WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Night Moves 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:04.240 Hig and everybody. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.800 I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:13.040 The Working on Our Night moves addition, as we look 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.360 ahead to Monday Night football at Paycorp Stadium, as the 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.640 Bengals host the one and one Washington Commanders Coming up. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.360 Former Bengals safety Solomon Wilcotts, the host of the opening 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.720 Drive show on Sirius XM NFL Radio, joins me to 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.159 discuss how the Bengals can overcome their zero and two start. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.720 Tight Ends coach James Casey discusses a huge day for 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.560 his position group at Kansas City, and in our no 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.519 thea Faux segment, we get an in depth look at 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.600 the Commanders from their radio voice, Bram Weinstein. 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If there's a 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.200 long line of traffic and you're one lane over looking 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.680 to merge in, I'm the guy that always slows down 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.880 to let you pull in front of me. Well, all 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.480 I hope for in return is a quick wave of 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.520 acknowledgment through the back window, a small gesture to say 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.959 thanks for your consideration. I always do it when a 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.959 fellow driver makes room for me, and when I don't 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.440 get the wave from another driver, it almost feels like 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:55.080 I'm getting a middle finger instead. Now let's get to 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.680 my first guest. Solomon Wilcott started its safety for the 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.080 Bengals in Super Bowl twenty three and has gone on 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.360 to have a highly successful career in broadcasting. He currently 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.639 hosts the Opening Drive show on sirius XM NFL Radio 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.160 in addition to hosting the Believe In Bengals podcast, and 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.640 Sally joined me this week to discuss the team coming 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.079 off that one point loss at Kansas City. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.880 I've had to check my blood pressure more frequently than 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.440 I ever had. These games are taking more of a 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.040 toll on me than than they used to. You know, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.520 it was one of those games that I felt like 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.160 we wanted, except every time I go back and look 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.800 at the final score, I was, you know, became more 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.359 aware that we didn't win it. So look, I think 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.640 the team played much better week two than week one. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.520 I love the fact that the defense came to play 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.040 and may Patrick Mahomes look human, right, And man, I 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.200 can't say enough about the energy of Trey Hendrickson that 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.440 he plays with. He makes he makes you proud to 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:02.360 be a Bengals fan. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.760 Have you seen a better interception than Cam Taylor BRIT's 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.320 one handed snag? And what do you think of his 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.160 development as the Bengals quote unquote shutdown corner. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.400 Well, I was talking about him on my show on 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.520 Serious Xmnfield Radio in the opening drive after he had 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.600 made his statements, and I tried to tell people, that's 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.200 not trash talking for Cam Taylor Brit That's that's Cam 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.400 being Cam like if you know him, very confident young man. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.400 He has a knack and a fair and a flair 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.040 for making plays. And I told him, I said dude, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.320 you I said, you're one of the great playmakers that 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.520 we've ever had here who just have a knack for 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:48.120 finding the football. I mean, the ball finds hailm at times. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.800 And that play he made was one of the greatest 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.440 interceptions you're ever going to see. And it was against 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.320 one of the greatest quarterbacks you could ever intercept, and 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.920 he made it look easy backhanded the ball with one 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.840 hand while still having you know, just great relationship to 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.240 the receiver. And so if you understand how you play 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.880 in sequence in pass covers, particularly a press manda man covers, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.960 to get your head around find the ball but still 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.560 not lose the receiver and make a play on the 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.600 ball without losing relation to the receiver. That it clearly 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.600 was one of the greatest press man demand cover interceptors 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.320 that you're ever going to see. So kudos to Cam Taylor. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.280 Britt Let's move to. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.719 The other starting outside corner. How do you think Dax 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.800 Hill is coming along as he makes that switch from 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.560 safety to outside corner? 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.360 Come along good, but could be better and more it's 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.320 more about the angles in his run defense right and 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.240 just coming up to make tackles and being in good 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.440 relationship to where the ball is hitting at the line 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.560 of scrimmage. If you're at corner, you're an outside defender. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.560 Outside in at Saale when he was at the safety position, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.800 you're an inside out defender. It's like the first play 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.000 with Madre Stevens week one. He bounces it and if 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.800 you're the corner, you got to be there to make 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.839 that play. Man, you got to even see that one 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.760 coming and be there early, so there's better angles you 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.240 can take and run defense. But you know, at the 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.240 end of the day, Man, last week, I thought we 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.839 did a really good better job in coverage. We're not 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.560 giving up the explosive plays we're getting off the field. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.680 On third down. DJ Turner came in. He made a 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.479 playing man. I think, just as young corners, you need 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.120 to begin to stock consistent good plays where your confidence 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.440 can grow. But there's no doubt they're getting taught great 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.239 technique and now they got to trust that technique against 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.840 some of the best wide receivers. You're gonna every week, Man, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.240 you're playing against some wide receivers who can embarrass you 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.880 if you don't bring your technique and if you don't 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.960 play with great deal of confidence in your pass coverage skills. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.599 Alvin Willcotts is our guest. You're in an NFL safety 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.039 for six years. What's the teaching point for rookie Djon 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.280 Anthony on that pass interference call at the end of 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:08.640 the game. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.480 Play the ball. Play the ball you got You got 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.880 there in time enough to play the ball too. You're 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.359 in you're in zone coverage. So zone coverage, you know 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.200 what it allows you to cheat. It allows you to 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.159 see the quarterback. It allows you to see the ball 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.279 when the ball's being thrown. You can still see the receiver, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.440 the quarterback and the ball simultaneously, something that Cam Taylor 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.560 Britt did get to see on the interception he made. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.520 You're playing blind almost in that case, but in zone coverage, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.400 when you're top down, you get to see everything. You 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.880 just play the ball's thrown. Now, go play the ball. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.200 Don't play the man because you're gonna end up hitting 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.680 him before the ball arrives. Right when you get a 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.919 chance to play the ball, man, you gotta play the 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.400 ball because even if you knock it down or catch 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.839 it right, if they could care less about the receiver 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.280 at that point, if you bump into him while catching it, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.520 nobody's gonna care because you were playing the ball. They 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.279 won't threw a flag for pass interference in that case. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.680 So he had a chance to get an interception in 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.800 in the game. He had a chance to knock the 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:16.600 ball down in the game. Unfortunately, the worst case scenario 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.000 occurred and into the game for the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:26.120 Lou Aniromo said the defensive tackles were completely exhausted, which 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.239 was one of the reasons why he elected to rush 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.040 three and drop eight. He said he would do it 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.760 one hundred times out of one hundred times. Did you 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.880 take any issue with that strategy under those circumstances with 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:37.920 Mahomes and quarterback. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.920 No, I agree. Look, it's okay to give a quarterback 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.960 all day to throw if he has nowhere to throw. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.840 He really didn't have anywhere to throw, because this should 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.240 have been better defended. The defensive back arrived early. He 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.360 didn't arrive on time. He got there early. The ball 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.880 hit him in the head after he was hitting the receiver. No, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.800 I don't question because think about it, we were already 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.480 depleted at the interior defensive line position. You already know that. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.400 Then we lost bj Hill, then we lost Sheldon Rankins, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.840 you can't play. You can't mount a pass rush. You 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.960 know how I'm gonna tell you. Defensive linemen, that's why 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.320 you need a rotation of guys, because defensive players you 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.360 play to react. You gotta play off the offense. Right, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.400 there's keys that we read, but we are always in 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.800 a reaction mode. There's more energy exerted when you're on 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:40.000 the defense because you're reacting. You don't know what assignment 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.679 you're gonna have to carry out on any given play. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.160 You gotta wait for the offense to show you and 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.280 then you jump into whether it's a pass rush or 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.520 your run. You're playing the run or you're playing the 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.160 pass and what you're actually I'm not dropping and my rushing. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.160 You've got to wait for the offense to kind of 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.880 to get your clues, to get your reads, to know 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.560 what to do because you're always in this reactionary mode. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.680 That's why you rotate defensive linemen. But you never rotate 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.280 offensive lineman, do you, Because they play from the offense. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:14.439 They don't use extra energy trying to react to what 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.520 other people do. They're not chasing bunny rabbits all over 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.600 the field like these big defensive linemen. They're chasing running 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.680 backs and quarterbacks and wide receivers, so you have to 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.600 rotate those guys. Well, we had no rotation. They were 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:33.640 all hurt and so on a fourth and sixteen, you 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.600 know what you're doing. You're playing the sticks. You're playing 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.960 the first down marker because that's where they got to 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.560 get to for a new set of downs and if 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.120 they don't get their game over, So you don't put 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.080 all the energy in the backfield or chasing a quarterback 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.000 who's hard to catch anyway, you want to use those 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.840 resources to defend the first down marker. We had it 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:59.440 well defended. The play call was perfect. The execution is 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.400 where they fail. And that's why we say coaches have 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.120 all the power and no control. You know, it has 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.840 the control dan the players. The players have to execute 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.280 the plan. It was a great plan, failure of execution 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.440 on fourth and sixteen that that really falls on the players. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.600 Sally, let's talk about Joe Burrow. Two touchdown passes, no picks, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.440 a passer rating of one oh three point seven. What 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.480 stood out to you about his play at Kansas City 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:31.199 the fumble? 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.320 And you know, I'm the biggest Joe Burrow fan there is, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.440 and I look players aren't perfect, none of us are, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.559 and we all make mistakes. But what we cannot do 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.440 is turn the ball over, especially when you're on the 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:49.000 road against a championship team. That's the takeaway. If we 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.199 are trying to become a championship team. That's so I'm 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.520 speaking from that perspective because I believe that Joe Burrow 0:10:55.640 --> 0:11:00.400 is a championship quarterback even before the trophy arrives. He's mind. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:05.920 He's a championship quarterback, and the championship quarterbacks protect the football. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.280 That's that's rule and priority number one. You talk to 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.520 Tom Brady and I've met with him and talk with him, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.400 and if you listen to him, he won seven Super 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.080 Bowls because he protects the football and not that he's perfect, 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.800 not saying it never got away from him. You know this, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.040 Joe Montana played at four Super Bowls. In those four games, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.240 he never turned it over. But I will say this, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.720 Joe is getting into rhythm now. He's getting into a 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.920 better feel for some of the new players around him, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.040 like andre Yoshi Vash the assortment of tight ends that 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.560 he's throwing to. He found a deep ball, the biggest 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.240 scrimmage play so far of the season to Jermaine Burton 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.880 that getting in to have some comfort with these new 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.679 players around him is not an easy thing. Playing quarterback 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.720 in this league is not an easy thing. And I'm 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.960 telling you we have one of the best. Even the 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.960 quarterback playing for these other teams, they know we have 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.320 one of the best. So I love Joe Burrow, love 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.559 what he's doing, the way he's managing things, the way 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.880 he's trying to manage through some tough situations, man and 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.320 trying to nurture the relationships on this team to keep 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:20.040 everything together, to keep it from falling apart, because some 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.040 brinksmanship is being played right now and you don't want 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.960 to do that as you're trying to make a run 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.040 for a championship. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.800 Those tight ends combined for fourteen catches for one hundred 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.480 and fifty one yards. They played two and three tight 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.400 ends quite a bit during the course of the game. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.079 Did we see kind of the next evolution of the 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.480 Bengals offense where they can do that more? 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.880 Yeah? You know, Mike Oseeki's one of these guys. He 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.120 just he makes you say wow one minute and he 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.680 just haves you pounding the table to next. Heck of 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.000 a player I always I loved him when he was 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.440 at Penn State. I would go to Ohio State games 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:00.680 and I watched him at Saquon Barkley and trace Mick Sorely, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.440 those guys all the quarterback they all played at Penn State. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.400 I love that team that they had at Penn State. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.760 So he's a huge find. He's great inside the red zone. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.400 He knows how to work off coverage very well in 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.120 that knack that you see from Travis Kelps. He's gonna 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.240 put up some big numbers this year. Hey, look, Eric 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.880 All is as good as you could ever be at 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.160 the position. I think you're watching a star in the making, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.960 and I don't want to speak too prematurely. He's got 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.400 a bright future ahead of himself. And look in Tanner Hudson, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.080 despite the fumble from week one, we know he can 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.960 make plays. Let's hope he learned from that and help 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.720 us to protect the ball. And look, we even got 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.439 deeper rotation than that at the tight end position. So no, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.960 I think we're rich there. Finally, I think we're rich 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.840 at that position. There's an embarrassment of riches and I 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.240 think it's just going to keep coming. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.079 The wash engine commanders come to town on Monday Night, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.600 led by the Heisman Trophy winner from last year, the 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.120 second picking the draft, Jade and Daniels. He hasn't thrown 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.680 a touchdown pass yet, but he's on a pace to 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.360 run for more than eleven hundred yards where they're going 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.640 to be some of the keys to limiting him on 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:10.240 Monday Night. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.440 Yeah, this one, Like we know, Patrick Mahomes is a 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.760 dual threat quarterback, but he's he's like, he's a dual 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.320 threat quarterback, just like Joe Burrow's a dual threat. Joe 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.920 can hurt you with his legs, he just rather throw 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.720 it first. And Patrick Mahomes is the same way. These 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.000 young guys they'll they'll kill you or whatever they got, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.280 you know, they'll slice and dice you with their arm. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.720 And Jade and Daniels, I watched him play for HERM 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.680 Edwards and he was at Arizona State and I went 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.280 out there and watched him play and just I remember 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.640 he was a freshman. He was poised then and now 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.640 you see him as a rookie, the guy. One thing 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.360 he has now for a young quarterback. I know these 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.400 other guys, they get deer in the headlights. Look We've 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.440 seen it with Caleb Williams. I think we've even seen 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.080 it with some of these other young quarterbacks right who 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.080 are getting a chance to play. Bow Nicks. You saw 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.160 it with him, we two. You don't see that with 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.640 Jaydon Daniels. He's he's a guy that stays within himself. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.200 He doesn't panic and just throw the ball to the 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.680 opposing defense. We're gonna have to get confuse him a 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.040 little bit. If he runs it, you gotta touch him 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.200 up a little bit. But he's hard to corral. He's 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.160 gonna remind you of a young Randall Cunningham. He's got 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:31.600 that same sleek sort of physique and he can run 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.520 like the win. He's hard to catch and he can 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.880 sling it now. His arm is lively, but he's very poised. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.240 That's what I love about him as a young quarterback. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.000 His poise is on is uncommon for a rookie quarterback. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.280 So we're gonna have to get to him and touch 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.080 him up. But we got Trey Hendrickson and Sayam Hubbard. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.960 These guys can get after it. Hopefully we have some 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.360 guys to play on the interior part of our our 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.400 defensive line. By the way, they had a kicker seeper 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.360 he kicked seven field goals last week for a win. Seven. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.840 He's a weapon in and of himself. So I don't 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.360 know that I've ever seen a game where I saw 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.000 a kicker kick seven field goals and he scored all 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.960 twenty one points, Sally. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.360 This year's Ring of Honor class will be inducted at 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.360 halftime on Monday night and features your former teammate Tim 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.680 Krumrie plus the Bengals all time leading rusher Corey Dillon. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.040 When I say those two names Crumrie and Dylan, what 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:27.240 immediately comes to mind. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.760 I think Mike Brown, and I think the entire you know, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.000 brain trust got together to see it. Who are two 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.600 of the baddest dudes to ever wear Bengal stripes on 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.720 each side of the ball. And that's how they did it, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.600 because there's no like this. There's no question. The baddest 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.520 dude to ever wear Bengal stripes on defense is Tim 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.680 Krumro and his ain't even close. And I can tell 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:59.440 you right now clock killing Corey Dillon. That dude was bad, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.800 I mean, and he almost had three hundred yards rushing 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.760 in the game they took him out. This is a 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.200 guy who can walk around to say I broke a 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.560 record once owned by Jim Brown as a rookie, I 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.080 once broke a record that was owned by the great 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.879 Walter Paton. Who else can say that. There ain't another 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.240 human being that could say I broke Waltteron Bathess record. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:22.560 I broke Jim Brown record. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:22.960 Now what. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.080 That's bad, man. You don't get any better than that. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.080 So these two guys are I mean, these are two 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.680 special guys in terms of our Bengal legacy. I think 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.880 there are two special guys in terms you can't tell 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.760 the NFL story without Corey Dillon. That makes him a 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.920 Hall of Famer. And I watched Tim Crumrae go toe 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:51.080 to toe with the great Dwight Stevenson and win. And 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.720 Dwight Stevenson is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.919 as the great center of the Miami Dolphins. And I 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:00.199 think Tim Crumbrae deserves a bus in Canton. I know 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.040 Roger Goodale would agree. I know a lot of guys 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.960 around this league would agree with that. 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.560 Sally, always great to pick your brain, Appreciate the time. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.640 Look forward to seeing you soon. All right, Dan, all 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.520 the best to you. We will see you soon, my friend. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:12.840 Thank you. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.320 As I mentioned in that interview with Sally, the Bengals 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.480 tight ends combined for huge numbers last week. As Cincinnati 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.400 had two or more tight ends on the field. I'm 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.679 more than thirty percent of their offensive snaps. My broadcast 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.120 partner Dave Lapham was nostra damis. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:31.280 Here was his. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.720 Number one key to the game on the pregame show 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.960 just before kickoff. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.639 It's time to be physical, physical. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.000 I'm saying, Olivia Newton Lapham. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.320 I'm saying, you go three tight ends, and I'm saying 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.200 you put Cody Ford out there as a sixth offensive lineman. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.840 And I'm saying you put Eric All at fullback, and 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.800 I'm saying you put your Sample at the other tight 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.479 end position. I'm saying that's how you can pound him. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:55.880 Well. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.919 Lapp got his wish. The Bengals ran sixty four offensive 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.320 plays at Kansas City. Drew Sample and Eric All were 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.840 on the field for thirty three each. That's fifty two percent. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.160 Mike Kasiki got thirty snaps and Cody Ford got five 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.119 as a sixth offensive lineman. I talked about it with 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:20.280 Bengals tight ends coach James Casey James. Last week, the 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.760 tight End trio of Mike Kasicki, Eric All and Drew 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.360 Sample combined for fourteen catches for one hundred and fifty 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.520 one yards. Was that the flow of the game or 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.440 did you know going in that your guys were likely 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:33.800 to be heavily targeted. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.359 I knew going into the game that we were going 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.080 to have, you know, more opportunities. I didn't know it 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.040 was going to be you know, that kind of opportunities 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.280 with us. That's by far the most catches in yards 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.560 that our guys have had, you know, in a game. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:48.119 But you know, credit to Zach and Dan and you know, 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.879 and Roscottie and all, you know, the guys that are 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.080 designing their game plan like it was a I thought 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:54.879 it was a really good game plan and a lot 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:56.960 of it was just based off of what Kansas City's 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.040 shown on you know, on film, and we've played them 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:00.560 a bunch of times in the past, so they you know, 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.679 throwing throwing something different out there to them, and you know, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.400 there was Uh. I was real proud of the tight 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.560 Ends just for you know, you know, obviously you know, 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.320 making some you know good catches, some good run for 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.639 the catch, but also just knowing where they were going 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.440 to you know, line up and handle them the entire game, 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.199 playing the run game, the pass protection, the routes, because 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:18.960 there's a lot on their plate last game with lined 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.480 up in different spots and all the different formations. We 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.639 line up in a bunch of unique formations, and they 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.600 handled really well, especially for a young guy like Eric. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.000 So there was always real proud of the guys. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.760 And but like I tell them, and just like overall, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.040 you know, you're you're not thinking about the good stuff. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:34.480 You're always thinking about you know, we lost the game, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.399 so none that stuff matters. It's about, you know, the 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.080 places we wish we had back, the players that wish 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.719 you know, we we know we can get better at 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.359 and keep learning those lessons as we go and you know, 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.080 and then you know, find ways to get wins. Now 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.119 now we're you know, we're putting our backs stings the 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.199 wall early in the season, but you know we've been 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.199 there before. Now it's you know, hopefully we can keep 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.080 getting those opportunities in the past game as tight ends. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.119 And but we also got a lot of stuff we 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.520 got to do as a blocker and pass protection. And 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.080 but I'm decided about where the group's at, like their 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.080 they care, they're working hard, they're getting better and better, 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:04.760