November 18, 2025 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is sports with soul, sweat and swagger. Tony Pike
SINXY three sixty Tomorrow at twelve noon on ESPN fifteen thirty.
This is Football in the NATI, brought to you by
Modern Office Methods on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home
(00:21):
of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
All Right, our guys, Sean Sayed from the Stats and
Scheme newsletter from Summer Sports dot Com, is joining us.
He's typically with us at five twenty. But our show's
done early today at five o'clock. Really quick. Before we
get to Sean. This had been talked about in high
school football circles for at least since Sunday, but the
(00:45):
elder sayin next game is officially being moved to the
venue originally known as Paul Brown Stadium. It's going to
take place on Friday evening. If you already had tickets
for the game at Mason High School, they will honor
those tickets. You could order tickets for the game at
OHSAA dot org slash tickets. They go on sale tomorrow
(01:07):
at ten o'clock. They're going to make an incremental twenty
thousand tickets available for sale. Kickoff is going to be
at seven o'clock. They'll sell parking all of that stuff.
So the elder say, next game, which students really didn't
have access to because they went on sale while kids
were in school, game was going to be at Mason
High School. They are going to play it at PBS
and again, get tickets at OHSAA dot org. Our guy,
(01:31):
Sean Side is with US stats and scheme newsletter suomer
sports dot com, which, by the way, make sure to
check out sumer Brain. Sean, It's it's Groundhog Day for
you and I. But it's good to have you. How
are you?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, it's great, you know, it was fun to hear
you talk about that high school football game. I obviously
hope that all those people that end up going to
that see some better tackling than what we have to
talk about on a weekly basis.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Better tackling and better effort. Like that's I think for
a lot of us the big takeaway from Pittsburgh. You
can come up with whatever schemes you want. When you
have players who are allergic to contact, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I think you know, you see some effort, good effort
from Miles Murphy, like you're excited to see. Okay, this
could be a player that's part of your defense kind
of in the long haul, but absolutely, like I would
love to come here and talk about, oh, this is
the cool scheme that would work in this situation. But
really on the defensive end, there were some fun things
that the Steelers did on defense in this game. I
will say to combat the Bengals, but yeah, on the
(02:27):
defensive end, gonna need a little bit better I think
from this Bengals defense.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Let's talk about some of the things that Pittsburgh did
do because the first time these two teams played, the
Steelers state and man defense and Jamar Chase and t
Higgins burned them. This time around, totally different game plan,
and it felt like the Bengals had no answer.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Absolutely, it felt like you get to some of those smarter,
too high safety type looks where if you even get
situations where it's kind of like man converage, but then
both of the stacies are also brackening Higgins and Chase,
and you go through the history of how teams have
tried to deal with the Bengals at their peak, and
that is I think the right way to do it.
I remember the Chargers trying it against them, and then
you get a double move. I think it was Higgins
(03:08):
that ended up on a touchdown. I believe that was
last year. Maybe it was the year before that, but
that is it makes sense, like this is how you
attack an offense that is built fully through their two
really really good wide receiver. Then I'm not saying it's
a bad thing, like you want to have an offense
built through two really good receivers. But it does make
me think a little bit, like you had actually brought
it up last week, like oh do you think like
(03:28):
now we look at Burrow and think, oh, well, how
do you take some of the things from this new
offensive approach? It might just be me like racking my
head over and over. We'll watching this kind of saying
game happen over and over. But I'm really really curious
what kind of changes does this offense make when I'm
watching a team like the Bills fully transform their identity,
like really really change in a specific way to I
(03:49):
think help their quarterback and kind of remove some offense play.
I'm fascinated to see when Burrow comes back healthy, are
you adjusting your game a little bit? I think maybe
get a little bit better with modern defenses.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I also feel like, can you could tell me if
the tape matches this, and this is not the first
time we've talked about it. I feel like, let's assume
Joe plays a week from Thursday. He is going to
be playing behind an offensive line that is better than
the one that he played behind the first two games.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And I mean, yeah, not an offensive line that we're
hanging in the rafters of our time talking together. I
don't want to say that by any means, but I
think you get some solid effort. I kind of enjoyed
a little bit of what you've seen from Fairtrial at
different points along this season. So you have guys healthy now.
I mean next week, obviously we know that Jamar Chase
won't be there, but you have parts of a run
(04:35):
game that like, I hang onto this every week when
I know that I have to turn on the tape,
I know I'm going to get something from I got
Chase brand every week. I just know I'm going to
see something that I like there. So I think then
it becomes a comment on as a coaching staff, can
you really you kind of have to sell I think
Joe a little bit and say this is the offense
that's going to put us in a position to succeed consistently.
(04:56):
And I think Burrow could also say, Hey, look, I'm
one of the best quarterbacks in this league. You don't
need to draw up all that funky under center stuff
or anything like that. Like I can just win over
and over. But I'm like, I just I want to
see I think I want to see this team evolve.
I think it'll be more fun for us talking every week.
But also just as teams continue to approach this offense
and say, look, like, do you want to win jump
(05:17):
balls with See Higgins and Jamar Chase every time? No,
but you're going to run into games where defense is
find a way to double team those guys, and then
you just don't have answers outside of that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Uh. The Patriots on one of the more fun stories
in the NFL. Everybody believes in like Vrabel, everybody believes
in Drake May. What are they doing schematically that has
allowed them to overachieve at least to this point this season.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So this is a great example because I think that
Josh mccamas is Austin Drake May to do like every
single thing in the playoffs, He's getting under center, he's
taking those deeper drop backs. He's using play action, and
so you see Drake May really highlighted because he is
using every single little skill that he hacks. I think
Joe Burrow can do absolutely everything. So I would be
curious if you get him kind of in a situation
(06:00):
like the Patriots, where one thing I love about the Patriots,
and we'll see this in the game, is whatever Drake
May drops back, you just know exactly where he's going
to be. It's very predictable, it's very close in a
good way, and that the offensive tackles their lives are
made easier because their quarterback's dropping to the same spot.
He's not drifting, he's not falling back. He's in a
really really clean spot. And then he can also make
(06:20):
plays against pressure, like what we saw on Thursday Nights
against the Jets. So do I think this team is
the best team in the AFC. I mean no, I don't,
but there I think a lot better than what they
expected to be this year. They have the absolute chance
to win the division, which I think is is pretty
well and maybe even be that number one seed in
the AFC.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
How does a bad defense combat what they're doing? Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, The a question It's like it's I just want
to see better tackling, right, because the Patriots run game
is not this like running game that should that is
like changing football in any sort of way, right, Like
a lot of what's happening in their success is because
of Drake May making these nice passes, and so like
I keep thinking about it, like, oh, like, what does
(07:04):
change in the defensive coordinator or the defensive play caller
really do at this point? I mean, can you literally
get these guys to tackle better? Like so that that
to me is the best situation where I do think
we've actually seen the Patriots have some success with their receivers.
We see the make connection two digs a little bit
more then I think maybe what we had even expacted
going into this year. So I don't feel like they
(07:27):
have like overwhelming receivers that will like they don't have
Chase and Higgins, right, they obviously don't, and so they're
not morphing the field in that way. But they just
like are so consistent, Chris clean and good at what
they do. So you know, you want to try and
lead into the variant at some point and hopefully you
can get some of those third downs. Maybe you get
Drake May to kind of find that Boz of it
you had a little bit more last season.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I love the data that the Stats and Scheme newsletter
puts in my inbox every week. For those who haven't
subscribed yet, what will they get?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The data notes for every in the game and detailed stuff.
If you were the head coach that took over a team,
this is the data that I would give you and say, Okay,
we need to know everything a tendency. We need to
know exactly what teams do well, we need to do
exactly what teams do poorly. Now, I will say for
a lot of these Bengals boxes, there's a lot of red.
Don't let that discourage you. There's some other teams in
the NFL that you can learn about as well.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And for folks who haven't been to suomer sports dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, sewersports dot com. You can check out some of
our writing. You can check out our free data table,
so you can look.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
At a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I really liked this thing. We call suomer Brain supersports
dot com slash Stoomer Brain. Just type in a question,
type in any sort of data that you're worried about.
You know, what is the Bengals passing efficiency? When Joe
Brow is under center. We'll give you some data all
for free, and some fun things that you can talk
about at home.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Suomer Sports dot Com s U. M. E. R. Sean said,
you're the best man. Thanks so much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You got it. Suomer sports dot com. Sean sayat subscribe
to whose newsletter? These stats and scheme news? Taylor twelveman
in twelve minutes. We're at Oakley Greens. This is ESPN
fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You've been listening to football in the NATI on ESPN
fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
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Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is sports with soul, sweat and swagger. Tony Pike
SINXY three sixty Tomorrow at twelve noon on ESPN fifteen thirty.
This is Football in the NATI, brought to you by
Modern Office Methods on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home
(00:21):
of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
All Right, our guys, Sean Sayed from the Stats and
Scheme newsletter from Summer Sports dot Com, is joining us.
He's typically with us at five twenty. But our show's
done early today at five o'clock. Really quick. Before we
get to Sean. This had been talked about in high
school football circles for at least since Sunday, but the
(00:45):
elder sayin next game is officially being moved to the
venue originally known as Paul Brown Stadium. It's going to
take place on Friday evening. If you already had tickets
for the game at Mason High School, they will honor
those tickets. You could order tickets for the game at
OHSAA dot org slash tickets. They go on sale tomorrow
(01:07):
at ten o'clock. They're going to make an incremental twenty
thousand tickets available for sale. Kickoff is going to be
at seven o'clock. They'll sell parking all of that stuff.
So the elder say, next game, which students really didn't
have access to because they went on sale while kids
were in school, game was going to be at Mason
High School. They are going to play it at PBS
and again, get tickets at OHSAA dot org. Our guy,
(01:31):
Sean Side is with US stats and scheme newsletter suomer
sports dot com, which, by the way, make sure to
check out sumer Brain. Sean, It's it's Groundhog Day for
you and I. But it's good to have you. How
are you?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, it's great, you know, it was fun to hear
you talk about that high school football game. I obviously
hope that all those people that end up going to
that see some better tackling than what we have to
talk about on a weekly basis.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Better tackling and better effort. Like that's I think for
a lot of us the big takeaway from Pittsburgh. You
can come up with whatever schemes you want. When you
have players who are allergic to contact, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I think you know, you see some effort, good effort
from Miles Murphy, like you're excited to see. Okay, this
could be a player that's part of your defense kind
of in the long haul, but absolutely, like I would
love to come here and talk about, oh, this is
the cool scheme that would work in this situation. But
really on the defensive end, there were some fun things
that the Steelers did on defense in this game. I
will say to combat the Bengals, but yeah, on the
(02:27):
defensive end, gonna need a little bit better I think
from this Bengals defense.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Let's talk about some of the things that Pittsburgh did
do because the first time these two teams played, the
Steelers state and man defense and Jamar Chase and t
Higgins burned them. This time around, totally different game plan,
and it felt like the Bengals had no answer.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Absolutely, it felt like you get to some of those smarter,
too high safety type looks where if you even get
situations where it's kind of like man converage, but then
both of the stacies are also brackening Higgins and Chase,
and you go through the history of how teams have
tried to deal with the Bengals at their peak, and
that is I think the right way to do it.
I remember the Chargers trying it against them, and then
you get a double move. I think it was Higgins
(03:08):
that ended up on a touchdown. I believe that was
last year. Maybe it was the year before that, but
that is it makes sense, like this is how you
attack an offense that is built fully through their two
really really good wide receiver. Then I'm not saying it's
a bad thing, like you want to have an offense
built through two really good receivers. But it does make
me think a little bit, like you had actually brought
it up last week, like oh do you think like
(03:28):
now we look at Burrow and think, oh, well, how
do you take some of the things from this new
offensive approach? It might just be me like racking my
head over and over. We'll watching this kind of saying
game happen over and over. But I'm really really curious
what kind of changes does this offense make when I'm
watching a team like the Bills fully transform their identity,
like really really change in a specific way to I
(03:49):
think help their quarterback and kind of remove some offense play.
I'm fascinated to see when Burrow comes back healthy, are
you adjusting your game a little bit? I think maybe
get a little bit better with modern defenses.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I also feel like, can you could tell me if
the tape matches this, and this is not the first
time we've talked about it. I feel like, let's assume
Joe plays a week from Thursday. He is going to
be playing behind an offensive line that is better than
the one that he played behind the first two games.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And I mean, yeah, not an offensive line that we're
hanging in the rafters of our time talking together. I
don't want to say that by any means, but I
think you get some solid effort. I kind of enjoyed
a little bit of what you've seen from Fairtrial at
different points along this season. So you have guys healthy now.
I mean next week, obviously we know that Jamar Chase
won't be there, but you have parts of a run
(04:35):
game that like, I hang onto this every week when
I know that I have to turn on the tape,
I know I'm going to get something from I got
Chase brand every week. I just know I'm going to
see something that I like there. So I think then
it becomes a comment on as a coaching staff, can
you really you kind of have to sell I think
Joe a little bit and say this is the offense
that's going to put us in a position to succeed consistently.
(04:56):
And I think Burrow could also say, Hey, look, I'm
one of the best quarterbacks in this league. You don't
need to draw up all that funky under center stuff
or anything like that. Like I can just win over
and over. But I'm like, I just I want to
see I think I want to see this team evolve.
I think it'll be more fun for us talking every week.
But also just as teams continue to approach this offense
and say, look, like, do you want to win jump
(05:17):
balls with See Higgins and Jamar Chase every time? No,
but you're going to run into games where defense is
find a way to double team those guys, and then
you just don't have answers outside of that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Uh. The Patriots on one of the more fun stories
in the NFL. Everybody believes in like Vrabel, everybody believes
in Drake May. What are they doing schematically that has
allowed them to overachieve at least to this point this season.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So this is a great example because I think that
Josh mccamas is Austin Drake May to do like every
single thing in the playoffs, He's getting under center, he's
taking those deeper drop backs. He's using play action, and
so you see Drake May really highlighted because he is
using every single little skill that he hacks. I think
Joe Burrow can do absolutely everything. So I would be
curious if you get him kind of in a situation
(06:00):
like the Patriots, where one thing I love about the Patriots,
and we'll see this in the game, is whatever Drake
May drops back, you just know exactly where he's going
to be. It's very predictable, it's very close in a
good way, and that the offensive tackles their lives are
made easier because their quarterback's dropping to the same spot.
He's not drifting, he's not falling back. He's in a
really really clean spot. And then he can also make
(06:20):
plays against pressure, like what we saw on Thursday Nights
against the Jets. So do I think this team is
the best team in the AFC. I mean no, I don't,
but there I think a lot better than what they
expected to be this year. They have the absolute chance
to win the division, which I think is is pretty
well and maybe even be that number one seed in
the AFC.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
How does a bad defense combat what they're doing? Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, The a question It's like it's I just want
to see better tackling, right, because the Patriots run game
is not this like running game that should that is
like changing football in any sort of way, right, Like
a lot of what's happening in their success is because
of Drake May making these nice passes, and so like
I keep thinking about it, like, oh, like, what does
(07:04):
change in the defensive coordinator or the defensive play caller
really do at this point? I mean, can you literally
get these guys to tackle better? Like so that that
to me is the best situation where I do think
we've actually seen the Patriots have some success with their receivers.
We see the make connection two digs a little bit
more then I think maybe what we had even expacted
going into this year. So I don't feel like they
(07:27):
have like overwhelming receivers that will like they don't have
Chase and Higgins, right, they obviously don't, and so they're
not morphing the field in that way. But they just
like are so consistent, Chris clean and good at what
they do. So you know, you want to try and
lead into the variant at some point and hopefully you
can get some of those third downs. Maybe you get
Drake May to kind of find that Boz of it
you had a little bit more last season.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I love the data that the Stats and Scheme newsletter
puts in my inbox every week. For those who haven't
subscribed yet, what will they get?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The data notes for every in the game and detailed stuff.
If you were the head coach that took over a team,
this is the data that I would give you and say, Okay,
we need to know everything a tendency. We need to
know exactly what teams do well, we need to do
exactly what teams do poorly. Now, I will say for
a lot of these Bengals boxes, there's a lot of red.
Don't let that discourage you. There's some other teams in
the NFL that you can learn about as well.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And for folks who haven't been to suomer sports dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, sewersports dot com. You can check out some of
our writing. You can check out our free data table,
so you can look.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
At a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I really liked this thing. We call suomer Brain supersports
dot com slash Stoomer Brain. Just type in a question,
type in any sort of data that you're worried about.
You know, what is the Bengals passing efficiency? When Joe
Brow is under center. We'll give you some data all
for free, and some fun things that you can talk
about at home.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Suomer Sports dot Com s U. M. E. R. Sean said,
you're the best man. Thanks so much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You got it. Suomer sports dot com. Sean sayat subscribe
to whose newsletter? These stats and scheme news? Taylor twelveman
in twelve minutes. We're at Oakley Greens. This is ESPN
fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You've been listening to football in the NATI on ESPN
fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Are you one of the thirty eight million Americans impacted
by diabetes? Get personalized education and treatment options from the
experts at UCE health. Learn more at UCHealth dot com.
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lanes blocked from an accident. Traffic getting by in the
right lane also backed up from seventy five westbound Ronald
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