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Bengals Booth Podcast: We've Only Just Begun · Bengals Booth Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody on dan Horde, and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth podcast. The Only just Begun addition, as
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  Speaker 1: we take an in depth look at Saturday's preseason opener
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  Speaker 1: at Kansas City, the unofficial start of the Zach Taylor era.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from the game, locker
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  Speaker 1: room comments from players and coaches, and Dave lapp Them
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  Speaker 1: will join me for postgame analysis. Plus in this week's
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  Speaker 1: Fun Facts Conversation, it's cornerback Dray Kirkpatrick on a wide
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  Speaker 1: variety of topics ranging from growing up a preacher's kid
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  Speaker 1: in Alabama to what would surprise us about his college
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  Speaker 1: coach Nick Saban. All of that is straight ahead, but first,
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  Speaker 1: here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest
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  Speaker 1: or pod Bean. It's the greatest convention since refrigerated kit Cats.
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  Speaker 1: One of the many perks of traveling with the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: is that our awesome flight attendants pass out candy bars
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  Speaker 1: on the flight home. For me, that means grabbing a
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  Speaker 1: king sized kit cat, placing it in the freezer when
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  Speaker 1: I get home, and then enjoying the refrigerated goodness in
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  Speaker 1: the days that follow. But here's a key warning. Don't
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  Speaker 1: put a Snickers in the freezer. You might lose a tooth. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to football. Many of the bengals best players
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  Speaker 1: didn't take the field in the preseason opener at Kansas City,
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  Speaker 1: including aj Green, Joe Mixon, Giovanni, Bernard Tyler, Reifer, Geno Atkins,
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  Speaker 1: Karl Lawson, and Will Jackson, either due to injury or
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  Speaker 1: to make sure they don't get hurt in a game
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't count. But Andy Dalton did take the field.
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  Speaker 1: It's important for him to get at least some live
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  Speaker 1: varience with Zach Taylor calling the plays, and things could
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  Speaker 1: not have gone better. On the Bengals opening drive, third
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  Speaker 1: down and eleven at the Kansas City forty yard line,
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  Speaker 1: Autum Tate goes in motion out to the right, just
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  Speaker 1: outside the numerals shotgun snap. Dalton, looking left now dumps
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  Speaker 1: it off to a running back for a screen tray
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  Speaker 1: ViOn Williams charging up the numerals, he'll pick up a
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  Speaker 1: first down. On third and eleven, he gets tackled at
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City twenty seven. Dalton floats one four tight.
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  Speaker 1: He high points the ball and he pulls it in.
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  Speaker 1: He's tackled inside the one. It will be first in
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  Speaker 1: goal as autum Tate used his height to pull it
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  Speaker 1: in over chart various ward. Trevion Williams remains the running back.
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  Speaker 1: Dalton gives it to him again and Williams goes low
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  Speaker 1: and takes it into the end zone for an opening
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  Speaker 1: touchdown for Cincinnati. We are in the locker room with
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  Speaker 1: rookie running back trey ViOn Williams. Let the records show
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals scored a touchdown on the opening drive of
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, and you scored it in your first NFL
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  Speaker 1: preseason game. You've got an ear to ear grin. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great moment, man. It's crazy. You know, growing up
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  Speaker 1: you have wishes of planning in NFL and just like
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  Speaker 1: just walking on the field before the game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just thinking like wow, this is this is actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: You know, me being in my first NFL game and
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  Speaker 1: then being able to escort at NFL touchdown and my debut.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a blessing. So I thank God and
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  Speaker 1: thank my teammates. And thank his organization for giving me
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity. It was a fourteen play, seventy five yard
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  Speaker 1: touchdown drive that chewed up nearly half of the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Dalton went seven for nine for eighty yards and only
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  Speaker 1: made one bad throw slightly under throwing Josh Malone and
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  Speaker 1: what would have been a thirty nine yard touchdown. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it just surprised me a little bit. I wasn't ready
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  Speaker 1: to really get it out there, and so I left
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  Speaker 1: it short. Unfortunately that the drive shouldn't have been a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen play drive. It should have been a ten play drive.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean for us to overcome overcome that too.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was close. Considering that it Zach's debut.
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  Speaker 1: Was it cool to go back to the sideline after
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  Speaker 1: the opening drive and essentially say, okay, how's that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was good. Now obviously happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to to get the ball, get the kickoff
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  Speaker 1: and drive down, score touchdown. I think that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: you want to do. I mean, the first time being
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  Speaker 1: the head coach, first time out there, you know, call
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  Speaker 1: and plays for us, it's you want to score every
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  Speaker 1: time you got the ball, and so for us to
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  Speaker 1: do in the first one was big. Dalton was done
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  Speaker 1: after one drive, and then the NFL's reigning MVP took
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  Speaker 1: his turn. Twenty three year old Patrick Mahomes started the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs first drive with a thirty seven yard laser to
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey. That was the big strike. On a seven
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  Speaker 1: play eighty three yard touchdown drive second and goal from
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  Speaker 1: the one for KC. Mahomes takes a shotgun snap. It's
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  Speaker 1: a handoff to hide Andy thunders into the end zone
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  Speaker 1: for a Kansas City touchdown. Mahomes was four for four
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  Speaker 1: for sixty six yards. It also had a ten yard run.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Bengals linebacker Hardy Nickerson on why the Chiefs are
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  Speaker 1: so darn hard to defend. They come out in all
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  Speaker 1: type of formations, all type of different plays, different runs
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  Speaker 1: with passes, combos off of it. So it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of It was a lot of plays on the perimeter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, chasing sideline the sideline definitely we see a
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  Speaker 1: lot kind of in our offense. So it was it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those games where you're running a lot, you
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  Speaker 1: get a little tired. I would think more like exhausted
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  Speaker 1: from chasing the fastest team on offense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs already had Tyree Hill and Sammy Watkins. In
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  Speaker 1: the second round of the draft this year, they selected
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver me Cole Hardman out of Georgia, who ran
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  Speaker 1: a four three three forty at the combine. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: jet suite Hardman to the ten, the five and into
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  Speaker 1: the end zone for Kansas City touchdown that gave the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs of fourteen seven lead, and a field goal in
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  Speaker 1: the final minute of the second quarter made it seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seven KC. The Chiefs were the highest scoring team in
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  Speaker 1: the nf FELL last year, and when the Bengals faced
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  Speaker 1: them in Week seven, Cincinnati didn't force a single punt.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals forced four of them on Saturday Night, but
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  Speaker 1: since it was a preseason game, the sure handed Alex
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  Speaker 1: Ericsson was not. The Bengals punt returner Phillips waits for
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  Speaker 1: this punt back at the twenty five. This one much better.
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  Speaker 1: Phillips back pedaling, good hang time. He tops it at
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen. This time it does not bounce right back
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  Speaker 1: into his stomach. There's a pile at the nineteen yard
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  Speaker 1: line Kansas City and the Chiefs recover. It's a killer.
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  Speaker 1: Two plays after the second muffed punt of the night
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  Speaker 1: by Darius Phillips. Chase Litton threw a touchdown pass to
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  Speaker 1: Darwin Thompson, giving the Chiefs at twenty four to seven lead.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals got three points back on a forty seven
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  Speaker 1: yard field goal by Tristan Viscano in his NFL preseason debut.
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  Speaker 1: The next time the Chiefs punted, Quinton Flowers went back
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  Speaker 1: to return it. Call quit launches it, Flowers, that's it bounced.
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  Speaker 1: There are a couple of Bengals right there. It might
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  Speaker 1: have hit a Cincinnati player on the leg. Yeah it did,
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  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs recover. Unbelievable. Chiefs will take over at
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals thirty five yard line, and that led to
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen yard touchdown pass from Lytton to Dion Yelder
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  Speaker 1: that made it thirty one ten going to the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest bright spot in the second half of the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals was the play of rookie quarterback Ryan Finley, the
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  Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick out of nc STAY directed a
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  Speaker 1: nine play, sixty seven yard drive that ended with the
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  Speaker 1: bengals second touchdown of the night. From the ten yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Finley catches the shotgun snaps scanning the defense. Now
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  Speaker 1: he frows it has caught at the seven at Ellis,
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  Speaker 1: We'll run it into the end zone for a Bengals touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Blue coverage that time, nobody picked up back out of
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  Speaker 1: the backfield. Finley stepped up in the pocket and he
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  Speaker 1: surveyed everything through right, never came back to the left,
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  Speaker 1: stepped up and said, oh my gosh, nobody's got my
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  Speaker 1: running back, No linebacker, no safety's got my back out
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  Speaker 1: of the backfield. Little pitch and catch for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the locker room with rookie running back Jordan Ellis,
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  Speaker 1: who found the end zone in his first NFL preseason
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  Speaker 1: game on that touchdown pass from Ryan Finlay. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be a nice feeling to catch the ball, turn
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  Speaker 1: around and don't see anybody standing in your way from
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  Speaker 1: the goal line. It's definitely crazy my first touchdown, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be untouched, but man, it's definitely it definitely still feels surreal.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't even feel like it really happened. But just bless
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  Speaker 1: my God to behind my first touchdown my first game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's just a blessing and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to many more in the NFL. Finlay finished
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  Speaker 1: thirteen for eighteen for one hundred nine yards and had
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  Speaker 1: a passer rating above one hundred before his final throw
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  Speaker 1: of the night was intercepted. I felt really comfortable. It was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just watching Andy and Jeff go before me.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt like, uh, you know, going there and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, keep trying to move the ball down
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  Speaker 1: the field. And I felt really good. As far as
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  Speaker 1: assimilating the offense as it's come on a day to
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  Speaker 1: day basis everything for you there, absolutely, that's that's part
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  Speaker 1: of the fun for me and this offense is it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty it's pretty ingenious offense, and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: excited obviously it was very base tonight, but excited for um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for Andy to have just all all those
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  Speaker 1: stuff at his disposal, so that'd be fun. The Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: scored the game's final touchdown with one fifty six to
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  Speaker 1: go to win thirty eight to seventeen. Like most preseason openers,
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  Speaker 1: it was ugly at times. Each team had eleven penalties,
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals only managed to cleanly catch one out of
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  Speaker 1: four punts, and the Bengals defense allowed four hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: to eighty five passing and one fifteen rushing Dave Lapham
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Zach Taylor in the locker room a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes after his first ever game as a head coach. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought, initially the guys were in position
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  Speaker 1: to make some plays. We're just gonna step up and
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  Speaker 1: make them. And then overall the physicality and the tacklings
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  Speaker 1: got improved. A lot of guys were in position just
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  Speaker 1: look like they're excited. And then and so that excitement
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  Speaker 1: leted them wearing down a little bit as that game
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  Speaker 1: got on, and guys got to step up and rack
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  Speaker 1: up and make some tackles. And you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: a minded sticks a few times and let him back
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  Speaker 1: in it with some depis and so they'd score on
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  Speaker 1: the next play. And then special teams, I thought that
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  Speaker 1: the depth has got to step up. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: thought the first units played well on special teams. We
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  Speaker 1: got to be better on the partment returns. You know,
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  Speaker 1: two tournaments there. That's gonna lose you a lot of games.
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  Speaker 1: And so those guys got to be a little more disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking back to when we met this morning, you said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want and you get the ball out
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  Speaker 1: of his hand. Quickly, and I want him take a
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  Speaker 1: deep shot. I'll be a son of a gun man.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting the ball out of his hand, moving it
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  Speaker 1: and like you said, overcoming first and twenty you know,
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  Speaker 1: with a holding penalty. And then he took the shot
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  Speaker 1: and just that ball was a little bit under throne obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but it was there for him. So I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: thing unfolded just the way you said it would. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: those deep balls, the easiest ones are the hardest ones,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you think it's such a layup that
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  Speaker 1: you don't quite you don't quite throw like you normally would.
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  Speaker 1: And it was good. He got another opportunity there, just
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  Speaker 1: just real quick after that, and it threw nice ball
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  Speaker 1: over there to Audum tay and aud made the play.
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  Speaker 1: So and he's poise is something that has always really
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  Speaker 1: excited me. He's always a very calming influence on the
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  Speaker 1: group and doesn't panic. And that show tonight. So what
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  Speaker 1: what's your message to your team? You know after a
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  Speaker 1: game like this, is it to you know, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: move on, or is it let's learn from mistakes or
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  Speaker 1: is it a combination of all that? What do you do?
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  Speaker 1: This is the NFL that that should have been a
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  Speaker 1: game that came out of the wire and we'd have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win. But the turnovers and the penalties
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  Speaker 1: are going to lose you games the NFL against really
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  Speaker 1: good football teams like the Chiefs, and so fortunately for us,
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  Speaker 1: this one doesn't count. We get to turn around in
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  Speaker 1: five games and and uh, you know, correct those mistakes
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  Speaker 1: that we made and give our guys the second opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and so excited that we had to quick turnaround and
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to go redeem ourselves. Finley went thirteen
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hundred and nine yards and a touchdown pass um
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  Speaker 1: what do you think his play? Just you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know you haven't had a chance obviously to study it,
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  Speaker 1: but just eyeball very poised, had confidence in him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he was a clear communicating in the huddle. His helmet
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  Speaker 1: didn't work the very first series and so he had
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  Speaker 1: to run back and forth kind of like he was
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  Speaker 1: back in seventh Great, I would imagine, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it didn't affect him in any way. He was poised,
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  Speaker 1: got back in the huddle and made good decisions, found
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  Speaker 1: the backs when he needed to. We called a couple
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  Speaker 1: of shots that weren't there, and he just checked it
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  Speaker 1: down and so impressed with his first day running the football.
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  Speaker 1: I think the longest run from scrimmage, if ever, calls
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  Speaker 1: like five yards, and I know you gotta, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want, you want more than that out of your
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  Speaker 1: running game. Obviously, that's that's a point of emphasis coming up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we're not gonna ask them to do
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  Speaker 1: too much up front and the run game in these
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  Speaker 1: preseason games. But it's still the plays we gotta be called,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta be targeted correctly and help those backs out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So it could have been better in
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  Speaker 1: the run game, you know, And we looked improve that
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  Speaker 1: next week against Washington. And now the weird stat of
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  Speaker 1: the night, Kansas City is ten and oh all time
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  Speaker 1: in preseason games against the Bengals. When the games count,
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati leads the series fifteen to fourteen. Now time for
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  Speaker 1: postgame analysis with LAB. Let's start with the obvious positive
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  Speaker 1: LAB and that was the Bengals first drive of the
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  Speaker 1: Zach Taylor era. They marked seventy five yards and score
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. Andy Dalton very sharp on the drive, although
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  Speaker 1: he did just miss a long touchdown pass to Josh Malone.
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  Speaker 1: There was a little bit underthrown, but he bounced right back,
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  Speaker 1: led the Bengals into the end zone and had the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of going back to the sideline and basically saying
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  Speaker 1: to Zach Taylor, hey, is that good enough for you? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Good start? Fourteen plays, seventy five yards. You know you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the toughest throw for the quarterback to make is
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  Speaker 1: when the wide receivers wide open and you're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to hit a layup, you know, and you missed the bunny,
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  Speaker 1: you missed the chippy. So but he did come right back,
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  Speaker 1: throws the ball out and Tape makes a great play
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  Speaker 1: for him, gets him down to the one yard line,
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  Speaker 1: and then they scored the touchdown, so that that definitely
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  Speaker 1: was a positive. And it unfolded just like Zach Taylor
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  Speaker 1: had said in the production meeting, and he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: end to get the ball out of his hand quickly,
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to put him at risk for injury. And
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  Speaker 1: then at some point earned the drive, take a shot,
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  Speaker 1: and it all unfolded exactly that win ends up fourteen
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  Speaker 1: play touchdown drive. I thought another positive was Ryan Finley
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  Speaker 1: thirteen sixteen, you know, well over one hundred yards and
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  Speaker 1: had a touchdown pass and I thought that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's getting more and more familiar, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the offense. The Kansas Chiefs weren't doing anything real exotic.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he got a chance to watch it in
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  Speaker 1: the first half, and you know, he said they didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything differently when he got in the football game,
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  Speaker 1: so he was he was kind of ready to perform.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he performed pretty well. The biggest negative giveaways
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals had four turnovers in the game, two interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: including one on a hail mary, so you almost don't
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  Speaker 1: count that. But they had two opportunities to get the
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  Speaker 1: ball after stopping Kansas City, which is hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: And when you forced the Chiefs to punt, you better
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  Speaker 1: be able to field the punt. Absolutely put it on
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  Speaker 1: the ground three times, lost two of them. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, had the two interceptions, one of hail mary,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, but they scored fourteen points off of those,
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  Speaker 1: you know, giveaways that the Bengals had. The Bengals got
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  Speaker 1: no points off the one takeaway, but Hardy Nickerson had
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  Speaker 1: he had the interception in the red zone. So turnovers
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  Speaker 1: played a big part in the game. Um not only
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  Speaker 1: turning it over but leading to points that you know,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen of the twenty one points you lose by or
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  Speaker 1: something that could have been avoided. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: look at that, you look at double digit penalties for
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  Speaker 1: well over one hundred yards. I mean, you know, even
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  Speaker 1: in the first drive they had to overcome a first
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  Speaker 1: and twenty you know, and they did so, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: those kind of things that self destructure will interrupt momentum
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  Speaker 1: and you know, get you just out of your rhythm
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  Speaker 1: of play calling and execution. So that that's that's all
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  Speaker 1: going to get cleaned up. You know, the Bengals defense
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  Speaker 1: had penalties, They missed a bunch of tackles. There's no
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  Speaker 1: way that they didn't have double digit mis tackles. So
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of times they were in position
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  Speaker 1: to make plays and they'd make the initial hit, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, instead of taking the ground to just be
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  Speaker 1: dragging and getting dragged for you know, for extra yarded
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  Speaker 1: So U that has to change and I think it will.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, in the Bengals lost in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: here at Kansas City, those miss tackles were a huge
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  Speaker 1: problem in that game. They had eighteen according to Pro
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  Speaker 1: Football Focus, the most that they have ever measured in
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  Speaker 1: a regular season game. How much is that is? How
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  Speaker 1: much of that is Kansas City's speed. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a factor, you know. I think that you know, you
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: get in practice and you're playing at as fast at
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Temple as you can in practice. But then there's game speed,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: and then there's warp speed because these guys run. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of them that run sub four fours,
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  Speaker 1: I mean half a dozen guys. It is. It's like
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: an Olympic relay team instead of a batonic's of football
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  Speaker 1: that they're playing with out there. And these guys can
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: flat scoot. So if you take a poor angle or
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: you know you're you're half a gap out of position,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: they can make you look bad in a hurry and
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: they square those shoulder pads up and head to the
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: end zone. It's like wow, I mean that's some acceleration there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think when you make mistakes against the Chiefs,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: you know you don't get away with them. You know
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: they hit you right in the face, and the mistakes
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  Speaker 1: compounded because of that speed, a little mistake becomes a massive,
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  Speaker 1: you know, big play mistake. Forty five years ago, a
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: young twenty two year old Dave Lappa made his NFL
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  Speaker 1: preseason debut. I know how special that is for you
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  Speaker 1: against the two time defending Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Well, a bunch of Bengals obviously made
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: their debuts tonight. Trevion Williams scored a touchdown in his
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: first game. Jordan Ellis scored a touchdown in his first game.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Stanley Morgan had several catches. I believe he finished with three.
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  Speaker 1: That's a night they'll never forget, no question, it is
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a night they'll never forget. And I guess the final
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: thing that we have to worry about is injury, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Clayton Federlum felt a little bit of a pop,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you know, and a little bit of a numbness, and
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, how bad is this ankle sprain?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And I don't think he'll make the dance on a
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: short week, you know against the Redskins, and Travon Williams
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: had you know, he's got to hit a bruise rib.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So there's some some bumps and bruises that guys are
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: gonna have to lick their wounds to get over pretty
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: early because this is the short week that they've got
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: in training camp and every week after this is at
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: least a full week, and then obviously that fourth preseason
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: game and of the the ragulsas they have extra days with
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: that Thursday game. So get through this one, lick their wounds,
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  Speaker 1: get ready to play, and go to Washington and unfolded
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit better. Up next the Thursday night game
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  Speaker 1: in our nation's capital against the Redskins. Kickoff is at
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: seven thirty. Now time for this week's fun facts interview
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: is we get to know the person under the pads.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, it's an interview out of the archives.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after the Bengals made a cornerback out of the
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  Speaker 1: University of Alabama the seventeenth overall pick in the two
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  Speaker 1: and twelve NFL Draft, time for some fantastic fun facts
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  Speaker 1: with rookie cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick. You are from Gadsden, Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: which has the motto City of Champions. What does a
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  Speaker 1: young man do for fun in Gadsden, Alabama? Just hang
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  Speaker 1: out my friends. You know, sometime we'll go dirt bike ride,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of outdoor type activities and you know, I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: just basically played my son most of the time when
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I'm out. Yeah, you're obviously a star football player in
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: high school, but how about other sports? Did you do
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: other things as well? I played basketball a look to
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  Speaker 1: my senior year, so I missed my should up and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: had to have service, so, you know, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: took away from the fun a little bit, but it
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  Speaker 1: was all right though. All Right, we're doing fun facts
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  Speaker 1: with Drake Kirkpatrick. You're and your dad both work on Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: You're in the NFL, and he's a pastor. Did he
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  Speaker 1: have a lot Have you do a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: in the church when you were young? Yeah, I saw
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in a choir, I did usher, I played at the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: drums mostly though, you know, so I was very active
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  Speaker 1: in the church, and that's one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for. Are you a skilled drummer. I'm a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: skilled drummer. Yes, I've been playing ever since I was
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  Speaker 1: three years old. How about that? All right? Have you
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  Speaker 1: had any other jobs aside from things that your dad
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: had you do in the church. Not really, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I probably had some side jobs maybe you know younger,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: but I never just actually had an active job. All right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Dre there was a story about you where your dad
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: had this quote. Once the task has begun, be it
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: great or be it small, do it well, or do
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  Speaker 1: it not at all. Yeah, it's that kind of the
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  Speaker 1: way that he brought you up to do things to
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  Speaker 1: the best of your ability. Yeah, that's the way I
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  Speaker 1: am right now. And you know, there was someone the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: reason that played a part of where I went to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: school at and you know, because every time I did
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: something I had to I had I finished first off,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and I did it to the best ability, you know,
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  Speaker 1: no slacking, no no days off, just going at one.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: All right, you mentioned going to school, you went to Alabama,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and I've seen the footage of your announcement on the internet.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It's pretty hysterical because you pull out a gym bag.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Inside of that, there's a plastic bag. Inside of that,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: there's a gift box. Inside of that, there's a gift bag,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and then the Alabama hat comes out. It looked like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: he had a lot of fun with that ceremony. Yeah,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: what we want to do. Wanted to make it fun
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and just be over creative things. So you know, it
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: worked out great, you know, but I was happy that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I told us at Universe of Alabama. That was a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: big deal. I mean that was on TV and everything,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: your announcement of where you're going to college, and so
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it was great, you know, just even to be in
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that position that had an opportunity to even be able
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to present yourself out to the world like that. So
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it was just it was just an honor. We're doing
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: fun facts with Trey Kirkpatrick. He won two national championships
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in three years at Alabama. Where are the rings? Uh?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: My mom got him put them in a safe back
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: home so you know they can stay safe and you
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people be in and out the house,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: so we don't want to know about the tip away
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: with him. He played for next Sabe and I find
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: it hard to believe the dude is in his sixties.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He seems so young to make. Yeah, you know, he's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: very energetic, very focused and serious about what he'd do. Um,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: always ready to come to work, and you know he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: just a great man, you know, and I look up
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to him still to this day. Is there anything about
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: him that we would be surprised to now? Uh? He
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: has a personality. M he don't show it a lot,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you know, especially when he's at work and when he's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in his workplace, but outside of that. He's very fun
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to be around. He cracked jokes in the meeting rooms
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: all the time, and you know, he always made it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: fun for us. You know, he didn't put a lot
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of stress on us. Draft read that your hero growing
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: up puts Dion Sanders. What was it about Dan that
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: you admired somebody? Uh? Just the way he presented itself.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: You know, he didn't change the fact of him going
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to the NFL make him a different person. He always
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: stayed the same person. And that's where I can tries
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to be. You know, I don't I don't let money
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of fame change me. I just want to be the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: same more draping gass and m how many times if
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you met Dion ever or the conversations like I'm in
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: at one time that was at the combine and um,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I mean well the draft actually, and you know he
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was joking about me about what I had on and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, it was just fun just to
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: be able to be around and see some of the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: people that I grew up looking at and modify my game.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I fuck, So he admired the way that you drafted
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to the NFL draft, Yeah, he did. I was pretty
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: stylished as I readycall who put together that? Luck? Uh?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I did you know? I'm very into dressing and style
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: type type things, so you know, me and some of
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: my friends just thought about some things. Yeah, all right,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it's the seventeenth overall picking the draft this year. Naturally,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you're you're well compensated. You get nice bonus when you're
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: drafted that high. What do you splurge on? Is it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: closed or something else? First I had to do it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I had to get my mom place to live. You know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we've been standing in the same house basically twenty two years,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: so you know, it was time for a chain. So
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: we had to get out of here. That's pretty exciting.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Guy who picked that out? That was it a surprise
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: or that they know it's coming. No, I let him
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: pick it. You know, I want her to be comfortable
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and I want her to feel safe, so I didn't
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: want to surprise her with anything and she not be
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: one satisfied. So I feel like the best way it
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was just to let her choose. All right, Now, you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: had to get something for yourself as well. Did you
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: splurge on yourself at all? Not really, you know, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: really ain't no big splinder like that. You know, you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just happy guy put me in Cincinnati because I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: would have been anywhere else. You know, a lot of party,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of supposed to a lot of different things.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So you know, here it just keep me ground, to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: keep me focused on what I have a task. As
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, you have a dad, Drey Junior. How old
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: is he? And then tell me a little bit about
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: your boy. Uh he seeks h June first, he would
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: be seven. You know, he's just very fun to be around.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: He look ups to me. I have to watch the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: way I move certain words that I say, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: just actually just being a father, you know, stepping up
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to the playbook costs. I had to still it to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the place so young. But you know, I feel like
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I did a great job, and you did a great
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: job with fun facts. Thanks for the time, best a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: lot of apprestated things. The Bengals final two open to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the public practices are coming up on Monday and Tuesday
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: from three to five at the practice fields adjacent to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Paul Brown Stadium. Hope to see you there. That's going
• 24:43
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• 24:45
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