WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.480 Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:13.039 the Bengals Booth podcast. The I Can't get no satiest 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.680 fag Shun. Addition, as we look back at the bengals 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.119 thirteenth loss in fourteen games at thirty four to thirteen 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.040 home defeat to the New England Patriots. Coming up, you'll 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.920 hear radio replays, locker room interviews, and Dave Lappam will 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.360 join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's Fun 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.960 Facts Conversation, you'll get to know the person under the 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.560 pads as we meet rookie linebacker Jermaine Pratt. All of 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.360 that is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.000 that you can have the latest edition of this podcast 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.440 delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.640 on iTunes, Stitch, your Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:01.800 It's the greatest thing since Christmas tree ornaments from family vacations, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.200 So whenever I travel with my wife and son, we 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.400 pick out a Christmas tree ornament wherever we go as 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.640 a lasting reminder of our vacation. For example, there's a 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.400 little miniature saxophone from a trip to New Orleans, A 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.920 tiny wooden lobster buoy from a journey to Maine, and 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.680 a small pint of guinness from a more elaborate adventure 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.880 to Dublin, Ireland. So, if you haven't done so, already 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.679 turned decorating the Christmas tree into a travel scrap book. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:37.080 It's a great an inexpensive way to remember family vacations. Now, 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.720 let's get to football. Sunday's game against the Patriots did 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.720 not start well for the Bengals. New England got the 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.920 ball to begin the game and reach the end zone 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.040 in three minutes. In sixteen seconds, Brady waiting for a 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.120 shotgun snap, Edelman goes in motion. They fake it to Edelman. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.040 Here's a swing pass to the left. It is caught 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.080 by White. He makes it to the twenty fifteen ten 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:03.360 five touchdown call. That's just a great misdirection call. They 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.720 got the Bengals defense totally full. When the Bengals got 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.600 the ball, they weren't looking to fool anybody. They were 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.560 looking to run it down and the Patriots throats. Here's 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.799 a pitch to the right. Mixon starts right, looks to 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.359 cut back, breaks through a tackle, runs to the four 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.280 d to fifty feet, cutting back toward the numerals and 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.160 Mixon gets tackled at the Patriots thirty two yard line 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.600 by Stefan Gilmore. That looked like it was going to 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.920 be a three yard loss. Guess what, it's a thirty 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.440 seven yard game. Should have been should have been a 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.880 three yard loss. You should have been tackling the backfield. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.160 We've seen Joe Mixon do this multiple times. After running 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.799 for a career high one hundred forty six yards last 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.880 week in Cleveland, Joe ran for seventy two in the 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.760 first quarter against the Pats and finished with twenty five 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.280 carries for one hundred thirty six yards. And to my 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.560 hatshops at all line, man, they played that today and 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.639 you know it was getting down and dirty, and you know, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.400 salute the old line coach all week. You know that's 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.000 what he wanted to do. You know, gotampose our wheel 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.359 and for me, you know, I wanted to set the 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.480 tone and I felt like that's what I did today 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.320 even though we came up short. I mean it's eleven man, bab, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.720 but you know, like I said, man, i'm guys and 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.160 the old line they did their thing tight ends was 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.280 blocking hard, and you know the receivers that was blocking 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.200 on the perimeter. Man, I was just making them play, 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.560 so I said, my hats off to all of them. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.919 They did a great job. The Bengals first five plays 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.079 of the game were runs by mixing. Their next three 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.920 were runs by Giovanni Bernard, moving the ball inside the 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.440 Patriots ten yard line. Eight straight runs to begin this drive. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.840 Now it's third down in three at the eight yard line, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.760 empty backfield, two receivers left, three out to the right. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.320 Dalton catches a shotgun snap, cocks the yard. Bros caught 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.960 that boyd. It spends away from a defender and runs 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.280 into the end zone for a Bengals touchdown. That's Sethan Carter. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.160 I beg your pardon eighty two, not eighty three, Sethan Carter. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.800 Chathan Carter spun away from Jonathan Jones, makes the catch 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.080 and just tight spin move inside leaves Jonathan Jones in 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.600 the dust. That tied the game at seven, and on 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.680 the Bengals second drive of the day, they took the lead. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.080 Huber wiping his hands off on his pants. Now he 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.240 catches the snap, puts it down, bullocks kick floating on 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.120 its way. It is good and the Bengals have taken 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.719 a three point lead with fourteen seconds left here in 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.480 the first quarter, two drives, two scores, and the Bengals 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.120 third drive looked promising as well. On fourth and less 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.560 than a yard at the New England thirty, Cincinnati passed 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.680 on a forty eight yard field goal attempt and decided 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.880 to go for it. And he's in the shotgun Mixing 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.640 to his left. Dalton gives it to Mixing and Joe 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.599 did not get it. He stopped Danny Shelton plugging the 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.080 metal to make the tackle and the Patriots will take 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.640 over on downs. It's easy to second guess the play call. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.719 For example, why run out of the shotgun instead of 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.800 either trying a quarterback sneak or have Andy Dalton under 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.560 center and then turn and hand it to a charging Mixing. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.120 Here's Joel. I don't really care if I'm a shotgun 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.880 or you know, under center, But I mean what I 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.520 prefer being undersinder? Hell yeah, but I mean I don't 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.000 really care about it, honestly. Why why why is it 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.960 such a big difference. If it is under center, then 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.560 it's not a shotgun. I mean, at the end of 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.880 the day, it's it's solid about an attitude, you know 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.440 what I'm saying on how you going to approach. You 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.360 know that next carry and you know when it comes about, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.800 you know, your mindset is in a shotgun. You know 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.479 you gotta come across and then you gotta read how 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.359 you got to read your keys out. But at the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.440 same time, when you're behind center, Eli r it's downhill. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.200 This is what we're doing. That's what we got to get. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.480 And you know that's just what it is. But I mean, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.280 shot I thought it was a great call. It's just 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.360 you know, one of our men got beat up front, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.600 and you know them guys get paid on the other 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.360 side too. They made a hell of it. They made 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.240 a hell of a play. That's not what determined game, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.919 but it did help swing the momentum. A Patriots field 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.040 goal tied the game at ten. Then, with less than 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.599 two minutes to go in the half, the Bengals made 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.039 a costly mistake. Jake baileywell punt catches at his own 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.960 twenty steps into it. The Bengals came close to blocking it. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:21.040 Alex ericson calls for a fair catch. No, he lost 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.039 the ball. We've got a pile at the twenty three 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.000 yard line. Now the officials are digging in to see 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.440 who came up with that football at the twenty three 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.919 yard line. The Patriots had begun celebrating and they have 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.599 the football. Well, let's see if they may. Can you 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.600 review this and see if he was interfered with an 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.880 opportunity to make a catch. Matthew Slater did make contact 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.000 with Ericson just as the ball arrived, but no penalty 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.880 was called. Ericson came out of the pile with the football, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.360 but the officials credited the recovery to New England's Justin 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.279 Bethel that led to a field goal in five seconds 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.920 left in the half, giving the Paytree. It's a thirteen 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.640 to ten lead. Here's Ericson on his fumble. It was 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.200 a bang bang play. My hands were on it under 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:08.919 the pile and they kept saying Patriots ball, but I 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.160 just kept hold on to it and then I came 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.720 out of the stack with it. But I don't know 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.600 what the ruling is on all that they gave the 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.960 ball to the Patriots. Did the officials say anything after 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.360 the fact about what they saw on the contact. I 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.840 think they just said it wasn't he didn't interfere with me, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.360 and then I don't know what they said about me 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.680 coming off the ball. I think they determined that they 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.440 determined that he recovered it. I guess somehow. Yeah, I 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.720 don't know. It's obviously playing the game, you know, you 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.520 can't make the mistake. The Bengals were only down by three, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.760 but the game quickly spiraled out of control in the 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.320 third quarter. Third down in six, the Bengals hit their 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.080 own twenty nine, trailing by a field goal thirty seconds 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.200 into the second half. Shotgun snap five man Rush Dalton 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.640 with time count and it is intercepted by Stefan Gilmore. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.080 He looked like the intended receiver he was in front 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.360 of Tyler Boyd. Boyd tried to break it up and 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.840 Gilmore was there to pick it off. Well. Andy Dalton, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.280 for whatever reason, ended up going a little bit back 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.480 shoulder and Gilmore was playing back shoulder technique. So he 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.160 goes back shoulder to throw the football the completion, but 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.160 Gilmore is playing the road perfectly for that. Seven plays later, 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.680 the Patriots lead was ten. Brady drops back to throw, 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.360 looking looking, bouncing in the pockets, Still looking, Brady throws 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.360 into the end zone, touchdown in the back of the 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:39.160 end zone to nikkil Harry too much time Dan tom 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.760 Brady was reading a class bied Ads, drinking a cup 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.400 of coffee. The pressure has been good most of the day, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.880 but on that play, way way too much time for 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.160 tom Brady. Brady's stats were modest fifteen for twenty nine 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.760 for one hundred twenty eight yards with two touchdowns and 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.200 no i nts. Here's Sean Williams. He doesn't have to 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.760 force anything with a defense plan. The way to the plan, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.920 you can just run the ball and you can take 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.640 your shots. When you can pick and choose, and when 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.720 you take your shots, and that's what you do. And 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.880 they were allowed. On the running game. The three backs 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.200 did good today. They did enough to get him to win. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.520 And that's that's all that matters. It doesn't matter how pretty, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.959 how ugly it is. As long as you get to 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.520 win all that people remember, that's all that matters. Gilmore's 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.840 interception set up that score, and a few plays later, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.400 staffind Gilmore became happy. Gilmore Andy ready for the shotgun. 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.200 Snappy has the ball, a blitz coming quick throw and 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.439 it is intercepted Gilmore streaking down the sideline. He's gonna 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.199 take it to the house for a pick six. On 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.960 his second interception in his many possessions. I'll tell you what. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.720 He bade it a big time. That made it twenty 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.880 seven to ten, and the Patriots secondary wasn't finished. One 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.320 deep safety for New England. Dalton drops back to throw 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.400 against the four man rush, chucks it deep down field 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.439 and it is picked off at the ten yard line 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.520 by J. C. Jackson, a little bit over for thrown 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.920 Dalton chucking it off his back foot and that's interception 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.640 number three all in the second half. That was three 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.599 in the third quarter, and that pick came in a 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.680 pass intended for Alex Ericson. We gotta make a play 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.720 for the ball. We gotta run better routes, we gotta 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.199 get separation, so I you know, I know, as a 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.959 receiving corps, we're taking those three. And it wasn't good 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.400 enough from us today, and you know the scoreboard reflected that, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.400 and um, you know, we gotta we gotta get back 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.200 to work and you know, figure it out. And it 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.959 just wasn't good enough as a receiving corps to day, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.040 and we gotta be better as a group. A Randy 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.520 Bullock field goal cut the deficit to fourteen in the 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.720 fourth quarter, but after a comically bad on side kick 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.679 spun to a stop after traveling just five yards. A 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.360 former Bengal put the game away. Burkhead, the running back 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.720 on first and ten at the thirty three yard line, 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.800 Brady hands it to him. Berke finds a haul up 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.520 the middle east to the twenty oh running at the fifteen, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.280 the ten, the five, and he races into the end 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:05.360 zone for a thirty three yard Patriots touchdown. That made 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.640 it a twenty one point lead, and the Bengals would 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.400 get no closer. Dalton's going to air it out deep 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.560 down the left sideline for Ross. It is intercepted again. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.000 This time it's picked off by J. C. Jackson and 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.000 he'll run out of bounds at the twenty five yard line. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.040 Oh Man Andy Dalton tied a career high with four interceptions, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.520 and the Patriots won the turnover battle five nothing. Here's 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.680 Sean Williams. They want to turnover battle, and when you 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.000 win that seventy percent at the time, you win the game. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.319 And the rate that they did it, that's one hundred 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.760 percent of the time where you have five turnovers five takeaways, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.480 you should not lose the game. The final score thirty 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:49.520 four to thirteen. Patriots. New England clinched it's eleventh straight 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.280 playoff appearance, while the Bengals fell to one and thirteen. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.920 Here are Joe Mixon and Alex Ericson. Do you know what? 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.360 They feed off of turnovers and they make you pay 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.920 for him And they've been like that since I probably 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.400 first started playing football. I mean, I don't really know 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.840 too much behind that, but you know them guys, I 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.679 mean they've been like that since I was little man. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.000 And you know that's a discipline football team. Autumn guys 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.560 gonna be in their gap. They all gonna play. They 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.520 they all gonna do their job and they do it 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.079 to the best of their ability. And uh, you know, I, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.880 like I said, I tipped my hat off to him. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.199 And they created a lot of turnovers and they didn't 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.800 make not one, you know what I'm saying, So we 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.520 gotta be better. You respect the success that they've sustained. Um, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.760 you know the way they do it year after year. Um, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.079 obviously you gotta respect that. UM, but you know it 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.640 was a competitor too. You gotta we gotta find a 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.199 way to you get If you want to be the best, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.560 you gotta beat the best. And um, they came in 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.960 today and uh, they beat us, and we UM gotta 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.080 look ourselves critically see how we can fix it and 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.679 get better from it. And UM obviously are a good 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.520 football team. We know that. We knew that coming in. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.120 But you can't you can't turn the ball over, you 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.640 can't make critical airs like we did today and to 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.559 expect to win the game. There were positives. The defense 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.360 held the Patriots to two hundred ninety one yards and 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.520 only seventeen points that weren't the direct result of turnovers, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.000 and Joe Mixon topped one hundred yards rushing for the 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.679 second straight week. He needs seventy five yards over the 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.120 final two games to reach one thousand for the season. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.559 But the bottom line for the Bengals is the league's 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.160 worst record by two games since the Giants beat the 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.360 Dolphins on Sunday. Following the game, Dave Lapham spent four 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.200 and a half minutes with head coach Zach Taylor. We're 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.800 just talking to Joe Mixon coach for a little bit. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.040 And man twenty five carries one hundred and thirty six 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.120 yards five point four. Care you guys came out eight 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.560 runs in that first drive. You were you were making 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.960 a statement, and you were living by that statement you 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.439 were making. Yeah, it's unfortunate that we couldn't finish their 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.360 game the same way, you know, and we got down 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.320 too far, and in the fourth quarter of the run game, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.760 you know, we're down three scores, we guys start throwing it. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.320 That's unfortunate because we went in this game, no one 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:04.920 was gonna be bloody, no one was going to have 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.480 to be some ugly runs in there. I thought Joe 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.240 and they all line and Joe did a great job 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.040 mashing up in there. A tight ends were involved, and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.600 we just unfortunately couldn't sustain the whole game with that 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.199 philosophy because of the way it turned out. I thought 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.760 your tight ends, as you mentioned, Sethan Carter, cj Z, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:21.800 they were doing a good job on the edge. I thought, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.520 with those two stand up guys, it's gonna be hard 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.760 to run outside on the Patriots, and you guys, you 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.880 guys got outside on them pretty darn well. I was 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.080 impressed him. And then you were hammering them up inside 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.560 as well, So I mean they were kind of on 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.240 their heels a little bit. You guys were attacking them 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.680 multiple ways. I thought Jim Turner had had a great 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.800 plan in the run game, and Bron Callahan and our 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.680 guys executed it well. They believed in it, they knew 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.480 what they were doing, they executed it. Again, it's just 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.640 some fortune that we couldn't find a way to be 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.560 able to rely on that throughout the game. We had 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.080 to start throwing themll in the fourth quarter, and that's 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.520 what hurt us obviously. In the number that jumps out, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.240 you don't have to be a football line stein to 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.320 figure out that you can't go minus five against the 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.520 Patriots and expect to win a football game. Oh That's 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.800 that's what it came down to. You know. That's um 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.280 They've they've led the league in turnovers for a long time, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.640 and that's what they did to us today. You know, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:06.840 when it was a lot of them were just one 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.120 on one. It wasn't I wouldn't say they were bad throws. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.960 It was just we had some one on ones that 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.880 we had to take some chances at and those guys 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.960 went and made the plays and we didn't. So you're 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.440 looking at your offensive line, I think is really starting 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.320 to build some confidence and I think you know in 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.680 a season like your experience and you're looking for things 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.360 to hang your hat on as a as a group, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.320 and I know as an offensive lineman, I want to 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.760 get Joe mix in a thousand yards next week against Miami, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.000 and I want to get it for him early in 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.560 that football game. Our guys kind of rallying around that. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.200 Do you think it's not something we've talked about. We're 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.200 just trying to win a football game and and be 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.800 successful enough on offense to give ourselves a chance. And 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.080 because our defense is really playing their tails off right now, 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.000 and they're they're playing winning football and you know, we 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.760 put them in a buying today, and so that that's 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.120 what our focus has been. Tom Brady fifteen or twenty nine, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.320 one hundred and twenty eight yards now, he did have 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.880 two touchdowns, he didn't turn it over, no no turnovers, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.920 and you sacked him twice and hit him. I bet 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.680 you hit him at least eight times. I mean you 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.240 were making everybody was making their presence felt around him. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.120 Even you get rid of it's like, yeah, Tom, we're here. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.600 I thought the defense, the plan was great, the guys 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.960 executed it. They got the run run off at the 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.680 end of the game of Burkehead there that scored. That 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.080 was disappointing, but they again, they gave us a winning 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.640 effort and they probably scored seventeen points off the turnovers. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.920 They had the onside cake in which they capitalized on 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.840 which led that big round. There's twenty four points right there. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.040 So our guys, our guys did enough to give us 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.160 chance to win this game. No, no sacks and one 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.680 quarterback hit. Based on that running game, you know, you 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.680 get the line of scrimmage established hard for guys to 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.560 tee off, and the pass rush although like you said, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.520 you get down the number of scores you have to 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.840 throw it. And I thought the offensive line still hung 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.400 in there pretty well. Protection wife, I thought our guys 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.320 up front gave us a chance to win the football game. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.080 And again it just comes out of the turnovers. But 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:51.760 they executed the plan that we had in place. We 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.760 felt good about it going in a halftime and came 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.000 out the second half, just had too many turnovers. Yeah, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.680 so what do you what do you tell guys after 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.880 a game like this, because like you said, it wasn't 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.720 lack of effort, played hard, just didn't play intelligent enough. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.640 What do you tell the guys that's the championship teams 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.800 win the Turnamer Battle, and that's that's what happened to day. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.159 You might have walked out of here feeling like you 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.960 had a winning effort, but we can't be pointing fingers. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.920 You gotta you gotta still look deep down and figure 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.600 out what what could I have still done better that 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:18.960 could have made this game to go the other way. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.320 And it's just it's a hard lesson for us to 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:22.679 learn right now, but we need to learn it. We 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.240 need to learn from this experience. Defensively, you had the 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.600 fourth down stop and then you moved it and they 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.800 stopped you on like fourth and a foot, and then 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.760 it just seemed to fall apart from there. They didn't 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.240 fall apart after they're stop on fourth down, but it 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.760 seemed like fell apart a little bit after that stop 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.200 on fourth down. Is it? It seemed like momentum really 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.720 shifted back. Is that accurate? Yeah? I mean we had 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.320 that one last drive after that at the end of 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.840 a half. We went three and out punted and then 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.639 came out the second half and just had two turners 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.600 right away, And so that's I felt like we were 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.359 still being a phishing on offense on the first and 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.280 second down plays for the most part, it's just we 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.439 had too many turners. Yeah, in the first half, your average, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.960 like I think it was five point five per play 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.320 on first down and eleven runs one passed. I mean, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.639 you guys were pounding them on first down in that 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.560 running game with regularity. I thought our guys really responded 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.359 the challenge up front and again believed in what we 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.080 were doing, understood what we were doing. Joe and ger 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.000 were doing a great job running and so that part 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.520 was really good to see earlier. The Bengals have two 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.720 games left, on the road at Miami next week and 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.120 a home game against Cleveland to end the season. If 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.720 they lose either of those games, the Bengals will have 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.720 the number one pick in next year's draft. Now time 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.640 for postgame analysis with lab If people want to know 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.000 how the Patriots have wrapped up a playoff berth and 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.440 how they can be eleven and three despite the fact 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.080 that Tom Brady has the poor statistics of his NFL career, 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.960 this was the game. They followed the formula to a 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.800 t Oh, don't have to be a football Einstein to 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.320 digest this one. They were plus five in the turnover battle. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.480 The Bengals mine five. I mean game ball game. I 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.280 don't care. You'd have to outgain them by three hundred 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.240 yards to make up that difference. I mean, you win 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.000 the turnover ratio plus five, it's ninety nine point nine 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.199 nine nine if done one hundred percent time you win 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.880 the football game. You know, the Bengals may have out 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.280 distanced them with yards might out of this out that 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.680 doesn't matter. You go minus five and you give them 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.840 extra possessions, and you give them short fields. With those 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.280 extra possessions, you're just barking up the tree of defeat. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.679 And it's unfortunate because the defense continues, in my opinion, 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.440 to play winning football. Brady was under fifty percent or 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.800 just over fifty percent, four hundred and twenty eight yards. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.640 You know, two touchdown passes, no interceptions, no turnovers by 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.199 the New England Patriots. So they're saying, we're winning with 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.960 our special teams in our defense and we're just aren't 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.560