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a monument and unlikely upset on the road

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in Jacksonville, and I'm going to
start this show with an apology to Jake

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Browning. You are Locked On Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast, part

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of the Locked On podcast Network.
Your team every Day well not Bengals fans,

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and welcome to another episode of the
Locked On Bengals podcast. I'm your

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host, Jake. Let's go.
He's your host, James Rapeain coming to

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you late on Monday night or early
on Tuesday morning, depending on where you

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are. The Bengals get a road
win on Monday Night football for the first

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time in many tries, and Jake
Browning shuts up his critics and I will

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step to the front of that line. You can find us if you're new

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who makes us their first listening this
in every Day in James, I've got

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an apology, I've got a prop
I've written my apology letter. What do

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you think. Are you also apologizing
to Jake Running or so just me?

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No, I'm not apologizing to Jake
Browning. I think he played great on

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Monday Night. He was awesome.
And whether it's numbers wise or eye test

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wise, he passed all of that. Last week he passed the numbers test

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but not the actual eye test,
but thirty two of thirty seven three point

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fifty four a touchdown, another rushing
touchdown, finding Jamar Chase on third and

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one for a seventy six yard explosive
play, going off script when needed.

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I mean everything you could ask for, multiple nice throws outside the numbers and

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on bootlegs. This was a Jake
browning that people inside the building said existed,

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but I think even they're pleasantly surprised
with how he performed given the environment,

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given how fired up Jacksonville was.
This is the first time they had

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a Monday night football game here,
Jake, since Andy Dalton's rookie year.

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Like this was a big and I've
been in Jacksonville the past few days spoiler

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alert for those that haven't noticed my
awful setup on YouTube, and it's been

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buzzing with man Monday night football,
Monday night football and sort to come in

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here and to play like that heck
of a performance. But go ahead.

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You have an apology you want to
grant with Jake Brown, and go ahead.

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I've written by Rotter. Dear Jake, I'm sorry for those first quarter

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tweets. I'm sorry I doted your
ability to play on time and manage the

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offense. I'm sorry I do did
your decision making great game, great throws,

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great calls, and great balls to
stand in there and play in the

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clutch and under pressure. Looking forward
to seeing you a week fourteen against the

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Colts. Here's truly Jake. Let's
go ps. Sorry to the rest of

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the team too for the doubt,
great effort, great w I was harsh

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on Jake Browning coming up into this
game. I was hard seawan Jake Browning

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in the first two drives of the
game. I don't think he played very

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well in the first two drives of
the game. I don't think the offense

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was in a rhythm for the first
two drives of the game. Some of

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that certainly on play calling in the
approach, trying to get the ball to

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Jamar Chase early and often behind the
line of scrimmage, and trying to see

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if he could make guys Smith didn't
work. The adjustments quickly happened. The

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third drive of the game might be
one of the best call drives we've ever

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seen from Zach Taylor. He found
the rhythm, Browning found the rhythm,

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and so first and foremost, yeah, I agree with you. Browning played

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extremely well better than I thought he
ever could, outside of a couple of

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very minor In retrospect, blemishes,
mostly early in the game. And maybe

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more importantly, it seems like we
saw a philosophy switch from a play design

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play calling offensive design perspective in a
couple of important ways, and Eli Manning

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was talking about this on the Manning
Cast. He talked to Jake Browning before

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the game. It sounded like,
you know, Brownie went into last week

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thinking like, Yeah, I'm comfortable
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Let's run the offense. Let's not
change things. Then he came out

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of that game and was like,
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thought I liked, I don't actually
like. So let's do some things a

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little bit differently. I know.
He talked about that in his postgame press

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conference as well, some of the
things they changed on third downs. So

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we saw some adjustments and we saw
Jake Browning play a much more comfortable brand

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of football, both in terms of
staying on time, playing mostly very accurate

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quarterback. And if he can play
like that, then you know, it's

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week to week, right, Jacksonville
versus Pittsburgh very different defenses. So if

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he can play like that, this
team can be competitive down the stretch,

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no doubt. If he can play
like that. It's still a problem.

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It's still a problem for the rest
of the AFC. Now, I'm not

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sitting here going to say cram of
angles as legitimate contenders or anything like that

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after one win, but it's pretty
wide open. And I know a lot

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of people probably laughed at me in
our past couple of episodes, I've been

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like a broken record thinking playoffs and
how the in the building they're talking playoffs,

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and how everything's still right there and
all they have to do is start

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with a win on Monday night.
Well, they got that win on Monday

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night, and so now where do
they go from here? And can they

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bounce back on a certain leap and
get another win against a winnable team,

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a winnable game against the COLT.
I think that's a big question. Yeah,

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that is the challenge they have to
sustain the success. They are not

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in a position where there's much of
a margin for error. Although the AFC

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continues to remain wide open and in
many ways which kind of rough salt in

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the wound that they don't have Joe
Burrow in a year where the AFC is

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just simply not as strong as I
think I thought it would be. Certainly,

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and it's open. It's crazy how
open it is. It is open.

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But there's still matchup problems for this
team that kind of would scare me,

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Kansas City being one of them,
just because the Bengals defense has been

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and we'll talk about the defense at
some point still a bit leaky, to

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put it lightly, Camp Taylor Bricos
on ir before the game. Neither of

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those are are great things for the
future for the defense. And then on

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the offensive side of the ball,
I worry about more consistent pressure and a

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better defense, a deeper defense than
Jacksonville can put on the field, and

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the way Jake Brown will handle that. I think, you know there's a

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taste of that against Pittsburgh, but
maybe you don't get that against the Colts,

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who are also winning a lot of
games this year right in the thicket

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things in the AFC South. So
certainly will be very interesting down the stretch.

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But it's not like the schedule is
getting a whole lot easier, right,

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And so if they're going to keep
it going, they need to keep

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finding the right buttons to push on
offense. The defense will need to play

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better in clutch spot, will need
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But for now, this is a
very promising first step to go to a

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very difficult environment in primetime Monday night
football with your backup quarterback and get the

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performance they got where he outplayed Trevor
Lawrence and the offense. What they outgained

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by like one hundred and fifty yards
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to Jacksonville around three fifty or something
like that. So really positive stuff for

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this team. Well, what Jake
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that their ceiling is still pretty hot. Now is it going to be consistent?

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I don't know, but going on
a road, hostile environment, huge

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game, biggest game primetime wise in
thirteen years here in Jacksonville, and there

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was talk just of it being open
here locally, like, man, the

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Jacks can get the one seed and
they were looking in the fans talk and

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it's not like the Jacksonville Jaguars called
me, but like fans are talking about

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it, like thinking about how open
it was, especially after Kansas City lost.

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And so for the Bengals, they
are flawed. They're still flawed.

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Like that doesn't change, but I
think now we know the quarterback can play

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at a high enough level where you
can win thirty plus point shootouts or weird

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games where that go into overtime on
the road, things that I didn't think

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were possible without Joe Burrow. And
so I don't know if Jake Browning is

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going to have another one of these
games. Maybe this is the Brandon Allen

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Houston game from a couple of years
ago, where he's just awesome in Houston

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and that's it, or maybe the
outlier is going to be that Pittsburgh game

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when he was trying to figure things
out in his first NFL start against a

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really good defense and he responded the
right way. And this offense and these

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coaches were able to evolve and evolve
and adjust to what Jake does well and

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they can build on this. And
so I think it's interesting. It's a

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huge, huge win. Obviously they
snap a three game losing streak, and

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we got to get to it.
The run game, Jake, the run

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game, Chase brown Joe Mixon,
good and shortyarded situation on the goal line.

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I mean the run game. We
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Yeah, I think play calling in
general run game a big part of

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that, and just looking at the
very near future on the schedule before we

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shift gears and talk about some of
that offensive play calling, including the trick

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plays which people are very upset about. The Bengals next two games or I

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guess three out of their two out
of their next three games against the Colts

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and Steelers two seven and five teams
that they directly are competing with for the

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wild card. Let's get into play
calling. Let's get into the offensive approach,

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the commitment to the run game.
We'll do that coming up next.

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in this game, James Cincinnati Bengals
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this exactly rate. Twenty eight running
plays and twenty nine passing plays. They

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committed to the run game. They
were balanced in the run game. You

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had Chase Chase Brown get an opportunity
to show that he could be a viable

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change of pace back for this team, could make plays, could be the

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guy that could rip off the explosives
and use his speed to his advantage.

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And on the other side, you
had Joe Mixon, being the veteran back,

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he didn't have as many negative plays. He was on a success rate

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basis, meaning plays that added positive
EPA at a higher rate than Chase brown

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He was very good in the red
zone where he punched to rushes in for

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touchdowns. So Zach Taylor redemption game, I mean, the offense has been

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under so much heat. And we'll
talk about the trick play calls too,

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but the offense has been so much
heat for their approach in recent weeks,

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especially with Jake Browning, and we
saw a big swing in this game to

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a very positive effect. We did, we did, and what an aid

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it was for Browning because as good
as he was, he admitted how helpful,

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how beneficial it was to have a
rushing attack. And he mentioned even

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on the third and one that they
might not have gotten that look and he

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said, there's a chance that was
busted coverage, but they might not have

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gotten that look had they not been
running the ball so effectively. And Joe

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Mixon, to me, being as
good as he was in those short yardage

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situations like that first touchdown run was
awesome because he was able to keep his

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body off the ground somehow and extend
and be strong enough and have the strength

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and power and the just the discipline
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that ball across the goal line.
And then obviously Chase Brown. This is

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what we're talking about. Change of
pace, Jake. Chase Brown brought the

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change of tas nine attempts sixty one
yards, had a thirty one yard rush,

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which is the longest that the Bengals
have had all season long, had

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a fifteen yard run as well.
Those plays are huge. One, it

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keeps it's a big play for the
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at least having to worry about it. Now from moving forward, defensive coordinators

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are going to know that Chase Brown
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and they're going to look at that
and now that's on film. They had

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much of that this year. And
the other part of that, like I

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said, mixing was good and late
in the game he had some nice runs

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as well, but good in tho
short yard situations. Keeping him fresher is

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a heck of a way to is
good for this offense. It's good for

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him so he can be successful in
those situations. So I think it was

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a heck of a job by Zach. They run the ball on the first

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play of the game, the first
two plays of the game, and it

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it was like, oh, one
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By the way, Chase Brown had
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the game. In the first quarter, Mix only had one carry, and

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Brown was running the ball well,
and then they got to Mixon and turned

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to him. It was a good
balance, and I think that has to

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be the blueprint moving forward, not
that they're going to run it twenty eight

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times every week, but that you
can hopefully get that kind of efficiency,

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some explosiveness out of the ground game
because it was it was a heck of

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a show. I mean, I
was entertained, and I thought Joe Mixon

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looked. I know, the average
says three point six of carry. Some

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of that was because the late game
runs of overtime, but overall, I

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think both guys did really well.
Yeah, both players I thought played well.

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I was I guess, if there's
a way to guarantee you're going to

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get Chase Brown the carries, you
do it in the first quarter. You

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know, I feel like, oh, man, we really want to get

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Chase Brown to carries. You make
sure you do it early, because they

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did go away from him late,
not entirely. He had to carry in

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overtime. I think when I right
after I tweet it, I think,

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like, man, I can't believe
they've entirely gone away from Chase Brown here

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the way he's been running the ball, the way he's been pretty good.

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But he ends up with nine carries
after starting the game with you said five.

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Five of the first six carries,
we're Chase Brown. So I would

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like to see them stick with that
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understand, you know, there's a
huge trust element with Joe Mixon in terms

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of ball security, in terms of
doing his job, in terms of being

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the veteran, And he did do
his job, and he was a veteran

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on those plays, and so I
kind of understand where the coaching staff is

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coming from there. In addition to
that, I think, you know something

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that will dive into a little bit
more when we've had time to digest and

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review what the Bengals in this game. But obvious more boot stuff, more

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play action stuff, the RPOs that
they were running in this game, were

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targeted pass the line of scrimmage much
more than we saw We've seen from them

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for the most part this season.
Jake Browning did still have I think ten

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passes behind the line of Scrimmage's average
depth of target was very low, but

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he was very good throwing the ball
downfield hitting I think nine of nine on

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passes aim ten plus yards downfield,
and that's generous. A couple of those

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might be nine nine and a half, but in that range and that intermediate

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to deep range, including the deep
ball to Jamar Chase, he was very

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good in that part of the field. And some of that is the running

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game, the way the defenses are
going to play Jake Browning differently than they're

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going to play Joe Burrow. But
the trick plays nearly cost him this game.

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There are a couple of things that
this game kind of could have spun

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on had they lost this game,
And I know there are fans out there

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that are probably thinking they just cost
themselves draft position. We'll see. But

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the Jaguars had three fumbles, they
recovered all of them. They scored a

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touchdown off of a dropped interception by
Dax Sill, and the Bengals gave up

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ten points on failed trick plays,
one of them leading to a seven yard

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loss as Evan McPherson subsequently joining to
field goal from fifty seven yards off the

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crossbar, and one of them led
to a touchdown because Tyler Boyd threw a

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pick in the red zone, which
is insane. So on the one hand,

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people are really upset with the play
calls because the offense is working and

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you take the ball out of the
normal structure. I'm more upse up with

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the execution personally. I think he
called trick plays and the worst case outcomes

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should being in complete pass and they
got unfathomably bad outcomes out of those trick

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plays. Yeah, the Boyd one, it's it's questionable. I get why

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you'd question the play call because the
way the offense is rolling, the decision

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already failed to throw back earlier in
the game. Yeah, but the decision

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for Boyd to throw it, you're
still a receiver, run run, title

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run, Like he could have just
turned upfield and ran and if you get

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a yard or you don't, who
cares. It's no m you can't have

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that disaster of a play on first
down. And it really it felt like

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that was it like that was going
to be where the game, you know,

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the reality check, the tires come
to a screeching halt and that's it.

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Upset alert over And so the Bengals
credit they rally. But I agree

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with there's that question that call.
The other one, it was just it

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was just weird. I don't know, like you just want to throw it

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back to Jake Browning and have Jake
Browning run Like I don't love that.

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I don't love the decision and even
though he can run, I just don't.

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I don't think it really makes much
sense. But the BOYD when I

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agree, the execution part of it
is something that you don't want to see.

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And Zach afterwards said they have ran
that play before. They ran it

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against the Jets last year in the
win, and they ran it against the

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Browns as well. So sometimes they
work, sometimes they don't. The good

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news is is the Bengals had the
ability to overcome that adversity and make it

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through. So we do have to
get to the defense, a defense that

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didn't force any turnovers but did get
a stop in overtime. And so let's

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Before we get to the defense,
James, I can't believe you want

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to go to the defense. Before
discussing, Jamar Chase very unlike you.

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Twelve targets, eleven catches, one
hundred and forty nine yards a touchdown on

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the seventy six yard catch from Jake
Browning, and we talked about how this

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offense is going to have to go
through Jamar Chase. He had the one

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drop made up for it immediately on
the next play on a fourth down conversion.

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And where the Bengals got big contributions
from the running game. In the

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passing game, Jamar Chase by far
by far led the way and a lot

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of that being his explosive ability,
but had a few really clutch plays as

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well. Yeah, he's he's a
free best player on the field and that's

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why coming into it, it was
like, get him double digit targets.

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All let's talk about the run game. I get it. Double digit targets

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and that's exactly what he was able
to do. Take advantage of it.

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And third straight one thousand yard season
for Jamar. Congrats on that. And

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like I stumbled through when I was
talking about Shult Steelers, shout out the

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Schultz stewelers. He said he wanted
to be an evil person coming into the

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state. He said he didn't know
why, but that's what he wanted to

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do. And I saw how you
wanted to be a villain. He was

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like yeah, and he feel it
felt like a villain in the locker room

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afterwards. And it makes a lot
of sense because even the one drop,

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because he had a drop, he
responds with the conversion on the fourth down

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and it just makes the play.
In overtime, it looked like it was

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a second drop and he somehow brings
that in. I really don't know how

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he caught that, but he was
able to catch it. It was a

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heck of a play. Had some
circus catches for sure. He's on pace

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for one hundred and twenty two catches, fifteen hundred yards, ten touchdowns,

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just very basic extrapolation. The Bengals
seasons single season record for receptions one hundred

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and twelve TJ. Houshman's out at
two thousand and seven. Jamar is currently

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at eighty six catches, and if
they feed him the way, feed them

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the ball the way they did tonight, that record is in severe danger.

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Let's talk defense, James. This
will be a little bit quicker, Maybe

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there will be more time to dive
into this with sans tomorrow. Linebackers I

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think still a problem. Explosive play
is still a bit of a problem.

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The run d better, at least
on early downs they did get beat.

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They couldn't stop the late down runs
where Jacksonville was able to convert quite frequently,

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some of that being QB sneaks for
Trevor Lawrence, but the explosive play

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problem persists, and c J.
Bethard really picked on the linebackers in that

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two minute drive to force overtime.
Yeah, I think, oh, it's

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a mixed back and there's a lot
of a lot of bad just all of

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the or the inability to get off
the field when you needed to, and

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like overtime, it probably shouldn't have
got the overtime you're dealing with CJ.

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Bethard, He's just kind of thrown
in there. The Jacks that just missed

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the field goal, you have the
momentum, try to get off the field,

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and they didn't. But they did
find a way to get off the

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field in overtime and get the ball
back to the offense. So I do

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think they deserve some credit for that. But you'd like to see more pressure.

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You'd like to see less breakdowns on
the back end. Early in the

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game. The first play, Christian
Kirk just wide open downfield and if it's

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a better ball, Kirk might not
get hurt on that play. It was

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a weird growing injury, and those
are the type of plays that just continue

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to happen. Evan Ingram just randomly
being open. Obviously he had a touchdown

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as well a lot and so you
win. But there's a lot to improve

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on in things that this defense is
going to have to be better at if

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they are going to continue to win. Because the defense isn't going to put

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up thirty four every week. You're
going to have to do more on defense.

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A couple of shoutouts on the defensive
side of the ball after we talked

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about the things that didn't go great, because it wasn't it wasn't great,

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but Mike Hilton eye test stats looks
great. Two tackles for loss. Had

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a clutch pass defense against Calvin Ridley
in the end zone and that is a

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tough matchup. The best receiver for
the Jacksonville Jaguars against Mike Hilton. There

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that was a clutch play for him. Josepo Sai showed up a little bit

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this week. Had a sack,
technically, had a couple other QB hits.

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He popped a couple times pass rushing
from the inside from the interior from

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three tech like to see that.
Trey Hendrickson had a couple of big plays

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of his own as we're used to
from Trey, Sam Hubbard and bj Hill

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Cambine on a nice stunt to get
a key sack to help get off the

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field. Hubbard also had a couple
of nice plays in the run game,

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so shout out to those guys.
Those guys just popped on first look,

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and we'll have to see on tape
after that. I think Jordan Battle had

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another had a couple of nice plays
as well. Maybe got beat once as

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the flat player and cover two I
want to say, unless it was either

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way. He was underneath and there
was a whole shot completed over his outstretched

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hand. But nice game for Jordan
Battle, filling up the stat sheet as

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well. For the rest of the
guys, we'll have to see what's going

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on on tape. Didn't see a
whole lot of Miles Murphy in this game,

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which was a little bit surprising after
last week. And Dax hill Man.

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This isn't a shout out, but
got to catch that ball that that

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was an unfortunate play. That's a
seven point swing right there, if not

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more, and the defense gave up
thirty one in the end, but you

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know seven points that comes right after
Tyler Boyd's picking the Bengal zone red zone,

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and you got another seven unless this
was the same drive, and I'm

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just confused. You got another seven
when Dax Hill doesn't come down with that

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interception. Yeah, that's it's a
huge play, and that's the turnover.

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That's the type of game changing plays. I think this defense is just going

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to have to need. Maybe not
maybe they can become this defense that just

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doesn't give up as many yards and
those type of opportunities depending on the opponent,

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but against these explosive offenses, these
talented quarterbacks like Trevor Lawrence hopefully he's

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okay, by the way, I
think they're just going to need to be

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this turnover forcing type team that is
able to take advantage of their opponent's mistakes.

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And so that is one Dax is
probably kicking himself for, and rightfully

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so, because it was right in
his hands and it perfectly bounds. It's

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not like he knocked it to the
ground, ounce perfectly into Parker SAMs for

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the touchdown. Yea. And I
just pointed all of that out to say

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that, yeah, the Jags also
missed a field goal, but it didn't

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need to even be quite as close
as it was. The Bengals did get

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a number of good third down stops. The Jags punted five times in this

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game, the Bengals only one,
which you love to see. Last little

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thing there is let's carry this aggressiveness
over to Joe Burrow playing quarterback as well.

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Only one punt in this game,
including going forward on fourth down a

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couple of times. We'll talk with
SAMs coming up this week. Talk about

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some of the things that we saw
from an offensive approach perspective that might be

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translatable to Joe Burrow's return to the
eventual offense in the future. What's sustainable

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this year, talk about the linebackers
a little bit, talk about what's going

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on on the defense, so we'll
have more to talk about for this game.

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