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Speaker 1: the radio calls from Sunday's three point home loss to Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Second and goal from the one, Jackson gives it to
Speaker 1: Josh Edwards and he is shoved into the end zone
Speaker 1: by a teammate for the Baltimore touchdown. Kevin Zeitler with
Speaker 1: the tush push to help Gus Edwards get in. Jackson
Speaker 1: in the gun hill is the running back Lamar back
Speaker 1: to throw has time now in trouble.
Speaker 2: Tosses the ball. The pangos fall on it. At the
Speaker 2: eighteen yard line.
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson punched it out and a teammate recovered at
Speaker 1: the eighteen Logan Wilson with the recovery.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you boy, just what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 1: There's a penalty flag down at the fifteen yard line.
Speaker 3: Illegal use of hands to the face defense.
Speaker 2: Number nine oh many.
Speaker 1: Pendley would be enforcement in the previous spot.
Speaker 2: It's bout the whole ball plus down.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: That's a very very painful penalty.
Speaker 5: Zach Carter did get his hands up on under that
Speaker 5: face mask.
Speaker 1: Second year punter Jordan Stout is in. Charlie Jones waits
Speaker 1: to return. Here comes the punt, a very high, wobbly kick.
Speaker 1: Jones will at it at the nineteen starts toward the
Speaker 1: near side. Is at the thirty penalty flag down. Cross
Speaker 1: is the fifty. He's gonna take it to the house.
Speaker 1: But there's a penalty flag down.
Speaker 2: Wow, that one's coming back too.
Speaker 1: Would have been an eighty one yard touchdown return for
Speaker 1: Charlie Jones, so.
Speaker 2: A penalty has nullified.
Speaker 5: A takeaway would have been short field and then another
Speaker 5: penalty shortly.
Speaker 2: There's no fall on the play. It's a touchdown, all right.
Speaker 2: How about it? How about it? And the other penalty
Speaker 2: didn't occur. No foul on the plane. Pick that bad
Speaker 2: boy up, give a special teams touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It'll be a forty yard try for Justin Tucker to
Speaker 1: try to give Baltimore the halftime lead. The snap, the placement,
Speaker 1: the kick is on its way. It is hooking, but
Speaker 1: it is good and Baltimore will head to the locker
Speaker 1: room on top by three thirteen ten. At the half,
Speaker 1: boy goes out to the left and Jamar Chase lines
Speaker 1: up in the backfield along with Joe Mixon. Scrambling right,
Speaker 1: throws caught by mixing lots of running room off the
Speaker 1: sideline to the Ravens forty thirty five, and he gets
Speaker 1: taken out of bounds near the Baltimore thirty by safety
Speaker 1: Gino Stone, though mark mixing out at the Ravens thirty two,
Speaker 1: a thirty one yard gain, the Bengals biggest of the season.
Speaker 1: On second down, Burrow drops straight back to throw looking
Speaker 1: fires over the mountain, intercepted at the goal line. Gino Smith,
Speaker 1: running it back to the twenty, has a blocker in
Speaker 1: front of the thirty and goes out of bounds with
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow helping to get him out. At the thirty
Speaker 1: eight yard line. Third down and goal from the three,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in the gun back at the eight. Hill
Speaker 1: lines up to his right. It's a rollout to the right,
Speaker 1: a pass. It's caught. Andrews sticks the ball forward. Touchdown Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Dax Hill arrived to try to stop Mark Andrews, but
Speaker 1: he had both hands around the ball. He extended it
Speaker 1: forward and he got the tip of the ball past
Speaker 1: the goal line. Burrow catch at the eight. He'll drop
Speaker 1: back to throw passes into the end zone.
Speaker 2: Higgins touches it. Touchdown. Bengals has t.
Speaker 1: Higgins used his size advantage over five foot eight inch
Speaker 1: nickel corner ar Darius Washington and made the catch for
Speaker 1: the bengals first offensive touchdown of the year. Third down
Speaker 1: and five for Baltimore at the Cincinnati seventeen yard line.
Speaker 1: Lamar and the gun. He'll to his left. Jackson has
Speaker 1: the ball. He's back to throw. He'll float it for
Speaker 1: the end zone over the shoulder, catch, touchdown. Nelson Agalore
Speaker 1: empty backfield for Burrow. The Ravens showing pressure. Burrow ready
Speaker 1: catches the shotgun snap. He's in trouble throws off his
Speaker 1: back foot, Higgins makes the catch touchdown.
Speaker 2: Bengals.
Speaker 1: Burrow retreating to avoid the rush and he made a
Speaker 1: great throw off his back foot to t Higgins for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Victory formation for the Ravens. Lamar takes the snap,
Speaker 1: takes a knee, and.
Speaker 2: That is that.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens open the season two and oh as
Speaker 1: they come to Cincinnati and beat the Bengals twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty fourth. The Ravens are two and oh. The
Speaker 1: Bengals are zero to two with both losses in the division.
Speaker 1: Up next a Monday night home game against the Rams.
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Speaker 1: get to topic number one. Joe Burrow. Joe finished twenty
Speaker 1: seven for forty one. That's sixty six percent for two
Speaker 1: hundred twenty two yards and two touchdowns, one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven of those passing yards came in the second half,
Speaker 1: but know also through that costly interception in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: floating one right to safety Gino Stone near the goal line.
Speaker 6: Looking back, we moved it really well. It came down
Speaker 6: to the turnover in the red zone.
Speaker 7: When you're playing that team, you can't you can't have
Speaker 7: that that mistake because they're gonna run it. Well, they're
Speaker 7: gonna keep it away from you. They're gonna score points.
Speaker 7: Lamar is a great player. He's gonna make plays, So
Speaker 7: you gotta take advantage of all your rezone opportunities.
Speaker 6: And that was my mistake.
Speaker 2: What did you see on that?
Speaker 6: It was a good play by the safety.
Speaker 7: Yeah, really good play by him, good disguise, but I
Speaker 7: gotta I gotta see.
Speaker 1: That to make matters worse. After throwing a touchdown on
Speaker 1: his last pass of the day, Burrow could be seen
Speaker 1: on the bench using a thera gun to massage his calf.
Speaker 1: Back up. Jake Browning even started warming up on the sideline.
Speaker 1: I've edited together everything Burrow had to say about his
Speaker 1: calf after the game.
Speaker 6: Let's treat it a little bit again and we'll see
Speaker 6: where it is.
Speaker 8: Ma.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was gonna come back out did you let.
Speaker 1: Yourself think it up long term or is it just
Speaker 1: strong need to make faces.
Speaker 7: It's gonna have to wait and see. Yuh, I'm not
Speaker 7: sure how it's gonna feel the next couple of days. Uh,
Speaker 7: it's pretty sore right now, but no no telling how
Speaker 7: it's gonna feel.
Speaker 4: Sorrow.
Speaker 6: I think we're gonna take a date to day. How
Speaker 6: did you tweak it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: It was on the it was on the play before
Speaker 6: the last touchdown.
Speaker 1: Since you heard your cat id you had good days
Speaker 1: and bad days.
Speaker 6: Has it felt like it does now on any of
Speaker 6: those bad days?
Speaker 1: Or is this different?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 7: It's tough to tell you have some of those days.
Speaker 7: But it's hard to give you guys an answer on
Speaker 7: that until you know the next couple of days. We
Speaker 7: give it a couple, a couple of nights, couple.
Speaker 6: Of sleeps, and we'll see you. We'll go from there.
Speaker 3: Just the first time you tweet the gap or has
Speaker 3: just been kind.
Speaker 6: Of on the one thing that frustrated for you?
Speaker 7: You know, whenever you have these kind of things, it's
Speaker 7: it's always ongoing. It's always something that you're managing.
Speaker 6: Uh. Like I said, I don't know how I'm gonna
Speaker 6: feel the next couple of days. Uh, we'll have to
Speaker 6: wait soon. Go I I mean, I don't know. I
Speaker 6: don't know. It's tough to tell. It's tough to.
Speaker 7: Look into the future and see that I'm doing everything
Speaker 7: I can to get healthy and get that thing the
Speaker 7: way I needed to so I can go out and
Speaker 7: perform the way I need to to win.
Speaker 6: We'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll all have to wait and see. But the Bengals
Speaker 1: are certainly going to be cautious with their franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: As for Baltimore's QB, Lamar Jackson was twenty four for
Speaker 1: thirty three for two hundred and thirty seven yards with
Speaker 1: two touchdowns no picks at a passer rating of one
Speaker 1: twelve point eight. He also rushed for fifty four yards,
Speaker 1: mostly unscrambles, and Lamar made two exquisite throws, a fifty
Speaker 1: two yard bombed rookie's A Flowers and a seventeen yard
Speaker 1: touchdown to Nelson Agalore that turned out to be the
Speaker 1: game winning score. Chidabaya Woujie was in coverage on that
Speaker 1: touchdown pass.
Speaker 3: It was a great ball on his outside shoulder. I'm
Speaker 3: running with him. I'm getting ready to look back and
Speaker 3: then I see that guys getting big the balls coming,
Speaker 3: and you know, it was just, you know, a great ball.
Speaker 3: But on my part, I felt like I could have
Speaker 3: anticipated it way better, kind of got there sooner. He
Speaker 3: gave me a look in the beginning where you know,
Speaker 3: I kind of you know, s third and five, third
Speaker 3: and short, thinking he may do a short route, and
Speaker 3: then he kind of burst it out of there and
Speaker 3: I was still in a good position. But again, it's just
Speaker 3: a great, great pass, and yeah, next time that happens,
Speaker 3: I'll definitely be ready for that.
Speaker 1: Lamar didn't have a ton of rushing yards, but it
Speaker 1: seemed like when they needed and they get a few,
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, and I guess that's what he does.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's the MVP of there a team for
Speaker 3: a reason, you know, one of the best players in
Speaker 3: our league, and all the all all the props to him. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, we wish he would have tackled a little
Speaker 3: bit better, but you know, guys like that, we kind
Speaker 3: of have to just know that they're gonna extend plays
Speaker 3: and you know it's gonna take all elevens, so you know,
Speaker 3: we guys, you gotta do a better job of everybody
Speaker 3: rolling to the ball when he does break loose.
Speaker 1: I think did it hurt that have that takeaway in
Speaker 1: the red zone and that haven't wiped out by the penalty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was kind of ridiculous. I don't know what
Speaker 3: they called. I don't wanna disrespect any refere anything like that.
Speaker 3: I obviously didn't see it. I just know they called
Speaker 3: hands to the face, and when the replayed, I didn't
Speaker 3: see a hands to the face.
Speaker 6: So obviously we.
Speaker 3: Should have got more takeaways, but that one, I feel
Speaker 3: like we should have.
Speaker 9: Been a takeaway.
Speaker 1: I don't have third down numbers in front of me,
Speaker 1: but it seems like you had chances to stop them
Speaker 1: on third and just could get those key stops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we kind of did a We didn't
Speaker 3: do a get enough job of getting them to third
Speaker 3: year old. You know, it was a lot of third
Speaker 3: and shores. They were able to run the office that
Speaker 3: they're comfortable in the times that we did get them
Speaker 3: in third and plus third and plus third a long.
Speaker 3: We kind of made our stocks. But when it was
Speaker 3: like five six or less, it's very hard to stop
Speaker 3: the type of offense.
Speaker 9: So we'll just do a little bit.
Speaker 3: Better job of you know, playing first down defense, second
Speaker 3: down defense to hopefully get third and longs.
Speaker 1: So Rams at home next Monday, we gotta happen, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we were looking forward, you know, this is
Speaker 3: a seventeen game season for a reason. Every season has
Speaker 3: its different tribulations, different highs, different lows. You know, one
Speaker 3: thing we can't be doing is thinking that we're the
Speaker 3: same team as last year. So we're the same team
Speaker 3: as before I start having these expectations. You know, all
Speaker 3: we could do is to stay in the moment and
Speaker 3: keep building our chemistry as a team. Right now, I
Speaker 3: forget the history, forget all the bs what we did
Speaker 3: in the past.
Speaker 6: I don't care about none of that.
Speaker 3: We got more new team and we just got to
Speaker 3: keep building from the ground up obviously, you know, to
Speaker 3: hopefully get our first win, and once we do, just
Speaker 3: build that foundation and keep it rolling. So that's what
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to, is going against the Rams.
Speaker 1: Cheatout, thank you, yep, for sure. Unfortunately, the Bengals loss
Speaker 1: took some of the shine off of a great individual
Speaker 1: moment for rookie Charlie Jones. Nearly sixteen years to the
Speaker 1: day after the Bengals last punt return touchdown an eighty
Speaker 1: one yarder by Adam Jones in the twenty twelve home opener.
Speaker 1: Charlie Jones, no relation, also ran one back the same
Speaker 1: distance and I talked to him about it after the game. Charlie,
Speaker 1: congratulations an eighty one yard punt return touchdown in your
Speaker 1: first home game at pay Course Stadium. Describe it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was pretty sweet, you know, especially coming off
Speaker 4: a week like last week. I'm just tryna, you know,
Speaker 4: bounce back from a week like that. I was struggling
Speaker 4: last week. Teammates, you know, all week were you know,
Speaker 4: keeping me up, encouraging me, and then come out in
Speaker 4: front of the home CROWBM just do that. Was was
Speaker 4: pretty sweet, just trying to help out as much as
Speaker 4: that possible can.
Speaker 1: There was a penalty flag throwne Did you think it
Speaker 1: was coming back?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: I even I even gave the ball to the ref
Speaker 4: thinking it wasn't gonna be good, so I don't even
Speaker 4: have the.
Speaker 9: Ball come on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's so.
Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of teammates come up and congratulate you. Uh,
Speaker 1: just kind of share the vibe from uh the other
Speaker 1: guys on the squad after you do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they've been.
Speaker 4: They've been amazing. Like I said, this past weekday, you know,
Speaker 4: they've been they've been building me up, making sure I'm
Speaker 4: confident back there, encouraging me, you know, telling me to
Speaker 4: just keep doing my thing back there. So you know,
Speaker 4: they they were definitely hyped up. It's been you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of ah ah the team effort this past week,
Speaker 4: trying to get tryna bounce back, special teams wise, so
Speaker 4: you know, and then they came out and they made
Speaker 4: it for every block possible for me to just run through.
Speaker 1: You made a guy miss early in the return, and
Speaker 1: then it seemed like it was wide open down the sideline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 4: It was wide open. They did a great job blocking
Speaker 4: and it made my job pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Does the end result take some of the joy away?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously the most important thing is getting
Speaker 4: to win, and we didn't get that. But I know
Speaker 4: his team's gonna, you know, bounce back, and I know
Speaker 4: we're gonna have a good week of practice and get
Speaker 4: in the film room and make our corrections. And I
Speaker 4: don't think anyone in here is worried at all.
Speaker 1: After two punts early, the offense moved the ball well
Speaker 1: basically for the rest of the game. Did you see
Speaker 1: the Bengals offense picking up the way that we kind
Speaker 1: of all expected to perform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: Started started moving it pretty well, getting the crowd into it,
Speaker 4: and just making plays like like, I know this offense
Speaker 4: can so I think we just need to come I
Speaker 4: need to build on that.
Speaker 1: Sorry you didn't get the ball by congrats on the TV.
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate.
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Speaker 1: time to hear what Zach Taylor had to say after
Speaker 1: the games. He spent a few minutes with Dave Lapham.
Speaker 5: Second half seemed like offense getting a little bit better rhythm.
Speaker 5: Joe through for like over one hundred ninety yards. I
Speaker 5: think he and t started hooking up, starting to get
Speaker 5: some chemistry and rhythm. What'd you think overall?
Speaker 9: I thought those some good things that we're going to
Speaker 9: continue to build on. You know, turn rebettals one and nothing.
Speaker 9: You was by one possessions, that's not a shocker when
Speaker 9: you play the Baltimore Ravens and you only get seven possessions.
Speaker 9: That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 5: That's their mo isn't it. I Mean they want to
Speaker 5: hold onto the football, they want to get their running
Speaker 5: game going. They get a quarterback that is like Gale
Speaker 5: Stairs with a thrown arm. I mean, that guy is
Speaker 5: with the ball in his hands. He's a unique, unique individual.
Speaker 5: What goes through your mind when you know you have
Speaker 5: such limited number of possessions? I mean, do you a
Speaker 5: game plan differently or how do you approach it?
Speaker 9: Oh, you got to be mindful of that. That's the
Speaker 9: way it goes. But again, you stressed the term of
Speaker 9: battle and they got us on that one. You know,
Speaker 9: we got one from him. They got called back for
Speaker 9: hands the face, and then that's just usually what this
Speaker 9: game comes down to.
Speaker 5: The fact that you get a special team's touchdown out
Speaker 5: of Charlie Jones was a kind of an equalizer, A
Speaker 5: nice a nice situation there. What was the thought process
Speaker 5: when you saw that taking place?
Speaker 9: Well, it was it was a good jolt for us
Speaker 9: because we'd had seven plays on offense up to that point,
Speaker 9: we had a holding, we'd been really efficient and had
Speaker 9: a holding call that took us back to second long.
Speaker 9: So we needed a jolt there and he gave it
Speaker 9: to us.
Speaker 5: What about from an injury standpoint, Nick Scott a concussion
Speaker 5: protocol and there were a couple of other guys who
Speaker 5: got nicked up a little bit. Is there any you
Speaker 5: have any update in terms of their status?
Speaker 9: No, nothing yet that I've heard on everybody.
Speaker 5: In terms of where do you go from here? You
Speaker 5: have another dead Joe was using that. I don't know
Speaker 5: what you call that opera, what that piece of equipment is,
Speaker 5: but he was trying to work in that calf a
Speaker 5: little bit. Is it good to have a Monday night
Speaker 5: game and maybe have an extra day or so and
Speaker 5: let Joe work through that.
Speaker 9: It probably doesn't hurt, you know a bit. A long
Speaker 9: week we'll be good for us. It was hot today.
Speaker 9: Our guys got a lot of snaps, a lot of
Speaker 9: difficult snaps, you know, especially offensively there at the end
Speaker 9: and that two minute drive that we were in and
Speaker 9: we've done a score, those guys were pretty worn out.
Speaker 9: So I think it'll be good to get that extra
Speaker 9: day in here.
Speaker 2: Coach appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I know that from a scheduling standpoint, guys, will they
Speaker 5: get will you give him a full extra day off
Speaker 5: trying to like lick wounds and everything from this football
Speaker 5: game physically.
Speaker 9: You just get a little bit of an extra bonus
Speaker 9: walk through in there.
Speaker 5: Appreciate your time, yep, thank you.
Speaker 1: So the Rams are up next. They beat Seattle in
Speaker 1: Week one thirty to thirteen, before losing at home to
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers this week thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 1: In that loss to sand wide receiver Puoka Nakua, a
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick out of BYU, had fifteen catches
Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty seven yards. That's a single
Speaker 1: game record for receptions by a rookie, and in the
Speaker 1: opener he had eleven catches for one nineteen. So after
Speaker 1: two weeks, Pooka Nakua has twenty five catches for two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six yards. The Cincinnati three way of Chase,
Speaker 1: Higgins and Boyd has one more catch with twenty six,
Speaker 1: but forty five fewer yards than Pooka Nakua with two
Speaker 1: twenty one. And while Higgins had a big game on
Speaker 1: Sunday with eight catches for eighty nine yards and two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Chase is only averaging seven yards a catch through two weeks.
Speaker 1: Here's Burrow.
Speaker 6: We'll go back and reevaluate that we need to get
Speaker 6: him involved.
Speaker 7: He's our best player on offense, so we need to
Speaker 7: find a way to get him off.
Speaker 1: Now, time for the radio guys recap lap. That is
Speaker 1: not a happy locker room that we just emerged from.
Speaker 5: No, it's not, and rightfully so, they're just not close
Speaker 5: to being there yet. Although thirty five yards passing at
Speaker 5: the half that Joe had was tracking for worse performance
Speaker 5: in week one, and I thought that was impossible, But
Speaker 5: then he threw for over one hundred and ninety yards
Speaker 5: in the second half and seemed to get in a
Speaker 5: rhythm that looked and encouraging and hopefully with another week
Speaker 5: a long week, but with him, you're gonna need those
Speaker 5: extra days maybe to heal up because he was limping
Speaker 5: significantly and using a piece of equipment to try to
Speaker 5: move some blood into that area and expedite the process.
Speaker 5: So you just don't know. It's a day to day
Speaker 5: thing right now.
Speaker 1: T Higgins wound up having good numbers, including two touchdown catches.
Speaker 1: The Bengals still have not been able to get the
Speaker 1: ball deep in the first two games of the year.
Speaker 5: Haven't and in the first game it was pressed man
Speaker 5: coverage and safety deep. In this football game, they just
Speaker 5: played two safeties very deep and said, you know, we're
Speaker 5: going to keep everything in front of us and have
Speaker 5: not been able to make connections. So still have work
Speaker 5: to do for sure, and be interested to see how
Speaker 5: the Rams play it. The Rams will do what the
Speaker 5: Rams do. I don't know what the Rams have done
Speaker 5: in the early stages of the season, but teams will
Speaker 5: pretty much be who they are. They don't try to
Speaker 5: be somebody else and junk everything they've worked on for
Speaker 5: weeks and at the start of training camp even OTAs
Speaker 5: you know, because one team had success with it in
Speaker 5: a week. So we'll have to see what they look
Speaker 5: like from a defensive standpoint and what they do on
Speaker 5: the back end. But again, they're close. But there were
Speaker 5: plays that were again just to tick off. And that's
Speaker 5: in the National Football League. If you're a tick off,
Speaker 5: it's it's just not good enough. I mean, everybody's making
Speaker 5: the plays.
Speaker 1: You made the point during the broadcast. The Bengals have
Speaker 1: not had the lead in the first two games of
Speaker 1: the season. That has such a big impact on what
Speaker 1: you wind up calling as a play caller. Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: lines up getting very few carries. You just you can't
Speaker 1: have balance if you're constantly behind trying to catch up
Speaker 1: with the opponent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I hope that the Bengals go down
Speaker 5: the field in the first possession against the Rams on
Speaker 5: Monday Night Football and score, because I think that'll just
Speaker 5: like you know, all of a sudden, the doors will
Speaker 5: open and be nice, nice breeze and everything will beautiful again.
Speaker 5: That's a factor. And I asked players and coaches after
Speaker 5: the game. Knowing that you're going to have a limited
Speaker 5: number of possessions the way Baltimore plays the game, I
Speaker 5: asked the coach, does that affect how your game plan?
Speaker 5: And they're like, yeah, you know it does, and players
Speaker 5: feel it. The players know it as well. So when
Speaker 5: you don't take advantage when you turn it over, I
Speaker 5: don't like the Bengals did on a possession, and when
Speaker 5: you had to turn over that's taken away because of
Speaker 5: a penalty, Those are deflating things when you know you
Speaker 5: gave a possession away and you could have accumulated one
Speaker 5: that you didn't and in a three point game. Those
Speaker 5: two things out a big time.
Speaker 1: The defense couldn't get off the field on third down,
Speaker 1: and that was typically third and short. There weren't a
Speaker 1: bunch of third and long, so obviously that's a huge factor.
Speaker 1: And when Lamar Jackson had to make a play with
Speaker 1: his legs, as he has for six seasons, that's what
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 5: He's incredible. He's a gifted talent. Ravens are now seven
Speaker 5: to one against the Bengals when he plays, and they're
Speaker 5: row and five when he doesn't.
Speaker 1: What does that tell you?
Speaker 5: Tells you a lot. I mean, dudes, Gail Stayers with
Speaker 5: a throwing arm with the ball in his hands, he's remarkable.
Speaker 5: He's got acceleration, he can change speeds, he can you know,
Speaker 5: cut violently, he can make you miss, and he can spin.
Speaker 5: We've seen him do everything. And like Mike Hilton was
Speaker 5: saying when I talked to him after the game, he's
Speaker 5: got a better throwing arm to people give him credit for.
Speaker 5: You know, he gets the ball down the field. The
Speaker 5: deep ball he threw today fifty two yards or whatever,
Speaker 5: that was a beautiful ball. Man. He can he can
Speaker 5: spin it. There's no doubt he's he's definitely an extremely
Speaker 5: talented player.
Speaker 1: The Bengals were near the bottom of the NFL in
Speaker 1: sacks last year, but their pressure was okay, I think
Speaker 1: middle of the pack in pressure. What have you thought
Speaker 1: of the pass rush in the first two weeks?
Speaker 5: Spotty? You know, like everything. I mean there were moments
Speaker 5: where oh yeah, I mean that looks looks pretty good.
Speaker 5: I will say though, as a form alignment, and I
Speaker 5: never really do even if it's an opponent. Those guys
Speaker 5: are the gravviest suckers man.
Speaker 1: And the Ravens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Ravens, well, they're very handsy, they're very gravvy,
Speaker 5: but they know how to get away with it. I mean,
Speaker 5: it does not get called. It's pretty incredible. You know.
Speaker 5: You'll see cloth stretch, you'll see them grab and they
Speaker 5: know when to let go and all that good stuff,
Speaker 5: you know. And I don't want it to sound like
Speaker 5: crying in your milk or whatever because it wasn't called.
Speaker 5: It's not called. It's not a penalty. That's what I
Speaker 5: looked at it as a former offensive alignment. But there
Speaker 5: I took my cap to them. They're talented that way.
Speaker 5: I know it's going to be frustrating the defensive lineman,
Speaker 5: that's for sure. But finally one get called. I thought
Speaker 5: a few of them could have been called, but they weren't.
Speaker 1: So for the second straight year, the Bengals have to
Speaker 1: try to overcome an zero and two. Start talking to
Speaker 1: Chidabayo Wuji after the game, He's like, that was last year,
Speaker 1: this is this year. It's different guys. Everything's different. And
Speaker 1: you know, obviously they got a lot of the same
Speaker 1: guys back, but from year to year, there's no carryover,
Speaker 1: is the point he's trying to make. They need to
Speaker 1: go out on Monday night next week and win.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt. I mean, the circumstances of how they
Speaker 5: lost these first two football games are much different than
Speaker 5: the circumstances of how they lost the two football games
Speaker 5: last year. And it is it's a brand new year.
Speaker 6: And you look at it.
Speaker 5: Though, and it's like, man, the AFC, gosh, there's like
Speaker 5: twelve thirteen of the sixteen teams in the AFC potentially
Speaker 5: playoff worthy. So you fall into an oh and two hole.
Speaker 5: There could be a lot of teams you have to
Speaker 5: jump over, or as last year that may not have
Speaker 5: been as many teams to jump over in an H
Speaker 5: and two hole as you might have to this year.
Speaker 5: So again, I think that's a big difference between this
Speaker 5: year and last year as well.
Speaker 1: I sure would like to call a win next week.
Speaker 5: Man, we need some coffin nails, baby, not to.
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Speaker 1: with wide receiver andre Yosi Vash from Honolulu, Hawaii. I've
Speaker 1: read that your dad is of Romanian descent. How did
Speaker 1: your family wind up in Hawaii?
Speaker 10: After World War Two?
Speaker 8: The wall fell, you know, Communism fell, and my dad
Speaker 8: need to get out of there, you know, And he
Speaker 8: finished college around that same time, and he got a
Speaker 8: job opportunity in Japan just off some whim. I think
Speaker 8: he knewed one person there who got him a job
Speaker 8: and it was like obviously an astronomical amount compared to
Speaker 8: what he was making in Romania, so he took it.
Speaker 10: A snap of a finger.
Speaker 8: And then that's where HI met my mom, who was
Speaker 8: who's a Filipino descent, but she was working and studying
Speaker 8: in Japan, you know, she was like translating part time,
Speaker 8: she was modeling, she was studying, and so she actually
Speaker 8: lived in Japan at that point more years than she
Speaker 8: had lived in the Philippines, so she was like really
Speaker 8: accustomed with Japanese culture. And so they met in Japan
Speaker 8: and they had both me and my brother there. So
Speaker 8: we moved and we moved out when I was around four,
Speaker 8: and so I didn't get my citizenship in the United
Speaker 8: States until I was actually like junior in high school.
Speaker 8: And then we lived in Hawaii ever since, and then
Speaker 8: I moved to New Jersey obviously, which was for me
Speaker 8: a big change. And I mean, I'm not sure how
Speaker 8: much she wanted me to go after that, but yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean after that is Hawaii after Japan, and then
Speaker 8: from Japan to New Jersey, then New Jersey to Cincinnati.
Speaker 10: So it's been it's been a good ride so far.
Speaker 1: What if anything do you miss about island life.
Speaker 10: I could say almost everything.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, the weather, the beach, the food, the people,
Speaker 8: I mean the people in Cincinnati are similar in essence,
Speaker 8: just because it's like a small town vibe. You know,
Speaker 8: you walk past people, you smile, you say hello, whereas
Speaker 8: like in New Jersey when you're there, or in New
Speaker 8: Jersey or New York when you're there for four years,
Speaker 8: can you kind of forget that people are like that?
Speaker 8: You know, you're walking past people, you're not even looking
Speaker 8: at them. You know, it's but it's kind of a
Speaker 8: smaller town. So that's kind of like Hawaii in the
Speaker 8: same way. But I would say, you know, the thing
Speaker 8: that the biggest difference between the mainland and Hawaii is, like,
Speaker 8: you know, Hawaii so laid back that it's sometimes hard
Speaker 8: to be motivated to do things, whereas on the mainland
Speaker 8: things are moving. Even in like a smaller town, smaller city,
Speaker 8: things are still moving and going forward, so you can
Speaker 8: have the best of both worlds sometimes on the mainland.
Speaker 1: We're chatting with Andrea Yosi bosh you went to the
Speaker 1: Punaho School in Honolulu or Barack Obama graduate from high
Speaker 1: school and played on a state championship high school basketball team.
Speaker 1: Is it a point of pride to have gone to
Speaker 1: his high school? And have you ever crossed paths with
Speaker 1: the former president.
Speaker 10: No, I haven't cross paths.
Speaker 8: I've had multiple friends who was like, he golf sometimes
Speaker 8: in Hawaii and he's been on the West side playing golfer,
Speaker 8: but I haven't had the chance or the opportunity to
Speaker 8: cross paths with him. But yeah, I mean, it's a
Speaker 8: great thing to come from the school that he's come from.
Speaker 8: It it's a great academic institution and athletic institution, and
Speaker 8: a lot of great minds and athletes come out of
Speaker 8: that school, which is one of the reasons why I
Speaker 8: went there, because it's like the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1: From there, it was on to Princeton. As you noted,
Speaker 1: you went to school in New Jersey, roughly five thousand
Speaker 1: miles from home.
Speaker 8: Why Princeton, Well, you know, my dad was always hard
Speaker 8: on me for academics. You know, that's what he grew
Speaker 8: up and that's what got him out of the trenches
Speaker 8: to go to Japan. And so he knew how much
Speaker 8: academics would at least be the base of or like
Speaker 8: the foundation of how I would be successful. And so
Speaker 8: the goal was always to go to Stanford. But because
Speaker 8: they were you know, the perfect mass of sports and education,
Speaker 8: which is like a common theme. But I had no offers,
Speaker 8: so I had Princeton and Darmouth zero star recruit and
Speaker 8: Princeton just made it feel like home. And you know,
Speaker 8: you see the opportunities that you get after football with
Speaker 8: a lot of the connections and the people that you meet.
Speaker 8: So I think it was a no brainer for me
Speaker 8: if the NFL didn't pan out for me, that that
Speaker 8: would be the perfect spot for me to you know,
Speaker 8: branch out in any endeavor.
Speaker 10: That I wanted.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest misconception about the IVY League.
Speaker 8: I think that we don't have good athletes. You know,
Speaker 8: people are like, oh, because we don't go to the
Speaker 8: FCS playoffs either, so it's not like we can play
Speaker 8: North Dakota State, South Dakota State things like that. So
Speaker 8: even at that point we are kind of looked down upon.
Speaker 8: But people say, oh, you a bunch of yacht dwellers,
Speaker 8: you know, all that kind of stuff. But it's like,
Speaker 8: you know, to be a person that does football at
Speaker 8: a face like Princeton, like you're a true student athlete,
Speaker 8: you know, you don't get any benefits. You eat the
Speaker 8: same food, you have the same tutors, you have to
Speaker 8: go to office hours by yourself, you know, I mean,
Speaker 8: it's all you have to do it by yourself. So
Speaker 8: I think that if you can make it there and succeed,
Speaker 8: I think that's why people like to hire people from
Speaker 8: like athletes from Princeton. And also if you make it
Speaker 8: to the NFL, it's just a bigger accomplishment just because
Speaker 8: people look down on you.
Speaker 10: But we have great athletes.
Speaker 8: I've seen a number of people that I think can
Speaker 8: play or at least try to play in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So you weren't all American in two sports, football and track.
Speaker 1: People have heard that you participated in the heptathlon, which
Speaker 1: is the indoor track version of the dcathlon, and seven
Speaker 1: events instead of ten. The Olympics are coming up next
Speaker 1: year in Paris. Had you focused on the catalon, do
Speaker 1: you think you could have been an Olympian.
Speaker 8: I think that I would have definitely been a contender
Speaker 8: in the US trials. You know, the US is a
Speaker 8: super competitive so basically if you go to the Olympics
Speaker 8: from the US, you're always in contention to meddle just
Speaker 8: because of the competition that you have here. So I
Speaker 8: think I would have definitely tried for the US trials
Speaker 8: just to see where I was at. And you know,
Speaker 8: when I did the heptathlon, the indoor heptathlon that year,
Speaker 8: I was tenth in the world with the score that
Speaker 8: I had, So I felt that if I kept pursuing
Speaker 8: that I definitely could be in contention to go to
Speaker 8: the Olympics.
Speaker 1: So one event that the haptathlon and the decathlon have
Speaker 1: in common is the pole vault, which amazes me. I
Speaker 1: don't know how anybody runs down a path, sticks a
Speaker 1: pole in the ground and jumps sixteen feet off the
Speaker 1: ground as you did. What's it like when you first
Speaker 1: try to do the pole vault?
Speaker 8: It's it's chaotic. I mean, the hardest part is just
Speaker 8: being kind of confident with your plant because everything comes
Speaker 8: from the plant, so if you're even off a little bit,
Speaker 8: you're going to fly to the side I had. I
Speaker 8: remember one time in college I had a practice where
Speaker 8: I literally almost didn't even hit the mat because I
Speaker 8: just planted completely wrong, and I flew like my life
Speaker 8: flashed before my eyes. But you know, once you get
Speaker 8: it's all about confidence, just like any sport. You know,
Speaker 8: once you get the reps, you a confident then it's
Speaker 8: it's I mean it's obviously takes some athleticism, but it's
Speaker 8: just for me, it's just fun.
Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with andre Yosi Vash who are
Speaker 1: a six round draft picked by the Bengals. What was
Speaker 1: your draft experience.
Speaker 8: Like I would say, I mean, I had the impression
Speaker 8: that I was go kind of in the mid rounds.
Speaker 8: So you know, obviously Day one, I was just watching
Speaker 8: to see how many receivers were taking. Day two, I
Speaker 8: kind of maybe was expecting a call, and then I thought,
Speaker 8: at least if I didn't go on day two or
Speaker 8: early day three. But as Day three went, it was
Speaker 8: a really long time before my name was called, and
Speaker 8: you know, the only people that were talking to me
Speaker 8: basically were the Bengals. And then they took Charlie in
Speaker 8: the fourth and so after that I kind of couldn't
Speaker 8: watch for that much longer because I was getting really anxious,
Speaker 8: and like people kind of were seeing that I was
Speaker 8: getting anxious, and so you know, they're trying to get
Speaker 8: my mind off. We were just tossing the ball in
Speaker 8: the backyard for a little bit. I had my phone
Speaker 8: on me obviously, but yeah, I was just kind of
Speaker 8: anxious the whole time. But once I got that call
Speaker 8: and it was from the Bengals, which is the team
Speaker 8: that I like, I really wanted to draft me. I
Speaker 8: was just so relieved, so happy, and you know, you
Speaker 8: always want to make more money going in the earlier rounds,
Speaker 8: but you can make up for the money if you
Speaker 8: play for a longer time.
Speaker 10: So that's that's the goal.
Speaker 1: Why did you really want the Bengals to draft you.
Speaker 8: Well, they were the only one who took me in
Speaker 8: a thirty visits, kind of like Princeton, to be honest,
Speaker 8: it's like a similar vibe.
Speaker 10: You know, they seem to like, you know a lot.
Speaker 8: They were the ones who put the effort to reach
Speaker 8: out and ask me to come on a visit. And
Speaker 8: I love the receiver room, I love the offense, and
Speaker 8: I like the coaches a lot. And that was very
Speaker 8: similar to how my process was at Princeton. So it
Speaker 8: kind of maybe it was nostalgic. I didn't even realize
Speaker 8: it until now. It's to be honest, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1: A few wild card questions now for Andrea Yosi Bosh.
Speaker 1: Your last name is spelled iOS I v A s.
Speaker 1: What are some of the all time worst mispronunciations of
Speaker 1: your last name.
Speaker 10: Uh, this is funny story.
Speaker 8: Actually, I remember my freshman year of college where I
Speaker 8: was like fourth string wide receiver, just a freshman, wide
Speaker 8: eyed freshman, and you know, they were calling in the
Speaker 8: four strings and then my.
Speaker 10: OC goes, I receive this, I receive this. Get in.
Speaker 10: I'm like, who, Like, who is he talking to? Like?
Speaker 10: Because I was like, who is he talking to? And
Speaker 10: he runs up to me that I see this. Get
Speaker 10: the f in there. I was like, oh, shoot, he's
Speaker 10: talking to me.
Speaker 8: So I'll say that's the only time I actually didn't
Speaker 8: know if someone was calling my name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ioce this we will avoid. Ioces who would be
Speaker 1: the second best heptathlete on the Bengals roster.
Speaker 8: That's interesting. I'm thinking t is a great athlete. You know,
Speaker 8: Te's strong, fast, athletic, grey hand eye coronation. Chase Brown
Speaker 8: might be a good hypt athlete, but I'm not sure
Speaker 8: how you far in the pope some pop volt are
Speaker 8: He's not sure. But Chase Brown's pretty athletic too, So
Speaker 8: I would say maybe those two.
Speaker 1: I'm the subject of great athletes. Who is the greatest
Speaker 1: athlete of all time in any sport?
Speaker 8: People know that I think Messi is the best person.
Speaker 8: Like when people compare him Ronaldo to me, I think
Speaker 8: it's almost like, don't get me wrong, Ronaldo is a
Speaker 8: great athlete, but Messi has won every after this past year,
Speaker 8: He's won every big championship in every league that he's
Speaker 8: been in, and he just when you watch him, he
Speaker 8: just dominates people. Like I'm a Messy fanboy. Like there's
Speaker 8: not much people that I found boy over or like
Speaker 8: even follow on Instagram. Just athletes wise unless I know them.
Speaker 8: But Messi is one of those people.
Speaker 1: Did you go see him when he was in town
Speaker 1: to take on FC Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: I did not.
Speaker 10: I wish I was there. Was great, but yeah, I missed.
Speaker 6: Out on that.
Speaker 1: Final fun fact for andre Yosi Bosh, this one's kind
Speaker 1: of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, living
Speaker 1: or deceased, athlete, entertainer, statesman, whoever it might be, who
Speaker 1: would that person be?
Speaker 8: For some reason, the first thing I think of is
Speaker 8: like like rulers, Like I'm thinking like Alexander the Great,
Speaker 8: or like Cleopatra or someone who is just you know,
Speaker 8: els Under the Great was like nineteen years old when
Speaker 8: he started to rule the world, which is insane, so
Speaker 8: it's like you kind of want to meet someone who's
Speaker 8: just so savvy, like there Cleopatrick, Like Egyptians had one
Speaker 8: of the greatest kingdoms in all all of time, so
Speaker 8: it would that would be interesting. But maybe Jesus, maybe
Speaker 8: Jesus too.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll put tough to you.
Speaker 1: We'll have three people at the table for you. This
Speaker 1: has been great. Congratulations on a great preseason and best
Speaker 1: of luck in the regular season.
Speaker 10: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: That's Andre Josie Bosh. Here's an invitation to join us
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