Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals - BENGALS SQUAD SHOW: O-LINE shows CONCERNS in two series; Which players are STOCK UP and STOCK DOWN ?

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

The Bengals' first-team offense played two series Thursday night in their first Preseason game against the Detroit Lions. There were positives, but the offensive line left a BIG concern.   Alex Frank, Coach Art Valero, Mike Santagana, and Evan Stacy discuss how concerned Bengals' fans should be about the offensive line even with all five starters returning.   Joe Burrow was under center the first drive of the game. Progress is being made, and there's one thing that going under center is going to allow this Bengals' offense to hopefully be this season.   On defense, the secondary showed its playmaking abilities. Up front, the Bengals' defensive line showed its depth and ability to get into the backfield.   Finally, Alex, Coach, Mike, and Evan reveal their players their stocks are up in but also down in after the first Preseason game.   Photo Credit: USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect   Join the Locked On Bengals Insider Community! Where you'll get updates directly to your phone and be able to text the hosts, check it out at: https://joinsubtext.com/lockedonbengals   Everydayer Club If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everyday...   Find and follow Locked On Bengals on your favorite podcast platforms:     Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AObc0l...   Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...   Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/locked-...     Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!   FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Join all the action at https://FANDUEL.COM to play Daily Dingers and make your free pick on who’s hitting a homer this MLB season.   KALSHI For a limited time,Download the Kalshi app and use code [LOCKEDON] to get $10 when you trade $10.   Square Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at https://square.com/go/lockedonnfl! #squarepod   Gametime Today's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase.   Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It was a mixed bag in preseason game number one for the Bengals, but once again, we got to ask the question, how concerned should we be about the offensive line? I can't believe we're doing this again, Coach. Well, I'll tell you what, the work under center this week, you know what? Hey, they just got to keep after it. I think it will go as well as Joe likes it.

The more comfortable he becomes, the better it's going to be. And not to don't forget about the defensive line either. some big plays being made by Linden Robinson, Cassius Howl, a lot of these draft picks, and maybe even a couple of Chris Jenkins looks here and there, and even made good on some of that tip balls and overthrows. It's preseason week one, and there's a lot of good, a lot of bad. The rookies showed out earned their first preseason game, but some bad stuff from some of the linemen as well. Today, it's the Bengals Squad. Everything Cincinnati Bengals every week. Breaking down all the big hits and game-changing plays from the Queen City the way only the locked-on

podcast network can from the jungle to the playoffs the bengal squad show starts now just after 11 o'clock on this thursday night welcome to the bengal squad show we're live on lockdown mangles and the lockdown podcast network celebrating 10 years of being your team every day we are the number one sports podcast network in america and the world i'm alex frank welcome in you to the bengel squad show post-game number one of 20 scheduled on the season. Hopefully we get 23 or 24 total. Hopefully we are hosting this show Valentine's Day night with the Bengals bringing the Lombardi trophy back to Cincinnati. Join as usual by Coach Art Valero. Mike Santagin at back on the Bengals Squad Show. Happy to have him as our resident film expert and our newest member of the Bengals Squad show. Happy to have Evan Stacey,

who runs our new locked on Bengals hit account at Bengals underscore hit and at Evan Stacy 3 on Twitter. Evan, welcome to the show. We're happy to have you. Kind of if you can, take a minute to tell our loyal listeners, thanks for staying up with us tonight. What the Bengals hit count is, it's something new. The Lockdown Podcast Network is doing. Kind of take us through what you're doing every day because you are absolutely grinding out content. That is so great to see.

Yeah, well, first off, thank you guys for having me. I'm excited to talk about some football, talk about the Bengals. So the Lockdown Bengals hit account is two five-minute little short hits that come out. every day and then on top of that four 90 second to two minute short videos that go through all the social media so six videos a day Monday through Friday so it's a lot of work but it's a lot of fun isn't that football in a nutshell right there we're through preseason game number one coach you text to be during the game one word to describe it tonight sloppy oh like it you know most first preseason games you know people finally getting around flying around playing live

football. There's going to be some sloppiness playing the balls on the ground with center quarterback exchange, too many penalties, some missed assignments. You know, that's game one. And it'll get fixed by next week. All right. Let's address the yellowfinner in the room, the offensive line. Pass protection tonight, not good. Orlando Brown Jr., gentleman, I'm going to turn the floor over to you. Evan, I see you shaking your head. I want you to start us off. How concerned should we be about him and the Bengals'

offensive line as a whole? I mean, to be the starting left tackle and on Burroughs blindside to get beat by, you know, a second string guy pretty badly, that's never a great look. And, you know, we just gave him a decent sized extension. And that's for him to protect Burrow and make sure that he doesn't get unnecessary hits and doesn't get sacked. and he got to be pretty bad on that one.

And it was definitely not good to see, especially in the preseason. He did not look, I don't know, ready or whatever it was, but that was definitely a pretty, pretty rough play for Orlando Brown to start off the season. You know what? I thought that as a group, when the ones were in there, and they weren't in there much longer than, I think it was one series that Joe Flacco had where they were in there,

you know, they ran the ball fairly well. they had about a four-yard, four-and-a-half, which are efficient runs. But protection-wise, I thought that they struggled a bit, you know, with one-on-ones, especially the interior guys got bull rushed quite a bit by those guys. And, you know, it did not appear to me that Orlando Brown's mind was totally fixed on playing his 18 snaps. and you, I mean, you're in the National Football League. You've got to come ready to play. You got an extension.

You're a leader of that group. Hey, every down, regardless of who you're going against, has got to be A number one. That's how you get better. Not by showing up by executing your assignment, especially when you've got your guy who everybody is counting on sitting back there in the pocket. So I think he's got to step himself up, even though it was preseason one. Great players don't do that. Yeah. I obviously don't lose to a third stringer on the other team.

I think I throw a tiny bit of cold water on the concern. Just if you watch the playback and coach will know this, he's taking a really flat set and Burroughs' feet are showing quick game. Now, I'm not saying that gives you. all the excuse in the world to go get beat by a guy who might be on this team's practice squad or we'll play five snaps a game. No, you should still win that rep. But at the same time, it looked like they ran like snag or something over there. And Burroughs kind of going one to two, to three. And he's kind of holding, holding and making that throw to that corner route or whatever

was being run over there to Gaseki. I can't see what's really going on down the field. But throws the sideline, misses the throw as he gets hit. I think some of that might be a little bit of Burrow might still take a hit and Orlando Brown is still losing, but would the ball have been out quicker in week six? Would Burrow have gotten that ball out with more anticipation in week six? Because if you remember the throw, too, I feel like it was really far over to the sideline. And these fractions of seconds matter. If you got that ball out a quarter of a second faster, does that now look like you're still upset with Orlando Brown? You can't be losing there. But was it enough to kind of get in the way and force the long way around for,

a play like that. That's where my head is with this. Now, the thing is, you're not facing Bray Hendrickson or Jared or one of the, or Alex Highsmith, Nick Herbig. You are facing, I don't remember his name. Eric O'Neill. Eric O'Neill from the Detroit Lions, who we don't know if he'll make their active roster. I think that's the big issue, right? So that it's a little bit of cold water, but also I remember last year, I kind of thought, this is kind of heading. It feels like we get to a certain age. When things get a little worse, they don't seem to suddenly get better.

So when things got a little worse for him last year, I'm not thinking he's going, oh, he'll get better from there. It's like kind of hoping it levels out there and doesn't keep getting worse from that spot. So level of concern for me might be a tiny bit lower, just looking at what was going on. But at the same time, it's still there. It's still there because of who he was facing. Well, yeah.

You know, it appeared that he was because I'm sure he didn't know who the guy was, he tried to jump him. Yeah. And all of a sudden, the guy came off as the speed and he missed. It's like, okay, A, know your opponent. B, in a bunch said, that's pretty tight, hard to jump because there's bodies there. You know, you got a slot, a tight slot. So, you know, just be aware of where he's at and be real familiar with the offense itself and what the quarterback's drop is, which most tackles understand, you know, it was just a little disappointing to see that

did he got beat on that play. Yeah, I think 5-0 protection, too. So he did not have the inside protected at all, like a slide situation. So there are reasons you probably shouldn't be jumping there, but especially for Orlando Brown, who's probably not the quickest jumper in the world. But yeah, I agree with you. It feels like one of those things, maybe we don't want to work this out with Burrow behind center. Maybe that's something maybe you. try out with Flacco behind there. I'd wait until Josh Johnson got in. You've got two preseason games left if you want to work on it with Joe Flacco

or Josh Johnson or Sean Cliffer for all I care. I think the thing for me with Orlando Brown Jr. tonight is when I see Joe Burrow laying on his back, when I watch the play and see if Kiske's going to make the catch, he didn't, obviously. It was an overthrow. And I look back and see Burrow on his back. My first thought is get up, get up, get up. Because it's just so ingrained in you as a Bengals fan that you're nervous that

Burroughs not going to get up. And if that had happened tonight in preseason game number one, oh, Lord, what this show would be like. Thankfully, it didn't. But you think about the past blocking not being good. And I do agree with you, Mike, that look, it is preseason game number one. Maybe Orlando Brown Jr. is not game. Ready coach, you and I were talking with everybody, Evan and Mike, before the show.

No one's in game shape by preseason game one. No one is. They haven't played a game at what? Half a year? This is a football game. There's nothing natural about football, as I'm sure you would agree with me. But Evan, I'm going to turn to you because what did look good tonight, and this is the positive, was the run blocking.

I saw some good run blocking. I saw Donne Reisner being used on polls multiple times. That part is good. And if you can run block in this offense, that's what's going to make it really good this season. Yeah, I mean, especially under center, you've got to be able to run block really well with them, you know, mainly running the ball, running play action. You have to be able to run block really well. And they did do a good job. I think Chase Brown averaged about 3.2 yards to carry.

And, you know, that's good to see with as a dynamic as a runner as Chase Brown is. What he does best is when the gap opens up, he hits the hole. And so for the offensive line to be able to open those up consistently and give him those running lands because once he gets space, he's gone. And so I think that's going to be crucial for the Bengals is to be. able to run the ball efficiently. And I think today was a good step in that. They didn't, you know, most of the runs went somewhere. They didn't get stuff behind the line or get many like TFLs.

And so I thought overall, even if the passing, past block grade wasn't very good, the run block overall, I thought was pretty solid for week one in preseason. Mike, what did you see? Yeah, well, the thing that was, there's two things that are really interesting to me. First snap of the game, the first note I wrote down for the offense was three point stances all around Orlando Brown's got his big butt in a three-point stance this is incredible tight split they run mid-zone don't think it went that well but they ran their mid-zone concept repeatedly and they ran what's called a split mid-zone so we split feet split action in the backfield so a guy

slices across the formation takes the backside defensive end and everybody else just runs their mid-zone block their reach block whatever their scoot blocking I think so somebody told me that mid zone they kind of do but that's interesting right because they then run a play that got a lot of discourse online where they don't block the defensive end on a pass play it's a play action pass concept where they boot out towards that unblocked defensive end now in the practice you know there's tells in practice guys sometimes know things bro keeps getting sacked on these people like why are they not blocking the defense event you hit against the detroit lions they're not blocking a defensive end but you've been getting hit with this split mid zone that guy's been

coming at you and just whacking you repeatedly. So you slow down. You stop. You're like, I don't want to get pancake by Drew Sample. And then are Andre Yosevaas or any of these guys because the first time they ran this was Andre Yosevosh on the slide route, picked up eight yards, not a big deal. Later on the game, they get into the gun, run the same concept, this F slide and a boot from the shotgun.

Jack Endry's touchdown. It was that play and credit to Endries for doing what he does. But that to me was almost schematic where they've been hammering. this split mid-zone split inside zone stuff and then it works and i know it worked the best from the gun for the touchdown but it worked under center too and it was something i kept my eye on i know the big play action pass chase was the one everybody's going to think of but that one caught my eye a little bit and just in terms of this can work when you're not facing the defense that knows you inside and out like that when you're facing a defense that doesn't know you like that you can

run this concept maybe burroughs fakes were better i don't know i'm not an expert on that but that was something that stuck out to me, that they ran this split action on these zone runs and they ran them well, and then they're able to run the play action concept off of that to pick up a free eight yards and a touchdown. Coach got about two minutes. What did you see tonight in the run game? Well, you know what? I thought that the ones, the first group offensive line, I thought that they were very efficient. I thought they did a good job. They seemed to communicate very well. They came off the ball and they were running. And they locked up on. linebackers and stayed locked up, which allowed, you know, whether it be Chase Brown or P. Ryan,

when he was in there, kind of be able to find his way through and find a hole. I think the important thing was that coming out, whether they were in the gun and they ran the ball or underneath, they had positive yards in the run game. And I think that that as long as you are, I mean, four yards is usually an efficient run. But if you have three yards and three yards and three yards, that's going to allow those linebackers to start to play a little bit close. And now you can start your play action game really comes into effect during the normal regular season. So I think that today we got a little sample of what they are and who they are going to be. But you know, I thought overall they did

they did a good job. The O line did a good job. And let me, the, the tight ends that were in there did a well, good job as well. Yeah, I thought that too, Coach. And I think it's, when you look at the way the running game was tonight, even the small runs were still three yards, four yards. So the more you do that, the more you're going to put yourself in favorable situations, offensively, you're going to make it third and manageable, which we talked about last week in shows throughout training camp so far. That's what you want to do as an offense. Speaking of the offense, Undercenter was a big theme throughout training camp. Dan Pitcher Famously said we're not trying to win a training camp championship.

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and I challenged myself before this show started of how long I could go without mentioning The Bengals did win tonight. On the scoreboard, they won tonight, 16 to 14. So, hey, there is that. And by the way, if you want to say preseason games don't matter in terms of wins and losses. Yeah, the Ravens won, what, like 30 preseason games in a row. So, hey, you know what? If you win, everybody's happy, even in the preseason.

Hey, they all count. They all count. Do they? Hey, well, you know, in somebody's, somebody's mind they do for the coaches hey there there's no no such things as ugly ones

and as long as you got a dove you feel a lot better about it because you can always fix as long as you win Hugh Jackson since he went three and 16th those fixes really are hard yeah the 2008 Detroit lines like a war with you they went four and 16 Evan

they made it interesting that's for sure for the majority, you know, they were, what was it, like 16 to 3 at one point, and then they cut it to 14. And yeah, it was interesting for a second there, but like I said, it wins a win, you'll take it even if it's in the preseason and it doesn't count in the standings. It still matters a little bit, at least. I'll tell you what does matter. Joe Burroughs performance tonight, five of six for 39 yards.

He was sacked one time. His only incompletion, by the way, was on that hit that he took when Orlando Brown and Trude, completely whiffed on that block against Eric. O'Neill. So he finished five of six for 39 yards. Joe Flacko, five of eight for 51 yards and a touchdown. Josh Johnson, 10 of 19 for 84 yards, although he was 0 for 7 to start. But the under center game on the first drive, we saw a lot of it. I come away from this game tonight, gentlemen, thinking, you know what, they're making progress. And so therefore, I think we're going to see a good amount of under center at the joint practice this week with the Chicago

Bears and in the regular season. That's a good thing coming down to tonight. I think it helps it. It adds one more bullet to the chamber, you know, that they have. Because, you know, we all know, fans all know, what kind of an offense, dynamic offense that the Bengals have. And now you add another element to it without really adding another piece to the puzzle. This is the piece and it's formational. instead of having a personnel other piece. And I think that it's going to work well. They just need to stick with it.

And I think as long as Joe, because I can't even tell you how long it's been because he wasn't in it very much. I don't think at LSU, how long it's been since he was underneath. And as soon as he starts to feel comfortable with the drops, I think he's going to really start to feel those linebackers really start to come up.

And that'll take some time. I think one thing here is I thought for my under center takeaways, the first three plays were good. And then the sack happened. I don't like the sack as a concept. It's a two-man route combination. Jamar, Jason T. Higgins are awesome. You're playing two against, what, five back there? They get two and a half guys per each person.

I don't love those concepts where at least just get something else going on. I'll take three, but two-man concepts to me are just very risky because what is? is Joe supposed to do if they just double team and get a third guy back there? Eventually, the line's going to fall apart. So I didn't like that concept. To me, that would be ripped out of the playbook and thrown away. The rest of it, I thought, was pretty good. The nice thing about bringing back basically all your starters unless, I don't know,

Colby Young takes Andrei Yosibos's job or something like that, your top somewhere around like your most important 13 or 14 guys on offense, if you could think about it, have all been in the system. They were here last year. So instead of having to get somebody up to speed, your free agent acquisitions, your draft picks, whatever, they could just add stuff. So that's why it's a great time to add your under center offense because these guys know, if this isn't working, we know that shotgun stuff like the back of our hand.

That's what we ran all last year. That's what we still practice it. So that to me is why this can work out so well, where you know you can fall back on the shotgun stuff and be a top five offense. So let's try to throw some stuff in there with this under center stuff, try to become a little bit more explosive, create that run-pass conflict. And one thing I would like to see, coach, is the under center straight drop back. Because teams will play you different when they see you come under center.

If they get something like a cover three and they know it's cover three, take that because you're not getting that from the gun. Oh, yeah. I tell you what, and a lot of people, they'll put that extra guy. extra safety down in the box to try to stop the run. So now you should have off corners. And even if you throw a hitch, you know, those kind of little one, two, three, bam, balls out.

Hey, those are good little plays because you're moving the chains. That Flacco access hitched to Jamar Chase 20 times against the Steelers. Come on. He always targeted him 20, three times in that game. Evan, what did you see? Yeah, I thought it was great that they went heavy under center early. We've seen a lot of clips in camp that they've been stressing that, and they showed it again. Over half of their snaps from, at least the starters, were under center.

And two plays that I thought were really good. Obviously, the first one being the throw to Jamar Chase down the middle of the field. I thought that was perfectly executed, and I think that just opens up the offense as well. And another play that I really like, that's one of my favorite plays, is it was Burrow under center. he play action to Chase Brown rolled right. Yose Voshe came from the left side, ran across the line, then he just kind of dumped it over to him and got, I don't know, seven or eight yards.

And they ran something similar to that on the goal line with Joe Flacco and the touchdown to check injuries. And I love that play. And I think if they can utilize that more, like you guys said, under center only helps things. It only adds another dimension to the offense. And obviously they haven't mastered it yet, but if they keep working at it and keep getting, you know,

more reps at it, I think they're going to get better. and it only makes this offense, this offense more explosive, which we know, like you guys said, when they go to shotgun, they're as good as any offense in the league. And adding this under center stuff, I think opens a whole other can of worms. And I think it's going to be another nice wrinkle for them to, for them to have. And I think trying it out early in the preseason is what the preseason is for, is to work out all these kings, try to see what you have and, you know, put in some new things.

I'm right there with you, Evan. That was what I was talking about that slide route. That's that slide concept. I loved it. Well, I loved it, too. And it was great to see Andre Yosevosh. I thought he played with a lot of confidence. He caught the ball and immediately turned up field.

But the other thing, Evan, that you were mentioning that was the biggest thing for me is, when the Bengals got a first down, I'm like, okay, what are they going to do here? I didn't know. And I loved that. I didn't know what was coming because now you can go under Sunday. You can play action. You can run. You can do so many things now that maybe haven't been able to do.

Coach, you mentioned at the top of the segment, another bowling in the chamber. Well, you're going to throw this at the defense. They don't know what's coming now. And this is, Evan, as you mentioned, an explosive Bengals offense, but you have to be able to do multiple things offensively. You can't just be the same. The Bengals, they're a, excuse me, they're a predictable offense, and they've been that way for so many years because they're in shotgun primarily.

Well, now that you can go under center, and you might say, oh, they're just under center. But, Coach, you know this. It's a different formation, and that stresses a defense, and you already got to contend with Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. So when they get a first down, when they're moving the chains and the crowd, out getting into it. Good luck being able to, A, stop this offense, B, communicate what they're trying to do. You're not putting stress on the defense and you're not just relying on the match of Caboero, Jason Diggins. That's going to be a great feeling. Oh, absolutely. Hey, you know what,

when you, when the quarterback gets under center, it changes the calls for the defense because there's a little bit more, there's a heavier element of the possibility of a run. So it changes their demeanor a little bit. And now if you can get your run game going, and now, you know, like Mike talked about, hey, they're going to continue to get better at the play action. You know, the old line has to learn how to protect the passer and be aggressive, kind of an aggressive, controlled technique

because you want to come off as if it's a run. But then you've got to break down and protect. And usually those are seven-step droppers. But if Joe feels comfortable at some point of throwing a five, five step drop, straight drop back out of it. The only thing that's a kind of a hindrance out of that is, because of where the back is, it's more difficult for him in terms of his blitz pickup protections. But he's got to get there. He's got to hasten himself to get there. If they can do that, boy, it opens a wide open. Which is why it's funny when you watch back that Jamar Chase catch over the

middle. Chase doesn't even do the fake because he sees the blitz off the end and he just goes off to the Right. So it looks like a mistake. Like Burroughs faking a handoff back to his left and Chase Brown goes sprinting to his right. But it's because I'm not going to fake a handoff and then try to get over. That's a terrible angle. I'm just abandoning the fake, picking this up. We got what we wanted. Those linebackers came up.

He's blitzing. So throw whatever he said. Well, you know what the great thing about what Chase did on that thing, he just and everybody teaches it. If you're, even though you're a play fake guy and you want to roll over the ball and do all those things, if you're a protection assignment, you abort the fake and you go protect your guy. And even though the quarterback doesn't know, he'll so go through the action, but he's protected and now he knows he's got time, which I thought was an excellent job of Chase Brown doing,

shoot, what, the first 10 plays of the game, he had that? That was awesome. Yeah. I also think it's interesting, like, I think it was, you know, they were running the ball pretty efficiently and moving the ball, but after the sack, you know, it was third and 15. And when you're running the under center stuff and then you get to, you get pushed back and you get third and long,

then you go to your bread and butter in the shotgun. And, you know, that's where the Bengals excel. So it really just opens the playing field a lot for them. And the third and longs, you just, you know, you have T. Higgins and Jamar Chase. So, I mean, you throw to all to them, something good is usually going to happen. So you feel pretty confident about that. Usually coaches don't have a lot of 13, third and 15 calls on their,

call sheet. You don't want those. They were in the classic at one point, though. They run to the first down and turn around. They got a first down to Colby Young. Well, I mean, that can work. And Colby Young did have some good moments tonight. You know who else had some good moments tonight? And we got about two minutes before we got to transition. Samajai P. Ryan, I noticed him at times. And I think what you're seeing from him is on third down potentially, maybe if he comes in on other plays, as a viable checkdown option, we talked about that two-man concept, which in Marry.

R&T. If those guys aren't there, you've got P. Ryan a security blanket. I mean, let's not forget, Sam Masha Pryan had that touchdown in the AFC championship against the Chiefs. That was a checkdown, catch and run. I thought that was awesome. You know, I really liked it that they, it was last year, it felt like they were doing it by committee, both P. Ryan and Brown. This year, it seemed like, okay, Chase, you're the one. And here. here is your role playing for P. Ryan, and I thought that worked out really well. Because right when he came in the first time, first third down, they threw him the screen, and he got the first. Yeah. Samaja P. Ryan tonight, he had one rush, seven yards. That's good.

Two receptions for 12 yards. Don't you love preseason stats from the starters? They're not great. I mean, they're not prolific by any means, I mean, for obvious reasons. But I mean, listen. There are many. No, they're, one month from today is the Bengals regular season opened against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Then we can have some really interesting, by the way, this is also a very interesting conversation. But two things. Number one, if we're talking about offensive line issues after week one, that's going to be a major concern. But number two is if we're talking about the under center being a factor of week one in the good way and the progress continues to be made,

that's going to vote very well for when you face the Houston Texans. who, by the way, just signed Chedadabian Clowny last week. Up next, let's transition to the other side of the ball, the defense, and one player who's in the contract here, we haven't mentioned him a lot this offseason, but he made coach look very good tonight, and we'll explain why coming up next. Bagel Squad Postgame Show edition is brought to you by Fanduels.

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would have six pick sixes this season. Jordan Battle tonight had an interception. It wasn't returned for a touchdown, but that's okay. That, my friend, is a good sign. that you may have been on to something. Well, I'll tell you what, that was one thing that as we watched them a year ago, you know, between Alex and Mike, how often did we see a pick? I mean, just a regular interception and return it and get them in a position where now

the offense wasn't starting from so deep. They were actually, you know, in good field position to where they go out there and, you know, call a good game. So I'm telling you what, I thought that the secondary, and there's still minus a couple of guys that didn't even play today. I thought that the guys that did play

really well in the secondary. Yeah, I think when you got down the line and some of the younger ones, yeah, they gave up some things, but hey, they're in a learning process. And so I think that they're going to be okay back there. Do you think Jordan, You think Jordan Battle would have held on to the ball for the pick six?

The Titans game where he fumbled it through the back of the end zone. Oh gosh. I did not expect that. Oh my gosh. That's what I think of if we're going to talk about Jordan Battle of six. He should have had one. Gino Stone had one in that game. Yeah.

Say what you will about Gina Stone. He can return an interception. You just can't tackle. No, there's a lot wrong. But if I need one guy. and I knew a pick was coming to him. No, he's up there. He's at above average.

I mean, he had seven interceptions at Baltimore the year before the Bengals signed him, which at the time we all said, okay, this is great. And then, well, we saw what the Bengals really got, heaven. Yeah, I mean, Jordan Battle, he led the team last year in interceptions. And what did you do in his first action? Get an interception. And that's what you want to see out of, you know, a starting stage, like you guys said, in contract year, making those big plays,

getting the offense good field position. And like coach said, this secondary didn't even have. have Dax Hill, Brian Cook, others. And so once this whole secondary gets together, you know, it's going to be, it's going to be real scary for these opposing light receivers and quarterbacks. And some of these young guys, you know, they played really well today, you know, Luke Altmyer really couldn't do much in the first quarter.

That was mainly because, you know, the defensive line was getting to him, but also the secondary played really well as well. So Jordan Battle, I think he's kind of a big year. And he showed why this immediately getting an interception, I think that's his calling card at this point is getting to, to the ball making plays on the ball. And hopefully we see some pick sixes. That'd be pretty nice.

Let's not forget who tipped the ball too. DJ Turner. DJ Turner and Isaac Tesla's face mask. Yeah. Well, thankfully there was no penalty like on the play. Yeah, it feels like when it comes to contract extensions this offseason, we've talked about DJ Turner, Chase Brown, Miles Murphy, Dax Hill. Jordan Battle wasn't mentioned.

But if Jordan Battles making plays like that, how can you let him out of the building? Well, you know, I don't know how you can, but I tell you what, and the thing that was really kind of good to see about Jordan playing tonight, he played without Brian Cook there. And that when those two are going to be in sync, it's there, they're going to be, you got one guy that you know's a ball hawk. We haven't seen the other one yet in Bengal uniform, but I know he's got to be the same thing. So they're going to take some stress off of those two corners and the slot. Boy, it's worth Dugger first play of the game. Yeah. Awesome.

That was a good play. Yeah. Set the tone. If it was a TFL or it was a good tackle, middle of the feet or outside on the left on that boot play. Good tackle. And there was some tackling issues, but, you know, it gave me a little PTSD throughout the game. But it was also preseason week one. Get it fixed now.

They have that play as no gain on E. spats play by play, but you're right. That play set the tone. I think again, when it comes to the secondary tonight, what you saw was that, yeah, they may give up some yards. That's okay. If they don't break, if they play Ben, but don't break defense, that can fly on this defense with the guys they have up front and the offense is going to be able to compliment them. Let's shift to the defensive line because tonight, I saw them actively getting in the backfield. Did they finish, did they have trouble finishing some plays? Yes, but you noticed Landon Robinson, we're all very, very much rooting for and high on.

Chris Jenkins even made some plays. Cassius Howell, you want to talk about Evan an impact player off the edge who the Bengals took in the second round with their first pick in the draft? The defensive line tonight showed that they have a number of bodies that can come after you and make life difficult in the offensive backfield. Yeah, that spin move from Howe was pretty sexy. I was like that. I like that.

That's what I want to see from my fast twitchy edge. assured that we got in this second round. But yeah, I mean, one of the things that I wanted to see here in the preseason was this depth of the defensive line, especially defensive tackles. Because we know Dexter Lawrence, B.J. Hill, Jonathan Allen, and all these guys. But there's a lot of talented players that, you know, could step up. And Chris Jenkins, I thought, played really well, like you mentioned. He, you know, it's really a make or break year for him. You know, it hasn't really panned out the way he wanted to. And, you know, this was a good first step in him, you know, maybe becoming a part of this rotation as well.

I mean, Landon Robinson. I mean, how can you not like him, seventh round pick? And, you know, like you said, everyone loves him. He played phenomenal, you know, busting through the defensive line. And I think he had a TFL and he drew a holding call. But yeah, I was really impressed with this defensive line. And especially, you know, these young guys like Landon Robinson, Cash's Hal, immediately making impacts.

And I think Cassius Howl is going to have a huge rookie season. and I'm expecting a lot from him and for him to immediately just show that, like, he can get to the quarterback really quickly. I think he got credit with a half a sack on that play. It was super nice to see, and I think, you know, depth is huge, especially on the trenches.

And if we can build that and that becomes a big part of the, if we can build that up and it becomes a big part, I think it's just going to make this defense so much better when you can just rotate guys in and out, keep fresh legs and you have, you know, five or six guys deep, which in the past few years we haven't been able to say. Especially early in the season.

That's going to be a big thing. If you have depth that you can rotate guys in and out. If you're maybe not game ready, come the third or fourth quarter. Do you have multiple guys that can come after you? Good luck to any offensive line. Oh, I tell you, when it's hot, you know, up until October, they showed me tonight that they can come at you in waves and not be out of sync, not be loose with a player or non-player.

You know, that first group, Jonathan Allen, with Dexter being in there, I thought they were phenomenal. With Moffey and Murphy, I thought that they did a great job early. And then when they came out of the game, that next group rolled in there and they basically did the same thing. You know, and they see guys interiorly, not necessarily on the edge, but the tackles inside, making, have a, enough pressure on the quarterback to create a sack. And I thought that the one thing that they were, that they weren't a year ago is they were relentless. They continued to rush the pass regardless.

And that's why they ended up coming up with some big plays. I thought I saw more, at least I thought I saw more effective stunts in this game. We think of the play where Cash is Hal had a spin move to win one-on-one. They came out in an overload front. It was a third long situation. and they ran a three-man stunt to the inside of that. Kind of cool to see, and that's how Chris Jenkins ended up getting there,

was that he actually was not the looper on it, but he crashed inside. They can't communicate that. Well, he gets onto the inside edge of that guy, and he's able to bust through, come away with half a sack with Howl. And then I remember another text on the left side of the offensive line where it felt like it just worked better because they tried to run quite a few stunts, I feel like, during the preseason and early season last year.

and they were very ineffective. So I'm not sure exactly what changed for the teaching, or maybe it's just better players, more experience. I felt like they worked better, and that was good to see. You know what else? Did you notice Barrett Carter and Demetrius Knight Jr. tonight? For the wrong reasons? I didn't.

I saw Knight a little on the first drive. I felt like they targeted him. So the play action pass went. He got panicked on a run fit. it was no i you know what to be honest with you i was kind of happy because i didn't notice them yeah yeah i saw they they made reference on the on the television copy about you know that 44 was out there in space and covered the back well somebody got a first down that weren't real good you know so i'm saying hey but that other than that shoot i didn't even

notice them yeah one of the biggest things with the defense last year. You can talk about tackling. You can talk about the secondary. Up front, they could not get any pressure. Pass rush or stopping the run. This year, they're going to be able to do that. And when you can do those two things, you can do a whole lot of other things defensively. You know what? What will be exciting is this next coming week. Yeah. see against Caleb Williams, see what the pressure situations come on during the preseason game. Now, practices be a whole other thing, but during the game, to see them against, you know,

because you know Chicago's O-Line is going to stay their ones in there as long as Caleb's in. And to see them be able to go about their business. So I would anticipate that starting group, more of the flow. of how they're going to play in the regular season because the number ones will play longer this next game than they did this particular game. I want to talk about repairing wounds. Just look at the game last year in Chicago

where the Bears had so many plays for 20-plus yards and had almost 600 yards of offense against the Bengals defense. And a lot of that was because they were able to run the football with a seventh round traffic by the name of Kyle Monongay. And oh, by the way, Ben Johnson can coach offensive football at a pretty high level. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. The one thing I'll say about the defense, so it definitely was better with the ones and twos. I remember last year thinking they shouldn't pull out these starters until they get a stop. And they got stops this year. So big improvement of preseason week one. Because they were preseason week one last year. I was like, oh boy, they can't stop a backup offense. Yeah, that was a problem.

Evan, got about a minute left. Final thoughts on what you saw tonight from the defense. I mean, last year we were looking at Shamar Stewart as being like, you know, come in and save this defensive line alongside Tray Hendrickson. And now you have so many guys because if Shamar Stewart doesn't play or it gets hurt, who do we have behind

him? And now we have so many guys behind him. And I think this was a great test to see how good this depth can be. And I think this might be the deepest line that we've had in a long time. And I think it's huge that these young guys are making plays and that, you know, the front office went out, got all these really good defensive ends and defensive

tackles. And now the defensive line looks to be pretty good. It's part of what made it those five playoff teams in the early to mid-2000s. So great was because they were so strong up run. Michael Johnson, Domitopheco, Gino Ackins, Carlos Dunlap, so many guys that could get after the passer that could stop the run. The Bengals were so fundamentally sound defensively. And they could be that again this season. You saw tonight.

Did they give up some plays? Sure. But they also kept the top on their defense. And that is going to be very important coming up this season. Up next as we round out the Bengals Squad show tonight, got about 15. minutes left here on this Thursday. Thank you for all of you staying up late tonight. Don't forget to check out Jake Lusco and Juga Berry on their post game show Lockdown Bengals as they break down tonight's game. Preseason game number one of three for the Bengals.

Stock up, stock down. We've got some interesting players, including my favorite pick in the draft this year. That conversation next on the Bengals squad show. You know, they say in life sometimes you just know, and they're mainly talking about when you find that special someone to spend your life with. Sometimes you also know who your favorite draft pick is because you just know. For me, that was seventh round pick, Jack Endries. And boy, tonight, did he show up in a big way? It caught the only touchdown of the game for the Bengals. He caught three passes for 25 yards, including the touchdown in the second quarter from Joe Flacko. I thought tonight what you saw from Jack Enjuries was a guy that can be a part of this very deep tight end room.

And the fact that he played before Tanner Hudson did, I'm not sure how much you want to take. from that. But still, when he got targeted tonight, he may plays. That matters. Oh, absolutely. I tell you what, he's feeling good about himself right now, and I'm sure the tight end coach is excited to watch the film, and I'm sure he'll be very, very critical, like he will of all of them, to try to get them to be better. But I tell you what, they've got great competition in that room. And I think that's the exciting part about it. Yeah, I think Hudson's the guy he's got to beat out, right, to make the roster. You think about your samples, he's going to make it.

He's their Y inline guy. Eric All is going to make it, I think, because he's more the do-it-all type. Gisiki's going to make because he's their best, you know, slot receiving big, big slot-type guy. Hudson's kind of similar to Gisiki. He doesn't line up in line. He doesn't really block very often, if at all. So, entries can take that spot. I think you look at that, you go like, why do we need two Gasekis?

And do we think we could get Hudson back on the practice squad? Easier than we can get maybe an entries back on the practice squad. So that to me is how you make it because I just, can you see them keep it five tight ends? I think you'd have to start classifying Mike Gaseki as a wide receiver in that case. Wow. Yeah, I don't know how they can keep that many. You know, they're trying to because they will, there were a couple of times that when they actually went two. back and put a tight end in the back field. That's not their forte at this point in time,

but if one of those guys can say, hey, you know what, that's how I'm going to make this team, is to be that guy. Oh, hey, he ought to start working on it all the time. Yeah, I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. I made a video that came out at around 8 o'clock in talking about the offense, the tight-in depth. And I talked about Jack injuries. I said, you know, this is a guy to watch out for. A seventh round pick, you know, people might not have heard of him, but I, you know, he's a great receiving thread. He was really good at Cal and at Texas, and he came out, had the touchdown.

And I think his best play was the one he caught in space, shed like three or four tackles, took it for, I don't know, 13 or 14 yards in a first down. And, you know, like Mike said, I think he is battling with Tanner Hudson for that role. And I think, you know, if he keeps putting up games like this, I think, you know, it might be his for the taking. He played really well. I think this tight-in room is extremely deep, and I think today was a good showing of that.

Longest reception, 17 yards to that play, Evan, that you're alluding to when he did shed all those tackles and get that first down. That's what I want to see from a tight end. Chip on your shoulder and it being sure-handed. Jack Andrews is both of those, and Dame Bruegler made points on both of those in his draft write-up of Jack Andrews

in his draft guide, The Beast. All right. So sounds like we're all in agreement. Jack Andrews, stock. up on defense, Landon Robinson. How can you not root for that guy? I like what I saw. I mean, he's excited. He flies around. He creates. He at least neutralizes him at the line of scrimmage to where there's not a lot of room to go. And you know, he comes from, I mean, very disciplined. He's going to do what you ask him to do. And yeah, no, I'd like him. I thought he showed up tonight.

Especially as a pass rusher. That's where I noticed him. I feel like as a pass rusher, he gave them some juice, some interesting stuff there. He's probably competing with what, like McKinley Jackson. And for better or worse,

I didn't really notice McKinley Jackson in this game. I don't know. So I think the one thing about this is that we probably aren't going to notice watching just the, you know, TV copier Alex's case in stadium. the defensive line on these run plays as much.

So that's where I want to go back and watch Robinson. Because I think that's where people had concerns just with the size. But I was impressed with what I was able to see, the flashes, the holding that he drew, the pressure that he was able to bring. I think he provides something at that defensive tackle room that they don't always have because they get these big guys that can stop the run. They don't always have a guy that's able to rush the pass or a little bit smaller type of guy in there. Two tackles, half a sack.

So clearly he's playing his way onto it, at least the practice squad, if not the 53-man roster. Cash is how easily stock up. This guy just gets it coming off the edge. One guy I did not write down, but I'll say right now, Sway's Bozeman. I thought it had some really good plays tonight. Yeah, he played well. I thought, you know, he had one great play. He ran through.

I don't know if it was a blitz or he just saw it on a counterplay. He ran through the backside. and made a play before it ever got started. So you know his instinctive. And I thought that he made a few plays. And you know where I thought he made other plays was on special teams, which he's going to need to be, need to. Yeah.

Yep, because that's his path to the roster, right? You think of Mumma John Meta, how he made the team was special teams. He was an awesome preseason player, but you're not making the roster by being a great linebacker. They've kind of got that role fit. If you could be a great special teams player, now you're also the depth linebacker. Absolutely.

Special teams are special for that reason. Speaking to special teams, Evan McPherson, he looks like how he did in 2021. Really good to see. Oh, I was a little disappointed that they didn't allow him to kick the long one during the half. I was hoping he was a little disappointed too. He's a guy, give me a shot at it. Especially with whatever that fourth and eight play was. Yeah, I don't know.

Evan, your name's Evan. I mean, I don't know if you're named after Evan McPherson or not. I'm not, but we like when the. We like when the Evans do well. I mean, they call Money McPherson for a reason, and he showed that tonight. I mean, that first kick that he had, that could have went for 60 plus yards. I mean, he drilled that thing. And I think we've seen with, I mean, like the Cowboys with Brandon Aubrey, how much of a weapon is he when they get across the 50 and the drive stalls?

They just kick a 60, 65 yard kick or whatever. And, I mean, that's an easy three points. So if Evan McPherson can be on the nose and be, you know, super consistent from 50 plus, that that just makes this offense so much better. And I think, you know, I've heard he's been really good in camp. And he was quietly pretty good last year as well. And if he can just continue to be more consistent, especially from long range, I think that's going to be huge.

And I'm loving what I'm seeing from him so far. Made a 65-yarder at the stadium practice last week. Mike. Oh, it was like a three-point shootout. Both kickers were awesome. They're both hitting from what could have been like 60 plus. I feel like that Lions kicker was also booming them. Well, Jake Bates is one of the better kickers in the NFL, one of the more reliable

pickers. Kishaw Williams, I thought, had some good special teams place tonight. Kick returns. He could be interesting to watch the rest of the preseason. Braylon Lux liked what I saw from him tonight, minus the past interference that he had at some point in the game. I'm trying to remember what it was. But I liked what I saw.

Now, one of you alluded to it. And this may go in the stock down. Whatever that was at the end of the first half, I'm going to chalk it up to it's just the preseason. Because I don't think they would have done the same thing in their regular season. What in the world was that? Josh Johnson was what, 0 of 6 at that point? I think it was 0 of 7. Marvin Lewis's playoff record.

I was wondering if that was the 7th one. Was that the 7th one? Because I was a negative. It was. Yeah. So he was 0 of 6. I decided to dial up a pass for him. instead of letting Evan kick one, I hated it.

To be fair, I think it was Gary Breitwell, who like intentionally made a pass it complete so he wouldn't have to fight his way out of bounds, which is probably smart. But still, I mean, after that long kick return, at least give Evan McPherson a shot, right? Without a doubt. It's free season. You know, wins or win. Hey, throw the guy out there and let him boot it. What are you doing if you can pick the chance anyway?

I mean, you know what? A lot of the reason why kickers have struggle on longer kicks because they don't have enough of them where there's actual pressure coming at them. Yeah, they can kick in warmups right when there's nobody there. But now I let him have that in his mind. And shoot, I can stroke this thing in with a rush from that deep. And I think that that only behooves the offense and the team. And the team will get ignited. Shoot, if he kicked it from there in the UFL, they would have had four points.

That's a great point there. Get the fan some excitement. And what better place to try that, Evan, than in preseason game, number one. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. No doubt. It doesn't matter. But, I mean, with the way that McPherson was kicking, I'd let him kick from the parking lot almost, you know? Let him, just let him take a shot at it.

Like coach said, it only helps. And yeah, what were you going to do on that pass, even if you completed it? You weren't going to do a whole lot else after that. I'll let him get from Kentucky. Yeah, just let him get some extra points, keep the leg warm, keep the foot hot, and just move on with the win and not, don't scare us.

The Bengals have had enough scary, close one position games last year for me. And then, you know. I don't want to remember. It was, what, 10 seconds left, fourth and eight. and no timeouts. What do you do it if you complete it? What's the plan? You get right down first down?

It would have been just window dressing on the stats sheet, which I made in the preseason. Yeah, I mean, in really any game, but it's the preseason. But still. Yeah. But here's the thing that we talk about Evan McPherson, if you want to have a weapon like the Cowboys having Brandon Aubrey,

another guy, Camp Little on the Jaguars who made a 70-yard field in the preseason last year. I mean, there you go. You wonder why Cam Little made a 60-8 yard or later in the season because the Jaguars gave him a chance. in that first preseason game. So, I mean, it's like if Josh Johnson doesn't intentionally, it doesn't commit the intentional grounding,

then the Lions are starting further back, and maybe they don't get three points. That's what did it. If you throw it incomplete, it's incomplete. But I don't understand what that was. All they stocked down for me, and I'm going to put my hand up here and pull up where Colin was right, Colin was wrong after Colin Coward,

my all-time favorite sports talk show host. I proclaim myself as the president of Taj Brooks fan club last year. Yeah, I am formally resigning myself from that position. And no, I'm not doing so because I tried to claim executive privilege like Richard Nixon did. Yeah, that was not a good decision by me. Tage Brooks tonight, not good. Did not have a handle on the ball. You know, not only in receiving, but in the running game, too.

I thought he struggled. For whatever reason, he has to pick up the pacer. He's going to be number three again. Or Leonard Brown Jr. is out there for obvious reasons. Go ahead, Mike. As I say, he is number three. I feel like maybe there was an outside shot.

He could take P. Ryan's role. But no, it looked like the same thing, where P. Ryan sneaky pretty good. And Tage Brooks doesn't look ready. So another year of that. Evan, what you see? I mean, didn't he have that real bad fumble? that like went five yards

I think he I think it was that was Kendall Milton oh it was Melton which I thought it was Josh Brooks but I mean I thought it was Brooks too but yeah I mean overall yeah I mean everything yeah I mean as a running back you gotta hold on to the ball but yeah it wasn't the greatest showing for Brooks

obviously and but yeah I don't think anyone was really expecting him to take over for P. Ryan's job I feel like P. Ryan's got a pretty solidified goal but you want you want your the guys that you drafted and the guys that you invest in to you know do well and he did it today. Andrew Coker is my other stock down.

Didn't really like what I saw from him tonight. Did you guys happen to notice good or bad from Brian Parker? He was in second quarter, third quarter. Did you see anything that stood out to you from the Bengals sixth round pick out of Duke? Not on the TV. You know, I did. Yeah. Not on the TV copy for me.

Good. That's a good thing. Well, you guys, as we have one minute left or whatever. You think there was any change in the wide receiver three competition? Colby Young, Andre Osiebos, thought they both made their plays and made their not plays. So I feel like it remained a little stagnant there. I think if anything, Colby Young has definitely earned a, in certain situations in games, and I'm talking to regular season, targets.

That could be crucial. You know what? You could tell he's young. He didn't quite understand where the sideline was on one play. He kind of sprinted out of bounds instead of tapping his feet where it would have been a hell of a play. And I thought that that was his one error that I saw.

Then I saw Yoshibash, what, dropped one? But other than that, I thought they were pretty even going in. You know, and I was surprised to see Kobe Young as a Z coming in motion and sticking his head up in there to dig the safety out a couple of times. And I thought he did a good job in the run game. That's how I've said he could steal the role. If you could be the guy on the Bengals wide receiver core

that's going to dig out safeties and block, they're missing that. Yeah. The coaches have said that about him that he's really good at blocking, and he likes to block, so that's big. Hey, that's good. I still think Andreosiozibos is this team's wide receiver three

because it's that dependability factor. And Joe Deneman brought that up on our show last Sunday, and it is true. And he'll be on our show this Sunday, coach, you, me, and Joe, and we'll see if we have anybody else on our show. Could be a four-person show, five-person show. If there's ever been that on a squad show on the lockdown podcast, we're excited Sunday at 4 o'clock coming your way.

The last day of training camp, and we're going to do our second-year player stock report and a new game called Proof or Fluke. Details on that coming your way on Sundays. Coach has already got his mind, his gears turning. He had some great factor. fiction and bold predictions and you name it. Thank you for all of you hanging out with us tonight.

I know it's after midnight. Living after midnight, shout out Judas Priest and shout out all of you who tuned in to the first post game edition of the Bengals Squad show this season for Mike Santagin at Bengals underscore Sands. Evan Stacey at Evan Stacy 3 on Twitter and at Bengals underscore hit the maestro behind the new initiative here at the lockdown podcast. The hits four 90 second videos to five minute videos. That's Bengals hits. Lockdown Bengals hits. That is run by Evan Stacey. And of course, for Coach Arfallaro, 2002 Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl 37 champion with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I'm Alex Franke. Franki, Frank Gendoskornady, host and twice a week, law and form conversational supplement to the daily lockdown Bengals podcast hosted by Jake Liscoe and Joe Goodberry. Make sure to check out their recap show tomorrow right here on lockdown Bengals on their YouTube channel.

you listen to podcasts. We are part of the lockdown podcast in the work celebrating 10 years of being your team every day. And then we are the number one sports podcast network in America and the world. For Mike, coach and Evan, I'm Alex Frank. Thank you for listening to the Bengals Squash show tonight. Bengals beat the lion 16 to 14 preseason game number one. They host the Chicago Bears next Saturday in the preseason.

And I, this is the preseason to meet. I got to look at what time the game is next Saturday. It is a 7 o'clock game at Percor Stadium. You can watch the game on Fox 19, Mike, Anthony, and Joe. And, of course, you can also listen to the game on the first star logistics Bengals Radio Network with Dan for Dave Lapham, Tony Pike, and Wayne Boxmiller. Have a great best to your weekend. Have a great weekend.

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