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  Speaker 1: Hig and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: The With a little lock addition, as the preseason gets
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  Speaker 2: underway with a three point loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 2: coming up radio replays Zach Taylor's postgame comments and postgame
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  Speaker 2: analysis from Dave Lappham. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation,
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  Speaker 2: the radio replays of Saturday's pre season opener. It's been
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  Speaker 2: nearly nine months since Joe Burrow tore a ligament in
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  Speaker 2: his right wrist and a gloomy Thursday night in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: But after surgery, rehab, a Paris fashion show, and a
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  Speaker 2: blond buzz cut, one of the NFL's biggest stars returns
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  Speaker 2: to action tonight as the Bengals open preseason play against
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And it is time for the
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  Speaker 2: pig skin to fly. Here at pay Corpse Stadium, Third
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  Speaker 2: down and five at the forty two of Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals go empty three receivers left two out to
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  Speaker 2: the right. Burro waiting for the shotgun snap. Joe Catches
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  Speaker 2: at the forty eight, drops back to midfield. Fire downfield
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  Speaker 2: caught by yoc Bosh, and he streaks toward the far
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  Speaker 2: sideline for a first down. He's knocked on the bounds
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  Speaker 2: at the nineteen of Tampa Bay the nickel corner Tyke Smith,
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  Speaker 2: getting him to the ground. Second in goal from the
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  Speaker 2: ten yard line. Tee Higgins motions from right to left
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  Speaker 2: and lines up wide to the left. Burrough throws for Higgins,
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  Speaker 2: catches at the five, makes a man miss and runs
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  Speaker 2: into the un zone.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Bengals has t Higgins eluded Josh Hayes and scored the
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  Speaker 2: ten yard TD.
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  Speaker 1: How about that your nash for a better drive for
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  Speaker 1: the number ones, Joe Burrow and company are done for
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  Speaker 1: the night clock.
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  Speaker 2: Running one forty three left in the first quarter. Trask
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  Speaker 2: standing back at the ten as he waits for the
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  Speaker 2: shotgun snap. He has the ball, hands it off to
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  Speaker 2: Irving running right up the middle of the field, and
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  Speaker 2: he takes it into the end zone for a five
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  Speaker 2: yard Tampa Bay touchdown. Shotgun snap Trask with a deep
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  Speaker 2: drop he throws before getting.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, and it is interceptingent fig Newton, the rookie out
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  Speaker 3: of TCU, with tremendous coverage, and he comes away with
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  Speaker 3: the interception at the thirty four yard line.
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  Speaker 1: You darn touton love fig Newton.
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  Speaker 2: Second down and two clock running three forty three left
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth court of the Bengals, down by three.
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  Speaker 2: They are in field goal range. Woodside throwing deep to
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  Speaker 2: left top line.
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  Speaker 3: Has a man open, caught at the five Burton to
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  Speaker 3: the end zone. Touchdown. But there's a penalty flag down
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  Speaker 3: too before the.
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  Speaker 1: Pass illegal contact defense number twenty one. That penalty has
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  Speaker 1: to climb touch side. So in the play stands and
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  Speaker 1: Burton obviously, I mean the guy. The guy has first
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  Speaker 1: round talent. How about woodside? How about the drive that
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  Speaker 1: this guy put together, mental toughness and he threw a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful ball right here. Safety couldn't get there in time.
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  Speaker 3: Big throw, big.
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  Speaker 2: Catch, thirty seven yards, dropped it right into the bucket
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  Speaker 2: at the five yard line to Jermaine Burton, and he
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  Speaker 2: took it across the goal line to give the Bengals
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  Speaker 2: the lead with three thirty three to go, sixty nine
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  Speaker 2: seconds left in the game. Fourth down, and twelve coming
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  Speaker 2: up for the Buccaneers, who break the huddle and head
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  Speaker 2: toward the seventeen yard line where the ball is waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati leading fourteen to ten. The Buccaneers go empty. Three
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  Speaker 2: receivers right, two out to the left, four down linemen
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  Speaker 2: for the Bengals. Shotgun snap Wolford with a short drop
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  Speaker 2: turns it into the end zone in complete, but a
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  Speaker 2: penalty fly down at the two yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive pass interppearance.
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  Speaker 2: Wolford under center. It's a run to the left. Robinson
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  Speaker 2: does not get in, but he's close and he is in.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Never blew it dead. Never blew it dead. They
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  Speaker 1: just kept pushing and giving him a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty seconds to go, three timeouts remaining. Shotgun snap Woodside
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  Speaker 2: with a deep drop, fires deep for Burden.
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  Speaker 3: He has been and he makes the catch about at
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  Speaker 3: the twenty five yard line of Tampa Bay, over the
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  Speaker 3: top of Andrew Hayes.
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  Speaker 2: The Bengals will call a time out. With forty seconds
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  Speaker 2: to go, Bengals need to get to the fourteen yard
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  Speaker 2: line to extend the drive. Burton goes out to the
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  Speaker 2: lef left lassiter and prior out to the right Woodside
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  Speaker 2: waits for the shotgun snap. He has the ball, he
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  Speaker 2: drops back. It's a five step drop. He begins scrambling left.
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  Speaker 2: Logan wood Side running down the left sideline, grabbed from
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  Speaker 2: behind and tackled at the seventeen yard line. He's three
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  Speaker 2: yards short. Man Buccaneers in the victory formation with nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seconds left. Wolford takes the snap and takes a knee
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  Speaker 2: and the Bengals will not use one of their two
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  Speaker 2: remaining timeouts. Final score the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seventeen and
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  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals fourteen. Here are some postgame stats. Joe
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  Speaker 2: Burrow is five for seven for fifty one yards in
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown in what could be his only preseason action
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  Speaker 2: since the Bengals have joint practices coming up before their
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  Speaker 2: final two preseason games. Third string quarterback Logan Woodside did
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  Speaker 2: a nice job, going eight for twelve for one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty nine yards in a touchdown, and Jermaine Burton
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  Speaker 2: certainly had an impressive debut with three catches for eighty
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  Speaker 2: two yards, including a thirty seven yard score. On defense,
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  Speaker 2: undrafted rookie linebacker Muma john Meta led the team with
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  Speaker 2: ten tackles Dax Hill broke up three passes, and defensive
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  Speaker 2: tackle Travis Bell was a menace late in the game
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  Speaker 2: with three tackles and a sack. Now, let's hear from
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  Speaker 2: head coach Zach Taylor. We spent a few minutes with
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  Speaker 2: Lap after the game.
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  Speaker 1: Logan Woodside put together a pretty nice performance heat for
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  Speaker 1: twelve hundred and forty nine yards in a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought he did a great job. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he energized the offense, moved the ball, gave us some opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: They had the touchdown pass obviously, and then took us
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  Speaker 4: down there right on the brink again. So it was
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  Speaker 4: pleased from that extending some plays. Found the backs did
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  Speaker 4: a really nice show.
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  Speaker 1: First first drive, you go twelve plays over seventy yards
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  Speaker 1: for a touchdown, and then defense goes three and out. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you had your number ones and there
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty good night for you, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that was a good start to the game,
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  Speaker 4: and you just want to build on that momentum with
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the guys. And you have to remember
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  Speaker 4: everyone's going in there. Knew some guys haven't played games
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  Speaker 4: in a long time, and so again we just need
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  Speaker 4: to be cleaner. I think operationally offense and defense with
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  Speaker 4: the twos we entered the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the I mean, let me take a look.
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  Speaker 1: I had a note on that penalties for the game.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't it wasn't in the bengals favor whatsoever. There.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was eight penalties for over eighty yards
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  Speaker 1: for the Bengals. And I know that was a a
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  Speaker 1: big thing you were looking for. It was playing cleanly
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  Speaker 1: in terms of assignments and penalties.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, quite frankly, they killed us. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we had a fourth down pass interference that gave them
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  Speaker 4: the ball on the three yard line. We had some
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  Speaker 4: offensive penalties when we're backed up, you know, with a
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  Speaker 4: false start made us more backed up. We had a
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  Speaker 4: third and three, we had a false start put us
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  Speaker 4: in third and eight, we don't convert, had some holding
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  Speaker 4: penalties on some things where we got big conversions, and
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  Speaker 4: so you talk about not being able to sing drives
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  Speaker 4: and get more runs off and get more production. These
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  Speaker 4: penalties killed those drives and something we got.
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  Speaker 1: A correct running game, couldn't really get much out of that,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't manufacture much in the running game, and they were
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  Speaker 1: able to rush for over one hundred and thirty yards.
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  Speaker 1: I think big difference there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got to be better there if that's but again,
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  Speaker 4: that goes with just getting a first down and getting
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  Speaker 4: someone minium there, and we couldn't get that done. And
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  Speaker 4: so we quite frankly weren't good enough in the run game.
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  Speaker 4: More of the pass game.
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  Speaker 1: How about taking care of the football. We were satisfied with.
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  Speaker 4: That zero turnovers right one. We threw the one pick,
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  Speaker 4: so no, I mean you want to walk away with
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  Speaker 4: zero and we took a shot there into one on
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  Speaker 4: one and they made the play and you know, stole
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  Speaker 4: a position there from us, so we can be clear there.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was great to watch Joe and T
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  Speaker 1: Higgins in the first drive and Joe throws themto double
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  Speaker 1: coverage knowing that if he's not going to come up
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  Speaker 1: with the football, they sure as heck aren't. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's unbelievable trust and you're wide receive It almost wasn't
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they've they made a great play. There
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  Speaker 4: was two guys around it. I love the decision to
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  Speaker 4: give it to them because T makes that play for us.
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  Speaker 4: They just did a good job knocking it out, But
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  Speaker 4: you got an advantage there. You run a double move
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  Speaker 4: and so there's dvs. They got the back to the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback and Tino's where the ball's going, and we'll throw
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  Speaker 4: that ball every time.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess, coach, what's your thought. You're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the tape and assess things and go
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  Speaker 1: back to work. What do you think are some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that the biggest things that need to be
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  Speaker 1: worked on? Penalties?
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  Speaker 4: First of all, we just got to be more more
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  Speaker 4: efficient operationally on offense. I didn't think we were clean
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  Speaker 4: enough with all the details of the routes. Defensively, I
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  Speaker 4: thought we got it together really after that second drive,
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  Speaker 4: and those guys played with a ton of energy. Pressure
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback. We're tighter in coverage, got their hands on
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  Speaker 4: a lot of balls. So we'll watch the tape and
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  Speaker 4: see what we can improve on. Appreciate your time, coach, yep,
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Here are a couple of the biggest negatives from Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: The Bucks had one hundred and thirty six rushing yards
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  Speaker 2: compared to only thirty six for the Bengals, and Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: committed eight penalties for sixty one yards while the Bucks
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  Speaker 2: had just three for thirty two. Now time for the
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  Speaker 2: radio guys recap. All right, lap, The obvious storyline on
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals preseason opener is Joe Burrow on the opening drive,
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  Speaker 2: taking the Bengals right down the field and tossing a
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  Speaker 2: touchdown pass to t Higgins. He's got to be a
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  Speaker 2: great feeling for him to play for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in nearly nine months and take the team seventy three
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  Speaker 2: yards on twelve plays for a score.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean he was efficient. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he read the field flawlessly, which is no shock. He
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  Speaker 1: threw the ball with accuracy, with power. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: put it every place he wanted to put it. The
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  Speaker 1: Bengals took advantage of a penalty on third and seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was that extended a drive on that
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  Speaker 1: touchdown for them, and they only I mean Tampa Bentley
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  Speaker 1: had three penalties on the night, and it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of foreshadowing of the reverse the Bengals. You know, eight penalties,
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  Speaker 1: two on fourth down, one on fourth and thirteen. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, penalties are always a big deal in the
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  Speaker 1: first preseason game, and the Bengals suffered more by it
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  Speaker 1: than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But that doesn't diminish what
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  Speaker 1: Joe was doing, you know on that drive. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he obviously, I think felt pretty good. He got in
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good rhythm pretty quickly. He goes five for
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  Speaker 1: seven to fifty one yards and a touchdown. You know
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  Speaker 1: that dog will hunt right there. That's getting it done
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  Speaker 1: at a very high level.
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  Speaker 2: Andre Yosi Vash has had a great camp, and he
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  Speaker 2: had a twenty three yard catch on that touchdown drive.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Jones has had an excellent camp. He obviously didn't
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  Speaker 2: play after colliding knees with a teammate the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Jermaine Burden, on the other hand, he's been solid in camp.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly made his share of catches. But the lights
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  Speaker 2: go on and he has a thirty seven yard touchdown
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  Speaker 2: catch and a thirty eight yard catch on the next
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  Speaker 2: offensive snap. Could he be one of these guys that
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  Speaker 2: practice is fine, but when the game is on the line,
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  Speaker 2: he cranks it up a notch.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big play waiting to happen. There's no question
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  Speaker 1: about it. I think you know he's got first round
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  Speaker 1: talent in skill set. I mean you check every trait
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  Speaker 1: often the boxes to check off traits. Everyone is checked off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to evaluate who's he doing it
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  Speaker 1: against and all those things. I mean, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a big difference between playing in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: in a preseason game against backups then you know, an
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  Speaker 1: NFL regular season game when the fortunes of the entire
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  Speaker 1: football team are on the line. So it but it
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  Speaker 1: is a very positive sign. There's there's no question about
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  Speaker 1: about it. I mean, three catches for eighty two yards,
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  Speaker 1: that's not too shabby. And uh, you know, back to
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  Speaker 1: the like you mentioned during the game, Dan two straight
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  Speaker 1: completions one for thirty eight, one for thirty seven, seventy
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  Speaker 1: five yards and a touchdown on two straight completions, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean it's an it's an NFL caliber
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  Speaker 1: corner he's working against, you know, guys in camp for
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  Speaker 1: a reason. So yeah, I mean, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: he has he has the physical gifts to play. Can
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  Speaker 1: he on a snap by snap basis b where he's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be doing what he's supposed to do and
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  Speaker 1: do it consistently. That's going to be the big question
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  Speaker 1: is you go on further and further into training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple of offensive linemen, Amrius Mims,
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  Speaker 2: who was in for a series with the first team
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  Speaker 2: and a series for the series with the second team,
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  Speaker 2: and Jackson Carmen, who had a rough night. Let's start
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  Speaker 2: with Mims. How do you look?
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  Speaker 1: I thought he looked confident. I thought he looked solid.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really see any problems over there whatsoever. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think. I mean, the running game obviously was not
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  Speaker 1: very good the entire night. I thought that was one
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  Speaker 1: of the big differences as well. They rushed the ball
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  Speaker 1: for over one hundred and thirty yards and the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: had no consistency to their running game as well and
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on the passing game as
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  Speaker 1: a result of that. Where was Tampa. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: have the benefit of a strong running game and play action, pass,
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  Speaker 1: naked bootlegs, all that sort of thing were really causing
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals to have major issues in that regard. So
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  Speaker 1: but I do think I think that he has shown
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  Speaker 1: himself in the early stages of a training camp to
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  Speaker 1: be a very very adept pass protector. Running game was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gotta wait and see, and the running game tonight
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  Speaker 1: as a whole, I think needs a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: So I would say he'd probably say, yeah, I need
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  Speaker 1: to get my nose back to the grindstone in terms
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  Speaker 1: of low pad level, coming off the ball and getting
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  Speaker 1: things done in that area. And I'd have to watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape. You know, it's it's just a you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the overall result and you think, well,
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  Speaker 1: nobody really probably stood out in that phase of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Carmen certainly hasn't developed the way they hoped as
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  Speaker 2: a second round draft pick. But he was really struggling
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  Speaker 2: tonight with four penalties. When I watch him, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: tonight or even at practice, it just seems like he's
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  Speaker 2: in his own head and not allowing the gifts that
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  Speaker 2: he has to at least allow him to play solidly.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's confidence or lack thereof. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think when when something goes wrong, it's just snowballs on him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he just you know, it's like here we
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  Speaker 1: go again, out of like all right, I know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I did wrong. That's not gonna happen again. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna make sure that I take care of business. I
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  Speaker 1: think that instead of taking that approach, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: you know, he just not lost, but he just man,
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  Speaker 1: it's his his body language and everything just just shows
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  Speaker 1: to me, you know, a lack of confidence. So I
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  Speaker 1: think I think that's that's the biggest thing he's fighting
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  Speaker 1: right now. And you know, I don't know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you do about that. I don't know if you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, send him to a professional to try to
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  Speaker 1: help him in that regard or what. Because he's got
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  Speaker 1: physical attributes. Man, there's no doubt. But it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, it wasn't just one penalty. You know,
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  Speaker 1: one led to multiples and you just you have to
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  Speaker 1: you have to nip that in the bud. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can't, like if you if you blow an assignment,
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  Speaker 1: you can't come back and blow it again, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: and again and again. So it's all, it's all in
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the same boat.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Was this a good debut for Dak's corner as an
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: outside of Dax Hill rather has an outside corner?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I thought he got his hand on
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: some footballs. You know, I think I think he did
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: a pretty pretty solid job. You know, I can't I
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: can't say that, you know, the entire group in the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: back end, where where Luin Roma wants him to be.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: But I thought it was a good start for him,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I really did. I thought he I thought that he
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: played with a level of confidence, you know, and you know,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: his big thing has sometimes been you know, instincts, you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: seeing it and reacting to it. I thought that he
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: saw things and reacted to things pretty darn well tonight.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I thought he was aggressive with it. Yeah. I thought
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: it was a good start for him, for sure.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Did the interception by Josh Newton add to the notion
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: that the Bengals have a find in that fifth round
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: draft pick?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, and for him to come back
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: and do that after he got dinged, you know, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: mean he was he was legitimately rung a little bit there.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Obviously it wasn't a concussion type, but I've been in
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: those situations where I don't know if it was concussions
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: or not back in the day. But it's a weird
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: feeling when you're wrong. You know, it's like the phone
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: keeps ringing and nobody wants to answer, and it's like
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: you're sometimes your balance is you know, you're just not there,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You're just not quite right. And for him to recover
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: like he did, And to go back out there and
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: make a play like he did shows me a lot
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of toughness. And you know, I think he and Anthony
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: both are guys that play with that edge, you know.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I think they play with a lot of physicality. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: think they're kind of throwback kind of guys. I think
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: they could play in any year, I really do.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Travis Bell joined the Bengals in December after DJ Reader
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: got hurt. Didn't get into any games for Cincinnati, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: it sounded like he earned a fan and Dave Lapham
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: with his play tonight.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I gave him the first Our Logistics
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in the Trenches Award tonight. So I thought that he
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I thought he, you know, disrupted the line of scrimmage.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You know, he had knock backs like the defensive line
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: coaches like to say, you know, not just controlling your opponent,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: but not talking him backwards, you know. And so he
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: he inverted the line of scrimmage, caused some problems in
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the running game, and he got he got under ease
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: people's pads and bull rushed him and tossed him around.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I thought, you know, I think he had
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: three three tackles and a sack and you know, not
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a ton of snaps. I thought he. I thought he
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: played at a pretty high level.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the time and the insight.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, He's a man, Dan. Appreciate you.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Up next to joint practice with the Bears on Thursday
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: before the two teams square off next Saturday afternoon in Chicago.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The Bears opened the preseason with a thirty three to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: six win in Buffalo. The first pick in the draft,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: quarterback Caleb Williams, was in for two drives and they
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: both ended with field goals. The Bengals Booth Podcast is
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  Speaker 2: first fun Facts conversation of the new season, where you
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: some fun facts with rookie quarterback Rocky Lombardi and yes,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: we will start with the greatest name in NFL history.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Are you related to Vince?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: I am not. I'm not as far as I know.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: And is Rocky on your birth certificate?
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Rocky is not on my birth certificate. Actually, Michael is
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: my given name. My dad wanted to name me Rocky,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: and my mom basically was like, that's not a real.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Name, so she named me Michael.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: My dad said, screw it, I'm gonna call him Rocky anyways,
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: And I've been Rocky for as long as I can remember.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Did I hear correctly that it's not for the boxer
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Rocky Balboa, but for the legendary Steelers running back Rocky Blier.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: That is correct. Yeah, that was my dad's favorite player
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: growing up, was Rocky Bler. Obviously, he's got a great story.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: If you don't know it, I'd definitely recommend looking into it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: But yeah, named after Rocky Blier.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: We are visiting with rookie quarterback Rocky Lombardi. According to
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: your bio, you were a four sport athlete in high school,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and that in and of itself is not that unusual
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: for an NFL player, but this is You're a quarterback
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: who wrestled for a state championship, probably the only quarterback
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: in the NFL that can say that, why did you
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: do both?
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've wrestled for I wrestled for a long time.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: I started wrestling when I was probably six years old
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: or so, six or seven, you know, and I grew
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: to love the sport. And I'm also a firm believer
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: in being a multi sport athlete. I think that that
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: teaches you things that you just can't get from doing
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: one sport all year round. There's so many skills mentally
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: and physically that I picked up from not only wrestling
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: but all the sports I did. But I just wouldn't
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: have had the opportunity to come across if I would
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: have just been a strictly football player.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: We're doing fun facts with Rocky Lombardy. You had a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: fine college career and a long college career. Between COVID
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: rules and a medical red shirt, you had seven seasons
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: on college rosters. They say college years are the best
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: years of your life. Were they for you?
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah?
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: I had a great time, too long, for sure, you know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: I did have a great time. But this is the
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: league I want to be in, and I wish it
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: didn't take me seven years to get here. But this
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: is the journey that I've taken, and I'm grateful for it,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: and I'm grateful to be here right now.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: You might have had the greatest tweet of all time
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: at the beginning of your senior year last year. This
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: is the first day of nineteenth grade. Did your teammates
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: give you a lot of you know what for being
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a seventh year senior.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely they did. I had to do a little
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: bit of math to figure out what great I was,
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: first of all. But yeah, obviously I've gotten quite a
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: bit of a crap for my teammates in college and
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: even here in the NFL with the Bengals, I've taken
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: some crap. Luckily, I think most of my teammates don't
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: realize how old I actually am. But there's certainly the
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: board's certainly floating around, and you're starting to get some
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: questions about how old I am as a rookie.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I want to go back to your college football debut
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: back in twenty eighteen. Michigan State's punter suffered an injury
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter and they called on you to punt.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: It was probably the last thing that you were thinking
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: about standing there on the sideline. What do you remember
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: about that moment.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: I remember it was super hot Arizona State in August
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: or maybe September. You know, I had been standing around
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: the entire game. I was the backup that year.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And backup quarterback, back up quarterback.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, and.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Our punter went down with I think three minutes left
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: or something like that, and they were like, hey, you
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: gotta go out and punt. You know, they knew I
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: could pun. I punted a little bit in high school
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: and punned a little bit in college obviously here, but yeah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: they're like, you gotta.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Warm up and go kick this ball.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: So I remember taking about two leg swings going back there,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: and the last thing Coach d He said to me
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: was just catch the ball.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: So I remember concentrating catching the ball and booting it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't that impressive of a punt, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: we got him down and made him have a real
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: long drive to come back and beat us.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: So got the job done.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Does Darren Simmons know you are available in an emergency?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: I think he does.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: He told me that he got a text or call
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: or something from my old special teams coach at Michigan
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: State telling him that I could be the emergency punter
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: if needed. Hopefully we wouldn't need that obviously, but in
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: an emergency situation, I definitely feel like I could fill
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: those roles.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Among Darren's attention to detail is legendary, so that does
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: not surprise me. We're visiting with Rocky Lombardi. After playing
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: for Michigan State and Northern Illinois, you signed to the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Bengals as a college free agent after the draft. I'm
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: guessing you had options. Why did you choose Cincinnati?
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like this was the best fit for me.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I really enjoyed my interview with coach Brad Kragthorpe. I
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: thought that the room was a good fit, an opportunity
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: to learn from guys like Joe Burrow and Jake Browning
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: and Coach Taylor and his staff. You know, I think
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: there's six or seven former quarterbacks in this coaching staff
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: and administration. So it's just a great room to be
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: a part of. You know, these guys like to spin
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: the rock, they like to throw it around, and I'm
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: really happy and excited to be here.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: So when friends and family ask, what's Joe Burrow like?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: How do you respond?
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I have had that question a couple of times, but
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: you know, at the end of the day, we're all
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: human beings, right, so you know he's a He's a
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: human being just like I am. He's just extremely talented,
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: so you know, that's usually what I tell him.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Time for some wild card questions, Now for Ricky quarterback
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Rocky Lombardi. Has Rocky Lombardi seen all six Rocky movies?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm not including the Creed spinoffs?
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: I don't believe I have.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Actually, I know I've seen a couple, and I've seen
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: a couple of the Creeds.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know how many there are, but no, I
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: definitely haven't.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: All Right, So, if you've seen a few, who is
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: your favorite Rocky opponent?
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: I would say.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Apollo Apollo Creed, just like that's the first one, right, Yeah, yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Well it might be Drago though, I must have break
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: you one of those two, I think, I mean, Drago
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: probably would be my favorite, although Apollo, you know, kind
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: of ends up being.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: A good guy, so there's that storyline too. But one
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: of those two, for sure.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Clever Lang was good as well. All Right, You're all
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: time favorite athlete in any sport is Oh, that's a
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: good question.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: I would say my favorite athlete growing up was ray Lewis.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: I loved the way ray Lewis played the game.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: Kind of an unusual answer, probably for my position, but
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: just the energy, the passion.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: The physicality that he played with. I would say, ray Lewis.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: I also love golf though, and I was a huge
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: Tiger fan growing up. Obviously, you know you gotta be.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: So I would say, one of those two guys.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You have short blonde hair, was Burrow copying your luck.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: I don't even know if I'm allowed to answer this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think Joe was just doing what he wanted.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I've had long blonde hair, I've had short blonde hair.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: It's only been blonde, though. So I told him that
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: he stole my thunder. You know this is my this
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: is my trademark look, right, and now it's now it's Joe's.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Blonde here instead of mine. But no, I don't think.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: I don't think he stole my look, certainly, not intentionally.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: With the orange quarterback jersey on, has anybody yelled out
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: hey Burrow toward you?
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: Uh, Not that I know of. I don't think. I
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: guess it could possibly happen one day, but not as.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Far as I know, you've got the mustache to separate
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the two of you. All right, final question for Rocky Lombardy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: This one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: in history, living or deceased, so could be an athlete,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: a world leader, an entertainer. Who would that person be.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Wow, you are going deep on this one. I would
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: say Teddy Roosevelt. Probably. I was a history major, so
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: I do enjoy history. I'm not claiming to know everything
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: in history, obviously, but I love studying history. I'm assuming
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Jesus is off the table here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: He can be out the table, but I will tell
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: you this. You are the first person to answer Roosevelt.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, he was an interesting guy. I think we
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: would have had a lot of similar interests. I admire
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: his leadership and kind of the way he went about things.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: And then obviously he had a huge impact on the
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: National Park system if you.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Didn't know that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, interesting guy. I definitely would like to have
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: a couple of conversations with him and see.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: What he is all about.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: A great answer and a fun time chatting with you.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Best of luck this season, and thanks for the time.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Rocky did not get in on Saturday Night but Zach
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Taylor will almost certainly get him some snaps before the
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: preseason comes to an end. That's going to do it
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