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  Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast, the Homewood Bound edition. As the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals earned the right to open the playoffs in the
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  Speaker 1: Jungle by beating Baltimore twenty seven to sixteen, they'll face
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens again next weekend. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays,
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  Speaker 1: one on one locker room interviews and analysis from my
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  Speaker 1: broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun fact segment,
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  Speaker 1: is spelled am R e I N. Now let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the highlights. Of Sunday's win over Baltimore. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: a thirty four yard attempt for Evan McPherson, cal Adamitas
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  Speaker 1: High school and college teammate of Damar Hamlin, will snap
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  Speaker 1: it back. Chrispin puts the ball down. Evan McPherson's kick
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  Speaker 1: on its way and good, and the Bengals have scored
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  Speaker 1: first here at pay Course Stadium. It's a play action
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  Speaker 1: fake Brown looking throws before gage and accepted by Jesse Bates.
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  Speaker 1: He has it at the fifty looking to run it back.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has grabbed and he'll be tackled at the
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  Speaker 1: forty seven yard line of Baltimore. B J Hill put
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  Speaker 1: the hit on the quarterback Anthony Brown, who floated it
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  Speaker 1: right to Jesse Bates. He did, he hit him and
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  Speaker 1: jack knifed him. It comes a blitz. Burrow somehow gets away,
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  Speaker 1: throws over in the middle, caught at the thirty by
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd and he gets tackled at the twenty six
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  Speaker 1: yard line by Marcus Williams. Joe Burrow got out of
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  Speaker 1: a strait jacket there. Kyle Hamilton. Kyle Hamilton came on
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  Speaker 1: the blitz and he missed him first in goal. Inside
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  Speaker 1: the one. Zach Taylor was running down the sideline to
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  Speaker 1: call a time out. The Pengals run ahead and ran
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  Speaker 1: a play and Joe Mixon runs it in from inside
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  Speaker 1: the one. Zack Taylor didn't run fast enough to get
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  Speaker 1: the time out, and it works out just fine for
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's Brookie quarterback Anthony Brown one for three with an
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  Speaker 1: interception so far today. This pass intercepted off a ricochet.
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  Speaker 1: It's picked off by Mike Hilton, and that was not
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Brown's fault. It was a good throw. The intended
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  Speaker 1: receiver allowed it to glance right off his arms into
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  Speaker 1: the hands of Mike Hilton and the Bengals will take over.
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  Speaker 1: At the thirty two of Baltimore, Joe catches the shotgun snap,
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  Speaker 1: he throws it deep down the left side, the leaping
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  Speaker 1: catch in the end zone. Jamar Chase paulls it in
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  Speaker 1: and the Bengals have scored again, Chase beating Warlie. And
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  Speaker 1: with that throw, Joe Burrow has set the new single
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  Speaker 1: season record for touchdown passes in a season, breaking the
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  Speaker 1: mark that he set last year. It's his thirty fifth
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  Speaker 1: of the year, and what a performance of strength at
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  Speaker 1: the eight pecks of the catch, but Jamar Chase second
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  Speaker 1: and goal from the five, Brown hands it off. It's
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  Speaker 1: a run to the left and Drake will take it
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  Speaker 1: into the endz o for a Baltimore touchdown. Empty backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Brown's going to throw from the zone and brought down
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  Speaker 1: the ball. The ball comes down recovered for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson stripped it away from Anthony Brown and a
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  Speaker 1: three covered in the end zone for a Cincinnati touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Third down and eight, the Ravens at their own thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: brown back to throw. Here comes a blitz nice and
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  Speaker 1: he will be sacked Trey Hendrickson With Mike Kilton coming,
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  Speaker 1: they bring down Anthony Brown at the nine yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Ten seconds to go. The Bengals backing up into a
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  Speaker 1: prevent defense, brown back to pass. He throws a leaping
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  Speaker 1: catch made likely will be tackled and that will end
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  Speaker 1: the game. The Cincinnati Bengals are not only AFC North champions,
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  Speaker 1: but the NFL can keep the change. Yeah, there will
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  Speaker 1: be no coin flip required, as the Bengals will open
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs in the jungles and rightfully and deservedly sown.
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  Speaker 1: The final score was twenty seven to sixteen and Normally,
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  Speaker 1: an eleven point win over a division rival is very satisfying. However,
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  Speaker 1: there were causes for concern. First and foremost, Alex Kappa
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  Speaker 1: injured his left ankle late in the third quarter and
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  Speaker 1: left the field on a cart. More on that later
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  Speaker 1: with Dave Lapham. Secondly, after opening the game with two
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in a field goal on their first three possessions,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals had ten more drives and only added one
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  Speaker 1: more field goal. On offense, there were seven punts, a
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  Speaker 1: loss fumble, and they got stopped on fourth and one. Still,
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals broke out celebratory cigars in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: after the game, and I caught up with one of
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  Speaker 1: the game ball recipients, who was headed to the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: for the fourth time in his six NFL seasons. The
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  Speaker 1: Heiress stick with cigars smoke inside the Bengals locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and we're with Mike Kilton. Congratulations, champions of the North
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  Speaker 1: for the second year in a row. You will open
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs at home against Baltimore. How's that sound? Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: it's big, you know, number one, just getting to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, giving ourselves a chance and us winning the division.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously getting the home playoff game is big.
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  Speaker 1: You know, having a division upon it, coming to with
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  Speaker 1: a lot on the line is gonna be big, so
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  Speaker 1: we we gotta get rid of We know it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be another tough game, but we know it's at stake
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be prepared. The offense scored on the first
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  Speaker 1: three possessions. It was seventeen nothing. Brandon Allen started warming
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  Speaker 1: up on the sideline. I think a lot of us thought,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the route is on. It didn't play out
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  Speaker 1: that way. How are you guys feeling about how the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the game went? Oh all right? You know,
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  Speaker 1: even if they've been they had people down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a division game. They know us and we know them,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not gonna be easy. We knew they weren't
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  Speaker 1: us gonna lay down, but we found a way to
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  Speaker 1: just do what we do best get to win. And
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  Speaker 1: now we're here celebrating getting ready for a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: Takeaways we're a big part of it. I think. For
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  Speaker 1: if if I'm not mistaken and you had an interception,
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  Speaker 1: tell me about that play. It was third down. He
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  Speaker 1: ran ag a drag route, so he went right down
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  Speaker 1: the line. Quarterback kind of threw it behind him and
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  Speaker 1: it tipped up and I having to be in a
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  Speaker 1: right spot. So I love how it worked out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now we just gotta keep caring the turnovers to the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. It was obviously a weird week.
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  Speaker 1: We're all thrilled that tomorrow Hamblin is doing well. But
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  Speaker 1: what was it like to go back out there and
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  Speaker 1: play today. It was definitely a little tough at first,
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  Speaker 1: but once we just really gathered in this locker room
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  Speaker 1: before we came out, were just like, do what we do,
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  Speaker 1: play our game. You know, don't don't play slow because
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  Speaker 1: of what happened. Just be yourself and enjoy the moment
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  Speaker 1: and play every dawn like it's your last. Twelve wins
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  Speaker 1: ties a franchise record, an eight game winning streak, ties
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  Speaker 1: a franchise record. Do you feel like you're going into
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  Speaker 1: the postseason and a good place? Oh yeah, absolutely, Well
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  Speaker 1: we're rolling right now. You know, we're a hot seeing
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  Speaker 1: but you know, nothing that means nothing. We can't finish
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  Speaker 1: the job, and that's getting to the super Bowl, and
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  Speaker 1: this weekend is our first step. So guys got a
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  Speaker 1: reset and just get ready before a top of phone.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a cigar guy? I am, I really am,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm enjoyed this one today. Congratulations, thank you. That's
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  Speaker 1: Mike Kelton. As Mike noted in that interview, Baltimore had
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  Speaker 1: people down. Lamar Jackson missed his fifth straight game with
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  Speaker 1: a knee injury, and second string quarterback Tyler Huntley sat
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  Speaker 1: out with a shoulder injury. Rookie Anthony Brown made his
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  Speaker 1: first career start and finished with a passer rating of
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  Speaker 1: forty six point two. The Ravens also rested several key players,
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  Speaker 1: including running back JK. Dobbins, tight end Mark Andrews, cornerback
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Peters, and offensive lineman Kevin Zeitler with a possibility
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  Speaker 1: of earning the number two playoffs. See The Bengals played
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  Speaker 1: their regulars only to see Alex Kappa go down. There's
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  Speaker 1: no word yet the severity of his injury, but it
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  Speaker 1: obviously did not look good. Max Sharping, who has claimed
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  Speaker 1: off waivers just before the start of the season, took
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  Speaker 1: over at right guard. He started thirty three games in
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  Speaker 1: the past for Houston. Here are Ted Carriss and Joe
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  Speaker 1: Burrow on the injury to Alex Kappa. Well, I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: a lot of credit this year, and I just want
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  Speaker 1: to make it clear that Alex Kappa is the singular
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  Speaker 1: force that drives this old line. He's like having another
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  Speaker 1: center on the field. He's my number one confidant and
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  Speaker 1: he's extremely talented, and that my heart broke when that happened.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the details. I have all the comments
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  Speaker 1: in the world in Max if that's what has to
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  Speaker 1: do going forward, but I just want to make it
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  Speaker 1: clear how much Alex means to this team, means this
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  Speaker 1: offensive line and to this offense. He's been a huge
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  Speaker 1: contributor and a big factor of our success this season.
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  Speaker 1: He's really been playing unbelievable all year. Kappa's one guy
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  Speaker 1: you love to be around, great locker room guy. Two
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable player, smart, physical, tough, everything you could ask for
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  Speaker 1: in and into your guy. You know, I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the severity of the injury, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of confidence in the guys behind him.
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  Speaker 1: Max has played a lot of football and you know
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  Speaker 1: he knows the stuff, so he's gonna have to step up.
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  Speaker 1: But we got all the faith in the world. In
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  Speaker 1: a the Bengals lost l Collins with a knee injury
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago against the Patriots, So after having the
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  Speaker 1: same five starters on the offensive line for the first
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  Speaker 1: fifteen games, it looks like they'll head into the postseason
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  Speaker 1: with Sharping and Hakim Identagy starting on the right side.
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play well and miss throws that he usually makes.
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  Speaker 1: He was twenty five for forty two. That's sixty percent
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  Speaker 1: for two hundred and fifteen yards, one touch down, no picks,
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  Speaker 1: and a passer rating of eighty one. The Ravens stuffed
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals running game, holding Joe Mixon to twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: yards on eleven carries and holding the Bengals as a
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  Speaker 1: team to fifty five yards on the ground. Fortunately for Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: the defense was outstanding, coming up with two interceptions and
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  Speaker 1: two fumble recoveries. The deal allowed one touchdown but also
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  Speaker 1: scored one And I talked to the guy who came
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  Speaker 1: away with Cincinnati's first defensive touchdown of the year. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I am now smoking a cigar inside the
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  Speaker 1: locker room. I'm standing next to Joseph Osai after he
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  Speaker 1: just got a nice light from a teammate. You scored
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown the Bengals one or twelfth game of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Describe how you're feeling right now. Feeling great. You know
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  Speaker 1: last year I didn't get to experience these guys, just
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  Speaker 1: feeling with you guys firsthand. But I'm just happy. I do.
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  Speaker 1: Am very thankful. I'll go over to God. I won't
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  Speaker 1: be here without him. So Trey Hendrickson stripped the ball
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  Speaker 1: away from Anthony Brown. We saw how long your reach
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  Speaker 1: is as you reeled that ball in good serve. I
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  Speaker 1: just I felt the ball. I saw him strip it,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt the ball hit hit my feet and
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to scramble to find it because
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  Speaker 1: without trying to alert the other guy to the ball
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  Speaker 1: was on the ground too. So it was it was
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  Speaker 1: a bit safety, but I'm just gonna I was able
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  Speaker 1: to get it. I was able to. Really. Then, when
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  Speaker 1: did you score your last touchdown high school? My junior
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  Speaker 1: in high school. Um, it was a fumble recovery and
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  Speaker 1: I and I ran it in for a touchdown. We're
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  Speaker 1: visiting the Joseph side. So with this win, you'll be
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  Speaker 1: back here next week against Baltimore in a rematch. How
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  Speaker 1: are you guys feeling about that? Um? Those got that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tough team. All credit to them, all credit
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  Speaker 1: to their coaches. Um, they were down early and they
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  Speaker 1: stuck in there and they fought. So I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. Man. It feels a lot better when you
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  Speaker 1: win when you work hard like that for it. So
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  Speaker 1: if it's gonna be a dog fight, we're prepared for it.
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  Speaker 1: Were Um, we've been there before and we're to win.
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  Speaker 1: It was seventeen nothing as you alluded to, did the
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  Speaker 1: way the game ended with them at least sticking in it.
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  Speaker 1: Take anything away from the victory today, No, sir, win
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  Speaker 1: is a win in this league. They're a great team too.
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  Speaker 1: What what's the record? Ten and ten and seven? Then
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  Speaker 1: and seven? They're a great team too. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: win in this league, especially in AFC North, and UM,
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  Speaker 1: every win you gotta be thankful for it, and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be appreciated for way, no matter how it comes. Ugly, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be happy of to win. And we're back
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  Speaker 1: to the drawing board and we'll see him again. Twelve
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  Speaker 1: wins ties a franchise record. An eight game winning streak
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  Speaker 1: ties a franchise record. How do you feel about the
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  Speaker 1: way you guys are going into postseason play? Let's make
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  Speaker 1: it thirteen love the sound of that. Break it. We're
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  Speaker 1: tied right now, Let's break it. So with the events
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  Speaker 1: of the last week, everybody felt a lot better as
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  Speaker 1: the week went along, as we got good news about
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow Hamlin's recovery. But what was it like for you
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  Speaker 1: to take the field today? Um, you know, when it happened,
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  Speaker 1: it was darned on us how violent this game truly is.
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  Speaker 1: You have that you know in the back of your mind,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a violent sport. But seeing that truly manifested,
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  Speaker 1: and it just made me more thankful. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about anybody else but me personally, made me more thankful,
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  Speaker 1: more appreciative that at any point in time something like
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  Speaker 1: that could happen to me. But it hasn't. So I
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  Speaker 1: thank God for that, and I respect the game a
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  Speaker 1: lot more and every sense I get I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: out there and give it all I have because you
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  Speaker 1: never know when which one is your last. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're saying what I'm saying. You gotta you gotta play
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  Speaker 1: hard for Damar and his family because he got the
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  Speaker 1: game taken away from him. Now. We don't know yet
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  Speaker 1: if you'll get to play again, but just to get
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  Speaker 1: the game taken away from you like that, you just
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  Speaker 1: gotta be respectful of the game and appreciative of every
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  Speaker 1: chance you get, every opportunity you get. I've interrupted your
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  Speaker 1: celebration long enough. Congratulations, appreciate the time. That's Joseph Osid.
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  Speaker 1: is Zach Taylor's fourth year as the Bengals head coach,
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  Speaker 1: and he has upped his win total every season, from
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  Speaker 1: two in year one to four in year two to
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  Speaker 1: ten in year three to twelve. This season, Zach spent
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  Speaker 1: four minutes with Dave Lapham after the game black Room.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of cigar smoke in there. It is
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of work that goes into this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I know we've got bigger first to fries we
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  Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, but to finish off with eight
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  Speaker 1: straight wins in the back half of the season to
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  Speaker 1: win the first time in franchise history back to back
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  Speaker 1: divisional games, most wins in franchise history twelve tied for that.
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  Speaker 1: These guys should take a lot of pride in what
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  Speaker 1: they coomplish her today. And this is a typical a
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  Speaker 1: seen North football game. It's ugly. I haven't seen a
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  Speaker 1: pretty one yet. You just gotta find a way to
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  Speaker 1: be on top. And that's where guys did three and
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  Speaker 1: three in the division and you win the last three
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  Speaker 1: to do it nine and one against everybody else. That
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  Speaker 1: just proved how if this division is Yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a tough division. We're a tough team and
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  Speaker 1: this team just keeps finding ways to win. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: we don't care how pretty it's going to be. We
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  Speaker 1: just got to be the ones to one on top.
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  Speaker 1: Turnovers are always a big factor in this Baltimore Raven
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  Speaker 1: football team only had seventeen giveaways coming into this football game,
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  Speaker 1: Like second few us in the league. You got them
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  Speaker 1: for four today, two interceptions, two finals plus two fourth
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  Speaker 1: down stops which in my mind possessing done in the
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  Speaker 1: kick it's a takeaway. I mean, six of them. That's
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Yeah, that was awesome. You know, they gave
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  Speaker 1: the offense a great field position scored seven. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that was our first defensive such of the season, which
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: is good to have. We needed that in this game.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: And so again they did a great job winning the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: field position battle for us and creating a lot of takeaways.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: That was good. So what is it that you told
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: your football team after this game? I mean, you know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: obviously they're celebrating like they should, but you got work.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: You have unfinished business. I guess work still to be done.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: What did you tell them? Congratulated them again? How hard
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: this is to do. And this is the cherry on
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: top of the regular season. This is this is the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: best we could have done after the halfway point was
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: win all eight of them and and find a way
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to come out on top of a toughest division all football.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: And so now you you after today, we put this
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: one behind us. We don't know if it'll be a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: six day week or seven day week. Coming at us,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: but our guys will be ready to go whatever the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: worst case scenario is for the Mangles. That's what the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: leg will do. It seems like because I mean, how
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: big of a motivating factor was that coin tops bullcraft
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: that went on. I think our guys did a great
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: job handling the right way. They know that winning this
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: game solved a lot of our problems. So that's what
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the that's what they focused on doing, and that's what
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: they got done. Coach. I mean, as we talked about earlier,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I thought that the fans showed up today. I thought
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that it was a good moment where get back to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: normalcy as best you can. The fans celebrate the players
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to the players celebrate the fans. I mean, it was
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: like a almost like a love fest out there, you know.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I mean after what took place on Money Night, did
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: you feel that? That's why Cincinnati's That's why we all
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: want to be here, because we love our fans. We
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: love this organization. The support is felt every single week.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I know that the fans love this team and what
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: we're all about. It's really cool to see you've wanted
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: eight in a road to end the season. This football
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: team can get it done when they needed to get
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: it done, where they need to get it done, can't
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: they Yeah, it doesn't matter at this point where we play.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: We've we've heard it play at home. Can't wait to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: play this. This home playoff game atmosphere that we had
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: last year against the Raiders was second to none. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: expect none, nothing less for this go around. Even more.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: We got the Baltimore Ravens coming in here. What more
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: could you ask for to have a chance to end
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: their season and continue ours? And so I know that
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the fans are gonna be turned out for this weekend.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And finally, Coach, and appreciate your carving this time after
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the game last year, going through what you went through
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: three game run in the playoffs going to the Super Bowl.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: How much of a carryover is there from that when
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: you start preparing for this particular playoff run or is
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it like forget all about that? This is a totally
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: different equations. I think there's an understanding of what's in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: front of us, how hard it's going to be. The
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: opponents that are left are all great football teams, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: each week brings its own challenges. They're all gonna be tough.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: These guys are mentally ready for it, they're physically ready
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: for it. They're battle tested, they know what's in front
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of them, and I'm excited to see them operate. Congratulations coach,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: twelve and four AFC North champion, number three seed playoffs
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: here we come. Awesome, Thank you. So here's how the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: playoff picture looks in the AFC. The Chiefs are the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: number one seed and get a first round by Buffalo
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: is the two seed and opens at home against Miami.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: The Bengals are the three seed and host Baltimore. The
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Jaguars are the fourth seed and host the Chargers. The
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Steelers just missed the playoffs after beating Cleveland twenty eight
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to fourteen. Still, after a two and six start, Pittsburgh
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: wound up nine and eight, extending Mike Toblin's streak to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: sixteen straight five hundred or better seasons as this Steelers
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: head coach. Now time for the radio guys recap lap.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I wasn't sure what I was going
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to get when we walked into the locker room after
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the game. I didn't know if it would be celebratory.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if they'd feel a little disappointed. Because
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of the way the game ended, Clearly the mood was celebratory.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stink like cigars for the next several days.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: The Bengals, you know, looked at the season as a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: whole and celebrated that the success. It's been. Twelve and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: four ties a franchise record for most wins in a season.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: They finished with an eight game winning streak. They head
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: into the postseason with a home game and momentum. You're
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: exactly right, and you know, Zach Taylor, I think said
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it best. You know, an NFL season is hard. When
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you go twelve and four and you win your division,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: they should be proud, they should be celebratory. But a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: grizzel veteran like Ted Carroll said, you know what, I'm
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: not real excited about how we played. I'm glad we
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: won the football game, but you know, basically, and I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: translating here, this is not what he said. But he
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: wasn't about to go do cartwheels over it, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I mean he was he realized that it's going to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: be a different Baltimore team they faced next week, and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he knows that they have to play better than they
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: did in this football game. Particularly in the second half.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, the second half was man root canal surgery.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And you know they've had three games in a row
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: now where they played the entire game and had one
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: half of good performance and another half of not be
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: at one phase of the other offense or defense. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: so I guess the good news is you get a win,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you go twelve and four ties of franchise record, win
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a division, all that good stuff, have home faild advantage
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But you know, you still have a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: lot of work to do. So it's not like let's
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: just roll our hats out there and we know we
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: can beat them. They know they have to play much
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: better than they played today to beat the Baltimore Raven
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: team that's showing up next week. Alex Kappa departed on
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a cart with a left ankle injury in the locker
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: room after the game. He was there with his teammates celebrating,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: but he was on one of those little scooters keeping
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the left ankle off the ground. That certainly doesn't bode
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: well for the round first ground of the playoffs. No,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: it doesn't. In the way he was, you know, his
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: fellow offensive line war you know, shaking his hand and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: saying some of the things they were saying to him.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: It was almost almost I don't want to speculate, but
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they knew the severity of it. Let's put it that way.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: They have an idea that he's definitely not playing next week.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I think they know that for sure. And other than that,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: they'll be waiting for final news. I mean, I'm sure
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: there's other MRIs x rays, all kinds of pictures that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: they'll be taking. For all we know, they may not
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: need to take anymore. They may already know. And I
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: will give Alex Kappa credit. He was trying to keep
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the stiff upper lip as best he could. You know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he was smiling. He was very uh, you know, effusive
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in the praise of his teammates, and I mean it
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh poor me, poor me. I heard him
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: say a couple of times, that's football. That's football, guys.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So in my mind, I've been involved in some of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that kind of situation. In my mind, that means, you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I have no control over this, and it doesn't look
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: like it's very good. I mean, that would be awful
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: if he's out for the postseason, because he's got a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: got hurt in the first playoff game and wasn't able
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to play in the Super Bowl. One of the reasons
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: why he's with this team is that he saw that
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it was a contender and he wants to get back
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and play this time. Yeah, and you look at it
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: from an offensive line standpoint, first fourteen games of the season,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: plus you know you have your whole line intact. You
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: lose your right tackle Collins, then you have a game
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that doesn't count, and then you lose your right guard.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, so after going the entire season with the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: offensive line taken every snap together up until the very
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: end of it, here the final two games where they
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: played games, they lose their starting right side that they
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: got in free agency who were playing well for him,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: callus in Kappa the Sea Brothers. I mean, that's a blow.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: If indeed that's the fact. Last year, the Bengals destroyed
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the Ravens offensively. Now, in the second of those two games,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Baltimore is ravaged by injuries. The Bengals were playing the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: B squad, but the first time around, the Ravens were
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: largely healthy. In the two meetings this year, Baltimore's defense
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: gave Cincinnati a lot of trouble. Joe Burrow through for
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: two of his four lowest passing yardage games this year
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in those two games against Baltimore. I think it's I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: think it's a philosophy of defense. McDonald is a guy
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: that he's not gonna let teams get over the top.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And they tried a few times, Joe Burrow trying to
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: get over the top multiple times with various receivers, not
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: just one receiver, multiple receivers, and there was always somebody there.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: There was nobody running wide open. There was one where
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: maybe the ball was under thrown a little bit, put
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a little bit too much air under it. But their
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: combination of disguising pressures, they'll they'll put five, six, seven
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: guys in the box and they'll only rush three or four,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you know, and you don't know which ones are coming,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and you don't know how they're coming with twists and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: everything else. And they got consistent pressure with that. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: but then at the snap of the football, they're dropping
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: multiple people back and they're playing very deep umbrella coverage
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and then people had taken underneath stuff running under after
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the snap of the football, they have a good scheme.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: They really do. And McDonald I think he's grown to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the job. I think he's gotten more confident as the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: season's gone on. I think his players are more confident
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: than him. He's more confident in them. They're playing much
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: better football than they were in the beginning of the season.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I'm impressed with what they've done defensively, and they are
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: not going to be an easy football team to deal
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: with next week in the playoffs. I can tell you
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that I don't want to tack your voice much longer.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: But do you think the Ravens head back to Baltimore
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: feeling good about today, even though they lost by double digits.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I think they feel like they learn some things. I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: think they feel like we've got some intel. We've got
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: things that we know that we can expand upon. Things
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: we know we can take too, you know, the second
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: level of what we showed. You know, there's always cat
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and mouse going on, and I've been there. When you
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: play a team at the end of the regular season,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it's the first one you face in the playoffs. I mean,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: you drive yourself nuts thinking are they going to abandon everything? No,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be who they are. They have an identity.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: They're gonna do things they know they do well, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they're always tweaks, you know, a package to the second
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and third level, and what is that second and third level?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And that uncertainty is what drives you crazy as you
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: try to prepare and anticipate what they might be doing. So,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, what you have to do is just study,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: study tape you know of them all year of the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: progression and what they've done through the end of the season,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: including your football game. And Frank Pollock established rules as
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: best you can to recognize and communicate what they're doing
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and keep the rules as few and as simple as
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you possibly can. Fortunately, you're not on the road dealing
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: with that crowd noise in Baltimore and having to deal
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: with all that crap. So having the home field advantage
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I think is a big plus in that regard, you know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and that's where it's going to start, you know, particularly
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: when you got guys you know that don't have any
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: just minimal snaps. The only snaps they have together at
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: right guard and right tackle. So what took place today
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: against the Ravens, you know, So, man, it's going to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: be a challenge for Frank Pollock and so all year long,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it's been next man up, not just next next man
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: step up. Next man's gonna step up big time in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: this one. I think if I'm the Ravens, I'm thinking
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: we started our third string quarterback and his first NFL start.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: We rested our best running back, we rested one of
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the best tight ends in the NFL, and we made
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: him sweat and if not for short fields and a
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: defensive touchdown, their offense didn't do that much against US.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I think that boosts Baltimore's confidence heading into the playoff rematch.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, when you look at it in the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: second half, three and out, two plays, fumble, eight plays,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: subtle for a field goal, three and out, three and out,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: four downs, lose the football three and out three to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the last four possessions or three and outs, you have
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a four down stop. I mean they shut him down.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: They shut him down defensively. It it is going to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: be It is going to be a challenge. I mean,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I think you won the football game, but I don't.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think those guys were in there celebrating win
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: against the Ravens like you said before. I think they
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: were celebrating the entirety of the season, particularly after what
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: happened Monday night. I think they're just saying, man, after
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: we dealt with that, you know, we still won it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: We still finished it. We did what we needed to do.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: We don't have to have a coin flip to decide
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: where we're playing. We have a pretty good idea of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: who we're playing and where we're playing them. We just
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: don't know when. So um, yeah, it was. It was,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: particularly when I was looking at the offensive lineman and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: talking to those guys. I mean, I've been there. I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: know what that's you know, it's like you're you're content
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: about a lot of things, but you know you may
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: have lost a comrade, a comrade in arms, and that's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: never good, never a good feeling. So they were having
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: an emotional tug of war. I could see it, I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: could feel it. I've been there. I know what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: where we get to know the person under the pads.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with defensive tackle BJ Hill.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: If the Internet is accurate, your full name is Bobby
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Jean Hill Junior. Have you always been called BJ? Oh? Yeah? Um,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: this is always born. It was called Bjum Bobby, Um,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: my dad's that's his name. 't just go BJ. So
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: how about on the first day of school when they're
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: reading off names, did the teacher used to say Bobby
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Hill and your your schoolmates chuckle? They did even still
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to this day when people always did like, oh, your
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: name is Bobby, but yeah, my name is Bobby. But yes,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: that's why I go by go by b J. Yeah,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: we're doing fun facts with b J. Hill. Your mom
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: was asked once to describe you when you were little,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and she interrupted the reporter and said, he was never little.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Did you always tower over the other kids? I did.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I was always the big guy in the room playing
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: sports too. I always stood out, you know, I was
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: always I was always big. Everybody was just way way
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: smaller than me. Did you like it? I loved it,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: you know, I always came in handy playing sports, you know,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: just have a recess and stuff like that. I loved
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you were from Oakboro, North Carolina, a town of about
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: two thousand people forty five minutes or so from Charlotte.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Describe Oak Borrow, Um, it's a small town, hard working
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: people who love each other. One real light. I think
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: they might put two and just a couple years ago.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: But this is a great town that I love. The
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: supported me so much. U. I love going back. I
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: love going back to elementary school there that I went to.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I've going back to my high school that I went there.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: This is a great town that you you would love
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to live in. Oak Burrow is very proud of you.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I believe Super Bowl Sunday was renamed B. J. Hill Day.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Will you always go back always? That's mess my hometown
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: for sure. I always got special place in my heart.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Um yeah, I will always go back and get back
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to my community there. You attended West Stanley High School,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: where you scored a thousand points in basketball. You played baseball.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: You remember the track and field team. You obviously excelled
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: in football. When and why did football become the sport
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you emphasized like basketball is my first sport. And now
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I know, like my probably my sophomore junior year stopped growing.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I don't think basketball is
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: gonna be before me. So I was like, you know what,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I think football. I think football is the sport. When
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: it came time to pick a college, you chose NC State,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: about two hours away from home. Y NC State, UM
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: just felt right. Um, the coaches there, UM, the recruiting
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: classes there, we was recruiting it. It was just perfect,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: perfect time and perfect great group of guys. Um. I
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: did grow up with the you know, the light blue
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: school fan. I'm not gonna say in the name, but
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it just felt right. I just fell in love with
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the coaches there and the culture and it just felt
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: like more like home. Um. And she stays like more
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: like a country type of vibe and that's what I
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: grew up on. One of your college roommates was one
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of your current teammates, Jermaine Pratt. Were you roommates by choice?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: And why did you hit it off? Um? They just
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: put us in the room. To be honest, We graduated
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: at high school early and UM, January they drew us
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: in the room. Four of us. UM, it just popped
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: off met him. So it was four roommates met him.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Was on one side and the other two on the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: other side of the apartment. So it's just so it
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: worked out. Man, it was perfect. I'm glad to be
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: here with him. It has been great. So after four
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: great years at NC State, you were drafted in the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: third round of the twenty eighteen draft by the New
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: York Giants. Describe your draft experience. Um, it was awesome. Like,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: like I said, oak burw was behind me. It was.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: It was one of the biggest days of my life
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: for sure. Um, you know, just a great opportunity to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: go to a big city to show my talent. Um. Um,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: it was really a great experience. Emotional, No, I didn't
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: get really emotional, but you know I was, you know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: very excited. Um, Like my family is very excited. They
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: just knew how much work I put in. I mean,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised because I knew how much work I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: put in to get to get there. So, as we mentioned,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you're off to the big city, New York City. Might
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: it changed from two thousand people in oak Borough? What
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: was that like for you? It was definitely different. You
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: see this is way more. It's just way faster. Um,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of traffic, A big
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: shitty I'm like, what is going on? But I just
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: fell in love with I loved I loved the New
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: York it was it was great. Uh the food there
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: was amazing. Just going to city, take the train in
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: or take the waterway, the boat over, it was, the ferry,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: it was. It was great. The Giants have had some
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of the best pass rushers in history, Lawrence Taylor, Michael Strahand,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and others. The team record for single game sacks by
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a rookie is held by you. You had three against
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. What stands out about that game? I
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: was on fire. That game as one of the probably
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: one of my best games. Um, I don't even say
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a good game. I was just
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: on fire. Everything it was clicking. Um. I did hold
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the rookie record for the season, but somebody broke it
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I think two years ago. He's actually really a really
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: good pass rusher. But yeah, it was great. Like I said,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: everything was clicking on the on the day. What's the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: opposing offensive lineman look like when you are torching him
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: that badly? This is a long day for him. Man,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it's when you get three Saxons and one day. A
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: lot of people haven't done it, and I was fortunate
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to be one of those guys that done it. It
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: was amazing. So you spent three years with the Giants,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you went through training camp before year four, and then
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: just before the start of the season you got traded
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to the Bengals in August of last year. It's obviously
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: worked out great for you and for the team, but
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: that's a whirlwind situation. Was it difficult at first? It
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: was because you're just leaving a place which that you
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: knew for the last three years, you grew upon with
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: these guys on your D line. It was just doubt.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: That kind of sucked is knowing that you were leaving,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Especially when I got told I didn't know I was
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: going to first, and then when I found out where
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I was going, I was like, you know what Blues here,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: he's a d C. He he's seen me play before. Jemaine.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I called him. He's like, man, you're not coming here.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You're not getting trade. It was like, all right, you
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: see the next day. Then I was like one of
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the flight the next day came here. He met me here.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: It was like it was everything just worked out perfect, man,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: everything lined up how I was supposed to be. Just
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: grateful to be here. Man. They gave me a chance
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to show my talent. Yeah, you had a great season.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: You were into contract extension, and in the AFC Championship game,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: you made one of the biggest defensive plays in franchise history.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Down by eight in the third quarter, you intercept Patrick
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Mahomes to set up the game tying touchdown. Were you
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: surprised when you jumped up and the ball SMATs you
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: right in the hands for that pick? I knew the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: ball is coming out fast a place, so I knew
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I had to get my hands up, just get my
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: just get a tip if I want to call it,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: or a tip. That trade had been right behind me
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: to pick it off. So it was a pretty cool
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: play to make, especially in that time where we needed
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: to turn over the get to start it. And it
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: was just a great play, great great timing. Right there
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: after that play and after some of your other big plays,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you do. The rock the Baby celebration is their personal
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: meaning behind that. I'm a Russell Westbrook fan. Um. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: just like the way he plays basketball, the way he
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: dominates the way he you know, just go about the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: way he's stuff. And I see him do it, and
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: when he does it, like it just likes to fire
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: in me. I was like, I like that, So I look,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: he stole it from him, not even looky hiki, I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: stole it from him, And um yeah, it's I just
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I just look what he does on the court. So
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: while we're on the subject of celebrations, earlier this year,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you tried to do the equivalent of a Lambeau leap
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: at pay Course Stadium. I guess it's a jungle jump
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: when it's in Cincinnati. It did not go particularly well.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Is that harder than it looks it is. I'm gonna,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: you know what, we'll get it turned over. This week.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it again, see see if I can
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: make it. But it is, it is very high. Um,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I was shocked out how it wasn't for I'm like, oh,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I can make it anything. I don't think I'll be
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: able to get up there. So what will be your
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: technique if you try again? Well, you do more of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a kind of a pull up move. I'm gonna tell
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: somewhere to push me up there, give me up there.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Help me out, have me throw me up there something
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: all right? A few wildcard topics now for b J. Hill.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: What do you like to spend your money on food?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Like fancy restaurant food or buying stuff that you you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: prepare at home during the season. Fancy food all season.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I like I like to grill. I like the going
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: and grill a little bit. BJ Hell is a grill
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: master just a little bit. Do you have a go
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to one of my favorite things that cooks that everybody
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: loves my chicken wings? Like cook a little secret sauce
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you about, but yeah, it's pretty good.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: All right. I'm salivating just at the thought of it.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: You host a football camp for kids, a free football
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: camp back home in North Carolina. What's your message to
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: those kids? Um, just a dream big and that you
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: can do anything you put your money into. You don't
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: have to be football, You don't have to be any sports.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It can be a teacher, it can be a fight
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to fight, it can be a police, whatever it is.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I just like whatever you pig just be great at
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: be successful, And you don't have to make a lot
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: of money to be successful. I think being successful is
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: up to you. It's what you think successful of being
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: successful is. And UM, that's why I tell them all
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the time, even when I do other little events back
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: at home. I work with another another nonprofit that back
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: at home I do a lot of work with. UM,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: tell them the same thing. UM, just just dream big
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and you can do anything you want. It's a great message.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Final fun fact for b Jhill, and this one's kind
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, an athlete,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: an entertainer, a statesman, who would that person be. Hmm,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: that's a great question. I'm gonna say my grandparents. I
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: never met my grandparents. They're all past and I heard
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I heard a lot of great stories of how hard
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: they worked, Um, what they did to provide for our family.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Just just talk to them and just see how life
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: was and like what they did to you know, profile
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: from my family. I'm sure they would be very proud
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: of their grandson and the success he's had in the NFL.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. Best of leuct the rest of
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the year. Well, thank you, sir. That is Bobby gene
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Hill Junior. That's going to do it for this episode
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