WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Serenity Now 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.320 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.559 Bengals Booth Podcast, the Serenity Now Edition, as we look 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.840 back at one of the roughest days for the Bengals 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.320 defense in the team's fifty and a half year history 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.720 of fifty one fourteen loss to the New Orleans Saints. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.040 Since the classic TV sitcom Seinfeld has been off the 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.720 air for twenty years, it occurs to me that I 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.600 probably have to explain the expression serenity now to at 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.040 least a few of you. There was a character on 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.680 Seinfeld named Frank Costanza, played by the hilarious Jerry Stiller, 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.520 who was advised by his doctor to say serenity now 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.040 every time he got angry in order to keep his 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.400 blood pressure down. Other characters on the show tried to 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.680 use the same expression and it didn't work out so well. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.920 If you haven't seen the episode, you can see a 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.720 bunch of Serenity Now clips on YouTube. Coming up on 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.680 the podcast, you'll hear radio replays from the game, locker 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.080 room interviews with several players, and Dave Lapham will join 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.240 me for postgame analysis. Plus in this week's Fun Facts Interview, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.160 I'll talk to Bengals tight end Matt Lengel, who is 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.399 part of an amazing list. Tom Brady has thrown touchdown 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:22.080 passes to seventy one different receivers. That's an NFL record, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.920 and yes, one of them is Matt Lengel. I'll talk 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.959 to him about that and much more. All of that 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.640 is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder that 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.680 you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.920 right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:47.200 or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention since smart wool socks. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.200 No matter how cold it gets, the window in the 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.160 broadcast booth must be open during the game. I think 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.480 it's important as an announcer to hear the crowd and 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.640 have a true sense of the weather conditions. And the 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.000 cold generally doesn't bother me that much as long as 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.520 my feet aren't frozen, and they never are as long 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.919 as I remember my smart wool hiking socks. Enough about 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.560 my feet, let's get to the game. The first quarter 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.960 was actually entertaining. The Bengals entered the game last in 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.880 the league in yards aloud and thirty if in points aloud. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.280 Facing Drew Brees and the Saints. A rough day was 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.800 a distinct possibility, and New Orleans began the game with 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:34.080 a fifteen play, seventy five yard touchdown drive that took 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.760 eight and a half minutes off the clock. From the 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.559 seven yard line. Second down in goal for the Saints, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.359 Breeze fakes a handoff looking left, throws toward the left 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.200 side of the end zone, diving attempt for the catch. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:50.280 It is a touchdown for New Orleans. Wow Michael Thomas 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.560 with the catch. An amazing throw from Drew Brees. Unbelievable throw. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.200 I mean that coverage is excellent. I mean Will Jackson 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.399 can't do much better than that. Rnity, Now here's Jackson 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.680 on Drew Brees and the Saints offense. They got a 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.239 lot of whippers. I mean they got a great scheme. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.160 They have great route cumbinations. Isn't not then in the 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.560 quarterback obviously he's he's one of the kind. He thought 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.160 the ball where the defender can't get it. I mean, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.000 hit the one pig this year. So it's just a 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.080 great quarterback and he put it in the right spots. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.320 Let's face it. For the Bengals to have a chance 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.360 to pull off the upset, they were going to have 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.239 to score a bunch of points, and Cincinnati's opening drive 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.280 was a thing of beauty. Eight plays seventy five yards 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.560 to tie the game with two minutes left in the 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.240 first quarter. First in goal from the three yard line 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.720 for Cincinnati, Dalton under center fakes a handoff he wants 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:48.280 to throw. He passes for Ross touchdown. Bengals a crossing 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.440 route on the back line of the end zone, and 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.320 John Ross hauls in his third touchdown catch of the season. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.640 So at that point, Bengals fans were thinking maybe, just 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.920 maybe the team could overcome at struggling defense and win 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.920 a shootout. Here's Tyler Boyd. We gotta score regardless. This 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.800 is a hard league. You know. Everybody puts up thirty 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.440 points a game. So if you don't score a points, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.680 I mean, it's hard to win. So I'm more, you know, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:20.440 frustrated on offense in anything, especially after the way it started. Definitely, Man, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.840 just just seeing that drive. You know, we controlled the ball. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.920 We didn't get in any situations where we got hesitate 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.080 or we felt we have any pressure. You know, we 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.640 just everything was clicking. You know, once everything stays that 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.840 weight and skies and limit. Man, I say that every week, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.760 we just gotta stay consistent. For a lesson in consistency, 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.119 I present the New Orleans Saints. On their second drive, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.840 they went seventy five yards on six plays. Now Kamara 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.760 sprinting to the right, Drew brees back to throw screens 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.719 it back to the left, Ingram running down the sideline 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.119 to the fifteen. The ten spin moved there, gets away 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.120 from Sean Williams and runs into the end zone for 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.040 a New Orleans touchdown. The Saints third drive was ninety 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.520 yards in nine plays. Breeze hands it off to Kimara 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.600 and he runs into the end zone for New Orleans touchdown. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.200 Following the left side of the offensive line. Three possessions, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.800 three tds for the Saints. Drive number four was sixty yards. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.919 It's a pitch to the left, Kimara being chased by Hubbard, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.200 Sam can't catch him, touchdown, New Orleans. It was twenty 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.960 eight seven with one twenty two left in the half. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.880 After hunting on two straight possessions, the Bengals desperately needed 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.680 to get some points before the half. Instead, Serenity now 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.240 Dalton catches the shotgun snap He's gonna fire for John 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.560 Ross Now intercepted at the five yard line. The Saints 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.880 have the football to the thirty. The thirty five Pas 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.960 Williams to the fifty. Andy Dalton trying to get him 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.479 on a bounds he can't. Alex Erickson hustles and tackles 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.880 Williams with eight seconds left in the half at the 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.919 seventeen yard line of Cincinnati Man I obviously not on 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.640 the same page whatsoever quarterback and receivers. I mean, he 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.800 just throws that ball up the return with seventy eight 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.800 yards and with eight seconds left down the clock. Was 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.600 there any doubt what was going to happen? Next shotgun 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.440 snap Breeze drops back from the twenty five. His pass 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.480 caught over the middle for a touchdown for Michael Thomas, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.040 and the Saints are running away and hiding here at 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.080 Paul Brown Stadium thirty five seven New Orleans at the half. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.159 Last week, the Saints scored thirty five points in the 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.880 first half against the previously unbeaten Rams. So I guess 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.240 we shouldn't have been shocked when they did it to 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.679 the Bengals. Here's Preston Brown. I mean, they got great weapons, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.040 but they just have so much confidence in what they do. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.520 I mean, they run in Preston own and out. They 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.640 know the plays extremely well. They have a quarterback who's 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.720 been back there for twenty years, so everybody knows that 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.320 they're doing and they play extremely fast. Can you describe 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.440 the frustration level right now? Oh? Is that all time 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.120 high for me? Amount never seeing anything like it me 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.160 every week? Is just we've given him two many yards. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:05.520 I mean, I gotta look at myself and find a 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.120 way to help this team because I need to play 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.720 a lot better if we're gonna be better on defense. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.680 After scoring touchdowns on all five of their possessions in 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.640 the first half, the Saints settled for a field goal 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.240 the first time they got the ball in the third 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:22.520 quarter before scoring another touchdown on possession number seven. Saints 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.560 are going to go for it on fourth down and 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.680 goal inches away from the Bengals goal line. Drew Brees 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.280 jumps up, extends the ball with two hands. How many 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.240 times have we seen him do that over the years. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.840 It's a New Orleans touchdown. Drew Brees finished twenty for 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.360 twenty five for two hundred and sixty five yards, three 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:47.080 passing touchdowns, one rushing touchdown, and a passer rating of 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.680 one fifty point four. A perfect score is one fifty 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.720 eight point three. Here's linebacker Jordan Evans. I mean they 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:00.000 got a great quarterback. Yeah, great running back, right, we see. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.120 You know, they're good, great off of the line. They're 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.520 just a good team and they do what they do 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:09.520 very very well. So even though they you know, we 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.040 prepare for it, they still just they out execute us. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.640 And that's what it was. It was forty five seven 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.520 going to the fourth quarter. In the Saints kept scoring, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.480 kicking field goals on their eighth and ninth possessions. The 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.160 only time all day that New Orleans didn't score was 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.120 on their tenth and final possession, when they ran out 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.840 the final four forty two off the clock. The Bengals 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.120 did add a late touchdown, the first ever scored in 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.679 a regular season game by backup quarterback Jeff Driscoll zone 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.280 read Driscoll keep laft racing of the twenty in the 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:48.360 tenth to five touchdown. Jeff Driscoll, he kept it on 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.480 a zone read on fourth down in the yard and 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:56.360 runs twenty seven yards for his first NFL touchdown. About that, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.880 the final score fifty one fourteen. Here's Tyler Boyd man 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.440 it hurt. It definitely hurt. You know, guys might not 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.640 show that, but to me, it hurt. I hate to lose, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.640 especially like that. We got to flat out e bears, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.559 you know, And that's not a laws that I ever 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.240 want to take. You know, that's that's high school school 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.400 us man. We're the top athletes here, so we got 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.000 to show that. Now, time for some numbers. The fifty 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.679 one points allowed were one off the team record, and 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.960 it's the most ever allowed in a home game. The 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.960 Saints finished with five hundred nine yards of offense, making 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.520 the Bengals the first team in the Super Bowl era 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.200 to allow five hundred or more yards in three straight games. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.360 Cincinnati is on a pace to surrender five hundred twelve 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:46.200 points this year. The franchise record is four sixty. So 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.200 how do they fix it? Here's Michael Johnson. You know, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.959 whatever is being called, we have to go ask them. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.560 Well they you know, that's what they pay us well 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.920 to go out and do what we what we asked 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.360 to do and do it well. So we need to 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.040 do it better. We just gotta do our job better. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.680 Like you do your job for four to eight plays 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.320 and then you decide for the nine. So you know, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.000 you're gonna do your own thing. It can hurt us, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.040 you know, And we gotta leven guys. So eleven guy 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.600 gotta do exactly what they coach should do. Play in 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.800 and play out to the best of the ability, because 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.560 we can't make corrections if we're not well we're supposed 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.080 to be. Despite the thirty seven point loss to the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.800 Saints and the thirty five point loss to the Chiefs 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.719 a few weeks ago, the five and four Bengals are 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.840 still at least for now, the sixth and final playoff 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.880 seed in the AFC Up. Next the road game at Baltimore. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.240 Here are Preston Brown and Marvin Lewis. We still got 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.400 a lot of division games to play. We got to 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.040 go to Baltimore and get a big win. We don't 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.040 know who quarterback is going to be, but we gotta 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.320 find a way to get a big win and shake 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.360 this rust off because we can't keep giving a five 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.319 hundred yards and expect the offense to score fifty if 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.320 we can't get anything. So we gotta get better. We 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.880 gotta correct, we gotta get into right spots. We got 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.240 to do it with the right people, and we got 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.120 to make sure we understand it. We got an opportunity 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.440 again next week against Baltimore to put ourselves right back 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:13.959 where we need to be. Now, time to bring in 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:18.320 my broadcast partner Dave Lapham for postgame analysis. At this point, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.120 with seven games left in the regular season, the Bengals 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.920 defense is historically bad. On a pace to give up 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.640 the most yards in NFL history, on a pace to 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.839 give up the most points in Bengals history, is the 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:36.440 reason for hope that it can get considerably better. First 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.880 time in NFL history a team has given up five 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.559 hundred yards and more. But you look at the teams, 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.280 you know, you get well, Pittsburgh was four to eighty, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.160 but you know, Kansas City has a good football team. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.600 Tampa Bay is a good offensive football team. The Staints 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.080 team might be as good as Kansas City or better. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.280 I mean, who knows. They're both. They're both dynamic in 0:11:55.679 --> 0:12:00.839 how they do it schematically, personnel motions, formations, I mean, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.400 it's crazy. They get defensive eyes going the wrong direction, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.760 the wrong way. They just really make defensive players uncomfortable 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.280 with all the speed and all the It's like you 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.679 know rush hour in Manhattan, that what's going on out 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.800 there and it's hard to sort through and guys get 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.480 out of position, and you know, you got to hope 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.840 that when they play teams that don't have that warped speed, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.560 you know, Baltimore doesn't necessarily Cleveland doesn't. And you start 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.440 to get players back, you know, like like Vontz Perfect, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.560 like like Darcuz Denard, you know, like Nick Vigil. You 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.000 start to get some bodies back for this, you know, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.200 two game little stretch run in the division. It could 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.160 could have an impact, could have a significance. So I 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.920 don't think that Baltimore's offense and Cleveland's offense are gonna 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.800 pulls anywhere near the kind of problems that you know, 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.160 Kansas City Post in New Orleans post. So there is 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.560 there is hope. But everybody be where you're supposed to be. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.760 Hit the gap you're supposed to hit. Don't freelance, trust 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.200 what you're supposed to do and do it and see 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.559 what happens. But man, that was a hot knife through butter. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.880 That was very, very frustrating about You know, if you're 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.559 a punter, you don't letter punning the football, but you 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.880 hold on nine placements between touchdowns and field goals. So 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.880 you're in the game for nine snaps. As a holder, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.679 it's a very frustrating day. When you get half a 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.160 Hondy hung on you, it's very frustrating. It's only happened 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.679 five times in Bengals history. When you give up fifty one, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.880 you're not going to win the game. But the offense 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.480 is responsible for how ugly today's game went as well. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.680 They went right down the field and scored a touchdown 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.160 on a seventy five yard drive with five first downs 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.080 to begin the game, and then until the touchdown at 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.480 the end by Jeff driscoll that made the final score 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.520 a tiny bit more respective. The offense did not play 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.079 well at all, no question, Dan. On that touchdown, you're 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.760 describing eight plays, five runs, three passes, Andy Dalton's three 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.640 for three throws a touchdown pass. They don't get the 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.000 third down, They do all their damage on first and 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.520 second down. Thing of beauty. And then when they did 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.920 get the third down, over six because it's third and long. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.760 I mean New Orleans converted their first seven third downs. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.040 They were third and one, third and two, third and three. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.840 In other words, third and short. The Bengals weren't third 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.080 and short. The Bengals were third and four are longer 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.440 on every third down opportunity except for one. And you 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.240 know that's that's where you have issues. And you know, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.360 that first drive, I don't know, I guess what was it, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.280 fool's goals. I don't know what it was, but I mean, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.640 you know, at that point, I'm not sure if it 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.320 was any adjustments New Orleans made or just the fact 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.080 that you know, and I agree with your comment during 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.560 the game when you said, you know, when you punt 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.640 in a game like this, it's almost like a turnover, 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.040 and you know it is you start to feel like 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.440 now you feel an additional pressure. Man, they scored again. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.320 We punted, they scored again. We got to do something 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.160 this time. So now all of a sudden, you know, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.520 the vice starts tightening on you and you start doing 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.760 things you shouldn't do. So, yeah, you get caught in 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:03.120 that spiral, that big vortex, big whirlpool. It's just going 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:04.800 to take you right down to the you know, the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.760 tide is there's a riptide out there, and you can't 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.200 swim fast enough, you know, and it starts just pulling 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.200 it down. My advice to the Bengals avoid social media 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.280 for the next twenty four to forty eight hours and 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.000 try to get back on track for a divisional game 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.800 on the road against Baltimore. Two division games in a 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.280 row on the road against Baltimore and then Cleveland here, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.520 mega games, mega football games. They're one and one in 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.520 the division right now. This is not even a conference loss. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.160 You know, I don't want to pooh pooh it. I mean, 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.880 I get the smoked it's not. I didn't expect them, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.960 honestly to beat the Saints, but I didn't expect him 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.840 to get blown out by thirty seven points and have 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.000 fifty one hung on him at home. You know, on 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.760 the road against Kansas City is one thing, but at 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.960 home at Paul Brown Stadium, I just didn't expect that. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.840 I expected a high score in football game, but only 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.680 one team was the high scoring team. Again, you know, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.400 right now, they're like minus sixty and they have a 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.480 winning record, and they're minus sixty and points scored and 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.000 points against because of two blowouts Kansas City in this 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.880 football game against the Saints. So it is only one 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.160 loss though, Dan, you know, and you mentioned it a 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.160 while back. Buffalo had two blowouts and went nine to 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.840 seven and made the playoffs. When the Bengals knocked the 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.800 Ravens out. This is their second blowout. Will they be 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.120 able to respond and recover, you know, and get the 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.120 job done against a couple of division opponents division rivals, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.560 We'll see. That's a big test. They'd better be up 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.440 for it. Thanks Lap for what it's worth. If the 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.720 season ended today, the six seated Bengals would open the 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:39.040 postseason at New England Serenity. Now, speaking of New England, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.760 it's time for this week's fun facts segment, as you 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.920 get to know the person under the pads, in this 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.920 case a Bengals tight end who earned a Super Bowl 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.480 ring with the Patriots. Time for some fun facts at 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.720 Bengals tight end Matt Lengal from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, not too 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.880 far from the state capital of Harrisburg. Mechanicsburg, Pa. Might 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.520 be the most blue collar sounding name I've ever heard? 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.200 Is that about right? Yeah? Yeah, I'd say it's about right. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.000 You know. It's really a small town, kind of situated 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.080 within a bunch of other towns, you know, like you said, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.000 not too far away from Harrisburg. And literally it's a 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.520 settlement of mechanics back you know, I think pre Civil 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.359 War era so that name means exactly how it sounds. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.879 So your dad was a police officer. You often tweet 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.960 your respect for police officers. What was it like growing 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.640 up the sign of a police officer and how much 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.520 love and respect you have for what he did? Oh 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.600 my gosh, I mean, it's it's truly, it's not until 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.639 you get older, you know, where you start to realize, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.320 where you start to have a family of your own. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.119 And you know, I don't have any kids yet, but 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:44.680 you know, I have a wife, and I have a house, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.359 and I have responsibilities and a job. And you know, 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.119 it's not until I get older that I realized that 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.760 every day he leaves the door, you know, you don't 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.560 know if, truly if he's coming back. And then he 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.720 was on the SWAT team for you know, seventeen or 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.560 eighteen years, and you know, so some days he would 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.399 be dropped, I mean, off of football and his his 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.560 beeper would ring and he'd have to go, and he'd 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.720 have to you know, he might not be back until 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.919 the next morning at six am, and and again you 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.600 don't know if he's leaving. But as a little kid, 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.520 I don't think I, you know, truly realized, you know, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.879 at that age your you know, your dad's superman. You know, 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.840 you don't anticipate anything bad happening to him. My Twitter, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:26.080 I try to draw as much you know, respect I can, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.080 you know, towards you know, men and women of law enforcement, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:35.120 because as a son of a police officer, I understand, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:40.040 you know, what their family goes through. Um, and you know, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.239 I can't imagine, you know, being one of those people that, um, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.560 you know, their mother or dad didn't come home. So 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:54.000 you'll see me retweet that stuff. And you know, sometimes unfortunately, uh, 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:55.959 you know, you'll scroll through my page and that might 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.000 be the only thing you see for a couple of 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.480 thumb swipes. Uh. But um, you know, it's just something 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.399 that's important to me, and it's something I want people to, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.199 you know, constantly be aware of. Is that you know, 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.920 these men and women are you know, they're superheroes too. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.719 I mean, they're unbelievable people that chose that life and 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.000 chose that occupation. So I think they deserve all the 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.320 respect that we can give them. Amen to that. We're 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.919 doing fun facts with Matt Lengel. You started out at 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.640 Northeastern in Boston, and then after one year they dropped football. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.399 Did you have any inkling that might happen or was 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.320 it a total shock? It was a total shock. That 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.560 was my only scholarship coming out of high school. So 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.320 I went there. Um, I was all bought in, you know, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.879 I wanted to give him everything I had. And you know, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.720 it was the day after our last game and they 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.760 pulled us into the women's lock or the women's gymnasium, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.720 women's basketball gymnasium, and you know, they told us, you know, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.000 they're dropping the program. And it was it was scary 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:56.720 because you know, like I said, that was my only 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.840 scholarsh so I didn't know what was next, and you know, 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.000 so disappointed myself because I love football, and you know, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:05.760 I was just you know, maybe if I would have 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.560 gone somewhere, you know, that had a better program, you 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.399 know that, you know, this wouldn't be happening Orum. And 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.760 then actually the you know it's funny now, but Hofstra 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.080 was actually at the school they offered me the next 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.920 day and they dropped their football program a week later. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.120 So you know, for a while, I was like, man, 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.400 the football gods are not happy with me right now. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.439 But you know, after you know a couple of weeks, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.879 a couple of strenuous, stressful weeks. Um, you know, I 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.959 got multi I got a few scholarship offers, and ultimately 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.600 I decided to go to Eastern Kentucky. You went from 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.280 Northeastern to Eastern Kentucky and suffered serious knee injuries in 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.040 back to back seasons. How did you overcome that? Truthfully? 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.719 You know, one of the first things I did was 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.960 just give thanks to God. That seems odd, you know 0:20:58.000 --> 0:20:59.880 that I would you know, in that situation, I would 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:04.000 just give thanks, but uh, you know, it just it happened. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:05.760 You know, it just almost just came out of my mouth, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.920 like I'm just gonna choose to be thankful. I'm gonna 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.520 choose to trust the plan. I'm gonna I'm gonna choose 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.040 to just trust the you know that God had a 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:15.840 plan for me and that you know, things were going 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.879 to work out, and that my belief and Him and 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.879 Jesus was gonna lead me to places that I wanted 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.960 to be. Um, So, you know, truthfully, that's what I 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:27.639