WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Can't Stand Losing 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.240 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.120 Bengals boot Podcast. I can't, I can't, I can't stand 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.680 lose in I can't, I can't, I can't stand lose 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.240 in edition, as the Bengals franchise record losing streak stands 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.960 at thirteen games over the last two seasons following a 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.880 sixteen to ten loss to their Tormentors from Western Pa, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:31.200 the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.120 room comments, and Dave Lapham will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.560 in this week's fun Facts Conversation, we'll meet the person 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.599 under the pads is. I'll talk to a Bengals defensive 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.040 lineman who says if he could meet anybody on Earth, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.320 it would be the world's third wealthiest person, Warren Buffett. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.600 All of that is straight ahead, but first, here's a 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.000 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.320 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.520 by subscribing iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:09.440 It's the greatest thing since a Yetti thermis. My wife 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.119 has a thermis that she uses to take coffee to work, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:18.600 made by Yetti YETI, it's incredible. According to the YETI website, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:23.600 the key is it's double walled, vacuum sealed insulation that 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.039 can keep hot liquid hot or cold liquid cold for 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.200 more than twenty four hours with ease. They're not cheap, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.040 but if you're looking for space age technology in a thermis, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.120 YETTI is the way to go. Let's get to football. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.480 The Pittsburgh Steeler's dominance at Paul Brown Stadium defies logic 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.640 and almost defies description. Heading into Sunday's game, the Steelers 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.960 all time record at PBS was eighteen and three. Let 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:57.120 me repeat that, eighteen and three, but most of those 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.000 wins were started by Ben Roethlisberger fifteen and two at 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.480 Paul Brown Stadium, but Big Ben obviously wasn't in uniform 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.440 this time due to his season ending elbow injury. Instead, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.799 the Steelers QB was Mason Rudolph in his first start 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.359 since Myles Garrett tried to club him in the noggin 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:19.519 with Rudolph's own helmet. Rudolph through four interceptions last week 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.160 in Cleveland and through another in the first quarter on Sunday, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.960 Rudolph back to throw his past It's deflected is intercepted 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.640 at the four yard line, and the Bengals are running 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.000 it back Seawan Williams to the fifteen yard line. That's 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.480 where he's tackled as Cincinnati gets a deflection at the 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.440 line of scrimmage and the ball floated right into the 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.919 arms of safety Sean Williams. Carlos Dunlap deflected the pass 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.200 and the game was scoreless after a quarter. The Bengals 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.399 dodged a bullet on that drive, but the next time 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.400 the Steelers reached the red zone they took the lead. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.960 Chris Boswell into attempt at twenty six yard field goal try. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.480 He has never missed a kick in his life against 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.280 the Sins and Eddie Bengals. Would you believe forty four 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.919 for forty four between field goals and Pats make it 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.760 forty five for forty five as he drills the short 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.720 field goal and gives the Steelers a three nothing lead 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.960 with three twenty one left in the half. To that point, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.600 the Bengals offense had been anemic under rookie quarterback Ryan Finley. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.639 They had a total of twenty seven yards on their 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.480 first four possessions, but that changed in the blink of 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.959 an eye thanks to Tyler Boyd. Finley fakes a hand off, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.320 he's back to throw, looking looking cutting it deep down 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.080 field for Tyler boy Baby makes a one hand to 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.240 catch at the Pittsburgh fifty yard line on a grab 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.920 with a left hand despite blank at coverage by Terrell Edmonds. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.880 That forty seven yard game put the Bengals at the 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.839 fifteen yard line, and on the next play, Finley went 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.200 right back to number eighty three. Bengals have two receivers 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.120 out to the right, one out to the left. Finley 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.520 waiting for a shotgun snap back at the money, he'll 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.600 look to pass. He's gonna throw it for the end 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.480 zone and Tyler Boyd he goes up, he grabs the ball. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.720 It's a touchdown as he pushed off. Joe had him 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.600 no penalty flag and then Boyd hauld it in for 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.800 a Bengals touchdown that gave the Bengals their biggest halftime 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.039 lead of the year, seven to three. Here's Ryan Finlay, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.840 I'm Tyler Boyd. Unbelievable play by Tyler. He's just a playmaker, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.360 and we talked about all week. Just given him a 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.760 chance on those one on one fifty fifty balls and 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.680 he's gonna come down with it. He did it twice 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.120 in a row. He did it on that one and 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.800 then he did it for the touchdown. So unbelievable job 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.200 by him. He's he's a heck of a player and 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.560 we need to do that more. Just give him opportunity 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.599 to just make a play. The Steelers got the ball 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.599 to begin the third quarter and went backward on their 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.400 first possession of the second half, rud off back to throw, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.680 bouncing in the pocket, night to scramble and sacked the 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.360 ball at the very end. That should be intentional grounding. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.560 He was definitely in the grass. They're going to just 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.039 call it a sack. Back at the eleven yard line 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.120 and big Andrew Billings grabbed Mason Rudolph. At that point, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.159 Steelers coach Mike Tomlin had seen enough. Rudolph had a 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.640 passer rating of thirty nine point eight and the Steelers 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.880 had just three points after seven possessions, so Tomlin yanked 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:24.560 Rudolph and turned to undrafted rookie quarterback Devlin duck Hodges. 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.840 He got the nickname when he won a national duck 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.640 calling contest a decade ago, and it took him just 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.520 three plays to give Pittsburgh the lease second and seventeen. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.840 He catches this one cleanly, looking to pass fires deep 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.520 down the midfield, James Washington wide open, a Bengal fell down. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.400 Washington sprinting down the field, stiff arms b W. Webb 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.159 pushes him over and runs into the end zone for 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.640 a seventy nine yard touchdown. Unbelievable. The pass was thrown 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.400 about thirty yards down field. Will Jackson slipped next to 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.760 Washington as he caught the ball, and Webb got pushed 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.560 over near the twenty five yard line. Here's BW on 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.440 Washington's big play. I made a good play. See, I 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.840 just couldn't. I gotta get him down. The Bengals were 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.799 able to answer thanks to strong running by Joe Mixon. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.080 He carried eighteen times for seventy nine yards in the game, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.400 and thirty eight of those yards came on Cincinnati's next 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.880 drive to set up a game time field goal. Kevin 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.479 Huber ready for the snap from Clark, Harris, extends the 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.680 right hand, catches it, puts it down, Bullocks kick on 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.400 its way. It is good, and the Bengals have tied 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.560 the game with five h seven left. Here in the 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.320 third quarter, it was ten ten going to the fourth quarter. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.080 The Steelers got the ball with fourteen twenty to go, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.960 and on third and eight at their own thirty one, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.240 Hodges threw an incompletion that appeared to end the drive, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.600 but a late penalty flag came out for pass interference 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.560 on b W Webb, a questionable call that the Bengals 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.440 did not challenge. On the very next play, Webb was 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.919 called for another pass interference penalty, this time guilty is charged, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.880 giving the Steelers twenty six more yards. I told you 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.560 before we started doing this interview, I was surprised the 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.120 team didn't challenge the first interference call against you. Did 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.400 you think that you did anything there? I don't think 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.800 I did, But I mean, I guess the riff see 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.480 something that the whole world didn't see. But I mean, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.880 I can't complain. A buddy called it, gotta move them. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.400 Was that in your head on the next play? Nope, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.200 not at all, the DD man we short memory get 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.800 onto the next play. Those penalties led to a forty 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.080 seven yard field goal by Chris Boswell, giving Pittsburgh a 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.800 thirteen to ten lead. There was plenty of time left, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.400 and it looked like the Bengals were going to take 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.040 the lead. Right back first and ten at the Pittsburgh 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.600 thirty finley under center fakes a handoff. He's back to 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.720 throw half time, floats it deep, caught by Boyd at 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.840 the ten. The ball comes out, the Steelers scoop it 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.480 up at the six. They're running it back. Make a 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.160 Fitzpatrick at the forty and he'll be pulled down at 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.680 the forty three yard line. Real Tyler. Boyd finished with 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.920 five catches for one hundred one yards, but his fumble 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.600 cost the Bengals a first in goal opportunity near the 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.280 five yard line. You know, I for like um, I'll 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.760 put Filly in a horrible situation. Man. I put him 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.560 in a tough, tough situation. He's a first year player, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.640 and uh man, I make that play. We three more plays. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.280 I try to get an in down therest we backed up. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.680 I really do, honestly believe if I make this play 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:38.960 and I hold the ball and we win the game. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.040 Kevin Bush just got a hand in there and punched 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.240 it out. He made a great tackle. You know, if 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.840 I just secured the ball, yeah, don't happen. Cincinnati never 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.120 threatened again after another Boswell field goal made at sixteen ten. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.120 The Bengals got the ball for the final time with 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.760 about three minutes to go, ready to snap it on 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.839 second down in two in a tightly bunched for me, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.679 Finley back to throw. Good protection. Now the pocket closes 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.360 and Bud Dupre knocks the ball away from Ryan Finley. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.880 He's got the football and the Steelers recover. He's at 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.199 the twenty one yard line. Finley has got to understand 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.080 that you have to have ball security in the pocket. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.200 Every time he gets it in the pocket, it seems 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.760 like the ball comes out. Finley has fumbled four times 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.320 in three starts. He's completed forty seven percent of his 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.760 throws and has a passer rating of sixty two point one. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.560 More importantly, the Bengals are owing three in those games, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:43.520 scoring thirteen, ten and ten points. They're rowing eleven overall. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.600 After losing to the Steelers sixteen to ten, Laps spend 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.840 four minutes with Zach Taylor after the game. Coach, it's 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.120 you know, if a frustrating game, obviously you had had chances, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.600 had chances to win this football game, put it away. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.680 I mean, turnovers always end up being a big story 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.440 in every football game, and this year. You haven't had 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.560 a game where you're plus. You finished the game with 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.840 a plus category, you've been even. And I had one 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.199 turnover advantage, but in the second half they got a 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.480 couple of takeaways and they proved to be a big 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.360 difference in the football game, you know it. I mean, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.520 it's we're eleven so far and winning the turnover battle. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.480 You know, we had the big one in the first 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.319 half where the defense made a huge play that got 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:27.600 things in the right direction for us. But in the 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.800 second half we gave to them away. And that's you're 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.200 gonna lose a lot of games in the NFL when 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.440 you're playing that way, the game can be so cruel. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.480 Tyler Boyd had a big day. I mean, he had 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.000 five catches over one hundred yards and he catches the 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.200 football and you know, you have to give Bush credit. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.680 He got beaten, but he stayed after it and Tomahawk 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.040 chopped and punched and the ball came out and that 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.240 turned into you know, I mean, you had at least 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.959 three maybe more, and then you know, Fitzpatrick flips field 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.160 position by forty yards. I mean that play was a 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.640 big one, wasn't it. It is we got to do 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.560 a better job with the Paul security. That's what Steelers 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.000 really have made their living on this year is creating turnovers, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.199 defense and flip in the field. And they did a 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.560 great job. Credits to them, Ryan Finley. Uh. In terms 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.120 of ball security, I mean in the pocket when he 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.360 gets hit, seems like the balls and you you had 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.160 mentioned it, you know a while back, that he has 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.400 to not be as loose with the football when he's 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.199 running with it or you know, in the pocket. I mean, 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.600 that's a tough lesson that he's learning, isn't it. That's 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.760 that's part of quarterback players. You're gonna be strong with 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.400 the ball in the pocket and know that when a 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.440 play gets extended as long as it goes sometimes they're 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.959 gonna be coming after that thing. And they had good addreshers. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.400 I think the pre got the last one from what 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.360 I could see. And so those guys have an act 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.040 for that kind of stuff and you can't let that 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.000 beacha and today it did so Bush. That was the 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.280 fifth fumble that that kid's forced. I think he might 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.480 be might be leading the National Football League. And like 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.280 you mentioned, coming into the game, they were I think 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.200 twenty six takeaways, second most in the in the league. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.120 So I mean, and I think I remember that of 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.400 the two hundred points they scored as an offense, ninety 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.280 four were set up by by defensive plays. And that 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.200 was kind of the story of today's game as well. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.480 There was that's that's what they've done all all season. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.160 We talked about it, we knew that was going to 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.640 be a big part of the game, and we still 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.400 let it come up and bite us. So you got 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.040 a young quarterback that you know, hasn't completed fifty percent 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.600 of his passes yet and is maybe you know, working 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.640 hard to see the field, but not getting it out, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.959 maybe as quickly as he's he hopes he might, and 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.120 maybe as you hope he might. How do you how 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.920 do you expedite that process? How do you, like, you know, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.600 accelerate that part of his game. Well, it's it's again, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.760 it's on the whole unit. Everyone's got to do their job. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.600 And uh, you know, if we hit that big play 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.360 down there, and we have the ball down around the 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.360 ten yard line, we score, then we're really not in 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:35.880 a position to where we got to drop back and 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.120 have those ball scurty issues. So again, it's it's everyone 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.959 just got to do a great job and and help 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.400 a young quarterback out and um, we'll get there. So 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.679 at this point, eleven losses, six of them now by 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.880 a score or less, seven of them by ten points 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.200 or less. And it's not like it's not it's not there. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.120 I mean, the possibility of winning football games is there. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.240 It's just getting that that final It's one play. I mean, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.400 it's just getting over that hump with a player two, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.640 just missing that game changing your play, and it can 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.400 be in any phase of the game. Um, that's what 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.480 we need. We need to step up and someone make 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.640 that play in the fourth quarter, and unfortunately today we 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.160 weren't able to make that happen. I'm sure you I 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.439 always appreciate your carving time with us because I know 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.480 you've already had your presser, and I'm sure it was 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.680 this question was asked, what's your thought? I know, you 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.800 know the game's over, there's emotions and all that, but 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:28.880 your thought at the quarterback position, do you stay with 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.120 Ryan Finley? Do you make a change there? What do 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.199 you do well? Well, the comment I made was if 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.640 you've benched every quarterback, every rookie after three games, and 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.720 there'd be no quarterbacks in this league. You know, it's 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.240 it's uh. You got to give those time guys a 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.000 chance to grow and correct the mistakes and really see 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.080 what you got. Your defense two games in a row, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.319 gave up seventeen points, gave up sixteen points in the NFL. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.160 I mean that that's winning play on that side of 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.040 the football. You have to be proud of how your 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.880 defense has come out. It is, you know, and we 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.520 got to match that on the other side of the ball. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.679 You know, we get a big, planing, special team something. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.920 But our defense the last two weeks, I think that 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.400 they've done the things that we've asked them to do 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.040 and they've given us a chance to win. Before we 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.920 get to analysis, let's hear from one more player. Cordy 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.160 Glenn was the Bengals left tackle on Sunday, playing for 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.440 the first time since Week two of the preseason. Glenn 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.840 spent nearly two months in concussion protocol and spoke to 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.040 reporters after the game. Or is it meaningful to be 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.920 back out there? Cordy? Yeah, it felt good. I mean 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.440 I haven't played football and so long. I mean, especially 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.360 planning against the Stillers Ashley was fun. I mean, obviously 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.280 we didn't win a game, but it felt great to 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.800 be back out there, especially when you like, you don't 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.960 know which if you could play football or how your 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.600 career is gonna go, and it's kind of up and now, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.200 did you think that your career was in jeopardy? I 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.680 mean you don't. I mean obviously you don't. I mean 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.320 you don't know. I mean, and it was one of 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.920 a certain type of injuries. It's kind of like kind 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.160 of question everything. So it felt great to be out there. Everybody. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.600 Do you feel like stuff that's been said about you 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.760 has been unfair? I don't. I honestly, I really don't 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.240 try to read into that and read too much into that. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.840 I mean, stuff is gonna be sad about anybody, good 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.760 or bad. I don't know butt end of the day, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.920 Like I can control as with my thoughts are in 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.520 my head and that's kind of how I live life. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.960 Have you kind of reached out I let bygones be bygones, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.800 point with you know, teammates, coaches, whatever, where you just 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.000 want to kind of move forward from here. Yeah, I 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.400 mean it's been like that for a while. I mean 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.840 I think, I mean, whatever the internet was, I don't 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.480 know how long ago was, I mean, kind of soon's 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.040 it happened. I kind of just kind of wanted to 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.680 let it go then. But I don't know. It's just 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.720 I don't know. I try to just press forward every 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.200 day and I don't try to, you know, hold on 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.360 the things too long, and just you know, just keep 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.240 working and trying to help the team out. It's all 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:51.240 I really think about, not so much, you know, worrying about, Oh, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.880 this happened, so I have to like, you know, just 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.880 dragging on, dragging on and just keep it going, just 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.000 kind of move forward and just just let it go. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.240 Do you have a year left on your deal? Could 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.560 you see yourself thing here? I mean, I can see 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.360 a lot of different scenarios. I mean, honestly, I don't know. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.520 I don't know. Honestly, I'm just trying to go out 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.840 there and play hard as I can these last couple 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.400 of games, and whatever happens happening. I mean, I can't 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.880 control that. Difficult has it been for you just to 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.440 watch the season play out from the sidelines? I mean, 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.280 it's kind of it's I think it's extremely difficult, not 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.520 only just watching the season or watching all the games 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.080 from the sidelines, just not knowing like what's your future holds, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.960 because you know it's certain type of injuries you can't 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.400 really control or you can't really it's not like, oh, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.360 it's it's a four to six week thing. You're just 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:31.920 like you kind of have to you don't know when 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.760 you're gonna feel better or whatever. So I mean, it 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.280 felt great to be out there today and helping the 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.880 team out. Obviously I got to finish it in the game, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.880 but when we fell hard and we know we need 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.680 to do and we're real close. I've been closed for 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.960 the last two games, but that doesn't mean much when 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.800 you've gone three hundred forty three days without a win. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.200 Time for postgame analysis with lap. Bottom line to me 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.000 is pretty simple. Today Lap, the defense played well enough 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.960 to win. The offense did not. Two weeks in a row, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.520 same story out Noakland. Defense played well enough to win, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.040 offense didn't. Today, defense plays well enough to win, offense 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.840 does it. You have a rookie quarterback that's struggling to 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.080 get the ball out of his hand in a timely fashion. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.680 One thing you can say about Andy Dalton. You can 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.760 criticize a lot of things if you want to, but 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.160 never criticize he got the ball out of his hand. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.719 It was always like, oh, he's right there. He's won 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.720 two or three in the league in terms of time 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.600 from receiving a snap to getting it out of his hand. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.320 I mean, the only guy quicker a lot of times 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.400 was Brady so Andy Dalton saw it and get rid 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.399 of it. And right now Ryan Finley is struggling in 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.639 that area holding onto the football. And I mean the 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.960 protection was light years better than it was in Pittsburgh, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:51.320 There's no question about it. But you know Ryan had 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.960 issues holding onto it. And then when he gets hit 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.600 holding onto the football, the ball security part of it. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.800 You know, strip sack and fumble recovery by Duke Free 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.440 late in the football game, early in the game, t J. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.679 Watt sack, strip, don't don't lose his Bengals recover it. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.240 But those kind of things are killer. You know, you 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.240 have to He's had Ryan's had turnovers in every game, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.320 every game. The Scott and report on Ryan Finley coming 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.480 out of NC State was that his strengths were anticipation 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.119 and accuracy. He's compleating less than fifty percent of his 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.440 throws through three starts, and as you mentioned, he isn't 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.400 seeing things all that great and is having a hard 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.040 time getting the ball out of his hands, you know. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.560 And part of it too is maybe he's seeing it, 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.280 but it's not there. You know. It's the same problem 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.840 that we've talked about all season long in that there's 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.480 no receivers to take the top off a defense, and 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.120 everybody is playing everything, you know, in front of them. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:47.080 I mean, it's nobody. Nobody is challenging them to open 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.560 up areas of the football field, so there's tight traffic everywhere. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.240 I mean, his windows a lot of times are not big, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.119 but you know, sometimes he's not putting enough zip on 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.119 the football. I mean, there's a myriad of issues. Some 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.080 of them come back to him, for sure. Do some 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.080 of them come back to his receivers, absolutely at times, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.080 to some come back to the offensive line, no doubt. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.920 Bottom line is it's just not good enough offensively, and 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.680 they wasted two winning defensive performances on the back to 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.960 back weeks that you just can't waste in the NFL. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.639 You have described to me in the past after the 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.920 some of the tough games in your NFL career, you'd 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.840 lie in bed at night replaying the game on the ceiling. Essentially, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.040 Tyler Boyd's going to have one of those nights. He's 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.160 so upset with himself for that fumble inside the ten 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.080 that basically killed the Bengals last good chance. Yeah, he was. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.280 He was about to stand up. As I can recall, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:41.919 Tyler Boyd is a is a man's man, you know. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.920 I mean, he had five catches for one hundred yards, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.480 so he put him in position. You know, he had 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.439 the play where Ryan Finley just you know, Ryan Finnley 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.000 said it was an unbelievable play. He wasn't even open. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:53.840 I just said, Okay, I'm going to give him a 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.760 shot and see if he can win. And he won 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.880 one on a fifty fifty ball, just on a shoulder pad, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.920 cradling the thing. It was amazing to see. And then 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.040 follows it up with a fifteen yard touchdown reception. But 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.320 I mean the fumble. You know, you have to give 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.639 a linebacker Bush a lot of credit. He was beaten. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.960 You got a wide receiver on a running back. I 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.359