Bengals Booth Podcast: Phew!

join me for postgame analysis. Plus in this week's Fun Facts interview. It's a great conversation with Cincinnati native Adolphus Washington, covering a wide variety of topics, including the joy of being the father of two young kids. All of that is straight ahead. But first, here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher,

or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention since the thesaurus. Yes, the thesaurus defined as a reference tool that lists words together according to similarity of meaning. So, if for example, you're writing about a football game, that was agonizing in the final minutes, and don't want to use the word agonizing more than once. You can go to the thesaurus and have similar words ready to go. So let's get to Sunday's game, which was harrowing, excruciating, and distressing down

the stretch, but it started out great. Tampa Bay quarterback Jamis Winston entered the game with more interceptions than touchdown passes and added to his i NT total in the red zone. On the Bucks opening drive, Winston catches a shotgun snap three step drop guns it over the middle in a separate in the end zone by Sean Williams. He decides to run it out. He's coming toward the near sideline of the un the twenty and he'll be shoved out of bounds by Chris Godwin at the twenty

five yard line. Neither team scored on their first two drives, but when the Bengals got the ball for the third time, a rookie tight end made a huge play the first

time he stepped on the field. On first and ten from the thirty seven yard line, Andy Dalton fakes a hand off to Joe Mixon, fires down the sideline by Jordan Franks and his NFL debut, and he has shoved out a bounds at the Tampa Bay thirty one yard line, a thirty two yard catch for Franks, an undrafted player out of UCF who is just promoted from the practice squad this week. I can run a little bit, so honestly, I just put my head down and looked up. The

balls came my waist. Seaball, get ball. Guess you say? His catch started a four play, sixty three yard touchdown drive. The nose of the football close to the goal line. The Bengals do not challenge. Instead, they hand it to Mixon. He charges up the gut and into the promised land touchdown Bengals as Joe Mixon begins to se delabratory dance after giving the Bengals a six nothing lead. When Tampa Bay got the ball back, Jamis did what Jamis does.

Winston rolls right, being chased by Sam Hubbard. His pass deflected it and accepted by Preston Brown. Running back to the thirty, the thirty five, the forty, and he has shoved out of bounds. Sam Hubbard deflected it and it floated right into the hands of linebacker Preston Brown. Absolutely, Dan, the guy that did all the work is ninety four. Sam Hubbard contained them, controlled them, deflected the football in a ricochet to Preston Brown, and he's gonna get all

the glory. He's gonna get the interception. But a star on the forehead of Sam Hubbard. And this time the Bengals turned the pick into points. Shot gun snapped. Dalton guns it into the end zone, caught for a touchdown by Tyler Boyd. A great throw away from the defender by Andy Dalton. Boyd spun backward, caught his hands up, hauled in the football, and the Bengals have a two touchdown lead. After a Tampa Bay hunt, the Bengals made

it a three touchdown lead. First in goal from the eight yard line for the Bengals, Dalton hands it off to Mixon with a head of steam. He woll waltz into the end zone, an easy touchdown for Joe Mixon. Twenty nothing Cincinnati. Randy Bullocks extra point made it twenty one nothing, and it looked like the route was on. But here's the point where we remind you that Tampa Bay was number one in the NFL in passing yards entering the game, and the Bengals defense hasn't exactly been

dominant this year. First in ten from the forty, Winston with another deep drop, He's going to air it out wide open down the middle of the field is DeShawn Jackson. Touchdown for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A sixty yard touchdown strike to DeShawn Jackson. Career touchdown catch number fifty three, and of those fifty three touchdown grabs, twenty four have been sixty yards or longer. That's a new NFL record.

Jackson now has one more than Jerry Right. Tampa Bay missed the extra point and the Bengals wasted no time

in getting the six points back. Dalton under center, turns left hands into Mixon again, following two blockers around the left Edge's to the forty five fifty great timp cut to the forty down to the thirty escape to tackle at the twenty five and gets pulled down at the seventeen yard line by Isaiah Johnson forty three yards for Joe Mixon to go up and over one hundred yards in the first half, Joe finished with a career high one hundred twenty three yards and that Jaunt set up

this first and ten. At the seventeen, Dalton floats a fade gray J. Green. He comes down with the football, touchdown Bengals. A J. Green going up and over rookie cornerback Carlton Davis to haul in the touchdown pass from Andy Dalton for Adrial Jeremiah Green. That is touchdown catch number six this year. Bullock missed the extra point, and although Tampa Bay kicked a field goal at the end of the half, the Bengals had a seemingly comfortable twenty

seven to nine lead. Emphasis unseemingly the two teams traded touchdowns in the third quarter. A one yard run by Peyton Barber pulled the Bucks within eleven, but then Winston threw two more interceptions. Jordan Evans came up with the Bengals third of the game, and Jesse Bates came up with a four. Bengals fans are getting into it, trying to make it hard for the offensive line to hear shotgun snap. Winston back to throw his pass, get accepted,

running it back, touchdown Bengals. A pick six for rookie Jesse Bates, the first of his NFL career, as Jamis Winston's fourth interception results in a Bengal score. Bates stumbled a bit after the pick, but maintained his balance for a twenty one yard touchdown. Return count threw it right to me, honestly, just had to catch it and you score. That's pretty much what it was. Are you thinking, please keep your feet because you had to have seen it was wide open in front of you. Yeah, I saw

the whole crowd. I'm like, oh, please don't fall, please don't fall. But now I kept my feet and score. It was thirty four sixteen Bengals with two minutes left in the third quarter, and the Bucks decided to change quarterbacks, calling on thirty five year old Harvard grad and former Bengal Ryan Fitzpatrick. He was the toast of the NFL at the start of the season. Remember fitz Magic, when he passed for more than four hundred yards in each of the first three weeks, the first quarterback in NFL

history to top four hundred passing yards in three straight games. Well, Fitzpatrick through for one ninety four in a little more than a quarter against the Bengals. After a field goal cut the Bengals lead to fifteen, Fitzpatrick made it a one score game. Now, the thirty five year old quarterback

takes the shotgun snap, drop straight back to throw. He's gonna float one deep down field for Evans's wide open catches at the thirty, and he will trot into the end zone man a seventy two yard touchdown for Tampa Bay. How can you let the deepest receiver on the field just run right by you? The safeties were nowhere to be found. One of those safeties was Jesse Bates. You know, we play so well for the three quarters and then I think some people may have got lazy, or you know,

our eyes may have got got comfortable pretty much. And you can't do that just because, I mean, this thing will homble you very fast, and it did tonight. While the Bengals defense was starting to leak oil, the offense went bone dry. On the Bengals first four drives of the second half, Cincinnati did not have a single first down, and with time winding down in the game, the Buccaneers caught up shotgun snap Fitzpatrick looking for an open target.

His throw caught for a touchdown. O Jay Howard caught it at the five and sliced into the end zone, and now it will come down to a two point conversion dry With one oh five left, the ball is placed at the two yard line, a two point conversion, tap to erase a twenty one point deficit and try to force overtime. One oh five left. Fitzpatrick in the shotgun. Three receivers right, one left. He's back to throw, he's looking, he cocks, he escapes a hit, he throws, and it's

caught for a two point conversion by Godwin. We are even with one oh five left in regulation. Here's head coach Marvin Lewis, we shouldn't put ourselves in that position. We got this game in hand. We can't got to understand the situation in a game, what could happen and do our jobs on defense better. The Bengals got the ball back at their own twenty four with fifty eight seconds on the clock and two time outs remaining, and kicker Randy Bullock knew the game might come down to

his right foot. I actually started warming up. I figured out, you know, if I did have an opportunity, I wanted to be prepared, be loose, relaxed, and too much job. Andy Dalton went to work, hitting AJ Green for gains of twenty three and eleven yards. Prior to those catches, aj had been held to three grabs for forty two. Here's Dalton. Everybody's got a plan for him, and so um you know, for us, even with what they were doing at the end, we were able to get two

plays for him. I mean, he's a big reason why we won this game, and so um you know, for him, he's just gotta keep going because there's gonna be opportunities whenever he's not getting doubled. And when that was the case today, he made the play. The Bengals drove to the twenty six yard line and called a time out, sending Bullock out to attempt a game winning field goal. Five seconds left on the clock. Thirty four all is the score. Clark Harris ready to snap it back a

pro bowler a year ago. He's ready. He snaps it to Huber. Huber puts it down. The kick from Randy Bullock is on its way, and yeah, there are penalty flags down, penalty flags on the field. Let's see what's on Tampa Bay. Kevin Huber says, it's on the Buccaneers and Randy Bullock has just kicked the Bengals to a thirty seven thirty four win at the gun. And what happened is they probably overloaded in the middle and dumped the donut a little bit, put some pressure on Harrops

the snapper. Defense that penalt is the guy. The field goal is good and the game was over. They tried to get pressure up the middle, putting extra people on Clark Harris and you can't cover them up. They covered him up. That's a penalty. It's a personal foul, unnecessary roughness on the snapper, and Tampa Bay could called for it. It was good anyway. It took all sixty minutes, but it's nice to say. Coffin nails, bam, bam bam. Tyler Boyd had an excellent view of the game winning kick

front Rosy right next to Marph, right right on my knee. Man, I was. I was so grateful when I was. It's fun times when you win. It's always funny when you win. It was an extremely windy day and both kickers missed extra points, but when it mattered most, Bullock delivered his first game winner in a Bengals uniform. Do you look forward to those opportunities? Absolutely? I mean more than anything, you look forward to doing your job, helping your team win.

And you know, like I said, I had missed one earlier, so I felt like I owed it to the guys too to come through. And they did a great job with the ball down the field and putting us in with an opportunity to point points on the boarding. At the end, it seemed like a very calm, even keeled sword. But he is your heart beating a million miles a minute in those situations. No, I mean more than anything. You can't make a situation bigger than it is. I felt like I was ready find an opportunity I was

gonna make. It didn't matter the distance, So that was decip mentality I was going into it with. And like I said, I felt like I had missed one earlier, and I owed it to the guys to put one through. The final score thirty seven thirty four Bengals. They hit the midway point of the season and a desperately needed by week with a record of five and three, a half game behind the first place Steelers in the AFC North and a game ahead of the Ravens, who lost

did Carolina. Here are Andy Dalton and Jesse Bates I'm the win to be five and three right now, going into the buys big and hopefully we can get some guys healthy and get some guys back. I feel really good. I'm sure everyone else in this locker room feels really good. We knew the chances of going to the playoffs and this was a big win for us, and we emphasized that inside the meeting room. We just get get back to what we do do best in um. You know, we kind of did that and we kind of didn't.

So we're just gonna go to work these two days before we go off and you know, enjoy our families throughout the bye week. Now tied to bring in my broadcast partner Dave Lapham for postgame analysis, and we start with Bullocks, Clatch, Keck incredible and when you look at that fuel goal, I mean it started to pick up a little wind, a little swirling wind. I mean that's not a gimme, that's not an automatic. So Randy Bullock, you know, executed well, as did uh Clark Harris, as

did Kevin Huber and the protection unit. You can't take any of those for granted, but my goodness, that was you talk about a Charles Dickens tailor two halves. That was. That was Volume one, Page one. That was That was the highlight of it. I mean, the Bengal score twenty seven points on thirty six snaps in the first half, over three hundred yards offense. Then in the second half they didn't get it first down till their fifth possession. It was it was incredible. It was like North and

South Pole. But when the game was on the line, when it counted and mattered most Andy Dalton AJ Green the two guys that have made the Pro Bowl for this football team, and they won a lot of football games. They made plays when they had to to set the team up for the game winning field goal. What a

bizarre day for the Bengals defense. They surrendered more yards against Tampa Bay than they gave up against Kansas City last Sunday night, five hundred and seventy six yards of offense in the game against the Bucks, but they came up with four interceptions, including a pick six, and really that's what allowed the Bengals to hold out and win. In the first half, they ran one more play than

the Bengals. In the second half, they ran nineteen more snaps than the Cincinnati Bengals did, and you know that's where they started to have some problems. And honestly, the worst thing that happened was to pick six because it bench Jamis Winston. I mean, Jesse Bates, you know, picked it and took it to the house. And that was the end for Jamis Winston. Four interceptions. I mean, he

just could. He was overthrowing footballs. Never never saw Jesse Bay And Ryan Fitzpatrick comes in there, and this guy has got some wiggle in the pocket and he'll get out of pocket and he'll throw the ball vertically and he did. He did it again today. And you know, I'm not part of the Tampa Bay organization in any way, shape or form, but man, he's not the starter against Carolina. I'm not sure the other guys will travel to play the football game. I mean, he's got to be their quarterback.

As I pointed out during the broadcast, he came into the game number four in the NFL and passer rating number one in chess hair. As we learned in a postgame interview earlier this season, Let's talk about a couple of Bengals offensive players who had career high performances. Joe Mixon rushed for one hundred and twenty three yards, a new high for him. Tyler Boyd a one hundred and

thirty eight receiving yards, a new high for him. And we thought big key to the football game was going to be mixing because you know, bart Mark Dufferin was going to play it like he played it in Cleveland, not you know, a safety in the box. He wasn't gonna put the eighth guy in the box. Were going seven in the box and then umbrella coverage, you know, soft coverage on the back end, two safeties deep and figure out different ways to double aj Green And they did.

And the Reds only found a different way to double him. They bracketed him differently every single time. That is testament to his greatness. But in so doing that, Tyler Boyd, you know, wins his one on ones whenever he's got him and he makes playoffter play. Yeah, it's it's it's really those two guys, Joe Mixon, you gotta win. There's only seven in the box. You gotta run them out of it. And Joe was doing everything he could. He busted one for forty three, He busted a couple of

big runs. You know, you get over one hundred yards rusher and over one hundred yard receiver, and it's not AJ Green. That's mean that there's a supporting cast and an AJ like we talked about earlier when the game was on the line, he and Andy Dalton, they get a little mental telepathy going, you know. I mean, they're gonna hook up and they're gonna make plays back shoulder, and they've done it so many times. It's just automatic.

Teams that go five and three in the first half of the season make the playoffs more than sixty percent of the time. So that's good news for the Bengals. And the other good news, obviously, is that they're going into their buy with a ton of injured players. Several of those guys seem certain to come back after the by Giovanni Bernard should be back, Billy Price I would think will be back. John Ross should be in good

shape to come back. But unfortunately they've got they've got a lot of guys that are not going to be back this season as well. Right Adam Schefter tweeted out during the game. When Adam Schefter tweets, it is pretty much official by league standards that Carl Lawson has a twenty ACL so he's out for the year. So what happens there, I mean, Willis Hubbard, You're gonna have to give some rushes at defensive end, not defensive tackling that Nichol.

That Nichol's going to look a little bit different. Um. One thing that found out during the first half of the season with all the injuries this team sustained and they were weeezing to the bye week. I mean they were just scrambling claw and trying to get there. They're one to fifty three. Their roster depths pretty good, and you know that's that's the positive. The negative is, man,

when is it going to ease up? I mean c J. Zama with a right shoulder injury and he'd had it for a while, but it exacerbated it during the course of this game. I mean, they were down to nothing and one of my favorite players, Jordan Frank's on the wheel route. They put him in motion across the backfield wheel brought up the sideline for over twenty yard catch his first NFL snaps. So, I mean, they're getting contributions from a ton of people. And the thing then that

also was impressive with all these roster problems. Special teams is decimated, and you have, you know what, guys like Mark Walton taking a lot more special team snaps, Sam Hubbard taking a lot more special team snaps. So guys are doing a lot. I mean, guys are having their roles expand right before their very eyes because of injury concerns.

So again, like you said, hopefully after the bye week, you know, they see am Massus, they see doctors, they see you know, sports psychologists, they see everything they need to see to get their bodies in mind right and start getting some guys back because they have a chance. They have five wins, they're tracking for a ten and six. If they duplicate that, that'll put you in a position

for some good things postseason. Thanks Lap. After the bye, the Bengals host the five and one New Orleans Saints, and their three home games after that are against the Browns, Broncos, and Raiders, three teams with a combined record of six sixteen and one. Now, time for this week's fun fact segment. As you get to know the person under the pads, in this case, one of four Cincinnati kids, I'm the

current roster. Time for some fun facts with Cincinnati's own Adolphus Washington, and I almost feel like I know you because I've heard so much about you over the years from your time at Taft High School and Ohio State. But this is our first one on one conversation. When did it all start for you? When was it clear that you were going to be an elite athlete? Probably around seven to eighth grade, I have started playing basketball.

I've always played football, but I started playing basketball probably like fifth grade and football. I mean, basketball was just one of those things that I really had to work to get good at and I kind of fell in love with it. So I actually was ready to quit football to play basketball. But probably like my ninth grade, tenth grade year, I wasn't getting no letters for basketball. So I'm like, oh, something's wrong, Like I was getting all letters for football. Something like maybe I just need

to focus on football. So that's what I did. I focused on football, but I still played basketball, you know, because I have the other guys that I played with, you know, we grew up together, played basketball. Guy, I'm I'm gonna stick it out for them guys. But when

I went out said and done, I'm gonna play football. Well, I certainly know about your basketball exploits, and we will get to that, but let's talk a little bit more about football because your dad, a Dolphins senior, was a college football player, spending year at UC Did he used to coach you, push you as a kid? Did he really help you develop your skills? Honestly, my dad never coached me. Well, he coached me one year, but he

never really coached me. He was always at home coach, you know what I mean, Like he would always tell me things that I need to work on. He was never the parent that was gonna come out there and yell at you and tell He never did that. He always waited till we get out in the car and on the ride home, that type of stuff. So, UM, I wish I would have listened to him a lot more, But you know, I think everybody goes through that phase where they kind of be like, you don't really know,

but you know, he really knew. So I wish I would have listened to him a little bit more. But you know, to this day, he still does the same thing. He calls me, um, let me know, um, what I did good, what I mostly what I did bad? But you know, he um, it's always always talking to him. He wants me to be great. I want to be great. We just gonna keep it going. We're doing fun facts with the Dolphins. Washington. I read that your grandfather worked at you See and you used to go to U

SEE basketball games as a kid. What memories to have of that? I just remember like the big name guys like Steve Logan. Um, he was one of the guys that were there when I when I used to go, and I wasn't even playing basketball at this time, so it kind of was like, Okay, this is basketball or whatever. Like, but um, I think going to those games actually what made me start liking basketball. And then, um my dad ended up getting a job at a center, so it

was literally basketball all day. So I eventually just learned how to play. So my granddad, um, like like you said, worked there, He worked there you see for a very long time. So he used to always get tickets to the game. He always took me and my and my cousins to the game, and it was definitely a great experience.

Definitely a great experience a Dolphins had taft. You were a parade all American in football and basketball in terms of pure enjoyment, which one did you like more gotta be basketball, because, like I said, I played with you know, a group of guys since we were like, uh four, fifth grade and we played au together, and I just I really loved playing with those guys, like, you know, traveling around the country, you know, playing basketball literally like

they were they were like my best friends. Like we literally didn't leave each other, like we were with each other Monday through Sunday. Literally, like it's so crazy. But basketball probably I enjoyed the most. So you were the Gatorade Player of the Year in the state of Ohio when your final year at Taft High School. But mister basketball was a guy named Justin Fritz. Were you disappointed? I was very disappointed. I felt like I should have won both of the awards, but you know, they told

me I couldn't win both. So definitely take the national award over the state awards. So it is what it is. I don't I don't really know what that guy's doing right now, but I mean, congratulations to him. I never got to tell him, but congratulations to him. Well, since you wondered, he went on to have a fine college career. I believe it was Wheeling Jesuit, so he did play college basketball. Apparently did quite well. We're visiting with a

Dolphins Washington. There's a picture of you on the internet where you're two months old and decked out in Ohio State gear from head to toe. Who was the Buckeyes fan in the family. My dad, he was a Buckeye fan. He was a Notre Dame fan. So as I got older, you know, we kind of grew away from the Notre Dame. I don't know why, but we just did. And it was just all about Ohio State. So, you know, as I went as I got older, that's always where I

wanted to go. And UM, to be honest, you know, the situation that I grew up in, and I honestly I never thought I would go to college. You know, I never even knew about the process to even try to get into college, you know, like um, and my sophomore year, coach Trussell actually UM, you know, started recruiting me, and I went up there and you know, got to

meet with him. So when I got my first letter from I really thought like it was like a fake letter, Like I didn't really know about college recruiting and letters and all of that stuff. So I was kind of learning on the fly. But um, Ohio State has was definitely my dream school and I'm glad that I got

to go there. Um Um got to show my family, you know, a different side of things, you know, to be able to leave Cincinnati and go to other games or you know, travel to you know, the state up north and they come up there and watch me play.

They can come to watch this play against Michigan State or whoever, you know what I mean, Like just to show my family, you know that I'm really trying to do something different because I had a lot of athletes in my family, but none of them can get over the high school hump, you know what I mean, Like they always the high school is always where, you know.

So when I got to high school, I really you know, tried to focus in and make sure I did everything right, stayed on the right path, make sure my grades were right so I didn't have to, you know, worry about stuff and had all worked out. I mean, I'm here now, so I worked out. You won a national championship at Ohio State. You had a sack in the championship game against Marcus Mariota. What's that high like when you make

a play like that on that stage. That was actually the only sack of the National Championship between either team. So you know, that kind that goes down in the history books, you know what I mean, like when you know, thirty years from now, when you look back on the first ever you know, playoff national championship, a Dolphins Washington had a sack. You know, I could tell my kids that,

so a man's death, a great accomplishment. We worked hard to get there, you know, we came in as the underdog in both games, and we just went out there and fault. You know, we had a great group of guys. You've seen with the draft, you know all those all of us got drafted and all that. But yeah, we were just a really good team, really good team. We're doing fund facts for the Dolphins Washington. You were drafted

by the Buffalo Bells. What was your draft night experience like? Well, Day one, you know, I was kind of expecting to go, not expecting to go, you know what I mean, So I was kind of disappointed. Then when day two came, that night was even worse. So, um, you know the rounds are going, third round come probably like the fifth pick of the third round. I'm like, what is good? What's going on? Like, so I just I walk out, Um,

I go sit in my car. You know, my h like I said, my group of friends that I hang with, you know, they came out there. They talking to me, you know, telling me everything. My god, dad, my dad, they all were out there telling me everything gonna be okay. But you know, I don't really want to hear that. But um, I ended up getting a call from a New Jersey number. So I'm thinking it was the Jets or the Giants or something like that, and it was

actually hum the Bills. It was a gym from the Bills, And like I kind of paused at first because you know, it's it's finally that moment, and I it was. It was just it was a great experience. I got to be around, you know, um, literally all my family, you know guys that I you know, went to high school with, Guys I played sports with in high school. They all came. Um. It definitely was a great turnout. You know, UM had

a great time. I got to see like some really really old, like little elementary friends that I went to elementary they all came. Like it was definitely a great experience. I like I said, I loved it. I was glad to have everybody there with me, and it was it was great. I grew up in Western New York, so I know Bills fans are insane. It's the craziest thing that you fitness from a Buffalo Bills fan while you were there after a game. After a game, we had one I can't remember who we beat, but it made

like the Bleacher Report or something like that. And a guy he like body slammed that got through the table because we want it was. It was hilarious. But that's by far the craziest thing I've ever seen. Like it was he like he jumped off a truck and then jumped onto the table, by far the craziest thing I've seen. Improving once again that alcohol is a powerful dragon. All Right,

the Dolphins. What do you love about Cincinnati? Um, I'm home, I'm around my family, I'm around you know, people that know me, people that you know been supporting me for a very long time. And I finally just get to play with the team that I've always watched growing up, you know what I mean? Coach, When Coach Lewis first got here, you know, I was I felt like I

was already on the team then. But you know, Um, I've always been a Bengas fan, even and I was, you know, with the Buffalo Bills, I still had the Cincinnati Beings app on my phone, you know, getting the updates every every quarter, every game, you know, seeing who was her, who wasn't hurt, you know, stuff like that. So I've always been a biggest fan. So it's that

I feel like I felt rejuvenated. I feel like a new person now that I with you know, the tender I've always grown up with, and I'm just glad that they were the ones that gave me the opportunity to come back out here and play again. Last thing, You're a proud dad. You're wearing a necklace right now with an image of your son and your daughter. Describe the

joy of fatherhood for you. When I walk in the house, my kids they love to see me walk in the house when I if I don't come home all time, they because they had, like I said, they got a pads, so they calling me like where are you at? Like when are you coming home? Like, and it's, Um, that's just probably one of the greatest feelings, you know, being

a dad. I don't I don't really understand, you know, how people don't be in their kids lives because this is probably like the greatest thing ever, you know what, I mean, to have one you only get one shot, and I have those you know, those little you looking up to you, you know, looking for that example, looking

at the way to do things. So I try to, you know, take a lot of things that I learned from football, because believe it or not, football teaches you a lot more than just you know, going out there tackling somebody. So I try to instill those, you know, those same morals into my kids. You know, not necessarily

the exact way, but you know, similar way. You know, to always respect people, do everything the best you can do everything one hundred miles and you know what I mean, like just little things that can't you know, translate to you know, everyday life. You're off the hot seat, appreciate the time. Welcome home. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. A Dolphins had his best game in the Bengals uniform against Tampa Bay, as he had an eight yard sack,

another quarterback hit, and finished with three tackles. That's going to do it for this episode of the podcast. If you haven't done so already, don't forget to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or pod Bean and give it a rating or leave a comment. Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and five star ratings help more Bengals fans find this podcast. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for listening to The Bengals Booth podcast