WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: I Wanna Get Better 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:12.440 the Bengals Booth podcast I Want to Get Better, Better, Better, 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.479 Better edition, as we take an in depth look back 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.200 at the bengals sixth straight loss to begin the season 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.800 twenty three seventeen, the final score in Baltimore. Coming up, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.320 you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from players and coaches, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.080 and Dave lapp them will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.360 in this week's fun Facts Conversation, we'll meet the person 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.720 under the pads as I'll talk to rookie Stanley Morgan Junior, 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.239 who is obviously the son of Stanley Morgan, but not 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.120 the former Pro Bowl wide receiver. 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When Lamar Jackson rushed for one hundred eleven 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.560 yards in the first half against the Bengals, on Sunday, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.600 it occurred to me we should probably know the NFL 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.880 record for rushing yards by a quarterback just in case. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.959 So at halftime, I went to Pro Football Reference dot Com, 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.959 clicked the play index, and then went to the player gamefinder. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:35.080 I entered any year quarterbacks only, regular season or playoffs 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.520 rushing yards equal two or greater than one fifty and 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.160 hit search. In a split second, I had my answer. 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.760 Colin Kaepernick rushed for one hundred eighty one yards in 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.280 a playoff game and Michael Vick rushed for one seventy 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.200 three in a regular season game. Lamar Jackson ran for 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.880 one fifty two against the Bengals on Sunday, so he 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.400 did not set a new record, but I was ready 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.120 if he did, thanks to the search tool on Pro 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.600 Football Reference dot Com. Now let's take a closer look 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.320 at this week's game. In addition to being the greatest 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.440 field goal kicker of all time, Baltimore's Justin Tucker has 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.840 become a weapon on kickoffs. Last week and the Ravens 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.720 went over the Steelers. Tucker floated extremely high kickoffs near 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.040 the end zone but not into it, forcing the Steelers 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.440 to return the kicks three times. Pittsburgh was pinned inside 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.880 its own fifteen yard line. Tucker tried to do the 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.000 same thing to begin Sunday's game against the Bengals, but 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.680 with a very different result. Wilson catches at the eight 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:43.080 charges past the twenty twenty mery, go Brandon, who We'll 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.840 take it to the house. As the attempted kick inside 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:53.280 to ten fails miserably for Justin Tucker and the Baltimore Ravens, 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:59.320 Brandon Wilson sprinting ninety two yards untouched for a Bengals touchdown. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.720 That was the bengals first kickoff return touchdown since two 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.000 thousand and nine, when Bernard's Scott ran one back against 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.200 the Steelers. It gave the Bengals a seven nothing lead 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.520 without running an offensive play. Here's Alex Ericson on Brandon 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.520 Wilson's return. Yeah, it's a huge spark anytime he started 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.680 the game off seven nothing with twelve seconds off the 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.800 clock or whatever. It was great play by him. Guys 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.760 up front didum blue jab as always, and obviously his 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.720 explosiveness and all that and his instincts took over and 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.280 he was able to make a play and helped us, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.640 helped us put us in position to you know, win 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.160 the game. And anytime he scoring special teams and I 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.520 don't know what the statistics are, but I guarantee you 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.920 it raises your chance of winning by quite a bit. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.400 But it's not enough if you can't stop the other 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.120 team from running the ball. Jackson keeps on a run 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.000 to the left, crosses the thirty thirty five forty Now, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.360 Lamar Jackson is sprinting down the field. Trade Kirkpatrick runs 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.880 him down and makes the tackle at the thirty nine 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.640 yard line of Cincinnati, a thirty six yard run on 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.840 Lamar Jackson's first attempt of the day. The Ravens drove 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.840 seventy five yards for a touchdown on their opening possession, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.680 and seventy one of the seventy five yards came on 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.360 running plays. Now, it's a pistol formation with a side car. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.760 Lamar Jackson keeping to the left. There's nobody there for 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.520 the Bengals defensively. Lamar Jackson running toward the forward left pylon, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.839 and it's a touchdown for Baltimore. Jackson ran for one 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.640 hundred nineteen yards in his only previous start against the 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.120 Bengals and had eighty five at the end of the 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:41.120 first quarter on Sunday. Here's Sean Williams. He's special. I 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.000 mean he can hit the edge and run like no 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.400 quarterback that I've ever played against, but I can remember 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.159 at this moment. So, you know, hats off the hand. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.040 We we just got to go back into the game plan. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.800 We face him the gain and we kind of know 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.840 the recipe. You know, We've got to stop him the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.760 first second down, get him in the third down, third 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.960 down long, and keep him in the pocket and making 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.760 throw and beat us. But you know, when he steps 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.040 outside the pocket, he's as good as anyone, you know, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.120 and he also may throws us out to pockets. So 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.400 they kind of won that today. Yes, Jackson can also 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.719 throw the ball. On the Ravens second drive, he completed 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.200 four in a row, setting up and easy touched down 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.840 first and goal from the two. The Ravens line up 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.160 in an eye formation, they give it to mark Ingram, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.159 He goes low and he gets into the end zone 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.720 for a Baltimore touchdown. It was fourteen seven Baltimore at 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.080 the end of the first quarter. The Bengals not only 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.200 did not have a first down and they didn't have 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.080 a single yard passing, but that began to change in 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.920 the second quarter, Dalton drops back to throw. The protection 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.080 is good. He fires over the middle of eight field one, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.719 a catch by Auden Tate, diving arms fully extended. He 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.640 came up with a football at the Ravens thirty eight. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.039 There's a penalty flag thrown late. The catch stood for 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.239 a seventeen yard gain, and Tate finished with five catches 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.840 for a career high ninety one yards. Here again as 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:04.640 alex Ericson obviously has the size and the physical ability 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.560 that a lot of us wish we had, being six 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.240 five and whatever. He ways, and you know, Annie and 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.799 him got a good relationship of you know, and where 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.320 you know, Tate feels comfortable and Taitan knows where Annie 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.240 feels comfortable. So they do a great job feeding off that. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.080 And he was able to find him and you know, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.760 really helped us drive it down, drive down the field 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.720 at the end, especially. Each team added a field goal 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.359 in the second quarter, and it was seventeen ten Ravens 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.719 at the half. In the second half, Baltimore played keep away. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.440 In the third quarter. The Ravens held the ball for 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.479 more than ten minutes, as the Bengals only had one 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.839 possession another Tucker field goal made it twenty to ten. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.440 Then in the fourth quarter, Baltimore put together an eighteen 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.200 play drive that took nine minutes and forty six seconds 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.680 off the clock. For the game, the Ravens finished with 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.239 two hundred sixty nine rushing yards and held the ball 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:02.640 for just under forty minutes. Here's linebacker Preston Brown. It's tough. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.280 We think you have still bottle up guys going the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.160 other way. They're stopping going all the way around, and 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.600 then sometimes just miss tackles. So we got to go 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.240 to the drawing board and see exactly how people keep 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.480 hitting these runs, because every week you look up and 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.920 it's a lot of restaurants, and that's something that you 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.840 never want to happen. Is it a scheme thing? Is 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.760 it something where they catch you off guard? I mean, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.440 what's kind of been the issues presidents. I don't know. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.160 I don't think it's a scheme thing. I think coaches 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.080 do a good job every week of preparing us for 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.320 what we have, but we just gotta make plays when 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.040 they presented to us, when we have tackles, because sometimes 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.560 we have guys in the hole or but sometimes they 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.120 do a great job of getting outside of us, and 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.720 no one even touches the guy. So we gotta find 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.720 ways to beat our blocks, beat our man to tackle 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.880 the guy with the ball justin. Tucker's third field goal 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.680 of the game made it twenty three to ten with 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.520 three forty nine to go. For the third straight week, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.000 the Bengals offense failed to score a touchdown in the 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.360 first three quarters, but as was the case last week 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.400 against Arizona, the offense finally came to life in the fourth, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.360 putting together at twelve play seventy five yard touchdown drive 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.000 Bernard in the backfield. As Dalton waits for the shotgun 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.760 snap back at the seven yard line, Trey Hopkins fires 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.200 it back. Dalton back to the ten, steps up, rambles 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.280 running toward the goal line. He's in for a Bengals touchdown. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.520 Second rushing touchdown of the year for Andy Dalton, the 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.720 only two that the Bengals have on the ground this season. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.560 The extra point made a twenty three seventeen with one 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.640 twenty eight left, meaning the Bengals still had a chance 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.679 if they could recover an onside kick. Sure enough, Brandon 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.679 Wilson did recover Randy Bullock's kick, but the ball only 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.200 traveled nine yards it has to go ten. That gave 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.240 the Ravens the ball and they ran out the clock 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.520 for a six point win. The Ravens had five hundred 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.960 yards of offense before neildowns on their last three plays 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.880 took the total backward to four ninety seven, but after 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.480 scoring touchdowns on their first two drives, they didn't add 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.360 another on their last eight. Here's Sean Williams. The one 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.000 thing I feel like we could have focused on more 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.240 was keeping Lamar in the pocket way. You know, he's 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.720 he's a great athlete, he's a good quarterback, so he 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.439 makes that team run. But in the second half and 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.839 when we made adjustment, we really played well, held them 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.760 to three. They're in NFL two, They're gonna get their yards. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.760 But at the end of the day, we got stopped 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.040 from third down and we held them, held them to 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.160 three when they did get get scoring his own. Lamar 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.680 Jackson finished with one hundred and fifty two yards rushing 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:31.240 in two thirty six passing, the first quarterback ever to 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.360 top two hundred yards passing and one hundred fifty yards 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.160 rushing in a regular season game. It all added up 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.360 to the bengals sixth loss in a row to begin 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.439 the season here again as Cincinnati native Preston Brown, Yeah, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.719 it's tough. I mean I grew up seeing two and 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.520 fourteen teams and stuff that I never wanted to be 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.959 a part of. So now I'll definitely try each and 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.120 every game try to get that first win because we 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:55.800 know the whole city what they want, and we got 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.320 to get this win because the whole city is down 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.040 because we're not getting winning against Since the Redskin and 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.240 Jets both got their first wins of the season on Sunday, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.439 there are only two winless teams left, the O and 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:11.120 five Dolphins and the Owen six Bengals. After the game, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.160 Dave Lapham spent five minutes with Zach Taylor, coach. I know, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.320 a uh, you know, another another day of frustration for sure. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.199 I mean, their their game plan that has been all 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.160 year is to take the air out of the out 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.440 of the ball and then control the clock. And they 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.280 were number one in the NFL time of possession in 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.600 the in the per game and in the second half. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.680 I mean like a nine minute, nine and a half 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.880 minute advantage in the second half of football games, and 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.240 I think it was only three possessions for the offense 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.839 in the second half, they did a pretty good job 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.120 of playing keep away they did. You know, we really 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.480 touched the ball for the third time there with around 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.640 two minutes left, had that eleven play drive no points 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.400 for play drive no points obviously, and then got to 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:51.600 touch on it that at the end. So that was 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.880 that was a unique game. And to be quite honest, yeah, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.840 they at the time of possession, they ate it up. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.480 Our defense really gave up six points after those first 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.199 three dives. They were up some shots, but holding them 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.040 to fewer points and trying to allow our offense to 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.520 get back in the game. And it's just too a 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.400 little too eight. So offensively, I mean, you got a 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.480 new guy at the at the left tackle position and 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.760 John Jerry and you have you know, a guy at 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.120 the right guard position, Alex Redman, that just is back 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.679 from serving a suspension because of the growing injury to 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.760 John Miller. So you know, and I know that everybody's like, oh, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.960 you know, make an excuse. So these are facts, you know, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.520 and I know you have to deal with him. It's 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.520 National Football League. But man, it's issues. It's tough. It's 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.320 got to find a way, you know, it's we can't 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.320 run the ball for a few yardages we're going to 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.079 and so we continue every week to re examine how 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.679 we're going about it and what players are going to 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.640 be most efficient for us. And we got to search 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.680 and find that answer. And when we do, it's gonna 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.240 be productive. But right now it's it's been tough autumn. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.839 Tape stepped up five catches ninety one yards. I think 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.360 he was targeted twelve times, and you know, he drew 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.800 some interference penalties and stuff too. He's such a big 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.480 body for guys to deal with and they make that 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.240 early contact on him and they're in trouble. He did. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.360 I thought he played well when he was targeted and 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.160 made some great fifty He didn't have any easy catches. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.960 There's a bunch of fifty fifty balls that he came 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.160 up with. And so thirty and eighty nine shop with 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.080 Tyler Boyd. It looked like Humphrey obviously was with him 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.040 a good part of the day. They also kind of 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.800 tilted things to him a little bit. They doubled him 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.640 a little bit more than he had been. That's something 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.680 they'd shown in the past with some elite receivers and 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.920 Tyler's certainly been a really productive guy, good leader for us, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.480 and that wasn't anything that surprised us. That's something that 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.800 they'd shown and we anticipate. That's why guys like odd 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.400 and have to step out. Third phase of the game, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.360 Special Teams ninety two yard kickoff returned to get the 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.640 game started. I mean that lights a fire under everybody, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.240 and Wilson makes a great play there and then he 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.240 almost makes a great play on the book end and 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.360 the backside of it with that on side kick. He 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.200 was just a yard too early making that jumping recovery 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.720 of the football. But the kid really played hard for you. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.240 Special teams and defense, didn't he he did? That was 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.839 a great spark. You know, Brandon's his error has been 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.440 going up. He's been doing a great job for us 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.720 and a lot of different areas, and that looked like 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.080 the spark we were going to need there to start 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.400 the game and just couldn't hold it up. I know 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.080 it rings hollow, but you know you're missing some key contributors, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.960 some key components, and hopefully some of them will start 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.280 to come back here. And when they come back, the 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.680 fact that other guys had to step into roles that 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.840 they necessarily weren't targeted to do at the start of 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.440 the season, I mean, getting some snaps and in the 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.400 long haul, I mean there could be some positive but 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.080 as it's unfolded now, it's going to be frustrating as 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.040 hell to go through it. Well, a lot of young 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.840 guys are getting asked to step up and play, and 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.680 that's why they're playing the NFL, that's why they're on 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.319 our roster, and we expect a lot out of them, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.839 and some of them are gonna have to keep growing 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.240 faster than they anticipated. But again, there's there's been no 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.679 lack of fight from anybody who's walked on the field 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.439 for us. And I'll keep going a battle with these 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.319 guys any day of the week. Yeah, I mean you'll 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.920 look at today, you know, six point loss, in a 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.679 four point loss, been a three point loss, been a 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.960 one point loss. I mean it's um, you know, it's 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.040 the defense, like we talked about earlier, gave up a 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.880 lot of yards, but the game's not decided by yards. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.360 It's decided by points. And ultimately, you know, they kept 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.360 kept the game close enough to if you guys to 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.280 almost pull it out. They did, They did. We just 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.120 needed more points on offense. But I thought the defense 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.520 really in the second half, the end of the the second 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.320 quarter really stepped up and did a did a much 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.200 better job. And finally, uh, Jacksonville the next opponent. And 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.520 I know that's you know, you guys haven't started. Oh 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.960 you probably haven't known the NFL started on some of 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.200 that preparation. But it would be like to finally maybe 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.120 have an offense that runs a different you know, you 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.920 won't see all the gimmicks in the in the bells 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.960 and whistles that you've been seeing, and the quarterback's not 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.440 going to be some kind of freakazoid that can kill 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.800 you with his legs and throwing arm as well, and 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.600 more of a traditional NFL type thing. That will that 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.280 be a little bit different week for you guys as 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.440 you're prepping for him. It'll be different. I know that 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.920 Jacksonville is still a really solid, well coached football team, 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.200 physical team. They'll present challenges in other ways obviously, but 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.640 it'll be a change of pace. Certainly, they're what they 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.280 do schimmatically. Yeah, I mean it's been it's been almost 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.880 like trying to defend a relay team out there. I mean, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.520 these these guys are at the quarterback position. I mean, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.760 you get an anchor anchor on a by one hundred 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.080 relay team than anybody would take. It's been. It's been 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.000 a heck of a stretch for your defense, hasn't it? 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.400 It does? It has, But again they keep trying to 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.560 respond to the challenge, and Ken in the second half 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.520 without their sponse was good. They kept the points off 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.720 the board, and we just gotta find a way to 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.640 win us a team. Now, time for some postgame analysis, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.920 and I began my conversation with lap by asking him 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.600 about the disparity in the running game. Forty three carries 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.200 for two hundred and sixty nine yards for the Ravens. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:32.040 That six point three yards per carry. Thirty three yards 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.000 on fourteen tries for the Bengals. That's two point four 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.760 per attempt. Take away a jet sweep Alex Rickson a 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.480 seventeen yards thirteen carries sixteen yards for the Bengals. In 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.360 the ground, I mean, you you just can't. You can't 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.880 compete when it's that type of situation. Ravens ran at 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.320 forty three times for two sixty nine well over six 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.840 yards to carry a couple of touchdowns. You know, there. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.640 I'm always to run away with the football. Play keepaway, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.920 play hide. Bengals had three drives in the second half, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.320 so you know you're in a point where you have 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.360 to get on the football field to try to amount 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.000 a comeback. They did score a touchdown, but it was 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.880 you know, too little, too late. As we said so 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.880 many times during the course of this football game. I mean, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.160 the Baltimore Ravens basically played the game on their terms, 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.400 and the Bengals have not been able to play any 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.280 game on their terms this whole season. And you know, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.760 they've lost by one point, three points, four points, six points, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.200 but you know this one, this one didn't seem like 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.600 it was just six points. Lamar Jackson is so tough. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.440 If he stays healthy, it's an incredible weapon. But it's 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.680 dangerous to have a quarterback run that much. But not 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.440 only do you have to worry about him taking off 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.960 and running, he's hard to rush because as a pass rusher, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.600 you don't want to blow by him. And then when 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.680 you're trying to cover people in the secondary, you always 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.360 have to keep an eye open just in case he 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.560 takes off and runs. Well, I think the twenty four 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.120 yards scramble that the Arizona Cardinals had at the end 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.840 of the game, were lost in ripped up the football 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.040 field and rushed past Murray and Gino. Atkins took an 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.280 inside rush and he went twenty four. And that made 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.240 an impression on some guys. And now I start to 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.080 mush rush. I call it a little bit where you're 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.679 not rushing past the quarterback. You're trying to stay in 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.000 your lane, put pressure on him and trying to squeeze 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.119 the pocket on him. But he's clever, you know. I mean, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.880 he still finds rush lanes. He's still he's a lot 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.800 more he's looking at a lot more reads down the 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.879 football field. But eventually, if he doesn't like what he sees, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.399 he's going to tuck that thing and try to hit 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.600 a distorted rush lane and he's going to kill you. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.640 I mean, the guy he's he did basically what he's 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.960 fifty carries coming into today's game, and a lot of 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.159 them were off scrambles, and there were a few design 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.760 quarterback run calls. There were a few, but not many. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.040 I mean last year, fifteen to seventeen times a game 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.119 design quarterback runs. I think this year it's probably closer 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.600 to ten. Coming into today's game. I don't think there 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.360 were ten today design quarterback runs. And then he's when 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.720 he scrambled, he's just I mean, he's such a weapon. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.600 I mean, he's dynamic, there's no electric I mean, anything 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.440 you can think of. Kid is just he's an incredible 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.360 football player. Nothing has come easily on offense right now. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.600 It seems like every yard is pulling out wisdom teeth. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.120 Joe Mixon eight carries for ten yards in the game. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.000 We know how good he is. Is what I'm talking about. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.639 Basically the result of having an offensive line that just 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.359 he is not that strong. Offensive line that's not that strong, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.360 and your two deep receivers aren't in the football game, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.680 one drive it was a one yard completion, a three 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.720 yard completion, a five yard completion, a thirteen, and then 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.080 back to a six. I mean it was you know, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.960 Andy Dalton was seven for eight for forty yards five 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.800 yards an attempt. You know, it's basically part of your 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.479 outside running game is throwing the ball in these outs 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.919 and because you don't, I mean, they're they're they're crowding you, 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.960 and you know you don't have anybody to run behind them. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.000 Stretch the football field and put it over their heads. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.760 So as a result the fact that they're crowding lines, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.159 they're also crowd in the box when you I mean, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:58.959 if you have somebody that can stretch the field, it 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.760 opens the box up too, So now you don't have 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.119 any speed on the football field. The trickle down effect 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.960 is huge. I mean, when you don't have your two 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.280 year three best receivers AJ Green and John Ross and 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.320 those two guys, the outside guys that stretch it and 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.359 everything else becomes easier in the middle of the football 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.080 field when you don't have the stretching. The middle of 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.840 football field is high traffic now, I mean it's heavy 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.080 traffic pattern. It's tough. That's why it is. It's like 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.399 it's like root canal surgery every single drive. It's like 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.520 you have to be perfect and there's only a few 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.320 things you can do. Baltimore Ravens game plan was wide 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.400