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Bengals Booth Podcast: Goin' Down · Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hi and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: the Bengals boot podcast, the Going Down, Down, Down Down edition,
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Speaker 1: as we take an in depth look back at the
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Speaker 1: bengals eighth straight loss to begin the season, a twenty
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Speaker 1: four to ten defeat in London to the La Rams.
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Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from
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Speaker 1: players and coaches, and Dave lapp them will join me
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Speaker 1: for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's fun Facts Conversation,
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Speaker 1: we'll meet the person under the pads as I'll talk
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Speaker 1: to a wide receiver who seems to make a spectacular
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Speaker 1: catch every single week, Odd and Tate. All of that
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Speaker 1: is straight ahead. But first, here's a quick reminder that
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Speaker 1: since flight attendants. I spend a lot of time on planes,
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Speaker 1: and I have a tremendous amount of respect for flight attendants,
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Speaker 1: especially after an eight hour flight in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night back from London. While most of the passengers slept,
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Speaker 1: the flight attendants stayed awake, served a couple of meals,
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Speaker 1: brought the drink cart through the cabin several times, cleaned
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Speaker 1: up after everybody, and did it all with a smile.
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Speaker 1: So here's to all of the flight attendants who do
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Speaker 1: what they can to put the friendly in the friendly skies.
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Speaker 1: Now let's get to this week's game. In recent weeks,
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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor has faced abundant criticism over his heavy use
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Speaker 1: of eleven personnel. In case you're not familiar with the
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Speaker 1: universal numbering lingo and football, the first digit is for
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Speaker 1: the number of running backs on the field and the
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Speaker 1: second digit is for the number of tight ends. So
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Speaker 1: eleven personnel is one running back, one tight end, and
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Speaker 1: three wide receivers, and the Bengals have used that grouping
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Speaker 1: more than any other team in football this year. It
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Speaker 1: obviously hasn't been working very well, and on Sunday at
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Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium, the Bengals decided to mix things up. They
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Speaker 1: made frequent use of multiple tight ends and it had
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Speaker 1: two positive effects. Number One, Tyler Eifert was a big
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Speaker 1: weapon in the passing game. Dalton looks to throw his
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Speaker 1: passage medal cot near midfield by Tyler Eiffert and Tyler
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Speaker 1: Eifert makes it to the Rams forty two yard line
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Speaker 1: for a huge gain on third down and five and
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Speaker 1: an ihop first down. Eiffert finished with six catches for
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Speaker 1: seventy four yards, but that wasn't the biggest positive. Having
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Speaker 1: Eiffert and cj Uzamba on the field at the same
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Speaker 1: time brought the bengals anemic rushing attack to life. Bengals
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Speaker 1: come out with double tight ends, but Eiffort detaches and
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Speaker 1: goes out wide to the right. Here's a run up
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Speaker 1: the medal mix and breaking tackles as he sprints forward
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Speaker 1: between the hash marks for a first down gain. He
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Speaker 1: runs for eleven now to the thirty six and it's
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Speaker 1: an ihop first down. Man Old Man, David Long, Junior.
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Speaker 1: You are a junior because the senior mixing just ran
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Speaker 1: you over. Mixing ran for fifty three yards on ten
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Speaker 1: carries in the first half and for a quarter and
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Speaker 1: a half, the Bengals went toe to toe with the
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Speaker 1: high powered Rams. First and ten. At the Bengals thirty
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Speaker 1: one golf back to throw throws over the middle. It
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Speaker 1: is caught at the five yard line and Reynolds takes
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Speaker 1: it into the end zone for a Rams touchdown. That
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Speaker 1: Jared Golf touchdown pass gave the Rams a ten three
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Speaker 1: lead in the second quarter. The Bengals answered with a
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Speaker 1: seventy five yard drive to tie the game. Second and goal,
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Speaker 1: just short of the one yard line. Dalton is under center.
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Speaker 1: Everybody bunched in tight. Stanley Morgan goes in motion from
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Speaker 1: left to right. Now motions back to the left. They
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Speaker 1: fake up him. They throw the Mixing names, he catches it.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown Bengals as Dalton floats one to Mixing at the
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Speaker 1: goal line for a Bengals touchdown. Was career touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: number one ninety seven for the Red Rifle, pulling him
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Speaker 1: even with Ken Anderson for the Bengals all time franchise record.
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Speaker 1: But the tie score only lasted for one minute and
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Speaker 1: twenty one seconds. Cooper Cup goes in motion. They give
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Speaker 1: it to him. Now they pitch it back to Golf
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Speaker 1: for a flea. Flicker throws for Cup wide open. The
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Speaker 1: Bengals defender falls down. Cooper Cup sprinting down the far
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Speaker 1: sideline and he will take it to the house. Unreal
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Speaker 1: Rams touchdown. That's sixty five yard touchdown gave the Rams
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Speaker 1: a seventeen ten halftime lead. And get these first half
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Speaker 1: numbers for wide receiver Cooper Cup. He had five catches
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Speaker 1: and they went for gains of twenty one, twenty five,
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Speaker 1: thirty one, twenty three and sixty five. That's one hundred
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Speaker 1: sixty five yards in the half. On the opening drive
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Speaker 1: of the third quarter, Cup added catches of fifteen and
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Speaker 1: forty to finish with seven grabs for two hundred twenty yards.
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Speaker 1: Several of those catches came with Tony McCrae in coverage.
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Speaker 1: I talked to him about it after the game. I
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Speaker 1: could have competed well better against him than I did today.
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Speaker 1: He shouldn't have he shouldn't have had the yard as
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Speaker 1: he had, but he worked for it, so kudos anything
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Speaker 1: about him in particular that makes him so tough. Smart player,
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Speaker 1: understands what you're doing to him. He vet guy. You
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Speaker 1: can tell he's not only a good athlete, he understands
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Speaker 1: the game. You are visibly down about the outcome today,
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Speaker 1: and it's understandable. Why are you taking this one especially
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Speaker 1: hard personally? Yeah? I feel like I prepare well, just
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Speaker 1: didn't execute the way I should have executed it today.
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Speaker 1: Whenever you take a loss, shoe, look at yourself and
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at myself right now. Mccraig's honesty is commandable.
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Speaker 1: But Cooper Cup's huge game wasn't all his fault. I
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Speaker 1: asked Dave Lapham why Cincinnati could not cover Cup. I
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Speaker 1: think the bank were their own worst enemy in a
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Speaker 1: lot of cases, with bad discipline in their own coverages.
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Speaker 1: He had huge cavities. I mean a guy like that
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Speaker 1: coming into the game with over fifty catches. He was
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Speaker 1: second in the NFL and he was fifth in yards,
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Speaker 1: So you know, it's not like you know that he
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Speaker 1: can't make play. So for him to be as open
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Speaker 1: as he was at times, and you know his Bengals
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Speaker 1: hurt themselves. But the guy is a great player. Shoot,
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Speaker 1: he's fast, he's good hands, I mean, he's smart, catches
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Speaker 1: the heck out of the football. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: coming in he was in the top five in both
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Speaker 1: categories and second and catches. So you don't you don't
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Speaker 1: want to you don't want to have a guy like that,
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Speaker 1: you know, get off on you like he did, because
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Speaker 1: you know he was capable of it coming into the
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Speaker 1: game based on his Prouder stats. So the Rams were
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Speaker 1: up by seven at the half and heading into the game,
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles was twenty one in oh with a halftime
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Speaker 1: lead under Sean McVeagh. The key to that stat is
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Speaker 1: adding to halftime leads, which the Rams did on their
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Speaker 1: opening drive of the third quarter. Sean McVay covering his
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Speaker 1: mouth with his play sheet as he describes what he
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Speaker 1: wants into the helmet radio of golf. It's a toss
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Speaker 1: sweep to the left and Gurley down to the five
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Speaker 1: toward the pylon. Touchdown Rams. That made a twenty four
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Speaker 1: to ten and that was it for the Rams offense.
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Speaker 1: They punted on their final four drives of the game. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals couldn't capitalize. Third down and seven, the Bengals
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Speaker 1: at their own twenty four. Dalton catches the shotgun snap
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Speaker 1: and he sacked. He'll drop back to throw Andy will
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Speaker 1: be sacked by Aaron Donald, who pile drives him into
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Speaker 1: the Wembley turf for a loss of three. Dalton under
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Speaker 1: pressure and he will be sacked for the fifth time today.
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Speaker 1: Back at the twenty eight yard line. Down by fourteen,
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Speaker 1: with a little more than five minutes to go, the
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Speaker 1: Bengals had one last good chance to make it a game,
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Speaker 1: but they needed a touchdown on fourth and goal from
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Speaker 1: the Rams six. Empty backfield for Andy Dalton, who waits
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Speaker 1: the eleven yard line for the shotgun snap quick throw slamp.
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Speaker 1: It is caught and the tackle is made. The Bengals
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Speaker 1: will not convert tackle made it to three yard line
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals on the past the Stanley Morgan Junior
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Speaker 1: do not get in. That was the sixth time this
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Speaker 1: year that the Bengals have driven into the red zone
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Speaker 1: without scoring a single point. Before the game was finished,
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Speaker 1: they made it seven times from the nine yard line.
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Speaker 1: Final play of the game, Dalton, looking to throw, scrambling
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Speaker 1: to the right eyes in the end zone, cocks the arm,
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Speaker 1: throws into the back of the end zone, battered away
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Speaker 1: intended for Auden Tate, and the game is over. The
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Speaker 1: Bengals remained winless. They are oh and eight for the
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Speaker 1: sixth time in franchise history. They fall to the Rams
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Speaker 1: today by the final score of twenty four to ten.
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Speaker 1: Dalton finished with three hundred twenty nine passing yards and
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Speaker 1: the Bengals ran for one oh four that's roughly twice
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Speaker 1: what they've been getting on the ground per game, but
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Speaker 1: the combination of goff to cup killed them time to
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Speaker 1: hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent three minutes
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Speaker 1: with Lap after the game. Got the running game going
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Speaker 1: a little bit in the first half, and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're using your multiple tight end packages and they were
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to how to match up
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Speaker 1: with it, and you guys, you guys gashed them a
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Speaker 1: few times. We did. You know that was encouraging. Um,
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Speaker 1: I thought our guys up fun did a great job
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Speaker 1: backs back Sneward hit it. We're doing an excellent job there.
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Speaker 1: And then tight ends factored in as well. But that
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Speaker 1: was certainly good start to the first half. So um.
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Speaker 1: Obviously they didn't run the ball real well, but Goff
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Speaker 1: started taking advantage of the middle of the field. It
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Speaker 1: looked like quite a few times in Cooper Cup. You
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Speaker 1: know all about these guys. I mean that guy's he's
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Speaker 1: something special, isn't he. Yeah, they got a bunch of
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Speaker 1: talented players and that's why they went to the Super
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Speaker 1: bowlash year. They got a lot of faith in them.
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Speaker 1: And you know, it works together. You know, we gotta
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Speaker 1: make sure we put pressure on there and claps the
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Speaker 1: pocket so that it didn't have the time to throw
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Speaker 1: down the field and um never sometimes we have some
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Speaker 1: poor zone discipline there on the back end, and we
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Speaker 1: got better job there. Had a couple of interception opportunities
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Speaker 1: in a game like this, when they're there, you got
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Speaker 1: to you gotta catch him right. You can't let them.
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Speaker 1: You can't let him. So three hands it was gonna
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Speaker 1: be the difference in winning it losing. You know, we
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Speaker 1: got to create some turnovers and we certainly had some
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Speaker 1: opportunities there and guys, I gotta step up and make
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Speaker 1: those plays. Those can be touchdowns the other way, big explosives,
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Speaker 1: you know, game changing plays and we gotta find a
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Speaker 1: way to make them. Alex Erickson ended up with six
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Speaker 1: catches for ninety seven yards, including that fifty two yard
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Speaker 1: or up the sideline. Tyler right for six catches for
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Speaker 1: seventy four yards, So there was some distribution of football
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Speaker 1: and tight made some big plays for you. They took
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Speaker 1: the touchdown away there at the end of the football game,
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Speaker 1: but it looked like you know, Andy had he set
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Speaker 1: a record for three hundred yard passing days. He was
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Speaker 1: thirty thirty five for fifty two three twenty nine yards
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Speaker 1: and a touchdown, So you guys were moving the football
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Speaker 1: we were just too many reds and opportunities that got
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Speaker 1: away from us. You know, we have the two we
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Speaker 1: ended up inside the tent at the end of the
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Speaker 1: game with no points and situations we had to go
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Speaker 1: for and fourth down three points wasn't gonna help us stare.
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Speaker 1: And then we had plenty of times there on the
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Speaker 1: red on fringe where we went backwards and either got
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Speaker 1: knocked out of field goal range or took ourselves out
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Speaker 1: of fourth and go for it situation. So that was hard.
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Speaker 1: That's the difference in winning and losing. And that one drive,
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Speaker 1: I think he had four straight fourth down conversions. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you just kept kept going forward and making the conversience,
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Speaker 1: except like you said, when it was in the deep
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Speaker 1: in the deep red zone, and you know that that
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Speaker 1: obviously becomes a different dynamic a little bit. Yeah, you
11:23
Speaker 1: guys had a lot of confidence what we're asking to do,
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Speaker 1: and so when you feel that energy, there's situations where
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Speaker 1: we felt like we needed to go for it to
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Speaker 1: give ourselves the best chance one of the game, and
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Speaker 1: our guys stepped up and executed. I played on a
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Speaker 1: team that started all eight coach in the in the
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Speaker 1: late seventies and our mindset at the bye, there wasn't
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Speaker 1: really a buye. But at the halfway point we said, okay,
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Speaker 1: didn't go right in the first half, So that's one
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Speaker 1: season that's over with. Let's start the second half and
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Speaker 1: make this the second season and see if we can
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Speaker 1: win some football games. We ended up winning half of them,
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Speaker 1: went four and four. Is that kind of the mindset now?
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Speaker 1: It is, you know, And we still got to take
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Speaker 1: it one game at a time, starting with a divisional
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Speaker 1: game at home, which is which is one we'd certainly
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Speaker 1: want to get after they got us on the road,
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Speaker 1: and the pie comes at the right time, you know,
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Speaker 1: we get a chance to get some guys healthy, get
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Speaker 1: our depth back and make a charge here on the
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Speaker 1: second half of the season. And I know guys are
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Speaker 1: believing that we're close. We're there. We can we can
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Speaker 1: break through this barrier man and start winning a lot
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Speaker 1: of football games. And we're close. We just gotta get
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Speaker 1: it done. Bengals are oh and eight for the first
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Speaker 1: time since OH eight in the second half of that
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Speaker 1: season they went four to three and one and then
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Speaker 1: one the AFC North in two thousand and nine. Now
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Speaker 1: time for some postgame analysis as Dave Lapham and I
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Speaker 1: discussed the bengals fifteenth loss in their last sixteen games.
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Speaker 1: A few things stood out to me after this game.
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Speaker 1: Lap number one, too many third and long conversions for
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Speaker 1: the Rams against the Bengals defense. Number two squandered opportunities
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Speaker 1: to intercept passes unofficially three of those today. And number
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Speaker 1: three too much Cooper Cup twenty saiving yards the Bengals
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Speaker 1: could not stop. Number eighteen for the Rams. He's the
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Speaker 1: one that made a lot of those third and long
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Speaker 1: plays too. I mean, he was, he was phenomenally. He
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Speaker 1: had what seven catches for two hundred and twenty yards,
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Speaker 1: over thirty one yards of catch, sixty five yard touchdown.
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Speaker 1: He was. He was magic out there, particularly in the
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Speaker 1: first half. You know, I thought that originally in the
13:21
Speaker 1: first half the Rams had some problems matching up with
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Speaker 1: the two tight end formation and running game. The running
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Speaker 1: game got started pretty well. Joe Mixon had over fifty
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Speaker 1: yards rushing in that in that first half. And then
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Speaker 1: you know, again, kind of the circumstances the game dictate
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Speaker 1: you had to get away from that a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And and he throws it fifty two times. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he throws for over three hundred yards to set a
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Speaker 1: record for three hundred yard passing games in the franchise history.
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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, he much rather would run it
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Speaker 1: fifty two times and win the football game. I can
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Speaker 1: tell you that right now. So you know, obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: not enough, not enough points. You can't can't win in
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Speaker 1: the NFL scoring ten points, you can't win in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Given up, you know, third and ten or more as
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Speaker 1: many times has occurred, and uh, you know that honestly,
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Speaker 1: there was some some discipline problems with zone coverages, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the back end of things that that caused some problems.
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Speaker 1: For sure, it's hard to be encouraged by a fourteen
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Speaker 1: point loss, but one building block for the Bengals was
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Speaker 1: the fact that they outrushed the Rams. We know about
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Speaker 1: that running game disparity this year that's been so bad
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Speaker 1: for the Bengals. Well they did outrush one of the
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Speaker 1: NFL's better rushing teams. Yeah, they're not running out like
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Speaker 1: they have in the last couple of years, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they wanted to run involve better than they
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Speaker 1: did tonight. Um and the Bengals did show some life
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Speaker 1: that ground game, Like I said with the first half,
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Speaker 1: particularly with the two tight ends set that I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, Rams had to make some adjustments with a
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Speaker 1: little bit and how they were going to come out
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Speaker 1: and handle it. So unfortunately, again you know, too little,
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Speaker 1: too little, too late kind of scenario. And the problem
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Speaker 1: was in the red zone again, a couple of opportunities
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Speaker 1: down the stretch of the game where come away with
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Speaker 1: no points and a couple of red zone opportunities, want
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Speaker 1: to overturn touchdown catched and you know rightfully so, I mean,
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Speaker 1: the ball didn't move, the ball didn't bounce, but it
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Speaker 1: was that close to be in a touchdown for aud
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Speaker 1: and Tat and that would have said another record for
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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton if that had happened. But again, these records
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Speaker 1: ring hollow to him if they don't win football games.
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Speaker 1: He would be the first one to say that. I know.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he said it in the postgame show. Zach
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Speaker 1: Taylor's message to the team after the game. We got
15:29
Speaker 1: to treat it like were zero and zero going to
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Speaker 1: the buy come back as if it were the first game.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not, but that's what they have to try
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Speaker 1: to put into their minds and start the second half
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Speaker 1: of the season in much better form. Yeah, I mean,
15:42
Speaker 1: you just got a reboot basically, you know, And that's
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Speaker 1: what everybody was, you know, echoing Zack's comments, and you know,
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Speaker 1: after the game in the postgame locker room, and and
15:52
Speaker 1: you know, I mentioned to Zach Wan to talk to him.
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Speaker 1: I said, I've been there and I lived on don't
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Speaker 1: know on eight team, and we basically said, all right.
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Speaker 1: There was no buy back then, but we said, we're
16:01
Speaker 1: at the halfway point. Hasn't worked out. We got to
16:03
Speaker 1: put that aside as seasons over with. It was the
16:05
Speaker 1: worst season we ever experienced. I start a second season
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Speaker 1: and see what we can do. And we ended up
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Speaker 1: four and four. And his response was, that's exactly what
16:13
Speaker 1: we're talking about doing. But you know, we're not looking
16:16
Speaker 1: at eight games, an overall eight game record. We got
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Speaker 1: we gotta go beat the Baltimore Ravens, who is a
16:21
Speaker 1: division opponent. They spanked us in Baltimore. We want to
16:24
Speaker 1: we want to get off, you know, off on the
16:26
Speaker 1: right track to start the second half of the season
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Speaker 1: with a division win. And you know, that's the mindset
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Speaker 1: you have to take. And right now, during the bye week,
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Speaker 1: I think as much as try to get healthy physically,
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Speaker 1: you got to get healthy mentally and come back with
16:39
Speaker 1: that frame of mind. And and you know, maybe they'll
16:41
Speaker 1: start to get some players back that they desperately need
16:43
Speaker 1: to add to their depth, you know, and some guys
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Speaker 1: who played more snaps than they thought they would probably
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Speaker 1: in the first half of the season. If they get
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Speaker 1: some guys returning, that could be beneficial down the stretch.
16:54
Speaker 1: How did they handle Aaron die in your opinion, I
16:57
Speaker 1: thought I thought pretty well. I mean he had the one,
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Speaker 1: the one big, you know, tackle for loss. But I
17:02
Speaker 1: think it takes a village to handle him. And I
17:06
Speaker 1: think they recruited everybody in the village, you know, I
17:08
Speaker 1: think everybody had had a hand in it. And you know,
17:12
Speaker 1: even even when you with that said, when you're doing that,
17:14
Speaker 1: it creates one on ones for foul or another guys
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Speaker 1: that just you know, rockers, they all take advantage of
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Speaker 1: their opportunities and they love having a teammate like Aaron Donald.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna every time you come to the line of experiments.
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Speaker 1: You have to identify him the quarterback. Everybody has to
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Speaker 1: identify him and make sure you give four hands and
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Speaker 1: four eyes on the guy prior to that game. Lap
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Speaker 1: we were standing on the pitch, as they would say,
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Speaker 1: at Wembley Stadium and watched A J. Green go through
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Speaker 1: a pretty aggressive workout. I suspect he'll be back for
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Speaker 1: the next game against Baltimore. What do you think I
17:44
Speaker 1: do too? I mean, I think so, And you know,
17:47
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a laundry list of guys
17:49
Speaker 1: that might be able to come back. You know, when
17:51
Speaker 1: you look at it, dark Quest and arms at the hamstring,
17:54
Speaker 1: maybe that's aggressive depending on the severity of the hamstring
17:57
Speaker 1: and where it's pulled. The higher up at the hamstring,
17:59
Speaker 1: the worst the issue is. So I'm not sure about that.
18:02
Speaker 1: Draker Patrick with his knee, Carl Lawson with his hamstring,
18:05
Speaker 1: John Miller with the groin. I mean, there's a there's
18:07
Speaker 1: a few guys that you know might be able to
18:10
Speaker 1: make their way back. So obviously the depth will be
18:12
Speaker 1: significantly better down the stretch of start getting some of
18:15
Speaker 1: these guys back, and uh, you know they're can Obviously
18:19
Speaker 1: real good football players are the guys have probably played
18:22
Speaker 1: snaps that they weren't expecting necessarily to play in the
18:25
Speaker 1: positions that they're playing them in. But that's just going
18:27
Speaker 1: to add to the overall depth of the football team
18:29
Speaker 1: for the second half of the season and during the
18:31
Speaker 1: bye week. Man, it's a two step process. You get
18:33
Speaker 1: yourself physically right, you know, with treatment and rest, and
18:36
Speaker 1: mentally right, you know, you got to get your mind
18:38
Speaker 1: right to come back and turn it around in the
18:40
Speaker 1: second half of the season and you can get some ws,
18:43
Speaker 1: get some victories under their belts. The Bengals have had
18:46
Speaker 1: five previous oh and eight starts in their history. On
18:49
Speaker 1: four of the five previous times that happened, they won
18:52
Speaker 1: game number nine, So we'll see if they can do
18:55
Speaker 1: it this time around. Back home at Paul Brown Stadium
18:58
Speaker 1: against the Ravens and a couple of weeks. Ravens are
19:01
Speaker 1: five and two and currently have a two and a
19:04
Speaker 1: half game lead in the AFC north over Pittsburgh. The
19:07
Speaker 1: two and four Steelers have a home game on Monday
19:09
Speaker 1: night against the Windless Dolphins. Now time for this week's
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Speaker 1: fun Facts interview, where we get to know the person
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Speaker 1: under the pads. This week, it's a member of last
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Speaker 1: year's rookie class who has to be among the NFL
19:24
Speaker 1: leaders in spectacular catches so far this season. Time for
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Speaker 1: some fun Facts with wide receiver Auden Tate born in
19:31
Speaker 1: South Carolina, but went to high school and college in Florida.
19:35
Speaker 1: When people ask you where you're from, what do you say?
19:38
Speaker 1: From Armo, South Carolina, live in Tampa Bay, Parsley, but
19:44
Speaker 1: from Irma, South Carolina. Why did you move to Florida
19:47
Speaker 1: when you were a kid. My dad's a pastor. You
19:50
Speaker 1: wanted to start to church down in Tampa Bay. You're
19:53
Speaker 1: six five. Were you always the tallest kid in the neighborhood?
19:57
Speaker 1: Ni him on Grossberts about nine grade. Before that, I
20:00
Speaker 1: played like running back and point guard and stuff like that.
20:03
Speaker 1: I figured you must have played basketball at some level.
20:06
Speaker 1: Were you good or just tall? No? I I was
20:10
Speaker 1: good at high school and middle school. Going out, I
20:14
Speaker 1: ain't get to play my senior year, I told my LCL.
20:16
Speaker 1: But my junior stuff, I was like, oh, county and
20:19
Speaker 1: we went to State my sophomore year. So I was.
20:22
Speaker 1: I was pretty pretty high, pretty straight. We're talking to
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Speaker 1: autumn Tate. You were one of the most heavily recruited
20:27
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the country when you were senior in
20:30
Speaker 1: high school. What's your best story about a famous coach
20:33
Speaker 1: showing up at your school or showing up at your house,
20:36
Speaker 1: I'd probably say, um, when a hardball. When he left
20:41
Speaker 1: forty nine US and went down to Michigan, like I
20:44
Speaker 1: think it was like a couple of weeks later he
20:46
Speaker 1: was at my house. Now he was at my school,
20:48
Speaker 1: like at the school house. It was just weird because
20:51
Speaker 1: I just remember him from the forty nine ers and
20:53
Speaker 1: you know, now he was at Michigan. That was just
20:55
Speaker 1: kind of crazy to me at that moment where the
20:56
Speaker 1: other kids say there was a lot of people just
20:59
Speaker 1: trying to get like pitches and autographs with him because
21:01
Speaker 1: they remembered them too from when they went to Super Bowl.
21:03
Speaker 1: Aye and all this stuff. Are doing fun facts with
21:06
Speaker 1: autumn Tate. Do you remember what college reached out to
21:08
Speaker 1: you first and how that felt us University of South
21:12
Speaker 1: Florida got our first scholarship before. I think it was
21:16
Speaker 1: Alonzo Game my junior year. I remember that. Yeah, pretty exciting. Yeah,
21:21
Speaker 1: definitely knowing that my parents ain't had to worry about
21:24
Speaker 1: no college. Yeah, he went to Florida State and played
21:27
Speaker 1: for Jimbo Fisher. I got to know him when he
21:30
Speaker 1: was the offensive coordinator at the University of Cincinnati and
21:33
Speaker 1: he could be pretty rough on guys back then. Describe
21:37
Speaker 1: your relationship with him when you were playing for Florida State,
21:40
Speaker 1: Like I said, Yeah, he's very like intense. You can
21:43
Speaker 1: kind of use I wouldn't say ferocious, but he's very
21:47
Speaker 1: intense when he on the field. He about his business,
21:49
Speaker 1: about his business. Feel. Yeah, I mean we had a
21:52
Speaker 1: good relationship. I definitely had growing paintings at first, you know,
21:56
Speaker 1: just trying to be accountable and more mature and stuff
21:58
Speaker 1: like that. But growing up more and more like throughout
22:00
Speaker 1: the years, I started to see like more stuff like that,
22:03
Speaker 1: So I think we had a great relationship. You spent
22:06
Speaker 1: three years with the Seminoles. Your final year you led
22:08
Speaker 1: the acc and touchdown catches and did it despite playing
22:11
Speaker 1: much of the year with a separated shoulder. How did
22:13
Speaker 1: you manage the pain? To be honest, I'd say just
22:17
Speaker 1: seeing my other brothers out there, my other teammates from
22:20
Speaker 1: Florida State. You know, we had a good bound when
22:22
Speaker 1: I was there, so, you know, seeing them boys out there,
22:24
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do everything in my power to
22:26
Speaker 1: get out there, you know, whether I was in pain
22:28
Speaker 1: or whatever, just find a way to make impact. Was
22:30
Speaker 1: that a situation where you would dread a hit to
22:33
Speaker 1: that shoulder. Oh yeah, definitely. I got hit a couple
22:35
Speaker 1: of times, especially Miami cams get hit a lot in it.
22:38
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just it is the generally kind
22:41
Speaker 1: of running, so you just kind of rolled with it.
22:43
Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with autumn. Take the Bengals drafted
22:46
Speaker 1: you in the seventh round. Was your phone ringing off
22:49
Speaker 1: the hook from teams thinking that maybe you wouldn't get
22:53
Speaker 1: picked and they could try to sign you as an
22:54
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent? M Yeah, I was like, actually enterprise.
22:58
Speaker 1: I was about to go to the Eagles undrafted contract thing.
23:02
Speaker 1: I was like like really like about to be on
23:05
Speaker 1: the way, and then I got a call from the Bingles.
23:07
Speaker 1: When you did get that call from the Bengals, who
23:10
Speaker 1: is the most excited person in the room. Probably my
23:14
Speaker 1: mom probably, yeah, probably my mom, my dad, They're probably
23:18
Speaker 1: most too excited. Were the tears flowing? Yeah? Yeah? For them? Yeah,
23:22
Speaker 1: and for you. Didn't represent the culmination of all the
23:26
Speaker 1: hard work and everything you had done up until that point. Yeah,
23:29
Speaker 1: this kind of feel like I got slided to with
23:32
Speaker 1: my forty yard dash and then my shoulder injury. But
23:35
Speaker 1: you know, still hear my name calls, you know, just
23:37
Speaker 1: a blessing. A lot of people don't. You're only in
23:39
Speaker 1: your second year, so you haven't made the really big
23:42
Speaker 1: bucks yet. But what do you like to spend your
23:45
Speaker 1: money on? Movies? Movies? Movies. I'm always out of movies,
23:51
Speaker 1: and I prefer to go to the movies rather than
23:53
Speaker 1: get it on DVD. I like this experience is going there,
23:55
Speaker 1: give him a popcorn. I see sitting down and just
23:58
Speaker 1: watching a movie. So yeah, movies, definitely, I'm with you.
24:01
Speaker 1: There's nothing like being in that darkened room with a
24:03
Speaker 1: big screen and you can zone everything out right, see exactly.
24:07
Speaker 1: I love. I'm probably gonna be the rights practice. Do
24:10
Speaker 1: you have a couple of all time favorites? Atl? Dark
24:13
Speaker 1: Night Dark Knight Rises? And Damn Joker was really good too.
24:19
Speaker 1: I was surprised his performance. That was real good too.
24:23
Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history, actor, athlete, politician,
24:27
Speaker 1: religious figure, whatever, who would that person be? I pros
24:32
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington. He's the same, real, insightful, smart, very self
24:37
Speaker 1: aware about things. I just want to like just rite
24:40
Speaker 1: with him to see what hit at How you think
24:43
Speaker 1: the best walk in the world. The Denzel Washington strut
24:47
Speaker 1: there's something about his walk. I think that's very unique.
24:51
Speaker 1: The training day, great role right there. All right, Do
24:56
Speaker 1: you have a talent, a hidden talent that is not
24:58
Speaker 1: related to sports? I used to like to read a
25:02
Speaker 1: lot high school college. I don't do it as much
25:05
Speaker 1: no more, But I mean that was it. I don't
25:08
Speaker 1: really got too many of the hitting ones. I'm pretty
25:10
Speaker 1: much open book on the flip side. Is there something
25:13
Speaker 1: that you are just terrible at that you couldn't met?
25:15
Speaker 1: You know, I'm awful at that thing. Hitting the baseball,
25:19
Speaker 1: I'm good. I was good at like catching and all
25:21
Speaker 1: that stuff. But hitting it, I don't know. I don't
25:23
Speaker 1: think I ever hit it makes you feel any better?
25:25
Speaker 1: I saw Lebron James take batting practice once when he
25:28
Speaker 1: was still in Cleveland. He was terrible. Couldn't get it
25:30
Speaker 1: out of the cage. Yeah, I was missing. At least
25:33
Speaker 1: he hid it, all right. Final fun fact for Auden Tate.
25:38
Speaker 1: Your Twitter handle is little Tate. You're not little. What's
25:43
Speaker 1: the story behind the little Tate? I don't know. It's
25:46
Speaker 1: a big contradiction consider I'm kind of a more bigger figure.
25:50
Speaker 1: I don't know, to be honest. A few people just
25:53
Speaker 1: started like calling me that, and then like I just
25:58
Speaker 1: kind of just stuck with it to be that's crazy
26:01
Speaker 1: because it is like a big contradiction, but I just
26:03
Speaker 1: rule with it. It's got to appreciate the irony. Yeah,
26:07
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. Thanks so much. Best of what
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Speaker 1: going forward. He doesn't appreciate it. That's Autumn Tate. We
26:13
Speaker 1: want to remind you to come out and join us
26:14
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26:22
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26:25
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26:28
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