WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Crying 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.320 Hi and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:15.360 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The King Over You audition as 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.919 the Bengals lose on a walk off field goal for 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.080 the second straight week, falling in Dallas twenty to seventeen. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.800 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments from players 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.360 and coaches, and analysis from Dave Lapham. Then, in this 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.800 week's fun Fact segment, Hayden Hurst opens up about his 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.440 difficult past and how he nearly took his own life. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.559 You'll want to hear what Hayden has to say. 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I've called several games at AT and T 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.440 Stadium over the years, including the Cotton Bowl last New 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.480 Year's Eve, and the place never ceases to amaze me. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:32.119 It's palatial, it's grandiose. It reeks of money. I jokingly 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.720 quoted Ron Burgundy before the game and said that it 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.240 smells like rich Mahogany. It's kind of an obnoxious display 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.520 of wealth. But I must admit there's nothing in professional 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.959 sports quite like it. Now, let's get to Sunday's game. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.120 What is it about the Bengals and backup quarterbacks? They 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.720 helped launch a Hall of Famer's career when Don the 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.760 Magic Man Makowski got injured against Cincinnati back in nineteen 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.920 ninety two and Brett Farve came off the bench to 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.920 lead the Packers to a dramatic win. They lost a 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.880 playoff game to the immortal T. J. Yates of the 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.880 Texans in two twelve, and last year, the Bengals were 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.320 an eleven and a half point favorite when the Jets 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.160 had to start Mike White, and he threw for four 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.120 hundred and five yards and three touchdowns in a three 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.840 point New York win. This time around, it was Cooper Rush, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.240 making just his second start in five NFL seasons. He 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.360 gave the Cowboys an adrenaline rush on their opening drive, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.400 second down and eight at the Cincinnati ten. Elliot in 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.600 the backfield behind. Rush takes the snap, fakes to Elliot, 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.040 rolls to the right, looks, throws into the end zone, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:45.360 a leaping catch, and a touchdown Noah Brown in the 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.800 back right corner of the end zone. The Cowboys have 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.800 their first touchdown at this season, and it comes on 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.560 the opening drive in Week two, with their backup quarterback 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.960 running the show. The Bengals immediately answered with a forty 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.480 three yard field goal by Evan McPherson, but on the 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.720 Cowboys second drive, they found the end zone again. Cowboys 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.400 line up in an I formation backfield. We'll see if 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.800 the quarterback Rush keeps it. Nope, he's gonna give it 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.360 to Pollard, and Pollard knights in for the touchdown. Appropriate. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.639 They gave him the opportunity to score after he did 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.920 most of the work to get them down there, and 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.560 Dallas has scored touchdowns on its first two drives with 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.000 Cooper Rush at quarterback and taking a thirteen to three 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.959 league rush through for two hundred and thirty five yards 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.840 with one touchdown, no picks, and a passer rating of 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.480 ninety five point five. Here's Mike Hilton, who just getting 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.800 the ball out quick into this playmaker scance. You could 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.080 tell he wasn't trying to make no mistakes. You know, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.240 he weren't taking any deep shots. So it's like, you know, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.280 he's just planning into the scheme and just taking when 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.160 he was given him. Rush was rarely pressured and only 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.960 got sacked once. The Bengals quarterback, on the other hand, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.920 Burrow back to throw under pressure trying to scramble. Micah 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.840 Parsons will come up with his first sack of the game, 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.040 hops on Burrows back and sacks him for a three 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:09.880 yard loss. Burrow was sacked six times and hit nine times. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.080 They have a great rush, one of them, I would 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.280 say top two or three best rushes in the league. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.159 They got to Marcus Lawrence, Micah and they do a 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.160 really good job with their picks in games too, and 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.719 so you know early in the game you're gonna have those, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:24.960 and you know, I can do a better job to 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.039 getting the ball up quickly. But I thought for the 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.839 most part, we protected the ball well in those situations. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.040 And that was my goal this week. The Bengals did 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.039 not have any turnovers in the game, but still couldn't 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.080 score a touchdown in the first half, and the Cowboys 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.040 added to their lead in the final minute. Jake McQuaid 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.440 from Elder High School is the long snapper for the 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.800 Dallas Cowboys. It's had a good long NFL career after 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.320 playing at Ohio State. Here comes the fifty four yard 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.040 kick and it is a line drive that is good. Wow, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.839 that looked like a one iron Yeah, barely had trajectory 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.560 and he just rocketed it through to get the Cowboys 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.880 a two touchdown lead with nine seconds left and a half. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.080 For the second straight week, the Bengals dug a seventeen 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.599 to three first half hole. Here are Joe Burrow and 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.400 Joe Mixon. You'd like to start faster. Obviously, no touchdowns 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:20.159 in the either first half. It's not up to our standard, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.960 and so you know, we'd like to start faster, but 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.320 you know, the defenses that we're getting earlier are always 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.680 different than the ones that are on film, and so 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.320 I think that that probably plays a part in it. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:33.760 But we just got to do a better job of 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.280 adjusting faster. I felt like, you know, as a whole, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.520 Like I said, we got to take an initiative. Everybody, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.120 you know, coaches, players, everybody's involved with everything, you know 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.640 what I'm saying. So I'm not gonna no fingerpoint or 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.240 nothing like that. I mean, we got to take it 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.840 upon us to you know, come out and execute, be 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.400 ready to play. And you know, for some reason, it 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.000 seems like we've been coming up short in that area. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.000 We've been starting off slow, you know, little penalties here 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.680 Art has been killing us and having to get back 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.560 on track mass So you know, for real, we's just 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.719 got to execute more. They executed much better in the 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.680 second half, driving for field goals on their first two possessions. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.440 It'll be a fifty yard attempt from the right hash 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.800 McPherson one for one today. Yet from forty three in 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.960 the first quarter, here comes his kick. Distance is not 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:27.160 a problem, and it is good from fifty yards away. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.359 Money Back has never missed on the road between the 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.880 regular season and the playoffs. He's twenty six for twenty 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.280 six on field goal attempts, remarkable, and he made a 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.640 twenty seven in a row late in the third quarter 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.160 to pull Cincinnati within eight. Heading to the fourth, beginning 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.960 at their own twelve yard line with twelve and a 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.919 half minutes to go. The Bengals put together an incredible 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.159 nineteen play drive that took nearly nine minutes off the clock. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.960 There were three third down conversions and one fourth down convert. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:05.000 Burrow waiting for a shotgun snap Parsons rushing on Jonah Williams. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.240 Here's a pass caught by Jamar Chase. He got inside 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.440 of Digs and made the catch at the nineteen to 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.600 extend the drive. On fourth and six, and with less 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.680 than four minutes to go in the game, the Bengals 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.960 finally scored a touchdown second and goal from the five, 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.240 three fifty seven to go. The Bengals trailing by eight. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.640 Burrow waiting back at the ten for the snap from 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.920 Keras Joe has the ball looking left, scans to the right. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.760 Joe can run, but he throws into the end zone 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.520 by te hanging for the test down maybe and the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.200 Bengals are a two point conversion away from tying this game. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.840 The ball is placed with a front tip at the 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.280 two yard live the Bengals trying for a game tying 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.440 two point conversion for the second week in a row. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.880 They will go empty. As Burrow waits for the shotgun snap, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.440 Joe has the ball from the ten, looking telling god 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.240 By Boyd to tie the game. Night with three minutes 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:10.960 and forty five seconds left in regulation, what a tribe. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.480 Nineteen plays eighty three yards and the Bengals score eight 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:21.000 points to pull even. Here's Zach Taylor on the marathon drive. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:22.920 That's just what was needed at that point in the game, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.680 you know, And that's the position we put ourselves in. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.760 But our guys answered the bell. They made some tremendous plays, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.679 some tremendous one on one plays, some great throws, tremendous protection. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.760 You know, about everybody I can think of stepped up 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.480 on that drive to help us go score. And you know, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.520 the protection was tremendous on the two point play. Joe 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.080 really had all day back there and allowed TV to 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.240 separate on that world routing. So you thought, those guys 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.040 really came together and put the drive together when we 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.400 needed it. Unfortunately, the next time out we weren't able 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.920 to do that. The next time came about a minute 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.760 and a half later, as the defense forced to punt 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.120 to give the offense a chance to drive for a 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.240 winning score. But on third and three at their own 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.480 fifteen yard line, Burrow through a pass short of the 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.720 sticks and Tyler Boyd got tackled after a one yard game. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.240 The heads went out first of all, so we're screaming 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.320 a play in and it's unfortunate that the one play 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.640 in the game is the last play in the game, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.880 but you know, we feel like we had to get shot. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.440 I think that one of their guys just fell off 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.800 on TV. I've got to see the clip, but I'm 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.319 not sure it was a guy covering him initially, just 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.200 fell off and made a real good play. The Bengals 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.520 had to punt, and the Cowboys got the ball at 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.880 their own thirty five with fifty seven seconds to go. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.080 Three straight Cooper Rush completions put the Cowboys in position 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.720 to score the only points they would need in the 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:42.000 second half. Maher Is sets he has two fifty yard 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.400 field goals this year. Here comes his kick. It has 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:51.200 the distance. It is good. The Cowboys win on a 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:56.360 fifty yard field goal at the gun. Cooper Rush beats 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.199 the Bengals in Dallas a fifty three yard or an 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.040 overtime last week, and a fifty yard or on the 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.920 final playoff regulation this week. The final score Dallas twenty, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:14.400 Cincinnati seventeen. Here are Joe Mixon, Joe Burrow, and Ted Harris. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.280 Our defense been playing the ass off I mean, you know, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.599 they had little, you know, hiccups here and there, but 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.480 at the end of the day they bawling on defense. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.760 We gotta do whatever we gotta do on offense to 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.120 you know, counter what's been going on. Man. So, like 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.280 I said, everybody got to take initiative on each other 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.880 and uh, you know, execute starfass and we've got to 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.000 finish these games. Two is tough, but there's no panic. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.040 We've lost two games in a row before. We lost 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.160 two games in row several times last year. A lot 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.679 of football have to be played. We're gonna have to 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.400 get all this cleaned up. We got a long season 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.480 ahead still obviously own two to start the year. Not 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.600 how we all visualized it going into this campaign. So, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.480 you know, but there's nothing we can do now about 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.320 that game. We're go get back to work and you know, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.880 we got the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon. After 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.520 the game, Dave Lapham spent a couple of minutes with 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:07.160 Zach Taylor, coach. It's a tough league. Boy, it's a 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.200 it's a it's a play here, a play there. Seems 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.840 like first down was a little bit of an achilles 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.920 heel today. Yeah, the first half it really got us. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.360 They just weren't efficient enough. They did a nice job, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.280 we didn't do a good enough job and put us 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:21.839 behind the chains there. But I thought we regrouped in 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.960 the second half and gave ourselves a chance. Down fourteen 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.040 points to start the game in two weeks now, but 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.360 your team just fights back. I mean they tied the 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.439 score in both football games. That tells you a lot 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.000 about their their character, their fiber, all the things you 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.520 need to know there, it doesn't it. I got to 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.760 find a way to help us put ourselves in a 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.320 lead so you know we can play the way that 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.959 we know we're meant to play, because being down two 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:44.320 scores two weeks in a row is not how we 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.160 want to do it. But again, we've got such great leadership, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:48.800 such great talent in the soccer room that I know 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.120 we're gonna get it done. And we just got to 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.199 catch ourselves from being too frustrated after knowing to start 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.400 because it's a long season ahead and we just got 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.679 to take care of this next week. Did they give 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.160 you any looks different than they had own, or that 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.280 you may be anticipated, either up front or on the 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.200 back end. I wouldn't say that. You know, there are 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.959 some things that were in our control in the first 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.400 half that we just didn't execute well enough. And they 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.840 were really good defense. They're really well coordinated. We've known 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.760 that dating back to every game we watched last year 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.600 and the first week as well. So that's just on 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.880 us to regroup and be better next week. They were 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.760 not going to let you throw the ball over their heads. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.040 I mean, they were going to make you play, you know, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.360 the intermediate to short routes. That that was going to 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:31.200 be something on an every snap basis. How frustrating was that, Yeah, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.679 you're not giving yourself a chance to when you're having 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.640 the inefficiency where we had the two false starts, we 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.040 had a sack on first and ten, we had a 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.160 negative roun you know. So there was just some things 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.560 that I could help us be better, for sure, to 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.920 put in a better position to put pressure on the defense. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.040 You mentioned that they had a backup quarterback that had 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.680 been there five years and he was in a quarterback 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.719 room as a player with the offensive coordinator, so they 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.960 know each other to they know what he can do 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.800 and can't do, and they didn't have to change their offense. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.880 He just went out and executed. Yeah, he's been there 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.440 for a reason for a long time. They obviously got 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.000 a taught to trust in him. I thought he executed 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.640 their offense. Royal ball coach appreciate it. I know. Uh, 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.280 you know. It's two close ones like this one and 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.040 overtime one of the gun. Tough life in the National 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.280 Football League, it really is. Yeah. It. Had the Bengals won, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.240 they would be tied for first in the AFC North. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.079 The Steelers lost at home to the Patriots. The Ravens 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.040 blew a twenty one point halftime lead and lost to Miami, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.520 and Cleveland had a thirteen point lead with less than 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.480 two minutes to go and lost to the Jets, who 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.280 scored a touchdown, recovered an onside kick, and scored another 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.680 touchdown to win by one. In other words, the Bengals 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:49.319 squandered a golden opportunity. Now time for postgame analysis. In 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:54.040 this week's Radio Guys Recap, lap I would describe the 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.920 basic mood in the locker room is stunned. I think 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.280 the Bengals thought facing Mitchell Trubisky in week one and 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.240 Cooper Rush in week two probably should be two and 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.000 L and their own two. Yeah, obviously digging big holes. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.600 You know, you put yourself behind fourteen points to any 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.720 team in the NFL, It's it's not a good place 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.480 to be. And uh, they've had to dig out of 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.680 those holes and twice have done it. But they have 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:18.960 to figure out a way to get off to a 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.920 faster start. I thought first down inefficiency was the kind 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.800 of the story of the day for the offense. They 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.880 found themselves in too many second and third and long 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.400 situations as a result, Goes six for seventeen on third 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.400 down two hundred and fifty four yards offense three point 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:38.240 eight yards per play, and mentioned at one point that, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.680 you know, it looked like the passing game was in 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.320 a box. You know, they just weren't going to allow 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.560 them to throw the ball over their heads. So going 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.160 to have to figure out ways to get that alleviated. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.240 And and then you know, guys for them stepped up 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.320 and had the game of their life. I mean Brown, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.120 who would have thought that he was targeted five times, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.320 five catches, nine one yards over eighteen yards of catching 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.600 a touchdown. No one, no one expected that to be 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:10.160 the case, that's for sure. So the longest passing play 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.560 was nineteen yards. You talked about how opponents are not 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.720 going to allow them to go deep. Is it because 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.920 the safeties are playing back? Is it because the rush 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.400 is getting there too quickly for for Burrow to even 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.040 attempt a deep ball. I think it's a combination, you know, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.600 I think it's uh. You know, initially, the safeties are 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.720 going to are making sure that Joe doesn't think about 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.960 putting it up there because you know, are they going 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.280 to work to the sideline and uh, and if Joe 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.560 decides to run a deep ball to one of his 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.240 outside receivers, is a safety going to be an issue there? Um. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.520 So then by the time you know, you get off 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.000 of that, now where are you're looking at? How much 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.120 time is there? So it's a combination of both, really 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.040 coverage and rush or glove over the hand, you know, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.520 and same thing with protection and deep ball. You know, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.720 you have to you have to give the quarterback an opportunity. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.400 He has to have confidence that it's not going to 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.520 be a you know, just a quick glance, you know, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.480 he's going to have some time to really evaluate things 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.360 before he has to come off of it. And right 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.400 now it's it's just disjointed. Do they have to run 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.040 teams out of this? Is that the bottom line? Yeah? 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.720 I mean I think I think you get that running 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.080 game going to the point where it's like, he's do 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.560 you want to die the slow death or the fast death? 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.160 And honestly, most teams are gonna try to die the 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.400 slow death anyway, but at least make them mix it 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.840 up a little bit more, you know, it makes change 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.680 some things up. If you get that running game going, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.040 you have a complimentary situation going, you have a balanced attack. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.320 You know, it's much tougher to play defense that way, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.920 but if you know you've got the running game controlled 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.520 and you can put seven in the box to do it, 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.800 click cover two all day long. The Bengals defense has 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.280 played well enough to win, I think, in the first 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.360 two games, but there are negatives. One takeaway in two games, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.800 two sacks in two games, and they've given up game 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.960 drives at the end of regulation today and an overtime 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.680 last week. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you know, you 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.200 look at their at their raw numbers. I mean, they're 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.000 They're obviously not. They're not terrible. They gave up five 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.240 point seven yards a play on the day, but they average. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.720 You know, the Cowboys rushed Foe hundred and seven yards 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.000 and they averaged four yards a carry. Um. And I know, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.760 in the perfect world you would want to have the 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.600 running game controlled a little bit better than that. So 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.160 make a Cooper Rush have to rush his decision making 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.520 process and make him think like he has to take 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.080 a chance here. They're um, he was too comfortable for 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.520 too much of the football game. Almost all the football game, 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.440 he was he was just too comfortable, and he had 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.240 confidence that he could execute the offense. Kellen Moore had 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.200 confidence you could execute the offense. And I thought Kellen 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.119 Moore called a good game. Mixed it up well, and uh, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.719 you know they did just enough in both phases, you know, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.479 to to win the football game when they had to do. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.000 You think at this point it's, you know, business as usual. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.760 You go back to practice, you do what you did 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.520 last year to go to the Super Bowl. Or do 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.880 they need to mix it up in some way two 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.439 games into the season. Yeah, I mean it's not you know, 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.119 you only have a game out. Everybody's one and one 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.040 except for you. Um, you know, you go back to work, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.159 but there has to be a sense of urgency because 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.439 now you're two games down. You know, you have you 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.840 have fifteen games left in the season. You can still 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.320 obviously control your own destiny, but you've you know, it's 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.160 it's an NFC loss, which if you're going to lose 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.240 a football game from a tiebreaker standpoint, that's the one 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.720 that you'd probably pick to lose. But you certainly don't 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.360 want to circle any games to lose. That's that's obviously 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.880 not in your mind. That's not your mindset whatsoever. So um, 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.719 there's just a few things to clean up, and uh, 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.720 but you got to get cleaned up quickly because I mean, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.600 you know, everybody in this league is capable. I mean 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.399 there are upsets are single week. Look what the Jets 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.800 did today, you know, and they've got to go to 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.240 New York. Look what happened last year in New York. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.440 So it's uh. I was talking to Ted Garrett Carris 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.600 in the post game. He says, look, I know what 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.240 the next two games are like. That's the division that 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.280 I played in, and I know what it's like to 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.800 you know, to play these football teams. Look what the 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.200 Miami Dolphins did today. Look what the New York Jets 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.159 did today. That's the next two opponents. So you know, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.600 they're not going to be a situation where ah yeah, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.040 I get up on them and it's an easy out. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.840 They're gonna they're gonna fight you. They're gonna fight you 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:38.800 tooth and nail. Josh Allen, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.440 Jackson still to come. And they had the opportunity at 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.800 home against Mitchell Trubisky and on the road against Cooper 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.560 Rush and didn't take advantage of it. That stings, it, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.800 does it does? I mean, you know, I know you can, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.480 you can kick yourself in the butt about it, but 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.760 then you have to move on. You have to forget 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.720 about it as best you can and move on because 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.879 you can't go back. There's nothing you can do about 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.959 about the past, whatsoever. All you can do about is 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.520 take care of the future. And you know, maybe you 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.320 knock off a couple of quarterbacks that people weren't expecting 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.080 you to knock off. That's just you know, life in 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.640 the National Football League. But you have nobody to blame 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.480 but yourself. So a road game against the Jets is next, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.879 and the Bengals will once again face a backup quarterback, 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.360 not Mike White this time, but thirty seven year old 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.240 Joe Flacco, who threw four touchdown passes in that win 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.199 over Cleveland. Let's turn the page and get to this 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.520 week's fun Facts interview, where we get to know the 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.800 person under the pads. Time for some fun facts with 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.760 Bengals tight end Hayden Hurst from Jacksonville, Florida. Were you 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.119 a big Jaguars guy as a kid, and if so, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.560 did you have heroes that you looked up to? So 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.200