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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody on dan Hord and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The a Battlefield, A Battlefield, A
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  Speaker 1: Battlefield addition, as the Bengals go toe to toe with
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  Speaker 1: the nine to two Patriots before coming up short twenty
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  Speaker 1: six to twenty Coming up radio replays, locker room comments
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  Speaker 1: the radio replays from Sunday's Bengals Patriots game at pay
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  Speaker 1: Course Stadium. It is a bright and sunny late November
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  Speaker 1: day here in downtown Cincinnati as the Bengals look to
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  Speaker 1: knock off one of the NFL's hottest teams, the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots, who come to town with a nine and
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  Speaker 1: two record and an eight game winning streak. And it
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  Speaker 1: is time for the pig skin to fly here in
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  Speaker 1: the jungle. This will be a fifty four yard try.
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  Speaker 1: Moneymack just one for four from fifty plus this year,
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  Speaker 1: but for his career he's made sixty seven percent from
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  Speaker 1: beyond fifty yards. The snap is perfect, the kick is
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  Speaker 1: on its way, it has the distance, and it is
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  Speaker 1: good nice, And the Bengals score on their opening drive.
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  Speaker 1: They started at their own nine yard line and moved
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  Speaker 1: it enough for Moneymack to drill a field goal from
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  Speaker 1: fifty four yards out. It is three to nothing Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: On second down. May throws and it's intercepted by Gino
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  Speaker 1: Stone running it back to the twenty far sideline. Fifteen
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  Speaker 1: ten five touchdown Chino Stone and the Bengals. First and
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  Speaker 1: ten from the Bengals twenty eight. May to throw under pressure,
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  Speaker 1: fires downfield, nobody near Hunter Henry. He catches at the
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  Speaker 1: ten and runs into the end zone for a Patriots touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Second and five Bengals at their own thirty six. Tightly
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  Speaker 1: clustered formation for Cincinnati. Flacco fakes a hand off the
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  Speaker 1: Tizz Brooks Pump fakes Bros picked off.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: Atrocious decision by veteran quarterback Joe Flacco, and Marcus Jones
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  Speaker 1: picks it off and runs it into the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: It is second career pick six for Marcus Jones, both
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  Speaker 1: of them against Cincinnati. There have been three attempts in
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  Speaker 1: franchise history of sixty plus. Moneymack missed from sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Doug Pelfrey missed from sixty three. Shane Graham missed from
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  Speaker 1: sixty two. This will be a sixty three yard try
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  Speaker 1: as Evan McPherson tries to join the club of NFL
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  Speaker 1: kickers who have made kicks from beyond sixty yards. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Rico on the Bengals logo, waiting for the snap from
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  Speaker 1: Will Wagner. Snap is good. Here comes the kick. Loft
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  Speaker 1: it high in the air, bendoverend kick, Yes good nice.
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  Speaker 1: Evan McPherson makes Bengals history with a sixty three yard
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  Speaker 1: field goal, and Cincinnati scores at the gun in the
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  Speaker 1: second quarter to pull within four. Fourth and goal from
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  Speaker 1: the one. Bengals gotta stop under these circumstances a little
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  Speaker 1: while ago, but pass interference on Dax Hill gave the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots another chance. May in the gun Stevenson to is right,
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  Speaker 1: May hands it off.
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  Speaker 3: Stevenson hits no and stop.
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  Speaker 1: He did not get in real What a goal line stand.
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  Speaker 1: Chino Stone getting too Ramandre Stevenson. The Bengals get two
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  Speaker 1: stops on fourth and goal from the one, and this
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  Speaker 1: time it counts. This will be the shortest possible field goal, right,
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen yarder for Bori Gallis trying to give the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots a ten point leave the snap the swing of
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  Speaker 1: the right leg and the kick is good, and the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots have a twenty three to thirteen lead with five
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  Speaker 1: minutes and fifty five seconds to go. Flaccough, looking to
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  Speaker 1: throw fires for the end zone, got hand, it is
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  Speaker 1: caught by Mitch Tinsley, a touchdown on a gorgeous over
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder throw, Mitch Tinsley beating Christian Gonzalez and Flacco
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  Speaker 1: dropped it right in the basket for the touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: Or you're right, Dan, gorgeous is a great call, in
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  Speaker 4: perfect description for that throw. I mean he got just
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  Speaker 4: the right distance and more importantly, just the right height
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  Speaker 4: and the ball came straight down. Not bad coverage, I
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  Speaker 4: mean decent coverage, but the throw was too perfect that
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  Speaker 4: he couldn't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals have converted fourth and eight. Now they will
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  Speaker 1: try to convert on fourth and ten. They have it
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  Speaker 1: at the twenty only twenty three seconds to go. Flaco
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  Speaker 1: catches the shotgun snap Blitz coming throws before getting hit
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  Speaker 1: and it's broken up incomplete at the nine yard line.
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  Speaker 1: No penalty flag on the field. Marcus Jones with the breakup,
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  Speaker 1: and the Patriots winning streak is going to be extended
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  Speaker 1: to nine game. The final score the Patriots twenty six
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals twenty After the game, I spoke to players
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  Speaker 1: on offense, defense, and special teams. Let's start on offense.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tough game for Joe Flacco, who completed
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  Speaker 1: fifty one percent of his passes for one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty three yards with a touchdown and a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't have Jamar Chase to throw to, and
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  Speaker 1: with five minutes to go, Tee Higgins left the game
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  Speaker 1: with a concussion. Flacco also missed a play when he
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  Speaker 1: dislocated a finger on his throwing hand, but he kept battling,
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  Speaker 1: throwing a touchdown pass to Mitch Tinsley with four forty
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  Speaker 1: to go that made it a three point game. I
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  Speaker 1: talked to Tinsley in front of his locker.
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  Speaker 3: We're in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: You betch Tinsley, you had a touchdown catch today, an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity there there late in the game to potentially pull
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  Speaker 1: it out. Unfortunately, you guys couldn't quite score that game
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  Speaker 1: winning touchdown. But what did you think of the offensive
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  Speaker 1: performance late in the game and at least making it
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  Speaker 1: a possible come from behind wind.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like We did a good job fighting, trying
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  Speaker 5: to take advantage our opportunities when we were out there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, some guys went down, and you know, some
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  Speaker 5: guys stepped up, and I think, you know, we just
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  Speaker 5: try to fight.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 1: Your touchdown pass was the first that Christian Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 3: Is allowed all year.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like a perfect throw from Joe. Flacco, described
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  Speaker 1: the route, described the play.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was a man coverage and you know, because
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  Speaker 5: that was a great player, but you know.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen him.
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  Speaker 5: I gave him a great release stacked on them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just looked the.
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  Speaker 5: Ball and Joe put it right right there while I
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  Speaker 5: needed to, and you know, I just made a play.
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  Speaker 1: You guys didn't have Jamar for the entire game. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't have Tea late. How did that affect you and Andre
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  Speaker 1: and some of the other guys trying to you know,
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  Speaker 1: take up for that absence and make plays down the stretch.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like all of us has just
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  Speaker 5: tried to do a good job of, you know, approaching
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  Speaker 5: every single day in practice and you know, just every
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  Speaker 5: just everyday mentality like where the starters. So I I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we had to go in knowing that with
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  Speaker 5: the confidence knowing that we can make plays, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when our numbers called, and just being ready for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the touchdown catch. How about the the catch
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down late in the game. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: how you caught that. It looked like went right through
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  Speaker 1: the defensive back's hands and you somethholp up the found
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  Speaker 1: the ball and state in balance.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just Uh that was just a focused then, honestly,
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  Speaker 5: cause uh, I wasn't sure if he was gonna get
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  Speaker 5: high enough or anything to you know, to get hand
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  Speaker 5: on it. And then when I see him go through
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  Speaker 5: his hands, kind of a reaction to everything, cause where
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  Speaker 5: I thought the ball was gonna go and where it
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  Speaker 5: actually ended up.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just had to react to it.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, yeah it.
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  Speaker 1: Was and I just try to make a play. Mitchell,
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  Speaker 1: Are you encouraged by what the defense is doing. It's
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  Speaker 1: too weeks now where the defense at least has given
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  Speaker 1: up twenty or fewer points to the other team's offense.
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  Speaker 5: I have full confidence in our defense, you know. I
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  Speaker 5: feel like they grind, they go hard every single day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have a.
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  Speaker 5: Great mentality, the way they proach practice every single week,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I think it's showing out there this week,
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  Speaker 5: so last week. So I mean, I know they're gonna
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  Speaker 5: continue to do with what they've been doing, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: just go go on to the next.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch finished with two catches for twenty nine yards. Andre
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  Speaker 1: Yosi Vas led the Bengals in receiving yards with sixty one.
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  Speaker 1: Chase Brown had another big day, carrying nineteen times for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seven yards and added twenty three receiving
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  Speaker 1: yards on two catches. That's one hundred and thirty scrimmage yards,
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  Speaker 1: the fifth straight game that Chase Brown is topped one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: On defense, the Bengals were good against the run, holding
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots to three point five yards of carry, but
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  Speaker 1: they struggled to cover tight end Hunter Henry. He finished
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  Speaker 1: with seven catches for a career high one hundred fifteen yards. Still,
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots only scored one offensive touchdown, getting the rest
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  Speaker 1: of their points on four field goals and a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: With Cam Taylor Brett going on the injured list this week,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Davis was promoted from the practice squad and jumped
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  Speaker 1: right into the starting lineup at slot corner. He had
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals only sack and definitely contributed as a run stopper.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jalen's sixth year with the Bengals, but it was
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  Speaker 1: the first time he's played this season. Jalen, you moved
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  Speaker 1: into the starting lineup today. I thought you played a
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  Speaker 1: great game. How did you feel about your performance?
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  Speaker 6: I feel like I played good, but you know, things
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  Speaker 6: feel a lot better when you win, So yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: played good, but we gotta go back to thed onboard
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  Speaker 6: get better.
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  Speaker 1: On Thursday night, let's talk about what the defense did well.
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  Speaker 1: You held their offense to nineteen points. They scored a
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  Speaker 1: defensive touchdown. That's two weeks in a row now where
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  Speaker 1: it's been twenty or less. Do you see significant progress
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive side.
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  Speaker 3: Of the ball. I feel like we've been actually getting better.
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  Speaker 3: Every every week we make getting better.
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  Speaker 6: But like I said, we still gotta so much more
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  Speaker 6: to improve. So we all just gotta, like I said,
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  Speaker 6: get back to the d on board, look all the mistakes,
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  Speaker 6: and just get better.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like the one thing the Patriots did that
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  Speaker 1: hurts you guys was find their tight ends over the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the field. Anything stand out from your perspective
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  Speaker 1: on those.
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  Speaker 6: Plays, not that I can say right now. I just
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  Speaker 6: had to look at the film again and then go
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  Speaker 6: from there.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta pick six defensive score from Geno Stone and
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  Speaker 1: gave the team a ten to nothing lead. What was
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  Speaker 1: your view of that play?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: It was turned up.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, gotta pick six.
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  Speaker 6: It's none better than that. But like I said, we
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  Speaker 6: gotta keep their foot on the next and don't let
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  Speaker 6: them in the next level.
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  Speaker 3: Time.
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  Speaker 1: Guys gotta stop late in the game to give the
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  Speaker 1: offense a chance to pull it out. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots did score three, but they weren't able to score
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown to pull away. Is that progress because there
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  Speaker 1: have been some games this year where you needed to
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  Speaker 1: get that stop late and couldn't quite do it.
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  Speaker 6: Prodst for sure, but that's not the standard that does
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  Speaker 6: not even give him three. So, like I said, you
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  Speaker 6: got to go back to the dram more.
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  Speaker 3: Just get better, get better.
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  Speaker 1: How much did you enjoy having this opportunity today?
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  Speaker 5: I meant everything so mean, man, I ain't been out
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  Speaker 5: there in a very long time, so I just appreciate
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  Speaker 5: my brother's always holding me down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jalen, congrats on a great game.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Bengals leading tackler was rookie linebacker Barrett Carter with sixteen
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  Speaker 1: Gino Stone had thirteen tackles and his second career picked
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  Speaker 1: six on special teams. It was quite a day for
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  Speaker 1: Evan McPherson, who kicked a fifty four yard field goal
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  Speaker 1: in the first quarter and a team record sixty three
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  Speaker 1: yarder in the second. Evan shared the old record of
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine yards with Cade York. Kevin McPherson made team
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  Speaker 1: history today with a sixty three yard field goal. It
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  Speaker 1: was the exact set of circumstances that you've talked about
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  Speaker 1: before for getting an opportunity like that final play of
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  Speaker 1: the half sixty plus rip from sixty three.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I felt like I felt like we
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  Speaker 7: had a good chance to get a shot there at
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  Speaker 7: the end of the half. And you never You're never
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  Speaker 7: out of it. And that's kind of what I learned
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  Speaker 7: throughout the years is never take time off and never
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  Speaker 7: let your mind wander, because in a blink of an
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  Speaker 7: eye you can be thrown out there for a long
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  Speaker 7: field goal at the end of the half. And so
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  Speaker 7: I think we did a good job stand in the
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  Speaker 7: game and not just flicking forward to halftime, and we
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  Speaker 7: executed really well snaphol kick, everybody blocked really well.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 7: Just a lot of fun to get to go out
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  Speaker 7: there and a tempt those and I'm just really happy
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  Speaker 7: that this one worked out for us.
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  Speaker 1: There aren't that many members of the sixty yard club
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Maybe a couple does, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not a huge list. How significant is it
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  Speaker 1: to have that one extra yard from your previous long
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  Speaker 1: of fifty nine.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I've always thought about it. It would
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  Speaker 7: be cool to get one on the other side of
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  Speaker 7: the field one day, And you know, I'm just blessed
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  Speaker 7: to be putting that situation, that opportunity. The coaches trust
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  Speaker 7: me to go out there and make it, and I'm
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  Speaker 7: just glad that, you know, they have that trust in me.
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  Speaker 1: A little extra special after the sixty seven yard er
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  Speaker 1: that was good but didn't count at Green Bay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you know, I always enjoy like I feel
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  Speaker 7: like my rookie yar, I enjoyed the fifty plus attempts
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  Speaker 7: and now it's kind of switched to like, sixty plus
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  Speaker 7: is a lot of fun. Just go out there and
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  Speaker 7: swing away and kind of see what happens. And I
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  Speaker 7: feel like when we go out there, we're looked at
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  Speaker 7: to make those kicks, and so, you know, I felt
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  Speaker 7: confident going into it, and with how we've been hitting
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  Speaker 7: it in practice and the operation and everything's going. So
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  Speaker 7: it felt good running out of the field for that one.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL record is sixty eight. Now, yeah, how long
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  Speaker 1: would that have been good from? But the way you
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  Speaker 1: struck that ball.
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  Speaker 7: Man we needed the track man and how they used
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  Speaker 7: to have to set up good from, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 7: I think maybe cut another five on it or so.
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  Speaker 7: It's hard to really tell, but i'd say maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Not another five.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Congrats on the record, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The loss drop the Bengals to three and eight. They're
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  Speaker 1: three back in the AFC North with six to go,
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  Speaker 1: and there's now a tie for first place in the division.
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  Speaker 1: Since the Ravens won and the Steelers lost, Baltimore and
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh are six and five. Now, time for my conversation
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  Speaker 1: with head coach Zach Taylor. Zach, the defense allowed nineteen
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  Speaker 1: points today, it was twenty last week. What progress do
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  Speaker 1: you see on that side of the.
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  Speaker 8: Ball they're finding rhythm, you know, it's they're believing in
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  Speaker 8: each other, what we're doing, finding ways to get stops.
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  Speaker 8: Guys are stepping up and making plays. I've loved the
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  Speaker 8: communication from that group, and they're starting to get more
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  Speaker 8: and more confidence.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's just that's how the world works. To have some success,
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  Speaker 2: you get more confidence.
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  Speaker 8: There's a lot of things today I think that'll continue
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  Speaker 8: to build towards that as well, and which we'll build on.
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  Speaker 2: That moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Davis has been part of this team for most
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  Speaker 1: of your tenure. He got an opportunity to play extended
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  Speaker 1: snaps today and I thought he played, well, what did
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  Speaker 1: you think of Jayleen?
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  Speaker 8: He's not afraid to go make a play, you know,
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  Speaker 8: and that's what you saw. He went after him, got
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  Speaker 8: a sack, did a great job fitting in the big
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  Speaker 8: gaff and getting a holding penalty one time that set
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  Speaker 8: him back, and so you just you see things. He's
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  Speaker 8: a competitor, he's got a high football a Q. He's
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  Speaker 8: not afraid to go make a play and I saw
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  Speaker 8: that from JD today.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a stretch where New England had
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  Speaker 1: ten straight plays in goal to go situation. So inside
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  Speaker 1: the ten where the defense did not allow them to
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  Speaker 1: get in the end zone. What kind of a building
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  Speaker 1: block is that.
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  Speaker 8: That's character. I mean, that's character and toughness and guys
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  Speaker 8: just doing their job and then knowing that other guys
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  Speaker 8: are going to do theirs. And that's exactly how he
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: pointed out, And proud of those guys that gave us
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: a lot of momentum, you know, and they stopped him
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: on the two and we didn't go score, but we
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: were able to get the ball out to the forty
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: and try to flip the field. And so again I
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: was proud of the effort on those that drive you're
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: talking about with the defensive guys.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Chase Brown ran for more than a high yards today.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm back at top sixty against the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Patriots defense this year. Do you feel like the running
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: game now you can safely say it's more or less
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: turn the corner and it's pretty reliable.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: Again, that speaks to the confidence. I think the whole
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: group's got confidence in the run game. The guys up
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: front are really coming off the ball, doing a great
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: job of their communication backs, understanding where we're going to
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: fit these balls. The tight ends are doing excellent job
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: on the perimeter. Receivers are bought in as well, and
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: so we do have a lot of confidence a run
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: game right now, and we'll continue lean on.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: You didn't have Jamar Chase, and you lost T Higgins
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: late in this game. Mitch Tinsley caught a touchdown pass.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Andre yoc Bosch made some big catches. But how difficult
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: is it offensively when you're essentially down to a couple
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: of wide receivers.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: That's just that's the way it works. You got to
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: find a way. No one wants to hear excuses. You
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: got to put those guys in a position to be successful.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: I think their position coaches have been an excellent job
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: preparing the next man up, problem solving on the move
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: there as guys were playing a different position for the
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: first time in a run, concepts that probably hadn't practiced.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: I thought our execution was still really at a high
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: level and gave us a chance to win a game.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: To consider the possibility of Joe Burrow playing this week,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: how quickly would you like to have a decision made
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: for the Thursday night game against Baltimore.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's got to be clarity. You know in terms
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: of just we're not physically practicing, we're walking through and stuff.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: But you'd like the quarterback Steff Clarity, so Sooner wrote that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Later, appreciate you time.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Yep, thank you. Dam up.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Next a Thanksgiving night road game in Baltimore with the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: possibility of Joe Burrow returning to action. The Ravens open
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• 18:51
  Speaker 1: recap lap ice defensive progress. I wish it were resulting
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in wins. We all do. But in the last week
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the defense allowed twenty to the Steelers and nineteen today
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: against the Patriots. Obviously, I am subtracting the defensive touchdowns
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that the other teams have scored. That's really what the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: last six games are about, right, trying to make significant
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: improvement on that side of the ball.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: No question about it, Dan, And you know, I remember
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: back in the day when I was playing football, Paul
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Brown his magic number was seventeen. If you can hold
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the opponent to seventeen points or less in the National
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Football League, that should be a win, that should be
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: a victory. And I do think they are playing a
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: better defense. I do think they are improving. Other miles
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: to go before they rest. Yeah, I mean, they're not
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: there yet, but they're playing much better defense than they were,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: you know, earlier in the season. The biggest problem that
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the team has is inconsistency of performance from each phase
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: of the game. Offense plays well, defense doesn't. Defense plays well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: offense doesn't know teams isn't supporting you know either well enough.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Although I do think that Darren Simmons group is playing
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: probably the best of the three, the most consistent, and
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I'm not surprised. I think he's one of the best coaches.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It's not the best special teams coach in the National
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Football League and he's assistant head coach with the Bengals
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: for a reason.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: The defense stopped the run pretty well throughout the game.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: They were unbelievable in the low red zone. The Patriots
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: ran ten plays in a row without being able to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: get in so that was stellar. On the other hand,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: tight ends over the middle of the field have just
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: haunted this team. Not just this year, but it seems
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: like for several What is the problem with defending tight
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: ends in the middle of the field.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I wish I hadn't answer to that question. That's a
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: million dollar question, Dan, You've hit on it. I mean,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: it's just and like you said, tight ends for the
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: last few years. It's not just this season, not just
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: this game, not for just half of this game, not
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: for just the end of the football game. Over and
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: over again, the middle of the football field has been
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: wide open, you know. I mean, you can just cherry
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: pick big plays in the middle of the football field
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: if you're a tight end, or if you're a wide
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: receiver running back out of the backfield. Everybody kind of
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: works their way back, migrates their way back to the
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: middle of the football field, and they get rewarded with
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: huge plays. I don't know if it's your technique is
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: not good enough and fundamentals aren't good enough, or if
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: you're just blowing coverages. It could be a combination of both,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: but I tend to think I lean toward blowing coverages.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I think that guys are too wide open.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco by and large has been great since being
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: picked up by the Bengals, but the last couple of
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: weeks haven't been as good. Do you think the shoulder
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: is giving him trouble? Obviously he made one awful decision
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: today on the pick six.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: I love Joe Flacco. I think we just came from
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: a presser that Joe Flacco addressed the mass media, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: he never gives excuses. You know, He's adverse to blaming
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: it on something, whether it's his dislo kid index finger.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: You know, you're a quarterback and your index finger is
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: garled up and dislocated, that could be alarming, you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: But he just kind of like, you know, they come
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: out and put it back in a place. And I'm
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: sure there was some pain there when he was releasing
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the football, but he's still threw with pretty good accuracy. Now,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: there were more throws in this football game that were
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: off and significantly off than in prior games, and I
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: think that is due to due to the injury. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: credit him, he wasn't going to come out of that
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: football game. He came out for one snap and Jake
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Browning goes one for one and has a perfect quarterback
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: rating with his completion to Tinsley. So you know, it is,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: it is what it is, and I you know, I
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: think the thing again, the thing about Joe Flacco is
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: he's a man's man in terms of look, I got
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: to play better. Everybody has to play better for us
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: to win football games down the stretch.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: The Bengals didn't have Jamar Chase today because spit happened
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: last week. Pittsburgh go'll get him back on Thursday night
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore, but I can't imagine and the t Higgins
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: will play. He suffered a concussion late in the game.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe if he had a whole week he'd be back,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: but I'd be shocked if he were able to come
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: back on a short week on Thursday night.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in the same school. I thought you are there, Dan.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: You know, concussions and no joke, I had a couple
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: of those as well, And you know they really there
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: was no real concussion protocol and Blue ten and all
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: that sort of thing back in the seventies. And I
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: do think they've made significant advancements for player safety in
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: that regard. But man, just you know, wouldn't it be
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: great to have Jamar, Chase and t Higgins playing the
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: same football game with their quarterback Joe Burrow? The Big Three?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Have the Big Three go out against the Baltimore Ravens
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: on Thanksgiving?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You know that would be like, how about that?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Go out and enjoy a nice football game where those
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: guys are all making plays and come out with a
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: victory against the Baltimore Ravens.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Go home and throw it on some turkey.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I think Zach Taylor was very close to letting Joe
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Burrow play this week. Do you think he plays on
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Thursday night in Baltimore?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I agree with you on both counts. I think he
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: was very close to letting Joe play this week. I
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: think that, you know, it had to be one hundred percent,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: not ninety nine point five, not ninety nine point nine.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Had to be one hundred percent. There had to be
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: if he found himself in trouble on the football field,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: he had to be able to move well enough to
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: protect himself and not subject himself to additional injury. So
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I think that was the final determining factor of him
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: not playing. You know, in this football game. But I
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: do think he will play against the Baltimore Raves, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: I have a sneaky suspicions going to play pretty well.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's beside himself patrolling that sideline. He is
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: so competitive. I mean, he just doesn't know what to
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: do with himself, and he is giving Joe Flacko good
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: information about, you know, what the opponent's trying to do
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: in terms of coverages and taking players away and some
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: of the receiving the best routes of receivers run taken
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: away from them and neutralizing things. But it would be very,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: very celebratory, I think to get Joe, to get Joe
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Burrow back in action against a division rival on Thanksgiving
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: under the lights at pay Corse Stadium on national television,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I think that'll be big in Baltimore, in Baltimore, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: wish it was here in Baltimore under the lights.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: It'll be big time.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: We saw Bengals history today, a sixty three yard field
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: goal from Moneymack, the first sixty plus field goal in
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: franchise history. It's not a super long list of guys
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that have made field goals in the NFL. From sixty plus.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: We knew he could do it nice to see him
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: come through it is.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: He has got a howartzer hanging off of that right
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: hip man. It is amazing when he strikes that football,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: it is it's thumped. I mean it is lit up,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: and not only for distance, but he gets that quick
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: elevation that he gets because of his leg strength. I
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: mean he takes it a long way and he takes
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: it very very high as well. So I think he's
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: the best in the National Football League, I really do.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I think that his kickoffs, he can do a lot
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: of things the football. He's got like a magic toe
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: or magic foot hanging off to that right leg. He
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: is a very unique player and a total team player.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: He knows what his role is and you know he
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: doesn't try to do anything to step out of line
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: in terms of that role.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So the Bengals tried to snap an eight game losing
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: streak today. They came up six point six point short,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and now they will try to snap what I believe
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: is a six game winning streak next week. Baltimore hasn't
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: lost since starting one in five. I guess they've won
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: five straight. So two of the best games in the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: entire NFL. Last year with the two games between Cincinnati
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and Baltimore. They were both thrillers. Unfortunately the Ravens won
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: them both. And here we go again with a Thanksgiving
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: night game. That's why the NFL put this game on
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Night going into the season. They thought, you know what,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: those are two of the best games in the league
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: last year. Let's put one of those on Thanksgiving Night.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Couldn't agree with you more, Dan, I mean, the league
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: knows what they're doing. Roger Goodell is a wizard, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: in turn of being able to handle negotiations with the
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: networks and put the National Football League in the best
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: light possible. And I mean the fans just I mean
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: their week is built around getting ready for the next
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: game with their professional football team. If they're in a
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: market one of the thirty two big city markets in
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the National Football League, you know, if not, they've still
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: got their fan bases for sure. So it is, it's
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: a celebration. It's almost like watching a football game on
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Sunday is like almost like another national holiday. But there's
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: too many of those to consider it that. But I
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: think that the NFL couldn't have made a better decision
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: and be in a better spot than to have the
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Bengals Ravens Aft North Division bloodbath on Thanksgiving night.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Look forward to spending my Thanksgiving with you, my friend.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I do the same, Dan, no doubt about it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Well, what do you say to Like we talked about
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: the Bengals beat the Ravens.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: We go pound some turkey man or crabcakes or crabcakes.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with those as well.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: That's a wrap on the Patriots game. Now time for
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: this week's fun Facts conversation, where you get to know
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the person under the pads. Time for some fun facts
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: with offensive lineman Dylan Fairchild, from Coming, Georgia, about forty
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: minutes north of Atlanta, the birthplace of country music stars
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Zach Brown, among others. Describe growing up in Coming and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: some of the things you enjoyed doing.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: As a kid.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: I just, you know, I loved I've been playing sports
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: since I was six years old. That took most of
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: my time, I'd say that, And obviously just elementary school
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: and high school and you know whatnot. But I love fishing.
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: I love being outside in the woods. That's probably like
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: the number one place I go. I love camping, just
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: being out there, like just use your peace of mind
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: and that was like my favorite thing to do, just
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: in like when I had downtime.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: So absolutely, just being.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Outside excellence as a high school wrestler is a big
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: part of your bio. It's a sport that's not for everybody.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Why did you enjoy it so much?
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: I just love the grit. You know, it's a gritty sport.
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: It's a difficult thing to do. I didn't love it
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: every day, but some of those days, like I remember,
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: like I you know, there were Sundays every Sunday, my
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: dad would take me to go to my gym and wrestle,
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: and just I that was one of those days. We're
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: growing up, Like I didn't really want to go on Sunday,
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: But now that I look back, I realized, like those
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: Sundays were Obviously we're playing athletics on Sundays now, so
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: you know, like it, I think that kind of just
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: like put discipline into me even more because you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: there's nothing better than just sitting at home chilling on Sunday.
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: But when you're over there grinding and stuff like it
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: just really put me put some core values in my
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: in my brain and in my body and just you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: help me develop as a person.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: The most.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You were an undefeated state champion as a junior and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: as a senior. What was your fast pin?
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: Oh gosh, I don't even know. I think it was
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: like four seconds. This guy like he just rolled over.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: I was like, are you serious? No, it was, it was.
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: It was pretty ridiculous.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I was. I was shocked. I didn't even He just
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: immediately shook hands and basically laid down.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, wow, this is crazy.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Be nice if defensive lineman did that, No, that'd be great.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: He's so great.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: On the flip side. Did anybody give you a really
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: good match in those last two years?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, there was a couple of great guys. There's a
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: kid from Central I ends up forgetting his name Central Forscyth.
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: It's a really tough kid, like impossible to try to
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: turn and pin. My hardest match ever was a kid
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: named Tamari Fox.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: He went to UNC North Carolina and played I believe
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: d n there and it was just a stud athlete
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: like he gave me, by.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Far the hardest match I remember walking away from. I
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: ended up losing.
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: I walked away and I wasn't even upset because I
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: just I gave everything I had. I threw up profusely
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: in the bathroom and was like, I knew I emptied
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: the tank. So that was by far, Like that was
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: one of my most thrilling matches, even though I lost.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: So it was just fun.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Sounds like something you grew from.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: No, I knew, like I've been training for him for
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: months and months and months at a time. And after
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: the match, I mean I was gonna be so I
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: pre pre match and pre tournament. It was a state tournament,
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: so I was like, I wanted to win really bad,
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: and I thought I'd be really upset, but I wasn't
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: because I knew, like I had given everything and I
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: learned a lesson that day, like when you give everything
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: you've got, like it's everything you got, you know, so
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: win or lose, you at least can go to sleep
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: knowing everything you gave everything you had to try to
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: get a win.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: You know that day. So sometimes it just doesn't turn
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: out in your favor.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: We're chatting a Dyllan fair Child. You're from Georgia and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you went to Georgia. You played at the University of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Was that the dream growing up?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I think so?
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think so I knew I honestly, like, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: didn't know what I was gonna do. I thought I
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: was gonna wrestle for a long time, and I thought
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: I was gonna play football. Then I thought I was
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: gonna wrestle. Like I was kind of back and forth.
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: But it was always a Georgia fan. I was always
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: watching those national championships when they were in it, and
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: just somehow it didn't pull through. I'm not gonna I'm
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: not gonna talk about it, but no, but I was
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: definitely a Georgia fan my whole life.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: My dad raised me a Georgia fan.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: We always pulled for the Dogs, and I just knew
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: that was the place to go. You know, it was
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: the hardest place I could possibly go to, other than
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: one more that I'm not gonna mention this happens to.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Be our neighbor.
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: But you know, those two programs are by far the
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: best programs you know at the time, and we're the
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: toughest programs, had the best recruits and so but it
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: was a no brainer for me. If I was gonna
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: challenge myself, that's the place to do it.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: You spend four years with the Bulldogs, you started your
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: last two who was the toughest person you faced, whether
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: it was a teammate that you were facing it practice,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: or an opponent.
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: I'd probably say Jalen Carter was probably the toughest dude.
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: There's a couple of guys. I mean, there's an endless
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: list of guys I could name that were on the
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: team that were there were dogs, you know, I mean,
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: all of them ended up being first rounders. DeVante Whyatt,
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis. There's a lot of guys, and
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: they were all good at different things. I think overall,
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: just talent wise, I think Jaalen Carter was probably the
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: most talented.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Guy for sure.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: We learned from your college teammate of Marius Mims, that
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: your nickname at Georgia was Pickle. What is the origin
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: story of the pickle nickname?
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: Mims was the one who started it. I don't even know.
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: I think I honestly couldn't tell you. I have no idea.
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: I think Mems this one day said it and it
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: just stuck, and then all the boys, all the guys
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: started calling calling me Pickle, and it just we.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Just wrote it out from there on and that was it.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Since Mims is in the building here, has that nickname
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Mike rated to Cincinnati.
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: It has with memes. Yeah, I think I'll always be
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: pickled to memes. But I don't think some of these
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: older guys are going to buy into that.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: You're a twenty two year old rookie and a married man.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: You got married about a month before the NFL draft.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Why did you and Elizabeth decide to get married at
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: such an early age.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I think it was just the way I grew up.
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: My parents were divorced, and I just I love God
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: and I love her, and I knew that she has
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: led me to success in ways that you know, it's
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: hard for me to you know, reciprocate, and like she's
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: just given me a piece to be able to come
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: here every single day and do my job and fully
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: focus on my job. And that's really what I want,
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: you know. And I love her the most out of
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: any you know, anything and anyone other than the Lord above.
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: And I knew that we were going to pursue, continue
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: to pursue God, and continue to pursue each other.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: So there was really no.
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: Questions, you know, There was just that the answer was
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: we wanted to get married, and it was quick.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: It was a free wedding.
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: So we actually didn't go like we didn't Elope, but
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: it wasn't like a full wedding, so it was It's
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: pretty cool. Yeah, it was. I'm glad that we did it.
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: She's glad we did it, and I wouldn't want it
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: any other way.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: We're chatting with Dylan Fairchild. So a month after that,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: really big day came the other one, when you were
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: selected in the third round by the Bengals. In this
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: year's draft, described that entire day. I know, it can
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: be really stressful leading up to getting the phone call
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: from Zach Taylor.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: No, it was extremely stressful. I was. I was really
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: The third round was where we were helping me, my agent,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: just my whole family.
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: You know, obviously you want to continue to do better
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: and better, but you know, that was where we had
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: hopefully predicted where I would go, and I did not
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: know it would be at Cincinnati. I had no idea.
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: This was one of the last places I had on
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: my mind of where I thought.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I would be too.
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: I just we had a couple of meetings, but it
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: just wasn't, you know, like it wasn't just wasn't what
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: I thought, you know, And so there were some picks,
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: you know, at some times where they slipped by, and
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: I was like, oh, you know, we may be waiting
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: another day. And then my friend started ringing, and it's
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: just the whole day was just like that was probably
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: the most stressed out of thing I've ever been because
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: there was nothing, nothing I could do. Nothing's in your control,
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: you know, like it's all in God's hands, it's all
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: in the coach's hands, in the in the owner's hands,
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: so there's nothing that you can really do about it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Be so I just sit and wait, and that feeling
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: is kind of scary, you.
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: Know, you just sitting there waiting to get a phone call.
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: But and when I did, I I couldn't even believe it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: Like I just answered the phone and I felt so robotic.
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: I was like hello, you know, and so it was
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: it was really a huge blessing, and like I just
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: you know, I was so shocked and just couldn't believe it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: And I was just immediately so blessed. And you know,
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: you're nervous because you don't you know, you'd love to
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: be anywhere on any NFL team, but it's scary, you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: growing up in Georgia going to georgiad move literally completely
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: across the entire country coast to coast, So it's really
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: cool being like I still on the East coast, just
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: being close to home, Like it's a seven hour drive,
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: which is and I love the drive too, So it
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: was really awesome to just it's a huge blessing. You know,
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: it was immediate blessing. Just my whole family and my
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: mom started crying.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: It was awesome. It was awesome.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: That stress will be topped when you and Elizabeth have
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: your first child, but that's still to come. When you
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: came to town after the draft, he lived with Ted
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Karras for a little while. Yeah, what was your reaction
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: when he made that offer?
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: I was, I was kind of surprised. Most guys aren't
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: as just charismatic as him, you know.
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: I mean he's extremely just like a person of such
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: high character, and he's just a like a rich person,
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: you know, like when it's just like like almost like
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: a rich cake, like when he's just got so many
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: layers to his personality, so many layers to just the
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: guy that he is. And when he did I was
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: just you know, straight up in the top of the
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: cake with him. You know, there's No, there's nobody liked ed.
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: So when he did that, I was just extremely you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: honored and blessed and I just appreciated that the most.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: My wife made sure.
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: That we got them a nice basket to some of
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: some chocolates and stuff, so it was really nice of him.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was That was awesome.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: We're having this visit about midway through your rookie year.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: How would you describe your first NFL season to day.
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: I'm just trying to be a sponge, you know, and
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: just absorb, absorb, absorb all the information and knowledge I
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: can and then on Sunday just letting it fly, you know,
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: just letting it go. Treating every day as if I
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: have nothing to lose, you know, and that's the only
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: way I know how to do it, and just going,
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: you know, balls of the wall. There's no other way
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: to put it. It's just hard every day, you know,
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: just go hard every day. And yeah, that's really all
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: I It's all I do is I try to look
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: forward every single day all right.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Time for a few wild card topics now with Dylan Fairchild,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: And why I'd probably have to say Nate Dia is
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: my favorite. Yeah, you know, I don't I don't know
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: if you know. Is that like a UFC guy fighter?
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, he uh, he's just a dog like he's
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: not He's just one of those guys. It's like he
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: doesn't ever stop, Like he just doesn't quit ever.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: It's they say Nat Diez doesn't lose fights. He just
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: runs out of time, you know. Like he he's just
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: one of those guys that nobody wants to fight because
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: he's just a dog like he has no inch of
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: care in his body and he's willing to put it
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: all out there on the line every time. And I
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: feel the same way. You know, I don't think I
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: do what he does. But he's a little he's just
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: a couple of steps above us.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: But he's probably my favorite guy that I look to.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Is just like inspiration.
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: Like when things don't go well, Like he's a nasty dude,
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: you know, and things don't go well for him, you know,
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: it might be vulgar, but he gives him the middle
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: finger and like he just keeps going, you know. And
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: that's I sway my father raised me. That's the way
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: that I've I've been you know, taught my whole life
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: and I just love he embodies that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: So he's probably my favorite for sure.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Speaking of UFC guys, we saw footage of you wrestling
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: with UFC champ Sean Strickland in the off season. How
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: did that come about? And did the Bengals object when
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: they saw the footage they reposted it. I guess not.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: No, I was really it's not Honestly, I was nervous.
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: I was kind of like, like, what did I just do?
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: But no, everybody was cool about it. Everybody loved it
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: and that was good. It was all clean and fun,
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: so that was a good thing. But no, we were
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: just in Vegas and we were there with my agent
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: actually put a little event on and it was awesome.
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: Joe Panosi's a guy. But yeah, we were out there
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: in Vegas and again like we were just gonna watch
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: a fight and like just having fun hanging out. And
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: he had the idea to go to the UFC Performance Institute,
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: which is a huge complex for all the fighters and
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: any fighter can show up at any time. So he
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: happened to be there and we walked in and he
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: said a couple cuss words at us, and so he
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: said who wants to wrestle, So he was.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: He is as advertised, I'll tell you that. So no,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: it was really cool though. He was really cool about
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: it too. It was it was, It was really cool.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Since you're still basically a newlywed, do you and Elizabeth
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: watch TV shows together? And if so, what are some
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: of your favorites.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: We used to watch a lot more.
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: We've gotten more into movies now because we just don't
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: have a lot of time to watch TV shows.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: So we're like big movie people. We just watched Narnia h.
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: Two nights ago because it's been so long since I've
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: seen that movie. So she wanted to watch it, so
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: we watched it. But I'll put her on some Quentin
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: Tarantino films. You know, I'm a big movie guy. I
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: love movies, so I love Tarantino's work. You know, I
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: love just a lot of different directors. I try to
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: go by director. You know, Spielberg is another good one.
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: You know, just try to like show were like really
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: good film.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: I appreciate that her family is also huge in the
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: film industry and they make movies all the time. So
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: it's really interesting. Now her mom decided not to. She
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: wanted to go into service. So they're amazing people. And yeah, no,
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: we but our shows that we did well, I mean
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: I tried to get it or like Breaking Bad. She
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: didn't like it though, as I thought her it was
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: a great show, but she didn't like it. We watched
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: the one hundred. The Walking Dead was a good one
• 42:34
  Speaker 9: that we finished. That was so long it took us
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: a year to finish it. So it was a long show.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Breaking Bad's my all time favorite show. So you have
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: excellent taste. Pulp fiction, kill Bill. What's your favorite to
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino.
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: And Glorious Bastards. Probably, Yeah, that's my favorite one. It's
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: just a great movie. It's a solid movie.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: The opening scene with the people under the floorboards. Man,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: that one gives me.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Chills does every time.
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: I know it's he does very well just describing almost
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: putting that type of anger in you.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: As the whole movie goes on and it's a it's
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: a glory movie. It's a crazy movie.
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: But you know, he does a really good job of
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: again like just making you feel those emotions and as
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: the movie goes on.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Final fun fact for Dylan Fairchild, this one's a little
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history, living
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: or deceased, who would that person be?
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: I go Jesus, absolutely, yeah, no, I would. I'd love
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: to meet Jesus. Hopefully that's where I'm going, you know,
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: one day. But that was absolutely who I would go
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: to meet for sure.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: I try to root myself in that and just ground
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: myself no matter what happens, good or bad, and just
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: live live that life, you know, And I do a
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: better job talking about it than being about it, you know,
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: just being honest with you and fall short like everybody else.
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: But again, like I just try to live with that
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: type of love you know, in my heart and just
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: love and forgive people. And that's just again, like my
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: wife does an amazing job of just bringing me back
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: to that base level every day.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: She's absolutely the reason that I was brought back to
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: the Lord and she's my rock.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: And so yeah, no it it'd be Jesus for sure.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: This has been fun. Really appreciate your time. Best of
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: luck the rest of the year, sir.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 44:31
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