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we like it. We've got a lot to cover between now and nine o'clock,
three hours of conversation coaches, players and more. Bengals win thirty four,
fourteen and Dave. It was Jake Brownie doing it again. Two touchdowns
in the air, one on the ground. The offensive line protected him,
the offensive line plowed for the running game, the defense stood up, and
once again this team respotted to the adversity. Where things could have gone one
way, they kept it their way. Seven and six and still in this
thing telling you you're right about the adversity overcoming that against Jacksonville. Fourteen points
allowed in two minutes and twenty seconds and they end up taking a seven point
lead with that second score. In this particular game, two scores fourteen points
in twenty five seconds, which tied the football game up. The Bengals never
trailed in this football game. They had a fourteen point lead, gave it
up, and then outscore outscore them by twenty points in the second half.
Just a great performance. And I think you know, Jake Browning is being
supported in so many ways. I mean it's not only his level of play,
his level of execution, the game plan the coaches are providing, know
how his teammates are supporting him with great effort. The offensive line, their
past protection was extraordinary. Frank Pollock scheme in the running game. I mean
they duo double teamed, they trapped, they they pinned guys, they ran
every every blocking uh configuration that you can imagine, and and then the screen
game to support that running game and support the passing game as well. I
mean it was well conceived, well called, and well executed. It It
was one of those great days offensively and the defense, heck, they only
gave up six points they touchdown, the missed extra point. Well, they
did give up two point conversion, but that was after, you know,
the the pick six. So really the defense stood up very, very tall
as well. And David, I think when Joe Burrow went down, I
think a lot of people thought, all right, we're gonna we're gonna learn
a lot about this team and a lot about this staff now and the fact
that they have adapted it and tweaked and evolved. And on a day they
scored third four points without Joe Burrow, three catches from Jamar Chase and two
catches from t Higgins, they put thirty four on the board. Yeah,
it just goes to show you that one thing that they want Jake to do
is distribute the football. Distribute it to everybody. And they are and you
know, some some rookies are stepping up, some veterans are assuming a bigger
role. I mean, it's it's just it's great to see. Uh,
if the old saying goes, if everybody does a little, nobody has to
do a lot. And it's unfair to expect. We've talked about it from
Jump Street it's unfair to expect Jake Browning to be Joe Burrow. But if
everybody does lots, nobody has to do a little, you're going to get
the best version of Jake Browning that you can get. And hecky set of
record. I mean, he's completed seventy five percent of his passes over three
starts. I mean, that's that's amazing, three out of every four footballs.
But again, they're they're friendly completion opportunities and he's taken them. Give
him credit. He's searching for completions and he's taken them. And that's what
it's all about, you know. And to the point of where they're getting
contributions for and we'll hear it later on in the back half of the eight
o'clock hour, But we do game balls every week and a game ball group,
and group included Trey Hendrickson and bj Hill. Okay, you could expect
that, and you said they would win game balls at any point the season,
you'd say, sure, Tanner Hudson gets a game ball, dj Ivy
gets a game ball, Chase Brown gets a game ball, which just kind
of paints that picture of how everybody's helping a little bit on this team.
And I think that Jake Browning Tanner Hudson game ball is significant because they had
the miscommunication problem. You know, it's okay, either Jake was a little
bit inaccurate or Tanner didn't run the route as many steps as Jake was expecting.
Whatever happened there, the tipball interception for a touchdown, Jake brown and
goes right back to him and he converts on a big third and ten.
He has that huge touchdown. He ends up making plays and just compartmentalizing.
Okay, adversity, let's move on. And that's what they're doing individually.
They're doing it collectively as a football team, and that'll take you a long
way. Let's pick up more here from the head coach. Here is Zach
Taylor. Twenty point victory over a team that was five and one on the
road. Every situational, last back, throw it down, red zone,
you name it. You guys want it and want to handle it. Yeah,
I mean we challenge our team not to give them anything easy. They've
capitalized on That's what good football teams do. That's why he's a good team.
They've capitalized on every opportunity and that's part of this league, and our
guys today did a great job in the second half recapturing their momentum, doing
a great job control and the things we can control and putting these guys away.
And I thought it was a really good performance, particularly in the second
half. Our team in the two game winning streak. In both games,
the opponent scores fourteen points in two minutes and twenty seconds in Jacksonville, in
twenty five seconds in this football game, you guys just adversity. What's I
don't know what that definition is. You guys just so resilient they are.
I mean, that's what team has proven time time again if we just bad
and guys that fit that description in the locker room and they jump right in
the line. And so you saw a lot of guys step up today and
make key plays in this game. And that's what this locker room is all
about. And I was I was proud to see all those guys step up.
Forty two sacks. They came into the game with forty two sacks,
none zero shut out. How good the offensive line play it, to your
naked eye, awesome, that's a really good defensive line. And our guys
responded to the challenge the right way, and to keep Jake clean like that
was impressive. To keep the run game going like they did. This screen
game was all really helpful and so really proud of the job those offensive linemen
did. Your screen game is unbelievable. I mean, your first two screens
you got over one hundred yards are your first two screens in a touchdown?
What is it about the screen game? I think we got a lot of
variety. The guys are understand what to do at all all positions. Jake's
done a good job with the timing of it all. And sometimes it's a
great job, great execution. Sometimes you're catching them in the right look and
that has a lot to do with it too. But I thought there was
I can picture all the screens we hit and guy is making key blocks and
key timing, and it was good to see. Have you ever had your
quarterback struggle with the cramp and hiss thumb? No? No, but it
is what it is. Man. Aj was ready to step up on a
third downs. Not fun when it's raining or snowing whatever. It was not
an ideal situation, but Aj went in there and managed it well and was
able to get us move in a little bit for that field goal and we
were in good shape. Yeah, that was unbelieved to go in there stone
cold and not even throw one warm up. I mean that that's pretty incredible.
Not a fun situation to be in, you know for Frey j and
so we called a fade route. He threw a great throw to Tea for
a touchdown. Touch should have been touchdown, And that's not the way.
Great job, Brian, So that's just that's just the way I go sometimes.
Red zone. Your defense now has held the opponent without a point on
ten possessions, eight of them coming in. They hit the upright on one
and the interception and then you just scored a touchdown. So they were in
there three times and get seven points. What can you say about your defense
in the red zone. Yeah, the drive is never over with these guys.
They got a belief that they're not giving up points and they're going to
find a way to get a turnover, find a way to get a fourth
down stop, and and uh, it just rubs off on everybody. And
that's just the general sense when team's getting the red zone that it's not going
to work out well for him. And our guys did a great job today.
It seemed like on the on the pick six receiver and quarterback, maybe
on a little bit different page execution wise. I think that we'll see the
tape. It might have been a tick off the throw and it gets you
know, he's trying to catch it and the backer. I saw the replay.
It's you know, they're on scholarship too. Harrison made a good play.
He plucked it out of there. Sometimes when you're off just by six
inches or of foot, you know, things like that can happen. Sometimes
you avoid him with an incompletion. Sometimes it goes sideways. But I know
that Jake did a great job manage the game. He really did. And
you had two takeaways, so you finished plus one in the turnover department.
Mind know, that's always always a goal for sure. So you get this
one against the Indianapolis Colts. Now you have back to back Saturdays. Your
team had to go Monday night, short week, now Saturdays. Schedule wise,
are you you pretty like, Okay, this is what I was going
to do. Did you decide before the season, do you change your mind
during the course of the season. How does that work? We've been in
the six eight weeks before, you know, coming off a Monday game against
the Rams, so you just follow the same process. It is nicer having
to play at one o'clock home game. I think we're all pretty tired last
week getting up to Friday even so now you get a chance to get some
rest to show up. Yeah, it's a short week, but our guys
they follow the same schedule they follow the last week. So we've got that
rhythm down a little bit. Short week, Minnesota Vikings and then another Saturday
game Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh. But it's just the Minnesota Vikings right now.
And I mean everybody you're playing is still in the playoff. Un is crazy.
That's the beauty of this league. Man, Everyone's still in it and
the unfortunately we're one of those teams. We've got to take care of business.
Zach Taylor, let's take a time out of come back. Still ahead
in this first hour, Jake Browning, Chase Brown, Cheeto and more.
Brian Callahan on our second hour, lou Anarumo in our third hour. We
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Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW Lance McAllister Dave Lapham glance. It's
time to make the right call, and that's presented by the law offices of
Blake Maslin. And this one, in my mind's fairly simple. First and
ten at the Cincinnati forty six yard line. Both teams had gone three and
out, and Jake Browning executes the screen passed to Chase brown Not only Chase,
did Jake Browning and Chase bron execute at the offensive line, the receivers,
everybody did their job, resulting in a fifty four yard touchdown, got
the scoring going and the Bengals never trailed from that point on in the football
game. Jake Browning eighteen of twenty four, two hundred and seventy five yards,
two touchdowns, quarterback rating of one twenty two point seven. Here's QB
one after the game. Thumb forearm just saw started cramp and my thumb was
just locking up on that good throw and then came and gotten at ivy and
it was fine. But yeah, it's pretty dumb. But you need to
drink more water into blectroites, I guess, and uh, I think sometimes
when it's cold, you're starting for thirsty. So yeah, I guess that's
probably the main takeaway from the games. Hydrate better have your team is already
giving you a hard time about about water or do you think that's kind of
yeah, but I think I'm sure it will be. But uh, I
think everyone's just happy we won. And uh yeah, I mean it's kind
of embarrassing, but this is what it is you mentioned last week. I
thought how you wanted to plumb about your performance on Monday, I involve with
another quality performance. You did that today. But what's it feeling to go
back to any Uh feels good, feel like we got some good rhythm going.
But I think as well as we play on offense, I thought,
I'll line have a really good game, no sun acts, a couple of
explosive screens, ran the ball for a hundred plus yuars, but I will.
I think for all these post game best conferences, you kind of go
back to the same thing of it's never as good as you think, it's
never as bad as you thinks. So I'm I'm sure I know there's some
things that uh, you know I I can improve on and so that'll kind
of be my focus. But it feels better doing that and when he won
and uh, trying to keep any better instead of losing and trying to get
better. So uh, we'll take it just like you. Just like the
other night, and he had a bad he had a bad twenty sevens where
you know, like subtling the game change in twenty seconds. It just like
money. Ninety guys didn't didn't Why Yeah, uh throw a bad pass of
Tanner. He tried to make a play on it. You need to throw
it to him in the chest and then they return it for a pick six.
So that was, uh, yeah, it was tough. But I
I think coming into halftime is mean. My thought process was the only time
that they haven't stopped us is when I threw it to the other team and
so I just don't do that and you move the ball, Well, was
that just a you throw it too far inside it? Yeah? I was
I thought you. I thought he was gonna sit and then he kind of
sit and broke out a little bit. I'm sure he was right. Might
just throw it too far inside and you know he goes out and tries to
make the play and catch it kind of goes in the guy's laugh. But
I mean, I think if I just throw a two in the chest and
we'll avoid the whole problem. What does the key drink to a ninety two
yard scoring drive three others of over seventy yards? What's the key in your
mind that having big long drives? Yeah, I mean, I think there's
I feel like our offense is doing a good job of running the ball well,
having some plays off those runs, then some explosives and it it all
seems to be kind of flowing well pretty doing a good job of complimenting each
other. I think, like I said, our line quite incredible. I
think they were really the consistent force throughout the game. And I think when
we do that, there's an opportunity for some explosives, and we obviously got
the guys on the outside to do that. Why's the screen game and some
good for you guys. I don't know. I don't spend that much time
on screens. Just kind of do my part on it and then you know,
try and sell pass to get you know. I think part of what
they do on defense is limit the explosives as part of that as they're playing
soft, they're running everybody out underneath to try and stop. You know,
the intermediate's a long pass game. So when you dump off a few and
let some alignment and get out in front, you know that that's kind of
the game you play when you when you play defense like that, it's some
of the underneath stuff's gonna be there. And you know, I thought Chase
had a really good run after catch. I didn't even I didn't get the
best view of it, but went for fifty plus. So we'll take heading
the stats. And then same with Joe Mixon, I mean, second week
in a row or Joe Mixon has had a big time screen to spring.
It explosives bout a style of your strengths and an offense. Why has that
worked with the pros staff? Uh, I'm not I'm not sure, but
I think I keep going back to I think it really does start up front
with Joe mix and when we're able to run the ball well, and uh,
you have to dedicate more resources to stop and to run, and we
have really good skilled players on the outside. And I think exactly, I
feel very comfortable with how everything's going. Zach calling the game and you know,
feeling like we're staying a step ahead as far as you know, run
pass, having everything kind of looked the same, mixing and some screens and
it's it's thanks much, job easy. Jake Browning after the game and Dave
the the initial reaction on the thumb, I think everybody's splash like, oh,
you gotta be kidding me seriously, And then I'm thinking, all right,
it was he jammed or a slow that he's got there, gonna pull
it out, and there was, And then AJ's in the game and you're
wondering what the heck's going on, And then when we come to find out
it was it was a cramp of the Yeah, and I can identify.
I mean, when you that cramp down in the in the joint right by
your hand, the thing starts like moving around. You know, you can't
get it to do what it's supposed to do. But I've never I experienced
a cramp in my in my thumb in my hands when I was moving furniture
doing a lot of grabbing and and real heavy things, you know, and
holding on for dear life, and it's like one hundred and two degrees and
human as hell. Never play it in thirty five degree weather or whatever,
and it's but the problem is you still have a hydrate. You have to
your body fluids. You don't realize how how much you lose from a body
fluid standpoint. And I venture to say he probably didn't have anything to drink
at all, and that lesson learned there. You still have to make sure
you get your water. Yeah, he was joking. It was it was
said it was a cold day, didn't feel like drinking water. And then
he said Joe Burrow was kind of laughing at him when he came back from
the locker room but ready to go, and Joe was looking at kind of
shaking his head, laughing at that with your thumb or really that cramps in
it. We we talked about a little bit about his performance off the top,
but you know, there is I can imagine a tendency if you're a
not he's not young, but he's an inexperienced quarterback wanting to lock into one
guy in particularly when you have a Jamar Chase, maybe you do that.
He's not doing that with Gay. He had eight different guys again yesterday.
He is that's I think that's one of the one of the big things that
has been a real, real positive is that he's spreading the ball around and
doing a one heck of a job of it, and that puts a lot
of pressure on defensive coordinators. It really does. You know, T Higgins
average thirty six yards. You know I had two catches for seventy two yards
and forty six yard long. The fact that three different receivers have played some
forty five yards more mixing as a forty five yard of T Higgins forty six
and Chase Brown fifty four yard, that's big. We are just getting revved
up in our first of three hours tonight. There is so much more to
get to. We'll hear from Chase Brown, Cheeto and more in this hour.
Thanks for being with us and hanging out on Bengals Line and the first
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on this Monday night of Bengals Line. We're on the first Star Logistics Bengals
Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Lance but Cantleister, Dave Lapham, We've
heard from Coach, We've heard from QB one. Let's talk about the running
game and what they got out of Chase Brown and Joe Mixon and and Chase
does it on the ground, he does it on the on the screen.
And and I think Dave, we're seeing more and more of now. And
he's been through a lot with the injury, and he was it looked like
he was close to making an impact with his team. Then he got hurt
and they missed a few weeks. But I think we're seeing what they saw
on him when they scattered him. And obviously I loved him enough to draft
him. Yeah, no doubt about it. Lance and targeted three times.
You've caught all three footballs for eighty yards at fifty four yard screen for a
touchdown. It was the big play. Obviously, you got the Bengals off
and rolling average over twenty six almost twenty seven yards per And that's the thing
he was. He carried the ball like you know, forty some odd times
in a couple of games in Illinois. They knew he could do that.
They didn't ask him to catch the football much. They didn't ask him to
pass protect much. But he's obviously able to do it and he has a
great feel for the screen game. I asked him after the game, you
know, how do you know which way to turn. You're catching the football
and you're turning the exact way you should either inside or outside to get the
screen game started. And he was like, man, I don't want to
talk about it too much. I don't want to give too much away,
but that is like an innate field that that kid has. It's crazy.
Here's more with the man who did it on the ground and catching passes as
well, Dave with Chase Brown there Thursday. So you know, I'm just
going what we do at practice everything all day, A simple indie drome translation
to a game. What was it about the screen game? I mean,
what did you guys see something on tape? Did it unfold during the course
of the game. What led to that screen success? I mean you had
like the first two screens you went for one hundred yards. Yeah. No,
it just just complimented us well off what we were doing last week.
Obviously we saw the opportunity down film and great play calling by close Klain and
great execution by us. So they just keep keep rolling with that. I
mean, it's amazing how good the screen has been to you guys this year.
I mean, you guys have a bunch of explosives out of that screen
game. Yeah. No, I mean, we just got to keep on
doing what we're good at and until they stop us. So, until people
stop us in that in that area, we're gonna keep on making plays.
The thirty four points you got in the red zone five times, scored three
touchdowns, kicked the field goal, and defense just dominated the Colts in the
red zone, red zone, third down, all the bread and butter situational
stuff that you have to do to win a football game. You guys did
today exactly. I think you could have said it better. Just playing good
football, complimenting each other well, and you know, executing when you know
when it comes down the wires. So that's all we did today, played
good football, and as long as we keep playing like that, we'll win.
Pulling on games, win a lot of games. What about the one
two punch Joe Mixon and yourself, I mean, you guys were you guys
were a snoop full for any defense, many thunder and lightning. I mean,
Joe's a great player. I don't know if you know that, but
I watch them and I learned a lot from them, So it says,
you know, I just want to keep you know, keep building, keep
growing as a as a young player. And yeah, one thing about you
on on the screen game, you always turn the right way. You'll turn,
you'll turn inside when it's appropriate, turn inside, you'll turn out side.
Is that just like a sixth cent of yours. You have a feel
for what you go for. I saw them blessing, so I knew that
if I went I appreciate you. But I know if I went straight to
the screen side, they you probablyould have played it. I tried to sell
it on him, and now I want to give away too much, but
that's all I was doing. I'll tell you one thing. They know how
fast you are. Now. I was talking to James lofton the Great Player
to play with the Packers. That's an analyst for the game, and he
was a speed receiver and he says, you know a lot of times you
hear about guys in their speed and then you know, but the eyeball test,
Chase Brown passes the eyeball test with flying calls that dude can run.
I can roll. I can roll work that stuff all off season, so
you know, just executing game day. So that's all Chase Brown after the
game and Dave the stat everybody's buzzing about from next Gen. He reached top
speed of twenty two point zero five miles an hour, the second fastest played
by a ball carrier this year behind DK Metcalf. When you're anywhere near the
conversation with DK, who can pick him up and lay him down? You're
doing something. Yeah, there's no question. And DK Metcalf is a monster.
Chase Brown is not quite that that size physical specimen, But Chase Brown's
put together now well over two hundred pounds on a five foot nine inch frame.
And and he has got explosive speed. He tagged himself he goes thunder
and lightning when he was talking about himself and Joe Mixon. And he's got
the explosiveness. Joe has got the power. It's a good one to two
punch. Yeah, he's got that gli. He'll he'll glide a little,
then he sees it and he goes. I mean, there there's no hesitation
in hitting it. Once he's there, and he's like shifting into high gear.
He's got another gear. It is amazing. And and how about how
he set up the final defender on the on the screen for a touchdown.
I mean he just gave him a little stutter step, cut up inside.
The defender felt like he had to go now, I mean because of the
speed that that Chase Brown was running with. I mean, he thought the
angle was maybe a little bit distorted, so he just sold out, sold
out to make a play on him. And Chase Brown anticipated that kind of
you know, throttled it down just about a gear and then cut inside of
him and touchdown. And what are the odds at any point during the season
or before the season, that wonder what Vegas would have put on the fact
that Chase Brown would lead the Bengals in receiving yards in a game in December,
and that's what he did yesterday with eighty yards in pass catcher. Yeah,
that's what a fifty four yard touchdown and gets you going, no doubt,
And that's that's big. There's there's no question. I mean who the
other Chase, Jamar Chase he had. He was targeted four times, three
catchers for twenty nine yards. In the locker room after the game, he
was as happy as if he caught you know, seven for two hundred and
five yards. I mean, he got to win and got the win in
a big way. And that's what it's all about. Stuck more about the
Defense at the Defense end of the mixes, we continue Dave Lapham, Lance
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Defense yesterday. Let's hear from that side of the ball, Dan Horde with
Cheetah O Woose Cheetah. That was an awesome defensive performance. Those guys have
scored at least twenty in every game but one. He held them to one
offensive touchdown today. What did you think the key was? We came out
here hungry, you know, it was always about us, you know,
and I think we're kind of finding the formula right now, just with the
energy. Manu is like all the you know for Mason's alignments, assignments,
all that stuff, it's really by energy. And I think we're just really
rolling around each other and really enjoying playing for one another. And you know,
when this defense is at our best, that's what we're doing. So
I just really feel like we're starting hit a stride with our chemistry and it's
starting to show on the field. Think you've been excellent for the last couple
of weeks. Do you feel like you're playing as well as ever? I
feel good, you know, I feel really good. You know. Obviously,
opportunity came and you know I had to step up, and you know,
I always feel like myself. But you know, sometimes when you get
an assignment during the game before a game, you just the push in a
different mindset, you know what I'm saying. So I've been in that minds
at the past couple of weeks. This is who I am, this is
what I do anyway, So yeah, I feel good. That's a lot
of young guys in this secondary and now dj Ivy is getting some opportunities as
well. It seems to me to bode really well for the future, not
only how many young guys are playing, but how well they're playing. Yeah,
I don't think there's any drop off. I think like we have one
of the best I don't want to jinx us, but truly like talent wise
and just loving the game and you know, being on top of assignments and
stuff. I really think we have one of the best corner rooms. And
our coach too, you know, have a great corners coach and Chuck Burke.
So I think everybody's seen it, like whoever's been in they've been up
to the task, you know. So and we have guys who aren't playing
around, even Sidney Jones, you know, who's been a starter in this
league. You know, just we have a very good cornerbackroom. So I'm
really excited for the young guys in the future of this team see what they
do. How would you describe Jake Browning's played the last couple of weeks.
It's the Jake Show, not the Lake show. So I described it the
Jake Show. It's been extraordinary. I know everybody in here had faith that
he could rise to the occasion and play well, but that well, yeah,
no, I've always believed it. I mean, it's probably Taper somewhere
we're in practice run when he's making players, I'm just like, that's Jake.
You know, I've played against him in Washington. He was a Heisman
candidate coming in the league. He's such a knowledgeable guy. You know,
he's sits there with us in the dB meetings, you know, on Tuesdays,
and really, you know, was talking football with us and stuff like
that. Like he has the mind for he has the heart for it,
and now he just has the platform to show for it. And you know,
again, we have Joe Burrow, we have Jake Browning. I don't
know too many teens and agent even stepped in and almost all test so we're
just blessed, really, just top top to bottom in a lot of position
groups. Did your heart sink of that when he started running toward the locker
room to have his thumb checked out a little bit, a little bit not
gonna lie. But I think even just as a brother, you know,
but if that's the football's football, you know, anything could happen. And
in that second was like, okay, defense, what we know we gotta
do? You know? So is just you know, balancing all the highs
and the lows of the game. I'm very happy that he's healthy. Four
games left. You guys have put yourselves right back in the hunt. You
gotta take you one game at a tome, you know, keep on one
and oh win every day and when the game happens again, just have the
energy. I think we we kind of find a formula Cheeto talking defense yesterday
and Dave, that's a Colts team that coming in and we talked about it
had been very consistent putting points on the board. They were the only team
in the NFL that had scored at least twenty points in eleven of twelve games
this season. And the Bengals, other than the one extended drive because of
the Trey Hendrickson penalty, the coach did not do much with any of their
remaining drive. They had the ten play drive that miss wound up in the
missfield goal, but the other I think six or seven drives. Did absolutely
very little with no doubt, and Cheeto is a big reason why, defending
the pass and making plays in the running game. Five tackles, four of
them unassisted, defended two passes. I mean, he was like he was
like flypaper out there. And he's a very very physical tackler. You can
tell he's feeling pretty darn good now physically he's totally recovered. He's thrown his
body around out there pretty darn effectively, and very smart player. And I
know lew and Room was very excited that Cheeto's playing at the level he's playing.
Again, we talk about complimentary football, and so many times this year
one side of the ball has had the other other sides back and stepped up
and helped, and there were answers each time. Yesterday and so many sequences
where Tanner Hudson has the touchdown catching the Bengals take the twenty one to fourteen
lead. You're thinking, all right, now, after the chaos of the
Bengals get some momento back, what will the defense do. Defense forces a
punt, a two minute and eight second drive and then gives it back to
the offense, and then Jake Browning has the touchdown, and then the defense
comes out, gets a three and out, and then McPherson had the field
goal and bj Hill comes up with the interception that working in you're gonna win
a lot of football games when you're working in Unison that way. Yeah,
there's no question about it. Lance and the Bengals did it all different ways.
I mean their touchdown drive the first one four plays ninety two yards,
ate it immeasurably find the big screen. Obviously six plays seventy five yards.
I mean that's real good efficiency. Eleven for seventy one, eleven for sixty
one. Had to work a little bit harder for those. So they really
attacked the Indianapolis Colts in a myriad of ways and all of it was effective.
And it's I thought, in this two week stretch, I really feel
that Zach Taylor has had back to back games call plays that as good as
he's had in his career as a play caller here in Cincinnati. I think
that the game plans have been very sound, I thought Frank. I think
Frank Pollock the last two weeks, his run game plan is well done,
well put together. He's attacking defensive lineman a bunch of different ways and that
makes him a little bit more hesitant. I mean, all you need is
that half a step slowed down in the pass rush, or even better,
a step slower in the pass rush, and it makes a world of difference
in the Bengals pitch a shutout in pass protection, and I think a lot
of it is due to that. The Indian offics ghosts were looking around it
and never hit me from all directions. Where's it coming from now? And
that has an impact on you, there's no question. And Dave that sequence
when when Trey commits to the personal file and extends the roughly pass are extending
the drive that added I want to say at the top of my head,
the defense was on the field for fourteen more plays because of it, eight
more minutes on the field. That can be a big That can be a
damaging sequence for a defense in terms of winding them or putting them on their
heels. And maybe some teams don't recover from that. This defense not only
recover but went out in the second half and stood tall after that sequence.
Yeah. Yeah, And and the thing again, I like, I like
about the individual responding to adversity as well as the team. What did Trey
do after the you know, the roughing the passer penalty come up with the
big play at the end of the football game that you know what was was
very very uh huge in the decision making of uh in deciding who's going to
be the ultimate victor in the football game. Same thing with Tanner Hudson,
like I talked about, you know, he was involved with Jake Browning on
the on the misqueue that led to a pick six. Those guys come back
and make big play on third and ten, big play for a touchdown.
So it's it's like, all right, you know, we've we've been here
before, we faced adversity before, and we've learned to, you know,
compartmentalize, put it away, learn from it, you know, don't just
totally ignore it, learn from it, and then just go make some plays.
And that's exactly what this football team's doing. It's not wallowing and self
pity. It's not like, oh Dan, this isn't our day, go
out and do something about it. You make a mistake, all right,
it's not something you can go back in a race, but you can make
plays to offset that mistake and then make more plays to put it in the
positive direction for your football team. And that's what these guys are doing individually
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com. David, all the things mentioned, we don't want to leave out
special teams from the standpoint of what dj Ivy did, and it kind of
goes with the theme of rookies later in the season having an impact in different
ways for this team. On the punt coverage comes up with the forced fumble,
the fumble recovery had a pass breakup as well. I think he had
fourteen snaps defensively, nineteen snaps on special teams, and just another young guy
finding a way to help out it, contribute to this football team. Got
himself a game ball as well for that effort. So nothing goes unnoticed,
there's no no question about that. And the Bengals are doing all the little
things need to be done. You know, they're winning a turnover battle,
and that's I shouldn't say little things, situational football. They handled in all
aspects of it. Yesterday they won the turnover margin, they dominated in the
red zone. You know, third down was washed. Bengals didn't have a
good day third down offensively, but the defense did. So there was complimentary
football, you know, from that that aspect of things, and and honestly
complimentary football within not just defense supporting offense, but run games supporting pass game,
run game supporting play action pass game, screen game. Coming off of
that, I mean, shut down the run by the by the defensive football
team, and that's gonna make life easier to rush the passer. And and
then you have your your stud Trey Henderson pay that off. I mean a
lot, a lot of a lot of really really positive things took place against
a very very good football team that had won four in a row and had
scored you know twenty points some more like what you said eleven out of twelve
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nine pm. Dave Let's welcome in the headliner of our number two. He
joined us every week at this time he does. And I'll tell you what
what a job he's doing. Offensive coordinator Brian Callahan. It's like, okay,
boy, you lose your franchise player, Joe burrow Man. What's gonna
happen? Well, Jake Brownie has an opportunity to step up. Brian Callahan
is an opportunity to show, hey, I can coach man. I'm gonna
make some adjustments myself. I'm gonna deal with adversity. I'm going to take
a young quarterback that hasn't had many NFL starts and have help him reach his
potential and certainly have done that. So teams around the National Football League putting
together that head coaching candidate list ad Brian Callahan's name. Thanks Lav, Yeah,
I know how to start my my mondays off right, Yeah, appreciate
it. Touchdown drives if ninety two, seventy two, seventy five, seventy
one two drives a two square drives of E eleven play dress extended efficiency throughout
the day. Yeah, I think that's we've done that really well over the
last two weeks, really of just being able to possess the ball while still
making explosive plays mixed in and you know, a lot of that's a lot
of that's are our run game has been really efficient over the last few weeks
and that helps, uh, And so it's just I think we're just playing
a really good brand of football right now on offense, and you know,
a lot of that goes goes through Jake. But I do think that I
would be remiss not pointing out, like I think our offensive line has played
really well over the last over the last really I would say over the last
seven games. Six outlier would be the Pittsburgh game, But really that that
stretch of games, I think we've played pretty good up front. So a
lot of credit goes to those guys are sort of making it all go for
us. Yeah, I thought they played out standing in this in this last
football game. Forty two sacks this team has coming in, they get the
squad douche, I mean shut out. That's that's big time, isn't it.
That's huge. I mean I was I I had some I was concerned.
I thought Indies's front was really good. I think Buckner and Stewart and
those guys and Dalo also number fifty four is also there's just a really physical
stout front. They played with a lot of effort, and I had some
concerns. I was worried about what they were capable of and and too our
guys credit they neutralized it. And part of that was because we did a
great job I think in the run game of keeping them off balance. We
we whacked them, we whammed them, we trapped them, we screened,
and we never really ever they never got in a position where they could really
pass rush. And that's what they've done really well, and so we've we've
never get we never gave them too many opportunities to really tee off, and
I don't feel like they ever really felt like they knew what was coming,
and so that slowed them down some. And it was a really well executed
by those guys up front and and allowed us to play a pretty good game
of offensive football. Of course, continue to screen and get big chunks out
of it. Why what has led to that? Not sure? You know,
screens are generally a feast or famine play, and we've we've feasted a
little more than we've famined, I think, but I do they They've been
a point of emphasis for us over the course of the season. You know,
we were hoping to get better production coming into the year. It was
it was a point of emphasis. I think we've done a really good job
of hammering the details down, you know. I think there's details that matter
in the screen game, the backs landmark, the backs, timing, the
offensive lineman targeting it right because you can't cut in space anymore, so you've
got to stay up and that makes it more challenging for those guys. So
I just think we've executed him really well. And then and then the secondary
part of it is once once the play gets started, the backs to the
rest and between Chase and and Mixing and the screen game, they've both been
really hard to bring down in space, and so that's a that's a testament
to those guys playing hard. I just think we've we've hit on some screens.
Some of it's a little bit of luck, some of it's good design,
some of it's great effort. It's probably not all one thing, but
they've they've certainly been a huge part of our offensive success over the last few
weeks. Is that execution, two screen passers go for ninety nine yards and
a touchdown. Jake's got no air yards, you know, in ninety nine
yards almost one hundred yards of his two hundred and thirty five yards passing boom.
You know, right there, that's a quarterback's best friend. There's there's
no question about it. The other impressive thing is you guys continue to take
care of the football. I mean, eleven giveaways in thirteen games, tied
for fewest in the NFL. Yeah, it's just it's just amazing. Seven
fumbles on the season tied for second fewest, only two loss tiede for fewest.
I mean, the ball security has been extraordinary. It's it's I mean,
you emphasize those things. And I think I've told you guys before,
but every Wednesday morning, Justin Hill does it all about the ball presentation usually
some he usually has a handful clips fro around the league, of guys not
doing it right. I mean, he talks every Wednesday, he talks about
how to carry the ball, and you know, he'll show clips from defensive
guys that get interception and fumble the ball back. So it's a it shows
defensive lineman picking the ball up and fumbling it, and so there's a there's
an emphasis. We teach it in a very specific way and and our guys
do a great job of carrying it over and we work on it, and
it's it's always good to see that you get what you emphasize, and we
we do spend time on it. It is an important part of of our
off of our of our program, I mean, of the whole thing is
the ball security. And that's you know, those stats are pretty clear.
You you don't turn the ball over, you give yourself pretty good chance to
win win more games and you lose. And and our guys do a great
job of execute, and we just they take care of the ball in traffic,
they know when to cover up, they know when they have space.
But I think a lot of it goes to you know, we teach it
and Justin Hill does a great job of making the presentation kind of new and
engaging, even though we're saying the same thing over and over again. But
I think that's there's a lot of credit that goes to that, and then
our guys of just being a fundamentally sound football team, which we prot ourselves
on and as part of that is taking care of the football. You obviously
love Brown, you drafted him, and it's been a bit of a roller
coaster with the injury for him, but where he is now to see the
success and and the screen he got up to twenty don't know if you're aware
of this, coach, he got up to twenty two point zero five miles
per hour, the second fastest by a ball carrier this year. To see
him at this level now and kind of showing you what you thought has to
be really satisfied. It's been great. And you know, obviously his injury
probably set back his timeline some. And with all rookies, I think as
you see over the course of the season, you ease guys into their roles,
they get comfortable playing, uh, they make a player too, They
get more opportunities, they make more plays. And that's really what's happened with
with Chase over the last few weeks is he's getting opportunities, he's making the
most of them. He's going to get continue to get more opportunity. And
you know, you put that kind of speed on tape, that's that's a
that's an impressive thing. I always thought he was fast. I didn't know
he was that fast, right, but it turns out he's he's an incredibly
fast ball carrier. So it's great. It's it's a great element. It
adds an explosives to our offense and the running back room that we really probably
we haven't had a guy like him. I mean, obviously probably Geo in
his prime was the closest thing in the last handful of years. But he
brings an element that's exciting, explosive. He's a great compliment to what Mixing
does well. And we just got to keep finding ways to use both of
them to their strengths. And you know, Chase is obviously shown up.
He's he's shown that he's the player we hoped he would be when we drafted
him. He k Metcalf the fastest, he's a freak, big, big
body, wide receiver. Fastest running back though in the National Football League this
season is a Chase that that's that's pretty darn impressive. There's there's no question
about it. Did you feel like you wanted to be that persistent with the
running game? Thirty one carries? You ran the football more than you threw
it in this football game. Was that was that intentional? I think there
is some intent to it. But I also think when you look at where
those carries came, you know, part of it is that that we had
a lead, yeah, and a good one at one point, A lot
of those carries came and what amounted a four minute style. That whole fourth
was basically run so right, and and that's where carries come from. When
you when you when you play the lead and you you have you're trying to
burn clock, you're trying to be physical. And then we had a bunch
of carries in the inside the three. You know, so if you took
those carries and the form any carries, it's kind of even out there,
like the number looks gaudy, like, oh man, we really ran the
ball time. We did, but we also we didn't, if that makes
sense, like and so they kind of came situationally and and it was great.
But I think we did a good job of in the normal game script
and in the normal first and second down, we did a good job mixing
that with the play action with the screens, and I think the complement of
all three of those things, I think really did what we intended it to
do to that defensive structure. And I think those a lot of those carries,
that that thirty plus carries comes when you're playing with a ten point leader
more right, and you're just hammering a ball at the end of the game.
And so I'm glad we were in that spot. That's great. I'm
happy we got those many carries. That's a good that means we were in
control of the game. And but I think our run game, complimentary wise,
with everything else we're doing, has has been really positive. What was
the the initial reaction when Jake comes up holding his thumb and you see him
start to run off, You know, I not great, probably more just
like you have you kidding me, you know, uh, but yeah,
I'm glad it was nothing nothing more serious. And then you know, shoot,
I thought I felt like AJ came in and in a big spot,
and AJ's played a lot of football and he had a lot of confidence in
AJ to execute, and I thought he had a touchdown taking off the board.
It's disappointing. That was a nice throw and catch and uh, you
know it's a tick attack style call. But that's kind of what's happening these
days. So I thought he did came in, did a nice job and
didn't didn't panic either, So yeah, I was worried. I didn't know.
And then all of a sudden they said he's he's just cramping and I
was like, all right, well, I guess that's good. But yeah,
I had probably the same direction everybody else did, Like you can't.
I mean, he's hand injuries. Man can't get away fromim. Apparently,
it's crazy. It is when you have three explosive players are forty five yards
or more like you had. You had the two screens and you had the
the uh, the throw to Tea. I mean, that's that's gonna win
your a lot of football games. That's one hundred and fifty yards and in
three snaps, and it's gonna it's gonna eat up those hidden yards feel position
wise, and you're gonna score. And you scored on one of them if
you I'm trying, I was trying to think of the last time had forty
five yards or more and three different steps. I mean, that's that's that's
pretty significant. Yeah, it is. I couldn't tell you the top of
my head either, you know when that would have occurred. We've had games,
we've had some big plays, but being able to generate explosives, you
know, one of the one of the keys for us this week was we
were trying to find a way to generate seven explosives. Didn't matter how they
came, runs, passes, right the generally, am I in my time
or in the NFL, If you can find a way to generate seventy eight
explosives offensively in a game, you're definitely gonna you're gonna have a really good
chance to win the next Yeah, And so you try to find ways where
those come. They can come all different ways. They can come on screens,
they can come on runs, they can come on throws down the field.
It doesn't matter how to come. But generally, when you have you're
you're pushing six seven explosive plays in a game, you're gonna put yourself in
pretty good position to win. And and we did a great job, and
they came a bunch of different ways. You know, we had we had
all all the different types you can have, and that's that's a good thing.
That means a defense is a little bit off balance. And and we
connect on some big throws and again, like you said, the hitting yard
is important to you're flipping the field at minimum right and giving the team that's
been pretty good in offense, making them go the long way. And that's
that's a that's our advantage as well. Any money Python references this week in
a Saturday meeting or were you good today? This week was a very matter
of fact. It was, you know, they play a simple style of
defense, and and they're really good at it. And not to diminish what
they do, but they play a simple style and sometimes the easiest thing is
just to I just Saturday was about making sure everyone knew what the intent of
the game plan was and what it's what it usually is about, but this
one was pretty matter of fact. Is here's what we need to do,
here's how it's gonna look, and and I think our guys had a great
job of bringing the plan to life and executing at a really high level,
real real quickly. About the Minnesota Vikings, they come off a shutout.
Ryan Floor is defensive coordinator. There's not a blitz known demand that he hasn't
run. I guess you know what I mean. That's the bottom line there.
You have to you have to have a lot in the arsenal to combat
that, don't you. Yeah, very different style of defense we're gonna go
play against this week. Versus the Colts. They they do. They cause
you a lot of problems. They got good personnel, it's a good scheme.
It's a hard scheme. And yeah, anytime you shut out an NFL
football team, I don't care who it is. Uh, that's a that's
a feather in your cap as a defensive coordinator. And and Flores has always
done a good job. He's always made life hard on offenses. So we
got to work cut out for us. They got every every blitz and every
scheme and every front you can imagine. So you know we got we gotta
got to put together a good plan. And think we got them at home.
They're they're back to back games in a road, so that's to our
advantage, and we got to put together a good plan. I know you
will. Congratulations, thanks for making time as always, and go get them.
Yeah, see you guys next week. Appreciate your coach. Yep,
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for the best fans. And I'm going to find some wood to knock on
too, like our coordinators have been doing, because the football injury gods have
been very very kind. The Bengals are, you know, with four games
to go, are in pretty good shape other than you know, how do
you say that with your franchise quarterback out with a surge clear repaired ligament in
his wrist. But that's happened a bit of go here in this football game.
Bj Hill looked to me like he suffered a stinger. Looks like they
were working on his shoulder, and I thought, oh geez, hopefully it's
not. And then he got up and he went off the football field,
came back after one snap leaving the football field. So in my mind,
it's been there, done that experience, that burning sensation, that stinger action
a little bit, and I'm speculating, don't know for sure, but seemed
like that might be the scenario. And then of course Jake Browning with the
cramp of the thumb. I don't think I've ever seen that. That's the
first one for me. Let's talk offense, specifically the tight end position.
Tanner Hudson two catches twenty one yards, including the eleven yard touchdown. Here's
the Bengals tight end. You had a challenging play the pick six. Take
us through that. Yeah, that's just one of those plays. I need
to be in in a little bit more and just make that play for Jake
so that doesn't go against him, you know, just gotta be there and
make the play. So just a little bit short on the route kind of
thing. Oh yeah, I just should be in more, just so give
him a better lane for a better throw. But then he comes right back
to you. You guys, neither one of you. You don't care.
I'm not gonna let that adversity stop me. Show tremendous resiliency, touchdown pass,
big third down catch, take us through what you were thinking the rest
of the football game. Yeah, you just got to put that one behind
you. You can't let a mistake, you know, just stack onto another
one. So I just got to put the play behind you. I know
Jake still got faith in me to make the play, and that's what I
try to do. You've played the quarterback position before, you know how difficult
it is. How incredible is it that he's performing at the level he's performing
at in what he's being asked to do here. It's it's it's kind of
what we expect. I mean, Jake has been you know, he's been
doing his thing as number two for Joe for however many years now, and
we got we got all the faith in the world of him. He's very
very calm, very poised, collected. We know, we know he's capable
of doing the things he is, So yeah, just proud of them.
Keep it going. When he left the field with an injury, didn't know
what the status, how bad the injury was. Were you thinking you might
have spinn it a little bit? And they may have to warm you up
a little place since that's a quarterback. Because A J. Bcerra was going
in there, It's like what else we got. Hey, I would much
rather Aj be out there, But if I got to come in and,
you know, hold it down for the team until Jay gets back, I
would do it. So I've I've never seen or heard about a cramp during
the course of a football game on the thumb. I've had cramps in my
thumb, but in much different circumstances and situations. That was kind of crazy,
wasn't it. Yeah. I really didn't know much. I really didn't
know what was going on. I was just kind of in the middle of
it, just going with the flow. I wasn't sure what was going on
with him, if he was coming back, if he was staying in.
So yeah, so it's a weird situation. You guys are in a nice
rhythm offensively, scoring thirty four points, your defense really gives up a touchdown.
That's that's all they is to be the team that is playing as well
as the Colts are playing the way you guys beat him and keeping yourself in
that playoff? Hun, how big is it? It's huge? But we
know you know, we just gotta not beat ourselves. Just go out there
and play how we're capable of playing, and just let the world know.
You know, we ain't dead yet. Tanner Hudson, we take a time
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it up front. What a performance by the offensive line. Much to talk
about, headlined by Orlando Brown. This football team came into the game with
forty two quarterback sacks. They got squad dooshe they got zero. You guys
shut them down in the sack department. Was that a big goal? Yeah?
Man, I mean I think this is a great defensive front that we
just faced again. Man, another really tough unit. But as I say
every week, man, I think our coaches have put us in great position
up front that allow us to go out there and play our best games.
And uh man, when when when Zach does that, when coach Callahan does
that, Frank Man, I mean, as I said before, Man,
the sky's the limit. Your your running games pretty versatile. I mean you
defensive line, they're gonna get trapped, they're gonna get they're gonna get pinned,
they're gonna get doubled, they're gonna get everything. Yeah. No,
man, I mean and that's that's what you know, allows defensive lines to
be confused and and you know, I use the word make them play us
honest and so man, when when games are called the way they are and
we're able to be physical at the line of scrimmage in the run game,
and you know, take them out of certain coverages, man, I mean,
you know we should we were able to do. I mean, you
can't. You can't cover a lot of our playmakers one on one running backs,
wide receivers, tight ends, I mean everyone's special. Man. For
the second week in a row, you guys showed resiliency, he showed mental
toughness. Fourteen points scored in two minutes and two twenty seconds against the Jaguars.
Fourteen points scored in twenty five seconds. In this football game, you
guys just let it roll off your back like water. Man. Yeah.
Man, I mean, just the focus and execution has been there, and
you know, just when when you have that type of execution, I mean,
man, it's any team in the NFL is hard to beat. And
you know, we do a good job with the turnovers, not really shooting
ourselves in the football penalties. You know, everything kind of goes hand to
hand. Man, we've been able to execute at a high level. You
guys, I know you work on situational football a ton. You beat him
on third down, you beat him in the red zone. I mean every
situational aspect of this football game. You beat him and beat him handling.
That's why you win by twenty in the NFL. That's saying something. It
is, man, it is, but it's simple, man. It really
comes down to execution, especially this time of year, not putting yourself in
bad position with penalties, you know, and the way that Jake is playing
man, hass off to him. I mean, it's just everything goes hand
in hand and we've been able to really come out here and play our best
football man, and continue to grow moving forward. We still got a lot
of football left too, so I'm excited to see what we could take things.
I know Trey Henderson talks about working against you in practice makes him a
better football player. You said the same thing. When you see him have
a game like he had today, do you feel like, yeah, man,
I'm a little bit of that helped in that. Oh yeah, man,
definitely. I mean but you know we see it every day and practice
in our training camp in the offseason. I mean, this got special and
I played him a ton. You know what he was able to go out
there and do today? What is it? Two sacks, practically a forced
fumble, a force interception. I mean it got special, man. But
you know that's that's who he is. He works hard every day. He
comes in here head down and really goes to war every single day. Man.
With everything that he's doing weight room film, at practice, he's attacking
at full speed and that's what makes him so special. I mean, he
wanted the best in the world at what he does. Two sacks and then
the tacklers he's going over backwards, which you don't want to have happen.
He tripped him, Yeah, and he got a penalty on that one.
Threw a big penalty on that one as well. I saw that, man.
I mean, listen, man, Terry, his bow rust is one
of the best in the league. And you know sometimes he catch you on
your heels. It's gonna be a long day for you. You saw it
on that play. Well, I appreciate you and this offense. What can
you say about Jake Browning? I mean back to back performance, the quarterback
rating with over one hundred and twenty today. Yeah, I mean, just
the moxie that he's coming out with. Man, the energy that he brings,
the swagger to confidence is there is there, and we rallying behind him.
You know, he's playing. He is QB one man and he's playing
like it. What'd you guys say to him when he had that cramp in
his thumb. I mean, honestly, I was confused. I didn't say
much, man, I just I was just like man. Hopefully everything's all
right. Orlando Brown and what a day for the offensive line and Dave.
We talked about it last week, how tenacious and disruptive that Colt's defense had
been. In that defensive line forty two sacks going in. They were second
in the league to the Ravens. They were closing another franchise record. They
were one of only three teams in the league with four players with at least
five sacks. And as you would say, they got squad doosh yesterday,
they did. They were shut out that I don't think that's happened to them
this year. I feel safe in saying that they have not had a game
where they were sackless as a unit. That doesn't sound too good. It
did not generate a quarterback sack as a unit. So that's a job done
by the Cincinnati Bengals up front. And let's pick up responsibilities. The Bengals
did do their normal thing. They use Drew Sample in the backfield as a
running back and blitz pick up responsibilities. He did an outstanding job in that
regard as well. A big old two hundred and sixty pounds height end taking
on blitzing linebackers is a good thing. Dave. How much of what's going
on with this offensive line? I think people look to say, holy cow,
what's going on with the offensive line the last couple of weeks. How
much of what's happening right now is, for lack of a better word,
the juice they're getting by being able to run the football and that feeling that
an offensive line alignment feels when you could run the football and establish that like
they have the last two weeks. Yeah, I think I think that is
a big part of it. I think it's the whole thing about rallying around
Jake. You know, It's like, Okay, everybody thinks, ah,
you don't have Joe Burrow, you're done. Well. You know, everybody
knows Joe Burrow is a great player. But it's like, we still have
a you know, and we need Joe Burrow. We have to have Joe
Burrow to get where we want to go. We know that, but we
can't. We're not going to fold up our tents and quit because Joe suffers
an unfortunate injury and we're gonna do everything we possibly can to make life better
for Jake Browning to go out and execute and play football and that involves a
better run game, yep. And there's a commitment to it from the coaches
from a play calling standpoint, the players from an execution standpoint, and then
everything feeds off of that. The play action game screens all of it.
So I think that they're just caught in that, in that mindset and that
attitude of let's do the best job we can make sure that we win more
of our individual battles. Like I've talked about before, them we lose,
therefore our unit does that. Therefore more units to do that, the better
off the team's going to be. This is a team game. You know,
there's twenty two people on the football field every single snap, and we
got to be the better eleven. And we're facing and we've talked a lot
about the coaches threat that night, and you alluded to him earlier in the
first hour. Let's go back to him. Let's not forget Frank Pollack and
credit for him at this point and what's evolving with this offensive line. I
think his run game game plans have been extraordinary. He's he's uh, he's
got something for everybody. I mean, he'll he'll he'll trap you, he'll
double team you, Uh, he'll he'll pin you. Uh, he'll do
inside zone, outside zone. I mean they're doing it all and uh and
Frank's Frank's got it all, cooking and operating at a very high level,
and his offensive line is really responding. They're they're playing as good a football
as a unit that they've played. There's no question. I thought, I
thought that the the last game was probably their best of the year, but
I think the last two games that that's the best tandem of games, back
to back games that they put together, I think by far this season as
well. Still ahead. One of the guys running behind that, oh Lie
Joe Mixon on Bengals Line as we continue on the First Star Logistics Bengals Radio
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sure you check your local listings. Joe Mixon Yesterday twenty one carries seventy nine
yards and a touchdown on the ground. Joe Mixon three receptions for forty six
yards, including that forty five yarder on the screen with the Bengals running back
Joe Mixon two weeks ago. A lot of people have given the Bengals up
for dead. How do you feel about where things stand right now? Considering
how you've played the last couple of weeks, I feel really good. I
think that everybody been doing the hell of a job, you know, playing
together, playing complimentary football, and everybody just you know, making plays and
being in the right place is when they need to be. So we just
got to keep building on that and uh, you know, getting better.
It seemed clear that you guys had confidence and faith in Jake Browning, but
considering how well he's played, has that been elevated the last couple of weeks?
Yeah, I mean Jake's been very solid and that's what we need him
to be in order to win these games. And I think that, you
know, by him doing that playing solid football, I think everything else.
As long as our defense playing their ass off like they are, we're gonna
be in great shape. So we just gotta, you know, keep feeding
off of each other, playing complimentary football and everything else. Donna take care
of his silk. I see the screen game. Yeah, well, basically
we knew that. You know, they like the panic drop a lot,
and uh, the linebackers is going playing the run downhill real hard like they
did, and uh, you know they they was. I guess Chase had
a big run last week and we basically complimented that run. You know,
Ohio looks and they played the run and then the past is wide open and
he made a hell of a running catch. How about on your screen?
Uh, I can't say it's the same concept, but you know, coach
dout it up at the right time, and uh, you know, lineman
making blocks downfield, and you know, we're just trying to do whatever we
could to make plays and get yardists. So it's set up by its set
up because it's so aggressive and linebacker and situation. So that's what it is
for real. You've had back to back games now with more than one hundred
yards of combined rushing and receiving yards, and you look frad I mean it
looks like week three as opposed to approaching mid December. Yeah, I feel
like I'm only getting stronger as the season than going. I mean, I
think, you know, by Chase coming in and whoever it is, you
know, coming in and making plays, I think it's also a great thing
because when you know they come in, they can't just play the pass,
so it's been a great thing for them to actually come in and do real
good in the run game. So we just got to keep it going.
And uh, obviously by us playing, by us running play actions and things
like that, it's been a great thing. So we just gotta keep going,
keep building and doing whatever we need to do to get to win.
You said, Monday's win reinforce the idea in the locker room that we're the
Bengals. We're the team that's been to the AFC Championship Game each of the
last two years. Was that taking up a notch today? Oh? Yeah,
definitely. It's gonna keep it's gonna keep taking ticking up notches, man.
So you know, we just got to keep living on what you know,
we believe in and who we are as a team and everything else going
to take care of himself. They've another productive day for Joe and a couple
of things going on here. One when when he doesn't have to do everything
and and some of the load can be shared with Chase Brown, that's a
good thing. And competition is always a good thing. Not not that Joe
needed motivation, but when when somebody else is there, there's that natural kind
of like, Okay, you did that, I'll do this, I'll see
you were this, and I'll raise you that. I think that's a good
thing going on with both of them right now. I agree with you,
and I think now they're going to have to maybe Okay, every time Chase
Brown's in the game, they're doing this. When Joe Mix is in the
game, they're doing that. Chase, I don't want to have tels,
you know, for the defense like that, and they're both capable of doing
other things Like Joe caught a screen pass, so did Chase. I mean
you can't just okay, Chase Brown, he had that fifty plus yard touchdown
on the screen. He's our screen guy. No, you know, Chase
Brown, he's got some thumb to him as well. I mean he can
run between the tackles, there's no question. Joe Mixon proven he can run
between the So he's proven he can. You can get the ball outside as
well. So it's not like you have a guy you put in to do
this and this only, and a guy to put in to do that and
that only. They can both, you know, do a little bit of
what each other's talent skills and uh talents and skill sets are. So it's
a good it's a good dynamic. It's a good one to two punch.
You don't lose anything necessarily with either one of them in there. We head
down the stretch in our second hour. T Higgins on deck on Bengals Line,
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seventy two yards along of forty six. A really nice adjustment on the ball
along the sideline. Here's a Dan Horde with T. Higgins. A bit
more fun to you to watch the run game do what it's doing. And
then it's a lot of fun watching these guys run all over the field.
Man, you know, even even be going in there and you know,
throwing our bodies into these safeties and into these corners and linebackers bad. It's
still a lot of fun just to see Mixed, you know, coming off
the field and smile on his face, you know, all the running backs,
Chase Trevion. Man, he's just good to see those guys, you
know, with a smile on their face. Is just you know, just
doing what they do with that team. You had, I think a block
on Joe's big screen run. Do you remember that, Yeah, for sure.
Man, So I'm running across the field. Man, I've seen break
blues. I'm like, start blocking. At this point, I don't know
where he is, so I'm just trying to block. They say, you
know, he right behind me, and my man ended up making a talk.
I'm like, dang, but man, it was you know these guys,
And then I mean we practicing. Man, He's just gotta go out
there and just keep blocking for for our guys to make big games, you
know, kind of fitting in the offense around Jakin his strants. Why has
that worked? I mean we can't. We can't. I mean he's he's
leading the offense, he's running the show. So obviously we gotta, you
know, play his strengths and just keep doing what we do. Did your
heart sink a bit when he went running down toward the locker room, No,
not at all, because I knew A. J was prepared. He's
been been prepared since he got here, and man, so when he came
in, I knew he was gonna come in and play with confidence. I
mean he's been there and done it. He started in this league, so
I knew he was gonna come in and benner and done it. And man,
I knew he was coming to me on the fade too. I knew
he was coming to me on the fay didn't look like much of a shop.
That's cool, he sold it. You know, it's good, good
basketball played with flopping. But man, you know, it is what it
is. You know what I'm saying. I'm a big I'm a big receiver.
I mean, they gonna call it. They gonna call it even if
I put my hands on him. But it is what it is. I'm
the deep ball. You had to make a great adjustment. It looked like
you're expecting it over the right shoulder. Had to spin around and catch it
over the left. Yeah, you know, No, I want to give
a shout out to you know, our system receiver coach Brad cracked up.
We work on those balls every day at practice, man, you know,
you know, flipping flipping our eyes and uh, it paid off right there.
So even those drills at the beginning of practice where like your back is
to him, all that matters, man, Even with the load of drills,
all that matters and footwork and stuff like that. So when Jake came
back in after being in the locker room, it looked like he was maybe
joking around about what happened. What did he say? This is cramping?
He said, you need to drink water. That's why you drink water.
Eh, you you you right? You better drink some water. Cramping and
then your thumbies. Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure I'd ever
heard of thumb cramping before. It is what it is. Man, I'm
just glad it wasn't a series, and I'm glad he's all right. I
know you had faith in him, but did you honestly think he could play
at this level in back to back games? Sure? I mean the confidence
I mean because he came in training camp playing like a like a star in
QB. Man, I mean, this is the tip of iceberg for him.
You know what I'm saying. He ain't doing nothing but showing the world
that what he's capable of. And you're also happy for him to come in
and leave his offense the way he's been doing, and you hope you can
keep going for the rest of the season. A lot of people keep gave
the Bengals up for dead two weeks ago. You put yourselves back in position
with four Togo. I mean, that's what they've been doing the past three
years. You know the past, you know the past few years. So
I mean, we just gotta keep being us, to keep keep playing Bengal
football, and I feel like we'll be a right Tee Higgins with Dan Horde,
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very special guest, Our headliner of this hour. I'm telling you what headliner
of the game. I mean, this defensive effort extraordinary. About forty six
yards rushing on eighteen carries. Take away the long carry of twelve yards.
Now you got by the tailbacks, the running backs you've got, or by
Moss himself, I should say it. Running back twelve carries for sixteen yards,
one point whatever per that's shutting it down. Defensive coordinator Louanna Rumo schemed
it up, shut the running game down, made it one dimensional. Bengals
victory coach are the best. Appreciate it, guys. Uh, guys really
executed well yesterday. It was a heck of a day for us, and
I was excited and and proud of them the way they went out went out
there, went after the you know the Colts. They they had scored I
think twenty plus points in eleven of the twelve games, so you know they
run a little bit of a role. Yeah, our guys did a good
job Trey Hendrickson was wreaking havoc on the very first snap and he never stopped
wreaking havoc until the end of the game. Great game by Trey, you
know, terrific pressure on the quarterback all day, got him off his spot.
Uh he had the one miss bad play there, but made up for
it later in the game to close the game out. So no doubt.
I mean, really, this is a this is a pretty good offensive line.
You know, they did have an injury they had to deal with,
but there they probed themselves on being able to run the football, and you
guys stimied them. I mean, the gap, the gap responsibility, the
gap control responsibility was so good all day, wasn't it. Yeah? I
was. Yeah. The starts inside with DJ and BJ those guys, and
then Jermaine and Logan getting downhill. They did a really good job and our
perimeter guys were able to hold up too, So it was a good day.
You guys do it again in the red zone, I think you said
earlier this year with us, they take it personally when when the opposition gets
into the red zone against you. Yeah, you know, even the two
point we were just a click away from making it. Uh, but yeah,
that's something that we don't want to let them, you know, make
them kick field goals if if you know, fortunate the kid missed it,
so it was good. Yeah, he missed the uh hit the upright on
the extra point ten times now, coach. Ten possessions in the red zone
was two yesterday you missed, have missed the up hit the upright on on
the field in the red zone field goal and then you have the interception.
So ten possessions, no points, not just holding them to a fuel zero
points. I mean, that's number one in the National Football League and you've
only played thirteen games. You get ten stops without without a point allowed the
original It's unbelievable. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going for sure.
I mean, what's the secret, Sauce. I just think it's the
guy's mentality, and you know, like you said, when we get down
there and we don't want to give up anything, so they really take it
personal and they know we can execute it and you know, no matter what
situation is, so feel good about it. We talk complimentary football offense to
Tanner. Hudson has the touchdown defense, then comes back forces a five play
punt, drive and punt, then Jake has the touchdown. You guys get
a three and eight, then the McPherson field goal. Bja gets the interception.
It's one hand helping the other. It's just the and again the sideline
feeds off of all that and the way the guys are playing and the way
we're moving the ball, and we're able to get off the field on third
down, and that certainly helps everybody and this football team. It seems like
on third how about the third down numbers three for eleven that that dog WI
hunt all day every day. I mean, you hold an NFL team to
a little over twenty seven percent on third down, that's getting it done.
Yeah. Again, a big part of why you know you're able to play
less snaps and have less pitches that you got to face and it was it
was well well executed by our guys. You had a moment on the sideline
the te watching the TV version this morning. You had your arm around Tray.
He had a smile on his face. You had a smile on your
face. Do you care to relate what that moment was like? We just
got all our anger off of each other after the third downplay, so now
he's he's he's great. You know, he's done such a he's, in
my opinion, still an underrated player in our league the way he affects the
quarterback year in and year out, weekend and week out. And I just
told him that, you know, and you know, he knew he couldn't
have that play earlier, but certainly made up for it with all his disruption
on the quarterback. And he has done that since he's been here. We
had three stacks, he had two of them. Bengals offense didn't give up
any a team that had forty two stacks, coming in second most in the
league, plus fifteen sack ratio amongst the top ten, top five I think
in the NFL. You guys are plus three this football game. The protection
pressure stuff was big in this one too. That's great. You know,
again, as you mentioned, I know talking to act during the week that
they were able to pressure the quarterback and do a good job as you mentioned.
But you know they our old line did a great job stiming those guys.
Yesterday, I noticed snaps that Carter Murphy samples. I got, what's
your confidence level on that net? Sam and Trey and guys can't play every
single snap. What's your confidence in that next group? A guess. It's
great to have the rotation that we have. It keeps everybody fresh, you
know, and it's going to come down to you know, as we keep
going in the December push, it's going to be these close, you know
games where the you know, the guys started is going to have to be
fresh in the fourth quarter. And that's you know, the guys that are
backing them up were able to do that give us great snaps. So that's
huge. Minnesota Vikings come to Cincinnati fresh off of three nothing victory. In
this era of football, that's that's almost astounding to me that an NFL game
ended three nothing. It's crazy amazing. There's talent on both sides. On
offense, uh uh, you know weapons. I know, Justin Jefferson went
out with an injury, but you know, their talented team and and just
the way the game. You know, sometimes it's just matchups and how it
went. But yeah, it was something we talked. They they didn't have
many explosive plays, were sticky with them on defense and contested catches. How
did you think you're tackling? Was? Oh, it was good. You
know we had one earlier on a second and long where they kind of missed
we missed it and got out. But other than that, we were in
good shape. You know, Mike Hilton's underappreciated. You know that play he
made on the screen to our bench. If he doesn't make that play,
it's it's going a long way. That play so really, really well executed
by Mike. I thought the coverage every time there was a completion was somebody
right there. I mean there were never guys, you know, any kind
of free runners anywhere running down the football field. I thought that that part
of it. And then the tackling, like the journey ended quickly, the
coverage was there. Who who stood out the most? Do you think you're
not going to single anybody out? I think they all did well. You
know at each level. You know, each group executed well. You know,
the linebackers hit their gaps in the run game and did a good job
in the past game. The d line stout in the run game, applied
pressure, and then as you mentioned, the the dbs were sticky all day
long, which was good to see. We noticed when Brian was in here,
he was knocking on what a couple of times that or do you all
do it? Everybody's taking after me on that one for sure. So defensively,
what do you tell your guys when you meet with your guys today,
later on today or is it tomorrow, off today, off today? What's
the first thing you're going to tell your guys? Great effort? You know,
again with second week in or I think we we were there tough for
more physical. We we ran to the ball and that's just who we have
to be that way, and we executed, you know, the little things
that we knew we had to do to win the game. And it'll be
a bunch of different things this week, but as long as the effort and
you know, the executions there will be fine. That's the one thing.
You know, when there was a little bit of a struggle, I never
ever saw any lack of effort. It was never anything like that. And
just like if just being a tick off in the National Football League can be
the difference in a one yard game in a thirty five yard game, you
know, I mean, it's just life in the NFL. Yeah, And
then you know, we just got to clean those up and yesterday was a
good example of it, no doubt, No doubt. Congrats, appreciate you
making time with this. Good luck this week. He's a pleasure. See
you next week. I love the way you always get your players to play
hard. Coach. The players love you, man. That's why should That's
why another defensive genius should be on head coaching jobs. Laugh again, there
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We heard from lou Anarumo to kick off the hour. Always love catching up
with him. Here's a little bit more from Zach Taylor at the podium talking
about what happened towards the end of the half, Jake Browning's day and the
defensive performance in the red zone. Here is the Bengals coach. That's the
way it goes sometimes going in a half. Either have the momentum you don't.
We didn't really have it at that moment. Did a great job rallying
together halftime knowing that we got to set the tone with the ball to come
out. Offense, did a great job scoring coming out. Defense, did
a great job getting to stop and we took control of the game in a
moment where we had to do that. And really proud of the guys in
all three phases for being able to do that. With James any I know
it was cramp and performance today. Yeah, I thought Jake did a great
job handling, handling all the different situations and cramp so he came in and
I think got an ivy. So that's that's what it was that Henderson had.
He had the way he bounced back from the league that, Yeah,
he's a force out there, you know, and you got to pay attention
to him at all times. And does a great job. Again, we
talked about this a lot last year. Even when he's not hitting the quarterback
and making plays, they feel him and they have to devote resource to him,
and it allows for other guys to step up as well when they're doing
that kind of stuff. So I thought trying to did a great job today.
I thought our defense as a whole. I mean, obviously when they
rush for less than fifty yards and got three sacks, and that that's a
defensive effort overall, doing a great job on the coverage and the rush and
tackling that collaboration. I don't know that it's really been that different, you
know. It's it's these are all things that we've done of the course of
the season, and in each defense we play really is a big driving force
of of how the game's played sometimes. So I think everybody's just turned a
great job. We We haven't called a single player that we didn't rep you
know, all training camp and all fall and I think these guys believe in
what we're doing and they've done a great job. Each guy stepping on.
We've really called upon every resource we have on offense. Everybody has stepped up.
I can think of so many guys that made catches today and big plays,
and so we're not afraid to use everybody that's on the roster and active
and got faith that everybody can step up and do their job. Zach Jill
makes it and told us this week that after the loss of the Steelers there
was kind of an energy to feel, hey, we're still thing's feel that
energy in that message kind for the last game. I felt it throughout the
whole process, you know, and even in the midst of the losses.
I think that's what's that's what keeps me always optimistic, is just being around
the guys and in the way that they're continue to approach their job every single
day, and that's what we want. That's why we built the team.
That way that that Duke and everybody has is is for these types of moments.
Every team in the league faces adversity over the course of the season,
and it's which teams can handle it and respond at the times and not creater.
And these are the guys that continue to respond, and we have to
prove it again next week. It's not good enough just to do what we've
done these last two weeks. It's not good enough, and so we just
got to continue to stack it. We've got a history of doing that.
Obviously, this is a new team, this is the twenty twenty three team,
and we've got to go prove ourselves again these next couple of weeks that
that that we can continue to play good football here in December. Awesome,
awesome, felt it, felt it throughout. I think those guys up front
did a great job. There's great camaraderie in that room. They do a
great job playing together. They take a lot of pride in keeping the quarterback
healthy, getting the run game going, doing a great job getting the premter
on screens, and and so again those guys have have risen to the challenge
and are really helping us right now. Yeah, that's something you feel when
you get in there. If we don't, we don't just assume there's gonna
be a field goal occurring or a touchdown like you you know that even the
fourth down they scored on in my mind, there's no we're getting the ball
back on the two. What are we gonna call here? And so that's
just the mentality they've instilled because of what they've done. That's what the fact
stated, and so there's a belief and I think because they've done it so
many times, the guys believe that they're not going to give up points and
they find a way to get the ball back and and it flows over to
a guy like me who's not not sitting out there on defense doing anything.
I just feel like we're gonna get the ball back or get stop and and
uh, that's how it goes sometimes. Zach Taylor after the game yesterday and
Dave, he referenced the the adversity that they came through, and I think
there is You can say a lot of things about Zach and part of the
personal connection aspect or the messaging aspect and the tone, Uh, there's a
calm now. Zach is a lose his mind kind of guy. And as
he said, it plays to your team stays calm, if you stay calm,
and if if if you give that appearance of we'll get through this,
we'll deal with the adversity and we'll move on. Your team clearly feeds off
of that. I agree. I do think a team takes on the personality
of the coach. It's it's almost like when you're parenting. I mean that
that that's what happens your kids take on, Uh, how you handle things,
how you handle adversity, how you handle success, how you handle whatever
the case may be. And uh and and basically he's he's like a parent,
you know. I mean, he's he's the he's the kingpin, he's
the guy everything funnels from him down through his assistant coaches to the players,
that everybody else in the organization. So I think he is a very very
even keel steady Eddie. Not gonna lose his mind, not gonna either way
lose his mind in the face of adversity or lose his mind in a big
successful job done by the Cincinnati Bengals. He understands that there's more work to
be done until the super Bowl is won. There's more work to be done.
If you're fortunate enough to win that last game of the season. There's
only gonna be one team that's in that situation, so thirty one others.
There's always more work to be done. And what he's done, what Brian
Callahan has done, what that offensive side has done. Some teams they lose
their big gun and they might look around, like, what now we lost
QB one. We got no answer. What they've done. And it's not
throw out everything and start from scratch. But the tweaking and the massaging,
the adapt take along the way and adding and subtracting and listening to jakeson put
along the way, as Brian said, has been nothing short of mat I
think the rest of the league has to look now and say, wait a
minute. The Bengals of that Joe Burrow have produced thirty four points in back
to back weeks. How did that happen? Exactly? And I think it's
it's almost all right. Zach Taylor take a bow, Ryan Callahan, take
a bow. Dan Pitcher, yep, take a bow. What's the common
denominator all three of your quarterbacks? We talked about the synergy in that room
of the quarterbacks. Joe Burrow talked about Man, it's just it's such a
high level of intellectual football conversation that goes on when all those guys are in
a meeting room together with Joe Burrow and Jake Browning. Jake Browning who said
the same thing, He said, I feel fortunate, I feel blessed have
my head coach, my offensive coordinator, and my position coach all have played
the position that I'm aspiring to play here at the highest level I can National
Football League. I mean, there's a synergistic effect that goes on in that
foot in that in those meeting rooms, and it's a man one plus one
equals three on a very regular basis, and it's turned out to be the
case here the last two games, as your reference lance over thirty points scored.
You know, Pittsburgh obviously was a was not what they wanted with ten
points on the board. But honestly that that rain was was a factor,
not an excuse, just just a factor. I think that the league is
going to take notice of. Okay, Jake Browning came in there and did
what and how did he do that? And not only is Jake Browning going
to get a lot of kudos in credit, but those three guys, the
head coach, the coordinator, and the position coach are all going to get
their share of it as well. Still had a little bit more on Jake
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game about whether or not this is a playoff team, about the sweet that
his family got, the used complements of Joe Burrow, the thumb, and
how loose this team is playing. More from Jake Browning teams saying, damn
right, what do you think this is playoff team? Damn right? Your
family, but they're very proud of you. What did need you to have
that one? Yeah in the Bible. First of all, it's it is
not my box. I did not buy that in the preseason kar expense.
Uh so Joe Burrow was nice enough to, uh give give them some tickets
so they didn't have to sit up in the cold. Uh. You know,
we're all from California and so I'm used to it. They're not,
so I'm sure they were much more excited in the box, but uh,
it's it's awesome to have a mirror. It was Uh, I think it
was two friends from back home, my girlfriend and then my brother and uh
my sister and my sister's boyfriend. So it's it's always nice to have people
there, and it's mostly nice after you when to you know, go grab
dinner or something someone after us. I think he was just laughing. Uh,
I was just kind of it's like, yeah, I was kind of
embarrassing. Jake Jonah said that you guys as a team have been playing looser
since you took over at the starting quarterback. Are you cobnucent of how much
how you handle situations ways throughout the locker room in terms of you get tense
or tired things aren't going well, Like how much that can affect the team
like sense and thinking consciously? Yeah, I think, Uh, I think
my relationship with like guys on the team kind of goes back to uh being
here for a while and and not really being in Like the people are gonna
approach Joe differently than they approached me when I'm the backup, so that you
know, I kind of get to know all these guys really well on a
pretty personal, uh personal level. And so I think now that I'm playing
and and all, that we still have the same relationship and I still feel
like the exact same person, and uh and I think also just genuinely to
just being myself, and you know, I I struggled to get outside of
that j you said this week where you're working about the roll and ghost obviously
all all the emotions, but you showed some emotion walking up to deal with
the crowd cheer in for you first one win. Was that a little extra
meaningful for you, just that moment to kind of still get in there for
a minute. Yeah, yeah, I think it was. I mean yes,
and I mean I maybe not, I don't know. It was it
was cool to have, uh, to get a win at home. You
know, last time we had a home game, we put up ten points,
and so it was nice to put up some points and and get a
win. And uh, yeah, I think enjoying those moments as part of
it. Over the last few weeks, you really focused on you understanding like
what's immediately and trying or you know that's why a game or whatever. Well,
winning on short week two times around two very ways new field moments of
building on this team offering. Uh yeah, I mean this was our first
short week. The last one was kind of a long week, and Thursday
night game was a long week, and we now we got the two short
weeks back to back, and honestly, it's kind of nice cause, uh,
you just kind of stay in the moment. You're so busy trying to
prepare on a short week that you don't really have any free The worst thing
that happens is, I think with a lot of stuff is idle mind in
free time, and so I don't really have either one of the on short
weeks, and so it's probably an advantage. Jake Zach refers to you as
his veteran quarterback. Do you feel like that they're treating you as a veteran
quarterback in terms of freedom and play calling and things of that nature. Yeah,
yeah, I think I don't think there's much put into the game plan
that's like, hey, let's just protect this guy. I think it's we're
calling what gives us the best chance to win, and I think that's how
it should be. And that's kind of been my communication throughout the whole Thing's
you know, there's certain things I like more maybe than some things that Joe
doesn't I do or or whatever, and that's just personal preference. I think
that gets taken into account when we're going to putting together the game plan.
But I think you see a lot of pack up quarterbacks go in and and
maybe there's not a lot of confidence in them, so you kind of try
to protect him with let's get the game, let's hit the ball out quick,
Let's call a lot of screens. And we called a lot of screens
and they all worked. But I think that was mostly because we thought they
were gonna work. So yeah, I feel like I'm gonna keep getting better,
but I feel comfortable Jake Browning after the game and watching the TV version
this morning, his family did get a lot of FaceTime yesterday from CBS.
They they were invited into the suite by by Joe Burrow and and and their
family and had a great time. And and what I mean, think of
how far the Jake Browning story has come to, you know, being activated
last year to get a paid game check a couple of times because they appreciated
me so much, to now into the starting role and now your your family's
in the suite with Joe Burrow's family. You're being spotlighted on CBS. It's
just a lot can change on a dime, can't It certainly can, And
they they they went to that suite during the Pittsburgh game a few times,
but it seemed like there are a few more Brownie family members in the suite
this time, and understandably so. Everybody's excited. Everybody's all hopped up.
There's no question about it. It's going to be a very merry Christmas for
the Browning family and Jake Browning in particular. The cash register. It's just
chi ching, cha ching. His representation is saying, that's two in a
row. How many in a row can we accomplish here? I mean,
it's it's a it's it's a lot of fun to watch. And uh,
the evening capped with the Jeff Ruby dining experience after the game with him and
his family. I saw that on Twitter last night. So the full day
from a game, winning a game at home, you get your family in
the suite, you have Jeff Ruby steaks after the game. Life is good.
You know. I thought about this and as I'm watching the forty nine
Ers game, and my wife is a big forty nine Ers fan, unfortunately,
and she's a Brock Purty fan. And I'm thinking, you know,
Brock party. From where he was viewed coming out of college, Jake Browning
is undrafted. What did what did everybody I don't want to say miss what
did they underestimate about Jake Browning Dave coming out of college that led him to
be undrafted? In here? Now that we see a little bit more of
him, what did everybody else not not properly gauge or estimate about it?
Yeah, I guess. I mean you look at him and he's he's not
your typical six foot four inch two hundred and thirty five pounds, you know,
quarterback that everybody wants to have, you know, I mean, he
doesn't. He doesn't fit that physical mold necessarily. I do think that they
questioned his arm strength. I know he worked on that extensively, and and
that's that's increased dramatically. He's always been accurate though, And in my mind,
I go back to the legendary Paul Brown. I remember when he would
talk about quarterbacks and you say, his main attribute he throws it straight,
and and that's that's a good thing. You know. It's like accuracy is
what it's all about, you know, And uh so, I think there's
a lot of similarities in in in those two. One's a seventh round pick,
one's a free agent, one's one pick away from being a free agent,
just like Jake Brown? What what what happened to them? Though they
ended up in the right situation. If he doesn't end up in San Francisco,
I don't think he's necessarily in the league. If Jake doesn't work his
way to Cincinnati, maybe he is, maybe he isn't in the league.
Who knows the same thing for any quarterback. I mean, Kenny Anderson will
tell you. My biggest thing coming out of tiny Augustana as a third round
draft pick was I was coached by Bill Walsh every day and he wrote the
book The Art of Quarterback, and then he made me a He broke me
down and started all over again with all my mechanics, from my footwork all
the way to throwing the football. And he says that was what it's all
about. So there's some you know, luck involved with that. You have
to be fortunate and you have the right place at the right time. Up
next, how about those Minnesota Vikings. A preview of Saturday's opponent. As
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This portion of a Bengals line is presented by Bedford Sportsport, the official
sports betting partner of the Cincinnati Bengals. Next up, those Minnesota Vikings on
Saturday. Vikings are seven and six. They went through a five game winning
stretch and now have dropped two of three. But they did win yesterday three
nothing, the lowest scoring indoor game in NFL history, a game that featured
seventeen punts. Seventeen punts. But the Vikings manage the field goal and get
the win. And day they've got. They benched Josh Dobbs during during the
game, and there's some uncertainty there. And Jefferson, the gifted wide receiver,
took a big time hit and was hospitalized and released and traveled, so
there's a little bit of uncertainty and a couple of big spots for that team
there is you know, they've still got some some talent. Daniel Hunter is
a third and a half sack guy. You know, he's amongst a the
best in the National Football League. TJ. Howkinson at the tight end position
as eighty five catches for over eight hundred yards and five touchdowns. Addison another
young receiver. He's got seven touchdown receptions. Jefferson, as you said,
is is Uh. It's not the hamstring that he had a problem with and
missed so many games. I think he got hit in the chest. Yeah,
he had blowed up pretty good. They wanted to make sure there weren't
any complications, so they they took him to the hospital. I think that
if he doesn't have any serious bruising or fractures or anything like that, it's
probably a good chance he'll he'll try to play. We shall see. Harrison
Smith is a safety that's been around for twelve years out of Notre Dame.
I mean, he's a guy in the back end that is recognizable to people
that it's it's a it's an interesting, interesting football team. They've got five
wins on the road. There can't be a whole lot of teams that have
five wins on the road, but they've got they've been road warriors this year.
Yeah. Interestingly enough, Indianapolis was five to one on the road.
Yeah, and the Bengals spectum. So you know, hopefully that same thing
takes place here that Minnesota comes in with five wins on the road as well
in the Bengals in Pei Court Stadium, curtail that as well. So and
then some of the road wins. Now they lost in Philadelphia, but the
but the road win at Carolina, at Chicago, at at Denver's a good
one twenty one twenty that's a good road win. And they and then they
get a victory three to nothing in Vegas. They also have speaking of and
it kind of goes into our theme talking about Brock Perdy and Jake Browning,
Ivan Pace Junior, their linebacker, undrafted out of Colraine High School, out
of Miami, went to UC, underestimated every step along the way, too
small, doesn't fit the specks of the computer numbers. He had a an
interception yesterday, his first career interception yesterday, a big one, and he
had thirteen tackles and he just keeps getting the job done. And it's he
has answered every doubt or along the way in his NFL career and keeps producing.
Yeah, I mean guys like that, you got to tip your cap
to him. You know, it's like you look at him and say,
okay, five, ten, okay, not but two hundred and thirty pounds.
I mean, you know, it's I guess it was a size thing,
sive speed ratio thing. But you know what, like they always say,
the biggest thing that you can't measure is the heart. How big is
the heart? And some guys just are refused to quit no matter what the
circumstance. Nick Vigil is still playing. How about that, Oh well,
eight year out of Utah State at six two two thirty another one that you
know, his size was questioned, and here he is eight years later in
the National Football League, still still playing with the Minnesota Vikings. But you
talk about slow starters, This team in thirteen games, only has twenty six
points in the first quarter. This year, he scored twenty six in the
first quarter, one oh six in the second quarter. Yeah, that's the
only to have outscored the opposition. They've been outscored by ten in the first
quarter, by a point in the third quarter, seventy seven to seventy six,
by two points in the fourth quarter, sixty to fifty eight, but
one oh six to sixty nine. They've outscored the opponent by thirty seven points
in the second quarter. One hundred and six points in one quarter. That
is crazy, but twenty six in the first quarter. You talk about not
being able to get out of bed and get woken up in time to get
out going out in the field, man, it's crazy. All right,
we'll head down the stretch. Final segment, we'll hear the awarding of game
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content you continue to put out. Thank you. I appreciate that very much.
Lance last week had had a very very interesting conversation with Peter King that
one. That one was was a lot of fun. And Peter, of
course is the is the kind of information guy in the National Football League.
There's there's no question about it. But yeah, try to do some national
perspective locally. Of course, we talked to the coordinators on the podcast,
just like we do here on the radio show, and former players, current
players, former coaches, current coaches. But it's all Cincinnati Bengal driven,
There's no question about that. In the trenches love it. Fantastic stuff and
we love the awarding of game balls after a after a victory. Let's go
inside the locker room after the game. Here's how it sounded. Hey,
all we can do is take this thing one game the time. That's exactly
what you've done. At half time we walked in here and then all the
momentums. Guy, you played a heck of the first half. Those last
few minutes, they took the momentum for us one two points swing. What
you do in the second half, you walked out, You dominated him in
every single face. Okay, hundred fifty rushing on seven points, giving up
nine to second half offensively all line zero sat over one hundred yards rushing second
We got another sixth day week. You just went through that rhythm last week.
It's gonna be the same this week. Gay. Couple of game balls,
first career, first career NFL touchdowns Chase were force fubble recover huge past
career regular season interceptions, two sacks, two four got cans a forced interception
today. That's all. It's like once one day here we Gosay Hoyles game
balls for a thirty four to fourteen win over the Colts. Next up the
Vikings on Saturday. We're back here on Monday night, hopefully talking about an
eight and six Bengals team. It's gonna be a fun ride down the stretch.
Thanks for hanging out with us tonight for three hours. Enjoy your week.
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