WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Going Off The Rails On A Crazy Train 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.439 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.800 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The I'm Going off the rails 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:16.279 on a Crazy Train addition, as we look back in 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.640 one of the craziest, nuttiest, wildest games in Bengals history, 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.360 unfortunately one that did not have a happy ending, as 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.960 Green Bay beat the Bengals in overtime twenty five to 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:32.640 twenty two. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.159 from players and coaches, and analysis from my broadcast partner 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.640 Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.519 get to know the pride of Parkston, South Dakota Bengals 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.280 offensive lineman Riley Reef. 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If you haven't watched it yet, just 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.680 go to Bengals dot com and click the video section, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.640 then scroll down until you see miked up. Listen to 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.240 Joe Burrow. After listening, don't be surprised if you randomly 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.360 yell out. You can't zero me in the days and 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:45.760 weeks to come. Now, let's get to Sunday's rollercoaster ride. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.200 Aaron Rodgers entered the game oh and two at Paul 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.800 Brown Stadium with losses in two thousand and nine and 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.000 two thirteen and the three time MVP. Got off to 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.880 a slow start on Sunday. Rogers back to pass, forced 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.560 to scramble to the right, running toward the near side, 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.520 the Fires went down field, intercepted by chitubay A Wooja, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.360 running up the sideline to the forty toward the middle 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.240 of the field to the fifty. The Packers forty five 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.800 gets tackled at the green bay forty two by offensive 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.880 lineman Billy Turner. Chitubay A Wouja picking off a pass 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.120 intended four to Vante Adams. And running it back into 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.359 green Bay territory. The Bengals weren't able to take advantage 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.600 of the i NT, but the next time they got 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.400 the ball, they got on the scoreboards. Joe back at 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.239 the nine in the shotgun first and goal from the four. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.000 Burro extends the hands, catches the ball, looks to pass, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:46.239 fires caught Bacti Riy touchdown Bengals as he peeled out 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.000 to the right, caught it around the two and took 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.120 it past the pylon for the touchdown. It was seven 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.360 nothing Cincinnati at the end of the first quarter, but 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.320 Rogers answered with a seventy five yard touchdown drive second 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.000 and ten from the Cincinnati twelve, Rogers stomps the right foot, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.400 catches a shoulder high snap, throws left, caught by dylon 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:12.320 tight ropes the sideline, hits the pylon, touchdown. Green Bay 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.600 lost coverage on Dylan aj Dillon's twelve yard grab made 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.440 at seven six, and it stayed seven six when Mason 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.040 Crosby missed the extra point. Crosby made a forty four 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.359 yard field goal on the Packers next drive to give 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.840 Green Bay a nine to seven lead, and late in 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.680 a half, that lead grew when Rogers aimed for his 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.720 favorite target, Aaron Jones lined up behind Aaron Rodgers tightly 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.840 bunched formation. Rogers throws it into the end zone and 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.360 it is caught. Now the ball pops out late. The 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.520 touchdown signal is given. Adams with the catch. Trey Wayne's 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 in coverage after Adams went out of bounds. The ball 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.720 popped out, but the official there threw up his arms 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.320 to say touchdown. Davante Adams, the NFL leader in receptions 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.040 going into the game, finished with eleven catches for a 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:05.120 career high two hundred six yards. Here's a wouje and 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.960 what the Bengals did to try to stop Rogers two 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.400 Adams everything, you know. We tried a lot of things. Obviously, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.159 great players, great connection between those two. He has some 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.240 row coverages, we have some double coverages, we have some 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.800 single dove coverses. We had quarters, we had man we 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.279 had zones, we had we had everything. The touchdown pass 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.080 made it sixteen to seven with sixty seven seconds left 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.600 in the half, plenty of time for Burrow to answer. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.839 Fifty seconds left. Shotgun snapped to Burrow. Good protection. He's looking, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.720 he's looking scrambling right, still looking Burrow is gonna step 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.120 into a deep ball finals down field for Chase. Yeah, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:50.880 he does. Look at twenty the ten the bullet touchdown Bengals. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:57.640 Joe Burrow waited and waited and waited, and eventually delivered 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.320 a strike to Jamar Chase for a touchdown with thirty 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.320 six seconds left and a half seventy yards from Burrow 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.799 to Chase. It was Jamar's fifth touchdown in five NFL games. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.760 Scrambled drew something we work on that practice ended up 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.640 happening in the game. I've seen Julle run out to 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.200 the other side of the field. I just cut my 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.040 eyes on Julian ranted on the side like he did. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.520 How tough was that all that? Dau looked like it 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.320 almost was right by his handy he touched it all way. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.800 I don't think he touched that at all, to be honest. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.080 It went straight through his arms, just like a distraction 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.799 drie really. Chase finished with six catches for a career 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.880 high one hundred and fifty nine yards, and the Bengals 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.760 trailed sixteen fourteen at the half. After winning the coin 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.080 toss and deferring for the ninth consecutive game, the Bengals 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.760 got the ball to begin the third quarter. They hit 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.320 scored on their first drive of the second half and 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.719 every game this season, but that streak ended versus Green Bay. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.040 Joe Mixon back in it running back, he bake a 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.960 toss sweep to the left in trouble, flings it down 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.800 field and it is intercepted. He was trying to float 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.880 it down inside the twenty fraudent Tate and Adrian Amos, 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.880 the Packers' safety, intercepts and goes down at the seventeen 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.320 yard line. The Packers turned that pick into points. A 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.960 forty four yard field goal by Crosby gave Green Bay 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.760 in nineteen fourteen lead. Going to the fourth quarter, the 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.360 Packers were on the verge of going up by two scores, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.080 as they had at first and goal at the six, 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.880 but the Bengals defense got a stop, forced Crosby to 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.600 kick a short field goal, and the margin was eight. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.840 When Cincinnati got the ball back with about eleven minutes 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.480 to go, Burrow and the Bengals went to work, putting 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.000 together a thirteen play seventy five yard drive to tie 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.120 the game. Two receivers left, one right, Burrow hands it 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.640 off mix and bouncing it wide to the right, cuts 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.520 back and takes it into the end zone. Touchdown. Bengals 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.359 three twenty seven on the clock. Now they will line 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.919 up and go for two to try to tie this game. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.480 The Bengals trying to tie it with a two point conversion. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.720 Burrow catches the shotgun snap he's back to throw, moving 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.600 to his left, throws toward the back of the end 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.320 zone by Hivens on the back line of the end zone. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.080 It's a two point conversion and the Bengals have tied 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.920 it with three twenty seven to go. The euphoria was 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:29.559 short lived. On the Packer's next play, Aaron Jones ripped 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.840 off a fifty seven yard run, setting up a field 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.600 goal try for the lead with about two minutes to go. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.080 This will be a thirty six yard try from the left. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.400 Hash Crosby's kick is up, it is no good. Crosby 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:48.480 missed from thirty six yards. His streak of twenty seven 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.960 consecutive made field goals going back to December twenty ninth, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.760 two thousand nineteen comes to an end at the best 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.760 possible time for Cincinnati. The Bengals got the ball and 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.000 picked up two quick first downs, Then on third and 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.000 five at the green bay forty two. They elected to 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.960 run the ball and somajp Ryan got tackled at the 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.760 thirty nine. It was Evan McPherson's turn to try to 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.280 win the game. Twenty six seconds left in regulation, the 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.320 Bengals will line up an attempt a fifty seven yard 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.840 field goal to take the lead. This would tie the 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.040 franchise record for longest field goal. Huber looks back at McPherson, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.960 staring at the rookie kicker just twenty two years old. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.079 Now the snap to put down, the swing of the 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.440 right leg, the kick on its way. It hits the 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.800 upright man bounces to the right. No good. McPherson's miss 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.959 gave Rogers the ball near midfield with twenty one seconds 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.040 to go. He fired a twenty yard bullet two adams, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.520 giving Crosby a second chance to be the hero. Three 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.800 seconds on the clock. The snap, the kick, It has 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:01.760 the distance. It is no good. He missed it wide left. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:07.000 After making twenty seven in a row. Crosbie has a 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.600 streak going in the other direction. He's missed too straight 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.160 and this game will go to overtime. The Bengals won 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.760 the toss to begin overtime, of course they did, but 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.959 their first play in ot was a disaster. Burrow extends 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.720 the hands, catches the snap from Hopkins, stands tall in 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.800 the pocket. Short pass picked off. The Packers are running 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.000 it back and the tackle made at the seventeen to 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:36.920 Vandre Campbell had the ball thrown right to him. I'm 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.280 not even sure who the intended receiver was. Terrible pass 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.960 by Joe Burrow, and the Packers are in position to 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.600 win this game. To Burrow's credit, he made the tackle. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.800 Had it been a pick six, the Packers would not 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.120 have needed to call on Crosbie for another game winning 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.160 field goal try. Here we go, the snap, the kick 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:02.160 kit's on its way. It is no good. Oh my gosh, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.840 I don't believe what I have just seen. Mason Crosbie 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:11.240 can't believe it either. He misses three straight after making 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:17.200 twenty seven in a row. Total disbelief from fans rooting 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.960 for either team here at Paul Brown Stadium. Let's face it, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.680 the Bengals had gotten lucky. Now it was up to 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.600 them to take advantage of it. A twenty one yard 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.080 passed to Chase moved them into Packers territory. But on 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.360 third and two at the Green Bay thirty three, Joe 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.480 Mixon was stopped short of a first down. So after 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.640 three miss field goal tries by Crosby and a miss 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.480 from fifty seven yards away by McPherson, the Bengals rookie 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.960 got another chance to win it. From forty nine yards out. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.000 Cuba ready for the snap from Clark Harris. He extends 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.480 the right hand, catches the ball, puts it down to kick, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.959 is on its way. It hits the upright. That is 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:02.520 no good. Oh my gosh. Five missed field goal. Unbelievable? 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.880 Does anybody want to win this football game? After drilling 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.320 game winning field goals and each of his first two 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.079 home games, mc pherson failed on two attempts to make 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.080 it three games in a row, and he was shocked 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.840 that his overtime try was no good. Honestly, I was 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.760 celebrating before the bowl. I guess curved to the left. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.760 But for me, what I saw as I struck it 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.960 really well, um and I saw it going right down 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.959 the middle, so I kind of I guess you could say, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.400 I kind of know whenever it's gonna go in. And 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.600 that was one of those moments and saw us kind 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.839 of celebrating with with Kevin whenever it when it hit 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.959 a hard left, and so I thought there was no 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.280 chance I was really missing left. Um. If anything, I 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:48.800 thought the win was bowling left or right, And so 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:54.520 I guess that that, as you could say. The when 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.679 the ball turned left kind of caught me off guard, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.439 And honestly, I thought the rest were playing a game 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.720 with us. Whenever I saw I look down there and 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.440 they were doing the no good motion. Honestly thought they're 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.480 playing a game, because I shrugged really well and I 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.600 was real confident that it was going through. The Packers 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.920 got the ball at their thirty nine and two big 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:17.520 pass completions by Rogers gave his teammate of fifteen years, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.280 Mason Crosby, one more try, a forty nine yard try 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.360 to win it in overtime. Crosby's kip on its way, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.720 it is good, and the Green Bay Packers win it 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.680 twenty five to twenty two. Here are Chittabay, a Wouge 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.440 and Zach Taylor on a crazy overtime defeats. Ridiculous. Man, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.640 I don't want to go through that too many more times. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.959 But uh, that's that's why we love it. That's what 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.880 we love the game, you know, um, obviously being in 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.760 it you get to feel the raw emotion. But as 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:56.640 a fan of the game and a fan of just competition, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.560 you know, you don't want to be in any You 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.240 want to be in a position. You want to want 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.040 to be the ones in a closing game and closing 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.400 it out. That thing was a roller coaster. Sometimes they 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.120 didn't know how we ended up in the situation where 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.760 were in. You know, probably they felt the same way 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.280 on their sidelines. But I just told our guys, I 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.880 know exactly what kind of football team we have now 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.360 if there's any questions about what type of fight we have, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.120 what type of energy we have, what type of love 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.400 we have for each other. And I know that the 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:22.760 people that are with the game today, the people that 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.240 are watched on TV, they should be proud of this team. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.840 And it's gonna come down to some last second place 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.080 and sometimes we'll make them, sometimes we won't. But this 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.240 team's gonna fight to the end against the great teams, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.080 great quarterbacks. And I believe in our guys and this 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:37.360 is going to serve us well. Over the course of 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.600 the season, the Bengals went toe to toe with a 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.840 team that's gone thirty and seven in the last two 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.480 plus seasons. But a loss is a loss, and in 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.679 the AFC North, you can't afford to lose when a 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.480 win is in your grasp. Here again are a Woojia 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.400 and Taylor. Personally, I think that was the toughest football 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.400 game I've been a part of, just the length of physicality, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.880 the assignment of going against a team like that. So 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.079 I think we were started to learn about ourselves. It's 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.480 going to be a great film to correct. Disappointed, but 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.240 I think everybody's looking in the right direction. We expected 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.240 to win this game going into it. We expected, as 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.520 it point out, we didn't need a moral victory to 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.880 show us that that we're capable of beating great teams 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.360 in this league. We just want to win them, you know, 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.480 want to put ourselves in better positions. But again, sometimes 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.840 when it comes down to something like that, that's just football. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.360 You know. There's there's a lot of teams that each 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.040 week walk off the field and they feel like there's 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.000 just an inch here there that would have made the 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.840 difference in today just didn't go away. And again, it 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.240 hurts to lose, but we got to pick ourselves up 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.680 and go on the road next week and go and 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.800 go play great game against Detroit, but winless Lions are next. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.840 They fell to and five with a two point loss 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.800 in Minnesota. Now time for postgame analysis for my broadcast 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.640 partner Dave lappa Lap. Just when you think you've seen 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:01.040 it all, you have not five consecutive missed field goals 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.360 between the end of regulation and overtime before Mason Crosby 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.840 delivers the game winner. The Packers tried to hand it 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.280 to the Bengals late and Cincinnati was not able to capitalize. Yeah, 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.520 I mean, no one wanted to win that football game. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:18.200 It'ston like down the stretch, it was crazy. They were all, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.280 you know, other than Crosby had one that was like, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.680 what from forty yards or something like that, or thirty 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.000 thirty six or something. He missed one that was kind 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.280 of makeable. But thirty six thirty six yard that he missed. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.760 That one surprised me. But all the others, you know, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.840 you're talking about forty nine to fifty five yard field goals. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.520 I mean they're they're not real easy makes. But in 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.880 today's NFL, the kickers are so good, your expectations are 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.360 I mean, shoot, the fifty. That's like the old forty 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.720 two yard field goal. Fifty yard field goal these days. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.120 And I'm telling you a boy, I commented during the 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.400 game that both kickers probably wanted to measure the distance 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.560 between the upper rights. They were just just missing hitting uprights, 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.960 clanging off of uprights and a just a tough, tough day. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.000 McPherson learned a lot today. I mean, that's a that's 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.880 a guy. The kickers tonight will not sleep a wink, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.040 There's no question about that. And there's not a whole 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.240 lot of guys who are gonna get great. I'm on asleep. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.200 Nobody's gonna sleep eight hours tonight, and I can tell 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.120 you that they're all gonna be. You close your eyes 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.720 and literally, Dan, it's unbelievable. I remember it's happening to me. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.240 Close my eyes and my balls became projector lenses and 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.520 you were seeing plays that could have gone changed the 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.200 outcome of the game. And this is one I can't 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.080 remember a game that has as many plays in it. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.760 You know, when you're factor in special teams, offense, defense, 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.520 it's like there's probably twenty plays that if any one 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.440 of them went the other way, it's a different football game. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.040 How about Evan McPherson leaping into the arms of Kevin 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.640 Huber on his last field goal attempt because he thought 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.200 it was good. He sees the no good signal and 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.840 he thought they were joking. That's how good he felt 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.920 about that kick. That thing hook It looked like it 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.840 was dead center and it kept hooking, hooking, hooking. The 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.600 amount that that thing hooked down the stretch was unbelievable. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.680 And I think that because he kicks it so straight. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.200 I think he was stunned. I don't know if it 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:15.920 was a breeze. I don't know what it was that 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.960 took that football, but it moved it from the middle 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.760 of the uprights to that upright big time in the 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.320 last twenty yards that had traveled. I mean, Zach Taylor 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.000 was talking about it in the locker room after the game. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.480 He was shocked how much that field goal moved in 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.560 the final few yards when it was in the air. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.639 There were a lot of plays in this game. First 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.240 drive of the second half, it was third down and two. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.440 They threw an incompletion. It was fourth down and two 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.520 they went for it. That got wiped out by a penalty. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.840 Too many situations in this game where the Bengals could 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.840 have moved the sticks and failed to do it. Yeah, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.560 I thought that there third and short. I mean, at 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.240 one point in the first half there were one for 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.600 seven on third down, third and one, third and two, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.840 third and three, third and four. You know, we're four 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.720 of the seven attempts on third down, and they weren't. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.159 They weren't converting, they weren't keeping the drives alive. And 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:07.919 I thought that was going to be a big factor. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.960 Obviously when you're playing against number twelve Aaron Rodgers, keep 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.520 drives alive, convert on third down, you know, melt the clock, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.600 you know, during the course of the football game, might 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.080 mean one less possession, one less opportunity. So I thought 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.879 two things. I thought their third down non execution in 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.000 the first half was painful. And I thought the fact 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.640 that they didn't take advantage of the turnover they got 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.800 nothing out of it. They got great field position at 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.359 the forty six yard line or something that went backwards 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.760 and got nothing in punt the football. And the interception 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.120 in the first half that Joe Barrow had green Bay 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:42.919 got three points out of So, you know, in a 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.600 game that tied at the end of regulation, twenty two, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.240 twenty two that the turnover situation the game. Even though 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.600 the turnovers were even, Green Bay came out plus three 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.480 in terms of points on those turnovers, and in a 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.320 game like that, that was big. But boy, you look 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.920 at Aaron Rodgers too. Dan Again, this guy's like drifting 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.119 to his left with his feet side by side, sideways, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.720 like shuffling to his left and throws a rope back 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.159 to his right, you know, to cob in a in 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.080 a porthole, you know, a tight, tight window. It's like, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.960 how the heck does a guy do that? Just shoulder 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.040 and arm strength, you know, and the accuracy and the 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.720 ability to throw it with some juice on it. He's 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.199 I think I have yet to see a quarterback that 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.240 has more arm talent than this guy. I really, this 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.879 is the third time I've seen him in person, and 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.000 every single time in at different stages of his career, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.440 and every single time he'll make a wow are you 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.280 kidding me? Throw? Patrick Mahomes is the only guy that 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.400 comes close for the ability to throw with a wide 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.679 variety of angles, you know, side, arm, over the top, whatever, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:47.760 and still deliver a good strike. And I still think 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.960 Rogers is even better. Yeah, I think at a comparable age, 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.080 Rogers and Mahomes were like, but this guy's now, he's 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.359 thirty nine years old, thirty seven, thirty seven, thirty seven 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.760 and doing at such an unbelievable level. And that's the thing, 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.840 you know. Zach Taylor mentioned it in the pregame show, 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.760 and I think it's worth repeating that not only is 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.760 this guy that type of physical talent, still, it's like 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.080 having an offensive coordinator in your huddle and at the 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.080 line of scrimmage, and Pratt was talking after the game. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.560 He said, Man, I'm telling you, this guy came to 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.400 the line of scrimmage in total control, changing players left 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.320 and right. Whatever we got in he had an answer 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.480 to it. He had the answer to every every question 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.760 in the test. And you know, it's it's just when 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.760 you're playing with a guy like that, it just gives 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.760 you so much confidence. It really does. I mean, man, 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.560 he just he raises everybody else's boat, you know, in 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.920 terms of the level of performance, because you just feel 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.000 like you're unbeatable when you're playing with a guy like that. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:47.720 Let's talk about the other quarterback, Joe Burrow. We found 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.480 out after the game he was taken to a local 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.960 hospital for a possible throat contusion. I've never heard of 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.120 that before. Bruised throat. Now, we happened to see him 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.160 walk out of the stadium as we were going into 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.360 the studio to record this podcast, and he looked okay. 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.760 I mean, he didn't appear to be in any sort 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:08.480 of excruciating pain. But that doesn't sound very pleasant. Yeah, 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.600 I mean, I've heard of fractured trachia. You know, how 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:14.960 does that must how must that feel? You know, I've 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.120 heard of a damaged Adam's apple, and you know, fractured 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.199 trachy and things like that. And I guess if he 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.840 got hit in the throat somehow by somebody's hand or whatever, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.400 that you know, they know it's bruised. They just want 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:28.439 to see how badly and if there's any cracks or 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.359 anything else going on in there. So if you have 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.119 a you know, a fractured trachia or something, you know, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.000 now it's tough to I mean, you're gonna be guttering. 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.560 You're gonna be uttering guttural noises, you know, for for 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.280 cadences and stuff. You know that that that might be 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.840 a little bit weird. But we're putting the cart way 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.760 before the horse. Hopefully it's it's nothing more than, you know, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.119 make sure check all the boxes and make sure that 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.280 you know that that he's able to go. How did 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.399 you think he played? I think he played, you know, okay, 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.280