October 10, 2024 • 9 mins
Jay Morrison from BengalsTalk.com joined us on his birthday to talk Bengals/Giants.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Annetti, brought to you in bart by Modern Office
Methods on the official home of the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN
fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Twenty two minutes after four o'clock. This is ESBN fifteen thirty.
On Thursdays, we chat with our friend Jay Morrison from
Bengals Talk Sports Illustrated Bengals Talk. But today is special
because it's Jay's birthday. Are you doing anything fun for
your birthday besides talking to me?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
No, This is the highlight of my day right here.
I'll do some fun things tomorrow, but today it's just working.
Talking to you. Wow, very good, which is great.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The grind doesn't stop even on your birthday. I can
appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Did Jamar Chase to just talk? Were you there for that?
Did he say anything interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It was different. He was at the podium for the
first time ever. It's kind of the whole new locker
room policy. They're just trying to put the stars at
the podium, so that I mean, poor Charlie Jones is
a locker right next to Jamar Tomorrow likes the whole
court and sometimes for twenty minutes on Thursdays, Charlie can't
even get to his locker. It started off a little
(01:08):
a little buttoned up, just talking football stuff, and then
Jamar started loosing up, really got really got comfortable and
talking about his I guess body maintenance, how he doesn't
really worry about what he eats. He just eats whatever
he wants to eat, which I guess a lot of
guys in their twenties do. Yeah, and playing Madden and
(01:30):
just a lot of more fun things, which is which
is one of the highlights of talking to Jamar. His
personality is just it just shines through and he's not
a stuffy, coach beat cliche kind of guy. I'm a
little worried he might that might have happened it's a podium,
but he felt very comfortable up there.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I By the way, I am also someone who doesn't
really care that much about what he puts on his body.
And I'm not even close to my twenties, So Jamar
and I kind of kind of have that in common.
What can you tell me from an injury per active
today that we need to know?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, to tell you the truth, I have not got
the injury report yet, so but but Zack Moss was
back at practice today, so that's that's a good sign.
Sheldon Rankins went again. Things are trending toward him playing,
which will which will be huge. This will be the
first time they've they've really had the defensive line rotation
they envisioned when the season started. You know, Miles Murphy
(02:25):
missed the first four weeks and Beja Hill was out
for a while. He's back now. Joseph Osis dealing with
a shoulder injury, so he's that's still touch and go,
but he's kind of far back into rotation anyhow. But
getting Sheldon Rankings back would be a huge step and
kind of getting this defense turned around. Looks like Mike
Hilton's gonna be good to go to after missing them
last week with a knee injury.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So last week, amid you know, all the talk of
them not getting to the quarterback, they decided to blitz
Lamar Jackson forty one times with Sheldon Rankins back, a
guy that they signed to provide pass rush up the middle,
and the blitz last week not really work, do they
eighty six the blitz?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't think so, because the Lamar is just who
he is. The blitz didn't. It wasn't because the Blitz
didn't get there. It's because Lamar got away from it.
Daniel Jones isn't a sitting duck back there, but he
doesn't move like Lamar, and I just think that it's something.
I don't think we're going to see himlft the way
they did with Lamar. But I was looking at the
blitz rates and the Bengals the last three years have
(03:26):
been down near the bottom of the league and the
low twenty percentile. They were up in the mid thirties
and twenty twenty and twenty nineteen when things were going bad,
and things are going bad now and they're at thirty
percent right now. So I could see Lou still kind
of leaning into it. Maybe wait and see when you
get rankings back, if they can get pressure with four.
But I don't think last week goes on off. I
do think we're going to see the defense blitz a
(03:47):
little bit more so.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Early in the season, Jordan Battle was buried and a
lot of us wondered, well, why don't they put him
out there? And Lou talked about it last week and
then they put him out there and it didn't go well.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Does that mean he's bare again?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah? A good question. I mean, I don't think it's
he's going to be buried again, but I think it's
going to slow down any kind of progress towards him
eating more into Von bell snaps. It just seems, you know,
he's younger, he's faster. Von clearly has lost a step
and he means so much back there as far as
(04:23):
the traffic cop and getting everybody on the same page.
But you do want to see Jordan battle out there,
and it was limited. It was only a handful of
snaps that he played. So I don't know that that's
going to cause him to go back on the bench altogether,
but I do think it's going to stunt his ascension
into even more and more start more and more snaps.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Jay Morrison is with US Bengals Talk dot Com on
x by Jay Morrison. Send him a happy birthday tweet
Von Bell coming back. You know, look, we I think
we would acknowledge when he came back he may have
lost a step, but it's worth it because of what
he brings to the table, communication wise, leadership wise.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
All that Gino Stone was.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
A guy they brought here and we thought, you know,
he's still ascending, and since he's arrived in Cincinnati. We
haven't seen any continuation of that ascension. Is are there
explanations as to why?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, I think the biggest thing is he's he's the ballhawk.
He sits back their play center field, makes teams pay
for the mistakes and a lot of a lot of
the turnovers he created in Baltimore came when when they
were playing from with the lead and teams were forced
to pass, and and that just hasn't happened this year.
The Bengals have been playing from behind or just going
(05:39):
back and forth, touchdown, touchdown, touch touchdown, like the Washington game,
like the Baltimore game. I think if they can get
a lead, and and they did have one in Carolina,
so I guess that that that theories maybe could test
a little bit here. But I do think that just
getting him settled in and it hasn't been good. I
think they all they all realize that. But again it's
(06:00):
five games. I don't think anybody's ready to write him
off yet, but they have not come close to getting
what they thought they were getting from him.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think of him chasing down Derrick Henry on that drive,
that on that play that set up the field goal
and maybe one play he made against Washington, and there
just haven't been all that many.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, whatever you do for your birthday, have a great.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Time, enjoy the game on Sunday, and we'll talk next week.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Thank you as always.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
All right, thanks Moe.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's our guy. Jay Morrison, Bengals Talk dot Com. I
got a text here. My brother lives in New York.
Doesn't live in the city. He lives maybe forty five
minutes outside the city. He lives in New York and
he is a a very very very very casual sports fan,
(06:48):
but he identifies as a Bengals fan. He follows them
very casually. He texted me a short while ago that
he has a ticket to the game on Sunday, and
he sent me a picture of the jersey he ordered
(07:08):
to wear to the game. I don't know, man, I
get the sense Giants fans are a little bit more
bougie than Jets fans are.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Primetime game.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The thing is, if you've ever been to that stadium,
they play nothing nearby, you tailgate or you bust in
from somewhere and nowhere to go. So I've provided a warning,
like I'm bad have historically been on I've never seen.
I saw the Bengals play the Giants in New Jersey
when I was in college. I actually saw Danny kaneal
beat the Bengals nineteen ninety seven. And now I'm like,
(07:47):
my brother's thirteen years younger than me. I'm like sending
them text like a concerned parent that I just please,
please don't get stabbed or beaten up. Got a jamar
Chase Jersey. I don't know that he I.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Say this to his face. I don't know that he
really does. And he listens. I mean he does listen,
but oh my man, I don't know. I don't know.
I've not been to a primetime game in New Jersey.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't know that I would do that in Cleveland.
I went to a game in Cleveland last year and
I we were with folks. I wore a I wore
a Bengals T shirt. Nobody gave me a hard time.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Let's see, I don't know why that came up four
point thirty UH Sports Headlines, Our guy Dan Klaskins get
Sportsinfo dot Com on UH Fantasy Football, help for you
and for me as a Week six approaches, Our buddy
Robert Winstrop coming up at.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Five point twenty as well.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We have a lot to get to between now and
three Orthos Cincy Mowegger's show on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati
Sports Station.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You've been listening to a football in Thennettie on the
official home of the Bengals, Cincinnatis, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnatis
ESPN
In Annetti, brought to you in bart by Modern Office
Methods on the official home of the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN
fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Twenty two minutes after four o'clock. This is ESBN fifteen thirty.
On Thursdays, we chat with our friend Jay Morrison from
Bengals Talk Sports Illustrated Bengals Talk. But today is special
because it's Jay's birthday. Are you doing anything fun for
your birthday besides talking to me?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
No, This is the highlight of my day right here.
I'll do some fun things tomorrow, but today it's just working.
Talking to you. Wow, very good, which is great.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The grind doesn't stop even on your birthday. I can
appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Did Jamar Chase to just talk? Were you there for that?
Did he say anything interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It was different. He was at the podium for the
first time ever. It's kind of the whole new locker
room policy. They're just trying to put the stars at
the podium, so that I mean, poor Charlie Jones is
a locker right next to Jamar Tomorrow likes the whole
court and sometimes for twenty minutes on Thursdays, Charlie can't
even get to his locker. It started off a little
(01:08):
a little buttoned up, just talking football stuff, and then
Jamar started loosing up, really got really got comfortable and
talking about his I guess body maintenance, how he doesn't
really worry about what he eats. He just eats whatever
he wants to eat, which I guess a lot of
guys in their twenties do. Yeah, and playing Madden and
(01:30):
just a lot of more fun things, which is which
is one of the highlights of talking to Jamar. His
personality is just it just shines through and he's not
a stuffy, coach beat cliche kind of guy. I'm a
little worried he might that might have happened it's a podium,
but he felt very comfortable up there.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I By the way, I am also someone who doesn't
really care that much about what he puts on his body.
And I'm not even close to my twenties, So Jamar
and I kind of kind of have that in common.
What can you tell me from an injury per active
today that we need to know?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, to tell you the truth, I have not got
the injury report yet, so but but Zack Moss was
back at practice today, so that's that's a good sign.
Sheldon Rankins went again. Things are trending toward him playing,
which will which will be huge. This will be the
first time they've they've really had the defensive line rotation
they envisioned when the season started. You know, Miles Murphy
(02:25):
missed the first four weeks and Beja Hill was out
for a while. He's back now. Joseph Osis dealing with
a shoulder injury, so he's that's still touch and go,
but he's kind of far back into rotation anyhow. But
getting Sheldon Rankings back would be a huge step and
kind of getting this defense turned around. Looks like Mike
Hilton's gonna be good to go to after missing them
last week with a knee injury.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So last week, amid you know, all the talk of
them not getting to the quarterback, they decided to blitz
Lamar Jackson forty one times with Sheldon Rankins back, a
guy that they signed to provide pass rush up the middle,
and the blitz last week not really work, do they
eighty six the blitz?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't think so, because the Lamar is just who
he is. The blitz didn't. It wasn't because the Blitz
didn't get there. It's because Lamar got away from it.
Daniel Jones isn't a sitting duck back there, but he
doesn't move like Lamar, and I just think that it's something.
I don't think we're going to see himlft the way
they did with Lamar. But I was looking at the
blitz rates and the Bengals the last three years have
(03:26):
been down near the bottom of the league and the
low twenty percentile. They were up in the mid thirties
and twenty twenty and twenty nineteen when things were going bad,
and things are going bad now and they're at thirty
percent right now. So I could see Lou still kind
of leaning into it. Maybe wait and see when you
get rankings back, if they can get pressure with four.
But I don't think last week goes on off. I
do think we're going to see the defense blitz a
(03:47):
little bit more so.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Early in the season, Jordan Battle was buried and a
lot of us wondered, well, why don't they put him
out there? And Lou talked about it last week and
then they put him out there and it didn't go well.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Does that mean he's bare again?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah? A good question. I mean, I don't think it's
he's going to be buried again, but I think it's
going to slow down any kind of progress towards him
eating more into Von bell snaps. It just seems, you know,
he's younger, he's faster. Von clearly has lost a step
and he means so much back there as far as
(04:23):
the traffic cop and getting everybody on the same page.
But you do want to see Jordan battle out there,
and it was limited. It was only a handful of
snaps that he played. So I don't know that that's
going to cause him to go back on the bench altogether,
but I do think it's going to stunt his ascension
into even more and more start more and more snaps.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Jay Morrison is with US Bengals Talk dot Com on
x by Jay Morrison. Send him a happy birthday tweet
Von Bell coming back. You know, look, we I think
we would acknowledge when he came back he may have
lost a step, but it's worth it because of what
he brings to the table, communication wise, leadership wise.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
All that Gino Stone was.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
A guy they brought here and we thought, you know,
he's still ascending, and since he's arrived in Cincinnati. We
haven't seen any continuation of that ascension. Is are there
explanations as to why?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, I think the biggest thing is he's he's the ballhawk.
He sits back their play center field, makes teams pay
for the mistakes and a lot of a lot of
the turnovers he created in Baltimore came when when they
were playing from with the lead and teams were forced
to pass, and and that just hasn't happened this year.
The Bengals have been playing from behind or just going
(05:39):
back and forth, touchdown, touchdown, touch touchdown, like the Washington game,
like the Baltimore game. I think if they can get
a lead, and and they did have one in Carolina,
so I guess that that that theories maybe could test
a little bit here. But I do think that just
getting him settled in and it hasn't been good. I
think they all they all realize that. But again it's
(06:00):
five games. I don't think anybody's ready to write him
off yet, but they have not come close to getting
what they thought they were getting from him.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think of him chasing down Derrick Henry on that drive,
that on that play that set up the field goal
and maybe one play he made against Washington, and there
just haven't been all that many.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, whatever you do for your birthday, have a great.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Time, enjoy the game on Sunday, and we'll talk next week.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Thank you as always.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
All right, thanks Moe.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's our guy. Jay Morrison, Bengals Talk dot Com. I
got a text here. My brother lives in New York.
Doesn't live in the city. He lives maybe forty five
minutes outside the city. He lives in New York and
he is a a very very very very casual sports fan,
(06:48):
but he identifies as a Bengals fan. He follows them
very casually. He texted me a short while ago that
he has a ticket to the game on Sunday, and
he sent me a picture of the jersey he ordered
(07:08):
to wear to the game. I don't know, man, I
get the sense Giants fans are a little bit more
bougie than Jets fans are.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Primetime game.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The thing is, if you've ever been to that stadium,
they play nothing nearby, you tailgate or you bust in
from somewhere and nowhere to go. So I've provided a warning,
like I'm bad have historically been on I've never seen.
I saw the Bengals play the Giants in New Jersey
when I was in college. I actually saw Danny kaneal
beat the Bengals nineteen ninety seven. And now I'm like,
(07:47):
my brother's thirteen years younger than me. I'm like sending
them text like a concerned parent that I just please,
please don't get stabbed or beaten up. Got a jamar
Chase Jersey. I don't know that he I.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Say this to his face. I don't know that he
really does. And he listens. I mean he does listen,
but oh my man, I don't know. I don't know.
I've not been to a primetime game in New Jersey.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't know that I would do that in Cleveland.
I went to a game in Cleveland last year and
I we were with folks. I wore a I wore
a Bengals T shirt. Nobody gave me a hard time.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Let's see, I don't know why that came up four
point thirty UH Sports Headlines, Our guy Dan Klaskins get
Sportsinfo dot Com on UH Fantasy Football, help for you
and for me as a Week six approaches, Our buddy
Robert Winstrop coming up at.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Five point twenty as well.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We have a lot to get to between now and
three Orthos Cincy Mowegger's show on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati
Sports Station.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You've been listening to a football in Thennettie on the
official home of the Bengals, Cincinnatis, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnatis
ESPN
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