October 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Jay Morrison on Bengals/Lions week 5 matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Football in the Nattie, brought to you in
part by Postman Law and Vice. Skyline Chilly on ESPN
fifteen point thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Jane Morrison joins us on Thursdays Bengals Talk dot Com,
also part of the Growler Podcast with Paul Danner Junior.
If you want to read something really sobering, go to
Bengals Talk dot com and read about what the Bengals
were in jeopardy of doing if they get beaten by
(00:32):
the Detroit Lions on Sunday, which pretty much everybody thinks
is going to happen. So let's Jay. It's nice to
have you as always. So in the aftermath of Monday night,
I guess the question is now what.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Get back on the horse, get back to work. And
I mean there's no other answer. This is a This
is not the kind of game you can put your
head down and pout and they've they've got to come out.
It's been interesting. I was really interested to see, you know,
yes day they had a night walk through and they
were free to go. After that they had had all
their meetings done and everything, and so by the time
(01:06):
Jake Browning was done with his press conference. We walked
in the locker room and it goes down. Nobody's in there.
They'd all gone home for the night. So today was
really the first day we got a chance to kind
of take the pulse of the locker room and talk
to some of the leaders, and it was it was
what you would want to see. And hear Jamar talking
about addressing the team after the loss and telling people
(01:29):
we want to see them get mad and angry and
not just take the loss. And Ted Carris was pretty
about as animated as I've seen him since since he's
been here. Whether that translates to Sunday, I don't know,
but it does seem like they are in the right
state of mind to get this thing turn around.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Who are the leaders of the team on defense, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
A great question. I Mean, Logan Wilson is just he's
been here for a long time, he's respected. He's maybe
not playing like a the kind of what you would
expect from a leader. You know, he's getting a little
bit older, but that there is a major absence there
on that side of the ball. I mean, they voted
(02:12):
Trey Hendrickson a captain, but he's just kind of in
his own little world and I don't know what he's
like in meetings and that type of thing, but he's
he's not the one that's working in the locker room.
He's rarely in the locker room when way in there,
and I think that's more product of us than his teammates,
but it is. That's that's an area where they are lacking.
And that's another thing, just not not just defense, but
(02:35):
everybody focuses on what Joe Burrow can do as the
player and the loss of him in that regard, but
he's the one guy that was the vocal guy that
was getting in guys faces and really stepped into that role,
and losing him in that role as a leader, it's
almost as important as losing him on the field as
(02:55):
a player. So there's there's some voids there and they're
looking for guys to step up up and I'm not sure,
you know, we kind of talked about on the podcast today,
who do you want to build around on that defense.
There's not a lot of answers how.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Long is Jake Browning's leash, whether it be in terms
of finding a guy from elsewhere or just seeing if
Brett Rippon could do any better.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Well, if it's the latter, If your answer is gonna
be Brett RiPP and I think the leash is a
little bit longer. If it's going out and getting someone
somewhere else, I think it's it's shorter. I think it's
something they have to be open to, especially if Sunday
looks like the last two weeks. Now, if they come
(03:41):
out and they're getting a shoot out with the Lions
and they still lose, I think that changes things. But
if this offense is as dreadful as it's been the
last two weeks on Sunday, I think they really have
to start considering it because at some point, you wait
too long. If they don't beat Detroit. Does anybody think
they're going to go to Green Bay and wind Does
anybody have a lot of Confiencey're going to be Pittsburgh
all of a sudden you're two and five. Is it
(04:03):
worth it at that point to give up assets and
try to go get a quarterback and get somebody in
here and get this thing turned around. If they're gonna
go out and get somebody else, it needs to happen soon,
and Sunday might be the determining factor.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I think that's the fear.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think a lot of us came out of that
Denver game not so much thinking about, all right, you know,
how do they survive these next few weeks? But but
how bad? How bad is this going to get? And
if it gets as bad as we all fear, what's
what's that going to mean for coach? What's what's that
going to mean for the staff? What's that going to
mean for the direction of this organization.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it's there's gonna be some tough questions. Because we
talked about it even last year when they fired Lou
that you only get to do that once. Blow it up,
find escapegoat. If things go south this year, it could
be Zach on the topping block. And I don't know
that he gets a pass with Burrow being heard because
they've he's already proven it once. He had a winning
(04:59):
record when Burrow got her two years ago. So if
this thing goes super south, I do think that he
would be in jeopardy of not coming back. I don't
think it's going to happen in the mid season. It
makes no sense. There's nobody on this staff with head
coaching experience. You're not going to be better by by
promoting a rookie head coach. And even if it's like
if there's someone like dam Pittrey, he's never evenen a
(05:20):
play caller before. So I don't think anything's going to
happen in season. But if this thing does go the
way a lot of people see it going, then there
could be a change at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This is this is not the conversation I thought we'd
be having right now about a month ago. Uh, Jay,
awesome as always, Man, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay, thank you moo.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's our man, Jay Morrison read them Bengals Talk dot
Com and part of the Growler Podcast with Paul Daaner Junior.
I believe we are guests for the rest of the
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(06:49):
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Speaker 1 (06:54):
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This is Football in the Nattie, brought to you in
part by Postman Law and Vice. Skyline Chilly on ESPN
fifteen point thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Jane Morrison joins us on Thursdays Bengals Talk dot Com,
also part of the Growler Podcast with Paul Danner Junior.
If you want to read something really sobering, go to
Bengals Talk dot com and read about what the Bengals
were in jeopardy of doing if they get beaten by
(00:32):
the Detroit Lions on Sunday, which pretty much everybody thinks
is going to happen. So let's Jay. It's nice to
have you as always. So in the aftermath of Monday night,
I guess the question is now what.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Get back on the horse, get back to work. And
I mean there's no other answer. This is a This
is not the kind of game you can put your
head down and pout and they've they've got to come out.
It's been interesting. I was really interested to see, you know,
yes day they had a night walk through and they
were free to go. After that they had had all
their meetings done and everything, and so by the time
(01:06):
Jake Browning was done with his press conference. We walked
in the locker room and it goes down. Nobody's in there.
They'd all gone home for the night. So today was
really the first day we got a chance to kind
of take the pulse of the locker room and talk
to some of the leaders, and it was it was
what you would want to see. And hear Jamar talking
about addressing the team after the loss and telling people
(01:29):
we want to see them get mad and angry and
not just take the loss. And Ted Carris was pretty
about as animated as I've seen him since since he's
been here. Whether that translates to Sunday, I don't know,
but it does seem like they are in the right
state of mind to get this thing turn around.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Who are the leaders of the team on defense, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
A great question. I Mean, Logan Wilson is just he's
been here for a long time, he's respected. He's maybe
not playing like a the kind of what you would
expect from a leader. You know, he's getting a little
bit older, but that there is a major absence there
on that side of the ball. I mean, they voted
(02:12):
Trey Hendrickson a captain, but he's just kind of in
his own little world and I don't know what he's
like in meetings and that type of thing, but he's
he's not the one that's working in the locker room.
He's rarely in the locker room when way in there,
and I think that's more product of us than his teammates,
but it is. That's that's an area where they are lacking.
And that's another thing, just not not just defense, but
(02:35):
everybody focuses on what Joe Burrow can do as the
player and the loss of him in that regard, but
he's the one guy that was the vocal guy that
was getting in guys faces and really stepped into that role,
and losing him in that role as a leader, it's
almost as important as losing him on the field as
(02:55):
a player. So there's there's some voids there and they're
looking for guys to step up up and I'm not sure,
you know, we kind of talked about on the podcast today,
who do you want to build around on that defense.
There's not a lot of answers how.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Long is Jake Browning's leash, whether it be in terms
of finding a guy from elsewhere or just seeing if
Brett Rippon could do any better.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Well, if it's the latter, If your answer is gonna
be Brett RiPP and I think the leash is a
little bit longer. If it's going out and getting someone
somewhere else, I think it's it's shorter. I think it's
something they have to be open to, especially if Sunday
looks like the last two weeks. Now, if they come
(03:41):
out and they're getting a shoot out with the Lions
and they still lose, I think that changes things. But
if this offense is as dreadful as it's been the
last two weeks on Sunday, I think they really have
to start considering it because at some point, you wait
too long. If they don't beat Detroit. Does anybody think
they're going to go to Green Bay and wind Does
anybody have a lot of Confiencey're going to be Pittsburgh
all of a sudden you're two and five. Is it
(04:03):
worth it at that point to give up assets and
try to go get a quarterback and get somebody in
here and get this thing turned around. If they're gonna
go out and get somebody else, it needs to happen soon,
and Sunday might be the determining factor.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I think that's the fear.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think a lot of us came out of that
Denver game not so much thinking about, all right, you know,
how do they survive these next few weeks? But but
how bad? How bad is this going to get? And
if it gets as bad as we all fear, what's
what's that going to mean for coach? What's what's that
going to mean for the staff? What's that going to
mean for the direction of this organization.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it's there's gonna be some tough questions. Because we
talked about it even last year when they fired Lou
that you only get to do that once. Blow it up,
find escapegoat. If things go south this year, it could
be Zach on the topping block. And I don't know
that he gets a pass with Burrow being heard because
they've he's already proven it once. He had a winning
(04:59):
record when Burrow got her two years ago. So if
this thing goes super south, I do think that he
would be in jeopardy of not coming back. I don't
think it's going to happen in the mid season. It
makes no sense. There's nobody on this staff with head
coaching experience. You're not going to be better by by
promoting a rookie head coach. And even if it's like
if there's someone like dam Pittrey, he's never evenen a
(05:20):
play caller before. So I don't think anything's going to
happen in season. But if this thing does go the
way a lot of people see it going, then there
could be a change at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This is this is not the conversation I thought we'd
be having right now about a month ago. Uh, Jay,
awesome as always, Man, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Okay, thank you moo.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's our man, Jay Morrison read them Bengals Talk dot
Com and part of the Growler Podcast with Paul Daaner Junior.
I believe we are guests for the rest of the
way five one, three, seven, four nine, fifteen thirty and
eight six six seven oh two three seven seven six.
We do have a pole question. Our pole questions come
your way. They're on Twitter thanks to United Heartland Insurance.
(06:02):
You know it's it's October Q four Q four, as
we say in the corporate world, Q four and so
Q four you started thinking about well insurance right, any
kind of insurance home, car, boat, motorcycle, life house. You
name it well. United Heartland Insurance can help you save
boatloads of money. Find out more uhis dot com. Considering
(06:26):
the entire body of work, regular season and postseason, how
would you assess Terry Francona's job performance this season? Great?
All right? Not good? Or awful? Right now? Alright? Leads
the way with sixty four percent. Vote now at Mulleger here,
I'll retweet myself. I might pin it. You never know
(06:49):
sports headlines and looking back on December twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Next, you've been listening to football in the Natti bi
Cincinnati tax resolution powered by Tope Sheldon on ESPN fifteen thirty,
the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals. Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
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