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Bengals Booth Podcast: Runnin With The Devil · Bengals Booth Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Running with the debut addition,
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  Speaker 1: because we look ahead to Sunday's game in Baltimore as
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals try to slow down the Ravens formidable running
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  Speaker 1: game led by Lamar Jackson and by the way, r
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  Speaker 1: ip to Eddie Van Halen, who passed away this week
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  Speaker 1: at the age of sixty five, one of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: guitarists of all time. Coming up, Dave Lapham joins me
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  Speaker 1: to discuss why Joe Mixon was so effective last week
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  Speaker 1: and if Alex Redman should remain at right guard even
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  Speaker 1: after Xavier sue Philo returns from injury. This week's one
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  Speaker 1: we find out who gets more done before ten am,
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  Speaker 1: Ravens from a guy known as Nasty Nestor in Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: talk show host and author Nestor Apparichio. The Bengals Booth
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  Speaker 1: work and passion for the team is truly appreciated. Now
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  Speaker 1: time to bring in my broadcast partner, Dave Lapham. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's start with some news that broke on Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was name the AFC Offensive Player of the
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  Speaker 1: Week after his great game against Jacksonville. Twenty five carries,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty one yards and two touchdowns, six
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  Speaker 1: sketches thirty yards and another touchdown, one hundred eighty one
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  Speaker 1: total yards which is a new career high. My question
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  Speaker 1: for you is why, and here are your options. A.
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville stinks. B Alex Redman in the offensive line, we're
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  Speaker 1: really good. Ce. Whatever they did at the hospital on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night when he had chess pains was powerful or
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  Speaker 1: d it was simply a matter of time. I think
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  Speaker 1: that the hospital is a little bit of a factor.
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  Speaker 1: I like from Joe said the doctors loved on him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. That's a little injection. That's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of relief right there. You get loved on a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, so you're able to play freely. I do
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  Speaker 1: think that as far as Joe run the football, it
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  Speaker 1: was a bunch of guys, you know, the offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: the receivers. They did a great job in the perimeter
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  Speaker 1: of the tight ends, uh, sealing edges when they had to,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, setting an edge. I think that it
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  Speaker 1: was it was an upgrade in performance across the board
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  Speaker 1: from a running game standpoint, because Joe has has had issues,
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  Speaker 1: you know, make having to make his first cutting his
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  Speaker 1: own backfield, you know, between the tackles, just outside the
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  Speaker 1: tackles multiple places, so there've been breakdowns everywhere in the
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  Speaker 1: receivers again, that's what makes a five yard run a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen yard run, or makes a five yard run a
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  Speaker 1: fift yard run and a touchdown, or like in Joe's case,
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  Speaker 1: when he busted outside bounced it. You know that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be between the tackles run. Giovanni Bernard bounced
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  Speaker 1: for eleven and then he bounced for thirty plus for
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. Tyler Boyd was great on both of those.
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  Speaker 1: And now you put the cornerback in a sweat because
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, he wants to keep leverage and pinch
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  Speaker 1: you if you're going between the tackles. Well, he was
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  Speaker 1: going too far down inside to pinch him, way too
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  Speaker 1: far inside, never set an edge, and Giovanni made him pay.
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  Speaker 1: Then Joe made him pay. So once you start getting
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  Speaker 1: everybody doing what they're supposed to do and how they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do it, it can look like that for sure. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you gave in all your choice, you gave
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a little bit of reason for everything.
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville's not up to snuff from what they've been going against.
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  Speaker 1: There's no question, absolutely no question. We will specifically get
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  Speaker 1: to Alex Redman's impact in just a bit, but did
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  Speaker 1: anything stand out about the offensive lines performance in general?
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  Speaker 1: I think Jonah is getting better on a weekly basis,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he was lining up against the best
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  Speaker 1: guy and Alan was not well. I mean, we weren't
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  Speaker 1: talking about him, So when you're not talking about a guy,
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  Speaker 1: he's being held in check. He had the most bogus
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  Speaker 1: sack in history right when Joe got down at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game. The whole post game, I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't sacked at all, And then you look at
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  Speaker 1: the stats and technically he lost about two inches when
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is trying to kill the quod right right.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Joe, if Joe knew that was going
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  Speaker 1: in the books as a sack, he would have made
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  Speaker 1: sure even if he took a hit, he would have
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  Speaker 1: made sure to gain another foot to make sure his
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  Speaker 1: offensive line didn't get nicked with a sack because he
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  Speaker 1: knows that they've been under the heat big time, and
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  Speaker 1: he was obviously very proud of their performance and they
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  Speaker 1: made his life a lot easier during the course of
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  Speaker 1: that football game. I mean, Alan, Alan was responsible. He
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  Speaker 1: was the guy on the twist. He came inside on
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  Speaker 1: a super loop instead of just a tackle end twist
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  Speaker 1: with a tackle penetrates the end loops. He looped all
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  Speaker 1: the way inside to Trey Hopkins, and that was the
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  Speaker 1: guy that Trey Hopkins held that took the Tyler Boyd
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  Speaker 1: touchdown off the board. So he had an impact play there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, by forcing a penalty and again got a
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  Speaker 1: bogus sack, but on a snap by and Jonah had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with that one. You know, he came
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  Speaker 1: from the opposite side. Jonah went on that on that
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  Speaker 1: particular play. So every time that he lined up I
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  Speaker 1: think against Alan, I think it went pretty well for him.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's that was their best guy coming off
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  Speaker 1: the end for sure. So I think his his graphs
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  Speaker 1: going up. And he's that kind of guy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's not a guy that makes the same
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  Speaker 1: mistake over and over and over again. He learns from
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  Speaker 1: it and he compartmentalized it. And I think he's almost
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  Speaker 1: got you know, he's got like a computer like mind.
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  Speaker 1: He'll just click into that. I've been in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the tendencies here. My percentage of doing this is that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's got that uh, that computer like mind.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's really going to help him. He certainly
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  Speaker 1: looked good late in the game, getting out as the
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  Speaker 1: lead blocker on that one run around the left by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Mixon and literally taking the cornerback that he was
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  Speaker 1: blocking out of bounds. Yeah, chopped him down and you know,
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  Speaker 1: took him off his feet and rolled him out of bounds.
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  Speaker 1: It was like make that spare. You know, he knocked
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  Speaker 1: that pinned out and took it all the way through
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  Speaker 1: the gutter, you know, I mean, way to go. Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was. He was that. That showed his athleticism. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he was. He was running with and really, Dan
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  Speaker 1: and I've been there. You're out in space and you're
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen wheeler and you're trying to stay with a
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  Speaker 1: fra a. It's got rack and pinion steering and it's
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  Speaker 1: changed in directionally whoa, whoa, you know I can't change
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  Speaker 1: and he's changed direction with him pretty well and uh
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  Speaker 1: and really made it. Made a hell of a play
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  Speaker 1: in space against a defensive back. I mean there, that's
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  Speaker 1: what they're That's what impressed me when I when I
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  Speaker 1: see Joe Burrow with unblocked free runner linebackers, unblocked free
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  Speaker 1: runner cornerbacks on blitzes, and he does his little pirouette
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  Speaker 1: and tight spin and spin away from these guys. Dude.
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  Speaker 1: Some athleticism, that's some short space ability, short space quickness,
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  Speaker 1: some suddenness to him. And Jonah was very good in
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  Speaker 1: short space, no doubt. On the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals defense finally held an opponent under one hundred
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  Speaker 1: rushing yards. Jacksonville had eighty nine in the game. It
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  Speaker 1: obviously helps to have the lead and forced Jacksonville to
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  Speaker 1: throw it down the stretch. But what did you think
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  Speaker 1: of the run defense in particular? Yeah, I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was better. Again, a forty yard run was nullified by penalty,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's helpful. That would that would
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  Speaker 1: have changed the dynamic of it, you know, pretty extensively.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know Robinson's he's a he sold me
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  Speaker 1: he's a legit that kids, that kid's a good football player.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of seventeen carries for seventy five yards, you would
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  Speaker 1: have had eighteen for one fifteen, which is almost six
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  Speaker 1: and a half you know a carry he ends up
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  Speaker 1: at four point four, which looks good, looks better than
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  Speaker 1: you know than it has. That's for sure, but I
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  Speaker 1: do think they you know, they did a better job.
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  Speaker 1: They did a nice job with the mush rush of
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  Speaker 1: controlling Minshew, you know, not getting yards. He does a
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  Speaker 1: great job of finding a lane and abusing it and
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  Speaker 1: getting yards up in the middle. He's more of a
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  Speaker 1: between the tackles runner and when he scrambles rather than
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  Speaker 1: he's not a real speed guy busted the outside, and
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  Speaker 1: they did a good job of preventing, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of that because they've had their issues with quarterbacks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: rushing for yardage against him. Of course their face and
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  Speaker 1: the best of the NFL has to offer him this week.
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  Speaker 1: For the year, through four games, which is a quarter
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  Speaker 1: of the schedule, the Bengals are twenty seventh in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL and rushing yards allowed sixteenth and passing yards allowed.
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  Speaker 1: But I was looking at football outsiders because they have
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  Speaker 1: that dvoacetistic which takes into account the quality of the
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  Speaker 1: opposition and then the game situation. A five yard gain
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  Speaker 1: on third and ten is not as bad from a
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  Speaker 1: defensive perspective as a five yard gain on first and ten. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: So looking at that statistic, the Bengals defense actually checks
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  Speaker 1: in at sixteenth in the NFL, according to Football Outsiders,
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the pack. Are we starting
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  Speaker 1: to think that maybe the Bengals defense is closer to
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the pack than the bottom of the pack,
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  Speaker 1: You know, I do like I do like that they
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  Speaker 1: try to give you criterion. Instead of just five yards,
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  Speaker 1: there's five yard runs and then there's five yard runs.
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  Speaker 1: They're not all born the same and built the same, right,
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  Speaker 1: and the quality of opposition is figured in as well,
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  Speaker 1: And I like that, you know, I mean, look, look
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  Speaker 1: what Cleveland's doing. Cleveland went for over three hundred against Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden, the two hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: given up against Clean Right, it's not good, but hell
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  Speaker 1: it's one hundred yards better than what Dallas did, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And they were supposed to win their division and be
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  Speaker 1: a playoff contender and everything else. So that's that's my point. Dan,
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  Speaker 1: this AFC North. If the Bengals had won the two
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  Speaker 1: games they should have won, they lose to Cleveland, but
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  Speaker 1: they'd be three and one, still be fourth in the
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  Speaker 1: division because a tiebreaker with a division loss, but everyone
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  Speaker 1: in the division would have three wins and nobody have
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  Speaker 1: more than one loss. In Pittsburgh, wouldn't have lost yet
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  Speaker 1: because they have a game that hasn't been played. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean the AFC North and the Bengals have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two games against everybody. The AFC North is no joke.
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  Speaker 1: Ten four and one unbelievable, unbelievable. Can the Bengals petition
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  Speaker 1: the NFL to join the NFC East three twelve and
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  Speaker 1: one as a division on Philadelphia with the same one
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  Speaker 1: and two record one two and one record? Is the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals currently alone in first with Washington and Dallas tied
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  Speaker 1: for second at one and three and the Giants bringing
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  Speaker 1: up the rear and four? Yeah, I mean the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: would be in a virtual tie with the Eagles, both
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  Speaker 1: with one two and one records the top the division
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  Speaker 1: because they tied us a division rivalry game there if
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  Speaker 1: they were in that division, That's that's sick. That just
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  Speaker 1: tells you, you know, there's the penthouse and there's the outhouse,
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  Speaker 1: and there's there's houses in between. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how these you know, stats are going to be factored
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  Speaker 1: by you know, how you incorporate a variable that that
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  Speaker 1: says this team is exponentially better than that team or
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  Speaker 1: not even necessarily the team. This defensive lineman is on
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  Speaker 1: a crap team. But this defensive lineman is a Pro
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  Speaker 1: Bowl guy, and this one guy, it's hard for anybody
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  Speaker 1: to block this guy. So if you play against this guy,
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  Speaker 1: your numbers aren't going to be as good as you
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  Speaker 1: if you play against some schmo. You know, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how they ever factor that in. To me,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing more true than looking at tape and trusting
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  Speaker 1: your eyeballs. And guy's doing a pretty good job against
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  Speaker 1: high caliber competition and more than handling his own against
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  Speaker 1: guys he should. That's a good football player because that
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  Speaker 1: guy that he's having just you know, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more difficult time with. That guy's a Pro bowler. He's
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  Speaker 1: been there five times. There's a reason he's been there
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  Speaker 1: five times. He's not doing it just against this guy,
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  Speaker 1: he does it against almost every guy. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: those things, in my mind are so so tough to
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  Speaker 1: so so off to buy into. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: they're all great tools. And plus the other thing is
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  Speaker 1: sometimes coaches, honestly, I mean it's like the scheme put
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  Speaker 1: you in tough spot. How do you factor that in?
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  Speaker 1: He didn't block that guy that way because he was
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  Speaker 1: coached not too and you're taking points away from him,
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  Speaker 1: you're giving him demerits because he didn't get that guy block.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he's supposed to do. And the coach was like,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about that. Well, don't worry about it, but
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  Speaker 1: pro football focused. And everybody's ripping my ass because you
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  Speaker 1: know they're saying that I didn't get this done. So
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. There are some variables that are still almost
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  Speaker 1: impossible to factor into those equations. They really are. We
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  Speaker 1: know the Bengals won't have Mike Daniels again this week.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to miss at least three games at the
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  Speaker 1: elbow injury. Gino Atkins will see. He's doing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of individual stuff at practice, but it's still very
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  Speaker 1: much a question mark. There are some veteran accomplished defensive
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  Speaker 1: tackles out there, Marcel Darius, mister big stuffy snacks, Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Demata Peco. Normally I would say they won't
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  Speaker 1: do it, though, wait a few weeks with the guys
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  Speaker 1: that they have on the roster, and you know, hope
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  Speaker 1: that Geno's playing soon and Mike Daniels is back in
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  Speaker 1: three weeks, but as aggressive as they were this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: and they obviously acted quickly to get Mike Daniels before
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  Speaker 1: the season began. What do you think, do you think
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  Speaker 1: that they might nibble at one of those veteran defensive linemen.
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  Speaker 1: It all depends on how veteran they are. I think
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  Speaker 1: if I think there's an age cut off, I think
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  Speaker 1: if they feel like they bring in another veteran guy
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  Speaker 1: who hasn't really been doing that much and it's vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: to injury, that why take on another one? Yeah, slap
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  Speaker 1: another one, you know, on injury reserve or keep on
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  Speaker 1: the roster and hope he gets healthy. So I think
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  Speaker 1: the one that makes the most sense to me is
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  Speaker 1: Darius because he's not you know, he's the he's the
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  Speaker 1: younger one, he's played the most recently, you know, recent football.
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  Speaker 1: That's the AJ Green Andy Dalton draft class right right.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not a kid obviously he's not a kid,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean snacks and some of these I mean,
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  Speaker 1: don't dematas up there. You know, he's he's been around.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's the that's the fear. I think
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of teams in the league have not
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  Speaker 1: bringing these guys in because you're bringing a guy that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't hasn't been playing football, and again there's shape and
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  Speaker 1: then there's football shape. And look at out. There's been
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  Speaker 1: like three or four achilles tears. I mean, the achilles
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  Speaker 1: tendon is the vulnerable thing after this coronavirus. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like tight ends, defensive backs. I mean they've they've been
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  Speaker 1: tearing achilles. The Bengals know all about it with CJ
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  Speaker 1: and uh. Tampa Bay lost Howard two an achilles tear,
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  Speaker 1: and I know there was a safety that I lost,
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  Speaker 1: going to lose the season two an achilles tears. So
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  Speaker 1: I think I think all of that is is part
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  Speaker 1: of it. But um, it's going to be interesting to see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they do decide to bring somebody in
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  Speaker 1: like that, and you know what, Dan Geno Atkins and hindsight,
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  Speaker 1: I R three weeks you could have put him on
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  Speaker 1: IR and maybe done something else. Then obviously they didn't
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  Speaker 1: think it was that serious. And now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: here it is a month plus and he's it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: fifty fifty if he's going to be available this week? Man,
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  Speaker 1: what is what really would have been better to just
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  Speaker 1: have surgery or whatever? Would have taken to put him
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  Speaker 1: and then slap him one ir and as many weeks
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  Speaker 1: it took to give him back. I mean, hindsight's always
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty with this stuff. But obviously this thing was
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  Speaker 1: more significant than what they initially thought. I think they
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  Speaker 1: put him week to week like right away, and man,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a lot of weeks, a lot of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals had their fourth right guard in their first
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  Speaker 1: four games. Last Sunday, Alex Redman getting his first start
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  Speaker 1: of the year, and the Bengals passed for three hundred yards,
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  Speaker 1: ran for two hundred and five yards, and only gave
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  Speaker 1: up one sack. So how good was Alex Redman? Here
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  Speaker 1: are Jonah Williams and Zach Taylor. Alix is a great player.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of He's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: violence and physicality. I think that's the first thing that
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  Speaker 1: the coaches and his teammates ever knowses about him. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, he wants to call off the ball and
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  Speaker 1: just dominate people every play. And you know he did it.
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  Speaker 1: He did a lot of that, and so it was
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: good to have him back. He fit in well, you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: he had good, good chemistry there with Trey and with
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Bobby and brought up physicality there and again, it wasn't perfect.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I think he'd be the first one to tell you that,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: but there were some things that he did a nice
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: job of, and he was the first person to tell
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: us that. Immediately after the game last Sunday, Alex Redman said,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't play all that well, but he played better
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: than Fred Johnson or Billy Price had been playing the
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: previous couple of weeks. He did Dan and the very
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: first looking looking back at the game, the very first
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: run play, wif I thought he was so geeked out.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you know. Redman was like, I'm sure he
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: had all his weight for the defensive times, a little
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: old lay move, I mean he went whip. It was like, okay,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: choke it down a little bit. Let's let's let's calm.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Let's calm this down. And then he started doing some
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: of the things that that Alex Redmand does. He when
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I talk about finishing, it's like a lot of times
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: guys hit and stalemate and a lot of people just
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: stay in the stalemate. He will finish. He'll manipulate his hands,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: he'll roll his hips, he'll do things to get a
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: second movement on a player and finish him, and he'll
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: pancake people, knock him right on their backside, you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: knock him over, throw him down, whatever the case may be.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: That's where the you know, like the violence and the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: physicality that that guys are talking about, and that's what
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: that's what he does. You know. He's a he's a
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: martial arts guy, you know, and he's a wrestler. So
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: every wrestle if played against me, and they would hunker down, knees,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: over the ankles, hips, over the knees, and was like
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a rooted tree. When Redmond kind of hunkers down, he's
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: all load. You know, he's got that part of it,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and he's got he's got the hands with the martial
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: arts stuff. I mean, he'll like, you know, kung full
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you're in a heartbeat kind of thing with his hands.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: He just has to physically, he's nfl. He has to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: make sure that you know, he doesn't get overly geeked,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you know, and just staying composed. Control and again that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: controlled rage, which I know every time I say it
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: sounds stupid, but it is what you have to try
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to four and again, like we talked about Bobby Hart,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Trey Hopkins. They know everybody's a simon and every play,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: not just theirs. So I think that was a big
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: comforting thing for Alex Redman if he had any questions
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: in the huddler at the line of scrim and she
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: just leaned over those guys in like you know, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: let me double check this. And that's that's big. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: as a result, and see any assimon I was in
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: there with him. You had the whiff like I talked about,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: but I didn't see him blocking wrong people. It didn't
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: look like to me. I think Bobby and you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and training need to take a bow with that. The
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Bengals signed Xavier Suefhila in the offseason to be the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: right guard. He was coming back from a broken leg
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: last year and then he got hurt in Week one.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: He will be back at some point this year. But
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you know, Alex Redman's an interesting guy because he got
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: into the NFL at a really young age. He's in
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: his fourth year, he's only twenty five. Is a healthy
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: head straight. Alex Redman a better right guard than Xavier Suephila.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Do we know? Yeah? Do you think so? I think
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: for what. I Yeah, from what I've seen for when
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I've seen a Xavier, and again it's just training camp,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I thought he played best in the scrimmage. But I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: think I think Alex Redmond, if Alex Redman stays healthy
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and you know, plays at his highest level, I think
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: his highest level might be higher than Xavier. Xavier Suefilo is.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of intangible leadership. He's unbelievable in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: terms of all that you know, and that gives him,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that gives him some some some juice, you know, in
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: terms of what coaches think about. I mean with players
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: like that, you're looking for added value, and he gives
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: that added value and Alex hasn't given that added value
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: at this point in time. But based on just pure
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: physical abilities, I think Alex's upside is that much. Because
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Xavier has been injured. He broke his leg, now he's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: got an ankle injury. I mean, those are starting to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: pile up. When you start, I don't care if the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: house has a crack in the foundation, you know, like
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Bill Walton, his career into because of foot injuries, breaking
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the feet and all that you have footing, you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: ankle and knee injuries and stuff. Man all of a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: sudden it can't support the rest of the building. That's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: when you start to have some issues. And in honest
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Lee Dan Alex Redman hadn't done anything for so long.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: This is I mean. To go in and play as
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: well as he did, in my mind was kind of remarkable.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: He's going to only get better. He better because he's
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: going against Baltimore. Now, he's going against Klais Campbell and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Brandon Williams. He's not going against you know, the guys
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: he went against in Jacksonville, you know, Brian and whoever
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: else they had inside there. It's a different ball game
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore against those two beasts. NFL Next Gen Stats
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: tracks something called average separation for wide receivers. It's on
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a catch or on an incompletion, so it doesn't take
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: into account the passing route. It doesn't take into account
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: plays where they weren't the person that the ball was
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: thrown too, and maybe they were wide open, but this
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: is strictly how much separation they have on balls thrown
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to them. Well, so far this season, AJ Green is
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: tied for last in the NFL with former Bengals teammate
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Marvin Jones. Earlier this week, Zach Taylor was asked about
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: AJ Green so far this year, that's not a concern
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for us or AJ. Aj is doing the right things
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and we got a lot of really good receivers. We
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: got tight ends that can get targets, backs that can
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: get targets. There's times where AJ is opening the balls
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: going elsewhere for explosive plays, and I think that's the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: key to our success, is not forcing the ball to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: any weapon, just let it play out naturally. His attitude's unbelievable.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: You know, you watch that third and one tight zone
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: run to mix him for the touchdown. You just watch
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: his energy there. You know, that was in the third
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: quarter and at that point he'd had one catch and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: just to see his celebration, the way he responded to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: when his teammates made a big play just says everything
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you need to know about AJ. And his time will come.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be moments where he has unbelievable
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: games and he's gonna help us win here, and you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it's just it's a it's tremendous to have that guy
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: as a captain and part of this offense and this
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: team coach. When you watch AJ Green on film, does
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: he look like the same player that you know he's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: been for the past decade. Oh yeah, yeah, he's he's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a you know, he comes off the ball and you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: can see the respect that he gets from the DBS
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and UM. Again, there's opportunities there where we're you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you call the ball thinking it might go there number one,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it pops off somewhere else
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: for UM a big game somewhere else. So again, I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna second guess those decisions. One
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: catch three yards for AJ Green last week on the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: first play from scrimmage. Yeah, it's it's been a it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: been a tough run for aj in the first month
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: of the season, first four games. I asked John Harbaugh
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: during the pressor that he had about AJ Green. I said,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: when you watch AJ on tape, you know, do you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: still see the same guy? And remember the on NFL
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: films or NFL Network John Harrows saying we were going
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to cover this guy. I mean, AJ was just that's
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: when he's just ripping the Ravens apart multiple times, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: he said, you know, yeah, he's ripped. It's the same.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: He didn't. He wasn't effusive in his praise. He didn't
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: rip him. Didn't think he was gonna rip him. But
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he didn't really throw all lavish praise out there like
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I thought. He just stayed away from the totally, which
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I will say, get my COVID test
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: this week and I was in the I was right
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: behind Aj in the trailer and I'm telling you, looking
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: at him, he's unbelievable looking athlete. I mean he is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: if you put requirements into a computer, would spend our
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Aj Green physically. The Bengals face the reigning unanimous MVP
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: this week for the first of two times this year,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. So far this year, he leads Baltimore in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: rushing yards two hundred and thirty five through four games.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: He's averaging six yards to carry. He has a passer
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: rating of one eleven point three, seven touchdown passes, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: one pick. Some of the Bengals will be seeing him
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: for the first time, including rookie linebacker a Keen Davis Gaither,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: who has asked this week if it's a little bit
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: overwhelming to face the prospect of taking on Lamar Jackson. Now,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I want to say, oh, women, just football, how do
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you prepare for that? Though? This stick? And so you'd
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: satany We all know that he's fast, he can cut,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and he just got trying to take away something not
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: gonna take away to spee. So having great angles, trying
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to give him a one way route and to try
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to give him on a grown How many times did
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you see Lamar's spin move that long touchdown he had
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: against the Bengals last year before you even came here.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I'll send it quite a bit trying to send it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: He's tired of seeing it. He's not alone in that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Bengals locker room, obviously, every guy who was on the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: field in that game last year at Paul Brown Stadium
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: has been tired of seeing that replay. The Ravens are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: three and one, the one loss at home to Kansas City,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs did a great job against Lamar Jackson,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: particularly in the passing game, ninety seven passing yards, a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: passer rating of seventy three point one. Any sort of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: formula provided by the Kansas City Chiefs, you know my
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: thing is, and I'm not sure I'd have to study
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs tape a lot more than I did but
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: if you can get a lead, play with the lead
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and then make them think they have to throw the football,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: because I mean, they're human. Greg Roman's human in that regard.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, if they fall behind by a couple of scores,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you know, he'll probably try to throw the football a
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: little bit more. You have to make Lamar Jackson throw
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: outside the numbers. He with his RPO. A lot of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: his passing yards are off the RPO in the middle
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of the football field. And that's where Andrews, the tight
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: end will gash you because linebackers are sucking up. Safeties
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: are nosy because of that great running game. And then
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: he's killing you in the middle of the football field.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So and that's the ball's not in the air very long.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: You know, attack in the middle of football field. Make
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson throw it outside, make him throw it toward
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the numbers, and and you know, get a lead and
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: try to expand on that lead. The thing about Lamar
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Jackson that's so tough in the running game. Coaches work
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: all week in the running game trying to scheme how
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: they can out gap the opponent, get one more person
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: at the point of attacking the opponent. When it's eleven
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: on eleven football. That's one more gap, that's one more person.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And normally in the NFL because normally quarterback hands off
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and watches. Now this guy is running it, so you
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: can get an extra helmet at the point of attack
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and you can get out gap. So you have to defensively,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you have to play your gap control responsibility. And can
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I just jump in when you say eleven on eleven football,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: somebody out there is going, well, what's he talking about?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It's always eleven on eleven football. No, if you picture
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a normal running play, quarterback hands it off, running back
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: gets the ball, quarterback stands behind the play twiddling his thumbs. Sure,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: so now you've got nine guys trying to block. Eleven
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: people removing the person who has the ball and the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: quarterback who's doing nothing. Right, if the quarterback runs the ball,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: now you've got an extra person, got an extra get
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: can block, got an extra gap. You know next like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: gap they call power counters, it's gap run game instead
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of you know, inside outside zone. Now you're blocking down.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: You're trying to get extra bodies at the point of attack.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: So now when you have him running the ball, you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: have extra he's the point of attack, like we just describe,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: plus the guy that's running it might be the most athletic,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: fastest guy in the field. When he's definitely the most
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: athletic of almost anybody in the National Football League, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: he's probably in the top five in terms of raw speed.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: When you have that running the football with extra blockers
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in front of him by scheme, and I mean recard
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that big defensive linemen slash fullback, three and eleven pound
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: guy that's an extra helmet at the point of attack.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: He's crushing people. The only guy in the NFL last
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: year they had over one hundred snaps offensively, defensively and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: special teams. This guy, Patrick Ricard. This guy is a gem,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, the unsung hero that football team. So you
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: have big tight ends, you got a three hundred eleven
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: pound fullback, and you get that that son of a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: gun behind them. You know, Orlando Zeus Brown can eclipse
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the sun. You know, you get these big offensive linemen
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: on the edge, Zeus Brown poom, you know, coming off
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the ball, tight ends, fullback, and then here comes this
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: little fleet footed son of a gun. Is you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he makes you miss. I mean, you know, he's like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he's ripping your acls MCLs lcl's everything. Your knees are
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: ripping up as you're trying to change direction with this guy.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: The Ravens defensive coordinator is Wink Martindale, Not Winston Conrad Martindale,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the legendary host of such game shows as Tik Tag
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Doe and High Rollers. No, this is Don Wink Martindale,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the linebackers coach at u See for three years under
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Rick Minter, and this guy loves to blitz. On most plays,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: there will be six guys right up there at the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, filling all the gaps. Sometimes all six
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: will go after Joe Burrow. More often than not it'll
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: be five. Sometimes it might be as few as three.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: What you don't know from snap to snap is how
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: many are coming and where they're coming from. Right, That's
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the bottom line. It's all about confusion, uncertainty, being unsettled.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: You know, make the offensive line makes some sort of mistake,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: either from an assignment standpoint or a technique standpoint, setting
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for the wrong person, taking a false step the wrong way,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you know, not being able to trust your eyes. You know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: defensive players talk about trusting their eyes. I can tell
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you when a team's doing what the Baltimore Ravens do.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: As an offensive lineman, you have to trust your eyes
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: as well, and Link Martindale makes that tough. I mean,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they are definitely a challenge. And but if you can
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: beat him, if somehow you can make a couple of
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: plays and make him a little bit hesitant about doing that,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: he'll go when you're inside the twenty, he's bringing it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's automatic. Just just count on it. It's happening inside
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the twenty, inside the twin, inside the ten yard and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: he'll go zero coverage. Nobody in the middle of football field.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: He'll just go zero coverage and just and try to
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: knock you backwards. He is as an aggressive a defensive
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: coach as there is in any level of football, honestly,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And like I said, almost fifty five percent of the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: time they blitzed last year. That led the league. It's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a Baltimore in Pittsburgh are one and two, both over
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of the time bringing it. And maybe they're
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: onto something. They're the two best on two of the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: best defenses in the National Football League. They just so
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: happened to both be in the AFC North and you
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: got a rookie quarterback Joe Burrow trying to figure it out.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It's going to be very very interesting dynamic when he
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: faces those defenses. And yet, so far this year, Baltimore
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: only has one more sack than the Bengals do. Now.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Last week against Washington, the Ravens had three and they
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: hit Dwayne Haskins nine times. Matthew Judon number ninety nine,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: had five of those quarterback hits. But up until then, Cleveland, Houston,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Kansas City had done a nice job of at least
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: avoiding sacks and interceptions. They only have two interceptions, but
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: they've forced six fumbles and recovered five of them. That's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: where they've done their damage as a defense. They've knocked
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the ball out of people's hands five fumble recoveries, tied
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for second most in the National Football League. And another
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: thing that this Ravens defense has done, they've pitched a
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: shout out in the third quarter. They've they've not allowed
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: one point in the third quarter. Even the Kansas City
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Chiefs in the third quarter scored squadouche. I mean, they've
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: outscored the opponent twenty to nothing in the third quarter.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So you know there's multiple circumstances and reasons for that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: If the Baltimore Ravens had lost a bunch of tosses
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and they got the ball to start the second half
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and they go on one of their patented seven and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a half eight nine minute drives, the quarter is almost
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: done anyway, So you have minimal possessions in that quarter,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: depending on how well the offense is played. But I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: mean to not give up a point in four games
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter. That's saying something about a defensive
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: football team. After allowing Joe Burrow to get hit seventeen
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: times in the Philadelphia game, the Bengals offensive line cut
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that number down to five last week against Jacksonville. That
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: was excellent looking at the season so far, Burrows dropped
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: back to pass two hundred and three times, second most
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in the NFL to Dak Prescott. He's been pressured seventy
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: five times, according to Pro Football Focus. That is thirty
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: six point nine percent of the time that he's dropped
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: back to pass, he's been pressured, and that is the
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  Speaker 1: eighth highest rate in the NFL. Other guys who have
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: been pressured more frequently Kirk Cousins forty one percent. Fellow
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: rookie Justin Herbert forty one percent, Daniel Jones from the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Giants forty one percent, Sam Donald forty percent. None of
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: those guys are doing very well, at least in terms
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: of wins and losses. Then you've got Russell Wilson thirty
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: seven point seven percent, slightly ahead of Joe Burrow, And
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: of course right now he's probably the leading candidate to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: be MVP. Sixteen touchdown passes in the first four games,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: first time it's ever happened, sixteen touchdown passes four game.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: And when you look at the numbers, Joe Burrow one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen four hundred and seventy seven, second most
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: attempts and completions in the National Football League, Jackson sixty
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: seven for ninety eight. He's almost half of Borrow's numbers
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  Speaker 1: in both categories. And that's why they he's been sacked
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  Speaker 1: eleven times, they're thirty first in the league and sacked
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: per pass attempt because he hasn't been dropping back as
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: much obviously in eleven sacks. The Bengals have given up
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: fifteen sacks. But Borrows thrown at one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven times and Jackson's only thrown at ninety eight. So
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Jackson obviously is not making quick reads with the football,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: holding on to it, you know, creating, extending and doing
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: all the things like an athletic guy like him want.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're not Their game is not for Jackson
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to be in the pocket, two reads in the front side,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: get to the backside, check it dot. Now that's not
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: That's not Jackson's game at all. So it's going to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: be contrasting styles. And I wonder how aggressive the Bengals
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: will be in terms of blitzing Jackson if they get
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in favorable down in distant situations, do you blitz them?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I know one thing, if you blitz and play man.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: If the blitz doesn't get there and the guys their
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: backs turn trying to cover people down the field, he'll
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: rip you. He will rip you. So do you play
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: like soft zone and don't blieve? I mean, these are
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: some of the problems that start to happen if you
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: don't get some sort of lead against these Baltimore Ravens.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: One update on one of the veteran defensive tackles we
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: were talking about, Damon snax Harrison is no longer on
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the market. The thirty one year old run Stopper was
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: signed to the Seahawks practice squad on Wednesday. Now time
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: for this week's one on one player conversation. This week,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Zach Taylor said there are two keys to slowing down
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Baltimore's lethal rushing attack. Discipline and tackling. Those words are
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: perfect for safety Von Bell. He's one of the best
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: tackling safeties in the NFL and his discipline on and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: off the field is legendary. We're spending a few minutes
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: with Bengal safety Von Bell. We are recording this on
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning at ten am. I got up a few
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: two hours ago. I've had coffee and toast. I've done
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: some reading and research. When did you get up and
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: what have you accomplished today? Yeah, but like a fourth fifteen,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: did my little workout this morning, did my you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: had my breakfast made and ready to go. Hit the
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: weight room with the fellas this morning, and I got
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it going and did a couple of meetings and ready
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to go. Von Bell won Dan Horde. Nothing in the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: scoreboard of what's been accomplished on a Wednesday morning. Who
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: are some of your fellow early birds? Oh yeah, Tony Brown, Yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Winston Rose. Yeah, a couple more guys on there, but
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a couple of my dvs, but a couple of linebackers too.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So you know, they're getting up with me a little bit.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Meet me in the weight room. Uh you know, still
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: some crusted eyes, but they're getting up and going and
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: they're just trying to get better each and every day.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And I appreciated and doing that making a team better.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: For visiting with von Bell. The first time you met
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati made you were wearing a baseball hat
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: that said no bull. That's a company that makes athletic gear.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: But is there a message there about your approach to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: football and life? For sure as everything that's who I
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: am as how I was raised, and well, go ahead
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and get it every day. And we just challenge ourselves
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: each and every day to find that one percent to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: get better. And that's where that had comes in and play.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: But no bull, no bs, and just keep going buying.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: People that are watching the games on TV will notice
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: that you are the guy on defense with that little
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: green dot on the back of your helmet, meaning that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you are the person that's in communication with defensive coordinator
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: lou Anna Rumo. And then relay the play call to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: your teammates. Have you done that before? And do you
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: like the responsibility. This is my first year doing it,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: but I've always been a big communicated on the defense,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and but as an honor to have it this year
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and I love the role, love being in charge, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: love having my troops out there listen to me and
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: ready to go to Warwell does it take any getting
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: used to to have that voice in your ear as
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: you're getting ready for the play. For sure, we gotta
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: create anticipate the play in the situation high is you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: gonna call the game and get a look tough when
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you know two million drives or if they're doing harry
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: up offense trying to get a call in. But we
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: just trying to use our signals then. But other than that,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: everything's pretty smooth. Comma collected and reason. Just get to
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: play in and just reiterated throughout the whole defense, so
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: everybody get to play call so we could play fast.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: We're spending a few minutes with von Bell. When you
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: signed as a free agent with the Bengals, I reached
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: out to UC's head coach Luke Fickle, who is your
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator at Ohio State, and he said, from the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: day you arrived on campus at OSU, you had a presence,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: an it factor that commanded respect. Is that an intentional
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: thing on your part or does it just come naturally?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I think it a little both. You know, coming into
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the league now everything is earned. It's not just given.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Out there and show what you can do and what
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you can bring, and that's how you gain respect on
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the locker room and throughout the league. And there's just
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: being you every day, just going to work, putting your
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: hard head on and really just going out there just
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: taking care of what you could take care of. And
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: it's really just going out there being you and just
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: making the plays that come to you, and just really
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: just having given everybody respect and really just being you,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: having a outgoing personality and just challenging everybody. And this
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: is being me, and I think it just comes naturally.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: But also I'll work at it every day. Were getting
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: up every morning with my routine and I really just
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: sticking to it and sticking to the process and just
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: trusting the process and just letting myself just be myself
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and everything else gonna take care of yourself. So this
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: week you face the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. You got
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a little taste of facing him a couple of years
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: ago when you were still with the Saints and he
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: was a rookie. He wasn't starting yet, but he did
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: get in for several plays in that game. Did it
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: make a big impression? Oh, for sure. We know what
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: he could do. His legs could beat you and um,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and that's what why he's so special. He's could dual threat,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: he could throw it, he he could do it all.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: And what really, you gotta make him play left handed?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm I'm excited the guys that excited on the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: defensive side for this challenge. We'll build him momentum each
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and every week. We're getting better each and every week
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: at practice, and uh, we just keep on stacking them.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: And it was a challenge we go to have this week,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and uh, I can't wait get to it. When you
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: say make him play left handed, you obviously not being
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: literal there. What do you mean? Oh yeah, make him
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: drop back passing. Um that bread and butter is running
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: gap scheme runs and uh, you know they got him.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: They got a bunch of running backs. Say they can
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: run the ball pretty well and and that, and that's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: what they do well, and that's how they get guys
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: on their toes with the run game, and they can
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: set the boot game off that and the past game
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: off that. So you gotta stop the run and make
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: them play and back uh drop back passing game and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: really just make them play left handed. There's no other
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: team right now that plays it's quite like they do.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: They'll line up with two tight ends most of the time.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: They've got a three hundred and eleven pound fullback in there.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: How challenging is it just to face the team that's
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit different from everybody else. It's very different.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: You know, they're in the pistol offense, and they got
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of the gap scheme runs and a whole
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: bunch of turble emotions and they always just trying to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: draw your eyes. You just got to reach your keys
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and just play fast and get down in there as
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: it go be a big runt emphasis gets passed higher early,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: make go plays and tackle, and we just got sworn
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to the ball, get all eleven hands to the ball,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and we're just to go out there and just have
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: fun to reach keys. You're answering these questions with a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: smile on your face. It sounds like you relish this
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: challenge for sure. Every week it's a new opponent, a
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: new challenge, and you just trying to hit from the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: head coaching and defensive coordinator and rally the troops and
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: give us a mission and we got to go accomplish that.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And that's the beauty of this NFL life. You get
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: sixteen weeks to that and you just go out there
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: with your soldiers. Is you get ready to go getting
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the foxhole? Let's go to walk last thing for Bengal safety.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Von Bell. Your four games into your Bengals tenure, are
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: you still adjusting to team and scheme or does it
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: feel like you're pretty much, you know, entrenched in this
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: organization at this point. Oh, you know it's still different
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: from me. But you know I got that very well.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So everything and some nuances at times, but I'm trying
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: to stick to it, keep on growing within the system
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and within the locker room. And I'm really just taking it,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: honed it in and writly, just enjoying a moment. It's
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the nobul philosophy. God, I appreciate the time. Best of
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: luck this week, Thank you so much, Yes, sir, now
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: time to turn our attention to this week's opponent, the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: three and one Baltimore Ravens, And few people know the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: team better than Nestor Apparisio from w NST Radio and
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the author of two books about the team. He joined
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Dave Lapham and me this week on the Bengals Game
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Plan Show. So, the Ravens are three and one, they're
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: three wins, are all by at least two touchdowns. They're
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: one loss, fourteen points to Kansas City at home. Why
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: can't John Harbob beat Andy Reid? Well, I don't know.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: You know, some people would say, why can't Lamar Jackson
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: beat Patrick Mahomes. Maybe they're not on the field at
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the same time, But look, they played three times and
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the games are getting the differences in the games have
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: gotten more wide, is not closer together. And you know,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Lamar is going through the sophomore thing. He's gonna, you know,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: see everybody this time around. The Bengals spent much of
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the offseason right worried about those ankles that were broken
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the field there. Last year he
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: embarrassed a lot of teams, a lot of defenses embarrassed
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: these d LA rams last year a lot of teams
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: had extra time on their hands, and that no one
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: was out socializing in the spring, and I'm sure the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: coaches everywhere were scheming up a way to stop him,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: specifically in this division right where you guys in Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: that he's the league MVP, and what the Titans did
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: last year to him, and what the Chargers did the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: year before, not just in frustrating him, but getting the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Ravens behind. This is this offense has not yet come
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: from behind. Now you'd say, well, they were fourteen and two, right,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: you don't have to come from behind often. But this
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: isn't the John Elway down ten points, four minutes left
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: to go, pull the rabbit out of the hat kind
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: of offense. This is the offense that gets up on you.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: That's a defense the forces a turnover, plays a little
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: field position, plays a lot second and one because they
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: run the ball aggressively and do it well with Lamar
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Jackson and a three headed monster. And then they're up
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: on you thirteen to three, and they're up on you
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: twenty to ten, and then they just run the ball
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: and shorten the game. It's different when the other team
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: gets the lead and as much as the defenses have
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: played well, and the Chargers in that playoff game had
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a great scheme sort of a ninety two defense, and
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: the Titans just matched up well and frustrated Lamar early
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and stopped them on a four down. And you know,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Harball will go for it on his own thirty two
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: yard line fourth and one. We're gonna go for it.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: When you don't make it, then you have a problem.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: And that is really what happened the Titans game last year.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs, however, was more about just getting up on
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: them and making the Ravens play differently than they want
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: to play. And if you can do that, you might
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: have some success, because this offense has had built to
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: chuck it around and have a second half where they
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: throw the ball twenty eight or thirty times. Interesting this morning,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, when he had his conference call with the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: local media here in Cincinnati, you know, I asked him
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: about how many different defenses have you seen over the
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, how many twists and wrinkles and
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: everything else have you seen in an effort to stop Jackson?
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And he said, you know, we know going into the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: game that they're not going to run the defense they've
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: run all year long, necessarily, and that's not easy for us.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: He goes, as coaches, we're basically trying to look at
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: what they're doing dee sensively and what would be the
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: next adaptation they would do to handle Jacksons. So he said,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: we're guessing. We don't know what they're going to run.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: So he said, it's not easy for us. Sometimes game
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: planning as well, I'm thinking that it's not easy maybe
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to necessarily game plan specifically against certain defenses. But man,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: this offense you can call it old school, you can
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: call it revolutionary, but it's contrarian to what everybody else
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: is doing in the NFL, and it's hard to prepare
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: for in a short week, and it makes people do
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: things they haven't done, and that's where mistakes happen. And
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: that's where Baltimore gashes people when those defenses that they're
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: not running things they are comfortable with, make mistakes. Well
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: constructed defenses who've communicated, who've been together for a period
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: of time are going to fare better because for me,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: it's all about communication right and trying to stop him.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: You need to identify the ball, and I tell my
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: audience in Baltimore this and I'll tell your audience. I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: was out in LA last year and you guys are
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: all fans. You remember the groofy purple uniforms out there,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: and Eric Weddle looked like standing mustard, you know. And
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I know I know well from his years in Baltimore,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: and he's playing for the Rams, and he had spent
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: a year, you know, a watching Lamar, being Lamar's teammate,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: trying to win. He was a part of that team
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: when the Chargers came into beat him and he said
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to several Baltimore reporters up in the you know, after
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: they lost forty five to six, Eric Wedel said, I
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: practiced against it. I preached it to everyone what we
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: needed to do. And then you didn't know where the
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: ball was and and you had no idea where the
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: ball was going. So even in a communicative defense, that's
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: an issue. Then you need to make sure there's there's
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: two three bodies wherever the ball's going and flowing to
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the ball, and you better be able to cover on
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the backside, because Hollywood Brown will get behind you, Mark
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Andrews will get underneath you. All the things that we've
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: seen Patrick Mahomes do. We've seen the Ravens do to
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: be effective offensively, but that's when they're getting after you
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in second and one and second and two and grinding
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you down. And that's quite frankly, we're at the quarter pole, guys.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: There's no Marshall Yamda in this offense anymore. So it
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: has looked differ and there were questions for John Harball
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and Wednesday about why it's looked different. Will you take
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame guard out, Dave, I know you'd
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: have a few things to say about that. Oh, that's
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: my guy, Marshall Yonda. Well, we've wondered from what fourteen
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: years now what we looked like without Marshall Yonda in
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the same way that you guys are trying to figure
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: out post Wentworth and post you know, the offense that
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you have when Marvin was around. Everyone's in a transitional
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: phase and the Ravens have really good football players. I mean,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: this is a really good team. This isn't about Lamar
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: or just about Horrorball. This is about them drafting Well,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: this is about them stealing Marcus Peters and signing him.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: This is about them signing Marlin Humphrey last week to
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: a Laaren term deal. This is about them playing now
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: without Flacco's cap number and playing with a rookie contract
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: with Lamar. So they have some benefits of being able
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to sign Kalaiscampbell, who's a very large man. But they're
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the better team most weeks, and they push you around
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: on offense, confuse you, and out athletic you most weeks.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: But then the Chiefs show up. And you asked me
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: at the beginning, what happened against the Chiefs. Chiefs are
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: a better football team right now. That's what happened against them.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm waiting to see what happens to the Ravens
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: when there is a fumble or there is a mistake,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: or there are some mistakes and they get down against
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: an inferior team quote unquote inferior team. Will they be
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: able to come back from a deficit, because they haven't
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: been able to do that yet, because they win a
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: lot and they're up a lot, and that would maybe
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: solve a little bit of what happens when they play
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: a better team. And I don't know that home field
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: means anything yet. We don't have any fans anywhere enough
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to make enough noise, But when those things happen. And
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: let's say Lamar has to go out to Kansas City
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: in January and we solve COVID and miracle happens, and
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: there's seventy thousand people there and he's down fourteen points.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: That's going to be the true test for Lamar at
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: some point to be able to lead a team back
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: from a couple of touchdowns down, doing it in the air,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: doing it on on the ground when things go wrong.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Because so many things have gone right, guys, I mean,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: this has been a juggernaut over a year and a half.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: It really has been. We're visiting with Nestor Apparicchio from Baltimore.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Marvin Lewis, Nestor and lap and I have
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: great respect for Marvin for what he did to elevate
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: this franchise, and he certainly had a solid working relationship
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: with him when he was here, but you became his
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: close friend. How is Marvin these days and has he
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: determined to be a head coach again? You know when
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: I spend time with him, ideld talk to him about
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. I mean, I guess the Arizona
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: State thing when we were talking was very much like
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: we're going to work every day and hoping to play football.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: You know. I mean, he's a football coach, and I
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: don't know that that there really is an achender to
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: go back and coach in the NFL, that that is
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: burning at him. I think this is a marriage of
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: he lives there, it's convenient, he knows everyone involved, his
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: daughter's five minutes away, his son is five minutes away,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and he loves coaching football, and quite frankly, I think
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Golfwood bore him, you know what I mean, Like, I
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: just think he loves football that much. And you know,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys. You're traveling or are
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: you not traveling to these games? Not traveling? Okay, well,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: then you're getting tested on how much you love football,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: because I had it taken away from me. Like I've
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: done this for twenty four years, and I own a
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: sports radio station, and you know, I've written books and
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: all these things, and I've had life experiences above and
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: beyond sports or going to a game. And I love baseball.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: My last name's Apparisio. The reason I'm in Baltimore is
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Louis brought a cousin from Venezuela and here I am
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: a freedom fighter. I was born in sixty eight. Louis
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: came here in sixty four, brought my father in sixty five,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: met my mother in sixty six, and here I am
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: so all these years later. So you know, I you know,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a baseball guy, right and I'm a football guy.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: And having sports taken away from all of us right
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: for six months, I could never imagine being, you know,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: April May July would know sports anywhere in our culture.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: What would have to happen? You know, what kind of
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: a war, what kind of a plague that would have
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: to happen. And I missed the first game against Cleveland
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: because I go to home and road. I've only missed
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: seven games in twenty four years. Wow. A couple of
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: them are because my wife was ill in fourteen and fifteen,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: and so you know, I missed the first game and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I watched it on TV. First things first, the game's
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: not the same in person. So anybody that comes down
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: and you know, to the stadium in Cincinnati that sees football,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: it's different in person. It's better in person if you
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: love the game, you study the game a little bit.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: You can't really see the game as well on TV. Dave.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I know they brought you in at all twenty two,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: but you know, I watched the game with my cat
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: the first week. I thought, well, this is a plague
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and sports is um you know, for when a functioning
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: society right the reward of a functioning society. And then
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I went down to Houston and I flew and I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: put a mask on, and I stopped and saw a
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: special future friend of ours out in the desert and
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: tried to get away from people for a couple of
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: days at a pool and take advantage of one hundred
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: dight degrees. And I went into Houston and I sat
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: on the roof with a maskman, and I thought it
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: was gonna make me feel like lonely or sad or
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: you know, it made me more sort of resolute that
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: we're not going down like this right, like this better
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: be one of the very very few football fanless games
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: that I attended Houston, Texas on the roof of that
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: stadium where I seeing two Super Bowls play right, incredible games.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: I was a big Houston Oiler fan during the thirteen
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: years when we didn't have a team in Baltimore. I
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: just loved the Oilers that they were the team I adopted.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: When you lose your football team, you know. And having
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: said that, I went down there and watched the game,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: and I realized how much I love it, how much
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I love football. So you asked me about Marvin. He
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: asked me about me, and you asked me about two
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: guys drinking wine on a canyon looking down into a
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: desert a couple of weeks ago. I guess he gets
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: up every morning and drives down the canyon, not for money,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: not because he thinks he's gonna coach the Cowboys one
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: day or whatever. I think he loves football. And I think,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: having had football taken away from me, having sports taken
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: away for me for six months, I love sport. It's
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: a love football. I love being at the game, and
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I don't love being there when there's nobody there. I
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: love it a lot more when there's fans. And I've
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: learned that I love music even more like I missed
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: concerts even more than I miss fanless football and land
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: over Sunday. You know, final question, And we appreciate your
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: carving the time for us. You're you're a heck of
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: a heck of a guest. Don Wink Martindale defensive coordinator
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Blitz just under fifty five percent of the time. Last
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: year sent five players and more, and people thought, you know,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: the pass rush suspect or whatever worked on it in
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the off season. Now he's splits in fifty one fifty
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: two percent, Pittsburgh and Baltimore two highest splits percentages in
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the league. No surprise is it still because questionable pass
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: rusher is don Wink Martindale can't help himself. He's just
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: gonna send five no matter what. Well, I think he's
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: got the ghost of Buddy in his year, right, Send
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: them all, Send them all. But they've gotten up the
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: field too much, right, and they've gotten burned. And you know,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: when you're very very capable coaches, and you're very capable
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Number one wonder con quarterback, get together. This team has
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: not defended the screen pass yet and a tight ends.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: But if if you don't, if they get to you
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: first or get the quarterback off the spot, and you
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: don't have receivers getting separation down the field and you
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback making quick reads, it becomes three
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: and out pretty quickly if that pressure gets to you.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: And you know part of that's the crowd noise and
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: different things that happen at home in a way that
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: create different things. Certainly for Patrick Mahomes coming into our stadium,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: my wife wasn't in the upper deck streaming at him.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: You know, that creates confusion and those those kinds of
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: things that the line of scrimmage that you know, neither
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: side has a competitive advantage on the road anymore, right
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: or at home anymore, I should say for the defense,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: but I would say they've been very aggressive because they
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: don't have any they don't have a Michael McCrary, they
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: don't have a specialist, they don't have an Elmis Stoomerville anymore. Right,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: So they're trying to create it in this way because
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: he believes so much in his back end. They've invested
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: so much. You know, they invested so much. Guys. They
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: told Earl Thomas, they just tapped him and said get out. Yeah,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: that's unreal. You know, they just said leave, we don't
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: need you anymore. Because Chuck. They believe in Chuck Clark
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: so much, and he's been such a good quarter means,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: you know, he's got the beautiful football mind and wearing
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: the helmet and aligning the defense in the back. Patrick
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: queen comes in with a nice background than that, so
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: they're hoping to get better. But they didn't practice much, right,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't have any of that going on.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And I do think a lot of this is instinct,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: and I think it's winked that if we get after
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: that young quarterback, you know, and we startle him and
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: move him around a little bit, and our offense day
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: and now we're up seventeen to three, then then we win,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: you know. And I think that that's part of being aggressive,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: that's just it's bred in him. But I think he
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: wishes he had a couple more real pass rushers and
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: he could maybe be a little bit more creative on
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: the back end. But the back end so solid. These
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: guys cover well. They don't have much more on the
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