WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Learnin' The Blues 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.359 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.480 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The you've had your first lesson 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:19.479 in learning the Blues. Addition, as the Bengals playoff chances 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.599 take a hit with a gut wrenching overtime loss to 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.760 the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Coming up, you'll hear 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.040 radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, and analysis 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.640 from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.720 fun fact segment, you'll learn that Frank Pollock is not 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:41.000 only a great offensive line coach, but a sensational storyteller. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.879 The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.760 free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.360 from the App Store in Google Play. And here's a 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.640 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.240 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.920 by subscribing wherever you get your podcast ASTs. It's the 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:06.399 greatest thing since eighty Bryant. The current season of Saturday 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.640 Night Live isn't doing much for me, but the one 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.319 cast member who consistently makes me laugh is Ady Bryant. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:19.039 Whether it's her physical comedy, intentionally weird pronunciations, or one 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.520 hundred percent commitment to the musical. Shorts like the one 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.640 about regifting a Christmas candle, Aidy Bryant elevates every sketch 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:33.640 she's in. So here's to my SNL MVP Ady Bryant, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.280 with a thumbs up to Kate McKinnon and Keenan Thompson too. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.600 Now let's get to Sunday's game. After the two teams 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.440 traded punts on their opening series, the Bengals force the 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.119 forty nine Ers to punt again. The second time they 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:52.720 got the ball, Wishnavsky lets it rip, Phillips, moving forwards, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.520 struggles to catch it, leases the ball. He muffed it. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.200 There's a wrestling match for the ball and the forty 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:03.280 nine Ers recover at this Cincinnati twenty three yea. So 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.280 the forty nine Ers took over on the cusp of 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.360 the red zone, and while the Bengals defense did not 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.880 give up a first down, Robbie Gold kicked a short 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.880 field goal to give Sam Fran a three nothing lead. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.560 Phillips was briefly injured when he muffed the punt, and 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.440 Stanley Morgan took overs. The Bengals kick returner. He promptly 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.400 muffed the ensuing kickoff before recovering and getting tackled at 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.440 the fourteen. Cincinnati overcame that and drove to the San 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.080 Francisco nineteen before settling for a field goal in the 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.280 red zone that tied the game at three at the 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.720 end of the first quarter. The Bengals d only gave 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.919 up two first downs in the first quarter, but Kyle 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.840 Shanahan is too good of a play designer and the 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.360 forty nine ers have too many good players to shut 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.280 them down all day. Second down at eight, the Bengals 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.840 twenty seven Garoppolo fakes a handoff, no he did give 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.120 it to Deebo Samuel, spreading to the right, turns the 0:02:55.160 --> 0:03:00.600 corner down the sideline into the end zone, touchdown. St. Francisco. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.640 Deebo Samuel is listed as a wide receiver, but he 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.640 frequently lines up at running back, and that twenty seven 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.920 yard run gave the Niners a ten three lead. The 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.280 Bengals cut the margin to four when they drove into 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.079 the red zone again before settling for a short field 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.880 goal with one forty two left in the half, and 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.000 it looked like Cincinnati might score again when the defense 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.799 forced to quit three and out one oh seven left 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.200 and a half. The forty Niners half to punt way 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.160 up into the air. Phillips calls for a fair catch 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.520 and the balls it's recovered by San Francisco at the 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.000 Cincinnati thirty yard line. Second muff punt of the game 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.360 for Darius Phillips. Phillips did not return another kick or 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.360 punt for the rest of the game. Here's Mike Kilton 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.040 in my opinions, one of the hardest job is to 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.040 be a punt returner. You know, you got guys screaming 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.400 down and you just got a number one kissed the 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.800 ball in. You know he didn't do it, but we're 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.000 not losing confidence in him. We know if he gets 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.560 the ball in his hands in space, you know he's 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.560 able to make plays for us. Those were the first 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.280 two umbles that Darius Phillips has lost this year. The 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.040 Bengals defense has been phenomenal this year after turnovers, only 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.880 allowing two touchdowns the first seventeen times they took the 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.560 field after a turnover, and it looked like they were 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.440 going to come through again when they forced an incomplete 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.880 pass on third and seven that would have forced a 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.599 field goal. Try, but on the play, Von Bell was 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.479 called for taunting to give the forty nine ers a 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.160 first down. Was it a good call? Here's Zach Taylor. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.920 I didn't personally see it, but it sounds like it was. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.599 It was probably wispen called historically this season with taunting. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.080 But I gotta be careful because I haven't seen you yet. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.160 But something feedback was that that's kind of wispen called. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.200 It was the second time this year that Bell has 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.760 been called for taunting, and this time it cost the 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.080 Bengals four points. Cooppolo catches the shotgun snap, he's back 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.520 to throw, has time, looks around, floats it down toward 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.040 the two caught pie Kittle extends the ball to the pylon, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:08.880 touchdown out. San Francisco. Man talk about mistakes, fumbles, penalties, taunted, penalties, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.520 all it is a self destruction. It made the halftime 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:17.200 score seventeen six, San Francisco. Here's Sam Hubbard. You can't 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.600 beat yourself. I think that really is what comes down 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.919 to it. The good teams they don't beat themselves. They 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.080 will make those mistakes. And we want to be a 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.800 good team. You know, we do a lot of good things. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.279 There's bright moments, But when it comes down to it, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.840 there's situations where we can't make the mistakes we've been 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.880 making the last two weeks to win games. As for 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.480 tight end George Kittle, he destroyed the Bengals all day, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.920 finishing with thirteen catches for one hundred and fifty one yards. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.360 We tried everything. He's one of the best tight ends. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.800 We've known that for a long time. And you know, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.960 he had similar production last week. I think he almost 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.320 had two hundred yards receiving. And it's it's not like 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.039 he surprises people. When a guy is that explosive and 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.120 that big, that kind of hands, that catch radius, he 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.359 makes a lot of ways, and I promise you, we 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.960 try to like hell to take him away, and he 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.240 just he finds way to make those plays. The deficit 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.080 got bigger in the third quarter. The Bengals opened the 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.880 second half with three straight running plays and had to 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.960 put on fourth and one. The forty nine ers answered 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.400 with a field goal to take a twenty to six lead. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.279 The Bengals responded with a nice drive, marching to the nineteen, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.520 but a sack knocked him out of the red zone 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.680 and forced them to call on kicker Evan McPherson Harris's snap, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.520 Hubert puts it down. The kick has plenty of distance 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.440 and it is wide left. Told it left. The misery 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.120 extended for the Bengals today, as they are having a 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.039 wide variety of failures in every aspect of the game. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.839 To that point, there had been three muffs in the 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.920 kicking game, a taunting penalty on defense that turned a 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.080 field goal try into a touchdown, and three trips into 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.640 the red zone on offense without scoring a touchdown. It 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.760 seemed highly unlikely that the Bengals would rally from fourteen 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.159 down in the fourth core, but then again, they have 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.360 Joe Burrow and he was close to perfect for the 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.919 rest of the game. Fourth down in five in the 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.680 red zone, the Bengals line up to go for trailing 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.760 twenty to six at the seventeen of San Francisco. Three 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.960 receivers left, one right. Burrow has the ball. He's back 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.640 to throw, scrambling left, turns back toward the right, running 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.600 to the right, looking down field, throws into the end zone. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:29.200 Oh Baby to catch in the back line around touch 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:34.880 down Bengals Jamar Chase hauls it in have The Bengals 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.960 are alive with nine twenty to go. It was hard 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.840 to tell on TV just how remarkable that play was. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.040 Is Burrow threw the ball in the opposite direction of 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.400 where Chase was running in the back of the end zone. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.920 When I threw it, he was still running left, and 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.240 he did a great job of you know, we were 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.960 just on the same page. I knew exactly when he 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.119 was seeing, and he knew exactly what I was seeing, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.480 and I he was running left. It through it right, 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:01.600 and he put his food in the ground and went 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.680 and got it. I don't really know why he did that, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.400 but he was just saying, you know, he was throwing 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.360 the ball away from the defender because the defender got 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.200 a ten of SIPs which way. I was like, man, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.920 that's really kind of smartn't you know what I'm saying, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.760 food me off the So that was actually a good 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 play by him. That made a twenty to thirteen, and 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.200 the Bengals defense got two straight stops to give Burrow 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.720 a chance. The first time they got him the ball, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.280 the Bengals had to punt, but the second time, Cincinnati 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.160 started at its own thirteen with two forty to go 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.160 and drove down the field to tie the game one 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.239 twenty five on the clock, a two by two formation, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.880 Burrow back to throw, looking firing deep for Chase in 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:46.160 the end zone. Touchdown down Joe Burrow and the Bengals 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:52.160 as he delivers to Numero uno, Jamar Chase, one nineteen 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.760 on the clock as he beat Thomas and now the 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.520 Bengals will line up for the extra point with a 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.720 chance to tie it with one nineteen to go. You 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.480 couldn't put that ball on a better spot. I mean, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.440 Chase ran a great route and Joe Burrow threw the 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.800 ball over the outside shoulder. The only guy that could 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.800 make a plan that football was Jamar Chase. Unbelievable catch, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.920 better throw. Here's Burrow and the Bengals come back. And 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.720 we've kind of been a second half team the whole season. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.280 We figure out what we're seeing and then we go 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.880 and attack it. You know, it's a's four quarter game. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.040 You're gonna have ups and downs throughout the game, whether 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.480 it's in the first half of the second half, and 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.600 you just got to finish strong and try to find wins. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.200 The only negative about the touchdown was that it left 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.400 enough time on the clock for the forty nine ers 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.719 to answer and a nineteen yard pass from Garoppolo to 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.600 Kittle on third and ten gave seventeen year veteran Robbie 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.360 Gould a chance to end it. On the final play, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.560 forty seven yards away from the left hash to win 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.480 it for San Francisco. The kick is on its way. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.400 It's a line drive kick. It is oh good, he 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.120 missed it. Edward I handed over time tide at twenty. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.320 The Bengals won the toss and got the ball, meaning 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.319 they could win the game by scoring a touchdown. Burrow 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.280 hit Te Higgins for twenty six yards. After a run 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.120 by Joe Mixon got stopped for no gain, Burrow hit 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.920 c j Uzamba for a gain of twenty three. It 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.920 was first and ten at the San Francisco twenty six. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.439 In the fourth quarter and overtime, Burrow went eleven for 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.360 fifteen for two hundred ten yards, two touchdowns and no picks, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.680 for a passer rating of one fifty four point eight. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.080 But rather than letting Burrow go for the juggular, the 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.520 Bengals handed it to Mixon for a gain of four, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.000 then handed it to Joe again for a gain of three. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.480 On third and three, Burrow dropped back to throw and 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.040 got sacked. Joe was asked about the play calling on 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.640 the final drive. Whatever play calls is called, we're gonna 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.839 execute to the best of our ability. We had a 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.040 good drive there, we just weren't able to close it out. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.760 Joe wasn't about to publicly second get the coaches, but 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.440 Zach Taylor second guest himself when he was asked the 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:09.000 following question by my former colleague at Fox nineteen, Joe Daneman, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.120 is there ever a thought as a play caller when 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.520 the quarterback's hot to stick with a hot hand and 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.120 ride him. Yeah, yep, I agree with you. You know, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.360 it's it's it's that. That's one that'll keep you up 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.959 at night. You know, we got a quarterback that can 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.680 win us a lot of games, and you know there's 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.640 maybe one more pass instead of a run there. Sure, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.520 if we hit that run, I feel great about it. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.880 But we didn't, and so then you go back to hindsight, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.079 and I'm sure I'll feel a lot of that tonight. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.680 Evan McPherson kicked a forty one yard field goal to 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.520 give the Bengals their first lead all day, twenty three 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.440 to twenty, But that meant the forty nine ers would 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.800 get a chance to either tie it or win it. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.839 From the twelve yard line. Garoppolo fakes a handoff short 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:56.280 throw caught by a UK ten five dives for the pieline. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.520 He goes out of bounds first. Wow, he's out of 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.280 bounds at the two where it will be first in goal. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:07.360 After a few it is a touchdown. Came over. Wow. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.160 I'll bitterly disappointing defeat for the Cincinnati Bengals. They rally 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.200 from fourteen down in the fourth quarter, take the lead 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.920 in overtime, and cannot stop to San Francisco forty nine 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.760 ers from driving seventy five yards for a game winning touchdown. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.800 The final score San Francisco twenty six, Cincinnati twenty three. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.520 Not as painful as Montana to Taylor, but still painful. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.480 Here are Sam Hubbard and Mike Hilton drive at the end. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.720 You know you got to stop them there, and uh 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.480 we didn't. So I'm proud of you know, I love 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.640 the guys on my team that we went out there 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.160 in battle. Nobody I don't even know what we were 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.360 down at one point, but we just kept sticking together, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.800 getting stops, climbing back into it. Nobody you know, pointing fingers, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.559 But uh yeah, it's tough. It's tough, tough to win 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.160 in this league. These last two week we kind of 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.679 dug ourselves in some depoles that we weren't able to 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.560 get out of. And you know, it's too lossy that 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.319 we feel like we played to our standard. We should 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.800 win those games. And we know as a team we 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.559 got to start faster and we gotta finish finished like 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.120 we've been finishing, but that first half, we just gotta 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.360 come out with more urgency and in more fight. Had 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.720 the Bengals won, they would have moved into a tie 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.160 for first in the AFC North with the Ravens, who 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.440 not only lost in Cleveland on Sunday, but saw Lamar 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.160 Jackson taking off the field on a cart with an 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:34.720 ankle injury. Baltimore has dropped too straight and the Bengals 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:39.200 couldn't take advantage of the opportunity. Here's Burrow and when 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.880 the one of the teams that you're fighting for the 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.160 division with loses, you you got to take advantage of that, 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.000 and we haven't been able to the last two weeks. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.240 So you know, like you said, missed opportunities. The Bengals 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.200 would no longer be a wild Card team. If the 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.320 season ended today, they fall into ninth on the AFC 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.880 Totem Pole and seven teams get in. Cincinnati's final four 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.559 games are at Denver, home against Baltimore, home against Kansas City, 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.600 and on the road in Cleveland. All four teams have 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:13.360 winning records. The Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.840 the free to play fantasy football game. Ultimate Bengals will 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.200 be awarding a weekly winner during the course of the season, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.920 with tickets, autograph merchandise, and money can't buy experiences all 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.200 up for grabs. Find Ultimate Bengals in the App Store 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.240 and Google Play. Now time for postgame analysis with my 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:36.040 broadcast partner Dave lapham Lap. This is a second guesser's 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.040 field day, as the Bengals drove in overtime down to 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.080 the twenty six yard line. They had at first in 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.680 ten and called two straight running plays that didn't work 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.720 very well. Eventually, Joe Burrow got sacked and the Bengals 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.040 kicked a field goal that did not turn out to 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.960 be the game winning points. Zach Taylor is pretty candid 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.360 When asked about it after the game, he said, yeah, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:55.960 I kind of agree with you. I'm probably gonna have 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.240 a hard time getting to sleep tonight. Yeah, I think 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.760 he is. You know that that ended up getting a 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.800 little bit curious, particularly the way that they were They 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.320 were moving the ball through the air in big chunks. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.320 Not just that driving overtime, but the drives in the 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.600 fourth quarter. I mean, Joe Burrow was unbelievable in the 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.200 fourth quarter. In fact, it was unbelievable for the game. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:21.520 But I think the game came down to two things. Turnovers. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.080 The Bengals went minus two with the kicking game funnels 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.880 of all things. Man, that's a killer. In red zone. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.200 I mean, these are when the number one and number 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.560 three offenses in the NFL and touchdown red zone touchdown 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.280 percentage efficiency, and the forty nine ers went two for 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.800 four scored two touchdownes. The Bengals go one for five 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.760 in the red zone, only twenty percent conversion as opposed 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.480 to the fifty percent in a game that you lose 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.280 in overtime. In my mind, that's a massive difference right there. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.680 George Kills awesome, He's had as many as fifteen catches 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.600 in a game. He's mad that had more than two 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.560 hundred yards in a game. He had more than one 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.000 hundred and eighty. Last week against Seattle, he had thirteen 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:04.160 catches for one fifty one today. Why can't a team 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:10.360 stop George Kittle? It's remarkable, you know, and and you 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.280 look at it. I mean, they've got good recite wide receivers, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.000 but it's not like they have you know, Jerry Rice 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.160 and John Taylor out there. You know, Kittle, he just 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.120 he seems to He's so savvy, he's so smart, he's 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.840 so strong, he's so physical. He's just just as as 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:33.200 good a football player as as I've seen, honestly. I mean, 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.720 I don't care what the position this guy approaches. Every 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.640 single down that it's the last play to win a 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.920 Super Bowl. Every single snap this guy takes, He's one 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.240 of those one of those guys that you just you 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.920 feed off his energy and enthusiasm. I mean, he is 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.119 so serious. He takes the game of football so seriously 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.840 that it's contagious. It's it's unbelievable to watch the guy perform. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.920 This is a really costly, painful loss, a chance to 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.400 move into a tie with Baltimore. We don't know what's 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.960 going to happen with Lamar Jackson, who has carted out today, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.439 you're down by fourteen and the fourth quarter rally to 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.960 tie it, to take the leading overtime. You were in 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.760 the locker room. How devastated was that room? It was? 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.080 It was quiet, quiet in there, and guys were you know, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.800 the one of the many smiles, that's for darn't sure. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.800 And and they just were very reflective, stunned. In a 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.560 lot of cases. Um, you know, it's like in those situations. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.520 I've been in those situations, and it's almost like a 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.399 bomb goes off, you know, and you just don't know 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.280 exactly what happened, why it happened, how it happened, or 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.400 anything like anything else. And uh, and I don't want 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.639 to be that dramatic, particularly with what goes on in 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.400 today's world, but I mean, it's it's it's just it's 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.760 almost uh, it's it's almost beyond comprehension that that something 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.240 like that unfolded the way it did, you know, particularly 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.399 after the amount to come back, you know, and you 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.639 get back in two weeks in a row. Now you know, 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.600 they're down twenty four nothing to score twenty two to 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.000 make it again, and then never take a lead though 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.680 and this one though, they come back from down two 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.000 scores in the fourth quarter, tie it, take the lead 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.800 in overtime, and then don't finish it so they're closer. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.440 But still, man, they just have to they have to 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.160 quit the self destruction. I mean, these teams are good 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.479 enough teams. We say it every week. These teams were 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.040 all fighting for the playoffs. They're good enough to beat you. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.000 If you help them, you're done. You're cooked. Forget it, 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:29.960 it's over. You can't help football teams beat you by stupid, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.200 silly mistakes, whether it's dumb penalties, turnovers, whatever the case 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.040 may be. You just they're gonna have to be eliminated. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.000 And think about it this way too. In the last 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.080 two weeks, they've had four turnovers that weren't forced. Two 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.879 muffed punts today that led to ten points, that Jamarches 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.560 juggle that are raised to seventy one yard touchdown and 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.360 became an interception last week, and Joe Mixon's fumble where 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.440 it wasn't really forced. He was just kind of doing 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.840 a jump cut and lost control of the ball. I mean, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.679 it's bad enough to commit turnovers, it is ten times 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.840 worse when the other team doesn't even force it. Absolutely. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.760 I mean that's just like saying, here you go, I 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:10.000 don't want this football game, you know, I really I 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.919 can compete with you, but I'm still gonna let you 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:13.639 win it. Here you go, I'll just give it to you. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.080 The only one that came close for them from a 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.919 turnover standpoint was Jimmy Garoppolo dropping and think took up 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.160 for tour Us bounce. But other than that, I mean, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.200 they played like a playoff team in terms of taking 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.320 care of the football. The Bengals didn't, you know, And 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.840 I'll guarantee you Darren Simmons is fit to be tied. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.879 I mean, he's probably pulling hair out by the roots 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.359 as we speak. I mean, because I've heard him so 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.320 many times say to return, guys, the primary thing, the 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.159 biggest thing I need out of you is an ability 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.880 to track the football and catch the damn thing. Heard 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.879 him today In a game the Bengals wind up losing 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:56.800 by three points. They handed San Francisco four points? Was 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.600 it four? Final margin? Four? No? Three? Because there's no 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.600 extra yeah, said twenty six, twenty three. But they gave 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.600 San Francisco four points. When vone Bell gets called for 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:12.080 taranting absolutely and that one, you know, I understand the intent, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.280 but the pendulum has swung too far, you know. And 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.080 it's when you're when you're in a hotly contested game 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.960 and the emotions are high. There's nothing wrong with a 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.280 little celebration of a play that you made. I mean, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.560 it's it's not like you're in a guy's face and 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.040 mocking him, and it's just you know. The thing is, though, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.800 you have to realize that if you're going to do this, 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.880 separate yourself from somebody and do a celebration. Don't walk 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:38.760 up to it. When he walked up to an opponent 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.639 and did it, he's done, he's done. He maybe had 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.919 something to say too. You can't do it use somebody 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.359 else as a prop in your celebration. You can't include 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.520 anybody else. If you want to just you know, let it, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.040 let energy and you know, emotion boil. Do it alone, 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.560 Go find a quiet spot to do it. Man, those 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.119 things are killer. That was so costly unbelievable. All right, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.720 So we have been going through the negative and there's 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.000 lots of it. Let's talk about the biggest positive. Joe 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.640 Burrows unbelievable. He estimated his velocity at eighty to eighty 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.760 five percent because of the injured finger. Today, three hundred 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.800 forty eight passing yards, two touchdowns, one hundred and sixty 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.320 one yards in the fourth quarter alone when they had 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.480 to have it. The dude stepped up and delivered time 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.720 and time again. The future is so bright with this 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.679 guy at quarterback. And he sprayed the ball around. You know, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.840 that's the thing too. He goes five times to Higgins 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:33.439 for one hundred and fourteen yards. Every one of te 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:37.200