1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody on dan Horde, and thank you for 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: downloading the Bengals Booth podcast Dundun Dundunt under Pressure. Addition, 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: that certainly describes Andy Dalton's night against the Pittsburgh Steelers 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: on Monday, and it also describes how the Bengals are feeling. 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: With an Owen four record coming up, you'll hear radio replays, 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: locker room comments, and Dave Lappham will join me for analysis. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: Plus in this week's fun Facts Conversation, we'll meet the 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: person under the pads as I'll talk to Bengals tight 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: end and soccer fanatic cj Uzama. All of that is 10 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder that you 11 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right 12 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: since the telestrator. One of the highlights of my week 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: is seeing Lap use the telestrator to break down the 16 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: Bengals next opponent in his lapse look segment on Bengals 17 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: dot Com. It's always informative and normally I just stand 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: there nodding and soaking it all in but this week 19 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: they handed me my own stylus. I get to doodle 20 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: as well. My contribution is likely to be very limited, 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: but it's fun to have that telestrator pen in my 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: hand for the first time. Now, let's get to football. 23 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: know that the normal routine after each game is to 25 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: provide a detailed recap with all the highlights and then 26 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: comments from the players explaining exactly what happened. There's really 27 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: no need to do that after Monday's twenty seven to 28 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: three loss to the Steelers. It can be summed up 29 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: in this montage of Andy Dalton getting sacked over and 30 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: over again on second out in five play action fake 31 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: Dalton in trouble. He is sacked back at the fifty 32 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: yard line. Dalton waits for a shotguns app stops the 33 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: right foot, catches the football, gets hit from behind, football 34 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: bops out, and the Steelers recover at the twenty nine 35 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: yard line. Man Dalton back to brow again and he 36 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: will be sacked back at the twenty eight yard line. 37 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,679 Speaker 1: And that might be the last grasp for Cincinnati here 38 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: in the first half. Yeah, they met at the quarterback 39 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: that time, ducking down in ten from the twenty five 40 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: yard line. Dalton back to throw again. He's under pressure, 41 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: he's in trouble, and he is sacked back at the 42 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: thirteen yard line. Right now, it is not a fair fight. 43 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: Dalton takes the snap, fakes a handoff and gets sacked 44 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: by what Back at the forty five yard line. Dalton, 45 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: we'll be sacked again, and back at the thirty one 46 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: yard lines. Jay von Hargrave applying the heats and it's 47 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: just a case of all four guys feeding at the quarterback. 48 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: They're just teeing off. Dalton back to pass again. He 49 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: gets smashed from behind and loses the football. Oh, he's hurt. 50 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: Fourth down and ten. Dalton back to throw and he 51 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: is hit and sacked and that is appropriate. Hallu Alu 52 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: sacking Andy Dalton on the Bengals last offensive play of 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: the game. Andy Dalton was sacked a career high eight times. 54 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: The Bengals team record for mo sachs allowed is ten. 55 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: It was Pittsburgh's ninth straight win over Cincinnati, going back 56 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: to the game in twenty fifteen where Andy Dalton broke 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: his thumb tacklings to Fontuitt after an interception prior to 58 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: that play. Here's what the Bengals had done in the 59 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: regular season with Dalton at quarterback. They had gone nine 60 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: and seven, ten and six, eleven and five, ten to 61 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: five and one, and were ten and two and the 62 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: number one seat in the playoff race at the time 63 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: of his injury. Add that all up and you get 64 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: fifty wins, twenty five losses, and one tie among the 65 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: best records in the NFL during that time period. Head 66 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: But since then, the Bengals are twenty one thirty four 67 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: and one. And it all started with a loss to 68 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: the Steelers. After Monday's loss, the atmosphere in the locker 69 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: room was grim. Here are Drake Kirkpatrick and Preston Brown. 70 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: You know, we gotta just figure it out. We gotta 71 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: get wins. They don't pay me to lose, you know 72 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And it is unstuffable to me. I 73 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: don't know how everybody else feeling about it, but just 74 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: Frustram Bro's frustrating man. Like I said, I'm trying to 75 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: be cool about everything, but this hot to hell. Man, 76 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: we going four Let's just sit this is this the 77 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: hottest he felt on four man. And then and then 78 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: that's to be said, Bro, can you describe the emotion 79 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: right now? Oh, it's tough to go onto a game 80 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: like this Monday night. You know everybody's watching you. You're 81 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: trying to get a big winner so that you're not 82 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: that team as you showed the first three weeks. But 83 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: we showed that we are that team. So we got 84 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: to keep fighting and show everybody that we can get better. 85 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: If not, we're gonna keep losing a lot of games. 86 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: So we got to change it. Right now. The Bengals 87 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: are one of six teams without a win. The Dolphins, Broncos, 88 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: and Raiders are also oh and four, The Jets are 89 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: oh in three, and this week's opponent, the Arizona Cardinals, 90 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: are O three and one. Time to take a look 91 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: at where things stand with my broadcast partner Dave Lap 92 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: them lap frustration is mounting. It was palpable in the 93 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: locker room after the Steelers game. Do you see a 94 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: team that is starting to get a little bit fragile? 95 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: You know it's in my mind having been through a 96 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: season like well, hopefully it's not going to be as 97 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: bad as the one I went through a four and 98 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: twelve season where we started off on and eight The 99 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: one thing that used to piss me off royally was 100 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: teammates that would come out of the shower and before 101 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: their last drop of water on them was dry, they 102 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: had forgotten about the game already. They were worried about 103 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: where they're going party, what were they gonna do? I mean, 104 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: they didn't give a damn about the football game, and 105 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: that used to drive me crazy. I don't see that 106 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: with this group, you know, and the fact that they're frustrated, 107 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: I think is that, you know, a decent sign. But yeah, 108 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: I think the longer they go without winning a football game, 109 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: you do become more and more fragile. And it's like 110 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: you're thinking, Okay, oh, forced fumble? Is this? Is this? 111 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: The game? Is this? And then don't take advantage of it? 112 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: She's maybe this isn't the game. You know, you feel 113 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: like you have no margin ferry. You have to capitalize 114 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: on everything, and when you don't, you have to fight 115 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: that mental tug of war of like there's gonna be 116 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: other opportunities in this football game. That's not the only opportunity, 117 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: you know, Like it didn't work out, Move on, you know, 118 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: see how how else you can play? You know, a 119 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: complimentary football you weren't very complimentary that takeaway by the 120 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: defense that puts you at the fifteen yard line. You know, 121 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: you got to do a better job than that. But 122 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: it is, it's it's it's very it's Uh, that's where 123 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: sports psychologists make a lot of money because because you 124 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: you do. You come home and I just remember, you know, 125 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: sleepless nights. The said up many times looking at the ceiling, 126 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: and the ceiling becomes you know, a movie screen and 127 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: you're just seeing all these things that you remember about 128 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: the football game. And you know, when you're when you're 129 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: married with children, Um, it's it's a it's a good distraction. 130 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: You come home, they're smiling. No matter what, you know, 131 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: they still like you, although you feel like nobody does. 132 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: You don't want to see neighbors, you don't want to 133 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: see friends, you don't want to see anybody. You're embarrassed. 134 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: And then also your kids go to school and uh, 135 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: they're the butt of jokes and so it has a 136 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: big effect on on the dynamic of families. And that's 137 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: what people You know, people don't understand, you know, when 138 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: when they have problems at work and it affects their family, 139 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: nobody else knows about it. But this the reason the 140 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: guys make big money. It's such a public deal. Everything 141 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: that they do is uh, is seen by everybody, so 142 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: there's no hiding and UH and it does have a 143 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: ripple effect on families at times, for sure. So if 144 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: you're listening to this podcast and your kids go to 145 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: school with the kids of Bengals players or coaches, tell 146 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: your kids to be nice exactly. Laughter. Are six winless 147 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: teams in the NFL right now. Five have new head coaches. 148 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: Looking back historically Sam White and five. To begin his 149 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: tenure as the Bengals head coach, Bill Walsh turned out 150 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: to be pretty good. He started his tenure in San Francisco, 151 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: oh and seven. It's a complicated game. I know people 152 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: don't want to hear this, but does it take time 153 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: to implement new systems? It does, you know, And sometimes 154 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: the system you want to implement, you don't quite have 155 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: the personnel to implement it the way you want to 156 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 1: implement it, So then you have to massage your system 157 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: to fit the personnel. You know, you don't want to 158 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: say this is what I'm going to do, no matter what, 159 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: if you don't have the players to do it, you 160 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: know we said this more times than one. The great 161 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: Don Shula Bumfields was talking about him. He said he 162 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: can take his and his and and beat your, and 163 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: he can take urn and beat his, and he could 164 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: adapt and adjust to whatever he's got. If he's got 165 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: you know, Larry zunc and Jim Kick, he's gonna run 166 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: one style of offense. He has Dan Marino and Nate Moore, 167 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: he's gonna run, you know, another style of offense. So 168 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: you know, uh, you have to adjust, and the coaches 169 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: have to find out what the players can and can't do, 170 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: and the players have to really understand the expectations of 171 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: the coaching staff um what they want out of them. 172 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: And it does, it does take some time. I think. 173 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: You know, if you'd won the Seattle game, I wonder 174 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: if you know they'd be one and three or if 175 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: they'd be two and two, three and one. You just 176 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: never know. But the fact that they didn't get that 177 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: one under their under their belt and then had that performance, 178 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: you know, they played pretty well and then really struggle 179 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: played pretty well in Buffalo or you know, recover really 180 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 1: struggle in Pittsburgh. You know, how will they respond this 181 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: one in Arizon? You don't like to have that pattern, 182 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: know of up and down, up and down. All you 183 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: hear players and coaches talk about in any sports consistency, 184 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: and right now they're the model of inconsistency with these 185 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: up and down performances. Individually and collectively, they've been very 186 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: consistent with their inability to stop sideline to sideline misdirection 187 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: type plays. Since the San Francisco game, teams are pulling 188 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: out anything they have in their playbook that kind of 189 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: fits that description. Are their fundamental flaws in the Bengals 190 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: defensive personnel that makes it hard for them to stop 191 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: those kinds of place. You know, I think everybody talks 192 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: about trying to get people in space, and those kind 193 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: of plays a lot of times will get people in space. 194 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: And it was the darnest thing watching the Steeler game. 195 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: They never stretched the defense vertically except for a couple 196 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: of times, but they stretched them to death horizontally. They 197 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: made them defend you know, fifty three and a half 198 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: yards whatever. With the football fields, they had to defend 199 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: every bit of it. And that's what that's what teams 200 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: are doing. They're not they're stretching them more horizontally than 201 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: they are vertically. Even in the passing game, you know, 202 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: it's short throws to the to the perimeter, you know, 203 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: horizontal stuff, play action screens, and I mean Pittsburgh Steelers. 204 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what their average ball thrown past the 205 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage because more than half of them, I 206 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: think we're either at or behind the line of scrimmage. 207 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: I think their average attempt on however many throws they 208 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: had in that football game, might have been five yards 209 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: down the football field. The ball wasn't down the field 210 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 1: very much, but man, they had stretched that defense out 211 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: with motion, like you say, Dan, you know, jet sweeps 212 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: and and then you know the shovel passes they were thrown. 213 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: That's that's an extension of the running game. Instead of 214 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: you know, handing the football off, you know, you're just 215 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 1: letting it leave your hand for a yard to somebody 216 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: else's possession. So um, you know, you look at it 217 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Oh, they didn't really run the ball all 218 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: that great. Well, you throw those shovel passes in there. 219 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: They ran the ball pretty darn well. And it was 220 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: amazing to me that Fickner decided even with as good 221 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: an offensive line I have as I have in Connor 222 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: and Samuels and we have to do it differently. I 223 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: mean he abandoned all their power running game stuff that 224 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: didn't done over the years and did all this trickeration stuff, 225 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: so that that's going to be interesting. And you know, 226 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: at some point they're gonna have to throw the football 227 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: down the football field. They didn't have to do it 228 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: Monday night, but at some point they're gonna have to, uh, 229 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 1: you know, take the training wheels off Mason Rudolph and 230 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: let them ride a two wheeler for a little while. 231 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: Does any Bengals position group get a decent grade at 232 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: this point? I mean, you know the game number one, 233 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: you say, man, the defensive line. Wow. But you know 234 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: they've got I think one sack in the last eight quarters. 235 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: You know that that part of it. And it's not 236 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: just sacks, it's tackle for loss. It's the consistent pressure 237 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: that they put on Seattle, put on Seattle's running game, 238 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: put on Seattle's passing game. You know that hasn't that 239 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 1: hasn't really materialized since now there have been injuries. They 240 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: have three guys down, you know, the last last couple 241 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: of games, they've only get seven defensive linemen in the rotation. 242 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: So they have been limping a little bit there. But 243 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: you know, the linebacker group is the one that people 244 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: attacking with these misdirections and making them run you know, uh, 245 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: and getting them in space and trying to make them 246 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: miss in space and those kinds of things. So, you know, 247 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: the linebacker group, I don't know if you it's defensively, 248 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: you know, I can't give any group wide. Receivers would 249 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: probably be the closest group in my mind offensively the 250 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: offensive line, and you just can't give them any kind 251 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: of a passing grade after the Pittsburgh fiascou So, yeah, 252 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: that's that's that's part of the problem is the reason 253 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,079 Speaker 1: they haven't won a football game. They don't have any 254 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: position group that every single game has competed at, you know, 255 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 1: the highest level that you have to compete at. Three 256 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: touchdowns and eleven red zone trips for the season. That's unbelievable. 257 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: What's the biggest problem in the red zone? You know, 258 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: not not running the football. I think when when the 259 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: field compresses, um, it's harder to find holes, you know, 260 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,319 Speaker 1: in coverage a lot of times, and you do have 261 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: to have some sort of a presence in the running 262 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: game to tighten the linebackers even more so to the 263 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: line of scrims to create some kind of cavity, you know. 264 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: And and right now, um, the linebackers aren't feeling like 265 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: they have to creep up and crawl up there. So 266 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: you know, they're just and then they're they're they're making mistakes, 267 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're having protection problems. Um, you know, 268 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: they're just just not executing. Again, it's they're just sputtering, stammering. Um. 269 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: They have not had one red zone possession that you know, 270 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: say from the seventeen yard line. They ran three really 271 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: good cris plays were like, wow, that was that was impressive. 272 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: The three plays they ran inside the twenty there that 273 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: led to that touchdown, you know, one set up another 274 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: and they finished it off with this. It's just been 275 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: so piecemeal and so like you know, and I know, 276 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: they spend a lot of time on situational football. I mean, 277 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: they spent a lot of time on red zone preparation. 278 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: And last year the one thing they did do well 279 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: is they were third in the NFL seventy one conversion 280 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: percentage and touchdown on the red zone. Not so much 281 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: to start off this season for sure, And and not 282 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: only you know, not scoring touchdowns. Two of the three 283 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: red zone possessions against Pittsburgh. Nothing Squad Douche. You know, 284 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: you fumbled the ball in a sack they were covering, 285 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: and thrown interception on fourth down from the twelve yardline 286 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: I think it was or sixteen yardline, whatever it was. 287 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: I mean, just trying to make a play. Those are 288 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: those are desperation scenarios there. That's that's that's tough. Laugh. 289 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: The Arizona card those are coming to town on Sunday. 290 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: They were three and thirteen last year, earning the number 291 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: one pick in the NFL Draft, and they used it 292 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: on Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Kyler Murray out of Oklahoma. 293 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: He has five ten that would have been unheard of 294 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: a few years ago. What are the Bengals going to 295 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: see from Kyler Murray and the Cardinals offense on Sunday? Well, 296 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: I think five ten might be when he's on his 297 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: tippy toes. I mean, he's a generous five to ten 298 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: And hopefully what Kyler Murray is going to see from 299 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: the Bengals, there's a lot of people in his space, 300 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's what they have to do. 301 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: His shotgun is a little bit deeper than most. He 302 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: wants to get that separation, kind of like Russell Wilson 303 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: that they have that longer shotgun deal in Seattle, and 304 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: I think he's right now aspires to be where Russell 305 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: Wilson is. I think Kyler Murray is even a little 306 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: bit quicker than Russell Wilson. I'm not saying is clever 307 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: at this stage of his career, but he has a 308 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: very accurate thrown on him like Russell Wilson as well. 309 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: So I think that the Bengals got a good dress 310 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: rehearsal quote as such by how they contain Russell Wilson. 311 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: But this is going to be a different looking offense 312 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: than Seattle put out there. Cliff Kingsbury's going to run 313 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: his air raid stuff that he did at Texas Tech, 314 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: and it's going to have a lot more sizzle to it. 315 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: It's not going to be lining up and say I'm 316 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: going to out muscle you and you know I'm better 317 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: than you. He's going to have some dipsy do to it. 318 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: Because trickerations in missdirections killing the Bengals right now. Lap 319 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: the Bengals allowed eight sacks on Monday Night in Pittsburgh, 320 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: and now the Cardinals are coming to town on Sunday, 321 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: featuring the duo of Chandler Jones and Terrell Suggs. Jones 322 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: has had ten plus sacks each of the last four years. 323 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs is about to turn thirty seven, but he 324 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: still gets after the quarterback. He leads the Cardinals with 325 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: three and a half so far this year. How did 326 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: the Bengals neutralize the pass rush this week? Yeah, Sugs 327 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: has three and a half, Jones has three. Pretty good 328 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: out of that duo. And then don't sleep on a 329 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: guy named Zach Allen, this kid from Boston College, third 330 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: round guy. He brings it. He brings the pass rush 331 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, the Bengals are going to have 332 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 1: to do a much better job obviously in their one 333 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: on one matchups than it did in Pittsburgh. I think 334 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: the biggest way to neutralize the pass rush is to 335 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: play with the lead. You know, you get down you 336 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: know two three scores in the National Football League, and 337 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: these guys are just pinning your air's back and no 338 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: regard for the run whatsoever. I can tell you that 339 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,880 Speaker 1: is brutal to try to get done. You know, pass 340 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: rush drill in practice when you're going one on one 341 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: and they have all this space to operate in. That's 342 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: what it feels like, you know, in a game, it 343 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: feels like one on one pass rush. They have all 344 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 1: the advantage. You really don't have any you know, maybe 345 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: a drawer or a screen to maybe keep them off 346 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: balance a little bit, but that is it's like trying 347 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: to block a great player with one hand tied behind 348 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: your back when you're in that situation. So you're gonna 349 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: have to, you know, make sure that it is a 350 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: competitive game or you're playing with a lead, because you 351 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: don't want to be you know, a score or two 352 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: behind trying to pass block these guys. It's it's it's 353 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 1: danger written all over that last thing. I feel like 354 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: we need to practice this because it's been a while. 355 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: When the Bengals make the play that essentially clinches the win, 356 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to say coffin nails and you are going 357 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 1: to say bam, bamm. Let's hope that lap is belting 358 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: that out around four o'clock on Sunday. Now, time for 359 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: this week's fun Facts Interview, where we get to know 360 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,959 Speaker 1: the person under the pads. This week, it's a tight end, 361 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: who got a three year contract extension in the off season, 362 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: earning him a lot of money and a second appearance 363 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: on this segment. Time for an updated edition of fun 364 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: Facts with Bengals tight end CJ Uzama. We did one 365 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: of these your rookie year, and I asked you what 366 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: CJ stands for, because it's not in your bio, it's 367 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: not in your Wikipedia page. You told me Christopher James. 368 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: But then also that your birth name is Christopher Michael 369 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: Charles Timpson Junior. Before you were adopted by the Uzamas. 370 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: When did they come into your life? So it was 371 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: my step dad and he came into my life when 372 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: I was seven and he's been my dad my entire life. 373 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: I called him dad, So it was only right that, um, 374 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: you know, I incorporated the last name and so you 375 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,239 Speaker 1: know my name and change my name up and kind 376 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: of show him the respect that, you know, I think 377 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: that he deserves. It seems like you are extremely close 378 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: to your folks. You're an only child. I'm the father 379 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: of an only child, so I kind of identify with 380 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: what that's like. Yeah, it's for them, they probably want 381 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: to be closer now, but yeah, I am close with them. 382 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I am their only kids, so they, I'm sure, 383 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: like you, tried to keep their my best interests at heart, 384 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: and I was just saying small things, sending me a 385 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: text every day, so I am very close with them. 386 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: For sure. You were a high school quarterback. Why did 387 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: you switch to tight end? I think mainly colleges were 388 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: going back and forth saying that I might play quarterback, 389 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: but they might switch me. And Auburn came in and said, hey, look, 390 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: we'd just going to be straight up with you. You're 391 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: not going to play quarterback here. I just appreciated them 392 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: being straightforward, and I knew that I wasn't the best 393 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: quarterback per se, but I could be able to do 394 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: other things, so I kind of switched positions and press 395 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: as sister. I guess from then, did any big time 396 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: schools recruit you as a quarterback? Northwestern, I know for 397 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: sure said quarterback and that would be it, And it 398 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: was cold, and so now I really appreciated that, and 399 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: so I talked to them a little bit um and 400 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: but I just kind of wanted to sit down South. 401 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 1: The year before you got to Auburn, they won the 402 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: national championship with Cam Newton at quarterback. You were being 403 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: recruited that year. I assume did you attend games that 404 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 1: year and did you have any interaction with Cam? So, actually, 405 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 1: I had committed before that, so I went to every 406 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: home game. I missed. I left early one game and 407 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: it was when they were playing LSU. Other than that, 408 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: I was at every home game. I got to witness 409 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: all those amazing games, all those high schooling games. I 410 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: got to watch Cam and it was awesome. Yeah. So 411 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: I did get to meet them and kind of have 412 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 1: a little relationship with him, and it was awesome. I mean, 413 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: coming in I was like, dude, this is no way 414 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: this guy plays quarterback. Is a dinosaur. That's what one 415 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: of the coaches to calm dinosaur that don't make them 416 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: like him anymore. So, um, now, I was honestly for 417 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: a high school kid to be able to watch that. 418 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: Coming into a college, I'm like, man, this is this 419 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: is amazing, this is this is easy. We could do 420 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: this every every year. So it was it was truly 421 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: a unique experience. We're doing an updated round of fun 422 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: Facts with c j Uzama. Your sophomore year at Auburn, 423 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: you didn't win a game in the SEC and the 424 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: coaching staff got whacked. The next year, you make it 425 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: to the National Championship game. How was that possible? I 426 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: think just you know, having a fresh mindset coming in, um, 427 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: you know, you we have a whole new coaching staff, 428 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: whole new strength and conditioning staff, whole new you know, 429 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: we just kind of put everything beside us behind us 430 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: and kind of came together as a team. It was 431 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: a tied, a snit team that had that had my 432 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: four years at Auburn, and the leaders really stepped up 433 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: and kind of just propelled us and put us in 434 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: a position to win games late in the game. But 435 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: then you know also early on and doing our bubble 436 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: drills and doing our two days and things like that. 437 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: So it was really like the competitive edge of all right, 438 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: we're not we we know what we went through last 439 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: year and that's not going to ever happen ever again, 440 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: Like we can't let that happen. So again. That was 441 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I think one of the biggest turnarounds in 442 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: college football history of I can't imagine they're being a 443 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: bigger one, but it was. That was sick. It was awesome. 444 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: In that year, you played in one of the most 445 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: memorable games in college football history, the Iron Bowl game 446 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: against Alabama with a one hundred nine yard return of 447 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: a miss field goal to win the game, the famous 448 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: kick six. What are your most vivid memories of that day? 449 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: Of that day? So it's crazy, actually, So I'm running 450 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: on the field. I think I'm the only one who's 451 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: running towards the pile, also looking back and looking back 452 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 1: to make sures no penalties. Everyone else is just sprinting 453 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: to this pile, and I'm like, wait, they're better not 454 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: They're better than not. Be a blog him back a 455 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: holding I'm looking back. I'm like, yes, get onto the pile. 456 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: And I had hurt my shoulder that game, so I 457 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: kind of get off immediately, like this is stupid. Get up. 458 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: I start running back and I get to the you know, 459 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: maybe the thirty five, and I see one of my 460 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: high school teammates who played for Alabama, and so I 461 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: gave him a lfe little hug, which was cool to 462 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: be able to see him. And through all the madness, 463 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: I look up and there's a wave of students and 464 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: the only thing I'm thinking is there's no way I'm 465 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: getting back to the locker room. I'm gonna be out 466 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: here for the longest time, and people got stuck out there. 467 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: Chris Davis ended up getting stuck out there for like 468 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: an hour and a half. Like I made the return, 469 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: guy who made the return could not get back. And 470 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: through all the madness, I saw my roommate Tate O'Connor, 471 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: who is I'm you know, I'm his son's godfather, which 472 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: was awesome, and all this madness, and my other roommate, 473 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: Trey Mason, the running back at the time, comes up 474 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: hugs me, so we all three got a picture, which 475 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: is probably the more memorable thing of that night, just 476 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: because through all these eighty thousand people on the field, 477 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: we on each other and got to get a picture. 478 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: So it was it was awesome to me. One of 479 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: the things that makes sports great is irrational sports hatred. 480 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: How you feel about your rival. Do you have irrational 481 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: sports hatred for Alabama? I have more so that towards Georgia. 482 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 1: Being from Georgia, I I don't like Alabama, you know, 483 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: like I But at the same time, I know so 484 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: many of their players growing up and and and um, 485 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: you know, even in high school we played against Alabama teams. 486 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: Being from Georgia, we played against Georgia Alabama all the time. 487 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: You know, my high school did, so I knew a 488 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,719 Speaker 1: lot of their players. But Georgia, I just growing up 489 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: in Georgia. All I heard I went to north Wind 490 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: that we were the Bulldogs. I saw a red, black 491 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: and white and just bulldog all day every day, and 492 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: I I, there is, there is, and it cannot I 493 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: cannot describe it. So um, when we won uh the 494 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: week before against you, to me, even though obviously the 495 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: kicksakes most unbelievable play I think personally in college history, 496 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: a week before to me meant more because I was like, 497 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: I get to go home for the next year and 498 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: I will not hear any Georgia fans say one word 499 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: to me and I'm gonna love it. So yeah, Georgia 500 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: to me is more irrational hate. Good to know you 501 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: moved to Nashville in the off season, so you're about 502 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: halfway between where you grew up and where you work 503 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 1: now in Cincinnati obviously the home of the country music 504 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: scene and a lot of music in general. Do you 505 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: get into that kind of stuff when you're living in 506 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: Nashville in the off season. I do a little bit. 507 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 1: I like all music. I've I said don't like country music, 508 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,399 Speaker 1: but I listened to country music more than probably a 509 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: lot of other people. I do enjoy it. I like 510 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: going out. I don't really go to Broadway. Broadway is 511 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: a very it's very hectic and crazy, but I like 512 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: going to like more low key out of you know, 513 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,040 Speaker 1: just random spots where local music is being played. And 514 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: I don't know a few people that are in the 515 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: music industry, so we go to a lot of concerts 516 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: and again it's more low key, it's not too crazy, 517 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: not too hectic. I love it. I love music. Music 518 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: to me is aside from football, family and God is 519 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: my life. I think that it just changes my mood 520 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: or helps my mood or whatever it is. There's something 521 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: that music can bring it to my life. So I 522 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: couldn't be happier that I moved to Nashville and have 523 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: that influence. Last thing, you're a soccer fanatic. Chelsea is 524 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: your team They won the Premier League title in twenty seventeen. 525 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: My team Leicester City one in twenty sixteen. What is 526 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: your Chelsea routine? Do you get together with supporters to 527 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: watch matches when you can, do you put on the jersey? 528 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: What is your routine. But I will say I watch 529 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 1: almost every Chelsea match. It's kind of tough. There's a 530 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: website that I use that no longer is working. So 531 00:27:54,560 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: but I have two friends. One's name is DeAndre water Um. 532 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: He went to Arrival High school of mine and work 533 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: really close friends. And another kid went to Auburn with me. 534 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: And we'll snapchat each other Wills. Wills and I will 535 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: snapchat each other and white when the game begins. DeAndre 536 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: and I will talk to each other after the match. 537 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: And obviously I follow CHELSEAFC in the USA, so there's 538 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: a Twitter that I follow that I kind of contact 539 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: every now and then as well. And now I depends. 540 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't wear clothes something like a jersey, 541 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: I should say sometimes because I start sweating. I don't 542 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: want I don't want to sweat in my jersey. You know, 543 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: it's a nice kid. I want to make sure it 544 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: stays stays such, So um, I put on something else probably, 545 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: but um, I'll sit down and there's no phones down 546 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: unless they score, and then I'll tweet something maybe, but 547 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: phones down and I am in it for forty five 548 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: minutes or forty seven minutes at a time and nobody, 549 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: my girlfriend, my parents. It does not matter what's going on. 550 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm blocked in to the match of the entire time. 551 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: Have you made it there yet? I have not. I've 552 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: not made it there yet. I'm going I'm playing after 553 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: the season. Appreciate your time as always, best of luck. 554 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: I always enjoy it. Thank you very much. We want 555 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: to remind you that you can join us and meet 556 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: Bengals players at our on location radio shows. This week. 557 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: On Wednesday night from six to eight, will be at 558 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: Logo Sports Bar at eighty nine fifty four Blue Ash 559 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: Road for the Bengals Game Plan Show. 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