1 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody, I'm Dan Horden. Thanks for downloading the 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: Bengals Booth podcast. So Close, So close, and yet so far. Addition, 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: as we take an in depth look back at another 4 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: heartbreaking loss for the Bengals, as a field goal on 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: the final play of the game gave the Arizona Cardinals 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: a twenty six twenty three win at Paul Brown Stadium. 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: players and coaches, and Dave Lapham will join me for 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's Fun Facts Conversation, we'll 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: meet the person under the pads as I'll talk to 11 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: the best ping pong player on the Bengals roster. Stay 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: tuned to find out who it is. All of that 13 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder that 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 15 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: since the Wilson Junior size football. I've got a thirteen 18 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: year old son who loves running pass patterns in the 19 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: backyard and catching passes from his old man. We are 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: currently using the Wilson brand Junior size football for ages 21 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: nine and up, and I am here to tell you 22 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 1: it is the easiest football to throw ever made. It's 23 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: a slightly smaller size and has a very tacky grip. 24 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: At the risk of bragging, I am a mixture of 25 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Kenny Anderson when I use it. 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: So a big thumbs up to the Wilson Junior size football. 27 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: Let's get to this week's game. For approximately five minutes 28 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: on Sunday, the Bengals did exactly what they and we 29 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: have been hoping for. The defense got a three and 30 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: out on Arizona's opening possession, and then Joe Mixon, remember him, 31 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: went to work after an incomplete pass by Andy Dalton 32 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: on the bengals first play. Their next six were handoffs 33 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: to Joe Mixon for nine, three, thirteen, five, eighteen, and 34 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: nine yards to put the Bengals in the red zone. Unfortunately, 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: that's where the drive stalled, an all too familiar theme 36 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. It'll be a chip shot of twenty 37 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: three yard try for Randy Bullock. Out of the hold 38 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: of Kevin Huber. He catches a high snap puts it down, 39 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: bullocks kick is on its way, it is good, and 40 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: the Bengals score inside the gold star red zone. So 41 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: the Bengals had an early lead but left four points 42 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: on the board. Here's Andy Dalton, we have to score touchdowns. 43 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: You can't keep kicking field goals. You're not gonna win 44 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: games if you've kicking field goals. So Fro, we gotta 45 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: look at it. We gotta see what we can do 46 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: better in the red zone because I mean, you gotta 47 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: score touchdowns on there. On that opening drive, it felt 48 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: like Mixon was going to have a career day, but 49 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: after rushing for fifty seven yards on his first six carries, 50 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: his next seven went for a total of six yards. 51 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: I talked to offensive lineman Trey Hopkins about Nixon's fast start. 52 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: We finally got a consistent string of runs and we 53 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: ran on first down and we're a fishing with this, 54 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: so we were able to keep keep going with that. 55 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: With that drive, m it was nice, and I mean 56 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: we had a couple of instances of that, uh this game, 57 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: just you know, being efficient on first down, run or 58 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: pass um helps a lot, helps a lot. But as 59 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: the offensive lineman, of course, being a run or being 60 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: able to run the ball is nice. Did they make 61 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: big changes x's and o's wise up front to slow 62 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: that down, or did their guys just start making better plays? Um? No, 63 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: I mean they're they're they're good front. They get paid also, 64 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: and they just they just made some place um and 65 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: slowed us down a little bit. But you know, it's 66 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: a long game, and I mean, both sides of the 67 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: ball are getting paid. Both sides of the ball have 68 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: good athletes, so it's it's a battle. The Bengals early 69 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: three nothing lead didn't last time. Their second possession, the 70 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: Cardinals drove to the Cincinnati six, where they faced fourth 71 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: and two. Rather than kick a tying field goal, head 72 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: coach Cliff Kingsbury elected to go for it. Fourth down 73 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: and two at the Bengals six yard line, Cincinnati leading 74 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: three nothing, Murray hands it faked it to Johnson, sprints 75 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: out to the left. He's got the first down. He 76 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: lurches toward the end zone, and it's a Cardinals touchdown. 77 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: That's the first lead of the season. The Cardinals were 78 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: the only team in the NFL that had never held 79 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: a lead this year. Yes, even the Dolphins led for 80 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: nearly four minutes in the first quarter before losing by 81 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: twenty last week to the Chargers. The Bengals and Cardinals 82 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: traded field goals in the second quarter before Arizona added 83 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: another one on the final play of the first half, 84 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: one second left in the half, a chip shot field 85 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: goal for Gonzales. Game kick is good and Arizona will 86 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: take a seven point lead to the locker room. Arizona 87 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: led thirteen six at the half, and that field goal 88 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: means that Bengals opponents have scored in the final two 89 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: minutes of the first half in twenty eight of the 90 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: bengals last thirty seven games. That's seventy six percent of 91 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: the time. Hard to believe. Stat courtesy of Jay Morrison, 92 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: who covers the Bengals for the Athletic. Andy Dalton was 93 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: four for ten for a paltry twenty two yards in 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: the half, but the Bengals got their passing game going 95 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: to begin the third quarter. Andy was seven for ten 96 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: on the opening drive of the second half, but after 97 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: having first and goal at the eight, the Bengals failed 98 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: to score a touchdown again. The snap, the put down, 99 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: the spin of the laces, The kick is up and 100 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: it is good for the season. The Bengals have scored 101 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: four touchdowns on fourteen drives into the red zone. That's 102 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: twenty nine percent. Not nearly good enough. According to Tyler Boyd, 103 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: I can't really you know, open my finger on it, 104 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: you know, but that's a difference in the game, you know, 105 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: not scoring touchdowns. You know, game three three point three points. 106 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: I ain't cutting to any how you went football games 107 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: to any how you get to the playoffs. Despite the 108 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,119 Speaker 1: red zone war, the Bengals were only down by four 109 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: with less than two minutes to go in the third 110 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: quarter when a curious play call proved costly. On fourth 111 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: down and one, Dalton is in the shotgun mixing. Now 112 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: we'll shift from the quarterbacks left to his right, Dalton 113 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: fake to Mixon. He does not get back to the 114 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He has lifted off the ground like 115 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: he was crowdsurfing short of the first down. All right, 116 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: I know that hindsight is twenty twenty, But why teams 117 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: don't just run a quarterback sneak on fourth and short 118 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: is a mystery to me. It seems like a shotgun 119 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: snap increases the defense's chances of getting penetration into the backfield. 120 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: But what do I know? The fourth down stop gave 121 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: Arizona great field position, and a former Bengal made them 122 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: pay third down and seven for Arizona to thirty nine 123 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. Murray clapping his hands, he catches the shotgun. 124 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: Snapp he floats it down the middle of the field. 125 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: I'm diving attempt. What a catch. Wow at the eleven 126 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: yard line by Pharaoh Cooper. The former Bengal, albeit briefly, 127 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: just made a spectacular diving catch Farrell. Cooper played for 128 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: the Bengals in Week one, then got waived after Week 129 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: two when they needed an extra offensive lineman. Here's safety 130 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: Jesse Bates on Cooper's great catch. The hell of a 131 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: catch by whom, hell of a throw by Colin Murray 132 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: as well. Those players that we can we can live 133 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: with long they don't score on those. Now there's the NFL. 134 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: There's a lot of good athletes, good players. They're gonna 135 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: make plays, but we just gotta, you know, make sure 136 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: those aren't happenings as much that catch was the difference 137 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: between punting and kicking a field goal, and the Cardinals 138 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: took a seven point lead early in the fourth quarter. 139 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: Things looked bleak for the Bengals when The Cardinals scored 140 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: again on their next drive, first and ten at the 141 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: thirty seven years, a toss sweep to the left, Edmond's 142 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: running breaks through an ankle tackle. He's down the near 143 00:07:54,280 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: sideline inside the ten. The five three two one touchdown Arizona. Well, 144 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: that's a blow right there. That is just a shot 145 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: right to the chin. And again faked the handoff on 146 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: a jet sweep and then just pitched it back the 147 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: other way, and they get blocking on the edge. Larry 148 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: Fitzgerald gives a block and then just sloppy tackling, missed tackles. 149 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: I mean, the blocking is good in the perimeter, but man, 150 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: when you're the when you're the unblocked guy, make the 151 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: tackle like Bates was, you cannot miss that tackle. Unfortunately 152 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: he did, and the Bengals were down twenty three to nine. 153 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: At that point. Between the Pittsburgh game and the Arizona game, 154 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,479 Speaker 1: the Bengals had gone seventeen drives without scoring a touchdown, 155 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: a street they finally ended by driving seventy nine yards 156 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: on ten plays. Three receivers out to the left, Audent 157 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: Tate out to the right, Bernard in the backfield of 158 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: the right of Andy Dalton Dalton throws it into the 159 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: end zone, touchdown to Audent Tate. Nice the first touchdown 160 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: in two games for Cincinnati, as Auden Tate cut inside 161 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: of his defender and reeled in the touchdown catch from 162 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: two yards away, his first NFL touchdown of his career. 163 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: That made a twenty three sixteen and the defense probably 164 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: got a three and out to put the ball right 165 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: back in the hands of Andy Dalton. Bengals are gonna 166 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: line up quickly. They're ready to snap it at the 167 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: Arizona forty two. This drive started back at the Cincinnati nineteen. 168 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: Dalton back to throw. The protection is good, fires dot 169 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: Field boar. He catches it to ten and runs into 170 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: the end zone for a Bengals touchdown. Me Tyler Boyd 171 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: damn middle of the football field. He made the play 172 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: earlier in the drive and then he made that play. 173 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: Outstanding throw. The first play of the drive was a 174 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: twenty nine yard pass to Boyd and the last play 175 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: was that forty two yard touchdown pass. Tyler finished with 176 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: ten catches for one hundred twenty three yards. Sick of 177 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: losing Siga, you know, not finishing the way we want to. 178 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: You know, we always finished wrong. But we never started. 179 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: He's gotta just stayed of course, man, and just believing 180 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: each other the whole four quarters. Man. Just continue to 181 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: fight and execute and don't wait till the last minute 182 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: to finally get a going. The game was tied with 183 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: exactly two minutes to go, but two big plays by 184 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: Kyler Murray won the game for Arizona. The first was 185 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: a twenty four yard pass. The second was this twenty 186 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: four yard run second down in six at the Cincinnati 187 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: thirty nine with fifty three seconds to go, Kyler Murray 188 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: catches the shotgun snap. Now, he takes off and runs 189 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: all sorts of running room down the middle of the field. 190 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: He's at the twenty five the twenty and Clayton Federlum 191 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: saves the touchdown by tackling Kyler Murray at the fifteen 192 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 1: yard line. The Heisman Trophy winner finished with two hundred 193 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: and fifty three yards passing and ninety three rushing. Here's 194 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard. Can you describe what it's like to try 195 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: to contain Kyler Murray when he takes off. Yeah, it's 196 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,719 Speaker 1: tough because you pick a side trying to win a 197 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: pass rush and he sees lane. He's gone really gotta 198 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: rush with vision, which you know slows down how you're rushing. Um, 199 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 1: it's a tough task and what makes them so dangerous? Um, 200 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: you know it's hard. Do you think that's what kind 201 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: of stopped the pass rush was? Who're trying to make 202 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: sure you guys are trying to make sure you're trying 203 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: to keep him in the pocket and make him throw 204 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,599 Speaker 1: the ball and uh, you know, just try to not 205 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: give him lanes to get out of there, because as 206 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: soon as he saw something, he was out. After Murray's run, 207 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: the bengals only hope was that Zane Gonzalez would choke 208 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: on a game winning field goal, try to allow the 209 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: Bengals to take the game to overtime. So here we go, 210 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: two seconds on the clock, a thirty one yard field goal, 211 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: try to win the game for third year pro Zane Gonzalez. 212 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: Lee is ready for the snap, he puts it down, 213 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: the kick is up, the kick is good, and the 214 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals get their first win and drop the Bengals 215 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: to oh and five. The final score twenty six twenty 216 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 1: three Arizona. Here are two second year Bengals, Jesse Eights 217 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: and Sam Hubbard on falling two Owen five. You know, 218 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: we can't just keep patting ourselves on the back for 219 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: you know, having close games and fighting at the end 220 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. We gotta win. I know, that's 221 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: what the fans want, that's what the guys upstairs want, 222 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: that's what everybody in this locker room wants. So you know, 223 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of people that continue to 224 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: bash us about being owned five. All that matters is 225 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: what's in this locker room, and it's about us. So 226 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,839 Speaker 1: there's no option. You know, we got a lot of 227 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: games left to play, and it's a team game. You 228 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: can't go out there and win the game by yourself. 229 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: So we have to stick together and you know, just 230 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: keep fighting, try and get some wins. That's all we 231 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: can do. We can't we can't fall apart. Since the 232 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: Cardinals and Broncos both picked up their first victories on Sunday, 233 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: there are now four winless teams left in the NFL. 234 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: The Bengals and Redskins are owing five, the Jets and 235 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: Dolphins are owing four. After Sunday's three point loss, Lap 236 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: spent about four minutes with head coach Zach Taylor, coach 237 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: the NFL three of the five games. You know, you 238 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: got a tie football game later, a lead late in 239 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: the fourth quarters, just can't close it out, just can't 240 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: quite finish it. You're right there on the on the 241 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: doorstep on the brink. But man, it's something has to 242 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: happen to just finish it. Right. You're right, we get 243 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: someone's just gotta step up and make that play. And um, 244 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: it's coaches. We gotta keep fighting to put ourselves and 245 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: opportunities where guys can step up and do it. We 246 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: just haven't done it yet, And um, it's gonna happen. 247 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: We keep believing, and no one's no one's pointing fingers. 248 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: We know we got to earn these wins, and when 249 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: we earn it's gonna feel good. This game, it was 250 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: a matter of just digging a hole. It was too 251 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: hard to crawl out of. And you know, you got 252 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: to give the credit about fighting back and doing that 253 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: and digging out of that hole. But and that's hard 254 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: when you dig that big a hole in the NFL, 255 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, A bad team that's given up digs 256 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: himself in that hole and the game's over. And that 257 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: wasn't what we were today. Our guys fought back, believed 258 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: they were gonna win. We scored that last touch time 259 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,439 Speaker 1: to tie it up, and we felt like, hey, we're 260 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: gonna get this stop and we're gonna go win this game. 261 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: That was the common theme on the sidelines, and unfortunately 262 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: they made some plays and they got that field goal 263 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: and they got away with one their quarterback. You made 264 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: mention of it during the course of the week, Kyler Murray. 265 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: He's got like quick twitch now. I mean he's short 266 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: space quickness. I mean, some guys can make him miss 267 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: but can't run away. Some guys can run away but 268 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: can't make you miss. This dude can make him miss 269 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: and run away. I mean, he's he's a special guy 270 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: that we're rushing for ninety yards like he did. I 271 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: don't know if you can make a steady diet living 272 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: of that being a quarterback running the football like he is, 273 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: But man, he makes plays. He's dangerous. He's the first 274 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: pick in the draft for a reason. He's a unique talent. 275 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: Really stresses the defense, and he made some place today. Again, Horizontally, 276 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: it seems to be everybody's trying to challenge, you know, 277 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: your defense, making it defend from one sideline to another 278 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: with motion, missdirection, counters, all that sort of thing difficult 279 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: today as well, wouldn't it. But I go back, we 280 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: need to score with once the first half, take the 281 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: pressure off him because really we go in a halftime, 282 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: they're they're routinely keeping these guys to ten points and under, 283 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: and you know, we gotta be a little bit more 284 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: aggressive on offense and get things going and score some 285 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: points and take the pressure off him going in the 286 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: second half. I know it's never one thing, but in 287 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: your mind, as you as you will reflect back on 288 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: not just this game, but other games, red zone seeming 289 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: like the twilight zone a little bit. What do you 290 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: what do you think the biggest things are in the 291 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: red zone? Well, when the up twos come our away, 292 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta take advantage of the players that 293 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: they're there. And so far we kind of had two 294 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: weeks from a row. We've left some points in the 295 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: field that we feel like, uh, we just got to 296 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: step up and make that play and keep working to 297 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: get us in the best calls that give us opportunities. 298 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: And but you're right, that's been frustrating leaving all those 299 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: points on the field. You guys do a good job 300 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: of controlling those edge rush guys. But there were times 301 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: where it was like two three man routes. The touchdown 302 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: to tile it looked like it was maybe a two 303 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: possibly a three man route. I mean, you had that 304 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: schemed out pretty well. You wanted to make sure you 305 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: had time to get the ball down the field vertically 306 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, you're right, that was one that takes 307 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: a little bit more time. So we don't make sure 308 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: we keep people in protection. And you know, we got 309 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: two receivers out plus the back plus you know, um 310 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: that that group is they're pretty good edge rushes. We 311 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: talked about I think Andy get hit and the touchdown 312 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: drive before the drive that tied it. They were blitzing. 313 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: They weren't playing pre event. They were bringing bringing pressure 314 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: and he's getting rid of the ball, you know, and 315 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: taking taking a hit and uh, you know he was 316 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: when you blitzed. There's there's areas of vacated and he 317 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: was finding those things. Yeah, there was he had some. 318 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: They were bringing their best stuff. They got a pretty 319 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: good blitz package. That's where our third down package were 320 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: trying to move the ball on the perimeter a little bit. 321 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: Take the pressure off those guys. Up front. He stood 322 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, they brought their best stuff. We protected 323 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: as best we could. He took a couple of shots, 324 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: but m guys started making plays there in the fourth quarter. Finally, coach, 325 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: I don't expect you to tell us what you're telling 326 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: your team. You know, that's that's between you and your 327 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: football team. But what what kind of message you know, 328 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: do you give your football team right now? Working like 329 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: they're working, and just coming up short like they are. 330 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: Keep fighting. We believe in each other, We believe in 331 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: what we're doing. The wins are going to come. It's 332 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: frustrating that hasn't happened yet, But but we got the 333 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: right people in this building. That's good that help us 334 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: get it done. Now time for some postgame analysis, and 335 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: we start with an obvious point. The Bengals can't show 336 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: up in the last five minutes and expect to win games. 337 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: That was Zach Taylor's mesters of the team. The guys 338 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: that I saw in the last five minutes, you got 339 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: to do it earlier than that. Fifty five minutes of 340 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 1: not getting it done, very very disappointing. I mean, they 341 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: dug too big a hole. That's a huge hole in 342 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: the National Football League. How about Arizona throwing the football 343 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: in their last two drives. They gave the Bengals a chance. 344 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: They ran the ball for two hundred and sixty six yards. 345 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: You know, I would have had my two threats, Murray 346 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: and Johnson just run the ball, run the clock. I mean, 347 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: they're giving the Bengals a chance by throwing the ball 348 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: and throwing in completions. You know, I couldn't believe that 349 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: they were allowing that to happen. But you know, the 350 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: Bengals took advantage of it and scored two touchdowns to 351 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: make it a game, tie the football game up, and 352 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: then you know when they had to, Arizona ran the 353 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,120 Speaker 1: football again a little bit and ran the clock down 354 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: and kicked the field goal. So very unfortunate. I mean, 355 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty six yards rushing average over seven 356 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: yards to carry. They had Murray and Johnson both run 357 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: the ball for over ninety yards. Joe Mixon ran it 358 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: for over ninety yards. He came one rushed sword and 359 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: I said if he had twenty carries, they'd win the game. 360 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 1: He had nineteen, but you know, could have won the 361 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: football game. Just didn't play well enough, you know, made 362 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: their value had come back effort, obviously, but you can't 363 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: rely or depend on something like that in the national 364 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: football You're gonna come up short more times than not. 365 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: Let's talk about Joe Mixon's day. Six straight running plays 366 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: on the opening drive for fifty seven yards. It looked 367 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: like he was going to have the biggest game of 368 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: his NFL career. Then for the next two and a 369 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: half quarters, the Cardinals completely shut him down before he 370 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: got it going again late in the game and wound 371 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: up with ninety three yards on nineteen carries, six rushes 372 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: for fifty seven. Then he goes seven rushes for six, 373 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: then he goes three for twenty three to start the 374 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: second half. So he's you know, it's a little bit 375 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: of a roller coaster ride. I do think after that 376 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: first drive, you know, Arizona said, all right, look, we're 377 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: not gonna let you run the football. You're gonna have 378 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 1: to throw the football. You're down a bunch of receivers. 379 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: You know, we've got two good edge pass rushers. We're 380 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: gonna make sure that you don't get that running game 381 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: going the way you've got to go on that first drive. 382 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 1: They stayed in based defense, but they did. They made, 383 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: you know, some minor adjustments. I think that in terms 384 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: of technique and attacking line of scrims, raving catching at 385 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage that looked like to me. And 386 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: they got a lot more aggressive and said, you know, 387 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to throw the football some and not 388 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: just run the ball down our throats. But again, Dan, 389 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: red zone, I mean, it's the twilight zone. It's amazing. 390 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 1: They just can't can't get it done in the red 391 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: zone when they needed to get it done. And last 392 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: year they're converted over thirty one percent of the time 393 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: for touchdowns in the red zone. They were third in 394 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: the NFL in that category, and now they're in danger 395 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: of being, if not dead, last, second last in the NFL, 396 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: I think in red zone touchdown percentage. Let's talk about 397 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 1: the offensive line lap After giving up eight sacks and 398 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: twelve quarterback hits against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Andy Dalt was 399 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: not sacked. Did you see significant progress? I saw a 400 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: significant scheme change. Tyler Eifert was in too pass protect gives, 401 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: Vanni Bernard was in too pass protect. I mean, they 402 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 1: did a lot of max protection and they did not 403 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: want those edge rushes to control the football game, which 404 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: I can understand. The running game I think helped out 405 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: a little bit too. But on you know, the drive, 406 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: the last touchdown drive and ty Or Boyd caught his 407 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: forty two yard touchdown pass, they had two receivers in 408 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: a route and just leaked it back out late. I mean, 409 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: you know, they had you know, seven maybe six or 410 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: seven defenders covering two guys. It was, it was crazy. 411 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: But the scheme of the play, you know, one the 412 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: day they gave the route that was going to take 413 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: some time, so they wanted to max protect to make 414 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: sure that they had the time and hope that the 415 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,199 Speaker 1: that the scheme of the play would would work. And 416 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: it did. Tyler Boyd was wide open. They blew coverage 417 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: and score forty two yard touchdowns. So you know, I 418 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: think I think that at times when guys were asked 419 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: to block one on one, they did a good job. 420 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: But I think schematically they changed things up a lot 421 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: where you know, the defensive end getting slammed by a 422 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: tight end one time, chip by running back another time 423 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: and hitting him from all angles and didn't just not 424 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,479 Speaker 1: a tie off straight line to the quarterback like that 425 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: all day long, we have seen fast running quarterbacks in 426 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: the NFL before Michael Vick obviously comes to mind. Lamar 427 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: Johnson right now, I'm not sure that I've seen one 428 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 1: as shifty when he takes off and runs as Kyler Murray. 429 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: I think Michael Vick falls into that that category a 430 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: little bit. I mean RG three was a straight line 431 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: track guy. He was a hurtle champion. You know, he 432 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: didn't have the you know that short space quickness that 433 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: you know that dipsy due to him. I mean, this 434 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: this guy is fast twitch. You know, some guys can 435 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: make him miss but can't run away. Some guys can't 436 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: really make him miss but can eventually run away. This 437 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: guy can make him miss and runaway. I mean he's special. 438 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: He's like, he's as good as a lot of running 439 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: backs in the NFL. You know, you wonder though at 440 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: the quarterback position. He's got some design runs and some 441 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: runs where he's just scrambling. I mean, the one run 442 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: that was huge was when Lawson went up field hard 443 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: and Gino took an inside rush and he saw a 444 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 1: lane that just was too tempting. I mean he saw 445 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: a green grass and just hit it, and I mean 446 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: hit it. He hit it right now. He is explosive 447 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 1: in terms of his feet and his strong arm, and 448 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: he's accurate. I mean he put the ball in some 449 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: tight spots and got to tip your cap to the kid. 450 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: He's he's really you know, he's really a fine quarterback. 451 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: But you know, you just can't give up two n 452 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: in sixty six yards rushing in the National Football League. 453 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: I don't care who is a quarterback and running back. 454 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: You just can't do it. The Bengals didn't score a 455 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: touchdown in the Pittsburgh game and didn't score one in 456 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: this game until four minutes and eight seconds to go. 457 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: Then they scored two in a span of two minutes 458 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: and eight seconds. Is there a logical explanation for why 459 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: they were able to just flip a switch and suddenly 460 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: be productive on offense? You know, I asked that the 461 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: same thing. And you know the touchdown drive before the 462 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: one that tied it up. I mean, Arizona was bringing 463 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: their blitz packages. I mean they were coming and he 464 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: was taking hits and just getting rid of the football. 465 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were playing pre event defense. Is 466 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: saying check it down. I mean they were they were 467 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: bringing their stuff and the Bengals picked it up, and 468 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: you know, then Tyler Boyd has two big plays and 469 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: you know, one of them forty two yard touchdown. Two 470 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: receivers were out in that route. They were so concerned 471 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: with blocking the edge guys and they should sugs and 472 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: Chandler Jones, and then the backs slid out late, slipped 473 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: out late. But there's a little roll to the right, 474 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: little throwback to the left, you know, beyond the middle 475 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: of the football field, and fooled to safety. And he 476 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: could fooled badly. Tyler Boyd was huge. Jette last drive. 477 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: You ended up with ten catches for one of one 478 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: hundred yards, but his first five catches I think went 479 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: from like twenty five and then he really turned it 480 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: on at the end, as did Andy Dalton. I mean, 481 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's first half numbers nothing to right hold home about. 482 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 1: But as the game ended, he's got a quarterback or 483 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: any one oh seven point six twenty seven out of 484 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: thirty eight two sixty two, two touchdowns, no interceptions. After 485 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: the game, Zach Taylor made a point to walk around 486 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: the locker room to go up to every guy in 487 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: front of his locker, embrace him, say something to him. 488 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've seen that before. What does that 489 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: say to you about Zach Taylor and the relationship he's 490 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: trying to build with these guys. Yeah, I think that's 491 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: the big word is, you know, relationships and culture and 492 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: all the things that go along with that. But man, 493 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: just got to win games. At some point, you have 494 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: to win a football game. And three of their five 495 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: games they've either had a lead or have been tied 496 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: late in the football game. Two on the road, one 497 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: at home, and right now they're over. They're gonna have 498 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: to really examine. Every player's gonna have to examine it. 499 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: Every coach is gonna have to examine it. What can 500 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: I do to that one more player that we need? 501 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: And so far it hasn't happened. And you know, as 502 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: everything's a habit, winning is a habit. Losing can be 503 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: a habit, and you fall into the bad habits. It's 504 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: hard hard to get rid of those bad habits and 505 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: then start establishing the good habits. The first thing you 506 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: have to do it establish a good habits to winning game, 507 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 1: you know, and right now they're in a you know, 508 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: a vicious cycle of a bad habit of losing football games. 509 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: Whether it be close football games or games that aren't 510 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: so close. Up next, a road game in Baltimore and 511 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: another speedy quarterback in Lamar Jackson, not Johnson. The Ravens 512 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: are three and two after an overtime win in Pittsburgh 513 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: on Sunday. Now time for this week's fun Facts interview, 514 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: where we get to know the person under the pads. 515 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: This week, it's a member of this year's rookie class, who, 516 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: among other things, is known for being the best ping 517 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: pong player on the roster. Time for some fun facts 518 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: at Bengals quarterback Ryan Finley, and it takes about five 519 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: minutes of lazy internet research to find out that you 520 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: basically have excelled in any sport that you have ever played. Football, basketball, tennis, 521 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: ping pong. But let's start with hockey, specifically roller hockey. 522 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 1: You were on Team USA as a kid. That sounds 523 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: like a pretty big deal. Tell me about it. I 524 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: just grew up. That was kind of my first sport. 525 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: Grew up playing hockey. My dad played. He grew up 526 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, so that was kind of his sport played 527 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: since I was a really young age and loved it, 528 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: and I don't I don't really even remember when what 529 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: age I was when I was on Team USA, it 530 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: was I was pretty young, but it was fun. I 531 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: think actually hockey has helped me a lot and kind 532 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 1: of just uh, you know, playing sports throughout my life. 533 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of a lot of 534 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: really great things about playing hockey. So that was a 535 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,880 Speaker 1: fun time. Did Team USA travel a love it? Yeah, 536 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: we actually went to we went to Canada. Was kind 537 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: of like our big international tournament that went over, So 538 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,360 Speaker 1: that was that was that was a big deal at 539 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: the time. Does your dad still play hockey? Absolutely, he plays, Um, 540 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: he plays a lot. He plays ice hockey most of 541 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 1: the time, but he also will play roller hockey too. 542 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: Roller hockey is a little bit more fun, uh And 543 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: and I think me and my dad's opinion just because 544 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: you play four and four and there's it's a lot 545 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: more um, a lot more puck handling and kind of 546 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: a more I think more skill. I guess you could 547 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: say at that at their level, um, you know, in 548 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: ice hockey is just a little bit more kind of 549 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: bashing and dumping the puck in and you know, more strategy, 550 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: I guess where or roller hockey is a little bit 551 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 1: more of just the skill set behind it. You're from Arizona, 552 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: You're on a state championship basketball team, had a thirty 553 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: seven point game apparently where you didn't miss a single shots. 554 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: You did miss one shot, so that that has been 555 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: incorrectly reported. That was I don't know where that came from, 556 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: but I missed one shot. Yep. I was like thirteen 557 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,959 Speaker 1: for fourteen or something like that. All right, we are 558 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: setting the records. Great for people to see that online. 559 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: But in any case, it sounds like you could have 560 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: played college hoops. Why did you choose football? In my mind, 561 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: I like to tell myself I could have. I'm gonna 562 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,479 Speaker 1: go with that. The other day I die. I'm not 563 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: sure if if I really could have or at what 564 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: level I could have, but um, we're gonna go with that. 565 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: So we're definitely gonna go with that. Well, you definitely 566 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: chose wisely. You had a great college career and now 567 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 1: you're playing in the NFL. You started your college career 568 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 1: at Boise State, and before you ever got started there, 569 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: you had to have rotator cuff surgery. Freshman year of 570 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: college is hard period when you go there and you 571 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: can't really take part in the thing that you're going 572 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: to school to do. How difficult was that? Yeah, I 573 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: think just the you know, the timeliness of kind of 574 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: what happened, just being hurt in that time period where 575 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: you want to be making friends and showing what you 576 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: can do, you know, at the next level and kind 577 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: of being in that red shirt program and lifting weights 578 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: and getting strong. So I kind of I kind of 579 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: missed out on that, which was deaf only hard on 580 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: me kind of starting so I got off to a 581 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 1: rocky start, but you know, it's all worked out and 582 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,399 Speaker 1: my shoulders you know, been healthy, so it was it 583 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: was a very successful recovery. So you know, everything happens 584 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: for a reason. So I was definitely looking back on 585 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: it was a it was a good experience. You overcame 586 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: that and then your red shirt sophomore year, you won 587 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: the starting job only to break your ankle in week three, 588 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: and I read an interview where you more or less 589 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: admitted you didn't handle that very well. No, I mean 590 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: I just had I had tried, you know, so hard 591 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: to come back and recover and then it's just like 592 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: game three getting hurt. Um. You know, just the kind 593 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: of the situation was was one that, uh, you know Brett. 594 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: We we knew, you know, I was going to play well. 595 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: We knew Brett was going to play well, and so 596 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: it just kind of it turned out how it did. 597 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: But uh, you know, having said that, it was one 598 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: of the best things I think has ever happened to 599 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: me because I wouldn't have ended up an Anti State 600 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: and my career a Ncy State, and just the people 601 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: I met there was was awesome. So I had to 602 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: break my ankle to get there. But we're doing fun 603 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: facts at Ryan Finley. So you transferred Anti State, you 604 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: start there for three years. What did the fresh start 605 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: do for you emotionally? Um? I did a lot. I 606 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: think just going in I just went in with a 607 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: with a different perspective. I was hurt, and at that 608 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: point I just wanted to play. It was pretty simple, 609 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: so I was just gonna do I was necessary to play. 610 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: I think I took some pressure off myself and that 611 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: in that regard and just kind of wanted to literally 612 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: just play football. And I didn't have really, you know, 613 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: many goals outside of that, so I was just I 614 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: think I was just able to focus, and um, I 615 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: was able to you know, use some of the things 616 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: I learned at at Boise State and my new start 617 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: and also just um yeah, just kind of a new focus. 618 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: And it helped that I knew the offense, um, and 619 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: that wasn't something that I had to spend a lot 620 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: of time on. Uh, just you know, because my coach 621 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: went from Boise to North Carolina State, so I could 622 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: kind of just come on and come in and focus 623 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: on other things. So that helped a lot. After a 624 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: couple of really good years at NC State, you could 625 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: have gone pro. I'm sure you would have been drafted. 626 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: You already had a couple of degrees at that point, 627 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: but you decided to go back with a sixty year 628 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: eligibility and play another year at NC State. Why did 629 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: you want to do that? We just had we just 630 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: had a lot of a lot of guys coming back 631 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: on offense, and I thought it was just it was 632 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: kind of a special opportunity, and uh, why why not 633 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: one more year in college? So you know, just had 634 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: friends coming back. Had you know, guys like Garrett brad 635 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: Bear center at the time, A J. Cohler punter, and 636 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: just s Woody Cornwall quarterback. So just just a lot 637 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: of friends and um, I was just a weird deal. 638 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: I think you know when you when you have that 639 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: decision to leave earlier or not, I feel like you 640 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: can get behind the process with just you know, picking 641 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: an agent. There's all kinds of stuff, just like mentally 642 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: where I feel like you can get a little bit 643 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: behind h if you haven't made up that decision. Um. 644 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: So it was just, I don't know, it just it 645 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: felt better. I felt better about going back, and I 646 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: obviously knew there was a lot to improve on. There 647 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: was a lot of team goals that we had yet 648 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: to accomplis so worked out well for the Bengals. They 649 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: drafted you in the fourth round, and after you got 650 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: to Cincinnati, quarterbacks coach Alex van Pelt made a change 651 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: in your footwork. When you take a shotgun snap, you 652 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: have your left foot forward now instead of your right, 653 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: which sounds like nothing to most of us, But it's 654 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: a big deal to a quarterback, isn't it. Yeah? I 655 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: think it is. It's helped for me. I think a 656 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: lot of guys just kind of fine what they're comfortable with. 657 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: But I've been back and forth throughout my college career 658 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: and kind of found that I like the left foot better. 659 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: And then you know, Alex has really helped me with 660 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: just kind of honing in on kind of what happens 661 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: after the stance, kind of just the timeliness of the 662 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: NFL game, which is a lot different than college. Just 663 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: everything's kind of based off of the timeliness of your feet. 664 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: So that's helped me a lot, just be on time 665 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: and kind of just helps you get through your progressions 666 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: and with a little bit more ease, just kind of 667 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: knowing that your feet will talk to you. A few 668 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: more fun facts for Ryan Finley. Rumor has it you 669 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: are the number one ping pong player on this Bengals team. 670 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: Is that the case? And? Uh? If so, who can 671 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: provide competition? Well, it's it's definitely the case. Um I 672 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: I play Andy a lot. Uh So Me and Andy, 673 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: especially during OTA's training camp, we were playing quite a 674 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: bit um and then we actually we went out and 675 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: we ordered we needed to elevate our game, so we 676 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: went on ordered some paddles, some nice paddles from this 677 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: website called Killer Spin, and um it, my game's really 678 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: taken off even more since I since I got that 679 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: new paddle. So I'm looking to in the offseason join 680 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: like a like a ping pong club or some some 681 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: sort of where I can go play some pickup table tennis. Um, 682 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: because really the only person I can really play is 683 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: is Andy here. So and Andy doesn't always he's got 684 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: other stuff going on. Sometimes I'm always looking for a game. 685 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I love ping pong and it really 686 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: our locker rooms really into it, which is fun. So 687 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: they got they got like a board back there where 688 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: they're they're keeping tillies of hoops who and who on 689 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: what date and by how many? So it's pretty fun. 690 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: If I start playing again, I'm going to kill her 691 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: spin to make sure I have a good paddle. You've 692 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: got a younger brother, Ben. He's a high school senior 693 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: and he's going to follow in your footsteps and play 694 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: at NC State. How exciting is it for you to 695 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: follow him? Uh, it's gonna be super exciting. His plan 696 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: is to graduate early after he finishes this year strong, um, 697 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: and so that'll be fun to just have him there. 698 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: Kind of in back my mind, my plan has always 699 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: been to kind of um in the off seasons, be 700 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: be close to Raleigh, if not in Raleigh. So you know, 701 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: that's all the more reason for me and kind of 702 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: my family to be out that way more so, it's 703 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be. It's gonna be a lot 704 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: of fun, all right. Last fun fact for Ryan Finley. 705 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: Your birthday is December twenty sixth. My little sister was 706 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: born on the twenty eighth, and all we hated the 707 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: fact that her birthday and Christmas we're so close together. 708 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 1: What about you? Um, I like it now and I'm 709 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: cool with it now. And you know, my parents they 710 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,320 Speaker 1: never shorted me. I never felt like I got shorted. 711 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: But there were a couple of years when I was 712 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,800 Speaker 1: younger that you know, obviously having no money, being you know, 713 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: twelve thirteen years old, it's basically just the money you 714 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: get is the money you got for Christmas or your birthday. 715 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 1: So there was a couple of years where I celebrated 716 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: my birthday in June, like with my sister, just so 717 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 1: I would have like kind of a more of a 718 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,399 Speaker 1: steady income. I guess of of Dick sporting goods, gift 719 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,399 Speaker 1: cards and gift cards. So but I you know, it's 720 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: it's fine now. I like having my birthday in December. 721 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: It's kind of like the you know, you wait for 722 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: Christmas for so long and then it's kind of that 723 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: like calm down when it's like, damn, we waited for 724 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,919 Speaker 1: two months and now it's over. That's my birthday, so 725 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: I get to I don't get quite as sad when 726 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: Christmas is over. Remember to wish you a a happy birthday 727 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 1: in the final week of the season. Appreciate your time. 728 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, that's Ryan Finley. We want to 729 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: remind you to come out and join us on location 730 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: for a radio show this week on Friday afternoon from 731 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 1: three to six we'll be at Buffalo Wings and Rings 732 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: in Fairfield for the Bengals pep Rally Show. A Bengals 733 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: player joins us in the final hour and we'll know 734 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: who that is later this week. That's going to do 735 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: it for this episode of the podcast. 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