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Speaker 1: Hi again everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast the cause you know I love
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Speaker 1: the player's addition. As we introduce you to the three
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Speaker 1: players taken on Day three of the draft and sum
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Speaker 1: greatest thing since TV coverage of the NFL Draft. The
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Speaker 1: first draft ever televised was the Anthony munyoft in nineteen eighty.
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Speaker 1: A six month old all sports cable network desperate for
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Speaker 1: programming named ESPN figured that the draft would draw a
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Speaker 1: few eyeballs. The first round was on a Tuesday afternoon
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Speaker 1: and there were no fans in attendance. It was basically
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Speaker 1: a bunch of people sitting around phones. Forty five years later,
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Speaker 1: it's a three day extravaganza that hundreds of thousands of
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Speaker 1: people attend in person and millions more watch on TV.
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Speaker 1: In fact, this year's first round averaged thirteen point six
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Speaker 1: million viewers, the second most watched first round ever, the
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Speaker 1: only one that topped it the Joe Burrow Draft in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Now, let's get to the Bengals Day three selections.
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Speaker 1: In the fourth round, Cincinnati picked linebacker Barrett Carter out
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Speaker 1: of Clemson. Carter was a three year starter for the
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Speaker 1: Tigers and a captain last year. He's a little undersized
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Speaker 1: in terms of height at six feet, but he's a
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Speaker 1: solid two hundred and thirty two pounds with excellent speed,
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Speaker 1: and he rarely came off the field, including special team's duty.
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Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Al Golden says that Carter made a great
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Speaker 1: impression when they met face to face at the NFL combine.
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Speaker 2: First of all, it wasn't canned, you know, it wasn't practice.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was really the word that I wrote
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Speaker 2: down on my notes was authentic, you know, just the
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Speaker 2: the relationship that he had with his pastor you know,
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Speaker 2: back home and four point zero GPA team captain. You know,
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Speaker 2: we have a sign down here in our weight room,
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Speaker 2: you know, fat pH a T and he's that. So
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Speaker 2: he's he's a guy that you know, is a culture
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Speaker 2: creator and he'll improve ours. He's a guy that we
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Speaker 2: had high regard for, had grades higher than the current round.
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Speaker 2: UH could play stack linebacker, gives us four down value,
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Speaker 2: early downs, third down and UH special teams Team Captain
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Speaker 2: green dot UH four oh g p A just a
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Speaker 2: family oriented guy.
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Speaker 3: UH.
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Speaker 2: Just a really impressive human being.
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Speaker 1: UH.
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Speaker 2: And he's gonna have an immediate impact for us. We're
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Speaker 2: too deep at linebacker now in terms of if we're
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Speaker 2: playing four to two, UH, we still need some help
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Speaker 2: in terms of if we're playing bass with you know
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Speaker 2: four three structure. So I just feel like, you know,
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Speaker 2: we we have you know, six seven linebackers. I think
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Speaker 2: we have more ends now. So I think we've fortified
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Speaker 2: a bunch of positions. And it just gives me a
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Speaker 2: sense of Okay, now we can UH plot the course
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Speaker 2: when the crossroads of UH evaluation and opportunity UH meet
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Speaker 2: UH in terms of need meeting opportunity. You know, theres
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Speaker 2: a need and the evaluation was high. It's hard to
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Speaker 2: pass up that prospect.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Elle made a reference to the letters
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Speaker 1: P H A T that are on the wall in
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Speaker 1: the Bengals weight room. They stand for physical, Hungry, accountable teammate.
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Speaker 1: We spoke to Carter after he was selected and got
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Speaker 1: his reaction to being chosen by the Bengals in round four.
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Speaker 4: I was not anticipating it at all. You know, I
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Speaker 4: was just trying to take in everything, just pick my pick.
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Speaker 4: And you know, I saw something on the clock, and
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Speaker 4: you know, I was I was hoping for it, but
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, you never know what the
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Speaker 4: draft and I see my phone light up and I
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Speaker 4: answer the call, and you know, here we are. So
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Speaker 4: I'm super, super blessed to be a part of it
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Speaker 4: and just I'm ready to you know, get get to
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Speaker 4: work and you know, you know, go win some games.
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Speaker 4: So I'm super excited.
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Speaker 5: Fears a profile of you were you removed the defense
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Speaker 5: as a sophomore and that you quote unquote hated it.
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Speaker 4: What did you hate about that move? Are you grateful
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Speaker 4: now that they made that move? Yeah? So that was
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Speaker 4: my That was the end of my freshman year of
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Speaker 4: high school, and I just I'd grown up playing receiver
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Speaker 4: and running back really my whole life, and you know,
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Speaker 4: they moved me the linebacker, and I was I was
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Speaker 4: super mad about it. I thought I was I'm from Chicaga,
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Speaker 4: and I thought I was gonna be the next Devin Hester,
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Speaker 4: so something like that, and then moved me to defense,
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Speaker 4: and I was pissed off. I wanted to quit football,
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Speaker 4: but the next day I got my.
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Speaker 6: First scholarship offer.
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Speaker 4: So God wore some mysterious ways and that showed me
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Speaker 4: that right there. But you know, I've grown to love
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Speaker 4: defense and I wouldn't want to play any other side
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Speaker 4: of the ball, and I wouldn't want to play any
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Speaker 4: other position.
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Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Al Golden spoke about your interview in Indianapolis
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Speaker 1: and he described it as authentic and that you didn't
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Speaker 1: sound coached. How did you approach those one on one
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Speaker 1: meetings with NFL teams?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I walked into my interviews and I
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Speaker 4: just I just I was just being myself.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: I didn't want to put up a put up a
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Speaker 4: front and anything or you know, try to be something
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Speaker 4: that I'm not, you know, God gave me my DNA,
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Speaker 4: my finger print, and no one else has the same
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Speaker 4: finger print. And I stand by that and I live
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Speaker 4: by that. So I walked into every single room just
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Speaker 4: being myself. I'm a confident, humble, smart young man, and
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Speaker 4: you know that's that's that's why, that's what I tried
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Speaker 4: to be in every single interview. So I'm glad. I
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Speaker 4: guess I left a good impression.
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Speaker 3: What made you an effective and good team captain?
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Speaker 4: I would say the number one thing that I lead
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Speaker 4: with love, and I don't I don't just you know,
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Speaker 4: attach myself to the starters or the other linebackers or
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Speaker 4: the other like like other good players, like I don't
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Speaker 4: care like what your role is or who you are.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna treat you like you're the most important player
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Speaker 4: or whoever you are. So I mean, it didn't matter
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Speaker 4: if you were a walk on who never touched a
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Speaker 4: field or if you were the starting quarterback, like I
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Speaker 4: approach you the same.
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Speaker 6: I didn't talk to you any differently.
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Speaker 4: And I think that you know, seeing that authenticity, that genuine,
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Speaker 4: that genuine love and care, I think that's why you
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Speaker 4: know my teammates voting your team captain. So I would
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Speaker 4: say that's the number one thing.
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Speaker 1: In the fifth round, the Bengals selected offensive lineman Jalen
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Speaker 1: Rivers out of the University of Miami. He's six' six
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Speaker 1: roughly three hundred and twenty pounds and helped protect the
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Speaker 1: number one pick in this year's, draft Cam ward And
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Speaker 1: rivers is. Versatile this past, season he played three hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty four snaps at left tackle and two hundred
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Speaker 1: nineteen snaps at left, guard often playing both in the same.
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Speaker 1: Game here's offensive Coordinator Dan. Pitcher really impressive, guy.
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Speaker 7: Very, smart physically, gifted, versatile has has really played just
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Speaker 7: about an equal share of his snaps at guard and,
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Speaker 7: tackle oftentimes within game playing guard and.
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Speaker 1: Tackle so that.
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Speaker 7: Versatility really speaks to the VALUE i think he'll provide
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Speaker 7: us at this. Level adding a super high character, guy great,
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Speaker 7: length very good pass. Protector had him here in the
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Speaker 7: building on a visit and couldn't have been more impressed
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Speaker 7: with him as a. Person we've just added talent to that.
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Speaker 6: Room we've got.
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Speaker 7: Better we feel really good about, that and it is
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Speaker 7: key that as you're adding guys who you expect to
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Speaker 7: compete potentially serve is depth pieces at least initially that
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Speaker 7: they have that versatility and So jalen has that and it'll.
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Speaker 6: Prove valuable for.
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Speaker 1: Us my third round Pick Dylan fairchild looking like the
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Speaker 1: front runner to start at left. Guard rivers figures to
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Speaker 1: primarily be a backup tackle with the ability to play
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Speaker 1: guard if.
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Speaker 6: Needed, Oh i'm extremely excited to be a part of this.
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Speaker 6: Program this PROGRAM i visited and taught to coaches And
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Speaker 6: i've been watching for a long. Time So i'm excited
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Speaker 6: to be a part of a building organization and a
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Speaker 6: team that's going to be, great And i'm just another
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Speaker 6: addition to. It SO i mean, Quite i'm an ecstatic right.
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Speaker 6: Now lost For.
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Speaker 1: Wards did you have several thirty visits and when The
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Speaker 1: bengals brought you, in did you make or did that
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Speaker 1: make you think that this was a real?
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Speaker 6: Possibility the being was my only thirty, visit but DEFINITELY
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Speaker 6: i did feel OF i didn't feel the sense of
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Speaker 6: AFTER i leave in, There i'm, LIKE i definitely feel
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Speaker 6: like this is a great fit for, me AND i
9:06
Speaker 6: feel like they viewed me the, same and of course
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Speaker 6: the show today being picked by, them but that was
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Speaker 6: my only thirty visit and like they get that sense of,
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Speaker 6: like you KNOW i, COULD i can definitely be.
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Speaker 7: Here what did you learn about playing offensive line through
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Speaker 7: your through your experience blocking front Of lye quarterback And.
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Speaker 6: Cam, Mooreton, well definitely you got to hold off your.
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Speaker 6: Block you don't have a, time you, know clocking your
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Speaker 6: head with. Him you got a lot and to make these.
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Speaker 6: Plays and if that's holding the ball for aid or you,
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Speaker 6: know let him do his thing to get guys open
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Speaker 6: and make, plays then you gotta just give him that.
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Speaker 6: Time so it was important for all of us to
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Speaker 6: get our quarterback and my head and you keep them.
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Speaker 6: Clean you, know we try our, best but we take
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Speaker 6: pride in blocking for a quarterback that puts himself or
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Speaker 6: puts others before himself as. Well and you know he's
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Speaker 6: a great leader to you, know for us At miami
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Speaker 6: when we're at, there and then now he's gonna be
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Speaker 6: a great addition to his program's with The. Titans but
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Speaker 6: just great guy to block. Four and it feels great
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Speaker 6: to want a block four quarterback like. That and now
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Speaker 6: blocking For Joe, burrow so you got a tradition that
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Speaker 6: mindset with him as.
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Speaker 1: Well The bengal sixth and final pick taken in the
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Speaker 1: sixth round was running Back Taj brooks out Of Texas.
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Speaker 1: Tech in an extremely deep running back, Class brooks was
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Speaker 1: among the most. Productive he was eighth in the nation
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Speaker 1: and rushing this year with fifteen hundred and five yards
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Speaker 1: and fourth in the country the year before with fifteen
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty. One Here's Zach, taylor.
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Speaker 5: Tough great lateral, quickness good ball skills you, know can
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Speaker 5: protect for us as. Well so really just a really
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Speaker 5: good all round. Player you, know our running back coach knew.
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Speaker 5: Him justin hild knew him from the recruiting process years,
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Speaker 5: ago and so again these are there was a good.
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Speaker 5: Class towser is one that we were really really high
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Speaker 5: on from a scouts and coaches, perspective and so for
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Speaker 5: him to be there in the sixth round we got,
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Speaker 5: him we were really hockey that he fell to a step.
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Speaker 5: Point we have a good mix of running backs in
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Speaker 5: our room right. Now you, know to answer your, QUESTION
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Speaker 5: i think all shapes and, sizes all. Abilities so it's really,
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Speaker 5: good really good to get a mix of those guys in.
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Speaker 1: There brooks is a five to nine low center of
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Speaker 1: gravity bowling ball with four or five, speed and another Team.
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Speaker 1: Captain head Coach Joey maguire called him as good of
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Speaker 1: a person as there is on this. Planet here's the
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Speaker 1: twenty three year old running back.
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Speaker 4: Blessed that the, organization The bengal organizations gave me that drafted.
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Speaker 5: Me it was.
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Speaker 4: AWESOME i put a smile to my face and the
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Speaker 4: running me in and running bass clothes go very. Well
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Speaker 4: he was a guy that recruited me in college And
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Speaker 4: i'm GLAD i got to be back with. Him how
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Speaker 4: would you describe the styles of. RUNNING i feel Like
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Speaker 4: i'm all on the. Back i'm very. Versatile i'll guess
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Speaker 4: about out of the. BACKSHIELD i can. Run i'm very
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Speaker 4: explosive in a run, game AND i can do AND
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Speaker 4: i have very violent hands and Passbo that's something you
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Speaker 4: see on my tape a lot and very blessing about.
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Speaker 3: It, gosh what made you so productive your last two?
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Speaker 3: Years over fifteen hundred yards each season and also one
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Speaker 3: hundred and ninety nine yards past receiving this.
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Speaker 4: Year i'll feel like what made me so productive is
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Speaker 4: just the consistency you see on take the violets and
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Speaker 4: how running my runs. OFF i don't let one person taking.
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Speaker 4: Me that's Something i've just you, know built over my
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Speaker 4: career and being in the past. GAME i feel LIKE
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Speaker 4: i have the best hands on a. FIELD i feel
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Speaker 4: LIKE i feel LIKE i have the best hands in
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Speaker 4: the running back. Class so that's just how the attitude
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Speaker 4: That i'll bring towards an, organization you, know in just
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Speaker 4: the past game and just being explosive that.
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Speaker 1: WAY A draft overview With Zach taylor And Dave lapham
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Speaker 1: a big picture look at the class of twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five From Zach.
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Speaker 5: TAYLOR i think the theme is they love. Football you,
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Speaker 5: know you're really all six of these guys as you've
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Speaker 5: gotten to know, them some might know better than. Others
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Speaker 5: but that's what you took away, is, man these they
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Speaker 5: just love talking. Football they've been around, football they'll have
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Speaker 5: been around their. Teammates they made huge impacts on the
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Speaker 5: programs that they were, at you, know and by a huge,
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Speaker 5: IMPACT i mean not only on the, field but the
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Speaker 5: way that people talked about them off the. Field you
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Speaker 5: could feel that the impact they made, there and that
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Speaker 5: means something to. Use, man we can put a depth
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Speaker 5: chart out there and feel, like feel really good about
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Speaker 5: where we're. At that's a big piece that helps us
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Speaker 5: sleep well at night right. Now and guys that we're excited.
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Speaker 5: About you. Know so we already had guys currently on
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Speaker 5: the roster that really got us, excited and then you
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Speaker 5: get to add these three on defense that we just
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Speaker 5: added and feel really good. About, now let's go implement
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Speaker 5: the scheme and get guys comfortable and go.
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Speaker 1: POINTBALL i had the, last but not least time to
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Speaker 1: bring in my broadcast, Partner Dave. Lapham All, right, lap
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Speaker 1: let's start with fourth round draft Pick Barrett carter out Of.
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Speaker 1: Clemson they doubled down on the linebacker. Position this guy's
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Speaker 1: got good. CREDENTIALS a three year starter for The, tigers
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Speaker 1: he was a. Captain he rarely came off the, field
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Speaker 1: whether it was defense or special. TEAMS i would imagine
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Speaker 1: he'll certainly play a special teams role right. AWAY i
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Speaker 1: read in one report a scout from another team gave
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Speaker 1: him a second round. Grade so The bengals weren't the
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Speaker 1: only team that thought highly Of Barrett.
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Speaker 6: Carter.
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Speaker 3: YEAH i, mean he's he's an athletic, guy stout, guy
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Speaker 3: six two and thirty, pounds and you, know he can.
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Speaker 3: Run that's that's the thing that that impressed me up
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Speaker 3: and down the. Draft they do their homework in that
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Speaker 3: regard and you, watch you watch. Tape he's. Slippery you,
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Speaker 3: know he's a guy that you know that doesn't stay.
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Speaker 3: Blocked he's he's somebody that he had success with me. Captain,
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Speaker 3: obviously he's a, leader and that's the thing that we've
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Speaker 3: talked about, Earlier, dan the leadership and the integrity from
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Speaker 3: a personal, standpoint the people standpoint of this football, team
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Speaker 3: of these guys they drafted to try to make the
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Speaker 3: football team is. INCREDIBLE i, mean this kid was A
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Speaker 3: Buckers award, finalist you, know AND i think he will
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Speaker 3: be a like a sub package candidate like you're talking.
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Speaker 3: About he can run in special, teams it will be a.
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Speaker 3: Factor he had two undred and fifty three. Tackles he
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Speaker 3: had thirty three tackles for loss in his, career a
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Speaker 3: couple of passes broken. Up it Wasn't they didn't blitz
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Speaker 3: him a whole. Lot he didn't pressure the quarterback. Much
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Speaker 3: twelve and a half, sacks three, interceptions three fumble, recoveries
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Speaker 3: two forced. Funnels SO i mean he was a stat sheets.
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Speaker 3: Stuffer he. Did he did a little, bit a little
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Speaker 3: bit of everything For. Clemson first guy to everwhere number
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Speaker 3: zero for The Clemson. Tigers so obviously they like his skill,
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Speaker 3: set the fact that he was a, captain a, leader
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Speaker 3: highly regarded by his. Teammates and the, thing the thing
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Speaker 3: that impresses me about every one of these draft, picks
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Speaker 3: And i'm sure the when the coaches interviewed him and
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Speaker 3: when the organizational people interviewed, him you can see or
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Speaker 3: even see and hear how important the game is to these.
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Speaker 3: Guys you, know it's you, know they're they're they're in
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Speaker 3: it for the right. Reasons AND i think the culture
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Speaker 3: that is being built here is not being damaged whatsoever
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Speaker 3: by bringing any of these guys into the.
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Speaker 1: Mix so they doubled down at linebacker in the fourth,
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Speaker 1: round and then they doubled down on offensive line in
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Speaker 1: the fifth when they Took Jalen rivers out of The
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Speaker 1: university Of. Miami this is a guy who basically split
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Speaker 1: his time between tackle and guard for The, hurricanes dabbled
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Speaker 1: in center at The Senior. BOWL i don't think people
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Speaker 1: expecting to play center in THE, Nfl but when you
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Speaker 1: take an offensive lineman in the fifth, round you're probably
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Speaker 1: not expecting him to be a starter right, away but
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Speaker 1: you are hoping he can be an important reserve right.
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Speaker 1: Away and having that versatility between tackle and guard is.
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Speaker 3: Big it Is. Dan you, know here's a guy that
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Speaker 3: uh sixty, six three hundred and twenty pounds almost a
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Speaker 3: thirty five inch arm, length so you, know his wingspan
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Speaker 3: is enormous as. Well he had ten starts at left,
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Speaker 3: guard twenty one excuse, me at left, tackle and twenty one.
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Speaker 6: Start.
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Speaker 3: No twenty one starts at left, tackle ten starts at left.
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Speaker 3: Guard that's how it broke. Down when you look at this,
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Speaker 3: GUY i wouldn't call him, athletic BUT i would call
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Speaker 3: him fundamentally and technically. Sound and it's, repetitive you, know
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Speaker 3: it's not like every snap he's doing something. DIFFERENT i
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Speaker 3: mean the guy has it down in terms of how
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Speaker 3: he wants to approach blocking people to the line of.
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Speaker 3: Scrimmage and as big as he, IS i, mean he
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Speaker 3: reminds me of like you, know A Bruce raymers type
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Speaker 3: of guy back in the, day just eclipses the. SUN i,
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Speaker 3: mean he takes up so much, space so much. ROOM
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Speaker 3: i could see, him you, know competing at both, positions
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Speaker 3: and like you, say not necessarily a starting. Role but
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Speaker 3: like we talked about earlier, today every offensive lineman in today's,
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Speaker 3: game unless you're you, know a stud pro bowl guard
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Speaker 3: or tackle and you're going to stay, there you have
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Speaker 3: to be able to have a position. Versatility you've got
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Speaker 3: to be able to move. Around and game day there's
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Speaker 3: not ten, linemen you, know so somebody is going to
18:38
Speaker 3: have to potentially do a little bit more than one
18:40
Speaker 3: position if there's, injuries god, forbid or if you want
18:43
Speaker 3: to give somebody a break or A blosso a guy
18:47
Speaker 3: like that who's, proven you, know at a high Level
18:49
Speaker 3: Miami florida football is pretty. Good and you, know for
18:53
Speaker 3: him to have double digit starts at both left guard
18:56
Speaker 3: and left tackle in his career and, then like you,
18:59
Speaker 3: said dabbled at, center at The Senior. Bowl it tells
19:03
Speaker 3: you something about the kid that when the coaches at
19:07
Speaker 3: The Senior bowl were working with, him his FOOTBALL iq
19:12
Speaker 3: must be pretty high because they're like going and take
19:14
Speaker 3: some snaps at center because the center makes a lot of,
19:17
Speaker 3: calls and so he must be able to assimilate, quickly you,
19:20
Speaker 3: know new, information new, offenses new, schemes and that's a good.
19:24
Speaker 3: SIGN i think that never, Never, REALLY i don't know
19:27
Speaker 3: this for. SURE i, MEAN i don't. Know they didn't list.
19:29
Speaker 3: It he played any, games But i'm not sure if
19:31
Speaker 3: he took any practice snaps at center was At, Miami.
19:34
Speaker 3: Florida but for him to do that at The Senior
19:36
Speaker 3: bowl against really good, competition even you, know in, practices
19:40
Speaker 3: he's going against the best in college. Football That's Senior.
19:43
Speaker 3: Bowl it's the all star game of all star. Games
19:47
Speaker 3: and then in the game go out and perform and
19:52
Speaker 3: not look like you don't. Belong it says something about
19:54
Speaker 3: the guy in his.
19:55
Speaker 1: Versatility their sixth and final pick was running Back Taj
19:58
Speaker 1: brooks out Of Texas. TECH i thought they would take
20:01
Speaker 1: a running back at some point because this was such
20:03
Speaker 1: a great year for running. Backs the talent was too
20:06
Speaker 1: good to just completely ignore. Them AND i can vouch
20:10
Speaker 1: For Taj. Brooks he had one hundred and seventy two
20:12
Speaker 1: yards AGAINST uc last, year fifteen hundred plus each of
20:16
Speaker 1: the last two. Years he's five ten two twenty, strong
20:21
Speaker 1: good at breaking, tackles has the ability to catch the
20:24
Speaker 1: ball out of the. Backfield to, me great guy To
20:27
Speaker 1: grabb in the sixth, round.
20:28
Speaker 3: WELL i know you know what you're looking at from
20:31
Speaker 3: a football, standpoint and for your have to have that
20:35
Speaker 3: kind of recommendation about this kid that's obviously a good
20:39
Speaker 3: pick at the sixth, round AND i agree with. You
20:41
Speaker 3: running back was you, know AS i was looking at
20:44
Speaker 3: who they're going to. Take you, know in day, three,
20:49
Speaker 3: boy there's still a lot of running backs out, there
20:52
Speaker 3: and at the, combine thirty one. Guys thirty one running
20:55
Speaker 3: backs show up at the, combine and that's how the
20:58
Speaker 3: combine was over and looking at. Stuff how they tested
21:02
Speaker 3: ten to a dozen warranted second looks in my, opinion you,
21:05
Speaker 3: know including this guy and a few. Others so, yeah
21:12
Speaker 3: it's when you can get a guy this caliber in
21:15
Speaker 3: the sixth. ROUND i mean that that that is picked
21:19
Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety. THREE i, BET i bet if
21:21
Speaker 3: you said, That Tis, brooks you're going to be picked
21:23
Speaker 3: one ninety three in this year's. Draft in twenty twenty,
21:27
Speaker 3: five if he would have looked at you, like what
21:29
Speaker 3: what have you been? Smoking? Man what's what's wrong with?
21:31
Speaker 3: You so, again it's like there are so many of,
21:34
Speaker 3: them and not just the running back. Position this draft.
21:37
Speaker 3: Had in my, OPINION i don't know how Many Pro
21:41
Speaker 3: bowlers it's going to. Have you never. Know you can't
21:43
Speaker 3: Forecast pro. BOWLERS i don't think you. Know it's it's
21:47
Speaker 3: it's it's very. Difficult but it has so many good football.
21:51
Speaker 3: Players and the running back position may have had from
21:55
Speaker 3: a ratio, standpoint as many good football players as any
21:58
Speaker 3: position group in the. Draft so to have a guy like,
22:01
Speaker 3: that she'll be. Around i'd pick one ninety. THREE i
22:06
Speaker 3: bet The bengals in the room are, like let's let's
22:09
Speaker 3: get this done before anybody realizes this is a brink.
22:14
Speaker 1: Robbery all, right let's wrap things. Up this draft reminds
22:18
Speaker 1: me of the twenty twenty draft To Joe burrow, draft
22:21
Speaker 1: not that they drafted anybody Like. Joe that happens, once you,
22:25
Speaker 1: know in a franchise's, history or maybe a few times
22:28
Speaker 1: in a franchise's. History but the way that they are
22:31
Speaker 1: similar is the character. Qualities in twenty, twenty every player
22:35
Speaker 1: that they took except FOR T higgins was a team,
22:38
Speaker 1: captain AND t would have been had he Stated clemson
22:41
Speaker 1: for one more. Year very similar this time. Around these
22:44
Speaker 1: guys have great, character very engaging, personalities good. Backstories Demetrius
22:52
Speaker 1: knight is a married father of. TWO i really think
22:55
Speaker 1: they leaned heavily on the character aspect this.
22:58
Speaker 3: YEAR i couldn't agree with you more or you, know
23:01
Speaker 3: and you look at it that they're all, leaders they're
23:05
Speaker 3: all passionate about the game of. FOOTBALL i we talked
23:07
Speaker 3: about the game of football is very important to, them
23:11
Speaker 3: and you, know you have to have some nasty in,
23:14
Speaker 3: you and particularly the the guys in the trenches and the,
23:18
Speaker 3: linebackers and they've got appropriate nasty in. Them you. Know
23:21
Speaker 3: it's it's like the. Game they're they're all, physical like you,
23:25
Speaker 3: said they're all, competitive they're all got high FOOTBALL. Iq
23:30
Speaker 3: as you said. CAPTAINS i think the the overwhelming common
23:38
Speaker 3: denominator for me and a lot of these picks in
23:41
Speaker 3: the draft is character and football. Character and they're, different
23:49
Speaker 3: but you, know there's some traits that are, similar but
23:51
Speaker 3: football character is a little bit a little bit different
23:55
Speaker 3: because you, know you're you have to be, physical you
24:00
Speaker 3: have to be, competitive you have to try, to you,
24:04
Speaker 3: know beat the other guy at all costs kind of.
24:06
Speaker 3: Thing and you, know there are some things going out,
24:10
Speaker 3: there hand in hand combat where if we're out in
24:12
Speaker 3: the streets and with the general, public to be a
24:15
Speaker 3: warrant for your, arrest you, know and. That but that's
24:19
Speaker 3: but guys that can compete at that level within their
24:22
Speaker 3: framework of the rules of the of the game and
24:24
Speaker 3: everything that that's high football. Character and when and when
24:28
Speaker 3: they get recognized for their leadership qualities and they become,
24:31
Speaker 3: captains you, KNOW i think that's a big. Deal and,
24:35
Speaker 3: AGAIN i Think zach is building a hell of a
24:37
Speaker 3: culture and these guys are going to add to. It
24:41
Speaker 3: and we talked about it a little, Earlier, dan it's
24:43
Speaker 3: a it's a destination that guys want to be a part.
24:45
Speaker 3: Of Joe burrow is a big factor in. THAT i,
24:48
Speaker 3: mean this guy is he's. Special he's he's a special,
24:51
Speaker 3: player a special. Person and you know the two wide
24:54
Speaker 3: receivers that they, resign you, Know chas And, higgins it's
24:57
Speaker 3: LIKE gasicki sign him at the tight end. Position what
25:01
Speaker 3: he can? Do you, know Fair child is somebody that
25:06
Speaker 3: he couldn't have gone to a better. Team he'll be
25:09
Speaker 3: the first to tell you that his pass protection is
25:11
Speaker 3: a cut above is run blocking right. Now it's not
25:13
Speaker 3: like he can't run, block but he is an unbelievable
25:16
Speaker 3: pass protector because of his balance due to, wrestling and you,
25:20
Speaker 3: know two time state, champion AND i mean he's, flexible
25:23
Speaker 3: he's he's got a. Balance and you, KNOW i like
25:27
Speaker 3: that picked in because you know that will solidify the.
25:29
Speaker 3: Pocket you, know it'll it'll keep it. Firm if You
25:32
Speaker 3: Joe brow a firm, pocket damage will be. Done SO i,
25:36
Speaker 3: MEAN i, LIKE i like a lot of these picks
25:39
Speaker 3: for a lot of. Reasons AND i know the naysayers
25:42
Speaker 3: out there are, like, yeah, WELL i don't have a
25:44
Speaker 3: problem with how they addressed the, draft and you shouldn't
25:48
Speaker 3: because they basically did what they said they were going to.
25:51
Speaker 3: Do you, know we're gonna get better in the. Middle
25:53
Speaker 3: we're going to address the interior the offensive, line going
25:55
Speaker 3: to address the interior the defensive line, linebackers and they
25:58
Speaker 3: did that for the most. Part people's gripe is is
26:02
Speaker 3: it the right? People AND i mean, that you, know
26:05
Speaker 3: everybody will Tell, yeah everybody has an, opinion but nobody
26:08
Speaker 3: knows for sure right. Now that's for.
26:10
Speaker 1: Sure that's always the case with the. Draft final. Thing
26:13
Speaker 1: the guy who has the biggest impact as a rookie
26:16
Speaker 1: and the guy who has the greatest Career i'll say
26:21
Speaker 1: impact is a Rookie Dylan. FAIRCHILD i mean they've more
26:24
Speaker 1: or less said the left guard job is his unless
26:27
Speaker 1: something goes wrong between now and the start of the.
26:29
Speaker 1: Season best career hard to not Take Shamar stewart. THERE
26:34
Speaker 1: i think the floor on his career Is Sam. Hubbard solid,
26:40
Speaker 1: pro maybe never makes A Pro bowl or has double digit,
26:44
Speaker 1: sacks but he's going to help you win a lot of.
26:46
Speaker 1: Games and the ceiling is close To Miles. GARRETT i,
26:49
Speaker 1: mean will he be that? Good that's impossible to. Say
26:52
Speaker 1: Miles garrett was the first pick in the. DRAFT Nfl
26:55
Speaker 1: defensive player of The, year you could never say. That
26:58
Speaker 1: but he's got the same side, speed athletic. Ability if
27:03
Speaker 1: he's deployed properly and coached, well he can be a
27:06
Speaker 1: multi Time pro.
27:07
Speaker 3: Bowler, YEAH i agree with your, selections stand you, KNOW
27:11
Speaker 3: i mean these guys are drafted on the higher end
27:13
Speaker 3: of it for a. Reason from an initial, standpoint you,
27:17
Speaker 3: know from a, contribution it's going to be very interesting
27:21
Speaker 3: to see what they do With Shamar stewart because he
27:25
Speaker 3: is another case of unbelievably. Versatile he can play in
27:30
Speaker 3: rush outside obviously it can be a wide, nine or you,
27:33
Speaker 3: know he can get on the shoulder of the tackle
27:36
Speaker 3: and rush and then kick inside and do the same
27:38
Speaker 3: thing with a guard getting on the shoulder or just you,
27:39
Speaker 3: know inside on him or right over him in bull,
27:43
Speaker 3: him and he can he can really do almost anything
27:45
Speaker 3: they're lining up in the run in the. PAST i
27:48
Speaker 3: mean he. Is he's a puzzling guy because, man when
27:51
Speaker 3: you look at his physical, attributes it doesn't add up to,
27:54
Speaker 3: production you, know but you, wonder is how much of
27:59
Speaker 3: it related to? Scheme are they asking him to do
28:02
Speaker 3: something that isn't conducive to him displaying his amazing gifts
28:08
Speaker 3: or is It you know a guy that has thirty
28:11
Speaker 3: nine pressures in this year and converts it to one
28:14
Speaker 3: and a half. Sacks it just makes you scratch your.
28:17
Speaker 3: Head but with, him a lot of times you look
28:20
Speaker 3: and he's within an arm grab of a guy because
28:24
Speaker 3: of his athletic. Ability guys can't get as close as
28:27
Speaker 3: he gets because they can't they don't have that kind
28:29
Speaker 3: of burst and acceleration and closing. Speed SO i, mean
28:32
Speaker 3: it's almost like you have to have separate. CATEGORIES i,
28:35
Speaker 3: mean is that really a miss sack or is that
28:38
Speaker 3: just a freak that you, Know oh my, gosh you
28:40
Speaker 3: shouldn't have been there. Anyway and THEN i don't, know
28:43
Speaker 3: maybe you know a different coaching staff approaching it differently with.
28:48
Speaker 3: Him ALL i know is this. Guy if somebody said to,
28:53
Speaker 3: me your opponent this week is a massive man, SIZE i,
29:00
Speaker 3: wait he also has a forty inch vertical. Jump he
29:03
Speaker 3: also broad jumps almost you, know eleven feet ten feet eleven.
29:06
Speaker 3: Inches you got to be kidding. Me so IT'S i
29:12
Speaker 3: think there's a lot of meat on the, bone there's
29:14
Speaker 3: a lot to there's he's a. Sending there's upside and
29:19
Speaker 3: that that's going to be interesting to. SEE i think
29:22
Speaker 3: he will make an. Impact will he, start who, knows
29:25
Speaker 3: but he'll be part of. PACKAGES i, mean he's gonna.
29:27
Speaker 3: Play he's gonna, play and as he, improves will his
29:33
Speaker 3: career arc you, know take him to down the. Road
29:36
Speaker 3: is he going to be the? Guy and they Like Demetrius?
29:39
Speaker 3: KNIGHT i, mean how do you not like that? Dude
29:42
Speaker 3: the interview you did with him was like you've known
29:45
Speaker 3: each other for a. While you, know he's just one
29:47
Speaker 3: of those guys and smart guy family. MAN i know
29:54
Speaker 3: for a, fact WHEN i was a, rookie one thing
29:57
Speaker 3: that helped me WAS i was, married and, uh you,
30:01
Speaker 3: know the next YEAR i had a. Child but he's
30:03
Speaker 3: already married with two kids and just being. MARRIED i, said,
30:08
Speaker 3: MAN i got responsibilities. HERE i have to be, dependable, reliable.
30:13
Speaker 3: ACCOUNTABLE i can't go out raising hell and you, KNOW
30:16
Speaker 3: i got to take care of business. Here this guy
30:18
Speaker 3: is going to be serious about the game of, football
30:21
Speaker 3: and uh you know he's he already. Is AND i
30:25
Speaker 3: think he's that dude's got some long. Arms, Man it's
30:28
Speaker 3: like he's a condoor or. Something it's. Crazy and he
30:31
Speaker 3: was a, quarterback so he's. Athletic he hasn't played linebacker
30:35
Speaker 3: all that, long so his ascension can be quick and
30:40
Speaker 3: and uh pretty. HIGH i like. HIM i like him
30:43
Speaker 3: for a lot of. REASONS i can see why when
30:45
Speaker 3: the coaches interviewed, him are you kidding? Me this dude
30:49
Speaker 3: he's a plus in Our lark. Room BUT i agree
30:51
Speaker 3: with you About. Fairchild you, KNOW i THINK i Think
30:55
Speaker 3: fairchild is going to be a guy that will have
30:57
Speaker 3: an impact this. Year will he started let? Guard he,
31:00
Speaker 3: Might he's in the. BATTLE i, mean you got a good.
31:03
Speaker 3: Shot if he, doesn't will he be giving them good? Steps?
31:06
Speaker 3: YEAH i think he. Will and you, KNOW i think
31:09
Speaker 3: that he is a, high high level pass. Protector two
31:14
Speaker 3: years in THE sec to give up one quarterback sack
31:16
Speaker 3: and a two year spanning in THE, sec so you,
31:20
Speaker 3: know all the things we talked about earlier with. Him his.
31:23
Speaker 3: Balance you, know if he does get taken off, balance
31:29
Speaker 3: his recovery is unbelievable because of the. Wrestling that was
31:32
Speaker 3: the thing WITH. Crimrai it's, like, OH i, think, NO
31:35
Speaker 3: i don't have. HIM i have a gun, man you,
31:37
Speaker 3: know and uh it's it's not like he's a horrible run.
31:41
Speaker 3: Blocker AND i think he'll get he'll get better with.
31:44
Speaker 3: That but his his lateral side to side, Movement dan
31:49
Speaker 3: we had we used to have a drill where there'd
31:51
Speaker 3: be you, know cones ten yards apart and a defensive
31:56
Speaker 3: lineman would be changing direction and you had to mirror
31:59
Speaker 3: him we called it Mirror dodge, drill and you, know
32:02
Speaker 3: we had some pretty quick defensive. Linemen Like Mike reeder was,
32:04
Speaker 3: like oh my, god how AM i going to stay
32:05
Speaker 3: with this? Guy? Laterally AND i didn't do all of
32:08
Speaker 3: that great with, him BUT i mean it was, like
32:11
Speaker 3: as AS i got, BETTER i, Thought, man this guy's
32:14
Speaker 3: really he's really helping my lateral. Equipments. Here this guy
32:18
Speaker 3: his lateral. MOVEMENT i think that's why he's such. Good Pastor.
32:21
Speaker 3: Stout he anchors because of, wrestling bending at the, knees
32:25
Speaker 3: not at the, waist so he's getting the pad level
32:27
Speaker 3: low in a good form and then, man he can
32:31
Speaker 3: move side to. Side Joe burrow's gonna love. HIM i
32:34
Speaker 3: think The pocket's gonna be a lot. Firmer.
32:35
Speaker 1: MAN i Think Dave lapham's gonna love him. Too and
32:38
Speaker 1: my final thought is THAT i just hope That Demetrius
32:41
Speaker 1: knight's wife and kids are just as delightful As Lynn
32:45
Speaker 1: lapham And dave And.
32:47
Speaker 3: Sarah you're too kind and NOW i know Why lynn
32:51
Speaker 3: loves you so. Much yeah That i'll tell you. THOUGH i,
32:55
Speaker 3: mean every day when you when you come, home it's
32:58
Speaker 3: it's like you realize there's a responsibility. Here you, know
33:02
Speaker 3: it's not just about you for, you it's it's you
33:06
Speaker 3: Got you got a lot more important things to think
33:10
Speaker 3: about and make sure you take care. Of that's for.
33:13
Speaker 3: Sure And i'm telling, YOU i guarantee. You Demetrius knight
33:18
Speaker 3: is a hell of a husband and hell of a.
33:20
Speaker 3: Dad you just it oozes out of, him you. KNOW i,
33:24
Speaker 3: mean he's one of those guys you just when you
33:28
Speaker 3: feel like you've known him for a, while when you
33:30
Speaker 3: sit down with him the first.
33:31
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33:35
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33:38
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33:41
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