Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast. Uh and it's something and it's
Speaker 1: something and it's something. How the way things go. Addition,
Speaker 1: as the Bengals were seemingly on the verge of one
Speaker 1: of the greatest comebacks in team history before losing to
Speaker 1: the Chargers forty one to twenty two. Coming up, you'll
Speaker 1: hear radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, and
Speaker 1: analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this
Speaker 1: week's fund Fact segment, you'll get to know the only
Speaker 1: Samaj in NFL history, Bengals running back Samaj p Ryan.
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Speaker 1: to Sunday's game. The first nineteen minutes and forty eight seconds,
Speaker 1: we're a complete and total disaster. They are going for
Speaker 1: it on fourth and goal from the four. It's not
Speaker 1: at the one, it's at the four. Receiver goes in
Speaker 1: jet motion. Herbert catches the ball. He's back to throw,
Speaker 1: he's looking left, looks over the middle, throws over the middle,
Speaker 1: and it is caught in the end zone by Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen pretty well covered on the play and Herbert just
Speaker 1: delivered a perfect strike for the touchdown. Burrow with a
Speaker 1: play action fake in a deep drive, he gets hit
Speaker 1: from behind. The ball is knocked out of Joe Burrow's
Speaker 1: hands and the Chargers begin celebrating and they recover it.
Speaker 1: At the Cincinnati thirty girl will look to pass from
Speaker 1: the pocket. He fires kick downfield for Chase on the run.
Speaker 1: The ball comes out and goes right to the Chargers
Speaker 1: for an interception. Michael Davis winds up with the ball
Speaker 1: as Chase dropped a perfectly thrown deep ball by Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow as he was trying to streak toward the end zone.
Speaker 1: He just dropped it right to the guy trailing him.
Speaker 1: Second down and fourth at the Cincinnati eight. Herbert in
Speaker 1: the gun, the receiver goes in jet motion. Herbert throws
Speaker 1: into the end zone and the Bengals didn't even cover
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen. Herbert catches a shotgun snap, fakes a handoff,
Speaker 1: rolls out to the right, wants to throw it deep.
Speaker 1: He will firing it all the way toward the end zone.
Speaker 1: It is a fight for the ball. A penalty flag
Speaker 1: down hit his cuts for the touchdown. Jalen Guiton hauling
Speaker 1: in the forty five yards strike from Justin Herbert. He
Speaker 1: beat Jesse Bates in the wrestling match for the football
Speaker 1: and her Bert already has three completions of forty plus
Speaker 1: in the first half. Herbert in the gun, Heckler to
Speaker 1: his right. They're going to flip it back to Alan,
Speaker 1: who throws to Herbert and he makes the catch on
Speaker 1: the Philly special for the two point conversion. Royal boy,
Speaker 1: tell you what Chargers look like. They're dominant football team
Speaker 1: today in every phase. Offense, defense, special teams is clicking
Speaker 1: in some ation. The Bengals turned it over on their
Speaker 1: first two drives, and the Chargers scored on four of
Speaker 1: their first five possessions. It was twenty four nothing Los
Speaker 1: Angeles with more than ten minutes left in the half.
Speaker 1: The biggest come from behind victories in Bengals history are
Speaker 1: from twenty one point deficits in nineteen eighty one and
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. They have never rallied from twenty four down,
Speaker 1: but they almost did it on Sunday block. Running seven
Speaker 1: forty six left in the second quarter, Burrow drops back
Speaker 1: to throw flings it deep down field from heads into
Speaker 1: the end. He got it touchdown. Bengals Burrow two Higgins
Speaker 1: as t used his height and his wing spanned to
Speaker 1: Houlda in. The Bengals lined up to go for two
Speaker 1: before calling a time out. After the time out, they
Speaker 1: got called for a delay of game penalty. In following
Speaker 1: the penalty, Evan McPherson missed the extra long extra point.
Speaker 1: Here's Zach Taylor, horrific by me, horrific horrific um. You know,
Speaker 1: we were going for two, and so we were a
Speaker 1: little slow making sure we had the right personnel grouping
Speaker 1: on the field where I made that mistake. So then
Speaker 1: we called time out, put the ball in hash um
Speaker 1: waiting to see what personnel they were in, and then
Speaker 1: and then I called the play backwards, so I'm trying
Speaker 1: to correct it at the last second, and we end
Speaker 1: up taking the delay game. So it just horrific management
Speaker 1: of a situation by me twice coming out of a
Speaker 1: time out and then having to ticket to lay the game,
Speaker 1: and then and then we missed the extra point on
Speaker 1: top of that. So um, that was that was all
Speaker 1: on me. I don't know about you, but I appreciate
Speaker 1: a coach explain his own mistake in that much detail.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a backbreaker. Jermaine Pratt forced to fumble
Speaker 1: on the Charger's next drive and it was returned to
Speaker 1: the LA nineteen yard line by Jesse Bates. Three plays later,
Speaker 1: the deficit was down to eleven. Second goal from the
Speaker 1: sixth Burrow will look to pass looking running ringing up
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, and he will go into
Speaker 1: the end zone, standing up touchdown Bengals as Burrow scores
Speaker 1: his second rushing touchdown in as many weeks. That made
Speaker 1: a twenty four to thirteen, but following the touchdown, Burrow
Speaker 1: came to the sideline shaking his right hand. As it
Speaker 1: turned out, he had dislocated the little finger on his
Speaker 1: throwing hand way back on the Bengals fifth play of
Speaker 1: the game when he was hit from behind by o'
Speaker 1: chenna Nuosu. I don't I don't think I really noticed
Speaker 1: what happened at the beginning, and I think my drone
Speaker 1: was pumping a little too much. And then as it
Speaker 1: went along, you know, I got progressively worse a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I was able to play through it, and that's
Speaker 1: a testament to his toughness. The medical staff tried to
Speaker 1: tape it, Burrow tried to wear a glove, and ultimately
Speaker 1: he just played through the pain. And it was the
Speaker 1: decision of make it feel better or continue to be
Speaker 1: able to somewhat throw the ball. So I decided to
Speaker 1: be able to throw the ball. As for next week,
Speaker 1: that's just something I'm gonna have to deal with. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to miss any games because of it. That's
Speaker 1: not something that's going to happen. I mean, unless it
Speaker 1: somehow gets worse, which I don't can't imagine it's going
Speaker 1: to get worse than I'll be playing next week. I
Speaker 1: feel like he had zip on the wall. I felt
Speaker 1: like I was able to compensate for what was lost. UM,
Speaker 1: probably not as much a zip as I normally have,
Speaker 1: but I don't I think I was still able to
Speaker 1: throw the ball effectively. After trailing twenty four thirteen at
Speaker 1: a half, the Bengals kicked a field goal on their
Speaker 1: opening drive of the third quarter to pull within eight.
Speaker 1: Then Mike Hilton forced a fumble that was recovered by
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson at the Chargers thirty two. Cincinnati was a
Speaker 1: touchdown and a two point conversion away from tying the game.
Speaker 1: Burrow catches the shotgun, snap hands to Mixing chip fighting
Speaker 1: through a hole, and runs it into the end zone, touchdown,
Speaker 1: Bengals Mixing doing an end zone dance with his teammates,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals are a two point conversion away from
Speaker 1: erasing a twenty four point deficit. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what set about the inside. The Bengals offensive line starting
Speaker 1: to effect him inside, keep pounding pounding away at the inside,
Speaker 1: and eventually Bill Crack. The ball was placed at the
Speaker 1: two yard line and the Chargers had twelve men on
Speaker 1: the field, moving the ball to the one for the
Speaker 1: two point conversion. Try Burrow hands it to Mixing, charges forward, fighting,
Speaker 1: struggling and stopped. He did not get in, so it
Speaker 1: was twenty four twenty two. Midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 1: The Bengals had blown a chance to tie it, but
Speaker 1: would get a couple of chances to take the lead.
Speaker 1: The defense forced the Chargers to punt on back to
Speaker 1: back possessions, and with fourteen minutes left in the game,
Speaker 1: it looked like the Bengals were going to take the lead.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are within the field goal range of Evan McPherson,
Speaker 1: trailing by two points early fourth quarter for hands it
Speaker 1: to mix and again loses the football scoped up by
Speaker 1: the Chargers. This is going to be a touchdown run
Speaker 1: back by to Vaughan Campbell. No man. The Bengals were
Speaker 1: on the verge of taking the lead. Mix and fumbles
Speaker 1: the ball. Campbell scooped it up. Nobody had a prayer
Speaker 1: I'll bringing him down. Former Bengal Christian Covington got credit
Speaker 1: for forcing the fumble, but on the replay it looked
Speaker 1: like Mixon just lost the ball as he tried to
Speaker 1: cut to his right that don't happen usually, So I
Speaker 1: mean I gotta go back to you know, get back
Speaker 1: in the lab with you know, taking care of the
Speaker 1: football and learning how to shift and do little certain things,
Speaker 1: because those little things like that as we that you beat,
Speaker 1: it was turnover, that kind of you know, shift at
Speaker 1: the momentum, and uh, you know, I'd take full responsibility
Speaker 1: for that because at the end of the day, no
Speaker 1: matter what the play was, that shouldn't happen. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'd take full responsibility. And the extra point gave the
Speaker 1: Chargers a nine point lead, and burrow In the Bengals
Speaker 1: never got closer. I was proud of our fight, and
Speaker 1: we had the ball in plus territory with a chance
Speaker 1: to take the lead, and we had another turnover, but
Speaker 1: and we fought back. It's you know, there's not any
Speaker 1: moral victories, but we put ourselves in a position to
Speaker 1: win that game. Joe threw an end zone interception in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and the Chargers added ten points to
Speaker 1: make the final score forty one to twenty two. Zach
Speaker 1: Taylor and Joe Mixon wrap up a disappointing day in
Speaker 1: the jungle sloppy game all the way around by us,
Speaker 1: you know, to get in the hold of the way
Speaker 1: that we did with the turnovers, the explosive plays, the
Speaker 1: opening kickoff, going back to the plus forty eight, things
Speaker 1: that I did that that certainly were unacceptable. So again,
Speaker 1: just we didn't deserve to win today. They did. It's
Speaker 1: a good football team. When you put that performance out there,
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen. A lot of guys basically got
Speaker 1: banged up today, and you know, I'm just proud of
Speaker 1: the way to everybody for all four quarters, and you know,
Speaker 1: just shows you that it adn't go fighting the teams.
Speaker 1: You gotta keep on going. I mean, the best thing
Speaker 1: that we got, or the best thing that we have
Speaker 1: going right now is that we get to live to
Speaker 1: fight another day. So we just gotta come ready next week.
Speaker 1: We gotta prepare for San Francisco, and I just gotta
Speaker 1: come back and get ready for another door. Despite the loss,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are still the final playoff team in the
Speaker 1: AFC with five games to go, and since the Steelers
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens on Sunday, Cincinnati is a game behind
Speaker 1: Baltimore for first place in the AFC North, a half
Speaker 1: game ahead of the Steelers and a game ahead of
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. As Joe Mixon mentioned, a home game
Speaker 1: against the forty nine Ers is next. San Francisco is
Speaker 1: six and six and saw a three game winning streak
Speaker 1: come to an end on Sunday with a seven point
Speaker 1: loss in Seattle. Now time for postgame analysis with my
Speaker 1: broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Wild game lap the Chargers beating
Speaker 1: the Bengals forty one to twenty two. The Bengals almost
Speaker 1: railing from twenty four down. They made a twenty four
Speaker 1: to twenty two, they had a two point conversion to tie,
Speaker 1: got stopped from the one yard line. They had two
Speaker 1: possessions after that drove within field goal range, and then
Speaker 1: a sixty one yard return of a Joe Mixon fumble
Speaker 1: seemed to be the play that swung everything back in
Speaker 1: the Chargers direction. Absolutely, that was the That was the dagger,
Speaker 1: you know, it was the Bengals were getting in McPherson
Speaker 1: if they weren't already in McPherson field goal range. So
Speaker 1: that's a minimum of a ten point swing, maybe fourteen,
Speaker 1: and that was That was a tough, tough blow. But
Speaker 1: during the course of the game, I thought that explosives
Speaker 1: allowed by the defense and turnovers by the offense, or
Speaker 1: the story because the Bengals defense responded with some takeaways,
Speaker 1: but you have four giveaways. It's tough to beat, you know,
Speaker 1: teams in the National Football League. When you're hurting yourself
Speaker 1: like that. It's like, man, they're like we talked about
Speaker 1: a few times, these teams are good enough to beat
Speaker 1: you on their own. You don't need to help them.
Speaker 1: And when you help them, it's it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: overcome your own you know, mistakes and penalties and turnovers
Speaker 1: and things like that. You just have to play a
Speaker 1: cleaner football game against a team like this that has
Speaker 1: that kind of talent, especially when a couple of the
Speaker 1: turnovers are not forced. So Jamar Chase could add a
Speaker 1: seventy one yard touchdown Insteady juggles a perfect throw that
Speaker 1: becomes an interception. That's almost like the ninety nine yard
Speaker 1: pick six against the Steelers, or you think you're going
Speaker 1: to score and the other team winds up with the
Speaker 1: ball and then Burrow's last interception. I know he's trying
Speaker 1: to make a play down by two scores, but that's
Speaker 1: just throwing it to the other team in the end
Speaker 1: zone instead of living for another play. Yeah exactly. I
Speaker 1: mean that that was the final blow against the final
Speaker 1: nail in the coffin for the Chargers was that interception.
Speaker 1: But but you're right. I mean Jamar Chase at training
Speaker 1: camp had some issues catching the football. Now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden here in the last you know, a few
Speaker 1: quarters of football, he's had some issues in terms of
Speaker 1: looking the ball and catching the football. So you don't
Speaker 1: want to get a reputation as a streaky player, because
Speaker 1: if you're a quarterback, you don't know what you're going
Speaker 1: to get when you put the ball in the air.
Speaker 1: If you're like throwing it and then crossing your fingers,
Speaker 1: that a player is going to be me. Because Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow couldn't have thrown the ball any better than he
Speaker 1: did on that play. I mean that that was a
Speaker 1: beautiful throw and you know Jamar had it and bobbled
Speaker 1: it around and spotted it over his shoulder with one
Speaker 1: of his hands, and it was crazy. It was that
Speaker 1: kind of that kind of a turnover. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: unfold that way in quite a while. I mean, defensive
Speaker 1: player didn't have to do anything, didn't have to reach
Speaker 1: in there, strip it, rip at it. It just it
Speaker 1: just ended up right in front of his face. It
Speaker 1: was a weird play and could have been a huge
Speaker 1: momentum builder because with the acceleration the speed the chase
Speaker 1: has and no doubt in my mind that that I
Speaker 1: think he scores on that Burrow got sacked a bunch
Speaker 1: mix and average two point eight yards per carry. Is
Speaker 1: that because of the changes on the offensive line today.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good question. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I asking, uh, you know, asking guys in the locker
Speaker 1: room out to the game. Did they do anything that
Speaker 1: you guys did not see them do from a defensive
Speaker 1: configuration standpoint, because they are pretty clever in the way
Speaker 1: that they use different personnel groupings and they and they
Speaker 1: use different uh formation alignments sometimes you know, to break
Speaker 1: break some of your tendencies and some of your blocking
Speaker 1: patterns that you have a real comfort level with. It
Speaker 1: didn't seem to be the case. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it just was they just played so poorly at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the football game that they had to probably
Speaker 1: change their mind a little bit and what they were
Speaker 1: doing offensively. But I didn't think that they abandoned the
Speaker 1: running game necessarily, they just never got it going. They
Speaker 1: just never got the game the run game executed, and
Speaker 1: h you know, I think they I think they had
Speaker 1: to make some adjustments though. I could tell Frank on
Speaker 1: the sideline was, you know, trying to get some things done.
Speaker 1: That grease board was was being drawn on and erased
Speaker 1: and drawn on and erased, and they were they were
Speaker 1: trying to get some some things done. And I think
Speaker 1: some of the adjustments worked out a little bit better
Speaker 1: as the game went on. But I'm telling you, you
Speaker 1: just in this league, as we always say, from one
Speaker 1: week to the next, you just never know. Um teams
Speaker 1: do things a different way. They attack a different way,
Speaker 1: and the defenses line up to to attack that attack
Speaker 1: a different way. This game is so unbelievable. Adjustments and
Speaker 1: adjustments to adjustments and adjustments at halftime to adjustments, and
Speaker 1: it just continues through the through the entire football game.
Speaker 1: Are you reasonably confident, based on the way he finished
Speaker 1: the game that burrows pinky finger and his right hand
Speaker 1: is not going to be a big problem. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: asked Zac about injuries, you know, after the game, and
Speaker 1: of course, you know, he says, no update at this
Speaker 1: point in time. But I would, I would hope and
Speaker 1: think that, you know, the big, big deal is going
Speaker 1: to be how much swelling does he get tomorrow? You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes those kind of injuries, you know, I've had injuries
Speaker 1: before where it's like, yeah, I don't think it's that bad,
Speaker 1: and go and ice it and then go to bed
Speaker 1: and overnight blows up like a balloon, you know, and
Speaker 1: now you've got to get all that swelling out, and
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting. I think. I think the next
Speaker 1: twenty four hours are going to be, you know, very
Speaker 1: interesting to determine what kind of impact is going to
Speaker 1: have on him next week and you know, hopefully not
Speaker 1: anymore than next week. But they didn't. They did not
Speaker 1: do anything like rush him in to get X rays
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So I don't think they're looking
Speaker 1: at any fractures or anything of that nature. I think
Speaker 1: it's just bruising, and with bruising comes swelling. And that's
Speaker 1: the big question in my mind, how much swelling will
Speaker 1: there be in that in those joints. Zach Taylor seemed
Speaker 1: more frustrated than usual after a Bengals loss. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm you know, one hundred percent certain of that,
Speaker 1: but that's the vibe that he gave off in the
Speaker 1: news conference room. I'm sure the four turnover has had
Speaker 1: something to do with that. He also seemed angry with
Speaker 1: himself or some of the Bengals clock management in this game.
Speaker 1: And then I wonder, big picture, tough schedule going forward,
Speaker 1: home game against the Chargers, a team that's obviously got
Speaker 1: some talent, but still was a game over five hundred,
Speaker 1: if he felt like a really good opportunity slipped away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's the big part of I think everything
Speaker 1: kind of boils to that where it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if we had taken care of business here with an
Speaker 1: eight and four record against another conference opponent, would would
Speaker 1: have put ourselves in pretty good shape. Now you know,
Speaker 1: you've you've instead of stepping ahead of the pack, you've
Speaker 1: stepped back to the pack. And now you're, you know,
Speaker 1: amongst a whole you know, plusthora of other teams that
Speaker 1: you wanted to try to start to separate from. So
Speaker 1: I think I think that's the frustration, and I think
Speaker 1: it's frustration that not just a phase didn't play up
Speaker 1: to snuff. Everything was not up to snuff. Players, coaches,
Speaker 1: special teams offense as a unit defense as a unit.
Speaker 1: Nobody can say I played winning football. I don't think
Speaker 1: any group can. And that's the frustrating thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: even when you're going through something like that, to be
Speaker 1: at twenty four twenty two after it's tough being spot
Speaker 1: in a team, a good team in the NFL twenty
Speaker 1: four points and thinking, you know, I was still in
Speaker 1: this and they felt that way, and they came back
Speaker 1: to a point where I mean they were threatening to
Speaker 1: take a legitimate lead, and then they spit the bit again.
Speaker 1: So it's just that, you know, you put yourself behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball by putting yourself on your schedule in
Speaker 1: all three phases, and then you start to write the
Speaker 1: ship a little bit and then you just say, ah,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't meant to be. We're just going
Speaker 1: to make all these self destruction moves again. That's the
Speaker 1: frustration I think is that you know, they just never
Speaker 1: really gave themselves a chance other than that little spurt
Speaker 1: a moment and they scored twenty two points in fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty nine seconds. I mean, it's not like this.
Speaker 1: This this football team doesn't have talent offensively but you
Speaker 1: can't give it away four times. You can't. You can't
Speaker 1: give four possessions away like that against anybody. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have had good luck where injuries are concerned this year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Trey Waynes has been out, Joseph Osai got hurt in
Speaker 1: the first preseason game. But now, as is inevitably the
Speaker 1: case in the NFL, they're starting to add up. They
Speaker 1: didn't have Hopkins or Reef on the offensive line. Darius
Speaker 1: Phillips missed the game. During the game, Burrow hurts his
Speaker 1: pinky finger. Marcus Bailey went out with a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: Logan Wilson went out with a shoulder injury. Should obey
Speaker 1: A Wooje went out with a foot injury. Of all
Speaker 1: of these injuries, which one gives you the most concern? Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. You know. I think that the one,
Speaker 1: the one that I'm concerned might be the longest in
Speaker 1: terms of damage done, is Logan Wilson's shoulder. I just
Speaker 1: have a feeling, you know, it's very rare for a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury to cause a cart to take you off
Speaker 1: the field, So, you know, was there some sort of
Speaker 1: a dislocation a major separation and things that if that's
Speaker 1: the case, we're not looking at just a few days.
Speaker 1: We're looking at a significant amount of time. So I
Speaker 1: think he's an impactful guy, you know, a playmaker type
Speaker 1: individual for the for the defensive football team. You know.
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of the other injuries I
Speaker 1: think are a shorter, you know, potential time frame. I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that they were they felt like
Speaker 1: we have this game anyway. But in my mind, the
Speaker 1: two offensive linemen that's at today, Trey Hopkins and Riley Reef,
Speaker 1: I think it was just to make sure that, okay,
Speaker 1: they're close, Let's not go out there and exacerbate it
Speaker 1: and make it a couple more weeks. Let's just make
Speaker 1: sure give it a few more days now that it
Speaker 1: feels decent, give it another few days where you don't
Speaker 1: have to play again for you know, over a week,
Speaker 1: if we if we are smart with this, and you
Speaker 1: should be able to finish the season. I think that's
Speaker 1: the move they made with those two guys. I'd be
Speaker 1: shocked if they don't play against San Francisco, but it
Speaker 1: would have been nice to have them today as well.
Speaker 1: But you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Speaker 1: You know, once you make a decision, you can't look
Speaker 1: back on it, and you just have to decide that
Speaker 1: that was the best decision to make and we'll move
Speaker 1: on from there. But Man's is playing so well that
Speaker 1: one too. I mean, if if he's got a Sometimes
Speaker 1: a foot injury is brutal because there's so many little
Speaker 1: bones and tendons and lincolns and stuff and a foot
Speaker 1: and that's you know, as Bill Walton, I mean, Bill
Speaker 1: Walton's career because of foot injuries just he never really
Speaker 1: had any kind of career he could have had at
Speaker 1: the next level. And he's a big, huge guy. It's
Speaker 1: like a tower with a crack foundation, but a guy
Speaker 1: like a woozier that has to plant and cut and explode.
Speaker 1: And when you have foot foot damage, I hope that's
Speaker 1: not significant, you know. I hope it's just like a
Speaker 1: foot sprain and there's no like displacement of bones or
Speaker 1: you know, like a ligament snapping over a tendon or
Speaker 1: whatever those things that can happen with a foot. I remember,
Speaker 1: the most brutal injury that I had is you you
Speaker 1: have these these bones under the ball, of your foot
Speaker 1: and you can have none, you can have one, or
Speaker 1: you can have two. Well, I had two under the
Speaker 1: ball of my foot and I cracked one of them
Speaker 1: right in half. And man, I mean it's brutal because
Speaker 1: everything you do is right there at the point. So
Speaker 1: if it's depending on where it is in his foot
Speaker 1: and everything he has to do around at that one,
Speaker 1: I guess concerns me a little bit too, But you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully the others are just treatment. Rest and come back
Speaker 1: and play more on Sunday's game. Join Lap and Lance
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Speaker 1: fun Fact segment, where you get to know the person
Speaker 1: under the pads. Talk for some fun facts with running
Speaker 1: back samaj p Rhine. Born and raised in Alabama before
Speaker 1: moving to Texas and attending high school there. Where did
Speaker 1: you spend most of your childhood and what were some
Speaker 1: of the things you enjoyed doing as a kid. I'd
Speaker 1: say early childhood. I split when my mom moved to Texas.
Speaker 1: I split a lot of my time between Texas and Alabama.
Speaker 1: And when I was in Alabama, it was outside in
Speaker 1: the woods, and when I was in Texas, it was
Speaker 1: you know, outside in the street, you know, playing football
Speaker 1: or basketball or you know, whatever I can get my
Speaker 1: hands on. You are the only Samaj in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Is there a story or a meaning behind your first name?
Speaker 1: The story is not as glamorous as people may sing.
Speaker 1: My grandfather's name is Samuel, and I have uncle's name Samuel,
Speaker 1: and my mom she wanted to sam but not Samuel,
Speaker 1: So she just came up with Samaj and said, so
Speaker 1: was it frequently mispronounced when you were a kid, And
Speaker 1: if so, was that annoying? Oh yeah, it still is
Speaker 1: mispronounced today. Um, not so much annoying. I mean I
Speaker 1: find it kind of funny, you know, to hear people
Speaker 1: my first day my last name. Actually, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I've heard some off the wall things, but it's a
Speaker 1: fun little game for me. To see if people actually
Speaker 1: get it right. And if they do, you know, kudos
Speaker 1: to them. But if not, then I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: hold any grudges. We're doing fun facts with some my JP. Ryan.
Speaker 1: I've read several stories about your weightlifting exploits as a kid.
Speaker 1: How and when did you get started? I think I
Speaker 1: got started freshman sophomore year in high school. Um, I
Speaker 1: mean Texas football. You know, they they were, especially at
Speaker 1: my high school, they were we we got after in
Speaker 1: the weight room, and uh, you know, I wasn't really
Speaker 1: I had dumbbells here and there, you know in middle school,
Speaker 1: but not that much. Had like twenty pounds dumbbells like
Speaker 1: duct tape some bricks on them. U. But you know,
Speaker 1: other than that, you know, high school. It is when
Speaker 1: I really got started in my junior senior year in
Speaker 1: high school. It is when it really, you know, really
Speaker 1: picked up. Like I was strongish freshman sophomore year, but
Speaker 1: junior senior year, if they got a few years under
Speaker 1: my belt, that's when it really really ramped up for me.
Speaker 1: Let's backtrack for a second. You duct taped bricks to dumbbells,
Speaker 1: It's just twenty pounds dumbbells. And at my parents' house,
Speaker 1: they had some some some bricks that they didn't use
Speaker 1: when they were building the house stacked in the backyard.
Speaker 1: So I would go out and get a couple and
Speaker 1: just duct tape them one of the dumbbells, whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: So as legend has it, you once lifted a car
Speaker 1: to help a woman change attire. True story or urban legend.
Speaker 1: The smart car count Absolutely it's a car. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say it's true. All right, I
Speaker 1: want all the details. Subscribe Lifting a smart car to
Speaker 1: help somebody change a tire. Um. It was later one
Speaker 1: night and I just seen she seemed like she was struggling,
Speaker 1: and um, she had a jack. But somehow the jack
Speaker 1: like it fell over and it just got wedged in
Speaker 1: between like the car and the ground. So um, I
Speaker 1: lifted it enough to get the jack back right to
Speaker 1: for the for the jack to hold the car up
Speaker 1: while we switched her tire. Tremendous story. We're talking to somebody,
Speaker 1: JP Ryan. After great high school football career, you chose
Speaker 1: to play at Oklahoma. You were actually part of the
Speaker 1: same recruiting class as your current teammate Joe Mixon, y
Speaker 1: O you and what were some of the things you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the most about your time at Oklahoma. I chose,
Speaker 1: oh you simply because of the opportunities that you know,
Speaker 1: that presented themselves there. You know, like you said, I was,
Speaker 1: I was coming in with with Joe Mix and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, they had two or three guys that were
Speaker 1: on their way out, so you know, the way we
Speaker 1: looked at it like we're gonna come in and you know,
Speaker 1: we're playing right away because you know, there's there's a
Speaker 1: big void that they you know that they need field,
Speaker 1: and we just felt like, you know, we could come
Speaker 1: right in and play. And that was one of my
Speaker 1: biggest reasons. And and because it was close enough to homework,
Speaker 1: could get back in a decent amount of time, but
Speaker 1: far enough away where I didn't feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: my parents were in my backyard, so you know that
Speaker 1: was that was fun. So you know, just get done
Speaker 1: in practice and you're five six hours away from home,
Speaker 1: so on or off, they can just run home and
Speaker 1: you know, had like nothing happened. But but you know,
Speaker 1: as far as um, my experience there was great. You know,
Speaker 1: to Norm's a great college town. It's um, it was
Speaker 1: just an extremely fun environment. You know, I didn't do
Speaker 1: much while I was there, but you know, they they
Speaker 1: treated us all, you know, fantastic, and it was just
Speaker 1: a great place to be. We're going to turn the
Speaker 1: clock back to twenty fourteen. I November fifteenth of that year,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon set the NCAA rushing record by running
Speaker 1: for four hundred and eight yards. He broke a record
Speaker 1: that had lasted for fifteen years. He got to enjoy
Speaker 1: it for one week because I November twenty second of
Speaker 1: that year, you set the record that still stands on
Speaker 1: a rainy day against Kansas, thirty four carries, four hundred
Speaker 1: twenty seven yards and five touchdowns. What are your most
Speaker 1: vivid memories of that incredible day. The most vivid moment
Speaker 1: was the week before. We were on our way home.
Speaker 1: I forgot who we were playing, and we were all
Speaker 1: on the bus talking about what Melvin had just did,
Speaker 1: and we were like crazy, like there's no way anybody's
Speaker 1: gonna touch that record for however many years, you know,
Speaker 1: we were all going crazy for him. And then when
Speaker 1: our game came, it was actually delayed because of lightning,
Speaker 1: and I'd already known it was going to be a
Speaker 1: run the ball type of day, and you know, I
Speaker 1: just went out and we ran the ball. Unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: our starting running back he on the first drive, he
Speaker 1: went out in fumble, and that gave me the opportunity
Speaker 1: to come in midway through the first quarter, and from
Speaker 1: there I just took my opportunities and ran with it.
Speaker 1: I'll say, have you ever discussed this with Melvin Gordon?
Speaker 1: Not in person, No, but we message back and forth
Speaker 1: on Twitter, and you know, I was like, man, my bad.
Speaker 1: It was blame my offensive line. They made me do it,
Speaker 1: and you know I was shying to sit out and
Speaker 1: let you you know, let you have you, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know he was, he was cool about it.
Speaker 1: Then we got a good laugh at it. But you know, no,
Speaker 1: we never never talked about it in person, but you
Speaker 1: know it was I feel sorry for him, but you
Speaker 1: know it was we had a we had a good
Speaker 1: little moment there. So you had runs of thirty three,
Speaker 1: thirty four, forty two, forty nine, and sixty six in
Speaker 1: that game. That's two hundred and twenty four yards on
Speaker 1: just five carries. But here's the most amazing stat of
Speaker 1: all to me, you left the game with more than
Speaker 1: twelve minutes to go, you could have rushed for five
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Do you think your record is going to
Speaker 1: last for a while and do you care if it does?
Speaker 1: We both me and Melvin both came out with a
Speaker 1: bunch of time left, so we both could have probably
Speaker 1: ran for a lot more than we did. But as
Speaker 1: far as how long it'll stay, and I have no idea,
Speaker 1: I'm semi surprised it hasn't been beaten, you know, with
Speaker 1: these crazy offenses nowadays and crazy numbers that people are up.
Speaker 1: But I don't really don't really care much about, you know,
Speaker 1: how long it lasts and will it ever be beaten?
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope it does. I hope someone has
Speaker 1: that great all day. But you know, when the day comes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be It's gonna be great. So people can
Speaker 1: stop talking about minds. One more question about a record.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has had some of the greatest running backs in
Speaker 1: college football history. Heisman Trophy winner Billy Simms, Heisman Trophy
Speaker 1: winner Steve Owens, Adrian Peterson, DeMarco Murray, your current teammate
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, etc. You are the all time leading rusher
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma and you did it in only three years.
Speaker 1: Is that a big point of pride to you? M
Speaker 1: I didn't come in thinking, you know, when I leave Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: I want to be this, this and that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just took all of my opportunities in stride, and
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of my career, there's just
Speaker 1: so happened that I became the all time leading rusher.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great feat to have, you know,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned all the great backs that that have
Speaker 1: been there before me. I mean, I love it. I
Speaker 1: don't hang my hat on it though. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not something that I really boast about. It just the
Speaker 1: opportunity was there and I took it. A few more
Speaker 1: fun facts with somebody, JP Ryan. You were drafted by
Speaker 1: Washington in twenty seventeen. Describe your draft experience. Didn't want
Speaker 1: to get my hopes up about, you know, where when
Speaker 1: I was going. I was just grateful for the opportunity
Speaker 1: to get my name called. UM didn't care where it
Speaker 1: was called. I just needed the opportunity, and you know
Speaker 1: it was it was a fun experience to have you know,
Speaker 1: family and friends around and to have them experience, you know,
Speaker 1: having a name called on the TV. I was cool
Speaker 1: with my my wife and my mom, but it was
Speaker 1: I'm glad I got to experience it. You know. I
Speaker 1: know some guys they have to take her harder route
Speaker 1: than me, you know, going through free agency and all
Speaker 1: of that undrafted free a and then all of that.
Speaker 1: But Tom, you know, it was cool, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just I don't think I really fully grasped what
Speaker 1: was going on while I was going on, but you know,
Speaker 1: after I got the call and talked with all of
Speaker 1: the the the reps and all of that, all of
Speaker 1: those guys, and just got to sit down and realize,
Speaker 1: you know, out of all of the athletes in the world,
Speaker 1: you know, they chose me. So that was that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool experience. All right. A few wild card questions
Speaker 1: to wrap it up. Who is your all time favorite
Speaker 1: athlete in any sport and why? You know? The crazy
Speaker 1: part about that is before I started playing football, and
Speaker 1: even still to this day, I don't watch sports nope,
Speaker 1: outside of film, and you know what we do here.
Speaker 1: I not a sportswaher as crazy that maybe I just
Speaker 1: never really got into into playing or into watching sports
Speaker 1: at all, like doing it, don't love watching it. Exactly
Speaker 1: all right. When it comes to your money, what do
Speaker 1: you like to splurge on? Definitely car parts. My uh
Speaker 1: my wife hates it. But anything with a car, you know.
Speaker 1: I have a twenty ten Camaro back home that has
Speaker 1: a big engine, big supercharger on. It's loud, it's obnoxious,
Speaker 1: and it's uh one of the faster cars that I've
Speaker 1: ever been in. But anytime that I can work on
Speaker 1: my car or my truck, and that's what that's where
Speaker 1: most of my money goes. Outside of the kids. I
Speaker 1: see the twinkle in your eye. You are a car guy. Oh.
Speaker 1: I love them, love them to death. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: have a job that can support my my habits. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to when it comes to cars, I
Speaker 1: love everything about them. Last thing, this is deep. If
Speaker 1: you could meet anybody in history statesman, politician, actor, or athlete,
Speaker 1: whoever it might be, who would that person be? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think it would be doctor Martin Luther King? Just
Speaker 1: so I can ask, like, ye, how did you keep
Speaker 1: the mindset that you know we're gonna be peaceful about
Speaker 1: you know, whatever we go, whatever we go through, whatever happens,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna retaliate. We're gonna, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: stand in solidarity. Like, how did you keep the right
Speaker 1: mindset to continue to do that even though everyone was,
Speaker 1: you know, pushing against you, everyone wanted you out of
Speaker 1: the picture. You know, Like, how did you clear your
Speaker 1: mind and focus solely on that and be successful to
Speaker 1: get your point across? You know? Just like, how did
Speaker 1: you do that? A great man, a great leader, and
Speaker 1: a great answer. Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1: This was fun. Best to luck the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate it. That's going to do it for
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