WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: What A Crying Shame 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.959 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The Oh Baby be Oh, what 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:17.200 a crying shame addition, as the Bengals lose on a 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.439 walk off field goal for the third time in the 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:24.440 first five weeks falling in Baltimore nineteen to seventeen. Coming up, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.840 you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.040 and analysis from a broadcast partner, Dave Lapham. Then, in 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.199 this week's fun fact segment, you'll get to know Bengals 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.400 tight end Mitch Wilcox. 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For example, when Justin Tucker kicked 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.720 a fifty eight yard field goal in the third quarter 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.720 to give the Ravens a three point lead, our Baltimore 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.880 based statistician Brett Pisell immediately handed me a piece of 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.760 paper pointing out that it was Tucker's seventy third consecutive 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.000 field goal in the second half or overtime without a miss, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:37.839 an amazing stat. At home games, our legendary statistician Ben 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:43.000 Jarvis brad Ellis is constantly feeding us interesting info. So 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.040 thank you to all the great stat guys that help 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.600 enrich our broadcasts. All that math they took in school 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.520 did pay off. Now let's get to radio replays from 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.559 Sunday night's game in Baltimore. We pick it up about 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.280 ninety seconds into the second quarter with the Ravens leading three. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.120 Nothing will be an empty backfield four, Lamar Jackson. He 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.519 drops back to throw, the pocket closes. Now he throws, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.720 caught by a wide open Mark Andrews, and he will 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.040 cruise into the end zone. Trey Flowers was nearby, but 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:20.000 Mark Andrews somehow got tremendous separation, caught the football and 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.119 ran it in for the eleven yard td Von Bell 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.640 and Trey Flowers are talking it over. How the hell 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.880 can you let Mark Andrews get that opened in the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.080 rid zone like that? Du Vernagos in motion. They fake 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.320 it to him on an end around. Jackson guns it 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:40.919 down field a high throw interceptives. Von Bell, who had 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.560 two interceptions last week, comes away with another interception tonight. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.200 Two receivers left, one out to the right. Burrow drops 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.680 back to throw, bouncing in the pocket, chucks in the middle, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.240 caught at the five by Hayden Hurst, driving twy MD 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:59.040 zone extends a ball gtober touchdown. Bengals a nineteen yard 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.200 strike Joe Burrow to Hayden Hurst, who comes back to 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.880 Baltimore and catches a touchdown pass. This is a forty 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.520 yard attempt from the left hash out of the hold 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.560 of Kevin Hubert. Rookie cow Adam Midas will snap it 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.560 back to snap the catch to put down. The kick 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.760 is up, It looks perfect and it is right down 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.720 the middle to tie the game at ten. With four 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.920 seconds left and the half. Burrows under center, turns left, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.919 fakes to mix and sets up to throw fires middle. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.120 Intercepted by Patrick Queen, his former college teammate and he 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.480 runs into the Cincinnati forty seven where he gets tackled. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.240 This is going to be a fifty eight yard attempt. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.920 Stout is the holder, the ball is down, the kick 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.280 is up, it has the distance, and it is good. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:55.160 G o at greatest of all time. Yep. And I'll 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.160 tell you what Stout did, what everybody was thinking. Just 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.240 bout to him, just bowed down to his greatness. The 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.000 Bengals lining up to go for it on fourth and 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.440 goal from the two, they trailed by three, empty backfield 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.880 for Joe Burrow. He catches the shotgun, snap, rolls left, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:19.200 shovel pass incomplete. Now they just shoveled it right into 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.200 the middle of the Baltimore Ravens defense and they were 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:26.599 ready for it there, man, that was That was a 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:31.320 tough sequence. Didn't even try to run the football first 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.559 and goal for two yard line, never tried a run play. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:41.240 One snap from twenty five yards away, Tuckers kick his up. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.680 It is good and Baltimore leads by six with ninety 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.360 two to go. Burrow under center, mixing behind him, Mitch 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.240 Wilcox goes in motion. Burrow runs a quarterback sneak. Wilcox 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.160 pushes from behind. Here come the officials charging in. No 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:02.480 signal yet, yere it is touch down night, Bengals. Burrows 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.920 spikes the ball in the back of the end zone. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.159 The Bengals have tied it and can take the lead 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.680 on an extra point. With one fifty three to go, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.200 Justin Tucker will try to win the game straight away. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.320 The ball's right in the middle of the field, a 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:21.240 forty three yard try. He normally makes these in his sleep, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.480 we'll see to win the game. With three seconds to go, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.799 Tucker is ready to snap to put down the kick. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:37.360 Baltimore wins absolutely perfect by Justin Tucker. The Bengals score 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.320 a touchdown with one fifty eight to go, but Lamar 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.440 Jackson answers, driving the ball to the Cincinnati twenty five 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.320 and setting up a forty three yard game winning field 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.000 goal for the best to ever do it, Justin Tucker. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.120 The Ravens are alone in first place. They have ended 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.479 their five game home losing stream, and they have defeated 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:04.080 the Bengals tonight by the final score of nineteen to seventeen. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.400 Before we get to postgame analysis, this podcast is brought 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.080 to you in part by Bengals Picks and Ultimate Bengals. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.000 They're free to play, with tickets and signed merchandise up 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.440 for grabs. Find both inside the Bengals app All right, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.279 let's get to the key sequence in the game that 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.039 everybody is going to be talking about. Trailing by three 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.040 with about three minutes to go in the third quarter, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.159 the Bengals passed up an easy field goal that would 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.679 have tied the game and went for it on fourth 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.919 and goal from the two, a shovel pass to Stanley 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.080 Morgan failed. Here are Joe Burrow and Zach Taylor on 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.640 the decision to go for it. Yeah, I think you 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.360 have too right there. You know, if you get seven 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.440 points and really changes the game, So I think you 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.479 have too. We felt good from the two. Maybe maybe 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.920 any further we would have just kicking it there, but 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.560 you know, we felt comfortable with what we had called there. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.920 Obviously didn't work out. So and I'm not gonna say 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.760 in hindsight you do it differently. Obviously we see that 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.800 that point didn't work, and so you'd run a different play. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.320 But the way that we managed the situation, I thought 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.440 we'd go up seventeen to thirteen right there. Then our 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.080 defense is playing really good keeping them out of the 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.640 end zone aside from the one that they had, and 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.920 we found a way to go win. Then there are 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.600 the play calls on first and goal from the two, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.960 the Bengals through an incomplete pass for Hayden Hurst. On 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:27.040 second down, they tried the Philly special where Tyler Boyd 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.560 took a pitch on a reverse and was going to 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.160 throw the ball to Joe Burrow but got tackled for 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.720 a twelve yard loss. A pass to Jamar Chase got 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.160 those twelve yards back before the failed shovel pass on 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:44.120 fourth down ended the drive. So why no running plays 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.440 from the two yard line? It's a tough front. I 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.360 mean it's it's a really tough structure of the front. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.720 So we felt good about some of the stuff we 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.560 obviously didn't work. We took a sack on a specialty 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.000 play and then just didn't quite get out how we 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.320 wanted to on the shovel there on the fourth town play. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.560 But I felt comfortable with our package going in to 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.760 just hopesuly. When it doesn't work, it's you wish you 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.240 were to done something dif Admittedly, hindsight is twenty twenty, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.960 but Joe Mixon carried fourteen times for seventy eight yards. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.880 That's five point six yards per carry. He was asked 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.960 after the game about not getting the ball that close 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.160 to the goal line. I mean, whatever, it's cart, that's 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.760 on him. I mean, I'm just playing the cars as dolt, 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.920 doing my job, and everybody else is, you know, come 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.360 through to execute. Did you think your success today we'll 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.360 kind of help prove them that you guys should try 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.880 test those fronts a little more. Maybe, I don't know. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.079 I mean, like I said, our players, we're doing everything 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.720 and playing auto cars as dolt to us, and we 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.079 just gotta keep on digging in getting better, and we're 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.160 gonna hopefully get better and delivered the good news. The 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.199 running game was better. The Bengals ran for one hundred 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.760 and one yards and averaged four point eight yards per carry. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.760 The bad news is that Cincinnati is two in three. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.040 Here are final thoughts from Zach Taylor, Joe Burrow, and 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.319 Joe Mixon. It's just frustrating to lose. Um, it doesn't 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.360 matter how it shakes out. You know, there's games that 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.280 the offense may score a lot of points and we 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.560 need to pick the defense up and vice versa. And 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:15.920 um again, we knew this is a tough team. It's 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:17.800 a tough environment. It's gonna be a tough, tough test. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.000 Come in here and get a win. We were close, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.320 but but not close enough. And and we just have 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:23.760 to learn from the things that each guy can do 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:25.920 a little bit better, that I can do better, and 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.400 and be able to rebound next week. Tough loss, it's frustrating, 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.720 but uh, there's still a lot of football to be played, 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.439 so we're not We're not going to panic. Obviously, I 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.840 want to tune. The division is not ideal, but like 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.960 I said, a lot of football to be played. Still 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.240 going on a running here before the buy and still 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.440 got everything in front of us. Man, it's the NFL. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.200 It's hard to win up here. And um, you know, 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.280 that's a hell of a team that we play, and 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.040 we're a hell of a team as well. We're gonna 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.000 get better. We just got to keep on building, coming 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.959 to work and having an attitude that we got to 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.520 attack the week, get better and you know, keep on playing. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.360 It's a long season. We got everything that we want 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.280 ahead of us. We let one slip tonight, but who's 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.760 gonna keep on building getting better? Looking back, the Bengals 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.200 lost to the Steelers by missing an extra point at 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.120 the end of regulation, had a field goal and overtime. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.040 They rallied to tie the Cowboys in the fourth quarter 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.240 and got the ball with two thirteen to go, but 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.280 the offense went three and out and Dallas beat them 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.679 with a fifty yard field goal. Now a similar heartbreaker 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.280 in Baltimore. I talked to Jesse Bates about it after 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.439 the game. I'm sure it's got to be frustrating. All 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.440 three losses have been on a game ending field goal. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:41.719 It's about as close as it can possibly be, right, Yeah, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.400 that's just how this league is. You know, the margin 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.440 of air is really small. Usually these games come down to, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.160 you know, the last second, situational a type of plays, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.800 and you know, we're just on another side of tonight 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.720 on the final drive. Knowing that they have Justin Tucker. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.760 His range is now literally the greatest in NFL history. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.360 Does that impact how you try to defend that? Yeah? Um, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.240 you know, we had a conversation before we went on 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.120 the field that all they needed was twenty to thirty yards, um, 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.920 due to the kicker that they had, So um, you know, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.520 they got more than thirty yards. So something that we 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.800 gotta uh you know, discussed as a defense. Uh. There's 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.080 a couple of times, you know, these two losses two 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.080 or the three losses, I think UM has came down to, um, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.480 you know, the defense being on the field last second. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.800 So we gotta find a way to just you know, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.680 get off the field. UM. You know, I know it's 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.679 it's tough. It's hard in this league with these you know, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.720 great athletes. You know, you got Lamar who, um who 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.040 kept the ball a couple of times, so it's kind 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.319 of hard to do that. Um, you know when you 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.920 got to cover on the back end as well. So, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.319 like I said, it's we're doing a lot of good things. Um. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.400 Unfortunately our records two and three, we got a lot 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.760 of football to play. Um, there's a lot of still 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.719 a lot of belief in this locker room. Can you 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.760 describe how difficult it is to tackle Lamar? I mean 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.120 you've got him sized up, the fundamentals are good, and 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.480 he just wiggles and slip and slippery and it's just 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.280 hard to get him down. Yeah. I think we did 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.079 a really good job with you know, keeping them bottled 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.880 in UM compared to other years. But yeah, I mean 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.240 he's you know, one of the you know, the best 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.360 athletes that this NFL league has ever seen. And for 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.199 him to be the quarterback and be able to touch 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.839 the ball every single play, I think, um just I 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.079 mean he can't can't do much about it sometimes. But uh, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.920 like I said early in the season, um excited for 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.319 whatever the twelve ten weeks, whatever we got left. We 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.640 will take it one week at a time. And um 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.360 get this thame rolling. No, you guys have put a 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.360 lot of attention on Mark Andrews and he was able 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.480 to get open on that the one touchdown catch. Just 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.360 a good player making a play or a little miscommunication 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.880 there or what happened, you know, think of a little 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:06.720 bit of miscommunication a little bit on third Now. I mean, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.800 he's a good player. You know. We can't can't leave 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.199 one of the best players wide open in that type 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.679 of situation. But other than that, like I said, I 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.720 think we settled down and I think we've given up 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.199 three touchdowns down on the season. So we got to 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.360 continue to do that, continue to limit on the ears. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.040 Appreciate your time, Thank you jesting us so appreciate. Before 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.319 we get to analysis from Dave Lapham, here's a quick 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.920 reminder that the Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Kettering Health, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.440 the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. With more than 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.880 one hundred twenty care facilities and fifteen hundred care providers. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.800 Kettering Health is committed to guiding you to your best health. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.640 Visit Kettering health dot org to learn more. Now, time 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.520 for the radio guys recap lap. The Bengals are two 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.719 and three, all three losses on field goals at the 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.680 gun Chris Boswell fifty three yards in the first loss, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.320 bred Maher fifty yards and the second loss Justin Tucker 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.280 forty three yards in this loss. Those games, it's been 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:13.319 like instant replay, slow start, fight back, wind up, alazing, absolutely. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.400 I mean slow start is you know, the real big 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.680 common denominator, you know in my mind, although you know 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.240 in this one it boiled down to you know, the 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:27.840 the fifteen play, seventy three yard drive, eight minutes plus 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.520 off the clock and get no points. I mean that 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:35.520 was crushing. And you know, first and goal to two 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.560 yard line, you gotta you gotta figure out a way 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.280 to score a touchdown. And that because there weren't many 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:46.800 touchdowns being scored, each team was deficient in that regard obviously, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.720 So when you had a chance to get one, you 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.040 had to get it, and they didn't. First and goal 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.560 from the two, first pass incomplete, first play, incomplete pass 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.680 for Hayden Hurst, Philly Special loses thirteen. They get thirteen 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.760 back back on a pass to Jamar Chase, and then 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.680 the shovel passed to Stanley Morgan doesn't work. You made 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.400 it clear on the broadcast you would have liked to 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.600 have seen at least a run during that sequence. I mean, 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.920 I would have loved to have seen them just get 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.840 up under center and run the football. On the game, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.920 they average four point to carry on twenty one attempts. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.440 Joe Mixon average five point six. P Ryan average five 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.280 point seven. I mean, between the two of them, they 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:33.320 had seventeen rushes for ninety five yards. I would have 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.920 liked to have seen at least one time handed off 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.640 to one of them, see if you can smash it 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.600 in there from the two yard lines some way, shape 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:45.520 or form. But you know, the Philly Special Baltimore was 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.280 all over that they weren't fooled whatsoever by that one, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.080 And in hindsight, if it could have been just thrown 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.840 away and saved those yards that would that would have 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.760 worked out well as well. But that's life in this division, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:02.040 there's no doubt. And the number of possessions was kind 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.280 of kind of intriguing too. I mean, in the second half, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.000 the Bengals had three possessions in the second half in 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.880 Baltimore had four. I mean, you know, you were going 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.000 on long drive after long drive. The Bengals had a 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.760 fifteen and a thirteen play drive. The Ravens had a 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.600 fifteen play drive themselves, and then a seven play forty 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.680 five yard drive for the field goal. Once teams got 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.640 the ball in the second half, they weren't giving it up. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.800 It was crazy. What changed in the running game? Why 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.080 did it work so much better after the first four series. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.240 I think, you know, just going north and south a 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:42.960 little bit more gap blocking, looks, pulling lineman for traps 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.560 and that sort of thing instead of right right now, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.320 the stretch running games not not operating in a very 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.920 good efficiency. So you know, make the adjustment and you 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.640 go to gap blocking, and you know, pin and pull 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.120 if you want to try to get to the outside 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.600 instead of stretch. And I think with Pete, Ron and 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.960 Nixon are shown that they're you know, they're pretty good, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.399 squaring their pads up and shoulder pads up and going 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.639 north and south a little bit. Defense held Baltimore to 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.200 nineteen points at home. You can't ask for really anything 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.440 more than that, Ken you I mean, I don't. I thought. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.800 I thought they played decent football from start to finish. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.160 I really did, you know. I mean, that's Baltimore's lower 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.720 scoring game of the season, and it's here at home. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:30.160 But just obviously, you know, when the only tally seventeen, yourself, 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.320 it's not it's not quite good enough. Too bad it 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.840 came down, but it just could have been one more 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.840 playmate on that last drive, you know, to put put 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.840 iceing on the cake and come come out of it 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.800 with a one point victory. It would have been great, 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.000 but not meant to be. Jesse Bates expressed frustration over 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.959 the fact that he feels two times now the defense 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.680 had the chance to close out a game Dallas and 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.120 this game and couldn't get it done. Yeah, I mean, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.560 you know that that's the sign of a guy that's 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.480 not going to point fingers and blame anybody but himself. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.440 You know, in the in the side of the football 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.600 that he plays on it and that's you know, that's 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.200 that's Jesse Bates. That's a class act, you know, in 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.600 every sense of the word. Um. But in games like this, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.520 you can you can point to so many things that 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.000 did come down to that. And you did have a 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.159 lead and I couldn't couldn't hold on to it, but 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.760 boy could have had a lot bigger lead. There's no 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.840 question about that. They're back to being a game out 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.080 of first place in the FC North. I guess the 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.399 good news is Baltimore is the only team with a 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.760 winning record right now. Yeah, I mean, and obviously you've 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.080 shown that you can you can certainly play with them. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:41.399 The tough thing is though you're owing two in the 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.240 division with a two and three mark, that's not that's 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.040 not an ideal situation because that becomes a very significant 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.360 tiebreaker if it comes down to that. So you want 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.560 to get that. You want to get a division win 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.120 as quickly as you possibly can. At this point, that's 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.919 some sleep you do the same. Bengals head to New 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.600 Orleans to face the two and three Saints on Sunday. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.440 Andy Dalton has started the saints last two games at quarterback, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.359 while Jamis Winston deals with a sore back. The Bengals 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.200 Booth podcast is brought to you by pay Corps. More 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:20.320 than twenty nine thousand customers trust Paycorps to help them recruit, pay, engage, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:26.040 and retain employees. Learn more at paycorp dot com. Finally, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.960 time for this week's fun Facts interview, where you get 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.920 to know the person under the pads. Time for some 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.920 fun facts at Bengals tight End. Mitch Wilcox from Tarpan Springs, Florida, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.879 not far from Tampa. So you're born and raised in 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.880 the Sunshine State. But are you really an Ohio State 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:44.960 fan or were you an Ohio State fan growing up? 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.640 Growing up? I was, Yeah, my dad went to Ohio State, 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.080 and you know, my whole family is from Ohio originally, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.320 so I grew up being a Buckeye. But my mom 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.840 went to Florida State, so you know, Florida sports and 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.280 rooting for them too. But I was brainwashed up guy, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.560 for sure. So I'm sure while you were playing at USF, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.680 your dad rooted for the Bulls, But now that you're 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.320 in the NFL, he's he gone back to being a 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.800 Buckeyes guy. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's still roots for 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.160 the Bulls, but you know his heart lies with Ohio State. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.520 We're talking to Mitch Wilcox. You attended Tarpan Springs High School, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.680 which has one of the most unusual team nicknames I 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:27.480 have ever heard, the Spongers. The Spongers explain the Spongers. 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:34.720 So Tarpan Springs has a very um, a huge Greek population, 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:39.760 and the spongers are the sponge divers that die for 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.440 the sponges, you know, and they've they've made a you know, 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.879 a touristy, you know, attraction to go see that. And 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.520 at one point, I think it was the sponge capital 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.640 of the world. So that kind of just morphed into 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.600 the Spongers, and you know, at one point it got 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.879 like voted best mascot or something a while back. But 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.920 so people will call us the sponges. It's not quite 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.840 the Sponges the spongers. So I'll get it right. The 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.719 Spongers is the mascot, a giant sponge. The sponge divers. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.159 We got a dive helmet and a spear gun. So 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:17.920 there we go. All right, we're doing fun facts with 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.119 Mitch Wilcox. I read that when you were young, you 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.480 slept with a basketball Is that literally the case? I 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.040 literally slept with a football and a basketball. I had 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.200 like one in each arm, you know, just in case 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.359 a pickup game or a game broke out. So worked 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.360 out well for you. As I mentioned, you went to USF, 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:40.679 the University of South Florida, which is there in Tampa. 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:42.960 Did you want to stay close to home? Was that 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.760 the key? Yeah? I think the the goal from early 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:48.800 on was to stay close to home so my family 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:52.160 and friends could come see me play. And the goal 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:56.359 was to play early and often as well. USF was 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.680 really good while you were there, and you set all 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.160 of the tight end records, hundred catches in your career, 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.440 eleven touchdown catches too, against the University of Cincinnati. I 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.440 saw those. What was the highlight of your USF experience 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.200 on and off the field, I would say, just, you know, 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.679 writing our own history as a team, you know, first 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.760