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Bengals Booth Podast: I Get A Kick · Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Get a Kick Out of
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Speaker 1: You addition, as I discussed the NFL's new kickoff rule
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Speaker 1: with Evan McPherson and the possibility that he's going to
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Speaker 1: have to make tackles this year. Let's hope it's not many.
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Speaker 1: Plus five questions with rookie tight end Eric All, a
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Speaker 1: few questions for Jamar Chase, and finally a visit with
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon as he explains why Cincinnati will always be home.
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Speaker 1: thing since the Joe Burrow Foundation Golf outing Last week
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Speaker 1: the Bengals quarterback held his second annual golf event and
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Speaker 1: it reportedly raised more than a million dollars. The proceeds
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Speaker 1: go toward feeding families in need and helping children deal
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Speaker 1: with mental health challenges. The golf club at Stonewack Hills
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Speaker 1: was a great setting and the after party, catered by
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Speaker 1: Foundation is everybody has a responsibility to do good. Joe's
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Speaker 1: For more information, go to Joeburrow dot org. Now let's
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Speaker 1: get to my first guest. As you probably know, the
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Speaker 1: NFL has changed its kickoff rules this year with the
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Speaker 1: goal of cutting down on touchbacks and bringing the excitement
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Speaker 1: of the kick return back into the game. Last year,
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Speaker 1: nearly eighty percent of NFL kickoffs were touchbacks, but now
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Speaker 1: the expectation is that most kicks will be returned. So
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Speaker 1: what's that mean for Evan McPherson. I talked to him
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Speaker 1: about it this week. Having a good kickoff in the
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Speaker 1: past had great hang time and carried into or beyond
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Speaker 1: the end zone. What is a good kickoff now?
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Speaker 2: Let's say a good kickoff now is you put it
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Speaker 2: on the one yard line outside the numbers.
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Speaker 1: Is that what Darren primarily has you working on.
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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a lot of placement ball, I
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Speaker 2: think throughout the league. But I think we're kind of
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Speaker 2: airing on the side of being too far rather than
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Speaker 2: being too short, because if the return team catches it
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Speaker 2: around like the fifteen or so, I mean, they're on
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Speaker 2: top of the coverage team real fast. So we're flirting.
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Speaker 3: With the goal line, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: But I think placement's just going to be a key priority.
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Speaker 1: I saw your practice last week working on kickoffs, and
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Speaker 1: some you just what you describe You kind of floated
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Speaker 1: down inside the five, kind of between the numbers and
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Speaker 1: the sideline, but then there was like a screening line drive.
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Speaker 1: Then there was kind of a bouncing squib type kick.
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Speaker 1: Are you going to have to have a wider repertoire
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Speaker 1: of kickoffs?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you never know. You're always looking to
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Speaker 2: find some way to kind of test the system and
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Speaker 2: different kicks to kind of play with.
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Speaker 3: So we'll see.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you never know what everybody else is gonna do,
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Speaker 2: so I'm sure we'll pick up some stuff from other teams,
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Speaker 2: But I mean, there's a couple of things that we do.
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Speaker 3: They're on the docket.
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Speaker 1: Punters try to have certain punts that are hard to catch.
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Speaker 1: Can you do that kicking off a team?
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Speaker 2: I think you can manipulate the ball a little bit,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like it's harder to control. So I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you're really going to see it that
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Speaker 2: often Guys trying to hit like knuckleballs that land past
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Speaker 2: the twenty because you'd rather, like I said, you'd rather
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Speaker 2: honestly hit a touchback than be short of the twenty
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Speaker 2: yard line and give the ball. Give them the ball
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Speaker 2: at the forty. So we'll see. I think people are
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Speaker 2: gonna err on the side of touchback rather than mishitting
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Speaker 2: and being.
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Speaker 1: Short like the role or dislike the role.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting I think right now. I mean, just going
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Speaker 2: through like all of high school football, college football, and
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Speaker 2: in my first three years with the like normal kickoff
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Speaker 2: rule and going to this, it definitely feels strange, just
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Speaker 2: because I've been doing the other one my whole life,
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Speaker 2: and I just got so used to it. I enjoy
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Speaker 2: kick I enjoyed kickoff because like in high school, I
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Speaker 2: feel like that's how you really compare yourself to other kids.
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Speaker 2: It was with kickoff, and I just hope it doesn't
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Speaker 2: really work its way down to high school.
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Speaker 3: Because I feel like.
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Speaker 2: I don't as a young kicker, like kickoff was always
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Speaker 2: that fun one to try to test.
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Speaker 3: Yourself and see how high and far you can kick
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Speaker 3: the ball.
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Speaker 2: So not gonna say I dislike it, it's just different
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Speaker 2: and learning how to have fun with it.
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Speaker 1: So I saw one expert, I don't know exactly what
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Speaker 1: his level of expertise is, but he estimated the kickers
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Speaker 1: are going to be involved in tackles upwards of twenty
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Speaker 1: percent of the time. How do you feel about that?
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Speaker 3: We'll see.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you probably know I'm not the biggest tackler.
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Speaker 2: I'm not the biggest guy, but whenever I have to,
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Speaker 2: I will. But now that that percentage is higher, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how many teams do go to
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Speaker 2: like with the chiefs.
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Speaker 1: Like a Justin read.
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Speaker 2: And instead of Harrison and have those extra cover guys
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Speaker 2: kind of down the field. I mean, we'll see. I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of guys are going to try to
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Speaker 2: protect their kickers too. And you could say, like this
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Speaker 2: rule could help prolong careers because kickoff was pretty aggressive.
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Speaker 3: On the body. And I mean, you have a guys.
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Speaker 2: That are like thirteen fourteen years in the league that
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Speaker 2: are having a tough time kicking off but are still
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Speaker 2: good field goal kickers. And now they just got to
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Speaker 2: pooch like a six yard ball down the field and
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Speaker 2: so it doesn't put too much stress on the body.
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Speaker 1: You say that like it's really easy pooch at sixty
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Speaker 1: yards down the field.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot easier than the old kickoff rule,
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Speaker 2: that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, I'm gonna take it for what it's worth.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna really try and enjoy this new
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Speaker 2: kickoff rule. And I know, I think what the league
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Speaker 2: wanted was more returns, not and just not to completely
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Speaker 2: remove the kickoff rules so or the kickoff itself. But
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Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see how it works and how people
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Speaker 2: like it and where it goes.
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Speaker 1: Is Logan Wilson the logical alternate kickoff guy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Logan's actually a pretty good ball kicker and he
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Speaker 2: can kick kilgos pretty solid and I feel as long
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Speaker 2: as you can hit it like forty five yards, he
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Speaker 2: should be good to go.
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Speaker 3: But I'll be really interesting.
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Speaker 2: We haven't practiced it yet, but I'll be interesting to
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Speaker 2: see if it's something that we kind of try out.
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Speaker 1: Change up subject. You're about three months into fatherhood. How
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Speaker 1: you liking it? Oh?
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 2: This last month has been great. The first month was
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Speaker 2: pretty i'd say fun, but miserable at the same time,
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Speaker 2: not much sleep.
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Speaker 3: But the last month, I mean, it's been so much fun.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, she slept.
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Speaker 2: Through the night a couple of times, so that's a blessing,
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Speaker 2: and started smiling whenever you kind of step into the room.
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Speaker 2: So just seeing the smile on her face and she
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Speaker 2: actually plays around and just has fun.
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Speaker 3: Now, it's been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: How incredible is it that you and Logan became dads
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Speaker 1: on the same day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of I mean, yeah, that idea, right, dude.
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Speaker 2: It was the exact same so we had an idea
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Speaker 2: that they would be born around the same time, but
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Speaker 2: the same day. That's pretty crazy because Gracian and Morgan,
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Speaker 2: his wife, they were going on walks every single day
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Speaker 2: trying to pop the babies out. Somehow they did at
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Speaker 2: the same time, so it was pretty wild. But it's
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Speaker 2: fun to see his daughter grow and my daughter grow together.
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Speaker 1: Let me state for the record, I hope you do
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Speaker 1: not make a single tackle this year.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that me either.
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Speaker 1: Evan has made one tackle so far in his NFL career,
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Speaker 1: and it might have saved a touchdown as he knocked
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco out of bounds near the fifty in a
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Speaker 1: three point win over the Chiefs in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Now time for my latest round of five questions with
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Speaker 1: a member of this year's draft class. This week, it's
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Speaker 1: this year's fourth round selection. Time for five questions with
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Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick Eric All, a local kid. You're
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Speaker 1: from the Cincinnati area. You went to Fairfield High School.
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Speaker 1: Your high school coach, Jason Krause said the following, you
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Speaker 1: are the hardest working kid he's had in twenty eight
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Speaker 1: years of coach. Here's my question. Is that justin sports
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Speaker 1: or do you have that kind of work ethic in
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Speaker 1: everything you do? Oh man, that might be.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Coach Crowds pushed me, so it was like he like
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Speaker 5: kind of like built like this thing in me that
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Speaker 5: like that made me just just go crazy at like
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Speaker 5: practice and like pretty much with everything I had to
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Speaker 5: do with anything. And then once I got to Well,
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Speaker 5: that was when I was in high school, and that
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Speaker 5: was like with all sports and really like with schoolwork,
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Speaker 5: I was cool. I just did it was just I
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Speaker 5: just did my homework and pass every test with like
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Speaker 5: a C or a B or something. I never really
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Speaker 5: was a student, but pretty much with just sports in
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Speaker 5: high school. But then when I got to Michigan, Coach
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Speaker 5: Herb and Coach Harball and you know, coach More all
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Speaker 5: my coaches and at Michigan kind of like helped me
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Speaker 5: out a lot with like keeping that same work work
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Speaker 5: ethic and stuff off the field, like whether it was
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Speaker 5: had to do with like cleaning your locker clocker or
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Speaker 5: you know, putting your shoes down the right way, folding clothes,
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Speaker 5: making your bed, stuff like that. It was just you
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Speaker 5: know ridiculous. And with school work as well, like they
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Speaker 5: were just so it kind of was a mixture between
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Speaker 5: coach Coach Kraus with sports, and then when I got
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Speaker 5: to Michigan, it was like with everything they kind of
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Speaker 5: like put that cherry on top.
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Speaker 1: I I asked the question, that's a great answer, right,
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Speaker 1: question number two. I read during COVID that you lived
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Speaker 1: with another family in order to be able to properly train.
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Speaker 1: What was the backstory of that.
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Speaker 5: Well, so, my Joey Velasquez at the time, we you know,
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Speaker 5: we came in together. We were in the same class,
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Speaker 5: and you know he was just a kid who always
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Speaker 5: just worked hard, like at everything, and you know, he
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Speaker 5: was always in the gym always, you know, eating the
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Speaker 5: right things always, you know, had his routine and you
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Speaker 5: know he was and he stuck to it and had
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Speaker 5: a great outstanding and work ethic. And not only that,
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Speaker 5: he was from Ohio Columbus. So when you know, we
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Speaker 5: got to the team and we were working out and
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Speaker 5: stuff together at the at the you know, on campus,
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Speaker 5: and then when we had to you know, we had
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Speaker 5: to leave campus for because of COVID and everything, he
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Speaker 5: asked me if I wanted to come to his house.
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Speaker 3: And you know.
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Speaker 5: We had this crazy trainer, they call him Captain Davies,
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Speaker 5: Coach Davies, and and he's just like this crazy coach
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Speaker 5: who's just you know, he's legit. You know, he gets
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Speaker 5: you right, and you know, no Bs is always you know,
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Speaker 5: a tough workout every single day. And at the time
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Speaker 5: I was stuck home and I just had like a
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Speaker 5: little bench, like a little weight set in the backyard,
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Speaker 5: all rested up, and it was in my backyard and
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Speaker 5: it was just tough to like work out. So I
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Speaker 5: told told my dad and I was like, hey, dad,
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Speaker 5: kill on my team. Joey Velasquez. He said, I can
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Speaker 5: come work out with him, and you know, he's he's
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Speaker 5: working with this crazy trainer who's just a BS. He
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Speaker 5: trained Arnold Schwarzenegger and yeah he's like legit and and
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Speaker 5: yeah he's like he runs the Arnold Classic out there,
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Speaker 5: so like he's like legit. But that was like no,
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Speaker 5: And I told Joey.
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Speaker 3: I was like, yes, I'm coming.
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Speaker 5: It was like two much of it, and I had
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Speaker 5: just turned like eighteen nineteen, so I was like, man,
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to I was like, just come, and
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Speaker 5: he came. I was I was hoping I was going
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Speaker 5: to be able to, you know, convince my dad to
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Speaker 5: let me go by the time he got there, but
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Speaker 5: I couldn't.
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Speaker 4: And he got there.
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Speaker 5: I told my dad, Hey, Dad, Joey's here. He's like,
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Speaker 5: Joey who I was like Withlaska's I'm going to train
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Speaker 5: in Columbus.
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Speaker 3: He's like, no, what do you mean.
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Speaker 5: It's like I told you no, I was like, man,
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Speaker 5: I can't this is the opportunity I can't pass up.
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Speaker 3: I gotta go.
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Speaker 5: And then you know, I went, and he was mad
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Speaker 5: at me, and you know, eventually he got over and
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Speaker 5: was cool with it. And it worked out tremendously because
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Speaker 5: I came back bigger, stronger, and faster than I've ever been.
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Speaker 5: So he was like, man, Son, you made a good decision,
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Speaker 5: you know. So that was the story behind us.
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Speaker 1: Just speak of your dad to admit that you know
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Speaker 1: what you did the right thing, all right? Question number
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Speaker 1: three for Eric all, you spent most of your college
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Speaker 1: care with Michigan, you finished last year with Iowa. His
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Speaker 1: fate would have at the Wolverines won the national championship?
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Speaker 1: Was that bitter sweet for you?
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Speaker 5: No, it was more like a It was like for me,
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Speaker 5: like I didn't even really think about that, And I
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Speaker 5: know it sounds like like I could be lying, but
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Speaker 5: I'm so serious, Like I was so more like happy
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Speaker 5: for those guys and and you know, I wish I was,
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Speaker 5: you know, there to celebrate with them and everything, but
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Speaker 5: like at the same time, like I went to Iowa
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Speaker 5: and you know, it was a part of a great,
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Speaker 5: fantastic team and and you know, I don't regret it
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Speaker 5: at all. So like I was, I was in the
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Speaker 5: best situation for me, and you know, they went off
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Speaker 5: and won, and I was I was just extremely happy
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Speaker 5: for him calling them up, you know, as if I
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Speaker 5: was still you know, on the team, and you know,
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Speaker 5: they they treated me like I was still on the team,
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Speaker 5: and you know, it was great. Nothing was really like
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Speaker 5: bitter about it at all.
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Speaker 1: So just sweet, not better. Yeah, all right, Question number four,
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Speaker 1: You're lucky to be here, And by that I don't
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Speaker 1: mean with the Bengals, your hometown team. I mean literally,
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Speaker 1: you were rescued from a burning building when you were
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Speaker 1: an infant. You eventually got to meet the firefighter who
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Speaker 1: pulled you out of the burning building. What was it
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Speaker 1: like to meet that man?
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Speaker 5: It was pretty At the time, it was like man
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Speaker 5: like I didn't really know how to process it, because
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Speaker 5: you like, you know, when anybody like saved your life
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Speaker 5: like that, Like like I literally like wouldn't be alive
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Speaker 5: if it weren't for him. I wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 5: you know, have friends, play the game that I love,
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Speaker 5: you know, spend time with my family, and be here.
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Speaker 4: Playing for my owntown team.
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Speaker 5: So if it wasn't for him, Like you know, I literally,
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Speaker 5: you know, wouldn't be here. So it's like it was
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Speaker 5: kind of hard to like, you know, give a reaction.
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Speaker 5: It was just like, man, like just thank you so much,
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Speaker 5: and you know, like thank God for you, you know,
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Speaker 5: because if he could have, if he would have froze
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Speaker 5: for a second, or or anybody or something would have
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Speaker 5: been off excited off, I.
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Speaker 1: Wan't be here.
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Speaker 5: So like I'm just you know, thankful for God and
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Speaker 5: thanks for him, and you know, and in his family
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Speaker 5: and in the whole you know, Indiana fire crew.
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Speaker 1: I know he's as thrilled as you are the things
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Speaker 1: turned out the way they did. Fifth and final question
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Speaker 1: for Eric, all share something about you that not that
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Speaker 1: many people know.
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Speaker 5: I love. I love playing golf, I love playing chess,
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Speaker 5: not that many people know. I'd say the chess thing,
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Speaker 5: for sure, because every time I like ask him if
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Speaker 5: they played chess, they're like, what, you played chess?
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Speaker 3: But I'd say that. And then the whole house fire thing.
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Speaker 5: Before like the story came out, nobody knew about it,
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Speaker 5: Like nobody like Tom Broyle, his wife Kelly Broyle, if
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Speaker 5: she never you know, came out and made a post
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Speaker 5: about it like the world wouldn't know.
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Speaker 3: So that's pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: So i'd say those three things.
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Speaker 1: So the Bengals locker room is being renovated right now.
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Speaker 1: You're in a little auxiliar locker room, so you may
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Speaker 1: not even know this. Joe Burrow keeps a chest set
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Speaker 1: in front of his locker.
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Speaker 4: Really, yes, we're glad to get it.
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Speaker 5: So I got my chest board at the at the
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Speaker 5: My parents has got it for me for Christmas, one
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Speaker 5: of those magnet sets. It's where like the pieces will
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Speaker 5: move around so you could just just play on the flylight.
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Speaker 5: So we're definitely gonna have to get it. And I'm
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Speaker 5: bringing mine in here too.
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Speaker 1: So all right, Joe, you've been warned. Eric All is
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Speaker 1: ready to go at it with you and chess. This
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Speaker 1: has been fun. It's great to have you in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: Best of luck going forward. Ye I'll follow up once
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Speaker 1: the season begins to see if a chess rivalry has started.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, if you haven't seen it already,
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Speaker 1: there's an amazing video on YouTube that tells the complete
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Speaker 1: story of the men who saved Eric All from that
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Speaker 1: house fire when he was a baby. Just search for
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Speaker 1: training camp begins in late July. Jamar Chase has not
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Speaker 7: Is just a fun dance to do.
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Speaker 1: Phone. What you've been up to in the off season
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Speaker 1: work wise?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been working out in Miami, in Dallas, getting
18:11
Speaker 7: on the field, staying and getting some atility, working, you
18:14
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, Throwing the usual.
18:16
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
18:17
Speaker 7: Just keeping my head above water man and staying out
18:20
Speaker 7: of trouble.
18:20
Speaker 1: That's all I can do right now.
18:21
Speaker 4: Have you changed anything with your regimen.
18:23
Speaker 1: Like training wise? Yeah?
18:24
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, yeah, you know what I'm saying. It's
18:28
Speaker 7: it's more catching footballs on my own right now. But
18:33
Speaker 7: it's not really much that I'm changing. It's just me
18:35
Speaker 7: doing more reps of it since I'm not with the
18:37
Speaker 7: team right now and I'm by myself.
18:38
Speaker 4: So that's all of this is more reps you mean
18:41
Speaker 4: catching the ball?
18:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, more catches, more releases, just working the stuff that
18:46
Speaker 7: I want to work on and when I get back
18:48
Speaker 7: so I can know what I want to do. You
18:50
Speaker 7: use the drug use as a drug machine. I'm using
18:52
Speaker 7: a quarterback right now. One of my friends is throwing
18:54
Speaker 7: it to me.
18:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:56
Speaker 4: How many balls is yet?
18:57
Speaker 1: You catch it?
18:59
Speaker 7: I can't really give you a still made a number
19:00
Speaker 7: you know, I try to run as many routes. I
19:02
Speaker 7: try to run at least five routes, and then you know,
19:04
Speaker 7: try to do like basically like catch, just lay catch,
19:08
Speaker 7: just get a feel for the ball, getting used to it,
19:10
Speaker 7: having hitting in my hands, getting comfortable, And that's all
19:13
Speaker 7: I could do.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen Joe throw in person.
19:16
Speaker 1: I imagine you've seen video.
19:18
Speaker 7: What's person. I threw with him in California one time,
19:22
Speaker 7: right before we he came down here. Actually, so me
19:24
Speaker 7: and him threw with each other already, so we had
19:26
Speaker 7: good reps in We feel comfortable about it. You know,
19:29
Speaker 7: it's just all on how we're gonna do that when
19:31
Speaker 7: we get time and put the whole offense together.
19:33
Speaker 1: Now, it's pretty encouraged by how he looks for his risk. Yeah,
19:36
Speaker 1: he looks good man.
19:37
Speaker 7: I already knew Joe. You know, he's a strong person,
19:39
Speaker 7: strong hard working person at that and you know he's
19:42
Speaker 7: gonna give us all what everything he does. And you know,
19:44
Speaker 7: I don't think I'm gonna tell him, is you know
19:45
Speaker 7: how to dial off? Like he told me.
19:48
Speaker 1: Camp's following Terry at this point, I think it's mandatory.
19:51
Speaker 1: The following week when are you likely to join the squad? Yeah,
19:54
Speaker 1: I'll should be back by camp time. I'm sorry, the
19:58
Speaker 1: mandatory camp, yeah, the mantory mini camp.
20:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just should die with arts. Know when to
20:04
Speaker 4: back it off when.
20:05
Speaker 7: I mean, you're a pro now, you know what I'm saying,
20:07
Speaker 7: Like if you fill in tweaks in your hand, it's
20:09
Speaker 7: just you got to know how to relax yourself. Sometimes
20:11
Speaker 7: I was like me with my hip.
20:14
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
20:14
Speaker 7: Zach told me let him know when I'm feeling on
20:17
Speaker 7: my hip, So you know what I'm saying. He let
20:19
Speaker 7: me do what I had to do perform for the games.
20:21
Speaker 4: How good do you feel going.
20:22
Speaker 1: Into this season to compare to other seasons, Yeah, I
20:25
Speaker 1: felt good. Man.
20:26
Speaker 7: It's just all about my health right now. I'm making
20:28
Speaker 7: sure I give my body back right now. Is the
20:29
Speaker 7: biggest thing this off season. And you don't know, stand
20:32
Speaker 7: in shape is also the biggest thing because I do
20:33
Speaker 7: a lot of running. So those two things was the
20:35
Speaker 7: biggest task I had this whole season.
20:37
Speaker 1: The youth football camp where we caught up with Jamar
20:40
Speaker 1: last weekend was actually Joe Mixon's two day event put
20:44
Speaker 1: on by Pro Camps. The Cincinnati based organization that does
20:48
Speaker 1: an incredible job of staging youth camps with professional athletes
20:52
Speaker 1: all over the country. It was our first opportunity to
20:55
Speaker 1: catch up with Joe since he was traded to Houston
20:58
Speaker 1: in March. Joe, when you came out yesterday, he said,
21:03
Speaker 1: it's all love. I'm excited to be back home. Can
21:05
Speaker 1: you articulate your feelings about being back around these people.
21:09
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a hell of a feeling for me, especially
21:13
Speaker 8: you know about the love part. You know, it could
21:16
Speaker 8: have been easy for the parents to be like, you
21:18
Speaker 8: know what, he's not on the team no more.
21:21
Speaker 4: You know, let's not show up this year.
21:22
Speaker 8: But I mean to have a better turnout than what
21:25
Speaker 8: I did last year. And I thought last year was
21:28
Speaker 8: a hell of a turnout. I mean it was over
21:30
Speaker 8: five hundred kids. And to have more and especially a
21:34
Speaker 8: lot more fans, you know, parents in the crowd or
21:37
Speaker 8: parents in the stands and things like that.
21:39
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's everything for me.
21:41
Speaker 1: Man.
21:41
Speaker 4: Like I said, I have a lot of great.
21:45
Speaker 8: Relationships here in Cincinnati that I will continue to have.
21:49
Speaker 8: And you know, like I said, I'm just very fortunate
21:52
Speaker 8: enough to be in this here position of where I
21:54
Speaker 8: stand to be able to give back and this is
21:58
Speaker 8: why I do this, and that's really giving me confirmation
22:01
Speaker 8: on you know why I do it, and it's bigger
22:05
Speaker 8: than me.
22:05
Speaker 4: So I'm just definitely.
22:07
Speaker 8: Blessed to be here for all the love and support
22:10
Speaker 8: that the parents bring, and especially the kids. You know,
22:13
Speaker 8: they they they would motivated me to get.
22:15
Speaker 4: Up this morning, you know what I'm saying, and to
22:18
Speaker 4: come out.
22:18
Speaker 8: Here for round two and to have a great turnout
22:20
Speaker 8: like this and the rain rain sleeder snow, I see.
22:25
Speaker 4: I see all the kids is on go today. So
22:27
Speaker 4: I love it.
22:28
Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of these camps. You genuinely
22:31
Speaker 1: seem to love the interaction with the kids.
22:34
Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt. You know, I grew up around a
22:37
Speaker 8: lot of kids. My mom, she runs a daycare, and
22:41
Speaker 8: there's just always been a natural thing.
22:43
Speaker 4: You know.
22:43
Speaker 8: I got a lot of nieces and nephews as well,
22:45
Speaker 8: So I think it comes quite easy for a lot
22:48
Speaker 8: of these themes like this, and uh, you know, just
22:51
Speaker 8: to see the looks on these kids' faces when you
22:54
Speaker 8: know you're shaking their hands, giving them hugs, picking them up,
22:57
Speaker 8: tossing them around and turning telling them like you know,
23:00
Speaker 8: how good they're doing today. I mean, it's a it's
23:02
Speaker 8: a hell of a thing, man, And you know, words
23:05
Speaker 8: could be very infectious and encouraging to these young kids.
23:08
Speaker 8: And you know, I always once in that position before,
23:11
Speaker 8: being that young.
23:11
Speaker 4: Kid running around and I'm.
23:13
Speaker 8: Glad I get to pay it forward today and hopefully,
23:16
Speaker 8: you know, these kids take that and hopefully they straightened
23:19
Speaker 8: to do the same thing.
23:21
Speaker 6: These guys are obviously are Joe Mixing fans, and they're
23:24
Speaker 6: gonna say twenty years from now, so yeah, Joe mix
23:28
Speaker 6: is my favorite players, my favorite players. What will you
23:32
Speaker 6: think about Cincinnati twenty years from now?
23:34
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, I think it's a hell of a place.
23:38
Speaker 8: I truly feel like, you know, like I said, these
23:40
Speaker 8: kids are there, there's gonna be somebody from this here
23:43
Speaker 8: camp to be fortunate enough to you know, go to
23:46
Speaker 8: the next level and then hopefully the level after that. Cincinnati,
23:50
Speaker 8: they have a lot of products, you know, especially from
23:52
Speaker 8: football that comes out and go to the league and
23:56
Speaker 8: be fortunate enough to be able to make a difference.
23:59
Speaker 8: And I'm glad to you know, being that they're I'm
24:04
Speaker 8: glad to being out there, Like you know, Shane, a
24:07
Speaker 8: realm of the person that they look up to. Man,
24:09
Speaker 8: And you know, like I said, it really means a
24:11
Speaker 8: lot to me. And like like I told you all before,
24:14
Speaker 8: that's whatever a place that I could call home.
24:16
Speaker 4: So like I said, I hope they just take that,
24:18
Speaker 4: leave it for what it is.
24:19
Speaker 8: And uh, you know, however, you know they want to
24:23
Speaker 8: take it and move forward with it.
24:24
Speaker 4: That's just I was gonna go.
24:26
Speaker 1: Chad Johnson finished with the Patriots, but he's a forever Begal. Yeah,
24:31
Speaker 1: Boomer Assias and played for other teams, but he's a
24:33
Speaker 1: forever Bengal. Do you think when you're playing careers over
24:36
Speaker 1: you will be quote unquote a forever Bengal.
24:39
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no doubt. That's you know, that's just what
24:42
Speaker 8: it is. You know, they drogged me when I was twenty,
24:45
Speaker 8: and uh, you know, I was fortunate enough to get
24:47
Speaker 8: a good seven great seven years in and I definitely
24:51
Speaker 8: feel like I came across a lot of teammates that
24:54
Speaker 8: you know, goes unnoticed during my success individually and always
24:59
Speaker 8: been a person to no matter what, whether I do
25:01
Speaker 8: have a good game or a game, I always get
25:04
Speaker 8: the praise to my teammates. And you know, this is
25:08
Speaker 8: just another moment you know, trying to glorify the success
25:12
Speaker 8: that I had, you know, coming from them. I mean,
25:15
Speaker 8: it was all a team effort. Always been about team
25:18
Speaker 8: and winning. And I've been fortunate enough to have a
25:21
Speaker 8: lot of great teammates around me and seeing a lot
25:23
Speaker 8: of guys walk out and go and unfortunately I was
25:27
Speaker 8: one of the last ones.
25:28
Speaker 5: Man.
25:28
Speaker 8: So uh, you know, like I said, I felt like
25:31
Speaker 8: it was a great run.
25:32
Speaker 4: It was a great run.
25:33
Speaker 8: And uh, you know, I look forward to, you know,
25:35
Speaker 8: like I said, paying it back to these young kids
25:38
Speaker 8: and hoping that they can, you know, somehow figure out
25:41
Speaker 8: a way to get in my shoes, if not better
25:44
Speaker 8: fingers moments true, I think besides you know, getting drafted, Uh,
25:50
Speaker 8: I would say, probably going to the super Bowl, whether
25:53
Speaker 8: it was a win, whose situation. Uh, that probably was
25:56
Speaker 8: my top Bengals moment. And uh in my career of
26:02
Speaker 8: being here.
26:03
Speaker 6: Where you come back and do other stuff here.
26:06
Speaker 4: I mean, I told y'all, that's forever home. Like that's
26:08
Speaker 4: that's what it is, you know what I mean. But
26:11
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously I have a lot of.
26:15
Speaker 8: Opportunities to come out and do a lot of things here,
26:18
Speaker 8: and I feel like, you know, if it persists itself,
26:22
Speaker 8: you know, in the right light.
26:24
Speaker 4: I feel like with opportunity and.
26:28
Speaker 1: Right time in I definitely will You're going to a
26:31
Speaker 1: great young team c Ja's drought, Stefan Diggs, et cetera.
26:35
Speaker 1: Do you feel like it's kind of where the Bengals
26:37
Speaker 1: were a few years ago?
26:39
Speaker 4: Oh?
26:39
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, I ain't here to really you know, compare
26:42
Speaker 8: and contrives to you know, the teams.
26:45
Speaker 4: But I definitely love where.
26:48
Speaker 8: We stand right now as a team and where we compare,
26:51
Speaker 8: you know to other teams like that, I feel like
26:54
Speaker 8: we're in a great situation. I mean, the guys over
26:57
Speaker 8: there is you know a lot of a lot of great, great,
27:00
Speaker 8: great players, and I'm great. I'm thankful to be surrounded,
27:04
Speaker 8: you know, around the team like that that you know,
27:08
Speaker 8: a lot of guys are hungry, young hungry coach, young
27:11
Speaker 8: hungry quarterback from the young, hungry, healthy team.
27:14
Speaker 1: Man.
27:14
Speaker 8: So you know, I just look forward to all the
27:17
Speaker 8: memories and all the great things I feel like that
27:20
Speaker 8: we're gonna do and.
27:21
Speaker 4: Continue to do moving forward.
27:23
Speaker 8: And I just you know, obviously look forward to the
27:26
Speaker 8: twenty twenty fourth season and I can't wait.
27:30
Speaker 1: You sit after the trade, it took you like twenty
27:31
Speaker 1: four forty eight hours just to process your emotions. What
27:35
Speaker 1: were you experiencing?
27:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was a it was a it
27:38
Speaker 8: was a lot of things.
27:39
Speaker 1: Man.
27:40
Speaker 4: You know, like I said, when when you when.
27:42
Speaker 8: You grow up here your whole adulthood and this this
27:45
Speaker 8: is what you know and this is what you are.
27:47
Speaker 8: You know, things were you know, definitely tough. But I
27:51
Speaker 8: mean it, it is what it is.
27:53
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. They move forward, so it's
27:54
Speaker 4: time for me, so you know, do the same.
27:56
Speaker 1: Man.
27:57
Speaker 4: It is like I said, it is what it is.
27:59
Speaker 8: And I look forward to, you know, working with my
28:02
Speaker 8: new teammates and building that same chemistry and camaraderie which
28:06
Speaker 8: we are doing. And it's a lot of great things
28:08
Speaker 8: to look forward.
28:09
Speaker 4: To in that building.
28:10
Speaker 8: And uh, their fans should definitely be excited for what
28:14
Speaker 8: we have in store.
28:15
Speaker 4: So I definitely look forward to it.
28:17
Speaker 6: Did you ever look up at the Ring of arnor
28:19
Speaker 6: did you ever look up at the numbers up there
28:21
Speaker 6: and wonder what we twenty eight.
28:23
Speaker 4: Looked like up there? Or the name mixing up that?
28:27
Speaker 4: Any question my own?
28:28
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, obviously you don't. You don't really
28:32
Speaker 8: pay attention to that stuff. You know as as a
28:35
Speaker 8: player until you know it's time to look back and reflect.
28:40
Speaker 4: But I do feel like, you know, with you know, given.
28:44
Speaker 8: Situation and everything that's been, you know in store for
28:48
Speaker 8: me as a as a Bengals player to Begles fans.
28:51
Speaker 8: I mean, I definitely hope to, you know, see myself
28:54
Speaker 8: in there one day.
28:55
Speaker 4: I mean I feel like.
28:58
Speaker 8: That's a I guess that's for them to decide that.
29:01
Speaker 8: But when it come down to it, I mean, I'm
29:04
Speaker 8: just was. I just was fortunate enough to be upon
29:07
Speaker 8: a lot of great players teams and uh, you know,
29:10
Speaker 8: be one of those guys to be able to move
29:12
Speaker 8: a needle force for Cincinnati. You know, came across a
29:17
Speaker 8: lot of a lot of great people, whether it was
29:20
Speaker 8: inside the building outside the building, and you know, it
29:24
Speaker 8: was a it was a great run, man, you know
29:26
Speaker 8: what I mean. So you know, as I look back,
29:28
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously I hope to someday be there, and uh,
29:32
Speaker 8: you know, obviously the cars fall the way it is
29:35
Speaker 8: supposed to.
29:36
Speaker 4: Our willity that's going to do it.
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