WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: In The End 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.240 Happy New Year everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.680 downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast. The I got it so 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.880 hard and got so far, but in the end it 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:21.280 doesn't even matter. Addition, as the Bengals are eliminated from 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.400 playoff contention after a hard fought loss in Kansas City 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.760 twenty five to seventeen. Coming up Radio replays locker room 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.559 comments in postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then in this 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.640 week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll get to know the multi 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.839 talented Dax Hill. 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If you're a fan of the Simpsons, you 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.560 might be interested to know that I have a small 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.360 connection to the show. In the Dance and Homer episode 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.800 where Homer Simpson becomes the mascot for the local minor 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.640 league baseball team, there's a play by play announcer named 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.399 Dan Horde. My friend Ken Levine wrote the episode. I 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.120 bring that up because one of my Christmas gifts this 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.960 year was a family portrait of me, my wife, and 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.920 my son looking like characters from The Simpsons, even sitting 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.400 on their living room couch. It was created by sending 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:01.160 a photo to turned yellow dot com. That's several websites 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.480 where you can simpsonize a photo. It's not super cheap, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:12.919 but it is pretty cool. Or, as Bart Simpson might say, Cowabunga. Now, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.680 let's get to the radio replays from Sunday's loss in 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.240 Kansas City. The Bengals got the ball to begin the 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.280 game and chewed up more than eight and a half minutes, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.200 kicking a field goal to take a three to nothing lead, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.919 but the Chiefs answered with a seventy five yard touchdown drive. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.160 Bengals have their dime defense on the field, six defensive 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.680 backs on third down in goal from the eight, only 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.680 two defenders in three point stances for Cincinnati. Has Mahomes 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.520 waits for the shotgun snap back at the thirteen, he catches, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.280 He looks, fires a passing to the end zone, caught 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.360 by a wide open Pachecko for the Kansas City touchdown. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.000 That was the only touchdown the Chiefs scored all day, 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.560 and on their second drive, the Bengals answered to retake 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.560 the lead. This will be the eleventh play of the drive. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.800 The Bengals first drive lasted fifteen plays. Browning throws caught 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:13.239 by Mixon driving toward the end zone, touchdown. Bengals Joe 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.960 Mixon doing push ups in the end zone after hauling 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.720 in the touchdown pass from Jake Browning. It was ten 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.120 to seven Cincinnati. In less than a minute later, the 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.400 Bengals defense made a big play. Mahomes in the gun. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.000 Three receivers out to the left. He's back to throw. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.040 Mahomes from the pocket, has it stripped from behind. Trey 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.120 Hendrickson knocked it away from Patrick Mahomes and the Bengals 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.680 recover after twenty four yard line. Trey Hendrickson will get 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.160 credit for a strip sack there, his seventeenth sack of 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.760 the year, as he knocked the ball free from Patrick 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.240 Mahomes and Sam Hubbard recovered that gave the Bengals the 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.440 ball at the Kansas City twenty four, and Cincinnati capitalized 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.840 third down in goal inside the one. The Bengals are 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.480 five for six on third down tries. Browning will be 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.760 under center. Mixon is the running back. True sample motions. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.240 Now he will line up right behind Browning. They do 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.360 not do the tush push. Browning rolls right, He keeps 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.760 the ball, spins backward and gets into the end zone. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:22.320 Touchdown Bengals on a one yard scramble by Jake Browning. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.320 The Bengals had a seventeen to seven lead midway through 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:30.359 the second quarter, with scores on their first three possessions. Unfortunately, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.760 the Bengals did not score again on their final seven 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.200 drives of the game. Two Kansas City field goals made 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.599 it seventeen to thirteen at the half. On the Bengals 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.200 first drive of the third quarter, they started at their 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.600 own seventeen and drove to the Kansas City six, where 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.359 they faced fourth down and one. Rather than kick a 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.600 field goal to push the lead back to seven, Zach 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.160 Taylor elected to go for it. The line is overloaded 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.080 to the right Cody Ford plus two tight ends to 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.680 that side. Browning's under center takes the snap, gives it 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.160 to mix, and he doesn't come close to getting back 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.640 to the line of scrimmage. Willie Gay greeted him at 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.599 a nine for a three yard loss. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.800 I just felt like, fourth and one, we need to 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:15.200 go for it. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:15.400 There. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.800 They played a goal line front. Really, you know, in 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.400 a little further situation than we expected. Is a good 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.120 play by them. They did a good job making the play. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.880 The Chiefs dominated the rest of the game, kicking field 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.800 goals on four straight possessions and punishing Jake Browning with 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.039 their pass rush. Once they had the lead, second down 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.360 and sixteen, the Bengals hit their own forty nine. They 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.799 trail by eight to go. Shotgun snapped to Browning sacked again, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.279 Chris Jones pouncing on the Bengals quarterback. This time it's 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.680 back to the thirty eight yard line. The loss of 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:50.960 eleven on the sack. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.320 And now it's yeah again. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.239 This is the most brutal time to try to pass 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.159 protect because there's only one thing you're gonna do, and 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:01.440 it's tough for me. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:02.799 The Chiefs are coming with pressure. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.440 Kansas City finished with six sacks and fourteen quarterback hits 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.159 and wrapped up their eighth straight AFC West title with 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.919 a twenty five to seventeen win. The Bengals fell to 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.599 eight and eight and were eliminated from playoff contention. Here's 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:20.320 Sam Hubbard. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.680 We got a lot of great players that are going 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.800 to take this adversity that we face this year and 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.600 turn into a positive, work extra hard, come back hungry 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.960 next year to do what we need to do. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:30.640 I know I am. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.640 We faced a lot this year, but like I said earlier, 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.159 I'm just proud of this locker room. I love this 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.920 locker room. I love how everybody carried themselves, how they 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:45.520 treated each other, how they worked weekend, week out despite 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.800 any circumstance stance to try and get the win, try 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.839 to stay together, and like I said, I'm proud of 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:51.400 the locker room. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.000 Jake Browning threw for one hundred and ninety seven yards 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.400 in a touchdown and ran for thirty two yards in 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.760 another score. His passer rating for the season ninety six 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.400 point five, and he's certainly proven to be a capable backup, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.960 but that didn't lessen the disappointment on Sunday. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.240 Here's Jake It sucks to lose when you're in still 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:16.120 in the race, and uh, you know, there's no real crazy, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.400 insightful comment there, just it sucks to lose anytime, and 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.520 especially when you know you needed that win to keep battling. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.440 But uh, you know, I don't know what the playoff 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.920 picture and all that looks like. But I think the 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.520 standard that was established, you know, even before I got here, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.440 was to just keep battling, and so that's what we're 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.720 gonna do. I mean, I think I think they made 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:40.600 some good adjustments at halftime, started doubling guys and uh 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:45.040 and spying as well, and so you know, yeah, it 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:46.800 was tough. It was tough to be able to tell 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.800 who was who's getting doubled and stuff. They mixed it up, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.880 and uh, yeah, it's good scheme, good players, and didn't 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.520 do enough to get it done. Yeah, I'm still processing 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.240 a loss and sucks. It's great locker room people are 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.000 that starts with who you bring in the locker room. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.880 People are gonna keep battling and uh and I felt 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.480 a lot of support throughout the last couple of weeks, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.160 especially coming off of a poor performance with the Steelers game, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.440 and you know, I didn't feel like anybody was point 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.800 fingers or anything. It was just focus on what everybody 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:26.240 needs to do to get better. And so, you know, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.240 it's kind of my comments on that. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.920 Defensively, the Bengals gave up four passes of more than 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:37.199 twenty yards, including sixty seven and forty one yarders. They 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.840 also allowed runs of thirty five and thirty seven yards 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:45.439 by Isaiah Piciceco, who finished with a buck thirty, becoming 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.720 the fifth running back to top one hundred yards against 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.920 the Bengals this year. I talked to Cam Taylor Britt 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.079 after the game. Joe got hurt on the second day 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.680 of training camp. Did just feel like from the very 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.800 beginning there was too much to overcome this. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.680 I wouldn't say it's never too much to overcome because 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.760 you know, with me and my teammates, we feel like, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.079 you know, in any situation, we come together as one. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.560 You know, we can find ourselves out of anybody battle, 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.080 no matter the score, no matter you know, who goes down. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.719 You know it's always next man up for sure. But 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.640 uh yeah, when he went down, most definitely you've seen 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.360 a downfall and a lot of my teammates most definitely 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.920 because you know, you're number one guys now. But I say, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.559 you know, throughout those weeks when Jake came in, the 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.200 things everything kind of clicked together. But no, we just 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:28.880 got stays one. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:29.000 Man. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.080 That's when we play our best. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.920 Felt like you approached this game like a playoff game today. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:38.280 Yeah, anytime, man, I really say all my games, Man, 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.719 it's playoff atmosphere, honestly, just because Man, you're in the NFL. Bro, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.680 everybody's good. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:44.679 You're gonna play a. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.199 Team who is two and eight and they have good players, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.000 and most definitely you gotta come in every day, every 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.560 game and you know, just treated as such. We may 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:54.760 never get the opportunity again. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.760 There have been a lot of big plays against the 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.599 Bengals defense this year. I guess that's kind of the 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.000 common thread and the losses. Is it a head scratcher 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.640 why other teams have been able to pull off so 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:07.560 many big plays? 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.960 I think it's just in the room man with us, Man, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.640 A lot of people that don't get a lot, but 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.400 when they do, man is meaningful and such such times 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.400 in the game. But we need to get off the 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.200 field on third and long and we get hit on 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.240 a seven route number twenty five yards and he continues 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.360 to run. You know, that's not team defense football, especially 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.360 Bengals football. So Most definitely got to come in and 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.559 you know, execute and fix all of it. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.400 In this game, Patrick wasn't throwing it over your head, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.160 but he was hitting guys in stride to turn that 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.720 ten yard play into a forty yard play. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:40.800 You knows we're gonna try to man him up and 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.120 try to get pressure on him. So they just try 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.680 to run away from us, you know, try to pick 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.120 pick everybody, you know, running through each other. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.199 But yeah, that's about it. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.119 So you're eight and eight with a game to go. Unfortunately, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.240 this one eliminates the Bengals from playoff contention. I guess 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.120 what you have to still play for is to finish 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.120 with a winning record. Is that a big deal? 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.520 That is a huge deal, man, Every game is a 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.120 huge deal, especially this last one. Man, you're playing the 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.480 Cleveland Browns, so why not. You know, you gotta go 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.319 get it, man, put your best foot out there. They 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.000 have everything to lose what we don't, So you know, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.400 Most definitely go out there and give them a fight. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:12.920 And you don't want to go win less in the 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:13.640 AFC North. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.360 Now you can't go with it list, Man, So we 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.679 gotta go out there and put our best foot for 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.400 at Like you know, this is not the last game, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:20.400 you know, just continue to fight. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.200 You kept them out of the end zone, but they 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.160 moved the ball enough to kick field goals. That was 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.360 I mean, I don't want to put words in your mouth, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.000 but that feels like the negative to me. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.160 And man, we gotta get off the field and third down, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.920 you know, just as simple as that. Like you said, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.160 the explosives matter, and they won't be able to get 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.840 down there without the kick the field goals without the explosive. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.360 So you know, most definitely we gotta keep that off 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.840 the back end. Uh, the front end, they were doing 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.640 their job, you know, getting to the quarterback making make 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.880 some crazy decisions. So we just gotta hold up man 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.280 as a as a team on the DAP on the 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:50.400 back end, I said. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.319 Okay, I appreciate your time, Thank you, thank you. Now 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.599 let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent a 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.520 couple of minutes with LAP. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.119 Coach Keenan fought hard. I mean, give it everything. Yeah 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:02.400 they did. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.240 I'm proud of the way that the eyes showed up 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.040 and played and did everything they could, and we just 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.319 came up a little short today and credit to Kansas City, 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.280 but again proud of the way you guys fought often 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:11.520 on the. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:16.560 Field in the fourth quarter. It became, you know, a 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:21.360 real tough dynamic. Obviously ended up with eleven yards on 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.960 fifteen plays after the fourth down stopped that they had 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.640 thirty six yards on nineteen plays. Do you think the 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.199 win was out of the sales a little bit? 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:30.320 I didn't feel that. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.720 We just we just didn't maintain very good rhythm, you know, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.559 And that's it's a challenge when you come in here 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.199 in a tough environment versus a really good defense. We 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.040 obviously expected to produce more than we did and and 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.079 we'll have to watch the tape and see what we 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:43.640 could have done. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.760 Better defensively, though they're playing at a very high level. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.160 And the first half, I thought the offense, I thought 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.160 Jake Browning really acquitted himself well and to me, he 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.400 was doing Patrick Mahomes type stuff. Really. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.040 I thought he managed the game really well. You know 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.640 what got difficult at the end was when they just 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.600 pinned their ears back and came out after the passer. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.160 And that's the type of game we knew we didn't 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.880 want to play. That's where they've been successful. We just 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.960 didn't do enough in the third quarter to give ourselves 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.600 a lead where we could stay out of that. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.800 And when you were able to use the running game 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.360 and be balanced. I you had fourteen first downs at 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.200 one junction, was seven on the ground, six in the 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.720 air and won by penalty, so it was very balanced 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.400 in their pass rush. You guys were negating it. It 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:22.640 wasn't really that big of a deal. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.320 Yeah, I thought we had a good play on Our 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.400 players believed in it and did a great job executing 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.319 it and again just came up short through in the 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:28.920 second half. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.640 So no turnovers they had one, they had the fumble, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.000 but then the fourth down stop kind of negates that, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.240 you know, that turnovers, So it was even steven in 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.320 that regard, And that's what these kind of games come 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:40.559 down to, isn't it. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.720 It does you know? And again I thought our defense 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.800 stood up and played hard. Them did into the field 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.120 goals when they could. Just as a team collectively, we 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.079 didn't do enough to get to win. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.679 Coach, I know, I guess officially eliminated from playoff contention 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.080 at this point. The Pittsburgh Steelers winning in Seattle. But 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.640 all you guys gave it a heck of a run 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.680 and got another game against the Cleveland Browns. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:02.160 And I lose. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.800 Football team's going to show up and play it and 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.640 play it hard. So everybody show up at Paycorn support 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.760 this football team. They deserve it, no doubt. This team 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.680 is fought hard. They represent this organization the right way. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.080 It's a meaningful game for us. It's a divisional game. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.800 It's a chance to finish with the winning record in 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.240 front of our fans, and so they deserve our best 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.160 and we're going to give them our best. Appreciate coach 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:21.560 very much. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.720 Yep, thanks Lom. We now know the game time next 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.640 Sunday at one o'clock and since the Browns are locked 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.800 in as the number five playoff seat in the AFC, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.920 they are expected to rest many of their starters. Cincinnati 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:40.080 is an early four point favorite. The Bengals Booth Podcast 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.040 is brought to you by pay Corps, proud to be 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:47.040 the Bengals official HR software provider by Alta Fiber future 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.920 Proof Fiber Internet designed elevate your home, business and community 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.240 to a new level, and by kettering health the best 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.840 care for the best fans. Kettering Health is the official 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.440 healthcare provider of the Bengal Now time for the radio 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:07.120 guys regap LAP. Last year was late January, the Bengals 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.200 season came to an end here in Kansas City when 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.320 they lost in the AFC Championship game. The season doesn't 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.680 end today, but their playoff chances due with this loss 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.760 to the Kansas City Chiefs. To me, this game was 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.760 a microcosm of the entire season. Too many big plays allowed, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.280 couldn't stop the other team's running game, couldn't quite do 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.560 enough on the offensive end. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:28.680 Yeah, it is. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.760 I mean it's in the fourth quarter. Offensively, it had 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.880 a pretty good game for three quarters. Fifteen snaps eleven 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.800 yards in the fourth quarter, and it all you know, 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.280 from the when they had the fourth and one stop, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.960 when no turnovers, took care of the football that way. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.640 We talked about every possession ending with a kick fourth 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.680 and one gets knocked back for a couple of yard loss, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.480 and from that point on, nineteen snaps thirty six yards. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.880 So obviously that took the wind out of the sales, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.040 totally deflated the football team. And I can understand it. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:07.160 I mean that was huge. There's no question, and because 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.960 it was a dogfed defensively. In spite of all the 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.760 things that were going wrong, they were holding them to 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.360 field goals. You know, So put one on the board, 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.480 one on the board and get you know, Paul the 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:24.920 Great Paul Brown, get points in a battle like you're in. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.160 Make sure you get points, don't come away with nothing. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.600 And you know, that kind of resonated with me. But 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.120 in this era of analytics and all that, there's all 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:39.760 kinds of arguments you can make. But numbers aren't number 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.400 ninety five on the football field that you have to block. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.880 Numbers aren't number fifteen that you have to defend, you know, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.840 I mean, numbers are numbers, and at some point you 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.200 have to, you know, make a determination as to man, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.000 where are we, what we have to do to try 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.680 to win this game, how we doing against some of 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.600 these guys. Do we feel like we've got enough to 0:16:59.360 --> 0:16:59.960 hold them off? 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.840 And I don't know. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:06.120 I guess I'm conservative, but I'd always lean toward taking points. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.320 I probably disagree with you on that. I'm okay with 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.680 going for it. Obviously it didn't work, It really didn't work, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.320 losing three. At the time, I didn't really second guess it, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.040 But I know what you're saying. I mean, the way 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.680 the game played out, it certainly seems like I would 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:22.840 have been prudent to take three. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.520 Yeah, I just I just think in a big game 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:30.320 like that, the if you get it, you're not guaranteed 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.040 to not kicking a field anyway. So to me, it's 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.080 better to come away with points than what happened to them. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.080 They got so deflated when they got nothing that it's like, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.760 you know, Okay, maybe maybe you do convert on fourth 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.320 and one in the low red zone, so now it's 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.760 first and goal. Maybe maybe you get a touch on, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.560 maybe you don't, maybe kick a field goal and you 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.800 just burn more clock or whatever. So I don't know, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:58.720 I guess, but it was fourth and one. It wasn't 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.960 like it was fourth and three and it kept blown up. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:08.520 The execution of it wasn't wasn't any good whatsoever. Son 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.960 can understand it, can understand it, and you know both ways. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.680 But I just I just know how in a game 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.679 like that where you're fighting tooth and nail and you 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.679 come away with nothing and you're straining on every snap 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.760 to block ninety five, and it's like, damn, you know, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.639 got nothing out of that. But again, if you had 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.879 scored a touchdown, now you're sitting in high cotton. So 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.639 that's that's the game, that's the National Football League. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.480 I think that's where the former player factor maybe should 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.880 be considered because the numbers. I'm sure they crunch these numbers, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.000 and the numbers say the right thing to do is 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.360 to go for it. But those numbers have never been 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.280 on the field and know what it's like when you 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.480 go for it and don't get it, and how that 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:53.679 affects you emotionally. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.480 Right, well, I mean some of the numbers. It might 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.560 be a really good football team working against the weak 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.000 system and they convert x number of fourth down in shorts. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.320 This is not a week stich a situation. You're on 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.600 the road, loud, hostile environment. You can't come off the 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.359 football maybe as aggressively as you want to. I mean, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.040 there's so many factors involved where you know, in my mind, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.800 the analytics is just like a sterile numbers situation, not 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.840 any kind of environmental considerations or anything like that. So 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:29.959 and I can understand it. But Dan Campbell's probably scratch 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:31.480 has had on a few of them as well. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.760 So they gave up a pass of more than sixty, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.520 they gave up another pass of more than forty. They 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.679 gave up a thirty five yard run, they gave up 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.399 a thirty seven yard run. It's happened too many times 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.240 this year to just be you know something, you're right 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.600 off as one of those things. This is a major 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.600 problem that has to be analyzed and fixed in time 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:55.280 for next year. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.720 Absolutely, I mean the team has been shredded. Was it 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.520