WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Something In The Orange 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.399 Hi, gain everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.920 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The Something in the Orange edition 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.280 as the Bengals open the season in Orange but come 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.000 up short on the scoreboard, losing to the Patriots sixteen 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.800 to ten. Coming up radio replays, locker room comments and 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.520 postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's Fun 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.440 Facts Conversation, I'll discuss some humorous moments in franchise history 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.680 with team president Mike Brown. You will enjoy our trip 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.000 down memory lane. 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It's the greatest thing since my all 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.160 time favorite line on a TV show, HBO ran a 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.640 Sopranos marathon over the last week or so, and when 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.440 I was flipping channels on the remote, I wound up 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.160 watching bits and pieces of several episodes, including one that 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:28.479 features perhaps my all time favorite line of dialogue. Christopher 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.080 is in the hospital having nightmares about going to Hell 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.000 for his mob related sins. That freaks out Polly Walnuts, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.520 who worries that he's headed there in the afterlife too, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.120 so he quizzes Christopher about his nightmare and asks if 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.960 Hell was hot in his dream. After Christopher answers, I 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.880 don't know, Polly triumphantly says, the heat would have been 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.800 the first thing you noticed. Hell is hot. That's never 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.840 been disputed. I have probably said hell is hot, never 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.880 been disputed a million times since first seeing that episode. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:10.320 It cracks me up every time. Now let's get to 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.640 football and the radio replays from week one. The weather 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.720 was perfect, and kudos to Bengals fans for turning the 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.120 jungle into an ocean of orange. It looked great in 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.399 person and on TV, and I, for one hope the 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.359 open and orange tradition is here to stay. The Bengals 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.160 offense got off to a slow start, but rookie punter 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.560 Ryan Rico didn't. His first NFL punt went fifty seven 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.560 yards and his second set a franchise record wereco waiting 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.200 at the five. Snap is shoulder high, the right footed 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.000 punt is goosh, holy cow, it's going to fly to 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.600 the nine, bounce. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.560 Us to the five, chip us toward the pylon and 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.880 just barely goes into the end zone that would. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.280 Have been at the one foot line. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.280 It's an eighty yard punt had traveled seventy yards in 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.959 the air. It's still sixty net yards despite bouncing into 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:07.519 the end zone. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.040 Howard's a shot there. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:09.320 Boy. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.560 That was the longest punt in team history, but not 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.480 the longest ever for Rico. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.440 I think I had an eighty three at YU three. Yeah, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.480 but that was a little while ago too, and they 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.880 come around every so often. It's fun, but yeah, definitely 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.040 couldn't be more grateful. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.880 The previous Bengals record was seventy five yards, shared by 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.440 Kevin Huber and Kyle Larson. Rico averaged sixty four and 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.120 a half yards on four punts in the game, and 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.840 that is also a new single game team record. The 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.360 Patriots took a seven to nothing lead on a three 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.720 yard touchdown run by Romandre Stevenson on the first play 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.360 of the second quarter. But a few minutes later, the 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.440 Bengals offense started to cook Burrow in the shotgun. Moss 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.600 lines up to his right, Tanner Hudson motions out to 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.240 the left. Burrow drops back to throw fires caught by 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.960 Chase Jamar at the fifteen. The fourteen hits a first 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.200 down for Cincinnati. He took Christian Gonzales for a ride 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.680 and the Bengals are in the red zone for a 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.360 first down. Two plays later, they went from the red 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.280 zone to the end zone. Drew Sample lines up in 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.479 the backfield to the left of Burrow. Shotgun snap Joe 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.599 looking right, He'll float it for the end zone. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.919 It if baby caught for the touchdown. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:31.560 Mike Kasiki against his former team with his first touchdown 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:36.480 in a Bengals uniform. He does his version of the gritty, 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:41.480 which isn't exactly perfectly executed, but the Bengals have scored 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.240 their first touchdown of the year. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.200 Or so we thought. As the Bengals lined up for 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.599 the game tying extra point, the officials studied the replay 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.680 and determined that Kasiki did not complete the catch as 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.120 he went to the ground no touchdown, but the Bengals 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.400 still had the ball in the red zone. They're down 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.400 in eleven four the fifteen Burrow quick pass over. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.640 The minute cut by Tanner Hudson loses the football picked 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:05.920 up in. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.960 The end zone by the Patriots. They are running it 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.880 back to the ten to the fifteen and the tackle 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.640 is made at the seventeen yard line. Tanner Hudson, on 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.479 the verge of going into the end zone for a touchdown, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.160 had the ball knocked away. Marcus Jones scooped up the 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.680 ricochet right at the goal line and ran it back 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.080 to the seventeen. Before Jamar Chase could make the stop. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.640 He exposed the football and Douger made him pay. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.400 Instead of being a tie game, the Patriots were still 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.960 up by seven, and a field goal on the final 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.599 play of the half made it ten to nothing New England. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.359 The Bengals defense promptly got a three and out to 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.839 begin the second half, but Cincinnati made another costly mistake. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:52.000 The long snapper Cardona fires it back. Baringer launches a 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.960 very very high punt. Charlie Jones, back pedaling and catching 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.840 at the ten, has a little bit of running room 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.240 He's to the fifteen to twenty the ball and the 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.200 Patriots recover at the twenty four yard line. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:04.600 Man. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.960 That led to a field goal in a thirteen to 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.880 nothing lead. It was time for the offense to deliver 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.680 and the Bengals quickly drove into New England territory. The 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.760 Bengals line up to go for it on fourth and 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.320 two at the New England thirty six. Three receivers out 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.440 to the right burrow in the gun. He catches his 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.039 shoulder high snap, throws a screen out to the right. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.400 Yo see Bosh tackle it to thirty five? What not 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.400 short of the first down, oh Man. After five drives, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.200 the Bengals still had not scored, but that changed the 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.600 next time. They got the ball, first and goal from 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.800 the five Burrow in the pistol again, turns left, gives 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:41.000 it to. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.000 Moss right up the medal touchdown down Baby Bengals sack 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.839 Moss up the gut head into the end zone for 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.080 his first Bengals touchdown. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.160 What I liked on. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.480 That I saw a blocker finishing a defender into the 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.680 end zone on his backside. The Bengals were starting to 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.920 catch you control of the minus scrimmage. A little bit 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.039 mosses up the football field and boy, I'll tell you 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.640 watching this well, take him to the ground, finish him, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.000 put him on his backside. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:10.800 Good stuff. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.200 It was thirteen to seven going to the fourth quarter. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.120 A Patriots field goal made it sixteen to seven, but 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.760 the Bengals scored for the second drive in a row. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.600 Shotgun snapped to Burrow four man rush throws down the 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.440 minute of the field, Chase with a catch in Patriots' 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.120 territory and he gets tackled in the middle of the 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.320 field at the thirty six huff New England by Jabril 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.720 Peppers twenty eight yards to Jamar Chase. That led to 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.480 an Evan McPherson field goal that made it sixteen to ten, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.360 and the defense forced to punt with about three minutes 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.040 to go. That gave the Bengals a chance for a 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.400 game winning drive. Unfortunately, it was not to be. The 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.440 Bengals elected to punt on fourth and five from their 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.240 own fifteen with two and a half minutes to go 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.680 in three timeouts remaining, but the Patriots were able to 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.840 run for two first downs to win the game six 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.480 sixteen ten. Holding a team to sixteen points is usually 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.560 enough to win but not when you lose the turnover 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.480 battle to Zip, and not when you allow the opponent 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.520 to rush for one hundred and seventy yards on thirty 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.960 nine carries to dominate time of possession. Logan Wilson led 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.920 the Bengals with thirteen tackles and three quarterback hits. And 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.200 I talked to them after the game, what aspect of 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.239 the game bothers. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.280 You them rushing for one hundred and seventy rushing yards. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:31.880 We've talked about all off season how we're going to 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.320 clean that shit up, and it's we didn't. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.480 So obviously we still I worked too. We gotta tackle better. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:38.480 That starts with tackling. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.480 Yeah, I was going to say, it seemed like there 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.280 were several of those running plays where you guys were 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.880 in position to get them down and maybe got two 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.160 more yards, four more yards, six more yards, whatever it 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:47.680 might have been. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.760 Yeah, it's seen those issues that were from last year. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:52.920 I mean, we still have time to clean up. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.480 Obviously, we had sixteen more games, but we got to 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.520 let this one sting quite a bit, just because we 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.439 got to clean that that stuff up up the bath. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.040 We gotta be better on defense. We gotta get turnovers. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.160 We had no turnovers today, and when you win the 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.480 turnover battle, I think plus plus two in this league 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.640 is like winning percent, just like seventy eight. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.000 So odds are high. When you get turnovers, you forced 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:15.520 to fumble. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.640 Unfortunately, at the bottom of the pile, they guess they 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.319 willed that Stevenson held on long enough. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.920 Yeah, yeah, I got he did. I thought Joseph came 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:25.320 up with it. I wasn't really sure who came up 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.760 with it. Everyone was seeing Osai came up with it, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.840 and so I was hoping that we were. They were 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.480 letting him play through. But unfortunately it didn't go away. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.880 Put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into trying 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.960 to get off to a better start this year. Is 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.680 it a little bewildering it? For whatever reason, Week one 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.320 just has not gone well. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:43.880 Yeah, I don't know. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.120 I mean, I'm not I'm not gonna panic, that's for sure. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.600 You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna look myself in the mirror. See, 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:50.360 but I gotta do better. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.760 And then because the defense gotta sue we can do better. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.800 Especial teams offense is do the same, and we gotta 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.360 put our best foot forward because it's not like we're 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.000 going into an easy environment, going to Ahead and playing 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:00.640 in Kansas City. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.000 Appreciate your time Offensively, Joe Burrow was twenty one for 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.679 twenty nine, that's seventy two percent, but he had to 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.920 settle for short passes with the Patriots taking away the 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.520 deep ball. Joe threw for one hundred and sixty four 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.000 yards and had a passer rating of eighty six. Zach 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.880 Moss was the team's leading rusher with forty four yards. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.560 Jamar Chase was the leading receiver with six catches for 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.040 sixty two. For more on the offense, here's tight end 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.880 Mike KASICKI. I thought you had your first touchdown in 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.000 a Bengals uniform. I guess after seeing the replay the 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.320 ball skidded on the ground. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.040 What did you think. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.320 Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen a replay of 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.880 it yet, so unfortunately I can't really comment on it 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.880 too soon. But definitely thought I had it. You know, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:52.080 Obviously I wouldn't have, you know, celebrated like I did. Yeah, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.440 if I didn't, But unfortunately, I mean, that was the 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:57.839 call and it is what it is. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.760 Kind of a frustrating day for the offense. Arded slowly 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.760 from the fourth possession on you moved the ball well, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.720 but for whatever reason, those first three drives just couldn't 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:07.200 get it going. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:14.199 Yeah, it is, like you said, unfortunate. You know, we 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.480 got a lot of good players, a lot of great coaches, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.040 and I think the right people in this in this 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.040 locker room. So you know, we'll go back watch the tape, uh, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.959 see what we can do better improve on, and come 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.080 back next week ready. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.520 To feel like t was badly missed today. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.400 Uh. Yeah, me and a guy of his caliber and talent, Uh, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.080 that's always gonna you know, affect the offense. But you 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.480 know some other guys got to step up, including myself, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.920 and you know, next week's a new week. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.080 You were a Patriot last year, that game kind of 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.319 felt like a bella check performance to me. They didn't 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.240 turn it over, they led the clock, They did the 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.160 things that the Patriots had historically done well when they went. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:12:00.120 Yeah, yeah, you know, we've lost the turnover battle and 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.840 they won the time in possession battle and all that 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.880 kind of stuff. So uh, you know, at the end 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.160 of the day, you know, we got some things that 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:09.920 we have to clean up, and we know that, and 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.480 you know we'll be ready to come back in tomorrow 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:13.000 and get to work. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.880 Half of the league got a bounce back in week one. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.160 That's where we are unfortunately. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.839 Yeah, no doubt, it's a long season. It's only September eighth, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.120 so plenty of time. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.120 Mike, appreciate you time. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:21.800 Appreciate it. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.679 Now. Let's hear what Zach Taylor had to say as 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.720 he spent a couple of minutes with Lap after the game. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.840 We got to tackle better and we got to get 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.280 the ball of them losing the turn of battle two 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.320 to nothing, you know, and the chart Troy three to 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.839 nothing with a failed first fourth down. But that's not 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.280 unacceptable in week one. That's not gonna win you any games. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.120 Last year ten Fumbals lost two of them all season 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.200 long Clubber only losing two fumbles none to lose two 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.080 and like just a little bit over half had to 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:49.959 be disappointed. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.040 Yeah, two loose with the ball. I mean it's very 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.160 simple there. There's not a big mystery to what I happened, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.880 and so we'll certainly address it and do a better 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:57.640 job moving forward. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.840 When when something happens like that, funnel like that in 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.280 a low red zone going into score, I mean, it 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.240 just picks the ear up of the balloom, doesn't it. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.520 Well, that's you talk about contrimary football. You know, that's 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.679 where another side's got to rise up and get a 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.880 big stop. Unfortunately, they got ten points off of our turnovers, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.440 three of them. The defense did a great job off 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.400 of a sudden change on a pump fumble held them 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.800 to a field goal. Excellent job. We just we obviously 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.360 can't fumble in the red zone and then we got 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:23.960 to get stopped once they get the ball. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.800 Controlling the line of scrimmage. Winning in the trenches is 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.320 such a big deal. Did the Patriots move guys out 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.840 of gap control responsibilities? Did they not hit them right? 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:34.599 Was a combination? I know you haven't had time to 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:34.960 check it. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:36.320 Yeah, we'll I have to watch the tay see that. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:38.160 So what the. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.920 Spot running the football as well? And want to get 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:42.920 that on tracks as well. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:43.199 Well. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.880 We certainly got a ton of momentum there in the 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.360 second half. You know, it felt like we were moving 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.600 the ball well, finished with the ball in the end 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.559 zone on a great run, great drive. We'd run the 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.480 ball well. Unfortunately, the next possession we got the ball 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.040 eight minutes down two scores, and so that kind of 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.839 takes the ball out of the back's hands in that case, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.520 and we knew we were probably on to get two 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.200 possessions left in the game down two posion, so we 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.880 had to throw the ball to try to maximize the clock. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.920 Coach, what what did you What did you tell the 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.520 guys after the game? What was your What was the 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:07.480 biggest part of your message? 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:08.720 That's what I told you to turn of a battle 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.520 and tackling. You know, you can't expect to one week 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.840 one when they get two more possessions than you do. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.400 You take points off the board, you know, from one 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.720 on the two yard line and and you know, so 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.280 it's just in the way we tackle it. At the 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:21.680 end of the game, particularly, it wasn't good enough. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.400 And I and finally, I know a big key for 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.320 you was, you know, getting off to that good start 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.440 and you did a lot of things to get that accomplishment, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.720 and that just didn't work out. Has to be really frustrating. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.160 You just got to take a deep breath. This is 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.400 what we wanted. Uh, we have to be accountable for 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.800 why it happened. For row and one, we got sixteen 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.320 left to play, tremendous opportunity to go on the road 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.680 next week and flip all this momentum. And so again 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.000 that's that's how we got to look at it. We 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.720 got to handle ourselves internally, not worry about the external noise. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.840 We know we'll be there and I know our guys 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:51.440 will do a great. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:51.720 Job of that. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.440 And final, final, how did you think Jamar Chase played? 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.880 I thought he gave us enough to make some plays 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.040 and and we got to continue give him opportunities. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:00.320 Appreciate you, Thank you. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.480 So the Bengals are zero and one, just like the 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.000 Ravens and Browns. 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Now time for 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.560 their radio guys recap lap. One of the biggest question 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.280 marks about this team going into the season was would 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.680 they be able to stop the run better than they 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.040 did a year ago? And unfortunately, in Week one the 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.960 answer is now. One hundred and seventy rushing yards for 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.240 the Patriots. I haven't seen how many of those were 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.160 yards after contact, but I'm guessing it was a bunch 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.200 for Amandre Stevenson. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.880 No doubt, Dan, he had one hundred and twenty of 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.080 them on twenty five carries. He had ten carries of 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.280 five yards of more. So it wasn't he wasn't just 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.320 like you know, Nicol and Diamondum. He hit one for 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.000 fourteen yards, it hits one for sixteen, the next carry 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.720 for seventeen two carries later, nineteen yard run. I mean 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.280 he had multiple carries of nine yards or more. He 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.360 had another twelve yard run. I mean he was consistently 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:41.840 gashing the Cincinnati Bengals front seven. And I asked Zach 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.040 after the game that could he tell if it was, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.600 you know, not mental mistake about filling the wrong gap 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.480 or getting moved out of the gap, because we talked 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.520 about a couple of times during the during the game, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.000 I thought they were getting moved out of the gap 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.040 more so than the mental era. But I don't know 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.800 what their gap control responsibilities are, so Zach SAIDY have 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:01.800 to look at the tape a little a little closer 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.760 to find out. But whatever it was, it certainly wasn't enough. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:06.560 It wasn't good. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:11.280 Against the team with a questionable offensive line. Left guard out, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.920 left tackle not thought to be very good. Right guard 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.960 rookie dominated in the run game, only surrendered one sack. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.399 That's a very disappointing performance for Cincinnati against that line. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.240 Absolutely because they never got them to where they had 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.600 to pass protect. And when they did, I mean four times, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.720 Jacoby Brissett tucked it and ran the football for thirty 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.080 four yards. I mean, he was his legs were a factor. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.119 We talked about him. I mean, he's a grown man. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.480 The guy sixty four and thirty five pounds, and he's 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.480 got a very quick first step. When he decides to 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.520 step up in the pocket, he's sudden, and he's strong, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.600 and he breaks through arm tackles. You know, when you're 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.119 trying to sack him. You're not going to sack him 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.600 by grabbing him with one hand and sling him to 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.240 the ground, and it's just not going to happen. I 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.760 thought he was a force. I thought he ran through contact. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.439 I thought, you know, he was a huge factor with 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.080 his throwing arm, made enough plays with the throwing arm 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.880 and then his feet. He really hurt the Bengals because 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.760 I'd say probably four of those carries were on Three 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.920 of the four carries were probably on third down where 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.879 he moved the chains and kept drives alive. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.520 This was the first time in twenty five years that 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.240 Bill Belichick was not the Patriots head coach. If you 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.560 watched this game with no video of who was on 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.520 the sideline, you would have said it was a Belichick win. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.720 Win the turnover battle to nothing, control the clock, no 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.800 silly penalties. I mean, Gerrod Mayo coached for the guy, 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.320 played for the guy, and today his team won like 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:35.200 he was still the coach. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.280 At halftime, he came off the field and told the 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.159 TV crew were winning in the trenches. Well, you know, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:42.800 as a former lineman, that's all I was saying the 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.959 whole game. I mean, it was so evident, so obvious. 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.320 You didn't have to be a football einstein. I mean, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.880 this guy is obviously a brilliant football coach. But yeah, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.600 I mean everything that had to be done, the boxes 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.480 that needed to be checked to beat a team like 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.280 the Bengals, they did. And the thing that's unbelievable to 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.679