WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Opportunity 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.359 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:14.160 the Bengals boot podcast. The Opportunity Opportunity This is your 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:20.000 big opportunity addition as we look ahead to Sunday's game 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.320 at Paul Brown Stadium as the O two and one 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.239 Bengals are at three point favorite as they host the 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.640 one and two Jacksonville Jaguars. Coming up, Dave Lapham joins 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.520 me to discuss right guard. No, not the popular mail deodorant, 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.360 the position which could use some freshening up. Will cover 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.080 that and all of the Bengals key storylines. This week's 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.920 one on one player interview is with center Trey Hopkins 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.960 as we discuss protecting Joe Burrow and opening holes for 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.519 Joe Mixon. And finally, it's our No the Faux segment 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.080 as we get an in depth look at the Jaguars 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.240 from Gene Frenette, a straight shooting columnist from the Florida 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.720 Times Union. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Prime Sport, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.280 the official hospitality partner of the Cincinnati Bengals. And here's 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.839 a quick reminder that you can have the latest edition 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.400 of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:18.280 computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:23.280 pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since the QB School. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.400 Remember JT. O'Sullivan the Bengals backup quarterback in two thousand 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.680 and nine. He has a channel on YouTube these days 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.680 called the QB School where he does in depth analysis 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:40.199 of quarterback play. On Tuesday, he spent seventeen minutes going 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.959 over Joe Burrows performance against Philadelphia and it's excellent. I 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.440 highly recommend checking out the video and then tune into 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.080 the Bengals pep Rally Show this Friday afternoon. JT will 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.760 be our guest at three fifteen. Now time to bring 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.920 in my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Let's discuss the number 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.240 any issue on this team, and that is the play 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.360 of the offensive line. They gave up eight sacks against 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.520 the Eagles and eighteen quarterback hits, although according to head 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.560 coach Zach Taylor, the line was not responsible for all 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.160 of those sacks. The offense lind didn't give up eight sacks, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.760 you know, they gave up four, and one of them 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.280 was at the last play the half. You know, when 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:19.720 I asked Joe to hold on the ball for about 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.040 fifteen seconds. Um, you know, we had receivers involved, we 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.920 were somewhere on naked, somewhere on the tight end, you know. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:27.440 So there was a lot of people involved in No. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.040 Eight sacks. It's always going to be reflection on the 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.680 offensive line, but that's just not the truth after this game, 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.760 you know. And and again it's there are we we 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.880 got to continue to improve up there. You know. We 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.920 got two guys on the left side there that are 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.880 played probably combined ten games of their NFL career, and um, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.799 we're only going to get better, you know, and those 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.960 guys are are accountable to what they can improve on. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.240 And so again I'm not I'm always. I'm always. Um, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.480 it's never as bad as you think it is. And 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.839 there's some things that we're improving on, and um, we'll 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.440 continue to improve on as the season goes. That being said, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.120 how how do you feel about the amount of times 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.880 Joe was contact something? Did those differ from maybe some 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.400 of the contacts that he had in Week one and 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.080 Week two? Yeah, I do, you know, it's we had 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.280 two sprint outs where he got contacted on you know, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.560 out of bounds almost you know, and and his biggest 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.280 hit of the day was on a naked you know, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.480 where he scrambled on a naked and the line's not 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.519 really planning on him being there. You're faking to the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.000 right and you're keeping the ball the left. They're not 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.320 expecting him to be back on the right hitting an 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.239 explosive play. To TV, that's just what he brings to 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.360 the table. You know, it's anything's on the table on 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.680 any given play call. And you know he got hit. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.680 We got the penalty there, and so you know, some 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.320 of those that look really bad are on some plays 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.360 where we don't necessarily intend on that happening. But again, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.880 that's that's what makes Joe the player that he is 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.480 is he's not afraid to take those hits and put 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.960 himself in those positions because it means explosive plays. And 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.080 there's a balance there of being smart, you know, not 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.560 putting yourself in that position. But at the same time, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.360 I'm screaming out and throw the ball away. On the 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.960 play where t got called out of bounds, I'm scrammed 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.800 two feet from him, screaming throw the ball away. All 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.600 of a sudden, he puts a spin move on somebody 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.520 and gets us twenty five completion completion on the field 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.440 and turns on sources of laughing at me, you know. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:09.120 So there's just some things with his offense that we're learning. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.119 There's gonna be some explosives there that are unexpected, and 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.880 we got we gotta be all the block for ten 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:15.680 seconds sometimes and some things where you don't think the 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.839 ball's coming back at you, but it is. And that's 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.520 part of what's going to make this thing pretty exciting. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.599 All Right, we're gonna hear from Joe Burrow on that 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.440 subject in just a little bit. Let's unpack some of 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.400 the stuff that Zach Taylor had to say there. He said, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.640 I asked Joe to hold on to the ball for 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.960 fifteen seconds. He's referring to the Hail Mary at the 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.360 end of the second quarter. Then he also talked about 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.880 the biggest hit that he took, that shot, that wicked 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.120 shot that knocked the wind out of him on a 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.000 naked So he's rolling out to his left, there's a 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.080 guy there. He stops, starts to run back to the 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.359 right a little bit. And in the NFL, if you 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.320 do that, you are setting yourself up to potentially just 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.839 get crushed. Le did You're on your own and Malik 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.159 Jackson said, oh, I'm going hunting, and you put a 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.479 big X on his chest and shoulder and smoked it. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.200 You can rationalize, You can build a case, almost like 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.240 a lawyer, to say, oh, you know, eight sacks, they 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.720 all weren't in the offensive line. And that's true, but 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.400 you can find other plays where the quarterback save the 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.039 offensive line from a sack, or a running back save 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.760 the offensive line from a sack. I don't care what 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.680 the numbers say. I don't care how you try to 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.520 rationalize it. All I know is one I'm watching a 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.719 game as a former lineman. I don't see a clean 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.640 enough pocket a high enough percentage of the time. And 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.039 you can Billy Day all you want about you know 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.720 this that I don't give a damn. It's like, is 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.119 the pocket secure enough but with the center and guards 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.800 for the quarterback to step up if he needs to, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.200 And is it wide enough from the tackles for the 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:46.440 quarterback not to worry about getting hit? And way too 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.560 higher percentage of the time. It's not. And I'm not 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.160 saying it's all five guys. I'm not saying that by 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.200 any stretch, because I've been there and I know it 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.400 only takes one guy, but there's way too many times 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.240 where it's happening where one guy has an issue. And 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.360 in some cases, you know, like Zach said after the game, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.200 his first reaction as a former quarterback after the game 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.240 is when a three technique is coming up to feel 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.440 like a free runner and that's the outside shoulder of 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.640 the guard. The right guard is coming up the field 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.560 like he's hardly touched. That's disconcerting to the quarterback, no 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.480 question about it. So the bottom line is it has 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.920 to get better. I know what good protection looks like. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.560 I think almost everybody knows what good protection looks like. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.599 Right now, it's not good protection. It's not good enough. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.400 And you know, and Joe needs to make an effort 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.480 to not exacerbate the problem. He needs to make a 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.240 decision where man if I start to take too many 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.440 of these, I'm not going to be around for a 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.400 very long time because these guys. The SEC is a 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.880 great level of competition, but these guys are bigger, faster, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.719 stronger than the SEC. Has more offensive and defensive line 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.680 playing in the NFL than any conference. But all of 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.360 these guys playing in the NFL right now on both 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.320 sides of the line of scrimmage could play in the SEC, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.000 not just you know, two per team, maybe three on 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.160 a team offensive defensive lineman. So it's just another jump up. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.720 I mean, you have defensive ends outside linebackers that are 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.880 more athletic than running backs you played against in college. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.480 It's crazy. That's just that's nature of the beast, and 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.120 you're just going to have to decide I'm gonna put 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.200 I'm not gonna put myself at unnecessary risk for the 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.760 sake of one play. Not going to do it. Molie 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.400 Campbell got penalized for that hit, and I'm sure he'll 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.240 get fine, but I'm alike Jackson. I'm sorry, but I 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.200 really haven't heard anybody talk about that as a cheap shot. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.800 If Vontest Berfect had hit a quarterback like that, it 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.080 would have run non stop. Right twenty four to seven, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.640 people would have been calling for him to be banned 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.840 from the league. I'm not saying Malik of Jackson is 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.920 a dirty player. I don't know of any history of 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.800 that kind of stuff, but that was a dirty hit 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.480 in my opinion, Yeah it was. It didn't launch himself 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.200 toward the shoulder neck area, he ran through him. You know, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.320 kind of you're right, if Vontes Berfet or Joe Green, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.720 or you know, pick a guy Dick Buckis, pick a 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.360 guy with a reputation, so you know that can be 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.080 a prejudicial scenario, There's no question about it. But he 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.160 was flagged. I'm glad he was flagged because you know, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.720 one of those I wonder if you'se find he will 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.520 be fined. I mean, the league find that out at 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.760 the end of the week. He wasn't ejected, obviously, but 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.600 I'm sure he's looking at the final he was penalized 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.040 like that. Bottom line is you got to protect quarterbacks. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.679 A Quarterbacks are the storyline of the National Football League 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.280 and they're the most valuable asset you have in your company. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.400 So you gotta protect him. You gotta protect him. All right, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.360 Let's talk about right guard Xavier sue Philo was the 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.440 starter in Week one. He got hurt. Billy Price finished 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.720 up that game. Fred Johnson started and played Game two. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.240 Fred Johnson started Game three, got yanked at halftime, Billy 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.520 Price finished up. It didn't go particularly well. They've got 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.480 Alex Redman on the practice squad. They promote did keep 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.160 in Sutherland from the practice squad this week. What are 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.480 they going to do a right guard. Before you answer 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.360 the question, let's hear from offensive coordinator Brian Callahan. We're 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.480 looking at all of them and the play there has 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.600 got to be better, and I think everybody can see that. Um. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.400 You know, I don't know that I felt at halftime. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.320 We kind of felt French struggling more than as you watched. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.600 The tape wasn't as bad as itself. There's just a 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.559 couple of plays that make it feel bad. And then 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.600 Billy kind of did some good things early and then 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.719 he struggled late in the game there in passcrow. So 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.679 we just we need better play there. And so all 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.400 the options are on the table as far as the 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.360 players that are on our roster. Um. You know, I 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.839 ultimately the chances of a Pro Bowl guard walking through 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.880 your door and week through the season are real low. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.160 It's just there's just the nature of it. So there's 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.400 really no cavalry comment in that sense. Um. So we 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.880 gotta we gotta find ways to take it. The best 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.080 guys on the field, and we're looking at all the options, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.000 especially who's here, and if there is somebody out there 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.199 in the world that can help us, we'll sort of 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.679 look at that too. He sounded like Rick Petino and 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.600 his Boston Celtics days, Larry Bird and Kevin McHale aren't 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.720 walking through that door. And he's right, you're probably not 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.880 going to be able to land a great guard right 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.840 now at this point of the season. But but what 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.520 do you think, what do they do? It's it's open competition, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.959 you know. And if I'm if I'm alignman, if I'm 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.680 a guard, I'm like, this is my chance, you know. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.200 But the problem is, why the hell hasn't that happened 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.640 long before this? Why does it have to come to 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:38.600 this desperate situation where it was so bad that the 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.360 right guard was the biggest problem in the past, protection 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.959 from more snaps than not. So why did it come 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.920 Why does it come down to this? This is the 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.480 fourth game of the season. Now, there was no training camp, now, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.000 ot is all that sort of thing. They thought they 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.640 were better off than they were. Obviously once it got 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.760 to live bullets, man, it certainly wasn't good enough anywhere 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.800 near good enough. And in my opinion, the guy that 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.920 can handle the job the best is Alex Redmond. Alex 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.360 Redmond has seventeen NFL starts. Alex Redman has played next 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.800 to Trey Hopkins, He's played next to Bobby Hart. They 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.600 know live action, where to set for stunts. They have 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.320 a feel for each other. They they've communicated all those 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.080 kind of things that are important. They're extremely important. You know. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.800 So if he's healthy. But that's the problem. You know, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.079 Alex had the wrestling incident. I guess you know in 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.080 the offseason right for training missus training camp. Now there's 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.679 no preseason games, no OTAs, no mini camps, and he 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.920 missed his training camp. What are you supposed to do? 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:43.079 I mean, you know, he painted himself in the organization 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.040 both into a corner and they decided, you know, he's 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.920 not ready for they let him go. And the and 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.280 the thing is what has to go on the light 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.920 that has to go on his head is nobody picked 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.360 him up when the Bengals let him go, Nobody picked 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.840 him up. The Bengals brought him back. Okay, so now 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.960 when you're healthy, we know you can play, we know 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.120 you can finish, we know you're a beast, we know 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.920 you can you know, by finish, it's like not just 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.280 block people, but then try to abuse him at the 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.240 end of it and say, you know, you're not gonna 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.440 want to line up against me anymore. That kind of 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.960 an attitude. He has got that saltiness. Now he has 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.920 to make sure he doesn't take it too far. Don't 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.680 let the pendult swing too far. You don't want any 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.199 silly penalties. You don't want any false starch, you don't 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.120 want mental errors. You know, those are the kind of 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.240 things he has to make sure. He has to make 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.760 sure he is on point dot and I crossing the 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.840 tea detail oriented proved to the coaches that he is 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.280 not only ready to go physically, ready to go mentally. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.000 Because if that's the case, he's the best right guard 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.199 they have in my opinion, bar none. You know, case closed. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.280 I'm not saying he's best in league or anything like that, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.840 but I'm saying from what they've got to choose from 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.880 right now, he is their most viable and best option. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.559 Joe Burrow has been sacked more often than any other 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.720 quarterback in the NFL so far this year. He's been 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.280 sacked fourteen times. Deshaun Watson of Houston right behind him 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:03.079 with thirteen sacks. According to Pro Football Focus, if you 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:08.040 measure the highest percentage of pressure, it's not at the 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.920 top in terms of the Bengals. Former Bengals quarterback Jeff 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.880 Driscoll has been pressured on forty seven percent of his 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.480 drop backs, that's number one. Joe Burrow has been pressured 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.920 on roughly thirty eight percent of his drop backs, that 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.240 is ninth most in the NFL. So here's Joe Burrow 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.040 on the pressure he has been facing in his first 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.440 three NFL games. You know my style, everyone talks about 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.240 the hits and you know the sacks. My style of play, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.040 I'm gonna get hit. You know, I'm gonna try to 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.880 extend the play as much as I can. And that's 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.160 something that I'm gonna have to live with, and I've 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.840 I've lived with it. I understand that. You know that's 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.120 going to happen. You know, there were a couple of 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.480 times where I held the ball a little too long 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.360 and you know at the end of half, end of 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.800 game that you know, the eight sacks was kind of 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.000 misleading because you end a half end of game, you 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.880 don't want to turn it over, you don't want to 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.360 the clock to stop. So I took a couple of 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.480 sacks on purpose. Um, So the eight sacks was a 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.880 little misleading. So I remember one you you ran a 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.120 naked bootleg, wasn't there You started to come back and 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:13.880 try to make a play, you know, like you have, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.960 You've done a lot and uh, you're you're on your 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.520 own then, I guess, aren't you. Yeah, you know That's 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.000 what I'm gonna live with when I make When I'm 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.120 you know, running about, running around out there trying to 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.280 make plays. You know, I understand that I'm gonna take 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.800 hits when I you know, naked to my left, roll 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.840 back right. But we completed the ball, made a play, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.320 got a first down. So I'm gonna live with that 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.080 hit every day of the week. As you advance in 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.960 your NFL career, there's a balancing act there between taking 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.120 the hit, making the play. Taking the hit and making 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.280 the play. Are you still in the process of going 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.720 through evaluation part of it? Yeah? But like I said, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.400 I'm always gonna try to make a play. And now 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.600 you know, I understand when and when not to. You 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.480 know the situations of the game. You know, if it's 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.240 second and long, you know, getting closer, taking a sack, 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.760 just get rid of the ball and play third and 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.440 you know eight instead of third and fifteen. But you know, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.040 on the one, it was second and fifteen, and in 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.840 my mind, there's not a lot of difference between second 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.320 and fifteen and third and twenty. So I'm gonna extend 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.520 that play a little longer than I would have otherwise. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.360 After the game, Sacks said that, you know, when the 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.560 three technique is getting big time pressure, it's almost like 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.120 a free runner. It doesn't matter what play is called. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.120 You know, it's a tough dynamic. I mean, that's hard 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.400 for you to see in that situation when the pressure 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.880 is coming right in your face in the middle of 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.840 the pocket, isn't it. Yeah, But you know it's my 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.360 job to make that guy miss and make a play. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.680 You know, I don't get paid to take sacks. I 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.960 get paid to make plays, and so that's my job. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.120 Things are going to happen where you know, we got 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.520 five guys blocking every single play, and they got pass 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.480 rushers that are paid millions of dollars to come and 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.760 sack me. So guys are gonna lose, Guys are gonna 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.560 get beat. That's the nature of the league. It's my 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.040 job to limit mistakes and make plays. Let's talk about 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.320 the sacks a little bit more lap right now, he's 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.560 on a pace to basically tie the all times single 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.760 season record that was set by David Carr number one overall, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.520 picked by Houston his rookie year, when he got sacked 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.280 seventy six times. That's basically the pace that Joe Burrow 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.120 is on right now. He got sacked eight times last week. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.480 I went back and looked at the most sacks that 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.240 the all time great Bengals quarterbacks took in a single game, 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.880 Kenny Anderson eight, Carson Palmer six with Cincinnati, but yet 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:33.640 sacked eight times once with the Arizona Cardinals, Boomer six, 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.360 Andy Dalton eight last year, the all time record David 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.680 Klingler in his first NFL start ten. That's the Bengals record. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.680 That's not the NFL record, which is twelve shared by 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.760 two great quarterbacks, Donovan mcnabbin Warren Moon. Yeah, and you wonder, Okay, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.240 those guys are athletic running around, you know, trying to 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.320 hold the ball, make plays and everything goes along with it. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.800 You know. I wonder what Andrew Luck, how his career 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.120 would have been if he can do now. The offensive line, though, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.160 is much different. I think Andrew Luck right now would 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.840 be enjoying his life because Philip rivers Is and the 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.520 Indianapolis Colts fixed that problem after Andrew Luck decided to retire, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.880 which is unfortunate. But yeah, it's look like like Joe 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.800 Burrow said, pass rushers are paid a lot of money. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.359 Defensive linemen paid a lot of money to rush the 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.239 passer and pressure the quarterback. And the Bengals right now 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.600 dan lasting the league in sacks with fourteen that's thirty second, 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.320 one hundred and seven yards lost thirty second as well, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.080 dead last. They've lost over a football field. They've given 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.280 back over a football field of offense due to their 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.600 quarterback sacks Denver who you mentioned, you know, with our 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.280 with our good buddy playing a quarterback position, thirteen sacks, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.880 one hundred and six yards, one less sack, one less yard. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.720 They're thirty first in both categories. So when you're given 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.040 up fourteen sacks and over a football field in yards, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.720 it's obviously it's it's something that has to be addressed. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.840 But then on the other hand, Joe Burrows the only 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.560 rookie quarterback since nineteen fifty that has back to back 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.439 games thirty plus completions with no interceptions since nineteen fifty, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.960 So in the midst of all of that that's going 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.080 on around him, you know, all the whirlwind, He's still 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.600 executing and performing pretty darn well. So if things get better, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.080 think how much better Joe can be. He's not operating 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.320 at a deficient level right now as a rookie quarterback 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.000 with all the friends going on around him. So if 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:36.880 that can improve whatever percent, ten percent, twenty percent, Joe 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.480 Burrow will improve as well. I mean it can only 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.560 get better. I mean if if he's posting these numbers 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.320 under these adverse conditions, when conditions improve, so should his numbers. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.560 He has one for sixteen on throws that have traveled 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.160 twenty or more yards downfield. The one completion his first 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.199 career NFL touchdown to C j Uzama, and that was 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.400 twenty three yards, So it's not like fifty. How much 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.600 of that is not having time and space? I think 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.520 a good bit of it. And you know the other 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.639 thing is if you get ping ponged around when you 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.600 do have an opportunity, you overthrow it. I mean I 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.680 think I think the throw that overthrew it to AJ Green, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.520 he said himself, high school quarterback, it's got to make 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.360 that throw ninety nine times out of one hundred Joe 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.920 Burrow hits Aj Green. I think on that pass now, 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.960 you know, am I saying that pressure had affected him 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.560 at that point that early in the season to where 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.320 he didn't make a good throw. I don't know, Maybe, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:40.080 maybe not, but I do know that over time, when 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.400 you're getting smacked around like that, it's like, oh, here's 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.359 the the deep ball opportunity. Oh it might be, it 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.960 might present itself here, get it out now. You're getting 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.080 it out too fast. You're not as accurate as you 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.280 could be. If you if you feel like I mean 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.200 the great deep ball throwers. You know you're throwing with 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.480 the anticipation and accuracy everywhere deep ball as well, but 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.600 the deep ball throws that really killed defenses over the years. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.000 Hold it that extra half a beat to make short 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.600 and the boom laser you know, getting in there. I mean, 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.040