Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals - BENGALS FILM TAKES: O-Line SILENCES Bucs Front, Under Center Review, Dexter Lawrence POPS

Starting point is 00:00:00 Joe Burrow was the least pressure quarterback in the NFL in week one, and sexy, Dexie Dexter Lawrence made his mark when you turn on the film. You are Locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Locked on Bengals podcast. This victory Monday and Joe Goodberry and myself, Jake Liscoe, are here to bring you all of Our takeaways, after having watched the tape of the Bengals victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, we got you our instant reactions, of course, right after the game on Sunday. But as we've done in the past and we'll continue to do in the future, we watch the film on Mondays.

Starting point is 00:00:50 And it's a whole lot of fun when the Bengals win. Today we're going to talk about Barrett Carter potentially taking a leap with outside of the tackling issues, a really nice game. Dexter Lawrence making his mark, the offensive line protection and how great it was. that it had schematically. Joe Burroughs game, was he good? Was he bad? We'll give you that answer in this episode as well. And what Tampa did to deal with Jamar Chase,

Starting point is 00:01:16 a very quiet game for Jamar Chase in this one. So obviously a ton to get to in this episode of Lockdown Bengals. Brought to you by GameTime. You can download the GameTime app, create an account and use code lockdown. You'll get $20 off your first purchase. But Joe, where we will start is with the worst unit on the field, which turns out to have been one of the first.

Starting point is 00:01:35 of the best units in the NFL in week one. The Bengals offensive line in pass protection was awesome in week one. Joe Burrow, like I said, the least pressure quarterback in the NFL. I think it ended up around 21%. There are some things that helped this, but when you watch the tape, Amarius Mims popped. And the entire offensive line really had a very good day outside of a few snouts where Colagia Cansey got the best of that.

Starting point is 00:02:00 Yeah, the first thing I put on tape this morning was Amarius Mims versus Rubin Bain. because I thought it looked good during the game. We really didn't hear a peep from Bain at all, especially with all the preseason height. This is the guy that's number one for defensive rookie of the year, right, in the projections. And we didn't hear them. We didn't notice him.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Only thing we were once in a while, we're like, yeah, there's true sample blocking Bain. That's kind of weird. This is getting, you know, we're getting in the fourth quarter, and there goes Mims, there goes Bain, there goes Eric all pulling around, taking care of Bain. Okay. So I couldn't wait to get to the film.

Starting point is 00:02:33 And my conclusion at the end of it, not to boil it all down to one thing. It was, who it was so good. It was, it was very, very good for Marius Mims. I mean, he has, I think that's the game that are going to get people, you need the narration all year long to get the Pro Bowl sometimes in the All Pro. You can't do it like week 10. Hey, you know, actually this guy's been pretty good this year. It's too late.

Starting point is 00:02:56 But if it starts week one for somebody that a lot of people are betting on to win defensive player, defensive rookie of the year. And already on Twitter and on YouTube, people are posting the film breakdowns and the matchup between these two. That's the type of game we want for us to feel like, hey, we've been saying, we've been telling everyone, look at Mims. He made that jump last year. He's going to be great this year. Game one. He's great.

Starting point is 00:03:20 There's a lot of hype for Tampa's defensive line additions in general. I think Al-Qadim Mohammed did give Orlando Brown the business on a couple of plays, but it was just a couple. And it wasn't like they were immediate losses. Joe Burroughs pocket feel in this game for the. issues that we're going to discuss with Joe Burroughs game, I thought was excellent. He knew when the pressure was arriving and for the most part handled it really, really well. And that included a couple of those plays. Some of those I would describe them as like medium pressures. They weren't instant wins for the most part for Al-Qaeda Muhammad. And

Starting point is 00:03:49 Kalagicansi did have a couple of instant wins like I talked about. But overall, the number of plays where Joe's just sitting back there in a clean pocket in this game against the defensive front. But like I said, had a lot of hype with Vita Vaya and the addition of Aishon Robinson on the inside another name that we hardly heard. He might have had one hurry in this game. The return of the rookie David, what's his last name? Walker.

Starting point is 00:04:13 Walker, who didn't actually even play on defense. Ruben Ben, Yaya Diabi guys that were supposed to be solid. They were excited about Walker. They're excited about all these guys. And nobody except Cancy really did anything. And I thought Ted Karras was excellent. I thought Dalton Reiser was largely excellent. And talked about Orlando.

Starting point is 00:04:32 had a couple of losses, but for the most part, totally good, totally fine pass protection from him. I'd say, I'd say the only guy that had an up and down day would have been Dylan Fairchild, who was on the other side from Cancy a couple of times. But even that, like, he was fine outside of those couple of reps. So really encouraging start for the Bengals offensive line against the defensive line that had high expectations coming into week one. Yeah, I agree with all that. And I would like to add on the positive end, Orlando had a bunch of very nice blocks as well.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Like he, that's what we've tried to make that argument that he's a bit up and down. He was largely pretty good, but he had some flash plays also in this game where Mims just as consistently not breaking us well, right? They're kind of different. But Brown sometimes with his technique and hand usage can really just knock a guy down. Yaya Diabi a couple times in the first quarter, had him eaten their or turf, I guess, at Baycourt. But yes, the offensive line, very good.

Starting point is 00:05:26 I thought the Bengals scheme did a great job. We should also talk a little bit about, you know, helping them out, the play calling, the design, because all offseason, they wanted to get under center. They wanted to do these things. We heard that play action would be a big part. They ended up not running play action that often and really even getting any explosives out of it. So we can't say that was everything's rosy mission accomplished there. There were 28th in the league at play action rate, which again, we said early in the year, this is what offenses want to use in order to trick and slow down these defenses. There were some teams over the 60% mark the Jaguars for play action, which is crazy.

Starting point is 00:06:02 They put up a lot of points. Bengals really low, but they did get under center a bunch. Chase Brown ran from under center more than he did last year at a much higher clip. He also faced a loaded box 50% of the time Chase Brown did. We said the box like to load the boxes. They're not afraid of that. They like the blitz, which they did again at a very high rate. But the Bengals got the ball out quickly and took advantage of these heavy boxes, I think.

Starting point is 00:06:26 and getting Mike Gaseki up the seam and, you know, getting the ball to Chase Brown in space or Samajai, J.P. Ryan, or even at times, Drew Sample, which worked for this offense to, you know, control the ball, I think, for the most part. They just really had to control the game, and I thought they did in a good way. Yeah, let's talk about the under center offense that we saw in week one a little bit. Then we'll talk about Joe Burroughs game, the week one slow start, whatever narrative you want to talk about for Joe Burrow,

Starting point is 00:06:51 Jamar Chase having a very quiet day. We'll talk about those after we talked about what we saw from the under center, playbook because to me I was really impressed with the run game stuff that they put in. They ran duo to great effect a couple of times in the Red Zone, one of those being Chase Brown's touchdown run. If you joined us for our later post game show where we kind of rewatch a game a little bit on socials, you saw us talk about that, but there are a couple of plays where they're moving to Eric Hall at the snap in motion. He's kicking a guy out. They're double teaming with Amarius Mims and Dalton Ryzer on the right side, totally sealing off, massive,

Starting point is 00:07:26 running lanes for Chase Brown. And it wasn't just that. I thought in general that the run game looked very well designed, very diverse from under center and from shotgun. I think it was a little bit more successful under center as you would expect. But they also hit a beautiful crack toss from the gun that involved Eric all cracking. And not a wide receiver here, but Eric all cracking Ruben Bain on the right side and Chase Brown taking it for a big game.

Starting point is 00:07:53 And you got the Amarius men getting in on the elephants on parade celebration. that all the Bengals receivers were doing. I didn't know if you noticed that. Yeah. I tried to take a screenshot, but then I tried to take a video, but I clipped it and made it go in slow motion. It's coming out on the film review. Ran out of patience for it, but you can see that on Joe's film review video elsewhere.

Starting point is 00:08:11 But yeah, I just, I really like the run game aspect to the under center part of the playbook. The play action pass part of the under center playbook involved in overthrow to see Higgins on a post that could have been an explosive play. I don't have any issues with the design there. That could have been an explosive. So sail route to Jamar Chase thought Joe Burroughs timing looked really off on this play. I think the ball should have been out at least a hitch earlier.

Starting point is 00:08:33 Joe needed to see Jamar break out. And maybe he's looking elsewhere. But I thought that was a really late throw, especially by the standards for anticipation that I hold Joe Burrow to in the anticipation that he generally plays with. Then the next three play action plays from under center were Drew sample, Drew sample, Drew sample, and one of them was the screen that didn't go very well. The next one was him just leaking out into the flat. and that's a free yard easy button kind of stuff that I love to see. And the athletic football show, I think, pointed out as like straight out of the Sean McVeat playbook. Then they went back to a Drew sample screen that didn't go very well, but the Bengals got the holding penalty on that one.

Starting point is 00:09:05 The final was a scramble drill deep shot to T. Higgins that T had to get turned around and back pedal for. I thought Burrough was just off on this one. And I don't know what the actual play design should have been here. If Joe's getting the ball out on time because it turns into a scramble drill pretty quick, you can see T alter his route, get vertical. and Joe just misses that ball should have been an explosive play if Joe just leads him up the seam and doesn't get T turned around, doesn't underthrow it, but almost was an explosive play either way. So you can see the potential there. It just doesn't look like it's going to be like a huge weapon. It's going to be a change up, a curve ball, something that they'll go to every now and then.

Starting point is 00:09:41 I think the game script also really helped them in this capacity, both in terms of pass blocking, being ahead for most of the game, and in terms of getting under center running the ball the way they wanted to run the ball. So that's my long-form thoughts show on Undercenter. If you have any, we'll hear your thoughts on the Bengals Under Center offense here in just a minute as we keep the conversation rolling. We'll get to Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase's games as well. The NFL is full of games that you plan for all year. Sometimes the best memories come from the games you almost miss. Game time makes it easy to find tickets to NFL matchups you want to see with prices that include fees so you know your total cost up front. You can browse games, see a panoramic view from your seat before you buy and get tickets in just a couple of taps and zone deals let you choose a section to let Game Time choose the seats to help you get the best deal.

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Starting point is 00:12:19 I think maybe even enhanced it got me a little more excited than it was just off the regular viewing. But I thought Burrow was a little bit worse myself. I didn't think he was good or bad after watching the game. I thought there was some plays there, week one, Joe Burrow. I don't know how to really evaluate it. I'm struggling with this because of the week one aspect. When I watch, I go, okay, his timing's off just a little bit. That's normal for week one for him.

Starting point is 00:12:42 But later in the year, his timing is going to be perfect, like as good as it can be. And I know that because we have seen it. And I expect it to happen again. And it's something that I think people, evaluators or people that are just watching and making their comments on who is the best quarterback, don't fully appreciate. But when you go back and watch the film of this game, you can seize a tick off. Or at times in previous years, I should say, his pocket presence hasn't been A plus in the first month or so. And I thought it was very good in this game.

Starting point is 00:13:11 Largely, I just thought there were some plays left out there and some opportunities left out there. And even some guys that looked like they were open. open on tape and Burrow was either too quick because of his internal clock or just didn't trust it, didn't like it, didn't want to fit it, and maybe even wanted to throw to a different guy at times it felt like. So I don't know what you got from it. We haven't really actually talked about this too much. You know, you watched your film on your own. I watched it because I'm up three hours ahead of you. What did you take away? Yeah, I thought the timing was the biggest thing in the passing game and there were some turn downs. I was happy to see that the Mike Keseki scene

Starting point is 00:13:47 play going into the two minute drill and I tweeted the comparison here the bengals earlier run the same concept it's a double hitch outside seams on the insider hoss as our friend mike san tag it would call it and sometimes there's a wide juke tagged on that's a the the staple that the bengals ran a lot with tyler boyd you got hitches on the outside and you got those those vertical seams from the slack eyes but if you give that wide receiver the juk option then there's a little bit more of a read to it. The Bengals not adding the juke tag here. It's just seams on the inside. And the Bengals run it earlier in the game into Tampa's cover three. I think it's the first quarter, late first quarter, maybe early second quarter. And both seams wide open because that's

Starting point is 00:14:33 where the space is in cover three. You got guys screaming out into the flats to get underneath Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. Safety is trying to get over top of Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. So that cloud approach where they're trying to bracket the Bengals receivers on the outside. And then you get those seams coming open. And then the Bengals get back to this play against essentially the same look. The bucks play it a little bit differently, but it plays out the same. Both scenes open. Joe Burrow identifies it, throws on time on target to Mike Keseki.

Starting point is 00:15:02 So there's plenty of that in this game where I thought Joe did understand what Tampa was doing. Ball got out to the right place on time. But it just wasn't quite as consistent as Joe Burrow when he's at the top of this game. The interception is another example of this. There's nothing that makes that interception any better on tape. It looks even more disjointed. Like the play call might be messed up. His footwork might be messed up.

Starting point is 00:15:24 There's maybe a route that was supposed to get tagged that didn't get tag or didn't get run. And so. And he said in is at the locker room that he's looking for Jamar, I think, on the outside. And the corner gets a little bit too deep. And he goes, okay, I just got to go to Yoshi. Must not have just seen it or even processed it. Yeah. I mean, yeah, he's looking for Jamar Chase on an out route.

Starting point is 00:15:43 There's a corner that's saying. and thus the read takes him to the thing underneath. Like the corners out of that window. Now he sinks for the out route there. That should mean Yoshi's open. It's a good play from Trotter. He comes from the opposite A gap all the way to that side of the field. Has a great read on it.

Starting point is 00:15:58 So you do tip your cap to Trotter a little bit. Great play for a rookie linebacker, great processing for a rookie linebacker there to understand what Joe Burroughs trying to do to him. But it's a mistake that Joe can't make. Just joined it from the start. But like you said, I think his pocket feel was excellent in this game. I think I mentioned it in the first segment as well. like his feel for where the pressure was coming from is really good.

Starting point is 00:16:17 The sack he took, there's maybe an opportunity to check it down. It's more of a coverage sack than anything, in my opinion. There's a small chance to get it to a checkdown. And that's kind of what it was. It was more of like him not quite getting to a couple of times, some open guys downfield, so turning those down for shorter opportunities, or just not quite playing on time, which for him just really stands out because when he's good,

Starting point is 00:16:42 when he's at his peak. Exactly. He's just really on time. On the Jamar Chase topic, I thought he was open a couple of times, talking about some of these turn downs. There's an easy touchdown that Joe Burrow never looks to Jamar Chase the side of the field. He's isolated on the slant on that throw that goes to, to Yoshi that got stuff right before halftime.

Starting point is 00:16:59 What else did you see when you were watching Jamar Chase? Yeah, that one's more clear. I think there were other ones where the bucks wanted to make that side of the field fuzzy for Joe and maybe invite you to throw towards not so much. T, but T, Gaseki, Yoshi, Chase Brown, right? Like, go to your other targets. And that's a great game plan, right? If you're going to get extra guys in the box and blitz as much as the bucks do,

Starting point is 00:17:23 take away that initial safety blanket, the guy he throw, has been throwing to forever now at this point since LSU days. And just by making it look a little weird, like there were times the safety was just over a little bit more, or the linebacker was already starting to cheat underneath. And I'd be like, if I was burrow, I'd be like, yeah, something's happening over there. I'm not even going to mess with this. I've got to get the ball out quick. and he would immediately go the other way.

Starting point is 00:17:43 But they weren't always, I think they were just showing these things and then getting out of there because then Chase would look like he'd had one-on-one afterwards. And I'd go, okay, that makes sense why Burrow was off so quickly. I could see Chase maybe getting frustrated for that of like, you know, I'm still, I'm good. They're not really doing this. But they didn't need to get to it. If this game script was different, I think game script is a big thing in this game, because they didn't have to drop back and just go shotgun and just pepper the ball to Jamar and unlock

Starting point is 00:18:11 the offense. We've seen those days how many times. They didn't have to get to that point. These other guys were winning. Gaseki was winning. The rest of the offense was working at a acceptable level to keep the bucks at bay. And I think that that's fine. I don't want to criticize

Starting point is 00:18:28 I think the positive here then, let's finish it with that. The positive is that Burrell wasn't at his best and Jamar wasn't a big producer in this offense. And they were still able to put up 26 points. And finish the game in the bed zone. Yeah. Yeah, they had the ball at the end.

Starting point is 00:18:42 That's at least three points. So let's say 29 points. If you want to figure out how many points they could have scored in office, you'll take that all day long. And that's a good sign for the health, I think, overall of this offense. And it wasn't just off the turnovers either. They had one punt in the game on the first drive of the game where there's very blatant DVI that looks even worse on tape because you can see when the contacts initiated.

Starting point is 00:19:04 It's when the ball's like seven yards away. And, yeah, I mean, that one's clear as day to me. the refs swallowed their whistles on a lot of holding penalties in this game in general. There was at least one that didn't get called for Dylan Fairchild. There were a number of times I thought Dexter Lawrence got held and didn't get called. And they didn't really call DPI either except for the one, Tcario Davis play, which, again, like, that's pretty blatant. But if it doesn't get called, the way that the Jamar Chase play doesn't get called, that's an awesome play for Bobo Davis. So just, you know, officiating, I guess.

Starting point is 00:19:39 way that it goes in the NFL. Can't harp on it too long. You can harp on what the Bengals did defensively in the offseason. And the results that we're getting here were very promising in week one. And that includes Barrett Carter. I was a little critical of the tackling issues for him. But we did say that despite the tackling issues, these linebackers made plays, Barrett Carter looking like he took a step in week one here in year two. We'll discuss Barrett Carter's game. Dexter Lawrence dominating despite not showing up the stat sheet and the rest of our thoughts on this Bengals defense in week one coming up next. There are certain flavors that instantly feel like summer.

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Starting point is 00:22:30 Him and Burrow were mine. Yeah, you're right. All right. I was trying to give you credit. Should have just taken it and said this is my credit. Dexter Lawrence popping on film. in a way that he did not necessarily stand out if you're just looking at the box score

Starting point is 00:22:42 or if you were watching life. And I was going to say, I was nodding my head as you're leading us in because if I had to pick today for what the film star was, it's Dexter Lawrence. He was dominant, Jake. It was exactly what we saw

Starting point is 00:22:56 when we watched the Giants film of, yeah, this guy only had a half a sack last year, but hilariously overpowered. And it takes two guys to neutralize him. And when you don't block him with two guys, he can walk somebody back into the quarterback, throw him down, just ridiculously quick off the snap, too, with his swim move, got himself in a couple really advantageous situations. One, I thought should have been a hold was never called. Another one, he's throwing Graham Barton to the side.

Starting point is 00:23:23 Barton grabbed him by the collar, pulls him down. You can see Dexter's asking the ref, like, come on, that should have been holding all the way. But still, the amount of attention he's receiving on these plays means that Barrett Carter and Demetris Knight were getting free and making these tackles. one was Daxhill coming off the side on a third and short play. One forced extra attention towards Dexter Lawrence, which allowed T.J. Slateen to pretty much go unblocked. He dipped inside right at the snap on a three, four defense. He gets a tackle for a loss.

Starting point is 00:23:51 And it's like, exactly. That's exactly what we wanted him to do. Not only flash yourself, but get these other guys free because of the attention you are demanding. Did you mention the Jonathan Allen's sack as well? That is like almost entirely because Dexter Lawrence is there. They're running a tackle nose twist and the center just, I think it's the center just just never comes off Dexter. And so. He's just glued to Dexter the entire time like he's waiting

Starting point is 00:24:17 for him. So Jonathan Allen is trying to set a pick to get Dexter free. But the offensive line is just like, nope, we're not we're not handed anything off. And then Jonathan Allen has a free shot of the quarterback and he finishes it. And that's a big sack at that point in the game. And that's Dexter's gravity. Talking about gravity on this team. You got it with Jemar Chase for sure leads to things like that Mike Gosecchi drive in the two-minute drill where he's catching hitch, hitch, seam ball on nearly consecutive plays. I don't know if they were exactly consecutive plays, but they're all in the same part of the game.

Starting point is 00:24:48 There's another play later in the game where there's a couple actually. One of them is a big conversion to Mike Gosecchi where the ball actually goes his way. The other is a scramble drill to the right side where if Burrow actually stays in the pocket for like, I'm talking, a quarter second longer and gets his eyes to the left side of the field, there's a coverage bust. And that's because the deep, the deep corner in its zone, the deep corner, same with Jamar on a vertical. And in the second level is like 15 yards away from Mike Keseki at the second level on an outbreaker or a crosser. So the gravity effect there on the offense side of the ball, now you're getting it on defense with Dexter Lawrence.

Starting point is 00:25:24 And I think that's playing up for boy, Maffa in this game. He showed what he can do as a pass rusher and the explosive element that he will bring Cassius Howell flashing that bend around the arc. Next-gen, that said four pressures for Cassius Howell. I don't know if you noticed that. And I went and watched like his game quite as much. They were generous on, I think one of them. But there were two others. One, BJ Hill holds Kadecki really nice.

Starting point is 00:25:47 I mean, BJ Hill is a veteran, right? He knows what he's doing. That's why he's so good on the twist and stunts. He really sets up, remember Sam Hubbard used to get a lot of production. Yeah. Because he and Hill would be going. And those are two crafty guys. He gets Howell a free rush around the corner.

Starting point is 00:26:01 Howell dips around and gets the quarterback and the ball's already out. you can see Godeky, like, telling the ref, like, he's holding me. He's holding my arm down. And BJ's just walking away, like, kind of sheepishly, like, don't look at me. And then there's another one for Howell, or he gets K'd out and again and beats him around the arc. And, of course, the ball gets out pretty quickly from Baker there. But yeah, if he, three pressures at least, or three wins, you could say, I think PFF had Howell at a 13.3. They had Boy, Amafay, over 16% win rate. Dexter Lawrence at an 18% win rate. That's really good. We will take that for those three. If they end up being the leaders,

Starting point is 00:26:34 year. You would gladly accept that. Alan, though, on the other hand, some flash plays, also the offsides, which are going to, you know, they got to get that fixed and figure it out. He got moved in the run game a little bit too much for my liking. He tried. He's not the biggest guy. I remember he was like 283 coming out of college, coming out of Alabama. He might be 2.95 or so right now. He's not a very big guy. So when he gets run on or if they try to double him, he can be moved a little bit. Something to, I think their whole rotation on the defensive line, is something we're going to have to pay attention to and see if they mix it up a little bit.

Starting point is 00:27:08 I think that's something that they will need to revisit after this game. Some of the combinations just in some crucial spots don't make a whole lot of sense. But it was a really, really hot day too in Cincinnati. Like the on-field feels like was over 100 degrees. So you kind of get it at the same time.

Starting point is 00:27:24 They said fans were feigning in the stands. Yeah. And the Bengals didn't have their portable air conditioners that Tampa apparently brought with them, as a broadcast pointed out as well. Because, yeah, have to supply it to the away team, I guess. I was learning some things from the broadcast on that one. But BJ Hill with just 24 snaps to Jonathan Allen's 32. I wonder how much you're easing Hill back in. Allen was mostly out there in passing situations, 24 pass rushing fast to eight

Starting point is 00:27:50 run defense snaps, which is a very similar split for Boyer Mothay, 26 pass rush, nine run defense. And you kind of get the opposite splits for, you know, BJ Hill, nine run defense, 15 pass rush. and Cedric Johnson, eight run defense, 11 pass rush. So you're seeing them mixing things up here, but it's something that we'll have to keep an eye on as BJ Hill gets healthier. And he missed some training camp and as temperatures cool off as well. Let's finish on Eric Carter. Yes, I was going to say.

Starting point is 00:28:20 He finishes with a very strong PFF grade. And when you watch a tape, you tweeted, I saw it, Barrett Carter outside of the tackling, which you can't hand wave the tackling. The tackling is still there. But making a number of positive. in this game to make up for it. This is like a receiver having 120 yard game and had two drops.

Starting point is 00:28:38 So yes, you're paid to tackle. Yes, as a receiver, you're paid to catch the ball. But if you make up for it on other plays, I can overlook it for now. It's got to get better. We'd like to tackle and get better. If he didn't miss three tackles and PFF may even even change it to two, I hope you haven't in front of you. They were kind of going back and forth on the updates when I saw.

Starting point is 00:28:55 It was three. Yeah. Okay, still three. But those three happened early in the game. And so as I'm watching the tape, I go, okay, there's a miss tackles. Okay, there's a play where here Baker moves him out of the window and then hits the window behind him. And I'm like, yeah, he's not having a great game. And then it starts to stack up where he's moving at a very fast pace, mentally processing very quickly.

Starting point is 00:29:18 First guy moving on the second level, whether it be Jalen Davis getting in there or sometimes Dax on two wide receivers to the other side or Brian Cook or Jordan Battle getting in there in the box. Barrett Carter was the first guy moving, reacting. He was seeing things quickly even on a misdirection. He's readjusting and getting there. He's beating linemen to holes. And I'm like, that's what we were sold is what his skill set is.

Starting point is 00:29:41 He's not the biggest, most physical. He's not the fastest guy. He's good enough at all of these things. But it's his processing. It's his mental that'll make him a good player. And I thought that showed up a bunch towards the last half of the second quarter and then the rest of the game. I thought he was very, very good.

Starting point is 00:29:58 Excited to see this defense the rest of the way after this game. because Tampa's offense is not bad. They were able to create havoc. Tampa had a high success rate. I know they did, but the Bengals made things hard on that first drive to where maybe people were concerned about Tampa marching down the field on the first drive for a field goal. I thought the Bengals made it really hard on Tampa.

Starting point is 00:30:15 They were able to convert some plays. They're getting into third downs. They're getting behind the chains. Got guys making plays all over the defense. And like we've talked about Tristan Werfts on the left side, he was shut down in Passpro. He wasn't as good as a run blocker in this game, which is a testament to what the Bengals did.

Starting point is 00:30:31 on that side of the field and run defense, I think, as well. But it isn't every week that you're going to face an offensive line like Tampa. It's like Tampa might actually have just a really good offensive line. And Bengals, I think, did really well if that is indeed the case. That's going to do it for this film review episode of the lockdown Bengals podcast. Until next time, thanks for listening. Ho-Day and have a good one.

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