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Bengals Booth Podcast: Last Nite · 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 2: The last night she said audition as the Bengals lose
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Speaker 2: a game and their quarterback on a rough night in Baltimore.
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Speaker 1: players and coaches, and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then,
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 1: The end finally arrived, and the ending was mediocre at best.
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Speaker 1: As for how I feel about Billions finally being over,
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Speaker 1: I turned for help from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. If
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Speaker 1: there's a sequel, I will not be watching Now. Time
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Speaker 1: for the radio replays from Thursday Night's game in Baltimore.
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Speaker 1: It is prime time in Baltimore, and tonight the national
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Speaker 1: spotlight shines on two bitter rivals led by brilliant quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: who were born just twenty eight days apart. It's Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow and the Bengal versus Lamar Jackson and the Ravens,
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Speaker 1: and it is time for the pig skin to fly
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Speaker 1: here at M and T Bank Stadium. The Ravens have
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Speaker 1: the most rushing touchdowns of any team in the league,
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Speaker 1: and again, Gus Edwards has them in four straight games.
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Speaker 1: They toss it to him and he has touchdowns in
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Speaker 1: five straight games as he follows the left side of
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Speaker 1: his line into the end zone for Baltimore's twentieth rushing
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Speaker 1: touchdown of the season. The Bengals will attempt a fifty
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Speaker 1: yard field goal from the right hash to snap the placement.
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Speaker 1: Here comes the kick. It has plenty of distance and
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Speaker 1: it is good. So the Bengals answer Baltimore's touchdown drive
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Speaker 1: with a field goal drive. Second in goal from the fours,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals try to take the lead for the first time.
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Speaker 1: We've got five point fifty five left in the half.
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Speaker 1: Burrow to pass quick throw mix and catches at the
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Speaker 1: four touchdown Bengals as he got to the pilot before
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Speaker 1: Roe Kwan Smith could bring him down. A four yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass from Burrow to mix in, who's doing a
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Speaker 1: choreographed dance in the end zone. Joe Burrow is walking
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Speaker 1: into the locker room. They're just showing a picture on
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Speaker 1: the TV screen of Joe Burrow heading toward the locker room.
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Speaker 4: And he tried on the sideline as he was throwing.
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Speaker 4: He is throwing motion. He couldn't finish extending his right
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Speaker 4: arms the motion. So I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's an elbow, a shoulder, what
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Speaker 4: the problem is. But he's struggling for sure.
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Speaker 1: He was really upset as he had the football in
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Speaker 1: his hand, started to do the throwing motion and grimaced
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Speaker 1: in pain without releasing the ball.
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Speaker 4: Browning's warming up.
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Speaker 1: Third dout in six the Ravens at the thirty seven
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. Lamar Jackson drops back to pass guns went
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Speaker 1: over the middle, deflected and then caught by a galore
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Speaker 1: of the Ravens, and he's going to run it into
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Speaker 1: the end zone before doing a forward somersault into the
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Speaker 1: end zone for this score. Two receivers out wide to
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Speaker 1: the left, two out wide to the right. Lamar back
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Speaker 1: at the sixteen waiting for the shotgun snap. He has
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Speaker 1: the ball Lamar begins moving left, throws into the end zone,
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Speaker 1: caught Patement touchdown as he beat cam Taylor britt first
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Speaker 1: and goal from the three. The Ravens in no hurry.
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Speaker 1: They break the huddle with six on the playclock. Lamar
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Speaker 1: sprinting up to his center. Two on the play clock. One.
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Speaker 1: He's got the ball. It's a handoff Gus Edwards touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Spikes the ball triumphantly in the middle of the end zone,
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Speaker 1: and the lead grows for the Ravens. With four minutes
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Speaker 1: and forty nine seconds to go, Jake Browning in the
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Speaker 1: shotgun back at the seven, Joe Mixon right next to him.
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Speaker 1: To his right. Browning catches the shotgun snap he's looking
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Speaker 1: to throw. He passes for Chase. He makes the catch.
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Speaker 1: Did he get his feet down in bounds?
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes he did.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown Bengals. As Jake Browning throws the first touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: of his NFL career, a two yard back shoulder throw
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Speaker 1: to Jamar Chase. Lamar takes the snap. It's a handoff
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Speaker 1: Edwards trying to turn the right corner. He will not.
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Speaker 1: Sample is there and Jordan Battle is there and that
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Speaker 1: will do it. The coaches are marching toward the fifty
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Speaker 1: as the Baltimore Ravens have taken a big step toward
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Speaker 1: ending Cincinnati's reign as the AFC North champs in back
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Speaker 1: to back years. No team has ever won it three
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Speaker 1: times in a row, and the Bengals chances of winning
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Speaker 1: it three times straight take a major hit tonight. The
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Speaker 1: final score the Ravens thirty four, the Bengals twenty. At
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Speaker 1: this point, there's not much to report on Joe Burrow.
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Speaker 1: His wrist was taped up in the locker room after
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Speaker 1: the game, and Zach Taylor referred to it as a sprain.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler from ESPN reported that Burrow is expected to
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Speaker 1: get an MRI on Friday. The Bengals led the game
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Speaker 1: tens seven when Burrow exited, and that's where my conversation
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Speaker 1: with Joe Mixing begins.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I felt like, you know, pretty much we was,
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Speaker 5: you know, hitting on all cylinders in that situation, man.
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Speaker 3: So you know, we.
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Speaker 5: Pretty much just got to figure out and try to
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Speaker 5: keep clicking as best as we can and find a
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Speaker 5: way to be successful with where we're working with.
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Speaker 1: Caught the touchdown, Joe, everything was you know, you guys
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Speaker 1: felt great, you had to lead. How quickly did you
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Speaker 1: even realize that Joe was hurt?
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Speaker 3: Well, like I said, I didn't know to.
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Speaker 5: I think we went right back out there right before halftime,
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Speaker 5: and then you know, everybody was like where Joe and
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Speaker 5: then sure enough, uh, he went in there. So you know,
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Speaker 5: that's pretty much when we found out. And then after
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Speaker 5: that it was.
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Speaker 3: What it was.
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Speaker 1: Injury wise, things had been pretty good until the last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks and now Sam t Joe Cam. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it seems like it one after the other. How do
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Speaker 1: you guys deal with that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it's definitely tough, especially the the caliber of players,
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Speaker 5: you know, the caliber of player of those guys, and uh,
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Speaker 5: you know, we just gotta figure out a way to
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Speaker 5: you know, pretty much pick up where everybody's leaving off.
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Speaker 3: And I know we have the guys in this here
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Speaker 3: locker room. They all made of the right things. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's why they hear.
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Speaker 5: And I feel like, you know, just gotta figure out
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Speaker 5: a way to get everybody on the same schedule and
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Speaker 5: the same the same wave, and you know, pick up
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Speaker 5: where they left off. You just gotta I guess at
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Speaker 5: this point, next man up. And I know you know,
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Speaker 5: coaches and our players got nothing but confidence in whoever's
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Speaker 5: gonna step in in whatever role. I mean, like I said,
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm a leader in this here locker room,
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Speaker 5: captain and captain for a reason, and I'm here to
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Speaker 5: do whatever I can to keep this here shifts going
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Speaker 5: and uh, you know, basically keep everybody together, and I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna do my best, and I know i'll, you know,
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Speaker 5: do whatever I can to make that happen.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna fall on your shoulders a little bit more
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Speaker 2: now with a backup quarterback.
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Speaker 6: So how do you build on that?
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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know where what direction that we're going,
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Speaker 5: but when it comes down to it, I mean when
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Speaker 5: everybody we did some good things today. Obviously there was
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Speaker 5: negatives of uh, you know, in terms of the outcome,
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Speaker 5: but when it come down to it, man, there was
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Speaker 5: some positives out there and we're basically gonna figure out
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Speaker 5: watch the tape, learn from everything that you know went
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Speaker 5: down and everything that went positive. Just keep building on
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Speaker 5: it and just keeping everybody together. And you know, we
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Speaker 5: have I believe seven or eight seven games. We got
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Speaker 5: seven games left and we five and five. We put
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Speaker 5: ourselves in this here situation and we got to fight
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Speaker 5: our way out of it. So I know for a
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Speaker 5: fact that you know, come what is it tomorrow, We're
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Speaker 5: gonna watch the tape, learn from it, and turn the
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Speaker 5: page and get ready for Monday, you know, big divisional game,
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Speaker 5: and got to do whatever we can to bring everybody.
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Speaker 5: Everybody plays a huge part in this here in locker room,
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Speaker 5: and we felt like for this team, you know, we
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Speaker 5: got the players, we got the coaches, and also the fans.
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Speaker 5: You know, they play a major part as well, and
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Speaker 5: we know they're gonna come to pay Course Stadium and
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Speaker 5: you know, basically we got to make a push as
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Speaker 5: best as we can.
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Speaker 3: So let's just get ready for that.
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Speaker 5: And yeah, that's pretty much about it, all things consider.
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Speaker 1: Jake Browning did reasonably well. He completed eight out of
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Speaker 1: fourteen passes for sixty eight yards with a touchdown, no
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Speaker 1: picks at a passer rating of ninety three point eight.
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Speaker 1: He also ran for forty yards on four carries. His
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass to Jamar Chase was the first of his
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Speaker 1: NFL career, and that's where his post game chat with
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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham begins.
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Speaker 7: Just trying to put together drive at the end of
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Speaker 7: the game, score some points and now we're down. Came
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Speaker 7: games kind of over. But yeah, Jamar ran a good
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Speaker 7: route verse one on one and did what Jamar does
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Speaker 7: and got open and just tried to put it front
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Speaker 7: piling for him. He's a good job catching it.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: It's a it's a tough dynamic. Not only you know
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Speaker 4: is uh you and Joe have a working relationship. You
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Speaker 4: guys are good friends as well, and when something like
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Speaker 4: that happens to a friend, that's gonna be a tough
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Speaker 4: thing for you.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely bummed to see him go down. But I'm
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Speaker 7: kind of the one guy in the locker room that's
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Speaker 7: kind of prepare as if he's going to go down,
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Speaker 7: so uh, you know, throughout the week, just getting ready
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Speaker 7: in case he does. And I feel like I didn't
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Speaker 7: really miss a beat. Hopping in bush would have gotten
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Speaker 7: some oilar drives together. But yeah, anytime, anytime anybody goes
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Speaker 7: down and socks. And obviously Joe's a big part of
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Speaker 7: the team, so him going down socks. But that's kind
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Speaker 7: of why I'm there, still going when he goes down.
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Speaker 4: You u you extended a lot of plays. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you got some rushing yards extended plays, got a bot
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Speaker 4: time for your receivers to make plays for you.
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Speaker 8: Overall.
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Speaker 4: I know, I know it's a it's a whirlwind right now,
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Speaker 4: but you probably want to look at tape to evaluate performance.
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Speaker 4: But do you feel pretty good about what you.
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Speaker 3: Did out there?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think anytime you have. I don't know how
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Speaker 7: many three an ounce we had in a row, but
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Speaker 7: it was too many. But yeah, I mean, I think
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Speaker 7: it's kind of the first time everyone else see me play.
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Speaker 7: But I've felt good about how I was playing, practice
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Speaker 7: stuff like that, and wish you would have won.
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Speaker 1: According to the New York Times Playoffs simulator, the Bengals
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Speaker 1: five and five record leaves them with a twenty seven
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Speaker 1: percent chance of making the playoffs, and that does not
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Speaker 1: take into account the possibility of Burrow missing time. It's
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Speaker 1: an uphill climb, but the season is far from over.
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Speaker 1: Here's the bengals longest tenured player, Tyler Boyd.
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Speaker 3: We still believe because we still prepare.
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Speaker 9: You know, every guy in this locker om still got
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Speaker 9: to prepare to play, you know, whether you're starting or
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Speaker 9: you're not, you know, because we count we count on
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Speaker 9: everybody in this locker room and make plays. You know,
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Speaker 9: it's always the next man up. And this is the league,
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Speaker 9: you know, guys is here for a reason. So I
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Speaker 9: believe in each, each and every one of these guys.
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Speaker 1: You made it through the stretch early this year where
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Speaker 1: Joe played but wasn't healthy. Now he was playing really
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Speaker 1: well and that happens. How much of an emotional blow
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Speaker 1: is that?
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Speaker 9: I mean it hurt, you know, like I always praise,
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Speaker 9: you know, Joe give us our best chance to win
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Speaker 9: any football games, you know. But moving forward, Jay got
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Speaker 9: us and we got to rally him up, and we
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Speaker 9: got to rally around him and make even more plays
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Speaker 9: for him, and we just gotta get back in the
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Speaker 9: funeral room, figure out what we needed to get done,
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Speaker 9: and get back out there and execute.
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Speaker 1: You were up ten to seven when Joe left. I
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Speaker 1: think the team had been moving the ball really well.
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Speaker 1: Did you feel like, you know, things were clicking tonight
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Speaker 1: and you might be on your way to a special night?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: Always, you know, every every single night, I feel like
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Speaker 9: it's our night, you know, because we're very well coached,
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Speaker 9: very very well prepared, you know, and we got we
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Speaker 9: got great players on our team, So weekend, week out,
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Speaker 9: I always feel like we're gonna be the most dominant team.
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Speaker 9: But unfortunately it didn't go out this that way this week,
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Speaker 9: but we'll we'll regroup.
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Speaker 6: How does it change? How did it change you?
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Speaker 10: Obviously is gonna be different a young guy in his
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Speaker 10: first game, And how did it change for you, which
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Speaker 10: is specifically once.
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Speaker 6: He came in.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, for me, it kind of didn't change. I just
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Speaker 9: knew I had to make every single play that came
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Speaker 9: out way. You know, if my number, my numbers call,
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Speaker 9: I can do is go out there and do my job,
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Speaker 9: you know.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully, Uh he did.
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Speaker 9: He did a hell of a job when he came in,
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Speaker 9: you know, but it's it's a tough it's a tough
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Speaker 9: boll some more defense, you know, any other team, you know,
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Speaker 9: he might have made more things happen. But with with
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Speaker 9: with him come in, we knew he was gonna get
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Speaker 9: a lot more pressure, and it kind of, uh slowed
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Speaker 9: down some of our possessions.
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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I trust Jake.
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Speaker 9: You know, he's been here, he'd been in the system,
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Speaker 9: and uh, he's comfortable and and yeah, I'm ready to
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Speaker 9: play with him.
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Speaker 8: Earlier in the year, you're Jos dealing with the calf
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Speaker 8: and the offense had it struggles with that and now
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Speaker 8: this does this feel like one of those seasons right now?
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Speaker 3: Like he just can't believe that this stuff keeps happening.
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Speaker 9: Uh, I mean, things happen. You can't really uh I
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Speaker 9: can't really explain, but you you just gotta move on.
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Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 9: It hurts us a lot. You know, that's our best player,
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Speaker 9: and man, just all we can do is just keep preparing, man,
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Speaker 9: and keep moving forward, and uh just go out there
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Speaker 9: and making place for Jake in any way.
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Speaker 1: We can just gonna say, you guys have been pretty
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Speaker 1: healthy this year, but now Sam was out, team was out,
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Speaker 1: Joe went down, Cam went down. It seemed like, you know,
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Speaker 1: when it when it rains, it pours.
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Speaker 9: I mean, when you got some of your most talented
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Speaker 9: guys injured on both either side of the ball. I mean,
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Speaker 9: it's it's a tough loss, crucial loze, you know, but again, man,
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Speaker 9: it's it's the league, man, And you.
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Speaker 3: Can see around the league.
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Speaker 9: You see backup guys winning games all all over the place.
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Speaker 9: So I mean it really doesn't matter. We just gotta
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Speaker 9: find a way, you know, we might got to change
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Speaker 9: up what we do a little bit based off of
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Speaker 9: who's playing and who's not, you know, And I still
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Speaker 9: believe because I feel like we have the great coaching
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Speaker 9: staff that can put us in position to still keep
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Speaker 9: us float.
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Speaker 1: What tells you that this locker room has what it
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Speaker 1: takes to overcome it.
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Speaker 9: Just just just the people around it. Many everybody have
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Speaker 9: great characters here.
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Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 9: Everybody is unselfish. Everybody care for one another, and we
15:57
Speaker 9: can always protect each other and.
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Speaker 3: Just just raft for each other.
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Speaker 9: That's that's that's I think the most dominant thing that
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Speaker 9: you need to have in the locker room. We're in
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Speaker 9: the team per se, and I think we have that.
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Speaker 9: We got a real special special team and out of
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Speaker 9: been here for a long time, it's the most special team.
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Speaker 3: Ever been a part of.
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Speaker 9: But again, man, we'll we'll, we'll find a way.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: Time to hear from head coach Zach Taylor as he
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Speaker 1: spent a few minutes with Lap after the game.
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Speaker 4: Boy, I'll tell you there's there's one you can't really
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Speaker 4: count on anything in terms of the National Football League,
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Speaker 4: And to lose Joe Burrow like that, I mean that
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Speaker 4: had to be a shock.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's not a fun situation. Was your starting quarterback.
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Speaker 10: That's part of the way Jake went in there. That
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Speaker 10: was his first first NFL ball, you know, and uh,
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Speaker 10: you know, it was probably the way he went in there,
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Speaker 10: completed his first first pass in the first play on
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Speaker 10: a tough, naked play and did a good job, you know,
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Speaker 10: round us to get some points on the board. Two
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Speaker 10: scores there, and and it's a good defense, you know,
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Speaker 10: it's one of the better defenses in the league. And
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Speaker 10: so proud of the way that the guys responded to
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Speaker 10: him and that he led those guys.
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Speaker 4: Had his first NFL touchdown pass. He'd thrown some in
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Speaker 4: the preseason, but for just won in a regular season
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Speaker 4: and put a good ball in the front pileon to
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Speaker 4: Jamar Chase.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, there's certainly positives there for Jake, and probably the
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Speaker 10: way that the guy has competed around him and gave
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Speaker 10: us opportunities to try to get back in the game.
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Speaker 3: It's just too little, too late.
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Speaker 4: I know it's very early, but I guess it's a
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Speaker 4: risk injury that Joe suffered.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it is it.
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Speaker 10: I don't know anything beyond that just the sprain or
17:23
Speaker 10: don't Yeah, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 4: So in that in that type of situation. How much
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Speaker 4: how much of the game plan is available to Jake.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Jake doesn't rep anywhere near as much as
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Speaker 4: as Joe does. How much do you have to kind
17:38
Speaker 4: of melt things down or is Jake responsible for all
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Speaker 4: of it and able to execute it all?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, he's responsible for all of it, you know, especially
17:44
Speaker 10: when you're playing a team like that. Everything you got
17:47
Speaker 10: to be able to get certain checks. And I thought
17:48
Speaker 10: Jake did a great job. We've got the confidence in
17:50
Speaker 10: him and how he prepares, and that's what he's done.
17:53
Speaker 10: He's put himself in a position to where when he
17:54
Speaker 10: walks out there, that's that's a.
17:56
Speaker 3: Big reason why he won the job.
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Speaker 10: His playmaking ability, his ability to take in the game
18:00
Speaker 10: plan and not even get reps and be able to
18:01
Speaker 10: go execute it. We've got that confidence in him and
18:03
Speaker 10: it was all available. We called all of it, and
18:06
Speaker 10: he did a good job handling that.
18:07
Speaker 4: Joe Mixon, I thought ran hard. I thought he finished
18:10
Speaker 4: a lot of runs for you tonight.
18:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: There was a lot of positive things, you know, and
18:14
Speaker 10: I know the score was what it was, two score
18:15
Speaker 10: game disappointing. There's some things that we can continue to
18:18
Speaker 10: build on and be encouraged by we're going to take
18:21
Speaker 10: this long weekend here and get a chance to get
18:23
Speaker 10: rested and get our bodies back and make the run
18:25
Speaker 10: that we're used to making here down the stretch.
18:27
Speaker 4: That's a good offensive football team too, with a very
18:29
Speaker 4: talented athletic quarterback. But I think they put up over
18:33
Speaker 4: four hundred yards and over thirty points, and that's not,
18:36
Speaker 4: you know, something that lou would be very pleased about it.
18:39
Speaker 3: I'm sure no.
18:39
Speaker 10: And and you know, it's when you're giving them the
18:42
Speaker 10: lead and you're playing from a hide, everything's available to him,
18:44
Speaker 10: you know. And so it's those kind of games where
18:46
Speaker 10: you get to try to get the lead and limit
18:47
Speaker 10: what they're able to do and make them a little
18:49
Speaker 10: bit more uncomfortable. And we weren't able to do that today,
18:51
Speaker 10: and that's that's that's usually what happens when they're out there.
18:54
Speaker 4: When Joe threw the touchdown pass to put you up
18:56
Speaker 4: ten to seven, I mean, I bet it was like
18:59
Speaker 4: we got ourselves the old slaven, darker man. We got
19:01
Speaker 4: a barnburner going here, and Joe when he was trying
19:05
Speaker 4: to throw the football on the sideline, obviously you know
19:09
Speaker 4: it wasn't working for him. There were you were you
19:11
Speaker 4: surprised at the fact that through the touchdown pass and
19:14
Speaker 4: then just unable to go after that.
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Speaker 10: Not surprised, I mean, that's that's what he felt, and
19:19
Speaker 10: obviously that's that's something happened there.
19:23
Speaker 4: So where do you go from here? You have a
19:24
Speaker 4: little little mini buy, hopefully not only Joe. I mean,
19:27
Speaker 4: at one point, gosh, it seemed like every other play
19:30
Speaker 4: a key player was struggling with some sort of an injury.
19:33
Speaker 4: It's good to have the mini bye week.
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Speaker 10: I guess it's a physical game, you know, when you
19:36
Speaker 10: come on the road on a short week, and and uh,
19:38
Speaker 10: you know what I told the team was, let's let's
19:41
Speaker 10: not forget we had a good rhythm there, four wins
19:43
Speaker 10: in a row. We lost in a last second field goal.
19:45
Speaker 10: We lost a tough game and a short week on
19:46
Speaker 10: the road to a really good football team. So let's
19:48
Speaker 10: let's reset this weekend, focus on Pittsburgh, put her best
19:51
Speaker 10: foot forward, and do the things that we know we're
19:53
Speaker 10: capable of doing. And so I know that that's what
19:55
Speaker 10: this seems about and what they're going to do.
19:57
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Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap the Bengals loss. But more importantly,
20:25
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow exited with five minutes to go in the
20:27
Speaker 1: second quarter with a wrist injury. We don't know the severity,
20:31
Speaker 1: but it was wrapped up pretty heavily in the locker
20:34
Speaker 1: room after the game, and there are a lot of
20:36
Speaker 1: long faces in that locker room.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt. And the sad thing is when
20:40
Speaker 4: he left, the game was a ten to seven Bengals advantage.
20:43
Speaker 4: So if he was able to play at the Joe
20:45
Speaker 4: Burrow level and finish that football game, who knows. We
20:48
Speaker 4: may be talking about a totally different story right now,
20:51
Speaker 4: but that injury is obviously the story of the game,
20:55
Speaker 4: and it's a It was one of many both teams
21:00
Speaker 4: suffered injuries. Andrews went out early in the football game,
21:04
Speaker 4: didn't play at all, didn't finish the game, Cam Taylor
21:08
Speaker 4: britt had had to leave the game with a with
21:11
Speaker 4: an injury to his squad, I mean, you know, and
21:14
Speaker 4: then on top of the injuries that they had going
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Speaker 4: into the football game, it was Murphy's law. It's almost
21:19
Speaker 4: like a mash unit. And there the people that are
21:23
Speaker 4: going to have the biggest roles, I think in the
21:26
Speaker 4: ten days between games, they are going to be the
21:28
Speaker 4: medical people, you know, in the rehab people getting guys
21:31
Speaker 4: ready to go play. Against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Speaker 1: On the second day of training camp, Joe Burrow strained
21:36
Speaker 1: his calf. The Bengals probably don't start one in three
21:39
Speaker 1: if not for that injury. Now here we are with
21:42
Speaker 1: seven games to go and we don't know his status
21:44
Speaker 1: with a wrist injury is. It's starting to feel like, unfortunately,
21:49
Speaker 1: it might just be one of those years.
21:51
Speaker 4: Boy Tonight tonight was was an indicator that the football
21:57
Speaker 4: guys aren't going to make it easy. They're going to
21:58
Speaker 4: make it very, very difficult. And when you lose your quarterback,
22:02
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just it's the most important position in football,
22:06
Speaker 4: in sports really, and you can make a good argument
22:09
Speaker 4: for that obviously, but I remember losing you know, like
22:13
Speaker 4: Kenny Anderson to injury and Turk Schooner stepping in at
22:18
Speaker 4: the backup position, and our mindset was every individual win.
22:23
Speaker 4: You're one on one battle, and then if everybody does that,
22:27
Speaker 4: your unit is going to outplay the other team's unit.
22:30
Speaker 4: And then if enough units outplay the other team's unit,
22:34
Speaker 4: you can overcome the issue at the quarterback position. So
22:37
Speaker 4: I mean you have to take the mindset that every
22:39
Speaker 4: other phase of the football team needs to step up
22:42
Speaker 4: and do more because you're missing a huge component potentially.
22:47
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow apparently addressed the team after the game. He
22:49
Speaker 1: didn't want to share what he said to his teammates,
22:51
Speaker 1: but I imagine it was something along the lines of, listen, fellas,
22:54
Speaker 1: we got seven games to go. We don't know what
22:57
Speaker 1: the status of some of these injured guys, but we
23:01
Speaker 1: can't pack it in yet.
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Speaker 4: If I'm a teammate of Jake Browning, though, I say, hey, dude,
23:06
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you, man. I mean talk about adverse conditions.
23:11
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the life of the backup. You never
23:13
Speaker 4: know when you're going to be called into the mix.
23:16
Speaker 4: But he was ready, and I asked, Zach, I said,
23:19
Speaker 4: did you have to pare anything down. Nope, He's responsible
23:22
Speaker 4: for learning the whole thing. We called the whole play sheet.
23:25
Speaker 4: And he went out there and had his first career
23:27
Speaker 4: touchdown pass in the regular season, made plays with his
23:30
Speaker 4: feet and his legs and his throwing arm. I thought
23:32
Speaker 4: he had quitted himself pretty darn well, really, and to
23:35
Speaker 4: me against that defense, that would give me some confidence.
23:39
Speaker 4: If I'm a teammate a Jake Browning, I.
23:41
Speaker 1: Would think that final touchdown drive is helpful if he
23:44
Speaker 1: has to make a start in their next game.
23:46
Speaker 4: And you know, it's like a big deal. You know
23:48
Speaker 4: they're already down. It went from a three score game
23:51
Speaker 4: to a two score game. But I'm with you.
23:53
Speaker 3: It showed.
23:54
Speaker 4: It showed all of his teammates. I'm going to compete
23:56
Speaker 4: every snap. I'm never going to quit on a game.
23:59
Speaker 4: I'm never going to quote on you. You're not going to
24:01
Speaker 4: quit on me. Let's go get something done. It's big.
24:04
Speaker 4: I think it made a big statement.
24:06
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a big negative on defense once again.
24:09
Speaker 1: A ton of big passing plays after eight of them
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Speaker 1: in the Houston game. I don't know how many twenty
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Speaker 1: yard passes they gave up in this one, but it
24:17
Speaker 1: was definitely north of five.
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Speaker 3: Man.
24:20
Speaker 4: You're looking at against two opponents, the Houston Texans and
24:23
Speaker 4: now the Baltimore Ravens, almost a thousand yards of defense
24:27
Speaker 4: given up and you know, over thirty points and you
24:30
Speaker 4: know thirty points and weren't in two football games. That's
24:33
Speaker 4: that is very uncharacteristic of this football team. And they
24:36
Speaker 4: got to lick their wounds. They got to get I
24:38
Speaker 4: think Sam will be back for the Pittsburgh Steeler game.
24:41
Speaker 4: Hopefully some of the other injuries will heal up on
24:44
Speaker 4: the mini bye week. They'll get those extra days and
24:47
Speaker 4: be able to everybody go out there and perform against
24:50
Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steelers at home, a paid court stadium.
24:54
Speaker 1: Their chances of winning the AFC North are very slim.
24:57
Speaker 1: That's just the gods honest truth. There's no way around.
25:00
Speaker 1: Their chances of making the playoffs are far from over.
25:03
Speaker 1: They're five and five, They've got seven games to go.
25:06
Speaker 1: If they could find a way to win five out
25:08
Speaker 1: of those seven and get the ten wins, there are
25:10
Speaker 1: a lot of teams right now in the AFC that
25:12
Speaker 1: are in that range of like four to six losses,
25:15
Speaker 1: but that's probably what it's going to take going forward.
25:18
Speaker 4: And everybody they play is nobody's got a losing record. So,
25:22
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the toughest remaining schedule in the National
25:25
Speaker 4: Football League, and they are They've got their backs firmly
25:29
Speaker 4: up against the wall. Now they've dug themselves a hole,
25:32
Speaker 4: whatever cliche you want to say. They got to come
25:35
Speaker 4: out swinging, and they got to get it figured out
25:37
Speaker 4: and get it figured out quickly. And I agree with you, Dan,
25:40
Speaker 4: I think ten's the number. I don't think nine. With
25:45
Speaker 4: the lack of tiebreaker scenario that they're in, there's going
25:48
Speaker 4: to be other teams with a nine to eight record
25:50
Speaker 4: that have a much better division record or conference record
25:53
Speaker 4: what the Bengals might be looking at at the nine
25:55
Speaker 4: and eight record.
25:56
Speaker 1: For many years, the Bengals couldn't beat Ben Roethlisberger. Lamar
26:00
Speaker 1: Jackson now eight and one in nine starts against Cincinnati, and.
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Speaker 4: That's the only guy that Joe Borrow seems to struggle against.
26:09
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody else he you know, he's going he's
26:12
Speaker 4: winning football games against.
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Speaker 1: He left with the lead tonight.
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Speaker 4: He did he did, you know, And so this one's incomplete,
26:19
Speaker 4: this one doesn't really Unfortunately, he's going to take the
26:22
Speaker 4: l because he was starting quarterback. But your point is
26:25
Speaker 4: well taken. He he left with the lead. But Lamar
26:28
Speaker 4: Jackson is man. His athletic instincts are way off the
26:33
Speaker 4: charge that guy is a freak.
26:35
Speaker 1: Following up on the big plays allowed stat the Bengals
26:38
Speaker 1: gave up passes of twenty one, twenty nine, thirty three,
26:42
Speaker 1: thirty seven, and fifty one yards and allowed runs of
26:45
Speaker 1: twenty one and twenty six. That's seven plays of more
26:50
Speaker 1: than twenty yards. The Bengals return to action a week
26:53
Speaker 1: from Sunday at home against Pittsburgh. The Steelers are in
26:57
Speaker 1: Cleveland this Sunday to face the Brown without quarterback Deshaun Watson.
27:03
Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun facts conversation, where you
27:06
Speaker 1: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
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Speaker 1: some fun facts with safety Nick Scott. Your hometown is
27:14
Speaker 1: listed as Fairfax, Virginia, but you were born in Pennsylvania,
27:18
Speaker 1: and I have seen the tattoos you have of the
27:20
Speaker 1: Boston Sports team, so I know you spent time there.
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Speaker 1: Where did you grow up?
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Speaker 8: I grew up technically in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now I say
27:31
Speaker 8: technically because I think it depends on your definition of
27:34
Speaker 8: growing up. So I was in Lancaster, PA from birth
27:38
Speaker 8: until I was about ten, so birth till kindergarten or
27:42
Speaker 8: till fourth grade, so there's.
27:43
Speaker 6: Not much going on.
27:44
Speaker 8: The reason I consider myself from Boston is because I
27:48
Speaker 8: was there from fifth grade to tenth grade. That's where
27:51
Speaker 8: I made some really strong friendships and relationships. That's where
27:55
Speaker 8: my formative years were. Got my first kiss there or
27:58
Speaker 8: all that stuff. So anything that makes you like a
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Speaker 8: young man or anything like that, that's where I was.
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Speaker 6: I was in Boston for that.
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Speaker 1: Were you moving around for your father's jobs.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was moving around for my father's jobs. Obviously.
28:09
Speaker 6: He started out in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 8: Then he got a job out and uh or actually
28:14
Speaker 8: started going to school in Massachusetts first, then started working
28:17
Speaker 8: there and then eventually moved to d C where he
28:22
Speaker 8: was working. So that's why I got the two years
28:24
Speaker 8: of high school in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Speaker 1: You have a son named Jack. You told me earlier
28:29
Speaker 1: that your father used to call you Jack Rabbits. Did
28:33
Speaker 1: you have a hard time staying still as a kid.
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Speaker 8: I did have a little bit of hard time staying still.
28:39
Speaker 8: I just like to be active. I was the youngest,
28:41
Speaker 8: and you know, the world was my playhouse, and you know,
28:45
Speaker 8: I used to go out in the in the backyard
28:47
Speaker 8: and chase rabbits. We had a family of rabbits, so
28:49
Speaker 8: I go out there to get my energy out, go
28:52
Speaker 8: chasing rabbits in the yard, which is where the name
28:54
Speaker 8: stemmed from. But yeah, I always been a little bit
28:56
Speaker 8: of an energizer bunny. I think the guys can tell
28:59
Speaker 8: you, you know, rarely sitting still.
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Speaker 6: I like to be active and have fun.
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Speaker 1: So after a great junior year of high school in Fairfax, Virginia,
29:06
Speaker 1: the recruitment process kicked in. I know you visited Alabama.
29:11
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are other spots as well. You ultimately
29:13
Speaker 1: went to Penn State. Did you enjoy the process or
29:16
Speaker 1: was it stressful?
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Speaker 8: I enjoyed the process. I mean high school football is
29:20
Speaker 8: you know, it was just fun. You know, when you're
29:22
Speaker 8: in high school, you're just the guy, and so that
29:26
Speaker 8: process was a lot of fun. I got the luxury
29:29
Speaker 8: of watching my oldest brother go through that process of
29:31
Speaker 8: being recruited and everything like that. He ended up playing
29:34
Speaker 8: football at Holy Cross College in Worcestern, Massachusetts. So I
29:38
Speaker 8: was enjoying the process. And you know, having a god
29:41
Speaker 8: brother that played at Penn State. Growing up in Pennsylvania,
29:44
Speaker 8: whole family being Penn State fans.
29:46
Speaker 6: It made it.
29:47
Speaker 8: Easy for me to make that decision. So it wasn't
29:49
Speaker 8: a lot of stress that went into it. It's just,
29:51
Speaker 8: you know, a kid that you know had an opportunity
29:53
Speaker 8: to go play at his dream school, and so I just,
29:56
Speaker 8: you know, took that opportunity wholeheartedly.
29:58
Speaker 1: I've been to Happy Valley, Pennsylvania where Penn State is located.
30:02
Speaker 1: Beautiful campus, but kind of in the middle of nowhere.
30:05
Speaker 1: Was it culture shock at all.
30:08
Speaker 8: It was a little bit of a culture shock, just
30:11
Speaker 8: from like an actual like education standpoint, like getting to
30:16
Speaker 8: college and being kind of on your own. You're like,
30:19
Speaker 8: hold on, like my mom's not emailing the teachers like
30:22
Speaker 8: making sure I'm getting my homework done or anything. Like
30:24
Speaker 8: I'm free, I can do whatever. I don't have to
30:26
Speaker 8: go to class to day all that stuff. So got
30:28
Speaker 8: through that phase, learned the hard way that you got
30:33
Speaker 8: to take that stuff serious. But no, it was a
30:36
Speaker 8: lot of fun. One thing I didn't know going to
30:38
Speaker 8: college is I wanted to get away. I wanted to
30:40
Speaker 8: be far away. I never really had a high school
30:43
Speaker 8: where football was really like what they did, and so
30:46
Speaker 8: I wanted to be at a school where football was
30:48
Speaker 8: what people ate and slept on and breathed.
30:52
Speaker 6: In Ne'spenn State.
30:53
Speaker 1: You certainly chose the right place down at Penn State.
30:56
Speaker 1: So you started out as a running back before switching
30:58
Speaker 1: to defensive back. In your college career, you rushed for
31:01
Speaker 1: a touchdown, You threw a touchdown pass, You had three interceptions,
31:04
Speaker 1: you had a sack. Do you have a favorite highlight
31:08
Speaker 1: from your time with the Nipney Lions.
31:11
Speaker 6: Favorite highlight?
31:14
Speaker 8: I had a game winning interception against Iowa on the
31:17
Speaker 8: goal line.
31:18
Speaker 6: It was a rainy, sloppy day.
31:21
Speaker 8: Usually usually that's how those games go up in Happy
31:24
Speaker 8: Valley in mid October and November. You know, slow game.
31:28
Speaker 8: It wasn't really something that was going our way. But yeah,
31:32
Speaker 8: they were driving on us with maybe a minute left
31:35
Speaker 8: and they had an opportunity to punch the end zone.
31:37
Speaker 8: They ended up making an errant throw that I can't
31:41
Speaker 8: ever got tipped or whatever, But I intercepted on the
31:43
Speaker 8: goal line and I saw nothing but green. I got
31:46
Speaker 8: tripped up. I wanted to score. I wanted to be
31:48
Speaker 8: the first person in Penn State history to rush for
31:51
Speaker 8: a touchdown. Throw for a touchdown, scoop and score, pick
31:54
Speaker 8: six and all that stuff.
31:56
Speaker 6: But I didn't get it done. But that's all right.
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Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with Nick Scott. So after graduating
32:03
Speaker 1: from Penn State, you were drafted in the seventh round
32:05
Speaker 1: by the Rams. Describe your draft experience.
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Speaker 6: Oh, it was a real quiet experience. You know.
32:11
Speaker 8: It was just myself, my mom, my dad, and my
32:14
Speaker 8: aunt Alisha. She's been like my my biggest fan since
32:18
Speaker 8: I don't know when.
32:19
Speaker 6: She's always she's everywhere.
32:21
Speaker 8: She makes, travels travel, she travels a long way to
32:24
Speaker 8: see my games and everything like that. She was a
32:26
Speaker 8: cheerleader in high school, so that should tell you everything
32:28
Speaker 8: about her personality.
32:29
Speaker 6: So it was special to have her there.
32:32
Speaker 8: But yeah, it was a it was a quiet experience
32:34
Speaker 8: because I knew there was a high likelihood that I
32:37
Speaker 8: was gonna go undrafted, so I didn't want to deal
32:39
Speaker 8: with a whole bunch of people in the house and
32:41
Speaker 8: everything with expectations. So yeah, when I got the call,
32:46
Speaker 8: you know, my family was obviously excited. It's nothing like
32:48
Speaker 8: seeing my my name at the bottom of the ticker.
32:52
Speaker 8: I don't even know if I think it might have
32:53
Speaker 8: been on commercial when I saw when I saw my
32:56
Speaker 8: name go across drafted seventh round, fix two.
33:00
Speaker 6: But it was still special as it gets on.
33:03
Speaker 1: So late in your third NFL season, rams safety started
33:07
Speaker 1: dropping like flies with injuries. You moved into the starting lineup,
33:10
Speaker 1: and then you wound up starting every playoff game on
33:13
Speaker 1: the road to the super Bowl and obviously the Super
33:16
Speaker 1: Bowl win over the Bengals. He had an interception in
33:18
Speaker 1: the playoffs off Tom Brady. When you look at back
33:21
Speaker 1: at that now, does it almost seem a little unreal
33:24
Speaker 1: how that all transpired?
33:26
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's I was just talking to somebody today,
33:30
Speaker 8: and you know, I always say, like, my journey and
33:35
Speaker 8: story into the NFL, you know, hasn't ever been flashy,
33:38
Speaker 8: but I think, you know, when you get down to
33:40
Speaker 8: the nitty gritty, you know a majority of the guys
33:43
Speaker 8: who make up this league stories are more similar to
33:46
Speaker 8: mine than not. You know, there's always the first rounders
33:50
Speaker 8: and everything like that, those guys that make it big,
33:52
Speaker 8: But the bulk of this league is guys that have
33:54
Speaker 8: just been grinding a way and trying to make a
33:56
Speaker 8: name for themselves and contribute to their team. So yeah,
34:00
Speaker 8: sometimes it seems unreal, but it was just something that
34:04
Speaker 8: was extremely special and I remember for the rest of
34:06
Speaker 8: my life, and you know, just kind of it puts
34:09
Speaker 8: that stamp in my career, regardless of what happens now
34:13
Speaker 8: in the future, anything like that, that I was able
34:15
Speaker 8: to compete at the highest level possible and be a
34:18
Speaker 8: champion doing it.
34:20
Speaker 1: If you close your eyes and remember that Super Bowl,
34:22
Speaker 1: do you remember running out of the tunnel. Do you
34:25
Speaker 1: remember the confetti falling after you guys won. What's the
34:29
Speaker 1: most vivid memory of that day.
34:31
Speaker 8: I would say just the post game, the confetti, being
34:34
Speaker 8: with my family and my wife and holding the trophy
34:38
Speaker 8: and just like just bouncing from guy to guy, looking
34:43
Speaker 8: them in their eyes. And we all know what we
34:46
Speaker 8: went through that season, and what we talked about that
34:48
Speaker 8: season and how hard we worked and seeing everything that
34:52
Speaker 8: we talked about. Coming to fruition is like the most
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Speaker 8: surreal experience that you could share with somebody. Ever, aside
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Speaker 8: from getting married, shout out my wife, Holly, that was
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Speaker 8: the best experience in my life. Yeah, and watching me
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Speaker 8: watching my son be born, that those are the best
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Speaker 8: experience of my life.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, that was right up after that.
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Speaker 1: So a few months after winning the Super Bowl, you
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Speaker 1: were the commencement speaker at your high school. How do
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Speaker 1: you prepare to write a commencement speech? And what was
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Speaker 1: the core of your message?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so there's a lot of preparation that goes into it.
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Speaker 8: I was fortunate because I watched my dad give a
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Speaker 8: numerous amount of commencement speeches. I watched him, you know,
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Speaker 8: I grew up watching him speak in public on people's behalf,
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Speaker 8: different events and everything like that. So it was always
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Speaker 8: something that's something that seemed normal to me, something that
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Speaker 8: I might have to do one day. So I was
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Speaker 8: confiding him in him a lot and sending my draft
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Speaker 8: back and forth with him. He was helping me out,
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Speaker 8: you know. And the message, I believe the title of
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Speaker 8: it was embrace your role but never settle for it,
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Speaker 8: which I think is something that I believe wholeheartedly. And
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Speaker 8: that's kind of how you know, my career went, especially
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Speaker 8: starting in college. I wasn't in a position that I
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Speaker 8: wanted to be, but I had a role on the team,
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Speaker 8: and I wanted to be the best of that.
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Speaker 6: Role and embrace that.
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Speaker 8: But at the same time, you know, behind the scenes,
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Speaker 8: I was always working to get better because I wasn't
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Speaker 8: gonna settle for that role.
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Speaker 1: A few wild card topics. Now for Nick Scott, who
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Speaker 1: is your all time favorite athlete in any sport? And why?
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Speaker 6: Oh, that's a tough question.
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Speaker 8: I'm thinking like every sport, but I would I would
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Speaker 8: say Tiger Woods. Yeah, Tiger Woods, just because he's a
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Speaker 8: guy who I feel like I resonate with, just because
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Speaker 8: the amount of doubt he had coming into his run
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Speaker 8: and becoming a tour member. You know, he was a
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Speaker 8: really young kid, so people didn't believe in him. There's
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Speaker 8: one interview I can't remember who he was sitting down with,
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Speaker 8: but I think he was maybe nineteen or and he
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Speaker 8: said something like, I don't ever come into a tournament,
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Speaker 8: you know, not expecting to win. I think that's foolish,
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Speaker 8: and the interviewer laughed at him. He said, you'll learn,
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Speaker 8: And then they showed a bunch of clips of him
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Speaker 8: just winning major after major after major, And yeah, I
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Speaker 8: resonate with that.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 8: I feel like, you know, I got the world against me,
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Speaker 8: and I'm just constantly trying to prove other people wrong
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Speaker 8: and prove myself right.
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Speaker 1: Tell me something about you that very few people know.
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Speaker 6: I can sing pretty well. I don't sing four people.
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Speaker 8: I don't sing in public or sing often, but people
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Speaker 8: I'm comfortable with they think I can sing pretty well.
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Speaker 8: Of course that's like my mom and my wife. So
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Speaker 8: who knows how how genuine they're being, but they're making
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Speaker 8: me feel good at least.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, I already know you won't sing for
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Speaker 1: me that. What do you like to splur?
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Speaker 6: John oh Man? Shoes and golf shoes have slowed down
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Speaker 6: a little bit.
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Speaker 8: When I first got in the league and there was
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Speaker 8: all this money coming in from game checks, after coming
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Speaker 8: from like a two hundred dollars a month stipend, shoes
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Speaker 8: were just getting ridiculous. But now it's like golf rounds,
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Speaker 8: golf equipment, bags, balls, all that stuff. I just there's
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Speaker 8: no limit.
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Speaker 1: I share your passion.
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Speaker 6: There.
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Speaker 1: Last thing for Nick Scott. This one's kind of deep.
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Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history living or deceased,
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Speaker 1: could be an athlete, an entertainer, a statesman, a relative
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Speaker 1: you never had the chance to meet, who would that
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Speaker 1: person be?
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Speaker 8: I met this individual before, unfortunately I didn't get to
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Speaker 8: grow up with him. And that would be my great
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Speaker 8: grandfather on my mother's side. Just because of how close
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Speaker 8: I was to my Grandma Mary, and she lived into
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Speaker 8: her nineties, and that she was such a beautiful person
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Speaker 8: and you know, had such a such an impact on
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Speaker 8: our family. Yeah, I wish I could have met the
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Speaker 8: man that she was married to, or at least been
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Speaker 8: able to recollect a little bit more what he was
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Speaker 8: like and had that relationship.
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Speaker 1: A heartfelt answer, I appreciate that. I appreciate your time.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Nick Scott.
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Speaker 6: Thank you. I appreciate it.
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