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we'd got three hours to talk all things about a Bengals victory over the forty
nine ers. We'll spend some time in those bills and cover a whole lot
of ground between now nine o'clock. Lance back Allister, Dave Appham, welcome
in. Thanks for hanging out with us tonight on Bengals Line on the first
Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW and David. Last time we
were here two weeks ago, before the bye, we talked about they had
had a performance where everything had clicked at the same time and if it happened,
they would be a very dangerous football team. And we saw yesterday from
Joe Burrow throwing it to running it, to the run game, getting going
to the defense, answering the bill, special teams making contributions. We saw
a statement yesterday that the Bengals, this is who they are and what they
can be. That's a pretty darn good football team, it is. And
they played complimentary football. They'd played a complete football game against a team that
you had lost to in a row on the road and came back home,
crowd noise, all that they dealt with exceptionally well. The forty nine ers
had won eleven in a row at home, party had never lost at home.
He was eight to no and the Bengals spanked him. The Bengals took
a lead, never gave the lead up, and had a lead for a
high percentage of that football game. Teams often take their cues. The good
teams take their cues from a quarterback with a cue from Joe yesterday from Zach
said on the post game, I've stopped using the word unbelievable. T Higgins
said after the game, he's he's an alien. That the confidence that this
group must gather from seeing that type of performance from Joe that Joe everybody thought
would would be Joe, the healthy version of Joe. It's got to mean
a lot to this football team, top to bottom. You know what.
I can only imagine how frustrated he was, because, you know, he
talked about in the locker room with me how hard he worked in the offseason
to try to improve his athleticism, you know, his strength and everything else
that goes along with being a premier athlete, and that's an underrated part of
this football game. And he works so hard and he looked really good and
in the OTAs and mini camps and everything. I'm taking man, he's gonna
light it up with the gas. Light it up in the football gods did
not so fast, my friend, and they put a delay on it.
But man, to go twenty eight thirty two, who mean, eighty seven
and a half percent against that football team. And I felt like the best
matchup for the Bengals, the most favorable matchup was the receiving corps, meaning
everybody, the receivers, tight ends, running backs against their back end and
if they get time, if Joe had time to take advantage of it,
he was gonna have a big day in the offensive line rose up and gave
him time. Let's get reaction from the co cheers. Dave with Zach Taylor.
You're a souse sayer. You said first time was gonna be huge.
You guys dominated on first down. Yeah, the players understood the asignment,
you know, and they responded exactly how we knew that they would. And
so again, just just really excited for the effort and the discipline that those
guys all displayed on both sides of the ball, all three phases and earned
a hard faught win today. Joe Burrow seventeen in a row. He had
twenty eight to thirty two. I mean, just crazy numbers, three touchdowns,
no interceptions. Describe what kind of game the guy had, it can't
you know, And you don't even know that that's happening. You know,
it's just you feel the rhythm of the offense. He just does it so
often you don't even really appreciate it in the moment when you hear those stats
as a as a former quarterback coach and man, you appreciate that, but
we also know that what goes into it is outstanding protection to where he can
trust what he needs to do, and the receivers doing what they need to
do to win. And that's what they did today. And now when defenses
say, all right, well we're going to give the middle of the football
field up, Joe's running like he's running six times averaging big numbers, you
know, scrambling and getting first downs that way? How important and big is
that critical? I mean just for a quarterback to understand what's the best thing
to beat that coverage because they got you out numbered. They've got good,
good guys in the secondary and a linebacker. They got great rushers, so
sometimes you don't have a great advantage in the pass game and some past situations
on the coverage they play. And for Joe to use his feet, I
know that that's the way to win. Man, that's big time. Red
zone five times you down there, four touchdowns. He did have to turnover,
you know that obviously isn't something that you're pleased about. But the execution.
Four touchdowns and five possessions in the red zone pretty good. Coach,
Yeah, that's obviously we want to go five for five. But we knew
coming on the road those four point players were going to be critical, and
our guys found way to make those plays and run game pass game. It
was good to see. Crowd noise was another thing who talked about. And
it seems like you guys handled that exceptionally well. They did. You know,
I think we had a good plan. Joe did a good job being
a fishing gid get into the line and making the protection calls he needed to
make. He had to make a couple lout of balls based on two play
calls we had, and so I thought that those guys responded the right way.
Defense holds this forty nine er offense to seventeen points at home. I
mean they had won eleven in a row pretty head and lost here. He'd
won eight times without a defeat. How big a statement is it that you
never trailed your defense held into seventeen you put up thirty one. That's huge.
You know. Our defense has really played that way all season long,
you know, and we haven't always given the opportunity to play with the lead,
but that's always what they've they've had in their back pocket. And so
again, anytime you can give that defense a lead, they're gonna be pretty
dangerous. Joe Mixon complimented things exceptionally well in the running game. He rushed
for eighty three yards averaged, you know, on sixteen carries, had an
average five yards perorri he caught balls for over thirty yards, had over one
hundred yards Scrimm's day. How big a complimence? He Yeah, a guy
comes back home like that to the northern California area in front of his newborn
daughter is pretty cool. And I thought he played with a ton of energy
today. Then he is really proud of him. So, coach, you
swept the NFC West, I mean four Oh, now it's time to start
stacking some wins against the AFC. And Buffalo comes to town on Sunday night.
What you first thought there and around around the division? The only other
team that won was Baltimore, So it's a Baltimore's got the best record,
but everybody else's four and three and just battle royal as it always is in
the division. Yeah, this is we're always in the same spot. We
always are, you know, and we're used to it, and we control
our own destiny. We get to play all these teams again, and so
we just taken one game at a time, starting Buffalo on Sunday night at
Pek Bengals coach, Zach Taylor and David listening to him. We'll play later
as we do. In the final segment of the show, the game ball
presentations and Zach game balls for everybody. But I made a note that I
counted he mentioned fifteen different Bengals players, which tells you about the overall contributions
of this roster yesterday. Yes, Joe was the main show, but there
were contributions up and down the roster on both sides of the football, no
question, you know. And Zach was great. I saw so and so,
you know, and I saw so and so do this. And I
also saw special teams like this big kickoff return. I saw that, and
at game ball after game ball is being presented. It was great. And
to consider on a day where what the offense had I think sixty two snaps,
defense played around sixty toss in twenty five or thirty special teams. To
have one penalty when it was all said and done kind of is the kapper
for an all around excellent performance yesterday. In that penalty ghost, I mean,
it's a shame really that they called that penalty, because this team is
worthy of having a penalty free game. The way they played and the officials
just created something to more of that. We've got a lot to deal with
between now. At nine o'clock, Brian Callahan will join us to lead off
our second hour tonight lou Anarumo and Hour number three. This first hour,
we get busy with Joe Burrow up next to you here from Joe Mixon on
the ground game, Orlando Brown and so much more. Thanks for being here,
settle in. We got you for a plenty of Bengals conversation. A
thirty one seventeen win over the Niners. Well, look ahead that Sunday night
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eight of thirty two, two hundred and eighty three yards passing, three touchdowns,
a quarterback rating of one thirty four point eight. Here's Dave with QB
one twenty eight of thirty two, two hundred and eighty five yards, three
touchdowns, no interceptions, rush six times forty three more yards seven point two
of carry. Nice day at the office, man, Sorry what you say?
Nice stay at the office. Nice day at the old office. Yeah,
that's a big win for us. We executed it well. Still have
some points on on the field, had some mental mistakes. So just like
every week, win or loss, we're gonna we're gonna get better and improve
our mistakes. Obviously physically, I mean, you looked. You looked as
good as I can remember you looking. Do you feel one hundred percent at
this point? Yeah? I do. I do. It's still still a
maintenance thing, still gotta you know, stay up on my rehab, in
my treatment. But you know, it's feeling really good. Fell back to
pretty much back to normal. So it's nice to get back to moving again,
making plays with my feet. How about Joe Mixon supporting you know,
the effort, the air effort, was sixteen carries eighty seven yards five point
four per You also hit him three times for another thirty yards or whatever it
was. I mean he had over one hundred yards scrimmage. Yo. Yeah,
he was unbelievable today. He you know, everyone saw the plays that
he made, the runs that he made. But he was great in protection
as well. Picked up some some big time blitzes for us to push the
ball down the field. So he was awesome. When you were running the
football, I was like, Oh, you split a couple of defenders a
couple of times. You weren't gonna slide. You were going for every inch
you could get. I mean, you were just in his zone today,
weren't you. Yeah, you know that's really what I worked on for the
most part of the offseason was my athleticism and in my speed. I just
haven't been able to show it really, So it was it was nice to
see that see that work pay off. Did they give you pretty much everything
that you expected? I mean you look to be in such a rhythm.
It looked like you were not fooled by anything. You knew exactly what you
were looking at every single snap. Yeah, they you know, we had
a great week of practice, had a great week of prep, so we
were we were confident coming in. We were able to execute final question.
Now you're above five hundred, here come the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night.
Got to get that W in the AFC. Right. Yeah, it's like
it's just one game. You know we can we won three straight, but
every week is its own thing. So we'll enjoy this one tonight, have
a nice plane ride back, enjoy it tomorrow, and then get back to
work. Congratulations on a big day, Joe, Thanks to be one,
Joe Burrow on a monthster day. And and I want to go back to
the first drive and the scramble, the avoidance, the duck, the spin,
the shove, get away from me, and the ability to still keep
his eyes down the field and throw with accuracy to T Higgins, that was
like a moment like the music should have sounded from like Rocky, like he's
here and he is ready to go. You're in trouble today because Joe's feeling
it. I still can't going back and watching it, the number of times
he ducked and rolled and spun and shoved. It's it's something to behold.
It is. It's remarkable, and I'm sure the forty nine ers at that
point were thinking he's back. You know, we don't have a stationary quarterback,
you know, a statue in the shotgun. We have a guy that
is athletic. You can create and extend by time. You can hurt us
with his feet, he can hurt us with his arm. We're in for
a long day. The thirty calls his own number on thirty nine and goes
for ten. Later he runs for twenty. He sneaks for the first out
in the red zone. I mean those components. I mean, Joe the
thrower among the best, Joe with that component. And we'll talk with Brian
Callahan a little bit later on brings him into the conversation that sometimes maybe he's
not included on in terms of athleticism, but he shirtless certainly was a full
go with it yesterday. Yeah, And there were a couple of runs where
I'm like, Okay, don't get too excited, man, you know,
let's make sure that the football gods don't say I'm gonna get you hurt again.
He is such a competitor, though, and man, I just love
to watch his body language when he's on the football field and just in that
uber focused, laser focused mindset that he has. It's like, I mean,
there could be anything and everything going on around him, he is just
focused on what that defense is doing, and he is. He's a remarkable
football player. His his mentality and mindset in IQ for the game of football
is extraordinary. And you mentioned first down and just jotting some down, not
all of them, but first down gains of thirty three, twenty two,
twenty, seventeen, fifteen, twelve, eleven, eleven, nine, nine,
eight, eight eight. I mean that those numbers are are eye popping
against anybody, but against the forty nine ers, Holy cow. And you
know a lot of it. Like turnovers, get a turnover, boom,
big play. I'm gonna compound the problem. I'm going for the jugular turnover
boom, seventeen yard touchdown pass to Jamar Chase. It's like, take take
take advantage right away. Let's just while there may be no cheez just trying
to figure out what happened, why are we back out here? Go ahead
and capitalize and make a big play. I just thought that the whole approach
to the football game, the whole mindset of the attack mode, the aggressiveness
of the play calling, of the execution was phenomenal. Nineteen consecutive completions.
You were you played with Kenny in the game he went for twenty consecutive.
Was the final game of the eighty two season, actually in January of eighty
three at that point, that would have been at the Astrodome. Kenny went
for twenty seven of thirty one three hundred and twenty three yards two touchdowns.
Dan Ross was his favorite target that day. But you've witnessed twenty in a
row in nineteen in a row, and there's so many similarities to those two
guys. I mean, Kenny was an underrated athlete as well. Kenny Anderson
could run. He had legit four to six maybe high four to fives speed.
He was a very, very accomplished basketball player, played high school basketball
with Danissel. I mean, Kenny Anderson had a scholarship augustana Or for basketball
and he was getting a partial ride for that. So, I mean a
lot of similarities between these guys and the way they approached the game of football.
And the accuracy is the thing. I mean, it's like and they
just put it in the best spot you can put it. Every single time.
It is remarkable and Dave yesterday, the ability to seal a game.
They have the Niners score to pull it, make it a one score game,
twenty four to seventeen, get the ball back, and you're thinking,
all right, a little bit dicey here, it'd be nice to finish out
the game with a long drive, take some time off and get a scorer.
And they go ten plays, they go seventy eight yards and Joe Mixon
gets out to the left side for the score and sealed it. They didn't
have to worry about asking the defense to do anything more. They did themselves
at that point. Yeah, and Joe did a great job on that play.
I mean he creased them and hurt them big time going north and south.
I mean, the offensive line was taking care of business with the two
defensive tackles and Warner linebacker. They were really doing a good job. And
so now the linebacker is safety. Everybody starts to cheat, and they were
guessing nobody had contained in the outside and Joe took it inside initially and then
bounced it and nobody was there for their defensive responsibility. As we talk about
all the time, do your job, don't try to harvest somebody else's crop.
Don't try to. Okay, we've had problems there. I'm gonna try
to go help solve that problem, because then you open the door for your
own problem. And that's exactly what happened on that run seven plays yesterday for
at least twenty yards by this Bengals offense. Hang tight, there's more to
get to. Joe Mixon on the run game. Orlando Brown will join us
as well with the reaction. In this hour. We're up and running on
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night talking Bengals and a thirty one to seventeen win over the forty nine ers.
So much to get to. Brian Callahan will join us coming up in
our second hour. Lou and Roumo our guest. In our third hour,
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make the right call, and that is presented by the law officers of Blake
Maslin as always, and we talked about it, the touchdown drive to make
it a two score game thirty one seventeen. Instead of a play, Let's
talk about the drive. Ten plays, seventy eight yards, five minutes and
eighteen seconds off the clock, Bengals score. There's less than three minutes of
play in the football game on that drive, never got to third down.
Ten plays seventy eight yards all on first and second down. You had one,
two, three, four, five first down plays, five second down
plays, and all the second down plays were second and short. I mean
it was extraordinary, extraordinary, salted the game away. Yeah, that first
half thirty five plays for two hundred and forty two yards, twenty first downs
on thirty five snaps. I mean, I couldn't tell you last time I
saw a number like that. Yeah, I mean they were prolific the way
they were just getting after it for a first down. I'm trying to remember
a game where they were as good on first down against the quality defense.
I mean, this forty nine or defense is not a bunch of scrubs.
Joe Mixon carried it sixteen times eighty seven yards, an average of five point
four. He had a long of twenty. He had the touchdown run that
sealed it. Here's Dan Horde with the Bengals running back Joe. That was
one heck of a homecoming, a tremendous victory for the Bengals and a great
game for you. You describe the equotion, George charencing right now. Man.
To be honest, it was great to be at home. I felt
like we came in here and took care of minis and do we had to
do now, you know, headed on, so it says I'm not here
to do eighty seven rushing yards for you twenty three receiving yards today, so
we're goan to one hundred yards of offense. He had a rushing touchdown.
You looked like every time you got the ball you heart determined to punish the
forty nine ers. Yeah, for sure, it definitely was gonna go today.
You know, I just felt great man coach kept down enough to run
and trying to do whatever we can to make him play. So it was
definitely a great feeling to be able to deliver from my teammates. Long time
coming, but now just got to keep on building. Both Joe's were amazing
Joe Burrow completed nearly ninety percent of his passes, three touchdowns, no picks.
Looks like the CAP's pretty good. Oh yeah, most definitely. Joe
kavic Hear did this thing, and I felt like, you know, everybody
on the offense, defense, even a special teams had a hell of a
part in this game. We played complimentary football and y'all, I felt like
it was a long time coming. So it was a great win, big
win for us. And now he's got to get ready to keep all start
and keep goding. This was the offense that you guys have been hoping to
produce all year long. You know you're capable of it. You put it
together for four quarters today. Yeah, most definitely. That was a great
thing to see to be able to come out here and play four quarters in
football. There's still less of things out there, still got dass only enough,
but that was a great deal. We'll see a great thing to come
out with the golf man and that's all that mattered. The other team of
locker room right now is special. Just tell us what this went needs everybody
in this road. Oh, it means a lot, John saying time.
We just got to keep building man, We've got a lot of We've got
a big group of guys in here that you know, all we do is
you know a night shine, right, you know, we shine and right
it. So we's got to keep on going, keep on, uh,
you know, playing with a with our heads that can't be met and everything
else. Gonna take care of ourself as long as we execute. Man.
So it's a great thing to see the great coming. Now he's going to
get ready for it Sunday night. Put go the cars. Got a Golden
Gates tat on your chie are you definitely and we're in for sure? Definitely
really really home and always he all right game to be able to come back
and get a dub out here form too. Congrats had an awesome homecoming in
a great performance. Big day for Joe Mixon eighty seven yards. He also
contributes three catches on three targets for twenty three yards along of twelve. But
it was just good to see him be established early in the game and run
hard and run between the tackles. And I think we were we were waiting,
hoping, some wondering, you know, Joe get worn down as Joe,
you know a lot of tread on the tires. Joe showed vintage Joe
on runs yesterday. He did, I mean he he. He played a
complete football game as well. You know, you talk about phases of the
of the of the team, offense, defense, special teams. You talk
about, you know, a complete game, complimentary football within that phase,
pass rush, helping coverage, coverage helping pass rush. Joe Mixon ran it,
caught it, and Joe Burrow made mention of is blitz pickup. Joe
Mixon has come a long way in terms of blitz pick up and protecting quarterback.
Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow has noticed, Dave. They ran it from
under center. I think four times on the opening drive they had gone under
center only seven snaps on the season going in. Ye, They're they're never
gonna go full under center there. They're always going to be a predominantly shotgun
team. But what is going under center allow them to do? What does
it show a defense? How does how does it help in this offense?
Yeah, you can have more of a diverse running game, you know,
going under center, and and then you can marry it to play action a
lot easier as well, And that's gonna be a big factor. I think
as the as the season unfold. Last year they ran two hundred snaps under
center. So you know, you talk about it's about ten a game,
little more than ten a game, and I think they're gonna work their way
back to that potentially. You know, they were tracking to have like twenty
one snaps at our center for the season. But that's the other part of
it. You know, when when quarterbacks understand you have to reverse pivot to
all the things, put a lot of stress on that calf. You know,
Joe being healthy, you could you could implement a little bit more of
that hang tight more to get to We'll go up front talk offensive line and
the protection and the run game contributions. We'll talk with Orlando Brown Junior,
that and more as we continue on a victory Monday. It's Bengals Line on
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Rally is going to buy wings and rings on the air from three to six
pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. Let's go up front where it always starts with
the O line, and here from the man, here's Dave with ur Orlando
Brown junior Orlando Brown. I'm gonna talk about what you guys were doing up
front. I mean your quarterback twenty eight to thirty two. I mean ridiculous
numbers. Uh three touchdown passes, no interceptions, two hundred and eighty five
yards. He rushed six times for forty three more. When Joe is doing
that, when he's like, I'm gonna hurt you with my feet as well
as my throwing on, how dangerous are you guys? So dangerous? Man?
We got a really good football team. We got the playmakers, we
got the coach of staff, we got the scheme. When everything clicks,
man, and we play hard, we strain, we're determined, we got
attitude. The sky's the limit for what we can be. And you know,
I think today was just a glimpse. Everything wasn't perfect, you know.
I mean that's why there was a few times he had to scramble.
But that's both you know what I mean, and at the end of the
day we'll get which is scary to think about. It is, man,
there's a lot of meat on the bone, you figure, right. I
mean, it's impressive. Five times in the red zone, four touchdowns.
He had the one fumble that was that was unfortunate. You guys were cranking
in the red zone. What was the secret? Execution? Keeping it simple?
Man, Focus and execution, And I mean, that's that's who we
are, man, That's who we are, and that's what we got to
continue to be. Joe Mixon, Joe Bixon complimented the passing attack. He
had sixteen carries eighty seven yards five point four per caught three passes for another
thirty. He had over one hundred di scrimming yards. How big was Joe
Mixon today? I mean so big, man. It's so important. You
know, as hard as he runs, as hard as he plays, man,
he makes everyone's job easier up front. And you know, he did
a great job making some great reads, man, making some great runs.
I mean, I can't stress enough, man, how important every piece is
to this offense. And you know when our skilled players played that well,
we played great up front. I mean everything goes hand to him. Man.
You know, Zach got us prepared during the week, and you know
it's it's everyone gets credit for this. You've been in the league, bit,
you've had a lot of great personal success in team's success. What does
it mean to come on the road and play a team like the forty nine
ers quit one and eleven in a row at home. Perty had never lost
at home? He was eight no at home and you guys never trailing the
game and you end up winning it by fourteen. How big is that statement?
So big, man, But you know that's who we are and that's
who we got to continue to be. I just I got a lot of
confidence in his unit, a lot of confidence in his group. Man.
We go to work every single day when in ten and you know, Man,
to come out here against this football team, the San Francisco forty nine
Ers are not a joke. They will be in the playoffs, they will
probably be in the NFC Championship and possibly in the Super Bowl. But that's
that's who we are, though, you know what I mean. When we
got that mindset, they got to play us. Man, there's no telling
what can happen. You know, you look at the score and the stat
sheet today, you see what we able to do. As an alumni offensive
lineman that lost the Super Bowl game to the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Thank you, my man. I appreciate you. No appreciate you. Orlando
Brown junior yesterday. Is it safe to say, of now what seven games,
was that the best overall performance by the offensive line this year? I
think so. I think it was, you know, in both phases,
particularly run blocking, I think it was the best. Uh. They had
a very diverse, wide range, variety run game. The executed it well.
But I thought the staple or the first building block was just coming off
the ball and those defensive tackles and capturing Warner and then just you know,
going right at him anchor those guys because Warner gets off blocks and he can
really run. And I thought that the way they handled the interior and Joe
Mixon went north and south kind of set a nice tempo. Yeah. That
that that feeling. Dave is a former offensive offensive lineman. When you can
capture it and control it and get Joe running behind it. It's gotta be
something pretty powerful for a no line, no question, you know. And
uh, you know you're back in the huddle and you're looking at the running
back. He's looking at you and winking, you know, nod in the
head and you got it like, yeah, we're gonna be good today.
Everything's good. I mean, there's nothing better. Has Orlando Brown Junior been
everything you thought he would be coming in here? Yes? And I think
the thing that is not surprising, but as pleasing as anything, is his
personality. The type of guy he is. Everybody gravitates toward Orlando Brown.
He's just a natural born leader and you can't put a price tag on that.
We'll take a time out and come back. We've got the defense to
get into. We've heard from Zach, We've heard from Joe and Joe Mixon,
or Orlando Brown. How about we spend our final segment of the A
were talking a little bit about the defense, and that'll lead us into our
second hour with Brian Callahan is the headliner, and third hour with lou Anarumo.
We've got a lot to sort through. Thirty one seventeen, The final
is the Bengals move to four and three on the season. More as we
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some time on special teams because they held up there into the bargain yesterday.
Whether there was a forty one yard return by Travon Williams or Evan McPherson nailing
a fifty six yarder, what were the the the wins were swirling early?
Was at the case throughout much of the game. Yeah, they died down
in the first half. It was a lot more of a factor than it
was in the second half. But you know, he missed the fifty yarder
and then he blasted the fifty six yard You know, they both teams had
pretty much equal possessions. The Bengals had ten, forty nine Ers had eleven.
Then there was an eight yard average drive start advantage for the Bengals.
Now part of that, obviously with the interception they started at the forty nine
ers seventeen yard line. That changes the whole dynamic of field position. But
plus eighty hitting yards and special teams held up there under the bargain so much
so that right now going into this next opponent, the Buffalo Bills third in
the NFL are the Bengals onun returns sixth in the NFL, kickoff returns fourth
in the NFL. Covering kickoffs. Darren Simmons almost has three of this four
special teams units the top five. McPherson now has four of the five logus
field goals in franchise history. He's gone fifty six, fifty seven, fifty
eight, and fifty nine. The other kicker in that group of top five
would be Randy Bullock, who had a fifty seven yarder, but money back
with four of five, and that the one he missed. That was the
sequence where Joe was hit and took the sack on third and seven and moved
it back to a fifty yarder and made it more difficult if I remember correctly,
an eight yard sack. Yeah, changed changed the dynamic, you know,
dramatically. We're talking forty two yard chip shot McPherson as opposed to a
fifty yard But McPherson will tell you I should have made that fifty yarder,
you know, no, no question about it. But I tell you it's
it's impressive when all three phases are operating like like this football team did on
the road. I'm telling you it's the flight is draining. It is a
long flight. I can't imagine what that flight home would have been like last
night. Oh and won that football game, man, that would have been
brutal. You know, it's a good when your punter does not punt until
six sixteen of the third quarter. That's the first time Brad Robbins punted.
He had one. I thought Yoshi was so close. It hit and it
was just a hard kick. It was tough for Yoshi to down it,
but he had a chance of the three and it just made because it was
a once it hit, it rocketed right at him with the bounce and the
wind. Trent Irwin, I tried to judge the wind as it was swirling.
Let the one bounce and it bounced about an extra thirteen yards to the
Bengals disadvantage. But it was part of what was going on win wise at
that point. And that's what Darren Simmons will tell you. He can.
He has it down to the inch. Whenever you let a punt hit the
ground, the average distance is and it probably is probably you know, around
eleven or twelve yards, you know, give her take, So that is
definitely a huge factor. Yeah. I forgot to mention this after your conversation
with Orlando Brown Junior. But the forty nine ers played it up yesterday with
bringing back the eighty one forty nine ers team, the eighty eight forty nine
ers team. Joe Montana was there, Jerry Rice was there, they were
all there, and I loved your comment to Orlando bro Junior. Thank you
for being the forty nine ers. All right, that's good. Yeah,
as a former offensive line of lumb thank you, you know, and he
big smile and laughed about it. But yeah, Joe Montana, Joe Burrow,
big hug before the game, and very similar in their style of play.
Joe Montana was sergeant like with his accuracy, Joe Burrow sergeant like and
Joe Montana underrated athlete in terms of hurting you with his feet. A lot
of similarities there as well. Hang tight, We've got a whole lot more
to talk about. Lou and Arumo will join us to kick off the third
hour. We'll hear a little bit more from Zach, a little bit more
from Joe, plus preview that Buffalo Bill's game, and then you're gonna want
to hear the game balls. We go inside the locker room for the present
tem and it's pretty good stuff, really good stuff from Zach, and then
Joe brings everybody together for the Hooday chant. You'll hear that. To wrap
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breaking it all down and went over the forty nine ers yesterday. We'll look
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Yes, Lance and Bengals fans make sure to catch me and Dan Hord every
Wednesday this season for Bengals Game Plan presented by Bud Light on the air from
six to eight pm on the ESPN fifteen thirty. We sat here two weeks
ago and you mentioned the frustration of not having a game where all elements clicked
at the same time and said, when it happens, you're one of the
best teams in the NFL. We saw that on full display yesterday. Absolutely
we did. It was It was a really well executed game by all of
those guys on offense. I thought the gentleman up front played as well as
you can play. That's a that's a really really good defense. And I
know they there's a lot of talk out there about them struggling or what have
you, but no, that's as good a defense as you can play in
the NFL. And our guys took it to him for the entire game.
And that was awesome. It was awesome to see we ran the ball well,
we pass protected well. Burrow was lights out, All the receivers got
in the action. It was just a mix and ran hard. I mean
it was one time I think he dropped green Law and that just dropped him.
Yeah, and that's a that's a Pro Bowl caliber. I mean,
that's that. Those guys aren't like some rookie you never heard of. Yeah.
So just really proud of the group. They they answered the bell and
in a really in a really big way, and they did a great job
executing the game plan. And it was really fun to watch him play football.
And the key is, though, is the you know the season's not
over. You know that's not We didn't we didn't win anything yet, So
We're gonna keep stacking him and keep trying to play that way every week,
and if we do, I think we'll be in a pretty good spot.
Dave, I got so excited I didn't even officially welcome you man. You
you go ahead and do the honors and welcome you man. Well. I
love it. We have the architect of the game planned yesterday. It was
so effectively executed offensive coordinator Brian Callahan football, no question about that. I
agree. I think the offensive line probably had their best performance. Greenlaw didn't
know where he was, what day it was when Joe ran. He was
gathering himself there for a little bit. But in that situation, I know
that's like first down was unbelievable. I mean I was tracking it. I
said to our stat guy, I said, first down is a big deal
today. There they're number one in the NFL only allowing four point eight eight
yards per first down. We got to track first down. You guys were
killing them on first down. I think it was like, of your first
hundred and twenty six yards one hundred and seventy five one first down, and
you had four touchdown drives twenty seven plays in those four touchdown drives, one
third down, it was third and ten. You converted it twenty six plays
on first to second down, didn't even get the third down. And that's
the best way to handle third down. That's you know, I'm happy that
we played that way because that's that's how you have to play to beat those
guys. If you're behind the schedule against that team, it's gonna be a
long day them to get to all their pressure packages and flitzes unless they're rushed
te off We knew we couldn't let that happen, and one of the one
of the keys to the game for us was to see it stay on schedule.
And I talk about it all the time with the offense is when we're
in rhythm, we're playing really well, we go first down, second down,
first down, and that's just how we play. And when your offense
is feeling it and you're and you're having success, you're having success on first
down, that means you're getting in the second and two or three and it's
an easy conversion to another set of downs, right, And that is by
far the best way to play football in the NFL. If you can,
if you can do it like that, that's how you want to play right.
But it was. It was a it was a critical part of the
game plan to make sure that we were we were staying on schedule and we
were fishing on first down and second down, so we weren't in any long
third downs. And look, I say it too, is you don't,
like I said, you don't have to be in third down. There's no
rules that say you have to play third down. Let's not go to third
down. Sure, but that was that was really well executed by those guys.
I mean, we were a big part of that was was our running
game. Efficiency in the in the game was was was outstanding. So really
hats off to those guys in the run game up front, mixing running the
ball because it was that was the difference in in the efficiency. Part of
it was when we had the ball off, it went for good games.
Sure. Joe talked after the game yesterday about the disappointment of it. Spent
so much time in the offseason working on his athleticism, acceleration, and then
the calf injury and boy, yesterday, the opening drive, the avoidance of
the sack, the the nine point three seconds where and at the end of
it he still has the accuracy to hit Tea along the sidelines for the catch.
That's what makes him, That's what makes him who he is. And
I don't I think he's an incredible athlete and he does not probably get the
same recognition for his ability outside of the pocket. In the pocket, he's
fantastic. And you know, he's playing the way that he wanted to play
from the get go, and we just he couldn't. And so now he's
finally back to pretty much normal and doing normal Joe things. And and sometimes
we we we get surprised by those things because they're they're so almost you know,
superhuman at times. But yeah, I mean I thought he was sacked
like twice in that play, A fake guy that didn't pull the whistle,
I want to know. I mean it was disappeared. Yeah, I mean
it was an unbelieve It's there's no words to describe it. I mean,
you can't. That's just that's just a quarterback making an incredible play, doing
everything he can to help a team win. And that's Joe, man,
that's everything he's about. And that was that was a We're gonna be seeing
highlights of that all week, I'm sure, uh, and deservedly so.
It was a It was an outstanding play and really a critical play. You
know, if the first third downs, third and ten is first third down
of the game, you know, you go three and out there, you're
not feeling probably quite as good. And those are the plays that we missed
early in the year that that. You know, Joe I think ran for
maybe four or five first downs yesterday, and I mean, you want your
third down offense to be better. The quarterbacks got to do part of it
too, you know, with his legs, and that part was was really
cool to see you. It was just it's it's how you have to play
football, how you have to play quarterback in the NFL, and Joe does
it as good as anybody. Yeah, Joe had six carries for forty three
yards, averaging over seven per in that twenty yard run where instead of going
down, he like kuy Of, splits a couple of defenders and gonna get
every inch. I'm like, oh, great play man. Yeah, there's
probably a few like I love his. I love the tenacity of it.
Yeah, you don't have to do it right right right. We know,
we know you're tough, yeah, I guy, you know, we know
you can handle it. But Yeah, he was. He was unbelievable in
terms of what when when the defense, you know, it does get pressure
and then he does that to him, that's that's backbreaking. Yeah, it
kill. It's kid's killer. And they you know, two of the big
runs, the third down conversion on third and nine, he checked to a
quarterback draw while were empty, yep, and there was nobody in the box,
and he just said, Dodd do this myself. Thanks. And that's
great because that means there's a bunch of people out there trying to cover,
and so throwing the ball would have been pretty difficult there. And then the
other one was they they played one of their only snaps of two man of
the game, and the old adage for quarterbacks is that they're gonna play two
man. No one's covering you. You're you're the you're the one. You're
the guy that has nobody and no eyes are on you anywhere. And so
he recognizes immediately moves in the pocket, and I don't even know that he
looked at the defense. I think he just saw the two men and said
I got this. It took off runt and so it punishes defenses when they
try to cover all of our skill guys, and if Joe can take advantage
of his legs the way he did, uh, we become really really difficult
to defend. As a defensive coordinator, you hesitate this, say, okay,
I'm gonna call man coverages and have my my guys take their eyes away
from him. You know, once they turned their backs on him. I
mean, Joel punish it many, just like all the all the guys that
move around with with Mahomes and Lamar and Josh Allen. You know, that's
that's part of what makes those guys challenging. And Joe doesn't necessarily get seen
in the same vein as those players, but he is. He is capable
of making you pay with his legs pretty dearly. So it's good to see
him back to normal. Yeah, they answer, cut it to twenty four
to seventeen, one score game and then you guys go ten plays seventy eight
yards to seal it. How satisfying is it to see it unfolded finish it
off that way? Incredibly satisfying it was. You know, we were,
especially the end of that drive, we were trying to run the clock,
make them use their timeouts, and we're okay with kicking a field goal there
and going up ten with with them with no timeouts in less than two minutes
ago. And then I just remember like that, you know we're doing the
right thing. That's how you should handle the situation. But it's like,
we can still run the ball in the end zone, you know where we
can still score, right, And it was just it was great to see
those guys finish it off and Nixon bounced the duo out to the perimeter,
and it was just a really great feeling to answer a score, put the
game out of each and and play that way in a in a in a
huge moment, you know, that's you thought, the momentum is starting to
swing. And then we get the ball back and then it's like, oh
man, like the three and out here is a disaster. And and our
guys continued the theme of the day with playing really good football and and and
capping that drive emphatically with that touchdown. A complete clean game offense was not
penalized. The only penalty is a bogus called DJ reader what the hell was
that? And they called that. I'm like a form tackle, You're gonna
penalize the guy? And then bunch as lou about that. Oh my god.
Yeah, we're gonna have to check that out. But it would have
been a turnover free game, in a penalty free game except for the one
footb Yeah. Yeah, I think that's always been one of our strengths.
Think the last two or three years, I think we've been one of the
least penalized offenses in football. That's a testament to guys playing a good technique.
Guys understand the rules, knowing they can be physical, but knowing when
you know what the line is. And so that's huge. It's huge to
play a discipline football and huge to not get penalties. And that's something we've
prided ourselves on here for a while, is that we play pretty clean football
on offense. And you know, it's good to see not having any flags
throw. Sometimes you can't control that, you know, but but our guys
do a great job. Like to Dodo that through the flag on DJ you
can't control that Dodo bird anyway. I mean, it's it's it really went
into the game tied for fewest penalties called on you and fewest penalty yards.
I think you're gonna be number one by a good margin after this performance.
Yeah, I think it's always critical is you try to avoid negative plays,
and we try to avoid negative plays in the run game, try to avoid
sacks, you try to avoid penalties, anything where you're moving backwards. You're
trying to avoid those, and I think that's a that's a huge part of
successful offenses, not hurting yourself. And and thankfully we do we do a
good We do a good job of that. We do a good job of
it. Sunday, We're gonna need to continue to do a good job because
that's a that's an important part of the game and under underrated part of the
game. You're obviously not going to go under center all the time, but
what does it unlock when you can go under center with Joe? It just
gives a variety, you know, it's we've been really good in the shotgun
in the run game. It's been good for us O. R PO game
has been productive. But at the end of the day, you can get
pigeonholed in the shotgun and you don't have to necessarily major in being under centered,
sure, but it does it does open up the run schemes you don't
necessarily it's it's harder to know if it's a strong week. When you're in
a gun, it's it's a little easier to know where the ball is likely
to go. It's it's we're still a one back run team, so as
defenses say, it's kind of one back, one gap and it's easier to
defend. Now we make it harder with the RPOs, But there's an element
of being under center that that opens up more. And we've always felt like,
even coming out of last year, that we need to do a better
job of mixing those things in as Joe's got more comfortablaying NFL football, and
that's part of the game. And I thought it was really good. We
had we've had. We had perimeter plays, we had traps, we had
gap schemes, we had zone plays, we play action, we screened.
I mean, it's we jet sweeped. It was it's what you want.
It felt like we It felt like they were all on their heels the whole
day. And that's that's a part of it, you know, is being
able to have enough variety where you can be under center and be effective as
long as you're mixing up your tendencies and run and pass and all those things,
and it does allow for a little bit less of the defensive line that
just tee off right. There's a lot of factors that help it, and
it's something that will continue to do. And again, we'll still probably be
a shotgun team, but there's going to be plenty of times we'll be under
center. And I think it was ineffective reintroduction back into the offense yesterday,
all the things you're talking about, the jet sweep screens, all that.
I'm like, you know what, given the forty nine ers a dose of
the forty nine ers, man, I mean doing things to their defense that
their offense does to other defenses every week. And I love it. It's
like, man, smack them right in the face with their own stuff.
Boy, that was great. Third down start off, three for three,
then five in a row. Don't don't convert. Did they do anything differently
or was it just lack of execution or what? What do you think?
No, we had two or three lack of execution things. We had one
the one sack, we should have probably scored. Just there's some things that
didn't go right in that play. But yeah, I mean they they they
changed up a little bit in the second half. They they we were trying
to for I'll get into the schematic weeds a little bit, but we were
trying to use our backs out wide and empty to get some indicators on man
and zone and and then when we bring they give us anyky, we bring
them back into the backfield and then we get to whatever our man player or
our own play, whatever it was. But a couple of times they would
they checked when we would check, and so we they'd give us an indicator
and change the coverage when the back came in. So they did a good
job of cat and mousing that with us. And you know, I'll give
them some credit to they're they're good on defense. They've been good on third
down. So but we yeah, we had some execution things and then they
did some good things themselves that that made it a little bit challenging. So
you know, ended up okay on third down, but certainly could have been
better. Congratulations, Go get another cup of coffee. Always enjoy you hanging
out with us. You got it, get it, freshen it up and
there you go. You got a cold too, I do. I'm fighting
cold. Yesterday. It was brilliant, man, I was I was fighting
a big time to get that game in. Yeah, giving me both.
I'll tell you I've been sick for three weeks. I think it feels like
I'll just slide a little bit further away from both of you. I don't
think I've contained to anything. What one thing. One thing yesterday though,
was we confirmed Number nine is pretty good. He's one of the best.
He's to me, I think he's the best in football. And I hope,
I hope you get hope. You playing this Vega's chance to keep proving
it to everybody. Yeah, he's he's pretty special, is amazing. He's
Brian Callahan. Take a time out and continue. It's Bengals Line of the
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kick off the air, let's do a little defense. Here's Dan Horde with
Sam Hubbard. Sam, this is a heavyweight fight between two of the best
teams in the NFL. That's a great win for the BED. I think
the emotion in the locker room indicates that. Explain what this one means everybody's
stepping. That's the second highest scoring leam in the NFL. You held them
seventeen points. What was the key takeaways? That's always still tha time we
need to clean up. But Keways get up there now, Rat and Nelson
two huge erception forty nine ers have great linebackers, but the Bengals linebacker to
play a great game today. National recognition. They continue to show. So
Joe Burrow said his week he thought he was close till a hundred percent.
I think we can say one hundred percent. They know what we saw.
What do you think I wouldn't have been playing against him? What he did
today? The line off them, That's that's the job. We all know.
And you know he might go about a doubt. And you know,
you guys have gone from owing two to four and three and a time for
second place. You feel like you mad ty for second place in the division,
Pittsburgh, And do you feel like this team is back to where it
needs to be? Out late? Ways Ago got a big game, Sam
Hubbard after the game still ahead, how about Jamar Chase and Tyler Boyd.
And we'll touch on special teams as we make our way through a Monday evening.
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And Jamar Chase targeted twelve times yesterday ten catches, one hundred yards,
a long of twenty and a touchdown. Here's the Bengals wide receiver with Dan
Horde. All right, Jamar, we knew you were a great wide receiver.
I didn't know you were a great gymnast him till today. And tell
us about the flying backflip celebration. Yeah, I didn't want to have some
fun doing backflow. I did git Nassis when I was younger, So run
it with me bember and Pats before though probably no, it was a little
hppy, but I still got it. Yes, you do ten catches,
one hundred yards on touchdown and a great performance by the offense. How would
you sum up today? I said, we did go well? Just here
I was standing deepest today and that never got us the way always played great.
They go with out as seigners today, but we executed what we had
Avatarius sud He left a few points on the board. But did you feel
like this was the first time you put four together, four quarters of good
offense together? I want to say, so, yeah, we done that?
Had any efficiency of going for a don second offer a Dallas and I
will want us to do anything. Joe Burrow completed about ninety percent of his
past and he ran for more than forty yards. Can we safely say at
this point that the camp is one hundred percent? Oh y'all need to say
now walking back borough the fact, what were you thinking about walking off the
field this long ass flight home? Happ good point, it's a happy light,
but it's still of all though, yeah we go last time you saw
that kind of energy on the sideline of huh. I can't say it man,
But I definitely not have thought the energy before we got out of here,
Before we got off the plane, you could feel the energy within the
team. So he's I thought, we probably a good day. Feeling a
new season like that, you feel like a new season. Oh still the
same season. I mean we're still four and three. You know, I'm
saying we started to get the way its gowing up. That's all. These
are two of the best teams in the NFL. What does this win mean
me? It's allowed for it. The figures, opposunity out of the way.
We play in a very good offense man defense. But you know we
came out with he was picking me all talk how impos were the fullest couple
of thrives. The way Joe surgically let your guys down the field. Yeah,
that's how it goes. Thought of every possession of saying, every job,
every and every time we get a bomb bers on the game. You
know, that's how the one started off. But you know, going get
out, he'd been sending boy to make him did him rested in them in
the bag out there? So your touchdown came right after Logan's check, and
that was a big momentum swing first his takeaway and then take to get on
the first play. Yes, it's a great has a great way call.
We've been setting up the big bubble all night. He us hello, breath
of every bubble with do today and you know we called that had the perfect
common want to say, you like the most catches, but the Cincinnati Freeway
all contributed in the midway. I think t had about six. Tyler caught
a touchdown pass, Yoc got in the ends up again. All of the
weapons contributed. Yeah, so that's what we need right that. That's how
we make it a great offense look even better. Thankrat's on a great win
and you ten catches one hundred yards for Jamar Chase yesterday and the kapper with
a backflip, a dynamic backflip which the judges had to give a perfect ten
for execu. Oh he's stuck the lamb, I mean absolutely stuck it.
It was crazy. But Jamar obviously you know, ten targets, twelve targets,
ten catches. Seven other receivers were involved, Chase Higgins, Smith,
Boyd Mixon, Irwin, Josie Vosh Sample I mean Joe Burrow was distributing the
ball to as many different people as he could. Ryan Callahan challenged the others
during the week when he called some guys out and said, look, other
people have to take the load off it, Jamar Chase's shoulders. We need
more out of others, and they got it. And I think that's a
great sign on the flip side of it, as great as the forty nine
ers passing game is. They only had five receivers involved. Now they get
injuries, you know, Deebo, Samuel and others, and you know you
gotta understand that, but still they Joe Burrow get eight people involved. Well.
On in his twenty eight completions pretty good. Jamar had a long of
They had four guys with catches of twenty yards or longer. Jamar had a
twenty yarder. Higgins a thirty three boy to twenty two Irwin at twenty one.
The Irwin, who was a thing of beauty and just a classic Trenton
Irwin catch, was just kind of streaking the possession, the avoidance of the
big hit. He knew he was going to take a hit, but he's
just he's like the security blanket. You know, a play that involves him
is going to be a successful play. With nothing going haywire on it.
He just does the job he does and he's got the total confidence of his
quarterback. Joe Burrow loves Trenton Irwin and why wouldn't you. He knows exactly
what he's supposed to do, when he's supposed to do it, how he's
supposed to do it. And how about back to back touchdown passes to the
Yes, if you get him involved. And he's a gifted athlete as well,
so they could they could start stacking some. They could go on a
run, and David I noticed that and looking at the next gen breakdown of
the routes that Jamar ran yesterday, And we talked about this a lot with
Jamar, but I think it's worth repeating the number of different ways they used
him, the different routes he ran, whether it was left sideline, right
sideline. This seem it's just I can't imagine trying to defend him because of
the the multifaceted aspect of where he can line up and what they can do
with it. And you know it starts during the week practice. Obviously he
bites off a lot, but he can chew it all and swallow it.
There's no question. And then on game day I got I used to get
there on the over there with the first buses and and I like to watch
guys go through their their warm up protocols. He works his butt off.
I mean it's it's unbelievable, and it's all with the tennis ball and he's
running all kinds of routes. I'm thinking, man, say something for the
game. Nobody works harder than Jamar Chase. He says, such a high
bar the rest of the receivers, because your stud is like, I'm gonna
work harder than anybody. You know, I'm not taking anything for granted.
I'm gonna be the example. And then the other guy's like, man,
am I doing enough? Look at Jamar? Jamar is killing it. This
guy has got an unbelievable work ethic. We'll go from one wide receiver to
another, from Jamar Chase to Tyler Boyd conversation with the Bengals wide receiver.
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three catches forty yards along of twenty two including a touchdown. Here's Dave
with Tyler Boyd. You're the guy that got it going in the beginning of
the football game. You were blocking, you were catching the football, you
were making plays. Was that? How big was it to get off to
a fast start against these guys? YEAHO, as you know, especially coming
off the bad week. You know, sometimes you might come back still slow,
trying to get your body back right. But we're a good, pure
team and we know what it takes to get wins, and that's what we
go out there and do every week. So you had three catches for forty
yards, you had to rush for another six. So what did it feel
like running football? Though? Number time? What did it feel like running
the football? You had a rush for six yards? Oh, I feel
good. You know, whatever they need me to do, you know,
I'm prepared for itching every situation. And now I'm just that guy as you
can lean on, you know, anytime you need something to happen, I'm
always available. I always make sure that I'll give Joe outlet. How about
Joe twenty eight to thirty two. He completed seventeen in a row at one
stretch of the football game. Guys, unbelievable, isn't he? Yeah,
he's back. Now that's the Joe sayety that that we've been that's that we've
been missing, you know, And now he's ready to go. And I
feel like this, this this is our time to going out run speaking to
run. When he would do that, when he would tuck the football and
run. What kind of an added dimension does that give your offense when he's
out there picking up first downs like that. Uh, it's huge, you
know because when teams we had the top three receivers and teams ain't gonna play
too much man. But when we force him to play man and they don't
watch the quarterback and Joe's this more enough quarterback to know he could just go
run for the yards, you know, and make them uh regret even playing
man, you know, regardless of him allowing us to work and get out
of the route. Uh, they still got a great rush. So he
he understands football and and and what the timing is like in his head to
get the ball off or just tucking and run. Five times in the red
zone four touchdowns, had a turnover on the other one and then you know
that happens. But how about how productive was the offense in the red zone?
What was it like every time you guys get down and you think you're
gonna score. Yeah, it was huge. You know. Once if you
if you score every time in the arizone, you're most likely gonna win a
game, you know. And we proud ourselves on that because of the Seahawk
game. We would just scored twice and then it was all in shambos.
Really didn't have no motion in the whole second half. But this is probably
the best complete game this year for everybody. You know, everybody contributed,
Everybody made plays when their number was called. And I mean we're we're I
think that this is this is that time that we're ready to keep it rolling.
You come on the road to San Francisco. They had won eleven straight
at home, pretty at one, eight in a row, never lost at
home. You guys travel out here, you never trailed in the football game,
you end up winning up play fourteen. What kind of a statement is
that? Yes? Huge, you know is let everybody know that we're back.
You know, I can't keep saying out anymore, you know, because
they're one of the top teams or if not the top team in NFC.
And uh, I mean it's high lart. Now we're the team to be
and we're gonna continue to be that team and it's us who day. Congratulations
on a big effort, man. Appreciate your brother Tyler Boyd with Dave after
the game. Targeted three times, three catches, forty yards and a touchdown,
typical Tyler Boyd day. He's mister consistency. It might not be a
lot of glitz and glamour, but you know what you're gonna get with Tyler
Boyd, no doubt, you know. And the defense steps up in the
first possession three and out after giving up eight yards on first down. It
buckled down. That was a huge three and out. The offense is appreciate
that defense. Ten plays, eighty five yards culminated by Tyler Boyd seven years.
Touchdown a typical piloboid option route. Make it right decision You on the
same page, es quarterback Joe Burrow, thing of beauty. Well, head
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In seven hundred WLW. About to put our second of three hours in the
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Painting games in interactive stations. We've talked repeated about the complete effort turned in
all three facets, and we need to spend some time on special teams because
they held up there into the bargain yesterday. Whether it was a forty one
yard return by Trevion Williams or Evan McPherson nailing a fifty six yarder, what
were the the the wins were swirling early. Was that the case throughout much
of the game. Yeah, they died down in the first half. It
was a lot more of a factor than it was in the in the second
half. But you know, he missed the fifty yarder and then he blasted
the fifty six yard You know, they both teams had pretty much equal possessions.
The Bengals had ten forty nine ers had eleven, and there was an
eight yard average drive started advantage for the Bengals. Now part of that obviously
with the interception they started at the forty nine ers seventeen yard line. That
changes the whole dynamic of field position. But plus eighty hitting yards and special
teams held, they're under the bargain so much so that right now going into
this next opponent, the Buffalo Bills third in the NFL are the Bengals one
returns sixth in the NFL. Kickoff returns fourth in the NFL. Covering kickoffs,
Darren Simmons almost has three of his four special teams units the top five.
McPherson now has four of the five longest field goals in franchise history.
He's gone fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight, and fifty nine.
The other kicker in that group of top five would be Randy Bullock, who
had a fifty seven yarder, but Moneymack with four of five, and that
the one he missed. That was the sequence where Joe was hit and took
the sack on third and seven and moved it back to a fifty yarder and
made it more difficult. If I remember correctly, you can eight yard sack.
Yeah, changed change the dynamic, you know, dramatically. We're talking
forty two yard chip shot McPherson as opposed to a few. But McPherson,
I'll tell you I should have made that fifth yard you know, no,
no question about it. But I tell you it's it's impressive when all three
phases are operating like like this football team did on the road. I'm telling
you it's the flight is draining. It is a long flight and I can't
imagine what that flight home would have been like last night. Oh and won
that football game, man, that would have been brutal. You you know
it's a good day when your punter does not punt until six sixteen of the
third quarter. That's the first time Brad Robbins punted. He had one.
I thought Yoshi was so close it it hit and it was just a hard
kick. It was tough for Yoshi to down it. But he had a
chance of that three and it just made because it was a once it hit,
it rocketed right at him with the bounce and and the wind. Trent
Irwin, I tried to judge the wind as it was swirling. Let the
one bounce and it bounced about an extra thirteen yards to the Bengals disadvantage.
But it was part of what was going on win wise at that point.
And that's what Darren Simmons will tell you. He can. He has it
down to the inch. Whenever you let a punt hit the ground, the
average distance is and it probably is probably you know, around eleven or twelve
yards, you know, give her take. So that is definitely a huge
factor. Yeah. I forgot to mention this after your conversation with Orlando Brown
Junior. But the forty nine ers played it up yesterday with bringing back the
eighty one forty nine ers team the eighty eight forty nine ers team. Joe
Montana was there, Jerry Rice was there, they were all there. And
I loved your comment to Orlando Brown Junior. Thank you for beating them the
forty nine ers out right. That's good. Yeah, as a former offensive
line of lumb thank you, you know, and he big smile, laughed
about it. But at Joe Montana Joe Burrow, big hug before the game,
and very similar in their style of play. Joe Montana was sergeant like
with his accuracy, Joe Burrow sergeant like and Joe Montana underrated athlete in terms
of hurting you with his feet. A lot of similarities there as well,
that's two hours. Hang tight. Lucky for you we've been for us,
We've got a third because we've got a whole lot more to talk about.
Lou Anarumo will join us to kick off the third hour. We'll hear a
little bit more from Zach, a little bit more from Joe, plus preview
that Buffalo Bill's game, and then you're gonna want to hear the game balls.
We go inside the locker room for the presentation and it's pretty good stuff,
really good stuff from Zach. And then Joe brings everybody together for the
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There's very very I guess the simplest way to say it is the man
the Winter Room. The man. Well, I appreciate that laugh, but
I gotta I gotta give a shout out to Kettering health too, because they
need to come and get our guy laughing telling you it was it was worse
yesterday. I was struggling, man, it was. It was a struggle,
but it was so much fun. I'm watching this game and I'm like,
man, this is what what a what a complete complimentary football game that
football team put out there yesterday? And coach DJ Reader, what the hell
was that? How do you call that penalty? It's the only penalty of
the day. Are you kidding me? It would have been a perfect game.
Why did I see him upset on the sideline at the end of Oh
my god, Oh my god, what the hell that was? That was?
That's the way you want to instruct it. That was a picture perfect
form tackle. Unreal. Yeah, it's tough, tough one. What what
did he say anything to you to be given you? He just there?
So how was that? I just wanted to leave that topic alone. What
what kind of explanation can you give on that other than I blew it?
Sorry, I blew it. Let me Let me bail you out of any
potential fine by please help me. Opening drive, Christian goes for eight and
then the next two plays boom boom, Cam Taylor brit the big third down
and and the tone set right on that opening drive where you stoned him after
the first play. Yeah, well I thought I thought DJ. On the
first play, DJ was affected by one of their linemen and it wouldn't have
been eight yards. Uh, and the next play with stuff I'm and then
DJ reader takes the center and walks them into the backfield. They Cam is
blitzing off the edge and hits them there. So uh, yeah, it
was a good start. I think our goal is obviously to not let them
run the ball. They're one of the best offenses in the league, especially
at home. They're one of the most challenging run games to prepare for.
And really, at the end of the day, their normal runs did not
affect us. You know, the quarterback scrambled and they had some yards at
the end of the game that meant nothing. So I was happy. It
seemed like, coach, you have a you have a great handle on and
you kind of gave this information to your players. Okay, this window dressing,
some of it isn't that meaningful. So make sure you're where you're supposed
to be. And if the window dressing you know is a big deal.
You're already there, you already said, because what they're trying to do is
get you moving still. They don't want you be set and ready to take
things on. You guys were set and ready to take things on. Yeah.
It's it's, as I mentioned, very challenging with all the shifts and
motions that they have, but uh, you know, we we are.
I thought our players handle all of it well as you mentioned, and you
know, it's it's. Uh, it's not easy because we can talk about
it how it doesn't affect you, but when you see, you know,
guys moving in front of you before the ball snapped, it's it's challenging,
but guys, it looked great. Six the red zone shutouts. Now six
different times opponents get to the red zone get nothing from you. And the
the Jermaine Pratt interception, it's one thing if it's a throw down the field
he's reacting to it was right in front of his face, and the reaction
and the the hand eye coordination, it was it was something else. It
was a great play by g I don't know how he caught it. But
the play starts with Sam Hubbard, so they're trying to run a shovel,
pass the kittle, and we played a particular specific way and and you know
Sam comes down to force to take away the shovel and it kind of disrupts
the play and then you know, Jermaine takes over from there. So it's
terrific. So they get two good linebackers, no question about it. I
mean they do. Warner's a great player, green Law is a great player.
But your two linebackers, Logan Wilson, Jermaine Pratty. He's got an
interception, and I think they looked at it as you know what, man,
we're pretty good too, and we're gonna show people we're pretty good.
They made more big plays in that football game than that duo did. Well.
I say it all the time. I wouldn't tradear two for for anybody.
And those guys are great players, as you mentioned on the other side.
You know just just how they handle the game, Jermaine and Logan,
how they communicate. I can't there's no price tag you can put on that.
So those guys are football players and we got a lot of them,
which is a good thing, no doubt. We've referred to Trey Hendrickson as
a warrior. Before yesterday, you see him go down, You're thinking,
Okay, get up, and then he's hobbling. But man, he went
back in and a big impact towards all the way to the end. Always
always, Trey is just always affecting, uh, always affecting the quarterback,
always affecting the game in one way or the other. Uh. And thank
god, you know, uh, he was able to bounce back and do
what he did for us towards the end. Hubert had us, ach Henderson
had us. Sack Hill was a factor the h Boys and their coach by
another H Boy hobby. I mean that defensive line. It starts today and
does a great job. You know, all of our assistants do, all
the coaches do, but yeah, hob is on those guys constantly, and
you know they they love him and they want to play for him. And
it's a it's a heck of a deal. Including the final play of the
third and so that in fifteen minutes and change to finish the game. Your
you guys force three turnovers, three in the final quarter and on play at
time, so important, especially the one as you mentioned Dow in the red
area. You know, Logan's interception was phenomenal again, Jermaine's as well,
and Mike Hilton's and the sack fumble on the next play. You know,
all played very well. Yeah, no quo, no question about it.
The other good thing too, when you look at complimentary football, the ultimate
compliment would be, Okay, we're gonna score in one play, and they
did seventeen yard touchdown pass Jubarch turn it over. Okay, not only did
you turn it over, we just scored in your face. I mean that
that stuff demoralizes to you. Oh, there's no doubt, you know,
you know, uh, just the way the energy on the sideline just go
as you go from a huge play on defense to a touchdown and then you're
just riding that wave of momentum all the way through. And then it showed
yesterday for sure. Our you know, Joe was, Burrow was outstad Mixing
was outstanding, all of our guys. You know, the way they the
way our offensive line protected for Joe in game time to throw the ball and
I think he had what seventeen and something, We're eighteen straight completions, They're
right, I'm not mistaken. Nineteen, So just great, great, great
by our whole team. Hilton comes off the edge sticks Mitchell for a loss
of four. What makes him so good doing then? Just as a knack,
you know, it's one of those things where he just has a great
feel of when to time it up, when to go and when we call
those and they turn out to be runs, they're usually a negative play for
the other team, So it's been very productive for us. They have,
you know, extraordinary weapons. You know, guys like Kittle McCaffrey. You
can't really spy them necessarily, but you have to have a lot of eyes
on them. You can have guys assigned to them. Other guys have to
have eyes on them as well, don't they. Yeah, yeah, we
paid it, uh, special attention to McCaffrey early in the game in the
past game, right, you know, you could see it when I think
it was the second third down where we were kind of doubling them, and
then you know, Kittle got opened a couple of times. He made a
quarterback to hell of a throw in the steamball, so we started doubling him
some. But those are two great players they have, and you know,
so we handled them. Uh, you know, Kittle had yards there.
But again at the end that I don't count that. Yep, sixty,
that's what kind of aggravates me. You know, you look at the box
score and it's like they had over sixty. It was the game where he
held him a seventeen points the most important. But it wasn't a fore under
yard performance. I mean no, it just wasn't that kind of day.
It was not. No, let me say it again. Yards don't equal
point points, no doubt about it. I'm with you, coach, That's
why you all three phases clicked yesterday. Is this team ready for its traditional
run? Now? Knock on what? I hope? So you know,
we've got a great team coming in here Sunday night, and it doesn't get
any easier after that. So uh yeah, we're locked in and you know,
back and ready to go this morning. This forty nine er team had
won eleven in a row at home and party had never lost there. He
was eight and o there. What does it mean to end that? Well,
we have great respect for them, their team, their organization, how
they built that team. I mean again, they're humming along there, and
I know they lost a few in a row, but they're they're they're a
handful and it wouldn't be surprised to see him again at some point, but
they're they're they're a terrific team. So I just felt like the way our
guys approached it coming off the buy, you know, we knew it was
gonna, you know, be a great effort to do that. But I
was proud of them. I heard all week long the practices were unbelievable or
the focus, the execution, and usually when you have great practices like that,
it leads to that type of performance on game day. What is it
about the bye week? This is the third year in a row now where
this has been the case. Come out of the buy, guys ready to
go back to work focused. I mean, what is it? I don't
know. I just you know, the way Zach's schedules it, I think
has a lot to do with it. And you know, we give them
enough rest, but we get our work into use the bonus day on Monday,
and you know, stay locked in to what the job is. I
think when you're playing playing any NFL team, you're gonna be ready. But
when you thinking maybe a little bit more heighten awareness, when you're going on
the road against a great football team, you know you gotta we all know,
we've got to be on top of our game, so it worked out.
Congratulations, thanks as always for making time with us. I appreciate it.
The man onto the bills, it may in one of the bills he
is Lou Anarumo. We'll take a time out to continue It's Bengals Line of
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Bengals Line of this Monday night on the first Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and
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defensive coordinator and always appreciate the time. A little bit more from Joe Burrow
coming up in this hour from the podium. We'll preview the Buffalo Bills and
we'll take a listen to the game balls as well. All of that.
Before this hour is done, let's get a little bit more from Zach talking
about the performance and what they got all around yesterday and the best all around
effort of the season. Here is Zach on thirty one seventeen over the forty
nine ers. That was our first real complete game by our team. You
know, that's how that's how we're meant to play. And again, our
team meetings this week was was this is I know it's not even Halloween yet,
but this is November football for us when you go on the road and
play the forty nine ers, a team that's had a ton of success over
the last years in this league, that we have a ton of respects for.
So proud of the way that our guys fought, probably the way they
controlled the game in the second half, and and we're able to get us
this win Burrow today. What stood out for the most numbers, nineteen consecutive
completions is pretty good. Uh, but that typically means that everybody else is
doing their job as well. And and this was a big challenge for our
offensive line, a big challenge for backs and our tight ends as well.
They rose that challenge. They were where they needed to be. They did
a great job giving him a pocket he could work with, a great job
by our receivers playing on time and being where they needed to be so he
could find them. Uh, that extension, you know on the first third
and ten, that t team made himself available and got that big I mean
that really catapulted the dust into the game. You know, we sit here
and talk about these games that we lost, and it was those plays that
we didn't make early in the game. And so that that's a that's a
play that jump starts in and end up scoring a touchdown. And uh,
and that's really what it comes down to. What do you think about the
way he moved? I mean that it was that I mean, he was
an the way he ran, I mean what was Yeah, I don't you
that word unbelievable anymore really, to be honest with you, but that that
first one, I mean, I'm joking because that's just kind of what you
come to expect, and it's it's just a great job. And again I've
I've learned just to keep my mouth shut and not say anything, not think
anything negative while he's back there in the pocket moving around. You've just learned
your lesson year four here. But again that was again, that was a
big play and he did a good job with his feet, He did a
good job. Ver was two men running through. That's the best play you
can get. Did a good job checking to a quarterback draw on a big
third down. So again, those are just things that that he's year four
here, he's stepping up and recognizing coverages and knowing how to attack him with
his feet when he needs to. I mean, you know, we wouldn't
trade him out for anybody. There's a lot of good linebacker do as in
this league. We wouldn't trade that pair for anybody. And for both those
guys to step up and get takeaways. Jermaine's was down in the low red
first and goal on the eight unbelievable pick. I didn't see Logan's I was
over there talking to Burrow, but I'm sure that was great too. You
know, I saw the stat, you know, in my postgame, but
he's he's got the most line picks by a linebackers since twenty twenty. That's
just great ball scials. That's the receiver slash safety that he's gotten his his
skill set over there from Wyoming and high school and just really really probably the
way that those two guys played, team was able to win here at Sarrancis,
where they hadn't lost the game of the season, they only lost one
game last year. They had won eleven in a row. They had won
eleven in a row, and that that's that's that's things we feed our players,
you know, because this is the type team that responds to that.
They want to hear that. They want to hear that Buffalo had one home
loss in the playoffs in their history. They want to hear that this team's
you know, one eleven in a row at home, because someone's got to
beat them and it's going to be us, you know. So I think
that that's just kind of the edge that these guys play with. They want
that information, uh to fuel them. And and they they responded how I
assumed that they would. We did go one under center and they've been locked
for you guys today that you haven't been able to do because you haven't been
able to do it. Yeah, there's just some things that we felt like
we could do to attack them, and and felt like our guys did a
great job executing. You know, we kind of had a plethora, that's
a that's a fun word I haven't used yet up here, a variation of
things that we could do there. And I thought our guys did a great
job finished really with the same run there a couple plays in a row.
Our guys were just doing a great job blocking it. That mixing scored on
and and really proud of the way that those guys, I mean that's tough.
That's tough to block the same play three times in a row. And
our guys responded the right way, and Mixing made a great cut and scored
a big touch on there touchdown and Chase there the slot the screen or whatever.
Was that a play that you were saving for a moment, you know,
right after the interception right there in scoring range where you'd see him on
that all day or what was the background on that thing? Uh, it
almost come up that the play we hit Chase with at the end of the
two minute drive that got us down inside the ten. That was kind of
toggling between those two and and we chose the one that that was a big
game for us and just came back at the right moment. You know that
with that play was a suggestion by somebody on the headset. No, I
don't know who to give credit to, but that's a good spot for it.
You know, that was Brian and Troy early in the week putting that
play in based on something they saw. And you know, it's a good
job just by our coaching staff finding the right moment to get to that play
and and uh, Joe Joe and Jamar and TV did a great job selling
it and get into it. Was the idea at the start of the season
was the get here, this is what we know we're capable of, and
we left some stuff on the field. We left, you know, it
was to the field goal that we missed. That was we put having in
a tough spot. We knew in warm ups that was that was the tough
direction. That was a tough distance. I think we had a sack that
that kind of took us out of a rhythm there. That was a tough
one, and then he drained the fifty six yarder on the other way.
But I don't remember what your question was, now, Oh what the offense
looked like? Yeah, I think it just gives us more variation, more
things for teams to work on. But again, I just I thought that
the team executed really well verse versus team that you're going to have to execute
well to beat. You know, you're not just going to get free plays
against them. They're going to make your earn everything. I thought they did
a really good job of justin come out of a halftime and making things challenging
for us. And so again our guys found a way to respond and found
a way to make some plays and and I was proud of the response that
we had there. Comments from Zach following the win. More as we continue,
a little bit more from Joe Burrow on how he felt yesterday and a
look ahead of the Buffalo Bills. That and more moving along on Bengals line
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sports betting partner of the Cincinnati Bengals. Talked about Joe's day a lot twenty
eight to thirty two to two hundred and thirty eight yards passing three touchdowns,
no interceptions. Here is a little bit more from Joe on how he felt
and how the offense was clicking. Yeah, felt good, able to exc
well enough to win. We still have some points out on the field.
So just like every win and every loss. You're gonna learn from it and
watch the tape. But it's a good day. Yeah, we needed this
one. We needed this one, so big win, but it was just
one. We got a lot of football left to be played, so we're
gonna enjoy this one for a day and get right back to it when it
looks like And we managed to scramble and yeah, tough, too tough to
break those down. They just kind of happened, you know. Really that
was athleticism, acceleration, explosiveness was really a big focus of mine in the
off season. Uh, I just haven't really been able to show that too
much. So it was nice to to have that hardwork payoff. How much
does it feel like? Yes, great week of prep, that's really where
it starts. The urgency was really high all week, great great, great
days of practice and it wasn't perfect, but you learn from every rep that
you get and you were able to correct it very quickly. So it was
a great week. We're gonna learn from this one and move on. Chase
Wilson right on the side, would you say to those guys, man,
I mean, Jermaine's play in the red zone was unbelievable. I've i told
him it was one of the best players defensive players I've ever seen. It
was big time. He just needs to stand bound to go score. Next
time to Joe, what did you think going on the Senate did that?
Did that help? Yeah? We were able to get some some big play
action shots off of that. We got some some great production out of that.
So that's gonna continue to be part of what we do. Can you
can you take me through the wild scramble on the first drive? I mean
you held it for almost it was ten seconds time to throw. Did you
think you were going down? Just what did you see on that? Well,
I'm never I never think I'm going down. I'm gonna, you know,
fight to the end on those It was you know when when plays break
down like that of always pride of myself and being able to get out of
those situations and make plays. Like I said, that's something that I worked
really hard on and off season. I just haven't really been able to show
that. So it's nice to to see that hardwork payoff. University at the
end of the first turn it over there and then come out and put points
on the board. Structure of that game. Yeah, yeah, like I
said, it wasn't perfect, that's for sure. We we left points out
there, and we had some mental mistakes, uh that we got to clean
up. But overall, it is a well executed game. But it was
a great team win, complimentary football. Defense stepped up in big spots,
offense stepped up in big spots. Special teams stepped up in big spots.
Yeah, it's you know, he's not getting a ton of opportunities, but
the opportunities that he's getting he's making the most of. He's he's really savvy
and scrambled droll situations. Uh, those are both of both of his touchdowns
have have come that way. So that's exciting to see and we're gonna see
more of it going forward for your career. There's a lot of talk about
the offensive line, and you know, things weren't going well and there's always
comments on the offensive line. How do you feel like they played today and
specifically Orlando Rout going up against one of the best pressures. Yeah, they
were awesome. They were awesome. Uh, not just in the in the
past pro but also in the run game. That was a big part of
the game today. We were super efficient in the run game. We also
had I think we ended up with over one hundred yards rushing. Uh and
so that's gonna be a big part of what we do going forward. That
was a complete game on offense. We got to stack more of those together.
Now we'll get to Chase to see Montana before the game. Did you
notice it or a lot of did They were honoring Passport year the teams and
that stuff. I don't know, No, I did not, But me
and Joe are good friends. He's a great guy. You know, we've
we've done some marketing things together. So it's always nice to see him.
I always enjoy spending time with him. So change you have to if you
want to be good. We got great coaches that that know what it takes,
and we got players that are able to take great coaching and and you
know, really apply very quickly. And so coming out of the by we
had a lot of things that we wanted to work on, and you saw
it on the field today. Joe Burrow meeting with media after the game Dave.
During this three game winning streak, Joe Burrow is completing seventy eight percent
of his passes, eight touchdowns, just two interceptions, quarterback rating one eleven
point three over the last three games. And I know we've talked a lot
about the performance, but it just it shows you optimal level Joe is well.
I mean, I'm not breaking news here, just how elite a quarterback
he is and what he means to this football team and the confidence, the
infusion of confidence they have to feel yesterday for all the times we've wondered and
they had to wonder, you know, Joe's not quite right? Is he
going to be right? Is going to nag him throughout the season? What
yesterday meant has to mean a lot to everybody involved with this organization. There's
no question Lanson, Joe Burrow said rightfully, So okay, this is one,
you know, and we've got ten left, and we got ten to
one game seasons basically because honestly, the second half of the Seattle game game
prior to this one and before they went into the by was not vintage Joe
Burrow. And he knows that. So he knows that it can come and
go. He doesn't take anything for granted. I mean, I think he
appreciates, you know, the performance that he put together against the forty nine
ers, but he knows it doesn't mean the Hill of Beans. When he
goes out there against the Buffalo Bills, it's going to be another entirely different
dynamic, different players, different game plan, different matchups. The carryover is
you just basically have to start over, start from scratch every single week,
and he knows that better than anybody. He does it better than anybody.
We'll talk about those Buffalo Bills up next. Then you'll hear the game ball
presentation as we head down the stretch Bengals on I'm the first Star Logistics Bengals
Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, we're rolling right along on this
Monday night. It's a victory Monday and we're breaking down thirty one seventeen over
the Niners, and we've always got time for the opposition on a Sunday nighter
against the Bills. We'll get into that. The show is Bengals Line.
We're on the First Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. I'm
Lance Pacalister and he is Dave Lapham Well Lance. As we know, the
stadium is called Paid Court Stadium, and pay Corp is proud to be the
official HR provider of Cincinnati Bengals Buffalo Bills up next under the bright lights Sunday
Night football at pay Corps. Buffalo is five and three coming off a Thursday
nighter, so a little bit more time for them. A twenty four to
eighteen win over the Buccaneers. They have wins over the Buccaneers, the Giants,
the Dolphins, Commanders, and Raiders lost to the Jets to open the
season. Also lost to Jacksonville at home and at the Patriots twenty five twenty
four. But if you're talking Buffalo Bills, it always starts with the main
named Josh Allen, who had a big game on Thursday night. Didn't added
in like Joe Burrow. The rushing element rushed for forty one yards. But
Josh Allen is we talk Joe Burrow being a late Josh Allen is certainly in
that conversation among NFL quarterbacks. His arm strength second to none. His arm
talent is there as well. I mean, he's he can be accurate,
probably not as consistently accurate as Joe Burrow and others in the league, but
he's completing almost seventy two percent of his passes seventeen touchdowns, eight interceptions right
now, more than two to one. You know, the thing that's very
interesting. The second and fourth quarter. The other ones they're doing their damage.
Seventy one to twenty nine. They've outscored the opponent of the second quarter
forty two points. Eighty three points they've scored in the fourth quarter and allowed
fifty one. So that's the most they've allowed, but it's the most they've
scored as well. So they have finish in the fourth quarter plus thirty two.
That's their second best quarter. But that's that is where the Bengal's gonna
have to compete. They're gonna have to finish in that fourth quarter because you
know the Buffalo Bills are gonna be there and be part of it. Third
down Buffalo second in the NFL right now, converting forty nine percent on third
down. Dalton Kincaid, we come off a game where the tight end was
productive for the forty nine ers and Kittle. Dalton Kincaid's the rookie. They
took twenty fifth overall and he's kind of stepped up and assumed the like number
one man role because of the injury to Knocks. But Kinkaid, the rookie,
has thirty catches for two hundred and fifty eight yards, and a touchdown,
a nice showing in his first eight games of his rookie season. Yeah,
and the Bengals historically and traditionally they had their issues with the tight end
position. So we know about the offense and defenses of both these football teams.
Special teams is going to be a factor. I mean, the old
position is going to be huge. Who is gonna take away fewer first downs
that the irrespective offenses have to worry about. And we talked about how well
the Bengals special teams were playing Buffalo third in the NFL and returns sixth and
kickoff returns eighth and covering kickoffs, so both of these football teams three of
their four areas of special teams in the top ten. Back to Josh Allen
for a second. We talked about just how good he is, but he's
also had that propensity for turning the football over. He's thrown eight interceptions,
he's fumbled three times, lost too, and that's been the bugaboo and kind
of the recklessness at times. And the accusation is he tries to do too
much sometimes and it leads to turnovers and gives he gives you an opportunity and
they come in bunch of Yeah. I mean it's not like you know,
eight turnover. It's like he'll have multiples and then he'll go without. Then
they'll have multiples again. So see if Lewen and that defense can cause multiples
in Cincinnati. The last time Buffalo came to Cincinnati, game wasn't played.
Now this one is gonna be big. I mean, pay Courts is gonna
be rocking, no doubt about it. Let's take our final time out.
We'll head down the stretch. You'll hear the game ball presentation and more.
It's Bengals Line on the first Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.
Here we go down the stretch, final segment of the night on Bengals
lone of the first Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Lance
back Catleister Dave Lapham. But before we run out of time, Dave tell
us about in the trenches. Yeah, we're gonna be catching up with DJ
Reader this week in the trenches. That'll be interesting, I think to find
out his reaction when that flag was thrown on the hit that he put he
put on the quarterback. I mean that that was crazy but DJ and efforting
Ted Carriss as well. So I'm going to have one member of the offensive
and defensive lines. Is my objective on this one. And we usually get
current players, former players, current coaches, former coaches, broadcast people,
anybody affiliated and associated with the NFL. We try to get a little more
information for you in the trenches, Dave. We are on the eve of
the trade deadline on Tuesday afternoon. Much has been talked about would they,
could they, should they? Do you anticipate any type of move for the
Bengals by the four o'clock deadline on Tuesday? I really don't. I mean
I think that you know, the bye week was opportune in terms of getting
your due diligence done for trade discussions because if somebody calls you, you don't
want to be ill prepared. And but so much has to go into it,
salary cap concerns, the cost of doing business in terms of compensation of
player or draft pick to get a player to come to your particular franchise.
I mean, there's a lot of talk, a lot of calls that made
a lot of talk is done, but very very few deals are done,
although last year ten of them ten players moved on on the last day of
the trade deadline. Before we close it out, let's go inside the locker
room after the game. Here's the sounds of victory and the game ball presentation.
Take a listen. How the Bengals played football? What are we saying?
Is this October football? Is this September football? What is this November
football? Right? And you guys turned it off? Plays your best come
out of a bye, because that's what you do. You played great in
November, December and January, because that's what you do. That was a
good football team. I'm right. They've won eleven home games in a row.
How many guy in a roll now do that's one of those games we
go on the road and that's us, right, that's Bengals football. Everybody
gets a game ball. There's a couple of things that I have to point
out last couple. I mean a lot. Okay, in the first half
with nineteen straight completions twenty eight to thirty two, I said one percent.
That's pretty good for two eighty three and three touchdowns. Awesome protection, awesome
route running, awesome checkdowns. Okay, Joe Burrows receivers Jamar had ten for
one hundred to touchdown. He had sixty nine. He had a big touchdown.
I saw Trey Harman with the huge catch for first. I saw Yoshi
with the touchdown. I saw Joe Mixon come back home average five four core
carry in a tochdown. I saw Logan Wilson have his tenth interception, the
most fire linebacker. I'm first in goal in the eighth because no one scores
in the redsone on our defense. I saw Jermaine Pratt pick up. I
saw Hubbard and Hendrick send with some big sacks. I saw fumble recovers like
DJ Hill. I saw the first third and one in the game, d
J Reiders step up. I saw the secondary player tails off man. That's
a tough group. You guys play your tails off. I saw picked by
Mike Hill. I saw having mc curson hit a fifty six, and I
saw the Bengals get their third straight wins. Let's just sack when we got
next week, prime time, Sunday Night. Wouldn't want any other ways,
mis Off, Bank Course, Stadium, Buffalo Bills. Let's get it.
We have to. We're singing for now. Hoday go beat them bangles day,
hoday a gonna beat them bangles. No pretty cool, seeing cool sounds
of the game Ball presentation, Joe Burrow wrapping it up there with the hooday
chant, and we are wrapping up as well. I uh, I commend
you because you have made it. At times I think both you and I
thought well, question downgraded to doubtful? Will he be downgraded to out?
You were never out? You stayed in and I have the ultimate respect for
you getting this out. You have made it. Congratulations, I appreciate it.
Rock Prity was my inspiration. He got through a concussion protocol in a
short week, so I felt like I had to step up. Go rest
that voice. Feel better and we'll do it again next week after a big
Sunday night went over the bills. Sounds like a plan. Sir Dave Lapham,
Glance pactleister, thanks for being with us tonight. It has been Bengals
Line on the first Star Logistics Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW