12-22-25 Bengals Line

Lance and Lap celebrate the Bengals' 45-21 win over the Dolphins in Miami.

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Speaker 2 (00:22):
All right, let's get it going. If it's Monday night,
it's Bengals line. Get ready. Three full hours coming your way.
Forty five fourteen the final numbers. Yesterday Bengals defeat the Dolphins.
Next up the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Plenty of ground
to cover between now and nine o'clock. So let's get
to it. Lance McAllister, Dave Lapham and Dave. Last week,
at this time we were discussing a shutout loss that

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eliminated the Bengals. We were wondering how they would respond.
This week, there were storylines around Zach and Joe, and
there was going to be a big weather difference, and
you add it all up and I give to you.
Probably if you looked in the dictionary under complimentary football,
it would probably say see yesterday's game in Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
No question about at Lance. I mean that that sums
it up right there. Your your comments are right on point.
They did. They went down and they took care of
business against the Miami Dolphins. There's no question about that.
And you know one all three phases did their job.
As Paul Brown used to say, do your job. You know,

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you don't have to do anything more. You don't do
anything less, and please don't do anything less. Just do
what you're supposed to do, how you're supposed to do it.
Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to
be there, all those good things. It was complimentary football
at his finest, as you mentioned, and you know, really
the star, the guy who basically led the troops led

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to pack Joe Burrow completed seventy three percent of his passes.
That's Kenny Anderson. Like I mean, that is pinpoint accuracy,
three hundred and nine yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions,
quarterback rating a one forty six point five. I mean,
amongst the best of his career. And then he had
he utilized multiple weapons. That was the other thing. I mean,

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they attacked the Miami Dolphins every way they could be
attacked and Jamar Chase at eleven targets, nine catches, hundred
and nine yards. T Higgins targeted three times fifty three
yards three catches. He averaged over seventeen yards seventeen point
seven per reception. Kasiki got in the mix. He threw

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the football to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
Ten different receivers caught a pass of his of his
thirty or twenty five completions to ten different receivers. That's
that's spraying the ball around, man. That's that's attacking every
quadrant of the football field. That's seeing the field. An

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offensive line gave him time to see the field. And
when you give Joe Burrow time to survey the field,
he'll pick your part. And he picked the Dolphins apart.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And defensively to create It's one to create turnovers, but
back to the complimentary point of turnovers into points. They
get a fumble, they turn into a touchdown, interception into
a touchdown, they get a fourth down stop, they turn
it into a touchdown, they get another interception, turn it
into a touchdown. That's all you could ask for. I mean,
that's perfection right there. On offensive defense helping each other out.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, in the defense. Those four turnovers you're talking about
all the current the third quarter, you know, I mean,
Miami runs three plays game, six yards funnels of football,
Bengals score touchdown. Miami goes three plays and they don't
gain a yard, interception, score a touchdown, and then six

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plays twenty eight yards they gain big, big drive there.
They average over four yards of play and lose the
ball on downs fourth down, stop, one play, throw an interception,
game no yards. Obviously, I mean that that defensive third
quarter historic. I'm not sure any team in the NFL
has ever done that. The opposition gets four drives, they've

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turned it over four times, and you score twenty four
points out of that bad boy crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
And last week we're talking about the Bengals getting into
Ravens territory not being able to score yesterday after the
ninety one yeard touchdown drive. They have TD drives of
fifty six, thirty four, thirty five, fifty three, fifty two.
Talking about making it easier on your.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Offense, Absolutely, those turnovers gave the Bengals offense short fields,
you know, and the Bengals offense capitalized. I mean again,
it's like one you know, one phase fit one one
unit supporting the other. The defense says, here's the takeaway.
The offense says, fine, thank you, appreciate it very much. Touchdown.
And you know, they kept doing that, they kept supporting

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each other. Early on in Bengals scored their first drive,
and then Miami scores and their first their first two drives,
and the Bengals score field goal on their second drive
fourteen to ten. And it's it's kind of a you know,
seesaw game back and forth in the first half. Well
played game, good game. Then in the third quarter, man
all hell broke loose, positively for the Bengals, negatively for

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the Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Boy, and we talked going in about their fine running
back eight Chan, who makes a lot of people miss
and had racked up yards, and he made a couple
of Bengals miss on a run early, the forty eight
yard touchdown run. But if you take that out, yeah,
if my butler math is right, if you take that
one playout the rest of the defense. He ran twenty
six times and they allowed just eighty one yards when

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it was all said and done, minus that big run.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean the Dolphins came in running the football well,
I mean their running attack was the thing they were
hanging their hat on. And twenty eight carries as a
football team for one hundred and twenty nine yards four
point six carry. The Bengals ground game was decent. I'm
not going to say it was stellar. It wasn't Hall
of Fame material or anything, but twenty six carries on

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the day one hundred and five yards average four per carry,
Chase brown Man five and a half few yards per carry,
and as long as Carrie was was was twelve yards.
He had sixty six yards wrestling, so he consistently hammered
it in there and got yards after contact, yards after
initial contact, and he held onto the football he'd had.

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He's a complete back. Talked to him in the locker
room after the game and mentioned that, you know, there
aren't many of those in the National Football League, and
he's very prideful of the fact that he's one of them.
He runs it effectively, inefficiently, he can catch the football,
and he's got really good soft hands. He runs excellent
routes and man blitz pick up. He sticks his nose
right in the chest and picks the linebacker safeties up

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and gives Joe Burrow time.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
All right, let's get reaction after the game. Here's Dave
with the coach, Zach Taylor.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'm proud.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
I'm not surprised by a response. I'm proud of the
response because you know, to be in this situation we're
in right now, come down here to vacation weather.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
For everything feels good. I've coached here.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
I've seen a lot of teams fall flat coming out
and for our guys respond and play complete game in
all three phases, especially the way they controlled the second half.
Defense came out and got four turnovers to start the
second half. Offense scored four touchdowns to start the second half.
Special teams was unbelievable with field position, everyboney's out there
playing loose, having fun making plays. It was really really
good to see.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't think i've ever seen a third quarter like
your team put together today. I mean, three takeaways, stop
on four down, you score three touchdowns, kick a field goal.
I mean that's total dominance. That was a butt kicking,
and that's a pretty damn good football team. The Miami Dolphins,
they're pretty solid.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
They are.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
They've got good talent, they've got a great coaching staff.
They've had a tough season, like we have, you know,
but we knew this was going to be a battle
coming in.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
We have a ton of.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Respect for him, and I was I was probably with
the responsor guys had.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Talk about coaching staffs, let's talk about yours. You know,
you obviously called a great game. Dan Pitcher put together
a good game plan. Al Golden put together a great
game plan. Defensively, Darren simm has been doing it for
a long time. Special teams like you mentioned, played at
a real high level, dominated field position, just overall totally
dominant performance, one unit complimenting the other.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
They were absolutely, you know, so proud of this coaching
staff for sticking in there and keep coaching these guys
up and getting the most out of them. Appreciate the
players for how they've responded. They've taken the coaching, They've
given great effort. We expect none the less form our guys.
But still you can look around in a lot of
these situations and you don't get all that. So again,
just just prout of the way our guys responded and
handle business today.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think that's the thing I'm gonna remember about this
football team. The most played twelve years altogether. I know
what It's like when the worm's not going your way,
the worm doesn't turn your way, and you lose close
football games and you're given hillacious effort and so doing.
These guys never quit though, never even thought about quitting.
I mean, it's not even in their vocabulary.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
How proud are you?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
How proud are you of that?

Speaker 5 (08:48):
It's just a credit to the men we have in
the locker room. They're gonna handle their business, They're gonna
play for the guy next to them. And so again,
I didn't expect anything less, but it's always great to see.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Coach has always appreciated big win and two more go
three and old to close the season out that dogget
hunt Ster.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
We'll start with the next one. We'll focus on the
next one and then go from there, one at a time.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
I love it, Thanks Coach, appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Zach summon up forty five fourteen, your final score yesterday,
still ahead. We'll hear from Chase Brown and Miles Murphy
and Mike Is, Sicky T. Higgins, Barrett Carter and Moore.
We are up and running, man, do we have a
lot to get to tonight on Bengals Line on the
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Speaker 8 (09:28):
The Bengals line on this half.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Of the Bengals Radio network at seven hundred WLWE Malanger
hanging out with Dave Blavel as we do each Monday night.
Joe Burrow yesterday twenty five of thirty two through the air,
three hundred and nine yards passing, force touchdowns, no interceptions,
quarterback rating of holy cow.

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Look at those.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Numbers, one forty six point five. Here's Joe with Dave
after the game.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
How do you feel like you played today?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
I thought I played pretty well.

Speaker 10 (09:57):
You know, I just took what was there, and our
as are making plays down the field with the ball.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
In their hands.

Speaker 10 (10:04):
You know, I got greedy once or twice, But I thought,
for the most part, is a pretty clean game.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Unbelievable day twenty five of thirty two. I think that's
a seventy three percent completion percentage or something thereabouts. Three
hundred and nine yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions. That's
a that's a hell of a hell of a stat line.
What did you see out there? What were the Miami
Dolphins trying to do?

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well?

Speaker 10 (10:29):
They played a little single high early and t got
him out of it. He had two big plays early on.
That's kind of set the tone for the rest of
the game. And then we just got a lot of
soft zone after that. So then after that we just
started dinking and duncan and making plays after the catch.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
The third quarter, you ever been part of a third
quarter like that? I mean the defense just turned them
over three times. They had a stop on fourth down.
I mean they didn't score a point, and you guys
scored I think it was twenty four three touchdowns and
kicked a field goal. I mean, you've ever been in
a quarter as dominant is that one.

Speaker 10 (11:00):
Defense is making plays like that. You have a short field,
you gotta convert. You know, we were able to convert
on on all four of those opportunities, So that felt great.
But it's fun watching these these young defensive players find
their groove and keep getting better.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
You mentioned the team played well, got them out of
that cover one. Your your running mate Jamar Chase was
outstanding again, But I mean he's outstanding every week. The guy,
the guy is the best. He's the best in the league.
Having a one to two punch like that, what does
that do for your offense?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
It just opens everything up.

Speaker 10 (11:33):
You know, they really defenses have to build their game
plan around those guys, and we know that and they
know that, and so we can execute plays based on that.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
And we have everything in our back.

Speaker 10 (11:45):
Pocket, know what to get to when you know we
face all these different kinds of coverages. We faced basically
everyone that you could see over the last four or
five years.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
And you know, we've done a good job building.

Speaker 10 (11:59):
The packages to attack all these certain coverages that we
see based on those two guys.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
T Higgins big, strong, physical athletic, Ron Rouse catch the football,
will block uh T Jamar Chase same thing. You've known
him since since the college days. I mean the guys,
in my opinion, the best receiver in the National Football League,
yosiv Andre Yosi vash coming into his own. He's starting
to make plays for your Joe. I mean, you're you're

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going to him. You have trust and confidence in Yosi,
and then Kisiki. I mean that's four weapons right there.
And then forget I mean you can't forget about Chase
Brown checking it down to him out of the backfield.
I mean Tanner Hudson.

Speaker 10 (12:42):
Yeah, we have so many We have so many weapons
and guys that fit into so many different roles on
this team and really embrace their role and they're not
going to try to be something that they aren't, and
so they're going to attack that every day and work
hard to try to build that role within the offense.
And you know, we have so many guys to just
make plays when they have opportunities.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
And finally, Joe, you mentioned your coaches put together great
game plans for you guys, you know, every week in
order to take advantage of all the all the talent
and weapons that you've got. Talk about your coaches a
little bit.

Speaker 10 (13:13):
Yeah, obviously there's a lot said about this team in
this organization, and they did those coaches, but you know,
nobody works harder than those guys to put us in
good spots to go and execute. I think we have
some of the best coaches in the NFL. I think
the game plans that we put together put us in
a great spot to succeed.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Couldn't agree with you more. Joe as always appreciate you.
Thanks for your time.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, thanks, love Joe Burrow after the game. And Dave,
he did so many things well and such stark contrast
to last week, I think was his second lowest quarterback
rating game of his career. Yesterday was his second best
of his career, and just so many things that he does.
I hope people fully appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
The kind of the.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Broken play the created and find Drew Sample. It looked
like for a second he was just going to throw
it away. Nothing was there that Drew Sample's bailable. He
throws to Drew Sample. And it's just the essence of
Joe Burrow.

Speaker 9 (14:03):
He's so dang good.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
He is.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Man, he's good hitting. My opinion, he's the best in
the National Football League. And like you said, when he
starts extending and creating plays as many times as he
did yesterday's football game, you got problems. If you were
a defensive coordinator. It's like it doesn't matter what defense
you play, because at some point in time, you know,
okay with the coverage, and then if the protection is

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good enough, Joe's running around, extending, creating, and now you
know the offense knows where what they're gonna do. They
do scramble drills, they have scrambled drills, and Joe Burrow
knows exactly where his receivers are gonna go. He's been
doing it with Chase Brown since college. I mean, these
guys read each other's mind when when the play breaks down,
and that's when the Bengals offense can really cook. And

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they've made a lot of big plays over the years,
extending and creating plays.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
He played it his seventy fifth career game yesterday, and
among all players in history through seventy five games, Joe
Burrow ranks first in completion, third in touchdowns, and fifth
in passing yards of all quarterbacks through their first seventy
five games. And I compare in contrast and think of
the situation in Miami where they don't they're gonna probably

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move on from Tua and coming up this week, Arizona
and Kyler Murray and they don't know what to do
with Kyler Murray and Las Vegas and the Jets in
so many different places. And I think of here and
how this franchise in this city has a quarterback. What
a luxury compared to a lot of markets that just
don't know what they're doing at that position.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Absolutely, you know. And I was listening to Sports Center
a little bit this morning before we came in to
do the show here, and man, I'll tell you a
lot of analysts we're talking as a group there were
three of the modern panel and they said, you know,
when you have a head coach, you have a quarterback,
you have a chance to be a dominant franchise in

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the National Football League. The Bengals feel like they have
their coach. A lot of fans may disagree. I think
Zach Taylor is an extraordinary offensive mind. Joe Burrow does.
Joe Burrow has gone to bat for Zach Taylor many times,
and he really believes in Zach Taylor in his offensive
structure and how he attacks defenses in the National Football League. So,

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I mean, the Bengals do have pieces. They really do.
I mean, and the two biggest pieces are head coach
and quarterback. They've got two receivers that are number ones,
really one in one a with the Bengals, but number ones.
If if t Higgins were with another football team, he'd
be a number one receiver by far. Mike Kasicki and

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the tight end group is a good one. They can
all do different things. Some ones that more extraordinary blocker
than receiving. The other one is a better receiver than
a blocker, and sick he's kind of able to do both.
So they have all all bases covered and then we've
talked about Chase Brown. You know out of the backfield, SAMJ.
P Ryan another weapon, can run it, catch it. They're

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stacked offensively, got some pieces to accumulate defensively, and watch
out in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well hear more from Chase Brown as we continue. It's
Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network. It's seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 11 (17:13):
Did we keep moving.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Along on this Monday night edition of Bengals Line of
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plans with cat Lester Long is always with Dave Blapham.
Chase Brown yesterday twelve carries, sixty six yards and a touchdown,
four catches forty three yards in two touchdowns. What a
season he is having. What a game he had yesterday.
Here's Dan Horde with Chase Brown face.

Speaker 11 (17:34):
Is this the all around performance this team has been
looking for all year?

Speaker 8 (17:38):
I think so.

Speaker 12 (17:38):
I mean, the defense came out with turnovers and we
were able to respond to every single one.

Speaker 8 (17:44):
So that always feels good.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
We'd love to.

Speaker 12 (17:46):
Carry this momentum going forward and just finish off the
season the best we can.

Speaker 11 (17:50):
Was it a game where you were almost surprised how
quickly the offense was back on the field. They were
not only getting turnovers, they were getting them quickly.

Speaker 12 (17:57):
Yeah, no, it was it was I was standing there,
I'm like, did you just get the ball back again?

Speaker 13 (18:02):
I'm sprinting of in my helmet.

Speaker 8 (18:03):
So yeah, they definitely called me by surply.

Speaker 14 (18:05):
Sometimes when the last time you scored three touchdowns in
one quarter, I'm sorry, it's happened.

Speaker 15 (18:10):
Never maybe like little league maybe.

Speaker 12 (18:13):
But that's a My last three touchdown game was Illinois
against Wyoming, I think, not in one quarter, but in
a cool game.

Speaker 14 (18:21):
What was going through your mind when when that happens?
You have to touchdown catches, you have the touchdown run
and suddenly.

Speaker 12 (18:26):
I'm really like, do you hear the play? And it's
either going to you or it's not. So it's like
trying nextually, the best, the play the best I can.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
No points last week, forty five points this week. How
determined were you guys during the course of this week
at practice to show who you really are on offense.

Speaker 13 (18:44):
We we took it personal, so we had to respond
this week.

Speaker 11 (18:50):
Good balance. Joe threw four touchdown passes. Obviously, the running
game got better and better as the game went along.
Did it feel like, all right, this is what this
offense can do when it's clicking.

Speaker 12 (19:02):
Definitely, when everything's firing and all cylinders.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
I mean, we're we're gonna score a lot of points.

Speaker 13 (19:08):
So it's all good to go out and do that today.

Speaker 12 (19:10):
It's just building momentum, even though you know our season
is gonna end not the way that we wanted it to,
but you know we can still finish off on a positive.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Nope, it's great to have Tea back.

Speaker 11 (19:22):
Obviously, two big plays early in the game, it just
kind of reinforced, at least in my mind, the impact
that he can have when he's available.

Speaker 13 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean, she's a great player.

Speaker 12 (19:32):
If he's one of the best receivers, if not the best,
we got both of them.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
We have two of the best receivers in the NFL,
right there.

Speaker 12 (19:39):
That's the only way to put it. So yeah, I mean,
she's always gonna make a play. I'm not surprised anytime
I see a fifty fifty jump ball. It's not fifty
to fifty, it's like ninety ten. So he's a great player.

Speaker 11 (19:51):
Does a game like this leave you wanting more like
almost wishing that you know, there were more games left,
so you guys could ultimately get me where you want
to be.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
You're long.

Speaker 12 (20:02):
Maybe if we could play, Yeah, we could play all
year long without getting hurt in our bodies.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
Like we're able to take it.

Speaker 13 (20:09):
I mean I would. So we're gonna miss.

Speaker 11 (20:16):
Feels good and Grat's not a great game.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
And Dave, you mentioned it in our earlier segment, and
it's worth going back to. Not only does he have
the TV run, he has the two TD catches. He
had a really nice protection block to help Joe keep
Joe for that split second more and that cannot be
underrated or overlooked on what he brings to this offense.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Absolutely, I mean he does all the dirty work, you know.
And uh, a lot of guys that, you know, our
premier players in the National Football League, they think that
those type of things are beneath them. That's for other
people to do.

Speaker 11 (20:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm I'm I'm the star. You know, I'm gonna make
score touchdowns and I'm going to make big plays. I'm
going to be on all all the NFL highlights and
NFL highlight films, you know. But but Chase Brown is
a guy who just loves to play football. Every single
part of the game intrigues him and he wants to
excel at it. And you know, he's got a great

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mindset for the game. He's got a tremendous football IQ.
You can do a lot of things with him. You
can line him up in the backfield, you can line
him up in the slot, you can line him up
as the X, you can line him up as a Z.
You know, he really is a very, very versatile guy.
He's a tremendous chess piece, you know. And they check
my defenses regularly when they involve Chase Brown the way

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they do.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Eight and forty six yards rushing. To this point in
the season, he has sixty two catches. Now, he's over
twelve hundred yards from scrimmage, but those sixty two catches
dave now the most in a single season by Bengals
running back in franchise history. James Brooks had fifty five
in a season. Giovanni Bernard had fifty six in a season.

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Joe Mixon had sixty in a season. Chase Brown was
still two games to go. Now, it's sixty two catches
out of.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
The backfield, and you're talking about some of the greatest
receiving running backs in franchise history. You know, when you're
talking about James Brooks and Giovanni Bernard. Interesting Giovanni Bernard
was at the football game, had his little guy with
him and catching up with people, former teammates and coaches

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after the game. He looked great, but he was a
tremendous player. And you know, Chase Brown does all of that.
Giovannie Bernard would block there, There's no question about it.
James Brooks would too. I mean he was a very,
very physical strong for his size pound for pound, maybe
the strongest guy I've ever seen in the weight room.

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I saw him wrap three hundred and fifteen pounds four times.
He weighed like, you know, buck eighty five, Buck ninety.
So there have been some great ones in franchise history,
and the Bengals are blessed to have one now.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Dave, just in our first couple of segments, we've talked
about so many elements of this offense, and I think
of there there was I'm going to quote a song
back in the eighties by The Fix. I don't know
if he remembers The Fix, but it was a song
called one Thing leads to another. And in this offense,
even early that passed the t Higgins and he goes
up and high points the ball over top of the
little defensive back, and just so many different weapons lead

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to so many things opening up on this offense. It's
like a puzzle and the pieces start to fit in
and new avenues and doors open to the offense.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I mean, I'd hate to be a defensive coordinator trying
to take everything away from this Bengals offense that you
need to worry about. You say, okay, well, Jamar Chase
probably one of the best, if not the best, in
the National Football League in my opinion, I've stayed many
times I think he is the best. And you say, okay, well,
they have to start by taking Jamaar Chase out of
the mix. Can't let Joe Borrow destroy us by targeting

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Jamar Chase and them producing a lot of catches and
yards and touchdowns. Well, you know you do that, and
what do you have to deal with Higgins? And he
showed yesterday that he's deserving him being a number one
thirty one other teams in the NFL. Like we talked about,
he is the number one. This guy can high point
a football about as well. The timing to do that

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is taken for granted sometimes because these guys are so
effective at it. But t Higgins, man, I mean I've
seen him hoop. He can shoot, and which is good.
But I mean you should see him put on a
dunk display. I mean he almost he dunks and almost
has his elbow into the you know, into the into
the rim.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
It's it's amazing how athletic these guys are. And uh,
and then you know, you take those two away, you
go to Gasiki, you take a sticky away, you know,
you go to Chase Brown. Then there's other backs to
worry about, other tight ends to worry about. Being coordinating
a defensive package against this Bengals football team offensively, with

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Zach Taylor and Dan Pitcher being as creative as they
are with game plans, is no easy task. And final thought,
just think about it. All those off some weapons we
just named, and then there's Yoshi who makes a twenty
one yard third down catch, and sample made a twenty
seven yard third down catch, and coordinator's.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Gotta be going going. I don't know, there's too many guys.
I can't can't cover all these guys, we can't figure
out all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Sample when he ran a great route and caught that football,
I'm like, oh, that's true.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
Sample.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
I thought I thought at first I thought it was
Gasicki And I'm like, no, Sample, that's a bigger boy.
Look at that body, big, big strong body.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
I mean they do they have they have weapons and guys,
are you know, don't forget about me. You know I
can I'll make a play for you.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
I can do it.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Still ahead, let's get to the defensive side of things.
Miles Murphy part of the conversation as we continue with
Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 8 (25:46):
Continue on this.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Day sorting through victory yesterday for the Bengals forty five
fourteen over the Dolphins. We'll get to those Arizona Cardinals
coming up in our third hour tonight. We talked a
lot about the offense. Heck, let's get back to the
defensive side of things, where Miles Murphy had another impact day,
made some plays, recovered to fumble after Jordan battle and
punch things out. Here is Miles Murphy on the afternoon

(26:09):
and the victory.

Speaker 14 (26:10):
The defense came up big you guys forced a bunch
of turnovers, four straight in the second half.

Speaker 9 (26:14):
You guys get to win.

Speaker 14 (26:15):
What's going through your mind right now?

Speaker 16 (26:17):
I mean, just glad, honestly, Like this is kind of
the message that us and coach all have been preaching.
I say, playoffs there out of the picture, but we
have to We have three games nothing the season, and
we really want to just end the season the high note.
And really I've just been telling some of the guys
I've been talking to this. How we end these three
games is gonna be how we step into next season.
I want to do exact what we did today. Set

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hard edges, get her on the quarterback, gets to k
the ball, took the ball carrier. Really just do anything
to just get our office back to the ball.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
And that's what we did today.

Speaker 14 (26:48):
A few weeks ago against the Ravens, you chase down
Derrick Henry and it's it's talked about today, a similar situation.
It's a pass up field and you chase it down,
recover the fumble. What's going through your mind there? And
obviously you landed on the ball and that kind of
changed the game early in the third.

Speaker 16 (27:04):
Uh, Well, really just hustle players, it's like running around
regardless of this runner passes, getting always want to be
around the ball, and that's kind of what als preaching
this effort, effort, effort, an attitude. At the point of time,
the ball was kind of going crazy, hopefully hoping it
was kind of just gonna die down what it did.
So wanted to return it but couldn't, so I just

(27:25):
laid on it, got our office back to the ball,
and they scored. So I'm thinking on defense, splash plays
are just so valuable.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Shacks, tackles for lost.

Speaker 14 (27:34):
Fumbles, fumber reck coveries, turnovers. It feels like every week
now we're saying Miles Murphy sack, Miles Murphy, tackle for
loss today, even before the Fumber reck coovery. Seems like
you're making a splash play or two at least every week.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
I mean, yeah, this is a it's a It starts.
I say it all the time. It starts on Monday.

Speaker 16 (27:52):
It starts on Monday in the film room, Wednesday, Thursday practice.
And it's it's not just me. It's a lot of
guys on deep is making plays and this is because
of that. They start let's start working on Monday. Started
with the film bodywork, recovery, stuff like that, and it
just shows out on Sunday.

Speaker 14 (28:08):
This is the best you've ever felt NFL career wise
and confidence wise.

Speaker 16 (28:12):
Yeah, most confident for.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Serrea Miles Murphy after the game thanks to our guy
James Rpeen of Bengals talking locked on Bengals for passing
along his conversation with Miles and and Dave to me,
Miles Murphy isn't there were moments where maybe he would flash.
Now it's like that light staying on and Miles Murphy's
presence is being felt throughout football games.

Speaker 11 (28:31):
It seems.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, I think you're right. Flashing is a good way
to describe it. That's a good word choice there, because
he is athletic as hell. I mean every defensive edge
player in the NFL would like to have the size
speed ratio that Miles Murphy does. And he's pretty stout.
I mean, he's been in the weight room and he's
he's put on some good weight, very very strong individual.

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You know, his chest, he's built up his chest, his arms.
Then where he really has an impact, there's in that
lower body with that explosiveness and speed he has and
his quads and hamstrings and Kazer are exceptionally strong. The
good thing for the Bengals defense yesterday is multiple guys
had solid football games. Battle had five tackles. You talked

(29:16):
about the fumble that he forced. He had four unassisted
tackles and one assist. Murphy had five, three tackles and
two assists. Brandon Carter had five. He had one tackle
and four assists. Bj Hill had four tackles and he
defended a pass, knocked a pass down. Three tackles and
an assist to go with that, Demetrius Knight three tackles

(29:38):
and an assist for a total of four. Ivy two
and two for a total of four, Davis two and
two for a total of four, and then Slayton was
the last one that had four tj Slayton had four assists.
So I mean they were getting a production out of
You know, every position group is represented here. You know,
secondary defensive line linebackers. Al Golden has to be happy

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that that every single position group and individuals within those
position groups all showed up on the statuet.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
And Dave, what I love about what feels like is
happening with Miles Murphy just in watching body language on
the field, he's feeling that the confidence and the energy.
He's starting to feel himself a little bit and is
more demonstrative and and that to me says he feels
like he belongs, he's producing, he feels good. And that's
what you were. It may have taken a while to

(30:30):
get to this point, but it's it's arrived and it's
fun to watch it is.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
And uh, you know, I confidence is a big thing,
and you're right on the money there. Uh you could
almost see it. You can almost see it as the
game went on. In the game against the Miami Dolphins,
you know, hey, I got a sack. I get rewarded,
thought it made a good move and broke the guy down. Uh,
and get a sack. And then all of a sudden,

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you know, you start to play the run a little
bit better, and you want to put yourself in a
situation where we can go rush the passer again. So
you have to stop people on first and second down
and be part of that run defense package. I really
thought yesterday that the defensive line and linebackers in secondary
as well, everybody played the run for al Golden as
well as they have all year long. I thought that

(31:18):
the defensive line did a nice job at two gap
and when they were told to do that, when they
were told to take an edge and penetrate, they did
that very well. I thought that it was well coordinated,
well thought out, and I thought that the defensive players
all believed in it and trusted what Al Golden was
telling them to do. Against the Miami Dolphins, who are
you know, solid offense football team even without t Tonya Varloa.

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But everybody carried out their individual responsibilities and assignments to perfection.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Still ahead, we'll hear from Mike is Sicky and we'll
head down the stretcher in our first hour. Already time
flies when you're talking about a victory. He's Dave laphamim alliance.
But callister Bengals onto the Bengals Radio network in seven
hundred WLW. We were rolling right along down the stretch.
We go final segment in our first of three big
hours of Bengals like and I know the Bengals Radio

(32:11):
network had seven hundred w l W. Mike Kasicki had
three catches yesterday, thirty five yards total long of seventeen.
He had a touchdown to the mix. Here's the Bengals
tight end after the game had that had a.

Speaker 17 (32:22):
Long stretch here early in my career, so it felt
good to come back and as a as an offense,
as a team, really you know, we responded today and
felt really good to get that.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Way in the fashion that we did.

Speaker 18 (32:32):
Were you plating on grittying until like the fifty yard line?

Speaker 17 (32:36):
To say that I didn't think about that, I'd be lying.
But I just made sure that you know, I appreciate,
you know, Zach for you know, getting that play call
in and the look was exactly how we wanted it
there and Joe gave a phenomenal ball, and I just
had to make sure that you know, I held onto it.

Speaker 10 (32:51):
Is this the offense that you were waiting for the
Bengals to have?

Speaker 8 (32:54):
Was this the gay?

Speaker 4 (32:56):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (32:56):
I mean listen, like we've had a lot of big
games this year, obviously last week.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Is you know the.

Speaker 17 (33:01):
Memory that people had coming into this game of our
of our offense. But that's not who we are, It's
not who we've ever been, and you know this is
this is.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
Obviously who we are.

Speaker 9 (33:10):
Uh, you know, getting t back.

Speaker 17 (33:12):
Out there was big time Chase Brown, big big day,
Jamar Chase over one hundred yards Joe throwing four touchdowns,
Andre making a big catch on fourth down, the O
line protecting all day, and then creating lanes in the
run game. Like the list goes on and on and on,
and everybody in the locker room should be.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
Proud of that.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
Good does this feel?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Uh? Yeah, felt really good.

Speaker 17 (33:30):
Like I said, you know, last week obviously, uh you know,
it wasn't up to our standard. And to be able
to come out here today and put up forty five
points felt good.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Mike Gasicki on victory yesterday and doing the gritty as well,
and just another one of those parts of the puzzle
we've referenced and and Mike brings an element to this
offense that just helps it go to another level. And
we've talked before they missed him in that stretch with
the peck issue. But when he is right and he
can target the middle of the field and run as

(33:58):
well as he does, what an element for this offense.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Joe Borrow loves him, He really loves Mike Kasiki. Like
you said, the middle of the football field, Mike Kasicki
stands out, you know, like a lighthouse up He can
a light, you know, her shifts at her lost out
at sea. I mean, Joe Burrow finds him easily and regularly,
and they've they've got an unbelievable bond, a great relationship

(34:24):
on and off the football field. They're fast friends. But
Joe Burrow has every confidence in the world that when
he releases that football and it comes off that hand
so smoothly, and then Kasiki catch the ball so easily
and tucks it away, Joe Burrow has every confidence in
the world that Mike Casique is going to do that
over and over and over again.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
But final point to end the hour, and I forgot
to mention him in her last second about the defense,
But I want to mention Jayalen Davis, who Jaylen Davis
has had a long journey of from Miami to Arizona
to the Bengals. He's got in the league in twenty eighteen.
He's had sporadic opportunities, but he's a guy whose patience
has been tested and he's hung in there and been

(35:06):
ready for an opportunity. And now with that opportunity arriving,
he delivers his first career interception yesterday. Just a really
cool day for him.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Big play teammates love him. He's one of those guys
that is so easy to like. He's I think he's phenomenal.
I think he's a great communicator and easy to talk to.
Almost every guy in the team it seems like says, yeah,
he's one of my best friends. I mean, I love
the guy. So when you have that going for you,

(35:36):
you have a lot. You know everybody in the locker
room is supporting you in it is behind you, and
that always always pays dividends.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Still ahead, we'll turn into our second area here from
t Higgins, Barrett Carter, and a whole lot more to
navigate on a day we sort through victory for the
Bengals forty five to fourteen against the Miami Dolphins. This
is Bengals Line. It's on the Bengals Radio network seven
hundred WLW. Well are underweighting our second big hour tonight

(36:10):
talking Bengals football, and I went over the Dolphin's yesterday.
It's Bengals out of the Bengals Radio network at seven
hundred WLW. We'll get into the Arizona Cardinals in our
third hour tonight. But man, of all the things we
talked about in the first hour, let's circle back around
to begin our number two and talk t Higgins, three targets,
three catches, fifty three yards, a log of thirty five,
and a touchdown. Here's the Bengals wide receiver after the

(36:33):
game light.

Speaker 14 (36:35):
But other than that, see that is can you take
atting through the art of the T Higgins contested catch
because it feels like it's evolved from a few years
ago to now and it seems like you're making a.

Speaker 11 (36:48):
Look so routine.

Speaker 19 (36:49):
Yeah, man, I just that's my job to go up
there and catch the ball. And you know, Joe Give
isn't the great boss. It's where I only I can
catch it, and you know it's either me or nobody.

Speaker 12 (36:58):
So is it kind of just uplifting, excited to be
able to come back from what you did and happy
type of game?

Speaker 19 (37:07):
Yeah, I mean definitely, definitely a you know, a bonus.
Obviously I wanted to come out and try to dominate personally,
but he was able to do that as a whole today,
and you know the results show was.

Speaker 11 (37:19):
That as fun as it looks. Eighty degrees, forty five.

Speaker 19 (37:22):
Points pre pre game, I'm like, oh, this hot came
back in got IV. But other than that, man, it
was so fun out there. You know, everybody was playing together.
It was a lot of laughs and jokes on the
on the sideline. That's all you asked for, Man, the
game is fun.

Speaker 11 (37:37):
Chase Brown said, you guys took the shoutout personally last week.

Speaker 19 (37:41):
I mean, yeah, for sure, Man, we definitely don't want
to want that to happen ever again. You know, and
speaking on Chase Man, man had a hell of a game,
you know, shout out to him.

Speaker 8 (37:50):
You could just see how he's getting better and better
each and every single week.

Speaker 20 (37:54):
There there was a lot of talk about going back
to the Buffalo game that why you went back into
the game, Like should the NFL have allowed you to?

Speaker 8 (38:04):
I mean, I've passed the tent tests. Yeah I felt I.

Speaker 19 (38:08):
Felt great at the time, and you know, it's just
so happy to be one of those times I felt
the symptoms later, you know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (38:14):
And that's that's how that was.

Speaker 20 (38:15):
How would you like advocate? Everybody said that you came
forward with the symptoms that you felt, Like, do you
think that that's important for people moving forward to if
you're happy?

Speaker 7 (38:25):
For sure?

Speaker 19 (38:26):
If you have if you if you have any symptoms,
for sure, you got you need to come forward because
you know, the brain injury, there's nothing that's nothing to
play with as serious and it confects you a long.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
Time, you know what I mean. So I said, I
see every everything.

Speaker 19 (38:37):
Everybody's saying that I should say, I see all that
and trust me, but I went to see a specialist
and especially say it was okay for me to, you know,
go back out there and play my game.

Speaker 8 (38:44):
And that's what I was. That's what I did.

Speaker 13 (38:46):
Just kind of feel like an example of your guys.

Speaker 9 (38:49):
Offense at its absolute peak today. That's kind of like
everybody making the count.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
For sure.

Speaker 8 (38:54):
Man, we was offense at full power today.

Speaker 19 (38:56):
You know, we had everybody and you see what we
could do when the field we all we got everybody together.

Speaker 11 (39:01):
Is that bittersweet a little bit?

Speaker 14 (39:03):
This is the kind of performance you want to put
up in December going into a playoff runt?

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Is there?

Speaker 14 (39:07):
Like for sure?

Speaker 19 (39:07):
It's like yeah, for sure, man, It's bittersweet, But you know,
we gotta live.

Speaker 8 (39:11):
What's what's what happened? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 19 (39:13):
All we can do is just put our best go
forward these next two games.

Speaker 20 (39:15):
We haven't had a chance to ask you, but we
asked Jamar. We asked Joe last game, what are you
hoping changes this offseason that will get you guys over
the hump to hitch you back in the playoffs.

Speaker 19 (39:30):
Side of my job, you know, my job is just
coming here, be a good teammate, be a leader.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
And play good football. All the other stuff leave that
to them.

Speaker 11 (39:41):
Does this feel like a preview of what this team
can be in twenty twenty six?

Speaker 8 (39:46):
Definitely?

Speaker 19 (39:47):
Uh, you know, the offense especially, and you know defense
played they bust off to that. Yeah, there's definitely could
be a preview. Obviously, you know next Sea, next next
next year's team will be the same as this team obviously,
but you know, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Definitely team with another big day. That's ten touchdown catches
on the season. Keep in mind that's thirteen games played,
miss two. That's ten touchdown catches in thirteen games. Dab
he has twenty touchdown catches going back to Week one
of last year. So that's twenty touchdown catches in the
last twenty five games for this team.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
That's getting it done. It certainly is. Man, that's a
touchdown maker extraordinary right there. And the big reason why is,
you know a lot of those touchdowns have come not
all of them. I mean he had a thirty five
yard you know play in this football game. He but
his whole A big deal with him is with the
size that he has is a red zone target. I

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mean he is, you know, stands out. It's it's like,
you know, you got another tight end out there from
a physical stature standpoint six four plus, you know, two
fifteen to two twenty ish, and you get him matched
up against a much smaller defensive back like what happened
on the touchdown pass and he had I mean Joe

(41:02):
Burrow when he sees that kind of a physical mismatch
like bingo, I know where I'm going with the football.
And then you know it's like, all right, what do
I do? Man?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
This?

Speaker 3 (41:10):
You know, there's not that much football field of defense.
So I'm not gonna play a safety deep. I'm gonna
have safeties closer to the line screen. I'm gonna double
te I'm gonna double Chase. Well then just get sick.
He gets in the mix. You'll see Vash gets in
the mix. Chase Brown gets in the mix. So they
have a plethora a weapons in red zone targets for

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Joe Burrow to take advantage of. And I mean they
are one of the best red zone offenses in the
entire league.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
That the thirty five year catch he made over top
of the defensive back, it looked like it looked like
the big kid playing against the little kid in the backyard.
And not to demean the defensive back, he's just small
in stature and he just like, I'll take that. It
just like reached over to almost off his helmet.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
That's just that that power and strength and size is
awfully tough to match up.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Again, it is remember uh, as kids, we played keep away. Yes, yeah,
get guys, I'll tamalize you a little bit. You know
you're not going to get the ball away from me.
Don't even think about trying.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
And what a big week for Tea and he and
he talked about how during the week he flew to
Pittsburgh on uh some advice from he said that the
front office, the folks, Abobby, he said, And and that
certainly had to give him peace of mind because he's
gone through two concussions. He'd missed time and and I
would imagine on that flight out there, who knows what's
running through your head? What what are they going to
tell me, am all right, I want to be all right,

(42:36):
I want to play, And clearly he got green light
thumbs up and had to feel really good about coming
back and playing.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Yeah, that's that's the thing, Lance, what you're saying, it's uh.
You know, even if you're not a football player, if
you you're worried about your health, it's hard to perform
any job, really hard to go in and focus on
being the best accountant in the in the world. You know,
if you're if you're worried about your brain shooting properly,
you know, and uh, or whatever occupation you may have.

(43:04):
Same with the football player, Same with T. Higgins. I'm
sure that there were some anxious moments for him on
that flight out to Pittsburgh, but jubilation and excitement about
what he was going to be able to do against
the Miami Dolphins on the flight home.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
And you know, it's been said of Joe Burrow, Guys
like Joe Burrow and T their they're football players. They
play and you you could make the case, you could
make a very legitimate case when your team's eliminated and
you've got a player who's had two concussions.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
If T.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Higgins would have not played yesterday. I think most people
would have understood, you know what, they're out of it.
He's got he's had concussions, don't risk it. But T
got cleared, and T wanted to be with his teammates,
and T wanted to play football yesterday.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
I think that's a great point, Lance, I mean tremendous point.
You understand the game of football, and you've been around
it a while here in the National Football League, and
Zach Taylor talked about it. Zach Taylor talked about it
in as pressors. Joe Burrow is going to play. You know,
he's been he's been nicked up, He's had a tough
season with respect to injury. They could have shut him down,
but Joe's like, no, no, I'm rehabbing, I'm coming back,

(44:08):
I'm gonna play. There's games left. T Higgins is the
same way, and he could have easily said, you know what,
I had two concussions in a very short period of time.
That's not good. That's not healthy. My post football life.
I want to be able to live a normal post
football life and be able to do things that everybody
else does. Travel, have fun, you know, enjoy family and

(44:29):
all that sort of thing. So those kind of things
definitely go through your mind. But like you said, these
guys love football, They love being around each other. There
are so many good friends on this football team. The
relationships and bonds that have been made are gonna last
long after the game of football is over with. These

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guys are going to be catching up with each other
and as they have families, their families will be catching
up with each other. And that's one of the beautiful
things about pro sports.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Boy, that's a great point about the relationships on the team.
And it almost it's weird to say that Jamar Chase
with nine catches one hundred and nine yards, had a
quiet day but he didn't get all the headlines of
touchdowns yesterday, And yet it doesn't. It never bothers him
and he looks at t have a big game and
jamorro will have a big game next week. And it's
the give and take of nobody needs to get their own.

(45:19):
They're happy when somebody else gets theirs on a day.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Yeah, exactly. They're they're happy for each other. You know,
they know that there's a limited time that's going to
be able to enjoy and play the game of professional football,
and you want to be compensated properly. And you know
Jamar Chase the kind of guy okay T had his
this week. I'm getting mine next week. Yep, There's no
doubt that I'm going to get mine because I know

(45:42):
I'm better than any defensive back one on one in
the National Football League. And if they double me, I
can beat that too.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Let's talk defense when we come back. Barrett Carter on
his day and the defensive side of the ball as
we rock and roll through this Monday night of Bengals Line,
Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 13 (46:02):
Heny.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
We're rolling around along roll through on Monday night talking
Bengals football and Bengals on of the Bengals Ring Network.
It's seven hundred WL. I think we've been flipping back
and forth offense the defense. Let's go back to the
defensive side of things. Barrett Carter first career NFL interception yesterday.
Here's the Bengal rookie linebacker with Dan after the game.

Speaker 11 (46:21):
Barrett, three takeaways in one quarter. Describe what it was
like you had one of the interception. Describe what that
third quarter was like for everybody on defense.

Speaker 21 (46:31):
Yeah, uh, just coming in at halftime, Coach Taylor just
said that we needed to take the ball away and
on offense, we had to keep the ball away from them. So, no,
that was that's the goal that we go into every
single game with to try to be at least plus
two and just for us to you know, come out
third quarter swing, come out swinging and they'll get the
ball back to our offense was huge and create a
lot of momentum for our team.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
So it's a I'm glad we were able to do that.
We just have to keep building on that.

Speaker 11 (46:55):
A major challenge going into this game with stopping the
running attack. They had the one long touchdown runner leave
the game. Other than that three point yards per Carrie
for the rest of the day. How did you guys
do such a good job at stopping the run.

Speaker 21 (47:10):
Yeah, we always have to lock in on our keys.
We knew that stopping the run was going to be
the main emphasis this week, and you know.

Speaker 6 (47:15):
Miami, they do a great job every single week of
creating a.

Speaker 21 (47:17):
Lot of I Kenny and it makes it very challenging
for a defense. So we knew that it was gonna
be a big challenge for us and know we're able
to step up to that challenge.

Speaker 11 (47:25):
Describe the excitement level of coming with your first IMT
in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (47:29):
Yeah, I'm super exciting. No, I feel like I was
it was long overdue. I feel like I should have
had that many many weeks ago.

Speaker 21 (47:36):
But you know, God makes no mistakes, So I'm just
glad I was able to get that for our team
and you know, get the ball back to our offense.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
So hopefully I can just keep building on that.

Speaker 11 (47:43):
You got your first. Jalen Davis got his first as well.
He's had a nice impact since moving up from the
practice squad. Describe what he's done for the defense. Yeah,
JD is such a so savvy.

Speaker 21 (47:55):
He's been in the league for however many years has been,
and you know he's been he's just been working every
single day, just waiting for a shot.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
And we know he stepped up. He stepped up to
the plate.

Speaker 21 (48:03):
He wasn't afraid to, you know, come in and do
his thing. And you know, JD's a dog. It's an
honor to get to play alongside him, and it's a
he just flies around and makes play, so it's a
it's a blessing to get to play with JD.

Speaker 11 (48:14):
It's just one of those games, parrit where you guys
excelled in all three phases. Offense scores forty five, defense
gets multiple takeaways. Ryan Rico had four bunchs inside the twenty.
Did you feel like this was the first time that
you've experienced a total performance by the Bengals.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
I feel like it.

Speaker 21 (48:34):
It was in bits and pieces, so there was still
a lot of a lot of players left out there
that you know that we need to correct in all phases.
I know all guys can say that, but you know,
we're we're taking We're definitely taking steps in the right direction,
but it's nowhere near what we're what we're capable of
doing as a team. So we just have to, you know,
keep keep this momentum going, keep building on this and

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you know, the feeling that we have right.

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Now, we have to chase this feeling every.

Speaker 21 (48:58):
Single week and even leading into the next because we're
capable of so much more. But now, when we played
conflimentary football, we're capble of doing really great things and
that's what we showed today.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
But we just have to keep going on it.

Speaker 11 (49:09):
So nice early Christmas present for Bengals fans. Congratulations on
a great win. Thank you so much, appreciate that. That's
linebacker Barrett Carter.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Barrett Carter with the pick yesterday, and Dave. One of
the things that really jumped out to what they did
defensively yesterday, that old saying the more you can get
flying to the football, the better it is. And and
Battle punched out the ball, Murphy recovered the fumble. Curd
had the interception after Josh Newton knocked the ball in
the air. It was tandem efforts. That's a lot of
guys around the football making things happen.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Great point again, Lance, they ran to the football. Well,
they ran to the football defensively as a group, about
as well as I've seen all year long. I think
Al Golden was happy about it. On the bus ride
to the airport, I did talk. I mentioned that to him.
I said, she's coach. Almost every play when I look
down there at the end of the play, there's like three, four,

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maybe even five defenders you know around the ball. He goes, Yeah,
we've been harping on that big time. You know, run
to the ball, good things will happen. You create opportunities
when you run to the football, and they certainly did yesterday.
So Carter is is a force in the run. He
stops the run pretty well. Now if he can make

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himself a dual threat in terms of being able to,
you know, drop back into his own and play Arizona,
patrol it well and make plays on the football or
cover a back out of the backfield or a tight
end on a cross in the middle of the football field,
and be able to run with him, which he's capable
of doing. Physically, he's got He's got everything you need
to be an outstanding linebacker in the National Football League.

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And he's one of many young players Demetrius Knight, there's
a bunch of young players that are you know, Dax
Hill is not super young, but he's not anywhere near
the end of his career. I think he's one of
the best cover guys, the best the Bengals have, and
he's one of the best in the National Football League.
And the other thing I thought the benk did well
yesterday was they tackled and part of it was so

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many guys around the ball, but one guy would you know,
stick his head across the bow and wrap up and
take them to the ground. If he didn't quite take
them on the ground two or three other guys were
smacking him as he was going to the ground and
maybe trying to knock the ball loose. But if you're
back to your point on Al Golden, if you're Ale,
it's obviously been.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
A trying year. You've got young guys who don't always
get it at the speed you need them to get it.
But flashes like yesterday, if you're Al Golden, you go
home and you put your head on the pillow and
you're looking up and thinking, all right, there's signs here.

Speaker 9 (51:34):
I'll take the signs.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Little things to build on one week to the next,
and it's got to feel. It's got to feel good
for Al to see some proof, some evidence starting to
develop it. Everybody wanted it in week one and it's
taken some time and there have been a lot of
mistackles along the way. But if there's something they have
found and guys have found some confidence at this point,
that's big to carry into the offseason.

Speaker 11 (51:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
I think they're confident in their coach and their coach
to start and be confident in them, and that's always
extremely important both ways to have the confidence. And I
do think the graft's going up for the Cincinnati Bengals defensively,
they are young, they are improving, and I think Al Golden,
you know, is excited about what it's going to look

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like in twenty twenty six and beyond.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
We mentioned the three turnovers, and I know you'll always references.
They get the fourth down stop in the in the
third quarter, that's as good as a turnover because he
gives you your offense the football back.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Absolutely, you know. I mean, uh, you know, sometimes the
turnovers don't occur at the spot of the football field
we should pre further to occur. You know, sometimes the
offense ends up being backed up. But you know, hey,
as long as you're taking away points, you're taking away
opportunities to score. Okay, well, Varney, we're already in field

(52:49):
goal range. Now we're in a chip shot field goal territory.
And then you get that taken away. That has a
lingering effect. I mean, that's not as easy to get
over as people think. Players back say, oh, man, if
we had done this, if we had done that, if
they didn't do this, they didn't take that away from us,
would have been a different game. Yeah, what should have
could have It's not the way it is in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Still ahead, We'll continue breaking down yesterday's game. We'll look
at head to Arizona. We're gonna drop in something I
heard Sam Hubbard say to you guys on Friday about
the final play of his career and something that Zach
Taylor said about Sam Hubbard the leader I thought was
just fantastic and worth taking a listen to. We'll do
that as we continue as well. It's Bengals on on

(53:31):
the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome
back on Bengals On to the Bengals Radio Network, seven
hundred WLW. Antil callister Dave Lappom. We've worked our way
through yesterday's went over the Dolphins forty five fourteen. We've
got the Miami or the Arizona Cardos to look forward
to in our third hour, plus game balls. It'll be

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nice to hear presentation of game balls on a after
a winning game for the Bengals as well. But while
I'm thinking about it, and I love the Bengals Friday
pep rally that you do with Dan Horden sometimes Wayne
box Miller and you guys have had the fun of
the last two weeks having Sam Hubbert, join you, and
I thought Sam's reflections on Friday about his final play

(54:12):
of his career, a touchdown catch of all things from
Joe Burrow. And then Dan had asked Zach Taylor about
Sam's presence on the team and what it meant, and
Sam reacted that I thought it was really good stuff.
Let's take a listen to just a portion of Friday,
Dan and laugh with Sam Hubbard. Here it is.

Speaker 11 (54:29):
We're going to turn the clock back to the very
last play, Oh baby, Sam Hubbard's NFL career. Let's listen.
In Burrow fakes a handoff, throws a pass.

Speaker 22 (54:41):
Sam Hubbard with the catch, sadon touchdown, Bengals out, Sam
Hubbard raising the football over his head and spiking at
Gronk style after the first catch.

Speaker 11 (54:54):
How his NFL career.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Sam Hubbard started his career at Moler High School. Is
a tight end? Sam Hubbard is an athlete, Sam Hubbard.
That's a great fingertip catch.

Speaker 11 (55:05):
It was a great fingertip catch. About that spike, Was
that something that you had in mind or was that
completely in the moment.

Speaker 23 (55:11):
No, we had rehearsed that one. Joe was making me
do them. The routes full speed and walk through pre practice,
and then we had to, you know, practice a spike.
Of course, I almost messed it up, getting too excited
as soon as I got up, but then held it back,
gathered ted and the rest of the crew, and I
actually gave it a legit spike. So uh it worked out.

(55:32):
One of the one of the coolest moments ever. I
got Joe's jersey from that game, nice framed in my basement.

Speaker 9 (55:38):
Uh got the ball. I got the ball too.

Speaker 11 (55:42):
Did you expect to be wide open? I mean normally
I was.

Speaker 9 (55:45):
Not wide open? Come on.

Speaker 11 (55:46):
No, No, That's what I'm saying. I'm wondering if you
being a defensive lineman lining up presumably to block.

Speaker 6 (55:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (55:55):
No, Joe told me there's going to be a guy
on me, and I don't have the exact breakaway speed.
But uh, that was that, Yeah, the in traffic catch.
But it was a I think Zach was so confident
in calling it because it was a third string or
second string linebacker.

Speaker 9 (56:11):
I didn't really know. So huh, take advantage, no doubt,
no doubt.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Take advantage of opportunities. When an opportunity knocks, men open
the door. So Moller High School, Ohio State, Cincinnati Bengals.
You are the Cincinnati kid, the Ohio kid. Is it
something that as you reflect back on it, you even
cherished the decisions you made even more to stay local.

Speaker 23 (56:37):
Yeah, I think so. I think that now. You know,
big plan since I got drafted was to to always
stay local. And you know, I'm here full time and
want an opportunity to have the support system and everything
that I had. And what makes it all the sweeter
is the success we were able to have here, the
energy we brought to the fan base.

Speaker 9 (56:57):
And you know.

Speaker 23 (56:59):
If you recall that that run to the Super Bowl,
what the city fell like walking around the streets for
those months. I mean, I'll hold onto that time for
the rest of my life, and you know, hoping for
it again here soon.

Speaker 9 (57:13):
I got.

Speaker 23 (57:14):
I got faith in our and our boys to uh
to get back to the Promised Land.

Speaker 11 (57:19):
We worked that back when he wanted back soon. You
preceded Zach Taylor. You actually started your Bengals career when
Marvin Lewis was the head coach. We had the opportunity
to do a visit with Zach earlier today and I
asked him about the impact you made on his career,
UH to this point as the Cincinnati Bengals head coach,
here's Zach Taylor.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
Always the guy I could count on, Always a guy
that if I needed and the opinion of a player
on schedule or vibe of the team, or I knew
I could get Sam up there, He'd be transparent with
me and as a leader, like it was fun for
me to see when he finally decided, you know, realize

(58:03):
these guys respect me and I can now talk more.
I don't just have to be the lead by example
guy all the time. And I think that was more
year two. So it was fun watching him become a
captain and guys rally around him and we had the
success we had, and he was a huge part of that.
Fought through injuries. That's as a coach you appreciate that

(58:25):
more than anybody, the guys that give you everything they
have despite their circumstances. And Sam was the number one
example of all that. And so that's that was always
meant a lot to me to know that Sam was
gonna we'll have the off season surgery, but I'm playing
and doing everything I came to play. So that was
that was great, and I you know, for him to

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he was on me for years to catch a pass,
and so first career to end on that play. It
was very fitting, you know, it really was, and it
I don't obviously don't want his career to end on
an injury, but I think it was. I can say
this without feeling stupid, like it was a cool way
for him in his career. You got to go in

(59:06):
and run one route all season. He kind of touched
up past contested catch from his college roommate.

Speaker 7 (59:13):
Pretty cool.

Speaker 15 (59:15):
That was cool.

Speaker 11 (59:16):
I think he's right. It was cool. Were you on
him in fact for years to catch a pass?

Speaker 9 (59:21):
No, that was pretty cool. I didn't you asked him that.

Speaker 23 (59:25):
I was definitely, you know, in his year, I you know,
jokingly because of my great reps as a rookie fullback.
I was like, hey, you know, I'm ready, let's do
it and go. And you know, when it comes down to, hey,
here's the play we're calling it, it's a whole different ballgame.

Speaker 9 (59:40):
You get much more nervous.

Speaker 23 (59:42):
And you're like, I don't know if I actually want
this and drop it here.

Speaker 9 (59:45):
But I got to give credit to Zach. He you know,
he did.

Speaker 23 (59:49):
You know, he really made that happen, and it was
turned the momentum in that game. But Zach, you know,
I he did so much for me in my career.
Have so much respect for him and how he's handled,
you know, tough situations from you know, twenty nineteen till now.
You know, I can't say enough good things about Zach
and how he goes about his business.

Speaker 9 (01:00:11):
Also watching you know, he watched my evolution.

Speaker 23 (01:00:13):
I watched his evolution from a first time head coach
to where he is now.

Speaker 9 (01:00:17):
I think that he's learned.

Speaker 23 (01:00:20):
He's all you know, he journals and writes everything down
and really reflects and gets better every year. So it's
cool to be around a.

Speaker 9 (01:00:27):
Guy like that. And yeah, that was cool.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Dave so much good stuff in that hour long conversation
you guys had. But I thought Dan's question to Zach
about what Sam meant to the team, And then when
Zach explained that Zach was a guy he could go
to and if he needed to measure the pulse of
the team, or if they should change a practice time
or how they should do something in camp, Sam was

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the guy he turned to because he knew Sam had
an understanding of that locker room and the guys in
that room had an appreciation for him, and I thought
that just spoke volumes about the regard that this organization
holds Sam Hubbard in.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
I agree. You know, uh, the Cincinnati kid man Yep
Moller High School, Ohio State up the road. You know,
Paul Brown made his mark there, so Mike Brown loves
Ohio State players. And then here with the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah,
I do think that that that Zach Taylor and his
coaching staff knows that Sam Hubbard has a finger on

(01:01:28):
the pulse of the franchise in terms of the players.
Every single player in that locker room, he likes and
respects and trusts Sam Hubbard. So they'll tell him things.
They'll tell them things that are bothering them. They'll tell
him things that they like, you know, and prefer to
do it this way. Maybe we can tweak it and
do it that way. And then the coaches, you know,

(01:01:49):
know that Sam will you know, not blow the whistle
or tattle on anybody as such, but just hey, what
do they think, give me the give me the true
scoop here? What do they think? What's going on? Are
we doing things the right way? How can we improve
what can we do to make things better for the players.
That role is huge. It takes a you know, a

(01:02:13):
special guy to be able to handle it. There's not
any real pressure, but you want to help build as
good an environment, a winning environment as you possibly can
with the franchise, and anything you can do to help
that move in the right direction is what you want
to get done.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
And I love what Zach told Dan about Sam finding
his voice as his career went on with the Bengals,
because as a rookie, you know the old saying rookies
are to be you know, seen, not heard. And as
Sam became more comfortable, you heard Zach explain how excited
he was to see Sam grow into a leader. And
that's you know, as as Zach was saying that, I

(01:02:51):
thought of guys like Barrett Carter and Dimitrius Knight junior,
young guys who are going who are going to be
here in a perfect world, who eventually grow into a
voice but absorbing information right now, and you hope they
they get comfortable like Sam did to become a voice.

Speaker 11 (01:03:05):
For this team.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Yeah, Sam by nature is pretty quiet, you know, he's
not He never toots his own horn. You know about
accomplishments or things that he did, you know, on the
football field. He's a great family guy. I mean he's
going to be you know, tremendous father, husband, you know,
he's going to be a great grandfather as well as father.
Time marches on. But you know, he just has that

(01:03:28):
that ability to rally people, and uh, that's a that's
a unique talent. It really is when you have it,
you know you do, but you know you don't want to, like,
you know, take take out a billboard and advertise it.
You know, you kind of keep it to yourself. And yeah,
someone else. I mean, I'm sure Zach is probably trying

(01:03:49):
to figure out who that guy is going to be
now that Sam Hubbard has moved on. And it's not
an easy role, believe me, it really isn't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
By the way, in our next segment, we've got a
little local theme going on, Sam Hubbard the local kid.
In our next segment, a little bit of what Wayne
box Miller had to say with Xavier Johnson, the Ohio
State and Summit Country Day product is part of the
pregame yesterday. He's a local kid who drove by the
Paul Brown Stadium every day as a kid growing up
and now he's on the Bengals practice squad. You'll hear

(01:04:16):
a little bit of that as we continue. Dave Lapham,
Lance McAllister Bengals on in the Bengals Radio Network and
seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
Team booming right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Along in this Monday Night of the Bengals line. Bengals
Radio Network, seven hundred W l W.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Glance's time for the Kettering Health injury report and good news,
I mean no major injuries to either football team in
this game down there. Remind me, I don't remember either
either team having a player taken the locker room and
stayed in the locker room. Somebody might have gone in
a blue tent to take a look at and take
a picture of something that's was bothersome. But when you

(01:04:55):
think about it, that was a very physical football game,
a lot of hitting going on and to escape with
no serious injury to either football team is what it's
all about. And Kettering Health is the official healthcare provider
of the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best care one of
the best fans.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
We keep rolling along. We developed a little bit of
a theme here of local connection. We heard from Sam
Hubbard in the last segment as part of the Friday
pep Rally Show. Another local product on the Bengals roster,
at least on the practice squad. He was signed last
week played at Ohio State. Prior to that, he played
at Summit Country Day High School. Talked about driving past
the stadium every day as a kid growing up and

(01:05:31):
one day wanting to be a member of the organization.
He is now on the practice squad and Wayne box
Miller is part of the pregame show. Talk to him
about realizing the dream.

Speaker 18 (01:05:40):
Wayne box Miller with a young man I've known for
a long time, know his family, Xaviers Johnson.

Speaker 8 (01:05:45):
Welcome back to Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
Thank you, Bustin. It's a blessing to be back, man,
a blessing to be by.

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
No question about it.

Speaker 18 (01:05:51):
Let's talk about your faith because I know you your
faith based family, and you have a purpose in life
and you believe that this journey is part of a purpose.
And be back here in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Yeah, nber Man.

Speaker 15 (01:06:02):
When I got the call really came on the hills
actually of a pretty uh spiritual weekend, if you want
to say that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
You know, I had a great.

Speaker 15 (01:06:13):
Church service and my my pastor down in Houston actually
just reminded me of just the promises and how God
is a promise keeper and so on the heels of
that and kind of a revitalization of just I would say,
my my faith, not that it was dead, but uh,
you know, you get sparks times for time, and so

(01:06:33):
coming on the hills of a spark, the Lord opened
up this opportunity and so I definitely see this as
you know, a mission field and opportunity to build rapport
with men, pour into you know, men and hopefully save
some men if God will so.

Speaker 9 (01:06:47):
A lot of a lot of players here.

Speaker 18 (01:06:49):
I talked to Trey Hendrickson or Joseph Osai or Dalton Riser,
and they're all outward with their faith and and how
much it helps them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I know.

Speaker 18 (01:06:57):
For you, it's just been a source of support for
you through all the ups and downs of the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Yes throwing up and downs of my career.

Speaker 8 (01:07:04):
Really in high school.

Speaker 15 (01:07:06):
You know, the Lord took this uh sport, this gift
that he gave me, and he molded it into exactly
what he intended it for it to be to me
when he gave it to me, as you know, a
platform to glorify him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
An opportunity to reach other men.

Speaker 15 (01:07:22):
Who you know, might not even know that they're struggling
or not, might not even know that you know, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
A need for for God because.

Speaker 15 (01:07:29):
You have so many outlets, you know, when you're a
personal athlete and you're commensated so handsomely and you feel
like you can, you know, uh, fulfill a lot of
your knees or your once until those needs, you know,
keep building up. So just to have an opportunity to
be in the locker room with these guys.

Speaker 13 (01:07:44):
To build, like I said, build a report with.

Speaker 15 (01:07:45):
Them and ultimately you know, maybe uh somebody who can
lean on or ask questions about their faith to this
means everything.

Speaker 18 (01:07:52):
So I know you talked about driving by and all
the other things. What I want to ask us when
you pulled that car in the gate this morning and
how it felt.

Speaker 15 (01:08:01):
It felt amazing, Man, it felt amazing. And I've been
in the player entered one or one or two other
times for one for the local day, and there was
another time where I don't remember why I pulled in
the game, but none of the cars.

Speaker 13 (01:08:14):
Were you know, were there or anything.

Speaker 15 (01:08:16):
So to be here and be a part of this,
you know, this team, this opportunity and this you know
group of men is truly a blessing.

Speaker 9 (01:08:23):
So that's all I can say.

Speaker 18 (01:08:25):
Talk about when you reflect back to your granddad who
was so proud of you, man, just knowing that you're here,
how much you probably wish he was still around just
to see this.

Speaker 15 (01:08:34):
Yeah, man, it's where Cincinnati family grew up, Cincinnati through
and through, you know, being I'm probably like third fourth
generation now of just true to you know, cut us
open where Cincinnati you know people. So for him to be,
you know, as big as a Reds fan as he is,
a big as a Bengals fan as he was, and

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he even actually played for the Reds way way back
in the day. And so it's kind of like I said,
I keep saying, it's a full circle moment.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
It's a real moment.

Speaker 15 (01:09:04):
But you know, the Lord has a funny way of
navigating things and bringing things into fruition that you don't
always expect, but they always make sense.

Speaker 13 (01:09:15):
He reveals them in his time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
So Xavier Johnson, the Bengal wide receiver, local product on
the practice squad, We'll take a time out and we
come back. We got to save some time for special teams.
Holy cow, they were special yesterday. We'll talk about him
as we roll on with Bengals on on the Bengals
Radio Networking seven hundred WL.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Down on the stretch. We go about to put.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Our number two in the books, two of three tonight
the Bengals out of the Bengals Radio Networking. As much
time as we've spent on offense and defense, we referenced
and if you used the term complimentary football and well
routed performance yesterday, that includes special teams where everybody had
a contribution, whether it was Evan McPherson with a lot
of extra points, which is a good thing, right. Ryan

(01:09:59):
Rico punning Bulah ball, the kick returns, the punt returns,
the coverage. I don't even where to begin. I'll start
with Ryan Rico, who has booted the ball well the
entire season. He's had some issues with touchbacks, but yesterday,
my goodness, he had all four of his punts inside
the twenty yard line, two of those inside the ten,
and he averaged fifty two yards a kick.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
He was on it yesterday, he really was. I mean
four punts averaged fifty two yards a kick. Like you said,
long of fifty nine four times inside the twenty twice
inside the ten. Of those four times no touchbacks. And
the return game for the Miami Dolphins because of the
excellent c Rico was non existent. I mean two of

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them were down inside the ten yard line and in
the red zone, and Washington never had a return. I mean,
were never able to jumpstart things to get it going.
And you talk about the rookie Williams as a kick
returner for the Bengals, three returns seventy six yards, averaging
over twenty five yards per along of thirty one Brooks

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had won for forty one yards. So the Bengals average
twenty nine point three on four kickoff returns. They dominated
field position courtesy of special teams. Darren Simmons, I know,
was pretty pleased. He was smiling in the locker room.
Had a chance to see him as he walked by
as he was getting ready to go out to the buses,

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and I'm like, man, Rico was unbelievable. It can't be
much better than he was today, you know. You know
Darren is he kind of like, you know, very monotone,
you know, very very composed. But yeah, and Rico, he
was going crazy as his teammates were downing punts, you know,
to keep that average away. And then he had one

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that looked like golf hitting the green and just you know,
the spin on it, just just it hit and spun back.
That one was a thing of beauty. But yeah, special
teams overall. They put the Dolphins on long fields and
they put Bengals on many short ones.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
By the way, I got about a minute left in
the hour. What can you tell me about your vantage
point and the size of the broadcast booth you were
in yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
Dave Worse, Oh my god, wasn't the yid man. I mean,
that's just horse pucky.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
But you were down, you were up and in the corner,
in the corner, and it was like a little pham
booth basically a broadcast.

Speaker 11 (01:12:23):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
We could only fit three across.

Speaker 24 (01:12:26):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
It was I was on on one side. Dan was
in the middle, and then uh, the spot was to
his left. The statistician was behind us, next to you
up a step on the on the three steps down
into the booth. I mean, it was, it was. It
was a closet, man, it was. It was unbelievable, but
it was a lot more tolerable because the way the

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game went.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Yes, and the weather. About the weather, and you'll take
just about any size booth.

Speaker 9 (01:12:53):
No question.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
Yeah, sunny, nice, nice little preeze. It wasn't it was.
It was just beautiful. Oh man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
All right, that's two in the books. Hey, type more
to get two in our three. We're gonna hear from
Zach Taylor. Here from Joe Burrow, fantastic fun facts talk
Arizona Cardinals, and here the awarding of the game balls. Well,
that's a busy third hour tonight. Stay with US Bengals
on and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
All right, welcome back in our number three. About to
unfold this three hour journey we call Bengals Line and
the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW sorting through
yesterday's forty five fourteen went over the Dolphins. We've got
the Arizona Cardinals in our sites. A little bit later
on in the show, We've always got our sights on
one of these days.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I just realized I'm such an idiot. I've said forty
five to fourteen like three times, and I forgot the
garbage time touchdown late by the Dolphins. So I'd like
to amend all my prior statements to we get forty
five to twenty one the final. So, yes, right, it
was a garbage time touchdown, but we'll count it because
it's officially counted. But the Bengals still win by twenty
four Inzach Taylor talked about it after the game.

Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
Yeah, proud, not surprised by the response our guys had.
You know, we expected to come down here and you
know a lot of questions about how these guys are
gonna respond. We saw how they respond all week. We
knew how they'd respond and come down here and put
together the performance they did, especially settling down a halftime
and coming out and getting four straight turnovers three three
turnovers at turnover on downs. Offense responded with four straight touchdowns.

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Special teams units are in a great job control in
the fuel position in the entire second half.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
Just just really proud, but again not surprised by the
response we had.

Speaker 6 (01:15:07):
That that's usually how it works.

Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
I mean, they had a tough time containing Drew today,
but Drew is just mister reliable, you know, he's in there.
Protection has a great feel very similar to the Buffalo
touchdown he scored a couple of years ago, same protection
where he's just got this awareness where Joe needs my
help right now, I'm out of the protection world, and
and I got to go find a way and and
he was trying to score, man. I was trying to
hope he stayed in bounce to keep the clock running.
There at the end of half, Drew was he was
helping on getting in the end zone. And so again

(01:15:36):
that's a huge play right there. Bye bye Joe, and
by Drew and by the protection to give him the
time to be able to extend the play like that
first quarter.

Speaker 6 (01:15:52):
They're explosive team.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Uh, They're really tough to defend, especially in the run
game with the play actions off of it. They did
a nice shot in the first half finding a rhythm.
But I thought our defense really did a great job
settling down and knocking those down for two or three
yards and putting them in passing situations. You know, with
the rookie quarterback, we knew that was going to be challenging,
and so I thought the defense had a great response.
You know, the big touchdown run, Yeah, they got us
on it. They've gotten a lot of people on that.

(01:16:14):
But I thought the response after that was really good
by the d as you.

Speaker 7 (01:16:17):
Guys started, you know, ugalizing all of your weapons.

Speaker 9 (01:16:20):
You know, it's team here and.

Speaker 18 (01:16:21):
Jamarro and Chase Browns and this kind of an example
of how your offense can be the ways playing profession.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
Yeah, you know, I feel like we've shown this a
million times over the years, you know, and unfortunately this
year we.

Speaker 6 (01:16:35):
Just haven't haven't been able to do it. But this
is no surprise.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
I mean I was walking off field Drew Sample and
he said, this is how I'm used to these games going.
You know, when we're when we got everybody on offense
ready to roll. And so again we've got another opportunity
this week against Arizona to come back home and do
it in front of our fans, and I expect our
guys to respond the right way.

Speaker 13 (01:16:53):
I know, you're in the game, is it or sweet?

Speaker 11 (01:16:56):
This is what you want it?

Speaker 6 (01:16:58):
Yeah? It is what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
You know, this is the this is the situation we're in,
and this is what we can control. And so after
the season you'll have a chance to reflect back on
things that we got to do differently. But I think
right now this is all we could control this week
was what was our response in the building to to
you know a lot of people after us right now.
And so the response was tremendous by our guys, and

(01:17:20):
to put together such a complete game I thought was
really impressive. Speaking yeah, I mean it was. I told
Jamar to come punch me in the stomach. We hadn't
thrown double go by the midway point the second quarter,
so we got to it a little earlier than I
had initially planned.

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
We were backed up.

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
It felt like the moment to go do it, and
t did what he does. He goes up and gets
it and we ran the double move there on the goal,
and I thought he did a great job with his
patient so Joe had time to get it up and
he you know, he's got so many touchdowns in that
back right corner of the end zone, getting getting his
two feet in, so expected nothing less from that connection.

Speaker 20 (01:17:59):
You know that you get when you get you guys
on offense. And he has staying healthy, clime is ready
to go for the stage.

Speaker 6 (01:18:11):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
I think Chase is a is a huge weapon for
us and does a great job with his explosiveness, tremendous
matchup in the past game as well that he probably
doesn't get enough credit for. He's won a lot of
those choice routs underneath, and he got a CEO for
a touchdown today when he was matchup on a backer,
and so again he's been a great weapon for us.
I'm happy I have him. I'm good with the direction
he's had.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
To go.

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
Yeah, yeah, I mean DJ was battling the flu, you know,
so for him to even get out there and get
IVS and go out there and play, it'd be hard
to get through an entire game. So UH certainly appreciate
DJ doing what he did. And fighting through it, and
unfortunately we got to a point where we were able
to get him out. And you know, if anyway, and

(01:18:55):
we just got the flu you get midway point in
the game, it's gonna beat you up pretty good. So
again I appreci DJ doing everything he could to get
to this game and get through it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
Yeah, awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:19:06):
And I saw DJ Ivy at the end of the
you know, make a good contest to play towards the end.
So I thought the response was great. I thought JD's
pick was was awesome. All those turnovers those guys got
was a lot of them were combination plays where one
guy was knocking it out, one guy was tipping it,
the other guy's making the play. Uh, JD's was just
one on one man coverage went up, made to play.
It was a big time what's it feeling.

Speaker 14 (01:19:27):
On the sideline start to just snowing the turnover and get.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
That.

Speaker 6 (01:19:35):
We have to finish that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
We had exactly what I thought was, we have to finish,
you know, And I've got a lot of respect for
the Dolphins and the coaching staff there. They're really good coaches,
good people. But we needed to have a killer instinct
to finish that. Game out, you know, and so we
wanted to continue to be aggressive till about the midway
point that fourth quarter. But uh, for our guys, for
our sake, for identity moving forward, you know, we need

(01:19:56):
to have a killer instinct and keep throwing the football
and keep finding ways to finish drives and not let
them try to get any hope and creep back in
the game. And I thought our guys did a great
job of that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Zach Taylor on the forty five to twenty one win
over the Miami Dolphins yesterday. And I know, Dave, when
once you get eliminated, there's great debate of how much
it means and if you you know draft position and
everything that comes with it. All I know is this,
and I know they've been eliminated. I know it was
quote just the Dolphins with the rookie quarterback, and I
know there's always the concern of how it may, how

(01:20:28):
it may skew any view of the team going to
the offseason and changes needed. I just know this, to
quote herm Edwards, you play to win the game, Bengo,
and they won the game yesterday. And I could you
could tell looking at players faces, even on the sidelines
there were smiles, there was joy, there was fun to
be had, and that has to mean something.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
No question, no doubt about it. Last absolutely, and you know,
it's a long season, man, and the to taste the
sweet nectar of victory at any point is meaningful. And
and uh, it was a long time coming. It has
been a long time coming. But this football team believes.

(01:21:08):
They believe they're better than their record indicates. They thought
they were going to have a really good year this
year going into it. I know that for a fact,
they felt like they had a lot of a lot
of pieces, like we talked about earlier, a lot of
a lot of pieces in place that would hold them
in good stead. They did. You know, it just has
not worked out that way. And like you said, you

(01:21:29):
know people like Poo Poo and the fact that you
beat the Miami Dalson just beat them, spanked them, man,
I mean it was. It was a total butt kicking,
took them to the h took them to the woodshed,
and gave them a spanking. There's no no doubt about it.
And uh, in every category that that you could win,
they won, and they won decisively and handily. So it
doesn't that doesn't happen in the NFL, particularly traveling to Miami. Uh,

(01:21:53):
that's a tough trip. You know, it's significantly long, and
then playing in the heat on the road, and then
you know, back home and celebrate a little bit. They
played with a lot of emotion, a lot of enthusiasm.
They were excited about it, which is good. It's a
good sign. Zach Taylor has not lost the football team.
Zach Taylor. The coaching staff still has, you know, the
football team where they want them in terms of listening

(01:22:16):
and absorbing and understanding game plans and how to go
about winning football games.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
By the way, a nugget to drop into in the
segment the forty five points, they're most since they scored
forty nine against the Jets October twenty seventh, twenty thirteen. Wow,
that was two hundred and one games ago. That was
the day that Andy threw five touchdowns, four of those
two Marvin Jones. How about that from the past.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
That's a good answer to a trivia question. There, boy, Marvin.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Had four touchdowns that day, eight catches for one twenty two.
AJ had three catches for one point fifteen, and the
Bengals beat the Jets and Rex Ryan forty nine to
nine that day.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Oh wow, Saxy Rex, he took a thump and yeah
he did got beaten by forty.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
There is your nugget of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
Yes, he's fun to listen to, though I do. I
do get a kick out and listening to Rex Rex
always uh, you know he's got something to say, something
to say, yeah, and says it in football lingo, you
know he does. And he looks at everything through a
defensive perspective, which I enjoy because I look at everything
through an offensive perspective initially and then think about the

(01:23:27):
defense and he's the reverse. He looks at it defensively
and then thinks about it how the offense handled it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Still ahead QB one Joe Burrow with perspective on yesterday,
as we were along with Bengals on and the Bengals
Radio Network and seven hundred WLW, we keep moving right
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Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Get more from QB one Joe Burrow on a four
touchdown day quarterback rating of Holy Cow one forty six
point five. Here's Joe on victory and having fun.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
Was there any to.

Speaker 7 (01:24:16):
Bouncing back from last week or just another another week?

Speaker 13 (01:24:22):
He's executed better at the end of the day.

Speaker 10 (01:24:25):
You know, T set it off, set the tone for
the day with those two big plays early, and I
kind of set the tone for number one, how the
day was going and number two, how they were going
to play us. I think they had a plan and
then those two plays happened and then they had to
change their plan. And that's that's a hy t is

(01:24:46):
who he is and why we value him so much,
and he just makes plays like that what makes.

Speaker 14 (01:24:51):
Him so special and it's fantastic to catch situations and
how it's hillball for him.

Speaker 7 (01:24:55):
It seems like he's making all.

Speaker 10 (01:24:56):
These Yeah, he's big, long, strong, physical, and he's grown
up over the last you know, I don't first first year,
he wasn't making a ton of those plays, and then
we'd come back in twenty twenty one, he's maybe most
of them since that's credit to how serious he takes

(01:25:16):
in how much he works and likes to improve.

Speaker 13 (01:25:19):
The first one was the goal cause it wou where.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
It was the goal?

Speaker 13 (01:25:22):
And then what was the second one?

Speaker 10 (01:25:23):
The second one basically turned into that too, basically turning
down chus.

Speaker 22 (01:25:27):
Prass talked a lot about his development and trying to
be like a receiver bad whatever you've seen, especially how
since day and developing in that area.

Speaker 10 (01:25:34):
Yeah, it really provides us a lot of versatility. And
we've been able to put two backs on the field
cause we feel so good about Smaje and obviously we
feel good about Chase and uh, now that provides challenges
for the defense. How are they gonna take that? How
are they gonna play that with their personnel? What coverages
are there? Are they gonna play with that?

Speaker 13 (01:25:54):
Cause?

Speaker 10 (01:25:55):
Uh, if I was the defense, I wouldn't feel great
about a linebacker cover and Chase in space. He proved
that on his his receiving touchdown today. And another guy
that just loves to improve. And Chase his first year,
I'm not sure he caught a ball in practice, and
then he came back the next year and was catching

(01:26:15):
everything and really took that to heart and has improved
and it's turning in the players.

Speaker 11 (01:26:21):
Now is what are the players who played sample?

Speaker 24 (01:26:25):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:26:25):
Played sample?

Speaker 23 (01:26:26):
Wanted to throw it down when you falling across your body, Yeah,
you're thinking maybe.

Speaker 13 (01:26:31):
They shouldn't do this, or do you thinking?

Speaker 11 (01:26:33):
You know?

Speaker 10 (01:26:33):
Well, but I was really just trying to throw it away,
and I knew Drew was over there somewhere, so I
was just going to throw it to the ground, and
then I see Drew wide opening right there, and so
I just popped it over to him and then he
did the rest.

Speaker 19 (01:26:46):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:26:47):
Yeah, it was a crazy one.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
What was the uh?

Speaker 18 (01:26:50):
What was it really like on the sidelines on the
third quarter as defense is getting stops and you guys
are felt like Thompson was running back out.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
To go down and score. But I mean that was
like the epit of me.

Speaker 13 (01:27:01):
Yeah, That's that's how it's supposed to look like. That's
what it's supposed to feel like.

Speaker 10 (01:27:07):
So we gotta keep that feeling going these next couple
of weeks and build some momentum.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
You would obviously, uh win exactly as for Joe flat thought.

Speaker 12 (01:27:17):
You would obviously don't enough to win the game at
that point, But did you want to stay in No?

Speaker 9 (01:27:22):
I was good.

Speaker 13 (01:27:22):
I was good.

Speaker 22 (01:27:24):
How fun is it to be out there with all
the leathers they were all out there.

Speaker 6 (01:27:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:27:30):
You just see how it changes how defenses playoffs and
all the different things that they're worried about, and all
of our different looks that we show.

Speaker 13 (01:27:40):
And prides.

Speaker 10 (01:27:42):
With more versatility, more things we can do, more personnel packages,
it just really opens it up for cause you can.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
Feel like some of the highest today and then against
Buffalo were some of the pigs would last year.

Speaker 10 (01:27:57):
You know, I feel like today and and against Buffalo
were we were really consistent. You know, how they chose
to play us today, I felt like a lot a
lot like twenty twenty one. You know, we we hit
our plays down the field when they came, but for
the most part, we were getting it, getting out quick,
getting it underneath, and our guys.

Speaker 13 (01:28:13):
Were making plays after the catch. That's really what's critical.

Speaker 10 (01:28:17):
When we get the opportunities, we have to hit them
to scare defenses out of playing those kinds of coverages,
and then we can start to, you know, get our
past game going with all the zones that we like
to attack and that our coaches do such a good
job of providing those concepts for us and teaching them, showing.

Speaker 13 (01:28:38):
Us what to look at and what we how we
have to play each play.

Speaker 7 (01:28:41):
Did they get I think it puts a lot girl.

Speaker 13 (01:28:44):
Did you did you get them out of it to
stop doing it or what?

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
What?

Speaker 13 (01:28:47):
How did you try to? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:28:49):
I just think I think that the Tea's two plays
early on really just set the tone. Like you said,
they were pressuring a little bit early, and team makes
those two plays and then they they can't pressure as
much and when they do, they have to play different
coverages behind it, and so that light just get them
all out quickly and in the space.

Speaker 13 (01:29:08):
And so it just started with those two from Tea.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
We saw you like you.

Speaker 11 (01:29:12):
They had to touch on your routine. You do kind
of made the pressure like that dozens of time, and
more than that, throughout your rear in that moment, what
you could thinking, what do you feel it? What what's
going on in your head?

Speaker 10 (01:29:24):
Well I just started to to move a little bit,
and then I was like, we're in field goal range.
I kind of gotta throw this away at this point.
So I was just trying to find a place that
I could dump it and live to see another down.

Speaker 13 (01:29:37):
And drew pops right there. Great job by him finding
the space and realizing what was happening. You know, Trae.
Drew's improved so much at that over the course.

Speaker 11 (01:29:45):
Of his career.

Speaker 10 (01:29:46):
And then he had another good one on the uh
He scrambled left and ended up hitting Jamar, But Drew
had a great reaction on that one too. I could
have thrown it to him as well for for a touchdown,
it would have been a little more difficult throw, so
I chose the the other one.

Speaker 9 (01:29:59):
But Drew's just.

Speaker 10 (01:30:03):
Really embrace his role over the last couple of years
and continue to improve and and carve out a bigger
role based on how he's performed. Zach talked about killer
instinct and kind of complimentated you guys on that day.

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
I'm curious how more that is for you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
To stipulating how to keep that role when you have.

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
One of your teams and one they have.

Speaker 10 (01:30:19):
Yeah, when when you have a chance to to put
it away or go up two scores or three scores,
you have to take those opportunities.

Speaker 19 (01:30:27):
You have to.

Speaker 10 (01:30:30):
Because teams in the NFL are too good to let
him hang around, and you know, guys on the other
side of the field are gonna make plays. That's that's
how this league goes, and so when you have a
chance to do it, you gotta take advantage. How much fun,
Yeah it was fun. I'm having fun playing football. Not
playing football is not fun. And you're sitting in a

(01:30:53):
locker room rehabit all day, that's that's not.

Speaker 6 (01:30:56):
Why you do it.

Speaker 13 (01:30:57):
This is why you do it. Right here and come back.

Speaker 9 (01:30:59):
This is one of you. I think this is your
second best passive league.

Speaker 14 (01:31:02):
It's a week after he stepped up and said, hey,
put this on me personally satisfying.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
This is the puns back.

Speaker 6 (01:31:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:31:09):
I thought I played a clean game. I thought I
protected the ball for the most part. I got greedy
with one over the middle.

Speaker 10 (01:31:15):
But that's that's how I have to play, play within
this game and then take my opportunities to try to
make a play when when I can. But I'm gonna
limit limit that for the most part at this point.
But I was just happy with with how we all
execute it.

Speaker 22 (01:31:32):
To hear the fifth fastest quarterback to over twenty pass
to your career and you're the third player in the
first seventy five games.

Speaker 11 (01:31:40):
So pill Rogers gave me more passive touchdowns does.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
That mean anything.

Speaker 13 (01:31:46):
I've missed. I missed a full season of games too,
so should have been more.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Joe Burrow after the game, still ahead, Fantastic fun Facts.
We've talked about the special teams. To put more of
a spotlight on the special teams. With a guy who
keeps making plays there, Joe Giles Harris. As we continue
with Bengals Line Bengals Radio Network at seven hundred WLW, he'd.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Move in right along.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
On this Monday night, we are flying through our third hour.
We go sort through yesterday's win over the Dolphins, and
we've got those Cardinals around the corner of our next segment.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
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Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
We've talked about how the complimentary football rained yesterday for
the Bengals. They did it offensively, defensively, and with special teams.
Let's put the focus back on special teams each week.
We love Dan Horde's fantastic fun Facts where he kind
of pulls back the curtain. We learn more about the player,
more about the person beyond the helmet. Here is a
conversation with the special teams. Extraordinary Joe Giles Harris and

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Fantastic fun Facts.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
No fantastic fun facts with Dan Ord.

Speaker 11 (01:33:09):
Time for some fun facts with linebacker and special teams
stand out Joe Giles Harris. I know you played football
in Montvale, New Jersey, which isn't too far from New
York City. Where exactly did you live growing up?

Speaker 24 (01:33:21):
I lived in New York growing up, so it's about
fifteen minute rod right outside of all right outside of
New Jersey.

Speaker 11 (01:33:27):
Do you consider yourself a New York City guy, a
Jersey guy? How would you label yourself just.

Speaker 24 (01:33:32):
In New York and not New York City, not New
Jersey guy. I love everybody I'm from New York. I
love that about myself. I love the energy in New York.
I love New York. I love everything that it revids
and what it's about. So I tell everybody I'm from
New York. Joe, what sports did you play growing up?
And when did you know that football would ultimately be
your path forward? So growing up we played everything, and

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then when I got the high school played football, basketball, lacrosse.
But for me football was everything from an early age.
My dad coach high school football from the time I
was born, so I've been on the field in pampers
and as long as I can remember, and it's the
only thing I ever wanted to do. My mom jokes
and will tell stories, so I told her that I
wasn't going to college to stay classes. I was going
there for chalk talk and film prep and things like that.

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That's what I was gonna do in college. So being
able to be here now, it's a blessing. But I
pretty much knew football was my path all.

Speaker 11 (01:34:22):
You played college football at Duke, which means you were
probably a very good student in high school. Was that
important in your family? Absolutely.

Speaker 24 (01:34:30):
My mom and my grandmother were both teachers, so that
was pushed on us big from the early, from early on,
and when it came to it, it's like, well why not,
do you know, it's the best of both worlds. I
got to play very competitive, powerful football and get one
of the best educations in the country, So, I mean
it was a win win for me.

Speaker 11 (01:34:48):
Coach k was the basketball coach throughout your tenure at Duke.
Did you interact?

Speaker 24 (01:34:53):
I mean we saw him a couple of times. I
wouldn't say I knew him personally, but there was a
couple times he spoke to the football program and you know,
going to the game and things like that. But it
was definitely cool to see like a living legend in person,
especially his last couple of years I was there, So
it was pretty cool.

Speaker 11 (01:35:06):
While you were Duke, you were the three time winner
of the Vincent Ray Award, which goes to the best
linebacker at Duke. And Vinnie Ray, of course, is here
in Cincinnati played for the Bengals. He is currently the
team chaplain. Have you two hit it off now that
you're here in Cincinnati.

Speaker 24 (01:35:21):
So it's funny, you know, being at Duke for the
four years, that was the name I heard every day.
I heard Vinnie Ray would do this, Vinie Ray would
do that, Vini Ray wouldn't have done this, or and
it was back and forth. And I didn't actually meet
Vinnie until this past year, this past spring at an
event the NFL host over the summer, and I got
to meet Vini for the first time. And it was
funny because I'm like, I know so much about you,

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but I don't know you. And since you know, he's
been nothing but a blessing to me and my family
and between getting settled in since the Bible studies, meeting
with him one on one. You know, it's been really
cool to you know, build that relationship. And Vinie's a
New York guy who went to Duke, and I'm a
New York guy I went to Duke, so it kind
of just worked out hand in hand.

Speaker 11 (01:36:00):
We're visiting with Joe Giles Harris. You had a great
career at Duke, team MVP, two time first Team All
acc or a team captain there your final year, did
you expect to get drafted and was it a big
disappointment when you weren't? Oh, I think so.

Speaker 24 (01:36:15):
I think for me, you know, that's obviously for everybody,
it's the ultimate goals to get drafted, and when it
didn't happen, you know, it hurt a little bit. But
I come from a competitive household and my brother plays
profession lacross and things like that, so there was no
sulking in the moment. It was just all right, what
are you gonna do to stay? What are you gonna
do to you know, actually make it? Because you're not
the first the first door is not open, so you
got to walk to the second door. So for me,

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it was disappointing, but I think it also taught me
a lot of things about myself, and it taught me
that if I really wanted, I had to put in
that much more work to get to where I'm at.
And seven years later, I'm still here doing it. So uh,
blessed for how it's gone. How it started was kind
of roup, but you know, figured it.

Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
Out because of the way NFL accounting works. The roster
says you have two years of NFL experience, and it's
always annoying to me because the truth is, this is
your seventh NFL season, including time that you've spent on
practice squads. It's a good living regardless of what your
status is on the roster. What's been the key for
you to remain an NFL player for seven years?

Speaker 24 (01:37:15):
For me, I think it's just been simple. You know,
show up to work every day and work. There's somebody
coming in and take your spot every day. There's a
hundred guys who are getting truts every day, and so
what are you doing in that building to stand out
on a consistent basis? So it's you know, I've built
a routine being consistent and just being vocal and being
a leader. And when you get your opportuny to make plays,

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make plays. That's the league about. The more plays you make,
the longer you stay, the less players you're make, gonna
have to find something else to do.

Speaker 11 (01:37:42):
I introduced you off the top as a linebacker, and
special teams stand out right now. Pro Football Focus has
you graded number eleven among all special teams players in
the NFL so far this year. You've had several tackles
and kick coverage in recent weeks. How much of special
team's success is all out effort and how much is
knowledge and technique?

Speaker 24 (01:38:03):
Well, I think you know it's a combination of both.
But shout out you know coach Daron, Coach Ben, and
you know the guys in the unit. You know, I'm
just the guy who's been lucky enough to have a
couple of tackles these past few games. But it comes
down to film study and just working hard. And you know,
I think for a lot of guys, you know, early
on you can kind of look at special teams as
that I don't want to play special teams. I want
to be a defensiveuy. I want to be offensive guy.

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But it's just as important. It's it's just as fun,
and you know, guys carve out roles doing that. So
for me, like I told you, just being consistent and
doing what I have to do to stay in a
building and you know, getting the opportunity to play there
and it's been nothing but good to me and kind
of opened my eyes a little more special teams the world.
And I just thank my film studying things for being
able to be in the right place the right time.

Speaker 11 (01:38:45):
Maybe in a perfect world, you get drafted by a team,
you spend a decade with that team, and that's your
NFL career. That's not been the path for you. On
the other hand, you've probably made hundreds of friends, and
the different teams you've been with, you've seen how it
works in different places. Says you've lived in different cities.
Have you enjoyed that part of your career.

Speaker 24 (01:39:04):
Absolutely, I don't think any of this for granted. I've
made nothing but great relationships, and you know, just the
people I've met along the way have been amazing, and
that you know, there's people you met along the way
who aren't amazing, but it's just.

Speaker 6 (01:39:16):
Part of the process.

Speaker 24 (01:39:17):
But I'd say the overall knowledge I've gained just from
the business side of it, how the NFL works. You
know what locker rooms are like and things like that.
I think it's kind of really helped me, you know,
stay focused and stay grounded and things like that, and
to really like it's been nothing but a blessing.

Speaker 11 (01:39:33):
Like I've loved this process.

Speaker 6 (01:39:34):
It's been hard.

Speaker 24 (01:39:35):
There's been days where I'm like, this is not it,
this is the worst thing in the world, but it's
you know, everything's turned the corner for me, and I'm
grateful for it. I came to this lead with no kids.
I have two kids now, two beautiful kids who have
now part of this process. My wife's part of the process.
So it's been good for us. It's given us a
different perspective. Got to live in different areas of the country,
which is cool, you know, being from New York, I
only wanted to live in New York.

Speaker 6 (01:39:56):
It was good.

Speaker 24 (01:39:57):
I was able to branch out and do things like that.
But it's been a blessing and I cherished every Every
place I've been at has been good for me and
my family, and I'm just forever grateful.

Speaker 11 (01:40:07):
All Right, A few wild card topics now for Joe
Giles Harris, since you mentioned having two kids, son, daughter,
one of each, and what's your favorite thing about being
a dad.

Speaker 24 (01:40:16):
My son is two years old and my daughter's one
year old, Blaze and Breeze, and I think my favorite
part of being a dad is coming home and hearing
what they had to say about their day and you know,
what they did or what I did. And my son's
at the age where he understands things now and wants
to play football. So I get home and Dad, you
didn't make a tackle the day, And I'm like, yeah,
I know, I didn't make a tackle.

Speaker 11 (01:40:32):
Money I'm trying, so just that part.

Speaker 24 (01:40:35):
But it's just coming home and you know, seeing there's
something more important than whatever you got going on that day.
So I love to My daughter runs to me every
time I come in the house, whether it's because she
was being bad that day or she just wants to
see me.

Speaker 11 (01:40:47):
It is, you know, to be determined, but just.

Speaker 24 (01:40:50):
Seeing their face, seeing their smiles, and remember there's you know,
there's people counting on me to be more than a
football player, and I think that's the best part about it.

Speaker 11 (01:40:58):
You have a hyphenated last name, Giles Harris. Was that
always the case or did you make that choice?

Speaker 24 (01:41:04):
That's been always the case My mom and my dad
neither one wanted to get up their last name, and
it sounds great and it's original, and when you see it,
you know who I am. So the only people who
have that last name are people blood related to me.
So I think I think it's a blessing. It helps
me stand out and it's unique.

Speaker 11 (01:41:22):
So I appreciate you referenced your brother, JT. Earlier, a
professional lacrosse player for the Denver Outlaws. He is a
three time All Star in the Premier Lacrosse League. Tell
us a little bit about his career.

Speaker 24 (01:41:33):
Oh, well, my brother has been, you know, the best
player at lacrosse in my opinion, and I know that
probably doesn't carry well because I live in the house,
but he's been the best lacrosse player I've seen in
a long time. He plays defense, you know, he played
defense playing growing up, playing football and things like that,
so kind of translated. But he's had, you know, a
heck of probably a better career than I have had,
to be honest. He you know, was a Defensive Player
of the Year in college, All American most of his

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time in college. I think he won Defensive Player of
the Year already in the PLL. So he's just a study,
handles his business. He approaches every day coming some of
what I do, you know, just attack the day mentality,
and he's just a competitor, like there's a fire in
him and it burns and he's gonna get his job
none no matter what.

Speaker 11 (01:42:12):
Out there than football, what are you good at.

Speaker 24 (01:42:16):
Depends on yes. I think I'm a pretty good basketball
player myself. Basketball, you know, and I like to just
hang out. I'm a big I love to watch movies
and do things like that. I love history, so I
like to watch, you know, the trivia stuff and like
things like that and.

Speaker 11 (01:42:30):
Test my brain. But those are pretty much small things.
I'm gonna all right. Final fun fact for Joe Giles Harris.
This one's kind of deep. If you could meet anyone
in history, living or deceased, who would that person be.

Speaker 24 (01:42:45):
I say, right now, off the top of my head,
probably Barack Obama, and I would just, you know, just
want to pick his brain about you know, he was
the first black president of the United States, and you
know the things he went through growing up and the
things he went through as our president. So just to
kind of pick his brain and see where he's at,
you know, because it takes a strong person to you know,
lead this country, and especially when you're the first of

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you know, a group to do that. So just pick
his brain and you know, just get to know him.
I think that would be probably the person I want to.

Speaker 11 (01:43:13):
Meet the most. This has been great, appreciate your time.
Best of left the rest of the year.

Speaker 6 (01:43:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:43:17):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
Love the Dan Horde, fun facts and and Joe Giles,
Harris Davis is just one of those guys. It seems
Darren Simmons will have an eye for somebody and be
able to add him to this and and and they
just they become a force. He just makes tackles on
special teams. And probably at the start of the season
there were very few fans who knew of him. But man,

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Darren Simmons saw something, plugged him in and he's been rewarded.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
And boy, I'll tell you what nobody sees uh or
evaluate talent with the eye of a guy like Darren Simmons,
who has so much experience in the National Football League.
He was a punter himself. He understands special teams, understands
the importance of special teams, understands the role of a
special teams player, and man, he just has a knack

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for unearthing these guys. Man, I mean he just out
of a group of players when he's at the combine,
he finds himself. Like you talked about Lance nuggets, potential nuggets,
and then you know he'll he'll get them signed, cultivate them,
you know, just almost like a jeweler turning coal into

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a diamond. That's what Darren Simmons does with players, and
he's done it for years. He's he's more than proven commodity.
There's no question about that. Darren Simmons is as good
as it gets in the NFL with special teams.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
We continue on with the Cardinals ahead and game balls
ahead on Bengals on on the Bengals Radio Network in
seven hundred WLW. We continue on down the stretch all
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Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
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Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
Couple of thoughts on those Arizona Cardinals who are three
and twelve. Kind of a mess of a season. It
started out with great hopes. They started two and oh
and they've gone one and twelve since then. They dropped
seven straight late interception yesterday sealed their fate, and three
and twelve overall. Although I would circle and I have

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highlighted one name tight end of all things, cover the
tight end this week, because Trey McBride has one hundred
and nine catches for one thousand and ninety eight yards
and ten touchdowns this season.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
Oh man, man, I'll tell you what. Hat's tip of
the cap. Hats off to McBride to be the bright
spot in such a horrific season for football team three
and twelve, and to put up those numbers, man, because
obviously he's been targeted. It's like, this guy is killing it.

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This guy's having a Pro Bowl season. We have to
eliminate him as an option as a weapon, and he
continues to make plays. So, you know, credit the Arizona
Cardinals coaching staff for finding waste to keep him involved offensively,
and credit him for playing at a high level and
staying healthy and all those good things. And making plays
and the quarterbacks for finding them. And but boy, that's

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a that's a rough season. I experienced a four and
twelve season, and I can tell you it is no
fun whatsoever. I mean, you get tired of each other. Man,
It's almost you know, it's like, when is this going
to end? When is the misery and the drudgery you're
going to end?

Speaker 9 (01:46:50):
So and Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
That sets it up to me perfectly. They're traveling. They
got to come all the waycross country here. It's not
going to be cold, but it's going to be about
fifty I think I saw on sun. But this is
one of those games where you you cause you want
to give the Cardinals a reason to check out early
score on the opening drive, get them behind the eight ball,
see how interested they are in playing, because they just

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may want to get back on.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
The play absolutely. You know, their biggest desire may be
heading back to Arizona, being with their families. You know,
I mean, start this chrismas, Yeah, why do we have
to play a football game? You know, there's no reason
for it. Plus you want to if you're the Bengals,
you want to win the last three. Yep, you want
to go out on a high note. And it's not
great competition obviously Arizona and Cleveland. But you know, you

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got one under your belt beating the Miami Dolphins. Why
not get two more? And people are going to say, hey,
you know, but look at the competition. So what wins
in the National Football League you don't take for granted.
They're not easy to come by. And if you can
use it as a building block to get off to
a quick start in twenty twenty six, I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Final segment ahead, and that's saving the best for last
game balls. You hear the presentation from the locker room
after the victory. It's Bengals on on the Bengals Radio
Network and seven hundred WLW. Here we go Final seven
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Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
And Bengals fans make sure to catch me and Dan
Horde every Wednesday this season for Bengals Game Plan presented
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Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
When the Bengals win, we love to hear the presentation
after the game of game balls. This is what it
sounded like we faced a.

Speaker 25 (01:48:34):
Tune versus the last two weeks, so a lot of
people that doubted you. Okay, I question how you were
gonna respond, question how you've been this week. All you
did was respond exactly how our coaching staff and you
guys need to respond exactly how you came out here
in a vacation weather and week sixteen. Okay, we know
our playoff status, and all you did was handle business.

Speaker 7 (01:48:53):
At halftime, we said we gotta win. The turnobels seventeen
to fourteen, no turnovers to no turnovers. Came out.

Speaker 25 (01:49:00):
You got four straight damn. The offense went down, scored
four straight touchdown. The kickoff team was nails, hit them
down the second half. Okay, Ryan ricco four inside the twenty.

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I saw kid returners getting loose, Williams toss Brooks, get
the poet return, Keyshawn taking one twenty something yonder. I'll
tell you the cub get into more of the stats here. Okay,
everyone's getting a game ball, because for me, that ball

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was significant. That game was significant.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Kay.

Speaker 25 (01:49:53):
Every coach, every staff member, every player responded the way
we had responded. We had no other choice. And all
I got, dudes, come down here and kick them. But
I'm probably okay. But there's some things I want to
point out.

Speaker 7 (01:50:04):
Okay.

Speaker 25 (01:50:06):
First of all, o line batcha tails off, Okay. For starters,
Joe Burrow is twenty five to thirty two for three
hundred and nine and four touchdowns. He's the fifth fastest
quarterback in the league history to hit twenty thousand yards,

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my fastest quarterback in the league history to throw it
for one hundred and fifty touchdowns.

Speaker 11 (01:50:38):
You know.

Speaker 25 (01:50:40):
Jamar Chase seven games this season with omber one hundred.
That's a Bengals record. If we went over five hundred
career catches, which is the third fastest in NFL. Hiss
Brown three touchdowns today, My second player in Bengals history

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score three and a quarter.

Speaker 7 (01:51:07):
Mine the second. The state isn't the biggest.

Speaker 25 (01:51:11):
That touchdown fell great coming back and see Higgins that
went back huge, go right early when we're backed up.
Big touchdown on the defensively, Man couldn't be prouder. Since
Week twelve eleven takeaways most of the NFL. I thought

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Jordan Battle knocking out Miles Murphy recovering.

Speaker 8 (01:51:43):
The last run.

Speaker 7 (01:51:44):
I thought Josh Duton tipped that ball up and Mark
Connor pick it off. That's all huge fourth and one
hand by the entire defense. That counts as a turnover.

Speaker 25 (01:52:14):
Guys, you proved here we are. That's a huge character win.
You gotta do it two more times. Let's keep this out.

Speaker 8 (01:52:19):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
We love the sound of Victory Bengals beating the Miami Dolphins. Dave,
Merry Christmas, Yid, Merry Christmas, listeners, Merry Christmas, and uh,
I like Victory Mondays heading into Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
I'll take it absolutely absolutely, and men, it's a pleasure
working with you every week, no question about it. You
guys are prose pros. And with that said, Merry Christmas
to all, into all, good night, perfect.

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