okay. 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.159 But he's not, you know, the Pro Bowl type wide receiver. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.800 He would normally be Austin Hooper, their best receiving tight end, 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.200 had an emergency appen decked to me on Friday, he 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:38.120 wasn't available Rashad Higgins, Harrison Bryant, rookie tight end Donovan 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.280 People's Jones, who normally wouldn't even get on the field 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.119 had the game winning touchdown catch. You've got to get 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.600 some pressure on Baker Mayfield or guys like that become 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.080 good players. Yeah, there's no doubt it's a compounding effect. Negatively, 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:59.199 they're playing complimentary football the worst way you can no 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:04.200 pass rush, horsepucky coverage. That's going to lead to guys 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.880 that who guys that didn't have any NFL catches. They've 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.080 had guys this year with no NFL catches and statute 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.040 have career games. They've had guys that you know are 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:17.320 just basically the last receiver actor for the game, don't 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.120 really have a big role because of injury. Their role increases, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.920 have big games. But if you're not rushing the passer 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.000 and you're have an assignment are on the back end 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.800 and technique problems on the back end. I mean, they 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.280 can pull guys off the street and line up and 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.439 beat the Bengals. I mean, it is unbelievably gruesome to 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.080 watch at this stage. It really is. One of the 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.280 reasons why Baker Mayfield was so effective was the absence 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.560 of Will Jackson. He's played great at corner this year. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.320 Pro Football Focus has him as the eighteenth highest rated 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.000 cornerback in the NFL. They dearly missed him when Baker 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.919 Mayfield was carving people up. I remember Dan when we 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.600 did our Friday show talking about Joe Mixon's a huge blow, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.200 but you have a true professional in Givn't even hard 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.360 and other running backs that might be able to kind 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.399 of lessen that load, and that Jackson was probably a 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.560 bigger loss as the game unfolded. That's exactly how it 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.520 played out. Not having Will Jackson as a guy that 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.720 could run with the best receiver or covered his half 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.520 of the football field. The ripple effected, that the trickle 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.360 down effected. That was enormous, enormous, and guys were out there, 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.360 you know, doing the best they could, but not good 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.320 enough to make the plays that Will Jackson would have 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.399 made during the course of this football game. And you 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:34.800 got a quarterback that goes twenty two out of twenty 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.000 three with five touchdown passes in the final three quarters 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.400 of the game. Tell me having number twenty two out 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.760 there to line up at corner on the wide side 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.560 of the field wouldn't have been helpful, absolutely would have. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.320 And the other sad thing is this would have been 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.159 quite a feel good story for the offensive line, the 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.879 much maligned offensive line. Jonah Williams exit in the first 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.040 half with a neck injury. Trey Hopkins exits in the 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.480 first half with a concussion. Billy Price plays the entire 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.199 second half at center. Fred Johnson plays the entire second 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.479 half at tackle. With three plays to go, Bobby Hart 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.480 apparently hurt his knee. Hacam identage is thrown in there 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.240 the rookie out of Kansas, and those three guys are 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.360 on the field when they score the go ahead touchdown 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.200 with the one oh six to go. I'm telling you, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:26.720 in the second half the shuffle me offensive line. Eight 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.600 offensive line were active for the football game. All eight 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.439 saw snaps, not as the extra lineman in a you know, 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.119 big tight end formation. I'm talking about snaps. Like you 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:40.520 said in the in the offensive schematic at tackle or center. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:45.359 Everybody had to step up and make plays, you know, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.840 in the football game. And it is said, it's sad 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.359 to see they overcame it. I mean the entire second half, 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.080 you know, Billy Price and Fred were you know, they're 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.240 going there, they have no option. So it's sad when 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.879 you a performance like that is wasted. I thought that 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.800 Zach had probably the best game plan and the best 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.119 play calling execution of that game plan in terms of 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.480 play caller he had all season long. They still couldn't 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.120 run the ball. But he went to the screen game 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.679 as an extension of the running game. It's like a 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:21.119 long ladderal out there. It's like a long pitch. And 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.080 he screened every way you can screen. I mean, you know, 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.840