WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Haven't Got Time For The Pain 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.400 the Bengals Booths podcast. The Haven't Got Time for the 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.880 pain addition, as the Bengals suffered their first loss of 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.840 the season in Chicago and look to bounce back quickly 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:23.560 against the dreaded, hated, but always respected Pittsburgh Steelers. Coming up, 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.840 you'll hear radio replay from Sunday's game, postgame comments from 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.600 players and coaches, and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lappo. Then, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.080 in this week's fun facts segment, chitubay A Wouge tells 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.440 us the all time worst mispronunciation of his name. It 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.600 is guaranteed to make you chuckle. 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It's basically 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.680 an hour of gut busting laughter as Mike and lap 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.480 share stories from the remarkable football lives. This week's topics 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:34.160 included NFL games played years ago at Wrigley Field, Paul 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.600 Brown ripping a young Lap in front of the rest 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.440 of the team, former Bengals who comically struggled to deal 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.480 with crowd, noise and laps days as a fourteen year 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.520 old moving company lugger. Trust me, I wish I could 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.880 record these breakfasts because it would make a great podcast. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.600 Now let's get to Sunday's game. Chicago Bears fans have 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.240 been clamoring for the team to yank Andy Dalton and 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.920 make rookie Justin Fields they're starting quarterback. In fact, the 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.960 talk all week in Chicago was that Dalton would be 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.280 loudly booed as soon as he made a mistake. The 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.440 headline in the Chicago Sun Times on Sunday read as follows, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.720 Dalton can't afford a dud on the Bears opening drive 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.359 Dalton was more stud than dud and he has the ball, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.480 he's packed to throw his pass pot for a touchdown 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.240 five Allen Robinson. Quite a start for Andy Dalton and 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.560 the Bears as they marched seventy five yards to score. Well, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.240 I'll tell you that was a dart right there. I mean, 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.000 he put the ball right where he needed to. And 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.640 the crowd right now in full support of Andy Dalton, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.000 how can you not be? Dalton got some help on 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.160 the opening drive, a thirty two yard pass interference penalty 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.400 on Eli Apple when it was third and twelve. Here's 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.160 linebacker Logan Wilson on the bengals lousy start on defense. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.200 They just made some place. You know, I think that's 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.880 just just the nature of this team. It's you're always 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.959 going to be faced adversity. And you know, they scored 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.160 and that's that's not the way we wanted to start. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.280 But you know, we rebounded, and I think that that's 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.040 the most important thing. The Bengals did not allow another 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.000 offensive touchdown, partly because they knocked Dalton out of the game. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.000 Second and eleven, Dalton back to throw, and he has 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.400 sacked back at the forty five yard line, a tremendous 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.720 pass rush by DJ Reader, who DJ won quickly and 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.280 Andy Dalton gets up limping. Dalton hurt his knee and 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.320 while it didn't appear to be too severe, he was 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.200 done for the day with five and a half minutes 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.080 left in the half. Alas, the red rifle wasn't the 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.400 only quarterback getting hit. Burrow clapping his hands on third 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.960 and ten, he catches the shotgun snap under pressure and sacked. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.360 Paris ran a little twist up front and Robert Quinn 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.160 comes up with his eighty third and a half NFL 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.720 sacked After getting sacked five times in Week one, Burrow 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.920 was sacked four times and hit nine times in Shook. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:05.280 You live really good players up front, Hickson, Mack and 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.440 then Robert Quinn and Nichols because are big guys that 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.520 they're playing really sound. They got some really good players 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:18.440 up front, and you know they're making plays. I gotta 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.880 give credit to them. It was seven nothing Chicago at 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.240 the half. The Bengals got the ball to begin the 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.520 third quarter, received a gift when Robert Quinn shoved Burrow 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.880 when he was clearly out of bounds for a fifteen 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.840 yard penalty and quickly got on the scoreboard on Evan 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.920 McPherson's second fifty three yard field goal in as many weeks. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.320 To snap, the put down the spot, the kick on 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.160 its way, the distance not a problem, and the kick 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.240 is good. That made it seven three, And moments later 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:50.200 the Bengals defense almost took the ball away from Fields 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.560 and he's straight back to throw. The Bengals send five, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.120 Fields loses, the football gets on the ground. The Bengals 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.080 were all to scoop it up. Logan Wilson went for 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.479 the scoop and s but didn't pick up the ball 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.920 and Fields falls on it at the thirty two. It's 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.120 still a seventeen yard loss and the Bears will have 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:12.000 to put could have been a defensive score, but you 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.960 know coaches will say fall on the football. Here's Wilson 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.279 on his attempted fumble recovery. At the time when I 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.200 saw the ball, there wasn't anyone around it, which is 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.520 usually for us that signifies an opportunity to try to 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.400 scoop and score. Had there been people around it, that's 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.960 when you kind of want to dive on it. I 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.520 wouldn't say it was necessarily like obviously you want to 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.000 score on defense as much as we can. But at 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.200 the end of the day, if I was able to 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:35.760 just get the ball back to our offense, that'd have 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.919 been the most important. And while the Bengals failed to 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.800 recover the Bears fumble, Chicago did not have the same problem. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.000 Burrow back to throw his pass over of the middle, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.920 caught at the fifty by two bumbles the football. The 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.240 Bears come away with it and running it back his 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.760 Houston Carson. He's to the Cincinnati forty and he gets 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.960 pulled down Bear. That turnover led to a Chicago field goal, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.120 and early in the fourth quarter the Bears were up 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.440 ten three. The Bengals quickly drove to midfield and a 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.520 twenty two yard pass to Tyler Boyd, but ran into 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.680 trouble when Burrow tried to find Boyd over the middle again, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.800 Hopkins fires the snap back Burrow under pressure, he throws intercepted. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.640 The Bears have it at midfield, running it back to 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.960 the forty, now down the sideline to the thirty, the twenty, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.000 the ten and into the end zone for the score. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:28.040 Roe Kuan Smith intercepting burrows pass at midfield and running 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.400 it in for a defensive touchdown. Just a great read 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.080 by roe Kuan Smith. That was burrows first interception in 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.000 five games going back to last year and the first 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.760 pick six of his NFL career. He made a really 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.960 good play. Intel. It's he studied that play before and 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.080 he's seen it, and he pushed really really fast, and 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.880 he's been a really good play. Rokuan Smith's fifty three 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.440 yard pick six made it seventeen to three and ended 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.880 burrows streak of two hundred consecutive passes without an interception. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.120 It also started a very different streak. Burrow fakes to 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.960 mix and throws it toward the left sideline, intercepted again 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.480 as the Bears pick it off at the Cincinnati thirty 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.680 seven Jalen Johnson jumping the route and coming up with 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.840 another takeaway for the Bears defense. Burrow stomps the right foot, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.040 extends the hands, catches the snap, looks to throw his 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:27.480 pass batted, intercepted again Holloway Mackerel right into the hands 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.840 of Angelo Blackson as it was batted out of burrows hands. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:37.720 Interception number three in a row for Chicago, and he 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.360 has tackled at the nine yard line. Burrow not only 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.640 through multiple interceptions for the first time in an NFL game, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.240 three passing attempts in a row were picked off. The 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.200 last one led to a field goal that gave the 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.840 Bears a twenty to three lead with six forty to go. No, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.440 that's just me trying to force the ball, trying to 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.600 get something going. You want a lessen today that you know, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.400 when your defense is playing as good as they are, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.160 you don't have to force those balls. You can kind 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.040 of just let the game come to you. They're playing 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.520 really sound. They got some really good players up front, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.400 and you know they're making plays. Yeah, gotta give credit 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.120 to them. At that point, the Bengals appeared to be toast, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.120 but Burrow is not about to go down without a fight. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.360 Bengals have five receivers spread out. Burrow's gonna fling it 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.000 high and deep for Chase. He's got to step on 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.239 his defender again. Catches at the ten, Two defenders go down, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.360 and Chase runs it into the end zone for a 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.480 forty two yard Bengals touchdown. How about that two games 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:37.320 in the NFL too long touchdown catches for Jamar Chase. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.679 That's my expectation. I'm playing on scoring every game. I'll 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.600 play on every time I touched the ball and make 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.240 a big plane. I'm saying, that's that's my objective. Dest 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.400 Burrow through thirty passes in the game and only three 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.480 were deep balls. It allowed the Bears defensive backs to 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.800 sit on the shorter routes, and Joe and Jamar agree 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.240 that throwing deep has to be a bigger part of 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.440 the Bengals game plan. You gotta throw the ball their head, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.280 and you know, at least make them. I feel like 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.240 you you're gonna be able to do that and call 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.320 some plays that they go over their head. He needed 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.080 two last minutes to take shots. You know what I'm saying. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.199 You knew what they was sitting the whole game, and 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.360 I was telling Joe t knew, So you know what 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.320 I'm saying, We just got a capitalize on the stuff 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.760 we see. Early in the game, the long touchdown passed 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.240 to Chase made it twenty to ten and gave the 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.520 Bengals a glimmer of hope with four thirty nine to go. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.760 One minute later, it was more than a glimmer. He 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.760 feels back to throw. Here comes a blitz. His pass 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:37.240 intercepted began Wilson running the ten. He gets tackled at 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.200 the nine, and the Bengals have it first in goal 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.480 at the nine after an interception by Logan will Said 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.600 Burrow in the gun mix into his right, Burrow has it, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.400 He drops back to throw, he passes it is taught touchdown. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.839 Bengals t Higgins right at the goal line, using that 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.360 big frame to box out a defender, and the Bengals 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.040 have pulled within four, pending the with three thirty nine 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.040 to go. How about that after throwing picks on three 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.800 straight passes, Burrow through touchdown passes on his next two 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.160 to make it a three point game with three thirty 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.200 nine left. If the Bengals could get the ball back, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.800 they wouldn't need to drive very far to give mcfierson 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.400 a chance to force overtime. But Justin Field saved the 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.520 game for Chicago with his legs escaping a tackle attempt 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.640 by Trey Hendrickson and running for a ten yard gain 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.839 on third and nine. The Bears ran out the clock 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.680 from there to win the game twenty to seventeen. Here 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.319 are Zach Taylor and Logan Wilson. It's a seventeen game season. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.040 We just lost a tough game on the road. We 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.559 lost the tourna got killed in the turn of o 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.040 battle and just the margin frayer in this league is 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.200 razor thin. You know, I don't think anyone can question 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.280 the heart on this team. Shoot, we were down twenty 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.160 to three and we came back and gave us all 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.920 the chance. Obviously we didn't get a win, but there's 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:58.480 no question we have hard on this team. We just 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.120 got to clean some things up offense, defense and special teams, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.040 and which I know we will. And we got a 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.280 big challenge next week at Pittsburgh. So we're gonna watch 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:08.840 the film in tomorrow. I learned from it and move on. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.480 The Bengals held the Bears to a meager two hundred 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.440 and six yards and just one offensive touchdown. Perhaps Chicago 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.079 fans should be careful what they wished for. Fields had 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.480 a passer rating of twenty seven point seven. Dalton's was 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.000 one eighteen point two, but the difference in the game 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.640 was obviously turnovers. The Bengals committed four and forced one. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.400 As a result, the record is one and one. Now 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.640 time for postgame analysis with lap lab. Let's start with 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.480 pass protection. Four more sacks today, nine quarterback hits. I 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.480 know you haven't looked back at tape yet. But it 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.679 does it feel to you like guys are getting beaten 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.120 one on one or that they are making mistakes in 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.560 communication leading to guys having the ability to get to 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.840 Joe Burrow. Yeah, I mean there were a couple of 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.160 a couple of twists, a little te stunts that they 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.360 didn't pick up well enough, but overall, I mean those 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.360 were an issue. But overall I thought the push was 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.360 way too much on a regular basis. I mean, at 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.120 some point you have to stand and and form the 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.760 depth of the pocket, and Joe Burrow just didn't have 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.160 any kind of a pocket that he felt comfortable, you know, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.840 manipulating stepping up and moving up into um and you know, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.880 it's it's it's not a it's not a good feeling 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.120 for him. He's just doesn't look comfortable out there. And 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.880 the vision becomes an issue, the interception you don't see people. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:37.760 I mean, when the when the push is in the 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.120 quarterback's face and he doesn't have vision down the field, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.880 the vision's obstructed. You know, same thing happened to fields 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.760 he didn't see Wilson. So the pressure doesn't necessarily always 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.360 have to be a sack. It might speed up the 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:58.000 the read process of a quarterback causing incompletion. It may 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.280 make him throw the ball where he thinks he's gonna 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.440 be fine and he's not because he can't see the 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.000 field well enough, like on those interceptions. So until the 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.920 late touchdown pass to Jamar Chase, there's a lot of 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.199 dinking and dunking going on by the Bengals. It was 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.360 kind of similar to what we saw and watching the 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.800 Bears game last week against the Rams, particularly when they 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.040 go to these empty backfields with five receiving targets, you 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.000 pretty much know that it's going to be a short 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.839 throw to the first person that Joe thinks is open. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.280 And Jamar Chase was kind of critical of it after 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.520 the game, saying that the Bengals should have tried for 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.680 some more deep shots earlier in the game. Is that 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.080 just a matter of the coaching staff fearing that if 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.719 they have Joe try to throw deep, they're exposing him 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.600 to more hits. Yeah, I think that's probably part of it, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.120 you know, And I think that you know, they saw that, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.280 you know. On the reverse part of it, Andy Dalton 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:55.319 was fairly effective with that type of an offensive mindset 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.480 against the Rams, who have a good pass rush, and 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.240 he took care of the football pretty well and dingked 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.439 and dunked. No big plays down the football field, but 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.200 they moved the ball, they possessed the football, they had 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.480 nineteen more snaps, had the ball for a good amount 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.720 of time, longer, and all those things that can help 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.040 you win a football game. But I guess going into it, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.640 the coach has probably had their fear of pressure. That 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.560 was going to be an issue to deal with, and 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.480 that was the game plan that they felt they needed 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.760 to come up with. And you know, I appreciate Chase's criticism, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.920 but block somebody on fourth down. You got to drive 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.680 stand alive there too, So you better watch out when 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.920 you point fingers, there's three pointing right back at you. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.360 So make sure that you take care of all your 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.640 business before you start calling other people out. To his credit, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.760 he did acknowledge that he did not do a very 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.000 good job in the blocking game, so at least he 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.440 owned up to it. Let's talk about the defense. They 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.640 gave up a seventy five yard touchdown drive to begin 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.960 the game. After that, they were fantastic to keep the 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.520 Bengals alive. That was the only touchdown they gave up, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.480 and despite being put in bad positions numerous times because 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.480 of three interceptions at a fumble, they kept the Bengals 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.040 in the game. It really did. I mean, when you 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.400 give up less than turn in ten yards offense in 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:16.720 today's National Football League, and you have three opportunities in 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.480 the red zone, you give up a touchdown on one 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.240 of them. They only scored touchdown thirty three percent of 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.960 the time. You know, another time, one of the interception 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.000 was taken back for a pick six. Other interception went 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.840 to the nine yard line and they held that to 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.520 a field goal. So inside the ten yard line, the 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.320 deep red zone, they were outstanding on that drive. They 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:40.160 played well enough to win. I mean literally, you only 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.560 hang ten points on them, basically. You know, of the 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.000 twenty points that were scored ones a pick six and 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.720 a return inside the ten yard line, well heck, if 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.320 you don't take the football away on a turnover, you're 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.520 gonna give up a field goal in today's league. So 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.440 they played well those kind of those kind of numbers 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.120 and they lose a football game. That just tells you 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.160 that there was no complimentary football played today. The defense 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.720 played well enough to win. Special teams didn't. An offense 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.960 sure didn't. Yeah, special teams. I'm glad you brought that 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.480 up because McPherson crushed another fifty three yard field goal 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.040 that was great. But Brandon Wilson had a couple of 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.120 mistakes and the kick return game and early in the game, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.120 and the Bengals repeatedly had terrible field position. He was 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.400 responsible for a couple of them. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.080 you put you put yourself on a long field in 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.840 a noisy stadium, a home opener against the defensive football 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.800 team that has some talent. I mean, they've got some 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.760 players you're asking for trouble, and that's exactly what they got, 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.600 you know. It's it's just it's an unfortunate situation that 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.360 the defense, playing as well as they played, didn't come 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.440 away with a w. Because, you know, playing like that 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:58.000 on the road, I think is bodes well. Again, though, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.000 I think that Andy Dalton going out of the football 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.080 game when he did it was a big factor because 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.640 he was hot and he was playing well, and that 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.800 first drive they had, I mean, he just he ripped 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.000 him down the football field and fields has got a 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.840 package that they're getting him ready for on a weekly basis. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.840 But I don't think he feels totally comfortable with the 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.520 entire offense yet, and I think they were hamstrung with 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.800 some of their play calling and it showed up a 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.719 little bit. But you got to credit the defense. They 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.560 took advantage of it and they slammed the door. I 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.640 mean they suffocated him in the running game too. They 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.400 did a great job of Montgomery. The quarterbacks hurt him. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.960 Andy Dalton had a couple of scrambles for double digit 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.240 yards on scrambles and fields had you know, had a 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.359 big one on third and nine that they got him 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.600 a big first down when they just could not Hendrickson 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.760 could just not quite get there. So the quarterbacks were 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.159 the ones that did the most damage. I think on 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.640 just improvisational, you know, creating and extending the play as such. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.639 Hendrickson wasn't able to make that play, but in large 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.639 he was terrific. Again today that's looking like money well spent. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:09.720 I agree. I think he's he's prideful, he plays hard. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.679 There there's no doubt. I think he's a you know, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.359 he extends expends every ance of energy he's got on 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.280 a snap by snap basis, and it means it means 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.040 a lot to him. You know, he's um he only 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.320 started one year down there on New Orleans and had 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.800 a big year the year he started. And he relishes 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.480 the fact that he's a starting defensive end in the 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.480 National Football League. He appreciates it and it meets a 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.040 lot to him. And you can tell by the way 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:39.800 he plays. Jamar Chase hauls in a forty two yard 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.280 touchdown pass and in his first two NFL games a 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.840 fifty yard TV in a forty two yard TV. They 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.960 didn't go to him very much in the game in Chicago, 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.680 but based on the first two weeks, he's given them 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.720 the deep threat that was sorely missing. Yeah, he really has. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.080 And he did it two different ways. His verse one 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.480 was just to flat out a little stutter step and 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.399 just beat him deep with pure speed. This one, he 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.200 tracked the football and adjusted to the football. Safety never 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.560 found the football. Cornerback was playing outside technique, knew he 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.280 had inside help from the safety. Safety never found the ball, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.240 took a horrible angle. Jamar Chase tracked the ball perfectly, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.119 came underneath and adjusted around the safety, mated playing on 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.000 the football and took it at the house. So, yeah, 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.880 he's a He's a threat down the football field. There's 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.119 no two ways about that. Let's go back to the 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.640 O line for a second. Xavier Suafilo got a little 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.240 banged up early in the game. He was limping pretty 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.400 noticeably after one of the players, but he stayed in there. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.480 He gotted it out, to his credit, but it seemed 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.120 like a tough day for him. Again, without going back 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.520 and looking at the tape of the game, yet, do 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:50.280 you think that Jackson Carmen at some point relatively soon 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.960 might move into that right guard spot. You know, you 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.399 have to you have to weigh, all right, the veteran, experienced, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:02.440 the savvy, the knowledge not busting plays. How how much 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.960 more important is that than having a better physical potential 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.879 specimen in there at the guard position, particularly a suel 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.719 of Field is limping around because it's it's a tough situation. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.880 He knows what to do and how how to do it, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.640 just can't get there sometimes, you know, And so that 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.240 that's a little bit of an issue. But you know, 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.800 is Pittsburgh in playing the Steelers in Pittsburgh with that 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.560 defense and the things that they can do from a 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.720 multiplicity standpoint, in versatility standpoint, is that is that a 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:39.120 good situation to put Jackson Carmen in there and say, boy, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:40.960 I hope we don't have too many free runners, you know. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.240 I mean, that's that's kind of the risk that you 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.840 take there. But it's going to be interesting to monitor 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.040 because Suephilo, he was playing against a horse. Now Hicks 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.879 is a beast, flat out beast. And it was a 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.240 long day at the office for X. So it was 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.359 a road game where they were a slight underdog. They 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.160 wound up losing by three points. Gets it's not a shocker, 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.639 but with Andy Dalton going down at about five and 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:05.480 a half minutes to go in the half, that game 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.240 was there for the taking and they did not come 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.560 away with the win. Absolutely. And you know, we've seen 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.320 two weeks in a row. I've seen things I've never 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.959 seen before, and come to find out, you know, the 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.240 field goal at the end of regulation by one kicker 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.360 and then the other kicker winning the game and overtime 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.680 at the gun had never happened before. And I'd be 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.080 shocked if you have a quarterback that throws three straight 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.600 passes that are picked off and then comes back and 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.400 throws two straight passes that are touchdowns. I don't think 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.640