Nightcap Hour 2: Bengals LOOK GOOD vs Bears + Mike Vrabel Says Pats LACK Depth + Falcons ROLL Colts + Ravens TOP Vikings + Dolphins LOOK Like TRASH + Rams DOMINATE Saints + Bucs SURPRISE Chiefs + BIG 3 FINAL Weekend Recap artwork

Nightcap Hour 2: Bengals LOOK GOOD vs Bears + Mike Vrabel Says Pats LACK Depth + Falcons ROLL Colts + Ravens TOP Vikings + Dolphins LOOK Like TRASH + Rams DOMINATE Saints + Bucs SURPRISE Chiefs + BIG 3 FINAL Weekend Recap

Nightcap

August 23, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to Bengals preseason win over Bears, Pats “lack of depth,” Falcons roll Colts, Ravens beat Vikings, Dolphins look terrible, Rams dominate Saints, Bucs surprise Chiefs and BIG 3 recap!
Speakers: Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson, Gilbert Arenas

Topics: Football, Sports, Basketball

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:01)
Ocho.

**Chad Johnson** (0:03)
Yo, talk to me, take your time, man.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:05)
I know you want to talk about this. The Bengals 40-year-old quarterback, Josh Johnson, on his 14th team, the most in league history, 15 to 23, 156 yards, two touchdowns. Rookie DT, Landon Robinson, another day, a sack and a half, looks like a steal in the seventh round out of Navy. He really, really smart. ESPN Marty Smith reported a quote from Joe Burrow. We have guys playing and coaching for their jobs this year. That's how I'm looking at it. I'm playing for my job this year.
Ojo, go Ojo.
Ojo, playing for his job. He said, I'm playing for my job. Be playing out with someone next year, they don't get this thing right.

**Chad Johnson** (0:50)
What do you mean get that thing right? They didn't give you everything you wanted.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:54)
They ain't enough.

**Chad Johnson** (0:54)
You hear me?
Hold on. Hey, Unc and Joe, they didn't give you everything you wanted. You got, hold on, listen to me, let me finish. You got two of the best receivers, two number ones over there, and you know, you got rookie receivers playing out this world just in case something happened to our starters.
The Bengals went out there and showed you, wait a minute. We hear the riddle and we understand the cryptic message. So we gonna show you, we taking it serious this year, just like you have been since you got here. We're gonna go get you one of the better deep of the tackles. Matter of fact, you know, we're gonna get young bull from the commanders and bring them over here, the pair of them next to Dexter Lawrence. We're gonna go get Mr. Cook.

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:35)
Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (1:37)
From Kansas City.
So again, now it comes down to you coming out and doing what you need to do week in and week out. It comes down to you staying up right.

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:46)
Good luck with that.

**Chad Johnson** (1:47)
It comes down to the offensive line protecting you.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:48)
Good luck with the offensive line.

**Chad Johnson** (1:50)
Listen, it comes down to the offensive line protecting you, making sure you can do what you need to do. It also comes down to you also protecting the ball and not turn it over. Making sure we stay scoring 30, 35 points a game, which we are capable of doing. And our defense showing up like the defense, I think we can be this year because that's been our problem.
So all the talking and all the cryptic messages coming from Joe Burrow, all he's doing is putting more pressure on himself to show up week in and week out.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:21)
I'm not worried about Joe.

**Chad Johnson** (2:24)
I mean, I'm not worried about him either. I'm not either because I absolutely see him doing it.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:29)
Hold on, y'all ain't worried about his play or y'all ain't worried about his injury? What y'all ain't worried about?

**Chad Johnson** (2:33)
Well, we ain't worried about his play. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We know he's playing. But I just don't like the added pressure that he's adding to himself trying to send him a message elsewhere.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:44)
He said, well, I'm sending it.

**Chad Johnson** (2:45)
That's all.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:47)
I sent it. I press send. Her remember said, don't press send, I press send.

**Chad Johnson** (2:52)
Yeah, yeah, I like it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:54)
As a matter of fact, I went IG live with it. You know where you going? Yeah.
You know where you going with IG live? You know, hey, they got it. Everybody heard it.

**Chad Johnson** (3:14)
Hey, that's a good one. That's a good one.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:15)
What you think, Joe?

**Chad Johnson** (3:17)
I like it.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:17)
Hey, Josh Johnson. Hey, at 40 years old, okay, Ocho, he looked real comfortable out there.
I thought the Bengals defense looked good considering the fact that they only gave a few goals. Okay, Ocho, I think, yeah. Ocho, y'all got something y'all can hang y'all head on this shit, bro.

**Chad Johnson** (3:35)
Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Unc and Joe, I don't know what it is about the Bengals, man. And every year, you know, generation by generation, the receivers that they get, man, they don't miss.
I'm talking about the rookies last year, the rookies this year, everybody good. I think, excuse me, Yoshi is our number three, right? As well as some of the rookies are playing, I think that number three spot might be up in there.

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