\n Nick Boyle<\/p>\n
As was fairly common, bruising tight end Nick Boyle was a lead blocker on the play. He remembers the actual play-call: Dice right Y casper 12 slope.<\/p>\n
Boyle was the “casper” portion of events, which signified the motion he would go into across the formation before executing a kick-out block. Dunlap was left unblocked as the “read” defender, and he read wrong by jumping inside, so Boyle’s target was Pratt.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes G-Ro [Greg Roman] didn’t want me to throw cut [blocks], but I’m like, ‘Screw it, I’m just going to try to cut the hell out of this guy. I’m just going to try to saw him in half.’<\/p>\n
“So I ran over there, I didn’t get him down, but I moved him out to the left enough. I threw my cut, and I look up, and it looks like he’s going to run into me. Anytime Lamar has the ball, he could do anything, whether you missed your block or not. I kind of got out of the way, and I see him whizz by, and I’m like, ‘Oh, we’re going to get a good gain like 12, 15 yards.’ And then I just remember looking at him or the Jumbotron and seeing him do that spin move and just keep going, and we scored.”<\/p>\n
Boyle didn’t remember having an outsized reaction. He was mostly just happy they capped another drive with a rushing touchdown \u2013 not thinking he just witnesses something magical.<\/p>\n
“So a lot of people look at that and that was obviously one of his best runs, I think, of his career. That iconic spin move, that really set it off. But I mean, with the ball in Lamar’s hands, he could pop something like that anytime,” Boyle said.<\/p>\n
“We get that moment every practice. Even at a walkthrough, he’ll do something crazy. To see him do that, was it like, ‘Oh crap, he’s really good like this?’ Yeah, but I think all of our players, I don’t want to say we don’t expect that, but we’re used to seeing stuff like that. It’s like, ‘Oh, Lamar’s at it again.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Boyle As was fairly common, bruising tight end Nick Boyle was a lead blocker on the play.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,12186,36537,781,891,895,20686,20125,6,43264,4686,1049],"class_list":{"0":"post-203044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-gameday","14":"tag-gameday-news","15":"tag-general","16":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","17":"tag-lamar-jackson","18":"tag-mark-ingram-ii","19":"tag-marshal-yanda","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nick-boyle","22":"tag-ronnie-stanley","23":"tag-ryan-mink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114843935387972595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}