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What are Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.

I'm your host, Jake Liscoe. He's your host

James Rupin. Today we're going to get started with a look at Zach Taylor's Monday comments.

He continues to take accountability for his decision in overtime to run the ball twice in a row

in the red zone or in the red zone fringe area. And while well, the question is going to be, can he learn from it?

Because this isn't the first time that Taylor has had a hard time closing out a close game.

Not this year, not in his career.

The record in close games is what it is.

We're also going to talk about Joe Burrow and what's making him so great

this season. But we're going to start with Taylor. And the reason we get to start with

Zach Taylor's comments, James, is because you asked him a really good question in his press

conference today. And he humored you with an answer. Yesterday, you said that the end of the game with Burrow and deciding to run it

might keep you up and you might lose some sleep over it, did you?

Yeah, I did.

Yeah.

That's, you know, here's what you look at.

You rewatch the game and our team did a lot of outstanding things to go win the football game.

And I look at all the offenses, plays the offense made in particular, you know, there in the fourth quarter and overtime.

And everybody stepped up and made plays. And so, you know, where could I have been different?

You know, it's two things can be true. You can believe in your run game.

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