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Bengals Booth Podcast: Your Team, Your Vibes · Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The led your allegiance to your hands,
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Speaker 1: your team, your vibes. Addition, as the Bengals stun the
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Speaker 1: Ravens and the Nation on Thanksgiving Night winning in Baltimore
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Speaker 1: thirty two to fourteen, coming up radio replays, locker room
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Speaker 1: comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then, in this
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Speaker 1: the funniest TV episodes of all time, better known as
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Speaker 1: the WKRP Turkey Drop. I don't want to spoil it
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Speaker 1: in case you've never seen it, but it involves a
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Speaker 1: I am positive you'll laugh. Now let's get to the
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Speaker 1: radio replays from Thursday night's win in Baltimore. It is
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night in Baltimore and Cincinnati Bengals fans are counting
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Speaker 1: their blessings to have a quarterback who is is obsessed
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Speaker 1: with being the best in the game, obsessed with leading
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Speaker 1: his teammates, and obsessed with ultimately winning a Super Bowl. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: that quarterback, Joe Burrow, is back as the Bengals take
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Speaker 1: on the Baltimore Ravens in a primetime showdown here at
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Speaker 1: M and T Bank Stadium. Here's a toss sweep to
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Speaker 1: the left to the twenty fifteen ten five touchdown. The
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Speaker 1: King Derrick Henry goes twenty eight yards for the game's
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Speaker 1: first touchdown. Cincinnati's showing pressure. On third down and nine,
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Speaker 1: they send five Lamar Jackson from the pocket. He is
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Speaker 1: hit and he goes down. The ball comes out and
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Speaker 1: the Bengals recover inside the five.
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Speaker 2: About it.
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Speaker 1: Joseph Osai punched it out and Cedric Johnson recovered. The
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Speaker 1: Bengals will have it inside the five. They're gonna spot
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Speaker 1: it around the three yard line. Jackson catches a shot
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Speaker 1: gun snap from the pocket, inches up, now throws and
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Speaker 1: it is caught on the run at the thirty twenty
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Speaker 1: five twenty likely to the ten, the five to the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Touchdown. Baltimore forty three yards on a short
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Speaker 1: crossing route to tight end Isaiah Likely.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Danny came underneath and came all the way
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Speaker 3: across the football field, and boy, he lost control of
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Speaker 3: the football before he crossed the goal line.
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Speaker 1: Shotgun snap to Burrow, fakes to Chase Brown. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: fling it deep down the field for Jamar Chase. What
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Speaker 1: a catch over the shoulder, blanketed by Marlin Humphrey. One
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Speaker 1: man on the face of the earth can make that
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Speaker 1: catch and his name is Jamar Chase. Forty three yards.
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Speaker 2: And Humphrey can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: This will be a twenty four yard field goal try
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Speaker 1: from the right hash Evan McPherson looking for his third
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Speaker 1: field goal of the half. Wagner ready to snap it
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Speaker 1: back now the right footed kick and the Bengals have
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Speaker 1: the lead. Joe is ready catches the shotgun snap, he
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Speaker 1: begins scrambling right. Burrow throwing downfield for Hudson.
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Speaker 2: He's got it.
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Speaker 1: Wow, touchdown Bengals. What an adjustment to the ball by
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Speaker 1: Hudson and he knocks over the back right pylon for
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Speaker 1: a fourteen yard touchdown. Joe Burrows first since returning from
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Speaker 1: the toe injury. Here's a toss to the right, Mitchell
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Speaker 1: running to the five to the goal line, touchdown Ravens.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals flowed in the wrong direction and when they
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Speaker 1: pitched it to the speedy Keaton Mitchell, there was nobody
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Speaker 1: home to bring him down. Burrowing the shotgun p rind
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Speaker 1: to his right. Shotgun snap, Joe under pressure, flings it
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Speaker 1: down the middle of the field. Yo see Bosh leaps
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Speaker 1: at the three and takes it into the end zone
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Speaker 1: a twenty eight yard touchdown to Andre Yo Siebosh and
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Speaker 1: the Bengals lead is back to eleven with a pat
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Speaker 1: coming up. Huge play here third and nine at the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati fifteen. The Bengals showing pressure. They've got seven guys
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Speaker 1: up on the line. Lamar drops back. Lamar throws downfield,
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Speaker 1: tip intercepted Patrius Knight running it back. He's at the
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Speaker 1: thirty thirty five forty spin move there and tackled around
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Speaker 1: the forty five yard line. A tip at the line
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Speaker 1: results in a pick for Dimitrius Night and the Bengals
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Speaker 1: get their fourth takeaway and Night runs it back thirty
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Speaker 1: six yards. Shotgun snapped to Lamar, Ravens operating quickly. Sideim
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Speaker 1: throw caught by Zay Flowers loses the ball. The Bengals
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Speaker 1: scoop it up. CJ. Turner runs it to the thirty six.
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Speaker 1: A fumble recovered by Cincinnati, and that is coffin nails.
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Speaker 2: Bam, bam, bam.
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Speaker 1: This will be field goal trying number six from forty
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Speaker 1: one yards out. Wagner's snap Pato Rico and Moneymax kick
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Speaker 1: is on its way and it is good, his sixth
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Speaker 1: of the game. The Bengals have scored thirty two points
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Speaker 1: on the road in Baltimore and have a thirty two
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Speaker 1: to fourteen lead with one six to go, and that
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Speaker 1: was the final score as Joe Burrow returns to the
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Speaker 1: lineup with the Bengals listed as a seven point underdog
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Speaker 1: and leaves Baltimore with an eighteen point win.
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Speaker 4: There's no better feeling than that, you know, putting in,
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Speaker 4: putting in work for for a long time and going
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Speaker 4: out and in it paying off. It's uh, there's.
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Speaker 2: Just just this. There's just no feeling like going.
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Speaker 4: Out in front of the world with a group of
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Speaker 4: guys that work really hard to go try to win
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Speaker 4: games and going out and putting on a good performance
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Speaker 4: and winning that game. You know, obviously we got a
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Speaker 4: lot of games left, but we're gonna enjoy this one
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Speaker 4: on this on this little mini by weekend, and everybody's
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Speaker 4: going to go and have Thanksgiving with their families and
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Speaker 4: smile and eat and feel.
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Speaker 2: Good about it.
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Speaker 4: Certainly hasn't been easy on me through through six years
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Speaker 4: from a lot of different angles, but you know, I've
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Speaker 4: worked really hard to put myself in position to be
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Speaker 4: back out there, and a lot of people around me
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Speaker 4: have done the same. And I've just been a lot
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Speaker 4: of discussions and a lot of time in the training
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Speaker 4: room and It's just a lot, a lot that has
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Speaker 4: gone into this and you know, I'm proud to be done.
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Speaker 1: Burrow finished twenty four for forty six for two hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty one yards, with two touchdowns, no picks, only
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Speaker 1: one sack, and a passer rating of eighty three point seven.
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Speaker 1: Chase Brown had seventy eight rushing yards and thirty five
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Speaker 1: receiving yards for a total of one thirteen, his sixth
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Speaker 1: straight game with one hundred or more scrimmage yards. That's
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Speaker 1: a new team record. Jamar Chase had seven catches for
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten yards, and Burrow's touchdown passes went
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Speaker 1: to andre Yosi Vash and Tanner Hudson. I caught up
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Speaker 1: with Hudson in front of his locker. Tanner happy, Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: grats on the touchdown catch. What a night for everybody
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Speaker 1: on this team. You talk about a team victory, Christ
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Speaker 1: would be Epitomi.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it really was. I mean all around, having having
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Speaker 5: go back the way you know, we just rallied around,
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Speaker 5: rally around everybody, the way the defense play to night.
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Speaker 5: It's a really really good.
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Speaker 2: Win for this team.
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Speaker 5: Uh, just how this season has went, it feels really good.
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Speaker 1: Can you quantify what Joe's return did for the team
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Speaker 1: just in terms of lifting everybody's spirits and energy level.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, when you got a guy that's arguably
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Speaker 5: the best quarterback in the league, I think it's gonna
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Speaker 5: elevate everybody's play, whether whether you're thinking about it or not.
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Speaker 5: So I'm bringing someone with someone like that back. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: it made a whole lot of team all right.
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Speaker 1: So you came back to Baltimore tonight last year on
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Speaker 1: two point conversion at the end of the game, they
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Speaker 1: went to you.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it didn't work out.
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Speaker 1: Could have been about six penalties called on the play.
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Speaker 1: None were You come back and make a spectacular touchdown catch.
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Speaker 1: Describe to play and what that moment meant.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I mean third and nine. You know, it's
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Speaker 5: a play that we worked on this week, and going
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Speaker 5: through my head, I just had certain ways I knew
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Speaker 5: I wanted to run it, and the guys a look
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Speaker 5: that I wanted. Joe put up a great ball that
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Speaker 5: really only I could catch and you know, coming down
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Speaker 5: with it and kind of giving an extra spark to
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Speaker 5: the team, and I felt really good.
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Speaker 1: Joe was good. I feel like he's just going to
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Speaker 1: keep getting better. Considering that he missed nine games with.
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Speaker 2: It pretty remarkable.
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Speaker 1: How he did the first night back.
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Speaker 5: It is remarkable, But it's also he I think he
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Speaker 5: is the best quarterback league. So I think for him
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Speaker 5: that's probably his standard is just a beat great and
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Speaker 5: that's what he came out here he did.
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Speaker 1: Do you guys feel like you're back in the hunt
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Speaker 1: but still.
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Speaker 5: In the hunts? Oh, we're never This team has never
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Speaker 5: out of it. This team the way that we like
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Speaker 5: Zach always says, the way that we come to pract
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Speaker 5: is the way we are in the building.
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Speaker 2: There's there's no.
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Speaker 5: Quid in the team and we're just going to continue
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Speaker 5: to push and win games.
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Speaker 1: This again did it in one of the biggest spotlight
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Speaker 1: nights that the NFL has, the Thanksgiving night national TV.
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Speaker 1: Everybody in the country of the world is watching this one.
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Speaker 1: Does that make it a little extra special?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's always fun to play. I mean,
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Speaker 5: to be able to play on Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: The night game.
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Speaker 5: You know, everybody's stuff sitting on the couch and they
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Speaker 5: got the game on, whether they're asleep or actually watching it.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's to come out in front of the
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Speaker 5: whole world and put on that kind of performance as
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Speaker 5: a team. Yeah, that's what you want.
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Speaker 1: Congrat some spectacular touchdown, catching a great win.
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Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Then there's the Bengals defense. It's not enough to say
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Speaker 1: the defense has been much maligned. They've been mocked and ridiculed.
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Speaker 1: But for the third straight week, the Bengals held the
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Speaker 1: other team's offense under twenty one points, and the fourteen
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Speaker 1: scored by the Ravens is the fewest Cincinnati has given
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Speaker 1: up all year. Five takeaways was the big key, and
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Speaker 1: a strip sack by Joseph Osai was the first. Joseph Osai,
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Speaker 1: what a knight. Two sacks, four quarterback hits, a force pumble.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was the best game of your NFL career.
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Speaker 1: How are you feeling right now?
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Speaker 6: Feeling great, Very thankful for these guys, thankful to God
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Speaker 6: most importantly, very thankful for my teammates, Thankful that you know,
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Speaker 6: it's been it's been a rough couple of weeks, but
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Speaker 6: they come to word every day and there's no quick
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Speaker 6: there's no nobody's checked out, and it's it's it's beautiful
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Speaker 6: to see it come to for tuition.
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Speaker 2: Like that on the field.
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Speaker 1: For sure, it's been a challenging year for the defense.
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Speaker 1: What's it mean to do it in this circumstance? Thanksgiving night?
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Speaker 1: Everybody watching a great team on the other side.
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Speaker 6: Uh, he's the world means the world.
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Speaker 2: It has been a challenging here. It's to me more
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Speaker 2: specific job, challenging a few leagues.
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Speaker 6: But you know, we're we're in a bucker mentality right now.
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Speaker 2: Shut up the outside noise.
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Speaker 6: Nobody but us, nobody but us.
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Speaker 2: Take this just like we took the last two weeks.
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Speaker 6: How he played the last two weeks and then use
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Speaker 6: at his momentum, keep going.
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Speaker 1: That's all five takeaways, including four bumbles. You guys work
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Speaker 1: on this stuff every day, Yeah tonight, like all that
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Speaker 1: extra work paid off.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, exactly, And it only takes one. Everybody knows
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Speaker 6: when it comes to football, they come in bunches. It
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Speaker 6: only takes one. And that's exactly what happened today.
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Speaker 2: And that's just.
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Speaker 6: Giving the younger guys hope to keep working at it
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Speaker 6: and keep working other things. You know, the club, Secure
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Speaker 6: the punch, the tip, get your hands up. If you're
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Speaker 6: not getting to the rest, gets your hands up. You
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Speaker 6: can tip a pass, change the game. And that's exactly
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Speaker 6: what happens. So it's good to see for.
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Speaker 1: Sure what effect did Burrow have on the entire team.
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Speaker 6: You know, you know what I know, that's Joe Burrs.
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Speaker 2: That's that's what they call him out there. You know,
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Speaker 2: his ice cold.
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Speaker 6: For him to be back right now is even so
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Speaker 6: that fight. You know, you could say the way our
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Speaker 6: we're we're we're progressing, the way our season is looking,
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Speaker 6: you can say it's it's it's easy for him to
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Speaker 6: you know what I mean, check out and not want
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Speaker 6: to not want to be here, and and and and
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Speaker 6: fight with us. Fun just seeing him come back, fight
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Speaker 6: through that and wanting to be here because he's a
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Speaker 6: football player, like he said, it's it's it's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: People joking say, well, he doesn't play defense, you can't
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Speaker 1: help the defense. But does he help the defense just
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Speaker 1: with his presence?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 6: When you when you see your brother defensive offense, when
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Speaker 6: you see your brother fighting, you know this game is
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Speaker 6: so beautiful in the in the senset, you go to war,
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Speaker 6: you go to war to the brother, to the to
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Speaker 6: the to the left and right of you, and defensive offense,
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Speaker 6: that team you see your brother going to war inspire
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Speaker 6: it inspire anybody, So it doesn't matter if he's not
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Speaker 6: on the defense.
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Speaker 2: You just see his heart. You see his heart you.
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Speaker 6: Want to go ball and and even more with within
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Speaker 6: the field.
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Speaker 2: So it's great. It's great having me back.
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Speaker 1: I would think that this would be really fun because
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Speaker 1: so many guys were involved. Offense, defense, Yeah, special teams.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many game balls Zach handed out,
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Speaker 1: but it could have been.
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Speaker 3: A lot, yeah for sure.
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Speaker 2: And it was a beautiful team win for sure.
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Speaker 6: Topped the bottom when we needed them to get pinned,
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Speaker 6: when we needed them to get pin special teams did
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Speaker 6: exactly that. When we needed a score, offense did exactly that.
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Speaker 6: When we needed to stop, defense did exactly that. You know,
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Speaker 6: early in the game, Zach took a chance, he went
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Speaker 6: for it on fourth down. I said to the defense,
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Speaker 6: I said, that's trust.
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Speaker 2: That is trust. He trusts us. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: It was a turnover right there on the goal line,
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Speaker 6: and he went for it fourth You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Everybody in America, I'm pretty sure probably said that was
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Speaker 2: a terrible call.
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Speaker 6: But I said to the defense, that is trust, he
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Speaker 6: trusts us.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, what are you gonna do
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Speaker 2: with that? So we were able to come up big
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Speaker 2: and get to stop and get off the field.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun night. Congratulations, an awesome performance. Happy thanks.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: The win improves the Bengals to four and eight and
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Speaker 1: ends a streak of four straight had to head losses
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Speaker 1: to the Ravens, and it came against Lamar Jackson, who
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Speaker 1: is now ten and two against Cincinnati. Dave Lapham spent
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Speaker 1: a few minutes with Zach Taylor after a very satisfying win.
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Speaker 3: We heard all the celebrating that was going on in
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Speaker 3: the locker room. Guys were letting their hair down big time.
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Speaker 3: It sounded. I mean, I remember what that was like.
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Speaker 3: I remember the feeling. Chado cho Cinco made a guest
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Speaker 3: appearance in the locker room through what was that like?
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Speaker 7: I didn't notice that. I saw him on the field
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Speaker 7: before the game and after the game. And we got
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Speaker 7: a lot of great former players here like yourself and
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Speaker 7: Chad o cho Cinco, and they're welcome anytime, and so
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Speaker 7: it was awesome for him to be around the team
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Speaker 7: and celebrate it. He made the trip all the way
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Speaker 7: out here. He deserves celebrated with the team.
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Speaker 3: What about Joe Burrow, I mean, this guy is special.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no I can't think of another tip
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Speaker 3: to use. He started to get a rhythm, He started
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Speaker 3: to really get a rhythm and a timing, and he
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Speaker 3: was playing very free, wasn't.
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Speaker 7: He He was? And not to stick away from that,
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Speaker 7: but our defense gave us the ability to do that.
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Speaker 7: Our defense gave him and our offense a chance to
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Speaker 7: really settle in and find our rhythm to really explore
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Speaker 7: there in the second half. And so Joe's done such
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Speaker 7: a great job handling as rehab, handling, the preparation for
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Speaker 7: this game gave us a lot of confidence. And then
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Speaker 7: to go out there and be able to play on
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Speaker 7: the road in difficult circumstances, I thought was awesome.
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Speaker 3: And number one, Jamar Chase has had big games against
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Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens as well, and Borrow to Chase, it
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Speaker 3: was just so good to see those guys number nine
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Speaker 3: to number one. It was good to see that connection again.
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Speaker 7: It is you know, Jamar's you wouldn't trade him for
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Speaker 7: any other receiver in the world. And he's so dependable
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Speaker 7: on some of those key third down plays when he
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Speaker 7: can get a one on one or even a two
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Speaker 7: on one, Joe's still going to take a shot at him,
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Speaker 7: and Jamar made some huge plays for us.
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Speaker 3: Drew Sample I thought stepped up big tonight. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he was effective as a blocker, and he also did
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Speaker 3: the heck of a job running routes and catching the
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Speaker 3: football for you. Move the chains a lot of first
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Speaker 3: downs on third down conversions. He played well, didn't he.
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Speaker 7: He does all the dirty work, you know, and appreciate
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Speaker 7: you mentioned that, because that's he doesn't do jobs that
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Speaker 7: people are ever going to notice in the stands watching
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Speaker 7: the game, But for coaches in our program and around
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Speaker 7: the league, it's known what he does and what role
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Speaker 7: he plays, and he's able to help us in protection.
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Speaker 7: He's able to help us in the run game. He's
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Speaker 7: able to play running back for us on some downs
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Speaker 7: and protection he got to check down got us forward.
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Speaker 7: So again we we appreciate drewd He does a great
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Speaker 7: job for us.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned your defense, How well your defense played, I
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Speaker 3: mean the points, the points a lot. I mean Baltimore
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Speaker 3: is used to scoring more points than they did this
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Speaker 3: football game, considering that they played here in front of
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Speaker 3: their crowd in Baltimore.
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Speaker 2: How big was that? It was awesome?
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Speaker 7: You know, I thought our defense just really came out
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Speaker 7: with a lot of confidence. It's been building over the
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Speaker 7: last two weeks, and to be able to play the
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Speaker 7: game the way they did today and create all the
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Speaker 7: turnovers and just have so much confidence. You're gonna see
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Speaker 7: some guys really coming along now butt in. They understand it,
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Speaker 7: they get it, and so now you're just getting more
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Speaker 7: and more reps invested, and we're just gonna get better
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Speaker 7: and better. I feel like as the season goes.
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Speaker 3: What about money mack Evan McPherson. I mean, the guy's
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Speaker 3: got a leg. It's a Howard, some man hanging off
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Speaker 3: that right hip, and he made some big kicks for
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Speaker 3: you tonight, didn't he awesome?
18:16
Speaker 7: Six six? I mean it's assuming it gets a franchise record.
18:20
Speaker 3: I think it is. It might be seven for seven.
18:23
Speaker 3: I think Dan mentioned the guy wins seven for seven
18:25
Speaker 3: at some point.
18:25
Speaker 7: Oh, we should have figured out a way to get
18:27
Speaker 7: one more, you know, maybef we hadn't fumbled there at
18:28
Speaker 7: the end of the game.
18:29
Speaker 3: There you got one more.
18:30
Speaker 7: But these conditions weren't easy. I mean, it wasn't there
18:33
Speaker 7: was a high wind up there as he's kicking, and
18:37
Speaker 7: to my eye, he did an excellent job kicking all
18:40
Speaker 7: of them. And he's just got so much confidence this year.
18:43
Speaker 7: You know, he's back to the Evan that we've always
18:44
Speaker 7: known and that's such a luxury to have.
18:47
Speaker 3: So if Pittsburgh loses to Buffalo, the best record in
18:51
Speaker 3: the division is six and six. Legitimately, I mean it's
18:54
Speaker 3: not like people like, oh, come on, legitimately, you're in
18:57
Speaker 3: the hunt.
18:58
Speaker 7: We're just gonna keep fighting one week at a time.
19:00
Speaker 2: I know.
19:00
Speaker 7: We got Buffalo at ten days from now. That's our focus.
19:03
Speaker 7: We just try to control that. Don't worry about the
19:05
Speaker 7: big picture right now. Just keep taking one game out
19:07
Speaker 7: of time. This is the exact position we were in last year,
19:10
Speaker 7: you know, and so unfortunately we've been here. We know
19:13
Speaker 7: how to dig our way out of it. And that's
19:14
Speaker 7: what's going to take.
19:15
Speaker 3: And finally, what are you going to do during the
19:17
Speaker 3: bye week? What do you got any plans or just
19:19
Speaker 3: to chill with the family.
19:20
Speaker 7: Man, Just chill with the family. You know, it'll be
19:22
Speaker 7: good to see him over the holidays, and just blessed
19:26
Speaker 7: to have such a great support system. And so look,
19:28
Speaker 7: forward to seeing them. Congratulations on a big win, Zach,
19:30
Speaker 7: thank you appreciate it.
19:32
Speaker 1: These two teams meet again at pay Court Stadium in
19:35
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19:37
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Speaker 1: of the Bengals. Now time for their radio guys recap.
20:10
Speaker 2: Lap. That was one.
20:12
Speaker 1: Happy locker room because every guy on offense, defense, and
20:17
Speaker 1: special team seemingly contributed.
20:19
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more, Dan, I mean that
20:21
Speaker 3: that's a great feeling. It's a team sport. I think
20:24
Speaker 3: football is probably the epitome of team and if you're
20:29
Speaker 3: you do your one eleventh and everybody does their one eleventh,
20:32
Speaker 3: you can have games like this And this is a big,
20:35
Speaker 3: big deal. I mean to come to Baltimore and not
20:37
Speaker 3: just beat the Baltimore Ravens, but I mean spank them,
20:40
Speaker 3: embarrassed them in front of their crowd. I mean their
20:42
Speaker 3: crowd was doing more booing than cheering, it seemed like,
20:45
Speaker 3: during the during the course of the football game. So
20:49
Speaker 3: I know that locker room was loud, happy, everybody's excited.
20:56
Speaker 2: And really, if.
20:59
Speaker 3: If Pittsburgh loses to Buffalo, best recommend Division six and six,
21:04
Speaker 3: the Bengals are right in the hunt. I mean they're
21:05
Speaker 3: in the thick of it and they're not about to
21:07
Speaker 3: put their tail between their legs and go away.
21:11
Speaker 1: How much of an impact did Joe Burrow have. I'm
21:14
Speaker 1: every single person in the room on the other side
21:17
Speaker 1: of that door over.
21:18
Speaker 3: There, unbelievable, as big as I've ever seen. I mean,
21:22
Speaker 3: he is the unquestioned leader of the football team. Here's
21:26
Speaker 3: the straw that serves the drink. There's no doubt about that.
21:29
Speaker 3: I mean, as Joe Borrow goes, so go the Cincinnati Bengals.
21:32
Speaker 3: In my conversation with Zach and the postgame show, and
21:35
Speaker 3: I said, you could see where eventually Joe started getting
21:39
Speaker 3: a rhythm and felt the timing the ball was coming
21:42
Speaker 3: out of his hand well, you know, it seemed like
21:45
Speaker 3: it started to get free and easy for him, and
21:47
Speaker 3: Zack said he couldn't agree more. And for Joe to
21:50
Speaker 3: play as well as he played with all the circumstances
21:54
Speaker 3: that we talk about, coming to Baltimore and having to
21:56
Speaker 3: play against this football team, it's no easy task and
21:59
Speaker 3: he handled himself very well.
22:03
Speaker 1: Al Golden has had these guys doing turnover drills from
22:08
Speaker 1: the first day of OTAs. Before practice begins, they're out
22:11
Speaker 1: there practicing, ripping the ball, punching the ball, doing everything
22:15
Speaker 1: they can to try to get takeaways. Really hasn't paid
22:18
Speaker 1: off much until tonight and then on Thanksgiving Night with
22:22
Speaker 1: the world watching, they get five takeaways.
22:24
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable to watch, really, I mean, and as
22:28
Speaker 3: the old saying goes, they come in bunches, you know,
22:30
Speaker 3: once they start to come, they just seek. The Spickett
22:33
Speaker 3: gets turned on, you know, and the Fawcett starts overflowing.
22:38
Speaker 3: And everybody contributed, every level of the defense. Defensive line
22:43
Speaker 3: did their thing. Everybody played their gap control responsibility. They
22:46
Speaker 3: knocked the ball out. Miles Murphy was great. Joseph a
22:50
Speaker 3: side maybe had the best game that I've ever seen
22:52
Speaker 3: him play, and then you know, the young linebackers were
22:55
Speaker 3: flying around the football field. Man, they were playing fast,
22:58
Speaker 3: they were playing confidently and with great speed. And then
23:02
Speaker 3: on the back end, I thought, you know, I thought
23:05
Speaker 3: dj was phenomenal. I thought he had his best game.
23:09
Speaker 3: I've seen him play, play tackling, and everybody made plays.
23:14
Speaker 3: That's the thing, Like you said, everybody contributed to this
23:17
Speaker 3: football game. It was a team win. It was probably
23:20
Speaker 3: the best definition of a team win I've seen in
23:22
Speaker 3: a while.
23:23
Speaker 1: Burrow wound up throwing the ball quite a bit. He
23:25
Speaker 1: threw forty six passes in the game, but he was
23:27
Speaker 1: under center a decent amount. He only got sacked once.
23:31
Speaker 1: Did we start to see maybe a little bit of
23:33
Speaker 1: an evolution with some of the stuff that Joe Flacco
23:36
Speaker 1: did during the six games where he played.
23:38
Speaker 3: I'm wondering, you know, it seemed like they incorporated some
23:41
Speaker 3: of that stuff. And I know the Joe's have been talking,
23:44
Speaker 3: you know, Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco about football, everything
23:47
Speaker 3: about football. You know, the only disadvantage with getting under
23:53
Speaker 3: center is when you play action fake, you turn your
23:55
Speaker 3: back and you turn.
23:56
Speaker 2: Your head to the defense.
23:58
Speaker 3: And I think Joe likes the shot comes for that reason,
24:00
Speaker 3: he's always looking to seeing what the defense is doing.
24:03
Speaker 3: And you know he has the same picture that he's
24:06
Speaker 3: looking at the whole time, instead of the picture changing
24:09
Speaker 3: when you turn your head like that. But yeah, it's
24:12
Speaker 3: it's I think I think that to have the ability
24:16
Speaker 3: to do both, I think he's going to stand him
24:18
Speaker 3: in good stead as the season progresses, because, let's face it,
24:21
Speaker 3: then they got to go six and zer, they got
24:22
Speaker 3: to win them all.
24:23
Speaker 1: A lot of people have said, well, I play them
24:25
Speaker 1: if the games, you know, don't have impact on the
24:28
Speaker 1: playoff race. I'll say this, Let's say that they beat Buffalo.
24:33
Speaker 1: Let's say that they beat Baltimore in the rematch, and
24:37
Speaker 1: they still don't make the playoffs. How much better would
24:39
Speaker 1: you feel going into next year beating teams like that,
24:43
Speaker 1: having Burrow back, hopefully continue to see progress by the defense.
24:48
Speaker 1: I mean, I would feel a million times better about
24:52
Speaker 1: the prospects for net Seaton next season if those types
24:55
Speaker 1: of things happen.
24:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wouldn't be like you know, coach speak, it
24:59
Speaker 3: wouldn't be like high this guy they did it. They
25:01
Speaker 3: would have gone out and beaten these teams when the
25:04
Speaker 3: games mean something when the game's on the line, when
25:06
Speaker 3: these teams have to win games to get the seed
25:09
Speaker 3: they want to get to go into the playoffs, and
25:11
Speaker 3: you spank them, you slap them, you knock them back.
25:14
Speaker 3: That's that's important. And there's no way that Joe Burrow
25:16
Speaker 3: wasn't going to play. I mean he was. He feels
25:20
Speaker 3: like he was one hundred percent, and you know, the
25:23
Speaker 3: medical people and everybody agreed. So he played, and he
25:27
Speaker 3: played at an extremely high level. I mean, this football
25:31
Speaker 3: team loves their quarterback, I mean loves their quarterback like
25:36
Speaker 3: nobody loves their quarterback. And I think I think Joe
25:39
Speaker 3: Flacco is in a good situation. I mean he's there
25:44
Speaker 3: if something happens to Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco is right
25:47
Speaker 3: there to pick up the pieces, you know. And Bengals
25:50
Speaker 3: find themselves in a pretty damn good situation at the
25:53
Speaker 3: quarterback position.
25:54
Speaker 1: In the words of Bill Murray and Stripes, an army
25:58
Speaker 1: without a leader is like a foot without a big toe.
26:01
Speaker 1: The big toe is back, is big toe is healthy.
26:05
Speaker 1: Bengals have their leader.
26:06
Speaker 2: Bingo. I love it, Dan.
26:10
Speaker 1: That's a wrap on the Baltimore game. Now time for
26:12
Speaker 1: this week's fun Facts conversation where we get to know
26:15
Speaker 1: a Bengals linebacker who has faced Kansas City in each
26:19
Speaker 1: of the last two Super Bowls. Time for some fun
26:24
Speaker 1: facts with linebacker Orren. Burke's from Lorton, Virginia, not too
26:28
Speaker 1: far from Washington, d C. What were some of the
26:30
Speaker 1: things you enjoyed about growing up there.
26:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, one just had a lot of family there.
26:36
Speaker 8: Just I feel like the DMV as a whole, just
26:38
Speaker 8: a lot of culture there, music, food, You're close to
26:42
Speaker 8: a little bit of everything, a lot of politics, a
26:44
Speaker 8: lot of military. But yeah, I just have great memories
26:47
Speaker 8: growing up there. A lot of history there as well
26:49
Speaker 8: in the DC area, So I feel like I didn't
26:52
Speaker 8: appreciate it as much as I do as an adult
26:54
Speaker 8: now going back and like really seeing how cool of
26:56
Speaker 8: the city it is.
26:57
Speaker 2: So love living there.
26:58
Speaker 1: For visiting with Ooron Burr. When did you start to
27:01
Speaker 1: stand out as an athlete?
27:04
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was very active early played baseball, soccer, basketball,
27:10
Speaker 8: and then ended up playing football. Basketball was definitely my
27:13
Speaker 8: my number one kind of growing up, and I had
27:16
Speaker 8: a lot of big cousins that played basketball.
27:18
Speaker 2: As well and wanted to be like them, you know.
27:20
Speaker 8: They ended up playing in college and some in the
27:22
Speaker 8: pros and and abroad as well, but.
27:26
Speaker 2: My path ended up being football.
27:27
Speaker 8: I started playing football my freshman year in high school
27:30
Speaker 8: and just wanted to make some friends going into the year,
27:32
Speaker 8: and I just knew that was gonna be a great
27:34
Speaker 8: opportunity to meet guys and you know, bond that way,
27:36
Speaker 8: and eventually fell in love with the game. But just
27:39
Speaker 8: always was very athletic and loved basketball, like I said,
27:42
Speaker 8: And I feel like that's where I got my grade.
27:45
Speaker 8: I wasn't always like the best player on the team,
27:47
Speaker 8: but just really learned like how to hustle and just
27:50
Speaker 8: like find a way to add value to a team.
27:53
Speaker 8: And you know that that's carried over to everything that
27:55
Speaker 8: I do. So I really enjoyed my you know, my journey.
27:58
Speaker 8: And I feel like a lot of kids now they
27:59
Speaker 8: special lies like really early into sports, and like I
28:02
Speaker 8: just enjoyed playing all the sports and being competitive, and
28:04
Speaker 8: I feel like that really has worked out in my
28:06
Speaker 8: in my favor.
28:07
Speaker 1: There's an old picture of you on the internet from
28:09
Speaker 1: being the homecoming king at your high school. Were you
28:12
Speaker 1: involved in other activities as well? Are pretty much sports only?
28:15
Speaker 8: Yeah, A lot of sports I was involved with FCA
28:18
Speaker 8: at our school, as much community service as I can
28:21
Speaker 8: get into, and just very social we had. We had
28:24
Speaker 8: a really really cool high school experience with just everybody
28:27
Speaker 8: supporting each other with sports and academics. Was a huge
28:31
Speaker 8: pieces for me. My family as well obviously ended up
28:34
Speaker 8: going to Vanderbilt, so that was a big piece for
28:36
Speaker 8: me moving into college. Uh, and my sister went to
28:38
Speaker 8: Stanford play softball there as well. So we're always student athletes,
28:43
Speaker 8: and I just really appreciate my my upbringing. My parents
28:47
Speaker 8: let enforced that really early into us, just having great
28:50
Speaker 8: values and knowing that it's beyond sports and just having
28:53
Speaker 8: the impact in your community and beyond.
28:54
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was a big piece of me.
28:57
Speaker 1: So with you at Vanderbilt and your sister at Stanford,
29:00
Speaker 1: did your folks more or less tell you make this
29:02
Speaker 1: choice as much about the academics as the athletics.
29:06
Speaker 8: Not directly, but definitely kind of indirectly. They were like,
29:09
Speaker 8: you know, just think about the long term situation, what's
29:12
Speaker 8: your major, what you want to do, you know, beyond
29:14
Speaker 8: playing the game, because you know, like the numbers tell
29:17
Speaker 8: you that, you know, you're probably not going to play
29:18
Speaker 8: in the NFL.
29:19
Speaker 2: Or for her, professional sports, but.
29:23
Speaker 8: Just having a backup plan when that does come. And
29:25
Speaker 8: you know, I feel like that has allowed me to
29:27
Speaker 8: be a well rounded individual. Just just really taking intent
29:33
Speaker 8: about my my academics has helped me tremendously, you know,
29:37
Speaker 8: just the way I process thing, the way I learn,
29:40
Speaker 8: and just again just being a well, well arounded individual.
29:44
Speaker 1: You started out as a safety at Vanderbilt. How did
29:47
Speaker 1: you become a linebacker and how did you feel about it?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was actually a recruiter as a linebacker.
29:52
Speaker 8: I was James Franklin. I know, he's a Virginia technologis
29:55
Speaker 8: last recruiting class at Vanity before he went to Penn State.
29:57
Speaker 8: I was a linebacker that year. We had a new
30:00
Speaker 8: just have come in with coach Mason and he saw
30:03
Speaker 8: me as a safety.
30:04
Speaker 2: So I played safety.
30:05
Speaker 8: I was middle posts, like running all over the place
30:08
Speaker 8: for two years, and then I played a hybrid outside
30:11
Speaker 8: inside position, and then I played inside my last year.
30:15
Speaker 8: So really all over the field. But for me, it's
30:18
Speaker 8: just about find a way to get on the field,
30:20
Speaker 8: add value, make plays, and I feel like that allowed
30:23
Speaker 8: me to have the skill set. You know, this this
30:25
Speaker 8: league has changed a lot at the lineback position, being
30:28
Speaker 8: able to run and cover, and I feel like that
30:30
Speaker 8: safety background has definitely helped me in terms of like
30:33
Speaker 8: seeing the game from a different perspective.
30:35
Speaker 1: We're chatting with Orrin Burks as we do this interview.
30:38
Speaker 1: Your alma maters ranked twelfth in the country in college football.
30:42
Speaker 1: How much fun is it for Vanderbilt grads to see
30:45
Speaker 1: this rise of the commodorees in college football?
30:48
Speaker 2: Man, it's been it's been a long time coming.
30:50
Speaker 8: Just so proud of the guys, Coach Lee leading the
30:52
Speaker 8: way and having the opportunity to be around them during
30:55
Speaker 8: the spring and in the summer, just seeing like the
30:57
Speaker 8: culture that they're building, and just just so proud as
31:01
Speaker 8: a loan to go to see them, you know, thriving
31:03
Speaker 8: on the field and doing it at a high level
31:05
Speaker 8: and getting you know, the exposure from the national media.
31:08
Speaker 8: But just always had faith in you know, this program
31:12
Speaker 8: doing it the right way, and the city of Nashville
31:14
Speaker 8: is getting behind them as well. So it's been really
31:17
Speaker 8: cool to see the guys take off this year.
31:19
Speaker 1: You're drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the third
31:21
Speaker 1: round in twenty eighteen. How stressful was that day leading
31:25
Speaker 1: up to getting the phone.
31:26
Speaker 2: Call I wasn't very stressed.
31:28
Speaker 8: I feel like I had you know, at that point,
31:30
Speaker 8: you do everything you can to put yourself in the
31:32
Speaker 8: best situation in terms of being drafted, and I felt
31:35
Speaker 8: really good about my draft process. I played well in
31:38
Speaker 8: the senior ball as a laid ad there, did well
31:41
Speaker 8: in the combine. I felt like I did well in
31:42
Speaker 8: my interviews, and my tape was my tape from college.
31:45
Speaker 8: You know, I had a lot of versatility from the
31:46
Speaker 8: safety to the inside and outside, and I felt like
31:49
Speaker 8: I had kind of like done everything I could and
31:51
Speaker 8: just really had a sense of like this freedom, you know,
31:55
Speaker 8: just like being able to surrender the outcomes of where
31:58
Speaker 8: I would land. You have no idea where you're going
31:59
Speaker 8: to be, so like it's not even worth you trying
32:01
Speaker 8: to guess for the guys that are going through that
32:03
Speaker 8: process coming up. But yeah, I just felt like I
32:06
Speaker 8: had done everything I could and was excited for the
32:08
Speaker 8: opportunity to land anywhere, you know, in the NFL and
32:11
Speaker 8: make my mark.
32:12
Speaker 1: The Packers missed the playoffs your rookie year. Since then,
32:15
Speaker 1: you've been on six consecutive playoff teams with Green Bay,
32:18
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Philly. You've played in the last two
32:21
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. What have you learned about the most important
32:25
Speaker 1: traits of winning teams?
32:27
Speaker 8: Man, it's a lot. I'll say first, it's just culture
32:31
Speaker 8: is so important. Just the standard for play, play style,
32:36
Speaker 8: not even just scheme, just the way that you play
32:38
Speaker 8: the game, the way that you prepare your process. It
32:42
Speaker 8: bleeds over to everybody into the building. It includes the
32:45
Speaker 8: front staff, the back, like everybody has to be bought
32:47
Speaker 8: in for you to really make a run. And I
32:51
Speaker 8: feel like that has improved my process as well. It
32:54
Speaker 8: made me a better person, maybe a better man, in
32:57
Speaker 8: terms of like the accountability that it takes, the effort
33:00
Speaker 8: that it takes, and ultimately vulnerability like this game, like
33:04
Speaker 8: you're exposed every every Sunday, You're out there and you
33:07
Speaker 8: know the whole world is seeing you. So you're just
33:09
Speaker 8: trying to put your best foot forward for yourself and
33:12
Speaker 8: for your brothers next to you. So I don't know,
33:15
Speaker 8: just taking that approach, as you know, it had it's
33:19
Speaker 8: better in my life, you know, in terms of me
33:21
Speaker 8: having to be better for my brother right next to me.
33:23
Speaker 8: So I just really enjoyed that about football, the challenge
33:27
Speaker 8: that it is every weekend and week out, it's find
33:29
Speaker 8: a way to get better.
33:31
Speaker 1: I work with Dave Lappam on the broadcasts. He was
33:34
Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl team in nineteen eighty one with
33:35
Speaker 1: the Bengals lost to the forty nine Ers. It still
33:38
Speaker 1: hurts to this day. You played on the losing team
33:41
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and then the next year
33:44
Speaker 1: we're on the winning team with the Philadelphia Eagles. How
33:48
Speaker 1: did that feel, considering that you still had that fresh
33:51
Speaker 1: wound from the year before.
33:53
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just I feel like I just had
33:56
Speaker 8: the mindset I have to see it through, you know,
33:58
Speaker 8: just having an opportunity and coming up short with the
34:01
Speaker 8: Niners and then having the opportunity the next year against
34:03
Speaker 8: the same team that that very rarely happens, so it's
34:07
Speaker 8: a different locker room. But you know, they had kind
34:10
Speaker 8: of experienced the same thing a couple of years ago,
34:11
Speaker 8: is losing to the Chiefs as well, So I felt
34:14
Speaker 8: like there was a lot of joint motivation towards, you know,
34:17
Speaker 8: getting it right this time. And Yeah, just just wanted
34:21
Speaker 8: to leave it out there on the field everything I could,
34:24
Speaker 8: you know, preparation and just knowing what to expect for
34:26
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl week as well. It was really important
34:28
Speaker 8: in terms of sticking to your process. The craziness outside
34:32
Speaker 8: and you know that that goes into that week as well.
34:35
Speaker 8: Just being able to keep your head down and work
34:37
Speaker 8: towards the ultimate goal because afterwards there's no greater feeling.
34:40
Speaker 8: And then then host hoisting that that Lombardi Trophy and
34:43
Speaker 8: being with your brothers in the in the locker room.
34:45
Speaker 8: So yeah, just looking at looking to repeat that field.
34:48
Speaker 1: He Sean Nixon is deep and we're underway another game
34:52
Speaker 1: in the National Football League postseason. Nixon will take it
34:55
Speaker 1: on the far side outside of numbers.
34:56
Speaker 3: To the twenty on a diagonal twenty five, and he
34:58
Speaker 3: is smashed.
35:00
Speaker 2: I lost the football.
35:01
Speaker 3: It's inside the thirty and recovered by the Eagles. Or
35:06
Speaker 3: and Burkes knocked it loose.
35:08
Speaker 2: Boy, what a hit that was.
35:11
Speaker 1: Orrin Burkes just laid an unbelievable shot on Keyshawn Dixon
35:17
Speaker 1: to knock that ball out. Holy cow, it's not quite
35:21
Speaker 1: the Philly Special, but you made a play that Eagles
35:24
Speaker 1: fans will be talking about for decades. You force the
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Speaker 1: fumble on the very first play of the playoff run
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Speaker 1: with a jarring hit to the Packers kick returner. How
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Speaker 1: cool is it? To have a moment like that that
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Speaker 1: anytime you go back to Philly, somebody's going to say,
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Speaker 1: Orrin Burks, wait to force that fumble.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's special. It's special, you know, going into playoffs.
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Speaker 8: I played in a lot of playoff games before that,
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Speaker 8: and I just remember myself telling myself that week, just
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Speaker 8: find a way to make a player is going to
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Speaker 8: change the game. And what better way to change the
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Speaker 8: game than the opening kickoff, forcing the fun will getting
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Speaker 8: the ball out and we go down to drive start
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Speaker 8: and score right there, just to get a quick jump
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Speaker 8: on it. Setting the tone for the playoffs the place.
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Speaker 8: Like again, the play style that we wanted to have,
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Speaker 8: the physicality that we wanted to have. It's super cool.
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Speaker 8: I still get like d ms every once in a while,
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Speaker 8: Like I'll never forget that, you know, that play that
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Speaker 8: you were talking about, the opening kickoff of the of
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Speaker 8: the Packers game. So yeah, just definitely still feel the love,
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Speaker 8: you know, from from Philly fans and beyond, you know,
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Speaker 8: for you know, making a play that you know change
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Speaker 8: the game.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, just just a really cool moment.
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Speaker 1: All right, a few wild card topics now for Orrin Berks,
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Speaker 1: who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport.
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Speaker 2: And why obviously Michael Jordan.
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Speaker 8: Just like his competitiveness, you know, that's that's hard to emulate,
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Speaker 8: and just like his his his drive to hold the
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Speaker 8: others around him accountable. The same with Kobe, like kind
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Speaker 8: of that that mindset. So yeah, I probably have to
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Speaker 8: go with those two Jordans in Kobe.
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Speaker 1: You earned your degree at Vanderbilt. Do you know what
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Speaker 1: you want to do after football?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm you know, figuring it out. I do a
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Speaker 8: little bit of real styling side, but I really enjoy
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Speaker 8: this business, the critical thinking around that, using business tactics
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Speaker 8: to attack social problems and create change in the community.
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Speaker 8: So definitely things around that. That's that's kind of what
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Speaker 8: I'm looking at. But you know, I'm enjoying my time
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Speaker 8: in the league, and you know, I'll have so many
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Speaker 8: doors that are going to be opened, you know, when
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Speaker 8: when the time comes after I retire.
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Speaker 2: But I just focus on now.
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Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken. Your wife was a college volleyball player.
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Speaker 1: How did you two meet?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, we met through FCA, so we did a joint
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Speaker 8: fellowship called One City, One God. She was one of
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Speaker 8: the leaders for Belmont and I was one for Vanderbilt,
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Speaker 8: and we had lipscumb Tribeca, Fisk. There's so many schools
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Speaker 8: right there in Nashville, so planning that and yeah, just
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Speaker 8: ended up meeting her and didn't want to be the
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Speaker 8: guy that, you know, hitting on girls at FCA. But
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Speaker 8: you know, that's that's ultimately where you want to find
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Speaker 8: somebody that has like like minded and you know, ultimately
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Speaker 8: we have a beautiful family now, been mary s years
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Speaker 8: and a little girl, and it's it's just it's a
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Speaker 8: beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: Aside from sports, what are you good at?
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm good with people.
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Speaker 8: I truly enjoy the team aspect of sport, and I
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Speaker 8: try to carry that into my relationships with my wife,
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Speaker 8: with my friends, with my family, and just try to
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Speaker 8: pull the best out of people. So that's I feel
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Speaker 8: like that's what I'm good at all.
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Speaker 1: Right, final fun fact for Orrin Burks. This one's kind
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Speaker 1: of deep. If you could meet anyone in history, living
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Speaker 1: or deceased, who would that person be?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, probably be probably Jackie Robinson. Most people don't know.
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Speaker 8: That's the reason I wear forty two. So coming to
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Speaker 8: the league, you have to have a forty or fifty
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Speaker 8: number to be linebacker, and you know that was presented.
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Speaker 8: You know that thought would be cool to pay homage to,
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Speaker 8: you know, one of the first black athletes in professional sports,
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Speaker 8: and like all that he had to go through, the
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Speaker 8: mental fortitude that he carried and the poise that he
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Speaker 8: carried as well. So I feel like that would be
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Speaker 8: really cool to hear his story.
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Speaker 1: Like first, I love it and I will definitely mention
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Speaker 1: it the next time number forty two makes a tackle
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Speaker 1: Orren Burt's appreciate your time, best of luck the rest
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Speaker 1: of the year.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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