WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Only The Beginning 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.279 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:12.480 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The only the beginning of what 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.520 I want to feel forever. Addition, as we look back 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.319 at Super Bowl fifty six, a thrilling experience for the 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.960 Bengals and their fans, but ultimately one that ended in disappointment. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.560 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments and analysis 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.440 from my broadcast partner, Dave Lapple. The Bengals Booth Podcast 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.560 is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free to play next 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.479 Level Fantasy football game downloaded now from the App Store 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.879 and Google Play, and by on Location, the official hospitality 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.640 partner of the NFL. 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They were 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.480 made by a friend of mine named Courtney Talty, who 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.760 has to be one of the world's finest cookie decorators. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.240 She lives in Cincinnati and doesn't ship her cookies around 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.600 the country, but if you live in the area and 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.240 are interested in custom designed cookies for a special occasion, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.680 you should check her out on Facebook. Again, the name 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:54.480 is Courtney Talty. That's t A L. T. Y Oh. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.920 And by the way, they taste as great as they look. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.720 Now time for an extensive radio replay of Super Bowl 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:08.079 fifty six. Fifty four seasons ago, the most innovative coach 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.600 in sports history brought professional football to Cincinnati, and today 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.560 the Cincinnati Bengals get their third opportunity to make Paul 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.040 Brown's dream a reality as they face the Los Angeles 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.079 Rams in Super Bowl fifty six. The Bengals are going 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.160 to go for it on fourth in a long yard 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.320 at the Los Angeles forty nine. Burrow in the gun, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.959 p Rhyn stays in. Joe Burrow drops back to throw 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.320 short pass it's pattered away. It's incomplete, intended for Jamar Chase. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.240 Looked like Jalen Ramsey got a hand on it and 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.000 the Bengals fail. On fourth down and one Stafford back 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.399 to throw, He's gonna love it toward the end zone. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.120 Odell Beckham Junior reaches up and comes down to the ball. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.240 It's a touchdown for the Rams as Odell Beckham Junior 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.360 went up and over Mike Hilton to haul in the 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.600 game's first touchdown. Burrow back to throw, wants to float 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.959 it high and deep fore Chase is it the twenty 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.480 reaches out comes down to the ball half the eleven 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:13.120 yard line, a spectacular finger tip catch by Numero Uno Amma. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.360 Bengals will have it at the eleven After a forty 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.120 six yard bomb from Burrow to Chase, Oh flip the 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.600 football field almost half a field. He's working against Ramsey 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.799 one on one. Ramsey falls down. He turns to try 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.679 to find the football and then he loses his balance 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.360 in Jamar Chase finds the ball, tracks the ball, makes 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.240 a diving catch one on one against Jalen Ramsey. First 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.720 opportunity Jamar Chase for forty six big yard and that 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.760 was a one handed spectacular catch as it started with 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.440 a right hand only shooter. McPherson swings the right leg 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.680 a high spinning end over end kick. It is good am. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.320 The Bengals are on the scoreboard. A second down in 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.440 five from the Cincinnati eleven, the Rams leading the Bengals 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.720 seven three. Here in the second quarter, Matthew Stafford, under 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.240 center receiver, goes in motion. They fake a hand on 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.720 Stafford throwing into the end zone. Cooper Cup Wide open 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.400 in the back right corner. Hey makes the catch for 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.560 a Ram's touchdown. Higgins sample and Boyd out to the 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.520 right in a cluster. The Bengals toss it to the right. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.919 Mixons throws into the back of the end zone. It 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:26.680 is called by T. Higgins. Touchdown Bengals Shoe Mixon floating 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.279 one into the back right corner of the end zone 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.680 and T. Higgins pulls it in for the Bengals touchdown. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:37.800 Talked about trickeration Joe Mixon. Everybody starts downhill to fill 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.920 the run sweet they think it's gonna be a squeet. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.360 They don't even look for T. Higgins. By the time 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.080 the recovery is made, it's way too late for Nick Scott, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.240 and Nick Scott says, oh my gosh, Mixon's gonna throw 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.360 it right over his Headford touchdown great called by Zach 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.279 Taylor on the trickeration Pock running two twelve left and 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.440 a half third down in fourteen empty backfield, shotgun snap 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.960 Stafford from the pocket, looking scrambling left, squares his shoulders, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.560 points deep, fires toward the end zone. Intercepted into the 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.920 end zone, it is picked off by Jesse Bates and 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.680 the Bengals will get the ball at the twenty year defends. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.359 They intercept Matthew Stafford Joe Mixon in the backfield. He 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.000 had forty rushing yards in the first half. They fake 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.240 to him. Burrow now scrambling fires deep down field for 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.240 Higgins to push it over. His defender, catches the ball, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.800 runs it into the end zone. There's no po a 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:35.120 seventy five yard touchdown. Burrow two Higgins as he knocked 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.360 over Jay Ramsey and ran it into the end zone 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.840 to give the Bengals the lead. Stafford throws over the 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.640 middle and it is intercepted. It was deflected off Cooper 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.000 Cup and it's picked off. The Bengals will take over 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.920 at the thirty two chinabay O wooge on the deflection 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.479 off Cooper Cup and the Bengals have the lead and 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.560 the ball at the Rams thirty two second takeaway by 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.560 the Cincinnati Bengals defense turn down in four from the 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.120 twelve of the Rams shotgun snap, Burrow cots the arm 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.680 and gets smashed to the ground. Burrow gets sacked back 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:15.039 at the twenty yard live Aaron Donald with his second 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.680 sack of this drive, and the Bengals will have to 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.599 settle for the field goal try by Evan McPherson. Park 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.240 Haruse will snap it back to Kevin Hubert. Huber, looking 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.880 back at his kicker, now turns his head, extends the 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.960 right hand, catches the ball, puts it down. McPherson's kick 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:34.440 lofted and it is good. He remains perfect in the postseason, 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:39.440 and the Bengals have scored seventeen straight to take a 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.920 twenty to thirteen lead. Matt Gay is into attempt to 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.440 forty one yard field goal try from the middle of 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.440 the field, trying to cut the Bengals lead down to four. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.200 His kick on its way and it is perfect right 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.039 down the middle from forty one yards out, so the 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.200 Rams get points, but they do not get even. Rams 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.479 have sacked Joe Burrow six times. They've hit him eight times. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.360 It's third down and nine. Usama in the backfield to 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.640 the left of Burrow to pick up the rush. Burrow 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.960 under pressure and he is sacked for the seventh time. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.880 Joe Burrow is down and grabbing his right knee. Oh boy. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.600 Five h seven left and the Rams ready to go 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.560 for it on fourth and one at their own thirty 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.840 Stafford under center. They're going to go with an end 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.720 a round and it's going to work as Cooper Cup 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.840 will run it out to the thirty seven yard line 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.440 second down and goal from the one. As the Rams 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.600 look for a go ahead touchdown, Stafford is under center, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.880 takes the snap, floats a fade into the end zone, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.440 and it is caught for a touchdown to give the 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.640 Rams the lead. Cooper Cup with the catch and the 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.680 Rams have pulled ahead. With one twenty five to go, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.240 the Bengals had to use another time out. They're down 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.000 to their final time out with forty three seconds to go. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.680 They need to gain about ten more yards to be 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.440 within field goal range, but first things first, they need 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.320 to gain one to keep their hopes alive in Super 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.280 Bowl fifty six. Burrow ready for the shotgun snap on 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.200 fourth in the yard long count, Joe has the ball, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.400 drops back to throw, he gets hit, he gets rid 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.800 of the ball. It's incomplete intended for p Ryan and 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.000 the Los Angeles Rams are going to win the Super Bowl. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.600 In the final score, the Rams twenty three the Bengals twenty. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.280 Cincinnati's three Super Bowl losses have been by five points, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.599 four points, and now three points. The Bengals Booth podcast 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.880 is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free to play fantasy 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.439 football game. This year, Ultimate Bengals awarded a weekly winner 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.760 during the course of the season with tickets, autograph merchandise, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.760 and money can't Buy experiences all up for grabs. Find 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.680 Ultimate Bengals in the App Store and Google Play. Now 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.480 time for postgame comments. The first topic the dominant play 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.199 of Aaron Donald and the Rams defensive front, as they 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.800 finished with seven sacks and eleven quarterback hits. Here are 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.280 Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow. Every tape we've watched, they 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.120 hit every single quarterback almost on every single snap, and 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.360 so it's a challenge. I thought our guys would tremendous job. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.400 Earlier in the game, managing that as the game gets on. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.240 You know, they did a good job creating that pressure, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.680 and so when we had some negative plays in first 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.079 and ten, you know, running the ball on second thirteen 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.880 is gonna be pretty tough. So you know, it was 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.720 just being more efficient in the second half of first 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.480 and ten would have helped us. They played really well 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:31.959 front to day. You know, I was proud of the 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.040 way that they fought. I've been proud of the way 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.160 that they fought all season. So we all have to 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:41.320 get better individually and myself included. Between the regular season 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:47.000 and postseason, Burrow was sacked seventy times. Here c j Uzamba, 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.400 you're one your quarterback to get hit one time, let alone. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.400 However many times it was you know, not even coming 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.400 the things that weren't sacks, just him getting hit in general. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:00.439 So it has been tough. You know, there's I mean, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.080 that's a franchise, right you don't want to see your 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.280 franchise quarterback get hit as many times as he did. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.080 And that's probably gonna be a point of emphasis coming up. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.439 Improving the line will definitely be a point of emphasis. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.920 But despite the rams pressure, Burrow threw for two hundred 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.959 and sixty three yards with a touchdown, no picks, and 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.280 a passer rating of one hundred point nine. And he 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.199 wasn't afraid to challenge Jalen Ramsey. Te Higgins had that 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.760 seventy five yard touchdown catch over Ramsey and finished with 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.400 four catches for one hundred yards. And Jamar Chase had 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.880 a forty six yard grab against Ramsey and he finished 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.840 with five catches four eighty nine. Here's Zach Taylor. Our 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.240 guys weren't afraid of anybody. You know. We've got tremendous 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.600 players on our team, and they got tired of the 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.560 narrative of all the things that other teams are going 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:46.760 to do it on him. And here we are in 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.640 the Super Bowl and are gonna stepped up and make plays. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.280 The Bengals were only penalized four times in the game, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.240 but three of the flags came back to back to 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.960 back in the final two minutes, including a highly questionable 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.320 defensive holding call on Logan Wilson that would have made 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.480 it fourth and goal from the eight for the Rams. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.440 Instead of having to score a touchdown on the next 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.960 play to decide the game, La was gifted a first 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.840 down and scored a few plays later. Here are Mike 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.079 Hilton and Zach Taylor. Honestly, they was letting his play 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.640 all three quarters, and when got down today fourth, they started, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.920 you know, being a little more flag happy. But he's 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.640 just named a game man. We just got to find 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.719 ways to win. I thought it was a really wall 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.840 fishing game, to be quite honest with you, and sometimes 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.960 it comes down to moments like those. I don't have 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.599 a great look at it, but but I thought the 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.240 officials did a nice show. And despite the call on Wilson, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.320 the Bengals still had a great opportunity to at least 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.360 force overtime. A seventeen yard passed to Chase and a 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.320 nine yard passed to Tyler Boyd made it second and 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.040 one at the forty nine with about a minute to go, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.400 but a deep ball to Chase wasn't close, so JP 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.880 Ryan then got stopped for no game on a running 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.120 play and Aaron Donald's fun burrow around on fourth and one, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.560 causing the incompletion that essentially ended the game. Here's burrow. Yeah, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.240 when we hit that first playoff, thought we were going 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:10.760 to go down at least get a field, goalth title 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.160 game and send it into overtime. You got again. You 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.160 gotta give credit to them. They had They played their 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.319 tails off for those four plays and stopped to some 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.480 third and one in one fourth and one. So credit 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.960 to the bottom line is that the Bengals were one 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.320 minute and twenty five seconds from winning one of the 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:33.040 most unlikely Super Bowl titles of all time. Here's Zach Taylor, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.120 proud of them. Special group stings right now. But you 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.680 got to find a way to just really cherish with 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.920 this group had together. It's a special group. It's it's 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.200 rare that you can coach a team like this, and 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.160 team means a lot. Proud of the way that they fought. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.200 I thought they did a lot for our team, for 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.600 a organization, and for our city, and they need to 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.520 be really proud of that. When the team returned home 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.720 and approximately seven pm on Monday, a large crowd of 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.200 fans was waiting at Paul Brown Stadium to greet them 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.160 and thank them for a memorable and often magical season. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.400 Here's c j Uzama. I love the city. I love 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.600 them backing us the entire year. I love going out 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.560 and people are just yelling randomly, you know, just hude 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.439 and trying to stop you in front of your car, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.559 like when you're at a red light. It's dope. It 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.000 really is. Since he since he's a fun place, I 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.440 think you see started it. Shoot baseball started at low 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.560 key rets, we're on a run. U see started it 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.640 and we continued it on. So since he's since he's 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.120 growing really big and you know, I'm excited to see 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.800 kind of the fan base. Girl. This podcast has brought 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.920 to you in part by on Location, the official hospitality 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:41.080 partner of the NFL. Visit on location exp dot com 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.320 for exclusive access to the biggest events in the NFL, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.960 including the Super Bowl. Now time for some postgame analysis 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.920 with my broadcast partner, Dave Lapham. We recorded this on 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.959 a bus with the players, friends and family members from 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.480 the stadium back to the team hotel after the game. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.680 The audio is briefly distorted in a couple of moments, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:08.720 but quickly returns to normal. Lap Unfortunately a familiar storyline 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.160 for the Bengals in the Super Bowl. Super Bowl heartbreak. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.520 They had their chances, They had a seven point lead 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.160 in the second half, they took a four point lead 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.000 to the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, they could not protect Joe 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.760 Burrow in the second half and they wound up losing 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.320 the game. Yeah, I mean it was the protection pressure 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.400 thing was something that everybody was talking about, you know, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:32.240 going into the game. It was obviously the biggest mismatch 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.160 in the game. The Rams had the number one win 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.280 rate as a defensive line as pass rushers, the Bengals 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.680 with thirtieth as an offensive line in protection. And that's 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.360 how it kind of turned out in the football game, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.880 particularly in the second half. I mean for a quarter 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.960 and a half, I mean, the Bengals look good. I 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.360 mean they didn't give up a sack, and then the 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.280 dam broke and the water came pouring in and Aaron 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.680 Donald von Miller and everybody else, Floyd got his everybody, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.840 everybody overpowered the Bengals. I mean thought that they made 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.520 a concerted effort to just decide to bull rush, just 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.480 to power rush the Bengals and you know, not try 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.880 to quick them and make moves and all that sort 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.560 of thing. And then twist started getting home. You know, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.440 just simple to e tackle penetrate end loop tackle consumed 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.080 two guys and the other way around, end penetrate consumed 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.240 two and tackle loop tackle twists inside those kind of 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.520 things started getting home with regularity and Joe Burrow had 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.640 no time, no space, and obviously he had to be frustrated. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.840 It was not a not a pretty performance down the stretch, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.600 that's for sure. Up front, they need to address that 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.240 in free agency and the draft, and if they can 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.760 get to get some bodies there that would be helpful. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.760 After nine sacks and they Tennis Ce game, the Bengals 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.120 changed things up on the offensive line and alternated. I 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.760 came idenergy and Jackson Carmen had right guard. Jackson got 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.600 fifty one percent of the snaps in the AFC Championship game. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.480 He didn't get a single snap as far as I 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.760 could tell in the Super Bowl. Do you figure it 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.280 just had to be the back acting up? I figured, yeah, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.320 I mean he missed quite a few practices and those 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.600 things you can flare up and cause issues. And I'm 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.040 sure that maybe during pregame warm up, something, you know, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.080 flare it up on him and for him not to 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.720 take a snap whatsoever, he obviously didn't trust that thing. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.720 I don't know if the trainers ruled him out or 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.000 he told everybody that he just felt like he couldn't go, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.000 But whatever the case was, he because you think a 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.880 guy at that age, at any age. Really, he doesn't 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.200 want to miss the Super Bowl, so it has to 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.320 be something pretty significant for him not to be able 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.640 to play whatsoever. I can see why maybe Frank decided 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.240 missing practices, you're not going to get as many reps 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.120 as a Dentergy, but to get none, particularly the way 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.080 I Dentergy was kind of struggling against Aaron Donald and 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.120 some of that bullrush stuff. Carmen's a bigger body, naturally 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.160 stronger type guy. You know, you think you maybe give 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.560 it a look. So I think it was something physically 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.080 that was preventing Jack's and Karments from going out there 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.560 and give it effort. The other big problem for the 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.760 Bengals in the game was their inability to convert on 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.640 third and short and fourth and short two instant since 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.240 in the game where they had an eight yard gain 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.439 on first down and could not get two more yards 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.680 to move the sticks, Third and short killed them, Third 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.000 and long killed him defensively. I mean they were in 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.840 situations third and nine. I can remember a third and seven. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.399 You know, they gave up chunk plays, big plays, and 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:29.199 that's uncharacteristic. So you know the thing that Zach was 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.600 talking about that he was so impressed with with the 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.560 team all season long was being situational masters, you know, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.080 and they didn't master it in the Super Bowl. Third down, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.840 third and short offensive it was an issue. Third and 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:46.200 long defensively was an issue. Red zone was an issue. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.720 They let they let the Rams you know, score three 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.400 red zone touchdowns, which is uncharacteristic, and they could only 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.320 generate one themselves, and uh, you know, it just ended 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.680 up all that, all that collectively ended up biting them. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.520 You know, they're only I think the fifteam in Super 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.080 Bowl history to lose the Super Bowl having a plus 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.040 turnover margin. But in my mind it's not plus because 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.840 I think that they should change the turnover to include 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.280 fourth down stops because it's the same thing. You're ending 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.040 a possession without a kick, no punt, extra point in 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.919 field goal, and that happened at the Bengals twice twice, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.639 another situation, no situational football. Fourth down in short they 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.240 lose on two of them, and one of the first quarter, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.520 on one of the fourth quarter, they're ultimately costing the 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.960 football game. They convert on either one of them could 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.560 be a different deal. The other thing, Dan is field position. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.600 They get killed. You know, their last four drives. I 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.440 think it was the last four and maybe the last five, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.800 the average drive start was a twenty yard differential. I 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.119 mean the Rams were basically at their own forty. The 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.280 Bengals were at their own twenty. And that you know, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.960 you're giving up two first downs, and you're having trouble 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.280 pass protecting, and you're giving up twenty yards per possession, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.840 and you know you're having negative plays because you're getting sacked. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.520 That's that that put you behind the eight ball too. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.960 Did t Higgins get away with offensive pass interference and 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.160 or a face mask on the seventy five yard touchdown? Yeah, 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.439 I mean you look at it. Ramsey was upset and 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.480 rightfully so when you look at the replay, I mean 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.159 you can see Ramsey's head get jerked, you get torked 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.760 a little bit. So there was something that could have 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.359 been called. The official was blocked out of it, I 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.920 guess didn't really get a good view of it. So 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.960 I mean that that was a fortunate non call. And really, 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.600 you know, throughout the course of the game, the officials 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.520 pretty much kept their flags in their pocket and let 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.320 the players determine the outcome, and down the stretch you know, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.280 at the end of that drive, with all the penalties 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.760 that were called in the low red zone, you know, 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.199 that was that was kind of against the flow of 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.200 how the game was called otherwise. So but with with 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.600 what went on in that play, I guess you really 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.160 can't complain all that much because the Bengals got a huge, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.680 huge touchdown coming out of the third quarter, coming out 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.000 of the locker room for the third quarter, and how 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:08.119 about them plus eighty a regular season and playoffs in 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.399 the third quarter differential best in the league. I mean, 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.240 they just dominated people and early on, you know, right away, 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.119 come out of that locker room and score points. I 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.199 thought when they won the twenty cosson deferred, you know, 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.080 he thought something was going to happen, either at the 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:23.840 end of the half, are you gonna get the third 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.960 quarter or both, like it had happened so many times 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.560 during the season. Fifteen carries seventy two yards for Joe 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.200 Mixon four point eight yards per crack. But he was 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:34.879 not the guy that got the ball on fourth and 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.919 one either time. Yeah, he wasn't in the game. You know, 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:40.640 p Ryan was in there, and I thought, oh, maybe 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.359 he's in there for blitz peckup, but he stayed in 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.560 the game. So you wonder if Joe, you know, he's 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.119 had ankling problems, he's had other injuries, you know, to 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.119 his legs, maybe he exacerbated some kind of an injury 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.719 there for him to not be on the football field 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.879 down the stretch. I mean there, you know, you have 0:20:57.960 --> 0:20:59.880 to figure that he got nicked up in some ways 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.399 performed two where it was to the point where he 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.480 felt it was better to have one hundred percent smaj 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.280 p rud in the football game rather than whatever percent 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.720 Joe Mixon would have been operating on under in that case. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.959 And I should clarify they gave it to p right 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:15.959 on third and one, then tried to throw it on 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.359 fourth and one both times and it didn't work. So 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:26.080 going forward, Bengals obviously have a great nucleus. Most of 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.680 these guys will be back, but it's so hard to 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.800 get back to the Super Bowl, particularly the AFC. Right now. 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.920 It's any great on quarterbacks, it really is. I mean, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.880