WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Let It Go 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.359 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.080 The Bengals Booth Podcast the let It Go, Let It 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.600 Go Audition. As the Bengals open the season with a 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.280 twenty three to twenty overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.120 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments from players 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.680 and coaches, and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.319 in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll hear from a 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.240 Bengals rookie who grew up in a town a fewer 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.720 than thirty people and started on Sunday in front of 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.519 more than sixty five thousand. The Bengals Booth Podcast is 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.720 presented by All to Fiber future Proof Fiber Internet. Elevate 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.680 your connection with All to Fiber by Kettering Health, the 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.880 official healthcare provider of the Bengals, by Bengals Picks and 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.080 Ultimate Bengals Free to Play with tickets and sign merchandise 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:03.480 up for Grabs and pay Corps, the official HR software 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.880 provider of the Bengals. And here's a quick reminder that 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.960 you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.000 right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing wherever 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.200 you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since Bob 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.760 Huggins being enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame. I 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.960 suspect that one day in the future, hopefully the very 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.520 distant future, there will be an asterisk on my tombstone. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.600 It will list the year of my passing, and then 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.000 after that asterisk there will be a line explaining how 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.720 I would have lived five years longer if not for 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.600 my friendship with Coach Huggins. When Huggs was at Cincinnati, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.440 there were many late nights after games and practices spent 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.040 with him, our mutual friend Chuck Mayshock, and others where 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.360 we would have a few beers, swap stories and laugh hysterically. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.640 Huggs is truly one of the great storytellers of all time, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.920 right up there with Dave Lapham, and despite being sleep deprived, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.800 it was a joy to be in his company. His 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:13.040 basketball resume speaks for itself. Nine hundred sixteen wins and counting. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.720 That's fourth most among Division One coaches, two trips to 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.799 the Final four, and hundreds of former players who speak 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.960 of him with love and reverence. You won't find a 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.280 more loyal friend, and I'm thrilled that he is officially 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:32.320 Hall of Famer Bob Huggins. Now, let's get to Sunday's 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.920 season opener. The Bengals addressed their biggest weakness in the 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:40.480 off season by signing three free agent offensive linemen, but 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.720 the Bengals first offensive play of the season resulted in 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.400 a sack by five time Pro bowler Cameron Hayward. The 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.400 Bengals second offensive play was even worse. Burrow and the 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.080 gun mixing to his left. Joe is ready ted Karas 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.640 snaps it back. Burrow back to throw fires toward the 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.440 thirty where its inner set did. The Steelers are going 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.799 to run it back for a touchdown. Joe Burrow hit 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.920 after making the throw. There's a penalty flag down in 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.160 the backfield. Mink the Fitzpatrick with a pick six. If 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.079 it stands it did as the officials picked up the flag. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.000 Pittsburgh led seven nothing less than two and a half 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:25.240 minutes into the game. The Bengals second drive was much better. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.480 They marched to the Steelers thirty four, but a seven 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.440 yard sack knocked them out of field goal range. Whoops, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.240 I forgot that the Bengals have a sydeboord kicker. With 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.480 a bionic leg Evan McPherson from fifty nine yards away, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.160 and here comes the ring Clark Harris ready to snap it, 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.080 back fires it back to Huber. The ball is down, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.360 the kick is on its way. Becaus is not a problem? Yes, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:56.760 good Holy Cole fifty nine yards with ease on money 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.160 Mack's first attempt of the season. You don't have to 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.040 drive very far to get points from mc pherson, but 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.160 you do have to hold onto the ball, and on 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.240 the Bengals next three drives they didn't. Burrow back to Cloe, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.040 gets hit from behind, The ball comes out and the 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.880 Steelers recover man Alex Highsmith with the strip sack and 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.400 the ball floated right too. Teammate Cam Hayward or already 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.640 for the shotgun snap back at the forty four. He 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.840 has the ball. He's back to throw short pass picked 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.479 off at the forty by t J Watch. Jeez Watt 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.680 jumped up, grabbed the ball and the Steelers have their 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.920 third takeaway in the first seventeen minutes of the game. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.240 Burrow waits for the snap from Keras has the ball, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.120 drops back five steps steps up, flints it deep down 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.120 the middle of the field and As intercepted again, Sutton 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.520 runs it back and goes out of bounds around the 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.760 twenty five yard line. The Bengals turn the ball over 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.880 on four of their first five possessions. The Steelers kicked 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.520 the field goal after Joe Burrow's fumble and scored a 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.440 touchdown after t J. Watt's interception to take a seventeen 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.680 to three lead midway through the second quarter. With less 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.560 than two minutes to go in the half, the Bengals 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.120 had a fourth and one at the Pittsburgh thirty five 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.240 and decided to go for it instead of attempting a 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.400 fifty three yard field goal. Burrow takes the snap, gives 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.960 it to Turst up the middle of the fields to 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.640 the twenty with an angle at the ten five, and 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.279 taken out of bounds inside the five at the three 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.279 yard line. It was first in goal with less than 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.280 a minute to go in the half, but the Bengals 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.160 couldn't punch it in. They settled for a chip shot 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.160 field goal and trailed seventeen six at the half. In 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.320 the third quarter, the Bengals finally found the end zone. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.000 Burrow standing at the seven waiting for the shotgun snap. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.120 Mixon lined up to his right, Burrow catches the ball, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.120 drops back from the nine throws. It is cock by 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:55.880 Tyler Boyd, touchdown Bengals as he curled toward the forward 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.920 right pylon and Burrow through a perfect strike through a 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.400 narrow window to Tyler Boyd. That two yard passed to 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.159 Tyler Boyd was followed by a two point conversion throw 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.000 to Mike Thomas, who played much of the game after 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.560 t Higgins suffered a concussion in the second quarter. The 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.359 Bengals were down by three heading to the fourth. Early 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.080 in the final quarter, the Bengals had to punt, and 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:23.320 on the return, long snapper Clark Harris suffered a right 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.720 bicep injury that caused him to miss the rest of 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.320 the game. It turned out to be a huge loss. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.240 A Pittsburgh field goal made it twenty to fourteen with 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.280 eleven minutes to go. The Bengals promptly drove to the 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.800 Steelers thirty six, but on fourth and six, rather than 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.760 attempting a long field goal with third string tight end 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:47.240 Mitchell Wilcox serving as an emergency long snapper, the Bengals 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.840 elected to go for it. Burrow drops back to throw, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.520 he fires and it is intercepted the fourth of the 0:06:54.640 --> 0:07:01.599 game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Unbelievable. Joe Burrow intercepted four 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.080 times for the first time in his NFL career. That 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.800 one goes to Akello Witherspoon. Four interceptions and a lost 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.360 fumble for Burrow. That probably bothered him more than the 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:18.320 ruptured appendix. But the Bengals QB didn't flinch. Obviously, you 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.960 don't want to throw four picks, but I never panicked. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.520 We stayed even killed, and he came back and put 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.280 us in position to win. He gave them multiple chances 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.840 to win. With three minutes to go, Burrow hit Jamar 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.040 Chase for what looked like a touchdown pass, but he 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.920 was ruled out of bounds inches from the goal line. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.840 Rather than challenged the ruling, the Bengals rushed to the line, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.840 try to running play and lost two yards. Here's Zach 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.320 Taylor on electing not to challenge the spot. That's the 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.760 hardest place for us to see in the entire field 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.680 is that spot. So I didn't think there was a 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.800 chance there was a touchdown there initially, so we got 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.960 on the ball to it in quickly. It's hard with 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.560 all the craziness that moment, all the communication to get 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.680 that hey stop, stop, let's evaluate this. We just couldn't 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.600 get it done fast enough by the time we've seen 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.520 a replay and realize, oh, shoot, he might have gotten 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.520 in there. So I just gotta learn from those. You know, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.920 it's a fine line to get the ball in the end. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.240 You just want to punch it in real quick, and 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.320 in hindsight, maybe he was in and we could have 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.560 give ourselves a chance. The Bengals eventually had to go 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.520 for it on fourth and goal from the two. Burrow 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.400 ready catches the shotgun, snap, he's back to throw, he's 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.160 looking passes into the end zone. It is incomplete and 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.520 the Steelers stopped. The Bengals. They had it first in 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:43.600 goal inside the one, they go backward and fail to score. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.600 The Steelers got the ball back with one fifty one 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.560 to go, but they weren't even able to run thirty 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.400 seconds off the clock before giving the ball back to 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.959 Burrow and the Bengals at their own forty with one 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.720 twenty seven left. Despite playing one of the worst games 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.920 of his career to that point, Burrow drove the Bengals 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.240 sixty yards for the tying score. The game comes down 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.160 to this play. Four seconds on the clock, Cincinnati at 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.000 the six yard line of Pittsburgh. Shotgun snap to Burrow. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:15.040 He fires toward the games caught by Jamar Chase, both 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:21.520 feet down. Touchdown Bengals. No time left on the clock, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:28.160 and here comes Mitchell Wilcox, emergency long snapper to try 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.280 to successfully fire it back to Kevin Huber for a 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:38.560 game winning pat Imagine the butterflies in Wilcox's stomach. They 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.960 were probably more like Tera dactyls. As he took over 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.720 at long snapper on a thirty three yard extra point 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:50.200 try to win the game. Mitchell Wilcox ready, Huber catches 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.199 the snap, puts it down, The kick is blocked and 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.760 it flutters into the end zone. Will go to overtime, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.760 tied at twenty minca fitzpa Rick blocked it. The snap 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.840 from Wilcox a little bit high, didn't have a lot 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.320 of steam off as the key, and as a result, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.319 the Steelers were able to block it. And that was 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.000 the key. It had. It flooded back there and it 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.920 disrupted all the timing a little bit and as a 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.959 result they were able to come off the edge and 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.920 maker Fitzpatrick who else. Wilcox would get another chance. On 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.400 the Bengals first drive in overtime, they marched to the 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.000 Pittsburgh eleven, and on third and eight, Zach Taylor called 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.720 on the field goal unit. Van McPherson had five walkoff 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.480 game winners as a rookie, looking to begin his second 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.120 season with another to twenty nine yard try from the 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.760 right hash Wilcox, the emergency long snapper is ready. Huber, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.640 looking back at McPherson, turns his head, snap is high. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.960 Huber gets it down. The kick is a line drive 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.559 and it's no good man. Knowing that the field goal 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.320 was hardly a sure thing, why didn't the Bengals run 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.240 a play on third and eight from the eleven? Felt 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.640 the right decision was to kick it on third down 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.400 in case the snap was off from Kevin could just 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.880 spike it and we could try to kick it again, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.120 And unfortunately, just didn't work out for us. Hubert caught 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.600 the snap above his helmet and wasn't able to spin 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.760 the laces, but McPherson says the miss was his fault. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.760 At the end of the day, I just couldn't get 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.840 it done. I mean, twenty nine yards is twenty nine yards. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.320 I can't hit that on my left foot, so there's 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.960 really no excuse for me to not make that one. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.079 It's certainly hard to fault Mitchell Wilcox. I talked to 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.520 him after the game. You had to serve as the 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.880 emergency long snapper. When was the last time, if ever, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.120 that you had to do that in a game? In 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.360 a game? Probably maybe one time in college. You know, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.400 I did in high school and was a backup in college, 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.439 but I was on the punch shield and I always 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.960 had that in my back pocket. And so I said 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.559 on the broadcast, I can't imagine how big the butterflies 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.920 must have been under those circumstances. You're trying to win 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.880 the game for your team, doing something that you normally 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.079 don't even practice. How nerve racking was it? You know, 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.199 in the moment, I just was focused on snapping, and unfortunately, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.959 first the first one was a good snap, got blocked though, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.079 and then second one shade high. You know that's on me. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:20.839 I gotta give Kevin a better snap. But had a 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.720 whole sunday. Anything can happen. None of them were unplayable. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.240 I know that's probably not great consolation for you, but 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.559 it wasn't like you bounced it back there and you 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.599 gave Kevin Huber a chance. Yeah, I thought my my 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.880 first one, I think was was solid. What didn't have 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.559 great velocity on it, but it was placed. We just gotta, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.840 you know, protect up front. And then the second one, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.960 you know, could should have gave him a better one. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.319 How did you learn that Clark was not going to 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.520 be able to snap? I just heard people yelling to 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.319 go get some snaps, and I didn't know what his 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.800 status was. And then, you know, my heart's out to Clark. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.200 You know, he's had such a great, great long career 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.240 here and done so much for this this team, in 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:13.960 this program. And you know, but do you practice them 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.680 much just in case? Or is I mean there's another 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.280 long snapper on the team who's on the practice squad 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.679 right now. It probably kind of negates the amount of 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.520 time you would even work on it. Yeah, you know, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:28.920 I'd say I work on the punt the punt snaps 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.599 a bit more than the short ones, the place kicking snaps. So, 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.679 like I said, I should have give Kevin a better 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.240 one on the second one, and that's on me. Little 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.719 Cox had to snap the ball one more time and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.240 this time it was a longer snap on a punt. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.199 With about a minute left, he snapped the ball to 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.680 Kevin Hubert with thirteen seconds remaining on a running play clock, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.000 preserving valuable time for Pittsburgh. We snapped her thirteen seconds. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.360 I understand that, trust me, it's we would rather do 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.839 something different, but again just trying to make sure the 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:07.000 operation ran smoothly. It turned out that we sacrificed some 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.880 seconds just to make sure that we were all on 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.320 the same page. There it proved costly. Starting at their 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.840 own twenty with fifty six seconds to go, Mitchell Trubisky 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.200 completed two big passes to tight end Pat Friarmouth, giving 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.600 Chris Boswell a chance to win it. A fifty three 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.480 yard try to win the game. His kick is up, 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.120 it is floating toward the goal post. It is good. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.000 As the clock hit zero and the Steelers win it 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.960 in overtime twenty three two twenty. The Bengals outgained the 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.280 Steelers by one hundred sixty five yards, burrowed through for 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.680 three thirty eight and added a career high forty seven 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.200 rushing yards. Jamar Chase had ten catches for a buck 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.400 twenty nine and Joe Mixon had one hundred forty five 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:57.960 combined rushing and receiving yards, but a minus five turnover ratio, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:03.240 seven sacks allowed, and an injured long snapper ultimately killed them. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.080 Here's offensive lineman Ted Carres. You know, we did everything 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.800 we could to lose basically, um you know, five turnovers, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.600 you know, giving up sacks, not finishing drives, and it 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.360 still had a chance to win. I think this team 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.760 showed a lot of grit and we just didn't finished. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.560 We had the game in our hands three four separate times, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.080 so I got to finish that in close a division game. 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.800 Out Obviously, very disappointed. I think it was one hundred 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:33.600 and four plays. If you weren't in shape, now you are. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.320 You know, it's a week one thriller that we came 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.720 out on the wrong end. So you know, we got 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.560 Dallas in a week. I'm gonna, you know, learn from this. Obviously, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:45.960 there's a lots of coach off of I thought we 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.120 did a lot of good things too, but overall disappointed 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.840 we lost. After the game, LAP spend a couple of 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:59.720 minutes with Zach Taylor, coach talk about fighting adversity. You know, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.400 you have the turnovers obviously that that was an issue 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.520 of the self destruction of the turnovers, the biggest story 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.520 in the football game. That's really the simplest thing. To 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.280 boil it down to five to nothing. You know, we 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.680 gave it away five times, didn't gain any had two 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.120 poor operations on kicks, and and that's not recipe for 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.640 winning football in this division. But with all of the 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.960 all of the tough things you went through with giving 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.480 the football away, they score a defensive touchdown, they get 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.400 short fields, you still have a chance to win the 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.040 football game. And like you mentioned, Clark Harris goes down, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.640 you're in a tough situation and miss kicks that could 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.440 have won a football game for you. Yeah, there's going 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.200 to be positives we can take away from this game, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:37.800 but but the immediate negative is that we're all in 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.160 one and lost a divisional game to start it off. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.120 So that that's the part that hurts. But these guys 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.160 will rally the right way. They understand it's a long season. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.200 They understand that they were places to be made that 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.040 would have won us the game. I mean, so we 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.560 know that we're gonna be a good football team. We 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.720 just got a rally and refocus for next week. What 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.880 are some of the positives that come to mind right 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.200 now before you actually take a look at analyzed tape. Yeah, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.400 holding them to thirteen points there until the last field goal. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.200 On defense, you know, you just look at the total 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.800 yards they had going into the final drives. I thought 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.720 our defense played really well. I thought there was some 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.760 opportunities we got the ball out or had our hands 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.520 on the ball. We can take that away that those 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.280 are things that we got to do better in the future. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.080 And then offensive, I thought we moved the ball really 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.680 well in the second half. We just didn't always finish 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.600 with points. There was a fourth down play we didn't 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.280 end up leaving seven and three points on the field 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.399 at the end, miss the field got the end. On 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.840 another drive, we were in the little red zone. So um, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.600 there was there was some positives to takeaway, but overall 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.600 we'll want to know, Yeah, that's a division a division loss, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.359 like you talked about at home, that's a that is 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.000 a tough, tough way to start. You look at last year, 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.400 Dallas led the league with interceptions, led the league in takeaways. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.000 I mean, they're a team that thrives on that kind 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.680 of thing. So I got to take care of the 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.960 ball security thing pretty quickly, don't you. Yeah, we'll get 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.240 into them. We know that we've got to be plus 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.320 plus one to plus two in the turnover battle to 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.200 give ourselves the best chance to be minus five and 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.280 still have a chance to win the football game. What's 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.159 that say about your football team? Overall? We got a 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.320 good team. They handled aversity the right way. There's no 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.080 panic in these because they know that if there's still 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.720 time on the clock, we had a chance to win. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.240 Oftentimes fall like we put ourselves in position to do that. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.720 Today we just didn't get it done. Appreciate your time, coach, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.480 so thank you. The Bengals were the only team in 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.200 the AFC North to lose in Week one. Baltimore beat 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.200 the Jets twenty four to nine, and the Browns top 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.720 the Panthers twenty six twenty four, winning the game on 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.040 a fifty eight yard field goal by rookie kde York 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.119 with eight seconds remaining. York was the only kicker taken 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.359 in this year's draft. Now time for postgame analysis. In 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:38.880 this week's Radio Guys Recap lap, when you commit five 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.280 turnovers and your defense does not come up with any takeaways, 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.800 I imagine the winning percentage for NFL teams under those 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.800 circumstances is like point ooo three or something crazy. The 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.040 fact that the Bengals almost pulled out this game really 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.000 was kind of a remarkable performance by the defense and 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.320 some clutch late played by Joe Burrow and Jamar ches 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.239 I mean, I think this football team has a lot 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.920 of heart, you know, I do think that. You know, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.360 they're not going to stop playing football until the final gun. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.280 Then they're never gonna concede anything. They didn't play well. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.800 They made mistakes. They're all correctable mistakes. They do have 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.720 to correct them and move on. Joe Burrow through it 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.399 fifty three times thirty three or fifty three three hundred 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.320 and thirty eight yards, two touchdowns with four interceptions and 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.920 also lost a fumble. Jamar Chase ten catches one hundred 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.600 and twenty nine yards and big touchdown. It's but like 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.600 you said, you go minus five, you're gonna lose ninety 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.960 nine point nine percent of the time at any level 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.720 of football, and particularly the better the level of competition, 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.200 the tougher It is. The fact that they went minus 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.960 five and could have won it multiple times at the 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.960 end of regulation in and overtime, you know, speaks to 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.080 it's a good's it's a good football team. But it 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.760 proves in the National Football League you can't put yourself 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:02.520 on your schedule. If you do, you're gonna lose football games. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.840 And that's what happened today. You know, I think the 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.680 better team lost the football game because they had to. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.399 They beat themselves and the opponent beat him as well. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.520 As a result. I feel badly for Mitchell Wilcox. Those 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.960 are tough circumstances. The Bengals have another long snapper on 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.399 the practice squad, so it's not like they have Mitchell 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.440 Wilcox doing a lot of practicing just in case he 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.920 does some. But to go into the game under those circumstances, 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.000 as Logan Wilson put it is a big ask. It 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.879 is a big ask. And you know, I think about 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.879 Ted Carross. I thought, all right, what about Ted Carriss? 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.800 Can he snap maybe for an extra point? And if 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.440 he hasn't been doing it, it's that's that's a brutally 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.960 tough ask. The fact that Mitchell Wilcox had been doing 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.560 it during the course of practices and he's had his 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.680 reps and and all that sort of thing to you know, Carris, 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.280 if he hadn't been doing any deep snapping at all 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:02.520 during the course of training camp, that's that's a monumental ask. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.440 And I remember when I did have to play center 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.520 because of the knee injury to Blair Bush. It's it's 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.800 a different animal deep snap in the football, it really is. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.000 I never had to do it in a game. Fortunately 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.320 we brought Bob Johnson back out of retirement to deep snap, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.639 but it was It's not an easy task. And you 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.840 don't realize how valuable or solid deep snapper is until 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.680 you don't have him anymore. What did you think of 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.800 burrows performance? Obviously the numbers aren't great for interceptions as 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.520 a new career high he also fumbled, as you mentioned, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.760 but down the stretch sure enough, when they absolutely had 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:41.560 to have it, he takes him down the field sixty 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.359 yards for what, under normal circumstances would have been a 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.280 game winning touchdown. You know, as a as a teammate, 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.640 as a former lineman, I look at him with nothing 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:55.600 but admiration because, you know, like he said he would 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:57.480 he'd like to have had more time to get ready 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.320 for the opener. He felt like he was going to 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.520 be ready, but in a perfect world, you'd like to 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.080 have more time. Plus the fact that he had an 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:09.560 appendected me. You know, his appendix ruptured and they had 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.560 to make sure he didn't get toxic. And when he 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.800