WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Pick Yourself Up 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.680 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:12.800 the Bengals Booth podcast, The Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.680 and start all over again. Addition, going all the way 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.840 back to Nat King Cole for that intro, and it 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.640 feels like you have to go back that far to 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.400 remember a Bengals win. As Cincinnati fell to Owen seven 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.520 on Sunday. With a twenty seven seventeen loss to Jacksonville 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.080 coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments, and 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.920 Dave Lapham will join me for postgame analysis plus and 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.880 this week's fun facts conversation. We'll meet the person under 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.640 the pads as I'll talk to William Wilson Webb better 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.600 known as b W Webb, a Bengals newcomer this year 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.880 who is out there playing every week with a broken 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.800 bone in his right arm. All of that is straight ahead, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.960 but first, here's a quick reminder that you can have 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.240 the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:10.360 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:16.120 or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since Nita's Brownies. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.800 On Wednesday nights, when Dave Lapham and I take the 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.800 Bengals game Plan show on the road. 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Cincinnati's four running 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.480 plays went for minus six yards, but thanks to a 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:17.200 great goal line stand, Jacksonville didn't score. Now they're going 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.959 to give it to Fournette. He leaps and he did 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.160 not get in. No Bengals with a goal stop Preston 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.680 Brown bub meeting Leonard Fournette in mid air and perfecting 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.919 the Jaguars from scoring. It starts with the defensive line. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.800 You have to get penetration and push re established the 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.720 line of scrimmage backwards. They do that and allows Preston 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.440 Brown to get airborne and meet him before the goal line. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.320 He jumped Mike Tournette did a couple of Brahma bulls 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.160 hitting above the line of scrimmage. That's basically how the 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.040 first half went for the Bengals defense. They allowed a 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.600 whopping three hundred nine yards in the half, but Jacksonville 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.720 drove into the red zone three times and came away 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.359 with just six points. Here's Jesse Bates, I thought we 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.640 did a really good at field goals. You know, it 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.360 looks kind of bad on papers. We give up a 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.480 lot of yards and stuff like that, but um, I 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.360 think we did a really good job of field goals, um, 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.720 you know, and just continue to fight. The Bengals, on 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.080 the other hand, struggled to move the ball in the 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:19.680 first half, hunting on their first five possessions, but with 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:24.000 two fourteen left in the half, they finally got something going. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.760 Dalton back to throw against the four man rush. The 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.200 protection is good. Fires a fastball over the by ericson 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.160 you get into Jack's territory at the forty near sideline. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.600 Thirty pushed out of bounds at the twenty. A big 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.960 play at last, Jared Wilson shoves Alex Rikson out of 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.040 bounds right at the twenty yard line forty eight yards 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.800 on the play. Andy Dalton's first six pass completions all 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.400 went to Alex Erickson for one hundred ten yards, and 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.800 he's only other pass completion of the first half gave 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.040 Cincinnati the lead. Dalton throws a pass it is caught 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:06.480 touchdown Joe Mixon. If you can't run it in, throw 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.160 it to all right, and he catches a two yard 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.040 touchdown pass to give Cincinnati the lead. The Bengals had 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.280 a seven six halftime lead and got the ball to 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.120 begin the third quarter. To put it mildly, they did 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.760 not capitalize. First, Alex Rikson dropped a perfectly thrown deep 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.239 ball that would have gained at least thirty yards. Then, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.880 after a long pass was completed to Audumn Tate, the 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.520 Bengals had a free play when Jacksonville jumped off sides 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.719 and Dalton tried to pull an Aaron Rodgers by throwing deep. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.920 Not only was his pass incomplete, but the Bengals didn't 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.520 even get the five yard penalty because a chop block 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.760 by Joe Mixon superseded it for a loss of fifteen. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.240 What else could go wrong? The Bengals found out on 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.120 the very next play, tightly clustered formation, quick throw out 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.600 to Tyler boy boy breaking a tackle right, he did 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.400 a fifty still on his feet to the Jacksonville forty 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.200 five ball. The ball comes out Jacksonville recover at the 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.719 forty four yard line. Tyler Boyd also dropped at least 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.680 two passes, and his fumble led to a field goal 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.839 that gave the Jags and nine to seven lead. Here's 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.080 Alex ericson on the Bengals offensive ineptitude. That's been our problem. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.600 Can't make the plays, you know, looking at myself right there. Um, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.160 gotta make that play. Gotta you know, get his jump 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.000 start in the second half, and UM, you know it's 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.279 just it's been sort of over season, not building making 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.160 enough plays, and um, today it was no different. Um 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:38.840 just pointing out myself on that one. You know, I 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.240 gotta make that play. And I know a lot of 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.080 other guys are saying the same thing about other players 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.760 out the game, and UM, you know, when it's you're 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.920 in the battle of you know, trying to get a win. Um, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.280 every plays every play matters, um and we're not good 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.080 enough to overcome, you know, the bad plays right now, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.120 So we gotta be able to really locked in and 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.159 just make every play. It was ten nine Cincinnati going 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.680 to the fourth the third time this year the Bengals 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.599 have had a lead in the fourth quarter, but as 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.560 was the case against Seattle and Buffalo, they could not 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.279 hold on to it. Mins she was ready, catches the ball, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.880 drops to throw Lobs went toward the back right corner 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.760 of the end zone. It is caught and it's a touchdown. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.560 A two point conversion made its seventeen ten Jacksonville, but 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.800 the Bengals immediately answered by driving into the red zone. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.840 The Bengals habit first and ten at the fifteen yard line, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.920 Bernard and Mixon both in the game. Dalton is back 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.960 to throw Cocks the arms intercepted by Miles Jack. Linebacker 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.039 Miles Jack cutting in front of Tyler Boyd to pick 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.120 off a pass that was slightly underthrown. It was only 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:49.400 the tenth red zone interception in Dalton's nine NFL seasons, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.000 and it was a killer. The offense got the ball 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.880 back with about five minutes left, and things went from 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.600 bad to brutal Dalton sets up a screen. Is it 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:05.720 right to Jacksonville? It's a pick six for Yannique in Goackway. Well, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.120 I'll tell you who the key guy was on that one, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.360 Brian Travan. Brian had the quick pressure and as a 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.840 result of the quick pressure, Andy Dalton throws it where 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.400 he thinks he's going to have a receiver and instead 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.640 of a receiver it turns out to be in Gotway. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.000 The defensive ends twenty three yard pick six made it 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.760 twenty four to ten. And when it rains it pours. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.720 Andy Dalton is ready for the shotgun, Snap catches the ball, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.840 he is back to throw, flames it off of the middle. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.760 It is intercept and can running it back to the 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.200 fifty down to the Bengals forty and the Bengals will 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:47.160 bring down Ronnie Harrison after Jacksonville's third interception in the 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.280 fourth quarter, Wow, that led to a field goal and 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.800 made it twenty seven ten and the game was out 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.880 of reach. The Bengals made the final score a bit 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.200 more respectable with less than a minute to go, third 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.280 and goal from the one. It is a quarterback sneak. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.040 They pushed Dalton from behind and he goes into the 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.400 end zone for his third rushing touchdown of the year. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.040 The only Bengal who has scored a touchdown on the 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:20.000 ground in twenty nineteen. Crazy Joe Mixon leads the AFC 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:25.240 and rushing last season. Joe Mixon far from a threat 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.440 to do that this year and doesn't have a rushing 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.679 touchdown in seven football games. Speaking of Mixon, he carried 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.200 ten times for two yards. Giovanni Bernard had four carries 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.160 for zero two. Jets sweeps for Alex Erickson went from 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.360 minus two that sixteen running plays for a total of 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.000 zero yards. Here's offensive lineman Alex Redman on the sad 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.520 state of the Bengals running game. I mean, every football 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.640 team has got to assert some kind of run game, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.360 unless obviously you're one of the aired out kind of teams. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.959 But yeah, I mean that's crucial for us just to 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.560 find that rhythm and flow. Unfortunately we haven't been able 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.560 to find it. No, they have not. The Bengals are 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.640 on a pace to rush for eight hundred fifty yards 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.000 this season. The lowest rushing total for a season in 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.280 team history was nine hundred forty nine yards, set back 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.480 in nineteen eighty two. So that was ninety nine more 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.600 yards than the bengals current pace. Are you ready for this? 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.240 Nineteen eighty two was a strike season and the Bengals 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.200 only played nine games. The final score Sunday was twenty 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.160 seven seventeen as the Bengals fell to O and seven. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.920 In case you're wondering, the worst start in team history 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.120 is and ten in nineteen ninety three. The bengals next 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.480 three games are against the Rams in London, the Ravens 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.200 at home, and the Raiders in Oakland. Barring something unforeseen, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.439 Cincinnati will be an underdog in all three games. After 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.600 Sunday's loss, Lap spent three and a half minutes with 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.679 head coach Zach Taylor. Coach a tough one, particularly in 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.080 that in that fourth quarter when you have, you know, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.960 three interceptions in like a five pass attempt sequence. I mean, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.480 it's hard to hard to stay stay in a game 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.480 in the NFL. Really, sorry, you know, we knew it 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:19.880 was gonna be tough. Game is gonna be come down 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.240 a field position and turnovers, and unfortunately we had four. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.840 They had none, and that's what it comes down to. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.880 Fuel position. In the early stage of the game, Kevin 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.160 Hubert was pinning them. He was booming kicks. I mean, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.280 you guys had a big, huge field position advantage even 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.800 though they were generating yards. I mean, defense is playing 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.000 good red zone defense enough putting points on the board, 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.920 you get your you know, first red zone opportunity to 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.080 throw seven on the board and take a lead. So, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.240 you know, the field position part of it, you know, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.079 was working pretty well. But again, you know, the turnovers 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.160 basically unfold everything. Yeah, I thought the defense, you know, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.640 they gave a lot of yards on the first drive. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.120 They had the great goal on stand. They've done a 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.600 good job in the little red zone, and then they 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.920 got some good backed up stands back there and then 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.360 having the pun team, we're doing a great job put 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.760 him down. We just didn't get anything going on offense 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.360 give ourselves a chance to get points on the board. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.720 Particularly you know, the running game once again, I mean 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.360 I think Joe had two yards on ten carries. I 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.520 think the positive yards I mean Andy Dalton had. I 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.400 think he ended up with thirty Stomwad yards and they 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.120 were all Andy Dalton. I mean, the running backs were 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.400 negated by tackler for loss. Any positives they had on 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.160 attempts was negated by by negatives. So I mean when 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.600 you can't get the running game unlocked at all, I mean, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.840 playing one hand behind your back like that is tough 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.760 in this league, and it's hard. We gotta win our 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.040 matchups up front. And there are plenty of times when 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.760 you could see there, there's a good run there, and 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.000 at the last second we're getting defeated on a block. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.800 And so we got to step up and take ownership 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.680 and figure out a way to fix it, because that's frustrating. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.000 That's a tough way to play when you can't run 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.760 the ball. So Alex Erickson steps up and makes some 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.640 plays for you. Eight catches one hundred and thirty seven 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.080 yards And talked to him earlier, and you know, he's 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.280 obviously the kind of guy he is. He's lamenting the 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:55.520 ones that he could have had. You know, he could 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.000 have had about a two hundred yard day if he 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.439 catches everything. And but that's I guess, you know, that's 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.200 that's kind of the story. You know. It's like when 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.000 you when you need to have plays made, they're not 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.559 always being made, are there? In these tight games, every 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.920 play matters, And so h felt like we maybe had 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.440 six or seven drops today that hurt us a couple 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.360 times up front. You know, maybe a guy went the 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.960 wrong way on some runs. That hurt us. And so 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:20.520 that's a tough way to play game. And a game 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:21.840 like this, when you know it's gonna be tough, it's 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.160 a tough to you're funny, gets a good defense, and 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.200 that hurt us. You played the position. When a quarterback 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:28.920 is trying to make a play in the fourth quarter 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.120 and maybe trying to do too much to make a 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.960 play in the fourth quarter, is that what you have 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.760 to fight. It's hard well to take a look at 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.200 you know, one of them is a screen pass the 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.040 backgut picked off and um, so it's a pick six. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:41.920 You know, that's that's not what I put on the quarterback. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.760 That's that's everybody up front. And then the other two 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.400 we got to look at those. Those are tough. You know. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.200 It's we're in the red zone, um, about to score, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.839 and defense made a play and it was a real 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.280 drive killer. So you're looking at everybody's defense up front 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.800 seems to be you know, a cut above. I mean, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.760 they're every every card carrying giant seems to be playing 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.679 in the National Football League and their athletes to boot 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.599 you know on that side of the football. You know, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.880 next time, next week's game in London against Aaron Donald, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.080 you're all familiar with that. I mean that dude defensive 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.240 MVP twice as a defensive tackle. I mean, people are 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.199 putting four hands and four eyes on him and he's 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.079 still he's still killing people. That that guy's He's a 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.800 unique talent, a real challenge in her hands. He's one 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.160 of the best players I've ever been around. Um, I 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.079 think anyone who's ever coach on the same team he's 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.280 on played again, someone would say that. And so let's 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.000 figure out a way to be a ficial on offense. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.880 Now time for some postgame analysis, and we start with 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.920 the bengals sputtering offense. Cincinnati is averaging sixteen points and 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.800 three hundred five yards a game, only fifty three of 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.400 those yards on the ground, and the problems begin up front. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.760 Lap We know the offensive line isn't good. They've been 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.440 battered by injury. They got some guys out there that 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.680 have not done well in a Bengals for him since 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.000 they've been here. But is that it is that the 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.360 reason why the Bengals offense is struggling, or as the 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.360 play calling doesn't question the ball. Has Andy Dalton been 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.160 bad bad? What would you say? I would say all 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.800 of the above is true, but it starts with the 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.120 offensive line is the head of the snake. When the 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.360 offensive line is struggling, everybody else struggles. When the offensive 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.960 line plays well, everybody eats. Everybody plays well. When the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.560 offensive line is playing well, your whole playbook's open to you. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.920 As a play caller, you can call anything you want. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.600 When it's not playing well for you. As a play caller, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.640 you're limited, and you're struggling. As a quarterback, your clock 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.560 has changed. You're struggling even when you're not being pressured. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.720 Do you think you are? You're seeing ghosts, you know, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.800 in the pocket and all those kind of things. I mean, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.280 it has such a huge ripple effect. Receivers running routes. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.800 Who is the indy under pressure? Who I need to 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.600 I better try to you know, cut this rout off 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.600 maybe a little bit soon, a little bit quicker. It 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.000 just has a huge trickle down effect, and it leads 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.920 to what happened in the in the fourth quarter three 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.400 interceptions because you know, Jacksonville's just pinning their ears back 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.800 and teeing off. You know the Bengals defense was on 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.360 the field too long because the offense of ineptitude. And 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.680 again it all starts with not getting enough done up 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.040 front on a consistent basis, and it's got a huge 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.360 ripple effect throughout the whole team. The rushing numbers were 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.120 mind boggling in this game. It's been a problem all year, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.520 but nothing like it was in this game. To sixteen 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.080 rushing yard for Jackson Bill, thirty three for Cincinnati, all 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.400 thirty three for Andy Dalton. The Bengals tried sixteen running 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.960 plays to either Joe Mixon, Giovanni Bernard and Alex Erickson 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.320 and did not gain a single yard. Incredible. I mean, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.720 you can't make it up. It's almost impossible to comprehend. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.600 And Andy Dalton had his third rushing touchdown. Joe Mixon, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.480 Giovanni Bernard none. They don't have a rushing touchdown other 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:58.680 than the quarterback. So it's I don't care who you're 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.120 playing against defense in the National Football League, when you 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.240 have no running game, I don't mean just you're struggling 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.680 running it. I mean no running game zero other than 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.280 your quarterback running in the football that's one and a 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.040 half hands tied behind your back. You're in trouble. And 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.200 in the fourth quarter it finally, you know, the dam 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.520 broke and Andy threw the interceptions. You know, the one 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.880 screen pass, he's under pressure. They don't even slowing up 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.400 guys on the screen pass, and the back gets picked 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.840 out of the backfield, runs into a defensive lineman and 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.320 he's just trying to get rid of the ball to 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.760 the screen area. There's no screen receiver and it's a 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:37.480 pick six. So you know, that's the drive that kind 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.200 of is a nutshell of the season. And me, it 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.120 was the first drive at the third quarter, Alex Derickson 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.560 drops the ball that was for big yards, comes right 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.640 back to Audum Tate completes the ball down the football field. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.880 Defense Jaguars jump offside. They call him a legal chop 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.240 block on Joe Mixon. So Andy thinks he's got a 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.520 free play. It doesn't take advantage of the free play 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.800 down the field. But instead of the five yard penalty 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.800 first and five, they were kind of lized fifteen yards 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.399 and it's first and twenty five and then the fumble, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.000 So yeah, should have had that completion. I'm still going forward. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.840 I'm going to get one penalty sets me back behind 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.080 the chains like I've been almost all year long, and 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:25.240 then a fumble, So that to me encapsulates the offensive 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.480 struggles all year long, setting themselves back behind the chains, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.879 you know, turning the football over. Whatever it may be, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.320 it's just not good enough. You mentioned that fumble early 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.720 in the third quarter. It was committed by Tyler Boyd, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.800 who had a rough game couple of drops plus the fumble. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.919 He's obviously been the Bengals best offensive player to this 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.840 point of the season, but he wasn't today. After the game, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.520 sat at his locker, back to the rest of the room, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.080 staring down. I asked him if he was up for 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.040 talking about the game. He said no, which I guess 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.639 is understandable. But if Tyler Boyd struggles the way this 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.720 offence is going right now, it is going to be 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.120 hard to get anything going. Yeah, And then that's where 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.280 Alex Rikson tried to step up. Tyler Boyd was struggling. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.920 Alex Rikson eight catches f one hundred and twenty three yards, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.280 one hundred twenty seven yards whatever it was. But he'll 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.119 be the first to tell you he could have a 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.800 couple of hundred if he catches everything, and he had 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.000 you know, a couple of drops, Tyler Boyd, A couple 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.800 of drops, you know, that's the thing. I mean, Andy 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.480 Dalton probably suffered half a dozen drops or more during 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.240 the course of the game. And then you start to press, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.680 You start to press as a quarterback in the fourth quarter, 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.720 trying to make plays. Tyler Boyd starts to press. You know, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.879 he let's one drop turn into another. And that's that's 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.880 where you have to have that selective amnesia. Put it aside. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.359 I can't let one bad play turn into multiple bad plays. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.520 And that's what's happening to this football team individually and 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.920 collectively right now, offensively, and it happened on defense too. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.280 B W. Webb, who's out there gutting it out with 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.679 a broken bone in his right forearm. He missed an 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.040 opportunity to possible pick six on Jacksonville's opening possession and 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.440 had another opp tunity at an interception later in the game. Yeah, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.320 and you know, Jesse Bates was saying that Minshew put 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.600 three up there. There's three that they had their hands 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.720 on that they feel like, you get your hands on him, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.560 you got to catch the football. And it's ironic that 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.720 the great Ken Riley was here as one of the 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.920 legends for this football game because he had sixty five 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.040 interceptions where people throwing the ball maybe twenty times a game, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.440 and he had sixty five picks. So when it was 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.800 there for him to catch it, he caught it. And 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.440 that's the bottom line. When opportunities there, take full advantage. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.119 Don't let them fall by the wayside. There was a 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:38.200 positive on Sunday against Jacksonville. The old Geno Atkins was bad. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.080 He was I mean, he bowled a couple of offensive 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.360 lineman big time, threw him around. He had two quarterback 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.440 sacks early in the football game. Gino played played pretty 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.119 darn well. The other guy, I'm going to give a 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.600 nod to Kevin Huber. He dictated field position now, I 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.200 mean Kevin Huber boom the ball. His average was forty 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.520 eight point three, his net was forty five point eight 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.840 inside the twenty no touchbacks. So he pinned. He pinned 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.159 them back. I mean he was making them go long field, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.359 you know, and they were. They were gained in yards. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.359 I mean they had an over three hundred yards in 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.920 the first half and had six points. And it was 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.920 all because Huber was pinning them back so deep they 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.320 had to go more first downs than they really felt 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.760 like they were going to have to score points. So 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.800 Kevin Huber played well as well Alex Darks, and there's 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.359 a few you know, spots guys that you can say 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.880 played played decently, but as as as a totality, nowhere 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:36.879 near good enough. Next, Zach Taylor's current team faces his 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.600 former team, the defending NFC champion La Rams, who improved 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.320 to four and three on Sunday by blowing out the 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:48.680 Falcons thirty seven to ted. Now time for this week's 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.080 fun facts interview, where we get to know the person 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.760 under the pads. This week, it's a defensive back who 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.959 joined the Bengals as a free agent this offseason and 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.800 has been playing since Week two with a broken bone 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.280 in his right arm. Time for some fun facts with 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.640 Bengals cornerback b W Webb. Your given name is William 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:14.600 Wilson Webb. Why b W? People always forget the junior? Sorry, 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.320 it's all good, but um um named under my father. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.200 So uh no, he goes by Bill and Bill sore 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.679 for williams. So I just go I should go by 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.560 b W. It's got a nice ring to it, I 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.359