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it going on this Monday night.
It's Bengals line of the first Star Logistics

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Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. It's a victory Monday, just like

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we like it. We've got a
lot to cover between now and nine o'clock,

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three hours of conversation coaches, players
and more. Bengals win thirty four,

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fourteen and Dave. It was Jake
Brownie doing it again. Two touchdowns

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in the air, one on the
ground. The offensive line protected him,

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the offensive line plowed for the running
game, the defense stood up, and

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once again this team respotted to the
adversity. Where things could have gone one

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way, they kept it their way. Seven and six and still in this

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thing telling you you're right about the
adversity overcoming that against Jacksonville. Fourteen points

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allowed in two minutes and twenty seconds
and they end up taking a seven point

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lead with that second score. In
this particular game, two scores fourteen points

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in twenty five seconds, which tied
the football game up. The Bengals never

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trailed in this football game. They
had a fourteen point lead, gave it

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up, and then outscore outscore them
by twenty points in the second half.

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Just a great performance. And I
think you know, Jake Browning is being

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supported in so many ways. I
mean it's not only his level of play,

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his level of execution, the game
plan the coaches are providing, know

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how his teammates are supporting him with
great effort. The offensive line, their

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past protection was extraordinary. Frank Pollock
scheme in the running game. I mean

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they duo double teamed, they trapped, they they pinned guys, they ran

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every every blocking uh configuration that you
can imagine, and and then the screen

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game to support that running game and
support the passing game as well. I

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mean it was well conceived, well
called, and well executed. It It

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was one of those great days offensively
and the defense, heck, they only

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gave up six points they touchdown,
the missed extra point. Well, they

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did give up two point conversion,
but that was after, you know,

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the the pick six. So really
the defense stood up very, very tall

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as well. And David, I
think when Joe Burrow went down, I

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think a lot of people thought,
all right, we're gonna we're gonna learn

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a lot about this team and a
lot about this staff now and the fact

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that they have adapted it and tweaked
and evolved. And on a day they

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scored third four points without Joe Burrow, three catches from Jamar Chase and two

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catches from t Higgins, they put
thirty four on the board. Yeah,

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it just goes to show you that
one thing that they want Jake to do

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is distribute the football. Distribute it
to everybody. And they are and you

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know, some some rookies are stepping
up, some veterans are assuming a bigger

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role. I mean, it's it's
just it's great to see. Uh,

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if the old saying goes, if
everybody does a little, nobody has to

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do a lot. And it's unfair
to expect. We've talked about it from

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Jump Street it's unfair to expect Jake
Browning to be Joe Burrow. But if

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everybody does lots, nobody has to
do a little, you're going to get

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the best version of Jake Browning that
you can get. And hecky set of

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record. I mean, he's completed
seventy five percent of his passes over three

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starts. I mean, that's that's
amazing, three out of every four footballs.

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But again, they're they're friendly completion
opportunities and he's taken them. Give

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him credit. He's searching for completions
and he's taken them. And that's what

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it's all about, you know.
And to the point of where they're getting

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contributions for and we'll hear it later
on in the back half of the eight

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o'clock hour, But we do game
balls every week and a game ball group,

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and group included Trey Hendrickson and bj
Hill. Okay, you could expect

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that, and you said they would
win game balls at any point the season,

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you'd say, sure, Tanner Hudson
gets a game ball, dj Ivy

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gets a game ball, Chase Brown
gets a game ball, which just kind

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of paints that picture of how everybody's
helping a little bit on this team.

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And I think that Jake Browning Tanner
Hudson game ball is significant because they had

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the miscommunication problem. You know,
it's okay, either Jake was a little

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bit inaccurate or Tanner didn't run the
route as many steps as Jake was expecting.

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Whatever happened there, the tipball interception
for a touchdown, Jake brown and

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goes right back to him and he
converts on a big third and ten.

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He has that huge touchdown. He
ends up making plays and just compartmentalizing.

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Okay, adversity, let's move on. And that's what they're doing individually.

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They're doing it collectively as a football
team, and that'll take you a long

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way. Let's pick up more here
from the head coach. Here is Zach

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Taylor. Twenty point victory over a
team that was five and one on the

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road. Every situational, last back, throw it down, red zone,

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you name it. You guys want
it and want to handle it. Yeah,

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I mean we challenge our team not
to give them anything easy. They've

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capitalized on That's what good football teams
do. That's why he's a good team.

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They've capitalized on every opportunity and that's
part of this league, and our

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guys today did a great job in
the second half recapturing their momentum, doing

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a great job control and the things
we can control and putting these guys away.

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And I thought it was a really
good performance, particularly in the second

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half. Our team in the two
game winning streak. In both games,

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the opponent scores fourteen points in two
minutes and twenty seconds in Jacksonville, in

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twenty five seconds in this football game, you guys just adversity. What's I

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don't know what that definition is.
You guys just so resilient they are.

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I mean, that's what team has
proven time time again if we just bad

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and guys that fit that description in
the locker room and they jump right in

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the line. And so you saw
a lot of guys step up today and

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make key plays in this game.
And that's what this locker room is all

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about. And I was I was
proud to see all those guys step up.

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Forty two sacks. They came into
the game with forty two sacks,

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none zero shut out. How good
the offensive line play it, to your

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naked eye, awesome, that's a
really good defensive line. And our guys

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responded to the challenge the right way, and to keep Jake clean like that

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was impressive. To keep the run
game going like they did. This screen

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game was all really helpful and so
really proud of the job those offensive linemen

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did. Your screen game is unbelievable. I mean, your first two screens

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you got over one hundred yards are
your first two screens in a touchdown?

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What is it about the screen game? I think we got a lot of

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variety. The guys are understand what
to do at all all positions. Jake's

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done a good job with the timing
of it all. And sometimes it's a

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great job, great execution. Sometimes
you're catching them in the right look and

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that has a lot to do with
it too. But I thought there was

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I can picture all the screens we
hit and guy is making key blocks and

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key timing, and it was good
to see. Have you ever had your

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quarterback struggle with the cramp and hiss
thumb? No? No, but it

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is what it is. Man.
Aj was ready to step up on a

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third downs. Not fun when it's
raining or snowing whatever. It was not

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an ideal situation, but Aj went
in there and managed it well and was

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able to get us move in a
little bit for that field goal and we

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were in good shape. Yeah,
that was unbelieved to go in there stone

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cold and not even throw one warm
up. I mean that that's pretty incredible.

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Not a fun situation to be in, you know for Frey j and

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so we called a fade route.
He threw a great throw to Tea for

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a touchdown. Touch should have been
touchdown, And that's not the way.

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Great job, Brian, So that's
just that's just the way I go sometimes.

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Red zone. Your defense now has
held the opponent without a point on

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ten possessions, eight of them coming
in. They hit the upright on one

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and the interception and then you just
scored a touchdown. So they were in

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there three times and get seven points. What can you say about your defense

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in the red zone. Yeah,
the drive is never over with these guys.

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They got a belief that they're not
giving up points and they're going to

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find a way to get a turnover, find a way to get a fourth

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down stop, and and uh,
it just rubs off on everybody. And

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that's just the general sense when team's
getting the red zone that it's not going

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to work out well for him.
And our guys did a great job today.

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It seemed like on the on the
pick six receiver and quarterback, maybe

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on a little bit different page execution
wise. I think that we'll see the

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tape. It might have been a
tick off the throw and it gets you

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know, he's trying to catch it
and the backer. I saw the replay.

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It's you know, they're on scholarship
too. Harrison made a good play.

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He plucked it out of there.
Sometimes when you're off just by six

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inches or of foot, you know, things like that can happen. Sometimes

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you avoid him with an incompletion.
Sometimes it goes sideways. But I know

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that Jake did a great job manage
the game. He really did. And

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you had two takeaways, so you
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Mind know, that's always always a
goal for sure. So you get this

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one against the Indianapolis Colts. Now
you have back to back Saturdays. Your

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team had to go Monday night,
short week, now Saturdays. Schedule wise,

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are you you pretty like, Okay, this is what I was going

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to do. Did you decide before
the season, do you change your mind

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during the course of the season.
How does that work? We've been in

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the six eight weeks before, you
know, coming off a Monday game against

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the Rams, so you just follow
the same process. It is nicer having

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to play at one o'clock home game. I think we're all pretty tired last

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week getting up to Friday even so
now you get a chance to get some

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rest to show up. Yeah,
it's a short week, but our guys

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they follow the same schedule they follow
the last week. So we've got that

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rhythm down a little bit. Short
week, Minnesota Vikings and then another Saturday

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game Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh. But
it's just the Minnesota Vikings right now.

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And I mean everybody you're playing is
still in the playoff. Un is crazy.

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That's the beauty of this league.
Man, Everyone's still in it and

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the unfortunately we're one of those teams. We've got to take care of business.

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Zach Taylor, let's take a time
out of come back. Still ahead

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in this first hour, Jake Browning, Chase Brown, Cheeto and more.

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Brian Callahan on our second hour,
lou Anarumo in our third hour. We

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are up and running. It's Bengals
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Network ends up one hundred WLW.
We continue on on this Monday night at

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Bengals line at victory Monday, and
we're talking about it on the first Star

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Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred
WLW Lance McAllister Dave Lapham glance. It's

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time to make the right call,
and that's presented by the law offices of

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Blake Maslin. And this one,
in my mind's fairly simple. First and

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ten at the Cincinnati forty six yard
line. Both teams had gone three and

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out, and Jake Browning executes the
screen passed to Chase brown Not only Chase,

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did Jake Browning and Chase bron execute
at the offensive line, the receivers,

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everybody did their job, resulting in
a fifty four yard touchdown, got

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the scoring going and the Bengals never
trailed from that point on in the football

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game. Jake Browning eighteen of twenty
four, two hundred and seventy five yards,

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two touchdowns, quarterback rating of one
twenty two point seven. Here's QB

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one after the game. Thumb forearm
just saw started cramp and my thumb was

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just locking up on that good throw
and then came and gotten at ivy and

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it was fine. But yeah,
it's pretty dumb. But you need to

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drink more water into blectroites, I
guess, and uh, I think sometimes

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when it's cold, you're starting for
thirsty. So yeah, I guess that's

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probably the main takeaway from the games. Hydrate better have your team is already

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giving you a hard time about about
water or do you think that's kind of

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yeah, but I think I'm sure
it will be. But uh, I

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think everyone's just happy we won.
And uh yeah, I mean it's kind

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of embarrassing, but this is what
it is you mentioned last week. I

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thought how you wanted to plumb about
your performance on Monday, I involve with

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another quality performance. You did that
today. But what's it feeling to go

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back to any Uh feels good,
feel like we got some good rhythm going.

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But I think as well as we
play on offense, I thought,

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I'll line have a really good game, no sun acts, a couple of

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explosive screens, ran the ball for
a hundred plus yuars, but I will.

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I think for all these post game
best conferences, you kind of go

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back to the same thing of it's
never as good as you think, it's

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never as bad as you thinks.
So I'm I'm sure I know there's some

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things that uh, you know I
I can improve on and so that'll kind

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of be my focus. But it
feels better doing that and when he won

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and uh, trying to keep any
better instead of losing and trying to get

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better. So uh, we'll take
it just like you. Just like the

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other night, and he had a
bad he had a bad twenty sevens where

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you know, like subtling the game
change in twenty seconds. It just like

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money. Ninety guys didn't didn't Why
Yeah, uh throw a bad pass of

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Tanner. He tried to make a
play on it. You need to throw

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it to him in the chest and
then they return it for a pick six.

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So that was, uh, yeah, it was tough. But I

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I think coming into halftime is mean. My thought process was the only time

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that they haven't stopped us is when
I threw it to the other team and

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so I just don't do that and
you move the ball, Well, was

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that just a you throw it too
far inside it? Yeah? I was

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I thought you. I thought he
was gonna sit and then he kind of

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sit and broke out a little bit. I'm sure he was right. Might

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just throw it too far inside and
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make the play and catch it kind
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I mean, I think if I
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we'll avoid the whole problem. What
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yard scoring drive three others of over
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mind that having big long drives?
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I feel like our offense is doing
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having some plays off those runs,
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seems to be kind of flowing well
pretty doing a good job of complimenting each

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other. I think, like I
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think they were really the consistent force
throughout the game. And I think when

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we do that, there's an opportunity
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the guys on the outside to do
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good for you guys. I don't
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on screens. Just kind of do
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try and sell pass to get you
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they do on defense is limit the
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soft, they're running everybody out underneath
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the intermediate's a long pass game.
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let some alignment and get out in
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the game you play when you when
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of the underneath stuff's gonna be there. And you know, I thought Chase

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had a really good run after catch. I didn't even I didn't get the

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best view of it, but went
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the stats. And then same with
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in a row or Joe Mixon has
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It explosives bout a style of your
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worked with the pros staff? Uh, I'm not I'm not sure, but

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I think I keep going back to
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with Joe mix and when we're able
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you have to dedicate more resources to
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have really good skilled players on the
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feel very comfortable with how everything's going. Zach calling the game and you know,

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feeling like we're staying a step ahead
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pass, having everything kind of looked
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it's it's thanks much, job easy. Jake Browning after the game and Dave

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the the initial reaction on the thumb, I think everybody's splash like, oh,

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you gotta be kidding me seriously,
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it was he jammed or a slow
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it out, and there was,
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wondering what the heck's going on,
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it was it was a cramp of
the Yeah, and I can identify.

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I mean, when you that cramp
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your hand, the thing starts like
moving around. You know, you can't

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get it to do what it's supposed
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a cramp in my in my thumb
in my hands when I was moving furniture

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doing a lot of grabbing and and
real heavy things, you know, and

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holding on for dear life, and
it's like one hundred and two degrees and

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human as hell. Never play it
in thirty five degree weather or whatever,

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and it's but the problem is you
still have a hydrate. You have to

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your body fluids. You don't realize
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fluid standpoint. And I venture to
say he probably didn't have anything to drink

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at all, and that lesson learned
there. You still have to make sure

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you get your water. Yeah,
he was joking. It was it was

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said it was a cold day,
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he said Joe Burrow was kind of
laughing at him when he came back from

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the locker room but ready to go, and Joe was looking at kind of

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shaking his head, laughing at that
with your thumb or really that cramps in

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it. We we talked about a
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but you know, there is I
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not he's not young, but he's
an inexperienced quarterback wanting to lock into one

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guy in particularly when you have a
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He's not doing that with Gay.
He had eight different guys again yesterday.

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He is that's I think that's one
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has been a real, real positive
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doing a one heck of a job
of it, and that puts a lot

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of pressure on defensive coordinators. It
really does. You know, T Higgins

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average thirty six yards. You know
I had two catches for seventy two yards

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and forty six yard long. The
fact that three different receivers have played some

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forty five yards more mixing as a
forty five yard of T Higgins forty six

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and Chase Brown fifty four yard,
that's big. We are just getting revved

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up in our first of three hours
tonight. There is so much more to

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get to. We'll hear from Chase
Brown, Cheeto and more in this hour.

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Lance but Cantleister, Dave Lapham, We've

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heard from Coach, We've heard from
QB one. Let's talk about the running

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game and what they got out of
Chase Brown and Joe Mixon and and Chase

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does it on the ground, he
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And and I think Dave, we're
seeing more and more of now. And

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he's been through a lot with the
injury, and he was it looked like

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he was close to making an impact
with his team. Then he got hurt

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and they missed a few weeks.
But I think we're seeing what they saw

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on him when they scattered him.
And obviously I loved him enough to draft

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him. Yeah, no doubt about
it. Lance and targeted three times.

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You've caught all three footballs for eighty
yards at fifty four yard screen for a

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touchdown. It was the big play. Obviously, you got the Bengals off

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and rolling average over twenty six almost
twenty seven yards per And that's the thing

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he was. He carried the ball
like you know, forty some odd times

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in a couple of games in Illinois. They knew he could do that.

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They didn't ask him to catch the
football much. They didn't ask him to

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pass protect much. But he's obviously
able to do it and he has a

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great feel for the screen game.
I asked him after the game, you

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know, how do you know which
way to turn. You're catching the football

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and you're turning the exact way you
should either inside or outside to get the

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screen game started. And he was
like, man, I don't want to

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talk about it too much. I
don't want to give too much away,

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but that is like an innate field
that that kid has. It's crazy.

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Here's more with the man who did
it on the ground and catching passes as

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well, Dave with Chase Brown there
Thursday. So you know, I'm just

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going what we do at practice everything
all day, A simple indie drome translation

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to a game. What was it
about the screen game? I mean,

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what did you guys see something on
tape? Did it unfold during the course

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of the game. What led to
that screen success? I mean you had

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like the first two screens you went
for one hundred yards. Yeah. No,

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it just just complimented us well off
what we were doing last week.

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Obviously we saw the opportunity down film
and great play calling by close Klain and

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great execution by us. So they
just keep keep rolling with that. I

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mean, it's amazing how good the
screen has been to you guys this year.

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I mean, you guys have a
bunch of explosives out of that screen

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game. Yeah. No, I
mean, we just got to keep on

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doing what we're good at and until
they stop us. So, until people

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stop us in that in that area, we're gonna keep on making plays.

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The thirty four points you got in
the red zone five times, scored three

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touchdowns, kicked the field goal,
and defense just dominated the Colts in the

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red zone, red zone, third
down, all the bread and butter situational

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stuff that you have to do to
win a football game. You guys did

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today exactly. I think you could
have said it better. Just playing good

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football, complimenting each other well,
and you know, executing when you know

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when it comes down the wires.
So that's all we did today, played

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good football, and as long as
we keep playing like that, we'll win.

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Pulling on games, win a lot
of games. What about the one

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two punch Joe Mixon and yourself,
I mean, you guys were you guys

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were a snoop full for any defense, many thunder and lightning. I mean,

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Joe's a great player. I don't
know if you know that, but

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I watch them and I learned a
lot from them, So it says,

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you know, I just want to
keep you know, keep building, keep

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growing as a as a young player. And yeah, one thing about you

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on on the screen game, you
always turn the right way. You'll turn,

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you'll turn inside when it's appropriate,
turn inside, you'll turn out side.

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Is that just like a sixth cent
of yours. You have a feel

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for what you go for. I
saw them blessing, so I knew that

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if I went I appreciate you.
But I know if I went straight to

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the screen side, they you probablyould
have played it. I tried to sell

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it on him, and now I
want to give away too much, but

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that's all I was doing. I'll
tell you one thing. They know how

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fast you are. Now. I
was talking to James lofton the Great Player

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to play with the Packers. That's
an analyst for the game, and he

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was a speed receiver and he says, you know a lot of times you

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hear about guys in their speed and
then you know, but the eyeball test,

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Chase Brown passes the eyeball test with
flying calls that dude can run.

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I can roll. I can roll
work that stuff all off season, so

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you know, just executing game day. So that's all Chase Brown after the

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game and Dave the stat everybody's buzzing
about from next Gen. He reached top

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speed of twenty two point zero five
miles an hour, the second fastest played

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by a ball carrier this year behind
DK Metcalf. When you're anywhere near the

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conversation with DK, who can pick
him up and lay him down? You're

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doing something. Yeah, there's no
question. And DK Metcalf is a monster.

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Chase Brown is not quite that that
size physical specimen, But Chase Brown's

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put together now well over two hundred
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And and he has got explosive speed. He tagged himself he goes thunder

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and lightning when he was talking about
himself and Joe Mixon. And he's got

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the explosiveness. Joe has got the
power. It's a good one to two

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punch. Yeah, he's got that
gli. He'll he'll glide a little,

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then he sees it and he goes. I mean, there there's no hesitation

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in hitting it. Once he's there, and he's like shifting into high gear.

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He's got another gear. It is
amazing. And and how about how

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he set up the final defender on
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I mean he just gave him a
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The defender felt like he had to
go now, I mean because of the

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speed that that Chase Brown was running
with. I mean, he thought the

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angle was maybe a little bit distorted, so he just sold out, sold

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out to make a play on him. And Chase Brown anticipated that kind of

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you know, throttled it down just
about a gear and then cut inside of

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him and touchdown. And what are
the odds at any point during the season

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or before the season, that wonder
what Vegas would have put on the fact

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that Chase Brown would lead the Bengals
in receiving yards in a game in December,

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and that's what he did yesterday with
eighty yards in pass catcher. Yeah,

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that's what a fifty four yard touchdown
and gets you going, no doubt,

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And that's that's big. There's there's
no question. I mean who the

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other Chase, Jamar Chase he had. He was targeted four times, three

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catchers for twenty nine yards. In
the locker room after the game, he

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was as happy as if he caught
you know, seven for two hundred and

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five yards. I mean, he
got to win and got the win in

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a big way. And that's what
it's all about. Stuck more about the

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Defense at the Defense end of the
mixes, we continue Dave Lapham, Lance

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but Canister, thanks for being with
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prior to kickoff with a job by the

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Defense yesterday. Let's hear from that
side of the ball, Dan Horde with

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Cheetah O Woose Cheetah. That was
an awesome defensive performance. Those guys have

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scored at least twenty in every game
but one. He held them to one

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offensive touchdown today. What did you
think the key was? We came out

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here hungry, you know, it
was always about us, you know,

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and I think we're kind of finding
the formula right now, just with the

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energy. Manu is like all the
you know for Mason's alignments, assignments,

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all that stuff, it's really by
energy. And I think we're just really

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rolling around each other and really enjoying
playing for one another. And you know,

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when this defense is at our best, that's what we're doing. So

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I just really feel like we're starting
hit a stride with our chemistry and it's

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starting to show on the field.
Think you've been excellent for the last couple

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of weeks. Do you feel like
you're playing as well as ever? I

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feel good, you know, I
feel really good. You know. Obviously,

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opportunity came and you know I had
to step up, and you know,

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I always feel like myself. But
you know, sometimes when you get

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an assignment during the game before a
game, you just the push in a

407
00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:26.000
different mindset, you know what I'm
saying. So I've been in that minds

408
00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:29.440
at the past couple of weeks.
This is who I am, this is

409
00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:32.640
what I do anyway, So yeah, I feel good. That's a lot

410
00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.039
of young guys in this secondary and
now dj Ivy is getting some opportunities as

411
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.000
well. It seems to me to
bode really well for the future, not

412
00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.559
only how many young guys are playing, but how well they're playing. Yeah,

413
00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:45.039
I don't think there's any drop off. I think like we have one

414
00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:49.480
of the best I don't want to
jinx us, but truly like talent wise

415
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.119
and just loving the game and you
know, being on top of assignments and

416
00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.799
stuff. I really think we have
one of the best corner rooms. And

417
00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:59.400
our coach too, you know,
have a great corners coach and Chuck Burke.

418
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.960
So I think everybody's seen it,
like whoever's been in they've been up

419
00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:06.279
to the task, you know.
So and we have guys who aren't playing

420
00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:08.119
around, even Sidney Jones, you
know, who's been a starter in this

421
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.319
league. You know, just we
have a very good cornerbackroom. So I'm

422
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:14.839
really excited for the young guys in
the future of this team see what they

423
00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:17.960
do. How would you describe Jake
Browning's played the last couple of weeks.

424
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.599
It's the Jake Show, not the
Lake show. So I described it the

425
00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.960
Jake Show. It's been extraordinary.
I know everybody in here had faith that

426
00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:32.400
he could rise to the occasion and
play well, but that well, yeah,

427
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:34.920
no, I've always believed it.
I mean, it's probably Taper somewhere

428
00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:37.759
we're in practice run when he's making
players, I'm just like, that's Jake.

429
00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.599
You know, I've played against him
in Washington. He was a Heisman

430
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.480
candidate coming in the league. He's
such a knowledgeable guy. You know,

431
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:47.759
he's sits there with us in the
dB meetings, you know, on Tuesdays,

432
00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:49.240
and really, you know, was
talking football with us and stuff like

433
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.119
that. Like he has the mind
for he has the heart for it,

434
00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.039
and now he just has the platform
to show for it. And you know,

435
00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:56.519
again, we have Joe Burrow,
we have Jake Browning. I don't

436
00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.000
know too many teens and agent even
stepped in and almost all test so we're

437
00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.759
just blessed, really, just top
top to bottom in a lot of position

438
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.000
groups. Did your heart sink of
that when he started running toward the locker

439
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:10.880
room to have his thumb checked out
a little bit, a little bit not

440
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.079
gonna lie. But I think even
just as a brother, you know,

441
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:15.880
but if that's the football's football,
you know, anything could happen. And

442
00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:19.200
in that second was like, okay, defense, what we know we gotta

443
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:22.799
do? You know? So is
just you know, balancing all the highs

444
00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.480
and the lows of the game.
I'm very happy that he's healthy. Four

445
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.599
games left. You guys have put
yourselves right back in the hunt. You

446
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:32.960
gotta take you one game at a
tome, you know, keep on one

447
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.240
and oh win every day and when
the game happens again, just have the

448
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:40.759
energy. I think we we kind
of find a formula Cheeto talking defense yesterday

449
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:42.519
and Dave, that's a Colts team
that coming in and we talked about it

450
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.720
had been very consistent putting points on
the board. They were the only team

451
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:52.240
in the NFL that had scored at
least twenty points in eleven of twelve games

452
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:57.559
this season. And the Bengals,
other than the one extended drive because of

453
00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:02.240
the Trey Hendrickson penalty, the coach
did not do much with any of their

454
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:03.880
remaining drive. They had the ten
play drive that miss wound up in the

455
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.599
missfield goal, but the other I
think six or seven drives. Did absolutely

456
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:12.359
very little with no doubt, and
Cheeto is a big reason why, defending

457
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:17.480
the pass and making plays in the
running game. Five tackles, four of

458
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.599
them unassisted, defended two passes.
I mean, he was like he was

459
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.920
like flypaper out there. And he's
a very very physical tackler. You can

460
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.960
tell he's feeling pretty darn good now
physically he's totally recovered. He's thrown his

461
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:36.440
body around out there pretty darn effectively, and very smart player. And I

462
00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:40.440
know lew and Room was very excited
that Cheeto's playing at the level he's playing.

463
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.880
Again, we talk about complimentary football, and so many times this year

464
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.920
one side of the ball has had
the other other sides back and stepped up

465
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.680
and helped, and there were answers
each time. Yesterday and so many sequences

466
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.039
where Tanner Hudson has the touchdown catching
the Bengals take the twenty one to fourteen

467
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.839
lead. You're thinking, all right, now, after the chaos of the

468
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.559
Bengals get some momento back, what
will the defense do. Defense forces a

469
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.319
punt, a two minute and eight
second drive and then gives it back to

470
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.480
the offense, and then Jake Browning
has the touchdown, and then the defense

471
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:12.119
comes out, gets a three and
out, and then McPherson had the field

472
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.720
goal and bj Hill comes up with
the interception that working in you're gonna win

473
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.400
a lot of football games when you're
working in Unison that way. Yeah,

474
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:23.000
there's no question about it. Lance
and the Bengals did it all different ways.

475
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:29.319
I mean their touchdown drive the first
one four plays ninety two yards,

476
00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:33.279
ate it immeasurably find the big screen. Obviously six plays seventy five yards.

477
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.519
I mean that's real good efficiency.
Eleven for seventy one, eleven for sixty

478
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:42.960
one. Had to work a little
bit harder for those. So they really

479
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.440
attacked the Indianapolis Colts in a myriad
of ways and all of it was effective.

480
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:56.119
And it's I thought, in this
two week stretch, I really feel

481
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:02.279
that Zach Taylor has had back to
back games call plays that as good as

482
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:06.319
he's had in his career as a
play caller here in Cincinnati. I think

483
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:11.559
that the game plans have been very
sound, I thought Frank. I think

484
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.039
Frank Pollock the last two weeks,
his run game plan is well done,

485
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:21.000
well put together. He's attacking defensive
lineman a bunch of different ways and that

486
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.039
makes him a little bit more hesitant. I mean, all you need is

487
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.799
that half a step slowed down in
the pass rush, or even better,

488
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.559
a step slower in the pass rush, and it makes a world of difference

489
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:34.119
in the Bengals pitch a shutout in
pass protection, and I think a lot

490
00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:37.319
of it is due to that.
The Indian offics ghosts were looking around it

491
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.680
and never hit me from all directions. Where's it coming from now? And

492
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.640
that has an impact on you,
there's no question. And Dave that sequence

493
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.480
when when Trey commits to the personal
file and extends the roughly pass are extending

494
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.559
the drive that added I want to
say at the top of my head,

495
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.119
the defense was on the field for
fourteen more plays because of it, eight

496
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.519
more minutes on the field. That
can be a big That can be a

497
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.640
damaging sequence for a defense in terms
of winding them or putting them on their

498
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.240
heels. And maybe some teams don't
recover from that. This defense not only

499
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:13.119
recover but went out in the second
half and stood tall after that sequence.

500
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.640
Yeah. Yeah, And and the
thing again, I like, I like

501
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:22.160
about the individual responding to adversity as
well as the team. What did Trey

502
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.799
do after the you know, the
roughing the passer penalty come up with the

503
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:28.960
big play at the end of the
football game that you know what was was

504
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:35.559
very very uh huge in the decision
making of uh in deciding who's going to

505
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:37.960
be the ultimate victor in the football
game. Same thing with Tanner Hudson,

506
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.880
like I talked about, you know, he was involved with Jake Browning on

507
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.440
the on the misqueue that led to
a pick six. Those guys come back

508
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.759
and make big play on third and
ten, big play for a touchdown.

509
00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:52.440
So it's it's like, all right, you know, we've we've been here

510
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.640
before, we faced adversity before,
and we've learned to, you know,

511
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.279
compartmentalize, put it away, learn
from it, you know, don't just

512
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.440
totally ignore it, learn from it, and then just go make some plays.

513
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:08.599
And that's exactly what this football team's
doing. It's not wallowing and self

514
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.279
pity. It's not like, oh
Dan, this isn't our day, go

515
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.920
out and do something about it.
You make a mistake, all right,

516
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:19.960
it's not something you can go back
in a race, but you can make

517
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.920
plays to offset that mistake and then
make more plays to put it in the

518
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:28.880
positive direction for your football team.
And that's what these guys are doing individually

519
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:31.480
and collectively. More ahead in this
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520
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com. David, all the things
mentioned, we don't want to leave out

528
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:08.119
special teams from the standpoint of what
dj Ivy did, and it kind of

529
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:13.639
goes with the theme of rookies later
in the season having an impact in different

530
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:16.400
ways for this team. On the
punt coverage comes up with the forced fumble,

531
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:19.719
the fumble recovery had a pass breakup
as well. I think he had

532
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.719
fourteen snaps defensively, nineteen snaps on
special teams, and just another young guy

533
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.599
finding a way to help out it, contribute to this football team. Got

534
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:31.920
himself a game ball as well for
that effort. So nothing goes unnoticed,

535
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.880
there's no no question about that.
And the Bengals are doing all the little

536
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.559
things need to be done. You
know, they're winning a turnover battle,

537
00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:47.000
and that's I shouldn't say little things, situational football. They handled in all

538
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:53.280
aspects of it. Yesterday they won
the turnover margin, they dominated in the

539
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:58.239
red zone. You know, third
down was washed. Bengals didn't have a

540
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.360
good day third down offensively, but
the defense did. So there was complimentary

541
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:07.199
football, you know, from that
that aspect of things, and and honestly

542
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:13.599
complimentary football within not just defense supporting
offense, but run games supporting pass game,

543
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:16.960
run game supporting play action pass game, screen game. Coming off of

544
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.519
that, I mean, shut down
the run by the by the defensive football

545
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.519
team, and that's gonna make life
easier to rush the passer. And and

546
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:30.880
then you have your your stud Trey
Henderson pay that off. I mean a

547
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.719
lot, a lot of a lot
of really really positive things took place against

548
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.880
a very very good football team that
had won four in a row and had

549
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.519
scored you know twenty points some more
like what you said eleven out of twelve

550
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566
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567
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joined us every week at this time
he does. And I'll tell you what

568
00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:14.519
what a job he's doing. Offensive
coordinator Brian Callahan. It's like, okay,

569
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:19.079
boy, you lose your franchise player, Joe burrow Man. What's gonna

570
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.360
happen? Well, Jake Brownie has
an opportunity to step up. Brian Callahan

571
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:27.760
is an opportunity to show, hey, I can coach man. I'm gonna

572
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:30.079
make some adjustments myself. I'm gonna
deal with adversity. I'm going to take

573
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:36.960
a young quarterback that hasn't had many
NFL starts and have help him reach his

574
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:42.400
potential and certainly have done that.
So teams around the National Football League putting

575
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:47.840
together that head coaching candidate list ad
Brian Callahan's name. Thanks Lav, Yeah,

576
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.360
I know how to start my my
mondays off right, Yeah, appreciate

577
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.159
it. Touchdown drives if ninety two, seventy two, seventy five, seventy

578
00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:01.039
one two drives a two square drives
of E eleven play dress extended efficiency throughout

579
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:05.159
the day. Yeah, I think
that's we've done that really well over the

580
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:09.960
last two weeks, really of just
being able to possess the ball while still

581
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:15.800
making explosive plays mixed in and you
know, a lot of that's a lot

582
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.000
of that's are our run game has
been really efficient over the last few weeks

583
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:22.559
and that helps, uh, And
so it's just I think we're just playing

584
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.480
a really good brand of football right
now on offense, and you know,

585
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.119
a lot of that goes goes through
Jake. But I do think that I

586
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.559
would be remiss not pointing out,
like I think our offensive line has played

587
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:37.480
really well over the last over the
last really I would say over the last

588
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:40.320
seven games. Six outlier would be
the Pittsburgh game, But really that that

589
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:45.400
stretch of games, I think we've
played pretty good up front. So a

590
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:46.719
lot of credit goes to those guys
are sort of making it all go for

591
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:51.199
us. Yeah, I thought they
played out standing in this in this last

592
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:53.559
football game. Forty two sacks this
team has coming in, they get the

593
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:57.719
squad douche, I mean shut out. That's that's big time, isn't it.

594
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.039
That's huge. I mean I was
I I had some I was concerned.

595
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.199
I thought Indies's front was really good. I think Buckner and Stewart and

596
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:10.960
those guys and Dalo also number fifty
four is also there's just a really physical

597
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.519
stout front. They played with a
lot of effort, and I had some

598
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:20.320
concerns. I was worried about what
they were capable of and and too our

599
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:23.840
guys credit they neutralized it. And
part of that was because we did a

600
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:27.840
great job I think in the run
game of keeping them off balance. We

601
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.199
we whacked them, we whammed them, we trapped them, we screened,

602
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:36.519
and we never really ever they never
got in a position where they could really

603
00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:38.199
pass rush. And that's what they've
done really well, and so we've we've

604
00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:42.599
never get we never gave them too
many opportunities to really tee off, and

605
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:45.800
I don't feel like they ever really
felt like they knew what was coming,

606
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.559
and so that slowed them down some. And it was a really well executed

607
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:52.400
by those guys up front and and
allowed us to play a pretty good game

608
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:58.079
of offensive football. Of course,
continue to screen and get big chunks out

609
00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.599
of it. Why what has led
to that? Not sure? You know,

610
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:07.400
screens are generally a feast or famine
play, and we've we've feasted a

611
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:12.800
little more than we've famined, I
think, but I do they They've been

612
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.239
a point of emphasis for us over
the course of the season. You know,

613
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:17.679
we were hoping to get better production
coming into the year. It was

614
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:21.360
it was a point of emphasis.
I think we've done a really good job

615
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.960
of hammering the details down, you
know. I think there's details that matter

616
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:30.400
in the screen game, the backs
landmark, the backs, timing, the

617
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.000
offensive lineman targeting it right because you
can't cut in space anymore, so you've

618
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.360
got to stay up and that makes
it more challenging for those guys. So

619
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:40.360
I just think we've executed him really
well. And then and then the secondary

620
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.800
part of it is once once the
play gets started, the backs to the

621
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:46.280
rest and between Chase and and Mixing
and the screen game, they've both been

622
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:51.679
really hard to bring down in space, and so that's a that's a testament

623
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.480
to those guys playing hard. I
just think we've we've hit on some screens.

624
00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:58.039
Some of it's a little bit of
luck, some of it's good design,

625
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.639
some of it's great effort. It's
probably not all one thing, but

626
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.559
they've they've certainly been a huge part
of our offensive success over the last few

627
00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:09.239
weeks. Is that execution, two
screen passers go for ninety nine yards and

628
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:14.360
a touchdown. Jake's got no air
yards, you know, in ninety nine

629
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.079
yards almost one hundred yards of his
two hundred and thirty five yards passing boom.

630
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.840
You know, right there, that's
a quarterback's best friend. There's there's

631
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:27.320
no question about it. The other
impressive thing is you guys continue to take

632
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.679
care of the football. I mean, eleven giveaways in thirteen games, tied

633
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:35.320
for fewest in the NFL. Yeah, it's just it's just amazing. Seven

634
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:38.800
fumbles on the season tied for second
fewest, only two loss tiede for fewest.

635
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.360
I mean, the ball security has
been extraordinary. It's it's I mean,

636
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.880
you emphasize those things. And I
think I've told you guys before,

637
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.280
but every Wednesday morning, Justin Hill
does it all about the ball presentation usually

638
00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:54.000
some he usually has a handful clips
fro around the league, of guys not

639
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.320
doing it right. I mean,
he talks every Wednesday, he talks about

640
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.719
how to carry the ball, and
you know, he'll show clips from defensive

641
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.599
guys that get interception and fumble the
ball back. So it's a it shows

642
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.960
defensive lineman picking the ball up and
fumbling it, and so there's a there's

643
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.960
an emphasis. We teach it in
a very specific way and and our guys

644
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:15.679
do a great job of carrying it
over and we work on it, and

645
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:19.639
it's it's always good to see that
you get what you emphasize, and we

646
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.480
we do spend time on it.
It is an important part of of our

647
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.440
off of our of our program,
I mean, of the whole thing is

648
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:29.119
the ball security. And that's you
know, those stats are pretty clear.

649
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:30.519
You you don't turn the ball over, you give yourself pretty good chance to

650
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:34.679
win win more games and you lose. And and our guys do a great

651
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:36.800
job of execute, and we just
they take care of the ball in traffic,

652
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:38.440
they know when to cover up,
they know when they have space.

653
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:43.760
But I think a lot of it
goes to you know, we teach it

654
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:45.719
and Justin Hill does a great job
of making the presentation kind of new and

655
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.559
engaging, even though we're saying the
same thing over and over again. But

656
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:52.400
I think that's there's a lot of
credit that goes to that, and then

657
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.559
our guys of just being a fundamentally
sound football team, which we prot ourselves

658
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.440
on and as part of that is
taking care of the football. You obviously

659
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.440
love Brown, you drafted him,
and it's been a bit of a roller

660
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:05.719
coaster with the injury for him,
but where he is now to see the

661
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.119
success and and the screen he got
up to twenty don't know if you're aware

662
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:12.000
of this, coach, he got
up to twenty two point zero five miles

663
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.320
per hour, the second fastest by
a ball carrier this year. To see

664
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:17.760
him at this level now and kind
of showing you what you thought has to

665
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:21.960
be really satisfied. It's been great. And you know, obviously his injury

666
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.119
probably set back his timeline some.
And with all rookies, I think as

667
00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:29.199
you see over the course of the
season, you ease guys into their roles,

668
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.320
they get comfortable playing, uh,
they make a player too, They

669
00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:35.159
get more opportunities, they make more
plays. And that's really what's happened with

670
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.800
with Chase over the last few weeks
is he's getting opportunities, he's making the

671
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.199
most of them. He's going to
get continue to get more opportunity. And

672
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.559
you know, you put that kind
of speed on tape, that's that's a

673
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:46.920
that's an impressive thing. I always
thought he was fast. I didn't know

674
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:51.280
he was that fast, right,
but it turns out he's he's an incredibly

675
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:53.920
fast ball carrier. So it's great. It's it's a great element. It

676
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:58.079
adds an explosives to our offense and
the running back room that we really probably

677
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.920
we haven't had a guy like him. I mean, obviously probably Geo in

678
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:04.840
his prime was the closest thing in
the last handful of years. But he

679
00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:07.840
brings an element that's exciting, explosive. He's a great compliment to what Mixing

680
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.280
does well. And we just got
to keep finding ways to use both of

681
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.679
them to their strengths. And you
know, Chase is obviously shown up.

682
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:17.159
He's he's shown that he's the player
we hoped he would be when we drafted

683
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:22.039
him. He k Metcalf the fastest, he's a freak, big, big

684
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:25.320
body, wide receiver. Fastest running
back though in the National Football League this

685
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:30.599
season is a Chase that that's that's
pretty darn impressive. There's there's no question

686
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:37.960
about it. Did you feel like
you wanted to be that persistent with the

687
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.840
running game? Thirty one carries?
You ran the football more than you threw

688
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:45.320
it in this football game. Was
that was that intentional? I think there

689
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:49.119
is some intent to it. But
I also think when you look at where

690
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.039
those carries came, you know,
part of it is that that we had

691
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.519
a lead, yeah, and a
good one at one point, A lot

692
00:44:55.599 --> 00:44:59.760
of those carries came and what amounted
a four minute style. That whole fourth

693
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:04.000
was basically run so right, and
and that's where carries come from. When

694
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.440
you when you when you play the
lead and you you have you're trying to

695
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:12.079
burn clock, you're trying to be
physical. And then we had a bunch

696
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:15.199
of carries in the inside the three. You know, so if you took

697
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:16.639
those carries and the form any carries, it's kind of even out there,

698
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:20.400
like the number looks gaudy, like, oh man, we really ran the

699
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:22.239
ball time. We did, but
we also we didn't, if that makes

700
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.559
sense, like and so they kind
of came situationally and and it was great.

701
00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.920
But I think we did a good
job of in the normal game script

702
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.079
and in the normal first and second
down, we did a good job mixing

703
00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.599
that with the play action with the
screens, and I think the complement of

704
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:42.000
all three of those things, I
think really did what we intended it to

705
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.639
do to that defensive structure. And
I think those a lot of those carries,

706
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:49.559
that that thirty plus carries comes when
you're playing with a ten point leader

707
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:51.880
more right, and you're just hammering
a ball at the end of the game.

708
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.440
And so I'm glad we were in
that spot. That's great. I'm

709
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:57.679
happy we got those many carries.
That's a good that means we were in

710
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:00.760
control of the game. And but
I think our run game, complimentary wise,

711
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.719
with everything else we're doing, has
has been really positive. What was

712
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.400
the the initial reaction when Jake comes
up holding his thumb and you see him

713
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:13.639
start to run off, You know, I not great, probably more just

714
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.320
like you have you kidding me,
you know, uh, but yeah,

715
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:19.760
I'm glad it was nothing nothing more
serious. And then you know, shoot,

716
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:22.840
I thought I felt like AJ came
in and in a big spot,

717
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.800
and AJ's played a lot of football
and he had a lot of confidence in

718
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:30.039
AJ to execute, and I thought
he had a touchdown taking off the board.

719
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.599
It's disappointing. That was a nice
throw and catch and uh, you

720
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.760
know it's a tick attack style call. But that's kind of what's happening these

721
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:42.239
days. So I thought he did
came in, did a nice job and

722
00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:44.960
didn't didn't panic either, So yeah, I was worried. I didn't know.

723
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:45.719
And then all of a sudden they
said he's he's just cramping and I

724
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:50.679
was like, all right, well, I guess that's good. But yeah,

725
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.559
I had probably the same direction everybody
else did, Like you can't.

726
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:54.400
I mean, he's hand injuries.
Man can't get away fromim. Apparently,

727
00:46:54.679 --> 00:47:00.119
it's crazy. It is when you
have three explosive players are forty five yards

728
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:04.159
or more like you had. You
had the two screens and you had the

729
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.760
the uh, the throw to Tea. I mean, that's that's gonna win

730
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:12.320
your a lot of football games.
That's one hundred and fifty yards and in

731
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.000
three snaps, and it's gonna it's
gonna eat up those hidden yards feel position

732
00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:20.400
wise, and you're gonna score.
And you scored on one of them if

733
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:23.840
you I'm trying, I was trying
to think of the last time had forty

734
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:28.000
five yards or more and three different
steps. I mean, that's that's that's

735
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:30.800
pretty significant. Yeah, it is. I couldn't tell you the top of

736
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:31.960
my head either, you know when
that would have occurred. We've had games,

737
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:37.159
we've had some big plays, but
being able to generate explosives, you

738
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:39.519
know, one of the one of
the keys for us this week was we

739
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:43.320
were trying to find a way to
generate seven explosives. Didn't matter how they

740
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:49.480
came, runs, passes, right
the generally, am I in my time

741
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.199
or in the NFL, If you
can find a way to generate seventy eight

742
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.519
explosives offensively in a game, you're
definitely gonna you're gonna have a really good

743
00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:59.519
chance to win the next Yeah,
And so you try to find ways where

744
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:00.840
those come. They can come all
different ways. They can come on screens,

745
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:02.960
they can come on runs, they
can come on throws down the field.

746
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:07.679
It doesn't matter how to come.
But generally, when you have you're

747
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:09.599
you're pushing six seven explosive plays in
a game, you're gonna put yourself in

748
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:14.000
pretty good position to win. And
and we did a great job, and

749
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:15.679
they came a bunch of different ways. You know, we had we had

750
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:19.599
all all the different types you can
have, and that's that's a good thing.

751
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.159
That means a defense is a little
bit off balance. And and we

752
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.679
connect on some big throws and again, like you said, the hitting yard

753
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:29.639
is important to you're flipping the field
at minimum right and giving the team that's

754
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:32.320
been pretty good in offense, making
them go the long way. And that's

755
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:37.840
that's a that's our advantage as well. Any money Python references this week in

756
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.440
a Saturday meeting or were you good
today? This week was a very matter

757
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:44.320
of fact. It was, you
know, they play a simple style of

758
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:46.880
defense, and and they're really good
at it. And not to diminish what

759
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:51.559
they do, but they play a
simple style and sometimes the easiest thing is

760
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:54.280
just to I just Saturday was about
making sure everyone knew what the intent of

761
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:57.880
the game plan was and what it's
what it usually is about, but this

762
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.480
one was pretty matter of fact.
Is here's what we need to do,

763
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:02.800
here's how it's gonna look, and
and I think our guys had a great

764
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:07.159
job of bringing the plan to life
and executing at a really high level,

765
00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:09.960
real real quickly. About the Minnesota
Vikings, they come off a shutout.

766
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:15.559
Ryan Floor is defensive coordinator. There's
not a blitz known demand that he hasn't

767
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:16.960
run. I guess you know what
I mean. That's the bottom line there.

768
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:21.719
You have to you have to have
a lot in the arsenal to combat

769
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:23.800
that, don't you. Yeah,
very different style of defense we're gonna go

770
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:28.519
play against this week. Versus the
Colts. They they do. They cause

771
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:30.840
you a lot of problems. They
got good personnel, it's a good scheme.

772
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:34.639
It's a hard scheme. And yeah, anytime you shut out an NFL

773
00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:37.760
football team, I don't care who
it is. Uh, that's a that's

774
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.079
a feather in your cap as a
defensive coordinator. And and Flores has always

775
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:44.840
done a good job. He's always
made life hard on offenses. So we

776
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:46.840
got to work cut out for us. They got every every blitz and every

777
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:52.320
scheme and every front you can imagine. So you know we got we gotta

778
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:54.119
got to put together a good plan. And think we got them at home.

779
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:57.320
They're they're back to back games in
a road, so that's to our

780
00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:00.320
advantage, and we got to put
together a good plan. I know you

781
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:05.119
will. Congratulations, thanks for making
time as always, and go get them.

782
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:07.239
Yeah, see you guys next week. Appreciate your coach. Yep,

783
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.599
he's Brian Callahan take a time out
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784
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:16.559
Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.
We continue on on this Monday Night of

785
00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:20.800
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786
00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:24.000
Network at seven hundred WLW. I'm
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787
00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:29.719
Lance. It's time for the Kettering
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788
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:34.159
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789
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.280
for the best fans. And I'm
going to find some wood to knock on

790
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:42.519
too, like our coordinators have been
doing, because the football injury gods have

791
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.320
been very very kind. The Bengals
are, you know, with four games

792
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.360
to go, are in pretty good
shape other than you know, how do

793
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:53.480
you say that with your franchise quarterback
out with a surge clear repaired ligament in

794
00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:59.400
his wrist. But that's happened a
bit of go here in this football game.

795
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:04.280
Bj Hill looked to me like he
suffered a stinger. Looks like they

796
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.079
were working on his shoulder, and
I thought, oh geez, hopefully it's

797
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.159
not. And then he got up
and he went off the football field,

798
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:14.440
came back after one snap leaving the
football field. So in my mind,

799
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:20.079
it's been there, done that experience, that burning sensation, that stinger action

800
00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:23.039
a little bit, and I'm speculating, don't know for sure, but seemed

801
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:28.760
like that might be the scenario.
And then of course Jake Browning with the

802
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:30.760
cramp of the thumb. I don't
think I've ever seen that. That's the

803
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:36.119
first one for me. Let's talk
offense, specifically the tight end position.

804
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:40.119
Tanner Hudson two catches twenty one yards, including the eleven yard touchdown. Here's

805
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:45.039
the Bengals tight end. You had
a challenging play the pick six. Take

806
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:49.559
us through that. Yeah, that's
just one of those plays. I need

807
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.400
to be in in a little bit
more and just make that play for Jake

808
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:57.239
so that doesn't go against him,
you know, just gotta be there and

809
00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:59.920
make the play. So just a
little bit short on the route kind of

810
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:01.960
thing. Oh yeah, I just
should be in more, just so give

811
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:06.840
him a better lane for a better
throw. But then he comes right back

812
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:08.360
to you. You guys, neither
one of you. You don't care.

813
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:14.159
I'm not gonna let that adversity stop
me. Show tremendous resiliency, touchdown pass,

814
00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:16.199
big third down catch, take us
through what you were thinking the rest

815
00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:20.039
of the football game. Yeah,
you just got to put that one behind

816
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.000
you. You can't let a mistake, you know, just stack onto another

817
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:25.920
one. So I just got to
put the play behind you. I know

818
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.199
Jake still got faith in me to
make the play, and that's what I

819
00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:34.000
try to do. You've played the
quarterback position before, you know how difficult

820
00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:37.800
it is. How incredible is it
that he's performing at the level he's performing

821
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:42.639
at in what he's being asked to
do here. It's it's it's kind of

822
00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.039
what we expect. I mean,
Jake has been you know, he's been

823
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:50.280
doing his thing as number two for
Joe for however many years now, and

824
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:53.039
we got we got all the faith
in the world of him. He's very

825
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:58.039
very calm, very poised, collected. We know, we know he's capable

826
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:00.639
of doing the things he is,
So yeah, just proud of them.

827
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:05.079
Keep it going. When he left
the field with an injury, didn't know

828
00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:07.480
what the status, how bad the
injury was. Were you thinking you might

829
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:08.559
have spinn it a little bit?
And they may have to warm you up

830
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:13.519
a little place since that's a quarterback. Because A J. Bcerra was going

831
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:15.880
in there, It's like what else
we got. Hey, I would much

832
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:17.079
rather Aj be out there, But
if I got to come in and,

833
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:20.440
you know, hold it down for
the team until Jay gets back, I

834
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:23.880
would do it. So I've I've
never seen or heard about a cramp during

835
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:27.639
the course of a football game on
the thumb. I've had cramps in my

836
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:30.400
thumb, but in much different circumstances
and situations. That was kind of crazy,

837
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.519
wasn't it. Yeah. I really
didn't know much. I really didn't

838
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:35.920
know what was going on. I
was just kind of in the middle of

839
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.159
it, just going with the flow. I wasn't sure what was going on

840
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:40.519
with him, if he was coming
back, if he was staying in.

841
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:44.679
So yeah, so it's a weird
situation. You guys are in a nice

842
00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:49.880
rhythm offensively, scoring thirty four points, your defense really gives up a touchdown.

843
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:52.239
That's that's all they is to be
the team that is playing as well

844
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.639
as the Colts are playing the way
you guys beat him and keeping yourself in

845
00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:59.199
that playoff? Hun, how big
is it? It's huge? But we

846
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:01.679
know you know, we just gotta
not beat ourselves. Just go out there

847
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:05.960
and play how we're capable of playing, and just let the world know.

848
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:08.599
You know, we ain't dead yet. Tanner Hudson, we take a time

849
00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:12.280
out. Continue, there's much more
to get to. It's Bengals Line,

850
00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:17.440
First Star Logistics, Bengals Radio Network
in seven hundred WLW. Hey, we're

851
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:21.320
moving right along on this Monday night. It's a victory Monday. We love

852
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:24.360
victory Mondays. We're talking about it
on three hours of Bengals Line tonight on

853
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:29.880
the First Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network
and seven hundred WLW. Lance Pacallister,

854
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:32.639
Dave Lapham and Bengals fans. Make
sure to catch me and Dan Hord every

855
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:37.119
Wednesday this season from Bengals Game Plan
presented by Bud Light on the air from

856
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.800
six to eight pm on ESPN fifteen
thirty. And when Dan has a UC

857
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:47.880
conflict and we've got Wayne box Miller, let's talk o line. We take

858
00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:52.000
it up front. What a performance
by the offensive line. Much to talk

859
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:57.480
about, headlined by Orlando Brown.
This football team came into the game with

860
00:54:57.639 --> 00:55:01.000
forty two quarterback sacks. They got
squad dooshe they got zero. You guys

861
00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:04.840
shut them down in the sack department. Was that a big goal? Yeah?

862
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:06.880
Man, I mean I think this
is a great defensive front that we

863
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.320
just faced again. Man, another
really tough unit. But as I say

864
00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:13.000
every week, man, I think
our coaches have put us in great position

865
00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:15.119
up front that allow us to go
out there and play our best games.

866
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:17.760
And uh man, when when when
Zach does that, when coach Callahan does

867
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:20.679
that, Frank Man, I mean, as I said before, Man,

868
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.119
the sky's the limit. Your your
running games pretty versatile. I mean you

869
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.719
defensive line, they're gonna get trapped, they're gonna get they're gonna get pinned,

870
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:30.079
they're gonna get doubled, they're gonna
get everything. Yeah. No,

871
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:34.480
man, I mean and that's that's
what you know, allows defensive lines to

872
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.760
be confused and and you know,
I use the word make them play us

873
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:39.840
honest and so man, when when
games are called the way they are and

874
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.239
we're able to be physical at the
line of scrimmage in the run game,

875
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.760
and you know, take them out
of certain coverages, man, I mean,

876
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:46.480
you know we should we were able
to do. I mean, you

877
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:50.400
can't. You can't cover a lot
of our playmakers one on one running backs,

878
00:55:50.519 --> 00:55:52.320
wide receivers, tight ends, I
mean everyone's special. Man. For

879
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:57.199
the second week in a row,
you guys showed resiliency, he showed mental

880
00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:00.599
toughness. Fourteen points scored in two
minutes and two twenty seconds against the Jaguars.

881
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:04.960
Fourteen points scored in twenty five seconds. In this football game, you

882
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.320
guys just let it roll off your
back like water. Man. Yeah.

883
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:08.840
Man, I mean, just the
focus and execution has been there, and

884
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:13.760
you know, just when when you
have that type of execution, I mean,

885
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:15.280
man, it's any team in the
NFL is hard to beat. And

886
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:19.679
you know, we do a good
job with the turnovers, not really shooting

887
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:22.920
ourselves in the football penalties. You
know, everything kind of goes hand to

888
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.199
hand. Man, we've been able
to execute at a high level. You

889
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:29.239
guys, I know you work on
situational football a ton. You beat him

890
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:31.159
on third down, you beat him
in the red zone. I mean every

891
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:35.280
situational aspect of this football game.
You beat him and beat him handling.

892
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:37.079
That's why you win by twenty in
the NFL. That's saying something. It

893
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:39.599
is, man, it is,
but it's simple, man. It really

894
00:56:39.639 --> 00:56:43.400
comes down to execution, especially this
time of year, not putting yourself in

895
00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:45.960
bad position with penalties, you know, and the way that Jake is playing

896
00:56:46.039 --> 00:56:50.000
man, hass off to him.
I mean, it's just everything goes hand

897
00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.280
in hand and we've been able to
really come out here and play our best

898
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:53.840
football man, and continue to grow
moving forward. We still got a lot

899
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:57.320
of football left too, so I'm
excited to see what we could take things.

900
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:00.039
I know Trey Henderson talks about working
against you in practice makes him a

901
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:04.159
better football player. You said the
same thing. When you see him have

902
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:06.840
a game like he had today,
do you feel like, yeah, man,

903
00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:08.800
I'm a little bit of that helped
in that. Oh yeah, man,

904
00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:12.239
definitely. I mean but you know
we see it every day and practice

905
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:14.800
in our training camp in the offseason. I mean, this got special and

906
00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:15.840
I played him a ton. You
know what he was able to go out

907
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:19.280
there and do today? What is
it? Two sacks, practically a forced

908
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.199
fumble, a force interception. I
mean it got special, man. But

909
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:23.760
you know that's that's who he is. He works hard every day. He

910
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:28.079
comes in here head down and really
goes to war every single day. Man.

911
00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:30.440
With everything that he's doing weight room
film, at practice, he's attacking

912
00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:32.559
at full speed and that's what makes
him so special. I mean, he

913
00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:36.000
wanted the best in the world at
what he does. Two sacks and then

914
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:37.840
the tacklers he's going over backwards,
which you don't want to have happen.

915
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:40.000
He tripped him, Yeah, and
he got a penalty on that one.

916
00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:43.400
Threw a big penalty on that one
as well. I saw that, man.

917
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.920
I mean, listen, man,
Terry, his bow rust is one

918
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:47.559
of the best in the league.
And you know sometimes he catch you on

919
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.760
your heels. It's gonna be a
long day for you. You saw it

920
00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:54.039
on that play. Well, I
appreciate you and this offense. What can

921
00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:58.199
you say about Jake Browning? I
mean back to back performance, the quarterback

922
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:00.599
rating with over one hundred and twenty
today. Yeah, I mean, just

923
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:02.679
the moxie that he's coming out with. Man, the energy that he brings,

924
00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:07.719
the swagger to confidence is there is
there, and we rallying behind him.

925
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:09.159
You know, he's playing. He
is QB one man and he's playing

926
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:12.639
like it. What'd you guys say
to him when he had that cramp in

927
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:14.960
his thumb. I mean, honestly, I was confused. I didn't say

928
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:16.480
much, man, I just I
was just like man. Hopefully everything's all

929
00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:21.280
right. Orlando Brown and what a
day for the offensive line and Dave.

930
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:25.840
We talked about it last week,
how tenacious and disruptive that Colt's defense had

931
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:30.199
been. In that defensive line forty
two sacks going in. They were second

932
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:32.360
in the league to the Ravens.
They were closing another franchise record. They

933
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:36.840
were one of only three teams in
the league with four players with at least

934
00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:39.440
five sacks. And as you would
say, they got squad doosh yesterday,

935
00:58:39.519 --> 00:58:45.719
they did. They were shut out
that I don't think that's happened to them

936
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:50.280
this year. I feel safe in
saying that they have not had a game

937
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:53.079
where they were sackless as a unit. That doesn't sound too good. It

938
00:58:53.199 --> 00:59:00.440
did not generate a quarterback sack as
a unit. So that's a job done

939
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:05.000
by the Cincinnati Bengals up front.
And let's pick up responsibilities. The Bengals

940
00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:08.880
did do their normal thing. They
use Drew Sample in the backfield as a

941
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:14.840
running back and blitz pick up responsibilities. He did an outstanding job in that

942
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:17.400
regard as well. A big old
two hundred and sixty pounds height end taking

943
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:22.440
on blitzing linebackers is a good thing. Dave. How much of what's going

944
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:24.239
on with this offensive line? I
think people look to say, holy cow,

945
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:27.880
what's going on with the offensive line
the last couple of weeks. How

946
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:30.440
much of what's happening right now is, for lack of a better word,

947
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:36.079
the juice they're getting by being able
to run the football and that feeling that

948
00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:39.400
an offensive line alignment feels when you
could run the football and establish that like

949
00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:42.719
they have the last two weeks.
Yeah, I think I think that is

950
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:46.719
a big part of it. I
think it's the whole thing about rallying around

951
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:50.960
Jake. You know, It's like, Okay, everybody thinks, ah,

952
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:57.000
you don't have Joe Burrow, you're
done. Well. You know, everybody

953
00:59:57.079 --> 00:59:59.719
knows Joe Burrow is a great player. But it's like, we still have

954
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:02.639
a you know, and we need
Joe Burrow. We have to have Joe

955
01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:06.280
Burrow to get where we want to
go. We know that, but we

956
01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:09.199
can't. We're not going to fold
up our tents and quit because Joe suffers

957
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:15.199
an unfortunate injury and we're gonna do
everything we possibly can to make life better

958
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:20.639
for Jake Browning to go out and
execute and play football and that involves a

959
01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:24.599
better run game, yep. And
there's a commitment to it from the coaches

960
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:30.679
from a play calling standpoint, the
players from an execution standpoint, and then

961
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:35.480
everything feeds off of that. The
play action game screens all of it.

962
01:00:36.119 --> 01:00:40.199
So I think that they're just caught
in that, in that mindset and that

963
01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:46.400
attitude of let's do the best job
we can make sure that we win more

964
01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:51.039
of our individual battles. Like I've
talked about before, them we lose,

965
01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:54.639
therefore our unit does that. Therefore
more units to do that, the better

966
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:58.800
off the team's going to be.
This is a team game. You know,

967
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.599
there's twenty two people on the football
field every single snap, and we

968
01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:06.800
got to be the better eleven.
And we're facing and we've talked a lot

969
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:08.840
about the coaches threat that night,
and you alluded to him earlier in the

970
01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:13.159
first hour. Let's go back to
him. Let's not forget Frank Pollack and

971
01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:15.920
credit for him at this point and
what's evolving with this offensive line. I

972
01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:23.360
think his run game game plans have
been extraordinary. He's he's uh, he's

973
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:29.000
got something for everybody. I mean, he'll he'll he'll trap you, he'll

974
01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:34.039
double team you, Uh, he'll
he'll pin you. Uh, he'll do

975
01:01:34.239 --> 01:01:37.599
inside zone, outside zone. I
mean they're doing it all and uh and

976
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:42.360
Frank's Frank's got it all, cooking
and operating at a very high level,

977
01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:45.719
and his offensive line is really responding. They're they're playing as good a football

978
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:50.119
as a unit that they've played.
There's no question. I thought, I

979
01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:53.320
thought that the the last game was
probably their best of the year, but

980
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:58.840
I think the last two games that
that's the best tandem of games, back

981
01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:02.039
to back games that they put together, I think by far this season as

982
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:06.599
well. Still ahead. One of
the guys running behind that, oh Lie

983
01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:10.599
Joe Mixon on Bengals Line as we
continue on the First Star Logistics Bengals Radio

984
01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:16.960
Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, let's keep things moving on this Monday

985
01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:20.760
night. The show is Bengals Line. The show is on the First Star

986
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:24.400
Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred
WLW. I'm Lance McAllister doing it each

987
01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:29.119
week with Dave Lepham. Yes,
Sir Lance and enjoy it each and every

988
01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:32.039
week with my man Lance McAllister and
Bengals fans on Fridays, make sure to

989
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:37.039
listen to myself and Dan Horde for
Bengals pep rally presented by Wings and Rings

990
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:39.920
on the air from three to six
pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. With it

991
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.679
being college basketball season, sometimes it's
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992
01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:51.199
sure you check your local listings.
Joe Mixon Yesterday twenty one carries seventy nine

993
01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:55.440
yards and a touchdown on the ground. Joe Mixon three receptions for forty six

994
01:02:55.559 --> 01:03:00.360
yards, including that forty five yarder
on the screen with the Bengals running back

995
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:04.719
Joe Mixon two weeks ago. A
lot of people have given the Bengals up

996
01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:07.280
for dead. How do you feel
about where things stand right now? Considering

997
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:10.239
how you've played the last couple of
weeks, I feel really good. I

998
01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:14.480
think that everybody been doing the hell
of a job, you know, playing

999
01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:19.119
together, playing complimentary football, and
everybody just you know, making plays and

1000
01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:21.760
being in the right place is when
they need to be. So we just

1001
01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:23.400
got to keep building on that and
uh, you know, getting better.

1002
01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:29.159
It seemed clear that you guys had
confidence and faith in Jake Browning, but

1003
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:34.079
considering how well he's played, has
that been elevated the last couple of weeks?

1004
01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:37.320
Yeah, I mean Jake's been very
solid and that's what we need him

1005
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:42.000
to be in order to win these
games. And I think that, you

1006
01:03:42.079 --> 01:03:45.360
know, by him doing that playing
solid football, I think everything else.

1007
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:49.719
As long as our defense playing their
ass off like they are, we're gonna

1008
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:52.239
be in great shape. So we
just gotta, you know, keep feeding

1009
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:54.239
off of each other, playing complimentary
football and everything else. Donna take care

1010
01:03:54.280 --> 01:04:00.440
of his silk. I see the
screen game. Yeah, well, basically

1011
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.119
we knew that. You know,
they like the panic drop a lot,

1012
01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:10.079
and uh, the linebackers is going
playing the run downhill real hard like they

1013
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.840
did, and uh, you know
they they was. I guess Chase had

1014
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:18.199
a big run last week and we
basically complimented that run. You know,

1015
01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:23.480
Ohio looks and they played the run
and then the past is wide open and

1016
01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:28.559
he made a hell of a running
catch. How about on your screen?

1017
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:33.719
Uh, I can't say it's the
same concept, but you know, coach

1018
01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:38.159
dout it up at the right time, and uh, you know, lineman

1019
01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:41.480
making blocks downfield, and you know, we're just trying to do whatever we

1020
01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:44.639
could to make plays and get yardists. So it's set up by its set

1021
01:04:44.719 --> 01:04:51.519
up because it's so aggressive and linebacker
and situation. So that's what it is

1022
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:56.239
for real. You've had back to
back games now with more than one hundred

1023
01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:00.440
yards of combined rushing and receiving yards, and you look frad I mean it

1024
01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:03.880
looks like week three as opposed to
approaching mid December. Yeah, I feel

1025
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.000
like I'm only getting stronger as the
season than going. I mean, I

1026
01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:11.440
think, you know, by Chase
coming in and whoever it is, you

1027
01:05:11.519 --> 01:05:14.639
know, coming in and making plays, I think it's also a great thing

1028
01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:17.360
because when you know they come in, they can't just play the pass,

1029
01:05:17.639 --> 01:05:21.400
so it's been a great thing for
them to actually come in and do real

1030
01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:25.239
good in the run game. So
we just got to keep it going.

1031
01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:30.920
And uh, obviously by us playing, by us running play actions and things

1032
01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:33.639
like that, it's been a great
thing. So we just gotta keep going,

1033
01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:36.400
keep building and doing whatever we need
to do to get to win.

1034
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:42.519
You said, Monday's win reinforce the
idea in the locker room that we're the

1035
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.880
Bengals. We're the team that's been
to the AFC Championship Game each of the

1036
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:49.280
last two years. Was that taking
up a notch today? Oh? Yeah,

1037
01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:54.000
definitely. It's gonna keep it's gonna
keep taking ticking up notches, man.

1038
01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:56.760
So you know, we just got
to keep living on what you know,

1039
01:05:56.880 --> 01:06:00.320
we believe in and who we are
as a team and everything else going

1040
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:03.000
to take care of himself. They've
another productive day for Joe and a couple

1041
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:08.119
of things going on here. One
when when he doesn't have to do everything

1042
01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:11.079
and and some of the load can
be shared with Chase Brown, that's a

1043
01:06:11.119 --> 01:06:13.840
good thing. And competition is always
a good thing. Not not that Joe

1044
01:06:13.960 --> 01:06:17.679
needed motivation, but when when somebody
else is there, there's that natural kind

1045
01:06:17.679 --> 01:06:20.320
of like, Okay, you did
that, I'll do this, I'll see

1046
01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:23.840
you were this, and I'll raise
you that. I think that's a good

1047
01:06:23.880 --> 01:06:26.079
thing going on with both of them
right now. I agree with you,

1048
01:06:26.159 --> 01:06:31.679
and I think now they're going to
have to maybe Okay, every time Chase

1049
01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:34.199
Brown's in the game, they're doing
this. When Joe Mix is in the

1050
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:36.760
game, they're doing that. Chase, I don't want to have tels,

1051
01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:41.599
you know, for the defense like
that, and they're both capable of doing

1052
01:06:42.320 --> 01:06:45.159
other things Like Joe caught a screen
pass, so did Chase. I mean

1053
01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:48.519
you can't just okay, Chase Brown, he had that fifty plus yard touchdown

1054
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:53.360
on the screen. He's our screen
guy. No, you know, Chase

1055
01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:56.079
Brown, he's got some thumb to
him as well. I mean he can

1056
01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:59.480
run between the tackles, there's no
question. Joe Mixon proven he can run

1057
01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:01.840
between the So he's proven he can. You can get the ball outside as

1058
01:07:01.880 --> 01:07:05.239
well. So it's not like you
have a guy you put in to do

1059
01:07:05.519 --> 01:07:09.360
this and this only, and a
guy to put in to do that and

1060
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:13.480
that only. They can both,
you know, do a little bit of

1061
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:17.920
what each other's talent skills and uh
talents and skill sets are. So it's

1062
01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:21.599
a good it's a good dynamic.
It's a good one to two punch.

1063
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:28.079
You don't lose anything necessarily with either
one of them in there. We head

1064
01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:30.719
down the stretch in our second hour. T Higgins on deck on Bengals Line,

1065
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:34.599
the First Star Logistics, Bengals Radio
Network and seven hundred W l W

1066
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:42.599
down Let's stretch. We go on
a victory Monday. We're breaking it all

1067
01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:45.719
down over three hours of Bengals,
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01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:48.639
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01:07:48.719 --> 01:07:53.280
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1073
01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:11.000
seventy two yards along of forty six. A really nice adjustment on the ball

1074
01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:14.719
along the sideline. Here's a Dan
Horde with T. Higgins. A bit

1075
01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:16.920
more fun to you to watch the
run game do what it's doing. And

1076
01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:20.880
then it's a lot of fun watching
these guys run all over the field.

1077
01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:25.199
Man, you know, even even
be going in there and you know,

1078
01:08:25.319 --> 01:08:29.319
throwing our bodies into these safeties and
into these corners and linebackers bad. It's

1079
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:30.760
still a lot of fun just to
see Mixed, you know, coming off

1080
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.039
the field and smile on his face, you know, all the running backs,

1081
01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:36.199
Chase Trevion. Man, he's just
good to see those guys, you

1082
01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:39.039
know, with a smile on their
face. Is just you know, just

1083
01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:42.840
doing what they do with that team. You had, I think a block

1084
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:45.159
on Joe's big screen run. Do
you remember that, Yeah, for sure.

1085
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.079
Man, So I'm running across the
field. Man, I've seen break

1086
01:08:49.119 --> 01:08:53.680
blues. I'm like, start blocking. At this point, I don't know

1087
01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:55.920
where he is, so I'm just
trying to block. They say, you

1088
01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:58.079
know, he right behind me,
and my man ended up making a talk.

1089
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.760
I'm like, dang, but man, it was you know these guys,

1090
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:02.520
And then I mean we practicing.
Man, He's just gotta go out

1091
01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:05.359
there and just keep blocking for for
our guys to make big games, you

1092
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:09.439
know, kind of fitting in the
offense around Jakin his strants. Why has

1093
01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:13.000
that worked? I mean we can't. We can't. I mean he's he's

1094
01:09:13.079 --> 01:09:15.279
leading the offense, he's running the
show. So obviously we gotta, you

1095
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:18.680
know, play his strengths and just
keep doing what we do. Did your

1096
01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:24.000
heart sink a bit when he went
running down toward the locker room, No,

1097
01:09:24.199 --> 01:09:26.840
not at all, because I knew
A. J was prepared. He's

1098
01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:30.319
been been prepared since he got here, and man, so when he came

1099
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:31.159
in, I knew he was gonna
come in and play with confidence. I

1100
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:33.079
mean he's been there and done it. He started in this league, so

1101
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:35.880
I knew he was gonna come in
and benner and done it. And man,

1102
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:39.279
I knew he was coming to me
on the fade too. I knew

1103
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:42.640
he was coming to me on the
fay didn't look like much of a shop.

1104
01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:45.000
That's cool, he sold it.
You know, it's good, good

1105
01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:46.920
basketball played with flopping. But man, you know, it is what it

1106
01:09:47.079 --> 01:09:50.560
is. You know what I'm saying. I'm a big I'm a big receiver.

1107
01:09:51.279 --> 01:09:54.800
I mean, they gonna call it. They gonna call it even if

1108
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:57.119
I put my hands on him.
But it is what it is. I'm

1109
01:09:57.199 --> 01:09:59.760
the deep ball. You had to
make a great adjustment. It looked like

1110
01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:01.840
you're expecting it over the right shoulder. Had to spin around and catch it

1111
01:10:01.880 --> 01:10:04.960
over the left. Yeah, you
know, No, I want to give

1112
01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:08.920
a shout out to you know,
our system receiver coach Brad cracked up.

1113
01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:11.920
We work on those balls every day
at practice, man, you know,

1114
01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:15.359
you know, flipping flipping our eyes
and uh, it paid off right there.

1115
01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:18.000
So even those drills at the beginning
of practice where like your back is

1116
01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:21.239
to him, all that matters,
man, Even with the load of drills,

1117
01:10:21.239 --> 01:10:25.880
all that matters and footwork and stuff
like that. So when Jake came

1118
01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:28.479
back in after being in the locker
room, it looked like he was maybe

1119
01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:30.720
joking around about what happened. What
did he say? This is cramping?

1120
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:33.399
He said, you need to drink
water. That's why you drink water.

1121
01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:36.640
Eh, you you you right?
You better drink some water. Cramping and

1122
01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:41.079
then your thumbies. Yeah, I'm
not sure. I'm not sure I'd ever

1123
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:43.439
heard of thumb cramping before. It
is what it is. Man, I'm

1124
01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:45.520
just glad it wasn't a series,
and I'm glad he's all right. I

1125
01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:49.399
know you had faith in him,
but did you honestly think he could play

1126
01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:55.359
at this level in back to back
games? Sure? I mean the confidence

1127
01:10:55.439 --> 01:10:58.720
I mean because he came in training
camp playing like a like a star in

1128
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.279
QB. Man, I mean,
this is the tip of iceberg for him.

1129
01:11:02.359 --> 01:11:04.399
You know what I'm saying. He
ain't doing nothing but showing the world

1130
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:08.880
that what he's capable of. And
you're also happy for him to come in

1131
01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:11.399
and leave his offense the way he's
been doing, and you hope you can

1132
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:13.880
keep going for the rest of the
season. A lot of people keep gave

1133
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:16.279
the Bengals up for dead two weeks
ago. You put yourselves back in position

1134
01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:20.239
with four Togo. I mean,
that's what they've been doing the past three

1135
01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:23.399
years. You know the past,
you know the past few years. So

1136
01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:26.560
I mean, we just gotta keep
being us, to keep keep playing Bengal

1137
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:29.199
football, and I feel like we'll
be a right Tee Higgins with Dan Horde,

1138
01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:31.239
we put two in the books,
Hang Tight, third hour to Unfold.

1139
01:11:31.359 --> 01:11:35.439
Next lou Anarroumo the headliner, and
we'll preview the vikings as well all

1140
01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:40.199
of it as we continue on with
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01:11:40.279 --> 01:11:47.800
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01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:54.359
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01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:15.319
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01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:19.600
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All right, Dave, welcome in our

1151
01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:36.840
very special guest, Our headliner of
this hour. I'm telling you what headliner

1152
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:45.800
of the game. I mean,
this defensive effort extraordinary. About forty six

1153
01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:48.239
yards rushing on eighteen carries. Take
away the long carry of twelve yards.

1154
01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:54.600
Now you got by the tailbacks,
the running backs you've got, or by

1155
01:12:54.680 --> 01:12:57.960
Moss himself, I should say it. Running back twelve carries for sixteen yards,

1156
01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:04.239
one point whatever per that's shutting it
down. Defensive coordinator Louanna Rumo schemed

1157
01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:09.479
it up, shut the running game
down, made it one dimensional. Bengals

1158
01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:13.600
victory coach are the best. Appreciate
it, guys. Uh, guys really

1159
01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:15.079
executed well yesterday. It was a
heck of a day for us, and

1160
01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:19.359
I was excited and and proud of
them the way they went out went out

1161
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:23.920
there, went after the you know
the Colts. They they had scored I

1162
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:28.399
think twenty plus points in eleven of
the twelve games, so you know they

1163
01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:30.760
run a little bit of a role. Yeah, our guys did a good

1164
01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:34.600
job Trey Hendrickson was wreaking havoc on
the very first snap and he never stopped

1165
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:39.359
wreaking havoc until the end of the
game. Great game by Trey, you

1166
01:13:39.439 --> 01:13:42.479
know, terrific pressure on the quarterback
all day, got him off his spot.

1167
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:46.520
Uh he had the one miss bad
play there, but made up for

1168
01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:50.239
it later in the game to close
the game out. So no doubt.

1169
01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:55.600
I mean, really, this is
a this is a pretty good offensive line.

1170
01:13:55.960 --> 01:13:58.079
You know, they did have an
injury they had to deal with,

1171
01:13:58.279 --> 01:14:00.800
but there they probed themselves on being
able to run the football, and you

1172
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:04.439
guys stimied them. I mean,
the gap, the gap responsibility, the

1173
01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:08.680
gap control responsibility was so good all
day, wasn't it. Yeah? I

1174
01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:12.600
was. Yeah. The starts inside
with DJ and BJ those guys, and

1175
01:14:12.680 --> 01:14:15.479
then Jermaine and Logan getting downhill.
They did a really good job and our

1176
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:17.479
perimeter guys were able to hold up
too, So it was a good day.

1177
01:14:18.359 --> 01:14:21.159
You guys do it again in the
red zone, I think you said

1178
01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:25.800
earlier this year with us, they
take it personally when when the opposition gets

1179
01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:28.600
into the red zone against you.
Yeah, you know, even the two

1180
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:32.840
point we were just a click away
from making it. Uh, but yeah,

1181
01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:35.279
that's something that we don't want to
let them, you know, make

1182
01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:39.439
them kick field goals if if you
know, fortunate the kid missed it,

1183
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.079
so it was good. Yeah,
he missed the uh hit the upright on

1184
01:14:43.439 --> 01:14:47.600
the extra point ten times now,
coach. Ten possessions in the red zone

1185
01:14:47.640 --> 01:14:53.359
was two yesterday you missed, have
missed the up hit the upright on on

1186
01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:56.479
the field in the red zone field
goal and then you have the interception.

1187
01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:01.920
So ten possessions, no points,
not just holding them to a fuel zero

1188
01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:06.600
points. I mean, that's number
one in the National Football League and you've

1189
01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:12.439
only played thirteen games. You get
ten stops without without a point allowed the

1190
01:15:12.479 --> 01:15:15.920
original It's unbelievable. Let's keep it
going. Let's keep it going for sure.

1191
01:15:15.039 --> 01:15:17.279
I mean, what's the secret,
Sauce. I just think it's the

1192
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:20.720
guy's mentality, and you know,
like you said, when we get down

1193
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:25.640
there and we don't want to give
up anything, so they really take it

1194
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:29.359
personal and they know we can execute
it and you know, no matter what

1195
01:15:29.520 --> 01:15:33.239
situation is, so feel good about
it. We talk complimentary football offense to

1196
01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:38.439
Tanner. Hudson has the touchdown defense, then comes back forces a five play

1197
01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:42.439
punt, drive and punt, then
Jake has the touchdown. You guys get

1198
01:15:42.479 --> 01:15:45.199
a three and eight, then the
McPherson field goal. Bja gets the interception.

1199
01:15:45.359 --> 01:15:49.359
It's one hand helping the other.
It's just the and again the sideline

1200
01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:53.640
feeds off of all that and the
way the guys are playing and the way

1201
01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:56.680
we're moving the ball, and we're
able to get off the field on third

1202
01:15:56.760 --> 01:16:02.359
down, and that certainly helps everybody
and this football team. It seems like

1203
01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:08.560
on third how about the third down
numbers three for eleven that that dog WI

1204
01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:11.000
hunt all day every day. I
mean, you hold an NFL team to

1205
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:14.239
a little over twenty seven percent on
third down, that's getting it done.

1206
01:16:14.439 --> 01:16:16.399
Yeah. Again, a big part
of why you know you're able to play

1207
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:20.520
less snaps and have less pitches that
you got to face and it was it

1208
01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:25.880
was well well executed by our guys. You had a moment on the sideline

1209
01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:29.520
the te watching the TV version this
morning. You had your arm around Tray.

1210
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:31.159
He had a smile on his face. You had a smile on your

1211
01:16:31.159 --> 01:16:33.720
face. Do you care to relate
what that moment was like? We just

1212
01:16:33.800 --> 01:16:38.640
got all our anger off of each
other after the third downplay, so now

1213
01:16:38.800 --> 01:16:42.159
he's he's he's great. You know, he's done such a he's, in

1214
01:16:42.239 --> 01:16:45.479
my opinion, still an underrated player
in our league the way he affects the

1215
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:49.079
quarterback year in and year out,
weekend and week out. And I just

1216
01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:51.399
told him that, you know,
and you know, he knew he couldn't

1217
01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:56.880
have that play earlier, but certainly
made up for it with all his disruption

1218
01:16:57.000 --> 01:17:00.039
on the quarterback. And he has
done that since he's been here. We

1219
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.640
had three stacks, he had two
of them. Bengals offense didn't give up

1220
01:17:03.680 --> 01:17:08.600
any a team that had forty two
stacks, coming in second most in the

1221
01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:13.000
league, plus fifteen sack ratio amongst
the top ten, top five I think

1222
01:17:13.039 --> 01:17:16.000
in the NFL. You guys are
plus three this football game. The protection

1223
01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:19.039
pressure stuff was big in this one
too. That's great. You know,

1224
01:17:19.199 --> 01:17:21.640
again, as you mentioned, I
know talking to act during the week that

1225
01:17:21.760 --> 01:17:25.520
they were able to pressure the quarterback
and do a good job as you mentioned.

1226
01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:29.560
But you know they our old line
did a great job stiming those guys.

1227
01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:34.239
Yesterday, I noticed snaps that Carter
Murphy samples. I got, what's

1228
01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:39.000
your confidence level on that net?
Sam and Trey and guys can't play every

1229
01:17:39.079 --> 01:17:41.479
single snap. What's your confidence in
that next group? A guess. It's

1230
01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:44.439
great to have the rotation that we
have. It keeps everybody fresh, you

1231
01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:45.640
know, and it's going to come
down to you know, as we keep

1232
01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:50.640
going in the December push, it's
going to be these close, you know

1233
01:17:50.760 --> 01:17:54.279
games where the you know, the
guys started is going to have to be

1234
01:17:54.319 --> 01:17:56.840
fresh in the fourth quarter. And
that's you know, the guys that are

1235
01:17:56.840 --> 01:17:59.439
backing them up were able to do
that give us great snaps. So that's

1236
01:17:59.560 --> 01:18:04.640
huge. Minnesota Vikings come to Cincinnati
fresh off of three nothing victory. In

1237
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:10.560
this era of football, that's that's
almost astounding to me that an NFL game

1238
01:18:11.039 --> 01:18:15.720
ended three nothing. It's crazy amazing. There's talent on both sides. On

1239
01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:18.840
offense, uh uh, you know
weapons. I know, Justin Jefferson went

1240
01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:23.800
out with an injury, but you
know, their talented team and and just

1241
01:18:23.840 --> 01:18:26.399
the way the game. You know, sometimes it's just matchups and how it

1242
01:18:26.439 --> 01:18:33.239
went. But yeah, it was
something we talked. They they didn't have

1243
01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:38.239
many explosive plays, were sticky with
them on defense and contested catches. How

1244
01:18:38.279 --> 01:18:40.800
did you think you're tackling? Was? Oh, it was good. You

1245
01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:45.840
know we had one earlier on a
second and long where they kind of missed

1246
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:46.760
we missed it and got out.
But other than that, we were in

1247
01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:51.319
good shape. You know, Mike
Hilton's underappreciated. You know that play he

1248
01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:54.960
made on the screen to our bench. If he doesn't make that play,

1249
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:59.680
it's it's going a long way.
That play so really, really well executed

1250
01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:04.960
by Mike. I thought the coverage
every time there was a completion was somebody

1251
01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:08.760
right there. I mean there were
never guys, you know, any kind

1252
01:19:08.760 --> 01:19:13.520
of free runners anywhere running down the
football field. I thought that that part

1253
01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:16.000
of it. And then the tackling, like the journey ended quickly, the

1254
01:19:16.079 --> 01:19:23.520
coverage was there. Who who stood
out the most? Do you think you're

1255
01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:26.319
not going to single anybody out?
I think they all did well. You

1256
01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:30.840
know at each level. You know, each group executed well. You know,

1257
01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:33.039
the linebackers hit their gaps in the
run game and did a good job

1258
01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:35.960
in the past game. The d
line stout in the run game, applied

1259
01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:40.479
pressure, and then as you mentioned, the the dbs were sticky all day

1260
01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:44.159
long, which was good to see. We noticed when Brian was in here,

1261
01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:47.399
he was knocking on what a couple
of times that or do you all

1262
01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:56.720
do it? Everybody's taking after me
on that one for sure. So defensively,

1263
01:19:58.119 --> 01:20:00.399
what do you tell your guys when
you meet with your guys today,

1264
01:20:00.760 --> 01:20:06.119
later on today or is it tomorrow, off today, off today? What's

1265
01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:10.840
the first thing you're going to tell
your guys? Great effort? You know,

1266
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:14.680
again with second week in or I
think we we were there tough for

1267
01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:17.800
more physical. We we ran to
the ball and that's just who we have

1268
01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:23.039
to be that way, and we
executed, you know, the little things

1269
01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:24.840
that we knew we had to do
to win the game. And it'll be

1270
01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:28.720
a bunch of different things this week, but as long as the effort and

1271
01:20:29.720 --> 01:20:31.920
you know, the executions there will
be fine. That's the one thing.

1272
01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:35.640
You know, when there was a
little bit of a struggle, I never

1273
01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:41.479
ever saw any lack of effort.
It was never anything like that. And

1274
01:20:41.720 --> 01:20:45.479
just like if just being a tick
off in the National Football League can be

1275
01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:49.119
the difference in a one yard game
in a thirty five yard game, you

1276
01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:51.479
know, I mean, it's just
life in the NFL. Yeah, And

1277
01:20:51.560 --> 01:20:54.800
then you know, we just got
to clean those up and yesterday was a

1278
01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:58.119
good example of it, no doubt, No doubt. Congrats, appreciate you

1279
01:20:58.239 --> 01:21:00.039
making time with this. Good luck
this week. He's a pleasure. See

1280
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:03.319
you next week. I love the
way you always get your players to play

1281
01:21:03.399 --> 01:21:06.680
hard. Coach. The players love
you, man. That's why should That's

1282
01:21:06.760 --> 01:21:15.720
why another defensive genius should be on
head coaching jobs. Laugh again, there

1283
01:21:15.760 --> 01:21:17.720
he goes. Thanks guys, he's
low Amo. It's Bengals out of the

1284
01:21:17.720 --> 01:21:24.479
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1285
01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.319
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01:21:27.359 --> 01:21:31.640
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1292
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We heard from lou Anarumo to kick
off the hour. Always love catching up

1293
01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:00.239
with him. Here's a little bit
more from Zach Taylor at the podium talking

1294
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:03.319
about what happened towards the end of
the half, Jake Browning's day and the

1295
01:22:03.399 --> 01:22:06.560
defensive performance in the red zone.
Here is the Bengals coach. That's the

1296
01:22:06.600 --> 01:22:10.600
way it goes sometimes going in a
half. Either have the momentum you don't.

1297
01:22:10.640 --> 01:22:13.520
We didn't really have it at that
moment. Did a great job rallying

1298
01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:15.000
together halftime knowing that we got to
set the tone with the ball to come

1299
01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:17.760
out. Offense, did a great
job scoring coming out. Defense, did

1300
01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:20.479
a great job getting to stop and
we took control of the game in a

1301
01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:24.439
moment where we had to do that. And really proud of the guys in

1302
01:22:24.439 --> 01:22:28.720
all three phases for being able to
do that. With James any I know

1303
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:31.920
it was cramp and performance today.
Yeah, I thought Jake did a great

1304
01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:36.680
job handling, handling all the different
situations and cramp so he came in and

1305
01:22:36.960 --> 01:22:44.680
I think got an ivy. So
that's that's what it was that Henderson had.

1306
01:22:44.840 --> 01:22:47.600
He had the way he bounced back
from the league that, Yeah,

1307
01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:50.199
he's a force out there, you
know, and you got to pay attention

1308
01:22:50.239 --> 01:22:54.159
to him at all times. And
does a great job. Again, we

1309
01:22:54.359 --> 01:22:57.119
talked about this a lot last year. Even when he's not hitting the quarterback

1310
01:22:57.159 --> 01:23:00.479
and making plays, they feel him
and they have to devote resource to him,

1311
01:23:00.439 --> 01:23:02.600
and it allows for other guys to
step up as well when they're doing

1312
01:23:02.640 --> 01:23:05.159
that kind of stuff. So I
thought trying to did a great job today.

1313
01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:08.800
I thought our defense as a whole. I mean, obviously when they

1314
01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:12.359
rush for less than fifty yards and
got three sacks, and that that's a

1315
01:23:12.479 --> 01:23:15.600
defensive effort overall, doing a great
job on the coverage and the rush and

1316
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:26.880
tackling that collaboration. I don't know
that it's really been that different, you

1317
01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:29.439
know. It's it's these are all
things that we've done of the course of

1318
01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:33.079
the season, and in each defense
we play really is a big driving force

1319
01:23:33.159 --> 01:23:36.720
of of how the game's played sometimes. So I think everybody's just turned a

1320
01:23:36.760 --> 01:23:40.680
great job. We We haven't called
a single player that we didn't rep you

1321
01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:44.520
know, all training camp and all
fall and I think these guys believe in

1322
01:23:44.600 --> 01:23:46.159
what we're doing and they've done a
great job. Each guy stepping on.

1323
01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:50.199
We've really called upon every resource we
have on offense. Everybody has stepped up.

1324
01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:54.399
I can think of so many guys
that made catches today and big plays,

1325
01:23:54.439 --> 01:23:56.960
and so we're not afraid to use
everybody that's on the roster and active

1326
01:23:57.039 --> 01:24:00.680
and got faith that everybody can step
up and do their job. Zach Jill

1327
01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:02.720
makes it and told us this week
that after the loss of the Steelers there

1328
01:24:02.840 --> 01:24:08.600
was kind of an energy to feel, hey, we're still thing's feel that

1329
01:24:08.840 --> 01:24:12.600
energy in that message kind for the
last game. I felt it throughout the

1330
01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:15.439
whole process, you know, and
even in the midst of the losses.

1331
01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:19.199
I think that's what's that's what keeps
me always optimistic, is just being around

1332
01:24:19.199 --> 01:24:23.520
the guys and in the way that
they're continue to approach their job every single

1333
01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:25.439
day, and that's what we want. That's why we built the team.

1334
01:24:25.479 --> 01:24:29.359
That way that that Duke and everybody
has is is for these types of moments.

1335
01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:31.199
Every team in the league faces adversity
over the course of the season,

1336
01:24:31.239 --> 01:24:34.840
and it's which teams can handle it
and respond at the times and not creater.

1337
01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:39.479
And these are the guys that continue
to respond, and we have to

1338
01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:42.279
prove it again next week. It's
not good enough just to do what we've

1339
01:24:42.279 --> 01:24:45.279
done these last two weeks. It's
not good enough, and so we just

1340
01:24:45.319 --> 01:24:46.359
got to continue to stack it.
We've got a history of doing that.

1341
01:24:46.800 --> 01:24:49.279
Obviously, this is a new team, this is the twenty twenty three team,

1342
01:24:49.319 --> 01:24:53.000
and we've got to go prove ourselves
again these next couple of weeks that

1343
01:24:54.239 --> 01:24:59.960
that that we can continue to play
good football here in December. Awesome,

1344
01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:02.479
awesome, felt it, felt it
throughout. I think those guys up front

1345
01:25:02.520 --> 01:25:05.520
did a great job. There's great
camaraderie in that room. They do a

1346
01:25:05.560 --> 01:25:09.920
great job playing together. They take
a lot of pride in keeping the quarterback

1347
01:25:09.960 --> 01:25:13.239
healthy, getting the run game going, doing a great job getting the premter

1348
01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:16.720
on screens, and and so again
those guys have have risen to the challenge

1349
01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:25.399
and are really helping us right now. Yeah, that's something you feel when

1350
01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:28.680
you get in there. If we
don't, we don't just assume there's gonna

1351
01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:30.479
be a field goal occurring or a
touchdown like you you know that even the

1352
01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:34.239
fourth down they scored on in my
mind, there's no we're getting the ball

1353
01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:38.720
back on the two. What are
we gonna call here? And so that's

1354
01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:42.159
just the mentality they've instilled because of
what they've done. That's what the fact

1355
01:25:42.279 --> 01:25:45.079
stated, and so there's a belief
and I think because they've done it so

1356
01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:46.359
many times, the guys believe that
they're not going to give up points and

1357
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:49.119
they find a way to get the
ball back and and it flows over to

1358
01:25:49.279 --> 01:25:53.439
a guy like me who's not not
sitting out there on defense doing anything.

1359
01:25:53.439 --> 01:25:55.960
I just feel like we're gonna get
the ball back or get stop and and

1360
01:25:56.199 --> 01:25:59.920
uh, that's how it goes sometimes. Zach Taylor after the game yesterday and

1361
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:02.640
Dave, he referenced the the adversity
that they came through, and I think

1362
01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:08.680
there is You can say a lot
of things about Zach and part of the

1363
01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:14.079
personal connection aspect or the messaging aspect
and the tone, Uh, there's a

1364
01:26:14.319 --> 01:26:16.079
calm now. Zach is a lose
his mind kind of guy. And as

1365
01:26:16.119 --> 01:26:20.399
he said, it plays to your
team stays calm, if you stay calm,

1366
01:26:20.600 --> 01:26:25.119
and if if if you give that
appearance of we'll get through this,

1367
01:26:25.399 --> 01:26:28.960
we'll deal with the adversity and we'll
move on. Your team clearly feeds off

1368
01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:32.840
of that. I agree. I
do think a team takes on the personality

1369
01:26:32.920 --> 01:26:38.199
of the coach. It's it's almost
like when you're parenting. I mean that

1370
01:26:38.399 --> 01:26:43.199
that that's what happens your kids take
on, Uh, how you handle things,

1371
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:46.479
how you handle adversity, how you
handle success, how you handle whatever

1372
01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:51.279
the case may be. And uh
and and basically he's he's like a parent,

1373
01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:55.039
you know. I mean, he's
he's the he's the kingpin, he's

1374
01:26:55.079 --> 01:27:00.159
the guy everything funnels from him down
through his assistant coaches to the players,

1375
01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:08.159
that everybody else in the organization.
So I think he is a very very

1376
01:27:08.359 --> 01:27:14.840
even keel steady Eddie. Not gonna
lose his mind, not gonna either way

1377
01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:18.279
lose his mind in the face of
adversity or lose his mind in a big

1378
01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:26.119
successful job done by the Cincinnati Bengals. He understands that there's more work to

1379
01:27:26.159 --> 01:27:29.840
be done until the super Bowl is
won. There's more work to be done.

1380
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:33.680
If you're fortunate enough to win that
last game of the season. There's

1381
01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:38.760
only gonna be one team that's in
that situation, so thirty one others.

1382
01:27:38.800 --> 01:27:42.600
There's always more work to be done. And what he's done, what Brian

1383
01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:47.039
Callahan has done, what that offensive
side has done. Some teams they lose

1384
01:27:47.119 --> 01:27:50.920
their big gun and they might look
around, like, what now we lost

1385
01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:55.439
QB one. We got no answer. What they've done. And it's not

1386
01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:59.359
throw out everything and start from scratch. But the tweaking and the massaging,

1387
01:27:59.439 --> 01:28:03.199
the adapt take along the way and
adding and subtracting and listening to jakeson put

1388
01:28:03.239 --> 01:28:06.159
along the way, as Brian said, has been nothing short of mat I

1389
01:28:06.199 --> 01:28:09.640
think the rest of the league has
to look now and say, wait a

1390
01:28:09.680 --> 01:28:12.600
minute. The Bengals of that Joe
Burrow have produced thirty four points in back

1391
01:28:12.640 --> 01:28:15.600
to back weeks. How did that
happen? Exactly? And I think it's

1392
01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:20.760
it's almost all right. Zach Taylor
take a bow, Ryan Callahan, take

1393
01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:25.720
a bow. Dan Pitcher, yep, take a bow. What's the common

1394
01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:29.439
denominator all three of your quarterbacks?
We talked about the synergy in that room

1395
01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:34.960
of the quarterbacks. Joe Burrow talked
about Man, it's just it's such a

1396
01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:42.640
high level of intellectual football conversation that
goes on when all those guys are in

1397
01:28:42.680 --> 01:28:46.000
a meeting room together with Joe Burrow
and Jake Browning. Jake Browning who said

1398
01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:49.760
the same thing, He said,
I feel fortunate, I feel blessed have

1399
01:28:50.039 --> 01:28:55.520
my head coach, my offensive coordinator, and my position coach all have played

1400
01:28:55.520 --> 01:29:00.279
the position that I'm aspiring to play
here at the highest level I can National

1401
01:29:00.319 --> 01:29:02.760
Football League. I mean, there's
a synergistic effect that goes on in that

1402
01:29:02.840 --> 01:29:06.760
foot in that in those meeting rooms, and it's a man one plus one

1403
01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:11.199
equals three on a very regular basis, and it's turned out to be the

1404
01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:15.039
case here the last two games,
as your reference lance over thirty points scored.

1405
01:29:15.439 --> 01:29:17.840
You know, Pittsburgh obviously was a
was not what they wanted with ten

1406
01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:23.560
points on the board. But honestly
that that rain was was a factor,

1407
01:29:24.520 --> 01:29:29.840
not an excuse, just just a
factor. I think that the league is

1408
01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:33.840
going to take notice of. Okay, Jake Browning came in there and did

1409
01:29:33.960 --> 01:29:39.039
what and how did he do that? And not only is Jake Browning going

1410
01:29:39.079 --> 01:29:42.359
to get a lot of kudos in
credit, but those three guys, the

1411
01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:45.159
head coach, the coordinator, and
the position coach are all going to get

1412
01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:48.319
their share of it as well.
Still had a little bit more on Jake

1413
01:29:48.399 --> 01:29:51.920
Browning. We'll preview the vikings,
you'll hear the awarding of game balls as

1414
01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:56.119
we head down the stretch. Bengals
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1415
01:29:56.159 --> 01:30:00.079
Network, and seven hundred w l
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01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:04.920
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01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:11.239
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grocer today. A little bit more
from QB one Jake Browning talking after the

1421
01:30:24.520 --> 01:30:27.800
game about whether or not this is
a playoff team, about the sweet that

1422
01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:30.159
his family got, the used complements
of Joe Burrow, the thumb, and

1423
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:39.000
how loose this team is playing.
More from Jake Browning teams saying, damn

1424
01:30:39.079 --> 01:30:43.159
right, what do you think this
is playoff team? Damn right? Your

1425
01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:49.239
family, but they're very proud of
you. What did need you to have

1426
01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:55.520
that one? Yeah in the Bible. First of all, it's it is

1427
01:30:55.600 --> 01:30:59.960
not my box. I did not
buy that in the preseason kar expense.

1428
01:31:00.800 --> 01:31:05.319
Uh so Joe Burrow was nice enough
to, uh give give them some tickets

1429
01:31:05.319 --> 01:31:08.960
so they didn't have to sit up
in the cold. Uh. You know,

1430
01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:12.199
we're all from California and so I'm
used to it. They're not,

1431
01:31:12.520 --> 01:31:15.399
so I'm sure they were much more
excited in the box, but uh,

1432
01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:17.359
it's it's awesome to have a mirror. It was Uh, I think it

1433
01:31:17.479 --> 01:31:23.640
was two friends from back home,
my girlfriend and then my brother and uh

1434
01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:28.319
my sister and my sister's boyfriend.
So it's it's always nice to have people

1435
01:31:28.359 --> 01:31:31.039
there, and it's mostly nice after
you when to you know, go grab

1436
01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:39.319
dinner or something someone after us.
I think he was just laughing. Uh,

1437
01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:43.039
I was just kind of it's like, yeah, I was kind of

1438
01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:46.920
embarrassing. Jake Jonah said that you
guys as a team have been playing looser

1439
01:31:47.239 --> 01:31:53.680
since you took over at the starting
quarterback. Are you cobnucent of how much

1440
01:31:54.399 --> 01:31:59.119
how you handle situations ways throughout the
locker room in terms of you get tense

1441
01:31:59.199 --> 01:32:02.560
or tired things aren't going well,
Like how much that can affect the team

1442
01:32:02.640 --> 01:32:06.319
like sense and thinking consciously? Yeah, I think, Uh, I think

1443
01:32:08.279 --> 01:32:12.960
my relationship with like guys on the
team kind of goes back to uh being

1444
01:32:13.000 --> 01:32:15.960
here for a while and and not
really being in Like the people are gonna

1445
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.079
approach Joe differently than they approached me
when I'm the backup, so that you

1446
01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:21.560
know, I kind of get to
know all these guys really well on a

1447
01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:28.399
pretty personal, uh personal level.
And so I think now that I'm playing

1448
01:32:28.479 --> 01:32:31.119
and and all, that we still
have the same relationship and I still feel

1449
01:32:31.119 --> 01:32:38.159
like the exact same person, and
uh and I think also just genuinely to

1450
01:32:38.199 --> 01:32:42.239
just being myself, and you know, I I struggled to get outside of

1451
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:46.039
that j you said this week where
you're working about the roll and ghost obviously

1452
01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:50.399
all all the emotions, but you
showed some emotion walking up to deal with

1453
01:32:50.439 --> 01:32:54.960
the crowd cheer in for you first
one win. Was that a little extra

1454
01:32:55.039 --> 01:32:57.479
meaningful for you, just that moment
to kind of still get in there for

1455
01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:00.960
a minute. Yeah, yeah,
I think it was. I mean yes,

1456
01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:04.640
and I mean I maybe not,
I don't know. It was it

1457
01:33:04.760 --> 01:33:09.039
was cool to have, uh,
to get a win at home. You

1458
01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:11.960
know, last time we had a
home game, we put up ten points,

1459
01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:14.560
and so it was nice to put
up some points and and get a

1460
01:33:14.600 --> 01:33:17.720
win. And uh, yeah,
I think enjoying those moments as part of

1461
01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:20.680
it. Over the last few weeks, you really focused on you understanding like

1462
01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:25.520
what's immediately and trying or you know
that's why a game or whatever. Well,

1463
01:33:25.760 --> 01:33:29.399
winning on short week two times around
two very ways new field moments of

1464
01:33:29.479 --> 01:33:32.479
building on this team offering. Uh
yeah, I mean this was our first

1465
01:33:32.520 --> 01:33:35.439
short week. The last one was
kind of a long week, and Thursday

1466
01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:39.479
night game was a long week,
and we now we got the two short

1467
01:33:39.520 --> 01:33:43.800
weeks back to back, and honestly, it's kind of nice cause, uh,

1468
01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:45.680
you just kind of stay in the
moment. You're so busy trying to

1469
01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:53.000
prepare on a short week that you
don't really have any free The worst thing

1470
01:33:53.039 --> 01:33:56.359
that happens is, I think with
a lot of stuff is idle mind in

1471
01:33:56.479 --> 01:34:00.520
free time, and so I don't
really have either one of the on short

1472
01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:04.039
weeks, and so it's probably an
advantage. Jake Zach refers to you as

1473
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:09.520
his veteran quarterback. Do you feel
like that they're treating you as a veteran

1474
01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:14.359
quarterback in terms of freedom and play
calling and things of that nature. Yeah,

1475
01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:18.239
yeah, I think I don't think
there's much put into the game plan

1476
01:34:18.359 --> 01:34:21.359
that's like, hey, let's just
protect this guy. I think it's we're

1477
01:34:21.399 --> 01:34:25.000
calling what gives us the best chance
to win, and I think that's how

1478
01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:30.000
it should be. And that's kind
of been my communication throughout the whole Thing's

1479
01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:33.159
you know, there's certain things I
like more maybe than some things that Joe

1480
01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:38.840
doesn't I do or or whatever,
and that's just personal preference. I think

1481
01:34:38.880 --> 01:34:43.800
that gets taken into account when we're
going to putting together the game plan.

1482
01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:47.960
But I think you see a lot
of pack up quarterbacks go in and and

1483
01:34:48.039 --> 01:34:50.359
maybe there's not a lot of confidence
in them, so you kind of try

1484
01:34:50.399 --> 01:34:54.199
to protect him with let's get the
game, let's hit the ball out quick,

1485
01:34:54.359 --> 01:34:57.640
Let's call a lot of screens.
And we called a lot of screens

1486
01:34:57.680 --> 01:35:00.359
and they all worked. But I
think that was mostly because we thought they

1487
01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:04.640
were gonna work. So yeah,
I feel like I'm gonna keep getting better,

1488
01:35:08.399 --> 01:35:12.640
but I feel comfortable Jake Browning after
the game and watching the TV version

1489
01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:15.720
this morning, his family did get
a lot of FaceTime yesterday from CBS.

1490
01:35:15.880 --> 01:35:19.880
They they were invited into the suite
by by Joe Burrow and and and their

1491
01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:24.359
family and had a great time.
And and what I mean, think of

1492
01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:29.199
how far the Jake Browning story has
come to, you know, being activated

1493
01:35:29.359 --> 01:35:31.960
last year to get a paid game
check a couple of times because they appreciated

1494
01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:35.840
me so much, to now into
the starting role and now your your family's

1495
01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:40.439
in the suite with Joe Burrow's family. You're being spotlighted on CBS. It's

1496
01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:44.079
just a lot can change on a
dime, can't It certainly can, And

1497
01:35:44.199 --> 01:35:47.640
they they they went to that suite
during the Pittsburgh game a few times,

1498
01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:51.640
but it seemed like there are a
few more Brownie family members in the suite

1499
01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:58.640
this time, and understandably so.
Everybody's excited. Everybody's all hopped up.

1500
01:35:58.680 --> 01:36:02.640
There's no question about it. It's
going to be a very merry Christmas for

1501
01:36:02.720 --> 01:36:09.199
the Browning family and Jake Browning in
particular. The cash register. It's just

1502
01:36:09.560 --> 01:36:13.760
chi ching, cha ching. His
representation is saying, that's two in a

1503
01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:15.520
row. How many in a row
can we accomplish here? I mean,

1504
01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:19.520
it's it's a it's it's a lot
of fun to watch. And uh,

1505
01:36:20.039 --> 01:36:25.039
the evening capped with the Jeff Ruby
dining experience after the game with him and

1506
01:36:25.119 --> 01:36:28.479
his family. I saw that on
Twitter last night. So the full day

1507
01:36:28.520 --> 01:36:30.479
from a game, winning a game
at home, you get your family in

1508
01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:33.800
the suite, you have Jeff Ruby
steaks after the game. Life is good.

1509
01:36:34.039 --> 01:36:38.039
You know. I thought about this
and as I'm watching the forty nine

1510
01:36:38.119 --> 01:36:40.600
Ers game, and my wife is
a big forty nine Ers fan, unfortunately,

1511
01:36:40.640 --> 01:36:42.840
and she's a Brock Purty fan.
And I'm thinking, you know,

1512
01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:45.640
Brock party. From where he was
viewed coming out of college, Jake Browning

1513
01:36:45.720 --> 01:36:50.359
is undrafted. What did what did
everybody I don't want to say miss what

1514
01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:55.319
did they underestimate about Jake Browning Dave
coming out of college that led him to

1515
01:36:55.319 --> 01:36:57.680
be undrafted? In here? Now
that we see a little bit more of

1516
01:36:57.800 --> 01:37:00.760
him, what did everybody else not
not properly gauge or estimate about it?

1517
01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:03.359
Yeah, I guess. I mean
you look at him and he's he's not

1518
01:37:03.520 --> 01:37:08.880
your typical six foot four inch two
hundred and thirty five pounds, you know,

1519
01:37:11.279 --> 01:37:14.039
quarterback that everybody wants to have,
you know, I mean, he

1520
01:37:14.319 --> 01:37:18.000
doesn't. He doesn't fit that physical
mold necessarily. I do think that they

1521
01:37:18.119 --> 01:37:24.319
questioned his arm strength. I know
he worked on that extensively, and and

1522
01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:29.199
that's that's increased dramatically. He's always
been accurate though, And in my mind,

1523
01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:33.039
I go back to the legendary Paul
Brown. I remember when he would

1524
01:37:33.079 --> 01:37:36.800
talk about quarterbacks and you say,
his main attribute he throws it straight,

1525
01:37:38.560 --> 01:37:42.319
and and that's that's a good thing. You know. It's like accuracy is

1526
01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:46.920
what it's all about, you know, And uh so, I think there's

1527
01:37:46.920 --> 01:37:51.159
a lot of similarities in in in
those two. One's a seventh round pick,

1528
01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:55.640
one's a free agent, one's one
pick away from being a free agent,

1529
01:37:55.800 --> 01:38:00.680
just like Jake Brown? What what
what happened to them? Though they

1530
01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:03.880
ended up in the right situation.
If he doesn't end up in San Francisco,

1531
01:38:04.079 --> 01:38:08.800
I don't think he's necessarily in the
league. If Jake doesn't work his

1532
01:38:08.880 --> 01:38:12.359
way to Cincinnati, maybe he is, maybe he isn't in the league.

1533
01:38:12.399 --> 01:38:15.920
Who knows the same thing for any
quarterback. I mean, Kenny Anderson will

1534
01:38:15.920 --> 01:38:20.279
tell you. My biggest thing coming
out of tiny Augustana as a third round

1535
01:38:20.319 --> 01:38:25.920
draft pick was I was coached by
Bill Walsh every day and he wrote the

1536
01:38:25.960 --> 01:38:28.720
book The Art of Quarterback, and
then he made me a He broke me

1537
01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:31.800
down and started all over again with
all my mechanics, from my footwork all

1538
01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:38.039
the way to throwing the football.
And he says that was what it's all

1539
01:38:38.079 --> 01:38:42.720
about. So there's some you know, luck involved with that. You have

1540
01:38:42.840 --> 01:38:45.000
to be fortunate and you have the
right place at the right time. Up

1541
01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:49.119
next, how about those Minnesota Vikings. A preview of Saturday's opponent. As

1542
01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:53.800
we continue with Bengals line of the
first Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven

1543
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:59.840
hundred WLW, we are back on
Bengals line on the first Star Logistics Bengals

1544
01:39:00.039 --> 01:39:04.840
Radio Network and seven hundred WLW Lance
pacallester Dave Lapham at a card Yes Lance.

1545
01:39:04.920 --> 01:39:10.600
This portion of a Bengals line is
presented by Bedford Sportsport, the official

1546
01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:15.199
sports betting partner of the Cincinnati Bengals. Next up, those Minnesota Vikings on

1547
01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:18.399
Saturday. Vikings are seven and six. They went through a five game winning

1548
01:39:18.479 --> 01:39:23.640
stretch and now have dropped two of
three. But they did win yesterday three

1549
01:39:24.279 --> 01:39:29.039
nothing, the lowest scoring indoor game
in NFL history, a game that featured

1550
01:39:29.279 --> 01:39:34.600
seventeen punts. Seventeen punts. But
the Vikings manage the field goal and get

1551
01:39:34.680 --> 01:39:39.399
the win. And day they've got. They benched Josh Dobbs during during the

1552
01:39:39.479 --> 01:39:43.960
game, and there's some uncertainty there. And Jefferson, the gifted wide receiver,

1553
01:39:44.079 --> 01:39:46.960
took a big time hit and was
hospitalized and released and traveled, so

1554
01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:49.800
there's a little bit of uncertainty and
a couple of big spots for that team

1555
01:39:49.960 --> 01:39:56.000
there is you know, they've still
got some some talent. Daniel Hunter is

1556
01:39:56.079 --> 01:40:00.359
a third and a half sack guy. You know, he's amongst a the

1557
01:40:00.439 --> 01:40:03.640
best in the National Football League.
TJ. Howkinson at the tight end position

1558
01:40:03.760 --> 01:40:10.000
as eighty five catches for over eight
hundred yards and five touchdowns. Addison another

1559
01:40:10.199 --> 01:40:14.560
young receiver. He's got seven touchdown
receptions. Jefferson, as you said,

1560
01:40:14.640 --> 01:40:17.720
is is Uh. It's not the
hamstring that he had a problem with and

1561
01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:21.920
missed so many games. I think
he got hit in the chest. Yeah,

1562
01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:25.960
he had blowed up pretty good.
They wanted to make sure there weren't

1563
01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:29.920
any complications, so they they took
him to the hospital. I think that

1564
01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:33.479
if he doesn't have any serious bruising
or fractures or anything like that, it's

1565
01:40:33.520 --> 01:40:38.960
probably a good chance he'll he'll try
to play. We shall see. Harrison

1566
01:40:39.039 --> 01:40:42.680
Smith is a safety that's been around
for twelve years out of Notre Dame.

1567
01:40:42.760 --> 01:40:46.159
I mean, he's a guy in
the back end that is recognizable to people

1568
01:40:46.279 --> 01:40:53.079
that it's it's a it's an interesting, interesting football team. They've got five

1569
01:40:53.199 --> 01:40:55.680
wins on the road. There can't
be a whole lot of teams that have

1570
01:40:55.840 --> 01:40:58.920
five wins on the road, but
they've got they've been road warriors this year.

1571
01:40:59.039 --> 01:41:01.159
Yeah. Interestingly enough, Indianapolis was
five to one on the road.

1572
01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:05.000
Yeah, and the Bengals spectum.
So you know, hopefully that same thing

1573
01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:11.199
takes place here that Minnesota comes in
with five wins on the road as well

1574
01:41:11.239 --> 01:41:15.720
in the Bengals in Pei Court Stadium, curtail that as well. So and

1575
01:41:16.039 --> 01:41:19.920
then some of the road wins.
Now they lost in Philadelphia, but the

1576
01:41:20.199 --> 01:41:25.760
but the road win at Carolina,
at Chicago, at at Denver's a good

1577
01:41:25.760 --> 01:41:30.640
one twenty one twenty that's a good
road win. And they and then they

1578
01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:34.239
get a victory three to nothing in
Vegas. They also have speaking of and

1579
01:41:34.319 --> 01:41:39.039
it kind of goes into our theme
talking about Brock Perdy and Jake Browning,

1580
01:41:39.439 --> 01:41:43.560
Ivan Pace Junior, their linebacker,
undrafted out of Colraine High School, out

1581
01:41:43.600 --> 01:41:47.439
of Miami, went to UC,
underestimated every step along the way, too

1582
01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:51.800
small, doesn't fit the specks of
the computer numbers. He had a an

1583
01:41:51.840 --> 01:41:56.600
interception yesterday, his first career interception
yesterday, a big one, and he

1584
01:41:56.640 --> 01:42:00.119
had thirteen tackles and he just keeps
getting the job done. And it's he

1585
01:42:00.239 --> 01:42:04.119
has answered every doubt or along the
way in his NFL career and keeps producing.

1586
01:42:04.359 --> 01:42:06.760
Yeah, I mean guys like that, you got to tip your cap

1587
01:42:06.880 --> 01:42:10.079
to him. You know, it's
like you look at him and say,

1588
01:42:10.079 --> 01:42:14.399
okay, five, ten, okay, not but two hundred and thirty pounds.

1589
01:42:14.439 --> 01:42:16.119
I mean, you know, it's
I guess it was a size thing,

1590
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:20.520
sive speed ratio thing. But you
know what, like they always say,

1591
01:42:21.279 --> 01:42:25.640
the biggest thing that you can't measure
is the heart. How big is

1592
01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:30.680
the heart? And some guys just
are refused to quit no matter what the

1593
01:42:30.760 --> 01:42:33.520
circumstance. Nick Vigil is still playing. How about that, Oh well,

1594
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:39.119
eight year out of Utah State at
six two two thirty another one that you

1595
01:42:39.199 --> 01:42:43.720
know, his size was questioned,
and here he is eight years later in

1596
01:42:43.840 --> 01:42:47.399
the National Football League, still still
playing with the Minnesota Vikings. But you

1597
01:42:47.520 --> 01:42:51.439
talk about slow starters, This team
in thirteen games, only has twenty six

1598
01:42:51.600 --> 01:42:55.720
points in the first quarter. This
year, he scored twenty six in the

1599
01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:59.439
first quarter, one oh six in
the second quarter. Yeah, that's the

1600
01:42:59.560 --> 01:43:02.439
only to have outscored the opposition.
They've been outscored by ten in the first

1601
01:43:02.560 --> 01:43:05.960
quarter, by a point in the
third quarter, seventy seven to seventy six,

1602
01:43:06.279 --> 01:43:10.680
by two points in the fourth quarter, sixty to fifty eight, but

1603
01:43:10.880 --> 01:43:15.680
one oh six to sixty nine.
They've outscored the opponent by thirty seven points

1604
01:43:15.720 --> 01:43:19.840
in the second quarter. One hundred
and six points in one quarter. That

1605
01:43:20.039 --> 01:43:24.880
is crazy, but twenty six in
the first quarter. You talk about not

1606
01:43:25.920 --> 01:43:30.000
being able to get out of bed
and get woken up in time to get

1607
01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:32.560
out going out in the field,
man, it's crazy. All right,

1608
01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:35.319
we'll head down the stretch. Final
segment, we'll hear the awarding of game

1609
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balls. It's Bengals Line on the
First Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven

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hundred WLW. And down the stretch
we come final segment of the night,

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putting the cap on three hours of
Bengals conversation. We do it every week.

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Bengals Line of the First Star Logistics
Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.

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Lance Pacallister and Dave Leppo and Lance
pay Corps is proud to be the

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official hr of the Cincinnati Bengal Stave. Before we hear the awarding of game

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balls, I'd like to hear you
talk about in the trenches and the fantastic

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content you continue to put out.
Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

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Lance last week had had a very
very interesting conversation with Peter King that

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one. That one was was a
lot of fun. And Peter, of

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course is the is the kind of
information guy in the National Football League.

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There's there's no question about it.
But yeah, try to do some national

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perspective locally. Of course, we
talked to the coordinators on the podcast,

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just like we do here on the
radio show, and former players, current

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players, former coaches, current coaches. But it's all Cincinnati Bengal driven,

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There's no question about that. In
the trenches love it. Fantastic stuff and

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we love the awarding of game balls
after a after a victory. Let's go

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inside the locker room after the game. Here's how it sounded. Hey,

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all we can do is take this
thing one game the time. That's exactly

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what you've done. At half time
we walked in here and then all the

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momentums. Guy, you played a
heck of the first half. Those last

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few minutes, they took the momentum
for us one two points swing. What

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you do in the second half,
you walked out, You dominated him in

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every single face. Okay, hundred
fifty rushing on seven points, giving up

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nine to second half offensively all line
zero sat over one hundred yards rushing second

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We got another sixth day week.
You just went through that rhythm last week.

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It's gonna be the same this week. Gay. Couple of game balls,

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first career, first career NFL touchdowns
Chase were force fubble recover huge past

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career regular season interceptions, two sacks, two four got cans a forced interception

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today. That's all. It's like
once one day here we Gosay Hoyles game

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balls for a thirty four to fourteen
win over the Colts. Next up the

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Vikings on Saturday. We're back here
on Monday night, hopefully talking about an

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eight and six Bengals team. It's
gonna be a fun ride down the stretch.

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Thanks for hanging out with us tonight
for three hours. Enjoy your week.

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We'll talk with you one week from
tonight. Bengals Line on the first

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Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network in seven
hundred WLW