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Bengals Booth Podcast: Thinkin' And A-Prayin' · Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: Had to have it win in Pittsburgh. It is the
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Speaker 1: final night of the regular season for the Cincinnati Bengals,
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Speaker 1: and in order to have any chance of advancing to
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Speaker 1: the playoffs next week, they must beat the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Speaker 1: tonight on a bitterly cold and wintry evening in the
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Speaker 1: Steel City. And it is time for the pig skin
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Speaker 1: to fly. Here at Akroshure Stadium, second down and three
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Speaker 1: at the twelve yard line of Pittsburgh Burrow looking to
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Speaker 1: pass again. He first a strike god Jamar Chase with
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Speaker 1: a touchdown. The Bengals score on their opening drive, and
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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase has just made franchise history. It's his seventeenth
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Speaker 1: touchdown catch of the year, tying Carl Pickens single season
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Speaker 1: franchise Mark Russell Wilsonson's pickins in motion. He's back to throw,
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Speaker 1: looking scrambling, pucking hands. Sack Hendrickson, who began the game
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Speaker 1: tied for the NFL lead in sacks with Miles Garrett
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Speaker 1: fourteen apiece, get this fifteenth of the year, and.
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Speaker 2: That was really a good rush by everybody.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if he can come through from forty eight
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Speaker 1: yards away. Adamidas, who played here at pitt snaps it back.
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Speaker 1: The kick is on its way. It is good. Kay
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Speaker 1: New York comes through and the Bengals have taken a
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Speaker 1: ten nothing lead. First and goal from the one for
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Speaker 1: the Steelers after the penalty on Cam Taylor Brett. It's
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Speaker 1: a handoff the Najie Harris and he goes into the
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Speaker 1: end zone standing up for a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown. Ryan
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Speaker 1: Rico will punt for the first time tonight. Calvin Austin
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Speaker 1: is the returner for the Steelers. He's dangerous. Rico, the
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Speaker 1: rookie out of Byu. Hammer's a long, long punt, back
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Speaker 1: pedaling all the way to the twenty five. To catch
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Speaker 1: it is Austin running to the thirty. The ball comes
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Speaker 1: out at the thirty three yard line. They got it.
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Speaker 2: They got it.
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Speaker 1: No official indication yet.
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Speaker 2: I saw a fall on it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do it, and there it is.
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Speaker 2: They got it.
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Speaker 1: Higgins out to the left, Three receivers out to the right,
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Speaker 1: including Chase nearest to the offensive line, Cam Grandy and
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Speaker 1: Gasiki also out to the right. Burrow with a quick
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Speaker 1: throw and it is nearly picked off by Queen and
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Speaker 1: it is deflected toward a teammate and intercepted.
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Speaker 2: Wow wow, I mean that was a great you talk
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Speaker 2: about staying with the ball. Beanie Bishop Junior comes away
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Speaker 2: with the football.
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Speaker 1: Wilson is under center. See if he actually runs a
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Speaker 1: play on fourth and one. He touches both sides of
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Speaker 1: his helmet, hasn't snapped it yet. Now he does hands
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Speaker 1: it off. The Bengals get into the backfield to.
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Speaker 3: Make the tackle.
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Speaker 1: They stopped him.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. He's getting a good spot. He's getting
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Speaker 2: a good spot.
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Speaker 1: You're right, yeah, wow, man, my mistake. After review, the
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Speaker 1: runner was short of the line. The game first down Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: Boore I withdraw my apology. Burrow in the gun, Herbert
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Speaker 1: to his left. It's a two by two formation. Chase
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Speaker 1: out wide to the right, Higgins out wide to the left.
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Speaker 1: Burrow throwing deep for Higgins. He leaps and comes down
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Speaker 1: to the ball inside the ten. He stops the clock
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Speaker 1: as he goes out of bounds at the nine. The snap,
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Speaker 1: the placement, and the right footed dick. It is good
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals have a six point lead, thirteen to seven,
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Speaker 1: with sixteen seconds left in the half. All right, here
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Speaker 1: comes a thirty five yard field goal attempt for Cad York,
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Speaker 1: trying to give Cincinnati a sixteen to seven lead. Rico
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Speaker 1: catches places the ball down. The kick is on its
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Speaker 1: way and it is good and the Bengals lead the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers by nine, sixteen to seven. It is second
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Speaker 1: down and five from the Pittsburgh forty one. Chase goes
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Speaker 1: in motion, winds up wide to the left. They throw
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Speaker 1: it deep for Jamar. What an adjustment to the ball
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Speaker 1: as he stops on a dime, comes back to the
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Speaker 1: ball and beats Trice for the catch at the twenty
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Speaker 1: two yard line. Kade York looking for his fourth field
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Speaker 1: goal of the game. It's a twenty three yard try
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Speaker 1: from the left hash His right footed gick is absolutely perfect,
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals have a twelve point lead. In the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Patterson lines up in the backfield Wilson to
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Speaker 1: throw again. Cocks the yard has a man wide open,
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Speaker 1: caught by Friar Mooth and he runs into the end
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Speaker 1: zone for the Pittsburgh touchdown. Weightman into punt. He waits
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Speaker 1: at his own five for the long snap. His left
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Speaker 1: footed punt who not going very far. It is going
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Speaker 1: to bounce to the Bengals touch that the ball goes
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Speaker 1: out of bounds or did it get recovered by Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: first Steelers have it so Isaiah Williams did not give
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Speaker 1: a definitive enough signal for his teammates to get out
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Speaker 1: of the way. Connor Hayward recovers the ball that hit
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Speaker 1: a Bengals blocker to allow Pittsburgh to recover it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was a punt that was mishit, and
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Speaker 2: at that point you gotta yell fire or whatever your
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Speaker 2: code word it is to get out of the way.
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Speaker 1: On second to nine, Russell Wilson to throw. Trey hendricks
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Speaker 1: In sacks him at the thirty three yard line. Came
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Speaker 1: with a wide rush, beat the left tackle more and
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Speaker 1: sacked Russell Wilson. Boswell has made forty field goals this year.
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Speaker 1: That is a Steelers single season record. Here comes his
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Speaker 1: fifty four yard attempt. It's on its way. It is good.
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Speaker 2: Yep, unreal. I mean in this weather for him to
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Speaker 2: hit that thing like he hit that, Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: That's like hitting the brick.
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Speaker 1: Clock is running thirty one seconds to go. They still
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Speaker 1: need to gain about twenty yards to be in field
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Speaker 1: goal range. Bryan Mos thirty five seconds to go. Shotgun snap,
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Speaker 1: Wilson under pressure, sacked, Trey Hendrickson does it again at
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Speaker 1: the forty yard line. Time out Pittsburgh twenty seconds to go.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals playoff fate comes down to this play, fourth
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Speaker 1: down and twelve with fifteen seconds to go. If they
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Speaker 1: get a stop, their playoff hopes will be alive tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Hope alive. Wilson sends two receivers out to each side
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Speaker 1: of the formation. Russell has the ball short drop fires
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Speaker 1: a pass incomplete. Friarmouth couldn't hold on hand with eleven
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Speaker 1: seconds to go.
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Speaker 2: That is coffin nailam, bam bam.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals playoff hopes are still alive, and tomorrow at
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Speaker 1: four in the afternoon, we are all about to be
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Speaker 1: the world's biggest fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and
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Speaker 1: the New York Jets, needing those two teams to win
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Speaker 1: in order for the Bengals to deep playing. The final
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Speaker 1: score Cincinnati nineteen Pittsburgh seventeen. The Bengals end the regular
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Speaker 1: season with a five game winning streak and the Steelers
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Speaker 1: end with a four game losing streak. Speaking of streaks,
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Speaker 1: Joe burrows streak of consecutive games with three touchdown passes
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Speaker 1: ended at eight, but considering the frigid conditions and injuries
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Speaker 1: on the Bengals offensive line, Joe was outstanding, completing eighty
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Speaker 1: percent of his forty six passes for two hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy seven yards with one touchdown and onet. Joe ends
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Speaker 1: the season with franchise records for passing yards with four thy,
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Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighteen touchdown passes with forty three and
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Speaker 1: passer rating at one oh eight point five. Joe will
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Speaker 1: lead the league in passing yards unless Jared Goff throws
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Speaker 1: four five twenty on Sunday night against the Vikings, and
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Speaker 1: he'll lead the league in touchdown passes unless Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 1: tosses five on Sunday afternoon against the Saints. Here are
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Speaker 1: some of the things Burrow told reporters after the game.
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Speaker 4: You know, our execution in the red zone wasn't good enough.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of.
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Speaker 4: The story of the game. I'm not sure how many
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Speaker 4: field goals we kicked, four, three or four something like that,
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Speaker 4: So you know, if we convert a couple of those
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Speaker 4: into touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: That's a different game.
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Speaker 4: You know, I would like to have finished that game
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Speaker 4: on offense and punched those into the end zone.
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Speaker 3: But our our defense stepped up and picked up the slack.
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Speaker 3: Our defensive young.
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Speaker 4: Guys and guys that have played great in the past
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Speaker 4: have have started playing well. And then Trey Henderson, you know,
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Speaker 4: after tonight, I don't know who else is gonna win
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Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Year other than him. He was
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Speaker 4: incredible tonight. Any time that he didn't have chip help,
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Speaker 4: he was getting to quarterback. Anytime you don't make the playoffs,
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Speaker 4: it's a failure. That's what you're you're aiming for every year.
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Speaker 4: That's why you work so hard as to be at
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Speaker 4: your best at in the end. And you know, these
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Speaker 4: last five weeks we have been we just you know,
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Speaker 4: weren't able to find an extra win early in the
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Speaker 4: season that that would put us in a better spot.
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Speaker 4: You know, I know that, you know, if we get
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Speaker 4: and we can make some noise with with the players
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Speaker 4: and coaches that we have in this building, and we
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Speaker 4: just gotta hope for hope for some hell tomorrow and
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Speaker 4: I'll sit back and watch it. I thought i'd have
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Speaker 4: my best year. I think I did. H The year
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Speaker 4: after a ligament injury like that is always better. You know,
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Speaker 4: I threw it well this year, I don't think. I
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Speaker 4: still think I can throw it way better.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: You know, early in the season you're still getting a
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Speaker 4: field for for how that risk is feeling. You're breaking
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Speaker 4: up scar tissue, you're doing a lot of different things
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Speaker 4: to to help it, and it gets better as the
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Speaker 4: season goes. So I expect next year to be better.
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Speaker 4: That's that's how it was with my knee. That's how
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Speaker 4: ligament injuries typically go. So I'm expecting to to grind
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Speaker 4: this offseason and take a jump next year.
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Speaker 1: The man is never satisfied. His favorite target, Jamar Chase,
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Speaker 1: had ten catches for ninety six yards and a touchdown
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Speaker 1: and has a healthy lead in all three triple crowned
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Speaker 1: categories with one hundred and twenty seven catches for one thousand,
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Speaker 1: seven hundred and eight yards and seventeen touchdowns. My postgame
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Speaker 1: interview with Noumero who Know, begins with Jamar praising the
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Speaker 1: Bengals defense.
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Speaker 5: They've been stepping up tremendously a lot the past couple
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Speaker 5: of weeks. Trey going trade dangs today, but you know
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Speaker 5: they always find way to getst the ball back.
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Speaker 1: You finish the season with the five game winning streak,
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Speaker 1: your playoff hopes are alive. What's the emotion in this
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Speaker 1: locker room right now?
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Speaker 3: Right now?
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Speaker 5: Everybody happy? We just got this winning in Pittsburgh. So
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Speaker 5: you know, right now we're just letting the dice roll
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Speaker 5: and take the chances about what's gonna having them out.
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Speaker 1: Ten catches just under one hundred yards and a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: How challenging it under these conditions.
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Speaker 5: It was pretty challenging mentally wise, you know, just standing
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Speaker 5: in the game, noise, cold, but you know, we practiced
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Speaker 5: for the outside in the cold for a reason.
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Speaker 1: So the peasants of the game, is that seventeenth touchdown
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Speaker 1: really satisfying for you? No? No, no, why not?
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Speaker 5: Because I dropped two touchdowns in the past two weeks?
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Speaker 3: So what that would have been?
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Speaker 1: Nineteen seventeen's not bad. Nineteen sounds better though, hard to dispute.
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Speaker 1: All right, So what's tomorrow going to be like? Needing
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Speaker 1: help from Kansas City and the Jets to advance to
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Speaker 1: the playoffs in Buffalo?
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Speaker 3: Who knows?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 5: You know, hopefully postably we get what we want. And
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Speaker 5: like I said, you gotta let the dice roll right now.
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Speaker 1: Joe started the game by completing his first twelve passes
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Speaker 1: nineteen degrees seven degree win chill. What did you think
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Speaker 1: of the way that he performed Coming out of the.
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Speaker 5: Game, I was going to have a I thought it
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Speaker 5: was gonna be a long night for the defense once
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Speaker 5: you know, I see him start off so good.
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Speaker 1: Did Pittsburgh change anything up or just their good players
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Speaker 1: start making some plays?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 5: They change it up a little bit after the first
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Speaker 5: drive at the first out of change it up?
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Speaker 1: All right? If my math is correct. You lead in
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Speaker 1: catches by eighteen, you lead in yards by two hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty seven, you lead in touchdowns by five. Barring
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Speaker 1: some of the greatest single games in NFL history, you
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Speaker 1: are going to win the triple crown. Can you describe
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Speaker 1: what appears to be that accomplishment.
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Speaker 5: It feels good, you know that I finally haven't on
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Speaker 5: toneath my belt, but I'm still worried about the playoffs
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Speaker 5: right now be in a triple crown, but I'm I'm happy.
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Speaker 5: I'm excited that I got to appreciate Joe and the
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Speaker 5: rest of the team for helping me.
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Speaker 1: It comes in if you can get in, if you
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Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs. What do you think this
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Speaker 1: team can do the way you ended this season.
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Speaker 5: They gotta take a one game at a time, you know,
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Speaker 5: like you did the last five weeks.
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Speaker 1: Where about what we.
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Speaker 5: Got in front of us, take advantage are the players
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Speaker 5: that we get an opportunities that we get in a
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Speaker 5: game and make the most outble.
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Speaker 1: As for the defense, I told Trey Hendrickson after the
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Speaker 1: game that the best performance I had ever seen by
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Speaker 1: a Bengals defensive player was also in Pittsburgh when Gino
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Speaker 1: Atkins lived in the Steelers' backfield in a game that
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Speaker 1: clinched a playoff spot in twenty twelve. Well, I think
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Speaker 1: Gino is now number two on my list after watching
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Speaker 1: Trey get three and a half sacks and five quarterback
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Speaker 1: hits with nearly all of them coming in crucial situations.
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Speaker 6: Well, first and foremost, I want to thank my Lord
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Speaker 6: and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: He's my foundation, my rock.
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Speaker 6: All glory to God and my wife. She's been amazing
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Speaker 6: through this season taking care of our son.
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Speaker 1: Huge support group.
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Speaker 6: I'm just incredibly bless and humbled to be in the
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Speaker 6: position to help this team win and give ourselves the
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Speaker 6: best chance to go.
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Speaker 1: To the playoffs. He finished the season on a five
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Speaker 1: game winning streak, and during that stretch, the defense gave
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Speaker 1: up less than twenty points a game. You guys really
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Speaker 1: turned it around over the final month of the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Credit to Loui an Arumo doing his job, you know,
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Speaker 6: changing things up, getting people in the right position to produce.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 6: Credit to the rest of their coaching staff coming up
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Speaker 6: with good game plans and shutting teams.
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Speaker 1: Down so Pittsburgh gets the ball with less than two
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Speaker 1: minutes to go, a field goal can win it. Chris
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Speaker 1: Boswell's been the best kicker in the league. The defense
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Speaker 1: had to come up big, and you guys did. How
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Speaker 1: satisfying is that in light of the roller coaster ride
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Speaker 1: that this season has been.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, we got a chance to redefine our
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Speaker 6: identity as a defense a little bit. And like I said,
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Speaker 6: that starts with coaching and then players, you know, at
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Speaker 6: four and eight responding to the call.
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Speaker 1: So credited leaders in this locker room.
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Speaker 6: Like Sam Hubbard keeping us together even though he went
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Speaker 6: down in Tennessee, can't say enough about his character, his leadership.
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Speaker 1: Guys like bj.
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Speaker 6: Hill becoming vocal leading our defensive line, and obviously the
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Speaker 6: rest of the guys to remain pratt lying around out there,
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Speaker 6: and Genostone making a lot of plays for us, Josh
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Speaker 6: Newton stepping up.
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Speaker 1: I can continue to.
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Speaker 6: Keep going on, but for the sake of time, we'll if.
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Speaker 1: Seventeen and a half sacks Miles Garrett didn't have any today,
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Speaker 1: you are almost certainly going to lead the league. A
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Speaker 1: Bengal has never done that since sack has been an
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Speaker 1: official stat What does that accomplishment mean to you?
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Speaker 6: It gives me a platform to glorify the Lord. You know,
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Speaker 6: it's not about me selfishly, there's eleven other or ten
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Speaker 6: other guys that complete this defense, and I'm able to
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Speaker 6: produce on my edge. I'm very blessed to do what
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Speaker 6: I love. This is what I was born to do.
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Speaker 6: And you know, my wife being there for me in
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Speaker 6: this whole process. She's been so strong and taking care
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Speaker 6: of our son and obviously take care of me. So
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Speaker 6: I'm very blessed to have that support group. And you know,
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Speaker 6: it's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: You guys did your part. You need help tomorrow. What
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Speaker 1: is tomorrow going to be like? Nerve racking? Exciting? Can
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Speaker 1: you describe the emotions of hoping to get some help
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Speaker 1: from the Jets and Chiefs tomorrow?
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Speaker 6: Well as far as our twenty twenty four defense, it's
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Speaker 6: the man in the arena kind of accomplishes.
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Speaker 2: What we'd like to say.
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Speaker 1: We give it her all.
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Speaker 6: Some things are out of our control right now, but
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Speaker 6: giving you your best is what it's about. You leave
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Speaker 6: the field with your head high, knowing that you did
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Speaker 6: everything to win, and then you can sleep like a
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Speaker 6: baby at night.
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Speaker 1: A heck of a game and an unbelievable season. Congratulations Tray,
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Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it. Ray finished the year with seventeen
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Speaker 1: and a half sacks for the second year in a
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Speaker 1: row and should get consideration for NFL Defensive Player of
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Speaker 1: the Year. Now let's hear what Zach Taylor had to
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Speaker 1: says he spent a few minutes with Dave Lapham after
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Speaker 1: the game.
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Speaker 2: Things head coach Zac Taylor, congratulations, sir, thank you.
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Speaker 1: It's good to good win man.
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Speaker 7: It's hard to win on the road in the ANFC North,
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Speaker 7: and really proud of the way the guys stuck together
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Speaker 7: and found a way to get it done.
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Speaker 2: Give me your first reaction when you had time to
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Speaker 2: catch your breath and everything that was going through your
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Speaker 2: through your mind during the course of the game and
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Speaker 2: you had chance to exhale, what's your first thought.
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Speaker 7: This is what we visualized. You know, there was no
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Speaker 7: situation where we're going to walk out of here with
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Speaker 7: a loss. That's not anything that crossed any of our minds.
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Speaker 7: We fully expected to win this game, and our guys
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Speaker 7: got it done.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the grit and the determination defensively,
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Speaker 2: coach down the stretch, the five football games that you
19:41
Speaker 2: guys want in a row and once again compimentary football.
19:45
Speaker 2: You know, there's a problem with special teams, you know,
19:48
Speaker 2: ball hits on a leg and those are tough things.
19:51
Speaker 2: Those are tough things. I mean the punts mishit, you
19:54
Speaker 2: don't know where it is. But defensively they step up,
19:57
Speaker 2: you know, and it was just an a great example
20:00
Speaker 2: of contmary football.
20:02
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you know, I thought, I thought in all three phases,
20:05
Speaker 7: guys stepped up at key moments. Offense played well early
20:09
Speaker 7: on to get us a lead and keep putting points
20:11
Speaker 7: on the board. Defense came up with some key stops.
20:13
Speaker 7: Special teams had their day as well. So just really
20:17
Speaker 7: really proud of our football team.
20:18
Speaker 2: Got a lot of respect for the offensive line. You know,
20:21
Speaker 2: there's a lot of there were injuries there, guys are
20:24
Speaker 2: playing different positions and showing versatility. Cody Ford, you know,
20:27
Speaker 2: stepped up, you know, really big for you you know,
20:31
Speaker 2: and then Amarius comes in when when he needs to
20:33
Speaker 2: come in and and does what he has to do.
20:36
Speaker 2: I just think, again, in my mind watching this football
20:40
Speaker 2: game as a form alignment, I thought the game was
20:42
Speaker 2: was one of the trenches on both sides of it.
20:44
Speaker 1: I did too.
20:44
Speaker 7: I mean, we dropped back in pass against one of
20:46
Speaker 7: the best fronts in football a lot, and so we
20:49
Speaker 7: put a lot of pressure on those guys and they
20:51
Speaker 7: rose to the challenge. And so just just really proud
20:54
Speaker 7: of the effort they gave and ability to get some
20:57
Speaker 7: runs off when we needed to as well Khalil Herbert
21:00
Speaker 7: and his first first start with us, you know, to
21:02
Speaker 7: get the reps he did. Just really really thankful for
21:05
Speaker 7: those guys up front.
21:06
Speaker 2: You know, to me, that's that's a credit to everybody,
21:08
Speaker 2: credit to him, a credit to you and your coaching staff.
21:12
Speaker 2: You know, obviously he's a very intelligent guy, but I mean,
21:14
Speaker 2: you guys, to have him ready to go out and
21:17
Speaker 2: do what he did the way he did it, it's
21:20
Speaker 2: really impressive.
21:20
Speaker 7: It's a huge credit to Justin Hill. I mean, he
21:22
Speaker 7: works with all these guys. We got guys on the
21:24
Speaker 7: active roster practice squad and in a moment like this,
21:27
Speaker 7: you know, we were down Zach Moss. We lost Zach
21:29
Speaker 7: Moss halfway through the season. Chase Brown now out, so
21:32
Speaker 7: a guy that we traded for some guys that we've
21:34
Speaker 7: acquired on the practice squad of the season's gone on,
21:36
Speaker 7: Justin has got those guys into position where we felt
21:39
Speaker 7: like they could help us win the game. And so
21:40
Speaker 7: credit to those backs, credit to Justin Pittsburgh.
21:43
Speaker 2: Steelers had gone through some injuries, but they were very
21:46
Speaker 2: healthy here for this football game. You guys were trying
21:49
Speaker 2: to like cobble it together and get it done again.
21:53
Speaker 2: That just says a lot about the depth of your
21:55
Speaker 2: football team, how everybody cares about each other with respect
21:59
Speaker 2: your foot ball team. It says a lot.
22:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, we've had our fair share of six
22:03
Speaker 7: day weeks these last couple of weeks, and our guys
22:05
Speaker 7: haven't complained, spoken up one bit about it. It's just
22:08
Speaker 7: it is what it is, and all we can control
22:11
Speaker 7: is how we play on game day. And so these
22:13
Speaker 7: guys are beat up right now. I mean it's if
22:15
Speaker 7: you watched practice, you would see guys are barely even moving,
22:18
Speaker 7: you know, they're so beat up. But on game day
22:20
Speaker 7: they give it everything they got and really proud of
22:22
Speaker 7: them and hopeful that we get in and we get
22:25
Speaker 7: a chance to do it again.
22:26
Speaker 2: Trey Hendrickson, I mean he's kind of limping. He limps
22:29
Speaker 2: off the field, comes back, getting gives you a sack,
22:32
Speaker 2: and he's kind of like living it. I don't know
22:34
Speaker 2: if it was his side or what it was. He
22:36
Speaker 2: looked like he was definitely struggling though. Was it up
22:37
Speaker 2: in the rib k?
22:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got a nice rib shot.
22:39
Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to block him one on one,
22:41
Speaker 7: so sometimes you got to call in some reserves to
22:43
Speaker 7: help from the side, and he got that today, and
22:45
Speaker 7: so he just needed to play to get his breath back.
22:48
Speaker 2: So where do you think the turning point or if
22:52
Speaker 2: there was one, I mean that that wasn't again another
22:54
Speaker 2: roller coaster. I think there was never more than a
22:57
Speaker 2: ten point lead. I don't think for anybody.
22:59
Speaker 7: Right we did, you're up nineteen seven. But the end
23:02
Speaker 7: of the first half was a huge moment for us
23:04
Speaker 7: to get the stops, to get the offense the ball
23:08
Speaker 7: back in good scoring range. It's a windy day, it's
23:10
Speaker 7: a cold day. It's not going to be one of
23:12
Speaker 7: those five hundred yard performances, and so the field position
23:15
Speaker 7: was critical. Defense got his field position, put three points
23:18
Speaker 7: on the board to go up thirteen to seven. So
23:19
Speaker 7: you started to feel like you were going to get
23:21
Speaker 7: control of the game. And that was a big moment
23:23
Speaker 7: for us.
23:23
Speaker 2: To me, when the defense third and one, fourth and one,
23:26
Speaker 2: you get the football back. I was like, man, I'll
23:29
Speaker 2: tell you what, you know, a much maligned group. Boy,
23:32
Speaker 2: they stood up large.
23:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge.
23:34
Speaker 7: You know, that was an unexpected situation, you know, the
23:38
Speaker 7: fourth and one on our side of the field, and
23:41
Speaker 7: so you know, really I just thought they were trying
23:43
Speaker 7: to draw us off sides, to be quite frank with you,
23:44
Speaker 7: and I thought, our guys, so when you think that's happening,
23:47
Speaker 7: you're not firing off the ball.
23:48
Speaker 1: Like you normally would.
23:49
Speaker 7: And so for them to be able to get that
23:50
Speaker 7: stop in a situation where you're not firing off the
23:52
Speaker 7: ball because you're not expecting to snap it, I thought,
23:55
Speaker 7: really speaks volumes bet our guys.
23:56
Speaker 2: And finally, Coach, I mean, I've played in cold weather
23:59
Speaker 2: games and you know, obviously that fifty nine blow is
24:01
Speaker 2: like a you know, ridiculous, but I mean nine to
24:04
Speaker 2: nine below raw temperature.
24:05
Speaker 7: Older every year that passes, we're.
24:08
Speaker 2: Stuck at that fifty seven. I wanted to get it
24:10
Speaker 2: into the sixties. But uh, I know what it's like
24:14
Speaker 2: when you're and you're still playing very physical football, but
24:18
Speaker 2: when you're hitting like that and that kind of weather, man,
24:21
Speaker 2: I take my cap off to the tip my cap
24:23
Speaker 2: to the guys. Because I know what it feels like.
24:25
Speaker 2: And man, it was physical out there. I mean, guys
24:27
Speaker 2: were getting after it.
24:28
Speaker 7: Listen, I had two pairs of gloves on and I
24:30
Speaker 7: can't feel my fingers, So I can't imagine doing what
24:32
Speaker 7: these guys did, you know. And and so again just
24:35
Speaker 7: the mentality that they had all season long, to be
24:39
Speaker 7: quite frank, and especially these last five weeks, to know
24:42
Speaker 7: that we couldn't afford to lose another game, and so
24:44
Speaker 7: they just buckled up and got it done.
24:46
Speaker 2: Five straight wins, four straight seasons with winning records. Pretty
24:50
Speaker 2: good coach.
24:51
Speaker 7: It's not easy to do in this league. And now
24:52
Speaker 7: we just cross our fingers and become fans tomorrow.
24:55
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you guys, are you gonna have the You guys
24:59
Speaker 2: gonna all get together there somewhere if you thought about that,
25:01
Speaker 2: or what do you think.
25:01
Speaker 7: Coaching Stuf's working on the Buffalo Bills. I mean, we
25:04
Speaker 7: know who our opponent would be, and so we'll be
25:07
Speaker 7: in the office working on Buffalo. The games will certainly
25:09
Speaker 7: be on the background, there's no doubt about that. Probably
25:12
Speaker 7: be a little bit scheering involved, and then we'll just
25:14
Speaker 7: go from there.
25:16
Speaker 1: Hopefully the work he and his staff put in preparing
25:19
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25:45
Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap laft. That was a lot
25:49
Speaker 1: of fun. The Bengals end their regular season with a
25:52
Speaker 1: five game winning streak, a winning record, and a prayer
25:56
Speaker 1: of advancing to Buffalo next week.
25:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Unfortunately, they don't control their own destiny. They're gonna
26:01
Speaker 2: have to rely on other people and you hate to
26:03
Speaker 2: have to be in that situation. But they took care
26:06
Speaker 2: of their share of it. They're part of the business.
26:08
Speaker 2: They had to get the win, and winning in Pittsburgh
26:11
Speaker 2: it's not easy. I mean, Mike Tomlin's record in the
26:16
Speaker 2: last game home game, he was eight to no. I mean,
26:18
Speaker 2: he hadn't lost a football game. So to get this
26:20
Speaker 2: one done it was pretty extraordinary. They had a sixteen
26:24
Speaker 2: minute time position advantage. They basically ran away with the
26:26
Speaker 2: court of the football game. You know, they had seventy
26:29
Speaker 2: one snaps to their fifty eight. I mean, it was
26:32
Speaker 2: it was an impressive performance. I thought it big, a
26:36
Speaker 2: big deal. Third and one, fourth and one. The Bengals
26:39
Speaker 2: defense stood up and showed themselves in that and that
26:42
Speaker 2: little sequence and really over the five game winning streak,
26:47
Speaker 2: I thought the defense played really well. I mean, there
26:49
Speaker 2: were so many examples of complimentary football offense, defense and
26:54
Speaker 2: special teams. When you win five in a row in
26:56
Speaker 2: this league, you know that's the case. And defensively that
26:59
Speaker 2: they certainly did up there under the bargain.
27:02
Speaker 1: That's on the short list of best defensive performances by
27:05
Speaker 1: an individual that I've seen. Trey Hendrickson three and a
27:08
Speaker 1: half sacks against this team under these circumstances in this building,
27:14
Speaker 1: that's a memorable one for me. It is.
27:16
Speaker 2: And and he was getting chipped, he was getting in fact,
27:19
Speaker 2: he had a little bit of a rib issue he got.
27:21
Speaker 2: He got hit pretty good. He said, he gets stroked
27:23
Speaker 2: in the side pretty good when he get chipped one time.
27:26
Speaker 2: So they were paying some attention to him. But I'm
27:28
Speaker 2: telling you, boy, when he turns it on and he
27:32
Speaker 2: comes around that edge and he he shrinks that edge.
27:35
Speaker 3: He does.
27:36
Speaker 2: He compresses and shrinks the edge about as well as
27:38
Speaker 2: I've seen man when he when he has the least
27:41
Speaker 2: a little the smallest little bit of advantage, he turns
27:45
Speaker 2: in into a huge advantage. He's he's really gifted and
27:49
Speaker 2: talented that way, he really is. He can make himself
27:51
Speaker 2: small and accelerate and yeah, he just he doesn't really
27:55
Speaker 2: give you a whole lot of target to punch and
27:58
Speaker 2: to hit. He does it right.
28:02
Speaker 1: So Burrow did not extend his touchdown streak. He only
28:04
Speaker 1: had one tonight, so that ends at eight consecutive games.
28:07
Speaker 1: He did best for more than two hundred and fifty yards,
28:10
Speaker 1: but considering the state of his offensive line, the weather conditions,
28:14
Speaker 1: the defense that he was facing, that was one heck
28:17
Speaker 1: of a performance. It was.
28:19
Speaker 2: I thought that the number of snaps, time of possession
28:24
Speaker 2: showed that they controlled the line of scrimmage. I thought offensively,
28:28
Speaker 2: Cody ford Man showed the versatility. I mean, he can
28:32
Speaker 2: play both guards, he can play both tackles. He's done
28:34
Speaker 2: it well. You know. Amarius Mems did come in when
28:39
Speaker 2: needed and held down the fort at the right tackle
28:42
Speaker 2: position as well. I get a lot of respect for,
28:46
Speaker 2: you know, how those guys stepped up and played honestly
28:49
Speaker 2: as a football team. They were pretty beaten up, they
28:51
Speaker 2: really were, and Pittsburgh wasn't. I mean, Pittsburgh had all
28:55
Speaker 2: hands on deck and the Bengals you know, didn't. And
28:58
Speaker 2: then during the course of the game things cropped up
29:00
Speaker 2: that you know, caused some problems. But I mean, these
29:04
Speaker 2: guys all they were all ready to go. I think
29:06
Speaker 2: it's a tribute to the to the players. Everybody prepares
29:11
Speaker 2: like they're a starter. The coaches prepare the players like
29:15
Speaker 2: their starters, and everybody when they get their opportunity to perform,
29:18
Speaker 2: go out there and perform at the at the best
29:21
Speaker 2: level they possibly can. And man, there's a lot of
29:24
Speaker 2: depth on this football team, and it showed today.
29:27
Speaker 1: Quite a few unsung heroes in this game. I thought
29:29
Speaker 1: Shaka Hayward several tackles and a forced fumble. Cade Yorke
29:33
Speaker 1: bounces back from his doink in overtime last week, boots
29:37
Speaker 1: four field goals and four tries, and as you pointed out,
29:40
Speaker 1: with some of the injuries that they had, guys had
29:43
Speaker 1: to step up. Given their opportunity, and they did.
29:45
Speaker 2: They really did. And uh, you know, I thought that
29:50
Speaker 2: it looked to me like the weather conditions bothered the
29:52
Speaker 2: Steelers a little bit more than it did the Bengals.
29:54
Speaker 1: I really believe that.
29:56
Speaker 2: And you know, they they're in a situation where if
29:59
Speaker 2: they win that football game, you know they're going to Houston.
30:03
Speaker 2: Now if the Bengals aren't in the playoffs, they're still
30:06
Speaker 2: they're going to Baltimore.
30:07
Speaker 1: Unless the Chargers lose, but they probably won't take the
30:10
Speaker 1: Raiders right right.
30:12
Speaker 2: So, I mean, they had a lot to play for,
30:15
Speaker 2: and they played hard. I mean they didn't they didn't
30:17
Speaker 2: fold their tents. They didn't start pulling players or anything
30:20
Speaker 2: like that. They played it right to the right to
30:22
Speaker 2: the end as hard as they possibly could. But you know,
30:25
Speaker 2: the Bengals realized, the first thing you have to do
30:27
Speaker 2: is to win this football game. If you don't, it's
30:29
Speaker 2: all a moot point. Now, at least you can you
30:32
Speaker 2: can live for at least one more day.
30:34
Speaker 1: So it won't be satisfying if they don't get the
30:37
Speaker 1: help they need tomorrow. But they do wind up with
30:41
Speaker 1: a winning record after an zero to three start, four
30:44
Speaker 1: and eight after twelve games, they wind up nine and eight,
30:47
Speaker 1: fourth straight year with a winning record. Again, we won't
30:50
Speaker 1: savor that, certainly if they don't wind up in the playoffs.
30:53
Speaker 1: But it is an accomplishment.
30:55
Speaker 2: It is, And honestly, you know, this is a good
30:59
Speaker 2: football team. It really is. And I you know, the
31:02
Speaker 2: rest of the league knows that. That's all you're hearing from.
31:04
Speaker 2: You know, every media source. Nobody wants to play the
31:08
Speaker 2: Bengals right now. The Bengals are on a run and
31:10
Speaker 2: they are I mean, they're playing as well or better
31:12
Speaker 2: than anybody in the league right now. So Pittsburgh Steelers
31:17
Speaker 2: are a limpit and gimpet into the playoffs. I mean,
31:19
Speaker 2: four game losing streak and to lose to their division
31:23
Speaker 2: rival at home. That's not a great way to stride
31:28
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. So they're leaking oil. In fact, I'm
31:31
Speaker 2: not sure there's any oil left in the engine. We'll see,
31:34
Speaker 2: but you know, the hopefully the Bengals can get in
31:36
Speaker 2: because they're playing at a pretty high level.
31:39
Speaker 1: The Steelers not only finished with a four game losing streak,
31:43
Speaker 1: never led in any of those games.
31:45
Speaker 2: That's amazing, isn't it. I Mean, this is the first
31:49
Speaker 2: game that they were within a score to finish the
31:52
Speaker 2: see the games, I mean they're outscored ninety to fifty
31:56
Speaker 2: in the games before this one. I mean that's that's
31:59
Speaker 2: not just getting beaten, that's getting thrashed. So the Bengals
32:04
Speaker 2: finished it off. It was great anytime you can come
32:06
Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh and quiet those terrible towels. Boy, that stadium
32:11
Speaker 2: at times was I mean you could hear a pin
32:13
Speaker 2: drop out there, you know, and there's nothing better than
32:15
Speaker 2: that in Pittsburgh to hear the quiet.
32:18
Speaker 1: When we walked into the locker room, we were among
32:20
Speaker 1: the first reporters to get in. They were playing Renegade.
32:24
Speaker 1: The Steelers got a theme song that they played, a
32:27
Speaker 1: fire up the fans in the second half and a
32:29
Speaker 1: little bit of a dig as. That was the first
32:32
Speaker 1: song playing in the locker room.
32:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's apropos as they say. I mean, yeah,
32:39
Speaker 2: it's this this uh, this football team. It's it's crazy.
32:45
Speaker 2: I mean again, you can look back the four and
32:48
Speaker 2: eight part of the season. Any it's just one game
32:52
Speaker 2: had gone differently. Now and if they had ten wins,
32:56
Speaker 2: they'd be in. They'd be in just one and honestly,
32:59
Speaker 2: they could be sitting with twelve or thirteen wins, but
33:02
Speaker 2: just one to get into ten wins. That's why every
33:06
Speaker 2: win you get in this league you have to treasure
33:09
Speaker 2: and relish, because man, it's tough to get him.
33:12
Speaker 1: For everybody but Kansas City, that is. But get this,
33:16
Speaker 1: the fifteen to one Chiefs are an eleven point underdog
33:20
Speaker 1: on Sunday in Denver. That's because the Chiefs arresting Patrick Mahomes,
33:24
Speaker 1: Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, and as many key starters as possible.
33:29
Speaker 1: Here's hoping Carson Wentz plays the game of his life
33:33
Speaker 1: for KC. Since the Bengals need Denver to lose, the
33:37
Speaker 1: Bengals also need the Dolphins to lose, and they aren't
33:40
Speaker 1: expected to have two Atungo Vai Looa due to a
33:43
Speaker 1: hip injury. The four and twelve Jets are now a
33:46
Speaker 1: one point favorite over Miami in that game. Both games
33:51
Speaker 1: kickoff at four twenty five, and if they go the
33:53
Speaker 1: Bengals way, the impact of me jumping up and down
33:57
Speaker 1: in my family room might register on the Richter scale.
34:02
Speaker 1: That wraps up the Pittsburgh game. Now time for this
34:05
Speaker 1: week's fun fact segment, where you get to know the
34:07
Speaker 1: person under the pads, time for some fun facts with
34:12
Speaker 1: running back Khalel Herbert from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I read
34:17
Speaker 1: an article about you where you refer to yourself as
34:19
Speaker 1: chubby and slow as a kid, which is definitely not
34:23
Speaker 1: the case. Now, were you a late bloomer?
34:26
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, definitely.
34:27
Speaker 8: You know, I don't think I got my speed until
34:30
Speaker 8: tenth eleventh grade. But you know, growing up, I was
34:33
Speaker 8: always on the O line, D line. I played a
34:36
Speaker 8: lot of guard in the defensive end, and then you know,
34:39
Speaker 8: eventually started moving to full back as I you know,
34:43
Speaker 8: as I got a little bit faster, and then uh
34:45
Speaker 8: running back when I was in tenth grade.
34:47
Speaker 1: So did you grow out of it naturally or did
34:49
Speaker 1: you have to work at it?
34:51
Speaker 3: I definitely had to work at it. You know.
34:53
Speaker 8: I was always I was big as a kid, so
34:55
Speaker 8: I used to shot put in stuff, but I feel
34:57
Speaker 8: like everybody caught up to me, so I thought I
34:58
Speaker 8: was gonna be a lot taller than But definitely like
35:03
Speaker 8: my speed, I always ran track and you know, just
35:06
Speaker 8: eventually just keep working at it and was able to
35:09
Speaker 8: finally get some speed and the rest came just working
35:12
Speaker 8: at it, working at.
35:13
Speaker 3: It every weekend.
35:14
Speaker 1: Did you do any other extracurricular activities as a kid
35:17
Speaker 1: or was it strictly sports.
35:18
Speaker 8: Yeah, strictly sports, football, track, I mean, yeah, video games.
35:23
Speaker 1: We're visiting with Khalil Herbert. You played high school football
35:26
Speaker 1: as a senior at American Heritage School, the alma mater
35:30
Speaker 1: of former Reds Rookie of the Year Jonathan India, among others.
35:33
Speaker 1: But here's what I found amazing in twenty twenty one
35:36
Speaker 1: when you were drafted by the Bears, there were six
35:39
Speaker 1: players taken from your high school that year. That's unusual
35:42
Speaker 1: for a college, much less a high school. Is it
35:46
Speaker 1: amazing to you guys, the guys that are on that team.
35:49
Speaker 8: It definitely is, But it's it's kind of, I guess,
35:52
Speaker 8: regular to us down there, especially in South Florida. You know,
35:55
Speaker 8: we produce a lot of NFL talent, but you know,
35:58
Speaker 8: it's something that we we strive and pride ourselves on
36:01
Speaker 8: just being able to produce NFL talent. And like you said, yeah,
36:04
Speaker 8: we had six in the draft. I think we got
36:07
Speaker 8: ten current or eleven current guys. So it's something that
36:10
Speaker 8: we pride ourselves on, going getting to go back to school,
36:12
Speaker 8: go back there. You see our posters and banners on
36:15
Speaker 8: the walls of the fields, so it's always cool.
36:18
Speaker 1: When it came time to pick a college, you chose Kansas.
36:21
Speaker 1: How'd you wind up in Lawrence? From South Florida?
36:24
Speaker 8: So I trained with Tony Sans. He played the running
36:27
Speaker 8: back at Kansas. Kind of connected me with some people
36:30
Speaker 8: at Kansas. Kansas is my only power five offer, so
36:34
Speaker 8: it was kind of a no brainer. You know, I
36:35
Speaker 8: want to play power five ball. Even though they weren't
36:37
Speaker 8: doing so well, I figured I could go there and
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Speaker 8: help change the culture.
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Speaker 3: So that's why I chose there.
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Speaker 1: We're chatting with Kalol Herbert. In your sophomore year against
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Speaker 1: West Virginia, you had a game with two hundred and
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Speaker 1: ninety one yards and thirty six carries. What are your
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Speaker 1: most vivid memories of that day.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I just remember afterwards I was tired, but nah,
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Speaker 8: I just remember I was trying to help my team
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Speaker 8: win anyway.
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Speaker 3: It just, you know, just so happened.
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Speaker 8: I was able to break a couple of runs that
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Speaker 8: game and just able to ride the hot hand there.
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Speaker 8: So but it was it was a crazy day just
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Speaker 8: to be I think I'm third and ku in single
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Speaker 8: game Russian, So just being able to be up there
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Speaker 8: with some great some crazy great names.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was a memory I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: Did you know how close you were to three hundred? No?
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Speaker 8: I wish I I wish I did.
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Speaker 3: I wish I did.
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Speaker 8: But again, we were losing the game, so it was
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Speaker 8: like we just started throwing the ball, trying to get back,
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Speaker 8: trying to win the game. But I don't even I
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Speaker 8: don't know if anybody knew, because no one was keeping
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Speaker 8: track of the time. I didn't find out un till
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Speaker 8: I got on Twitter. Afterwards.
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Speaker 1: You decided to transfer to Virginia Tech for your final
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Speaker 1: college season, and that turned out to be a great move.
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Speaker 1: You finished fifth in the nation and rushing that year.
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Speaker 1: What did that season do for you and your NFL dreams?
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Speaker 8: Just definitely helped me get to where I am right now.
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Speaker 8: You know, I played with some great guys. I think
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Speaker 8: my whole whole line is in the NFL right now,
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Speaker 8: So that kind of shows the kind of talent I
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Speaker 8: was with, you know, a bunch of guys on the
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Speaker 8: team or in the league. But just being around those
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Speaker 8: guys and helping me just that coaching staff allowed me
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Speaker 8: to just be me and go play, and you know,
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Speaker 8: they trusted me to take games over and finish games out,
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Speaker 8: so you know, with that belief in me, just able
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Speaker 8: to go out there and play my game.
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Speaker 1: You were drafted by the Bears in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Describe your draft weekend and what it was like to
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Speaker 1: get that call.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was it was a long weekend. It
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Speaker 3: was a long weekend.
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Speaker 8: I think that was the end of the sixth so
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Speaker 8: you know, it was a lot of waiting, a lot
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Speaker 8: of waiting, you know, especially here you could go day two,
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Speaker 8: day three, like, so you're just waiting around, but you know,
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Speaker 8: they called.
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Speaker 3: I got a call from.
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Speaker 8: I'm trying to remember the city, but it was Illinois,
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Speaker 8: but uh no, it was. It was a crazy, crazy
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Speaker 8: wave of emotions, like, you know, whole family was.
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Speaker 3: There at my at my mom's house.
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Speaker 8: So it was just cool just to have that moment
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Speaker 8: with everybody, and you know, especially after how long the
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Speaker 8: weekend had felt like, just finally end with some happy
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Speaker 8: tears and you know, figure out where I was going
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Speaker 8: to play.
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Speaker 1: How'd you like living and playing in Chicago? Oh? I
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Speaker 1: loved it.
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Speaker 3: I loved it.
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Speaker 8: You know, great area out there. They Bengals came out
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Speaker 8: there during preseason, so a lot of guys talk to
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Speaker 8: me about the area. But you know, the city great food.
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Speaker 8: I love foodie, so I love food. But yeah, I
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Speaker 8: loved it out there.
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Speaker 1: Did you have a favorite spot?
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Speaker 3: I had a couple.
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Speaker 8: I like steakhouses, so I tried down near every steakhouse
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Speaker 8: in Chicago, but downtown I'd either go Maple and Ash
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Speaker 8: or Ocean Prime.
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Speaker 3: Those are my top two.
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Speaker 1: You spent three and a half years with the Bears
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Speaker 1: before getting traded to the Bengals at the trade deadline
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Speaker 1: this year. What's the hardest part about being traded in
39:45
Speaker 1: the middle of a season.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I feel like just two things, like relationships
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Speaker 8: and then learning plays but just like, you know, not
39:55
Speaker 8: being able to say goodbye to people, meeting new people,
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Speaker 8: trying to learn new faces, new names, as well as
40:01
Speaker 8: trying to learn a playbook, so trying to just cram
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Speaker 8: as much as you can in a short amount of time.
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Speaker 3: So I feel like those are two hardist things.
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Speaker 8: But you know, I feel like everybody here has done
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Speaker 8: a great job of allowing me to learn and slowly.
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Speaker 3: Teaching me things and learn this stuff each week.
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Speaker 1: So all right, some wild card topics. Now for Colol Herbert,
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Speaker 1: describe your experience as an Uber driver.
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Speaker 8: So I worked Postmates. I actually I did Uber too.
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Speaker 8: I did Postmates. I delivered food and I did Uber.
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Speaker 8: I was an Uber driver just needed extra money, like
40:38
Speaker 8: you know, college, Like we weren't getting crazy nil bags
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Speaker 8: like these guys are now. So especially during springball, you know,
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Speaker 8: spring summer, not much going on.
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Speaker 3: We just work out in the morning. I would Uber.
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Speaker 8: And it stopped because I picked up this group of people.
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Speaker 8: One time person threw open my car and that was
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Speaker 8: the last time at Uber. And then I just started
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Speaker 8: delivering food after that.
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Speaker 1: So I was going to ask you for your worst
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Speaker 1: Uber horror story. I think I just heard it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so after that, no more picking up people. I
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Speaker 8: would just I would just deliver food, and uh yeah
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Speaker 8: that was a lot better.
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Speaker 1: Did you get good ratings?
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Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah all the time. You know, I feel
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Speaker 8: like I got some good tips too. Once people realize,
41:19
Speaker 8: you know, I was delivering food, they're like, oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: So all right, who is your all time favorite athlete
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Speaker 1: in any sport? And why?
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Speaker 3: I mean lt uh lt. I grew up.
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Speaker 8: I was born in April twenty first. I worked twenty one.
41:38
Speaker 8: Growing up, I worked twenty one at VT. It was
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Speaker 8: retired at Kansas, so I couldn't work. I work twenty
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Speaker 8: one in high school. Part of reason him, part of
41:46
Speaker 8: reason because I was born that day. But I was
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Speaker 8: my favorite player growing up.
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Speaker 1: So we should probably clarify Ladanian Tomlinson as opposed to
41:54
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ladanian Thomason.
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Speaker 1: According to Wikipedia, you have Jamaican and virgin Island. Do
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Speaker 1: you still have family there?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, especially in the VIRGINI it's most of my family
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Speaker 8: from Jamaica is in South Florida now, but growing up
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Speaker 8: would always go back.
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Speaker 3: I spend summers over there all summer, so until high school.
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Speaker 8: Then I started playing football, but still got some family
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Speaker 8: over there. Trying to go back this offseason, so take
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Speaker 8: my son out there for the first time.
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Speaker 1: What unhealthy food do you find hard to resist unhealthy?
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Speaker 8: I really know if it's unhealthy. I mean, I mean,
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Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm Jamaican, so I eat ox till.
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Speaker 3: I don't really feel like that's unhealthy though.
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Speaker 1: Is it Fatty's?
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Speaker 3: But it is fatty It's kind of like I mean,
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Speaker 3: I guess it's like I could be like barbecueish beef.
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Speaker 3: So I guess it can be.
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Speaker 8: But ox Hill, I mean anything fried, I work it off.
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Speaker 8: So you know, every now and then I enjoyed. I
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Speaker 8: enjoy a nice meal, but as you should.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd say those What do you like to spend
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Speaker 1: your money on?
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Speaker 3: Ah See, I'm a.
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Speaker 8: Kid at heart, so like like electric go carts, electric bikes,
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Speaker 8: that kind of stuff. I mean, I just got into
43:17
Speaker 8: watches again. I got a son now, so he's gonna
43:22
Speaker 8: get a lot of those electric Like I just got
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Speaker 8: him elect I got him a trike, so those kind
43:28
Speaker 8: of things. I like to just spun money on vacations experiences.
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Speaker 1: So your son's gonna love it. A dad who likes
43:33
Speaker 1: electronic things to be perfect for him. Final fun fact
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Speaker 1: for Khalil Herbert, This one's kind of deep. If you
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Speaker 1: could meet anybody in history, living or deceased, who would
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Speaker 1: that person be?
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Speaker 8: Dang, I got two so Jesus and probably like great
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Speaker 8: great grandparents or something, just to kind of see like
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Speaker 8: where my family.
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Speaker 3: I know where they came from, but just like see
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Speaker 3: how it was like living back then on not this
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Speaker 3: and stuff.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, a good answer. Appreciate your time, Thanks so much,
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