WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Keep On Running 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.559 Hi, gain everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:13.600 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Keep On Running addition, as 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.840 the Bengals look for their second straight win as they 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.800 faced the Browns in Cleveland. Coming up, Chase Brown discusses 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.400 his touchdown run that clinched last week's win and the 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:28.520 fumble that preceded it. CBS sideline reporter Adde Kinkobwalla shares 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.040 her thoughts on the Bengals as she gets ready to 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.920 cover this week's game, and in our No The Faux segment, 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.080 we'll get an in depth look at the Browns from 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.519 Zach Jackson, who covers the team for The Athletic. 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I love Stevie Wonder, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.680 and if we play the you can only have five 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.040 albums on a Desert Island game, one of my selections 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.560 is definitely going to be Stevie's nineteen seventy six masterpiece 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.880 Songs in the Key of Life. It's also cheating a 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.040 bit because it's a double album. In any case, I'm 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.480 currently listening to a podcast series called The Wonder of 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.760 Stevie that focuses on a five year stretch when Stevie 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.800 Wonder put out five of his greatest albums. Featured guests 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:51.000 include Barack and Michelle Obama, Smokey Robinson, Dion Warwick, and 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.000 many others. It's very well done. And the title of 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:02.120 this podcast, Keep on Running, is a Stevie Wonder song. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.480 He sings it slightly better than I do. Now let's 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.720 get to my first guest. The Cleveland Browns get running 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.720 back Nick Chubb back this week from the gruesome knee 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:17.000 injury he suffered in Week two last year. For his career, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.320 Chub averages five point twenty six yards per carry. That's 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.360 second best in NFL history, behind Jamal Charles at five 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.680 point three eight. Well, so far this year, Chase Brown 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.320 has been even better than them. He's averaging five and 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.280 a half yards per carry. Get I caught up with 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.079 a twenty four year old this week. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:41.360 Chase. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.520 I interviewed you right after the game on Sunday night. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.800 You had just scored the clinching thirty yard touchdown run 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.360 and you were not happy because you had fumbled on 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.800 the previous plane it ruled out of bounds. It's been 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.560 a few days. Have you let it go? 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:55.680 Let it go? 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.440 My mind's on Cleveland. Just got to be better in 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.800 those situations. Got to protect the ball regardless of you know, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:04.520 how we finished. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.919 Was it meaningful to you that they went to you 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.560 on the very next play? It was. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.760 It's something that I thought about after the game, just, 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.920 you know, coach having that trust in me to you know, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.720 learn from my mistakes quickly and you know, flush that 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.679 out and just focus on the next play. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:21.799 So it meant a lot. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.880 There's the Lambeau Leap, There's the jungle jump. I don't 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.840 know what they call it at MetLife Stadium, but you 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.120 jumped into the stands after that touchdown. Did you seek 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.680 out Bengals fans? Did you know that there was a possibility? 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:35.160 How did that go? 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.480 I just well, I didn't know what I was gonna 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.400 do when I first got in, but when I saw 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.480 the first Bengals fan in the corner, I'm like, screw it, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.680 I'm going out. So I jumped up there, had a 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.240 little bit of fun, and got right back down. But yeah, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.080 it was It was definitely a moment. Maybe we can 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.040 tell it the Giant jump or something like that. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.440 Coach Taylor said on Monday that in retrospect, he would 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.040 have asked the team to go down before scoring in 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.200 order to run out the clock. Is that hard to 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:05.840 do as a running back. I'm sure you would have 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.160 done it, but you spend every waking moment trying to 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.080 get into the end zone. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.680 Definitely just got another situation. We'll call that mud situation. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.200 So I mean, get the first down and get down. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.880 So in the future, definitely learn from that moment so 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.640 we don't have to send the defense back out there. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:28.039 But yeah, I mean to finish the game on an 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.000 explosive play. I'm not going to complain about that, but 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.960 definitely could approach that situation. Smarter. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.640 We're visiting with Chase Brown. Through six games, your sixth 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.480 in the NFL and yards per carry five point five 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.560 yards per carry, nearly twenty percent of your runs have 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.880 gone for ten or more yards. What do you think 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.760 you've done well? What do you think you need to 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.200 do better? 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.880 Yeah, I mean that's a huge shout out to the line. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.080 I mean they're crushing it up front, opening up these 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.800 run lanes and I'm just taking advantage of what I'm seeing. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.880 So we just got to keep that rolling. Something that 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.600 I could do better. We can just be more efficient, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:09.440 eliminate the negative runs and turn those into more efficient 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.720 and positive games. So that's that's my thought process at 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:13.159 this point. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.760 In season from the broadcast booth. Every time you get 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.240 the ball, it feels like there's a chance you might 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.520 go the distance. Is that how it feels on. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.920 The field, Definitely. I mean with with with the way 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.400 that the tight ends and the on line seats are blocking, 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:33.239 I mean, anything's possible on any run play. So for myself, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.640 I mean, I'm trying to put that put that ball 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.120 in the paint every single time if I can. But 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.360 I think the best is yet to come. Playing it 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:43.760 more explosives in big place. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.640 You were miked up for sound in the Baltimore game. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.799 What's it like when you watch one of those segments back. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.200 I'm just having fun out there. There's so much build up, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.360 so much preparation that goes into every single week, and 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.719 you know there's I just put a ton of focus 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.520 and a ton of energy into that so when game 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.159 day comes around, I can just go have fun like 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.920 I was. When I watch it back, I'm like, yeah, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.000 I'm just having fun out there and enjoying my time. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.080 You kind a touchdown passing that game. We heard you 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.760 excitedly say you wanted the ball because it was your 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.080 first Joe Burrow touchdown ball. Did you get it? 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.000 I do, I did my coach. I actually gave it 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.560 to my coach and then he gave it back to 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.200 me and said, give this to your son. So that's 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.880 my plan with the ball. It's sitting in my apartment 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.040 right now. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.080 What game balls or memorabilia have you saved over the years. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.600 Well, obviously that that reception and then my first touchdown 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.640 from last year against the Colts. I've got framed with 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.440 the jersey and the gloves, I think, but yeah, I 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.400 have that and something that can hold on to forever. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.400 We're chatting to Chase Brown. You face the Cleveland Browns 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.400 this week. I heard a couple of your teammates say 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.279 earlier in the week that they think it's going to 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.120 be the most physical game of the year. Is that 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.120 the team's mindset? 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.880 I agree? I mean it's a divisional game. Every divisional 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.640 game is more physical than any other game. A side 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.400 of that, they have a all the defense all round. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.160 I mean there's they don't really have a weakness. They 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.080 have a crazy athlete at number six and then obviously 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.960 Miles Garrett. So I mean taking care of those two 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:17.160 guys and making taking advantage of our shots and just 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.200 winning a man coverage. That's going to be the main 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.560 thing going this week, and we just gotta go with 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.240 there nexecute. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.280 They'll also have Nick Chubb back, one of the best 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.720 to do it at your position. What do you admire 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.200 and respect about Nick Chubb? 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.920 Yeah, I mean just his his mindset. He came back 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.080 from one hell of an injury, right, so just I know, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.960 his whole approach, in his whole mindset going into you know, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.640 everything between getting that injury and then coming back from 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.280 an injury. I know there's a lot of work that 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.920 goes into that, just talking with my brother and learning 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.280 from him and seeing what he went through, so I 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.960 know that he's probably hungry to be back and get 0:07:59.000 --> 0:07:59.440 on the field. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.240 Speaking of your brother, the Bengals host the Eagles next week. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:04.920 How exciting is that for the two of you. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:05.640 It'll be cool. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.320 Never really got to compete against them throughout my football career, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.720 but this will be the first time I see him 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.360 in a different jersey, so it'll be crazy. I mean, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.720 we're just doing our jobs in the day, but the 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.200 fact that I get to compete against my brother at 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.480 the highest level is just gonna make it that much cooler. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.680 And hopefully you will go in with a two game 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.440 winning streak after beating the Browns on Sunday. Best of luck, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:29.160 Thank you for the time. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:29.520 Thank you. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.079 Chase's twin brother, Sidney, is a safety who was drafted 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.960 in the third round by Philly last year. He tore 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.160 his ACL in the regular season finale in January, but 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.320 it sounds like Sydney could be back in action this Sunday. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.320 As you probably know, the Bengals have not fared well 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.440 against the Cleveland Browns, in recent years. Sure, they beat 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.600 him in the regular season finale last year, but the 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.600 Browns rested their starters in that game to get ready 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:02.240 for the playoffs. Over the last Cleveland is nine and 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.120 three in the Battle of Ohio, and the Browns have 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.520 won six straight at home. Furthermore, Joe Burrow is one 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.480 in five against Cleveland and only managed to put up 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.040 three points against the Browns defense last year. They have 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.960 been Joe's kryptonite. For more on Sunday's matchup, I spoke 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.840 to a member of this week's TV crew. It's the 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.040 Bengals in Browns on Sunday, and our friend Addie Kinkobwallo 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.480 will be on the sideline for CBS Aditi. The Bengals 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.640 started zero three, but they've won two out of their 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.880 last three. They've got that overtime loss to Baltimore in between. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.520 Does it look to you like the Bengals are hitting 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:40.240 their stride. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.160 It certainly feels that way. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.120 I'll say that, Dan, you know this last outing, the 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.280 defense in particular tackled well. I know that that's something 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.080 that's leagued the Bengals. But let's be honest, we've seen 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.840 bad tackling in the first month of the season ever 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.480 since they changed the way the preseason works. You and 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.600 I go back to when we had two days in 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.679 training camp when the pads were on. Now we never 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.400 see that. Guys don't play in the preseason, so most 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.000 every team suffers from bad tackling. Now. I don't know 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.319 if this is Mike Hilton calling that players only meeting 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.320 last week. I don't know if it's him kind of 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.080 lighting the fire under guys, but certainly knowing that the 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.480 tackling is better and knowing that the defense was a 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.839 little bit more on its p's and q's makes you 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.160 feel a bit more confident with that side of the 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.360 ball and the offense stend. Do you ever count out 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.040 an offense that has Joe Barrow at the helm? 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.480 I certainly don't. He does say that the ball still 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.000 isn't spinning quite the way that he likes, but he 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.840 leads the NFL in passer rating. He showed off his 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.000 speed last week with that forty seven yard touchdown run. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.160 What stands out to you about his performance through six games? 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.719 That's exactly it, right that he told the Sunday Night 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.000 Football Crew last week that he thinks it might still 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.720 be a full year before that risk is one hundred percent. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.839 We certainly see footage of him flexing his wrist that risk. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.320 And despite that, he is still able to ben the 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.120 ball as well as he does, even if it's not 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.760 up to his standards. And and the offense has helped, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.920 let's be honest, by a better defense too. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:19.040 So that defense got most of its defensive lineman back 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.080 over the past couple of weeks. That group is finally healthy. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.840 What do you think of the potential of the Bengals 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.320 defense with lou Anarumo calling shots. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.319 I think the health makes so much of a difference. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.080 And you're right, it all starts up front. And so 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.000 when that whole line is healthy, when that line can 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.440 help stop the run, that enables that back end to 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.360 make more plays. And so again, I just it's so 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.880 hard to assess, and it's especially been this season. You 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.120 and I were talking about this before this first month 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.559 of the season. For six weeks of this season has 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.160 been so odd. The teams that have been underachieving, the 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.840 teams that have seemingly been middling, the teams that have 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.960 had sort of slow starts. And I think a piece 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.320 of that for the Bengals is nobody's running away with 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.800 anything right now. You look at the AFC North and yes, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.800 the Steelers are four and two, but they're making a 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.080 change at quarterbacks, so who knows how that's going to 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.760 work out. And obviously I still feel that the Ravens 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:21.400 are currently the class of the division. But they start 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.320 the season so well either so are they a couple 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.520 bad plays from being caught? Really, you're talking about maybe 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.360 five plays, and the Bengals record is what five and one? 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.679 So it's just there's a reason. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.200 That coaches use that cliche that there's such a fine 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.720 line between winning and losing, and there's still a lot 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.400 of football left, a lot of football left. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.640 And then there are the Cleveland Browns. You're part of 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.600 their preseason broadcast team. You know this team extremely well. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.280 Are you stunned that Cleveland is one in five? 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.000 Yes? I am, Frankly I am. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.840 You know, I just said this to you that nobody 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.199 plays in the preseason, And I'll tell you a funny story. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.560 So in the preseason, the way that the Browns allow 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.040 us to do their broadcasts, we interview a lot of 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.960 players during the broadcast, and each week we talked to 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.280 one of the coordinators and Jim Schwartz is their defensive coordinator. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.360 You know that this defense was a top two defense 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:22.280 all year last year. And one of our interviews or 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.679 you know, we were going in the halftime and I 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.720 said to coach Schortz, how do you build off of 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.760 what you did last year? Or something along the lines, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.400 what's the next step off of what you established last year? 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.000 And I'll tell you, Dan, you need to find the clip, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.400 because he basically bit off my head and said, forget 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.440 about last year. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.800 Who knows what we are this year? Nobody's played in 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.120 the preseason. I have no idea what we are. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.360 And I'm paraphrasing here, but it was essentially calling me 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.280 silly for assuming that this team would pick up where 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:56.160 it was last year. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.480 Well, he was right. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.080 I was wrong, clearly you So, Miles Garrett is still 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:02.680 Miles Garrett. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.800 He is not one hundred percent healthy. But it's funny. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.520 I was talking to a player on the Eagles who 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.160 just faced them last week, asking, hey, just give me 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:10.800 some background. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:11.440 What did you see? 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.560 And his first line was ninety five is still ninety five? 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.679 And when I said, but can you tell that he's 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.599 not one hundred percent? And he said, who cares that 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.400 he's not one hundred percent. He's still jumped over a 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.160 guy and blocked a kick, so he's still making plays. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:28.080 Jay Okay, Jeremiah Usukuromoa is playing fantastic. He had a 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.720 monster year last year. He is a sideline to sideline, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.560 unbelievably fast linebacker. He's playing really well. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.200 That back end that in. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.440 Theory, should be such a strength, has just been plagued 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:46.120 by injuries. And so you think about Jamar Chase t Higgins, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.760 is Joe Burrow picking apart a secondary that likes to 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:55.400 play man. There are opportunities right there, you know, but 0:14:55.440 --> 0:15:00.320 it's a shame. I wish that Denzel word was fully healthy. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.040 I hope he's on his way to getting healthy. Mj Emerson. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.400 You know, these are players that are fun to watch 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.520 when they're in peak form. So of course that's the 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.800 defense right there, and still it's still a good defense. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.680 The offense is just I mean, what do you say, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.520 what do you say? I mean, the can't score twenty points. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.200 They haven't scored twenty points all year. And what's dumbfounding 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.480 to me is that Kevin Stefanski had an offensive staff 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.360 in place from when he was hired, and his first 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.160 season as head coach, he was Coach of the Year. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.400 That was the COVID year, and that offensive staff with 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.920 Baker Mayfield as their quarterback or its quarterback, led the 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.000 Browns to the playoffs in won a road playoff game 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.600 when Kevin Stefanski was in his basement with COVID. That 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.720 was that offensive staff. Then that same offensive staff last year, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:03.320 behind five different starting quarterbacks, earned a playoff berth and 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.560 the Browns decided to completely rip up that offensive staff 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:13.440 and completely remake their offense. They say it's an augmented 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.520 passing game, but it's obviously a very very different passing game. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:21.800 And here you are six weeks in and nothing looks smooth, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.200 nothing looks efficient, nothing looks like it's looked the last 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:30.760 few years. Deshaun Watson is clearly still not the player 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.600 that he was at some point in Houston when people 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.640 thought he was one of the bright young stars at 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.040 the quarterback position. I will say this, Nick Chubb, who 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.600 is everybody's favorite player, who is arguably one of the 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.520 best running backs in the National Football League, in my opinion, 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.680 the best running back in the National Football League when healthy. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:58.480 He's coming back and Dan, the city of Cleveland loves Snickchubb, loves, loves, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.560 loves loves Nick Chubb. When he runs out of the 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:07.200 tunnel on Sunday, that building will come down with all 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:11.359 that noise. And so, first of all, I never count 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.560 out Nick Chubb. His first game back after destroying his 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.320 knee at Georgia, he went for two hundred and twenty 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.680 two yards. So maybe Kevin Stefanski will tell us he's 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.520 on a pitch count, but I don't know that that 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.040 ever works with Nick chub But even beyond that, I 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.359 think the Browns are expecting, hoping for an emotional boost 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.119 and emotional lift from the guy that really, actually, truly 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.800 is the face of their franchise and embodies everything that 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.280 they want to be. I can't tell you how many 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.040 people I've been around who've said, if I had a 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.040 roster full of Nick Chubbs, I'd never lose. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.480 I really don't root for the star players on the 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.960 other teams and the AFC North, but I've got so 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.480 much respect for Nick Chubb. After this week, I will 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.920 be rooting for Nick Chubb going forward. Logan Wilson said 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.320 this week it's the first time in his life that 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.439 the team that he was about to play traded one 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.919 of its best players that week. The Brown's obviously trading 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.199 Amari Cooper. Why do you think they did that. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.919 I don't think that this is the fire sale that 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.560 some people think from the outside. I don't think this 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.679 is the Browns giving up on the season. This is 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.919 just Amari Cooper was under this last year. This was 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.199 the last year of his deal. He wasn't going to 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.800 be re signed next year, and Brown general manager Andrew 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.120 Berry was able to get more picks from the Bills. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.040 Then he gave up. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.480 To get Amari Cooper a couple of years ago from Dallas. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.080 And so I think when you can make a play 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.840 like that, and remember the Browns haven't had a lot 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.399 of picks because of everything they've given up for j 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.240 Deshaun Watson, it seems to make some sense. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.200 I don't think there was another player in the NFL 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.000 who had. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.600 More uncatchable targets than Amari Cooper did. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.240 So it's a deep, wide receiver room. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.320 You haven't seen everything that the Browns want to see 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.359 by any means out of Jerry Judy or Elijah or 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.320 Cedric Tillman, who's a very young talented guy. It's an 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.000 opportunity for some other people to step up. And they're 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.199 tight ends too. Don't forget about the tight ends. You 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.119 know those are at least in Kevin Stefanski's previous offense. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:13.720 Those tight ends are very, very key. 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.520 Final thing for add Kin Kabwala. If the Bengals are 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.800 able to win this week and get to three and four, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.680 they've got back to back home games coming up after that, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.400 were that to happen, do you feel like they're right 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:27.520 back in the thick of things. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.480 Win this week and of course you're right back in 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.399 the thick of things. You know, every coach loves to 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.000 say this. The goal is just to go Wan to know. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:35.520 The goal is to go Wan to know. You keep 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.200 stacking those one and oh's, and you're in good shape. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:38.960 And as we keep. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.480 Saying, no one is running away with the AFC North 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:45.240 right now, no one is necessarily looking. 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:50.560 Yeah, the Chiefs, the Bills, you know, you have the class. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.320 Of the AFC in some ways, but it's also just 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.680 about getting in the dance and nothing is insurmountable right now. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.320 The Bengals just need to continue because we saw it 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.240 this past week, and continue to play better defense, and 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.040 I think you'll see some good things. You know the 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.040 talents there, and you know the coaching is there. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.960 Look forward to seeing you on the sideline this Sunday 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.320 and really appreciate your time. Keep up the great work, Adidi, Thank. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.600 You and thanks so much for having me. It's always 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:17.040 a pleasure. 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.600 The Bengals Booth Podcast is brought to you by pay Corps, 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.560 Proud to be the Bengals Official HR software provider, by 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.240 Alta Fiber future proof Fiber Internet designed to elevate your home, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.040 business and community to a new level, and by Kettering 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.280 Health the best care for the best fans. Kettering Health 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.520 is the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. As add 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.680