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Bengals Booth Podcast: Shook Me All Night Long · Bengals Booth Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody on dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The should be all night long addition,
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  Speaker 1: as the Bengals extend their winning streak to four straight
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  Speaker 1: by beating the Buffalo Bills on Sunday Night Football twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to eighteen. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker
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  Speaker 1: room comments from players and coaches, and postgame analysis from
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  Speaker 1: Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll
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  Speaker 1: since sinking your clocks. We all got an extra hour
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  Speaker 1: of sleep on Sunday morning, but that's not my favorite
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  Speaker 1: part of daylight savings time. It's getting up first thing
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  Speaker 1: in the morning after the time change and sinking all
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  Speaker 1: of the clocks in our house. In our kitchen alone,
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  Speaker 1: there's a clock on the stove, the microwave, the coffee maker,
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  Speaker 1: the toaster, oven, and a clock on the wall. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just me, but I love it when they are
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  Speaker 1: all matched up almost to the second. Now, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to football and the radio replays from a primetime win
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  Speaker 1: over the Buffalo Bills tonight, the eyes of the football
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  Speaker 1: world are on downtown Cincinnati is Two of the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: best teams, led by superstar quarterbacks, go head to head
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  Speaker 1: in a prime time showdown. It's Joe Burrow and the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals versus Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and it
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  Speaker 1: is time for the pigskin to fly here in the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals go empty on first and goal from the seven. Burrow,
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  Speaker 1: back at the twelve, catches the snap short drop throws
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  Speaker 1: it into the back left corner of.
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  Speaker 2: The end zone pot by IRV Smith Junior.
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  Speaker 3: His first touchdown has a Cincinnati Bengal and the Bengals
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  Speaker 3: are on the scoreboard first.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Poyer was in coverage. You beat a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Burrow put it up. What a drive.
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  Speaker 1: Latavious Murray, a bigger running back, checks into the game.
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  Speaker 1: On first and goal, Alan fakes to him. Pump Fakes,
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  Speaker 1: runs toward the pylon and does a little taunting of
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  Speaker 1: Nick Scott as he cruises into the end zone. There
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  Speaker 1: are two penalty flags thrown late on the play. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's third down in goal from the two. Chase Alone
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  Speaker 1: out to the left, Boyden Higgins out to the right.
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  Speaker 1: Burrow hands it to.
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  Speaker 2: Mixon and he will go flow into the end zone
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  Speaker 2: for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: And here comes the jungle jump as the Bengals have
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  Speaker 3: gone back in front.
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  Speaker 1: Shotgun snap Allen to throw. Pump Fakes fires a strike,
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  Speaker 1: intercepting Cam Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Brett picks it off at the thirty two yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Big third down and seven play coming up. Trayon Williams
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  Speaker 1: in the game. He lines up to the left of
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Joe has the ball under pressure, dumps it
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  Speaker 1: off short caught. Drue Sample has a first down to
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  Speaker 1: the ten, the face to the pie line. He's in touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful Bengals Drew Sample catching a short pass from Joe
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  Speaker 3: Burrow and doing the rest on a twenty two yard TD.
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  Speaker 2: Well he released late. He stayed in the block and
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  Speaker 2: then he released late, and as a result, the Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: Bills lost track of him.
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  Speaker 1: First and ten at the twenty two percent Alan catches
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  Speaker 1: looking left, throw us over the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Caught by kick Aid loses the football scooped up by
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  Speaker 3: the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: At the thirteen yard line. Hit the takeaway.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Scott knocked it out and recovered it.
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  Speaker 2: Bengals ball Now did the did the ground cause the fumble?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: The ball is out long before King Kaid comes to
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  Speaker 2: the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Three forty two to go, third down and one in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone at the seventeen yard line. Alan has
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  Speaker 1: the ball looking over the middle, fires toward the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Caught Stefan Diggs got behind DJ Turner and it's a
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo touchdown with three thirty two to go. Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 1: hands on hips, eyeballing the defense. Buffalo's showing pressure up
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  Speaker 1: the middle. The Bengals handed to Mixon gets away from
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  Speaker 1: an ankle tackle running toward the first down marker.
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  Speaker 3: He's got it, wow and that his coffin.
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  Speaker 2: Nails Bam Bam bam. And what he did was he
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  Speaker 2: made von Miller miss one on one von Miller Joe Mixon,
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  Speaker 2: he makes von Miller missed. What a play by Joe Mixon.
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  Speaker 1: One more snap will do it. Once the clock is
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  Speaker 1: inside of forty seconds to go, the Bengals can snap
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They snap it with thirty eight seconds to go.
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  Speaker 1: Burrow takes a knee and the coaches begin walking toward
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  Speaker 1: the fifty yard line. Let the record show that in
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  Speaker 1: the head to head competition between Joe Burrow and Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: it is Burrow two, Allen nothing.
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  Speaker 2: At the Bengals win.
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  Speaker 1: They're fourth in a row, beating the Bills tonight by
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  Speaker 1: the final score of twenty four to eighteen. Here are
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  Speaker 1: some key stats from the win. Joe Burrow threw for
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  Speaker 1: a season high three hundred and forty eight yards with
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no picks, and a passer rating of one
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  Speaker 1: oh eight point nine. T Higgins was his favorite target
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  Speaker 1: with eight catches for one hundred and ten yards unless
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  Speaker 1: you consider the tight ends as a grit tanner. Hudson
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  Speaker 1: Drew Sample and earth Smith Junior combined for ten catches
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred and one yards and a pair of touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals didn't get much out of the running game,
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  Speaker 1: as Joe Mixon finished with thirty seven yards on fourteen carries.
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  Speaker 1: That's just two point six per attempt, but he did
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  Speaker 1: put the game away with a great five yard run
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  Speaker 1: on third down and three with two minutes to go.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke to Dave Lapham in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Big run. Basically under the ballgame at that point with
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  Speaker 2: that rush that you had, talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, they played pretty much double A gaps. They
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  Speaker 5: tried us, you know, pretty much zero blitzies. It was literally, uh,
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  Speaker 5: basically just me and Vaughn at that point.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that.
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  Speaker 5: Jonah sil you know, the edge well, you know, came
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  Speaker 5: crashing down on a h I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a seventh I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think there was a linebacker maybe, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: I bounced out. It was me and Vaughn, you know,
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  Speaker 5: cho give him a joke, made a miss and got
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  Speaker 5: the first down. Wish I can go back and you know,
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  Speaker 5: get out of bound or fall instead of going out
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  Speaker 5: of bounds. But you know, we was able to get
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  Speaker 5: it done, man, and that's how that mattered.
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  Speaker 2: So you mentioned that they were running double a gap
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  Speaker 2: on that snap. They did that a lot. Man. It
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  Speaker 2: was like they felt like they had to crowd the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and pressure you guys. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: a big part of your game tonight was blitz pick up.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: You were outstanding in blitz pick up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I thought that. You know, me and Trey
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  Speaker 5: did a hell of a job. You know, I wish
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  Speaker 5: I could go back on one and you know, technique wise
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  Speaker 5: and you know, clean some things up. But for the
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  Speaker 5: most part, I definitely felt like, you know, we honed
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  Speaker 5: in and handle business and you know, got a few
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  Speaker 5: pancakes and you know, pretty much was holding up firm
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  Speaker 5: in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: So Joe was delivering dimes and everything was coming together.
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  Speaker 5: So he's gotta keep building on that and keep going
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  Speaker 5: getting better.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, You're on a four game winning streak and you've
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  Speaker 2: scored not only in the first drive in every single game,
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  Speaker 2: but the second drive, your first two drives and all
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  Speaker 2: four wins. You guys just score touchdowns. What what does
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  Speaker 2: it mean to get off to a fast start like that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean pretty much over here, that's what we preach,
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  Speaker 5: you know, start fast and finish faster when it comes
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  Speaker 5: down to it, Man, I thought that the guys that
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  Speaker 5: the hell of a job honing in on the game plan, crowd.
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  Speaker 5: They played a great part of it, you know, with
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  Speaker 5: the momentum and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But when it come down to.
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  Speaker 5: It, we just got to keep building and keep capitalizing
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  Speaker 5: on you know what teams give us. Like I said,
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  Speaker 5: I feel like, you know what, the potential that we
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  Speaker 5: got in this here locker room. We got the potential
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  Speaker 5: to be the best and literally every stat you know
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  Speaker 5: in football, from from offensive defense, and when it comes
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  Speaker 5: down to it, we just got to keep on getting better,
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  Speaker 5: honing in on a game plan and doing what we
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  Speaker 5: gotta do. Keep stacking these wins, and they are, every
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  Speaker 5: single one of them, getting bigger and bigger. We can
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  Speaker 5: try our own destiny and we's got to come out
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  Speaker 5: here and finish, you know, one week at a time
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully, you know, see us come down the road.
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  Speaker 2: And finally everybody said, oh, you know the tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the Bengals tight ends. Are they good enough?
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  Speaker 2: Tight Ends played their asses off tonight. The tight end
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  Speaker 2: position stepped up running backs, receivers, a bunch of receivers
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  Speaker 2: made plays, you know, not just Jamar who made plays
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  Speaker 2: himself as well, but that that passed to Tyler Boyd
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  Speaker 2: on on your final drive. How big was that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I thought TV came a huge on that hell of
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  Speaker 5: a play? Uh, how's the hell of a play? Paul Bozak.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we pretty much executed, you know, all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Around, all eleven of us.
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  Speaker 5: And uh, when it comes down to it, when you're executing,
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  Speaker 5: great things is gonna happen. And that's just what it is. Man.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: About you know this, big dug.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to celebrate today tonight and come tomorrow, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 5: get the kinks out, learn from the drawing boards, go
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  Speaker 5: back to the drawing boards, and get ready for Houston. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively, Mike Hilton had ten solo tackles and the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: won the turnover battle to nothing. Jermaine Pratt forced to
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  Speaker 1: fumble that was recovered by Nick Scott and Cam Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Britt came away with his third interception in the last
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  Speaker 1: four games. I caught up with Cam in front of
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  Speaker 1: his locker. Two games for you against the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 1: Two picks off Josh Allen describe the one you had tonight.
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  Speaker 3: It's so crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It was the same defense and I baited him.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I just gave him two steps downhill thinking I
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  Speaker 5: was gonna go for the outing. We knew he's He's
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  Speaker 5: a guy who trustes on more than you know, any
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  Speaker 5: dB to ever touch the ball. So you know, I
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  Speaker 5: just you know, use my athletic ability most definitely to
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  Speaker 5: track the ball and go back and you know, play
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  Speaker 5: the play enough bade ball.
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  Speaker 2: You know he was gonna try to get.
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  Speaker 5: The whole shot in which he always does. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: we see no film film Gona Lie.
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Davis didn't have a catch, Stefan Diggs didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred yards. They've got some great weapons, and
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  Speaker 1: by and large he shut them down pretty well.
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  Speaker 5: To him, I'm supposed to have, you know, Just like that,
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  Speaker 5: I feel like anybody would play, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: line up on them or DJ or Mike or Cheatah,
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  Speaker 5: anybody on the back of him. I just feel like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we we we're so close and tight knit
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  Speaker 5: right now. I don't feel a lot of people, you know,
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  Speaker 5: running by us, you know, getting by us.
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  Speaker 1: That was a huge play and obviously the force fumble
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  Speaker 1: by Germain and the recovery by next Scot was huge
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  Speaker 1: insight the ten. How significant did you feel that play was?
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  Speaker 5: I think that was one of the mainsor you know,
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  Speaker 5: turning points. I feel like we always are turning points
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  Speaker 5: in our games, and you know, you could just you know,
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  Speaker 5: pinpoint them. And I believe that was the one right there,
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  Speaker 5: you know, going down to score and you know we
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  Speaker 5: had to nut up to shut up basically, and you
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  Speaker 5: know when it we always say yards are ecle points.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna come back to that always, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And we hit a four straight wins, including back to
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  Speaker 1: back wins over the forty nine Ers and Bills, two
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  Speaker 1: of the best teams in the NFL. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about the state of the Bengals right now?
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  Speaker 5: It should be lit right now. We got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of football to play though, so yeah, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: could be lit right now. But Monday we back here.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you think of the atmosphere tonight with the striping,
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  Speaker 1: the jungle and the whole deal.
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  Speaker 5: I think I can say it was lit now. It
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  Speaker 5: was crazy, man. We and got some of the guys
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  Speaker 5: are talking about it, you know, just MS Maris, But
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  Speaker 5: you know the words in black, I color coordinated. It
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  Speaker 5: would they read to take the time to do that, man,
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  Speaker 5: and it so man, I think it was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: intimidation thing. You know.
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  Speaker 4: The game A great show.
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  Speaker 5: Congrats, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bengals have won four in a row. The
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  Speaker 1: only team in the NFL with a longer current winning
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  Speaker 1: streak is Jacksonville at five in a row. Now time
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  Speaker 1: to hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent about
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  Speaker 1: three and a half minutes with Lap after the game.
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  Speaker 2: So, I gotta ask you about this four wins in
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  Speaker 2: a row. You haven't scored on your first drive on
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  Speaker 2: you just scored in your first two drives and all
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  Speaker 2: four of those victories. I mean, how big is that?
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  Speaker 6: It's big to get that momentum early in the game,
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  Speaker 6: put pressure on the other team where they can feel
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  Speaker 6: what type of game it's going to be. Oser, defensive,
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  Speaker 6: tee off you know, when they've got that type of lead,
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  Speaker 6: and it makes the game easier to call for our
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  Speaker 6: guys and freeze it up, let us and be a
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  Speaker 6: little more aggressive on offense.
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  Speaker 2: So when you work so hard on your first few plays,
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  Speaker 2: you know you have an idea what you might want
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  Speaker 2: to call for your first two drives. When it works
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  Speaker 2: out like that, how rewarding is that?
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  Speaker 6: For rewarding, you know, and our guys they understand what's
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  Speaker 6: coming at him. Those are things that we walked through
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  Speaker 6: and talk about great, great detail, so they can preview
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  Speaker 6: it really the night before and they come out and
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  Speaker 6: they do a great job executing it.
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  Speaker 2: You much maligned tight end position was large today.
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  Speaker 6: They were awesome, you know, and all those guys contributed.
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  Speaker 6: James Casey does a great job getting that room ready
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  Speaker 6: and answering the bell when their numbers called, and then
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  Speaker 6: they all did that today.
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  Speaker 2: Joe didn't even target Jamar Chase until this thirteenth pass
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  Speaker 2: attempt of the day. Was that my design? Or was
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  Speaker 2: it they were just taking Jamarrow away? Or did you
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  Speaker 2: really want to get others involved because you knew what
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  Speaker 2: Jamar was going to do.
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  Speaker 6: No, there were things where he was the primary, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and the type of coverage dictated the ball had to
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  Speaker 6: go away from him. And so the credit to them.
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  Speaker 6: They did the good job. They keep you all balanced.
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  Speaker 6: They throw a lot of different things at you. They'll
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  Speaker 6: pressure you, and they're not afraid to contest you. So
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  Speaker 6: it was difficult to predict where the ball was going
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  Speaker 6: to go. You just kept calling it and jo just
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  Speaker 6: finding the open receiver.
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  Speaker 2: They blitzed a ton. I mean that double A gap.
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  Speaker 2: Seemed like every snap they were lining up in the
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  Speaker 2: double A gap and sometimes coming with everybody and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: not put Was it a higher percentage than normal or
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  Speaker 2: is that the way they played it all year?
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  Speaker 6: They pressure you, you know, they're not afraid to do it.
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  Speaker 6: And so again our guys were ready for a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the different looks that we were going to get.
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  Speaker 6: They do a great job changing it up, and so
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  Speaker 6: you just got to stay in your toes.
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  Speaker 2: The whole game. Joe Mixon talk about how big a
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  Speaker 2: factor he was today.
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  Speaker 6: That was the way he finished that out was big time,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and he had some harder and run. It
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  Speaker 6: was never easy. So in four minute drill, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you can't block them all. It's cover zero, it's the
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  Speaker 6: last play of the game. And for him to find
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  Speaker 6: a way to make that last guy miss get that
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  Speaker 6: first down was enormous.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, you know, maybe the alongside kick. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, because Joe Burrow the way he's playing,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe if they kick it to the Bengals,
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  Speaker 2: just take a knee and the in the game. That's
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  Speaker 2: the way it turned out. That throw to Tyler Boyd
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  Speaker 2: though unbelievable call by you, Tyler Boyd executed it. Talk
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  Speaker 2: about that play.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a player guys believe in, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: you really don't want to start with the first and
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  Speaker 6: ten run that gets, you know, yards, because that's what
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  Speaker 6: they're anticipating. So you wanted to put yourself ahead of
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  Speaker 6: the sticks and let our guys you know, finished off
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  Speaker 6: from there. And so again great protection, great throw, great
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  Speaker 6: route by TV.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's good to see you played a clean
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  Speaker 2: game last week. No penalties on the offense, clean game
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  Speaker 2: this week, no gifts, no giveaways, two takeaways plus two.
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  Speaker 2: It's big.
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  Speaker 6: The turnover battle is huge in games versus really good
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  Speaker 6: opponents like this. You got to find a way to
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  Speaker 6: win it, you know, and plus two usually guarantees your victory.
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  Speaker 6: And so that was good to see that our guys
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  Speaker 6: been just that way.
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  Speaker 2: Today uncharacteristically, and it had to be frustrating to you.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: The stretch of penalties and down this the end of
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: the second quarter had to be frustrating for you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: It was tough. You know, there was two of them,
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: one of one of them. Will have to watch and
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: see again, you know, on the scramble. But you know
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: there's some things that we got to I got to
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: get the call on better so that we can have
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: some urgency, get into the line at the ball snapped
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: and help our guys out.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Coach, appreciate it. You got your team playing really hard.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's back. There's no doubt about that. I mean,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: everybody around the league is looking to say, uh oh,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Bengals are back. Bengals are back, no question about it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Thanks Coach, Thank you.
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• 16:23
  Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap that before the trade deadline,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of folks were speculating that the Bengals would
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: try to add a tight end to the room. They didn't.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: They did promote Tanner Hudson from the practice squad to
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster. Well, at least tonight they
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: didn't need any other tight ends. Drew Sample had a touchdown.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: IRV Smith had a touchdown. Tanner Hudson had four catches
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: for forty five yards. They got great production out of
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that position.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they really did. It was good to see on
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: a national stage to boot you know. I mean, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: think it takes a lot of pressure off off of
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the players that position group, and they work hard. Their
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: coach works hard. He gets them ready. They're absolutely on
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: point with respect to assignments, not making mistakes, not doing
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: anything to hurt, you know, the football team from a
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: negative standpoint. And today they stepped up and made plays.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: And I thought it was interesting that Jamar Chase was
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: not targeted by Joe Burrow until the thirteenth pass attempt
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of the day. And I asked Zach about it and
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: he said, well, he was the primary in some cases,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you know, wasn't there. They were bracketing him and doing
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: different things to him, rolling coverage, clouding and all that,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: so they went elsewhere. But other times it was designed
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: to go to other people, and t Higgins as a result,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: stepped up and had a game nine targets, eight catch,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten yards. I mean it was big Hudson,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: like you said, four catches for forty five yards. He
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: was targeted five times. Tyler Boyd had that huge catch.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: That thirty two yard catch basically stealed the game. Made
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: that four minute drill or three minute and whatever second
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: drill heck of a lot easier when they picked up
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: three first downs on that on that one drive. It
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: was a great call by Zach and a great road
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: run by Tyler Boyd.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the beginning of the game. They
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: score on their opening drive. Four straight games of the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: touchdown on the opening drive, and then they followed up
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: with another touchdown. Third straight game that they've done that,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and going back four games, they had a field goal
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: on their second drive. So four straight games where they
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: score points on their first two drives. I don't ever
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: remember that happening before.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: That's that's unbelievably impressive, and it just takes such a
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: load off the defense. I mean, you know, when when
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: the offense is playing like that, it it makes uh,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: doctor Lou's scheme addicts even even more difficult. I think
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: it gives him so much freedom. He can do a
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: lot of different things. And it's it's, it's, it is,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: it's it's extremely impressive the start that they get off to,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and it's going to be unbelievably rewarding for Zach that
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: you work all week on, you know, on a script
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: and things you might like to put it in there
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: in the first couple of drives of the football game,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: and then for them to come to Fortion that well,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: there's nothing better than that when you're put in all
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: that work, all those hours, and it pays off, and
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: it pays off big time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Defensively, the Bengals get a couple of huge takeaways. The
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: first one was Cam Taylor Britt with the interception off
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen three picks in his last four games. Also
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: had one in the playoff game last year in Buffalo.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Am I being way premature to think that Cam Taylor
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Britt is the top corner on this team and one
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: of the better young corners in the league.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's making a move in
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that area. I think he feels like he is, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: that's what you have to have. You have to have
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: that kind of confidence, You have to have that kind
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: of belief that you can make that sort of contribution
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: for your football team. He's a physical guy, and he
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: brings the emotion, the enthusiasm, and he bothers receivers. He
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: gets in their heads. There's no question about it. He's
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: an impact player. I think that sometimes he followed Diggs,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: you know, he was the guy and he was going
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: wherever Digs went. Other times they rolled coverage and clouded
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: toward Digs. They changed up what they did to him,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: just like the Buffalo Bills changed up what they did
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: to Jamar Chase. They're both since twenty twenty two started,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: both of those guys from the top five and receiving
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: yards in the entire league. So you're going to do
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: things like that to try to curtail their contributions. But
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: that's when other guys have to step up.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Second takeaway great teamwork between Nick Scott and Jermaine Pratt.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Nick makes the jarring hit to send Dalton Kincaid head
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: over heels, and as he's upside down and coming to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the ground, Jermaine, who's always obsessed with coming away with
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the ball, punches it out and leads to the fumble recovery.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think probably the biggest reason the game ended
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: up the way it did is they were plus two
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: and that gave them an opportunity to hold onto the football,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: run more snaps, burn more clock. I mean, they almost
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: had the ball for a full quarter more than the
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills did thirty six minutes and thirty eight seconds
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to twenty three twenty two. I mean, thirteen minutes in
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: sixteen seconds. That's pretty impressive against the team. The caliber
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: of the Bills and the turnovers had had something to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: do with that. And they also dictated field position. The
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Bengals won the field position battle, the average drives battle
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: by quite a bit in this football game as well,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: So you know things like that that contribute, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: overall to the victory. Team has to go long field
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: while you're going short field. You know, you're eating clock up.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Now there's more pressure on them to try to make
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: bigger plays because there's less time on the clock and
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: you're still trailing by two scores, and that puts a
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: lot of pressure on the offense and it frees up
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: your defense. So they're starting to do a lot of things,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: you know, really well in that regard. Last week, the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Bengals offense was penalty free and they had got a
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: big winn in the road against the forty nine Ers.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Tonight they would turnover free against a really good team,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you know who'll probably be in the playoffs and trying
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to make it run in the playoffs like they have
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: every year, and not turning the football over and getting
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: two of them being plus two, it's probably as huge
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: a factor in the win as anything.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I guess if there are a couple of negatives tonight,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the running game wasn't very good, and they did have
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: far more penalties than usual they did.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: They had a stretch there or on into the second quarter.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Three straight penalties just took them out of a scoring opportunity.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: They left meat on the bone. There's no doubt about it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: They could have they could have hung thirty on them easily,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: maybe into the mid thirties if they had finished everything,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: every opportunity that they had. But they finished enough of
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: them to win the football game for sure. And you know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: here's a situation now where two straight games against the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: forty nine Ers and the Bills, two of the better
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: teams in the NFL, and to never trail. You haven't
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: trailed in eight quarters against those two teams. That means
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you're starting to play some pretty decent ball.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: The game's kind of weird in the sense that they
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: won by six. There was some tension at the end,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and yet I never felt like there was a chance
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: they were going to lose the game, Am I not? No?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I felt the same way. You know.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: It's like as if you keep that two score lead,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: you know, until there's like eight minutes or so to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: go in the game, you think, I just don't see
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: a team the caliber of this team, you know, blowing
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: this thing. And I walked by Joe, I'm like, you know, man,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: when they gave you that gave you that opportunity to
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: close it out with three minutes and change to go,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't know if i'd kick it to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you know, kick off and let Joe Burrow take control
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of that football and you and Tyler Boyd stepped up
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and he goes closed it out. Close it out, man,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about. There's nothing better than kneeling down,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: taking the knee to win the football game. When you
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: can do that, a couple of snaps at the end
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: of the game.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: When you get the ball back with three and a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: half minutes to go and the other teams down by
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: six and they never get the ball back, that's got
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to be a tremendously satisfying feeling.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: No question. I mean that four minute drills in those
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: situations are hard to run. But when you make a play,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: when you pick up over three first downs in one play,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: now it's all of a sudden that four minute drill
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: has become much easier. I mean, you flipped field position,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you picked up the third of a football field on
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: one snap. That's that dog will hunt right there.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: All right, four straight, five out of six. The Houston
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Texans coming up next with a rookie quarterback who put
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: on a show. Four hundred and seventy yards and five
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: touchdown passes for CJ.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Stride today. It's amazing. You know, I'm watching that game
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit, and his throwing motion is so compact,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: it's so short, and I mean he stays in a
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: tight pocket. I mean he's a fearless kid, and he's
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: very accurate with the football obviously, and they're no joke.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I mean he's he's on a stretch He went into
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the game with just one interception on the season. I
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: don't think he threw any today. I mean five touchdown passes,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: no picks. This guy's putting together some numbers that are crazy.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: You're looking at the offensive rookie of the year. It
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: looks like in the National Football.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: League game winning touchdown pass with six seconds to go
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: after Baker Mayfield ha thrown me when to take the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: lead with forty six seconds to go. That's incredible.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: It is no timeouts. I think it was four plays,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: four throws, the one to the sideline, the deep ball
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of the sideline where his receiver, you know, drag, the drag,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the left toe, And I'm thinking, how can you give
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: up that play? They have no timeouts. How can you
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: not funnel action back to the middle. Why would you
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: give up the sideline play like that? But he threw
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a very accurate football and took advantage of a very
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: very tight window.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: It's good to be two games over five hundred, it
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: really is.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: How about the asc North, everybody's two games over five hundred,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: you said earlier, if the playoffs were to start tomorrow,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: everybody be in right.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, I believe so. I think Cincinnati vaults ahead of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Buffalo on the a totem pole, and that I'll double check,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure that as of right now, of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: these seven teams that would make the playoffs in the AFC,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you've got all four of the AFC North teams.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Everybody in the AFC North at least two games over
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: five hundred. That is well done by the division. Some
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: of a gun they swept this weekend, swept the action unbelievable.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: After double checking, I was correct. The four division leaders
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in the AFC right now are Kansas City, Baltimore, Jacksonville,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and Miami, and the three wild card teams are Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and Cincinnati. There's obviously a long way to go. Cleveland
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and Baltimore face each other in Baltimore next week, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has a home game against the three and five Packers.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun fact segment, where you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: some fun facts with offensive lineman Cody Ford from Pineville, Louisiana,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a small town in the central part of the state.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: As you enter Pineville, there's a big sign that says
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a great place to call home. What do you love
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: about your hometown.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: The closeness of the community, the willingness to be there
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: for your neighbor that's not family, I would say, just
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: the environment alone, and then ultimately, just like I said,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: the people in the city and in the community. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: I think the sign is accurate. It's a great place
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: to call home. I love being from Pineville, Louisiana.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You went home during the Bengals bye week to have
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: your number seventy four jersey retired at your high school.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Can you describe what that meant?
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: A dream come true? I remember I was talking to
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: my girlfriend before we went down there, and I was like,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: there's only one jersey in the facility that I used
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: to walk in every day that was retired. And I
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: used to look at it every day and be like,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: why not me? And then also looked at it as
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: you know, more motivation and inspiration for myself to, you know,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: shrive to be better and take take this football the
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: sports serious and see where it can take me.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: We're visiting with Cody Ford. You're a big band, the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: six three, about three hundred and thirty pounds. Were you
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: always the big kid in the neighborhood?
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: No, maybe one of the taller kids, But I didn't
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: surpass two hundred and forty pounds until I would say
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: junior year of high school, and then kind of hit
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: a little spark. Junior year, I gained about twenty thirty pounds,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: got to two seventy, and then the next year I
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: was the biggest kid in school.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: When it came time to go to college, you traveled
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: about seven hours from home to go to the University
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. You became an All American there. In your
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: two full seasons as a starter, the team went to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff both times. Your quarterback won the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Heisman both times, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray. What did
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you enjoy most about playing at Oklahoma?
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: The locker room, The guys in the locker room, especially
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: the O line room.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: We u.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I mean there's guys that don't play in the league today,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: some that didn't even get a chance to play in
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: the league, and I think we talk every day. The
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: brotherhood that we built there is just bar nine. I
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: don't think. I mean a lot of guys speak highly
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: of their locker rooms, but I know me and the
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: guys in the O line room and other positions as well,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: put great pride in the you know, being a tight
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: knit group and that's what we lived by. And then
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: ultimately going to Oklahoma, like just being a part of
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: such a prestigious program that was that was a big,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: you know, bonus in itself.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: You had a great career. You also earned your degree
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: in three and a half years. Where academics always important
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: I'll just be honest, I wouldn't say important. It wasn't
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: the top of my list. I know it was the
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: top of my parents and my grandparents list. But once
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: I got there, I had my career. And then when
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: it was time for my last season of football, I said, well,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not leaving until I get my degree. So I
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: pushed myself to have my degree by the time the
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: season ended. So you know, I took I want to say,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: six to eight extra hours of class that semester on
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: top of it being my last semester of football and
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: I had a big, busy schedule, but I took it
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: more serious probably my last two years of college. I
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: was like, I have to get my degree. I think
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: came too far not to leave with my degree.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: We're chatting with Cody Ford. You were selected early in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the second round of the twenty nineteen draft by the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Describe your draft experience.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Long, exhausting, exciting, humbling experience, But I don't know. It
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: was a great, great experience, great memory, great moment, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: you know, everything I had done up until that point
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: was it was all paid paid off. And the first
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: night being in the draft room expecting my name, hoping
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: my name to be called that night and then it
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: not happened was probably the most humbling piece of my
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: career up at that point. That was a long day.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: And then the next night to have my name called
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: that early was really fun, really really enjoyable.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I grew up a little bit south of Buffalo, so
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I know all about the weather. Since you're from Louisiana.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: With the heat and humidity, how did you find the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: snow in western New York?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Not friendly? I remember the first time it snowed, I
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: didn't have a shovel, I didn't have a brush for
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: my car. I didn't have a heavy coat, which I
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: should have been prepared for. But I remember I opened
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: my door and the snow was probably about three inches
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: above the base of the floor, and I was like,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: holy you know that was That was insane id never
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I've never seen snow before that, So yeah, it wasn't friendly.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: This past offseason, you became a free agent for the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: first time, and you reached out to your former Oklahoma teammate,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Orlando Brown Junior with an idea before the start of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: free agency. Explain what happened.
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  Speaker 4: I knew he was going to be up. I knew
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  Speaker 4: there was going to be a lot of teams that
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  Speaker 4: wanted him, and I knew that him being the guy
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  Speaker 4: he is, he wants to go to a winning program,
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: a great program and play for you know, guys or
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: played with guys that you know have the same motivation
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: and same mindsets as him. And being on the outside
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  Speaker 4: looking in, I've always looked at Cincinnati as that. I
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: told him early on. I was like, man, let's go
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  Speaker 4: to Cincinnati, because I mean, at the time, it wasn't
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: a shot at anyone here. I myself wanted to be
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: a part of this organization. I wanted to be on
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: this team. And I sent him a text. I was like,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: let's go to Cincinnati, And next thing you know, he
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: signed the day of my visit or the day before
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: my visit, and then I signed the next day.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Describe your friendship with Orlando.
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  Speaker 4: I would consider him more than a friend. He's like
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: a big brother than me. From the first week I
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: stepped on the campus at Oklahoma, he was all the
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: little things, from two big things. He was like, this
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  Speaker 4: is how we practice, This is what coach expects from you.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: This is what the team expects from you. And then
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: you know, he was like, this is this is where
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: we eat at, this is do you want good food?
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: This is where you go in. And then he's like
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: this where you can get your haircut at. This is
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: like all the from little to the smallest to the biggest.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: He from week one, you know, he kind of took
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: me under. And you know, he like portrayed itself as
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: a mentor to us younger kids, and he portrayed itself
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: as a as a leader. And then he also lived
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: through through those everything and we assumed of him. He
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: he lived up to it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with Cody Ford. You post on
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Instagram from time to time, and most of your posts
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: include the hashtag our ip Papa, which is a tribute
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to your late grandfather. Tell us about him and your relationship.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Me and him, we were best friends growing up until
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: literally until the day I left for college. There's a
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: point in my life where me and my mom had
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: to go live with my grandparents for some time, and
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: I think that's when we really kind of bonded together.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's when I really started to look
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: at him as not just a grandfather, but a friend,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: a male a male figure in my life that I
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: want to represent and strive to be, and as a father, husband,
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: even as a neighbor. I used to tell not used to,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: but I tell my girlfriend all the time, like, my
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: grandfather was community rich because I could walk into any
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: grocery store, any sporting of it, and they always be like, Oh,
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: you're any Rabbelaye's grandson. And that always made me feel good,
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  Speaker 4: knowing that people knew where I came from and the
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: values that were instilled in me, and the morals and
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  Speaker 4: things like that that I knew. I had a choice
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: to follow or not follow, and I always chose the following.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So you just referenced your girlfriend Tianna on cutdown Day,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: many of us were introduced to her. She has more
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: than one hundred thousand followers on TikTok. She posts some
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: very entertaining videos and she posted one on cutdown day
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  Speaker 1: where the two of you are in a car as
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the clock hits four o'clock and at that point you
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: know you have officially made the Bengals roster. It was
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: really touching. What did you think of that?
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  Speaker 2: That one?
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  Speaker 4: That's That's another another humbling experience I've had with my
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: time in the league, because being that I'm going into
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: my fifth year, I've seen people who you would expect
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: to make the team get cut, and I've seen people
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: that you wouldn't expect to make the team get make
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: the team. And you know, just with the late concussion
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: that I had not putting any film on the in
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: the last preseason game that day, and that last hour
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: or so was very stressful. I had never been in
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: that position before, as eye opening as it was. I've
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: always been on the verge of, well, you never know
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: what can happen. You can always get cut, but that
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: that was the first time where I've been like, no,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: like I don't know if I made this team. But
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: at the same time, you know, I had enough confidence
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: in myself and enough confidence in what I had done
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: so far that I knew I had a good shot,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: and I took advantage of every opportunity, and I put
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: everything out there, and as the time kept going down,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't have anything. I don't have a call,
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: don't have a text, And she's like, well, did you
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: check your other phone? And I was like, no, I haven't.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to check it, but I knew I
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: had to check it, so then I checked it and
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: nothing was there. And then the clock hit four o'clock
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: and then church bells rang and we knew we had
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: made it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: They literally rang in the background, which was amazing. After
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: seeing that video, I've looked at a few of her
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: other TikTok videos. She's bubbling with enthusiasm, while you typically
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: played the straight man and often looked mildly annoyed. Are
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you in character or is that real?
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Both?
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: The annoyance is just a show. And I told her
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: that and then like, we folso a positivideo about that,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: and she knows, Like the beauty of it is that
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: she knows what's real and not real as far as
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: how I act on camera. She also knows that I
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: hate the camera, so she she she expects it sometimes
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: and uh, she's aware of it. But at the same time,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: we I started to kind of enjoy it. And then
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: there's just those true moments where like, I really don't
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: want to be on camera right now, uh, because I've
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: always just been like the nonchalant, like keep everything low
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: profile whatever. But you know, I've as much as she's
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: into into that, not saying she's like a spotlight person,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: but as much as she's like into the recording everything
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: and stuff like that, she's learned to adjust to me
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: not wanting to be on camera as much as well.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: So when I'm annoy it on there, it's just a
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: little show.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Well, she is a talented content creator. You play a
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: very good straight man. What do you like to splur.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: John unnecessary things? Clothes, shoes, bags, more so just because
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't grow up with the finer things. Now that
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I have the opportunity to afford it responsibly, I do
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: have my moments while I go splurged. But I was
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: just those three things kind of And then House of
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Decord is kind of my big thing too, like will
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: art comfy seatings like bean bags, chairs, and then probably
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: my gaming system is what I splurge on quite a
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: bit as well.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: All Right, final fun fact for Cody Ford, and this
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: one is kind of deep. If you could meet anybody
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in history, living or deceased, athlete, entertainer, statesman, who would
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: that person be.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to say Michael Jackson. No, no, I'm
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: switching at Bernie Mac. I love Bernie Mac. I think
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: he's the greatest comedian of all time. And he's also
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: one of the smartest, smartest men. You know, with his
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: quotes and stuff and just the way he lived his life,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: you could tell you he was you know, he knew
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: he was that guy, and that's the way he lived.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I wish I could meet him and just
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: sit in the room and laugh all day. That would
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: be my.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, Cody. This has been fun. It's great to have
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  Speaker 1: you in Cincinnati. I appreciate your time and best of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: FUFT the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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