WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Slip Sliding Away 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.880 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.959 Bengals Boot Podcast, the Slip Sliding Away Edition. If we 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.280 look back at the bengals fourth straight loss, a twenty 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.680 four to ten l at the hands of the Denver 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.360 Broncos that dropped the Bengals to five and seven after 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.840 a four and one start. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.919 locker room interviews, and Dave Lapp them will join me 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.600 for postgame analysis plus and this week's fun Fags interview. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:33.120 You'll get to know rookie linebacker Malik Jefferson. We'll discuss 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.760 a wide variety of topics, including the time he met 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.960 one of People Magazine's most beautiful women in the world 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.080 on a recruiting trip. If that's not unfair recruiting, I 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.720 don't know what is. All of that is straight ahead, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.159 But first, here's a quick reminder that you can have 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.800 the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.960 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, or pod Bean. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:05.080 It's the greatest invention since clocks that automatically adjust when 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.720 you move from time zone to time zone. I traveled 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.199 to Las Vegas for a little more than twenty four 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.479 hours over the weekend for a UC basketball game on Saturday, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.120 then turned around and came back to Cincinnati for the 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.679 Bengals game on Sunday. And it's really helpful when your 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:26.480 phone and watch automatically adjust to local time. If only 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:31.120 my body adjusted as easily. Now, let's get to football. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.680 For just the fifth time in eight years, the Bengals 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.200 had a starting quarterback other than Andy Dalton on Sunday. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.240 It was twenty five year old Jeff Driscoll, making his 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.280 first start in one thou eighty days, going back to 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.880 the two fifteen New Orleans Bowl, when he led Louisiana 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.720 Tech to a forty seven twenty eight win over Arkansas State. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.400 With all due respect to the Red Wolves, they don't 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.880 have pass rushers like the Denver Broncos. Second down in 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.720 fifty and the Bengals at their own twenty six, Driscoll 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.760 catches a shotgun, snappy is back to throw, and he 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.880 will be sacked back at the sixteen yard line by 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.480 Shelby Harris the nose tackle that was the first of 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.799 four sacks for Denver. And to make matters worse, A J. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.800 Greene suffered a non contact injury to his right foot 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.000 on the play after struggling to get to the sideline. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.920 AJ was taken off the field on a cart and 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.960 appeared to be distraught as he covered his face with 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.800 his hands. Aj had just returned to the Bengals lineup 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.519 after missing three games with a toe injury. Here's fellow 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.359 receiver Tyler Boyd. You know, he told us he was fine, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.679 he felt fine his Pakistan, and we thought he was 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.960 ready to go. And what happened twin was just like 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.200 and let us know, like the type of player he 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.079 is and what his heart is. Okay, I could imagine 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.960 what he's going through, you know, because I know he 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.440 wants to win, and we just had the type before 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.560 we played his game, like let's go. We gotta, we gotta, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.000 we gotta make this push, we gotta, we gotta get 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.520 over his hump and win these next games. In him 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.080 going down kind of um made a lots of for 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.640 us to do. We say what we're gonna do. The 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.360 Bengals defense played well in the first half as the 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.120 Broncos failed to score on their first four drives, but 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:14.120 penalties destroyed Cincinnati on offense. We're scoreless with six forty 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.720 two remaining in the first half, shotgun snap, Jeff Driscoll 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.040 with a three step drop, slaps at the ball and 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.360 he will be sacked. Couldn't get it out of his 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.600 hand and he's tackled at the twenty six yard line 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.799 by Von Miller and Shelby Harris. That's what happens when 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.560 you have a holding penalty and you're off schedule and 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.440 you gotta you know, second and twenty. Now it's third 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.240 and even more than that. In the first half, Driscoll 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.240 and company faced third and sixteen, third and twenty four, 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.160 third and twenty five, third and twenty nine, and third 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.920 and thirty five. Here's the Bengals QB. We've been saying 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.040 all week, we gotta we gotta be good on first 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.360 and second down, and you know there were some times 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.680 there where you know, we were behind the sticks a 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.520 little bit during the game. But um yeah, I mean 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.120 when you're getting some third and long type stuff like 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.320 like we did today, it's tough. And I mean, at 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.600 the end of the day, we just didn't make enough 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.080 plays as an offense to get it done. And that's 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.240 what really what it comes down to. The Bengals finished 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:14.559 with a dozen penalties for one hundred yards and that's unacceptable. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.560 According to Tyler Boyd, sucks man, it's what tough penalties 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.200 for one hundred yards? You nuver win Ever, sucks man. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.600 She's got to clean things up. I don't know if 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.360 it was his cadence was done, everybody off or like 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.159 I said, the pressure was too good. They was getting 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.440 jumps on it. But I mean we was trying to 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.840 change everything up to help done. And you know it's 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.719 I don't really know. He's got to watch the film 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.080 see what we can correct. The Broncos finally capitalized on 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.200 the Bengal sloppiness with less than two minutes to go 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.640 in the half case. Keenum under center, takes the snap, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.200 hands it off, Lindsay started right, cuts it back to 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.680 the middle and goes into the end zone standing up 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.080 touchdown Denver with one fifty six left and a half, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.440 and he does a mile high salute here in Cincinnati. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.240 After Philip Lindsay put the Broncos on the scoreboard, the 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.040 Bengals answered with a scoring drive of their own. They 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.640 had at first and goal at the Denverse seven with 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.240 thirty one seconds left and the half when guess what 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.479 a penalty costs them? Ten yards and forced the Bengals 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.719 to settle for a field goal try. It'll be a 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.440 thirty five yard field goal try for Randy Bullock on 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.320 a very windy day. Harris snaps it, Huber puts it down. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.279 The kick is launched by Randy Bullock and it is 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.479 good and the Bengals are on the scoreboard with twelve 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.960 seconds left in the half, trailing Denverse seven to three. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.920 Considering the steady stream of penalty flags, the Bengals were 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.400 in good shape. And when the defense forced to three 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.960 and out on Denver's first possession of the third quarter, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.400 it looked like Cincinnati would get decent field position. Kasey 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.960 Kreiter's long snap, shoulder high, right footed punt crushed Ericsson 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.800 moving under it, catches it the thirty seven drops the 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.480 football tries to recover his own fumble. Looks like Denver 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.840 has it at the thirty three yard line of Cincinnati, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.120 and that is the case. And that's a rarity. I mean, 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.800 if there's one guy that Darrensi has confidence in, it's 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.479 Alex Rickson catching the ball. It was Ericson's first fumble 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.920 of the season. It was cutting against the wind um. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.640 He didn't hit it clean. So it was it was 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.800 going the opposite way and I was just running up 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.880 and um just kind of slip right through my arms 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.839 and wasn't able to fall back on it. And UM, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.920 you know someone's gonna eat at me for until until 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.200 the next Sunday. Ask for sure. I mean you're a 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.680 guy that never does that, So I guess that's got 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.000 you mean you thry you know your deals reliability, Yeah, obviously, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.280 And UM, it just just anytime you let the team down, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.159 let you know, let your teammates down, and um, you know, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.000 hurt the team. You know, you obviously disappointed and um 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.440 and as a as a man, a competitor, you know 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.920 you want to make every play and um, but unfortunately 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.719 I wasn't able to do that today. Two plays after 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.240 the fumble, the Broncos made the Bengals pay second down 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.080 and seven at the Cincinnati thirty. After the fumbled putt, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.159 Keenum fakes a handoff, looks to throw He's gonna air 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.200 it out into the end zone. Sutton goes up and 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.680 Hall say and over Darius Phillips for a thirty yard 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.640 touchdown catch. Ericson's fumble is the Bengals first turnover of 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.520 the game. Less than two minutes later, they made their 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.080 second double tight ends in for Cincinnati. Driscoll turns right 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.400 fakes to mix and being rushed, Lobs went deep down field, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.440 intercepted at the six yard line. Obviously, my poor decision 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.480 when we were, you know, near the red zone to 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.880 just lob one up out there. You know that that 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.840 really hurt our football team. We hurt ourselves today and 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.080 we didn't make enough plays of winter football game. Lebroncos 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.440 down the other hand, did make enough plays, none bigger 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.880 than this play by Philip Lindsay. Here's a toss sweep 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.080 to the left, Lindsay with blockers in front to the 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.280 forty the fifty lookout. He is pulling away and that 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.679 is going to be a sixty five yard touchdown run. Wow. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.400 Lindsay finished with a career high one hundred and fifty 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.560 seven yards on nineteen carries. For the season, the undrafted 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.920 rookie out of Colorado has rushed for nine hundred thirty 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.760 seven yards and is averaging six point one a pop. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.760 Here's Bengals linebacker Hardy Nickerson. He's dynamic. You know, he's underside, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.200 but he hits the hole, you know, as he as 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.440 if he was a big guy. Um, you know, he's 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.920 able to show in the gap and bounce out. So 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.360 it makes it hard on on the whole defense in 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.720 terms of we really got to play true to our gaps. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.880 But hell of a player. Um, you know, he's it's 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.600 one of those things. You're scratching her head. Why didn't 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.880 he get drafted. Not a lot of guys run like 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.400 that anymore either. It seems like everybody's kind of picking 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.400 and trying to, you know, do the Levy on Bell 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.040 type thing. And he just explodes one cut and he's 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.000 he's fast. I think, um, last last week or a 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.559 few weeks ago, they had him at twenty two miles 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.360 an hour, so's he can run with the best of him. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.920 And uh, you know, he's very decisive, and he really 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.240 hits the hole. The Bengals kept battling and answered Lindsay's 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.120 long run where they're only touched out of the day. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.920 Drift Goal fakes a handoff, throws caught by Cody Court 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.480 the fifteen, He escapes attack, he breaks another, he takes 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.000 it into the end zone, touchdown. Bengals on a thirty 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:06.000 yard throw from Driscoll to Corps in Brandley Robbie miss 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.920 to tackle Jeff Driscoll hit him, Bradley Robbie couldn't bring 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.560 him down in Cody Corps makes some pain. That was 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.680 the first career TD for third year receiver Cody Corps. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.520 It was twenty one to ten going to the fourth quarter. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.720 In playing catchup against the Broncos is tough with the 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.080 best one two pass rush duo in the NFL, Von 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.280 Miller and Bradley Chubb. Shotgun snap, Driscoll gets hit from 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.439 behind by Chubb, The ball squirts out Denver will recover 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.760 at the twenty yard line, and that led to a 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.840 Brandon McManis field goal that made the final score twenty 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.439 four to ten Denver. The Broncos win their third straight 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.240 even the record at six and six, while the Bengals 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.160 lose for the sixth time in their last seven games. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.600 For what it's worth, teams with five and seven records 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.920 only make the playoffs four percent of the time. Here's 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.760 Alex Erickson at some point of you know, it's not 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.480 even about that, It's just about you know, being professional, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.160 being a competitor, and um, you know he was doing 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.240 your job and no matter what your record is, and um, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.280 it's just up to you to perform, and if you don't, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.000 you know, obviously there's gonna be consequences. So we just 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.160 got to focus on our jobs and just you know, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.960 be professionals and prepare and get ready to just play 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.640 the Chargers and get a win. In his first career start, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.439 Jeff Driscoll finished twenty five for thirty eight for two 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.720 hundred and thirty six yards with a touchdown, pass, an interception, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.520 a loss fumble, and a passer rating of eighty point six. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.200 Here's offensive lineman Trey Hopkins, who started a guard for 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.439 the first time this year. I was very impressive and 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.640 I thought I did great. Um dri was the guy. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.840 I mean love him since he's been here, and I 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.160 think he really stepped up and he really took charge 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.440 of the huddle and he kept God's positive, kept Gods 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.960 on the same page, and and really displayed a level 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.000 of leadership that you you need and you expect from 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.360 from a starting quarterback. He won't have to wait one 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.040 thousand and eighty days to start a n drift Go 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.720 will be under center next Sunday in Los Angeles against 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.640 the Chargers. Now time to bring in my broadcast partner, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.040 Dave Lapham for postgame analysis, and we begin with a 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.720 dirty dozen the Bengals twelve penalties and you just can't 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.280 have it. I mean, you know, physical mistakes, holding, you know, 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:24.840 hands placement problems on returns and special teams, hand placement problems, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.000 illegal blocking the back, holding, those kind of things. Defensively 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.960 you know too, hands e those happen. But the mental mistakes, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.880 you know, jumping off sides, false starts, illegal formations, those 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.960 kind of mental mistakes. It's just now you're talking about, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.120 you know, a lack of focus, a lack of commitment. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.000 You know you have at this stage of the season, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.200 you can't be committing those kind of mental errors, and 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.600 and they're starting they're starting to really become an issue. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.839 In the first half, they had six consecutive third down 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.920 conversion opportunities that average nineteen and a half yards per 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.880 conversion attempt because of penalties. You can't do that. I 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.800 mean against this team with those two pass rushers, you 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.040 never want to be more than third and four and 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.320 they're third one. They were third and sixteen, third and 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.960 twenty five, third and thirty nine, third and seventeen. Come on, now, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:14.960 you know you have to stay ahead of the chains 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.560 on these guys. You have to make it a makeable 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.360 third down situation. It was just abominable, you know what 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.800 they were doing. They were giving themselves no chance whatsoever. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.760 I mean, the Denver Broncos defense is good enough to 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.560 beat you. You can't put yourself on your schedule two 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.640 and say, Okay, we're gonna make it easier for you 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.400 to beat this Denver. We're gonna play right into your 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:31.960 hands and we're just gonna let you t off and 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.520 thump us. Because that you know, that's exactly what you 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.160 put yourself into. Ten of the thirteen third down opportunities 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.680 at one stage of the game were for eight yards 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.840 or more. Denver had two of twelve the or eight 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.520 yards and more. Because Lindsay's boom, he's pounding it. If 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.120 he's not busting it for you know, fifty yard touchdowns, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.160 he's getting six eight, you know, making it second and four, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.040 second and two and then third and short. That was 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.120 a difference in the football game. You know, one team 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.960 set themselves up for third down situations when they got 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.640 there that they can and Burt and the Bengals got there. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.079 Are far too often in situations that they had no 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.600 business being in and they couldn't convert them. Lap has 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.280 The season spirals in a bad direction for the Bengals. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.040 Two guys stand out to me for really busting their 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.439 tail even as things are going poorly, Tyler Boyd and 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.920 Joe Mix and Boyd had ninety seven receiving yards in 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:23.360 Sunday's loss, Mix in eighty two rushing yards thirteen receiving yards. Yeah, 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.840 I think both guys are are setting a good example, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:31.120 you know. I think their effort, their enthusiasm. You know, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.840 Joe the unbridled joy for the game. Tyler Boyd's the 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.280 same way. You know, he relishes an opportunity to make plays. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.400 The dude is tough man. He'll go over the middle 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.200 against anybody anytime, anywhere, take a hit, go to the ground. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.120 The ground will cause another hit on him. He's just 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.200 I mean the catch he made caught the back half 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.400 of the football had a very like shocking drop. I mean, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.000 it never happens. Tyler Boyd just doesn't drop the football, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.520 but it happens to everybody. Everybody's a human being. But man, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.040 both of those guys care care. There's no quit in 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.920 either of them. And more more guys should should look 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.800 at themselves in the mirror and say, am I given 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.040 the effort that those two are given? If I'm not 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:14.000 up the anti because those guys, Joe was almost inconsolable 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.839 um after the game. You know, he would trying to 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.200 excuse himself, going to get his mother at the airport 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.040 and didn't want to talk much about the game. But 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.000 when he did talk, he was he was crushed, crushed 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.960 and you know, you know he'll he'll bounce back. And 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.280 you guys, you know, on both sides of the football, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.960 guys have to step up and start establishing an energy level. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.080 The guys have to meet. Sam Hubbard, I think is 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.880 trying to do it as young guys. Sam Hubart's trying 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.640 to step up and be a leader and that's good 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.640 to see. And you know, Joe Mixon and Tyler Boyd 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.600 young leaders. That's what this football team needs. The next 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.280 class of guys, the next group to show themselves as leaders. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.480 And it's easy to lead when you're winning. True leaders. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.560 You know, it's like, what are you doing? The camera's 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.280 not on you, What do you do when nobody's watching. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.280 These guys were leading final numbers on Jeff Driscoll and 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.840 his first NFL start twenty five for thirty eight two 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.360 hundred and thirty six yards, one touchdown pass a thirty 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.280 yard at to Cody Core, one interception, passer rating of 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.480 eighty point six. How do you do? He was lamenting 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.680 the interception, you know, he focused on that. When I 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.040 talked to him, he said, you know, a bonehead play 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.160 I made when I just threw it up there. You 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.120 know I can't do that. I really heard our football 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.720 team and he you know, it was a tough situation. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.360 Naked bootleg was not Chubble was not fooled by whatsoever. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.520 He's pressure on him and he off his back foot 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.200 as he's fallen away. He just puts it up there 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.200 and overthrows his intended target and it's an easy, easy interception. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.720 But honestly, I felt like in the first game as 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.680 a starting quarterback in the NFL, there would be an 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.360 interception or a play like, oh geez, that's a rookie 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.960 mistake or you know, an an experienced mistake, and I 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:53.680 was hoping it wouldn't be that many of them. And 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.680 there weren't that many, but there weren't any big plays 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.320 to overcome it. Just you know, you could think the 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.600 Tyler boy catch a couple of plays by Tyler Boyd. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.720 He and Tyler Boyd have a chemistry. They've already they've 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.760 already formed a pretty pretty incredible bond that's going to 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.960 have to stay that way because AJ Green looks like, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.040 you know, it could be an IR candidate. I mean, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.920 Andy Dalton went on AJ Green the way he limped 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.840 off the field and then cart it off the field 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.560 once he going to be able to play again. By 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.360 the time he's able to play, the season will be over. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.080 So um, you know, Tyler Boyd and Jeff Driscoll, that's 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.000 going to be the combination. And then Joe Mixon still gave, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.080 you know, tremendous efforts, so they do have like a 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.520 triplet's that they can you know, hang their hat on 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.640 hopefully and uh and see how it finishes. But I thought, overall, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.680 considering a lot of the circumstances he was put in, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.840 he was also disappointed in the fact that they didn't 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.800 take advantage of that turnover when Hardy Knickerson Junior stripped 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.720 it out of there and Jill fell on top that 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.640 they didn't do anything. But you know, and then obviously, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.840 you know, have the ball at that at midfield, and 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.240 then all of a sudden, you know you're third down, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.360 You're back inside your twenty yard line. You know, just 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.000 ultimately throwing the throwing the drive and reverse. You know, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.560 those are the kind of things you just can't have. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.440 So some of it, very little of it was all 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.120 his fault, he contributed. Man, he had way too much help. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.120 He had a lot of guys instead, instead of trying 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.360 to do a little bit more for him, they were 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.080 doing less and putting him in a tougher situation, putting 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.240 too much burdened responsibility on his shoulders. Last thing, following 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.919 up on AJ Green, he's the iceman, coolest guy in 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:28.000 the room. Rarely sees wild displays of emotion, whether it's 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.920 celebration or disappointment, But boy, what a sight to see 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.960 him head buried in his hands, crying as he exited 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.520 the field on a cart with a team on its 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.920 way to a five and seven record. It shows how 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:48.280 much AJ Green cares. AJ Green is all in. You know, 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.760 I don't think you're going to find a superstar that 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.040 cares about his teammates and cares about the welfare of 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.479 his organization more than AJ Green. Most superstar are just 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.359 all in it for them. He's all in it for everybody. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.199 And that's what makes aj Green so so unique and 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.520 so special. I mean, you know, AJ Green is the 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.240 kind of guy that every dad wish that he'd marry 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.480 their daughter's that he's that kind of guy. And you know, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.280 we say it all the time, but in this case, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:24.239 it's this on exponentially as great a football player as 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.800 he is, and he is walking into the Hall of 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.320 Fame in a first ballot. You know, he's might as 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.760 well buy real estate in Florida and WHII is going 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.040 to be in every Pro Bowl. He's even better guy, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.080 better human being. He was raised right. He's a great husband, 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.400 great father, great teammate, great member of the community. AJ 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.960 Green's one special dude. Thanks Lap. Now time for this 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.239 week's fun facts segment, where you get to know the 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.119 person under the pads. In this case, it's one of 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.680 the Bengals two third round draft picks this year. Time 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.760 for some fun facts with Bengals linebacker but Leak Jefferson 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.080 from Mesquite, tax not too far from Dallas, the so 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.679 called rodeo capital of Texas. Tell us a little bit 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.600 about where you grew up and what you're into as 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.439 a kid. Musque is a It's a great town. I 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.760 love it. It's a very small community. We've made up 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.000 of five different high schools, so we're all kind of 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.520 relatives when it comes to anything we do outside of 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.280 you know, when we leave Musqui. You know, growing up, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.720 we always used to be around each other at basketball, football, baseball. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.000 We always knew who the league guys were in the town, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.679 and so it was really cool growing up. We just 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.800 all hung out with each other. Speaking of brothers, you 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.120 have two older brothers. How much older and how tough 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.520 were they on their kid brother? I had won that 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.360 thirty and I had won that twenty five, so they 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.960 were really tough on me. I barely got any breaks 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.760 with them. Everything they did I had to do, especially 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.159 workout wise, and that's what kind of made me, you know, 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.280 who I am. And of course our dad was very 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.280 tough on us, so I would get the same treatment 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.399 they got, but it was very I could appreciate my 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.720 brothers more than anything because they did give me a 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.240 lot of tools for life, skills and of course my 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.720 physical abilities. Tell me a little more about your dad, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.879 What did or does he do for a living? My 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.479 dad's an architect. He's worked that many many years and 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.080 planning a retiring soon. So congrats his long longevity with that, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.840 because without his sacrifice, I mean a lot of things 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.960