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Now time for the radio relays from Saturdays. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.840 Had to have it win in Pittsburgh. It is the 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.360 final night of the regular season for the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.320 and in order to have any chance of advancing to 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.840 the playoffs next week, they must beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.200 tonight on a bitterly cold and wintry evening in the 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.359 Steel City. And it is time for the pig skin 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.960 to fly. Here at Akroshure Stadium, second down and three 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.720 at the twelve yard line of Pittsburgh Burrow looking to 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.560 pass again. He first a strike god Jamar Chase with 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.160 a touchdown. The Bengals score on their opening drive, and 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:46.320 Jamar Chase has just made franchise history. It's his seventeenth 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.280 touchdown catch of the year, tying Carl Pickens single season 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.800 franchise Mark Russell Wilsonson's pickins in motion. He's back to throw, 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:02.520 looking scrambling, pucking hands. Sack Hendrickson, who began the game 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.679 tied for the NFL lead in sacks with Miles Garrett 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.680 fourteen apiece, get this fifteenth of the year, and. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.000 That was really a good rush by everybody. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.280 We'll see if he can come through from forty eight 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.320 yards away. Adamidas, who played here at pitt snaps it back. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.720 The kick is on its way. It is good. Kay 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.640 New York comes through and the Bengals have taken a 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.280 ten nothing lead. First and goal from the one for 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.079 the Steelers after the penalty on Cam Taylor Brett. It's 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.680 a handoff the Najie Harris and he goes into the 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.600 end zone standing up for a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown. Ryan 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.720 Rico will punt for the first time tonight. Calvin Austin 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.480 is the returner for the Steelers. He's dangerous. Rico, the 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.280 rookie out of Byu. Hammer's a long, long punt, back 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.880 pedaling all the way to the twenty five. To catch 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.280 it is Austin running to the thirty. The ball comes 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.560 out at the thirty three yard line. They got it. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:01.560 They got it. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.160 No official indication yet. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.040 I saw a fall on it. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.240 Yeah, they do it, and there it is. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:07.800 They got it. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.720 Higgins out to the left, Three receivers out to the right, 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.280 including Chase nearest to the offensive line, Cam Grandy and 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.080 Gasiki also out to the right. Burrow with a quick 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.640 throw and it is nearly picked off by Queen and 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.800 it is deflected toward a teammate and intercepted. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.640 Wow wow, I mean that was a great you talk 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.080 about staying with the ball. Beanie Bishop Junior comes away 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:32.880 with the football. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.000 Wilson is under center. See if he actually runs a 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.240 play on fourth and one. He touches both sides of 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.200 his helmet, hasn't snapped it yet. Now he does hands 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.279 it off. The Bengals get into the backfield to. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:44.040 Make the tackle. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:45.120 They stopped him. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.719 I don't know. He's getting a good spot. He's getting 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:49.239 a good spot. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:54.599 You're right, yeah, wow, man, my mistake. After review, the 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.080 runner was short of the line. The game first down Cincinnati, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:03.120 Boore I withdraw my apology. Burrow in the gun, Herbert 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.280 to his left. It's a two by two formation. Chase 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.440 out wide to the right, Higgins out wide to the left. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.320 Burrow throwing deep for Higgins. He leaps and comes down 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.080 to the ball inside the ten. He stops the clock 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.960 as he goes out of bounds at the nine. The snap, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.159 the placement, and the right footed dick. It is good 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.320 and the Bengals have a six point lead, thirteen to seven, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.839 with sixteen seconds left in the half. All right, here 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.559 comes a thirty five yard field goal attempt for Cad York, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.520 trying to give Cincinnati a sixteen to seven lead. Rico 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.280 catches places the ball down. The kick is on its 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.960 way and it is good and the Bengals lead the 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:52.000 Pittsburgh Steelers by nine, sixteen to seven. It is second 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.520 down and five from the Pittsburgh forty one. Chase goes 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.560 in motion, winds up wide to the left. They throw 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.120 it deep for Jamar. What an adjustment to the ball 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.159 as he stops on a dime, comes back to the 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.680 ball and beats Trice for the catch at the twenty 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.280 two yard line. Kade York looking for his fourth field 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.839 goal of the game. It's a twenty three yard try 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.799 from the left hash His right footed gick is absolutely perfect, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.839 and the Bengals have a twelve point lead. In the 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.520 fourth quarter, Patterson lines up in the backfield Wilson to 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.679 throw again. Cocks the yard has a man wide open, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.719 caught by Friar Mooth and he runs into the end 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.960 zone for the Pittsburgh touchdown. Weightman into punt. He waits 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.880 at his own five for the long snap. His left 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.599 footed punt who not going very far. It is going 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.800 to bounce to the Bengals touch that the ball goes 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.560 out of bounds or did it get recovered by Pittsburgh 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:57.159 first Steelers have it so Isaiah Williams did not give 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.200 a definitive enough signal for his teammates to get out 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:06.599 of the way. Connor Hayward recovers the ball that hit 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.120 a Bengals blocker to allow Pittsburgh to recover it. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.160 I mean, it was a punt that was mishit, and 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.040 at that point you gotta yell fire or whatever your 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.400 code word it is to get out of the way. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.120 On second to nine, Russell Wilson to throw. Trey hendricks 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.840 In sacks him at the thirty three yard line. Came 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.240 with a wide rush, beat the left tackle more and 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.600 sacked Russell Wilson. Boswell has made forty field goals this year. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.160 That is a Steelers single season record. Here comes his 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:43.120 fifty four yard attempt. It's on its way. It is good. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.320 Yep, unreal. I mean in this weather for him to 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.160 hit that thing like he hit that, Are you kidding me? 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.440 That's like hitting the brick. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.559 Clock is running thirty one seconds to go. They still 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.000 need to gain about twenty yards to be in field 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.960 goal range. Bryan Mos thirty five seconds to go. Shotgun snap, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:06.480 Wilson under pressure, sacked, Trey Hendrickson does it again at 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.520 the forty yard line. Time out Pittsburgh twenty seconds to go. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.960 The Bengals playoff fate comes down to this play, fourth 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.920 down and twelve with fifteen seconds to go. If they 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.680 get a stop, their playoff hopes will be alive tomorrow. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.280 Hope alive. Wilson sends two receivers out to each side 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.000 of the formation. Russell has the ball short drop fires 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.480 a pass incomplete. Friarmouth couldn't hold on hand with eleven 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.440 seconds to go. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:41.440 That is coffin nailam, bam bam. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.880 The Bengals playoff hopes are still alive, and tomorrow at 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.000 four in the afternoon, we are all about to be 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.080 the world's biggest fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.240 the New York Jets, needing those two teams to win 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.800 in order for the Bengals to deep playing. The final 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.320 score Cincinnati nineteen Pittsburgh seventeen. The Bengals end the regular 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.000 season with a five game winning streak and the Steelers 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.280 end with a four game losing streak. Speaking of streaks, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.320 Joe burrows streak of consecutive games with three touchdown passes 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.080 ended at eight, but considering the frigid conditions and injuries 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:28.080 on the Bengals offensive line, Joe was outstanding, completing eighty 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.480 percent of his forty six passes for two hundred and 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:36.000 seventy seven yards with one touchdown and onet. Joe ends 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.440 the season with franchise records for passing yards with four thy, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:44.000 nine hundred and eighteen touchdown passes with forty three and 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.640 passer rating at one oh eight point five. Joe will 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.360 lead the league in passing yards unless Jared Goff throws 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.080 four five twenty on Sunday night against the Vikings, and 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.000 he'll lead the league in touchdown passes unless Baker Mayfield 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.240 tosses five on Sunday afternoon against the Saints. Here are 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.480 some of the things Burrow told reporters after the game. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.000 You know, our execution in the red zone wasn't good enough. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.360 That's kind of. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.760 The story of the game. I'm not sure how many 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.920 field goals we kicked, four, three or four something like that, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.080 So you know, if we convert a couple of those 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.360 into touchdowns. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:20.640 That's a different game. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.000 You know, I would like to have finished that game 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.320 on offense and punched those into the end zone. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.360 But our our defense stepped up and picked up the slack. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:32.760 Our defensive young. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.720 Guys and guys that have played great in the past 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.960 have have started playing well. And then Trey Henderson, you know, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.679 after tonight, I don't know who else is gonna win 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.400 Defensive Player of the Year other than him. He was 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.240 incredible tonight. Any time that he didn't have chip help, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.439 he was getting to quarterback. Anytime you don't make the playoffs, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.600 it's a failure. That's what you're you're aiming for every year. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.760 That's why you work so hard as to be at 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.160 your best at in the end. And you know, these 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.200 last five weeks we have been we just you know, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.480 weren't able to find an extra win early in the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.280 season that that would put us in a better spot. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.800 You know, I know that, you know, if we get 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.760 and we can make some noise with with the players 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.559 and coaches that we have in this building, and we 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.719 just gotta hope for hope for some hell tomorrow and 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.719 I'll sit back and watch it. I thought i'd have 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.960 my best year. I think I did. H The year 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.840 after a ligament injury like that is always better. You know, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.480 I threw it well this year, I don't think. I 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.000 still think I can throw it way better. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:34.080 Uh. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.840 You know, early in the season you're still getting a 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.360 field for for how that risk is feeling. You're breaking 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.240 up scar tissue, you're doing a lot of different things 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.200 to to help it, and it gets better as the 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.760 season goes. So I expect next year to be better. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.439 That's that's how it was with my knee. That's how 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.880 ligament injuries typically go. So I'm expecting to to grind 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.560 this offseason and take a jump next year. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:05.880 The man is never satisfied. His favorite target, Jamar Chase, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.920 had ten catches for ninety six yards and a touchdown 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.360 and has a healthy lead in all three triple crowned 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:17.079 categories with one hundred and twenty seven catches for one thousand, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:21.839 seven hundred and eight yards and seventeen touchdowns. My postgame 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.840 interview with Noumero who Know, begins with Jamar praising the 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:26.880 Bengals defense. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.040 They've been stepping up tremendously a lot the past couple 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:36.320 of weeks. Trey going trade dangs today, but you know 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.920 they always find way to getst the ball back. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.720 You finish the season with the five game winning streak, 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.440 your playoff hopes are alive. What's the emotion in this 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.319 locker room right now? 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:46.920 Right now? 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.280 Everybody happy? We just got this winning in Pittsburgh. So 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.520 you know, right now we're just letting the dice roll 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.280 and take the chances about what's gonna having them out. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.559 Ten catches just under one hundred yards and a touchdown. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.360 How challenging it under these conditions. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.320 It was pretty challenging mentally wise, you know, just standing 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.120 in the game, noise, cold, but you know, we practiced 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.640 for the outside in the cold for a reason. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.839 So the peasants of the game, is that seventeenth touchdown 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.520 really satisfying for you? No? No, no, why not? 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.640 Because I dropped two touchdowns in the past two weeks? 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:23.440 So what that would have been? 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:31.600 Nineteen seventeen's not bad. Nineteen sounds better though, hard to dispute. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.480 All right, So what's tomorrow going to be like? Needing 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.760 help from Kansas City and the Jets to advance to 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:39.880 the playoffs in Buffalo? 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:41.680 Who knows? 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:41.920 Man? 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.520 You know, hopefully postably we get what we want. And 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.319 like I said, you gotta let the dice roll right now. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.640 Joe started the game by completing his first twelve passes 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.199 nineteen degrees seven degree win chill. What did you think 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.160 of the way that he performed Coming out of the. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.240 Game, I was going to have a I thought it 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.960 was gonna be a long night for the defense once 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:04.960 you know, I see him start off so good. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.400 Did Pittsburgh change anything up or just their good players 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:10.440 start making some plays? 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:10.800 Uh? 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.160 They change it up a little bit after the first 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.600 drive at the first out of change it up? 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.600 All right? If my math is correct. You lead in 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.640 catches by eighteen, you lead in yards by two hundred 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:28.240 and twenty seven, you lead in touchdowns by five. Barring 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.560 some of the greatest single games in NFL history, you 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.960 are going to win the triple crown. Can you describe 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.120 what appears to be that accomplishment. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.160 It feels good, you know that I finally haven't on 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.800 toneath my belt, but I'm still worried about the playoffs 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.360 right now be in a triple crown, but I'm I'm happy. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.520 I'm excited that I got to appreciate Joe and the 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:52.400 rest of the team for helping me. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.000 It comes in if you can get in, if you 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.320 make it to the playoffs. What do you think this 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.560 team can do the way you ended this season. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.200 They gotta take a one game at a time, you know, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.720 like you did the last five weeks. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:05.480 Where about what we. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.920 Got in front of us, take advantage are the players 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.440 that we get an opportunities that we get in a 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.480 game and make the most outble. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.240 As for the defense, I told Trey Hendrickson after the 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.440 game that the best performance I had ever seen by 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:22.240 a Bengals defensive player was also in Pittsburgh when Gino 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.640 Atkins lived in the Steelers' backfield in a game that 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.600 clinched a playoff spot in twenty twelve. Well, I think 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.920 Gino is now number two on my list after watching 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.800 Trey get three and a half sacks and five quarterback 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.400 hits with nearly all of them coming in crucial situations. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.280 Well, first and foremost, I want to thank my Lord 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:46.320 and Savior Jesus Christ. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:47.800 He's my foundation, my rock. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.920 All glory to God and my wife. She's been amazing 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.280 through this season taking care of our son. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.120 Huge support group. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.080 I'm just incredibly bless and humbled to be in the 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.040 position to help this team win and give ourselves the 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:04.760 best chance to go. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.200 To the playoffs. He finished the season on a five 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.800 game winning streak, and during that stretch, the defense gave 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.480 up less than twenty points a game. You guys really 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.240 turned it around over the final month of the season. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:16.760 Yeah. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.880 Credit to Loui an Arumo doing his job, you know, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.560 changing things up, getting people in the right position to produce. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:24.640 You know. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.960 Credit to the rest of their coaching staff coming up 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.800 with good game plans and shutting teams. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.160 Down so Pittsburgh gets the ball with less than two 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.840 minutes to go, a field goal can win it. Chris 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.800 Boswell's been the best kicker in the league. The defense 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.680 had to come up big, and you guys did. How 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.320 satisfying is that in light of the roller coaster ride 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:44.320 that this season has been. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.520 Well, you know, we got a chance to redefine our 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.080 identity as a defense a little bit. And like I said, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.800 that starts with coaching and then players, you know, at 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.680 four and eight responding to the call. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.600 So credited leaders in this locker room. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.840 Like Sam Hubbard keeping us together even though he went 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:03.520 down in Tennessee, can't say enough about his character, his leadership. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:04.960 Guys like bj. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.679 Hill becoming vocal leading our defensive line, and obviously the 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.960 rest of the guys to remain pratt lying around out there, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.720 and Genostone making a lot of plays for us, Josh 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:16.679 Newton stepping up. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:17.760 I can continue to. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:22.239 Keep going on, but for the sake of time, we'll if. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.640 Seventeen and a half sacks Miles Garrett didn't have any today, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.840 you are almost certainly going to lead the league. A 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.000 Bengal has never done that since sack has been an 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.720 official stat What does that accomplishment mean to you? 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.399 It gives me a platform to glorify the Lord. You know, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.240 it's not about me selfishly, there's eleven other or ten 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.720 other guys that complete this defense, and I'm able to 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.240 produce on my edge. I'm very blessed to do what 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.879 I love. This is what I was born to do. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.359 And you know, my wife being there for me in 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.000 this whole process. She's been so strong and taking care 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.040 of our son and obviously take care of me. So 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.359 I'm very blessed to have that support group. And you know, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:06.280 it's pretty cool. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.760 You guys did your part. You need help tomorrow. What 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.160 is tomorrow going to be like? Nerve racking? Exciting? Can 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.320 you describe the emotions of hoping to get some help 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.320 from the Jets and Chiefs tomorrow? 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.960 Well as far as our twenty twenty four defense, it's 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:26.280 the man in the arena kind of accomplishes. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.000 What we'd like to say. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:27.560 We give it her all. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.480 Some things are out of our control right now, but 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.520 giving you your best is what it's about. You leave 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.119 the field with your head high, knowing that you did 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.240 everything to win, and then you can sleep like a 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:37.840 baby at night. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.720 A heck of a game and an unbelievable season. Congratulations Tray, 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.600 Thank you appreciate it. Ray finished the year with seventeen 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.040 and a half sacks for the second year in a 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.600 row and should get consideration for NFL Defensive Player of 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.919 the Year. Now let's hear what Zach Taylor had to 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.360 says he spent a few minutes with Dave Lapham after 0:18:58.400 --> 0:18:58.800 the game. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.720 Things head coach Zac Taylor, congratulations, sir, thank you. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:05.040 It's good to good win man. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:06.879 It's hard to win on the road in the ANFC North, 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.320 and really proud of the way the guys stuck together 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:10.719 and found a way to get it done. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.439 Give me your first reaction when you had time to 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.640 catch your breath and everything that was going through your 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.199 through your mind during the course of the game and 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.080 you had chance to exhale, what's your first thought. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.159 This is what we visualized. You know, there was no 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:26.760 situation where we're going to walk out of here with 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.280 a loss. That's not anything that crossed any of our minds. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.320 We fully expected to win this game, and our guys 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:33.119 got it done. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.600 And I'll tell you the grit and the determination defensively, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.320 coach down the stretch, the five football games that you 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.960 guys want in a row and once again compimentary football. 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.879 You know, there's a problem with special teams, you know, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.920 ball hits on a leg and those are tough things. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.480 Those are tough things. I mean the punts mishit, you 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.399 don't know where it is. But defensively they step up, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.880 you know, and it was just an a great example 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:01.960 of contmary football. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.200 Absolutely, you know, I thought, I thought in all three phases, 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.240 guys stepped up at key moments. Offense played well early 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.440 on to get us a lead and keep putting points 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.840 on the board. Defense came up with some key stops. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.960 Special teams had their day as well. So just really 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.400 really proud of our football team. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.239 Got a lot of respect for the offensive line. You know, 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.840 there's a lot of there were injuries there, guys are 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.840 playing different positions and showing versatility. Cody Ford, you know, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.960 stepped up, you know, really big for you you know, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.399 and then Amarius comes in when when he needs to 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.879 come in and and does what he has to do. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.080 I just think, again, in my mind watching this football 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.520 game as a form alignment, I thought the game was 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.280 was one of the trenches on both sides of it. 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:44.760 I did too. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.520 I mean, we dropped back in pass against one of 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.199 the best fronts in football a lot, and so we 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.040 put a lot of pressure on those guys and they 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.680 rose to the challenge. And so just just really proud 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.560 of the effort they gave and ability to get some 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.000 runs off when we needed to as well Khalil Herbert 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.399 and his first first start with us, you know, to 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.080 get the reps he did. Just really really thankful for 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:05.879