9/12/24: Mo Egger with Jay Morrison Of Pro Football Network

Jay Morrison of Pro Football Network joined us to talk Bengals/Chiefs, injuries, Joe Burrow, and more. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our guy. Jay Morrison joins us on Thursday's Pro Football
Network Pro Football Network Bengals Podcast. He covers the Bengals
for Pro Football Network. He's on X and I Buy
Jay Morrison And we just read his tweet about Jamar
Chase saying the Bengals of the team to beat in
the AFC. Jay, did he say that with a straight face?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
He did say that with a straight face. I think
he really believes it. I guess it doesn't really matter
if anybody else does, but you would expect that kind
of confidence from a guy. It's it's a little bold
to say that, but you know, we've heard bolder things
from Jamar and he kind of stayed away today from
the personal attachment l Jerious Need. Last year he got
into it with him both the pregame and in the game.

(00:44):
Need no longer. With the Chiefs, Jamar was very I
guess cough, careful, cautious however we recall it, but he
was very complimentary of of Steve Spagnola, the Chief defensive coordinator.
He talked about the chief scheme and nothing but glowing
things to say about the Chiefs, but also said the
Bengals are the team to beat. In the AFC.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, and I guess he should feel that way. I'm
just I'm excited that we're reading Jamar Chase quotes that
have nothing to do with his contract and everything to
do with football.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's put to bed.
It's always been a kind of a long standing policy
of the Bengals, not the negotiating season. Jamar said last
week Friday was his deadline. You have thought, with how
poorly everything went Sunday, that maybe there'd be a reconsideration.
But if that was the case, something probably when I
got done Monday or Tuesday. So it really does feel
like this is behind everybody. We'll go through the whole

(01:37):
scenario again in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
So when you're a team coming off a poor defensive
performance against the run and you had all the mistackles
that Luena Aruma was understandably so complaining about. When I
see Logan Wilson not practice yesterday, that frightens me because
he was one of the few that was good. He
played well against against New England. Should I feel should
I feel all the way better about the fact that

(02:01):
he was back in the practice field today.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean, he was limited today, But I do that
it doesn't sound like it is anything serious. I would
expect him to be out there on Sunday, and I
would expect them to be better. It's just one of
those things where we would you talk about it so
much where they just don't do much in the preseason,
and there's it seems like tackling every year, not just

(02:26):
with the Bengals, every team. It's an issue in Week
one and fourteen. That's a that's a new high in
the six years that lou Anariumo has been here. You
would it would be crazy to think they're gonna it's
gonna be even worse this week. So I do expect
it to get better and considerably better. But on the
flip side, I mean, Isaiah Pacheco is a running back
that makes good defenses look bad. He runs hard, he

(02:47):
breaks a lot of tackles, so it's gonna be a challenge.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
You did a dive into the play that a lot
of us talked about on Sunday night and Monday, and
that was the fourth and two pass where andre Yosabash
doesn't get the first down. And I understand the coaching
point there, and I understand the explanations. Can can we
just make a general rule that whatever yard did you
need on fourth down? Can we just throw the ball

(03:12):
one inch past that?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah? It sounds so simple, But Zach Tyler was pointing
out how the defense knows that too, and that's where
they're they're lined up there and they're kind of daring
you to throw it short of the sticks and try
to get the first down. And sometimes that's an attack
you have to take. You you sometimes need to trust
your guys to get that extra yard or sometimes two

(03:36):
or three yards. But it doesn't seem like that's been
a long time m for Joe Burrow. He's been so
much more aggressive, and it just that play kind of
encapsulated the whole day where it was just more of
a I don't if on I say tim and just
a more cautious approach by Joe where he was willing
to take the checkdowns and not really force the ball

(03:57):
into any tight windows. And I think that that's got
to go by the wayside, and I think it will
you ease your way into the season. I think we're
going to see a lot more aggressive Bengals offense on
Sunday Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I certainly, hope. So what was interesting to me
You talked about tackling and you know, not to just
NonStop relitigate the game. On Sunday there were a ton
of checkdowns. The passes that were completed didn't go for
any yards after the catch, and I don't know specifically
what that speaks to, but I'm all for the short
passing game being a part of this offense, but there

(04:32):
does have to be the potential for a guy to
break a break a break a tackle for a long run,
or catch a ball in space ideally and be able
to turn up field. Was it striking to you how
that was missing against New England?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, it really was. And this was again it was
something new. We saw Jamar in the slot fifteen times,
the almost half of the snaps in there. I just
when we talked him today, I asked him about that
and he said he loves it in there because that
very fact where he can get hit the ball in
more of an open space, and we've seen him do
it so many times. Break one tackle and he can
be gone. It didn't work out that way, but especially

(05:08):
against Kansas City, where they loved double team Jamar, and
it's really hard to do if he's in the slot.
So I do think even some of those short intermediate crossers,
the Bengals can really feast in there. And you know that,
like I said earlier, Lagarius needs gone. It's a young
Kansas City defense, and young teams make mistakes early in
the year. It's something that the Bengals are going to
have to exploit.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Jay Morrison with his Pro Football Network, I appreciate it
as always, Man, Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Okay, good talking to Emo.