WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: So Close 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.600 Hi, get everybody, I'm Dan Horden. Thanks for downloading the 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:15.320 Bengals Booth podcast. So Close, So close, and yet so far. Addition, 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.440 as we take an in depth look back at another 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.360 heartbreaking loss for the Bengals, as a field goal on 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.480 the final play of the game gave the Arizona Cardinals 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.960 a twenty six twenty three win at Paul Brown Stadium. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.320 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.400 players and coaches, and Dave Lapham will join me for 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.400 postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's Fun Facts Conversation, we'll 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.920 meet the person under the pads as I'll talk to 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.200 the best ping pong player on the Bengals roster. Stay 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.000 tuned to find out who it is. All of that 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.559 is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder that 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.880 you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:59.760 right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.040 Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:10.400 since the Wilson Junior size football. I've got a thirteen 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.039 year old son who loves running pass patterns in the 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.560 backyard and catching passes from his old man. We are 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.560 currently using the Wilson brand Junior size football for ages 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.039 nine and up, and I am here to tell you 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.839 it is the easiest football to throw ever made. It's 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.600 a slightly smaller size and has a very tacky grip. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.840 At the risk of bragging, I am a mixture of 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.440 Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Kenny Anderson when I use it. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.440 So a big thumbs up to the Wilson Junior size football. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.800 Let's get to this week's game. For approximately five minutes 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.560 on Sunday, the Bengals did exactly what they and we 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.840 have been hoping for. The defense got a three and 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:01.360 out on Arizona's opening possession, and then Joe Mixon, remember him, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.080 went to work after an incomplete pass by Andy Dalton 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.000 on the bengals first play. Their next six were handoffs 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:14.320 to Joe Mixon for nine, three, thirteen, five, eighteen, and 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.800 nine yards to put the Bengals in the red zone. Unfortunately, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.520 that's where the drive stalled, an all too familiar theme 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.600 in twenty nineteen. It'll be a chip shot of twenty 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.920 three yard try for Randy Bullock. Out of the hold 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.600 of Kevin Huber. He catches a high snap puts it down, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.760 bullocks kick is on its way, it is good, and 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.840 the Bengals score inside the gold star red zone. So 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.880 the Bengals had an early lead but left four points 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.680 on the board. Here's Andy Dalton, we have to score touchdowns. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.440 You can't keep kicking field goals. You're not gonna win 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.519 games if you've kicking field goals. So Fro, we gotta 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.639 look at it. We gotta see what we can do 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.519 better in the red zone because I mean, you gotta 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.960 score touchdowns on there. On that opening drive, it felt 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.560 like Mixon was going to have a career day, but 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.160 after rushing for fifty seven yards on his first six carries, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.200 his next seven went for a total of six yards. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.919 I talked to offensive lineman Trey Hopkins about Nixon's fast start. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.079 We finally got a consistent string of runs and we 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.880 ran on first down and we're a fishing with this, 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.640 so we were able to keep keep going with that. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.640 With that drive, m it was nice, and I mean 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.040 we had a couple of instances of that, uh this game, 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.120 just you know, being efficient on first down, run or 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.520 pass um helps a lot, helps a lot. But as 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.520 the offensive lineman, of course, being a run or being 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.000 able to run the ball is nice. Did they make 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.640 big changes x's and o's wise up front to slow 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.000 that down, or did their guys just start making better plays? Um? No, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.160 I mean they're they're they're good front. They get paid also, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.520 and they just they just made some place um and 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.280 slowed us down a little bit. But you know, it's 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.000 a long game, and I mean, both sides of the 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.400 ball are getting paid. Both sides of the ball have 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.640 good athletes, so it's it's a battle. The Bengals early 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.880 three nothing lead didn't last time. Their second possession, the 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.800 Cardinals drove to the Cincinnati six, where they faced fourth 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.640 and two. Rather than kick a tying field goal, head 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.320 coach Cliff Kingsbury elected to go for it. Fourth down 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.160 and two at the Bengals six yard line, Cincinnati leading 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.600 three nothing, Murray hands it faked it to Johnson, sprints 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.760 out to the left. He's got the first down. He 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.760 lurches toward the end zone, and it's a Cardinals touchdown. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.360 That's the first lead of the season. The Cardinals were 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.280 the only team in the NFL that had never held 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.640 a lead this year. Yes, even the Dolphins led for 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.960 nearly four minutes in the first quarter before losing by 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.960 twenty last week to the Chargers. The Bengals and Cardinals 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.280 traded field goals in the second quarter before Arizona added 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.279 another one on the final play of the first half, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.920 one second left in the half, a chip shot field 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.200 goal for Gonzales. Game kick is good and Arizona will 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.279 take a seven point lead to the locker room. Arizona 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.200 led thirteen six at the half, and that field goal 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.360 means that Bengals opponents have scored in the final two 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.800 minutes of the first half in twenty eight of the 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.320 bengals last thirty seven games. That's seventy six percent of 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.320 the time. Hard to believe. Stat courtesy of Jay Morrison, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.080 who covers the Bengals for the Athletic. Andy Dalton was 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.680 four for ten for a paltry twenty two yards in 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.760 the half, but the Bengals got their passing game going 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.680 to begin the third quarter. Andy was seven for ten 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.359 on the opening drive of the second half, but after 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.960 having first and goal at the eight, the Bengals failed 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.400 to score a touchdown again. The snap, the put down, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.640 the spin of the laces, The kick is up and 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.920 it is good for the season. The Bengals have scored 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:44.800 four touchdowns on fourteen drives into the red zone. That's 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.279 twenty nine percent. Not nearly good enough. According to Tyler Boyd, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.080 I can't really you know, open my finger on it, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:52.800 you know, but that's a difference in the game, you know, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.000 not scoring touchdowns. You know, game three three point three points. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.640 I ain't cutting to any how you went football games 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.320 to any how you get to the playoffs. Despite the 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.119 red zone war, the Bengals were only down by four 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.960 with less than two minutes to go in the third 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.159 quarter when a curious play call proved costly. On fourth 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.880 down and one, Dalton is in the shotgun mixing. Now 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.080 we'll shift from the quarterbacks left to his right, Dalton 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.159 fake to Mixon. He does not get back to the 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.479 line of scrimmage. He has lifted off the ground like 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.920 he was crowdsurfing short of the first down. All right, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.760 I know that hindsight is twenty twenty, But why teams 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.680 don't just run a quarterback sneak on fourth and short 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.080 is a mystery to me. It seems like a shotgun 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.760 snap increases the defense's chances of getting penetration into the backfield. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.479 But what do I know? The fourth down stop gave 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.880 Arizona great field position, and a former Bengal made them 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.120 pay third down and seven for Arizona to thirty nine 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.480 of Cincinnati. Murray clapping his hands, he catches the shotgun. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.400 Snapp he floats it down the middle of the field. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.919 I'm diving attempt. What a catch. Wow at the eleven 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.600 yard line by Pharaoh Cooper. The former Bengal, albeit briefly, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.840 just made a spectacular diving catch Farrell. Cooper played for 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.840 the Bengals in Week one, then got waived after Week 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.520 two when they needed an extra offensive lineman. Here's safety 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.840 Jesse Bates on Cooper's great catch. The hell of a 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.360 catch by whom, hell of a throw by Colin Murray 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.800 as well. Those players that we can we can live 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.560 with long they don't score on those. Now there's the NFL. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.200 There's a lot of good athletes, good players. They're gonna 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.000 make plays, but we just gotta, you know, make sure 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.920 those aren't happenings as much that catch was the difference 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.400 between punting and kicking a field goal, and the Cardinals 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.000 took a seven point lead early in the fourth quarter. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.520 Things looked bleak for the Bengals when The Cardinals scored 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.920 again on their next drive, first and ten at the 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.880 thirty seven years, a toss sweep to the left, Edmond's 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.200 running breaks through an ankle tackle. He's down the near 0:07:54.280 --> 0:08:00.720 sideline inside the ten. The five three two one touchdown Arizona. Well, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.200 that's a blow right there. That is just a shot 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.520 right to the chin. And again faked the handoff on 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.600 a jet sweep and then just pitched it back the 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.080 other way, and they get blocking on the edge. Larry 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.680 Fitzgerald gives a block and then just sloppy tackling, missed tackles. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.280 I mean, the blocking is good in the perimeter, but man, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.160 when you're the when you're the unblocked guy, make the 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.160 tackle like Bates was, you cannot miss that tackle. Unfortunately 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.600 he did, and the Bengals were down twenty three to nine. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.440 At that point. Between the Pittsburgh game and the Arizona game, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.479 the Bengals had gone seventeen drives without scoring a touchdown, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.840 a street they finally ended by driving seventy nine yards 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.400 on ten plays. Three receivers out to the left, Audent 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.439 Tate out to the right, Bernard in the backfield of 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.080 the right of Andy Dalton Dalton throws it into the 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.520 end zone, touchdown to Audent Tate. Nice the first touchdown 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.040 in two games for Cincinnati, as Auden Tate cut inside 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.679 of his defender and reeled in the touchdown catch from 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.760 two yards away, his first NFL touchdown of his career. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.920 That made a twenty three sixteen and the defense probably 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.000 got a three and out to put the ball right 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.360 back in the hands of Andy Dalton. Bengals are gonna 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.040 line up quickly. They're ready to snap it at the 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.760 Arizona forty two. This drive started back at the Cincinnati nineteen. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.920 Dalton back to throw. The protection is good, fires dot 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.360 Field boar. He catches it to ten and runs into 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:35.560 the end zone for a Bengals touchdown. Me Tyler Boyd 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.439 damn middle of the football field. He made the play 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.160 earlier in the drive and then he made that play. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.719 Outstanding throw. The first play of the drive was a 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.360 twenty nine yard pass to Boyd and the last play 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.160 was that forty two yard touchdown pass. Tyler finished with 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.800 ten catches for one hundred twenty three yards. Sick of 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.240 losing Siga, you know, not finishing the way we want to. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.319 You know, we always finished wrong. But we never started. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.160 He's gotta just stayed of course, man, and just believing 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.200 each other the whole four quarters. Man. Just continue to 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.720 fight and execute and don't wait till the last minute 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.880 to finally get a going. The game was tied with 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.640 exactly two minutes to go, but two big plays by 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.920 Kyler Murray won the game for Arizona. The first was 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.880 a twenty four yard pass. The second was this twenty 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.000 four yard run second down in six at the Cincinnati 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.360 thirty nine with fifty three seconds to go, Kyler Murray 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.600 catches the shotgun snap. Now, he takes off and runs 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.640 all sorts of running room down the middle of the field. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.800 He's at the twenty five the twenty and Clayton Federlum 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.120 saves the touchdown by tackling Kyler Murray at the fifteen 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.839 yard line. The Heisman Trophy winner finished with two hundred 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.000 and fifty three yards passing and ninety three rushing. Here's 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.520 Sam Hubbard. Can you describe what it's like to try 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.120 to contain Kyler Murray when he takes off. Yeah, it's 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.719 tough because you pick a side trying to win a 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.920 pass rush and he sees lane. He's gone really gotta 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.679 rush with vision, which you know slows down how you're rushing. Um, 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.079 it's a tough task and what makes them so dangerous? Um, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.280 you know it's hard. Do you think that's what kind 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.040 of stopped the pass rush was? Who're trying to make 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.480 sure you guys are trying to make sure you're trying 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.800 to keep him in the pocket and make him throw 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.599 the ball and uh, you know, just try to not 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.160 give him lanes to get out of there, because as 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.720 soon as he saw something, he was out. After Murray's run, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.120 the bengals only hope was that Zane Gonzalez would choke 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.800 on a game winning field goal, try to allow the 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.440 Bengals to take the game to overtime. So here we go, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.560 two seconds on the clock, a thirty one yard field goal, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.040 try to win the game for third year pro Zane Gonzalez. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.080 Lee is ready for the snap, he puts it down, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.120 the kick is up, the kick is good, and the 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.200 Arizona Cardinals get their first win and drop the Bengals 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.000 to oh and five. The final score twenty six twenty 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.319 three Arizona. Here are two second year Bengals, Jesse Eights 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.160 and Sam Hubbard on falling two Owen five. You know, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.160 we can't just keep patting ourselves on the back for 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.480 you know, having close games and fighting at the end 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.880 and stuff like that. We gotta win. I know, that's 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.720 what the fans want, that's what the guys upstairs want, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.280 that's what everybody in this locker room wants. So you know, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.800 there's gonna be a lot of people that continue to 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.080 bash us about being owned five. All that matters is 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.160 what's in this locker room, and it's about us. So 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:22.839 there's no option. You know, we got a lot of 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.160 games left to play, and it's a team game. You 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.840 can't go out there and win the game by yourself. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.000 So we have to stick together and you know, just 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.400 keep fighting, try and get some wins. That's all we 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.120 can do. We can't we can't fall apart. Since the 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.360 Cardinals and Broncos both picked up their first victories on Sunday, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.240 there are now four winless teams left in the NFL. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.040 The Bengals and Redskins are owing five, the Jets and 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:48.880 Dolphins are owing four. After Sunday's three point loss, Lap 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.320 spent about four minutes with head coach Zach Taylor, coach 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.640 the NFL three of the five games. You know, you 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.800 got a tie football game later, a lead late in 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.400 the fourth quarters, just can't close it out, just can't 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.640 quite finish it. You're right there on the on the 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.280 doorstep on the brink. But man, it's something has to 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.480 happen to just finish it. Right. You're right, we get 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.280 someone's just gotta step up and make that play. And um, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.400 it's coaches. We gotta keep fighting to put ourselves and 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.200 opportunities where guys can step up and do it. We 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.600 just haven't done it yet, And um, it's gonna happen. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.400 We keep believing, and no one's no one's pointing fingers. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.920 We know we got to earn these wins, and when 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.600 we earn it's gonna feel good. This game, it was 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.600 a matter of just digging a hole. It was too 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.640 hard to crawl out of. And you know, you got 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.760 to give the credit about fighting back and doing that 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.840 and digging out of that hole. But and that's hard 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.360 when you dig that big a hole in the NFL, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.600 isn't it. Yeah, A bad team that's given up digs 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.480 himself in that hole and the game's over. And that 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.600 wasn't what we were today. Our guys fought back, believed 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.000 they were gonna win. We scored that last touch time 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.439 to tie it up, and we felt like, hey, we're 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.040 gonna get this stop and we're gonna go win this game. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.640 That was the common theme on the sidelines, and unfortunately 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.480 they made some plays and they got that field goal 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.160 and they got away with one their quarterback. You made 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.480 mention of it during the course of the week, Kyler Murray. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.640 He's got like quick twitch now. I mean he's short 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.160 space quickness. I mean, some guys can make him miss 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.120 but can't run away. Some guys can run away but 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:06.760 can't make you miss. This dude can make him miss 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.880 and run away. I mean, he's he's a special guy 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.240 that we're rushing for ninety yards like he did. I 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.040 don't know if you can make a steady diet living 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.120 of that being a quarterback running the football like he is, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.760 But man, he makes plays. He's dangerous. He's the first 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.440 pick in the draft for a reason. He's a unique talent. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.440 Really stresses the defense, and he made some place today. Again, Horizontally, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.760 it seems to be everybody's trying to challenge, you know, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.800 your defense, making it defend from one sideline to another 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.400 with motion, missdirection, counters, all that sort of thing difficult 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.720 today as well, wouldn't it. But I go back, we 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.600 need to score with once the first half, take the 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.480 pressure off him because really we go in a halftime, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.120 they're they're routinely keeping these guys to ten points and under, 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.720 and you know, we gotta be a little bit more 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.800 aggressive on offense and get things going and score some 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.360 points and take the pressure off him going in the 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.440 second half. I know it's never one thing, but in 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.640 your mind, as you as you will reflect back on 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.000 not just this game, but other games, red zone seeming 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:02.880 like the twilight zone a little bit. What do you 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.240 what do you think the biggest things are in the 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.880 red zone? Well, when the up twos come our away, 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.560 we gotta we gotta take advantage of the players that 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.160 they're there. And so far we kind of had two 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:13.640 weeks from a row. We've left some points in the 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.600 field that we feel like, uh, we just got to 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.480 step up and make that play and keep working to 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.520 get us in the best calls that give us opportunities. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.840 And but you're right, that's been frustrating leaving all those 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.800 points on the field. You guys do a good job 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.520 of controlling those edge rush guys. But there were times 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.680 where it was like two three man routes. The touchdown 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.160 to tile it looked like it was maybe a two 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.040 possibly a three man route. I mean, you had that 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.600 schemed out pretty well. You wanted to make sure you 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.360 had time to get the ball down the field vertically 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:39.960 like that. Yeah, you're right, that was one that takes 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.320 a little bit more time. So we don't make sure 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.920 we keep people in protection. And you know, we got 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.920 two receivers out plus the back plus you know, um 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.880 that that group is they're pretty good edge rushes. We 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.800 talked about I think Andy get hit and the touchdown 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.200 drive before the drive that tied it. They were blitzing. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.640 They weren't playing pre event. They were bringing bringing pressure 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:58.960 and he's getting rid of the ball, you know, and 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.760 taking taking a hit and uh, you know he was 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.760 when you blitzed. There's there's areas of vacated and he 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.920 was finding those things. Yeah, there was he had some. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.720 They were bringing their best stuff. They got a pretty 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.800 good blitz package. That's where our third down package were 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.040 trying to move the ball on the perimeter a little bit. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.400 Take the pressure off those guys. Up front. He stood 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.600 in there. Yeah, they brought their best stuff. We protected 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.160 as best we could. He took a couple of shots, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.680 but m guys started making plays there in the fourth quarter. Finally, coach, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.560 I don't expect you to tell us what you're telling 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.840 your team. You know, that's that's between you and your 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.000 football team. But what what kind of message you know, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.520 do you give your football team right now? Working like 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.400 they're working, and just coming up short like they are. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.280 Keep fighting. We believe in each other, We believe in 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.480 what we're doing. The wins are going to come. It's 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.600 frustrating that hasn't happened yet, But but we got the 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.320 right people in this building. That's good that help us 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.800 get it done. Now time for some postgame analysis, and 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.960 we start with an obvious point. The Bengals can't show 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.240 up in the last five minutes and expect to win games. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.320 That was Zach Taylor's mesters of the team. The guys 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.240 that I saw in the last five minutes, you got 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.080 to do it earlier than that. Fifty five minutes of 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.439 not getting it done, very very disappointing. I mean, they 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.359 dug too big a hole. That's a huge hole in 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.560 the National Football League. How about Arizona throwing the football 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.879 in their last two drives. They gave the Bengals a chance. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.439 They ran the ball for two hundred and sixty six yards. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.720 You know, I would have had my two threats, Murray 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.880 and Johnson just run the ball, run the clock. I mean, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.400 they're giving the Bengals a chance by throwing the ball 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.280 and throwing in completions. You know, I couldn't believe that 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.320 they were allowing that to happen. But you know, the 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.200 Bengals took advantage of it and scored two touchdowns to 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.639 make it a game, tie the football game up, and 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.240 then you know when they had to, Arizona ran the 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.120 football again a little bit and ran the clock down 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.040 and kicked the field goal. So very unfortunate. I mean, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.800 two hundred and sixty six yards rushing average over seven 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.120 yards to carry. They had Murray and Johnson both run 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.639 the ball for over ninety yards. Joe Mixon ran it 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.399 for over ninety yards. He came one rushed sword and 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.720 I said if he had twenty carries, they'd win the game. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.199 He had nineteen, but you know, could have won the 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.520 football game. Just didn't play well enough, you know, made 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.399 their value had come back effort, obviously, but you can't 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.600 rely or depend on something like that in the national 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.320 football You're gonna come up short more times than not. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.520 Let's talk about Joe Mixon's day. Six straight running plays 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.200 on the opening drive for fifty seven yards. It looked 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:17.639 like he was going to have the biggest game of 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.159 his NFL career. Then for the next two and a 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.720 half quarters, the Cardinals completely shut him down before he 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.399 got it going again late in the game and wound 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.480 up with ninety three yards on nineteen carries, six rushes 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.960 for fifty seven. Then he goes seven rushes for six, 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.080 then he goes three for twenty three to start the 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.879 second half. So he's you know, it's a little bit 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.520 of a roller coaster ride. I do think after that 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.240 first drive, you know, Arizona said, all right, look, we're 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.760 not gonna let you run the football. You're gonna have 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.879 to throw the football. You're down a bunch of receivers. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.720 You know, we've got two good edge pass rushers. We're 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.760 gonna make sure that you don't get that running game 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.640 going the way you've got to go on that first drive. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.160 They stayed in based defense, but they did. They made, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.680 you know, some minor adjustments. I think that in terms 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.840 of technique and attacking line of scrims, raving catching at 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.159 the line of scrimmage that looked like to me. And 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.800 they got a lot more aggressive and said, you know, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.760 you're gonna have to throw the football some and not 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.160 just run the ball down our throats. But again, Dan, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.760 red zone, I mean, it's the twilight zone. It's amazing. 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.239 They just can't can't get it done in the red 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:16.800 zone when they needed to get it done. And last 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.040 year they're converted over thirty one percent of the time 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.960 for touchdowns in the red zone. They were third in 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.960 the NFL in that category, and now they're in danger 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.840 of being, if not dead, last, second last in the NFL, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.880 I think in red zone touchdown percentage. Let's talk about 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.399 the offensive line lap After giving up eight sacks and 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.320 twelve quarterback hits against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Andy Dalt was 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.679 not sacked. Did you see significant progress? I saw a 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.320 significant scheme change. Tyler Eifert was in too pass protect gives, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.800