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Two of the 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.680 NFL's biggest superstars go head to head in prime time. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.680 It's Joe Burrow and the Bengals versus Justin Herbert and 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.960 the Los Angeles Chargers. And it is time for the 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.960 big skin to fly here at Palatial so By Stadium. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.200 Evin McPherson thirteen out of seventeen on his field goal 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.240 attempts this season. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.959 This will be a twenty six yard try from the left. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.359 Hash Adam Might is ready to snap it back to 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.600 Rico the placement that kicked a high spinning, end over 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.320 end kick. It is good and the Bengals are on 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:35.160 the scoreboard. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:35.519 First. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.760 They lead the Chargers three to nothing with six twenty 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.680 seven left here in the first quarter. First and ten 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.440 at the Cincinnati twenty nine yard line, Dobbins in at 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.200 running back. Herbert is under center. He takes the snaff, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.160 fakes a handoff, throws downfield. It is caught and Will 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.480 Disley grabs it at the four and trots into the 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.360 end zone for a Chargers touchdown. This will be a 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.000 twenty seven yard attempt for McPherson from the right hash 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.360 trying for his second field goal of the game. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.000 His kick is on its way. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.359 It is down the middle and good, and Cincinnati has 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:13.360 scored on back to back possessions, unfortunately settling for three 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.959 points each time. Second and seventh at the Cincinnati twenty six, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.400 Herbert fakes a handoff bootlegs to the right. Now moving 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.000 up the middle of the field, he fires touchdown Brenton 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:30.680 Johnston with tremendous separation behind the Bengals secondary. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.560 He does a backflip. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.880 In the end zone and justin Herbert has thrown touchdown 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.680 passes of twenty plus on back to back drives. Herbert 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.600 under center, he takes the snaff. It's a handoff and 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.080 a leaping touchdown for JK. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:45.800 Dobbins. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.200 He goes up and over the pile and soars into 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.080 the end zone for La Cameron Dicker into attempt a 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.880 fifty three yard field goal try. His long of the 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.560 year is fifty nine. Trying to put the Chargers up 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.200 by three touchdowns from the right. Hash His kick is up. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.960 It is good. It looked like it might fade to 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.120 the right, and then it hooked a bit and stayed 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.080 inside the right upright for the fifty three yard field goal. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.360 Fourth and goal from the five. Burrow waits at the ten. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.200 Three receivers right, one left, shotgun snap, Let's come. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.800 In, let's throw. The slant is caught. Chase coming in 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.680 form the left side, makes the catch. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:32.480 It's a touchdown for Jamar, his NFL leading eleventh touchdown catch. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.720 Fourth down and two at the forty two balls on 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.560 the left. Hash, three receivers out to the right, one 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.200 out to the left. Burrow ready for the shotgun snap. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.120 He catches, takes a deep drop. He's gonna fire an 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.120 iron long into the in zone, caught by T. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.320 Higgins for the forty two yard touchdown. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.440 Welcome back T Higgins. Herbert ready for the shotgun snap. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.400 The Big Guy catches, fakes two. Dobbins rolls out to 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.360 the right now takes off and runs and Mike Hilton 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:03.040 will make the tackle. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.000 Ball comes out, the Bengals recover. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.960 Gino Stone has it for Cincinnati and the Bengals get 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.479 a takeaway. Burrow catches the shotgun snap against the four 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.560 man rush. He's back pedaling all the way to the 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.760 thirty throws before getting hit into the end zone. It 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:22.360 is cock by Jamar Chase for the touchdown and the 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:27.360 Bengals are a pat away from a racing a twenty 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.880 one point deficit. Rookie punter Ryan Rico is the holder 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.800 Cincinnati trying to take the lead after being behind by 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.360 twenty one in the second half. The kick is up, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:46.800 fading left. It is wide left. Evan McPherson misses. Distance 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.599 was not a problem, but he hooked it and the 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.400 game is still tied with seven thirty one to go. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.119 This is a fifty six yard try for the lead 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.400 with less than two minutes to go. The snap, the 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.520 placement the kick is up, it is hooking left and 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.840 it is no good. Twenty six seconds to go. It's 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.120 a handoff to Dobbins running up the middle of the field. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.840 He's at the twenty, he's at the fifteen, he's at 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.120 the ten, and he will dive over the pylon for 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.320 a Chargers touchdown. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:18.440 The ball comes out. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.200 At the end, but he was safely into the end 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.120 zone and the Chargers score a touchdown with eighteen seconds 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.520 to go on a run by JK. Dobbins. Three seconds left. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.000 The Bengals down by seven. They have the ball at 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.640 the forty three of Los Angeles. Two receivers go out 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.200 to each side of the formation. Burrow taps both sides 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.040 of his helmet. He's ready for the snap. Four down linemen, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.160 the Chargers send a fifth defender. Burrow launches it off 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.279 his back foot toward the goal line, broken up incomplete, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.960 and the Chargers win by the final score of thirty 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.640 four to twenty seven. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.800 We are where we're at. I'm not happy with her 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:58.359 where we're at. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:06:59.320 I don't think anybody is. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:04.520 But all you can do is come back tomorrow and 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.080 try to get better. Just been the most frustrating seas into. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:09.600 Yeah, what. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.280 Pretty self explanatory. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.320 How do you explain the way this season has gone 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.200 where it feels like we've been in the spot after 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.920 so many games, they've all felt. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.480 One play away, like you've made so many winning plays. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.920 Are you able to explain it? 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:23.840 How do you explain? 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.920 It's got to make the plays. Just got to make 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:27.640 the plays. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.640 And we have it down the stretch and we're not 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.440 We're not, you know, a good enough team to you know, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.560 our margin of vera is slim, so we got to 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:38.360 make those plays. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.680 I got to make those plays. We all got to 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:41.400 make those plays. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.400 The Bengals almost equal the biggest come from behind victory 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.920 and team history. They rallied from twenty one down to 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.520 win in nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety five, but 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.680 they couldn't pull it off this time, losing thirty four 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.160 to twenty seven. Dave Lapham talked to Zach Taylor after 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:57.880 the game. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:06.280 Man, another another unbelievable football games. I mean one thing, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.560 your football team will never quit. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.800 Yeah, and at some point that's going to count for something. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.600 You know, we've all got the same sick feeling in 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.960 our stomachs. Guys competed like crazy in the second half, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.440 unbelievable comeback, had our opportunities to finish the game off, 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.000 and we just didn't do it, you know. And that's 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.600 kind of been the story for the season so far. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.200 There's still opportunity in front of us, and I expect 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.160 to take advantage of it. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.120 I mean, every single football game but one has been 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.160 a one score game. I mean, well, you're one in one, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.520 in five, one and six, whatever it is in one 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.360 score games. I mean, it's just a matter of a 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.120 play here or there. I guess you know that's that's 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.080 the National Football League. But was it just a matter 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.599 of execution from first half to second half? Did you 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.760 make any adjustments at half time? Was just like, let's 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.720 just do better what we're doing. Yeah, a little bit 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:52.080 of that. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.200 There were certainly adjustments. Is we've got a better feel 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:55.760 for how they're playing us on both sides of the ball. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.760 Thought the coaches did a good job. Players bullied in it, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.040 players understood it, capitalized on and put ourselves in a 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.920 really good position to find a way to win in 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.200 a tough road environment against good football team and just 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.000 just came up short. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.840 You got to feel sick for Evan McPherson. I mean, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.720 he's he's made a lot of big kicks in his 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.079 career and he just he's in one of those one 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.520 of those funks now that you know players get in. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.360 It's hard to explain, isn't it It is? 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.680 You know, we got confidence in him, We're counting on him, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.040 and he'll have more opportunities to come asway. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.320 So I mean, Joe Burrow twenty eight for fifty, they're 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.800 in a fifty six yards three touchdowns. T Higgins his 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:37.480 first game back, I mean, the tong hang in there 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.440 like he did Cardio Vashlee and physically in a game 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.440 like this, nine Cats one hundred and forty eight yards 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.680 of forty two yard touchdown. I mean, it's amazing what 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.160 these guys were able to accomplish. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.079 These guys competed. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.200 You know, we can count on them down and down out. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.160 We ask a lot of them. They come up big 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.800 for us every single time. And you know, proud of 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.400 the way that all of our guys competed, not just 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.440 Tea and Jamar and Joe, but all these guys. They 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.520 left it all in the field, and you just feel 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.160 sick for this locker room for kind of what they've 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.839 gone through and no one the potential that we have, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.559 no one the potential that's stole in front of us. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.560 And so we're gonna take this by week to regroup, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.559 get our bodies back right, and if we want to 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.000 make the playoffs, we're gonna have to go on a run. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.559 It's going to take great effort, it's going to take 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.520 a lot of wins, but I believe this team can 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:17.800 do it. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:23.760 Man, when you look at it defensively, what about that 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.160 side of it. I mean the first half Herbert was 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.600 like on fire, I mean, with with this throwing arm, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.480 with his legs, with everything else. And then I mean 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.840 the first twelve plays of the second half offensively, they 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.120 had fourteen yards on their first twelve steps. I mean, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.880 what was it was? Their adjustments again at halftime was 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.880 just execute better, a little of both. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.720 We just I mean, we really competed in the back end. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.080 I saw a lot of guys make plays. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:45.360 On the balls. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.080 Tight coverage, a little more pressure, and then those guys, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.559 you know, they made the ball come out and those 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:51.679 guys made plays on the balls. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.560 It was big time performance from them. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.160 So just really proud of the way that both sides 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.280 of the ball responded there at halftime, gave us a 0:10:58.320 --> 0:10:58.760 chance to win. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.880 Didn't turn I mean turnovers were not an issue. That 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.720 was you know, that was something that they were living 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.640 off if they were a plus nine. You guys got 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.080 the big fumble, the big takeaway that that was a 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:14.719 big factor in the football game. You know, what did 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.320 you tell your team? What did you tell your team 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.320 after the football game as you go into the bye week. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.680 Yeah, that I'm sick of these speeches post game where 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.680 we're just close and we didn't quite do enough. Still 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.679 proud of them what they did. I saw every single 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.960 guy compete, play for each other. Not many teams in 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.839 this league down twenty four to six on the road 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.600 can put it together to come back and get back 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.000 in it with a good team like that. And we're 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.760 going to depend on each other, you know, because that's 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 all we're going to have right now, stick tight together. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:41.720 We have enough talent to go on and run. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.320 We got to take this bye week to get our 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.040 bodies right and come back huge game against Pittsburgh and 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.640 if we can win that game, then everything's right in 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.080 front of us. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.520 We got to just take advantage of it. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.120 And finally, what was it like with with guys in 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.520 the locker room at halftime, I mean, did your leaders 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.880 step off, have anything to say? Was just like, let's 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.760 just take care of business here. I mean, was it? 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:04.920 How was it approach at halftime? 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.120 We just need to get in a half time, take 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.000 a deep breath. You know, it was emotional at the 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.200 end of the half. Guys just got in there, sat down, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.760 took a deep breath. We went over all the adjustments 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.120 we're going to make, and it was a good locker 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:17.839 room and there was still belief that if we just 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.800 take it one possession at a time, we're going to 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.840 have enough opportunities to get back in the game. That's 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.160 what our guys did, starting with the defense getting a 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.600 huge stop offense. Then the second possession went down and 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.720 scored points and we just we got right back in it. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.280 And probably the way the guys responded to start with 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.200 the second half got us in the game. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.920 We got to find a ways to finish it. As always, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.760 appreciate your time. I know this isn't isn't easy. I 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.240 know it's a it's it's not only for the players, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.400 I mean, it's for the coaching staff, for everybody to 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.160 get their hearts ripped out like that is a difficult thing. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.640 And appreciate you our carvent time to join us and 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:51.440 talk about a coach. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:51.800 Thanks. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.559 So Joe burrought through for three hundred and fifty six 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.080 yards with three touchdowns and no picks. He leads the 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:01.000 NFL with twenty seven touchdown passes and has only thrown 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.480 four interceptions all year. After missing three games of a 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.800 quad injury, t Higgins returned with nine catches for one 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.480 hundred and forty eight yards and a touchdown. And Jamar 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.000 Chase continues to dazzle. He had seven catches, seventy five 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.920 yards and two tds. Then there's Chase Brown. He ran 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.840 for eighty six He added fifty seven on the ground 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.120 for a total of one hundred and forty three yards. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.240 And I talked to Chase after the game. Chase another 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.280 big game statistically more than one hundred combined rushing and 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.480 receiving yards. I imagine that's a little consolation after a 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.920 really tough loss. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.959 Again, Yeah, we we just want to we want to 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.440 win games. I just go there and do my job 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.920 and sometimes personal stack comes up with that. But then 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.800 of the day, we gotta we gotta finish these games 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:54.520 better execute and some areas better and come out. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:55.079 With these w's. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.600 Describe the feeling on the sideline as you rallied from 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.720 twenty one down again the stingiest defense in the NFL 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:02.400 at this point. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.760 Yeah, just confidence. We know we're capable of We're explosive 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.199 and it really just takes a little spark to get 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.120 us going. So we had we had it rolling there 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.120 for a little bit. They came back and made some 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.440 good adjustments and yeah, we just got to finish off 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:20.080 those games better. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.920 Do you almost feel jinxed? I mean, there have been 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.360 so many games now where one play that goes in 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.000 a different direction and you're the winner. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:29.880 C NFL. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.080 These games are close, but at the end of the day, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.960 a team that wakes, you know, one extra play is 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.960 usually the one that wins it. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.080 So, you know, we were one short today. I want 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.320 to watch the film when we get. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.160 Back and users by week to just recoup reset and 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.280 you know, just come back into these last few stretches here, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.880 you know, with the you know, two division games against 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.760 the Steelers and seeing the Browns again and just you know, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.480 making sure we're right back in the race. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.760 We're not, We're not unmotivated. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.920 It's just gonna make us even more motivated to you know, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.880 go out there and you know, put even better film out, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.400 better tape out, and not only just play, not play 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.760 for the name of oar back, but just you know, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.760 play for this team, play for the coaches, play for 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.160 the fans, and just just be better. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.200 You had t Higgins back tonight. He had nearly one 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.440 hundred and fifty receiving yards. Talk about a guy that 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:23.960 didn't miss a beat. That was remarkable. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.800 Now, yeah, no, he's he's explosive man, can take the 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.800 top off any defense. Same with Jamar So got so 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.240 many threats in that receiver room. It's it's it's a 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:35.520 dangerous room. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.280 Appreciate your time. Thanks Jase. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.760 Thanks ticking defensively. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.160 After a rough first half, the Bengals were tremendous in 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.400 the second, at least until the final minute. I talked 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.080 to Logan Wilson, who had eight tackles and forced to fumble. Logan, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.000 it's a gut check. I mean, you guys mounted a 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.440 tremendous comeback, and unfortunately it's one of those years where 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.440 for whatever reason, you can't make that one play that 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.000 beats good teams. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.240 Yeah, I know, I don't. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.160 I don't know what it is. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.640 I mean, we just can't find a way to catch 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.920 a break. We gave ourselves opportunities and just didn't take 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:07.840 advantage of them and. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:09.880 Stuff. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.880 When you have those opportunities, you have to take full advantage, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.200 especially in this league, and we didn't. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.040 How did you flip things defensively in the second half 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.160 because they were obviously giving you fits in the second 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.920 quarter the second half, didn't do much until the final drive. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.000 Well, we were just giving up explosives in the first half, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.000 and it was on stuff that we were doing, and 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.000 we just settled in and played one play at a 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.800 time and just found a way to scratch a claw 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:30.560 back into that game. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.880 One positive is that some of the young DB's made 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.600 a lot of plays in the second half. Josh Newton, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.880 DJ turn or maybe some of these younger guys took 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.120 a significant step tonight. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.680 Yeah, and we're gonna need them to play that well 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.840 and keep getting better within their individual craft the rest 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.040 of the year because we're gonna need him. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.800 Got the bye week coming up and the Steelers after that. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.400 How do you move on, Just. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.560 Find a way to get your get our bodies back 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:02.680 underneath us and get our minds right and just just 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.080 just try to find a way. I mean, that's all 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:05.960 we can do at this point. Just keep scratching a clown, 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:06.560 keep fighting. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:08.600 We just can't give up. And that's what we're going 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:09.960 to continue to do, is to keep fighting. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:11.920 I don't even want to mention some of the plays 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.840 that have happened in these games, but do you find 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.800 yourself it's almost like you're living a nightmare with some 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:17.960 of the way these games have ended. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.960 It's tough, It's it's uh. I mean, it's pretty easy 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.320 to get frustrated when you're when stuff like that happen 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.560 is happening, but it's just part of this year we're 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.439 having right now as we're just not finding ways to 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:35.000 win unfortunately, and either just kind of find a way 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.280 to grow from it, or you can find a way 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.120 to bicker about it and can plain to you guys 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.040 about it, and that's not That's not what we're gonna do. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:42.679 We're just gonna continue to find a way to go 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.359 to work and find a way to get better and 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.879 just keep fighting because we have we have guys that 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.720 are capable of being a good football team, and we 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.440 just haven't put it all together yet, and so we're 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:53.160 just gonna keep fighting. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:53.879 That's all we can do. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.520 Appreciate your Time's always thank you. The Bengals have their 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.840 buy next week before a home game against the dread 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.919 hated but grudgingly respected Pittsburgh Steelers, who now lead the 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.160 AFC North by game and a half after beating Baltimore 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.040 on Sunday eighteen sixteen. Remember when the Bengals couldn't beat 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.640 the Steelers back in the Big Ben era, Well, now 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.720 that team is Baltimore. Pittsburgh is one eight of its 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.880 last nine meetings against the Ravens. The Browns march toward 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.360 a high draft pick continues. Cleveland is two and eight 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.199 after thirty four to fourteen drubbing to the Saints in 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.800 the battle for the final playoff spot in the AFC. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.600 Denver improved a six and five with a thirty eight 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.600