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Speaker 1: Hi and everybody.
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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading the Bengals Booth Podcast.
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Speaker 2: The Everything's Gonna be ah right. Addition, as the Bengals
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Speaker 2: open the season with a lackluster performance, to put it nicely,
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Speaker 2: losing their opener at Cleveland twenty four to three. Coming up,
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Speaker 2: you'll hear radio replays and locker room comments from players
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Speaker 2: and coaches. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, team
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Speaker 2: who join us on our weekly radio shows. Dave Lapham
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Speaker 2: and I host two shows together every week, The Bengals
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Speaker 2: Game Plan Show on Wednesday nights from six to eight
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Speaker 2: and the Bengals pep Rally Show on Friday afternoons from
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Speaker 2: three to six. At nearly every show, a current player
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Speaker 2: us on the radio, they always sign autographs and post
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Speaker 2: for pictures during the commercial breaks. Last week, Orlando Brown
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Speaker 2: Junior and Nick Scott were our guests and they were
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Speaker 2: Hope to see you there. Now, let's get to Sunday's
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Speaker 2: frustrating season opener. On a dreary, rainy and gray day
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Speaker 2: in Cleveland, the Bengals got the ball to begin the
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Speaker 2: game and immediately connected on third down and nine on
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Speaker 2: a twelve yard pass from Joe Burrow to Jamar Chase.
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Speaker 2: That was their longest pass completion all day and their
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Speaker 2: only third down conversion in eight tries in the first half.
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Speaker 2: Shotgun snap blitz coming Burrow in trouble and Joe will
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Speaker 2: be sacked. Didn't lose much. He lost two yards as
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Speaker 2: he tried to run forward, but he does get sacked
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Speaker 2: by Okunquo. A free agent acquisition, and the Bengals will
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Speaker 2: bring in rookie punter Brad Robbins. That was a familiar
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Speaker 2: theme as the Bengals punted on their first seven possessions.
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Speaker 2: Here's Tyler Boyd on floundering on third down.
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Speaker 3: That hurt us a lot.
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Speaker 4: Does We've got ourselves on stand out there and converted,
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Speaker 4: you know, and third down especially because we know that's
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Speaker 4: when man covers is gonna come in. That's when the
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Speaker 4: one on one upportunities come in. That's when we make
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Speaker 4: the big plays. Let's us see, and you didn't say
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Speaker 4: because they got the best of us.
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Speaker 2: The Browns weren't much better in the early going. Their
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Speaker 2: first six drives included four punts and a fumble, but
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Speaker 2: they did manage to get on the scoreboard early in
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Speaker 2: the second quarter. The snap, the placement, the right footed kick,
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Speaker 2: a high spinning and over end kick, and it was
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Speaker 2: given the Cleveland Browns a three to nothing lead. It
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Speaker 2: was still three to nothing late in the half when
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Speaker 2: the Browns put together the best drive that either team
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Speaker 2: had all day. It featured five first downs covered sixty
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Speaker 2: seven yards and ended with the game's first touchdown, second
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Speaker 2: and ten from the Bengals thirteen. Watson's a quarterback draw.
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Speaker 2: He's at the ten to five touchdown Cleveland. The Browns
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Speaker 2: led ten to nothing at the half. The Bengals defense
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Speaker 2: was playing okay, but the offense was anemic. Here's Ted karras.
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Speaker 5: Our defense was executing. They gave us a lot of
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Speaker 5: chances to win the game.
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Speaker 6: We didn't do it.
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Speaker 2: Second half highlights in a moment, But first reminder that
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Speaker 2: offense came to life to begin the second half, getting
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Speaker 2: help on a pass interference penalty to drive within field
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Speaker 2: goal range. Bengals trying to get on the scoreboard here
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Speaker 2: in the third quarter, trailing by ten, McPherson's kick is
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Speaker 2: and it is good to put Cincinnati on the scoreboard
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Speaker 2: for the first time in twenty twenty three. They were
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Speaker 2: only down by a touchdown and things really started looking
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Speaker 2: up when the Bengals got a takeaway. On the Browns
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Speaker 2: next possession, Watson walks up to the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 2: now backs up into the gun left foot in front
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Speaker 2: of right. He catches the shotgun snap fakes the Chubb
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Speaker 2: does a whirly bird before scrambling to the left. Couple
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Speaker 2: of bottles taken down.
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Speaker 1: There's a penalty flight, but the passes intercepted. Dax Hill
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Speaker 1: has the ball running up the near sideline and he
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Speaker 1: goes out of bounds at the fifty yard line.
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Speaker 2: But after driving to the Cleveland thirty three Joe Burrows
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Speaker 2: deep ball to t Higgins was broken up at the
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Speaker 2: last instant by Cleveland safety Grant Delpit. Here's Higgins on
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Speaker 2: that key defensive play.
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Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of day, it was a
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Speaker 5: great playful. He put his hand up at the right time.
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Speaker 5: If he didn't do that, that's a catch.
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Speaker 2: If he hadn't, it probably would have been a game
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Speaker 2: tying touchdown. Instead, the Bengals had to settle for a
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Speaker 2: fifty one yard field goal try. Bengals trying to score
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Speaker 2: field goals on back to back possessions in the second
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Speaker 2: half after being shut out in the first to kick
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Speaker 2: his Oh no is wide right. It is no good.
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Speaker 2: It was money Max, first missed from fifty plus since
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. The Browns answered with a field goal
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Speaker 2: to take a thirteen to three lead to the fourth quarter,
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Speaker 2: and kicked another one early in the fourth to make
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Speaker 2: it sixteen to three. The Bengals were running out of
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Speaker 2: chances and Zach Taylor knew it as the Bengals went
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Speaker 2: for it on fourth and four from their own thirty one,
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Speaker 2: with ten and a half minutes remaining, Fourth out and
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Speaker 2: four shotgun snap to borrow. Joe scrambling to the.
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Speaker 1: Right, sacked by Miles Garrett inside the twenty. Miles Garrett
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Speaker 1: with his first sack of the season, and it comes
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Speaker 1: at a great time.
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Speaker 2: It'll give the Browns the ball in the red zone,
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Speaker 2: and four plays later they were in the end zone.
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Speaker 1: Watson throws a pass caught in the end zone by
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Speaker 1: a sliding Harrison Bryant for a Cleveland Brown's touchdown.
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Speaker 5: And Deshaun Watson is doing is uh. He's skipping to
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Speaker 5: the fifty yard line and now coming back to celebrate
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Speaker 5: with his teammates. This game means a lot to Deshaun Watson.
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Speaker 2: The Browns won it twenty four to three, and it
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Speaker 2: was a brutal day for Joe Burrow. Unlike last season's opener,
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Speaker 2: where he threw four interceptions, Joe didn't have any turnovers,
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Speaker 2: but he only completed fourteen of thirty one pass that's
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Speaker 2: forty five percent, the first time Joe has ever completed
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Speaker 2: less than half of his throws in fifty NFL starts,
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Speaker 2: including playoff games. Joe finished with eighty two passing yards.
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Speaker 2: His previous low was one forty eight, and Joe's passer
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Speaker 2: rating of fifty two point two was also a new
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Speaker 2: career low. The Browns defensive backs deserve much of the credit.
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Speaker 7: They got really good corners. You know, Denzel and Emerson
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Speaker 7: are two of the better corners in the league. I think,
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Speaker 7: you know Newsom is a is a great nickel too,
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Speaker 7: So they got a great secondary. Obviously, we weren't good
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Speaker 7: enough in me putting the ball in the right place
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Speaker 7: and in our one on one situations. We just didn't
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Speaker 7: come out on top today.
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Speaker 2: But as good as the Browns were defensively, Burrow just
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Speaker 2: looked off. The five weeks of training camp that he
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Speaker 2: missed surely was a factor.
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Speaker 7: The quarterback doesn't perform in training camp. You know, that
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Speaker 7: was obviously something that I would have liked to have done.
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Speaker 7: But there's no excuses. It's obviously not very good today,
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Speaker 7: so we got to be better.
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Speaker 2: Consider the Joe threw eight passes for t Higgins and
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Speaker 2: didn't complete any of them. He threw nine for Jamar
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Speaker 2: Chase and completed five for thirty nine yards. And Chase
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Speaker 2: is now public enemy number one in Cleveland after making
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Speaker 2: a crack about the Browns fifty yard line ELF logo
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Speaker 2: last week that was turned into bulletin board material. I
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Speaker 2: was among the reporters who talked to Chase after the game.
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Speaker 2: We're not accustomed to seeing the offense struggle to the
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Speaker 2: extent that it to today. How would you describe today's game?
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Speaker 3: Went too good on offensives. I fell into some conditions
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Speaker 3: who weren't ready for for real, so they got to
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Speaker 3: be ready to execute the next time.
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Speaker 2: Conditions as in weather yep? Did you just feel flat?
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Speaker 2: How would you describe how it felt out there?
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Speaker 3: None just was going always for real. We had good
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Speaker 3: Lott Hag opportunities they play man, I mean, we had
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Speaker 3: good looks. We just didn't execute on'em.
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Speaker 2: Jill missed about five weeks. Were you guys are little
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Speaker 2: out of sink?
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Speaker 3: Probably that's probably what it was. Probably that, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, I don't, don't. Nobody really knows to
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Speaker 3: we look at the film. You gotta execute. I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: keep blaming that on the conditions, but that's what they
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Speaker 3: looked like for us and play.
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Speaker 8: Do you think the offense was just out of sync
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Speaker 8: aside from the other the just things that normally don't
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Speaker 8: happen for all happened.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't get a lot of stuff going
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Speaker 3: our way, you know what I'm saying. We had a
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Speaker 3: couple of drop passes on boats on our end, which
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Speaker 3: was getting rested a couple of times. They just didn't
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Speaker 3: execute when we had the looks.
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Speaker 5: What about their defense? They seemed to be real aggressive
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Speaker 5: in what they were doing in terms of pressure and coverage.
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Speaker 5: With was the weather of factor there? Did you decide
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Speaker 5: to get more aggressive?
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Speaker 3: Do you think the game plan for what they defense
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Speaker 3: what we had we already was expecting it. They did
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Speaker 3: exactly what we was expecting. Like I said, we just
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Speaker 3: didn't take advantage of the opportunities that they gave us.
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Speaker 9: More exact said after the game that this was not you,
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Speaker 9: This performance was not this team. Yeah, what do you
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Speaker 9: think when you put your finger on why you guys
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Speaker 9: just worked yourselves today.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if he I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 3: know how to answer that.
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Speaker 1: Bro.
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Speaker 9: Honestly, we saw this team last year started to go
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Speaker 9: and too, and you guys still in the AC Championship.
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Speaker 9: We know slow starts are going to derail the season,
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Speaker 9: which is how frustrating is it to have the build
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Speaker 9: up start the season to come here and.
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Speaker 10: Not play well.
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Speaker 3: It's frustrating because I called the ass l's and we
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Speaker 3: just lost to some ls. So I'm pissed on my party.
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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm pissed on that. And like I said, man,
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Speaker 3: we got missed opportunities. We didn't capitalize on that and
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Speaker 3: we lost. So that's how we lost. John, I guess.
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Speaker 8: Bullet and more Maiturion with all the el stuff and
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Speaker 8: all that, what do you what did you make of
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Speaker 8: all that?
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Speaker 10: Did you drop the league?
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Speaker 5: Made up?
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Speaker 3: He just want to have some attention, so he just
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 7: How prepared are you for the for the blowback that
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Speaker 7: might come with the comments you made and then the
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Speaker 7: result of this game.
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Speaker 3: We'll blow back. I mean, did you say, if he
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Speaker 3: got me saying something I'm saying right now, he's soft.
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Speaker 3: If they soft with me saying l's and that the soft.
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Speaker 2: Then there's a gigantic ELF in the middle of the
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Speaker 2: field in Cleveland. It's not like Chase just randomly called
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Speaker 2: the Browns elves. But whatever, Cleveland won the game, their players, coaches,
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Speaker 2: and fans get to gloat until they meet again in
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Speaker 2: the final game of the regular season. Meanwhile, the Bengals
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Speaker 2: overcame an zero and two start last year, but they
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Speaker 2: can ill afford another one. Here are Burrow, Orlando Brown Junior,
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Speaker 2: and Tyler Boyd.
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Speaker 7: Week one doesn't define anybody's season. Obviously, not very good
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Speaker 7: out there, but anybody that watched saw that. But we've
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Speaker 7: been in the spot before. We've come back stronger and
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Speaker 7: had great years. So that's what we're going to do.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I don't want to use the word frustration.
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Speaker 5: Then it's definitely disappointing, but at the end of the day,
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Speaker 5: that's football, and it's not always going to be perfect,
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Speaker 5: you know what.
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Speaker 4: I mean, It's it's other games and we'll have other
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Speaker 4: opportunities to prove ourselves right, because I think overall we
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Speaker 4: played great difference heck of a game offense. We started
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Speaker 4: getting things going, but we never got consistent at moving
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Speaker 4: the ball. And say whatever you want about the weather,
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Speaker 4: but Day was out there making plays. The Browns made
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Speaker 4: plays enough plays to win SAM So we didn't make
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Speaker 4: enough play. That's what it gonna come down.
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Speaker 7: So it's one week obviously not up to our standard,
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Speaker 7: not up to my standard, but you got sixteen more
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Speaker 7: of them, so we're it's gonna keep trucking.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of trucking, Brown's running back Nick Chubb finished with
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Speaker 2: one hundred and six yards on eighteen carries in ten
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Speaker 2: career games against the Bengals. He's top to one hundred
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Speaker 2: yards six times. There aren't many running backs that have
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Speaker 2: that much success when DJ Reider is on the field
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Speaker 2: for Cincinnati. I spoke to the Bengals defensive tackle about
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Speaker 2: the dismal opener. I'm sure that was the total opposite
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Speaker 2: of what everybody in this room expected. You just came
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Speaker 2: out and really couldn't see it to get much going,
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Speaker 2: particularly in the offensive end.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we came out we were a little
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Speaker 6: flat this was the team in general.
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Speaker 5: But that's tough for you. Got to get back to.
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Speaker 6: The drawing board. I know it's such a cliche you're saying.
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Speaker 6: I hate saying that obviously, but we got I'm not
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Speaker 6: going to to do a thing a lot of guys.
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Speaker 6: I'm in our team. On our team, that good guys
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Speaker 6: played a.
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Speaker 1: Lot of good balls.
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Speaker 6: So I mean, we not tripping off.
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Speaker 5: Who we are.
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Speaker 6: We just gotta go out there and do it. The
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Speaker 6: guys can't start flat.
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Speaker 2: Is it fair to wonder if the Bengals need to
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Speaker 2: change the preseason approach and play some guys more. Do
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Speaker 2: you think that's a factor at all.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if that's it. I think it's more
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Speaker 6: so like you know, if you don't, I know.
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Speaker 5: You need the reps.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 6: I know people talk about that, but the fu Yeah,
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Speaker 6: you wake up on Sunday, it's snow, the grass, everybody's
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Speaker 6: ready to go. I don't think that's the thing, Like
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Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Oh, we blame it on
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Speaker 6: There is language. Nobody has like a what happened? We
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Speaker 6: came out flat? We got meat? They need us? How
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Speaker 6: goes sometimes?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 6: And unfortunately that's how it's going on our opening the
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Speaker 6: last couple of years, so we just we gotta really
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Speaker 6: get on it.
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Speaker 2: The touchdown late in the first half, did you feel
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Speaker 2: like that was a a a big momentum swing for
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Speaker 2: Cavelent It was three nothing at the.
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Speaker 6: Time, Nah, cause we came out and gotta stop. So
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Speaker 6: I don't. I wouldn't call it that, you know what
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Speaker 6: I'm saying, like, Oh, it's just the end of the world.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 6: We came out and gotta stop three out the next
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Speaker 6: So I didn't think it was a big momentium shift.
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Speaker 6: I think, well, we just didn't do it. His great
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Speaker 6: guy and they got put in some tough spots and
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Speaker 6: didn't find a way out of them, you know, So
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Speaker 6: that's just really what happened.
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Speaker 5: I don't.
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Speaker 6: I don't think that that kind of that moment was
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Speaker 6: the momentum shift.
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Speaker 2: You didn't play in the game here last year, but
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Speaker 2: the Bengals obviously have had a lot of trouble in
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Speaker 2: this building. Is it frustrating to come here and just
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Speaker 2: play poorly again things.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's really frustrating. You never wanna go anywhere and
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Speaker 6: play powardly. We talk like you didn't start riding fortunately
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Speaker 6: in our division. We'll get to see him twice, so
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Speaker 6: we gotta come to us next. You can't really gotta
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Speaker 6: scrap this game, you know, I can't really think.
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Speaker 10: About it anymore.
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Speaker 2: We know with this offense, it's only a matter of
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Speaker 2: time before they get it rolling. Is it almost hard
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Speaker 2: to believe when they struggle as badly as they struggle today, you.
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Speaker 6: Know what they're used to and you know, we just
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Speaker 6: go out there encourage them to get back to that
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Speaker 6: and they'll get back to it. It's not it's definitely
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Speaker 6: different when they don't, you know, but get that people
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Speaker 6: out of the days. Man, it happens, and you can't
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Speaker 6: expect you to be perfect every day. Fortunately, might this
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Speaker 6: lead it expect you to be perfect other Sunday And
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Speaker 6: I just wentting this Sunday. So guys gotta get back
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Speaker 6: to the daring board. I think a lot of guys
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Speaker 6: pride Hurst got it, so I think it would be
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Speaker 6: a good thing for us. You know, we've been able
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Speaker 6: to bat it out of this back against the wall
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Speaker 6: the last two years, so we'll be able to get it.
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Speaker 2: Does appreciate your time, Thank you to out no Doubt.
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Speaker 2: to say after the game, as he spent a couple
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Speaker 2: of minutes with Dave Lapham coach.
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Speaker 5: Obviously, twenty four to three outcome wasn't what you were
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Speaker 5: looking for, but coming out of this football game, just
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Speaker 5: the good news just seemed to come out of it
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Speaker 5: pretty darn healthy.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll look at that, but obviously we want to
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Speaker 8: come out of here with a win and healthy. You know.
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Speaker 8: But it's a long season, so we got to make
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Speaker 8: the corrections that we can control and be ready to
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Speaker 8: go next weekend's Baltimore.
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Speaker 5: In your mind, what are some of those corrections that
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Speaker 5: you feel like need to be made that you can't control.
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Speaker 8: There's gonna be a lot of hidden yardage in just
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Speaker 8: all over the field, you know that presented us with
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Speaker 8: field position and then third down clearly on offense, we
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Speaker 8: were two fifteen or three fifteen, and that's that's not
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Speaker 8: going to beat anybody. So there's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 8: of things we can.
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Speaker 5: Clean up defensively, particularly in the first half. Two takeaways.
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Speaker 5: You didn't turn the football over, you went plus two.
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Speaker 5: You know, that's that's going to win you some football
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Speaker 5: games when other things are ironed out.
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Speaker 8: There's no question, you know they did. They did what
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Speaker 8: we needed them to do, and we went for on
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Speaker 8: fourth down in their territory and they gave up seven
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Speaker 8: points right after that, had the two turnovers. They really
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Speaker 8: had field position working against some of the entire game
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Speaker 8: and held up for us well. So you know, I
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Speaker 8: thought that there was there was a lot of winning
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Speaker 8: things that are defense did today.
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Speaker 5: If I'm not mistaken, I think Joe put a glove on.
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Speaker 5: I mean, what was it that bat out there with
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Speaker 5: that reign. I mean, if it's just drizzling a little
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Speaker 5: bit that can make a football Darren slick with that
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Speaker 5: rozin on it.
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Speaker 8: It was as bad as as we've had since I've
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Speaker 8: been here, you know. So that's an element that factors
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Speaker 8: into the game. And we got to be ready for
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Speaker 8: as team and start to adjust and again win on
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Speaker 8: those little small thrings in all three phases to help
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Speaker 8: ourselves and just didn't do good enough job of that today.
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Speaker 5: Did Cleveland do anything defensively that surprised you at all,
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Speaker 5: or they were very aggressive in their posture on just
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Speaker 5: about everything they did.
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Speaker 8: I guess, yeah, sure, and you should be. You know,
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Speaker 8: they're the first half when it gets wet and it's
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Speaker 8: gonna be hard to throw it and we're gonna have
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Speaker 8: to lean on the run game. So they did a
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Speaker 8: good job of that stuff.
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Speaker 5: So now as you get ready for the for the
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Speaker 5: Baltimore Ravens, you get them at home. And I mean,
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Speaker 5: what did you tell your football team in the locker
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Speaker 5: room right after this football game?
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Speaker 8: We got to clean this thing up tomorrow, put this
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Speaker 8: one behind us, and be ready to see the team
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Speaker 8: that we know we are next week when we play
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Speaker 8: Baltimore at home.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you're exactly right. I mean, the last two
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Speaker 5: years this team went to the Super Bowl, went to
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Speaker 5: the SC Championship Game, and last in Cleveland both years.
17:52
Speaker 5: I mean, it's not like you don't throw the baby
17:54
Speaker 5: out with the bathwater, right.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. People will make a lot of it because it's
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Speaker 8: Week one and there's been a lot of focus on
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Speaker 8: this game, but again, we know that this can be
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Speaker 8: a long season and we just got to put it
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Speaker 8: behind us and make the corrections and get ready for
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Speaker 8: next week.
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Speaker 2: A home game against the Ravens is coming up next.
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Speaker 2: Baltimore opened the season with a twenty five to nine
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Speaker 2: win over the Houston Texans, and it was a tough
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Speaker 2: weekend for football fans in Pittsburgh. The pitt Panthers lost
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Speaker 2: a home game to the UC Bearcats on Saturday night,
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Speaker 2: and the following afternoon on the same field, the Steelers
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Speaker 2: lost to the San Francisco forty nine Ers thirty to seven.
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Speaker 2: Before we get to this week's fun Facts interview, here
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Speaker 2: are a couple of takeaways from Sunday's loss. Number One.
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Speaker 2: People are not going to want to hear this, but
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Speaker 2: I am more concerned about how good the Browns looked
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Speaker 2: than how bad the Bengals looked. Joe Burrow and the
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Speaker 2: Bengals will bounce back, they always do, but the Browns
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Speaker 2: looked like they are going to be formidable in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three. Deshaun Watson didn't throw the ball very well,
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Speaker 2: but if he continues to improve and gives the Browns
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Speaker 2: solid quarterback play this year, they'd be tough to beat
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Speaker 2: in the AFC North. The strong up front on both
19:04
Speaker 2: sides of the ball, have really good cornerbacks and one
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Speaker 2: of the best running backs on the planet. I didn't
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Speaker 2: see a glaring weakness on Sunday. Observation two. Did not
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Speaker 2: playing the offensive starters in the preseason lead to another
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Speaker 2: lousy opener. It's impossible to say for sure, but Zach
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Speaker 2: Taylor is no dummy, and I don't think he's stubborn.
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Speaker 2: It's probably worth changing the preseason plan just a bit
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Speaker 2: to at least try something different. Then again, if Joe
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Speaker 2: Burrow hadn't strained his calf in the second practice of
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Speaker 2: training camp, the offense might have put thirty five points
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Speaker 2: on the board. Observation number three. If the new starting
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Speaker 2: safeties were the biggest question mark going into the season,
19:46
Speaker 2: I thought they got off to a great start. Dax
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Speaker 2: Hill had an interception and six tackles, including two for losses,
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Speaker 2: and Nick Scott tied for the team leaden tackles with eleven,
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Speaker 2: guest this week is Bengals President Mike Brown, and I
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Speaker 2: should point out that our conversation was recorded before the
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Speaker 2: team's record setting contract extension with Joe Burrow. Here's Mike, Mike.
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Speaker 2: This is the Bengals fifty sixth season. Joe Burrow's got
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Speaker 2: three years of experience under his belt. Your coaching staff
20:44
Speaker 2: is in its fifth year together. Basically, I don't see
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Speaker 2: any glaring weaknesses on the roster. Does this year feel
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Speaker 2: different to you in terms of expectations.
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Speaker 10: I know better than to have expectations. We've played well
20:59
Speaker 10: the last two years. We had good teams. We went
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Speaker 10: to the Super Bowl, too, AFC championship games, and we
21:07
Speaker 10: won the divisional title back to back. That's pretty good
21:12
Speaker 10: recognition that we had a good team. But when you
21:16
Speaker 10: look forward, you have to be careful not to claim
21:23
Speaker 10: too much. You have to go out and do it again.
21:26
Speaker 10: You have to prove it over. It's never easy. Those
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Speaker 10: other teams they think that they're just as good or better,
21:36
Speaker 10: And I know we have good teams in the division
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Speaker 10: to contend with. It will be a real challenge, but
21:47
Speaker 10: I also know that we have a pretty good base
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Speaker 10: to start after it.
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Speaker 2: It's not in your nature to make bold proclamations. Was
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Speaker 2: your dad the same way, Oh?
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Speaker 10: He was much more so. He used to as a
22:05
Speaker 10: coach always make sure that if they won a game,
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Speaker 10: that was a great victory and everyone should recognize. It
22:15
Speaker 10: is the case that some of the people in the NFL,
22:18
Speaker 10: the league, they go out and beat their own tub,
22:25
Speaker 10: hoping that people won't come. I've seen that done by
22:30
Speaker 10: some very successfully for some reason. When they go down,
22:37
Speaker 10: it's been so long since they were bragging about their
22:40
Speaker 10: future that hardly anyone remembers it. But to me, that
22:45
Speaker 10: would be embarrassing. And I was raised by my father
22:48
Speaker 10: to the less you say, the better.
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Speaker 2: Your daughter, Katie has been praised league wide for her
22:55
Speaker 2: ability to manage the salary cap. Are you amazed by
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Speaker 2: her grasp of a very complicated matter?
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Speaker 10: Well, I know, Katie, I'm not amazed. She was a
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Speaker 10: math major and an economics major in college. She's quite
23:16
Speaker 10: bright enough. She can figure that stuff out. Sometimes I
23:22
Speaker 10: think she thinks I'm too dumb to understand it. But anyway,
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Speaker 10: I rely on her, the team countseling her to handle this.
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Speaker 2: The NFL is approaching twenty billion dollars a year in
23:36
Speaker 2: annual revenue. What do you make of the popularity and
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Speaker 2: scope of the NFL in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 10: Well, I can't count to twenty billion, But I don't
23:49
Speaker 10: think about the money. I honestly got down. I just
23:53
Speaker 10: think about having it run the right way. That means
23:57
Speaker 10: you win. It means you people behave and live the
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Speaker 10: way they should and are part of the community. It
24:06
Speaker 10: means you keep the contentious stuff restrained, and money seems
24:13
Speaker 10: to have a way of being contentious. The less said
24:18
Speaker 10: about it, the better. As far as I'm concerned, Let's
24:20
Speaker 10: just focus on the games. That's what people really are
24:23
Speaker 10: interested in.
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Speaker 2: You've been known over the years to read and respond
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Speaker 2: to the letters sent to you. We're living in an
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Speaker 2: email world. Now do you still get letters and respond
24:34
Speaker 2: to them?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 10: I do. Just a short while ago, lady that I
24:41
Speaker 10: wrote back to said, well, you like maps, so here
24:45
Speaker 10: here's a map, and it's a map of the settlement
24:50
Speaker 10: of Ohio. And how that was, how that went forward,
24:55
Speaker 10: and it's really quite fun for me to look at it.
24:58
Speaker 10: I do like it. Also sent a book to read.
25:02
Speaker 10: I hesitated getting books from people because I like to
25:06
Speaker 10: pick my own. But anyway, yes, I correspond to people
25:12
Speaker 10: and occasionally I run aground, but more often not it
25:17
Speaker 10: works out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, the NFL allows cameras everywhere. In this day and age,
25:23
Speaker 2: we've got hard knocks. Netflix recently had a multi part
25:27
Speaker 2: quarterback show that was very entertaining. Do you watch any
25:30
Speaker 2: of that.
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Speaker 10: Stuff less than I probably should? I watched some of
25:36
Speaker 10: When we were on the Hard Knock Show. It got
25:43
Speaker 10: to be a trial. You'd be in your office and
25:46
Speaker 10: these guys would just march right in and PLoP down
25:51
Speaker 10: and take pictures of whatever you were doing. Then a
25:56
Speaker 10: lot of it. Most stuff with me just got cut
25:59
Speaker 10: out because there wasn't anything that anyone wanted to say.
26:03
Speaker 10: But it could be Oh, I wouldn't say annoying, surprising.
26:09
Speaker 10: Let us say you knew what was going on, so
26:11
Speaker 10: you had to be ready to handle it. But it
26:16
Speaker 10: was it was different.
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Speaker 2: We're having this conversation just before the beginning of training camp,
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Speaker 2: which obviously takes place across the street from pay Course Stadium.
26:28
Speaker 2: Do you miss going to places like Wilmington and Georgetown?
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Speaker 10: I do. I happened to like the old ways. I
26:37
Speaker 10: don't know at this stage whether I would be up
26:41
Speaker 10: to it, but training camp had a way about it
26:47
Speaker 10: that was integral to the life, the football life, and
26:55
Speaker 10: it was fun to be around the players. And quite honestly,
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Speaker 10: if you talk to the old ones, they liked it.
27:04
Speaker 10: They talk about what they did at training camp and
27:09
Speaker 10: the pranks they played on each other and stuff like that.
27:15
Speaker 10: It's conducive to wonderful memories. I'll say that. Yet I
27:20
Speaker 10: like this way too. It's certainly nice to be able
27:25
Speaker 10: to go home at night and we're right across the
27:29
Speaker 10: street from the practice field. It's good for the people
27:34
Speaker 10: here in Cincinnati. They can come down and watch if
27:37
Speaker 10: they choose. So there are a lot of pluses to
27:41
Speaker 10: having it the way it is now.
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Speaker 2: We've all heard the staying patience is a virtue. Many
27:47
Speaker 2: of your fellow owners aren't very patient with their coaching staffs.
27:50
Speaker 2: You historically have been. Do you feel like you were
27:54
Speaker 2: rewarded with your patients. For Zach Taylor and seeing how
27:56
Speaker 2: he's grown, was acs.
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Speaker 10: An excellent coach. The first two years here were hard.
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Speaker 10: He was a young coach. He's probably getting hold of himself,
28:07
Speaker 10: but it took a while for him to put the
28:11
Speaker 10: team together the way it worked for him, and I
28:17
Speaker 10: think that's been accomplished. We have some good players. The
28:21
Speaker 10: problem going forwards will be to how do we keep
28:25
Speaker 10: the good players enough of them? That's what I worry
28:29
Speaker 10: about these days. Zach has proven himself. If you have
28:36
Speaker 10: a coaching record like his, where you go to a
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Speaker 10: super Bowl, where you go to a couple of AFC
28:43
Speaker 10: championship games and win the division back to back, you
28:47
Speaker 10: have proven your merit.
28:51
Speaker 2: Part of the fun of being a sports fan are
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Speaker 2: the rivalries. Who do you consider at the Bengals' biggest
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Speaker 2: rival these days?
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Speaker 10: Whoever we play next? But our natural rival is Cleveland,
29:08
Speaker 10: But somehow Cleveland has drifted off to consider the Steelers
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Speaker 10: their natural rival Baltimore and we pound on each other
29:18
Speaker 10: pretty good, yet we're sort of far away. And now
29:26
Speaker 10: Kansas City Mahomes told Joe that I guess we were
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Speaker 10: going to have a rivalry or something like that, So
29:36
Speaker 10: now we have another one to be a rival with.
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Speaker 2: You said to reporters earlier today, this is a time
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Speaker 2: for Cincinnati sports to shine. Clearly, you're cognizant of the Reds'
29:50
Speaker 2: recent success. I know how closely follow the Reds, but
29:52
Speaker 2: also FC Cincinnati. You see going to the Big twelve
29:55
Speaker 2: xavior basketball's historical success. You seem to be kind of
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Speaker 2: caught up in all of it.
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Speaker 10: Well, it's quite extraordinary. A lot's going on in Cincinnati
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Speaker 10: in sports, good things, and I think that this adds
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Speaker 10: to the life here in town. I like sports. I
30:18
Speaker 10: think a lot of men doing women as well. It
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Speaker 10: just lifts the spirits of the community when it goes right,
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Speaker 10: and right now it looks like it's going right.
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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to pick your brain. Appreciate the time.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Mike, good to be with you. That's going to
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