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Press Pass | C.J. Beathard on Filling in for Lawrence vs. Bengals · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that your first instinct is, uh, it
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  Speaker 1: just sucks for Trevor. You see him on the ground hurting, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that sucks. It kind of takes takes a breadthway on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines, all the guys and stuff when when you
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  Speaker 1: see your starting quarterback hurting like that. But then you
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  Speaker 1: know it quickly flips into going into a two minute
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  Speaker 1: drive to try and tie the game or win the game,
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  Speaker 1: so you don't have much time to for the nerves
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  Speaker 1: to kick in. He's kind of gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: Go back on the left. Did you have the chance
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  Speaker 2: to speak to Trevor in the locker room just before this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I talked to I saw him in there.
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  Speaker 2: Could you tell us about what you guys were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed like he was smiling after he just said
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  Speaker 1: good job coming in there and and you know, moving
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  Speaker 1: the ball and stuff like that. Uh, you know he's
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  Speaker 1: doing all right. You know we'll we'll see only him
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  Speaker 1: and the doctors know. I guess what what what's going
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  Speaker 1: on there?
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  Speaker 2: After your first few plays?
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a hurt your wrist at all?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: I just laid it on my shoulder. Weird, but it's nothing. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, CJ. When you hit the field there to start
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  Speaker 2: to lead the team there, what did they do.
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  Speaker 1: To help you? Lift you up and get you involved?
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  Speaker 1: Just put a lot of confidence in me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys came up to me and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we believe in you. We know you got this.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, this is my
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  Speaker 1: seventh year in the NFL. It's not like I'm a
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  Speaker 1: young guy going in there. I know I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the situation before and started some games here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I was ready to.
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  Speaker 2: Go, Cej.
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  Speaker 1: You got them down the field, got the field goal
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  Speaker 1: the first time he touched the ball after the injury.
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  Speaker 1: What did they do differently in the overtime possession that
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  Speaker 1: kind of may have changed things a little bit for you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean nothing different. I mean they were they were
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  Speaker 1: playing the same coverage as that they've been playing. I
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  Speaker 1: guess they they stopped, you know, play a little bit
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  Speaker 1: less man. I don't think they brought any pressures in
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  Speaker 1: that drive. You know, sometimes pressure is a good thing,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's not, And it just depends on what play
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  Speaker 1: you have called. And I was just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: us in the in the at least range to kick
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  Speaker 1: a field goal to tie it and possibly win it.
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  Speaker 1: Too old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it it sucks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you you make the play, Cowvin makes a
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  Speaker 1: great play down there, and you're excited celebrating inside the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Then he's turned around and see a flag and it
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  Speaker 1: is what it is?
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  Speaker 2: See d did you uh uh calls Brad asked early,
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  Speaker 2: did you get chicken up? A little bit of a plate?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I s I said, I landed on my shoulder
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  Speaker 1: a little weird, but you know, nothing, I'm too worried about.
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  Speaker 1: So nothing that affected you later in the game or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, uh uh uh, Cause you also just go through
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  Speaker 2: the emotions, you know, you and Trevor so close seeing
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  Speaker 2: him put down, But then you have to focus on
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  Speaker 2: the job that you have to do. Just how tough
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  Speaker 2: it is to go through those emotions so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's tough. Trevor's, you know, my best
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  Speaker 1: friend on the team, and uh when you see him
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  Speaker 1: go down like that. Uh, you know, I've been here
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  Speaker 1: three years and you know he he's he's battled through
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  Speaker 1: through all types of injuries, little n dings here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and to see him, you know, have to get carried
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  Speaker 1: off the fields. Tough, you know it, it hurts, But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, it was a moment where you
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  Speaker 1: don't really have time to to you know, you still
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  Speaker 1: feel bad, but you kind of gotta quickly turn around
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  Speaker 1: and all right, I gotta gotta go. We got a
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  Speaker 1: two minute draft coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, Kirk goes down, you know, Walker
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  Speaker 2: little goes down, a bunch of guys, you know, Cisco
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  Speaker 2: goes down, and stuff. I mean, seemed like a mass
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  Speaker 2: shounit out there tonight. Yeah, an element of maybe disbelief
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  Speaker 2: or surprise or shock that so many guys are going
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  Speaker 2: down in a game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like, yeah, it was tough. I mess, it
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  Speaker 1: was one of those games. It just felt like every
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  Speaker 1: other play guys were getting hurt and not just you know,
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  Speaker 1: little nicks and bruises here there, but guys having to
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  Speaker 1: come out of the game. And that's tough. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the extent to a lot of guys injuries,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I just hoping and praying that they
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  Speaker 1: they get better quickly and help help us make this
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  Speaker 1: playoff push at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: I apologize if it's already been asked, but did you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to speak with Trevor after the game?
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  Speaker 2: What's his spirits like?
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  Speaker 1: Or Yeah, he's doing good. You know, obviously he's sore
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  Speaker 1: right now. Uh, but you know I talked with them
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room and he was good spears, He
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  Speaker 1: was you know, complimentative of me and and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: proud of me and stuff, and you know, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: just feel bad for many times when you're when your
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  Speaker 1: friends has hurt, any of all the guys, you know, Christian,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just go all these guys that are dinged up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because they put so much work and and
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  Speaker 1: effort and practice and lifting and everything. You know, everything
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  Speaker 1: goes into it. And anytime guys get hurt, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: for a play, whether it's for a long period of time,
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  Speaker 1: you just feel bad for him.