WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: End of the Road 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.439 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:12.840 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The although we've come to the 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:19.919 end of the road addition, as the Bengals end the 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.880 twenty twenty season with a downer getting run over by 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.759 the Baltimore Ravens. Thirty eight to three coming up, you'll 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.000 hear radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, and 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.680 in depth analysis from Dave Lapham and in this week's 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.160 fun Facts segment, It's honestly one of my all time 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.040 favorite episodes of this segment as we go in depth 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.520 with rookie wide receiver t Higgins. The Bengals Booth Podcast 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.440 is presented by bud Light Seltzer. Refresh the game, and 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.960 here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.240 edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:01.000 or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, go Play, Spotify, 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:06.320 or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since The Beg's 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.440 documentary on HBO. I've never really been a fan of 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.000 The Begs, although I might be the world's biggest fan 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.119 of the Barry Gibb talk show skit on Saturday Night 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.800 Live with Jimmy Fallon and justin Timberlake where they sing 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.800 talking about chest here talking about crazy cool medallions. Look 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.240 it up if you've never seen it. In any case, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.800 I recently stumbled into The Beg's documentary that's currently running 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.440 on HBO, and now I can't get their songs out 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.480 of my head. So yes, Since episodes of this podcast 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.040 are always named for song titles or lyrics, it's only 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:51.840 a matter of time before you get a staying Live episode. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.680 Heard enough of me singing, I thought, so let's get 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.960 to football. The Ravens started the game with a twelve 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.840 play drive that took nearly seven minutes off the clock. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.600 It ended with a Justin Tucker field goal that made 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.400 it three nothing Baltimore. The Bengals answered with what looked 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.160 like a huge gain on their third play from scrimmage. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.520 Three receivers stretch out to the left, one out to 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.320 the right. It's third down and eight shotguns snap allan 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.920 with a quick throat caught by Tehiggins right springing up 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.200 the middle of the field. Penalty flags down. He's to 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.640 the fifty. The Baltimore forty five then goes down at 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.960 the Ravens forty and he appears to be hurt. See 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.880 Higgins grabbing at his hamstring after catching a pass that 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.240 breaks the team record for catches by a rookie, But 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.800 there are penalty flags down. If it's against Cincinnati, it 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.720 won't count, and te Higgins appears to be hurt. Well, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.440 he missed some practice time this week with a hamstring problem. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:52.600 It could be a pick offensive pass offense by Janyard 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.679 penalty third down. Yeah, they called the the OLDPI. That's 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.160 what allowed Tehiggins to break free. And then he exacerbated 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.560 that hamstring issue that he had. He was limited in 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.240 practices earlier in the week with a hamstring problem, and 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.720 now it's worse and he's still down on the field 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.000 getting attention from the medical staff. It wipes out the catch. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.240 And if the hamstring is in fact the injury and 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.440 he does not continue today, he will not break Chris 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:23.320 Collinsworth's franchise record. Instead, they share the record. His teeth 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.120 finished a fantastic rookie year with sixty seven catches for 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.960 nine hundred eight yards. Here's quarterback Brandon Allen on the 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.320 loss of a forty one yard gain and more importantly, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.839 one of the team's best weapons on a snowball from there. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.400 You know, anytime you get a big play like that, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.680 that one gets called back in two, you lose teeth 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.000 for the rest of the game with the hamstring. I 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.320 believe it was, so you know, like we said earlier, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.040 it definitely took some win out of ourselves. But you know, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.800 as a as a good offense, you have to be 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.800 able to come back from that and execute. And it's 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.680 it's always been next mentality. So you know, anytime it 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.320 was a really good player like Tea for a game 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.680 is tough. But you know, guys, I thought really have 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.800 been stepping up all year and continue to do that, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.320 and we just weren't able to get it done. No, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.200 they weren't. Meanwhile, Baltimore scored again on its second possession 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.280 out of a pistol formation. Jackson fakes a handoff, does 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.280 a piro wet now throws it deep down the middle 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.640 of the field. Boykin catches it at the five and 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:29.000 runs into the end zone with Lashawn Simms trailing him 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.720 a forty three yard touchdown pass Lamar Jackson to Miles Boykin. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.960 At the end of the first quarter, the score was 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.560 ten nothing and total yards were one fifty two to four, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.360 But early in the second quarter, the Bengals defense provided 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.120 a golden opportunity. Third down in five, the Ravens at 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.120 their own forty one, Andrews goes in motion. Lamar Jackson 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.919 back to throw, looking looking pump fakes, throws back again 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.279 and this time it was intercepted a team. Davis Gather, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.440 with his first career picked Marcus at the forty eight 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.360 yard line and the Bengals come up with a takeaway 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.360 and Margus Hunt got it again. Marcus Hunt, that's his 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.320 second chip, isn't that series a keen. Davis Gaither's first 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.000 career pick gave the Bengals the ball at the Baltimore 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.120 forty seven. They gained three yards on three plays and 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.960 had to punt. Baltimore took over at the seven and 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.679 basically put the game away. This has been a sixteen play, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.280 seventy five yard drive that's taken eight and a half 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.200 minutes off the clock. Third down in eight, Lamar back 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.279 to throw, chucks it toward the middle of the end zone, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.679 a sliding attempt and a touchdown catch for Hollywood Brown 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.599 beat Jayalen Davis very easily. It was seventeen nothing before 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.520 the Bengals even had a first down. They got three 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.520 in a row on their final drive of the first 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.200 half and got on the scoreboard thirty seven seconds left 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.799 in the half. Harris will snap, Huber will hold. Huber 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.000 looks back at the kicker, now turns his head, catches 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.000 the snap, puts the ball all down. The kick is 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.120 blasted by Cybert and it is good. It was seventeen 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.600 three at a half, but quickly became a route when 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.080 the Ravens scored on their first two drives of the 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.560 third quarter to by two. Formation. Now one of the 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.679 receivers to the left motions into the backfield. That's Dobbins. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.760 Lamar Jackson gives it to JK. Dobbins and he runs 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.279 into the end zone, scoring a touchdown for the sixth 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.120 consecutive game in his rookie year. Lamar Jackson rolls right, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.760 looking to throw. Being chased, now throws toward the end zone. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.280 It is caught for the touchdown by Hollywood Brown. That 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.039 made a thirty one to three, and Lamar Jackson was 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.520 done for the day with roughly four minutes to go 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.400 in the third quarter. He only completed ten passes, but 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.800 three were for touchdowns and Lamar ran for ninety seven yards, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.240 making him the first quarterback in NFL history to have 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.640 two one thousand yard rushing seasons. Michael Vick is the 0:06:54.800 --> 0:07:00.360 only other quarterback to have one. The only drama left involved, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.359 AJ Green was likely playing in a Bengals uniform for 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.600 the final time. He undered the game with sixty five 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.920 career touchdown catches, one shy of Chad Johnson's team record. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.520 After a fifty five yard run by Trevion Williams late 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.640 in the third quarter, aj drew back to back pass 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.360 interference penalties, one at the four yard line and one 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.520 in the end zone, putting the Bengals in perfect position 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.480 to try to get him a share of the team record. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.840 First and goal from the one. After the penalty, AJ 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.760 Green goes out to the right. Brandon Allen is under center, 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.920 the running back is Traveon Williams. Alan takes the snaff, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.160 fakes a handoff, looking to throw left for AJ Green, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.040 and it is intercepted by Marcus Peters. It was underthrown 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.400 by Alan, touchback and the Ravens deny the Bengals on 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.840 first in goal from the one. As Marcus Peters stepped 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.640 in front of AJ Green and intercepted that under thrown ball. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.200 I think the Ravens knew exactly what the Bengals were 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.800 trying to do. And now get Aj that touchdown and 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.239 again had thrown off his back foot as he's falling 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.080 away from the line of scrimmage, Calais Campbell providing pressure. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.840 The ball is underthrown and he never gets it out 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.120 outside the goal line. The whole ball has to cross 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.720 the goal line. It's a touchback. He was open, just 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.680 have to throw it out a back pyline. Yep, you 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.200 under threw it by a margin. Here's Brandon Allen. You 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.960 got the right looks for him, and you know you 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.000 got past interference on a couple of times, and then 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.080 uh uh, did not get the ball out far enough 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.600 for him on on the one so um definitely looking 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.040 at AJ's way, trying to get him a touchdown, and 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.200 I wasn't able to get it to him. Aj was 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.600 targeted six times and did not have a catch, a 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.080 disappointing ending to a remarkable ten year run. Here's teammate 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:49.000 Jesse Bates. I'm sure he's very disappointed because he deserves that. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.520 He's put so much into the city, into the organization 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.160 over the amount of years um and he deserves to 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.760 get that record, but he has a he has a 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:04.720 great life ahead of just that record. So I'm sure 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.680 he'll go play ball, you know, maybe not here next year, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.240 and I'm sure he'll have a lot of success because 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.480 I know what he stands for. So I'm very honored 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.720 to be able to play with someone like him and 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.480 also learn, you know, to help my help my career 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.880 out as well. And two plays after the Marcus Peters interception, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.040 the Ravens rub the little salt in the Bengals wound 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.480 second and two officially for the Ravens. Hutley turns left, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.880 hands it off to Dobbins. He runs for the first down, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.600 gets away from Pratt, sprinting down field to the forty thirty, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:42.480 the twenty, the ten, and the former Buckeye goes seventy 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.240 two yards for a touchdown as the Ravens continue to 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.439 pour it on. That was part of a one hundred 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.120 and sixty yard day for JK. Dobbins and part of 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.839 a four hundred four yard rushing performance by Baltimore. That's 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.800 the most rushing yards ever surrendered by the Bengals by 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.920 a wide margin. The previous high was three thirteen by 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.680 Kansas City in nineteen sixty nine, the bengals second year 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.080 of existence. Here's Zach Taylor. It was a challenge. I mean, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.120 we were missing a fair amount of guys over there. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.280 That's that's no fun, and I don't I don't question 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.199 the effort. Obviously, I haven't seen the tape yet, but 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.640 there was nothing that stood out in that standpoint. We 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.480 ran into a really good football team that can run 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.679 in as well as any team in the league, and 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.040 they had enough long runs there that that really broke 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.000 our backs in some situations. We do expect to be better, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.360 but it was a tough matchup right now. The four 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.080 hundred four rushing yards allowed was almost an NFL record 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.439 for the Super Bowl era. Ironically, the Bengal set that 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.320 record on offense in two thousand when they ran for 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.719 four hundred seven yards against Denver. That was the day 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.040 that Corey Dillon went for two seventy eight. The final 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.120 score Sunday was Baltimore thirty eight Cincinnati three, as the 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.480 Bengals managed to score just one field goal in each 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.880 of their two games against Baltimore this year. Here or 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.319 Zach Taylor and Jesse Bates not a rough finale, not 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.560 how we wanted to end, There's no question about that. Um. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.840 Certainly we did some good things the last two weeks, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.800 and and uh, we just got to continue to build 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.600 from everything good and bad that happened over the course 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.640 of the season and focus on improving over the course 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.960 to the spring. My mindset going into this game was 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.920 just play really hard for all the guys that has 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.240 put so much time into the season. Um, even though 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.200 we lost, got our butt kick tonight. UM, I just 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.760 want to focus more on, you know the guys, um 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.839 that continue to fight. You get to two wins back 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.280 to back in week fifteen and sixteen, UM, and that's 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.319 not that's not easy to do. So I don't want 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.640 to focus on the negatives. UM. I'm just gonna uh 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.440 go enjoy the you know the teammates tonight, UM, because 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.200 this won't be the same with some Without some of 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.640 those guys, that's won't be in the locker room next year. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.120 The Bengals finished four eleven and one. They're locked into 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:04.640 the fifth pick next year's draft after the Jaguars, Jets, Dolphins, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.520 who got the Texans pick, and Falcons. Now time for 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.200 postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave lapple Lap for 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.240 all the feel good from the last couple of wins, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.199 A lot of that was squelched in the final game 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.319 of the year against Baltimore just because of how lopsided 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.400 the game was. Do you think it changes anything in 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.080 terms of what Mike Brown might be thinking or really 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.160 the course of action that this team was likely to take. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.000 That's a that's a great question. I mean, you would 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.080 you would think it might give you some pause because, 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.960 I mean, this division opponent, your light years away from 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.960 the Baltimore Ravens. It's sixty five to six in the 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:49.559 two games this year. You convert four for twenty five 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.000 on third down. You know, you don't score touchdown, you 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.839 score six points and eight quarters, and then you give 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.319 up four hundred yards rushing to their offense. That's not 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.400 going to change and that's not going to go away. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.400 They're gonna have the same players in the same scheme back. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.920 So um, yeah, it's it's it's pretty remarkable. Now. You know, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.520 there are circumstances. Obviously, you're down three defensive your three 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.200 best defensive tackles, your three best cornerbacks, your three bests everything, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.080 but you you you think that you'd be able to 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.000 put up a little bit more resistance than what took 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.320 place today. I got out of hand early. It seemed 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.960 like the devastating offensive pass interference followed by the injury 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.640 to the hamstring at Te Higgins on that same play 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.959 took the wind out of the sales of the football team, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.280 I think pretty dramatically, and it took them a long 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.920 time to rebound and recover, and it was much too 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.800 late and they never did rebound and recover. So um, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.720 but yeah, I mean, you wonder you wonder about did 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:54.600 this devastation, this lopsidedness that had offset the feel good 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.920 part of the of the two game winning streak, because this, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.720 this was the litmus test they caught Pittsburgh when Pittsburgh 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.920 was in a lull. They weren't playing their best football. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.600 Houston's just not playing very well at all this year. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.240 Other than Deshaun Watson, They're a one man team basically. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.360 But this football team, they were playing their best football. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.680 I mean, they were peaking at the right time. And 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.280 this was the litmus tests. Was the brahmin or how 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.360 close will we come? How much better are we than 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.400 the first time we played against him? Not very much. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.920 There have been numerous reports in recent days about upcoming 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.960 changes that are expected on the Bengals coaching staff. Former 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.200 Channel five reporter at least Jesse was the first to 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.040 say that offensive line coach Jim Turner, defensive line coach 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.360 Nick Eason, and defensive assistant Gerald Chapman are expected to 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.960 be out. Since then, it has been reported that Bob mcnell, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.480 the wide receivers coach, in Jamal Singleton, the runnings backs coach, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.400 are not expected to be back. We do not have 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.240 Bengals confirmation on any of that, but it certainly sounds 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.920 like there is going to be a big shake up, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.240 even if Zach Taylor is back as head coach. Yeah, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.080 And I think it's interesting how much of it is 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.840 organization driven how much of it is the coach deciding 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.800 that they want to go elsewhere. I'm sure it's a 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.720 combination of both. But there are going to be significant changes, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.400 you know, in the coaching staff. And as a former player, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.600 that would have been weird for me to hear right 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.680 before the football game about all these coaches moving on, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.640 these guys that you were you know, you're you're working 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.120 with all week, you're prepping for the game, everybody's you know, 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.760 rowing the boat the same way. And this guy might 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.880 be going to Tennessee to coach an offensive line coach Turner, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.520 that was That's a rumor I heard out there. Coach 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.240 Singleton going to Kentucky, you know, other guys going wherever 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.320 that that that could be. I'm not saying that. It 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.400 certainly didn't help the cause. I think you shouldn't shouldn't 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.400 use it as a crutch that you got smoked the 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.040 way you got smoked. There are a lot of reasons, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.280 and most of it was lining up and putting on 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.840 big boy pads and not being able to have those 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.080 big boy pads on and not two chin straps on. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.240 You just got pushed around. I mean, it was a 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.360 physical football game for one team, and that team won handily. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.680 So you can't use it as crutch. You can't use 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.600 it as an excuse. But it's not helpful, you know, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.720 to have that kind of thing all come out right 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.720 before you go out to play a football game. And 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.360 what was almost certainly his last game in the Bengals uniform, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.680 AJ Green was targeted six times, did not have a 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.360 catch on first and goal from the one They clearly 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.320 wanted to get him the touchdown tying record to pull 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.680 leave an all time with Chad Johnson, and it was there. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.240 He was running across the field from right to left. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.840 He was opened in the back left corner of the 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.640 end zone. Brandon Allen had somebody in his face, didn't 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.800 get enough on the ball, and it turned into the 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.520 easiest interception that Marcus Peters might ever have. Yeah, that's true. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.920 I mean it just it just floated out there. It 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.840 floated their for him. I mean it just hung up 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.200 in the air and way short. You know, in a 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.880 situation like that, you throw it to the back pylon 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.600 from from a target standpoint, but you make sure if 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.160 it's it's not going to be caught, it's out of bounds, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.119 it's not going to land in the hands of the opponent. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.240 AJ Green didn't even op an opportunity to reverse roles 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.879 and play defensive back. It was underthrown to that extent. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.439 You know, you couldn't couldn't prevent the interception. So you 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.120 know that that play, that play certainly was a tough one, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.360 a tough pill to swallow, and to me, it was 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.000 it was almost sad. Uh, you know, to see AJ's 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.960 career wind down the way it did. I mean, when 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.240 I closed my eyes and think of AJ Green, I 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:34.679 see all kinds of unbelievable circus, acrobatic catches, making guys miss, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.800 splitting defenders and running, turning seven yard receptions into seven 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.640 yard touchdowns. All these things that AJ Green did. And uh, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.840 you know, the the last images that you have of 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.920 AJ Green or not those type of images. And you 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:52.760 got to realize that for a high, high percentage of 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.919 his career he was the other guy. He was the 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.119 guy that was just you know, struck the fear of 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.880 AJ Green into defense of backs league wide. Twenty fifteen, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.840 after AJ went for two hundred twenty seven receiving yards 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.480 against Baltimore, John Harbaugh famously said, one of these days 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.720 we'll figure out how to cover AJ Green. It would 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.520 be nice if we did it one time before he retires. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.560 They did it. They did it, no, no, no question 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.000 about it, and uh, I mean it was it was 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.680 a team effort. It was what the Baltimore Ravens did defensively, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.600 and it was what the Bengals didn't do offensively or 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.639 couldn't do offensively against that raven defense. For sure. Four 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:40.680 hundred and four rushing yards allowed, a Bengals record. They 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.400 gave up three fifty in the first three quarters. That 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.040 was a single game Bengals record for most rushing yards allowed. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.120 The NFL record survived of four twenty six going back 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.160 to nineteen thirty four against the team called the Pittsburgh 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.560 Pirates by the Detroit Lions, and then the modern record, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.440 which Cincinnati set offensively four hundred and seven yards in 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.560 the Corey Dillon two hundred and seventy eight yard game 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.719 against the Denver Broncos survived by three yards, so they 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.480 avoid the ignominy of giving up more rushing yards in 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.240 the modern era than any other team in history by 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.680 three yards. It's it's obscene, you know, I mean it 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:24.320 really is. The Ravens rushed for over three thousand yards. Now, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.880 they embarrassed a lot of people, but this was an annihilation. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.440 I mean, four hundred yards rushing in today's National Football 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.760 League anybody, any era National Football League obviously is rare 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.880 to be able to do that today is mind boggling. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.320 I mean, it really is. There. There has to be 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.160 so many factors, so many circumstances that have to align 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.360 themselves the right way in the universe to be able 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.800 to rush for over four hundred yards in an NFL 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.680 game today, because this is the number one rushing team 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.399 in the NFL by far, and you know, they've rushed 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.399 for three hundred on teams, but they've never rushed for 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.080 four hundred on anybody. And I mean, that's that is 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.800 almost impossible to believe happened. But we saw it happen. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:12.600 So it did well for everybody that's been upset the 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.400 last couple of weeks because the Bengals have been dropping 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.480 in the draft order. I guess they should be happy 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.640 because they did not drop anymore in the draft order. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.520 It looks like they're going to have the fifth pick. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.280 I'm a glutton for this kind of stuff. I actually 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.120 searched mock drafts on Sunday morning. They are out there. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.439 I looked at five mock drafts that I considered to 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:39.000 be from somewhat reputable sources. I mean, the melk Kuipers 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.000 of the world are not putting theirs out yet, but 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.600 these were at least, you know, they looked somewhat legit. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.720 Two of the five still have them getting Pinney Sewell 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.680 with a fifth pick, and there's probably a good possibility 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.959 that that takes place. Look what happens, Fields goes from 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.280 dropping from the number two quarterback to beating the number 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.600 one quarterback. I mean, it's a it's a it's an 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.200 instant gratification society. I mean, it's it's flavor of the week. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.919 I mean, what are we talking about here? So, uh yeah, 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.200 I mean it's it's possible. There's there's no question that 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.159 that Suol could be could be a Cincinnati Benglin. If 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.159 he is, that's great. Um, if he's not, I have 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.040 no I would have no issue if they traded back 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.719 and accumulated, you know, significant picks and so doing fifty 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:28.200 percent of first round picks fail fifty percent. I mean, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.879 it's a crapshoot. Crapshoot. So the only way that you 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.479 can increase your odds in that crapshoot is to get 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.800 more numbers, you know. And I've always been one that 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:41.879 if you have a weakness in a position, draft a 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.760 couple of them. You know, if you if you don't 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.320 put your back on the ball and one of them, 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.879 you're you're gonna get a fifty fifty shot with with 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.560 two of them. So, um, it's happened in franchise history 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.960 before that they've doubled down on a position group here 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.000 recently with a way Hand Fisher and on over two. 0:21:57.119 --> 0:21:59.680 I mean, it happens, but sometimes you go two for two, 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:01.639 a lot of times you go one for two, whatever 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:05.040 the situation may be. I just have no problem with 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.240 throwing numbers at problem areas in terms of number of picks, 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:11.920 free agent signings, whatever the case may be. If you're 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.840 gonna overhaul it, overhaul it right. The scenario that I've 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.480