GREG: WELCOME BACK TO MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM HERE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE WEATHER IS ALWAYS PERFECT INDOORS. NO ONE HAPPIER THAN OUR LADY ON THE SIDELINE, MELANIE COLLINS. MELANIE: THANK YOU, GREG. COACH MENTIONED IT. IN ORDER TO FIND SUCCESS ON THE BACK END OF A DEFENSE, YOU HAVE TO FIND A PASS RUSH ON THE FRONT END TO TAKE SOME OF THE PRESSURE OFF THE SECONDARY. THE FRONT SEVEN GETS A BOOST AS MCKINLEY MAKES HIS RETURN. WHEN WE SPOKE TO DAN QUINN ABOUT INJURIES, HE SAID WE REFUSE TO PLAY THE ROLE OF THE VICTIM. WE LOOK FOR THIS AS AN FOR THE NEXT MAN UP AND HONOR THE MEN HURT WITH THEIR PERFORMANCE ON THE FIELD TODAY. GREG: THANK YOU. THE BENGALS WON THE TOSS. THEY WILL DEFER, WHICH MEANS THEY WILL KICK TO THE HOME TOWN FALCONS. THE FALCONS, 1-2. THE BENGALS ARE 2-1. DEANGELO HALL IS DEEP AND WE ARE UNDER -- MARVIN HALL IS DEEP. HE RUNS THIS ONE OUT FROM THREE 20, 25, BREAKING THROUGH! AND OUT OF BOUNDS CLOSE TO THE 50-YARD-LINE. MARVIN HALL, THE SECOND-YEAR MAN OUT OF WASHINGTON. BRUCE: NO BETTER WAY TO START SOME ENERGY, BIG KICKOFF RETURN. TRENT: MORE AND MORE THIS TODAY'S NFL, YOU GO THAT DEEP, YOU TAKE THE KNEE AND GET THE BALL AT THE 25. HE DECIDED TO BRING IT OUT AND A GREAT JOB OF BLOCKING BY THE FALCONS. HILL WITH THE KICK-OUT, HALL TAKING IT UP THE SIDELINE. GREG: THE 53-YARD RETURN SETS MATT RYAN UP AT MIDFIELD. TEVIN COLEMAN IN THE BACKFIELD. HE GETS A COUPLE. WE WILL CALL IT A THREE-YARD PICK UP, AND IT WILL BE SECOND DOWN. MATT RYAN, 267 CAREER PASSING TOUCHDOWNS. HE IS MAKING HIS 135TH STRAIGHT START. BRUCE: THE FALCONS ARE A WIDE ZONE RUNNING TEAM. A LOT OF NEGATIVS AND ZEROES, BUT THEY WILL HIT SOME BIG ONES, ESPECIALLY WITH COLEMAN CUTTING IT BACK. GREG: THAT PASS OVER THE MIDDLE IS COMPLETE. IT LOOKS TO BE JUST SHY OF A FIRST DOWN BY ABOUT A YARD OR MAYBE A HALF YEAR. CALVIN RIDLEY WITH THE CATCH. BOY, HAS HE EXPLODED ON THE OFFENSIVE SCENE FOR THE FALCONS. TRENT: AFTER A BIG GAME A WEEK AGO, GETTING HIM INVOLVED RIGHT AWAY. TALKING TO THE COACHES THEY SAID LISTEN, WE DIDN'T WANT TO NOT SHARE THE BALL WITH HIM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON. WE WERE TRYING TO FIND WAYS. AND THEN THE BREAK-OUT GAME HE HAD A WEEK AGO, SEVEN CATCHES, THREE TOUCHDOWNS. THIS ONE TODAY SETTING UP A THIRD AND SHORT. GREG: COLEMAN AND ORTIZ IN THE BACK FIELD. FIRST DOWN AND MORE FOR COLEMAN, INSIDE THE 35 TO ABOUT THE 32. BROUGHT DOWN BY GENO ATKINS. TRENT: COACH, YOU TALKED ABOUT ATKINS IN THE BEGINNING, AND FACT THEY NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB ON RUN DEFENSE. IF THEY ARE GOING TO ALLOW THOSE BIG CHUNKS, ESPECIALLY ON A THIRD AND ONE. WE KNOW WHAT CAROLINA DID LAST YEAR, OVER 200 YARDS AS A TEAM. THEY NEED TO STOP THAT RUN GAME. BRUCE: IT WILL BE AN ALL DAY CHORE IF THEY CAN'T STOP THE RUN. GREG: ON THE GROUND AGAIN. COLEMAN AGAIN. CUTS IT BACK AND BROUGHT DOWN AT ABOUT THE 27-YARD-LINE BY DRE KIRKPATRICK. BRUCE: GOOD JOB ON THE WIDE ZONE. GETTING THE CUT BLOCK IS HUGE. WHEN YOU WANT TO RUN THE WIDE ZONE, THEY DID A HECK OF A JOB RIGHT THERE. GRE: SECOND AND FOUR. ON THE GROUND AGAIN. COLEMAN AGAIN. STOPPED AT ABOUT THE 25-YARD-LINE. THAT WILL BE TWO YARDS SHY OF A FIRST DOWN. PRESTON BROWN, THE MIDDLE LINEBACKER IN ON THE STOP. TRENT: YOU SEE THE PATIENCE OF THE RUN GAME. COLEMAN TAKING HIS TIME. ZONE BLOCKING. THEY CUT BACK AND HAVE HAD GREAT SUCCESS WITH IT. THAT TIME CINCINNATI ABLE TO STOP IT, HOLDING THEM TO THIRD AND SHORT. BRUCE: AGAIN, THIRD DOWN DEFENSE, YOU ARE GOING TO STRUGGLE IF YOU ARE THIRD AND ONE AND THIRD AND TWO ALL DAY. BOTH THESE TEAMS ARE OUTSTANDING ON FIRST DOWN. IN THE TOP 10. GREG: RYAN SPREADS THE FIELD ON THIRD AND TWO. WITH TIME, NOW THROWS, INSIDE THE 15 TO THE 11-YARD-LINE. THE CATCH IS MADE BY JULIO JONES FOR A FIRST DOWN. TRENT: ROOKIE SAFETY BATES TRIES TO KNOCK THE BALL OUT. JONES USES HIS STRONG HANDS TO SECURE THE BALL. MATT RYAN SLIDES UP IN THE POCKET AND GET IT TO JONES. THEY COULDN'T KNOCK IT AWAY. BRUCE: THAT WAS A LOT OF TRUST. WENT TO HIS SECOND READ AND GET IT IN THERE TO JULIO. GREG: JULIO JONES LOOKING FOR HIS FIRST TOUCHDOWN CATCH OF THE SEASON. JUSTIN HARDY WITH THE CARRY. AND CARLOS DUNLAP WITH THE STOP. THESE ATLANTA FALCONS IN THE RED ZONE, THEY HAVE EIGHT TOUCHDOWNS IN THEIR LAST EIGHT RED ZONE TRIMS. BRUCE: EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG THE FIRST WEEK. GIVE IT TIME. THEY ARE 8-8. THIS IS A BIG ONE HERE. TRENT: THAT IS NOT JUST 8-8 SCORING IN THE RED ZONE, THAT IS 8-8 GETTING TOUCHDOWNS IN THE RED ZONE. BRUCE: YES INDEED. GREG: ON SECOND AND SIX, THIS IS ITO SMITH, AND SMITH TO THE END ZONE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN! THE ROOKIE SCORES HIS FIRST NFL TOUCHDOWN. TRENT: IT IS GOING TO BE A LONG DAY FOR CINCINNATI IF THEY CAN'T STOP THE RUN. WATCH THE DOWN BLOCKS HERE. YOU ARE GOING TO GET THE PULL WITH THE KICK-OUT, AND THEN YOU GET THE RUN. GREAT BLOCKING UP FRONT. THEY SEAL IT INSIDE. THEY KICK IT OUTSIDE. AND THEN ITO SMITH WITH THE ABILITY TO BOUNCE IT. IT IS GOING TO BE A LONG DAY, COACH. BRUCE: YES. MISSED TACKLES HAVE PLAGUED BOTH TEAMS. ♪ ♪ IT'S ABOUT TO GET CRAZY. IT'S ABOUT TO GO. IT'S GOING TO BE LOUD ♪ GREG: COULDN'T ASK IF A BETTER START IF YOU ARE THE ATLANTA FALCONS. FOUR AND A HALF MINUTES AFTER TAKING THE OPENING KICKOFF. A 5-YARD DRIVE AND ITO SMITH COMING A SIX-YARD TOUCHDOWN. TRENT: THE FOURTH ROUND PICK GETTING AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE OF THE INJURY TO DEVONTA FREEMAN. HE DOES AN EFFECTIVE JOB CATCHING THE BALL OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. YOU SAW HIS ABILITY TO READ THE BLOCKS AND BOUNCE IT. BRUCE: HE IS THEIR DOWNHILL POUNDER. GREG: HERE IS ALEX ERICKSON. HE FINDS RUNNING ROOM UP THE MIDDLE TO ABOUT THE 32-YARD-LINE. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GAME PLAN FOR THE DAY. BRUCE: FOR THE BENGALS, THEY HAVE TO GO GREEN. THEY HAVE TO GET A.J. INVOLVED EARLY AND OFTEN. THEY REALLY STRUGGLE THED WHEN HE WAS OUT LAST WEEK. AND THEY HAVE TO GET OFF THE FIELD ON FIRST DOWN. WE SAW IT IN THE FIRST DRIVE. STY HOT MAUTI ICE. THEY CANNOT GIVE UP PLAYS TO DALTON AND GREEN. IF THEY KEEP EVERYBODY IN FRONT OF THEM, THEY WILL BE FINE TODAY. GREG: ANDY DALTON, GOOD FIELD POSITION, HIS OWN 33. GIOVANI BERNARD IN THE BACKFIELD BEHIND HIM. BERNARD, A LITTLE STUTTER STEP AND OUT TO THE 35-YARD-LINE. BOTH THESE TEAMS MISSING THEIR NUMBER ONE RUNNING BACK. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT ANDY DALTON. TWO OR MORE TOUCHDOWN PASSES IN EACH GAME SO FAR THIS SEASON. BUT AS WE SAID IN THE OPEN, TRENT, THAT FOUR INTERCEPTION PERFORMANCE AT CAROLINA IS KIND OF LIKE A SO SORE THUMB THAT SICK US OUT. TRENT: IT IS RECEIVING. THERE WAS A HAIL MARY AT THE END OF THE HALF, AND ANOTHER ONE THE RECEIVER STOPPED. ANDY HAS HAD A GOOD SEASON. NUMBERS CAN BE DECEIVING SOMETIMES. GREG: BERNARD AGAIN. BERNARD IS JUST ACROSS THE 40-YARD-LINE. IT WILL BE A COUPLE OF YARDS SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE STARTING LINEUP FOR THE BENGALS. IT IS MISSING THE ROOKIE FIRST-ROUND PICK BILLY PRICE AT CENTER. HE HAS A FOOT INJURY. HOPKINS IN PLACE OF HIM. AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT VIC BEASLEY, NUMBER 44. TRENT: THAT IS NOT GOING TO HELP THE FALCONS AT ALL. A NUMBER OF INJURIES ON DEFENSE FOR THE FALCONS. BEASLEY ONE OF THEIR MAIN PASS RUSHERS. THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT. THEY ARE RUNNING SHORT ON DEPTH. BRUCE: ON THE BACK END. THE BENGALS USED A SHIFT, AND THE FALCONS COULDN'T GET LINED UP. THE YOUNG SAFETIES HAD NO CLUE WHERE TO GO. THEY ARE GOING TO ADD UP. THE NEXT MAN UP WORKS IF A WHILE, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK ON THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH GUY. TRENT: AND YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT. BRUCE: I AM IN THE BOOTH BECAUSE OF THAT. [LAUGHTER] GREG: JAKE CRAWFORD REPLACES HIM, A SEVENTH YEAR D-LINEMEN OUT OF PENN STATE. THIRD AND TWO. DALTON IS GOING TO THROW FOR IT, NO. THE WHISTLE IS BLOWN DEAD. PENALTY FLAGS ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE FIELD. OUR REFEREE TODAY IS SEAN SMITH. APPARENTLY, COACH, IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY TO GET TESTY. REFEREE: FALSE START, OFFENSE, NUMBER 68. FIVE-YARD PENALTY, REMAINS THIRD DOWN. GREG: THAT IS RIGHT TACKLE BOBBY HART. TRENT: BOBBY HART AT RIGHT TACKLE. HE IS GOING UP AGAINST TAKARIST MCKINLEY. HE STARTS A LITTLE EARLY. BRUCE: WE TALKED TO THEM YESTERDAY, AND ANDY DALTON DIDN'T THINK THE NOISE WOULD BE A PROBLEM WITH THE SILENT BUT IT IS IN A DOMED STADIUM, I PROMISE YOU. GILROY NOW IT IS THIRD AND SEVEN. DALTON IS GOING TO GO DEEP. HAS HIS MAN ON THE FAR SIDE, AND HE'S GOT HIM. A.J. GREEN! BRUCE: GREAT JOB. THEY GOT DANNY GREEN IN THE SLOT ONE-ON-ONE. THE FALCONS DON'T PLAY A LOT OF MAN-TO-MAN. PERFECT THROW, INSIDE GO ROUTE. GREG: WE TALKED TO HIM YESTERDAY ABOUT THE JOYS OF BEING IN THE SLOT. HE LIKED THE IDEA. BRUCE: YES. HE WAS TALKING TO LARRY AND OTHER GUYS WHO EXTENDED THEIR CAREERS, AND CHRIS CARTER. TRENT: BILL LASER, THE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR WITH THE FORMATION. GREEN IN THE SLOT TO THE RIGHT WITH A SAFETY IN THE MIDDLE. AS A DEFENDER, YOU'VE GOT NO HELP. GREG: HE HAD 58 RECEIVING YARDS LAST WEEK. THAT ONE WAS GOOD FOR 38. THIS IS TYLER BOYD, AND BOYD IS WRESTLED OUT OF BOUNDS AT ABOUT THE 15-YARD-LINE. BRUCE: IN TALKING TO BOTH HEAD COACHES IN THE MEETINGS, THEY TALKED ABOUT LEVERAGE. THEY ARE MISSING TACKLES BECAUSE OF LEVERAGE. THAT RECEIVER ON THE SLOT, THAT HAS GOT TO BE OUTSIDE TECHNIQUE ON HIM BACK INSIDE. HE CAN'T GET BEAT OUTSIDE IN MAN-TO-MAN. GREG: YOU SEE THE STARTING DEFENSIVE LINEUP, THE FALCONS MISSING THEIR TWO STARTING SAFETIES. THERE IS BRIAN POOLE, NUMBER 34, SUBBING. RICARDO ALLEN IS DONE FOR THE SEASON, AND SO IS KEANU NEAL. ON FIRST DOWN, PLAY CLOCK RUNNING DOWN. ANDY DALTON SEES THAT AND CALLS TIME-OUT. WE WILL TAKE A TIME-OUT, GREG: WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. SEVEN AND A HALF TO PLAY IN THE FIRST QUARTER. NO SURPRISES SO FAR, RIGHT? BRUCE: NO. NEITHER TEAM CAN GET OFF THE FIELD ON THIRD DOWN. A LITTLE SURPRISED THAT THE FALCONS PLAYED MORE MAN-TO-MAN ON THAT LAST SERIES. GREG: ON FIRST DOWN, DALTON WITH TIME. END ZONE, WIDE OPEN, TOUCHDOWN! TYLER EIFERT. TRENT: EIFERT IS GOING TO BE LINED UP TO THE LEFT AND HE WILL WORK HIS WAY UP THE NUMBERS. A.J. GREEN IS DOING A DOUBLE MOVE, SO THE SAFETY GOES TO THAT SIDE OF THE FIELD, AND RIGHTFULLY SO. A.J. GREEN DESERVES THAT TYPE OF RESPECT. AS SOON AS ANDY DALTON SEES THE SAFETY WORK THAT WAY, HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE HE IS GOING. WIDE OPEN FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. BRUCE: THE DOUBLE MIRRORED ROUTE ON BOTH SIDES, AND HE DID A GREAT JOB LOOKING THEM OFF. TRENT: AS A QUARTERBACK, YOU LINE UP LIKE THAT, YOU GET SO EXCITED. BRUCE: YOU CAN'T WAIT TO SNAP THE BALL. GREG: THE EXTRA POINT IS GOOD. DID WE SAY OFFENSE MAY SHINE TODAY? 7:23 TO PLAY IN THE FIRST. TYLER EIFERT, HIS FIRST TOUCHDOWN CATCH OF THE SEASON. WE ARE TIED AT 7-7. YOU'RE WATCHIN ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY PIZZA HUT. OFFICIAL PIZZA SPONSOR OF THE NFL. AARP. TAKE ON TODAY WITH AARP. REAL POSSIBILITIES. AND BY T-MOBILE. AMERICA'S MOST LOVED WIRELESS BRAND. GREG: SOME REALLY NICE SHOTS OF CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK HERE IN ATLANTA. A 21 ACRE PARK DOWNTOWN ORIGINALLY BUILT FOR THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES. TYLER EIFERT ON THE RECEIVING END OF THE TOUCHDOWN PASS FROM ANDY DALTON. WE ARE TIED AT 7-7. MARVIN HALL. LAST TIME HE TRIED THIS, HE RETURNED IT 53 YARDS. TRYING TO TURN THE CORNER ON THE LEFT SIDE. PENALTY MARKERS FLY AS HE BREAKS OUT ACROSS THE 30. LET'S GO BACK AND CHECK THE FLAG. REFEREE: DURING THE RETURN, HOLDING, RETURN TEAM, NUMBER 55. 10-YARD PENALTY FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FOUL. FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT PENALTY ON BRUCE CARTER. LET'S GO BACK AND WATCH TYLER EIFERT AT THE BACK OF THE END ZONE. BRUCE: GREAT JOB. WHEN YOU TRUST YOUR HANDS, DRAGGING THE TOE IS YE. CATCH THE BALL AND DRAG THE TOE. IF YOU TRY TO PITY-PAT, SOMETIMES YOU WILL STEP OUT OF BOUNDS. MAKE THE CATCH, DRAG THE TOE, TOUCHDOWN. GREG: WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO NATURALLY DRAG OUR TOES COACH? WE RUIN A GOOD PAIR OF SO SHOES IN THE PROCESS. TRENT: DALTON DIAMANTI COMES OUT AND GOES 3-3, 64 YARDS AND A TOUCHDOWN. HE IS NOT WORRIED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK. GREG: PLAY FAKE TO COLEMAN. AND RYAN GOES DEEP AND OVERTHROWS HIS MAN. CALVIN RIDLEY THE INTENDED RECEIVER. LET'S CHECK IN WITH MELANIE DOWNSTAIRS. MELANIE: BEFORE THIS SERIES, ITO SMITH WAS GETTING A LOT OF LOVE ON THE FALCONS SIDELINE. JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY CAME UP TO HIM TO CONGRATULATE HIM. THE ROOKIE CALVIN RIDLEY CAME UP AND SAID THAT FIRST ONE FEELS GOOD. BEASLEY WITH AN ANKLE. HE IS QUESTIONABLE TO RETURN. GREG: THANK YOU, MELANIE. SECOND AND 10, 7:09 TO PLAY IN THE FIRST. THIS IS COLEMAN ACROSS THE 10, OUT TO THE 11, MAYBE THE 12, WHERE PRESTON BROWN MAKES ANOTHER STOP. THIS IS A CORE THAT GETS VONTAZE BURFICT BACK IN ANOTHER WEEK. BRUCE: THAT IS AN EMOTIONAL LIFT. HE BRINGS A LOT OF FIRE AND ENERGY TO THAT DEFENS. THEY HAVE A SITUATION. THEY ARE IN A WINNABLE THIRD DOWN. TO ME, THAT IS GOING TO DICTATE TO WINS THIS GAME. WHO CAN GET OFF THE FIELD AND SET UP THEIR OFFENSE IN GREAT FIELD THINGS RIGHT HERE? GREG: RYAN THROWING OVER THE MIDDLE. OH, WHAT A CATCH BY JULIO JONES! FIRST DOWN, AND ANOTHER THIRD DOWN CONVERSION. TRENT: THE BENGALS DECIDE TO BLITZ FIVE. THEY BRING THE MIDDLE LINEBACKER. THAT GIVES THEM MAN-TO-MAN UNDERNEATH, TWO SAFETIES MAN. 22 MAN IS THE COVERAGE. SO N- A TRAIL TECHNIQUE, YOU'VE GOT TO HELP OVER THE TOP. THE PROBLEM WITH JULIO JONES, HE IS SO BIG, YOU PUT THE BALL IN THE SPOT WHERE MATT RYAN PUT THAT BALL, YOU COULD DEFEND IT. BRUCE: HE IS NOT USED TO THAT TECHNIQUE. HE IS A, CORNER PLAYING THE NICKEL. GREG: RYAN ON THE MOVE. NOW THROWS. THIS IS COLEMAN. COLEMAN OUT OF BOUNDS AS HE CROSSES THE 50-YARD-LINE. TRENT: JUST TO GO BACK TO WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THIS GAME, JULIO JONES MOVING TO THE SLOT, IT IS GOING TO CREATE SOME GREAT MISMATCHES. THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER HE HAS BEEN LINED UP SINGLE ON THE OUTSIDE. NOW YOU ARE MOVING HIM AROUND IN DIFFERENT FORMATIONS, UTILIZING HIM DIFFERENTLY, AND YOU ARE GOING TO GET THE MATCHUPS YOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SIZE DIFFERENTIALS. BROWN BOTH TEAMS TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING WITH A.J. GREEN AND JULIO JONES. THAT WAS A CHECK-DOWNPLAY. THEY WENT DEEP, NOTHING THROUGH, CHECK IT DOWN TO THE BACK AND PICK UP A BUNCH OF YARDS. GREG: ITO SMITH BACK IN THE LINEUP. THE BALL AT THE CINCINNATI 49. PLAY FAKE. RYAN STILL HAS IT, ON THE MOVE. LOOKS DOWNFIELD AND IS GOING TO SCRAMBLE FOR ABOUT FOUR YARDS. OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 45. BRUCE: IT IS JUST NATURAL FOR ME TO HOLD MY BREATH RIGHT THERE. EVERY TIME CARSON PALMER DID THAT, HE WOULD PULL A MUSCLE. EASY, MATTY. GET OUT OF BOUNDS QUICK. TRENT: THAT IS NOT SOMETHING MATT NORMALLY WANTS TO DO. HE GETS OUT OF THE POCKET. THEY TRIED GETTING DEEP WITH THE CORNER ROUTE. IT WAS DOUBLE-TEAMED, AND THERE WAS NO SECONDARY ROUTE. THERE WAS A HOME RUN TRY. GREG: I IMAGINE DAN QUINN WAS NOT TOO THRILLED TO SEE IT EITHER. END AROUND, RIDLEY SLIPS AND GOES DOWN. HE IS GOING TO BE MARKED DOWN AT THE CINCINNATI 44. TRENT: COACH, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE DEALS THAT, DEPENDING ON HOW THIS GAME FINISHES UP, ON MONDAY IN THE FILM ROOM, THE GUYS ARE GOING TO GIVE HIM SOMETHING. YOU GOT A FLAT TIRE ON THAT ONE. BRUCE: YOU WIN THE GAME, YOU ARE GOING TO GET A LOT OF GRIEF MONDAY. THAT IS A LOT MORE FUN THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND. GREG: HERE IS A THIRD AND FIVE. RYAN OVER THE MIDDLE. TIPPED AND INCOMPLETE, OFF THE HANDS OF RIDLEY. THERE IS THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE OF A THIRD DOWN CONVERSION TODAY. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO GO FOR IT. I GUESS WHEN YOUR OFFENSE IS CLICKING, YOU MAY AS WELL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. TRENT: BASED ON WHAT WE SAW IN THE FIRST POSSESSION OF BOTH TEAMS, IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE DAYS, A SHOOTOUT. GREG: FOURTH AND FIVE. RYAN IS GOING TO GO DOWN AT MIDFIELD. GENO ATKINS LED THE CHARGE. AND THE BENGALS TAKE OVER ON DOWNS. 3:40 TO PLAY IN THE FIRST QUAR GREG: THAT IS A LIVE LOOK OUTSIDE MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM. THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE, AND IT IS GOING TO BE GREAT FOR THE SUPER BOWL. BRUCE: IT IS ONE OF THE BEST VENUES IN ALL OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. THEY DID A GREAT JOB WITH THIS ONE. GREG: CINCINNATI TAKES OVER JUST SHORT OF MIDFIELD. ALL KINDS OF MOVEMENT UP FRONT BACK AND FORTH. VIC BEASLEY HEALTHY ENOUGH TO JUMP OFFSIDE IT APPEARS. REFEREE: NEUTRAL ZONE INFRACTION, DEFENSE NUMBER 44. FIVE-YARD PENALTY. REMAINS FIRST DOWN. BRUCE: GOING BACK TO THAT FOURTH DOWN, THAT WAS A HUGE DECISION BY DAN QUINN ON FOURTH AND FIVE, AND SURPRISINGLY CINCINNATI PLAYED MAN-TO-MAN. IT LOOKED LIKE THEY HAD A ZONE PLAY CALLED. TRENT: I THOUGHT THEY WERE JUST GOING TO DO THE HARD COUNT TO DRAW THEM OFFSIDES. YOU ARE GIVING UP GREAT FIELD POSITION TO CINCINNATI MISSING. THAT I LIKE THE AGGRESSIVENESS. HE KNOW HE IS HAVING ISSUES ON DEFENSE. AFTER THAT FIRST SERIES, HE IS LIKE WE HAVE TO DO SOME THINGS OFFENSIVELY TO CHANGE THIS THING UP. GREG: BERNARD, INSIDE THE 45 TO THE 43. LET'S GO BACK TO THE TYLER EIFERT TOUCHDOWN CATCH. BRUCE: WHAT A HUGE ADDITION, HAVING HIM HEALTHY AGAIN. ANDY DALTON SPREADING IT OUT, LOOKING RIGHTWOMEN THE EYES AND COMING BACK TO IVERSON. TRENT: THE SAFETY WAS WORKING TO A.J. GREEN'S SIDE. EIFERT MISSED MOST OF THE LAST TWO YEARS, 2016 AND 2017, WITH BACK AND ANKLE INJURIES. HE IS ONE OF THE BEST RECEIVING TITLE ENDS IN THE LEAGUE WHEN HE IS HEALTHY. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE FOR THEM MOVING FORWARD THIS SEASON. GREG: YES. HE PLAYED IN JUST 10 GAMES OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. PLAY FAKE. DALTON IS GOING TO GO DEEP DOWN THE NEAR SIDELINE. A.J. GREEN DIVING AT THE GOAL LINE AND IT IS INCOMPLETE. ROBERT ALFORD COVERING. UPDATE TIME. BACK TO NEW YORK. JAMES: A FIRST FOR GREEN BAY. NATE: HERE IS THE OFFENSIVE VERSION OF A PICK SIX. FLAT ROUTE COMING OUT. JIMMY GRAHAM WITH THE HESITATION IN THE FLAT. THAT IS HIS FIRST T.D. OF THE SEASON. PACKERS WOULD MISS THEIR EXTRA POINT. THEY LEAD 6-0. JAMES: GREG, TRENT, BRUCE AND MELANIE. GREG: THANK YOU, J.B. THIRD AND TWO FOR DALTON AND THE BENGALS. THAT IS ENOUGH FOR THE FIRST DOWN. INSIDE THE 40 TO THE 39 GOES GIOVANI BERNARD. BRUCE: I REALLY LOVE THE SECOND DOWN GO FOR IT PLAN. THEY HAD A GOOD MANAGEABLE THIRD DOWN IF THEY MISS IT TAKE THE HOME RUN SHOT. YOU GET A GOOD RUNNING PLAY. TRENT: THEY COULD GO FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN LIKE ATLANTA DID. IT WAS JUST A DIFFERENT SITUATION. GREG: ROOKIE MARK WALTON IS IN AT RUNNING BACK, THE FOURTH ROUND PICK OUT OF MIAMI. THE SCREEN IS INCOMPLETE, INTENDED FOR WALTON. TRENT: I DON'T WANT TO OVEREXAGGERATE THIS, BUT THIS COULD HAVE SCORED. THEY HAD BLOCKERS DOWN THE FIELD ON THE SECOND AREA. THEY HAD THREE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN AND ONLY ONE DEFENDER OUT THERE. IF THEY ARE ABLE TO MAKE THAT CONNECTION, THEY HAVE CAUGHT THE FALCONS -- AS YOU ARE GOING TO SEE, THIS COMES OUT HERE. YOU GET THE LINEMEN PULLING OUT. YOU GET BLOCK UP FIELD. WATCH WHEN YOU GET OUT IN SPACE. YOU HAVE THREE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN AND ONLY ONE DEFENDER. I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY STOP IT FROM GETTING IN THE END ZONE. BRUCE: AND THAT IS BERNARD'S NUMBER ONE PLAY, THE SCREEN. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WOULD SUBSTITUTE AND TAKE HIM OUT WITH HIS GREAT HANDS. GREG: ON SECOND AND 10, DALTON LOOKS RIGHT AND THROWS RIGHT. AND NOW -- TRENT: HE RAN OVER TO THE OFFICIALS AND CALLED A TIME-OUT. REFEREE: THE TEAM EAGLES SECOND CHARGED TIME-OUT. 30 SECONDS. BRUCE: THAT TWICE THE BENGALS HAD REAL LATE SUBSTITUTIONS. GREG: S ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY MCDONALD'S. AND BY THE HOME DEPOT. MORE SAVING. MORE DOING. GREG: THAT IS THE CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS HERE IN ATLANTA, LOCATED IN PEMBERTON PLACE, RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE WE ARE. DEDICATED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. IT OPENED IN 2014. SECOND AND 10 FOR THE CINCINNATI OFFENSE. DALTON OUT HERE TO THE NEAR SIDE, COMPLETE TO WALT OUT OF THE BACK -- TO WALTON OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. HIS FORWARD PROGRESS WILL BE MARKED AT THE 35 1/2-YARD-LINE. COACH, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW BAD SUBSTITUTIONS HAVE COST CINCINNATI TIME-OUTS TWICE SO FAR? BRUCE: THEY HAD TWO LATE SUBSTITUTIONS. WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THE UMPIRE HAS TO HOLD OFF THE QUARTERBACK TO OY LOU THE SUBSTITUTIONS. THEY HAVE BURNED TWO. THAT IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE CRITICAL AT HALF. GREG: AND NOW ANOTHER THIRD DOWN SITUATION FOR THEM. THIRD AND SIX. TRENT: IT LOOKS LIKE THE FALCONS ARE GOING TO GO MAN-TO-MAN AGAIN. GREG: DALTON FOR BERNARD OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. BERNARD HAS THE FIRST DOWN AND MORE. KNOCKED OUT OF BOUNDS INSIDE THE 20-YARD-LINE BY DAMONTAE KAZEE. BRUCE: A SLIP SCREEN TO THE RUNNING BACK. THIS IS WHAT SURPRISED ME ABOUT GIOVANI BERNARD NOT BEING IN ON THE LAST SCREEN PLAY. THAT WAS REALLY CLOSE TO HAVING A LINEMAN DOWN FIELD. TRENT: MCKINLEY WAS COMING OFF THE END, AND HE GOT CHOPPED. HE GOT UP AND TRIED CHASING HIM DOWN. GREAT ATHLETIC MOVE, BUT THEY FLAVERPBINGED HIM. GREG: BENGALS BACK IN THE RED ZONE. THEY HAVE SCORED ON 30 STRAIGHT RED ZONE DRIPES. THIS IS BOYD, AND BOYD REACHING FOR FIRST DOWN YARDAGE. HE IS ABOUT TWO YARDS SHORT OF IT BRUCE: YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT A.J. GREEN BEING A BLOCKER, BUT HE DID A GREAT JOB BLOCKING FOR TYLER BOYD ON THAT SCREEN. REAL TEAM PLAYER. TRENT: THAT IS THE THING THAT IMPRESSES ME MOST. CONSIDER THESE TWO STAR WIDE RECEIVERS, A.J. GREEN AND JULIO JONES. THEY JUST WANT TO WIN. YEAH, THE STATS ARE NICE, BUT THEY WILL DO THE DIRTY WORK. THEY WILL DO THE BLOCKING. THEY WILL BE THE SET-UP GUY TO DRAW COVERAGE SO ANOTHER GUY GETS OPEN. BRUCE: YOU WILL NEVER HEAR EITHER ONE OF THOSE GUYS WORRY ABOUT THEIR TOUCHES. GREG: ON SECOND AND TWO, BERNARD HAS THE FIRST DOWN AND BREAKS IT TO THE OUTSIDE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN! BRUCE: COACH QUINN TALKED ALL THEY LOST THEIR LEVERAGE FROM OUTSIDE IN. HE BOUNCES OUTSIDE FOR AN EASY TOUCHDOWN. TRENT: ROBERT ALFORD HAS OUTSIDE CONTAIN. YOU NEED TO TRY KEEPING THAT LEVERAGE TO THE OUTSIDE. GREG: WE HAVE HEARD A LOT OF TALK ABOUT LEVERAGE THIS WEEKEND FROM BOTH COACHES. BRUCE: BOTH COACHES. YOU HAVE TO TURN THAT BACK INSIDE. YOU CAN'T GET BEAT OUTSIDE. TRENT: LEVERAGE WAS ONE WORD, TYRUS IS THE OTHER. YOU HAVE TO TRUST THE INSIDE GUYS ARE GOING TO BE THERE AS WELL. GREG: THE EXTRA POINT IS UP AND GOOD. WITH 12 SECONDS REMAINING IN GREG: JUST 12 SECONDS TO PLAY HERE IN THE OPENING QUARTER, AND WE HAVE ALREADY HAD THREE TOUCHDOWNS SCORED. GIOVANI BERNARD ON THE BOARD FOR THE BENGALS, WHO WENT 51 YARDS IN EIGHT PLAYS IN JUST UNDER THREE AND A HALF MINUTES. YOU ARE LOOKING AT ALL THE OFFENSE ON THE FIELD. YOU WONDER WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF JOE MIXON AND DEVONTA FREEMAN WERE AVAILABLE. BRUCE: THAT WOULD BE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE RUNNING GAME FOR BOTH TEAMS. THE BENGALS ARE ONE OF THE BEST SCREEN TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE, AND BARD IS ONE OF THE BEST SCREEN BACKS. GREG: MARVIN HALL WILL NOT GET A CHANCE TO RUN THIS ONE BACK. AND THE TOUCHBACK WILL BRING THE FALCONS OUT TO THEIR 25-YARD-LINE. THE FALCONS GOT OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT, LOSING THEIR OPENER TO THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES. THEY CAME BACK TO BEAT CAROLINA . WE KEEP BRINGING UP THAT GAME LAST WEEK. OVERTIME IN NEW ORLEANS THEY FELL 43-37. AND IN BOTH OF THOSE LOSSES, THEY WERE LEADING IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. HERE IS COLEMAN. COLEMAN ACROSS THE 30 TO ABOUT THE 32. WITH THAT, TIME WILL RUN DOWN HERE IN THE FIRST QUARTER. NICK VIGIL ON THE TACKLE. WE HAVE PLAYED 15 GOOD MINUTES. 14-7 BENGALS. WE ARE COMING BACK TO ATLANTA RIGHT AFTER THIS. YOU'RE WATCHING THE NFL GREG: READY TO START THE SECOND QUARTER HERE IN ATLANTA. NO LACK OF OFFENSE IN THE FIRST QUARTER. WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE THIRD DOWN CONVERSIONS. THESE TEAMS, THE WORST AT STOPPING OPPONENTS ON THIRD DOWNS IN THE LEAGUE SO FAR THIS YEAR. CINCINNATI THE WORST AND ATLANTA RIGHT BEHIND THEM. THERE HAS ONLY BEEN ONE THIRD DOWN CONVERSION THAT HASN'T WORKED SO FAR TODAY. BRUCE: GIVE BOTH TEAMS CREDIT. THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN THEY HAVE BEEN DOING. JUST NOT WORKING. GREG: SECOND AND FOUR. RYAN FLIPS IT TO COLEMAN. COLEMAN GRABBED AS HE CROSSES THE 35-YARD-LINE. DRE KIRKPATRICK AND JORDAN EVANS COMBINING FOR THE TACKLE, BUT IT IS ENOUGH FOR A FIRST DOWN. BRUCE: BOTH THESE TEAMS PRIMARILY ARE ZONE DEFENSES. THAT ALLOWS THE QUARTERBACK TO HAVE EASY CHECK-DOWNS. ON THOSE CHECK-DOWNS, BOTH TEAMS ARE AVERAGING AIL TO 10 YARDS. THAT IS HUGE, EASY FOR A QUARTERBACK. GREG: RYAN IS GOING TO GO DEEP DOWN THE NEAR SIDELINE. OWE JUST OVERTHREW HIS INTENDED RECEIVER MOHAMED SANU. UPDATE TIME AGAIN BACK TO NEW YORK. J.B. AND NATE. JAMES: HOUSTON LOOKING FOR ITS FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON. NATE: AT THE NEED THEY ARE LOCK HOLMES TO FIGURE IT OUT. BUT IT IS ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON. WATSON WITH THE TOUCHDOWN. GREG: DID NATE JUST GO THEY ARE LOCK HOLMES ON US? TRENT: I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE WAS GOING AT FIRST, BUT THEN HE BROUGHT IT BACK IN AND LANDED THE PLANE. I LIKE IT, NATE. GREG: SECOND AND 10. COLEMAN ACROSS THE 40 TO ABOUT THE 43. AND PRESTON BROWN WITH THE STOP. THAT WILL BRING UP A THIRD AND ABOUT FIVE. TRENT: THIRD AND FIVE, AND YOU SEE THE THREE GUYS RUNNING ON THE FIELD. YOU HAVE SANU, JONES AND RIDLEY. THEY ARE ALL COMING BACK OUT. BRUCE: I DON'T THINK I WOULD EVER TAKE THEM OFF. TRENT: RIGHT. I CAN'T BELIEVE ALL THREE WERE ON THE SIDELINE ON THAT ONE. NOW IT IS ALL ABOUT MATCHUPS FOR MATT RYAN, FINDING THAT BEST MATCHUP. GREG: THE FALCONS ARE 3-4. THEY HAVEN'T HAD FAR TO GO. THIS IS A THIRD AND FIVE. RYAN ELUDES THE RUSH, PULLS IT DOWN AND NOW COMPLETES IT TO THE 45-YARD-LINE. SANU WITH THE CATCH AND A FIRST DOWN. TRENT: THE PROTECTION THAT MATT RYAN HAS. THE BENGALS RUSH FIVE. THEY HAVE MAN-TO-MAN UNDERNEATH. BUT RYAN AS ABILITY TO SLIDE UP IN THE POCKET AND BUY TEAM FROM THAT OFFENSIVE LINE. YOU HAVE ALL FIVE GUYS ONE-ON-ONE, AND HE GETS THAT AMOUNT OF TIME, YOU HAVE NO CHANCE AS A DEFENSE. GREG: RYAN THROWING, AND THAT IS COMPLETE TO JULIO JONES. BRUCE: BRUCE: JONES WORKING INSIDE, THAT IS STEALING. THAT IS A FIVE-YARD GAIN THAT ENDS UP BEING 11. GREG: THIS LOOKS LIKE A NIGHTMARE FOR DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FIELD. FAKE TO ITO SMITH. RYAN ROLLS AND THROWS IT AWAY. BRUCE: THE BENGALS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB ON THE BOOTLEG STUFF SO FAR. THE FALCONS LOVE GOING DOWNTOWN ON FIRST AND SHORT SECOND DOWNS. THEY ARE PLAYING THE BOOTLEG EXTREMELY WELL. TRENT: RIDLEY HAD A POST ROUD. KIRKPATRICK STAYED WITH HIM STRIDE FOR STRIDE. THAT SECOND ROUTE YOU WANT TO LOOK FOR, BATES CAME DOWN AND DOUBLE-TEAMED, AND THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR RYAN TO GO. EXCELLENT DECISION FOR HIM TO THROW IT AWAY. GREG: SECOND AND 10 NOW. ON THE GROUND WITH ITO SMITH. FINDS RUNNING ROOM RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE. INSIDE THE 20 TO THE 1-YARD-LINE. NICK VIGIL WITH THE TACKLE. BRUCE: THAT IS WHAT YOU JUST CAN'T HAVE. YOU DO A GREAT JOB DEFENDING THE DOWNTOWN PLAY. SECOND DOWN, AND YOU HAVE TO STOP THE RUN, AND THEY GET 11 YARDS RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE. GREG: IT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE TO PICK YOUR POISON, RIGHT? BRUCE: YOU REALLY DO, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THREE WIDE RECEIVERS ON THE FIELD. THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM SO DANGEROUS. TRENT: WE CAN SEE FROM THE REVIEW OF THE REPLAY, THE BLOCKING UP FRONT. SMITH SEE THAT IS IT COLLAPSES, AND HE IS ABLE TO CUT IT BACK FOR FOR THE GAIN. GREG: THE PITCH FOR ITO SMITH. CUTS IT BACK, SPINS AWAY AND THEN WRAPPED UP BY NUMBER 50, JORDAN EVANS. BRUCE: IT WAS A PRETTY GOOD BET THAT WAS NOT GOING TO BE A PASS WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE WIDE RECEIVERS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE GAME. THEY HAD TWO TIGHT ENDS AND A FULLBACK. REALLY GOOD PURSUIT BY THE BENGALS ON THATS TO SWEEP. GREG: A PICK UP OF JUST ONE AS WE DUCK UNDER 11 1/2 TO PLAY HERE IN THE FIRST HALF. 14-7 CINCINNATI, ATLANTA THREATENING. TEVIN COLEMAN? THE BACKFIELD ON SECOND AND NINE. RYAN GOING FOR IT. WIDE OPEN FOR THE TOUCHDOWN IS LOGAN PAULSEN. TRENT: EXCELLENT JOB OF SPACING BY THE FALCONS. THEY COMPLETELY CAUGHT THEM OFF GUARD. THEY WENT THREE OVER TWO BECAUSE SANU AND JULIO WERE DOWN AT THE BOTTOM. YOU HAVE THREE OVER TWO HERE, BUT YOU HAVE YOUR DOUBLE TIGHT END, ONE GOING INSIDE WHERE THE TOUCHDOWN HAPPENS. CLEAR IT OUT AND YOU RUN A HITCH. IF YOU ARE MATT RYAN, YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THE SAFETY OVER THE TOP AND NOTHING BUT ONE-ON-ONES. TEVIN COLEMAN WORKING UNDERNEATH IF YOU WANT AN OUTLET. BUT THEY LET THAT CREASE GO, AND JUST LIKE THE OTHER END WITH TYLER EIFERT WORKING UP THE CREASE, YOU KNOW THE SAFETY IS GOING THE OTHER WAY. GREG: FOR ATLANTA, 10 STRAIGHT TOUCHDOWNS IN THE RED GREG: TOMORROW, CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER AND MAX GREENFIELD STAR IN THE NEWCOMB DID I THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT PREMIERES AT 8:00, 7:00 CENTRAL ONLY OWN CBS. WE HAVE ALREADY HAD TWO TIES AND TWO LEAD CHANGES IN THIS GAME, AND THERE ARE STILL 11 MINUTES TO PLAY IN THE FIRST HALF. BRUCE: NO SHORTAGE OF GUNFIRE IN THIS ONE. THESE QUARTERBACKS ARE LIGHTING IT UP. WHICHEVER ONE OF THESE DEFENSES IS GOING TO HAVE TO STEP UP TO STONE SOMEBODY TO WIN THIS GAME. TRENT: WELL, ARE YOU GOING TO GET A SACK FUMBLE? ARE YOU GOING TO GET A TIPPED BALL THAT GETS INTERCEPTED? THOSE ARE GR TO GO THE GAME CHANGERS IN THIS THE WAY THE OFFENSES ARE ROLLING. GREG: HOW ABOUT JUST A STOP? [LAUGHTER] WE HAVE SEEN NEITHER HIDE NEVER HAIR OF A PUNTER IN THIS GAME. ALEX ERICKSON IS DEEP A AND WILL NOT BRING THIS ONE BACK. DOWNSTAIRS TO MELANIE. MELANIE: THIS FALCONS DEFENSE IS MISSING KEY PLAYERS. WE WERE JUST TALKING TO THE SECOND AREA BEFORE THEY WENT BACK OUT. HE SAID RIGHT NOW WE ARE OUT OF WHACK. LET'S CALM DOWN AND TAKE IT ONE PLAY AT A TIME. I WANT EVERYONE COMMUNICATING. IT IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION, GREG. GREG: MELANIE, THANK YOU. DAMONTAE KAZEE AND BRIAN POOLE STARRING AT SAFETY IN PLACE OF KEANU NEAL AND ALLEN. THOSE ARE KEY PLAYERS TO LOSE. TRENT: AND MELANIE HIT ON IT. IT HAS TO BE THE TRUST PART OF IT YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR JOB AND RELY ON YOUR TEAMMATE. GREG: THIS IS MARK WALTON TRYING TO TURN THE CORNER ON THE RIGHT SIDE. HE WILL MAKE UP MAYBE TWO, BRIAN POOLE MAKING THAT TACKLE. IT WILL BE SECOND AND EIGHT. BROWN AND LIKE COACH QUINN SAID, EVERYTHING ABOUT THEIR DEFENSE IS BUILT ON LEVERAGE AND TRUSTING. IF I AM THE OUTSIDE GUY, MAKE SURE HE STAYS INSIDE OF ME AND HELP WILL GET THERE. THE BENGALS ARE GETTING A LITTLE BIT WITH FORMATION CHANGE WITH THOSE TWO YOUNG SAFETIES. GREG: DALTON AND THE BENGALS FROM THEIR OWN 27. DALTON PLAY FAKES. GOT IT AWAY JUST AS HE WAS HIT FROM BEHIND. THIS IS WALTON, AND WALTON OUT OF BOUNDS AT MIDFIELD. TRENT: WALTON COMING OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. EIFERT TAKES TWO DEFENDERS WITH HIM, AND NOBODY COMES OUT WITH WALTON IN THE RIGHT FLAT. BUT THEN THE OPEN FIELD SPIN. WALTON SPINS RIGHT OFF THAT. GREG: THAT IS ANOTHER ISSUE COACH TALKED ABOUT. TACKLING. BRUCE: IT IS A LOST ART IN THE NFL. GREG: DALTON FOR WALTON, AND IT GOES NOWHERE. TRENT: GRADY JARRETT SPLITTING THE DOUBLE-TEAM, GETTING IN THE BACKFIELD, AND NOWHERE FOR THE BACK TOGETHER. BRUCE: A LITTLE BUILT OF A SLOW DEVELOPING COUNTER PLAY. THEY HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FASTBALLING IT ON THE ZONE PLAY. THEY TRIED A COUNTER PLAY, AND GRADY JARRETT IS THAN WALK-OFF THE BEST IN THE LEAGUE IN SPLITTING DOUBLE-TEAMS. GREG: YOU GUYS MADE MENTION OF IT, AND MCGRADY JARET WAS BIG THE OTHER DAY TALKING ABOUT TRUSTING TEAMMATES. BERNARD BACK IN ON SECOND AND 12. DALTON HAS HIS MAN. ACROSS THE 40 TO ABOUT THE 39, AND IT LOOKS LIKE A FIRST DOWN. TYLER EIFERT ON THE RECEIVING END. TRENT: YOU CAN'T SAY ENOUGH HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THE BENGALS AND THEIR PASSING GAME TO HAVE EIFERT BACK ON THE FIELD. HE CREATES SUCH ISSUES. THEY TRIED 0 COVER HIM ONE-ON-ONE, AND HE RAN AN OUT ROUTE. BRUCE: HE IS A WIDE RECEIVER IN A TIGHT END BODY. HE IS REALLY SPECIAL. GREG: HE PLAYED A TOTAL OF 10 GAMES OVER THE 2016-2017 SEASONS. DALTON GOING FOR IT ALL. HE HAS HIS MAN TO THE 10, TO THE FIVE, TOUCHDOWN JOHN ROSS! AND IT LOOKS LIKE HE MIGHT HAVE HURT HIMSELF GOING ACROSS THE GOAL LINE. BRUCE: THAT IS BIG FOR ANDY DALTON. THAT IS A LOT OF TRUST. JOHN ROSS COST HIM A COUPLE OF INTERCEPTIONS LAST WEEK. HE WAS RUNNING FAST. I HOPE HE IS NOT HURT. TRENT: OMING INTO THE GAME HIS LONGEST RECEPTION WAS NINE YARDS. HE IS ONE OF THE FASTEST IN THE NFL. THAT TIME SHOWCASING. YOU COULD SEE HIM THERE BEFORE HE CROSSED THE GOAL LINE ROACH FOG THAT LEFT LEG. GREG: WE WILL CHECK ON HIM. MEANWHILE, THE EXTRA POINT ATTEMPT BY RANDY BULLOCK IS GOOD. 8:11 TO PLAY HERE IN THE FIRST HALF. ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY CORONA EXTRA. FIND YOUR BEACH. GEICO. 15 MINUTES COULD SAVE YOU 15% OR MORE ON CAR INSURANCE. AND BY THE WELL CONNECTED 2019 LINCOLN MKZ. GREG: THIS IS A VERY COOL THING, GUYS. ON TUESDAY THE BENGALS TEAMED UP WITH CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TO HOST A PLAY 60 EVENT. THE EVENT ENCOURAGES KIDS TO HAVE A LIFE-LONG COMMITMENT TO HEALTH AND TO FITNESS. WELL, ARE WE HAVING ANY FUN OFFENSIVELY? TRENT: I LOVE THOSE OFFENSIVE NUMBERS. COACH AND I ARE UP HERE GIDDY. BUT RIGHT NOW BOTH QUARTERBACKS ARE HAVING SOME FUN. GREG: MARVIN HALL IS GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO RUN THIS ONE BACK FROM TWO YARDS DEEP. TO THE 20 AND OUT TO ABOUT THE 21 OR 22. LET'S GO BACK TO THAT TOUCHDOWN. TRENT: WELL, THE SHIFT BY GIOVANI BERNARD TO THE OUTSIDE, ALL THAT DOES IS IT SELLS ANDY DALTON THAT HE HAS ZONE COVERAGE. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SAFETY BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE HE IS LOOKING. ANDY DALTON IS GOING TO KEEP HIS EYES HERE BECAUSE HE HAS A THREE BY ONE TO THE LEFT AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. THEN YOU HAVE T-ROSS IN THE BOTTOM SLOT. WITH THE CHANGE RELEASE, ROSS TO THE ACCIDENT. THEY DO THE CHANGE RELEASE AND HE GOES UP THE NUMBERS. BY LOOKING OFF TO THE LEFT WHERE THE SLOW SO SITE IS IN THE ZONE, THAT ALLOWS ROSS TO COME OPEN. WE WILL SEE IF HE IS INJURED AND ABLE TO COME BACK. GREG: WE SAW HIM REACH DOWN TO THE INSIDE OF THE LEFT THIGH. FIRST DOWN AT THE 21-YARD-LINE. COLEMAN FOR ABOUT THREE TO THE 24. INCIDENTALLY, WEEK 11 OF THE STWEN SEASON AGAINST BUFFALO, THAT WAS THE LAST TIME THE CINCINNATI BENGALS SCORED THREE TOUCHDOWNS IF THEIR FIFTH THREE DRIVES OF THE GAME. BRUCE: IF YOU ARE THE FALCONS, YOU HAVE TO MATCH. IT IS JUST MOMENTUM. TRENT: NOW WE KNOW WHY THEY WENT FOR IT ON FOURTH AND FIVE AT MIDFIELD. THEY SANU IT WAS GOING TO BE THIS TYPE OF GAME. GREG: ON SECOND AND SEVEN, THIS IS TEVIN COLEMAN. COLEMAN WITH RUNNING ROOM ACROSS THE 30. J.B. AND NATE IN NEW YORK. JAMES: FANS ARE SAYING T.J. NATE: THAT IS T.J. OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. CHECK DOWN AND WATCH HIM SKATE ON IN FOR THE 31-YARD TOUCHDOWN. THAT IS HIS SECOND RECEIVING T.D. OF THE SEASON. JAGS UP 13-0. JAMES: THAT IS THE SFEAKTS NATE IS HAVING ON US IN STUDIO. BACK TO GREG GUMBEL. GREG: YOU GUYS HAVE TOO MUCH FUN, JUST TOO MUCH FUN. THE MEASUREMENT SHOWS THE FIRST DOWN. OF COURSE IT IS GOING TO BE A FIRST DOWN. THAT IS THE KIND OF DAY IT IS HERE. BRUCE: GIVE STEVE SARKISIAN CREDIT. HE HE STUCK WITH THE RUNNING GAME. I LOOK FOR A TOUCHDOWN CHECK DOWN SOON. GREG: MATT RYAN WITH TIME OVER THE MIDDLE, AND BATTED DOWN AT THE 45-YARD-LINE. DENARD KNOCK THE IT AWAY FROM MOHAMED SANU. TRENT: DID YOU SEE JULIO GOING DEEP? I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING DEEP OVER THE TOP. THEY WERE ABLE TO CATCH BATES SITTING A LITTLE BIT. NICE PLAY LIE THE BENGALS KNOCKING IT AWAY. BRUCE: REALLY GOOD PLAY BY DENARD, NOT PASS INTERFERENCE IN GRABBING HIM WITH THE LEFT HAND. GOT THE RIGHT HAND IN. I THOUGHT MOHAMED SANU COULD HAVE ATTACKED THAT BALL BETTER. TRENT: YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM ATTACK IT BACK. NATION JOB BY DENARD, NOT PUTTING THE LEFT HARDEN AROUND THE WAIST THAT ULTIMATELY GETS CALLED FOR A P.I. GREG: WE GET A TIME-OUT ON THE FIELD WITH 6:33 TO PLAY HERE IN THE FIRST HALF. WHEN WE RESUME, IT WILL B SCION AND 10. WE WILL TAKE A BREAK. BACK TO MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM RIGHT AFTER THIS. AND WE ARE BACK QUICKER THAN YOU THOUGHT WE WOULD BE. GLAD YOU HAVE JOINED US FOR THIS SHOOTOUT OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS. WE KNEW THAT DEFENSE WAS GOING TO BE A PREMIUM, BUT TRENT, DID YOU THINK IT WAS GOING TO BE THAT BIG A PREMIUM? TRENT: I DIDN'T. I THOUGHT THEY WOULD MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. JUST BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THAT IS WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, COMING INTO THE DAY ABOUT THE OFFENSE. WE KNEW ATLANTA HAS HAD INJURIES ON DEFENSE, BUT BOTH OFFENSES ARE ROLLING NOW. GREG: SECOND AND 10. THIS IS COLEMAN, AND GENO ATKINS MAKES THE STOP ON THAT. DOWN TO MELANIE. MELANIE: I HAVE BEEN KEEPING MY EYE ON JOHN ROSS. HE HAS BEEN STRETCHING OUT THE GROIN. HE RAN UP AND DOWN THE SIDELINES ONE, AND I HEARD HIM SAY I AM FINE. HE SHOULD BE GOOD TO GO FOR A RETURN TO THIS GAME. GREG: THANK YOU, MELANIE. TRENT: I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE WAY HE ACTED, HE WOULD GO UNDER THE BLUE TENT AND GET TAPED UP. WHATEVER THE STIM UNIT IS HE USED, IT WORKED. GREG: THIRD AND SEVEN. RYAN LOOKS LEFT, THROWS LEFT. THAT IS COMPLETE AND GOOD FOR A FIRST DOWN TO MOHAMED SANU. BRUCE: REALLY SYNCHRONIZED. SANU POINTED BACK AND LET MATT YAN KNEW THE BLITZ WAS COMING. MATT KNEW OF HIS UNBLOCKED, STOOD IN THERE AND HIT HIM FOR THE FIRST DOWN. GOOD COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THOSE TWO GUYS JUST LIKE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. TRENT: AND THAT IS AN EXCELLENT JOB OF THE ROUTE COMBINATION. YOU HAD A HIGH CORNER ROUTE WHICH ENDED UP GETTING DOUBLE-TEAMED, AND THEN THE LINEBACKER DIDN'T GET ENOUGH WIDTH. THAT IS WHY YOU GET THE PASS IN THERE FOR THE FIRST DOWN. GREG: ATLANTA IS NOW 6-7 ON THIRD DOWN. RYAN ROLLS. GOING DEEP. SANU, HE HAS GOT HIM COMING ACROSS THE FIELD! 36 YARDS. TRENT: THE PLAY FAKE BY MATT RYAN. HE COMES OUT AND WORKS BACK AND SET UP LEFT. BUT IT IS GOING TO BE THE ROUTE BY MOHAMED SANU. HE COMES AND WORKS ACROSS THE FIELD. IT'S THE HARD PLAY FAKE. WATCH THE DEFENSIVE LINE AND LINEBACKERS. THEY ALL COLLAPSED, AND MATT RYAN BOOTS THAT WAY, SO THEY ARE THINKING HE IS GOING TO THROW TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FIELD. INSTEAD, SANU WORKING HIS WAY ACROSS. RYAN WITH AN ACCURATE BALL WHERE ONLY SANU CAN GET IT. BRUCE: HE SOLD IT WELL ENOUGH THAT BATES JUMPED IT. HE HAS TO STAY INSIDE THAT ROUTE. GREG: FOUR AND A HALF TO PLAY IN THE FIRST HALF. RYAN PULLS IT DOWN, SHOVELS IT AHEAD TO ITO SMITH. SMITH IS DOWN JUST INSIDE THE 15-YARD-LINE. I AM JUST GOING TO DO A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE AND SAY THE PUNTER FOR CINCINNATI IS KEVIN HUBER, AND THE PUNTER FOR ATLANTA IS MATT BOSHER. BRUCE: THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET MUCH ACTION TODAY UNLESS THEY ARE HOLDING FOR FIELD GOALS AND EXTRA POINTS. TRENT: MATT RYAN WAS CLOSE TO CROSSING THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. HE WAS LIKE DO I WANT TO TAKE THE HIT OR FLIP IT FIVE OR SIX YARDS AND LET HIM TAKE THE HIT. SMART CIZIKAS. BRUCE: THE FALSE ARE DOING A GREAT JOB OF TAKING SHOTS ON FIRST DOWN. GREG: THIS IS SMITH. AND SMITH IS WRAPPED UP AT ABOUT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. WILLIAMS AND PRESTON BROWN CONVERGING. TONY: WILLIAMS MAINTAINED THE OUTLEVERAGE, SOMETHING THE FALCONS DIDN'T DOUGH IN THIS AREA OF FIELD. SMITH TRIED A SPIN MOVE TO GET OUT OF THERE, BUT BY MAINTAINING THAT LEVERAGE, THAT ALLOWED THE PLAY TO BE MADE. BRUCE: BIG THIRD DOWN. FIELD GOALS ARE NOT GOING TO WIN THIS GAME. YOU NEED TOUCHDOWNS. GREG: SMITH IN THE BACKFIELD WITH RYAN ON THIRD AND ONE. HE IS GOING TO THROW FOR IT. THROWING ON THE SLANT, TOUCHDOWN CALVIN RIDLEY! THE FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICK OUT OF ALABAMA. TRENT: EXCELLENT READ BY MATT RYAN. YOU HAVE THE SLANT THAT IS GOING TO GET BEHIND. THE SAFETY DROPS TO THAT SIDE. WHEN THE SAFETY DROPS AND HE CHASES THE RUNNING BACK ON THE FLAT ROUTE TO THAT SIDE, THAT LEAVES THAT WINDOW FOR RIDLEY TO GET THE TOUCHDOWN, AND RYAN WITH AN ACCURATE THROW. GREG: MATT BRYANT FOR THE EXTRA POINT. WE ARE TIED ONCE AGAIN. MATT RYAN RIGHT ON THE MONEY TO THE RADIO -- TO THE ROOKIE. GREG: A REMINDER FOR YOU. COMING UP ON "THE VERIZON HALFTIME REPORT," J.B., PHIL, NATE, COACH AND BOOMER HAVE HIGHLIGHTS, ALL COMING UP ON "THE VERIZON HALFTIME REPORT." YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO ASK YOU GUYS. THE NATURE OF THIS GAME AS IT HAS GONE, WHY WOULD YOU EVER KICK ON FIRST DOWN IF YOU HAVE A REASONABLE SHOT AT MAKING IT WITH THE WAY YOU ARE PLAYING OFFENSE TODAY? BRUCE: SOONER OR LATER YOU HAVE TO TRUST YOUR DEFENSE. NOT SO FAR, BUT SOONER OR LATER. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS. GREG: ALEX ERICKSON IS DEEP AND WILL NOT BRING THIS ONE BACK. SO OUT TO THE 25-YARD-LINE. TAKE A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS BEING PUT UP BY MATT RYAN AND ANDY DALTON TODAY. THAT IS PRINTING YOUR OWN RESUME. TRENT: THAT IS NOT EVEN HALFTIME. MATT RYAN, SEVEN TOUCHDOWNS, NO INTERCEPTIONS IN THE LAST GAME AND A HALF. THIS IS BIG BECAUSE LAST WEEK THE FALCONS DIDN'T FINISH THE HALF. THEY MISSED A SCORING OPPORTUNITY, AND THE SAINT WENT DOWN AND GOT IT TRENT: CINCINNATI HAD TO BURN TWO TIME-OUTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER. GREG: DALTON STILL WITH THE BALL. DIALLO THROWS THIS SIDE OF THE FIELD. NATION GRAB MADE BY NUMBER 83, TYLER BOYD. TIME-OUT SITUATION, BENGALS HAVE ONE REMAINING, ATLANTA HAS TWO. TRENT: GEORGE RICHARDS WAS RUNNING UNDERNEATH THAT. IF HE HAD TURNED HIS HEAD AROUND, I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET A HAND ON THAT BALL. EXCELLENT CATCH BY BOYD. BRUCE: HE HAS BEEN A GREAT ADDITION THE HE IS REALLY COMING ON FOR THE BENGALS. THEY ARE EXCITED ABOUT HAVING HIM. GREG: ON THE FIRST DOWN FROM THE 35. PLAY FAKE TO GIOVANI BERNARD AND THEN THE PITCH TO HIM, AND NOT AT ALL THERE AS HE IS BROUGHT DOWN AT ABOUT THE 33, MAYBE THE 34. IT WILL BE SECOND AND 11 AS WE COME UP ON THE TWO-MINUTE WARNING. HERE IS WARNING. OFFENSES ARE ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY LLOWES. AND BY VERIZON. THE BEST UNLIMITED IS ON VERIZON, AMERICA'S MOST AWARDED NETWORK. GREG: THAT IS SKY VIEW ATLANTA, THE 20-STORY FERRIS WHEEL IN CENTENNIAL PARK. "THE VERIZON HALFTIME REPORT" IS COMING UP. TWO MINUTES TOE PLAY. ANDY DALTON AND THE BENGALS WITH ONE TIME-OUT. OVER THE MIDDLE. THAT'S COMPLETE AT MIDFIELD. A.J. GREEN. WE HAVE A PENT FLAG. TRENT: I THINK ALFORD WAS THERE WRAPPING HIM UP A LITTLE BIT EARLY. REFEREE: PASS INTERFERENCE, DEFENSE NUMBER 23. THE PENALTY IS DECLINED. THE RESULT OF THE PLAY IS A FIRST DOWN. BRUCE: THAT IS HUGE BECAUSE THAT IS AN EXTRA TIME-OUT FOR THE BENGALS. THEY WASTED THE TWO EARLY AND THEY HAVE THAT ONE LEFT. NOW ATLANTA, THEY HAVE TO STOP THEM. SOONER OR LATER, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE IT GIVE SOME PRESSURE. HE IS STANDING BACK THERE ALL DAY, TRENT. TRENT: IF YOU DECIDE TO BRING PRESSURE, THEN YOU ARE LEAVING EVERYBODY ON AN ISLAND. WHATEVER IT IS ISN'T WORKING NOW. REFEREE: THE PENALTY IS ACCEPTED, THE BALL WILL BE PLACED AT THE SPOT OF THE FOUL. GREG: SO SEAN SMITH CORRECTS THAT DECISION, AND THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE IS NOW MIDFIELD AND A NEW SET OF DOWNS FOR DALTON. DALTON OVER THE MIDDLE, AND THAT IS COMPLETE. IT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT A NINE-YARD PICK UP TO THE 41-YARD-LINE TO TYLER EIFERT. NOW WE HAVE A LATE FLAG. REFEREE: DEAD BALL, PERSONAL FOUL, DEFENSE NUMBER 21. 15-YARD PENT ADDED TO THE END OF THE RUN, AUTOMATIC FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT ONE IS ON DESMOND TRUFANT. TRENT: WATCH TRUFANT COME INTO THE PICTURE HERE LATE. HE SHOVES IN THE BACK TYLER BOYD, PUSH HIM OVER THE PILE. THAT IS AN EASY ONE TO CALL FOR THE OFFICIALS. GREG: THAT LOOKS LIKE TOTAL DEFENSIVE FRUSTRATION. BRUCE: YES, AND YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT AT THE END OF THE HALF. THAT IS BEING SELFISH AND PUTTING YOUR TEAM IN A BAT SITUATION. GREG: SO THE BENGALS AT THE 26. ON THE QUICK SLANT, TO THE 15-YARD-LINE, A.J. GREEN. THAT IS ANOTHER FIRST DOWN. TRENT: CINCINNATI HUDDLING UP. NO NEED TO BE IN TOO BIG OF A HURRY. YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE FALCONS THE BALL WITH TIME LEFT ON THE CLOCK. BRUCE: AND DO I HAVE TIME TO GET MY OFFENSE BACK ON THE FIELD. TRENT: I AM WAITING FOR THAT LINEBACKER, THAT SAFETY, SOMEBODY TO COME IN OWN A BLITZ. FROM GREG: HERE IS THE SCREEN BERNARD. BERNARD TO THE FIVE AND DOWN TO ABOUT THE ONE. TRENT: WELL, YOU TALKED ABOUT BERNARD AND HOW GOOD HE IS AT THE SCREENS. BRUCE: AND THIS IS THE FALCONS' PROBLEM LAST WEEK. THEY COULDN'T FINISH THE HALF, AND THEY ARE STRUGGLING AGAIN RIGHT NOW TO GET THIS STOP. [WHISTLE] REFEREE: TIME-OUT, ATLANTA. GREG: THE FALCONS USE A TIME-OUT. EACH TEAM HAS ONE TIME-OUT REMAINING. HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN A PART OF A GAME WHERE EVERY SINGLE THING SEEMS TO WORK? THAT IS WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE. TRENT: THOSE ARE FUN DAYS. GREG: IS THAT CALLED SEVEN-ON-SEVEN DURING THE WEEK. BRUCE: YOU FEEL GREAT AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THE SCOREBOARD AND THINK WE ARE TIED? AS A HEAD COACH, YOU ARE FEELING GOOD ABOUT THE OFFENSE, BUT YOUR DEFENSE IS GIVING UP POINTS RIGHT AFTER YOU SCORE EVERY TIME. TRENT: THE REASON HE CALLED THAT LAST SCREEN IS AT SOME POINT THEY ARE GOING TO GO BRING PRESSURE. THEY ONLY RUSHED FOUR AND STILL ABLE TO GET A CHUNK OF YARDS. BRUCE: THE BENGALS HAVE A GREAT ATHLETIC LINE AND DO A GREAT JOB OF STAYING UP. THEY NEED HOW TO SET UP THE BLOCKS ON THE SCREENS. GREG: THEY BRING IN HUBBARD, THE ROOKIE FROM OHIO STATE IN TO PLAY ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE. BERNARD, LEFT SIDE TO THE END ZONE, TOUCHDOWN. TRENT: WITH THE WAY THIS GAME IS GOING, COACH, WHAT IS THE ONE NEGATIVE? THEY MAY HAVE SCORED TOO FAST. BRUCE: THEY GAVE HIM 44 SECONDS. TRENT: EXCELLENT DRIVE BY CINCINNATI TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ATLANTA, TAKING THE LANES WHERE THEY HAD THEM. ATLANTA WITH A COUPLE OF SILLY PENALTIES AS WELL. GREG: I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU A PROHIBITION RIGHT NOW. POSTGAME SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SAY WE DIDN'T LOSE. WE JUST RAN OUT OF TILE. BRUCE: THAT HAPPENED TO ATLANTA LAST WEEK. THEY COULDN'T STOP NEW ORLEANS IN OVERTIME ON THAT TOUCHDOWN DRIVE. GREG: SIX PLAYS, 75 YARDS. REFEREE: START ON MY READY FOR PLAY WHISTLE. PLEASE RESET IT TO 20 SECONDS. GREG: SO SEAN SMITH MAKING AN ADJUSTMENT TO THE PLAY CLOCK. 44 SECONDS ON THE GAME CLOCK. AND HERE IS RANDY BULLOCK AS CINCINNATI LOOKS FOR A SEVEN-POINT LEAD, AND THEY HAVE IT. TWO RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS ON THE DAY FOR GIOVANI BERNARD. ANDY DALTON HAS BEEN THROWING THE BALL WELL. TRENT: ONLY TWO INCOMPLETIONS. 13-15 ON THE DAY. HE HAS BEEN ACCURATE. HE HAS HAD TIME IN THE POCKET. ACCURATE UP THE FIELD AND UNDERNEATH. THEY HAVE UTILIZED THE SCREEN WELL. JOHN ROSS GETTING INVOLVED. CAME UP LIMPING ON THAT TOUCHDOWN, BUT HE CAME BACK IN THE GAME. BRUCE: IT HAS GOT TO FEEL LIKE IT IS SEVEN-ON-SEVEN FOR HIM. TRENT: THE BIG QUESTION MARK COMING INTO THIS GAME IS HOW DALTON WAS GOING TO RESPOND AFTER THROWING FOUR PICKS IN THE GAME A WEEK AGO. HE HAS ANSWERED IT PRETTY WELL. BRUCE: HE IS A COOL CUSTOMER. HE IS THE LEADER OF THE TEAM, A VERY QUIET LEADER. HE KNOWS HOW TO LEAD MEN FOR SURE. HE IS A HECK OF A GUY. GROIRG MARVIN HALL IS DEEP -- GREG: MARVIN HALL IS DEEP. AND THIS WILL BE A TOUCH OFBACK. AS MATT RYAN COMES BACK ON TO THE FIELD, WHAT IS HIS PLAN OF ATTACK. TRENT: I THINK YOU HAVE EVERYTHING AT YOUR DISPOSAL. 44 SECONDS IS A LONG TIME. YOU HAVE A TIME-OUT. DON'T DUMP IT OFF FOR A FIVE-YARD GAIN. IF YOU ARE GOING TO KEEP IT IN BOUNDS, TRY AND GET A BIG CHUNK OUT OF IT, AND THAT IS WHERE YOU CAN USE YOUR TIME-OUT. I THINK WITH 44 SECONDS AND A TIME-OUT, YOU STILL HAVE EVERYTHING AT YOUR DISPOSAL. BRUCE: YES. YOU DON'T HAND IT OFF TON A DRAW. HOPEFULLY THEY HAVE TWO PLAYS CALLED. GREG: RYAN COMPLETE ON THE SIDELINE. TRENT: A SHORT THROW IS FINE IF YOU ARE GETTING OUT OF BOUNDS. BY TAKING THAT, SEEING WHAT THE BENGALS ARE DOING IN COVERAGE. NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN STEVE SARKISIAN HAS BEEN ABLE TO SAY THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING DEFENSIVELY? IF THEY ARE PLAYING SOFT, CAN YOU DO THAT. IT TOOK FOUR SECONDS. BRUCE: YOU CAN NICKEL AND DIME IT ALL THE WAY DOWN FIELD IF THEY ARE NOT GOING TO PLAY THE SIDELINE. GREG: SECOND AND SIX. WE GET A FLAG AND WHISTLES. TRIPE I THINK THEY ARE GETTING SANU. I THINK HE WAS BOUNCING TOWARD THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE ON THAT MOTION. REFEREE: FALSE START, OFFENSE, NUMBER 12. FIVE-YARD PENALTY. REMAINS SECOND DOWN. BRUCE: THESE ARE DRIVE KILLERS. YOU HAVE THE MATCHUP. YOU HAVE JULIO IN THE MIDDLE VERSUS COVER TWO ON THE MIDDLE LINEBACKER. THE EXACT NCHING THEY WANT HERE AND A PRESNAP PENALTY, JUST INEXCUSABLE. GREG: SECRETARY AND 11 WITH 40 SECONDS TO PLAY. SECOND AND 11 WITH 40 SECONDS TO PLAY. RYAN OVER THE MIDDLE, HAS HIS MAN AT THE 35-YARD-LINE, AND BUSTING OUT FOR A COUPLE MORE IS JULIO JONES. THE FALCONS QUICK TO THE LINE. UNDER HALF A MINUTE. TRENT: DON'T SPIKE IT. GET UP THERE AND CALL THE PLAY LIKE MATT RYAN IS DOING. GREG: GOOD PROTECTION THIS TIME. COMING THIS WAY TO SANU. SANU OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 45. THAT STOPS THE CLOCK WITH 1 SECONDS TO PLAY. -- WITH 18 SECONDS TO PLAY. TRENT: COACH, 18 SECONDS, WHAT WOULD YOU TELL YOUR GUY? IF YOU HIT THAT GUY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD FOR THE 15-YARD GAIN, SIMILAR TO WHAT JONES DID BECAUSE THE SAFETIES WERE DEEP, I AM FINE WITH THAT. USE THAT TIME-OUT THEN AND SET THINGS UP. BRUCE: ESSENTIALLY 15 YARDS FOUR FIELD GOAL, AND YOU NEED TO GET POINTS OUT OF THIS DRIVE. GREG: RYAN UNDER PRESSURE AND INCOMPLETE. JONES COMING ACROSS THE FIELD, COVERED BY WILLIAM JACKSON. TRENT: WE WERE WAITING FOR ONE OF THESE TEAMS TO DIAL UP SOME PRESSURE, AND CINCINNATI DID. THEY BROUGHT A GUY UP THE SLOT AND THE MIDDLE. SIX GUYS RUSHING ON THAT DOWN. BRUCE: IT APPEARS THE RUNNING BACK MISSED HIS ASSIGNMENT. HE SHOULD HAVE PICKED UP THE SLOT BLITZ. MATT KNEW IT. YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GET THESE 15 YARDS, CALL THE TIME-OUT AND GET YOUR FIELD GOAL. GROIRG THIRD AND FOUR. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE FIRST DOWN, THEY NEED THE 49-YARD-LINE. RYAN THIS SIDE OF THE FIELD. THAT IS COMPLETE AND OUT OF BOUNDS, JULIO JONES. FIRST DOWN WITH NINE SECONDS. TRENT: I THOUGHT THAT WAS GUTSY THEN. JULIO JONES, AND THEY ROLL THE THE SAFETY DOWN TO THAT SIDE, LEAVING THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD OPEN. I THOUGHT FOR SURE THEY WERE GOING TO ROLL SAFETY OVER THE TOP AND NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. BRUCE: THAT WAS A GREAT THROW AND TRUST BY MATT RYAN. HE PUT IT INTO DOUBLE COVERAGE AND OVER THE TOP OF THE DEFENDER. TRENT: BY GETTING OUT OF BOUNDS, THEY STILL HAVE THE TIME-OUT. YOU CAN STILL USE THE WHOLE FIELD AND CALL YOUR TIME-OUT. BRUCE: THE RECEIVERS HAVE TO GET DOWN. GREG: THIS IS ITO SMITH. HE GOES DOWN AT THE 37-YARD-LINE. ATLANTA WILL USE THAT TIME TIME-OUT TO STOP THE CLOCK WITH TWO SECONDS TO PLAY. TRENT: YOU SEE SMITH WAS SMART ABOUT IT, AND HE DECIDED TO TURN IT UP. BRUCE: IN THE HUDDLE YOU HAVE ALERT TIME. YOU ARE GOING TO CATCH DOWN, GET DOWN AND CALL TIME-OUT. GREG: SO HERE IS MATT BRYANT, WHO HAS MADE SIX STRAIGHT FIELD GOALS FROM 50 OR MORE YARDS. HE WON'T BE THAT FAR BACK, WILL HE? THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE IS THE 37. IT SHOULD BE 55. HE HAS HIT 13 OF HIS LAST 14 FROM 50 OR MORE YARDS. AND CINCINNATI WILL USE ITS LAST TIME-OUT. REFEREE: TIME-OUT, CINCINNATI. THAT IS THE TEAM'S THIRD AND FINAL. 30 SECONDS. GREG: COACH, ARE YOU A BELIEVER IN MAKING GUYS THINK ABOUT IT? BRUCE: WHEN YOU HAVE A VETERAN, HE IS PROBABLY HAPPY THEY CALLED TIME-OUT. HE GETS TO STRETCH A LITTLE MORE. I THINK THEY TOOK THE TIME-OUT A LITTLE TOO SOON. THEY WEREN'T QUITE READY FOR THE SNAP THE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ICE HIM RIGHT BEFORE THE SNAP. GREG: PROBABLY NOTHING MORE DEPRESSING CALLING THAT TIME-OUT JUST AS THEY SNAP AND HE MISSES THE FIELD GOAL. SO MATT BRYANT FROM 55 YARDS. IN THIS HIGH SCORING FIRST HALF, OF COURSE IT IS GOOD. WHAT A KICK. WHAT A FIRST HALF. BRUCE: THE FALCONS NEEDED THAT. THEY NEEDED TO GO IN WITH SOMETHING POSITIVE HAPPENING. GREG: THE SECOND HIGHEST SCORING FIRST HALF IN THE LEAGUE THIS SEASON. TAMPA BAY AND NEW ORLEANS SCORED 55. CINCINNATI AND ATLANTA DIDN'T DO BADLY THIS AFTERNOON IN THE FIRST HALF. WE HAVE COME TO THE END OF THE FIRST HALF WITH THE SCORE, THE BENGALS 28, ATLANTA, 24. HALF IS GREG: WELCOME BACK TO MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM HERE IN ATLANTA AS WE GET SET FOR THE SECOND HALF KICKOFF. THE BENGALS LEADING IT 28-24. TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHTS PRESENTED BY DIRECTV. THE ONE THAT GOT THE BENGALS ROLLING, ANDY DALTON TO TYLER EIFERT FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. THEY LEAD IT BY FOUR, 28-24. GREG GUMBEL, BRUCE ARIANS AND TRENT GREEN. WHAT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ROOMS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FIELD IT MUST HAVE BEEN AT HALFTIME. NOTHING GOING WRONG OFFENSIVELY, EVERYTHING GOING WRONG DEFENSIVELY. TRENT: IF YOU ARE BOTH OFFENSIVE COORDINATORS, YOUR BOTH QUARTERBACKS, YOU ARE ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED BY THE GAME PLAN AND THE WAY THE EXECUTION HAS TAKEN PLACE. AS HAPPY AS YOU ARE ON OFFENSE, THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS HAVE TO BE FRUSTRATED. YOU HAVE TO MAIM CHANGES. GREG: HAVE YOU HAD THOSE DAYS? BRUCE: YES. NOT TOO MANY, THANK GOD IF I PLAY MAN-TO-MAN, I AM GETTING BURNED. PLAY ZONE, AND THEY PICK ME APART. THE PASS RUSH, ONE OF THESE TWO TEAMS HAS TO GET THERE AND TAKE THIS GAME OVER. GREG: CINCINNATI GETTING THEIR HANDS ON THE FOOTBALL FIRST. IT WILL COME OUT TO THE 25-YARD-LINE. WE GO DOWN TO MELANIE COLLINS. MELANIE: NO SURPRISE THE THEME WAS SIMILAR AMONG BOTH HEAD COACHES. THEY WANT MORE STONES DEFENSIVELY AND GET OFF THE FIELD ON THIRD DOWN. MARVIN LEWIS SAID WE HAVE TO SETTLE DOWN AND USE PROPER LEVERAGE IN OUR TACKLING. DAN QUINN SAID IT IS THE SHOTS DOWN THE SEAM THAT ARE KILLING US, BUT IT IS ACT CORRECTABLE. HE EXPECTS TO SEE BETTER DEFENSE IN SECOND HALF. GREG: ONLY FIVE TIMES HAS A THE LEAGUE SEEN A FIRST HALF WITH NO PUNTS AND NO TURNOVERS. THIS IS GIOVANI BERNARD LOOKING FOR RUNNING ROOM AROUND THE CORNER ON THE LEFT SIDE. ACROSS THE 25 TO THE 26. YOU LOOK AT NUMBERS FROM THE FIRST HALF. LOOK AT THE PASSING YARDS. LOOK AT THE TOTAL YARDS FOR JUST ONE HALF OF FOOTBALL. TRENT: THE THING THAT IS HEILMANNED THERE IS THE THIRD DOWN. COACH, YOU TOUCHED ON THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME WITH SOME OF YOUR POINTS. YOU HAVE THE 31 STANFORD AND 32ND RANKED DEFENSES ON THIRD DOWN. YOU HAVE TO GET THEM OFF THE FOLD. BRUCE: YES. CINCINNATI CAME WITH A COUPLE OF BLITZES IN THE TWO-MINUTE DRILL AND STOPPED THAT DRIVE TO A FIELD GOAL. GREG: AND JOHN ROSS, WHO APPEARED TO SUFFER AN INJURY IN THE FIRST HALF IS OUT THERE ON THE FIELD. A SHORT SCREEN TO TIGHT END TYLER EIFERT. HE IS OUT TO THE 29-YARD-LINE. WE HAVE A PLAYER DOWN ON THE FIELD, AS IT IS TYLER EIFERT. TRENT: THAT IS NOT WHAT THE BENGALS NEED TO SEE. IT IS THAT RIGHT FOOT AND RIGHT ANKLE. GREG: OH. TRENT: WE This broadcast is cod by NFL Productions for the
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GREG: WE HAD SAID EARLIER INJURIES HAD LIMITED HIM TO 10 GAMES OVER THE 2016 AND 2017 SEASONS. BRUCE: AND HE WAS BACK FULL SPEED PLAYING THE WAY HE HAS ALWAYS PLAYED, WHICH WAS PRO BOWL OR ALL-PRO LEVEL. YOU HATE TO SEE THIS HAPPEN TO GREAT PLAYERS AND GREAT GUYS. GREG: SO THEY WILL CART HIM OFF THE FIELD. TYLER EIFERT, THE SIXTH YEAR TIGHT END OUT OF NOTRE DAME. TRENT: WELL, HAVING EXPERIENCED SOME PRETTY MAJOR INJURIES DURING MY CAREER, I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW OBVIOUSLY THE PAIN OF THE INJURY, BUT IT IS THE MENTAL PART OF KNOWING THAT THE SEASON IS OVER. HE KNOWS WHAT LIES AHEAD OF HIM IN TERMS OF REHAB AND IN TERMS OF RECOVERY. THAT IS THE MENTAL STRUGGLE THAT YOU START GOING THROUGH. YOU START PUTTING YOUR MIND THROUGH THOSE THINGS. BRUCE: OUR PRAYERS ARE OUT FOR HIM. GREG: AND NOT JUST THE BENGALS, BUT THE FALCONS TOO. BRUCE: YES. AND NOW FOR THE BENGALS, AS A COACH WE HAVE TO REGROUP AND GO. WE ALL FEEL TERRIBLE, BUT THEY HAVE SOME OTHER TIGHT ENDS. SOMETIMES IT SEEMS VERY COLD, BUT YOU HAVE TO GO ON AND PICK UP FOR HIM. TRENT: AND THAT IS THE NATURE OF IT. IT IS NOT AN IDEAL SITUATION BECAUSE YOU FEEL CONCERN FOR A TEAMMATE AND HIS FAMILY AND WHAT THEY ARE ALL GOING THROUGH, BUT ULTIMATELY YOU HAVE TO GET READY FOR THE SNET SNAP, NEXT PLAY, NEXT SERIES AND THE NEXT GAME. GREG: HIS RIGHT ANKLE WAS CAUGHT UNDERNEATH THE MAN WHO TACKLED HIM, CAMPBELL. CERTAINLY A PERFECTLY LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE HIT, AND IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF POSITION AND CIRCUMSTANCE. TRENT: YOU CAN SEE THE EMOTION ON EIFERT'S FACE. BRUCE: THE BENGALS CAN'T LET THIS BE A DOWNER RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE IN A DOGFIGHT. THIS IS A GAME WHERE YOU CAN'T HAVE A LULL RIGHT NOW. SOMEBODY PICK IT UP FOR HIM AND DO IT FOR HIM PAUSE HE IS NOT COMING BACK. GREG: THAT IS AN INTERESTING POINT. WHAT IS THE MOOD OF THE TEAM, AND HOW DO YOU GET THE RIGHT MOOD BACK AFTER A SERIOUS INJURY FOR A TEAMMATE? BRUCE: IT IS HARD ON THE FIELD. IF THEY COME OVER, YOU CAN TALK TO THEM AND SAY WE HAVE TO MOVE ON. WE AWE FEEL FOR HIM, BUT LET'S PLAY FOR THEM NOW. TRENT: THEY HAVE WHY YET TO MISS A THIRD DOWN TODAY. 3-3, SCORING ON EVERY POTENTIAL. LET'S SEE HOW THEY TRANSITION. GREG: THIRD AND SIX. DALTON UNDER PRESSURE AND GOING TO GO DOWN. FIRST SACK OF THE DAY. JACK CRAWFORD AND TAKARIST MCKINLEY COMBINING. TRENT: THAT IS JUST THE FIFTH TIME ALL SEASON THAT ANDY DALTON HAS BEEN SACKED. YOU SEE THE POWER MOVE BY MCKINLEY. HE MISSED LAST WEEK'S GAME. THAT IS HIS THIRD SACK ON THE SEASON. YOU SEE THE PRESENCE HE BRINGS WHEN HE IS OUT THERE ON THE FIELD. GREG: WE HAVE A PUNTER SIGHTING. KEVIN HUBER, AND JUSTIN HARDY IS DEEP. BLOCKED! AND THE FALCONS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER INSIDE THE 10 ARTEST! -- INSIDE THE 10-YARD-LINE! BRUCE: WHAT A HUGE MOMENTUM SHIFT. GREG: IT APPEARED KEITH TANDY MAY HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO GET IN AND BLOCK IT. LET'S SEE. TRENT: NO TIME TO GET THIS BALL OUT. A CLEAN RUN-THROUGH. LITERALLY ALMOST RUNS PAST IT BECAUSE OF HOW CLEAN A SHOT HE HAD IN GETTING THROUGH. BRUCE: HE WAS SO CLEAN HE WAS AFRAID HE WAS GOING TO ROUGH THE PUNTER. HE COULD HAVE TAKEN IT OFF THE FOOT AND SCORED. GREG: KEITH TANDY THERE TO MAKE THE BLOCK. FIRST AND GOAL FOR THE FALCONS, WHO TRAIL BY FOUR. [WHISTLE] AND A FLAG. REFEREE: FALSE START, OFFENSE NUMBER 65. FIVE-YARD PENALTY. REMAINS FIRST DOWN. TRENT: COACH, LET ME ASK YOU THIS. IS IT WORTHWHILE IF YOU ARE MARVIN LEWIS AND BURN A TIME-OUT? THINK ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED. YOU HAD THE INJURY, THEN THE THIRD DOWN WITH FIRST SACK AND THEN THE BLOCKED PUNT. DO YOU CALL A TIME-OUT? BRUCE: NO, I THINK YOU PLAY ON. YOU HAVE GOTTEN THAT OUT OF THE WAY. THAT WAS AN INEXCUSABLE PEN RIGHT THERE. GREG: THE PITCH IS TO COLEMAN. COLEMAN TO THE 10, TO THE FIVE AND OUT OF BOUNDS. THEY WILL MARK HIM OUT AT THE FOUR-YARD-LINE. BRUCE: WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TACKLING ALL DAY. THAT WAS A FREE SHOT AND MISSED. TEVIN COLEMAN DID A GREAT JOB OF MEETING THE SAFETY MISS. TRENT: JESSE BATES COMES UP, DOESN'T TRUST THE INSIDE PURSUIT. GREG: COLEMAN AGAIN. GOING NOWHERE, ANTHONY BACK BY NUMBER 97, GENO ATKINS. TRENT: GENO SAID YOU ARE NOT GOING TO JUKE OR MAKE A MOVE ON THIS. THAT IS A BIG BAD MAN RIGHT THERE. BRUCE: THEY TRIED TO CUT BLOCK ON THE BACK SIDE. THEY ARE NOT CUTTING GENO. HE IS TOO ATHLETIC FOR A BIG MAN. GREG: THIRD AND GOAL NOW FROM THE SIX. RYAN STANDING IN, NOW TRYING TO BREAK OUT AND IS SACKED AT THE 10. THIS TIME IT IS CARLOS DUNLAP. TRENT: EXCELLENT JOB OF COVERAGE BY THE BENGALS. THERE WAS NOWHERE TO GO. LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS SOME QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THE BALL CAME LOOSE. THE BENGALS ARE SAYING IT IS THERE FIGHT. GREG: CLAP FIGHTING FOR THE BALL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PILE. TRENT: STILL NO CALL BY THE OFFICIALS ON WHETHER HE WAS DOWN. GREG: THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION EVEN IF HE WRESTLED IT. DID IT HAPPEN AFTER RYAN HIT THE TURF? THE FALCONS FEEL STRONGLY ENOUGH ABOUT IT TO HAVE THEIR FIELD GOAL UNIT ON THE FIELD. YOU SEE THE FRUSTRATION THERE IN MATT RYAN. THAT IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. BRUCE: THAT WAS A HUGE STOP BY THE BENGALS. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED WITH THE INJURY, THE THIRD DOWN SICK AND THE PUNT BLOKE. TO I HAVE ONLY GIVE UP THREE, THAT IS A WIN FOR THE BENGALS. GREG: BRYANT BRYANT FROM 28 YARDS, -- MATT BRYANT FROM 2 YARDS, AND IT IS GOOD. THAT IS THE FIRST TIME THE FA ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY HONDA. AWARDED BEST S.U.V. BRAND BY U.S. NEWS. SONIC. THIS IS HOW YOU SONIC. AND BY NFL SUNDAY TICKET, ONLY ON DIRECTV. [CAPTIONING FUNDED BY CBS SPORTS DIVISION] [CAPTIONING PERFORMED BY THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS CAPTION CONTENT AND ACCURACY. VISIT NCICAP.ORG] GREG: A LOOK AT THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, FOUNDED IN 1951, OPENED HERE IN ATLANTA IN 2014. THERE IS A FAMILIAR PERSON RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN. OUR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE, JAMIE , WHO WORKED THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA YESTERDAY AND DECIDED TO POP IN ON US TODAY. TRENT: SHE WAS THREE YEARS ON OUR CREW. HAPPY FOR JAMIE GETTING TO WORK ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL. GETS TO RELAX ON SUNDAYS AS WE ARE UP HERE CALLING AN INCREDIBLE GAME. BRUCE: IMPRESSED WITH BOTH DEFENSES COMING OUT FROM HALFTIME. BOTH WON THE FIRST DRIVE. GREG: SATURDAY, THE BEST GAME FROM THE BEST CONFERENCE FEATURES NUMBER FIVE RANKED L.S.U. TAKING ON FLEAS. PROMISES TO BE A GOOD ONE. THEIR LAST FOUR MEETING DECIDED BY A TOUCHDOWN OR LESS. THE DRIVE TO ATLANTA AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY BRING YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AT 2:30 EASTERN TIME HERE ON CBS. AND BY THE WAY, JAMIE ALWAYS LAUGHS. THAT IS JUST THE WAY SHE IS. ANDY DALTON ON THE MOVE. SIDELINE PASS, AND THEY ARE GOING TO CALL THAT A CATCH? THEY ARE. ABOUT THE 38-YARD-LINE TO JOHN ROSS. LET'S SEE. TRENT: LOOKS LIKE HE GETS THAT LEFT FOOT DOWN AND DRAG THE RIGHT FOOT. HE HAS TAKEN SOME HEAT HERE IN RECENT WEEKS BECAUSE OF DROPPED PASSES. GREG: AND THAT IS GOING TO BE CHALLENGED. THEY TRIED TO GET THAT SNAP OFF. I AM NOT SURE I SAW THAT FOOT DRAG, TRENT. TRENT: WATCH THE PELLETS. IT LOOKS LIKE THE BLACK PELLETS KICK UP AS HE IS DRAGGING THE FOOT. LEFT FOOT DOWN, LOOK AT THE RIGHT TOE. GREG: WELL, IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE PICKY ABOUT IT. WE HAVE THE TIME-OUT CALLED ON THE FIELD. TRENT: IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER HE HAS THE BALL SECURE WHILE THE FOOT IS DRAGGING. I THINK BECAUSE IT IS CALLED A CATCH, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS -- FLORES FROM WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, IF THERE IS -- AT LEAST FROM WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, IF THERE IS ENOUGH TO OVERTURN IT. BRUCE: IT SURE LOOKED LIKE A GOOD CATCH. CONTROL OF HIS FEET AND CONTROL OF THE BALL. GREG: AND GOOD NEWS FOR THE BENGALS IN THAT JOHN ROSS APPEARS TO BE BACK ON THE FIELD HEALTHY. TRENT: ANOTHER LOOK. ONE DOWN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS ENOUGH TO OVERTURN IT. BRUCE: THAT IS THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT THIS YEAR IN ANDY DALTON, PLAYING OUTSIDE THE POCKETS. GREG: DALTON HAS COMPLETED 13 STRAIGHT THROWS. THIS IS BERNARD ACROSS THE 40 TO ABOUT THE 42, PROPERTY DOWN BY ISAIAH OLIVER, THE ROOKIE CORNERBACK OUT OF COLORADO. ANDY DALTON, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HIM, LIKE THE PLUSES AND MINUSES. NOT TOO MANY MINUSES HIM TODAY. BRUCE: NO. HE IS CHASING AN OLD BENGAL AL, KENNY ANDERSON, TRYING TO HIT 22 IN A ROW. TRENT: ALEX VAN PELT WAS IN GREEN BAY WORKING WITH AARON RODGERS. AARON RODGERS IS ONE OF THE BEST ATE GETTING OUTSIDE THE POCKET AND EXTENDING PLAYS. THAT WORK HAS HELPED ANDY DALTON. GREG: THAT ONE BATTED RIGHT BACK BY VIC BEASLEY. TRENT: BEASLEY IS COMING OFF THE EDGE HERE. HE DOESN'T FALL FOR THE BOOTLEG . INSTEAD OF FLATTENING OUT, HE IS RIGHT THERE IN DALTON'S FACE. GREG: HOW ABOUT BEASLEY'S HANG TIME? BRUCE: RUSHERS DON'T PLAY THE CUT BACK. HE SAID THE HECK WITH THE RUN, I AM GOING AFTER THE QUARTERBACK. TRENT: HE LEFT IN THE FIRST HALF BECAUSE OF AN ANKLE INJURY. DIDN'T SEEM TO EFFECT HIM WITH THAT VERTICAL. GREG: THIRD AND SIX FOR THE BENGALS. DALTON THROWS. THAT IS COMPLETE, AND THAT IS GOOD FOR A FIRST DOWN AND MORE TO THE 45. TYLER BOYD. THAT IS A 13-YARD PICK UP. TRENT: WE JUST TOUCHED ON IT HE IS BUYING TIME WITH HIS FEET. THE BOUNCES TO THE RIGHT. CAN'T CAN'T GET HIS FEET SECURE TO THE GROUND, BUT HE IS ABLE TO MAKE AN ACCURATE THROW AND PICK UP THE FIRST DOWN. BRUCE: THAT HAS BEEN HIS PROBLEM IN THE MOST, MOVING AND NOT GETTING SET IN POCKET. THEY HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB WITH HIS FUNDAMENTALS. GREG: SO ONCE AGAIN THE BENGALS IN ATLANTA TERRITORY. THIS IS BERNARD, BREAKS TO THE OUTSIDE. 35 AND OUT OF BOUNDS AT ABOUT THE 32 OR 31-YARD-LINE, RUN OUT OF BOUNDS BY DAMONTAE KAZEE. BRUCE: BERNARD BOUNCES OUTSIDE, AND HE LOSES LEVERAGE. TRENT: LEVERAGE AND TRUST. BRUCE: THAT SHOULD BE A FOUR-YARD GAIN. TRENT: THAT'S RIGHT. GREG: BERNARD COMES TO THE SIDELINE FOR A BREATHER. HE IS REPLACED BY THE ROOKIE, MARK WALTON. FIRST DOWN. THIS IS WALTON. AND WE CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS WITH MELANIE COLLINS. MELANIE: WE DON'T KNOW THE EXTENT OF TYLER EIFERT'S INJURY. THEY GOT HIM INTO THE TUNSIL AND HE BROKE DOWN EMOTIONALLY. YOU COULD TELL HE WAS IN AND TO OF PAIN. THEY TOOK HIM TO THE X-RAY ROOM INITIAL LINCECUM HE HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL YET. I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I HAVE SOMETHING OFFICIAL. AWFUL SEEING HIM DEALING WITH ANOTHER INJURY. BACK TO YOU. GREG: THANK YOU, MELANIE. SECOND AND EIGHT. DALTON THROWING, INCOMPLETE. TOO HIGH FOR A.J. GREEN. IT WILL BE THIRD AND EIGHT. BRUCE: IT WAS SCARY WHEN GIOVANI BERNARD LIMPED OFF. MARVIN LEWIS ROLLED THE DICE AND ONLY DRESSED TWO RUNNING BACKS TODAY. THEY CAN AFFORD TO LOSE ONE OF THEM FOR SURE. GOOD JOB BY ALFORD ON GREEN. TRENT: CINCINNATI HAS ONLY NOT CONVERTED THIRD DOWN ONE TIME TODAY. IT WAS ON A THIRD AND LONG. WITH EIFERT OUT, IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT COMBINATION HE WORKS WITH. GREG: ON THIRD AND EIGHT, DALTON UNDER PRESSURE AND GOES DOWN. COURTESY OF TAK MCKINLEY. WE TALKED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY WHAT HIS RETURN MIGHT MEAN TO THE FALCON DEFENSE. TRENT: THE BAD THING, NOT ONLY DO YOU NOT GET THE THIRD DOWN, AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, INSTEAD OF KICKING A FIELD GOAL, THE BENGALS ARE GOING TO SEND THE PUNTING UNIT OUT. YOU ARE RIGHT, GREG. MCKINLEY HAS MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE, ESPECIALLY IN BOTH THIRD AND LONGS, BEING ABLE TO PUSH THE POCKET. GREG: JUSTIN HARDY IS DEEP. KEVIN HUBER WILL TRY TO PIN THE FALCONS DEEP. FAIR CATCH CALLED FOR AND MADE AT ABOUT THE 8-YARD-LINE. 7:40 TO GREG: BACK ONCE AGAIN IN THIS BEAUTIFUL STADIUM IN ATLANTA, MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM. GREG GUMBEL, BRUCE ARIANS, TRENT GREEN AND MELANIE COLLINS. 28-27, THE BENGALS IN THE LEAD. ATLANTA LED FOR JUST THREE MINUTES AND FOUR SECONDS AT THE START OF THE DAY. SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN AN OFFENSIVE SHOOTOUT ON BOTH SIDES. RYAN IS GOING DEEP DOWN FAR SIDELINE. IT IS CAUGHT BY JULIO JONES! AND NOW RULED THAT HE IS OUT OF BOUNDS, INCOMPLETE. TRENT: THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS IS HOW HE COMES BACK TO THE BALL. DOESN'T LEAVE AN ANGLE. YES, THAT SECOND FOOT COMES OUT. GOOD CALL BY THE OFFICIALS. THERE IS ONE, AND THE SECOND ONE HITS THAT WHITE LINE. BRUCE: WHAT A THROW AND CATCH. THERE ARE NOT MANY GUYS WHO CAN RUN 30-YARD COMEBACKS AND THE QUARTERBACKS HITS THEM ON THE MONEY. GREG: SO IT IS SECOND AND 10. THE FANS THINK THEY SEE SOMETHING, BUT THEY ARE FOOLING THEM. THIS PASS IS COMPLETE TO MOHAMED SANU. THEY ARE WATCHING ON THE HUGE OVERHEAD SCREENS HERE, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY SEE. TRENT: I AGREE. I DON'T THINK THAT WAS WORTH THE CHALLENGE OR THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF A TOWN. THERE WASN'T ENOUGH TO OVERTURN IT. NOW YOU GET THE COMPLETION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD AND A FIRST DOWN ANYWAY. MART DECISION BY THE COACHI STAFF. GREG: THAT WAS INCOMPLETE LITERALLY BY HALF A FOOT. TEVIN COLEMAN HIT HARD AND BOUNCED BACK. IF YOU HAVE JOINED US RECENTLY HERE IN ATLANTA, IT HAS BEEN ALL OFFENSE TODAY. ANDY DALTON, 17-21 AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS, AND THE BENGALS LOST TYLER EIFERT HERE IN THE THIRD QUARTER WITH A HORRENDOUS INJURY TO WHAT APPEARED TO BE HIS RIGHT ANKLE. HE IS OUT FOR THE REST OF THIS GAME, AND IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE US TO LEARN THAT HE IS GONE FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON. SECOND AND EIGHT. RYAN THROWING BACK, AND HIT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY WAS DEANGELO HALL. IT WILL BE THIRD DOWN. TRENT: WELL, THAT WAS A SURE TACKLE BY WILLIAMS. THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. HE WRAPPED IT UP AND SAID YOU ARE NOT JUKING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. PRESIDENT PUTIN HE READ THE SCREEN PERFECTLY. HE HAS STUDIED HIS PLAYBOOK AND A LOT OF FINE. WELL DESIGNED PLAY AND GREAT TACKLE. GROIN THIRD DOWNS HAVE BEEN THE STORY HERE TODAY, JUST AS THEY HAVE BEEN ON SEASON LONG. THE TWO WORST TEAMS IN STOPPING THE OPPONENT'S THIRD DOWN. IT IS A THIRD AND SIX HERE FOR THE FALCONS. RYAN FOR ITO SMITH, AND THERE IS A STOP ON THIRD DOWN AS HE IS BROUGHT TO A HALT AT THE 30-YARD-LINE. TRENT: WELL, CONSIDER BETWEEN THE TWO TEAMS IN THE FIRST HALF THERE WAS ONLY ONE THIRD DOWN STOP IN THE FIRST HALF. SO FAR IN THE SECOND HALF, EACH TEAM HAS TWO THIRD DOWN STOPS. COACH WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT THE LAST BREAK. GIVE CREDIT TO THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS. BRUCE: THEY DID SOME GOOD TALKING AND COACHES AT HALFTIME. GREG: MATT BOSHER TO KICK IT AWAY TO ALEX ERICKSON. THIS IS ATLANTA'S FIRST PUNT OF THE DAY. ERICKSON AT ABOUT THE 30. AND OUT OF BOUNDS ACROSS THE 40-YARD-LINE. 4:52 TO PLAY IN THE ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY VERIZON. THE BEST UNLIMITED IS ON VERIZON, AMERICA'S MOST AWARDED NETWORK. AND BY MCDONALD'S. GREG: COACH AND TRENT WILL BE AT THE TOP OF THE FERRIS WHEEL, AND MELANIE WILL BE RUNNING THROUGH CENTENNIAL PARK. GIVE ME THE AQUARIUM. 550,000 SQUARE FEET HERE IN ATLANTA, BECAUSE I AM AN AQUATIC KIND OF GUY. ANDY DALTON FROM HIS OWN 42, THE PITCH FOR BERNARD. AND BERNARD WITH A HEAD OF SPEED GETS CLOSE TO MIDFIELD. YOU CAN SEE THINGS HAVE CALMED DOWN A BIT FOR THE BENGALS HERE IN THE SECOND HALF. TRENT: BUT THEY ARE STARRING THIS POSSESSION OFF WITH GREAT FIELD POSITION. WHAT THEIR DEFENSE DID HOLDING THE FALCONS AND THEN THE RUNT. YOU GET A CIBULKOVA-YARD RUN, AND NOW YOU ARE SETTING THE PLATE FOR ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO. GREG: SECOND AND THREE. LET'S SEE WHAT OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR BILL LASER AND ANDY DALTON WANT TO DO. DALTON. GIOVANI BERNARD WAS POUNCED UPON BY DUKE RILEY. THAT WAS REAL CLOSE TO GOING THE OTHER WAY. TRENT: I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING. IF DUKE RILEY HAD BEEN LOOKING BACK AT THE QUARTERBACK, HE MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PICK THIS IN STRIDE AND GO THE OTHER WAY. BUT HE WAS DIALED IN ON COVERING HIS GUY. HE KNOWS THE SUCCESS THEY HAVE HAD ON THAT SWING ROUTE. HE SKEWED THE TACKLE, FORCING A THIRD AND LONG. BRUCE: THEY HAVE BEEN BEAT UP ALL WEEK ON TACKLING RUNNING BACKS AND GIVING UP YARDS AFTER CATCH. HE WAS DIALED IT ON THE TACKLE. GREG: THREE AND A HALF TO GO IN THIRD. TRENT: DALTON HAS TO PICK UP THE MATCHUP HE WANTS. GREG: OUT TO TYLER BOYD. BOYD WITH RUNNING ROOM AND A FIRST DOWN, TO THE 45 OF THE FALCONS. TRENT: HOW ABOUT GLEN, THE LEFT TACKLE, 77. 6'6", 345. GETS OUT IN SPACE. BOYD WAITS FOR THE LOCK. THE D.P. IS GOING LOW ON THAT. HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE THAT ON. BRUCE: THE BIG BLOCK WAS A.J. GREEN. HE IS AN UNSELFISH PLAYER. GREG: GARRETT HAS GONE TO THE SIDELINES FOR THE FALCONS. THIS IS WALTON. A LITTLE STOP AND GO GETS A COUPLE. IT WILL BE SECOND AND SEVEN. TRENT: GOOD PATIENT BY WALTON, READING THE BLOCK AND SETTING IT UP. KIND OF GOING WITH THE PILE, EFFECTIVE RUN ON FIRST DOWN. BRUCE: COMING OUT OF HALF, BOTH DEFENSES ARE SHUTTING DOWN THE RUN PRETTY GOOD. THE BENGALS ARE STARTING TO GET THEIR RUN GAME GOING AGAIN, WHICH WILL HELP THEIR PLAY-ACTION GAME. AGAIN, YOU HAVE AFFIRM J. IN THE SLOT UP TOP. GREG: DALTON LOOKS THAT WAY, THROWS THAT WAY ON THE SIDELINE. INCOMPLETE, OFF THE HANDS OF ROSS. AND WE HAVE A PENALTY FLAG DOWN . TRENT: WHAT DO YOU DO HERE, COACH? YOU HAVE AN INCOMPLETE PASS. IF YOU DEADLINE THE PENALTY, YOU HAVE THIRD AND SEVEN. BUT IF YOU TAKE IT, YOU ARE LOOKING AT SECOND AND 17. REFEREE: HOLDING, NUMBER 72. REPLAY SECOND DOWN. GREG: ALEX REDMOND GUILTY OF THE HOLD. BRUCE: ON THE FLIP SIDE, YOU ARE GIVING THEM TWO DOWNS. YOU ARE DEFENDING THE 38-YARD-LINE TO NOT GIVE UP THREE POINTS HERE. TRENT: JUST A LITTLE BIT AGO WE WERE LOOKING A LOT PICKS OF GRADY JARRETT ON THE SIDELINE DEALING WITH SOME KIND OF INJURY. HE IS NOT IN THERE. HE HAS BEEN A FORCE IN THE MIDDLE FOR THE FALCONS. THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TOE DO IT WITHOUT HIM A A LITTLE BIT. GREG: SECOND AND 17. BOUNCING AROUND AND INCOMPLETES OFF THE HANDS OF WALTON. A FLAG ON THE NEAR SIDE. BRIAN POOLE IS PLEADING. TRENT: WELL, HE LED WITH HIS HELMET. POOLE COMES IN AND LOWERS HIS FACEMASK OF BERNARD AFTER THAT BALL IS INCOMPLETE. THAT IS A HUGE PENALTY RIGHT THERE. INSTEAD OF THIRD AND 17 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 50, THIS WILL BE A FIRST DOWN. REFEREE: PERSONAL FOUL, DEFENSE. UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS. HIT IN THE HEAD AND NECK AREA. 15-YARD PENALTY, AUTOMATIC FIRST DOWN. GREG: AND NOT MUCH DOUBT ABOUT IT. TRENT: YOU CAN SEE THE REACTION OF THE BENGALS SIDELINE. EVERYBODY POINTED THAT OUT. BRUCE: YOU CAN'T LEAD WITH THE CROWN OF YOUR HELMET. YOU HAVE A BIG STOP ON DEFENSE RIGHT THERE. JUST WRAP HIM UP AND TACKLE HIM. GREG: SO A NEW SET OF DOWNS FOR DALTON. OVER THE MIDDLE. INTERCEPTED! PICKED OFF BY DAMONTAE KAZEE! AND A PENALTY MARKER FLIES, TWO OF THEM FLY ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE FIELD. TRENT: THE BALL APPEARS TO GO THROUGH THE HANDS OF TYLER KROFT. LET'S SEE IF CAMPBELL GETS A HAND IN THERE AND KNOCKS THAT AWAY. BUT THE BALL GETS TIPPED IN THE AIR GREG: THERE IS THE PENALTY. A LITTLE BUILT OF A FACE MASK. BRUCE: DELAYED HIT OR HORSE COLLAR. CAMPBELL GOT AWAY WITH ONE. HE GRABBED THE TIGHT END. TRENT: THEY COULD HAVE CALLED HOLDING OR PASS INTERFERENCE ON THAT. BRUCE: YES. ANDY DALTON HAD TWO INTERCEPTIONS LAST WEEK BALLS OF HIS RECEIVERS LET HIM DOWN. TRENT: I DON'T THINK KROFT LET HIM DOWN. HE GARROTTE GRABBED. YOU SAW HIM GET GRABBED AROUND THE HEAD. BRUCE: AND HE NEVER GOT HIS HARNEDS UP. TRENT: RIGHT. YOU CAN SEE ANDY DALTON SAYING UNBELIEVABLE. REFEREE: AFTER THE INTERCEPTION, PERSONAL FOUL, FACE MASK ON THE RETURN TEAM. PERSONAL FOUL, UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS, HORSE COLLAR TACKLE THOSE FOULS OFFSET, BOTH WERE DEAD BALL. RESULT OF THE PLAY IS FIRST DOWN ATLANTA AT THE 46-YARD-LINE. FROM GREG: IT IS STILL ATLANTA'S BALL OFF THE TURNOVER. THERE IS THE MACEK ON THE PART OF NEWSPAPER 27, KAZEE. -- OF NUMBER 27, KAZEE. 1:43 TOE PLAY IN THE THIRD. HERE ARE THE FALCONS AT THEIR OWN 46. ITO SMITH. PENALTY MARKER IN THE BACKFIELD . REFEREE: DURING THE RUN, HOLDING, OFFENSE NUMBER 51. 10-YARD PENALTY FROM THE PREVIOUS SPOT. REPLAY FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT IS THE VETERAN PRO BOWL CENTER ALEX MACK. BRUCE: THIS IS TWO TIMES AFTER BIG MOMENTUM CHANGES THAT THE FALCONS HAD PERSONALITIES ON FIRST AND 10. ON THE BLOCKED PUNT, OFFSIDES, AND NOW A HOLD. THEY ARE KILLING THEMSELVES ON FIRST DOWN. GREG: IN THE FIRST HALF, THIS WAS RELATIVELY A PENALTY-FREE GAME, BUT IT HAS TURNED INTO A FLAG FEST HERE IN THE SECOND HALF. NOW FIRST AND 20. RYAN. HIT AS HE TRIES TO THROW THE BALL. LET'S SEE IF IT IS A FUMBLE OR AN INCOMPLETE PASS. PENALTY MARKER IS DOWN THERE. TRENT: PUSHING IN MIDDLE OF THE PILE. HE DRIVES ALEX MACK RIGHT BACK INTO THE FACE OF MATT RYAN. I THINK LITERALLY RIGHT BACK INTO THE FACE. IT LOOKS LIKE TUPO MAY HAVE GOTTEN A HAND TO FACE AS FAR AS HITTING MATT RYAN. REFEREE: THE RESULT OF THE PLAY IS A FUMBLE RECOVERED BY THE OFFENSE. THE PENALTY IS ROUGHING THE PASSER, DEFENSE. RE-- TRENT: TUPO COMES THROUGH THE MIDDLE, ACTUALLY HITS HIM IN THE FACE. WATCH LAUNCH AT THE BOTTOM. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE PENALTY ON LAUNCH WAS. BRUCE: HE WRAPPED UP THE NECK HERE, HIT HIM STRAIGHT TO THE HEAD. THAT IS A PENALTY ALL THE WAY. AGAIN, DISCIPLINE ON BOTH TEAMS RIGHT NOW IS GETTING A LITTLE RAGGEDY. GREG: FIRST DOWN AS WE APPROACH A MINUTE TO PLAY HERE IN THE THIRD. EAT SMITH INSIDE THE 45 TO THE 44, WHERE JAMES BROWN MAKES THE TACKLE. BOTH THESE TEAMS TRYING TO DISCOVER A RUNNING GAME IN THE SECOND HALF. BRUCE: THAT IS PROBABLY THE FIRST POSITIVE RUN IN THE SECOND HALF FOR THE FALCONS, WHICH THEY DID SO WELL IN THE FIRST HALF. AGAIN, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED, SECOND AND FIVE IF THIS ISN'T A GO TO JULIO DEEP PLAY. GREG: EAT SMITH. -- ITO SMITH. HE RUNS INTO A QUICK STOP AT THE 42. PRESTON BROWN AND JORDAN EVANS COMBINING. SMITH COMES OFF AS WE LOOK AT THIRD AND THREE. THEY WILL LET THE TIME WIND DOWN, AND WE HAVE COME TO THE END OF THREE HERE IN ATLANTA. GREG: ALONG WITH OUR PRODUCER, KEN MACK, AND SUZANNE SMITH, GREG GUMBEL, TRENT GREEN, BRUCE ARIANS AND MELANIE COLLINS, AND WE START THE FOURTH QUARTER HERE IN FALCON. THIRD AND THREE FOR THE FALCONS, WHO TRAIL BY ONE. TRENT: I LIKE THOSE BUNCH FORMATIONS WHERE YOU HAVE THE THREE RECEIVERS LIKE THE FALCONS DO AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. YOU CAN DO SOME COMBINATIONS WHETHER YOU GET ZONE OR MAN COVERAGE. BRUCE: YOU HAVE JULIO WIDE OPEN IN THE MIDDLE. NOTHING COVERING HIM GREG: THAT PASS TO A WIDE OPEN JONES. FIRST DOWN TO THE 30. TRENT: IF IT IS THIRD AND THREE, WHO IS THE ONE GUY YOU COVER? THERE IS MISCOMMUNICATION THERE? BRUCE: HARDY, THE MIDDLE LINEBACKER WENT THE WRONG WAY. GREG: THAT IS JONES' FIRST RECEPTION IN THIS HALF. HE HAD FIVE IN THE FIRST HALF. RYAN PULSE IT DOWN, WIDE OPEN INSIDE THE FIVE, TOUCHDOWN CALVIN RIDLEY! TRENT: A QUICK NOD TO THE OUTS, WHICH GIVES THE APPEARANCE IT IS GOING TO BE AN OUT ROUTE. GIVES A NOD AND TAKES IT UP. SAFETY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD, SO NO HELP OVER THE TOP. QUICK STEP AND IT IS OVER. GREG: THEY WILL GO FOR A TWO-POINT CONVERSION. IT IS ATLANTA'S FIRST LEAD SINCE HALF WAY THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER. ALL THE WIDE RECEIVERS ON THIS SIDE OF THE FIELD. RYAN THROWING GOAL LINE. IT IS CAUGHT, AND A PENALTY MARKER WAS THROWN. TRENT: WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT MANY TIMES. TALKED ABOUT IT MANY TIMES. THAT IS A FINE LINE BETWEEN A RUB ROUTE AND A PICK ROUTE. THAT TIME THE FLAG WAS THROWN. GREG: I BELIEVE YOU SAID IT DEPENDS ON WHAT SIDE YOU ARE ON? TRENT: RIGHT. GOT RIDLEY ON THAT ONE JUST TRYING TO RUN THROUGH THE DEFENDER. HE CAUSED HIS MAN TO GET IN THE WAY OF BATES, WHO HAD SANU IN THE FLAT. BRUCE: THERE IS A QUESTION ON WHETHER HE GOT THAT BALL IN. GREG: SMITH AND HIS CREW DISCUSSING IT. HERE WE GO. HERE WE DON'T GO. TRENT: THAT IS A BIG CALL. IF IT IS NOT IN, YOU DEADLINE THE PENALTY, A FAILED ATTEMPT. REFEREE: PASS INTERFERENCE ON THE OFFENSE. THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED. THAT IS WHY IT WAS NO GOOD. TIME-OUT. GREG: SO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. BUT YOUNG MR. RIDLEY MAKES HIS PRES GREG: RIDLEY ON THE RECEIVING HE SAID OF A 30-YARD TOUCHDOWN PASS FROM MATT RYAN TO CAP A 54-YARD DRIVE. THE FALCONS LEAD IT 33-28. RYAN, OUT TOUCHDOWNS, NO PICKS IN HIS LAST TWO GAMES, INCLUDING THREE TOUCHDOWN PASSES TODAY. TRENT: FIVE OF THOSE EIGHT GOING TO RIDLEY THE LAST TWO WEEKS. GREG: THIS IS ALEX ERICKSON. ERICKSON, 25, 40, CUTS IT BACK, ACROSS THE 45 TO THE 4. A TERRIFIC RETURN BY ALEX ERICKSON. LET GO BACK TO THAT CONVERSION ATTEMPT. THE FALCONS TRIED TO GO FOR THE TWO POINTS WHERE IT WAS RULED THAT SANU DID NOT MAKE IT INTO THE END ZONE. TRENT: IT IS CLEARLY A PENALTY ON RIDLEY. SANU, HE PUTS THAT BALL IN THE LEFT ARM SO WHEN HIS KNEES COME DOWN, THE BALL HAS NOD BROKEN THE PLANE. HAD HE HAD THE BALL IN THE RIGHT ARM, IT LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD HAVE CROSSED THE PLANE, FORCING THE BENGALS TO TAKE THE PENALTY AND RETRY IT. GREG: FIVE-POINT LEAD. DALTON GIVES TO GIOVANI BERNARD, WHO IS THE ONLY RUNNING BACK AVAILABLE TO THE BENGALS NOW. MARK WALTON IS UNDERGOING EXAMINATION IN THE LOCKER ROOM. BRUCE: THE BENGALS ROLLED THE DICE ONLY DRESSING TWO RUNNING BACKS THIS WEEK. THAT IS SCARY AS AN OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND YOU LOSE YOUR ONLY OR GUY. YOU ARE PROBABLY PLAYING FIVE WIDE RECEIVERS THE REST OF THE WAY. GREG: GIOVANI BERNARD IS IT NO RUNNING BACK FOR IS NOT. BERNARD LOOKING FOR FIRST DOWN YARDAGE, CLOSE TO IT AT ABOUT THE 43. BRUCE: I AM HOLDING MY BREAST EVERY TIME HE GETS UP, TRENT. TRENT: I WAS SITTING HERE THINKING THAT. IF YOU ARE THE CATCHING STAFF, EVERY TIME YOU HAND OFF OR THROW A SWING TO HIM. YOU CAN'T PLAY SQUARE AND CALL YOUR PLAYS. BRUCE: PLAY SMART AND NOT SCARED. TRENT: YES. GREG: HERE IS A THIRD AND ONE. BALTIMORE BRINGS BERNARD BACK INTO THE BACKFIELD. GOING TO THROW FOR IT. UNDER PRESSURE, IT IS COMPLETE INSIDE THE 40 TO THE 37-YARD-LINE. TYLER BOYD. TRENT: BOYD IS GOING TO BE A PART OF THE BUNCH FORMATION TO RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. HE TAKES OFF ACROSS THE FIELD. THEY ONLY NEED A YARD. THEY ARE IN MAN COVERAGE, THE FALCONS DECIDED TO BRING PRESSURE. IN THAT BUNCH FORMATION, YOU CAN TAKE OFF. IT IS HARD TO GET A CLEAN LOOK. BRUCE: YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE THE INSIDE GUY AND OUTSIDE GUY. YOU ARE GOING TO GET PICKED EVERY TIME. GREG: TYLER BOYD, SIX CATCHES, 57 YARDS. THIS IS BERNARD. STACKED UP AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. THERE IS JARRETT BACK IN ACTION. BRUCE: THE THING WITH A TWO-POINT CONVERSION. TWO FIELD GOALS BEAT YOU. 14:25 WHEN THEY WENT FOR TWO, THAT IS ALWAYS THE QUESTION. TWO FIELD GOALS BEATS ME OR WAIT LATER. OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE GETTING IN RANGE FOR THE FIELD GOAL NOW WITH PLENTY OF TIME ON THE CLOCK. OBVIOUSLY THEY WANT TO GET A TOUCHDOWN, BUT THAT IS WHERE THAT TWO-POINT CONVERSION COMES BACK INTO FILET. TRENT: YOU HAVE TO JUGGLE THAT, WHAT KIND OF RISK YOU WANT TO TAKE WITH IT. GREG: ON SECOND AND 10, THIS SIDE OF THE FIELD, PENALTY MARKER FLIES AS A.J. GREEN PULLS IT IN. TRENT: THAT WAS THE SAME COVERAGE THAT THEY RAN EARLIER, A TWO-MAN PRINCIPLE. TWO HIGH SAFETIES. EVERYBODY IN A TRAIL TECHNIQUE. REFEREE: HOLDING, DEFENSE NUMBER 23. PENT IS DECLINED. RESULT OF THE PLAY IS A FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT IS ALFORD. TRENT: LAST TIME THEY WERE IN THIS COVERAGE, HE GOT CALLED ON THE SAME THING. HE GOT HIS HANDS ON GREEN. BRUCE: A.J. HAS THAT LENGTH. IT IS JUST WHO IS GOING TO GET CALLED. I KNOW I HAVE TO GRAB HIM, BUT I WILL LET HIM GO AND THEN GET READY FOR THE PUSH-OFF. SAME MATCHUP AT THE BOTTOM ONE-ON-ONE. THE PITCH FOR ERICKSON. GREG: LEFT SIDE WITH BLOCKING. INSIDE THE 15 TO ABOUT THE 12. TRENT: THERE IS A PLAY IF YOU ARE ONLY DOWN TO ONE RUNNING BACK, WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU PUT ERICKSON IN THE BACKFIELD, PITCH HIM THE BALL AND LET HIM TAKE THE PITCH. GREG: AND THERE IS MARK WALTON OUT OF CONCUSSION PROTOCOL AND BACK ON THE FIELD. BRUCE: THE BENGALS HAD A COUPLE OF PLACE, KNOWING THEY ONLY HAD TWO, FOR A WIDE RECEIVER TO PLAY RUNNING BACK. GREG: SECOND AND TWO. WALTON, INSIDE THE 10. THAT WILL BE GOOD FOR A FIRST DOWN. IT WILL BE FIRST AND GOAL FROM ABOUT THE NINE. NOW, INTO THE RED ZONE, WHERE THE BENGALS HAVE BEEN SO EFFECTIVE. THEY HAVE THREE TOUCHDOWNS AND THREE RED ZONE VISITS. THEY HAVE SCORED POINTS IN 32 CONSECUTIVE TRIPS INSIDE THE 20. BRUCE: FIRST AND NINE IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES WHERE IT IS HARD FOR ME TO RUN THE BALL. I AM GOING TO TRY SOME KIND OF QUICK PASS, HOPEFULLY TO A HALFBACK. GREG: HE IS GOING TO GO TO THE END ZONE. IT IS A.J. GREEN, CAUGHT FOR THE TOUCHDOWN! WE HAVE A PELLMAN MARKER BACK IN THE BACKFIELD. TRENT: WHEN I SAW DALTON THROW THE BALL, HE HAD THIS FLAT TO THE CORNER OF THE END ZONE. REFEREE: ILLEGAL USE OF THE HANDS, HANDS TO THE FACE, OFFENSE NUMBER 68. 10-YARD PENALTY, REPRAY FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT PENT IS ON BOBBY HART. IT WILL NEGATE THE TOUCHDOWN. BRUCE: THAT WALL CAME OUT SO FAST, IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE HE GOT A PENALTY ON THE PLAY. HE HAD TO PUNCH HIM AT THE GET-GO. TRENT: LET'S SEE. OH, WOW. I DON'T SEE IT. BRUCE: HE HIT HIM, BUT HE PULLED IT RIGHT BACK. HE TURNED THE HEAD A LITTLE BIT. I DON'T KNOW. GREG: FIRST AND GOAL FROM THE 19. THAT BALL TIPPED AS IT WENT ON ITS WAY, AND WE GET A FLAG IN THE SECONDARY. REFEREE: HOLDING, DEFENSE, NUMBER 21. FIVE-YARD PENALTY FROM THE PREVIOUS SPOT, RESULTS IN AN AUTOMATIC FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT IS ON TRUFANT. NOW WE HAVE GOTTEN INTO AN AREA WHERE TEAMS ARE GIVING IT BACK AND FORTH. TRENT: TYLER BOYD IS RUNNING A DRAG ROUTE WITH TRUFANT ON HIM MAN-TO-MAN. YOU CAN SEE THE HOLD. THE INSIDE RELEASE, TRUFANT KNOW HE IS BEAT. SO HE REACHES OUT AND GRABS THAT SHOULDER AND PULLS HIM BACK. FOR THAT DEEP OFFICIAL, THAT IS AN EASY VIEW TO CALL. BRUCE: THEY SEE A JERSEY TUG, THAT IS AUTOMATIC. YOU CAN'T LOSE YOUR DISCIPLINE. PLAY WITH YOUR TECHNIQUE AND LEVERAGE. NOW THEY HAVE A PENALTY FOR A FIRST DOWN. GREG: FOUR FIRST DOWNS VIA THE PENALTY FOR CINCINNATI. ON FIRST DOWN, THE PASS AGAIN TO THE END ZONE, AND BATTED DOWN BY ALFORD THIS TIME, INTENDED FOR GREEN. TRENT: THE SAME PLAY THEY SCORED ON A MINUTE TO GO BEFORE THE HANDS TO THE FACE CALL. THEY DIALED IT UM AGAIN. THAT TIME ALFORD IS READY FOR IT. BRUCE: HE IS ALL PRO FOR A REASON. HE GOT HIS HEAD AROUND. I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO INTERCEPT IT TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. GREG: ATLANTA'S DEFENSE HAS NOT BEEN STERLING IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. THEY HAVE ALLOWED 36 POINTS, THE SECOND MOST IN THE LEAGUE BEHIND THE OAKLAND RAIDERS COMING INTO WEEK FOUR. DALTON PULLS IT DOWN, NOW THROWS COMPLETE. THIS IS BOYD, AND BOYD DIVES INSIDE THE 10 TO THE 9. BRUCE: DAMONTAE KAZEE WAS LUCKY RIGHT THERE. HE CAME IN AND LED WITH HIS HEAD INTO THE PILE. THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER PENALTY RIGHT THERE. GREG: THIRD AND FIVE. TRENT: WE HAVE TOUCHED ON IT SEVERAL TIMES, THE JOB THAT DALTON DOES MOVING HIS FEET, A VAST IMPROVEMENT ON THAT, HIS ABILITY THROWING. THIRD DOWN. I WOULD ANTICIPATE THEY ARE GOING MAN-TO-MAN. THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE DONE THE MAJORITY OF THIS GAME. BRUCE: THE MISMATCH WIGE BERNARD VERSUS THAT LINEBACKER. GREG: BERNARD IS WITH ANDY DALTON IN THE BACKFIELD. DALTON GOING DOWN BACK AT THE 19-YARD-LINE, AND THE BALL COMES OUT! AND IT BELONGS TO ATLANTA! TAK MCKINLEY WITH THE HIT! TRENT: DID YOU SEE WHAT THE FALCONS DID? SHE SWITCHED IT UP. INSTEAD OF GOING MAN-TO-MAN, THEY WENT AMAZON. THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR DALTON TO GO QUICKLY WITH THE BALL. MCKINLEY BRINGING HIM DOWN. IT LOOKS LIKE HIS KNEE IS DOWN BEFORE THE BALL COMES OUT. ALL TURNOVERS ARE REVIEWED, SO THAT IS GOING TO BE LOOKED AT. MCKINLEY, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW VALUABLE IT WAS GETTING HIM BACK AFTER MISSING THE GAME A WEEK AGO. GREG: VIK BEASLEY ON THE ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY CONTROL GX, THE FIRST SHAMPOO THAT FRADLY REDUCES GRAY. DOMINOES, ORDER ONLINE AT DOMINOS.COM. AND BY RAM TRUCKS. GREG: WE ARE BACK IN ATLANTA. AND THEY ARE ABOUT READY TO DELIVER THE VERDICT. REFEREE: THE QUARTERBACK HAD THE BALL WITH THE KNEE DOWN ON THE GROUND BEFORE IT WAS KNOCKED LOOSE. THEREFORE, IT WILL BE CINCINNATI'S BALL ON THE 18-YARD-LINE, FOURTH DOWN. CLOCK OPERATOR PLEASE RESET THE GAME CLOCK TO 8:26. GREG: OUR RULES ANALYST, GENO SMITH, PRETTY MUCH THE WAY YOU SAW -- AUSTERITY AUSTERITY, PRETTY MUCH THE WAY YOU SAY? ARE L- GREEN: THAT IS A GOOD RULING, YES. GREG: THANK YOU, AND NOW A FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT FROM 36 YARDS OUT. THE KICK BY RANDY BULLOCK IS GOOD. THAT PULLS THE BENGALS TO WITHIN TWO WITHIN 8:19 TOE PLAY HERE IN THE FOURTH. ATLANTA'S LEAD IS 33-31. WE HAVE -- WE HAVE HAD MORE SWINGS IN MOMENTUM HERE IN THE SECOND HALF THAN CAN YOU COUNT. TRENT: AND IT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING AS THIS GAME UNFOLDS, THIS FINAL 8:19. COACH TOUCHED ON THE POINT ABOUT GOING FOR THE TWO POINTS, DID ATLANTA AFTER THEIR LAST SCORE. NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN IT IS A TWO BIRTHDAY GAME. IF YOU GO FOR ONE, THEN IT WOULD BE A THREE-POINT GAME. WHAT AN EXCITING GAME WE HAVE HAD. BRUCE: IT IS GOOD TO SEE DEFENSES ON BOTH TEAMS TO SHOW BACK UP AND MAKE PLAYS. NOW WE HAVE A HECK OF A BALL GAME. THAT DECISION I THOUGHT WAS A LITTLE TOO EARLY IN THE GAME TO GO FOR TWO. GET AHEAD BY SIX. IF IT WAS UNDER EIGHT MINUTES, DEFINITELY GO FOR TWO. GREG: THAT FIELD GOAL, THE FIRST POINTS BY THE BENGALS HERE IN THE SECOND HALF. MARVIN HALL IS DEEP AND WILL NOT GET A CHANCE TO RETURN THIS ONE AS IT ROLLS THROUGH THE END ZONE FOR A TOUCHBACK. STAY TUNED FOR THE "THE NFL TODAY" UPDATE TIME PERMITTING. J.B., PHIL, BOOMER, COACH COWHER AND NATE. BACK ON TO THE FIELD COMES MATTIE ICE, 23-30, 280 YARDS AND THREE TOUCHDOWNS. TRENT: DON'T GO TO CONSERVATIVE MODE. IF YOU CAN GET A BIG PLAY, TARIK ONE. JUST DON'T BE CARELESS WITH THE FOOTBALL. GREG: RYAN OVER THE MIDDLE TO SANU. SANU BREAKING FREE UP THE SIDELINE AND FORCED OUT OF BOUNDS. BRUCE: NOBODY WANTED TO HAVE A BIGGER GAME IN THIS GAME THAN THE FORMER BENGALAL. MOHAMED SANU. TRENT: WATCH THE HARD PLAY FAKE BY MATT RYAN. SANU COMING IN FROM THE LEFT. ABLE TO BREAK THROUGH TWO TACKLES. TALKING TO MATT RYAN ON FRIDAY, I SAID JULIO JONES AND A.J. GREEN, THIS IS A GREAT MATCHUP. HE SAID MAN, I HAVE MOHAMED SANU IN MY EAR WANTING TO GET SOME PLAYS AGAINST HIS OLD TEAM. GREG: TEVIN COLEMAN AND A GREAT TAKE-DOWN IN THE BACKFIELD. BRUCE: THAT IS BIG. A NEGATIVE RUN ON THE EDGE OF FIELD GOAL RANGE. I AM NOT A FAN OF THES TO SWEEP. I WANT TO GO DOWNHILL. THAT PUTS ME IN A BAD SITUATION NOW. GREG: THAT IS WILLIAM JACKSON ON THE SIDELINE. TRENT: RUN THE ZONE, LET THEM READ THE BLOCKS AND THEN CUT BACK. THAT ONE STRETCHED OUT AND PLAYED INTO THEIR HANDS. VIGIL WITH A GOOD TACKLE. GREG: SANU NOW WITH 111 YARDS RECEIVING. RYAN SIDELINE, AND ALMOST PICKED. BY NUMBER 29, TONY MCCRAY. BRUCE: MAT IS LUCKY THERE. THAT LOOKED LIKE A PICK SIX. HE THREW A HATE HITCH OUT THERE AND MCCRAY BROKE ON IT PERFECTLY. I THINK HE PAN -- PANICKED A LITTLE BIT TRENT: AND I KNOW MATT RYAN KNOWS THIS. YOU HAVE TO LEAD IT TO THE OUTSIDE SHOULDER, GIVE THE UNDERNEATH COVERAGE TIME TO BUZZ OUT THERE. GOOD REACTION BY JULIO JONES. BRUCE: THEY NEED ABOUT EIGHT TO GET A FIELD GOAL. GREG: RIGHT -- RYAN, SHORT POP, COMPLETE. AUSTIN HOOPER HAS THE FIRST DOWN! TRENT: THE BENGALS ARE IN POSITION TO MAKE THIS TACKLE. HE TRIES A LITTLE CHIP BEFORE HE RELEASES. MATT RYAN I AM GOING TO LOOK IT OFF. IF THEY HAD MADE THAT TACKLE, THAT IS AN EIGHT YARD GAIN. BRUCE: YOU ARE TAKING THE CLOCK DOWN TO SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THREE MINUTES. YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT TACKLE. GROOG AUSTIN HOOPER'S FIRST CATCH OF THE DAY IS A BIG ONE. RYAN THROWING, INCOMPLETE. INTO THE END ZONE, SANU OF HIS INTENDED RECEIVER. AND SANU COMES UP WHOM BLED. SURE LOOKED LIKE ONE OF THE BENGALS' RECEIVERS LINED UP OFFSIDE IN THE SLOT. BRUCE: I AM WITH YOU, TRENT. I DON'T WANT TO PLAY CONSERVATIVE HERE. LET'S GET A TOUCHDOWN. LET'S MAKE IT A TWO-SCORE GAME, NOT A SIX-POINT DEPA GAME. TRENT: THAT IS THE THING TO REMEMBER. A TOUCHDOWN MAKES IT A TWO-SCORE GAME. IF YOU KICK A FIELD GOAL, THE BENGALS CAN STILL KICK A TOUCHDOWN AND WIN THIS THING. GREG: SECOND AND 10. ITO SMITH INSIDE THE 25 TO THE 24. WE COME UP ON SIX MINUTES TO PLAY IN REGULATION. A THIRD AND SEVEN. BRUCE: GOOD JOB BY MATT AUDIBLING. HE SAW A SOLID BEAR DEFENSE AND GOT THEM TO A PLAY FOR POSITIVE YARDAGE. GREG: SANU BACK ON TO THE FIELD FOR THE FALCONS. TRENT: THEY HAD TROUBLE GETTING THAT PLAY IN. DOWN UNDER 10 SECONDS ON THE PLY CLOCK. GREG: RYAN OVER THE MIDDLE. THAT IS COMPLETE TO JULIO JONES, INSIDE THE 10! IT WILL BE FIRST AND GOAL! TRENT: I THOUGHT THEY COULD HAVE POPPED IT QUICK TO SANU COMING OFF THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. INSTEAD THEY HIT THAT SECOND SLANT HIM HIM WITH JULIO JONES. HE SETS HIM UP WITH THE STICK MOVES AND CROSSES THE FACE. EXCELLENT PLAY CONCEPT BY SARKISIAN AND DIALING IT UP AT THE RIGHT TIME. GREG: JULIO JONES, SEVEN CATCHES FOR 107 YARDS. FIRST AND GOAL FOR ATLANTA. EAT SMITH FOR A COUPLE, AND A FLAG. TRENT: ANY TIME AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN JUMPS UP -- REFEREE HOLDING, OFFENSIVE LINEMAN NUMBER 65. GREG: SECOND ONE TODAY ON BRANDON FUSS DO. ARE YOU SAYING THAT IS AN INDICATOR. TRENT: YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE CALLING IT ON, AND YOU JUMP UP. HERE IS FUSS CAME RIGHT THERE. BRUCE: I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CALL HOLDING THERE. THE GUY DUCKED UNDER HIM AND HE JUST FELL DOWN. GREG: FIRST AND GOAL NOW FROM THE 19 1/2. RYAN, QUICK PASS TO THE NEAR SIDE. THIS IS RIDLEY. AND RIDLEY TO ABOUT THE 11. THE CLOCK CONTINUES TO MOVE AS WE COME UP ON 4:25 TO PLAY. AND WE HAVE A TIME-OUT ON THE FIELD. LET'S SEE WHO CALLED IT. REFEREE: TIME-OUT, CINCINNATI. GREG: SO THE BENGALS USE THEIR FIRST TIME-OUT HERE IN THE SECOND HALF. EACH TEAM NOW WITH TWO TIME-OUTS REMAINING AND ATLANTA LOOKING AT A SECOND AND GOAL. THIS HAS TURNED INTO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND OF A FOOTBALL GAME FROM WHAT WE HAD IN THE FIRST HALF. BRUCE: NO DOUBT. THE DEFENSES HAVE SHOWN UP. JULIO JONES AND THOSE GUYS ARE SHOWING UP BIG, QUARTERBACKS STILL PLAYING GREAT. THIS IS INTERESTING HERE BECAUSE 4:35, IF YOU USE BOTH YOUR TEAMMATES AND KICK A FIELD GOAL, YOU SHOULD GET IT BACK 2:20 WITH NO TIME-OUTS, DOWN BY FIVE. GREG: SECOND AND GOAL. RYAN HIT AND GOES DOWN AT THE 20-YARD-LINE! CARL LAWSON. AND IT WILL BE THIRD AND GOAL. TRENT: EXCELLENT JOB BY LAWSON. THEY ARE ONLY RUSHING FOUR. HE JUST GETS AN INSIDE MOVE ON JAKE MATTHEWS. GREG: THOSE OF YOU WHO WATCHED THE PATRIOTS HAND THE DOLPHINS THEIR FIRST LOSS OF THE SEASON, WELCOME TO ATLANTA. ALONG WITH TRENT GREEN, BRUCE ARIANS AND MELANIE COLLINS AND GREG GUMBEL, IT HAS BEEN A DIFFERENT KIND OF FOOTBALL GAME. ALL OFFENSE IN THE FIRST HALF. THE OFFENSES HAVE COOLED DOWN A BIT. IT WAS 28-24 AT THE BREAK. ATLANTA NOW LEADING 33-31, FOUR AND A HALF TO PLAY IN REGULATION. AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT A THIRD AND GOAL FROM THE 19-YARD-LINE. TRENT: IF YOU ARE MATT RYAN, YOU JUST HAVE TO BE SMART WITH THE FOOTBALL HERE. YOU ARE ALREADY IN FIELD GOAL RANGE. GREG: RYAN THROWING, BACK OF THE OWNED ZONE, TOO FAR FOR AUSTIN HOOPER. BRUCE: THAT IS BIG BECAUSE THE BENGALS GET TO SAVE A TIME-OUT NOW. THEY ARE GOING TO GET IT BACK WITH FOUR MINUTES TO GO. TRENT: YES. THE INCOMPLETION STOPS THE CLOCK. HE ACTUALLY HAS HIM. IT LOOKS LIKE HE COULD HAVE FLATTENED THAT BALL OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE. A LITTLE CONSERVATIVE WITH THE THROW, PUTTING IT IN A HIGH SPOT. I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY HE WOULD THROW IT THAT WAY JUST BASED ON THE SITUATION. GREG: HERE IS MATT BRYANT. HE HAS BEEN GOOD FROM 55 YARDS AND 2. THIS ONE IS FROM 37. BLOCKED! BLOCKED BY THE BENGALS. THEY HAVE THE BALL, AND WE HAVE A FLAG DOWN. IT LOOKED LIKE TONY MCCRAY MADE THE SCLOCK, BUT LET'S CHECK WHAT THE PENT IS. REFEREE: OFFSIDE, DEFENSE NUMBER 29. FIVE-YARD PENALTY. REPLAY FOURTH DOWN. GREG: WELL, THAT FIGURES. ON TONY MCCRAY. HE WAS THE GUILTY PARTY OFFSIDE. TRENT: HE GOT AROUND THE EDGE QUICKLY. HE IS UP TOP. HE GETS A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH OF A JUMPSTART. BRUCE: THAT BALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN BLOWN DEAD BECAUSE HE COULD INJURE THE KICKER. HE IS OBVIOUSLY OFFSIDES. THIS HAS HAPPENED TWO OR THREE TIMES IN LAST FEW YEARS. JUMP OFF SIDES, KICKER GETS HURT AND YOU HAVE NOBODY TO KICK FIELD GOALS ANYTHING. TRENT: THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT HAS COME UP ON THE RULES COMMITTEE. BRUCE: KIND OF BROUGHT UP BY ME. [LAUGHTER] GREG: AND THIS KICK IS GOOD. AND A PENALTY MARKER IS DOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIELD AGAIN, AND AGAIN MCCRAY WAS OFFSIDE. BRUCE: YOU ARE NOT TAKING THE POINTS OFF THE BOARD HERE. YOU YOU ARE GOING TO GET YOUR THREE POINTS. REFEREE: OFFSIDE DEFENSE, NUMBER 29. PENALTY IS DECLINED. RESULT OF THE PLAY IS A FIELD GOAL. GREG: SO PUT THREE MORE ON THE BOARD FOR THE ATLANTA FALCONS. THEY LEAD IT GREG: THE FALCONS LOST THEIR OPENER TO THE EAGLES. THEY BEAT CAROLINA. HE THEY LOST IN OVERTIME LAST WEEK TO NEW ORLEANS. THEY ARE TRYING TO PULL EVEN AT 2-2 ON THE YEAR. THEY LEAD 36-31 WITH 4:15 REMAINING IN REGULATION. IT HAS BEEN ENTERTAINING TO SAY THE VERY LEAST. TRENT: REALLY A TALE OF TWO HALVES. A PRETTY ELECTRIC FIRST HALF FROM AN OFFENSIVE STANDPOINT. SECOND HALF, A LOT MORE PENALTIES, A LOT MORE PUNTS. GREG: THESE BENGALS SCORED 28 IN THE FIRST HALF. JUST THREE SO FAR IN THE SECOND. ALEX ERICKSON WILL NOT BRING THIS ONE OUT. LET'S BRING YOU UP TO DATE ON WHAT HAPPENED TODAY. TRENT? TRENT: AS WE SAID, IT IS TWO HALVES. FIRST YOU HAVE TYLER EIFERT WITH A TOUCHDOWN IN BACK OF THE END ZONE. HE HAS LEFT THE GAME DUE TO INJURY. THEN GIOVANI BERNARD. THEN RIDLEY WITH A CATCH THERE AND A SECOND RECEIVING TOUCHDOWN. THAT GIVES HIM FIVE RECEIVING TOUCHDOWNS IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. IT HAS BEEN A GAME HIGHLIGHTED BY OFFENSES AND EXCELLENT QUARTERBACK PLAY. HERE IN THE SECOND HALF THE DEFENSES HAVE CAUSED MORE PUNTS AND GOTTEN PEOPLE OFF THE FIELD. PENALTIES HAVE SWAYED THINGS BACK AND FORTH, AND WE HAVE HAD SOME TURNOVERS AS WELL. MUCH DIFFERENT GAME FIRST HALF TO SECOND HALF. GREG: ATLANTA WITH TWO RECEIVERS OVER 100 YARDS RECEIVING. BERNARD LOOKS FOR RUNNING ROOM AND IS STOOD UP BEFORE HE CAN REACH THE 30-YARD-LINE BY DE'VONDRE CAMPBELL. BRUCE: FOR THE FALCONS, IT IS NO MORE PENALTIES. WE HAVE TO TACKLE AND GIVE UP NO YARDS AFTER CATCH. GREG: AS WE GO UNDER FOUR MINUTES TO PLAY, THE BENGALS WITH THE BALL AND JUST ONE TIME-OUT REMAINING. ATLANTA HAS TWO. BRUCE: THE FALCONS HAVE STRUGGLED DEFENSIVELY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER THIS YEAR, GIVING UP A TON OF POINTS. THIS IS A HUGE DRIVE FOR THEM. GREG: SECOND AND SIX. DALTON THROWING THIS TIED AND INCOMPLETE. THE PASS INTENDED FOR TYLER BOYD AND BROKEN UP BY DESMOND TRUFANT. IT WILL BE THIRD AND SIX. TRENT: ONCE AGAIN, THE FALCONS ABLE TO BRING PRESSURE WITH JUST FOUR. BACK SHOULDER THERE. TRUFANT LOOKS LIKE HE HAS HIS ARM WRAPPED AROUND HIM, BUT NO CALL AS THAT BALL FALLS INCOMPLETE. BRUCE: HE DID A GOOD JOB NOT TURNING HIM. HE GOT HIS LEFT HAND IN THERE GOOD. GREG: THIRD DOWN CONVERSIONS, 4-6 TODAY. THIS IS A THIRD AND SIX. TRENT: A.J. GREEN AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. LOOKS LIKE HE HAS DOUBLE COVERAGE. GREG: DALTON COMPLETE TO TYLER BOYD. THAT IS GOOD FOR A FIRST DOWN OUT TO ABOUT THE 38. TRENT: THAT IS WHAT TOWSON DO IF YOU ARE ANDY DALTON. IF YOU REALIZE THEY ARE COMMITTING TWO DEFENDERS TO 0 ONE GUY, BOYD THAT TIME ABLE TO GET AWAY FROM TRUFANT AND GET THE FIRST DOWN. GREG: WITH ONLY ONE TIME-OUT LEFT TO THEM INCLUDING THE TWO-MINUTE WARNING, NOT A WHOLE LOT OF URGENCY FOR THE BENGALS. THEY HAVE TIME. TRENT: DOESN'T NEED TO BE AT THIS POINT IN TIME. YOU WANT TO USE UP CLUB. IF YOU DO GO DOWN AND SCORE, YOU DON'T WANT TO LEAVE ATLANTA TOO MUCH TIME. RIGHT NOW WITH THIS MUCH TIME, EVERY PLAY AT YOUR DISPOSAL. GREG: TO BERNARD, AND HIT FROM BEHIND BY CRAWFORD. BRUCE: CRAWFORD WAS RUSHING THE PASSER, SAW THE DRAW. GREAT HUSTLE MAKING THE TAGGLE. TRENT: THEY ARE GOING UP-TEMPO HERE. GREG: DALTON WITH TIME. NOW ROLLING AND GOING TO TUCK IT AND RUN AND RUN OUT OF BOUNDS CLOSE TO THE FIRST DOWN MARKER. HE GOT THE FIRST DOWN. ACROSS MIDFIELD AND TO THE 48-YARD-LINE OF THE FALCONS. TRENT: EXCELLENT PUSH BY THE FALCONS. YOU SEE THE POCKET COLLAPSE, AND GIVE THE OFFENSIVE LINE CREDIT FOR CREATING THAT POCKET. BUT DALTON REALIZING THINGS WERE SHUTTING DOWN, ABLE TO USE THAT MOBILITY TO GET OUTSIDE AND SCOOT UP THE LEFT SIDELINE AND PICK UP THE FIRST DOWN. BRUCE: POOR JOB BY THE OUTSIDE RUSHER ON THE LEFT. HE BURIED HIMSELF. GREG: DALTON OVER THE MIDDLE, GOT HIS MAN BOYD AGAIN. THAT IS GOOD FOR A TOUCHDOWN -- FOR A TOUCHDOWN TO THE -- FIRST DOWN TO THE 37. TRENT: TAKE THAT ONE EVERY TIME. GREG: THAT IS THE PLAY THAT WILL TAKE US TO THE TWO-MINUTE WARNING. TWO MINUTES TO ANNOUNCER: THE NFL ON CBS IS SPONSORED BY STATE FARM. HERE TO HELP LIFE GO RIGHT. AND BY BUD LIGHT. ENJOYED BY GIANT BLUE FICTIONAL KNIGHTS EVERYWHERE. [CAPTIONING FUNDED BY CBS SPORTS DIVISION] GREG: BACK AT MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM. THERE IS THE PICTURE. 36-31 ATLANTA WITH TWO MINUTES TO PLAY. THE BENGALS WITH ONE TIME-OUT. ON FIRST DOWN DALTON BREAKS AWAY. BROUGHT DOWN JUST INSIDE THE 35-YARD-LINE OR MAYBE AT THE 35. LUCKY TO HAVE MAINTAINED POSSESSION. TRENT: I DON'T KNOW HOW HE HELD ON TO THAT FOOTBALL. BEASLEY WAS CHOPPING FROM BEHIND. THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. HE WAS IN HIS THROWING MOTION. BRUCE: THAT WAS THE STRENGTH OF ANDY DALTON FOR SURE RIGHT THERE. GREG: SECOND AND EIGHT. DALTON LOST IT AGAIN. AND DOWN AT THE 43-YARD-LINE. THAT WAS VIC BEASLEY. TRENT: THAT TIME BEASLEY ABLE TO KNOCK IT LOOSE. DALTON FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO JUMP ON TOP OF IT. THIS ATLANTA DEFENSE HAS BEEN HAMMERED ALL WEEK ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO GET THE SAINTS AND DREW BREES OFF THE FIELD IN CLUTCH TIME TO PRESERVE THAT VICTORY A WEEK AGO. WATCH BEASLEY HAS HE CHOPS DOWN ON THE ELBOW. THE PLAY BEFORE DALTON ABLE TO HANG ON TO IT. THAT TIME IT SQUARED FREE. GREG: MEANWHILE, THE BENGALS HAVE USED THEIR THIRD AND FINAL TIME-OUT WITH 1:22 TO PLAY. BRUCE: THAT IS TWO REALLY GOOD RUSHES BY VIC BEASLEY ON THEIR BEST OFFENSIVE LINEMAN IN GLEN. YOU HAVE TWO DOWNS HERE. YOU CAN GET HALF OF IT AND THEN GO FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN. YOU DON'T NEED IT ALL RIGHT HERE. GREG: THAT ARM GOING FORWARD, DOES THAT CONSTITUTE A FORWARD PASS ON THE PART OF ANDY DALTON? TRENT: I THINK WE WOULD HAVE TO BRING IN GENE ON THAT ONE. YOU WOULD THINK IT WOULD HAVE TO BE WITH HIS ARM GOING FORWARD LIKE THAT. BRUCE: IN TWO MINUTES IT HAS TO BE REVIEWED. GREG: AND SEAN SMITH IS LOOKING AT IT ON THE SIDELINE. TRENT: BALL UNDER CONTROL, COMING FORWARD. BY THE WAY THE RULE IS SITUATED, YOU WOULD HAVE TO THINK IT IS INCOMPLETE, WHICH WOULD GIVE THE BENGALS THEIR TIME-OUT BACK. BRUCE: YES. GROWING GENE STERATORE, ARE YOU WITH US? GENE: I AM WITH YOU. THERE ARE TWO ELEMENTS. IF HE IS TRYING TO BRING IT BACK TO HIS BODY, FUMBLE. IN MY OPINION, THAT IS AN ARM MOVING FORWARD FOR A PASS. IT STARTS TO LOOK AS IF HE IS TUCKING IT. THEN IT IS NO LONGER A FORWARD PASS. THIS ONE TO ME, IF I AM RULING ON THIS, THE ARM IS MOVING FORWARD IN A PASSING MOTION AND THE BALL COMES LOOSE. I WOULD RULE IT INCOMPLETE AND GIVE CINCINNATI THEIR TIME-OUT BACK, WHICH IS VERY CRUCIAL AT THIS TIME. GREG: LET ME ASK YOU. TRENT: WITH THAT LEFT HAND TRYING TO COME UP AND STOP IT, DOES THAT LEFT HAND COMING INTO PLAY EFFECT IT AT ALL, OR JUST THE MOVEMENT OF THE RIGHT ARM? GENE: THAT IS THE ELEMENT I AM LOOKING AT AS WELL. BUT IT COMES OUT BEFORE THAT LEFT HAND BECOMES SOMETHING THAT I WOULD USE INTO MY BREAKING DOWN OF IT IF THAT MAKES SENSE TO YOU. THE BALL IS LOOSE THERE, AND THEN IS THAT HAND COMING TO CATCH WHAT HE BELIEVES MIGHT BE A FUMBLE, BUT IT IS ACTUALLY A FORWARD PASS OR IS HE TRYING TO TUCK IT? TO ME IT LOOKS LIKE A PASS. NOW IT IS COMING UT, AND I THINK HE IS TRYING TO REPOSSESS A FORWARD PASS BY RULE. GREG: HERE WE GO, GENE. REFEREE: THE QUARTERBACK'S ARM WAS MOVING FORWARD WITH CONTROL OF THE BALL. THEREFORE IT IS AN INCOMPLETE PASS. IT WILL BE THIRD DOWN FROM THE 35-YARD-LINE. PLEASE RESET THE GAME CLOCK TO 1:26. CINCINNATI WILL GET THEIR TIME-OUT BACK. THEY WILL NOT BE CHARGED A TIME-OUT. TRENT: ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE BIG FOR CINCINNATI. YOU GET THE BALL BACK, TIME ON THE CLOCK. TIME-OUT, YARDAGE, TIME, ALL VALUABLE AT THIS POINT IN TIME. GREG: SO CINCINNATI STILL WITH ONE TIME-OUT REMAINING, ATLANTA HAS TWO. THIRD AND EIGHT FOR THE BENGALS, AND A FIELD GOAL DOES THEM NO GOOD. BRUCE: TWO MCGRATTAN RUSHES BY VIC BEASLEY. ANY OTHER QUARTERBACK IT WOULD BE A FUMBLE. GREG: DALTON DOWN THE MIDDLE. INTENDED FOR TYLER BOYD, AND DESMOND TRUFANT WAS THERE. FOURTH AND EIGHT. BRUCE: I HATE TO SAY IT, TRENT. WHEN YOU DROP AN INTERCEPTION, BAD THINGS HAPPEN. TRIPE TRENT: I DON'T HOW HE TROPPED THAT ONE. GREG: SO HERE IT IS FOR THE BENGALS. FOURTH DOWN AT THE 35. THEY NEED THE 27-YARD-LINE FOR A FIRST DOWN. TRENT: WELL, YOU WOULD THINK THEY ARE GOING TO DOUBLE-TEAM A.J. GREEN WHEREVER HE GOES. SO YOU NEED TO FIND THAT BEST ONE-ON-ONE. BOYD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD. GREG: DALTON OVER THE MIDDLE. HITS HIS MAN GOOD FOR A FIRST DOWN INSIDE THE 25. THAT IS TYLER BOYD. THE CLOCK CONTINUES TO MOVE. 1:10 PHOENIX STILL WITH THAT ONE TIME-OUT IN THEIR POCKET. BRUCE: GREAT JOB BY BOYD BID BEATING HIM INSIDE. GROIGS DALTON THROWS THIS WAY, OVERTHROWING EVERYBODY AND INCOMPLETE. THAT STOPS THE CLOCK WITH 53, AND A FLAG IS DOWN. REFEREE: ILLEGAL USE OF THE HANDS, HANDS TO FACE, OFFENSE NUMBER 77. 10-YARD PENALTY. REPLAY FIRST DOWN. GREG: THAT PENALTY IS 0 GLEN, THE LEFT TACKLE. DOESN'T COME AT A GREAT TIME. TRENT: NO. IT LOOKS LIKE GLEN GETS HIS LEFT HAND INTO FACE OF VIC BEASLEY, WHO IS COMING OFF THE EDGE. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THE COMBINATION OF THE TWO HERE. WATCH THE LEFT ARM OF GLEN GET UP AROUND THE FACE MASK. YOU SEE THE HELMET TIP BACK. BRUCE: HE NEVER PULLED IT OUT. THAT IS THE BIG THING. HE NEVER PULLED IT OUT. GREG: FIRST AND 20. DALTON, QUICK PASS THIS SIDE. ALEX ERICKSON, AND ERICKSON INSIDE THE 30 TO ABOUT THE 27. BRUCE: AGAIN, THE FALCONS GOT FOUR DOWNS HERE. YOU HAVE TO DEFEND FOUR DOWN, NOT THREE. GREG: COMING UP ON HALF A MINUTE TO PLAY. SECOND AND 13. DALTON THIS SIDE AGAIN COMPLETE AND OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 20-YARD-LINE. THAT IS TIGHT END C.J. UZOMAH. TRENT: 26 SECONDS HERE. YOU HAVE THIRD AND WHAT, SIX? GREG: SIX. TRENT: YOU STILL CAN USE THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD BECAUSE YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH NOW WHERE YOU CAN RUN UP AND SPIKE THE BALL. YOU WANT TO SAVE THAT TIME-OUT IF YOU CAN. BUT THERE IS STILL ENOUGH TIME THAT IF YOU CAN GET IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD, GO UP AND SPIKE IT AND SAVE THAT TIME-OUT. GREG: DALTON LOOKING LEFT, THROWING FOR THE END ZONE AND INCOMPLETE. A.J. GREEN THE INTENDED RECEIVER, CRAWFORD BY ROBERT ALFORD. IT WILL BE FOURTH AND SIX. BRUCE: THE FALCONS CONTINUE TO PLAY SOFT ZONE. A.J. GOT BEHIND HIM RIGHT THERE. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET BEHIND A GUY IN COVER THREE. THAT IS ONE HE WISHED HE HAD BACK. TRENT: I THINK ALFORD THOUGHT HE WAS GOING FOR FALL OFF ON BOYD BECAUSE AFFIRM J. WAS GOING TO DO A HITCH OR SLANT UNDERNEATH. INSTEAD NOW YOU'VE GOT FOURTH DOWN. YOU HEAR THE CROWD CRANK IT UP. GREG: FOURTH AND SIX WITH 22 SECONDS TO PLAY. DALTON THIS TIED COMPLETE AND DOWN AT THE 12-YARD-LINE IS TYLER BOYD. TIME-OUT IS CALLED. MARVIN LEWIS WAS RUNNING DOWN THE SIDELINE TO MAKE SURE THAT CALL GOT THROUGH. BRUCE: TWO BIG FOURTH DOWN CONVERSIONS. PLAYED MAN-TO-MAN THAT TIME AND KEPT GETTING BEAT ACROSS THE FIELD ON DRAG ROUTES BY TYLER BOYD. TRENT: I HAVE BEEN VERY IMPRESSED WITH TYLER BOYD TODAY. 11 CATCHES, OVER 100 YARDS. HE HAS BEEN THE GO-TO GOOD. A.J. GREEN HAS BEEN DOUBLE-TEAMED A LOT. AFFIRM J. HAS THREE CATCHES FOR 65 YARDS, BOYD HAS COME UP WITH THE BIG CATCHES. BRUCE: SIX SECONDS. YOU CAN GET TWO PLAYS OFF IF YOU CALL THEM BOTH IN THE HUDDLE. THEN YOU CAN GO IN THE END ZONE. THEN YOU CAN SHOOT FOUR INTO THE END ZONE. IF YOU HAVE TWO PLAYS CALLED, YOU HAVE TIME TO GET IT OFF, AND THAT ONE HAS TO GET INTO THE END ZONE. GREG: FIRST DOWN AT THE 13. DALTON END ZONE. BATTED AWAY. ISAIAH OLIVER KNOCKED IT AWAY FROM ALEX ERICKSON. 12 SECONDS TO PLAY. TRENT: SO NOW YOU DON'T, COACH. WITH 12 SECONDS, YOU HAVE TO GET IT INTO THE END ZONE OR GET IT OUT OF BOUNDS? BRUCE: WITH 12 YOU STILL CAN. IT HAS TO BE AN UP AND DOWNPLAY. FIVE OR SIX YARDS, AND THEN GET OUT OF BOUNDS. WE TRIED TO GET IT DOWN TO 10. BUT THAT WAS INSIDE THE 10-YARD-LINE. GREG: NO TIME-OUTS LEFT FOR THE BENGALS. SECOND AND 10. DALTON END ZONE AGAIN. SLIDING CATCH IN THE END ZONE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN BY A.J. GREEN! TRENT: A.J. GREEN WITH AN INSIDE RELEASE CORNER ROUTE. THEY ARE PLAYING COVER TWO. BRUCE: I DON'T KNOW WHAT ISAIAH OLIVER IS LOOKING A LOT. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO THROW IT IN THE FLAT. DON'T BITE ON THE CHEESE IN FRONT OF YOU. YOU GO MAKE THAT TACKLE AND THE GAME IS OVER. GREG: PRETTY NICE THROW BY ANDY DALTON AND A PRETTY NICE GRAB BY A.J. GREEN. TRENT: FOR THAT COVERAGE, EXCELLENT DESIGN, EXCELLENT EXECUTION. AS YOU SAID, WHY WOULD YOU NOT PLAY SOFT? LET HIM CATCH IT UNDERNEATH. BRUCE: YOU ARE DEFENDING BACK CORNER OF THE END ZONE. TRENT: IT IS A COVER, TWO BUT PLAY A SOLVED COVER TWO AND MAKE THEM THROW IT OUT OF BOUNDS. BRUCE: THE BENGALS HAVE TO GO FOR TWO. EVEN WITH SEVEN SECONDS LEFT, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN. I AM RUN THE BALL. THE FALCONS COULD RETURN AN INTERCEPTION FOR A TOUCHDOWN. TRENT: THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE HERE. IT WAS A TWO-POINT CONVERSION, TRIED TO THROW IT, AND BERRY TOOK IT THE OTHER WAY. I AGREE, RUN IT. GROWING HE IS THROWING IT. TRENT: OR THROW IT WHERE NOBODY IS. [LAUGHTER] GREG: SO WITH SEVEN SECONDS ON THE CLOCK, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU BEING THE RECEIVING TEAM NOW. EVEN IF YOU HAVE A SHOT AT RETURNING THIS. DO YOU LET IT ROLL THROUGH THE END ZONE FOR A TOUCHDOWN? BRUCE: IF YOU KICK IT ON THE BROWN, I AM KICKING IT ON THE GROUND TO MAKE THEM RETURN IT. WHOEVER GETS IT GO STRAIGHT TO THE GROUND. YOU LOSE A SECOND. YOU HAVE TO TRY TO PLAY FOR A HAIL MARY. HIT ONE BALL ANYWHERE ON THE FIELD BECAUSE YOU HAVE TWO TIME-OUTS. I WANT A 20-YARD DIG WHERE I CAN THROW IT IN THE END ZONE. GREG: IF YOU ARE THE RECEIVING TEAM, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT GIVING YOURSELF UP IMMEDIATELY? BRUCE: FOR SURE. WE ARE GOING OUT OF BOUNDS OR IN THE MIDDLE AND CALL TIME-OUT. NOW DEPENDING ON WHERE THAT GROUNDED KICK IS, A FIELD GOAL KICKER CAN KICK IT FROM 60. SO THEY ONLY HAVE TO GET TO THE 42-YARD-LINE. TRENT: REMEMBER, BRIAN MADE THAT 55-YARDER. BRUCE: WITH PLENTY TO SPARE. BUT SEVEN SECONDS IS TOUGH. GREG: WE WILL SEE WHAT THE BENGALS IN MOUND. BOUNCER UP THE MIDDLE. HE IMMEDIATELY GOES DOWN AT THE 22-YARD-LINE, GRABBED BY JUSTIN HARDY. ONE SECOND OFF THE CLOCK. THREAT WITH TWO TIME-OUTS REMAINING. THIS HAS TO BE SIDELINE IMMEDIATE TIME-OUT. BRUCE: YOU CAN THROW THE INSIDE ROUTE, BUT YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY GOING DOWN AND CALLING FOURTH. TRENT: CATCH AND SLIDE AND CALL TIME-OUT. BRUCE: YES. VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THEY DID BEFORE THE HALF. TRENT: AND EVEN THAT IS GOING TO BE CLOSE. BRUCE: YES, IT IS GOING TO BE CLOSE. IT IS GOING TO BE HARD TO GET TWO PLAYS TO GET IN FIELD GOAL RANGE. GREG: JULIO JONES TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN, AND THREE BENGALS VERY DEEP IN THE SECONDARY. RYAN THROWING THE SLANT TO JONES. DOWN AT THE 40-YARD-LINE, AND TIME-OUT IS CALLED WITH TWO SECONDS TO PLAY. BRUCE: THEY PROBABLY HAVE SOME SORT OF HOOK AND LATERAL PLAY IN THE PLAYBOOK AND DO THE RUGBY PLAY AND KEEP PITCHING IT TO TRY TO SCORE. I DON'T THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET THIS BALL OUT LONG ENOUGH FOR MATT TO THROW IT 60 YARDS IN THE AIR. TRENT: WE HAD A PLY CALLED FIRE TRUCK WHERE YOU DO THE FLIP-FLIP AND TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN. GREG: DID YOU DO IT WITH THREE GUYS BACK ON THE GOAL LINE? BRUCE: GET TWO RUGBY PITCHES AND EVERYBODY OUT FRONT BLOCKING. GREG: RYAN THROWING IT DEEP, AND JULIO JONES FIGHTING FOR THE BALL THERE. IT IS NOT GOING IT WORK. THE BENGALS ARE GOING TO COME AWAY WITH A COME FROM BEHIND WIN. HOW ABOUT THIS? THE ATLANTA FALCONS JOIN THE 1966 NEW YORK JOINS AS THE ONLY TEAMS IN NFL HISTORY TO LOSE BACK-TO-BACK GAMES SCORE 36 OFFER MORE. OUR FINAL SCORE, 37-36,
That game ruined what was going to be the resurgence of Tyler Eifert. Such a bitter sweet win, but that AJ Green catch at the end was one for the ages.
Its hard to argue if Andy was ever good enough to win a super bowl, but he'll never get the credit he deserves for some of the great performances he had through the years like this one.
The Dalton line was a thing for a reason but Andy has had an above average career especially for a 2nd round QB.
I actually went to this game, it was a ton of fun and even after the game all the falcons fans came up to my family and I congratulating us. They were all super friendly 10/10 wouuld go back.
That 2018 team was really good, if only their season wasn’t derailed by injuries
Tyler Boyd is so clutch.