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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 Prostrated edition as the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: squander a late lead and lose by a point to
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  Speaker 1: the New York Jets thirty nine to thirty eight. Coming up,
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  Speaker 1: get to the radio replays from Sunday's loss to the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: After scoring a season high thirty three points last week,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco and the Bengals top that by scoring on
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  Speaker 1: six of their first eight drives. First down in goal
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  Speaker 1: inches away from the end zone. Joe Flacco is under
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  Speaker 1: center sample gets right behind him for.
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  Speaker 2: A tush push touchdown Bengals as Joe Flacco runs it
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  Speaker 2: in from inches away and give Cincinnati on nine to
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  Speaker 2: nothing lead.
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  Speaker 1: Pending the extra points second and two from the forty
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  Speaker 1: four of the Jets, the Bengals have a ten to
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  Speaker 1: three lead. Here in the second quarter, Flacco fakes a
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  Speaker 1: toss to the left, bootlegs right, throws it high and deep.
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  Speaker 1: T Higgins catches, have the.
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  Speaker 2: Five runs into the end zone, touchdown Bengals. A beautiful
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  Speaker 2: rainbow downfield by Joe Flacco. Higgins with the catch, He
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  Speaker 2: hands the ball to a spectator and the Bengals have
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  Speaker 2: their second touchdown of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Flaco waits for a shotgun snap, catches the ball's shoulder
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  Speaker 1: high back to throw passes over the middle, Caught on
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  Speaker 1: the run, Chase Brown to the five, fighting for the
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  Speaker 1: goal line.
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  Speaker 2: He's in touchdown Bengals. Flacco accounting for his third touchdown
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  Speaker 2: of the first half. Two throwing, one rushing, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bengals are up by thirteen for the pat coming out,
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  Speaker 2: here's a handoff to samajp Ryan runs up the middle
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  Speaker 2: inside the twenty, racing to the fifteen ten fe Pilon touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Sama jp Ryan and the Bengals push the lead back
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  Speaker 2: to two scores. They're up by fourteen with a pat
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  Speaker 2: coming up a thirty two yard run for samajp Rye.
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  Speaker 2: Second and goal from the one, Flaco and the gun
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  Speaker 2: back at the sixth Chase Brown off his right eight hip.
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  Speaker 2: Flaco hands it off. Chase Brown lowers the patshit into
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  Speaker 2: the end zone, touchdown Bengals.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals were up by ten at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter, by eleven at halftime, and by fifteen
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  Speaker 1: going to the fourth. They were up by fourteen points
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  Speaker 1: with less than eight minutes to go, But after stopping
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  Speaker 1: the Jets on their first two drives of the day,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals defense was only able to force one punt
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  Speaker 1: the remainder of the game, and New York took its
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  Speaker 1: first lead all day with less than two minutes to go.
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  Speaker 1: First and goal from the four fields under center, Breese
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  Speaker 1: Hall behind him. It's a toss sweep to the right.
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  Speaker 1: Breese Hall looking to throw pump fakes throws into the
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  Speaker 1: end zone and it is caught by Mason Taylor for
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  Speaker 1: a tying touchdown and a pat can give the Jets
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  Speaker 1: the lead. Taylor going up and over DJ Turner to
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  Speaker 1: catch that throw from running back Brecee Hall. The Bengals
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  Speaker 1: still had a chance to pull it out, as they
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  Speaker 1: got the ball at their own twenty five with one
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  Speaker 1: forty eight to go. A seven yard pass to Jamar
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  Speaker 1: Chase and a twelve yard run by Chase Brown quickly
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  Speaker 1: moved the ball to the forty four. The Bengals were
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  Speaker 1: roughly twenty yards away from very makeable field goal range
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  Speaker 1: for Evan McPherson, but an incomplete pass to andre Yosi Vash,
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  Speaker 1: a one yard run by samaj p Erin, and an
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  Speaker 1: incomplete pass to Jamar Chase made it fourth and nine
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  Speaker 1: at their own forty five with thirty two seconds to go.
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  Speaker 1: Bigans out wide to the right, Chase out to the left,
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  Speaker 1: Flacco back to throw. The protection is good, he throws
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  Speaker 1: over the middle incomplete intended for Yosi Vash, and it
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  Speaker 1: would have been short of the first down anyway. The
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  Speaker 1: Bengals fail and the Jets are celebrating with twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: seconds to go as the fans begin streaming toward the exits.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets got their first win of the year, thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine to thirty eight, dropping the Bengals to three and five.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Zach Taylor after a bitterly disappointing loss.
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  Speaker 3: Not acceptable humbling for us. Certainly never got a chance
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  Speaker 3: to really break that game open, like like we felt
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  Speaker 3: like we were capable of and you know, two opportunities
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  Speaker 3: there at the end of the game to close it
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  Speaker 3: out on offense and defensively to get guys on the
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  Speaker 3: ground and tackling wasn't good enough. So we're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: look at anything and say anything was good enough after
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  Speaker 3: that loss and uh, humbling, and and we're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to really dig deep to bounce back next week.
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  Speaker 4: Why. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I I wish I had that reason for you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just someone's got to set them make
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  Speaker 3: a play. Someone's got to make a play either way,
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  Speaker 3: just to separate that game for us. Great turnover, get
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  Speaker 3: it on the ground, a third down win, offensively, explosive
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  Speaker 3: play in the game. It just never happened for us.
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  Speaker 3: When the defense started to face a burs feed, you
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's snowballed on that group. Yeah, we just
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  Speaker 3: need somebody to rise up and make a play. Someone
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  Speaker 3: just just hold the ford down, you know. And and
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see enough of that today.
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  Speaker 5: You feel like you've got to kind of improve being
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  Speaker 5: tangibles there and your first situations like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think someone needs to step up and lead the group.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm waiting to see someone step up and
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  Speaker 3: lead the group and and take some accountability over there
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  Speaker 3: and and get this thing going the right way.
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  Speaker 1: From rush defense wise, why do you think they were
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  Speaker 1: able to gild it so much?
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  Speaker 3: They got a lot of momentum. I mean it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: they were a dangerous team that way. That was certainly
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  Speaker 3: a strength of theirs, you know, with their offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: and so again we just we weren't good enough, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many explosives. It felt like, it
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  Speaker 3: felt like there was a decent amount of explosives there, so.
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  Speaker 2: Very better both captain and get capitalized.
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  Speaker 3: And also in draft picks on the defensive line out
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  Speaker 3: disappointing of the pass rush. Yeah, we need we need
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  Speaker 3: somebody to step up and win some one on ones.
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  Speaker 3: Where is loss pat Well, I'm not into ranking losses.
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  Speaker 3: I'm into being frustrated that we lost this game, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And it's uh, it was right there for us to
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  Speaker 3: grab and create some momentum for ourselves and and we
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  Speaker 3: just we missed the opportunity, quite simple. And uh, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta give credit to the Jets man. They we had
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  Speaker 3: them down multiple times, big scores, and and we just
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  Speaker 3: never delivered that knockout below and they just kept hanging
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  Speaker 3: in there, and they made play after play after play
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  Speaker 3: and their confidence rose and so then they were able
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  Speaker 3: to get that win. And we saw this on tape.
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  Speaker 3: We saw the five to one score games, we saw
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  Speaker 3: end of games. They had their opportunities and they just
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  Speaker 3: hadn't been able to capitalize them yet. And here we
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  Speaker 3: are worth the team that they got it against. It's
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate the friends.
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  Speaker 4: Game of things.
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  Speaker 1: What you'll want accomplish the season now, how much.
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  Speaker 3: Wo it's still on the table, It's still a long season.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is gonna be a difficult season for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of teams, and so you just got to
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  Speaker 3: be in the thick of it and give yourself an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: This is one that we had right in our grasp,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the disappointing part about it. We were right there,
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  Speaker 3: we had this and so anytime you got a game
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  Speaker 3: like that that you can do and we got to
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  Speaker 3: get away from us.
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  Speaker 1: Frustrating it certainly was, and while the offense got stopped
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  Speaker 1: on their final two drives, thirty eight points should have
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  Speaker 1: been enough against the team that was averaging about eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and a half going into the game. Joe Flacco is
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  Speaker 1: terrific again, throwing for two hundred and twenty three yards
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  Speaker 1: with two touchdowns, no picks, and a passer rating of
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  Speaker 1: one hundred point five, and after rushing for a season
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  Speaker 1: high one hundred and forty two yards against Pittsburgh last week,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals were even better against the Jets, going for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one yards on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: averaging seven point nine per carry. Here are a few
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  Speaker 1: of Flacco's most interesting comments from his postgame news conference.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, listen, you know this league is most of
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  Speaker 6: the time it's going to come down to those last
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  Speaker 6: you know, that last minute or two and you know,
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  Speaker 6: obviously we had a drive before that two minute where
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  Speaker 6: if we go put points on the board, then it's
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  Speaker 6: a different game, and we just weren't able to do it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we went down and scored, and then they scored,
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  Speaker 6: and we got the ball in our ot mindset was
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  Speaker 6: go down to score again, and we did it. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think there was any I don't think there
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  Speaker 6: was any stepping off the gas. I really don't. Maybe
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  Speaker 6: we just didn't execute. I would assume we just didn't
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  Speaker 6: execute as well as maybe we wanted to on some
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  Speaker 6: of those on those last six, seven eight plays.
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  Speaker 7: You know, how do you keep it from evolving into
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  Speaker 7: we're doing our part and they're not doing theirs.
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  Speaker 6: I think everybody, I think that slips into people's heads,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like it's hard not to, and I think
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  Speaker 6: it more slips into the gut decides heads. Who's who
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  Speaker 6: feels like they're not necessarily, you know, living up to
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  Speaker 6: their standard. But this is a team sport, and we're
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  Speaker 6: all in this together. It's not offense defense special teams.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, at the end of like, they're out there
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  Speaker 6: doing their job, but we are one. We feel this
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  Speaker 6: as one. So I think it's hard to maybe not
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  Speaker 6: be in your head when when maybe you're that side
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  Speaker 6: of the ball for a given stretch. But man, like
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  Speaker 6: I always try to tell people like, I'm not I'm
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  Speaker 6: so consumed with doing my job, and everybody should be
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  Speaker 6: so consumed with doing their job that they're not worried
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  Speaker 6: about what other guys are doing. And how guys you know,
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  Speaker 6: they put the binders on and go do your job.
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  Speaker 6: And I think when everybody can do that, that's when
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  Speaker 6: you that's when you get out of those things. There's
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  Speaker 6: no judging your brothers for not playing up to their expectations,
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  Speaker 6: their support and trying to give those guys confidence, because
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  Speaker 6: that's what it is. A lot of times, you know
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  Speaker 6: you need to play this game with confidence. And if
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  Speaker 6: you lose a little bit of that because you think
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  Speaker 6: your brothers are kind of looking at you like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: come on, like can't you just do this? That's not
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  Speaker 6: a good feeling to have. And hopefully we can all
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  Speaker 6: get across that that's not how we should be feeling
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  Speaker 6: towards our teammates.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, with an opportunity to even the record at four
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  Speaker 1: and four at home against an oh and sevent team,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals let it slip through their fingers. Here's Ted Carris.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feeling collectively as a group offense defense?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe you guys let up emotionally psychologically when you guys
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  Speaker 7: were up thirty one sixteen thirty eight to twenty four.
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  Speaker 7: I know I didn't. I can't speak for everyone else,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't relax till it's triple zeros, and obviously
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  Speaker 7: it's a three hour fight that we lost.
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  Speaker 8: It's a pretty evident, I mean, Zach said postgame he
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  Speaker 8: needs someone to step up. It's pretty clear on defense
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  Speaker 8: the leadership is lacking, and that's something that even the
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  Speaker 8: head coach is searching for. You as the captain year
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  Speaker 8: in a year out, is there any way that you
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  Speaker 8: can help. I know you don't play defense, but you're
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  Speaker 8: one of the biggest leaders on this team, Like, how
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  Speaker 8: how can you help fill that void on defense?
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  Speaker 1: If you can?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I can be a leader for the team.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not out there with the eleven guys on defense,
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  Speaker 7: So you know, I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: Just gonna blame one thing. We can't just blame defensive leadership.
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  Speaker 7: We gotta look at a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let the let the Jets come in and.
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  Speaker 5: Be say horrendous, how do you dig yourself out of this?
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  Speaker 4: Nice? You guys.
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  Speaker 7: You guys love asking me that one same way I
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  Speaker 7: always do. Just coming to work tomorrow, coming to work Wednesday.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a football game to play. So I'm not
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  Speaker 7: gonna get quoted with a cliche this week. So but
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  Speaker 7: we got we got the Bears coming into town, so
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  Speaker 7: let's go.
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  Speaker 3: It seemed like the offensive line, you know, muscles, he
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  Speaker 3: had almost two hundred yards rushing.
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  Speaker 6: She might be had at the Bobe game.
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  Speaker 4: And then what you wanted to do?
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  Speaker 1: It looked like there's a line.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't score forty, So doesn't mean.
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  Speaker 3: This loss change the outlook upon the season for you guys.
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  Speaker 7: I mean maybe you can go through the numbers. I
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  Speaker 7: don't know. We're gonna we got the Bears coming to time,
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  Speaker 7: so we're gonna all summack this one for a night
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  Speaker 7: and uh get ready for a big week.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, jeez, we gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: The defense has given up a bunch of points this year,
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  Speaker 1: but in several games there were extranuating circumstances. Five turnovers
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  Speaker 1: and two defensive scores in the Minnesota game, too many
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  Speaker 1: three and outs in the Denver game, leaving the defense
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  Speaker 1: on the field at high altitude for nearly forty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But there was nothing like that against the Jets. The
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  Speaker 1: defense surrendered five hundred and two yards and it was
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  Speaker 1: nearly an even split. Two point fifty four rushing two
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  Speaker 1: forty eight passing. Here are safe these Jordan's battle and
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  Speaker 1: Geno Stell.
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  Speaker 5: Anytime we give up thirty nine points in the game,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you feel like it's on us, you know,
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  Speaker 5: especially if be loser. You know, even if we want it,
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  Speaker 5: it's still on us. And that's just the you know,
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  Speaker 5: we got the attitude we have to have as a defense,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and we let up thirty nine points. We
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  Speaker 5: should be mad, you know, should be upset. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we should be should have come back hungrier. So hopefully
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  Speaker 5: that's a that's a life lesson. We let it, let
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  Speaker 5: it blow by, and then be want to know next week.
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  Speaker 9: The offense at their job today, we can't say nothing
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  Speaker 9: about that. I mean, they put up almost forty points.
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  Speaker 9: Just so you know, there's a defense. We definitely got
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  Speaker 9: to step up and do better.
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  Speaker 5: That's all this, I mean, that's how the NFL is,
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  Speaker 5: you know. Uh, you know, every team's good. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we gotta come very ready to play, you know, every week.
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously just lost a lot of close games,
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  Speaker 5: and we knew they were a tough team. We knew
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  Speaker 5: we couldn't slouch, and we did that and we got
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  Speaker 5: we lost. So I mean, like I said earlier, it's
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  Speaker 5: twenty four rules. We gotta focus on the Bears.
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  Speaker 9: We all got to step up. It's not one person,
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  Speaker 9: it's not two people. Whoever it is, everyone gotta step up.
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  Speaker 9: Whoever's on the field got to step up. I put
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  Speaker 9: myself in there included, so you know, at the end
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  Speaker 9: of the day, we gotta st get the ball back
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  Speaker 9: to the office, and we all got to do our job.
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  Speaker 9: Whoever your job is on that starr and play whatever
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  Speaker 9: the call is is, do your job.
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  Speaker 1: They'll try to bounce back next Sunday at home against
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  Speaker 1: the Bears, who are four and three after thirty to
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  Speaker 1: sixteen loss to the Baltimore Ravens, who did not have
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. In that game. The Ravens ran for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven yards in the win. The Bengals
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  Speaker 1: game against the Bears. Now time for this week's fun
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  Speaker 1: fact segment, as we get to know the person under
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  Speaker 1: the pads. Time for some fun facts with linebacker Demetrius
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  Speaker 1: Knight from Locust Grove, Georgia, less than an hour away
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  Speaker 1: from Atlanta. Your jersey was retired last week. Describe getting
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  Speaker 1: that news and going home for the ceremony.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was a true blessing just to just to
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  Speaker 10: be in that moment. It's not every day you get
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  Speaker 10: to retire an old high school, high school jersey number.
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  Speaker 10: You kind of think you're for your forguiden sometimes when
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: you when you're you're off and doing other things. But
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  Speaker 10: just having that to be recognized as is nothing but God.
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  Speaker 10: You know, nothing, nothing but Jesus. And that's what we
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: stand on over there as strong Christian schools. So glad
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: to see that they're still doing their thing in all
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: the sports categories. But also good to see that, you know,
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: they'll they'll leave a bit, a little bit of my
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  Speaker 10: legacy to see around. So as my kids continue to grow,
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  Speaker 10: that'll be something I can, you know, rubbing their faces
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  Speaker 10: every once in a while as there has they're grown up.
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  Speaker 1: Did your childhood revolve around sports or were you involved
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  Speaker 1: in a variety of activities.
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  Speaker 4: It was pretty much valled around sports.
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  Speaker 10: But Mom always made sure that we had had, you know,
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  Speaker 10: our minds opened. She didn't want us to just solely
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  Speaker 10: focus on sports, so we were always doing uh, you know,
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  Speaker 10: little plays and musicals and and things like that, making
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  Speaker 10: sure we volunteer doing chorus and things like that. It
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  Speaker 10: wasn't the what was the favorite thing to do, but
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  Speaker 10: uh as you got to get a couple of friends
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  Speaker 10: in there, you end up making.
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  Speaker 4: It funs ended up working out.
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  Speaker 1: Mother knows best. I'm sure it enriched your childhood. According
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  Speaker 1: to your bio Demitrius, you once caused a thirty minute
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  Speaker 1: delay in a basketball game by breaking the rim on
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  Speaker 1: a slam dunk, the rim the backboard. What exactly happened.
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  Speaker 10: It ended up being the rim I went up to
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: try to flush it with two hands, and uh went
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  Speaker 10: in and out and I, I guess I was a
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: little too heavy for that rim. So it ended up
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  Speaker 10: giving way and was bent for good good thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 10: And yeah, they had to go find another rim and
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  Speaker 10: you know, get the crews and nuts and boats to
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  Speaker 10: get it all off. And I think we checked out
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  Speaker 10: pretty much after day. It's a Tuesday night of late
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: nights to it had homework to be done, so it
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: was it was a long night.
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  Speaker 1: You're a linebacker now, but you were a four year
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback in high school. Give me a comp what
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: college or NFL quarterback were you most like.
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  Speaker 10: I was definitely most like Cam Newton. I was trying
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: to emulate him and everything he did. And then started
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: to watch more college guys, started to watch Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 10: just knowing that I was a bigger type of quarterback
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: and knowing that those are bigger quarterbacks, knowing that they
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: can run. But it also, you know, not just being
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: the run, of also being able to, you know, be
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  Speaker 10: a lethal in the past game. So as I continued
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: to grow in my high school career, would you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: put the run first menality behind and you know, passed
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: first and then run.
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  Speaker 1: Second, we're chatting with Demetrius Knight. Were you heavily recruited
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: out of high school?
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  Speaker 10: No, sir, not very much. Tennessee Tech was pretty much
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  Speaker 10: the only offer I had going into my junior year
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: and whatnot. And I would go to a camp where
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: Paul Johnson was still the head coach at Georgia Tech,
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: and he's like, I don't I don't understand how you
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: don't have more offers. I'm going to give you a
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: first one, and that they pretty much sold it for us.
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  Speaker 1: So he made the offer, you chose Georgia Tech, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: then he left before you got there. How difficult was
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that for you?
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  Speaker 10: It was pretty pretty difficult, just because I didn't know
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: what I was going to get. I was already getting
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: comfortable with the former coaching staff and him. Of course,
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: that's that's this line. That's a business decision that he
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: and his family had to make. And I didn't hate
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: him or anything for that. That's just just just the
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: way life goes. So of course I still wanted to
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: be close to my mom and sister, uh not wanted
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: to be too far away from them and to do
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: places we were sharing. So I was like of course,
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: I don't know what the situation will be. Yeah, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: know there's there might be a possibility and now probably
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: won't be quarterback, just because I know it's a new
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: new group coming in. But I at least figured it's
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: it'd still be something on the offense.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 10: That was the complete opposite of the spectrum. But uh
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: and ended up working out for the best.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction when they said, Demetrius, you're a linebacker?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Uh? Pretty much? Uh, world went upside down. Uh. I
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: didn't know what to think.
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: It was kind of unreal, and I just kind of
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: went with it for a couple of weeks, thinking, oh,
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: they're just they'll see I'm no good at this linebacker thing,
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: and moved me back to to the offense side of
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: the ball and that quarterback And uh, now, how how
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: God hasn't played? God has it playing all the time.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: Of course, you had to go through trials and tribulation
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: and perseverance and you end up here in the in
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: the NFL as a linebacker.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: While you were in college, you got married and became
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: a dad. What your wife's name and how did you
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: two meet.
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  Speaker 4: My wife's name is gen C. Gen C Knights, she is.
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: She's also from Lucas Grove and we met. We went
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: on a mission trip together my junior year, her sophomore year.
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  Speaker 10: But the whole funny thing is, even though we spent
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: a week out in Haiti doing the Laura's work, we
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: did not say a word to each other the entire trip.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: I remember sitting at her table with her and her
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: friends and I didn't say a word. And then COVID
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: would happened and send send me home from campus, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: she's finishing up her her senior year, and you know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: two boy people at home that happened to remember each
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: other and the rest of the history.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: After four years at Georgia Tech, you transferred to Charlotte
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and had a breakout season, earning first team All Conference honors.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: How important was that season and getting you to.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Where you are now? Yeah, it was a lot.
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  Speaker 10: It was very good for me just because it showed
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: that I could play the lineback position. Of course, Georgia
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: Tech it was ups and downs, his and lows, and
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: that made me the player who I was going into
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: that situation not knowing who was going to be the coach,
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: because they're getting it, they ever getting a new coach
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: ended up getting coach coach Posy coach Biff and him
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: coming in was was a great start just because everybody
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: got to start from ground zero. There were no politics involved.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: It was come in and you know, earn a spot,
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: and that's that's all I wanted.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: I wanted everybody to be on on ground zero and
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: if someone out out, you know, out plays me for
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: the spot, then they just outplayed me. But I wanted
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: to have a fair shot and made sure that I
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: made every rep count.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: There after great season of Charlotte, you still had one
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: year of eligibility left. This is the ni l era.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: You had a wife and a baby at home. Did
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you look for the best financial offer you could find?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I did?
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: Uh, of course that was there. There were other schools
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: that I was gonna take visits to, but you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: when you when you have a wife, it ends up
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: being you know, happy wife, happy life. And we're already
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: in North Carolina. South Carolina was you know, an hour
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: and some chains away, and you know we've got to
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: pack up a third floor apartment and take it somewhere.
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: And she's like, yeah, I don't, I don't plan on
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: going anywhere far, so uh, South Carolina might be as
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: far as I'm willing to go because that's not bad
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: of a drive. But it's also close to family, so
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: you know, you know, that's that's perfect to me.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Why not. So it ended up bringing out very well
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: for us.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: We learned after the draft that you were a door
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: dash driver in college to bring in a few extra
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: bucks for your family even after games that you played
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in correct.
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: Absolutely, yeah, that's uh not what you hear every every day.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: That not pretty much heard of.
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: I'm sure they're There are probably players at other smaller
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: schools that do the same thing. But being at a
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: school like Charlotte, there were opportunities where got to make
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: them count. And DoorDash delivered that opportunity to make account
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: where you know, we didn't have to scrounge and I
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: didn't have to go apply for different jobs. I had
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: chick Flare or so, which I was definitely trying. I'm
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: applying left and right to you know, deliver for Amazon.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: I couldn't get through with them.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: But.
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: It ended up working out for the best. DoorDash was
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: it was quick and easy and you just get on
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: there and right away you start making deliveries and luckily
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: for me where you know, you live on a college campus.
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: You know, college kids love to eat, so that makes
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: makes it pretty quick and easy to bring in a quick.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I've got a student in college and I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: see those door dash bills, so you're absolutely right about that.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: We're visiting the Demetrius Night. I'm a sucker for an
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: emotional call from a team to a player during the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: NFL Draft, and you got choked up when the Bengals
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: called you. Can you articulate the emotions that you were feeling?
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah, just just everything that my family and I had
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: been through, wife and I had been through and kids,
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: just knowing where we were and how unsure we were
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: going from from Tech to Charlotte and it's like, okay,
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: well you don't really hear about people coming out of
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: Charlotte unless you you know, you're Alex high Smith, who's
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: you know, doing his thing over in Pittsburgh and you know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: I'm I can I make my mark here and ended
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: up doing that, and uh, situations changed, and you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: like when life gets going, it gets going.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: But uh that's.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: When again you learn how to persevere, lean on the fade,
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: lean on the Lord, lean on Jesus, and uh, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: and here we are. It's uh, it's never, it's never
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: the end. It's only just one chapter, finishing and and
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: and onto the next.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You started the season opener in Cleveland. It's your NFL debut.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You made tackles on the first play, second play, sixth play,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: eighth play, ninth play, tenth play, and eleventh play. Seven
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: tackles on your first eleven NFL snaps. Did you realize
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: while it was happening how crazy that was?
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I did not, just at that moment.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: I was once I run back through that tunnel and uh,
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: I taking the end zone and pray one more time.
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: I'm pretty much suited up as a warrior at that
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: point and ready to play. So at that moment, I'm
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: just locked in and you know, putting, putting the ball
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: down anywhere, just making tackles, and you know, I tell
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: my wife or tell my family, you know, when I
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: when I'm out there on that field, I just kind
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: of go into that that that state a state of
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: mind where I'm not the smiley, friendly guy out there anymore.
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: I'm I'm I'm very lucked in, very competitive, and I
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: think you know that's what that's what you need in
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: the linebacker these days.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: All right, a few wild card topics now for Demetrius Knight.
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  Speaker 1: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: Bright Chris Fiano Ronaldo? Uh, soccer fan because of my
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: wife and my kids. But that's my wife's favorite watching
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: his game, he's pretty good. It's between him and you
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: know line on MESSI those guys getting they can get
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: you up on your fee, and of course it's always
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: righty at those games, so definite. Definitely those guys who
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: you know, make a lot of money doing it, So
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: definitely those guys.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Have you checked out an FC Cincinnati match yet?
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: We get them on TV, so we're on TV. We
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: always tune in.
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: We haven't got to go to one yet just because
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: of the busy schedule, but if we can get around
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: to them, we definitely plan on being there.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: You shared with me that you hope to be a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: movie producer someday. How long have you been interested in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the making of movies.
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: I've been interested in that since I was at Georgia Tech.
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: That's that kind of supports is why I got the
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: degree that I got there. Just so once football is done,
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: you know, I won't be one of those guys just
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: lingering around not knowing what I want to do. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: know once football is done, that's that's exactly what I
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: want to do. And no matter what that has to
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: start from, I have to put together movie sets first
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: and work my way up to that road. I'll do
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: it just because I believe all that's fun. It all
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: works together, just like football all works together. Of guys
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: doing there, they're one eleven. It's the same thing with
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: movie producing to make you know, a masterpiece essentially.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: All right, final fun fact for Demetrius Knight, and this
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: living or deceased, who would that person be?
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: I had to be Jesus himself. I'd love to be
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: a fly on the wall just to hear him speak,
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: and you know, just to be in the room and
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: be in the areas watching them do what he does,
• 28:31
  Speaker 10: you know, washing them do the the miracles that only
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: he can do. That that would that would have to
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: be number one. And then if I, if I had to,
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: number two had to be Noah when you know he
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: told told them to build the arc, because I can't
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: imagine He's all right, I'll build a big old boat,
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: and you know, just to ask him about how did
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: he persevere, you know, making making a big old boat
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: going through adversity being laughed at by people around saying oh,
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: it's never run to rain and then it until it happens.
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: So uh, they definitely have to be Jesus and a
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: good old.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: No excellent answers. I appreciate your time, best of Fleck
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the rest of the year.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, appreciate you.
• 29:07
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