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Bengals Booth Podcast: Stay · Bengals Booth Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi again everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth podcast The Oh won't You stay just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit longer. Addition, as the Bengals announced that
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman Dalton Reisner has agreed to a one year
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  Speaker 1: contract extension. Coming up. Two conversations with Reisner. First, my
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  Speaker 1: one on one visit shortly after he put pen to
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  Speaker 1: paper on the new deal, and later, in case you
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  Speaker 1: missed it, my fun facts conversation with him from earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year. And in between those two interviews, I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to NFL network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland. The Bengals Booth
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  Speaker 1: The Best Thing I Ever Ate. We have a little
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  Speaker 1: TV in our kitchen that I usually turn on if
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  Speaker 1: I'm cooking or doing the dishes, and if there isn't
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  Speaker 1: a sporting event on. One of my favorite shows to
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  Speaker 1: have on in the background is The Best Thing I
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  Speaker 1: Ever Ate on the Food Network. If you've never seen it,
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  Speaker 1: it consists of chefs picking out favorite dishes they've eaten
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  Speaker 1: at restaurants throughout the US in various categories. For example,
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  Speaker 1: the Best Thing I Ever Ate Grilled features eight grilled
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  Speaker 1: items at restaurants around the country, including a personal favorite
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  Speaker 1: of mine, the grilled oysters at Dragos in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: There's a website that features a bunch of mouthwatering videos
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  Speaker 1: from the show. Just search for the Best Thing I
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  Speaker 1: Ever Ate, and then prepare to have a snack because
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible not to munch on something after watching the show. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to Dalton Reisner. For the first time in
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  Speaker 1: the Joe Burrow era, the Bengals starting offensive line will
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  Speaker 1: return intact. Now. Admittedly, they were looking to upgrade in
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  Speaker 1: previous offseasons, but that wasn't necessary this year. Beginning with
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay game in mid October, so we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the final twelve games of the year. Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Focus had the Bengals O line graded sixth in the
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  Speaker 1: league in pass protection. Sixth, not top half. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: in the top twenty percent. And again it's not a
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  Speaker 1: small sample size. That was for a dozen games. Dalton
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  Speaker 1: Reisner started nine of them, and we'll be back at
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  Speaker 1: right guard for at least one more year. One day
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  Speaker 1: after the season ended, Amarius Mims cam pain for the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals to bring Reisner back.
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  Speaker 2: I want him back. I want to do my right
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  Speaker 2: guard for as long as I'm here. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he's the best right guard in the NFL. So I really,
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  Speaker 2: I really, like I said, I really hope he can
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  Speaker 2: get signed back. But in about thirty minutes, I'll be
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  Speaker 2: posted that Darton Rosely back, So that will be happening today.
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  Speaker 1: Best starting right guard in the NFL. That's a strong statement.
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  Speaker 3: My opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like, you know, weekend and week out,
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  Speaker 2: he showed that, you know, he's a great player, and
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  Speaker 2: you know the communication part and how good we play together.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's one of the best. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll stand on it.
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  Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher didn't go so far as calling
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  Speaker 1: Reisner the best right guard in the league, but did
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  Speaker 1: sing his praises before the end of the season. Thlam
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  Speaker 1: does a lot of little.
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  Speaker 4: Things that are unspectacular, but they matter. He just brings
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  Speaker 4: savviness and positive energy. He's I mean almost it's almost
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  Speaker 4: every play he's the first guy down there to grab
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  Speaker 4: the guy off the ground like those are.
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  Speaker 3: That's a that.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't affect the execution of what just happened in the play,
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  Speaker 1: but it absolutely affects the health of the team and
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  Speaker 1: the health.
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  Speaker 3: Of the unit and the chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: And so he does a lot of little things on
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  Speaker 1: top of just being a good football player. Reisner signed
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  Speaker 1: a new contract around nine thirty in the morning on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: spent some time with Mike Brown and other members of
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  Speaker 1: the front office, and then was kind enough to sit
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  Speaker 1: down with me for this one on one conversation. Dalton.
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  Speaker 1: Last year you signed eleven days before the start of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. Today is six months and eleven days
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  Speaker 1: from the first Sunday up next season. Are you relieved
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  Speaker 1: to have this done now? Wow?
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  Speaker 4: Wait, nice job looking at the days. That's crazy six
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  Speaker 4: So I have a six month advantage. I mean I
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  Speaker 4: was just about to get into it to it, but
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  Speaker 4: I am so it's almost not it is a I
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  Speaker 4: am relieved.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's so tough. The last three years, I've.
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  Speaker 4: Been picked up the second week of September, the last
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  Speaker 4: day in August, this last year, June, year before, and
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  Speaker 4: it's always been a rat race to get myself mentally
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  Speaker 4: and physically ready. But at the same token, I the
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  Speaker 4: reason I was able to do that is because I.
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  Speaker 3: Did stay ready.
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  Speaker 4: And I take so much pride in how hard that
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  Speaker 4: was six seven months of my own off season to
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  Speaker 4: make sure I stay prepared to come in here and
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  Speaker 4: play for these different teams. But regardless, this is where
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be the whole time. And you never
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  Speaker 4: know when you go in and you play football every
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  Speaker 4: year if it's going to be your last. Because with
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  Speaker 4: this job is such a the way I look at
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  Speaker 4: it is such a blessing. And taking a league minimum
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  Speaker 4: deal and showing up on a team September first and
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  Speaker 4: not playing the best in your second game, thought I
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  Speaker 4: played well in Cleveland, but not playing well and kind
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  Speaker 4: of losing your job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it didn't look it didn't look good from.
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  Speaker 4: Where Dalton Riser was at, and I just am so
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  Speaker 4: grateful to be sitting here today, and I feel overwhelmed
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  Speaker 4: with like gratitude for where I'm at and to be
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  Speaker 4: signed back with the Bengals. I'm not acting like I'm
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  Speaker 4: signing a four year extension that is ridiculous money, but
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  Speaker 4: for me and where I come from and.
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  Speaker 3: The story and the journey that I have, I'm so
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  Speaker 3: thrilled to.
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  Speaker 4: Be here and so grateful for like everybody man like
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  Speaker 4: all the way up to the Brown family, to Duke,
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  Speaker 4: to Steve, to Zach, to Pitch, to Scott Peters, down
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  Speaker 4: to everyone in the media department and Jeff and Dan,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody Like I wish that the cafeteria was.
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  Speaker 4: Open so I could go hug everyone there, so I
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  Speaker 4: better stop there.
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  Speaker 3: But very relieved and grateful.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the season, you told me the
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  Speaker 1: following quote, I feel overwhelmed by the unwavering love and
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  Speaker 1: support of my teammates and coaches. That is a powerful statement.
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  Speaker 1: How did they show that to you?
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  Speaker 4: They showed it by being so outspoken about wanting to
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  Speaker 4: have me back. I've been in the NFL for eight
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  Speaker 4: years now, and I've never had teammates. I've had teammates
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  Speaker 4: tell me behind closed doors all the time how much
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  Speaker 4: they loved me and that's a really cool thing and
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  Speaker 4: want me back, But then to take it to the
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  Speaker 4: next step and publicly come out and talk about how
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  Speaker 4: much they want me back. For a Marius Mems to
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  Speaker 4: do that, for Ted Carris to do that, I know,
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow doesn't really didn't really ever maybe say it
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  Speaker 4: to media reporters, but he made it very clear to me.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow was contacting me throughout the whole offseason, staying
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  Speaker 4: in touch with me and how this deal was going.
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  Speaker 4: And Scott Peters and Zach Taylor, and yeah, it's really
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  Speaker 4: cool that they all said that, but it's so cool
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  Speaker 4: that they all took the next step in being proactive
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  Speaker 4: of checking.
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  Speaker 3: In and really wanting this thing done.
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  Speaker 4: And I think you always see if people really mean
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  Speaker 4: something by if they just say it once and it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of left at that, or do they continue to
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  Speaker 4: check in, do they continue to wonder, they continue to
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  Speaker 4: ask you, do they continue to be outspoken about it?
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  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what they did.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why I feel the way I do today
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  Speaker 4: is because of all the people that made this happen.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't just Dalton Reisner having a good season and
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  Speaker 4: the Bengals wanting to re sign me. That's what the
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  Speaker 4: story will be, but there was a lot more behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, As you mentioned, you basically played for
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  Speaker 1: the veteran minimum last year. You don't get to do
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  Speaker 1: this for wherever. Did you feel like you had to
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  Speaker 1: make up for that a little bit as you negotiated
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  Speaker 1: a new deal?
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, in this league, you always have so
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  Speaker 4: many people that doubt you. And when I took this deal,
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  Speaker 4: I won't say any names, but there was a few
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  Speaker 4: people that even mentioned to me and said, once you
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  Speaker 4: take a deal like this, you'll never get out. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that I knew I was gonna defeat that,
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  Speaker 4: but it really infuriated me because I never liked to
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  Speaker 4: have a ceiling put on what I can do and
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  Speaker 4: what I take a lot of pride in dan is
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  Speaker 4: when I was binged and I was on a league
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  Speaker 4: minimum deal and I was in year seven, you have
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  Speaker 4: two choices in that time, and it's don't it's either
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  Speaker 4: be who Dalton is or be who Dalton is and
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  Speaker 4: who is Dalton gonna be? It's do I put my
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  Speaker 4: head down and do I say this is it and
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  Speaker 4: I change my character and I pout, or I put
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  Speaker 4: my head down and I grind and I make sure
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  Speaker 4: that if I get another opportunity, I'm ready to seize it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what I did.
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  Speaker 4: And man, I'm just so grateful that I did, because
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  Speaker 4: coming off of a deal like that, it's hard to
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  Speaker 4: sign another deal. And like I said, it wasn't just.
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  Speaker 3: The way I played.
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  Speaker 4: It was my teammates, it was my coaches, it was
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  Speaker 4: you guys, it was the fan base. I have to
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  Speaker 4: give a huge shout out to the fan base. I
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  Speaker 4: want to talk about unwavering love. I mean, man, they've
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  Speaker 4: been so supportive, not only this year and last year,
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  Speaker 4: but back to when I was even drafted in the
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  Speaker 4: draft process. You know, these guys were pounding the table
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  Speaker 4: for me. So it's a full circle moment. And I
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  Speaker 4: was talking to Orlando Brown last night and he said
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  Speaker 4: it's time to put on the.
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  Speaker 3: Stripes again, and I couldn't agree more. Man, it's time
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  Speaker 3: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about how you played. Your overall Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Focus grade was the highest of your career. Does this
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  Speaker 1: offense suit your skill set particularly well? Did Scott Peters
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  Speaker 1: coaching help? What was it? Why did you play so well?
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  Speaker 4: Before I answer this, make sure that this segment gets
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  Speaker 4: to Scott Peters because this means a lot to me.
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  Speaker 4: Scott Peters and Mike McCarthy believed in me from whenever
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  Speaker 4: I came in, and they gave me an opportunity. And
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  Speaker 4: that's them, that's pitch and that's Zach too. But the
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  Speaker 4: way in which they coach. Scott Peters believes in what
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  Speaker 4: he does, and what Scott Peters does is unconventional. Scott
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  Speaker 4: Peters and what he teaches might ruffle feathers from some
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  Speaker 4: people when it starts because it's unconventional and it's different.
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  Speaker 4: But Scott Peters believes in what he teaches, and I
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  Speaker 4: believe in Scott Peters and what he teaches so much.
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  Speaker 4: I've told so many people since the season was over,
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  Speaker 4: select stories of how this man will coach you, and
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  Speaker 4: you see it directly payoff.
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  Speaker 1: In the game.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes when you're in NFL, Dan, I've been doing this
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  Speaker 4: my whole life. Sometimes you wonder how much more can
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  Speaker 4: a coach coach me? This is my profession. This is
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  Speaker 4: something I've been doing my whole life, Like, how much
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  Speaker 4: more do I really need to know? I know how
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  Speaker 4: to block a guy. Scott Peters has changed that. Scott
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  Speaker 4: Peters is one of my will always be one of
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  Speaker 4: my favorite coaches and my whole, my whole football career.
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  Speaker 3: And that's wild.
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  Speaker 4: I was only with the guys for five six months.
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  Speaker 4: I love his story. I love what Scott Peters.
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  Speaker 3: Is all about. The grind and the grit.
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  Speaker 4: And getting out of the mud of his NFL story
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  Speaker 4: and his life story has made him who he is today,
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  Speaker 4: and it's made him believe in what he does. And
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  Speaker 4: I think he changed me as a player, and I
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  Speaker 4: think he changed my career path and the trajectory of
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  Speaker 4: where I'm going in the NFL. I think that I
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  Speaker 4: needed this growth. I needed someone to push me and
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  Speaker 4: get me uncomfortable. I mean, I remember a story. I
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  Speaker 4: gotta share it with you. I was playing the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 4: This was Week three of the season. So I played
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  Speaker 4: really good against Cleveland, didn't play good against Jacksonville. Here's
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  Speaker 4: this guy continuing to coach me, continue to work me
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  Speaker 4: throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going against a guy Naed John Allen.
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  Speaker 4: John Allen is one of the better defensive tackles in
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  Speaker 4: my era, in my opinion, and he's got this amazing move.
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  Speaker 4: He clubs and he gets underneath of you. And John
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  Speaker 4: Allen doesn't detach, He just drives you. And you can
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  Speaker 4: go look up clips today.
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  Speaker 3: I recommend you do this.
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  Speaker 4: You will see clip after clip of John Allen underneath
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  Speaker 4: a guy hooked in with his arm, just driving him
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  Speaker 4: into the quarterback. That's his move, that's his bread and butter.
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  Speaker 4: And he does it to almost everybody in the league,
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  Speaker 4: some of the best of guys. And Scott knows. Scott
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  Speaker 4: goes most coaches right, Hey, die a slow death if
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  Speaker 4: he's not getting a sack. You gotta just do what
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  Speaker 4: you do, do the technique that I teach. Scott breaks
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  Speaker 4: it down and says, no, I have select things that
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna do for this guy, and we're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: do it all week, but I'm gonna teach you a
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  Speaker 4: move and this is how I think you can beat it.
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  Speaker 4: And he gives you options, and I told him, I
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  Speaker 4: think I like this option regardless, without putting all the
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  Speaker 4: fluff into it.
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  Speaker 3: I work it with Scott. I buy into it.
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  Speaker 4: I try it during the Minnesota game. John tries to
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  Speaker 4: get underneath of me, and I hop back, which is
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  Speaker 4: the technique he taught me to do and pin my
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  Speaker 4: elbows and I stonewall him right there. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying it because it makes me look good. I'm saying
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  Speaker 4: it because that's an example of how I think he's
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  Speaker 4: just a great coach and what he does. Really, I
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  Speaker 4: see payoff on Sunday, and I think I'm so excited
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  Speaker 4: to see him.
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  Speaker 3: Go to work again for year eight in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun now.
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  Speaker 1: John Allen knows the hot back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know, I know John Allen knows
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  Speaker 4: the hot backs coming. But I don't think we play
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  Speaker 4: the Vikings this year, and I'd rather see.
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  Speaker 3: Him do it to someone else me.
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  Speaker 1: As you noted, Amarus Mims publicly campaigned for you to
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  Speaker 1: come back. He said to me, he's the best right
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  Speaker 1: guard in the NFL. He's seven years younger than you are.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems like you two guys have really bonded.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the case? And have you made an effort
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  Speaker 1: to try to take him under your wing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, first of all, bold statement by my boy.
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  Speaker 4: We all know it's probably not true, but what a
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  Speaker 4: great what a great thing for him to.
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  Speaker 3: Say about me. That really warms my heart.
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  Speaker 4: He is going to be an All Pro tackle and
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  Speaker 4: he's going to be a Pro Bowl tackle. I told
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  Speaker 4: him that last night on the phone. I call him
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  Speaker 4: baby boy, That's what I call him. And he has
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  Speaker 4: so much natural and God given ability, paired with great
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  Speaker 4: competitiveness and a will to get better and a desire
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  Speaker 4: to be better. So I can't wait to see what
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  Speaker 4: Amarus Mims continues to do in his career. And I
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  Speaker 4: will do anything and everything for that man. I'll put
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  Speaker 4: my own career on the line, my own job security
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  Speaker 4: on the line, to make him look good. I mean
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  Speaker 4: that I'm at the point in my career where I
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  Speaker 4: want to see him succeed.
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  Speaker 3: The opportunity for me.
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  Speaker 4: For a four year deal and for some of those
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  Speaker 4: things might be passed, and that's completely okay. I want
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  Speaker 4: to see him succeed. He's such a good young man.
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, he's so young. Mims is literally the
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  Speaker 4: age of my youngest brother. I'm one of five boys,
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  Speaker 4: and I hang out with my youngest brother.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, who WHA? I work next to somebody that's.
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  Speaker 4: Your age, and I just love him so much that
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  Speaker 4: I want to see him succeed more than me. And
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  Speaker 4: that's a bold statement, but I really do mean it.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to do everything I can this year
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  Speaker 4: for him to have a successful year.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Pitchers had some really nice things about you at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year and noted the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you are usually the first guy to help a teammate
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  Speaker 1: or a ball carrier get up, you know, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the play. Is that a conscious thing on
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  Speaker 1: your part? Do you think that matters?
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  Speaker 4: I think it matters a lot because of the makeup
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  Speaker 4: of who I am as a football player. I've never
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  Speaker 4: been the biggest, or fastest or strongest. You've sat next
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  Speaker 4: to guys that are a lot bigger than me, You've
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  Speaker 4: sent next guys that are stronger than me. And when
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  Speaker 4: people watch tape, there's guys that are more talented than me.
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  Speaker 4: And one thing I was taught at a young age,
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  Speaker 4: but one thing that I take a lot of pride
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  Speaker 4: in is not letting.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone outwork me.
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  Speaker 4: Like I can look back on a game and say,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: hey you ran me over, or hey you swam me,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: or whatever it may be. But I'm not gonna look
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: back at a game and say you worked harder than me.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: If I lose a.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Rep because I'm not working hard enough, or my running
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: back is picking himself off the ground because I didn't
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: hustle downfield to pick them up, and that's shame on me,
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: in my opinion. I take so much pride, and when
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I'm done with this career of mine, I want to
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: look back and say I left everything out there, and
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: I want my kids to watch my film someday and say, like,
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: why are you running downfield and why are you doing that?
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: You're wasting your energy. You got to play football well.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: To me, that's more important than even the game itself.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that tells everybody about That tells
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: everything about somebody is what they're willing to do for
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: the people around them.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: And I'm not perfect at it and I can always
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: do better.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: But it was so cool that he noticed that, Like man,
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: it's I wrote it down on my phone because he
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: called me out in the mid of a meeting and
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: talked about how important it was. And I've never had
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: a coach do that, and I've done that my whole career,
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: So I don't know I'm not trying to get too deep,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: but I.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Just feel seen here.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: I've told everybody that this whole offseason, like I've never
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: felt seen like I have in this At the Cincinnati
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Bengals in.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: The second half of the season, the Bengals offensive line,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I think, was graded eighth best in pass blocking by
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. I don't really get the sense that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the national media or the rest of the world has
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: caught on to the fact of how well the Bengals
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: offensive line played. Do you guys feel that do you
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: want the acclaim that, hey, Cincinnati's offensive line not only
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: isn't a problem anymore, it's good.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: We'll we'll let our storytell itself.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: You know, we're not gonna We're not gonna push the agenda.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: No one wants to admit the agenda. The Eagles, all
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: these other offensive lines, they're the ones that are supposed
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: to be the best. No one wants to write the
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: story about the Bengals offensive line being really good because
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: no one believes it. That hasn't been the case. I'm
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: not gonna act like I've been here, but we all
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: know that.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Hasn't been the case.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: So what we don't want to do and I don't
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: think I speak for everybody. What I'd imagine I do
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: is be open about it and push that agenda.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Why, because we have work to do.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: We're not satisfied, So we're not going to go out
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: and push this agenda and make sure everyone knows just
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: because we're eighth, Because we want to be better than eighth.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, we want to protect the best quarterback in
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: the league. We want to go win a Super Bowl.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: We want to be the best offense in the league.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: We want to get the ball to Jamar and t
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: So it's a couple of reasons. I don't think anyone
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: wants to write that story too. We don't want to
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: push it because we have room to grow and people
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: are gonna find out sooner or later.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: The story I'll tell itself.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the best quarterback in the league. Where's your fossil?
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Where's my fossil? It's back in Florida. Actually it's not
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: back in Florida. We took it back to Florida safe
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: and securely from Cincinnati, and then we shipped it through
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: a moving company to Kansas. Because you're thinking Florida or Kansas.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Where does a huge bullhead with horns belong. I think
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: it belongs in Kansas. So I'm still trying to get
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: my wife to approve it getting mound on the wall
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in the living room, but I don't know what she's
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: gonna say, so regardless, it'll be a that's one of
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: the coolest.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: That's one of the coolest gifts.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I've gotten from anyone in the NFL and one of
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: my favorite. And I say that because it had so
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: much of Burrow written all over it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: He got us a gift that he would love. He
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: got us a gift that was cool to him. He
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: could write it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Everyone knows Burrow could write a check for a golf cart.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Burrow can write a check for anything. You could just
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: write us individual checks.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: But he took time to say, let me go and
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: dig deep into stuff that I actually enjoy and give
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: it to my teammates. And I'll forever look at it
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: and say, Man, that's Joe Burrow written all over it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: So I'm stoked about it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: You'll have a story forever.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yep, you're dang right, a three million year old story.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Final thing for Dalton Reisner free agency league wide is
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: just around the corner. Did you leave some money for
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the Bengals to add defensive players.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: You're dang right, I did. Man, You're dang right I did.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I got to the point where I was like, let's
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: get this deal done. I don't need to ask for
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: the world. I think that I very easily could have
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: went to free agency and seeing what other teams are
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: willing to pay me or pay me more than a
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: one year extension. But for me and I only share
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: that information because this is where I wanted to be
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: and I want to make sure that people know that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm a man of my word.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: When I left, I said this is where I wanted
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: to be, and I wasn't kidding, so I could care
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: less if another NFL team wanted to get me on
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: a two or three year deal or maybe pay me
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: a little more cash per year. Cincinnati Bengals is the
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: team I wanted to be a part of, so I
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: think there'll be some big moves made and let's go.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Win some football games.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Man, Like your teammates, coaches and Bengals fans, I am
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: thrilled to have you back. Congratulations, thanks brother, I appreciate you.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Dan, God bless.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: After our conversation, I told Dalton that when his playing
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: career is finished. He could have a very bright future
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: in broadcasting. He's articulate, interesting, entertaining, and honest. And later
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to come on this podcast, you'll hear an encore presentation
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of My fun Facts interview with Dalton from early last season, where,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: among other things, you'll learn about his childhood and a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: no stoplight one restaurant hometown, and how he earned pizza
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: as a kid by memorizing Bible versus but First, at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the NFL combine last week, I caught up with NFL
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland to discuss what it's going
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to take to get the Bengals back into Super Bowl contention. Cynthia,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in your first mock draft, you had the Bengals selecting
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Ohio State safety Caleb Downs. He is probably the number
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: one player that Bengals fans would like to see wind
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: up in Cincinnati. Explain your process and how you wound
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: up with Caleb Downs and the Bengals.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I use the analytics process, which basically uses a lot
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: of numbers to so I don't blind myself to the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: jersey right.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Ohio State.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: It's a great school, great reputation, awesome, but Caleb Downs
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: is so special.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: My stuff loves him for safety, for nicol, like you
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: name it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: He's just so multiple and versatile. So there's a little
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: s next to his name. But I don't really know.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I mean nickibn Ware, I think is a good example
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: of like I think you played like twelve snaps at
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: true safety last year for the Seahawks, and you saw
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: how effective he was ever round. So that kind of
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: profile added to where the Bengals are maybe having looking
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: to fill some holes, is how it paired them together.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: The Bengals took Shamar Stewart in the first round last year,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a guy known more for his traits than his college production.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Keldric Falk from Auburn is a similar type of guy.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: This year, some people are saying he would be a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: possibility for Cincinnati at number ten. Where are you on
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the traits versus production debate? From an analytical standpoint, what.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I've noticed in this year's draft, now that the transfer
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: portal is in full swing, everybody's production looks thinner, so
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: you don't see as many different situations or scenarios, or
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: perhaps the playbook.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: Isn't as thick.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not entirely sure how it's all happening like this,
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: But people moving school so often, you have to imagine
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: they're not able to fully learn a system. So you
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: have to go more on trade now than you ever
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: have before. However, I think it's like six to one,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: half a dozen of another. I think it depends on
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: the position and all these interviews and all the thirty visits.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: In your building. Let's go watch some film together. Let's
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: see if you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Pick up all the different things that you're supposed to
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: be picking up. Can you learn our system and.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Can you execute it? That's where the magic of scouting
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: really comes in.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So we're here at the combine. Everybody's obviously talking about
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the draft, but for the Bengals, the mission this offseason
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: is really to fix the defense. They know the offense
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is fine, they need to get better on defense. So
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: there's a free agency component that's coming up soon. Should
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a team sign a star or are you better off
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: using those dollars on several mid tier guys? For lack
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of a.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Better word, Am I living in a world where a
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Tree Hendrickson has gone?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm living in a world where he's gone. Okay,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: So I just I don't know where we are with that,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: but I think you need to mix both. You need
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: the right people who are average that in your system
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: operate in above average ways.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: But you do need a few anchor positions. I mean,
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: think about the team.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: We were talking about Jamar Chase and how great you
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: do radio calls for Jamar Chase right and Joe Burrow obviously,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: but if you don't have a few of those on
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: the defense, it's much harder to live, especially I don't know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: It's like, wouldn't you like to maybe sack Lamar Jackson?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: It just seems like a good idea to me.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Seems like a smart idea.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Definitely a great idea when possible. We're visiting with Cynthia
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Freeland from the NFL Network. The Bengals are mostly a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: stick and pick team in the draft. They generally don't
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: do a ton of wheeling and dealing. Maybe a one
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: trade per draft. Should a team, as a general rule,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: trade down to try to get as many picks as possible.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: It depends on the construct of your team.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Now, I will say it probably from ten makes like
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: there's a weird like cliff that happens. So a lot
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: of people use a Jimmy Johnson trade chart to kind
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: of evaluate the equity of all right, I'll give you
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: my ten to trade down to seventeen, and this is
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: what those seven picks are worth.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: And there's kind of a cliff that happens after ten.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: So I will say you could exploit the fact that
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: you're in the top ten, maybe a little bit more
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: like you're picking eleven. It's a different trade component that
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: you get more for your You get more bang for
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: your buck at ten, right, So I guess it would
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: depend on what someone was offering.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Now I know we're in Indianapolis.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: That deal that the Colts made for Sauce Gardner, that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: set a weird precedent because that's a lot of picks
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: and a player.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: It's just a lot.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: So perhaps the world is resetting, the market is resetting
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: for how many picks go for players in positions?
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure. But ten is a good spot.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: So someone's gonna give you something crazy for it, then
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: it'd be hard to turn that down. However, you need
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: to know what crazy really is defined as for your team, I.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Don't get the sense that there's a likelihood that the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Bengals could pull off a trade for Max Crosby. But
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: if they did, it would probably involve giving up the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: tenth pick. And you just talked about the value of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that selection. What do you think, I mean, would it
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: be worth giving up a pick that valuable for a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: guy that's going to be twenty nine at the beginning
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of the season. Even as great as he is.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: The thing that I really think about Max Crosby is
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the ability to stop the run as well. You know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: since he's entered the league seven seasons no defensive end,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: so someone who plays where he plays has been better
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: against the run. I understand he's paid to rush the passer,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: but let's talk about being multiple. So I think he
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: is one of those very special players that is a
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: tone setter. He shifts a culture, He creates the opportunity
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: to be a different defense very fast. So I actually
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: think he might be because I'm looking at some of
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: these picks and who could be available at ten. There's
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: a lot of people who, at least right now, kind
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: of feel like Tweeners.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: And I don't know how that. I'm not a defensive coordinator.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I don't get paid to do that, but I don't
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: know how that all fits together. Given the complexion of
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: what they're It's hard to know, and I don't meant
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: to offense. Hard to know what the Bengals defense was
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: trying to do last year, right, I'm unclear? Right, So
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: given that, I don't know what they're trying to do
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: this next year. So if you add pieces that are
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: tweeener pieces to you don't have the right vision for them,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: then you're not really adding a top ten pick. You're
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: adding something you basically the production you could have gotten
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: in the twenties, and that would be a miss. Max Crosby,
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: you know what you're getting, and apart from being from Michigan,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: he's pretty awesome.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to prior to last year
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: because you always do a column where you project the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: ceiling for teams and the floor for teams, and for
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the Bengals, prior to last year, you were like Noster
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Damas because the ceiling was nine point nine, the floor
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: was six. It wound up being six, but your rationale
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: for that floor was spot on because you did a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: model for what a team looks like with Joe Burrow
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: at quarterback and what a team looks like with just
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: an average Joe at quarterback.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it turns out Joe Burrow's really good news flash.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah no, But I think part of the difference is
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: my model did not like the Bengals defense. I don't
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: think I'm alone in that without Joe Burrows.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: So if you kind of like we're, you know, like
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: the scales of justice right, like on one side, you're
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: weighing Joe Burrow's capabilities, and he can right a lot
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: of wrongs, but if he's not there, the wrongs compound
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: and it's really hard. Like there aren't thirty two men
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: who are qualified to play quarterback. There aren't ten guys
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: who are.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Great at quarterback. There's like four. We were trying to
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: name who are guys who you could start a franchise with?
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: And I'm sitting there and we're it was smartest people
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: in the league, and we named four.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Four. Obviously, of course Joe's one of the four.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: But apart from that, it's you're like, well, in this system, nope,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: So Joe's the big X factor.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: So every year in the NFL, there's a team or
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a few teams that go from being bad to being great.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Patriots won four games two years ago. They went to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the super Bowl. The last time the Bengals went to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They won four games the year before,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So it always happens to somebody. The Bengals are hoping
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: to go from six wins to the Super Bowl next year.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: What do they have to do. If you are in
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: charge of the Cincinnati Bengals, how do you get them
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: back to that level?
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Well, you got Joe. Let's keep him playing and healthy.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: That's number one.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's one of my favorite players mentally because
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: I am from the state of Michigan and Matthew Stafford
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: was in Michigan for a long time and got clobbered
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: and his toughness was always a huge deal.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Joe Burrow is.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Like, he doesn't even flinch. It's pretty amazing. So keep
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Joe healthy. And number two, got to like win the
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: games you're supposed to win, and a lot of that
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: will be incremental benefits on defense. Just get a little
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: bit better on defense. You have the offensive pieces in place.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Keep Joe Burrow healthy. Don't ask him to throw for
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: five thousand yards. I mean, okay, five thousand maybe don't
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: ask him to throw over six thousand yards?
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: How about that? About that? And then that will really
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: help things.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: What do you get out of the combine, What do
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you like to look at, who do you like to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: talk to? What do you get from being an Indy
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in Indy?
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to especially this year with ten new head coaches,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to get a sense of what are people's
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: philosophies and not what are they like saying, but like
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: what are they doing?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Because everyone will tell you I'm this I come from
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: a McVeigh tree or a Shanahan tree. Everyone would like
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: to do that. Everyone would love to play with a
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: Joe Barrow, everyone would love to have Christian McCaffrey. We
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: get it, But what is your real strategy when the
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: rubber meets the road? Meaning do you have the vision
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: or not?
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: We were talking last night about you know, Sean Payton
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: made a big decision to get rid of Russell Wilson
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: with a massive contract still left on the table. He
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: and We're like, does he loved Bonix as much as
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: he says? And I'm like, I think he had to
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: convince himself he did because that was the structure of
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: offense he could get by with given this horrible cap
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: hit that he had to take away from.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: I can win with this guy. I therefore I love him.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: So what are your actual strategies and how are you
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: looking at this new crop of guys coming in and
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: seeing who fits those strategies in a way that makes
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: sense for your team.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: So you know, no one cares about the measuring. No
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: one cares about that. It's fun. We love a good
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: fast run, like we've been doing.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: You how many years have you been here? I mean
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: a lot of years, right, So it's fun when they
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: do crazy athletic feats. But ultimately, what you're looking at
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: is like, all right, so who's got a cohesive strategy
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: that makes sense and is going to stick with it
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: even if like someone they never thought would be able
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: to be achieved at such a high position was a
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: bit I don't know.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: We'll see. We'll see.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Three of those ten new head coaches are in the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: AFC North, So the Bengals are the only team that's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: got their guy back. Do you think that's an advantage
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: in the short term?
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: I do actually think it's an advantage because it often
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: what you see, like people always like the season doesn't
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: start till October? What season doesn't Some people say till Thanksgiving?
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: But you have to win those initial games and there
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: will be a learning curve even for teams with.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: A really great quarterback or whatever.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I'm very interested to see some of the strategic decisions
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: that are made. I mean, Jesse Minter does come from
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: a Ravens mold, so perhaps that goes a little bit faster,
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: But I certainly, I certainly think that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: You know, what do I feel about the Steelers? Confused?
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: I don't know what their defense is?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Is Aaron Rodgers coming back? For sure?
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: He's gonna make us wait until July? You know that, Like,
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: that's just for sure gonna happen. What's going on with
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: the Browns? Okay, let's just put them aside? Like, so
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: the question is is to me, can the Bengals beat
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: the Ravens? And if you get off to a good
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: start early, that's a good strategy, a good plan to
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: make that happen.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Cynthia, thank you for coming over to my little corner table.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: It really appreciates you. Enjoy your work. Thanks so much.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: I love the radio calls. It's my favorite thing to
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: listen to.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: So now I'm going to be like whenever whenever I
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: hear the Jamar Chase touchdown or whatever, whoever touched out,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: I'm going to be like, Oh, he's the best.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: Thank you for having me.
• 32:15
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  Speaker 1: promised one of my favorite fun facts interviews from last
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: season as we get to know the person under the pads.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with offensive lineman Dalton Reisner
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: from Wiggins, Colorado, a small town about an hour away
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: from Denver. I've read that you grew up on a farm.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Was that the case and do you fit the stereotype
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: of being country strong from working on the farm as
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a game, I'd.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Say most definitely.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: You know, I always have to say we didn't grow
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: up on a farm. We grew up on a ranch
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: because we have fifty head of cattle, pigs, horses, dogs,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: the whole get out. And we had one hundred acres
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: right and I was bull riding. I was a bull
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: rider growing up, I barrel raced, I tried to rope
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: calves at one point. And I grew up working on farms,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: So you know farms when it comes to to wheat
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: harvest and corn and millet and you name it out there,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: you know, I worked for a bunch of farmers I worked.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: I worked at a dairy farm growing up as well.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: So whether it was building barbari fence, branding cattle, scoop
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: and poop at the dairy farm, or walk into wheat
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: fields for rye, That's what I.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Grew up doing.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: So any type of physical strength I have, I'm gonna
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: have to attest it to that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Just how small is Wiggins?
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Wiggins is about When I was going to school there,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: it was about eight to nine hundred people in the
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: whole town. I want to say it's about fifteen hundred
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: or more now I haven't looked it up. But when
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I was going to school, there was one a football,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: so it's a slow. It was the smallest classification of
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: eleven man football. There were seventeen guys on my football team.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: So I was on kickoff, kick return, punt return, I
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: was linebacker on defense. You played every single way, so
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: up until college. I was like, oh, I don't have
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: to play one way.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: This is wild. So you had to be in very
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: good shape.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Obviously the level of athleticism wasn't very good at the
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: one A level. But regardless, that's how small it was.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: There's no stoplights, one restaurant, count two if you count
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: the chicken tenders at the gas station, which I love
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: the chicken tenders at the gas station, stubs, gas and
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: oil shout out. Other than that, there is a hardware store,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: a school, and all the farmers and ranchers that live
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: in the town.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: That's about it, man, that's the size of Wiggins.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Your dad was your coach in high school? Did he
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: treat you like everybody else? Or was he especially hard
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: on you?
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: To make a point, Oh, he gave me the special treatment.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: And by special treatment, I don't mean he gave me anything. Man,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: he was hard on me. This is back when coaches
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: could grab you by your face mask.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: And get in your face. That's not really allowed nowadays.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: But and my dad created the pee wee football program
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: in our small town. When we moved to Wiggins, there
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: was no pee wee football program, so he started a
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: pee wee football program. I'm one of five boys. So
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: I was the third boy in line, and we all
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: went through the Pew football program. When the two older
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: boys got to junior high, he became the junior high coach.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: He coached me through junior high and by the time
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I was getting to eighth grade, he wanted to become
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: the high school football coach in Wiggins. You have to
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: be on the teaching staff to be a football coach.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: My dad the guy he is, and this is why
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: he is a full time job, right And he goes
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: and petitions and gets the whole town of eight hundred people.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I think he got six hundred signatures to take to
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: the school board to say that they wanted him to
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: be their head high school football coach. And he kind
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: of strong armed the school board and he became the
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: head football coach without happened to be at the school.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: And yeah, coached all of us five boys through high school,
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: went to a state championship, had some success.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: The voters spoke the voters. When it came time to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: pick a college, you chose Kansas State, about seven hours away.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Y k State, you know, Kansas State was one of
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: those teams I just felt like fit my mold it
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: was a blue collar program. It was run by Bill
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Snyder at the time, and I felt like the staff
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: was more interested in molding me into a young man
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: and a follower of Jesus and just a good human being,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: maybe as a father and as a son before a
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: football player. And not everything glitters it glows. But I
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: really enjoyed my time at Kansas State. It was perfect
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: for me. I was a kid that needed time to grow,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: so I red shirted and you know, seven hours up
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: the road from where I lived in Wiggans, Colorado, and
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: it just kind of it kind of fit the mold
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: for a kid coming from Wiggins, Colorado.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: You had a great career Kansas State, and then after
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that a dream came true in twenty nineteen in the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: NFL Draft, when you were selected by your childhood team,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos in the second round. Describe that draft experience.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was wild. I mean, I'm such a competitor.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: I remember I was so ticked off that night because
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: I felt like I should be a first round draft pick.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Looking back, I'm like, man, you should have been jumping
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: up and off the walls, which I was so excited.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: John Elway called me when I was at Elway's in
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: downtown Denver and you know, was talking about getting a flight.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I said, brother, I'm already at Elways downtown. That's why
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I'm celebrating. I just got to drive thirty minutes in
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: the morning and get the playbooks. So for me, I
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: grew up in a family that didn't have much. You know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: there was a time where we were getting Christmas presents
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: dropped off on our doorstep. This is way when we
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: were young, young, young, And you know, I got to
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: go to maybe two or three Bronco games growing up,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: but it was always what I wanted to do. I
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: mean I remember looking down at the Broncos just being like,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: that would be sick if I could do that someday.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: And I was always kind of the kid that dreamed big.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: So for me, when I got drafted to like actually
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: put on the helmet and be a part of the
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: program and do it for four years and run out
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: of the tunnel was absolutely surreal.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: And that opportunity in two weeks to go back.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: It won't be my first time, but it's gonna be
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: another cool opportunity to be back there.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: How crazy was it to have John Elway as a boss.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Oh it was wild. I mean I grew up watching
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the guy.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's the jersey that you see growing up, right,
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Everyone's talking about Elway, and that's what grandpa's talking about,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: and that's who mom likes and all these different things.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: And for John Ellie to be the guy that picked you,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: it sure meant a lot. And I created a relationship
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: with him to where my time in Denver. You know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: I talked to him on the phone and we text,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: and yeah, I had a lot of respect for I
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: have a lot of respect for him.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I read a story where you said the following, I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: hope scouts watch my tape and say, Reisner must have
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: been ticked off. Do you become a different person on
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the field.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I tried to man, I don't know when that quotes from.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious, But I've always tried to play with an
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: extra level of grit or work hards to me, But yeah,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: you can't. You can't be mister nice guy when you're
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: in a football field. You're trying to put food on
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: the table and the plate for your family, and you're
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: trying to, you know, make a career out of the
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: job that you're doing and being in the league seven
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: years you understand, and being on the street two weeks
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: ago you understand how hard this job is and you
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: understand that it waits for nobody, and I don't care
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: who you are. So yeah, a level of change when
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: you cross those white lines is needed for a guy
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: like me.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Offensive line is interesting in that sense because it's obviously
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: very physical, but there's also a tremendous x's and o's
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: chess match going on at that position. Which part of
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it do you like more?
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: The easier one for me is the chess match because
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: it's all between the ears, and that's something you can
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: prep for throughout the week, and the more you study it,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: the more you dial in, the more you lock in.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: I feel like, the more that you can edge out
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: your opponent mentally. The physical side sometimes, in my opinion,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: it's not a work hard standpoint. Sometimes you know, you
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: got the kid from Wigans, Colorado going against the five
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: star recruit from Gosh knows where, So I think the
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: physical thing, the physical side of things can be harder
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: at times, but that's also one that with a great,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: great responsibility comes great reward because you get to go
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: against these great players and when you find yourself blocking
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: them up, it's a great feeling too.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: We're visiting the Dalton Reisner. After four years in Denver
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: in two years with Minnesota Vikings, you were a free
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: agent this past offseason and didn't sign until late August.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: How did you stay ready?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Man? Great question.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I It's it's hard to talk about because, man, I
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: am so grateful for the way that I did approach things,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: and so grateful for a wife that you know, supports
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: me each and every day, even when sometimes the dream
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: seems a little bit far fetched, because you know, there
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: were I'm waking up at six am every day and
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: I'm going out to my garage and I'm putting the
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: garage door up, and I'm doing an hour lift, and
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: I'm putting my cleats on. I'm walking through the neighborhood
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: over to the local like that. It was where the
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: mail boxes are in our neighborhood and there's an area
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: between the mailboxes and the pickleball slash basketball court and
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: it's about twenty yard patch of grass that gets mowed
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: every two weeks, and sometimes the grass is up to
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: your past your ankles, and you know, I do fifteen
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: to twenty sprints every morning and then I run through
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: inside zone, tight zone, pass block, right guard, left guard.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: It's about a thirty to forty five minute deal and
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: it's muggy as hell. That's why I do it at
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: six am in Florida. But regardless, I had this whole
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: order in which I did things, and it was from
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: like six to ten in the morning, end with sauna,
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: end with cold tub.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: And it's cool to look.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Back on because if I didn't do that every day,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: no one was watching, no one cared. Right, there were
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: times where who knows if I was going to get
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: picked up, or you didn't know your future, So there
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: were so many mornings where you question why am I
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: doing this? You know, and is it really gonna matter?
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, we're in late August here, guys. I went
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: through a whole training camp, and you know, if I
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: didn't do that, there's no way in heck I.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Could have stepped in against the Browns. There's just no way.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: And if I did didn't do it, I bet the
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Bengals would't have even trusted me too, because my workout
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: probably wuldn't have been good and I probably would never
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: have gotten signed or I would have been here and
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: they knew I would have been ready and they would
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: put someone else in. So just really grateful for a
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: wife that supported me through that and for just the
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: willpower to, you know.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Do that when no one was looking.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: So nobody was looking in terms of NFL teams, But
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: what about neighbors and passers by. Did they see this
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: gigantic human being doing past blocking drills against nobody?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember, like a week before I came
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: out here, a guy walked by and he said, that
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: must be one hell of a fantasy football.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Team you're on.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: And you know the human nature, and you set wants
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: to bark back and say, I'm a six year NFL vet.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: You know I could be on multiple teams.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: I'm in contract negotiation, but get into it right, and
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: you just kind of laugh. And every morning there's the
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: grandmas walking their dogs and they poop in the grass
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: that you're working out in and they just stare at you,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: and you know they're going back and they're chattering about
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: what's that big, huge man doing in the grass, grunting
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: and making all that noise. But when you love something
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: enough and you care about it enough, you'll find a way.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: So after two padded practices with the Bengals. You suit
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: it up in the season opener, and two and a
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: half minutes into the second quarter, Lucas Patrick suffered a
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: calf injury, and you're in. You're gonna play the rest
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of the game. Ted Carris called it a stunning display
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: of football professionalism. This was your ninetieth NFL game, including
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Is it among the most memorable in light
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: of the circumstances.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's one of the most memorable. For me.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Two years ago, I signed late with the Minnesota Vikings,
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: and I think two weeks later I started Monday night
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: football against the forty nine ers. That was a absolutely
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: surreal experience. So that's up there, number two, the first
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: start in Mile High Stadium, that's up there, and then
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: this one is the top three.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: So those are all my top three.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: I mean to be able to be with a different team,
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: different organization, guys that you barely know and step in
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: in a way of like that is truly an unreal feeling.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: I talked to you guys earlier in the week, but
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: what Ted said meant a whole lot to me, not
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: only because the player he is, but the man he
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: is and I take it very seriously to step in
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: here and be.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: A guy that guys can count on.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: So I know that I'm getting more time underneath my belt,
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: more times working with the ones, So I got to
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: continue to elevate my game, which I will. But yeah,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: it was an unbelievable experience. Awesome words that Ted said
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: something I'll never forget. A story I'll tell the kids
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: and the grandkids, and I'll probably stretch it.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: So two days after that, you spoke to kids at
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: a local elementary school. Tell us a little bit about
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the Riisner Up Foundation and its mission.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I kind of told you a little
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: bit about where I come from and the humble beginnings
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: and the roots of where I'm from. So when it
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: comes to giving back to other people and the type
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: of people we are off the field, that means more
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: to me. And I have no problem saying that means
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  Speaker 4: more to me. You don't care if you call me
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: in five years and say I was one of the
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: best guards to ever come.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Through as a Cincinnati bank. I don't care.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the awards, the trophies. I don't even
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: remember what awards I got in college. Nor do you
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: care if I ask you, right now, tell me every
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: award I got in college. You wouldn't be able to
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: do it because it doesn't matter to you. But when
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: you go home and talk to your wife or your
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: kids and they ask you about Dalton Reisner, You're probably
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: gonna tell them about maybe the heart that I have.
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  Speaker 4: And I hope that that's a good thing. And that's
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: why I do those things.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: In the most genuine way.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, let's be honest. When you go do that
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: for kids, a lot of those kids want to They
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: want to know Joe Burrow and how much money Joe
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Burrow makes. Those are the questions you get, right, But
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: there might be one kid that's like, wow, like that
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: NFL football player. I would have done anything for ANFL
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: football player to show up to my school.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: I've done anything.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: So for me, it's like, man, if there's one kid
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: that could have use this today, it matters for me.
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  Speaker 4: And even if it didn't matter, even if the kids
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: got nothing from it. And I give a whole speech,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: I signed autographs, I did the whole deal for me
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: morally to say, hey, little Dalton, little kid that had
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: a dream to be in the NFL. You know, just
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: know that when you made it like you're a good
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: dude and like you're still giving time to other people.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Here come a few wild card topics. Now to wrap
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: things up with Dalton Reisner. Is it true that you
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: got free pizza from memorizing Bible Versus as a kid.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: That is very true.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent tostinos pizza. So there were days where
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: I'd get three or four tostinos. Miss Segura shout out
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Summit Baptist Church, Miss Segura, Wigans, Colorado.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: You said in an interview a few years ago that
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: you want to open a restaurant when you're playing days
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: or finished. Is that still the case and what type
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: of restaurant would it be.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: A great question. I love the research you did. You
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: did a great job. No, definitely not anymore. I think
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: starting a family is really important to me. Being a
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: father is really important to me. I would love to
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: speak at churches, men's group. I've already done sermons at
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Sunday churches, so I'd love to do that men's groups,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: youth groups, you name it, as well as pickleball. I'd
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: love to do that competitively with my wife. But three
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: twenty doesn't go well with pickleball.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: So I have searched high and low for a picture
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: of you with no beard unsuccessfully. When was the last
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: time you were clean shaven?
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: Since I grew the beard? I've never done a clean
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: shaven you know, as an offensive lineman.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: That scary stuff. Buddy.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: You know you look good, you know you're brave, you're
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: a fit dude. But when you weigh three undred twenty pounds,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: even though you're married, that's a risk you don't take.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Was this college or high school when the beard?
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: I think I started to finally grow it, like red
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: shirt freshman year in college, and all the pictures you
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: can see before that look pretty dang bad, so I'm
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: not going back to it.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Roughly, how many tattoos do you have?
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  Speaker 6: Oo?
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: I got about twenty Bible verses, so about maybe twenty
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: three twenty four tattoos. I got a family tree in
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: my right arm with you know, buddies that have died
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: or you know, family members that are still alive or
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: not alive, and then everything else is Bible versus some
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: stuff about my marriage. So yeah, probably it depends on
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: how much you want to break it up. You know what,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, I have two full arm sleeves and I
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: have a little bit on my legs, so regardless, it
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: could be you could call it five big, huge pieces,
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: or you.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Could call it one hundred.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Are there more to come?
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: I think I'm done. I want to do the neck,
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: and my wife really shut things down. She said, we're
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: not going to the next So I said, okay, all right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: You know, I was just gonna get something about Jesus.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I love Jesus so anywhere, but the neck. Final question
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: for Dalton Reisner, This one's a little bit deep. If
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Jesus done deal, Jesus done deal.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: I know that's cliche, man, but maybe not cliche, but
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: maybe corny.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: But for me, it's Jesus.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, dear gosh, and I am going to be
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: able to meet him, but I don't want to.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: I don't. It'd be cool not to have to meet him,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: because then I know I'm dead.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: So it would be really cool if you're telling me
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: one person right now, just dead or living, that I
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: could have and I could chat with Are you kidding me?
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Bro?
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: I would ask him so many questions and.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: He'd be sick of me?
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Like, how about that one?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Prayer?
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Man? Did you not listen? You don't want it to happen?
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Or what the game this weekend? Who's gonna win? Jesus?
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Am I gonna play?
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Could you really just have me lock up this guy? Please?
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: So no, I'd ask him much more deep questions than that.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: But it'd be cool to meet Jesus.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: I think I'd like to witness that conversation.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: It'd be cool, man, It'd be a fun one. It'd
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: be a fun one.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: This has been a fun one too. Appreciate your time.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, man, really appreciate you.
• 48:23
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