WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Only Human 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.160 Hike and everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:12.680 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The I'm only human of flesh 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:18.840 and blood. I'm made audition as the Bengals dropped some passes, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:22.160 caused the officials to drop some flags and wind up 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.480 dropping their second preseason game to the Washington football team. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.880 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from Friday's game, postgame 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.480 comments from players and coaches, and analysis from my broadcast 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.680 partner Dave Lapham. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.200 bud Light. Seltzer refreshed the game, and here's a quick 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.360 reminder that you can have the latest edition of this 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.680 podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.040 subscribing on iTunes, Stitch, your Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.920 It's the greatest thing since Joey Vado. I hosted a 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.160 talk show about a month ago and said something that 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.360 didn't seem very controversial at the time. Nobody called in 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.039 to argue, and listeners might have even thought I didn't 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.920 go far enough. I said that Joey Vado, at the 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.680 age of thirty seven, was a middle of the pack 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.120 hitter among Major League Baseball first baseman, and that's what 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.640 he was going to be over the final two years 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.880 of his ten year, two hundred and twenty five million 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.600 dollar contract. I am happy to admit that the Reds 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.000 first baseman has not only forced me to eat a 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.560 heaping portion of crow, but he's forced me to reconsider 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.360 what he can still be in his late thirties and 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.960 early forties. As I record this podcast, Vado has hit 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.800 sixteen home runs in his last ninety one at bats. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.440 That's a home run every five and a half times up. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.959 And despite missing twenty eight games earlier this season with 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.479 a broken thumb, he's now in a pace to hit 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.880 thirty six homers and drive in one hundred five runs 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.200 this season. Every Vado at bat has become must watch TV. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.440 I think most of us assume that while his best 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.600 days were behind him, Joey could still somewhat productive at 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.560 the end of his career because he would at least 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.960 continue to get on base. Now, he looks like he 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.360 can still be one of the game's best sluggers. Joey 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.760 Vado's career ops that's on base percentage plus slugging average 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.760 ranks ahead of Hank Aaron Frank Robinson and Albert Poohole's, 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.720 among others. He's basically Wade Boggs with power, and like Boggs, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.320 Joey Vado is going to wind up in Cooperstown. Now, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.960 let's get to football and last week's win over Tampa Bay, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.680 the Bengals starting defense was only on the field for 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.799 one series, sacking Tom Brady and forcing a punt. On 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.560 Friday in Washington, the starting defense was on the field 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.560 for three series. The first ended with a punt, the 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.799 second ended with a fourth down stop near the red zone, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.639 and the third ended with a takeaway. It's third down 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.800 in fourteen Fitzpatrick back to throw, has plenty of time 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.359 whistles won over the middle that catches made, but it's 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.040 short of the first down. Bengals picked up the ball 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.240 at the end of the play. We'll see if it's 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.000 a fumble or if the receiver was down before the 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.400 ball came out. Bengals are pointing like it's their ball 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.680 and the officials are going to confer. Sure enough, Logan 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.040 Wilson punched the ball out and Mike Hilton recovered the fumble. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.120 Forcing turnovers is critical, but another stat is even more important. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.680 To Zach Taylor zero points. You know, that's the one 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.799 that matters, you know, two games and Rosier points that 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.120 that's all I really care about. The fumble recovery led 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.960 to a short field goal by Evan McPherson, but that 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.360 was it for the Bengals offense in the first half. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.120 There were penalties, there were lousy throws, and there were 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.160 drops by Jamar Chase. In fact, he dropped all three 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.840 passes that were thrown his way. Here are Zach Taylor 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.160 and Brandon Allen. We just expect our siperscutt the ball. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.920 It's as simple as that, you know. I don't attribute 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.040 to any rhythm the balls coming at chup, catch it, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.200 and that's what we need to improvement from. He's a 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.360 good player, and he's still getting his feet well with 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.560 the game experience in the NFL and all that. And 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.800 I think, you know, I've seen him make some unbelievable 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.760 plays in practice and that'll translate it will He'll make 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.120 the He'll make the easy ones, and he'll make some 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.520 spectactic ones as well. So I'm not worried about him. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.760 I know he I know what he can do and 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.200 what he will do once he gets going. The Bengals 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.880 trailed six three at the half before finally showing some 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.920 life on their opening drive of a third quarter shotgun snap. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.400 Alan's throw back, shoulder throw, juggling, leaping catch penalty flags 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.520 are down on both sides of the field. Aud and 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.040 Tate went right over the defender to make that grip. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.280 Audum Tate's eighteen yard catch on third and five was 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.599 the Bengals' first third down conversion in seven tries. A 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.200 few plays later, they faced third and six. Alan waits 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.520 for the shotgun snap, catches the ball from Hill, looks 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.360 to throw his pass a slat caught by trend Irwin 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.960 inside the ten. Inside the five has the ball punched 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.520 out from behind, and Washington recovers at the one yard line, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.520 David Mayo falling on the ball. It looked like the 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.640 Bengals are going to have it first in goal inside 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.120 the five and Trenton Irwin had had punched out at 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.000 the four. There are two penalty flags near the goal line, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.000 and the first one came out at the point of 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.160 contact where that ball was knocked away from Irwin. The 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.039 penalty was unnecessary roughness for a helmet to helmet hit 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.680 by former UC Bearcat Derek Forrest. Here's Trenton Irwin. You know, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.520 it was a blessing that there was a foul there, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:34.880 but I mean I got to hold on the ball. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.560 I was just I was excited to get an end 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.560 zone there. But it all worked out, got the touch 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.119 down on the end it came I'm the next play, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.400 Allan lines up under center, he runs a quarterback sneak, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.960 gets shoved from behind, and it's a touchdown for the 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.880 Bengals as Brandon Allen scores on a one yard quarterback 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.080 sneak and Cincinnati has the lead in the third quarter. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.200 That made it ten six Bengals. But that was one 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.120 of only two rives all night where Cincinnati had more 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.080 than one first down out of rhythm. You know that 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.680 that's the key thing for me. You know, early on 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.440 we had a penalty on the first play the game 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.920 that set us back, and then they just played some 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.200 man coverage. On critical downs, you gotta thrown catch, and 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.159 when you don't thrown catch, I think we had some 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.839 opportunities that were there, and you're out there on three 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.279 and out, so again we don't convert those third down 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.159 It's hard to get into a rhythm and get a 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:25.400 chance to do a lot of things that we wanted 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.920 to do on the call sheet, and that was unfortunate. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.280 That was frustrating. Those are things that we're gonna have 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.280 to correct when we get home. Too many drops really 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.000 in the game as well, that was frustrating as well. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.080 And then late in the game, just too many penalties. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.560 You know, there was a driver, we had a fall start, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.440 we had an legal formation, we had a holding, we 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.159 had a snap on the wrong cadence, and we had 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.920 a fumble on the same play which they turned into 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.080 seven points. And so that's just the stuff that that 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.640 leaves us bad taste your mouth. And the snap on 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.279 the wrong cadence turned out to be the key play 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.960 of the game. With a ten nine lead in the 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.440 fourth quarter, rookie tray Hill snapped the ball while the 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.320 other four offensive linemen stood there like statues shot gun 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.080 snap Shermer in trouble, manages to avoid a hit, but 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.360 now he's brought down. Paul pops out. You know, it 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.520 looks like Washington recovers. That led to a one yard 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.120 touchdown run by Jared Patterson plus a two point conversion 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.560 that gave the football team a seventeen ten lead. Fourth 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.560 Team quarterback Eric Dungee saw his first action in the 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.960 Bengals uniform and drove the team within the long field 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.200 goal range of McPherson from the right house. Huber with 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.440 a put down. McPherson with the kick length is not 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.520 a problem, and the kick is good as he hammers 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.920 one home from fifty yards away, taking another big step 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.760 toward winning the kicking job as a Bengals rookie. But 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.360 that was Cincinnati's last hurrah as Washington held on for 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.520 a seventeen thirteen win. Here's Allan on a rough night 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.440 on offense. I mean it starts with me not being 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.520 accurate with a lot of those passes, a lot of 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.280 contested plays that I can put the ball in a 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.800 lot better aitions for the guys to at least make 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.480 a play on. I think I sailed at least two 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.520 out of bounds that I can think of on top 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.000 of my head that I can easily put those either 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.520 back shoulder, at least give a guy a chance to 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:11.960 make a play for me. So a lot of that 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.160 starts to maybe being more consistent in getting them catchable balls. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:17.960 And yeah, it was just tough to find a rhythm 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.480 after that. I called Friday's game on the radio with 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.520 a good friend and a great broadcaster, the voice of 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.440 the Ohio State Buckeyes, Paul Keels. Dave Lapham had to 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.440 miss the game due to NFL COVID protocols. Lap watched 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.920 it on TV and join me for some postgame analysis. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.320 How concerned should we be about Jamar Chase's drops. It's 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.320 something that went from the practice field to the playing field, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.760 you know. That's that's the thing. It's like, yeah, man, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.440 now it's happen. That has to be broken. There's no 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.960 question about that, and I think it can be. I 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.959 think that it's a you know, just focus on the details, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.199 the final points, you know. And to have three of them, though, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.959 three fur down balls that could have extended drives and 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.240 to go over is not a very good thing in 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.080 a very short time frame. Yeah, I'm worried that it 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.800 gets in his head a little bit. And the thing 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.439 I will say for Jamar Chases, I don't remember ever 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.839 seeing a receiver, whether it's the fifth pick in the 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.480 draft or an undrafted free agent from a tiny college, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.480 spend more time after practice catching balls off a jugs machine. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.400 So it's not a matter of not putting in the work. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.080 I mean, this guy is incredibly dedicated, and I'm really 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.320 confident that he'll come out of it. I just hope 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.080 it's soon. I agree Dan, and I think the other 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.400 thing about him is he's extremely coachable. I mean, Coach 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.800 Walter's he's a sponge. Everything to Coach Walters is saying 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.040 he's taken in. It's not like he's, you know, shunning 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.600 coaching and you know, the other veteran receivers when they 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.199 talk to him, he seems to be willing to listen 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.560 to everybody. So maybe he's just in a little bit 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.559 of a slump. I don't know if he's ever had 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:04.240 this issue before. Obviously he and Joe Burrow haven't experienced this. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.800 When here at LSU, it didn't seem to have drops, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.079 did not seem to be a problem back then, So 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.040 hopefully they'll they'll get remedied. Here it seemed like the opposite. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.880 I mean, the reputation at LSU is unbelievably strong. Hands 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.400 there was no track record of the drop season there, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.480 So again, hopefully this is a rookie who missed a year, 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.760 who's thinking about it a little bit too much, and 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.880 hopefully after a couple of good catches under game conditions. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.839 That will be something we'll laugh about eventually. Yeah, I 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.960 think sometimes, you know, one happens, you start to press, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.600 then the second one you press more, you know. And 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.360 I think the best thing that happened was he was 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.920 done for the night, you know, in the early stages 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.440 of the football game. And I'm sure he was. He 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.480 probably had a long night the rest of the night 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.040 thinking about it, and I'm sure coach was talking to 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.960 him about a Teammates were trying to encourage them and 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.000 the best thing is now just to go back to work, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.520 put it behind them, and get onto the next preseason 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.839 game against the Miami Dolphins. So let's talk O line. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.720 The starting guards in Washington or quintin Spain on the 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.000 left side, Xavier Sue of Philo on the right side. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.959 So they went with the Vets. Those guys the first 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.160 team unit on the O line, only in for eleven snaps. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.040 The offense wasn't very productive, but it's kind of hard 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.120 to fault the O line when you've got drops and 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:34.920 penalties killing drives. Yeah, and I guess the harbinger of 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.319 things to come was the very first play of the game. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.400 You know, they bust Joe Mixon for sixteen seventeen yards 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.760 on the screen in Quentin, Spain is called for a 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.960 hold in space out there, and so that negated that play. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.800 And it seemed like whenever they would get a trunk 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.600 play of some sort, just to kind of get them 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.199 off to schnide a little bit, a penalty were to occur, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.720 be an illegal formation and then and then the penalties 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.319 that you don't want to have a you have a 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.720 veteran player that's highly respected, Riley Reith, you know, just 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.360 false starts stuff, so that the mental the mental mistakes, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.560 the physical things, holding penalties, things that nature are going 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.760 to happen. Guys are gonna get themselves in bad position 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.440 and uh, and then you know the technique is going 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.760 to be compromised. But the mental errors not lining up properly, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.400 you know, not remembering the snap count, the fumble that occurred, 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.960 I mean that was that was with Schremer. That was 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.480 basically the center of Hill. Trey Hill snapped the ball 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.320 account early, he forgot the snap count. Here comes the 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.240 pass rush, and you know, the whole thing's an aborted 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.440 play at that point. Then it's compounded by the fact 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.160 that Schremer doesn't exercise ball security, But I mean that 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.520 two guys the battery, the center on the quarterback are 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.600 two guys that cannot forget the snap count. I'm telling you. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.559 It causes major issues. And they're the two that are 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.480 handling the football, so they have to be very very 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.160 precise with respect to the snap count. And that was 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.240 a tragedy that occurred. So it just seems like the 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.920 focus overall just just wasn't there for whatever reason. They 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.720 were just just to tick off in terms of, you know, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.400 being able to ca hone in on what was going 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.440 on that particular night. Going back to the Bengals first 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.240 offensive play, did Quentin Spain hold there? In your opinion? 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.560 You know, technically he had the hands inside the framework, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.240 you know, and he grabbed the shoulder pad. The thing 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.240 is when cloth stretches, officials are going to throw the flag, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.560 So you just have to be aware of letting go, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.160 you know. I mean, it's one of it's it's one 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.199 of those things where if you employ that technique and 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.960 a pass rush where you know there you were treating 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.520 they're coming up the football field, It's it's a little 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.440 bit different than if you're in space and running laterally, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.719 and he's faster, and he starts to pull away, and you, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.040 you know, you retard his ability to run by by 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.120 grabbing even if visiting the framework. I thought, boy, that's 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.199 a little ticky tack. But then when I saw a 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.200 different angle, he played the one that I thought the 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.760 official was looking at. I can see why the official 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.840 through the flag, but it was it egregious No, but 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.920 can it be called? Yeah? And it was. I think 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.920 Brandon Allen, by and large has had a very solid camp. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.880 I didn't think he was very good in Washington. There 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.920 was a third down pass for t Higgins where he 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.000 was open early in the game. He missed him way 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.200 too high. Later, Trent and Irwin was open for which 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.200 should have been a third down conversion, missed him wide. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.800 Even the drops by Chase a couple of those throws 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.880 weren't quite where they probably should be. It just not 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.120 a very good game in my opinion from Brandon Allen, 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.080 I agree. I think he fell into the category of 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.960 the entire offense. They just worn't sharp, you know, weren't 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:49.360 sharp physically mentally. It just they never got in a rhythm. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.120 They never never got anything, you know, a coordinated effort. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.600 One player was the offensive line, another play it was 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.720 a quarterback, another player was a wide receiver, and pretty 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:04.600 soon the damn has got holes sprouting all over the place, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.280 and you don't have enough fingers to plug up all 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.800 the holes. So you just have that kind of performance 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.840 and hopefully it's a it's a one time thing, and 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.400 it happened in the preseason and they can get over 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.320 it move on. But it just there really really was 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:25.000 never any synchronization of all three phases, you know, in 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.200 terms of position groups quarterback, offensive line, running back, receivers, 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.400 four phase. It's just it just it was disjointed. There's 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.400 no question about it. All. Right, let's turn to defense. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.240 It's been great at practice and in the first two 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.240 preseason games, particularly the first teamers on defense have been outstanding. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.080 They really have dan I mean, you look at it 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.800 in the first six quarters of of preseason football, giving 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.800 up a grand total they gave up the grand total 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:57.320 of four field goals, you know, and so that's number ones, 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.800 weren't that's ones and twos. I mean, they just they 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.040 really played very well. They gave up their first play 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.040 of twenty yards more in the first play of the 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.200 game because there was a brain cramp in terms of coverage, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.120 and there was a there was a free free runner 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.240 tight end Thomas was running wide open and took a 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.840 five yard pass to a twenty six twenty seven yard 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.000 play whatever it was. But after that, they went back 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.800 to playing the type of defense that they they'd been 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.920 playing and uh and and really faced some adversity. I mean, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.800 you know, they have a great stop on fourth down, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.520 oj Ogan Joby, I should say, um shows himself well 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.880 and that fourth down play and you know, you think, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.560 boy that that that could be a spark for the offense. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.840 What does the offense do one, two, three and out? 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.240 So you know, they don't answer with any kind of 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.000 a you know, they just didn't respond whatsoever. It wasn't 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.160 complimentary football, um, But you know, the takeaway by Wilson 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.040 was good guys. Guys that had been playing well in 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.720 the first preseeing game continued in the second. Arrius Hodge, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.000 Jalen Davis camp sample flashed and he's got that dinged 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.240 up shoulder. But it's encouraging to see, you know, the 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.159 same guys like you mentioned Trent Irwin. You know, he 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.400 made some plays for the second game in a row. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.280 Jockos Patrick made some plays for the second game in 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.320 a row. Some of these young defensive players two games 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.399 in a row. So now they're they're not only stacking practices, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.399 they're starting to stack games a little bit, which is 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.600 a good sign. I'm getting pretty excited about Darius Hodge. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.320 Then I look at the roster situation on the defensive 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.119 line and I'm like, well, how does he make the 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.240 fifty three. It's it might take an injury. They would 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.560 certainly keep him on the practice squad, There's no question 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.200 about that. But he's proving to be a pretty intriguing 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.320 pass rusher, and given the opportunity, I agree. I think. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.600 I think this kid, this kid's got something. Man, he's 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.119 got some explosive this He's got some juice. The thing is, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.560 he did and I couldn't really see how many special 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.960 teams snaps that he was part of. He didn't. He 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.919 wasn't part of any in the first preseason game. And 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.879 I think that Darren Simmons was thinking about how am 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.720 I going to get him involved in special teams because well, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.240 that's a very specialized thing to just be a switch 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.320 situational edge rusher and not be able to give you 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.040 anything else in terms of snaps, I'm not talking about 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.800 making the fifty three. I'm talking about being active on 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.760 game day. So it's going to be interesting to see 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.080 if Darren Simmons starts to incorporate him a little bit more, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.920 maybe in special teams against the Miami Dolphins and make 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.160 that part of the evaluation process. Speaking of special teams, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.200 Evan McPherson took another step toward winning the kicking job 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.960 the fifty yard or late in the game that sword 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.280 passed the goalpost from fifty yards away, telling you, Dan, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.560 dude's got dynamite caps in his toe. It's unbelievable. That 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.280 thing explodes off that toe. And he does. He kicks 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.240 the ball straight. I mean he doesn't have you don't 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.119 You don't see his ball, you know, fading or hooking 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.080 or anything. And he kicks. He kicks a very straight ball. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.720 And when you're dealing with some potentially you know, bad 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.280 weather conditions in terms of wind and things like that. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.480 Being knowing that boy I not only have to play 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.280 factor in the wind here, I have a natural draw, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.879 I have a natural fade or whatever. Those kind of 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.960 things can be a little bit of an issue. He 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.520 cranks it straight as an arrow and I mean high. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.040 Like you said, boy, he just that thing was just 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.679 a majestic looking shot. You know. He got it up 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.040 there quickly and it cleared. It would have been good 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.280 from between fifty five and sixty easily. It hit halfway 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.200 up the net. Was crazy. Almost a memorable night for Marcus. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.520 Bailey almost had two interceptions. He had one briefly that 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.000 got reversed on replay and then he almost had another 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.119 one earlier than that. He's been having a good camping 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.119 and that was almost his breakout of preseason game. Yeah, 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.840 he was. He was around the football, and that's another thing. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.080 I think he's a he's an example of the defense 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:11.320 that he's running to the ball, he's hustling and defense defensively, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.080 they've gotten their hands on quite a few footballs and 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.600 just you know, eight quarters of football. Louanna Room and 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.720 all the coaches have to be excited about that. And 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.760 he obviously will be a big contributor special teams for 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.760 Darren Simmons with the athleticism that he has and he 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.840 has shown so I think that he's had a very 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.119 very solid camp. I can remember, you know, multiple times 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.440 during practices us looking at each other. You know, hey, boy, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.960 Bailey made another play. Bailey made another play. It's not like, boy, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.000 how's this happening in games because he hasn't been doing 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.880 it on the practice field. He has so a ton 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.200 of snaps for the second string offensive line in this game, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.479 Isaiah Prince left tackle, Michael Jordan left guard, Trey Hills, center, 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.520 Jackson Carmen right guard. Fred Johnson is in right tackle. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.080 Anybody catch your eye or did that unit stand out 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.960 in any way to you? I thought Trey Hill didn't 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.080 play anywhere near at the level that he played at 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.960 in preseason game number one in this preseason game, not 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:16.280 just the the ill advised snap in the ball early 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:19.440 in the snap count, but he had he had other problems, 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.280 you know, at the line of scrimmage, and uh, you know, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:26.840 Fred had a typical first outing. There were some positives, 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.440 but then you know there were some head scratchers as well, 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.200 and that that was the situation up and down the 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.560 line of scrimmage of those guys. Um, you know, it's 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.159