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Bengals Booth Podcast: And So It Goes · Bengals Booth Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, gain everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The and so it goes, and
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  Speaker 1: so it goes. Addition, as the Bengals four game winning
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  Speaker 1: streak comes to an end in gut punch fashion as
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  Speaker 1: Houston wins on a field goal at the gun thirty
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  Speaker 1: to twenty seven. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker
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  Speaker 1: room comments from players and coaches, and postgame analysis from
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  Speaker 1: Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll
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  Speaker 1: thing since Salute to Service. Intros The NFL does a
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  Speaker 1: great job of paying tribute to our nation's service members, veterans,
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  Speaker 1: and their families through its year round Salute to Service
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  Speaker 1: program that includes a yearly Salute to Service game at
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  Speaker 1: every NFL stadium. That includes something that always hits me
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  Speaker 1: right in the heart. When the starting lineup is announced
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  Speaker 1: and the players individually charge out of the tunnel toward
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  Speaker 1: the fifty yard line. They are accompanied by an active
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  Speaker 1: military member, and the players seem to enjoy it as
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  Speaker 1: much as the men and women who are serving our country.
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  Speaker 1: They often come out with choreographed handshakes and high fives
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  Speaker 1: before sprinting toward the fifty. Side by side. Sunday's game
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  Speaker 1: didn't end well for the Bengals, but it began with
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful tradition. Now time for the radio replays from
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  Speaker 1: a disappointing afternoon at pay Corps. It is a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: November afternoon here in Cincinnati. We have bright sunshine, not
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  Speaker 1: a cloud in sight, and while the temperature is cool
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  Speaker 1: at fifty four degrees, the Bengals are red hot.
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  Speaker 2: They've won four straight.
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  Speaker 1: They will try to extend that winning streak today as
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  Speaker 1: they host the Houston Texans. Burro already for a shotgun snap.
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  Speaker 1: He catches at the thirty seven, drops back to the
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  Speaker 1: forty fires down.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa caught at the famm by Trenton Irwin.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdownn Wait Bengals as Burrow delivers a perfect strike and
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  Speaker 3: Trenton Irwin takes it in for the Bengals touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud in the gun, three receivers rights. Stroud looking right,
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  Speaker 1: throws right, caught at the six, running back toward the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the field, diving toward the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: Touchdown. Tagdell boy.
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  Speaker 4: That was a heck of a He's a finish right there.
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  Speaker 1: This will be a forty five yard try from the left.
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  Speaker 1: Hash trying to give the Texans a late lead in
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: The kick is on its way and it is good,
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  Speaker 2: and with.
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  Speaker 1: Ten seconds left in the half, the Texans are ahead
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  Speaker 1: ten to seven. Stroud under center toss sweep to the right.
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  Speaker 1: Singletary has room and cruises into the end zone. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he was touched. It's a touchdown for
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  Speaker 1: the Texans.
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  Speaker 5: They have taken control of the line of scrimmage and
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  Speaker 5: are not letting it go.
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  Speaker 1: Three sacks for the Texans today and that turns it
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  Speaker 1: into a fifty yard field goal attempt as the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: went backward after having it the twenty four to snap
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  Speaker 1: the placement the right footed kick. It has the distance
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  Speaker 1: and it is good. So the Bengals cut the deficit
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  Speaker 1: to ten. As Evan McPherson nails one from fifty yards away,
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  Speaker 1: Burrow will look to throw. Pressure forces him to scre
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  Speaker 1: amble left. Burrow throws deep down field. Chase catches at
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  Speaker 1: the twenty.
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  Speaker 6: He's at the ten, raises the ball in his right
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  Speaker 6: hand as he cruises into.
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  Speaker 7: The end zone.
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  Speaker 6: Touchdown to Jamar Chase, a sixty four yard strike. No gritty,
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  Speaker 6: no backflip. He's not going to aggravate the back. But
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  Speaker 6: he just made a huge touchdown catch.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: CJ.
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  Speaker 5: Stroud has done it.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Borrow says I could do it too, rolls to
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  Speaker 4: his left.
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  Speaker 5: Squares his shoulder, pads up, throws it down the middle
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  Speaker 5: of the football field of Jamar Chase.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown, first down in goal. The Texans go empty. Stroud
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  Speaker 1: drops back to throw. Now scrambles up the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the field to the five to the goal line, and
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  Speaker 1: he walks in for the touchdown. So here we go
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  Speaker 1: four minutes to go. The Bengals are in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone at the fourteen yard line. They trail by ten points.
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  Speaker 1: Burrow waiting for a shotgun snap. Three receivers left, Chase
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  Speaker 1: alone out to the right. Burrow from the pocket, going backward,
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  Speaker 1: scrambling right throws toward the end zone in traffic intercepted
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone. Third down in two, Stroud fakes
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  Speaker 1: a handoff, rolls right throws intercepting.
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  Speaker 6: The Bengals are running it back. Cam Taylor bru tackled
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  Speaker 6: inside the five. It's not over yet.
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  Speaker 1: C J. Stroud with just his second ist of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Britt with his fourth interception in the last
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  Speaker 1: five games. Tank Dell save the touchdown, but the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: will have it first in goal near the five with
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  Speaker 1: three and a half minutes to go, first and goal
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  Speaker 1: from the one with three twenty two left in regulation,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals down by ten, Burwing the shotgun, mixing to
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  Speaker 1: his right.
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  Speaker 2: Burrow catches the shotgun snap.
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  Speaker 1: Gives it to Joe Mixon knife's into the end zone, touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Bengals with three eighteen to go. Three receivers left, one right.
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  Speaker 1: Burrow catches the shotgun snap he's back to throw, flings
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  Speaker 1: it over the middle, sleeping catch boy to the fifty.
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  Speaker 6: He's running away from the back at the thirty, the
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  Speaker 6: twenty to fifteen, the ten. He's tackled inside the ten.
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  Speaker 6: With one fifty three to go.
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  Speaker 5: Joe Burrow has had seven fourth quarter comeback.
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  Speaker 4: Victories in his career. Will it beat number eight?
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  Speaker 1: Burrow waits for the snap from Ted Karris. Joe has
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  Speaker 1: the ball drops back from the twenty one throws Foo
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  Speaker 1: bobbled and dropped in the end zone. Tyler Boyd a
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  Speaker 1: great throw and Boyd dropped what could have been the
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  Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown. What should have been the go ahead touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals have to settle for a field goal try
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  Speaker 1: from thirty one yards away, trying to tie the game
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  Speaker 1: with one thirty seven to go. Adamitas will snap, Robbins
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  Speaker 1: will hold. The snap is good, the ball is placed down,
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  Speaker 1: The kick is up and is good, tying the game
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  Speaker 1: with ninety three seconds remaining, from thirty eight yards away
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  Speaker 1: from the left hash to win the game for the Texans,
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  Speaker 1: the snap the swing of the right leg, The kick
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  Speaker 1: is up and the kick is good. The clock hit
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  Speaker 1: zero and the Texans celebrate they have defeated the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: by the final score of thirty to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 7: Amazing.
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  Speaker 5: You talk about coming back and having an opportunity to
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  Speaker 5: win a football game and then to lose it like that,
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  Speaker 5: the thrill of victory the agony of defeat in a
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  Speaker 5: matter of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The Houston Texans, a team that won three games last year,
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  Speaker 1: are now five and four with a twenty point win
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  Speaker 1: of Jacksonville, a thirty to six win over the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: and a road win at Cincinnati, and the stats on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday were downright ugly. The Texans outgained the Bengals by
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty four yards five point forty four
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  Speaker 1: to three eighty. Singletary rushed for a career high one
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  Speaker 1: point fifty and Noah Brown had a career high one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two receiving yards and listened to this.
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  Speaker 1: His first catch went for nine yards, his next six
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  Speaker 1: went for thirty, twenty eight, twenty nine, twenty thirty four,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty two. I don't ever remember a receiver being
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  Speaker 1: that wide open that many times during the Bengals four
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  Speaker 1: game winning streak. Cincinnati's opponents never scored more than twenty points.
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  Speaker 1: The Texans scored thirty, and it could have been more
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  Speaker 1: if they didn't lose a fumble at the Bengals nine.
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  Speaker 1: I talked about it with DJ Reader.
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  Speaker 7: I don't we didn't play well enough to win.
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  Speaker 8: He was a group as a team a roll and
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  Speaker 8: so that's all this stuff happens in You know, it's
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  Speaker 8: not going to be rewarded when you don't play them.
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  Speaker 7: Enough to win. They don't.
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  Speaker 1: Sevin Singletary had a big day in the running game.
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  Speaker 1: What were the Texans doing that was challenging to stop
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  Speaker 1: missing tackles?
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  Speaker 7: That's it.
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  Speaker 8: We just missed tackles. They didn't do nothing that really
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  Speaker 8: made it tough. We just missed tackle. He's a good back,
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  Speaker 8: but they can't miss the many tackles. As the defense,
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  Speaker 8: what do you think of CJ.
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  Speaker 7: Stroud?
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  Speaker 8: We pretty good man. He stays in the pocket, well,
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  Speaker 8: throw some good balls. It does a good job of
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  Speaker 8: feeling the pocket out. Seemed like I was running wide
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  Speaker 8: open at there. So we just gotta do better as
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  Speaker 8: a as a group. We uh tightened up a little bit,
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  Speaker 8: but we.
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  Speaker 1: Just gotta do better. You guys have won four straight
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  Speaker 1: and five out of stick six. Is it kind of
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  Speaker 1: a stunning result of that one slipped through your fingers
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  Speaker 1: at home?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: I think it's just more frustrating cause you know, we
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  Speaker 8: we we know we didn't play a guitar standard. You
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  Speaker 8: know they're a good team that fire that hot. But
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  Speaker 8: as a team, you know, you can deal with losses
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  Speaker 8: when you play up to the standard. But you don't,
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  Speaker 8: it's not it's frustrating to deal with, you know what
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  Speaker 8: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine everyone's hurting for Tyler Boyd. He's one been one
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  Speaker 1: of the most reliable receivers in the league for his
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  Speaker 1: entire career and unfortunately dropped what could have been a
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  Speaker 1: game winner.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Man, tough things.
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  Speaker 8: Happened, man, this thing and that's why we got big shoulders.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we gotta well out there. I spend again
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  Speaker 8: next week, we'd look we go a short week, opportunity
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  Speaker 8: to get the problems. No time to stew over it then,
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  Speaker 8: for sure, No Thomas sad gonna worry about it. We
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  Speaker 8: just gotta go out there and get a win next time.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate this time for sure. The one thing the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals defense did do well was take the ball away
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  Speaker 1: forcing three turnovers. In fact, when Joe Burrow threw his
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  Speaker 1: second interception with four minutes to go, fans started heading
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  Speaker 1: for the exits, only to turn around and rush back
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  Speaker 1: in when Cam Taylor Britt picked off c J. Stroud
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  Speaker 1: less than thirty seconds later to give Cincinnati a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Britt is now tied for third in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: with four picks, and Dave Lapham spoke to him after
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 5: I think you had at least nine tackles, probably double digit,
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  Speaker 5: but I mean the interception was huge. The interception kept
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  Speaker 5: the Cincinnati Bengals alive and then the football game.
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  Speaker 4: Take us through that play.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I just got hit on the same play before,
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  Speaker 9: and I think I was just playing off on the
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  Speaker 9: first one and he ran the underneath out and I
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  Speaker 9: was kind of off and I made the tackle on.
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  Speaker 7: On the other side of the field.
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  Speaker 9: By this time, I just pressed stitting on you know
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  Speaker 9: who I was guarding on, you know, to speak guy.
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  Speaker 9: They want to catch a run with him, So I
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  Speaker 9: just pressed at that time, and so he throws his
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  Speaker 9: undercutter like I should have did on the first one.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, it just made it play.
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  Speaker 5: What about your your finger you had to leave the
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  Speaker 5: game for a little bit. Did you did you dislocated?
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  Speaker 5: Did you pop it? What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: He dislocated and popped it right back again.
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  Speaker 4: Been there, I know what that's like. Did it go
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  Speaker 4: back easy?
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  Speaker 9: No, I ain't go back easy. He did a little
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  Speaker 9: you know, fiddling around with it. But yeah, we're all good.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that's good. That's good.
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  Speaker 5: So their running game, I mean, they did get their
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  Speaker 5: their running game going to compliment that passing attack. And
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  Speaker 5: when you get a running game out for like one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and they had one back over over one hundred
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  Speaker 5: and thirty, and then they can run play action off that,
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  Speaker 5: it makes it tough, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, most definitely. You know, when you're trying to crash, run,
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  Speaker 9: crash and run and then they hit you with a
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  Speaker 9: nice play action deep shot across the field, that's when
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  Speaker 9: you know you really got the home in on your
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  Speaker 9: your craft and eyes and everything. That's when everything kind
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  Speaker 9: of comes into play, you know, And they kind of
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  Speaker 9: hit us with some of those in the game, you know,
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  Speaker 9: and I hurt us.
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  Speaker 4: So you still have a chance to win the football game.
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  Speaker 5: The Bengals were in position to score a touchdown to
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  Speaker 5: take take a lead that doesn't happen, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: I know Tyler's obviously feels terrible about you know, a
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  Speaker 5: play down the stress that wasn't made. But there's a
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  Speaker 5: million plays during the course of the football game that
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  Speaker 5: if any of them had gone differently, it might be
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  Speaker 5: a different outcome, right.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Memos definitely, Man, I say, you can't just picking
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  Speaker 9: out one moment in that game. We played as a whole,
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  Speaker 9: as a team. Every those situation matters. You know, it
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  Speaker 9: can't put it on one person. So we just got
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  Speaker 9: to come out here next time and put off no
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  Speaker 9: tenth holes on the ground and go stand on business.
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  Speaker 7: Muh As.
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  Speaker 1: For the offense, it started well, scoring a touchdown on
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  Speaker 1: the opening drive for the fifth straight game, but then
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati went bone dry for a quarter and a half.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, the Bengals had five straight possessions without
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  Speaker 1: a first down. Joe Burrow threw for three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty seven yards and two touchdowns, but also threw two
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  Speaker 1: picks in a game for the first time since the
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  Speaker 1: AFC Championship lost to Kansas City. Joe has also sacked
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  Speaker 1: four times, including three by veteran defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins
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  Speaker 1: a good player, but not exactly Aaron Donald. Until this year,
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  Speaker 1: Rankins had not had more than three sacks in a
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  Speaker 1: season since twenty eighteen. The Bengals did score twenty seven points,
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  Speaker 1: which is usually enough to win, but it wasn't on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Joe Mixon.
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  Speaker 7: The guys they fought.
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  Speaker 10: They fought their asses off all four quarters, you know,
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  Speaker 10: from start to finish.
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  Speaker 7: You know, offense, we struggled.
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  Speaker 10: We started off slow, and they basically carried the momentum
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  Speaker 10: for the most part. But you know, the best thing
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  Speaker 10: about it is we figured it out, and unfortunately it
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  Speaker 10: was too late. So we just got to do whatever
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  Speaker 10: we can to not start that way, man, and just
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  Speaker 10: learn from what we've been having.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, what was that emotional roller coaster ride like
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  Speaker 1: at the end where it looked like, inspite everything, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to pull it out, and then Houston makes the
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  Speaker 1: plays to win the game.
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  Speaker 10: I mean when it come down, so he just got
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  Speaker 10: a you know, the game and over until it's over
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  Speaker 10: till his zero. The best thing about it is our
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  Speaker 10: guys we fought in claud scratch. But the thing is,
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  Speaker 10: you know, we came up short most of the time,
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  Speaker 10: you know, we find ourselves on a on a winning
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  Speaker 10: half man. So uh you know, for me, I try
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  Speaker 10: not to you know, get too high, get too love.
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  Speaker 10: Just like I said, the best thing about it is
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  Speaker 10: with the turning page real quick, get ready for Baltimore
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  Speaker 10: and uh, you know, Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a more sure handed receiver in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: than Tyler boyd imagine everybody in here is hurting for him.
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  Speaker 10: Nine times out of ten, he's gonna make that play.
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  Speaker 10: And uh, you know, even though he dropped the past.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I know what type of receiver he is.
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  Speaker 10: I've been with him for seven years and he's always
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  Speaker 10: been consistent. Thing about it is, I mean, gonna keep
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  Speaker 10: his head up high as he should. He got us
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  Speaker 10: back ope down, you know, to make a to make
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  Speaker 10: a crucial play, to be able to you know, potentially
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  Speaker 10: go ahead. And you know the best thing about it is,
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  Speaker 10: you know our guys, you know, kept him in there
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  Speaker 10: when we stayed. We stayed, and you know, we just
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  Speaker 10: came up short when it comes down to it, that
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  Speaker 10: last drive. Even though it was that last drive, we
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  Speaker 10: should have never been in that situation in the first place,
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  Speaker 10: to be honest, But I mean, it is what it is,
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  Speaker 10: so uh my boy, he gonna tell he's gonna keep
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  Speaker 10: his head up high as he should and get ready
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  Speaker 10: to turn the page.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you even heard at this point
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland rally to beat Baltimore, so you didn't lose any
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  Speaker 1: ground in the division. How does that impact you going
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  Speaker 1: into Thursday night?
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's cool enough, but.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I guess thank them, you know, when it
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  Speaker 10: come down to it, we got a big game coming up,
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  Speaker 10: and I guess both teams is off of a loss.
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  Speaker 10: So I'm sure just like we want to get that
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  Speaker 10: taste out our mind, I'm sure they do too.
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  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 10: So as long we know what type of game is
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  Speaker 10: gonna be and we just got to get ready to,
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  Speaker 10: you know, for a big fight.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time, Yeah, for sure. The Baltimore Ravens
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  Speaker 1: had a fourteen point lead with nine minutes to go
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, but lost at home to Cleveland thirty three
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  Speaker 1: to thirty one. The Steelers were out gained by seventy
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  Speaker 1: five yards against Green Bay, meaning Pittsburgh has been outgained
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  Speaker 1: in every game this season, but the Steelers won again
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  Speaker 1: twenty three nineteen, so in the AFC, North Baltimore is
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  Speaker 1: on top at seven and three, The Steelers and Browns
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: are a half game back at six and three, and
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the Bengals are a game and a half back behind
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the Ravens at five and four. Heading into that Thursday
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: night showdown, the Steelers and Browns face each other in
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Cleveland next Sunday. Now, let's hear from Zach Taylor as
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: he spent a couple of minutes with Lap after the game.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Man, that was a hard fought football game, no question
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: about it. Could could have gone either way at any
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: point in time. I mean, give us your assessment of
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: what you saw on how you feel at this point.
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: We did enough earlier in the game to give ourselves
• 16:48
  Speaker 11: the best chance. I was part of the way the
• 16:50
  Speaker 11: guys fought back. That's rare that you can come down
• 16:53
  Speaker 11: from from whatever we were down and late in the
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: fourth quarter and be able to put ourselves in a
• 16:57
  Speaker 11: position to win the game. Unfortunately, just too little, too late.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: So I know Tyler feels awful.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: I mean you know that that play feels like he
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: can make the making his sleep. But it never comes
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: down to one play in a game like this. There's
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: always a million plays that you can go back to
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: and say, if we had done this, if we had
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: done that. But overall, what do you think were some
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: of the things that that maybe surprised you or didn't
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: go the way you thought they might.
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: A rhythm in the first half on offense particular, you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 11: a lot of three and outs, just couldn't get that
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: first first down to get ourselves going and give ourselves
• 17:27
  Speaker 11: a little bit of rhythm. You got regredit to them.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: They did the good job keeping us off off balance
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: a little bit, and so then you know, that's I
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: thought our defense was doing a good job in the
• 17:36
  Speaker 11: first half. I've taken the pressure off of us. We
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: just didn't get enough points on the board.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Defensively, well, they played fast and they're good tacklers. I
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: mean they were. They were making tackles, were limiting. There
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: was nothing after the after the cats. It wasn't in
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: the yards after catch, not a whole lot of yards
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: after the contract. The contact they were they were playing
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: a very uh, very emotional game, I guess. So they
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: were playing fast for sure.
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, there are physical team. They play with a lot
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: of energy, and so we expected to see that today
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: and that's where we're at C. J.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Stroud is as advertised. I mean that kid has kind
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: of ice water in his veins as well to go
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: down the football field make some of the plays he
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: made to win the football game.
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: He did a good job. He extended some plays, found
• 18:16
  Speaker 11: some perceivers and certainly that in that last drive put
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: him in a position to go win.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: He seems to be when he gets out of pocket
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: and creates an extens he's going for the juggular. I mean,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: he's trying to make a big play. It looked like
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: a high percentage of the time. Is that his demo
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: He's done a good job of that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: You know, he's just a rookie, hasn't played a ton,
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: but I thought last week against Tampa he did that,
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: led them down for a game winning drive, and did
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: it again this week.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: And finally, how about the effort that Jamar Chase gave
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: you with you know, limited activity during the course of
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: the week for him to come out and make the
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: plays he made.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Is he's extraordinary.
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Yeah, proud of him, Proud of the way that he
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: he gave us a chance, you know, and got in
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: there and made some big plays. And thankful that he
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: gave us that opportunity today.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Chase, he's finished with five catches for one hundred and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: twenty four yards. Boyd had eight catches for a buck seventeen.
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• 19:24
  Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap lap. We have emerged from
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a very disappointed Bengals locker room, and I think those
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: guys were angry with themselves for the mistakes they made
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: that helped contribute to Houston's win.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, they just didn't take care of business.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: I do think that they're barely disappointed about their performance
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: run defense. I mean one hundred and fifty yards for
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: singletary five yards of pop. One hundred and eighty eight
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: yards they rushed for as a team and the Bengals
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: rush for sixty six. When you lose the run game,
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: ballo by you know, touchdown on a football field and
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: a quarter. That's significant, no doubt about it. It affects time
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: of possession, affects how many possessions you're going to get,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: it affects everything. It's remarkable that they had the comeback
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: that they had to try to make it a football
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: game down a stretch, and I know Tyler Boyd's bitterly disappointed,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: and rightfully so, but all those teammates are saying exactly
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: the case. There's a lot of players in that football
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: game that if they were made, would have affected the
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: outcome of the football game.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: It's never just one play, but.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Man, opportunities were there, didn't cash in on them. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: like you said, Dan, they were their worst own worst
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: enemy in a lot of cases.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: So in my mind, this game was one up front
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: they usually are. But the Texans had consistent pressure on
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Bengals didn't get much on CJ. Stroud. The
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Texans had a running game, the Bengals didn't. All of
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that points do line play.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: No doubt, and you know, I just think that we
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: mentioned that multiple times, particularly early in the football game.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: It was stunning to me how fast this defense was
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: and how well they tackled. I mean one on one,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: they were making tackles. Guys were still pursuing to make plays,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: but they didn't even have to get involved because their
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: teammates were getting it done in space one on one.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: It was a remarkable performance. I mean, I got to
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: give to Miko Ryans and the Texans a lot of credit.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: And they are buying what he's selling, There's no question
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: about it. And that's the type of player he was
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: as a Pro Bowl linebacker for that organization. He played fast,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: he played physical, He played with a lot of emotion,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: and that's they're buying into all those traits that he's
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: trying to get them to play with. And many they're
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: effort givers, no doubt about it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: So a couple of years ago, in the Super Bowl season,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd went through the entire regular season without a drop.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: He had a couple of costly ones. Today, the one
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: at the end of the game speaks for itself. But
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: let's go back to the beginning of that sequence. First
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and goal at the seven. After he makes a fantastic play,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Burrow gets sacked. Burrow tries to run a quarterback draw,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Houston's all over it. I mean, again, it comes down
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to the inability to protect or open holes.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and both of those plays, you got to give
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: the interior of the Houston Texans defensive line a lot
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: of credit. You know, Rankins just just collapsed the interior
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: of the pocket and made a heck of a play.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: He did that a couple of times today. I mean,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: he was a force, There's no question about it. And
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: then quarterback draw those defensive tackles did a good job
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: once again of not you know, not taking the cheese,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: not biting on the on the pass protection, they did
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a pretty good job of, you know, retracing quickly and
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: getting in position to make make a play on Joe Burrow.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: So that was you got to give credit where credits due.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, they made plays when they had to make
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: plays to win a football game. And man, see Jay Stroud,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: when he had to make throws down the field at
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: the end of the game to put his team in
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: position to win the football game. He made him. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: I mean when he's out of pocket, he goes for
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: the throat. I mean, he tries to make big plays
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: down the football field when he's creating extending, He's not
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: satisfied with just doing a little dinky dink and duncan
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: with a change. He wants to hurt you, and hurt
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: you badly.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's certainly not looking to run for five
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: yards towards the sideline. He wears Noah Brown, so I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: can chuck it to him thirty yards down the field.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Noah Brown, I mean, my goodness, I mean, Noah Brown
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: just had himself a game. Eight targets, seven catches, one
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: hundred and seventy two yards averaged over twenty four and
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: a half yards a catch. His long was only thirty four.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: He had multiple catches of fifteen yards and more. I
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: mean it was like every time they needed a play,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Noah Brown was making the play and he was wide open,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: and he was stationary wide open. It's like, what the heck, man,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: it's a It's it's amazing. I was wondering if he
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: had some kind of an odor or something that nobody
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: wanted to be around.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: I mean, it was.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: It was incredible how open the guy was.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: It was nuts.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think his first catch went for nine and his
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: last six went for twenty plus.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: That's crazy. I mean, that's that's just ripping.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Dell targeted fourteen times, only got six catches.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Out of it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: But they've got they've got to a compliment a stable
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: of different type of receivers. You know, they got the big,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: strong guys, and they've got you know, Dell, a little
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: cat quick cat quick guy. They're a good football team.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I mean that's a legitimate football team. And c J.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Stroud those twenty three for thirty nine, three hundred and
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: fifty six yards after four to seventy a game before
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: touchdown on interception. He came down to Earth quarterback rating
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: wise a little bit eighty seven point one. But I
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: mean watching him play, he is legit in every way.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I mean it's it's incredible how his poise and his uh,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: his whole demeanor about the game. I mean, you're not
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: going to rattle the guy. I mean, he's you don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: fluster c J. Stroud, You just don't.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young might turn out to be good the first
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: pick in the draft, but we know that the second
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: pick in the draft is already good.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we know this guy's got a got a right
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: right future. I mean, just like seeing and tape before
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: the game, I mean, his throwing motion is very compact
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: and it's very powerful. He's got a rubber arm and
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: man he puts some RPMs on it and it is accurate.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: He just he puts the ball in very, very good spots.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: There's no doubt.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Did we decide that the Bengals were back among the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: elite too soon? Or was this just a blip and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they are still kind of what we were thinking they
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: were going into the game.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think I think the uh, the
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Houston Texans are a little bit better than I was
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: given him credit for. In my mind, I really believe that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, they're one and three on the year on
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: the road, and they went to Jacksonville and beat a
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: good Jacksonville team, a division leader, by twenty points, so
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: they're capable of that. But then they'd lose, you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: game by two to a team they shouldn't really lose to,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: and you think, now there's some inconsistencies there. But I mean,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: to win the games the way they've won the last
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: two football games, that builds it, That builds a ton
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: of confidence. I thought after that win last week, they'd
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: either have a stinker or you know, feel like they
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: were legit. Well they felt like they were legit. I mean,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: you can see the confidence building in that football team
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: and I mean they have a back rush for one
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty yards when coming into the game as
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: a team, you haven't even averaged ninety yards a game.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: To me, that that was the striking thing in that
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: football game was how well they controlled the ground game
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: and made life a lot easier for CJ.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Stroud. There's no doubt the.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Bengals couldn't stop to run the first few weeks. Part
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of that was that the offense couldn't stay on the field.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But I kind of thought they had it fixed. Clearly
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: they don't.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they certainly didn't in this game, and I got
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: to give the Texans Texans credit once again. I mean
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: those guys were finishing blocks. I mean you have big
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: lineman like Tunsel down the field like five six yards,
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: you know, sustaining contact and finishing blocks. I mean, this
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: game was important to him. It was significant to him.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: You could you could tell. I think I think they
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: probably they probably, you know, defensively got shoot out a
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: little bit for giving up the number of points they
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: gave up, you know, to a football team. They shouldn't
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: have given up those points too. And I think that
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: they probably had a difficult week of practice in terms
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: of being hard coached, and they responded, man, they came
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: out and played today.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: But I agree.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I do think you know, the temple of games are
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: set in the trenches, and I thought that the Houston
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Texans set the temple in the trenches.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: The Bengals have had one of the better defenses in
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the league for the past few years. They've only got
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: one pro bowler on it, Trey Hendrickson. Cam Taylor britt
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Is to send into the conversation four interceptions in the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: last five games, and they have no chance to pull
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: out a miracle win if not for the play he
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: made with a little less than four minutes to go.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I talked to him a little bit after
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: the game and he said that he played the same
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: route poorly the time before he had to face it,
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: and they made a play on him that he felt
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: like they shouldn't have made, and when it came back
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: the second time, it was like, Okay, well, shame on
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: me the first time, but I'm over that. Shame on
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: you this time. And he undercut the route, saw it
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: unfolding again and made a play on it. He's he's again,
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: He's legit. He's the real deal. I think he might
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: have had a close to nine tackles combined on top
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: of that interception. I mean, this guy plays with a
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: physicality that is rare for a corner. I mean he
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: hits a ton. He's one of those guys that packs
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: a solid punch, There's no question.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: So the Ravens had a fourteen point fourth quarter lead
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: at home against the Cleveland and lost on a late
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: field goal. The Bengals lose ground to Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: They have fallen into the basement in the division, but
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: there's still a game and a half behind the first
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: place team, the Ravens, and they'll face the face I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: had to head on Thursday night.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's going to be a very interesting battle. Short
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: week for both teams coming off tough losses. Ravens come
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: off of division loss at home at their place. It's
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: almost like, man, can they lose two division games in
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: a row, two division games at home in less than
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: a calendar week. I mean, I got to think, so
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Bengals got to think. So Bengal's got to get ready
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: for that. They've already lost to the Baltimore Ravens here
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: in Cincinnati, So this becomes a megagame and I know
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: the guys understand, players understand the importance of this football game,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: and I honestly don't think they were looking past the
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Houston Texans for this Baltimore Ravens game. I really don't.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: I think more credit has to go to the way
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: the Houston Texans played in football game. I mean they
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: went out and took it in a lot of ways,
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: and you got to tip your cap to him.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati is an early three and a half point underdog
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: for Thursday night's game in Baltimore. The Ravens are thirty
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: five and seventeen in prime time under John Harbaugh, a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: six seventy three winning percentage. Finally, time for this week's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: fun fact segment, where you get to know the person
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: under the pads. Time for some fun facts with rookie
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: safety Jordan Battle out of the University of Alabama. After
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: going up just north of Miami, Florida. I read that
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: your dad signed you up for track when you were
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: four and football at the age of six. Was he
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: an athlete and what did you get from him?
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he was an athlete as well.
• 30:45
  Speaker 12: Just growing up having him in my corner, having him
• 30:48
  Speaker 12: my mom, be my guidance, my guidance counselors. I'll be
• 30:52
  Speaker 12: my coach just every year, just growing and being able
• 30:56
  Speaker 12: to have my dad in my life coaching me whatever
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: sport I did.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: Uh, except for track, That's probably the only.
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: Sport he really stayed away from, but he did come
• 31:05
  Speaker 12: to all the track meets. But football, basketball, Uh, those
• 31:09
  Speaker 12: are those are his sports. So uh whenever I played
• 31:12
  Speaker 12: those sports, he was, you know on me, niddy and gritty.
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 31:15
  Speaker 12: So you know, growing up in my house, it was
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: it was fun, very hard working. Uh times times you
• 31:22
  Speaker 12: know you all cry, you know because you're doing the
• 31:24
  Speaker 12: extra work when you're a kid because you don't understand.
• 31:26
  Speaker 12: But when you grow up, you can see it all
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: pays off. So yeah, I'm thankful I have my dad
• 31:31
  Speaker 12: in my life.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Which football always your favorite?
• 31:35
  Speaker 12: I would say, I mean track was like the first favorite,
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: and then like I played football first before I played basketball,
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: But basketball is kind of like my second favorite.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Then football is like the third, like the last.
• 31:48
  Speaker 12: But you know, I think when I got to high school,
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: like freshman year high school, that's when I started to
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: take football like the most serious and that's when I
• 31:56
  Speaker 12: started to develop the more fun, the more I mean,
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: I just started to feel like football was more fun
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: than basketball was.
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: Even though I was playing basketball.
• 32:05
  Speaker 12: In high school and running track, I feel like football
• 32:09
  Speaker 12: is the most fun sport for me.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Jeorgan. You mentioned your high school Saint Thomas Aquinas in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, a well known football powerhouse former Bengals. Do
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you Havevonni Bernard and Gino Atkins played there? The Bosa
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: brothers played there. Do you have high school teammates that
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: are playing in the NFL right now?
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, I have a few.
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: I know Nick Benito over at Denver and Denver two
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: at the Chargers of sante Cem Junior and Joshua Palmer.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: And I know I have one at.
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: Uh the Eagles, Tyler Stein who played with me at
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: BEMA as well for his last year. Yeah, that's those
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: are the ones I played with in high school. It's
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: like five of us. I think, Yeah, that's ridiculous.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if you realize how ridiculous that is.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Is it almost like playing for a college team there.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: Uh yeah, it is.
• 32:57
  Speaker 12: I feel like the coacher and all the coach just
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: around there.
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: Uh, that they build up. You know.
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: I had Jason Taylor as my kind of like my
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: DC my DIVERSI coordinator at Saint Thomas. Uh, Sam Madison
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: was my dB coach. Uh, so I had guys who
• 33:11
  Speaker 12: played in the league. So I had guys who knew
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: who knew what it took to get to the next level.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: And then after that, so you could.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Have played college football just about anywhere. You originally chose
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, then changed to Alabama. Why did you change? Uh?
• 33:26
  Speaker 12: That was it was I mean it was pretty like
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: simple for me. Uh, coach that was the year coach
• 33:31
  Speaker 12: Irban May had resigned. And uh that's after that, I know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: coach Ryan Day and all the other coaches, Uh, they
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: came down right after that happened. They let me know
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: that everything was gonna be fine. And turned out that
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: all the defensive court, all the difsive coaches had left
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: as well. And when that happened, that's when I had
• 33:49
  Speaker 12: opened up my recruitment and again and then Georgia. It
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: was out of Georgian and Alabama after that. And then, uh,
• 33:56
  Speaker 12: you know, I couldn't say no to coach Aban. He
• 33:58
  Speaker 12: came to my house. We had a good little conversation
• 34:01
  Speaker 12: about and I like that he kept it real with
• 34:03
  Speaker 12: me about you know, playing time and everything that everything
• 34:05
  Speaker 12: was going to be, you know, Aaron not given and
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: that's exactly what it was, and he gave it to me.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: Shut up.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: So if I read this correctly, in the high school
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: recruiting rankings, you were rated as the number two safety
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: in the country and your current teammate Dax Hill was
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: number one. Has that come up since you've arrived in Cincinnati.
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: Uh no, I do.
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: We haven't talked about it, but I was thinking about
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: it and I was like, yeah, I kind of mentioned it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: It wasn't like that, but like I was like, yeah,
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: we were both like top savities coming out of this
• 34:33
  Speaker 12: jab I mean, coming out of our class. And I
• 34:36
  Speaker 12: was like, yeah, it's kind of cool that we were
• 34:37
  Speaker 12: the number one in two staties coming out in high
• 34:39
  Speaker 12: school and now we're on the same team. I thought
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: that to myself, and I knew my dad. I think
• 34:44
  Speaker 12: my dad was the one who I reminded me too,
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: because he remember, you know, he remembers about everything, so
• 34:49
  Speaker 12: if I don't remember, I know he will. So yeah,
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: it was kind of cool to see that we both
• 34:53
  Speaker 12: on the same team.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Now we're doing fun facts with Jordan Battle. It is
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: highly unusual to start as a freshman for next Saban
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you did you started for four years. What do you
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: respect most about coach Saban?
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I just love how straight up he is like
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: with his guys. I love how how how the type
• 35:13
  Speaker 12: of coach he is, how he's always on us.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: He doesn't let us get comfortable.
• 35:16
  Speaker 12: Whether it's a win, whether there's a good play, where
• 35:20
  Speaker 12: there's a bad play. You know you see you see
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: it on the on the tape all the time, you
• 35:24
  Speaker 12: see it on videos all the time where if a
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: god makes a bad play, you see him come come
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: up in the screen somewhere yether than that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: That guy.
• 35:31
  Speaker 12: Uh, you gotta know that it's all love and he
• 35:34
  Speaker 12: does it out of the kindness of his heart because
• 35:35
  Speaker 12: he knows the ability we have in us. And although
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: some players don't realize what their talent, what talent, what
• 35:42
  Speaker 12: their talent means to coach, or what their talent can
• 35:45
  Speaker 12: be coach. I think helps people, you know, come out
• 35:48
  Speaker 12: of their selves, come out of their shelves, just players,
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: and you know, become that great player that they can be.
• 35:53
  Speaker 12: Eno fel like he helped me do that, So it's
• 35:55
  Speaker 12: a true freshman.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, you played in a wild game against LSU,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: final score forty six forty one in favor of the Tigers,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: led by a quarterback who went on to win the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Heights been Joe Burrow. He threw for three thirteen and
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: ran for sixty four in that game. What did you
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: learn that day about your current teammate Joey Franchise.
• 36:13
  Speaker 12: I think that day I realized, uh that that was
• 36:16
  Speaker 12: gonna be one of the NFL's best quarterback on one day.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: And obviously that day has came.
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: But but yeah, that was that was like my first
• 36:26
  Speaker 12: big test, uh in college. Obviously on the the side
• 36:31
  Speaker 12: of the ball, they had Joe Burrow. Justin Jefferson Clyde,
• 36:35
  Speaker 12: they had Jamar my Fault.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: I should have mentioned him after Joe. Uh, yeah, they
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: had Jamar.
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: But yeah, that was that was my first big test,
• 36:44
  Speaker 12: as you know, as a freshman, and I kind of
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: I kind of looked at that game and I was like, wow,
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: the amount of players that were on that field, you know,
• 36:53
  Speaker 12: at the same time as I was it's just a
• 36:55
  Speaker 12: blessing and only good. Only I mean, this is motivation
• 36:59
  Speaker 12: for me to you know, want to keep going, you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: and get further in life.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: So you lost that game, but the following year you
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: didn't lose anny and won the national championship, beating Ohio
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: State fifty two to twenty four in the national championship game.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: What are your most vivid memories of winning that national
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: championship not far from home because that game is in Miami.
• 37:17
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that was a I mean, I mean, let's start
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: with I didn't play the whole game because I got
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: kicked out in the first and half for a targeting call.
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: But it was fun. It was fun while I was in.
• 37:28
  Speaker 12: It was fun when I was out. I know, when
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: I came out, I was just you know, hyping up
• 37:33
  Speaker 12: the guys because I was just, you know, beggers, being
• 37:36
  Speaker 12: that leader off the field that the didn't knowew I
• 37:38
  Speaker 12: could be and that they knew I was. So I
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: didn't want to show too much emotion, even though you know,
• 37:42
  Speaker 12: I was at home and I didn't want to play,
• 37:44
  Speaker 12: but just getting to win was all I wanted, and
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: we got to win.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: I just felt like the the wave. It just hit me.
• 37:52
  Speaker 12: It was like wow, like I just want a national
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: championship in college football. This is something you watch growing up,
• 37:58
  Speaker 12: something you don't use, something you dream and most people
• 38:01
  Speaker 12: don't even get a chance to play or make it
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: that far. And uh, just being on that that that stage,
• 38:06
  Speaker 12: in that spotlight, you know.
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: It was it was fun. It was a great experience,
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: something I'll never forget.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to visualize the targeting call, could call or
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: did you get robbed?
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: I mean, I would say it was a horrible call.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm not gonna tell them. I'm not gonna
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: say it's a good call, but uh.
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: You know it's it's it's to say I understand the
• 38:27
  Speaker 12: you know the importance of the rule and protecting not
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: only the person being hit, but the person's doing the hitting.
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: So uh yeah, I guess there's I mean, a good
• 38:35
  Speaker 12: call on what they would say.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with Jordan Battle. After a tremendous
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: four year career at Alabama, you were selecting the third
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: round by the Bengals in the draft. Describe your draft
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: experience kind.
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: Of nerve record at first, Uh, you know, just sitting there,
• 38:48
  Speaker 12: you know, waiting for that call. But you know, I
• 38:51
  Speaker 12: feel like me, you know, I handled it pretty well
• 38:54
  Speaker 12: because you know, I'm a guy who just who wants
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: the opportunity, you know, to to to play.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: And I remember us.
• 39:01
  Speaker 12: I remember us, me and my my friends from home,
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: just playing cards, you know, and just having fun. You know,
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: we had the draft through, just watching the draft and everything,
• 39:10
  Speaker 12: you know, just trying to get everything, you know, out
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: of my mind. I haven't, you know, got that call yet,
• 39:15
  Speaker 12: but I just remember the phone ringing all we were
• 39:18
  Speaker 12: playing uo.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: And just that excitement that just pour over me.
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: And then when I knew it was the being was,
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: I got even more excited because I was like, Yeah,
• 39:27
  Speaker 12: this is a this is this is the right spot
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: because this is another winning organization that I've been a
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: part of now because I was at Saint Thomas, I
• 39:36
  Speaker 12: won uh to two state championships. I was at Alabama
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: Powerhouse one national championship. Now I'm at the Cincinnati Bengals
• 39:44
  Speaker 12: where we can compete for a Super Bowl every year.
• 39:46
  Speaker 12: So it was like, yeah, this is this is the
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: right spot.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: For me, and I know, I know God made the
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: right decisions.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I look forward to you adding a Super Bowl ring
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: to your collection of championship rings. Time for a few
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: wild card topics now with Jordan Battle, Who's your all
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: time favorite athlete in any sport?
• 40:04
  Speaker 12: I like Lebron because because the guy, the type of
• 40:07
  Speaker 12: guy he is, the type of dad he is the
• 40:11
  Speaker 12: type of father he is loves his kids, always always
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: going going out his way to make their games, his
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: son's games, or be there for his high school that
• 40:21
  Speaker 12: he that he just built in Ohio.
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: So I would say, yeah him.
• 40:26
  Speaker 12: He's a great, great father figure, a great businessman off
• 40:29
  Speaker 12: the off the court.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: So yeah, definitely definitely Lebron.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: He's definitely the total package. Is there anything about you
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: that not many people know about, such as a hidden talent?
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: I don't know if this is like hid him, but
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: I don't think people think I can dance. I think
• 40:45
  Speaker 12: I'm a good I think I'm a good dancer. I
• 40:48
  Speaker 12: think I have to show the world one day.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I look forward to your first NFL interception then,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: because I assume there's going to be some sort of
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: good dancing celebration that follows.
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 40:57
  Speaker 12: Yeah, for sure, the first the first NFL session would
• 41:00
  Speaker 12: definitely definitely need a celebration.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: With it aside from professional football player. Have you had
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: any other jobs, even part time jobs?
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: Never? Not ever? I don't. I don't. I never never
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: crossed my mind.
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: To to, you know, go have a job, like even
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: in college. At first, like I was gonna do like
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: door dashing, but I was like, I just don't take
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: too much time. I ain't gonna be able to you know,
• 41:27
  Speaker 12: look at him or you know, do something that that
• 41:30
  Speaker 12: could be more productive.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: And more more.
• 41:32
  Speaker 12: You know, I didn't I was gonna do door dashing,
• 41:35
  Speaker 12: but I didn't do it. I didn't know if people
• 41:37
  Speaker 12: were gonna know me or not, you know, coming up
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: to their doorsteps.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: But I just yeah, I never had a job.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Your job was preparing for what you're doing now.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, literally, and then and I all came in. It
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: was perfect.
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: So it was like you don't need to I don't
• 41:51
  Speaker 12: need a job anymore, and kind of doing your job
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: in college.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: All right. Final question for Jordan Battle. This one's a
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: little bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: living or deceased, athlete, entertainer, statesman, who would that person be.
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: Hmm, that's a good question. But when you asked, it
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: was like two people who came to mind.
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: It was.
• 42:17
  Speaker 12: MLK Malta the King was the first one, but then
• 42:20
  Speaker 12: it was Joel Washington because I like the way he
• 42:24
  Speaker 12: acts and I like all his movies, and I would
• 42:27
  Speaker 12: just I would love to have a conversation with him,
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: just to you know, see see how he plays that
• 42:31
  Speaker 12: role so well? How did How does it not affect
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: him like in real life? Like with the roles he
• 42:37
  Speaker 12: played in movies, and it's mostly mostly action movies that
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: he plays in them.
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: But I just like he's a great actor, a great
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: human being.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Might be my favorite actor, So that's a heck of
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: a choice. I'm a big Denzel guy as well.
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's my favorite actor for sure.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Jordan. This has been fun. Glad to have you in Cincinnati.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Best of the rest of the year, sir.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 42:59
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