There, putting in more of a sixplusweek time frame. Needless to say multiple injuries. Sensitive area that really changes your quality of life in addition to your ability to come back and play football. Theyre going to be as cautious as possible before romo does come back to play football. Cris and there were social media and cliff avril, a lot of people screaming and yelling about him. He was tomahawking down, trying to get the ball out, as he should on the play. So lets stop that completely. For tony romo this now is a pretty good streak. And i think for the Dallas Cowboys and for tony romo as a husband and a father you start thinking about bigger things than football at some point. I hope hes fine. Hope hes back playing again. But also hope hes doing whatevers best for him and his family. Mike celebration penalty at the back end of the touchdown the 20 yard line. On this play as well. Tony mcrae brings it out to the 30 yard line. Cris third offsides penalty of the night. Referee offsides, kicking team number 36. Cincinnati has accepted the option of adding the fiveyard penalty to the end of the kick return. First down. Mike so theyll get it at the 45 yard line. Cris hes had better than very good preseason. Ive watched i think ive seen them all. And he has been pretty special. Maybe not completely what he was the last game that he was the making plays like that, they have confidence in him. Dez bryant really came out strong before this week. After the second preseason game saying this guys got it now, well find out if he does or not. Mike new quarterback for the bengals. He throws underneath and completes. Antwane grant out of western kentucky picks up the first down. Cris go pick up the news jacksonville keeping it rolling. 2621. Theyre going win it all this year, jacksonville is. Theres our guy. Monte kichb. Former defensive coordinator down with the tampa bay buccanee buccaneers. Mike monte kiffins path int sected with gus bradley in tampa. There were days they were linebacker. And then gus went to seattle. Actually there with jim mora first, then pete carroll a couple of years. Then the enthusiasm, the defensive skill. It was a big part of what that defense looks like now in the pork with pete carroll and gus bradley. Now gus has been here starting his fourth year as the head coach hp cris what did monte say . You can only take so many walks on the beach. Im ready to come back and coach again. He is so much fun. I love production meetings. Wed go in tre once in a year he would gather the troops. And they never knew when it was going to come. He would get up and he would bring the boom box in and james brown i feel good would come sxon he would do it wire to wire and they would lose their minds. What a defense they had in tampa. Mike bruce arians. Tom moore out to arizona. These older coaches at the end to be around the game. Handoff goes with tra carson. And for the players and the Coaching Staff as well, somebody with that kind of experience, that reservoir of knowledge to share theyve seen it all a thousand times. So when it happens in your building, how great is it to have somebody like that, say well, how do we go about navigating this, coach . Cris gus bradley brought up lou holtz recently, give him some advice. Lou holtz, talk about seeing it all now. Hes one of the grea has ever seen. Mike second and 11 for wenning. Heres michele again. Michele i talked to malik jackson. He played with monte kiffin as a coach at usc and jackson told me kifs been doing this for a long time, hes got a lot of wisdom and i can pick his brain. He said its great to have a go and ask for knowledge. Mike thats a perfect time to describe a veteran coach, a dictionary to get the answers from. Cris it doesnt have all the same words in it that the other dictionary has. But dictionarys a good word. Mike third and 11. Jaguars rushing four. Wennings on the move. And he keeps it alive and gets the first down at the 26 yard line. Cris if youre andy dalton, you run out of bounds there. If youre Keith Wenning, you go get the first down. You can see he was processing the whole thing here, and he saw the boundary, no, im going to cut that one back, keep this drive going, were going to win this game. Mike one thing Keith Wenning did in his career at ball state, he was the comeback kid. He had ten career comebacks during his time at ball state. He was there for four years. Bounds on that one. Mar mike wenning gets hit as he puts it up field for russell. Russell played his college back on the mac at toledo. Flag down. This is a bengal team that opened 80 last season. Before finishing 124. Referee illegal moti repeat first down. Mike heres how they get started this season. Cris i tell you, that jets defense is going to be something. That defensive line sort of like the old days of the jets when they could play in pittsburgh right away. Of course renewed that rivalry. And what happened in the playoff game, thatll be a great one. And then right to denver. Mike and mooim miamis short term. Miamis a thursday night game. Then they go to london much like the jaguars do every year. The bengals get their opportunity to go to london. Theyll face washington. Pretty good game. See it at wembley. Passed right in the perfect spot. Pulled in by john peters. End of the roster tight end. Cris Nick Marshall i think jumped in there it got his hand on this one. He had do coverage on the boundary and then comes in and makes the play here. We talk about offensive guys maki defensive guys trying to make the team too. Mike Nick Marshalls an offensive guy. He played quarterback in his college days. Terrific stuff at auburn. Corner blitz coming. Tried to run the other way. Snubbed out by the defensive part at jacksonville. Chris smith. The jaguars, we mentioned playing in london that marvin assistant at the redskins. Jacksonville has played over there the last few years and they extended their deal. Theyll play one home game a year now through 2020 over in london. They have somebody over there who works as a fulltime representative of the jaguars. Fan club over there called the union jags. Cris i was listening to some of the jag radio show and they were giving shout outs to the london crowd. It was like 3 00 in the morning or whatever over there. Mike wenning is brought down. Ryan davis. Cris i think gus bradley and todd wash want to win this game. Theyre throwing some stunts and some blitzes. Stunt blitzes. Theyre getting after them. Want to walk out of here with a win. 4 20 to go. Dropped. It will be placed down nonetheless at the 5 yard line. We mentioned the green bay opener, then to san diego. Division game playing indianapolis over in london. Then the early bye for the jaguars. Cris i get green bay, and thats going to be a challenge. But its at home. But after that they pl so were going to find out about jackson vil jacksonville and if they have stepped up the way they think they have, those are games they can be competitive with. Mike that london game a home game. The first four are technically home and three of the next four come on the road. Number 22 on the night. Referee this was one infraction. Defense number 91. Fiveyard penalty. Remains first down. Mike michele . Michele well, im with andrew whitworth. We were just discussing the large number of penalties. But none by andy dalton. What a very nice smooth start for you guys tonight. He took a big leap last season before injuring himself. What are you expecting from him this year . Continue to be him. Same guy weve had all this time weve been together. Attitude, he leads our troops. We go as he goes. Were excited to have him back there. Michele yeah, excited to have him back. It was tough to lose him for the playoffs. And then the way you guys were knocked out of the playoffs was excruciating to say the least. As a leader on this team how do you expect this team to respond from that loss . To continue what weve been doing on the streak of getting to the playoffs. And thats answering playoffs Football Team we are. Were excited for that chance to go out and prove were a good Football Team and earn that opportunity again to get in the playoff and take advantage of it. Michele youve been proving it a long time. This is your 11th season. How long do you think you want to do this . I dont know. Its still fun. Im enjoying it. All these new rules we have. It makes it pretty easy on the big fellas. The vets. It makes it pretty nice on it. Im growing the beard out and the gray. I really want the young guys to feel out how old is this guy thats blocking me every play . Thats the thing. Its fun. Im still having a good time. Mike i wonder if people know that about offensive linemen, how fun, how funny you are. Whats thing biggest misconception built big guys up front . That were entertaining. We dont get a lot of attention but our rooms entertaining. We make fun of each other. We give each other a hard time. And i think were the guys that toughen each other in our room. We make each other tough. And sometimes some of the guys joke, they call us the mean girls. Its a hard way to go. Michele i think i need to stay out of that room. Im not very good with the mean girls andrew, thank you so much. Hey, thank you, appreciate it. Michele guys, what do you think . Mean girls . Cris im going to tell you what. If youve ever been around the offensive plooin, thats who you always want to play cards with, believe me. The poker night always involves a lot of offensive linemen because they are hilarious. When michele asked thest question about andy dalton, i guarantee you andrews brain was going are you really going to ask me about the quarterback again . Here i am on national television, come on, michele. But he was polite. And then eventually it comes out. Mike third and one. And the stop here will force jacksonville to punt it away. Cincinnati going to take their final time out as ryan brown came in to make that play. Whitwor in december. Cris here we go. Brown going to come right down hard inside to make that play and keep this game alive. Nicely done. Get late in these games and people that still have their legs underneath them and can make those quick moves like that can turn a game. Andrew whitworth, he has been one of the steadest offensive linemen, ranked ur football focus a season ago. Of all the left tackles. He just does not give up sacks. Year after year youd look at his numbers. He grades out terrific. Unbelievable. Mike and no number to measure those intangibles that we talked about. Leadership within this team. At 494 with 4 41 to go. We talked about it. But heres andrew whitworth. Getting a little older. He talked about the beard. But look at the consistency. Ranked sixth, second, fifth, sixth, second, first. One of the years he played a lot of guard not because he wanted to. His team needed him and they had somebody else that could play tackle. He went inside, never flinched. Ha as well. He is the kind of guy you want to build a franchise around. I had one of those in cincinnati myself in old anthony munoz. If you get the left tackle position settled, a lot of other things fall into place. Mike 3 40 to go. Wenning back in the game. He bounces that one incomplete. Talk about whitworth and solidifying that position, finding a young one. Cedric ogbuehi. When you take first and secondround offensive tackles in that same draft lavt last year, you think theyre going to throw in year two, but because of their injuries theyve been held back, and its the veteran whitworth still there and Eric Winstons had to step in at left tackle. Cris did a nice job. Mike wenning hit that time as he fired it out toward john peters and it was incomplete. Jordan tripp out of mont pressure. Cris going to get old here we wgo, the old Pittsburgh Steelers blitz right there. As a running back you dont know who to pick up. And finally the cornerback picked up one on the end. Weve seen it all night. We talked about paul gunther and that aa blitz. Its about getting immediate pressure on the quarterback. Get there. Mike third and ten, jaguars running around disguising their coverage. Bengals flinched. Referee false start, offense number 48. Fiveyard penalty. Remains third down. Mike third and 15. You mentioned todd walsh earlier. There he is. Another great defensive coordinator. We said what are you about off the field . Cris he said i like harleys and skull tattoos. Up and down both arms he has nothing but skull tattoos. He wears a lot of longsleeve shirts i guess. Mike for the national tv games. First year as defensive coordinator. He was in tampa and seattle with gus bradley. Peterson picked up the flag a moment ago, only gets two yards. Pullard, who has the goahead the tackle. Cris got to give the jags credit. They have hung in there. These guys, we talked about it, the guys trying to make the team on the tail end, theyre attacking. Theyre coming out here to win the game. Mike kevin huber will punt it again. Shane wynn back to receive. Ninth punt for huber. Bengals will touch it inside the 10 yard line. Jacksonville. 2 46 left. Try to run this baby out, get a couple of first downs and get away with the win. Cris one of the guys we talked about, nick vigil, trying to work his way into the lineup. This Football Team. Pretty good at getting off blocks. Missed this tackle. I remember that one earlier on. And then here is the way that they like to hug those li linebackers up. You try to make the running back block you by thinking youre blitzing. And if he can get out and get past you because nobody would have you in man coverage, always a little cat and mouse game. Mike banyard takes it up to about the 10 yard line. I dont think they have to run another play before the twominute warning. Well see. You talk about the linebackers, cris, with cincinnati, Vontaze Burfict we mentioned is not playing tonight. Marvin lewis choosing not to play him in the preseason ease faces the threegame suspension for repeated onfield violations. Lineup for the beng alz. Wont be until week 4. Cris he is the identity of this Football Team now. No matter what else you want to say, Vontaze Burfict has changed the perception of the toughness of the cincinnati bengals. Some good, some not so good. Mike twominute warning. . . Im so excited . . And i just cant hide it . . Im about to lose control and i think i like it . . Im so excited . . And i just cant hide it . . And i know, i know, i know, i know i want you . Mike two minutes left here in jacksonville. Jaguars by five. Happened here tonight. Adam jones hurt before the game. A. J. Green during the game. But a. J. Told michele that it was nothing serious. Jacksonvilles offense struggled, the first team in the first half. Andy dalton and the bengals offense looked sharp. A. J. Mccarron followed him and did the same. Jacksonville has come back late here. 15 points in the fourth quarter. Taking a fivepoint lead. 2621. And that will cinch it there as the bengals are out of time banyard, whos done a nice job running the ball here in the second half, iced this one and he was the difference maker. The pass by licata, intercepted by Hayes Pullard iii. Cris a night he will never forget. Interception return for a touchdown. Nonreported on a pass thrown till now the backfield. Do we have a start of the game cris what do we have for a prize . Any food left . Twinkies . Mike you played in this stadium in the floridageorgia game. Dont we have an old Cris Collinsworth florida jersey we could send him . Cris im sure hed be thrilled. This thing looks a little different than it did in the old Worlds Largest cocktail early days. Theyve really done a nice job here. Set the table. Now its up to gus and the guys to win football games. Mike in the division where how osweiler deals with houston. Tennessees offense looked good last night against the raiders. The afc south is one of those divisions where if youre not sure how its going to play out, who the heavy favorites are. Well see how jacksonville eases their way into the season. This is their first win. They close up the preseason at atlanta. Cincinnati will host the aforementioned. A. J. Green running across the field at the end of the game as its true, though. Mike quick week for both of these teams. As we said, the last preseason game is on a thursday. So a tight fourday turnaround. Get that game done. Take care of the roster, take care of business. Thank you, pal. Its been fun. Cris a lot of fun. Well see you on the road this year, right . Mike looking forward to it. Looking forward to the 2016 season. Nfl kickoff weekend beginning thursday september 8th. Rematch of super bowl 50 sunday night football on september 11th. Coming up next except on the west coast your local news followed by dateline. In the truck. Cris collinsworth, michele tafoya, the entire outstanding sunday night Football Team. Mike tirico saying good night from jacksonville. Announcer nbc sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the national introducing dunkins new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. America runs on dunkin