WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Alive 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.399 I get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:16.400 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The who I'm Still Alive addition, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.080 as the Bengals looked to bounce back from last week's 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.720 disappointing loss to the Jets and had proved a six 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.079 and three overall and three and oz in the AFC 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:28.120 North by beating the Cleveland Browns, coming up, Dave Lapham 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.120 joins me to discuss what went wrong last week and 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.199 answer the ask lap questions you submitted on Twitter. My 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.040 one on one player interview is with Jonah Williams, who 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.080 faces the challenge of trying to block NFL sack leader 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.800 Myles Garrett. On Sunday, I'll preview the game with one 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.720 of three quarterbacks who played for both the Bengals and 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.599 the Browns, Bruce Gradkowski, and I'll also tell you who 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.600 the other two quarterbacks were. And finally, it's our No 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.280 the Faux segment, as we discussed the four and four 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:02.080 Cleveland Browns with long time Cleveland's sportswriter Tony Grossie. The 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.760 Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.600 to play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now from 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.640 the App Store and Google Play. And here's a quick 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.240 reminder that you can add the latest edition of this 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.479 podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.800 subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:28.840 since the Monday Night Football Manning Cast. Every Monday, I 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.080 spend my evening doing prep work on the Bengals upcoming opponent, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.880 and the so called Manning Cast on ESPN two has 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.559 proven to be the perfect background entertainment. If you haven't 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.520 watched it yet, The Manning Cast is officially titled Monday 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.520 Night Football with Peyton and Eli, and it's an alternate 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.920 broadcast of the Monday Night football game. It's basically like 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.520 hanging out in their living room as the Manning brothers 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.320 and their guests watch the game. The football content is fine, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.880 but the best part is listening to Peyton and e 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.040 Lie poke fun at each other. The guests this year 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.600 have included a bunch of quarterbacks, Russell Wilson, Matthew Stafford, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.640 Tom Brady, Drew Breese, Bred Farv and most recently, Josh Allen. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.280 I've got my fingers crossed that will get a Joe 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:18.359 Burrow appearance sometime soon. Now let's get to my guest list, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.960 beginning with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lap. Did the 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.360 Jets provide a blueprint for the best way to attack 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.520 the Bengals defense? I think that the Bengals can make 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.320 adjustments to what they did. Dan. They gave a lot 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:39.240 of space. You know, they retreated, and then when things 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.320 start to go badly, when you're retreating, your instinct is 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.000 to retreat more, you know, human nature instead of I'm 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.079 not saying flight instead of fight, but I mean it's 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.880 like the last thing you want to do is, oh 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.040 my gosh, this isn't working out. They're moving the ball. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.920 I gotta make sure they're don't throw it over my head. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.960 So you exacerbate the problem by dropping more a defense 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.840 A coordinator who remained unnamed on this one, but he 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.560 hit a cornerback that was you know, got beat in 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.400 practice as training camp. So he kept giving space, giving space, 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.280 giving space. Defensive corners up, kicks him in the button, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.600 pushes them up. The line of scrimmage goes, get up 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.840 and press them, don't let them get a free release 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.200 on you reround him. You're doing the opposite of what 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.520 you should be doing, and I think that's what ended 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.080 up happening in this football game. It was almost like 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.320 the human nature was the reverse of what you should 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.000 be doing. You know, your natural reaction was almost like 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:37.160 contrarian and because you know one thing, offensively, you want 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.360 to create space. Defensively, you want a shrink space, and 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.040 the Bengals defensively, we're helping them create space. And it 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.120 ended up kicking them in the butt and backfiring on them. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.960 And then compound that with the fact that they didn't, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.120 like Luna Rumo said, they block tackled, they didn't use 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.800 their arms, they never wrapped up, and fifteen broken tackles 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.720 in one football game. Over half of the offense came 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.040 as a result of, you know, yards after catch because 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:09.720 the space provided, or yards after contact because of mistackles. So, 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.600 speaking of lou Anna Rumo, he's done a phenomenal job 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.320 this year. He's right up there with Team MVP almost 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.720 through eight games. But I thought that they stayed with 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.640 their defensive game plan too long and didn't adjust to 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.720 what the Jets were doing. Is that fair? I mean, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.520 I'm no experts, certainly, yeah, And I guess part of 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.679 it is my reaction would have been you know, shrink 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.520 the space, shrink the space. And maybe it was being said, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.240 but players just weren't doing it unless you're out in 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.120 the field actually, you know, make that kind of correction. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.920 And then you look at the tape in gosh, it's 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.800 even worse than I thought it was. And so it 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.880 was just it was one of those scenarios where I 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.360 think this is an oval simplification. But I thought out 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.680 to look at it again that m lou wanted to 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.159 to muddy up the middle of the football field. For White, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.320 you know, did a lot of some zero stuff and 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.240 all that, and he wanted to you know, make that 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.640 like you know, rush hour traffic, not be able to 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.600 sort it out. And what Lafleur did and what White 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.680 executor was get it to perimeter, you know, to the 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.560 short passes, the screens though a lot of a lot 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.720 of routes that were to the outside, stay away from 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.640 all that stuff in the middle. I thought they had 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.719 a good game plan and they didn't have to adjust 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.040 their game plan. And the Bengals, you know, if they 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.800 did adjust, took them obviously a little bit too long 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.359 and then did not execute either the game plan or 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.599 the adjustment to the game plan well enough. I mean 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.080 the Jets made more plays. That's what it boiled down to. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.240 And how about White, not only the yards but the 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.880 Philly special he catch us the two point conversion. I mean, 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.640 the guy's going to have a statue at the stadium. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.719 I mean after one game, he's I know one thing, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.960 He's not gonna be buying too many dinners or drinks 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.960 in that town, which is good considering how much they 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.720 cost to first quarter of the game, fourth and goal 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.000 from the three after the Jesse Bates interception. I don't 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.839 want a second guess just because it didn't work. But 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.440 at the time, did you agree with going for it 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.760 or would you kick the field goal? Yeah? I probably 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.880 would have put points on the board because of the 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.839 fact that, all right, I already got I already took 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.720 a hit, I already get staggers as they went right 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.479 down the field in the first drive and scored. Then 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.000 your defense makes a play and returns it a bunch 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.359 of yards, and it's rare to get tack to the 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.920 one yard line interception return. You know, it's almost amazing 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.799 that he did. That's that's just an unbelievble hustle players. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.800 It was a seven point play, as it turned out, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.159 But first and goal at the one you get knocked back, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.640 two straight downs, third down, your best receiver production wise 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.200 in terms of yards and catches and touchdowns drops, the 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.800 ball gets right in the chest at that point. It's like, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.159 it's a rocky start. Let's get something out of this. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.080 Let's get some points on the board, you know, and 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.560 then and then okay, let's go attack again. But and 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.560 that's easy to say, hindsight is twenty twenty. But with 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.840 all the things that went on before that, I think 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.080 I would have been and we both agree, you know, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.480 you gotta got kick it, get the points. Yeah, I 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.840 was with you at the time I take that field goal. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.400 I want to come away with something, avoid the risk 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.000 of coming away with nothing. But it wasn't like I 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.720 felt that way ninety to ten. I felt that way, 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.120 you know, fifty three to forty seven, right right, No, 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.520 you're right, because in the competitive part of you is like, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.320 are you kidding me? This is embarrassing, this is ridiculous. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.480 It's the Jets, the only one, only one a game. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.400 We gotta we gotta let's get even steven right now, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.800 Let's establish something. I mean, I can see both ways. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.600 I can see a case for both ways, but I've 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.720 seen particularly the way their first three downs went. Now 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.760 you expect to rise from the ashes and make something 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.920 you know, really good happen. You know, I mean the 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.400 odds say, I guess if you do analytics, if you 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.960 have three bad players or oh it's you augs, you 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.520 gonna have four in a row as opposed to have 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.440 one good one, probably favoring the one good one. I 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.080 don't know. You can analytic to death. All I know 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.640 is the Bengals took a shot to the mouth when 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.520 they went down the field and scored their first points 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.200 of the season in the first quarter. They were so 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.440 confident they wanted to toss instead of deferring. This so 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.480 we want the ball because we feel so good about 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.960 our game plan. We want the ball. They went right 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.440 down the field and scored. It's like, whoo man. Now 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.200 now it's like you get pushed off your spot here 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.199 a little bit. You got to rebalance, recompose. So those 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.200 are the reasons I would have done it. And they 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.520 still had an eleven point leading the fourth quarter, so 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.839 it's not like that decided the game. But still thought 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.360 it was worth discussing all right. So far this year, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.800 the Bengals have scored fifty eight points in the second quarter, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.680 sixty five points in the third quarter, seventy points in 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.680 the fourth quarter, but only twenty four in the first quarter. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.600 That's an average of three points a game. Now, part 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.680 of that is they've won all these coin tosses and 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.679 they defers, so they've got fewer drives the first quarter 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.080 then the other ones. But why do you think the 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.360 offense keeps starting slow? That's a million dollar question, you know, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.920 it really is. I just I don't know. It's almost 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.880 like you think about it so much. You know, it 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.160 starts to be a trend after like your third game, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.440 you know, for a game or two, it's like, oh, well, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.160 you know it'll turn around. Now getting into the halfway 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.559 point of the season and still an issue. So not 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.280 it starts to take on a life of its own, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.360 and you really start to press and to try to 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.160 maybe do too much or I don't know, I really 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.440 can't explain it. You're trying to do too much as 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.280 a play caller. You're trying to do too much, to 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.160 be too perfect in your execution instead of just going 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.920 out and relaxing and playing football. I mean, it has 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.079 taken on a life of its own, just like scoring 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:49.760 in the final two minutes of the second quarter is 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.320 taken on a life of its own, and coming right 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.160 out in the first drive in the third quarter and 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.120 scoring like six out of eight games in both cases. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.520 There that's taken on a life of its own. So 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.880 there's a negative life of its own, then a couple 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.600 of positive life of its owns um but boy, if 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:09.080 they could get that sword away, It's it's hard playing 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.960 from behind, you know, in the national football again. And 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.439 even though they haven't scored in the first quarter every 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.800 every game, or if scored been the other team has 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.320 scored first, probably more than them every in most games, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.000 they've been able to bounce back. I mean they've been 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.160 able to you know. It hasn't necessarily been the biggest 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.560 reason they lost the football game, but it's a reason. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.800 I think it's a factor. I think it's a factor 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.560 for sure. Let's talk about the Browns. They're four and four. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.800 Baker Mayfield is playing with the left shoulder injury that 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.520 will eventually require surgery. Kareem Hunt is out right dackle 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.680 Jack Conklin is an excellent player. He's going to miss 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.880 this week's game. Now they've got Odell Beckham junior and 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.080 senior drama going on in Cleveland. How did the Browns 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.480 look to you right now? And what are some of 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.440 the keys to beating them? Yeah, I mean they're still 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.199 they're still a physical football team. You watch you watch 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.880 them on tape and you think, how does this football 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.280 team not won more games? Because their offensive line is 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.680 very good, their defensive line is very good. I mean 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.320 just in the running the football alone, they have the 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.520 best differential in the National Football League. They've outrushed their 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.400 opponent by seventy six point three yards, best in the league. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.960 Their number one rushing it, the number one in yards 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.199 per while they're rushing it, they're the third and stopping 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.600 the run, and their second in yards per stopping the run. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.559 That's that's exactly what you want. They're a plus one 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.160 point seven per attempt. That's one. Now, that's first in 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.360 the National Football League as well. When you can run 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.400 the ball and stop the run like that, I don't 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.079 care what level of football you're talking about, you should 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.920 be a winning football team. Now they're minustering in the 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:55.320 turnover department, which is which is probably a little bit perplexing. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.839 The biggest thing is that their lack of takeaways, Dan, 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.160 that's stunned me. Only five takeaways, tied for the second 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.040 fewest in the league. You know, they've only got eight 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.640 eight giveaways. That's not terrible, but being minus three with 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.200 just the five takeaways, they've only recovered two fumbles, tied 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.640 for the second fewest in the National Football League as well. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.439 So you know, you can always find a reason why 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.440 they are what they are. But when you look at 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.240 their personnel and you look at the way they've executed 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.040 as a result they having that personnel, and they've had 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.480 some injury issues. Chubb has been hurt, Hunt's been hurt. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.880 They haven't had their one two punch at the running 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.360 back position together for a whole lot of snaps. They've 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.559 got a tanement defensive ends that's as good as there 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.679 is in the league. I mean, they've got players. They've 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.920 got players. So the Bengals are gonna have to play 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.079 at a very high level to get this thing taken 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.319 care of. And I think you know, when you look 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.280 at it, the Bengals are in such a good situation 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.800 because they've won two division games. If they can win 0:12:54.880 --> 0:13:00.400 this one, they have Basically, they have their net three 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.240 division games at home, three in a row at home, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.679 and then they have to go up to Cleveland the 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.719 end of the season. But if they can take care 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.560 of business on the division games at home and start 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.400 five at all. And I'm getting way ahead of myself, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.319 but I mean, if you can win this home division 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.640 game and your first two division games in the second 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.079 half of the season or at home, man, that that's 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.720 pretty high Cotton. That's you know, that's that's why you 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.080 won in Pittsburgh and in Baltimore to put yourself in 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.040 this position now you have to capitalize and finalize. Is 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.560 stopping the run far and away the number one key 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.560 this week? I think it is. I think I think, 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.839 you know, being competitive with their run game in terms 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.560 of running it and stopping the run, they're the best 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:47.000 in the league in my opinion, you know, combined. That's 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.360 I think that's the core of what the Bengal is 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.320 going to have to be competitive in those areas to 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.800 win this football game. I don't think they can get 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.760 you know, just rush for seventy yards against the Cleveland 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.160 Browns and give up one hundred forty and think they're 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.080 gonna win the football game. I just I don't I 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.760 don't see that being the case. I see that that 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.680 rush differential as being a factor. The Bengal is gonna 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.800 have to you know, narrow that margin. They can't be 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.160 out rushed by seventy six plus yards like everybody else 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.400 has been on an average basis. Myles Garrett leads to the 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.520 the NFL and sacks. I think we all know that. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.880 I was surprised to see he's tied for second on 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.120 the Browns and tackles. So he's doing the job in 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.200 the run game as well. When you watch that guy 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:34.160 on tape, what jumps out freak, I mean, so explosive, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.480 and I think he's even more effective. Probably two of 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.360 his ten sacks have come from inside. But man, he's 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.480 so explosive and they twist and stunt with them, and 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.160 he's man, he hits gaps and you know, he just 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.960 he just overpowers people. He grabs two, you know, and 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.520 he's just so effective inside. That's big. Fred Fred Johnson 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.360 gave up a you know, a sack last year. That 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.120 was he lined up over Fred at Fred playing in 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.400 a right guard position, lined up a defensive tackle, blew 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.960 up the field sack Joe stripped him, recovered the fumble, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.600 I mean all of it. He got the he got 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.560 the triple dip ice cream cone, the sacks, stripped, fumble 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.960 and fumble recovery. They have a short field and they 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.240 score big, big play in that football game. If I'm 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.840 a guard and I think I think they were going 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.680 to say, let's challenge the guards a little bit. Match 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.640 up wise, I think we may see Garrett inside, maybe 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.080 even more than people think potentially. But he's he's the 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.920 son of a gun on the edge too though. And 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.560 like you said, Dan, he and Clowney, Clowney to Clowney said, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.000 such a good solid edge in the running game. Garrett's 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.440 doing it as well. I mean, they're they're just a 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.480 very very sound football team. In Clowney. Remember we saw 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.960 Clowney when we beat Tennessee, when Quentin Spain was his 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.640 first game with this historic you know, doesn't even know 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.360 the names and faces the guys in the huddle. He 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:58.880 goes out there and plays the heck of a game. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.840 Clowney was in again. Clowney to me looked like look 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:07.160 back nine ish. Now he's got juice. Now, now he's 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.800 got a guy that you know, a duo, A tandem guy. 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.400 He's playing with a lot more juice than he played 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.240 with when we saw him last when Tennessee came here 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.520 to Cincinnati in that game. Not what I wanted to hear. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.480 I pointed the lap signal into the sky above Paul 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.080 Brown Stadium this morning. So I've got some asked lap 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.160 questions that were submitted via Twitter. This one comes from Chris. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.160 Every player and coach knew the Jets was a potential 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.960 trap game or a letdown game, and your experience what 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.760 causes a team to still come out flat? Man? Chris, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.200 let me you give me an opportunity to talk about 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.760 something to happen in our Super Bowl team in nineteen 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.520 eighty one, first time we went to the Super Bowl. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.440 This is unbelievable when I thought back to it, because 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.360 I thought the circumstances were pretty close. We're five and two. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.360 We go to play the New Orleans Stain. It's one 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:05.320 and six down in New Orleans Forest. Greg's like man, trap, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:10.639 tr ap, big trap until he was blue in the face. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.439 We go down there, Saints spank us seventeen to seven. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.680 I'll guarantee you all week, guys, I'm telling you they're 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.800 gonna come out. They're embarrassed. They're embarrassed by the Patriot. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.440 This is gonna be a physical football game. You can 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.360 talk to you blue in the face until you get 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.520 out there and feel the trap and squeeze on you. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.160 You know you Sometimes you have to learn the lesson 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.800 the hard way. And what did we do? Okay, well, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.360 you can go one of two ays. You can fold 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.080 your tent or respond. That was the last game in October. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.760 Then we had the November to remember. Dan and I 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.800 looked all the games up. November first against the Oilers 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.600 in Cincinnati, thirty four, twenty one, thirteen point win. We 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.720 go out to San Diego on November eighth, beat him 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.440 forty to seventeen, and everybody's like, oh the freezer ball man, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.879 if you guys have played, we pumped them by twenty 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.640 three points in their place. We're better than the San 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.480 Diego charges now the Er charges. But then on the 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.280 fifteenth the Rams come to town, Jack Youngblood and the 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.280 second Fearsome forcemen as such, Fred Dryer, all these guys. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.040 We beat them twenty four to ten. Then the Denver 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.040 Broncos come, Oh wait, I mean just to hell of 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:20.879 a football team. It's when the Broncos. With the Broncos, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.000 we've beat him thirty eight twenty one, beat him by seventeen. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.879 Then we go to Cleveland on the twenty ninth. Five 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.120 games in the month of November, the way that calendar 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.000 worked out, on the twenty ninth of November, beat Cleveland 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.360 forty one twenty one. The closest anybody came was thirteen 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.240 points in a five game sweep of good football teams. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.399 Every one of these teams was a playoff contender. Then 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.240 all of a sudden, yeah, we are as good as 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.200 we thought we are. This I'm not saying this football 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:47.760 team is going to go on a five game winning 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.600 streak or four game and winning streak or whatever and 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.760 go to the Super Bowl. But what I'm saying is, 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.399 don't let one stub your toe where you broke your toe, 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.280 or don't let it break your toe. Stub your toe, 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.480 don't let it break your toe. On recover, you know, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.320 all your goals is still ahead of you, particularly with 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.520 respect to the division. You can bounce back against a 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.479 division opponent, sweep the division in the first part of it, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.280 be three and all at the break at the bye 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.800 week in the division in great shape. Like we said 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.640 two out of the last year at home, this big game, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.200 stop your toe, don't break your talent. I like that. 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.240 This question comes from r as have you ever seen 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:32.760 players come to the podium together to answer questions? No, now, 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.280 I shouldn't say that, because you know, when they have 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.919 the big games that are network televised playoffs and all that, 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.760 they'll have teammates out there together because of just the 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.280 timing of it and all that. But they're not out 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.000 there necessarily, you know, as one to answer questions. It's 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.040 like they'll they'll be peppered questions just trying to get 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.760 a sheer volume people out there. This is a situation 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.080 where let's go out there and show united from we 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.520 all believe in each other, we believe in the football team, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.199 and let's approach it that way. I thought that was 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.960 that was a great idea. And I don't know who 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.000 the idea it was, but all three of them should 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.760 take a bow, I think for that. I think their 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.360 teammates appreciated it. I know as a former player I did, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:26.720 and they all representing themselves and their football team very well. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.879 I thought it was a very very positive statement and 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:35.000 I think it kind of it eased the fracture was. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.679 It wasn't as bad a break of the bone. You know, 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.360 after losing that football game. The way they handled it, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.080 they stopped the damage. You know, they basically stuck the 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.359 finger in the dike and stopped the leaking of the damn. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.520 I thought it was a good move. I agree, I 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.480 thought it was great. This question comes from John in 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.160 a season where the Bengals have been incredibly healthy so far, 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.159 I'm knocking on something that sounds like wood. Should the 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.040 Bengals have made moves at the trade deadline to position 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:08.080 themselves for a playoff push. You know, you heard about 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.080