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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: The Dream.
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  Speaker 2: Dream Dream Dream addition, as the Bengals still have a
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  Speaker 2: shot at going to the playoffs after a wild and
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  Speaker 2: wacky overtime win over the Denver Broncos thirty to twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up radio replays, locker room comments and postgame analysis
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  Speaker 2: from Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get to know rookie tight end Cam Grandy. The
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  Speaker 2: greatest thing since Big Willie being named a Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame finalist again. The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced
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  Speaker 2: this year's fifteen Modern Era finalists on Saturday, and for
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  Speaker 2: the fourth straight year, the list includes former Bengals offensive
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  Speaker 2: lineman Willie Anderson. The selection committee may elect up to
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  Speaker 2: five Modern Era players in Willie is among three offensive
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  Speaker 2: linemen on the list. Here's hoping this is the year
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  Speaker 2: he joins Bengals legends Anthony Munoz and Ken Riley in Canton.
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  Speaker 2: This year's class will be announced during Super Bowl Week
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  Speaker 2: in early February. Now time for the radio replays from
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  Speaker 2: Saturday's thrilling win over Denver. It is three days after
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  Speaker 2: Christmas and Bengals fans find themselves. Quote Lloyd Christmas from
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  Speaker 2: the cinema classic Dumb and Dumber, who could have been
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Bengals playoff hopes when he said, so,
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  Speaker 2: you're telling me there's a chance this will be a
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  Speaker 2: thirty yard field goal try from straight away. Will Lutts
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  Speaker 2: having an excellent year. He's twenty nine out of thirty
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  Speaker 2: two ninety percent.
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  Speaker 1: The punter Dixon is the holder.
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  Speaker 2: The right footed Gick splits the uprights and the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: take of three nothing leads. Now Higgins motions to the left.
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  Speaker 2: Burrow catches a shoulder high snap throws by T Higgins
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  Speaker 2: touchdown Bengals, and that is the Big four to roh
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  Speaker 2: for Joe Burrow as he becomes the eleventh quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: NFL history to throw forty touchdown passes in a single season.
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  Speaker 2: This will be a twenty two yard field goal attempt
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  Speaker 2: for cade York from the left hash mark.
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  Speaker 1: He is four for five.
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  Speaker 2: As a Bengal, including a fifty nine yarder last week.
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  Speaker 2: The placement the right kick, yes, Sir kde York drills
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  Speaker 2: it and the Bengals have taken a ten to three lead.
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  Speaker 2: Second down in goal from the six, Nicks in the gun.
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  Speaker 2: St May has checked in and running back three receivers left,
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  Speaker 2: Sutton out to the right. S Tome goes in motion
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  Speaker 2: out to the right. Nicks has the ball, floats it
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  Speaker 2: into the end zone. Sutton wide open, touchdown. Denver third
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  Speaker 2: down and thirteen. The Bengals at their own forty five.
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  Speaker 2: Bur with a deep drop, moves up in the pocket,
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  Speaker 2: takes off and runs.
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  Speaker 1: He's at the fifty forty five forty He's.
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  Speaker 2: Got the first down, doesn't go into a feet first
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  Speaker 2: slide and runs to the Denver thirty six before PJ.
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  Speaker 1: Locke brings him down fourth down and two.
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  Speaker 2: The Bengals have been stopped on fourth down on two occasions,
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  Speaker 2: including in the red zone. Burrow catches the shotgun snap
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  Speaker 2: his pass cop of the middle. Chase Brown runs for
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  Speaker 2: the first down inside the twenty hand down to the
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  Speaker 2: seventeen of Denver. Burrow catches the shotgun snap looking floating
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  Speaker 2: into the end zone in Higgins come the back right corner.
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  Speaker 2: T Higgins has it for the Bengals. Touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I want a throw from Joe Burrow, perfect trajectory and
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  Speaker 2: precision into the hands of t Higgins.
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  Speaker 1: Have the back right pylon and moss.
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  Speaker 3: You just got mossed.
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  Speaker 2: J two Fella will check in as the Bengals will
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  Speaker 2: go with five defensive linemen to try to shut down
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  Speaker 2: this run game. Es to May is the tailback for Denver.
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  Speaker 2: First and ten at the forty nine for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: Nicks fakes a handoff, begins rolling right, sets up to
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  Speaker 2: throw deep fires down the middle of the field. Mims
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  Speaker 2: has the Bengals beat and catches it in the end
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  Speaker 2: zone for the long touchdown fifty one yards. As he
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  Speaker 2: gets behind Battle and Stone for the TV three receivers
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  Speaker 2: out to the right one out to the left. Nicks
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  Speaker 2: catches the shotgun snap begins rolling right, throws down field,
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  Speaker 2: intercept it at.
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  Speaker 1: The four yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Germaine Pratt back on his feet, he gets tackled.
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  Speaker 1: At the forty one.
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  Speaker 2: Germaine Pratt with a takeaway and the Bengals have the
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  Speaker 2: ball with two thirty to go.
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  Speaker 3: Jermaine Pratt. It's all about the.
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  Speaker 4: Ball and Jermaine Pratt comes up with a monster play
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  Speaker 4: right there too.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty to go in a seventeen all tie.
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  Speaker 2: Burrow waiting for the shotgun snap he has the ball,
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  Speaker 2: drops back, begins.
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  Speaker 1: Moving up the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 2: He throws caught Tamar Chase is the thirty five thirty
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  Speaker 2: the twenty five and brought down around the twenty two
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  Speaker 2: yard line by McMillan. Just like that, the Bengals rnfield
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  Speaker 2: goal rang Sherbert in a running back second in goal
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  Speaker 2: from the one. Lee is in as a sixth offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 2: The game is tied. The Bengals line up in a
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  Speaker 2: push push. Burrow holds onto the ball gets shoved from behind.
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  Speaker 2: No touchdown indication yet there It is a touchdown for
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati with one twenty four to go, Choe Burrow heading
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  Speaker 2: toward the back of the end zone to celebrate with
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  Speaker 2: his offensive line teammates.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow doing the gritty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's great, that is great.
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  Speaker 2: And it was good. What can't the guy do? He
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  Speaker 2: even does a perfect gritty. The ball is at the
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  Speaker 2: twenty five yard line, fourteen seconds left. Cincinnati leads twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The Broncos are out of timeouts.
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  Speaker 2: Rookie cornerback bow Nicks will line up in the shotgun
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  Speaker 2: to two y two formation. His full back is in
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  Speaker 2: the backfield with him in all likelihood to block. Nicks
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  Speaker 2: catches the shotgun snap, retreats, being.
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  Speaker 1: Chased, throws it off his back foot.
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  Speaker 2: Get into the end zone, and it is pots for
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  Speaker 2: a Denver touchdown with eight seconds to go, Mims with
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  Speaker 2: the catch as Nicks just floated it up there for
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  Speaker 2: the score. First down and fifteen now at the forty
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  Speaker 2: one of Denver tied in ot Burrow ready for the
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  Speaker 2: shotgun snap.
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  Speaker 1: Joe catches looking.
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  Speaker 2: Throwing, caught him in the middle, t Higgins to the
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  Speaker 2: twenty five and tackled at the twenty two yard line.
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  Speaker 2: The Bengals now well within the field goal range of
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  Speaker 2: cade York with four to oh three left in ot.
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  Speaker 2: This will be a thirty three yard attempt for twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old cade Yorke trying to be the overtime
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  Speaker 2: hero for Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 4: He made one from twenty two yards in regulation. How
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  Speaker 4: about finishing it in overtime?
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  Speaker 1: Adam might as well snap?
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Rico will hold the snap, the placement, the right
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  Speaker 2: footed kick, It.
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  Speaker 1: Is up and hits the left up right and it's
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  Speaker 1: no good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, cade York missus in ot and with two forty
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  Speaker 2: three to go, the Broncos get the ball second and
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  Speaker 2: ten from the thirty five of Denver Burroke catches the
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  Speaker 2: shotgun snap, Joe throwing it deep down the sault line.
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  Speaker 2: T Higgins lunging for the ball. He's got it, got
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  Speaker 2: it inside the fives.
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  Speaker 1: Want to throw?
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  Speaker 2: Wanna catch T Higgins at the three yard line, beating
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Jones. An incredible grab by T Higgins.
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  Speaker 3: Boo did he get both feet down?
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  Speaker 2: One ten left in overtime, the Bengals trying to win
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  Speaker 2: it from the three yard line of Denver Burrow looking
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  Speaker 2: to throw his pass. It is.
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  Speaker 1: My T Higgins touchdown. It's Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: And the final playoff spot in the AFC will not
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  Speaker 2: be decided until the final week of the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: The Cincinnati Bengals are still alive as Joe Burrow hits
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  Speaker 2: t Higgins for a game winning touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: Damn, that's three touchdown passes over three hundred yards passing.
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  Speaker 3: His streak is still alive.
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  Speaker 4: Two hundred and fifty or more yards passing, three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: Are more for eight straight games.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you already had the NFL record, He's continuing
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  Speaker 4: to build on it. This is a magical season. Joe Burrow,
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  Speaker 4: Jamar Chase and Gee Piggins. What a threesome.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Burrow throws for four hundred and twelve yards, three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: no picks in a passer rating of.
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  Speaker 1: One twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: He is up to forty two touchdown passes this year.
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  Speaker 2: There's only been twenty instances in NFL history where quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: have thrown forty or more touchdown passes in a single year,
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  Speaker 2: and Joe's got forty two with at least one game
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  Speaker 2: to go, one game left in the regular season, and
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  Speaker 2: who knows, if everything falls just right, maybe, just maybe,
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals will head to Buffalo for a first round
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  Speaker 2: playoff game. The final score in overtime Cincinnati thirty, Denver
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. So after being zero to three and four
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  Speaker 2: and eight, the Bengals are eight to eight with one
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  Speaker 2: game left and will make the playoffs if the following
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  Speaker 2: things happen. One they beat Pittsburgh on the road next week.
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  Speaker 2: Two the Broncos lose at home to Kansas City. Three
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  Speaker 2: the Dolphins lose at least one of their final two games,
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  Speaker 2: either at Cleveland or at the Jets. And four the
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  Speaker 2: Colts lose at least one of their final two games,
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  Speaker 2: either at the Giants or at home against Jacksonville. Keep
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  Speaker 2: in mind the Dolphins and Colts both have injured starting quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go inside the Bengals locker room and start
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  Speaker 2: with Joe Burrow, who spoke to Dave Lapham after the game.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, all right for the game, thirty twelve yards,
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  Speaker 4: three tds, all the t Higgins. Your streak's alive during
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  Speaker 4: fifty yards and more, three touchdowns, more eight games in
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  Speaker 4: a row. Now you know over time you're a cool
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  Speaker 4: seven for eight for ninety seven yards in the touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: What the hell? What what did you see? What were
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  Speaker 4: you doing out there?
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  Speaker 3: What were you looking at I thought I was in
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  Speaker 3: a groove.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I started slow, missed a couple throws early. I was
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  Speaker 6: disappointed in that. But we found our groove late second,
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  Speaker 6: late first half. We had tea is unbelievable. All my
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  Speaker 6: weapons stepped up big in every single one on one situation.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 6: That was a master class there for about two quarters,
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  Speaker 6: two and a half quarters there. So that was fun.
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  Speaker 4: What does you say about the grid of this football team?
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  Speaker 4: The field goal hits the left up right, defense says, ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we got you. We're gonna get you. The football back
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  Speaker 4: they played it really, I mean it was a good
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  Speaker 4: football game by the defense stepped up multiple times. But
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  Speaker 4: when the defense stepped up, you guys delivered. Man.
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  Speaker 3: It was deep definition of comparity football.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's what we've been missing this year. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we were started slow, defense picked us up, defense needed us,
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  Speaker 6: and we stepped up big. That's that's what good teams do.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we got one week to put ourselves in
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  Speaker 6: position to get in and you know, I'm focused on that.
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  Speaker 4: Sir Tan, you know he was he was basically he
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  Speaker 4: he kind of traveled with with Jamar Sum. They were
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  Speaker 4: traveling with ge some to a little bit. So you're
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  Speaker 4: in a lot of travelers out there. Uh did you
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  Speaker 4: expect that? I mean, did you have to go to
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  Speaker 4: like a plan D or a C in your head.
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  Speaker 6: They threw a lot of different defenses at us. They
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  Speaker 6: pressured us, they played coverage, they they showed pressure looks.
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  Speaker 6: I thought they had a good plan on defense and
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  Speaker 6: made it tough on us. But uh, you know that's
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  Speaker 6: how we like to play. You throw a bunch of
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  Speaker 6: defense at us, we're gonna We're gonna make you pay.
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  Speaker 4: I was a fun woman this game. If they win,
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  Speaker 4: they're in. Well they didn't win, but they still make
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  Speaker 4: it in. If you lose, though, it's over. Now you
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  Speaker 4: get to go to Pittsburgh and play the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows, I mean tomorrow. I know everybody's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: glued to a bunch of different games. See how things
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  Speaker 4: unfold there. But what what is it going to be
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  Speaker 4: like to go to Pittsburgh and play the Pittsburgh Steelers
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  Speaker 4: there with potentially an opportunity still.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll be ready for it. You know, we know them,
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  Speaker 6: they know us. We know what kind of game it
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  Speaker 6: was last time. So you know, I'm gonna prepare myself.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna pair our guys to get in a shootout
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  Speaker 6: and go win it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about Joe's targets. Jamar Chase had nine
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  Speaker 2: catches for one hundred and two yards, strengthening his bid
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  Speaker 2: to win the wide receiver's triple crown with games still
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  Speaker 2: to be played in Week seventeen. Jamar's one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventeen catches, a new Bengals record, leads the pack by thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: His oney six hundred and twelve yards, another Bengals record,
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  Speaker 2: leads by two hundred and twenty five, and his sixteen
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  Speaker 2: touchdown catches that's one short of a Bengals record, leads
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  Speaker 2: the league by four. But Jamar's nine catches against the Broncos,
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  Speaker 2: we're only third best on the team. Mikeasicki had ten
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  Speaker 2: to tie his career high for eighty six yards, and
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  Speaker 2: t Higgins had eleven catches on twelve targets for one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty one yards and three touchdowns the first
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  Speaker 2: three TD game of his career. Here's three TDT with
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  Speaker 2: Lap After the game.
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  Speaker 4: What are your first thoughts, I mean, as you try
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  Speaker 4: to collect yourself here in the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: What a hell of a day. What are your thoughts? Man?
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  Speaker 7: It was just, you know, obviously a good game. No
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  Speaker 7: shout out to Joe. I have none of that without
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  Speaker 7: him in old line, you know what I mean. But man,
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  Speaker 7: as a you know, it's a great game by me,
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  Speaker 7: But you know, as a collective hole we all played.
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  Speaker 3: Got a hell of a game.
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  Speaker 4: So Joe Streak is alive. Two hundred and fifty yards
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  Speaker 4: passing more, three touchdowns more, eight straight games.
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  Speaker 8: He's done that.
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  Speaker 4: You're the guy though, you have all three of the
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  Speaker 4: touchdown catcher. Take us through the touchdown catcher. What do
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  Speaker 4: you remember about each one of those?
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  Speaker 7: The first one, you know, we knew the levers they
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  Speaker 7: was gonna give us.
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  Speaker 3: It was easy slant.
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  Speaker 7: Second one was you know, he gave me a chance
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  Speaker 7: to jump ball, you know, lay hands right there.
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  Speaker 3: And then the last one, man, we just put the ball.
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  Speaker 3: He put the ball in the right place for me.
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  Speaker 5: All the way.
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  Speaker 4: I can catch youself, eleven catchers. When you when you
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  Speaker 4: went into this football game, when you were seeing how
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  Speaker 4: they were covering on the back end, what they had
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  Speaker 4: decided to do, did you think, man, this could be
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  Speaker 4: a this could be a night for me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Man, you know we've seen the type of covers that
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  Speaker 7: was giving us. It was a lot of one high,
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  Speaker 7: a lot of man, old man. So that's where we
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  Speaker 7: shove at, you know what I'm saying. And you know,
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  Speaker 7: Joe was able to, you know, put the ball in
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  Speaker 7: perfect placements for me and I was able to make
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  Speaker 7: a play on it.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty nine or forty nine, four hundred and twelve yards
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  Speaker 4: and three touchdowns. In overtime he was seven for eight
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  Speaker 4: ninety seven yards and a touchdown pass to you. I mean,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: what's like playing with number nine?
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  Speaker 3: Man, It's amazing. You don't get no better than that.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he's a he's an MVP quarterback. He's he's
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  Speaker 7: one of the best quarterbacks in the league. And you
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  Speaker 7: know it shows, man, Eve been showing it all year
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  Speaker 7: and you know you're gonna keep it going.
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  Speaker 4: So we talk about complimentary football, you know, uh, the
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  Speaker 4: offense drives field goal hits, the upright, defense gets the
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  Speaker 4: ball right back to the offense, the offense takes the end.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of what did the show about? This football
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  Speaker 4: team that never quit in this football game?
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  Speaker 3: It's the grit. We got grit.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 7: And I was tough with mister field goal defense. Thought
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  Speaker 7: we was you know, they thought they were the game
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  Speaker 7: was over, always gonna win it. But man, they came
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  Speaker 7: back out there, stepped up big, you know, like they've
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  Speaker 7: been doing a whole game.
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  Speaker 3: They stepped up big, and you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, I got to stop for us, and we was
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  Speaker 7: able to go back down there and finish it.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people think that that secondary is maybe
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  Speaker 4: the best in football. Uh And you guys, you guys
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  Speaker 4: sliced them and diced them and you ripped them up.
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  Speaker 4: How good is this offense?
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  Speaker 7: We are who we are, We've been who we are
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  Speaker 7: all year.
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  Speaker 3: And we're gonna continue to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Mike is shicky. How big is a factories He's supporting you.
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  Speaker 4: Mike is a baller man.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he come up big for us a lot,
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  Speaker 7: a lot then more people, a lot than most people think.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, shout out to Mike Man, Proud of him,
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  Speaker 7: you know, great teammate, great, great great man.
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  Speaker 9: Man.
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  Speaker 7: Just glad he's on our team.
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  Speaker 2: A thirty to twenty four win mark the eighth time
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals have scored thirty or more points in a
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  Speaker 2: game this season. That's half of their games. They're averaging
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight point three, and if the Bengals score twenty
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  Speaker 2: four or more points next week, they'll set a new
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  Speaker 2: team record for highest scoring average in a season. The
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: eighty eight Super Bowl team averaged exactly twenty eight a game. Now,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: let's head back inside the locker room, cause I spent
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: a few minutes with Orlando Brown Junior. Orlando, was that
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: the craziest game you've played in in your life?
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's up there for me, man, I've been
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: a part of a lot of crazy football games. To
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: be honest with you, I mean, that's that's in my
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: top three just in terms of off the top of
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: my doing what I can remember. Man, I mean, so
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: special to be able to sit out with these group
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: of men, this organization, this whole building, man, and go
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: out there and literally fight for our lives, you know.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: I mean it's one of the better parts about football.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: You don't earn any stripes in this from pretending.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: And you know, I think every single day, Man, we
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: got guys that come in here that work the tail off,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: that focus on the task at hand, and most importantly,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: live in the moment. And when you got guys that
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: live in the moment. You can score a touchdown and
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: think you won the game, come to the sideline, miss
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: a field goal, go to overtime and whatever happened, miss
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: a field goal, and go still go win the game, man.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: And that's the character of our locker room, the resiliency,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: the type of man that we've got in here. Man,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, this is what makes it special. So hopefully
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: everything takes care of itself. We handle business. Next week
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: we get opportunity in a dance that this field.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Goal could have been very deflating, but the defense rows up,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: got to three and out, got you the ball right
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: back and obviously we know what happened after that. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: think that shows a lot of resiliency from everybody on the.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Team for sure.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: We got guys that want to win and guys that
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: love the game of football. I mean everything, man, it's
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: just God's grace, you know. That's care of himself, man,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: and we handle business.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: It's very special.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: I'm very thankful to be a part of it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: You needed to win all four to get into this
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: position where the final game of the regular season is
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: now extremely meaningful. Does the playoff possibility seem more realistic now.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I mean honestly, for us, even when we
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: were down, even when we didn't have a I guess
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: a so called winning record. I don't even know who
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: we are, to be real with you, but you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: we got a ton of faith in this locker room man,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: in each other most importantly, and everything else is gonna
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: take care of itself.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Joe Burrows up to forty two touchdown passes. Jamar Chase
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: is still on track to win the wide receiver triple crown.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: T Higgins was incredible today. What's it been like for
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you to be their teammate and part of an offense
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that's doing those kinds of things.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: It's been a special man, It's been really special man.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: I'm just it's crazy to see him come in on
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: a daily and take care of business. I mean, this
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: is who he is. This is who he's always been, man.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: So I got a ton of respect for him.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Now, let's hear Zach Taylor had to say as he
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: talked to Dave Lapham after the game.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: All right, coach, what's your heart rate like right now?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Do you think it's pretty calm?
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: You know, you get through it and there's a lot
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: to digest. Just proud of our guys. They stepped up
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: at key moments and made plays for us, and and
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: allwed us to finish that game the right way.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, this game basically was a playoff game.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: They win, they're in. You lose, you're not. I mean
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: you're out. They could still be in the sokult you guys,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I mean to win that football game the way you did.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Ball hits the upright on a very makeable field goal.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: The defense they don't have their dobbers down. I mean
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: that we're going to get the ball back to the offense.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: What about the continenty football that took place after that adversity.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: I was saying it, different units picked each other up,
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: you know, and and in over time we need the
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: defense to pick up the offense after two drives where
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: we came up short, and I was really proud of
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: them doing that, and then of offense finished the job.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Great to see. So Joe's thirty nine for forty nine.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: He had a few drops. I mean, I think you
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: could have even had a four hundred and twelve yard
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: street touchdowns. His streaks alive two hundred and fifty yards
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: and more, three touchdowns and more he's building on his
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: own record. He's got eight games now, he's the only
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: guy in the Herestony NFL that did it seven games
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: in a row. Now he's got eight. What can you
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: say about this guy in his effort?
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: He's special. He's special, and the guys around him are special,
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: you know. And I think he'd be the first to
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: tell you that he's got a great supporting cast that
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: helps him. But to do it that many games in
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: a row means you're you're the top, You're you're the best.
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: And proud of the way he played, probably the way
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: hung in there. It took some hits today and that's
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: that's the price to do a business the way we're
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: going to play football today, and he stepped up and
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: toughed it out.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: They had a traveler on Jamar, they had a traveler
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: on Tea. I mean they were traveling everybody out there
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: a little bit. Did they do anything different in terms
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: of coverage or pressure packages or what's the stuff you'd seen?
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: There's not a whole lot of different we haven't seen
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: at this point. You know, we've seen everybody try everything
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: to slow us down and still able to four hundred.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: Proud of where our guys handle that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: They got a tough, low red zone defense that makes
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: it challenging, but our guys stepped up when it matter.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: You know, you're going into Pittsburgh. That's a tough place
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: to play, but you're Joe's within I don't know, three
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: hundred and odd yards is getting five thousand yards passing,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: and he's looking at between forty five and fifty touchdowns.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, those kind of numbers are mind boggling in
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: the National Football League.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: We're probably gonna need them all next week, you know.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: So we got to play great, great in all three
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: phases and we go up there, I'm just gonna be
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: bad weather. You know, they're gonna they're gonna be pissed off.
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: We're gonna be ready to roll and it'll be a
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: great game.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: So first thing that comes to mind as you're thinking
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: about the Pittsburgh stw is I mean you have a
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: short week and you respond, You have extra time to
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: try to respond and get ready get ready for the
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: for the Steelers. What are your first thoughts?
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Take a deep breath, and then put a great plan together.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: You know, that's it. We get to potentially an extra day,
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: which we'll utilize. Our guys will be ready, you know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: so we're excited for the opportunity.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Since Lap mentioned it, Joe Burrow needs three hundred and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: fifty nine passing yards against the Steelers to become the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: tenth quarterback in NFL history to throw for five thousand
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: or more yards in a season. His four six hundred
• 23:13
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  Speaker 2: the radio guys recap Lap for all intents and purposes.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: The Bengals have been in playoff mode now for four weeks.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: They've needed to win each of their last four to
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: make next week important.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: They've done it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: They've even their record at eight and eight, and we've
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: got a very exciting final week of the season to
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: look forward to.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I get a lot of respect for him. I mean,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: they showed a lot of grit, a lot of determination.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: When the ball hit the upright on the field goal
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: attempt to left upright, the defense could have very easily said, man,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: you know, chin on chest, Arburt down. They hit the
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: ball right back to the offense, and the offense said, hey,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: thank you, we're going to do something with this. That
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: complementary football at the most opportune time to have complementary
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: football was extraordinary in that football game. And I mean
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: the Denver Broncos fourth in the NFL and points allowed,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: the Bengals hang thirty on anybody, you know, I know
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: it's overtime. You know they had twenty three in regulation.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Denver doesn't give up those kind of points. They they
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: allow less than eighteen points a game. Coming in. This
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: offensive football team is a juggernaut. I don't care what
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: defense you're playing against. Number nine, number one, number five,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: and number thirty, they're all going to hurt you. And
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you can't take them all away. And you know they
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: they pay a lot of attention to Jamar and te
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: goes off for eleven catches over on hundred thirty yards
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: and three touchdowns. Joe Burrow stays keeps his one and
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: only ever to do it turn in fifty yards, passing
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: them more now in eight straight games, three touchdowns and
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: more in eight straight games, and he had one taken
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: back that Yosi had. I mean, this football team, it
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: is an offensive machine.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: It really is.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I just can't say enough about it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Dan.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: They ran twenty four more snaffs than Denver did. They
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: had the ball for basically fifteen minutes more. They had
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: the ball for a quarter. They had the ball forty
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: minutes fifty six seconds counting overtime to twenty six minutes
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: and fifty seven seconds. I mean, it was unbelievable. And
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: the reason that they didn't win in regulation, of course,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: the two forced downstaffs were they were brutal.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I want to pick up on one of the first
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: points you just made. If you go back to the
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: overtime game against Baltimore, Evan McPherson misses the fifty plus
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: field goal that would have won the game. On the
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: very next play, Rick Henry runs at fifty plus and
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: sets up Baltimore's game winning field goal. That was an
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: instance where it felt like they were so deflated that
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: you know, just that split second difference between getting a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: guy down and letting him go for a big run
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: occurred in this case, as you pointed out, no Chin's down,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: all right, you missed the field goal.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: We still got a chance to win if we can
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: get the ball back for.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Joe and nothing against York. But fortunately didn't have to
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: go back to him. You know, they just they end up.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, the plays that Tea was making, I mean
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: it's you know, Joe's like, I'm just going to give
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: give him an opportunity. He's six 'y four. You know,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: he makes contested catches all the time. You know in
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: some plays he was limping and gimping a little bit
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: coming off the football field, went right back in the
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: football game and gave everything he had. It's just, you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: these guys have a real tight bond. It's obvious they
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: think a lot of each other. The coaches have done
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: a great job of not getting gving up on the
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: football team. The football team's done a good job and
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: not giving up on the coaches. And you know who knows.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, stranger things have happened. Has to be very strange,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: but they've put themselves in position to win four in
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: a row. You know, at this juncture is you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: it's pretty special.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: As you know, I grew up near Buffalo when I
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: was a kid. OJ Simpson ran for two thousand and
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: three yards in a fourteen game season, and I'll never
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: forget what the Buffalo announcer said in the final game
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of that year. He said, it's been our privilege to
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: watch Oj Simpson run this year. That's how I feel
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: for us in describing Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase T. Higgins
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and others in this incredible offensive season.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: This is a defensive football team that you know on
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: the back end has got really good players and they
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: can put pressure on you up front. I mean they've
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: they've got multiple guys. They came into this football game
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: with five different guys with five saxomore Nobody in the
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: NFL had that. I mean, they can they can win
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: from all different spots. And Joe so the defensive coordinator,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: brings a lot of people from all kinds of spots.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: He gets a lot of people involved. And even with
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: all that said, and Joe said, I talked to him
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: after the game a little bit in the locker room
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: and he said, they're running a lot of different stuff.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: We had answers for it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: He is just so.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Intelligent man, and he never's rattled, you know, he just
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: it is incredible, incredible to watch this guy. You know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: it's like watching a Formula one racer, you know, going
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: gazillion miles an hour and he's just like his blood
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: pressure is like way down, you know. And those kind
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: of people, I mean, when the pressure's on to have
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: their heart rate go down like it seems to with Joe,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: that's rare. That's the ability that doesn't happen very often.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: So several weeks ago, kind of out of nowhere, Joe
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Burrow in a postgame news conference, expressed confidence that t
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Higgins would be back next year, and the following week,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: when asked about it, he's described it as a need
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: for the Bengals to try to bring Tea back next year.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Tea's performance today certainly illustrated how valuable he is to
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: this team.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll happen or not.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: You know, another team might make a crazy offer that
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the Bengals just can't match. But when he is on
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: this team and makes it difficult for the opposing team
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: to devote all of their energy to Jamar Chase, it's
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: an unbelievable combo.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: It really is and you know, when Jamorrow goes in motion,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: he's gonna shadow and te goes in motion, he has
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: a shadow. It's like, these two guys are we have
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: to figure out a way to try to eliminate him.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: You know, we're gonna shadow you, me and my shadow
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: every step of the way. And if we can, we're
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: gonna put more resources over the top, you know, with safeties.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: But it's like at some point Joe Burrow is gonna
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: he's going to figure out very quickly. A lot of
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: times it's pre snap and I can't go to Jamarrow
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: this time, but I can go to Tea. I can't
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: go to either of them, but I can go to Yosi.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I can't Tee. You know, you gotsiki in the middle
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: of the foot ball field. I hope Chase Brown's injury
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: is not too severe because I mean, he's been playing
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: at such a high level. But you know the thing
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: is everybody, everybody's ready to come into the football game.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: You lose a tackle, incomes one off the bench. You
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: lose a running back, incomes one off the bench that
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: is totally prepared. That's a tribute to the players, the coaches,
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: everybody involved. I mean that's a sign that this football
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: team is still together and everything is very important to him.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: So one of the most obscure stats in Bengals history
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: has now been erased. Prior to today, they had never scored
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: an offensive touchdown in overtime. The only TD they had
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: ever scored in overtime and franchise history was on a
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: pick six by Corey Sawyer. They've now got one on
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: offense borrow to t Higgins from three yards away to
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: win the game. We can eliminate that stat.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: And I remember when we were going to overtime games,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: you know, back in the day field goal ended it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: You know, it was like so if you got in
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: field goal range, it's like, all right, let's go get
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: this thing over with. We don't want to risk a
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: turnover winning, to risk a stupid penalty win or risk
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: and we're in field goal range. We feel comfortable about it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Let's go end it. And that's how it really went
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: most of the time. I bet in a lot of cases,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: games that were decided by touchdown in those years probably
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: was a defensive play, you know, crazily enough, or you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: you make a play inside the five yard line. You
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: just want to finish it, you know, so, but yeah,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: it's it is. It's amazing that it's amazing that they
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: got done what they got done in that overtime. You
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: talk about an emotional roller coaster during the entire course
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: of that football game. Really it was any team up
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: by more than a score at any point in the
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: football game. I can't remember double digit lead for either
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: football team in that game. They did didn't they go up?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Did they go up thirteen to three a touchdown? No,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: so it was ten to three. Yeah, I don't think.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: I don't think there was ever a two score advantage
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: for either football team. So you talk about yo yo,
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: back and forth we go, an emotional roller coaster, and
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: for that thing to finish the way it did, it
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: was truly remarkable. I mean, it was extremely well played.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: There weren't a whole lot of penalties. I mean Denver
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: had seven for only thirty five yards. The Bengals had
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: three for fifteen yards, but man, a couple of them.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: One of them took away a touchdown, took a Yosavash
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: touchdown off the board. So, you know, just three penalties
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: fifteen yards, but there was an impact on those penalties.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: But to have just ten penalties in an overtime game
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: that almost went the full overtime.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: It's pretty well played.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Not a whole lot of turnovers to fourth down stops
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: or you know, the same thing as turnovers in my mind.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: But man, when you have three possessions that don end
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: was some kind of a kick and stay within a
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: score of a football team and have a score lead
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: at times on the football team, that's pretty impressive. I mean,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: your offense is getting some things done.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: All right, let's look ahead. It's off to Pittsburgh. The
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Steelers have lost three in a row. The Bengals have
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: won four in a row. The Steelers won Game one.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Russell Wilson threw for more than four hundred yards. The
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Bengals really had trouble defensively in that game. The offense
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: performed pretty well, but they couldn't shut down Pittsburgh the
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: first time around.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: That's gonna be the key, Dan, because you know, in
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: speaking with Joe again in the post game, you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: he said, yeah, we know them, they know us, we
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: know what we're looking at, and he felt looked, the
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: look in his eye was pretty confident that he's gonna
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: be able to move the football and score some points.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Will the Bengals defense, you know, be able to step
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: up and the way Denver ran the football between the tackles,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steelers are drooling. I mean they have a
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: good offensive line, that's a good run blocking offensive line.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: The Bengals are going to have to bow up between
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: the tackles. I mean, they're gonna have to. If they don't,
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh's gonna run the ball down their throat play action pass.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Russell Wilson's very good with play action pass. You know,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: that's when he seems to have the best protection, the
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: most separation. He's not very tall, and he throws that
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: deep ball, you know, off a play action pass. So
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: it's all going to start with controlling the running game.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think you're going to be able
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: to stop it necessarily in Pittsburgh, where you know, they
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: don't have some snaps that are that are you know, positive,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: But you can't let them own you between the tackles
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: like Denver was starting to do. So I think that's
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: that's number one priority on that defensive side of the football.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: So next week is going to be exciting, and it
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: can really be exciting if Cleveland can beat Miami on
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Sunday and the Giants can beat the Indianapolis Colts. Indianapolis
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: will not have it starting quarterback Anthony Richardson and Tua
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Tungo Via Looo is downgraded to doubtful for Miami against Cleveland.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't think I'd ever be rooting for the Cleveland Browns,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: but damn it, I'm rooting for the Cleveland Browns.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Let's go Browns. Let's go Cleveland.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: That puts a rap on the Denver win. Now it's
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: time for this week's fun Fact segment, where you get
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: to know the person under the pads. Time for some
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: fun facts with tight end Cam Grandy from Benson, Illinois,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: in the central part of the state, not too far
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: from Peoria.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Cam.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: When I looked up Benson, there's a word that always
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: seems to proceed it tiny. The population is in the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: four hundreds. Give us a little description of your hometown.
• 35:32
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, Benson, Illinois. Like you said, it's a small town,
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: central Illinois. It's it's one of those towns where everyone
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: knows everybody and it's really supportive. I mean, I wouldn't
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: be where I'm at now without the support of my
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: town and Benson and the family I have there.
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: I'm grateful for Benson, Illinois. I always will be.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I suspect the people of Benson are extremely proud to
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: have a hometown kid now on an NFL roster. Have
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: they shown that?
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean my mom sent me pictures of
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: people on Facebook buying jerseys and asking for autographs.
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: But yeah, a lot of support.
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: Comes from Vincent Illinois, and I'm grateful to have them
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: next to me.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: We're visiting the tight end, Cam Grandy. You're six five,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: two fifty now, but you are a quarterback in high school,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: roughly the same height, but much skinnier.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Is that accurate?
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I was.
• 36:19
  Speaker 10: I would say it was probably the same like heigh wise,
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: but yeah, I think I graduated high school at woin't
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: eighty five, I believe, So yeah, putting on the weight
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: was definitely a struggle in the beginning of college.
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: But getting to two fifty five now I feel pretty good.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: So how'd you put it on?
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: A lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: Pretty much, just peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, protein shakes
• 36:38
  Speaker 10: and just drinking a lot of water and working out obviously,
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: and Uh, it took me a solid year and a
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: half probably or more to really get used to carrying
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: that much weight and getting used to how my body
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: would move and react to carrying that much weight. But
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: over the years it just slowly and surely just got
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: easier and easier.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Back to high school for a moment, you were named
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: the small school player of the Year. How much recruiting
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: in did you get.
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I went to a two way school
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: in Illinois, so I really didn't get too much recruit
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: And actually, I mean I went to obviously a bunch
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: of camp senior year, but really nothing shook out. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: got a bunch of NAI D three stuff to play quarterback.
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: But I knew that.
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: If I wanted to play in the NFL and anything like that,
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: new quarterback wasn't wasn't the position for me.
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: So one day I just got a phone call from.
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: Missouri Western State, a D two school in Saint Joseph, Missouri,
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: and they said they wanted to offer me to play
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: tight end. And I like the sound of that, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: I always kind of envisioned myself being like a receiver
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: tight end kind of guy, and I just took that
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: opportunity and I ran with it.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: That school, which is about an hour from Kansas City,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: is where the Chiefs hold training camp. Do they have
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: great facilities as a result.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I mean if you look it up, they
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: probably have.
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: They're probably top five in terms of a Division two
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: facilities just with the indoor, the training room, the field itself,
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: and the practice fields. They're definitely top two when it
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: comes to Division two facilities.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Did you have any brush is with greatness when the
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Chiefs were there for training camp?
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean they didn't really pay too much
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: attention to us and mostly just would they kicked us
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: out of the facilities.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: And stuff, and they're in camp so they could use
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: it all.
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean you would be walking to practice
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: and you would see Travis Kels here.
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: Or Patrick Mahomes drifting on a golf cart to practice.
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: So that was that was always cool to see them
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: for a month or two when they were there. But
• 38:20
  Speaker 10: other than that, I mean they kind of just went
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: their own way.
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: And we went on.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: We're chatting with Cam Grandy. After four and a half
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: years there, you transferred to Illinois State for your final
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: college season and became a first team FCS All American
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: you had sixty three catches more than six hundred yards.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: What did that do for your confidence?
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I knew once I transferred, I wanted
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: to go up to the Division Division one level just
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: to show scouts and that I could play with that
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: kind of competition and a lot of people I'm thankful
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: for it, Elinois State as well, coaches and players, especially
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: Zach Annix said the one the quarterback when I was there,
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: just pushing me and always asking more of me. And Yeah,
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: doing that and being out a compete at that level
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: definitely put a chip on my shoulder.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: When did the NFL begin to seem like a realistic possibility.
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: When I was at Missouri Western, we'd have scouts come
• 39:09
  Speaker 10: in every once in a while and they would talk
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: to my position coach and me sometimes. But so I
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: was always kind of in the back of my head.
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: But then when I went to Illinois State and I
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: started putting stuff on the film and showing that I
• 39:20
  Speaker 10: could compete at the Division one level, it definitely increased
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: a lot in terms of in terms of scouts in
• 39:27
  Speaker 10: that But and then obviously the Hula Bowl and Shrinebile
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: helped with that as well.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: You signed with the Bengals as a college free agent
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: right after the draft.
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: Why Cincinnati, Really, it was a coach case He had
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: a lot to do with that. I mean Coach Casey,
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: especially now and working with him for as long as
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: I have.
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's no place I'd rather be.
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: And also just the skill and the guys they have
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: in this locker room with Joe Jamar and really everyone,
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: I mean everyone in this locker room is a good
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: teammate and they always want the best and want more
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: out of you as a player. So I find that
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: to be big And Cincinnati, I mean, it just felt
• 40:01
  Speaker 10: like it was a good situation to come into and
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: ended up working out for me.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Coach Casey is James Casey, the tight ends coach. He's
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: such an interesting guy. He failed at minor league baseball,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: went back to college, played a bunch of positions, had
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: a long NFL career. How do you describe James Casey.
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: Man, that's tough.
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: I would probably just describe him as a just a
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: real stand up dude, really, I mean, like he pushes
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: me every day, pushes everyone in our room to be
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: the best that we can. And he's a real technician too.
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: When it comes to just technique and stuff. That's that's
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: one thing that I think really has helped me grow
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: in these last couple of months is just my technique
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: and him just critique and every little thing just so
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: that we can try to be perfect every day.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: You started on the practice squad, as many college free
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: agents do, but you have risen to the fifty three
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: man roster. You made your NFL debut on Thursday night
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: in Baltimore. You had to catch in that game. What
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: emotions went through your mind?
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean this is obviously something I've I've always
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: dreamed of my who life is to play in an
• 41:02
  Speaker 10: NFL game and to do it with these guys, it
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: means a lot to me.
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: But just being out there for.
• 41:07
  Speaker 10: The first time, running out of the tunnel here in
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: the crowd, roar and stuff like that, I mean, it
• 41:12
  Speaker 10: took it took a while to finally sink in, but
• 41:14
  Speaker 10: once it did, was just grateful for the opportunity to
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: be there and I'm looking forward to continue the season.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: All right, A few wild card topics now for rookie
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Cam Grandy. Who is your all time favorite athlete in
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: any sport.
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: And why any sport I'm gonna go football. I'm gonna
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: go uh probably probably Jason Witten tight end.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: Jason Winn.
• 41:35
  Speaker 10: I grew up I'm originally from from Texas, so grew
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: up always a Dallas Cowboy fan. My dad put me
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: on the Dallas Cowboys early and just always watching, uh,
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: Jason Winn and just how he can. He's not the
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: best athlete in the world, but just how you always
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: find a way to get open.
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: And the motor he has to play tight end.
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: I mean, you have to have a high motor to
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: play this position, and he had that and just watching
• 41:55
  Speaker 10: him and I think that's what made me want to
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: maybe potentially be a tight end at the next level.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: So was playing in Dallas cool for you?
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 42:03
  Speaker 10: Man, It's That's something I've always dreamed of too. Man,
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: always dreamed of playing at and T I've always wanted
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: to go to game there.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: Never got the opportunity to do that.
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: So actually being being there and being on the field
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: and playing against the Dallas Cowby was awesome. And being
• 42:16
  Speaker 10: able to have some family from Texas to be there
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: as well and watch and support me, it was really cool.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I watched an interview that you did before the draft
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: When you were asked what NFL quarterback you would most
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: like to catch a pass from, you said, Joe Burrow.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: So does your perception of him compare to the real thing.
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: He speaks for himself.
• 42:36
  Speaker 10: I mean, he's obviously one of the best, if not
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: the best quarterback in the NFL. And to be able
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: to have the opportunity to play next to him and
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: even get into the huddle with him, I'm truly grateful.
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: And yeah, I did say that that's funny that you
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: found that, But yeah, but catching the ball from him,
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: like you said, I mean, it's something I've dreamed of.
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: I've always been a fan of Joe. You've not LISHU
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: and to be able to to play with him on
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: Sundays is awesome.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: He's pretty good. Have you been recognized as an NFL
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: player yet?
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: No, I don't think that will happen for a while.
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: Just like obviously like local town stuff when I go home.
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: I went home during the BIE for a little bit
• 43:11
  Speaker 10: and people saw me and asked what was up and stuff.
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: But now I have not been recognized you as an
• 43:16
  Speaker 10: NFL player.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: What do you like to spend your money on?
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: Honestly, I'm big into saving, right now, I haven't really
• 43:22
  Speaker 10: bought anything. The only thing, the biggest perch I probably
• 43:25
  Speaker 10: had was one of them Sleep Number beds. That that
• 43:28
  Speaker 10: was probably the biggest thing I've purchased. But I'm really
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: just trying to save up and make it last and
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: invest it.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So is the sleep Number bed as good as the
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: ads look better?
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: I mean it's hard to get up in the morning.
• 43:40
  Speaker 10: They got to set multiple alarms just to make sure
• 43:42
  Speaker 10: him up, and the more I got my phone on alarm,
• 43:43
  Speaker 10: and then I have an alarm clock next to it,
• 43:45
  Speaker 10: so I always have that just to make sure I
• 43:47
  Speaker 10: get up.
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: But you know it's it's well advertised. Let's say that
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: that's good.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: What unhealthy food? Do you have a hard time saying
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: no to nutter butters?
• 43:57
  Speaker 10: Love nutter butters. I pretty much love anything peanut butter.
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: But a good nutter butter in the freezer, it's like, oh,
• 44:03
  Speaker 10: that's nutter butter easy.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I might have to stick one in the freezer to
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: see how that tastes. That sounds pretty good, all right.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Final fun fact for cam Grandy. This one is kind
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: of deep. If you could meet anyone in history, living
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: or deceased, who would that person be?
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: I'm gonna go music industry. I'm a big, big country
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: music guy. I love country music, always have and I
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: probably just say George Strait.
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: I think that would be a good one.
• 44:28
  Speaker 10: I I mean, I've been listening to his music since
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: as long as I can remember, so for sure.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Kind of an old school answer.
• 44:33
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean my dad grew me up on
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: listening to Moro Haggard, Wayale and Jenny and Swilly Nelson
• 44:39
  Speaker 10: stuff like that.
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: So that's all I've known is country music and I
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: love it.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: So this has been fun. Appreciate your time. Best of
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Locked the rest of the year.
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: Thank you, appreciate it.
• 44:48
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