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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike sincey three sixty about Cincinnati. From Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: sponsored in part by Skyline Chili. Stop by Skyline Chili

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Speaker 1: for a three way or cheese cony today. Feeling good,

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Speaker 1: it's Skyline Time. This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Happy Thursday, and welcome in to Cincy three

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Speaker 2: to sixty thanks to Skyline Chili. Anytime you're feeling good

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Speaker 2: and hungry, it's always Skyline time. But I didn't get

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Speaker 2: to ask you, Austin, did you finish? Did you complete

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Speaker 2: the babble headset?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: You did not.

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Speaker 3: After our attempt at one time, that was this futile

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Speaker 3: I gave up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy how easy it was to get to Borough.

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Speaker 3: I'm thankful that Burrow was the first one. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: I do have that one.

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Speaker 3: I was going to try to get Higgins, but you know,

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Speaker 3: just didn't happen. Didn't happen all right?

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks to our friends at Skyline Chili.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for next year.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening in, and we got a heck

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Speaker 2: of a Thursday show ahead. Phone lines will be open

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Speaker 2: five one three seven, fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: I have an idea for Skyline Okay special Edition Joe

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Speaker 3: Flacco bobblehead Man, how quick can you get a printed?

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Speaker 3: Except instead of it's you know him right there, it's

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Speaker 3: You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: While immediately resonnated with so many people by just a

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Speaker 3: It's ours. Really, It's been cool to hear Ravens fans

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Speaker 3: be like, yeah, like we love this guy yep, and

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Speaker 3: just to he's just so genuine, so refreshing. It's been awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It just to me, it just seems like a

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Speaker 2: dude who just appreciates an opportunity that he has, that

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Speaker 2: he's still getting to do what he loves. And uh again,

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Speaker 2: just people Joe cool. I think so much about what

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Speaker 2: makes him Joe cool is that he's relatable to a

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Speaker 2: lot of people, and uh man, yesterday was awesome. We'll

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Speaker 2: play some Joe Flacco audio from yesterday today. We also

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Speaker 2: have some Wes Miller audio about five minutes of what

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Speaker 2: Wes Miller had to say a big twelve media day.

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Speaker 2: We have John Shearon aight is E Sports is going

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Speaker 2: to join us at one o'clock this afternoon, and uh

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Speaker 2: so much more. We're gonna read and react today to

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Speaker 2: everything Bengals. What else is happening in the sports world?

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Speaker 2: NBA night too, last night Austin, NBA Night.

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Speaker 3: Two, Here come the Chicago bull Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's out of everything that happened last night,

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about Luke and Cooper, flag wimb and all

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Speaker 3: these great young players. They can't hold a candle to

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Speaker 3: Matas Boozalis. How about that of the Chicago Bulls. Shout

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Speaker 3: out Matas. Yeah, shout out what he was able to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh and one pal good.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Liam man.

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Speaker 2: There is a lot going on in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Victor Webbin Yama last night Austin forty points, fifteen rebounds,

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Speaker 3: And maybe that's just because they're appreciative because of what

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Speaker 3: Had put a couple wagers on your favorite team.

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Speaker 2: Had some debuts last night? Jock what was it? Jocks

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Speaker 3: I heard a crazy stat this morning about Brandon Jennings.

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Speaker 3: In his fifth career NBA game, he had fifty five points.

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Speaker 2: And then news broke today.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot going on with this man. There's like

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Speaker 3: that Gilbert Arenas, who has busted for poker games not

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Speaker 2: Why in today's sports, knowing what we've seen, is it?

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Speaker 3: Sure, it's definitely a sickness, like gambling is a legitimate addiction,

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Speaker 2: Nope. Groundbreaking stuff in Major League Baseball as well Austin.

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Speaker 2: We've got new managers across baseball. On one end, the

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Speaker 2: Angels have a new manager. It's Kurt Suzuki, longtime Red's Killer, Curtins,

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Speaker 3: Really weird. The Angels are just a weird organization. They

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Speaker 2: And then Austin, you get this Tennessee volunteer coach Tony Vttello,

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Speaker 2: how about this? Wins the men's College World Series in

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Speaker 2: I Austin, commend the Giants for this. Sure, I've talked

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Speaker 2: I commend them. What do you think about the Pro

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Leonel Messi has been extended Withinner Miami.

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Speaker 3: There was a run for f C Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: It was a conversation that, you know, maybe when the

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Wait, it is.

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Speaker 2: Going to be a phenomenal sports weekend here locally. Bearcats

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Speaker 2: in between all that, Nate Bargatzi's in town. Oh, your guy,

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Speaker 2: Nate's in town.

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Speaker 3: Are you going to go see him?

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Speaker 2: He's in town Saturday and Sunday. We're going to go

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Speaker 2: Sunday night to see him.

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Speaker 2: So we were looking forward to that. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: Read and react. That's right, read and react. Yeah, what

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Speaker 2: now for the NA Any guess on your behalf where

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't even know where to begin. Probably not very good.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen percent. Yeah, for what it's worth, twenty nine percent

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson returned to practice yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Why and I'll pull up the schedule.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty easy.

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Speaker 2: I know it's easy. What about what the Ravens have

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Speaker 3: I think the big thing is the schedule and the

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Speaker 3: Seventy two per chance right now for the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 2: what you just highlighted, Austin. You've got two rookie linebackers.

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Speaker 2: You've got TJ. Slayton, who assigned to stop the run.

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Speaker 2: Hendrickson has not been in Even when he's played, it's

440
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Speaker 2: not like he's playing ninety percent of the snaps. They've

441
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Speaker 2: not gotten much from Miles Murphy. They've not gotten much

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Speaker 2: from Shamar Stewart.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, same old Steart.

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Speaker 2: If Osaia is getting the pressures, you would like that

445
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Speaker 2: to mean that the quarterback has to adjust and there's

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Speaker 2: someone else there to finish. The problem with the Bengals

447
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Speaker 2: they don't have multiple guys winning on every snap up front.

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Speaker 2: One guy might win. It's easy. I'm not gonna say

449
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Speaker 2: it's easy. It's easier for a quarterback to navigate that

450
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Speaker 2: in the NFL if you've got to move around just

451
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Speaker 2: one guy. The problem becomes if you've got to push

452
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Speaker 2: up and now there's pressure up the middle, or you

453
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Speaker 2: push up and spin out and there's another pressure waiting

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Speaker 2: for you. Far too many times, in my opinion, the

455
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Speaker 2: Bengals have that initial pressure where it needs to be,

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Speaker 2: and then there's just no secondary help. They can't find

457
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Speaker 2: guys that win multiple times on a play, and that

458
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Speaker 2: puts them in a tough situation.

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Speaker 3: Now, Lawson tweeted last night, you or him?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 3: Carl Lawson tweeted back where it all started, praying hands emoji.

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Speaker 3: Oh so what I did is, of course, the former

463
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Speaker 3: Bengals draft pick out of Auburn. I went over to

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Speaker 3: the NFL transactions and I call him. Through all the workouts,

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Speaker 3: the tryouts, the visits. Carl Lawson nowhere to be found.

466
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Speaker 3: But he was okay last year with the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: He said that he was thankful for the opportunity he

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Speaker 3: got in Dallas. He believes he's twice the player he

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Speaker 3: was even last year due to a healthy offseason. So

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Speaker 3: would you take a flyer on Carl Lawson?

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Speaker 2: Yes, take a flyer on anybody.

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Speaker 3: I mean, based off of the conversation we just had.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it can't be any worse. Can't be any worse.

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Speaker 3: Carl Lawson last year, according to Pro Football Focus, fifty

475
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Speaker 3: nine point seventh grade. Okay, right, kind of in the

476
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Speaker 3: middle of the pack of defensive ends in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: It's probably not that much worse than most of what

478
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Speaker 3: the Bengals have. No, and if it was him coming home,

479
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Speaker 3: sign me up for it. Bring him home. You'll be

480
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Speaker 3: having those conversations. I do think the Cedric Johnson thing

481
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Speaker 3: is is noteworthy because he did play well towards the

482
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Speaker 3: end of last season him and Joseph said both and

483
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Speaker 3: I would imagine they'll Bengals would stick with Cedric Johnson

484
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Speaker 3: over Cam Sample because Cam Sample really just hasn't been

485
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Speaker 3: the player I expected him to be coming off of

486
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Speaker 3: that Beteller Tendont injury and hasn't. I don't know if

487
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Speaker 3: he's gotten a fair share of it of opportunities, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: these are the things we talked about a lot this week.

489
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Speaker 3: Of continuing, continuing to make your team better and improve

490
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Speaker 3: the bottom of your roster, you got to consider, you know,

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Speaker 3: Cedric Johnson, Carl Loss and those type of guys.

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Speaker 2: Depth is a major conversation in the National Football League.

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Speaker 2: As we talked about yesterday, something that everyone's talking about

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Speaker 2: from yesterday, what Joe Flacco had to say when we

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Speaker 2: come back, Let's get the Joe Flacco audio and let's

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Speaker 2: react to that as well. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: You've been listening to football in the NATI on ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals, ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is since he three sixty our number one,

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Speaker 2: that's right, ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: That's the home of the Bengals. You still say it's sixty.

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Speaker 3: Say whatever we want. Let just go with it.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you who's speaking in a way that I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of us can appreciate is what Joe

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Speaker 2: Flacco had to say yesterday, And not just as comment

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Speaker 2: that we're going to get to about, you know, getting

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Speaker 2: out to dinner and being able to sit by yourself

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Speaker 2: and kind of collect your thoughts, but what he had

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Speaker 2: to say from his press conference yesterday Austin, I believe,

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Speaker 2: what do we have six or seven minutes of Joe

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Speaker 2: Flacco from yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a few minutes of Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 2: Let's dive into some Joe Flacco speaking to members of

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Speaker 2: the media yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, it was nice to have a little

518
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Speaker 4: like to be able to breathe a little bit this weekend,

519
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Speaker 4: and you know, it feels like I was we were

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Speaker 4: just out in the practice field and it feels like,

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Speaker 4: you know, I've barely been there it, so, yeah, it's

522
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Speaker 4: good to kind of get back in the normal rhythm

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Speaker 4: of a Monday, Tuesday and now actually going out there

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Speaker 4: in the practice field on Wednesday field and prepared with

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Speaker 4: a normal week.

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Speaker 3: You feel like you're operating the way you want to.

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Speaker 5: You know you're not going to get a full training camp,

528
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Speaker 5: but how do you feel like you're out there?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean so far, still learning and trying to

530
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Speaker 4: pick up everything, and you know, just play as fast

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Speaker 4: and as smooth as I can and using just the

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Speaker 4: same I'm going to try to keep my process the same,

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Speaker 4: you know, and use these walkthroughs and the practices to

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Speaker 4: get used to calling it and seeing it, and you know,

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Speaker 4: just try to keep keep it at a basic level

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Speaker 4: and keep going from there.

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Speaker 6: So much focused kill you getting accustomed to your weapons,

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Speaker 6: running backs obviously, the wide receivers, what about the offensive line,

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Speaker 6: what side, you know, getting use to them, playing in

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Speaker 6: front of them, and life.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's been great. I mean, I think you can

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Speaker 4: tell that those guys are a hard work, hard working group.

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Speaker 4: And I think the biggest thing is for those guys

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Speaker 4: to get comfortable with each other. And now, you know,

545
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Speaker 4: the way you get good at playing with each other

546
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Speaker 4: is just trust, you know, trust between everybody trust that

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Speaker 4: they're going to do their job. They have the trust

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Speaker 4: that I'm going to do my job and get the

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Speaker 4: ball out and and you know, no, you know, maybe

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Speaker 4: know when we're getting the ball out in quick game,

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Speaker 4: know when we're maybe dropping a little bit deeper. I

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Speaker 4: think as long as they're nobody can do that and

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Speaker 4: trust each other to do their job and not try

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Speaker 4: to get cute and make up for something here and

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Speaker 4: make up for something there, you know, then then we'll

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Speaker 4: grow together and be happy with it.

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Speaker 7: Hey, you guys avoid the obligatory letdown game that comes

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Speaker 7: after a mini by facing a winless team. How do

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Speaker 7: you guys keep the moments and going on offense from

560
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Speaker 7: what you had in Vintsburgh.

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Speaker 4: Just go out and take every day by itself, prepare

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Speaker 4: Wednesday like you always do, Thursday like you always do Friday,

563
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Speaker 4: and then ultimately win the football game. A lot of

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Speaker 4: that stuff is just talk, and you know, you don't

565
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Speaker 4: have to answer it unless you don't go out there.

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Speaker 4: You know, unless you don't go you go out there

567
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Speaker 4: and don't play well. So it's simple. You can't worry

568
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Speaker 4: about what the result is at any point, but definitely

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Speaker 4: not on Wednesday. He's got to go out there and

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Speaker 4: prepare and then on Sunday, same thing. You got to

571
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Speaker 4: go play each play and you know, just keep getting

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Speaker 4: up and doing the same thing over and over again,

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Speaker 4: having the best play that you can possibly have in

574
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Speaker 4: that moment. The results come when you when you're able

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Speaker 4: to be in the moment and focus on the task

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Speaker 4: at hand.

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Speaker 8: So your offensive line, have you had a chance to

578
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Speaker 8: kind of we moved with the Orlando and just a.

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Speaker 6: Kind of shaking heads and saying, well.

580
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Speaker 8: Here we are, and yeah, I've been able to have

581
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Speaker 8: that moment yet or.

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Speaker 4: A little bit, Yeah, because he's very willing to come

583
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Speaker 4: up to me and and talk about certain things like

584
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Speaker 4: that and just kind of ask me how it's been

585
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Speaker 4: going in Cincinnati and yeah, So like I think he's

586
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Speaker 4: probably driven that conversation, but we've been able to talk

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Speaker 4: a little bit about it.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned one of the game has struggled for the

589
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Speaker 5: most part this year before you got here, suddenly starting

590
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Speaker 5: to click a little bit, and you think what you've

591
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Speaker 5: done in the past game has opened up the run

592
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Speaker 5: game or the one game up open up some things

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Speaker 5: for you Thursday night.

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Speaker 4: The past game, it's tough to say it's it's one game.

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Speaker 4: I do think the run game early on in that,

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Speaker 4: like I think initially the run game did spark us

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Speaker 4: that little that thirty yard run we had, and that

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Speaker 4: was our first scoring drive, I believe, and then and

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Speaker 4: the next one we came out and have another little

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Speaker 4: chunk run. Anytime that you can, you know, get some

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Speaker 4: of those games in the running game, it's going to

602
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Speaker 4: help your offense out a lot. So I think in

603
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Speaker 4: Thursday's case, the run game definitely helped us out. But

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Speaker 4: we just got to, you know, like I said, we

605
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Speaker 4: got to just continue to work at it and have

606
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Speaker 4: faith that you know, we're getting better, and you know,

607
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 4: one game doesn't necessarily indicate what the next is going

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Speaker 4: to be. And and just like I said before about

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Speaker 4: you know, the process of it all, I don't think

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Speaker 4: we can really worry about that. I think we just

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Speaker 4: got to continue to work on getting better and trust

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Speaker 4: that we're doing the right things, and then on Sundays

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Speaker 4: it'll show up.

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Speaker 8: Is the biggest way a quarterback can help a run game,

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Speaker 8: un to think of it that way, but the other

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Speaker 8: ways beyond you obviously talking and running again in that way,

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Speaker 8: you know, what are the biggest ways quarterbacks can help.

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Speaker 3: Keep a running game efficient.

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Speaker 4: Well complete passes when you get the opportunity to do it,

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Speaker 4: you know, stay ahead of the stakes, you know, of

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Speaker 4: the sticks, you know, first, first and second down, especially

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Speaker 4: first down. When you have easy completions and and you

623
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Speaker 4: can keep your helpself ahead of the sticks, then it

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Speaker 4: gives you the chance to be multiple and and not

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Speaker 4: you know, be kind of forced into being one dimensional

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Speaker 4: because you weren't able to do what you were supposed

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Speaker 4: to do on early downs. I think that's probably the

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Speaker 4: biggest thing. Other than that, maybe I would say just

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Speaker 4: the just the operation of it all, gett into the

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Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, snapping the ball, having good rhythm with that.

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Speaker 5: This is obviously a very unique situation where you have

632
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Speaker 5: to leave your home and income here the way you did.

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Speaker 3: How are you navigating a dad?

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Speaker 4: Well, the good thing I guess, I guess you could

635
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Speaker 4: say is that I was in Cleveland by myself, you know,

636
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Speaker 4: my family was in New Jersey. We decided to do

637
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Speaker 4: that this year because last year we decided to do

638
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Speaker 4: it the other way, and this year we just said, hey,

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Speaker 4: let's keep the kids in their routine and you know,

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Speaker 4: see how that goes, and there's been a challenge just

641
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Speaker 4: with that. You know. I love being there and around

642
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Speaker 4: them and doing all those things. But at the same time,

643
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Speaker 4: like they get in their routine and they're having a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun back at home, and early on in

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Speaker 4: the season they came out to Cleveland and they're gonna

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Speaker 4: come out to this week's game. And I think there's

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Speaker 4: always a challenge of sitting in a room by yourself

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Speaker 4: and being lonely. So for me, it's trying to find

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Speaker 4: ways to maybe stay over here a little bit longer

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Speaker 4: and then you know, just kind of take myself out

651
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Speaker 4: of that mindset, call home, go sit at a restaurant

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Speaker 4: by myself and realize that, man, that's pretty enjoyable to do,

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Speaker 4: you know. After there's not too many situations, I tell you,

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Speaker 4: I tell people all the time. I used to see

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Speaker 4: guys sitting at a bar by themselves, or you know,

656
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 4: just sitting by themselves eating and grabbing a little meal,

657
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 4: and like, man, I feel so bad for that guy.

658
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 4: You almost want to go join them. And now I realize,

659
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 4: like that dude was in heaven and and and not

660
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 4: to say that that's that's obviously not what I want

661
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 4: I'd rather. I'd rather be at home, sitting at the

662
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 4: dinner table with my kids and hearing what the hell

663
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 4: they were talking about all day. Uh, but there are

664
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 4: but but if but if you have to do it,

665
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 4: then you might as well take advantage of it. So,

666
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 4: you know, just little things like that.

667
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 3: Or Cincinnati and is starting to see you at restaurants

668
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: and take pictures and say hello.

669
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 4: I guess so maybe a little bit.

670
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 2: I try to get there early.

671
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 4: You know, I'll go eat the four thirty dinner and

672
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 4: and and and beat and and beat everybody up, beat

673
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 4: everybody out of out of work and out of the house.

674
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: So all right, so that is uh so much good

675
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: stuff from Flacco. Let's start with what the end there.

676
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 2: It's such a relatable thing, and I I really do

677
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: think relatable because Austin, I know you tweeted out about

678
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: it and and something that you actually will do to

679
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 2: to go sit somewhere, watch football, have a couple of drinks,

680
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: eat and and at times not have to say anything. Yeah,

681
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: you know, there's something in this line of work as well.

682
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: My wife would probably totally disagree if she's listening right now.

683
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: But there are times like when you get done talking

684
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: for three straight hours on the radio. Sometimes I just

685
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 2: want to go home and be quiet, And sometimes that

686
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: can get like construed as are you upset or you

687
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: in a bad mood or like no, sometimes do you know,

688
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: just sitting in your silence is a good thing. Yeah,

689
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: And you know for Flacco, because I used to think

690
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 2: the same thing, man, what's that? What's that person? Known

691
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 2: by themselves? Why are they eating by themselves? And now

692
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 2: you see that? Or now even if I have a

693
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 2: chance to do that, it's like and this is kind

694
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: of nice right now. And he did a good job

695
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 2: because he he went back and you know, if he

696
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: had the choice, he'd obviously love to be with his family.

697
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 2: But to make the most of a situation and be

698
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: able to sit in silence sometimes is something that I

699
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: think a lot of people relate to.

700
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think a lot of people understand, like

701
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 3: part of what he was trying to say is to

702
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 3: alleviate the loneliness of the ice you might feel just

703
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 3: going out in public and being in that environment, even

704
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 3: if you're not with somebody else, can still be really enjoyable.

705
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 3: To your point, though about after you get done talking

706
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 3: for three hours a day, So like my schedule normally,

707
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 3: as I do this and then I go produce another

708
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 3: show for another three hours, and so I'm constantly listening

709
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: to the radio, and I'm listening for if something's going wrong,

710
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 3: if there's silence, if there's a word, if I'm hearing

711
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 3: myself talk or you talk, or other people talk. I'm

712
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 3: constantly monitoring that. And so my drive home every afternoon

713
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 3: is complete silence. It's the best thing in the world

714
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 3: to just have that complete silence. But yeah, man, I

715
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 3: mean like this past weekend, I went out to a

716
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 3: local establishment that's my favorite wing place in Cincinnati to

717
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 3: watch the Ohio State game. And I was just had

718
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: a couple of beverages, had twelve wings, just watched football,

719
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 3: didn't really interact with anybody on me. It was so nice,

720
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 3: but also alleviates that, you know, loneliness that I feel

721
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 3: from you know, doing and living alone and all that. Yeah,

722
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 3: So that sort of thing.

723
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: It's where it's just a like people all the time

724
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 2: are like, what else do you listen to? And I'm like, honestly,

725
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: I don't listen to a ton I When I'm done

726
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 2: with this, I'd like the quiet. I like listen in

727
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: the morning I listened to MO in the afternoons, usually

728
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: if I'm on my way home or doing it and I'm

729
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 2: out and about. But outside of that, I don't mind

730
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: the silence. And that's different for me because I used

731
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: to be one that like always has to be going,

732
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: always has to be active. You learn as you get

733
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 2: older to appreciate the silence too. Yeah, and I thought,

734
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's why that resonates from

735
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 2: what Joe Flacco said and why it's blown up the

736
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 2: way it has.

737
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 3: It's also like fun for me again, just looking from

738
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 3: our perspective on all of this thing is like I

739
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: can't tell you how many times I'll come home and

740
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 3: I'll sit down on the couch or lay down under

741
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 3: whatever and have my phone or my iPad or whatever.

742
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 3: I don't even turn a TV on. Yeah that's crazy.

743
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 3: I don't, Or if I do, I'll mute it. It'll

744
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 3: be on in the background and I'll just like if

745
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 3: I'll look up or whatever. Yeah, you know, there's I

746
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:15,959
Speaker 3: appreciate how genuine and refreshing and open Joe Flacco is. Yeah,

747
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: And I do think you know, a lot of people

748
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 3: want to immediately want to start talking about Joe Burrow

749
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 3: because everybody thinks that this has to be a comparison.

750
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: First of all, comparison is a thief of joy. Second

751
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 3: of all, is it not a good thing for Joe

752
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 3: Burrow to have an older, wiser, veteran quarterback around, right,

753
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 3: somebody that has been there and seen it and has

754
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 3: lived the life both the life that Burrow's living right now,

755
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 3: in an entirely different life over the course of his

756
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 3: twenty plus years. It seems like in the NFL, like

757
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 3: everybody wants to say, oh, there's a quarterback controversy. No

758
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 3: there's not. Or this guy's such a better person than

759
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow. No he's not. They're different personalities. They can

760
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: both be good for each other and ultimately good for

761
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:58,959
Speaker 3: the football team.

762
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: Right. If Joe wanted to do it, I would do

763
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 2: everything I can to have him back next year. He's

764
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: a backup, I agree. I mean, just what a perfect

765
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: role that would be if he wants to continue on there.

766
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: There are some other things he said too that I

767
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: thought are interesting. He talked about the process of still learning.

768
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: He used the term the process a lot. What's different

769
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: about Flacco than I think a lot of other quarterbacks Austin.

770
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be like a normal live practice

771
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 2: for him to be getting better, just normal walkthrough stuff

772
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 2: where he can just get a play call in his

773
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: ear and talk that play call through in the huddle. Yeah,

774
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: like that's hard for him. He's still learning that he's

775
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: seen everything else, so just the process of learning working

776
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 2: on his calls. And then he mentioned one of his

777
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 2: biggest things, play fast. Even if that's dumbing it down,

778
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: even if that's simplifying things, we've talked about them before

779
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 2: on the show. There's something to be said about playing

780
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 2: fast and not over complicating things. Jamar Chase is really good.

781
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: Te Higgins is really good. Your running back's good. Don't

782
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: over complicated, simplify it and go play fast.

783
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting earlier this week they I

784
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 3: guess Joe had previously talked about getting the play call

785
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: in from Zach and like certain F and X and

786
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 3: other parts of the play call sounding familiar due to

787
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 3: Zach's accent. I never knew Zach had an accent, right,

788
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 3: but apparently he does. And those little things they called

789
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 3: an Oklahoma accent. This is the first I've ever heard

790
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 3: of that. Yeah, is that what thing? But when he

791
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 3: was talking about the other day. I'm like, man, those

792
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 3: letters do sound like I had never heard of that.

793
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,879
Speaker 3: You know that that little stuff is interesting, those little

794
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 3: intricacies of how you're learning a playbook and spitting it

795
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 3: back out or I'm fascinated.

796
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: By that stuff. I also think his his comment about

797
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: you know why why the running game success, It's also

798
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 2: something we talk about a lot. Staying ahead of the sticks,

799
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: you know, finding ways to get in second, manageable, third

800
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: manageable where they've run is just as much an option

801
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: as the pass gives you an opportunity to succeed. Jets

802
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes Austin said of Jamar Chase, a

803
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: potential Hall of Famer. Let's get there and work our

804
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 2: way down. Also said on Joe Flacco that you could

805
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: pretty much put him in Canton as well.

806
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know about that, but also sure.

807
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 2: Also, Jets will likely be without Sauce Gardner for this game. Okay,

808
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 2: but linebacker Quincy Williams should be back well.

809
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: Sauce needs to take as much time as possible. Take

810
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 3: your time, be healthy, come back for enjoy homecoming. Maybe

811
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 3: on Saturday. Yeah, play a long career, he could. Yeah,

812
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 3: I would imagine the Jets will be here by that time.

813
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 3: I mean, come on in, if he travels with the team,

814
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about playing on Sunday. Yeah, relax.

815
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 3: Can he play for the.

816
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 2: Bearcats against the number one against the number one passing

817
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 2: attack in the country.

818
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: He might need him healthy enough to do that.

819
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: Great question.

820
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, Joe Flacco forty seven thousand yards in the

821
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 3: NFL in sixty four touchdown nuts, super Bowl champ, Super

822
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 3: Bowl MVP, Comeback Player of the Year. I don't know

823
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 3: that he's a Hall of Famer. Forty seven thousand yards,

824
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 3: that's insane. That's twenty six miles. He's thrown twenty six

825
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 3: miles of passes. That's pretty good. Let's take a break.

826
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Speaker 3: We'll finish up hour one. Next.

827
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Speaker 2: John Shearon from Ada his Esports will join us at

828
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Speaker 2: one o'clock. We have talkbacks when we get to our

829
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Speaker 2: number three. We've got some West Miller audio, we've got

830
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: read and react, and we've got your phone calls as well.

831
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Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty on the

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Speaker 2: Whole of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station

833
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834
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Speaker 1: Getting ESPN fifteen thirty from iHeartRadio.

835
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 2: Welcome back since he three sixteen, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

836
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Speaker 2: Sports Station, Skyline, Chile. Anytime you're feeling good and hungry,

837
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Speaker 2: It's Skyline at the time. From the Pro Football Hall

838
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: of Fame, Austin. Following a second reduction vote of candidates

839
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 2: in the seniors category, thirty four former players remain under

840
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: consideration for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of

841
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Out of those thirty four, Isaac Curtis

842
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 2: Leap and Lamar Parrish and Ken Anderson all move on.

843
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 3: Oh wonderful, So they are in to at least the

844
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 3: round of thirty four. It was hogwash earlier this week

845
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 3: when they went down to the fifty disgusting for the

846
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 3: modern era and the only Bengal candidate was Willie Anderson.

847
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 3: It is nonsensical that Geno Adkins did not get at

848
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 3: least past that fifty two. Now, I didn't expect Gino

849
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 3: to be a first ballot Hall of Fame. I don't

850
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 3: know that anybody did. But some disrespect from Geno Atkins

851
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 3: is it's a bunch of hogwashes. What it is.

852
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: I saw this floating around earlier because we always asked

853
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 2: the question, like, you know, if you could bring back

854
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 2: one player to today's team, who would it be? And

855
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 2: there are so many Bengals of the past that would

856
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 2: make sense. I don't know how you could ever go

857
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 2: against just bringing back a guy like Anthony Munhos to

858
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 2: a team. I think there's something about this year's team

859
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: where you could make the argument that if you could

860
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 2: bring back one, it would be Geno Atkins.

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00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no doubt.

862
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 2: I mean, based on how we talked about this team

863
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: and their inability up front to do much right now,

864
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 2: he might be at the top of the list.

865
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 3: Pass rush from the middle of the defensive line, yep,

866
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 3: would change this defense.

867
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 2: Especially with Trey Hendrickson and the pressure rate we just

868
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 2: talked about earlier with Joseph Oosai. Who would be some

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Speaker 2: others on your top of your list? Munyo's obviously, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: If I could bottle up twenty or two thousand and five,

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Speaker 3: Odell Thurman on the team, Okay, sideline to sideline linebacker

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Speaker 3: at with that guy was a beast.

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Speaker 2: I thought Logan Wilson was a sideline, a sideline guy

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Speaker 2: who was a couple.

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Speaker 3: Of years ago. Can I get twenty twenty one Logan Wilson.

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Speaker 3: I'd take him the Rocks. Yeah, I mean if we

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Speaker 3: just replaced him. I'm trying to think of some other

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Speaker 3: I mean obviously Ken Riley, Yeah at corner, if you

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Speaker 3: were to pair him with DJ Turner right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the way Turner Turner's playing. Yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 2: anyone on the offensive side of.

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Speaker 3: Them thinking all defense.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Jesse Bates maybe, Yeah, Jesse Bates would be a

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Speaker 3: good one. Tyler Eifert from twenty fifteen would be a

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Speaker 3: fun one with offensively, yeah, I think we forget how

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Speaker 3: good that dude was. Health man, yep, just the health Uh.

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