WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Ain't It Somethin' 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.240 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:11.440 the Bengals Booth Podcast. Uh and it's something and it's 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:17.520 something and it's something. How the way things go. Addition, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.320 as the Bengals were seemingly on the verge of one 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.319 of the greatest comebacks in team history before losing to 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.120 the Chargers forty one to twenty two. Coming up, you'll 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.560 hear radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, and 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.279 analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.120 week's fund Fact segment, you'll get to know the only 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.880 Samaj in NFL history, Bengals running back Samaj p Ryan. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.760 The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.640 free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.159 from the App Store and Google Play. And here's a 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.640 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.400 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.560 by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.839 thing since sneakers with suits. If you watch the NFL 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.160 Network or football shows on ESPN, you'll notice that most 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.640 of the analysts wear sneakers with their suits, not too 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.759 long ago that would have been considered a total fashion 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.720 faux paw, but not anymore. Now it looks cool and youthful. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.600 Take it from somebody who is neither. Now, let's get 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.600 to Sunday's game. The first nineteen minutes and forty eight seconds, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.160 we're a complete and total disaster. They are going for 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.319 it on fourth and goal from the four. It's not 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.120 at the one, it's at the four. Receiver goes in 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.640 jet motion. Herbert catches the ball. He's back to throw, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.039 he's looking left, looks over the middle, throws over the middle, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.480 and it is caught in the end zone by Keenan 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.920 Allen pretty well covered on the play and Herbert just 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.160 delivered a perfect strike for the touchdown. Burrow with a 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.760 play action fake in a deep drive, he gets hit 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.960 from behind. The ball is knocked out of Joe Burrow's 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.280 hands and the Chargers begin celebrating and they recover it. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.280 At the Cincinnati thirty girl will look to pass from 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.919 the pocket. He fires kick downfield for Chase on the run. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.920 The ball comes out and goes right to the Chargers 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.680 for an interception. Michael Davis winds up with the ball 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.760 as Chase dropped a perfectly thrown deep ball by Joe 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.960 Burrow as he was trying to streak toward the end zone. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.639 He just dropped it right to the guy trailing him. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.560 Second down and fourth at the Cincinnati eight. Herbert in 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.280 the gun, the receiver goes in jet motion. Herbert throws 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.280 into the end zone and the Bengals didn't even cover 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.120 Keenan Allen. Herbert catches a shotgun snap, fakes a handoff, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.200 rolls out to the right, wants to throw it deep. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.800 He will firing it all the way toward the end zone. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.079 It is a fight for the ball. A penalty flag 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.600 down hit his cuts for the touchdown. Jalen Guiton hauling 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.240 in the forty five yards strike from Justin Herbert. He 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.240 beat Jesse Bates in the wrestling match for the football 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.600 and her Bert already has three completions of forty plus 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.680 in the first half. Herbert in the gun, Heckler to 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.640 his right. They're going to flip it back to Alan, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.000 who throws to Herbert and he makes the catch on 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.440 the Philly special for the two point conversion. Royal boy, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:22.120 tell you what Chargers look like. They're dominant football team 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.960 today in every phase. Offense, defense, special teams is clicking 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.160 in some ation. The Bengals turned it over on their 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.760 first two drives, and the Chargers scored on four of 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.360 their first five possessions. It was twenty four nothing Los 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.360 Angeles with more than ten minutes left in the half. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.880 The biggest come from behind victories in Bengals history are 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.160 from twenty one point deficits in nineteen eighty one and 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.120 nineteen ninety five. They have never rallied from twenty four down, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.920 but they almost did it on Sunday block. Running seven 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.040 forty six left in the second quarter, Burrow drops back 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.000 to throw flings it deep down field from heads into 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:06.600 the end. He got it touchdown. Bengals Burrow two Higgins 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.360 as t used his height and his wing spanned to 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.360 Houlda in. The Bengals lined up to go for two 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.160 before calling a time out. After the time out, they 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.400 got called for a delay of game penalty. In following 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.920 the penalty, Evan McPherson missed the extra long extra point. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:30.080 Here's Zach Taylor, horrific by me, horrific horrific um. You know, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.920 we were going for two, and so we were a 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.839 little slow making sure we had the right personnel grouping 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.400 on the field where I made that mistake. So then 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.080 we called time out, put the ball in hash um 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.360 waiting to see what personnel they were in, and then 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.200 and then I called the play backwards, so I'm trying 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.640 to correct it at the last second, and we end 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.560 up taking the delay game. So it just horrific management 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.800 of a situation by me twice coming out of a 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.520 time out and then having to ticket to lay the game, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:53.880 and then and then we missed the extra point on 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.479 top of that. So um, that was that was all 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.000 on me. I don't know about you, but I appreciate 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.080 a coach explain his own mistake in that much detail. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.080 And it wasn't a backbreaker. Jermaine Pratt forced to fumble 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.560 on the Charger's next drive and it was returned to 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.360 the LA nineteen yard line by Jesse Bates. Three plays later, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.680 the deficit was down to eleven. Second goal from the 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.800 sixth Burrow will look to pass looking running ringing up 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.719 the middle of the field, and he will go into 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:27.719 the end zone, standing up touchdown Bengals as Burrow scores 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.680 his second rushing touchdown in as many weeks. That made 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.680 a twenty four to thirteen, but following the touchdown, Burrow 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.760 came to the sideline shaking his right hand. As it 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.800 turned out, he had dislocated the little finger on his 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.960 throwing hand way back on the Bengals fifth play of 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.800 the game when he was hit from behind by o' 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.000 chenna Nuosu. I don't I don't think I really noticed 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.200 what happened at the beginning, and I think my drone 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.760 was pumping a little too much. And then as it 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.080 went along, you know, I got progressively worse a little bit, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.360 but I was able to play through it, and that's 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.880 a testament to his toughness. The medical staff tried to 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.440 tape it, Burrow tried to wear a glove, and ultimately 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.160 he just played through the pain. And it was the 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.680 decision of make it feel better or continue to be 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.880 able to somewhat throw the ball. So I decided to 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.920 be able to throw the ball. As for next week, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:21.920 that's just something I'm gonna have to deal with. I'm 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.440 not going to miss any games because of it. That's 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.520 not something that's going to happen. I mean, unless it 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.680 somehow gets worse, which I don't can't imagine it's going 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.080 to get worse than I'll be playing next week. I 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 feel like he had zip on the wall. I felt 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:41.680 like I was able to compensate for what was lost. UM, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.960 probably not as much a zip as I normally have, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.400 but I don't I think I was still able to 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.760 throw the ball effectively. After trailing twenty four thirteen at 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.720 a half, the Bengals kicked a field goal on their 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.120 opening drive of the third quarter to pull within eight. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.960 Then Mike Hilton forced a fumble that was recovered by 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.039 Trey Hendrickson at the Chargers thirty two. Cincinnati was a 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.599 touchdown and a two point conversion away from tying the game. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.880 Burrow catches the shotgun, snap hands to Mixing chip fighting 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.640 through a hole, and runs it into the end zone, touchdown, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.480 Bengals Mixing doing an end zone dance with his teammates, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.880 and the Bengals are a two point conversion away from 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.760 erasing a twenty four point deficit. And I'll tell you 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.000 what set about the inside. The Bengals offensive line starting 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.840 to effect him inside, keep pounding pounding away at the inside, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.080 and eventually Bill Crack. The ball was placed at the 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.320 two yard line and the Chargers had twelve men on 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.160 the field, moving the ball to the one for the 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:48.600 two point conversion. Try Burrow hands it to Mixing, charges forward, fighting, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.440 struggling and stopped. He did not get in, so it 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.760 was twenty four twenty two. Midway through the third quarter. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.520 The Bengals had blown a chance to tie it, but 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.880 would get a couple of chances to take the lead. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.040 The defense forced the Chargers to punt on back to 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.480 back possessions, and with fourteen minutes left in the game, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.679 it looked like the Bengals were going to take the lead. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.840 The Bengals are within the field goal range of Evan McPherson, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.200 trailing by two points early fourth quarter for hands it 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.960 to mix and again loses the football scoped up by 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.680 the Chargers. This is going to be a touchdown run 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.960 back by to Vaughan Campbell. No man. The Bengals were 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.720 on the verge of taking the lead. Mix and fumbles 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.319 the ball. Campbell scooped it up. Nobody had a prayer 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.400 I'll bringing him down. Former Bengal Christian Covington got credit 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.280 for forcing the fumble, but on the replay it looked 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.800 like Mixon just lost the ball as he tried to 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.080 cut to his right that don't happen usually, So I 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.000 mean I gotta go back to you know, get back 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.120 in the lab with you know, taking care of the 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.679 football and learning how to shift and do little certain things, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.640 because those little things like that as we that you beat, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:05.240 it was turnover, that kind of you know, shift at 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.880 the momentum, and uh, you know, I'd take full responsibility 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.800 for that because at the end of the day, no 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.880 matter what the play was, that shouldn't happen. And you know, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.800 I'd take full responsibility. And the extra point gave the 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.000 Chargers a nine point lead, and burrow In the Bengals 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.320 never got closer. I was proud of our fight, and 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.160 we had the ball in plus territory with a chance 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.480 to take the lead, and we had another turnover, but 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.160 and we fought back. It's you know, there's not any 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.880 moral victories, but we put ourselves in a position to 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.160 win that game. Joe threw an end zone interception in 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.120 the fourth quarter and the Chargers added ten points to 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.000 make the final score forty one to twenty two. Zach 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.440 Taylor and Joe Mixon wrap up a disappointing day in 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.800 the jungle sloppy game all the way around by us, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.160 you know, to get in the hold of the way 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.280 that we did with the turnovers, the explosive plays, the 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.400 opening kickoff, going back to the plus forty eight, things 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.680 that I did that that certainly were unacceptable. So again, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.079 just we didn't deserve to win today. They did. It's 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.280 a good football team. When you put that performance out there, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.600 that's what's gonna happen. A lot of guys basically got 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.120 banged up today, and you know, I'm just proud of 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.400 the way to everybody for all four quarters, and you know, 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.520 just shows you that it adn't go fighting the teams. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.360 You gotta keep on going. I mean, the best thing 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.360 that we got, or the best thing that we have 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.080 going right now is that we get to live to 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.000 fight another day. So we just gotta come ready next week. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.600 We gotta prepare for San Francisco, and I just gotta 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.400 come back and get ready for another door. Despite the loss, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.040 the Bengals are still the final playoff team in the 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.720 AFC with five games to go, and since the Steelers 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.679 beat the Ravens on Sunday, Cincinnati is a game behind 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.400 Baltimore for first place in the AFC North, a half 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.400 game ahead of the Steelers and a game ahead of 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.120 the Cleveland Browns. As Joe Mixon mentioned, a home game 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.439 against the forty nine Ers is next. San Francisco is 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.920 six and six and saw a three game winning streak 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.480 come to an end on Sunday with a seven point 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.800 loss in Seattle. Now time for postgame analysis with my 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.880 broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Wild game lap the Chargers beating 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.400 the Bengals forty one to twenty two. The Bengals almost 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.160 railing from twenty four down. They made a twenty four 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.560 to twenty two, they had a two point conversion to tie, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.720 got stopped from the one yard line. They had two 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.720 possessions after that drove within field goal range, and then 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.240 a sixty one yard return of a Joe Mixon fumble 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.920 seemed to be the play that swung everything back in 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.800 the Chargers direction. Absolutely, that was the That was the dagger, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.720 you know, it was the Bengals were getting in McPherson 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.000 if they weren't already in McPherson field goal range. So 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.640 that's a minimum of a ten point swing, maybe fourteen, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.960 and that was That was a tough, tough blow. But 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.240 during the course of the game, I thought that explosives 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.240 allowed by the defense and turnovers by the offense, or 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.239 the story because the Bengals defense responded with some takeaways, 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.320 but you have four giveaways. It's tough to beat, you know, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.160 teams in the National Football League. When you're hurting yourself 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.280 like that. It's like, man, they're like we talked about 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.600 a few times, these teams are good enough to beat 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.600 you on their own. You don't need to help them. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.040 And when you help them, it's it's it's hard to 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.000 overcome your own you know, mistakes and penalties and turnovers 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.320 and things like that. You just have to play a 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.679 cleaner football game against a team like this that has 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.000 that kind of talent, especially when a couple of the 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.160 turnovers are not forced. So Jamar Chase could add a 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.160 seventy one yard touchdown Insteady juggles a perfect throw that 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.800 becomes an interception. That's almost like the ninety nine yard 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.800 pick six against the Steelers, or you think you're going 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.440 to score and the other team winds up with the 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.920 ball and then Burrow's last interception. I know he's trying 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.840 to make a play down by two scores, but that's 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.680 just throwing it to the other team in the end 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.000 zone instead of living for another play. Yeah exactly. I 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.560 mean that that was the final blow against the final 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.840 nail in the coffin for the Chargers was that interception. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.440 But but you're right. I mean Jamar Chase at training 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.679 camp had some issues catching the football. Now all of 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.880 a sudden here in the last you know, a few 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.240 quarters of football, he's had some issues in terms of 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.600 looking the ball and catching the football. So you don't 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.560 want to get a reputation as a streaky player, because 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.360 if you're a quarterback, you don't know what you're going 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.679 to get when you put the ball in the air. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.800 If you're like throwing it and then crossing your fingers, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.360 that a player is going to be me. Because Joe 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.400 Burrow couldn't have thrown the ball any better than he 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.200 did on that play. I mean that that was a 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.440 beautiful throw and you know Jamar had it and bobbled 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.800 it around and spotted it over his shoulder with one 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.040 of his hands, and it was crazy. It was that 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.199 kind of that kind of a turnover. I haven't seen 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.960 unfold that way in quite a while. I mean, defensive 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.880 player didn't have to do anything, didn't have to reach 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.200 in there, strip it, rip at it. It just it 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:50.880 just ended up right in front of his face. It 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.400 was a weird play and could have been a huge 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.480 momentum builder because with the acceleration the speed the chase 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.920 has and no doubt in my mind that that I 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.720 think he scores on that Burrow got sacked a bunch 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.160 mix and average two point eight yards per carry. Is 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.559 that because of the changes on the offensive line today. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.080 That's a that's a good question. I mean, you know, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.080 I asking, uh, you know, asking guys in the locker 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.000 room out to the game. Did they do anything that 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.359 you guys did not see them do from a defensive 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.800 configuration standpoint, because they are pretty clever in the way 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.600 that they use different personnel groupings and they and they 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:32.360 use different uh formation alignments sometimes you know, to break 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.040 break some of your tendencies and some of your blocking 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.560 patterns that you have a real comfort level with. It 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.400 didn't seem to be the case. I mean, I think 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.760 it just was they just played so poorly at the 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.760 beginning of the football game that they had to probably 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.000 change their mind a little bit and what they were 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.560 doing offensively. But I didn't think that they abandoned the 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.400 running game necessarily, they just never got it going. They 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.360 just never got the game the run game executed, and 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.480 h you know, I think they I think they had 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.760 to make some adjustments though. I could tell Frank on 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.240 the sideline was, you know, trying to get some things done. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.760 That grease board was was being drawn on and erased 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.600 and drawn on and erased, and they were they were 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.760 trying to get some some things done. And I think 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.840 some of the adjustments worked out a little bit better 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.720 as the game went on. But I'm telling you, you 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.640 just in this league, as we always say, from one 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.680 week to the next, you just never know. Um teams 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.080 do things a different way. They attack a different way, 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.960 and the defenses line up to to attack that attack 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:35.040 a different way. This game is so unbelievable. Adjustments and 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.360 adjustments to adjustments and adjustments at halftime to adjustments, and 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.160 it just continues through the through the entire football game. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.960 Are you reasonably confident, based on the way he finished 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.280 the game that burrows pinky finger and his right hand 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:47.840 is not going to be a big problem. Yeah. I 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.480 asked Zac about injuries, you know, after the game, and 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.200 of course, you know, he says, no update at this 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.360 point in time. But I would, I would hope and 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:59.280 think that, you know, the big, big deal is going 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.000 to be how much swelling does he get tomorrow? You know, 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.120 sometimes those kind of injuries, you know, I've had injuries 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.160 before where it's like, yeah, I don't think it's that bad, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.880 and go and ice it and then go to bed 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.160 and overnight blows up like a balloon, you know, and 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:13.960 now you've got to get all that swelling out, and 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.960 so it'll be interesting. I think. I think the next 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.400 twenty four hours are going to be, you know, very 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.080 interesting to determine what kind of impact is going to 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:26.200 have on him next week and you know, hopefully not 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.160 anymore than next week. But they didn't. They did not 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.760 do anything like rush him in to get X rays 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.520 or anything like that. So I don't think they're looking 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.280 at any fractures or anything of that nature. I think 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.520 it's just bruising, and with bruising comes swelling. And that's 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.520 the big question in my mind, how much swelling will 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.880 there be in that in those joints. Zach Taylor seemed 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.520 more frustrated than usual after a Bengals loss. I don't 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.280 know if I'm you know, one hundred percent certain of that, 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.040 but that's the vibe that he gave off in the 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.360 news conference room. I'm sure the four turnover has had 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.360 something to do with that. He also seemed angry with 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.200 himself or some of the Bengals clock management in this game. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.680 And then I wonder, big picture, tough schedule going forward, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.520 home game against the Chargers, a team that's obviously got 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.840 some talent, but still was a game over five hundred, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.760 if he felt like a really good opportunity slipped away. Yeah, 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.320 I think that's the big part of I think everything 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.919 kind of boils to that where it's like, you know, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.719 if we had taken care of business here with an 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:25.200 eight and four record against another conference opponent, would would 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.560 have put ourselves in pretty good shape. Now you know, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.360 you've you've instead of stepping ahead of the pack, you've 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.600 stepped back to the pack. And now you're, you know, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.760 amongst a whole you know, plusthora of other teams that 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.000 you wanted to try to start to separate from. So 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.800 I think I think that's the frustration, and I think 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.919 it's frustration that not just a phase didn't play up 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.800 to snuff. Everything was not up to snuff. Players, coaches, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.240 special teams offense as a unit defense as a unit. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.639 Nobody can say I played winning football. I don't think 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.119 any group can. And that's the frustrating thing is, you know, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.560 even when you're going through something like that, to be 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.640 at twenty four twenty two after it's tough being spot 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.720 in a team, a good team in the NFL twenty 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.719 four points and thinking, you know, I was still in 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.000 this and they felt that way, and they came back 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.159 to a point where I mean they were threatening to 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.320 take a legitimate lead, and then they spit the bit again. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:26.200 So it's just that, you know, you put yourself behind 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.679 the eight ball by putting yourself on your schedule in 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.240 all three phases, and then you start to write the 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.200 ship a little bit and then you just say, ah, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.000 you know, it wasn't meant to be. We're just going 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.560 to make all these self destruction moves again. That's the 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.800 frustration I think is that you know, they just never 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.639 really gave themselves a chance other than that little spurt 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.679 a moment and they scored twenty two points in fourteen 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.600 minutes and thirty nine seconds. I mean, it's not like this. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.040 This this football team doesn't have talent offensively but you 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.520 can't give it away four times. You can't. You can't 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.879 give four possessions away like that against anybody. The Bengals 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.400 have had good luck where injuries are concerned this year. Obviously, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.760 Trey Waynes has been out, Joseph Osai got hurt in 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.720 the first preseason game. But now, as is inevitably the 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.080 case in the NFL, they're starting to add up. They 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.080 didn't have Hopkins or Reef on the offensive line. Darius 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.399 Phillips missed the game. During the game, Burrow hurts his 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.960 pinky finger. Marcus Bailey went out with a shoulder injury. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.200 Logan Wilson went out with a shoulder injury. Should obey 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.240 A Wooje went out with a foot injury. Of all 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.440 of these injuries, which one gives you the most concern? Well, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.600 that's a good question. You know. I think that the one, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.320 the one that I'm concerned might be the longest in 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.640 terms of damage done, is Logan Wilson's shoulder. I just 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.800 have a feeling, you know, it's very rare for a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.080 shoulder injury to cause a cart to take you off 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.919 the field, So, you know, was there some sort of 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.160 a dislocation a major separation and things that if that's 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.520 the case, we're not looking at just a few days. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.600 We're looking at a significant amount of time. So I 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.000 think he's an impactful guy, you know, a playmaker type 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.919 individual for the for the defensive football team. You know. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.320 It seems like a lot of the other injuries I 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:12.760 think are a shorter, you know, potential time frame. I think, honestly, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.760 and I'm not saying that they were they felt like 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.879 we have this game anyway. But in my mind, the 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.920 two offensive linemen that's at today, Trey Hopkins and Riley Reef, 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.080 I think it was just to make sure that, okay, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.879 they're close, Let's not go out there and exacerbate it 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:28.880 and make it a couple more weeks. Let's just make 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.119 sure give it a few more days now that it 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.280 feels decent, give it another few days where you don't 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.359 have to play again for you know, over a week, 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.040 if we if we are smart with this, and you 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.480 should be able to finish the season. I think that's 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.399