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Speaker 1: Hi, get any buddy.
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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 I just want to celebrate addition as the Bengals
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Speaker 2: stun the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday Night Football thirty four
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Speaker 2: thirty one. In overtime, coming up, you'll hear radio replays,
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Speaker 2: locker room comments from players and coaches, and postgame analysis
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Speaker 2: or the Bengals YouTube channel. Now time for the radio
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Speaker 2: replays from Monday Night's game in Jacksonville. Tonight, the Cincinnati Bengals,
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Speaker 2: playing without Joe Burrow, are double digit underdogs here in
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville floor. The last time the Bengals were this big
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Speaker 2: of an underdog on Monday Night football was December twenty first,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. They were also missing Joe Burrow that night,
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Speaker 2: and Ryan Finley led Cincinnati to a stunning win over
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Speaker 2: the eleven and two Pittsburgh Steelers. Can the Bengals do
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Speaker 2: it again with Jake Browning at quarterback? We are about
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Speaker 2: to find out, and it is time for the big skin.
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Speaker 1: To fly here at EverBank Stadium.
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Speaker 2: Lawrence in the gun runs an option to the right,
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Speaker 2: pitches to Etn and he goes into the end.
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Speaker 1: Zone with ease.
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville scores a touchdown on its opening drive. Chase goes
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Speaker 2: in orbit motion behind the QB. They give it to Mixon,
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Speaker 2: lowers the shoulder pads and with second effort he's into
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Speaker 2: the end zone.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown Bengals.
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Speaker 2: As Jamar Chase went behind the quarterback Browning, drawing a
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Speaker 2: little bit of attention in that direction.
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Speaker 1: Mixon ran left, took it into the end zone.
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Speaker 2: Lawrence against the blitz, throws it quickly, caught by the tight.
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Speaker 1: End Ingram gets a downfield block.
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Speaker 2: Streaking toward the pylon, he launches himself into the end
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Speaker 2: zone for a Jacksonville touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Shotgun snapped to Browning.
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Speaker 2: Gets it to Mix and again he goes into the
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Speaker 2: end zone, standing up for his second touchdown here in
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Speaker 2: the first half, Mix and takes a knee and poses
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Speaker 2: for the photographers in the back of the end zone.
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Speaker 2: As the Bengals have pulled within a pad. I'm tying
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Speaker 2: the score. Three receivers right, one out to the left.
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Speaker 2: Five man rush Browning throws it deep downfield for.
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Speaker 1: Chase over the shoulder catch.
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Speaker 2: He's off three races at the twenty, the ten, and
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Speaker 2: he will back his way into the end zone for
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Speaker 2: the Bengals touchdown. Baby Washington motions left to right, Lawrence
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Speaker 2: back to throw, looking left, throws it into the end
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Speaker 2: zone and it is deflected and cars Jermaine Pratt. He
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Speaker 2: had both hands on the ball. He dropped a potential interception.
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Speaker 2: It was hauled in by Jacksonville. On first and ten,
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Speaker 2: he throws it backward to Boyd. Boyd wants to throw downfield.
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Speaker 2: He's past intercepted by Josh Allen. Then he gets tackled
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Speaker 2: at the Cincinnati nine yard line.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and they're going forward on fourth again.
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Speaker 2: Lookout for the Trevor Lawrence jump up and stick the
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Speaker 2: ball over the pile. Move did it last week against Houston.
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Speaker 2: Fourth and goal from the one, Lawrence under center. He
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Speaker 2: takes the snap, he sticks the ball out with his
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Speaker 2: right arm and it's a touchdown. Chase brown in at
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Speaker 2: running back Jake Browning under center on first and ten.
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Speaker 2: He gives it to the rookie from Illinois off to
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Speaker 2: the races to the forty, gets a downfield block from Higgins,
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Speaker 2: runs into Jaguars territory and finally gets shoved out of
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Speaker 2: bounds at the Jacksonville forty three by Tyson Campbell. Browning
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Speaker 2: is going to be under center double tight ends in
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Speaker 2: the game. Mixing is the running back. Chase goes in
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Speaker 2: motion behind Mixing quarterback sneak Browning surging forward and they
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Speaker 2: are not going to give it to him.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think yet, at least I didn't think he
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Speaker 1: got the exchange real cleanly.
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Speaker 2: The touchdown a very late call, and Jake Browning got
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Speaker 2: the ball over the goal line for the touchdown. Lawrence
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Speaker 2: pump fakes and gets sacked by Trey Hendrickson. The ball
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Speaker 2: out Yeah, it is actually about two yards ahead, and
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Speaker 2: it looks like Jacksonville recovers, but that will force a
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Speaker 2: field goal try.
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Speaker 1: And Trevor Lawrence is down hurt. Yeah, and he's.
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Speaker 2: Slamming his right hand into the ground and oh helmet
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Speaker 2: throws his helmet about ten yards up the field. Trey
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Speaker 2: Hendrickson takes his helmet off and it looks like Trevor
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Speaker 2: Lawrence has suffered a significant injury. The crowd trying to
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Speaker 2: be the twelfth man thick Pierson is set. The snap,
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Speaker 2: the placement, the swing of the right leg. It has
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Speaker 2: the distance. It is good. Evan McPherson from fifty four
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Speaker 2: yards away. Thirty one twenty eight Cincinnati leading Jacksonville, trying
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Speaker 2: to tie it with thirty seconds left in regulation. The
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Speaker 2: punter Logan Cook is the holder. Here comes the right
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Speaker 2: footed kick. It is good and we are tied. With
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Speaker 2: twenty six seconds left in regulation. Browning catches the shotgun, snap,
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Speaker 2: fakes to mix and looking.
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Speaker 1: Throws shuggled and caught.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Chase Yeah, with the catch at the forty seven
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Speaker 2: for a first down. A juggling routine by Jamar and
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Speaker 2: he came to the ground with a football for a
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Speaker 2: first down. The play clock is at three two. They
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Speaker 2: snap it to Browning. He's back to throw. He fires
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Speaker 2: toward the side high caught Tee Higgins how of bounds
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Speaker 2: with a first down and a gain of eleven to
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Speaker 2: the forty two of Jacksonville. This will be a four
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Speaker 2: eight yard try to send Cincinnati home with an overtime
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Speaker 2: victory as a double digit underdog. Brad Robbins ready to hold,
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Speaker 2: cal Adamitas ready to snap. Adamitas fires it back. Robins
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Speaker 2: puts it down. The kick is on its way. It
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Speaker 2: is good. There's a penalty flag down.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, unsportsmanlike conduct on the defense, leaping penalties, decline
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Speaker 3: field goals good.
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Speaker 2: A forty eight yard field goal by Evan McPherson has
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Speaker 2: given Cincinnati a thirty four to thirty one overtime win.
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Speaker 2: The Bengals are still alive in the playoff chase. They're
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Speaker 2: back to five hundred and six and six, and today,
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Speaker 2: December fourth, twenty twenty three will forever be known as
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Speaker 2: the Jake Browning Game.
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Speaker 3: No doubt, I mean Jake Browning. He did himself a
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Speaker 3: lot of good. Nationally advised, he puts on a performance
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Speaker 3: like that. Jake Browning just bought himself a bunch of
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Speaker 3: years in the National Football League. Jake Browning did himself
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Speaker 3: a lot of good tonight.
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Speaker 4: Here are the final numbers for Jake Browning.
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Speaker 2: He completed thirty two of thirty seven passes, that's eighty
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Speaker 2: six percent for three hundred and fifty four yards, one touchdown,
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Speaker 2: no picks, had a passer rating of one point fifteen
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Speaker 2: point five. Jake also ran for twenty two yards had
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Speaker 2: a touchdown. It was a night he'll never forget and
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Speaker 2: Dave Lapham spoke to him in front of his locker.
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Speaker 3: You were an equal opportunity distributor of the football. I
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Speaker 3: mean you got like nine receivers involved in the action.
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Speaker 5: Is that part of your ball game?
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Speaker 3: I mean you look to distribute the ball everywhere you
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Speaker 3: possibly can.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just trying to throw to whoever's open.
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Speaker 6: So I think that's more credit to nine different guys
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Speaker 6: getting open on different plays. So you know, I've definitely
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Speaker 6: thrown to the whole chart throughout the years on Pea squad.
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Speaker 6: So you know, whenever someone gets thrown in there, I
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Speaker 6: probably got bank reps with them.
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Speaker 3: So as a football team, rushed for over one hundred
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Speaker 3: and fifty yards's that's that's pretty strong as well. Joe
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Speaker 3: Mixon had sixty eight yards on nineteen carries. Brown had
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Speaker 3: sixty one yards on nine carries, So one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty nine yards on twenty eight carries out of the
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Speaker 3: tailback position. That's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome.
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Speaker 6: I think that's that's huge for our offense to be
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Speaker 6: able to do that, and so makes it and played really,
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Speaker 6: you know, ran really hard like he always does. Chase
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Speaker 6: came in and provide a little bit of a spark
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Speaker 6: with some big explosive runs, and I aligned.
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Speaker 1: It a great job.
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Speaker 7: Tight Ends did a great job.
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Speaker 6: So anytime you run the ball like that, it's gonna
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Speaker 6: be a good day.
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Speaker 3: Jamar Chase eleven cats is one hundred and forty nine yards.
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Speaker 3: That dude has the strongest hands I think I've ever
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Speaker 3: seen in the like vice groups. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and he's dangerous with the ball, which is always
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Speaker 6: nice too.
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Speaker 3: So did they do anything different defensively than you had anticipated?
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Speaker 3: Did they blitz at a higher level or percentage? Did
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Speaker 3: you have any get Did they give you any looks
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Speaker 3: on their third down packages that you weren't expecting? You
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Speaker 3: pretty much guys right on everything.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I think they're always going to give you
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Speaker 6: looks that you're not prepared for. It's I mean, they
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Speaker 6: spend a whole week practicing and game planning two and
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Speaker 6: I really think the big difference is it kind of
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Speaker 6: all goes back to run game, and so you know,
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Speaker 6: I think going into the game, we thought they would
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Speaker 6: do something. Then we started running the ball really well.
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Speaker 6: And if you're on defense and we are gashing in
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Speaker 6: the run game, then you got to bring more people
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Speaker 6: into the box, and so I think that's really where
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Speaker 6: we're able to kind of get a rolling.
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Speaker 3: It was impressive. They scored fourteen points in a little
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Speaker 3: over two minute period. They're like two minutes and twenty
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Speaker 3: seconds where it was like, man, I mean, a lesser
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Speaker 3: team may have just folded on that. You guys showed
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Speaker 3: the resiliency and came storming back and win the game
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Speaker 3: ultimately in overtime. What's to say about the character of
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Speaker 3: this football team.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I think it may seem surprising outside of
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Speaker 6: the locker room, but for me, I've been in this
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Speaker 6: locker room for going on three years now, and it's
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Speaker 6: not surprising. I think, you know, we had a tough
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Speaker 6: little stretch there and just responded well and made the
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Speaker 6: plays that we needed to and just kept battling. And
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Speaker 6: I think that's kind of the standard around here. I
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Speaker 6: don't even think anybody really flinches about that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: So I know, you guys are all like one big fraternity.
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Speaker 3: At the quarterback position. Trevor Lawrence, who looked like it
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Speaker 3: was a tough situation. Your heart goes out to him,
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Speaker 3: doesn't it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's terrible he's been playing really well
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Speaker 6: obviously Jacksonville. You know, it has been a really good
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Speaker 6: team all season. I didn't really see what happened, but
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Speaker 6: anytime somebody goes down and you know, you feel for him.
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Speaker 3: Jake Browning, it was a heck of a show tonight,
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Speaker 3: man thirty four points, thirty four to thirty one in
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Speaker 3: a shootout down in Jacksonville. Playoffs still alive. We're not dead,
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Speaker 3: not dead by any stretch. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: The playoffs are still a long shot, but far from impossible.
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Speaker 2: If the Bengals win home games against the Colts, Vikings,
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Speaker 2: and Browns, who are all all missing their starting quarterbacks,
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Speaker 2: that would get them to nine wins. Then if they
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Speaker 2: beat either Pittsburgh or Kansas City on the road to
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Speaker 2: get to ten wins, they would have an eighty seven
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Speaker 2: percent chance of getting in. According to the New York
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Speaker 2: Times Playoff Machine, that game in Pittsburgh is three weeks away,
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Speaker 2: and Kenny Pickett suffered a high ankle sprain on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: It's very possible he will not be back in time.
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Speaker 2: If the Bengals play like they did in Jacksonville, a
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Speaker 2: four to one finish is possible. I spoke to Jonah
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Speaker 2: Williams about the significance of Monday's win and the performance
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Speaker 2: of his former high school teammate Jake Browning.
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Speaker 5: It feels great and it's I think it shows like
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Speaker 5: the belief that we have in this locker room. And
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Speaker 5: you know, after last week's game, I know a lot
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Speaker 5: of people were feeling down. A lot of people are
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Speaker 5: doubting us, and you know, I was saying, I think
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Speaker 5: everyone was saying, we still have a lot of faith.
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Speaker 5: We save a lot of leaving the guys in the room,
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Speaker 5: and we went out and beat a really really good
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Speaker 5: Jacksonville team on the road Monday night, and you know,
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Speaker 5: in a in a in a really big game. So
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Speaker 5: it was great for us.
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Speaker 2: Jonah, I'm calling this the Jake Browning Game. Thirty two
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Speaker 2: for thirty seven, three hundred and fifty four yards, a
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Speaker 2: touchdown pass and a touchdown run.
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Speaker 1: You've known him.
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Speaker 2: Since you guys were kids. How excited are you for
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Speaker 2: him tonight?
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Speaker 5: So excited?
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Speaker 8: Man.
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Speaker 5: I know he's got it in him and it was
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Speaker 5: just awesome to see him go out there.
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Speaker 3: He's in his element. He's comfortable.
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Speaker 5: And I said it when he was first gonna start
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Speaker 5: I'm like, the lights aren't going to be too big
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Speaker 5: for him, the moment's not going to be too big
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Speaker 5: for him.
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Speaker 3: He's just gonna go out and play football.
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Speaker 5: And that's what he did, and he did enough for
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Speaker 5: us to win, and you know, made some huge plays
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Speaker 5: down the stretch, So it was it was awesome seeing
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Speaker 5: him do that again.
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Speaker 2: I thought the offensive line play tonight was tremendous. Jake
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Speaker 2: was protected well obviously to go thirty two for thirty seven,
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Speaker 2: but you also ran for one fifty six and obviously
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Speaker 2: that was a big problem last week that you guys fixed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I think that you know, we did a
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Speaker 5: great job in the run game and that opened up
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Speaker 5: a lot of stuff in the past game. You know,
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Speaker 5: all of our backs were running hard, and you know
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Speaker 5: we're able to build off of that. And when you're
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Speaker 5: not behind the sticks, when you're getting positive yards on
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Speaker 5: run plays, it takes a lot of pressure off everyone.
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Speaker 5: And you know, we were able to do that today
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Speaker 5: and we need to keep doing that for the rest
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Speaker 5: of the year.
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Speaker 2: Joe Mixon had more than one hundred yards combined rushing
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Speaker 2: and receiving. But you guys also got a jolt from
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Speaker 2: Chase Brown and his sort of first significant action as
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Speaker 2: a rookie.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Chase. He's one of the shiftiest guys
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Speaker 5: I've ever seen on the field, and you saw a
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Speaker 5: lot of that from him today, just making a cut
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Speaker 5: and his acceleration is great. So it was cool to
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Speaker 5: see that out of him, and I know there's gonna
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Speaker 5: be a lot more coming from him.
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Speaker 2: That was a fun game. Congratulations on the win, Thank
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Speaker 2: you well. Joe Burrow won't return this year. The Bengals
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Speaker 2: did have t Higgins back on the field after he
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Speaker 2: missed three games with a hamstring injury. T had modest
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Speaker 2: stats three catches for thirty six yards, but his presence
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Speaker 2: makes it harder for teams to do everything under the
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Speaker 2: sun to stop Jamar. Chase and Jamar had eleven catches
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Speaker 2: for one hundred and forty nine yards. Here's my conversation
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Speaker 2: with Higgins. Tee, I'm sure you had a lot of
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Speaker 2: confidence in Jake, but thirty two for thirty seven for
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Speaker 2: three point fifty plus and a touchdown passing a touchdown run.
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Speaker 4: What do you think of his performance?
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Speaker 9: Ye, boy had a hell of a game.
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Speaker 3: I can say that.
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Speaker 9: Y'all asked about his confidence all week and y'all just
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Speaker 9: seen it there, you know what I'm saying, So you
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Speaker 9: can ask nothing better than that.
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Speaker 2: He completed his first ten passes early on. Did you think, man,
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Speaker 2: this guy's on a roll?
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Speaker 10: Honestly?
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Speaker 9: You know, you and game, well, you ain't really thinking
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Speaker 9: of it like that. You just just having your team
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Speaker 9: and it's catching the ball. He making good, putting good,
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Speaker 9: got good ball placement, and man, we was just you know,
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Speaker 9: he was helping us and we was helping him.
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Speaker 2: Where'd you get the sense that he was really just
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Speaker 2: cooking a night?
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Speaker 3: Really?
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Speaker 9: When he came out second half through that deep ball
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Speaker 9: to Chase, I was like, oh yeah, he feeling good.
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Speaker 10: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 9: It was a perfect ball and you know Chase was
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Speaker 9: able to make a play. And after that, you know
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Speaker 9: what I'm saying, he was just rolling.
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Speaker 2: You didn't have a ton of catches tonight, but the
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Speaker 2: ones that you had were big. What did it mean
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Speaker 2: to you to be back and contribute to an excited win?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Man?
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Speaker 9: Like I said earlier this week, man, you know all
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Speaker 9: I want to do is just help this team get
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Speaker 9: a W. And you know I was able to do
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Speaker 9: that today. You know it felt good, you know, just
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Speaker 9: to be back out there with the guys, you know,
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Speaker 9: competing it and just you know, it felt good to
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Speaker 9: you know, get that last catch right there to you know,
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Speaker 9: get us that first down, put us in field goal range.
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Speaker 9: And then man, you know, Mix finished it off.
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Speaker 2: So eleven for Jamar. I overheard you say to Tyler, Man,
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Speaker 2: it didn't even seem like he had that much.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it definitely didn't. Didn't realize it until you said
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Speaker 9: something after the game.
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Speaker 10: I was like, man, for real?
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Speaker 9: Uh Then like you said, man that the seventy six
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Speaker 9: yard had definitely helped.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 9: I didn't even you know, realize that. But man, you
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Speaker 9: had the hell of the game, you know, proud of
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Speaker 9: hitting a thousand yard mark, you know, for three seasons
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Speaker 9: in a row. You know, he's an elite receiver and
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Speaker 9: you know he's gonna continue to be great.
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Speaker 2: That many people thought the Bengals were going to win tonight,
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Speaker 2: cam here beating eight and three team at home.
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Speaker 4: How'd you do it? What's it mean?
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Speaker 9: We used to it, you know, we used to everybody
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Speaker 9: saying we're gonna We're not gonna pull it off. But man,
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Speaker 9: we just fought hard.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 9: You know, the run game was real big tonight. Mix
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Speaker 9: ran the ball hard, you know, shouts out to him
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Speaker 9: in the old line. Man, It's just you know, they
17:21
Speaker 9: they bought their bus office tonight, and I can't I
17:25
Speaker 9: can't discredit you know, the receiver. It was out there
17:27
Speaker 9: blocking on the perimeter as well. So he was just
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Speaker 9: all put it together. And you know when we all do,
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Speaker 9: when we do that and we compliment each other, man,
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Speaker 9: it's hard to beat us.
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Speaker 2: Joe had more than one hundred combined rushing receiving yards,
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Speaker 2: but Chase Brown gave you a lyft too with his burst.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Man, the first long run he had, I kinda was
17:44
Speaker 9: looking back, you know, you know, kind of missed the
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Speaker 9: block in the corner, made the play. I was like,
17:49
Speaker 9: my bad man, I got you next time, and he
17:51
Speaker 9: had another one, and you know I was blocking the
17:53
Speaker 9: corner all the way down the field, you know. So
17:54
Speaker 9: it's like I told you, I got you. But man,
17:57
Speaker 9: proud of him, you know, stepped up with big moments
17:59
Speaker 9: and makes place.
18:01
Speaker 4: Congrats on the windy.
18:03
Speaker 2: Now, let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent
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Speaker 2: four minutes with Lap after the game.
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Speaker 7: I'm just really proud of the all round effort. This team.
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Speaker 11: Guys stepped up, made plays when he needed it, and
18:14
Speaker 11: it feels good to get a win on Monday Night
18:15
Speaker 11: football on the road against a really good opponent.
18:19
Speaker 7: Just really proud of this team.
18:20
Speaker 1: Man.
18:21
Speaker 3: How about Jake Browning thirty two for thirty seven, three
18:25
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty four yards. He had a twenty yard rush,
18:28
Speaker 3: so he rushed well over twenty yards. I mean he operated,
18:32
Speaker 3: ploys precision. I mean it was unbelievable to watch him.
18:35
Speaker 11: He prepares, he puts in the work that he knows
18:38
Speaker 11: he's got to put in to be prepared, and so
18:39
Speaker 11: his confidence stems off of that.
18:41
Speaker 7: What else can he do? You know, he's prepared for
18:42
Speaker 7: every moment.
18:43
Speaker 11: He knows what he's going to see, knows where guys
18:45
Speaker 11: are going to be at, and he went out there
18:46
Speaker 11: and executed it like.
18:47
Speaker 7: We knew he could. And I think he's just a
18:49
Speaker 7: really good moment for.
18:50
Speaker 11: Him in the second NFL start up Monday night football
18:52
Speaker 11: to go do that against a really good team.
18:55
Speaker 7: Really proud of Jake.
18:56
Speaker 3: You had a great game plan though, I mean you
18:57
Speaker 3: got him out of pocket, he booted, was on the
19:00
Speaker 3: run so well, used the screen, game, used everything I mean,
19:06
Speaker 3: what didn't you run for over one hundred and fifty yards?
19:09
Speaker 3: I mean, it was. It was spectacular to watch. I mean,
19:12
Speaker 3: put thirty four points on the board. Pretty good.
19:15
Speaker 7: The trick plays didn't work so well, that's about.
19:17
Speaker 4: That's about all it didn't.
19:18
Speaker 7: You're right, I think we were over to on our
19:20
Speaker 7: trick plays.
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Speaker 11: But you know, sometimes a game like this, you just
19:22
Speaker 11: got to be aggressive and can't be afraid of what
19:24
Speaker 11: the results going to be. It could be a negative result,
19:26
Speaker 11: and it was, and our guys were able to overcome it.
19:29
Speaker 11: And and so again it was. It was a really
19:30
Speaker 11: good effort.
19:31
Speaker 7: I thought the offensive line played really well tonight. They
19:33
Speaker 7: protected him.
19:34
Speaker 11: One of those sacks comes on a hot we can't
19:36
Speaker 11: block him, you know, and we just gotta be able
19:38
Speaker 11: to see that and get the ball out. But I
19:39
Speaker 11: thought they did a great job open up some holes
19:41
Speaker 11: for the running backs. DoD a great job protecting Jake
19:43
Speaker 11: in the past game.
19:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the running game. I mean, how about
19:48
Speaker 3: how about the contribution from Brown sixty one yards on
19:52
Speaker 3: nine carries. He showed the explosiveness that you knew he had.
19:54
Speaker 3: I mean he Joe Mixon sixty eight yards rushing forty
19:59
Speaker 3: nine yards received. I mean, it was it was fun
20:03
Speaker 3: to watch this offense perform tonight.
20:05
Speaker 11: It was you know, when you're talking about the running backs,
20:06
Speaker 11: I thought those guys really stepped up mixing. Had some
20:08
Speaker 11: tough runs on the goal line that got us in
20:10
Speaker 11: the end zone, tough third down run that got us
20:13
Speaker 11: a third down there at the end of the game.
20:15
Speaker 7: Chase gave us a nice spark.
20:16
Speaker 11: You know, it's good to get another running back in
20:18
Speaker 11: there and mix it up and different elements.
20:19
Speaker 7: So really proudly, Justin Hill does a.
20:21
Speaker 11: Great job with those guys, and I thought they executed
20:23
Speaker 11: all to night.
20:24
Speaker 3: Your offense. Uh though, your your game plan. I know
20:28
Speaker 3: you're being you're being humble, but you had them kind
20:30
Speaker 3: of on their heels and with your aggressiveness. Now, sometimes
20:33
Speaker 3: it didn't work out, but I'd say a high high
20:35
Speaker 3: percentage of the time to me you talked about and
20:38
Speaker 3: I thought it was a great description. I asked you
20:40
Speaker 3: about the Jaguars defense front. You said violent. I thought
20:43
Speaker 3: you guys played with physicality and violence tonight big time.
20:47
Speaker 7: Yeah.
20:47
Speaker 11: Sometimes you're delivering a message to your on guys, you know,
20:49
Speaker 11: and and they're ready to hear that and step up
20:52
Speaker 11: and do what.
20:53
Speaker 7: We need to do to win the game.
20:54
Speaker 11: And again, just just really proud of offense, defense, special teams.
20:58
Speaker 7: Guys. Guys did what need to do to get this win.
21:00
Speaker 7: I'm really proud of him.
21:02
Speaker 3: When they scored fourteen points in like a little over
21:04
Speaker 3: two minute time. For two minutes and twenty seconds, whatever
21:07
Speaker 3: it was, it could have it could have gotten ugly form,
21:10
Speaker 3: but man, you guys showed the resiliency, I mean, bounce
21:13
Speaker 3: right back and stay after it. I thought the team
21:15
Speaker 3: showed a lot of character to night.
21:17
Speaker 11: Yeah, I didn't feel a lull from the team at all.
21:19
Speaker 11: You know, we felt like we had the momentum going
21:21
Speaker 11: into halftime. Offensive score, defense, gotta stop. Came out and
21:26
Speaker 11: felt good coming out of the half, and then and
21:28
Speaker 11: then there was a chance there for them to regain
21:29
Speaker 11: the momentum.
21:30
Speaker 7: Our guys didn't let them have it. Our guys responded
21:31
Speaker 7: the right way and got us right back in the game.
21:33
Speaker 3: Well, I know your mom was happy at the end
21:35
Speaker 3: of the game when it was a tie and it
21:36
Speaker 3: went't it to overtime, But I'm glad that you got
21:38
Speaker 3: the win. And now it's two two and one. It's
21:40
Speaker 3: even Steven and the in the Taylor family and what
21:44
Speaker 3: a first family of football it is. Man, you guys
21:46
Speaker 3: are you guys are do the game proud? No question,
21:49
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I think that he did a great
21:51
Speaker 3: job from what I could see too. And it's a shame.
21:53
Speaker 3: I hope their quarterback's not hurt too bad. That's that
21:55
Speaker 3: gives you a sick feeling to see all these quarterbacks
21:57
Speaker 3: go down like that and uh, hopefully he's okay.
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Speaker 4: Of the Bengals.
22:21
Speaker 2: Now time for the radio guys recap.
22:25
Speaker 1: Lapp.
22:26
Speaker 2: I think we both thought that Jake Browning was capable
22:28
Speaker 2: of having a really good game, but I can't honestly
22:31
Speaker 2: say that I thought he was capable of thirty two
22:33
Speaker 2: for thirty seven for three point fifty plus, including a
22:36
Speaker 2: bunch of really important clutch throws when they had to
22:39
Speaker 2: have it.
22:39
Speaker 3: He was unbelievably accurate. He showed confidence, he showed poise,
22:45
Speaker 3: he showed leadership, brilliant decision making. I mean a quarterback rating,
22:50
Speaker 3: a one fifteen point five seventy six yard touchdown pass.
22:54
Speaker 3: I mean he rushed, rushed for one, through for one.
22:59
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was a spectacular performance. I
23:01
Speaker 3: think I think that Zach Taylor and the Bengals offensive
23:06
Speaker 3: coaches put him in good situations. They did everything with him.
23:10
Speaker 3: They ran the bootlegs, you know that the running game.
23:15
Speaker 3: They stayed with it, and that paid dividends over one
23:18
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty yards. And he was talking about how
23:20
Speaker 3: that opened things up for him, and Jake was effusive
23:23
Speaker 3: in his praise. Obviously the offensive line. He said, you
23:25
Speaker 3: know it started there, and you know, he said, there's
23:29
Speaker 3: always things that you can think of after a game
23:32
Speaker 3: that you wish you had back. But I mean, that
23:33
Speaker 3: was that was just a spectacular performance. I mean, he
23:36
Speaker 3: he he just changed the trajectory of his NFL career.
23:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's going to have a job for
23:44
Speaker 2: a while somewhere, hopefully Cincinnati. But I mean he showed
23:48
Speaker 2: that he can be somebody's, if not their starting quarterbacks
23:51
Speaker 2: certainly a very viable number two.
23:53
Speaker 3: Oh, no question. I mean it's you don't have guys
23:58
Speaker 3: very often in their second NFL start throw for over
24:01
Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty yards against a good defensive football
24:03
Speaker 3: team at their place. I mean that's I thought though
24:07
Speaker 3: the Ring game, it was a huge deal. This is
24:10
Speaker 3: a team that came into the game fourth in the
24:12
Speaker 3: NFL and rushing, and the Bengals doubled up the yards
24:16
Speaker 3: that they've been given up during the course of the season.
24:18
Speaker 3: They rushed for over one hundred and fifty yards. I
24:20
Speaker 3: mean Joe Mixon, Joe Mixon had a hell of a
24:23
Speaker 3: football game on the ground and caught the football well.
24:26
Speaker 3: I thought he finished runs. I thought he ran really hard,
24:29
Speaker 3: offensive line finished blocks. It was just and I think
24:32
Speaker 3: the biggest thing was in that two minute and twenty
24:35
Speaker 3: second stretch of adversity, nobody folded their tent. You know,
24:39
Speaker 3: everybody showed resiliency and just kept working. And Zach during
24:45
Speaker 3: the course of the week, I thought, had a great
24:46
Speaker 3: comment about the Jaguars, a compliment comment about their defensive
24:50
Speaker 3: front that they played violently. I thought the Bengals were
24:53
Speaker 3: the more violent team tonight. I thought they they played
24:56
Speaker 3: with energy, enthusiasm, physicality, and after.
25:00
Speaker 2: It, Chase Brown was terrific. How much do you think
25:03
Speaker 2: his pop adds to the offense A lot?
25:06
Speaker 4: I really do.
25:07
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you know, he had he had
25:10
Speaker 3: almost as many yards as Joe on less than half
25:13
Speaker 3: the carriages. He had nine rushes for sixty one yards
25:16
Speaker 3: six point eight per He had a thirty one yard rush.
25:19
Speaker 3: Brownie had a twenty one yard rush himself. Joe Mixon
25:22
Speaker 3: had an eighteen yard rush and two physical touchdown runs.
25:26
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought the running game, you know, helped everything.
25:30
Speaker 3: I think the offensive line felt real good about the
25:34
Speaker 3: way they were handling things at the line of scrimmage
25:36
Speaker 3: at that point.
25:38
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase was spectacular as well, eleven catches for more
25:41
Speaker 2: than one hundred and forty yards, including that seventy six
25:44
Speaker 2: yard TD. It is amazing how little is required in
25:50
Speaker 2: getting him the ball for him to potentially make something
25:53
Speaker 2: big happens.
25:55
Speaker 3: He's a threat every single time he gets his hands
25:59
Speaker 3: on the football, threat of breaking the tackle and gaining
26:02
Speaker 3: huge yards after that contact or that catch or taken
26:06
Speaker 3: it to the house. We've seen him do it, you know,
26:08
Speaker 3: multiple times. It's almost like you're surprised when it doesn't
26:12
Speaker 3: happen because you start to take it for granted. He
26:15
Speaker 3: does it so regularly, it's like, you know, when's it
26:17
Speaker 3: gonna happen, when's gonna happen. I know it's gonna happen,
26:20
Speaker 3: and ultimately it does. I mean, book it. Every year
26:25
Speaker 3: eighty plus catches a thousand plus yards. I mean, he
26:27
Speaker 3: is a machine.
26:28
Speaker 2: It's funny how football works sometimes. Last week, the Bengals
26:31
Speaker 2: defense gave up sixteen points and it felt like a
26:34
Speaker 2: bad performance. Tonight they gave up thirty one, but it
26:38
Speaker 2: felt like a good performance because when they needed to stop,
26:40
Speaker 2: they got some.
26:41
Speaker 3: That's true, and you know it's they get put in
26:47
Speaker 3: bad spots. You know, a couple of times, I'm sure
26:50
Speaker 3: that they felt like even you know, with the turnover
26:53
Speaker 3: that Tyler Boyd have with the interception, they feel like,
26:55
Speaker 3: you know, a kind I gotta go out there and
26:56
Speaker 3: limit it to nothing more than a field goal opportunity
26:59
Speaker 3: and play complimentary football. But I mean there's a there's
27:02
Speaker 3: a million levels of complimentary football, and I thought the
27:04
Speaker 3: offense played complimentary football win itself for the first time.
27:09
Speaker 3: You know, the balance was obvious when you rush for
27:11
Speaker 3: over one hundred and fifty and throw it for over
27:13
Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty, you know you're you're playing complimentary football,
27:16
Speaker 3: There's no question.
27:18
Speaker 2: So prior to last week's again game against Pittsburgh, we
27:20
Speaker 2: talked about how they'd probably need to win five games,
27:23
Speaker 2: and the formula was kind of win the home games,
27:26
Speaker 2: maybe steal a road winning Pittsburgh. Well, this is a
27:29
Speaker 2: game you didn't think they would win, and they did,
27:31
Speaker 2: so they've at least put themselves back into kind of
27:34
Speaker 2: a mathematical chance of if they could you know, take
27:37
Speaker 2: care of business at home and steal one more road game,
27:39
Speaker 2: they got a.
27:40
Speaker 3: Shot, absolutely, you know, and Indianapolis comes to town and
27:44
Speaker 3: they're they're playoff alive. They're there right now. If the
27:49
Speaker 3: playoffs were to start today, they'd be in. And that's
27:52
Speaker 3: the case with every team remaining just about so they're
27:56
Speaker 3: going to have their opportunities. And I just thought that
27:59
Speaker 3: it was a great tonight.
28:01
Speaker 4: Again.
28:01
Speaker 3: You're on the road, national television, the crowd's going crazy,
28:06
Speaker 3: You've had diversity hit fourteen points in a little over
28:09
Speaker 3: two minutes, and you stand up and and you do
28:13
Speaker 3: something about it instead of, you know, saying it's not
28:16
Speaker 3: our night. You made sure it was your night. You
28:18
Speaker 3: went and took it. And I think I think that's
28:21
Speaker 3: both volumes. I think that this football team has has
28:25
Speaker 3: the mental toughness and the physical toughness to get something done.
28:28
Speaker 2: Feel terrible for Jacksonville fans and for Trevor Lawrence obviously
28:32
Speaker 2: to see him go down like that when they're having
28:34
Speaker 2: a special season, and we know how it feels with
28:36
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow getting hurt a couple of weeks ago, but
28:38
Speaker 2: that doesn't make it any easier.
28:40
Speaker 3: You're right, Dan, I mean, your your heart goes out
28:42
Speaker 3: to the guy, and you know, and he's he's so
28:46
Speaker 3: much fun to watch. I mean, he's a special talent,
28:48
Speaker 3: just like number nine. Joe Burrow is a special talent.
28:51
Speaker 3: This guy is a is a unique talent himself. And
28:55
Speaker 3: the NFL is what it is because of these kind
28:58
Speaker 3: of guys. And you know, it's a brutal blow. You
29:03
Speaker 3: just hate to see a guy react like he reacted.
29:06
Speaker 3: Hopefully it's just an ankle sprain. You know, no announcement
29:10
Speaker 3: at this point in time, but if it is an
29:12
Speaker 3: ankle sprain, it looked like it was a pretty severe one.
29:16
Speaker 4: That was one freaking fun game.
29:19
Speaker 3: It was entertaining, wasn't it. I think I think it
29:22
Speaker 3: was the most ties there's been in an NFL game
29:25
Speaker 3: this year. I think there were five, maybe six ties,
29:29
Speaker 3: and I think I heard where that might be the
29:31
Speaker 3: most of any NFL game this season. And for it
29:34
Speaker 3: to happen on Monday night football with the Cincinnati Bengals
29:38
Speaker 3: is one of the participants.
29:39
Speaker 5: A is cool.
29:40
Speaker 4: Let's get on a plane of golf.
29:41
Speaker 3: Let's do it to it, sir.
29:44
Speaker 2: Up Next a home game against the seven and five Colts,
29:48
Speaker 2: who have won four games in a row, but those
29:51
Speaker 2: wins have been against Carolina, New England, Tampa Bay, and Tennessee,
29:57
Speaker 2: and those teams are combined twelve and thirty six. The
30:01
Speaker 2: Colts are an early one point favorite for next Sunday.
30:06
Speaker 2: Now time for this week's fun Facts conversation, where you
30:09
Speaker 2: get to know the person under the pads. Time for
30:14
Speaker 2: some fun facts with Charlie Jones from Deerfield, Illinois, not
30:18
Speaker 2: far from Chicago. What did young Charlie Jones like to
30:22
Speaker 2: do growing up in Deerfield?
30:25
Speaker 10: Really just hang out with my friends.
30:27
Speaker 8: Felt like we were always we were always doing something,
30:30
Speaker 8: you know, in the summertime, we'd swim a lot, and.
30:33
Speaker 10: You know, we played.
30:34
Speaker 8: We played all the sports, football, basketball, baseball, tennis, really
30:38
Speaker 8: just hung out. Got a big family, so I was
30:41
Speaker 8: always busy doing something with my siblings, but really around
30:46
Speaker 8: sports and just just really hanging out.
30:48
Speaker 2: Did you get to go to Bulls, Bears, White Sox, Cubs,
30:52
Speaker 2: black Hawks games, anything like that as a kid.
30:54
Speaker 8: Yeah, we went to more Socks games when I was
30:57
Speaker 8: a kid than anything. But you know, we went to
31:01
Speaker 8: Bulls games, Blackhawks games, which are always fun, especially you
31:05
Speaker 8: know when we're playing.
31:06
Speaker 2: Well, any memorable games that you attended in any of
31:09
Speaker 2: those sports.
31:10
Speaker 8: I don't think I went to any like crazy big game.
31:15
Speaker 8: I didn't go to these games, but like when when
31:17
Speaker 8: the Blackhawks were in the Stanley Cup, that was always
31:19
Speaker 8: a crazy time. And I was in high school during
31:22
Speaker 8: that time, and we, uh, you know, we took school
31:25
Speaker 8: off to go to the parade and everything. So when
31:28
Speaker 8: Chicago sports are playing, well, it's it's fun down there.
31:31
Speaker 2: We're doing fun facts with Charlie Jones. You mentioned your family.
31:34
Speaker 2: I've read that you have the Roman numeral eight yes,
31:37
Speaker 2: tattooed on you as significance to your family.
31:40
Speaker 4: Explain that.
31:41
Speaker 8: Yeah, so there's eight of us, you know, Mom, Dad,
31:44
Speaker 8: and I have five siblings and one of six. I
31:47
Speaker 8: just kind of it was my brother's idea. I tried
31:51
Speaker 8: to convince everyone to get the tattoo. Right now, my me,
31:55
Speaker 8: my brother, and my youngest sister have it.
31:58
Speaker 10: We're trying to we're trying to make everyone get it.
32:01
Speaker 8: One of my sisters has a necklace of it, so
32:05
Speaker 8: not everyone has it yet. But basically for us, it
32:08
Speaker 8: was just, you know, family's been through a lot, you know,
32:12
Speaker 8: as families do, and uh, you know, whatever happens, we're
32:16
Speaker 8: all together through everything. So I wanted to get you know,
32:20
Speaker 8: eight to symbolize just you know, all of us together.
32:23
Speaker 2: You had an excellent high school football career, but you
32:26
Speaker 2: played for a team that ran the triple option. How
32:29
Speaker 2: much did that impact your recruiting?
32:32
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think a lot.
32:34
Speaker 8: It's hard to show what you can do as a
32:37
Speaker 8: receiver in an offense like that.
32:41
Speaker 10: You know, I still I still got some touches.
32:43
Speaker 8: You know, in the run game, and and could show
32:46
Speaker 8: what I could do as a receiver kind of as
32:48
Speaker 8: a dB just just you know, the way I may
32:52
Speaker 8: play plays on the on the ball and you know,
32:55
Speaker 8: just kind of that way, and then I returned kicks
32:57
Speaker 8: and punts. So just trying to find way is to
33:02
Speaker 8: show that you know, I'm a player and you know
33:05
Speaker 8: I can be a receiver. But yeah, you know, it's
33:07
Speaker 8: not it's not easy when you catch. You know, I
33:10
Speaker 8: think my junior year I had like tang catches. My
33:12
Speaker 8: senior year I had like twenty or something like that.
33:14
Speaker 10: So it's not easy.
33:15
Speaker 8: But you know, I knew if I just went out
33:18
Speaker 8: there and did everything I possibly could, someone's gonna take me.
33:22
Speaker 4: What's it a dream to go to Notre Dame?
33:24
Speaker 10: It was, Yeah, that was my school forever.
33:28
Speaker 8: My family, you know, love Notre Dame, and you know,
33:32
Speaker 8: coming out of high school was not an option. Later
33:35
Speaker 8: on it was an option, but you know, obviously I
33:38
Speaker 8: didn't end up going there.
33:40
Speaker 2: You ultimately chose to go to the University of Buffalo.
33:43
Speaker 2: He stayed for a couple of years, then decided to
33:45
Speaker 2: transfer to Iowa and had to initially walk on at
33:48
Speaker 2: Iowa before getting a scholarship there. How difficult was that decision?
33:52
Speaker 8: Oh, I mean, at the time, it was the hardest
33:54
Speaker 8: decision I've ever had to make. Really really took a
33:59
Speaker 8: lot of thinking out talking it through with my family.
34:01
Speaker 8: I felt like every day I was kind of you know,
34:04
Speaker 8: talking to my dad and my brothers and sisters and
34:06
Speaker 8: my mom. But you know, I really believe that I
34:10
Speaker 8: could play against the best every week. And you know,
34:15
Speaker 8: I knew that making a move like going to the
34:18
Speaker 8: Big ten would would give me that opportunity.
34:21
Speaker 10: And you know, I was coming off surgery.
34:24
Speaker 8: Nobody had a scholarship for me, so I was like,
34:25
Speaker 8: if I'm gonna walk on, I'm gonna walk on somewhere
34:28
Speaker 8: that has a tradition of walk ons, which was which
34:31
Speaker 8: was Iowa. And it was tough because, I mean I
34:35
Speaker 8: left a scholarship and now now my family had to
34:37
Speaker 8: had to pay for school, which is difficult when you
34:41
Speaker 8: know you're you're you know that other people are gonna,
34:45
Speaker 8: you know, be affected by your decision. But everyone was
34:49
Speaker 8: super supportive and amazing for the whole thing, so it
34:51
Speaker 8: made it a little bit easier for me.
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Speaker 2: We're visiting with Charlie Jones. Iowa doesn't run the triple option,
34:57
Speaker 2: but it's not exactly a prolific passing to and so
35:00
Speaker 2: for your final college season, you transferred to Purdue and
35:04
Speaker 2: in your first game for the Boiler makers. You had
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Speaker 2: twelve catches for one hundred and fifty three yards against
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Speaker 2: Penn State. Can you describe what that game meant to you?
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Speaker 10: Yeah? It was. It was crazy.
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Speaker 8: I mean, making another big decision to transfer again with
35:20
Speaker 8: only one season left was another really difficult.
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Speaker 10: Thing for me and my family.
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Speaker 8: You know, I could have It was a lot different
35:30
Speaker 8: when I was coming out of Buffalo than when I
35:32
Speaker 8: was leaving Iowa. I had a lot more to choose
35:35
Speaker 8: from and really made a decision based on where I'm
35:41
Speaker 8: gonna be most successful. And I knew the quarterback growing
35:46
Speaker 8: up there and so so to put everything on the
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Speaker 8: table again and just bet on myself, and then to
35:54
Speaker 8: come in summer camp, you know, I didn't really know
35:56
Speaker 8: what was going to really happen. It's not like I
35:59
Speaker 8: knew I was, I mean me personally, but I mean
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Speaker 8: it couldn't really tell. I was still learning the system.
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Speaker 8: And then to come in and have a first game
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Speaker 8: like that. I remember we got back to the to
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Speaker 8: the locker room to do media and my friend Aiden,
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Speaker 8: the quarterback, kind of slid the paper over the stat
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Speaker 8: sheet over to me and just pointed at he threw
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Speaker 8: me the ball nineteen times that day. So it was awesome.
36:23
Speaker 8: It was a good feeling. I knew that we were
36:25
Speaker 8: gonna have a special year.
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Speaker 2: That connection with quarterback Aid and O'Connell's amazing because you
36:30
Speaker 2: guys went back to like second or third grade, right.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we started in third grade.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so you know, I've known him a long time
36:38
Speaker 8: and you know, to see him, you know, he's got
36:41
Speaker 8: a great journey as well.
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Speaker 10: He walked on at Purdue and you know, stuck it out.
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Speaker 8: And see him succeed and now he's playing, you know,
36:48
Speaker 8: at the highest level and he's doing well.
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Speaker 10: So I'm really happy to see him do that.
36:52
Speaker 2: He's in the NFL with the Raiders, and you are
36:54
Speaker 2: obviously in the NFL with the Bengals. You were selected
36:56
Speaker 2: in the fourth round of this year's draft. Describe your
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Speaker 2: draft experience.
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Speaker 10: It was it was a roller coaster.
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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, try to try to do everything
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Speaker 8: I possibly could to help myself. You know, that started
37:11
Speaker 8: right after my season with with the way I trained,
37:13
Speaker 8: and then you know, the way I prepared for the
37:15
Speaker 8: Combine and and how I went through my business, and
37:18
Speaker 8: then after that, I mean, it's out of your control, really,
37:21
Speaker 8: it's in It's in God's hands and you know, he
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Speaker 8: he he was always He's always looking out for me
37:27
Speaker 8: and put me in a perfect situation. But it's stressful
37:31
Speaker 8: and it's you know, you never know what can happen.
37:35
Speaker 8: And I remember, you know, just being with my family
37:38
Speaker 8: and on the second day, not really knowing what was
37:42
Speaker 8: gonna happen. And I didn't go the second day, and
37:44
Speaker 8: then all my family and friends were there for the
37:46
Speaker 8: third day. So it was a really special moment to
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Speaker 8: be with the people that had been with me this
37:51
Speaker 8: whole journey. It was definitely really cool and something I
37:56
Speaker 8: obviously remember forever.
37:58
Speaker 2: You led the nation and receptions it do with one
38:01
Speaker 2: more than Tank Dell, who's having a great rookie year
38:03
Speaker 2: with the Houston Texans, and you acquired the nickname Chuck Sizzle.
38:07
Speaker 2: Tell us the origin story of Chuck Sizzle.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that actually started in that that first Penn State game.
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Speaker 8: Gus Johnson, you know, gave me that one mess he does,
38:20
Speaker 8: and no, it was I really didn't hear about it
38:23
Speaker 8: until you know, the next day, a couple of my
38:26
Speaker 8: friends were texting me. I really didn't know what they
38:28
Speaker 8: were talking about, and then people had told me, and
38:30
Speaker 8: then slowly it just kind of got bigger, uh, and
38:33
Speaker 8: it started catching on, and you know, they made some
38:36
Speaker 8: T shirts and it kind of just really grew. And
38:38
Speaker 8: I wasn't sure if it was going to stick, you know,
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Speaker 8: into the NFL, and it seems to seems to be
38:43
Speaker 8: sticking a little bit.
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Speaker 10: So I like it. I like it a lot. I
38:46
Speaker 10: think it's cool. It's a little bit different, but it
38:49
Speaker 10: is cool.
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Speaker 2: I assume friends and family have purchased a lot of
38:52
Speaker 2: Chuck Sizzle merchandise. Do they have your blessing to wear
38:55
Speaker 2: it in public?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: No, I mean when I was in at Purdue, everyone
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Speaker 8: had the Chuck Stizzele shirts and every once in a
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Speaker 8: while see someone wearing it, or back home someone sees
39:10
Speaker 8: someone else wearing.
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Speaker 10: It, they'll sell me a picture.
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Speaker 8: No, But I mean, as everything throughout my whole career,
39:16
Speaker 8: they've been super supportive and and whenever they can, they're
39:19
Speaker 8: gonna they're gonna put it on.
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Speaker 4: All right.
39:20
Speaker 2: A few wild card topics now for Charlie Jones. Who
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Speaker 2: is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
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Speaker 4: And why?
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Speaker 10: Probably Devin Hester.
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Speaker 8: I mean, being like growing up in Chicago, like at
39:34
Speaker 8: that time, watching Devin Hester, everybody like was a Hester
39:37
Speaker 8: fan and and everyone had you know, Hester jerseys, and
39:42
Speaker 8: whenever he was playing, you know, on fourth down, people
39:46
Speaker 8: were locked in watching the game. So I think that's
39:48
Speaker 8: kind of where my love for the pumper turn game started.
39:51
Speaker 8: And just just watching someone do something that well at
39:57
Speaker 8: such a high level and do it consistently, it was
40:01
Speaker 8: cool to see.
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Speaker 4: Do you have a talent that not many people know about?
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Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 10: I wish? I wish.
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Speaker 8: I used to play the piano. My parents made me
40:12
Speaker 8: play the piano when I was younger.
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Speaker 10: Hated it.
40:16
Speaker 8: Should have stuck with it, though, because I got I
40:18
Speaker 8: got nothing.
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Speaker 10: Really I can juggle.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if that counts how many objects?
40:24
Speaker 10: Just three?
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Speaker 8: Just three? Tennis ball? Yeah, I don't know if I could.
40:28
Speaker 8: I see her doing the football is on the sideline.
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Speaker 10: I don't know if I could do.
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Speaker 2: That, all right, limited piano playing skills and juggling, those
40:34
Speaker 2: are both good skills to have. Being from the Chicago area.
40:38
Speaker 2: What is your favorite Chicago food and where do you
40:42
Speaker 2: go to get it?
40:43
Speaker 8: I don't really eat this way that much anymore, but
40:47
Speaker 8: a lot of people would say Luma Natties, But I'm
40:50
Speaker 8: I'm a Barnaby's guy.
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Speaker 4: We're talking deep dish pizza.
40:53
Speaker 10: This is thin crust.
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Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, Luminais is deep dish, but yeah, I don't
40:57
Speaker 8: really like the deep dish like that. I'd prefer a
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Speaker 8: thin crust. But I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty simple when
41:04
Speaker 8: it comes to that. Well, I pretty much eat the
41:07
Speaker 8: same thing every day. But if I were to do that,
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Speaker 8: it'd probably be Barnaby's, Yeah, or maybe Italian I don't
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Speaker 8: know one or the other.
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Speaker 2: All right, final thing for Charlie Jones, this is kind
41:18
Speaker 2: of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, living
41:23
Speaker 2: or deceased, who would that person be?
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Speaker 10: Maybe maybe Michael Jordan.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I think that'd be That'd be crazy to
41:33
Speaker 8: sit down with him and just let him talk about,
41:36
Speaker 8: you know, things that he's done over the years and
41:38
Speaker 8: just kind of just listen to to everything that he
41:41
Speaker 8: has to say. Again, being you know, someone from Chicago,
41:45
Speaker 8: I think that'd be.
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Speaker 10: That'd be really cool.
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Speaker 2: You're off the hot seat. I appreciate your time. Best
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Speaker 2: of like the rest of the year.
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Speaker 10: Thank you appreciate it.
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