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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The stud of something new addition,
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Speaker 1: as the Bengals open preseason play with a sixteen to
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Speaker 1: fourteen win over Detroit, coming up radio replays, locker room
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Speaker 1: comments and postgame analysis from former UC and Carolina Panthers
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Speaker 1: quarterback Tony Pike. Then, in my first fun Facts conversation
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Speaker 1: of the new season, I'll talk to one of two
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Speaker 1: forty something quarterbacks and the Bengals roster, Josh Johnson. The
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Speaker 1: by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest
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Speaker 1: thing since adding Tony Pike and Joe Danoman to the
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Speaker 1: Bengals broadcast team. On Wednesday, the Bengals announced that they
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Speaker 1: are expanding their partnerships with Fox nineteen TV and iHeartMedia
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Speaker 1: Radio by hiring Tony and Joe. Tony will be part
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Speaker 1: of the radio broadcast with Dave Lapham, Wayne box Miller,
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Speaker 1: and Me, and then will join Lance McAllister on Bengals
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Speaker 1: Line on Monday nights. Joe will be the sideline reporter
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Speaker 1: for the Bengals preseason telecasts and will join me on
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Speaker 1: Friday afternoons for the Bengals pep Rally Show. I've worked
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Speaker 1: with Tony for several years on UC football broadcasts. He
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Speaker 1: started as a sideline reporter before moving to the booth
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Speaker 1: to replace the late Jim Kelly Junior. About one quarter
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Speaker 1: into his debut, I turned to a colleague and said,
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Speaker 1: is he is freaking good at this as I think
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Speaker 1: he is? The answer was yes. Similarly, I was at
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Speaker 1: Fox nineteen when Joe started his broadcast career, and I
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Speaker 1: knew that he had the talent and drive to be great.
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Speaker 1: He's a Cincinnati area guy, and we are lucky he's
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Speaker 1: stayed close to home because I honestly believe that Joe
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Speaker 1: is as good as any TV sports reporter in the country.
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Speaker 1: Our broadcast just got better by adding Tony Pike and
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Speaker 1: Joe Daniman. Now time for a few radio replays from
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Speaker 1: Thursday's two point win. After missing the playoffs for three
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Speaker 1: straight years, the Bengals made bold moves to fix their defense,
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Speaker 1: spending one hundred and twenty five million dollars on free
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Speaker 1: agent's boy A Mafe, Brian Cook, and Jonathan Allen before
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Speaker 1: making a huge trade for a gigantic human three hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty pound wrecking ball dexter Lawrence Tonight. We get
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Speaker 1: our first look had a team with legitimate Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: aspirations as the Bengals open the preseason against the Detroit Lions,
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Speaker 1: and it is time for the pig skin to fly
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Speaker 1: Here in the jungle. The Laultmeyer not a big guy.
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Speaker 1: He's an undrafted rookie quarterback. Stands six to one, weighs
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Speaker 1: two hundred and thirteen pounds native of Mississippi Starkville, Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: Looking to throw the slat knocked up in the air
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Speaker 1: hand in tercept in, the Bengals pick it off. Jordan
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Speaker 1: Battle tackled at the twenty seven after the ball shot
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Speaker 1: up in the air like a geyser and fell into
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Speaker 1: the hands of safety Jordan Battle. This will be a
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Speaker 1: fifty six yard field goal try from my map Evan McPherson,
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Speaker 1: and he kicks it through the uprights and into the
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Speaker 1: nets from fifty six yards away.
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Speaker 2: Amazing, dude, that's good from sixty five.
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Speaker 1: I mean you talked about a hot Howarts for hanging
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Speaker 1: off with that right hip, and I think McPherson crushes it.
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Speaker 1: First and sixteen after the penalty, here's a hand off
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Speaker 1: ball the fumble inside the ten. There's a pile at
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Speaker 1: the seven. The officials come running in Tuga war tug,
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Speaker 1: a war going on. Who's kept the strongest hands wrisk forearms.
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Speaker 1: Owen Burke says, the Bengals recovered, and they did.
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Speaker 3: Nice.
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Speaker 1: Casius Howell at the bottom of the pile comes away
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Speaker 1: with the football and the Bengals will have it first
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Speaker 1: and goal at the seven yard line of Detroit. Second
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Speaker 1: and goal from the four, shotgun snap to Flacco fakes
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Speaker 1: a hand eye short pass, jack endres toward the end zone.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown out. Nice Bengals as the rookie tight end out
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Speaker 1: of Texas catches the short pass from Joe Flecco and
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Speaker 1: runs it in for the score. Second and ten from
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati twenty four. Aldmayer in the gun catches it.
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Speaker 1: The twenty nine retreats to the thirty four short pass
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Speaker 1: crossing route Paul inside the ten, inside the five and
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Speaker 1: down to the pylon for the touchdown goes t Reek
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Speaker 1: Black and with one twenty eight to go, it's sixteen
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Speaker 1: to twelve and the Lions are going to go for two.
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Speaker 1: Altmeyer trying off his hands on a towel as he
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Speaker 1: waits for the shotgun snap. He'll drop back to the
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Speaker 1: goal line his pass over the middle and it is intercepted.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals are running it back. Russ Yeast with the
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Speaker 1: isnt and that is Coffin Nail Bam bam bam Clifford
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Speaker 1: in the victory formation. This should be the final snap
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Speaker 1: of the game. He takes the snap, his right knee
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Speaker 1: hits the turf and the final ten seconds are about
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Speaker 1: to run off the clock as Zach Taylor heads toward
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Speaker 1: the center of the field to shake hands with his
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Speaker 1: former colleague in Miami, Dan Campbell. The final score in
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Speaker 1: the preseason opener Cincinnati sixteen Detroit fourteen. What It's worth
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Speaker 1: the Last time and the Bengals won their preseason opener.
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Speaker 1: They went to the Super Bowl. They beat Tampa Bay
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Now here's my postgame conversation with
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Speaker 1: head coach Zach Taylor. Zach, congratulations on the win. What'd
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Speaker 1: you say to the guys after it?
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Speaker 4: Congratulated them?
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Speaker 2: It's good.
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Speaker 4: You know, they put a lot of work in training camp,
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Speaker 4: and so it's Detroit, so you get out there and
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Speaker 4: have a couple more points they did at the very end,
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Speaker 4: I know, we found ourselves in a situation we want
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Speaker 4: to improve upon four minute they got the ball four
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Speaker 4: to forty left in the game, down ten. We want
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Speaker 4: to get a stop there and finish the game. On offense,
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Speaker 4: gave up a touchdown. Offense had a chance to go
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Speaker 4: get ten yards and three plays and finish it.
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Speaker 2: We didn't.
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Speaker 4: So those are things that we're focused on next week,
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Speaker 4: and we've got to really improve on close our games.
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Speaker 1: The team has obviously done a lot to improve the
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Speaker 1: defense since last Next year, you won the toss and
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Speaker 1: you elected to defer. Put the defense on the field.
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Speaker 1: Was that to show everybody what you've.
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Speaker 4: Got on d Yeah, I wanted Dexter and Jonathan to
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Speaker 4: get out there and play three plays and get those
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Speaker 4: guys out there together. They were excited to play. Fortunately,
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Speaker 4: came up with a turnover, you know, So it was
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Speaker 4: a good job by all those guys that got their
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Speaker 4: hands on the ball and jb ended up coming up
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Speaker 4: with a big play.
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Speaker 1: What'd you think of the defensive lines, the various defensive
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Speaker 1: lines you ran out there tonight.
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Speaker 4: Looked like we got decent pressure back there. You know,
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Speaker 4: we'll have to watch the tape to really eye that out,
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Speaker 4: but you know it's good to see pockets collapse and
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Speaker 4: guys fluster the quarterback and get their hands on him.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow played two series, not quite as productive as
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Speaker 1: last year when he went down and scored a couple
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Speaker 1: of touchdowns, but you did get points, and I think
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Speaker 1: he completed all but one of his passes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the one, you know, we had one on third
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Speaker 4: down that got to the really the last guy in
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Speaker 4: his progression and got hit as we threw and had
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Speaker 4: the sack. Obviously, we want to avoid that on the
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Speaker 4: play action early in the end of that drive. But
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Speaker 4: I thought there were some positive things. We'll watch the
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Speaker 4: tape and clean it up.
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Speaker 3: Do you want him to just throw it away in
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Speaker 3: the preseason.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that's how it works. It's not always
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Speaker 4: easy when you're standing there in the pocket working through
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Speaker 4: a progression. I think maybe you got somebody start throwing,
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Speaker 4: start to pull down it the last second and get hit.
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Speaker 4: So again, we'll watch the tape and make the corrections.
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Speaker 1: Tan Tae Myers has gotten a lot of buzz this
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Speaker 1: training camp. The first three times he touched the ball
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Speaker 1: tonight he gained at least thirteen yards. Was this basically
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Speaker 1: what he's been showing you every day at camp.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got a good camp, caught her eye, gets
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Speaker 4: a lot of opportunity in the preseason, and so just
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Speaker 4: the consistency we want to see from some guys like
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Speaker 4: that that have popped up on the radar, and so
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Speaker 4: it was really good to see him make some place
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Speaker 4: in it.
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Speaker 1: You've got your snapper holder and kicker back Money Mack
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Speaker 1: made three for three field goals, including a fifty six yarder.
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Speaker 1: How confident are you? And that trio trots out there.
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Speaker 4: Very confident and it looked like a clean operation in
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Speaker 4: my eye. Obviously Darren ol dissect it tomorrow, but a
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Speaker 4: ton of confidence in all faces of it. You know,
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Speaker 4: when we've got a pun pin him down there, I
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Speaker 4: got confidence there. And when Amma's got a knock down
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Speaker 4: a sixty plus yarder, I've got confidence.
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Speaker 1: There's Well, you could have attempted a sixty three yard
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Speaker 1: or at the end of the half you elected to
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Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down, and then unfortunately Josh
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Speaker 1: Johnson had a grounding penalty that helped Detroit kick a
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Speaker 1: field goal.
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Speaker 2: What was your thought process there?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, tough situation. First of all, expecting to end the
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Speaker 4: half on the hail Mary or leave them one second
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Speaker 4: potentially at the worst case scenario protection breakdown. So obviously
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Speaker 4: as bad as it could have gone, it went, you know,
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Speaker 4: to get the to get essentially a sack stopped clock
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Speaker 4: and then they get a chance to go kick a
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Speaker 4: field goal. So it will give us a great situation
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Speaker 4: dissect and get better.
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Speaker 1: At biggest thing you always worry about think about in
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Speaker 1: preseason games is avoiding injuries. And it looked like you
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Speaker 1: got out of this thing in pretty good shape.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think a couple guys are nicked up, but nothing
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Speaker 4: to be over and concern.
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Speaker 1: About joint practice this week against the Bears and another
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Speaker 1: home game coming up next weekend. What are you looking
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Speaker 1: to get done this week with Chicago coming town.
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Speaker 4: Would be great. We're gonna hit all situations, rolling the downs,
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Speaker 4: red zone, third down, some four minute stuff at the
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Speaker 4: end of the game that we can really improve on.
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Speaker 4: So look forward to working with a really good team,
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Speaker 4: good coaching staff, and getting our players a lot of
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Speaker 4: good quality work on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: One final question, I thought that your rookies really showed up,
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Speaker 1: that the draft picks specifically really showed up well tonight.
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Speaker 4: I hope they did. You know, I'll have to watch
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Speaker 4: the tape. It's a lot for me to take in
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Speaker 4: after a game like that when you're watching so many guys,
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Speaker 4: But I did see after some plays those guys stand
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Speaker 4: up and look like they made the players. So we'll
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Speaker 4: check the tape and see if they were solid as
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Speaker 4: we think they were.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Prats on win number one. Thanks dam Here's what some
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Speaker 1: of the rookies did. Colby Young had two catches for
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Speaker 1: twenty eight yards, including a twenty yard grab on third
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Speaker 1: and sixteen. Dante Myers, the former Canadian Football League standout,
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Speaker 1: had three catches for twenty nine yards and added a
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Speaker 1: thirteen yard run. Cashus Howell had a few good pass
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Speaker 1: rushing snaps and recovered a fumble inside the ten to
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Speaker 1: set up the bengals only touchdown, and that touchdown was
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Speaker 1: scored by seventh round pick Jack Endres on a four
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Speaker 1: yard pass from a quarterback who started his NFL career
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Speaker 1: four years after Endreies was born. It is nice to
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Speaker 1: score a touchdown in your first NFL preseason game, and
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what rookie tight end Jack Endrees did tonight.
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Speaker 1: Describe that moment, how it felt.
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Speaker 5: H you know, it's gonna be a top moment of
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Speaker 5: my life because it was you know, Joe Flacco and
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Speaker 5: you just that's uh yeah. I never thought I'd get
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Speaker 5: a touchdown from Joe Flacco in my life, and it was.
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Speaker 3: My first one.
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Speaker 1: So something special there.
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Speaker 5: You know, a great play call. I was hoping that
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Speaker 5: one would get called pretty early and then and everyone
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Speaker 5: did their job and I was open, so I was almost,
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Speaker 5: you know, nice walking almost touchdown and you know, good stuff.
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Speaker 1: On that play. When everybody on defense begins flowing left,
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Speaker 1: do you know you're gonna have a great opportunity going right?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I knew it immediately.
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Speaker 1: I knew it.
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Speaker 5: Immediately that it was it was gonna be, you know,
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Speaker 5: probably me diving into the end zone for a touchdown.
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Speaker 5: We're getting a touchdown, just have to, you know, get
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Speaker 5: my rookie lags up.
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Speaker 1: And run a lott.
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Speaker 2: It's a cardio in.
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco sprinted to get your souvenir ball.
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Speaker 2: Did he?
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Speaker 5: That's awesome?
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Speaker 3: A great guy. How has camp gone?
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Speaker 5: It's been slow to start. I think I'm you know,
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Speaker 5: I just want to play faster, run harder, and I
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Speaker 5: think after this game, I've got a little more conditioning.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna get gelling a little more.
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Speaker 1: All right, congratulations on that first TD.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: That's Jack Andres. Time for postgame analysis from former NFL
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Speaker 1: quarterback Tony Pike. The preseason begins with a two point
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Speaker 1: win over the Detroit Lions. I'm with Tony Pike. Does
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Speaker 1: a preseason win mean much?
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Speaker 6: It always feels good in the locker room to have
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Speaker 6: a win, especially when you put so much time mentally, physically,
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Speaker 6: emotionally into it, and to do.
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Speaker 3: It at home. That matters.
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Speaker 6: But what you're trying to get out of the game
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Speaker 6: is all about what you can do now after a
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Speaker 6: game like that, it's One of the most important parts
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Speaker 6: of training camp is putting a film together, looking what
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Speaker 6: you did right, looking what you did wrong, And now
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Speaker 6: from an assessment standpoint, you're going to go grade this tape.
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Speaker 6: You're going to make the coaching adjustments. Which players can
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Speaker 6: make the mistake and then correct it, or do you
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Speaker 6: make the same mistake twice and then that becomes an issue.
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Speaker 6: So you just take so much from it. It's more
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Speaker 6: than just the winner loss, but it's what you gain
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Speaker 6: mentally and physically going forward.
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Speaker 1: We visited with Duke Tobin before the game. He said
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Speaker 1: the number one thing he would be looking at in
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Speaker 1: this game was tackling. How did they do in that category?
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Speaker 6: I thought, overall they were solid. There was a couple
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Speaker 6: in run fits that they missed in the right spot
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Speaker 6: but just didn't make the tackle. But overall, in space,
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Speaker 6: I thought from the second level they did a great
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Speaker 6: job limiting the space. I thought they closed the gap,
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Speaker 6: brought guys down to the ground. I thought as a whole,
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Speaker 6: the defensive line wreaked havoc on the game. I mean,
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Speaker 6: you want to talk about bringing guys down, bringing down
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Speaker 6: the quarterback. Jonathan Allen mentioned earlier on in training camp
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Speaker 6: and we had a chance to talk to him that
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Speaker 6: Nick Saban instilled the way you can affect a game
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Speaker 6: more than just sacking the quarterback. And I feel like
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Speaker 6: tonight that was on display from the defensive line unit
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Speaker 6: and allowing the second and third level to come make
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Speaker 6: the plays.
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Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence and Jonathan Allen were in for about three
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Speaker 1: or four snaps. It wasn't much, so a lot of
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Speaker 1: that defensive pressure was coming from the second and third
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Speaker 1: string defensive linemen. We've talked about the depth this camp,
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Speaker 1: and it showed.
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Speaker 6: You know, a lot has been made of Dexter Lawrence
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Speaker 6: and Jonathan Allen and BJ Hill when he gets healthy. Personally,
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Speaker 6: I think TJ. Slayton has had a great camp, but
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Speaker 6: there was unknowns, you know, McKinley, Jackson, Chris Jenkins, Landon Robinson,
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Speaker 6: the seventh round pick out of Navy. You could just
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Speaker 6: tell how much this game meant to them and how
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Speaker 6: they have accepted a challenge knowing there's only so many
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Speaker 6: roster spots that are available and every opportunity to get
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Speaker 6: to go on the field, you have a chance to
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Speaker 6: make a name for yourself and make a play. And
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Speaker 6: I thought they made the most of every opportunit counity
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Speaker 6: they had, especially on the defensive front.
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Speaker 1: How about the offensive line, how'd you grade them?
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Speaker 3: You know, I think there was good and I think
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Speaker 3: there was bad.
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Speaker 6: You know, anytime Joe Burrow is in the game taking
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Speaker 6: a couple hits, you don't want to see that, especially
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Speaker 6: in a preseason game, let alone any game. The second
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Speaker 6: offensive line unit came in and on one drive in particular,
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Speaker 6: they converted a third and sixteen, They held up on
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Speaker 6: a second and twenty pass. They converted a third and nine,
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Speaker 6: and then a fourth and one with Joe Flacco at quarterback.
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Speaker 6: Those things aren't easy to do when the defense is
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Speaker 6: going to pin their ears back and come after you.
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Speaker 6: That drive unfortunately ended in the fumble, but I thought
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Speaker 6: that group right before the half showed that they can
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Speaker 6: hold up well. It's a position group that you need
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Speaker 6: the depth in. You know, there's a saying in football
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Speaker 6: water is going to find its level. This team was
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Speaker 6: really healthy on the front five last year. Can you
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Speaker 6: spell a guy for a quarter a half a game
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Speaker 6: if you need to? And I think tonight was a
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Speaker 6: good step forward, but also certainly a ton of tape
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Speaker 6: that Scott Peters can now go back to and use
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Speaker 6: his teaching.
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Speaker 1: And that Joe Burrow got hit a couple of times.
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Speaker 1: On one of those hits, he held the ball for
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Speaker 1: a long time. Does he have to do that in
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Speaker 1: a preseason.
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Speaker 3: Game, Absolutely not.
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Speaker 6: And I think part of the next step is you
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Speaker 6: don't have to do that in a regular season game
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Speaker 6: all the time as well. You know, there's a time
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Speaker 6: and place, different points in a game where you might
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Speaker 6: have to hold onto a ball, but sometimes the most
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Speaker 6: successful play you can have is just burning the ball
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Speaker 6: and gett into another play, you know, not taking a
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Speaker 6: negative play on a second ten live to see third
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Speaker 6: and ten. You know, I think as competitors, and he's
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Speaker 6: the ultimate competitor, the best in the game at quarterback
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Speaker 6: to do it. When you're at that level, you want
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Speaker 6: to make every play and it's hard to concede in
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Speaker 6: your mind a play and say, okay, you won this one.
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Speaker 6: You never want to do that as a competitor, and
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Speaker 6: I think that's something for him to stay healthy and
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Speaker 6: to play seventeen regular season games. That's a play where
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Speaker 6: you just you got to ground the ball and you
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Speaker 6: got to move on to the next play.
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Speaker 1: Bengals Fans who haven't been to camp have heard a
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Speaker 1: lot about Colby Young and Dante Myers. They both had
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Speaker 1: good debuts tonight. Let's start with Colby Young. Where do
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Speaker 1: you think he figures in right now as a guy
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Speaker 1: who will spell people or as somebody who is going
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Speaker 1: to be battling andre Yosi Vash to be the third
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Speaker 1: wide receiver.
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Speaker 6: I don't think he's there yet. I think he's playing
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Speaker 6: for some reps. But if he continues on the trajectory
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Speaker 6: that he is, he's going to push people. I judge
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Speaker 6: what I watch from the quarterbacks, and early on in camp,
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Speaker 6: one on ones, routes vers air, I would watch Joe
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Speaker 6: Burrow and he would throw to Jamar and t and
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Speaker 6: Andre and he would let other quarterbacks throw to some
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Speaker 6: of the rest, and then he would get the tight
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Speaker 6: ends and running backs. And as practices have went on,
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Speaker 6: I've noticed that Joe steps back in there to throw
17:41
Speaker 6: to Colby. That tells me that he's gaining trust and
17:44
Speaker 6: earning those opportunities, and at practice he's making.
17:48
Speaker 3: The most of every opportunity.
17:49
Speaker 6: He's got a huge catch radius, he's getting great separation.
17:52
Speaker 6: You know, we've talked about it, and he's talked about it.
17:54
Speaker 6: It's the best job in sports. You're the number three
17:57
Speaker 6: wide receiver on the Cincinnati Bengals. Joe Burrow, jamar Cha,
18:00
Speaker 6: t Higgins, Chase Brown's was second on this team in
18:03
Speaker 6: receptions last year. The tight end group is upgraded. You're
18:06
Speaker 6: gonna have to beat an opposing defense's fourth, fifth, or
18:09
Speaker 6: sixth best cover guy, and if you can do that,
18:12
Speaker 6: you're gonna have a spot on this roster.
18:13
Speaker 1: Dante Myers is different from the other wide receivers on
18:16
Speaker 1: the roster. It's been a while since the Bengals have
18:18
Speaker 1: had a jitterbug type. Andrew Hawkins might have been the
18:21
Speaker 1: last guy that fit that description.
18:24
Speaker 3: What does he add?
18:25
Speaker 6: Look at their roster tight ends, big guys T Higgins tall,
18:29
Speaker 6: Kobe Tall, Noah Thomas tall.
18:32
Speaker 3: These guys are six four six'.
18:33
Speaker 6: Five Dante myers comes in five to, eleven and what
18:37
Speaker 6: you notice immediately is just the. Burst the footwork is,
18:40
Speaker 6: elite AND i think out of Anyone i've seen so
18:44
Speaker 6: far outside of the top, guys he's created the most
18:48
Speaker 6: separation in the slot and that's what he's gotta. Do
18:51
Speaker 6: his body frame is a slot, guy and the way
18:54
Speaker 6: they've already utilized.
18:55
Speaker 3: Him you saw him on a jet sweep find. Success Josh.
18:58
Speaker 6: Johnson you, KNOW i watch a veteran quarterback who's been
19:01
Speaker 6: around Like Josh. Johnson he knew where to go On
19:03
Speaker 6: keith third downs in the, opener he went To Dante.
19:07
Speaker 6: Myers AND i think as long as he keeps winning
19:10
Speaker 6: his one on one battles and he keeps showing that
19:12
Speaker 6: he can contribute on special teams in multiple, ways then
19:15
Speaker 6: there's a spot for him on this.
19:17
Speaker 1: Team it's a big preseason For Chris. Jenkins he's been
19:20
Speaker 1: injury plagued his first couple of. Years really hasn't done
19:22
Speaker 1: that much for a second round pick who Helped michigan
19:25
Speaker 1: win a national. Championship did you think he was one
19:28
Speaker 1: of the best defensive players for The bengals?
19:30
Speaker 6: TONIGHT i thought he stood. OUT i Thought Landon robinson stood.
19:33
Speaker 6: Out and it's hard to do on the interior defensive
19:36
Speaker 6: line because the edge rushers they get the sacks right
19:40
Speaker 6: that the linebackers are the guys filling kind of get
19:43
Speaker 6: those tackles for. Loss you're in there to be a,
19:44
Speaker 6: plug you're in there to take on double, teams and
19:47
Speaker 6: you're in there to make quarterbacks. Uncomfortable maybe not get the,
19:50
Speaker 6: sack but pressure from the middle for a quarterback is
19:53
Speaker 6: one of the most uncomfortable things to deal. With and
19:55
Speaker 6: if you can do, that you affect the, pass the arm,
19:58
Speaker 6: Angle you allow secondary players to start making a play
20:01
Speaker 6: on the. Ball you allow linebackers to have more free
20:04
Speaker 6: reign because you're taking on multiple. Blocks and Yet Chris
20:07
Speaker 6: jenkins got to the quarterback a ton, tonight brought the quarterback,
20:10
Speaker 6: down was making plays in the, backfield was taking on
20:13
Speaker 6: double teams for a guy who you kind of came
20:15
Speaker 6: into this this year's camp and, Said, okay it's it's
20:18
Speaker 6: kind of now or. Never there's a lot of guys
20:21
Speaker 6: on this, team there's a lot of depth at that.
20:23
Speaker 6: Position you got to come show. Something and he made
20:26
Speaker 6: the most of every opportunity had. TONIGHT i thought he
20:29
Speaker 6: was dominant in a lot of.
20:30
Speaker 1: Ways up next to home game against The Chicago bears
20:33
Speaker 1: with a joint practice coming up On, thursday is that
20:36
Speaker 1: the single most important day of this training. Camp the
20:40
Speaker 1: work they're going to get On thursday against the team
20:42
Speaker 1: that won the division last.
20:43
Speaker 6: Year, absolutely it. Is it's more, important and you don't
20:46
Speaker 6: want to downplay the preseason. Games but it's more important
20:49
Speaker 6: than any game they'll play in the preseason because you
20:51
Speaker 6: get ones verse, ones and you get multiple sets of
20:54
Speaker 6: one verse, ones and you can do it in a controlled.
20:56
Speaker 6: Setting in controlled, environment you're not going live on the.
20:59
Speaker 6: Quarterback they're not going to be out there doing a
21:01
Speaker 6: bunch of, tackling but you can do first and ten specific,
21:04
Speaker 6: stuff third and, long third and, short red. Zone you
21:07
Speaker 6: get to really work on anything you. Want the one
21:10
Speaker 6: on ones are so important offense versus. Defense and once
21:14
Speaker 6: you can gain you've been going against the same guy
21:16
Speaker 6: over and over and over. Again now you get to
21:18
Speaker 6: go from the best of a team that a lot
21:20
Speaker 6: of people are picking as a team that can make
21:23
Speaker 6: a run in their division and in their. Conference so
21:26
Speaker 6: you get a brilliant mind In Ben Johnson Ben johnson coming,
21:29
Speaker 6: in a good quarterback In Caleb, williams a talented. Defense
21:32
Speaker 6: you get an opportunity to do some good work with
21:34
Speaker 6: your ones versus their. Ones it's the best work you'll
21:36
Speaker 6: have all.
21:37
Speaker 1: Camp let the record show The bengals have never lost
21:40
Speaker 1: With Tony pike as part of the radio broadcast. Team, congratulations,
21:44
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21:50
Speaker 1: The bengals host The. Bears the teams will hold a
21:52
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Speaker 1: Bengals forty year Old Josh johnson saw the most action
22:23
Speaker 1: of Any bengals quarterback On. Thursday he was ten for
22:27
Speaker 1: nineteen for eighty four yards in his forty FOURTH nfl preseason.
22:32
Speaker 1: Game he's thrown nearly five hundred and fifty preseason. Passes
22:38
Speaker 1: josh is the subject of this Week's Fun Facts, conversation
22:41
Speaker 1: where you get to know the person under the. Pads
22:46
Speaker 1: time for some fun facts With bengals Quarterback Josh. Johnson
22:49
Speaker 1: there were thirteen quarterbacks taken in the two thousand and
22:52
Speaker 1: EIGHT Nfl. Draft two of them are still, Playing Joe
22:55
Speaker 1: flacco And Josh. Johnson how. Crazy is it to you
23:00
Speaker 1: that you two guys are teammates in your.
23:02
Speaker 2: Forties we were just talking about. It you couldn't have told.
23:05
Speaker 7: Us you wouldn't have told used this when we first came,
23:07
Speaker 7: in that we would have been doing, this especially as.
23:09
Speaker 7: Teammates it's. Funny i'll even take it up another. Notch
23:12
Speaker 7: we both were one DOUBLE a quarterbacks. Too so out
23:15
Speaker 7: of all the big, schools were the last two, Left
23:17
Speaker 7: delaware And San.
23:18
Speaker 1: Diego and in your, case no scholarship offers coming out
23:24
Speaker 1: of high. School you literally had to pay to go
23:26
Speaker 1: To San.
23:27
Speaker 2: Diego? Correct, YES i, did had to take our student,
23:30
Speaker 2: loans had three.
23:31
Speaker 7: JOBS i was a normal student just besides on, SATURDAYS
23:34
Speaker 7: i played quarterback for the. University BUT i lived that struggle.
23:37
Speaker 7: Life But i'm GRATEFUL i was able to go through.
23:39
Speaker 7: That it was a very humbling, experience but it was
23:43
Speaker 7: necessary to me HOW i look at life to appreciate.
23:46
Speaker 2: That So i'm GLAD i went through. It what were
23:48
Speaker 2: the jobs to pay the?
23:49
Speaker 7: Bills oooh, Okay SO i had a janitorial service job
23:53
Speaker 7: THAT i would do once a. WEEK i had worked
23:56
Speaker 7: at a front desk of a hotel customer SERVICE i
23:58
Speaker 7: was pretty good at that learn how to you, know
24:01
Speaker 7: book rooms and a lot of people in the computer.
24:03
Speaker 7: System and THEN i worked in the financial aid. Office
24:06
Speaker 7: i'm looking at all the scholarship athletes money that they
24:09
Speaker 7: was getting AND i was getting.
24:11
Speaker 1: Nothing the three Time All american was the guy that
24:15
Speaker 1: wasn't getting.
24:16
Speaker 2: Anything we're visiting With Josh.
24:18
Speaker 1: Johnson we first met in twenty thirteen when you Were
24:20
Speaker 1: Andy dalton's back up on a really Good bengals team
24:23
Speaker 1: eleven and. Five you guys won THE Afc north that.
24:26
Speaker 1: Year that was your sixth year in THE. Nfl this
24:29
Speaker 1: is year nineteen in pro. Football what about your career
24:33
Speaker 1: are you most proud of.
24:34
Speaker 2: Not being defined by the.
24:36
Speaker 7: CIRCUMSTANCE i think it's really easy in society to try
24:41
Speaker 7: to let the circumstances, dictate you, know what you think
24:44
Speaker 7: is the outcomeing. Be but the CLOSER i gave With,
24:47
Speaker 7: god the MORE i understand, like, no there is no
24:51
Speaker 7: one way to get.
24:52
Speaker 2: Done it's just about getting it.
24:54
Speaker 7: Done and then to, me you take advantage of the
24:55
Speaker 7: opportunities you've been, given whether it be minimum or a,
24:58
Speaker 7: lot and you make the best out of, them and
25:00
Speaker 7: you keep your heart in the right place while you're doing,
25:02
Speaker 7: it and it always works out in your.
25:03
Speaker 1: FAVOR i don't know how many people know, it but
25:06
Speaker 1: you started the last two games last year For. Washington
25:09
Speaker 1: you won the season finale Against. Philly that game ended
25:12
Speaker 1: essentially when you ran in for a touchdown with less
25:15
Speaker 1: than three minutes to go to win the. Game did
25:17
Speaker 1: any part of you think that would be a nice
25:20
Speaker 1: way to, finish kind of Like Ted williams sitting home
25:22
Speaker 1: run and his last at bat.
25:23
Speaker 2: Moment, NOW i didn't really think about.
25:26
Speaker 7: IT i just wanted to be able to experience it
25:28
Speaker 7: and how it went. Down it was kind of a
25:30
Speaker 7: testament in my. Career we started out, hot we hit
25:33
Speaker 7: a little low up here in a couple in the third,
25:35
Speaker 7: quarter and then we had to come back to the
25:37
Speaker 7: deficit and finish strong as a. Team so it's kind of,
25:40
Speaker 7: like really What i've been experiencing my whole. Life SO
25:43
Speaker 7: i was glad to just experience it and it just
25:46
Speaker 7: go out there and o where your game has continued
25:48
Speaker 7: to evolve to even at forty years, old still getting
25:51
Speaker 7: better and still looking forward to getting on the.
25:52
Speaker 1: Field whether it's been the regular season or training. Camp
25:56
Speaker 1: you've earned paychecks from fourteen DIFFERENT nfl, team which says
26:01
Speaker 1: gms and head coaches have always felt like you brought
26:04
Speaker 1: value to their. Organization why do you think that's been the.
26:07
Speaker 7: Case i'm just a sponge in the, room, Man i've
26:10
Speaker 7: always been a sponge just learning, ball LIKE i love the.
26:14
Speaker 2: Game but then when it just comes.
26:16
Speaker 7: With, necessary LIKE, i IF i just need to be
26:19
Speaker 7: the third backup, QUARTERBACK i could do.
26:20
Speaker 2: That IF i need to be the, STARTER i can do.
26:22
Speaker 7: That IF i need to be the third guy in
26:23
Speaker 7: the room just supporting the two guys ahead of, ME
26:25
Speaker 7: i could do. That you, Know i'm great for the younger,
26:28
Speaker 7: guys just helping them go through the struggles of THE
26:30
Speaker 7: nfl when they're not getting that opportunity that they feel
26:33
Speaker 7: like they. Deserve and, then you, know just my experience, now,
26:36
Speaker 7: man LIKE i feel Like i'm a lot more valuable
26:38
Speaker 7: in the regular season than most people will, understand because
26:41
Speaker 7: once real football picks, up you, know all these different
26:44
Speaker 7: systems and different Places i've, been it just it just
26:47
Speaker 7: paints a picture that's really clear for me That i'm
26:49
Speaker 7: able to bring to the team and help add value
26:51
Speaker 7: to people out get.
26:51
Speaker 1: Victories Visiting bengals Quarterback Josh. JOHNSON i want to turn
26:55
Speaker 1: the clock back To january of twenty twenty. Three you
26:57
Speaker 1: were Brock parties backup on the four, nine and in
27:01
Speaker 1: THE Nfc championship game Against, philly he hurt his elbow
27:04
Speaker 1: On San francisco's opening. Possession you came, in you promptly
27:08
Speaker 1: led the team on a touchdown drive to tie the
27:10
Speaker 1: game at. Seven you were that close to being the
27:13
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in A Super bowl and then you got seriously.
27:17
Speaker 1: Hurt describe what happened.
27:19
Speaker 7: My first, PASS i actually got sacked AND i hit
27:22
Speaker 7: the ground really, hard and come to find, out that
27:24
Speaker 7: was my first, concussion and SO i just continued to
27:26
Speaker 7: play in the.
27:27
Speaker 2: GAME i did notice THAT i was feeling like now.
27:30
Speaker 7: MYSELF i didn't know if it was just the excitement
27:33
Speaker 7: at a game or, whatnot but it got to a
27:35
Speaker 7: point where my body wasn't my mind wasn't matching up
27:39
Speaker 7: with my, body and SO i got.
27:41
Speaker 2: To the point WHERE i was just, like, man just
27:42
Speaker 2: go out, here let it rip and see what.
27:44
Speaker 7: Happens and then FORTUNATELY i ended up getting knocked out
27:47
Speaker 7: of the game with the second, concussion and so going
27:51
Speaker 7: into The Blue, TINT i really didn't KNOW i had a.
27:54
Speaker 7: Concussion that was my first. Time this is my first
27:56
Speaker 7: TIME i ever having concussions in my. Career SO i
27:59
Speaker 7: went through. THERE i THOUGHT i was gonna pass the.
28:02
Speaker 2: Test.
28:02
Speaker 7: Didn't they end up taking it into the locker, Room
28:04
Speaker 7: and WHEN i got to the locker, room that's WHEN
28:06
Speaker 7: i started feeling the, effects almost.
28:08
Speaker 2: Passed, out felt really, weird and it was just a rough.
28:11
Speaker 7: Moment it was a rough moment because you, know you
28:14
Speaker 7: dream of those moments as, kids especially me being A
28:16
Speaker 7: niner fan growing up in in front Of Bay. Area
28:18
Speaker 7: you thought it was going to be, able could be
28:20
Speaker 7: one of those pivotal moments in your.
28:21
Speaker 2: Life but like anything, ELSE i was GRATEFUL i went through.
28:25
Speaker 7: That it got me closer To, God it grew me
28:28
Speaker 7: as a man in a lot of different, ways and
28:30
Speaker 7: it also shown me you never know what's gonna.
28:33
Speaker 2: Happen and so BECAUSE i experienced that, moment my work
28:36
Speaker 2: ethic has evolved a lot.
28:38
Speaker 7: More my intentionality has got even better because.
28:41
Speaker 2: It could happen.
28:42
Speaker 7: Again it could happen again to where you might you
28:45
Speaker 7: might end up on one team and ended up playing
28:47
Speaker 7: on another team in the. Year you might be on
28:49
Speaker 7: one team all, year don't play like last year with The,
28:51
Speaker 7: commanders and then that moment, comes are you gonna be?
28:53
Speaker 7: Ready and so now my focus is really, narrow and
28:57
Speaker 7: as long As i'm playing this, Game i'm never gonna
28:59
Speaker 7: forget that moment because if it comes back, Up i'm
29:02
Speaker 7: gonna do my best and not to hit that. Ground
29:04
Speaker 7: then we're gonna go out there and let's. See let it,
29:05
Speaker 7: Play let it play out While i'm one hundred and ten.
29:07
Speaker 1: Percent you got diagnosed to the brain bleed?
29:11
Speaker 2: Correct?
29:11
Speaker 1: Yes is that as dangerous as it? Sounds it.
29:15
Speaker 2: IS i couldn't touch my, TOES i couldn't be in.
29:20
Speaker 2: Light my symptoms increasingly got worse every, day and a
29:24
Speaker 2: lot of people thought my.
29:25
Speaker 7: Career would be over by, God but by By god's,
29:27
Speaker 7: GRACE i was able to come, back actually two muths
29:30
Speaker 7: earlier than.
29:31
Speaker 2: Expected and it.
29:33
Speaker 7: Just it just put another level of another fire into,
29:36
Speaker 7: me you, know to just go out here and try
29:39
Speaker 7: to dominate your.
29:39
Speaker 1: Opportunities let me ask you about something. LIGHTER a few
29:43
Speaker 1: years before, that you got signed In december By washington
29:47
Speaker 1: After Alex smith And colt McCoy both suffered broken. LEGS
29:51
Speaker 1: i read that you Played madden to learn the names
29:55
Speaker 1: of your New washington.
29:56
Speaker 3: Teammates was that?
29:57
Speaker 2: True very? Much so?
29:58
Speaker 7: True add In madden is a Big it's a, big
30:02
Speaker 7: uh part of my football career as a backup, quarterback
30:05
Speaker 7: especially sometimes if you're the third or fourth, guy you
30:08
Speaker 7: don't get a lot of physical, reps and sometimes you
30:12
Speaker 7: simple things is knowing your teammates are becomes you, know
30:16
Speaker 7: it becomes, important but it only becomes as important cause
30:18
Speaker 7: you trying to find ways to get.
30:19
Speaker 2: Better and SO i kind of incorporated it.
30:21
Speaker 7: All you, know it's an opportunity to learn who your teammates,
30:24
Speaker 7: are that some of the abilities kind of gives you
30:26
Speaker 7: a general, idea but also just kind of gives you
30:28
Speaker 7: that opportunity to process the game at full. Speed AND
30:32
Speaker 7: i just try to be intentional with, it and, UH
30:34
Speaker 7: i still do it like that to this.
30:36
Speaker 2: DAY i actually did a deal WITH ea last year.
30:39
Speaker 7: Around that, too which was actually pretty cool to kind
30:41
Speaker 7: of see that come full.
30:42
Speaker 2: Circle but, uh it's a Big it's a big helper for.
30:45
Speaker 7: Me it helps me saw my mind down to kind
30:47
Speaker 7: of tie my physical with my mental and then WHEN
30:51
Speaker 7: i go out there just have some a little bit
30:52
Speaker 7: more confidence in being aver to go do WHAT i
30:54
Speaker 7: need to.
30:54
Speaker 1: DO i mentioned earlier you have backed Up Andy, dalton
30:58
Speaker 1: Then Rock, purty among Others Lamar jackson And Jayden daniels
31:01
Speaker 1: and other quarterbacks around that list as. Well now your
31:04
Speaker 1: teammates With Joe burrow would have been your impressions Of
31:07
Speaker 1: joe through a few months of being his.
31:09
Speaker 7: Teammates extremely, smart like he has like a photographic memory of,
31:12
Speaker 7: everything which is always a great sign that that's why
31:15
Speaker 7: he's a great.
31:16
Speaker 2: Quarterback he's extremely, like extremely.
31:19
Speaker 7: Detailed and about his, work AND i just sit back
31:23
Speaker 7: AND i watch how he goes about everything some individual
31:26
Speaker 7: to a practice to a post practice and every little
31:29
Speaker 7: thing that he works on and his intentionality about. It you,
31:32
Speaker 7: KNOW i didn't know too much About joe besides what
31:34
Speaker 7: you saw ON tv and him throwing it, around But
31:37
Speaker 7: i'm very impressed with. Him he cool as, hell and
31:41
Speaker 7: then just to SEE i understand why he is who
31:43
Speaker 7: he is in this, league AND i think AND i
31:46
Speaker 7: think there's a lot more growth for him, too AND
31:47
Speaker 7: i think he's chasing.
31:48
Speaker 2: That So i'm excited for the year to be his.
31:50
Speaker 1: TEAMMATE a few wild card topics to wrap this up,
31:53
Speaker 1: With Josh, johnson who's your all time favorite athlete in any?
31:56
Speaker 1: Sport and WHY.
31:58
Speaker 2: I gotta go With Michael.
32:01
Speaker 7: Jordan he set a standard that WHEN i was growing
32:05
Speaker 7: up in the, eighties you kind of normalize the work
32:10
Speaker 7: ethic and how it can lead you to be successful
32:12
Speaker 7: and how routine he made. It but now that he's
32:15
Speaker 7: long gone and kind of see you seeing people trying
32:17
Speaker 7: to reduplicate, that but nobody kind of can really give
32:21
Speaker 7: you what you.
32:21
Speaker 2: Saw you had to see it to believe, it you
32:23
Speaker 2: know WHAT i.
32:23
Speaker 7: MEAN i would say he's the top of that because
32:26
Speaker 7: like for me to be born into the eighty six
32:29
Speaker 7: right when he was coming into the, league and like
32:30
Speaker 7: watch him become who he was and how he did.
32:33
Speaker 7: It he didn't shy away from. Anything he, met every
32:36
Speaker 7: challenge he rolls above. It and then it got to
32:39
Speaker 7: a point where he was an autopilot of just doing
32:41
Speaker 7: routine things that most people can't even imagine to.
32:44
Speaker 1: Do when you're done playing, football hopefully many years from,
32:48
Speaker 1: now what do you think you're gonna.
32:50
Speaker 7: DO i Know i'm gonna be a Great i'm gonna
32:52
Speaker 7: continue to be a great, husband a great. FATHER i
32:55
Speaker 7: Know i'm gonna do my community, stuff and it's gonna
32:58
Speaker 7: have to be something with, Sports like there's a lot
33:01
Speaker 7: of opportunity in, sports whether it be, coaching, management, consulting
33:06
Speaker 7: just being around the. GAME i, KNOW i know what
33:10
Speaker 7: makes me get up and go in sports is that
33:12
Speaker 7: in particular, Football so it's gonna be something in the football.
33:14
Speaker 1: SPACE i mentioned that you've been paid at least by
33:18
Speaker 1: fourteen DIFFERENT nfl. Teams there are also some teams and
33:21
Speaker 1: other professional football. Leagues have you saved something from every?
33:24
Speaker 1: Team do you have a helmet collection or anything like?
33:26
Speaker 7: That MISS i got, JERSEYS i got, MEMORIES i got.
33:29
Speaker 7: Pictures every stop was. NECESSARY i became a better version of.
33:33
Speaker 7: Myself SO i appreciate THE ufl playing for the sacrament
33:38
Speaker 7: on my own lines THE, aaf even THOUGH i.
33:41
Speaker 2: Didn't get to go play an actual.
33:43
Speaker 7: Game just my workouts With Coach marts and the little
33:45
Speaker 7: things he shown, me you, KNOW i took some of
33:47
Speaker 7: those things to. Heart then planning THE, xfl playing With
33:51
Speaker 7: Coach child And Coach, moss that's WHEN i was able
33:53
Speaker 7: to really kind of find my game as a.
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Speaker 2: Pro just REALLY i learned so.
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Speaker 7: Much over from so many different coaches and many different,
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Speaker 7: systems BUT i wasn't really getting the opportunity to kind
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Speaker 7: of put it. Together and WHEN i was able to
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Speaker 7: play THE, XFL i felt LIKE i was able to
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Speaker 7: put it together WHERE i kind of understood WHO i
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Speaker 7: was as a pro. Quarterback and, now you, know just
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Speaker 7: being in THE, nfl it's the same thing like like
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Speaker 7: some of these Coaches i'm older in but you, know
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Speaker 7: but just to learn from them and to see how
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Speaker 7: they see the game and know the, game it just
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Speaker 7: keeps taking. ME i feel like to another level THAT
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Speaker 7: i can just keep tapping.
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Speaker 1: Into if you could meet anybody in, history living or,
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Speaker 1: deceased who would that person?
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Speaker 7: Be jesus for him to be all powerful of everything
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Speaker 7: and can do whatever he, wants but be still humble
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Speaker 7: enough to not showcase, it but be more to be
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Speaker 7: able to be more control with what he wanted to
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Speaker 7: do by bringing others along with. HIM i think that's
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Speaker 7: a very unique. Trait it's a humble confidence that you
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Speaker 7: know it's not the world doesn't really kind of promote.
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Speaker 7: That it's more, like you, know show if you got the,
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Speaker 7: power take advantage of, it and for somebody to be
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Speaker 7: the exact, obviously but have everything to. Me that's WHAT
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Speaker 7: i would just want to meet, him had a conversation
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Speaker 7: like just about.
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