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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Happy Honikah, and welcome to the Bengals pep
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Speaker 2: ready for the Bengals upcoming game. And we are here
Speaker 2: until six o'clock tonight. I'm Dan Hord with Dave Lapham.
Speaker 2: We invite you to come out and join us today.
Speaker 2: What else are you going to do the day after Christmas?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: I mean why not talk a little football?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, maybe we can talk about what you
Speaker 5: get for Christmas present.
Speaker 2: Let me see if I have the Dave Lapham Christmas
Speaker 2: down pat There was a lot of eating, there was
Speaker 2: there was some football, absolutely, and there was a lot
Speaker 2: of playing.
Speaker 5: The grand kids, no doubt about that. A lot of
Speaker 5: grand kids. So we only have two that were in
Speaker 5: Cincinnati for Christmas. Now they're down south, they're in Florida,
Speaker 5: and my other two up in Wisconsin. So it was
Speaker 5: relatively quiet Christmas, but a lot of fun still.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we're looking forward to having a fun
Speaker 2: day on Sunday, Yeah, we hope. As the Bengals host
Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals two games left in the season. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: know that they are not headed to the postseason this year,
Speaker 2: but they would like to end the year with a
Speaker 2: three game winning streak and more specifically, reward the fans
Speaker 2: that have been coming out this year and win those
Speaker 2: last two home games against a couple of teams of
Speaker 2: lousy records, the three and twelve Cardinals and the three
Speaker 2: and twelve Cleveland.
Speaker 5: It's amazing six and twenty four combined record of last
Speaker 5: two opponents Cincinnati Bengals have in the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 5: I agree with you, Dan, it's time to reward the
Speaker 5: Bengal fans for coming out. They supported this football team
Speaker 5: all year long. It had its ups and downs, more
Speaker 5: downs than ups. Let's face it, you know, there were
Speaker 5: more tough times to deal with Tuck then good times
Speaker 5: to celebrate, and the fans still made it, still showed up.
Speaker 5: Bengal fans are unique, you know, they're special. They love
Speaker 5: their football team, they love their organization, and it would
Speaker 5: be nice to win these last two games, so that'd
Speaker 5: be three wins in a row to build on twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six. Go into the off season on an up
Speaker 5: note and uptick and get ready for the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: sixth season with a little bit of a foundation under you.
Speaker 2: Well, Bengals are coming up their most dominant performance of
Speaker 2: the season last week on the road in Miami. Forty
Speaker 2: five to twenty one was the final score. The offense
Speaker 2: was great, the defense played extremely well, and the special
Speaker 2: teams was on point as well. Let's specifically talk about
Speaker 2: the offense one week before shutout at home by Baltimore.
Speaker 2: The next week, forty five points on the road against Miami,
Speaker 2: and they really took their foot off the gas pedal
Speaker 2: with about eleven and a half minutes to go in
Speaker 2: that game. Once the outcome was basically determined that's the
Speaker 2: most points they've ever scored with Joe Burrow at quarterback.
Speaker 2: They've had quite a few games with forty or more,
Speaker 2: but they had never scored forty five in a game.
Speaker 2: Here is offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher when asked, did the
Speaker 2: offense take that shutout personally? The week before against Baltimore?
Speaker 7: It's a collection of really prideful people, hyper competitive, and
Speaker 7: when you lose, it always pisses you off. And then
Speaker 7: when it happened the way it happened the week prior, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean there's probably a little something extra there. There's
Speaker 7: always something. You know, you always have fuel in this
Speaker 7: league because you have to. You have to have it
Speaker 7: every week or you're getting you're gonna get your buck kicked.
Speaker 3: But yeah, maybe helped a little bit.
Speaker 2: Lap you played pro football for twelve years. What was
Speaker 2: it like the week after you guys stunk up the joint?
Speaker 5: Like coach says, competitive people, uber competitive, and you know,
Speaker 5: your personal pride takes a hit when you get when
Speaker 5: you play like that offensively, when you the unit you're
Speaker 5: responsible for scoring points gets squad dosh, goose, egg nada,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's like there's nothing, there's no worse feeling
Speaker 5: than that, and you basically you can't wait to make
Speaker 5: a restitution. You know, you have a chance to the
Speaker 5: very That's the great thing about the NFL. If you
Speaker 5: lay an egg a one week, you can come back
Speaker 5: and play very well the following week and kind of
Speaker 5: make restitution for it a little bit. And BEng has
Speaker 5: laid a big egg. Man that shoutout was tough to tolerate,
Speaker 5: tough to watch, but man to come back the next
Speaker 5: week and put forty five points on the board shows
Speaker 5: that they've got resiliency. You know, they've got some resolve
Speaker 5: to them a little bit. They're not gonna They're not
Speaker 5: gonna stay down. And I think I think that's the
Speaker 5: thing that I'll remember most about this edition, the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five edition of the Cincinnati Bengals, is they didn't quit.
Speaker 5: Did they play well? No, far from it. I mean
Speaker 5: they weren't consistent enough. You have to you have to
Speaker 5: be far more consistent than they were on a game
Speaker 5: by game, snap by snap basis. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5: But when things weren't going well, they didn't, you know,
Speaker 5: look at each other, get after each other, point fingers
Speaker 5: at each other and all that sort of thing and
Speaker 5: lay down for the opponent. They fought and they had
Speaker 5: personal pride and they bounced back. So I think that's
Speaker 5: something they can build on as well.
Speaker 2: You referenced the desire to end with a three game
Speaker 2: winning streak and how that gives you a little more
Speaker 2: momentum heading into the next season. It would give the
Speaker 2: Bengals a seven and ten record at the end of
Speaker 2: the year. That's unfortunately the best they can do, right,
Speaker 2: But I asked Zach Taylor earlier today, all right, is
Speaker 2: there really such a thing as momentum at the end
Speaker 2: of a season like this or is it just a cliche.
Speaker 2: Here's what Zach had to say.
Speaker 3: It makes you feel better, you know.
Speaker 8: I don't know if that momentum carries over. I think
Speaker 8: that's hard to say because you have a new team
Speaker 8: every year, but you put in a lot of work
Speaker 8: into this thing, and it's important to finish with a
Speaker 8: good feeling.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: Obviously the feeling's not going to be overall good, but
Speaker 8: just feel good to be in a locker roofer game
Speaker 8: with the hard week's work and be able to reap
Speaker 8: the benefits of that.
Speaker 2: So I get that. I mean, it's really hard to
Speaker 2: say how much momentum they'll have, knowing there will be
Speaker 2: changes on the roster, particularly on the defensive side of
Speaker 2: the ball in all likelihood, but as hard as you
Speaker 2: work in this sport, as much as you put your
Speaker 2: body on the line, to end with a three game
Speaker 2: winning streak does make you feel a ton better going
Speaker 2: into the offseason.
Speaker 5: I agree. I agree that you know your point you're making.
Speaker 5: Zach said the same thing. You know you take a pounding.
Speaker 5: I remember as a player at this at this point
Speaker 5: of the season, you're beating up, even if you're not
Speaker 5: injured as such, You're sore, you're tired, you're beating up
Speaker 5: a little bit. So, uh sometimes it's tough to uh
Speaker 5: muster the energy to have a good practice and go
Speaker 5: out there and plays as best as you possibly can
Speaker 5: in a football game. So again, I admire the fact
Speaker 5: that these guys they have an affinity for each other,
Speaker 5: They care about each other, They want to win football
Speaker 5: games for each other. It's all for one, one for
Speaker 5: all kinds of things. And to take that to the
Speaker 5: offensive line, I can remember, you know what it's like
Speaker 5: when we had terrible seasons but started to play well.
Speaker 5: And you know, offensive lines like making a fist, you
Speaker 5: curl the four fingers and you wrap the thumb and
Speaker 5: it's involuntary. You don't think about it. When you start
Speaker 5: playing well as an offensive line, that's what you do.
Speaker 5: Everything just falls into place. I mean, it's almost like magic.
Speaker 5: And you wonder why it took so long and where
Speaker 5: was it when you were struggling as a football team.
Speaker 5: But that's the beauty of football and it can come
Speaker 5: and it can go, and when you have it, you
Speaker 5: most definitely don't want to lose it.
Speaker 2: So one of the big things that was emphasized going
Speaker 2: into this season was the importance of getting off to
Speaker 2: a fast start. Right the Bengals did. They started the
Speaker 2: season two and oh so did the Cardinals. The Bengals
Speaker 2: are five and ten after a two and o start.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals are three and twelve after a two and
Speaker 2: o start. What do these two teams have in common, Well,
Speaker 2: both of both of them lost their starting quarterback early
Speaker 2: in the year. Joe Burrow got hurt in Week two.
Speaker 2: He was obviously out for a long time. Kyler Murray,
Speaker 2: who is the number one overall pick in the draft
Speaker 2: one year before Joe Burrow is the number one overall
Speaker 2: pick in the draft, got hurt in Week five and
Speaker 2: his case season ending. So no big mystery. You lose
Speaker 2: a guy with that kind of importance to your team,
Speaker 2: it's probably not going to go well.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. I mean, the most important player in sports, not
Speaker 5: just football, not just pro football, is the quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, the.
Speaker 5: Quarterback is probably the highest paid position group in sports,
Speaker 5: and individual quarterbacks of the highest paid players in sports.
Speaker 5: So when you lose your guy, it's it's very, very difficult,
Speaker 5: and you don't change your offense necessarily, but you do
Speaker 5: different things within the scope of that offense. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's like if the quarterback that was replacing a starter,
Speaker 5: a star starter like a Joe Burrow, was equal to
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow physically, he probably you probably get some reps,
Speaker 5: you get some playing time, keep from sharp. It's not
Speaker 5: the case. That's rarely the case in the National Football
Speaker 5: started started for a reason. So but how about that
Speaker 5: the Bengals are five and ten, Arizona's three and twelve,
Speaker 5: five and twenty two, five and twenty two. That right there, alone,
Speaker 5: in my mind, you know, is a great example. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just it puts a stamp on the importance of
Speaker 5: quarterback playing the National Football League.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bengals pep Rally Show. We are
Speaker 2: live today at the on the Rhine Eatery, the food
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Speaker 2: the intersection of Court and Walnut. We are here until
Speaker 2: six o'clock tonight, and in the final hour of our show,
Speaker 2: we'll have a very special guest. Lap, of course, is
Speaker 2: the Bengals starting left guard in Super Bowl sixteen, and
Speaker 2: we will have the current starting left guard joining us
Speaker 2: in the final hour of our show, rookie Dellon Fairchild.
Speaker 2: He's having a very productive first.
Speaker 5: Year, certainly is Dan. You know, I think he's he's
Speaker 5: going to be around for a while. I think he's
Speaker 5: going to have a very very good professional career. Could
Speaker 5: be like a double digit, you know, professional career, ten
Speaker 5: or twelve year professional career. You never know about injuries
Speaker 5: and god forbid, you know, knock on wood barring injury.
Speaker 5: He's got what it takes. I mean, he's got what
Speaker 5: you need to be able to perform at a high
Speaker 5: level in the National Football League. There's there's no question
Speaker 5: about it. And he wants to be good, and he's coachable,
Speaker 5: and he listens to the coach and he applies to
Speaker 5: fundamentals and techniques that they want him to do. He
Speaker 5: played at Georgia, played well at Georgia, excelled at Georgia.
Speaker 5: He was an All American at Georgia. So this guy's
Speaker 5: the real deal, all right.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a time out. This week's opponent
Speaker 2: is the Arizona Cardinals. When we come back, we will
Speaker 2: head to Arizona and get the inside scoop on the
Speaker 2: three and twelve Sunday afternoon opponent. This is the Bengals
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Speaker 2: the studio. We're getting ready for the Bengals and the
Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals coming up on Sunday at one o'clock at
Speaker 2: Pey Corpse Stadium. Time to get the inside scoop on
Speaker 2: this week's opponent. To do that, we welcome in Theo Macki,
Speaker 2: who covers the Cardinals for the Arizona Republic THEOA. We
Speaker 2: appreciate you joining us on the show. When you saw
Speaker 2: Arizona at Cincinnati in late December, you probably figured you
Speaker 2: were going to freeze when you came here this weekend.
Speaker 2: We are going to give you a sixty degree day
Speaker 2: on Sunday. Are you prepared?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was. I was not expecting a sixty degree day.
Speaker 9: I was checking the weather this week and I was like,
Speaker 9: looky coat, do I need to bring my Parker or
Speaker 9: my normal winter coat?
Speaker 2: And it was like, no, you don't really.
Speaker 9: Need a coat at all. So that's not what I
Speaker 9: was expecting.
Speaker 5: Hey, really, I mean this is this is not normal.
Speaker 5: It's not typical. It's not the temperature that you have
Speaker 5: this time of year normally here in Cincinnati. So we're
Speaker 5: all very thankful. We're all very grateful. The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 9: I think the Cardinals are grateful for it.
Speaker 3: Too.
Speaker 5: I bet, I bet they are. The Cardinals are finishing
Speaker 5: a tough season, to say the least, a three and
Speaker 5: twelve record. The Bengals aren't much better at five and ten.
Speaker 5: But what do you think is the biggest reason that
Speaker 5: the Arizona Cardinals fell to a three and twelve record
Speaker 5: this season?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the number one thing.
Speaker 9: Is a familiar answer for so many teams that have
Speaker 9: this level of a disappointing season, like you look at the.
Speaker 2: Lions being eliminated today.
Speaker 9: Well, health is a huge reason, and.
Speaker 3: That's certainly the case in Arizona.
Speaker 9: They've got more games missed than any other team in
Speaker 9: the league this year due to injury, but also underperformance
Speaker 9: into trenches has been a huge reason. They've spent a
Speaker 9: lot of resources for agency in the draft of their
Speaker 9: defensive line, which is the least is on their offensive line,
Speaker 9: which is frankly quite bad. And when you're not good
Speaker 9: in the trenches, you're not healthy, and you don't have
Speaker 9: a stability at quarterbacks, you're probably not going to be
Speaker 9: a very good team. So kind of starts with those areas.
Speaker 2: Theo Mackie from the Arizona Republic is our guest I'll
Speaker 2: be honest, I really haven't watched a lot of the
Speaker 2: Cardinals during the course of this season. When I so so,
Speaker 2: when I excuse me, started doing some homework earlier this week,
Speaker 2: I was surprised to see that the offense has actually
Speaker 2: been better, at least statistically, after Kyle Murray went down
Speaker 2: and Jacoby Brissett took over as the starting quarterback. Is
Speaker 2: that accurate or is that just sometimes the numbers can
Speaker 2: be deceiving. I would say it's.
Speaker 9: Been honestly about the same when when Jacoby first took over,
Speaker 9: there was definitely an improvement, and I think Key Moore
Speaker 9: so fits the way that they want to play like this.
Speaker 9: These are guys that came from their offensive coordinator, came
Speaker 9: from a seven Kevin Stefanski system in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Wants to be.
Speaker 9: Under center, wants to rely on the play action game,
Speaker 9: and that doesn't work when your quarterback is five but ten.
Speaker 9: So it fit better when.
Speaker 2: Jacoby stepped in.
Speaker 9: But a lot of the production recently these past few
Speaker 9: weeks has come. You know, in garbage time, they're down
Speaker 9: by twenty five points in the second half and they're
Speaker 9: putting up pick numbers.
Speaker 2: It's like, all right, what does that really mean.
Speaker 9: And how much of it can be attributed to that
Speaker 9: and how much of it can just be all right,
Speaker 9: we're down big and teams that playing three event defense,
Speaker 9: and it's easier to move the ball now, which which
Speaker 9: I think is a large part of it. So the
Speaker 9: offense looks different. I don't know that it necessarily looks better.
Speaker 9: Maybe a little bit more more cohesive.
Speaker 6: Down down, but less explosive.
Speaker 2: If that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that does, It makes makes total sense. I would
Speaker 5: think that the the common denominator for both of the
Speaker 5: quarterbacks probably was lack of a consistent running game. Not
Speaker 5: that the Cardinals didn't run the ball well at times.
Speaker 5: They had games where they ran the ball very well,
Speaker 5: extremely efficient running the football, but the consistency of doing
Speaker 5: it on a game by game basis is probably you know,
Speaker 5: the biggest reason for the record three and twelve? Is
Speaker 5: that accurate? Or is that way off base one?
Speaker 9: And that's kind of what I was talking about earlier
Speaker 9: with the trenches. It's very hard, obviously with the running game,
Speaker 9: to separate the running backs from the the offensive line
Speaker 9: performance and the running backs.
Speaker 2: It's certainly benefactor because James.
Speaker 9: Connor went down with the season ending injury and three
Speaker 9: trade ns and went down with the season ending injury
Speaker 9: the week after that. Like, they're starting running backs for
Speaker 9: most of the season have been basically the squad guys,
Speaker 9: so that's certainly part of it. I think if you
Speaker 9: look at the advanced numbers, they're like last, and I
Speaker 9: think the NFL does now like rush yards over expected,
Speaker 9: which is based on how your offensive line blocks for you.
Speaker 9: I think their running backs are last or bottom five slightly,
Speaker 9: so that's part of it. They're not getting pushed though
Speaker 9: with their offensive line either. And last year, like the
Speaker 9: Cardinals offense exceeded expectations and it was totally because of
Speaker 9: the run game.
Speaker 5: They were second in yards per carry.
Speaker 2: Huh, and everything was kind of built off of that.
Speaker 2: We're chatting with Theo mackiew who covers the Cardinals for
Speaker 2: the Arizona Republic. The Cardinals have recently added a running
Speaker 2: back that we love here in Cincinnati. Corey Kiner, local
Speaker 2: high school legend to Roger Bacon High School, had a
Speaker 2: great career at the University of Cincinnati, with back to
Speaker 2: back one thousand yard seasons each of the last two years.
Speaker 2: I saw he got a decent number of carries last week.
Speaker 2: Would you anticipate that we will see a reasonable number
Speaker 2: of rushes for Corey Kiner on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, I.
Speaker 9: Did not know that he was he was a Cincinnati guy.
Speaker 9: That that's very cool that he's going to have that
Speaker 9: opportunity to play in front of family and friends. I'm sure,
Speaker 9: But yeah, I would expect, you know, maybe a driver
Speaker 9: to spelling Michael Carter who should be the lead guy.
Speaker 6: So I think he had six carries last week.
Speaker 9: I think that's probably a reasonable number to expect. Again,
Speaker 9: if he's in there for a driver too, obviously, you
Speaker 9: know when that's your role. It depends if both those
Speaker 9: drives are throwing out. He might only see one or
Speaker 9: two carries, but should be kind of that change of
Speaker 9: pace guy.
Speaker 5: The Bengals historically and franchise history, have had difficulty with
Speaker 5: good tight ends, you know, controlling and corraling tight ends
Speaker 5: that perform at a high level. Trey McBride is having
Speaker 5: a phenomenal season. I mean, his his numbers are staggering.
Speaker 5: He's putting up big, big numbers. But no matter who
Speaker 5: the quarterback is, it seems like, you know, they're all
Speaker 5: looking for him. And rightfully so he's earned and deserved that.
Speaker 5: What about Trey McBride, what is it about his game
Speaker 5: that makes him special?
Speaker 6: He is there's.
Speaker 9: A lot of things that could go for about ten
Speaker 9: minutes here. He's he's incredibly athletic, obviously, like when he
Speaker 9: gets the ball in space, it just seems like it
Speaker 9: tasts like four guys to bring him down, Like he
Speaker 9: just kind of is like a bowling ball in the.
Speaker 2: Way that he runs once he gets ahead of team,
Speaker 2: where guys.
Speaker 5: Are just bouncing off him.
Speaker 9: But it's feel for space, like if you're playing zone
Speaker 9: defense against him and and he sees a little pocket
Speaker 9: of space, he just has a great sense of where
Speaker 9: to find the space and the defense how to create
Speaker 9: that little bit of separation for the quarterback to find
Speaker 9: him in. And you know, I thought it was, oh,
Speaker 9: he and Kyler have a great rapport and that they're
Speaker 9: clearly have some sort of telepathic communication.
Speaker 6: What's when the exact same six percent took.
Speaker 9: Over, So you know you you then attribute it more
Speaker 9: to Okay, this is.
Speaker 5: Just a special, special.
Speaker 9: Special player, right He's doing it with multiple quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: He's fantastic and as.
Speaker 9: You mentioned, Bengals being the worst team in the league
Speaker 9: against tight ends, and you know I haven't checked with
Speaker 9: it with the VAGA numbers, saying I'm not a betting man,
Speaker 9: but I would have a hard time imagining that they're
Speaker 9: setting an over under high enough for his.
Speaker 2: Right right. A couple more questions for Theo mackew, who
Speaker 2: covers the Cardinals for the Arizona Republic. Walter Nolan was
Speaker 2: frequently mocked drafted to the Bengals this past offseason. The
Speaker 2: Cardinals took them one pick before Cincinnati, and now he's out.
Speaker 2: He suffered a season ending injury last week see the
Speaker 2: Josh Sweat. The team leader in Sax hasn't been practicing
Speaker 2: so far this week. You alluded earlier to the sheer
Speaker 2: number of players that the Cardinals have uninjured reserve, more
Speaker 2: than any other team. How battered and bruised is the
Speaker 2: team that we will see coming to Cincinnati on Sunday.
Speaker 9: Incredibly so on offense, they're they're down to three week
Speaker 9: one starters center Yelda frohol McBride and Michael Wilson, oh
Speaker 9: and Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 6: Ginia that he's limited with a.
Speaker 9: Heel injury, only played half the staffs last week on defense,
Speaker 9: like a among their like true difference maker type. You
Speaker 9: know that there's some like fringe starters who are healthy,
Speaker 9: but among like true starters, it's like cornerback Will Johnson,
Speaker 9: their second round pick, safety Jalen Thompson might go Kalaias
Speaker 9: Kibole defensive tackle is healthy and plays about half to
Speaker 9: snaps at his age at age thirty nine.
Speaker 2: And that's like it, Like you know, they have at least.
Speaker 9: Ten like crucial starters currently sideline. It's just you know,
Speaker 9: their injuries for a lot of the season, we're limited
Speaker 9: to offense, and now it's just kind of a blood
Speaker 9: bath for the whole team. It's really a second string
Speaker 9: lineup that they've had out there these last week or two.
Speaker 5: What about the defense, let's uh talk about them. I
Speaker 5: know we gotta we gotta run and we do appreciate
Speaker 5: the time that you've given us with You're phenomenal. You
Speaker 5: know the Arizona Cardinals. Inside out this defensive football team, offensive,
Speaker 5: defensive line, linebacker, there's safeties and corners, all three phases.
Speaker 5: How well have they played? Has one unit played exceedingly
Speaker 5: better than another? Have they all been average mediocre? Has
Speaker 5: one been poor? And a couple better, have two been
Speaker 5: poor and one better? How's it worked out this year?
Speaker 9: I would say they've all been pretty bad, Yeah, to
Speaker 9: various degrees. I mean, in their seven game losing streak
Speaker 9: right now, they've allowed forty points in four of those games.
Speaker 6: You know, when you have a defensive head coach and
Speaker 6: a defensive coordinator who many consider to be, you know,
Speaker 6: an up and coming head coach candidate coming into this season,
Speaker 6: it's just been wildly disappointing.
Speaker 9: You can, as I said, when they were healthier, the defensive.
Speaker 2: Line has been really bad.
Speaker 9: Outside of Walton All and who has been mentioned is
Speaker 9: now Auklays Campbell's been solid. Everyone else that has been
Speaker 9: really quite exploitable. And then that linebacker Mac Wilson Senior
Speaker 9: was a starting linebacker.
Speaker 6: He's pretty good.
Speaker 9: He's now on IRS was the last six games, and
Speaker 9: the guys who have stepped in for him have really
Speaker 9: been a weak spot. A Keen Davis Skaters came over
Speaker 9: from Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: As we know, he has not you know, he's.
Speaker 9: Been forced to step into this role that he did
Speaker 9: play in Cincinnati where he's playing every snap and just
Speaker 9: does not look up the steed. They've got a rookie
Speaker 9: fourths round pick Cody Simon from Ohio State. He's still
Speaker 9: kind of getting his feet under him, has had some
Speaker 9: good moments, but not quite ready for this role either.
Speaker 9: So you're just looking at a lot of guys who
Speaker 9: aren't really ready for this role. And there on the
Speaker 9: co sensive line, it's it's guys who are highly drafted.
Speaker 9: Garius Robinson was a first round pick last year and
Speaker 9: has really struggled. So those two groups, the whole front
Speaker 9: seven right now on this fairly weak outside of Josh Sweat,
Speaker 9: who is eleven zacks this season but but might not
Speaker 9: play this week, so it's it's a pretty weak Goog overall.
Speaker 9: The secondary is a little bit better, but it's been
Speaker 9: a little inconsistent as well.
Speaker 2: THEO, we know you have playing to catch this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Travel safe to Cincinnati, and thanks again for your time
Speaker 2: this afternoon. Thanks thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 5: I hope the airport background.
Speaker 6: Noise is not too bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was not bad at all.
Speaker 5: Much appreciated to you.
Speaker 3: I have a good one, all right.
Speaker 2: That is the THEO mackew who covers the Cardinals for
Speaker 2: the Arizona Republic. We'll take a time out. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we'll shine the spotlight on an unsung hero
Speaker 2: who has really emerged in recent weeks for Cincinnati. This
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Speaker 2: drops back to throw, begins scrambling right, floats it high
Speaker 2: and deep down the field.
Speaker 10: Intercepted another takeaway for Cincinnati, Jalen Davis with the pick,
Speaker 10: and the Bengals defense is having its best quarter in ages.
Speaker 5: It might be in team history. Three takeaways and a
Speaker 5: fourth down stop in one quarter.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Bengals pep Rally Show, presented by
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Speaker 2: here in downtown Cincinnati. Lapini are here until six o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: Tylan Fairchild will be our special guest from five to six.
Speaker 2: We just heard a highlight from last week's game, the
Speaker 2: first career interception for Jalen Davis. Jalen has spent most
Speaker 2: of this season on the practice squad. Then when Cam
Speaker 2: Taylor Britt suffered his injury. Jalen got promoted to the
Speaker 2: regular roster. In recent weeks, He's been starting as the
Speaker 2: slot corner and Lappie looks a lot like Mike Hilton
Speaker 2: used to look. He's undersized, but he's making plays. He's
Speaker 2: a sure tackler, had a tremendous interception last week. Have
Speaker 2: the Bengals found something in Jalen Davis.
Speaker 5: Man, I'll tell you Dan, if they've found another Mike Hilton,
Speaker 5: they've unearthed a diamond.
Speaker 3: Man. I mean this. I agree with you. Jalen.
Speaker 5: He he has immense football IQ. He's Benza with his
Speaker 5: football IQ. He understands the game at such a high level,
Speaker 5: and the coaches it. He's always where he's supposed to
Speaker 5: be when he's supposed to be there, doing what he's
Speaker 5: supposed to do. His teammates love him because they can
Speaker 5: trust him. They also respect the heck out of him
Speaker 5: because he has not had an easy path to get
Speaker 5: where he's gotten in the National Football League. He's had
Speaker 5: to work hard. He's earned everything. Nothing's been given to him,
Speaker 5: nothing on a silver platter. Here you go, Jalen, you
Speaker 5: know this is this is what we're talking about. I
Speaker 5: respect the heck out of him as well. I mean,
Speaker 5: a guy who has sacrificed what he's sacrificed to get
Speaker 5: to where he is. I'll tell your heart, he's a
Speaker 5: great example of the old saying Mike Paul Brown used
Speaker 5: to say all the time, gentlemen, hard work pays off
Speaker 5: if you continue to work, if you continue to grind,
Speaker 5: if you continue to do everything we're asking you to do,
Speaker 5: and you know, you're going to have to trust us
Speaker 5: that the coaches know what we're talking about. And if
Speaker 5: we can get that kind of relationship going, you're going
Speaker 5: to be a great player, and we're going to advance
Speaker 5: your opportunity and you're going to make a lot of
Speaker 5: money for you and your family in this game, and
Speaker 5: you'll be around for a long time. I think Jalen
Speaker 5: Davis has headed that way.
Speaker 2: He joined the Bengals in Zach Taylor's first year as
Speaker 2: head coach, so he's been here for a while. He
Speaker 2: was on the Super Bowl team he got into the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, but when Mike Hilton was on the team,
Speaker 2: he was always kind of Mike's back up. As long
Speaker 2: as Mike was healthy, Jalen was not getting a ton
Speaker 2: of snaps on defense. But he's getting them now. The
Speaker 2: defense has looked better as a result. Let's hear from
Speaker 2: head coach Zach Taylor on Jalen Davis.
Speaker 8: You know when he walks into building, what you're gonna
Speaker 8: get from JD? You're gonna get tremendous energy, good vibes. Guy,
Speaker 8: great since, a humor, person that everybody likes betting around.
Speaker 8: He's gonna work. He's got a knack for making plays,
Speaker 8: great communicator, really high football Q. You know, so just
Speaker 8: all the things you would you draw up a player.
Speaker 8: And I'm sure it's frustrating for him. You know, I've
Speaker 8: had a lot of training camp, final cut days. You
Speaker 8: know where AJD? Here we are again, you know, and
Speaker 8: we know we can count on you on the practice
Speaker 8: squad and if there's no ovation, we know we can
Speaker 8: get you out here and do it. And so for
Speaker 8: him just to make the most of the opportunity, You're
Speaker 8: you're just you're really happy for him to get that
Speaker 8: opportunity because he deserves it. He's worked hard for it.
Speaker 8: Just a great human, great player, one of those glue
Speaker 8: guys in the locker room that you got to have
Speaker 8: because he just he makes everybody around you happier better,
Speaker 8: just really really happy for him.
Speaker 2: The knock on Jaillen Davis has always been the lack
Speaker 2: of size. He's five ten one eighty six. You wish
Speaker 2: he was a few inches taller and a few pounds heavier. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not going to happen. But not only is he
Speaker 2: playing well, but since this move took place, it's kicked
Speaker 2: dax Hill from the slot to an outside corner position.
Speaker 2: I really think that's where he needs to stay. I
Speaker 2: think they've identified where he can have the biggest impact.
Speaker 2: Stop moving him around, keep him there. I'm with you, coach.
Speaker 2: I mean, Daxville is a potential shock outside corner. I
Speaker 2: really believe that he's got that the athletic ability to
Speaker 2: do that. He's got the size, he's got the length,
Speaker 2: he's got to change of direction ability, he's got the
Speaker 2: straight line speed. I mean, he projects as a potential
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl, if not Pro Bowl, high level player at
Speaker 2: the cornerback position for a long time.
Speaker 5: So having Jalen Davis being able to play in the
Speaker 5: slot like he has has improved two spots.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: And Al Goldin's defense in the back end, and I'm
Speaker 5: sure Al Golden's thrilled about it. I mean, he's got
Speaker 5: to be excited and happy about what has transpired. So, uh,
Speaker 5: you can never have enough defensive backs, That's that's for sure.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 5: That's one thing Paul Brown always said to you know,
Speaker 5: defensive backs, that's a that's a skilled position where you
Speaker 5: can never have enough for him. You know, you're down
Speaker 5: one in a game, you're down too in a game,
Speaker 5: and now you're struggling, you're in trouble. So I do
Speaker 5: think Jalen Davis is a guy that can provide versatility.
Speaker 5: He can play outside and the pinch. It's not like
Speaker 5: he's terrible outside, but he's a really good slot corner.
Speaker 5: Dax Hill can play inside and outside. So now al
Speaker 5: Golden has multiple guys that he can play, you know,
Speaker 5: chess with in his chess game, and he can check
Speaker 5: me people because they don't know what where they're going
Speaker 5: to line up, how they're going to line up, how
Speaker 5: many defensive backs, how many linebackers, how many defensive linemen
Speaker 5: they're going to have on the field. And versatility is
Speaker 5: the name of the game. If you've got versatility and
Speaker 5: diversity in your skill set, you're going to be around
Speaker 5: a long time.
Speaker 2: Coming up next. Joe Burrow spoke to reporters on Wednesday
Speaker 2: this week and he had something to say about the
Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals that made me say WHOA. Well, hear what
Speaker 2: Joe said, and I'll explain why I had that reaction
Speaker 2: when we come back. This is the Bengals pep Rally
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Speaker 2: Plenty of seating available and again our special guests coming
Speaker 2: up from five to six will be Bengals starting left guard.
Speaker 2: Third round draft pick, who's having an excellent rookie year
Speaker 2: Dylan Fairchild.
Speaker 5: Dan, I agree with you. I think he is having
Speaker 5: an excellent rookie year. I mean, I remember by rookie
Speaker 5: year as an offensive lineman in the NFL, it can
Speaker 5: be just so much to deal with. It's like, you know,
Speaker 5: where do I begin. It's like you can be easily overwhelmed,
Speaker 5: even if you played at a high level getting playing
Speaker 5: in the in the National Football League, at the professional level,
Speaker 5: the highest level of football, there's so much to learn offensively,
Speaker 5: so many different techniques, so many different fundamentals than you
Speaker 5: maybe learning and executed and played in college dealing. Fairchild's
Speaker 5: fortunate and that he played in the SEC, and he
Speaker 5: played at Georgia, one of the best conferences in college football,
Speaker 5: one of the best football teams in that conference, so
Speaker 5: he was exposed to football at a very high level,
Speaker 5: you know, in the collegiate game. So his transition to
Speaker 5: the National Football League might be a little bit smooth
Speaker 5: or a little bit easier than some other guys. And
Speaker 5: he's playing well. I mean, when he got inserted into
Speaker 5: the lineup, you could tell that he's a guy that
Speaker 5: could have an impact on the performance on an offensive
Speaker 5: line for sure.
Speaker 2: Tling Fairchild and his offensive teammates will be facing at
Speaker 2: Arizona d that's been struggling of late. The Cardinals come
Speaker 2: in with a seven game losing streak. During the seven
Speaker 2: game losing streak, here are the point totals that the
Speaker 2: other team has put up on the board. Forty four,
Speaker 2: forty one, twenty seven, twenty forty five, forty and twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's an average of thirty four point seven points allowed
Speaker 2: per game during the seven game losing streak. Earlier this week,
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow is asked to describe the Arizona Cardinals defensive approach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't do.
Speaker 11: The traditional coverages that you typically see they do, but
Speaker 11: they get to them from different ways. They're going to
Speaker 11: play a kind of umbrella look from the secondary and
Speaker 11: roll and drop into a bunch of different coverages. What
Speaker 11: kind of reminds me of how Clemson kind of played
Speaker 11: us in the National Championship. So it'll present a unique
Speaker 11: challenge for sure.
Speaker 2: All Right. When I heard Joe Burrow say that a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago, here's why I said, WHOA. He
Speaker 2: compared the Arizona defense to the Clemson defense that he
Speaker 2: saw in the National Championship game with the twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: undefeated LSU team. Here's how Joe Burrow did against that
Speaker 2: defensive structure in the National Championship game. Four hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty three yards pass a, five touchdown passes, one touchdown run.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase had nine catches for two hundred twenty eight
Speaker 2: yards in the game. LSU had six hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: eight yards of offense. So when Joe describes an opponent's
Speaker 2: defense as one that looks a lot like the Clemson
Speaker 2: defense that he faced in that National Championship game, I
Speaker 2: don't necessarily take it as a compliment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very and now I understand what your your
Speaker 5: woes like. And they lit him up. I mean, Joe
Speaker 5: Burrow took him apart, picked him apart. Clemson had very
Speaker 5: very strong skill position players in that National Championship game.
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow, the strongest and the most skilled at the
Speaker 5: quarterback position, won the Heisman Trophy Best Player in College Football.
Speaker 5: He was throwing to Jamar Chase. They played with each
Speaker 5: other four years at LSU, and they lit it up.
Speaker 5: Had tremendous football game against the Clemson Tigers. So if
Speaker 5: the Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase can be the primary
Speaker 5: one to two punch of an offensive football team that
Speaker 5: performs at a high level against Arizona, and they performed
Speaker 5: like they did in the National Championship Game for Clemson
Speaker 5: and the teammates, their teammates support their efforts with strong
Speaker 5: performances of their own, could be a very very good
Speaker 5: day in Arizona and a nice playing ride home.
Speaker 2: Cardinals have given up forty plus in four of their
Speaker 2: last seven. While it feels to me like the Bengals
Speaker 2: offense is going to have a bad day now. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you have that feeling all week and it plays out
Speaker 2: differently from what you expect. But man, my gut tells
Speaker 2: me that Burrow and company are going to thrive on Sunday.
Speaker 5: I agree. I definitely think they're they're gonna thrive. I
Speaker 5: think they'll they'll thrive at a at a very high level.
Speaker 5: I would be surprised, not surprised, but I mean I
Speaker 5: think they're more than capable obviously of putting forty or
Speaker 5: more on the board themselves. They just scored forty five
Speaker 5: last week. Wouldn't it be great to put forty eight
Speaker 5: on the board, you know against the Earth team, fifty
Speaker 5: fifty hit five. Oh, let's hit the fitty.
Speaker 3: Oh why e five? Oh, let's do a little.
Speaker 5: Fitty I love it. Uh, that would be great.
Speaker 3: How about that? Though?
Speaker 5: If they do score fifty ninety five points scored in
Speaker 5: two weeks, that's that's mind boggling. That's incomprehensible. That's not
Speaker 5: the norm in the NFL, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take a time out. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we'll talk about an Arizona player who's on
Speaker 2: the verge of setting an NFL single season record. This
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Speaker 2: Bengals have a home game this week, the next to
Speaker 2: last game of the regular season, as they host the
Speaker 2: struggling Arizona Cardinals who started the season two to zero
Speaker 2: and have gone one to twelve since. But you can't
Speaker 2: blame those struggles on their tight end, Trey McBride. The
Speaker 2: NFL single season record for catches by a tight end
Speaker 2: is one hundred and sixteen. That was set by Zach
Speaker 2: Ertz several years ago. Trey McBride is almost certainly going
Speaker 2: to beat it. He's got one hundred and nine catches
Speaker 2: with two games to go. He had four catches last week.
Speaker 2: That marked the first time in seventeen games he did
Speaker 2: not have five or more, which is really unusual for
Speaker 2: a tight end. Let's hear from Bengals head coach Zach
Speaker 2: Taylor on Trey McBride.
Speaker 8: I think Trey McBride is a phenomenal tight end. You know,
Speaker 8: they use him really all the ways we try to
Speaker 8: get you more of the ball. You know, you see
Speaker 8: that from Trey. He's not gonna line up outside the
Speaker 8: numbers necessarily and run the full route tree out there,
Speaker 8: but put him out there and kind of the way
Speaker 8: you see Ertz use in Philly a little bit, try
Speaker 8: to get some matchups, and his Colorado State tape was
Speaker 8: full of these middle screens. I'd never really seen a
Speaker 8: tight end catch before and blow and behold. They're they're
Speaker 8: using them like crazy on that. So they're just trying
Speaker 8: to find a way to get him the ball every
Speaker 8: which way imaginable. They do a great job of it
Speaker 8: covered or uncovered. He's got really strong hands. He's a
Speaker 8: really physical runner, violent runner. One one of a really impressive,
Speaker 8: impressive players in this league.
Speaker 2: Lap to me, Trey McBride is brock Bowers from the Raiders,
Speaker 2: but just with less publicity.
Speaker 5: I think that's a great comment. I think that that
Speaker 5: sums it up big time. I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 5: I mean, brock Bauers is is a force. He's extremely
Speaker 5: gifted as a receiver. He can run the whole route
Speaker 5: tree like McBride. Seventeen straight games with five catches and more.
Speaker 5: That's amazing. It's amazing, and I'm almost speechless to the
Speaker 5: consistency of that.
Speaker 2: You know how hard it is and durability a tight
Speaker 2: end too, because you know those guys are operating in
Speaker 2: the middle of the field so often, they're taking shots
Speaker 2: from every direction. We used to talk about this with
Speaker 2: Tyler Eiford, who unfortunately had more than his share of injuries.
Speaker 2: At that position, you take shots that you can't avoid,
Speaker 2: whereas a wide receiver you've got a chance to get
Speaker 2: out of bound, out of bounds a little more often.
Speaker 2: Tight end, man, there's so many instances where you don't
Speaker 2: even know where they're coming from with some of these
Speaker 2: shots you take.
Speaker 5: Remember Bob Trumpy talking about that very thing.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 5: It's like, man, you know, when you're playing the tight
Speaker 5: end position and you're doing your damage in the middle
Speaker 5: of the football field, they're coming from everywhere. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's like incoming shots, man, you know, bombs away in
Speaker 5: you and you're the target. You know, you can get
Speaker 5: crushed by a linebacker, a middle linebacker, or an outside
Speaker 5: backer when you're running most of your patterns between the
Speaker 5: hash marks like Trump, he did safety, strong and free safety,
Speaker 5: middle linebacker, outside backers. He took hits from all of them,
Speaker 5: and a lot of times multiple guys on every play.
Speaker 5: You know, on a single play he get hit by
Speaker 5: a linebacker and a safety, a linebacker in a corner
Speaker 5: and you know, two of one one or the other,
Speaker 5: one of one.
Speaker 3: Two of the other. I mean, you know, he he.
Speaker 5: He was fairly revolutionary. Bill Walsh did a lot with
Speaker 5: Bob Trumpy. He was kind of like, you know, the
Speaker 5: receiver slash tight end of his era, of his day.
Speaker 5: And that's what these guys are. That's what a lot
Speaker 5: of these tight ends in today's football are. The offenses
Speaker 5: today are much more different, much different, i should say,
Speaker 5: than they were back in the seventies. Bob Trumpy stept
Speaker 5: drafted in nineteen sixty eight. Paul Brown was revolutionary. Paul
Speaker 5: Brown had a vision. Paul Brown saw things before anybody
Speaker 5: else did, and implemented them on the football field before
Speaker 5: anybody else could and made people adjust to him. And
Speaker 5: then he move on and do something else. And Bob
Speaker 5: Trump he was one of his early favorite experiments at
Speaker 5: the tight end position.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals have Marvin Harrison Junior on the roster, the
Speaker 2: fourth pick in the draft last year out of Ohio State.
Speaker 2: He's been beaten up in recent weeks, so he does
Speaker 2: not have tremendous stats this season. They do have a
Speaker 2: wide receiver that they drafted a few years ago out
Speaker 2: of Stanford, Michael Wilson, who's playing well, but make no mistake,
Speaker 2: when they drop back to throw, they are looking for
Speaker 2: Trey McBride first and foremost, Just like the Bengals look
Speaker 2: to get it to Jamar Chase at every opportunity. That's
Speaker 2: what the Cardinals are doing with Trey McBride.
Speaker 5: Agreed one hundred thousand percent. You know Trey McBride is
Speaker 5: gonna get his I mean, I think the quarterbacks with
Speaker 5: the Arizona Cardinals steel like if he doesn't get his
Speaker 5: five catches or more five to eight catches in the game,
Speaker 5: we've done a disservice to our football team and to
Speaker 5: Trey McBride because he wins so often. I mean, whenever
Speaker 5: he's out there running a route on a football field,
Speaker 5: he feels like he's better than the guy that he's
Speaker 5: going against, and he's gonna win, get separation. He's a big,
Speaker 5: strong body, so he runs with physicality. He can stick
Speaker 5: his foot in the ground and change direction and creates separation.
Speaker 5: He's not a slow tight end. I mean, he's not
Speaker 5: a speechter. He doesn't you know, he's not gonna set
Speaker 5: Olympic records. But the guy can run and he's a big, strong, physical,
Speaker 5: gifted athlete.
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Speaker 2: Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden says, definitively, we will turn
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Speaker 2: And we have some Bengals fans with us this afternoon.
Speaker 2: We look forward to Morvey joining us for the final
Speaker 2: hout of the show from five to six. It's the
Speaker 2: Bengals and the Arizona Cardinals coming up on Sunday at
Speaker 2: one o'clock at Pey Corse Stadium. The Bengals looking for
Speaker 2: their second win in a row, trying to hand the
Speaker 2: Cardinals their eighth loss in a row. The Bengals also
Speaker 2: looking to play as well defensively this week as they
Speaker 2: did last week against the Miami Dolphins. They gave a
Speaker 2: couple gave up a couple of early touchdowns, one in
Speaker 2: the first quarter, one in the second quarter, and then
Speaker 2: they were lights out in the second half. They got
Speaker 2: three takeaways and a fourth and one stop in the
Speaker 2: third quarter. They gave up a garbage time touchdown when
Speaker 2: they were way ahead. Otherwise they would have only given
Speaker 2: up fourteen points in the game. Even giving up twenty
Speaker 2: one is fine. With this offense, you're usually going to win.
Speaker 2: Sure when you allow twenty one or fewer points, no.
Speaker 3: Question, Dan.
Speaker 5: I mean three turnovers, takeaways and a fourth down stop
Speaker 5: in a quarter. That's mind boggling. I mean, that's like
Speaker 5: that doesn't happen in the National Football League. You've got
Speaker 5: offenses that are so dynamic. I mean, they have weapons
Speaker 5: that are incredible, and to be able to every single
Speaker 5: possession either take it away from them or stop them
Speaker 5: on downs is an extraordinary feat. I mean, I just
Speaker 5: I can't get over how impressive that is. At that point,
Speaker 5: I'm sure the Miami Dolphins were thinking, what the hell
Speaker 5: is going on?
Speaker 4: Everything?
Speaker 5: We call to have an answer for it? I mean,
Speaker 5: are they listening to our play calls? Is Al Golden
Speaker 5: got some kind of a microphone in our huddle or something?
Speaker 5: What's going on here? How are they able to be
Speaker 5: exactly where they need to be to stop the play?
Speaker 5: I mean, they played at such a high level in
Speaker 5: that third quarter, and like you say, Dan, twenty one
Speaker 5: points or less than the National Football League. I remember
Speaker 5: back in the day, if our defense held people to
Speaker 5: seventeen points or less, we expected to win the football game.
Speaker 5: We ask our defense, you know, seventeen or less, just
Speaker 5: holding to two touchdowns and field goal, and if we
Speaker 5: can't score three touchdowns, we don't deserve to win the game.
Speaker 5: And that's pretty much I think how Joe Burrow feels offensively,
Speaker 5: twenty one points in today's NFL, in today's world of
Speaker 5: offense and the creativity and the weapons and everything that
Speaker 5: the NFL has going for it today, if an offense
Speaker 5: is held to twenty one points, the defense that does that,
Speaker 5: their offensive football team should score twenty two or more
Speaker 5: and win the game.
Speaker 2: At this point, there's not much the Bengals defense can
Speaker 2: do to really improve the overall stats for the season.
Speaker 2: Even if they posted shutouts the final two games, they're
Speaker 2: going to rank near the bottom in a lot of
Speaker 2: these categories. They're currently lasting points allowed, lasting yards allowed.
Speaker 2: But it has clearly been getting better in recent weeks.
Speaker 2: Many of the young players that they've drafted in the
Speaker 2: first couple of days of the draft over the last
Speaker 2: three or four years have shown considerable improvement. And that's
Speaker 2: why Al Golden so strongly and definitively feels like this
Speaker 2: defense is going to be better next year.
Speaker 12: We're going to turn it around.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt. I mean, we got the right people
Speaker 3: in the building.
Speaker 12: We've got leaders emerging, We've played you know, a lot
Speaker 12: of young guys, and again I look at improvement. You know,
Speaker 12: individual improvement is what ultimately he's gonna lead to unit
Speaker 12: success and team success. So the biggest thing for me,
Speaker 12: you know, is Jordan Battle getting better. Did Joseph Osai
Speaker 12: get better? Is Myles Murphy getting better?
Speaker 3: Et cetera?
Speaker 12: Getting better? You know, it was Jenkins better this year
Speaker 12: than last year. And I can go on and on
Speaker 12: and then then the next thing is, Okay, now Night
Speaker 12: needs to be better. You know, we need to have
Speaker 12: continuity with Shamar Barrick, Carter needs to get better. But
Speaker 12: as DJ Turner better than last year, I'm gonna say, yeah,
Speaker 12: you know, it's DA's better. So keep getting better, you know,
Speaker 12: get better in the off season and come back and
Speaker 12: have continuity and keep improving.
Speaker 3: And that's you know, you know, that's the answer that question.
Speaker 2: Al Golden rattled off ten names there. Nine of the
Speaker 2: ten are sure to be back next year. The only
Speaker 2: possible exception would be Joseph Osai, who's in the final
Speaker 2: year of his deal. But the other guys are all
Speaker 2: still under contract. So we're talking about guys like Jordan Battle,
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy, Chris Jenkins, Shamar Stewart, Barrett Carter, DJ Turner,
Speaker 2: Dax Hill, and a few others. I'm not sure that
Speaker 2: there are a ton of stars on that list. Maybe
Speaker 2: DJ Turner deserves a mention. He could have very easily
Speaker 2: gone to the Pro Bowl this year, and he has
Speaker 2: a Pro Bowl alternate. Maybe if Miles Murphy keeps continuing,
Speaker 2: we'll feel that way about him. Shamar Stewart certainly has
Speaker 2: the potential to be a star down the road, but
Speaker 2: any good defense is built up mostly of solid guys
Speaker 2: and then you hope to sprinkle in a few stars.
Speaker 2: They could still use the stars, but at least it
Speaker 2: seems like they're developing and proving to have the solid guys.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, and no NFL defense has a leven pro bowler.
Speaker 5: It's like that's a pipe tren. It's unrealistic, it's it's
Speaker 5: not capable of being accomplished. So yeah, DJ Turner in
Speaker 5: my mind, is a star. Can cover, can tackle, he
Speaker 5: can he can do everything that you need to have done.
Speaker 5: Plays the run very very effectively, gets off blocks and
Speaker 5: tackles people like I mentioned earlier, and he's got outstanding
Speaker 5: coverage abilities. But there's nothing wrong with having you know,
Speaker 5: a DJ Turner who's a Pro Bowl guy, two other
Speaker 5: two or three other guys that are above average, well
Speaker 5: above average. You know, everybody in the National Football League
Speaker 5: would love to have those guys playing for him, and
Speaker 5: then everybody else being solid, good football players, knowing what
Speaker 5: the heck is going on, understanding what Al Golden wants
Speaker 5: out of his defensive scheme, figuring out how you fit
Speaker 5: into that. UH, playing with solid fundamentals and UH and
Speaker 5: and the skill set is on the epswing, it's getting better.
Speaker 5: That's what Al Golden has. Al Golden has a bunch
Speaker 5: of solid defensive players that care, that want to be good,
Speaker 5: that want to do what Al Golden is trying to
Speaker 5: get done. They want to be part of that. They
Speaker 5: care about each other, they care about performing well for
Speaker 5: themselves and their family. It's just you know, they love
Speaker 5: the game of pro football, and that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 5: And if you're not happy with what you got, there's
Speaker 5: a couple of games left for these guys to maybe
Speaker 5: play better and maybe advance themselves in the eye of
Speaker 5: Al Golden and the assistant coaches. But if not you
Speaker 5: got the free agency in the twenty twenty five twenty
Speaker 5: six offseason, the twenty twenty six NFL Draft to get better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they'd better attack it with every research that
Speaker 2: they have. It's four to twelve on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: The injury report is out, so let's get to the details.
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Speaker 2: The Kettering Health Network ID say it is the Kettering
Speaker 2: Health Injury Report. Been reading that card all year and
Speaker 2: I'm still screwing it up for some reason. But here
Speaker 2: are the key details. First. For the Bengals, Joseph Osai
Speaker 2: is out this week. Charlie Jones remains out, so they'll
Speaker 2: be missing one of their best pass rushers, and their
Speaker 2: kick and punt returner Noah Fant is listed as questionable.
Speaker 2: So those are the biggest Cincinnati question marks going into
Speaker 2: the game. For the Cardinals, their multi time Pro Bowl
Speaker 2: safety Buddha Baker is out, a Cincinnati kid. They're starting
Speaker 2: left tackle Paris Johnson out of Princeton High School in
Speaker 2: Ohio state. He is out, so we won't get to
Speaker 2: see Paris Johnson play for the Cardinals this week. They're
Speaker 2: leading pass rusher Josh Schwett, who has eleven sacks this year,
Speaker 2: listed as questionable. Additionally, these guys are not on the
Speaker 2: injury report because they suffered season ending injuries last week.
Speaker 2: Walter Nolan a season ending knee injury, so he's out.
Speaker 2: Cornerback Garrett Williams a season ending torn achilles last week,
Speaker 2: so he's out. So we talked about this earlier with
Speaker 2: a reporter who covers the Cardinals for the Arizona newspaper.
Speaker 2: This is the most injury ravaged team in the league
Speaker 2: this year. By his estimation, ten of their best players
Speaker 2: will not take the field against the Bengals on Sunday.
Speaker 5: That's uh, that's a mind boggling number right there. There's
Speaker 5: only twenty two guys that are going to be taking
Speaker 5: the field offensively and defensively. And when you when you
Speaker 5: are told that ten of the best ones won't be
Speaker 5: going against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, that is that
Speaker 5: catches your attention, catches your attention big time. Uh. The
Speaker 5: Arizona Cardinals are fighting an uphill battle, There's no no
Speaker 5: doubt about it. I mean, they're they're going into football
Speaker 5: games with the next guy, next guy up. You know,
Speaker 5: it's it's that's always the battle cry. Next guy up.
Speaker 5: Hopefully the next guy up plays players well and you don't.
Speaker 5: You won't lose a whole lot by an injury to
Speaker 5: a to a starting player. But the reality is, starting
Speaker 5: player is a starting player for a reason. I mean, uh,
Speaker 5: he's he's time tested and uh, you know, over multiple
Speaker 5: snaps and multiple games, he's proven to be the best guy. So, uh,
Speaker 5: you can get labeled a starter for a reason.
Speaker 2: Well, Paris Johnson won't play for the Cardinals on Sunday.
Speaker 2: There are several players that have Cincinnati ties who will
Speaker 2: take the field for the Cardinals, including a King Davis Caather,
Speaker 2: a Bengal for the past several seasons, signed as a
Speaker 2: free agent with Arizona this past offseason, and he has
Speaker 2: been starting at linebacker after an injury they had early
Speaker 2: this year. He'll actually go into the game number two
Speaker 2: in tackles for the Cardinals this season. On the offense
Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball, they recently picked up former
Speaker 2: Roger Bacon and Universe of Cincinnati star Corey Kiner, not
Speaker 2: starting at running back, but likely to get several carries.
Speaker 2: He'll come in when Michael Carter goes out. Corey Kiner
Speaker 2: had six carries for thirty two yards last week, his
Speaker 2: first significant action in a Cardinals uniform. Arizona also has
Speaker 2: tight end Josiah Deguara, who played at the University of Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and even before that, he was a high school teammate
Speaker 2: in Fulsome, California with Bengals backup quarterback Jake Browning. He
Speaker 2: was Jake Browning's favorite target going back to their high
Speaker 2: school days. We'll take a time out when we come back.
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Speaker 2: weekly Fun Fact segment. It is presented by Skyline Chilling
Speaker 2: time for some fun facts with linebacker and special teams
Speaker 2: standout Joe Giles Harris. I know you played football in Montvale,
Speaker 2: New Jersey, which isn't too far from New York, York City.
Speaker 2: Where exactly did you live growing up?
Speaker 13: I lived in Night in New York growing up, so
Speaker 13: it's about a fifteen minute rode right outside of my
Speaker 13: right outside of New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Do you consider yourself a New York City guy? A
Speaker 2: Jersey guy? How would you label yourself just.
Speaker 4: In New York and not New York City, not New
Speaker 4: Jersey guy?
Speaker 13: I love everybody. I'm from New York. I love that
Speaker 13: about myself. I love the energy in New York. I
Speaker 13: love New York. I love everything that it provides and
Speaker 13: what it's about. So I tell everybody I'm from New York.
Speaker 4: Joe.
Speaker 2: What sports did you play growing up? And when did
Speaker 2: you know that football would ultimately be your path forward?
Speaker 13: So growing up, we played everything, and then when I
Speaker 13: got to the high school, played fotball, basketball, lacrosse. But
Speaker 13: for me, football was everything from an early age. My
Speaker 13: dad coached high school football from the time I was born,
Speaker 13: so I've been on a field in pamps and as
Speaker 13: long as I can remember, and it's the only thing
Speaker 13: I ever wanted to do. My mom jokes and will
Speaker 13: tell stories, so I told her that I wasn't going
Speaker 13: to college state classes. I was going there for chalk
Speaker 13: talk and film prep and things like that. That's what
Speaker 13: I was gonna do in college. So being able to
Speaker 13: be here now, it's a thing. But I pretty much
Speaker 13: knew football was my path.
Speaker 2: All You played college football at Duke, which means you
Speaker 2: were probably a very good student in high school. Was
Speaker 2: that important in your family?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 13: My mom and my grandmother were both teachers, so that
Speaker 13: was pushed on us big from the early from early on,
Speaker 13: and when it came to it, it's like, well why
Speaker 13: not Duke. You know, it's the best of both worlds.
Speaker 13: I got to play very competitive, powerful football and get
Speaker 13: one of the best educations in the country. So, I
Speaker 13: mean it was a win win for me.
Speaker 2: Coach k was the basketball coach throughout your tenure at Duke.
Speaker 2: Did you interact, Oh, I mean we saw him a
Speaker 2: couple of times.
Speaker 13: I wouldn't say I knew him personally, but there was
Speaker 13: a couple times he spoke to the football program and
Speaker 13: you know, going to the games and things like that,
Speaker 13: but it was it was definitely cool to see like
Speaker 13: a living legend in person, especially his last couple.
Speaker 4: Of years I was there. So it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: While you were Duke, you were the three time winner
Speaker 2: of the Vincent Ray Award, which goes to the best
Speaker 2: linebacker at Duke. And Vinnie Ray, of course, is here
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati played for the Bengals. He is currently the
Speaker 2: team chaplain. Have you two hit it off now that
Speaker 2: you're here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 13: So it's funny, you know, being at Duke for the
Speaker 13: four years, that was the name I heard every day
Speaker 13: I heard Vinni Ray would do this, Vinie Ray would
Speaker 13: do that, Vinie Ray wouldn't have done this, or and
Speaker 13: it was back and forth, and I didn't actually meet
Speaker 13: Vinnie until this past year, this past spring at an
Speaker 13: event the NFL host over the summer, and I got
Speaker 13: to meet Vinni for the first time. And it was
Speaker 13: funny because I'm like, I know so much about you,
Speaker 13: but I don't know you. And since you know, he's
Speaker 13: he's been nothing but a blessing to me and my family.
Speaker 13: And between getting settled in sincey Bible studies, meeting with
Speaker 13: him one on one, you know, it's been really cool to,
Speaker 13: you know, build that relationship. And Vinnie's a New York
Speaker 13: guy who went to Duke, and I'm a New York
Speaker 13: guy I went to Duke, so it kind of just
Speaker 13: worked out hand in hand.
Speaker 2: We're visiting with Joe Giles Harris. You had a great
Speaker 2: career at Duke, team MVP, two time first Team All
Speaker 2: acc or a team captain there your final year, did
Speaker 2: you expect to get drafted and was it a big
Speaker 2: disappointment when you weren't.
Speaker 13: Oh, I think so, I think for me, you know,
Speaker 13: that's obviously for everybody. It's the ultimate goals to get drafted,
Speaker 13: and when it didn't happen, you know, it hurt a
Speaker 13: little bit. But I come from a competitive household and
Speaker 13: my brother plays professional lacrals and things like that, so
Speaker 13: there was no sulking in the moment. It was just
Speaker 13: all right, what are you gonna do to stay? What
Speaker 13: are you gonna do to you know, actually make it?
Speaker 13: Because you're not the first The first door is not open,
Speaker 13: so you got to walk to the second door. So
Speaker 13: for me, it was disappointing, but I think it also
Speaker 13: taught me a lot of things about myself. And it
Speaker 13: taught me that if I really wanted, I had to
Speaker 13: put in that much more work to get to where
Speaker 13: I'm at. And seven years later, I'm still here doing it.
Speaker 13: So uh, blessed for how it's gone, how it started.
Speaker 2: It was gonna up, but you know, figured it out
Speaker 2: because of the way NFL accounting works. The roster says
Speaker 2: you have two years of NFL experience, and it's always
Speaker 2: annoying to me because the truth is, this is your
Speaker 2: seventh NFL season, including time that you've spent on practice squads.
Speaker 2: It's a good living regardless of what your status is
Speaker 2: on the roster. What's been the key for you to
Speaker 2: remain an NFL player for seven years?
Speaker 4: For me, I think it's just been simple. You know,
Speaker 4: show up to work every day.
Speaker 3: Work.
Speaker 13: There's somebody coming in and take your spot every day.
Speaker 13: There's a hundred guys who are getting tryouts every day,
Speaker 13: and so what are you doing in that building to
Speaker 13: stand out on a consistent basis?
Speaker 4: So it's you know, I've.
Speaker 13: Built a routine being consistent and just being vocal and
Speaker 13: being a leader. And when you get your opportunity to
Speaker 13: make players make plays. That's the league about. The more
Speaker 13: plays you make, the longer you'll stay. The less plays
Speaker 13: you're make and I have to find something else to do.
Speaker 2: I introduced you off the top as a linebacker and
Speaker 2: special teams stand out right now. Pro Football Focus has
Speaker 2: you graded number eleven among all special teams players in
Speaker 2: the NFL so far this year. You've had several tackles
Speaker 2: and kick coverage in recent weeks. How much of special
Speaker 2: team's success is all out effort and how much is
Speaker 2: knowledge and technique?
Speaker 13: Well, I think you know it's a combination of both,
Speaker 13: but shout out, you know, Coach Daron coach Ben and
Speaker 13: you know, the guys in the unit. You know, I'm
Speaker 13: just the guy who's been lucky enough to have a
Speaker 13: couple of tackles these past few games. But it comes
Speaker 13: down to film study and just working hard. And you know,
Speaker 13: I think for a lot of you know, early on,
Speaker 13: you can kind of look at special teams as that
Speaker 13: I don't want to play special teams. I want to
Speaker 13: be a defensive I want to be off.
Speaker 3: With the guy.
Speaker 13: But it's just as important. It's it's just as fun
Speaker 13: and you know, guy's carve out roles doing that. So
Speaker 13: for me, like I told you, just being consistent and
Speaker 13: doing what I have to do to stay in a
Speaker 13: building and you know, getting the opportunity to play there
Speaker 13: and it's been nothing but good to me and kind
Speaker 13: of opened my eyes a little more, specially in the world.
Speaker 13: And I just thank my film setting things for being
Speaker 13: able to be in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 2: Maybe in a perfect world, you get drafted by a team,
Speaker 2: you spend a decade with that team, and that's your
Speaker 2: NFL career.
Speaker 4: That's not been the path for you.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, you've probably made hundreds of friends
Speaker 2: and the different teams you've been with, You've seen how
Speaker 2: it works in different places, you've lived in different cities.
Speaker 4: Have you enjoyed that part of your career.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I don't think any of this for granted.
Speaker 13: I've made nothing but great relationships, and you know, just
Speaker 13: the people I've met along the way have been amazing,
Speaker 13: and that you know, there's people you met along the
Speaker 13: way who aren't amazing. But it's just part of the process.
Speaker 13: But I'd say the overall knowledge of game, just from
Speaker 13: the business side of it, how the NFL works, you
Speaker 13: know what locker rooms are like and things like that.
Speaker 13: I think it's kind of really helped me, you know,
Speaker 13: stay focused and stay grounded and things like that, and
Speaker 13: to really like it's been nothing but a blessing.
Speaker 4: Like I've loved this process.
Speaker 13: It's been hard. There's been days where I'm like, this
Speaker 13: is not it. This is the worst thing in the world,
Speaker 13: but it's you know, everything's turned the corner for me
Speaker 13: and I'm grateful for it. I came to this lead
Speaker 13: with no kids. I have two kids now, two beautiful
Speaker 13: kids who have now part of this process. My wife's
Speaker 13: part of the process. So it's been good for us.
Speaker 13: It's given us a different perspective, got to live in
Speaker 13: different areas of the country, which is cool, you know,
Speaker 13: being from New York, I only wanted to live in
Speaker 13: New York, so it was good I was able to
Speaker 13: branch out and do things like that. But it's been
Speaker 13: a blessing and I cherished every every place I've been
Speaker 13: at has been good for me and my family, and
Speaker 13: I'm just forever grateful.
Speaker 2: All right, a few wild card topics now for Joe
Speaker 2: Giles Harris. Since you mentioned having two kids, son, daughter,
Speaker 2: one of each, and what's your favorite thing about being
Speaker 2: a dad.
Speaker 4: My son is two years old and my daughter's one
Speaker 4: years old, and Breeze and.
Speaker 13: Uh, I think my favorite part of being the dad
Speaker 13: is coming home and hearing what they had to say
Speaker 13: about their day, and you know.
Speaker 3: What they did or what I did.
Speaker 13: And my son's at the age where he understands things
Speaker 13: now and wants to play football. So I get home
Speaker 13: and Dad, you didn't make a tackle the day, and
Speaker 13: I'm like, yeah, I know, I didn't make a tackle, Bunny.
Speaker 3: I'm trying.
Speaker 13: So just that part, but it's just coming home and
Speaker 13: you know, seeing there's something more important than whatever you
Speaker 13: got going on that day. So I love to My
Speaker 13: daughter runs to me every time I come to the house,
Speaker 13: whether it's because she was being bad that day or
Speaker 13: she just wants to see me. It is, you know,
Speaker 13: to be determined, but just seeing their face, seeing their smiles,
Speaker 13: and remember there's you know, there's people counting on me
Speaker 13: to be more than a football player, and I think
Speaker 13: that's the best part about it.
Speaker 2: You have a hyphenated last name, Giles Harris. Was that
Speaker 2: always the case or did you make that choice?
Speaker 4: That's been always the case.
Speaker 13: My mom and my dad neither want wanted to get
Speaker 13: up their last name, and it sounds great and it's
Speaker 13: original and when you see it, you know who I am.
Speaker 13: So the only people who have that last name are
Speaker 13: people blood related to me. So I think I think
Speaker 13: it's a blessing. It helps me stand out and it's unique.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate you referenced your brother JT. Earlier, a
Speaker 2: professional lacrosse player for the Denver Outlaws. He is a
Speaker 2: three time All Star in the Premier Lacrosse League. Tell
Speaker 2: us a little bit about his career.
Speaker 13: Oh, well, my brother has been, you know, the best
Speaker 13: player at lacrosse in my opinion, and I know that
Speaker 13: probably doesn't care well because I live in the house.
Speaker 13: But he's been the best lacrosse player I've seen in
Speaker 13: a long time. He plays defense, you know, he played
Speaker 13: defense playing growing up, playing football and things like that,
Speaker 13: so kind of translated. But he's had, you know, a
Speaker 13: heck of probably a better career than I have had,
Speaker 13: to be honest. He you know, was a Defensive Player
Speaker 13: of the Year in college All American most of his
Speaker 13: time in college. I think he won Defensive Player of
Speaker 13: the Year already in the PLL. So he's just a study,
Speaker 13: handles his business. He approaches every day coming similar that
Speaker 13: I do, you know, just attack the day mentality, and
Speaker 13: he's he's just a competitor, like there's a fire in
Speaker 13: him and it burns and he's gonna get his job none.
Speaker 4: No matter what.
Speaker 2: Out there than football, What are you good at?
Speaker 4: Depends?
Speaker 13: Yes, I think I'm a pretty good basketball player of myself. Basketball,
Speaker 13: you know, and I like to just hang out. I'm
Speaker 13: a big I love to watch movies and do things
Speaker 13: like that. I love history, so I like to watch
Speaker 13: you know, the trivia stuff and like things like that
Speaker 13: and test my brain. But those are pretty much small things.
Speaker 13: I'm gonna all right.
Speaker 2: Final fun fact for Joe Giles Harris. This one's kind
Speaker 2: of deep. If you could meet anyone in history, living
Speaker 2: or deceased, who would that person be?
Speaker 13: I say, right now, off the top of my head,
Speaker 13: probably Barack Obama, And I would just you know, just
Speaker 13: want to pick his brain about you know, he was
Speaker 13: the first black president of the United States, and you know,
Speaker 13: things he went through growing up and the things he
Speaker 13: went through as our president. So just to kind of
Speaker 13: pick his brain and see where he's at, you know,
Speaker 13: because it takes a strong person to you know, lead
Speaker 13: this country, and especially when you're the first of you know,
Speaker 13: a group to do that. So just pick his brain
Speaker 13: and you know, just get to know him. I think
Speaker 13: that would be probably the person I want to meet
Speaker 13: the most.
Speaker 4: This has been great. Appreciate your time. Best of like
Speaker 4: the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: The very articulate Joe Giles Harris again a guy doing
Speaker 2: a terrific job as a special team's ace this year.
Speaker 5: He really has been, and when you listen to him,
Speaker 5: you have to be impressed with his overall intelligence. I mean,
Speaker 5: this guy is got an IQ now not just football
Speaker 5: like you. He does have a great football like you.
Speaker 5: The coaches say that he's Menza from a football IQ standpoint,
Speaker 5: But man, he knows a lot about a lot of things,
Speaker 5: and he is well read. He's the kind of guy
Speaker 5: that the Bengals like to have on the roster. Just
Speaker 5: a good human being, a good person. And Zach puts
Speaker 5: a big emphasis on that. And the coaches do you know,
Speaker 5: they want guys that are going to be part of
Speaker 5: the part of the reason for the success, not somebody.
Speaker 5: They don't want anybody to infiltrate and tear it down.
Speaker 5: So I think they're ahead in the right direction, and
Speaker 5: I think they're going to get there faster than people think.
Speaker 2: All right, well take a time out. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll hear from t Higgins, who bounced back from concussion
Speaker 2: protocol with a big performance last week for the Bengals
Speaker 2: in their win in Miami. This is the Bengals pep
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Speaker 2: goal from the nine for Cincinnati Burrow in the gun
Speaker 2: back at the fourteen Chase Brown off his right hip.
Speaker 2: Burrow catches the shot gun snap, looking right, throws into
Speaker 2: the end zone for Higgins. He's done it. Touchdown Bengals.
Speaker 14: T Higgins, with a great adjustment to the ball, then
Speaker 14: drops to his knees and praise to a higher power
Speaker 14: after making a great catch on that throw from Joe Burrow.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable play by T.
Speaker 6: Higgins.
Speaker 5: He showed everything. He showed his size, he showed his athleticism,
Speaker 5: he showed his soft hand.
Speaker 2: Dan Horden, Dave Lapp him back in the Bengals pep
Speaker 2: rally show present by Just the Bare Chick, and we
Speaker 2: can understand why T. Higgins dropped to his knees and
Speaker 2: pointed toward the heavens after that touchdown catch. Last week
Speaker 2: in Miami, he suffered a concussion in the New England game,
Speaker 2: missed the following game against Baltimore. In the Buffalo game
Speaker 2: the week after that, his head banged down on that
Speaker 2: frozen turf in Buffalo several times, and while he was
Speaker 2: not diagnosed with a concussion during the game, he had
Speaker 2: some symptoms in the following days. Missed the next game
Speaker 2: after that, also against Baltimore, So this past week, after
Speaker 2: going through concussion protocol, I thought the Bengals did a
Speaker 2: great thing for t Higgins. They flew him to Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: to see one of the world's foremost authorities on concussions,
Speaker 2: made sure that he was a peace of mind to
Speaker 2: come back from such a serious injury. This concussion renowned
Speaker 2: specialist signed off and assured Tea that he was fine
Speaker 2: and was going to be fine to play. So he
Speaker 2: took the field against Miami. He played great. It was
Speaker 2: awesome to see. Here's what he had to say about
Speaker 2: it after the game.
Speaker 5: You know, the bring injury.
Speaker 15: There's nothing that's nothing to play with as serious, and
Speaker 15: it confects you in a long time, you know. I mean,
Speaker 15: so I see every everything everybody's saying it. I should say,
Speaker 15: I see all that, but I want to see a specialist,
Speaker 15: and especially said it was okay for me to, you know,
Speaker 15: go back out there and play my game.
Speaker 5: And that's what I think.
Speaker 2: That's what I did. He was limited in practice by
Speaker 2: and large last week as he came through concussion protocol.
Speaker 2: Then it was on Thursday morning that he flew to
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh first thing in the morning, saw this specialist. They
Speaker 2: didn't even know if he was going to be back
Speaker 2: at practice. He was back in the building practicing that day.
Speaker 5: It's a great thing that the Bengals organization did for
Speaker 5: a player.
Speaker 3: I mean, it really is.
Speaker 5: Concussions are no joke. I mean, the Players Association is
Speaker 5: always doing everything they possibly can to make sure the
Speaker 5: concussion protocols are first rate, they're.
Speaker 4: Up to speed.
Speaker 5: Concussions are the big fear of the Union, the Players Association,
Speaker 5: because if a player suffers too many of them, it
Speaker 5: can be a bad life after football, and you know,
Speaker 5: tragedy you don't even want to think about after football.
Speaker 5: So the fact that the Bengals feel that way about
Speaker 5: t Higgins, that look, you're a priority. We want to
Speaker 5: make sure that you feel good about going out there
Speaker 5: and playing football. We don't want you to be unsure
Speaker 5: we didn't. We don't want you to think, oh, the
Speaker 5: Bengals organizations forcing me out there, you know, against my will.
Speaker 5: So I think that it's it's good for the Bengals,
Speaker 5: it's good for the National Football League, it's good for
Speaker 5: the Players Association. I think the Bengals got a really
Speaker 5: good example this past week.
Speaker 2: T Higgins has never played in a Pro Bowl, but
Speaker 2: he is a first alternate this year. Jamaar Chase, of
Speaker 2: course is five for five and going to the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 2: but he is a first alternate. So if one of
Speaker 2: the wide receivers picked goes to the Super Bowl or
Speaker 2: comes down with an injury, t would be the next
Speaker 2: man up. And it would be awesome to see both
Speaker 2: Bengals wide receivers participate in the Pro Bowl games this year.
Speaker 5: It really would. I mean, that's a what a compliment,
Speaker 5: what a compliment to the Bengals organization, the head coach
Speaker 5: Zac Taylor to the receiver coach Troy Walters. I mean,
Speaker 5: when you've got two, not just one, you've got two
Speaker 5: from your position group, and then you know you don't
Speaker 5: suit out a gazillion wide receivers every game. So when
Speaker 5: you've got two that are playing at that high a level,
Speaker 5: that's a reflection, a positive reflection on everybody involved, the coaches,
Speaker 5: the players, the organization. It's a win for everybody.
Speaker 2: The three wide receivers other than Jamar Chase who are
Speaker 2: named to the AFC Pro Bowl roster or Nicocollins from Houston,
Speaker 2: Zay Flowers from Baltimore, Courtland Sutton from Denver. Denver could
Speaker 2: certainly go into the go to the Super Bowl. They'll
Speaker 2: be one of the favorites in the postseason. Houston's been
Speaker 2: playing extremely well of late. Wouldn't rule it out. Baltimore
Speaker 2: seems like a long shot. But you know, maybe one
Speaker 2: of those guys will not be able to make it
Speaker 2: to the Pro Bowl games and T will get that opportunity. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then, and T he deserves it.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no question that he has played this
Speaker 5: season like a Pro Bowler, you know, in every sense
Speaker 5: of the word.
Speaker 3: And I think T.
Speaker 5: Higgins is all about his football team. It's not about him.
Speaker 5: It's not about individual glory, it's not about individual awards.
Speaker 5: T Higgins is all about winning Super Bowls.
Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna take a time out when we
Speaker 2: come back, we will stick with the Pro Bowl as
Speaker 2: our theme and talk about the Bengals player who really
Speaker 2: can be described as a Pro Bowl snub this year.
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Speaker 2: the show with us. He's at the on the Ryane Eatery.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the Pro Bowl. A few minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase has been selected for the fifth time in
Speaker 2: five years to begin his NFL career. AJ Green is
Speaker 2: the only other player in franchise history that went five
Speaker 2: for five to begin his career. The Bengals also have
Speaker 2: some alternates. We mentioned the T Higgins is a first alternate,
Speaker 2: so if one guy's out, he would be in. Charlie
Speaker 2: Jones is a fifth alternate as a kick returner, so
Speaker 2: it's probably unlikely that he will move up that far
Speaker 2: to get into the game.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Then you have DJ Turner. He is a third alternate,
Speaker 2: so a couple of guys would have to miss for
Speaker 2: Dj to get in. We've been talking about him as
Speaker 2: a deserving candidate for several weeks tied for the NFL
Speaker 2: lead and passes defense. He has been covering the other
Speaker 2: team's number one receiver and those guys typically have not
Speaker 2: had big games against Cincinnati. Here's Joe Burrow making the
Speaker 2: case for his teammate DJ Turner.
Speaker 3: I thought j should have been the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 11: But you know, I told him the other day. Usually
Speaker 11: the first year that you should make it, you're typically
Speaker 11: an ultimate, and then if you stack that year, they
Speaker 11: usually give it to you the next year. That's happened
Speaker 11: to me in a couple kind of see that across
Speaker 11: the league a little bit.
Speaker 2: So that is often how it works. You don't get
Speaker 2: in the first time you're an alternate. Your name starts
Speaker 2: to get out there as a quote unquote Pro bowler,
Speaker 2: and then you make it, and maybe you keep making
Speaker 2: it past the point right where you deserve to make it.
Speaker 2: Denzel Ward, at least statistically, is not having a good
Speaker 2: year for clevelandy Football Focus grades. But he's going and
Speaker 2: certainly for much of his career he's been tremendous, but
Speaker 2: maybe this year he is not one of the top
Speaker 2: corners in the AFC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, agreed, Dan, you know, and I think the thing
Speaker 5: about paternat. To keep in mind is he's been put
Speaker 5: he's the number one guy, he's their shutdown guy. He's
Speaker 5: been on the other team's best weapon, the best receiver.
Speaker 5: So he's had a lot of activity, you know, and
Speaker 5: he and he's stepped up. He's had an opportunity to
Speaker 5: defend a lot of passes. But a lot of guys
Speaker 5: have a lot of opportunity, they don't do it. He
Speaker 5: rose to the occasion and he defended a lot of passes.
Speaker 5: He had a lot of passes broken up, a lot
Speaker 5: of passes knocked down. That that's valuable. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: that's discouraging to a quarterback when jeez, this guy, I
Speaker 5: mean he is sticky out there. I might have to
Speaker 5: stay away from him. That is about as big a
Speaker 5: contribution as you can make as anything. It's like you
Speaker 5: take away that that weapon from the from the quarterback.
Speaker 5: It's like she's I'm gonna have to wait for another
Speaker 5: day to get the ball to my number one guy.
Speaker 5: So and so it's not happening to say because this
Speaker 5: DJ Turner is everything we thought he was when we
Speaker 5: were watching tape. This guy's the real deal. This guy's
Speaker 5: a Pro Bowl caliber player that is invaluable to take
Speaker 5: away the other team's number one receiving weapon.
Speaker 2: We've talked about the twenty twenty three draft. That's looking
Speaker 2: better and better all the time for Cincinnati. Miles Murphy
Speaker 2: in round one, that one was, you know, looking like
Speaker 2: a potential bust and now not meymore. He's really emerged
Speaker 2: as a solid, if not spectacular player defensive end. DJ
Speaker 2: Turner looks like he might be a star. Jordan Battle
Speaker 2: has really been playing well in recent weeks. Chase Brown
Speaker 2: has been excellent now for a couple of years. Andre
Speaker 2: Yosi Vash has certainly productive player for a sixth round pick.
Speaker 2: Dj Ivy is good as a cover the tight end specialist.
Speaker 2: So that draft, pretty much top to bottom, is panning
Speaker 2: out well for Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: And at the end of this.
Speaker 2: Season, now that those guys have three years in the league,
Speaker 2: the Bengals are allowed to begin extending those players if
Speaker 2: they can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh Duke Tobin and his scouts and the
Speaker 5: organization take a bow. I mean that that was a
Speaker 5: solid draft. There's no question you drafted a Pro Bowl
Speaker 5: caliber player and DJ Turner, and you got a lot
Speaker 5: of guys that form an extraordinary supporting cast. I mean,
Speaker 5: these guys, like we talked about earlier, You're not gonna
Speaker 5: have eleven Pro Bowlers on your offensive a defensive football team.
Speaker 5: That's that's pipe tream, that's a that's impossible, that's an
Speaker 5: unrealistic goal or accomplishment. But if you can have, you know,
Speaker 5: two or three guys that are when you get them
Speaker 5: on the football field, well better than I thought they were.
Speaker 5: I mean, we unearthed some some diamonds in the rough
Speaker 5: here and they can they can really get it done.
Speaker 5: They can play football. If you every other round, if
Speaker 5: you get a solid player, you're gonna have a good
Speaker 5: football team. If you do that two or three drafts
Speaker 5: in a row, you're gonna be really good. You're gonna
Speaker 5: be a playoff caliber team. You're gonna be a playoff
Speaker 5: caliber team for more than one season.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take a time out. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we'll talk about one of the most remarkable
Speaker 2: players that will come to town with the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2: This Sunday, you're listening to the Bengals pep Rally Show
Speaker 2: presented by Just Bear Chicken live from the on the
Speaker 2: Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. Telling Fairchild will join
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Speaker 2: more than I share during the course of this year.
Speaker 2: We're here until six o'clock tonight. Dylan Fairchild, the Bengals
Speaker 2: rookie offensive lineman, will be joining us shortly. The Arizona
Speaker 2: Cardinals a struggling team coming to town on Sunday. They've
Speaker 2: dropped twelve out of their last thirteen. They've got a
Speaker 2: seven game losing streak coming into the game. But they've
Speaker 2: got one guy, now more than one, but one in
Speaker 2: particular that I have a tremendous amount of respect for,
Speaker 2: and that is thirty nine year old defensive tackle Kalais Campbell.
Speaker 2: You generally don't last that long at that position. But
Speaker 2: this guy is highly unusual. He's six' eight playing defensive,
Speaker 2: tackle three hundred and fifteen, pounds one of the all
Speaker 2: TIME nfl leaders in blocked. Kicks he's got ten block
Speaker 2: field goals in his, career blocked an extra point last,
Speaker 2: week blocked a field goal the week, before been to
Speaker 2: The Pro bowl six. Times still playing well at his.
Speaker 2: Age Pro Football focus as him grated as the twenty
Speaker 2: eighth asked interior defensive lineman in THE nfl this. Year
Speaker 2: let's hear from offensive Coordinator Dan pitcher on the challenge
Speaker 2: of trying to Block Kalais.
Speaker 7: Campbell he's a mountain of a, Man BUT i mean
Speaker 7: to play a, position a physically taxing position like defensive
Speaker 7: tackle the way he has for as long as he's played,
Speaker 7: it and just somebody who's, rarely rarely gifted. Physically and
Speaker 7: Then i've never had the chance to really meet him
Speaker 7: or interact with, him But i've talked to a lot
Speaker 7: of people who have players who have been on teams with,
Speaker 7: him and you, know you kind of view him from
Speaker 7: the outside and he just looks, like you, know just
Speaker 7: a really high character guy with obviously tremendous work ethic
Speaker 7: and competitiveness to still be doing it at the World
Speaker 7: he's doing.
Speaker 2: It so that'll be a.
Speaker 3: Challenge.
Speaker 2: Lap one of the players from your draft Was Ed
Speaker 2: Too Tall. Jones he was the first pick in your.
Speaker 2: Draft Kalas campbell's kind of a modern version Of Ed
Speaker 2: Too Tall.
Speaker 5: JONES i think that's a comparison Because Too tall was six,'
Speaker 5: eight Just Like klayis CAMPBELL and i played against him
Speaker 5: in some of The College all. Star games actually he
Speaker 5: was a teammate In The East West, shrine game and
Speaker 5: then we were on opposite teams In The. Senior bowl,
Speaker 5: and man just blocking, the guy it was like trying
Speaker 5: to block, an octopus.
Speaker 3: YOU know i mean he was.
Speaker 5: SO long i mean it was. Like cheez this guy
Speaker 5: is what's his sleeve must be like thirty nine inches
Speaker 5: and his en scene must be. THIRTY eight, i mean,
Speaker 5: long arms, long, legs strong, you know could. Leverage you
Speaker 5: and That's What clays campbell reminds. Me of that type.
Speaker 5: Of Guy too tall played end. And tackle campbell's pretty
Speaker 5: much a. Defensive tackle and we're joined Now By. Dylan fairchild.
Speaker 5: Perfect timing what about playing against, this, DUDE man, i
Speaker 5: mean what does he look like on tape.
Speaker 3: Right right on par with him what. He is he's,
Speaker 3: a big.
Speaker 16: Long dude he's been doing it for a. Long time,
Speaker 16: yeah no you guys are doing a. Great job he's
Speaker 16: like walking off.
Speaker 3: To us so.
Speaker 2: All RIGHT so i am up on the stage now
Speaker 2: here at the On The rhine eatery with the starting
Speaker 2: left guard On the Bengals First super bowl team and
Speaker 2: the guy who's going to be the starting left guard
Speaker 2: On the. BENGALS next i love It super. Bowl team
Speaker 2: hopefully sometime in the next year, or two please welcome
Speaker 2: our special guest for the final hour of our, show
Speaker 2: Today rookie Dylan.
Speaker 3: Fair. Child, nice, yeah man that'd. Be.
Speaker 5: Great love i'd love to welcome you to the Fraternity Of.
Speaker 5: Super bowl we didn't win the, damn thing so hopefully
Speaker 5: when you go, next year you guys bring. The trophy
Speaker 5: absolutely It'll be the parade will. Be ridiculous the parade
Speaker 5: will be off the off the, hook man The city
Speaker 5: cincinnati will.
Speaker 3: GO nuts, I know i'm excited. For it it's. GONNA
Speaker 3: happen i hear what's going.
Speaker 2: TO happen i love doing this show when we have players,
Speaker 2: join us regardless. Of Position but it's especially fun for
Speaker 2: me when we have offensive linemen because with, lap here
Speaker 2: the fraternity of offensive lineman is unlike. Anything else there's just,
Speaker 2: you know from having gone through it as he did
Speaker 2: for twelve years as a pro and now you are
Speaker 2: doing it as. A rookie there's a language, you speak
Speaker 2: there's a respect that's automatically there for guys to do
Speaker 2: what you do in.
Speaker 5: The, trenches, absolutely, Absolutely YEAH and i will say the respect.
Speaker 5: IS huge i think that that's the that's the one
Speaker 5: thing that's fraternity is a good way to. Describe IT
Speaker 5: but i know the sacrifices you have. To, MAKE man
Speaker 5: i know what you what you're going through at this
Speaker 5: stage of.
Speaker 3: The season.
Speaker 5: It's tough it's, a, grind man it's a it's a.
Speaker 5: Daily GRIND and, i know uh, you know mentally, and
Speaker 5: physical it's a. Daily GRIND so i respect what. YOU'VE
Speaker 5: done i respect what you've done as a. COLLEGIATE player
Speaker 5: I mean sec best in, college football, That's, Right georgia
Speaker 5: georgia best IN.
Speaker 4: The.
Speaker 5: SEC see i mean you've already achieved an extremely high
Speaker 5: level and there's gonna be.
Speaker 3: A lot more for you here IN.
Speaker 16: The nfl, THANK you i absolutely feel the same way,
Speaker 16: about you, YOU know i mean, you guys you guys
Speaker 16: are went through it back in those days where it
Speaker 16: was a lot different, Than now so.
Speaker 3: That's true it.
Speaker 5: WAS that, I mean i've played was fortunate enough to
Speaker 5: play against right NEXT to i, should say a guy
Speaker 5: by the Name Of anthony munyah and you, know absolutely
Speaker 5: and so he's he's. Come in uh he's good Friends
Speaker 5: With scott peters And Worked scott peters out. And EVERYTHING
Speaker 5: and i know he's, Had you anthony come in and
Speaker 5: talk to you guys and show you guys some stuff
Speaker 5: after practice.
Speaker 3: And everything and he was he was the.
Speaker 5: Best man he's The best i've.
Speaker 3: Ever seen he.
Speaker 5: Still is, you know he's In the Hall, of fame
Speaker 5: First ballot Hall.
Speaker 3: Of famer.
Speaker 5: Great, human being great person, as well who's got a,
Speaker 5: great family great wife. And children it's it's. All good
Speaker 5: he's very very high, on you by, the way very
Speaker 5: excited than much what you bring TO.
Speaker 3: The, la hello.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right we're going to take a. Time
Speaker 2: out We've Got dylan fairchild with us for the. Next
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Speaker 2: game at payc stating Between the bengals And The. Arizona
Speaker 2: cardinals we have a very special guest joining us in
Speaker 2: the final hour of, The show Bengals Rookie, dylan fairchild
Speaker 2: who has been starting from day One At. Left guard
Speaker 2: your rookie year is winding down Now. At georgia you
Speaker 2: played into this time of year. And beyond but how
Speaker 2: are you doing physically as year one comes to. An
Speaker 2: end it's.
Speaker 3: Been good it's.
Speaker 16: Been good we've had some, you know the, yearly struggles,
Speaker 16: you know just with some. SMALL things I think i
Speaker 16: missed two games, so far, you know knock, on wood.
Speaker 16: No more, but no it's been, really good. YOU know
Speaker 16: i mean it's been a blessing to to just keep
Speaker 16: going just late in, the season. You know, so yeah
Speaker 16: it's been.
Speaker 5: REALLY good i know we've Talked About, scott fairchild, Excuse
Speaker 5: Me scott Peters Your greg fairchild's offensive. Line coach first
Speaker 5: year with. The team just, Like you i'm impressed. WITH
Speaker 5: him i think he's, got, solid sound, fun mentals techniques that,
Speaker 5: he's TEACHING and I think i, think, that uh, you
Speaker 5: know he's he's putting you in, a good, good situation
Speaker 5: Good good he's given you tools for the toolbox to
Speaker 5: go out and. Perform well how have a couple of
Speaker 5: Veteran Guys ted carriss at the, Center Position orlando brown
Speaker 5: and left tackle on either side, of you how have
Speaker 5: they helped you get through your rookie year and and.
Speaker 16: Uh, you know learn and growth man. Tremendous ways both of.
Speaker 16: Those Guys lucas patrick is. Another one dalton coming in has. Been,
Speaker 16: huge yeah it's been huge from all of them really
Speaker 16: just across. The board ted has done a great job
Speaker 16: of being like just the leader of.
Speaker 7: The unit.
Speaker 16: You know orlando is another leader of a, unit Too
Speaker 16: but ted has just done a great job just being
Speaker 16: vocal at least, with me just teaching me, the ropes
Speaker 16: like showing me the ropes of just the ins and
Speaker 16: outs of being. A player just the discipline that. It
Speaker 16: takes Right in, orlando again like just to go with
Speaker 16: that as like the confidence, YOU know i mean obviously
Speaker 16: he plays. Left tackle you got to be confident to.
Speaker 16: Do that and he does a great job of just
Speaker 16: showing me in and out each week in, and out,
Speaker 16: be confident, you know and everything that. You do so
Speaker 16: just having both those guys And then lucas again with
Speaker 16: like the just the veteran tips and tricks of the
Speaker 16: trade that you don't you know sometimes you, Don't know
Speaker 16: yeah you're playing in. Snow games i'm Again, from georgia from,
Speaker 16: the south like not used to that and they're really
Speaker 16: they're they've done a great job of just like taking
Speaker 16: me under. Their, wing really all all four of those
Speaker 16: GUYS that i named or have done a. Great job
Speaker 16: so So it's.
Speaker 2: Christmas week it's become customary IN the nfl for quarterbacks
Speaker 2: To get christmas gifts for their. Offensive lineman your Quarterback
Speaker 2: is joe burrow who goes above and beyond at least
Speaker 2: when it comes to finding. Something, unique absolutely last year
Speaker 2: he gifted the offensive lineman. SAMURAI swords i didn't know
Speaker 2: how he is going to top that, this YEAR and
Speaker 2: i guess. He has he got you, guys.
Speaker 3: Fossils, sir yeah they were pretty. Awesome too what is?
Speaker 2: Your fossil because, they're unique they're not all, The.
Speaker 3: Same no. THEY'RE not i got A t rex tooth really. Tooth,
Speaker 3: fossil yes it's honestly one of the Coolest things I've
Speaker 3: ever that's probably the Coolest thing i've ever had. POSSESSION of, i.
Speaker 2: Mean talk about a conversation piece when people visit. Your
Speaker 2: house what? Is that that is A t rex tooth
Speaker 2: gifted to Me by Joe.
Speaker 16: Burrow man it was A t rex tooth and then
Speaker 16: ANOTHER three d printed REPLICA of i believe the most
Speaker 16: put together t, rex fossil the most put together skull
Speaker 16: of a t rex that, they have and obviously the
Speaker 16: real thing is like probably two hundred. Plus pounds so
Speaker 16: you sized, it down, gave it, you know, got it,
Speaker 16: you know to take. HOME size i, got that this
Speaker 16: tooth and then another claw of another dinosaur.
Speaker 3: That Lived In north africa approximately sixty million. Years.
Speaker 2: Ago, amazing yeah unique to say, the least.
Speaker 5: NO doubt i just wonder what what?
Speaker 2: IS there.
Speaker 5: I just wonder what it's the thought Process when Joe
Speaker 5: decides i'm gonna give fossils and dinosaur teeth and all
Speaker 5: that sort of thing to my. Offensive linemen what what
Speaker 5: do you think he's thinking when.
Speaker 2: Man and he.
Speaker 16: GIVES that i think he, loves THEM and i can
Speaker 16: see why they're, really cool like again the really cool. Conversation,
Speaker 16: starters yeah, NUMBER one i just think they're. Really cool,
Speaker 16: you know there's not a lot of people in the
Speaker 16: world that can put their hands on so walk in
Speaker 16: the streets with those, those things, you know and, so.
Speaker 3: Him, you know giving us a unique opportunity to own
Speaker 3: one of those has been. Really, Cool actually so, You.
Speaker 2: Know joe was featured On that netflix quarterback series during the,
Speaker 2: off season and on one of, the episodes he discussed
Speaker 2: his interest. In fossils so it's something that he's always
Speaker 2: had an interest in and and now he's sharing that with.
Speaker 4: His.
Speaker 3: Guys, yeah no it's really.
Speaker 16: Cool too, you know it's he went above and beyond
Speaker 16: with just the way that he did it and the
Speaker 16: way that, you know it was all.
Speaker 2: Put together so you're a married man AS an, nfl
Speaker 2: rookie what was your wife's reaction when you called or
Speaker 2: came home, and said, guess, what honey we have. A
Speaker 2: fossil we HAVE a. Tx fossil she.
Speaker 16: WAS excited i mean SHE'S obviously i probably found it
Speaker 16: cooler than, she did, but no she's she's all. FOR it,
Speaker 16: i mean we're gonna get a nice display case and
Speaker 16: put him up in. Our, house, so so what was
Speaker 16: the reaction of your teammates when you guys got the
Speaker 16: fossils and, they didn't.
Speaker 2: Oh last stirring. IT up.
Speaker 5: I think they just they. Were, STUNNED yeah i bet
Speaker 5: THAT'S what i was my. First reaction dan. Mentioned, it,
Speaker 5: so man that's that's. Just, stunning man THAT'S just, i
Speaker 5: mean how would you come up, With that how would
Speaker 5: you think about that and put?
Speaker 2: That together What Did kenny anderson give you back in
Speaker 2: the day left there were? Some, beer yeah Cases, of.
Speaker 5: Yeah he had a distributorship and uh yeah he would
Speaker 5: he would load. EVERYBODY down I think I think kenny
Speaker 5: consumed his first beer when he was like eight. YEARS
Speaker 5: old i mean he he was a beer drinking guy
Speaker 5: MAN The. Tv illinois uh Went To, tiny augustana gets
Speaker 5: drafted By The cincinnati bengals in the, third round, and
Speaker 5: yeah he's.
Speaker 2: Drank a lot of beer while you guys are, rooming together.
Speaker 3: NO doubt i was just.
Speaker 5: Road for nine YEARS and i can't count the number
Speaker 5: of beer cans that were thrown away and or consumed
Speaker 5: and crushed.
Speaker 3: Or whatever.
Speaker 2: So you two guys were involved in a offensive lineman
Speaker 2: dinner fairly RECENTLY where i hate to use the term
Speaker 2: old TIMERS lap i, apologize right definite offensive lineman from
Speaker 2: before dined with the current offensive. LINE group i think
Speaker 2: that's such a cool tradition that started. Last year Anthony
Speaker 2: bo Lunos And ted carriss kind of got the, ball
Speaker 2: Rolling and i'm sure that's something that's going to continue
Speaker 2: for years.
Speaker 16: To come do you guys enjoy, That, Absolutely, YEAH no.
Speaker 16: I was the food, was great, you know. Number one
Speaker 16: BUT something i noted was you guys played for. So,
Speaker 16: LONG man i mean some of these guys are, sixteen thirteen,
Speaker 16: you know. Twelve years, i'm, like man these.
Speaker 3: Guys tough.
Speaker 16: You know that was my biggest, takeaway, was man these guys.
Speaker 16: Are TOUGH so i mean playing for twelve plus years.
Speaker 5: IS yeah, I mean i really tip of the Cap
Speaker 5: To anthony Munos And anthony, Winhos Foundation ted karrafs and.
Speaker 5: HIS foundation, i mean they're they're they're kind of like the.
Speaker 5: Impetus there they spearheaded. The THING and i think, it's
Speaker 5: great and, You know. I'm fortunate And then i'm down
Speaker 5: there every DAY and i get to know, you guys meet.
Speaker 5: You guys but it was so cool to see you
Speaker 5: guys Like With, Max Montoya, Brian blado's pruschwheimer's all these
Speaker 5: guys that don't get a chance to meet you. Like
Speaker 5: that and uh and really we're very very thankful and
Speaker 5: appreciate the opportunity to meet.
Speaker 16: You guys so Are we absolutely so we felt the.
Speaker 16: Same way so me and you guys, meeting legends so absolutely.
Speaker 2: TELL and i want to tell you something about this
Speaker 2: guy that you might. Not know lapp was playing WHEN
Speaker 2: the usfl came. Into existence it was kind of the
Speaker 2: first spring professional. Football league and in his final year With,
Speaker 2: the bengals he went directly from playing A full, nfl
Speaker 2: season taking like two weeks off and STARTING the. Usfl
Speaker 2: season so it was how many? Games laft like thirty
Speaker 2: two games in? One, year yeah.
Speaker 5: We played we Played sixteen cincinnati In twenty we got
Speaker 5: all the way to the championship game IN The.
Speaker 2: Usa Professional football games in one YEAR.
Speaker 5: And i was thirty two. Years old.
Speaker 16: THAT'S insane, i mean that's a different level of just
Speaker 16: mental physical toughness that.
Speaker 3: You know guys today in. TODAY'S world i don't know
Speaker 3: if they could.
Speaker 5: Do it My wife lynna's here in the in the
Speaker 5: audience today for, the show and, SHE remembers i couldn't
Speaker 5: put my hands up on my head and put my.
Speaker 5: HANDS together i.
Speaker 3: Couldn't touch it, WAS like i, BELIEVE you i mean that.
Speaker 16: Sounds, crazy yeah it was thirty games. Is, outrageous yep
Speaker 16: you live to tell.
Speaker 4: The tale.
Speaker 3: He does.
Speaker 2: He does, all right we're gonna take a time out
Speaker 2: when we come back we will hear from offensive Line
Speaker 2: Coach scott peters on our, Special Guest. Dylan fairchild this
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Speaker 2: the Morning. On sunday our special guest for the final
Speaker 2: hour of our show today Is the bengals starting Left Guard,
Speaker 2: dylan fairchild a rookie out Of the University of georgia
Speaker 2: selected in the third round of the draft. This year
Speaker 2: let's hear from authentsive Line Coach scott peters On the
Speaker 2: bengals Selection Of. Dylan fairchild we did obviously did a
Speaker 2: lot of work in the draft looking at, you know
Speaker 2: every guard that was conceivably available for, the draft and
Speaker 2: one thing that really stood Out with dylan is is
Speaker 2: his just, his size, athletic ability in his, Play strength
Speaker 2: he's he's one of the Strongest people i've ever tied,
Speaker 2: up with, very strong he's a. Great kid, he's humble,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 17: He works, Very hard he's, extremely TOUGH and, i think,
Speaker 17: you know all that stuff for, this dimensions this, physical
Speaker 17: nature the way he plays, extremely hard those are the things,
Speaker 17: that we, you know really stood out. To me, YOU
Speaker 17: know i think he can set a firm anchor. In
Speaker 17: there he's got the tools to, play long which is
Speaker 17: something we emphasize as.
Speaker 4: In protection he's got good.
Speaker 17: Feet, to MOVE and, i, think uh, you know he's
Speaker 17: got all the tools you're looking for in, a player especially,
Speaker 17: a guard. You KNOW so i think for, for us
Speaker 17: it was a no brainer at that point, In, time
Speaker 17: uh just To take DYLAN because, i think, you KNOW like,
Speaker 17: i said he has all the trades so that you're
Speaker 17: looking for in an.
Speaker 4: Elite guard so We.
Speaker 2: Heard scott, peters say one of the Strongest guys i've
Speaker 2: ever tied. Up with he Is a brazilian jiu jitsu
Speaker 2: world champion still looks like he. Could lay he's. Incredibly
Speaker 2: fit what was that like in the pre? Draft process
Speaker 2: how did he tie up?
Speaker 16: With?
Speaker 2: You what what exactly happened when he?
Speaker 3: Came There he Uh.
Speaker 16: To georgia obviously we, Did proda, we did, you know all.
Speaker 16: THE stuff i had like a slight tweak in, my
Speaker 16: CALF so i didn't run. Or ANYTHING so i just
Speaker 16: DID like o line drills. And stuff and, he uh
Speaker 16: basically like collar tied me and just tested my anchor
Speaker 16: in that way where he could push pull me in
Speaker 16: a way where he's testing, my neck my, back strength.
Speaker 16: My EGS how i use, you know your hips to
Speaker 16: kind of pop back and, anchor down, YOU know I
Speaker 16: mean i thought the same thing.
Speaker 3: To, HIM man i, was, like man this guy get,
Speaker 3: played today so you know, he's yeah he's he's a
Speaker 3: he's a. Man's man so doubt.
Speaker 5: That's a good great description, of HIM because, I mean
Speaker 5: i mean for him to SAY when i tied up,
Speaker 5: With him i'm, thinking this this. Dude's strong one of
Speaker 5: the Strongest people I've ever i've ever, Worked With like dan,
Speaker 5: WAS saying i mean these ju jujitsu heavyweight wrestling, wrestling
Speaker 5: champions no.
Speaker 3: Joke, man, no yeah. He's.
Speaker 5: Not yeah and for him, to say you know that
Speaker 5: you were of, that caliber you know you, you were
Speaker 5: you were somebody that, tested him that that that, speaks volumes,
Speaker 5: AND uh, I like i agree. WITH him i think
Speaker 5: you're going to be around.
Speaker 3: This league for a. Long, time well. THANK you i
Speaker 3: HOPE so i PRAY that i do.
Speaker 2: So absolutely there's a very famous Story in bengals history
Speaker 2: When the bengals were about To draft Anthony. Munio is
Speaker 2: he been injured quite a bit during his CAREER, at
Speaker 2: Usc So forrest gregg was the head coach at. The
Speaker 2: time he wanted to go out and you Don't Like
Speaker 2: scott peters, was saying get his hands. On him so
Speaker 2: he did a little bit of a kind of a
Speaker 2: pass blocking Drill and anthony muny has knocked him on. His,
Speaker 2: Butt Yeah And forest greig, was like, ALL right i got.
Speaker 2: My guy could you sense a little bit of that
Speaker 2: of That with scott that when you tied up with
Speaker 2: him and showed your strength that maybe he, Was, LIKE
Speaker 2: okay i kind of Like what i'm, Seeing here.
Speaker 3: I'd.
Speaker 16: HOPE so, I mean I honestly i had, no idea,
Speaker 16: YOU know i was just going through doing the drost
Speaker 16: of the best of, my ability and, you know again
Speaker 16: like try to have be a goldfish and forget, you
Speaker 16: know if you've made a mistake, or not, you know
Speaker 16: if you did good.
Speaker 3: Or not, YOU know i just continue to move forward
Speaker 3: and just hope for.
Speaker 16: The best at, that point the draft is not in
Speaker 16: a player's hands. At, all yeah was his. Hands off
Speaker 16: that's the scary part. Of it it's like your future
Speaker 16: is out of your.
Speaker 3: Control.
Speaker 5: Totally right Anthony Had hudson HAWKE at usc who was
Speaker 5: Like a jim McNally of college football for, offensive lineman
Speaker 5: very very uh revolutionary with his techniques and fundamentals and
Speaker 5: all that sort. Of thing So, when anthony, You Know
Speaker 5: jimmy nowley went out there And, WORKED anthony i, was,
Speaker 5: like jeez, you know we've got to bring. HIM in
Speaker 5: i got to bring him in for for, you know
Speaker 5: pro day before the draft And Have forrest gregg get
Speaker 5: his hands on. Him too And So jim, jimmy's like,
Speaker 5: you know take, Your sets anthony like you did AT
Speaker 5: uh usc for me and put a jam, on coach, you.
Speaker 5: Know unforced that's where he knocked. Him for he knocked
Speaker 5: him on his back And Then forrest forrest was a
Speaker 5: world champion With The Green. BAY packers i mean Just
Speaker 5: when barney said the toughest football player he ever had
Speaker 5: had on the privilege. Of Coaching so forrest, is like,
Speaker 5: all right well let's do. This Again so anthony knocked
Speaker 5: him out, his back so, you know it's then on.
Speaker 5: HIS knees i mean it was Like, He uh anthony
Speaker 5: was such a dominant physical presence coming OUT of usc
Speaker 5: man six three hundred and five and ten pounds and
Speaker 5: just very, very smooth cat quick, you know change the.
Speaker 16: Direction, stuff yeah you can, Tell too like when you watch,
Speaker 16: his film, you know like he was just, absolutely physical,
Speaker 16: dominant player, you know physically just.
Speaker 3: Just, very gifted could. Do, ANYTHING yeah i mean his hands.
Speaker 5: Are big they, are man big old muckers on him
Speaker 5: does and have you seen. His, dislocation yeah they're going
Speaker 5: the wrong way and they're never. Coming back, it's, like.
Speaker 5: UH unbelievable. I know, i mean he can he can
Speaker 5: hit your ride going, multiple directions, you know you know
Speaker 5: it's like oh that and and he can the thing
Speaker 5: just kind of hangs A dislocation i Look, at yeah
Speaker 5: it's just like every. Everything's normal except for.
Speaker 3: That one that.
Speaker 5: Third finger the way, it's going it's got a mind of.
Speaker 2: Its own did you watch tape of? Him here have
Speaker 2: you done that? This year just watching?
Speaker 3: Previously highlights?
Speaker 12: And?
Speaker 2: Yeah right so you have a tremendous wrestling background from
Speaker 2: your high, school days undefeated state champ your last couple.
Speaker 3: Of years.
Speaker 2: We we joked about this in an interview earlier. THIS
Speaker 2: year i, asked you what's the fastest pin you've? Ever
Speaker 2: had and you kind of chuckled because one guy more
Speaker 2: or less. Gave up he didn't even want to scrap.
Speaker 2: With you, He's like i'll, lay down, Go ahead but
Speaker 2: how does that wrestling background and that experience help?
Speaker 17: You?
Speaker 3: Out man in so? MANY ways i think the FIRST
Speaker 3: thing i got to talk about is just like the
Speaker 3: mental side.
Speaker 16: Of it wrestling is a. Hard sport it's a. Gritty
Speaker 16: sport and football, is too, you know especially IN. The
Speaker 16: nfl it's a, long SEASON and i find myself many
Speaker 16: times just going back and thinking about like my, days wrestling,
Speaker 16: you know like how many SUNDAYS did i not want
Speaker 16: to go to practice or, you know do the hard
Speaker 16: things that you got? To do how many times do
Speaker 16: you want to drink water when. You can't so again
Speaker 16: like just going back to those those days and mentally
Speaker 16: it's just been it's been really good, for me. YOU
Speaker 16: know i think that is probably the number one thing
Speaker 16: that it does for a human is just make you,
Speaker 16: mentally tough makes you resilient to. Just life, you know
Speaker 16: life is life is random and. It's hard so it's
Speaker 16: it definitely taught me a lot of lessons in. That
Speaker 16: regard and another thing is, just leverage, you know using your,
Speaker 16: your hips your, your shoulders, your hands like understanding the
Speaker 16: feel of, you know the balance it takes to just
Speaker 16: be an you know lap can attest to like it's
Speaker 16: you got to, be balanced especially in. Pass pro, you
Speaker 16: know you can't run blocking to you can't get to,
Speaker 16: head heavy, you know pass per you can't get to
Speaker 16: head heavy and you're battling in the trenches with these big,
Speaker 16: giant freaks, you know so you've got to be able
Speaker 16: to use, your leverage use your natural strength.
Speaker 5: And ability so wrestling definitely taught me that. For sure
Speaker 5: how did wrestling make you a better? Football player what
Speaker 5: were the things that you took from wrestling in maybe
Speaker 5: the mental physical toughness story and. THE conditioning i mean.
Speaker 5: GET wrestlers I MEAN i i mean not watching them
Speaker 5: in high school and watching them, In, college like these
Speaker 5: guys are just. UNBELIEVABLY committed i DON'T think i could
Speaker 5: do everything these guys do to make sure that they're
Speaker 5: able to wrestle on a. Weekly basis, you know it's
Speaker 5: like it's. It's unbelievable where does that commitment?
Speaker 9: Come?
Speaker 3: From?
Speaker 5: What what what's where does that desire? Come from and
Speaker 5: how did wrestling help you become a better?
Speaker 3: FOOTBALL player, I mean i think IT'S just i, did it,
Speaker 3: you KNOW since i was five. Years old i've been
Speaker 3: doing both both SPORTS since i was five. YEARS old
Speaker 3: i stopped wrestling obviously in high school at, the end
Speaker 3: at the end right en rolling.
Speaker 16: In COLLEGE but i did it for, So long like
Speaker 16: the desire to do it and the desire to just
Speaker 16: pursue hard athletics was was always. IN me i never
Speaker 16: really questioned like why, Or how it just.
Speaker 3: Was there.
Speaker 16: You know my father did a great job of just
Speaker 16: raising me to just be, a individual, you know so
Speaker 16: he did a. GREAT job i had a lot of
Speaker 16: mentors around me that were really really good. To me
Speaker 16: my high school, wrestling coach my club coach were really
Speaker 16: really good to me and just showed me how to be,
Speaker 16: a man, you know like how to be how to, be,
Speaker 16: strong tough resilient and just have these TRAITS that i
Speaker 16: try to carry every day.
Speaker 6: With me.
Speaker 16: And, THEN yeah, i know and and again like the. Wrestling,
Speaker 16: part physically like your training muscles that are you can't,
Speaker 16: really train, you know like, your hips flexers and your,
Speaker 16: you know things within your groin and your stomach and
Speaker 16: your just, you know, your obliques like the things that got,
Speaker 16: you know us big guys like we don't really think
Speaker 16: to train, that, stuff right but it, definitely helps. You
Speaker 16: know it's, your stabilizers the things that allow you to
Speaker 16: again like keep, your balance keep, your leverage keep your
Speaker 16: feet in, the ground, you know as, you, know yeah
Speaker 16: like all, those, THINGS man i mean it's it's it's
Speaker 16: one of the best things THAT.
Speaker 3: That i did.
Speaker 5: SO well, i mean all, your dad all your coaches
Speaker 5: at the high school and, collegiate, level man they have
Speaker 5: to be very proud of the man that you turned
Speaker 5: out to be because you are as was. Man's man
Speaker 5: there's no question. About that you'd be A man's Thank, You, dad,
Speaker 5: yes sir.
Speaker 2: As you were growing up as, a wrestler were you
Speaker 2: in weight classes where you, had to for lack of a,
Speaker 2: better expression starve yourself and make weight and stuff, like
Speaker 2: that or were you a heavyweight where that wasn't as
Speaker 2: big of.
Speaker 16: AN issue i, Wrestled heavyweight so my SENIOR year i
Speaker 16: came into high school like two twenty and heavyweight's two.
Speaker 3: Eighty FIVE so i wrestled up for probably.
Speaker 2: Two, years okay two guys, much bigger.
Speaker 3: Much, bigger yeah.
Speaker 16: Much BIGGER and i struggled my freshman sophomore year just
Speaker 16: again like getting more developed physically and just, YOU know
Speaker 16: I mean i was a young young kid at, the
Speaker 16: time so just like hitting the, gym hard drinking protein every,
Speaker 16: single day creating all the stuff that you, can do
Speaker 16: just physically trying to, develop myself. You KNOW and i
Speaker 16: think that helped them. OUT too I mean i would
Speaker 16: go to practice and then hit the gym right after
Speaker 16: And as i'm not getting home till eight o'clock. Eight
Speaker 16: thirty and then my mom was a really good, Cook
Speaker 16: too so those.
Speaker 2: Late post high school, sports dinners those are some of
Speaker 2: my favorite memories coming home from high school Practice and
Speaker 2: mom's got that that huge dinner waiting for, you exactly
Speaker 2: even this flappy high school cross, COUNTRY runner i did
Speaker 2: that with the best. Of Them, All right we're gonna
Speaker 2: take a. Time out when we, Come back dylan is
Speaker 2: starting on the offensive line with A former, georgia Teammate
Speaker 2: A Marius Mimms, big boy who gave him a Nickname At.
Speaker 2: Georgia pickle we will get the origin story Of the
Speaker 2: pickle nickname From A marius mims when. We continue this
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Speaker 2: week it's been awesome being Here on. Friday afternoons hope
Speaker 2: to be back. Next year it's been very convenient for
Speaker 2: the players joining us for the final hour of the
Speaker 2: show and rioting our special, Guest Today. Dylan, fairchild SO
Speaker 2: as i, mentioned before the. Commercial break one of his
Speaker 2: teammates started with him At the University, of georgia, right
Speaker 2: Tackle A, Marius mims and we learned On draft Day
Speaker 2: that amrius gave him The. Nickname PICKLE so I approached
Speaker 2: amarrius this week to get the. Origin story How Did
Speaker 2: dylan Fairchild? Become pickle Here's A. Marius mims so it's
Speaker 2: CRAZY how i.
Speaker 18: Guys STARTED so i just remember coming in our freshman year,
Speaker 18: OF college i just started giving everybody. Nicknames man so
Speaker 18: first It Was. BROCK bowers i, don't know he got
Speaker 18: a haircut and they messed up. His hairline He's, from
Speaker 18: california you know they probably cut different. OUT there i
Speaker 18: looked at HIM and, i, said dang you Like. A
Speaker 18: stanley and that name is stuck with, him forever like
Speaker 18: since my. Freshman Year todd monkan started Calling. Them stanley
Speaker 18: everybody team started calling. Him standing we still Call. Him
Speaker 18: STANLEY so i just Looked at diller. ONE day i
Speaker 18: think he said something crazy in the. MEETING room i, Was,
Speaker 18: LIKE dylan i, was like let me find let me
Speaker 18: find a good nickname.
Speaker 4: For Him then.
Speaker 5: PICKLED stuff i don't know how HE got i don't
Speaker 5: know how.
Speaker 18: It happened he said something CRAZY and, i said just
Speaker 18: stop being a pickle or something, like THAT and i
Speaker 18: just DROPPED the D and i just started Calling. Him
Speaker 18: pickle and THAT'S how i. Got started he said something
Speaker 18: crazy in. THE meetings i forgot what, he said but
Speaker 18: it was our. Freshman Year matt luke was our whole.
Speaker 18: LINE coach I just i just came up with The.
Speaker 18: Name pickle and that's just how it. Got, Started man
Speaker 18: i've been calling him that. Ever since, it's weird, BUT
Speaker 18: yeah i gave him And brock bowers nicknames and. They
Speaker 18: STUCK and I still i CALLED stan I. Called stanley
Speaker 18: stanley's name of my Phone, is Stanley and dylan's name
Speaker 18: my Phone. Is pickle so that's just this IS how
Speaker 18: i got started. As wild but that's, that's it.
Speaker 2: All right there you have it From a. Marius Mems
Speaker 2: brock bauer's got a bad Haircut became stanley as. A
Speaker 2: result you apparently said something in a meeting that led
Speaker 2: him to Call you pickle d which has been Shortened,
Speaker 2: to pickle and he continues to Call you pickle to.
Speaker 3: This day, he does. HE Does i. I'M shocked, I
Speaker 3: mean i didn't. Remember That so i'm glad. He did
Speaker 3: do You Call Brock?
Speaker 16: BAUERS stanley? I, DO yeah. I, do yeah that pretty
Speaker 16: much All of mems'. Names suck so he has a
Speaker 16: knack for coming up with the nickname.
Speaker 3: He does he.
Speaker 5: Definitely does there's always one teammate, that does, you know
Speaker 5: there's always one that has to the, quick mind.
Speaker 4: You know, AND.
Speaker 5: Yeah I Mean kenny anderson had nicknames, for everybody and
Speaker 5: he had A Nickname, Bob Johnson, bob trumpy all, those,
Speaker 5: guys uh, you know back in. The day so it's
Speaker 5: it's a. Big fraternity, it's unique. YOU know, i mean
Speaker 5: it's it's a bond that will be there for our.
Speaker 5: Entire life nobody will be able to break, that, Bond,
Speaker 5: RIGHT no.
Speaker 3: I know and people to this day, they're like why are?
Speaker 3: You nicknames, i'm, like man you got To.
Speaker 16: Ask mems it just goes way back and it's like
Speaker 16: again the fraternal feeling of being on the.
Speaker 3: Football, team yeah.
Speaker 2: You, know so so what do you Think of amarus
Speaker 2: and the way that he's played in HIS second nfl season?
Speaker 3: This, YEAR man i think he's. Done great.
Speaker 16: You know, he again like he's one of those guys
Speaker 16: kind of like men know is just he's just a physical,
Speaker 16: you know he's a free and again like he's as
Speaker 16: long as we always like kind of make jokes like
Speaker 16: mems is twelve yards away from, the queue and that's
Speaker 16: that's what you love to see from. Your tackles and
Speaker 16: he does a, great job, you know week in and
Speaker 16: week out of just attacking each week as it is
Speaker 16: and just a.
Speaker 3: Physical specimen. You know it's THE day i, MET him i,
Speaker 3: was like.
Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh like this.
Speaker 16: Guy is we all had that reaction the first time
Speaker 16: we saw him face to. Pay out that's what, you want,
Speaker 16: YOU know, i mean that's what you want from. Your
Speaker 16: tackles and both of ours have done a great job.
Speaker 5: So far so with those two tackles that, You've Got
Speaker 5: orlando Brown And. Amarus Mims scott peters your new offensive
Speaker 5: line coach his first year with, The Team amarus min's
Speaker 5: first year as, a starter second year with, the Team
Speaker 5: And orlando brown the. VETERAN guy, I Mean scott peters
Speaker 5: is got a. Great reputation jim McNally Worked With scott
Speaker 5: peters and kind Of Taught scott peters Everything that jim
Speaker 5: McNally knows which is a lot about fundamentals and techniques.
Speaker 5: And everything How Is scott peters how's he doing developing the?
Speaker 5: Offensive line you guys, have youth you, have experience you,
Speaker 5: have talent you get everything that takes to be a
Speaker 5: great offensive line IN.
Speaker 3: The.
Speaker 16: Nfl, yeah no he's done a great job, so far
Speaker 16: at least with. ME personally, i mean, you know when
Speaker 16: we're breaking down, our film we're watching our stuff for
Speaker 16: very precise with just some things that we want to critique.
Speaker 16: And fix, and again like he says it all, the
Speaker 16: time like be gritty with how good you. Can GET
Speaker 16: and i that's kind of hit my brain. The most
Speaker 16: and and again like just go goes down to the
Speaker 16: fundamentals and techniques and when we work on those every,
Speaker 16: single week, YOU know i DON'T think i mean we
Speaker 16: say it all. The time it's like nobody does it
Speaker 16: as much as. We do and just playing long Kind
Speaker 16: of i'm sure you heard earlier in the clip, he,
Speaker 16: said uh just, playing long like that's something THAT that
Speaker 16: i have particularly tried to work on this entire season
Speaker 16: and going to continue to, work on, you know just
Speaker 16: in pass pro specifically playing long and then even in the,
Speaker 16: run game finding ways to play long create space for
Speaker 16: our guys to fit into our double teams with us
Speaker 16: in the in the zone plays and just repping repping
Speaker 16: stuff one the one.
Speaker 5: After another ONE thing i noticed about all you guys
Speaker 5: are intentional too about what. You're doing, you know what
Speaker 5: what technique you're, gonna work what what technique you're, Gonna
Speaker 5: EMPHASIZE and i mean everybody has. A, plan uh everybody's
Speaker 5: body is diff, you know like, You Said summer longer
Speaker 5: can use that length the link techniques and fundamentals that he.
Speaker 5: Talks about, but, mentally physically you guys are so intentional
Speaker 5: it's it reminds me of Like how jim McNally wanted us.
Speaker 5: To be and you Guys With scott peterson cut from the.
Speaker 16: Same, cloth, yeah, No absolutely and he does a really
Speaker 16: good job too of custom tailoring for. Each GUY and
Speaker 16: i think that's really important because each athlete, is unique
Speaker 16: you KNOW what, I mean that's kind of what makes
Speaker 16: you a ligne is a blend of just, unique athletes
Speaker 16: and like what WORKS for mems may not WORK for ob,
Speaker 16: as well what WORKS for ob may not WORK.
Speaker 3: For mems and then Me and Dalton or Jalen and ted.
Speaker 16: Vice versa, you know so he does a really good
Speaker 16: job of just custom tailor and guys techniques and just.
Speaker 3: The fits that we want to have in double. Team specifically,
Speaker 3: you know he does a.
Speaker 2: Great job so it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 2: in the Sixties on sunday for the home game Against.
Speaker 2: The cardinals last week it was in the Seventies. In
Speaker 2: miami but the week before that ten degrees win chill.
Speaker 2: Minus one the week before that Snowy. And buffalo what
Speaker 2: were those cold weather games like? FOR you.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed i enjoyed most. OF them i think.
Speaker 16: The painfully cold one was, on here no doubt it
Speaker 16: was a very, cold one but it was, you know
Speaker 16: obviously we didn't we didn't do what we wanted to do,
Speaker 16: that day this past Game.
Speaker 3: In cincy but, you know it's been it's. Been good
Speaker 3: it's been fun and.
Speaker 16: SO far, i, mean Again like i've had a lot
Speaker 16: of guys around me that have taught me a lot
Speaker 16: of great techniques and tricks to the trade of just
Speaker 16: how to stay warm and how to stay sweaty when
Speaker 16: you need, to be, you know and, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's been. Really GOOD so, i mean it's.
Speaker 5: BEEN fun i hear, You, football uh football should, be fun,
Speaker 5: YOU know i mean it's a uh, it.
Speaker 3: Is Yeah and i've.
Speaker 16: Realized too IN the nfl it's such a it is
Speaker 16: most definitely a cold. Weather, sport yeah, you know especially IN.
Speaker 16: The nfl you know you're getting these late months and
Speaker 16: it's he gets colder. Every WEEK so, i mean this
Speaker 16: is an outlier, this, week, Which right i'm Thankful for.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be what sixty?
Speaker 2: And, sixties, yeah crazy and then nineteen the. Next, DAY
Speaker 2: unbelievable a forty, degree draw a Plummet. ENJOY sunday i will,
Speaker 2: all right we're gonna take a time out when we.
Speaker 2: Come Back dylan fairchild is fifteen games into his. Rookie
Speaker 2: year we'll hear from Head Coach zach taylor and Offensive
Speaker 2: Coordinator dan pitcher on how he's done. So far this
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Speaker 2: back On the Bengals Pep rally show Presented By Just.
Speaker 2: Bared chicken our special guest today is Offensive Lineman, dylan
Speaker 2: fairchild approaching the end of an excellent. Rookie season let's
Speaker 2: hear from Head Coach zach taylor And Offensive dan pitcher
Speaker 2: on their View of dylan's first year With. The bengals Play.
Speaker 3: Twin Orlando and ted has been really good.
Speaker 8: For him played with really good physicality and, you know
Speaker 8: seeing a lot of stuff over the course of, the
Speaker 8: season being able to, be AVAILABLE and i think he's
Speaker 8: got a really.
Speaker 7: High ceiling but it's gratifying after spending, you know close
Speaker 7: to a year with him that he's the person that
Speaker 7: we thought we, were getting because that's that's always such
Speaker 7: a critical element when when it comes to, player acquisition is,
Speaker 7: you know not only the player on, the field but
Speaker 7: the person and are they made of the?
Speaker 2: Right things are they going to be able to? Overcome
Speaker 2: adversity and when.
Speaker 7: It doesn't look good and it, feels ugly does that
Speaker 7: propel them to make positive changes or does that do
Speaker 7: they go in? The tank and all the things we
Speaker 7: felt about him that we're going to allow him to,
Speaker 7: HAVE success i think have. Been confirmed and now it's
Speaker 7: just about the hard day, to day week, to week
Speaker 7: year to year work to become the best player he.
Speaker 7: Can BE but i think he's got a very bright
Speaker 7: future and he'll be a really good starting guard in
Speaker 7: this league for a.
Speaker 2: Long time telling you strike me as somebody who enjoys?
Speaker 2: The grind is?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 16: Accurate, absolutely, Yeah ABSOLUTELY and i mean that's exactly What
Speaker 16: coach pitch, was saying was just it's about what you
Speaker 16: do day.
Speaker 3: To day, you know year to year is, big picture
Speaker 3: but you, know again like the day to day thing is.
Speaker 5: Is huge, So absolutely is there anybody on the on
Speaker 5: the current roster With the bengals did that's an example in,
Speaker 5: That regard that's a positive one that you. Can emulate,
Speaker 5: you know somebody that just, day in day out loves
Speaker 5: the grind looks forward to? The grind is there is
Speaker 5: there a player that you can pattern yourself after a?
Speaker 4: Little?
Speaker 16: Bit Man ted carris is one of. Those guys it's
Speaker 16: like he's just. A Beast i mean people, are like
Speaker 16: how do, you know what do you Think? About ted,
Speaker 16: i'm like he's Just a he's. An animal, you know
Speaker 16: he's on your ten and he's. DOING this i see him.
Speaker 16: Every day he hits his, warm up he hits his pre.
Speaker 16: PRACTICE routine i mean it's like clockwork every. Single DAY
Speaker 16: and i mean he's a great to, look too to
Speaker 16: to just see how how do you make it ten
Speaker 16: years in. The LEAGUE and i mean you look at
Speaker 16: what he does preat practice and, pre game and i
Speaker 16: mean every, single time, you know it's it's the little
Speaker 16: stuff that he. Does too it's like every time somebody
Speaker 16: goes down in, A game, i mean he goes down and,
Speaker 16: he'll pray and it's, you know it doesn't matter who,
Speaker 16: it is if he knows him. OR not, i mean
Speaker 16: he's just he's routine with everything that. He DOES and
Speaker 16: i mean that's Something that i've like really taken. From
Speaker 16: Him and, i'm, like Wow that's i'd, envy that, you
Speaker 16: know like in a. Good, Way yeah it's.
Speaker 3: Very, IMPRESSIVE yeah i mean and and he's he's great.
Speaker 2: At it so you lived with him for a, little
Speaker 2: while describe how that.
Speaker 16: Came about that, Was, AWESOME yeah. I KNOW he i
Speaker 16: mean as SOON as i, got drafted he immediately. Called
Speaker 16: me he told, me said lock my. Number in, You
Speaker 16: Know i'm i'm. The center so, and he, you know
Speaker 16: again welcomed me with open arms and did a great
Speaker 16: job of just kind of introducing me to.
Speaker 3: The plays just day by day we would go over.
Speaker 3: Certain stuff, nothing crazy but just like the basics of
Speaker 3: what we. Do here and and it.
Speaker 16: WAS great I mean i had a. Great time he's.
Speaker 16: Very welcoming my my wife insisted that we got him
Speaker 16: a BASKET to i would hope that.
Speaker 3: Was.
Speaker 2: Nice yeah absolutely his house for a.
Speaker 3: Little.
Speaker 16: While, Absolutely, yeah no he's he's a. GREAT man i
Speaker 16: mean he. Really is so, you know what he does
Speaker 16: with this foundation, is great. It's amazing, All right.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go way off, topic here way off Of
Speaker 5: pob corinthians ten.
Speaker 3: Thirty, one, yes sir what's?
Speaker 16: That about that was my, First TATTOO and i, YOU
Speaker 16: know i was at church, ONE day, i Believe for
Speaker 16: easter with my dad and that had came across the
Speaker 16: board and just kind of hit me in. The face
Speaker 16: and it's Something that i've tried to live by for
Speaker 16: the rest For since i've really. Seen it it's rather
Speaker 16: eating or drinking and do all things for the Glory.
Speaker 3: Of God h it's a. Good, message, Yeah absolutely and
Speaker 3: it's SOMETHING that i try to just live by and just,
Speaker 3: you know not just with, my words but.
Speaker 6: With.
Speaker 16: Example yeah and so that's is Something that i've always
Speaker 16: tried to keep. With me so absolutely.
Speaker 2: Tattooed prominently on your.
Speaker 3: Right, leg, yea, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes sir got some other INK elsewhere.
Speaker 16: I do i've got some of. My arms i've got
Speaker 16: a lion. Right here i've got a picture of me and.
Speaker 16: My father my grandfather loved to, take pictures and he
Speaker 16: passed away a few. Years ago And then i've got
Speaker 16: a dove, right here and then a clock with, three hands.
Speaker 5: With, three hands what's significance?
Speaker 3: Of that?
Speaker 16: The, signet so my wife was in a car wreck
Speaker 16: at the time, eleven eleven and she her and her
Speaker 16: brother both walked. Away unscathed and it was by the Grace.
Speaker 16: Of god they had flipped like probably four times, five
Speaker 16: times and it was just by the Grace. OF god,
Speaker 16: i mean they they they walked, away unharmed.
Speaker 3: You know and then the.
Speaker 16: Number seven god works in the. Numeral seven and then
Speaker 16: again like you can't tell the time on, the clock
Speaker 16: so you don't know the day or the hour that he.
Speaker 16: Will return so that is the significance. Of That And
Speaker 16: i'm i'm VERY happy i get THEM because i, You
Speaker 16: know i'll look at them SOMETIMES and i REMEMBER why i. Got,
Speaker 16: them yeah, you know THAT'S why i try to always get.
Speaker 16: A meeting there's a message. With everyone, absolutely yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2: All right we're going to take our final. Time out
Speaker 2: when we, come back we Will play america's favorite. Game
Speaker 2: show we Call It Know. YOUR school i have five
Speaker 2: questions About the University. Of georgia we must get at least,
Speaker 2: three rights all right to be declared.
Speaker 3: A winner i feel confident.
Speaker 2: LIKE that i. Like confidence, of course you're a, recent grad.
Speaker 2: Which helps. That's right some of these guys it's, you
Speaker 2: know been nine or. Ten years they're, like, Really what so.
Speaker 2: We'll see we'll come back and Play With dylan fairchild when.
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Speaker 2: School segment thanks to Our Engineer mike mills for setting.
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Speaker 2: who came out to be with. Us today we always.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you thank you so much time. To play know.
Speaker 2: YOUR school i have five questions About the University of
Speaker 2: georgia for Former Bulldog. Dylan fairchild he needs to get
Speaker 2: at least three right to be. A winner he has
Speaker 2: already declared. His confidence question. Number one georgia has Had
Speaker 2: Two heisman. Trophy winners name at least One. Herschel Walker
Speaker 2: herschel walker. Is Correct dave, Lapham Blockform oh jersey.
Speaker 3: Generals, here, yeah wow he.
Speaker 2: Was on you've.
Speaker 3: Seen him I'VE seen, i mean you're talking about a.
Speaker 5: Specimens man it's like you's an. Anatomy chart, You know,
Speaker 5: it's like what?
Speaker 3: The hell unbel.
Speaker 2: His Highlights, Frank sickwitch by, the way is The Other.
Speaker 2: GEORGIA trophy i have. NO idea i only wrote down.
Speaker 2: The name question. Number two there is a structure On
Speaker 2: the University of georgia, campus that according, to tradition you're
Speaker 2: not supposed to walk under until. You graduate what is?
Speaker 2: That structure the arch? Is correct or arch is you
Speaker 2: are two? For two working named the iconic alternative rock
Speaker 2: band that Featured four University of, georgia's students including Lead Singer.
Speaker 2: Michael stipe THIS one i might.
Speaker 16: Struggle with, oh man you said alternative. Rock band the
Speaker 16: audience is TRYING to i.
Speaker 3: CAME here I wish i could.
Speaker 2: The, Corner dude so my religion. R em oh, ALL
Speaker 2: right i Wouldn't have guess you've got two left to
Speaker 2: get one. Right right naming The former georgia basketball star
Speaker 2: Nicknamed The Human, highlight reel who is a Nine Time,
Speaker 2: all star a Two Time Slam, dunk champion and whose
Speaker 2: number twenty one is retired By The. Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 3: Not anthony Uh Not. Anthony edwards no man on basketball
Speaker 3: asking wrestlers. Basketball questions, that's hard that's hard.
Speaker 2: For men is playing For?
Speaker 3: The, bulldogs NOW damn i should.
Speaker 2: Know this then he's a freshman, this year so he
Speaker 2: didn't overlap, with you.
Speaker 3: And he played For. The hawks played For the hawk.
Speaker 2: Were, tremendous no not even More Than Michael, Jordan Eira.
Speaker 2: Larry Bird Michael, JORDAN eira i Don't Think, dominique wilkins,
Speaker 2: all right got to get the. Final one.
Speaker 3: What do?
Speaker 2: You have a forty unbelievable maybe the best. Hunker ever.
Speaker 2: I'm real what is the Name of george's live? Bulldog
Speaker 2: mascot correct?
Speaker 5: Hood bugger.
Speaker 2: You got enough right. To win you officially know. Your,
Speaker 2: School Congratulations, Dylan.
Speaker 5: Fairchod, congratulations, yes sir, all.
Speaker 2: Right we are just out of just about out. Of
Speaker 2: time we really appreciate you coming out and doing. This
Speaker 2: today congratulations on a great. Season today hope you and
Speaker 2: your wife have a tremendous. Off season Kick the cardinals
Speaker 2: Tales this sunday and do the same To The cleveland browns.
Speaker 3: Next, week, yes sir thank you so much for. Having
Speaker 3: me let's hear It for Dylan.
Speaker 2: Fair, job sure, all right It's the Bengals and cardinals
Speaker 2: coming Up. On sunday it's a one clock kick At Pay.
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Speaker 2: Drew wester heidi and our Special Guest. Dylan Fairchild I'm.
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