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Speaker 1: Hi again, everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: On Dream until your dream Come True. Addition, as the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the Super Bowl, let me
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Speaker 1: say that again, the Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments
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Speaker 1: and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham after a
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Speaker 1: thrilling overtime win over the Chiefs in Kansas City. Then,
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Speaker 1: in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll hear from a
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Speaker 1: guy who just joined the team last week and has
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Speaker 1: made an impact in the first two road playoff wins
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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since
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Speaker 1: burnt ends. Burnt ends are a barbecue specialty in Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: Here's a description that I found on the internet. The
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Speaker 1: ends of a brisket are thinner than the middle part
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Speaker 1: and therefore cook faster, and after long hours in the smoker,
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Speaker 1: the ends get well burnt. These crunchy, heavily caramelized, intensely
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Speaker 1: smokey endpieces are delicious and I had them at lunch
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Speaker 1: and dinner the day before the AFC Championship game. It
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Speaker 1: was the second best part of my trip to Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: a very distant second best. If you listen regularly to
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Speaker 1: this podcast, you know that I usually do a very
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Speaker 1: detailed recap of the game, mixing highlights with postgame interviews.
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Speaker 1: With a six am flight to catch on Monday, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to make it a little less time consuming this week.
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Speaker 1: You'll get all of the radio replays first, followed by
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Speaker 1: some of the postgame comments. After that, it's analysis from
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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham, and then a really good edition of fun
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Speaker 1: Facts with Bengals newcomer Zach Kerr. First, the highlights of
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Speaker 1: the Bengals' biggest win in thirty three years. Today, for
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Speaker 1: the first time in thirty three years, the Cincinnati Bengals
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Speaker 1: are one win from going to the Super Bowl. But
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Speaker 1: to get there, they will have to beat one of
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Speaker 1: the game's all time greatest coaches and a twenty six
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Speaker 1: year old quarterback with supernatural talent, and they'll have to
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Speaker 1: do it in the world's loudest outdoor stadium. It's the
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Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game and it's time for the pigskin to
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Speaker 1: lie here at Arrowhead Stadium. Mahomes drops back to throw,
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Speaker 1: looking over the middle, scans left, scans right, takes off
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Speaker 1: running toward the sideline, chucks it into the end zone,
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Speaker 1: caught near the back pylon by Tyree Hill. Touchdown Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: A thirty two yard try from the right hash for
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Speaker 1: Evan Almighty Evan McPherson. He has been perfect in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Huber ready for the snap, catches, puts it down.
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Speaker 1: Evan McPherson's kick launched high and true. It is good
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals are on the scoreboard. With thirty six
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Speaker 1: seconds left in the first quarter, third down in two
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Speaker 1: from the five, Mahomes back to throw, does a little
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Speaker 1: shoulder shake a hunder pressure running backward. He's at the nineteen,
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Speaker 1: now charges forward, throws into the end zone. Touchdown. Travis Kelsey.
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Speaker 1: That's just backyard ball. That's out of the schoollyard in
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Speaker 1: the plate ground. Mahomes under Summer Clyde Edwards Hilaires the
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Speaker 1: running back. They fake to him. Mahomes throws it, is
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Speaker 1: caught and it's a touchdown. McCall Hardman racing toward the
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Speaker 1: forward right pylon, caught it at the one and ran
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Speaker 1: it in for the three yard score. You know the
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Speaker 1: thing about this Kansas City Chiefs offense talk about speed.
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Speaker 1: Speed can stretch you vertically, it can also stretch you horizontally.
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Speaker 1: I mean they are so fast you burrow back to
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Speaker 1: throw short pass caught by p Rhyan p Rhyne down
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Speaker 1: to the thirty sideline. Twenty fifty and ten five touchdown
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Speaker 1: Bengals some Maj p Rhyne taking a short pass forty
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Speaker 1: one yards to the house from the one yard line
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Speaker 1: with five seconds left and a half. Mahomes throws Hill,
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Speaker 1: catches at the six and gets tackled thin bounds and
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Speaker 1: the cock rights out. A very questionable decision by the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. They threw it sideways to Tyree Hill
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Speaker 1: and the Cheetah could not get in or get out
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Speaker 1: of bounds. Eli Apple with a tackle at the one
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals dodge a bullet as Kansas City drives
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Speaker 1: to the one, runs two plays and fails to score.
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Speaker 1: This will be a thirty one yard attempt from the left.
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Speaker 1: Hash mc pherson one for one in this game, nine
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Speaker 1: for nine in the postseason. Clark Harris snaps it to
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Speaker 1: Kevin Huber. The kick is on its way from mc
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Speaker 1: pherson and it is good and the Bengals have pulled
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Speaker 1: within eight. Shotgun snap Mahomes passes defected and ticked off
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Speaker 1: the Bengals half the ball half the twenty seven b J.
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Speaker 1: Hill comes away with a football and the Bengals get
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Speaker 1: a takeaway, down by eight. With two eighteen left in
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Speaker 1: the third quarter, third down in goal, the ball just
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Speaker 1: inside the Kansas City three. Shotgun snap to Burrow, throws
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Speaker 1: it into the end zone for Chase. He leaps, He's
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Speaker 1: got it, touchdown down Bengals with fourteen seconds left in
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Speaker 1: the third quarter, and now the Bengals can go for
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Speaker 1: two to try to tie this game. Trent Taylor goes
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Speaker 1: in motion from right to left. He's in the game.
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Speaker 1: Shotgun snap, Burrow throws the Taylor might open. He's got
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Speaker 1: it now the forward left pylon. It's a two point
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Speaker 1: conversion and the Bengals have climbed back from a twenty
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Speaker 1: one to three deficit to tie this game. I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you what, just the simple out route and they lost him.
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Speaker 1: They lost track or Trent Taylor. Third down and seven
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Speaker 1: for the Bengals at their own twenty three. Burrow waiting
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Speaker 1: for a shotgun snap. Samaj A p Rhyme lines up
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Speaker 1: to his left. Two receivers left, two out to the right.
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Speaker 1: Burrow back to throw. Burrow grab gets away from a sack,
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Speaker 1: scrambling left, being chased, gets away again, hunting up the sideline,
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Speaker 1: sticks out the ball with his right hand and gets
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Speaker 1: the first down. Just passed the line to gain. Chris
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Speaker 1: Jones had him dead to rights. Jones gets to his
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Speaker 1: feet and he can't believe he did not get Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow to the ground. Sneaky. This is a fifty two
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Speaker 1: yard try for the twenty two year old kid from
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Speaker 1: Fort Payne, Alabama. The snap, the put down, the kick,
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Speaker 1: It has the distance. Baby it is good God. The
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Speaker 1: Bengals have the lead for the first time with six
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Speaker 1: minutes and four seconds to go. On third and goal
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Speaker 1: from the nile. Mahomes catches the shotgun snap, retreats back
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Speaker 1: to the eighteen, looking around in the end zone. Nobody
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Speaker 1: opened yet no pressure at all. Now here comes the rush.
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Speaker 1: Mahomes way back at the twenty five. It loses the ball.
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs fall on it at the twenty six, two
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Speaker 1: seconds on the clock and regulation. Butcker is ready the snap,
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Speaker 1: the put down. The kick is on its way. It
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Speaker 1: is good and we are headed overtime. Tied at twenty four,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals send three cover with eight Mahomes deep down
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Speaker 1: field for the Cheetah. It's deflected and intercepted by von Bell.
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Speaker 1: Bell running in the middle of the field of the
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Speaker 1: forty forty five, taken down with a high tackle by
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Speaker 1: Kelsey at the forty five yard line. No penalty flag,
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Speaker 1: but the Bengals come up with an overtime interception and
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Speaker 1: now could win the game on a field goal. Four
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Speaker 1: years ago, he was a senior in high school in
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Speaker 1: tiny Fort Payne, Alabama. Now the Bengal Super Bowl chances
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Speaker 1: rest on his right foot, the kick is up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if good Coffin nails, bam bam. That is unblievable. The
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals come from behind on the road, unbelievable. Dan,
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Speaker 1: it is no fluke, It is a fact. The Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: Bengals are headed to Super Bowl fifty six. They just
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Speaker 1: redefined the word resilient. The Bengals Booth podcast is presented
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Speaker 1: hear from several Bengals, beginning with Cincinnati native Sam Hubbard.
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs had the ball at the four yard line
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Speaker 1: with one twenty six to go before Hubbard came up
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Speaker 1: with back to back sacks that knocked Kansas City backward
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Speaker 1: and forced the Chiefs to settle for a game tying
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Speaker 1: field goal. I mean, we're going to the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: and it sounds crazy to say that. I think when
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Speaker 1: you say that, it's just hard to believe. And we're here,
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Speaker 1: you know. I love this team, I love this city,
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Speaker 1: and we got one more to get to get it all,
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Speaker 1: and I'm just on cloud nine right now. The Chiefs
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Speaker 1: won the coin toss in overtime, but unlike last week
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Speaker 1: against Buffalo, did not drive for a game ending touchdown. Instead,
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes was intercepted by Von Bell. They're gonna make plays.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're here for a reason. You know, they've
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Speaker 1: been in the Super Bowls, They've been in the big games.
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Speaker 1: They know how to win. They're gonna find a guy.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna make plays. But we're gonna make plays too.
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Speaker 1: And when you have the opportunity to go out there
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Speaker 1: and make them and seize the moment. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's calmed down, make the plays that come to you,
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Speaker 1: and everything else go unfold. High posts unfold. And we
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Speaker 1: just stuck to it. Man. We never batted eye, never
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Speaker 1: had doubt, lean on one another, just going out there,
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Speaker 1: just having fun playing with each other. For the fifth
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Speaker 1: time this year and the second week in a row,
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Speaker 1: the game ended on a game winning walk off field
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Speaker 1: goal by Mick Fearless Evan McPherson, who has made all
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Speaker 1: four of his field goal attempts in three straight playoff wins.
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Speaker 1: I didn't say anything this week, but you know, it's
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Speaker 1: going through my head that there's probably a good chance
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Speaker 1: that we're going to go into the super Bowl, And
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Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's so surreal that, you know,
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Speaker 1: this game came down to a field goal. And obviously
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just me. You know, our defense put us
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Speaker 1: in a great position with the interception, and then our
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Speaker 1: offense obviously I had a lot of commidants in them
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Speaker 1: that they were going to drive it down, and you know,
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Speaker 1: either I thought we were gonna score. You know, that's
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Speaker 1: what I was telling a lot of people, you know,
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Speaker 1: were this game You're gonna do on a on a touchdown,
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Speaker 1: not a field goal. Joe Burrow completed twenty three of
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Speaker 1: thirty eight passes for two hundred and fifty yards, with
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns and one interception. He was only sacked once
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Speaker 1: and hit four times. But here's the stat that really matters.
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Speaker 1: Burrow has already led the Bengals to three playoff wins
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Speaker 1: that ties Boomer as Siason's team record, and like Boomer
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Speaker 1: and Kenny Anderson, Burrow is taking the Bengals to the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl. I wouldn't call it surreal. I would say
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Speaker 1: it's exciting. You know. I think if you would have
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Speaker 1: told me before the season that we'd be going to
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Speaker 1: the super Bowl, I probably would have called you crazy.
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Speaker 1: But then you know, we played a whole season and
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Speaker 1: you know, nothing surprises me. Now I know the kind
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Speaker 1: of guys that we have and the team that we have,
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Speaker 1: so you know, there's there's still one left. We're excited
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Speaker 1: about this one, but you know, we'll celebrate to nine
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Speaker 1: and then move on. The final word comes from head
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Speaker 1: coach Zach Taylor. First of all, I'm happy for this
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Speaker 1: team and everyone in an organization. But you can't help
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Speaker 1: but think about all the people back in Cincinnati celebrating
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Speaker 1: right now, and all the people that were here. It
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Speaker 1: felt like half the stadium, you know, at the end
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Speaker 1: of the game, when the game was over and all
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Speaker 1: of our fans got down there. Uh, it was. It
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Speaker 1: was a special moment. So happy for the city of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: They've waited for this moment, they've supported us waiting for
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Speaker 1: this Momentum couldn't be happier that that. Hopefully we can
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Speaker 1: get them all out to LA We can figure that out,
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Speaker 1: get the planes, the shuttles, the trains. Whatever we gotta do.
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Speaker 1: We gotta get all this people out to LA because
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Speaker 1: we know we're gonna be playing a California team. And
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Speaker 1: I know the fans were all probably hoping for the
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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, because what better way to go than
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Speaker 1: than the most recent one that they had um But
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Speaker 1: either way, it's it's gonna be fun and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to have our best on that Sunday in the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So appreciate the fans. Couldn't wouldn't be here
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Speaker 1: without them. The Bengal Super Bowl opponent will be the
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams on the Rams home field, the second
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Speaker 1: year in a row that the NFC champion his host
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Speaker 1: did the Super Bowl. The Rams advanced with a twenty
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Speaker 1: to seventeen win over the forty nine Ers. That means
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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor will be coaching against his former boss Sean McVeigh.
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Speaker 1: Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham.
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Speaker 1: Lap I got the impression that at the end of
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Speaker 1: the game, you're feeling was the same as mine. I
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Speaker 1: can't believe that this team is going to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: I really can't either, Dan. I mean, you look at it.
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Speaker 1: Two years ago, the Drugs of the NFL two wins,
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Speaker 1: I'm going eleven to begin with. Yeah, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: as dramatic a turnaround as in the NFL has ever seen.
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Speaker 1: It really is. It's indescribable. Hat's off to all of them.
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Speaker 1: Hat's off to everybody. The thing, the thing that they've
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Speaker 1: done so well is when they had when they got
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Speaker 1: the opportunity, they enjoyed it, had fun, maximized it, played loose,
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Speaker 1: were resilient. All the things you needed to do they did.
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Speaker 1: It's it's just it's mind boggling. And when you think
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Speaker 1: about how young they are at key positions, at key spots,
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Speaker 1: the coaches too. I mean, it's really wild, it really is.
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Speaker 1: It's a It's a heck of a story. Hollywood and
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Speaker 1: could Hollywood could not write a better script than what happened.
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Speaker 1: It's it's amazing. So in the first half, the Chief's
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Speaker 1: offense was a hot knife through butter. First drive eighty
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Speaker 1: four yards touchdown, Second drive seventy five yards touchdown, Third
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Speaker 1: drive seventy two yards touchdown. Fourth drive, long drive down
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Speaker 1: to the one yard line, and they get nothing. How
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Speaker 1: much did that play and that decision change the momentum
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Speaker 1: of this game. I think it was the determining factor.
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Speaker 1: I think it was the turning point in the football
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Speaker 1: game for them to uh, you know, three touchdown passes
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Speaker 1: in the red zone from a home bone bone bone
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Speaker 1: and then get in the red zone and trying to
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Speaker 1: kind of outthink himself be a little bit too cute?
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Speaker 1: Did Andy Reid and that play? The design of that play,
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Speaker 1: it's all or nothing and they got nothing out of it.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, you can question a lot of things. You
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Speaker 1: can question the decision to do it, the play selection,
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Speaker 1: and it's amazing that Eli Apple made the play they
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Speaker 1: made in space on a guy that's is incredibly athletic,
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Speaker 1: is Tyreek Hill. I mean, I don't know, if you
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Speaker 1: throw it out there a hundred times, you think Tyreek
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Speaker 1: Hill would probably make the play a high high percentage
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Speaker 1: of it of the time. But Eli Apple, when it counted,
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Speaker 1: you step it up and made the play. And really
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, he's been a big playmaker. I mean
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Speaker 1: he has made he's he's flashed, I mean, he's he's
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Speaker 1: jumped off the tape, There's no question about it. It
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Speaker 1: was also his past interference penalty to put the ball
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Speaker 1: at the one yard line. So you talk about making
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Speaker 1: up for your mistake, Holy cow, no question, no question.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's the epitome of resiliency. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: like compartmentalizing, all right. You know, I've can't do anything
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Speaker 1: about what I've done. All I can do is what
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Speaker 1: I'm about to do and try to make restitution. All
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Speaker 1: I can control is the future. The past is done,
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Speaker 1: no more control of that anymore. And man, to think
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Speaker 1: of all the guys that made how about Sam Hubbard
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Speaker 1: back to back sacks at the most crucial time of
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Speaker 1: the football game. That's just amazing. When they rushed through
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Speaker 1: and drop eight, I mean, plastering the receivers, Holmes having
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Speaker 1: nowhere to go at the football. They really must have
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Speaker 1: disguised things a lot differently in the second half, because
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Speaker 1: it looked like it was a puzzle that he couldn't
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Speaker 1: even come close to solving, whereas in the first half
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Speaker 1: he was just decisive and ripping it. In the second half,
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Speaker 1: he never felt good about anything that he was looking
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Speaker 1: at down the football field. So hats off to lou
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Speaker 1: Anna Rumo the defensive staff for tweaking things, making the
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Speaker 1: adjustments that they made. And making life tough on Mahomes
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Speaker 1: and for the players for executing it all. But man
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Speaker 1: twenty one to three close to the end of the
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Speaker 1: half and to score, you know, to make it an
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Speaker 1: eleven point game at halftime. You thought, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: they get the ball to start the third quarter. If
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Speaker 1: you can stop, make a stop there and cut it
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Speaker 1: to a one score game, you have a shot. And
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. Crazy. So in the first meeting,
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Speaker 1: twenty eight points in the first half, three in the
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Speaker 1: second half, and this one twenty one points in the
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Speaker 1: first half, three in the second half. But the difference
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Speaker 1: is in that first game, the Bengals offense held the
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Speaker 1: ball for almost the entire second half. The Chiefs only
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Speaker 1: had three possessions. This time, the Chiefs got the ball
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Speaker 1: plenty of times. Punt, punt, interception, punt, punt, field goal interception,
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Speaker 1: seven drives, three points, two turnovers with Mahomes, Kelsey Hill, etc.
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Speaker 1: It really is incredible. Uh, you know, you look at
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Speaker 1: the turnovers and then the play at the at the
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Speaker 1: end of the first half that we talked about with
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid's decision where no points in the red zone.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's three takeaways. You talk about three possessions
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Speaker 1: that you that you steal without allowing any points to
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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. That's what you had to have
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Speaker 1: happened that that was one of the pieces of the
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Speaker 1: formula I think for success. And I was absolutely stunned though.
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Speaker 1: You know, Bengals come from behind fourteen nothing, twenty one seven,
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, fourteen in Cincinnati, that's one thing. But to
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Speaker 1: go on the road at Arrowhead and be down twenty
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Speaker 1: one three in that place and to come back and
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Speaker 1: uh and win the football game. It's it's just it's
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Speaker 1: incomprehensible and describable. It's in everything. I mean, it's it
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Speaker 1: is as wild a script as I've ever seen written,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. What can you say about Joe Burrow,
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Speaker 1: I mean, for what he's done for the city, for
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Speaker 1: the franchise, for the future of the franchise, It's really
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Speaker 1: hard to put into words it is. I mean, I
18:52
Speaker 1: don't think i've ever seen well I shouldn't say, because
18:55
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't been in Bengals history anyway, but
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it was that way with Peyton Manning. But
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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning's rookie year, he led the NFL in interceptions,
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Speaker 1: you know, and they won two games. But you know,
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Speaker 1: you could see what you might have in Peyton Manning.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. I mean, in the ten games he played,
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Speaker 1: he was he was making noise, as he would put
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Speaker 1: it at that time. Right away, he just jumped right
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Speaker 1: in and was he was getting it done. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen one piece as impressive and
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Speaker 1: as important as what Joe Burrow has done. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he believes, so they all believe, you know, as as
19:37
Speaker 1: the great Paul Brown said, winning makes believers of us all,
19:41
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrows a winner. Joe Burrow, you know he
19:45
Speaker 1: got to the state championship game, lost in the shootout,
19:47
Speaker 1: to put up crazy numbers. What he did at LSU,
19:50
Speaker 1: what he's doing here. This guy. The bigger the game,
19:54
Speaker 1: the more he steps up, the more he believes, and
19:57
Speaker 1: it's contagious and teammates believe at that point in time.
20:01
Speaker 1: You've known Mike Brown for nearly fifty years. What do
20:05
Speaker 1: you think's going through his mind? Yeah? I think he's
20:10
Speaker 1: He's desperately wanted this to happen, I think for a
20:13
Speaker 1: long time, and I think he's just his mind's probably blown.
20:20
Speaker 1: I mean, it is mind boggling to think that this
20:25
Speaker 1: year that they took it as far as they did.
20:28
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he was expecting improvement, like all
20:30
Speaker 1: of us. But I don't think that in his wildest
20:32
Speaker 1: dreams he could think could have thought that back in
20:36
Speaker 1: August and September that this team was going to the
20:38
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I just you know, it's I don't know
20:40
Speaker 1: how you can go there, how you can get there.
20:41
Speaker 1: You can hope, but to actually, you know, have a
20:44
Speaker 1: true feeling, true belief that that was going to be
20:46
Speaker 1: the case. So, I mean, I would think at the
20:50
Speaker 1: stage of his life that he's at, there could not
20:53
Speaker 1: be a better gift from Mike Brown than what he's
20:56
Speaker 1: experiencing right now. I mean, he probably feels like a
20:59
Speaker 1: kid again. And it was pretty cool to see him
21:02
Speaker 1: up on that stage hugging Zach Taylor, hugging Icky Wood,
21:05
Speaker 1: saying what a moment for Mike Brown and h and
21:09
Speaker 1: everybody in his family. And then there's Zach Taylor six
21:13
Speaker 1: twenty five and one in his first two years that
21:16
Speaker 1: ranks with among the worst records of any coach in
21:20
Speaker 1: history in their first two years, and now in year three,
21:23
Speaker 1: he's taken this team to the super Bowl, and these
21:25
Speaker 1: guys love them. You know, It's it's amazing. Like Zach
21:30
Speaker 1: has said, if you were with almost any other organization
21:34
Speaker 1: in the NFL, he wouldn't have gotten a third body
21:36
Speaker 1: of the Apple, wouldn't have gotten a third year. But
21:38
Speaker 1: Mike Brown believed, and Mike Brown is patient and persistent
21:43
Speaker 1: in his belief. So you look at what kind of
21:48
Speaker 1: a feeling must there be between Zach Taylor and Mike
21:51
Speaker 1: Brown right now? I mean that's you talk about bonds
21:54
Speaker 1: that are made. That's that's a bond that is unique.
22:00
Speaker 1: It'll it'll never be broken. They'll never forget any of it. Uh.
22:04
Speaker 1: It's it's life changing, to say the least. Just to
22:10
Speaker 1: imagine the resiliency and the determination that it took to
22:16
Speaker 1: get from where they were to where they've gotten to
22:19
Speaker 1: in such a short period of time. I mean, the
22:22
Speaker 1: perfect storm had to happen. It was the perfect year
22:25
Speaker 1: to go too and fourteen because you got Joe Barrow
22:28
Speaker 1: and then you know, make some improvements and you can
22:30
Speaker 1: get a guy like Jamar Chase and it's like wow.
22:33
Speaker 1: But then all the other stuff they did in free
22:36
Speaker 1: agency and the draft, they just made a lot of
22:39
Speaker 1: really good decisions in a short period of time here
22:44
Speaker 1: to turn this thing around. It's almost it's almost impossible
22:48
Speaker 1: to you know, predetermined or track of course that they took.
22:52
Speaker 1: And man, they hit everything out of the park. Everything
22:55
Speaker 1: they did, not everything, but a high, high percentage of
22:59
Speaker 1: most things they did turned out to be the right thing.
23:02
Speaker 1: Just unbelievable. Here's a stat that speaks to the resiliency.
23:06
Speaker 1: That's only the second time in the last thirteen postseason
23:11
Speaker 1: overtime games that the team that lost the coin toss
23:15
Speaker 1: won the game. Second time in the last thirteen postseason
23:20
Speaker 1: overtime games. It's such a huge advantage to get the
23:23
Speaker 1: ball first, where you can score a touchdown and win,
23:26
Speaker 1: or maybe get two possessions of one whatever it might be.
23:28
Speaker 1: For the Bengals to come up with the interception first
23:31
Speaker 1: Von Bell and then to calmly drive down the field
23:34
Speaker 1: into chip shot field goal range is remarkable. It is
23:37
Speaker 1: it is, I mean, to get a turnover after you
23:41
Speaker 1: lose the coin toss is you know, I don't know
23:45
Speaker 1: what the analytics guys would say, but it's got to
23:47
Speaker 1: be minuscule percentage wise for that to take place. And man,
23:55
Speaker 1: Von Bell, he got his, finally got his, you know,
23:58
Speaker 1: I mean, Jesse Bates had gotten his, Pratt had gotten his,
24:02
Speaker 1: Wilson had gotten his. So in the middle of the
24:04
Speaker 1: football fields where a lot of that stuff takes place normally,
24:07
Speaker 1: and you know, I was hoping Von Bell might get
24:09
Speaker 1: his and in the red zone before the end of
24:12
Speaker 1: the football game. But it was the next possession, and
24:15
Speaker 1: it was a massive possession for him to take the
24:18
Speaker 1: football away like he did, and for the Bengals to
24:20
Speaker 1: finalize it. They were man once they started sensing that
24:26
Speaker 1: they could finish the football game. I mean, I've been
24:30
Speaker 1: there and that you start to swell up a little bit,
24:32
Speaker 1: you know, you come off the scrooms a little bit harder,
24:34
Speaker 1: and Joe Mixon was running a little bit harder, and
24:36
Speaker 1: then it's like, you know, now we got it. We
24:38
Speaker 1: got these guys on our heels and on their heels,
24:41
Speaker 1: and we're gonna finish this thing. We're gonna finish in
24:43
Speaker 1: a big way. How about b J Hill too? More
24:46
Speaker 1: return on that trade for Billy Price. Just before the
24:49
Speaker 1: start of the regular season, Tips have passed to himself
24:52
Speaker 1: intercepts it at the Kansas City twenty seven leads to
24:55
Speaker 1: the tying touchdown in two point conversion with fourteen seconds
24:58
Speaker 1: to go in the third quarter. I mean a lot
25:00
Speaker 1: of times, you know, it's always like who's going to
25:03
Speaker 1: make a play? What player is going to make a play.
25:06
Speaker 1: And if you had said before the game, if you
25:08
Speaker 1: took a poll of I don't know the entire Bengals nation,
25:12
Speaker 1: how many people would have said, BJ Hill is going
25:14
Speaker 1: to tip a ball to himself and set the team
25:17
Speaker 1: up for a huge play. I mean, that's that's the
25:19
Speaker 1: beauty of a team sport like that. You know, you
25:22
Speaker 1: have twenty two moving parts and everybody's capable. And BJ
25:28
Speaker 1: Hill he had his moment and when his moment basically
25:33
Speaker 1: made itself present to him, he capitalized, you know. I
25:37
Speaker 1: mean the thing is he not only tipped it to himself,
25:39
Speaker 1: he followed it, caught it, finished it. I seen many
25:43
Speaker 1: times we've gotten, you know, the particularly lineman and tip
25:45
Speaker 1: it to themselves and can't even really finish the play.
25:48
Speaker 1: But BJ Hill it was. That's that's something that Hill
25:52
Speaker 1: remember the rest of his life. He will always be
25:55
Speaker 1: when they show highlights of the AFC Championship game in
26:00
Speaker 1: twenty two season, b J Hill will be a guy
26:04
Speaker 1: that they show that was amongst the big plays in
26:07
Speaker 1: that football game. It's huge. Here's something I would like
26:10
Speaker 1: to know. What made the coaches think to put Trent
26:14
Speaker 1: Taylor into the game for the two point conversion? The
26:17
Speaker 1: dude barely plays on offense. I don't think he had
26:20
Speaker 1: to catch other than the Cleveland game where the subs played.
26:23
Speaker 1: They put him in in that crucial situation. Eddie's wide
26:26
Speaker 1: open to catch the two point conversion. What made them
26:28
Speaker 1: think of Trent Taylor in that situation? That's a good question.
26:32
Speaker 1: I wonder how long they had worked on it. I
26:34
Speaker 1: wonder how many reps that he had taken. Yeah, all
26:38
Speaker 1: those things are her good questions. But boy, he answered
26:42
Speaker 1: the bell. And here's a guy you talk about steady Eddie.
26:47
Speaker 1: Darren Simmons says all the time the number one thing
26:50
Speaker 1: I want him out of my return guys to handle
26:51
Speaker 1: the ball to the official. And he has been flawless
26:55
Speaker 1: in his you know, his handling of the football as
26:58
Speaker 1: a punt returner, catching everything, making good decisions, making a
27:02
Speaker 1: good decision when to let one hit the ground, and
27:05
Speaker 1: you know or not, all those kind of things have
27:09
Speaker 1: been a big deal. Uh, he did a nice job
27:11
Speaker 1: at bluff On on the one, the one that ended
27:14
Speaker 1: up in the end zone. I mean, he had a
27:15
Speaker 1: lot of people believe and he was going to catch
27:17
Speaker 1: that and return that thing. He knows what he's doing.
27:19
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a clever guy, smart guy.
27:22
Speaker 1: Um understands, you know, all the little nuances and man.
27:27
Speaker 1: And there's another one. I mean there's another guy that
27:30
Speaker 1: as in history. As you look at at the at
27:33
Speaker 1: the scoring summary of the of the championship game, there
27:37
Speaker 1: is with a huge two point conversion and that was huge, massive,
27:43
Speaker 1: And there's Trent Taylor. So we got b J. Hill,
27:46
Speaker 1: we got Trent Taylor. Yeah, automatic that was going to happen.
27:51
Speaker 1: You knew those two guys were gonna make huge plays
27:53
Speaker 1: and to determine part of the outcome of the game.
27:56
Speaker 1: And then there's Avin McPherson flying in with his pairs
28:00
Speaker 1: on the flight. Dad's a dead Ringer is the slightly
28:03
Speaker 1: older version. But I can't get over the fact that
28:07
Speaker 1: the dude looks like he's fifteen years old. He was
28:09
Speaker 1: in high school four years ago and now he's twelve
28:13
Speaker 1: or twelve in the postseason, hitting him from fifty plus,
28:16
Speaker 1: hitting him to win games. His level of composure and
28:21
Speaker 1: the clutch gene is remarkable. It is. And you talk
28:26
Speaker 1: about Joe Burrow with the ner in confidence this guy, yeah,
28:30
Speaker 1: I mean he believes he can do anything and he
28:33
Speaker 1: probably can't in terms of kicking the football. It is
28:36
Speaker 1: just it's phenomenal. And sat right behind his dad talked
28:40
Speaker 1: to him on the flight quite a bit. He's got
28:42
Speaker 1: a son that just committed to Auburn and he just
28:45
Speaker 1: broke his brother's record. He was the holder when Evan
28:49
Speaker 1: hit the sixty yarder in high school and he just
28:51
Speaker 1: hit one from sixty one. And Evan had made it
28:56
Speaker 1: from sixty eight in high school but not in a game,
29:00
Speaker 1: and seventy five at Florida but not any game. It's crazy.
29:05
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what the mcphersons are
29:07
Speaker 1: feeding their sons, but man, they've got bionic legs. There's
29:10
Speaker 1: no no two ways about that. So yeah, it's and
29:15
Speaker 1: he just he's another one, Joe Burrow, Evan McPherson. When
29:22
Speaker 1: normally people's heart rates accelerate and it's a big moment,
29:25
Speaker 1: and you know, you just you start thinking about too
29:27
Speaker 1: many things. These guys just slow down their breathing rate,
29:32
Speaker 1: slow down their heart rate, and just step up and
29:35
Speaker 1: make plays. It's incredible. For more on the win and
29:39
Speaker 1: an early look ahead to the Bengals Ram Super Bowl matchup,
29:42
Speaker 1: join Lap and Lance McAlister for Bengals Line Monday night
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30:05
Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun Facts segment, and my
30:07
Speaker 1: guest is a guy who joined the team just in
30:10
Speaker 1: time to head to the super Bowl for the first
30:13
Speaker 1: time in his eight year NFL career. Time for some
30:17
Speaker 1: fun facts with Bengals newcomer Zach Kerr, who joined the
30:20
Speaker 1: team just before the playoff win over Tennessee. Zach, your
30:25
Speaker 1: teammates are jokingly calling you two checks Kerr, as in
30:29
Speaker 1: two paychecks, because you are in the Cardinals payroll the
30:32
Speaker 1: week before for their playoff game. Earlier this year, you're
30:36
Speaker 1: with another team that's still alive in the playoffs, San Francisco.
30:39
Speaker 1: Can you describe the whirlwind that this season has been
30:43
Speaker 1: for you? To be completely honest with you. I really
30:46
Speaker 1: can't describe it. It's been crazy, you know for me
30:49
Speaker 1: and my family. You know. So it's the first time
30:52
Speaker 1: in my career where I've actually been you know, bounced
30:55
Speaker 1: around like this. You know, the first six years of
30:58
Speaker 1: my career, I was a stagnant uh you know, two teams,
31:02
Speaker 1: you know, that's it. And then these last few years
31:05
Speaker 1: I just kind of been bouncing around. But this year
31:06
Speaker 1: was really special because you know, it was it's my
31:09
Speaker 1: eighth year and you know, you know, you know what
31:11
Speaker 1: they say about when you know, when you start to
31:13
Speaker 1: get up there in those years as an NFL player
31:16
Speaker 1: and you kind of see it a little bit. But
31:18
Speaker 1: then you know, it was just so crazy to play
31:20
Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers who are playing for a
31:23
Speaker 1: chance to you know, finish, finish strong, and then being
31:26
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals who had a chance to finish strong,
31:28
Speaker 1: and now you know, with the Bengals to you know,
31:30
Speaker 1: we're still playing as well. So it was just crazy
31:33
Speaker 1: just to see how that transition happened. And um, you know,
31:36
Speaker 1: it could have been any three teams and it's thirty
31:39
Speaker 1: two of them. It could have been any three teams
31:40
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But it just happened to be these three,
31:43
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I feel like my last stop
31:45
Speaker 1: has been the best one so far, so I'm excited
31:47
Speaker 1: about it. Man, So you played in a playoff win
31:50
Speaker 1: over the Titans. Did you even know most of your
31:53
Speaker 1: teammates at that point? From a few practices, I had
31:56
Speaker 1: no idea who I was out there playing with. Man,
31:58
Speaker 1: I knew I knew a few guy just being in
32:00
Speaker 1: the building for you know, two three days. Some guys
32:04
Speaker 1: I knew from other places and just being in the
32:07
Speaker 1: NFL and being around them. But for the most part,
32:09
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was just like those guys
32:12
Speaker 1: that know who I was either you know what I'm saying.
32:14
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of communication, and then I
32:16
Speaker 1: couldn't have walked into a group of better guys. To
32:18
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I felt like I'd been here
32:21
Speaker 1: the whole season away last game went, and these practices
32:24
Speaker 1: have been going. So it's really cool to see what
32:27
Speaker 1: they what they built here in Cincinnati, and I'm just
32:28
Speaker 1: happy to get a part of them. We're visiting with
32:31
Speaker 1: Zach Kerr. From reading a little bit about your background
32:34
Speaker 1: in your life story, your life could be a movie.
32:37
Speaker 1: There's been a heartache. There's been a hardship, but ultimately
32:41
Speaker 1: there's been triumph with eight years in the NFL and counting.
32:44
Speaker 1: When you share your story with kids, where do you
32:47
Speaker 1: begin and what's your message? Where I begin is telling
32:51
Speaker 1: them that I actually, you know, they see this NFL
32:54
Speaker 1: player here right now, but I didn't atually start playing football,
32:56
Speaker 1: so I was at junior high school. So I kind
32:58
Speaker 1: of give him that part of it first, to tell
33:00
Speaker 1: them that, to show them that you don't gotta you
33:03
Speaker 1: don't gotta do with your whole life like everybody. Um.
33:05
Speaker 1: And I also tell them that to give them the
33:08
Speaker 1: idea that sometimes it just happens, you know, like I
33:11
Speaker 1: can't I try to, you know, make up this crazy well.
33:14
Speaker 1: You know, I worked super hard, obviously I did, but
33:17
Speaker 1: it just happened, you know. I just happened to be
33:18
Speaker 1: good at football my first couple of times playing it.
33:21
Speaker 1: I happened to be the size I happen to be,
33:23
Speaker 1: you know, athletic. It just you just win the you know,
33:26
Speaker 1: you win the lottery, g and and and that's and
33:29
Speaker 1: that's pretty much what it is. And then what I
33:31
Speaker 1: try to explain to him is that you can do
33:33
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. It doesn't have to be
33:36
Speaker 1: an NFL football player, doesn't have to be you know,
33:38
Speaker 1: a professional athlete for any other, um, you know, any
33:41
Speaker 1: other sports. But I just tried to explain to him
33:43
Speaker 1: that whatever you really want to do, put your mind
33:45
Speaker 1: to it, you can do. And I think that's what
33:46
Speaker 1: my story shows. It just happened that I played football.
33:49
Speaker 1: But I put my mind to it that I wanted
33:51
Speaker 1: to be an NFL football player, and it happened. So
33:53
Speaker 1: I just try to tell them that I really try
33:55
Speaker 1: to leave football out of it, because that's some anomally
33:57
Speaker 1: for some guys. You know, part of the hardship you
34:00
Speaker 1: had to overcome with a period of homelessness as a kid.
34:03
Speaker 1: What was the low point for you? I don't know. Um,
34:06
Speaker 1: I don't know if I had any low points. Man.
34:08
Speaker 1: My mom did a really good job of keeping us
34:10
Speaker 1: together as a family. She she did a really good
34:12
Speaker 1: job of not really um allowing us to know what
34:17
Speaker 1: the situation was. You know, to me, I was in
34:19
Speaker 1: the I was I was around my families and my
34:21
Speaker 1: sisters and my mom. So that was a great thing.
34:23
Speaker 1: I always had food, I always had clothes, you know
34:25
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I don't think there was so
34:28
Speaker 1: much of a low point. The low point is now
34:30
Speaker 1: that we're all older, we don't get to be around
34:32
Speaker 1: each other so much, you know what I'm saying. That's
34:33
Speaker 1: the low point for me that you know, I gotta
34:35
Speaker 1: you know, they always all the way across the country
34:37
Speaker 1: or something like that, and you know, we're adults. We
34:39
Speaker 1: got our own lives now, so it's a little different
34:42
Speaker 1: because I'm so used to being a close knit group
34:44
Speaker 1: and being in the same room and same living room
34:47
Speaker 1: with the same people and uh and now it's just,
34:50
Speaker 1: you know, we're all going out separates and doing good
34:52
Speaker 1: things with our lives. So that's the low point is
34:54
Speaker 1: that I don't get to see as much as I
34:55
Speaker 1: used to chatting with Zach Kerr. So as you know
34:58
Speaker 1: that you didn't play football until the eleventh grade, I
35:02
Speaker 1: read that you're in the tenth grade, you're in the
35:04
Speaker 1: school band. You're not on the football team until a
35:08
Speaker 1: college coach shows up and gives you advice to change
35:12
Speaker 1: your life. Right, yep. Ralph Frigent was was the guy
35:16
Speaker 1: who I like to give credit to. It was a
35:19
Speaker 1: couple of other people in my high school that my
35:21
Speaker 1: high school head coach. He had been telling me to
35:23
Speaker 1: play fool, but like, look, bro, you big, you athletic,
35:25
Speaker 1: you need to come get it a shot. But it
35:27
Speaker 1: was until Ralph walked in and he told me. He
35:30
Speaker 1: asked me, he just he just explained it to me
35:32
Speaker 1: a little. This It made sense to me the way
35:34
Speaker 1: he said it. He asked me if I wanted to
35:36
Speaker 1: go to that first thing. He says, said you want
35:37
Speaker 1: to go to college. I say, yeah, I'd like to
35:39
Speaker 1: go to college. Said you want to go for free? Yeah,
35:41
Speaker 1: I'd like to go to college for free. That sounds
35:43
Speaker 1: like a big idea, you know, that sounds funny. And
35:46
Speaker 1: he told me, he said, well, you can go to
35:47
Speaker 1: college for free if you play football. He said, I'm
35:50
Speaker 1: telling you it could happen. You can change your life.
35:53
Speaker 1: You can change your family's life by just changing your
35:55
Speaker 1: decision making. And when he told me that, I kind
35:57
Speaker 1: of looked at him like, hey, nobody ever really broke
35:59
Speaker 1: it down something like that. It was just play football,
36:02
Speaker 1: you big, play football, you big, you know, And it
36:05
Speaker 1: got to a point where I was like, you know
36:06
Speaker 1: what this is, this is what I need to do.
36:08
Speaker 1: I got my grant. I was ineligible because I was.
36:09
Speaker 1: I didn't care about anything. I was just going to school,
36:12
Speaker 1: being a high school student. I got eligible and the
36:15
Speaker 1: next shot I played football, and he told me. It
36:17
Speaker 1: was two schools. They told me, they said, you get
36:20
Speaker 1: eligible to play football, you don't have a scholarship from
36:22
Speaker 1: us your first date being eligible, and it was a
36:25
Speaker 1: University of Maryland and Penn State. And those two schools
36:28
Speaker 1: stay true to me throughout the hometown process and all
36:30
Speaker 1: to me. I went to Maryland coming out of high school.
36:32
Speaker 1: So it was just crazy how everything I took place
36:34
Speaker 1: in my life. It's I guess it can be a movie,
36:37
Speaker 1: but to me, it's just normal. It was supposed to
36:39
Speaker 1: happen away. That's how I look at it. Well, if
36:41
Speaker 1: it becomes a movie, I'm going because I appreciate that.
36:45
Speaker 1: Come to the movie. I'm contacting. You gonna get a
36:47
Speaker 1: percentage of Now I'll finance the movie or your kidding,
36:50
Speaker 1: let's steal it. But the movie aspect isn't finished yet.
36:54
Speaker 1: Because you went to Maryland. You had some success, but
36:57
Speaker 1: two years in they make a coaching change and the
37:00
Speaker 1: new coach says, you know, maybe you'd be better off
37:02
Speaker 1: going elsewhere. So now you've got to start over again.
37:05
Speaker 1: How difficult was that? That was probably that when you
37:09
Speaker 1: asked about the low point, that was a low point
37:11
Speaker 1: for me. I remember leaving college, I mean leaving to
37:13
Speaker 1: go to college. I told my mom to give my
37:14
Speaker 1: room to my little sister. Said I'm never coming back home.
37:17
Speaker 1: I'll never live with you again, like I'm a man now,
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Speaker 1: And two years out of me saying that, I was
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Speaker 1: right back in the house, you know what I'm saying,
37:23
Speaker 1: and you know, sleeping on the floor, all types of stuff.
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Speaker 1: It was crazy now that I look back on it,
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Speaker 1: But I mean it was tough for me because you know,
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Speaker 1: you get to a point in your life where you
37:33
Speaker 1: think you figured it out right and life humbles you
37:37
Speaker 1: and now you got to fight your way about it.
37:38
Speaker 1: That it yet, so all it really showed me was
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Speaker 1: that I could do it and I wouldn't give up
37:42
Speaker 1: on myself. You know. That's that's that's what that showed me.
37:45
Speaker 1: But that was a low point for me, and it
37:47
Speaker 1: was tough because I didn't know if I was gonna
37:49
Speaker 1: get back into school. I didn't know, you know, I
37:51
Speaker 1: didn't even have anybody that was showing interest at that
37:54
Speaker 1: at that time, so I just went back to my
37:56
Speaker 1: high school, started helping out with practice with the d
37:59
Speaker 1: line and running sprints with them after practice and stuff
38:02
Speaker 1: to stay in shape. And one of my one of
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Speaker 1: my high school and college teammates, who was already at
38:08
Speaker 1: Delaware gave gave one of the coaches who was at
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Speaker 1: Maryland a call and told him, Hey, looks that's trying
38:14
Speaker 1: to get back into school. So the coach called him,
38:16
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, what do you want to do. I'm like,
38:19
Speaker 1: if y'all want me, I'm mad. I don't got no
38:21
Speaker 1: other you know, I don't got any other, no other offer,
38:24
Speaker 1: so um everything. I had to go to online school
38:27
Speaker 1: and you know, pay for that myself and all types
38:31
Speaker 1: of things, and uh, you know, we ended up working
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Speaker 1: out for the best two years at Delaware and you know,
38:36
Speaker 1: eight years later, we're still we're still doing the thing.
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Speaker 1: It just shows me that I won't ever give up
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Speaker 1: on myself. So you signed with the Colts. You played
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Speaker 1: a significant role right off the bat as a rookie.
38:46
Speaker 1: What did it mean to you the first time you're
38:48
Speaker 1: standing on the out on the sideline in the NFL uniform,
38:51
Speaker 1: after all you overcame. I cried like a baby man.
38:55
Speaker 1: To be completely honest with you, I cried like a
38:57
Speaker 1: baby because I knew what I had to overcome and
39:01
Speaker 1: I knew what my family had though, because that's all
39:02
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, was you know, my family was
39:04
Speaker 1: up in the stairs. Everybody was dan. I was like, dang,
39:07
Speaker 1: we had to do so much for me, not for us,
39:10
Speaker 1: for me to get to this point. I still think
39:12
Speaker 1: about that every once in a while. Man, before a game,
39:14
Speaker 1: I think about that, and I still tear up because
39:17
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a dream. I tell my mom
39:20
Speaker 1: all the time. I think about my dad. I think
39:22
Speaker 1: about my mom, and I'm like, Dank, they sacrificed so
39:24
Speaker 1: much for me to get here, and I'm out here
39:25
Speaker 1: playing the game, just a game, and it brings everybody
39:28
Speaker 1: so much joy. So it was I still get him.
39:30
Speaker 1: I'm getting emotion now, man, I don't ask me questions,
39:35
Speaker 1: all right, you'll like this then, because we're gonna finish
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Speaker 1: this up with a few wild card questions and these
39:40
Speaker 1: ones are not emotional, Okay, Which You're all time favorite
39:44
Speaker 1: athlete in any sport and why Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson,
39:51
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson, any sport, every sport. It don't matter Mike Tyson.
39:54
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because he
39:56
Speaker 1: went through so much. You know, he showed his whole career,
40:01
Speaker 1: he showed resilience. And it wasn't just boxing, it's outside
40:04
Speaker 1: of it. It's boxing's life in general, just all the
40:08
Speaker 1: stuff he had to endure, his mental health, all that stuff.
40:10
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It's not easy. It's not
40:12
Speaker 1: easy being a you know, almost being a billionaire and
40:15
Speaker 1: losing it all and then still get you know, find
40:17
Speaker 1: a way to climb out of that. That's not easy.
40:19
Speaker 1: You know, it's not easy to have your entire life
40:21
Speaker 1: put on display. And that's why I enjoy Mike Tyson
40:24
Speaker 1: because all that happened to him. You're getting the ring
40:27
Speaker 1: with him, you're trying to take your head off, and
40:29
Speaker 1: he'll trying to do the same thing in life. And
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Speaker 1: that's why I love him. He's gonna be that, He's
40:33
Speaker 1: gonna be the same person all the time, and you
40:35
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get from him mine and and
40:36
Speaker 1: I could I can go to world with a guy
40:38
Speaker 1: like that all day. Next wild card question. You are
40:41
Speaker 1: a large man. What is the biggest inconvenience in regular
40:46
Speaker 1: everyday life for somebody or size clothes, finding clothes that
40:52
Speaker 1: are fit, you know. To be completely honest, I'm a
40:55
Speaker 1: stylished guy. I like I like looking like. I'm not
40:57
Speaker 1: a big guy that like looking slop. I like to
40:59
Speaker 1: look nice because if you beg you can't be slopping,
41:02
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I like to look
41:04
Speaker 1: I like to look nice and sake care of myself
41:06
Speaker 1: and um. The hardest thing for me, man, is just
41:09
Speaker 1: just going into a stone and knowing that they don't
41:11
Speaker 1: have anything there that face. That's probably what it is.
41:15
Speaker 1: Do you use Zach Kerr have a hidden talent? I
41:18
Speaker 1: can't impersonate people really well. I say a hidden talent.
41:21
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. I got an impersonation gene. I
41:23
Speaker 1: guess I say that one. You're gonna get me one.
41:25
Speaker 1: I can't see. Look, I don't he's gonna ask you
41:27
Speaker 1: to do that. It's on the spot, man, I don't
41:29
Speaker 1: know who I would impersonate, you know, for you to
41:31
Speaker 1: be like okay, I know who that is, you have
41:33
Speaker 1: to be somebody that you know. I was gonna say,
41:35
Speaker 1: do you have a Mike Tyson? I mean, if that
41:37
Speaker 1: your guy, can you do typon. Let me do you,
41:39
Speaker 1: let me do you a good Mike Tyson. Let me
41:41
Speaker 1: see which what's a good quote from him? See his
41:43
Speaker 1: quotes are crazy. Man, I don't know if I can
41:44
Speaker 1: say that was on the radio. I got some Mike
41:48
Speaker 1: Tyson for you, but I don't know if I can
41:49
Speaker 1: get you on the radio right now. Dad, and I
41:51
Speaker 1: ain't a lot to you. We've got that beep button,
41:54
Speaker 1: but I'll wait until we're talking face to face and
41:56
Speaker 1: there's no microphone nearby, and then I'll have you do
41:59
Speaker 1: your mic. That final thing for Zach Kerb this is
42:02
Speaker 1: kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesmen,
42:10
Speaker 1: famous politician, whoever that might be, who would that person be? Honestly, man,
42:14
Speaker 1: it'll probably be my father. My dad passed away when
42:18
Speaker 1: I was young, so I never got a chance to
42:19
Speaker 1: meet him with no him. But everybody tells me and
42:22
Speaker 1: I'm with the same zat person. You know what I'm saying.
42:24
Speaker 1: So probably my Pops, Man Restipes and Weston Kerr. Zach.
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Speaker 1: This has been great. Welcome to Cincinnati. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for your time and best of luck. Thank you, Dan.
42:34
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