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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 Boots podcast. The This is gonna be the
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Speaker 1: best day of my luh addition, as Joe Mixon has
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Speaker 1: one of the best games in franchise history as the
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Speaker 1: Bengals crushed the Carolina Panthers forty two to twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, one on one, locker
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Speaker 1: room interviews at analysis from a broadcast partner, Dave Lapham. Then,
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Speaker 1: in this week's fun fact segment, you'll get to know
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since DJ Readers a
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Speaker 1: son Never Forgets Foundation. DJ reader is hosting a bowling
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Speaker 1: event on Monday night that will provide school supplies to
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Speaker 1: the more than seven hundred students that attend Schroeder High School,
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Speaker 1: a public school in Cincinnati. Students will also have the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to have health, dental, and I screenings. DJ was
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Speaker 1: inspired to do community service by his father, David, who
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Speaker 1: passed away in twenty fourteen after a long fight with
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Speaker 1: kidney disease. DJ has been nominated for the Walter Payton
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Speaker 1: NFL Man of the Year Award in the past. If
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Speaker 1: the bowling event will take place at main Event in
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Speaker 1: Westchester Township from seven to ten, and I imagine some
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Speaker 1: of his teammates will be there too. Now, let's get
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Speaker 1: to Sunday's game. Going in, Joe Mixon was averaging three
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Speaker 1: point three yards per carry. Of the forty one players
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Speaker 1: in the league who had carried the ball at least
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Speaker 1: sixty times, Mixon ranked next to last in yards per attempt.
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Speaker 1: It's been hard to figure out. It's not like Joe
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Speaker 1: Mixon is over the hill. He's only four and a
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Speaker 1: half months older than Joe Burrow. And on Sunday against Carolina,
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Speaker 1: he reminded everybody that he's one of the best running
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Speaker 1: backs in the NFL. He's completed his first four throws.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals have a first down at the forty seven
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Speaker 1: yard line. Burrow looks to throw for the fifth time,
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Speaker 1: checks it down shore Nixon. Nice blocking in front. He's
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Speaker 1: to the forty middle of the field thirty twenty five
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Speaker 1: twenty and tackled at the Carolina eighteen yard line thirty
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Speaker 1: five yards to Joe Mixon. Now was a screen pass
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Speaker 1: executed perfectly. First in goal from the two. Stanley Morgan
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Speaker 1: is checked in as one of the wide receivers. He's
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Speaker 1: a good blocker. He's out to the right. Now he
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Speaker 1: goes in motion from right to left. Burrow tosses it
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Speaker 1: left Mixon. He'll go into the end zone. Touchdown zone
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Speaker 1: Bengals as Cincinnati goes ninety yards to begin the game
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Speaker 1: and scores a touchdown. Methodical Dan a really good mix
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Speaker 1: of running pass. Three receivers left, one out to the right.
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Speaker 1: Burrow waits for the shotgun snap. Joe catches hands it
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Speaker 1: out the mix and he's got a big hole right
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Speaker 1: side outside the numerals, down the sideline to the twenty
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Speaker 1: fifteen and tackled at the Carolina fourteen by Shack Thompson.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nine yards for Joe Mixon fursten goal from the three. Officially,
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Speaker 1: Burrow takes the snap, gives it to Mixing. Choe is
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Speaker 1: into the end zone. Touchdown Bengals Choe Mixing half and
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Speaker 1: a half. That's his second touchdown of the afternoon. And
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Speaker 1: the Bengals are up by three tds. And you're saying,
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon a Pro Bowl caliber running back? When is
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Speaker 1: the day coming? This is been a get right day.
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Speaker 1: Stanley Morgan in the Bengals get lined up quickly. Play
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Speaker 1: clock is at two one. Burrow takes the snap, hands
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Speaker 1: it to mix and running wide to the right, he'll
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Speaker 1: go into the end zone. There's a penalty flag down
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Speaker 1: at the six. Did the Bengals get set for a
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Speaker 1: full second with all of their personnel off side? Offside
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Speaker 1: good defensed under ninety seven lined up in the new zone,
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Speaker 1: Tis decline tousdown. Joe Mixon scores his third touchdown of
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Speaker 1: the half. The Bengals single game record is four. He's
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Speaker 1: got three before halftime and Cincinnati is up by four touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: Shotgun snap back to Joe from the pocket. Scrambling to
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Speaker 1: the right, looking into the end zone. Burrow throws close
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Speaker 1: Joe Dixon. Joe Mixon tying the Bengals franchise record for
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Speaker 1: touchdowns in a game, and he does it before halftime, unlivable.
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Speaker 1: Three rushing touchdown and a touchdown catch. He joins Larry Kinnebrew,
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Speaker 1: Corey Dillon, and Marvin Jones as the fourth player in
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Speaker 1: Bengals history with a four touchdown game. The sixth offensive
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Speaker 1: lineman is in. He lines up on the left side.
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Speaker 1: This time Burrow takes the snap, gives to Nixon bouncing
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Speaker 1: a wide to the left penalty fan. Johnny's at the
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Speaker 1: ten five into the end zone for what could be
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Speaker 1: his fifth touchdown. Let's see if the formation was legal
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Speaker 1: to everybody line up on the line scrimmage? Well enough
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Speaker 1: offside defense about that? How about that line too? A
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Speaker 1: fifteen yard run for Joe Mixon, who has just set
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Speaker 1: the Bengal single game record with five touchdowns in a game.
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Speaker 1: And we still have nearly twenty minutes to play. Hi
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Speaker 1: and iis lined up off side and Joe Nixon with
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Speaker 1: a little jump cut and jac Horne was frozen. I
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Speaker 1: mean he said, I'm taking it outside. Jac Horne trying
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Speaker 1: to make a Joe Mixon said, nah and outran everybody,
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Speaker 1: outran the leverage, outran everybody trying to pursue. In addition
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Speaker 1: to his franchise record five tds, Mixon accounted for two
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Speaker 1: hundred eleven yards one fifty three rushing and fifty eight receiving,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't touch the ball in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals led thirty five nothing at the half, forty
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Speaker 1: two to seven after three quarters, and after pulling as
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Speaker 1: many starters as they could, beat the Panthers forty two
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Speaker 1: to twenty one. After the game, Dave Lapham caught up
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Speaker 1: with Joe Mixon record holding, how's the trial, man? I
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Speaker 1: feel great, man, I have a day like that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: all g Lord of God, it's been long overdue and
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Speaker 1: I just want to, you know, take the time to
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Speaker 1: appreciate my lineman and receivers for doing a hell of
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Speaker 1: a job giving physical of making them down blocks and
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Speaker 1: just you know, give me to the next level. And
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Speaker 1: we was long overdue. But I'm just you know, very excited,
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Speaker 1: very happy for the team. Man. Needed that it was big.
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Speaker 1: You guys were hammering them between the tackles real well,
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Speaker 1: and then the pinning full pull tight end pinning tackle,
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Speaker 1: pulling around the horn. You were reading that really well
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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, most definitely. Man, the preparation that we've
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Speaker 1: been having within these past few weeks, I mean it's
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Speaker 1: been crucial. We've been locked in and we never we
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Speaker 1: never lost hope. And you know, like I said, when
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Speaker 1: we came in there like that, I was trying to
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Speaker 1: do whatever I could to set the tone and have Zach,
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Speaker 1: you know, believing, keep calling in them, run calls and
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Speaker 1: we're going to deliver. And we did that today. So
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, man, it's a blessing to
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Speaker 1: be able to be here in this position and you know,
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Speaker 1: playing with my teammate's like this. Eight your first eight
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Speaker 1: possessions just scored six touchdowns. Every Chris Evans given a
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Speaker 1: little congratulation. Every single touchdown was a red zone touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Six for six in the red zone. You come up
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Speaker 1: with five touchdowns today, you're gonna be amongst the league leaders. Now,
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Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of a what kind of relief is?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what you got for talent? You
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Speaker 1: know the whole whole story. People, You know, with all
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Speaker 1: the noise, you're just blocking it all out. How big
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Speaker 1: is all this? Yeah? Man? It was huge? Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: they were trying to obviously kick us down while we
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Speaker 1: was down, man, and we stayed true to us, stayed
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Speaker 1: true to the game, and uh never lost hope, like
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Speaker 1: I said, and I had to remember who he is, man,
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Speaker 1: And that's what it was. And like I said, I'm
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Speaker 1: just blessed to be able to be in this here position.
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Speaker 1: And uh I just like I said, Man, I can't
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Speaker 1: do nothing but thank God and my teammates. Man, it was,
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Speaker 1: it was a hell of a performance. And I'm very
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Speaker 1: excited for this team. There was balanced Joe, I mean
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Speaker 1: two United yards Russian Twounity yards passion. It was. It
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Speaker 1: was balanced in play selection, balance in execution. That's what
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Speaker 1: this offense can do, right, Yeah, most definitely. I mean
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Speaker 1: we had to do that. Man. We deliver, man. So
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Speaker 1: you know Zach, you know, he died us some good
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Speaker 1: play calls. Everybody died in with the scheme and making
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Speaker 1: them extra blocks and uh, you know, just being committed
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Speaker 1: to playing team in football, man, And we showed that today.
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Speaker 1: And we just got to keep on building from that.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I'm very excited where we hit it. Man.
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Speaker 1: We just got to keep stuck in one week at
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Speaker 1: a time. Congratulations, you're in the record books man, and
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Speaker 1: that's you're the fifth guy in franchise history. Also to
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Speaker 1: rush for over five thousand yards. That's another thing that
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Speaker 1: took place in today's game. How big is that for you? Man?
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Speaker 1: It's huge? But uh, you know, like I said, I
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Speaker 1: just got to keep on building. I know it's a
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Speaker 1: lot more in the tank that you know we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to go ahead and reach. And I know for
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Speaker 1: a fact that as long as you know we stayed shoot,
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Speaker 1: hit the game, and keep on working hard, everything that
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Speaker 1: we have ahead of us gonna come true. But I'm
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Speaker 1: more and so I'm more so into team wins and
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Speaker 1: doing ever doing whatever we can to get back to
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Speaker 1: the show. And we all locked in. Congratulations. Good things
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Speaker 1: was effusive in his praise of the offensive line, and
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Speaker 1: rightfully so. The Bengals finished with two hundred forty one
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Speaker 1: rushing yards and averaged six point two per carry. Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow dropped back to past twenty nine times and was
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Speaker 1: only sacked once. I spoke to write Tackle l Collins.
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Speaker 1: Two hundred forty one rushing yards doesn't get much better
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Speaker 1: than that for an offensive line, and I wouldn't think, Oh, yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's what we came here to do.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, revamped his old line. Real stuff is our identity.
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Speaker 1: And you know, right now is right where you want
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Speaker 1: to be hidden, hidden at ross and uh, you know
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Speaker 1: we're starting to put it all together. Joe Mixon scored
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Speaker 1: five touchdowns, four rushing, one receiving. That's a Bengals record.
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Speaker 1: Nobody had ever scored five the game before. What's it
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Speaker 1: mean to you to be an offensive lineman for an
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Speaker 1: achievement like that. It's it's amazing, you know, Um, anytime
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Speaker 1: you know, if you put the ball in Joe mix
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Speaker 1: his hand and let them go, great things are going
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Speaker 1: to happen. And we saw it here today. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited, um to just know where we're at right
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Speaker 1: now and know how much more work we gotta do,
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Speaker 1: and know that we got to play our best football
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Speaker 1: from me on out only ten rushing attempts on Monday night. Now,
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Speaker 1: the circumstances of the game had something to do with that,
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Speaker 1: But did you feel it was important to show that
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Speaker 1: this team could have more balanced than it's had to
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Speaker 1: this point. Absolutely? You know. That's why you know when
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Speaker 1: when they call those plays and you know they're putting it,
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Speaker 1: they're putting it on the guys up front to go
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Speaker 1: out there and move the line of scrimmage and get
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Speaker 1: a ball carriers, you know, all the room they need
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Speaker 1: to operate, and it doesn't get any any better than that,
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Speaker 1: you know, when coaches calling plays like that. Monday was
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Speaker 1: one of those nights when nothing went right. This seemed
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Speaker 1: to be one of those games where everything went right.
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Speaker 1: It's funny how things can change in a six day
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Speaker 1: period in the NFL. Absolutely, you know it's the NFL,
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Speaker 1: and you know you gotta play your best football week
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Speaker 1: in a week out, And you know, I couldn't be
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Speaker 1: more part of my two mates. There was a play
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Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly where it was, but you were
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Speaker 1: out there as a lead blocker. He looked like a
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Speaker 1: runaway beer truck, just knocking people over downfield. That's right,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's who I'm as a player man, and
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Speaker 1: I look forward to continue to bring that easton every week.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just excited on where we are and
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Speaker 1: where we're headed. Else, enjoy your by, congratulations on a
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Speaker 1: great win. Thank you sir. Then there's the defense. Despite
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Speaker 1: not having DJ Reader, Chitube, a Wooje or Mike Hilton,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals only allowed one first down in the first half,
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Speaker 1: and that was by penalty. Carolina's first six drives ended
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Speaker 1: with four punts and two interceptions, one by Jermaine Pratt,
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Speaker 1: the other by Jesse Bates. I caught up with Jesse
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Speaker 1: after the game and start by asking him about Joe Mixon.
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Speaker 1: But Joe's having a day like that, Jesse, what does
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Speaker 1: it do for everybody else's energy level and mood? You know,
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Speaker 1: it's different when Joe Burrows having a day um like that,
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Speaker 1: But when Mixing is running the ball, UM, it kind
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Speaker 1: of creates the dominance of our team. UM all three phases,
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Speaker 1: so U Joe would definitely running with a different type
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Speaker 1: of pop and uh like I said, it got going, Uh,
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Speaker 1: not just through the offense, but through our defense and
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Speaker 1: uh special teams as well. Thirty five nothing at the half.
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Speaker 1: That's about as dominant of performance as I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Have you been in heart of anything like that? Um, No,
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Speaker 1: I've been on the other side of it. Um. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know it's good, uh to see our offense have
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Speaker 1: some confidence. UM. You know, I know, I know how
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Speaker 1: much they take pride in their work. UM, from the
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Speaker 1: offensive line, from Joe Burrow to the receivers to the
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Speaker 1: running backs. Um. To see them do what they did today. Um.
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Speaker 1: And in our defense, I don't think they cost a
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Speaker 1: fifty of the second half. So um, just like I said,
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Speaker 1: we got to continue to play um, complimentary football the
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Speaker 1: second half of the season, and a lot of these
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Speaker 1: games will be here. Um. And our fans were great today. UM.
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Speaker 1: So it's good when we start fast, the fans start
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Speaker 1: starting past a little bit. So yeah, it's it's a
14:17
Speaker 1: great win for us. How were they young dbs that
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Speaker 1: were pressed into service. Yeah, I thought they did a
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Speaker 1: really good job. I mean, I think Cam would have
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Speaker 1: been playing a little bit more if he wasn't hurt
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, so I'm not surprised
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Speaker 1: with him. Um. And then you know Eli has been
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Speaker 1: playing with us all year last year, so uh. And
14:35
Speaker 1: then you got JD. Who I mean, I think he's
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Speaker 1: a ball. I call him every day because every day
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Speaker 1: he makes a play. So um, it's no surprise. Man.
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Speaker 1: We gotta we got a close group in there. Um.
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Speaker 1: We're very open. Um. Me and Von do a good
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Speaker 1: job of communicating, um and letting people know when we
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Speaker 1: are when we are in tough positions and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So um, it just goes whole whole hand. Um, from
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Speaker 1: top to the bottom. I'm proud of those guys. Was
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Speaker 1: what is it playing about the team to be able
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Speaker 1: to win like this? Going into to buy giving one
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Speaker 1: half of the Monday? Like I said, we talked about
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Speaker 1: coming in here, playing fast and just knowing how important
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Speaker 1: these games are gonna get in the second half of
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Speaker 1: the season. Um. Going into it at five and four
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Speaker 1: with a winning record, Um, damn sure it looks better
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Speaker 1: than four and five going into a buy So Um,
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Speaker 1: like I said, We're gonna have a lot of big
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Speaker 1: games here. Um here in the stadium, so hopefully the
15:22
Speaker 1: fans will come out and you know, show how they
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Speaker 1: show it today. How much more enjoyable is to buy
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Speaker 1: five and four versus four and five. He's everybody up
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Speaker 1: a little bit, especially you know, it's been a long
15:35
Speaker 1: first couple of a couple of guys getting hurt. It's
15:38
Speaker 1: good to see how we respond as a team because
15:41
Speaker 1: at some point later on the season, we're gonna need
15:43
Speaker 1: these guys again, and for them to have the experience
15:46
Speaker 1: and for us to do well, um, it's gonna pay
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Speaker 1: Find both inside the Bengals app. Joe Burrow finished twenty
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Speaker 1: two for twenty eight. That's seventy nine percent for two
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Speaker 1: hundred and six yards, with one touchdown, no picks, and
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Speaker 1: a passer rating of one o nine point two. He
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Speaker 1: also had a one yard touchdown run. Joe's passer rating
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Speaker 1: has been over one hundred in all five Bengals wins
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Speaker 1: and under one hundred in all four losses. Laps spend
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes with him in the locker room
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Speaker 1: two hundred yards passing over tundred yards rushing. Joe Nixon
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Speaker 1: sets a record five touchdowns or on the ground, he
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Speaker 1: caught your touchdown pass no turnovers in the football game.
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Speaker 1: Can you play any better? As a complete game? We
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Speaker 1: run the ball like that. There's not a team in
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Speaker 1: the league that can stop us. So we gotta keep
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Speaker 1: the momentum of act going into this bye week. Need
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Speaker 1: it for both our physical health and our mental health.
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Speaker 1: Will be good, good little break and come back ready
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Speaker 1: to go. This football team, the Carolina Panthers, their defense
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Speaker 1: is athletic, They can run. They only give up giving
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Speaker 1: up one opening drive touchdown in twenty five games all
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Speaker 1: last year and up to this year. You guys go
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Speaker 1: ninety yards and nine players. Was that the tone center? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: It really was. Like I said, we were able to
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Speaker 1: run the ball really well all day. We felt like
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Speaker 1: we are getting eight yards of pop, nine yards of
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Speaker 1: pop on every single rush. When you do that, you
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Speaker 1: know it's gonna be a good day. So, Joe, what
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Speaker 1: do you what do you go from here? What do
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Speaker 1: you what do you do during the bye were what
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrows so focused on football? What do you do
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Speaker 1: during the bye week? You got to get away from
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Speaker 1: it for a little bit. You can't stay focused for
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Speaker 1: seven straight months off football, so you get away from
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Speaker 1: it for three or four days and come back ready
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Speaker 1: to go. I don't think I've ever seen anybody that
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Speaker 1: is uh as laser focused as you are with your
17:39
Speaker 1: pregame routine. And it starts not just before you even
17:41
Speaker 1: go up to warm up. I mean you are like
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Speaker 1: your whole continents, your whole body, everything about you is
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Speaker 1: like laser focused. Has that been that way for you
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Speaker 1: the whole time? Yeah? You know, game day it turns
17:51
Speaker 1: into a different person, just different feeling, and you come
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Speaker 1: in ready to go, focused on your on your job,
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Speaker 1: whatever you got to do for that day to go
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Speaker 1: out and get the wins. So I've been able to
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Speaker 1: find that that mindset since I've been in the league,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's it's served me well. Twelve in
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Speaker 1: the five wins for the Bengals, twelve touchdown passes, no interceptions,
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Speaker 1: no fumbles, twelve touchdowns, no giveaways whatsoever. That's winning football. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You don't turn the ball over and you force turnovers,
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Speaker 1: usually you're gonna win the game. Well said, thank you
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Speaker 1: for the Bengals have their by this week before a
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Speaker 1: road game in Pittsburgh on the twentieth. Right, now, that's
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Speaker 1: the Sunday night football game, but it could get flex
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Speaker 1: to an earlier start time. That decision has to be
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Speaker 1: made by Tuesday. Now, time for the radio guys recap lap.
18:44
Speaker 1: As bad as the Bengals were on Monday night in Cleveland,
18:46
Speaker 1: that's how good they were on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati.
18:49
Speaker 1: Total destruction of the Carolina Panthers forty two to twenty
18:53
Speaker 1: one the final and it wasn't even that close. What
18:56
Speaker 1: were your biggest takeaways today? What should Bengals fans be
19:00
Speaker 1: most encouraged with? I thought the way they came out
19:03
Speaker 1: of the locker room, you know, with a purpose. It
19:05
Speaker 1: was to get right attitude. This was a good defensive
19:10
Speaker 1: football team that only give up only had given up
19:12
Speaker 1: one opening drive touchdown in twenty five games, I mean,
19:15
Speaker 1: all of last year and half of this year. And
19:18
Speaker 1: just like the Bengal streak of you know, not giving
19:20
Speaker 1: up a touchdown in the second half last week, the
19:22
Speaker 1: Bengals smashed that with a nine play ninety yard touchdown
19:26
Speaker 1: that was very balanced. Five passes, four rushes, all of
19:31
Speaker 1: them successful. I thought, first, down execution in the first
19:34
Speaker 1: half was huge. You know, they averaged about eight yards
19:37
Speaker 1: of pass seven yards of rush, and they called eleven
19:40
Speaker 1: passes and eleven runs on first down. You can't be
19:42
Speaker 1: any more balanced than that. And they got great productivity
19:46
Speaker 1: over it. They get a couple of touchdowns on first
19:48
Speaker 1: down out of those calls. So I thought that to
19:52
Speaker 1: start the game off the way they did made a
19:55
Speaker 1: big statement in Carolina was reeling at that point a
19:57
Speaker 1: little bit and never really got their footing if you
20:00
Speaker 1: include the playoffs. Joe Mixon had gone an entire season
20:03
Speaker 1: without a one hundred yard rushing performance, seventeen games since
20:06
Speaker 1: the last time he did it. Well, he was unbelievable
20:09
Speaker 1: in this game. Twenty two carries for one hundred fifty
20:11
Speaker 1: three yards rushing, four tds, four catches fifty eight yards
20:14
Speaker 1: receiving another TD, five touchdowns total, first Bengal to ever
20:19
Speaker 1: do it. Is this the start of something for Joe Mixon?
20:22
Speaker 1: Can this be the jumping off point for him to
20:25
Speaker 1: be the kind of player we've seen him be before?
20:27
Speaker 1: I think so. You know, I'm just talking to Joe
20:29
Speaker 1: in the post game, and I started reading first half
20:31
Speaker 1: stats as stats of the game, because wait mate, wait
20:33
Speaker 1: a minute, they're better than that. I think, oh that's
20:35
Speaker 1: first half. That's right, Joe. Look at your first half numbers.
20:38
Speaker 1: They're as good as most people you know would take
20:39
Speaker 1: for a game. He get off to a such great start.
20:43
Speaker 1: I think that if he had any influence from the
20:47
Speaker 1: outside noise, there's totally freedom of that, you know, and
20:50
Speaker 1: and sometimes you know it's you can't help it when
20:54
Speaker 1: you're when you're a player, you can. You can say
20:56
Speaker 1: I'm going to ignore everything, I'm going to shut everything
20:59
Speaker 1: out from the outside. But in today's era of social
21:01
Speaker 1: media and everything else, it's almost impossible too. So you
21:05
Speaker 1: do hear some of it. Some players hear more of
21:09
Speaker 1: it than others. But he's a great player, and he
21:13
Speaker 1: hasn't lost a step, and he's I think, I think
21:15
Speaker 1: that something like this will free him a little bit.
21:18
Speaker 1: You know. It's like like we talked about before, I
21:21
Speaker 1: think he was trying to be too perfect because there's
21:25
Speaker 1: nobody to care as more than Joe. Nobody works harder
21:27
Speaker 1: than Joe. So for him to get a performance that
21:31
Speaker 1: you know, validates all that, I think will do nothing
21:34
Speaker 1: but lead to another great performance out of him. You
21:37
Speaker 1: referred to success in the pin and pull rushing attack
21:41
Speaker 1: during the course of the game a few times. Did
21:43
Speaker 1: they do that more? Did they do that better? Did
21:45
Speaker 1: they find something where that's concerned. I think it was
21:47
Speaker 1: the combination of hammering them between the tackles and then
21:51
Speaker 1: that complimentary pin and pull that was that was playing
21:55
Speaker 1: havoc with the Carolina Panthers. I mean they were gashing him.
21:57
Speaker 1: They were getting big running lanes and Joe was hitting
22:00
Speaker 1: him and hitting him right away. And when we talked
22:04
Speaker 1: about during the course of our radio shows during the
22:07
Speaker 1: week that you know, when you're struggling as an offensive
22:11
Speaker 1: line in the running game, you have to work on
22:12
Speaker 1: fit and finish. Make sure you get a hat on
22:15
Speaker 1: a hat, and you have yourself in the right positions,
22:17
Speaker 1: you have your hand placement right, your footwork right, and
22:19
Speaker 1: finished blocks. And they were doing a great job of
22:21
Speaker 1: fit and finish today, And you know they were rewarded
22:24
Speaker 1: by let's keep calling it, you know, I mean very
22:27
Speaker 1: balanced in that first drive, five passes, four rushes. It
22:31
Speaker 1: paid off. They stayed with it, like you said on
22:32
Speaker 1: first down, eleven run plays, eleven pass plays can't be
22:38
Speaker 1: any more balanced than that, And I think that, and
22:40
Speaker 1: talking to Joe Burrow after the game, he said, when
22:43
Speaker 1: we run the ball like that, we're gonna be unbeatable.
22:45
Speaker 1: Over turningy yards, rushing over turny yards passing, he doesn't.
22:48
Speaker 1: I don't think he really wants to throw for over
22:50
Speaker 1: fourty yards and lose a game. That's not Joe Burrow,
22:53
Speaker 1: that's not his deal, you know. I think I think
22:56
Speaker 1: being number one in the NFL and passing yards is
23:00
Speaker 1: a little hollow when you're four and four, you know.
23:02
Speaker 1: I mean, he'd rather be where he's going to be
23:04
Speaker 1: after this, probably fall down into the top two or
23:07
Speaker 1: three after you know, a couple one hundred yard passing day.
23:10
Speaker 1: But he'll take five and four and be number two
23:14
Speaker 1: or three in the league in passing any day. Over
23:17
Speaker 1: being number one in the NFL and passing and being
23:19
Speaker 1: four and five. As I said on the broadcast, p J.
23:22
Speaker 1: Walker's passer rating match to John Bluete, Blue Tarski's GPA
23:27
Speaker 1: and Animal House zero point zero. Is PJ Walker that bad?
23:32
Speaker 1: Or was the Bengals defense that good? It's a great question.
23:35
Speaker 1: I think it was a combination. I mean, I think
23:38
Speaker 1: he just he got caught in a very difficult situation
23:41
Speaker 1: the way the offense took control of the football game.
23:44
Speaker 1: And but three straight three and outs, I mean he
23:46
Speaker 1: did not. He didn't help the cause whatsoever. And it's
23:50
Speaker 1: never just the quarterback. I thought that. You know, one
23:53
Speaker 1: of the things that was a big factor in the
23:55
Speaker 1: game is Carolina runs the ball pretty well and the
23:57
Speaker 1: Bengals didn't allow them to take control of things with
24:00
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and they had to lean on PJ.
24:03
Speaker 1: Walker I think more in this football game in the
24:06
Speaker 1: early stages than they thought they would have to, particularly
24:08
Speaker 1: when they fell behind by two and three and four
24:10
Speaker 1: scores as early as they did. I mean they had
24:12
Speaker 1: done by five at halftime and they yank them. So yeah,
24:16
Speaker 1: it was it was an unenviable position for him to
24:21
Speaker 1: be in, but he was a big part of it.
24:24
Speaker 1: He was a big part of the reason why. I
24:26
Speaker 1: don't think he was anywhere near as sharp as he
24:29
Speaker 1: probably feels like he could have been after he watched
24:31
Speaker 1: his tape while it was still a game. The Bengals
24:34
Speaker 1: young corners who were pressed into service did a nice job.
24:37
Speaker 1: Cam Taylor, britt and Jail and Davis. They acquitted themselves well.
24:42
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Dan. I remember we're looking at
24:44
Speaker 1: each other in the Cleveland game. How open guys were.
24:46
Speaker 1: It's like, oh huh, I mean, you know a high
24:48
Speaker 1: school quarterback can make these throws. Not today, you know,
24:52
Speaker 1: guys doors coverage and honestly, Carolina Panthers I thought had
24:55
Speaker 1: pretty good coverage on a lot of plays, and Joe
24:58
Speaker 1: was putting putting the ball in very good spots. I
25:00
Speaker 1: mean he was like twenty two for twenty six again
25:03
Speaker 1: some kind of kind of crazy deal like that. I
25:04
Speaker 1: remember him throwing one out of bounds intentionally, you know,
25:08
Speaker 1: to get rid of the football and save the down
25:10
Speaker 1: to the best of his ability. Soum. He is, this
25:14
Speaker 1: dude is accurate with the football and he can put
25:17
Speaker 1: it in spots. And I think he when he shows
25:22
Speaker 1: confidence in other receivers like Trent and Irwin that he
25:26
Speaker 1: shows I think that's that gets contagious with everybody on
25:29
Speaker 1: the football team as well. There's no doubt when you know.
25:32
Speaker 1: I remember when I was early in my career and
25:36
Speaker 1: did something well and one of the great players and
25:39
Speaker 1: the team said, nice job, Rook. I was like, oh
25:42
Speaker 1: my god, I've died and gone to heaven. Football Heaven
25:45
Speaker 1: here I am and when guy. When Joe Burrow makes
25:48
Speaker 1: plays to guys you know that don't get all those
25:51
Speaker 1: opportunities and doesn't have something positive to say about it afterwards,
25:55
Speaker 1: Man that that gives you a boost in your career
25:58
Speaker 1: a big time. So the different between five and four
26:01
Speaker 1: and four and five going into the buy is obviously huge.
26:04
Speaker 1: The Bengals would have been in real trouble had they
26:06
Speaker 1: lost this game. But I think from a mental standpoint,
26:09
Speaker 1: had they gone into the buy with a loss, they
26:11
Speaker 1: would have been miserable. They would have been stewing on it.
26:14
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have been a buy. I mean, your body
26:16
Speaker 1: would have recovered a little bit, but mentally this team
26:19
Speaker 1: would have been in bad shape had they not won.
26:22
Speaker 1: There's three things that in my mind in a buy,
26:25
Speaker 1: you need to take care of physically, particularly the guys
26:28
Speaker 1: that are injured. Try to get as many back as
26:30
Speaker 1: they can. In conversation with Zach after the game, he
26:33
Speaker 1: feels like DJ Reader has a good shot two pole.
26:36
Speaker 1: He said, it is a little bit further away. He
26:38
Speaker 1: didn't think would get two pole right away. But DJ
26:40
Speaker 1: feels pretty good about and other guys he you know,
26:44
Speaker 1: he wasn't real specific about kind of have to take
26:47
Speaker 1: that as that week unfolds and see how quickly guys
26:50
Speaker 1: do recover that have had more recent injuries. But you
26:54
Speaker 1: have to take care of yourself physically, mentally and spiritually,
26:58
Speaker 1: you know, emotionally. And I'm talking football. I'm not talking
27:01
Speaker 1: about you know, whatever your religion is or whatever the case.
27:03
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm talking about that part of the game of football.
27:07
Speaker 1: It's it's part of it's the mental part of it
27:09
Speaker 1: as well. But you know, the mental part of it
27:10
Speaker 1: is football stuff. You know, you're looking at tape, you're
27:13
Speaker 1: making corrections. I can do this better. I'm just talking
27:15
Speaker 1: about the overall um way you come to work every day,
27:20
Speaker 1: the emotion, the energy level, all those kind of things.
27:24
Speaker 1: The spirituality part of it, I think is equally and
27:27
Speaker 1: that that that would would have been tougher to accomplish
27:30
Speaker 1: with a two game losing streak against teams you know
27:33
Speaker 1: you can beat, and if you lose both of them,
27:36
Speaker 1: that ain't good. I mean, you're remember looking at that ceiling, man,
27:39
Speaker 1: and those those tiles and the ceiling get bigger and bigger,
27:42
Speaker 1: and it's like I can't go to sleep. Um, those
27:45
Speaker 1: those nights are rough. But now you know, you can
27:48
Speaker 1: feel like, all right, we're back on track. We have
27:50
Speaker 1: miles to go before we rest, but at least now
27:52
Speaker 1: we're trending in the right direction. Bring on the Steelers
27:56
Speaker 1: after the buy, Absolutely, bring on the Blitzburg Steelers. And damn,
28:01
Speaker 1: what do you think is gonna be Monday night? Do
28:03
Speaker 1: you think they'll I think that's going to stay at
28:04
Speaker 1: Monday night? Potentially Sunday night, excuse me, Sunday night footba.
28:07
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna stay there, Sunday night football potentially.
28:09
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll find out by Tuesday. Yeah, that's
28:14
Speaker 1: that would be a very very good bye week present,
28:19
Speaker 1: would I mean, I know people love the primetime exposure
28:22
Speaker 1: for the Bengals, and I get that, but from a
28:24
Speaker 1: very selfish perspective, these nighttime road games are tough on
28:29
Speaker 1: the old broadcast crew physically, no doubt. I mean, it
28:33
Speaker 1: gets me. It's not just a day recovery this old man.
28:36
Speaker 1: It takes a little bit a little bit longer. And man,
28:39
Speaker 1: I mean it's always fun, the energy and all that
28:41
Speaker 1: sort of thing. But Pittsburgh it's a division rival. I mean,
28:45
Speaker 1: that stadium is going to be rocking. It'll be good
28:48
Speaker 1: to go there and get a W and get get
28:50
Speaker 1: the first division win. That's first and foremost, get a
28:52
Speaker 1: division win on the road and turn around that aspect
28:55
Speaker 1: of things during the course of the season. Here starting
28:58
Speaker 1: to out on three division is not a happy place
29:01
Speaker 1: to be. So we shall see him. I'd love to
29:03
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29:06
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29:24
Speaker 1: it's time for this week's fun Facts interview, where we
29:26
Speaker 1: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
29:30
Speaker 1: some fun facts with offensive lineman Alex Kappa from Dublin, California,
29:34
Speaker 1: about a half an hour from San Francisco. That is
29:37
Speaker 1: one of my favorite cities in the world to visit.
29:40
Speaker 1: What were some of your favorite things about growing up
29:42
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. Oh, that's a good question. Weather's
29:46
Speaker 1: pretty good. People are good. That's what made Dublins a
29:50
Speaker 1: great place to grow up. It's just your family town. Yeah,
29:53
Speaker 1: I was out in the suburbs, so we didn't really
29:55
Speaker 1: make it into the city and stuff like that that often.
29:57
Speaker 1: But it's all a great place to grow up. In addition,
30:00
Speaker 1: end up playing sports as a kid. It sounds like
30:02
Speaker 1: you were a drama kid. I was in school musicals
30:05
Speaker 1: and plays and things like that. Did you act in
30:08
Speaker 1: high school productions and it was just something you really enjoyed?
30:11
Speaker 1: I did. I very much enjoyed it. My brothers kind
30:13
Speaker 1: of got me into it. My two older brothers were
30:15
Speaker 1: both in the theater and improv. I was making the improv.
30:19
Speaker 1: That's where I met my wife, So I can't argue
30:21
Speaker 1: with that. So I've read that you didn't play offensive
30:24
Speaker 1: line until you were a senior in high school. How
30:26
Speaker 1: did that come about? I started playing as a junior
30:29
Speaker 1: a little bit. My first two years, I was a
30:32
Speaker 1: tight end, and then we had a new coach come
30:35
Speaker 1: in and we transitioned like a spread offense. We literally
30:38
Speaker 1: weren't using the tight end at all, so I was
30:41
Speaker 1: like a backup slot receiver and that wasn't gonna work.
30:44
Speaker 1: So one day I was just like, ah, I just
30:46
Speaker 1: played tackle, and he was like, yeah, might as well.
30:48
Speaker 1: And then I kind of went back and forth in
30:50
Speaker 1: high school. So like, if we had decided one game
30:53
Speaker 1: we're gonna use the tight end, I would go throw
30:55
Speaker 1: on a tight end jersey and maybe in the middle
30:57
Speaker 1: of the game, I'll switch back and play tackle. Like
30:59
Speaker 1: I was kind of going back and forth. You're a
31:01
Speaker 1: large man now, but were you something of a late
31:04
Speaker 1: bloomer in terms of your size. I was a little
31:07
Speaker 1: skinny in high school, I would say. I was like
31:10
Speaker 1: when I started playing tackle, I was like two twenty,
31:12
Speaker 1: maybe a little less. I was a little skinny back
31:16
Speaker 1: in the back. So your high school or your hometown newspaper,
31:20
Speaker 1: I should say, said that you were a zero star
31:23
Speaker 1: recruit and you wound up at Division two Humboldt State
31:26
Speaker 1: in the northern part of California, just south of Oregon.
31:29
Speaker 1: It's not a football factory, But was it right for you?
31:32
Speaker 1: I was amazing as everything I could have hope for.
31:36
Speaker 1: I had great teammates that wanted to work hard. Like
31:40
Speaker 1: our old line room. We trained like we were all
31:42
Speaker 1: going to the NFL. My strength coach was amazing, one
31:46
Speaker 1: of the best strength coach in the country. He set
31:48
Speaker 1: me up like, like I said, I was skinny when
31:50
Speaker 1: I got there, I was definitely needed to develop. And
31:54
Speaker 1: then we had a guy, Taylor Bobs, who was playing
31:56
Speaker 1: offensive line in the NFL. Is the only other guy
31:58
Speaker 1: from Humboldt in recent story to play in the NFL,
32:00
Speaker 1: and he helped me out and got me going. How
32:04
Speaker 1: about diet, Were you one of these guys that like
32:06
Speaker 1: had to have the peanut butter and jelly sandwich at
32:08
Speaker 1: midnight to try to put on weight stuff like that.
32:11
Speaker 1: The go to after workouts early in college was chili dogs.
32:15
Speaker 1: So we will go, like me and my roommate, he
32:18
Speaker 1: was a receiver. He was hoping to get to like
32:19
Speaker 1: one eighty and I was hoping to get a little
32:21
Speaker 1: bigger than that. And we will go four chili dogs
32:25
Speaker 1: with like a protein shake with ice cream and would
32:27
Speaker 1: put card powder in it and all that, and we'ld
32:30
Speaker 1: have like two dinners and another shake before beds. So
32:32
Speaker 1: we were eating big time. You've come to the right
32:34
Speaker 1: city if you have an affinity for chili dogs. May
32:37
Speaker 1: have grown out of the chili dogs. I don't know.
32:41
Speaker 1: Who need to pack on a way like I did
32:42
Speaker 1: back then. We're chatting with Alex Cappa. You were quoted
32:45
Speaker 1: as saying, if you want to be successful in football.
32:48
Speaker 1: It has to be an obsession. Did that become the
32:51
Speaker 1: case for you? What I tell like younger kids coming
32:54
Speaker 1: up and high school kids, college kids is you have
32:57
Speaker 1: to know, like what your goals are and your level
32:59
Speaker 1: of commitment have to be line with those goals. So like,
33:02
Speaker 1: if you're at Division two and you want to play
33:04
Speaker 1: in the NFL, then you probably should be pretty freaking committed.
33:08
Speaker 1: And if you just want to have fun, then you
33:10
Speaker 1: just want to have fun. But I knew I wanted
33:12
Speaker 1: to play at a high level, so I really prioritized it.
33:16
Speaker 1: You had a great career at Humboldt State, four time
33:18
Speaker 1: Alignment of the Year in your conference, you earned an
33:20
Speaker 1: invitation to the Senior Bowl, and now you're up against
33:23
Speaker 1: the best players in the country. How important was that
33:26
Speaker 1: invite and having the opportunity to test yourself against the
33:29
Speaker 1: Krem deal La Krem. Yeah, it was fun. I think
33:33
Speaker 1: it kind of I was pretty confident going in, but
33:36
Speaker 1: I think it kind of built my confidence as well,
33:38
Speaker 1: like seeing some gosh from Breater schools and realized that
33:41
Speaker 1: I act compete with these guys too, And then it
33:43
Speaker 1: was just good for coaches to see that I could
33:46
Speaker 1: as well, while you were there, the NFL networks Mike
33:50
Speaker 1: Mayock famously said your tape was the nastiest he had
33:53
Speaker 1: ever seen. What was your reaction when you heard that?
33:56
Speaker 1: He hyped me up? Hyped up. That was a pretty
33:59
Speaker 1: fun week. There were like a couple of things that
34:01
Speaker 1: like people really caught onto that week. And you know,
34:04
Speaker 1: when you're coming out, like the draft process, it feels
34:08
Speaker 1: so big to you, like it feels like it's the
34:09
Speaker 1: biggest thing and everybody's watching, and so it was cool
34:12
Speaker 1: to get some shout outs like that and get a
34:14
Speaker 1: lot of eyes on me. The draft worked out well.
34:17
Speaker 1: You were a third round draft picked by the Tampa
34:18
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers in twenty eighteen. Describe your draft experience. I
34:23
Speaker 1: was kind of like hoping that was the second day,
34:25
Speaker 1: and I went like at the end of the third round,
34:26
Speaker 1: which is the end of the second day. So it
34:28
Speaker 1: was me and my dad, my now wife, and like
34:32
Speaker 1: one other friend to hanging out and it was like
34:35
Speaker 1: getting the end of the second day, I was like,
34:36
Speaker 1: come on, like hope and we don't have to come
34:39
Speaker 1: back for that third day. And then that called from
34:42
Speaker 1: Tampa caught me on guard. I'd like barely talk to
34:44
Speaker 1: them at all, so that caught me off guard. But
34:46
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. We went out and
34:47
Speaker 1: got some peats afterwards, a good celebratory feast. We're chatting
34:52
Speaker 1: me that like Skappa. So you go to the Bucks
34:54
Speaker 1: in your third year, they signed Tom Brady. You guys
34:56
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Unfortunately you didn't get a chance
34:59
Speaker 1: to playing the game because you broke your ankle in
35:02
Speaker 1: the wildcard playoff round against Washington and tried to keep playing.
35:07
Speaker 1: Can you explain how that one? Well? I tried. It
35:09
Speaker 1: was two minute drive at the end of the first half,
35:12
Speaker 1: and when you get hurt, you really don't want to
35:14
Speaker 1: burn a time out in the two minute drive. So, like,
35:17
Speaker 1: I never didn't feel good. I tried to pop up,
35:20
Speaker 1: but like I took too long to get up, So
35:22
Speaker 1: then they blew it dead and Tom's yelling at me,
35:25
Speaker 1: like what are we doing? Come on? So I went
35:28
Speaker 1: to the locker room and I didn't know it was broken.
35:30
Speaker 1: I just thought it was like spraying. So you know,
35:32
Speaker 1: they tape you up and all that. Everyone comes to
35:34
Speaker 1: locker room for halftime like are you good? Are you good?
35:36
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I guess and I went
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Speaker 1: out to warm up, and I was definitely not good.
35:41
Speaker 1: I tried, but I unsuccessful. Was the Super Bowl bitter
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Speaker 1: suite at all? Since you had started every game and
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Speaker 1: didn't give up a sack that year, but couldn't play
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Speaker 1: in the game itself. I mean, you want to be
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Speaker 1: out there, for sure. It was a unique experience because
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Speaker 1: it was COVID too, so it was like you were
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Speaker 1: limited on how much you could even be in there
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Speaker 1: if you weren't active and all that. So it was weird,
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Speaker 1: but obviously I was. It was a lot of fun,
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Speaker 1: pretty cool experience for sure. You became a free agent
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Speaker 1: this year. You were one of the first guys to sign,
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Speaker 1: showing how eager the Bengals were to bring you into
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Speaker 1: this organization. It's been reported that Tom Brady called and
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Speaker 1: tried to get you to change your mind. Did that
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Speaker 1: in fact happen? Oh, keep those conversations to ourselves. But
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Speaker 1: I was very excited to come here, for sure. So
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Speaker 1: as a Super Bowl champion, you got the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: go to the White House. What was that experience like
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Speaker 1: for you? It was pretty cool. I was hoping we
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Speaker 1: would get a little more time there. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: like rush. It's a they're busy over there, so let's
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Speaker 1: kind of flying and fly out. But it was really
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Speaker 1: cool and I want to go back and see more.
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Speaker 1: I haven't really been to DC much, but it was cool.
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Speaker 1: The whole experience was really cool. I like that history,
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Speaker 1: so I enjoyed it all right. Some wild card topics
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Speaker 1: now with Alex Kappa. I've read that you can juggle?
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Speaker 1: Is that the case? And how many items I can?
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Speaker 1: It's been a while. I aren't to good be able
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Speaker 1: to jumble A four pretty good right now? Definitely just three.
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Speaker 1: H I'd do a few little tricks, but it's been
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Speaker 1: a while, so I'll stick with three for now. Have
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Speaker 1: you had any paying jobs aside from professional football player? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I played. I worked for the Humboldt Crabs. It was
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Speaker 1: like a college summer team up in Humboldt base Baseball. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we were security slash clean up, so we would
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Speaker 1: somebody would get too rowdy, would have to take them out.
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Speaker 1: For the most part, we were sweeping up some flower
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Speaker 1: scenes after the game. But it was a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: We had a bunch of football players that would do
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Speaker 1: that job. Have you saved any Humboldt Crabs gear. Oh,
37:36
Speaker 1: I got something for sure, as my wife was wearing
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Speaker 1: a sweater last night. Humblet Crabs. How about that? When
37:42
Speaker 1: was the last time you had short hair? Because you've
37:44
Speaker 1: got the long flowing locks now. I think the sixth
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Speaker 1: grade sixth grade shaved it in sixth grade and said
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Speaker 1: I've had it long. Did your parents ever, you know,
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Speaker 1: give you any crap about it or did they say,
37:55
Speaker 1: you know, hair is a battle we don't want to fight. No,
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Speaker 1: they didn't mind. There was a They try to use
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Speaker 1: those like leverage. I guess as long as you got
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Speaker 1: good grades, you'd have long hair. Like that'll work all right.
38:04
Speaker 1: I've got a sixteen year old that's good to remember
38:06
Speaker 1: because his hair is getting very long. What do you
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Speaker 1: like to splur John? What do you like to spend
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Speaker 1: your money on food? As in nice restaurants? Yeah? Nice restaurants,
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Speaker 1: I would say, is the main thing? Says that I
38:19
Speaker 1: don't know. Do you have an all time favorite restaurant? Not?
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Speaker 1: The one that comes to mind is valves Burgers in
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Speaker 1: Hayward or maybe cash a Falley in California. Growing up,
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Speaker 1: we'll go all the time. It's like a fifty style
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Speaker 1: diner with a huge cheeseburger's delicious. It sounds like like diners,
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Speaker 1: drives and dive in or whatever. I forget those words,
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Speaker 1: but you know what I'm talking. I think they may
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Speaker 1: have stopped there. It's got good shake, its good fries,
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Speaker 1: good everything. All right, I'm gonna have to scribble that
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Speaker 1: one down for the next time I'm in the Bay Area.
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Speaker 1: Final fun fact for Alex Kappan. I appreciate your time.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of deep. If you could meet anybody
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Speaker 1: in history, athlete, actor, statesman, religious figure, whoever it might be,
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Speaker 1: who would that person be, I don't know, probably like
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Speaker 1: some old president or something, George Washington or do something
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Speaker 1: like that. One of those guys who was in the
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Speaker 1: room back then, you know, one of the room where
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Speaker 1: it happens it half Maybe one of those guys. That'd
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Speaker 1: be interesting. Hard to go wrong with. The father of
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Speaker 1: our country. Can't go wrong with that. This has been fun.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. It's great to have you on
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Speaker 1: the team. Best of what the rest of the year.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. That's going
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