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Speaker 1: Hi gain everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Yeah We're Two of a
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Speaker 1: kind addition as the Bengals win their second in a
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Speaker 1: row crushing the Cardinals thirty seven to fourteen, coming up
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Speaker 1: radio replays, locker room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then,
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Speaker 1: in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll get to know
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Speaker 1: a relatively recent edition to the roster who is the
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Speaker 1: greatest thing since Fossils is Christmas Gifts. When Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: appeared on the Netflix Quarterback Series over the summer, we
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Speaker 1: learned that he's interested in fossils. Here's a clip from
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Speaker 1: the show.
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Speaker 2: We went to the Natural History Museum. They took us
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes and showed us some really cool stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's like a library of fossils that they don't show
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Speaker 2: everybody else. It was like you go to the shoe
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Speaker 2: store and they're like, maybe we have it in the back,
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Speaker 2: and it was like all the fossils back there.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty sick.
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Speaker 2: Why were fossils on my mind? I don't know, because
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Speaker 2: they're cool. When aren't fossils on your mind? They go
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Speaker 2: back millions of years.
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Speaker 4: That's sick.
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Speaker 1: With that in mind, I guess we shouldn't have been
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Speaker 1: surprised when Joe gave his offensive lineman fossils as Christmas
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Speaker 1: gifts this year. Dave Lapham and I discussed it with
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Speaker 1: rookie O lineman Dylan Fairchild on the Bengals pep Rally Show.
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Speaker 1: So it's Christmas week. It's become customary in the NFL
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Speaker 1: for quarterbacks to get Christmas gifts for their offensive lineman.
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Speaker 1: Your quarterback is Joe Burrow, who goes above and beyond,
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Speaker 1: at least when it comes to finding something unique. Absolutely
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Speaker 1: last year he gifted the offensive Lineman samurai swords. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know how he is going to top that this year,
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Speaker 1: and I guess he has. He got you guys fossils.
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yeah, they were pretty awesome too.
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Speaker 1: What is your fossil? Because they're unique, they're not all
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Speaker 1: the same, No, they're not.
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Speaker 5: I got a t Rex.
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Speaker 1: Tooth, really Rex tooth fossil.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's honestly one of the coolest things I've ever
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Speaker 5: That's probably the coolest thing I've ever had possession of.
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Speaker 1: I mean, talk about a conversation piece when people visit
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Speaker 1: your house. What is that? That is a t Rex
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Speaker 1: tooth gifted to me by Joe Burrow and it.
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Speaker 4: Was t Rex tooth.
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Speaker 5: And then another three D printed replica of I believe
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Speaker 5: the most put together t Rex fossil, the most put
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Speaker 5: together skull of a t rex that they have. And
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Speaker 5: obviously the real thing is like probably two hundred plus pounds,
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Speaker 5: so they sized it down, gave it, you know, got it,
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Speaker 5: you know, to take home size. I got that, this
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Speaker 5: tooth and then another claw of another dinosaur that lived
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Speaker 5: in North Africa approximately sixty million years ago.
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Speaker 1: Amazing Yeah, that is unique to say the least, no doubt.
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Speaker 6: I just wonder what is the thought process when Joe
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Speaker 6: decides I'm going to give fossils and dinosaur teeth and
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Speaker 6: all that sort of thing to my offensive linemen. What
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Speaker 6: do you think he's thinking when man and he gives that.
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Speaker 5: I think he loves them, and I can see why
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Speaker 5: they're really cool, like again, the really cool conversation starters. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: number one, I just think they're really cool. You know,
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Speaker 5: there's not a lot of people in the world that
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Speaker 5: can put their hands on so walk in the streets
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Speaker 5: with the those things, you know, and so him, you know,
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Speaker 5: giving us a unique opportunity to own one of those
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Speaker 5: has been really cool.
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Speaker 7: Actually.
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Speaker 1: So you know, Joe was featured on that Netflix quarterback
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Speaker 1: series during the off season, and on one of the
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Speaker 1: episodes he discussed his interest in fossils. So it's something
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Speaker 1: that he's always had an interest in and now he's
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Speaker 1: sharing that with his guys.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: No, it's really cool too. You know, it's he went
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Speaker 5: above and beyond with just the way that he did
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Speaker 5: it and the way that you know, it was all
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Speaker 5: put together.
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Speaker 1: So you're a married man as an NFL rookie. What
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Speaker 1: was your wife's reaction when he called or came home
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Speaker 1: and said, guess what, honey, we have a fossil. We
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Speaker 1: have a US fossil.
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Speaker 7: She was excited.
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Speaker 5: I mean she's obviously I probably found it cooler than
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Speaker 5: she did, but.
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Speaker 3: No, she's she's all for it.
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Speaker 5: I mean, we're gonna get a nice display case and
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Speaker 5: put him up in our house.
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Speaker 1: Samurai swords last year, fossils this year. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what Joe will give his own lineman next year, but
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Speaker 1: I am sure it will be as unique as the
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Speaker 1: Bengals quarterback. Now, time for the radio replays from Sunday
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Speaker 1: She lacking at pay Corpse Stadium. It is the final
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Speaker 1: Sunday of December, but it sure doesn't feel like it
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Speaker 1: here in Cincinnati. Positively, ball me in the jungle with
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Speaker 1: a temperature of sixty five degrees, A great day to
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Speaker 1: watch Joe Burrow and the Bengals as they take on
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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, And it is time for the pigskin
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Speaker 1: to fly here at Bay Corpse Stadium. Four first downs
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Speaker 1: on the opening drive, the Bengals have it first and
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Speaker 1: ten at the fourteen of Arizona. Mitch Tinsley goes in
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Speaker 1: motion from left to right. Burrow throws the screen out
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Speaker 1: to the left. Jamar Chase makes the first man mess
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Speaker 1: inside the ten, makes another mess, takes it to the
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Speaker 1: goal line.
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Speaker 8: Touchdown, Baby Bengals. Chamar Chase turning defenders into invisible men
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Speaker 8: as he takes it from the fifteen yard line, sends
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Speaker 8: two defenders to the turf and scores and the Bengals
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Speaker 8: have it first in goal with seven offensive linemen on
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Speaker 8: the field, with the ball inside the one. Seven offensive
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Speaker 8: linemen and Cody Ford lines up as a full back
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Speaker 8: at about three hundred and fifty pounds maybe more. Samaj
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Speaker 8: p Ryan is the tailback. Burrow takes the snap, gives
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Speaker 8: it to p Ryan, and he goes into the end
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Speaker 8: zone with ease. Bengals up by two touchdowns. As golly,
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Speaker 8: I don't want to even add up right the combined
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Speaker 8: weight of the seven offensive linemen. There a lot of
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Speaker 8: tonnage out there, man, I mean we're talking.
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Speaker 6: About a lot of big bodies.
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Speaker 1: Call that play the Cincinnati Zoo.
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Speaker 4: I love it.
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Speaker 1: Thirteen nothing Bengals the score. We're three minutes into the
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Speaker 1: second quarter here at pay Corp Stadium for set in
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Speaker 1: the gun, fakes a hand off to Carter, drops back
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Speaker 1: flings it toward the near side of the field. It
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Speaker 1: is caught by Wilson.
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Speaker 8: He's got running room after the catch inside the five
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Speaker 8: down to the pylon and it's a touchdown for Arizona.
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Speaker 8: Man Rico ready to hold on the logo a fifty
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Speaker 8: seven yard field goal attempt. The kick is on its way,
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Speaker 8: It has the distance. It is good.
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Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. The Bengals go with an empty backfield from
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Speaker 1: the eight yard line, shotgun snap.
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Speaker 8: Burrow fires toward the end zone. Caught a slam to
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Speaker 8: Jamar Chase. He's got his second touchdown catch of the
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Speaker 8: day and he does a jungle jump into the stands
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Speaker 8: to celebrate with Bengals fans.
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Speaker 4: That is totally awesome right there.
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Speaker 6: And here's a guy that has not had a touchdown
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Speaker 6: since the middle of October.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's over first and goal from the six. After
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Speaker 1: that five yard penalty on third down and five, Brew
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Speaker 1: and the gun, Chase Brown in the backfield with him,
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Speaker 1: trips out to the right, mar Chase alone out to
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Speaker 1: the left. Jam already has two touchdown catches. Burrow hands
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Speaker 1: it off Chase Brown. Nice jump cut toward the goal line.
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Speaker 1: He's in touchdown.
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Speaker 8: Bengals Chase Brown with a tremendous jump cut after taking
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Speaker 8: that handoff from Joe Burrow, and he scores his fourth
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Speaker 8: touchdown in two weeks. Cody Ford lines up as a
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Speaker 8: wide receiver outside the numerals at about three hundred and
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Speaker 8: fifty pounds. Burrow throws Cody Ford catches, He's down to
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Speaker 8: the fifteen, the ten, the five. He's tackled around the
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Speaker 8: three yard line, almost a big man TD for the
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Speaker 8: all time highlight reel. As Burrow threw it to Cody
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Speaker 8: Ford and the wooly Mammoth began running down the near sideline.
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Speaker 1: Burrow is under center. Sixth offensive lineman Lucas Patrick goes
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Speaker 1: in motion. They hand it.
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Speaker 8: Off Chase He's Brown goes into the end zone, standing
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Speaker 8: up for a second touchdown of the game. Flacco takes
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Speaker 8: the snap, takes a knee, tosses the ball to the
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Speaker 8: nearest official, and the final thirty three seconds will run
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Speaker 8: off the clock. As the Cincinnati Bengals dominate their opponent
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Speaker 8: for the second week in a row. They beat the
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Speaker 8: Dolphins by twenty four last week. They'll beat the Cardinals
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Speaker 8: by twenty three Today back to back wins by forty
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Speaker 8: seven points as Cincinnati beats Arizona thirty seven to fourteen.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow threw for three hundred and five yards with
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no picks, and a passer rating of one
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Speaker 1: twenty nine point one. Over the past two weeks combined,
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Speaker 1: Joe's completed seventy eight percent of his passes for six
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Speaker 1: hundred nine yards with six touchdowns and no picks. No
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL is playing better. Chase Brown ran
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Speaker 1: for one hundred one yards and added forty as a
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Speaker 1: receiver for a career high combined total of one forty one.
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Speaker 1: It's the eighth time in his last ten games that
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Speaker 1: Chase has topped one hundred scrimmage yards, and after going
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Speaker 1: seven games without catching a touchdown pass Jamar Chase reeled
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Speaker 1: in two that gives him seven this season. Finally, it
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Speaker 1: was the eighth time this year that the Bengals have
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Speaker 1: scored thirty or more points, matching their total from last year.
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Speaker 1: And if you look at the roster, every starter on
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Speaker 1: offense is under contract for next season except for one,
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Speaker 1: right guard Dalton Reisner. I spoke with him after the
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Speaker 1: game Talton Bengals won by twenty four last week, twenty
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Speaker 1: three this week. That's hard to do in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: How do you guys feel about the way you played
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Speaker 1: these last two weeks?
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Speaker 4: Obviously you feel great.
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Speaker 9: I mean, like you said, it's tough to win in
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Speaker 9: the NFL, so we worked so hard. But dand day out,
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Speaker 9: the coaches, this whole organization. We take pride in man,
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Speaker 9: Cincinnati Bengals, So when we're able to win like this, man,
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Speaker 9: it makes it so much sweeter.
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Speaker 4: But I can tell you that the losses, they suck.
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Speaker 9: But sometimes when you lose those games, you're wondering what's wrong,
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Speaker 9: and it's a tough week and people are asking questions,
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Speaker 9: and I just say that it's a great feeling to
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Speaker 9: be where we're at right now because we're winning football games,
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Speaker 9: we're playing well as a unit, we're feeding off of
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Speaker 9: each other, we're having fun doing it, and it's just
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Speaker 9: it's special, man, And you can't take it for granted.
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Speaker 9: I know that we're out of the playoffs. I know
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Speaker 9: we're six and ten, but it's still special.
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Speaker 1: Does it feel like a sign of things to come?
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Speaker 1: For twenty twenty six percent?
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Speaker 4: I don't want to be that guy.
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Speaker 9: I know that, especially with like last year I followed
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Speaker 9: the Cincinnati Bengals. I've always been a Bengals fan, But regardless,
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Speaker 9: I saw the way last year ended on a really positive.
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Speaker 4: Note and winning some football games.
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Speaker 9: So I don't want to be the guy that you know,
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Speaker 9: tries to bring a positive out of a six and
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Speaker 9: ten and well that's hope seven and ten football season.
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Speaker 4: But we really are rolling.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 4: I actually looked at my office line coach and just
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Speaker 4: felt like, you.
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Speaker 9: Know, this is the best rhythm we've been in this
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Speaker 9: last you know, and literally the last six weeks. I
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Speaker 9: mean the way we played on Thanksgiving, the way we
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Speaker 9: went and played in Buffalo. I know that we fell
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Speaker 9: short against the team that might win the AFC, but regardless,
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Speaker 9: like this, not six or seven weeks, we've been in
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Speaker 9: a really good spot. Obviously, the Ravens game at home
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Speaker 9: is a kind of a one off, but regardless, I'm
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Speaker 9: really happy to be a Bangal, Proud to be a Bengal,
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Speaker 9: Proud to work with these guys.
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Speaker 4: Man, I love these guys.
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Speaker 1: You were facing a team today that came in with
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Speaker 1: a seven game losing streak and a bad record. When
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Speaker 1: that's the case. Kind of the cliche is jump on top.
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Speaker 1: Don't let them think they could win the game. At
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Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter, the yardage was one
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Speaker 1: thirty nine to six, time of possession was thirteen and
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Speaker 1: a half minutes to one and a half. Was that
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Speaker 1: the thought process? And I mean, if so, you certainly
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Speaker 1: executed it.
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Speaker 9: I think that's always the thought process. But you never
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Speaker 9: count a dog out, especially in the NFL. I mean,
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Speaker 9: the Cardinals came to play today. We came to play
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Speaker 9: as well, and we played really good football. But it's
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Speaker 9: not like they just gave in and as soon as
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Speaker 9: we got up a few points they said, screw it,
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Speaker 9: we're done. Those guys kept fighting, and that's what we
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Speaker 9: want to go do to every NFL team. You want
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Speaker 9: to get on top of these guys. You want to
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Speaker 9: get a lead, and then you want to secure it
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Speaker 9: and keep it. But man, we were just rolling today.
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Speaker 9: It was the Bengals day to day. Hats off to
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Speaker 9: the Cardinals. Good football team, came in to try to
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Speaker 9: win a football We just had a better day.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about the Cody Ford pass. When did this
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Speaker 1: play get drawn up and what was the feeling like
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Speaker 1: on the field.
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Speaker 4: All week, talked about it all week.
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Speaker 9: We wanted to do a little bit of big personnel
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Speaker 9: this week and roll with Cody as kind of that sixth.
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Speaker 4: Offensive lineman, and we did that.
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Speaker 9: I think maybe they fell asleep a little bit thinking
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Speaker 9: that we want to throw them the ball, and.
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Speaker 4: Just an awesome moment for him on his twenty ninth birthday.
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Speaker 9: He's been a really selfless guy all year, in my opinion,
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Speaker 9: and really well deserved to get that football thrown to him.
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Speaker 9: And then also see what he did after it is
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Speaker 9: super awesome. So he executed it just like they drew
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Speaker 9: up and hats off to the coaches.
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Speaker 1: For drawing it to Joe Burrow the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: It has a passer rating over one thirty, and those
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Speaker 1: two games combined, this is kind of your opportunity to
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Speaker 1: play with him, healthy, looking good. I mean, what's that
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Speaker 1: experience been like for you?
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Speaker 4: He's an ultimate competitor.
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Speaker 9: I really do love Joe the way that he goes
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Speaker 9: out there and slings the football and wants to win
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Speaker 9: football games.
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Speaker 4: And how dialed he is. You can see why the
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Speaker 4: Bengals are special.
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Speaker 9: I mean, you kind of just block your tailoff back there,
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Speaker 9: and then you see the get thrown up and he's
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Speaker 9: just dropping it in buckets.
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Speaker 4: And hitting guys right where they.
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Speaker 3: Need to be hit.
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Speaker 4: So love blocking for the guy. Got a tremendous amount
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Speaker 4: of respect for him.
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Speaker 9: You can see why he's had the success that he's
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Speaker 9: had him in Cincinnati, and.
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Speaker 4: I just hope I could be a part of it
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Speaker 4: for longer.
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Speaker 1: I would assume there's mutual interest in having you return
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Speaker 1: based on the way things are going, that.
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Speaker 4: Would be great. Man, keep pulling for me. Let's get
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Speaker 4: these guys to give me a call.
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Speaker 1: Man Weisner is thirty years old and is the Bengals
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Speaker 1: highest graded offensive lineman this year according to Pro Football Focus,
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Speaker 1: a few points ahead of a Marius Mims. I obviously
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Speaker 1: don't speak for the Bengals front office, but I would
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Speaker 1: think they would like to have all five starters back
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Speaker 1: if possible. While the usual suspects on offense made spectacular plays,
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Speaker 1: the moment that everybody in attendance we'll be talking about
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Speaker 1: was the twenty one yard catch by offensive lineman Cody Ford,
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Speaker 1: who gives new meaning to the term Ford super duty.
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Speaker 1: He discussed his first career cat after the game.
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Speaker 7: It was drawn up earlier in the week and like
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Speaker 7: a pitch kind of brought it to me and I
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Speaker 7: thought he was joking, you know, And then we went
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Speaker 7: out there practice and he was like, all right, here's
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Speaker 7: the play and we started running in and then we
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Speaker 7: went to practice the next day we ran it again
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Speaker 7: and I was like, all right, I think we're actually
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Speaker 7: gonna call this. And then we had mentioned it last night, like, hey,
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Speaker 7: if we get up some points for calling Cody's play,
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Speaker 7: So that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: And are you getting the ball if they basically don't
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Speaker 1: cover you tightly, if they just kind of slough off
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Speaker 1: expecting that you're not going to get it, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't know the number I was
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Speaker 7: in the progression or anything, because Joe kept telling me
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Speaker 7: just get wider throughout the week and the formation, so
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Speaker 7: eventually I was like, all right, I think he's just
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Speaker 7: telling me get the hell out the way so I
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Speaker 7: don't mess anybody else's routs up. But it was a
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Speaker 7: different story when it all played out.
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Speaker 1: The yards after catch were impressive. I didn't realize you
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Speaker 1: were so nimble.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'm an athlete. Everyone was like, why you
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Speaker 7: ain't scoring and I'm like, well, I would not trying
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Speaker 7: to school. I was trying to score. But I was
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Speaker 7: just running with my head down, and I was like,
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Speaker 7: when I look up, I'll be where I'm at and
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Speaker 7: whatever happens happens.
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Speaker 4: Came in were you were you nervous? What was the
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Speaker 4: feeling like when you were the play golf?
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Speaker 7: I mean I was a little nervous, but I think
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Speaker 7: I got more nervous as he threw the ball to
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Speaker 7: me and everything went slow, and I was because practice
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Speaker 7: he kind of just threw it to my test, but
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Speaker 7: out there he really like threw a field shoulder and
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Speaker 7: I was like, okay, this was this was like a
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Speaker 7: little anxious.
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Speaker 5: Was the likely split up?
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Speaker 4: I mean all by yourself.
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Speaker 7: Dream come true? I guess this every lineman's dream to
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Speaker 7: why lineup as a receiver one time?
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Speaker 1: You think the coach is knew it was your birthday?
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Speaker 7: I think they did. I think they did.
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Speaker 2: Always lying.
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Speaker 7: No, I was a tight end in junior high in
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Speaker 7: my first year of high school.
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Speaker 4: Who is your last catch against?
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Speaker 7: Uh frame? Middle school?
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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, so you lined up at fullback on
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Speaker 1: a couple of snaps. Have they ever practiced giving it
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Speaker 1: to you? As a goal line fullback.
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Speaker 7: No, but I've been trying to give them the I've
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Speaker 7: been pushing now with more than a perception.
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Speaker 1: Hey, based on your yards after catch, I think the
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Speaker 1: full back handoff must happen. I think so. As good
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Speaker 1: as the offense was, the defense might have been even better,
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Speaker 1: holding Arizona to just two hundred and thirty three yards,
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Speaker 1: easily the fewest the Bengals have allowed in a game
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Speaker 1: this year. Arizona was three for thirteen on third down conversions,
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Speaker 1: and five of the cardinals nine possessions were three and
17:35
Speaker 1: out if you subtract a garbage time touchdown against the
17:39
Speaker 1: Bengals backups, Cincinnati allowed one score on eight Arizona drives.
17:45
Speaker 1: Let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent a
17:47
Speaker 1: few minutes with Lap after the game.
17:50
Speaker 6: How proud of you what your offense was able to
17:53
Speaker 6: do out there today?
17:53
Speaker 10: Yeah, really proud, you know, just scoring touchdowns on six,
17:56
Speaker 10: I mean scoring points on six of our first seven drives.
17:59
Speaker 10: And the field goal was we had the ball in
18:01
Speaker 10: the minus two and worked our way out of there
18:03
Speaker 10: and we're able to get that field goal. So you know,
18:06
Speaker 10: that's what we intend to do. When we take the
18:07
Speaker 10: field and defense, obviously they're a great job getting us
18:10
Speaker 10: the ball back quickly often times and getting some stops.
18:13
Speaker 10: And so I was just really proud of our team
18:14
Speaker 10: in all three phases.
18:15
Speaker 6: Today, Joe Burrow is playing some phenomenal football. Quarterback rating
18:20
Speaker 6: last week of one forty six plus, quarterback rating this
18:24
Speaker 6: week of one thirty six plus against You know, pretty
18:29
Speaker 6: good defense is well put together, good schemes, play hard.
18:32
Speaker 6: I mean, they're solid defensive units. What makes Joe Burrow
18:36
Speaker 6: so great?
18:37
Speaker 10: Oh, he's an elite processor, elite competitor, elite accuracy, incredible
18:41
Speaker 10: athleticism for the position. And I think what people won't
18:44
Speaker 10: really understand is the level of difficulty on the third
18:47
Speaker 10: downs and the second and ten pluses today that you
18:49
Speaker 10: face when you face Arizona. It's unique packages that really
18:52
Speaker 10: attack you. And he was stone cold in terms of
18:55
Speaker 10: making the protection checks and going where the ball needed
18:58
Speaker 10: to go, and that really allowed us to to convert
19:00
Speaker 10: early in the game, where if you don't convert those
19:02
Speaker 10: then it's a whole different ballgame. So huge credit to
19:05
Speaker 10: him in his communication and his ability to process first two.
19:08
Speaker 6: Drives, touchdowns, fourteen points. What is to do for you
19:12
Speaker 6: as a play caller, and what does it do for
19:14
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow and your offense and your defensive football team
19:17
Speaker 6: to get off to that kind of start.
19:18
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's important. I mean, that's why we took the
19:20
Speaker 10: ball in the coin toss. We win the coin toss,
19:21
Speaker 10: we take the ball. We want to establish the leader early.
19:24
Speaker 10: It's critical that we put pressure on them traveling across
19:26
Speaker 10: the country, you know, with a little bit of how
19:29
Speaker 10: their seasons gone. You want to take away any hope
19:31
Speaker 10: early on. And I thought our offense did a great
19:33
Speaker 10: job of finishing with the touchdown the first drive and
19:35
Speaker 10: the defense getting a three and out was a great
19:37
Speaker 10: way to start this game off.
19:38
Speaker 6: What is it what has been unlocked is what is
19:41
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow, the skill players, what's happening offensively that just
19:45
Speaker 6: could not be found, you know earlier in the season.
19:48
Speaker 10: We have unbelievable chemistry amongst the coaches and players. I
19:51
Speaker 10: think it's the closest to you, and it can be
19:54
Speaker 10: offensively in the NFL. You know, just the way that
19:56
Speaker 10: players understand what we're trying to get out of them.
19:58
Speaker 10: I think our coaching steps is a job applaying to
20:00
Speaker 10: the strengths.
20:01
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys.
20:02
Speaker 10: We can attack teams in a lot of different ways,
20:05
Speaker 10: and so there's just a two way confidence between the
20:07
Speaker 10: coaches and the players that we're going to go out
20:08
Speaker 10: there and score when we get the opportunities, and really
20:11
Speaker 10: proud of the way the guys attack this game.
20:13
Speaker 6: Well, it's like Bengel fans, probably players and coaches. I
20:16
Speaker 6: don't want the season end. You guys are playing such
20:19
Speaker 6: great football. It's entertaining. I mean, it's fun to watch
20:22
Speaker 6: this football team go out and perform, and that's what
20:25
Speaker 6: it's all about. Coach, How how much are you looking
20:28
Speaker 6: forward to twenty twenty six?
20:30
Speaker 10: Well, I want to finish this off the right way.
20:32
Speaker 10: We have an awesome chance in front of our home
20:34
Speaker 10: fans to get another Divisional win and finish forward to
20:36
Speaker 10: the division and Sweet Cleveland and finish this thing the
20:40
Speaker 10: right way, and then we'll focus on all that other
20:42
Speaker 10: stuff next year. But right now, the important thing is
20:44
Speaker 10: that we finish this off at home in front of
20:46
Speaker 10: our fans the right way.
20:48
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Speaker 1: the radio guys recap lapt For the second straight week,
21:14
Speaker 1: the Bengals dominate and win. It was twenty four points
21:17
Speaker 1: last week, it's twenty three points this week. They're throwing
21:20
Speaker 1: passes to three hundred and fifty pound offensive linement. It
21:23
Speaker 1: was a fun, fun day on a beautiful weather day
21:25
Speaker 1: for the fans of Cincinnati and a chance, as we've
21:28
Speaker 1: talked about in recent weeks, to end the season with
21:31
Speaker 1: a three game winning streak and momentum.
21:34
Speaker 6: And it's all huge. I mean momentum, three game winning streak.
21:38
Speaker 6: You know, it's a celebration. There hasn't been a lot
21:40
Speaker 6: to celebrate this season, and Bengal fans and players and
21:44
Speaker 6: coaches are just ready to celebrate. Joe Burrow's played the
21:49
Speaker 6: quarterback position down the stretch here as well as I
21:53
Speaker 6: ever ever seen a quarterback play, never mind for a month.
21:56
Speaker 6: I'm talking about in individual games, putting together three or
22:00
Speaker 6: four games in a role like that is not an
22:02
Speaker 6: easy accomplishment. And his quarterback rating in the last two
22:06
Speaker 6: weeks one forty six plus one thirty six plus.
22:09
Speaker 1: One thirty eight point seven, don't overdo it, lap them.
22:13
Speaker 6: I mean, just amazing though. It really is unbelievable. He's
22:19
Speaker 6: doing everything at such a high level. But the biggest
22:22
Speaker 6: thing that he does is throw the ball straight accurately
22:27
Speaker 6: with touch. He sees the field. He's a processor, high
22:33
Speaker 6: level processor. Things that he sees. Other quarterbacks just don't
22:38
Speaker 6: it just they just never get there. And the Bengals
22:41
Speaker 6: are very fortunate to have a guy like Joe Borrow
22:43
Speaker 6: at the quarterback position and he's going to be around
22:45
Speaker 6: for a long time.
22:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, just giving the numbers for the last two weeks,
22:49
Speaker 1: forty nine for sixty three. That's seventy eight percent, six
22:52
Speaker 1: hundred nine yard, six touchdowns, no picks, one thirty eight
22:55
Speaker 1: point seven, which is awesome. The first thing I asked
22:58
Speaker 1: you on the pregame show today night, minutes before kickoff,
23:01
Speaker 1: was to take me into the mindset of a professional
23:04
Speaker 1: football player getting set to take on a team that's struggling,
23:09
Speaker 1: bunch of injuries late in the season, nothing to play
23:12
Speaker 1: for and you said, that's a team you got to
23:15
Speaker 1: jump on. You got to demoralize them, don't give them hope.
23:18
Speaker 1: At the end of the first quarter today, the Bengals
23:21
Speaker 1: had run twenty three plays, the Cardinals had run three.
23:25
Speaker 1: They did exactly what you said they had to do.
23:27
Speaker 6: They did, I mean case clothes there. You talk about
23:30
Speaker 6: jumping down the throats or sting, stepping on the throat,
23:34
Speaker 6: stepping on the neck of an opponent and not letting them,
23:37
Speaker 6: don't pick your foot up and reposition it and allow
23:39
Speaker 6: them to breathe. The Bengals gave them no breathing room whatsoever.
23:44
Speaker 6: And honestly, I really I don't think that Arizona expected
23:51
Speaker 6: that kind of a tidal wave. I don't think they
23:52
Speaker 6: were thinking that the Bengals were going to come out
23:54
Speaker 6: of the locker room like the you know, Green Bay Packers,
23:58
Speaker 6: of the Pittsburgh Steelers, of their multiple Super Bowl winning teams,
24:02
Speaker 6: and they did. I mean, the Bengals here down in
24:05
Speaker 6: the last couple of weeks have looked like a much
24:07
Speaker 6: different football team, looks more like the team that everybody's
24:10
Speaker 6: expecting them to be. To start the season off, they
24:12
Speaker 6: did win their first two games and then injuries, you know, injuries,
24:16
Speaker 6: and just never did kick that injury bug. It just
24:20
Speaker 6: kept showing up and taking another key player out. But
24:25
Speaker 6: they dominated in every way you can dominate in that
24:28
Speaker 6: football game. Time of possession, third down, red zone, every
24:32
Speaker 6: key statistical area that determines the outcome of football game.
24:36
Speaker 6: The Bengals won it, and won it handily.
24:38
Speaker 1: The Cardinals offense isn't great, but last week against the Falcons,
24:42
Speaker 1: I think they scored on their first four drives and
24:44
Speaker 1: on the next two they missed field goals, so they
24:46
Speaker 1: weren't punting. They only punted once in the game. I
24:49
Speaker 1: was amazed by how many three and outs the Bengals
24:53
Speaker 1: defense got today. I mean most of the Cardinals possessions
24:56
Speaker 1: were one, two, three kick.
24:58
Speaker 6: Really and that again, on third down they were a juggernaut.
25:04
Speaker 6: I mean, the Cardinals could not figure out what al
25:07
Speaker 6: golden the Bengals defense were doing on third down. And
25:10
Speaker 6: then the only time they were able to convert and
25:12
Speaker 6: stay on the field and move the chains is when
25:14
Speaker 6: they went for it on fourth down and succeeded. Other
25:16
Speaker 6: than that, they're either putting the football or they were
25:18
Speaker 6: losing the ball on downs. That's like a turnover. I mean,
25:20
Speaker 6: that's a takeaway. So I agree with you, Dan. I
25:24
Speaker 6: think the Bengals defense played maybe their best football game today,
25:28
Speaker 6: and they kind of building to a crescendo. I mean,
25:31
Speaker 6: every single week for the last month or so, it's
25:34
Speaker 6: gotten better and better and better. And now are they there? No,
25:38
Speaker 6: But I think Al Golden is pleased with the progress
25:41
Speaker 6: that they've made. I think the position coaches are pleased,
25:44
Speaker 6: and I think they're looking forward to what this defensive
25:47
Speaker 6: football team can do in twenty twenty six.
25:49
Speaker 1: We've been singing DJ Turner's praises a lot, and deservedly so.
25:53
Speaker 1: He's a pro Bawl alternate for a reason. Today it
25:56
Speaker 1: was Dax Hill who stood out. He had multiple pass
25:59
Speaker 1: deflection It seems like he was stapled to whoever he
26:03
Speaker 1: was covering during the course of the game. Now that
26:05
Speaker 1: you've got those two guys as your outside corners, DJ
26:09
Speaker 1: on one side, Dax on the other side, does that
26:12
Speaker 1: look like one of the best corner tandems in the NFL.
26:16
Speaker 1: AM I being premature and saying that.
26:19
Speaker 6: Dan, you know your football. You've seen a lot of football,
26:21
Speaker 6: You've done a lot of NFL games, and I love
26:23
Speaker 6: doing football games with you because you know what you're
26:25
Speaker 6: looking at and you know what you're seeing. And I
26:27
Speaker 6: do think that these guys are playing very well together.
26:30
Speaker 6: They kind of play off each other pretty darn well.
26:34
Speaker 6: I think Al Golden is more than happy with what
26:37
Speaker 6: he's getting out of that cornerback, that cornerback to that
26:39
Speaker 6: cornerback tandem. I think he feels really good about them
26:43
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty six, and he feels like they're going
26:46
Speaker 6: to be, you know, leading his defensive charge next season.
26:51
Speaker 6: We can get more consistent pass rush. The pass rush
26:54
Speaker 6: has gotten better. Am I saying that it's there? No,
26:57
Speaker 6: it hasn't arrived yet, but it's getting better. And if
26:59
Speaker 6: they can get more of a consistent significant pass rush inside,
27:03
Speaker 6: I think it would really help the cause because you know,
27:06
Speaker 6: if you can muddy the pocket up by pushing the
27:08
Speaker 6: pocket in the quarterback's face, I mean it's over. Quarterbacks
27:12
Speaker 6: are gonna make mistakes. They're gonna throw the ball too early.
27:14
Speaker 6: You're gonna throw it prematurely. You're gonna put it in
27:16
Speaker 6: the spots they don't really want to put it in
27:18
Speaker 6: because they can't see. So I think the draft in
27:24
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six and free agency signings in twenty twenty
27:27
Speaker 6: six are going to be big for the Bengals defensive
27:30
Speaker 6: football team. I think if that's handled appropriately and they
27:34
Speaker 6: do get some significant additions that can really help this
27:37
Speaker 6: defensive football team, watch out. It might be damn good.
27:40
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty six.
27:42
Speaker 1: Amarus Mems suffered a shin injury today, came back and
27:45
Speaker 1: played some IJP Ryan. It looked really bad when it
27:48
Speaker 1: was wincing on the bench. He came back and played.
27:51
Speaker 1: How significant is that when you have no chance of
27:53
Speaker 1: making the playoffs and these important players refuse to call
27:58
Speaker 1: it a day.
27:59
Speaker 6: I think it's been I think you can build off
28:01
Speaker 6: of that. I think it's really huge. I mean it's
28:03
Speaker 6: like this football team doesn't quit on each other, you know.
28:06
Speaker 6: I think they think a lot of each other. I
28:07
Speaker 6: think they think the world of each other. I think
28:09
Speaker 6: they respect each other as people and in football players.
28:13
Speaker 6: I think they're all smart football players. They have high
28:15
Speaker 6: football IQs and they understand reasons why they lost football
28:21
Speaker 6: games and why they didn't play as well as they
28:23
Speaker 6: had hoped they were going to play. I mean, they
28:24
Speaker 6: start the season off to and oh and you lose
28:28
Speaker 6: people to injury, like we've already talked about earlier in
28:31
Speaker 6: this show. And you lose Joe Burrow, I mean you've
28:34
Speaker 6: lost one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. That
28:36
Speaker 6: hurts you. I mean that kills you. It doesn't just
28:39
Speaker 6: hurt you, It dissects you. Man, it just cuts you up.
28:43
Speaker 6: So you know, I do think that they've got players,
28:51
Speaker 6: and you know, again if they can supplement and add
28:55
Speaker 6: to it with free agency in the draft.
28:58
Speaker 1: Watch out as a former, are you jealous that they
29:01
Speaker 1: drew up a play for.
29:02
Speaker 6: Cody Ford tremendously?
29:08
Speaker 1: Lam would have scored.
29:10
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, man would have taken it to the
29:12
Speaker 6: house because I mean, in high school you play multiple sports.
29:16
Speaker 6: Cody I'm sure did too. He probably wrestled and played whatever,
29:19
Speaker 6: put the shot through the discus whatever. I did all
29:22
Speaker 6: that stuff too, And uh, you know it's like, yeah, man,
29:25
Speaker 6: you know, give me a chance. I can show you
29:28
Speaker 6: something I can catch. That was great. That was great
29:31
Speaker 6: for all big men. I'm sure William the Refrigerator Perry
29:34
Speaker 6: was like, yeah, man, that's what I'm talking about. That's
29:36
Speaker 6: what he was. The pioneer of the Daniel boone of
29:40
Speaker 6: the big guys, you know, making plays and scoring touchdowns.
29:43
Speaker 6: So yeah, it was. And I thought it was funny
29:46
Speaker 6: too when he went to the sideline and he gave Zach,
29:48
Speaker 6: you know, a high five, and then he came out
29:50
Speaker 6: later It's like, come on, Zach, excuse me yet, I'm here,
29:53
Speaker 6: I'm ready. I'm ready to do it for you. I
29:56
Speaker 6: can score again. So uh, that was a I think
30:01
Speaker 6: that was a big That was an energy boost, you know.
30:03
Speaker 6: I think everybody, everybody kind of reveled in the in
30:08
Speaker 6: the excitement that Cody Ford was feeling what he was experiencing.
30:11
Speaker 6: And plus, I mean it helped the football team. That's
30:14
Speaker 6: a surprise attack. I mean they didn't stop it, they
30:17
Speaker 6: didn't defend it. That dog will hunt all day long.
30:21
Speaker 1: So the Bengals beat a three and twelve team today.
30:23
Speaker 1: They face a four and twelve team next week in
30:25
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. The Browns are feisty, Shador Sanders is
30:29
Speaker 1: trying to earn a job for next year. They beat
30:32
Speaker 1: the Steelers, upset the Steelers today to force a critical
30:35
Speaker 1: game next week between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. I would not
30:38
Speaker 1: expect the third straight blowout of twenty plus next Sunday.
30:42
Speaker 6: I agree. I think you gotta get ready for a slabyknocker.
30:46
Speaker 6: Pittsburgh went into Cleveland and Cleveland ends up winning the
30:49
Speaker 6: football game. That's that's big though. I mean, you know, Pittsburgh,
30:53
Speaker 6: they went, they win, They're in. I mean, that's that's like,
30:57
Speaker 6: come on, now, they got Aaron Rodgers at the quarterback
31:00
Speaker 6: position and Cleveland has to have a four down stop
31:02
Speaker 6: at the end of the football game to secure that victory.
31:05
Speaker 6: A lot of good things happened there, things that the
31:07
Speaker 6: Cleveland Browns can build off of. And and you're right,
31:11
Speaker 6: I mean, this rivalry, I know from the playing days,
31:15
Speaker 6: this one is personal. This one is heightened because Paul
31:21
Speaker 6: Brown founded both franchises. Man, whenever the pit that's Cleveland
31:26
Speaker 6: Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals went at it. If you
31:30
Speaker 6: split felt, you know, like that's pretty good. Defend your
31:33
Speaker 6: home turf, if you swept the Cleveland Browns, we were like, yeah,
31:38
Speaker 6: that's I mean, there's some things, certain things you want
31:41
Speaker 6: to do to consider a successful season. That was always
31:44
Speaker 6: in Paul Brown's book. That was that was up on
31:47
Speaker 6: the list up there. And you look at it, Dan,
31:50
Speaker 6: the AFC North. You know, it's not a bunch of
31:51
Speaker 6: slaps man, it's not. You know, these guys are good
31:55
Speaker 6: football players, good coaches, play good so solid sound football.
31:59
Speaker 6: So that bodes well for the future too.
32:02
Speaker 1: As I record this podcast, we still don't have a
32:05
Speaker 1: game time for the season finale versus Cleveland. I can
32:09
Speaker 1: tell you that Cincinnati opens as a seven point favorite.
32:13
Speaker 1: That's a wrap on the Arizona win. Up next, it's
32:17
Speaker 1: this week's Fun Facts Conversation, where you get to know
32:20
Speaker 1: the person under the pads. Tip for some fun facts
32:24
Speaker 1: with defensive end Isaiah Foski from Antioch, California, which is
32:28
Speaker 1: not too far from San Francisco. I feel like when
32:31
Speaker 1: people are asked what's your favorite city in the US,
32:35
Speaker 1: more often than not, San Francisco is on the list.
32:38
Speaker 1: What do you like about being from northern California?
32:41
Speaker 3: Oh? The food for sure? Like every time I go
32:44
Speaker 3: back to back home Mcalli, I get Mexican food every
32:47
Speaker 3: single time. Go to any random food truck, you just
32:50
Speaker 3: gonna hit every time, no doubt.
32:54
Speaker 1: I read that your dad served in the Navy. Did
32:56
Speaker 1: that result in a disciplined childhood for you?
33:00
Speaker 3: For sure? Because he was in the Navy. Then he
33:03
Speaker 3: was a police officer, So I don't Yeah, I don't
33:07
Speaker 3: even have to say much after that. So yeah, it
33:09
Speaker 3: was like really disciplinary type of parenting and I just
33:12
Speaker 3: follow on. I's just a person I am.
33:14
Speaker 1: Now we're chatting with Isaiah Foski. According to a pre
33:17
Speaker 1: draft scouting report, you started getting attention from colleges in
33:21
Speaker 1: middle school and got your first college offer in eighth
33:25
Speaker 1: grade from Kansas. Is that true?
33:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. I didn't even know what a scholarship was.
33:31
Speaker 3: I was just prepared for high school and they came
33:35
Speaker 3: out of pretty much nowhere. Is this offer me like
33:37
Speaker 3: through someone else telling me. They couldn't like talk to
33:39
Speaker 3: me directly, and they say, yeah, we're offering you. I
33:42
Speaker 3: didn't even know what Kansas was like back then. I
33:44
Speaker 3: was bad at geography, so they gave me to offer.
33:48
Speaker 1: You played high school football at one of the most
33:50
Speaker 1: famous programs in the country, Day La Salle, a school
33:53
Speaker 1: that once famously had a one hundred and fifty one
33:55
Speaker 1: game winning streak. How did playing there prepare you for
33:59
Speaker 1: college and what you're doing now?
34:01
Speaker 3: I feel like playing at Dale Cell, playing at Notre Dame,
34:05
Speaker 3: how my parents taught me, and just being buy the books,
34:10
Speaker 3: doing everything right, working hard. I feel like that was
34:12
Speaker 3: just the backbone of everything the Dale Cell, like mentioned,
34:17
Speaker 3: being a man of integrity. That's like the one big
34:19
Speaker 3: thing that I brought from Dale Sell and I brought
34:21
Speaker 3: it all into the rest of my life.
34:22
Speaker 1: We're visiting with Isaiah Foski. You could have gone just
34:25
Speaker 1: about anywhere. Your final five schools included Ohio State and Michigan,
34:29
Speaker 1: but ultimately, as you mentioned, you chose Notre Dame. Why
34:32
Speaker 1: the fighting Irish, like I was.
34:34
Speaker 3: The same everything from Dale South and Notre Dame. They
34:38
Speaker 3: just pretty much just went hand in hand, like they're
34:40
Speaker 3: pretty much the same ZAC school. So I just felt
34:43
Speaker 3: really comfortable there, and once I went there, it was
34:45
Speaker 3: just amazing.
34:47
Speaker 1: It's really hard to hold an all time record at
34:50
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, but you do. You are the all time
34:54
Speaker 1: sax leader at that school, which is pretty remarkable. Describe
34:57
Speaker 1: the feeling when you broke Justin tucks all time record.
35:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great. That was like such an amazing,
35:04
Speaker 3: surreal moment because that year I was really starting to
35:07
Speaker 3: get to talk to Justin Tuck and he was just
35:09
Speaker 3: telling me how much he wanted me to be his record.
35:11
Speaker 3: That was like before the season and like just talking
35:13
Speaker 3: to him He was helped me throughout that season, and
35:16
Speaker 3: then when I finally got it, I was just it
35:18
Speaker 3: was a snow game too, first time ever playing the
35:20
Speaker 3: snow on the senior night, and I got it, and
35:23
Speaker 3: then the whole stadium in erupts. All my teammates started
35:27
Speaker 3: giving me high fives and it was just amazing.
35:30
Speaker 1: Will you be as gracious if somebody comes close to
35:32
Speaker 1: breaking your record? Or secretly, will you say no, no,
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Speaker 1: finish with twenty six? No?
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Speaker 3: I want someone to beat my record.
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Speaker 4: I really do.
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Speaker 3: I feel like there's a lot of talent at Nordon
35:41
Speaker 3: that someone could beat it.
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Speaker 1: What did you enjoy most about four years in South Bend?
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Speaker 3: The people like, not much to do in South Bend.
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Speaker 3: It's really just Notre Dame itself, and it's just the
35:52
Speaker 3: people at Norday was really what makes nor Day nor Dame.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a tiny play like a champion today
35:58
Speaker 1: signed in your house?
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Speaker 3: I don't have it here, but I had it at
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Speaker 3: my dad.
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Speaker 1: Would you were selected in the second round of the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three draft by the New Orleans Saints number
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Speaker 1: forty overall. Describe that day leading up to getting that
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Speaker 1: phone call.
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Speaker 3: God, that day, I was I was hoping I was
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Speaker 3: gonna go first round, but you know it'll end up
36:22
Speaker 3: that way. But going uh the fortieth pig to the
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Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints, that was just a crazy experience having
36:28
Speaker 3: all my friends and family next to me, have my
36:30
Speaker 3: wife now right next to me too, which is a
36:32
Speaker 3: crazy experience. I will never forget that moment.
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Speaker 1: Super stressful.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like it was. But then my thing it was
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Speaker 3: wherever I go. I know, God just put me in
36:42
Speaker 3: this place for a reason and that's what kind of
36:45
Speaker 3: like eased me down and just just leaning all my
36:48
Speaker 3: faith throughout all of it.
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Speaker 1: New Orleans is very different from South Bend. How did
36:53
Speaker 1: you enjoy two years in the big easy?
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Speaker 3: Like I said, how I like California their food, New
36:58
Speaker 3: Orleans their food big foodie. Though New Orleans food was
37:02
Speaker 3: it was great, but it was it was a little
37:05
Speaker 3: bit of adjustment. Humidity that was the biggest adjustment. That
37:08
Speaker 3: was when I first got there. That was killing me.
37:11
Speaker 3: But then after a while you kind of got used
37:12
Speaker 3: to it.
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Speaker 1: Isaiah. After a couple of years with the Saints, you
37:15
Speaker 1: joined the Bengals early this season. You were reunited with
37:18
Speaker 1: your defensive coordinator from your final year at Notre Dame
37:21
Speaker 1: Al Golden. Did you feel like you were now playing
37:24
Speaker 1: for a coach or playing for a coach again who
37:26
Speaker 1: really knew what you were capable of doing? Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. He saw me at my high in college,
37:33
Speaker 3: so you knew what I was capable of. And just
37:35
Speaker 3: being able to just see him again run his defense again,
37:38
Speaker 3: it's just my first came roun. I was like, oh yeah,
37:39
Speaker 3: I remember all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, because I remember
37:42
Speaker 3: that play and it was just all like a familiarity
37:45
Speaker 3: with all.
37:46
Speaker 1: You had to bide your time on the practice squad
37:48
Speaker 1: for a while. You've been active on the bengals fifty
37:50
Speaker 1: three man roster in recent weeks. Tell me a little
37:53
Speaker 1: bit about your experience of being a Bengal so far.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's been great so far. I've been started, like
37:58
Speaker 3: pretty much started from the bottom going squad, but just
38:01
Speaker 3: waiting my turn, making the most of my opportunities, even
38:03
Speaker 3: it's a special teams or one player on defense, just
38:06
Speaker 3: making most of my opportunities.
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Speaker 1: All right. A few wild card topics now with Isaiah Foski.
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Speaker 1: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport
38:15
Speaker 1: and why.
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Speaker 3: This might be a crazy one, not even crazy but
38:21
Speaker 3: I will always I got to Calvin Johnson probably love
38:25
Speaker 3: watching his film. I was a tight end back in
38:27
Speaker 3: high school, and when I was younger, I always wanted
38:29
Speaker 3: to be a tight end, even though he wasn't tight.
38:31
Speaker 3: I just love watching Calvin Johnson and Adrian Peterson. I
38:34
Speaker 3: was like, once I get the ball, I want to
38:35
Speaker 3: run like Adrian Peterson.
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Speaker 1: Don't we all?
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Speaker 7: So?
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Speaker 1: You're six'. Five were you megatron like as a high
38:41
Speaker 1: school tight?
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Speaker 3: End, Yeah that's WHY i always watched. HIM i was,
38:44
Speaker 3: Like i'm Gonna i'm gonna Make megatron type touchdowns in
38:48
Speaker 3: the end.
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Speaker 1: Zone If i'm not. Mistaken you have three older. Sisters
38:52
Speaker 1: did they accuse you of getting special treatment as the
38:55
Speaker 1: first boy in the. Family, yeah they probably still.
38:59
Speaker 3: Do they probably know not, no BUT i get like
39:02
Speaker 3: a little bit of special treatment every TIME i come
39:04
Speaker 3: back home If i'm not even at home a lot of,
39:05
Speaker 3: times especially ONCE i left for, college but in high school,
39:09
Speaker 3: TOO i was just always the only, boy always hanging
39:12
Speaker 3: out with my mom and my, dad and he's just
39:14
Speaker 3: a little bit of special.
39:15
Speaker 1: Treatment your family's not. Nearby did they get the chance
39:18
Speaker 1: to come to many of your?
39:19
Speaker 3: Games, nah they haven't beigures there was playing on going
39:22
Speaker 3: To New orleans for some, games and then ONCE i came,
39:25
Speaker 3: here it was just a little bit a little bit
39:26
Speaker 3: harder for them to come out. There But i'll be
39:28
Speaker 3: able to go out there off, Season.
39:30
Speaker 1: Isaiah other than playing, football what are you good? At?
39:34
Speaker 3: Say i'm good at a lot of, things BUT i
39:36
Speaker 3: am good at, suggesting suggesting movies to?
39:40
Speaker 1: You all, Right i'm. Game oh, uh.
39:44
Speaker 3: Probably Slum Dog. Millionaire that's one of you know what that.
39:47
Speaker 1: Is i've seen Slum dog million are fantastic.
39:50
Speaker 3: Movie, YEAH i don't know, WHY i really do. NOT
39:52
Speaker 3: i don't know, why but that's one of my favorite
39:54
Speaker 3: movies to. Watch and Den watchington. Movie that's, like that's
39:58
Speaker 3: just a Euc denza watching.
39:59
Speaker 7: It go watch.
40:00
Speaker 1: IT i think we are very similar when it comes
40:02
Speaker 1: to our taste in. Movies my wife was In San francisco.
40:06
Speaker 1: Recently she used the self driving taxi. Service have you
40:11
Speaker 1: tried it?
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Speaker 3: YET i have?
40:13
Speaker 1: Not are you?
40:13
Speaker 3: WILLING i don't want to see?
40:15
Speaker 4: It i'm.
40:16
Speaker 3: GOOD i either take the train or HAVE i guess
40:19
Speaker 3: someone else's. Driving if youcures The sanrancisco kind a little
40:21
Speaker 3: bit dangerous to leave your car out, there BUT i
40:23
Speaker 3: usually just take a train or something like.
40:25
Speaker 1: That my wife, says, way moll is, Fine SO i don't.
40:27
Speaker 1: Know the next TIME i, VISIT i might give it a.
40:29
Speaker 1: Shot all. Right final fun fact For Isaiah. Foski this
40:33
Speaker 1: one's a little bit. Deep if you could meet anyone in,
40:36
Speaker 1: history living or, deceased who would that person?
40:40
Speaker 3: BE i will probably say my, grandfather my dad's. Dad
40:45
Speaker 3: BUT i want to know how he raised my. Dad
40:50
Speaker 3: even Though i'm gonna be a father NOT i. Don't
40:52
Speaker 3: my wife is not pregnant right, now but we're hoping
40:55
Speaker 3: that she will be pregnant in one day have a
40:58
Speaker 3: son or. DAUGHTER i just want to know how he
41:00
Speaker 3: raised my. Dad y'all want to raise my son or
41:04
Speaker 3: my daughter just how you raised. Them he passed me
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Speaker 3: FOR i was. WORSE i was never able to meet.
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Speaker 1: Him i've enjoyed this very. Much best of luck the
41:11
Speaker 1: rest of the, year and thanks so much for your.
41:12
Speaker 3: Time, youah, no prone that's.
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