WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Turnaround 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:04.439 Hi, get everybody. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:08.240 I'm Dan Hoard and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.960 The turn Around addition, as the Bengals look to bounce 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.040 back from a Week one loss to New England as 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.360 they head to Kansas City to take. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.000 On the Chiefs. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.360 Coming up by one on one conversation with Bond Bell, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.000 who made one of the biggest plays in team history 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.319 at Arrowhead Stadium. Jim Nantz will be in the booth 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.240 for CBS and has an interesting comparison between Joe Burrow 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.040 and a legendary golfer. And in our nother faux segment, 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.520 we get an in depth look at the Chiefs from 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.760 their radio analyst Danan Hughes. 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In our broadcasting booth, the Greater 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.360 Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalism welcomes a new Hall of 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.880 Fame class on Monday, and it features nine people who 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.720 have covered sports in the area, including our pregame, halftime 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.720 in postgame host on the Bengals Radio Network, Wayne Box. Miller. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.040 Box has done it all over the years, from writing 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.280 books to hosting a daily radio show with former Bengals 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.800 defensive back Eric Thomas, and he is a pleasure to 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.960 work with on the Bengals Radio Network. What I admire 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.600 most about him is his sunny disposition. In an era 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.920 where everybody seems to be competing over who can make 0:01:54.960 --> 0:02:00.120 the snarkiest comment about anything and everything, Box chooses to 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.160 emphasize the positive. He is a great person and his 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.920 Hall of Fame recognition is richly deserved. Now let's get 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.280 to my first guest. When the Carolina Panthers released Von 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.880 Bell in March for salary cap reasons, the Bengals welcomed 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.880 him back with open arms. He played a key role 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.520 in three straight wins over the Kansas City Chiefs, and 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.200 we'll look to do it again this Sunday. Following last 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:31.880 week's sixteen to ten loss to the Patriots. Ron if 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.120 you hold a team to sixteen points for the rest 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:36.760 of the year, you guys are going to have a 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.760 really good record. How did you feel the defense performed 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:41.720 in week one? 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.440 Oh, it was flashes, But we got to finish, and 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.160 we gotta put more physical and on the line of scrimmage, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.799 and we can't miss a lot of tackles because that 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.200 creates diplosives and it gives chance, It give teams a 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.440 chance of life. And we just got to finish and 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.519 play amost each other and I'll play together. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.880 Luenarumo said there were fourteen teen miss tackles. Is that 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.919 a matter of fundamentals? Is it adjusting to the speed 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.760 of the game in week one? What's your explanation for that? 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:08.840 It's just fundamentals. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.760 It's easy, easy fixed, and guys just gotta go out 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.960 there with the want to and willing to and really 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.320 just trust your brother that's that you playing next to, 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.639 and everybody all liven hats run to the ball. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.520 Was there anything about that performance that really irked you? 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.160 No, not really, you know, we're playing. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.240 With a lot of emotion, a lot of a lot 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.200 of energy, and it's just some of those times we've 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.600 gotten the little lulls. We gotta find the spark, we 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.720 gotta find them within us, uh to just get it 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.360 done and then and that's just the matter of it, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.400 you know, just getting it done on Sundays and getting 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:40.480 the job done and getting to win. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:41.880 And uh, that's what we're here to do. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.880 And we suppost play at high level and play together 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.920 as one and we all got bigger goals and visions 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:46.520 at the end of it. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.360 We're visiting with Von Bell lou and Romo was asked 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.680 about you last week. He said the following. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:52.920 He helps everybody. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.920 He helps, Uh certainly helps the linebackers just feeling comfortable 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:03.320 with what's going on behind them. He's always been we 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:04.880 know what he does in the locker room in terms 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.400 of but that locker room communication, he takes that and 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.680 he continues it onto the field because he's always talking football. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.960 I'll walk by there at seven thirty in the morning, him, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.360 Jermaine Logan and they're all in that corner and they're 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.640 talking about something and so it just continues out onto 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.000 the field. So there's a reason why he was voted 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.839 captain as soon as he got back here. And it's 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.160 not just because he's a good guy. His influence goes 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:30.120 throughout the whole team. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:37.320 How do you go about trying to help everybody. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.560 There's overallers of communication and just really trying to give 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.480 pre snapper eads and knowing the situation, knowing that formation, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.080 what they do out the formation, and just try to 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.960 give tips to guys so they could set. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.000 Their mind down so they can play. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.800 Fast and they just try to be there. Always tell 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.919 him like you got me here, it's you play off me. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.960 So if we both rent to the ball like i'sis 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.880 I used to outside, So we always just playing off 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.960 other so you can know where your help is at 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.440 all times, so you can just play like, oh I 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.280 got it. I could play a step faster and know 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.360 you got that leverage and what routes you can cheat to. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.800 So it's just trying to just slow the game down 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.719 like how the older guys I played with it slowed 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:13.400 the game down for me. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.039 We're having this conversation on a Wednesday, What did you 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.680 do on Tuesday, the player's day off? 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.159 I did? I did pilates. I got the guys in. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.720 I lifted first and got the guys in around like 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.320 nine nine thirty, and we had a dB bean and 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.880 we're going through the you know, the guys, their personnel, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.400 what they like to do, and what we did previous 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.800 years before playing this team, and how. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.440 They just how it's supposed to they are. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.719 They just replicated what they were passed and they just 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.839 plug and play pieces with one with four, with five, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.240 those speed guys in eighty seven of course, and you 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:49.560 know the fifteen is the cow bell. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:50.360 He runs the show. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.039 So you just know what he likes to do, what 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.440 he likes to get to, who he likes to get 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.720 it to, and know the situations and what it looks 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.440 like and just getting just getting a head started that 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.600 so the guys could already thinking it there at home 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.080 and then just watching ball, it is always thinking balld 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.040 So so we have a smooth Chris Wednesday. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.720 Did you start the tradition of those Tuesday meetings with 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.560 the secondary or did you take that from an older 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.040 teammate somewhere along the way. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.680 Oh, I think it was a combination of both, because 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.160 we did it in New Orleans and we always had 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:18.360 the guy. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:19.360 I always had the guys. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.000 Going there because I was always there and we just 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.720 we just we just created it and. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.240 I said, I'm due. I did there. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.000 We had lots of says and we brought it here. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.360 We had a lots of sss and guys is jailled. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.640 And the rooms became one. And that's what you want 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:33.400 at the end of the day. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.480 And you want to everybody on the same of course, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.520 in the same vision at the same less, so we 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:38.960 could play out basketball in December. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.120 You're heading to Arrowhead on Sunday where you made one 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.760 of the biggest plays in franchise history and the twenty 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.680 twenty one AFC Championship game, the overtime interception that set 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.680 up the game winning field goal. The Bengals send three 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.960 cover with eight my homes deep down field for the Cheetah. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.120 It's deflected and intercepted. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.640 By von Belle Belle running in the middle of the 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.080 field forty five, taken down with a high tackle by 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.640 Kelsey at the forty five yard line. No penalty flag, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.640 but the Bengals come up with an overtime interception and 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.200 now could win the game on a field goal. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.200 Is the ball on display at your house? Do you 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.520 have a framed picture of it. What does that moment 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.000 mean to you? 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.880 That moment means a lot. But you know, I never 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.200 just want to live in the past. I live in 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.440 the now. And there's a lot of memories been made, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.440 a lot of great ones, a lot with great people 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.520 here in this locker room. But I'm still trying to 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.120 still chasing it. And that's the mindset, is like what's 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.360 the next objective? And Sunday is the next objective. And 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:41.880 we got to go do the task at hand and 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.960 go out there with my brothers, have fun and fly 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.160 around and make players go be a electric atmosphere. You 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.200 know who they are and we know who We always 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.760 gotta go and showcase our talents. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.600 Is the ball on display something like that, something like 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.440 that pictures everywhere, But you. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.480 Know, I just I look fast and have a tunnel 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.080 vision and just keep on going. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.280 As a Bengal, you're three to one against Patrick Mahomes. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.840 Do you think the Bengals match up uniquely well against 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:08.640 Kansas City? 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.360 I think so. I think it's a great matchup. We 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.120 always get their best, They always got bess And when 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.640 you're playing the best, everybody uprise their play and you 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.760 feel the energy is electric and you just want to 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.880 be in that moment when made the big play and 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.080 God's just feeding off each other. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.080 So I think we match up. Well, we've got to 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:27.000 go out there and do our job. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.360 They've added Xavier Worthy ran a four to forty at 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.839 the Combine, a new record. How has that impacted trying 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.080 to defend the Chiefs. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.360 I think we played fast guys before, and that's the 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.360 life of the NFL. You know, I still don't think 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.120 he got Tyreek Hill, but that's one of the fast 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.880 guys I've ever seen a play, though. We'll go see 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:47.400 on Sunday. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.319 That's a good point. Tyreek Kel was on that one 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:51.920 team when you made the pick. In fact, the past 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.520 was thrown for him. Last question. In late August, after 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.600 he was cut by New England, the Chiefs signed Juju 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.880 Smith Schuster. Obviously you two have a history. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.840 There's a pressure from the Bengals. Roethlis Porter, Juju Smith 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:11.040 Schuster is blown up and the whistles blow. Bun Bell 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.520 not messing around. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.960 You've played against him since the big hit on Monday 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:20.560 Night Football? Is there communication? Is there a look exchanged? 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.320 Have you ever mentioned it? What happens after a play 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:24.439 like that, I. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:29.560 Think it's sorry sitting done, and he's got mutual speke 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.920 for me. I haven't respect families. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.400 He's a guy out there playing receiver and I'm just 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:35.800 going at the time do my job at. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.200 A high level. So there's no beef, but nothing. It's ball. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.560 We look forward to seeing you play ball on Sunday. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.000 Thanks so much for the time, best of luck. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.240 Just say thank you for having me. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.680 It's worth noting that since that fumble forcing hit in 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.320 December of twenty twenty, Juju Smith Schuster no longer performs 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:59.240 TikTok dances on the other team's logo before games. Patrick 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.600 Mahomes has a fifteen and three record in postseason play, 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.080 including three Super Bowl titles. The only quarterbacks to beat 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.160 him in the playoffs are Tom Brady, who did it twice, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.040 and Joe Burrow. Burrow certainly wasn't bad last week, completing 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.760 seventy two percent of his passes, and he threw two 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.520 balls that could have been or should have been touchdowns. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.160 Mike Kasicki's TV catch was overturned on replay, and Tanner 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.680 Hudson fumbled just before getting to the goal line. Having 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.760 said that it wasn't vintage Burrow, and the scrutiny of 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.680 his wrist has reached absurd levels, including analysis on social 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.880 media of the way he lifted a water bottle while 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.360 sitting on the bench. Joe has actually asked about it 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.600 at a news conference on Wednesday. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:54.120 I picked it up, weird. Yes, I don't know I 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:58.520 drank water. I can't say I've seen that or know 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.160 what anybody's talking about. Yeah, that's always tough when you're 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.800 coming back from injury, you haven't played in a while, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:05.920 you're not quite sure how it's gonna feel. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.360 That's part of it. Week one, nobody's panicking sat up 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.120 here and said that before. Unfortunately we're in the same 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.880 spot after week one, but we got another opportunity on Sunday, 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.720 and we got fifteen more opportunities after that to go 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.280 and get better and show what we're all about. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.199 So we're excited for that. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.320 Sunday's game begins at four to twenty five, meaning it 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.880 will have a huge national TV audience, and the number 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.280 one broadcasting crew for CBS will be on the call 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.240 when the Bengals take out the Chiefs. We think of 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.720 two names on the field, Burrow and Mahomes and two 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.760 names in the booth, Nancy Remo, and we are delighted 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.840 to be joined by the great Jim Nance. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:47.400 Jim. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.920 This will be the sixth time in a little more 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.720 than three years that you guys have called the Bengals 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.520 Chiefs game, and the previous ones have all been thrillers. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.600 Do you think the Bengals have a unique ability to 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.120 go toe to toe with the two time defending Super 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:01.760 Bowl champs? 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.120 They definitely have. By the way, great to see you, Dan, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.479 Great to be with you again, Hello friend. I definitely 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.079 feel that the Bengals know how to compete with the 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.280 Chiefs better than anyone. Yeah, Roof is in all these results, 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.880 we've had, all these field goal games, margins in the end, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.360 and even though everybody right now is shaking their head 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:28.000 off of last week's performance against the Patriots, we just 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:32.720 know that Zach Taylor, his staff and Joe and this 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.559 team know how to go down to arrowhead, not be intimidated, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.720 and not only hang with them, but often win. So 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:41.319 it's going to be something to. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.480 See every time we've had one of these conversations. I've 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.920 asked you some question about Joe Burrow, so I'm trying 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.640 to think of something new, and I'm going to put 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.120 you on the spot. You are the greatest golf announcer 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:58.120 of all time. So what golf legend comes to mind 0:12:58.520 --> 0:12:59.720 when you think of Joe Burrow. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.560 Well, I'm going to keep that one in the because 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.800 we're going to count his days at Ohio State before 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:06.640 it went down to Alice. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:06.719 You. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.280 We're going to keep it in the Buckeye family. But 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.080 there are some that's an interesting question. By the way, 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.600 I'm going to go with the Golden Bear, Jack Nicholas. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.600 I mean, I'm only going to go with the greatest 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.400 of all time here, and by that, I'm not saying 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.520 that Joe is the greatest of all time. You're talking 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.000 about just in terms of the way he carries himself, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.320 goes about his business and everything. I do see that 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.559 if I had to figure out a golf legend, because 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:40.280 Joe is brilliantly smart, strategically brilliant as well when it 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.120 comes to what he needs to do, where the ball 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.720 needs to go, how to handle himself. He's fully prepared 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:51.040 as Jack was. No one prepared harder than Jack Nicholas, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:57.079 and his execution is spot on also, So I'll go 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.320 with Jack Nicholas. You know you think about Arnold Palmer. No, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.959 I don't see it there, the swash buckling Arnold Palmer. No, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:11.319 that might be more like a Mahomes type comparison. Gary Player. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.520 I'm going through the list of all the old greats, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.800 but I think Jack Nicholas is a good one. I'll 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.520 give him Jack. I'm going to tell him. By the way, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.280 in the production meeting, I got asked this interesting question. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.200 I know he plays a little bit of golf, and 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.800 hopefully he'll like that comparison. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.320 We're visiting with Jim Nantz. We're a week into the season. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.920 We reference the Bengals slow start. What are your question 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.800 marks about the Bengals at this point? 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.600 Just the outside game, you know how that's such an 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.640 important part of the success of the Bengals, is being 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.680 able to go vertical and have a threat from the outside. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.080 And with t being injured again and you know it's 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.480 going to take a lot for him to come back 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.400 from a hamstring after only one week, so I'm not 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:00.960 counting on him. And Jamar, you know, can't quite be 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.280 the Jamorrow. We know number one without Tea on the 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.000 other side, Number two having missed a significant amount of 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.600 camp and all this controversy up in the air. By 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.400 the way, no Tyler Boyd either, So my biggest question 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:18.520 with them is just the weaponry that is around Joe Burrow. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.080 And by the way, I didn't even mention Joe Mixon, 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.960 So I mean, Joe certainly had a lot to still offer, 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:28.000 as we saw last week with a great performance in 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.560 a Texans uniform. So yeah, I guess the biggest questions 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.720 I have right now going to this game is what's 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.720 this offense going to look like? When are they going 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.040 to start playing the brand of football that we've come 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:46.720 to expect and appreciated watching a really exciting, dangerous team 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.520 from any point on the field. Is that when is 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:50.720 that going to be rekindled? 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.280 Joe commands so much attention, and rightfully so for his 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.880 great play at quarterback, But from these Bengals Chiefs games 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.280 that you've done and thrilling finishes, is there a Bengals 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.520 player that you think deserves more of the national spotlight 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:06.600 than he gets? 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.440 You know, Mike Hilton. We definitely have built him up 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.320 through the ears, and he's certainly got some postseason recognition. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.360 I actually think the biggest Bengal that gets short changed 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.040 a little bit in terms of credit is a guy 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.760 that cares the least about the credit, and that's your 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:30.480 head coach. He's just so comfortable being who he is, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.520 not having to have a light shone on him. I'm 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.360 really blown away by the way he conducts himself. He's 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.760 just first class and people don't rattle off his name 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.760 as one of these young geniuses out there in the 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.960 NFL as far as a head coach, but he is. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.960 I mean, he's done remarkable things. So I think the 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.320 one person that deserves a little bit more fanfare about 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:02.000 him would be Zach. I just I don't see him 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:07.080 getting quite that upper echelon kind of mentioned, oh you 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.880 got to talk about this guy, that guy, and he's 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:15.160 not on that list. He's really built it. So maybe 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:16.959 we need to do a better job of that starting 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.280 this weekend when they come in here and give the 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.719 Chiefs a great game right down to the wire. By 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.159 the way, all these games that we've done, I know, 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.639 the favorite one for the Bengal Faithful would be the 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:36.600 AFC Championship game at Arrowhead. But the one that was 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.320 the real eye opener for me was that at that 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.119 point it was a seventeen week regular season and it 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.120 was the win at the wire, win the division that year, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.240 that Super Bowl year, Brandon Allen had to come into 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.800 the end. He goes, Joe got nicked on first or 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.040 second down near the goal line, and you know, they 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.359 used up the clock and took a couple of with 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.240 a backup quarterback and then kick the winner. And that 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.679 was the game where Chase went crazy, went over two 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.000 hundred yards as a rookie, And that was probably my 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:13.000 most the game I enjoyed the most. It was absolutely 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.640 took your breath away watching one big play after another. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.240 You had a spectacular call in that game, Chase, there 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.840 is no Chase. I love that as he was pulling 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.399 away from seemingly everybody on the Chiefs roster. But I 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.640 want to talk about what I consider to be one 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.160 of your all time most iconic calls, and that came 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.280 on Evan McPherson's game winning field goal that sent the 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.919 Bengals to the Super Bowl. Just before the kick, you 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.879 said this could be a sentence that a month ago 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:48.040 would sound incomprehensible. What a great word to pull that 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.760 one out. And then after the kick, Cincinnati is headed 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.720 to the Super Bowl. Is there anything better in this 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.560 job than having one of those moments and saying the 0:18:58.640 --> 0:18:59.760 right thing off the cuff. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.280 Well, we're always trying to you know, we make our 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.359 living with our words. That's the toolkit we bring to 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.639 work every day, and believe me, they don't always feel 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:13.960 like they landed. You're trying, and I appreciate you resurrecting 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.000 those words because I truly could not have quoted it 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.919 word for word like that. But I do remember the 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.680 excitement when that ball went through. I had no doubt 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.919 he was going to make the kick, so I definitely 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:33.000 would have recalled saying something about the unlikelihood of that moment. 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.159 It's one of those things that it kind of was 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:40.280 foreshadowing that he was already going to make the kick 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.000 in a way, but it kind of all that I 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.000 said in the preamble wouldn't have matched up with a 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.600 block field goal, and it only really worked if he did, 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:53.719 you know, he did the thing he was supposed to do, 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.560 knock it through the uprights, and it just it kind 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.280 of reminds me a little bit of when Tiger won 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.080 the twenty nineteen He masters and I probably got a 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:03.760 little ahead of myself because he still had you know, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.040 I still had like two and a half feet to win. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.439 And I said, it's kind of a stylistically in a 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.119 similar way, I said, oh, you know something about paraphrasing. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.520 I know the last line. But all the talk, all 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.679 the years, people wondered, would we ever see a moment 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.560 like this. Well, now here it is laid out, knocked 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.840