WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Bad Blood 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.640 Hi again everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.760 the Bengals Booth Podcast the Because Baby Now we got 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:15.880 bad Blood. Addition, as the Bengals and Dolphins lose their 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.640 tempers before the Bengals lose the game nineteen to seven. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.720 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from Sunday's loss, postgame 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.480 comments from Zach Taylor, and in depth analysis from Dave Lapham. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.440 And in this week's fun Facts segment, you'll get to 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.000 know the person under the pads as I go one 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.640 on one with offensive lineman Quentin Spain. The Bengals Booth 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.960 Podcast is presented by bud Light. 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Never tasted so sweet. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:33.080 Now let's get to Sunday's game. On an eighty one 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.560 degree day in Miami, the Bengals scored first late in 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.559 the first quarter when Tyler Boyd took a short pass 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.120 from Brandon Allen and turned it into the longest play 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.400 of his NFL career. Third down in two, Cincinnati from 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.520 their own twenty eight yard line. Allen, in the shotgun 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.280 against the snap, throws quick boy down the side, cross midfield, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.040 met them bowing it you go all the way, cuts 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.840 inside of the table and sits into the end zone. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:07.400 Touchdown Tyler Boyd touchdown, Cincinnati seventy two yards. Unfortunately, it 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.320 was Boyd's only catch of the day. The Bengals had 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.440 a seven to three lead with about a minute to 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.680 go in the first half and had the ball at 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.839 the Miami twenty yard line on third down in ten. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.280 They knew that even if they couldn't get a first down, 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.040 they were well within easy field goal range for Randy 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.680 Bullock in the shotgun. Allen gets the football looks right now. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.399 He rolls fires toward the sideline and it's too high, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.760 incomplete and a little extra push on boy a swipe 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.639 by Howard, and it continues on the sideline just outside 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.800 the fifteen yard line. That swite could easily be a 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.440 fifteen yard penalty. It would be half the distance to 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.480 the goal here. And the referees are talking this over, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.240 but no flags yet. Zach Taylor's ran down there at 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.519 the officially, so are you kidding me? You didn't see 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.679 him swat Tyler Boyd in the face mask. He took 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.120 a shot at him. He took a left handed punch 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.920 out him, took a swat because Tyler Boyd gets up, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.280 goes face mask to face mask, he swats at him 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.880 with the left hand and then comes back at him again. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.920 So Zach Taylor saw that. Zach Taylor saying where's the flag? 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.520 He's doing a play by playing the officials ear and 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.760 finally the flag comes in and are they going to 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.840 penalize the Bengals bench? Oh, they're gonna call it him 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.320 the Bengals. That makes it a more interesting field goal, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.200 it sure does. Let's unpack what happened. Tyler Boyd got 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.600 pushed in the back late when he was going out 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.440 of bounds. He took exception and got up and said 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.280 something face mask to face mask to Dolphin's cornerback Xavian Howard. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:43.560 Howard threw a punch that didn't really connect. Boyd retaliated 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.280 with a punch that also didn't really connect. The game 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.520 officials apparently only saw the retaliation punch and hit Boyd 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.800 with a fifteen yard penalty, but the replay officials watching 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.880 in New York saw both punches and ejected Boyd and Howard. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.720 And even though they saw Howard throw the first punch, 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.240 the crew in New York can only rule on ejections. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.880 They cannot ask the officials on site to throw another penalty. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.320 Flag that turned a thirty eight yard field goal attempt 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.719 by Bullock into a fifty three yard try. Clark Harris 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.320 the snap, Huber to hold off the left. Hash looking 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.960 in now getting the snap, it's high place down Bell 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.440 and Wine Lord wide of the post wide left. You 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.080 just knew what was going to happen after that, right, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.800 The Dolphins picked up a couple of first downs and 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.159 kicked a forty eight yard field goal on the final 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.599 play of the half. To make it Cincinnati seven Miami six. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.200 The Bengals had the lead, but it sure didn't feel 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.279 like it, and sure enough, the second half was thoroughly 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:54.200 dominated by the Dolphins. Three receivers set with smythe motioning 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.920 talking about Lowa takes throws back of the end zone, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.400 it is Cark Gisicky back of the end zone over 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:06.440 Sims for eight Dolphins touchdown. That touchdown passed to Mike Kasicki, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.279 and a field goal by Jason Sanders gave Miami a 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.560 sixteen seven lead going to the final quarter. In the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.600 third quarter, the Bengals had minus four yards of offense. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.960 Here's Zach Taylor, there's a third quarter in the Nut Show, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.880 you know. And they came out and had three straight 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.040 scorn drives, and we had some three and outs, And 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.320 I gotta put our guys in a better position, too. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.120 We gotta make some plays that are there. But at 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.120 the same time, you know, I gotta be accountable for 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.960 them and put us in some better spots. But you know, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.840 we played the game how we expected to be playing 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.480 the first half, and then weren't good enough in the 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.320 third quarter, and that's where I got away. Miami added 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.240 a field goal early in the fourth to make it 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.159 nineteen seven, and while the Dolphins didn't score again, things 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:51.360 got much worse. First, Jonah Williams suffered a knee injury 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.200 and was taken off the field on a cart. On 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.040 the very next play, Mike Thomas hit punt returner Jachim 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.080 Grant before he had a chance to catch the ball, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.560 drawing a catch interference penalty. Earlier in the game, Thomas 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:10.000 was penalized for unnecessary roughness for another hit on Grant 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.400 that caused Dolphins players and coaches to come charging off 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:18.400 the field from their sideline, leading to three more ejections 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.320 for fighting, Devonte Parker and Mac Hollins for Miami and 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.240 Sean Williams for the Bengals. After the games, Zach Taylor 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.839 defended Mike Thomas for the two hits on Grant that 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.120 resulted in penalties. Oh, we'll watch the first one first 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.480 of all, and then the second one. He got there 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.400 a little too soon. I mean, that's that's obvious. We 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.600 know that. But again that that returner is a heck 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.200 for returner. That's the number one point returner unit in 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.080 the league. He does not fair to catch the ball, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.520 you know, And so you've got to put pressure on him. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.679 Of course, we don't want to do it before before 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.359 the catch point. We want to play within the rules. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.800 But our guys were playing hard. It was unfortunate. You 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.040 hope he's fine, but again there's no will will there 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.680 by Mike Thomas, I can promise you that he's just 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.320 he's just being a gunner and trying to go down 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:00.919 there and make a play. The rest of the game 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.560 was basically an assault on Bengals quarterbacks. Brandon Allen got 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.000 sacked five times and had to be helped off the 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.480 field with about seven and a half minutes to go. Fortunately, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.320 he only had the win knocked out of him. Ryan 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.480 Finley came in and promptly got sacked on his second 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:22.480 play as Miami finished with six sacks and eleven quarterback hits. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.320 The Bengals managed just twenty five yards of offense in 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.680 the second half as the Dolphins scored the game's final 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.600 nineteen points in a nineteen seven win. Oh. I think 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.600 our guys got put him some tough spots, you know. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.600 And you know those are two core guys that got 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.960 keeped out of the game, Sean Williams and and Tyler 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.000 Boyd you know, and again, we don't ever want that. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.480 We don't ever want to throw a point. We need 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.560 those guys. We're counting on those guys, and everyone's got 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.440 to maintain their composure, myself included. So we just got 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.040 to look at what happened. But but it was I know, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.800 they were both very frustrated with what was going on, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.160 you know, and Sean got hurt there on a blindside 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.040 block and TV like you got hit way laid out 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.360 of a ounce, you know. And so but again we 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:04.960 got to maintain our composure and be better than that. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.800 What did you tell you football team after the game? 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.520 I mean, I'm proud of the effort they gave, you know, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.840 and they they're playing hard and had some calls go 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.160 against them, you know that that we'll have to look 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.000 at it, to be quite frank, But um, you know, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.040 I thought our guys were playing hard and got putting 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.240 a tough spot there. The Dolphins are eight and four 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.200 and a half game behind the Bills in the AFC East. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.880 Those two teams meet in the final game of the 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.480 regular season. The Bengals are two nine and one and 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.680 currently have the third pick in next year's draft. Now 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.720 time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.960 All Right, lap nineteen seven the final score in Miami today. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.839 My question is who had a worse day, Ron Torbert's 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:52.280 officiating crew or the Bengals O line point. That's a 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.640 that's a good question. I'll tell you what. The league 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.160 can't be happy. I mean, the officiating crew lost control 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.440 of that football game and they had a terrible day. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.280 They really did trying to figure out, you know, who 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.120 to assess penalties on, who to eject. I mean, the 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.680 league office had to get involved, obviously, and I've never 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.640 ever been in a football game there was where there 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.920 was a twenty to twenty five minute delay regarding that 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.839 who to penalize, who to eject. Unbelievable. I mean, it's 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.040 just people don't tune in by television or radio to 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:32.599 listen or hear or watch officials having basically a conference 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.920 of stripe jersey. It was ridiculous. And the ejection of 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.240 Tyler Boyd and the penalty late in the first half 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.720 was huge. They missed the fact that he got shoved 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.120 in the back out of bounds. That should have been 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.559 a penalty. Yea, he gets up, gets in somebody's face. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.000 The first swipe was taken by the opponent, he swipes back, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.640 he gets a fifteen yard penalty. So that's a mistake. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.720 They both get a ejected and shouldn't have been. That 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.760 was just totally mishandled by the officials. Like Marv Levy said, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.520 they were all a bunch of overly officious jerks. It 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.080 was ridiculous because, you know, New York got involved with 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.679 the ejections, and New York got overly excited about doing 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.000 something to try to take control of the game that 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.640 the officials had lost control of. I think I think 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.800 they saw that it was starting to get pretty or 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.120 very chippy, very nasty potentially, and they tried to put 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.520 a fork in it as such. But the fact that 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.760 New York couldn't do anything about the fact that they 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.240 blew the call. They can't assess penalties that officials miss 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.840 on the field of play. That would open up the 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.400 can of worms. Every single play would be asked to 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.120 be reviewed to see if there was holding on the 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.480 left tackle, if there was an illegal chuck on the cornerback. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.760 I mean, they couldn't play the game, so they couldn't 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.880 rectify the mistake that was made by Tyler Boyd being 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.360 the guy that responds to being pushed. They missed totally 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.960 why he was instigated to do what he did. All 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.880 they saw was him retaliate, and it's ridiculous what took 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.839 place there. And Zach Taylor was going nuts because he 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.960 saw the whole thing as he was going down the 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.479 sideline and certainly could not change the officials' minds whatsoever. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.880 So technically the game got away in the third quarter, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.840 but I really thought that final sequence in the second 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.640 quarter swung the game. That's how I felt watching it. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.960 One oh eight left in the second quarter, the Bengals 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.480 have the lead. They've got it first and ten at 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.400 the Miami twenty. You think, worst case scenario, they're going 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.040 to kick a field goal and have a ten to 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.160 three lead at the half. Instead of having, you know, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.640 what should have been a relative chip shot, like a 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.079 thirty eight yard field goal, it becomes a fifty three 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.959 yard attempt that Bullock misses, gives the Dolphins good field position, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.560 and they kick a forty eight yard field goal as 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.760 the half expires to make it a seven sixth game. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.640 That was a huge swing. It was, it was, and 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.080 I think the Bengals went into locker room feeling it. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.520 So they came back out in the third quarter, went 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.280 two and out, three and out in their two possessions 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.400 in the third quarter, and then they went three and 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.600 out in the first possession of the fourth quarter. Three 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.280 straight three and outs, and on those twelve snaps they 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.720 had zero yards, three plays for six yards, three place 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.440 for minus ten yards, three place for minus one yards, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.319 minus five total. So in a in a let's see, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.559 in a five possession sequence, they had four three and outs, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.599 twelve plays, no yards in those in those in those possessions, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.400 those five possessions, that is brutal. That's ending the first 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.640 half and starting the second half with nothing going on. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.000 I mean they had on the drive you talked about 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.640 whether they missed the field goal, they had six first downs. 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.800 On the other nine drives, they had six first downs 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.600 total the other nine drives, and on the one drive 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.000 where they missed a fifty three yard they had six 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.800 verset downs, eleven plays, forty three yards root canal surgery. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.079 I mean, they just can't make any plays. They really can't. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.360 Seventy two yard touchdown, Tyler Boyd, you know, basically you 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.360 had a misplay by the defensive back sample does a 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.800 good job of blocking one. The other one just tries 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.760 to run underneath the plane and catch it from behind 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.200 instead of going over the top. And when he ran 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.560 underneath it, Tyler Board out ran him to the sideline 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.520 and it was, you know, six points at that point, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.520 it was six city. The Bengals ran a total of 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.800 fifty plays, so that one went for seventy two the 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.360 other forty nine went for un excuse me, one hundred 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.800 and twenty four yards. That's two point five per snap. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.440 Like you say, root canal surgery. Just a dreadful showing. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.079 And you know, it's tough when you lose your starting quarterback, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.480 but that's happened to a lot of teams. Typically your 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.360 offense is not as good, that's to be understood. But 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.120 it shouldn't be this bad, really shouldn't, I get you know, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.800 you compound it with the fact that Joe Mixon, you know, 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.000 the Joe Show is done. The two Joe's only played together, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.040 what four game games maybe Dan possibly five, I can't 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.280 remember the exact number, but it wasn't very long. And uh, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:20.120 it's it's this football team, both both the Bengals and 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.320 and the Miami Dolphins. Their numbers were very similar. They 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.320 had run it for about ninety five and ninety six 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.560 yards and given up about one hundred and thirty And 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.720 they both were giving up four point eight yards per 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.120 play in the running game. And they're running it for 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.160 about you know, three point six yards, you know, three 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.680 point six to three point eight. So who was going 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.240 to run it and who was going to stop the run? 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.600 The Bengals running game was non existent against the defense 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.160 the teams had run the ball against pretty well. You know, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.640 they hit the sea gap, they hit the off tackle 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.720 gap when they went to that bare front and covered 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.720 the center on both guards, and teams hit that and 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.360 abused it pretty well. In the first half, they showed 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.160 some signs, you know, they were finishing runs pretty well. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.240 P Ryan finished the couple, Giovanni finished a couple, and 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.200 I thought, yeah, maybe they'll be able to stay with him, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.120 be persistent with the running game and grinds it out 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.680 a little bit. And then that's just evaporated. You know, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.040 that went away, and it's amazing. As soon as the 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.600 team gets up more than a score on the Bengals, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.280 it's over. It's over. They can't they can't run the football, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:22.000 the pass protection is they get overpowered and dominated six sacks, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.640 five of them in the second half. You know that 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.520 Basically Miami started to run away with the game. They 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.680 scored on four straight possessions, the last possession the field 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.720 goal we talked about in the first half, then touchdown 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.960 field goal, field goal in the first three possessions of 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:41.280 the second half. Ball game, and uh, it's it's it's 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:46.320 tough to watch it. Defensively, again, they played pretty solidly. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.520 I mean, Jesse Bates is having he had thirteen tackles, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.080 ten of them on assisted and punch the ball out 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.080 and Von Bell recovers it. The Killer Bees are playing 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.360 well at the safety position, and the last two opponents 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.960 have scored nineteen points and the offense cannot even you know, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.920 come close to make it making it a competitive football game. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.680 In today's NFL, nineteen points should not win you a 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.480 football game by two scores. It just shouldn't. I thought 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.120 Bates really stood out today because not only did he 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.760 have all those tackles, but he wasn't like making the 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.920 last line of defense tackles fifteen twenty yards downfield. He 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.520 was up in the box stopping guys repeatedly close to 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.520 the line of scrimmage. Yeah, and when receptions were made, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.240 the journey was over. There was no yards after catch. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.080 I mean he was he was physical. I mean he 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.480 was he was into it. And honestly, I think that 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.440 he's going to get a lot of votes for the 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.440 Pro Bowl because his play. I think Lawrence it plus 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.360 the fact that he's trying to ignite his football team. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.040 His team is not a good football team, particularly offensively, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.960 and he's trying to lift his entire defense, you know, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.360 to stay competitive and keep the football team in games. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.760 So I think League Y he's getting a lot of 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:07.119 respect for that, and he was effusive in the praise. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:12.640 Was florries about Jesse based before the football game during 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.560 the week during the Zoom call that he had the 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.000 conference call on Wednesday, and Jesse did look him up 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.720 before the game and thank them for words. And if 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.320 you have a guy who knows what he's looking at 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.880 from a defensive football perspective. Given the kind of compliments, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.000 the Flowery compliments they were thrown out there, Flores was 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.719 thrown up their debates, that means something to League. So 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.159 the Jonas Williams situation was awful. TV coverage only showed 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.960 it once, similar to the Joe Burrow situation. Looked like 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:45.120 Bobby Harts guy inadvertently crashed into the leg of Jonah Williams, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.679 causing the injury. Again on the TV coverage, they only 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.199 mentioned that he was taken off on a cart. We 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.720 didn't see it. None of that would appear to bode 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.560 well in my opinion. Now, they called for the card 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.159 very quickly. He never moved, you know, they just just 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.120 went right down to the knee. I mean, he knew 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.960 obviously right away. And I remember that happened to me 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.760 one time, and I was fortunate in that I tore cartilage, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.639 tore meniscus cartilage and tour it pretty well. There was 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.720 a big you know, the meniscus is like a horse 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.560 shoe underneath your kneecap, underneath the matella, and I had 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.439 a big, huge ripping in the meniscus and it was locked, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.679 locking my knee up. I couldn't bend my leg. But 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.719 they carved it out of there with with you know, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:32.080 the surgery, the scope, arthurscopic surgery when in there, chopped 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:33.560 it up, sucked it out of there, and I was 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.760 able to play. Literally, I played the following Sunday. So 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.840 that was a you know, not a not a terrible procedure, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.320 but a lot of times when you get you get 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.080 hit like that from the side or behind, it can 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.960 lead to some significant damage. And the fact that he 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.600 didn't even try to get up and walk off the 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.960 field is not a good indicator. Bobby Hart had a 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.000 tough day. Looked like Michael Jordan had a really tough day. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.320 Xavier sue of Philo is off the injured list. Do 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.520 you think Michael Jordan gets another opportunity to watch from 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.720 the sideline and we see the return of Xavier Suafilo 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.119 to the starting lineup. I would think so. And uh, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.720 you know, if Redmond's able to come back, what do 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.600 you do do you go with? You go with Spain 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:21.000 and Suafilo, Redmond and Suafilo. You know, it's it's interesting 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.640 what they might do inside there. But I do think 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.000 I think right now Michael Jordan has got a confidence issue. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.680 I think that you know, he's he realizes that in 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.320 his mind, maybe I shouldn't be playing, maybe I'm not 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.720 ready to play. And you can't compete in the national 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.840 football if you go out there with doubt in your mind. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:42.960 If you don't think that you're going to be able 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.480 to get the job done, there's not a snowball's chance 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.159 in hell you're gonna get the job done, bottom line period. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.960 So until he, you know, gets that confidence back and 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.800 starts to be consistent with his execution of performance on 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.600 a snap by snap basis, you got to do something 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.360 because van Noy, van Noy had three sacks. I respect 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.359 van Noy as a football player. The guy is a 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.800 stat sheets stuffer and he's very intelligent. And I mean 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.560 when when the Dolphins suffer injury to Roberts, I thought, 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.280 oh man, that's that's a that's a big loss right there. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.240 And Van Noy just picked it up and just made 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.360 a bunch of plays for the Dolphins at the linebacker level. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.720 I mean, he stepped his game up big time. What 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.800 do you think of Twah. I think that they they 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.399 dumped it down a little bit offensively for TWA. I 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.280 don't think they give him a lot to have to 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.359 concern himself with it. It's very effective. They employ like 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.239 a motion person across the formation. He can you know, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.880 he can give him a little shovel pass to get 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.080 an outside run. They do their zone read stuff with 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.240 him and then play action off all of those looks, 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.720 and it's pretty simple. It's pretty simple what they're asking 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.879 them to do. And I think they call it and 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.280 run it with Twa. I don't think he even looks 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.480 to audibilize that the line of scrimmage. I think it's 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.040 a call it and running scenario with chan Gaily and 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.040 then obviously with Ryan Fitzpatrick in there, he has total 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.480 latitude to change plays at the line of scrimmage and 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.879 get him out of bad plays into better ones. But 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.640 I do think too it is very, very conscious of 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.280 not messing it up, don't turn it over, don't make 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.480 a mistake that will cost his football team, because he 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.439 knows his defense is outstanding, and he knows that the 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.960 special teams are great as well. And offensively, just do 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.200 what you need to do, take advantage of opportunities when 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.120 they present themselves. Don't try to force and create opportunities. 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:41.280 Don't try to do something that's not there and cause issues. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.240 And I think he had a stretch there where he 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.160 was like I would think probably ten for twelve, one 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.879 hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown pass. He was 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.040