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Speaker 1: Is that enough bragging for one podcast? I think? So
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Speaker 1: let's get to the radio replays from Monday night's matchup
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Speaker 1: in Dallas. Tonight, for the fifth time this year, the
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Speaker 1: NFL's prime time spotlight shines on the Cincinnati Bengals. The
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Speaker 1: question is what will Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase do next.
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Speaker 1: They are having incredible seasons and they will look to
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Speaker 1: add another chapter tonight as the Bengals take on the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football. Fourth down and two
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Speaker 1: at the Cincinnati twelve yard line, rush in the gun,
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Speaker 1: two receivers to each side of the formation. He catches
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Speaker 1: the shotgun snap, throwing for the end zone. It is
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Speaker 1: caught by a wide open CD Lamb. He got about
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Speaker 1: four yards of separation and the decision to go for
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Speaker 1: it on fourth and two.
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Speaker 3: Is worth seven second and goal from the five.
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Speaker 1: Burrow waiting for the shotgun snap at the ten, Joe
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Speaker 1: catches short drop fires for Chase and it is caught
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Speaker 1: for the touchdown at the forward right pylon. Jamar Chase
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Speaker 1: continuing to put up incredible numbers. That is his NFL
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Speaker 1: leading fourteenth touchdown.
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Speaker 4: And had good coverage. I mean that was tight coverage.
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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow threw a rocket rush back to throw looking
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Speaker 3: left throws.
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Speaker 1: And it is in her seb night deflected by Cam
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Speaker 1: Taylor Brick picked off by Geno Stone.
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Speaker 3: The pass was intended for cebe lamb.
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Speaker 4: Legal formation and the offensive tackle is on the under
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Speaker 4: line uncovered he he's the.
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Speaker 3: Flying first down.
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Speaker 1: Nice job by Gino Stone there to quickly react to
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Speaker 1: the ricochet off the body of Cam Taylor Brent It's
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Speaker 1: the second interception of the year for Gino Stone. Three
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Speaker 1: point thirty five left in the second quarter. Here's a
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Speaker 1: swing pass caught in the flat by Chase Briton running
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Speaker 1: down the sideline toward the pylon. Looked like he stepped out.
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Speaker 1: Who inside the tent ont scoring.
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Speaker 3: He stepped out at the five According to one of the.
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Speaker 4: Officials, Boy, I'll tell you the acceleration was there. And
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Speaker 4: did that left foot stay in bounds? Did the right foot? Boy,
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: The decision to throw the red challenge flag is a
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Speaker 1: great one by the Bengals coaching step. It is reversed
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Speaker 1: and that is a touchdown. Chase Brown did not step
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Speaker 1: out of bounds. It becomes a nineteen yard touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: from Burrow to Chase Brown, and the Bengals had taken
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Speaker 1: the lead for the first time. Tonight, Rush Catches drops
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Speaker 1: back to throw, looking bouncing in the pocket, firing to
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Speaker 1: the end zone put he's a penalty flag down. Brandon
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Speaker 1: Cooks with the catch as he beat Josh Newton for
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Speaker 1: the score. Here comes the forty seven yarder for the lead.
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Speaker 1: It is good. Dallas twenty Cincinnati seventeen five seconds into.
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Speaker 3: The fourth quarter to snap the right footed gick.
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Speaker 1: It is good, and the Bengals have pulled even at twenty.
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Speaker 1: With ten minutes and twenty four seconds to go. Rico
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Speaker 1: punting for the third time. He's averaged fifty three and
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Speaker 1: a half yards per punt. The snap is good. Here
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Speaker 1: comes the punt and it's blocked. Can you believe it?
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Speaker 1: It's rolling forward. The Cowboys may have touched it. If
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Speaker 1: that's the case, the Bengals would get the ball.
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Speaker 3: He got it.
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Speaker 1: Colossal mistake by the Dallas Cowboys. They just needed to
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Speaker 1: get out of the way after blocking that punt. One
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Speaker 1: of their players touched it and the Bengals recovered. A
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Speaker 1: colossal blunder by Dallas, and the Bengals are going to
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Speaker 1: get the ball near midfield.
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Speaker 3: Joe has the foot ball. He'll look to throw. Fires
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Speaker 3: a pass caught by Jamar Chase down the sideline. Twenty
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Speaker 3: fifteen tas.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown Bengals one on one to go, a forty yard
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Speaker 1: strike to Jamar Chase.
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Speaker 4: Oh man, I'll tell you he made Bland miss.
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Speaker 3: That was the key.
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Speaker 4: I mean, a great player like Lamb on the sideline,
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Speaker 4: Jamar Chase just fun inside of him and then it
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Speaker 4: was off to the races.
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Speaker 1: Fourth down in seven, officially Dallas at its own forty eight.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals have two safeties playing deep stone and battle
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Speaker 1: shotgun snap rush dropping way back fires, a pass too
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Speaker 1: high and complete too high for Ferguson, and that is
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Speaker 1: coffin nails.
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Speaker 3: Bam, bam bam.
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Speaker 4: How about the Bengals coming down to Dallas one in
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Speaker 4: seven in Dallas. Before this football game, they had lost
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Speaker 4: five straight down here and that all ends today.
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Speaker 1: And it is glorious to see the Bengals in a
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Speaker 1: victory formation. Burrow takes the snap, he takes a knee,
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Speaker 1: and that will do it. The final score Cincinnati twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: Dallas twenty The Bengals have had their share of tough
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Speaker 1: finishes this year, but this time the big break went
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Speaker 1: their way. With two minutes to go, former Bengal Nick
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Speaker 1: Vigil blocked Ryan Rico's punt, a play that probably should
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Speaker 1: have won the game for Dallas, but rather than letting
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Speaker 1: the ball roll to a stop, amani O Ruwarie tried
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Speaker 1: to pick it up and muffed it, allowing Muma johng
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Speaker 1: Mata to recover for Cincinnati. Three snaps later, Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: threw a short pass to Jamar Chase and he did
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Speaker 1: the rest, zipping past pro bowler Doran Bland and going
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Speaker 1: forty yards for the game winning touchdown. Two years ago
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Speaker 1: in New Orleans, Burrow and Chase ran the same play
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Speaker 1: to the left side instead of the right for a
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Speaker 1: game winning touch down to beat the Saints.
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Speaker 5: That's a throw that we rep all the time, and
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Speaker 5: we talk about throwing it inside shoulder so you can
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Speaker 5: turn and make a play if the if the corners off.
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Speaker 6: You know he was able to do what he does.
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Speaker 6: We've wrapped that million times, brag a love play we
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Speaker 6: always run. But at the end of that, it was
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Speaker 6: like me and Joe's on the same page. That goes
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Speaker 6: back to the New Orleans game, same play.
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Speaker 7: You know, we both on the same page.
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Speaker 8: Throwing it on my inside showed us like a turn
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Speaker 8: up field and make a run at the catch in
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Speaker 8: Just good job by him giving me an opportunity to.
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Speaker 7: Make a play.
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Speaker 1: Burrow threw for three hundred and sixty nine yards and
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, his fifth straight game with three or more tds,
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Speaker 1: giving him an NFL leading thirty three touchdown passes for
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Speaker 1: the season. Chase had fourteen catches for one hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy seven yards and two of burrows three tds. Jamar's
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns away from tying Carl Pickens team record of
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Speaker 1: seventeen touchdown catches in a season. Those two went out
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Speaker 1: for the coin toss before the game, along with the
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Speaker 1: running man T Higgins. It's obviously been speculated that this
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Speaker 1: could be their last year together in Cincinnati, but Chase
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Speaker 1: is under contract through next season, and Burrow expressed optimism
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Speaker 1: that Higgins could be back as well.
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Speaker 5: You know, those discussions are ongoing, and I'm confident that
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Speaker 5: I think we're gonna be able to do what it
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Speaker 5: takes to bring Tea back. You know, I know that
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Speaker 5: I'm going to do what it takes to get him back,
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Speaker 5: and so is he. We've had those talks, so you know,
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Speaker 5: those are those are going to be offseason discussions, but
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Speaker 5: I think we're excited about that opportunity.
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Speaker 8: I try to think too much of it. You know,
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Speaker 8: that's really out of my control. I wish I could
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Speaker 8: sign Tea myself and have him with me, you know.
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Speaker 1: Fully turning, Joe threw the ball forty times on Monday
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Speaker 1: night and only got sacked twice. Three time pro bowler
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Speaker 1: Michah Parsons hit him a couple of times but did
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Speaker 1: not get a sack. Mike has spent most of the
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Speaker 1: game matched up against a Marius Mims, and I spoke
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Speaker 1: to the rookie right tackle after the game, A Marius
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Speaker 1: on the final stat sheet, no tackles, no sacks for
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Speaker 1: Micah Parsons.
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Speaker 9: Your reaction, Great team win, great team effort, Like I said, man,
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Speaker 9: just a great job by the whole line tight ends.
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Speaker 9: Everybody will helped hit them and helped me with them.
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Speaker 9: So I mean, like I said, man, that's a great
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Speaker 9: team win. I don't, really, like I said, care about
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Speaker 9: like individual stats, but I'm just glad we got the
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Speaker 9: team win, especially especially on the road.
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Speaker 10: Man.
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Speaker 9: It's just hard to play, especially on the road in NFL. Man,
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Speaker 9: I'm just glad we got to win.
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Speaker 1: Describe the emotional boost you get when the special teams
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Speaker 1: makes that play and you've got the ball right back
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Speaker 1: near midfield with a chance to win the game.
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Speaker 9: The only thing I went in my head is thank
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Speaker 9: god Joe Burns our quarterback. I mean, I mean, you
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Speaker 9: got Like I said, when we got the old line
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Speaker 9: up we got, we got. We got the best quarterback
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Speaker 9: in the league in my opinion. Back then, we got
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Speaker 9: the best wide receiver win in my opinion in the league. Also,
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Speaker 9: just I mean, I just got trusted my guys.
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Speaker 10: Man.
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Speaker 9: Like I said, we went down and made a play
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Speaker 9: when we needed to.
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Speaker 10: We won the game.
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Speaker 1: So how about Jamar fourteen catches, bucks seventy seven, two touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: game winner four yard or down the sideline to win
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Speaker 1: the game. I mean, I'm running out of superlatives to
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Speaker 1: describe him.
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Speaker 9: I'm running out of them too. Man, Like I said,
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Speaker 9: best athlete ever to play with. I love getting the
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Speaker 9: whole of win. I'm like, man, just thank god he's
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Speaker 9: on my team, not nobody else team. So, like I said,
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Speaker 9: when I look at him in the whole, I'm like, man,
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Speaker 9: thank god he's on my team. Man, special player, special guy,
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Speaker 9: specially like I said, even better teammate. And I'm just
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Speaker 9: I'm just proud of him. Man, so, like I said,
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Speaker 9: we just keep building from this win, just go get
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Speaker 9: the next one.
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Speaker 2: What is the emotion tonight? Is it relief?
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Speaker 1: How are you guys feeling after coming in here and
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Speaker 1: the ending a three game losing streak and getting a
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Speaker 1: big win.
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Speaker 10: I'm to be honest with you, man, I feel like
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Speaker 10: everybody excited.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 9: Like I said, it hasn't been like I said, it
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Speaker 9: hasn't been the past couple of games like we wanted,
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Speaker 9: or the season like we want it. But like I said,
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Speaker 9: just going the road and un Dallas in Dallas, and
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Speaker 9: you know, go get a win.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 10: Like I said, we're all excited.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 9: We needed his win the state of Cincinnati. It was
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Speaker 9: state of Ohio. Cincinnati needed his win.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 9: And like I said, we had one goal coming in
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Speaker 9: this game, and that was neutralized eleven as much as possible,
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Speaker 9: Like I said, we know he's gonna make his fast
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Speaker 9: share of plays. But as long as we can limit
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Speaker 9: him as much as possible, man, I feel like you know,
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Speaker 9: we'll pretty good.
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Speaker 2: What stood out about blocking him.
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Speaker 10: Man, he's relentless.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 9: He's the most active and physical rusher I probably don't
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Speaker 9: played against this year.
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Speaker 10: I'd give him like I said, hass all to him.
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Speaker 9: Man, he's a great player, and you know, just got
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Speaker 9: to just go get back in the film room and
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Speaker 9: you know see what I did wrong to just learn
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Speaker 9: from it.
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Speaker 10: Man.
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Speaker 9: But like I said, Man, one of the best guys
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Speaker 9: I ever played against, man in my whole entire life. Man,
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Speaker 9: that dude was just a dog. He's relentless.
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Speaker 2: Final thing for Marius Mems.
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Speaker 1: Are you looking forward to checking out how you looked
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Speaker 1: down the Simpsons telecast? Oh?
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Speaker 10: That would be nice. Ye, I'm be waiting on that.
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Speaker 10: I'm gonna be watching it.
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Speaker 2: Congrats on a great way. I appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: Defensively, The Bengals struggle to stop the run, allowing one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six yards on the ground, but they
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Speaker 1: held Cooper Rush under two hundred passing yards and only
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Speaker 1: surrendered twenty points, the lowest total they've allowed since beating
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Speaker 1: the Browns in October. Here's my conversation with Cam Taylor Brett.
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Speaker 7: Damn.
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Speaker 1: Before we started this interview, you said we needed that.
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Speaker 1: It's got to be a great feeling this.
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Speaker 11: This is a game that you dreaming about Monday night. U.
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Speaker 11: The whole world is watching U, and we, like I said,
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Speaker 11: we needed to win. It's been a long time coming.
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Speaker 11: Then I feel like we showed it right that we
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Speaker 11: can actually finish and now players a team.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about one of the big plays in the game.
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Speaker 1: You tipped it, Gino Stone picked it off at the
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Speaker 1: four yard line, keep the Cowboys out of the end
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Speaker 1: zone when they had it in the red zone.
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Speaker 11: They've run a lot of the same concepts throughout the game,
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Speaker 11: but really, hit my face.
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Speaker 10: Man, he threw a.
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Speaker 11: Bullet, So you know I caught it, you know, but
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Speaker 11: I he threw a bullet, and so by the time
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Speaker 11: I was able to look, uh yeah, I was on
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Speaker 11: the face mats. I was so glad, you know, car
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Speaker 11: because I was gonna try to die for it. But
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Speaker 11: now see in Geno's oh you got it, get up,
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Speaker 11: get up, get up, So you know, uh yeah, we
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Speaker 11: we just went team defense. Man, everybody traveling to the ball.
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Speaker 11: You know, he was in the right place at the
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Speaker 11: right time.
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Speaker 2: We need the assist stat in football.
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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, mother, definitely, man, I need to assist.
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Speaker 1: So the Cowboys went down the field and scored to
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Speaker 1: begin the first half.
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Speaker 2: Did it to begin the second half.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, I thought the defense played great they
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Speaker 1: had those two drives, so give him credit, but you
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Speaker 1: guys played really well other than those two drives.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm with you on that as well.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 11: This is the NFL at the end of the day.
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Speaker 11: How they got good players. We got good players. We
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Speaker 11: can get our scheme a lot better within ourselves on
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Speaker 11: the defense a far as talking on the field and
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Speaker 11: then everything we kill everything dead just like that.
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Speaker 7: Though.
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Speaker 11: You know, I feel like when we talked, nobody's confused
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Speaker 11: and everybody's on the same page, and we play.
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Speaker 1: Fast trunk to Cam Taylor, Brad, let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: special teams play. With less than two minutes to go,
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Speaker 1: you guys are getting ready to go out there in
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Speaker 1: defense and try to force overtime. The next thing you know,
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Speaker 1: they make a mistake and you guys have the ball
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Speaker 1: right back.
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Speaker 2: What was your reaction on the sideline?
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Speaker 11: Honestly, I was just so shocked, man, I've never been
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Speaker 11: in a game like that where that happened in the
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Speaker 11: turn of the events. Honestly, just was ready to go
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Speaker 11: back out there with the guys and you know, get
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Speaker 11: a stop. You know that was on my mind and
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Speaker 11: that that happened. Yeah, Chinese events ball game.
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Speaker 1: As Jamar Chase is sprinting down the sideline, what are
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Speaker 1: you thinking.
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Speaker 10: Go get a stop, get out the field. We got
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Speaker 10: to win the game. They put it on this offense date.
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Speaker 11: They show love and got that last touchdown. Know, he
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Speaker 11: did his thing, and uh, we got to go out
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Speaker 11: there and you know protect well basically back up, Joe.
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Speaker 1: That's fifteen touchdown catches for Jamar. I mean, is there
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Speaker 1: anything this guy does at this point that amazes you?
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Speaker 10: Nah, not really.
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Speaker 11: I've seen him get hit by the safety coming out
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Speaker 11: the post and break three four tackles and steer run
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Speaker 11: for sixty yards. So there's a lot of things that
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Speaker 11: he's done that showed me how great of a player is.
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Speaker 1: All Right, you could make the case that he should
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Speaker 1: have like slid down at the one yard line. That
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Speaker 1: might have been the smart thing to do. On the
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Speaker 1: other hand, on defense, so you guys like go ahead
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Speaker 1: and score, will protect it.
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Speaker 11: So initially, most definitely, like I think far as like
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Speaker 11: football terms and everything, you would get down you know
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Speaker 11: before that, But we were ready to go, Like I
15:47
Speaker 11: think we were excited honestly with him scoring, and like
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Speaker 11: we just knew our job was to go back out there.
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Speaker 11: And get him out a.
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Speaker 10: Few in the game.
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Speaker 2: Nice wing, congratulations, thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear what Zach Taylor had to say is he
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Speaker 1: spent a few minutes with Dave Lapham after the game.
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Speaker 10: Every time you.
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Speaker 4: Play the Cowboys, it is just it's a battle, royal man.
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Speaker 4: It comes down to like a possession or a mistake
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Speaker 4: or a player or whatever.
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Speaker 12: That's just how these games are going right now, you know.
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Speaker 12: And just proud of our guys for stepping up in
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Speaker 12: those moments. And defense got some huge stops there at
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Speaker 12: the end of the game. Special teams came up with
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Speaker 12: the fumble on the blocked pawn and then often is
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Speaker 12: able to put it away. So just prout of the way.
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Speaker 12: The guys have fought, stuck together, done it the right way,
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Speaker 12: and are rewarded with a victory.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you go from the peak of victory
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Speaker 4: to the agony defeat or the other way around. I
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Speaker 4: mean the punch block and then man mistakes made. He
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Speaker 4: tries to pick it up and hero ball and score whatever,
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Speaker 4: and he fumbles it and Johnny on the spot to
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Speaker 4: make that play. What about your quarterback though, I mean
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Speaker 4: thirty three for forty four three hundred and sixty nine yards,
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Speaker 4: three touchdowns. He's got thirty three touchdowns now and what
16:53
Speaker 4: is it, five interceptions.
16:54
Speaker 10: I mean it's ridiculous.
16:55
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, he's he's unmatched his physical toughness, total toughness,
17:00
Speaker 12: because you know, like everybody going against Mike Zimmer for
17:03
Speaker 12: an entire game is exhausting. All the looks he presents,
17:06
Speaker 12: all the challenges he puts on the quarterback, so he's
17:09
Speaker 12: got to fight through all that too, pre snap and
17:11
Speaker 12: then deal with you know, some of those monsters they
17:13
Speaker 12: got post snapped. And just really proud of the way
17:16
Speaker 12: that he led us today and happy that we all
17:18
Speaker 12: got that victory.
17:19
Speaker 4: The best one to two punch offensively in football. His
17:22
Speaker 4: running mate, Jamar Chase fourteen catchers, one hundred and seventy
17:26
Speaker 4: seven yards, two touchdowns. He ran the ball for fourteen
17:29
Speaker 4: more so, fifteen touches, one hundred and ninety one yards
17:33
Speaker 4: and a couple of touchdowns. There's none nothing better than
17:37
Speaker 4: Barrow and Chase.
17:38
Speaker 12: No, there isn't. And then we got Tea over there
17:42
Speaker 12: on the other side. Yeah, that's tough. It takes a
17:44
Speaker 12: lot of the pressure off of it. So really proud
17:46
Speaker 12: of Jamar that the job he did tonight, the attention
17:49
Speaker 12: to details. We're able to move him all over the
17:51
Speaker 12: place and get him the ball every which way imaginable,
17:53
Speaker 12: and it's still not enough. But he always shows up
17:55
Speaker 12: for us, and he certainly did in a big way tonight.
17:58
Speaker 4: So Joe had one, two, three, four, or five six,
18:01
Speaker 4: seven different players with a catch of twelve yards or longer.
18:05
Speaker 4: Went from twelve yards to forty yards and everything in between.
18:08
Speaker 4: I mean he found eight different receivers, seven of them
18:13
Speaker 4: had a catch of twelve yards and more. You talk
18:15
Speaker 4: about distributing the football, reading the football field, going where
18:19
Speaker 4: he's supposed to go with the football in a timely fashion.
18:21
Speaker 10: I mean, it's crazy.
18:22
Speaker 12: It just so is the confidence he has gotten everybody
18:24
Speaker 12: we put on the field, and he's not afraid to
18:26
Speaker 12: give it to everybody. He's going to read the defense
18:28
Speaker 12: out and what you give him, he's going to take it.
18:29
Speaker 12: He's not going to force the ball to somebody. He's
18:32
Speaker 12: going to make you pay for every coverage and every
18:34
Speaker 12: blitzer like you give. And sometimes they'll hang in there
18:36
Speaker 12: the last second and take that extra hit. He took
18:39
Speaker 12: one from Micah, you know, and a tough five man
18:41
Speaker 12: protection look and hung in there and got a huge
18:44
Speaker 12: to play to Mike HSEEKI you know, they got us
18:45
Speaker 12: in the red zone. So proud of his toughness, both
18:48
Speaker 12: physically and mentally.
18:49
Speaker 4: So I was thinking, all right, I'd like to see
18:52
Speaker 4: at least twenty carries in the football gameteen seventeen nineteen
18:56
Speaker 4: nineteen carries. Chase Brown had fourteen of them fifty eight yards,
19:00
Speaker 4: and then he also had six catches sixty five yards
19:03
Speaker 4: and a touchdown. Fifteen touches of the football for one
19:07
Speaker 4: hundred and nineteen yards and a touchdown. I mean, he's
19:10
Speaker 4: he's doing a lot of things for you. Plus he'd
19:13
Speaker 4: stuck his nose in his A gap, blitz his you
19:15
Speaker 4: know double A gaps that the zim head cook.
19:17
Speaker 10: And I mean he was big time today. He was.
19:19
Speaker 10: He was.
19:19
Speaker 12: And some of those some of those receptions were just
19:21
Speaker 12: getting the ball. There's a extended handoffs, you know, and
19:24
Speaker 12: they don't go in the rushing stats, but it's just
19:26
Speaker 12: a different way to get in the ball on the perimeter.
19:28
Speaker 12: And usually when we do that, he makes it pay.
19:30
Speaker 12: And so many of those play actions, Joe so quick
19:32
Speaker 12: to come off of it and just put the ball
19:33
Speaker 12: in his hands because he can see they're sinking underneath
19:35
Speaker 12: it and there's a big play to be had. And
19:37
Speaker 12: I can think of many of them where he made
19:38
Speaker 12: that decision and he's a great weapon to have.
19:41
Speaker 4: What'd you think about your pass rush today? Overall, Trey
19:43
Speaker 4: gets the sack he gets, He's got twelve and a
19:45
Speaker 4: half now in the season. But overall, what'd you think
19:48
Speaker 4: They put.
19:48
Speaker 12: Him under dress, you know, and he could feel that heat,
19:51
Speaker 12: you know, from multiple different guys. You know, bj got
19:53
Speaker 12: one and Joseph and Trey, and so I was proud
19:56
Speaker 12: of those guys. I thought the coverage is pretty tight
19:57
Speaker 12: on the back end as well. You know, we took
19:59
Speaker 12: the air cover and guys made him have to go
20:01
Speaker 12: play quarterback.
20:02
Speaker 4: You had a stretch in the game where the game
20:04
Speaker 4: was on the line where he threw five straight and completions.
20:07
Speaker 4: I mean he really couldn't find anybody, or didn't have
20:11
Speaker 4: time to find anybody, or a combination of both.
20:13
Speaker 12: It was great to see the offense go down and
20:15
Speaker 12: put pressure on by scoring a touchdown the defense close
20:17
Speaker 12: it out.
20:17
Speaker 1: You know.
20:17
Speaker 3: It's a great way to do it.
20:18
Speaker 12: And our kicker kids can getting touch back, you know,
20:21
Speaker 12: and not giving the ball to Turpen and letting him
20:22
Speaker 12: return it. You know, that was a big part of
20:24
Speaker 12: the game as well that we stressed and so all
20:26
Speaker 12: three phases able to close it out. It is a
20:27
Speaker 12: good way to do it. Yeah, that was a big
20:28
Speaker 12: thing we talked about in the pregame show. And you're
20:31
Speaker 12: comment on field position was right dead on. Now you know,
20:35
Speaker 12: you had an interception to set your back field position. Wise,
20:38
Speaker 12: they stopped you on fourth down, you know, so they
20:40
Speaker 12: got an edge on you know, average drive start just
20:42
Speaker 12: on that little sequence.
20:43
Speaker 10: But overall, what did you think?
20:45
Speaker 12: I thought our guys played the game the right way.
20:47
Speaker 12: You know, it was a tight game, didn't feel like
20:48
Speaker 12: a lot of possessions, so everyone of them mattered. But ultimately,
20:51
Speaker 12: our guys made the plays that we needed to make
20:53
Speaker 12: at the end of the game. That's what we've been
20:55
Speaker 12: dying for all season. We finally got it and now
20:57
Speaker 12: we got to carry on this moment of next week instittency.
21:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, so now you had a long week, now you
21:03
Speaker 4: got the short week, and I know you're really good about,
21:07
Speaker 4: you know, manipulating how many hours you got to work
21:10
Speaker 4: with during the course of the week and keeping your
21:13
Speaker 4: players fresh and the players really appreciate the way you
21:16
Speaker 4: handle that part of their business. What do you have
21:19
Speaker 4: in mind for this week for your players?
21:20
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a modified week we've we've gone through before,
21:24
Speaker 12: so we'll start a little later on Wednesday with the
21:25
Speaker 12: jog through and then get our full speed work in
21:27
Speaker 12: on Thursday and Friday.
21:29
Speaker 4: So next up, like you said, Tennessee, the Callahan men.
21:33
Speaker 4: Obviously they're very close to you. They think they think
21:38
Speaker 4: the world of you, and you think the world of them.
21:40
Speaker 4: It's going to be very interesting competing against friends like that,
21:43
Speaker 4: but hey, it's the National Football League. Man best man wins.
21:46
Speaker 12: Yeah, a lot of respect for them and the job
21:48
Speaker 12: that they're doing and the foundation they're laying. But we
21:50
Speaker 12: want to go in there and get a win, get
21:51
Speaker 12: too in a row.
21:53
Speaker 1: Up next a one o'clock road game next Sunday against
21:56
Speaker 1: old friend Brian Callahan and the three and ten Tennessee Titans.
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22:27
Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap. All right, Lap, you got
22:32
Speaker 1: admitted into Harvard. You've got a good vocabulary. What words
22:37
Speaker 1: would you use to describe Jamar Chase at this point
22:39
Speaker 1: after fourteen catches one hundred and seventy seven yards and
22:42
Speaker 1: his fourteenth and fifteenth touchdown catches of the year.
22:46
Speaker 4: Wow, I mean, I mean, it's just he's one to one.
22:51
Speaker 4: Everything that he does he does so extraordinarily well. And
22:55
Speaker 4: it's not like, Okay, pick five traits and you got
22:59
Speaker 4: to have maybe two or three of them, all five
23:02
Speaker 4: of them, I mean, and to do what he does
23:06
Speaker 4: mentally and physically. Joe Burrow as well, both of these guys, Zimmer,
23:11
Speaker 4: it's exhausting to go through a game and figure out
23:16
Speaker 4: all of his pressure packages. How do you adjust off
23:18
Speaker 4: those pressure packages? I mean, it is such a challenge
23:22
Speaker 4: mentally and physically because they play a physical brand of football.
23:26
Speaker 4: Telling you, man, I admire both of those guys because
23:29
Speaker 4: they left it all out there. I mean, they are
23:31
Speaker 4: spent mentally, physically, emotionally, I mean, every way he can
23:36
Speaker 4: be spent. They're spent. And I'm glad that they are
23:39
Speaker 4: spent after a victory, because you know, we were talking
23:43
Speaker 4: about it. Oh no, in twenty twenty two, in that
23:46
Speaker 4: game seventeen seventeen, after the Bengals went nineteen plays eighty
23:50
Speaker 4: three yards to tie the game Dallas in fifty seven seconds,
23:53
Speaker 4: thirty three yards and six plays have a walk.
23:55
Speaker 2: Off field goal with the same quarterback, with.
23:57
Speaker 4: The same quarterback, and it's twenty seventeen, thinking, oh no, man,
24:02
Speaker 4: good thing he tried to pick that block punt up.
24:04
Speaker 4: I want to kiss that guy right on the mouth.
24:06
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, man, you know it's like your football
24:10
Speaker 4: instincts say, it's there, pick it up. Make a play,
24:13
Speaker 4: you know, not necessarily trying to be a hero, just
24:16
Speaker 4: try to in your mind you're making a play that's
24:18
Speaker 4: going to help your football team win a game. Man,
24:21
Speaker 4: the worst thing you could have done, just stay away
24:23
Speaker 4: from it. I mean that ball, that ball bounces, funny man,
24:26
Speaker 4: stay away from that bad boy, and the Bengals took
24:29
Speaker 4: full advantage of that fomal.
24:31
Speaker 1: What are the odds to a former Bengal Nick Vitchell
24:33
Speaker 1: hadn't heard that name in years. He blocks the punt,
24:36
Speaker 1: and then the guy you were referring to, Amani oh
24:39
Speaker 1: Ruwaia just added to the roster with a colossal blunder,
24:44
Speaker 1: the type of blunder that Cowboys fans are going to
24:47
Speaker 1: be talking about for years.
24:48
Speaker 4: And I'll guarantee you that he was not in John
24:52
Speaker 4: Fasto Special teams meetings during the course of the week.
24:55
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, he's new to the roster. I mean,
24:57
Speaker 4: they just picked the guy up basically, and I'm sure
25:00
Speaker 4: owens is Uh is not is not happy. I mean,
25:02
Speaker 4: you talk about, you know, the thriller victory in the
25:05
Speaker 4: Agony defeat. He sees a guy blocking punt. He's got
25:08
Speaker 4: the thriller victory. Darren Simmons got the agon to defeat,
25:11
Speaker 4: and then you see a player do that, and all
25:13
Speaker 4: of a sudden, the guy who had the thriller victory
25:15
Speaker 4: is now got the agon to defeat, and Darren Simmons
25:17
Speaker 4: has got the thriller victory and walking off, you know,
25:20
Speaker 4: smoking the victory a cigar as such. It's it's just
25:23
Speaker 4: the way it is in the in the game of football.
25:26
Speaker 4: The football gods giveth and they taketh away, and they
25:29
Speaker 4: can be cruel.
25:30
Speaker 10: There's no question.
25:32
Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to upset that Jamar Chase didn't go into
25:34
Speaker 1: a slide at the one yard line.
25:36
Speaker 4: No, that's I mean, that's that's a that's a hard
25:39
Speaker 4: thing to do as well. It's like, I know, I
25:41
Speaker 4: know it's talked about, you go over it, but man,
25:44
Speaker 4: once you're in that situation, you make a great play.
25:46
Speaker 4: I mean, it's tight coverage and you make a great
25:49
Speaker 4: play like that and lead blanding the dust and it's like, man,
25:52
Speaker 4: all you're thinking you're seeing golden goal posts.
25:54
Speaker 10: You know you're not.
25:55
Speaker 4: You're not thinking that, You're not thinking anything more than that.
25:57
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, the best thing, you know, would
26:00
Speaker 4: have been sit down at the one yard line, built
26:03
Speaker 4: the rest of the clock, kick a game winning field goal,
26:06
Speaker 4: and get out of town.
26:07
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you got a brand new kicker
26:09
Speaker 1: just join the team on Thursday. I mean, do you
26:12
Speaker 1: really want to risk it? I mean, Kay York was great,
26:15
Speaker 1: to his credit, made all his kicks, blasted all of
26:17
Speaker 1: his kickoffs through the back of the end zone, But
26:19
Speaker 1: do you want to put that kind of pressure on him?
26:22
Speaker 2: In his first Bengals game, and you.
26:23
Speaker 4: Know, analytics would never even consider that. I mean, when
26:26
Speaker 4: you're looking at analytics, they're not looking at that kind
26:28
Speaker 4: of thing. And that's why you know, I analytics are okay,
26:32
Speaker 4: but I am not, like, you know, live and die
26:35
Speaker 4: on analytics, because there's always circumstances in a game that
26:39
Speaker 4: are different and you're going to have, you know, personnel
26:42
Speaker 4: issues like this that you never dream of. I mean,
26:45
Speaker 4: the guy that gave you the opportunity was somebody that
26:49
Speaker 4: wasn't on the football team when they broke training camp.
26:51
Speaker 4: The kicker wasn't on the football team for the Bengals
26:53
Speaker 4: when they broke training camp. I mean, it's that's life's
26:56
Speaker 4: in the National Football League. You you make a lot
27:00
Speaker 4: of roster moves, there's a lot of injuries. You have
27:02
Speaker 4: to massage your roster, you know, on a weekly basis
27:05
Speaker 4: and man getting everybody up to speed as much as
27:09
Speaker 4: you possibly can. You try to cover everything, but sometimes
27:12
Speaker 4: there's just not enough time to get it all covered.
27:15
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that young puppet right tackle a Marius Mims,
27:19
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, no tackles, no sacks, a couple of quarterback hits,
27:23
Speaker 1: but no tackles, no sacks.
27:26
Speaker 4: I think a Marius Mims. Let's face it, in the
27:31
Speaker 4: in the four weeks that he's been back, they had
27:34
Speaker 4: sixteen sacks as a team, and he had his share.
27:37
Speaker 4: They were tied for most in the National Football League
27:39
Speaker 4: in that four week span with the Denver Broncos, and
27:43
Speaker 4: a Marius Mims played his ass off quite frankly, I
27:46
Speaker 4: mean this this guy is a big man that has athleticism, mobility.
27:52
Speaker 4: You know, he's he's made of the right stuff, both
27:54
Speaker 4: both mentally and physically. He's extremely intelligent, he's got a
27:58
Speaker 4: high football IQ as well overall intelligence and telling you
28:02
Speaker 4: this guy is uh, he's going to be a special,
28:05
Speaker 4: special guy at the end of the line of scrimmage
28:07
Speaker 4: for a lot of years. And you know, when you
28:09
Speaker 4: look at it, I know Orlando is fighting, fighting injury,
28:12
Speaker 4: trying to come back and do everything you can. But
28:15
Speaker 4: when when those two are healthy and performing at the
28:17
Speaker 4: level that they can perform at man, that's a great
28:19
Speaker 4: feeling for Joe Burrow.
28:20
Speaker 10: I mean a great feeling.
28:22
Speaker 1: Big clinching sack for big play Tray, giving him twelve
28:26
Speaker 1: and a half for the year, but another sack for
28:28
Speaker 1: Joseph Aside now you talk to him after the game,
28:31
Speaker 1: had the block field goal last week. He's now had
28:33
Speaker 1: a sack at each of his last three games. He
28:36
Speaker 1: is coming on at the tail end of his fourth
28:39
Speaker 1: NFL season.
28:40
Speaker 4: And he and Trey Henderson worked so hard in the offseason.
28:44
Speaker 4: Joey Bisse was saying that those guys were in there
28:46
Speaker 4: every day. They were they were there before him to
28:48
Speaker 4: open the weight room up. And uh and so that
28:52
Speaker 4: hard work is paying off.
28:54
Speaker 10: And uh and you uh, you know, you.
28:57
Speaker 4: Get both of those guys make key plays defensive players
29:01
Speaker 4: in that football game, and you know that's where that's
29:04
Speaker 4: where the Bengals, you know, they need to get that
29:07
Speaker 4: pass rush pass rush going, and those guys are going
29:10
Speaker 4: to be two huge contributors as the final month of
29:14
Speaker 4: the season unfolds.
29:15
Speaker 1: They had some troubles on run defense r he could
29:18
Speaker 1: Dada end up having a big game, but the pass
29:20
Speaker 1: defense by and large is very good.
29:21
Speaker 4: In this game, it was you know, and uh, you know,
29:24
Speaker 4: I think I think the pressure and coverage combination was
29:29
Speaker 4: pretty good. And Cooper Rush a pretty accurate guy, and
29:32
Speaker 4: he was off by a lot on some of his throws.
29:36
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it looked like he was he
29:39
Speaker 4: was worried about putting the ball in danger because he
29:41
Speaker 4: really couldn't see. He didn't have a good feel for it,
29:43
Speaker 4: and he missed. He missed some throws that were, you know,
29:48
Speaker 4: pretty extraordinary. And then when he when he was on
29:51
Speaker 4: the money a little bit, the coverage was there, like
29:53
Speaker 4: you said, so I think the pass rush in the
29:56
Speaker 4: in the back end coverage. They played very good, complimentary
29:59
Speaker 4: football today.
30:00
Speaker 1: So a primetime road win for the second time this year,
30:03
Speaker 1: that's hard to do. They got one in New York
30:05
Speaker 1: against the Giants, they get one in Dallas tonight, and
30:08
Speaker 1: now we can go back and here's where we are different.
30:12
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch the Simpsons version of this game.
30:16
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing that's the last thing that you're going
30:18
Speaker 1: to do.
30:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just gonna hear about it from my grandson
30:22
Speaker 4: because I know Casey Casey Sickon was watching it, and
30:25
Speaker 4: I'm sure he'll he'll have a lot to say about it,
30:28
Speaker 4: so I'll get I'll get his feedback. But yeah, it's
30:34
Speaker 4: just it's good to get a good to get a w.
30:36
Speaker 4: I mean, every game in the National Football like, particularly
30:40
Speaker 4: for the Bengals. This year has been a battle. I mean,
30:42
Speaker 4: you know, another one score game and now they're you
30:46
Speaker 4: know two and eight and those bad two and seven
30:48
Speaker 4: and those bad boys instead of just having that one
30:51
Speaker 4: lonely victory.
30:53
Speaker 1: That puts a rap on the Cowboys game. Now it's
30:56
Speaker 1: time for this week's fun Fact segment where you get
30:58
Speaker 1: to know the person under the pads. Time for some
31:03
Speaker 1: fun facts with Josh Newton from Monroe, Louisiana that's in
31:07
Speaker 1: the northern part of the state of Louisiana, not too
31:10
Speaker 1: far from the Arkansas state line. Tell us a little
31:13
Speaker 1: bit about your hometown and what you like to do
31:15
Speaker 1: growing up there.
31:17
Speaker 7: Very small me growing up. I grew up outside a
31:20
Speaker 7: lot so riding schools, playing football, basketball, kickball, any ball
31:26
Speaker 7: you could find. We played it in the neighborhood so
31:28
Speaker 7: hide and go seek, man. I mean, it was just
31:32
Speaker 7: really active. So it's kind of like Will helped me
31:35
Speaker 7: as far as being an athlete, just being active when
31:37
Speaker 7: I was a young kid.
31:39
Speaker 1: For visiting with Josh Newton around draft time, you were
31:42
Speaker 1: asked about why you played football, and you said, my
31:45
Speaker 1: why is to retire my mama. There's a lot of
31:48
Speaker 1: love and respect in that sentence, tell us about your mom.
31:52
Speaker 7: Oh, very strong, very open, kind hearted, lovely person, respects people,
31:57
Speaker 7: leeds respect, and she's definitely still there to me, and
32:01
Speaker 7: I try to exploit that to people. Lee with love,
32:05
Speaker 7: leave with spaceball. Also, you're not gonna be able to
32:07
Speaker 7: run over me as well, So just watching her for
32:11
Speaker 7: a long time, studying her and you know, also growing
32:14
Speaker 7: into my own shoes as well, because you know, that's
32:17
Speaker 7: what it w That's what it that's what it is.
32:20
Speaker 1: You were an outstanding wide receiver in high school, but
32:23
Speaker 1: colleges didn't beat a path to your door. Was it
32:26
Speaker 1: frustrating or hard to understand?
32:29
Speaker 7: I feel like it was just more the more for
32:31
Speaker 7: me to just understand for her, cause I was really
32:33
Speaker 7: new to all the office. I was just playing football,
32:37
Speaker 7: so I really didn't know how who to get in
32:39
Speaker 7: contact with or you know, sending emails or none of that.
32:44
Speaker 7: So I mean I only end up when one offering,
32:47
Speaker 7: that's all I needed.
32:49
Speaker 1: That one offer came from your hometown school, the University
32:52
Speaker 1: of Louisiana Monroe. Did you like playing close to home?
32:55
Speaker 10: Yeah?
32:56
Speaker 7: I did, I did. I enjoyed it for sure. It
32:59
Speaker 7: wasn't five but at the end of the day, you
33:01
Speaker 7: got to start somewhere, so you just do the work
33:04
Speaker 7: and everything else will come.
33:06
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, the pandemic year in college football, Louisiana
33:11
Speaker 1: and Road didn't win a game.
33:12
Speaker 10: I'll in ten.
33:14
Speaker 1: Did you learn anything from going through that?
33:15
Speaker 7: I learned a lot. I learned a lot, a lot,
33:18
Speaker 7: a lot, like a bookworth. I'm already trying to get
33:21
Speaker 7: too much doubt, but I just see, you know, I've
33:23
Speaker 7: seen a lot of true colors.
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Speaker 1: After four years at ULM, you transferred to TCU. I've
33:30
Speaker 1: been on the TCU campus. The facilities are spectacular. It's
33:34
Speaker 1: an amazing place. Did you feel like you had died
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Speaker 1: and gone to heaven.
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Speaker 7: For a little bit? But once I got there, it's like, Okay,
33:41
Speaker 7: this is what it is now. But bro, they even
33:43
Speaker 7: they renovating again off the championship year. So whenever I
33:47
Speaker 7: get back, whenever I go back in like, was it
33:49
Speaker 7: twenty five, So they should be done like twenty five,
33:53
Speaker 7: So whenever I go back, it's gonna even look even
33:56
Speaker 7: more different.
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Speaker 1: They also have gigantic pictures of their former stuff all
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Speaker 1: over the place. It's like a shrine to Andy Dalton.
34:02
Speaker 1: There do you anticipate that there's going to be some
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Speaker 1: nice images of Josh Newton on display.
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Speaker 7: Uh, we'll see after my career does what it does.
34:13
Speaker 7: Planning for a long time, so whenever that's finished, we'll see.
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Speaker 7: But I ain't no first, second round, third round peak.
34:20
Speaker 7: So it's you know, you gotta do a little bit
34:23
Speaker 7: more work.
34:23
Speaker 1: So in your first year at TCU, you made a
34:26
Speaker 1: famous training camp speech for a team that ultimately made
34:29
Speaker 1: it to the National Championship Game. You said, quote, God
34:33
Speaker 1: gave us change for the ones that have been here.
34:35
Speaker 1: They gave you a new staff. He gave me a
34:38
Speaker 1: new home and a new family. Now what are we
34:41
Speaker 1: going to do with it? That's powerful stuff. Do you
34:44
Speaker 1: believe it had an impact.
34:46
Speaker 7: Most definitely over over time, over time, it just you know,
34:51
Speaker 7: everybody said that this much was they was ready to
34:54
Speaker 7: go play after that that day.
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Speaker 1: It's gotten a lot of hits on YouTube over the years.
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Speaker 1: Have a lot of people that you've never met come
35:01
Speaker 1: up to you and asked you about that speech.
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Speaker 7: I say a lot of like Bingle saying, for sure,
35:07
Speaker 7: like once I got drafted. Once everybody's still okay. Once
35:11
Speaker 7: you get drafted, they go do a little bit deeper research,
35:13
Speaker 7: and you know I got a few things about that
35:17
Speaker 7: for sure.
35:18
Speaker 1: For chatting with Josh Newton. That team was picked to
35:20
Speaker 1: finish seventh in the Big Twelve. You won the league,
35:24
Speaker 1: you upset Michigan and the Fiesta Ball. You made it
35:26
Speaker 1: to the National Championship before losing to Georgia. Is there
35:30
Speaker 1: a game or a play or a moment that really
35:32
Speaker 1: stands out for you?
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Speaker 7: For me, I don't even want to because if I
35:38
Speaker 7: say a play, don't remember another player and then we're
35:40
Speaker 7: gonna I can't even I can't even do the game
35:43
Speaker 7: like that.
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Speaker 1: You were selected in the fifth round of this year's draft.
35:47
Speaker 1: Describe the draft weekend.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'm just ready. I was ready to get it
35:53
Speaker 7: over with, get the football, get to the meetings, get
35:58
Speaker 7: to knowing the guys, getting communicating on the playbook. Like
36:03
Speaker 7: I was just ready to get it over with. See
36:04
Speaker 7: where I'm going? You get to play in ball.
36:07
Speaker 1: So much work leads up to that moment when you
36:11
Speaker 1: looked at your phone and you saw five one three,
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Speaker 1: pay Court Stadium, whatever it's said.
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Speaker 7: I was first of all, I was like, pay Court Stadium.
36:19
Speaker 7: I've never heard of this stadium in my life. But
36:23
Speaker 7: it didn't say Cincinnati and nothing, so he said, it's
36:26
Speaker 7: Zack Taylor Cincinnati Bans. I'm like, oh shit, but now
36:33
Speaker 7: I talk my people from the day four, I'm like, bro,
36:35
Speaker 7: like y'all just on know, like it's a contender team bro.
36:39
Speaker 7: Like two three years ago they was just in the
36:42
Speaker 7: Super Bowl with they ain't need the same guys that
36:45
Speaker 7: we still have on the roster. So I was. I
36:48
Speaker 7: was more excited as far as getting to the business
36:51
Speaker 7: part of it, getting to work with Joe Burrow, Jamar
36:54
Speaker 7: Chase t Higgins, Ted, Jermaine Logan, Trey cam Mike, Like,
37:03
Speaker 7: like just knowing who you about to get a chance
37:05
Speaker 7: to go to work with. I mean, bruh, I w
37:07
Speaker 7: I will cite.
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Speaker 1: What's it take to be a great corner back in
37:12
Speaker 1: the NFL?
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Speaker 7: Oh mentality for sure? Uh yeah, I have no fear.
37:17
Speaker 7: He can't be scared to lose. Uh, just knowing what
37:20
Speaker 7: you signed up for and like it's it's on you,
37:23
Speaker 7: Like nobody else can say you. You gotta be a
37:25
Speaker 7: Navy seal. And it's like when Navy seals get caught
37:29
Speaker 7: its life or death, they know they about to face
37:31
Speaker 7: in first situation. It's just like they not they not
37:35
Speaker 7: thinking they n they going into the battle, not even
37:37
Speaker 7: thinking they finna come out alive until they come out alive.
37:41
Speaker 7: So just I feel like it's that same type of
37:43
Speaker 7: mentality when you go out there on the island, bru.
37:45
Speaker 7: You gotta you gotta fight to survive. For sure.
37:49
Speaker 1: A lot of guys who played wide receiver in high
37:51
Speaker 1: school and then get switched to defensive back when they're
37:54
Speaker 1: in college were forced to do it by the coaching staff,
37:57
Speaker 1: or at least strongly told that they should try and
37:59
Speaker 1: do it. That wasn't the case for you, right, no, I.
38:02
Speaker 7: Asked, So I was. My thing was is like, okay,
38:05
Speaker 7: ten receivers versus four corners.
38:09
Speaker 10: And it's math.
38:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's math. So I mean, you know made the
38:13
Speaker 7: right choice.
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Speaker 1: When you say ten receivers versus four corners? Is that
38:17
Speaker 1: in terms of getting on the field at that stage
38:20
Speaker 1: or thinking about the pros down the.
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Speaker 7: Road, both right now and because if you don't get
38:25
Speaker 7: on the field right now, you can't set yourself up
38:27
Speaker 7: for later. So that was my whole I guess, not
38:30
Speaker 7: that I was a bad receiver. It's just like, man,
38:32
Speaker 7: look like my size at receiver is is mediocre, below
38:40
Speaker 7: average with my size at corner it's above average to
38:45
Speaker 7: right on points. So it's like, you know, I just
38:47
Speaker 7: made that decision and ran with it.
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Speaker 1: Smart decision. All right, a few wild card topics now
38:53
Speaker 1: for Josh Newton, who's your all time favorite athlete in
38:57
Speaker 1: any sport?
38:58
Speaker 7: And why Kobe? And it's not because of the cliche
39:03
Speaker 7: things the championships. Is the little things that he took serious,
39:10
Speaker 7: like a lot of things that I feel like, ass
39:14
Speaker 7: you a young human period, like you may not take
39:17
Speaker 7: taking the trash out series. You might not take doing
39:21
Speaker 7: the dishes or making your bed, or you might not
39:23
Speaker 7: take all that stuff serious. But once you get into
39:27
Speaker 7: a certain a certain area of a certain hierarchy or
39:30
Speaker 7: a certain level and where expectation follows this what you wanted,
39:35
Speaker 7: and then it's like, okay, now you don't really know
39:38
Speaker 7: how to be consistent because you ain't been doing the
39:40
Speaker 7: every day thing. So the thing about that made Kobe
39:43
Speaker 7: just different. He did the everything every day things like
39:47
Speaker 7: like it was just his last day living and he
39:50
Speaker 7: took you serious, or he was passionate about with everything
39:52
Speaker 7: he did. He had a purpose and he knew his purpose.
39:56
Speaker 7: He walked with his purpose. He had confidence in his purpose,
39:59
Speaker 7: and I wish he was still living just so I
40:01
Speaker 7: can have a chance to meet him. But no, he's
40:04
Speaker 7: definitely like just he did to meet even though I
40:06
Speaker 7: didn't really get to meet him for sure.
40:08
Speaker 1: Did it shake you when he passed?
40:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, I couldn't believe. I'm like bro all people and
40:13
Speaker 7: it's like, I don't wish that from nobody, not a
40:15
Speaker 7: soul living. But it's just like Kobe, let me, like,
40:19
Speaker 7: let me at least make it to the lead where
40:20
Speaker 7: I could at least, you know what I'm saying. I
40:23
Speaker 7: could move around a little bit. I could fly to La,
40:25
Speaker 7: I could catch a game or catch him at a
40:27
Speaker 7: game or something like that. But it's just like, you know,
40:30
Speaker 7: you know, life happens, and you know they don't start
40:33
Speaker 7: from nobody.
40:34
Speaker 1: You told me during training camp that you like to cook,
40:37
Speaker 1: and you shared this wisdom that I thought was great.
40:41
Speaker 1: If the food is flavored, it will cook itself. That
40:45
Speaker 1: is all about seasoning. That is really good chef advice.
40:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, you only you only do that through experience though cooking.
40:51
Speaker 7: And you know I done messed up grits. I haven't
40:54
Speaker 7: missed the rights, but nah, and you know, just trial
40:57
Speaker 7: and error and just over time you eventually you find
41:01
Speaker 7: your you find your little niche, you find your Okay,
41:03
Speaker 7: I like this, I like how I did that, or
41:05
Speaker 7: I remember this, so you know. So I mean, you
41:08
Speaker 7: gotta get in the you gotta get in the kitchen
41:11
Speaker 7: to you know, give advice.
41:13
Speaker 1: You also told me that cooking and the patience required
41:17
Speaker 1: to do it well help you be more patient in
41:19
Speaker 1: the rest of your life.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it does. I mean, if a two year old
41:25
Speaker 7: two year old baby teachers a mother or father patients,
41:29
Speaker 7: I mean, it's a lot of more things they can
41:32
Speaker 7: teach you patience as well. It's just one one way
41:34
Speaker 7: to learn Patience's just I feel like that's the most
41:37
Speaker 7: common way we all learn patience. It's dough, like giving
41:40
Speaker 7: birth to a child. Anybody said that when they like,
41:44
Speaker 7: I'd have had to grow patience. I didn't. I had
41:47
Speaker 7: to come. I done had to calm down. I didn't
41:48
Speaker 7: have to you know, you done had to do something.
41:51
Speaker 7: Something made you. And you know, but when you out
41:56
Speaker 7: there on the island when bullets and fly on bullets
42:00
Speaker 7: flying at the end of the day, like you have
42:02
Speaker 7: to and exhaled and be calm through the situation. For sure.
42:09
Speaker 1: Your nickname is fig as in Fig Newton's. I'll be honest,
42:13
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan. I'm good cookie either.
42:17
Speaker 7: It's just about it. Just I was like, bro, I'm
42:18
Speaker 7: gonna start calling you feed feed Newton. And then the
42:21
Speaker 7: rest of the rest of the rest of the meat
42:24
Speaker 7: room went with it, and I went with it too,
42:26
Speaker 7: So I mean, it is what it is. Nice, it's
42:28
Speaker 7: it's easy, it's quick. You don't have to you know
42:31
Speaker 7: what I'm saying.
42:33
Speaker 1: I like the nickname. And if they want to give
42:36
Speaker 1: you a contract to endorse the cookie.
42:38
Speaker 7: Come on with it, it can come on with it.
42:40
Speaker 7: I am down. I'm down. I definitely will Yeah, for sure.
42:45
Speaker 1: Where do you like to spend your money on?
42:50
Speaker 7: I like good food. I'm not gonna lie I'm a
42:52
Speaker 7: good food person. I like Jeff Rubis. I haven't hit
42:56
Speaker 7: the rest of the spots yet, but Jeff Rubis, Rue,
42:59
Speaker 7: Chris red Feather. It's a couple more spots, you know.
43:03
Speaker 7: I like, you know, just is consistent fried rice with
43:08
Speaker 7: the egg. I'm good like it's just a good meal
43:10
Speaker 7: for me just because I'm an athlete. It's rice. You
43:13
Speaker 7: got your protein good? All right?
43:16
Speaker 1: Final fun fact for Josh Newton. This one's kind of deep.
43:21
Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased,
43:26
Speaker 1: who would that person be?
43:28
Speaker 7: Oh? How many people? I get.
43:31
Speaker 1: You can have as many as you like.
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Speaker 7: Martin, Luther, King, Malcolm X, Kobe Bryant, Bernie Mac, James, Wooderspoon.
43:44
Speaker 7: He played on Friday, he played, He was Crags Kris
43:48
Speaker 7: that ice cubes at on Friday, Like super funny, Like
43:53
Speaker 7: he just passed like with them, I say, like the
43:55
Speaker 7: last two to three years. But yeah, that was fin Malcolm, Ma,
43:59
Speaker 7: Marlin Luther, Kobe Bryant, Bernie Mack, Bernie, Matt James with
44:04
Speaker 7: just for sure Late, that's a good mix legends legends
44:09
Speaker 7: for sure.
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Speaker 1: All right, this has been fun. I appreciate your time.
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Speaker 1: Best of luck the rest of the year.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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