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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The and another one going, and
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Speaker 1: another one going, Another one bites the Dust. Addition, as
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Speaker 1: the Bengals go to Detroit and destroy the Windless Lions
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Speaker 1: thirty four to eleven. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays
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Speaker 1: from the win, postgame comments from players and coaches, and
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Speaker 1: analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this
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Speaker 1: week's fun Fact segment, you'll get to know a Bengals
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Speaker 1: team leader who definitely has the Mamba mentality, Safety Bond Bell.
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Speaker 1: cold pizza for the first time in ages. The crust
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Speaker 1: was stiff as a board, the cheese was congealed, and
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Speaker 1: yet it was inexplicably delicious. It's good to know that
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Speaker 1: my college age hungover taste buds many years ago were
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Speaker 1: not wrong. Now let's get to Sunday's lion taming. Heading
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Speaker 1: into the game, the Bengals were one of only five
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Speaker 1: teams that hadn't scored on their opening drive all year.
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Speaker 1: After an eight play sixty one yard drive, you can
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Speaker 1: scratch Cincinnati off that list. Burrow with a play clock
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Speaker 1: in one, extends the hands, catches the snap, no flag
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Speaker 1: floats Akata sideline ever make baby match with his arms
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Speaker 1: fully extended. Touchdown Bengals one. A catch by rookie Chris
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Speaker 1: Evans a twenty four yard touchdown pass. There are very
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Speaker 1: few running backs in the National Football League with hands
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Speaker 1: like that. With samaj ap Ride on the COVID list,
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Speaker 1: Chris Evans got the most snaps of his NFL career
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Speaker 1: and finished with fifty seven combined rushing and receiving yards.
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Speaker 1: Here's Joe Burrow on the rookie running back. He's just
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Speaker 1: getting better and better every single week. You know, you
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Speaker 1: see what he can do. In the past game, he
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Speaker 1: got one on one and you know, really really ran
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Speaker 1: a great route and scored a touchdown for us. But
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Speaker 1: after the fast start, the Bengals offense went bone dry,
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Speaker 1: empty backfield, five wides. Third down in twenty Burrow drops
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Speaker 1: back to throw the Lions rush three cover with eight
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Speaker 1: damn the passes intercepted. The Lions have it at the thirty,
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Speaker 1: running down to the twenty five and the tackle has
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Speaker 1: made At the twenty three. It was deflected and Amani
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Speaker 1: o'er Warrior comes up with his third interception of the
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Speaker 1: year and returns at sixteen yards. There's a penalty flag
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Speaker 1: in the secondary. The penalty was after the interception, so
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Speaker 1: the Lions had the ball in Bengals territory. Two plays later,
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati took it back. Golf drops back to three fastball
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Speaker 1: over the metal caught at the twenty five yard line,
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Speaker 1: but the Bengals take the ball away. Logan Wilson has
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Speaker 1: it top out that are they blowing it dead early
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Speaker 1: on the field has been changed to an interception. It's
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Speaker 1: first intense for Cincinnati at the twenty three yard line.
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Speaker 1: That gives linebacker Logan Wilson four interceptions this year. That
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Speaker 1: second in the NFL behind the Cowboys Trey Von Diggs,
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Speaker 1: who picked off his sixth pass on Sunday. Here's Chitabey
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Speaker 1: a wooge on Logan Wilson. We marveled at him. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing, just be in my
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Speaker 1: position and that ball sticking to his gloves and all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And credits to Vam on that
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Speaker 1: play as Will forgetting the ball out. But yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: great to have Logan making those type of plays. We
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Speaker 1: need them, and it's been changing the game every time
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Speaker 1: the score remains seven nothing while Cincinnati's offense spot after
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Speaker 1: Burrow's interception, the Bengals had three straight three and outs
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Speaker 1: and with less than thirty seconds to go in the half,
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Speaker 1: they face third and long, third down and ten. The
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Speaker 1: Bengals at their own forty one deep safety now for Detroit,
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Speaker 1: nine defenders up on the line. Burrow back to pass,
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Speaker 1: throws a deep down field four Chase Ye Jamarrow makes
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Speaker 1: the catch inside the thirty and goes out of bounds
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Speaker 1: at the twenty six yard line of Detroit. He beat
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jacobs for a thirty four yard game, and that
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Speaker 1: means Jamar Chase has had a catch of at least
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Speaker 1: thirty four yards in every game he's played in in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League. And Dan the throws unbelievable. Running
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Speaker 1: the sideline has covered two. You got a safety coming
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Speaker 1: over the top, a corner underneath safety over the top.
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Speaker 1: You have to keep it as close as you can
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Speaker 1: to the sidelines so the safety can't get there. Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow dropped it perfectly. That long pass allowed Evan McPherson
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Speaker 1: to kick a thirty eight yard field goal on the
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Speaker 1: final play of the half to give Cincinnati Attend nothing lead.
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Speaker 1: Here are Chase and Burrow on Jamar's latest big play
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Speaker 1: just before halftime, with this footnote, heasy stands for hesitation.
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Speaker 1: I just gave the defender m hesy stepped at the
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Speaker 1: top of my route. Um, they'll cause him to slow down,
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Speaker 1: and it didn't. After that, I just sped up and
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Speaker 1: ended up being wide open. The safety was looking back
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Speaker 1: in the backfield at Joe. He went't too worried about
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Speaker 1: what I was doing. And you gotta downfill. Jamar just
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Speaker 1: keeps being that spark for us, you know, they he
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Speaker 1: keeps finding his opportunities when he gets one on one
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Speaker 1: to win win down the field. And you know, when
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Speaker 1: we have a guy like that, it's and when we
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Speaker 1: have the connection that we have, you know, you can't
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Speaker 1: can't fall asleep on defense when you have that guy.
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Speaker 1: Since the Bengals won their eleventh consecutive coin toss to
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Speaker 1: begin the day, the odds of that are one. In
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Speaker 1: two thousand and forty eight. They got the ball to
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Speaker 1: begin the third quarter and scored again thanks to a
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Speaker 1: brit call on fourth and less than a yard. Detroit
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Speaker 1: has several defensive live and right over the ball. The
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Speaker 1: receiver goes in jet motion BA right over. He throws
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Speaker 1: it's caught Mixon streaking down the sideline to the twenty.
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Speaker 1: Chase span runs it into the end zone. What a call,
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Speaker 1: What a block? Touchdown Cincinnati. That forty yard touchdown made
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Speaker 1: it seventeen nothing. And after the game, everybody was talking
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Speaker 1: about the downfield block by Jamar Chase, including the guy
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Speaker 1: that scored the touchdown, Joe Mixon. That's what a Bengal is.
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Speaker 1: A physical, hungry, accountable teammate that's gonna get to do
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Speaker 1: whatever it gets a job done. And I thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: he came down, man made a hell of a block.
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Speaker 1: I mean it was crazy. Um, I got the ball,
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Speaker 1: made a made a run. I seen Jamar try to
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Speaker 1: set up his blood and he came down running and
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Speaker 1: he just threw him down. I was like, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I mean that's what that's what makes him a
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Speaker 1: great player. I mean, you know, here Ricky and things
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Speaker 1: like that, he don't play like it. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: like a Jerry Rice play. It was like an all
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Speaker 1: around performance for him on the perimeter, catching the ball
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Speaker 1: and blocking up. Like I said, I thought he did
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Speaker 1: a great case finished with four catches for ninety seven yards,
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Speaker 1: and Mixon finished with eighteen carries for ninety four. Joe
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Speaker 1: added five catches for fifty nine more yards to wind
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Speaker 1: up with one hundred and fifty three yards of total offense.
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Speaker 1: So what did Joe think of his performance? I think
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Speaker 1: it was average. It could have been it could have
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Speaker 1: been a lot better. But to be honest, man, we
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Speaker 1: got the dub. I thought the offensive line did a
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Speaker 1: hell of a job. Then boys on a perimeter do
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Speaker 1: a hell of a job out there, and I was
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Speaker 1: just capitalizing on my opportunities, but left a lot of
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Speaker 1: yards out there, and uh, you know, going forward has
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Speaker 1: got to figure out way to make those plays. But
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Speaker 1: I like the way we had it right now. Nevin
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Speaker 1: McPherson field goal made it twenty nothing going to the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter and the Bengals quickly put the game away.
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Speaker 1: Third down and goal from the three. Burrow under center
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Speaker 1: fakes to mix and looking back to the left, throws
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Speaker 1: into the end zones, caught for the touchdown out C
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Speaker 1: j U Summer started on the right side of the line,
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Speaker 1: snuck out to the left hand, hauled in Joe burrows
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Speaker 1: third touchdown pass of the game. I'll tell you to
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Speaker 1: keep block Joe Mixon these running backs. It was a
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Speaker 1: play action passed the fake to Joe Mixon. He chopped
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Speaker 1: down the edge rusher chopped into the ground, gave Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow time an opportunity to find Cgozamba on that crossing route.
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Speaker 1: Outstanding blocking going on by all of these running backs
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Speaker 1: protecting their quarterback big time. Burrow passed for two hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy one yards and had a passer rating of
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Speaker 1: one fifteen point seven. He's thrown at least two touchdown
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Speaker 1: passes in every game this year. In the sky's the
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Speaker 1: linen for you know, linen, some of those things that
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Speaker 1: happened in the first half. You know, plaly score fifty
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Speaker 1: points today, but you know it's the SNFL. I'm never
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Speaker 1: gonna be upset about a thirty four point game and
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Speaker 1: you're winning by as much as we did. But you know,
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Speaker 1: we do have to get some things corrected, and when
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Speaker 1: we do that scared. The Lions finally got on the
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Speaker 1: scoreboard midway through the fourth quarter on a field goal
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Speaker 1: by Austin Seibert, but even with Brandon Allen at a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals offense kept rolling. Allen takes the snap run
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Speaker 1: to the right, No, he faked, he's looking at throw.
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Speaker 1: His pass caught and Audun tap takes it into the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Touchdown. Bengals Allen with his first touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: of the year, and Audun Tate calls it in that
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Speaker 1: put the Bengals over thirty points for the first time
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Speaker 1: this season. The Lions scored a touchdown and added a
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Speaker 1: two point conversion with about two minutes to go to
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Speaker 1: put a little lipstick on Miss Piggy, making the final
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Speaker 1: score thirty four eleven. It was the bengals seventh straight
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Speaker 1: win over Detroit dating back to nineteen ninety eight, and
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Speaker 1: it dropped this year's Lions two oz and six since
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville one on Sunday. The Lions are the only team
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Speaker 1: in the NFL without a win. By the way, Jacksonville's
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Speaker 1: win over Miami was in London, so I think it's
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Speaker 1: safe to say that urban Meyer went home on the
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Speaker 1: team plane. The Bengals improved to four and two, and
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Speaker 1: after the game, Laps spent four minutes with Zach Taylor
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Speaker 1: a winning coach. Yeah, it's good, you know, I like
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Speaker 1: the way our team finished it out. I know they
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Speaker 1: scored there at the end, those eleven points, but really
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Speaker 1: our defense came out ready to play to start the
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Speaker 1: whole game, and our offense finally caught a rhythm there
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Speaker 1: going into halftime and was able to score in every
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Speaker 1: possession after that. You know what I like as a
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Speaker 1: form alignment, When I see Jamar Chase in front of
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon making a big block. When I see Joe
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Speaker 1: Mixon after a run fake cutting down the edge rush
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Speaker 1: or making a big block. When I see Evans picking
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Speaker 1: up strong blitz pick up giving Joe Burrow an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to make a big throw down the football field, I'm saying, man,
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Speaker 1: everybody's doing the little things you got to do right.
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Speaker 1: Our players are selfless, you know, they care about others
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Speaker 1: more they care about themselves and that's the sign of
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Speaker 1: a team that's head in the right direction. Really proud
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Speaker 1: of our guys and all three phases today and it
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Speaker 1: was a complete team effort and it was good to see.
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Speaker 1: So you score over thirty points. Joe Mixon eighteen this
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Speaker 1: is unofficial eighteen carries ninety four yards, Joe Burrow almost
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Speaker 1: three hundred yards, passing two seventy one three touchdowns, interception,
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Speaker 1: Chase four catches for ninety seven yards. I'll tell you man,
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Speaker 1: Burrow and Chase, it's magic. I mean the throw he
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Speaker 1: made before the safety could get there, took it to
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Speaker 1: the sideline as far as you could because you knew
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Speaker 1: the safety was coming over the top, put it in
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Speaker 1: a porthole out there. You saw a lot better than
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Speaker 1: I did. You know it was on the other sideline.
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Speaker 1: So I'm still not quite sure what unfolded there. But
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Speaker 1: those two have great chemistry. They know where they're going
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Speaker 1: to be, and Jamar's continue to make plays when numbers called.
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Speaker 1: So is Jamar? What's Jamar like? You know, during the
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Speaker 1: course of the game on a sideline, does he come
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Speaker 1: off the field and say, I got this dude? Man?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can do anything I want to what's
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Speaker 1: the feedback like with him Oliver. Receivers are pretty calm,
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Speaker 1: you know, and they give the information to Troy or myself,
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Speaker 1: and so we always feel like we know what the
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Speaker 1: receivers are seeing and doing and saying with Burrow and
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Speaker 1: it's just really good communication all the way around. In
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Speaker 1: the second half, I think for the second time, you
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Speaker 1: scored on just about every drive, you know, And when
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Speaker 1: you're doing that, I'll tell you what that's You guys
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Speaker 1: are a handful and it's hard to handle at that point. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we just, you know, kind of shot ourselves in the
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Speaker 1: foot there in the first half with some silly penalties
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Speaker 1: and mistakes like that, and so we need to hit
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Speaker 1: a rhythm sooner faster. But again, proud of the way
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Speaker 1: that our guys came out the second half and executed.
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Speaker 1: What about your defensive football team pitching a shot? I
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Speaker 1: mean at one point, I know, I think it was
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Speaker 1: like two hundred and ten yards to like fifty. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was just they were they were suffocating the Detroit Lions.
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Speaker 1: They couldn't get anything done, They had no points in
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Speaker 1: the boarding, like you said, scored eleven late. But how
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Speaker 1: about that defensive performance. How inspirational is that they've always
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Speaker 1: had confidence in themselves, but I can see it growing
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Speaker 1: from week to week. You know, now they're expectations coming.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna allow any points, We're not gonna give
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Speaker 1: up any big players. We're going to create more turn
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Speaker 1: rivers than we have been and so that that's really
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Speaker 1: good to see. We've got great leadership on that side
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Speaker 1: of the ball and really good chemistry. So at what
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Speaker 1: point did you feel like this is going to be
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Speaker 1: a special day? I mean, was there any point during
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Speaker 1: the course of the game in the sideline when you
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Speaker 1: thought might that this might be something extraordinary? Well, we
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Speaker 1: felt like when it was seventeen nothing, we had them
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Speaker 1: on the mat and we need to finish them off,
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Speaker 1: you know, And that's that's kind of the killer instinct
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Speaker 1: we're trying to develop at this team. And our defense
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Speaker 1: went out there, got to stop. Our offense went out
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Speaker 1: there and kicked to field goal. We would have liked
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Speaker 1: to touch down there. I think we had a drop
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Speaker 1: on that series. But that's the next step for us,
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Speaker 1: is getting pains down and then just just finishing them off.
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Speaker 1: The finishing blow there in the second half. How rewarding
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Speaker 1: is it a play caller. When Joe Mixon is so
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Speaker 1: wide open for his touchdown, Evans makes an unbelievable catch,
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Speaker 1: you know, the back half of the football for his touchdown.
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Speaker 1: How rewarding is it when you dial it up and
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Speaker 1: the players executed it the way they did, it feels good,
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Speaker 1: you know. That's that's where all the work comes in.
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Speaker 1: And so again, our players understand what we're asking them
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Speaker 1: to do. They're doing it with great detail and precision,
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Speaker 1: and big players are going to come from that. Well.
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Speaker 1: Four and two now thirty four eleven victory done with
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Speaker 1: the NFC North, even Stephen two wins, two losses could
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Speaker 1: have been in. We're not going to go backwards though,
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Speaker 1: as you look forward to the Baltimore Ravens. What's the
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Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind when you think about
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens Right now? We got to be strong
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Speaker 1: in our division and this is our second opportunity. We
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Speaker 1: want to know this is a big road test again
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Speaker 1: for us, and our guys will be ready, but this
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Speaker 1: is a big game for us. There's no question. First
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Speaker 1: place Ravens are five and one after humbling the Chargers
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Speaker 1: thirty four to six on Sunday, The second place Bengals
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Speaker 1: are one game behind Baltimore and one game ahead of
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Speaker 1: Cleveland after the Browns got crushed at home by the
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Speaker 1: undefeated Cardinals thirty seven fourteen. Baker Mayfield dislocated his left
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Speaker 1: shoulder in that game, but expects to be able to
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Speaker 1: play with the injury. Now time for some postgame analysis
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Speaker 1: with Dave Lapham. I'll be honest, I thought the Bengals
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Speaker 1: were going to win, but I didn't expect it to
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Speaker 1: be as dominant as it turned out. How about you?
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, Dan. I mean, within thirty yards
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Speaker 1: of a three hundred yard passer, you know, less than
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Speaker 1: ten yards, within what six yards or whatever it was
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Speaker 1: of one hundred yard rusher, in the same one hundred
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Speaker 1: yard receiver, you have three hundred, one hundred, one hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's a big it's a big offensive performance. And defensively
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Speaker 1: they suffocated them. You know, they really when the game
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Speaker 1: was on the line, when the game meant something, they
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Speaker 1: just they didn't give an inch. It was. It was
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Speaker 1: an impressive performance all the way around. There was complimentary
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Speaker 1: football played, you know, between phases of the thing and
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Speaker 1: within the phase, you know, running game, supporting passing game,
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Speaker 1: and the thing I liked in reflection talking to some
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Speaker 1: of the guys in the locker room, Jamar Chase making
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Speaker 1: the block for Joe Mixon's touchdown, Joe Mixon after the
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Speaker 1: play action fake making the block, allowing a touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: to occur. Evans Blitz pick up allowing Joe Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: to throw a touchdown pass. So the detail of things
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Speaker 1: that needed to be done were done at a very
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Speaker 1: high level, and there was complimentary football played there too.
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Speaker 1: That's good stuff. I thought the game really swung on
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Speaker 1: one play less than a minute ago. Second quarter, Bengals
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Speaker 1: up seven nothing. They had had three straight three and outs,
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Speaker 1: three straight punts. It's third and ten. Looks like they're
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Speaker 1: gonna punt again. Joe Burrow drops a perfect pass to
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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase for a thirty four yard game, moving it
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Speaker 1: from the Bengals forty to the Lions twenty six. That
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Speaker 1: leads to a field goal that makes it ten nothing.
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Speaker 1: That gives the Bengals momentum, and they come out in
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Speaker 1: the second half and score three touchdowns in a field
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Speaker 1: goal in their first four drives. It's crazy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they score another three points in the final two minutes,
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Speaker 1: of the first half. They've scored thirty one points now
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Speaker 1: in the final two minutes of the first six football games. Nuts,
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Speaker 1: then they come right out and score, you know, to
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Speaker 1: start the third quarter, which they've done. That's that's such
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Speaker 1: a huge energy emotion, you know, everything you can think of,
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Speaker 1: such a huge boost in the throw extraordinary. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a porthole. It's not a window, it's a porthole
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Speaker 1: down there. It's like you got to go over the
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Speaker 1: corner and before the safety can get there, get it
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Speaker 1: close as close to the sideline as you can. Chase
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Speaker 1: ran a route that was along those lines and exactly
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Speaker 1: where we were supposed to run it, and Joe put
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Speaker 1: the ball such an unbelievable place, I mean it was.
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Speaker 1: That's one of those where you say, man, these guys
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Speaker 1: are good, These NFL players, these guys are good, no question.
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Speaker 1: Unbelievable catch by Chris Evans for the bengals first touchdown.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying you can't count on both hands the number
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Speaker 1: of running backs that can make a catch like that,
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Speaker 1: Maybe one, not both. Do you think the Bengals need
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Speaker 1: to find ways to get him more involved on offense? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at him and you see, you know,
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Speaker 1: a potential Giovanni Bernard, you know where. And the thing
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Speaker 1: that I was impressed with his blitz pickup was good,
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Speaker 1: not just the one on the Joe Borrow touchdown. There
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Speaker 1: were other instances of blitz pickup where he was, you know, unashamedly,
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Speaker 1: but he his nose right in the middle of somebody
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Speaker 1: and that was good to see. So I think, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the only thing you can do as a
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Speaker 1: player is have some patience, wait for your opportunity. Know
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Speaker 1: you're prepared as well as you possibly can for your opportunity,
18:14
Speaker 1: and capitalize on your opportunity. So therefore you can get
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Speaker 1: more opportunity. And that's kind of the process he's going
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Speaker 1: through as a young rookie, and he's earning it. He's
18:23
Speaker 1: earning his chance, he's earning his snaps. I don't have
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Speaker 1: team stats in front of me. I'm pretty sure it's
18:28
Speaker 1: less than fifty rushing yards in the game for the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Awesome job and run defense. Of course, late
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Speaker 1: in the game when I got lopsided, they stopped running.
18:36
Speaker 1: But in any case, it's been excellent by and large
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Speaker 1: for the most part this year, and it was the
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Speaker 1: best it's been all year. Today. Yeah, nothing leaked out,
18:44
Speaker 1: you know, that was that was the thing everybody was.
18:47
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about in the in the pregame
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Speaker 1: that these guys like to cut, you know, cut block,
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Speaker 1: and uh, that's that's their head coach Dan Campbell is
18:55
Speaker 1: that type of player, you know, he's a it's not dirty,
18:58
Speaker 1: it's just it's physical, it's aggressive, and guys stayed on
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Speaker 1: their feet, stayed in their gaps, didn't give them much
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Speaker 1: opportunity to run the football. And yeah, defensively I thought,
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Speaker 1: you know they were, they were extraordinary in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: I don't care how bad the offense is struggling. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's like they pitched the shutout for almost three quarters
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Speaker 1: you know, of the football game. Or maybe it wasn't
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Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter. I think it was three plus quarters.
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Speaker 1: They pitched a shut out. When you do something like that,
19:25
Speaker 1: you've done a lot of things right. They beat a
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Speaker 1: winless team. People are going to poop poo the victory,
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Speaker 1: but the dominance is what stands out to me. Like
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Speaker 1: we said at the very beginning, we both thought they
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Speaker 1: would win. But when you dominate like that, it makes
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Speaker 1: you think, Okay, this team might be able to sustain
19:44
Speaker 1: this and stay in the playoff hunt. The good thing
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Speaker 1: is it was the first time for them this year
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Speaker 1: where they found themselves up seventeen and at that point,
19:54
Speaker 1: what do you do. Do you let a team back
19:55
Speaker 1: in the game or do you finish it? And they
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Speaker 1: finished it. That's a good sign, he said. Maybe not
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Speaker 1: the best team by far that they're going to play,
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Speaker 1: but when you when you're up, you have a team down,
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Speaker 1: like Forrest, Greg used to say, finish him, you know,
20:09
Speaker 1: don't reposition yourself and let them get a breath and
20:12
Speaker 1: get back in the football game. So I thought that
20:15
Speaker 1: was a positive sign as well. Bring out the Ravens man.
20:21
Speaker 1: I hope that that run defense is I hope we
20:24
Speaker 1: play the best gap control, responsibility running game defense we've
20:30
Speaker 1: ever played. Because when I mean, they're they're so unusual
20:33
Speaker 1: with they're eleven on eleven, having a quarterback like that
20:35
Speaker 1: that can run it. I mean, I look at him,
20:37
Speaker 1: Dan as you know, at least a top twenty running
20:41
Speaker 1: back in the league, you know, I mean, dude, he's
20:44
Speaker 1: he's always statistically he's in the top twenty rushing even
20:46
Speaker 1: though he's a quarterback. He's legit. From a talent standpoint,
20:51
Speaker 1: he's legit top twenty, maybe even a little higher in
20:54
Speaker 1: terms of a running back can make guys miss and
20:56
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, he's going to get hurt. That dude,
20:58
Speaker 1: he's not going to get hurt. Doesn't give anybody a
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Speaker 1: flush shot on him. He is unbelievable. Yeah, that that's
21:04
Speaker 1: a good football team. If you combined his passing yards
21:07
Speaker 1: in the rushing yards going into the weekend, he had
21:10
Speaker 1: more yards by himself than eighteen NFL teams. It's extraordinary.
21:15
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's ridiculous. You have to look at
21:18
Speaker 1: it from the Bengals perspective. They're one and on the division.
21:20
Speaker 1: You know, they beat Pittsburgh on the road. If you
21:23
Speaker 1: can go into Baltimore and beat them on the road,
21:25
Speaker 1: be two and on the division. They're two road games
21:27
Speaker 1: to boot Man and sitting five and two overall. Then
21:31
Speaker 1: you start to think we might have something here. It's
21:34
Speaker 1: nice to be in the hunt, isn't it? It is
21:36
Speaker 1: it is. Let's just let's keep enough AMMO to get
21:39
Speaker 1: through the hunt. You know, let's keep having enough we
21:41
Speaker 1: can reload and just keep shooting. Man mar Jackson has
21:46
Speaker 1: started five games against the Bengals, and the Ravens have
21:49
Speaker 1: won all five. The first two were close. The combined
21:53
Speaker 1: score in the last three meetings is eighty four to nineteen.
21:58
Speaker 1: The Bengals are an early six and a half point underdog.
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Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with Bengal safety Von Bell.
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Speaker 1: Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, before playing high school football just
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Speaker 1: across the state line in Rossville, Georgia. Describe where you
22:38
Speaker 1: grew up. Was it a city environment, was it a
22:40
Speaker 1: country environment? And what was young Von Bell into as
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Speaker 1: a kid. Oh, you know, it's a very small city
22:46
Speaker 1: like owing it. But the key you know, I was
22:48
Speaker 1: just very competitive, just being around my older brother and
22:52
Speaker 1: just being around sports all my life. And we're just
22:54
Speaker 1: going out to hemphone just being a kid when it
22:56
Speaker 1: comes to sports, was football always your number one love?
22:59
Speaker 1: It was basketball? And I was multi sported, you know,
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Speaker 1: play tennis, I was on the swim team, all types
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Speaker 1: of sports, so I was were around it tennis and swimming.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a little soccer there too, So yeah, I'm
23:13
Speaker 1: pretty skilled. Do you ever pick up a tennis racket anymore? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I still watch it, you know, like the openings and
23:18
Speaker 1: all that, so I keep up with that. So I
23:19
Speaker 1: think out there and do a little bit. We're doing
23:22
Speaker 1: fun faction with von Bell. You were famously an early riser,
23:26
Speaker 1: waking up at four working out at five while most
23:29
Speaker 1: of us are sound asleep. When and why did you
23:33
Speaker 1: start doing that? Um? It really just came from my family. Really.
23:37
Speaker 1: It was always an early rising family, getting our chores
23:40
Speaker 1: done early, and really just getting our work done earlier
23:43
Speaker 1: really too. So it's ingrained in me. And I just
23:47
Speaker 1: took that over the ball. And I'm always thinking, early
23:49
Speaker 1: worm gets the worm, early bird gets to worm, so
23:53
Speaker 1: and that's my mentality always, So I'm always on the
23:55
Speaker 1: first one up getting it. And I just feel like
23:59
Speaker 1: I'm making dreams others are dreaming so and it's um
24:02
Speaker 1: as going my mentality, So so I think about I'm
24:06
Speaker 1: making dreams while others are dreaming. That's tremendous. Do you
24:10
Speaker 1: ever sleep in and if so, how late are we talking? Joey,
24:15
Speaker 1: you know, the head Strip coach. He tried to get
24:18
Speaker 1: me to sleeping on Saturdays and only sleeping in my
24:21
Speaker 1: setn clock and so that's my sleeping day. So he said,
24:25
Speaker 1: maybe some rest recovery. I said, I get that. We
24:28
Speaker 1: still gotta make some more. We gotta make some more
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Speaker 1: jackiep on pushing, and so that's my sleeping day. We're
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Speaker 1: chatting a von Bell. You know, you're a highly touted recruit.
24:39
Speaker 1: When the announcement is carried on live TV, you could
24:42
Speaker 1: have gone anywhere. Was it stressful or fun? It was both,
24:48
Speaker 1: But you know, seeing different paths with coaches and players
24:52
Speaker 1: across you know, in the National Football League now we
24:55
Speaker 1: all had the same story just seeing each other on
24:57
Speaker 1: recruiting visits and everything and getting me different coaches, families
25:01
Speaker 1: and what they're beliefs in that background. So it was
25:03
Speaker 1: kind of stressful at times. It was a little bit overwhelming,
25:07
Speaker 1: but I had fun at all end and I want
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Speaker 1: to change for the world. But it was it was.
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Speaker 1: It was a good time. You chose to head north
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Speaker 1: and play for Ohio State, part of a twenty fourteen
25:19
Speaker 1: national championship team. What did you enjoy most about your
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Speaker 1: three years of the Buckeyes. M my, my recruiting class.
25:29
Speaker 1: We did what we said we're gonna do to bring
25:31
Speaker 1: a championship back to Columbus, Ohio and really did that.
25:35
Speaker 1: Made a brotherhood and relationships that will last forever. And
25:39
Speaker 1: now winning that championship and being bound for sure, that
25:44
Speaker 1: was the biggest thing because it was hot and rolling
25:46
Speaker 1: for years to come and all the nay says say
25:49
Speaker 1: we couldn't do it, and we did and that would
25:52
Speaker 1: resonate with me and stick with me forever. Do you
25:55
Speaker 1: have a favorite Ohio State football tradition? Oh, it's me.
26:00
Speaker 1: It's man in the school session when we wake up
26:03
Speaker 1: early morning, we got chugged water down steps with the
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Speaker 1: strung staff, the championship walk in the morning with coach
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Speaker 1: Mayer what we did and uh, you know, and the
26:14
Speaker 1: fridays we eat at the Jack Nicholas, that Jack Nicholas
26:20
Speaker 1: golf course and really just um, really fellowship with your
26:23
Speaker 1: brothers and really just talk and we have a special
26:26
Speaker 1: speaker every week, and that's what we look forward to
26:28
Speaker 1: for sure. We're talking to vine Bell. You turn pro
26:31
Speaker 1: after your junior year. The Saints traded up to select
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Speaker 1: you in the second round of the draft. How did
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Speaker 1: you spend the draft and what did that moment mean
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Speaker 1: to you and your family? Um? I spend with my
26:43
Speaker 1: family for shure back in Chattanooga, and the moment everything,
26:48
Speaker 1: you know, surreal moment. It was speechless because everything that
26:50
Speaker 1: you work for as a little kid dreaming and it's
26:53
Speaker 1: now surreal. And now you go and change the lives
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Speaker 1: and do what you do at a high level and
26:58
Speaker 1: take care of the ones around just loved ones around you.
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Speaker 1: So there was a real moment for me. Blessed and
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Speaker 1: m You have cute journey going New Orleans is one
27:08
Speaker 1: of my favorite places to visit, but I've never lived there.
27:12
Speaker 1: You spent four years in New Orleans. What was it
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Speaker 1: like to be a resident during the football season. Oh,
27:17
Speaker 1: it's good. You know, the city behind you, the food
27:22
Speaker 1: for sure, and the southern the Southern hospitality, and it's
27:29
Speaker 1: really just being back home for sure. And you know,
27:31
Speaker 1: warm weather always, but the food for sure. It's nothing
27:35
Speaker 1: like I'm with you one hundred percent. But I'm not
27:37
Speaker 1: a professional athlete that you have to be careful about
27:40
Speaker 1: some of those caloric Cajun delicacies. For sure, you gotta
27:45
Speaker 1: be careful, But I know it was all love at
27:47
Speaker 1: the end of the day. And I was really out
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Speaker 1: in the community, always giving back on Tuesdays, going to schools.
27:52
Speaker 1: I'm just talking just being around the city, and that's
27:55
Speaker 1: what we really feel the love, and that's where you
27:57
Speaker 1: feel the city behind the teams back always. So you
28:00
Speaker 1: signed us a free agent with the Bengals in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty and gave Cincinnati fans an iconic moment with your
28:07
Speaker 1: fumble forcing hit on Juju Smith Schuster after he did
28:11
Speaker 1: a TikTok dance on the Bengals logo before the game.
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Speaker 1: That image is on T shirts. It's a popular gift
28:17
Speaker 1: for Jeff. I'm not sure how people pronounce that. Where's
28:20
Speaker 1: that play rank for you among your NFL highlights? It's
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Speaker 1: up def for sure, But it's still more to go.
28:26
Speaker 1: And I always just say the next play is the
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Speaker 1: biggest play, and that's all Hume and Grain. I always
28:32
Speaker 1: look back. I'll look back when I retire, probably, but
28:35
Speaker 1: I still trying to make more memories then, but it's
28:37
Speaker 1: up dere for sure, but it's more to come. Have
28:40
Speaker 1: you seen that T shirt on somebody or on a
28:43
Speaker 1: you know, a shelf for anything, and they've seen it
28:46
Speaker 1: to bring a grin to your face? For sure? For sure?
28:49
Speaker 1: And people sending it to me, Mom, send it to me.
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Speaker 1: Oh God, tell the stay off that. But for sure
28:56
Speaker 1: and uh, like I said, as many more memories to go.
28:59
Speaker 1: All right, let's do some wild card categories of von Bell.
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Speaker 1: You are an avid reader. What typically do you go
29:06
Speaker 1: for and do you have a few all time favorite books? Oh? Man,
29:11
Speaker 1: what I typically go for? I like uh, I like
29:16
Speaker 1: like inspirational, my mind stimulation books and I always just
29:22
Speaker 1: sharpened the sword of my mind. And and business books too,
29:26
Speaker 1: always a businessman off the field and growing the empire.
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Speaker 1: So uh and re Endless by Tim s Grover. It's
29:34
Speaker 1: one of the all time favorites. You always talked about
29:36
Speaker 1: the grace and the sport Kobe Jordan d Wade and
29:40
Speaker 1: the guys he worked with, so and the energy bus.
29:43
Speaker 1: I like that book too. So yeah, have your business
29:46
Speaker 1: ventures started? Have you already begun to work on your
29:49
Speaker 1: post football career? For sure? It's always when we walk
29:55
Speaker 1: outside these halls, you got to come to the business
29:58
Speaker 1: side and the real life sets in and you always
30:01
Speaker 1: gotta always start that early on. Really invest yourself, invest
30:04
Speaker 1: your time, and that's true, your finances, and I really
30:08
Speaker 1: just stimulate your mind outside of the game. Who is
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Speaker 1: your all time favorite athlete in any sport and why
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Speaker 1: I love Kobe That's my favorite all time athlete for sure.
30:19
Speaker 1: Just the mindset. You know, he was still on the
30:21
Speaker 1: worst schedule like I was down, and that's how he
30:24
Speaker 1: was at the Lakers, and always just looking forward to him,
30:26
Speaker 1: always having an ear to what he says, and really
30:30
Speaker 1: just going out there and just trying to have the
30:32
Speaker 1: momentality for sure. Do you have any hidden talents alive?
30:38
Speaker 1: Sounded everything good at bowling? Is there anything you are
30:43
Speaker 1: absolutely terrible at? I don't know. I'm pretty competitive everything
30:49
Speaker 1: I do. Like I would challenge somebody in chugging and
30:52
Speaker 1: water bottle like I don't know. If I wasn't good,
30:57
Speaker 1: I would find my way to get good at and
30:59
Speaker 1: challenge you again. Yeah, I like that. That's a great mentality.
31:02
Speaker 1: Last thing for von Bell. If you could meet anybody
31:06
Speaker 1: in history, athlete, actor, statesman, whatever it might be. Who
31:12
Speaker 1: would that person be? I'm not a lot of people
31:16
Speaker 1: mental boma. How was that? It was cool? You know
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Speaker 1: at the one and added I got to know, Oh
31:25
Speaker 1: this is tough. I gotta thank God Jesus. But uh,
31:30
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a good one. That's a good one.
31:32
Speaker 1: Did you get to meet Kobe? No? I didn't. I
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Speaker 1: will yeah, I would love to meet Kobe. Got to
31:38
Speaker 1: meet Lebron will Smith too, though we're pretty cool. But
31:44
Speaker 1: he talented. Man, I don't know. That's a good question
31:48
Speaker 1: right there. It's pretty deep by now, that's a deep
31:50
Speaker 1: that I'll say. Covid officiore. This has been great. I
31:54
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. It's great to have you on this team.
31:56
Speaker 1: Best of like the rest of the year. Thank you
31:58
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