WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Most Wonderful Time 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.640 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:12.960 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The It's the most wonderful time 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:17.800 of the year addition, and by that I don't only 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.840 mean Christmas, I mean the end of the NFL season, 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.560 when your team is in playoff contention and the Bengals 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.920 have a one game lead in the AFC North with 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.200 two games to go after beating Baltimore forty one twenty one. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.160 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from the win, postgame 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.720 comments from players and coaches, and analysis from my broadcast 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.560 partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Facts segment, 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:47.760 Safety Michael J. Thomas joins my unofficial Fun Facts Hall 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.559 of Fame with an all time classic conversation that is 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.800 guaranteed to make you laugh. The Bengals Booth Podcast is 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.080 presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free to play Next Level 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.640 Fantasy Football game downloaded now from the App Store and 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.520 Google Play. And here's a quick reminder that you can 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.399 have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.720 your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing wherever you get 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:19.160 your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since my mother's Christmas potatoes. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.400 I am from a mostly Swedish family and on Christmas Day, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:28.240 my mother always makes her famous Swedish Christmas potatoes. Years 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.240 ago she wrote down the recipe for me, so now 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:36.200 I make them. The key ingredients are potatoes, heavy cream, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.080 and lots of butter. There's a reason why we only 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:45.000 eat them once a year. Each forkful contains approximately nine thousand, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:50.600 three hundred seventy two calories. My moms are universally considered 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:55.040 to be the greatest potatoes ever made, and at the 0:01:55.120 --> 0:02:00.600 risk of bragging, mine rank second. Now let's get to football. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 Sunday Cincinnati Baltimore showdown pitted the two teams tied for 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.080 first in the AFC North. But let's be honest, the 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.400 Ravens were the Ravens in name only. They've been devastated 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.800 by injuries all year and had a COVID outbreak this week. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.520 It was so bad that Baltimore had to call up 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.320 ten players from its practice squad, and the casualties included 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.160 the Ravens top two quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson is dealing with 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.480 an ankle injury, and backup Tyler Huntley was one of 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.960 the guys on the COVID list. SO Baltimore starter was 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.320 thirty five year old Josh Johnson, who has claimed off 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.200 the Jets practice squad last week. Josh was a Bengals 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.240 backup in twenty thirteen and is the ultimate NFL journeyman. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.560 Between the active roster, practice squad and training camp. He 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:58.640 has been with the Bucks, forty nine Ers, Browns, Bengals, Jets, Colts, Bills, Ravens, Giants, Texans, Raiders, Lions, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:04.080 and Washington Football Team, a whopping thirteen NFL teams in all. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.359 Sunday marked the ninth start of his NFL career, and 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.720 after the Bengals kicked a field goal on their opening 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.880 drive to take a three nothing lead, Johnson drove the 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.840 Ravens seventy five yards in twelve plays. Third down and 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.400 goal from the four. Murray in the backfield of the 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.639 right of Josh Johnson, he will drop back to throw 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.760 pass over the middle. Wide open for the touchdown is 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.760 Bateman as he cut inside of Mike Hilton and hauled 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.320 it in for the Ravens TD. So Baltimore led seven 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.240 to three. It was clear right away that the depleted 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.320 Ravens weren't going to roll over and play dead. The 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.440 Bengals had to answer and did, electing to go for 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.760 it on fourth and goal from the one. Mixon moves 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.600 to Burrow's left. They handed to Joe Mixing, chose in 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.160 touchdown Bengals as the decision to go for it on 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.880 fourth and goal pays off and the Bengals take the lead. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.320 Here's Zach Taylor on the decision to go for it. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.400 It's a mindset thing at that moment. You know, it's 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.440 it's fourth and goal on the one yard line. You know, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.240 if we can't get in there, then we don't deserve 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.160 any points. But our guys entered the bill. It was 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.520 ten three Bengals after the first quarter. After the Ravens 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.120 punted early in the second, the Bengals attacked fur out 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.960 of the gun catches the Hopkins snap fires down field, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.919 run go two weights pretty down the middle of the 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.520 field of the twenty to ten Yeah five whoa begar 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:34.919 salt good into the end zone, touchdown Bengal sixty eight yards. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.599 Burrow to boy. They had five defenders like a picket 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.760 fence about ten yards down the football field, and John 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.239 Harbaugh is looking up the field like, what what happened? 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.720 How did he get so open, Unlike former Bengal Jerome 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.520 Simpson on Christmas Eve ten years ago or Antonio Brown 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.200 when he was still with the Steelers. Boy did not 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.320 stick the landing on his leaping somersault. But he's still 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.200 got a good grade from Joe Mixon. I'll probably give 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.360 him maybe an a minus. And the reason why I'll 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.359 give him that is because I've seen a b a 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.839 few years ago do a whole flip and land on 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.000 his feet and I was real life impressive. So, like 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.840 I said, I'll give it to a minus. But I mean, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.960 it was seventeen seven Cincinnati and after a three and 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:28.320 out by Baltimore, the Bengals scored again, chasing Boyd out 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.120 to the left, Higgins out to the right. Burrow throws 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.320 caught by a wide Joson what a cut back to 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:39.880 the middle of the field down Bengal. Burrowed, I'm mixing 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.560 from nine yards out and the Bengals are pouring it on. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.400 It's twenty three to seven, pending the extra point. That's 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.599 what you want to do is take the hope away 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.640 from the Baltimore Ravens. That was mixing sixteenth touchdown of 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.719 the year. He needs one more to tie Carl Pickens 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.520 franchise record. To the Ravens credit, they stared with a 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.560 thirteen play ninety yard drive, picking up first downs on 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.600 third and twelve, third and thirteen, and third and ten 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.120 before scoring on a two yard run by DeVante Freeman 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.640 to make it twenty four fourteen. But they also left 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.880 one thirty eight on the clock. Row back to throw. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.919 He's gonna fling it high and deep down field and 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:28.320 it is fiends. Higgins, with a defender on either side, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.800 goes up and over both of them and hauls it in. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.920 It'll be first in goal at the three. Brandon Stevens 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.800 and Kievan Seymour were powerless for the leaping ability and 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:45.360 reach of Higgins. Higgins finished with twelve catches for one 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.599 hundred and ninety four yards, both career highs, fifty two 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.320 of the yards coming on that play. I think the 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.640 play was actually designed for Tyler and I was just 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.279 doing my job, running for the love of the game, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.120 and I look up the balls in the air, I'm like, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.880 holy all right, so and then I had to go 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.000 make a play, and you know, it was over two people. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.239 It's probably one of the greatest plays in my careers. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.160 And after two straight defensive holding penalties in the end zone, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.480 including one that negated an interception. Burrow went to Tea again. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.560 Burrow drops back to throw pass caught te Higgins with 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.600 a touchdown catch as he started close to the left 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.880 tackle and then just cut toward the left pyline. Made 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.360 the catch, and the Bengals have scored on all five 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.120 out their first half possessions. They scored forty one points 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.400 in Baltimore, and they're about to put their thirty first 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.440 point on the board in the first half in Cincinnati. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.920 After missing two games early in the season with a 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.440 shoulder injury, Higgins has seventy one catches for one thousand, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.160 twenty nine yards. Here's Burrow in the last four or 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.440 five weeks, he's been unbelievable. And the way he's catching 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.040 the ball is I've not you ever seen anything like it. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.800 The way he's catching the ball with strong hands in traffic, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.280 it's been awesome. The Bengals led thirty one fourteen at 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.560 the half and kept their foot on the gas on 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.800 their only possession of the third quarter. They held the 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.200 ball for ten minutes and twenty nine seconds before settling 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.000 for an Evan McPherson field goal that made it thirty 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.640 four fourteen going to the final quarter, but any thought 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.120 of resting the starters was squelched when Josh Johnson threw 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.200 an eighteen yard touchdown passed to Mark Andrews that made 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.760 it thirty four twenty one early in the fourth. Here's 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.920 Zach Taylor. They've been down similar situations like this. You know, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.360 Green Bay had him down I think it was eleven 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.679 last week and had a three and out, and they 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.320 came rowing back and had chance to win the game, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.199 and we were not going to allow that to happen. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.839 So on their next drive, rather than trying to kill 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.000 the clock by running the ball, the Bengals passed on 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.920 eight straight plays and Burrow completed all eight second and 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.040 seven from the Baltimore ten, Burrow ready for the shotgun snap, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.520 Joe has the ball, drops back three steps. He fired 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:03.560 headed his cot Bite Higgins touchdown Bengals as he ran 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.520 a post pattern cut position inside of Darryl Worley and 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:12.360 halves in burrows fourth touchdown pass of the game. It's 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.800 the first time in Joe Burrow's NFL career he's thrown 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.000 four or more. That made it forty one twenty one 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.360 and the Bengals kept throwing. Here's Burrow when asked if 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.040 the Bengals were trying to send a message, No, I 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.160 don't think so. I think their offense is moving the 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.000 ball a day. They were doing a good job, and 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.439 they're putting points on the board, and they were the 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.199 number one rush defense in the league going into the game. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.080 So and we were throwing the ball really well. So 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.760 we needed first owns to keep their offense off the field, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.000 I think, and we were just doing what was working. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.280 Burrow through his final pass on third and four with 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.280 two minutes to go. Ten defenders at the line of 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.120 scrimmage for Baltimore. They send three, they cover with eight. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.080 Burrows scrambling, throws it deep down. The old mixing makes 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:01.040 the catch at the ten, hand goes down half seven. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.800 He beat Anthony Levine Burrow with a deep ball completion, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.280 and that we'll take Joe Burrow up and over five 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:15.000 hundred passing yards, the first quarterback in more than fifty 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.960 years of Bengals football to ever do it. Burrow finished 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.880 with five hundred twenty five passing yards to break Boomerassison's 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.880 team record of four ninety set back in nineteen ninety 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:31.119 five twenty five is the fourth highest total in NFL history. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.920 The NFL record is five fifty four, set by Norm 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.640 Van Brocklin in nineteen fifty one. Here's Burrow, I'm joining 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.959 the five hundred club. I think it means a lot 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:47.080 to the whole team. Now, that's not just a reflection 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.320 of means a reflection of the offensive line, the receiver's 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.600 coaching staff, and how we went out and executed today. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.000 So that's exciting. But despite his team first modesty, Burrow 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.360 couldn't help cracking a smile when reminded about a comment 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.640 made by Ball to more defensive coordinator Don Wink Martindale 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.200 earlier this week when asked if the Ravens would use 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.360 the same strategy they used the week before against the 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.800 Green Bay duo of Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers in 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.080 hopes of shutting down Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow. To 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:17.880 sit here and have you think that we're going to 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.800 run the same plan against Jamar Chase as we did 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.520 Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers, We're going down the wrong 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.840 street because you know, like I said last week, Davanta Adams, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.040 he's one of the top two receivers in the league, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.760 and he's not number two. So and Aaron Rodgers is 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.000 a Hall of Fame quarterback, and I don't think we're 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.040 ready to buy a gold jacket for Joe yet. In 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.280 fairness to Martindale, he said a bunch of complimentary things 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.520 about Burrow in that news conference, but the gold jacket 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.280 comment is the one that got the headlines and the 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.880 thing that Burrow heard. I didn't think it was a 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.600 necessary comment. I wouldn't say I was offended by it. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.080 I mean, I'm in year two. Who knows what's going 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.360 to happen down the road. I didn't think it was 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.720 a necessary comment. Was it on your mind when you 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:08.440 were throwing at the end. Maybe In two games against 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.920 Baltimore this year, Burrow through for nine hundred forty one 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.079 yards and seven touchdowns with a passer rating of one 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.320 thirty one point one. Moral of the story, according to 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.520 Trey Hendrickson, don't say anything that can give Burrow an 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.480 added edge. It's just one of those things that you know, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.840 I wouldn't go around pissing that guy off. So um, hey, yeah, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.680 he did a great job. I know we're really proud 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.199 of him and as a defense. You know, he's important 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.400 to us. I read a couple of things, you know. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:47.000 So maybe admittedly Burrow's performance and the bengals forty one 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.840 to twenty one route came against an injury and COVID 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.120 ravaged Ravens roster, but Zach Taylor says it doesn't take 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.160 anything away from the win. No heck, no, no, no, no, no. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.960 They seventeen last year, we had hardly anybody left, you know, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.240 and I didn't feel anybody minimizing their win against us, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.040 and so we sure it has had no heart. It 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.280 is win in December. These guys have fought hard. We 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.640 asked them to answer the bell. They did, and that's 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.120 still the Baltimore Ravens out there playing a meaningful football 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.480 for them. And so our guys shouldn't apologize for one 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.360 second for the performance they went out there and do today. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.480 And dang proud of those guys for how they hung 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.319 in there at the full course of the game and 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.800 be handled. You know, the adversity we've had over the 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.160 course of time too, and you know it's just our 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.360 time to sit out there and make them mark for ourselves. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.280 The Bengals are nine and six with two games to go. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.959 They lead Baltimore by a game, Pittsburgh by a game 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:41.120 and a half, and Cleveland by two. 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Now time 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:22.440 for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham lap 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.280 it's Christmas time. We're celebrating our Lord and Savior, Joe Burrow. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.280 I hope nobody's offended. It's just a joke, but five 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.640 and twenty five yards, four touchdowns, the first quarterback in 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.960 Bengals history to throw for more than five hundred yards 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.360 in a game. We are so fortunate to have this 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.720 guy as the quarterback of this franchise for the hopefully 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.200 the next ten years at least. But man, is he good. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.120 He really is. I mean, he's he's so special with 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.640 not just the way he throws the football, you know, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:57.400 that's that's the obvious part. I think what's so unique 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.160 about him. And talked about a little bit after the 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.800 game with with Martindale and all that he can do 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.200 in the big inventory he has to draw from. You know, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.840 Joe said, I just saw everything that I needed to 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.760 see kind of one. I needed to see it and 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.600 saw the football field and obviously he said, you know, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.520 it's it's not just me when you go for five 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.040 hundred and twenty five yards. My line did a good job, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.320 my receivers, my running backs, everybody. So he obviously passed 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.000 a credit like all quarterbacks do. But his receivers were 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.760 just running great routes and just separation. They they didn't 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.080 they were overmatched, I mean, under manned and overmatched, there's 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.880 no two ways about it. And the Bengals took full 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.160 advantage of it. But that's life in the National Football League. 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.560 Can't feel sorry for anybody. That's that's just the way 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.200 it is. I mean, I would have loved to have 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.160 seen Tyler Boyd get one more ball for fifteen yards, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.680 and have those three the Triplets, the three headed Monster 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.560 all have over a hundred yards receiving the same game. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.400 That would have been unbelievable. If if he didn't run 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.480 out of if that sixty eight yard touchdown could have 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.200 been good from eighty three, he had to go eighty 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.080 three and get the fifteen yards. You just you know, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.600 ran out of real estate. Basically, I think anybody can 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.000 reasonably admit that the Bengals were not facing the Ravens, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.200 a teams between players that are injured, reserve and COVID. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.760 Baltimore is missing a ton of great players. But as 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.920 we said in the pregame and during the game, that 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.000 is not the Bengals fault. You. You try to beat 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.400 the team that you are facing. And they capitalized on 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.960 Baltimore's many good players that were sidelined. And what if 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.680 it had been a three point game and the Bengals 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.440 had edged him, They getting killed, They getting killed. So 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.240 I mean, you win by three scores and now you 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.760 know you're running it up and you're the bully, and 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.760 you know they're undermanned, and you know, why are you 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.200 doing this? And doing that. To me, it was third 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.040 and eighteen. They wanted to get a first down, and 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.040 they got the first down. Then they sat on the football. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:56.280 That was the bottom line. The Baltimore Ravens Josh Johnson 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.280 was playing. He was playing football quarterback rating of ninety 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.280 eight point three twenty eight or forty three hundred yards 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.280 three and four yards passing against a you know, a 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.159 Bengals defense that has been playing playing pretty darn well. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.400 They couldn't run the ball. They didn't run the ball, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.280 and they couldn't when they tried to two point four 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.560 yards of carry. That's gonna do nothing but help their 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.840 their status stopping the run. But in both football teams 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.640 decided they have to throw the football in this game, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.120 and they both did. But I mean, how about the Bengals, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.080 Like six hundred yards offense in this one, over five 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.240 hundred yards offense in the first one eighty two points 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:35.000 on eleven hundred plush yards offense. That is ridiculous, ridiculous. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.080 And in that first matchup, I mean Humphrey was matched 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.000 up on Chase when he had over two hundred yards. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:46.040 I mean, it's crazy. Ravens defensive coordinator Wink Martindale. It's 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.080 like a Rex Ryan kind of guy. He's brash, not 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.119 afraid to say things. He's a great defensive coordinator. Nobody 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.119 could argue that. But he made the comment during the 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.000 week that Joe Burrow basically is not ready to be 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.639 fitted for a gold jacket yet. And he's right. But 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.360 in two games against the Ravens, sixty for eighty four. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.480 That's seventy one percent completion, nine hundred forty one yards, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.640 seven touchdowns, one interception, passer rating of one thirty one 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:16.520 point one. That's a nightmare that Wink Bartondale and the 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.240 Ravens are going to have to worry about for the 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.520 next however many years. I'd say he's got the right 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.639 arm of the jacket measured out from those two games 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.720 in Baltimore. I mean that right arm is golden man. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:35.680 He is he is something, and as you say, he's 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.360 not going to regress. I mean, if anything, he's even 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.199 going to get sharper if that's if that's possible. But 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.320 I've never seen it, really. I've seen a lot of 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.440 quarterbacks that have laser focus. This guy, though, is like 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.760 the same, no matter what. Big game like this, a 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.560 game where he throws one hundred, one hundred and fifty 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.479 yards as long as they win the football game. He 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.640 is truly good with it. And people, ah, yeah, that's 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.239 a bunch of talk. No, it's it's fact, it really is. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:11.480 This guy is all about w's and ells and man's 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.120 gonna he's gonna put together a remarkable career. And I'm 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.240 glad that this guy is a Cincinnati Bengal again. His 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.159 mind for the game of football, he's been blessed. I mean, 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.840 the football gods said Joe Burrow, you will be born 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.760 a football genius. And not only was he born a 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:36.480 football genius, his mentor was his dad, who coached for 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.800 a long played at a high level, coached at a 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.840 high level. I'm sure the conversations they had when Joe 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.640 Barrow was growing up about defenses. Joe Barrow could get 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.959 up and give you a lecture about defense and install 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.880 defenses just like he can install offenses. He not only 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.960 understands his offense, he knows exactly what defenses are trying 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.040 to do to take away his offense. This guy is 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.480 unquestionably a football savant. I don't think I see any 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.439 young quarterback that gets the game of football better than 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:10.400 Joe Barrow. This dude. Very rarely do you fool the guy. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:16.280 You know he's and he is always bitterly disappointed and 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.600 visibly upset when he's fooled. That's the only time I 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.320 see him show emotion. It's like I was fooled on that. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.080 You know. It's not that I didn't I didn't read 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.600 it the right way. It's not that my execution was 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.439 good enough. I can't be fooled. Nobody can fool me. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.960 That's just the way he approaches the game. And I'm 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.879 telling you, not just young quarterbacks. I think he's I 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:41.760 think he's as sharp as guys that have been in 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.280 the league ten years or longer. This dude gets the ball. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.080 Put it into perspective from an offensive lineman's viewpoint, how 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:53.840 extraordinary it is for Trey Hendrickson, competing against the best 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:55.960 in the world, to have at least a half a 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:01.000 sack in eleven consecutive games. I mean, everybody strive for consistency. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.359 That's a big word, you know, and it's one of 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.520 the biggest compliments that you can get. Besides, you know, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.680 when guys say, oh, man, you're he's great. That guy's great. 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.800 The next word that you want to hear. Man, that 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.600 player is so consistent. We can just rely on him, 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.280 count on him. He's reliable. He's so consistent. That is 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:25.240 what you want to hear. And that's that's a bigger 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.720 population of potential population of players in the National Football League. 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.040 And Hendrickson has unique talents which make him, you know, 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.240 an upper cruss player, and he's so consistent with him. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.280 I mean, we were talking during the broadcast that you know, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.879 it's like sack here, sack and a half here, or 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.960 a half a sack there. It was never when Corey 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:51.080 Bacon had his great season, he had a five stack game. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.920 He had a guy that couldn't handle him, and they 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.320 weren't at the point yet were sliding protections, chipping, you know, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:21:59.800 putting a tight end over there. I mean, it was 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:01.280 just like, you know, you gotta go block him, you 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:05.320 gotta get it done. And football's evolved, so you're not 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:09.080 gonna you're not gonna see necessarily a situation like they're 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.160 not gonna let a guy get a five stack game, 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:13.679 and for him to get one or at least a 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:18.720 half a one for eleven straight football games is remarkable 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:20.600 on me. If you can get one next week against 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:24.920 Kansas City and tie the freak. I mean, at least 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.360 a half a sack in twelve games. I think it's 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:31.360 now he's got a sack in thirteen of his last 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.520 fifteen games. That's that's half a sack. At least a 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:37.919 half a sack in thirteen of his last fifteen games. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:43.000 You cannot define consistency any better than that. So let's 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.520 set the stage now, two games to go, a one 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:49.200 game lead in the division over Baltimore. At least Pittsburgh 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.760 still to come as we record this conversation, but the 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.239 Bengals essentially have put themselves in the position where if 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.720 they win one more game and it doesn't really matter 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.840 all that much whether it's Kansas City or Cleveland, they 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:06.840 are in the playoffs. And honestly, I'd like to see 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.359