1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth podcast. The I Can't get no satiest 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: fag Shun. Addition, as we look back at the bengals 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: thirteenth loss in fourteen games at thirty four to thirteen 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: home defeat to the New England Patriots. Coming up, you'll 6 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: hear radio replays, locker room interviews, and Dave Lappam will 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's Fun 8 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: Facts Conversation, you'll get to know the person under the 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: pads as we meet rookie linebacker Jermaine Pratt. All of 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: that is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: that you can have the latest edition of this podcast 12 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: on iTunes, Stitch, your Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: It's the greatest thing since Christmas tree ornaments from family vacations, 15 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: So whenever I travel with my wife and son, we 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: pick out a Christmas tree ornament wherever we go as 17 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: a lasting reminder of our vacation. For example, there's a 18 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: little miniature saxophone from a trip to New Orleans, A 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: tiny wooden lobster buoy from a journey to Maine, and 20 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: a small pint of guinness from a more elaborate adventure 21 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: to Dublin, Ireland. So, if you haven't done so, already 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: turned decorating the Christmas tree into a travel scrap book. 23 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: It's a great an inexpensive way to remember family vacations. Now, 24 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: let's get to football. Sunday's game against the Patriots did 25 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: not start well for the Bengals. New England got the 26 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: ball to begin the game and reach the end zone 27 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: in three minutes. In sixteen seconds, Brady waiting for a 28 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: shotgun snap, Edelman goes in motion. They fake it to Edelman. 29 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: Here's a swing pass to the left. It is caught 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: by White. He makes it to the twenty fifteen ten 31 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: five touchdown call. That's just a great misdirection call. They 32 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: got the Bengals defense totally full. When the Bengals got 33 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: the ball, they weren't looking to fool anybody. They were 34 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: looking to run it down and the Patriots throats. Here's 35 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: a pitch to the right. Mixon starts right, looks to 36 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: cut back, breaks through a tackle, runs to the four 37 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: d to fifty feet, cutting back toward the numerals and 38 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: Mixon gets tackled at the Patriots thirty two yard line 39 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: by Stefan Gilmore. That looked like it was going to 40 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: be a three yard loss. Guess what, it's a thirty 41 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: seven yard game. Should have been should have been a 42 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: three yard loss. You should have been tackling the backfield. 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: We've seen Joe Mixon do this multiple times. After running 44 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: for a career high one hundred forty six yards last 45 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: week in Cleveland, Joe ran for seventy two in the 46 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: first quarter against the Pats and finished with twenty five 47 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: carries for one hundred thirty six yards. And to my 48 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: hatshops at all line, man, they played that today and 49 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: you know it was getting down and dirty, and you know, 50 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: salute the old line coach all week. You know that's 51 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: what he wanted to do. You know, gotampose our wheel 52 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: and for me, you know, I wanted to set the 53 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: tone and I felt like that's what I did today 54 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: even though we came up short. I mean it's eleven man, bab, 55 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: but you know, like I said, man, i'm guys and 56 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: the old line they did their thing tight ends was 57 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: blocking hard, and you know the receivers that was blocking 58 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: on the perimeter. Man, I was just making them play, 59 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: so I said, my hats off to all of them. 60 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: They did a great job. The Bengals first five plays 61 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: of the game were runs by mixing. Their next three 62 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: were runs by Giovanni Bernard, moving the ball inside the 63 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: Patriots ten yard line. Eight straight runs to begin this drive. 64 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: Now it's third down in three at the eight yard line, 65 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: empty backfield, two receivers left, three out to the right. 66 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: Dalton catches a shotgun snap, cocks the yard. Bros caught 67 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: that boyd. It spends away from a defender and runs 68 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: into the end zone for a Bengals touchdown. That's Sethan Carter. 69 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: I beg your pardon eighty two, not eighty three, Sethan Carter. 70 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: Chathan Carter spun away from Jonathan Jones, makes the catch 71 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: and just tight spin move inside leaves Jonathan Jones in 72 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: the dust. That tied the game at seven, and on 73 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: the Bengals second drive of the day, they took the lead. 74 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: Huber wiping his hands off on his pants. Now he 75 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: catches the snap, puts it down, bullocks kick floating on 76 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: its way. It is good and the Bengals have taken 77 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: a three point lead with fourteen seconds left here in 78 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: the first quarter, two drives, two scores, and the Bengals 79 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: third drive looked promising as well. On fourth and less 80 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: than a yard at the New England thirty, Cincinnati passed 81 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: on a forty eight yard field goal attempt and decided 82 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: to go for it. And he's in the shotgun Mixing 83 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: to his left. Dalton gives it to Mixing and Joe 84 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: did not get it. He stopped Danny Shelton plugging the 85 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: metal to make the tackle and the Patriots will take 86 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: over on downs. It's easy to second guess the play call. 87 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: For example, why run out of the shotgun instead of 88 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: either trying a quarterback sneak or have Andy Dalton under 89 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: center and then turn and hand it to a charging Mixing. 90 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: Here's Joel. I don't really care if I'm a shotgun 91 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: or you know, under center, But I mean what I 92 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: prefer being undersinder? Hell yeah, but I mean I don't 93 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: really care about it, honestly. Why why why is it 94 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: such a big difference. If it is under center, then 95 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: it's not a shotgun. I mean, at the end of 96 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: the day, it's it's solid about an attitude, you know 97 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying on how you going to approach. You 98 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: know that next carry and you know when it comes about, 99 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: you know, your mindset is in a shotgun. You know 100 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: you gotta come across and then you gotta read how 101 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: you got to read your keys out. But at the 102 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: same time, when you're behind center, Eli r it's downhill. 103 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: This is what we're doing. That's what we got to get. 104 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: And you know that's just what it is. But I mean, 105 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: shot I thought it was a great call. It's just 106 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: you know, one of our men got beat up front, 107 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: and you know them guys get paid on the other 108 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: side too. They made a hell of it. They made 109 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: a hell of a play. That's not what determined game, 110 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 1: but it did help swing the momentum. A Patriots field 111 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: goal tied the game at ten. Then, with less than 112 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: two minutes to go in the half, the Bengals made 113 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: a costly mistake. Jake baileywell punt catches at his own 114 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: twenty steps into it. The Bengals came close to blocking it. 115 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: Alex ericson calls for a fair catch. No, he lost 116 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: the ball. We've got a pile at the twenty three 117 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: yard line. Now the officials are digging in to see 118 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: who came up with that football at the twenty three 119 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: yard line. The Patriots had begun celebrating and they have 120 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: the football. Well, let's see if they may. Can you 121 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: review this and see if he was interfered with an 122 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: opportunity to make a catch. Matthew Slater did make contact 123 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: with Ericson just as the ball arrived, but no penalty 124 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: was called. Ericson came out of the pile with the football, 125 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: but the officials credited the recovery to New England's Justin 126 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: Bethel that led to a field goal in five seconds 127 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: left in the half, giving the Paytree. It's a thirteen 128 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: to ten lead. Here's Ericson on his fumble. It was 129 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: a bang bang play. My hands were on it under 130 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: the pile and they kept saying Patriots ball, but I 131 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: just kept hold on to it and then I came 132 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: out of the stack with it. But I don't know 133 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: what the ruling is on all that they gave the 134 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: ball to the Patriots. Did the officials say anything after 135 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: the fact about what they saw on the contact. I 136 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: think they just said it wasn't he didn't interfere with me, 137 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: and then I don't know what they said about me 138 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: coming off the ball. I think they determined that they 139 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: determined that he recovered it. I guess somehow. Yeah, I 140 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: don't know. It's obviously playing the game, you know, you 141 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: can't make the mistake. The Bengals were only down by three, 142 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: but the game quickly spiraled out of control in the 143 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: third quarter. Third down in six, the Bengals hit their 144 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: own twenty nine, trailing by a field goal thirty seconds 145 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: into the second half. Shotgun snap five man Rush Dalton 146 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: with time count and it is intercepted by Stefan Gilmore. 147 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: He looked like the intended receiver he was in front 148 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: of Tyler Boyd. Boyd tried to break it up and 149 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: Gilmore was there to pick it off. Well. Andy Dalton, 150 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, ended up going a little bit back 151 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: shoulder and Gilmore was playing back shoulder technique. So he 152 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: goes back shoulder to throw the football the completion, but 153 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: Gilmore is playing the road perfectly for that. Seven plays later, 154 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: the Patriots lead was ten. Brady drops back to throw, 155 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: looking looking, bouncing in the pockets, Still looking, Brady throws 156 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: into the end zone, touchdown in the back of the 157 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: end zone to nikkil Harry too much time Dan tom 158 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: Brady was reading a class bied Ads, drinking a cup 159 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: of coffee. The pressure has been good most of the day, 160 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: but on that play, way way too much time for 161 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: tom Brady. Brady's stats were modest fifteen for twenty nine 162 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: for one hundred twenty eight yards with two touchdowns and 163 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: no i nts. Here's Sean Williams. He doesn't have to 164 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: force anything with a defense plan. The way to the plan, 165 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: you can just run the ball and you can take 166 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: your shots. When you can pick and choose, and when 167 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: you take your shots, and that's what you do. And 168 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: they were allowed. On the running game. The three backs 169 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: did good today. They did enough to get him to win. 170 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: And that's that's all that matters. It doesn't matter how pretty, 171 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,959 Speaker 1: how ugly it is. As long as you get to 172 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: win all that people remember, that's all that matters. Gilmore's 173 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: interception set up that score, and a few plays later, 174 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: staffind Gilmore became happy. Gilmore Andy ready for the shotgun. 175 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: Snappy has the ball, a blitz coming quick throw and 176 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: it is intercepted Gilmore streaking down the sideline. He's gonna 177 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: take it to the house for a pick six. On 178 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: his second interception in his many possessions. I'll tell you what. 179 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: He bade it a big time. That made it twenty 180 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: seven to ten, and the Patriots secondary wasn't finished. One 181 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: deep safety for New England. Dalton drops back to throw 182 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: against the four man rush, chucks it deep down field 183 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: and it is picked off at the ten yard line 184 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: by J. C. Jackson, a little bit over for thrown 185 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: Dalton chucking it off his back foot and that's interception 186 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: number three all in the second half. That was three 187 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,599 Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and that pick came in a 188 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: pass intended for Alex Ericson. We gotta make a play 189 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: for the ball. We gotta run better routes, we gotta 190 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 1: get separation, so I you know, I know, as a 191 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: receiving corps, we're taking those three. And it wasn't good 192 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: enough from us today, and you know the scoreboard reflected that, 193 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: and um, you know, we gotta we gotta get back 194 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: to work and you know, figure it out. And it 195 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:32,959 Speaker 1: just wasn't good enough as a receiving corps to day, 196 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: and we gotta be better as a group. A Randy 197 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: Bullock field goal cut the deficit to fourteen in the 198 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but after a comically bad on side kick 199 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: spun to a stop after traveling just five yards. A 200 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: former Bengal put the game away. Burkhead, the running back 201 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: on first and ten at the thirty three yard line, 202 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: Brady hands it to him. Berke finds a haul up 203 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: the middle east to the twenty oh running at the fifteen, 204 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: the ten, the five, and he races into the end 205 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: zone for a thirty three yard Patriots touchdown. That made 206 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: it a twenty one point lead, and the Bengals would 207 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: get no closer. Dalton's going to air it out deep 208 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: down the left sideline for Ross. It is intercepted again. 209 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: This time it's picked off by J. C. Jackson and 210 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: he'll run out of bounds at the twenty five yard line. 211 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: Oh Man Andy Dalton tied a career high with four interceptions, 212 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: and the Patriots won the turnover battle five nothing. Here's 213 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: Sean Williams. They want to turnover battle, and when you 214 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: win that seventy percent at the time, you win the game. 215 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: And the rate that they did it, that's one hundred 216 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: percent of the time where you have five turnovers five takeaways, 217 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: you should not lose the game. The final score thirty 218 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: four to thirteen. Patriots. New England clinched it's eleventh straight 219 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: playoff appearance, while the Bengals fell to one and thirteen. 220 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: Here are Joe Mixon and Alex Ericson. Do you know what? 221 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: They feed off of turnovers and they make you pay 222 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: for him And they've been like that since I probably 223 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: first started playing football. I mean, I don't really know 224 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: too much behind that, but you know them guys, I 225 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: mean they've been like that since I was little man. 226 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: And you know that's a discipline football team. Autumn guys 227 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: gonna be in their gap. They all gonna play. They 228 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: they all gonna do their job and they do it 229 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: to the best of their ability. And uh, you know, I, 230 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: like I said, I tipped my hat off to him. 231 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: And they created a lot of turnovers and they didn't 232 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: make not one, you know what I'm saying, So we 233 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: gotta be better. You respect the success that they've sustained. Um, 234 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: you know the way they do it year after year. Um, 235 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 1: obviously you gotta respect that. UM, but you know it 236 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: was a competitor too. You gotta we gotta find a 237 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 1: way to you get If you want to be the best, 238 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: you gotta beat the best. And um, they came in 239 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: today and uh, they beat us, and we UM gotta 240 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: look ourselves critically see how we can fix it and 241 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: get better from it. And UM obviously are a good 242 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: football team. We know that. We knew that coming in. 243 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: But you can't you can't turn the ball over, you 244 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: can't make critical airs like we did today and to 245 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: expect to win the game. There were positives. The defense 246 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: held the Patriots to two hundred ninety one yards and 247 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: only seventeen points that weren't the direct result of turnovers, 248 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: and Joe Mixon topped one hundred yards rushing for the 249 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: second straight week. He needs seventy five yards over the 250 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: final two games to reach one thousand for the season. 251 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: But the bottom line for the Bengals is the league's 252 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: worst record by two games since the Giants beat the 253 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: Dolphins on Sunday. Following the game, Dave Lapham spent four 254 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: and a half minutes with head coach Zach Taylor. We're 255 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: just talking to Joe Mixon coach for a little bit. 256 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: And man twenty five carries one hundred and thirty six 257 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: yards five point four. Care you guys came out eight 258 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: runs in that first drive. You were you were making 259 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: a statement, and you were living by that statement you 260 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: were making. Yeah, it's unfortunate that we couldn't finish their 261 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: game the same way, you know, and we got down 262 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: too far, and in the fourth quarter of the run game, 263 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, we're down three scores, we guys start throwing it. 264 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: That's unfortunate because we went in this game, no one 265 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: was gonna be bloody, no one was going to have 266 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: to be some ugly runs in there. I thought Joe 267 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: and they all line and Joe did a great job 268 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: mashing up in there. A tight ends were involved, and 269 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: we just unfortunately couldn't sustain the whole game with that 270 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: philosophy because of the way it turned out. I thought 271 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: your tight ends, as you mentioned, Sethan Carter, cj Z, 272 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: they were doing a good job on the edge. I thought, 273 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: with those two stand up guys, it's gonna be hard 274 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: to run outside on the Patriots, and you guys, you 275 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: guys got outside on them pretty darn well. I was 276 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: impressed him. And then you were hammering them up inside 277 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: as well, So I mean they were kind of on 278 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: their heels a little bit. You guys were attacking them 279 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: multiple ways. I thought Jim Turner had had a great 280 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: plan in the run game, and Bron Callahan and our 281 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: guys executed it well. They believed in it, they knew 282 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: what they were doing, they executed it. Again, it's just 283 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: some fortune that we couldn't find a way to be 284 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: able to rely on that throughout the game. We had 285 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: to start throwing themll in the fourth quarter, and that's 286 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: what hurt us obviously. In the number that jumps out, 287 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: you don't have to be a football line stein to 288 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: figure out that you can't go minus five against the 289 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: Patriots and expect to win a football game. Oh That's 290 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: that's what it came down to. You know. That's um 291 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: They've they've led the league in turnovers for a long time, 292 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: and that's what they did to us today. You know, 293 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: when it was a lot of them were just one 294 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: on one. It wasn't I wouldn't say they were bad throws. 295 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: It was just we had some one on ones that 296 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: we had to take some chances at and those guys 297 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: went and made the plays and we didn't. So you're 298 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: looking at your offensive line, I think is really starting 299 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: to build some confidence and I think you know in 300 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: a season like your experience and you're looking for things 301 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: to hang your hat on as a as a group, 302 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: and I know as an offensive lineman, I want to 303 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: get Joe mix in a thousand yards next week against Miami, 304 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: and I want to get it for him early in 305 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: that football game. Our guys kind of rallying around that. 306 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: Do you think it's not something we've talked about. We're 307 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: just trying to win a football game and and be 308 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: successful enough on offense to give ourselves a chance. And 309 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: because our defense is really playing their tails off right now, 310 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: and they're they're playing winning football and you know, we 311 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: put them in a buying today, and so that that's 312 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: what our focus has been. Tom Brady fifteen or twenty nine, 313 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight yards now, he did have 314 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: two touchdowns, he didn't turn it over, no no turnovers, 315 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: and you sacked him twice and hit him. I bet 316 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: you hit him at least eight times. I mean you 317 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: were making everybody was making their presence felt around him. 318 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: Even you get rid of it's like, yeah, Tom, we're here. 319 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: I thought the defense, the plan was great, the guys 320 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: executed it. They got the run run off at the 321 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: end of the game of Burkehead there that scored. That 322 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: was disappointing, but they again, they gave us a winning 323 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: effort and they probably scored seventeen points off the turnovers. 324 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: They had the onside cake in which they capitalized on 325 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: which led that big round. There's twenty four points right there. 326 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: So our guys, our guys did enough to give us 327 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: chance to win this game. No, no sacks and one 328 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: quarterback hit. Based on that running game, you know, you 329 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: get the line of scrimmage established hard for guys to 330 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: tee off, and the pass rush although like you said, 331 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: you get down the number of scores you have to 332 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: throw it. And I thought the offensive line still hung 333 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: in there pretty well. Protection wife, I thought our guys 334 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: up front gave us a chance to win the football game. 335 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: And again it just comes out of the turnovers. But 336 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: they executed the plan that we had in place. We 337 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: felt good about it going in a halftime and came 338 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: out the second half, just had too many turnovers. Yeah, 339 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: so what do you what do you tell guys after 340 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: a game like this, because like you said, it wasn't 341 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: lack of effort, played hard, just didn't play intelligent enough. 342 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 1: What do you tell the guys that's the championship teams 343 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: win the Turnamer Battle, and that's that's what happened to day. 344 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: You might have walked out of here feeling like you 345 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: had a winning effort, but we can't be pointing fingers. 346 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta still look deep down and figure 347 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: out what what could I have still done better that 348 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: could have made this game to go the other way. 349 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: And it's just it's a hard lesson for us to 350 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: learn right now, but we need to learn it. We 351 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: need to learn from this experience. Defensively, you had the 352 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: fourth down stop and then you moved it and they 353 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: stopped you on like fourth and a foot, and then 354 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: it just seemed to fall apart from there. They didn't 355 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: fall apart after they're stop on fourth down, but it 356 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: seemed like fell apart a little bit after that stop 357 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: on fourth down. Is it? It seemed like momentum really 358 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: shifted back. Is that accurate? Yeah? I mean we had 359 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: that one last drive after that at the end of 360 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: a half. We went three and out punted and then 361 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: came out the second half and just had two turners 362 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: right away, And so that's I felt like we were 363 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: still being a phishing on offense on the first and 364 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: second down plays for the most part, it's just we 365 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: had too many turners. Yeah, in the first half, your average, 366 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: like I think it was five point five per play 367 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: on first down and eleven runs one passed. I mean, 368 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: you guys were pounding them on first down in that 369 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: running game with regularity. I thought our guys really responded 370 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: the challenge up front and again believed in what we 371 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: were doing, understood what we were doing. Joe and ger 372 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: were doing a great job running and so that part 373 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: was really good to see earlier. The Bengals have two 374 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: games left, on the road at Miami next week and 375 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: a home game against Cleveland to end the season. If 376 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: they lose either of those games, the Bengals will have 377 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: the number one pick in next year's draft. Now time 378 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: for postgame analysis with lab If people want to know 379 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: how the Patriots have wrapped up a playoff berth and 380 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: how they can be eleven and three despite the fact 381 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: that Tom Brady has the poor statistics of his NFL career, 382 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: this was the game. They followed the formula to a 383 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: t Oh, don't have to be a football Einstein to 384 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: digest this one. They were plus five in the turnover battle. 385 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: The Bengals mine five. I mean game ball game. I 386 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: don't care. You'd have to outgain them by three hundred 387 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: yards to make up that difference. I mean, you win 388 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: the turnover ratio plus five, it's ninety nine point nine 389 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 1: nine nine if done one hundred percent time you win 390 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: the football game. You know, the Bengals may have out 391 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: distanced them with yards might out of this out that 392 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You go minus five and you give them 393 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: extra possessions, and you give them short fields. With those 394 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: extra possessions, you're just barking up the tree of defeat. 395 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate because the defense continues, in my opinion, 396 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: to play winning football. Brady was under fifty percent or 397 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: just over fifty percent, four hundred and twenty eight yards. 398 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: You know, two touchdown passes, no interceptions, no turnovers by 399 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. So they're saying, we're winning with 400 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 1: our special teams in our defense and we're just aren't 401 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: going to screw it up offensively. They are now plus 402 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: twenty four in the turnover department the Bengals on the 403 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: season or minus sixteen. That's a forty differential that I mean, 404 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: that says why one team's in first place, why the 405 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: other teams in last place. It's interesting and looking at 406 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: this Patriots defense. Most teams prioritize pass rushers edge rushers. 407 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: The Patriots not so much. They spend their money on 408 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: linebackers in corners. Their linebackers can move up front and 409 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: play on the defensive line. And it's a formula that 410 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: works incredibly well. For New England. They prioritize two things, 411 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: intelligence and versatility. You have to be smart as a 412 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: whip because Bill Belichick gives you a lot. You have 413 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: to be able to digest a lot of things. And 414 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: then he wants position versatility because he gives you so much, 415 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: he wants you to be able to do more than 416 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: one thing. You know, he's got linebackers playing defensive end. 417 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: He's got safety's playing linebacker and vice versa. I mean, 418 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 1: you know, he basically breaks a lot of your rules 419 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: that you've got from a blocking assignment standpoint. You can't 420 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: go buy numbers anymore. You have to go buy positions. 421 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 1: That's not a safety anymore, that's a linebacker. That's not 422 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: a linebacker anymore, that's a defensive end, and adjust accordingly. 423 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: And he puts a lot of pressure on you. And 424 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, I mean Joe Mixon goes twenty 425 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: five carries, you know, over one hundred and thirty yards 426 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: five point four carry. He's got overtunityy yards rushing in 427 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: the last two football games. I thought the offensive line 428 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: played winning football. They no quarterback sacks, one quarterback hit, 429 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 1: and it's easier to pass walk when you have Joe 430 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: Mixon getting off like he is. But man, you know, 431 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: I think some of the interceptions Dan were a two 432 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: pronged thing. Did Andy make the greatest rows? No, not necessarily. 433 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: Did his receivers fight like hell to make sure he 434 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: didn't have an interception, No, not necessarily. So the only 435 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: guy that I thought reverse roles and played defensive back, 436 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd, prevented another interception, prevented a fifth interception and 437 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: a sixth turnover by reversing roles because the defensive back 438 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: had better position on him at the end of the 439 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 1: route than he did. But he made sure he didn't 440 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 1: come up with it. Spoke to Alex Eric sit after 441 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: the game about one of the key plays, the punt 442 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: that he was not able to handle that was recovered 443 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: by the Patriots borderline, whether there was interference as he 444 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: tried to make the catch, it wasn't called he comes 445 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: up with the ball at the bottom of the pile. 446 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: It was credited to the Patriots on their recovery. That's 447 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: a key play that that helped the Patriots wing this game. 448 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: Two things happened in that play, and it's in the 449 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: last two minutes of the half, so the Bengals can't challenge. 450 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: It comes, you know, from the booth down rather than 451 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: the field up to the booth, and it goes back 452 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: to New York City. Did Slater get his hand on 453 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: Ericsson before he fielded the football? Did he grab him 454 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: prematurely to interfere with his opportunity to make a play 455 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: on it? Again, it is his bang bang, but it 456 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: looked like it could have been called. And then you 457 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: can't blow. You can't decide too soon about possession because 458 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: sometimes the strongest hands and the strongest risk win in 459 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: the tug of war in the bottom of a pile, 460 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: particularly a guy that's got adrenaline pumping because he's so 461 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: upset that he fumbled the football. You know, I'm sure 462 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: he's like, I gotta get that football, and you're doing 463 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: everything you can to get that football. So they blew 464 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: it dead before obviously before he came up with the 465 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: possession of the football. So there was a two part 466 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: series to that turnover. In both part went against the Bengals. 467 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: There were two fans in attendance at Paul Brown Stadium 468 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: today wearing Patriots jerseys that traveled here from Hawaii because 469 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: they wanted to see Tom Brady in person at age 470 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: forty two, just in case they won't have many more opportunities. 471 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: They didn't see him have a great statistical game, but 472 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: they did see him improved a seven and one against 473 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: Cincinnati seven and one courtesy of the secondary. Each cornerback 474 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: had two interceptions. Those guys were unbelievable. I mean their 475 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 1: secondary you talk about blanket coverage, my goodness, you know, 476 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: it was like it was like they were spray painted 477 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 1: on them. I mean there was a velcrow, there was 478 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: no separation. A lot of times they ran the route 479 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: better than the receivers did. I mean they would take 480 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: over and be I'm the guy running the round, I'm 481 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: the primary receiver run this football play. So that comes 482 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: with film study, good coaching preparation. They made plays they made, 483 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: They made plays they had to make to win the 484 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 1: football game. They got stopped on fork down equivalent to 485 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: a takeaway for the Bengals defense. They didn't panic. The 486 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: Bengals get on the field, they get stopped on fourth 487 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: and a foot out of the shotgun instead of under center, 488 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: which is going to be questioned forever, but at any rate, 489 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: they make a play and at that point the game turned. 490 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: They didn't panic when the Bengals stopped them on downs. 491 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: They stopped the Bengals on downs. And then a floory 492 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: of turnovers and maladies and everything else followed for the Bengals, 493 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: and the Patriots just keep their poise, take snapper after snap, 494 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: finish the game go eleven and three. Bill Belichick improved 495 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: a sixteen and four in his career against the Bengals, 496 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 1: and it hasn't mattered whether he was coaching in Cleveland 497 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: or New England. He was eight and two as the 498 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: Browns head coach, and now he's eight and two as 499 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: the Patriots head coach. Now time for this week's fun 500 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: facts conversation as we get to know the person under 501 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: the pads. This week, it's a third round pick in 502 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: this year's draft out of NC State. Time for some 503 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: fun facts with Bengals linebacker Germaine Pratt from high Point, 504 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: North Carolina, not too far from Greensboro. I read an 505 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: old interview where you said you grew up in a 506 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 1: rough part of high Point. Tell us a little about it. 507 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: I mean like every city had like a rough part 508 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: of somewhere. You know, grow up in property, growing up 509 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 1: with my mom and my brothers and my grandma. I mean, 510 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: things tough for us, like all of us of a 511 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: time pit. You know, you go through lights, rough times, 512 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: and you learn from an experience and apply it to 513 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: your life. So old time learn how to get through. Adversely, 514 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: like I'm dealing through now. Just's learn how to get 515 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: through it and still find that joy and love for 516 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: the game He's and every day. Your mom worked three 517 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: jobs to try to make two for you and your brothers. Correct, yes, 518 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: she write three jobs, like to help us to get 519 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: what we wanted when we was on. How much respect 520 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: and admiration do you have for her for what she 521 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: did when you were a kid? I have a two 522 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: minutes like it's unconditional much of respect I have for 523 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: unconditional love I have for my own. I read that 524 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: one of your goals in trying to get to the 525 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,479 Speaker 1: NFL was the hope of being able to provide a 526 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: better life for her. Yes, absolutely, that's my main focus, 527 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,919 Speaker 1: like in college, is providing a new family, like a 528 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: new place for us to live safety. I can go 529 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: back home if you feel comfortable where we live at. 530 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: And I had the opportunity to do this before the 531 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: season started to get how I move her to Charlotte 532 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: now Carolina and better to give her a safe place 533 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: when my niece and them can come out and be 534 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: able to play in the backyard and stuff without anything 535 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: going around. How great is that? I mean, that must 536 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: be the greatest feeling in the world to be able 537 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: to do that. I mean, yeah, it's great. It's a 538 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: great feeling. You know, unreal. We're doing fun facts with 539 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: Jermaine Pratt. Tell me some of the things you were 540 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: interested in as a kid. Football, of course, like sports. 541 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: I liked basketball, I like baseball, and I played and 542 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: I went a little bit of track. Were you the 543 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: best player on the team and pretty much anything you played? 544 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: I would say I was like the most athletic, like 545 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: fast and quick and like grass the thing just like 546 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: catch up on things, quit and not to play. So 547 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: after a great high school career, you elected to go 548 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: to NC State which isn't too far from where you 549 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: grew up. You could have gone just about anywhere. I'm sure, 550 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: why did you choose NC State close to home? Like 551 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: from a mom and my family who comes to the game. 552 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: I thought it would be a great place. Isn't it 553 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: too far? Because I was like a moment's boy, like 554 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: I was. I didn't want to leave home, but I 555 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: didn't want to love to fly, so I just went 556 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: to NC State. So you show up there at one 557 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five pounds if I've read correctly, and 558 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: it didn't take you long to start adding weight and muscle. 559 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: I went in earlier. I got away high school early 560 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: in the nine row. By the spring semester of spring 561 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: while I was like two thirty, so I gained a 562 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: lot of weight fast. And was it strictly a matter 563 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: of you've got the training table that a college athlete 564 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: has access to, and really, for the first time in 565 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: your life, you were able to to feast on on 566 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: some of these healthy foods. Yeah, I would say that, 567 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: like they had a great program over there, you know, 568 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: just and be able to eat three times a day 569 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: was something I wasn't used to. Most of the time, 570 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,479 Speaker 1: I eat like once or twice. Because I played football throughout. 571 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: I didn't like being at home because it wan't really 572 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: much to do at home, so I always played football 573 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: or basketball or rand track, so I was gone most 574 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: of the day, so I was always on the run. 575 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: Like you know, when you little, you having fun, you 576 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: forget eat. So yeah, that was the most of the part. 577 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: You started out, this is safety. Did you like it? Yeah? 578 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: I liked it. Athy I mean, I like it to 579 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: be back there and having fun, you know what I mean? 580 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: Because I liked every the way he played. He was 581 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: a ball hall, so I would love the way he 582 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: played a game. So I always wanted to be a safety, 583 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: and then I didn't. Then they switched me to linebacker, 584 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: which was a great decision. Were you happy about that 585 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: decision right off the bat or were you initially a 586 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: little bit reluctant. I really didn't know too much about linebacker, 587 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: but I was a little bit edited. But I knew 588 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: for me to make it to this level, I had 589 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: to switch to linebacker. So then I got injured going 590 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: to the juniors on season, so I embraced it. Started 591 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: embracing it, started working with the string coaches like you 592 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: get rehabbing stuff and then moving the linebacker was the 593 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: best thing I did. How did you juggle football and 594 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: school work at NC State? I say, they got a 595 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: great program over there, so they'll get you all the 596 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: twols that you need to be successful. It's up to 597 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: you to do it. You know, we got the academic 598 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: system is hug was there. You know most of the 599 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: all people that I went to college when I first 600 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: got there, they least got a degree. So it's huge there, 601 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: Like he'll get your degree before you leave as at 602 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: a program like that. Describe your draft experience. My drafts friends, 603 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: was crazy. I mean I would say like it was 604 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: something I always prepared for all my whole life. But 605 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: it's hard and real, like you just waiting, then you 606 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: finally get that call and then joy, You're just so 607 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: happy for a team to believe in you and this 608 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: wants you to be successful and people just call you. 609 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,479 Speaker 1: The coach ca your phone and telling hey, we're going 610 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: to pick you at third round and save me two 611 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: pick I was so, you know, it was unreal. Just 612 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: get your name called on TV and then there's bad 613 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: to work. Basically, we're doing fun facts with your main 614 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: prat what's the best part in your opinion about being 615 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: an NFL player, I mean the game. I mean, the 616 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: best part is just always just playing football. You know 617 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: what I meant coming to work and each and every 618 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: day comes to work something that you love to do, 619 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Matter if things going wrong 620 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: or not, you're still playing the game you love. You know, 621 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: you got a group of guys and they're still fighting. 622 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 1: You know, things that going right for us this season, 623 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: but they they're still in that fighting, still loving the 624 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: cone work, and still have joy in their life. You 625 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: know what I mean. Some people get down and stuff 626 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: because what they go through at work and stuff. But 627 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: you have a group of guys and they still love 628 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: this game and this game bringing so much to them 629 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: that they don't never let loose sight out of it. 630 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: You're a goal setter, correct? Yeah? Did you write them down? Yeah? 631 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,719 Speaker 1: I was writing it down and then I just started 632 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: like this, this is how to go day by day. 633 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: Now do you check them off when you reach them? 634 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: I did in college? I did. Yeah, a few more 635 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: fun facts for Jermaine Pratt. What do you like to 636 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: spend your money on? My money? I say, most of 637 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: my money go to my family. I say I haven't 638 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: spent that much because it ain't I don't really do 639 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: that much. So I'll just be like food and then 640 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: like just give my mom money like stuff, and then 641 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: my nieces. I actually went shopping for them for Christmas. 642 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, most of my money go to my my family. 643 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: Do you have a guilty pleasure when it comes to food? 644 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: Is there's some unhealthy thing that you just have a 645 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: hard time saying no too? I say sweets like little 646 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 1: Debbie Kate, like Omel Kates, and then like honey moneys 647 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: and stuff. You work it off, you'll be fine. If 648 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,719 Speaker 1: you could meet anybody in history, famous athlete, politician, historical figure, 649 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: religious figure, whoever it might be, who would that person be? 650 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: Lebron James Lebron is who's romandling today's society. The way 651 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: he carried hisself and the way he give bet to 652 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: the community. Ohio. On this building the foundation for kids, 653 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: you know, the school is a huge part. Getting that 654 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: foundation early. You're learning how to read and write and 655 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: how to add and stuff. That's huge. I appreciate your time. 656 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: You're off the hot seat. Best of luck. All right, thanks, 657 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 1: that's your main pratt. Here's a quick invitation to join 658 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: us on location this week on Friday afternoon from three 659 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: to six, we'll be at Buffalo Wings and Rings back 660 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: at Ridge Location for the Bengals pep Rally show. A 661 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: player will join us in the final hour and we'll 662 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: have plenty of giveaways too. That's going to do it 663 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: for this episode of the podcast. If you haven't done 664 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: so already, don't forget to subscribe, and if you have 665 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,479 Speaker 1: a moment, give it a rating or share a comment. 666 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: Those five star ratings help more fans find this podcast. 667 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: I'm Dan Horde. 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