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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading the Bengals Booth Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: B So I'm Going Home.
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  Speaker 2: Addition, as we go off the field and on the
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  Speaker 2: spot with safety Brian Cook as he prepares for his
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  Speaker 2: first season with his hometown team. Then I'll go one
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  Speaker 2: on one with Jamar Chase at his annual football camp
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  Speaker 2: to read, I highly recommend The Art Thief. Now let's
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  Speaker 2: get to my first guest. The Bengals certainly put their
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  Speaker 2: money where their mouth is when it comes to improving
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  Speaker 2: the defense. Between free agents Brian Cook, boy A Mafe,
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  Speaker 2: and Jonathan Allen, and the trade for Dexter Lawrence, the
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  Speaker 2: Bengals added more than one hundred and ninety six million
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  Speaker 2: dollars in projected spending. The first player they added on
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  Speaker 2: the opening day of free agency was Cook, a safety
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  Speaker 2: who grew up in Cincinnati. He'll replace Geno Stone in
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  Speaker 2: the starting lineup and that should improve the Bengals tackling.
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  Speaker 2: According to Pro Football Focus. Gino had twenty three missed
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  Speaker 2: tackles last year, while Cook has had twenty two in
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  Speaker 2: his first four NFL seasons. ESPN's Mina Kimes recently had
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  Speaker 2: NFL analyst Bill Barnwell as a guest on her podcast,
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  Speaker 2: and here's what Bill had to say about the addition
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  Speaker 2: of Brian Cook. Brian Cook replacing Geno Stone as a
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  Speaker 2: tackler is like the single biggest upgrade any team has
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  Speaker 2: made at any position doing any.
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  Speaker 1: One task this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Now time for my in depth conversation with a twenty
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  Speaker 2: six year old budding star who was born and raised
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  Speaker 2: in the Queen City. We are off the field and
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  Speaker 2: on the spot with safety Brian Cook, who I first
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  Speaker 2: met seven years ago. The last time you came home
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  Speaker 2: from Howard University, did the University of Cincinnati. That worked
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  Speaker 2: out incredibly well for you and you got a feeling
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  Speaker 2: for what it was like to play in front of
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  Speaker 2: friends and family. Did that have an impact on your
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  Speaker 2: choice to come back as a free agent and play
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  Speaker 2: for the Bengals.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean absolutely. You know, opportunity to play
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  Speaker 3: in front of your loved ones is always a blessing.
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  Speaker 3: I did at the collegiate level, you know, playing for
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  Speaker 3: UC and then my profession level. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: things a little bit, the stakes a little higher, said,
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  Speaker 3: because you know, I came back home. Now I'm married
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  Speaker 3: with two kids, so you know, having the opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: my family that I'm creating to experience with family that
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  Speaker 3: I was born in and came from, It's a markeable
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for me. But not only that, my lady he's
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  Speaker 3: she's from Jersey, so having her be able to see
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  Speaker 3: her family too is a blessing. So it was a
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  Speaker 3: right fit. I mean, at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with that being said, like the organization, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: they made a prior to come get me, so you
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  Speaker 3: know I can't That was obviously I'd be done to
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  Speaker 3: say no, you know what I'm saying. So it was
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  Speaker 3: a I'm very excited, very I can't put into her.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready to get to work for sure.
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  Speaker 2: What's the best part about being home free? Babysitting, familiarity
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  Speaker 2: of where you're going, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean a little bit of everything, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I got grippos now I can't eat grips
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  Speaker 3: when I want to, But yeah, not to. It's mainly everything,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the family. It's to be very family oriented,
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  Speaker 3: so on both sides. So being able to see her
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  Speaker 3: family whenever, you know, we we wish or you know,
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  Speaker 3: having cooked outs, things like that that we wasn't able
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  Speaker 3: to get before. I feel like it's only I made alwayship,
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  Speaker 3: strong girl. But at the same time, it made, you know,
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  Speaker 3: us being parents kind of take it, take a breath
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  Speaker 3: for a second. Okay, we're not you know, we're not.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing the right thing. We're figuring things out. But
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  Speaker 3: we realized this is how important family is. And then
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  Speaker 3: now being here to provide and to help out my
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  Speaker 3: family as well as playing in front of them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: at a hometown it's man, it's literally I couldn't as
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  Speaker 3: a kid, I couldn't dream as far from being honest
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 2: So when you played at uc they really tried to
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  Speaker 2: play up that hometown angle for all of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that were from Cincinnati. But is there something to that.
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  Speaker 2: Does it feel differently to play for your hometown NFL team?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't even find the words
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  Speaker 3: right now. I'm still like in awe of it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a it's a different type of feeling. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: something that I couldn't I couldn't fathom, I couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Ask God for because I wouldn't even know where to start.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe moments that little things are kind of catching from
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  Speaker 3: Guard and me driving to the facility in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like, yeah, it gets a little emotional because,
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  Speaker 3: like bro, I grew up fifteen minutes from here my
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  Speaker 3: entire life, and then being able to say not only
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  Speaker 3: say like hey, mom made it, but I made it
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  Speaker 3: and I'm back home to you know, you know, show
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  Speaker 3: everybody that hey, this is it can be done. You
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, not just on this level, but
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  Speaker 3: any level, you know, just bringing inspiration to the family
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  Speaker 3: and someone to kind of lean on in times of
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  Speaker 3: need or under storm and stuff like that. It's always
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  Speaker 3: a blessing to be in a position, but I know
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  Speaker 3: it comes with a lot of responsibility. But that being said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very thankful and grateful for the opportunity to even
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  Speaker 3: do this because, like I said, if you told me
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  Speaker 3: at eight years old'll be sitting and talking to you
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  Speaker 3: from my hometown.
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  Speaker 4: Ever told you You're crazy? Right?
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the Bengals coming after you in free agency.
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  Speaker 2: You were the first guy they signed this year. It
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  Speaker 2: happened on the first day of free agency. Did you
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  Speaker 2: know that they were going to pursue you the way
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  Speaker 2: that they did or did you think that they were
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  Speaker 2: going to.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean not really.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I have you know, family members that obviously
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  Speaker 3: they're you know, die hard Diga fan, and every year
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  Speaker 3: they say.
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  Speaker 4: The same thing, they will come get you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, we'll see, we'll see being now and
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  Speaker 3: then once the season broke and things started kind of
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  Speaker 3: clearing up, it made sense. And then it wasn't finalized
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  Speaker 3: until you actually called me. I was like, oh, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's serious, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So it was nice.
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  Speaker 3: It's not opportunity that I got to come here and
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  Speaker 3: play for my hometown, but yeah, man, I'm just.
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  Speaker 4: Very grateful for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't, I'm trying to contain myself, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: very very grateful. I say, y'all, y'all helping a young
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  Speaker 3: kid from this area to live like his dreams and
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  Speaker 3: this is beyond what I can dream of.
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  Speaker 4: So very grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Burrow did a news conference recently and he was
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  Speaker 2: asked the question what do you think of the off
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  Speaker 2: season additions? And the first thing he mentioned into it's yours.
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  Speaker 2: He mentioned Dexter Laurence second, you were first. Later he
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  Speaker 2: went on to talk about your leadership and the impact
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  Speaker 2: that you're having not only on the defense but on
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  Speaker 2: the entire team. I know you've heard it or heard
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  Speaker 2: about those comments. Since what's it mean to you when
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  Speaker 2: that guy singles you out as a key addition this offseason?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it means a lot, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean one, you know, being appreciated, it goes a
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  Speaker 3: long way. I mean, you know, whether you go to
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  Speaker 3: even simpler terms like people either get married or you know,
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  Speaker 3: have significant others, like, appreciation goes.
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  Speaker 4: A long way.
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  Speaker 3: And so then when I you know, come into the
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  Speaker 3: building and you know, the face of the team, it's
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  Speaker 3: saying like hey, singling me out as far as like hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know we decided to have them things like that,
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  Speaker 3: and it's yeah, it pitched different shipping and show it
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  Speaker 3: too because now it's like, hey, I'm doing this not
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  Speaker 3: just for myself, but for the guys that believe me.
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  Speaker 4: In his licker room, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 4: you want to succeed, not just for me, but for.
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  Speaker 3: Them, and so it does go along with It was
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  Speaker 3: a long way and numerous different ways, he said, having
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  Speaker 3: the leader be able to speak out and give you
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  Speaker 3: something to not just live up to for that matter,
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  Speaker 3: but more just a sense of I don't even say security,
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  Speaker 3: a sense of just like, hey, we were behind you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we have your back.
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  Speaker 3: And that said that, that feels, that feels good, it
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  Speaker 3: feels real good. And then today might go out on
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  Speaker 3: the field, I know that I'm not just doing it myself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing to them, and they understand it and they
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  Speaker 3: appreciate that. I think that's what Joe is down to.
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  Speaker 3: But then looking on it from the other sides, like Bro,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, my city has been behind him
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  Speaker 3: the whole entire time as well, So it's nice that
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  Speaker 3: we can collab and now try to do something that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had never never been done before. So man,
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  Speaker 3: it's a it's a long journey. It's a great start.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate for Joe bro saying the nice things. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's definitely you know, top top QB in the league
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  Speaker 3: for years. I mean, even when he's heard he still
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  Speaker 3: came back from injury and dicing them up and things
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  Speaker 3: like that. And I mean he's touchdowns as far as
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  Speaker 3: you know, things like that or even the yards like numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Don't give him too much credit because I know he
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  Speaker 3: had the injuries, but at the same time, despite his injuries,
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  Speaker 3: the numbers put up it is still remarkable. So now
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  Speaker 3: be on other side, you know, be able to help him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, achieve something that he wants to do. I
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  Speaker 3: mean obviously I want to do too, but him and
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  Speaker 3: the organization wants to do and a chief and to
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  Speaker 3: be able to say I helped, it's a great feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Similar to Joe's comments. You were miked up at practice
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  Speaker 2: this week. Yeah, yeah, and we heard Barrett Carter say
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  Speaker 2: there's no safety. We would have rather added to this
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  Speaker 2: family than be cook. Is it a family already?
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  Speaker 4: It's a family.
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  Speaker 3: It's a family, you know, just coming in and you know,
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  Speaker 3: guys that don't even know me from you know, anywhere else.
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  Speaker 3: But how they interact, you know, how they ask questions
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  Speaker 3: or just you know listening or even kind of meet
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  Speaker 3: with their problems. I know it's kind of you know,
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  Speaker 3: crazy to say, but you know it takes a especially
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  Speaker 3: for men, you know, I want to take some time
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  Speaker 3: as for as awareness, mental awareness, you know, for men
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  Speaker 3: to speak out, but guys in lack of room, they're
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  Speaker 3: able to speak to me, you know, they have questions.
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  Speaker 3: I'm willing to share my story or you know, and
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  Speaker 3: try to help them out too. So it goes beyond
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  Speaker 3: just actions. Those like you know, people who have lives,
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  Speaker 3: people have things that go through and for me being
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  Speaker 3: here just going to show my time and have people
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  Speaker 3: come to me and have you know, heard or heart conversations,
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  Speaker 3: and for me that means a lot because like you
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  Speaker 3: trust people with the information to tell me, and then
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping that I can give you the right not
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  Speaker 3: saying guidance, but just like hey, like you know, perspective
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  Speaker 3: to think about. But that's what Bill's family, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's just Bill's connection and chemistry, that's how they want
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  Speaker 3: to feel. I don't have to worry about what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I know what you're going through at home, and I
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  Speaker 3: know why you're here. And it helps me even play
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  Speaker 3: better too, because now I want to make sure that hey,
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  Speaker 3: your issues, I'm helping mat sure issues about helping you
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  Speaker 3: perform or helping us as a team perform well on
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  Speaker 3: this field because ultimately, you know, at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, like that's all we're here to do.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, life is tough, life is hard.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's definitely a family, man, like a love
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  Speaker 3: and the and the camaraderie that we have early on,
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  Speaker 3: like we've been a wizarding three four weeks now maybe
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  Speaker 3: a month. I haven't seen nothing like it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll do on my fifth year now. But man,
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  Speaker 3: it's love all around the building. And I'm very excited
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of part of here, a part
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  Speaker 3: of home. So it just everything coming full circle. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely appreciative. But yeah, family goes. Honestly, family is
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  Speaker 3: an underrated term, I would say, but it's much more
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  Speaker 3: than that. And so I haven't even haven't even seen
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  Speaker 3: the most of it just yet, so we'll see how
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  Speaker 3: that goes.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, definitely a family for sure.
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  Speaker 2: When you were at UC, you were first team All Conference,
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  Speaker 2: you were on at least one All American team. But
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  Speaker 2: Sauce Gardner was there, Kobe Bryant was there. They had
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  Speaker 2: been there longer. They were in the spotlight much more
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  Speaker 2: than you were. That's changed now the spotlight is on you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel that and do you like it?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? I mean do I feel it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Do I like you?
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  Speaker 3: And it comes with the territory alto me though you
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  Speaker 3: want to help pay Ball. You know, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, the cameras are nice, but it's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna stop me from doing what I came to do
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day. I mean, at this point,
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  Speaker 3: it's just more just like it will get the chance
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  Speaker 3: to watch it. You know, I'm not doing it for
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  Speaker 3: anyone else besides my family, and then trying to honor
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  Speaker 3: God with everything I do. It's probably been the main
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  Speaker 3: thing because I have my dark nice to have my
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  Speaker 3: my dark conversation myself and now I feel like God
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  Speaker 3: has prepared me for this stage at this point. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, like you got to be honest
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  Speaker 3: with stoning the team with Superstars, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: Like I have you know, you have Jamal, you got Tea,
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  Speaker 3: you got you got Joe, I mean, you got a
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  Speaker 3: little Brown, you have Dex Lawrence. So like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: be in a mix somewhere, but I'm not like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you fuck me. So it's it is nice, but at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, like you know, I don't like to
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  Speaker 3: spot like too much anyway. I'm more just here to
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  Speaker 3: play ball, so not to have a good balance. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. At the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got that guys, like I said, my gone her
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  Speaker 3: here over there, but Alec Pierce, you know obviously, and
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  Speaker 3: then Kobe got his Just Rake show over with Chicago now,
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  Speaker 3: so you got to keep in contact with for sure.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just no, there's no no love loss, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I know everybody's journey is different, different and they maybe
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  Speaker 3: catch fire at different times or things like that. But
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  Speaker 3: he had the media. Bro, I ain't a lied to you.
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  Speaker 3: It don't it don't really face me at this point.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't too much I did. I did too much
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  Speaker 3: self work and self rebuilding to let this affect me.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm more just I'm here to play ball, bro,
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  Speaker 3: nothing more, nothing less man have fun and inspire people.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm doing it helping his smile people, face us
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  Speaker 3: and keep it pushing.
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  Speaker 2: You're one of the last people that I know that
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  Speaker 2: call sauce a mod.
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  Speaker 3: A. Lowed to me, Bro, I seen him when he
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  Speaker 3: was young, so like it's different before all the cameras
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  Speaker 3: and everything. Like I seen when he first came in
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  Speaker 3: as a freshman, so like and everything. Then he never changed.
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  Speaker 4: He's always you know, talking and playing around and stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. So it's a little bro though, Bro, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's doing his thing. I'm proud of him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I'll definitely get the chance to sometime connect you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but keep in contact.
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  Speaker 4: With Code as well.
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  Speaker 3: So but no, my guys, though, man, we did something
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  Speaker 3: specially that you see. You know, I'm hoping someone, you know,
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  Speaker 3: along the lines of some year that someone can come
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  Speaker 3: in and do more than what we did. But far
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  Speaker 3: as right now, you know, we we got the we
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  Speaker 3: got the crown. So I'm ale strong with that. Vietnam
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  Speaker 3: Man's it is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons why I really hope the Bengals
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  Speaker 2: would sign you as a free agent was not only
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  Speaker 2: or is not only that you're a sure tackler, but
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: you're a physical tackler. Do you try to set a
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: set a tone in the secondary, Yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Of course, you know, of course there's some things that
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: comes with you know, the position at play, and I
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: mean you got to have some some stuff to you
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Because you have to be standy.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: You got to be you know, you got to you
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: don't know, you gotta you gotta have some stuff to you.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say too much on camera, but
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: you got to have a little trip of the show
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: to just because at the.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: End of the day, like you know, utilized on defense.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: So you know, for me, I take it very prize
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: in that because of the fact that behind me is
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: no one, you know.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: What I'm saying.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: So like the fact you got to me is a
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: problem like while you're back here and then obviously we
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: fix the things as far as defense wise of what
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: actually happened. But you know, I'm here to help my
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: team and if I need to, you know, set a tone,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: then that's something to do. You know however that may look,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: but ultimately it's more just you know, the guys to
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: feel secure, you know what I'm saying.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: It's not really for this opponent.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: That's cool and everything too, because I mean it is
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: nice you know when you know, having those those moments
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: where you feel like, all right, you can you know
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I can't see too much more camera, but it's nice.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: It's a nice feeling though, like those who know those
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: who know, No, it's a nice feeling when you get
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: the nice hit on somebody, So it's pretty cool. But
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I said, it's more
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: about the team and you know, building chemistry and having momentum,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Some things might happen, things
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: might go wrong, but I mean having a good strack
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: at somebody. It also helps my team build their confidence
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: to it. Like even though you mean the mist of play,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: you know, be cooked back here not only to help out,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: but he's still sat in the standard every play regardless
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: of what happened, you know what I'm saying.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: And that deals on anything.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: You know, you can have a situation where you have
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: a breakdown play, then you have a rais don't stop,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: and that changes the whole mentum of the game, you
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So moments like that, you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: you just gotta yeah, keep playing, you know, keep making
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: the main thing and keep going forward.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Do I remember correctly that when you first started playing
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: football four or five years old, whatever it was, you
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: didn't like contact.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Oh that's crazy, remember that? Yeah? Yeah, a mom she
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: shot my mom.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Though I'm in April, ye shot everybody, all my friends
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: know Mama in April with iting like that.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: My mom.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: She she's a strong woman, strong woman, and I remember
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: vividly and obviously Finances wasn't you know, the greatest back
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: then and went out there and she bought all the equipment.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Know we're out there, and then we had the first
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: day pads and uh we scrimmaging against the older kids though,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: so I wasn't even scrimmaging kids my age and man.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I had a I called it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I called a pitch, like a toss or whatever, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I guess the the person didn't block, but he came through, uh,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: hit me out and flipped everything.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: So now I'm like, I'm crying, like I don't wanna
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: do this no more. This sucks. And he told me
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: my face, you're like already paid.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: So uh, either you're gonna either you gonna you're gonna
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: run faster than them, You're gonna shake them, Or're gonna
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: run through them. I was like, all right, so I'm
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: gonna try that. And then once I went through them,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: and then to see the fact, oh it was. It
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: was a crazy and ever since then that cirie to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: now who you are today and then who I am today? Like, oh,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the true tackling or the impact it came from me
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: being four years old and was like, oh I liked it,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Like this is how I expressed myself.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. But it took time.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: You know, everybody got to get a punch in the
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: mouth first. For you, Okay, cool, I said, any sport
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: like it happens, you got to be humble to really
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: you know, learn how to adapt. But yeah, Mama told
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: me a new thing. Everyone never looked back and now
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: here I am.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Now who is that? Twenty two years later? So shout
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: a mom though, man.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you Brian's mom for not letting it quit.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Still to come.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Brian took part in two Super Bowl parades in Kansas
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: City and imagines what that would be like in his hometown.
• 19:19
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• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it hard to believe that coming out of Mount Healthy,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: your only offer was Howard University FCS school, seven thousand
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: seat stadium, very different from what you're going to be
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: doing this year. Were you just scrawny back?
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, yeah, I was.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I didn't hit a grossbart junior year in high school
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and like five five five seven like that as.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: A sophomore, and I was maybe a buck sixty.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Five something like that, and then uh got to my
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: junior year, maybe like one seventy five at like six
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: foot that also changed positions to Originally I was like
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: a slide receiver and a quarterback, and then moving to
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: corner my junior year, and then come senior year, it's like, okay,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I had my first full year playing corner. So it
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: was more just at the same time, look back too,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, you didn't have the proper training. You
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: didn't do the proper training for like my first year
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: actually training to play a defensive back. What's going to
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: my senior year? My senior season of high school. And
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: so we look at other guys that started at you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: seven eight, you know what I'm saying it's a little different,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: but at the same time, like the IQ you know,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: doesn't change regardless of where I've been because I've been
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: playing style was four years old, know what I'm saying.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: So even though I wasn't particularly in this exact category
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: as far as like movement wise, the game in itself,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I've been around since, you know, as able.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: To even say full sentences. So it's nice.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, uh, very very under sized, I would say.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, you know, it takes some coaches,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: some people in life to take a chance, you know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to invest in you.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: And I have people that invested in me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: And I was at Howard you know, and uh rest
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: of dalland was a guy that come to mind, Kiddle
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: June gotta come to mind, who was just you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: just you know constantly like hey, like this is how
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: you do things. And you played no Y Liter the
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: lead years ago, and having me, you know, helped me
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: dream still dream.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't start off how I wanted to be, but
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the end they like, I mean I have my own offer. Woman, dude,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: say no, like I'm going to school for free. At
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: the same time, I can't afford to say no, cause
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Sama gome to school. My mama can't you know, she
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: couldn't afford it either. So and then to look at
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: to like went to the HPCU. You know what I'm saying, Like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: that's not that's not too bad t y as a
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: prestigious HP to you too, Like you have to really
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: like know your stuff to be to graduate from my school.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: So it was nice when my met my wife there,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: my my close friends there. So even though it was
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the only offer, you know, God put me where I
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: needed to be at and I'm grateful for that opportunity.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Then I transfer to you see, and I'm learning how
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: to safety, which I didn't know how to really do
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: at the time. I learn yeah yeah, yeah, covering and
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: the slides is different than covering on on the island.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: It's a little it's a little different. But adapted to that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm on a new system obviously new coaches,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and then a time we only got a grip of
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: that too. Then it came to the Georgia Bowl versus
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: a Picture Bowl?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Was it the two label?
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, versus Georgia my first official start, and I was
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: like okay, and I was basically like you know, like, hey,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: this is who I am. You know, I basically arrived
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: at that point, and then followed the senior season and
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I got drafted. But then it's carry it took me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I got drafted. I didn't have I was also injured,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, because I tore my labor
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: room that season, so I didn't do any combine. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: did trade, you know, interviews and films, so everything everything
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: fall into place. Everything worked out, it was supposed to
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: work out, and I didn't people say like, oh, you know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: he's a you know, maybe people can say like late
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: bloomeror this like other than they're but going to your
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: own pace.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I'm not. You know, you're not.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I'm playing a long game, not you know, the quick
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: fast and no, I'm I'm playing the long game. We're
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna make sure that we're doing this the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: correct way.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: You know, long jevy is more than anything.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: And so if I can keep getting wild, keep getting
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: better as the years was on, who's gonna say how.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Long can I go? You know what I'm saying, But because.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I was undersized at one point, you can take a
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: chance on me, and that's now the point. It's like, bro,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I don't you know it's on you because now I'm
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: here and I'm grateful for it. So here's what it is, though, man.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: But investing people to be investing you, That's what I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: would say.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: You mentioned your wife, Jail, who played basketball at Howard
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: later played it my alma mater, Syracuse Shout Out to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the Orange, and George Washington played at George Washington. She
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: was a college athlete for six years. Does that help?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Does she understand what it takes for you, you to
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: be prepared to do this on a daily basis?
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I love her, But at the same time, no, And
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I say that because when she was doing that, she
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: didn't have responsibilities. I gotta do like I do, come
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: home and have you my wife and my kids. Whereas
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: when she was in her grind, and when she says
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: she's really getting to it, you know, it was just her,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: So it's a little different.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously with being professional compared to college, a little
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: different too. I learned that very fast in my couple
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: of years in the lead, Like, Hey, this isn't what
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I thought it would be.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Like she was a little different.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: But as far as the work itself, yeah, she understands,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: like it was not too much of life back and
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: forth like head, I didn't do this and't do that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Now it's something that's obviously different, like you know me,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: excuse me, me watching me watching tape, and then I
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: gotta also wipe down, you know, get my son a
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: bab something like that, like or gi them a wipe
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: down whatever kiss may be, you know what I'm saying,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: or help out with that. But she's she's very she's
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: very helpful. She understands. But I think she understands not
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: just because she's the app. I think also because at
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: first we just literally just best friends. Were just like, hey,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: you're playing basketball and playing football. We keep a contact,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: but it was never like, you know, anything more than that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: But I respect the work that she put it and
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: vice versa, so I think that's what carry us past
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: anything else, and now we should like together.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: So it's dope, but she understands.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: We still joke though, because she hasn't played in so long,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: so we're trying to talk to her, you know see
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: what she Yeah, we gotta uh, you know, go to
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: the court or something like that. But it's nice though. Yes,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: they her has to be very competitive. That's very competitive.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I bet she can still shoot you, so.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she should. She should though honestly, she's definitely should.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: She can definitely.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I remember I first seen her freshman year. Yeah, and
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: she just first she was kind of like ify like
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: as far as like you know, she wasn't too confident.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Then like I didnk went to one game and she
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: started just pulling from the logo. I was like, I said, yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: she can hold, and then uh, it's in the rest
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: is history.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: So you went to the Super Bowl your first three
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: years in Kansas City. Unfortunately you were hurt missed one
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: of those games. But did it become routine or or
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: in every Super Bowl do you look up and go
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm here?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Uh yes, both, Yes to both, because at the end
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: of the day, like it became a routine, but even
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: in it being a routine, you still can't believe that, hey,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I'm actually.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Doing this, you know what I'm saying.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And to go there three years in a row, it
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: is kind of crazy. Yeah, especially with Yeah, it's remarkable
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and especially with the situation that we had. I mean
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: like you know, some guys in the league and then
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: you know they gotta have time ors growing pains, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: for us, there was no time for growing pains. Like
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: you know, every year we went in the Super Bowl,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: and as that rookie class, especially like the dB, like
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: defensive rookie classes was phenomenal even rookie season. I think
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: we had guys will hurt. Guys got hurt an Antry
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: championship here actually well uh uh in their head or whatever,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: and being a rookie and then you know, having the crowd
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: and just be not there like bro I built, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: still learned the playbook at that point. I'm still trying
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: to learn, like who we're at and just looking around
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: it's like this, there's all rookies out here, and he
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: was able to get the job done. But I think
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: having experiences and then going three years in a row,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: it shapes you. It shaps you differently for success because
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: at the same time, like you can see how at
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: some points you know, success can be your biggest crutch too,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: like do you get comfortable you can place it now?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: You know, are you satisfied now or do you see
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: it's another learning opportunity to Hey, how can we do
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: this again, because ultimately time it's sill still changing, you
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So if you're not willing to
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: adapt with the times, it's gonna be younat, you gonna
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: get left behind unfortunately. But yeah, as far as the
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: three two bowls, like, that's ah, it's a crazy, crazy,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: crazy experience.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I remember.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Even my dog Trent, we were talking a rookie year
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: and were just like we were just on the super
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: every year, you know, just talking, and then we actually
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: did it was crazy. So yeah, man, but I think
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I carry that with me because now I can see
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: how it can be done in different ways. And now
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: being here, it's a cause I can see that far instid,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I've been that far, and I can see like, Okay,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: we got some pieces, we have some some it's work
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: to be done for sure, but we have some some
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: good some good guys in l in the locker room,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: some good culture being built. And they're still early. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: you want to pick too soon, obviously, you want to
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: pick the right time. I think about timing, but I'm very,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: very excited for what to come for this organization, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: obviously I'm gonna have my heart into a little bit
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: more some guys, maybe because of the fact that I
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: am from.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Here, so I'm gonna have a little more stuff to me.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: We're going to certain stuff because of the situation that said,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I grew up fifteen minutes from here and just to
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: dream come true.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: So I don't know. I'm excited. I'm trying.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to stay cool for the interview, but I'm excited. Bro,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I'm very excited.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: You won two out of the three in Kansas City.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: That meant two super Bowl parades. Can you imagine a
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl parade in Cincinnati? What that would be like?
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'd be crazy. Yeah, I don't want to everywhere.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Oh dope, God be dope. Where were we even? Like
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: drive around?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I think it would finish at Union Terminal, So so
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that backdrop that looks like the headquarters for Superman. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: believe that's where it would finish. I can't say that
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: with one hundred certainty, but I believe that that's the concept.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: If it happens, doubt you crazy.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Be crazy. Hopefully it will will be crazy.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: What I do?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, will yeah, yeah, that would be
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: crazy for sure. It's I can't even Yeah, Bro, you'll
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: get the emotional. I can't even I can't even think
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I can tell I can tell that's great.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I mean a lot to me though, that would mean
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  Speaker 3: a lot to me like that would that would mean
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  Speaker 3: I don't say, the world, but it was. It would
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  Speaker 3: be something that out forever, out for ever chairs for
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: ever chairs and.
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  Speaker 4: All boards and let us go back to back or
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: so that's going too far, So I'm saying it's just so.
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  Speaker 3: It's very excited though, man. It was just very excited
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  Speaker 3: for opportunity and you know, we have what we need.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I feel like so I can dream that far now
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  Speaker 3: and seeing that here, but I know at the end
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: of the day it works to be done. And so
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: folks going to work and then to keep laying each
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: break down each day. You know, soon we will little
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: build our house.
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  Speaker 4: We will have our.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Foundation set and the test of time would tell you
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: know that you know, we are here for a real
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  Speaker 3: So it was serious. So I'm excited. But yeah, I'm
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go home and draw that pitsion now, just
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: jolly and peeling the wall somewhere the parade Epidope.
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  Speaker 2: A former Mount Healthy fighting hawk or fighting.
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  Speaker 4: Owl owl hawks, though in the little leagues.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe in the back of my mind somehow, Fighting Owl,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bearcat, now Cincinnati Bengal. It's great to have you home.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time, best of luck this year.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you, appreciated, appreciate it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: This week, the Bengals offseason program advanced to the phase
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: where the offense could face the defense for the first
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: time at least in seven on seven scenarios. It's still voluntary,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: but everybody is here, including Jamar Chase. Two days before
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Jamar joined the team at practice, I caught up with
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: him at his annual football camp for more than three
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: hundred kids in grades one through eight. We start with
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Jamar's opening address to the campers, followed by my one
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  Speaker 2: on one conversation.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, the first off, I want.
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  Speaker 2: To say thank you to the pans.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody bringing their kids outside today. Appreciate y'all.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Thank y'all.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna participate with me today. It's been a long week,
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  Speaker 5: so I really do appreciate this.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: I know I was a little late today. I'm sorry
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: about that, but coaches, I appreciate this. I just want
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: to have a lot of fun at the end of
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: the day. That's what it's all about. Got my son
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: with me to dance, So I want you all to
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: have a lot of fun. We're gonna do some one
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: on ones today. I'm gonna come around and do some
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: drugs with y'all too, go to the ball with y'all,
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: have some fun to neck with y'all.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I'll see.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: We got a little older kids too, so we're gonna
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: definitely missing it's a little bit. So I'm insided you
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: all ready, y'all know?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Are you all ready? Ah? That's what I y'anna do.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: We go give it up Bruno everybody tomorrow.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I think there's back at the super Bowl where you
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: express the hope that the Bengals could land mac Crosby.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Dexter Lawrence is arguably as good or better. What was
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: your reaction and what do you think it does for
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the team.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Honestly, it was very, very impactful for one and two.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: It was very surprising and I honestly I didn't see
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: it come in, So it was a great pick for us.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: I'm glad we got a chance he could make make
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: a big impact on the defensive side. I think he
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: gonna come in play a big role for us.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And he's not the only addition.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Boy A Mafe, Brian Cook, Jonathan Allen the draft picks.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Do you think the defense is noticeably better?
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: I mean yeah, my paper for one hundred percent sure,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: you know, was to arguably have to play show it
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: off too, So I can't wait to show the criticis
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: so what we could do. That's what it's all about.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Joe posted a photo a photo fairly recently if you
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: guys doing a throwing session.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I think it was in California.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I think the expression was got better or something like that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: What was that like? And how important are things like that?
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: It was good to have, man, Honestly, we needed that
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: to get some chemistry in before we got back, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: that's what we needed to do.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Obviously.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: I've been trying to get him to do that for
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: a couple of years. So we just took an advantage
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: of the free time that we have to meet up
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: with each other on our off time and build more chemistry.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: What are you doing this time of the year right now?
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: It's a lot of in shape, trying to be in shape.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Can't wait to get back, you know, obviously not going
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: to be back soon. So really just a lot of
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: trying to be in shape, correct my stuff that I
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: got going on, bring myself and you know, try to
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: be back better than lassa.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: This is the voluntary portion of the off season. As
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: hard as you work, and I mean you never come
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: off the field. Do you need more time away?
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I mean it's not time away, it's just giving my
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: body or rest at the.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: End of the day.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: I work very hard. My coaching combauch for me. My
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: team is revouce for me. So at the end of
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: the day, I'm not doing anything wrong. I make sure
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I talk back with the team, give him information, so
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: I do a good job of that.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: This will be year six. That seems crazy to me.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: What about you?
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Honestly, man, it's going by fast. I can't I can't
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: even lie. It's going about really fast. And then I'm
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: just enjoying my in the process of everything going on.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: So you know, shout out to God for everything and
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: explessing him.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Everybody's back on offense. We know the offense will be good.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: How can it be better?
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: You gotta execute at the end of the day, It's
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: all about executing with the offense and and that's what
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: it's about with the defense. So as long as few
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: players a unit together, then we can always be great.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Spoke your dad a moment ago. He said, tell the
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: media to stop talking about the super Bowl? Should we
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: be talking about the super Bowl?
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, we gotta take one game at a time,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: one step at a time, and that's the first games first.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: So you know, we gotta take it, take it to
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: camp first, and then we gotta go from there. So
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: we gotta take it slow this year and not really
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: moving there fast. And don't take advantage of what some
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: fun of us.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: If you've done anything fun, any travel, anything like that
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: this offseason, yeah, I've.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Did a couple of travel uh situations, you know obviously,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: but you know that's not really the big thing.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: I make sure I even when I travel, I work out,
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: So I bring my training with me to make sure
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: I'm always getting working in.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Did you watch the flag football and did you cringe
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: when Joe's diving and essentially getting tackled.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't crams.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: I didn't really see it until social media hit it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: But I caught him in an acts because I was
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: trying to do it too, so I mean, I called
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: him and asked how it was it, But as long
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: as he had a good time. At the end of
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: the day, he's an athlete. He knows how fast he
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: can go and we can control our own pace.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Then goes draft to the wide receiver, Kobe Young. Have
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: you looked at him at all? And what do you think?
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: I watched a little bit of his game a little bit,
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: so I can't wait to see him in person. I
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: think that's the biggest bid. So I could give him
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: tips and pieces. I'm sure Tea has already and I
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: just can't wait to see him in the system, see.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: How he fits.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: It looks a little bit like T two point Oh.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: I've been hearing that lately, so I've been hearing that
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: from the size and stuff, so it'll be funny.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what you do. You've been
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: doing these camps for a while. The kids obviously go
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: bananas when they see you. What do you get out
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of it?
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Honestly, Man's it's a beautiful thing.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: I got my kid with me today. I'm gonna have
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: my other kid with me too, so just gonna have
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: him running around.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: For a little bit.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: And you know, enjoyed the process because this was just
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: all about the end today. You know you want to
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: grow up and watch them do these things they've brought.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: They watched you. You know that they your favorite player,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: So you never know how much impact you have on
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: a person.
• 37:09
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