9/22/25: Who Dey Today with Rocky and Mo

Why can't the Bengals run the ball?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rocky. The Bengals are coming off their worst defeat ever,
forty eight to ten on the road at the hands
of the Minnesota Vikings. Everything went wrong in that game,
but something that has gone wrong in every game this
season has been the Bengals running game. On Sunday against
the Vikings, they average two point five yards of carry
and pretty much every metric you can find, the Bengals

(00:20):
are at or near the bottom in rushing. Why can't
this team run the ball?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, well here's another one. They're averaging forty nine rush
yards per game. That's dead last in the NFL. It
is the eternal question. It's been the question MO for
a couple of years. And I think the case that's
made is, Okay, this is a Joe Burrow powered offense.
So you bring in offensive lineman whose specialty is pass

(00:45):
blocking and maybe not so much run blocking. And now,
of course Burrow is out, so it's a different animal.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
You would think they would be able to run the
ball simply by the realization that got to the wide
receivers in the NFL, Jamar Chase and t Higgins outside.
That should kind of give you a light box, you
would think. But even with that they still can't do it.
They've changed offensive line, coach. It's like, no matter what
they tried, I think it just comes down to having
the right guys, having the right personnel. I mean, Orlando

(01:16):
Brown looked like he was eighty years old out there,
you know, both run back blocking and pass blocking.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
So it really is a conundrum. It's got to be fixed.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's got to be something the coach is willing to
want to do as well.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
How much of it is scheme, Well.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
They they've gone back and forth though, right from a
wide zone to like a gap scheme, and now they're
you know, it's like they keep searching for something. They
changed the coach, they change the players, and I don't know,
it's I'm really at a loss for it other than
it's just the running the ball is a mindset, and
I know that's kind of cliche, but it's a mindset
and it's a mentality of dominating physically dominating your opponent.

(01:55):
I just don't feel like I feel the Bengals offensive
line when it.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Comes to that.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I couldn't agree anymore. Up next for the Bengals Monday
night Football against the Broncos in Denver, a game you'll
hear on seven hundred WLW with kickoff at eight fifteen
with Rocky Boyman I'm Mullleger