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Speaker 1: Hig and everybody.
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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast,
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Speaker 2: the Chicgo Chic Go edition. As the Bengals rest their
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Speaker 2: starters in Week two of the preseason and lose to
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Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears twenty seven to three. Coming up radio replays,
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Speaker 2: locker room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then,
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Speaker 2: Now let's get to football. In the radio replays from
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Speaker 2: Saturday's loss to the Bears Week two of the preseason,
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Speaker 2: and we are in downtown Chicago where today the Bengals
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Speaker 2: starters will take the day off and the backups will
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Speaker 2: look to shore up roster spots. Improved they are ready
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Speaker 2: when needed as the Bengals take on the Chicago Bears,
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Speaker 2: and it is time for the pig skin to fly.
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Speaker 2: Here at Soldier Field, second down and five Bengals at
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Speaker 2: the twenty two of Chicago Sdrick Jackson motions out to
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Speaker 2: the left woodside, waits for the shotgun snap.
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Speaker 1: He has the ball.
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Speaker 2: It's a Blitz gets rid of it as he's hit
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Speaker 2: and it's intercepted as the ball fluttered right into the
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Speaker 2: hands of a Chicago linebacker who picked it off and
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Speaker 2: ran it out to the twenty six yard line, intercepted
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Speaker 2: by amon Ogbon Bamega. After the big hit on the
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Speaker 2: Blitz on loganwood Side.
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Speaker 3: Eric Washington, I'm pressuring. I don't think they can pick
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Speaker 3: it up. He brought more one more they could than
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Speaker 3: they could block.
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Speaker 2: Turnover big one third down in goal from the seven.
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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams back to throw again, looking scrambling, gets away
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Speaker 2: from a sack, spins around, rolling left, pointing toward the
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Speaker 2: end zone. Now he takes off and runs and jumps
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Speaker 2: into the end zone for a Chicago touchdown.
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Speaker 3: For what he did when he created when he spun
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Speaker 3: away and made the opportunity for himself to get outside.
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Speaker 3: Two Bengals defensive linemen fell to the ground so you
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Speaker 3: can't pursue anybody when you're on the ground.
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Speaker 2: This will be a fifty four yard try from the right.
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Speaker 2: Hash Rico, the rookie punter, puts the ball down. The
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Speaker 2: kick is on its way and has plenty of distance,
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Speaker 2: and it is good and the Bengals in the half
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Speaker 2: with three points. As the clock hits zero on a
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Speaker 2: fifty four yard field goal by Evan McK pherson, Traveon
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Speaker 2: Williams checks back in a running back, first time we've
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Speaker 2: seen him on the field in a while. Here comes
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Speaker 2: another blitz. A pass is intercepted and streaking down field
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Speaker 2: before being knocked out of bounds by Treveon Williams. Was
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Speaker 2: Terrell smith second pick of the day for the Chicago Bears,
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Speaker 2: and he goes out of bounds in Bengals territory around
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Speaker 2: the forty two yard line. Third and goal from the four.
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Speaker 2: Dante Pettis motions from left to right and lines up
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Speaker 2: in the slot. Pagent surveys the Bengals defense. He drops
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Speaker 2: back to throw, Beagent floats it into the end zone
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Speaker 2: and it's caught by Pettis for the touchdown. Josh Newton
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Speaker 2: the nearest defender, but Dante Pettis, an NFL veteran with
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Speaker 2: seventy one regular season catches, got opened in the back
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Speaker 2: right corner and caught the TV shotgun snap pagent to throw.
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Speaker 2: He lofts it toward the end zone, wow, and it
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Speaker 2: is caught by Pettis, who takes it in near the
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Speaker 2: forward right pylon for Chicago Touchdow Bombardi waiting for a
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Speaker 2: shotgun snap. Three receivers out to the right, one out
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Speaker 2: to the left. Rocky leaps to catch the shotgun snap,
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Speaker 2: try to run with the ball, loses the ball, and
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Speaker 2: the Bears say they have it at the fifty and
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Speaker 2: they do. Rippin takes a knee and that will be
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Speaker 2: the final snap of this game. The Chicago Bears the
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Speaker 2: first NFL team to three wins this preseason. They are
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Speaker 2: three and ozero, and they won the last two by
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Speaker 2: dominant margins. They beat the Bills in Buffalo thirty three
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Speaker 2: to six. They beat the Bengals in Chicago today twenty
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Speaker 2: seven to three, and the rain has returned here at
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Speaker 2: Soldier Field. There obviously weren't many Bengals highlights in those
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Speaker 2: radio calls, but the game wasn't all bad for starters.
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Speaker 2: The Bengals second string defense completely shut down the Bears
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Speaker 2: starting offense, led by number one overall draft pick Caleb Williams.
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Speaker 2: In the first quarter. Chicago's first three drives were three
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Speaker 2: and out, but three yard pass interference call on Bengals
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Speaker 2: rookie Josh Newton early in the second quarter led to
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Speaker 2: a Bear's field goal, and Chicago took advantage of penalties
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Speaker 2: and turnovers for the rest of the day. The Bears
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Speaker 2: won the turnover battle three zip and scored after all
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Speaker 2: three of those takeaways, and Cincinnati committed eleven penalties for
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty three yards. Chicago committed four for
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Speaker 2: thirty eight. The Bengals running game wasn't great, but it
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Speaker 2: was better, as they rushed for eighty two yards on
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Speaker 2: twenty five carries. John Metta was the leading tackler for
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Speaker 2: the second game in a row with seven and Chris
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Speaker 2: Jenkins had his first preseason sack, and Jermaine Burton was
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Speaker 2: used extensively as return specialist. His first punt return went
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Speaker 2: for twenty three yards but got wiped out by a
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Speaker 2: face mass penalty. Both of his kick returns went for
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Speaker 2: twenty nine. Now let's hear what head coach Zach Taylor
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Speaker 2: had to say, as he spent a few minutes with
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Speaker 2: Dave Lapham after the game.
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Speaker 4: So you don't have to be a football physicist or whatever.
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Speaker 4: Three turnovers, three giveaways, no takeaways, eleven penalties for hundred
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Speaker 4: and twenty three yards.
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Speaker 5: That adds up to a tough day.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it overshadowed some positive things. But this is football
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Speaker 6: and we got to learn from it as a team.
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Speaker 6: And that's what twenty three looks like. When you get
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Speaker 6: dominated penalties, dominating field position, dominating turnovers, hasting to do it.
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Speaker 6: Talent has undo it scheme. It's just a mindset and
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Speaker 6: an awareness level that we didn't have today. And I
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Speaker 6: was disappointed, particularly in the second half.
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Speaker 4: The first three three possessions your number two's as such,
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Speaker 4: going against their number ones. Three straight three and outs,
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Speaker 4: I mean no first downs. I mean the game started
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Speaker 4: off pretty well on that side of the football, a.
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Speaker 6: Lot of positives, I mean three thrad's for the announced defense,
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Speaker 6: the offense moved the ball, got into scoring range, and
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Speaker 6: we just blitz pick up a turnover. Those things bid
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Speaker 6: us there, and really we should have been in a
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Speaker 6: much better situation with the lead, playing with the lead
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Speaker 6: and all the things that comes with that.
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Speaker 4: They were very aggressive in how they were blitz and
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Speaker 4: they were bringing people from the back end. They were
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Speaker 4: they were pretty aggressive. I mean, was it anything that
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Speaker 4: was unexpected prepared for all of that.
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Speaker 6: It was as simple as it gets, and we didn't
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Speaker 6: do a good job handling it, and that was disappointing.
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Speaker 5: Good on them.
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Speaker 6: They just kept repeating the same nickel pressure over and
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Speaker 6: over because we kept proving we weren't going to pick
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Speaker 6: it up. And uh, that's that's that's on the communication
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Speaker 6: up front the quarterback, and we got to do much
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Speaker 6: better job there.
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Speaker 4: How did your your young bucket at center performed? Lee
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Speaker 4: took every snap basically in the game, didn't he he did?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well we'll see, you know, we'll be able to
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Speaker 6: watch tape and have a better evaluation.
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Speaker 4: How about Jenkins, he came up with a sack. He
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Speaker 4: looked like he was holding his own in there, going
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Speaker 4: against the number ones.
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Speaker 5: I mean that was encouraging as well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he was part of a front that
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Speaker 6: really held into four yards rushing through those first three drives.
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Speaker 6: I had the reverse that got out on us, But
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Speaker 6: I thought that there were some positive things from him
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Speaker 6: and the rest of that defense.
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Speaker 5: What about returning kicks?
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Speaker 6: Bert, Yeah, you got to use these preseason games to
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Speaker 6: evaluate all your guys and in different places to play
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Speaker 6: him and see how they can help the team. And
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Speaker 6: so we just wanted to get in their evaluation in
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Speaker 6: the return game with him on some things.
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Speaker 4: So any injuries to speak up, did you get out
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Speaker 4: of it fairly clean? After what took place during the
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Speaker 4: joint practice.
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Speaker 6: We'll see there's a couple of things that we're gonna
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Speaker 6: have to manage, you know, And so we'll get a
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Speaker 6: better feel for that tonight and tomorrow morning and have
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Speaker 6: more word on that tomorrow probably.
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Speaker 4: And then you've got practice on Monday. I'm sure that
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Speaker 4: won't be a grinder as such, because you got you
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Speaker 4: got a big joint practice again on Tuesday, don't you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 6: We got still an opportunity on Monday to get better
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Speaker 6: and improve on some things and then really ramp up
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Speaker 6: for Tuesday against the Coals.
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Speaker 5: To be a funday coach. I appreciate your time as always.
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Speaker 1: You got it.
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Speaker 2: The bengals only points came on Evan McPherson's fifty four
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Speaker 2: yard field goal with rookie punter Ryan Rico doing the
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Speaker 2: holding on the final play of the first half. Last week,
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Speaker 2: Money Mack missed a fifty eight yard try to end
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Speaker 2: the half.
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Speaker 5: It was good to get that one to go through.
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Speaker 7: I get the confidence roll a little bit, get the
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Speaker 7: first one under our belt. It's good for Ryan to
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Speaker 7: get out there too in those situations. It's funny how
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Speaker 7: I played out similarly to last week, but I'm glad
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Speaker 7: that this time we were able to execute what was
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Speaker 7: the field like. This field has always been kind of
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Speaker 7: weird every time that I've been here. They laid the
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Speaker 7: SOD I think on Thursday, so it seems everywhere had
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Speaker 7: to make sure you don't plan on it because it
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Speaker 7: was shifting. I'm good buddies with their kicker, Cairo, and
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Speaker 7: I was watching him warm up and he planted right
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Speaker 7: next to a seam and so I'd kind of flap
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Speaker 7: up and down. So I was really just making sure
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Speaker 7: that I was planning in the middle of those sawd You.
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Speaker 2: Haven't signed a contract extension. We understand it's really not
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Speaker 2: a topic yet until you do, but clearly the organization
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Speaker 2: is excited about the opportunity to extend this in the
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Speaker 2: near future.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, and I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 7: We'll see whenever I sign it, we'll get a press
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Speaker 7: converage together, get to talk about.
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Speaker 8: It a little more.
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Speaker 7: But no, I'm excited, and I'm grateful for the Brown
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Speaker 7: family and everybody that worked on this steal. It really
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Speaker 7: means a lot that they showed how much they value me,
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Speaker 7: and it just gives me some confidence to go into
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Speaker 7: the season just knowing that this is where we're going
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Speaker 7: to be for the next couple of years. So, you know,
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Speaker 7: I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: It's reportedly a three year contract extension for sixteen point
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Speaker 2: five million bucks, and it's expected to be signed before
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Speaker 2: the Bengals return to practice on Monday. Now time for
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Speaker 2: the radio guys recap map. I think going into this game,
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Speaker 2: we thought, all right, it might not go all that well.
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Speaker 2: The Bears are going to play starters, the Bengals are not.
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Speaker 2: In the first quarter, the Bengals second string defense did
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Speaker 2: a phenomenal job against Caleb Williams and a really talented
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Speaker 2: Bears offense. To me, that's the best thing that happened
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Speaker 2: in this game.
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Speaker 4: Agreed three straight three and outs. I thought they really
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Speaker 4: showed very very well. I mean, they had Caleb Williams
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Speaker 4: on his heels, you know, and then as the game progressed,
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Speaker 4: he started making plays and started building his confidence. He
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Speaker 4: was on stoes, he was he was playing pretty well.
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Speaker 4: But I agree with you. I thought, in the early
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Speaker 4: stage of the football game, the number two is more
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Speaker 4: than held their own against the Chicago Bears defense.
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Speaker 5: He has a lot of talent.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they got a really good quarterback, three wide
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Speaker 4: receivers that are threats, tight end, running back. I mean
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Speaker 4: they're they're pretty darn good. And uh for three possessions,
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Speaker 4: no first outs, three three and outs, I think they
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Speaker 4: only had four yards total on their first three possessions,
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Speaker 4: something crazy like that. So it shows what these guys
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Speaker 4: are capable of. And I thought, you know, guys like
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Speaker 4: Chris Jenkins gets his first NFL sack, he was a disruptive.
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Speaker 4: I thought he was a good a good force inside.
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Speaker 4: On the other side of the football, I thought Matt
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Speaker 4: Lee did the yeomen's work, you know, in the offensive line,
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Speaker 4: took every snap in the in the football game, and
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Speaker 4: I think he probably won a heck of a lot
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Speaker 4: more than he than he didn't.
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Speaker 5: And there's always going to.
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Speaker 4: Be plays that you want to have back I don't
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Speaker 4: care what position you play, and I don't care what
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Speaker 4: level of football you play. So I think those two
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Speaker 4: young guys probably took advantage of opportunities pretty darn well.
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Speaker 2: Josh Newton's had an excellent camp, but he's a rookie.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be ups and downs, and he had
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Speaker 2: some downs in this game. A very costly pass interference
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Speaker 2: penalty gave up one of the touchdown passes. So there
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Speaker 2: were some learning moments, to put it nicely, for Josh
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Speaker 2: in this game.
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Speaker 4: There were And here's the real true test of a rookie.
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Speaker 4: How's he gonna respond. There's no way this kid's going
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Speaker 4: in the tank. He's got too much you know, going
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Speaker 4: for him, intelligence, competitiveness, desire.
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Speaker 5: He'll learn.
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Speaker 4: Like you said, there's lessons to be learned, and he'll
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Speaker 4: learn them and he won't make the same mistake twice.
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Speaker 4: And we'll come back against the Colts and probably you know,
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Speaker 4: make plays. And that's the sign of if you've got
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Speaker 4: a football player that can last in the National Football League,
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Speaker 4: going against the best of the best, you know, every
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Speaker 4: single week and every single day in practice. I mean,
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Speaker 4: they're going to be moments where, man, what the heck
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Speaker 4: was wrong today. I couldn't do anything right, and then
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Speaker 4: there are going to be moments that you know, it's like, man,
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Speaker 4: I can't make a mistake out here. Everything I'm doing,
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Speaker 4: I'm guessing right, I'm playing well. It's like it's crazy
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Speaker 4: how it'll how it'll go. But the guys that you know,
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Speaker 4: compartmentalize both of it. Don't don't assume that the great
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Speaker 4: days are going to be strung together a bunch, and
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Speaker 4: don't assume that, you know, make sure the bad days
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Speaker 4: don't reoccur. And those are the guys that kind of
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Speaker 4: make it for a while.
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Speaker 5: The Bengals have issues at offensive tackle.
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Speaker 2: Marius Mimms out for several weeks with a strained pectoral,
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Speaker 2: Deontae Smith out for the rest of the year with
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Speaker 2: a knee injury. Orlando Brown Junior and Trent Brown did
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Speaker 2: not start in this game. So the starting offensive tackles
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Speaker 2: were guys that they really project to be guards, and
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Speaker 2: as you might expect, the Bears were able to capitalize
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Speaker 2: on that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought, I thought Kirkland had a pretty solid day.
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Speaker 4: I remember Ford getting bull rushed once and you know,
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Speaker 4: there was some some situation there. Like I said, though
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Speaker 4: it's like, you know, you play sixty snaps, which the
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Speaker 4: offense did, there's going to be a handful that you're
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Speaker 4: not proud of. You just hope that they're not catastrophes,
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Speaker 4: they're not tragedies. So yeah, it was it was. It
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Speaker 4: was makeshift in the offensive line.
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Speaker 8: For sure.
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Speaker 5: You got a rookie rookie center.
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Speaker 4: Gillam played a left guard left guard spot, and you
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Speaker 4: know Ford was out there at at right tackle and
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Speaker 4: Hill was at the right guard position. So you had
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Speaker 4: a lot of guys, you know, playing spots that they
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Speaker 4: don't normally take a lot of reps out, which is
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Speaker 4: a good test because you know, if you're not quote
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Speaker 4: starting offensive lineman, you have to play multiple, you know,
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Speaker 4: minimum of two positions, and you have to play if
15:39
Speaker 4: you can play garden tackle, you have to work to
15:41
Speaker 4: be able to play garden tackle on both sides of
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Speaker 4: a line of scrimmage. If you can play center, you
15:45
Speaker 4: got to make sure you can play center and both guards,
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Speaker 4: you know, and so you have to give some position
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Speaker 4: versatility to the coaching staff for you to be a
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Speaker 4: candidate to be one of the you know, nine guys
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Speaker 4: that make the final roster or ten or whatever it
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Speaker 4: may be.
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Speaker 2: Played their starting quarterback, the first pick in the draft,
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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams. For a half, the Bengals starting quarterback was
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Speaker 2: their number three QB, Logan Woodside.
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Speaker 5: How do you think he did?
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, there were some ups and downs
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Speaker 4: to his players. Well, the thing I like about him
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Speaker 4: is man I mentioned it during the game. I saw
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Speaker 4: him at various spots in the hotel, whether it be
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Speaker 4: in a meeting room all by himself or the cafeteria
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Speaker 4: all by himself, whatever, just putting an extra time, I mean, grinding,
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Speaker 4: you know, making sure that he was going to take
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Speaker 4: full advantage of this opportunity. I thought he played really
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Speaker 4: well in the first preseason game. I thought he was stellar.
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Speaker 4: Really he played a heck of a football game. I'm
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Speaker 4: sure there's a lot of things that he'd like to
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Speaker 4: have back, you know, in this football game, the opportunities
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Speaker 4: didn't quite present themselves, you know, as much as they
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Speaker 4: did in the first matchup that he had. But he's
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Speaker 4: a pro. He's a pros pro. I mean he's going
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Speaker 4: to go about it the exact same way. He'll study
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Speaker 4: the tape the same way that he did. He'll attack
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Speaker 4: the playbook the same way that he did and get
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Speaker 4: ready to have a you know, a better performance against
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Speaker 4: the Indianapolis Colts and the joint practices in the game.
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Speaker 2: Assuming that Jake Browning's injury isn't too serious and we
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Speaker 2: don't think it is, your number three quarterback can be
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Speaker 2: one of two things. A developmental guy somebody had drafted
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Speaker 2: maybe try to you know, develop into being a backup someday.
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Speaker 2: Or it can be a veteran guy that you trust
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Speaker 2: if something were to happen, you know, you've got a
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Speaker 2: guy waiting in the wings. It feels to me like
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Speaker 2: Logan Woodside fits that second description pretty well.
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Speaker 5: I couldn't agree with you more.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think I think that it's it's
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Speaker 4: like he's been around long enough where you kind of
17:35
Speaker 4: know what you have, you know, from a developmental standpoint.
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Speaker 5: But you like it for the reasons that you're talking about.
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Speaker 4: If you know, if all hell breaks loose and you
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Speaker 4: know you're a you're put in a situation that you
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Speaker 4: never thought you'd be in a million years. You can
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Speaker 4: have a guy that has been under fire, has been
17:54
Speaker 4: exposed to it at the at the NFL level, and
17:58
Speaker 4: as mature and you know can handle everything, the good,
18:02
Speaker 4: the bad, and the ugly. That's invaluable deposition, no question
18:05
Speaker 4: about it.
18:07
Speaker 2: Evan McPherson drilled the fifty four yard field goal to
18:09
Speaker 2: account for the Bengals only points. And Ryan Rico got
18:12
Speaker 2: a lot of punting opportunities in this game. With Grab
18:15
Speaker 2: Robbins out and we don't know about his status for
18:18
Speaker 2: the start of the regular season. I would think a
18:21
Speaker 2: lot of opportunities for Ryan Rico is only a good thing.
18:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. And you know there were some mixed results there.
18:28
Speaker 4: I mean, he got lucky, he got good bounce, I
18:30
Speaker 4: should say on one of them that ended up being
18:32
Speaker 4: a fifty plus yard punt that really wasn't that And
18:36
Speaker 4: then his hangtime probably wasn't what he wanted. He can
18:39
Speaker 4: kick him to the moon, so he was probably, I
18:43
Speaker 4: don't know, maybe pressing a little bit. You know, this opportunity, man,
18:46
Speaker 4: it's here. I got to take full advantage and you
18:49
Speaker 4: learn from that. Now it's you know, when you are
18:52
Speaker 4: punting against the Colts, you know next week, just relax,
18:56
Speaker 4: trust your technique. You've done it a million times, You've
18:59
Speaker 4: done it for years. Don't change anything. Just go out
19:03
Speaker 4: and be the best you can be with what you
19:05
Speaker 4: know how to do. And I think he's gonna be fine. Yeah,
19:08
Speaker 4: because like you said, I mean, you know, hip flex
19:11
Speaker 4: is no joke for anybody a kicker. I mean, those
19:15
Speaker 4: those things. It's hard to put a timetable on him,
19:19
Speaker 4: you know, and if you're trying to come back too early,
19:22
Speaker 4: it can be a lingering, nagging thing. I mean, those
19:24
Speaker 4: things are not pretty sometimes.
19:27
Speaker 2: Charlie Jones should be back from his kneebrews soon. In
19:31
Speaker 2: the meantime, we might have found out something about Jermaine
19:34
Speaker 2: Burton as a return threat. He looked good both as
19:38
Speaker 2: a punt returner and as a kick returner today and
19:40
Speaker 2: he did not do that in college.
19:42
Speaker 4: I thought that he made really good decisions, and that's
19:45
Speaker 4: you know, the biggest percentage of the battle is being
19:49
Speaker 4: decisive and making a quick decision. And I thought he
19:52
Speaker 4: did that. And he got upfield, he got north and
19:54
Speaker 4: south as quickly as he possibly could. And man, he's explosive,
20:00
Speaker 4: he's sudden, he's got a strong body. I mean, all
20:03
Speaker 4: the all the attributes that you like about him as
20:05
Speaker 4: a as a receiver, he checks all those boxes as
20:08
Speaker 4: a as a return guy as well. I mean he's
20:10
Speaker 4: dynamic in space. You know, catches the ball well, I
20:15
Speaker 4: mean tracks it well. He's got a lot going for
20:17
Speaker 4: him in that regard. He's still learning the offense. It's
20:20
Speaker 4: not as easy to learn it as maybe some people realize.
20:24
Speaker 4: But this could be a way to get an immediate
20:26
Speaker 4: return on a third round draft pick by using him
20:29
Speaker 4: in that role. Yeah, when a guy has has that
20:31
Speaker 4: kind of I mean back in the day, David Verser
20:34
Speaker 4: was a guy first round pick out of Kansas, and
20:37
Speaker 4: it's like, you know, he was struggling to learn everything
20:40
Speaker 4: that needed to be learned and where the quarterbacks could
20:43
Speaker 4: totally trust him that he was there. So you know what,
20:46
Speaker 4: let's have him go back there and return kicks me
20:49
Speaker 4: it takes one back for a touchdown, you know. I mean,
20:52
Speaker 4: those guys that have have those those rare innate physical attributes,
20:58
Speaker 4: you got to utilize them somehow, and that'd be a
21:00
Speaker 4: good way to do it.
21:01
Speaker 2: The results on the field weren't great on this extended
21:04
Speaker 2: road trip to Chicago. Obviously, they had a couple of
21:06
Speaker 2: very costly injuries in Thursday's joint practice, but there were
21:09
Speaker 2: some good team bonding opportunities. The guys had some nice
21:12
Speaker 2: dinners out. They had the Rookie Talent show at the
21:15
Speaker 2: team hotel. So some of the things that you don't
21:19
Speaker 2: get a chance to see necessarily were good on this trip.
21:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what it is valuable to Dan.
21:25
Speaker 4: It's like when you're at a joint practice like they
21:29
Speaker 4: had and the weather's so terrible and all that you
21:31
Speaker 4: sit around and.
21:32
Speaker 5: You talk about it, what was good, what do we
21:36
Speaker 5: need to do better? You know, and then you can
21:38
Speaker 5: joke about it too. Man, you look so terrible in
21:40
Speaker 5: that ray.
21:41
Speaker 4: I mean, you can have some fun with guys and
21:43
Speaker 4: it can be a learning experience, a fun experience, a
21:47
Speaker 4: bonding experience. I mean, you can always make a chicken
21:50
Speaker 4: salad at a chicken as best you can.
21:54
Speaker 2: That's a good note to wrap up on, and see
21:56
Speaker 2: you for the joint practice on Tuesday.
21:57
Speaker 5: Look forward to that, sir.
22:00
Speaker 2: We'll see the starters back on the field in that
22:02
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22:05
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22:31
Speaker 1: Of the Bengals.
22:32
Speaker 2: Now it's time for this week's fun Facts conversation, where
22:36
Speaker 2: you get to know the person under the pads. Time
22:41
Speaker 2: for some fun facts with a Bengals rookie who has
22:44
Speaker 2: the most difficult last name to spell since Shushman Zada,
22:48
Speaker 2: Mumma Jong Meta.
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Speaker 1: How did I do good? I said it?
22:52
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, you said it?
22:52
Speaker 1: Okay, that's all right.
22:53
Speaker 2: I want to start with your parents, who sound like
22:56
Speaker 2: pretty remarkable people. Your mom was a Fulbright scholar, which
23:00
Speaker 2: is extremely prestigious. Both of your parents have PhDs, which
23:04
Speaker 2: is obviously an extremely high level of academic achievement. What
23:08
Speaker 2: do you admire and respect about your folks?
23:11
Speaker 8: My dad has three masters?
23:12
Speaker 9: Just the record fell out the record. No, what do
23:17
Speaker 9: I admire and respect them? About my parents? I mean
23:20
Speaker 9: they are great people. Also just the it's nasty and
23:27
Speaker 9: the perseverance to.
23:31
Speaker 8: Leave their country at a young age.
23:34
Speaker 9: I mean a little bit about them. So they were
23:36
Speaker 9: from Cameroon, but just because of the political socioeconomic situation
23:41
Speaker 9: in Cameroon, as someone who's English speaking, so it's there's
23:45
Speaker 9: English speaking and French speaking people. Just the schools aren't
23:50
Speaker 9: as welcoming for Uncle Phone people in Comeroon. So they
23:53
Speaker 9: went to Nigeria. So they left, They left their family,
23:55
Speaker 9: They went to Nigeria, a different country for university, and
23:58
Speaker 9: I think that was when they're eighteen nine ten. From
24:00
Speaker 9: that point on, they were pretty much on their own.
24:04
Speaker 9: My dad's dad died when he was super young. He
24:06
Speaker 9: was the first in his household. My mom's dad died
24:09
Speaker 9: when she was also pretty young. She's the first in
24:11
Speaker 9: her household. So they were just, I mean, trailblazers their
24:13
Speaker 9: whole life. Went to Nigeria, got their degrees, came back.
24:19
Speaker 9: My dad was like, Okay, I'm going to Liverpool to
24:21
Speaker 9: get my PhD. While my mom was raising me and
24:24
Speaker 9: my brother. At some point, you know, she gets breast cancer.
24:29
Speaker 9: She's applying for full Bite. She beats cancer the first time,
24:33
Speaker 9: accepts the full Bright scholarship to Texas.
24:35
Speaker 8: A and m moves us, my dad, all.
24:38
Speaker 9: Of us across the world, goes into remission, she's doing
24:42
Speaker 9: her PhD, finishes her PhD, beats cancer the second time.
24:47
Speaker 9: My dad's supporting us with his university job that pays nothing.
24:53
Speaker 9: And then like they are trailblazers to the max. And
24:57
Speaker 9: so like you know, I play art sport, we play
25:00
Speaker 9: hard sport. There's a lot that goes into it. There's
25:02
Speaker 9: a lot of you know everything, great diversity, but like,
25:09
Speaker 9: was it really you know, what's that adversity I faced
25:13
Speaker 9: in this sport compared to what they really had to do.
25:17
Speaker 9: People ask if I had to bet on myself as
25:18
Speaker 9: an undrafted guy. I did, But they had to bet
25:21
Speaker 9: them on themselves to move across the world. You know,
25:25
Speaker 9: we had a really nice life over there, and they
25:26
Speaker 9: they put that on pause almost through it a way
25:29
Speaker 9: for something better, for a better investment. And so they,
25:33
Speaker 9: my parents are remarkable people and I owe a lot
25:36
Speaker 9: of who I am to them and honestly to my
25:39
Speaker 9: older brother too, who who has shaped me into the
25:42
Speaker 9: man I am today.
25:43
Speaker 1: Have you ever been back to Cameroon?
25:45
Speaker 5: Yeah?
25:46
Speaker 9: So, like I said, I was born there, went there
25:47
Speaker 9: again in twenty twelve and haven't been back since. There's
25:52
Speaker 9: a civil war right now, unfortunately, so I have not
25:55
Speaker 9: been back since.
25:56
Speaker 2: Because it's safe to assume that grades came first in
26:00
Speaker 2: the Jong Meta household.
26:01
Speaker 9: Grades came first. Grades came first. If you want to
26:04
Speaker 9: go see your friends, what are grades looking like? At
26:07
Speaker 9: one point, my dad was uh telling me that, hey,
26:10
Speaker 9: if you you know, you get a C minus and
26:13
Speaker 9: ap COWC, you're we're gonna quit football. You know, we're
26:16
Speaker 9: gonna turn your cleats. And so, I mean, it was
26:18
Speaker 9: always grades first, and it was hard then, but you
26:22
Speaker 9: know now you look back and it's just like they
26:24
Speaker 9: were just trying to teach me the important and priorities
26:26
Speaker 9: and what's really important.
26:29
Speaker 8: And uh, I mean obviously it worked out. You know,
26:32
Speaker 8: if I had gotten that sea and I had to
26:34
Speaker 8: quit football, let's suck. No, that would really suck. But
26:38
Speaker 8: you know, it motivated me and got to B minus.
26:41
Speaker 8: So grades always came first, for sure.
26:43
Speaker 2: We're visiting with Bouma Jong Matta. Unlike most of your
26:46
Speaker 2: Bengals teammates, you did not grow up with a football
26:49
Speaker 2: in your hands. How and when did you get involved
26:52
Speaker 2: with this sport?
26:53
Speaker 9: Yeah, freshman year of high school got involved. You know,
26:59
Speaker 9: we had a uh, basically we had this I went
27:03
Speaker 9: to a really big high school, right four thousand kids,
27:06
Speaker 9: and so as part of the transition from eighth grade
27:09
Speaker 9: to ninth grade, they had they would always do like
27:12
Speaker 9: these symposiums pretty much just like kids know, like hey,
27:14
Speaker 9: this was with the squad to offer, and so they
27:18
Speaker 9: sent some kids from the high school to my junior
27:19
Speaker 9: high to do an art symposium, like completely random. And
27:23
Speaker 9: one of the kids there was names cam Green. He
27:27
Speaker 9: uh he they had just won state and basketball. They
27:31
Speaker 9: had just won state in football and basketball, and he
27:33
Speaker 9: was on both teams. He had his letterman on and
27:36
Speaker 9: I saw him from Afar. I was like, man, I
27:37
Speaker 9: thought he was the Closes dude. But I was like, man,
27:39
Speaker 9: I want to be like him.
27:41
Speaker 8: Seriously, no jokes, something as simple as that.
27:44
Speaker 9: You know, if he hadn't taken art as a just
27:46
Speaker 9: an easy credit his senior year, like maybe I wouldn't
27:48
Speaker 9: be playing football.
27:49
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't wearcket.
27:51
Speaker 9: Or yeah, if you didn't whar the letter you know,
27:52
Speaker 9: if he was just a guy like no letterman jacket.
27:55
Speaker 8: You know who knows if I'm playing football?
27:56
Speaker 9: So now, but I saw him from Afar and I
27:59
Speaker 9: was like, man, I want you know, that's the type
28:01
Speaker 9: of dude, I want to be like so, and that
28:05
Speaker 9: that moment, that day, that small day, led me on
28:07
Speaker 9: this nine year plus journey.
28:10
Speaker 8: And it's crazy.
28:13
Speaker 2: Once you started playing, what about this sport captivated you?
28:17
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean.
28:19
Speaker 9: The first thing was I wasn't very good at it,
28:21
Speaker 9: and that that was like frustrating because it was like
28:24
Speaker 9: I should be like I get my butt kicked, I
28:28
Speaker 9: feel like I'm getting the hang of this, but I'm
28:31
Speaker 9: so I'm still sucking. And I think that's really what
28:35
Speaker 9: it was. So like I was drawn for like maybe
28:38
Speaker 9: some more superficial reasons, but what kept me going was
28:41
Speaker 9: just the ability to get better like that, just the
28:44
Speaker 9: chase of like, Okay, all right, I'm working on this.
28:46
Speaker 8: I'm working on this.
28:46
Speaker 9: Okay, boom, it's shown up. All right, cool, now I'm
28:48
Speaker 9: working on this. I'm working on this. There was a camaraderie,
28:52
Speaker 9: the team aspect of it, Like there's very like, I
28:54
Speaker 9: don't know, team sports are awesome.
28:56
Speaker 8: You know.
28:56
Speaker 9: I did discus in high school, and there's a team
28:59
Speaker 9: element to that, but like you're the one in the ring,
29:02
Speaker 9: you know, and the team element comes out when maybe
29:05
Speaker 9: your points come together for the team. But like it's
29:08
Speaker 9: a solo sport. I've done solo sports, but I love
29:11
Speaker 9: team sports. I love team sports. There's nothing like them.
29:15
Speaker 9: The camaraderie, the brotherhood, the development of the men, you know,
29:20
Speaker 9: to the man I became and becoming as I played
29:23
Speaker 9: the sport, and the longer I played, the more I
29:26
Speaker 9: realized how much football was like life. You know, so
29:29
Speaker 9: many of the things you see in football happen in life,
29:32
Speaker 9: and and.
29:33
Speaker 8: The lessons are there.
29:34
Speaker 9: You just have to look a little closer to see him,
29:36
Speaker 9: and closer I looked them, I was like, man, this
29:39
Speaker 9: there's nothing like the sport.
29:40
Speaker 8: So it's a blessing to be here. I'm very excited.
29:44
Speaker 2: You went to high school in the Chicago area. You
29:46
Speaker 2: excelled on the field and in the classroom, and at
29:49
Speaker 2: the end of your high school career, the Ivy League
29:51
Speaker 2: schools came calling, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, et cetera. Considering your parents'
29:57
Speaker 2: academic achievements. Did they push you toward the IVY League?
30:02
Speaker 5: No?
30:02
Speaker 9: One thing I love about my parents, they never really
30:05
Speaker 9: pushed me for football. There's they actually pushed me against
30:08
Speaker 9: the like we don't know if we don't know, if.
30:10
Speaker 8: This is the answer. And then you know what. You know,
30:13
Speaker 8: once college was free, They're like, all right, we're good
30:16
Speaker 8: for it. No, I mean.
30:20
Speaker 9: They were like, yeah, go wherever makes you happy. And
30:23
Speaker 9: you know, I ended up being Wisconsin, which was a
30:26
Speaker 9: great decision.
30:26
Speaker 8: I loved. I loved Wisconsin.
30:29
Speaker 2: And a great school. You spent five years there. What
30:31
Speaker 2: was your favorite part of your college experience?
30:33
Speaker 8: Oh, my goodness, this is a whole other interview.
30:37
Speaker 9: Wisconsin is an amazing place because it's like it's it's
30:40
Speaker 9: kind of the epitome of what I think. Like I
30:43
Speaker 9: don't know, I think what college should be. It's like
30:45
Speaker 9: work hard, play hard. That's how I am. They kids
30:48
Speaker 9: over there are so smart. I mean I remember.
30:52
Speaker 8: So there's that. There's that. There's the it's two hours
30:56
Speaker 8: away from my house.
30:57
Speaker 9: So like so many of my so so many high
30:59
Speaker 9: school KI went there, but like not too many where
31:01
Speaker 9: it felt like.
31:02
Speaker 8: I was in high school.
31:03
Speaker 9: But like enough where you walk around you're seeing, oh,
31:06
Speaker 9: you're running to people like you haven't seen it in
31:08
Speaker 9: a while. So I have friends who like we go
31:11
Speaker 9: out together. You know, they were in Greek life and
31:15
Speaker 9: maybe I'm going out once a week and they're telling
31:18
Speaker 9: me stories of throughout Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
31:22
Speaker 8: I'm like, oh my goodness.
31:23
Speaker 9: And then final this time came around and U and
31:26
Speaker 9: they started talking about school. I'm like, okay, like what
31:28
Speaker 9: are you studying?
31:30
Speaker 8: We're going down the line. One of them is a
31:31
Speaker 8: biomedical engineer.
31:32
Speaker 9: One of them's uh, one of them is neurobiology. One
31:35
Speaker 9: of them this, that, this, and this was, uh this
31:38
Speaker 9: was my girl group friend my girl friend group. So
31:40
Speaker 9: like they were all in the sororities and they were
31:42
Speaker 9: like active in Greek life and partying and doing this,
31:45
Speaker 9: and it was like like that was what Wisconsin was like,
31:48
Speaker 9: super smart kids who were down a good time to
31:51
Speaker 9: have a good time, but who were also about their
31:52
Speaker 9: business and it was a great combination.
31:55
Speaker 8: Loved it there.
31:56
Speaker 1: Some kids can pull it off. That wasn't a lot
31:58
Speaker 1: of them.
31:59
Speaker 2: So, following a great career with the Badgers, you weren't
32:02
Speaker 2: selected in this year's draft, but it sounds like the
32:05
Speaker 2: Bengals made it clear for months that they would be
32:08
Speaker 2: interested in signing you as a college free agent.
32:11
Speaker 9: Was that the case, Yeah, I I caught me by
32:13
Speaker 9: surprise the Bengals, you know, so you know, my agent's like, yeah,
32:17
Speaker 9: some teams just like the stand of the radar. You know,
32:19
Speaker 9: I spoke with them. I spoke with them at the
32:23
Speaker 9: Hula Bowl. I think I spoke with them at the
32:26
Speaker 9: East West Ron game. I spoke with Ronnie Ragula like
32:31
Speaker 9: maybe two weeks before the draft.
32:33
Speaker 5: That was it.
32:34
Speaker 9: But they didn't seem any more interested or less interested
32:36
Speaker 9: than any other team. So it's kind of surprised when
32:39
Speaker 9: I got the call, but I was. It was like
32:41
Speaker 9: a pleasant surprise. I love Cincinnati into a ton of
32:45
Speaker 9: Reds games. I'm a baseball fan now because of them.
32:49
Speaker 8: I love the.
32:49
Speaker 9: Vibes of the city. The locker room culture here is unreal.
32:53
Speaker 9: The linebacker room is great Logan Jermaine, Akeem Joe. I
32:57
Speaker 9: mean the great guys have learned from Like there's a lot,
33:00
Speaker 9: uh you know, great pieces on the offense and defense
33:03
Speaker 9: like this is. There's so much going for this team
33:06
Speaker 9: that I love that. I'm just blessed to be here
33:08
Speaker 9: every day.
33:08
Speaker 8: So I was kind of guarded when they called me,
33:11
Speaker 8: but I was like, let's go, let's ride.
33:14
Speaker 2: So we're chatting the moment, Jong Meta. In your preseason debut,
33:18
Speaker 2: you led the team with ten tackles and two pass deflections.
33:22
Speaker 2: Did you feel like you showed you belong.
33:25
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's an interesting question. I feel like I feel
33:29
Speaker 8: like you know.
33:32
Speaker 9: I think, first of all, it is a blessing to
33:34
Speaker 9: play well on Saturday, Like that's awesome.
33:36
Speaker 8: Anytime you play well, it's like a great feeling.
33:38
Speaker 9: But also there's a realization that you know, it's about
33:42
Speaker 9: the body of work. You know, no one remembers the
33:47
Speaker 9: one hit Wonders. You know, a bunch of songs that
33:51
Speaker 9: I've listened to from artists where man, it's only that's
33:53
Speaker 9: the only song, Like it was cool back back then,
33:56
Speaker 9: But what about now, you know? And what I mean
33:59
Speaker 9: by that is it was great to play well, But
34:01
Speaker 9: at the end of the day, what can I do
34:03
Speaker 9: to continue to add? You know, I think you show
34:06
Speaker 9: that you belong not by what you do on any
34:09
Speaker 9: one day, but what you do over.
34:10
Speaker 8: The course of time.
34:11
Speaker 9: And my whole mindsett since I got here in April
34:15
Speaker 9: or May or it's felt like I've been here for
34:17
Speaker 9: a year. But try I belong every day by my preparation,
34:22
Speaker 9: how I take care of my body, you know, how
34:25
Speaker 9: I am in the meeting rooms, what the vets you're doing,
34:27
Speaker 9: I'm doing. I'm taking care of my You know I
34:29
Speaker 9: already said I but I'm taking care of my body
34:31
Speaker 9: before after practice, like all those things. In my mind
34:33
Speaker 9: is showing that I belong in great to go out
34:37
Speaker 9: there and play really well.
34:38
Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, it's what have
34:40
Speaker 8: I been doing in practice?
34:40
Speaker 9: What I have I been doing in OTAs, in training camp,
34:43
Speaker 9: all that stuff. I think it's the body of work
34:46
Speaker 9: that contributes to that.
34:48
Speaker 2: You're an Eagle Scout, meaning you earned at least twenty
34:51
Speaker 2: one merit badge. Is what does rank of Eagle Scout
34:55
Speaker 2: represent to you?
34:56
Speaker 8: Yeah?
34:57
Speaker 9: Scout is trustworthy, loyal, honest, helpful, friendly, kind, courageous, obedient, cheerful, brave, thrifty,
35:04
Speaker 9: and reverent.
35:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
35:06
Speaker 9: So we used to recite that all the time. But no,
35:09
Speaker 9: I mean being an Eagle Scout was is cool. My
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Speaker 9: dad said it would help me get in college.
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Speaker 8: Football helped me get into college.
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Speaker 9: But the skills I learned boy scouts, I think actually
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Speaker 9: have transferred into the type of person I am today
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Speaker 9: and the leader I am just because in boy scouts
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Speaker 9: are dealing with all types of people and trying to
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Speaker 9: combine together for one common goal, sort of like football,
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Speaker 9: except the things that keep people together in football are
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Speaker 9: slightly different than the things that keep people together in
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Speaker 9: a boy Scout unit. But I loved my experience there
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Speaker 9: and I love camping now because of it. Then, yeah,
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Speaker 9: random fun the fact I tell people like some of
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Speaker 9: my teammates have.
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Speaker 8: Kids, I'm like, how mean babysit for you? I'm an
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Speaker 8: eagle scout like I have that going for me. So no, yeah,
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Speaker 8: that's something I did in my past life.
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Speaker 2: You majored in business with a focus in finance, banking
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Speaker 2: and investment. Do you know what you would like to
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Speaker 2: do after football?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, hopefully in you know, fifteen twenty.
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Speaker 9: No, I'm gonna go the next chance I get, you know,
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Speaker 9: hopefully next offseason or whenever the time comes. I'm gonna
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Speaker 9: finish my masters. I have one more semester left my
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Speaker 9: master's in the finance, and then probably pursue that route,
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Speaker 9: do some some on that end.
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Speaker 2: Final fun fact for Muma Jong Matta, This one's kind
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Speaker 2: of deep. If you could meet anyone in history, living
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Speaker 2: or deceased, who would that person be?
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Speaker 8: Oh uh, probably Jesus.
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Speaker 9: And then if I could like be like your phone
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Speaker 9: a friend, like get Buddha, get Buddha on the line. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: I mean definitely been growing in my faith probably yeah,
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Speaker 9: since honestly since college.
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Speaker 8: So I'd love to meet Jesus. Uh and then maybe
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Speaker 8: a nonspiritual answer.
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Speaker 9: No, I'm gonna submit that. That's my final answer, Jesus and then.
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Speaker 2: Buddh And it's a very good answer. I appreciate your time.
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Speaker 2: Hope you have another great game this week and best
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Speaker 2: of luck in the future.
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Speaker 8: Appreciate you, Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Booma has done very well in the first two preseason
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Speaker 2: fifty three man roster or the Bengals sixteen man practice squad.
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