On Monday night, Green remembered only the ones that won games. So, yeah, he remembers climbing the mountain of the Green-Dalton era, his 25-yard touchdown catch from AJ McCarron with 1:50 left to give them the lead over the Steelers in the surreal mist of the 2015 Wild Card. But they didn't hold the lead in that one. So he leaves it in the mist.
But … 2012, right?
"Yeah. Bench," Green said.
In Pittsburgh and if there's a play on the field to remember Green, this is it.
"Bench," Green said of the route. "We kicked the field goal."
It put them in the playoffs and knocked Pittsburgh out. Bench. Reggie Nelson picked off Big Ben at the Steelers 46 with 14 seconds left and Dalton needed about a dozen yards to get into field-goal range.
Green had already dented Pittsburgh's top-ranked defense for 95 yards and everyone at the confluence of the Three Rivers knew where they were going. Bench. Still, Green put his foot in the ground and, like he always seemed to do, made the lines disappear. Dalton threw a 21-yard rope and Green had enough separation to snag it and go out of bounds into the Bengals bench and freeze the clock at eight seconds.
"There was the Seattle game. Baltimore games. Big wins," said Green, who had to laugh when told the happiest man in America is Ravens head coach John Harbaugh now that he's out of the division.
There weren't many bench routes for him in the Bengals 'new scheme. He talked about that at length late in the season, how second-year head coach Zac Taylor's system was different than the playbook he had during his career. How they didn't move him around much out of the X spot and gave him a lot of slant routes.
Green showed a flash of frustration, but never enough to hurt the club. He made sure of that even as he had career-low catches (47) and yards (523). The year he got hurt, 2018, he had that many yards in the seventh game.
"It helped me grow as a person last year. I wouldn't trade it for anything," Green said. "The guys in the receiver room, I love them to death."
If they didn't get hurt, Green might very well have seen slot man Tyler Boyd and rookie starter Tee Higgins both get 1,000 yards, something he's done six times.
Higgins is one of those guys who found out knowing a guy he followed as a kid turned out to be worthy of his fans.
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