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Bengals Booth Podcast: Keep Me Hangin' On · 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 if you Just keep Me
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Speaker 1: hanging On. Addition, as the Bengals stay right in the
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Speaker 1: thick of the playoff race with a critically important thirty
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Speaker 1: four to fourteen win over the Indianapolis Colts, coming up,
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Speaker 1: you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from players and coaches,
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Speaker 1: and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's
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Speaker 1: by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest
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Speaker 1: thing since a sweet gesture by Joe Burrow. I haven't
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Speaker 1: gone back to watch the telecast yet, but there were
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Speaker 1: apparently a lot of shots during the game of Jake
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Speaker 1: Browning's family watching the game from a luxury suite. Jake
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Speaker 1: made it clear after the game that it wasn't his
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Speaker 1: luxury suite.
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Speaker 2: It is not my box. I did not buy that
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Speaker 2: in the preseason. Very expensive. So Joe Burrow was nice
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Speaker 2: enough to give them some tickets so they didn't have
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Speaker 2: to sit up in the cold. You know, we're off
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Speaker 2: in California, so I used to it. They're not, so
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they were much more excited in the box.
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Speaker 2: But it's awesome. I'm here, I was. I think it
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Speaker 2: was two friends from back home, my girlfriend and then
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Speaker 2: my brother and my sister and boyfriend. So it's always
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Speaker 2: nice to have people there, and it's mostly nice after
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Speaker 2: you win to and we'll.
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Speaker 3: Go grab dinner or something someone.
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Speaker 1: And it was a very kind gesture by Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: to invite Browning's friends and family to watch the game
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Speaker 1: from his luxury suite. And by the way, it was
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's birthday on Sunday. Now, he and Jake Browning
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Speaker 1: are both twenty seven years old Browning is about eight
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Speaker 1: months older. Now time for the radio replays from Sunday's
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Speaker 1: win over the Colts. It is a chilly December day
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Speaker 1: here in Cincinnati, thirty seven degrees with cloudy gray skies overhead,
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Speaker 1: in other words, football weather. As the six and six
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Speaker 1: Bengals look to stay alive in the playoff hunt as
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Speaker 1: they host the seven and five Indianapolis Colts, And it
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Speaker 1: is time for the big skin to fly here in
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Speaker 1: the jungle. Rookie Chase Brown checks in for the first
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Speaker 1: time in running back after nine carries for sixty one
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Speaker 1: yards last week. They fake it to him. Now they
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Speaker 1: screen it to him, all sorts of running room and
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Speaker 1: blockers in front. He's flying to the thirty, the twenty.
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Speaker 1: The ten cuts back makes a man miss half the
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Speaker 1: five touchdown Bengals. Chase Brown showing his speed as he
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Speaker 1: flies down the field for the Bengals touchdown. Matt Gay,
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Speaker 1: who won a Super Bowl ring against the Bengals with
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Speaker 1: the Rams a couple of years ago, in his first
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Speaker 1: year with the Colts, the highest paid kicker in the
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Speaker 1: NFL after signing a free agent deal. This kick is
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Speaker 1: up and it pits the upright and bounce his back. Wow,
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Speaker 1: he missed it from thirty eight yards away, and the
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Speaker 1: Bengals remain seven points ahead. Joe Mixon back in at
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Speaker 1: running back Charlie Joe in a wide receiver. Browning throws
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Speaker 1: into screen, caught by Mixing. Runs to the fifty, cutting
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Speaker 1: back to the forty, still running at the thirty high,
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Speaker 1: stepping to the twenty, and tackled at the sixteen yard
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Speaker 1: line by Rodney Thomas. The screen game is killing Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: That's a forty four yard game. Browning back at the five.
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Speaker 1: In the shotgun. Mixon ships to his left. It's a
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Speaker 1: handoff Mixing stumbling forward, touchdown Bengals. Joe Mixon heads to
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Speaker 1: the back of the end zone and begins a dance
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Speaker 1: for the fans looking on. He scored three touchdowns in
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Speaker 1: the last two games, and the Bengals have taken a
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Speaker 1: thirteen to nothing lead. Linebacker Zyear Franklin is a fullback.
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Speaker 1: Zach Boss lined up behind him. He's carried on the
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Speaker 1: last six plays. They fake to him, They throw into
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Speaker 1: the end zone, and it is a touchdown. Moe Ellie
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Speaker 1: Cox held on to the football. It looked for a
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Speaker 1: second like he might have juggled it, but he held
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Speaker 1: on for the td got behind Logan Wilson and the
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Speaker 1: playworks for Indianapolis. Second and four. They snap it to Browning,
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Speaker 1: Jake looking throwing and it is intercepted. It's being run
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Speaker 1: back by Ronnie Harrison. He's going to take it to
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Speaker 1: the house. A pick six and a touchdown for Indy
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Speaker 1: Browning in the gun chase brown to his right. Browning
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Speaker 1: has the ball, He's back to throw. The Fires caught
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Speaker 1: it the five, Tanner Hudson into the end zone. Touchdown Bengals.
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Speaker 1: Tanner Hudson with his first ever NFL touchdown catch and
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Speaker 1: the Bengals are back in the lead. On second down
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Speaker 1: and nine, Browning with a deep drop. He's gonna float
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Speaker 1: it high end, got him t Higgins makes it over
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Speaker 1: the shoulder catch on the far sideline, got his feet
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Speaker 1: down in bounds and gets tackled at the twenty four
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Speaker 1: of Indianapolis, a forty six yard bom Darryl Baker was
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Speaker 1: nearby as t stumbled down after making the catch. Second
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Speaker 1: down in goal, inches away. The Bengals already up by
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Speaker 1: seven now, Browning moves under center. He has Mixing five
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Speaker 1: yards behind him. Browning will try to sneak it in,
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Speaker 1: Mixing shuts him in the back into the end zone.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown Bengals and Cincinnati has a two TD lead. Here
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Speaker 1: comes the punt by Robbins, very very high, and we've
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Speaker 1: got a muff. The Bengals fall on top of it
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Speaker 1: at the thirteen yard line. Bengals ball as Isaiah McKenzie
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Speaker 1: colliding with his own guy as he was trying to
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Speaker 1: make a fair catch dj Ivy down at the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the pile to recover for Cincinnati. Minshew back to throw,
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Speaker 1: looking left, hit from behind Bob Hendrickson, the ball shops
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Speaker 1: to the ground. The Bengals heavens, yes, he'll j Hill
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Speaker 1: with a football. Here we go, fourth down and fifteen,
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Speaker 1: the Colts at their own forty one. Minshew back to
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Speaker 1: throw here trace got him Hey sacksim and that should
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Speaker 1: be coffin now. Bam, bam bam.
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Speaker 4: And Trey Henderson.
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Speaker 5: You affected two people, the left tackle Raymond and the
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Speaker 5: quarterback Minshew. Boy, what a game Trey Henderson had.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, after a loss dropped their record to
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Speaker 1: five and six, many people gave up the Cincinnati Bengals
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Speaker 1: for dead. Well, guess what you can hear a noise
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Speaker 1: in the background. Thump thump, yeah, thump thump, the heartbeat
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Speaker 1: very much still beating. The Bengals improved their playoff chances
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Speaker 1: as they climb above five hundred with a thirty four
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Speaker 1: to fourteen win over the Indianapolis Colts. Here are the
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Speaker 1: final stats for Jake Browning. He completed eighteen out of
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Speaker 1: twenty four passes, that's seventy five five percent for two
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five yards with two touchdowns and one
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Speaker 1: interception for a passer rating of one twenty two point seven.
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Speaker 1: He added a one yard touchdown run and those numbers
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Speaker 1: probably would have been even better if not for a
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Speaker 1: bizarro situation early in the fourth quarter where Jake had
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Speaker 1: to leave the game and jog to the locker room
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Speaker 1: because of cramping in his right hand. AJ McCarron had
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Speaker 1: to take his place for five offensive snaps. Here's the
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Speaker 1: explanation from Browning thumb.
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Speaker 4: Four armed, just saw started.
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Speaker 2: Cramport's thumb was just locking up on that could throw
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Speaker 2: and then Kane got an IV AND's fine, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's pretty dumb. But just needed to drink more water
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Speaker 2: and collect rots, I guess, and I think sometimes when
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Speaker 2: it's cold, you just hunted thirsty. So yeah, I guess
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Speaker 2: that's probably the main takeaway from the games. Hydrate better.
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Speaker 1: I asked t Higgins about it after the game. Jake
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Speaker 1: came back in after being in the locker room. It
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Speaker 1: looked like he was maybe joking around about what happened.
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Speaker 1: What did he say?
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Speaker 3: This is cramping?
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Speaker 6: He said, you need to drink water. That's why you
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Speaker 6: drink water. Eh, you you right, you better drink some water.
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Speaker 6: Cramping and your thumb is I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'd ever heard of thumb cramping before.
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Speaker 4: It is what it is.
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Speaker 6: Man, I'm just glad it was a series, and I'm
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Speaker 6: glad he's all right.
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Speaker 1: I know you had faith in him, but did you
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Speaker 1: honestly think he could play at this level in back
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Speaker 1: to back games?
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Speaker 2: Sure?
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Speaker 6: I mean the confidence I mean because he came in
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Speaker 6: training camp playing like a start in QB. Man, I mean,
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Speaker 6: this is the tip of iceberg for him. You know
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Speaker 6: what I'm saying. He ain't doing nothing but showing the
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Speaker 6: world that what he's capable of. And you're also happy
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Speaker 6: for him to come in and leave this offense the
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Speaker 6: way he's been doing and you hope he would keep
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Speaker 6: going for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 1: For the second straight game, Browning got a lot of
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Speaker 1: help from the Bengals running attack. At Cincinnati, ran for
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven yards and had gains of fifty four,
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Speaker 1: forty five and twenty five yard guards on screen passes.
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon had one hundred and twenty five combined rushing
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Speaker 1: and receiving yards, and Chase brown added one oh five.
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Speaker 1: Here's mixing two weeks ago. A lot of people at
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Speaker 1: giving the Bengals up for dead. How do you feel
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Speaker 1: about where things stand right now? Considering how you've played
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 7: I feel really good.
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Speaker 8: I think that everybody been doing the hell of a job,
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Speaker 8: you know, playing together and everybody just you know, making
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Speaker 8: plays and being in the right place is when they
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Speaker 8: need to be. So we just got to keep building
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Speaker 8: on that and uh, you know, getting better.
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Speaker 1: It seemed clear that you guys had confidence and faith
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Speaker 1: in Jake Browning, but considering how well he's played, has
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Speaker 1: that been elevated the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean Jake's been very silent, and that's what
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Speaker 8: we need him to be in order to win these games,
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Speaker 8: and I think that you know, by him doing that
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Speaker 8: playing solid football, I think everything else.
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Speaker 7: As long as our defense.
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Speaker 8: Playing the ass off like they are, we're gonna be
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Speaker 8: in great shame. So we just got to you know,
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Speaker 8: Keith feen of each other playing complimentary football and everything else.
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Speaker 8: Don't take care of himself.
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Speaker 1: See the screen game.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, basically we knew that.
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Speaker 8: You know, they like the panic drop a lot, and uh,
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Speaker 8: the linebackers was going playing the run downhill real hard
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Speaker 8: like they did, and uh, you know they they was.
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Speaker 8: I guess Chase had a big run last week, and
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Speaker 8: we basically complimented that run. You know, Ohio looks and
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Speaker 8: they played the run and then the past is wide
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Speaker 8: open and he made a hell of a running catch.
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Speaker 1: How about on your screen?
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Speaker 8: Uh, I can't say it was the same concept, but
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Speaker 8: you know, coach doubted up at the right time, and uh,
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Speaker 8: you know, lineman making blocks downfield, and you know, we're
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Speaker 8: just trying to do whatever we could have to make.
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Speaker 7: Plays and get yardists.
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Speaker 1: You've had back to back games now with more than
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Speaker 1: one hundred yards of combined rushing and receiving yards, and
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Speaker 1: you look fresh. I mean it looks like week three
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Speaker 1: as opposed to approaching mid December.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I felt like I'm only getting strong. Has the
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Speaker 8: season been going. I mean, I think, you know, by
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Speaker 8: Chase coming in and whoever it is, you know, coming
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Speaker 8: in and making plays, I think it's also a great
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Speaker 8: thing because when you know, they come in, they can't
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Speaker 8: just play the pass. So it's been a great thing
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Speaker 8: for them to actually come in and do real good
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Speaker 8: in the run game. So we just gotta keep it going.
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Speaker 8: And uh, obviously by us playing U by us running
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Speaker 8: play actions and things like that, it's.
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Speaker 4: Been a great thing.
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Speaker 8: So we just gotta keep going, keep building and doing
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Speaker 8: whatever we need to do to get the win.
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Speaker 1: You said, Monday's win reinforce the idea in the locker
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Speaker 1: room that we're the Bengals. We're the team that's been
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Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship Game each of the last two years.
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Speaker 1: Was that taking up a notch today?
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 8: It's gonna keep It's gonna keep taking ticking up notches, man.
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Speaker 8: So you know, we just gotta keep living on what
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Speaker 8: you know, we believe in and who we are as
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Speaker 8: a team, and everything else is gonna take care of itself.
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Speaker 1: Ingrats on the win. Defensively, the Bengals shut down the
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Speaker 1: NFL number eight scoring offense. Indy managed one offensive touchdown,
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Speaker 1: averaged two point six yards on running plays. It had
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Speaker 1: a passer rating in the low eighties. Chittabey A Wouje,
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Speaker 1: its move back into the starting lightup due to Cam
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Speaker 1: Taylor BRIT's ankle injury, had five tackles and two pass deflections. Chito,
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Speaker 1: that was an awesome defensive performance. Those guys has scored
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Speaker 1: at least twenty in every game but one. He held
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Speaker 1: them to one offensive touchdown today. What did you think
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Speaker 1: the key was?
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Speaker 7: We came out here hungry.
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Speaker 9: You know, it was always about us, you know, And
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Speaker 9: I think we're kind of finding the formula right now,
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Speaker 9: just with the energy manage like all the you know, formasons, alignments, assignments,
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Speaker 9: all that stuff.
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Speaker 7: It's really by energy.
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Speaker 9: And I think we're just really rolling around each other
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Speaker 9: and really enjoying playing for one another. And you know,
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Speaker 9: when we're when the defense is at our best, that's
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Speaker 9: what we're doing. So I just really feel like we're
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Speaker 9: starting to hit a stride with our chemistry and it's
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Speaker 9: starting to show on the field.
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Speaker 1: Think you've been excellent for the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: do you feel like you're playing as well as ever?
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Speaker 7: I feel good, you know, I feel really good.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 9: Obviously opportunity came and you know I had to step up,
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Speaker 9: and you know, I always felt like myself. But you know,
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Speaker 9: sometimes when you get an assignment during the game, before
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Speaker 9: a game, you just it push on a different mindset,
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Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying. So I've been in that
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Speaker 9: mindset the past couple of weeks. Just this is who
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Speaker 9: I am, this is what I do. Anyway, So yeah,
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Speaker 9: I feel good.
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Speaker 1: Definitely a lot of young guys in this secondary and
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Speaker 1: now dj Ivy is getting some opportunities as well. It
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Speaker 1: seems to me to bode really well for the future,
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Speaker 1: not only how many young guys are playing, but how
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Speaker 1: well they're playing.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think there's any drop off.
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Speaker 9: I think like we have one of the best I
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Speaker 9: don't want to jinx us, but truly like talent wise
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Speaker 9: and just loving the game and you know, being on
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Speaker 9: top of assignments and stuff. I really think we have
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Speaker 9: one of the best corner rooms and our coach too,
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Speaker 9: you know, have a great corners coach and Chuck Burke.
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Speaker 9: So I think everybody's seen it, Like whoever's been in
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Speaker 9: they've been up to the task, you know. So and
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Speaker 9: we have guys who aren't playing around, even Sidney Jones,
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Speaker 9: you know, who's been a starter in this league, you know,
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Speaker 9: just we have a very good corner bedroom. So I'm
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Speaker 9: really excited for the young guys in the future of
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Speaker 9: this team, see what they do.
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Speaker 1: How would you describe Jake Browning's played the last couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks.
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Speaker 7: It's the Jake so not the Lake Show. So I
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Speaker 7: described it the Jake Show.
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Speaker 1: It's been extraordinary. I know everybody in here had faith
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Speaker 1: that he could rise to the occasion and play well,
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Speaker 1: but that well, yeah.
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Speaker 7: No, I've always believed it.
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Speaker 9: I mean it's probably Taper somewhere we're in practice run
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Speaker 9: when he's making players. I'm just like, that's Jake. You know,
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Speaker 9: I've played against him in Washington. He was a Heisman
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Speaker 9: candidate coming.
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Speaker 4: In the league.
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Speaker 7: He's such a knowledgeable guy. You know, he's sits there
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Speaker 7: with us in the.
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Speaker 9: dB meetings, you know on Tuesdays, and really you know,
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Speaker 9: was talking football with us and stuff like that. Like
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Speaker 9: he has the mind for he has the heart for it.
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Speaker 9: And now he just has the platform to show for it.
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Speaker 9: And you know, again we have Joe Burrow, we have
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Speaker 9: Jake Browning. I don't know if too many teens and
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Speaker 9: agent even stepped in and almost to a touchdown. Sot like,
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Speaker 9: we're just blessed, really just top top to bottom in
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Speaker 9: a lot of position groups.
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Speaker 1: Did your heart syncavet when he started running toward the
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Speaker 1: locker room to have his thumb checked out.
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Speaker 7: A little bit?
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Speaker 9: A little bit, Not gonna lie, but I think even
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Speaker 9: just as a brother, you know, but if that's the
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Speaker 9: football's football, you know, anything can happen. And in that second,
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Speaker 9: it was like, okay, defense, what we know we got
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Speaker 9: to do?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 9: So is this you know, balancing all the highs and
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Speaker 9: the lows of the game.
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Speaker 7: I'm very happy that he's healthy.
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Speaker 1: Four games left. You guys have put yourselves right back
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Speaker 1: in the hunt.
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Speaker 9: You gotta take a one game at a time, you know,
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Speaker 9: keep on one and oh win every day and when
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Speaker 9: a game happens again, just have the energy. I think
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Speaker 9: we we kind of find the formula.
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Speaker 1: Find to watch you doing your thing out there. Congrat
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Speaker 1: on the WAMPP.
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Speaker 4: Thank you brother.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent
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Speaker 1: four and a half minutes with Lap after the game.
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Speaker 5: Twenty point victory over a team that was five and
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Speaker 5: one on the road. Every situational, las back, third down,
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Speaker 5: red zone, you name it. You guys want it and
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Speaker 5: want to handle it.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we challenge our team not to give
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Speaker 10: them anything easy. They've capitalized on That's what good football
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Speaker 10: teams do. That's why he needs a good team. They've
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Speaker 10: capitalized on every opportunity and that's part of this league.
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Speaker 10: And our guys today did a great job in the
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Speaker 10: second half recapturing their momentum, doing a great job control
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Speaker 10: the things we can control and putting these guys away.
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Speaker 10: And I thought it was a really good performance, particularly
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Speaker 10: in the second half.
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Speaker 5: Our team in the two game winning streak. In both games,
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Speaker 5: the opponent scores fourteen points in two minutes and twenty
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Speaker 5: seconds in Jacksonville, in twenty five seconds in this football game,
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Speaker 5: you guys just adversity. What's I don't know what that
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Speaker 5: definition is. You guys just so resilient they are.
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Speaker 10: I mean, that's what team has proven time and time again.
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Speaker 10: If we just keep adding guys that fit that description
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Speaker 10: in the locker room and they jump right in the line.
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Speaker 10: And so you saw a lot of guys step up
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Speaker 10: today and make key plays in this game. And that's
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Speaker 10: what this locker room is all about. And I was
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Speaker 10: proud to see all those guys step up.
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Speaker 5: Forty two sacks. They came into the game with forty
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Speaker 5: two sacks, none zero shutout. How good the offensive line played,
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Speaker 5: to your naked.
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Speaker 4: Eye, awesome.
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Speaker 10: That's a really good defensive line. And our guys responded
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Speaker 10: to the challenge the right way. And to keep Jake
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Speaker 10: clean like that was impressive. To keep the run game
17:54
Speaker 10: going like they did. The screen game was all really
17:56
Speaker 10: helpful and so really proud of the job those offensive
17:58
Speaker 10: linemen did.
18:00
Speaker 5: Game is unbelievable. I mean, your first two screens you
18:03
Speaker 5: got over one hundred yards are your first two screens
18:05
Speaker 5: in a touchdown? What what is it about the screen game?
18:08
Speaker 10: I think we got a lot of variety. The guys
18:10
Speaker 10: are understand what to do at all all positions. Jake's
18:13
Speaker 10: done a good job with the timing of it all
18:15
Speaker 10: and and sometimes it's it's it's it's a great job,
18:18
Speaker 10: great execution. Sometimes you're catching them in the right look
18:20
Speaker 10: and that has a lot to do with it too,
18:22
Speaker 10: But I thought there was I can picture all the
18:25
Speaker 10: screens we hit and guys making key blocks and key timing,
18:28
Speaker 10: and it was good to see.
18:30
Speaker 5: Have you ever had your quarterback struggle with the cramp
18:33
Speaker 5: and his thumb.
18:34
Speaker 10: No, no, but it is what it is. Man Aj
18:38
Speaker 10: was ready to step up on a third downs. Not
18:39
Speaker 10: fun when it's raining or snowing whatever. It was not
18:43
Speaker 10: an ideal situation. But Aj went in there and managed
18:45
Speaker 10: it well and was able to get us move in
18:48
Speaker 10: a little bit for that field goal and we were
18:49
Speaker 10: in good shape.
18:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was unbelieved to go in there stone cold,
18:52
Speaker 5: not even throw one warm up. I mean, that's that's
18:54
Speaker 5: pretty incredible.
18:55
Speaker 10: Not a fun situation to be in, you know for
18:57
Speaker 10: Frey j And so we called a fade route. He
18:59
Speaker 10: threw a great row to T for a touchdown. Touch
19:01
Speaker 10: should have been touchdown, and that's not the way. Great job, Brian,
19:06
Speaker 10: So that's just that's just the way it goes sometimes.
19:08
Speaker 5: Red zone. Your defense now has held the opponent without
19:11
Speaker 5: a point on ten possessions, eight of them coming in. Uh,
19:15
Speaker 5: they hit the upright on one and the interception and
19:18
Speaker 5: then you just scored a touchdown. So they're in there
19:20
Speaker 5: three times to get seven points. What can you say
19:23
Speaker 5: about your defense in the red zone.
19:24
Speaker 10: Yeah, the drive is never over with these guys. They
19:26
Speaker 10: got a belief that they're not giving up points and
19:28
Speaker 10: they're going to find a way to get a turnover,
19:30
Speaker 10: find a way to get a fourth down stop, and
19:32
Speaker 10: and uh, it just rubs off on everybody. And that's
19:34
Speaker 10: just the general sense when team's getting the red zone
19:36
Speaker 10: that it's not gonna work out well for him, and
19:37
Speaker 10: our guys did a great job to do it.
19:39
Speaker 5: Seemed like on the on the pick six receiver and
19:42
Speaker 5: quarterback maybe on a little bit different page execution wise.
19:45
Speaker 1: I think that we'll see the tape.
19:46
Speaker 10: It might have been a tick off the throw and
19:49
Speaker 10: it gets you know, he's trying to catch it in
19:51
Speaker 10: the backer.
19:53
Speaker 7: I saw the replay.
19:54
Speaker 10: It's it's you know, they they they're on scholarship to
19:57
Speaker 10: Harrison made a good play. He plucked it out of there.
20:00
Speaker 10: Sometimes when you're off just by six inches or of foot,
20:02
Speaker 10: you know, things like that can happen. Sometimes you void
20:04
Speaker 10: them with an incompletion. Sometimes it goes sideways. But I
20:06
Speaker 10: thought that Jake did a great job manage the game.
20:09
Speaker 5: He really did, and you had two takeaways, so you
20:11
Speaker 5: finished plus one in the turnover department. I know that's
20:13
Speaker 5: always always a goal for sure. So you get this
20:16
Speaker 5: one against the Indianapolis Colts. Now you have back to
20:19
Speaker 5: back Saturdays. Your team had to go Monday night, short week,
20:24
Speaker 5: now Saturdays schedule wise? Does it are you pretty like? Okay,
20:28
Speaker 5: this is what I was going to do. Did you
20:29
Speaker 5: decide before the season? Do you change your mind during
20:33
Speaker 5: the course of the season.
20:34
Speaker 4: How does that work?
20:35
Speaker 10: We've been in the six day weeks before, you know,
20:36
Speaker 10: coming off a Monday game against the Rams, so you
20:38
Speaker 10: just follow the same process. It is nicer having to
20:40
Speaker 10: play at one o'clock home game. I think we're all
20:43
Speaker 10: pretty tired last week getting up to Friday even so
20:46
Speaker 10: now you get a chance to get some rest.
20:47
Speaker 4: Show up.
20:48
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a short week, but our guys they fallow
20:50
Speaker 10: the same schedule they followed last week. So we've got
20:52
Speaker 10: that rhythm down a little bit.
20:54
Speaker 5: Short week, Minnesota Vikings and then another Saturday game Pittsburgh
20:58
Speaker 5: Steelers in Pittsburgh. But it's just the Minnesota Vikings right now,
21:02
Speaker 5: and I mean everybody you're playing is still in the playoff.
21:05
Speaker 4: Hun is crazy That's the beauty of this league.
21:08
Speaker 10: Man, everyone's still in it, and unfortunately we're one of
21:10
Speaker 10: those teams.
21:11
Speaker 7: We've got to take care of.
21:11
Speaker 5: Business, no question. Congratulations on a huge win, Coach, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap lap with an exception of
21:43
Speaker 1: about a twenty five second span in the second quarter.
21:46
Speaker 1: That was one heck of impressive performance.
21:48
Speaker 4: It really was.
21:49
Speaker 5: I mean, you talk about pick a situation in situational football,
21:53
Speaker 5: they dominated every one of them, every single one of them.
21:57
Speaker 5: I know they spend a lot of time on that,
21:59
Speaker 5: you know, whether it be two minutes drill, whether it
22:01
Speaker 5: be third down, you know, red zone, whatever the situation is,
22:07
Speaker 5: they really performed well, dominant. It was really an unbelievable performance.
22:14
Speaker 5: Like you said, a twenty five second span the week
22:16
Speaker 5: four in Jacksonville two minutes and twenty seconds, and for
22:19
Speaker 5: back to back weeks, to show the resiliency in the
22:21
Speaker 5: character to let that roll off your back.
22:24
Speaker 4: I think it's a big deal.
22:25
Speaker 1: Jake Browning deserves every bit of praise that's coming his way.
22:29
Speaker 1: Another great performance. He completed seventy five percent of his
22:32
Speaker 1: passes two hundred and seventy five yards two touchdowns. He
22:35
Speaker 1: also ran for a score. But I really think you've
22:38
Speaker 1: got to give credit to Zach Taylor, Brian Callahan, Dan
22:41
Speaker 1: Pitcher and Jake everybody involved in putting together the game
22:45
Speaker 1: plan because everything they did suited his strengths.
22:49
Speaker 5: I agree, And it was diverse and there was a
22:53
Speaker 5: lot of variety to the run game. Just like the
22:55
Speaker 5: week before. They didn't run it as much, but it
22:58
Speaker 5: was effective enough. And I do think that they're they're
23:03
Speaker 5: given Jake. They're not making his plate one course. They're
23:08
Speaker 5: given him three and four course meals, you know, and
23:11
Speaker 5: they know he can handle it and he's executing an
23:13
Speaker 5: extremely high level.
23:14
Speaker 4: Was his quarterback raining over one hundred.
23:15
Speaker 1: And twenty one twenty two point seven.
23:17
Speaker 5: That'll work, man, That dog will hunt. And if you know,
23:21
Speaker 5: I talked to Tanner after the in the locker room
23:24
Speaker 5: and he said, you know, I probably was a step
23:26
Speaker 5: or two away from where I should have been, you know,
23:29
Speaker 5: and then you talk to another guy, you know, well,
23:32
Speaker 5: the ball wasn't exactly where it should have been. It's
23:33
Speaker 5: probably a combination. Neither guy's going to point the finger
23:36
Speaker 5: at the other. But bottom line, that was unfortunate. But
23:40
Speaker 5: you know, again, they they they it didn't deter them.
23:44
Speaker 5: Let's put it that way. For them to come out
23:46
Speaker 5: in the second half and score right away and take
23:49
Speaker 5: a two score lead and build on that was very,
23:52
Speaker 5: very impressive.
23:54
Speaker 1: I wonder if Chase Brown had not strained his hamstring
23:58
Speaker 1: right at the point where they were planning to start
24:00
Speaker 1: working him in more, if this team might have another
24:03
Speaker 1: winn or two, because he has made a huge impact
24:06
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. He had one hundred and
24:08
Speaker 1: five combined rushing and receiving yards.
24:10
Speaker 3: Today.
24:11
Speaker 4: He's a blur, there's no doubt.
24:13
Speaker 5: And mentioned it during the game that all often at
24:15
Speaker 5: halftime and I'm like, what do you think, guy, Chase Brown?
24:18
Speaker 4: He goes, well, you know, you read these forty.
24:20
Speaker 5: Times, and you know sometimes it's like, you know, there's
24:23
Speaker 5: a little puff puff to it And he said, but
24:25
Speaker 5: the eyeball test, he passes the eyeball test, he goes
24:29
Speaker 5: that man can move.
24:29
Speaker 4: I said, well, coming from you, a track athlete, you
24:32
Speaker 4: know who is.
24:33
Speaker 5: The fastest football player of your ear, that's that's saying something.
24:37
Speaker 5: And he can turn them over. Man, Chase Brown has
24:41
Speaker 5: got some wheels.
24:42
Speaker 1: What'd you think was the key defensively? And holding Indianapolis
24:45
Speaker 1: to one offensive touchdown, that's a good offense. Eighth, then
24:48
Speaker 1: the NFL in scoring coming.
24:49
Speaker 5: In, it's incredible that they don't give up on any
24:52
Speaker 5: any drive. You know, it gets in the red zone
24:56
Speaker 5: field goal kicker misses his first one from under forty
24:59
Speaker 5: yards to the right, upright, they get an interception, they
25:02
Speaker 5: give up one touchdown and three red zone drives. Seven
25:05
Speaker 5: points and three red zone drives. That'll that'll work for you.
25:09
Speaker 5: And uh now that now was health the opponent without
25:11
Speaker 5: a touch without a score, without a point on ten
25:14
Speaker 5: red zone drives. I mean that that's that's not just
25:18
Speaker 5: like a you know, a blip in the screen. That's
25:22
Speaker 5: like that's a consistent thing that they're able to do
25:25
Speaker 5: and a mentality that they have where we're not going
25:28
Speaker 5: to let him score We're not gonna We're not gonna
25:29
Speaker 5: forget limited to a field goal. We're not going to
25:32
Speaker 5: let him score. That's the mentality they have.
25:34
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson had a bad roughing the passer penalty that
25:37
Speaker 1: contributed to the Colts one touchdown drive. He came back
25:40
Speaker 1: from that penalty like a man possessed and dominated the
25:44
Speaker 1: left tackle Ryman for the Colts.
25:46
Speaker 3: He did.
25:47
Speaker 5: I mean it was he had two sacks against Ryman.
25:50
Speaker 5: Ryman as he's going over on his backside and that's
25:52
Speaker 5: an embarrassing thing. You know, don't want that to happen
25:55
Speaker 5: to you ever, as an offensive lineman, no matter what
25:57
Speaker 5: level football you're playing, you don't want to be going
25:59
Speaker 5: over backwards. And then tripped them. So he got a
26:01
Speaker 5: ten yard penalty out of that one. Not the same
26:04
Speaker 5: as a quarterback sack because you know you repeat the down,
26:06
Speaker 5: but still it affected you know, the yards hitting yards,
26:10
Speaker 5: and I mean he was he was a force off
26:13
Speaker 5: the edge, and I thought they played the run very,
26:17
Speaker 5: very soundly. I mean I can remember a bunch of
26:19
Speaker 5: times where you know, Moss hit it up in there
26:21
Speaker 5: and he was like there's nothing. I mean, every single
26:24
Speaker 5: gap can't even bounce can't do anything. Guys were doing
26:27
Speaker 5: a great job.
26:27
Speaker 1: I thought the secondary was excellent today. Chiitabe A Wouje
26:31
Speaker 1: has looked like his old self the last couple of weeks.
26:34
Speaker 1: Dj Ivy is starting to get opportunities. These young pops.
26:38
Speaker 1: They make some mistakes, but there's a lot of talent
26:40
Speaker 1: back there.
26:40
Speaker 5: There is, you know, And there weren't receivers running wide open,
26:43
Speaker 5: you know. I mean every single ball, or a high
26:46
Speaker 5: percentage of them were you know, decent coverage. Guy right
26:50
Speaker 5: there that made a tackle immediately after the catch. I
26:54
Speaker 5: didn't really you know, in my mind, oh man, we
26:57
Speaker 5: getting killed on yards after catch. They were tackling and
27:00
Speaker 5: very soundly and man minimizing yards after catch to the
27:05
Speaker 5: point where it was it was almost ridiculous. I thought
27:07
Speaker 5: Indianapolis had to work hard for everything, and that's a
27:12
Speaker 5: tribute to the defense for sure.
27:14
Speaker 1: So when Jake Browning went running into the locker room
27:16
Speaker 1: to have his thumb examined, I did a flashback to
27:19
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. I'm thinking, oh God, he broke his thumb,
27:22
Speaker 1: just like Andy Dalton. AJ mccheron's going to be the
27:24
Speaker 1: guy for the stretch run. Thankfully, it was just cramping
27:28
Speaker 1: in the thumb and he came right back out. Could
27:30
Speaker 1: you tell by his body language or whatever that it
27:33
Speaker 1: didn't seem that serious to you?
27:34
Speaker 5: Not really, because you know how stoic he gets. You know,
27:37
Speaker 5: it's like he never gets too high with the high,
27:39
Speaker 5: low with the lows. But you know, looking back on it,
27:43
Speaker 5: if it had been something of that magnitude, you know,
27:46
Speaker 5: you could understand him like throwing a helmet or showing
27:49
Speaker 5: some kind of disgust or you know, dissatisfaction or whatever.
27:52
Speaker 5: And it wasn't really like that. It wasn't really embarrassment.
27:56
Speaker 5: But at a lot of his team, I've asked a
27:58
Speaker 5: lot of the teammates, you never heard of every quarterback
28:00
Speaker 5: leave the game with the cramp and the stuff. They
28:02
Speaker 5: all look at me and start laughing, you know, and
28:04
Speaker 5: it's like, no, that's the first. A lot of them
28:05
Speaker 5: didn't know what was going on. They just knew that
28:07
Speaker 5: he left and he went in the tent, and they're like, Oh,
28:09
Speaker 5: what's what's happening here? But that's that's a crazy, crazy thing.
28:14
Speaker 5: I wonder if it's ever happened to Jake before.
28:16
Speaker 1: It's happened to you before, though you've had cramping in
28:18
Speaker 1: the hand before.
28:19
Speaker 5: I have, and right where he right at the ball
28:22
Speaker 5: and socket, you know, of the thumb that rotates, you know,
28:26
Speaker 5: in the heat, moving furniture, doing things where there's a
28:29
Speaker 5: lot of strain and a lot of stress and you're
28:31
Speaker 5: you know, really working your hands. I've had cramps in
28:34
Speaker 5: my thumb and my hands cramp up. And you just
28:37
Speaker 5: got to keep up with your water. In his situation,
28:40
Speaker 5: I mean, it was you know, thirty five degrees, and
28:45
Speaker 5: but it just goes to show you you do have
28:47
Speaker 5: to even when it weather's like that, you do have
28:50
Speaker 5: to drink water, you know, and and make sure your
28:52
Speaker 5: body's balanced.
28:54
Speaker 1: Seven and six, four to go and very much alive, very.
28:59
Speaker 5: Much alive, I mean, is it's right there. Every game
29:06
Speaker 5: is against the playoff caliber team. If you keep knocking
29:09
Speaker 5: them off, I mean, at some point the tiebreakers will
29:12
Speaker 5: start to swing your way again. And if you can
29:14
Speaker 5: get head to head victories against these teams that are
29:17
Speaker 5: fighting to get in, that's the first tiebreaker. So the
29:20
Speaker 5: more of those you can get, the better you're going
29:22
Speaker 5: to be.
29:23
Speaker 1: All Right, take care of your hands. Have lots of liquids.
29:27
Speaker 1: I don't want any hand cramping going into the broadcast
29:29
Speaker 1: next week.
29:30
Speaker 11: Edward Scissor hands up next a home game against the
29:36
Speaker 11: seven and six Vikings, who beat the Raiders on Sunday
29:40
Speaker 11: three nothing, the lowest scoring NFL game in sixteen years.
29:45
Speaker 1: Minnesota lost quarterback Kirk Cousins in Week eight and has
29:49
Speaker 1: managed to stay in playoff contention without him. Nick Mullins
29:53
Speaker 1: relieved a struggling Joshua Dobbs at quarterback this week and
29:57
Speaker 1: led the Vikings to the fourth quarter field goal that
30:00
Speaker 1: was enough to win that game. Saturday's game at Paid
30:04
Speaker 1: Course Stadium starts at one o'clock. Finally, time for this
30:08
Speaker 1: week's fun Facts conversation, where you get to know the
30:11
Speaker 1: person under the pads. Time for some fun facts with
30:16
Speaker 1: Miles Murphy from Marietta, Georgia, not too far from Atlanta.
30:20
Speaker 1: You are one of two boys. You have an older brother, Max,
30:23
Speaker 1: he's an electrical engineer. Now, you studied engineering at Clemson.
30:27
Speaker 1: Why is it about designing and building that appealed to you, guys?
30:31
Speaker 12: I guess for me, I always kind of followed my
30:33
Speaker 12: brother's first steps when it came to he started playing football.
30:36
Speaker 12: I started playing football right after him, and then he
30:39
Speaker 12: got into engineering so I got curious and kind.
30:42
Speaker 3: Of when my own path of engineering.
30:45
Speaker 12: Because I always grew up I always loved drawing in
30:48
Speaker 12: like the process of.
30:50
Speaker 3: Seeing stated stadiums get built.
30:52
Speaker 12: So I wanted to construction construction science, which is pretty
30:55
Speaker 12: much structural engineering civil engineering, and uh, that's kind of
30:59
Speaker 12: just how Austin from there.
31:01
Speaker 1: Your dad played college football. He was a linebacker at
31:04
Speaker 1: Tennessee Chattanooga. He got drafted by the USFL's Birmingham Stallions.
31:09
Speaker 1: Did he put a ball in your hands at an
31:10
Speaker 1: early age.
31:12
Speaker 3: No, that's one thing.
31:13
Speaker 12: My dad really really wasn't big on't He wasn't going
31:15
Speaker 12: to force.
31:16
Speaker 3: Me to play any particular sport.
31:19
Speaker 12: He did want his His big emphasis was you know,
31:22
Speaker 12: be active, do something. But he wasn't like you're going
31:26
Speaker 12: to play football or this, that and the other. Like
31:27
Speaker 12: I was football, baseball, basketball. I was a three sport
31:31
Speaker 12: athlete all the way up until my sophomore year of
31:33
Speaker 12: high school. So it's really like I started playing football
31:35
Speaker 12: because that's what all my friends played and kind of
31:38
Speaker 12: just stayed with it.
31:39
Speaker 1: Shortly after you got drafted, your dad shared a photo
31:42
Speaker 1: with me of you playing baseball when you were seventh grade.
31:45
Speaker 1: I believe you're playing first base, there's a base runner
31:48
Speaker 1: around the bag. You look about twice his size. Did
31:51
Speaker 1: parents from the other teams used to complain that maybe
31:54
Speaker 1: you were too old or that they were worried about
31:57
Speaker 1: their kids in various youth sports.
31:59
Speaker 12: Not a BA ball because baseball, like, the only thing
32:01
Speaker 12: that can hurt you is the ball itself. So it
32:04
Speaker 12: wasn't It wasn't any complaints about uh baseball, but football
32:07
Speaker 12: was complaints. Well yeah, football. At football, there were questions.
32:11
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say complaints, but it was questions. For Sarah,
32:14
Speaker 12: I was one of the always one of the biggest
32:16
Speaker 12: persons on the field, but it didn't give me too
32:19
Speaker 12: much trouble.
32:19
Speaker 1: Honestly, we're chatting with Miles Murphy. I've read that as
32:22
Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher, you threw ninety miles an hour
32:26
Speaker 1: at age fourteen. Why did you decide to give up baseball?
32:30
Speaker 12: The reason I gave it up because one I wasn't
32:33
Speaker 12: the most accurate, Two I couldn't hit a curveball, and
32:37
Speaker 12: then three that last year I was playing baseball, that summer,
32:42
Speaker 12: I got three offers back to back for football, so
32:46
Speaker 12: I kind of just won that football rot.
32:49
Speaker 1: I think you clearly made the right choice. You were
32:51
Speaker 1: one of the highest rank recruits in the country. Do
32:54
Speaker 1: you remember the first letter you got from a school
32:57
Speaker 1: or the first team that really try tried to recruit
33:00
Speaker 1: you hard.
33:02
Speaker 12: The thing is, I didn't even get any letters. It
33:04
Speaker 12: was the UJA offer first, and then the letters from
33:08
Speaker 12: like all over the country. Because the Uga that was
33:11
Speaker 12: the first like football gamp that I went to. Well school,
33:14
Speaker 12: that was the first school football camp that I went to.
33:16
Speaker 12: I went to like a Adida's Army All American Underclassmen
33:21
Speaker 12: camp and like some other like small camps like that.
33:23
Speaker 3: But that was the first school cam that I went to,
33:27
Speaker 3: and then I got the offer, and then letters came after.
33:30
Speaker 1: You could have gone anywhere. You chose Clemson. Why the Tigers.
33:34
Speaker 3: One. I wanted to stay in the Southeast. I want
33:35
Speaker 3: to stay close to home. Marriott is kind of in
33:38
Speaker 3: the hot spot. I was two to two and a
33:41
Speaker 3: half hours away from all the I guess big schools uh.
33:46
Speaker 12: Uga, Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, South Carolina was about two two.
33:52
Speaker 3: Hours, forty five minutes and three hours.
33:54
Speaker 12: Clemson came out on top because one skiing, I like
33:59
Speaker 12: their scheme, their edge, guys played the edge.
34:01
Speaker 3: I didn't.
34:02
Speaker 12: I didn't want to necessarily be on the interior any
34:05
Speaker 12: at all, honestly. And then of course scoring engineering there
34:09
Speaker 12: they have a good structural structural engineering program or construction
34:12
Speaker 12: science program, and those those those are probably like the
34:15
Speaker 12: two biggest pools. And then the well, the last, last
34:20
Speaker 12: last thing was really just the feeling of how I
34:23
Speaker 12: felt on each campus, and I just felt the best
34:25
Speaker 12: on Clemson.
34:27
Speaker 1: As any big college football fan. Though it's part of
34:29
Speaker 1: the Clemson experience is touching Howard's rock and then sprinting
34:34
Speaker 1: down a very steep hill onto the playing field. What
34:37
Speaker 1: was your strategy for staying upright sprinting down that hill?
34:41
Speaker 12: It was more so of a sideways gallop. No, well,
34:44
Speaker 12: I won't say no one sprinted. Some people did sprint,
34:46
Speaker 12: but I u Sweeny as soon as Sweeney told us
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Speaker 12: a story about the thing that he tells tells every
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Speaker 12: freshman before.
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Speaker 3: They run down the hill.
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Speaker 12: It's a decline, then it's a flat part, and then
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Speaker 12: it's another decline. A player hyper extended his knee on
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Speaker 12: the flat part because he was striding down the entire.
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Speaker 3: Way the same. But he told us the strategy is
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Speaker 3: to stride down.
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Speaker 12: Once you used that flat part, just jump out, just
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Speaker 12: jump forward, and then you'll just fall into your next
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Speaker 12: few strides.
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Speaker 3: So that was a strategy.
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Speaker 12: But me, I was always just careful, like there's it's
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Speaker 12: no point in trying to race down the hill, So
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Speaker 12: I just did like a sideways gallop and just cruise
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Speaker 12: my way down.
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Speaker 1: I love that the sideways gallop. You were on some
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Speaker 1: great teams and had phenomenal teammates at Clemson like Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and Travis Etn. What was your favorite part about
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Speaker 1: your three years at Clemson.
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Speaker 12: I mean, honestly, just the people there, like the friendships
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Speaker 12: that I made there. Honestly, that's a big reason why
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Speaker 12: I played the sport. Every every team that I go to,
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Speaker 12: it's a it's just a big fellowship all the time.
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Speaker 12: Like even even here, just being with the D line
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Speaker 12: all the time, it's a big fellowship, whether we are
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Speaker 12: in the meeting rooms, on the field, or just at
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Speaker 12: home we're on playing Call of Duty. Were like somebody
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Speaker 12: me and someone the dline were playing Call of Duty yesterday,
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Speaker 12: Like just the big fellowship. That's that's a big reason
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Speaker 12: why I play the game, just to create those relationships.
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Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with Miles Murphy. For many players,
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Speaker 1: the draft is the highlight of their life to that date,
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Speaker 1: at least because it is the reward for so much
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Speaker 1: hard work that goes into it. Describe your emotions when
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Speaker 1: the Bengals selected you in the first round.
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Speaker 3: Honestly, it was kind of surreal.
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Speaker 12: I didn't even understand all of it was, of all
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Speaker 12: of what happened until are you like four three to
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Speaker 12: four days after, because it was the building up to
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Speaker 12: the draft day, Draft Draft night, got drafted and then
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Speaker 12: had a day, had a day in between, and then
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Speaker 12: the following day got on the got on the jet,
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Speaker 12: flew up to Cincinnati, then came back and it wasn't
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Speaker 12: until I got back like when everything started to process
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Speaker 12: about what all just happened. So it was it was
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Speaker 12: most definitely just surreal for a few for a few days, honestly.
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Speaker 3: But Mon's just a good film all right.
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Speaker 1: Now, Time for some wild Card topics with Miles Murphy.
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Speaker 1: Your family had Atlanta Falcon season tickets when you were young.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember any specific games or moments of games
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Speaker 1: that you attended?
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Speaker 12: Ooh, yeah, twenty seventeen Falcons versus Green Bay Packers. That
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Speaker 12: was our I say hour, that was the Falcons winning season.
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Speaker 12: I think we went to the super Bowl that year
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Speaker 12: and it was really just that entire game, not even
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Speaker 12: just like the play on the field, like the entire
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Speaker 12: like feeling of the entire stadium the entire time.
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Speaker 3: It was just a loud war the entire game because
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Speaker 3: it was it was a big game.
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Speaker 12: And that twenty seventeen season that just kind of just
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Speaker 12: that lit that fire that we had when Michael Vick
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Speaker 12: was there.
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Speaker 3: Because when Michael Vick.
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Speaker 12: Was there, the entire city of Atlanta was crazy, like
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Speaker 12: in a good way, it was. It was just crazy
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Speaker 12: all the time. So that twenty seventeen season kind of
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Speaker 12: brought everyone back to brought everyone back to that excitement.
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Speaker 12: So it was it was it was just it was
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Speaker 12: just a fun time.
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Speaker 1: It was the Super Bowl, lost to the Patriots and
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Speaker 1: squandering the twenty eight to three lead a heartbreaker.
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Speaker 12: It was a heartbreaking for the you know, the die
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Speaker 12: hard fans, my parents, the season ticket holders. But I
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Speaker 12: know when we were up twenty eight to three, my
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Speaker 12: uh my parents' friends, they brought out like two three
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Speaker 12: big bottles of champagne. Put them, put them on the
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Speaker 12: ice and then the comeback started, and then once the
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Speaker 12: Patriots won, it was Champagne was just still sitting there
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Speaker 12: and I was thinking, I forget, forget how old I was,
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Speaker 12: but I was just you know, just sitting there.
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Speaker 3: Just went upstairs, got on the game. Hey, it is
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Speaker 3: what it is.
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Speaker 1: They should have popped that champagne on your draft nights
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Speaker 1: since they couldn't enjoy it after the Super Bowl. As
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Speaker 1: you've mentioned your major witch construction, science and management, and
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Speaker 1: you have an interest in stadium design. What do you
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Speaker 1: consider to be the coolest stadium in terms of design?
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Speaker 12: Las Vegas Raiders probably the in my opinion, the coolest,
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Speaker 12: the coolest design inside and out. It's a very nice
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Speaker 12: looking aesthetic on the outside and the inside. But uh,
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Speaker 12: if you're just talking about just fan experience on the
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Speaker 12: inside of the stadium, the Chargers probably have the best
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Speaker 12: best looking stadium because one, of course, the bright colors
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Speaker 12: just always brings it just brings a good vibe automatically,
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Speaker 12: and then the see through roof to let the sunlight
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Speaker 12: inns always.
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Speaker 1: Plus we got to experience at the Super Bowl a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and you're right, till Fi Stadium
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Speaker 1: is awesome. Miles, tell me something about you that people
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Speaker 1: don't know.
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Speaker 12: Very into cars, the mechanics, the mechanics of cars.
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Speaker 3: I could sit down all.
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Speaker 12: Day talk about all different types of cars, but this
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Speaker 12: the engines that I'm very into. If you know me,
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Speaker 12: then you know that I'm very into cars. But if
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Speaker 12: you do, if you just know of me or don't
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Speaker 12: really know me that well, that's probably a fun little fact.
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Speaker 3: What's the dream car? The dream car?
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Speaker 12: See it always upbrate those into categories of hypercars, supercars, trucks,
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Speaker 12: comfort cars, luxury, but the dream car has always been
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Speaker 12: a Lamborghini. Ve been to the recivj if well, I
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Speaker 12: do fit in it, but barely.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the disadvantages of being your size. All right,
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Speaker 1: final fun fact with Miles Murphy. This one's kind of deep.
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Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased,
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Speaker 1: who would that person be?
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Speaker 12: Lebron, Denzel Washington, and j Cole Those are like, those
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Speaker 12: are like my top three, like because I always Lebron's
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Speaker 12: always been like the number one athlete him and Bo
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Speaker 12: Jackson the number one athlete of athletes of all.
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Speaker 3: Time in my opinion, and then Denzel.
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Speaker 12: Always I always feel like he'll leave you with a
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Speaker 12: few nuggets that'll just leave you thinking after every conversation.
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Speaker 3: And then same with j Cole.
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Speaker 12: I feel like he's just he's one of my favorite
40:48
Speaker 12: artists of all time.
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Speaker 3: And then he very just a very knowledgeable person. You
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Speaker 3: were off the hot seat. I appreciate your time. Best
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Speaker 3: of Like the rest of the year, I appreciate it.
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