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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast. The big time addition is Joe Burrow,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd and Jamar Chase put up huge numbers in
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Speaker 1: a thirty five seventeen win over the Falcons. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: you'll hear radio replays, one on one interviews and analysis
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Speaker 1: for my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's
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Speaker 1: a cold and am vocally challenged this week, so let's
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Speaker 1: get right to the radio replays from the bengals most
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Speaker 1: dominant performance of the year. Burrowing the gun Mixon to
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Speaker 1: his right thanks to Joe Mixon. Burrow throwing deep Donald
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Speaker 1: of the field, the boy over the shoulder catch at
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Speaker 1: the sixty and he streaks into the end zone. Touchdown
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Speaker 1: Bengals as Joe Burrow floats a perfect ball down the
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Speaker 1: middle of the field sixty yards for a touchdown to
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Speaker 1: Tyler Boy. Broken coverage by the Atlanta Falcons, the Bengals
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Speaker 1: bring in a sixth offensive lineman Hakimadnagy. Third down and
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Speaker 1: goal balls between the one and the two. Burrows under center.
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Speaker 1: Joe takes the snap, hands it to Mixon, fings to
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Speaker 1: the left, lowers the shoulder, pads hand. He's in touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Bengals nice fourteen nothing Cincinnati, forty nine seconds left in
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Speaker 1: the first quarter. Play action Pike Burrow throws a one
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Speaker 1: handed catch by Tyler Boy. He spikes the ball after
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Speaker 1: making the catch at the forty four of Atlanta Tyler
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Speaker 1: Boy show time. Burrow catches the shotgun snap. He's back
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Speaker 1: to throw. He's gonna throw it high and deep for
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Speaker 1: Chase Tomah has the ball. It is a touchdown. He
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Speaker 1: knocks over the python and holds down to the ball.
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Speaker 1: Three drives, three touchdowns for Joe Burrow and the Bengals.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Joe Burrow is now fourteen for sixteen
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Speaker 1: for getting close to two undred and fifty yards and
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Mariota one for three for two yards. Oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness. Now Burrow throws toward the left side back
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Speaker 1: shoulder throw. Chase makes the cuts. The feet me Chase up.
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Speaker 1: Chase is unsuccessful up forty one yard touchdown. The Bengals
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Speaker 1: four td in four first half drives. Two touchdowns have too.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow has thrown one for sixty. He's throw one
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Speaker 1: for forty one. I mean Jamar Chase gets to top
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Speaker 1: speed in two steps. He is so explosive. The veteran
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Speaker 1: quarterback catches the shotgun snap under pressure, Hendrickson with a
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Speaker 1: sack at the twenty two yard line. Second and goal
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Speaker 1: quarterback sneak Joe Burrow. The officials come marching up the
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Speaker 1: goal line. No signal yet, Sure, look he is in.
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Speaker 1: There's the signal. Touchdown on the quarterback sneak, and the
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Speaker 1: Bengals have gone up and over thirty for the second
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Speaker 1: week in a row. Mariota back to pass on third Pham,
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Speaker 1: he is sacked Sam Hubbard at the thirty five yard line.
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Speaker 1: Marriotas set catches the shotgun snap, retreats in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: gets hit, and Joseph Osi has his first NFL sacked.
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Speaker 1: Nice Burrow catches a high snap quarterback draw. It works.
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Speaker 1: He's to the forty five and tackled from behind at
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Speaker 1: the forty eight, a twenty yard run for Joe Burrow,
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Speaker 1: and he says, why not, I mean, there's no been
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Speaker 1: a linebacker once he gets past the defensive mind, there's
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Speaker 1: no been a linebacker. He's gonna lead blocker. And Ted Carriss,
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Speaker 1: who's taken him to the safety level. I mean, just unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: And Bean pas in the in the Atlanta Falcon defense
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Speaker 1: scratching their heads now saying whatever we do is wrong.
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Speaker 1: Number nine proves us wrong. He has the answers to
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Speaker 1: the test before the plan folds. The final score Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: thirty five, Atlanta seventeen. For the second straight week, Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow had three touchdown passes, one touchdown run, and no interceptions.
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Speaker 1: His passer rating was one thirty eight point two. After
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Speaker 1: the game, Dave Lapham talked to Burrow and Boyd together.
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Speaker 1: Joe thirty four forty two, four hundred and eighty one yards,
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns passing, You rush for one, Tyler Boyd, you
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Speaker 1: had a personal high eight catches, one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: five yards and a touchdown. What did you guys see?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you spread them out? Was it just take completions?
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Speaker 1: Or what. Yeah, they got into base defense, put initial
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Speaker 1: deal lineman in the game, and so we started going
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Speaker 1: empty and there was a lot of space out there
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Speaker 1: to complete to the guys, and they made the rest
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Speaker 1: happen after the catch. So, Tyler, what you were working
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Speaker 1: the middle of the football field like a magician like
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Speaker 1: you always do. What were you seeing? Ah Man, just
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Speaker 1: the same thing again. We got that we get you know,
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Speaker 1: and and we're so comfortable, uh known and now and
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Speaker 1: seeing it. We made our adjustment weekend we got during
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Speaker 1: during a weekend, they finally thrown a hit and work
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Speaker 1: for us. So you had you had Chase had eight
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Speaker 1: catches one hundred and thirty, Tyler had eight one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty five, Tea Higgins five for ninety three. You
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Speaker 1: almost had three receivers with one hundred yards receiver. And
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Speaker 1: that's being like a point guard distributing the ball. Man. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we were trying to get t to one hundred. It
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Speaker 1: couldn't quite make it happen, but I mean that's that's
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Speaker 1: how you wanted to be distributing the ball defense telling
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Speaker 1: me but not predetermining. So that's what I tried to
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Speaker 1: strive for. It. Let me ask both of you guys,
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Speaker 1: third down, your lead the NFL coming into the game
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Speaker 1: on third down quarterback rating today it was first down
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Speaker 1: though all three of your touchdowns thirty two yard or
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Speaker 1: forty one yard, sixty yard or to Tyler or on
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Speaker 1: first down you had three other receptions for over twenty
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Speaker 1: yards on first down. You guys were killing them on
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Speaker 1: first down? What was it? We had a great plan
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Speaker 1: coming in coach and did a great job. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's why you'd want to be You don't want to
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Speaker 1: be in third downs. That's when defenses, you know, try
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Speaker 1: to make their money. So you try to make it
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Speaker 1: happen on first and second down. That's what we did today.
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Speaker 1: What did you see, Tyler? Did you see a lot
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Speaker 1: of opportunity when you lined up on first down? It's like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's coming to me. Yeah. A lot of the times,
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Speaker 1: you know, based off the look that they give us
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Speaker 1: and then they run a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: base to our eleven. So that's where we take advantage
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Speaker 1: of our opportunity. That's why we you know, stayed in
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Speaker 1: and kept continue to throw the ball because we had
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Speaker 1: to Mitch mess look every single time. You guys both
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Speaker 1: said that this team offensively is finding an identity, and
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Speaker 1: it seems to be the case. Two weeks in a row,
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Speaker 1: thirty points from war. I mean, now, if if you guys,
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Speaker 1: since two thousand and then you guys scored twenty five
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Speaker 1: points from where you're sixty two six sixty two wins,
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Speaker 1: six losses and two ties, I mean twenty five points
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Speaker 1: the magic number. Man, Yeah, I mean, it's always been
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Speaker 1: thirty for me. Usually if we get usually if we
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Speaker 1: get thirty, you're not losing, and then throw for four hundred,
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Speaker 1: you're not losing. It's always good. Appreciate it, guys. Thanks.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the Bengals have had three one hundred
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Speaker 1: yard receivers in the same game once in their history
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Speaker 1: October seventh, nineteen ninety, when James Brooks, Rodney Holman, and
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Speaker 1: Tim McGee top the century mark in an overtime win
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Speaker 1: Bengals dominated most of the game. The Falcons had a
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Speaker 1: long touchdown drive in the second quarter, followed by a
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Speaker 1: seventy five yard touchdown pass, But on their other six
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Speaker 1: possessions that began in their own territory, the Falcons punted
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Speaker 1: on all six. Joseph Osa, who missed his rookie year
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Speaker 1: due to injuries, had his first NFL sack, and I
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Speaker 1: talked to him about it after the game. I did
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Speaker 1: it feels uh. First of all, I want to say,
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Speaker 1: I want to say thank God. Without him, nothing is
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Speaker 1: Without him, nothing is possible. I want to say, uh,
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Speaker 1: thanking to my teammates, my family, my coaches with trusting
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Speaker 1: and believing in me. It's awesome. UF, it feels amazing.
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Speaker 1: It feels great. I feel like I'm find I was
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Speaker 1: finally able to contribute to the team. And that's all
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Speaker 1: I've ever wanted to, just prove myself to these guys
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Speaker 1: that I can play. Your teammates went nuts after that sack.
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Speaker 1: It's fun to see. I appreciate them. I got a
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Speaker 1: lot of support from them. I had a lot of
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Speaker 1: love from them, and I got a lot of love
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Speaker 1: for them. So it was It's awesome. It was great.
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Speaker 1: I've leared than the seventy five yard touchdown pass that
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Speaker 1: the Falcons got with less than a minute ago in
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Speaker 1: the second quarter. I thought the defense overall played extremely well.
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Speaker 1: What did you think? I think? I think we played
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Speaker 1: a great tun Uh. You know, we're a team that's
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Speaker 1: always looking for for things to clean up and ways
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Speaker 1: to get better, And no matter how great we played,
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Speaker 1: there's always things to fix. And that's what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna enjoy this win today and then we're gonna
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Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board and fix the things
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Speaker 1: we need to fix. I think one of the big
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Speaker 1: storylines going into the game was could you stop that
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Speaker 1: running game without DJ Raider, without Josh Too, but without
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Speaker 1: Logan Wilson. They ran it well on one drive, but
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Speaker 1: that was it. Yeah, that's that's created those interior guys,
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Speaker 1: j to Fele, you know, Tyler Shelvin, Big bj Um,
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Speaker 1: bj Hill, the Zach Carter, them guys just stepping up
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Speaker 1: and um, they've been patiently watching behind those those leaders
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Speaker 1: you mentioned being out and um they did a good
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Speaker 1: job of filling in and stopping that run. And we
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Speaker 1: really we really used it, We really needed it. Were
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Speaker 1: you able to watch Joe Burrow on this video board
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Speaker 1: or while you're on the sideline at all, because it
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Speaker 1: was quite a shell. Yeah, we were, we were, we were.
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Speaker 1: We took a little glimpse here and there in between
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Speaker 1: trying to trying to make some sideline adjustments. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: he he's amazing. Zeza breaking start certainly is. Now. Here's
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Speaker 1: one more one on one conversation as Lap spend three
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Speaker 1: minutes with Zach Taylor after the win. Coach, your quarterback
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Speaker 1: throws for four and eighty one yards complete thirty four
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Speaker 1: out of forty two, Chase eight catchers for one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty boyd eight catchers for a buck fifty five.
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Speaker 1: Chase had two touchdowns, Boydows one, then Higgins five for
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Speaker 1: ninety three almost three hundred yard receivers there and a
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Speaker 1: lot of the damage done on first down. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow leads the NFL and third down quarterback rating
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Speaker 1: today on first down. Oh my god, you guys were
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Speaker 1: in machine. We tried out to be greedy. We knew
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Speaker 1: that they had some injuries at dB going into the game,
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Speaker 1: and they suffered even more as the game went on,
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Speaker 1: So we wanted to make sure we didn't let him
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Speaker 1: off the hook with all the skill guys we got.
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Speaker 1: Joe did a great job operating, get down his hand quickly.
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Speaker 1: Let those guys get some yard after the catch. Five
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Speaker 1: of the six possessions against the Saint you scored, and
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Speaker 1: then the first four today you score nine out of ten.
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Speaker 1: That's a that's a run. That's hard to beat. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we got to keep proving ourselves. You know. It's
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Speaker 1: just because we did in one game doesn't mean it's
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Speaker 1: going to carry it to the next. Our guys obviously
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Speaker 1: have all confidence, but every every game brings a new challenge,
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Speaker 1: and our guys got to put in a great week
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Speaker 1: work to be ready for Cleveland the next next week.
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Speaker 1: Your defense shut them out in the second half, so
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Speaker 1: no touchdowns allowed obviously because they didn't allow any points,
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Speaker 1: but no touchdowns allowed in the second half after seven
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Speaker 1: NFL football games, that's pretty extraordinary. Allows us to get
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Speaker 1: our feet under us on offense and be efficient over
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Speaker 1: there knowing that our defense is gonna keep points off
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Speaker 1: the board. Man. Just a great job by lou and
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Speaker 1: his staff and the players believing in the system, stepping
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Speaker 1: up and making those plays. You start from your own
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Speaker 1: two yard line in that last possession, you drive all
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Speaker 1: the way down to basically their two yard line and basically,
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Speaker 1: you know, kneel on and sit on the football. How
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Speaker 1: gratifying is that to have that kind of a drive
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Speaker 1: to close it out. That's just how you want to finish,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's our defense had had done a great job.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to put them back out there. We
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Speaker 1: kind of had the sense that that's the way it
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Speaker 1: could go. If we're on the minus two, man might
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Speaker 1: be able to eat up nine minutes here and finish
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Speaker 1: on the ball. And then and then to even finish
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Speaker 1: it the way we did with one of our our players.
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Speaker 1: We work over and over. You never know when the
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Speaker 1: time is going to call for it. Hayden getting under
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Speaker 1: center and trying to draw them off side. He did
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Speaker 1: a great job of it. It was a great way
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Speaker 1: to finish the game. And finally, when you look at it,
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Speaker 1: how much better can this offense play? You're a you're
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Speaker 1: in a stretch right now, in a two game stretch,
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Speaker 1: that is pretty extraordinary. I mean, what do you what
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Speaker 1: do you tell your team when they're playing this, Well,
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Speaker 1: there's always things we can improve on, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: it's um, whether it's making sure we're better in short guardage, um,
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Speaker 1: not putting ourselves, you know, behind the eight ball and
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Speaker 1: third down. There's always things that we can clean up
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Speaker 1: to make sure we do a better job. We had
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Speaker 1: a couple of ements. It happened, U So there's always
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Speaker 1: things that we can point to and improve on so
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Speaker 1: that we can be a better offense than next week.
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Speaker 1: And your offense looks good, coach. You got a lot
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Speaker 1: of weapons, you got am all involved, you got a
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Speaker 1: quarterback that has the answers to the test, and you
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Speaker 1: called a hell of a football game. And that was
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Speaker 1: something to watch. It really was. It was a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun, you know, and so we just gotta keep
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Speaker 1: the momentum going, sir. Thanks Monday Night football in Cleveland
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Speaker 1: is up next. The Browns are two and five with
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Speaker 1: a four game losing streak after a three point loss
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Speaker 1: in Baltimore. The Bengals and Ravens share first place in
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Speaker 1: the AFC North at four and three. The Bengals Booth
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about Joe Burrow. It
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Speaker 1: was incredible today thirty four for forty two, four hundred
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Speaker 1: eighty one yards, three touchdowns, no picks. Also ran for
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Speaker 1: twenty one yards and a TD. I guess the Baltimore
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Speaker 1: game last year was better when he threw for five
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Speaker 1: to twenty five, but not by much, not by much.
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Speaker 1: And of course all the naysayers will say, oh, Baltimore
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Speaker 1: was beaten up, Atlanta's beaten up. I don't give it, damn.
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Speaker 1: I mean take advantage of it, and he did. And
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Speaker 1: you're thrown for a thousand yards basically in those two
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Speaker 1: football games. Thirty four for forty two, four hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty one yards, that's that's Those are stupid numbers. And
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Speaker 1: then to distribute the ball like a point guard for
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Speaker 1: the second straight week, you get you know, Chase says
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Speaker 1: eight catches, one hundred and thirty two touchdowns, Boyd has
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Speaker 1: eight four one hundred and fifty five a career high
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Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Higgins five for ninety three and both
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Speaker 1: tip the Boyd and Joe Barrow like I wish we
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Speaker 1: got t the hundred, you know, and they were close.
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Speaker 1: Would have been ninety nine yards if that one had stood,
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Speaker 1: but uh, you know it was. It was an extraordinary
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Speaker 1: performance and they were I asked him, you know about
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Speaker 1: first down. I said, you guys just shredded them on
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Speaker 1: first down. All your touchdowns, you know, from from distance
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Speaker 1: forty one sixty yard touchdown, twenty thirty two yard touchdown,
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Speaker 1: we're all in first down. And they said, you know,
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Speaker 1: playing those stoft zones like they were, we felt like
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Speaker 1: we could really attack. And you know, Atlanta had problems
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Speaker 1: obviously tackling people after the catches were made, so they
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Speaker 1: they definitely were deficient on the back end, and the
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Speaker 1: Bengals just spread them out instead. We're taking completions, and
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Speaker 1: you know, let's be aggressive, and let's start on first down.
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Speaker 1: Let's be as aggressive as we can on first down.
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Speaker 1: And they had three touchdowns on the board and the
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Speaker 1: only third down they faced was third and one where
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Speaker 1: they rushed it on that third down run for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: And they killed them on first down, and his second
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Speaker 1: down came about. They did a decent job on second down.
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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable to watch Joe Mixon wound up with
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Speaker 1: seventeen carries, so at the end of the day it
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Speaker 1: looked like he got the ball a lot, but really
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Speaker 1: much of that came really late. This is the second
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Speaker 1: week in a row where they basically said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we don't really have to run that much if they
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Speaker 1: can't stop the short passing game. Agreed, you know, and
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Speaker 1: you know that short passing game in a lot of cases,
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Speaker 1: the way this offensive starts, there's almost like an extension
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Speaker 1: of the running game. And Joe had a lot of
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Speaker 1: his carries on that last drive. They started the two
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Speaker 1: yard line, they drive all the way the length of
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Speaker 1: the football field, and they take a knee inside the
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Speaker 1: five yard line down on the other end. That's a
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Speaker 1: rewarding drive, you know, and Joe's part of that, putting
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Speaker 1: them in a meat grinder, you know, running the football
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Speaker 1: when necessary to hammere it in there and keep the
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Speaker 1: clock moving and all those sorts of things. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: the epitome of a drive to close out a game
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Speaker 1: is start from your own two yard line. When they
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Speaker 1: got a great punt and then the penalty that moved
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Speaker 1: it back to the two yard line, half the distance
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Speaker 1: to the goal penalty, and to just move the football
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Speaker 1: and never give it back to the Atlanta Falcons is
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Speaker 1: just a hell of a deal. So in the second quarter,
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Speaker 1: the Falcons had a great long drive sixteen plays, thirteen
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Speaker 1: of them were runs. They also had a seventy five
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Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass. They got a field goal after a
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Speaker 1: fifty seven yard punt return, but that was it for
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Speaker 1: their offense. Didn't score first, third, or fourth another game
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Speaker 1: with the Bengals defense does not give up a second
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Speaker 1: half touchdown, haven't allowed one yet this year. That's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: And I don't care in the NFL if you pitch
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Speaker 1: a shoutout for an a half, for an entire half,
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Speaker 1: they pitched the second half shut out. That's good stuff,
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Speaker 1: it really is. You know, I think you know complimentary
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Speaker 1: football is the name of the game there. But when
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Speaker 1: the defense, you know, this football team. The Falcons coming
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Speaker 1: into today's game, they only had twelve three and outs
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Speaker 1: on the season, few us in the league. The Bengals
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Speaker 1: had at least three that I can recall. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure if there was a fourth in there or not,
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Speaker 1: but you know, that's an average of two three and
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Speaker 1: outs for getting the Bengals exceeded that and it's not
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Speaker 1: like there were a ton of possessions. You know, during
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Speaker 1: the course of the football game, Atlanta punted a ton.
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Speaker 1: I mean they had to punt it like six times.
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Speaker 1: I think the Bengals only punted a couple of times.
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Speaker 1: That tells you how effective they were. But then against
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Speaker 1: the Saints, they've scored five of their last six drives,
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Speaker 1: and the first four drives in the first half today
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Speaker 1: they score touchdowns. I mean nine out of ten drives.
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Speaker 1: You're scoring points. That's hard to do in this league.
17:46
Speaker 1: And it's a heck of an accomplishment. You take a
17:48
Speaker 1: bowl of that one. The vibe I got from the
17:51
Speaker 1: players I talked to in the locker room after the
17:52
Speaker 1: game was this is what we should be doing. We
17:56
Speaker 1: put it together, start to finish for the first time
17:58
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, and I think, uh, you know, after
18:01
Speaker 1: the after the Saints game, you heard guys in the
18:04
Speaker 1: locker room saying, I think we're finding our identity. And
18:07
Speaker 1: then you know, during the course of the week, more
18:09
Speaker 1: and more guys weren't you know, we know what we
18:12
Speaker 1: are about now offensively again, and and we're finding a
18:15
Speaker 1: good identity. They are who do you stop? I mean,
18:20
Speaker 1: it is unbelievable, and all the receivers went off. But
18:23
Speaker 1: then hayden Hurst continues to just show so much toughness
18:27
Speaker 1: after catch. He's becoming a very quick fan favorite, you know,
18:30
Speaker 1: because of that physicality and the you know, I'm gonna
18:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do whatever it takes to get the extra inch,
18:36
Speaker 1: to make sure that I maximize every opportunity. And the
18:39
Speaker 1: fan base is already uh embracing hayden Hurst, no question.
18:43
Speaker 1: Six sketches for hayden Hurst in the game. Defensively at
18:46
Speaker 1: King Davis, Gaither stepped in, got most of the snaps
18:49
Speaker 1: that Logan Wilson would have normally had a linebacker led
18:51
Speaker 1: the team and tackles. Yeah, he did exactly what he
18:53
Speaker 1: should do. Um. And you know against a running team, UM,
18:58
Speaker 1: you know, defensive lineman, the main responsibilities keep the linebackers free, Uh,
19:03
Speaker 1: don't let don't let guys come off on double teams
19:05
Speaker 1: and allow the linebacker to scrape and to scrape at
19:08
Speaker 1: a very tight angle and uh and make plays coming downhill.
19:12
Speaker 1: And they did a great job of that. And I
19:14
Speaker 1: thought to fell played pretty well. Second game in a row,
19:16
Speaker 1: second game in a row. He's got he's got some
19:20
Speaker 1: quickness to him. I mean he had a couple of
19:21
Speaker 1: moves inside, like pass rush moves in a rundown distance
19:24
Speaker 1: where he was penetrating and he's a handful in there.
19:28
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's welcoming this opportunity to get a
19:31
Speaker 1: chance to play in the National Football League and he's
19:34
Speaker 1: maximizing it. That that's what you want out of your
19:36
Speaker 1: depth players. It's like, be ready and if the starter
19:40
Speaker 1: goes down, we don't want a big drop off. You know,
19:42
Speaker 1: we're not saying that you. We expect you to perform
19:44
Speaker 1: equal to the starter. He's a starter for a reason.
19:47
Speaker 1: But we don't expect to fall off the face of
19:48
Speaker 1: the earth with your performance either. You made the football
19:51
Speaker 1: team for a reason, you're a good football player. Step
19:53
Speaker 1: up and play like it. And guys are doing that.
19:56
Speaker 1: Not quite as big as his fellow Siman don't Peco,
19:59
Speaker 1: but big from the way down and hard to to
20:02
Speaker 1: move off the point you're right, and got that big,
20:05
Speaker 1: thick lower body, man. You know those those legs in
20:09
Speaker 1: the in the buttocks when they hunker down, man, it's
20:12
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, they can anchor. They've got anchor ability.
20:15
Speaker 1: It's like it's like a big anchor. It's an anchor
20:18
Speaker 1: off the Titanic. When the anchor man, it's hard to
20:20
Speaker 1: get those guys. It's hard to move him out of gaps,
20:23
Speaker 1: you know. But but along with that, when he does
20:26
Speaker 1: that swim move, you know, as an offensive lineman, it's like, hey,
20:28
Speaker 1: I gotta come off the ball and this guy. So
20:30
Speaker 1: now you start coming off the ball. And then as
20:31
Speaker 1: soon as he gets he has a feel that you're
20:34
Speaker 1: really overextended to come off the ball to try to
20:36
Speaker 1: get in, he'll give you that little swim move and
20:38
Speaker 1: you're often space, you're fliling away. Those guys are a load, man,
20:42
Speaker 1: They're hard to handle. So the Bengals have played on
20:45
Speaker 1: Thursday night, They've played on Sunday night. Now they'll play
20:47
Speaker 1: on Monday night next week on the road Monday in Cleveland.
20:50
Speaker 1: The Browns still during the phase of the season where
20:53
Speaker 1: they won't have Deshaun Watson Jacobi Prisette at quarterback. He's
20:57
Speaker 1: been okay, but obviously it's a Brown's team that's led
21:00
Speaker 1: by a tremendous offensive line and running game led by
21:03
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb. Yeah, in the in the running game, it's
21:06
Speaker 1: number one in the league, and it's more of your
21:08
Speaker 1: conventional traditional running game. You know, they've got a two
21:11
Speaker 1: headed monster at the at the running back position. But
21:14
Speaker 1: Chubb leads the league and coming into today this weekend's
21:17
Speaker 1: activity in terms of carries and yards and yards per
21:21
Speaker 1: attempt based on you know, fifty carries and more or
21:24
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. Uh, non quarterback who might
21:28
Speaker 1: have a better average per carry. But also I think
21:31
Speaker 1: he had seven rushing touchdowns coming into this weekend's activity,
21:34
Speaker 1: which also leads the league. So there that that is,
21:38
Speaker 1: you got to be able to stop that running game
21:40
Speaker 1: because they they'll play action off of that. And uh,
21:43
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette is a veteran guy who normally takes care
21:47
Speaker 1: of the football, doesn't make mistakes, and um, they're they're
21:51
Speaker 1: gonna wait for you to make one and capitalize. They've
21:54
Speaker 1: they've done a pretty good job. So it's going to
21:56
Speaker 1: be tough up there. It always is. The Battle of
21:59
Speaker 1: Ohio is real. That fan base. Uh, you know, Cincinnati
22:03
Speaker 1: fans love to get after Cleveland. Cleveland loves to get
22:06
Speaker 1: after Cincinnati. It's a it's a big division rival. Going
22:09
Speaker 1: back to the man who founded both football teams, the
22:12
Speaker 1: legendary Paul Brown and it will always be that way.
22:15
Speaker 1: You know, Brown's week is always a week. I can
22:19
Speaker 1: remember that so vividly as a player. And Mike McCormick,
22:22
Speaker 1: the great offensive lineman for Paul Brown up there in Cleveland,
22:26
Speaker 1: and he was a head coach in the NFL at
22:28
Speaker 1: a few places. He was one of my offensive line coaches.
22:31
Speaker 1: And whenever we would play to Cleveland, Brown's, boy, would
22:33
Speaker 1: he get up in the bid. He was one of
22:34
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23:08
Speaker 1: under the pads. Time for some fun facts with cornerback
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Speaker 1: Cam Taylor brit from Montgomery, Alabama. Describe where you grew
23:16
Speaker 1: up where you're a country kid or a city kid?
23:18
Speaker 1: More a country of anything. I stay. I used to
23:21
Speaker 1: get stayed with my grandmother, so we stayed out in
23:23
Speaker 1: a trailer where I mostly grew up through kindergarten through
23:29
Speaker 1: maybe sixth grade. So it was a lot of fun,
23:32
Speaker 1: especially just been out there in the woodness and the forest,
23:35
Speaker 1: just going to like have fun out there. Honestly, just
23:38
Speaker 1: playing in the woods. He wouldn't say that would be
23:41
Speaker 1: a fun thing for a kid to do or where
23:43
Speaker 1: to be, but that's what fun was to me. Montgomery
23:47
Speaker 1: has been called the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement.
23:50
Speaker 1: I know there's a Rosa Parks Museum there. Is that
23:53
Speaker 1: a great point of pride for people from Montgomery most definitely,
23:56
Speaker 1: especially with the history down there, and you also have
23:58
Speaker 1: the Mordel of the Key Church right there close by
24:00
Speaker 1: the capital downtown and it's very unique and just the
24:04
Speaker 1: history down there, you guys, everybody knows about it, and
24:08
Speaker 1: just to be from there, that's the first thing. People
24:10
Speaker 1: you know, ask me, have you been there? Have you
24:12
Speaker 1: seen this? And seen that? Yes? I have mean this.
24:15
Speaker 1: It was a great joy for me to go because
24:17
Speaker 1: I learned a lot, and especially about where I'm from.
24:20
Speaker 1: We're visiting the cam Taylor Brett. You're obviously a great
24:23
Speaker 1: athlete growing up, but it wasn't always easy. You had
24:26
Speaker 1: serious knee injuries back to back years in high school.
24:30
Speaker 1: Describe what happened. So, I was playing quarterback back at
24:33
Speaker 1: Private High School a sophomore year, third game of the season,
24:38
Speaker 1: it kind of just popped popped out of place. And
24:41
Speaker 1: it did it two times previous before that, but I
24:44
Speaker 1: was been a tough guy, kind of popped it back
24:46
Speaker 1: in and that third time basically was the charm and
24:49
Speaker 1: it didn't go back and that's when they told me
24:51
Speaker 1: I tore my meniscus. So I went through, you know,
24:54
Speaker 1: the rehab process, but I was so anxious to come back,
24:57
Speaker 1: and I kind of rushed things most definitely just being young,
25:00
Speaker 1: geting ready to you know, get back out there, come back.
25:03
Speaker 1: My junior year, I'm playing, you know, the spring game.
25:05
Speaker 1: That's a fast. I was able to come back and
25:08
Speaker 1: get to the season and my junior year and third
25:11
Speaker 1: MS season again. To be honest, it was heartbreaking and
25:16
Speaker 1: devastating just had that same injury again, but it was
25:21
Speaker 1: worth meniscus franctre patella ACL MCL, so basically blown out
25:26
Speaker 1: the whole knee, and that's when I kind of wast
25:28
Speaker 1: think you know football is over for me, but my
25:31
Speaker 1: mom was always there my a one day one she
25:34
Speaker 1: was like God to ask you, don't don't you worry.
25:37
Speaker 1: No one would forget about you. You know, you continue
25:39
Speaker 1: to be you, and you know, continue to go out
25:42
Speaker 1: there and play your hardest and you'll be just fine.
25:45
Speaker 1: And so I really took rehab series that next year.
25:48
Speaker 1: I kind of can't make it around the same time,
25:50
Speaker 1: but it was very intense, you know, as far as
25:52
Speaker 1: the rehab. I was in there five days a week,
25:55
Speaker 1: and I would making sure that I was doing everything
25:57
Speaker 1: possible that these people, you know, trainers told me to do,
26:00
Speaker 1: and they worked out for the best. We're visiting with
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Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Brett. So you became a first team All
26:06
Speaker 1: state quarterback as a high school senior once you're knee healed,
26:10
Speaker 1: but you weren't a quarterback by choice, correct, not at all.
26:14
Speaker 1: I've always been a team guy and that's to this day.
26:17
Speaker 1: Whatever team needs, if I can do it, I'm doing
26:19
Speaker 1: it to the best of my ability. And that's what
26:22
Speaker 1: it kind of was, you know, throughout high school and
26:24
Speaker 1: I started playing quarterback eighth grade. We had our quarterback
26:28
Speaker 1: was too short can see over the line. So they
26:31
Speaker 1: were like, we need somebody to play it, and you know,
26:33
Speaker 1: I volunteered and made it happen. And that's what kind
26:36
Speaker 1: of happened throughout high school for us to win. And
26:39
Speaker 1: that's what I did. So you went to Nebraska and
26:42
Speaker 1: spent four years with the corn Huskers. For people who
26:45
Speaker 1: don't know, describe what it's like to be a Husker
26:48
Speaker 1: in that state. Honestly, they treat you like you're an
26:52
Speaker 1: NFL player already. And I say, that's the great thing
26:56
Speaker 1: about Nebraska is there's nothing there far as in field
27:00
Speaker 1: teams or anything. It's Nebraska football. And when I say,
27:02
Speaker 1: people grow up wanted to play for the Huskers from birth.
27:06
Speaker 1: And that's how it really isn't I didn't get that
27:08
Speaker 1: when I first got up there until you know, I
27:11
Speaker 1: really got around the people there, and that was the
27:14
Speaker 1: main reason that I did go, just because how amazing
27:16
Speaker 1: the fans were. Even before I got there, before I
27:19
Speaker 1: even thought about signing there, they were already, you know,
27:22
Speaker 1: just being themselves, and honestly, I wouldn't have chose anywhere else.
27:28
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for an emotional draft night video, and
27:32
Speaker 1: yours was great. You're on the couch you're surrounded by
27:34
Speaker 1: loved ones when you got the call from Zach. Taylor
27:37
Speaker 1: described that moment and what it meant to you. I
27:40
Speaker 1: was just in all, honestly there, I couldn't speak. I
27:45
Speaker 1: knew I would get the call, and like I was preparing,
27:49
Speaker 1: you know, the night before. You know, what would I
27:51
Speaker 1: say of this coach calls? It kind of all went
27:54
Speaker 1: out the window with Coach Taylor call, and I was
27:57
Speaker 1: honestly just ready to get to work, like I said,
28:00
Speaker 1: as this opportunity. You know, a lot of people, especially
28:02
Speaker 1: when I'm from them, get this opportunity. So I'm not
28:04
Speaker 1: taking it for granted at all, and you know, basically
28:06
Speaker 1: doing it for the ones back home. We're doing fun
28:09
Speaker 1: facts with Cam Taylor Bread. I watched a great video
28:11
Speaker 1: that was done when you were at Nebraska. They take
28:14
Speaker 1: you inside your dorm room or campus apartment, whatever it was,
28:17
Speaker 1: and on the wall he had a series of photos
28:20
Speaker 1: of loved ones who had passed away. How HASNA shaped
28:23
Speaker 1: you shaved me in a major way, honestly, because that's
28:27
Speaker 1: what I do it for, like I said, for the
28:29
Speaker 1: people who aren't here, and also for the people who
28:31
Speaker 1: can't do it for themselves. In the hospital as far
28:34
Speaker 1: as like you no patients, you know, kids, anybody, it's
28:38
Speaker 1: bigger than me. And they played a huge role and
28:43
Speaker 1: what I am today as far as just a man,
28:47
Speaker 1: they played a huge role. Like I said, my grandmother
28:49
Speaker 1: was up there. Her brother, which is her twin, he
28:52
Speaker 1: was up there, and he was there early on in
28:54
Speaker 1: my life. And I have John Neil. She's taded on
28:57
Speaker 1: my chest actually, and that's my outhood friends. Mom and
29:02
Speaker 1: his mom and my mom were like best friends. And
29:06
Speaker 1: it was crazy because they looked like twins as well,
29:09
Speaker 1: and so you know, I just really, you know, I
29:13
Speaker 1: was looking up to them as I grew up, and
29:15
Speaker 1: they showed me the way, you know, to be me
29:19
Speaker 1: and I appreciate them more than ever. You legally changed
29:23
Speaker 1: your last name a few years ago and added Brett,
29:26
Speaker 1: so typhonated Taylor Brett to honor your stepfather. I was
29:30
Speaker 1: raised by his stepfather. Why did you feel that was
29:32
Speaker 1: important to him? Honestly because he stepped in and did
29:36
Speaker 1: everything the right way and showed me the right way
29:39
Speaker 1: to a lot of things. I was I want to
29:42
Speaker 1: say I was a trouble kid at all, but I
29:44
Speaker 1: didn't have you know, anger issues, or something like that.
29:46
Speaker 1: You could say where you know, they used to call
29:49
Speaker 1: me besmode. I would get mad and I would just
29:52
Speaker 1: have a touchdown and really just turn around and run
29:55
Speaker 1: somebody over just to go and do that. And you know,
29:59
Speaker 1: he just talked me a lot of ways about life
30:01
Speaker 1: and just the seriousness of certain situations, like just watching
30:06
Speaker 1: my surroundings. I would have never known that, honestly. You know,
30:09
Speaker 1: anywhere I go, I'm peeping the scene. And that was
30:12
Speaker 1: one thing that you gotta taught me, you know, just
30:14
Speaker 1: reading people as well. And you know, I appreciate him
30:18
Speaker 1: more than ever as well, because you know, I didn't
30:20
Speaker 1: have my you know, biological father at home, so just
30:23
Speaker 1: to have that father figure at home or you know
30:25
Speaker 1: it really you know, helped me out in a major way.
30:29
Speaker 1: A few wild card topics. Now for cam Taylor, Brent,
30:32
Speaker 1: do you have any hidden talents? I don't know if
30:34
Speaker 1: it's hidden. I like two k I say this in
30:36
Speaker 1: all my interviews, but I might have to go on
30:39
Speaker 1: Twitch just to show the fans and everybody. But yeah,
30:42
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of my hobby. Honestly. If I'm not
30:45
Speaker 1: watching film or in the stadium or anything, I'm on
30:47
Speaker 1: the game, playing two K with you know, some of
30:49
Speaker 1: my teammates, and so I don't get away from those
30:53
Speaker 1: guys even at home. So that's that's about it. I
30:55
Speaker 1: could sing just a little bit. And I grew up
30:57
Speaker 1: in the church. If I didn't sing in the choir, Manana,
31:01
Speaker 1: you know, she wouldn't have it. You're getting in the choir.
31:04
Speaker 1: So that's how it was from me growing up. Do
31:06
Speaker 1: you want to give us an example. I'll think about
31:09
Speaker 1: another time. Pharrendoff. Who is your all time favorite athlete
31:14
Speaker 1: in any sport and why? Lebron James and I kind
31:18
Speaker 1: of looked up to him my whole life, just the
31:21
Speaker 1: way he handles life itself. You don't hear anything bad
31:26
Speaker 1: about Lebron. And he has a beautiful, happy family, which
31:31
Speaker 1: he shows off all the time. He's always been a
31:34
Speaker 1: team player. He's a leader, and that's what you know,
31:39
Speaker 1: I want to be, you know, and I try to be.
31:41
Speaker 1: I see, he's very vocal. They just came out with
31:43
Speaker 1: the Radeem team on Netflix. I sat there and watched
31:47
Speaker 1: the whole thing from beginning to end. May go watch
31:49
Speaker 1: it again tonight, just because the impact that he had
31:52
Speaker 1: on the team, especially you know him and Kobe Bryant,
31:54
Speaker 1: and for Kobe to say, you know, and to speak
31:58
Speaker 1: to speak on Lebron as highly as he did, I
32:02
Speaker 1: see that I have a good role model. And you
32:05
Speaker 1: know that's that's basically lived last thing. And this is
32:08
Speaker 1: kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesman,
32:14
Speaker 1: whoever it might be, who would that person be. Maybe
32:19
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali. And I say that just because we've watched
32:23
Speaker 1: multiple videos of him, good and bad, you know, but
32:27
Speaker 1: he always has that same attitude and it doesn't change
32:32
Speaker 1: whether he's in a fight or whether he's basically sitting
32:36
Speaker 1: right here with us. It doesn't change. And I love
32:39
Speaker 1: that about him. Man. It's crazy to me like that
32:43
Speaker 1: I can't even speak to him, you know. But if
32:46
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity, man, I really feels a million dollars.
32:49
Speaker 1: If I had a million dollars right here and Muhammad Ali,
32:51
Speaker 1: I almost definitely picked the conversation with Muhammad Ali and
32:54
Speaker 1: just the knowledge you know that you can get from
32:56
Speaker 1: him that could change your life the original GEO. E Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: this has been great. I really appreciate your time. Best
33:04
Speaker 1: of luck the rest of the year. Thank you, sir.
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