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Bengals Booth Podcast: Hold On To What You Believe · Bengals Booth Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast, The Hold On to What You Believe. Addition,
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  Speaker 1: as the Bengals lose an overtime heartbreaker to the Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: Ravens forty one to thirty eight, coming up radio replays,
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  Speaker 1: locker room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then
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  Speaker 1: in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll meet the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: let's get to football and the radio replays from Sunday's game.
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  Speaker 1: Normally I bring you a comprehensive recap with highlights from
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  Speaker 1: both teams, but this is a Bengals podcast, and I
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  Speaker 1: suspect you're in no mood to hear Lamar Jackson run
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  Speaker 1: around for ten seconds before making a big play, So
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  Speaker 1: this week we're sticking with Bengals highlights, at least until
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  Speaker 1: the very end of the game. Burrow and the Shotgun.
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  Speaker 1: With Moss off his right hip, Joe is ready catches
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder high snaff throws by.
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  Speaker 2: Higgins, touchdown Bengals up the middle. Of the field and
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  Speaker 2: into the end zone. He bows toward the fans behind
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  Speaker 2: the goalposts, and the Bengals are a pat away from
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  Speaker 2: tying the score.
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  Speaker 3: And now Joe Burrow read that perfectly. He threw a
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  Speaker 3: dart to t Higgins. T Higgins probably looked about eight
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  Speaker 3: feet tall.
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  Speaker 1: On first and ten from their own two, the Ravens.
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  Speaker 2: Line up in an occamation. It's a safety. They tackle
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  Speaker 2: Derrick Henry. Sam Hubbard tackles the King in the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: Two points for the Bengals. Had a safety.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals with one time out remaining, trailing by five points.
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  Speaker 1: Burrow ready for the shotgun snap. Moss lines up to
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  Speaker 1: his right. It's a fake to Moss. Burrow with time
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  Speaker 1: fires deep down the chase. He's done.
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  Speaker 2: Touchdown Bengals nine seconds left in the half, but a
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  Speaker 2: penalty flag at the forty seven yard linh Man, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's on Baltimore.
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  Speaker 4: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: Roughing the passers the fowl brook the Festal.
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  Speaker 5: He took them a ninety.
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  Speaker 2: Two nice last week, a touchdown with one second left
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  Speaker 2: in the half. Today, a touchdown with nine seconds left
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  Speaker 2: in the half.
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  Speaker 1: Burrowing the shotgun with Zach Moss to his right. Eric
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  Speaker 1: All is also in the game. Higgins motions to the right,
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  Speaker 1: Burrow is ready, catches the shotgun snap he throws into.
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  Speaker 2: The undel god for the touchdown. An emphatic spike by
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  Speaker 2: t Higgins his second touchdown catch this afternoon, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bengals kept the double double a touchdown at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the first half and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: To begin the second half. Kara snaps it back, Burrow
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  Speaker 1: looks bro caught.
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  Speaker 4: Heads a touchdow sound.
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  Speaker 2: Chase Brown with the catch, knocks over the pylon. Four
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  Speaker 2: touchdown passes for Joe Burrow and the Fangals lead by
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  Speaker 2: nine with a pat coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Joe's thrown four touchdown passes the tighest career high throws
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  Speaker 1: a short pass to Chase Nice blocking.
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  Speaker 2: On the the fifty at the foot race jam out
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  Speaker 2: of the thirty. The twenty to ten, the five touchdo
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  Speaker 2: seventy yards Burrow to Chase. Joe mar does it again
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  Speaker 2: and Cincinnati's lead could be back to ten, pending the pat.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you know.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes you have to.
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  Speaker 3: Make more of the plane than design of the plane.
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  Speaker 3: And it was designed to be a little screened wide
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  Speaker 3: receiver screen you see what you can get out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Good blocking by there's two tight ends all in Kisiki.
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  Speaker 3: He splits the two defenders and once he gets going
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  Speaker 3: north and south.
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  Speaker 5: He is gone.
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  Speaker 2: Lamar drop the snap, get the balls on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: still on the ground, get picked up by Jermaine running
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  Speaker 2: to the fortieth the thirty eight I the Bengals have
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  Speaker 2: the football, half the thirty eight of Baltimore have. Lamar
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  Speaker 2: Jackson dropped the snap, couldn't pick it up cleanly, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals have a chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: How about it?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty eight all the score. McPherson is ready. Rico looking
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  Speaker 1: back at the kicker. Now he twists his head, catches
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  Speaker 1: the snap, puts the ball down. The kick is up.
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  Speaker 1: It is no good missed it left and the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: will get the ball at the forty four yard live
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  Speaker 1: justin Tucker for the win. This would be the twentieth
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  Speaker 1: game winner of his NFL career. And it's as easy
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  Speaker 1: as they come. Twenty four yards away. He swings the
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  Speaker 1: right leg and the Baltimore raven rally from ten down
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and beat the Bengals in overtime
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  Speaker 1: forty one two thirty eight. Right now, you almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: know what happened on the Bengals game winning field goal
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  Speaker 1: try in overtime. Holder Ryan Rico caught the long snap
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  Speaker 1: but wasn't able to place the ball down smoothly. That
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  Speaker 1: threw off the timing and Evan McPherson's fifty three yard
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  Speaker 1: attempt went wide left. Here's Rico's description of what went wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Watching the film back, it looks like I just don't
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  Speaker 7: get a super clean grip on it as I'm trying
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  Speaker 7: to bring it down. I think I'm trying to bring
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  Speaker 7: it down a little too quick, and then as it
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  Speaker 7: kind of the tail starts to wig out a little bit,
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  Speaker 7: I try and get it back up and just don't
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  Speaker 7: get my right hand back out of the way fast enough.
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  Speaker 7: Evan did a great job, he stuck with it. He
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  Speaker 7: trusts us a lot, and I think that's one of
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  Speaker 7: those things where I feel like I let him down,
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  Speaker 7: let the team down a little bit, And yeah, definitely
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  Speaker 7: tough to look back on, but it's one player. I
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  Speaker 7: hate that that's it feels like that costs us the game.
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  Speaker 7: Then for me personally, I definitely feel like that too.
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  Speaker 1: Your heart had to be racing, Ryan could you feel
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  Speaker 1: it where the butterflies fluttering.
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  Speaker 7: That's one of those things where usually when I'm on
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  Speaker 7: the field, I feel really calm, and that circumstance wasn't
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  Speaker 7: any different. I really do feel like almost the adrenaline
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  Speaker 7: maybe too much, just trying to get it down too quick.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's the Bengals offensive approach before the field goal.
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  Speaker 1: With a first down at the Baltimore thirty eight, they
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  Speaker 1: handed the ball to Chase Brown three straight times on
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  Speaker 1: second and third down. They had six offensive linemen, two
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  Speaker 1: tight ends, and only one wide receiver on the field,
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  Speaker 1: a pretty clear indication that a run was almost certainly coming.
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  Speaker 1: Here are Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow and electing not
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  Speaker 1: to pass in that situation.
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  Speaker 6: We feel like we're in field goal range and you
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  Speaker 6: know there are there, there is. We've thrown the ball
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  Speaker 6: in that situation before we called past. Joe actually did
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  Speaker 6: a great job getting us out of it back into
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  Speaker 6: a run because the look was not there to throw it,
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  Speaker 6: and so there was there was good management by him.
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  Speaker 6: Still got a couple of yards out of it, and
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  Speaker 6: then we're in a position to win the field goal,
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  Speaker 6: and and we thought we'd win it with that.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I'm not going to second guess that we were.
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  Speaker 8: We were in field goal range. You know, we go
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  Speaker 8: into every week on game day understanding field goal range
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  Speaker 8: on each side of the field, and yeah, you want
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  Speaker 8: to get some yards to make it easier on them.
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  Speaker 8: But also that defense is really good and makes negative
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  Speaker 8: plays happen all the time. So if you know, you
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  Speaker 8: drop back and and get sacked or sacked fumble, they
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  Speaker 8: have a really good rush.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I'm not going to second guess that one.
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  Speaker 8: We had a shot to win it and we didn't
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  Speaker 8: take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Tucker entered the game one for seven from fifty
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  Speaker 1: plus yards since the start of last year and nailed
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  Speaker 1: a fifty six yard at a force overtime money. Mack
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  Speaker 1: had made seventy seven percent from fifty plus for his
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  Speaker 1: career and missed from fifty three. Unfortunately, that's the way
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  Speaker 1: this season has gone so far. I talked to McPherson
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  Speaker 1: after the game.
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  Speaker 9: I hate for it to in the way it did.
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  Speaker 9: I wish I could come through and kind of hesitate
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  Speaker 9: there and so put a good hint on it. It
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  Speaker 9: actually ended up going pretty far. But it's just an
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  Speaker 9: unfortunate event, won't have it again from these guys. I
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  Speaker 9: know that we worked so hard, too hard for that
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  Speaker 9: to happen, and I just hate that I couldn't come
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  Speaker 9: through for the team in that situation, because I mean,
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  Speaker 9: they played a really tough game back and forth, and
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  Speaker 9: it just it's a terrible feeling that when you when
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  Speaker 9: you can't come through like that at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Now we feel lousy for Ryan, having's unfortunate for him
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  Speaker 1: this early in his career.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, No, you know, I'm really proud of Ryan. He
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  Speaker 9: has done a really good job at holding and I
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  Speaker 9: have full trust in him. And whether he drops it
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  Speaker 9: or if it's perfect, I think that I should make
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  Speaker 9: every kick and so none of that should be put
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  Speaker 9: on Ryan or Cal or anything. I think, if anything,
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  Speaker 9: I didn't put the ball through the upright, So I
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  Speaker 9: think it all got to follow me.
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  Speaker 1: Any thought on the offensive strategy there at the end,
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  Speaker 1: more or less saying okay, fifty four fifty three fine.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, we had a pretty good win going
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  Speaker 9: that way. It was kind of cross, but it was
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  Speaker 9: more so towards our tunnel, and so we had a
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  Speaker 9: good feeling of from long distance going that way, So
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  Speaker 9: you don't want to risk putting the ball up in
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  Speaker 9: the air, getting an interception or what. So usually the
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  Speaker 9: game plan for game win and field goal is run
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  Speaker 9: the ball, get as close as you can, but ultimately
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  Speaker 9: just hang on to the ball. So when can get
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  Speaker 9: the field goal attempt?
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  Speaker 1: Can you describe just how difficult this one is the
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  Speaker 1: process considering how well it went for most of the way.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I know, it's super difficult, just because everything
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  Speaker 9: was going so and we were playing so good, and
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  Speaker 9: I just hate the wait into it because we all,
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  Speaker 9: I feel like, had a good feeling about it. We
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  Speaker 9: were all playing really good football and I felt like
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  Speaker 9: I was kicking well today. I had a good feeling
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  Speaker 9: about the field goal. But it's just how it goes sometimes.
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  Speaker 9: But you got to learn to take it, move on
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  Speaker 9: and not sit on it and not let it affect
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  Speaker 9: next week.
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  Speaker 1: is the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: hear from team captain Ted Kerris sed, you're always good
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  Speaker 1: at having a perspective in situations like this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what's the locker room mood right now?
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  Speaker 10: I think the table to tape on us is where
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  Speaker 10: the would be kings. We're four possessions away from having
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  Speaker 10: a great record. Ball hasn't bounced our way, such as
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  Speaker 10: the nature of the business in this league, so we're
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  Speaker 10: sitting at one and four having to dig our way
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  Speaker 10: out of football.
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  Speaker 1: Hell, Joe had said during the week, we need to
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  Speaker 1: be pretty darn perfect or close to perfect, and you were,
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  Speaker 1: but one costly turnover, a couple of third and short failures,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the difference.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, in an AFC North battle like this, you know
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  Speaker 10: those are costly. You know we didn't finish the game,
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  Speaker 10: and we haven't finished in our four losses. We've been
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  Speaker 10: right there. We're the almost so we need to start
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  Speaker 10: being the definitelyes.
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  Speaker 1: Three games with thirty plus. Do you take any solace
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  Speaker 1: and how the offense is performing right now?
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  Speaker 4: Not really.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, sure, we'll look at the film and there'll
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  Speaker 10: be some positives, but we're not winning so we got
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  Speaker 10: to dig our way out of this.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're not gonna play cooler.
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  Speaker 6: You guys get the ball back, plus territory and overtime
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  Speaker 6: after the fubble, Can you take me through the idea
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  Speaker 6: of running it three times?
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  Speaker 11: When your quarterback is as hot as he is?
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  Speaker 1: What's the strategy do you think offensively in that spot.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not gonna dive in to the strategy of that.
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  Speaker 10: What I think is we need to execute a little
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  Speaker 10: bit better. Maybe get us you know, six or seven
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  Speaker 10: yards and let our you know, all star kicker make
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  Speaker 10: a kick. And the ball didn't bounce our way this time.
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  Speaker 10: So you know, I'm not gonna.
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  Speaker 7: Sit here and second guess anything.
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  Speaker 1: At one and four, a lot of guys are going
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  Speaker 1: to lean on the leaders of this room. How important
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  Speaker 1: is it for guys like you at this time?
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  Speaker 10: That's very important to mean I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 10: I think a lot of times leadership can be overblown.
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  Speaker 10: It's about showing up to work every day and bringing
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  Speaker 10: your best, and I think that's that's the best way
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  Speaker 10: to lead. You know, you can be you know, mister
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  Speaker 10: raw Rah, when it comes down to it, you got
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  Speaker 10: to show up on Wednesday ready to go, ready to work,
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  Speaker 10: ready to do what it takes to turn our almost
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  Speaker 10: into wins.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bengals are one and four and all four
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  Speaker 1: losses have been by six points or less. They're up
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  Speaker 1: to fourth in the league in points scored, but they're
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  Speaker 1: next to last end points allowed. Here again, our Zach
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  Speaker 1: Taylor and Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 6: Sick to my stomach for our guys in there. They fought,
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  Speaker 6: proud of them, but we got to find a way
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  Speaker 6: to win. We can't keep coming up one play short.
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  Speaker 6: And that's really what the game came down to. So
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  Speaker 6: a lot that I admired about how our team fought.
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  Speaker 6: That was a good, good game against a great team.
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  Speaker 6: And uh, and we're gonna find a way to rebound
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  Speaker 6: from this and move forward because I believe in the
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  Speaker 6: guys in that room. I know we're in a tough situation,
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  Speaker 6: but I believe we've got the guys to bring us
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  Speaker 6: out of it.
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  Speaker 8: We're not a championship level team right now.
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  Speaker 4: We're not.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I like to think that. You know, we'll
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  Speaker 8: come back and improve throughout the season to get to
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  Speaker 8: that point, but right now we are not, and we
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  Speaker 8: have to get better.
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  Speaker 6: It's week five of the season. So it's disappointing that
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  Speaker 6: we just lost a great football team in a big
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  Speaker 6: game for us, But you're not going to see a
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  Speaker 6: lot of guys sitting in here just feeling sorry for ourselves. Like,
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  Speaker 6: we still believe in each other and we have a
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  Speaker 6: tremendous opportunity to show what we're about going forward, and
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  Speaker 6: so people can write us off if they really want to.
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  Speaker 6: I'm dumb enough to do that, And so I believe
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  Speaker 6: in these guys, and I know what we showed out
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  Speaker 6: there today, and I showed that there's brighter days ahead
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  Speaker 6: in twenty twenty four in the season, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 6: to watch these guys rebound and do that.
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  Speaker 1: Next a Sunday night road game against the two and
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  Speaker 1: three New York Giants, who went on the road and
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  Speaker 1: beat Seattle on Sunday twenty nine to twenty. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: rushed for one hundred and seventy five yards in that game.
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  Speaker 1: Now time for the radio guys recap we lap. I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of at a loss for words. Thirty eight points,
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  Speaker 1: ten point leads on multiple occasions in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't get out of here with a win.
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  Speaker 1: This one's tough to stomach. For the Bengals and for
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  Speaker 1: their followers.
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  Speaker 11: There's no question. I mean, both quarterbacks should talk about
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  Speaker 11: lighting it up. I mean, they were both ridiculous. Jackson
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  Speaker 11: as a quarterback rating at just under one twenty four
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  Speaker 11: touchdown passes three hundred and forty eight yards passing Joe
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  Speaker 11: Burrow three hundred and ninety two yards passing five touchdown
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  Speaker 11: passes an interception, one thirty seven rating. If he doesn't
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  Speaker 11: throw that pick, he's damn near perfect. But I mean
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  Speaker 11: chasing Higgins nineteen catches two hundred and seventy six yards
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  Speaker 11: between the two of them, four touchdowns. You're kidding me,
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  Speaker 11: how you know, how do you lose that? How do
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  Speaker 11: you lose that football game? The Bengals going five drives
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  Speaker 11: of seventy yards or more for touchdowns, one of them
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  Speaker 11: is one play drive, and they lose the football game. Defensively,
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  Speaker 11: it was just such a struggle they You know, they
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  Speaker 11: did a good job on Henry for most of the
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  Speaker 11: football game. He got away late in the football game.
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  Speaker 11: Obviously that's set up the game winning field goal. But
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  Speaker 11: I mean he ends up with ninety two yards rushing.
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  Speaker 11: That's so deceptive with that fifty one yard lug at
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  Speaker 11: the end of the football game. But the red zone,
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  Speaker 11: they get down there five times, they score five times.
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  Speaker 11: You know, after Henry has the run, that red zone
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  Speaker 11: possession doesn't even count when accounted. They were five for five.
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  Speaker 11: The Bengals were three for three. That they just didn't
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  Speaker 11: get there as much as the Ravens did. I mean
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  Speaker 11: the epitome of a track beat. And in the AFC
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: North that prides itself on good defenses, I mean both
• 17:10
  Speaker 11: defenses got sliced and diced.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: So Joe Burrow said during the course of the week,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I need to be darn near perfect, and for much
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: of the day he was. But with about three minutes
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: to go, it's first and ten at the Baltimore twenty eight.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: You're up by three. Or Lando Brown Junior called for
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a five yard penalty. Joe throws a pick. On the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: next play. You get the ball back with plenty of
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: time left and three timeouts remaining, tie score, drive down
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and kick a field goal. Take a sack on the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: first play, get nothing. You recover a fumble in overtime
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: with a chance to win the game, and can't advance
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the ball. So plenty of opportunities. As as much as
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the defense struggled, there were plenty of opportunities for the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: offense to put it away.
• 17:50
  Speaker 11: There were And really, the only play I think that
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: Joe would like to have back is the one he
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: under threw to Tee. I mean, Tea's numbers would have
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: been ridiculous if they complete that ball, if he puts
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: it out in front instead of a little bit short,
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: you know, he's still running. I mean that that bad
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: boy brings Tea well over a hundred yards receiving in
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: the football game. I mean that would have been his
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: tenth catch, and he probably would have had, you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: like a buck twenty or more. So it's crazy how
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: well the offense took advantage of things that are really
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: good defensive football team. The Baltimore Ravens are a solid
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: defensive football team. The Bengals, you know, they spread them
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: out and kind of took them apart a little bit.
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: They had their way in the middle of the football
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: field until Humphrey. Humphrey saw the route a few times
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: during the course of the game, that slant route, and
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: he jumped it and got in front of Jamar and
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: made a great play on it. There's no, no doubt.
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: But you know that turnover was big. But then to
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: get it back, Prat gets it back the fumble and
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: you know he advanced and puts the Bengals in field
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: goal range. And Ryan Rico, the rookie holder, doesn't handle
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: the snap cleanly and the lacers are on the on
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: the ground basically at the balls on its on its side.
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: He gets it up, but not great and it's within
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: like a millisecond of of the the approach of Moneymack,
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: and those are tough to make, particularly from that distance.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. So reinforcements were back on the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: defensive line. We don't have snap counts yet. Miles Murphy
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: played a lot, McKinley Jackson played a little, I think
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: against a mortal quarterback, a normal human being of a quarterback.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Miles Murphy might have had a great game. He was
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: in the backfield quite a bit, but couldn't get Lamard
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to the ground.
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that's a that's a tough one to
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: come back and think about your football geometry, the angles
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: that you take because he's not mortal. I mean, that
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: guy is it. It's like, I don't know what it's
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: trying to like tackle. It's it's trying to tackle a
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: you know, an unbelievable, make you miss running back in
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: the pocket. I mean, he'll make unbelievable runs of the
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: football to climb the pocket, and then he'll climb it,
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: he'll retreat, he'll go to you know, get out of pocket,
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: to the side, all in the same play. And it's like, man,
• 20:05
  Speaker 11: this guy is just his short space quickness is incredible,
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: and he just seems to have tremendous vision, I mean,
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: like eyes on the side of his head, in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: back of his head for when to change direction, when
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: to climb the pocket, when to retreat, when to do
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: everything he does. He is spectacular and then a lot
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: of times he's unusual and that you'll hit him. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: remember Sam hit him pretty good one time and he
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: retreated and less than the contact, you know, he he's
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: so quick. He just backpedaled like three steps and Sam's
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: contact ended up being a lot less and he kind
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: of slid down him and he escaped that. So he
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: is a tough guy to hit and wrap up. He
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: is so slippery and so dynamic.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: The Bengals might be the first team ever to have
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: their point total go up in their first five games
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of the year from ten to twenty five to thirty three,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: thirty four, now thirty eight, and to have two thirty
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: point games at home that you didn't manage to win.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: This defense got to find answers soon for the Bengals
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to stay alive.
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's almost that's almost incomprehensible really when you think
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: about it. You know, since the opener they've been averaging
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: thirty points seven points a game. In the next three well,
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: they did better than that this this game, thirty eight.
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: So yeah, they're not having trouble putting points on the board,
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: that's for sure. But you know, when your defense is struggling,
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: like we talked about, they had opportunities to make plays
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: to close it out and they just you know, couldn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: quite get it done. It was definitely a track meet,
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: and Baltimore Ravens ended up holding the baton at the
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: end of the race.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Any qualms with how they approached their possession in ot
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: after the fumble recovery, a lot of questions in the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: locker room about, you know, extra offensive linemen running settling
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: for a really long field goal. Try what'd you think?
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm I mean Joe was asked about that and
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: he said, I'm not going to second guess that. You know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: I asked Zach about it, and you know he wasn't
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: going to second guess his decision. You know, in the end,
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: if Rico had handled the ball cleanly, might not be
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: a point of contention, but it didn't. He didn't, So
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: now it's a point of contention.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: It's like last week, if Zach goes down on that
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: third down pass and and gets tackled or fourth down pass,
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: I should say, and gets tackled. I mean, now it's like, oh,
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: you're going to get crucified. But it worked out this
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: one holder didn't handle the snap. I mean, the way
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: he hit that, even though it was mishandled, it's still
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: He's got such a good leg and he can make
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: good adjustments. He just couldn't adjust well enough at the
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: last second. It was such a split second before you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: he's expecting to see the thing upright, like it in
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: a little bit of how he likes to tilt or whatever,
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: and it was nothing like that. So for him to
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: not go in panic mode, you know, says a lot
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: about him. But just could not quite make the necessary adjustments.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Four losses by less than twenty points. The margin is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: razor thin, and unfortunately, and the close ones, they've come
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: up on the losing side all four times.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: It's remarkable, really, I mean, you think it's gonna it
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: would start to even out, you know, And unfortunately all
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: of the losses are in the AFC, and one of
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: them now is in the division. So you're one in
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: four and your only victory is in you know, with
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: an NSC South team, So those, uh, those kind of
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: things start to start to mount up on you a
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: little bit too. But man, just got to figure out
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: ways to finish football games, because that's that's the difference
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: in having really good years in years where there's a
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: lot of what ifs. You know, oh, man, should have,
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: could have, would a what if? That's where they are
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: right now. If you win these close football games, it's
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: like draw a deep breath and move on to the
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: next one, and you know, your life sool rosy and
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: a bowl of cherries. Right now it's like eating dog
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: poo and and I mean you can't stomach anything. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: mean it's like there's nothing that tastes good right now.
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: So gotta get some wins. Got to string some wins together.
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: Got to go to New York, got to go to Cleveland,
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: two straight road games, you know, NFC opponent. Maybe they
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: get their second NFC win. They got to beat Cleveland
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: in Cleveland for their first division win. Those are the
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: you know, and I don't even want to think about Cleveland.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: Go to New York and get another win, get back
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: on track. But offensively, Dan, they're playing damn good football.
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: They really are. I mean, it's it's really unfortunate.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yes it is. The Bengals are now averaging twenty eight
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: points a game that would tie the team record set
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight when the Bengals went to Super
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Bowl twenty three. There's an invitation to join us for
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the Bengals Game Plan Show on Wednesday night. We'll be
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: in the studio this week and you can listen on
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty or search for ESPN fifteen thirty on
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the free iHeartMedia app. Finally, it's time for this week's
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: fun Fact segment, where you get to know the person
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: under the pads. Time for some fun facts with offensive
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: lineman A Marius Mims from Cochrane, Georgia, small town about
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: two hours south of Atlanta. What's a kid do for fun?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Growing up in Cochrane?
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: You got about two us because Cochran is very small.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: You can either go outside and play basketball. You got
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: if you look at how friends like I did. You
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: can go some kind of hog hunt and I did hunt,
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: like oh, that's what I always did.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You're not the first member of your family to play
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: pro football in the state of Ohio. Your dad played
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in the Arena League for teams in Columbus and Cleveland.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Was football a huge deal in your household growing up?
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent?
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Like I said, Man, I remember watching I remember sending
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: it front of TV at a engage, watching football my
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: dad all the time, and I just knew, like that's
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: what I wanted to do. But at that time, I
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: was playing the office side of the ball, and I
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: thought I was gonna be a defensive star. But you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: years later, man, you know who knew time would change
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and you know my position changed. So but I still
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: love the game no matter what, both sides of the ball.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: I just love watching it. It's just a fun game
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: to me.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You started out as a middle linebacker when you were young.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Give me a scouting report on Marius mems in the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: middle of the defense.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Those were the times I just remember as a kid,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: I sat in front of the TV thinking I was like
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Ray Lewis, and I used to imitate everything he used
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: to do, even in rec league. I make a tackle, man,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm pumped, I'm excited. Man, I'm acting just like him.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: You're obviously a large man and you were a big kid.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Were the parents of the other kids afraid of you
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: in youth sports?
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Yes, so I got a story. So I was.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I used to keep a copy of my birth certificate
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: at the recreational department and, like, to be honest with you,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: I'm one of the youngest kids in my class. So
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: they would still like tell their like they would still
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: tell there apartment like he cannot play in the same
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: division as my son, even though they were older than me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I was just always talled and everybody. So I have
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: to play like two age groups above my age group.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: So I used to play with I graduated in same princes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: I graduated in twenty one. I played in the direct
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: league with the people who graduated two years you know
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: before me.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So and your birth certificate was on display at the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: rec center just In Klay's parents complained, had we had
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: it there? Were you amused by that or did it
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: make you self conscious?
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: No?
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I didn't mind it. I mean, I just want to
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: play football. It didn't really matter what age girl I
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: played on. I just I was just glad to play.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts for the Marius memes. Every kid
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: has a growth spurt. When did you get your big
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: growth spurt?
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: I want to say after my freshman year when I
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: had my knee injury. I wanted to say I was
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: around six to one my freshman year and then I
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: don't know what happened. I just remember like four or
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: five months later, I came back off like six to six.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know how I happened, but I guess my
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: my high school head coach, Vin Last always said that
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: he sprinkle some magic dustin my knee whenever they opened
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: me up and did my surgery.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: So I'm just gonna go with that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Were you breaking your parents' budget on clothes and shoes.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Clothed shoes, food, everything, So I'm just thankful for them
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: to just be able to clothe me and feed me
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: because I was going at a rapid pace at that
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: time and I know I was not.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I know I was not a cheap child.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So you're a highly tuted recruit. What school recruited you
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the hardest?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Georgia?
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: I was, like I said, I end up staying in
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: the home state. But yeah, man, Georgia recruited me a lot,
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: because I remember at the time coach Sam Pittman recruited
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: me hard. Then he took the job of Arkansas, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: then I remember the next day coach coach on Matt
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Luke got the job. He was at my high school
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: at eight o'clock that morning, so.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They weren't going to let that one slip through the cracks.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the attention or was it a pain
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in the neck?
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: I enjoyed, you know, going to meet, going to visit
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: new schools and all that good stuff and everything that
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: came with it. But towards the end it started get aggravating.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: I just started like cutting their list down as soon
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: as possible, just because I was like, there's some schools
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I know I didn't want to go to, and it's
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: just like I'm not a big like I don't like
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: the attention on me like that a lot. So I
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: just enjoyed it for a little bit, and then I
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: was like, all right, it's time, it's time to pick
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: a school.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Well, your choice worked out well. You picked Georgia. You
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: won national championships your freshmen and sophomore years. The team
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: was obviously loaded, so you didn't start right off the bat.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: You played, but you didn't start. And then at the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: end of your sophomore year, Warren McClendon, who's now in
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the NFL with the Rams, got injured, and you started
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the national semifinal game against Ohio State and the national
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: championship game against TCU. What did starting those games and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: doing well do for your confidence?
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: It did a lot, honestly, even though I wasn't technically
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: an own paper starter before those games, always preparing myself
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: as if I was so really, like I said, whenever
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: he went down, it like it wasn't a surprise like
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: for me to like, Okay, you gotta do just different,
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: you gotta do that different. Like I was already prepared,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Because like we did like
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: a three man rotation between me, Broger and one and
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: just about preparing. And that's what's helped me now, just
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: like just go into a system like that where you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I'm saying about it like I'm around a bunch of
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: good guys and we're all expected to play at a
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: high level. So the fall off there was no fall
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: off at all. Like I said, we rotated eight guys.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: I want to say, my sophomore year throughout the OH line.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: An abundance of riches at Georgia to say the least.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Last year and your final year there, you had an
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: ankle injury and missed about half the season. It seems
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to have created a narrative that you are injury prone.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Does it drive you nuts?
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: I don't. I don't, like I said, just feel the fire.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: I don't really like care what people like I have
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: to say about a my like if I'm injury prone
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: or not, if I don't have that much experience. Like
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: I said, a team took a chance on me and
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: they saw something in me, then, like I guess the
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: other teams didn't see them. So I'm gonna use that
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: as you know, I'm just glad to be here and
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: I'm just appreciative that the Bengals took a chance on me.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Describe your draft experience.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: I just remember sending the couch and mym my agent.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: He gave me a rundown of like, you know, possibly
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: where I could end up and like like a range.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: It was like it was like a fourteenth to twenty
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: two ranch that he thought. And it's crazy how I
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: falled right in between that, like like right in the
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: dead center of that. It was really fun, just like
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: like just seeing like like all the other guys before
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: me get their name called and be like, dang, like
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: if I get my name called him night, that'll be great.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: And then I just remember the phone ranging and pay
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Corsladium popped up.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Man, okay, all right, a few wild card topics. Now
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: for a Marius Mems. Who is your all time favorite
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: athlete in any sport? And why?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Oh man, I'm a Lebron fan. Like I said, I
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: didn't grow up in the Jordan. My dad was like,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: my dad would kill me because he's a Jordan guy.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: But I didn't grow up in that era. Honestly I didn't.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I never got to watch him. But I've been watching
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: Lebron since I you know, since since I can watch basketball.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: And I don't know, man, I just like his game,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: his competitive like competitiveness and you know, I just like
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: I said, until he retired, Probably when he retired, I'm
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: gonna stop watching basketball. But until then, I'm gonna keep
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: enjoying watching the Lakers play. As long as he's on
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: that team.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's ever going to retire.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: That's great with me.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: You told us earlier that growing up in Cochrane you
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: were a hunter. You told me earlier this year hogs, duck,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and deer were the three things you enjoyed hunting the most.
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  Speaker 1: So let's narrow it down. What is your favorite type
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  Speaker 1: in terms of weapon location, Time of day and.
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  Speaker 5: Pray AAR fifteen thermal scope, probably about twelve twelve am,
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  Speaker 5: one am at night, just going out in the woods.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say coct Like I said, where I'm from,
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of like like forest and there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of like you know, like I guess trees in
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  Speaker 5: country area.
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  Speaker 4: So I said, it's not hard. We'll ride.
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  Speaker 5: We'll ride around, whether that's on ATV's or we're in
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  Speaker 5: the f one fifty, and we'll scan the fields and
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  Speaker 5: all that good stuff. We'll find a good parking spot. Well,
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  Speaker 5: we'll we'll grab all we'll grab our weapons and all
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  Speaker 5: that good stuff. Man, we just you know, we go well,
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  Speaker 5: we just.
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  Speaker 4: Have all right.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a neat freak?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: I like I like clean, Like I like to be clean.
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  Speaker 5: I like for everything around and be clean, my area
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  Speaker 5: to be clean just because I feel like I feel
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  Speaker 5: like if everything's around me clean, I just feel like
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  Speaker 5: a sense of peace in my mind because like something
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: right there, she's gonna bother me. And like I said,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: with my shoes, like I collect shoes like I love shoes.
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  Speaker 5: So like when I had a whole room in college
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  Speaker 5: just like you know, just dedicated for my shoes because
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I lave by myself. So I just like like just
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: like come like lining up across the floor. They kind
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: of got aggravate, and I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: Like it's clean, but it can be cleaner. So I
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: went and got like a thousand shelves and I just
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  Speaker 5: lined them up, and I'm like, okay, we feel I
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  Speaker 5: feel good now, I feel good.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: You have two national championship rings from Georgia. Did you
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: save anything else from those two national crowns?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I say, like I said, I got all my
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: jerseys that I ever played in in college. For my
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: helmet my my practice pants. I still got my cleats
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: I wore every game because I well, turf shoes, turf
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  Speaker 5: shoes inclist. I played them both, And man, I just
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: saved a lifetime full of like a lifetime full of memories.
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  Speaker 4: I had a great three years.
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  Speaker 5: Man, one thing I'm gonna save most more than those
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Nation champs was like the memories I had with my teammates. So,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, it's great, Like I'm glad you asked
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: that question, because, like I said, I talked to those
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  Speaker 5: guys really, like every day we have a group chat
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: and we're all in there back from when I was
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: a freshman all the up from now, and we just
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: check in on each other all the time. So whenever
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: we have a game, anybody has a game, we all
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: learned good luck, y'all, good luck and all that good stuff.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: And it's good that, you know, we still got that
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: like their brotherhood bond going and we're still talking to
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: each other to this day.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Do you have an especially good story about somebody just
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: being wowed by your size?
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  Speaker 4: T Higgins?
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  Speaker 5: But I got him the hold on one day when
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: I got here, he just looked at me and was like,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: very you're good. I'm like, yeah, he was like, bro,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: I ain't never nobody else side. I was like, I
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: guess they caught him off guard a little bit because
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was one of my first times like
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: actually being around them. But I just remember that story
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: because it was like it kind of went big on
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: the internet for a little bit. But that was funny
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: to me because he's not a but yeah, it kind
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: of wild on.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I love it all right.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Final fun fact for Mariusmims. This one's kind of deep.
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  Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history living or deceased, anybody,
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  Speaker 1: who would that person be.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you three Lebron for one, uh two
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Michael Jordan and three I'm gonna go football. Like I said,
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: I was a big Ray Lewis fan as a kid,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: and I will Yeah he followed, be.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Three Lebron James, Michael Jordan, and Ray Lewis. That's a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: pretty good trio. And you better invite your dad since
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: he's a Michael Jordan.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I'll definitely invite my dad with that one.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: You're off the hot seat. I appreciate your time. That's
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  Speaker 1: the flock the rest of the year.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you so much, that's going to do it.
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