WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: We've Only Just Begun 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.640 Hi, get everybody on dan Horde, and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:13.760 the Bengals Booth podcast. The Only just Begun addition, as 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.680 we take an in depth look at Saturday's preseason opener 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.960 at Kansas City, the unofficial start of the Zach Taylor era. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.400 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from the game, locker 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.880 room comments from players and coaches, and Dave lapp Them 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.720 will join me for postgame analysis. Plus in this week's 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.200 Fun Facts Conversation, it's cornerback Dray Kirkpatrick on a wide 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.519 variety of topics ranging from growing up a preacher's kid 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.320 in Alabama to what would surprise us about his college 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.840 coach Nick Saban. All of that is straight ahead, but first, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.240 here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:54.000 edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:59.360 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:06.319 or pod Bean. It's the greatest convention since refrigerated kit Cats. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.959 One of the many perks of traveling with the Bengals 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.959 is that our awesome flight attendants pass out candy bars 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.520 on the flight home. For me, that means grabbing a 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.160 king sized kit cat, placing it in the freezer when 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.200 I get home, and then enjoying the refrigerated goodness in 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.759 the days that follow. But here's a key warning. Don't 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:34.560 put a Snickers in the freezer. You might lose a tooth. Now, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.800 let's get to football. Many of the bengals best players 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.920 didn't take the field in the preseason opener at Kansas City, 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:46.120 including aj Green, Joe Mixon, Giovanni, Bernard Tyler, Reifer, Geno Atkins, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.960 Karl Lawson, and Will Jackson, either due to injury or 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.480 to make sure they don't get hurt in a game 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.120 that doesn't count. But Andy Dalton did take the field. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.680 It's important for him to get at least some live 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.400 varience with Zach Taylor calling the plays, and things could 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.880 not have gone better. On the Bengals opening drive, third 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.440 down and eleven at the Kansas City forty yard line, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.720 Autum Tate goes in motion out to the right, just 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.560 outside the numerals shotgun snap. Dalton, looking left now dumps 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.679 it off to a running back for a screen tray 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.200 ViOn Williams charging up the numerals, he'll pick up a 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.280 first down. On third and eleven, he gets tackled at 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.680 the Kansas City twenty seven. Dalton floats one four tight. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.720 He high points the ball and he pulls it in. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.720 He's tackled inside the one. It will be first in 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.240 goal as autum Tate used his height to pull it 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.720 in over chart various ward. Trevion Williams remains the running back. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.080 Dalton gives it to him again and Williams goes low 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.120 and takes it into the end zone for an opening 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.959 touchdown for Cincinnati. We are in the locker room with 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.919 rookie running back trey ViOn Williams. Let the records show 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.840 the Bengals scored a touchdown on the opening drive of 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.239 the preseason, and you scored it in your first NFL 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.680 preseason game. You've got an ear to ear grin. It's 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.240 a great moment, man. It's crazy. You know, growing up 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.240 you have wishes of planning in NFL and just like 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.040 just walking on the field before the game, you know, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.280 just thinking like wow, this is this is actually happened. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.280 You know, me being in my first NFL game and 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.880 then being able to escort at NFL touchdown and my debut. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.680 You know, it's a blessing. So I thank God and 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.359 thank my teammates. And thank his organization for giving me 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.360 an opportunity. It was a fourteen play, seventy five yard 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.680 touchdown drive that chewed up nearly half of the first quarter. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.040 Dalton went seven for nine for eighty yards and only 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.760 made one bad throw slightly under throwing Josh Malone and 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.760 what would have been a thirty nine yard touchdown. Yeah, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.760 it just surprised me a little bit. I wasn't ready 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.160 to really get it out there, and so I left 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.040 it short. Unfortunately that the drive shouldn't have been a 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.160 fifteen play drive. It should have been a ten play drive. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.600 But I mean for us to overcome overcome that too. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.320 But yeah, it was close. Considering that it Zach's debut. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.760 Was it cool to go back to the sideline after 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.600 the opening drive and essentially say, okay, how's that? Yeah? 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.960 I thought it was good. Now obviously happy for him. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.040 You know, to to get the ball, get the kickoff 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.680 and drive down, score touchdown. I think that's that's what 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.240 you want to do. I mean, the first time being 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.400 the head coach, first time out there, you know, call 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.840 and plays for us, it's you want to score every 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.040 time you got the ball, and so for us to 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.680 do in the first one was big. Dalton was done 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.919 after one drive, and then the NFL's reigning MVP took 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.680 his turn. Twenty three year old Patrick Mahomes started the 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.760 Chiefs first drive with a thirty seven yard laser to 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.000 Travis Kelcey. That was the big strike. On a seven 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.960 play eighty three yard touchdown drive second and goal from 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.080 the one for KC. Mahomes takes a shotgun snap. It's 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.040 a handoff to hide Andy thunders into the end zone 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.640 for a Kansas City touchdown. Mahomes was four for four 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.760 for sixty six yards. It also had a ten yard run. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.160 Here's Bengals linebacker Hardy Nickerson on why the Chiefs are 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.880 so darn hard to defend. They come out in all 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.200 type of formations, all type of different plays, different runs 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.240 with passes, combos off of it. So it was a 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.120 lot of It was a lot of plays on the perimeter, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:16.120 you know, chasing sideline the sideline definitely we see a 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.880 lot kind of in our offense. So it was it's 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.280 one of those games where you're running a lot, you 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.320 get a little tired. I would think more like exhausted 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.040 from chasing the fastest team on offense in the NFL. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.159 The Chiefs already had Tyree Hill and Sammy Watkins. In 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.480 the second round of the draft this year, they selected 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.400 wide receiver me Cole Hardman out of Georgia, who ran 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.960 a four three three forty at the combine. Here's a 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.839 jet suite Hardman to the ten, the five and into 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.920 the end zone for Kansas City touchdown that gave the 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.560 Chiefs of fourteen seven lead, and a field goal in 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.680 the final minute of the second quarter made it seventeen 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.640 seven KC. The Chiefs were the highest scoring team in 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.880 the nf FELL last year, and when the Bengals faced 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:06.400 them in Week seven, Cincinnati didn't force a single punt. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.800 The Bengals forced four of them on Saturday Night, but 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.280 since it was a preseason game, the sure handed Alex 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.039 Ericsson was not. The Bengals punt returner Phillips waits for 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.960 this punt back at the twenty five. This one much better. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.240 Phillips back pedaling, good hang time. He tops it at 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.280 the nineteen. This time it does not bounce right back 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.360 into his stomach. There's a pile at the nineteen yard 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.560 line Kansas City and the Chiefs recover. It's a killer. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.520 Two plays after the second muffed punt of the night 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.080 by Darius Phillips. Chase Litton threw a touchdown pass to 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.720 Darwin Thompson, giving the Chiefs at twenty four to seven lead. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.440 The Bengals got three points back on a forty seven 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:51.400 yard field goal by Tristan Viscano in his NFL preseason debut. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.560 The next time the Chiefs punted, Quinton Flowers went back 0:06:55.600 --> 0:07:00.880 to return it. Call quit launches it, Flowers, that's it bounced. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.160 There are a couple of Bengals right there. It might 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.080 have hit a Cincinnati player on the leg. Yeah it did, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.440 and the Chiefs recover. Unbelievable. Chiefs will take over at 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.360 the Bengals thirty five yard line, and that led to 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.640 a fourteen yard touchdown pass from Lytton to Dion Yelder 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.040 that made it thirty one ten going to the fourth quarter. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.400 The biggest bright spot in the second half of the 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.520 Bengals was the play of rookie quarterback Ryan Finley, the 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.040 fourth round draft pick out of nc STAY directed a 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.320 nine play, sixty seven yard drive that ended with the 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.840 bengals second touchdown of the night. From the ten yard line. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.000 Ryan Finley catches the shotgun snaps scanning the defense. Now 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.600 he frows it has caught at the seven at Ellis, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.000 We'll run it into the end zone for a Bengals touchdown. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.800 Blue coverage that time, nobody picked up back out of 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.920 the backfield. Finley stepped up in the pocket and he 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.400 surveyed everything through right, never came back to the left, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.840 stepped up and said, oh my gosh, nobody's got my 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.880 running back, No linebacker, no safety's got my back out 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.440 of the backfield. Little pitch and catch for a touchdown. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.760 We're in the locker room with rookie running back Jordan Ellis, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.280 who found the end zone in his first NFL preseason 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.600 game on that touchdown pass from Ryan Finlay. It's got 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.760 to be a nice feeling to catch the ball, turn 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.400 around and don't see anybody standing in your way from 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.160 the goal line. It's definitely crazy my first touchdown, you know, 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.240 be untouched, but man, it's definitely it definitely still feels surreal. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.200 Doesn't even feel like it really happened. But just bless 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.320 my God to behind my first touchdown my first game. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.800 I mean, that's that's just a blessing and I'm just 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.520 looking forward to many more in the NFL. Finlay finished 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.640 thirteen for eighteen for one hundred nine yards and had 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.880 a passer rating above one hundred before his final throw 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:46.079 of the night was intercepted. I felt really comfortable. It was, 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.800 you know, just watching Andy and Jeff go before me. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.240 I just felt like, uh, you know, going there and 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:52.760 just you know, keep trying to move the ball down 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.520 the field. And I felt really good. As far as 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.719 assimilating the offense as it's come on a day to 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.640 day basis everything for you there, absolutely, that's that's part 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.160 of the fun for me and this offense is it's 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.520 a pretty it's pretty ingenious offense, and um, you know, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.840 excited obviously it was very base tonight, but excited for um, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.040 you know, for Andy to have just all all those 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.120 stuff at his disposal, so that'd be fun. The Chiefs 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.599 scored the game's final touchdown with one fifty six to 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:26.439 go to win thirty eight to seventeen. Like most preseason openers, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.679 it was ugly at times. Each team had eleven penalties, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.280 The Bengals only managed to cleanly catch one out of 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.400 four punts, and the Bengals defense allowed four hundred yards 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:42.280 to eighty five passing and one fifteen rushing Dave Lapham 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.520 spoke to Zach Taylor in the locker room a few 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:49.040 minutes after his first ever game as a head coach. Defensively, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.200 you know, I thought, initially the guys were in position 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.640 to make some plays. We're just gonna step up and 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.240 make them. And then overall the physicality and the tacklings 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.040 got improved. A lot of guys were in position just 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.319 look like they're excited. And then and so that excitement 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:02.920 leted them wearing down a little bit as that game 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.760 got on, and guys got to step up and rack 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.360 up and make some tackles. And you know, we had 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.439 a minded sticks a few times and let him back 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.719 in it with some depis and so they'd score on 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.880 the next play. And then special teams, I thought that 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.199 the depth has got to step up. You know, I 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.280 thought the first units played well on special teams. We 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:19.840 got to be better on the partment returns. You know, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.720 two tournaments there. That's gonna lose you a lot of games. 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.360 And so those guys got to be a little more disciplined. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.720 Thinking back to when we met this morning, you said, 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:27.959 you know, I want and you get the ball out 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.160 of his hand. Quickly, and I want him take a 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.679 deep shot. I'll be a son of a gun man. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.200 He's getting the ball out of his hand, moving it 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.240 and like you said, overcoming first and twenty you know, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.200 with a holding penalty. And then he took the shot 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.960 and just that ball was a little bit under throne obviously, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.719 but it was there for him. So I mean, the 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.360 thing unfolded just the way you said it would. Sometimes 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.720 those deep balls, the easiest ones are the hardest ones, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.720 you know, because you think it's such a layup that 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.920 you don't quite you don't quite throw like you normally would. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.200 And it was good. He got another opportunity there, just 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.400 just real quick after that, and it threw nice ball 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.920 over there to Audum tay and aud made the play. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.040 So and he's poise is something that has always really 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.680 excited me. He's always a very calming influence on the 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.120 group and doesn't panic. And that show tonight. So what 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.439 what's your message to your team? You know after a 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.920 game like this, is it to you know, um, you know, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.240 move on, or is it let's learn from mistakes or 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:18.880 is it a combination of all that? What do you do? 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.840 This is the NFL that that should have been a 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.280 game that came out of the wire and we'd have 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.000 a chance to win. But the turnovers and the penalties 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.120 are going to lose you games the NFL against really 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.760 good football teams like the Chiefs, and so fortunately for us, 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.640 this one doesn't count. We get to turn around in 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.319 five games and and uh, you know, correct those mistakes 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.359 that we made and give our guys the second opportunity, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.880 and so excited that we had to quick turnaround and 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.720 get a chance to go redeem ourselves. Finley went thirteen 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.360 sixteen hundred and nine yards and a touchdown pass um 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.280 what do you think his play? Just you know, I 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.360 know you haven't had a chance obviously to study it, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.880 but just eyeball very poised, had confidence in him. You know, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.160 he was a clear communicating in the huddle. His helmet 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.000 didn't work the very first series and so he had 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.439 to run back and forth kind of like he was 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.840 back in seventh Great, I would imagine, you know, and 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.960 it didn't affect him in any way. He was poised, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.720 got back in the huddle and made good decisions, found 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.679 the backs when he needed to. We called a couple 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.160 of shots that weren't there, and he just checked it 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.800 down and so impressed with his first day running the football. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.040 I think the longest run from scrimmage, if ever, calls 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.840 like five yards, and I know you gotta, you know, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.960 you want, you want more than that out of your 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.720 running game. Obviously, that's that's a point of emphasis coming up. Yeah, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.800 you know, and we're not gonna ask them to do 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.400 too much up front and the run game in these 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.520 preseason games. But it's still the plays we gotta be called, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.120 we gotta be targeted correctly and help those backs out 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.920 a little bit. So it could have been better in 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.960 the run game, you know, And we looked improve that 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.240 next week against Washington. And now the weird stat of 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.720 the night, Kansas City is ten and oh all time 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.160 in preseason games against the Bengals. When the games count, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.160 Cincinnati leads the series fifteen to fourteen. Now time for 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.479 postgame analysis with LAB. Let's start with the obvious positive 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.000 LAB and that was the Bengals first drive of the 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.800 Zach Taylor era. They marked seventy five yards and score 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.120 a touchdown. Andy Dalton very sharp on the drive, although 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.320 he did just miss a long touchdown pass to Josh Malone. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.560 There was a little bit underthrown, but he bounced right back, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.920 led the Bengals into the end zone and had the 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.880 pleasure of going back to the sideline and basically saying 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.719 to Zach Taylor, hey, is that good enough for you? Right? 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.120 Good start? Fourteen plays, seventy five yards. You know you're right. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.360 Sometimes the toughest throw for the quarterback to make is 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.840 when the wide receivers wide open and you're just trying 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.400 to hit a layup, you know, and you missed the bunny, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.959 you missed the chippy. So but he did come right back, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.840 throws the ball out and Tape makes a great play 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.880 for him, gets him down to the one yard line, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.440 and then they scored the touchdown, so that that definitely 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.000 was a positive. And it unfolded just like Zach Taylor 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.679 had said in the production meeting, and he wanted to 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.240 end to get the ball out of his hand quickly, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.240 didn't want to put him at risk for injury. And 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.440 then at some point earned the drive, take a shot, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.400 and it all unfolded exactly that win ends up fourteen 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.320 play touchdown drive. I thought another positive was Ryan Finley 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.240 thirteen sixteen, you know, well over one hundred yards and 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.880 had a touchdown pass and I thought that, you know, 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.679 I think he's getting more and more familiar, you know, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.520 with the offense. The Kansas Chiefs weren't doing anything real exotic. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:12.760 You know, he got a chance to watch it in 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.720 the first half, and you know, he said they didn't 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.719 do anything differently when he got in the football game, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.200 so he was he was kind of ready to perform. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.520 I thought he performed pretty well. The biggest negative giveaways 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.080 the Bengals had four turnovers in the game, two interceptions, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.080 including one on a hail mary, so you almost don't 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.880 count that. But they had two opportunities to get the 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.160 ball after stopping Kansas City, which is hard to do. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.240 And when you forced the Chiefs to punt, you better 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.640 be able to field the punt. Absolutely put it on 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.680 the ground three times, lost two of them. And then 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.720 you know, had the two interceptions, one of hail mary, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.880 like you said, but they scored fourteen points off of those, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.600 you know, giveaways that the Bengals had. The Bengals got 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.320 no points off the one takeaway, but Hardy Nickerson had 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.320 he had the interception in the red zone. So turnovers 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.560 played a big part in the game. Um not only 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.720 turning it over but leading to points that you know, 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.440 fourteen of the twenty one points you lose by or 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.800 something that could have been avoided. So you know, you 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.040 look at that, you look at double digit penalties for 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.360 well over one hundred yards. I mean, you know, even 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.400 in the first drive they had to overcome a first 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.840 and twenty you know, and they did so, so you know, 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.800 those kind of things that self destructure will interrupt momentum 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.560 and you know, get you just out of your rhythm 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.720 of play calling and execution. So that that's that's all 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.760 going to get cleaned up. You know, the Bengals defense 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.120 had penalties, They missed a bunch of tackles. There's no 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.920 way that they didn't have double digit mis tackles. So 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.160 you know a lot of times they were in position 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.680 to make plays and they'd make the initial hit, but 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.400 you know, instead of taking the ground to just be 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.880 dragging and getting dragged for you know, for extra yarded 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.840 So U that has to change and I think it will. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.640 Last year, in the Bengals lost in the regular season 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.440 here at Kansas City, those miss tackles were a huge 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.720 problem in that game. They had eighteen according to Pro 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.520 Football Focus, the most that they have ever measured in 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.880 a regular season game. How much is that is? How 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.720 much of that is Kansas City's speed. I think it's 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.920 a factor, you know. I think that you know, you 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.520 get in practice and you're playing at as fast at 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.720 Temple as you can in practice. But then there's game speed, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.320 and then there's warp speed because these guys run. You know, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.320 there's a bunch of them that run sub four fours, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.760 I mean half a dozen guys. It is. It's like 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.400 an Olympic relay team instead of a batonic's of football 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.400 that they're playing with out there. And these guys can 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.160 flat scoot. So if you take a poor angle or 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.760 you know you're you're half a gap out of position, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.360 they can make you look bad in a hurry and 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.440 they square those shoulder pads up and head to the 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.680 end zone. It's like wow, I mean that's some acceleration there. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.640 So I think when you make mistakes against the Chiefs, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.080 you know you don't get away with them. You know 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.520 they hit you right in the face, and the mistakes 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.880 compounded because of that speed, a little mistake becomes a massive, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.520 you know, big play mistake. Forty five years ago, a 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.600 young twenty two year old Dave Lappa made his NFL 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.360 preseason debut. I know how special that is for you 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.640 against the two time defending Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.520 at the time. Well, a bunch of Bengals obviously made 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.000 their debuts tonight. Trevion Williams scored a touchdown in his 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.480 first game. Jordan Ellis scored a touchdown in his first game. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.280 Stanley Morgan had several catches. I believe he finished with three. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.639 That's a night they'll never forget, no question, it is 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.879 a night they'll never forget. And I guess the final 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.080 thing that we have to worry about is injury, you know. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.000 I mean Clayton Federlum felt a little bit of a pop, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.760 you know, and a little bit of a numbness, and 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.600 it's like, oh man, how bad is this ankle sprain? 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.639 And I don't think he'll make the dance on a 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.359 short week, you know against the Redskins, and Travon Williams 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.080 had you know, he's got to hit a bruise rib. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.040 So there's some some bumps and bruises that guys are 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 gonna have to lick their wounds to get over pretty 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.520 early because this is the short week that they've got 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.080 in training camp and every week after this is at 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.240 least a full week, and then obviously that fourth preseason 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.600 game and of the the ragulsas they have extra days with 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.720 that Thursday game. So get through this one, lick their wounds, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.520 get ready to play, and go to Washington and unfolded 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.920 a little bit better. Up next the Thursday night game 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.080 in our nation's capital against the Redskins. Kickoff is at 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.600 seven thirty. Now time for this week's fun facts interview 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.360 is we get to know the person under the pads. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.119 In this case, it's an interview out of the archives. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.359 Shortly after the Bengals made a cornerback out of the 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.800 University of Alabama the seventeenth overall pick in the two 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.119 and twelve NFL Draft, time for some fantastic fun facts 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.840 with rookie cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick. You are from Gadsden, Alabama, 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.960 which has the motto City of Champions. What does a 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.880 young man do for fun in Gadsden, Alabama? Just hang 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.440 out my friends. You know, sometime we'll go dirt bike ride, 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.480 a lot of outdoor type activities and you know, I 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.840 just basically played my son most of the time when 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.480 I'm out. Yeah, you're obviously a star football player in 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.399 high school, but how about other sports? Did you do 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.680 other things as well? I played basketball a look to 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.920 my senior year, so I missed my should up and 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.760 had to have service, so, you know, it kind of 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.720 took away from the fun a little bit, but it 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.000 was all right though. All Right, we're doing fun facts 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.119 with Drake Kirkpatrick. You're and your dad both work on Sundays. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.960 You're in the NFL, and he's a pastor. Did he 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:19.520 have a lot Have you do a lot of things 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.720 in the church when you were young? Yeah, I saw 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.320 in a choir, I did usher, I played at the 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.080 drums mostly though, you know, so I was very active 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:30.800 in the church, and that's one of the things that 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.359 I'm grateful for. Are you a skilled drummer. I'm a 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.440 skilled drummer. Yes, I've been playing ever since I was 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.040 three years old. How about that? All right? Have you 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.840 had any other jobs aside from things that your dad 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.280 had you do in the church. Not really, you know. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.200 I probably had some side jobs maybe you know younger, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.000 but I never just actually had an active job. All right, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.160 Dre there was a story about you where your dad 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.639