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Speaker 1: the Fathe addition, as the Bengals even the record at
Speaker 1: three and three after beating Seattle seventeen to thirteen. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: the radio replays from the bengals nail biting win over
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. First and goal from the one, It's a
Speaker 1: handoff to Kevin Walker and he goes into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, I beg your pardon. He goes into the
Speaker 1: end zone, standing up for the Seattle touchdown. So after
Speaker 1: a bye week, offensive coordinator Shane Waldron had a lot
Speaker 1: of time to plot out the opening drive and it
Speaker 1: was a beauty for Seattle. First and goal from the
Speaker 1: eight of Seattle two twenty eight left in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Shotgun snapped to Burrow. He wants to pass. His throat
Speaker 1: caught Tyler Boyd lurches into the end zone, touchdown. Ben
Speaker 1: goals as the Bengals go seventy five yards on fourteen
Speaker 1: plays for an opening touchdown. On first in goal, Burrow
Speaker 1: catches the shotgun snap, fakes a handoff to Mixon, bouncing
Speaker 1: in the pocket, rolling to his left. Penalty flag down.
Speaker 1: He bears a strike caught in the end zone by
Speaker 1: andre Yosi Vosh. There's a penalty flag at the four.
Speaker 2: It was thrown pretty early. It's holding on Seattle. That
Speaker 2: touchdown is gonna stand.
Speaker 1: This will be a fifty five yard field goal try,
Speaker 1: and if he misses it, the Bengals will start from
Speaker 1: their own forty five. Jason Myers is the kicker, The
Speaker 1: punter is the holder. The fifty five yard kick on
Speaker 1: its way and it is good. Nine to twenty four
Speaker 1: left in the third quarter. The Bengals have a fourteen
Speaker 1: to ten lead. Gino Smith to throw fires downfield. Mike
Speaker 1: Hilton interception at the four yard line. Mike Hilton jumping
Speaker 1: in front of Jackson Smith and Jakebob the rookie out
Speaker 1: of Ohio State, and the Bengals get it back after
Speaker 1: the Burrow interception on a pick by Mike Hilton. Second
Speaker 1: down and nine Seahawks, Gino Smith back to throw. He
Speaker 1: throws it up the scene and it's intercepting a diving
Speaker 1: pick by Cam Taylor Britt. He's running back to the
Speaker 1: forty the thirty five when he gets tackled at the
Speaker 1: thirty four of Seattle. This will be a fifty two
Speaker 1: yard attempt for Evan McPherson. He is sixteen for twenty
Speaker 1: in his career from fifty plus remarkable eighty percent. Robbin's
Speaker 1: ready to hold. The Bengals trying to push the lead
Speaker 1: to four from fifty two yards away. The snap, the
Speaker 1: placement to kick, it's on its way.
Speaker 3: He is good.
Speaker 1: Gino Smith with sharbone in the backfield. Fourth and goal
Speaker 1: from the sixth Smith to throw pump face sud at
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line. Sam Hubbard brings down Gino Smith
Speaker 1: and the Bengals takeover with two oh three to go.
Speaker 2: How about the eh boys on that particular drive. Trey
Speaker 2: Henderson with a huge sack. Sam Hubbard with a huge
Speaker 2: fourth down sack. That's two red zone drives the Seattle
Speaker 2: Seahawks have scored.
Speaker 1: Squad Dooche. There are more than sixty five thousand seats
Speaker 1: here at Bakhor Stadium right now, none of them are
Speaker 1: being used. Fourth and seven from the eight, Gino Smith
Speaker 1: back to throw finooking yeads. The ball squirts forward hel
Speaker 1: the Bengals fall on it at the eight yard line.
Speaker 1: That is coffin nail Bam, bam bam.
Speaker 2: You have Sam Hubbard and Hill, Hubbard and Hill, two
Speaker 2: more age boys. You get Henderson, Hill Hubbard, all the
Speaker 2: age boys making plays pressure in the quarterback down the
Speaker 2: stretch of the game.
Speaker 1: Bengals fans from coast to coast can breathe a sigh
Speaker 1: of relief. The Bengals are back to five and Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow gets another week to rest his calf as Cincinnati
Speaker 1: beat Seattle today by the final score of seventeen to thirteen.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a masterpiece, especially on offense. But this isn't
Speaker 1: figure skating. There are no style points. Here's head coach
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor.
Speaker 4: Texaned Steve Speck yesterday, the Saint X coach, you know,
Speaker 4: they had to win on the road, and I said,
Speaker 4: a great job. He said, it's better to win ugly
Speaker 4: than lose pretty. And I mean that was the first
Speaker 4: thing that hit me when I walked off the field
Speaker 4: to day was at times it felt ugly, especially on offense.
Speaker 4: But again, our defense stepped up and made some big
Speaker 4: boys first out a lot.
Speaker 5: Of to out there.
Speaker 1: Here's a closer look at what the Bengals defense did
Speaker 1: in the low red zone in the second half. On
Speaker 1: the Seahawks first possession of the third quarter, they got
Speaker 1: to the three yard line and didn't score. On their
Speaker 1: next drive, they got to the four yard line and
Speaker 1: settled for a field goal. Then, trailing by four, on
Speaker 1: their final two possessions of the game, the Seahawks got
Speaker 1: to the six yard line and didn't score, then got
Speaker 1: to the nine yard line and didn't score. That's four
Speaker 1: drives where Seattle got inside the ten and scored a
Speaker 1: total of three points. One of the defensive heroes was
Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Britt on his twenty fourth birthday. He had
Speaker 1: an interception and three pass breakups, and I talked to
Speaker 1: him after the game. We're in the locker room with
Speaker 1: a guy they called juice. Cam Taylor Britt a huge
Speaker 1: interception as the Bengals make one big defensive play after
Speaker 1: the other, down to stretch to hold on and win.
Speaker 1: Tell me about what you guys did in the red
Speaker 1: zone in this game, and we just.
Speaker 3: Had to hold up. We always realized, you know, yours
Speaker 3: no equal points, and I had the opportunity to be
Speaker 3: in the red zone, you know, four times. I believe
Speaker 3: it ended up with just three points of four. So
Speaker 3: you know, we just really harp on that. You know,
Speaker 3: we got a you know Stenson so os and you
Speaker 3: know standyard ground with it.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the red zone. It was the
Speaker 1: low low red zone. They were like inside the five
Speaker 1: or inside the ten four times and six drives in
Speaker 1: the second half and got three points. That's amazing.
Speaker 3: That's how you hold up, man, it's mingo defense.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the interception, because not only did you
Speaker 1: come up with a diving peck, but your run back
Speaker 1: led to the field.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, Uh, it's something that I got early on in
Speaker 3: the game. I got the same route, and you know,
Speaker 3: once I just see the inside release, I felt the coming.
Speaker 3: He doesn't run too many routes, so you know, his
Speaker 3: roupture is very limited. So once he went out inside,
Speaker 3: I already knew what was coming, and I just literally
Speaker 3: you could see on a film. I just ran underneath
Speaker 3: it and yeah, the ball was coming.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Two weeks, two picks and what not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta keep it going. I feel good.
Speaker 1: How about being three and three after an on and
Speaker 1: two start and now going into the by with kind
Speaker 1: of a fresh start and a five hundred record.
Speaker 3: It's about zero zero I look at it. I think
Speaker 3: that's how a lot of guys look at it, Like
Speaker 3: you said, a fresh start. You know, we got to
Speaker 3: come back after the by, you know, and just keep
Speaker 3: our foot on. You know a lot of people's next
Speaker 3: because it's not gonna be easy, as.
Speaker 7: We can see today.
Speaker 3: And we got to forty nine's coming up, you know,
Speaker 3: right after the bar.
Speaker 1: There were so many plays in the low red zone
Speaker 1: where they got to Geno Smith as you're covering in
Speaker 1: those situations, do you hear a roar and realize they
Speaker 1: got to the quarterback?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy. I was actually guarding d K on
Speaker 3: one of them, think a back line route, and they
Speaker 3: actually threw the balls to move. But the ball was
Speaker 3: altered because I think Sam Ritrade got back there. But
Speaker 3: I knew the ball got altered because I heard the crowd.
Speaker 3: Bad because I heard the crowd, So I look it
Speaker 3: and the ball was coming out. Oh all right, So
Speaker 3: you know it does give me a little tips in
Speaker 3: there and there I hear ball calls all the time. Man,
Speaker 3: maybe snapped ahead or.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys were waving their arms to get
Speaker 1: the crowd to make a lot of noise. Did that
Speaker 1: make a difference in the red zone?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 3: It was huge today. Man, I can honestly say I
Speaker 3: couldn't hear a thing. I believe that's great. You know,
Speaker 3: I was just going to line up, give me a
Speaker 3: signal and I got to play. Communications was real hard
Speaker 3: out there towards the end of the game. But you
Speaker 3: know that's why, you know, that's where the standing man.
Speaker 3: We live for those.
Speaker 1: Moments brat twying to win and enjoy the bye.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, The.
Speaker 1: Bengals finished with four sacks and thirteen quarterback hits. Sam
Speaker 1: Hubbard had one of the sacks and five of the
Speaker 1: hits on Geno Smith. Here's Sam Dave Lapham.
Speaker 2: Five trips in the red zone three times, they scored
Speaker 2: no points. You guys had an interception in the red zone.
Speaker 2: You stopped them on downs twice in the red zone,
Speaker 2: they kicked the field goal, scored a touchdown. Five red
Speaker 2: zone possessions ten points.
Speaker 8: It's gonna win you a lot of football games. We
Speaker 8: did it this week. We got a big challenge after
Speaker 8: the buy. We're gonna enjoy this one for twenty four
Speaker 8: hours and look forward to getting our bodies righty for
Speaker 8: San Francisco.
Speaker 2: So this offense, what was the what was the key
Speaker 2: to shutting this offense down? What do you have to
Speaker 2: do to take this this offense out of their game.
Speaker 8: You gotta be physical, we gotta be gaps sound. Their
Speaker 8: run game is an incredible you know, really great weapons
Speaker 8: on the outside. We had to play our best defense
Speaker 8: tackling wise, fundamental wise, and get some turnovers and we
Speaker 8: did that today.
Speaker 2: You guys played complimentary football when the when the offense
Speaker 2: had to step up their first two possessions they did score.
Speaker 2: You you back the offense up when it needed you,
Speaker 2: defense the offense back to defense up when you guys
Speaker 2: needed them.
Speaker 7: It was a good sign.
Speaker 2: See complementary football like that today. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8: We know there's gonna be a time where we're not
Speaker 8: playing our best and the offense is gonna pick us up.
Speaker 8: And that's the beauty of being on a good team
Speaker 8: with good players and good people that want to play
Speaker 8: for each other. And it's fun being out there with
Speaker 8: those guys.
Speaker 2: How big is it, Sam to get a win like
Speaker 2: this and to go into the buy we like you
Speaker 2: talked about now you're three and three. You climb back
Speaker 2: out of the little bit of a hole. You three
Speaker 2: and three getting into that buy.
Speaker 3: It's huge, man, That's what we need.
Speaker 8: That's what we talked about, and I'm happy we got
Speaker 8: it done.
Speaker 1: A lot of.
Speaker 2: Football left, no question, a lot of football left you.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of football in you. Congratulations on
Speaker 2: a big game, man, Thank you well.
Speaker 1: The defense was stellar. The offense was a bit of
Speaker 1: a head scratcher. The Bengals opened the game with two
Speaker 1: long touchdown drives, then really didn't do anything on their
Speaker 1: final eight possessions, not including a one snap kneel down
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. The Bengals had ten
Speaker 1: first downs on their first two drives, and at one
Speaker 1: point Joe Burrow completed fifteen straight passes. But if not
Speaker 1: for Cam Taylor, BRIT's third quarter interception had a twenty
Speaker 1: four yard runback that gave Cincinnati the ball in Seattle territory,
Speaker 1: the Bengals didn't cross the fifty yard line the rest
Speaker 1: of the day. Here's center Ted Carris with lap.
Speaker 6: Defense won the football game today. Let's let's give a
Speaker 6: lot of shout out to them. The story going into
Speaker 6: bye week should be our defense is elite, like they've
Speaker 6: been for a long time.
Speaker 7: Won the game for us today.
Speaker 6: I thought we did some good stuff in the first half,
Speaker 6: didn't really get much.
Speaker 7: Going in the second.
Speaker 6: But you know, that's a good football team, that's a
Speaker 6: playoff football team coming into town. Really really grateful to
Speaker 6: even up our record going into a week off. Kudos
Speaker 6: to the d I mean, as much as I'll say
Speaker 6: that as much as I can.
Speaker 7: This week, that was unbelievable performance by them.
Speaker 6: I mean, there are backs against the wall on the
Speaker 6: ten yard line three times in a row.
Speaker 7: To win the game.
Speaker 6: So three drives in a row really to win the game,
Speaker 6: So that's unbelievable. We want to be able to do
Speaker 6: a little bit more for him.
Speaker 7: Situational run game poor on us. I thought we did
Speaker 7: a good job protecting though.
Speaker 6: I thought we had a pretty solid day against a
Speaker 6: really really good front.
Speaker 7: I mean that's a good group over there.
Speaker 6: That's a Pete Carroll defense with the Hall of Fame
Speaker 6: Mike linebacker.
Speaker 7: So you know, glad we did enough to win. Still,
Speaker 7: some things that work on.
Speaker 6: We're going to take a good look at ourselves this week,
Speaker 6: get some rest, get ready to go to San fran
Speaker 6: which is gonna be a big one.
Speaker 2: So the first two possessions go exceedingly well, and then
Speaker 2: did they do anything different? Did they make any halftime
Speaker 2: adjustments that were extraordinaries? Was it just not quite just
Speaker 2: to tick off execution wise to the offense?
Speaker 7: What was the deal they already think that. I'm sure
Speaker 7: they made some adjustments.
Speaker 6: I mean that's also Hall of Fame coach over there.
Speaker 7: I think probably the main thing. I'll look at the film.
Speaker 6: They probably went for more of a too high shell
Speaker 6: to play in, you know, middlefield clubs blitzing a little
Speaker 6: bit more. They butzed Bobby quite a bit. But overall
Speaker 6: solid performance. I mean, left some things on there on offense,
Speaker 6: and you know we're gonna continue to improve, But kudos
Speaker 6: to the defense.
Speaker 7: Unbelievable performance. Really proud of these guys.
Speaker 6: Really, what a relief to get a win, even up
Speaker 6: our record to five hundred going into a week off,
Speaker 6: no question.
Speaker 2: What does it mean to go into the buy at
Speaker 2: five hundred.
Speaker 6: It means I can go to my dad's game a
Speaker 6: little bit happier.
Speaker 7: Yeah, enjoyed the bye week. Thank you go Knights.
Speaker 1: Ted's dad as the head coach at Marion University, an
Speaker 1: NAIA school in Indianapolis. The Knights are six and oh
Speaker 1: this year. Cam Taylor Britt was not the only Bengal
Speaker 1: to have a memorable birthday. Andre Yosi Vash also turned
Speaker 1: twenty four on Sunday and scored the bengals second touchdown
Speaker 1: on a three yard pass from Joe Burrow. After Andre
Speaker 1: got off the phone with Peter King for Peter's Football
Speaker 1: Morning in America column. In a few minutes with the
Speaker 1: rookie from Princeton, andre Yosi Vash caught his first NFL
Speaker 1: touchdown pass at least in the regular season. I remember
Speaker 1: when you caught one in the preseason. He said, this
Speaker 1: one doesn't count till it's regular season. How did that
Speaker 1: feel today?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it felt awesome. You know, at first, I didn't
Speaker 9: know if it was going to stand or not because
Speaker 9: they threw a flag, but you know, they they said
Speaker 9: it was a touchdown, and I almost I mean I
Speaker 9: started to tear a little tear up a little bit
Speaker 9: once I once I started, after I was done dazzing
Speaker 9: with teeth.
Speaker 7: But it was It was a great time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: It was a scramble drill.
Speaker 9: You know, you're working that a lot, especially you know
Speaker 9: Joe Burrow, he can extend plays a bunch, so he's
Speaker 9: always gotta be ready. And he was actually nice enough
Speaker 9: to get me the ball after, you know, because I
Speaker 9: completely forgot about it. But you know, that's the kind
Speaker 9: of guy. He is, super thoughtful, So I was just
Speaker 9: really appreciative of set.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he made a mad dash into the end zone
Speaker 1: to make sure that that ball was recovered.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, he did. And then I honestly completely forgot
Speaker 9: about it, and then he came up to me with
Speaker 9: the ball, and so it just shows, you know, how
Speaker 9: how thoughtful he is.
Speaker 1: So, as you mentioned, he extended the play from your perspective,
Speaker 1: When do you realize, all right, he's buying time. I
Speaker 1: got to do something to get over Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, you look at him.
Speaker 9: You know my route took a little bit longer than
Speaker 9: it would have taken in the first place, so I
Speaker 9: already knew that there's a possibility of being a scrambled
Speaker 9: I look at him and he's already out of the pocket.
Speaker 9: So I tried to just find a hole. And you know,
Speaker 9: at that point you're just kind of you're just looking
Speaker 9: to see where something's open, and you know, lucky enough,
Speaker 9: you just put it right on me and I was
Speaker 9: able to score.
Speaker 1: He wasn't able to do that much in the first
Speaker 1: four games because of his calf. We've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of it now in the last two weeks. Yeah. How
Speaker 1: important is that specifically in the red zone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's super important because you know there's such a
Speaker 9: short field to work with, especially when you're in the
Speaker 9: red zone that you know sometimes plays need to be extended.
Speaker 9: You know, you need the extra factor for it to
Speaker 9: work because you're so confined. So it brings a different
Speaker 9: dimension to.
Speaker 5: The offense for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the defense for a moment. Four times
Speaker 1: in the second half Seattle had it in the low
Speaker 1: red zone and got one field goal. As you're watching that,
Speaker 1: how nerve racking?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 1: What's going through your mind?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's I get nervous a little bit,
Speaker 9: But there's something about that defense that you know they're
Speaker 9: going to pull something out, you know what I mean,
Speaker 9: Like you always know they're all dogs in that defense,
Speaker 9: all ready to make a play. And so yeah, I'm nervous,
Speaker 9: but I'm also confident at the same time. So it's
Speaker 9: like a weird feeling that I don't want to know
Speaker 9: how to explain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the crowd was into it. The place was rocking.
Speaker 1: It was pretty remarkable when the defense kept making stop
Speaker 1: after stunt.
Speaker 7: I mean it was incredible.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, they put us on their back,
Speaker 9: and it's just nice to see that we have the
Speaker 9: defense to rely on, especially if you know the offense
Speaker 9: is down or something else happens. And I love those
Speaker 9: guys you're making all those plays.
Speaker 1: Congrats on the TD, Glad you got the ball. Congrats
Speaker 1: on the win as well. Thank you, appreciate the Bengals
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Speaker 1: is the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. With Sunday's win,
Speaker 1: the Bengals kept pace in the AFC North with Baltimore
Speaker 1: and Cleveland. The Ravens are alone in first place at
Speaker 1: four and two after beating the Titans in London twenty
Speaker 1: four to sixteen. Justin Tucker kicked six field goals in
Speaker 1: the win. And speaking of field goals, the Browns didn't
Speaker 1: have quarterback Deshaun Watson on Sunday and yet went toe
Speaker 1: to toe with the five and oh forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: Cleveland led by two with nine seconds to go when
Speaker 1: San Francisco rookie Jake Moody took the field to attempt
Speaker 1: a forty one yard field goal. Here's Niner's radio voice,
Speaker 1: Greg Papa. Here we go. If he makes the kick,
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers win. They're six and oh. If
Speaker 1: he misses the kick, the forty nine Ers lose. It's
Speaker 1: that simple snap hoo. Jake has it away, he has
Speaker 1: the distance and it is no good. Jake Moody missed
Speaker 1: the kick and the forty nine Ers lose. Just push
Speaker 1: it out to the right in the whole way. Wow. Wow. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Cleveland ended San Francisco's fifteen game regular season winning streak.
Speaker 1: And that's not all. Deebo Samuel left the game of
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury and Christian McCaffrey exited with an open
Speaker 1: leaque injury. Their schedule to get tested on Monday. The
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers faced the Vikings next week before hosting
Speaker 1: the Bengals in two weeks. Cleveland improved a three and
Speaker 1: two and pulled even with the Steelers, who had a
Speaker 1: bye this week. The Bengals are a game behind Baltimore
Speaker 1: and a half game behind Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Now time
Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap lap. This game featured one
Speaker 1: of the great red zone defensive performances I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. Seattle had the ball six times in
Speaker 1: the second half. On four of those drives they were
Speaker 1: inside the ten. They got three points.
Speaker 2: Amazing, I mean five red zone possessions on the day,
Speaker 2: they get ten points out of a total two points
Speaker 2: per red zone possession. The low red zone defense was phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Think of all the snaps. I mean, they had to
Speaker 2: have fifteen snaps in the low red zone easily, and
Speaker 2: they didn't give up any points. I mean it was
Speaker 2: they did get a touchdown on their first red zone drive,
Speaker 2: but then interception, then they settle for field goal and
Speaker 2: then two back to back possessions where they lose the
Speaker 2: ball on downs. Three of their five possessions they get
Speaker 2: no points. That's just mind boggling to do it in a
Speaker 2: game like that. It was a low scoring defensive struggle.
Speaker 2: The Bengals did score two touchdowns in their two red
Speaker 2: zone possessions to start the football game. The game was
Speaker 2: one in the red zone, There's no doubt about it,
Speaker 2: and particularly in the low red zone.
Speaker 1: And to me, it's always interesting to see, you every
Speaker 1: red zone drive is a little bit different. A lot
Speaker 1: of these. It was like first in goal at the
Speaker 1: five or the four, and whether it's a penalty or
Speaker 1: a sack or something, Seattle would get driven back and
Speaker 1: then the defense would come through when they had to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you look at it, I mean, Gino Smith,
Speaker 2: it seemed like he was holding the ball forever and
Speaker 2: the coverage never broke down. You know, he could never
Speaker 2: find any place to put the football in. You know,
Speaker 2: that kind of coverage will lead to quarterback sacks. Sometimes
Speaker 2: the pressure led to big plays on the other end defensively,
Speaker 2: when he put the ball in spots where he normally
Speaker 2: doesn't do it. He does normally keep the ball out
Speaker 2: of harm's way. He had some issues in that regard
Speaker 2: a little bit today, but it was amazing how well
Speaker 2: they played defensively, and lou Anrumo was mixing it up,
Speaker 2: you know, on the back end with his coverages and
Speaker 2: his blitz packages and his combinations and everything that goes
Speaker 2: along with it. And I think he had Gino Smith
Speaker 2: thinking too much. I mean Gino this year watching tape
Speaker 2: on him, he seems to get off of a bad
Speaker 2: potential read right away. He wasn't getting off of it
Speaker 2: as quickly, and when he went to something else was
Speaker 2: just as bad. I mean, he was having problems figuring
Speaker 2: out what the hell to do with the football.
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard has been a great two way defensive end
Speaker 1: throughout his NFL career, not thought of around the league
Speaker 1: as a tremendous pass rusher. But he was today five
Speaker 1: quarterback hits and a keysack.
Speaker 2: Incredible, and really you gotta tip your cap to him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he is a guy we've talked about his motor.
Speaker 2: It's NonStop. He's an overdrive. He doesn't put it in drive.
Speaker 2: He puts an over drive and keeps it there. He's
Speaker 2: a you know, unbelievably well conditioned athlete. His body's his temple,
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that. And for him to do
Speaker 2: a lot of the things that he does, I mean,
Speaker 2: lou Anarumo will use him as a chess piece, drop
Speaker 2: him into coverage, He'll use him as a spy on
Speaker 2: mobile quarterbacks at the linebacker position. I mean, there's not
Speaker 2: very much that Sam Hubbard can't do. And he's a
Speaker 2: guy that teammates know, no matter what, he's going to
Speaker 2: be there and he's going to be there doing the
Speaker 2: right thing where he's supposed to be, when he's supposed
Speaker 2: to be there, doing exactly what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 2: And his teammates can just check all those boxes and
Speaker 2: they don't have to worry about Sam Hubbard ninety four
Speaker 2: is getting it.
Speaker 1: So the Bengals first two possessions were great thirteen plays
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards touchdown, seven plays seventy three yards touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then the offense was anemic after that. I don't
Speaker 1: think they had more than one first drive in any
Speaker 1: possession after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first downs were hard to come by, there's no
Speaker 2: question about it. And asking guys in the locker room,
Speaker 2: did they make adjustments or was it just inefficiency in
Speaker 2: terms of execution offensively, you know, or just to tick off?
Speaker 2: And I guess probably what I derived from answers given
Speaker 2: kind of a combination of both, you know, was they did.
Speaker 2: Seattle definitely started muddy in the middle of the field
Speaker 2: a little bit more than they had been, it sounds like,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe didn't give as much ground in
Speaker 2: that in that middle of the field as they as
Speaker 2: they had been. But you know, that's a that's a
Speaker 2: playoff caliber football team, there's no question about that. And
Speaker 2: you know that that's a big win. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: that's a good victory to get to be the Seattle
Speaker 2: Seahawks under any conditions and circumstances.
Speaker 1: Three and oh against the NFC West and three against
Speaker 1: everybody else.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: Isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely nuts. The winds. The winds all count. But man,
Speaker 2: it'd be nice to get one against the AFC because
Speaker 2: you know, tie breakers and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: That's uh, that's who we're looking at. The next game
Speaker 2: is the final component of the of the NFC West.
Speaker 2: You get four of them in a five week span.
Speaker 2: It seems like it's crazy. But and Cleveland proved that
Speaker 2: they're mortal, you know, I mean, they're there now. They
Speaker 2: played up in Cleveland and Bengals have to travel to
Speaker 2: San Francisco. And we know that playing here was definitely
Speaker 2: beneficial for the defense in the red zone and low
Speaker 2: red zone. The crowd was into it. It's tougher to
Speaker 2: execute on the road. Uh, communication becomes an issue, all
Speaker 2: those things. You just don't feel as comfortable and as crisp,
Speaker 2: you know, when you're when you're dealing with all of
Speaker 2: those variables and all those things. And I think it
Speaker 2: showed up today.
Speaker 1: So at one point during the today, they put up
Speaker 1: on the video board the mile per hour that the
Speaker 1: fastest players had run during the course of the game.
Speaker 1: Whoever had been time fastest on the GPS. Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: is up there for one of his scrambles, he ran
Speaker 1: nineteen miles an hour. I think we have definitive proof
Speaker 1: that the CAF is in pretty good shape now. With
Speaker 1: an extra a week to rest.
Speaker 2: No question, and two weeks before he has to play
Speaker 2: another game. You know, it's like he'll get a lot
Speaker 2: of rest this week and then have the weekend off
Speaker 2: and then you know, get into a normal practice again,
Speaker 2: practice habits, and I don't anticipate him having any issues
Speaker 2: during practice, and then you know, go out to San
Speaker 2: Francisco and try to whip up on the forty nine ers. Man,
Speaker 2: do I ever hope we beat the forty nine ers?
Speaker 1: Got some bad memories about that team.
Speaker 2: Oh Man, I can't stand those uniforms. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I vomit in the in the in the booth,
Speaker 2: it has don't take it personally.
Speaker 1: It's just all about San Francisco. I'll bring a bucket
Speaker 1: just to be safe. Good radio show karma continues. Cam
Speaker 1: Taylor Brettline joined us last Wednesday night on our Game
Speaker 1: Plan show and had a huge interception and twenty three
Speaker 1: yard run back to set up Cincinnati's only points in
Speaker 1: the second half.
Speaker 2: Exactly, I mean that field goal was him. The offense
Speaker 2: didn't move in an inch. And when you can get
Speaker 2: return yards like that, I mean the three interceptions that
Speaker 2: Seattle had coming into this football game, they had one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty plus return yards. Two of them were
Speaker 2: for touchdowns, another one was over twenty yards. So I
Speaker 2: mean they're scoring points. The offense didn't have to worry.
Speaker 2: Then you're giving up you're generating first downs. The offense
Speaker 2: didn't have to worry about in terms of hitting yards
Speaker 2: and Cam Taylor Britt did the same thing for this
Speaker 2: offense when it was struggling to do anything, and it
Speaker 2: turned out to be a big, big factor in the
Speaker 2: football game, scoring those points.
Speaker 1: Two straight, three out of four. Bring on the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers in two weeks.
Speaker 2: Bring on the forty nine ers. Rest, relax, recuperate all
Speaker 2: those ours, and go out and rip the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Butts Lapp, of course, played in the bengals first Super
Speaker 1: Bowl loss to San Francisco and was in the broadcast
Speaker 1: booth for the second. The Bengals did come away with
Speaker 1: a win the last time they played in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun fact segment, where you
Speaker 1: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
Speaker 1: some fun facts with cornerback DJ Turner. After your first
Speaker 1: practice in Cincinnati, we discussed your real first name, Juan Drego.
Speaker 1: You are Jan Drego the second, and you said, at
Speaker 1: some point here in Cincinnati, everybody will call me by
Speaker 1: some version of that. So what are your teammates and
Speaker 1: coaches calling you?
Speaker 5: I've gone Drego the most time. More announce Drego, cob,
Speaker 5: people call me one. Come, people call me Juan Drego,
Speaker 5: uh Drejo'drand called me dragon. I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 5: different versions of this already. I already knew it what happened, though.
Speaker 1: So if you have a son someday, will he be
Speaker 1: one Drago the third?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the plan. That's a good plan.
Speaker 1: We're visiting the DJ Turner. You were the Bengals second
Speaker 1: round draft pick this year. Miles Murphy was the first,
Speaker 1: and in one of the great coincidences of all time,
Speaker 1: your dad was childhood friends with Miles' mom. He attended
Speaker 1: her wedding. They've remained friends over the years. How often
Speaker 1: did you two guys see each other growing up?
Speaker 5: We saw each other once in a while, but you know,
Speaker 5: we both were so busy with football and re crud
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, so you know, we'll see each
Speaker 5: other once in a while, we played against each other
Speaker 5: something like that, So it was it was mainly more
Speaker 5: like football events, so stuff, you know, in that type
Speaker 5: of environment.
Speaker 1: So I think many people have heard of the name
Speaker 1: Rape Buchanan, former Pro Bowl cornerback, had a twelve year
Speaker 1: NFL career. You started working with him at an early age.
Speaker 1: How did that come about?
Speaker 5: I forgot how it came about, but yeah, I started
Speaker 5: working with him basically my freshman and sophomore your definit
Speaker 5: sophomore year of high school. And yeah, I forgot exactly
Speaker 5: how it came out, but yeah, I went to him,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I'm going him basically ever since.
Speaker 1: It's pretty advanced training for a young kid who aspires
Speaker 1: to be a cornerback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I definitely installed a lot of stuff earlier
Speaker 5: into me.
Speaker 1: How did you gravitate to defense as opposed to trying
Speaker 1: to score touchdowns with your athletic ability.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to depend on the quarterback, Yes, it's
Speaker 5: really all. That's really all I came down. So I
Speaker 5: didn't want to depend on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when you catch their passes. Now you can
Speaker 1: turn them into pick sixes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ex actually that's how you know, That's how I
Speaker 5: looked at it.
Speaker 1: We're chatting with DJ Turner. In your senior year of
Speaker 1: high school, you elected to attend the IMG Academy, which
Speaker 1: is a prep school that has a great program for
Speaker 1: aspiring athletes. I've always been fascinated by the IMG Academy.
Speaker 1: It seems like an Olympic village to me. There are
Speaker 1: tennis and golf, prodigies, football, basketball, baseball, et cetera. What
Speaker 1: was that experience like and how did it prepare you
Speaker 1: for the future.
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it definitely was good. IG's basically is college. That's
Speaker 5: really what it is. It definitely gives you prepare for
Speaker 5: next up and you're playing against the best people in
Speaker 5: the country, so it definitely is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of college, you could have gone anywhere, Alabama, Notre Dame, Florida,
Speaker 1: you name it. You chose to go to Michigan. Did
Speaker 1: you enjoy the recruiting process or did you find it stressful?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say either those. I mean it was cool.
Speaker 5: You know, no colleges wanted to go, you know, I
Speaker 5: had them many offers, but it got to the point
Speaker 5: in time I was kind of tired of it, and so,
Speaker 5: you know, really just narrowed it down to a few schools,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I just chose Michigan, and yeah, it was
Speaker 5: the best decisions for me.
Speaker 1: I heard you tell a story about Michigan head coach
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh that I'm hoping you will repeat. There was
Speaker 1: apparently a whiteboard sign in his office that is the
Speaker 1: result of a conversation he had with your dad.
Speaker 5: Oh. Yeah, before I committed it, might said he his
Speaker 5: son Jack Yead, his son named Jet, and he said,
Speaker 5: I want you to treat dej On how you treat
Speaker 5: your son Jack. And so he wrote that on the
Speaker 5: whiteboard live when I was a recruit, and to this
Speaker 5: day it's stilling his whiteboard.
Speaker 1: So you were there at Michigan for four years and
Speaker 1: every time you'd walk into his office you would see
Speaker 1: what he wrote down as a result of that conversation
Speaker 1: with your dad.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Actually it's pretty good stuff. So in your final two
Speaker 1: years at Michigan, the team was great, qualified for the
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff both times you beat Ohio State in
Speaker 1: back to back years, and the first win over Ohio
Speaker 1: State ended an eight game head to head losing streak
Speaker 1: against the buck Eyes. What was the euphoria like after
Speaker 1: that game when you were part of the team that
Speaker 1: ended that streak.
Speaker 5: Oh man, it was great. It was a great feeling.
Speaker 5: You know, that game is is huge. It's a lot
Speaker 5: of a lot on the line for that game, so
Speaker 5: so you know, change the dynamic of what's been going
Speaker 5: on or what was happening in the past previously games
Speaker 5: Devil was a great feeling.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Buckeyes.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't really know what to say about that.
Speaker 5: I mean mission, I got to beat them. That's all
Speaker 5: that's been I feel about them.
Speaker 1: As long as the Wolverines tryumph you a happy man.
Speaker 1: So you left school with one year of eligibility remaining
Speaker 1: for the NFL, and at the NFL scouting combine, you
Speaker 1: ran the fastest forty yard dash of anybody, four point
Speaker 1: twenty six. When you crossed the finish line and saw
Speaker 1: the time up on the board. What went through your mind.
Speaker 5: I knew I was gonna run that, so, I mean,
Speaker 5: I was gonna try to run another one to break
Speaker 5: try to break the record, But it just wasn't the
Speaker 5: best Where kind of stuff was going on. So uh
Speaker 5: but yeah, I mean that was that was I wasn't
Speaker 5: surprised anything. I knew it wasn't run that all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's do some wild card topics now with DJ Turner.
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite athlete in any sport?
Speaker 5: Girling up Lebron? Easy? You know Lebron James I was always.
Speaker 1: Do you consider him to be the greatest player of
Speaker 1: all time?
Speaker 5: Yes? Easy as I've been in the date except for me.
Speaker 1: Said, The Michael Jordan argument carries no weight with you.
Speaker 5: No, not at all. I mean, but I mean, obviously
Speaker 5: Minel Jordan is Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: But for me, Now, is there anything you're really bad at?
Speaker 5: Bad at? I don't draw, so I probably said drawing
Speaker 5: would be the worst task I have. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't draw a lot stick figures or about the
Speaker 1: extent of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a six figure type guy.
Speaker 1: Join the cloud. I'm right there with you. What do
Speaker 1: you like to spend your money on.
Speaker 5: I'm not always get clothes. I'll buy stuff with my
Speaker 5: dog like stuff like that. So my video games, you know,
Speaker 5: my streaming set up, stuff like that. So I'll say,
Speaker 5: like those type of things.
Speaker 1: How long have you had a dog. What type of
Speaker 1: dog do you have and what is his or her name?
Speaker 5: I got a dog. That was the first thing I
Speaker 5: did with my sign and bonus and uh so, as
Speaker 5: soon as I the first day we got out of
Speaker 5: ot As, I got my dog and uh all white
Speaker 5: Siberian Husky and I named her Island.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a beautiful dog. Do you have any especially
Speaker 1: meaningful tattoos?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I actually have a lot of tattoos. They all mean something,
Speaker 5: So I mean every tattoo I have mean something on me,
Speaker 5: all part of your life story, Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 5: All right, final fun fact with DJ Turner. This one's
Speaker 5: a little bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
Speaker 5: who would that person be? I mean, I, of course
Speaker 5: I want me Jesus when he came that, I want
Speaker 5: to me Malcolm X No, those be probably my top two.
Speaker 1: All right. Appreciate the time, Thank you so much. Best
Speaker 1: of the rest of the year.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this episode of the
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