WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Misunderstanding 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.360 Hike and everybody on Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:14.440 Bengals Booth podcast, there must be some misunderstanding. Addition, as 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.360 we look ahead to Sunday's game against the Patriots at 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:22.119 Paul Brown Stadium, a matchup surrounded with controversy due to 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.520 New England's admitted violation of an NFL rule involving a 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:31.160 videographer with Patriots ties, Dave Lapham, and I will weigh 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.160 in on the latest Bengals topics, including the team's red 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.879 zone woes, the late season surge of Joe Mixon, and 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.960 two of the game's all time grades who are coming 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.199 to town on Sunday, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. My 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.320 locker room conversation this week is with defensive end Carl Lawson, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.360 who says, quote that sacking Tom Brady is an all 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.400 time dream of mine. He'll get a chance on Sunday. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.440 And in this week's Know the Faux segment, we'll get 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.040 the low down on the Patriots from the radio play 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:06.000 by play announcer Bob Socie, who, like me, used to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.480 call baseball games for the minor league Patucket Red Sox. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.360 All of that is straight ahead, but first, here's a 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.840 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.680 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:24.720 by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:30.200 It's the greatest thing since Greaters. I had the unique 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.840 privilege of going on a behind the scenes tour of 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.560 Greater's ice cream factory this week. In celebration of the 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:41.160 University of Cincinnati's two hundredth anniversary, Greaters will release a 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:46.679 limited edition flavor in January called Boldly Bearcat. It includes 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.720 red velvet oreos, chocolate chips, and a sweet cream bass. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.800 I got to see and taste the magic that goes 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.840 into making Greater's ice cream, and the attention to detail 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:05.559 is amazing. Every pint is truly handcrafted. When it comes 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:10.600 to ice cream, there is nothing greater than Greaters. Now 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.240 let's get to football. The Bengals host the defending Super 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.240 Bowl champion Patriots this Sunday, and the big storylines this 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.919 week could have been the likelihood that Tom Brady is 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.000 coming to Cincinnati for the final time, or the mutual 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.959 respect between Bill Belichick and the Brown family, But instead, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.000 both cities have been focused on a controversy that erupted 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.239 last Sunday in Cleveland, when a videographer with Patriots ties 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.359 was caught shooting footage of the Bengals coaching staff on 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:45.800 the sideline that is against NFL rules. My broadcast partner 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.320 Dave Lapham caught wind of it and asked Zach Taylor 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.919 to comment. At a Monday news conference, the Bengals head 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.359 coach acknowledged that he was aware of an NFL investigation 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:01.200 into the incident, but had no additional comment. The Patriots 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.600 eventually admitted breaking the rule, but said it was an 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.280 innocent mistake. Who you believe might come down to which 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.320 team you root for. At this point, there's not much 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.960 more to say, at least until the NFL issues are ruling. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.280 So lap and I stuck to football. Let's talk about 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.959 the Bengals red zone woes last week. Hindsight is always 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.120 twenty twenty. But when you look back at a first 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.800 in goal from the two where you didn't score a 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.160 touchdown and you didn't get the ball to number twenty eight, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.200 do you think the coaches are saying, man, we should 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.160 have taken our chances with Joe Mixon. You know, like 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:45.040 you said, hindsight twenty twenty. Pete Carroll is probably thinking 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.480 the same thing to this day with beast mode. Marshawn Lynch, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.120 do you know, give a beast mode to football and 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.400 don't throw the interception and beat the Patriots? I think 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.520 you got it, And he admitted freely that yep, found 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.840 another opportunity. I'd give it to Marshawn Lynch. I think 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.360 act would do the same thing another opportunity. The only 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.800 thing I can say is third down, they hammering him 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.520 in there, and uh, and didn't get it. Fourth down, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.360 barely got it. So he's thinking, man, it's tough sledding 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.920 running the football. They're really they're really ganging up on 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.000 us here. Pretty good. Maybe we take the thing we've 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.720 worked on in the red zone, our best pass all 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.840 week long, and we utilize it here from the two 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.000 yard line. It might be the best down to throw 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.840 it on, you know, thinking contrarian, and it didn't work out. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.640 Cordy Glenn picked that that play to get beaten on, 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.480 and you get beaten for a quarterback sack, and a 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.960 quarterback sack, you know, from the two yard line dictates 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.640 that you throw it the two remaining down. So it 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.599 totally took them out of what they were hoping to do. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.080 But I just wonder if the difficulty they had. I mean, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.080 they picked up that fourth down by it by millimeters, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.240 so you know, maybe they're thinking ease. I'm not sure 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.640 about hammering it up and up there, up in there 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.479 against the wall. But Joe Mixon was probably very frustrated, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.080 I can tell you the form alignement, very frustrated that 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.440 the coaching staff didn't believe in us enough that we 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.279 could get that done from the two yard line. But 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.719 you didn't show him enough in the sequence earlier. So 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.800 I guess you got nobody to blame but yourself. But yeah, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:20.920 long story, short run mixing. Well, speaking of Joe, he 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.120 ran for one hundred and forty six yards last week. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.440 He can now get to a thousand yards this season 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.919 by averaging seventy yards over the final three games of 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.280 the year. How much different is the Bengals running scheme 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.160 now from what they were doing in the first say 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.919 half of the season. Light years difference. And you know 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.920 they've talked about the trip to London. When they were 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.720 traveling out there and coming back, they talked about changes 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.400 that they wanted to make in Jim Turner was the 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.040 lead force in that area, and they started doing things 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.680 differently to block Aaron Donald, And they started fanning out 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.200 on the backside and polands heightened around to lead up 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.680 on linebackers like we've seen. They started doing those type 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.160 of things. And so now you're you know, you're your 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.280 your man blocking and pulling, and you're I call it 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.840 a pin and pull. You're you're pinning a couple of 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.080 alignment and pulling other people around. Um instead of just 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.599 area blocking. You know, your your two guys, you in 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.880 the center, the garden center are responsible for the defensive 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.880 tackle on the linebacker. However they unfold and the guard 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.600 and then the garden the tackle on the front side 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.680 or responsible for a defensive tackle on a linebacker as well. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.440 So it's you know, it's it's duo football, two double 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.760 teams working off defensive linement to get to the second level. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.520 And that wasn't was becoming, you know, pounding against the 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.720 Great Wall of China. Everybody had it figured out. Now 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.520 you're angle blocking, you're pinning people, uh tight ends, wide 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.520 receivers are doing a good job in the edge, pinning 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.960 people lineman or pinning people when they blocked back and 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.400 then pulling people and Trey Hopkins is a very very 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.040 very strong puller at the center position. He played guard. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.360 He knows how to pull and how to block people. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.200 And uh, they get good production out of a short 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.480 toss where they pin and pull, you know, and they 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.920 pull Miller and they pull Hopkins left side, they pull 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.160 Jordan and they pull Hopkins, and Joe Mixon reads it 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.040 out very very well and they're doing a good job 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.480 and a lot of times they're you know, they're setting 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.040 the edge, you know, with a pin and getting all 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.720 the way to the outside with Joe Mixon and Dan 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.800 the other thing that it does instead of a defensive 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.400 lineman knowing they're just going to come off and double 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.560 team me. Now I'm getting hit from this side, I'm 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.560 getting hit from that side. They're pulling in front of me. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.040 I mean, it gives you much more to think about 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.440 and you can't be as as you know, forceful because 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.920 you only have one thing to worry about. Now you 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.800 have to not be as aggressive, and it helps you 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.640 in pass protection helps you in a lot of ways 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.600 if you attack guys from all different angles and they're 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.840 getting hit from everywhere instead of just knowing exactly what's coming. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.800 John Ross was back last week. He was in for 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.120 roughly half of the offensive snaps. His stats are modest 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.000 to catch his twenty eight yards, but did his presence 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.240 affect the defense and play a big role in the 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.240 Bengals going for a season high four hundred and fifty 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.080 one yards. I think so. I think. I think that 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.440 the very first play was on the field, I wanted 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:14.880 to see if there was a safety over the top, 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.280 and there was. You know, he had a corner underneath 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:22.440 safety over the top. So I think honestly, Joe Mixon 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.600 had a career high rushing of one hundred and forty 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.960 six yards. The box wasn't as crowded. Why John Ross 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.080 was back. So it not only helps other receivers, but 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.320 it you know, it gives running lanes inside for Joe Mixon. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.280 The box gets emptied out a little bit more. You know. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.240 That's why they were talking about. You know, down there 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.920 at the four yard line, they had played two safeties 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.560 high and they had the box unloaded. There were very 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.200 few people in the box and that's why they went 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.320 with the quarterback draw. You know, it's like, man, all 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.600 we talked about for the first you know, half of 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.680 the season is they were playing in a closet and 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.560 everybody was the line of scrim at seven, eight, even 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.120 nine guys in the box. So I do think I 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.960 do think that John Ross factor was was real, and 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.480 he played maybe half the snaps. I think he played 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.440 like thirty five snaps something like. That's fifty three percent 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.640 of the offense, fifty three percenty offense. And I think 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.520 they had seventy two snaps, so he probably had you know, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:22.520 thirty six or seven as thirty seven snaps. Two catches 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.280 for twenty six twenty eight yards, so in one of 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.200 them was a twenty yard or so, he you know, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.200 didn't have a It wasn't a big oh looking at stats, Wow, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.720 John Ross had a major impact, but on a snap 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.240 by snap basis, I think his presence benefited others. The 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.880 youngest Bengal Michael Jordan, has taken every snap at left 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.800 guard the last two games. He started four out of 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.200 the first five, then he mostly watched for six. Now 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:54.440 he's starting again evaluate his rookie season. I think that 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:59.680 he learned a big lesson because in Pittsburgh the offensive 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.240 line and have a very good game with eight quarterback 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.560 sacks and uh Cameron Hayward, who he was blocking. He 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.240 had two and a half of them, and you know, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.320 I think he learned a lesson. Cameron Hayward said, welcome 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.800 to the NFL, rookie and uh and took it to him. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.360 But with that said, he's and he was dinged up 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.760 a little bit. He had a little bit of an 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.920 injury to his legs. So he's recovered from that, and 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.240 he's recovered mentally from what took place. And I credit 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.600 him because you have two choices, roll over and play 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.480 dead or fight back, and he fought back and he's 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:41.319 played well the last couple of games. Now. He is long, strong, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.680 he can move when they when he pulls, he can move. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.120 He's got a big body with big feet, and he 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.240 gets puts, picks him up and puts them down out there. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.200 I mean, and and the thing that is impressive with 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.080 guys that size going against smaller people, it's like, you know, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.640 an eighteen wheeler trying to change direction with the maserati 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.440 when you're out there blocking smaller people, and that eighteen 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.240 wheel had changed his direction pretty well. He's got some ability, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.319 you know, athletic ability in space. So I think he's 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.360 got a bright future. I think, you know, when he 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.920 first started out, I think it was he didn't know 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.560 what he didn't know. Now at least he knows what 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.960 he didn't know, and now he's trying to figure out 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.160 how to understand what he didn't know. And I think 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.760 that's you know, his graph is going up. He's making 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:28.079 big progress. Another rookie, Jermaine Pratt, was the Bengals leading tackler. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.840 He had eight tackles, six solos. Is his graph going up? 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.880 Should we should we be optimistic about Jermaine Pratt? I 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.960 think he is improving. The one thing that I've noticed, though, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.920 is for a guy that played safety and now he's 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.199 getting bigger and gone to linebacker, a lot of times 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.640 when he's in coverage or even trying to make players 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.120 in the running game out in space, he doesn't change 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.480 direction really well. You know, he's a little stiff, you know, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.680 like he'll take him two or three steps. He'll run 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.920 by running backs that are cutting back or receivers. It's like, well, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.559 I thought, a guy that you know, had played the 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.520 safety position may have a little bit quicker change of direction, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.840 a little bit more athletic ability than he's shown. And 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.520 I don't know if it's if it's just, you know, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.679 he's being overly cautious or I don't know, or if 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.280 physically he just that's not part of his repertoire. So 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.600 we'll have to watch that a little bit more. But 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.280 I do think I do think he's getting better. I 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.200 think repetition breeds comfort level. I think he is seeing 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:29.920 things a little bit better, and I think he's making 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.680 more plays. But I thought he'd be a little bit 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.280 tighter coverage in space and be able to close on 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.679 people a little bit more athletically than he's shown to 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.880 this point. Maybe that's all going to come though. This 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.760 will be the eighth and possibly last time the Bengals 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.720 ever face Tom Brady. At age forty two, He's six 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.800 and one against the Bengals. It's completed sixty seven percent 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.920 of his passes, fifteen touchdowns, three interceptions, passer rating of 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.679 one oh seven point eight. The last time he came 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.120 to Cincinnati, the Bengals won thirteen to six in the rain, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.599 but in the other six games against the Bengals of 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.839 the Patriots have scored thirty four or more points in 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:17.760 every single one. When you watch Tom Brady, what stands 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:25.880 out everything about him, his poise, his demeanor, his physical 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.600 and mental presence of I'm in complete control. There's nothing 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.080 I haven't seen, There's nothing you can do there's going 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.360 to rattle me. I've seen every defensive concept known to 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:41.520 man multiple times, and I'm ready. I'm prepared. You're right. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.520 The last time they were here, there was a you know, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.680 just a monsoon when they had the football and that 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.640 broke I think it was fifty some odd street games 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.839 where he had a touchdown pass and he that broke 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.400 that streak the last time he was here in Cincinnati. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.199 So maybe they can hold him without a touchdown pass again. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.320 You know, But watching him on tape a little bit 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.600 this year, he at forty two. I don't care who 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.320 you are. His skills have diminished. He's not he's still 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.679 a good football player, but he's not what he was physically. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.160 And he's got Edelman and a bunch of other guys. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.199 He doesn't have a whole lot of weapons, so physically 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.600 he's not capable of lifting everybody. And now they don't 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.920 have enough weapons to lift him. So he's kind of 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.960 caught in almost the perfect storm. And uh, and they're 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.120 struggling a little bit offensively. They're going to a lot 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.800 of gadget plays, a lot of gimmick plays that are 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.560 Josh mcdannel's doing a great job of calling him and 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.360 calling him at the perfect time. And that's the key, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.080 is when you call them and and he's doing a 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.320 great job of calling in the Patriots are executing them. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.400 But Tom Brady is It'd be hard to pick who's 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.200 more competitive, Bill Belichick or Tom Brady, and they're they're 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.640 both like ubra ubra competitive and will do anything it 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.520 takes to win a football game. And I've always said 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:03.120 many times over the years here in Cincinnati, the reason 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.080 we had a good decade in the eighties that that 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.520 led to a couple of Super Bowls is some of 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.840 our our best players or some of our best people, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.680 you know, highlighted by Anthony Winios. And then you get 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.280 Kenny Anderson, Boomer Sias in a quarterback, and you've got 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.239 you know, the list can go on and on, Chris Collinsworth, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.800 Isaac Curtis and you know all these guys, um Tom 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.160 Brady being the guy he is, the kind of guy 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.720 he is when you're your best player is working his 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.760 tail off to become even a better player, it lifts 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.960 the whole boat. And Tom Brady works harder than anybody. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.760 First guy there, last guy to leave still after twenty 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.800 years of it. Um, you know, and there's a lot 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.000 of reason to go home, Giselle. That's a good reason 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.880 to go home with the beautiful children they have. But 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.400 you know, it's it's like you, you say to yourself, 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.880 look what Tom's doing? Am I doing enough? Man? I 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.520 bet I better pick it up? And that's that's what 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.440 he's brought to the organization for many, many, many years. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.440 The New England Patriots come to town with a little 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.840 added motivation. This week they've lost two straight. People are 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.200 accusing them of being cheaters again. Do the Bengal stand 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.480 a chance? Lap and if sell? How boy, what they 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.360 have to do is they've been playing hard, but they 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.480 haven't been playing smart enough. Haven't been making enough players 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.840 and playing smart enough. And against the Patriots, you have 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.240 to play smart because they take every mistake you make 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.120 and rub your face in it and capitalize on it. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.160 And somehow their mistakes don't lead to tragedy and your 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.360 mistakes lead to huge misfortune. I mean, that's just the 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.760 way they win. And they jump on you the slightest 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.160 blip they're jumping on it. They're plus nineteen in the 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.840 turnover department. You got to take care of the football 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.120 if you can somehow force to turnover too. If you 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.600 can finish plus in the turnover department like they did 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.040 against the Cleveland Browns in the last game, the first 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.480 time all year that they've done that, they have a 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.120 punchers chance if they don't. If they don't win the 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.040 turnover margin, they give the Patriots extra possessions and minimize 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.520 their own. It could be in big trouble. Because the 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.760 Patriots are allowing less than thirteen points a game. The 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.920 Bengals are scoring it just over fifteen points a game. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.760 So will the Bengals offense be able to do enough 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.080 in terms of scoring to make it a competitive game 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.760 against his Patriot defenses than one in the NFL and 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.919 points allowed the myriad of other things. Let's ignore the 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:32.240 videotaping controversy for a second and discuss Bill Belichick's coaching ability. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.280 He's taking the Patriots to nine Super Bowls. He's won six. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.560 This is the seventeenth consecutive year the Patriots have won 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.959 ten or more games. It's unbelievable. What makes him one 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.760 of the greatest coaches in any sport of all time. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.760 Number One, they've been dominant. Number two, they have been 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.959 in a crappy division that they can dominate. So you know, 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.120 every year the Dolphins have struggled, the Bills have had 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.480 their issues, you know, the Jets have had their issues. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.399 I mean, it's been the best team in the NFL 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.600 in the worst division. So they're gonna win close to 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.440 ten games almost by default, so you know part of that, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.040 that's part of the reason. But with that said, he's 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.920 a genius. He's a football menza and he has an 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.440 answer for every situation. In fact, he has multiple answers 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.159 for every situation that arises during the course of a 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:25.040 football game, and he will rotate in those answers freely 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.879 and very wisely during the course of the game. Plus, 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.840 and with that said, he surrounds himself with players that 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.800 are versatile to be able to do all of those 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.080 things and all those variances in situational football and have 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.960 the intelligence to comprehend it. So he has a big 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.040 inventory of things to draw from, and he has smart 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.560 enough players to be able to draw from a big inventory, 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.840 and the players believe in what he's doing and he 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.280 believes in his players and that trust is a big, 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.680 big deal. And I didn't even mention his greatest achievement 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.439 of all. He once went eleven and five as the 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:01.760 head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Belichick's all time record 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.919 against the Bengals is fifteen and four, and believe it 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.679 or not, there's little difference between his time in Cleveland 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.600 and his time in New England. He was nine and 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.840 two against the Bengals as the Brown's head coach, and 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.840 he's eight and two since arriving in New England. Now 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.640 time for this week's locker room conversation as I visit 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.880 with a third year defensive lineman who had the bengals 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.760 only sack of Baker Mayfield last week and would love 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.159 to get one this week against three time NFL MVP, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:37.000 four time Super Bowl MVP, and six time Super Bowl 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.200 winning quarterback Tom Brady. We're in the locker room with 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.239 Karl Lawson. Over the last four weeks, opposing offenses are 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.320 averaging less than fifteen points a game against the Bengals. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.000 Do you feel like the defense has turned a corner 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.159 and has become a strength of the team. Yeah, I 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.240 think we're definitely improving and we just need to keep 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.239 keep on building and keep on working. Yeah we're not 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.640 we want to be. A record shows that, but one 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.480 thing you can't do is just regret. So we just gotta, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.040 you know, keep on working. Anything stand out to you 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.399 in particular during this stretch, I think just health health, health, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.400 and then just people just know and knowing the situation 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.960 that the jobs on the line. Um, especially you know 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.640 in this league is when you got a record that 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.280 that we have. You know a lot of people are 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.680 auditioning for not just um this team, but other teams 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.960 around the league. So I'm bean this can end quick, 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.240 So people gotta be on the toes. We're talking to 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.520 Carl loss and with Sam Hubbard out, you were in 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.560 there for more than ninety percent of the snaps last 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.879 week and started the game. How was that for you? 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.560 It was good, It's really um. He does so many 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.920 different things for our defense, so that allows other people 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:43.960 to be who they are. UM. So, as you know, 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:45.240 I had to fill in for him, and it was 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.560 just you know, asked him on different tips and stuff 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.920 at his position and things that he did. So UM, 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.399 I felt good. He does a lot of things and 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.400 you did a lot of things. Last week, you drop 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.880 back into coverage quite a bit. How's your comfort level 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.240 on doing that? My comfort level is uny thing that 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:01.600 would do a defense is good. I could be a 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.719 great player anytime I'm out there in the field. Um 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:10.760 you know, Um, yeah, there's no difference in you know 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:12.159 what I gotta go out there and do. It's just 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.199 everybody has a role on their defense, as you know 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.399 what My role is mainly for a team issus just 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.919 go um and you know, pass rush situations. But I'm 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.199 also excellent rundefender, so when my number is called, I'm 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.480 able to do that. I'm talking to Carl Loss and 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.480 you tore your ACL in October of last year. Do 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.440 you even think about that anymore? Is it completely out 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.680 of mind? Um? It was. It was kind of like, 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.240 you know, in the first beginning of the season, and 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.000 I had a hamstring, so it just adds a bunch 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.080