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Speaker 1: preseason with a thirty four to twenty seven loss to
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, coming up radio replays, locker room comments
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Speaker 1: by subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest
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Speaker 1: thing since the Freak's List. Every year, sportswriter Bruce Feldman
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Speaker 1: from The Athletic comes out with a list of the
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Speaker 1: biggest athletic freaks in college football in terms of strength, speed,
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Speaker 1: and explosiveness. There's one hundred and one players on the list,
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Speaker 1: and the University of Cincinnati had three of them this year.
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Speaker 1: The only school with Moore was Penn State with five.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned the three Bearcats on ACTS a few days
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Speaker 1: ago and a Bengals fan named Chris McGill responded by
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Speaker 1: asking me how many current Bengals have been on the list?
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Speaker 1: A fun question, So I look back over the last
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Speaker 1: five years and the answer is nine. They are Dylan Fairchild,
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Speaker 1: Chris Jenkins, PJ Jeweles Miles Murphy, andre Yosi Vash, DJ Turner,
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Speaker 1: Tyson Anderson, Desmond Ritter, and Jamar Chase. Seeing Pete Jay
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Speaker 1: Jewles was a bit of a surprise, but the biggest
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Speaker 1: surprise is that Shamar Stewart was not on the list.
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Speaker 1: They don't come much freakier than the Bengals first round
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Speaker 1: draft pick. Now time for radio replays from the City
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Speaker 1: of the Brotherly Shove. Good evening, everybody in Greetings from Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: where tonight it's a matchup between the defending Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: champion and a team with Super Bowl aspirations. It's the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles against the Cincinnati Bengals, and it is time
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Speaker 1: for the pig skin to fly. Here at Lincoln Financial Field,
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Speaker 1: three receivers left, one out to the right. The receiver
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Speaker 1: to the right is Chase. Here's a short pass caught
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Speaker 1: by Tanner Hudson lunging toward the goal line. Touchdown Bengals.
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Speaker 1: Tanner Hudson caught it at the three, lowered his shoulder
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Speaker 1: pads and got the football over the goal line. Ball
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Speaker 1: is inside the one and the Eagles will line up
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Speaker 1: in the tush push formation. McKee gets shoved toward the
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Speaker 1: goal line and he's in. It's a Philadelphia touchdown. Burrow
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Speaker 1: waiting for the shotgun. Snap two y two formation looks left,
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Speaker 1: throws left cock by Chase escapes a tackle racing down
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Speaker 1: the sideline. Touchdown Nie Bengals. Chamarge. Chase picking up where
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Speaker 1: he left off last year when he led the NFL
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Speaker 1: with seventeen touchdowns, and Kee Lee, Ringo's athletic supporter is
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Speaker 1: sitting on the playing surface. It is third down and
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Speaker 1: goal from the seven. McKee will look to throw his
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Speaker 1: pass into the end zone, caught for an easy touchdown
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Speaker 1: by a Nias Smith. He had a couple of yards
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Speaker 1: of separation. Way too easy in that part of the field.
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Speaker 1: McKee waits in the gun. He has the ball. He's
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Speaker 1: looking left now throws to the right. Touchdown Wow. Near
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Speaker 1: the forward right pylon. Darius Cooper calls in a perfect
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Speaker 1: throat oh from Tanner McKee.
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Speaker 3: Boy Tanner McKee is on fire.
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Speaker 1: Thompson Robinson hands it off and shun Derrick Powell bounces
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Speaker 1: it wide to the right and goes into the end zone,
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Speaker 1: standing up for the Philadelphia touchdown. Second down and eight,
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Speaker 1: Ridder fakes a hand off from the goal line, launches
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Speaker 1: a deep ball. He's got to make it open. Jamoy
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Speaker 1: Mays makes the catch. Bear Cat to bear cat and
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Speaker 1: Mays has tackled at the forty two of Philadelphia. From
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Speaker 1: the twelve yard line of Philadelphia, Ridder, looking left, floats
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Speaker 1: it into the end zone for Hudson Tanner. Hudson comes
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Speaker 1: down with a football. It's a touchdown, his second of
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Speaker 1: the game as Desmond. Ridder timed a nice touch throw
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Speaker 1: right on the sideline in the end zone and Hudson
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Speaker 1: got his feet down for the score.
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Speaker 3: He did, I mean the right foot was marvelous. The
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Speaker 3: way he got that right foot down. I mean man
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Speaker 3: tap tap.
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Speaker 1: Fourth down and nine. The Bengals a thrown twenty one
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Speaker 1: two deep safeties for Philly ritter back to throw passes
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Speaker 1: to the left and it's incomplete intended for Rashad Owens.
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Speaker 1: No penalty, flag down, and Philadelphia is going to win
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Speaker 1: the game. The final score Philly thirty four, Cincinnati twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good
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Speaker 1: was the play of the first team offense. Two series,
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, a total of fifteen plays for one hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty six yards. That's nine point seven per snap.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow went nine for ten for one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty three yards, with a twelve yard touchdown past the
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Speaker 1: Tanner Hudson and a thirty six yard score to Jamar Chase.
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Speaker 1: This just in, Burrow and the Bengals offense are good.
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Speaker 1: The bad was the play of the defense. Even though
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, AJ Brown, and the other offensive
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Speaker 1: starters did not play for Philly, the Eagles still run
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Speaker 1: up four hundred and thirty two yards of offense three
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Speaker 1: hundred passing and one hundred and thirty two rushing and
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback Tanner McKee picked them apart, going twenty for
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Speaker 1: twenty five for two hundred and fifty two yards, with
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Speaker 1: two touchdown throws, one touchdown run, and a passer rating
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Speaker 1: of one thirty five point three. Again, that's Tanner McKee.
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Speaker 1: Then there's the ugly penalties committed on special teams. A
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Speaker 1: seventy two yard kick return by Gary Brightwell was wiped
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Speaker 1: out by holding on cam Grandy Djivy lined up off
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Speaker 1: sides on a fifty five yard field goal attempt. The
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Speaker 1: kick was no good, but the penalty helped extend the
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Speaker 1: drive and the Eagles eventually kicked a much shorter field goal. Then,
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Speaker 1: on another field goal attempt, McKinley Jackson was called for
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Speaker 1: roughing the snapper. You don't hear that one every day.
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Speaker 1: On the very next play, Philadelphia scored a touchdown to
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Speaker 1: take a seventeen point lead. Let's hear what Zach Taylor
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Speaker 1: had to say as he spent a few minutes with
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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham after the game.
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Speaker 3: First of all, coach, give us you know your overall
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Speaker 3: impressions about how you feel like your football team went
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Speaker 3: out and performed in Week one in the preseason.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, not good.
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Speaker 2: Enough.
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Speaker 4: That's a team loss right there. And there were some
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Speaker 4: silly mistakes we made that contributed straight to the seven
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Speaker 4: points just on gimmes, you know, on field goal alone,
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Speaker 4: lining up off side in the center, that's seven points.
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Speaker 4: And it was a seven point ball game.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 4: We gave him shortfield on interception, gave him short field
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Speaker 4: on a punt return, had a kickoffer negated on a
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Speaker 4: long run because of walking the back that had nothing
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Speaker 4: to do with Philly led us to a loss, and
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Speaker 4: we can't let it happen again.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned one of the one of the big keys
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Speaker 3: to the game if you was minimizing, trying to eliminate
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Speaker 3: or minimize penalties, and there seemed to be you know,
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Speaker 3: a few penalties obviously that were very crucial and harmful
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Speaker 3: during the course of the football game.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and there to learn from it.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 4: We don't want to have to learn from whatever. We
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Speaker 4: have higher expectations than that. But again, if losing this
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Speaker 4: game is going to help us be better for going forward,
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Speaker 4: then that's a good thing. But I'm still disappointed because
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Speaker 4: there were some control balls there that this could have
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Speaker 4: had a different outcome.
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Speaker 3: What do you think you did best in the football game.
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Speaker 3: When I know it's probably hard to, you know, reflect
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Speaker 3: back on everything right now. Everything's a big whirlwind right now.
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Speaker 3: But you know, as you look back, what do you
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Speaker 3: feel most proud about the football team accomplished.
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Speaker 2: The second half?
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Speaker 4: Proud of the momentum where we regain to get ourselves
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Speaker 4: back in a defense, got some stops, and the defense
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Speaker 4: isn't a tough spot because we're trying not to expose
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Speaker 4: our DV. We've got new coordinator in here, and so
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Speaker 4: we're trying to limit what we're doing, and so we're
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Speaker 4: expecting some guys to make some one on once, you know,
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Speaker 4: and there are some fifty to fifty plays that we
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Speaker 4: got to make. But I just thought, overall, the second half,
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Speaker 4: guys gave us some energy, gave us some momentum, gave
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Speaker 4: us a chance. We got the ball back down seven,
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Speaker 4: having been down by seventeen, and so I was pleased
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Speaker 4: with the fight they showed. There's That doesn't mean that
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Speaker 4: there's still not a lot to clean up though.
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Speaker 3: Individually. Can you think of does any any individual performance
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Speaker 3: that any player gave you out there tonight strike you
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Speaker 3: as that was pretty special?
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Speaker 4: Those are the things we'll have to watch, I was spat.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 4: The first team offense went down there and scored fourteen points,
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Speaker 4: and just about every play was a positive play to
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Speaker 4: my eye. So that's something we can continue to build
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Speaker 4: on as a team, and you know, we'll watch the
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Speaker 4: tape to get specific performances.
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Speaker 3: Joe burrow and had one incompletion, and he threw two
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Speaker 3: touchdown passes and he had a third that was called back.
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Speaker 3: So obviously he executed a pretty high level for you.
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Speaker 4: Didn't he Yeah, there's not much more to say about that.
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Speaker 4: He'll probably tell you'd rather go ten for ten, which,
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Speaker 4: of course, but pleased without how that group started.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned that the second offensive group was having a
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Speaker 3: tough time finding its rhythm, finding its timing. Was that
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Speaker 3: Jake was it? Everybody was it a combination.
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Speaker 4: They collective effort, and the quarterback leads to the group,
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Speaker 4: it's collective effort. There's some things he can't see even
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Speaker 4: happening as the play's developing, you know, right in front
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Speaker 4: of him that we got to be better at. So
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Speaker 4: definitely not putting it on any one person, this as
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Speaker 4: a whole. We got to be better with the second.
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Speaker 3: Group, the offensive line and defensive line, two areas where
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Speaker 3: you're looking for added depth, improve depth as a football team,
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Speaker 3: particularly in the interior. When you're looking at the guard
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Speaker 3: position in the defensive tackle position, how do you think
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Speaker 3: those positions performed for you to time?
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Speaker 7: It was too hard to tell.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a tough one to tell right now. You know,
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Speaker 4: we'll go back and watch it and see where the
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Speaker 4: good was and the bad was and assess it from there.
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Speaker 3: So anybody, any younger player, step out, you know, step up,
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Speaker 3: catch your eye, make a big play, do something that
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Speaker 3: was unexpected, or did exactly what they were supposed to
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Speaker 3: do snap after snap.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it was good to see the big turnover
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Speaker 4: you know, that got us back in the scoring position
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Speaker 4: there that they had to a touchdown drive for us.
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Speaker 4: So that was that was a great turna momentum there.
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Speaker 4: So again it's there's some things obviously we have to
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Speaker 4: go back through and I don't want to hire somebody
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Speaker 4: good or bad until I've seen more of the tape.
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Speaker 3: So now you get to travel back to Cincinnati. Obviously
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Speaker 3: it's a late night games, some some tough travel back
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Speaker 3: to Cincinnati and uh and get back at get get
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Speaker 3: back out in the practice field. What do you think
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Speaker 3: is the first thing you're going to try to address.
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Speaker 4: We just have to be sharper from top to bottom,
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Speaker 4: you know. And the penalties really I think are the
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Speaker 4: biggest thing that we just changed that and those are
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Speaker 4: control balls on our end, that's nothing Philly did whatsoever.
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Speaker 4: Then we were likely had a chance to walk away
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Speaker 4: with a win. And so obviously there's there's some exes,
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Speaker 4: those things we got to clean up. There's some drops
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Speaker 4: we had during the game. Those are all things that
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Speaker 4: we're going to obviously talk about as the practice goes on.
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Speaker 4: But it was the silly mistakes that are completely unabordable
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Speaker 4: pre snap, immediately post that penalties that we can't tolerate.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to pick somebody other than Burrow for the
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Speaker 1: Bengals star of the game, but tight end Tanner Hudson
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Speaker 1: deserves a shout out. With Mike is sick, he nursing
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Speaker 1: a sore hamstring and Noah Fant not up to speed
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Speaker 1: yet after just signing a few days ago, Hudson and
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Speaker 1: played nearly the entire game and finished with six catches
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Speaker 1: for sixty two yards, had a pair of touchdowns. I
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Speaker 1: spoke to him after the game. We're in the locker
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Speaker 1: room with Timmer Hudson six catches, sixty two yards and
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Speaker 1: a pair of touchdowns. Let's talk about the first You
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Speaker 1: got Joe Burrow in the first team offense out there
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Speaker 1: in the opening drive. I thought it was a great statement.
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Speaker 1: Did you march right down the field scored a touchdown
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Speaker 1: Andy with your twelve yard catch.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it felt good, you know, especially when you got
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Speaker 6: you know, Jamar and t outside of you and then
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Speaker 6: Dre inside. You know, that creates some space in the
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Speaker 6: field and took advantage of it and got the end zone.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if the first team offense needs any
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Speaker 1: extra confidence at this point, but when you have two
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Speaker 1: drives and scored two touchdowns, if this kind of reinforced
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Speaker 1: the notion that this should be one of the higher
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Speaker 1: scoring teams in the NFL, doesn't.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree, But you know there's always stuff to
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Speaker 6: build on, always stuff to improve.
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Speaker 7: Get in watch the film.
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Speaker 2: And get better each and every day.
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Speaker 6: You know, when you got playmakers like you know we
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Speaker 6: have on our team, expect to be one of the best,
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Speaker 6: if not the.
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Speaker 2: Best, offensive in the league. So, you know, like I said,
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Speaker 2: just got to continue stag days.
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Speaker 1: On that first touchdown, you looked like a swimmer trying
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Speaker 1: to touch the wall. Your your legs were off the ground,
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Speaker 1: ball fully extended. That was a great job to get
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Speaker 1: the ball of the line.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, tried to, you know, try to keep the knees off.
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Speaker 6: I feel like most of the time people come down
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Speaker 6: and you know you need touches.
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Speaker 2: Right before you extend.
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Speaker 6: So just gotta try to straighten those legs out and
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Speaker 6: you can get the ball cost plane and.
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Speaker 7: Then touchdown number two.
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Speaker 1: We saw your footwork because that was a heck of
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Speaker 1: a right foot toe tap to get both feet down.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, I knew I was getting close.
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Speaker 6: Does put it in really the only place that I
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Speaker 6: could catch it dropped in the bucket, So incredible throw by.
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Speaker 7: Him, and then you know, just trusting me to get
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Speaker 7: the job done.
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Speaker 2: On lie In.
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Speaker 1: You made a bit of a statement in the last
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Speaker 1: week not to be forgotten for what you can contribute
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Speaker 1: to this offense.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm looking at it like that.
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Speaker 7: I'm more so just you know, control what I can.
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Speaker 6: Control out there, trying to do my best each and
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Speaker 6: every day to show that you know I can and
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Speaker 6: have played well in.
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Speaker 1: This league and we'll continue to appreciate your time.
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Speaker 7: Congrats on a great game. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: guys recap. Let's start with the biggest positive, and that
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Speaker 1: would be the play of the first team offense. They
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Speaker 1: got to play at quarter. As Zach Taylor said, they
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Speaker 1: would couldn't have gone any better. Two drives, two touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: two TD passes for Joe Burrow.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, honestly do astronomenal.
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Speaker 3: I thought, you know, and you have a third touchdown
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Speaker 3: past of was nullified by penalty, So I mean he
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Speaker 3: went nine to ten, really ten for eleven. You know,
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Speaker 3: I guess you'd probably like to get that first pass
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Speaker 3: back and complete it and have a perfect day. I
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Speaker 3: mean the guy's quarterback ratings astronomical anyway. But that's the
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Speaker 3: way he plays the game. It doesn't matter if it's
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Speaker 3: a scrimmage, intersquad scrimmage, preseason game, regular season game, postseason game.
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Speaker 3: He takes every game in a serious mindset with a
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Speaker 3: desire to learn and improve and make his game better
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Speaker 3: every way he possibly can.
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Speaker 7: He was well protected on those two drives.
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Speaker 3: He was I thought, I thought the offensive line stepped
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Speaker 3: up and played well. I thought Dylan Fairchild had a
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Speaker 3: strong game. All the other guys who pretty much you know,
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Speaker 3: had been there, done that before, and let's be honest,
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Speaker 3: that the Philadelphia because didn't have their best group out there.
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Speaker 3: So you know, that's a factor when you get your
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Speaker 3: number one is working against guys that aren't their number one.
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Speaker 7: As necessarily, you'd hope that things.
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Speaker 3: Might end up slanting your way a little bit in
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Speaker 3: terms of performance and execution, But the fact is you
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Speaker 3: still have to go out there and do it. You
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Speaker 3: have to still have to go out there and perform
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Speaker 3: and play, and even if it's against Eric, you still
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Speaker 3: have to go out there and perform and play. So
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Speaker 3: I think overall that's probably the brightest spot I think
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Speaker 3: of the of the of the night is that Joe
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Speaker 3: Burrow and the two receivers were lights out, and that's
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Speaker 3: what they hope and expect and anticipate would be the
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Speaker 3: case every week this season.
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Speaker 1: The biggest negative in my mind is the fact that
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Speaker 1: the first team defense gave up two scoring drives to
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Speaker 1: the Eagles second team offense and quarterback Tanner McKee. He
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Speaker 1: looked really good. Would you like to think that as
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Speaker 1: well as those guys have performed by and larger training camp,
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Speaker 1: they could have at least forced one point?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 3: I think they're probably all kind of disappointed for sure
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Speaker 3: in the way that the way that the whole thing
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Speaker 3: evolved and unfolded to not make the Philadelphi Eagles punt
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Speaker 3: one time with Tana McGee at the quarterback position is
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Speaker 3: not something that I think they felt like it was
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Speaker 3: gonna be the case going into the game. But just
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Speaker 3: like we talked about, you know, with the offense on
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Speaker 3: a snap by snap basis, you have to go out.
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Speaker 7: There and perform, and they didn't.
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Speaker 3: They didn't step up enough, didn't make enough players when
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Speaker 3: the players were there to be made to get the
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Speaker 3: Eagles off the football field to disrupt their rhythm and timing,
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Speaker 3: and they just they just got into a mindset where
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Speaker 3: things were very very smooth, very very.
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Speaker 7: Easy for them.
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Speaker 3: A lot of yards after catch after contact, too many
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Speaker 3: penalties that that cost the defense. You give any professional
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Speaker 3: football player second opportunity, they're gonna make good on it,
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Speaker 3: and the Eagles did that tonight with regularity.
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Speaker 1: Two touchdown catches for Tanner Hudson. We talked about it
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Speaker 1: during the game. They recently picked up no A paint.
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Speaker 1: They have Mike get SICKI and don't know exactly what
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Speaker 1: his role is going to be going forward, but he
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Speaker 1: certainly showed the win.
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Speaker 7: Given opportunities, he can make plays. Yeah, that's that's a fact,
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Speaker 7: you know. And and uh, I think I think they
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Speaker 7: got to be proud of Tanner HUDs No.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he's a he's a guy that
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Speaker 3: you know, everybody just never considers him. And when they
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Speaker 3: start to make a player count at the position, you know,
18:26
Speaker 3: it's always like, oh yeah, and then there's there's Tanner Hudson.
18:29
Speaker 7: That's right.
18:29
Speaker 3: And they're going and pick up tight ends in the offseason,
18:33
Speaker 3: right before the season starts, pick up another tight end.
18:35
Speaker 3: But oh yeah, yeah, that's right. You know, we still
18:38
Speaker 3: have Tanner Hudson. He goes out there and starts to
18:40
Speaker 3: right and shows up, shows up and makes plays. Can't
18:43
Speaker 3: ask for more than that. I mean, he uh, what
18:47
Speaker 3: do you have five catches for like.
18:50
Speaker 7: Sixty some odd yards?
18:51
Speaker 1: I think it was six catches for sixty two yards
18:54
Speaker 1: and two TVs.
18:56
Speaker 3: That's good night's work. You know, you get six catches,
19:00
Speaker 3: two of them go for scores. It's a good ratio
19:03
Speaker 3: right there, a very good percentage, you know, sixty plus
19:06
Speaker 3: yards out of the tight end position and taking advantage
19:08
Speaker 3: in the middle of the football field like he did.
19:10
Speaker 7: You know, it makes it easier and better.
19:11
Speaker 3: For the outside guys to operate and manipulate, you know,
19:16
Speaker 3: their people one on one.
19:17
Speaker 7: On the perimeter. And when you.
19:19
Speaker 3: Get Jamar Chase and t Higgins on the outside, when
19:23
Speaker 3: you're in high cotton right there, you have mismatches waiting
19:26
Speaker 3: to happen. So I think Tanner Hudson is gonna still
19:31
Speaker 3: surprise the people. Every year he surprises people by what
19:33
Speaker 3: he contributes to the football team. I think this year
19:36
Speaker 3: is going to be no exception. I think that he
19:38
Speaker 3: is going to make some plays and some football games
19:41
Speaker 3: are going to be like, man, what if we didn't
19:43
Speaker 3: have Tanner Hudson? And that says a lot.
19:46
Speaker 1: Defensively, statistically, the guy that popped the most tould be
19:51
Speaker 1: McKinley Jackson. He had three tackles for loss our running plays.
19:54
Speaker 7: That was good.
19:56
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that anybody else really stood out to
19:59
Speaker 1: be Shimart.
19:59
Speaker 7: Stewart actually splashed a little bit when he was in
20:02
Speaker 7: the game.
20:02
Speaker 1: Defensively, Other than that, I can't really say that anybody
20:06
Speaker 1: shown in my opinion, Yeah.
20:08
Speaker 3: I would very much agree with that, Dan, you know,
20:11
Speaker 3: I think I think you're gonna give m ckinny Jackson credit,
20:14
Speaker 3: you know. I mean he's trying to be a pros pro,
20:19
Speaker 3: get himself, give himself ready to perform on a snap
20:22
Speaker 3: by snap basis knowing that you've got, you know, X
20:27
Speaker 3: amount of snaps from an opportunity standpoint, so you have
20:30
Speaker 3: to go maximize each and every one of them. And
20:31
Speaker 3: I think that's the mindset that he wanted to a
20:33
Speaker 3: football game with. I thought that team played hard every
20:38
Speaker 3: single snap, and on three occasions it turned into negative
20:43
Speaker 3: players tackle philos I mean, when you're doing that for
20:46
Speaker 3: your your defense and then helping the offense by you know,
20:50
Speaker 3: picking up additional hidden yards.
20:52
Speaker 7: You know, you're you're making an impact on the football game,
20:54
Speaker 7: and and.
20:55
Speaker 3: That that you know, that's his goal somehow influenced impact
20:58
Speaker 3: the football game with the snaps.
21:00
Speaker 7: And he's been given money.
21:02
Speaker 1: Mack was good and special teams, but way too many
21:05
Speaker 1: penalties in that year.
21:06
Speaker 3: At tonight exactly, I mean, I bet Darren Simmons is
21:10
Speaker 3: pissed off. There's no there's no question. He's not a
21:13
Speaker 3: happy camper in the locker room right now. Everybody's going
21:15
Speaker 3: to give him his distance, but you know they'll he'll
21:19
Speaker 3: review the tape. Who reviewed the tape with his players
21:22
Speaker 3: and and uh rectify that issue. I don't I don't
21:26
Speaker 3: think that's gonna be a season long problem with special teams,
21:32
Speaker 3: you know, costing the Cincinnati Bengals big plays and yards
21:36
Speaker 3: and potential returns and all that with with silly kind
21:40
Speaker 3: of the mistakes. I just can't foresee that. I think, uh,
21:43
Speaker 3: I think Darren Simmons will kill everybody.
21:45
Speaker 1: First, the long journey is underway. Didn't begin with a
21:50
Speaker 1: win tonight, but hey, the loss doesn't count.
21:54
Speaker 3: Yeah it is, it's a big Orlando It's yeah, it's
21:59
Speaker 3: it's number one in the books. First preseason game in
22:02
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five season did not go the way
22:06
Speaker 3: that hope are expected.
22:07
Speaker 7: But as you said, doesn't mean a hill of beans
22:11
Speaker 7: when you're.
22:11
Speaker 3: Trying to, you know, generate a playoff spot at the
22:15
Speaker 3: end of the season, win the division they advanced to,
22:19
Speaker 3: the to the playoffs, advance to the AFC Championship Game,
22:24
Speaker 3: and ultimately win the Super Bowl's that's the goal, and
22:28
Speaker 3: I think this team's good enough to do it.
22:29
Speaker 7: I really do. I mean, this.
22:31
Speaker 3: Preseason game is not going to change my opinion and
22:34
Speaker 3: my feeling about what they've got in this locker room.
22:37
Speaker 3: I think these guys all played hard. I think another
22:40
Speaker 3: positive sign was when they fell behind, they rallied back.
22:44
Speaker 3: You know, it didn't just you know, spit the bit
22:47
Speaker 3: it's over. They rallied back and had a chance to
22:50
Speaker 3: tie the football game down the stretch.
22:51
Speaker 7: And that's what you hope for.
22:53
Speaker 1: That puts a wrap on the preseason opener. Now it's
22:56
Speaker 1: time for this week's fun fact segment. In his final
22:59
Speaker 1: News Got Prince before this game, Joe Burrow was asked
23:02
Speaker 1: a question about andre Yosi Vash and wound up talking
23:06
Speaker 1: about the team's depth at wide receiver.
23:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's having a great camp.
23:10
Speaker 3: Now.
23:10
Speaker 5: Everybody knows I'm gonna throw a number one at number five.
23:14
Speaker 5: But there's a lot of teams that do a really
23:16
Speaker 5: good job of, you know, taking those two guys away.
23:20
Speaker 5: And when you have a guy like Andre, you have
23:23
Speaker 5: a guy like Mike Main Chuck both really stepping up
23:27
Speaker 5: this camp. Now we're we're as deep as we've been
23:30
Speaker 5: at the receiver position since I've been here. And then
23:34
Speaker 5: you have guys like Mitch ands in Isaiah having great
23:38
Speaker 5: camps as well. I feel great about where that room is.
23:44
Speaker 5: And you know there's gonna be injuries, guys are gonna
23:47
Speaker 5: go down, and we have guys that we can play
23:48
Speaker 5: right in.
23:48
Speaker 1: So, in addition to discussing Andre, Joe mentioned Mike as
23:52
Speaker 1: in Gasiki, Maine as in Jermaine Burton, Chuck as in
23:56
Speaker 1: Charlie Jones, Isaiah as in Isaiah William who joined the
24:00
Speaker 1: team with six games to go last year. And he
24:03
Speaker 1: also threw in the name Mitch. That caught my ear
24:07
Speaker 1: because we haven't heard much about Mitchell Tinsley. So let's
24:11
Speaker 1: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
24:16
Speaker 1: some fun facts with wide receiver Mitch Tinsley from Lee's Summit, Missouri,
24:20
Speaker 1: near Kansas City. We won't judge you. Were you a
24:24
Speaker 1: Chiefs fan growing up?
24:26
Speaker 8: I was definitely, you know, growing up in Kansas said
24:28
Speaker 8: you can't help but be as she's fan.
24:31
Speaker 2: But you know I'm all Bengals now.
24:33
Speaker 1: No doubt about that. And along those lines, Joe Burrow
24:37
Speaker 1: recently said we are as deep at the receiver position
24:41
Speaker 1: as we've been since I've been here. And then the
24:43
Speaker 1: first name he mentioned after that sentence was yours. Did
24:47
Speaker 1: you hear that or hear about it? And what do
24:50
Speaker 1: you think?
24:51
Speaker 8: I didn't necessarily hear it, but my mom she had
24:54
Speaker 8: mentioned it to me when I got home after practice
24:56
Speaker 8: that day.
24:57
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's pretty cool.
24:59
Speaker 1: The Joe Burrows shout out is a good thing because
25:02
Speaker 1: you have to develop trust with that guy, and clearly
25:04
Speaker 1: you're in the process of doing that.
25:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, most definitely.
25:06
Speaker 8: I think for the most part, it just comes down to,
25:09
Speaker 8: you know, coming in here, doing my work, keeping my
25:11
Speaker 8: head down, and you know, know one to do when
25:13
Speaker 8: I'm out there.
25:14
Speaker 1: We're visiting the wide receiver Mitch Tinsley, The Bengals are
25:17
Speaker 1: your second NFL team, You spent the last couple of
25:19
Speaker 1: years in Washington, and yet you only played one year
25:23
Speaker 1: of high school football. Why only one?
25:26
Speaker 8: Uh well, football was always my first love. It's kind
25:30
Speaker 8: of one of them things that you know, growing up
25:31
Speaker 8: my parents were separated, I wanted to play other sports,
25:35
Speaker 8: and you know, when middle school team came around for basketball,
25:39
Speaker 8: I wanted to really try that.
25:40
Speaker 2: So I had to go hoop dreams for a second.
25:42
Speaker 2: And so I took a break.
25:43
Speaker 8: From football, and I was mainly just doing basketball for
25:46
Speaker 8: the most part. I did a little track also, but
25:49
Speaker 8: then I came back out I was missing it, and
25:51
Speaker 8: I came back my senior year.
25:53
Speaker 1: It all worked out in the end. But when you
25:55
Speaker 1: play just one year of high school football, it's hard
25:58
Speaker 1: to get a lot of interest from college team. And
26:00
Speaker 1: you started out as a walk on at Hutchinson Community College?
26:05
Speaker 1: How did you wind up there?
26:07
Speaker 2: So?
26:07
Speaker 8: As crazy is you know the recruiting process for me,
26:10
Speaker 8: I didn't really have much attention. There was some d
26:12
Speaker 8: two schools that you know, were sort of interested. They
26:15
Speaker 8: wanted me to walk on, but my ACT score wasn't
26:17
Speaker 8: good enough, so I tried to retake it a couple
26:20
Speaker 8: times insteadn't get a high enough score to get in
26:24
Speaker 8: so Juco. And I always felt like I felt like
26:27
Speaker 8: I could play the Division Division one level. I had
26:29
Speaker 8: those dreams, I had those aspirations. So Juco was another
26:32
Speaker 8: opportunity to give me a chance or a shot at
26:34
Speaker 8: getting there. So that's kind of how that happened. And
26:37
Speaker 8: then I had a recruiter. It was so bad that
26:40
Speaker 8: like I had a recruiter who was kind of sending emails,
26:42
Speaker 8: I'll sending my tape out to people. And he had
26:45
Speaker 8: told me about there was a walk on spot or
26:48
Speaker 8: a walk on tryout there at Hudgerson Community College. And
26:51
Speaker 8: went there and you know the rest of his history.
26:53
Speaker 1: You certainly made the most of it. After two years there,
26:56
Speaker 1: you transferred to Western Kentucky and in twenty twenty one
27:00
Speaker 1: you had eighty seven catches for more than fourteen hundred
27:03
Speaker 1: yards and fourteen touchdowns. At that point, did you start
27:07
Speaker 1: to think that the NFL was a realistic possibility?
27:11
Speaker 2: What's crazy?
27:11
Speaker 7: Is?
27:11
Speaker 8: I mean, even coming from those circumstances, I always felt
27:14
Speaker 8: like I would be there for somehow, some way I
27:17
Speaker 8: was gonna get there.
27:19
Speaker 2: But yeah, it became more realistic after that year. You know, I.
27:21
Speaker 8: Had some really big games against some powerfile schools.
27:25
Speaker 2: You know, I think everything just kind of came together
27:27
Speaker 2: that year.
27:28
Speaker 1: You spent your final college season at Penn State, where
27:31
Speaker 1: your quarterback and one of your roommates was Sean Clifford.
27:35
Speaker 1: He's from Cincinnati, he went to Saint Xavier High School.
27:38
Speaker 1: Are you two still in touch and if so, has
27:40
Speaker 1: he told you anything about Cincinnati.
27:42
Speaker 8: I haven't really talked to him about Cincinnati, but yeah,
27:44
Speaker 8: me and him were still in touch. I was actually
27:46
Speaker 8: probably about a month and a half ago. I was
27:48
Speaker 8: at his wedding. He just got married up in Philly.
27:51
Speaker 8: So yeah, we definitely keep in touch with pretty close.
27:54
Speaker 1: Your final game at Penn State was the Rose Bowl,
27:58
Speaker 1: a win over Utah. You had six catch which including
28:00
Speaker 1: a touchdown in that game. Considering your journey one year
28:04
Speaker 1: of high school football, starting out as a walk on
28:07
Speaker 1: it at the junior college level, was it surreal to
28:10
Speaker 1: walk off that field as a Rose Bowl champion?
28:13
Speaker 8: It definitely was, for sure, because you know the whole
28:17
Speaker 8: reason I wore number five from college and as a kid,
28:21
Speaker 8: I was Alrobady, like five or six years old.
28:22
Speaker 2: USC had played Texas against Vince.
28:26
Speaker 8: Yeah, Vince Young, Yeah, and so, and Reggie Bush was
28:30
Speaker 8: my favorite player, and you know, that was a rose
28:32
Speaker 8: ball game. And for me to be able to end
28:34
Speaker 8: up in that situation coming from the circumstances I came from,
28:39
Speaker 8: is it definitely you know, was a dream come true.
28:41
Speaker 8: But at that moment, I was more focused on, you know,
28:44
Speaker 8: what was the next steps and get into my ultimate goal.
28:47
Speaker 1: Why was Reggie Bush your favorite player?
28:49
Speaker 8: He just I don't know, it was it was just
28:51
Speaker 8: something about he's on the cover and ce double a.
28:53
Speaker 2: He just he just had to swagger about him.
28:55
Speaker 8: He was, you know in La you know, he was
28:58
Speaker 8: at USC that was like really in my dream school.
29:01
Speaker 8: It was I don't know, It's just everything, the whole
29:03
Speaker 8: combination of everything just really just made me. And they
29:06
Speaker 8: were winning national championship at the time, Like, he was
29:08
Speaker 8: just one of my favorite players.
29:10
Speaker 1: After Penn State, it was onto the NFL. You started
29:12
Speaker 1: your career with the Washington Commanders, and in your third
29:15
Speaker 1: preseason game, you caught a thirty eight yard touchdown pass
29:19
Speaker 1: from Jacoby Brissett against the Bengals. It included a great
29:23
Speaker 1: spin move to blow by Jordan Battle. Has that come
29:27
Speaker 1: up now that you two are teammates.
29:29
Speaker 8: Now I hasn't came up yet. I haven't really, you know,
29:32
Speaker 8: brought it up or anything like that. But it's kind
29:33
Speaker 8: of crazy how how it all, you know, came together,
29:36
Speaker 8: and how I'm here now.
29:37
Speaker 1: Do you think he knows you were that guy?
29:40
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I'm sure you. You probably would have
29:42
Speaker 2: to ask him. I'm not sure. I haven't really haven't
29:44
Speaker 2: really talked to him about it.
29:45
Speaker 1: I might have to bring it up, see what he says.
29:47
Speaker 2: It was definitely.
29:49
Speaker 1: We're visiting with wide receiver Mitch Tinsley. You spent last
29:52
Speaker 1: year in Washington's practice squad, so she got a first
29:55
Speaker 1: hand look at rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, who had a
29:57
Speaker 1: fantastic season. He's a high Trophy winner from LSU. You
30:02
Speaker 1: are currently playing with a HEIGHSPO Trophy winner from LSU
30:04
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow. What are those two guys have in common,
30:08
Speaker 1: if anything, on or off the field.
30:11
Speaker 2: I think it's just how they prepare.
30:12
Speaker 8: As far as their mentality, I think they're very dedicated
30:16
Speaker 8: and you know, they take their work very serious. I
30:18
Speaker 8: think they're very detailed oriented when it comes to just everything,
30:21
Speaker 8: knowing everybody's responsibilities, knowing what they have to do and
30:25
Speaker 8: also when plays break down and knowing just how to
30:28
Speaker 8: operate when under pressure.
30:31
Speaker 1: How does catching a ball compare from each of them?
30:34
Speaker 8: I would definitely say they both though you know a
30:36
Speaker 8: great ball for sure, you know. I think with Jayden,
30:40
Speaker 8: he you never know where he's gonna be at in
30:42
Speaker 8: the pocket. He could be moving, he could be doing
30:44
Speaker 8: things like that. I think that's really the only two
30:47
Speaker 8: different things that kind of separate the two as far
30:50
Speaker 8: as Jaden's just you know, athleticism. But for the most part,
30:53
Speaker 8: they both though you know, really great balls.
30:55
Speaker 1: All right, a few wild card topics now for wide
30:57
Speaker 1: receiver Mitch Tinsley. You already mentioned that Reggie Bush was
31:02
Speaker 1: your favorite football player growing up. How about from another sport?
31:05
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite athlete from something other than football?
31:09
Speaker 8: It would most definitely be either Muhammad Ali or Kobe Bryant.
31:14
Speaker 8: Those are probably my two favorite like players or athletes
31:18
Speaker 8: from other sports that I really you know, find inspiration
31:22
Speaker 8: from or just as far as you know, the way
31:25
Speaker 8: they attacked their craft.
31:26
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that Kobe Bryant is a common answer
31:30
Speaker 1: among people your age. Muhammad Ali not as much. Why
31:33
Speaker 1: Muhammad a LEI.
31:34
Speaker 8: For you, I think it's just everything he stood for
31:36
Speaker 8: as far as you know, the air he grew up
31:38
Speaker 8: in and you know, came up in, as far as
31:40
Speaker 8: you know, things he had to deal with and on
31:43
Speaker 8: the mean, you know, out the ring, in the ring,
31:46
Speaker 8: as far as you know, just the pressure that comes
31:48
Speaker 8: with being a big name, and also you know the
31:50
Speaker 8: pressure that comes with you know, dealing with the things
31:53
Speaker 8: that were going on at that time.
31:54
Speaker 2: So I think for.
31:55
Speaker 8: Me, it's just you know, really just being able to
31:58
Speaker 8: It's a good testament of how to stay focused and
32:02
Speaker 8: stay poised and you know, just do what you do
32:04
Speaker 8: when you're in your craft.
32:07
Speaker 1: Next wild card question, what have you saved from your
32:09
Speaker 1: sports career that's meaningful to you?
32:14
Speaker 8: I'd say for me, when I got my first Division
32:16
Speaker 8: on offer when I was at Hutchinson Community College, it was,
32:20
Speaker 8: you know, I was just going D one was you know,
32:23
Speaker 8: a dream for me, and you know when I finally
32:25
Speaker 8: got that call in that offer that day, it was
32:27
Speaker 8: it was definitely probably one of the happiest days I
32:29
Speaker 8: had so far.
32:31
Speaker 1: Aside from sports.
32:33
Speaker 8: Do you have any talents, I would say so, I'm
32:37
Speaker 8: very artistic. I like to draw, but also video game.
32:41
Speaker 8: I'm kind of nerdy, so like when it comes to
32:43
Speaker 8: like out outside of football, like, I'm really video games.
32:47
Speaker 8: I like, I like playing pretty much all video games
32:49
Speaker 8: and things like that. Yeah, that's I would say those
32:52
Speaker 8: are probably my two things that I do the most.
32:54
Speaker 1: What types of things do you like to draw?
32:57
Speaker 8: I'm a very like pencil person, so like as far
33:00
Speaker 8: as any realistic thing, like when it comes to shading
33:03
Speaker 8: and things like that, or people's faces or things like,
33:06
Speaker 8: I'm pretty incident.
33:08
Speaker 2: All right.
33:09
Speaker 1: Final fun fact for wide receiver Mitch Tinsley. This one's
33:12
Speaker 1: a little bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
33:16
Speaker 1: living or deceased, who would that person be?
33:21
Speaker 2: It would definitely probably be one of that well two
33:23
Speaker 2: I go with.
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Speaker 8: Like I said, it would be Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant,
33:27
Speaker 8: or it would be the wrapper Nipsey Hustle. That's probably
33:32
Speaker 8: if I had a chance to meet and you know,
33:34
Speaker 8: talk to him for a second, that would be the
33:36
Speaker 8: people I will want to talk to.
33:38
Speaker 1: All right, you're off the hot seat. I appreciate your time.
33:40
Speaker 2: Best of luck. All right, thank you.
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