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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth podcast the I Got My Mind Set
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Speaker 1: on You audition as we visit with Greg Cosell from
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Speaker 1: NFL Films in the NFL Matchup Show on ESPN. Greg
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Speaker 1: is a personal favorite when it comes to watching the
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Speaker 1: tape and explaining what it all means, and when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the best quarterback in this year's draft, his
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Speaker 1: mind is set on Joe Burrow. He'll explain why. Plus
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Speaker 1: we'll discuss John ross Auden, Tate, AJ Green, and much more,
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Speaker 1: and getting back to Joe Burrow in honor of his
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Speaker 1: LSU uniform number nine. Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan answers
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Speaker 1: nine questions about the possible number one pick in this
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Speaker 1: year's draft, which as of this recording is only forty
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Speaker 1: eight days away. All of that is straight ahead, but first,
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Speaker 1: On a recent UC basketball road trip, I lost my iPhone.
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Speaker 1: I searched my pockets, my luggage. I searched the team
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Speaker 1: plane and the team bus. No luck. Then someone reminded
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Speaker 1: me that if I had an iPad, which I do,
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Speaker 1: I could use the Find my iPhone app. So I
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Speaker 1: to help me recover it. As it turned out, it
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Speaker 1: was on the team plane, just extremely well hidden. Hopeful
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Speaker 1: I won't lose my phone again, but if I do,
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Speaker 1: I know I'll be able to find it. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: get to Greg coo Sell. During the season, Dave Lapham
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Speaker 1: and I do two radio shows together each week, the
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Speaker 1: Bengals Game Plan Show on Wednesdays and the Bengals pep
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Speaker 1: Rally Show on Fridays, and one of our favorite guests
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Speaker 1: is Greg coo Sell. He's worked for NFL Films for
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Speaker 1: roughly forty years and is a master of watching game
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Speaker 1: tape and breaking down the intricacies of football in a
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Speaker 1: way that all of us understand. Last week, I got
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Speaker 1: together with Greg at the NFL scouting combine, and I
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Speaker 1: began our conversation by asking him about Joe Burrow. Is
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Speaker 1: he the guy the Bengals should select number one overall? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's an organizational decision, But I like Burrow a lot.
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Speaker 1: I think Borrows the best quarterback prospect in this draft.
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Speaker 1: My guests has given Inny Dol's age that they're going
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Speaker 1: to look to the quarterback position. My guess is that
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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor would probably like a quarter back that he
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Speaker 1: that's his guy, and with his background, you know, the
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Speaker 1: McVay Shanahan type background, I think Joe Burrow fits that
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Speaker 1: exceptionally well. I think Burrow has pretty much every trait
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Speaker 1: you look for except for elite arm strength, but I
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Speaker 1: think his arm is strong enough to do what you
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Speaker 1: need to do in the NFL. Certainly, if you're thinking of,
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Speaker 1: let's say, as Sean McVay type offense, Joe Burrow can
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Speaker 1: make every throw that Jared Goff can make. And Burrow
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Speaker 1: plays with kind of an uncommon poise and composure and awareness.
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Speaker 1: In some ways. In that regard, he kind of reminded
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Speaker 1: me a little of Tom Brady, just the way, you know,
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Speaker 1: just a poise with which he plays it seems like
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Speaker 1: nothing is too fast for him, nothing is too chaotic
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Speaker 1: for him. He's very comfortable. He's very accurate, and I
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Speaker 1: think that's a trait sometimes that gets overlooked because there's
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Speaker 1: been so much talk over the last year or so
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Speaker 1: about quarterbacks that can run around and make plays that
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Speaker 1: people lose sight of, just the to make accurate throws
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Speaker 1: from the pocket, precise ball placement throws. And I think
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is really really good at that. I know
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Speaker 1: from previous conversations we've had with you. You like quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: that have that pocket awareness. Yes, not necessarily going to
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Speaker 1: take off and run for twenty yards, which he can do,
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Speaker 1: by the way, and he certainly did in their biggest
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Speaker 1: games at the end of the year, but have that
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Speaker 1: unique ability to move up a little bit left or right,
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Speaker 1: step forward, whatever, just to buy a little extra time. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and he's very very good at that. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I think that Burrow can do that really well. He
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Speaker 1: can get out of the pocket really well. He can
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Speaker 1: play from the pocket really well. You know, because you
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Speaker 1: have to remember one thing. We all get enamored with
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Speaker 1: these guys who can make run around plays, but that's
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Speaker 1: not how the position is taught. The position is taught
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Speaker 1: within structure. When you start with OTA's minicamp whatever they
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Speaker 1: call him these days, I don't I don't know what
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Speaker 1: the term is anymore, right, right, right, But when you
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Speaker 1: start and you start coaching players within your offense, your
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Speaker 1: coaching them within the structure of a scheme. You don't
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Speaker 1: roll the ball out and say, let's run around today
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Speaker 1: and see if we can make a few plays. You
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Speaker 1: coach it and teach it within the structure of a scheme.
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Speaker 1: And it's whether it's three step drops, five step drops,
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Speaker 1: deeper drops off play action, and that's how it gets taught.
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Speaker 1: And I think that that Joe Burrow can handle all
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Speaker 1: of that. I think that you know, from the standpoint
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Speaker 1: of playing with timing, he can play with timing in
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Speaker 1: quick game. He can be late in the down in
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Speaker 1: the pocket and still make throws. So to me, as
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Speaker 1: I said, I think he has every trait that you
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Speaker 1: look for other than elite arm strength. And there'll be
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Speaker 1: different conclusions about that based on its relative importance depending
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Speaker 1: on who the individual is. You know, different people have
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Speaker 1: different points of view on that. But he certainly does
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Speaker 1: not have a below average arm does that ever get
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Speaker 1: better in the NFL, do guys go from having average
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Speaker 1: to slightly above average two good? I think so. I
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Speaker 1: think there have been quarterbacks. I think, to me, Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady fit that category. Tom Brady ended up with a
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Speaker 1: pretty darn good arm. Don't forget he had to throw
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Speaker 1: balls to cut through the wind in Fox Borrow and
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Speaker 1: he never had a problem with that. I thought Drew Brees,
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Speaker 1: I mean until recent years. Obviously he's all he's older,
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Speaker 1: but I thought Drew brees arm strength got a little
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Speaker 1: better as his career progressed. So Joe Burrow is never
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Speaker 1: going to have a hose. He's never going to be
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. But I think you can improve your arm
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Speaker 1: strength a little bit. And some of that has to
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Speaker 1: do with just working on your mechanics and repetitive mechanics.
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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in that, and I think coaching
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Speaker 1: is so critical the quarterback position, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: repetitive mechanics become really important. So so Burrow's arm could
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Speaker 1: arguably get a little stronger, but it's certainly not a detriment.
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Speaker 1: Right now, we're talking to Greg crow Cell from NFL
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Speaker 1: Films and the NFL matchup show on ESPN. Did the
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Speaker 1: offense that he ran last year at LSU translate to
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Speaker 1: the NFL? Well, it was an NFL offense because it
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Speaker 1: was Joe Brady who was at the Saints and now
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Speaker 1: is in Carolina as their offensive coordinator. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think you saw a lot of concepts. You know,
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Speaker 1: I even made this point NFL vertical pass game concepts
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Speaker 1: and LSU offense double post cross or dag or post
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Speaker 1: in or go h seemed flood eh sale. You know,
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Speaker 1: a ton of NFL concepts, So Burrow's familiar with those.
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Speaker 1: They were in a ton of high low concepts against zone,
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Speaker 1: which everybody in the NFL runs. It's just it's all
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Speaker 1: how you get to these concepts. There's not a thousand
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Speaker 1: route concepts, Dan, it's how you get to them. And
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Speaker 1: you know, the LSU did a really nice job with that.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrows familiar with those. Some people say one year
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Speaker 1: wonder because he made such dramatic improvements statistically, at least
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Speaker 1: from his junior year to his senior year. Should that
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Speaker 1: be something that concerns people? You know, you could argue
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Speaker 1: that it's coaching, which, like I said, I'm a big
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Speaker 1: believer in you'd like to believe that NFL quarterbacks do
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Speaker 1: get coached. That doesn't bother me because he did play
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Speaker 1: the year before. He was not a one year stater.
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Speaker 1: He's a two year stater in the SEC. See the
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Speaker 1: offense the year prior was different, not as conducive to
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Speaker 1: putting up numbers as as offense was in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: But to me, numbers are numbers. When I evaluate a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to isolate the traits, the attribute to the
8:16
Speaker 1: characteristics of the quarterback. Obviously had very good receivers, he
8:20
Speaker 1: had a really good back. They had a solid tight
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Speaker 1: end and Thaddeus Moss, so they had players that gives
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Speaker 1: you numbers, But that should not influence or impact your
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Speaker 1: evaluation of the quarterback because you still see the traits now. I,
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Speaker 1: in the case of full disclosure, I did not see
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Speaker 1: Burrow in the year before on tape. I saw other quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: but I did not get to him last summer, so
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Speaker 1: I only have twenty nineteen tape as my foundations. It's
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Speaker 1: a lot of games. It's a lot of games, a
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Speaker 1: lot of dropbacks, and I watched almost every game, so
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Speaker 1: I saw I don't know how many drop he had
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Speaker 1: five hundred and forty eight drop backs, So of those
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Speaker 1: five hundred and forty eight, I probably saw four hundred,
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Speaker 1: so I felt that that was a good enough number
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Speaker 1: to be able to get a sense of what his
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Speaker 1: traits are. A couple more questions for great co Sell.
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Speaker 1: You've got some Manila envelopes in front of you from
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Speaker 1: the players that you've been studying to this point in
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Speaker 1: the draft process, and I know you've taken a long
9:16
Speaker 1: look at the wide receiver. Everything I hear from people
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Speaker 1: is this is one of the deepest wide receiver drafts ever.
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Speaker 1: You can kurk I do. I do. Although to me,
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Speaker 1: and again this is all based on film study because
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Speaker 1: I don't work for a team, so I'm not interviewing players,
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Speaker 1: and I know that matters in the process. But to me,
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Speaker 1: as far as the receivers, I would look at Jerry
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Speaker 1: Judy from Alabama as clearly the number one wide receiver
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Speaker 1: prospect in this class. So the Bengals have the first
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Speaker 1: pick in the second round, first pick in the third round,
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Speaker 1: although I predict they're going to trade down in the
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Speaker 1: second round to get more picks. You heard it here first,
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Speaker 1: so you don't think they'll draft at thirty three. I don't, okay, now,
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Speaker 1: I know they want more picks. They only have one
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Speaker 1: pick in every round. Obviously they have a lot of
9:56
Speaker 1: holes to fill. They're not going to trade out of
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Speaker 1: number one overall. They want Joe or so. It just
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Speaker 1: seems to me when the first day ends and all
10:05
Speaker 1: these teams see players left on the board that had
10:08
Speaker 1: mid first round grade, somebody is going to offer a
10:12
Speaker 1: nice package for the Bengals to trade down. That's very possible,
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Speaker 1: and it probably makes sense for them to do that.
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Speaker 1: It's a deep receiver class. Depending on who the team is,
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Speaker 1: I mean, and how far they drop from thirty three,
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Speaker 1: they can still get a quality receiver. I'm no good
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Speaker 1: Dan at this. You know, knowing, you know who's gonna
10:30
Speaker 1: be there. You know that that's not my thing. But
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Speaker 1: you can get quality receivers. Now, it comes down to
10:36
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. Because you know, everybody loves lists.
10:39
Speaker 1: I'm not a list guy. Because there's I mean, if
10:42
Speaker 1: you want to take all the six three or six
10:43
Speaker 1: four receivers and put them in one bucket, that's fine,
10:46
Speaker 1: but you can't compare a six three, six four receiver
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Speaker 1: with kJ Hamler from Penn State. That's a pointless comparison.
10:52
Speaker 1: You know, kJ Hamler came in at under five nine
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Speaker 1: and about one hundred and seventy five pounds. You're not
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Speaker 1: comparing him to Michael Pittman at six four to twenty three.
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Speaker 1: So then it comes down to what you're looking for
11:02
Speaker 1: in the context of your offense. And you know, is
11:05
Speaker 1: aj greenback? What's their view of autumn tap? You know, players,
11:08
Speaker 1: how do they see the players that are presently on
11:10
Speaker 1: their roster? Is Tyler Boyd? Is he truly a slot guy?
11:15
Speaker 1: Is that where they want him to be in an
11:16
Speaker 1: ideal world? You know, these are questions they have to
11:19
Speaker 1: determine as they go both into free agency and the draft.
11:22
Speaker 1: I know you thought that John Ross was a good
11:25
Speaker 1: prospect coming out of Washington. What have you thought of
11:28
Speaker 1: his play when healthy? I think he's shown flashes. I
11:32
Speaker 1: think that the health issue, though, is when you can't
11:35
Speaker 1: get around, you've got to be able to play. You've
11:37
Speaker 1: got to be available. And he's not been available because
11:40
Speaker 1: we don't know how he would have progressed if he'd
11:42
Speaker 1: been able to play in games. I mean, has he
11:44
Speaker 1: been in the league three years now? Yes, he missed
11:46
Speaker 1: almost his entire rookie year. So how many do you know?
11:49
Speaker 1: You may not know offhand, but generally how many games
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Speaker 1: has he played in his second year? He played a
11:54
Speaker 1: decent number. Has he played in a full total full
11:59
Speaker 1: sea a number of games yet total, probably, but maybe
12:03
Speaker 1: about seventeen eighteen games in three years, and probably a
12:08
Speaker 1: lot of those games he didn't play full games, correct,
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Speaker 1: So you know, do you this is rhetorical? Do you
12:16
Speaker 1: still believe that he has a chance to be a
12:18
Speaker 1: really good receiver or are you ready to cut bait
12:22
Speaker 1: so to speak? You know, I thought that he was
12:24
Speaker 1: pretty skilled coming out. We know he can run. I
12:26
Speaker 1: thought he showed some route running ability in college. But
12:29
Speaker 1: he's not on the field, so that's you know, unfortunately,
12:33
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Yeah. The sad thing is at the
12:35
Speaker 1: end of three weeks last year, he then led the
12:37
Speaker 1: NFL in receiving yards, right, then he got hurt, right,
12:40
Speaker 1: and there goes another year, right, you know, And it's interesting.
12:43
Speaker 1: I'm very curious and maybe you know the answer to
12:45
Speaker 1: that they're feeling about autumn tate because I remember autumn
12:47
Speaker 1: tape coming out of Florida State. He was a little overweight,
12:51
Speaker 1: but there was something about him I life, you know,
12:53
Speaker 1: So you have to evaluate a receiver for what he years.
12:55
Speaker 1: You can't watch Autumn tap and go, well, he's not
12:57
Speaker 1: a good receiver because he's not fast. Well, yeah, I
12:59
Speaker 1: know he's not fast. He's six five whatever he weighs now,
13:02
Speaker 1: but when he came out he was probably two twenty
13:04
Speaker 1: five maybe, you know, he looked like he slimmed down
13:06
Speaker 1: a little, just slicking at the tape um. You have
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Speaker 1: to evaluate him for what he is, and I think
13:13
Speaker 1: for what he is, he can be a pretty good player. Now,
13:16
Speaker 1: is he Julio Jones? No, he's not Julio Jones. But
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Speaker 1: I think he can be a really solid player. You know,
13:21
Speaker 1: whether you want to call him a number two. Everybody
13:24
Speaker 1: wants to get into these designations of receivers, you know.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I think he's an interesting guy going forward.
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Speaker 1: He's like a really good detached tight end that isn't
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Speaker 1: asked to block. He uses his body, he gets open,
13:39
Speaker 1: he catches everything in his vicinity. He's got a wide
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Speaker 1: catching radius. He can go up and snatch it. No,
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Speaker 1: I think he's you know, you're not You're not playing
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Speaker 1: autumn tape to say Hey, let's go vertical, and let's
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Speaker 1: run deep posts in nine routes and let's go on
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Speaker 1: top of corners. That's not why, That's not what he is.
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Speaker 1: And if you view that as a weakness, then you
13:57
Speaker 1: don't understand the player. You know again, and I guess
14:00
Speaker 1: much comes down to AJ Green. Now, whether he's back
14:02
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati or not, they will franchise tag him if
14:06
Speaker 1: they don't sign him to an extension. So yes, he
14:08
Speaker 1: will be there for at least one more okay, and
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Speaker 1: ideally he can stay healthy because I always loved AJ Green.
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Speaker 1: I know he's fought injuries over the last number of
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Speaker 1: years and he's not a kid anymore. But at his best,
14:19
Speaker 1: you know, he was explosive. I mean, not many guys
14:23
Speaker 1: at his height, and he wasn't heavy, but he was
14:25
Speaker 1: still two hundred and twelve two hundred and thirteen pounds.
14:28
Speaker 1: Not many guys that that size could move like AJ Green.
14:31
Speaker 1: If you're going to have Joe Burrow starting every game
14:34
Speaker 1: as a rookie quarterback, would be nice to have AJ
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Speaker 1: Green as somebody to throw it too. I couldn't agree more.
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Speaker 1: I don't think to me, one of the worst things
14:41
Speaker 1: you want to do well, and obviously you can't fix
14:43
Speaker 1: every hole because their online is an issue, and you know,
14:46
Speaker 1: we haven't discussed that, but it probably doesn't need to
14:47
Speaker 1: be discussed. It's an issue. But the one thing you
14:50
Speaker 1: got to be careful of is you get borrow. You
14:54
Speaker 1: don't want to have a bad, bad online and that's
14:57
Speaker 1: maybe another thing they need to address, you know, with
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Speaker 1: more pet because often you can get offensive lineman second, third,
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Speaker 1: fourth round who can be quality players, but you don't
15:05
Speaker 1: want to have a bad online and you don't want
15:08
Speaker 1: to have no weapons because that's just not a good
15:11
Speaker 1: way to start a career as a quarterback. I could
15:15
Speaker 1: do this all day, but I'm not going to force
15:17
Speaker 1: you to spend a half hour chatting with me. However,
15:20
Speaker 1: here is my hope that the Bengals get good again
15:23
Speaker 1: so that you will be watching them regularly for the
15:25
Speaker 1: matchup show and we will have you on more during
15:28
Speaker 1: the season with Dave Lappaman some of our Bengals radio shows.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Dan, I appreciate it, Thanks so much. Thanks Greg.
15:35
Speaker 1: How great is Greg co Sell. In addition to that conversation,
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Speaker 1: he was kind enough to share his typed out evaluation
15:42
Speaker 1: sheet of Joe Burrow and allowed me to post it
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Speaker 1: on social media. It includes all sorts of great nuggets
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Speaker 1: about burrows strengths and weaknesses, and had the following conclusion.
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Speaker 1: Burrow consistently exhibited the needed traits poise, vision, larity, timing,
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Speaker 1: pocket efficiency, precise ball placement, and second reactionability. Burrow is
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Speaker 1: a high level prospect with a chance to be an
16:10
Speaker 1: outstanding NFL quarterback. All right. Time to move on the
16:15
Speaker 1: Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan and a long conversation he
16:20
Speaker 1: had with reporters who cover the team on a regular basis.
16:24
Speaker 1: I've pulled out nine interesting things he had to say
16:27
Speaker 1: about Joe Burrow in honor of Burrow's uniform number at LSU.
16:32
Speaker 1: And I should point out that I thought that Callaghan
16:35
Speaker 1: was extremely candid in discussing Burrow, considering that he's not
16:39
Speaker 1: a Bengal yet. Coaches in front office execs are often
16:42
Speaker 1: tight lipped leading up to the draft, but Callaghan was
16:46
Speaker 1: anything but. So here's topic number one. As Greg Cosell
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Speaker 1: pointed out, Burrow displays innate feel in the pocket. Is
16:55
Speaker 1: that something that can be taught or does a quarterback
16:58
Speaker 1: either have it or not have it? I think it's
17:01
Speaker 1: one of the things about playing quarterback that is an
17:03
Speaker 1: innate ability. You can you can improve it, you can
17:07
Speaker 1: get better at it, but you definitely can't inject it
17:11
Speaker 1: into somebody. So either they have some feel or they don't.
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Speaker 1: And he's Joe's gotta be in spades. He's got a
17:18
Speaker 1: great natural feel in the pocket. Um, you know, just
17:21
Speaker 1: guys that I've been around, some have really great feel,
17:26
Speaker 1: some have okay feel. And then I thought, you know,
17:29
Speaker 1: you can get better though. There's things you can do
17:31
Speaker 1: to get better. You can improve it, you can drill it,
17:34
Speaker 1: you can do as much as can. But really, at
17:35
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's such a feel based
17:38
Speaker 1: thing for quarterbacks. And the guys that are the best
17:40
Speaker 1: at it, when they keep their eyes down feel and
17:42
Speaker 1: move and slide and find receivers. M those are the
17:45
Speaker 1: guys that you don't need to look at any go odds.
17:48
Speaker 1: That's I can't teach that. It's like teaching somebody to
17:51
Speaker 1: run fast. Like you can improve speed, you can get faster,
17:54
Speaker 1: but either you're naturally faster you're not, you know what
17:57
Speaker 1: I mean. And he's got the natural a building in
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Speaker 1: the pocket. Topic number two in his ten previous seasons
18:04
Speaker 1: as an NFL coach, Callahan has worked with two quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: So where the number one overall pick in the draft,
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford with the Lions and Peyton Manning after he
18:14
Speaker 1: went to the Broncos. Does Borrow share any traits with
18:18
Speaker 1: the number one picks in ninety eight and two thousand
18:21
Speaker 1: and nine. They don't put themselves in that position without
18:25
Speaker 1: being kind of wired the right way. Their preparation habits
18:31
Speaker 1: just Payton and Stafford to pay notoriously the best, one
18:35
Speaker 1: of the best ever when it comes to preparing and
18:38
Speaker 1: Stafford quietly, he's probably right there up with them. They're
18:42
Speaker 1: two really really impressive workers. And then they're talented on top.
18:46
Speaker 1: So you put their talent on top of what they
18:48
Speaker 1: do with the work in the mental part of it,
18:50
Speaker 1: and then you get that you get number one overall type.
18:53
Speaker 1: That's kind of what you hear about this kid. That's
18:55
Speaker 1: that's everything that I've heard that's been out there. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it'll be fun. Unfortunate, it'll be if that's the way
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Speaker 1: it goes, and I get to go for a third
19:04
Speaker 1: number one overall pick a quarterback and it's great. Usually
19:08
Speaker 1: usually means good things. A topic number three. Last year,
19:11
Speaker 1: the Bengals finished thirty if in scoring and twenty sixth
19:14
Speaker 1: then yards gained. The quarterback is one of eleven guys
19:18
Speaker 1: on offense. How much of a difference can he make?
19:22
Speaker 1: But a bit? I mean, I would say that we
19:23
Speaker 1: need improved play account across the board. On offense. You
19:26
Speaker 1: certainly weren't good enough for long stretches of the season,
19:32
Speaker 1: but they can help the production and they raise the level.
19:34
Speaker 1: So you know, let's say you're in a one possession game. Well,
19:38
Speaker 1: the difference between a one possession game sometimes is what
19:41
Speaker 1: was your success right on third down? If you're in
19:43
Speaker 1: the thirty thirty five percent, that's very average, And all
19:47
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you get a guy that can run
19:49
Speaker 1: for three first downs or two first downs in the game,
19:52
Speaker 1: and now you're up in the fifty percent, and I
19:53
Speaker 1: have extended your drives, and now I've extended good chances
19:55
Speaker 1: to fourth points. So I think that if you're if
19:59
Speaker 1: everything's being execu at a better level, at a higher level,
20:02
Speaker 1: you got a much better chance to score points and
20:03
Speaker 1: win games. I think. So it certainly wouldn't fall on
20:06
Speaker 1: one guy. We need to get better in a lot
20:08
Speaker 1: of places. Guys had to play better, from top to
20:11
Speaker 1: from receivers to backs. It's offensive line, The whole thing
20:14
Speaker 1: has to get better. So but when you got a
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Speaker 1: guy that can that can distribute the ball and play
20:19
Speaker 1: really at a at that type of level, you certainly
20:22
Speaker 1: expect to be better on offensive topic Number four. As
20:26
Speaker 1: a junior in twenty eighteen at LSU, Burrow completed fifty
20:30
Speaker 1: eight percent of his passes and through sixteen touchdowns. As
20:35
Speaker 1: a senior, he completed a ridiculous seventy six percent of
20:38
Speaker 1: his passes and through an even more ridiculous sixty touchdown passes.
20:44
Speaker 1: He went from sixteen to sixty. It's been well documented
20:49
Speaker 1: that assistant coach Joe Brady brought concepts from the Saints
20:52
Speaker 1: offense to LSU last year, So how exactly did that
20:56
Speaker 1: enable Burrow's performance to skyrocket installed the very pro style
21:01
Speaker 1: mentality as far as getting guys in space and matching
21:04
Speaker 1: people up. They were in five man protection quite a bit,
21:07
Speaker 1: and they did a really good job of exploiting those
21:10
Speaker 1: people that they had and putting a position to be effective.
21:15
Speaker 1: And sometimes when you look you look at his eighteen tape,
21:17
Speaker 1: they didn't do quite as much of that. It was
21:20
Speaker 1: more just this is how we're going to run the system.
21:22
Speaker 1: And I will say, if you watched the eighteen tape
21:25
Speaker 1: his trajectory as the season gets towards the end, it
21:27
Speaker 1: starts to go like this. You start to see all
21:29
Speaker 1: the things you saw this year, just in a larger
21:33
Speaker 1: scale because it was more game tape of it. But
21:37
Speaker 1: I thought he improved through the end of eighteen, and
21:39
Speaker 1: I think you see him do some things that he
21:41
Speaker 1: didn't do in nineteen. So he's understenter a little more,
21:44
Speaker 1: a little more understand the play action. So there's things
21:47
Speaker 1: that he's got such a variable skill set that I
21:50
Speaker 1: think he's gonna fit however, however you want to put
21:53
Speaker 1: him in an offensive scheme. But I do think that
21:56
Speaker 1: some of what they did and that the scheme in
21:58
Speaker 1: nineteen played the strength of his anticipation and his accuracy.
22:02
Speaker 1: And that leads to an obvious topic Number five. Since
22:05
Speaker 1: Burrow was so prolific an LSU's offense, how does that
22:09
Speaker 1: compare to what the Bengals do. They ran an NFL
22:11
Speaker 1: passing game as far as the drop back passing game goes,
22:15
Speaker 1: So there's not a whole lot of things that that
22:18
Speaker 1: you watch their tape and watch ours and see that
22:21
Speaker 1: there's there's definitely we have very very very many common concepts.
22:26
Speaker 1: So you know, it's the West Coast in nature. Sean
22:30
Speaker 1: Payton is where Joe Brady got a lot of that
22:32
Speaker 1: stuff from in the drop back game, in the empty game,
22:35
Speaker 1: So that's not all that foreign. I mean, there's a
22:39
Speaker 1: lot of things that that are the same. Now, they
22:41
Speaker 1: did a little they did a really nice job and
22:42
Speaker 1: some of the RPO game, and there's some things that
22:45
Speaker 1: they did that we thought were good that we will
22:47
Speaker 1: bull at some point, whether Joe's playing for us or not,
22:50
Speaker 1: we'll probably end up taking just because it was good,
22:53
Speaker 1: good solid scheme. Topic number six. Callahan has watched every
22:57
Speaker 1: snap that Burrow took at LSU. Many of us watch
23:01
Speaker 1: Joe against Alabama and in the College Football Playoff wins
23:05
Speaker 1: over Oklahoma and Clemson, and in those three games he
23:09
Speaker 1: threw fifteen touchdown passes and no interceptions. But were there
23:14
Speaker 1: plays that many of us didn't see that caught Brian
23:18
Speaker 1: Callahan's eye. There's a couple of plays where you see
23:22
Speaker 1: him and the movements so subtle, and he takes just
23:25
Speaker 1: a slight slide in the pocket as he's slidding in it,
23:29
Speaker 1: he makes a really accurate throw on third down. To me,
23:32
Speaker 1: those are the ones that make it really that stand
23:35
Speaker 1: out to me when you're watching just the finer points
23:36
Speaker 1: of everyone sees the big ones. You're right, there's all
23:39
Speaker 1: these crazy scrambles of moving. But it's the ones where
23:41
Speaker 1: he's he slides once, or slides slides right, slides up
23:44
Speaker 1: or pushes up and he makes an off platform throw
23:46
Speaker 1: but the ball puts puts it right in the spot
23:48
Speaker 1: where the guy can catch him. Those are the most
23:51
Speaker 1: impressive to me. Those are the more that's the most
23:53
Speaker 1: translatable skill you see as that happens over and over again.
23:56
Speaker 1: You know, you know, the big plays are the big plays,
23:59
Speaker 1: they're they're great. You hope you have a lot of them.
24:01
Speaker 1: But that's the subtle movements that he does so well
24:04
Speaker 1: and then delivers an accurate throw Topic number seven. As
24:07
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell pointed out, Burrow does not have exceptional arm strength.
24:12
Speaker 1: When Callahan watched the tape, did Burrow's arm appear to
24:16
Speaker 1: be strong enough? There's been nothing on there that says
24:18
Speaker 1: that he can't make any throw you're asking to make.
24:22
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's multiple times where he throws balls
24:24
Speaker 1: to the field to the far sideline where you go, yeah,
24:27
Speaker 1: that's that's more than enough. That's gonna get you everything
24:30
Speaker 1: you need. His deep balls I think got better as
24:32
Speaker 1: the year one on. He had a couple earli in
24:34
Speaker 1: the year where you're like, what's is there enough there?
24:37
Speaker 1: And then I think he puts most of those things
24:40
Speaker 1: to bed when he when he throws some of the
24:41
Speaker 1: balls and he threw there's I have no reservations about
24:44
Speaker 1: his ability to throw the ball. And that leads to
24:46
Speaker 1: a natural follow up for topic number eight, just how
24:50
Speaker 1: important is arm strength for an NFL quarterback? I think
24:54
Speaker 1: you have to have enough. I mean there has there's
24:56
Speaker 1: there is a baseline arm strength, and I think you
24:59
Speaker 1: have to have that. But I think what makes playing
25:02
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL so much different is that the
25:05
Speaker 1: anticipation and the accuracy are so much more important over
25:11
Speaker 1: the long haul of than just pure arms strength. You know,
25:15
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that can really throw it.
25:16
Speaker 1: There's and you know, you look back at the history
25:18
Speaker 1: of guys, there's a lot of guys that will come
25:19
Speaker 1: here and throw and oh boy, that looks great and
25:22
Speaker 1: they're in shorts and they can look pretty, and the
25:24
Speaker 1: law comes out and it goes, it goes far, and
25:26
Speaker 1: it goes fast, and then you look at them playing
25:29
Speaker 1: the game and you just don't see the same thing.
25:30
Speaker 1: So to me, and sometimes it's a little bit like
25:33
Speaker 1: forty times, and there's guys that run really fast, but
25:35
Speaker 1: they don't play fast. There's guys that throw really hard,
25:38
Speaker 1: they don't play well. So you kind of try to
25:41
Speaker 1: factor all those things in. So there's a baseline, certaintly
25:45
Speaker 1: that you have to be able to make with the
25:46
Speaker 1: velocity in your ball, But to me, the accuracy and
25:49
Speaker 1: the anticipation are so much more important than just pure
25:52
Speaker 1: armstreng fine lay topic number nine. The Bengals have missed
25:55
Speaker 1: the playoffs for four straight years and are coming off
25:59
Speaker 1: one of the worst seasons in franchise history. How much
26:03
Speaker 1: can a quarterback drafted number one overall invigorate the entire franchise.
26:09
Speaker 1: Anytime you add a caliber player you're gonna pick at
26:11
Speaker 1: the first overall pick in the draft, no matter what
26:13
Speaker 1: the position, can certainly certainly lift your team. It does
26:18
Speaker 1: provide an excitement. There's an excitement that you're taking a
26:22
Speaker 1: type of player that can really push your franchise forward,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know on the flip side, not such as a quarterback,
26:29
Speaker 1: but we took von Miller in Denver at two overall
26:32
Speaker 1: and that injected as a whole different type of life
26:34
Speaker 1: on our defensive side of the ball. We felt good
26:36
Speaker 1: about offensively where we were. But that lifts the whole thing.
26:40
Speaker 1: It makes the confidence in what's going on that much
26:44
Speaker 1: higher that you're going to get an impact type of player.
26:47
Speaker 1: And really you're picking a top very round, so you
26:49
Speaker 1: should be adding three or four impact type of players
26:52
Speaker 1: that build meant they walk into building, they're helping your team.
26:56
Speaker 1: So I think that's there should be some excitement about that,
26:59
Speaker 1: Like there's no you don't like to be in the
27:03
Speaker 1: spot and hope to never be here again, but you
27:04
Speaker 1: hope that when you are in the spot, you the
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Speaker 1: most of them. So there you have it. In honor
27:09
Speaker 1: of Joe Burrows uniform number at LSU nine, Candid answers
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Speaker 1: about the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback from Bengals offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: Brian Callahan. That's going to do it for this episode
27:21
Speaker 1: of the podcast. Next week we'll hear from NFL draft
27:25
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