WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Winner Takes It All 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.840 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:14.280 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The the Winner Takes It All addition, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.880 as the thirty one year weight is over and the 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.919 weight of eight straight playoff losses has been lifted as 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.720 the Bengals advanced to the second round of the playoffs 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.640 with a twenty six nineteen win over the Raiders. Coming up, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.280 you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments and analysis from my 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.280 broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Fact segment, 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:41.000 you'll get to know wide receiver slash return specialist Trent Taylor. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.040 The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.919 free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.479 from the App Store and Google Play. And here's a 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.720 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.560 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.880 by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:07.319 thing since delivering game balls to fans following the games. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.760 Zach Taylor announced the start of a new tradition. Following 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.960 playoff wins, the Bengals will drop off game balls at 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.160 bars around the city. So that fans can hold them, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.560 take pictures with them, etc. On Saturday night, balls were 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.160 dropped off at Pontiac and over the Rhine, while titching 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:29.600 post in Northern Kentucky and Mount Lookout Tavern. You can 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.840 find footage of Zach and Kevin Huber dropping off a 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.800 ball at MLTS on Twitter. It was the perfect way 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.800 to say thank you to the record crowd that filled 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.400 the Jungle on Saturday. It was loud enough at times 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.760 to wake the dead. Now let's get to the game. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.360 The Raiders got the ball first and immediately scored, as 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.120 a forty seven yard field goal by Daniel Carlson made 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.120 it three nothing, but the Bengals answered with a ten 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.680 play seventy five yard drive. Greens into mix charging to 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.200 the thirty new roles to the twenty fifteen down to 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:10.120 the ten Joe Mixon twenty one yards on the screen 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.040 and its first in goal. Three plays later. The Bengals 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.440 took a lead they never relinquished. Burrow catches a shotgun 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.839 snap drops back guns in Indian zone into a thick 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:28.519 years for the touchdown. See jay U Sama in the 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.960 middle of defenders palling in that line. Drive throw from 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.400 Joe Burrow and c j Uzama basically acting like a 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:41.120 power forward. He's boxing people out. Uzama followed his touchdown 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.959 by combining the Ikey shuffle with Jamar Chase's gritty dance. Well, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.519 I knew that Ikey woods would be the rule of 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.080 the jungle. And I was like, oh nice, I'll just 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.560 I'll just do the key shuffle. Um, And I was talking. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.240 I was talking to one of my boys, and I 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.359 was like, yo, if I score, I'm gonna do the 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.680 Ikey into They're gritty And he said not if win. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.640 And I was like, all right, bet Um. I probably 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.840 should have practiced for sure, because that was that was 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.400 not that was not well done. But come the end zone, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.959 screw it. The Bengals had a seven three lead, and 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.080 roughly two minutes later, the defense got the ball back. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.520 Car stomps the right foot, catches a chest high snap, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.440 drops back seven steps hit from it comes out scooped 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.960 up bygon Joe Bas Hendricksons with a striped sack. Hen 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.320 the Bengals will take over half the fifteen half Las Vegas, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.400 the Bengals drove to the eight before settling for a 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.320 field goal in a ten three lead. Hendrickson sack led 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.200 to three points, and on the first play of the 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.600 second quarter, Sam Hubbard almost added two more car back 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.760 to throw from the golden Yeah he's put down, you're 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.040 gonna say he was just outside of the end zone 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.600 by a half a yard. Car was eventually down in 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.400 the end zone by Hill and Hubbard, but when contact 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.680 was made he was just past the goal line. The 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.040 Raiders had to punt from the back of the end zone, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.600 giving the Bengals a great drive start at the Las 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.280 Vegas forty five. A twenty eight yard pass to Jamar 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.600 Chase helped them drive to the four, but the Bengals 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.479 stalled in the red zone again. Burrow waits at the nine, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.880 catches the shotgun snap pump fakes in trouble. Burrow spun 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.880 to the ground and then two Raiders jump on top 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.159 of them. After that, the sack goes back to the 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.720 twelve yard line. Burrow hops up trots toward the sideline. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.640 Max Crosby got to him first. Well one for three. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.400 Now in the red zone. Evan McPherson's field goal made 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.880 it thirteen three. The Raiders answered with a field goal 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.040 to pull back within seven, and the Bengals came back 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.960 with their best drive of the day, an eighty two 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.960 yard march that included a great call on fourth and one. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.760 Cabals on the left hash Now Burrow moves under center, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.159 Chase motions into the backfield. They toss it to Jamar 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.880 Chase twenty to the twenty five, the twenty the fifteen 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.440 he's taken out of bounds. A creative play design has 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.440 Chase motions into the backfield and carries like a running 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.599 back to convert on fourth and one. Why not, He's 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.520 spectacular in space. It was another brilliant performance by Numero Uno. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.440 Nine catches for one hundred and sixteen yards and three 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.880 runs for twenty three more. I haven't played running back 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.440 in a long time, but you know they've given me 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.280 those tosses. AGIN must be the outside getting hit by linebackers. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.280 I'll know how it hits filled again. But you know, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:42.640 as cool as long as I can make a play 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.119 with the bottom minds. That fifteen yard run on fourth 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.160 down led to the bengals second touchdown. Joe Burrow is ready, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.600 Hopkins snaps it back. Burrow drops back to throw, looking 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.760 rolling out to the right. Still looking downfield, Burrow throws 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.839 it towards the back ten zone, boy leaps, he makes 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.279 the gatrill. Did Burrow stay in bounds? Money through it? 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.320 The officials are talking about it on the Bengals sideline. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.359 Joe Burrow holding up his arms signaling touchdown, and the 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.120 officials are going to have a lengthy discussion to see 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.520 if Joe got the ball out of his hands before 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.760 stepping out a bout. They should call it a touchdown. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.880 That the touchdown, then it's automatically reviewed. Call it a touchdown, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.400 then they automatically review it. Nope, dope. I don't understand 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.120 why the delay. Here's why. The real issue wasn't whether 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.880 Burrow was still in bounds, It was whether the play 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.960 should have been blown dead by an inadvertent whistle. NFL 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.200 Senior VP of Officiating Walt Anderson told Pool reporter Paul 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.280 Dayner Junior after the game that the officials on the 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:50.080 field determined that the whistle came after Boyd's touchdown catch. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.120 That wasn't the case. If you listen closely to replays, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.640 you can hear the whistle just before Boyd caught it. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:03.720 Fortunately for the Bengals, that decision cannot be reversed on replay. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.080 Having said that the whistle had nothing to do with 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.400 a fantastic play by Burrow. Yeah, that's what you expect 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.000 from the numb one picking the draft is up plays 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.840 like that. Plays you can't explain making a play when 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.320 there's no play to be made. That's a phrase I've 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.760 heard often to my career, and Joe Burrows a kind 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.280 of guy that can make those touches of plays, and 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.480 it's pretty impressive. The Bengals were up by two touchdowns, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.360 but as the Raiders demonstrated by winning four straight half 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.160 to have at games at the end of the year, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.160 they're hard to kill. Car dropping back to pass fires 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.960 into the end zone. Say Jones pulls it down for 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.360 a touchdown with thirteen seconds left and the half. The 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.280 Bengals took a knee to end the half. They're only 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.080 drive in the first two quarters where they didn't score, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.320 and yet they were only up by seven. Cincinnati got 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.360 the ball to begin the third and drove far enough 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.800 to add three points and another McPherson field goal. Those 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.480 are the only points of the third quarter, as the 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.920 Bengals took a twenty three to thirteen lead to the fourth. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.320 The Raiders cut into it on Daniel Carlson's third field 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.520 goal of the game to make it twenty three to sixteen, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.720 But after punting on their previous drive for the first 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.600 time all day, the Bengals answered with a seven and 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.120 a half minute march all the way down to the 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.280 Raiders ten. On fourth and one, they lined up to 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.600 go for it before calling time out and attempting a 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.000 field goal. Huber Catches puts it down Nick Pearson's kick 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:35.400 on its way and good wow. The Bengals lead by ten. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:40.920 With six minutes and forty six seconds remaining. Red zone 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.320 has been the twilight zone for the Bengals. Another field goal. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.680 They settled for two touchdowns, three field goals not good enough. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.240 It was just tough, tough for me to find a 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.960 rhythm there, to be quite honest with you, to get 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.160 us into the best stuff. And you know, disappointing because 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.960 we scored on our first five drives of the game, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.280 but like you said, it didn't feel like we had 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.160 enough points on the board, and I just put that 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.400 on more than me just just finding about the rhythm 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.319 there in the low red zone. With four and a 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.680 half minutes left, the Bengals defense had a chance to 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.439 basically put the game away. Fourth thousand and five for 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:18.240 the Raiders. Car in the shotgun rechhard to his left, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.880 three receivers left, one right, car back to throw. I'm 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.880 fourth and five, has time throws Jackson with a catch 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.120 at the Cincinnati thirty three, and he sprints out of 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.240 bounds at the thirty to stop the clock with a 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.120 fourth and five conversion that led to a field goal 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.720 that made it a seven point game. The Bengals offense 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.480 could not put the game away as they failed to 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.800 get a first down and punted it back to the 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.800 Raiders with one fifty one to go. Zach Taylor says 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.120 he was confident that his defense would come through. I 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.720 promise you my heart rate was as even as could be, 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.640 just because I trust our players. I knew that someone 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.240 was gonna step up and win that game for us, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.200 and wasn't surprised when it happened. He was right, and 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.800 the player who stepped up was Jermaine Pratt. Fourth down 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.880 end goal from the nine seventeen seconds to go to 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.559 play clock at three shotgun snap car throws in the 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:20.040 traffic n interceptence. Jermaine prats the football coffin now Samamam 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.760 how about that. It ends on a turnover. Here's Pratt. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.280 I'm making one of the biggest defensive plays in team history. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.160 It means a lot. You know, um, I got drafted 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.440 by Zach You know we had ups and downs for 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.240 the past two years and be able to make that play, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.719 you know, put a stamp of the first class he 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.119 draft ever here had the best. It was a great opportunity. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.720 I think Jermaine has made a really big step this year. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.600 I thought last year was a good step in year 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.040 two for him. I think this year he's made a 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.719 tremendous jump and super reliable for us and just as 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.120 consistent as there is. If Patt had simply knocked the 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.559 ball down, the end result would have been the same. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.760 After the game, he was asked why an interception means 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.439 more than a pass deflection? Do you mean why do 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.120 you want to turn on him, turn on his wing games? 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.720 I want a peak. I don't want to peep you. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.720 The Bengals were one snap away from a moment the 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.720 Bengals fans have been waiting for for three decades. Choe 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.720 Burrow takes the snap, he takes a knee, and after 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:30.160 thirty one years, the drought is over and guess what. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:35.160 The Joe Purrow era is just beginning, no doubt about it. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.120 The final score twenty six nineteen. Here are Sam Hubbard, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.440 Joe Burrow, and Zach Taylor. To me personally, you know, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.600 it means the world. And never in my lifetime have 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.160 we had a playoff win. I feel like we broke 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.600 a curse. But really just looking up at the stands, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.880 feeling the city come alive, it's hard to putting the 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.720 words what it means to everybody in the city. And 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.679 I'm just really happy to be a part of a 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.280 team that I was able to do it, and we 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.319 got a lot more in store. I mean, it's exciting, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.880 but this is expected. This isn't like the icing on 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.360 top of the cake or anything. This is the cake, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.040 and so we're moving on. Happy for the city. I 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.040 think the city can finally exhale. I get that we 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.000 haven't failed that pressure. I'll be quite honest me maybe 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.800 more so than the players because I'm out and about 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.600 more in the off season and talk to people who've 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.120 been here a long time, But I don't think the 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.000 players ever felt that. So I'm just really really happy 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.679 for the city of Cincinnati and that they get a 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.480 chance to enjoy this and now just exhale and enjoy 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.120 the ride here because we're not done yet. And when 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.280 it came to handing out game balls, Zach gave one 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.320 to the man who gave him the opportunity to be 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.680 an NFL head coach. Two game balls. The first one 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.320 is to Mike Brown. You know, just because there's nobody 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.800 who's who's more passionate about this team, of this organization. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.880 There's no owner that sits at every walkthrough and every 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.520 single practice in the freezing cold, the rain, the snow. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:06.480 This means the world to him and I think, you know, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.600 some of the players know him better than others. The coaches, myself, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.520 we just owe so much to that man for being 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.960 patient with us. I personally, if I coached at any 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.080 other organization in football, I probably wouldn't be here right 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.320 now in the third year, that's the truth. But he's 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.640 he's got the experience and the understanding. And because he's around, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.120 and because Paul and Katie and Troy and Caroline Elizabeth, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.760 they care so much in their around that they get 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.240 a chance to hear your vision firsthand on a daily basis. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.880 So we're all on the same page. There's no miscommunication. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.839 They can see where we need to go and we're 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.800 going to get there. And I think that they just 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.319 believe in these players and coaches, and so he was 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.200 very deserving that. The second one is is to the 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.280 city of Cincinnati. You know, we want to start new 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.600 traditions here with playoff wins where we give game balls 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.640 to this city and let the fans enjoy it, take 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.200 selfies with it, whatever it is. We'll figure out how 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.240 we're going to do that. Disperse these things around sound 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.160 where people are at their their greatest moments tonight and 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.600 get a chance to enjoy these balls with us. Because 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.079 and I told this to the players. Some of them 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.120 may not understand the significance of what happened today, but 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.439 I know a lot of you in the room who 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.960 are homegrown Cincinnatians certainly do. And like I said earlier, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.720 I think this city can finally exhale and just enjoy 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.720 this team for what it is and take that pressure 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.160 off those those last thirty one years. And at the 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.479 same time, there's just such an incredible history here at Cincinnati. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.880 There's Super Bowl appearances, there's there's conference championships, and really, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.280 these last even two decades, there's been so many tremendous players, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.520 teams and coaches that have come through here that I 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.320 hope that they feel like they're a part of this 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.680 win today and they can enjoy this because they've really 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.280 allowed the foundation for us to do this, And you know, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.720 I think that's today was significant for a lot of people. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.080 Up next, a road game at one of two places. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.480 If Kansas City beats Pittsburgh on Sunday night, the Bengals 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.360 head to top seeded Tennessee. If the Steelers somehow managed 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.400 to upset the Chiefs, the Bengals head to Buffalo. The 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.040 Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.040 to play fantasy football game. Throughout this year, Ultimate Bengals 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.400 awarded a weekly winner during the course of the season 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.600 with tickets, autograph merchandise, and money can't buy experiences all 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.800 up for grabs. Find Ultimate Bengals in the app Store 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.680 and Google Play. Now time for postgame analysis with my 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:31.120 broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lapp. The drought is over. We've 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.440 got at least another playoff game to call next week. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.680 Can't wait for that wherever it turns out to be. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.320 What was your biggest takeaway today? What do you think 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.720 ultimately allowed the Bengals to win this game. I just 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:47.320 think the the intestinal fortitude. I thought both teams fought 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.280 their tails off, you know. I mean, I get a 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.680 lot of respect for the Raiders. They just won't quit. 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.160 They're like a virus. They won't go away. Man. It's unbelievable, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.680 and the Bengals had their hands full with them. But 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.040 I think I think the plan at Paul Brown Stadium 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.160 was huge. It's a big advantage. The crowd really helped 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.840 the Bengals win that football game. There was no two 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:13.000 a's about it. Yeah, And I just I really respect 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.040 what the defense did. They were on fumes, they were gassed. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.920 And to hold the Raiders, who are very explosive offensive 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.520 football team, to thirty five points in two football games, 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.760 sixteen points during the regular season, nineteen in the playoffs, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.000 to hold them in two games to under twenty points, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.160 I think it's a hell of an accomplishment. I really do. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.000 I think defensively they should take a big bow. Agreed. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.720 Joe Burrows vibe after the game was amazing to me. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.320 He's got the sunglasses on, and I mean, you would 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.200 have thought that this was a week to win. I mean, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.640 he's just like, yeah, it's exciting, but we've got bigger 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:53.280 fish to fry. It's incredible. His expectations are like, this 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.440 is what I thought would happen. I'm not the least 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.560 bit surprised. You know. I'm glad everybody's happy, and I'm 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.520 glad everybody's thrilled about it. But this is what I'm 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.359 This is what I've signed up to do, this is 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.720 what I'm here for. He is amazing, He really is. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.880 You talk about a guy that never gets too high 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.480 and never gets too low. That's what every coach and 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:19.359 player strives for, is that consistency of personality where you 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.720 know you know exactly your teammates, your coaches know exactly 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.159 what theyre can expect out of you. It's not like 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.360 here one week, down here the other week, both emotionally, mentally, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.720 physically with your performance. He is just straight flat flatline 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.520 at a very high level. He's not flatline at mediocrity. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.439 He is flat line at an extremely high level. And 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.359 for him to reach that and stay at that level 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.600 for as often as he does, for as long as 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.760 he does, is unbelievably remarkable. I mean, it just shows 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:56.639 me the laser focused, the attention to detail. He's a 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.399 great example of hard work pays off. This guy takes 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.160 no show cuts. He goes the long way in terms 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.600 of preparation every single week, and it always pays dividends 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.120 for him. I hate to bang on Andy Dalton because 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.960 I respect him and I admire him. But he played 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.160 in four playoff games and never played well in any 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.560 of them. One touchdown pass, six interceptions of passer rating 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.760 in the fifties in his first playoff game, Dalton Burrow 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.760 rather two touchdown passes, no picks, passer rating of one 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:30.800 ten point four. That heartbeat that never rises just shows 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.560 in those clutch moments for Joe Burrow. It does. And 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.359 when there are plays that have to be made to 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.159 win the football game, like the play he made the 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:42.760 Tyler Boy incredible, I mean incredible, extending creating. You know, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.680 just before he steps out of my house to throw 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.920 it the way he threw it where he puts it. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.400 To watch he and Jumar Chase, it's like watching Fred 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:56.080 asteron Ginger Rogers. It's like watching an unbelievable team. You 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.720 know that just they know every move the other one's 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.720 gonna make the subtleties you know, of the whole thing, 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.800 the nuances. It's just it's just remarkable. And that comes 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.359 with a lot of hard work too. And the oppressor. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.400 You know, after the after the game, Jamar Chase said, well, 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.080 we've thrown that at least a thousand times. I mean 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.679 there's no yeah, there's no substitute for hard work. You know, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.320 Repetition breeds comfort level and excellence performance, and those guys 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:26.639 are great examples of that. Defensively, it comes down to 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.640 the final play of the game, fourth and goal from 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.920 the nine, and Jermaine Pratt steps up and makes that interception, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.320 a play that will go down as one of the 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.280 most memorable defensive plays in franchise history. And that's why 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.800 he intercepted it instead of knock it down. I don't 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.040 want I don't want PBUs. I want interceptions. And I 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.840 mean he made such a great play, why not I mean, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.560 why not just pick that bad boy off, you know, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:54.880 and uh, he's he's he's really come on and developed. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.479 I mean, where would they have been without your main 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.840 prop When Logan Wilson went down. I mean, Jermaine p 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.600 At stepped up and expanded his role and did it 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.200 in a very very convincing way. It wasn't too big 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.000 for him. And there's no doubt about that. He's a player, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.359 and you know, he talks about it every week. His 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.720 teammates talk about the fact that he talks about it. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.960 It's all about the football, and he's always trying to 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.000 rip it out and fumble drills, and he's always trying 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.239 to you know, intercept undercut routes and make plays and 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.280 play their proper angles. And he's trying to get his 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.320 doctorate in football geometry. I mean, I think he's he's 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.360 really smart. He really plays great angles. He understands leverage 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.520 that that was perfectly leveraged that interception that he made. 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.520 It really was how'd you feel the on line did? 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.119 I thought pretty well? I really did. I mean I 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.240 think there were, you know, a couple of sacks Joe took. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.240 He knew he had nowhere to go at the football, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.320 and he just you know, kind of like assumed the 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.240 fetal position almost and covered up and just took the 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.119 took the sack. Didn't want to take a chance on 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.800 putting the ball in jeopardy. And now he's almost one 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.160 hundred and seventy or over one hundred and seventy attempts 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.040 now without an interception, And you know, that's something that 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.040 an offensive line can live vicariously through the fact that 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.280 you know he's he's a great player, and he is 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.840 the biggest reason that that's the case. But you've contributed 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.680 to it. And I thought that these guys are great, 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.840 I mean, particularly Crosby. Crosby's unbelieable to watch that guy, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.080 Like I talked about earlier, He's Gumby, that's got you know, 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.600 inspector gadget arms. He can bench four hundred pounds. I mean, 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.960 that's he's a Everybody talks about these genetic freaks at 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.200 the skill position. He's a genetic freak at his position. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.600 And he's he's very, very difficult to get good contact 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.480 on and sustain good contact on. He's so slipper, he's 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:42.480 so smooth, he's he's he's very very gifted. And you know, Prince, 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.119 he had a couple of bad snaps. Everybody's going to 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.560 against this guy, but I thought overall, I thought he 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.800 and Jonah Williams hung in there and played pretty darn well. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.360 The Bengals have had remarkably good fortune this year. When 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.679 it comes to injuries, twenty of the twenty two guys 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.760 on offense and defense started on opening day started this 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.359 game everybody but the right guard and the right tackle, 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.639 but as is often the case, they went down. Some 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.120 really good players went down in this game. Larry Ogan 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.000 Jobi first and foremost taken off out of cart Trey 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:16.680