Speaker 1: Hi again, everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. Uh feeling blessed, never stressed, got
Speaker 1: that sunshine on my Sunday Bassist edition as we savor
Speaker 1: the sweet nectar of victory for the first time in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season and of the Joe Burrow Era
Speaker 1: a thirty three twenty five win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments from players
Speaker 1: and coaches, and in depth analysis from my broadcast partner
Speaker 1: Dave Lapham. And this week's fun facts segment is one
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Speaker 1: take a bite hoping that those little dots are chocolate chips,
Speaker 1: only to be fooled yet again by the presence of
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Speaker 1: that did, in fact contain chocolate chips instead of deer droppings,
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Speaker 1: very simply, raisins ruin everything. Now let's get to the game.
Speaker 1: It couldn't have started much better for the Bengals. His
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's defense got a takeaway on the Jaguars fifth play.
Speaker 1: Minshi throws over the middle. He batted up in the
Speaker 1: air and intercepted. Jesse Bates deflected it, Jordan Evans intercepts it,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals will take over in Jaguar's territory at
Speaker 1: the forty three yard line. But typical of the first
Speaker 1: three games of the season, the Bengals failed to capitalize
Speaker 1: they gained three yards in three plays and had to punt.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be Kevin Huber's only punt all day.
Speaker 1: The second time the Bengals got the ball, they drove
Speaker 1: into the red zone before stalling and calling on Randy Bullock.
Speaker 1: He has made eight out of nine field goal tries
Speaker 1: this year. We all remember the miss, unfortunately, the snap
Speaker 1: and the kick. It is up and it is good,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals score first with two forty one left
Speaker 1: in the first quarter here at Paul Brown Stadium. The
Speaker 1: three nothing lead only lasted for about two minutes. Quarterback
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, who came out to warm up about two
Speaker 1: and a half hours before kickoff in a sleeveless T
Speaker 1: shirt to show off the guns, a crop top to
Speaker 1: show off the abs, and a backward baseball cap to
Speaker 1: accentuate the mullet, gave Jacksonville the lead first and ten
Speaker 1: from the eleven yard line. Minshew, under center, takes the snap,
Speaker 1: fakes a hand off to Robinson, throws it toward the
Speaker 1: back left corner of the end zone. Chark is there,
Speaker 1: touchdown Jacksonville with the Jags up seven three. The Bengals
Speaker 1: answered with an eighty eight yard drive that brought them
Speaker 1: within inches of the goal line. From an eye formation,
Speaker 1: Burrow under center, he fakes a handoff to Mix and
Speaker 1: he throws it toward the back left corner of the
Speaker 1: end zone in his cause. No picked off took it
Speaker 1: away from sample Are they saying that he did take
Speaker 1: it away? The officials are discussing it in the back
Speaker 1: left corner. It's an interception. Miles Jack came away with
Speaker 1: a ball. Jack came away in coverage with the football.
Speaker 1: It was a lousy call by me, and it's easy
Speaker 1: to second guess the play call as well. Third and
Speaker 1: goal inside the one, and rather than a quarterback sneak
Speaker 1: or a Joe Mixon run, Burrow's pass was picked off.
Speaker 1: Here's Zach Taylor third and goal in the inchyard line.
Speaker 1: You know you kick yourself. Well, we gotta make that point.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a fifty fifty point that we gotta make.
Speaker 1: And so we left a lot of points on the
Speaker 1: field best for sure. But that was the last drive
Speaker 1: all day where the Bengals were trying to score and didn't.
Speaker 1: After Jacksonville field goal made it ten three, the Bengals
Speaker 1: found the end zone for the first time one o
Speaker 1: three left and a half, the Bengals down by seven points.
Speaker 1: Burrow extends the hands, catches the shotgun snap, swings it right,
Speaker 1: got by Mixon to the five board touchdown Bengals, Mixon
Speaker 1: flying over an attempt at tackle as he makes it
Speaker 1: to the end zone to potentially tie the game. Randy
Speaker 1: Bullock did tie it with a pat but Jacksonville was
Speaker 1: able to drive seventy three yards in fifty three seconds
Speaker 1: with no timeouts remaining, and kicked the field goal to
Speaker 1: lead thirteen ten. At the half, the Bengals were down
Speaker 1: by three, but confident. According to Joe Burrow, you know,
Speaker 1: we knew that if we executed the way that we're
Speaker 1: capable of, then they weren't gonna be able to stop us.
Speaker 1: And you know, we just kept that mindset and we
Speaker 1: talked about it at halftime. We were the only ones
Speaker 1: that had stopped ourselves all day, So we came out
Speaker 1: on the second half and performed the way that we
Speaker 1: were supposed to. The first drive of the second half
Speaker 1: when seventy five yards on just five plays first and
Speaker 1: ten at the thirty four yard line for Burrow and company,
Speaker 1: Joe's under center takes the direct snap from Hopkins hands
Speaker 1: it off to Mixing, big time, hold to the right,
Speaker 1: twenty five sideline, twenty fifty, Yeah to the pilot, touchdown,
Speaker 1: big goals. That thirty four yard run was Joe Mixon's
Speaker 1: first rushing touchdown of the year. Alex Redman, who got
Speaker 1: his first start of the year at right guard, enjoyed
Speaker 1: the view. I mean it was awesome. Joe played his
Speaker 1: heart out today. I think Joe plays its smart out
Speaker 1: every every single game. You hand that guy the ball
Speaker 1: and he's scratching, you know, every in she could get,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get. So playing with Joe, playing with you know,
Speaker 1: Joey Burrow, guys like that, I mean, I tell this
Speaker 1: scene could be a real good and Mixon wasn't finished,
Speaker 1: as he scored again roughly four minutes later. Now Burrow
Speaker 1: will line up in the shotgun, even though it's third
Speaker 1: and less than a yard, He'll hand it to Mixing
Speaker 1: Mixon bursting to the end the five touchdown, Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: and the Bengals hits third of the day. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, two rushing touchdowns, one touchdown receiving Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: coming in with no touchdowns on the year, not even
Speaker 1: halfway through the third quarter. He's got three today. Mixon
Speaker 1: finished with twenty six carries for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one yards and two touchdowns, and had six catches for
Speaker 1: thirty yards and another TD. All of that after being
Speaker 1: listed is questionable because of a chest injury, and he's
Speaker 1: not even sure how it happened. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think I'll slipp wrong. I was slipp wrong. Came to
Speaker 1: work and then I don't know, it was like I
Speaker 1: couldn't breathe heard to run, like I walked through and
Speaker 1: then I ended up going to the hospital. I was
Speaker 1: in the hospital for about like three hours yesterday, late
Speaker 1: last night. So, like I said, I didn't know if
Speaker 1: I played and then this morning and see how I felt,
Speaker 1: and you know, doctors loved up on it, and I
Speaker 1: was able to go out there and make some things work.
Speaker 1: Could you not breathe or did you have a pulled
Speaker 1: chest or did you pull so I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like someone was squeezing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was. But I mean I felt great today
Speaker 1: out there running. I mean, at first, it was like
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's gonna be, you know, I
Speaker 1: went out there and just gave him all man for
Speaker 1: my teammates, and like I said, everything was up in
Speaker 1: the air, but you know made it happen and it
Speaker 1: wasn't Jess Mixing. The Bengals finished with two hundred five
Speaker 1: yards on the ground, more than doubling the average of
Speaker 1: seventy nine rushing yards in the first three weeks. Same
Speaker 1: places we've been running. You know, It's just guys were
Speaker 1: really dialed in this week to the details and we
Speaker 1: almost went overboard with that stuff to make sure that
Speaker 1: we sent that message to our guys that it's going
Speaker 1: to take all of it. It's not just the old line,
Speaker 1: it's not just the running back. It takes everybody. And
Speaker 1: the guys really bought it in, had a tremendous week,
Speaker 1: did a lot of extras on their own to help
Speaker 1: prepare for this game, and this is what the payoff
Speaker 1: looks like. In addition to the two hundred five rushing yards,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow had exactly three hundred passing yards to become
Speaker 1: the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to throw for
Speaker 1: at least three bills in three straight games for the
Speaker 1: first time in his career. Burrow wasn't sacked, although the
Speaker 1: Jags were credited with five quarterback hits. You know, the
Speaker 1: old line played really, really well today. They've taken a
Speaker 1: lot of heat the last couple of weeks, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was super happy for those guys to have the
Speaker 1: game that they did today, and they're going to continue
Speaker 1: to build on it. I know they are. Thought the
Speaker 1: offense wanted a tremendous job today. You know, they kept
Speaker 1: him clean. They had some great blocks in the run game,
Speaker 1: tight ends as well, receivers as well, just all the
Speaker 1: things that we talked about correcting last week coming off
Speaker 1: the field against Philly. I thought our guys were so
Speaker 1: dolled in this week as our best way practice we've
Speaker 1: had in two years here. The energy was tremendous. Us
Speaker 1: you guys took up to the field and made it count.
Speaker 1: The Bengals final three drives ended with Randy Bullock field goals,
Speaker 1: meaning if you take away kneel downs at the end
Speaker 1: of each half, Cincinnati scored on its last six drives.
Speaker 1: Hubert extends the right hand, catches the ball, puts it down.
Speaker 1: Randy Bullocks kick is good, and the Bengals have a
Speaker 1: thirty three to twenty two lead with one forty six
Speaker 1: to go. A Jacksonville field goal made it an eight
Speaker 1: point game. With eight seconds on the clock, Cook ready
Speaker 1: to attempt the on side kick. It's the roller straight ahead.
Speaker 1: The Bengals fall on it at the forty five yard line.
Speaker 1: Giovanni Bernard is there and that is coffin nails bam.
Speaker 1: The final score Cincinnati thirty three, Jacksonville twenty five. Here's
Speaker 1: Jesse Bates on win number one. It just feels really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, we spent a lot of time away from
Speaker 1: our families. You know, you put a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: into this. You know, our bodies don't feel good after
Speaker 1: some games. But you know when you're and it's not,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it. It seems like it's like dawmn,
Speaker 1: like we need to win. You know, you play this
Speaker 1: game to win, um and you know, to support your family.
Speaker 1: Uh So, you know, having that first win in the
Speaker 1: locker room, I think it helps our belief capacity continue
Speaker 1: to go up and we're gonna build on that. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like this was a game y'all had to win?
Speaker 1: Was just feel like a must win game for y'all.
Speaker 1: Giving the start and win kind of what's to come
Speaker 1: to season? I think every game, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: must win. Uh, but yeah, this one, I mean, we
Speaker 1: we've been so close. Every game has been in one position,
Speaker 1: one possession game. Um. And Josh Bonds had a hell
Speaker 1: of a speech last night about adversity. Um. You know
Speaker 1: you speak about you know Randy uh, mister field goal
Speaker 1: to going over time week one came back. I mean
Speaker 1: he's probably four for tonight. Um. Our old line played
Speaker 1: a hell of a game. Um. You know, our defense,
Speaker 1: we have to continue to be consistent. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean all around, as a whole organization, we're getting better.
Speaker 1: So I feel really good. As for Joe Burrow, he
Speaker 1: received the game ball after his first that FL victory.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's one It's one game. There's twelve more.
Speaker 1: So you know we're gonna enjoy this for five hours
Speaker 1: and then come back to work tomorrow, correct the mistakes
Speaker 1: and move on to Baltimore. Burrow, by the way, was
Speaker 1: wired for sound during the game by NFL Film, So
Speaker 1: we'll have some great content to look forward to this
Speaker 1: week on Bengals dot Com and on shows like Inside
Speaker 1: the NFL and NFL turning point. Now time for some
Speaker 1: postgame analysis from my broadcast partner Dave lapham Lap. How
Speaker 1: sweet it is the Bengals get their first win of
Speaker 1: the year thirty three to twenty five over Jacksonville. And
Speaker 1: let's give credit where credit is due. The Bengals offensive
Speaker 1: line has been mocked. They have been ripped from coast
Speaker 1: to coast. Well today, three hundred passing yards, two hundred
Speaker 1: and five rushing yards, and thirty three points on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: Very true, and hats off to them. They did a
Speaker 1: hell of a job. But as a form alignment, you know,
Speaker 1: my thing was this is the test because played against
Speaker 1: some pretty good defensive lines and they have had their
Speaker 1: issues and they've gotten crushed as a result because they
Speaker 1: haven't won a lot of the matchups. Well, this was,
Speaker 1: in my mind the test because these guys were lesser.
Speaker 1: So if you can't perform well against these guys, where
Speaker 1: the heck are you? And then when Josh Allen went out,
Speaker 1: you know they were even lesser than that. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm proud if I played in this game. I'm proud
Speaker 1: as a former offensive linement. I'm proud of the way
Speaker 1: they've played. But the reality says, here we go now
Speaker 1: to Baltimore, back in the from the frying pan, from
Speaker 1: the fire, right into the from the frying pan, right
Speaker 1: into the fire. I should say, you know, you're back
Speaker 1: at Baltimore. Indianapolis has a good defense. The NFL is
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's tough, and I'm not saying Jacksonville's a
Speaker 1: bunch of scrubs, but I am saying that they did
Speaker 1: not have the front seven that the Bengals had been
Speaker 1: playing against. You know, with the Chargers, they're they're good upfront.
Speaker 1: They have multiple Pro bowlers up front. You know, Cleveland's
Speaker 1: got a good rush with Miles Garrett and Philadelphia's good player.
Speaker 1: These guys didn't have anybody like that and other guys
Speaker 1: to complement it. So it was hopeful of a good
Speaker 1: performance and got better than a good performance, got an
Speaker 1: outstanding performance from the offensive line. You know, you throw
Speaker 1: it for three hundred, rusher for over two hundred, and
Speaker 1: you're real balance in your play selection. Balance the key,
Speaker 1: I mean, instead of one dimensional. They allowed you know, Zach,
Speaker 1: as a play caller said during the game, you can
Speaker 1: close your eyes and just like pin the tail and
Speaker 1: donkey and wow, let's call that one. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like they're so easy to call plays when your offensive
Speaker 1: line is playing like that. Plus the other thing we
Speaker 1: talked about multiple times Dan during the week and during
Speaker 1: the game play action pass. Instead of just teeing off
Speaker 1: and not having any respect for the run fake in
Speaker 1: the play action pass, they actually had to legitimately say
Speaker 1: WHOA does he have the ball or not. It's much
Speaker 1: easier to throw the football when it's play action passed.
Speaker 1: The pass protection light year is different, and then even
Speaker 1: drop back protection becomes easier as well. It's trickled down.
Speaker 1: That's very, very positive. We did an interview on Friday
Speaker 1: with former Bengals quarterback j. T. O'Sullivan and we discussed
Speaker 1: the number of hits and sacks that Joe Burrow had
Speaker 1: taken through the first three games. Fourteen sacks, roughly thirty
Speaker 1: quarterback hits. He said his words, that is unsustainable. Well,
Speaker 1: vastly different today, and yes, you're right, the quality of
Speaker 1: opponent's a huge factor. But no sacks and I believe
Speaker 1: three quarterback hits. Maybe it was four, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: That is sustainable. That is sustainable. And I think one
Speaker 1: of the hits came out of pocket, you know, when
Speaker 1: he created and extended on his own. So when you
Speaker 1: do that, you are on your own. There's nothing the
Speaker 1: offensive line can do for you there. So they he
Speaker 1: got hit a couple of times when the offensive line
Speaker 1: quote you know, it was their responsibility as such. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I mean the level of execution once they once they
Speaker 1: got out of their own way, I mean, it was
Speaker 1: so frustrating. The first quarter and a half. It was
Speaker 1: like they had well over five hundred yards and probably
Speaker 1: should have had fifty points or close to it, in
Speaker 1: the high forties anyway, and you know, didn't come close
Speaker 1: to that number because they were making mistakes, taking touchdowns
Speaker 1: off the board by penalty, by miss execution, you know,
Speaker 1: not you know, sample not being able to catch the
Speaker 1: ball cleanly, ricochets off his face mask and Miles Jack's
Speaker 1: able to make a playoff of it. So they knew,
Speaker 1: they knew that they could, you know, push around this
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguar defense. It was just a matter of taking
Speaker 1: themselves off their schedule. Like we said so many times,
Speaker 1: if that's what Joe Mixon looks like with a chest injury,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to hit him in the chest before
Speaker 1: every game. What a weird situation. He wasn't on the
Speaker 1: injury report on Friday, and after the game we learned
Speaker 1: out why. We learned why. He said he thinks he
Speaker 1: heard it sleeping. I mean that's what he said in
Speaker 1: the postgame news conference. Actually had to go to the
Speaker 1: hospital for tests to his chest on Saturday, but was
Speaker 1: able to play and played incredibly well. Twenty five carries,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty one yards. That's his second all
Speaker 1: time highest rushing total, six catches thirty yards, including a touchdown,
Speaker 1: three tds and all so out of kind of are
Speaker 1: set of circumstances, he produced big time. I don't know
Speaker 1: the position it was in when he was sleeping. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've had my arm fall asleep. I've had different things
Speaker 1: like that happened, but yeah, store neck, maybe my shoulder
Speaker 1: a little. I've never woken up with like, you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of a he felt like, he said he
Speaker 1: couldn't felt like he couldn't breathe easily. So he must
Speaker 1: have fallen asleep and a scrunched up, awkward, awkward position.
Speaker 1: But you know, fortunately there was no structural problem. They
Speaker 1: wanted to obviously, what they did was, and Paul Sparling
Speaker 1: is noted for this. Paul Sparling errors on the side
Speaker 1: of caution. I mean, if there's any if a player
Speaker 1: says I'm having difficulty breathing, you go right, particularly a coronavirus.
Speaker 1: You come into a trainer and you say I'm having
Speaker 1: a tough time breathing and I might have slept funny,
Speaker 1: you don't take any chances. I guess with coronavirus you'd
Speaker 1: taken to the hospital and run some tests and make
Speaker 1: sure that everything's okay. So I think part of it is,
Speaker 1: you know, the times that we're in it's it's different
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. And if I'm a player
Speaker 1: and you sleep right, you do wait up and it's
Speaker 1: like having a hard time breathing. I mean that that
Speaker 1: can you know, play with your mind a little bit,
Speaker 1: I guess, But ultimately, you know he was fine as
Speaker 1: we saw. I mean he was delivering, he wasn't accepting hits,
Speaker 1: he was ditching them out. I mean, he was lowering
Speaker 1: his squaring his pads up, lowering him running over people.
Speaker 1: I mean that was Joe Mixon in his finest. The
Speaker 1: offensive line more times than not allow him to make
Speaker 1: first cut down the football field, he caught the ball smoothly,
Speaker 1: caught the ball in stride yards after catch. You know,
Speaker 1: he scores in the air, scores on the ground more
Speaker 1: than once. Blitz pick up was sound. He was, you know,
Speaker 1: crushing people in that area. Blitz peck of Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: played a complete football game and maybe he needs to
Speaker 1: sleep awkwardly before the Baltimore game. In Baltimore, it's really
Speaker 1: hard to evaluate an individual offensive lineman until you go
Speaker 1: back and study the tape. But obviously Alex Redman makes
Speaker 1: his first started right guard after some really shaky play
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks by Fred Johnson and
Speaker 1: Billy Price. And without looking at him specifically, you look
Speaker 1: at the overall numbers at five hundred plush yards in
Speaker 1: thirty three points and figure, all right, maybe he wasn't great,
Speaker 1: but it was certainly an improvement. Yeah, and again now
Speaker 1: you have to go Apple's top apples. Who was he
Speaker 1: playing against? And because and I liked his answer in
Speaker 1: the presser after the game, I asked him how tod
Speaker 1: it go? Not very good? He was self deprecating, and
Speaker 1: I like that because you know he knows he has
Speaker 1: miles to go before he rests. He knows he's not
Speaker 1: a finished product right now, but what he gives them
Speaker 1: is a physicality he you know, he had a connection
Speaker 1: obviously with Tray and Bobby, like I thought would be
Speaker 1: the case. You know, it wasn't a foreign situation out there.
Speaker 1: They weren't looking at each other like what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do when this twist happens or when this linebacker
Speaker 1: blitz or whatever. They had all of that and Tray
Speaker 1: and Bobby, who were both very intelligent. They know the play,
Speaker 1: they know the structure of the play. They know everybody's
Speaker 1: assignment on every play, not just theirs. Alex Redman felt
Speaker 1: like I'm between two football men'ses. I got no issue
Speaker 1: with my assignments. I just identifying defenses and everything else.
Speaker 1: And that's a very very comforting feeling to a guy
Speaker 1: that missed all a training camp, you know, because of injury.
Speaker 1: So physically where was he he You know, he knows
Speaker 1: he still has to work on that. Mentally, he had
Speaker 1: those guys, those book ends on either side of him
Speaker 1: taking care of any questions, any concerns there. So all positive,
Speaker 1: but man, when he goes to Baltimore, a little bit
Speaker 1: different inside than what he faced today, for sure. Any
Speaker 1: thoughts on throwing to Drew sample in the back left
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone on third and inches are
Speaker 1: third in goal from inches away, Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 1: They were hammering Joe and they're pretty good at that point.
Speaker 1: I would have gone up and over with him, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, if I didn't get it, I'd do
Speaker 1: it again on fourth down. But you know, the play
Speaker 1: was there. I mean, Joe threw a good ball. Drew
Speaker 1: just didn't see it fast enough. It Hitn't right in
Speaker 1: the face mask and ricketchhet off that and then it
Speaker 1: was you know, moving around. They felt like he never
Speaker 1: had a secure possession of the ball. Miles Jack took
Speaker 1: it away from him when he was totally secure with it.
Speaker 1: So there was no you know, shared possession of the football,
Speaker 1: and that's what you have to have for it to
Speaker 1: be a defensive offensive touchdown is simultaneous possession of the football,
Speaker 1: and in their opinion, because of the ricochet effect, there wasn't.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I would hindsight's always twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: but I were to run the rock at that point
Speaker 1: in time, for sure, you were first guessing that calling
Speaker 1: that second. Guessing that call, the Bengals held Jacksonville to
Speaker 1: eighty nine rushing yards. Now is only twenty attempts, so
Speaker 1: that's still four and a half yards per attempt, But
Speaker 1: that's about one hundred fewer rushing yards than the Bengals
Speaker 1: had averaged on defense going into the game. It's nice
Speaker 1: to have a lead where the opponent is forced to
Speaker 1: put it in the air. You're exactly right, Dan. It's
Speaker 1: also nice to eliminate a forty one yard rush with
Speaker 1: a holding penalty so they self DESTRUCTI because now you
Speaker 1: look at one hundred and thirty yards rushing and it's
Speaker 1: a much different dynamic. You have running back well over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards rushing and it's like, oh jeez, I
Speaker 1: still can't stop the run. One hundred and thirty plus
Speaker 1: n back a little guy gets you know, over a
Speaker 1: hundred Offensive Player of the month. So one play, one
Speaker 1: holding penalty gets the run game off the hook. So
Speaker 1: what you have to do is you have to study
Speaker 1: the tape when you win or loose. Study the tape.
Speaker 1: All right, what happened in that play? Why did it
Speaker 1: bust for forty one? Okay? How significant was the hole?
Speaker 1: The hold was a big deal at the point of
Speaker 1: attack and all ba blah blah blah. But still you
Speaker 1: have to you know, hit your gaps, fit them, get
Speaker 1: off the blocks, make plays. So even when you win
Speaker 1: football games, you still have to evaluate the tape with
Speaker 1: the utmost critical eye because you're trying to improve each
Speaker 1: and every game. A couple of things I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to hearing this week. Number one, I want more details
Speaker 1: on the Josh Bynes Saturday night's speech that apparently really
Speaker 1: helped motivate his teammates. Jesse Bates made a point of
Speaker 1: talking about what a great job Josh Bynes did in
Speaker 1: some sort of team meeting on Saturday. You know, in
Speaker 1: my mind, it's almost like a Rocky speech. Instead of
Speaker 1: a Rocky movie, you show a team to motivate him,
Speaker 1: it's a Rocky speech. Up gets a guy that it
Speaker 1: was a good college program won a national championship. And
Speaker 1: I'm undrafted on a national championship. I'm undrafted. I you know,
Speaker 1: I go to the NFL and you know, and scratch
Speaker 1: and claw and make a team and hang around and gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm on a Super Bowl winning team and I'm bouncing around.
Speaker 1: I get cut, you know, half a dozen times, and
Speaker 1: I still want to continue in my career. And here
Speaker 1: I am a college free agent in my tenth year
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And so he's like a
Speaker 1: built in Rocky Balboa story that you can present to
Speaker 1: your team and living color, you know, instead of throwing
Speaker 1: on a movie. And I think I think it had
Speaker 1: a big effect on a lot of guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: this story is a good one. And he's a great speaker,
Speaker 1: and he's a great guy. Great speaker, great guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's the real deal. You know, he'll he'll make plays,
Speaker 1: who makes the mistakes. His value in that linebacker room
Speaker 1: with all those young linebackers, who that's a big, big
Speaker 1: plus because you have a guy that does it the
Speaker 1: right way, knows what it's supposed to look like. All
Speaker 1: the young linebackers think of him as football and CycL
Speaker 1: Encyclopedia Britannic. He has an answer for everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of value and a lot of
Speaker 1: intangible value. The other a big thing I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to hearing this week. Joe Burrow is Wired for Sound
Speaker 1: Today by NFL Films, so on Inside the NFL on
Speaker 1: Showtime on the NFL Turning Point Show on sound FX
Speaker 1: and the Bengals website will be getting all of this
Speaker 1: great content. We're going to hear what he was saying
Speaker 1: on the sideline, what he was saying in the huddle.
Speaker 1: I love the job that NFL Films does with that,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be really cool to hear Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow miked up in his first NFL win. I agree.
Speaker 1: I bet if there's going to be some nuggets, some
Speaker 1: great stuff, and we'll find out what he actually said
Speaker 1: to Joe Mixon when he broke the huddle before he
Speaker 1: threw that little sweet pass, because I want to leave
Speaker 1: that in the field. Hey, NFL Films has it wired.
Speaker 1: It might not be left on the field, But I
Speaker 1: think what we're gonna find is this young guy does
Speaker 1: have a lot of football IQ man. He sees a lot,
Speaker 1: he understands a lot. You know, he's telling he's telling
Speaker 1: his teammates things that you know, like a five year
Speaker 1: of veteran, you know, would be telling his teammates, not
Speaker 1: a rookie in his you know, in his fourth game,
Speaker 1: talking about a guy that should be Vessel already for
Speaker 1: retirement in the National Football League. The things that he's
Speaker 1: talking about and the things that he sees. He has
Speaker 1: an exceedingly bright future. There's no question. Four games into
Speaker 1: the season, the Bengals have gone to the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: with the lead three times in four games. They could
Speaker 1: very easily be three in one. What can you do?
Speaker 1: They're one, two and one, and now it's about to
Speaker 1: get really tough. You mentioned at Baltimore next week, then
Speaker 1: at Indy, then Cleveland the Browns are playing great. Then Tennessee,
Speaker 1: a team that went to the AFC Championship Game a
Speaker 1: year ago, after a bye week, a road game at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: So the next five are going to be brutal, going
Speaker 1: to be brutal, and three division matchups in the next five,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, and you've already lost a division game,
Speaker 1: so it's time to really buckle up. You don't want to.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be, you know, out of it
Speaker 1: before just before between Halloween and Thanksgiving. You don't want
Speaker 1: to be out of it in terms of the division.
Speaker 1: With four or five division games in the books and
Speaker 1: you haven't won one of them, and you're struggling, you know,
Speaker 1: with just one victory. You want to you want to
Speaker 1: build on this. You don't want it to be a
Speaker 1: one hit wonder. You want to you want to be
Speaker 1: a snoop foul for people down the road, and um,
Speaker 1: hopefully they'll they'll play. They still have not played a game,
Speaker 1: Dan where all three phases have totally been complimentary and
Speaker 1: they've avoided mistakes, avoided, penalties avoided. You know, battists, every everybody,
Speaker 1: every team is going to have a play that's not
Speaker 1: executed correctly. And that's that's that's understandable. They get paid too.
Speaker 1: I mean they make plays and all that, but the penalties,
Speaker 1: you know that, the assigned mistakes, all that that stuff.
Speaker 1: You can't have a myriad of those. You know, you can,
Speaker 1: you can maybe live with less than a handful, but
Speaker 1: if you're into your second handful, you got problems. I
Speaker 1: will wrap up this conversation with two words, coffin nails.
Speaker 1: Bam bam, I am. So it's on to Baltimore next Sunday.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are three and one after beating Washington thirty
Speaker 1: one seventeen. Lamar Jackson threw for two touchdowns and ran
Speaker 1: for a third in the win. Now time for this
Speaker 1: week's fun facts segment. I've been doing this segment since
Speaker 1: two eleven and this week's version is one of my
Speaker 1: all time favorites as you get to know the person
Speaker 1: under the pads. Time for some fun facts of Bengals
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Mike Daniels, who has been making life miserable
Speaker 1: or NFL offensive lineman since two and twelve. Mike, if
Speaker 1: I were an old lineman, I think you would be
Speaker 1: the last person in the league I would want to face.
Speaker 1: Describe yourself on game day. No, I'm really mean? Why? Frankly, No,
Speaker 1: I mean and focused and I'll just try to play
Speaker 1: the game as physical and as violent as I possibly
Speaker 1: can while maintaining my defensive responsibility. Are you trying to
Speaker 1: demoralize the guy on the opposite side of the line. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And if it happens, and that's just a bonus, that's
Speaker 1: just my mentality when I when I step onto the
Speaker 1: football field, completely different person from who I am, you
Speaker 1: know in everyday life. When I step on the field,
Speaker 1: to say, it's a certain mentality that I have to
Speaker 1: approach the game with. We're doing fun facts with Mike Daniels.
Speaker 1: NFL films must love you because you are tremendous When
Speaker 1: you are miked up, do you turn it up a
Speaker 1: notch when you're wearing a mic, or do you talk
Speaker 1: NonStop regardless? I actually tone it down when I'm wearing
Speaker 1: a mic. That way, the sensors and the network they
Speaker 1: don't have too much work to do. But when I
Speaker 1: wear a mic, I'm aware I have a micro on,
Speaker 1: so I kind of tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 1: If anything. Do you enjoy watching those segments back after
Speaker 1: you've been miked up? I definitely have a lot of
Speaker 1: fun with it because it's nice to see what other
Speaker 1: people see. And I think it's I phone with it,
Speaker 1: you know, and I phone when I watch any guy
Speaker 1: who who's playing a game, you know, with that amount
Speaker 1: of passion that they can't help but express it verbally
Speaker 1: beginning during and after the game. We're talking to Mike Daniels.
Speaker 1: The last line of your Wikipedia page mentioned your interest
Speaker 1: in the Japanese cartoon genre anime, and I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: that's cute. Three hundred pounds NFL tough guy likes cartoons.
Speaker 1: But then I watched a twelve minute documentary He Was Anime,
Speaker 1: where you and your parents describe the impact that that
Speaker 1: art form has had on your life. What did anime
Speaker 1: do for a teenage Mike Daniels. It definitely helped me
Speaker 1: be comfortable with who I am. I didn't necessarily fit
Speaker 1: in with a lot of my peers growing up, so
Speaker 1: watching a lot of the protagonists in the various shown
Speaker 1: in anime, in particular, they always had to overcome obstacles
Speaker 1: to achieve a very significant goal, and for me, it
Speaker 1: was to be a start on my high school football team,
Speaker 1: then get a Division one scholarship, then be a starter
Speaker 1: on my Colo team iwa then get drafted, then become
Speaker 1: a starter, then go to the Pro Bowl, and now
Speaker 1: it's get back on the field and show that I'm
Speaker 1: still a really, really great football player. So I definitely
Speaker 1: can relate to the protagonists, and that's I was able
Speaker 1: to relate to them from the time I was eleven
Speaker 1: up until now. You have referred to yourself as a
Speaker 1: dork with muscles. Is there a message there to do
Speaker 1: your own thing? Absolutely? You have to be comfortable on
Speaker 1: who you are. You have to be comfortable in the
Speaker 1: person that God made you. You have to love that,
Speaker 1: and you can't let people make you feel bad or
Speaker 1: feel embarrassed because you may not just want to go
Speaker 1: with the crowd because the same people that are that
Speaker 1: are having fun at your expense, so to speak. If anything,
Speaker 1: they're jealous because they're not comfortable on who they are
Speaker 1: and they just want to fit in so badly, so
Speaker 1: they'll do that instead of pursuing what they truly love
Speaker 1: in life. And when you don't pursue what you love
Speaker 1: in life, you miss out. You miss out. You might
Speaker 1: be a great artist, you might be great at music,
Speaker 1: you might be a great sanitation expert. Who knows. But
Speaker 1: when you're trying to visit the two as you trying
Speaker 1: to fit in with what's popular, what was happening with
Speaker 1: the crowd is doing, then you'll never be able to
Speaker 1: achieve what you really want in life. And that's just
Speaker 1: that's just unfortunate. So be yourself for Drink Fund Faction
Speaker 1: with Mike Daniels. You're from Blackwood, New Jersey, not too
Speaker 1: far from Philadelphia, and describe where you grew up. Where
Speaker 1: I grew up is right outside of Philadelphia, So that
Speaker 1: Philadelphia area is definitely a I mean Phillys of sports
Speaker 1: town all the way. All of these stadiums are right
Speaker 1: near each other for all the for professional sports teams,
Speaker 1: So it's a really good sports area. So sports was
Speaker 1: going to become part of my life where I wanted
Speaker 1: to wanted it to be or not, and thank god
Speaker 1: I did wanted to be because they love football out there, track, wrestling, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, basketball,
Speaker 1: of course, you name it soccer like it's it's a field,
Speaker 1: hockey gotta lead boxing week. It doesn't matter, man, we
Speaker 1: are a sports that that area, that South Jersey Philly
Speaker 1: area is definitely a sports hub man, and you feel
Speaker 1: it when the Eagles are doing well, you feel when
Speaker 1: they're doing bad. Same applies for the Flyers, the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and the Phillies even as far as the arena lead
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia soul. You know, the the area definitely
Speaker 1: embraces its sports and it's extremely competitive. People talk about Florida, Texas, California, Ohio,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, especially at South Jersey area is extremely competitive
Speaker 1: with sports, extremely competitive from the time guys are kids
Speaker 1: up until they're adults. They're obviously college football programs that
Speaker 1: are too far away, including Penn State and Rutgers. But
Speaker 1: you chose to go to Iowa. How did you wind
Speaker 1: up there and what were your first impressions of Iowa City,
Speaker 1: Penn State, and Rutgers Temple. Nobody one of me Iowa
Speaker 1: they did, so that's that's where I went. That was
Speaker 1: my only scholarship. We have a We had a coach,
Speaker 1: Daryl Wilson, who was from the South Jersey area, and
Speaker 1: Iowa historically has always gotten some New Jersey guys from
Speaker 1: the late seventies of until now. So you know, I
Speaker 1: was kind of just fell in line with that one. Uh,
Speaker 1: Iowa Cities is you know, it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a football place. Man. They love the Hawk guys there. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful that I was able to go to
Speaker 1: college there and play football there in the University of Iowa.
Speaker 1: They're blocking the streets off that the town is like
Speaker 1: almost shut down except for the bars. Man. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is a rocking atmosphere. I've played in some NFL
Speaker 1: stadiums that did well, a few NFL stadiums actually that
Speaker 1: didn't come close to having the same type of energy
Speaker 1: that Kinneck Stadium holds on Saturdays. So I loved it there.
Speaker 1: I definitely love playing football there. Speaking in places that
Speaker 1: love football. You were drafted by the Packers and spent
Speaker 1: your first eight years in Green Bay. What did you
Speaker 1: enjoy most about playing there? Uh, it was very similar
Speaker 1: to Iowa. I'm talking about streets getting blocked off on
Speaker 1: game days. Uh, bars a pack man and it's just
Speaker 1: a football town. And I definitely definitely with my time there.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful that I was able to play there. And
Speaker 1: everybody comes to play, you know, against the Green Bay.
Speaker 1: They always say like the atmosphere is crazy. It's definitely crazy,
Speaker 1: so it was really cool. One of the time honored traditions,
Speaker 1: going back to Vince Lombardi, is to borrow little kids
Speaker 1: bikes to get from Lambeau Field to the practice field
Speaker 1: during training camp. Did you enjoy it and at your size,
Speaker 1: were you ever worried about damaging a kid's bike. So
Speaker 1: my rookie year, I actually broke a kid's bike, and
Speaker 1: that was definitely something. I think I might have broke
Speaker 1: another one in my fourth year. So I always made
Speaker 1: sure I went to find a high school kid or
Speaker 1: a middle school kid who had like a mountain bike
Speaker 1: or something like that, because I kept riding little kids bikes. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: sometimes I made a little kids bike and help hold
Speaker 1: the handlebar while while they rode their bike. But it
Speaker 1: was definitely a really cool tradition and I'm glad they
Speaker 1: do it in Green Bay. How did those little kids
Speaker 1: react when you broke their bike? Oh? Man, they were honored.
Speaker 1: They loved it. They man, the th was the coolest
Speaker 1: thing in the world. I remember a few years later,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a little bit older. He actually came
Speaker 1: to an autograph sign and had a picture of me
Speaker 1: carrying his bike, and I said, oh, yeah, this is great,
Speaker 1: this this is really good. So they they they they
Speaker 1: loved it. They really loved it. A few more fun
Speaker 1: facts with Mike Daniels. You and your wife have been
Speaker 1: extremely generous, Mike with your time and your money in
Speaker 1: terms of giving back. Is there a cause that means
Speaker 1: the most to you? I have a heart for um everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever calls we're getting in involved in, whether
Speaker 1: it's a book bag drive, a women's shelter holding, the
Speaker 1: camp for children, it's we're we're we're all for it.
Speaker 1: And right now, one of the causes that I'm definitely
Speaker 1: involved in his New Souls inc Incorporated, based out of
Speaker 1: consulting in Camden, New Jersey right now. And what they
Speaker 1: do is they do it. They do a right of things, Uh,
Speaker 1: bringing Christmas gifts to um a lot of children who
Speaker 1: are living in very financially underprivileged situations. They remember they
Speaker 1: did an ice cream drive where they running out and
Speaker 1: ice cream truck and just handed out free ice cream.
Speaker 1: They do shoe drives, hence the name New Souls. They
Speaker 1: do a sneaker drive, so I'm definitely involving them. They'll
Speaker 1: be my calls my cleets form. I called my cleets
Speaker 1: this football season, and I definitely love the work that
Speaker 1: they're doing. Describe the significance of the date August third,
Speaker 1: the significance of dad. August third is my first three
Speaker 1: children were born on that date. It's definitely a very
Speaker 1: exciting day in the Daniels household. And they're not triplets.
Speaker 1: That's August third, three different years, three different years, No triplets,
Speaker 1: no twins. All right. Final fun fact for Mike Daniels.
Speaker 1: This is putting you on the spot. If you could
Speaker 1: meet anybody in history, athlete, entertainer, statesman, who would that
Speaker 1: person be. It's funny. It's probably had to be three comedians,
Speaker 1: George Carlin, Dick Gregory and Simbad. I'd have to meet
Speaker 1: those three guys. There's three comedians who definitely were definitely
Speaker 1: very honest about the current state of affairs or whatever
Speaker 1: is going on. So though, those are three people who
Speaker 1: I would love to meet or have met. You love
Speaker 1: comedy clubs. I've always been a pretty big stand up
Speaker 1: comedian or a fan of stand up comedy. Brother, I
Speaker 1: could see you doing it. Someday. You'll have to get
Speaker 1: up on stage. Bill Tomatoes at me, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: that's not that funny. You could put together a good
Speaker 1: ten minute set. I appreciate your time. This has been fine.
Speaker 1: Best of luck this year. Thanks very much. Have a
Speaker 1: good day. How great is Mike Daniels. Here's hoping he
Speaker 1: makes a speedy recovery from the elbow injury he suffered
Speaker 1: at practice last week. The best case scenario is that
Speaker 1: he's back in three weeks. Here's a quick reminder to
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