WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: That's So Raven 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.000 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:11.160 Bengals Booth Podcast That's So Raven edition, as we look 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.680 back at a frustrating loss in Baltimore that saw the 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.680 Bengals lose for the fourth time in the last five 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.840 games to fall to five and five this season. In 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.200 the battle for the sixth and final playoff spot in 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.040 the AFC, five teams have five and five records, and 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.560 here's how they currently stack up based on the tiebreakers. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.519 The Ravens currently have the final playoff spot, followed by 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:38.960 the Bengals, Dolphins, Colts, and Titans. The Bengals wins over 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.720 Miami and Indianapolis could come in very handy. On this 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.880 episode of the podcast, you'll hear radio replays from the game, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.720 locker room interviews with several key players, and Dave Lapham 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.080 will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.120 fun Facts Interview, I'll talk to rookie cornerback Darius Phillips 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.080 on a wide variety of topics in hooting the two 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.840 people in history he would most like to meet. I 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.040 think his answer will surprise you. All of that is 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.880 straight ahead, But first, here's a quick reminder that you 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.800 can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:19.120 to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:25.960 or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention since caffeine. I've 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.360 had an eventful weekend calling. You see basketball at home 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.760 on Friday night, you see football in Orlando on Saturday night, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.920 and the Bengals game in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon. I 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.720 love it. It's what I dreamed of doing as a kid, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.399 and I kind of think of the challenge of getting 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.000 from game to game is my own version of the 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.880 Amazing Race. But I haven't had a lot of sleep, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.160 which is why caffeine is my drug of choice. Now, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.680 let's get to the game. With Joe Flacco missing practice 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.480 all week with a hip injury, the Bengals knew they 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.680 were like a face former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Lamar Jackson. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.080 In his first NFL start in three years at Louisville, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.119 Jackson passed for more than nine thousand yards and ran 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.640 for more than four thousand yards, and his ability to 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.400 run was the big concern. According to Bengals linebacker Hardy Nickerson, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.160 when you go up against the Lamar Jackson, you know 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.519 Cam Newton. A guy like that, like a Mike Vick, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.639 you always got to be ready for it. But even 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.480 if they knew it was coming, the Bengals couldn't stop 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.240 Jackson and the Ravens on their opening drive eleven plays, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.680 all runs, including five runs by the quarterback, for forty 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.680 six yards. The end result an early seven nothing lead. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.280 Waits for the shotgun snap on second down and goal 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.160 from the seven, Jackson hands it off Collins trying to 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.200 bounce it wide toward the sideline. He will run toward 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.240 the pylon and score a Baltimore touchdown. Man, I didn't 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.880 think that was gonna bounce well enough. Looked like the 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.120 Bengals were in position, but they didn't set a strong 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.519 enough edge. Montest Burford kind of barking at his guys, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.560 who's setting the edge defensively. Jackson finished the game with 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.720 twenty seven carries for one hundred and seventeen yards, a 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.400 new rushing record for a Ravens quarterback. Here's Vinny Ray. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.280 Most of us have seen him in college. You know 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.799 the highlights. But we saw a couple of games of 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.440 him getting ready in the last couple of days in 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.880 the preseason, and we see he's good. He's a good quarterback, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.320 goes through his reads and he is unbelievable quickness and 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.919 as you see, I think his best qualities is toughness. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.320 So um good quarterback is gonna be a tough player 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.800 to play against me. Is just what Bengals fans wanted 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:43.200 to hear. Baltimore's lead didn't last. Early in the second quarter, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.240 Andy Dalton hit Tyler Boyd and Joe Mixon on back 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.200 to back passes for twenty nine and twenty one yards, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.760 leading to a tying touchdown. Sam Hobbard in at fullback 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.400 first in golf from the one they get it and 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.880 he fights his way across the goal line. Touchdown, Bang 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.040 goals as Joe Mixon plowed over Jefferson and took it 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.120 into the end zone for the score. That was one 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.360 of very few productive runs for the Bengals. Mixon finished 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.640 with fourteen yards on twelve carries. Giovanni Bernard had five 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.159 yards on two carries. In the final two minutes of 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.640 the half, the Ravens scored twice. A twenty eight yard 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.000 field goal by Justin Tucker made a ten seven, then 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.000 the Bengals punted it back to Baltimore with twenty two 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.440 seconds left, and Jackson was able to scramble around for 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.680 an eternity before throwing a twenty three yard pass to 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.080 John Brown that put the Ravens within the long field 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.640 goal range of Justin Tucker. Here's Marvin Lewis on the 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.120 defensive breakdown the field goal before halftime. He scrambles would 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.640 come out of coverage. That's a huge play. You know, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.000 we can't do that. And you know they had a 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.200 couple other opportunities there and you know where they had 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.200 to end up punting it. But those are the things 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.200 you got to learn. When you're playing a quarterback that runs, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.400 you gotta just you know, you gotta take care of 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.800 your job that the other guys chase the quarterback. Tucker 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.799 drilled a fifty six yard field goal to end the half, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.039 his ninth in a row from fifty plus, and the 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.920 Ravens head a thirteen seven lead. In the third quarter, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.120 Baltimore's twenty one year old quarterback finally made a rookie mistake. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.680 Jackson rolling to the right now, he wants to take 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.960 off and run now he throws intersected by Sean Williams. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.800 Williams at the forty five of Baltimore the forty to 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.120 the thirty five, and he will be tackled by Lamar 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.200 Jackson around the thirty three yard line. The Bengals capitalized 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.640 on the great drive start to take their first lead 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.400 of the day. Dalton, waiting for the shotgun snap catches 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.720 at the nine, drop straight back through the flamental that 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.200 is caught for a touchdown, hauled in by Matt Lengal, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:50.719 his second career touchdown catch, his first and a Bengals uniform. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.400 Cincinnati has tied it pending the extra point. Randy Bullock 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.560 made the pat to put the Bengals up fourteen thirteen, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.520 and here's legal and hauling in that touchdown catch with 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.320 no defenders nearby, knew there was gonna be nobody there. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:06.960 I thought I might be getting the ball, but I 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.640 didn't realize until after that. It was like a little 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.960 ten yard bubble I had there. So I'm just glad 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.120 I could catch it and fall down and score touchdown. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.800 That was a thirty two yard touchdown drive, and the 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.719 Bengals got great field position again on their next drive 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.400 when the Ravens went for it on fourth and one 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.960 in their own territory. On fourth down and one from 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.600 the forty five yard line. Bengals crowd the middle, Jackson 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.440 trying to knife left. I don't think he got it. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.400 The Bengals defense begins celebrating, and three and a half 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.240 minutes later, the offense was celebrating thanks to John Ross. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.279 Dalton fakes a handoff. He's gonna love it deep toward 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:49.159 Ross in the end zone and it is a touchdown. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.120 A great catch for John Ross as he somehow maneuvered 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.640 up and over Marlin Humphrey to reel in the twenty 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.320 two yard TD How about that a contested catch by 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.440 John Russ. It was not only a terrific contested catch, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.480 but Ross showed great awareness to get both feet down 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.640 in bounds for his fourth touchdown on a total of 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.480 eleven receptions. I saw where it like when I filled 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.720 the balls. I lived down and made sure I got 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.280 both feet in, you know, before anything if he tried 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.080 to drag me out or something like that. Because I 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:22.880 caught it and he also had his hand on the boss, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.720 I wanted to make sure you know that I've definitely 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.440 got my feet in, you know, so it'll be a touchdown. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.840 Calb regardless, the Bengals had an eight point lead with 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.080 five forty five left in the third quarter, plenty of 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.720 time for Baltimore to stick with the running game, and 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.200 that's what the Ravens did with the combination of Jackson 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.760 and a two hundred and thirty eight pound undrafted rookie 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.360 out of Rutgers named Gus Edwards. Second and three for 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.680 the Ravens at the eleven yard line, tenth play of 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.080 the drive for Baltimore, Sneed goes in motion. It's a 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.600 handoff to Edwards, breaking through tackles and taking it into 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.840 the end zone for a piece of cake touchdown eleven 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.560 yards for Gus Edwards. Hardy Nickerson Whift on an early 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.640 tackle attempt. Edwards added a two point conversion run to 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.480 tie the game at twenty one, and finished with one 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.840 hundred and fifteen yards on seventeen sledgehammer carries. Most football 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.440 fans have never heard of the guy, but Vinnie Ray 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.520 had no about him. I'm no about him since for 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.760 a long time, since he was like in grade school. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.560 He's from New York City, so I've been known about him. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.880 He's a tough guy, runs hard, big guy. The game 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.360 was tied going to the fourth quarter when the Ravens 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.840 drove fifty five yards on ten runs and only two passes. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.360 It led to a twenty four yard field goal by 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.200 Tucker and a twenty four twenty one lead. The Bengals 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.080 answered with a nice drive of their own, highlighted by 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.840 a thirty two yard pass to Tyler Boyd on third 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.080 and twelve, but the drive stalled at the Ravens thirty 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.559 three and Randy Bullock is not justin Tucker. He missed 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.320 a fifty five yard field goal wide right that would 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.600 have tied the score. The offense put us in position 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.800 to get to kick there, and we got to, you know, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.120 how to make the kick. That's part of it, you know, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.800 and it's unfortunate that Randy missed a kick there. The 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.600 Bengals had one more chance, getting the ball at their 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.480 own ten yard line with two forty five to go. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.360 The situation was eerily similar to last New Year's Eve, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.840 when the Bengals got the ball at their own ten 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.880 with two forty three to go and drove ninety yards 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.920 to beat the Ravens on Andy Dalton's forty nine yard 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.959 touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd, but with aj green out, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.040 the Ravens put two defenders on Boyd, and on fourth 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:37.520 and three, Dalton threw instead to Cody Kor. It hit 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.440 him in the hands for what could have and probably 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.760 should have been a first down, but Kor failed to 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.400 make the catch and the Ravens ran out the clock 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.280 for twenty four twenty one win. Here's Tyler Boyd. We 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.280 got to win now. We can't. We can't, can't. We 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.880 can't take no more loss. If we want to be 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.000 great and we want to go to the postseason, then 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.679 we gotta win. In Marvin Lewis's first game since taking 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.280 over defensive coordinator duties, the Ravens rushed for two hundred 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.679 sixty five yards on fifty four carries, the most rushing 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.040 yards the Bengals have given up in marvin sixteen years 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.720 as head coach. Baltimore added one hundred and fifty passing 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.160 yards for a grand total of four h three, but 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.320 the Bengals did hold Baltimore to twenty four points, eight 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.959 less than teams ravaging against Cincinnati going into the game. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.200 Not exactly defensive dominance, but there was improvement with Marvin 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.360 calling the shots. According to linebackers Hardy Nickerson and Vinny Ray, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.520 I think he did he did a good job today, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.840 you know, getting us the calls. We're coming to the sideline, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:47.280 we're talking about stuff where we're making adjustments, and then 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.280 we're you know, the adjustments are working. So it's it's 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.320 one of those things where I think he's he's going 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.240 to be more comfortable next week. But to not do 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.920 this since when two thousand and two or something like that, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:00.960 and to come out on call plays, I thought he 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.439 did a hell of a job. I love going out 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.520 there and playing for him, you know, I know he's 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.480 in the fight there with us. He's right there on 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.400 the field, and so we gave all Vontes goes out there. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.800 He's not even one hundred percent going out there fighting 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.199 for every tooth and mail. Up next another rookie quarterback, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.200 number one overall draft pick, Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.120 Now time to bring in my broadcast partner Dave Lapham 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.959 for postgame analysis, and we begin with the Bengals getting 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.520 run over. Gus Edwards had fifteen carries for sixty four 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.319 yards on the season. Today he had seventeen four hundred 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.959 and fifteen six point eight a carry seventeen yard long, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.160 and he had that touchdown run where he ran through everybody. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.800 Lamar Jackson confidence with twenty seven rushes one hundred and 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.000 seventeen yards four point three year carry twenty one yard average. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.760 They average four point nine per rush, fifty four rushes 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.280 of the football twenty sixty five yards. They only ran 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.400 at nineteen times. It was the opposite in the first game. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.360 They threw at fifty five and ran at twenty two. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.080 They just turned the tables and put the Bengals in 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.440 a meat grinder. Put that running game. And then on 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.800 the other side, Bengals had sixteen carries for forty eight yards. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.240 You take away Andy Dalton's twenty yards scramble. Fifteen carries 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.680 for twenty eight yards less than two yards a pop. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.920 Not going to beat anybody running the ball like that, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.800 particularly when the other team is rushing him down to 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.760 your throat for two hundred and sixty five yards. So 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.640 the difference in today's game was the running game. For 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.600 the first time in the Marvin Lewis era. Against Baltimore, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.800 he lost the game where he was plusing the turnover department. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.959 They were plus one and they had a fourth down stop, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.280 so two of the drives for the Ravens didn't end 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.480 in a kick and that kept him in the game. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.280 If not for those getting short fields out of those, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.120 the Bengals would have been in real trouble. So you know, 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.040 there's miles to go before they arrest in terms of 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.480 you know, staying in your gap, coming off the blocks, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.080 making tackles, and Jackson, even when he was in the pocket, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.319 bought time with his quick feet. You know, he doesn't 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.439 see the field well. If you take away the running 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.439 game and make him throw it, he's going to struggle. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.160 There's no question about it. Bengals couldn't do that today. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.400 They didn't make him one dimensional. A team that's going 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.559 to be able to make him one dimensional is He's 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.960 going to have his issues. But you know, I think 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.280 Joe Flacco is more of an NFL quarterback than he 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.360 is right now. But boy, I would not hesitate to 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.600 use him more in the wildcat and run the wildcat, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.360 not just in the red zone. I'd run the wildcat 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.560 anywhere you want to run the wildcat, just to change 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.319 the temple of the game as a as a as 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.800 an offset to Joe Flacco what he does stand in 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.000 the pocket and throwing the ball down the field. Laugh, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.600 the Bengals are the first team to face Lamar Jackson 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.920 as a starter at the NFL level. Was that a 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.160 disadvantage for the Bengals? You know, I think that it 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.200 was a little bit. Dan and I think Marty morning Wig, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.200 the offensive coordinator who had Michael Vick at Philadelphia, and 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.320 Greg Roman, who basically is the assistant head coach and 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.880 coaches the tight ends. He had Colin Kaepernick with the 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.679 forty nine ers, so they had an understanding, I think, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.319 of what to do with the infancy stages of Lamar Jackson. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.559 But the Bengals had stopped the run with any modicum 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.080 of success, it might have been a whole different ball 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.520 game because I'm not sure he could have executed the 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.720 passing attack that they wanted executed. I mean, when he 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.800 had to throw the football, he was holding the ball, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.720 running around, creating, trying to create opportunities. He looked like 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.120 Johnny Man's eldom. He had Texas A and m you know, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.240 just that's hard to pass protect for a guy like that. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.440 But he extended a lot of plays and he made 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.720 plays when he had to. But I mean that running 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.840 game was just was just dynamic, and you got to 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.840 tip your cap to them, for sure. And I think 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.840 the Bengals knew that that was gonna what was gonna unfold, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.400 and I think they're probably bitterly disappointed that they didn't 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.000 do a better job of making him one dimensional and 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.000 have to throw the football. They had maybe three series 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.200 after the first touchdown drive where oh, it looks like 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.960 now they're gonna handle, But then the Ravens adjusted to 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.880 the adjustments and off they went again. Lap It was 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.760 Marvin Lewis his first game since taking over as defensive 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:00.120 coordinator for Terrell Austin. Did you see improvement with are 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.880 in calling the defense. I think the biggest progress I 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.520 saw were the guys I think felt more confident in 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.400 what they were supposed to do and how they were 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.800 supposed to do it. I didn't see any personnel issues, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.080 running guys on and off the field like a fire drill, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.760 and you know, just barely getting guys in in time, 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.680 and then you know, getting to the line of screams, 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.840 not even getting lined up, looking at each other like 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.320 you know, what's the call, what's the final verdict, and 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.560 then boom, the ball snapped and you're on your heels. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.520 I didn't see that. I thought, you know that the 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.320 management part of that was a heck of a lot 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.640 better managing personnel substitutions and getting calls in early enough 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.600 where guys could communicate and all that. But man, they're 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.080 going to do a much, much, light years better job 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.440 beating blocks, getting off blocks, and tackling people. I mean, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.720 they're still horrendous tacklers on the defensive side of the football. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.760 When the Bengals beat Baltimore back in Week two, Aj 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.360 Green cut three touchdown passes. Tyler Eifford was still healthy 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.720 back then. I kind of have the feeling that if 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.000 Aj Green had played today, the Bengals might have won 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.960 the game. But that's meaningless. He didn't, but clear they 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.320 need him back to make a playoff run down the stretch. Yeah, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.800 there's no question. I mean, when AJ's in the game, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.080 the vertical passing game, you know, was there. I thought 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.600 today for the most part, it was a horizontal passing game, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.720 you know, just stretching it. I thought the Ravens stretched 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.200 the field horizontally with their running game. The Mengals are 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.200 trying to do with their passing game a little bit. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.360 They didn't. John Ross did make a good play on 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.920 a deep ball. He found the football and Humphrey didn't. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.200 But you know that those were few and far between, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.560 and Tyler Boyd's finding out what it's like to be 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.920 a primary target now in a passing game. And I 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.480 agree with you. I mean, you know, in that first game, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.680 every tight end had two catches and more in that 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.040 football game. Ifford had a couple, Croft had a couple. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.800 You know, CJ. Zama had three. So that multiple tight 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.360 end package was starting to really show not only running 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.520 the football but throwing it. Now they're all on inje reserve. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.920 So with that particularly effort out and AJ Green out, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.400 this offense looks so much different than the offense played 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.240 Thursday night in Week two at Paul Brown Stadium. I 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.119 mean AJ Green had three touchdown catches in less than 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.119 seventeen minutes. You know, those first three catches were all touchdowns. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.520 And yeah, he's obviously he's the best player on that 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.600 side of the football. When you're down your best player, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.479 you're gonna feel it. I don't know if Justin Tucker 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.360 is the best player for the Baltimore Ravens, but he's 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.760 the best kicker in NFL history. Randy Bullock missed a 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.439 fifty two yarder that could have tied it in the 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.240 fourth quarter. You're not going to have a high percentage 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.679 from fifty plus, at least most kickers don't, but justin 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.520 Tucker does. He drilled a fifty six yarder at the 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.600 end of the half. Those three points turn out to 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.800 be the difference of the game. And in on that play, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.280 Jackson's buying time scrambling around back there. The Bengals drop 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.800 coverage thinking that Jackson's gonna be sacked. You can't drop coverage. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.920 I mean, you can't do that. You just can't leave 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.000 your guy open. And maybe trying to go pressure the quarterback. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.600 That's not your job. Other people are pressing on the quarterback. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.840 Let them do their job. You stay with your job. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.560 And that path allowed it to be a fifty six 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.520 yard fieldal opportunity, and Tucker, you know, made him pay. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.280 He was two for two from fifty and beyond. And 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.720 uh the Bengals were oh for one and in a 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.080 three point game. That's that's the difference in the football game. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.280 But there there are a lot of a lot of reasons. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.320 You know, they lost the football game. The kicking game 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.280 you know, being won. But I mean, to get out 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.960 rushed like they got out rushed. I mean that's that's 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.520 basically high school mispatches when you look at that kind 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.080 of rushing, you know, or Alabama playing in Division two 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.080 or something like that. At the collegiate level, you don't 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.160 see that kind of disparity very often in the National 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.080 Football League. In today's NFL, teams don't run it fifty 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.760 five times, you know, for two hundred and sixty five yards. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.560 But the Ravens did what they had to do. And 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.040 I give him credit. I mean, the offensive line knew 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.000 they had to run block the best they've ever done it, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.520 and they had a one two punch George Edwards. Who 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.439 the heck is George Edwards sixty four yards rushing on 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.280 the season. He stepped up and he had his coming 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.200 out party today, and uh as did Lamar Jackson. As 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.480 a runner at the quarterback position, He's still far from 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.880 being anywhere near polished as a pastor. Thanks Lap. Up 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.680 next the Cleveland Browns, who had to buy this week, 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.159 and we'll come to Paul Brown Stadium with a record 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.680 of three six and one. We'll see if Hugh Jackson's 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.560 knowledge of his former team helps the Bengals beat the 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.840 Browns for the eighth consecutive time. Now time for this 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:23.919 week's fun Facts segment, where you get to know the 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.040 person under the pads, in this case, the third of 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.080 the Bengals three fifth round draft choices this year. Time 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.960 for some fun facts with Bengals rookie Darius Phillips from Detroit, Michigan. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.280 From the heart of the city or from the suburbs 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.040 the heart of the city, tell me a little bit 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.320 about growing up in Detroit. Growing to Detroit's kind of 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.800 I'll say as a while, but it's kind of. It's 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.560 really like depending on who you surrounds us off with. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.520 You know a lot of people branch off like going 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.520 to high school, middle school, so you surround up with 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.240 some people that want to want to do succeed in life, 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.600 where he surrounds of some people that want it that don't. Luckily, 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.440 you'll surrounded myself with with people that want that wanted 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.960 to help me get to the next level and go 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.840 to college. For some of your favorite athletes going out, 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.960 I was into basketball before I got into football, so 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:14.400 I'd say Lebron James m Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook. Then 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.840 when I got into football, probably switched over to like 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.879 Calvin Johnson receivers. Now I played offense for I started 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.000 playing defense, so it was mostly receivers. I didn't when 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.000 you look at DBS. We're doing fun facts with Darius 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.639 Phillips and any brothers and sisters. Um, yes, I have 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.880 one biological sister and I have um three guy sisters 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.560 and two god brothers. So I have I'll say my 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.640 immediate family is small, but my extended family is bid. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.119 Sounds took a big group rooting for you though. Yeah. Come, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.040