WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Under Pressure 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.920 Hi, get everybody on dan Horde, and thank you for 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:13.280 downloading the Bengals Booth podcast Dundun Dundunt under Pressure. Addition, 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.520 that certainly describes Andy Dalton's night against the Pittsburgh Steelers 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.759 on Monday, and it also describes how the Bengals are feeling. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.040 With an Owen four record coming up, you'll hear radio replays, 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.960 locker room comments, and Dave Lappham will join me for analysis. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.440 Plus in this week's fun Facts Conversation, we'll meet the 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.040 person under the pads as I'll talk to Bengals tight 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.920 end and soccer fanatic cj Uzama. All of that is 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.559 straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder that you 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.640 can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:49.360 to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.160 Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.760 since the telestrator. One of the highlights of my week 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.760 is seeing Lap use the telestrator to break down the 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.840 Bengals next opponent in his lapse look segment on Bengals 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.280 dot Com. It's always informative and normally I just stand 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.319 there nodding and soaking it all in but this week 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.319 they handed me my own stylus. I get to doodle 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.280 as well. My contribution is likely to be very limited, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.360 but it's fun to have that telestrator pen in my 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.000 hand for the first time. Now, let's get to football. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.360 If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.760 know that the normal routine after each game is to 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.720 provide a detailed recap with all the highlights and then 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.319 comments from the players explaining exactly what happened. There's really 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.760 no need to do that after Monday's twenty seven to 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.640 three loss to the Steelers. It can be summed up 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:50.200 in this montage of Andy Dalton getting sacked over and 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.600 over again on second out in five play action fake 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.600 Dalton in trouble. He is sacked back at the fifty 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.760 yard line. Dalton waits for a shotguns app stops the 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.440 right foot, catches the football, gets hit from behind, football 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.160 bops out, and the Steelers recover at the twenty nine 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.240 yard line. Man Dalton back to brow again and he 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.880 will be sacked back at the twenty eight yard line. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.679 And that might be the last grasp for Cincinnati here 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.760 in the first half. Yeah, they met at the quarterback 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.480 that time, ducking down in ten from the twenty five 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.639 yard line. Dalton back to throw again. He's under pressure, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.680 he's in trouble, and he is sacked back at the 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.600 thirteen yard line. Right now, it is not a fair fight. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.639 Dalton takes the snap, fakes a handoff and gets sacked 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.240 by what Back at the forty five yard line. Dalton, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.280 we'll be sacked again, and back at the thirty one 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:49.480 yard lines. Jay von Hargrave applying the heats and it's 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.840 just a case of all four guys feeding at the quarterback. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.680 They're just teeing off. Dalton back to pass again. He 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.560 gets smashed from behind and loses the football. Oh, he's hurt. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.880 Fourth down and ten. Dalton back to throw and he 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.600 is hit and sacked and that is appropriate. Hallu Alu 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.880 sacking Andy Dalton on the Bengals last offensive play of 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.600 the game. Andy Dalton was sacked a career high eight times. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.880 The Bengals team record for mo sachs allowed is ten. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.639 It was Pittsburgh's ninth straight win over Cincinnati, going back 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.120 to the game in twenty fifteen where Andy Dalton broke 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:33.280 his thumb tacklings to Fontuitt after an interception prior to 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.880 that play. Here's what the Bengals had done in the 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.160 regular season with Dalton at quarterback. They had gone nine 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.680 and seven, ten and six, eleven and five, ten to 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.000 five and one, and were ten and two and the 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.280 number one seat in the playoff race at the time 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.280 of his injury. Add that all up and you get 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.480 fifty wins, twenty five losses, and one tie among the 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.280 best records in the NFL during that time period. Head 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.920 But since then, the Bengals are twenty one thirty four 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.040 and one. And it all started with a loss to 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.440 the Steelers. After Monday's loss, the atmosphere in the locker 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:18.039 room was grim. Here are Drake Kirkpatrick and Preston Brown. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.120 You know, we gotta just figure it out. We gotta 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.240 get wins. They don't pay me to lose, you know 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.040 what I'm saying. And it is unstuffable to me. I 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.599 don't know how everybody else feeling about it, but just 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.720 Frustram Bro's frustrating man. Like I said, I'm trying to 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.760 be cool about everything, but this hot to hell. Man, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:43.120 we going four Let's just sit this is this the 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:49.000 hottest he felt on four man. And then and then 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.400 that's to be said, Bro, can you describe the emotion 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.600 right now? Oh, it's tough to go onto a game 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.200 like this Monday night. You know everybody's watching you. You're 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.880 trying to get a big winner so that you're not 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.839 that team as you showed the first three weeks. But 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.080 we showed that we are that team. So we got 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.280 to keep fighting and show everybody that we can get better. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.040 If not, we're gonna keep losing a lot of games. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.039 So we got to change it. Right now. The Bengals 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.800 are one of six teams without a win. The Dolphins, Broncos, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.640 and Raiders are also oh and four, The Jets are 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.240 oh in three, and this week's opponent, the Arizona Cardinals, 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.360 are O three and one. Time to take a look 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.400 at where things stand with my broadcast partner Dave Lap 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.120 them lap frustration is mounting. It was palpable in the 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.320 locker room after the Steelers game. Do you see a 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.560 team that is starting to get a little bit fragile? 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.279 You know it's in my mind having been through a 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.120 season like well, hopefully it's not going to be as 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.560 bad as the one I went through a four and 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.719 twelve season where we started off on and eight The 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.719 one thing that used to piss me off royally was 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.000 teammates that would come out of the shower and before 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.600 their last drop of water on them was dry, they 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.320 had forgotten about the game already. They were worried about 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.640 where they're going party, what were they gonna do? I mean, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.159 they didn't give a damn about the football game, and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.520 that used to drive me crazy. I don't see that 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.840 with this group, you know, and the fact that they're frustrated, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.560 I think is that, you know, a decent sign. But yeah, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.920 I think the longer they go without winning a football game, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.600 you do become more and more fragile. And it's like 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.400 you're thinking, Okay, oh, forced fumble? Is this? Is this? 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.839 The game? Is this? And then don't take advantage of it? 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.720 She's maybe this isn't the game. You know, you feel 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.919 like you have no margin ferry. You have to capitalize 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.640 on everything, and when you don't, you have to fight 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.880 that mental tug of war of like there's gonna be 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.720 other opportunities in this football game. That's not the only opportunity, 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.800 you know, Like it didn't work out, Move on, you know, 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.520 see how how else you can play? You know, a 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.919 complimentary football you weren't very complimentary that takeaway by the 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.800 defense that puts you at the fifteen yard line. You know, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.400 you got to do a better job than that. But 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.360 it is, it's it's it's very it's Uh, that's where 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.320 sports psychologists make a lot of money because because you 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.039 you do. You come home and I just remember, you know, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.800 sleepless nights. The said up many times looking at the ceiling, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.880 and the ceiling becomes you know, a movie screen and 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.400 you're just seeing all these things that you remember about 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.640 the football game. And you know, when you're when you're 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:23.000 married with children, Um, it's it's a it's a good distraction. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.400 You come home, they're smiling. No matter what, you know, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.720 they still like you, although you feel like nobody does. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:30.960 You don't want to see neighbors, you don't want to 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.040 see friends, you don't want to see anybody. You're embarrassed. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.840 And then also your kids go to school and uh, 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.440 they're the butt of jokes and so it has a 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.040 big effect on on the dynamic of families. And that's 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.480 what people You know, people don't understand, you know, when 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.640 when they have problems at work and it affects their family, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.920 nobody else knows about it. But this the reason the 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.880 guys make big money. It's such a public deal. Everything 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.040 that they do is uh, is seen by everybody, so 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.600 there's no hiding and UH and it does have a 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.480 ripple effect on families at times, for sure. So if 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.320 you're listening to this podcast and your kids go to 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.800 school with the kids of Bengals players or coaches, tell 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.320 your kids to be nice exactly. Laughter. Are six winless 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.640 teams in the NFL right now. Five have new head coaches. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.680 Looking back historically Sam White and five. To begin his 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.760 tenure as the Bengals head coach, Bill Walsh turned out 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.840 to be pretty good. He started his tenure in San Francisco, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.319 oh and seven. It's a complicated game. I know people 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.079 don't want to hear this, but does it take time 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.200 to implement new systems? It does, you know, And sometimes 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.320 the system you want to implement, you don't quite have 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.120 the personnel to implement it the way you want to 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.439 implement it, So then you have to massage your system 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.360 to fit the personnel. You know, you don't want to 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.679 say this is what I'm going to do, no matter what, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.720 if you don't have the players to do it, you 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.760 know we said this more times than one. The great 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.960 Don Shula Bumfields was talking about him. He said he 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.760 can take his and his and and beat your, and 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.840 he can take urn and beat his, and he could 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.320 adapt and adjust to whatever he's got. If he's got 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.320 you know, Larry zunc and Jim Kick, he's gonna run 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.360 one style of offense. He has Dan Marino and Nate Moore, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.160 he's gonna run, you know, another style of offense. So 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.360 you know, uh, you have to adjust, and the coaches 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.520 have to find out what the players can and can't do, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.240 and the players have to really understand the expectations of 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.480 the coaching staff um what they want out of them. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.760 And it does, it does take some time. I think. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.720 You know, if you'd won the Seattle game, I wonder 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.920 if you know they'd be one and three or if 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.680 they'd be two and two, three and one. You just 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.320 never know. But the fact that they didn't get that 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.000 one under their under their belt and then had that performance, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.320 you know, they played pretty well and then really struggle 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.560 played pretty well in Buffalo or you know, recover really 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.320 struggle in Pittsburgh. You know, how will they respond this 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.640 one in Arizon? You don't like to have that pattern, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.880 know of up and down, up and down. All you 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.160 hear players and coaches talk about in any sports consistency, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.960 and right now they're the model of inconsistency with these 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.880 up and down performances. Individually and collectively, they've been very 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.520 consistent with their inability to stop sideline to sideline misdirection 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.800 type plays. Since the San Francisco game, teams are pulling 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.640 out anything they have in their playbook that kind of 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.880 fits that description. Are their fundamental flaws in the Bengals 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.320 defensive personnel that makes it hard for them to stop 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.520 those kinds of place. You know, I think everybody talks 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.520 about trying to get people in space, and those kind 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.840 of plays a lot of times will get people in space. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.680 And it was the darnest thing watching the Steeler game. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.280 They never stretched the defense vertically except for a couple 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.280 of times, but they stretched them to death horizontally. They 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.560 made them defend you know, fifty three and a half 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.760 yards whatever. With the football fields, they had to defend 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.000 every bit of it. And that's what that's what teams 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.960 are doing. They're not they're stretching them more horizontally than 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.320 they are vertically. Even in the passing game, you know, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.480 it's short throws to the to the perimeter, you know, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:12.960 horizontal stuff, play action screens, and I mean Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.400 I don't know what their average ball thrown past the 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.480 line of scrimmage because more than half of them, I 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.000 think we're either at or behind the line of scrimmage. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.320 I think their average attempt on however many throws they 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.280 had in that football game, might have been five yards 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.880 down the football field. The ball wasn't down the field 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.679 very much, but man, they had stretched that defense out 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.360 with motion, like you say, Dan, you know, jet sweeps 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.080 and and then you know the shovel passes they were thrown. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.480 That's that's an extension of the running game. Instead of 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.000 you know, handing the football off, you know, you're just 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.839 letting it leave your hand for a yard to somebody 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.760 else's possession. So um, you know, you look at it 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.360 in Pittsburgh. Oh, they didn't really run the ball all 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.880 that great. Well, you throw those shovel passes in there. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.760 They ran the ball pretty darn well. And it was 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.520 amazing to me that Fickner decided even with as good 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.440 an offensive line I have as I have in Connor 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.640 and Samuels and we have to do it differently. I 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.760 mean he abandoned all their power running game stuff that 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.320 didn't done over the years and did all this trickeration stuff, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.280 so that that's going to be interesting. And you know, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.439 at some point they're gonna have to throw the football 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.480 down the football field. They didn't have to do it 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.000 Monday night, but at some point they're gonna have to, uh, 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.079 you know, take the training wheels off Mason Rudolph and 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.200 let them ride a two wheeler for a little while. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.640 Does any Bengals position group get a decent grade at 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.760 this point? I mean, you know the game number one, 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.360 you say, man, the defensive line. Wow. But you know 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.360 they've got I think one sack in the last eight quarters. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.080 You know that that part of it. And it's not 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.400 just sacks, it's tackle for loss. It's the consistent pressure 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.080 that they put on Seattle, put on Seattle's running game, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.240 put on Seattle's passing game. You know that hasn't that 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.319 hasn't really materialized since now there have been injuries. They 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.360 have three guys down, you know, the last last couple 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.200 of games, they've only get seven defensive linemen in the rotation. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.040 So they have been limping a little bit there. But 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.400 you know, the linebacker group is the one that people 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.560 attacking with these misdirections and making them run you know, uh, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.480 and getting them in space and trying to make them 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.960 miss in space and those kinds of things. So, you know, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.960 the linebacker group, I don't know if you it's defensively, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.840 you know, I can't give any group wide. Receivers would 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.400 probably be the closest group in my mind offensively the 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.400 offensive line, and you just can't give them any kind 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.480 of a passing grade after the Pittsburgh fiascou So, yeah, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.960 that's that's that's part of the problem is the reason 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.079 they haven't won a football game. They don't have any 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.640 position group that every single game has competed at, you know, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.959 the highest level that you have to compete at. Three 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:59.199 touchdowns and eleven red zone trips for the season. That's unbelievable. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.840 What's the biggest problem in the red zone? You know, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.160 not not running the football. I think when when the 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.240 field compresses, um, it's harder to find holes, you know, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.319 in coverage a lot of times, and you do have 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.240 to have some sort of a presence in the running 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.600 game to tighten the linebackers even more so to the 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.000 line of scrims to create some kind of cavity, you know. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.280 And and right now, um, the linebackers aren't feeling like 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.520 they have to creep up and crawl up there. So 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.160 you know, they're just and then they're they're they're making mistakes, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.480 you know, they're they're having protection problems. Um, you know, 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:43.800 they're just just not executing. Again, it's they're just sputtering, stammering. Um. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.960 They have not had one red zone possession that you know, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.760 say from the seventeen yard line. They ran three really 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.680 good cris plays were like, wow, that was that was impressive. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.560 The three plays they ran inside the twenty there that 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.680 led to that touchdown, you know, one set up another 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.160 and they finished it off with this. It's just been 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.920 so piecemeal and so like you know, and I know, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.680 they spend a lot of time on situational football. I mean, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 they spent a lot of time on red zone preparation. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.960 And last year the one thing they did do well 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.920 is they were third in the NFL seventy one conversion 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.640 percentage and touchdown on the red zone. Not so much 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.120 to start off this season for sure, And and not 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.680 only you know, not scoring touchdowns. Two of the three 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.960 red zone possessions against Pittsburgh. Nothing Squad Douche. You know, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.480 you fumbled the ball in a sack they were covering, 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.280 and thrown interception on fourth down from the twelve yardline 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.320 I think it was or sixteen yardline, whatever it was. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.520 I mean, just trying to make a play. Those are 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:50.040 those are desperation scenarios there. That's that's that's tough. Laugh. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.440 The Arizona card those are coming to town on Sunday. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.360 They were three and thirteen last year, earning the number 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.520 one pick in the NFL Draft, and they used it 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.960 on Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Kyler Murray out of Oklahoma. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.320 He has five ten that would have been unheard of 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.040 a few years ago. What are the Bengals going to 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.640 see from Kyler Murray and the Cardinals offense on Sunday? Well, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.920 I think five ten might be when he's on his 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.600 tippy toes. I mean, he's a generous five to ten 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.840 And hopefully what Kyler Murray is going to see from 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.400 the Bengals, there's a lot of people in his space, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.120 you know, I mean, that's what they have to do. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.920 His shotgun is a little bit deeper than most. He 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.880 wants to get that separation, kind of like Russell Wilson 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.720 that they have that longer shotgun deal in Seattle, and 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.960 I think he's right now aspires to be where Russell 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.680 Wilson is. I think Kyler Murray is even a little 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.360 bit quicker than Russell Wilson. I'm not saying is clever 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.760 at this stage of his career, but he has a 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.160 very accurate thrown on him like Russell Wilson as well. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.720 So I think that the Bengals got a good dress 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.840 rehearsal quote as such by how they contain Russell Wilson. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.960 But this is going to be a different looking offense 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.600 than Seattle put out there. Cliff Kingsbury's going to run 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.080 his air raid stuff that he did at Texas Tech, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.600 and it's going to have a lot more sizzle to it. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.080 It's not going to be lining up and say I'm 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:07.840 going to out muscle you and you know I'm better 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.359 than you. He's going to have some dipsy do to it. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.760 Because trickerations in missdirections killing the Bengals right now. Lap 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.960 the Bengals allowed eight sacks on Monday Night in Pittsburgh, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.160 and now the Cardinals are coming to town on Sunday, 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.879 featuring the duo of Chandler Jones and Terrell Suggs. Jones 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.720 has had ten plus sacks each of the last four years. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.679 Terrell Suggs is about to turn thirty seven, but he 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.199 still gets after the quarterback. He leads the Cardinals with 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.399 three and a half so far this year. How did 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.280 the Bengals neutralize the pass rush this week? Yeah, Sugs 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.960 has three and a half, Jones has three. Pretty good 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.760 out of that duo. And then don't sleep on a 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.760 guy named Zach Allen, this kid from Boston College, third 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.760 round guy. He brings it. He brings the pass rush 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.600 as well. So yeah, the Bengals are going to have 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.199 to do a much better job obviously in their one 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.680 on one matchups than it did in Pittsburgh. I think 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.560 the biggest way to neutralize the pass rush is to 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.800 play with the lead. You know, you get down you 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.119 know two three scores in the National Football League, and 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.080 these guys are just pinning your air's back and no 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.120 regard for the run whatsoever. I can tell you that 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.880 is brutal to try to get done. You know, pass 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.439 rush drill in practice when you're going one on one 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.600 and they have all this space to operate in. That's 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.520 what it feels like, you know, in a game, it 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.760 feels like one on one pass rush. They have all 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.120 the advantage. You really don't have any you know, maybe 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:25.880 a drawer or a screen to maybe keep them off 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.600 balance a little bit, but that is it's like trying 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.000 to block a great player with one hand tied behind 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.720 your back when you're in that situation. So you're gonna 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.800 have to, you know, make sure that it is a 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.560 competitive game or you're playing with a lead, because you 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.240 don't want to be you know, a score or two 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.560 behind trying to pass block these guys. It's it's it's 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.959 danger written all over that last thing. I feel like 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.240 we need to practice this because it's been a while. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.640 When the Bengals make the play that essentially clinches the win, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.320 I'm going to say coffin nails and you are going 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:03.360 to say bam, bamm. Let's hope that lap is belting 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.800 that out around four o'clock on Sunday. Now, time for 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.000 this week's fun Facts Interview, where we get to know 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.959 the person under the pads. This week, it's a tight end, 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.800 who got a three year contract extension in the off season, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.600 earning him a lot of money and a second appearance 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.440 on this segment. Time for an updated edition of fun 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.600 Facts with Bengals tight end CJ Uzama. We did one 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.720 of these your rookie year, and I asked you what 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.520 CJ stands for, because it's not in your bio, it's 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.080 not in your Wikipedia page. You told me Christopher James. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.680 But then also that your birth name is Christopher Michael 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.399 Charles Timpson Junior. Before you were adopted by the Uzamas. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.560 When did they come into your life? So it was 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.520 my step dad and he came into my life when 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.160 I was seven and he's been my dad my entire life. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.880 I called him dad, So it was only right that, um, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.760 you know, I incorporated the last name and so you 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.239 know my name and change my name up and kind 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.440 of show him the respect that, you know, I think 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.600 that he deserves. It seems like you are extremely close 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.760 to your folks. You're an only child. I'm the father 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.840 of an only child, so I kind of identify with 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.920 what that's like. Yeah, it's for them, they probably want 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.879 to be closer now, but yeah, I am close with them. 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:24.000 I mean, I am their only kids, so they, I'm sure, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.200 like you, tried to keep their my best interests at heart, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.680 and I was just saying small things, sending me a 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.040 text every day, so I am very close with them. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.560 For sure. You were a high school quarterback. Why did 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.080 you switch to tight end? I think mainly colleges were 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.480 going back and forth saying that I might play quarterback, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.440 but they might switch me. And Auburn came in and said, hey, look, 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.720 we'd just going to be straight up with you. You're 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.280 not going to play quarterback here. I just appreciated them 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.200 being straightforward, and I knew that I wasn't the best 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.320 quarterback per se, but I could be able to do 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.320 other things, so I kind of switched positions and press 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.680 as sister. I guess from then, did any big time 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.760 schools recruit you as a quarterback? Northwestern, I know for 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.879 sure said quarterback and that would be it, And it 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:20.639 was cold, and so now I really appreciated that, and 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.600 so I talked to them a little bit um and 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:25.920 but I just kind of wanted to sit down South. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.159