WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: A Brand New Day 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.440 The Bengals Booths Podcast. The Turn the Clive to Zero Boss, 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.840 The Rivers Wide, We'll Swim Across started up a brand 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:20.640 new day addition as the Bengals wrap up the regular 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.439 season and now can look ahead to a first round 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:28.360 playoff game at home against the Las Vegas Raiders next Saturday. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.000 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from the loss in Cleveland, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.400 postgame comments from players and coaches, at analysis from my 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.519 broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun fact segment, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.280 you'll get to know rookie running back Chris Evans. 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No 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.919 perfect decision there, but just felt like we need to 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.919 be healthy, perfectly healthy going into next week, and there 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.160 were so many things out of our control in terms 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.320 of where the seating was going to be that we 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.840 just fellow's best to rescue. Jamar Chase was an exception 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.680 for one reason. He entered the game needing just twelve 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.480 yards to break Chad Johnson's team record for receiving yards 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.639 in a season first and ten Bengals at their own 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.639 twenty eight. Alan throws a screen caught by Chase, gets 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.760 a block right at thirty five forty. He's got the 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.639 team record down the sideline past midfield, and he goes 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.799 out of bounds at the Cleveland forty eight. Great news, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.320 some random out. So that catch for a twenty four 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.720 yard game gives Jamaar Chase the Bengals all times single 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.880 season record for receiving yards in a year. I achieved 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.480 a lot of stuff that I wanted to do this year. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.720 I still got a lot more to do. Hopefully I 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.880 can break some playoff records. When we drafted him, he 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.280 said he was going to break all the records, and 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:33.560 it was hard to know if that was gonna be 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.040 true or not. But he's put himself in a position 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.040 to do that, not just relying on his talent, but 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.840 becoming a professional really since day one, and its consistency 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.360 over the course of the season, and that's one of 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.080 the reasons why you want to play him in a 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.839 game like this, for an opportunity to get a couple 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.160 more yards, to put himself in a position to do 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.560 something really special, because he's about what we want to 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.520 be around, you know. We want our best players to 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.240 have the best work ethic and come to work every 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.920 single day and be consistent with their demeanor in their actions, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.640 and Jamar has been that for us, and I'm just 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.240 really proud of him in the season that he's had. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.360 Jamar finished the regular season with one thousand, four hundred 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.480 fifty five yards. He finished eighteen yards short of the 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.920 NFL's all time rookie record, set by Houston's Bill Groman 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.559 in nineteen sixty. That catch was one of very few 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.800 offensive highlights for the Bengals in the first half, as 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.080 they punted on all six of their possessions. The Browns 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.160 punted on their first two before taking the lead late 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.600 in the first quarter. Keenom back to throw, looking down field, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.680 fires Landry, makes the catch at the seven, swerves toward 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.839 the forward pilot, and takes it into the end zone 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.120 for a twenty six yard Cleveland touchdown. Case Keenom started 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.080 at quarterback in place of Baker Mayfield, but aside from that, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.600 Cleveland played nearly all of its starters, including an offensive 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.480 line that paved the way for two hundred five rushing 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.400 yards against the Bengals backups. Browns goat tempo. They handed 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.480 off to de Ernest Johnson. He runs straight up that 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.880 gotten into the end zone for a Cleveland touchdown. So 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.920 the Browns have scored on back to back drives and 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.039 have taken a thirteen point lead pending the extra point. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.560 De Ernest Johnson carried twenty five times for one hundred 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.640 twenty three yards. But even though the Browns dominated statistically, 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.200 the Bengals were able to stay in the game thanks 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.760 to two big plays on defense. Now Keenom in trouble 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.640 loses the ball, Cincinnati scoops and the Bengals are running 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:35.960 it back. Henderson to the ten five touchdown. Bengals why 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.240 and Ray knocking the ball away from Case Keenom and 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.320 safety Travie On Henderson with the scooping score. Here's Trayvon 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.159 Henderson on the first touchdown of his NFL career. Honestly, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.680 Mount really didn't know if it was a fumble than not. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.120 You always taught these defensive players to just scoop the 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.800 ball just in case. And when I crossed the line, honestly, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.600 I thought there was he can be passed. He had 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:03.400 his arm going forward, and they said it was. It 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.320 was a diffil sure. It was fourteen seven with three 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.240 and a half minutes left in the half. The Browns 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.279 answered by driving to the Bengals eleven with nine seconds remaining. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.919 Case Keenom drops back to throw. He fires over the 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.520 middle ter two yards deep in the end zone. The 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.719 Bengals are running it back. This is Hilton to the 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.719 twenty five. The thirty gets tripped up and goes down 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.720 at the thirty two yard line. The ball appears to 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.320 have come out, but the clock is at zero. We've 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.359 got the penalty flags down. As players are trying to 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.400 pull players off the pile. That's a penalty, but the 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.679 end zone interception by Mike Hilton keeps the Cleveland Browns 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.200 from adding to their lead, and it was fitting that 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.839 Mike Hilton got the pick. He only played because two 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.920 members of the secondary, Ricardo Allen and Vernon Hargrave, suffered injuries, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.880 meaning Hilton was the only defensive starter who was pressed 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.720 into service. Oh, it was one, but you know, being 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.960 a profession, you gotta be ready at all times. And 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.040 the coaches threw me in there knowing, you know, they 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.400 fell comfortable with me being out there with whoever. But no, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.520 this is just always being ready for your moment. It 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.720 was fourteen seven Cleveland at the half. After only having 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.240 three first downs in the first half, the Bengals put 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.800 together a long drive on their first possession of the 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.040 third quarter, a fourteen play march down to the Cleveland 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.000 ten before having to settle for a field goal try. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.960 This will be a thirty six yard field goal attempt 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.400 for Elliott Frye and his Bengals debut supping today for 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.360 Evan McPherson. The snap to put down the right Foote 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:41.240 kick and it is good. It hits the crossbar and 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:47.200 bounds forward Elliot Fry makes it from thirty six yards out. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.280 It was closed, but he got it to bounce over 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.120 and the Bengals have pulled within four. That made it 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.400 fourteen ten. Going to the fourth quarter and with roughly 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.040 thirteen and a half minutes to go, the Browns fumbled 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.840 on a punt return near midfield. Unfortunately for the Bengals, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.520 Cleveland managed to recover and soon capitalize. Bird down in 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.360 nine from the ten, Keenom throws a screen to Felton 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:15.040 running down to the five to the goal line, touchdown Cleveland. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.000 Good call. That made a twenty one ten With about 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.440 seven and a half minutes to go. To have any 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.120 chance to win, the Bengals needed to answer, and they 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.240 did with a seventy five yard touchdown drive. Game on 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.440 the line right here, fourth down and one at the 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.319 Cleveland four yard line. The Bengals need a yard to 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.560 stay alive. Alan is under center. He takes the snap, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.920 rolls out to the right, throws forever it's caught us 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.840 to two, then he runs into the end zone. Touchdown. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.840 Bengals with two twenty six to go. Now the line 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.520 up and go for two to try to make it 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.960 a three point game. A little naked bootleg there. The 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.320 Cleveland Browns get good pressure, but not good enough. Chris 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.120 Evans caught the touchdown pass, but a two point conversion 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.080 throw for Trent Taylor fell incomplete. The Bengals were down 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.840 by five as they lined up for an on side 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.120 kick with two and a half minutes to go. He 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.280 kicks the top of the ball. It bounces up if 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.400 I cleaned on it. The ball is loose at the 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.000 forty nine yard line. There's a giant pile at the 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.480 forty nine of Cleveland. The Bengals have started celebrating thing 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.920 from the officials. Yet Bryant was the guy that failed 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.480 to field the ball that was kicked right to him. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.480 It's short hopped in front of Bryant and he couldn't 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.920 handle that short hop fry immediately. I'm telling you, Dan, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.480 I've been in these pile ups as the tug of 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.840 war gone on now, and the guy that originally has 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.480 the football sometimes doesn't end up with it. It took 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.840 about a minute and a half for the refs to 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.280 rule that Cleveland recovered it. The Browns ran out the 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.840 clock to win the game twenty one sixteen. You know, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.959 the season's always full of its ups and downs, and 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.960 it really comes down to which teams you can handle 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.880 diversity the best, and and to never get too high 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.160 and never get too low. And I thought our team 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.960 did a great job of that, responding in the face 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.760 of some tough adversity and handling success some moments well. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.840 And we finished the season, you know, aside from the 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.199 lost day, on a really good note with a lot 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.640 of confidence. And that really does matter in this league 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.479 to finish going into January and been January and the playoffs, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.400 you know, feeling like we're playing our best football and 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.600 playing with a lot of confidence. Our guys really feel 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.720 that right now, and so you know, it is the 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.760 biggest game that any of these players have ever had. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.359 We're in the Bengals Jersey next week at our home stadium. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.520 You know, we had tremendous crowds these last couple of 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.280 weeks when we're at home, and we're expecting our best 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.040 one yet whenever we find out when we're playing and 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.719 who we're playing, and our guys are excited for that opportunity. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.280 So now it's onto the playoffs. After having the first 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.600 pick in the draft prior to last year and the 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.199 fifth pick in the draft prior to this year. The 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.880 Bengals will host the Raiders on Saturday. Here are Mike 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.319 Hilton and Zach Taylor. We know we were one of 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.000 the most talents teams in the league, and we have 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.079 opportunity to do that against the other most talented team 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.800 in the league. I feel like when when the playoffs come, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.000 it's scheme can only take you far so far. So 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.319 we know with players you have to win those one 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.520 on one matchups. We have to make those big plays 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.360 on both sides of the ball. So we feel confident 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.240 in the guys we have in this locker room, and 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.439 we're all excited about the opportunity because a lot of 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.720 them haven't been as far, so I know they'll be 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.520 looking forward to it and they know it's a lot 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.520 on the line. This is what we've been struggling for 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.800 all long, to be quite honest with you, and we've 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.480 we've been our guys, been on our guys to be 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.840 consistent with how they practice every day and raise the 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.440 standard so that when you get to this moment, we 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.160 don't have to change what we're doing. And I think 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.760 that that's that's why I've got a lot of confidence 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.240 in the group of men that are in that locker room, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.679 because I don't need them to raise their standard of 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.480 play and how they practice and how they may They've 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:51.880 been doing that all year, and that's why we're in 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.800 the physicians. We're ending, and that's going to service wall, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.559 you know, and we'll just we'll see how plays out. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.360 But our guys are gonna be ready. As you may 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.200 have heard, the Bengals haven't in a playoff game since 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:06.079 the nineteen ninety season, dropping their last eight postseason games. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.320 That's thirty seasons without a playoff win, the longest such 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.400 streak of any team in the NFL. But most of 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.080 the Bengals players weren't even born when that streak started. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.880 Sometimes they don't know what they don't know, and that 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.320 can be a really good thing, you know. You certainly 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.680 can't avoid some of the narrative that surrounds us sometimes 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.440 with their playoff experience. But again, these guys don't have 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.320 that playoff experience, you know. So there's a lot of 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.240 things they've done this year to change some of those things, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.320 and this week will be no different. You know. They 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.120 don't feel that pressure, they don't think about that stuff 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.120 at all. That there's more just stories and people maybe 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.880 who have been here longer than we have talked about it. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.560 But I can promise you that it doesn't have one 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.000 effect on this football team and in our approach going 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.920 forward this week or how they'll feel on game day. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.480 I'll take it a step further. If anybody thinks Joe 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.120 Burrow is going to feel burden because of the Bengals 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.319 playoff droute, they haven't been paying attention to Joey franchise. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.360 The Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.400 free to play fantasy football game. Ultimate Bengals awarded a 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.280 weekly winner during the course of the season with tickets, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.760 autograph merchandise, and money can't buy experiences all up for grabs. 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.880 Find Ultimate Bengals in the app Store and Google Play. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.480 Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.720 Lapham So lap The regular season ends with a twenty 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.520 one to sixteen loss in Cleveland. The one thing the 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.040 Bengals could guarantee today was that if they didn't play guys, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.760 those guys would not get hurt. That was the route 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.839 that Zach Taylor chose, and I think it's a wise one. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.120 You know, I think there's a lesson to be learned 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.880 by what happened to the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, could 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.000 they potentially have a buy maybe, But if they don't, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.720 I mean, what if Kelsey's limpen and gimp and you 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.040 know in their playoff game, what if Hill would that 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.920 heal injury and bruced heal those things those things link. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.079 That's a cautionary tale right there. And I think I 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.480 think that they made the right moving particularly both teams, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.960 I mean Cleveland Browns and Bengals both had guys going 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.319 down in weather conditions like this, playing this type of 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.280 football game. So in the Bengals situation, I can see 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.480 why they made the decision that they made and we'll 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.560 see if it pays dividends when they take on whoever 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.720 it is next week. There were a few solid performances 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.720 in the loss defensively, Mike Hilton with an end zone interception, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.800 Trevion Henderson with the scoop and score after Wyatt forced 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:42.040 the fumble. Marcus Bailey had eleven tackles, Clay Johnston had ten. Offensively, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.120 Chris Evans thirty five rushing yards, twenty four receiving yards 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.760 and a touchdown. Mike Daniels was active when he was 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.520 in the game. Yeah, I mean, I think at the 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.960 line of scrimmage, Cleveland Browns had three hundred and seventy 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.160 seven yards on sixty six snaps. The Bengals had one 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.840 hundred and eighty two yards on fifty one snaps. Three 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:03.720 point six yards her play. The Cleveland Browns averaged over 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.480 five yards to carry running the football. The reason the 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.800 Bengals were in the football game is they wanted to 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.000 turnover ratio by two and they had a fourth down 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.320 stop in the red zone. So they had three possessions 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.960 that ended with no form of a kick, and the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.800 Cleveland Browns had no takeaways and no fourth down stops. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.160 So I think, you know, the Bengals went for it 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.160 once on fourth down and converted, and Cleveland didn't when 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.640 they tried it on fourth down in the red zone. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.440 So I think that's why the football game stayed close 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.480 and got to give the Bengals credit. I mean, one 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.360 of those takeaways, as you mentioned, you know that I 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.520 thought that was one of the big things I talked 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.400 about before the game, and the keys to the game 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.080 was that they could get some kind of unconventional unscripted 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.040 score like Cleveland got in the first matchup with the 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.320 Bengals early in the game. That would that would make 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.120 things a lot more palatable. And they got it done, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.480 and because they were down fourteen at that point and 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.440 it was looking a little bleak, but they cut the 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.640 lead in half. And you know, it's just like in 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.560 the first matchup. I mean, the Bengals going to twelve place, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.960 seventy five yard drive, throw a pick six, then they 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.000 going to nine place, seventy five yard drive, twenty one snaps, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.720 one hundred and fifty yards and the scores seven to seven, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.400 and Cleveland has run a snap, So those unconventional scores 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.640 can be big, and the Bengals got themselves on. Nearly 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.040 all of the Bengals starters sat out the regular season 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.360 finale in Cleveland, but there were exceptions on the offensive line. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.520 Isaiah Prince played right tackle, I came I Dentogy played 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.880 right guard. And then there's the situation with Jackson Carmen. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.600 If Quenton Spain does not recover quickly enough from his 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.440 ankle injury, chances are Jackson Carmen will be playing left guard. Yeah, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.360 there's there's a good strong chance of that. And it 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.280 was good early for Isaiah Prince and Identogy to you know, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.760 get more snaps together. They're both young guys and they're 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.920 going to be going, say, say it's Noringham Patriots for example, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.320 They're going to be tested both mentally and physically. So 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.480 the more snaps that they can get under their belt, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.520 the better off they'll be. Um And we'll just have 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.760 to just have to have to see. I mean, it's 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.800 a Trey Hopkins has been limping and gimping a good 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.760 part of the season. He's being held together I think 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:21.159 by Scotch tape right now, and so will he be 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.280 able to you know, bounce back and have a strong performance. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.639 I highly doubt Quentin Spain's going to be able to 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.920 play in the Patriots game or whoever it is, that 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.520 first round of the playoffs if he. If he does, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.080 it would be a mild upset, I think, not a 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.560 major upset. Not impossible, but he's He's got a pretty 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.960 good acts spring. So the Bengals have gone thirty years, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.200 thirty seasons without winning a playoff game. The last time 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.360 they did January sixth, nineteen ninety one. It hasn't been 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.640 a topic of conversation all year, which is kind of good. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.320 Back in the early part of the twenty ten decade, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.240 that was storyline from the first day of training camp 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.720 during that stretcher where they went went to the playoffs 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.320 five years in a row and did not win. In 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.560 this case, it's gonna come up this week. It's not 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.040 been this big albatross hanging over them all year long. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.960 And Zach Taylor made the point during his postgame news 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.080 conference after the game in Cleveland to say, this team 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.320 is the twenty twenty one Bengals. It has nothing to 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.160 do with any Bengals team that's failed in the playoffs before. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.480 That's true. And the football team that went out on 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.760 the football field against the Cleveland Browns this afternoon, all 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.720 the stats that had been generated by the Bengals offense 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:39.840 had nothing to do with the team that went out 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.080 on the field this afternoon. I mean, it's just it's 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:47.120 it's not even it's not even close to the same 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.160 guys out there working the way they worked all season long. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.680 So that's it's there's no question about it. These guys 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.840 are going to carve a history of their own. Other 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.800 guys that played on those football teams carve that history 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.240 these guys have nothing to do with that history, and 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.119 you can't. What you can't do is fall in the 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.000 negativity of oh man, you know, you haven't won in 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.960 thirty one. You know the last time on a playoff 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.800 game January of nineteen ninety one. Are you kidding me? 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.880 You can't fall in that negativity. That can that can 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.200 be a rabbit hole you don't want to fall through, 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.239 you know, fall into mentally, There's no question about it. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.720 And I don't think this group will. I think Zach 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:33.720 made another good point. A young football team sometimes it's 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.240 good that they don't know what they don't know. Just 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.359 just continue to play. They're confident, continue to play with 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.920 confidence and let the chips fall where they may. Speaking 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.439 of history, even though Joe Burrow did not play, he 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.040 finishes the year with four thousand and six hundred eleven 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.080 passing yards. That's a Bengals single season record, thirty four 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.680 touchdown passes, also a Bengals single season record, pass a 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.080 rating of one h eight point three that's a single 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.520 season Bengals record. Also the first Bengals corp back ever 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.680 to be sacked fifty times in a year. Fifty one 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.120 turned out to be the final number. And then there 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.119 is Jamar Chase with his two catches in Cleveland eighty 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.919 one catches, one thousand, four hundred and fifty five yards 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:18.680 in thirteen touchdown passes, all records for a Bengals rookie. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.639 The fourteen fifty five a single season record period for 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.639 a Bengals wide receiver. He was everything the Bengals dreamed 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.480 he would be and more. There's no doubt. I mean, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:34.840 Jamar Chase, you made a decision, all right. Our offensive 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:39.560 line needs some fortification. Pinney Sell could have provided that 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.760 he had a good year. This guy is a playmaker, 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:49.639 a touchdown maker extraordinaire. He is amongst the most explosive 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.240 players in the National Football League immediately right now in 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.600 his first year, and I think opposing defensive coordinators and 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.920 opposing defensive players would would say the same thing. I mean, 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.600 this guy's gonna draw a lot of attention. And the chemistry, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:10.639 the magic, the intangibles that exist between Joe Burrow and 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.239 Jamar Chaser a site to behold. They really are. And 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.480 I don't think they're gonna get worst in They're only 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.240 going to get better. If anything. Next week we get 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.160 the opportunity to call a Bengals playoff win. It's been 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.440 too long. With Joe Burrow it in charge. It's gonna 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.639 happen sometime soon, and hopefully it happens in his first 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.359 crack at it next week. I think they have a 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.480 really good shot. I mean, I think he's playing at 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.240 his high a level as any quarterback in the National 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.160