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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bengals pep Rally Show,
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Speaker 4: on the Bengals Radio Network. Waynebox Miller, Dave Lap. I'm
Speaker 4: glad to have your bored as we get ready for
Speaker 4: another big game against the New England Patriots and a
Speaker 4: lot to talk about today. We're going to have a
Speaker 4: guest from the Boston Globe that covers the New England Patriots,
Speaker 4: Nicole Yang. We'll hear from Zach Taylor just a second, yeah,
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco a little later, and we've got your fantastic
Speaker 4: fun facts and all that. But Lap, a big weekend
Speaker 4: is sports in this town. We've got uh Saint X
Speaker 4: and Elder playing down at pay Corps and our Dan
Speaker 4: horr Is calling the U C u of L basketball
Speaker 4: game a rivalry I wish would come back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm telling you, man, Rivalries are are special. You know,
Speaker 5: It's that's what h That's what gets the blood flowing,
Speaker 5: no doubt about it. And rivalries like the Bengals, uh,
Speaker 5: in the in the National Football League that they thrive
Speaker 5: on rivalries and every division A FC North with the
Speaker 5: Bengals and the Steelers, the Bengals and the Ravens, the
Speaker 5: Bengals and the Browns, those games all are significant fan
Speaker 5: base response in both both cities. You know, there's a
Speaker 5: lot of pride involved. If you sweep a division rival,
Speaker 5: that's a big deal. Big and uh, you have to
Speaker 5: wait next till next year to make restitution for it,
Speaker 5: you know, if you're if you're the one that got swept.
Speaker 5: So yeah, good, good action, good stuff. At every level,
Speaker 5: high school football, the playoffs, Elder X, that's that's tradition
Speaker 5: right there. I mean there's two schools that have been
Speaker 5: around a while, and two schools and know how.
Speaker 4: To do it and do it well. Man, Well I
Speaker 4: got my Saint X I on. I'm unapologetically sat X
Speaker 4: was good to me and hopefully I was good to
Speaker 4: say X. I think it's great. I just think it's
Speaker 4: great for the kids to be on an NFL field.
Speaker 4: It's a county stadium in part. Uh so you know,
Speaker 4: we all contributed to that and just the joy. I'm
Speaker 4: sure some of these kids didn't sleep last night thinking
Speaker 4: about I'm going to be in that end zone where
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase called the ball or T Higgins went up
Speaker 4: or you know something like that. That's big.
Speaker 5: I got to play at Fenway Park all night in
Speaker 5: state playoffs, and it's like, not only that's that's what
Speaker 5: the Boston Patriots in Boston Red Sox sheared Fenway Park,
Speaker 5: and when they reconfigured the stadium, you.
Speaker 4: Couldn't move the Green Monster.
Speaker 5: I mean, the Green Monster was there. The Green Wall
Speaker 5: was hanging there. So uh, you know, when the Patriots played,
Speaker 5: you knew where you were, you knew, you knew who
Speaker 5: you were in Boston. But to play I remember I
Speaker 5: was never so excited in my life as it was
Speaker 5: before that football game. Yes, just because, oh man, think
Speaker 5: of all the great Tim Williams played here, Tony played here,
Speaker 5: you know for the Red Sox, and then uh, you know,
Speaker 5: Babe Perilli Jim Nance. I mean, great play, Larry Garron,
Speaker 5: another running back, great players for the then Boston Patriots
Speaker 5: played there, and it's like it means something, it means
Speaker 5: a lot, and you're right, it's it's like, I wonder,
Speaker 5: I know what side of the field the Boston Patriots were,
Speaker 5: what side of the field they had for home games,
Speaker 5: and if you were on that side of the field
Speaker 5: for the playoff game you were if you were a
Speaker 5: home team, Wow, you're in high cotton, man. You thought
Speaker 5: you thought you were something special.
Speaker 4: It is indeed special when we wish both teams the
Speaker 4: best to really good coaches and it's fun for the
Speaker 4: city again. U of l uc basketball, Dan Horde is
Speaker 4: doing the Playboy play with that and that's been a rival.
Speaker 4: He goes back to the Missouri Valley Conference and things
Speaker 4: of that nature impact Kelsey from Cincinnati, Kelsey cheval At
Speaker 4: is Dad and the whole ninth. So it's just great
Speaker 4: sports weekend here in Cincinnati, you know. Lap. One of
Speaker 4: the things I wanted to talk about real quick, people
Speaker 4: make a note the Buffalo Bills game has been changed
Speaker 4: from four to twenty five to one o'clock. So for
Speaker 4: those who've kind of planned out your football season. That
Speaker 4: game has been moved to one o'clock and they're moving
Speaker 4: another game instead up four to twenty five slid. As
Speaker 4: a matter of fact, the Steelers and Ravens are at one,
Speaker 4: the Bills and Bengals are at that, but they move
Speaker 4: the Bears Packers game to four to twenty five. So
Speaker 4: again the movement and the chess pieces of rotating around
Speaker 4: man because you know, it's about ratings and revenue, but
Speaker 4: it's also about great matchups. So it's good to see
Speaker 4: of them do that. But we were talking at the
Speaker 4: beginning of the year, all of us collectively, there was
Speaker 4: a four game stretch that this team was going to
Speaker 4: have to deal with. And it starts Sunday. The Patriots,
Speaker 4: the Ravens, the Bills and the Ravens. Those are four games,
Speaker 4: big grown men games.
Speaker 5: Absolutely no question about it. I mean, that's you look
Speaker 5: at that. I mean, Buffalo Baltimore, Jets, Miami Dolphins. That's
Speaker 5: the Patriots twenty twenty five schedule for them as they
Speaker 5: go down the stretch. So this game against the Cincinnati
Speaker 5: Bengals is big Cincinnati, then the Giants and they have.
Speaker 4: A bye week.
Speaker 5: Buffalo Baltimore Jets Miami down the stretch this Bengals game.
Speaker 5: I mean, if they if they don't win this football game,
Speaker 5: they're coming back to the pack a little bit. And
Speaker 5: that's what the Bengals are hoping. The Bengals are hoping.
Speaker 5: Just take it one at a time, right, one game
Speaker 5: at a time. See if you can turned the worm
Speaker 5: a little bit even the playing field. Certainly nobody has
Speaker 5: thrown in the towel. That's not happening. No, no, And
Speaker 5: I expect I expect a very very competitive football game
Speaker 5: this weekend. Man first gonna fly down there at Paul
Speaker 5: Brown Stadium. I mean, Mike Vrabel, he's old school box.
Speaker 4: We know that, Yes it is.
Speaker 5: I mean this guy, he's all about physicality, he's all
Speaker 5: about old school football. And uh you know he he'd
Speaker 5: played when there was no face masks. That's that's when
Speaker 5: he respected the game.
Speaker 4: Of the leather helmets and the old guy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: The interesting thing is I went back because I remembered
Speaker 4: the last time he faced his team, the school was
Speaker 4: nineteen sixteen. The Bengals knocked them out of the playoffs.
Speaker 4: He was the number one seed, and that was when
Speaker 4: people started to realize how big the fan base was
Speaker 4: Bingle Gym and a few other guys went down to Nashville.
Speaker 4: They had about five thousand people down there. I remember
Speaker 4: the visuals, yeah, but the being where you know, he
Speaker 4: just got in the playoffs. Mike Rabel and the Titans
Speaker 4: and Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry, they're they're going to
Speaker 4: put him in the finals. They're going to play the
Speaker 4: Chiefs in the AFC Championship. Robert Stampton, Robbert Stampham and
Speaker 4: they get down there. Ryan Tannehill fifteen to twenty four,
Speaker 4: three interceptions, one touchdown. Joe Burrow was twenty eight to
Speaker 4: thirty seven, three hundred and forty eight yards, no touchdowns,
Speaker 4: one pick. But Joe Mixon had a good game. But
Speaker 4: it was the defense that gave Tannehill fits that game. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, you hold an NFL team to sixteen points
Speaker 5: in the playoff game, you've done a hell of a job.
Speaker 5: And mint Derrick Henry, that's a that's a grown man
Speaker 5: right there, that's a full grown man. I mean, by
Speaker 5: two and fifty pounds running back come, you know, flying
Speaker 5: up the up the football field that you and he's
Speaker 5: going full speed. It's a it's a challenge, challenge to
Speaker 5: get that big that big dude on the ground.
Speaker 4: They did.
Speaker 5: The Tennessee Titans that you were very very balanced. I mean,
Speaker 5: they had a good off it's the football team. They
Speaker 5: played very salty defense, they had quality special teams. They
Speaker 5: were they.
Speaker 4: Were and had a receiver name A. J. Brown is
Speaker 4: now in Philadelphia. How they made that trade, I will
Speaker 4: never know, but Philadelphia is certainly happy about.
Speaker 5: That, absolutely, and he's still hanging around. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: that's a.
Speaker 4: Lengthy career, particularly at that position, a wide receiver position.
Speaker 4: You remember that game, If I remember correctly, Tennessee had
Speaker 4: what four, five, six, seven, eight and a half sacks
Speaker 4: in that game? I believe it was they were They
Speaker 4: were after Joe Burrow a lot that game, and it
Speaker 4: just looked like neither team could get tracks because we
Speaker 4: had what four field goals in that game, and then
Speaker 4: Joe Mixon scored the touchdown. But that that was a
Speaker 4: physical Clyde Simmons and that, I mean, they're just on
Speaker 4: both sides of the football. There were some grown men
Speaker 4: out there, there were, you know, and it was a
Speaker 4: red zone battle. You know.
Speaker 5: The Bengals scored one touchdown. Uh Tennessee the same thing,
Speaker 5: you know. I mean everything else was field goal, you know.
Speaker 5: So you know, once they got into that short field,
Speaker 5: moved the football. Fine, okay, get into the red zone,
Speaker 5: inside the twenty low red zone, inside the ten yard line.
Speaker 4: They put the walleup.
Speaker 5: Man slammed the door. They say, now you got to
Speaker 5: settle three. You're not gonna You're not getting seven points. Man,
Speaker 5: this is the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yes, And the reason I brought this game up because
Speaker 4: the New England team last year is not the New
Speaker 4: England team this year. It's more like this team right
Speaker 4: that they played back then. Because Mike Vrabel's stamp is
Speaker 4: already on this new team.
Speaker 5: I mean the Patriots. What they win four games last year? Yeah,
Speaker 5: and for them to turn it around like they have
Speaker 5: ten wins, I mean, come on, man, that's that's that's
Speaker 5: pretty amazing. I mean, Rabel put his stamp on this
Speaker 5: football team very early. And credit the players. They were
Speaker 5: looking for somebody to help them turn it around. They
Speaker 5: found the right guy. You gotta give bog Craft credit.
Speaker 5: He brought Rabel back. Rabel played there. Frabel was a
Speaker 5: great player for the Patriots then Boston Patriots. And I
Speaker 5: mean he he was tough man. He was a hell
Speaker 5: of a player. And uh and Bob Kraft said, you know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna, We're gonna, you know, bring bring you back,
Speaker 5: and uh, the spirit of the of the Patriots is
Speaker 5: going to increase. That place is a tough place to play.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately you don't have to, but I'm telling you, under
Speaker 5: Mike Rabel, the New England Patriots are back. And they
Speaker 5: got back in a hurry. I mean it was like
Speaker 5: turned it around in split second.
Speaker 4: And you know what laughing you were talking about that.
Speaker 4: I was looking at their numbers on the offensive side
Speaker 4: of the ball and what they do well. And and
Speaker 4: he is, like you said, an old school guy. He
Speaker 4: wants to run the football. They've got a young quarterback
Speaker 4: who many people were high on. He had the typical
Speaker 4: rookie you know, speed bumps. But this May kid man
Speaker 4: is really looking like the real deal. Looks comfortable back
Speaker 4: there in the pocket.
Speaker 5: Drake May is especial, you know. And uh, and you're right,
Speaker 5: Mike Rabel believes in balanced football. You know, run the
Speaker 5: ball and and uh, then you're gonna be able to
Speaker 5: throw the all effectively and efficiently complimentary football. You run
Speaker 5: the football, get that established, make the defense have to
Speaker 5: respect that and defend that running game. Then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, play action passing game opens up, and it
Speaker 5: opens up wide open. And uh and that's what the
Speaker 5: Norman Patriots are doing. They're they're playing complimentary football at
Speaker 5: its finest, offensively, defensively and special teams.
Speaker 4: No question about. It's gonna be a big game. Uh. Again,
Speaker 4: the bigger question we'll talk about later is we know
Speaker 4: that Joe's playing. Is it Joe cool or Joe calm right?
Speaker 4: We will, we'll figure that out. We don't know, I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know. We were talking to Zach Taylor to
Speaker 4: day he met with the media, just in conversation, obviously
Speaker 4: non committal. You listen to t Higgins yesterday, talked about
Speaker 4: just the joy on his face seeing Joe Burrow out
Speaker 4: there smile from here to ear. They can smile from
Speaker 4: here to ear. And I saw Joe Burrow today and
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow looked like a happy Joe Burrow. You know,
Speaker 4: the last few weeks we've seen him in the locker room.
Speaker 4: That guy wants to play.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: You talk about a guy that he's grumpy when he
Speaker 4: doesn't get to play no doubt. He's in his locker
Speaker 4: like you're almost like you don't want to speak to
Speaker 4: him because he's like, I'm just mad right now. I
Speaker 4: want to play football. But I've seen the happy Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's almost like, you know, he's being punished. You know,
Speaker 5: it's like, I can't do the thing I love. You know,
Speaker 5: dang it, I'm nicked up. And he has had a
Speaker 5: share of injuries, but I'll tell you what, every injury
Speaker 5: that he's had, significant injury, he's come back in less
Speaker 5: than half the time. This guy is unbelievable in terms
Speaker 5: of his body can recover and recuperate and rehab and
Speaker 5: he's so diligent about it and so focused and so
Speaker 5: committed to it. I mean, he was supposed to be
Speaker 5: out three months with this injury in his turf toe
Speaker 5: back in a month and a half.
Speaker 4: Well you know what they call Will. I think it's
Speaker 4: Will Anderson the linebacker, Houston the terminator. Yeah, get that
Speaker 4: to Joe Burrow. Man. Now you open this dude up.
Speaker 4: There may be some circuit boards and there and some
Speaker 4: transistors or something, because it's like he does come back
Speaker 4: no matter what you say. Is the quote unquote prognosis.
Speaker 4: He seems to come back in less time and to
Speaker 4: your point, highly effective, Like Okay, I'm back for real,
Speaker 4: I'm back and uh yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean his goal seems to be when I come
Speaker 5: back after the rehab process, I'm going to be a
Speaker 5: better Joe Burrow than when I got hurt. I'm going
Speaker 5: to rehab to the point where that that uh in
Speaker 5: that body part is going to be in better shape
Speaker 5: than it was when it got injured. And and that's
Speaker 5: that seems to be his commitment. I mean, his mindset
Speaker 5: is like you said, Box, He's tough mentally and physically tough.
Speaker 5: He's driven, he's committed and uh and he he is
Speaker 5: uber competitive, no.
Speaker 4: Question about it. We'll take our first break. We'll be
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Speaker 4: in the third hour. We'll be joined by tight end
Speaker 4: Eric All, the fair Field High product I went to Michigan, Iowa.
Speaker 4: A great young man, just somebody I've enjoyed being around.
Speaker 4: We'll have him in an hour. But as always, some
Speaker 4: of you may have heard it this week, some may not,
Speaker 4: but we always share with you and that's the pressure
Speaker 4: with Bengals head coach Zach Taylor. We'll do that right
Speaker 4: now and talk about it on the other side.
Speaker 7: You know, Dejon obviously hasn't gotten practice its training camp,
Speaker 7: so I think that one there's a lot of work
Speaker 7: that's got to go in there. He hasn't played football
Speaker 7: in a long time. Kasecki being out four weeks, I
Speaker 7: feel like he's a little ready to hit the ground running,
Speaker 7: So we'll see how he looks this week.
Speaker 8: I'll take you could get Mike back given that everything.
Speaker 7: It helps, given that situation to who's a guy like
Speaker 7: Jamar and I had one like Mike.
Speaker 9: Certainly helps use the pain a little bit and we'd
Speaker 9: be happy to.
Speaker 8: Have your reaction to obviously the suspension and then and
Speaker 8: then appeal being denied.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we we we gave him everything we had.
Speaker 7: They have held suspension and so as a team, we
Speaker 7: just got to move forward. You know, still support Jamar
Speaker 7: and I have support Jamar, but we got to focus
Speaker 7: on New England now and look forward to getting Jamorrow
Speaker 7: next back next Monday.
Speaker 10: Is that move for Dejon to be atbated because he's
Speaker 10: finally ready from injury standpoint, or just that you guys
Speaker 10: are hopeful in the next couple of weeks to see
Speaker 10: what he.
Speaker 11: Can do for you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was time to get him back, you know.
Speaker 7: And so again now he's he's healthy and so open
Speaker 7: up this twenty one day windows so we can look
Speaker 7: at him going into December.
Speaker 9: It's just it's time to do that, he said.
Speaker 12: His message to the receivers was, you know, a bunch
Speaker 12: of guys get an opportunity here with Jamorrow. What do
Speaker 12: you hope to see kind of in practice this week
Speaker 12: to figure out who's going to get those chances?
Speaker 7: Yeah, guys just taking advantage of the opportunity. Again, It's
Speaker 7: that's exactly what it is. That's how some guys have
Speaker 7: gotten their chances. That's how Mitch Tinsley has has gotten
Speaker 7: himself on the roster has taken advantage of moments where
Speaker 7: he's at, you know, and so again, I just think
Speaker 7: we'll continue to evaluate those guys. We got a good
Speaker 7: plan in place to utilize everybody we can. Then we'll
Speaker 7: see how guys continue to step up as a week.
Speaker 13: What challenges does.
Speaker 11: Drake May presenting? What do you think about him?
Speaker 9: I think he's done a great job.
Speaker 7: I mean, four to one touchdown interception is really impressive
Speaker 7: considering his second year, new coaching staff, you know, all
Speaker 7: that stuff you factor in. I think he's done an
Speaker 7: excellent job. Seventy two completion which is really impressive too,
Speaker 7: so he's doing everything right and leading the team to
Speaker 7: eight straight wins. I think he's just really impressive, and
Speaker 7: he's he's a tough challenge, but he guys taking care
Speaker 7: of the football like that, completing balls at a high
Speaker 7: rate like he is, twenty touchdowns five make plays with
Speaker 7: his feet as well, So he's really impressive in a
Speaker 7: difficult challenge for you guys.
Speaker 14: What did you see from Josh McDaniel's offense and run
Speaker 14: by Drake May?
Speaker 11: What is it about Josh.
Speaker 14: Mccamills that over the years has made him success.
Speaker 7: He does a great job attacking defenses a lot of
Speaker 7: different ways, staying patient, picking his moments for big opportunities explosives.
Speaker 9: It's hard to say how much offense they Carrie.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I've never really been with him, but they just do
Speaker 7: a good job with their game planning week to week
Speaker 7: and attacking, attacking what they think your weaknesses. And I'm
Speaker 7: always having some nice wrinkles in place. He's done it
Speaker 7: for a long time, a very high level, won a
Speaker 7: lot of Super Bowls, A ton of respect for Josh,
Speaker 7: and he's certainly getting a lot of the offense right now.
Speaker 14: Is a term that comes up a lot when his
Speaker 14: name comes up. You see where do you see any
Speaker 14: characteristics of a mesh offense with them?
Speaker 11: Run through the break.
Speaker 9: Offense, a mesh like the concepts.
Speaker 11: Like crossing receivers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think if he's get yeah, I mean that
Speaker 7: That's threw me on that one, and I didn't expect
Speaker 7: that question. I'm sure that shows up. That's not what
Speaker 7: I necessarily think of right.
Speaker 9: Out the gate.
Speaker 13: Sat. You know, a game against a good New England
Speaker 13: team with a good record, I think is going to
Speaker 13: demand always going to demand attention.
Speaker 3: Of whoever that the team is playing.
Speaker 13: I just wonder because of the unique circumstance of you
Speaker 13: guys having one of the coveted like primetime games the
Speaker 13: following Thursday on Thanksgiving Night, they're like any usefulness and
Speaker 13: maybe telling the guys focus on this one, don't. I know,
Speaker 13: the idea of looking ahead beyond this doing the team
Speaker 13: is insane, but like, don't look ahead just because we
Speaker 13: have this, you know, Thursday night game coming up.
Speaker 7: No, I am had a competiity to do that for
Speaker 7: one second. I think they're pretty well focused on the.
Speaker 9: Joe Flaco feelings.
Speaker 7: If he won't practice today, same schedule as we've been
Speaker 7: on the last couple weeks, and.
Speaker 11: That's just mean it's normal, Yeah, Bill practice, Yes, well
Speaker 11: he definitely start on Sunday.
Speaker 7: We'll keep working through it, you know, and see how
Speaker 7: we go through the week. Is that their scenario that
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow Joe Burrow hasn't practiced seven on eleven yet, So,
Speaker 7: like I said the other day, until we get through
Speaker 7: some practice, there's no reason for me to even speculate
Speaker 7: on that.
Speaker 12: Well without Flacco, like Wednesday kind of be Burrow's day,
Speaker 12: and then Thursday kind of Flaco's day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you can certainly get a lot of
Speaker 7: work in with Joe today, Joe Burrow today because Flacco's
Speaker 7: not practicing, because the plan has been getting into eleven
Speaker 7: and eleven, so it works well, we're not trying to
Speaker 7: balance a guy who is going to practice on a Wednesday, Joe,
Speaker 7: Joe Flacco hasn't done that. We got to think of
Speaker 7: another way to communicate this because the two Joe's that
Speaker 7: really is just this is getting harder and harder every
Speaker 7: week that passes. But so we'll get through today and
Speaker 7: it's just get start to get you out there in
Speaker 7: eleven on eleven.
Speaker 9: See how it goes well.
Speaker 11: Joe Burrow to eleven on eleven today. Think he might,
Speaker 11: he will, He'll do it today.
Speaker 13: New England's gotten a lot of praise for the job
Speaker 13: that they've done and the rebuild of the entire team,
Speaker 13: but specifically on defense.
Speaker 11: Obviously that's for able. You know, bread and butter and
Speaker 11: you look at you played them last year. What's the
Speaker 11: biggest change you've seen in the defense this year?
Speaker 9: Yeah, impossible to compare. That was that was a week one.
Speaker 7: It's such a unique thing because they had a new
Speaker 7: staff last year to year ensure, so that that one
Speaker 7: doesn't to me even count.
Speaker 9: I think that he's just done a great job. It's
Speaker 9: it's it's.
Speaker 7: Similar enough to what they did in Tennessee, but there's
Speaker 7: some differences, you know, and so again I think spending
Speaker 7: time away for a year, however you look at it,
Speaker 7: it's they've done a good job. There's some things that
Speaker 7: stayed the same that they're really hard nose playing defense.
Speaker 7: They do the they do the simple things really well.
Speaker 7: There's a physicality to them for sure. That shows up.
Speaker 7: You know, There's there's a couple of guys that have
Speaker 7: been with Grapele in the past that he brings along
Speaker 7: and some of the guys that they added from around
Speaker 7: the league, and then the guys that have been there
Speaker 7: that they continue to grow within the organization. So it's
Speaker 7: a challenging defense. They do a really good job. It's
Speaker 7: not even a team that that overall has. They won
Speaker 7: eight in a row, so you normally look at the
Speaker 7: turnover battle and think, Okay, they're dominating. The term of
Speaker 7: they're not. There's zero you know, it's even for them,
Speaker 7: and so that that's an impressive way to win eight
Speaker 7: in a row when there's been games where it's where
Speaker 7: it's plus or minus, but we're all at zero, and
Speaker 7: so I think that that's just pretty impressive that they've
Speaker 7: been able to do what they do with the rector
Speaker 7: they have. That tells you that they're playing really sound
Speaker 7: foot in all three phases.
Speaker 11: I think we asked on Monday, Ryan is getting closer.
Speaker 9: He'll be doubtful this week.
Speaker 12: You asked a lot about the defense on Monday and
Speaker 12: things you want to fix going into this week. There
Speaker 12: any like positive example you've the staff is pointed to
Speaker 12: and said, like, your's what we wanted to look like somethings.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's a lot of great examples on
Speaker 7: first and second down, what we won and got them
Speaker 7: to where we wanted and didn't necessarily finish all the time.
Speaker 7: There's times we did there was a there's a physicality
Speaker 7: there that I thought, Like I said, I thought the
Speaker 7: linebackers did a good job from an operational standpoint. So yeah,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of things to build on that I
Speaker 7: think had been better than the weeks before. That's not
Speaker 7: our standards, not let's just be a little bit better,
Speaker 7: It's it's we want to completely raise the standard for
Speaker 7: a whole team, but there were some things that we
Speaker 7: got to continue to build on.
Speaker 13: Ohsa, I got a little dinged up at the beginning game.
Speaker 11: Obviously finished the game. Will he be out there Today's Yeah.
Speaker 7: There's guys of course that always get deemed back in
Speaker 7: the games, and we'll manage them through the week.
Speaker 9: But he's in good shape.
Speaker 15: It makes it to the NFL are shying away from challenges,
Speaker 15: But a team that's won eight and rows, that's something
Speaker 15: that you actually enjoy. That's something that you want to
Speaker 15: go after and try to snap that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 7: I mean, you kind of know what our mentality has
Speaker 7: been over the last couple of years, and these opportunities
Speaker 7: are fun ones, you know. It's it's all these games
Speaker 7: are meaningful. They've obviously they're in a really good rhythm
Speaker 7: and they've earned that, and so it's it's a great
Speaker 7: opportunity for us to to find our rhythm, you know,
Speaker 7: to go out there and challenge them and put our
Speaker 7: best foot forward and see how it all falls. Get
Speaker 7: some momentum after this game. Well, you're you're communications limited.
Speaker 7: I mean I talked to him immediately after the game,
Speaker 7: but then since then, you can't have communication with him,
Speaker 7: which is tricky, but again he and I are in
Speaker 7: the same page with everything.
Speaker 9: I'll just keep that with me and Jamal.
Speaker 11: When does that end you talk post games?
Speaker 7: I think it's I'm not sure if it's four pm Monday,
Speaker 7: sometime on Monday.
Speaker 13: What do you what would your expectations for him be
Speaker 13: during this no contact?
Speaker 9: Can't talk to him, so I'm not speculating.
Speaker 8: What have you seen from from Charlie Jones and you
Speaker 8: think that he could potentially give you?
Speaker 7: I think Charlie's got a lot of confidence in our offense.
Speaker 7: So again, he's waiting for his opportunity. We've been really
Speaker 7: healthy at the spot, you know, so there hasn't been
Speaker 7: a lot of opportunity take advantage of. So I think
Speaker 7: this is one of those moments where where guys have
Speaker 7: an opportunity to make a name for himself. And we'll
Speaker 7: keep working through that for practice and see what it
Speaker 7: ends up on Sunday.
Speaker 8: I asked you Monday and you said you evaluated every day.
Speaker 8: Do you anticipate any starting lineup changes on defense?
Speaker 9: We'll keep working through this week. Thank you?
Speaker 4: All right? That was Zach Taylor talking about this game,
Speaker 4: and then some of the players obviously, you know, no
Speaker 4: which a lap is gonna tip their hand about their
Speaker 4: number one player, like Joe Burrow or whatever, because I
Speaker 4: got to speculate. Some run rampant to be all over
Speaker 4: the place, and hey, guys in the locker room, they'll
Speaker 4: be bombarded with the same old questions, and so it's
Speaker 4: best to just wait and find out. It's like a
Speaker 4: soap opera, you know, just let the drama unfold.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, the injury is, it's not
Speaker 5: gonna heal up any faster. If Zach Taylor says, yeah,
Speaker 5: he's gonna play on Sunday, you know it's not going
Speaker 5: to expedite the healing process. And bottom line is, you
Speaker 5: want to keep some things to yourself anyway, because if
Speaker 5: you have really good football players that you know aren't
Speaker 5: gonna be able to play, but you don't want the
Speaker 5: world to know they aren't gonna be able to play,
Speaker 5: you don't want to make an announcement about it. Just
Speaker 5: let you know, the injury, recovery and rehab take its
Speaker 5: course and let it.
Speaker 4: All play out, No question about it. We'll let it
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Speaker 11: We ask you this every week, but how are you
Speaker 11: dealing with this?
Speaker 3: I feel good? Yeah, I really do.
Speaker 16: I'm starting to feel pretty good, U you know, with
Speaker 16: just what's going on the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 16: the rest of the body's holding up well, so I
Speaker 16: can't complain.
Speaker 15: You've played a lot of cities, a lot of environments,
Speaker 15: a lot of fan bases.
Speaker 11: What stands out about your five weeks here?
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 16: Well, I think just being and being in Ohio like
Speaker 16: and you can just tell you know how much football
Speaker 16: you know, means to people in this part of the country,
Speaker 16: and you know, from the time they were probably young.
Speaker 16: So everybody has that that good knowledge of football, and
Speaker 16: you can tell they care about it a lot, and
Speaker 16: they have those expectations and and they get themselves excited
Speaker 16: to come in and cheer for us in those games.
Speaker 16: I've played here a good amount, and honestly, I probably
Speaker 16: missed that part of it a little bit, you don't,
Speaker 16: you know. But when when you're here and you know,
Speaker 16: you kind of walk around the city and you know,
Speaker 16: you get to see people from here, you can tell
Speaker 16: how into it they are, just with the little who
Speaker 16: days on, you know, on the side of the road
Speaker 16: and things like that. I'm not quite sure how to
Speaker 16: respond yet. I still feel a little funny saying.
Speaker 3: It, but but I'm getting there.
Speaker 6: So I built up a rapport throng with Jamar and
Speaker 6: team somewhat de Andre because he's the third.
Speaker 17: Guy that.
Speaker 11: Reps you got me with some of those other guys
Speaker 11: in Miche Jones.
Speaker 16: Yeah, well, you know, not a ton, but I think
Speaker 16: when we have i mean, you know, teams, we've made
Speaker 16: some plays, you know, so uh, you know, you got
Speaker 16: to feel pretty good about it going in and uh,
Speaker 16: it's always cool, you know. Honestly, when when when these
Speaker 16: types of things can come up for whatever reason, Uh,
Speaker 16: because it's opportunities, you know, for for young players to
Speaker 16: come in and and show what they're all about.
Speaker 3: So I think only good can come from that. How
Speaker 3: did look Joe look good? Yeah?
Speaker 16: It's cool to see him out there, and you know, obviously,
Speaker 16: when you know you're both now taking reps and things
Speaker 16: like that, some conversations kind of happened and just like
Speaker 16: how do you see this versus that?
Speaker 3: But but yeah, Joe look good.
Speaker 11: It seems like you got a good rapport with Tea
Speaker 11: And I mean what I mean, you know, let's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we've all seen his radius. It's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's a little bit different. I've been. I've think
Speaker 3: you come in and you obviously have an.
Speaker 16: Idea you know, what somebody like him may be like
Speaker 16: and just from Afar, but when you get to see
Speaker 16: it up close and in person, it doesn't disappoint. You know,
Speaker 16: he has a lot of skills that, you know, make
Speaker 16: it very obvious why he is the player he is.
Speaker 17: Maybe when once you get to play with that, he
Speaker 17: might have changed, you know, he didn't.
Speaker 11: Even far that you.
Speaker 16: Oh, I think you probably see a taller guy that
Speaker 16: you know runs decent. You just assume he could probably
Speaker 16: go out for the ball and run down the sideline
Speaker 16: and do those kind of things. But I think just
Speaker 16: throwing slants to him and just you know, little things.
Speaker 16: I don't know what he ran and it is for you,
Speaker 16: but when he gets the ball in his hand, and
Speaker 16: the speed that he's able to keep kind of throughout
Speaker 16: his routes and when the ball's in the air, you know,
Speaker 16: through the catch point, like he looks like he's just moving,
Speaker 16: like you know, he's got that speed to him. I've
Speaker 16: thrown a couple crossing routes to him and practice that.
Speaker 16: I'm just like, whoa, Like, how fast is he going
Speaker 16: right there? Like he was really moving across that football field.
Speaker 16: So I think just the speed that he's had and
Speaker 16: in terms of his ability to catch balls underneath and
Speaker 16: make him big plays.
Speaker 3: And then I keep saying it.
Speaker 16: But his ability to attack the ball while the wilts
Speaker 16: in the air. It's a very subtle thing and sometimes
Speaker 16: you don't even know that that that's what he was doing.
Speaker 16: But he has a very good ability to go attack
Speaker 16: the ball in the air and make it be you know,
Speaker 16: you just make it look like maybe even a little
Speaker 16: bit better throw than it was.
Speaker 14: And he watched through that first, that that touch on
Speaker 14: y'all had, and kind of what the play was and
Speaker 14: kind of how that extended to him.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean he was just running a shallow across
Speaker 16: across the field. But I honestly had a lot of
Speaker 16: time on that play, so you know, I was able
Speaker 16: to stand back there for a long time and and
Speaker 16: then he just kind of saw me standing back there.
Speaker 16: We probably locked eyes slightly and he turned it up.
Speaker 11: So what would you been like to get to know
Speaker 11: off the field, Like, what's what's you like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were just laughing. I mean, this is I was.
Speaker 16: We were just walking in here kind of laughing a
Speaker 16: little bit because I was laughing as to how many
Speaker 16: nice cars we got in our parking lot over there.
Speaker 16: I would say, this is a pretty good collection of
Speaker 16: cars in terms of the teams that I've been on.
Speaker 16: And we were kind of just laughing about that because
Speaker 16: he's a part of that. Uh you know, you're you're well,
Speaker 16: I'm walking to my forward expedition and he's making the
Speaker 16: whole you know, he's making that whole parking lot like
Speaker 16: sound like it's going through the worst thunderstorm in the
Speaker 16: world while he's pulling out with his with his little things.
Speaker 16: So you know, it's it's been good. These guys are
Speaker 16: good guys. They're good football guys. But uh man, at
Speaker 16: locker room, it's a it's a cool spot. I mean,
Speaker 16: I can't share with you all the crap that we
Speaker 16: talk about because it's not appropriate, but it is. It's
Speaker 16: so much fun, even before we were going out to
Speaker 16: practice today, just the just the stuff that.
Speaker 3: We were you know, you.
Speaker 16: It's a very unique profession in the terms of what
Speaker 16: we get to talk about while we're on the job.
Speaker 4: So was there.
Speaker 8: A time in your career where you had that car?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 16: No, never, never, never indulged in any of that, And
Speaker 16: I don't.
Speaker 3: I still don't have the desire to.
Speaker 16: There's time like the furthest I go is like you
Speaker 16: go on the website and say what if? But you
Speaker 16: can never actually get any any anywhere past that.
Speaker 11: Well, you've signed a few contracts over the years here,
Speaker 11: you know, why not? Why haven't that? Why hasn't that?
Speaker 16: I don't think I fit in those things, for one,
Speaker 16: but all your I mean, all I would end up
Speaker 16: doing is getting in trouble if I had one of those.
Speaker 11: What kind of challenges does the defense like New England space, especially.
Speaker 18: In a game where you're not going to have a
Speaker 18: guy like Jamar to be able to exploit them with him.
Speaker 16: Well, I think they got a lot of talent and
Speaker 16: they're really well coached. I I think when you have
Speaker 16: a combination, then you gotta, you know, make sure you're
Speaker 16: all on all of the little details of everything that
Speaker 16: you do.
Speaker 3: You know, their head coach played there, you know, throughout.
Speaker 16: His career and kind of now now as the head
Speaker 16: coach of the Patriots, you know, he probably learned a
Speaker 16: lot of things from the type of culture that he
Speaker 16: grew up playing in that he was. That's he that
Speaker 16: he's able to bring to the team that he's now coaching,
Speaker 16: and just that culture in that mindset, uh, you know,
Speaker 16: of being physical and and being confident.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think it obviously shows in their team right now.
Speaker 11: Did you play against him?
Speaker 14: I know you overlapped, your career is overlapped for a
Speaker 14: brief time.
Speaker 3: But I assume we did. But I can't honestly tell
Speaker 3: you did you do you.
Speaker 14: See any the way they play defense is at all
Speaker 14: you can buildo frow that ship system.
Speaker 3: It's tough to say.
Speaker 16: I'm sure there's similarities there, but you know, it's tough
Speaker 16: to look back on all that we did and and
Speaker 16: say yes or no.
Speaker 11: What are you seeing Christian Solids?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know a good corner. Uh what's this his
Speaker 16: second year? So is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So third or third? So you know, he's he's
Speaker 3: still young.
Speaker 16: But I mean his ability to be physical and I
Speaker 16: think when you look at him, you know, the way
Speaker 16: he plays certain routes and where he likes to be,
Speaker 16: where he kind of likes to position himself.
Speaker 3: But but then he's also.
Speaker 16: Aware of you know, because he's positioned himself in this way,
Speaker 16: he's aware where the throw may be if you were
Speaker 16: to make one. So he's also you know, you can
Speaker 16: tell his thought about how he likes to cover guys
Speaker 16: and where he likes to be in terms in relation
Speaker 16: to you know, maybe the high shoulder, the low shoulder
Speaker 16: inside outside, and then the playoff of that.
Speaker 4: So all right, that's Joe Flacco. We'll take a quick,
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Speaker 4: from the Boston Globe covering the Patriots, Nicole Yang, Nicole,
Speaker 4: how are you today? Good?
Speaker 10: How are you guys?
Speaker 4: And we're doing fantastic. First and foremost, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 4: and let's dive right into it. Let's talk about this
Speaker 4: week of practice for a team that's looking for double
Speaker 4: digit ends this Sunday.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the Patriots this week welcomed back two key players
Speaker 10: on their offense, running back Ramandre Stevenson and wide receiver
Speaker 10: caseh On Booty. So overall they're looking pretty healthy. They
Speaker 10: obviously are missing Milton Williams who's on injured reserve, but
Speaker 10: otherwise they think that they're excited to have their full
Speaker 10: offense back on the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of that, this team total departure in some
Speaker 4: respects from last year. But how quickly did Mike Vrabel
Speaker 4: put his stamp on this team? Oh?
Speaker 10: You could see it pretty immediately, especially during the off season,
Speaker 10: during spring workouts, during training camp, he was working on,
Speaker 10: like you said, putting his stamp on the team. And
Speaker 10: you can even see it with the roster overhaul. More
Speaker 10: than half of the faces this year are new, so
Speaker 10: he very quickly was able to establish his culture and
Speaker 10: as well as his personnel.
Speaker 5: So Mike Rabel putting his stamp on the team, that's
Speaker 5: no big surprise. And Mike Vrabel was a captain when
Speaker 5: he was a player with the Patriots, a team leader.
Speaker 5: Everybody looked up to him and respected him as an individual,
Speaker 5: as a human being and as a football player. Who
Speaker 5: are some of the team leaders that he's got playing
Speaker 5: for him this year.
Speaker 10: I think Drake may is certainly one. Over the offseason
Speaker 10: we talked a lot about Drake's leadership last year. He
Speaker 10: comes in as a rookie, he doesn't have the starting job,
Speaker 10: so he's still deferring to at the time the starter,
Speaker 10: Jacoby Brissette. But this year he knows the team is
Speaker 10: his and he's really stepped up in that regard. On defense,
Speaker 10: you also have Robert Splaine who played for Mike in Tennessee,
Speaker 10: as well as Harold Landry who played for Mike and Tennessee,
Speaker 10: so I think they have a really strong understanding of
Speaker 10: the identity that Mike looks for in his teams. And
Speaker 10: there are also a few other holdovers like from the
Speaker 10: Bill Belichick era in Brendan's school are on space teams
Speaker 10: and Marcus Jones on defense, So it's a good mix
Speaker 10: of new faces and old.
Speaker 4: You know. Talking about the team and Mike Rabel, I've
Speaker 4: always said, whenever you follow a legend, in this case
Speaker 4: will be a bellick. It's just don't want to be
Speaker 4: the one to follow them. You want to be the
Speaker 4: one that follows the one that follows them. And I
Speaker 4: think Mayo was in a no win situation struggling like
Speaker 4: he did, but then coming behind him, I think there's
Speaker 4: a little less pressure because you're really taking the place
Speaker 4: of the guy who took the place of the legend.
Speaker 4: Does it feel a little different with Rabel as far
Speaker 4: as expectations went at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you could say that's true. You didn't
Speaker 10: see that in the quarterback room where Mac Jones is
Speaker 10: sort of viewed as the heir parent. But now there's
Speaker 10: a little bit less pressure on Drake may So I
Speaker 10: think that that concept can be true. But I think
Speaker 10: also Mike Riebel and Jerrod may are different situations. Girod
Speaker 10: Mayo had not coached outside of the New England organization.
Speaker 10: He didn't have any head coaching experience, whereas Mike not
Speaker 10: only has experience, but he's an accomplished head coach, and
Speaker 10: so I think that experience really benefited him, and you
Speaker 10: can see in the decisions that he's making that experience payoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: You know, when I when I look at Mike Rabel
Speaker 5: and I look at him the way he is leading
Speaker 5: this football team, I see a lot of Bill Belichick.
Speaker 5: Is that an accurate assessment? I know they are their
Speaker 5: own men. You know, it's not like Bill Belichick clone
Speaker 5: himself into Mike Rabel, but a lot of beliefs, a
Speaker 5: lot of philosophies of football, the way they look at
Speaker 5: the game, the way they understand the game, the way
Speaker 5: they teach the game. Is there a lot of similarity there.
Speaker 10: I think there are some similarities, but I agree with
Speaker 10: you that there are just more different in that you
Speaker 10: see Mike pay a lot of attention to sort of
Speaker 10: the who the players are as people, and he really
Speaker 10: seems to care about player families, players off the field,
Speaker 10: and he believes if you know the player and the
Speaker 10: coach better as a person, then you will play better
Speaker 10: on the field because of that information of knowing their story,
Speaker 10: why they're there. And he never really saw Bill sort
Speaker 10: of indulge that side. Now from a pure football perspective, yes,
Speaker 10: you definitely see the attention to detail, the just in
Speaker 10: depth knowledge about the sport.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 10: You can see those crossover but just in their approach.
Speaker 10: Mike celebrates with the team, Mike encourages celebrations. Mike definitely
Speaker 10: empowers the players, I would say more than Bill did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nicole Yang from the Boston Globe is joining us again. Nicole,
Speaker 4: thank you so much. I want to ask you about
Speaker 4: that Week five game against Buffalo that I thought that
Speaker 4: that was the day that the New England Patriots said,
Speaker 4: we are a legitimate team and we're not intimidated by
Speaker 4: the perennial winners of this division. But we are going
Speaker 4: to go out here and play football. Did the environment
Speaker 4: or the community get a sense of, Okay, we can
Speaker 4: actually start to believe in this team now.
Speaker 10: Totally. I definitely think that was their statement win as
Speaker 10: far as proving that, Okay, we can actually contend with
Speaker 10: the top of the AFC, we are in contention for
Speaker 10: the division, things like that, especially on the primetime stage,
Speaker 10: which the Patriots haven't had very often in the past
Speaker 10: couple of years because of their poor record and the
Speaker 10: lack of star power. So I definitely think that Week
Speaker 10: five win was a statement But if you ask the
Speaker 10: team for them, the turning point was actually Week two
Speaker 10: in Miami, and that game kind of came down to
Speaker 10: the wire, was in a hot environment, and they had
Speaker 10: lost their season opener. But Rabel has said that he's
Speaker 10: really pleased with how team came together and that's sort
Speaker 10: of when he knew, like, Okay, there is some potential
Speaker 10: here and we might be able to do something interesting.
Speaker 4: Great observation in that sense, I tell you what Vrabel
Speaker 4: remembers the Bengals very well because when he was with
Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans, they were the number one seed and
Speaker 4: we knocked them out of the playoffs with many people
Speaker 4: thought they would. I don't know if anybody asked him
Speaker 4: about that, but I don't think he's forgotten about that.
Speaker 10: Knowing Mike, I would agree with you, I'm sure he
Speaker 10: hasn't forgotten, but that that would have been a good question.
Speaker 10: No one asked him about that this week.
Speaker 5: That I guarantee you he hasn't forgotten about it. There's
Speaker 5: no two ways about that. I guess when you look
Speaker 5: at how quickly they turned things around. I mean, here's
Speaker 5: a football team that had four wins last year and
Speaker 5: now here they are sitting with the best record in football.
Speaker 5: I mean it had to surprise almost everybody, maybe even Crafting,
Speaker 5: you know, the other coaches and everybody in the organization.
Speaker 5: Did it or is that what they were expecting.
Speaker 10: I don't think Robert Kraft was surprised, just because he
Speaker 10: is sort of an eternal optimist. He always thinks that
Speaker 10: they're going to make the playoffs, that they're gonna go
Speaker 10: on run. So I'm not sure about Robert, but I
Speaker 10: would imagine if you gave other people in the building
Speaker 10: some truth theorem that they thought things were going to
Speaker 10: turn around, but maybe just not to this extent. I
Speaker 10: think they thought that the team would get closer to
Speaker 10: five hundred, maybe sneak into the wild card, but to
Speaker 10: be nine and two in contention for the number one seed.
Speaker 10: I really would be surprised if if anybody saw this coming.
Speaker 4: Nicole, thank you so much again for being with us.
Speaker 4: Before we go. What would be your key to the
Speaker 4: game for them to win this weekend?
Speaker 10: I think just and you'll have to correct me if
Speaker 10: I'm wrong, but I think taking advantage of Cincinnati's defense.
Speaker 10: Drake may is having a stellar MVB caliber year. He's
Speaker 10: been able to throw downfield and have an accuracy downfield
Speaker 10: like a few quarterbacks in the NFL, So I think
Speaker 10: just taking advantage of since he's week defense. Drake hasn't
Speaker 10: thrown for three hundred yards yet in his career, but
Speaker 10: this seems like a good opportunity. So I think just
Speaker 10: keeping their foot on the gas pedal offensively should give
Speaker 10: them a good chance.
Speaker 4: Good question about Nicole, Thank you so much for joining
Speaker 4: us and look forward to seeing you Sunday.
Speaker 10: Thanks so much for having me, guys.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you so much. That was Nicole Yang
Speaker 4: from the Boston Globe. Really enjoyed speaking with her. Just
Speaker 4: a lot of good stuff there. And that you're talking
Speaker 4: about culture change. He sure did that, he did.
Speaker 5: And when when you were talking with somebody that you
Speaker 5: know is around the players and coaches all day, every
Speaker 5: day during the regular season, like you and I are
Speaker 5: allowed to to be boxing, you do, you get a
Speaker 5: unique perspective, I think, and I'm not saying that she's
Speaker 5: not no way is she shocked, but pleasantly surprised with
Speaker 5: what's going on in New England.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt, no question. Real quick note here, I
Speaker 4: wanted to say, congratulations Ken Anderson is a semi finalist
Speaker 4: for the Pro Football Say, and I don't know what
Speaker 4: else this guy has to do. Man, between him and
Speaker 4: Willie Anderson, what these guys have done their body of
Speaker 4: work and really not just that lap, but what other
Speaker 4: players say about them who faced both of these guys.
Speaker 4: They all endorse them as Hall of famers. And sometimes
Speaker 4: I wonder who's on this committee and what they're thinking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know my understanding is Kenny got a
Speaker 5: ton of votes, you know, last last year in the voting,
Speaker 5: So maybe this is the year. It should be the
Speaker 5: year because flat out, without a doubt, Ken Anderson belongs
Speaker 5: in the Hall of Fame, up and up in Ohio,
Speaker 5: up in Northern Ohio, Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 4: I mean, he he he.
Speaker 5: Is uh the best football player we've had here with
Speaker 5: the Cincinnati Bengals. And on top of that, got the
Speaker 5: room with him for nine years, nine of the ten
Speaker 5: years that I played with the Cincinnati Bengals, and got
Speaker 5: to watch him, how he comported himself, how he handled
Speaker 5: himself in tough times in good times. Sometimes it's it's
Speaker 5: more important to watch a guy how he handles success.
Speaker 5: You know, most guys handle failure if they've gotten to
Speaker 5: the professional level in the National Football League, they've been
Speaker 5: able to, Okay, compartmentalize, figure out why you failed, don't
Speaker 5: do it again, and move on. Some guys, though, I mean,
Speaker 5: they just they let success get to their heads. Next
Speaker 5: thing you know, they're out the door. You know it's
Speaker 5: they're not They're not putting their nose to the grindstone
Speaker 5: the same way. Ken Anderson hell of an athlete. I mean,
Speaker 5: he played high school basketball, with Dan Issel when they
Speaker 5: when they grew up, and and Dan this of course
Speaker 5: played in the NBA for gazillion years with the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 5: And Kenny was a hell of a player. Talking to
Speaker 5: Dan Issel over the years, you said Kenny could shoot
Speaker 5: lights out man point guard, had to handle, great defensive player.
Speaker 5: I mean, just a tremendous athlete. And that doesn't surprise you.
Speaker 5: A lot of I've bet a lot of quarterbacks played
Speaker 5: multiple sports.
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Speaker 4: Don't ask me what that means. It just sounds like
Speaker 4: it's fast, yes, and I'll go with that. I'm with you,
Speaker 4: speaking of fast, we won't have the fastest man on
Speaker 4: the field Sunday. Jamar Chase an incident that obviously he'd
Speaker 4: love to have back, right. And I'm not a basher,
Speaker 4: I'm not a pile on person. There's a mistake the
Speaker 4: kid made. He's got to pay for it, and uh,
Speaker 4: that's how you grow, you know, you get beyond it.
Speaker 4: But lap without a doubt, you're losing your number one guy.
Speaker 4: Going up against a team like this is a tough one,
Speaker 4: no question.
Speaker 5: I mean, Jamar Chase changes every single football game that
Speaker 5: he plays in with his speed. Yeah, like you're talking
Speaker 5: about that that that is the biggest weapon that opposing
Speaker 5: coaches fear is foot speed. I mean, it's either have
Speaker 5: it or you don't. And when you have it, it's
Speaker 5: the ultimate weapon. It's it's uh, it's separates you from
Speaker 5: the pack. And you have to now make adjustments defensively
Speaker 5: to neutralize and try to negate that that speed that
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase has. I don't I can't remember snap this year,
Speaker 5: or he wasn't doubled when he came off with a scrimmage.
Speaker 5: You're gonna put two guys on him and shadow him
Speaker 5: wherever he goes and either that or put the best
Speaker 5: corner they've got on him and and go one on
Speaker 5: one and see who's the better man. When you have
Speaker 5: a great corner. And there are some great corners, great
Speaker 5: cover guys in the National Football League, but man, I'd
Speaker 5: still take take my chances with Jamar Chase running routes
Speaker 5: against against those guys. So not having Jamar Chase in
Speaker 5: this football game, and for the reason that you're not
Speaker 5: having Jamar Chase in this football game hurts a lot.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like it wasn't because of injury. It wasn't because
Speaker 5: of anything other than you know, just losing your poison.
Speaker 4: A little bit. Yeah, that's what it was. And it
Speaker 4: was a game where you know, Jayala Ramsey. Many people
Speaker 4: don't know this, but three years ago, maybe before, I
Speaker 4: can't remember, the Rams came here for a joint practice,
Speaker 4: right and I remember Jala Ramsey lining up every Bengals
Speaker 4: wide receiver. He wanted to take on every one of
Speaker 4: them over and over again. Such a competitive guy. Chase
Speaker 4: is such a competitive guy. And and these guys know
Speaker 4: each other from back then and it's carried on. And
Speaker 4: with him being in the division now you get to
Speaker 4: see each other twice a year, it's going to bubble
Speaker 4: up in some kind of way. And when we struggled
Speaker 4: like we did second half of the game and started
Speaker 4: to get away from us, and I'm sure he was
Speaker 4: frustrated a lot of things, but you just have to remember,
Speaker 4: and he's young, you have to remember those are kind
Speaker 4: of things that you really have to work on controlling absolutely.
Speaker 5: And and like you said, both those they want King
Speaker 5: of the hill Man. I mean, they're like nobody's bad
Speaker 5: to me. You know, I'm I've got I've got characteristics,
Speaker 5: I've got physical traits, I've got things that not many
Speaker 5: people walking planet Earth have, you know. And and and
Speaker 5: I'm going to show you, uh and and it's like
Speaker 5: they want to carve their own territory and they don't
Speaker 5: want you to invade on it. So it's it's gonna
Speaker 5: it's interesting they're gonna be playing against each other for
Speaker 5: a long time, and there's there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5: And they they do bring a competitive attitude to that
Speaker 5: to that game of football when they're out in the
Speaker 5: football field, and you know, it's not all bad. It
Speaker 5: permeates the entire roster for both football teams and the
Speaker 5: trickle down effect. Man, there's some there's some football being
Speaker 5: played out there. I watched some of these defensive football teams.
Speaker 5: The speed that they show, you know, it's like, man,
Speaker 5: and it's because like a guy like Jamar Chase makes
Speaker 5: you pick it up. I mean, it makes you almost
Speaker 5: run faster than you can. That's what Paul Brown used
Speaker 5: to say. You know, sometimes when you're playing against people,
Speaker 5: you gotta run faster than you can. You gotta you
Speaker 5: gotta hit harder than you can, you gotta lift more weights.
Speaker 4: Than you can.
Speaker 6: You have to.
Speaker 5: You have to be, uh something unique and special. And
Speaker 5: that's that's what the National Football he is all about.
Speaker 4: Really. You know, I said this that it reminds me
Speaker 4: of a quote that Mike Tomlin, who's got probably a
Speaker 4: million in his own book, but he said two dogs,
Speaker 4: one bone and Ramsey and Matte's that's to me is
Speaker 4: what there's two dogs, one bone. That's a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be king of the hill. T Higgins has
Speaker 4: a chance. He has played very well this year. He
Speaker 4: had flack who have played well together. I think it's
Speaker 4: a chance for t Higgins, not purposefully, but the way
Speaker 4: it's unfolded. Hey, man, I'll show you guys, I'm a
Speaker 4: number one receiver. Yeah, I'm gonna be that guy, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be that target. But also, whether it's Mitch
Speaker 4: Tinsley or whoever comes in you wanted to play. You
Speaker 4: feel like you deserve to play in this league. Right,
Speaker 4: You feel like you deserve to be on this field.
Speaker 5: Here you go, right, I mean, opportunity knocks for a
Speaker 5: lot of these guys. And uh, maybe not necessarily the
Speaker 5: way they wanted to get snaps, right, but they got
Speaker 5: them and and and now it's time to put up
Speaker 5: a shut up. You know, if if you've been working
Speaker 5: your coaches, Hey, put me in. Give me give me
Speaker 5: an opportunity. You know, I know I can do it.
Speaker 5: I know I can get after it out here. Give
Speaker 5: me give me a shot, give me a chance. Uh,
Speaker 5: now it's now it's time. I mean, you know you've
Speaker 5: been pestering and bugging me. Here you go. Now, what
Speaker 5: are you gonna do? You know your talk talk is
Speaker 5: one thing, talks cheap. Go out there and perform. Show
Speaker 5: me you got something. And uh and I think T.
Speaker 5: Higgins is gonna step up big.
Speaker 4: I think T.
Speaker 5: Higgins is gonna have big games for the Bengals. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't be surprised if he strings together a few one
Speaker 5: hundred yard receiving games, you know, seven or eight catches
Speaker 5: one hundred yards, touchdown or two. He's got that kind
Speaker 5: of talent, that kind of ability, and you know, those
Speaker 5: are the kind of numbers that Jamar Chase is capable
Speaker 5: of putting up. And he was and he is he
Speaker 5: will when he comes back. Uh so is T Higgins.
Speaker 5: He's capable of doing the same thing. He can show
Speaker 5: the rest of the league. I'm a number one receiver
Speaker 5: and at some point in time that stands you in
Speaker 5: good stead with these other teams. You never know, it's
Speaker 5: you know, the other teams may be uh kind of
Speaker 5: bidding for your services at some point down the road.
Speaker 5: And you want to make a good impression, and you
Speaker 5: want to make it as early as you can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the tape is rolling from the time that ball
Speaker 4: goes up. No doubt that tape is rolling, or see
Speaker 4: what happens. But I do believe and I agree with you,
Speaker 4: lap I think you guys like him. Man, this is
Speaker 4: a moment where they say, that's my guy. Chase is
Speaker 4: my guy. I'm not gonna let him down. Number one,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pick up his slack because that's what teammates do.
Speaker 4: But number two, to the coaches and to the quarterback,
Speaker 4: I got you. Don't worry about it. You know, we're
Speaker 4: gonna create some opportunities for us to make some big plays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think you know Jamar Chase, he'd like
Speaker 5: nothing better than to see some of his teammates step
Speaker 5: up and play the best football they played their entire lives.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, he realizes you made a mistake.
Speaker 5: He realized that he lost his poise. Now he's counting
Speaker 5: on his teammates to pick him up. You know, no
Speaker 5: man stands alone, right, It's a team game.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Teammates support each other through thick and thin, good times
Speaker 5: and bad times. And now Jamar Chase needs some help,
Speaker 5: and he's got the teammates that can do it, no.
Speaker 4: Question about it. And I think if T Higgins catches
Speaker 4: a touchdown in this game, it'll be a I believe
Speaker 4: his tenth game straight home game that he's caught a
Speaker 4: touchdown and just incredible when you think about that. I mean,
Speaker 4: this year thirty five catches, five hundred and forty four yards,
Speaker 4: seven touchdowns, averaging fifteen and a half yards per reception.
Speaker 4: Those are some big numbers. They are. He's a big guy.
Speaker 5: Hee's you know, six to four anyway, two fifteen, two twenty,
Speaker 5: long arms, big strong hands. When he catches the football,
Speaker 5: he plucks the football out of the air, he tucks
Speaker 5: it away and it's it's put away for good. They're
Speaker 5: not going to separate him from the football. He's got
Speaker 5: length with his legs, He's got he runs tremendous routes.
Speaker 5: He's got flexibility. He bends at the knees well, he
Speaker 5: can change direction. T Higgins is a premier player in
Speaker 5: the National Football League, and the Cincinnati Bengals is so
Speaker 5: fortunate to have two premiere wide receivers, you know, one
Speaker 5: healthy and one able to play at the same time
Speaker 5: in Jamar Chase and T Higgins.
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Speaker 4: the high school level the Saint Xavier Bombers against the
Speaker 4: Elder Panthers and a big showdown. It's gonna be big man,
Speaker 4: and I'm so happy for both schools. But I am
Speaker 4: so over the top happy for the kids man to
Speaker 4: be on that field. No question, Box, I mean, what
Speaker 4: does it say about the GCL. Yeah, these two schools.
Speaker 5: Are putting on the show, you know, says I mean
Speaker 5: the GCL, I mean, best best conference, best leads.
Speaker 4: And they yeah, they were close to twenty thousand tickets
Speaker 4: sold last I said twenty thousand with UC basketball going
Speaker 4: on and other things, and they're still putting twenty thousand
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 5: High school football in the city of Cincinnati, as we know,
Speaker 5: is a big deal.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: My brothers were all from New England when they came
Speaker 5: out here for a Bengals game when I was playing,
Speaker 5: and they came out on a Friday, and they they
Speaker 5: saw what it was like for Friday football fever and everything,
Speaker 5: how it's covered on the on television, the exposure that gets,
Speaker 5: how many games are broadcast on radio. And they were stunned.
Speaker 5: They were they were shocked. And you know, I was
Speaker 5: too initially when I first came to town because back in
Speaker 5: the Boston area, it's not like that. It doesn't get
Speaker 5: that kind of coverage, you know. So they they were
Speaker 5: into their professional sports, and there's a bunch of professional sports.
Speaker 5: I mean they got football, basketball, hockey, they got it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I just I just remember I got a chance
Speaker 5: to play at Fenway Park, uh, when I was in
Speaker 5: high school in the in the state playoffs, and man,
Speaker 5: I thought I was King of the Hill.
Speaker 4: Getting to play at Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: And Uh, you know that's what the Boston Red song
Speaker 5: since were Ted Williams, Tony KNIGLERO. That's what those guys
Speaker 5: you know were in. Uh and the Patriots Finwaym's Babe Perili,
Speaker 5: that's Jim Nance, That's Larry Zonker, that's you know, that's
Speaker 5: all these Larry Eisenhower, Bob d these great defensive players.
Speaker 4: How the heck what.
Speaker 5: Am I doing playing at Fenway Park? I mean, it
Speaker 5: was mind boggling and it was a it was a
Speaker 5: trip for.
Speaker 4: Sure, strong connection into the Bengals because the guy that
Speaker 4: was on their last next to the last day championship team, Uh,
Speaker 4: Sean Clifford. Since that bingo and he called Dan Horde
Speaker 4: had him featured last week and fantastic fun facts. Truly
Speaker 4: enjoyed it. Let's listen to that now.
Speaker 17: Time for some fun facts with quarterbacks. Sean Clifford a
Speaker 17: local kid out of Saint Xavier High School here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 17: You haven't had the opportunity to play in a game
Speaker 17: yet for the Bengals, but describe what it's been like
Speaker 17: for you to go to work every day court Stadium.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 19: I think it means a lot to my family. First
Speaker 19: and foremost.
Speaker 18: You know, the the Cliffords have been living here for
Speaker 18: over twenty years now, and you know, we really truly
Speaker 18: call this place a home. So just being able to
Speaker 18: go to work with a great group of guys, great
Speaker 18: coaching staff, and great front office. I think that all
Speaker 18: together it just means a little extra. I know it
Speaker 18: means a lot to the guys in this locker room,
Speaker 18: but for me personally, you know, it is personal. So
Speaker 18: it's been a it's been a pleasure to be here
Speaker 18: so far and look and get some wins in the future.
Speaker 17: Did you attend a lot of Bengals games when you
Speaker 17: were young, and if so, do any specific memories stand out.
Speaker 18: We would, We would go to games all the time.
Speaker 18: But my senior year, my parents actually got my brother
Speaker 18: and I.
Speaker 19: Season tickets for just for my senior year and his
Speaker 19: eighth grade year.
Speaker 18: And if you know brother, the brother connection, obviously you're
Speaker 18: bicker and you.
Speaker 19: Fight each other for so long.
Speaker 18: And it was actually funny because in my last year
Speaker 18: before I left for college and his first year going
Speaker 18: into high school. You know, it was that opportunity to
Speaker 18: go to the Bengals games where I feel like we
Speaker 18: really developed that best friendship and it carries on today.
Speaker 18: You know, that's my right hand man. So I owe
Speaker 18: a lot to this team just from being a fan
Speaker 18: first and foremost. My brother and I will always talk
Speaker 18: about it. I was able the first game point out
Speaker 18: to Zach the exact spot where I was sitting, you know,
Speaker 18: almost a decade ago. So it's really cool to be
Speaker 18: back on the field contributing to a team. Maybe not
Speaker 18: on the field, but from a week to week perspective,
Speaker 18: just giving it my all and trying to find a
Speaker 18: way to win.
Speaker 17: We're visiting with Sean Clifford. One of the most memorable
Speaker 17: moments in the Bengal Super Bowl run in twenty twenty
Speaker 17: one was the playoff game in Tennessee where Joe Burrow
Speaker 17: got sacked nine times and the Bengals still won the game.
Speaker 17: You did that in the state championship game for Saint
Speaker 17: X back in twenty sixteen. Describe that season because it
Speaker 17: was not a smooth ride for the Bombers.
Speaker 18: Yeah, very similar to this year. I think, you know,
Speaker 18: the at least the opportunity. You know, we went five
Speaker 18: and five in the regular season. Steve Speck actually wrote
Speaker 18: a book about that season. But when five and five
Speaker 18: I had injuries. We had injuries going into the season.
Speaker 18: I think that we had five starters out by the
Speaker 18: first week, so you know, it was a lot of
Speaker 18: ups and downs, but put together some some good wins
Speaker 18: in the back end, made made it into the playoffs,
Speaker 18: is a very late seed, and then rode that momentum
Speaker 18: all the way to the state championship. And I think
Speaker 18: that you know, you in those situations, you know, I
Speaker 18: compare it, you can compare it in every level. You know,
Speaker 18: you just got to find a way to string together wins.
Speaker 18: But then once you get to the big dance and
Speaker 18: it's one, one game at a time, anything can happen.
Speaker 18: So I think that that's always been my mindset is
Speaker 18: you know, season's long, it's gonna be tough, and there's
Speaker 18: gonna be ups and downs, but weathering that storm and
Speaker 18: being able to at least get to the final that
Speaker 18: you know, that final show, then anybody can win every
Speaker 18: single week. So it's just about putting putting enough together,
Speaker 18: you know, because you're gonna face adversity, but if you
Speaker 18: can put enough together to get to that point, then
Speaker 18: you can catch a hot streak.
Speaker 17: From a state championship at Saint X. It was on
Speaker 17: to Penn State, where you spent six years. Why did
Speaker 17: you choose the Nidney Lions.
Speaker 18: It really came down to James Franklin and I hate
Speaker 18: to see him go. It was tough to see him go,
Speaker 18: for sure, and I know a lot of guys in
Speaker 18: that locker room are still feeling that just because, you know,
Speaker 18: James was such a great guy, a family man, somebody
Speaker 18: who really preached, you know, the same mantra similar to
Speaker 18: Saint X men for others. You know, it was kind
Speaker 18: of the same way at Penn State, and my mom
Speaker 18: really fell in love with the idea of me going
Speaker 18: to that school.
Speaker 19: Thank god she did, because.
Speaker 18: I really, you know, she she was a big proponent
Speaker 18: of going to Penn State, staying committed the whole way
Speaker 18: through committing early and staying committed. So I owe a
Speaker 18: lot to my parents for kind of steering me in
Speaker 18: that direction. I always loved Penn State, but once I
Speaker 18: got there, it's around the people, you know, Pennsylvania. I
Speaker 18: really consider Pennsylvania and Ohio to be the two spots
Speaker 18: that I really love Midwest kid through and through, that's
Speaker 18: for sure.
Speaker 17: After a record setting career at Penn State. You were
Speaker 17: a fifth round draft picked by the Green Packers. Describe
Speaker 17: your draft experience.
Speaker 19: It was a crazy one.
Speaker 18: I you know, I didn't get invited to the combine,
Speaker 18: was counted out a bunch of different times. And then
Speaker 18: as I kind of told my story through the draft
Speaker 18: process the scouts and kind of worked my way.
Speaker 19: Up to to to the.
Speaker 18: The GM level and the coaches level, I think that
Speaker 18: my story is all about heart and will and what
Speaker 18: I can provide from a value perspective to a team.
Speaker 18: And it's it's a day to day thing. You know,
Speaker 18: You're gonna get my best every single day, doesn't matter,
Speaker 18: you know, if it's if it's a Monday or Tuesday
Speaker 18: off day, or if it's game day. You know, I'm
Speaker 18: gonna give it my all because I'm I always like
Speaker 18: to think I'm an ultimate competitor.
Speaker 19: You know, I want to win as much as the
Speaker 19: next guy.
Speaker 18: And I'll do whatever it takes for my teammates to
Speaker 18: be able to get that done. I think that, you know,
Speaker 18: Green Bay heard that. I know that in the process Cincinnati,
Speaker 18: you know, I was talking to brad Our, quarterback coach
Speaker 18: as well, and he even reminded me that you know,
Speaker 18: they weren't taking a quarterback in the draft, but if
Speaker 18: I did slip outside of the draft, you know, since
Speaker 18: he was gonna try to be the first call that
Speaker 18: they make to get me here. So I always appreciated them.
Speaker 18: But Green Bay, you know, took that shot in the
Speaker 18: fifth round. You know, I was able to back up
Speaker 18: Jay Love for a couple of years, and I thought
Speaker 18: that the bonds that I created in that locker room,
Speaker 18: I have a lot of respect for how the Packers
Speaker 18: run their organization.
Speaker 19: It's just a it's a it's a well run show.
Speaker 19: And I think that it really helped me early in
Speaker 19: my career to be able to see how it's done.
Speaker 19: So that way, you know, I.
Speaker 18: Can bring that that energy and that mindset into places
Speaker 18: like this.
Speaker 17: We're visiting with Sean Clifford. You join the Bengals in
Speaker 17: September following Joe Burrow's injury. Do all of your Cincinnati
Speaker 17: friends and family members ask you what's Joe Burrow?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 18: I think it's it's both Joe's now, obviously, you know,
Speaker 18: being in the in a room full of Joe's and Jake,
Speaker 18: you know, we have three great minds in that room
Speaker 18: that that all contribute in different ways. You know, I
Speaker 18: think that Joe Burrow is somebody who has a lot
Speaker 18: of experience early He's an elite, elite talent and somebody
Speaker 18: who I've It's funny if we we lost the game
Speaker 18: into Minnesota in twenty nineteen in a in a very
Speaker 18: controversial game that I won't get into because referees in
Speaker 18: my opinion, but if we win that game, in which
Speaker 18: we should have, we actually would have played Joe and
Speaker 18: the LS in the LSU Tigers in the first week
Speaker 18: of that that playoff. So I've always seen him as
Speaker 18: a great competitor. I've seen him as somebody who you know,
Speaker 18: I I have a lot of respect for, and so
Speaker 18: you know, he provides so much value to that room.
Speaker 18: And then you add Joe Flacco in the mix, his
Speaker 18: experience and all the stories that he can tell, different
Speaker 18: looks and different players he's played with, and how to
Speaker 18: scheme certain ways.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 19: It truly is.
Speaker 18: Incredible to just see the full picture. And then you
Speaker 18: layer and again a guy like Jake who's done such
Speaker 18: a good job of backing up Joe and and coming
Speaker 18: into big situations and winning games. Very blessed to be
Speaker 18: a part of this room, and I think it's competitive.
Speaker 18: I think it's exciting and someone that really pushes not
Speaker 18: only our room, but the players around us as well
Speaker 18: to be their best version of the selves and really
Speaker 18: elevate the competition.
Speaker 17: A few wild card topics now for Bengals quarterback Sean Clifford.
Speaker 17: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport
Speaker 17: and why?
Speaker 18: I think Kobe's probably an old timer for me, just
Speaker 18: because of the mindset, the mentality, the mama mentality of I.
Speaker 19: Think he was such a servant leader outside the community.
Speaker 18: I think that he did a lot as you study
Speaker 18: kind of his life and what he did with his family.
Speaker 19: I think from a.
Speaker 18: Business perspective, he did so much off the field that
Speaker 18: really really left a mark. From a community perspective, he
Speaker 18: was always pouring back into kids and being able to
Speaker 18: really give back.
Speaker 19: To that community.
Speaker 18: But then when you turn on the tape and you
Speaker 18: watch him in a game, he turns into a complete
Speaker 18: nutter savage, and I think that that's I think that
Speaker 18: there's time and place for all.
Speaker 4: That, you know.
Speaker 18: I think that you have to be an upstanding, an
Speaker 18: upset and a citizen and a good man in the
Speaker 18: community and I always try to be that, especially now
Speaker 18: being back in the community that gave me so much.
Speaker 18: But really, for a guy like that, you know, when
Speaker 18: when when it's time to play ball, I think it.
Speaker 18: You know, there is a switch that you can turn
Speaker 18: on and it's okay to to kind of get aggressive
Speaker 18: in that situation because you know, all that hard work
Speaker 18: and dedication that you put in to be able to to.
Speaker 19: Win and to you know, have the chance to win.
Speaker 19: It's it's it's meaningful.
Speaker 17: Penn State famously wears the most plain uniforms in college football,
Speaker 17: perhaps all of sports, so bland that they're cool or
Speaker 17: time for an update.
Speaker 19: Oh they're cool.
Speaker 18: I'm an old school type guy anyway, so I don't
Speaker 18: think that they need any sort of update. I've always
Speaker 18: appreciated the tradition and I think that you know, I
Speaker 18: I grew up watching I wasn't a huge NFL guy
Speaker 18: until I really started fall in love with the Bengals,
Speaker 18: but I always appreciate watching college ball and specifically college players,
Speaker 18: and I just always loved I followed a lot of
Speaker 18: nerdame traditional program, you know, with a lot of a
Speaker 18: lot of.
Speaker 19: Good guys, good community guys, and I don't.
Speaker 18: Think I I knew the importance of that when I
Speaker 18: was just a kid.
Speaker 19: You know, you're just watching them because that they're on TV.
Speaker 18: But you know, I followed some some some great players
Speaker 18: just because I was just attracted to the way that
Speaker 18: they held themselves.
Speaker 19: And I think that you find that at Penn State.
Speaker 19: I think you find that in another day.
Speaker 18: You find it at schools that are traditional. So to
Speaker 18: answer your question, long so short, Yeah, I love the uniforms.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 17: Final fun fact for Sean Clifford.
Speaker 9: This one's kind of deep.
Speaker 17: If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased,
Speaker 17: who would that person be.
Speaker 18: You know, I'm a Christian man, and I think that
Speaker 18: Jesus would be somebody who I love to meet. You know,
Speaker 18: I think that it's He's the ultimate messenger and he's
Speaker 18: the ultimate you know, warrior when it came to doing
Speaker 18: good in this world.
Speaker 19: And I think that the conversations that.
Speaker 18: You know, I would have and will have one day
Speaker 18: in my in my opinion, will be magical and really
Speaker 18: life changing. So, you know, always trying to dive into
Speaker 18: the word and finding different ways to talk to him
Speaker 18: in different ways, but having an actual sit down conversation
Speaker 18: maybe over at dinner.
Speaker 4: It would be really cool.
Speaker 17: Sean, appreciate your Time's great to have you on your
Speaker 17: hometown team. Best of luck the rest of the year.
Speaker 19: Thank you, who day.
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Speaker 4: going up to five thirty and lap I wanted to
Speaker 4: talk about Sean Clifford and the model of player sama JP.
Speaker 4: Ryan talked about this earlier. Know your role, find out
Speaker 4: where you can fit in, and then take advantage of
Speaker 4: those opportunities. Some I Jfirans figured out how to stay
Speaker 4: in this league. But being a great special teams player
Speaker 4: and a blocker. Sean Clifford, as he told people. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I may not be that that Joe Burrow. I may
Speaker 4: not be that Joe Flagele. I'm gonna be a guy
Speaker 4: that can add some value somewhere in this locker room,
Speaker 4: in this facility. And he's doing that. He is.
Speaker 5: I mean, most teams have three quarterbacks, two on the
Speaker 5: active roster, one on the practice squad. It's not a
Speaker 5: bad living. It's not a bad way to live your
Speaker 5: life to be a practice squad quarterback like Clifford Uh
Speaker 5: at this stage of his career and you never know,
Speaker 5: one injury and you're in a different, a different dynamic,
Speaker 5: whole new world, and you're at that point if you
Speaker 5: have not done everything you possibly could to get yourself
Speaker 5: ready to take advantage of that opportunity. When not, when
Speaker 5: opportunity knocks, shame on you, you know, I mean, there's
Speaker 5: there's nobody else that you can blame. You know, you
Speaker 5: got to make the most of your situation and your
Speaker 5: individual situation. And Clifford's the type of guy to do
Speaker 5: That's my J. P. Ryan type of guy to do that.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of guys in the football team that
Speaker 5: you know, the last offensive lineman, defensive line and linebacker.
Speaker 5: I mean, those guys are You're struggling to to to
Speaker 5: have your NFL career advance another year, you know, pick
Speaker 5: up another year as a vested player. If you get four,
Speaker 5: I think it's up to five now, five years of
Speaker 5: vested seasons, you qualify for a retirement plan. So you know,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of a lot of things, a lot
Speaker 5: of goals that you can set for yourself and and
Speaker 5: and try to knock them off and achieve them one
Speaker 5: at a time. You know, I respect guys that are
Speaker 5: that are fighting for their professional lives like these guys are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes me think of Orren Berg's who I'm
Speaker 4: going to share a conversation with, is a guy that, hey,
Speaker 4: he's been on two Super Bowl teams. He wanted with Philadelphia,
Speaker 4: but hey, man, I'm a guy that fits. He's bring
Speaker 4: me in. I'll find a fit. I'll find the way
Speaker 4: to contribute.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: And that's what makes guys like that special.
Speaker 6: Hits.
Speaker 4: My conversation with Oran Burks, Wayne box Miller with linebacker
Speaker 4: Oran Berks and Orrin first of all, talk about just
Speaker 4: being in Cincinnati after spending the time in Philly. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's been great, it's been great.
Speaker 20: It's been an awesome city, a great locker room. I
Speaker 20: really love our linebacker room. We got a close group
Speaker 20: and our talented guys.
Speaker 4: So they're walking over with open artist. Let's talk about
Speaker 4: winning the super Bowl before that? What was a pinnacle moment?
Speaker 4: Prior to winning the Super Bowl? I went to back back.
Speaker 20: I was with the Niners before, so we went to
Speaker 20: the big game in Vegas and then you know, being
Speaker 20: able to run it back against this a team with
Speaker 20: Philly last year was specialist. So you know, I played
Speaker 20: in a lot of playoff games on the midst of
Speaker 20: my first year, but you know, when you get into
Speaker 20: December or January, the games mattered a little bit more.
Speaker 4: So it's always fun to be in the hut for that. Now,
Speaker 4: have guys in this locker room talked to you about
Speaker 4: that that that magical moment and what it felt like.
Speaker 20: A little bit, you know, it's it's a recency thing.
Speaker 20: It's like, this is what we're worried about right now,
Speaker 20: this team, this this is the year that we're having
Speaker 20: this journey that we're on. But you know, there's definitely
Speaker 20: been guys that pick my brain about, you know, different
Speaker 20: things that I've experienced in my career and not a
Speaker 20: lot of ups and downs, but you know, still here,
Speaker 20: you're eight. You know that's that's a blessing in itself,
Speaker 20: and you know, just taking one day at a time.
Speaker 4: Always ask players when did it go from a game
Speaker 4: of football to realizing it's a business called football?
Speaker 20: I think pretty early, you know, just the amount of
Speaker 20: eyes that are on you, the pressure from the outside,
Speaker 20: and the quicker that you realize you can ignore the
Speaker 20: outside noise, worry about your internal journey. What's gonna make
Speaker 20: you the best version of yourself? Being a very teammate,
Speaker 20: a great houseband, a great father. That's what really matters at.
Speaker 4: End of the day.
Speaker 20: And this is a kid's game that we're fortunate enough
Speaker 20: to play. But you know you were able to do
Speaker 20: at a high level. It's gonna be in the league
Speaker 20: for a long time, So I don't take a day
Speaker 20: for granted.
Speaker 4: Has it going fast for you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Fast and slow?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 20: I look around the league and see you guys that
Speaker 20: were you know, here when I first got in, and
Speaker 20: you know some of them are out somewhere so in
Speaker 20: and you know that you definitely don't take it for granted.
Speaker 20: You know that it's not you know, not promise at all.
Speaker 20: So every snap, every game, just trying to take advantage
Speaker 20: of that. But you know, it's it's been it's been
Speaker 20: a fun journey. I've learned so much about myself and
Speaker 20: you know, continue to sharpen my tools as I go.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Lastly, culture matters, you know in life and sports
Speaker 4: and business. What culture trace have you noticed about this
Speaker 4: team that maybe reminds you of your Super Bowl teams?
Speaker 20: Yeah, I think we're going through a rough pash right now,
Speaker 20: but gods, just sitting together, That's that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 20: Is like there's always gonna be somep of adversity. Is
Speaker 20: how you bounce back. And I feel like we have
Speaker 20: the character of guys in this locker room to see
Speaker 20: it through and you know, there's no quit you know, defensively,
Speaker 20: we've been putting in some tough situation, but you know,
Speaker 20: we we're able to bounce back, create turnover the good
Speaker 20: stops and that's the mindset we have to have, you know,
Speaker 20: to put on our back and be ready to go.
Speaker 20: So you know that it takes everybody. So I feel
Speaker 20: like everybody's bought in.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Always appreciate your time. Many appreciate you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what one burg said. Again, find a fit. There's
Speaker 4: only Joe Burrow, there's only one Jamarte, there's only one
Speaker 4: t Higgins's. There's a lot of guys that are one
Speaker 4: of one. But there's a lot of guys that can
Speaker 4: find their way to be that two, two a three
Speaker 4: whatever it is. To just find a way to stay
Speaker 4: in this league. And like you say, get those numbers in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like you guys were talking about, nothing's promised, right,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean if you if you make it
Speaker 5: as a rookie, doesn't mean you're gonna make it your
Speaker 5: second year. I mean it's another whole battle, man, income,
Speaker 5: a whole new crop of draft picks, income, a bunch
Speaker 5: of free agents out there, you know, in the National
Speaker 5: Football League from other teams. You just you have to
Speaker 5: you have to fight, scratch and claw for every single
Speaker 5: year that you play in the National Football League. And man,
Speaker 5: when opportunity knocks, you do have to knock the door down. Man,
Speaker 5: you have to answer, and you have to answer strongly,
Speaker 5: because if you play in this in this league for
Speaker 5: five years and get yourself vested for retirement, that's a
Speaker 5: hell of an accomplishment.
Speaker 4: It is. Tanner Hudson had a great point today. We
Speaker 4: were talking the interview later in the season, but he
Speaker 4: said every year the coaches get was considered a new toy.
Speaker 4: He said about another pick. And that's a great way
Speaker 4: to say it. It's a new toy. Like what what
Speaker 4: what can this guy do? What can he do? U?
Speaker 4: Can he block any cats?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: He can do both? Oh, look at the sign of you.
Speaker 4: Oh I forgot about you over there. Yeah, I'm so
Speaker 4: ight enamored with this. But it is uh, it's always Uh.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember the player that told me he
Speaker 4: was on a series of one year contracts and he
Speaker 4: had a multi year deal, but he said, really, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm just on I'm on a year to year contract.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: Whoever, that guy is a wise man because you know,
Speaker 5: unless you can have a series you can have a
Speaker 5: five year contract, but unless it's guaranteed money, right, you
Speaker 5: are on a series of one year contracts. You know,
Speaker 5: it's like you're you're in a competitive environment, like we
Speaker 5: talked about, you have to win your job every single
Speaker 5: season that you play. And uh, you know, I feel
Speaker 5: like I was blessed man to get ten years in
Speaker 5: the National Football League because every single one of them. Man,
Speaker 5: you were scrapping in fighting for your job due no doubt.
Speaker 4: No question about it. We'll take a break and come
Speaker 4: back look at some one on one matchups later. The
Speaker 4: Bobbom of the hour going up to the top. Eric
Speaker 4: all have joined us. It's the Bengals part Rally Show
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Speaker 4: Bear of Chicken, Wayne Box Miller of Dave Lap I'm
Speaker 4: glad to have you aboard and uh man, what a
Speaker 4: game coming up the New England Patriots. Uh since a
Speaker 4: Bengals will Joe play? Yes he will? Yes he will.
Speaker 4: I don't know if his last name is a girl
Speaker 4: or flag old.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 4: There's a Joe gonna be out there.
Speaker 6: You know that.
Speaker 4: We always look at the matchups, kind of one on
Speaker 4: one matchups, and then I think, for me, Uh, I
Speaker 4: want to see what t Higgins says. I don't believe
Speaker 4: that a coach will double him until it's gonna put
Speaker 4: him probably in some great opportunities to go one on
Speaker 4: one and then also, uh, you know with the Bengals
Speaker 4: offensive line. I tell you, I thought. I told him
Speaker 4: Maris Mems today, I thought he played TJ Widde as
Speaker 4: well as anybody's played TZ. And he said, all the
Speaker 4: way beat me a couple of times. I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's a future Hall of Famer. You know, he beats
Speaker 4: you a couple I said, but you were all over
Speaker 4: that guy. He made TJ's day long, he did.
Speaker 5: I mean, Mims is a special talent man. The guys,
Speaker 5: you know, really, Orlando Brown and Amarius Mems are genetic freaks,
Speaker 5: genetic marvels. There's not many guys walking around planet Earth six',
Speaker 5: eight three hundred and fifty pounds or thereabouts that have
Speaker 5: the athletic ability and the skill set and the movements
Speaker 5: abilities that these guys. HAVE i, mean it, is it's
Speaker 5: really really. CRAZY i, Mean mims is so, fluid, Man
Speaker 5: he's so, smooth it looks. Effortless it almost looks like
Speaker 5: he doesn't really have to. Try you, know it's so
Speaker 5: easy for him from from a physical athletic, Standpoint and
Speaker 5: now he's getting taught some additional techniques and. Fundamentals they're
Speaker 5: really going to help. Him he's expanding his toolbox as.
Speaker 5: Such AND i mean if you can if you can
Speaker 5: handle an edge rusher like, that, yeah what one on
Speaker 5: one and uh and shut him down a, high high
Speaker 5: percentage of the. Time that speaks, well, man there's Not
Speaker 5: there's not many or Any i've got it off the
Speaker 5: edge THAN. Tj watt he. Was he's legit And men's
Speaker 5: played a hell of a.
Speaker 4: Game all. Right, well let's take a quick look at
Speaker 4: the playoff standings as they are right. Now obviously we
Speaker 4: know that it's not but the number one see right,
Speaker 4: now The broncos at nine and, two and The patriots
Speaker 4: are the number two seed at nine and. Two The
Speaker 4: bengals or not out of. It they have a percentage
Speaker 4: of a chance if they, win right but, again if they.
Speaker 4: Win you look At buffalo lost last. Night they didn't
Speaker 4: look good the last couple of. Weeks Now i've been.
Speaker 4: Beat The bengals are in the twelfth spot right, now
Speaker 4: going up against a team in the number two. Spot
Speaker 4: and if you look ahead of, them The, jaguars The,
Speaker 4: texans The, chiefs The ravens are in the ten, spot
Speaker 4: The dolphins. Eleven they've got The dolphins coming, up, Yep
Speaker 4: they've got The ravens coming up. Twice they've got The
Speaker 4: bills coming. Up so they've got some of their own
Speaker 4: destiny in their. Hands if they could knock off some
Speaker 4: of these teams and put themselves in a better.
Speaker 5: Position they have the higher seeded teams that they're going
Speaker 5: to be playing down the stretch of the. Season that's
Speaker 5: all you can ask, for you, know if you're if
Speaker 5: you're a player in The National Football, League because if
Speaker 5: they weren't playing teams that were potential seeds in the
Speaker 5: playoffs and beat, them knocked them, off if that team
Speaker 5: that is seated higher than you ends up playing the
Speaker 5: team of lesser caliber and knocks, on there's no nothing.
Speaker 5: Changes everybody stays the. Same so they do the way
Speaker 5: the schedule. Falls they do have some head to head,
Speaker 5: matchups they're gonna have a significant impact on the way
Speaker 5: they finish the. Season where they end up during the.
Speaker 5: Season now my saying they're going to be a death playoff, team,
Speaker 5: No i'm not saying. That but AM i saying they
Speaker 5: have an opportunity to make some noise and and spoil
Speaker 5: the playoff opportunities for other. TEAMS i mean sometimes playing a,
Speaker 5: spoiler you, know gives you a little bit of juice
Speaker 5: at the end of the season. Too you, KNOW i
Speaker 5: may not be going, anywhere But i'm gonna make sure
Speaker 5: that dog not going, either you know.
Speaker 4: The question about. It we'll take a quick break and come.
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Speaker 4: Boar thank you to everybody that came out that's sitting
Speaker 4: and riding with. Us eric all in traffic en route
Speaker 4: to join us in the last, hour which is a
Speaker 4: weird hour because it's four thirty to five thirty five to, six,
Speaker 4: Right but the injury report is out lap and it
Speaker 4: looks like The patriots don't have anything to worry.
Speaker 5: About, yeah it's, uh The patriots are are pretty healthy
Speaker 5: and and that that's usually what happens when you're nine
Speaker 5: and two football. Team you, know one of the reasons
Speaker 5: you're nine to two is you have had some fortunate
Speaker 5: luck in terms of avoiding. Injury but the little bumps
Speaker 5: and bruises and nicks that you, get they don't slow you.
Speaker 4: Down.
Speaker 5: Man it's, like you, know no, PROBLEM i CAN i
Speaker 5: can deal with. This, yeah The patriots all hands are
Speaker 5: On deckatt looks.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah they got only the, Linebacker Jilani. TAVAI i
Speaker 4: Hope i'm saying his name. Correctly he's the only guy that's.
Speaker 4: Out Trey hendrickson's out, again AND i remember that injury
Speaker 4: and that just didn't look good when it, happened, man
Speaker 4: and he's nursing that one in a big. Way so he's.
Speaker 4: Out Cam taylor brit is also. Out and one of
Speaker 4: the player's been ruled out for the, game and That's Cam.
Speaker 4: Sample so most of the frontline guys are good to.
Speaker 4: Go we'll see what happens with. That but that's a tough. One.
Speaker 4: Man you're nine and. Two you got to chance to
Speaker 4: be a double digit win team in THE. Nfl this,
Speaker 4: early you can best believe that they're going to be
Speaker 4: jumping all over that because you're trying to play to
Speaker 4: get some rest with some of these. Guys So denver
Speaker 4: is nine and, two The eagles are eight and. Two
Speaker 4: they've got a game coming up this, week but you
Speaker 4: know they could be the first team with double digit
Speaker 4: wins and right your lap this. Season these seasons get.
Speaker 4: LONG i remember THE nfl was fourteen games and sixteen.
Speaker 4: Games now at seventeen. Games it's a lot of.
Speaker 5: Football it is a ton of. Football and right, now
Speaker 5: The patriots and the number one seed in THE. Afc
Speaker 5: there's only ONE nfc team with a better record than.
Speaker 5: Them so you know, they're like you, Said, box they're
Speaker 5: playing for the. Seed they're playing for that number one,
Speaker 5: seed and you know they want to stay. Healthy they
Speaker 5: want guys to be able to participate at the highest
Speaker 5: level when it comes to the. Playoffs get through the
Speaker 5: regular season as healthy as you possibly, can and nurse
Speaker 5: those Little nixon bumps and, bruises Because i'm telling you from,
Speaker 5: experience when you get to the, playoffs it turns, up,
Speaker 5: Man it ratches, up ratches up a couple of a
Speaker 5: couple of, notches and guys are flying around the. FIELD i,
Speaker 5: MEAN i look at THE i look at the speed
Speaker 5: of The New England patriots defense on. Tape, yeah they can, run,
Speaker 5: Man i'm telling, You rabel has got them flying around
Speaker 5: the football. FIELD i, mean they are just they're making
Speaker 5: very very quick, reads quick, decisions and reacting from. There coming,
Speaker 5: downhill everything is, attack, attack. Attack they attack, players they
Speaker 5: attack the, football they attack everything on the football. Field, so,
Speaker 5: uh you, know it's it's going to be a, full
Speaker 5: full day's work for The Cincinnati, bengals there's no.
Speaker 4: Question And nicole talked about it in the first. Hour you,
Speaker 4: know you Bring landry up and bring a guy that
Speaker 4: knows my he knows my my, system but he knows me,
Speaker 4: right and he can tell guys in the locker, room, hey,
Speaker 4: DUDE i saw what you're doing out to let me,
Speaker 4: Jays i'm. Brave donplay that, man right you and to
Speaker 4: tighten that up when you get back out, here and
Speaker 4: that that kind of information sharing is. Valuable it.
Speaker 5: IS i, mean a head coach likes to have assistant
Speaker 5: coaches that know what he's all, about what his program is,
Speaker 5: like how he wants to teach, it the type of
Speaker 5: player he wants to be.
Speaker 4: In that in that.
Speaker 5: Organization that's the assistance players, too players, like, hey, man
Speaker 5: you get to shake yourself bravees ain't gonna like that
Speaker 5: right the way you're the way you're handling, that the
Speaker 5: way you're handling business ain't good.
Speaker 6: Enough.
Speaker 5: Man you're gonna have to do pick it up or.
Speaker 5: Not you're gonna have to get your nose in a
Speaker 5: playbook if you don't know what you're, doing or you,
Speaker 5: know make sure that you get in the weight room
Speaker 5: or do something to make sure you can get off
Speaker 5: a block and be where he's supposed to be when
Speaker 5: you're supposed to be, there BECAUSE i, mean his expectations
Speaker 5: are a lot higher than what you're putting out in
Speaker 5: the football field right.
Speaker 4: Now you, know lap how long does it take for a,
Speaker 4: guy you know when when someone like a variable comes.
Speaker 4: IN i, Mean i'm sure for some guys that becomes
Speaker 4: a media but for guys to recognize and realize is
Speaker 4: that maybe one or two practices where a coach like
Speaker 4: that might stop practice or just kind of, say, hey,
Speaker 4: GUYS i don't know what happened last, YEAR i don't
Speaker 4: know what you used, to but here's here's WHAT i
Speaker 4: expect and it's starting. Today it needs to.
Speaker 5: Happen, yeah and you're. RIGHT i Mean i've seen. It
Speaker 5: i've been on the football field when our, coach you,
Speaker 5: know stops practice, says this is Horse, bucky, right this
Speaker 5: is this isn't this ISN'T nfl caliber. Football go back
Speaker 5: in the locker. Room i've had coaches, say, really go
Speaker 5: back in the locker. Room start over. Again let's just
Speaker 5: start the whole. Thing erase the ten minutes fifteen minutes
Speaker 5: took place, here because it's a waste of our. Lives,
Speaker 5: man it's a waste of. Time go back in, there
Speaker 5: come back out and let's have a full. Practice let's
Speaker 5: get after. It and usually the intensity level after that takes.
Speaker 4: Place. Right that's strong right? There oh, yeah oh, yeah that's.
Speaker 4: Strong right. There we'll take a. Break we'll come. Back
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Speaker 4: MAN i don't know if that's legitimate how he did
Speaker 4: that or, not but, hey you look. Good who? They
Speaker 4: the guns are looking, good the quads, everything, man the
Speaker 4: guns are. Loaded. Man who they is ready to rock and,
Speaker 4: roll no question about, it you. Know Lap as we
Speaker 4: wait On eric to get here and talk About Yo
Speaker 4: joy both say we interviewed. HIM i did a long time.
Speaker 4: Ago but this this sports medicine and nutrition and all
Speaker 4: the other things trying to keep guys on the. Field,
Speaker 4: man this stuff has got has become so serious and
Speaker 4: such an investment because number, one it. Works number, two
Speaker 4: the advancement of technology and these underwater treadmills and all
Speaker 4: these other. Things it's crazy the technology that you didn't
Speaker 4: have that these guys.
Speaker 5: Have, no you're, RIGHT i mean back back in the,
Speaker 5: DAY i mean they. Would they did do a pretty
Speaker 5: good job, of you, know making sure track your, diet
Speaker 5: particularly during training. Camp we had three PRACTICES a day
Speaker 5: in like you, know ninety eight degree one and ten percent,
Speaker 5: humidity you, know days up In Womanton. College and then you,
Speaker 5: know we did, train lifted after practice three days a
Speaker 5: week during the off, season worked out every single day
Speaker 5: really either lifting or. Running but not to the level
Speaker 5: that these guys. ARE i, mean it is the the
Speaker 5: advancement and the the understanding of what they know now
Speaker 5: about the human body compared back. Then you, know it's, like,
Speaker 5: man it's the human body is an unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Machine it.
Speaker 5: Is it's it's incredible the things that it can. Do and,
Speaker 5: really you look at some of these, guys like we
Speaker 5: talked about the, tandem the duo of offensive, Tackles, yeah six,
Speaker 5: eight three fifty.
Speaker 4: To do what they can.
Speaker 5: Do and you know with the size that they, are
Speaker 5: the size speed, ratio the size strength ratios of these,
Speaker 5: players and a lot of it is due to the
Speaker 5: advancements in the, diet in the training that these guys
Speaker 5: put themselves.
Speaker 4: Through, well and you know the thing About orlando And
Speaker 4: mims and really a lot of other, guys But i'm
Speaker 4: just talking about these sure to be that big and
Speaker 4: have that kind of, Footwork, yeah these guys could be
Speaker 4: On dance with The. Stars, MAN i, MEAN i See
Speaker 4: Orlando brown is so quick with that first step And
Speaker 4: mims it just keeps his feet going a. Lot it's
Speaker 4: just from head to. Toe. Literally they they are. Freaks
Speaker 4: they are they.
Speaker 5: ARE i, mean it's it's, like you, know they have
Speaker 5: a quick, synapse you, know whatever it is that connects
Speaker 5: the nerve endings or whatever in the human. BODY i,
Speaker 5: mean their reactions are are. Incredible they have tremendous reflexes
Speaker 5: for men of their, size and they can change, direction
Speaker 5: uh with the best of. Them and then with that
Speaker 5: size and, strength once they change directions on, you they're
Speaker 5: gonna finish.
Speaker 4: You there's no, question no question about. It you. Know
Speaker 4: one THING i wanted to say real quickly a side,
Speaker 4: Note bengal, fans thank. You this has been a tough.
Speaker 4: Year but, man that stadium is still. Packed, yep people
Speaker 4: are still. Cheering we got fans here today who they
Speaker 4: nation is alive and. Well AND i looked at that
Speaker 4: game of the last home game and just looked at
Speaker 4: that crowd h AND i, thought, man these fans really
Speaker 4: are saying that we're going to stand behind you no matter.
Speaker 4: What and as a, player you, know you. PLAY i
Speaker 4: mean to look up there and know, that, hey we're
Speaker 4: having a rough, goal but you guys are still with
Speaker 4: us means a, lot it, does you.
Speaker 5: Know and fan is short for, Fanatic, yes and that's
Speaker 5: where that's where a fan originates from the word, fanatic and.
Speaker 4: Fanatic sounds like it's. Negative it's, not.
Speaker 5: THOUGH i, mean it's like you're just you're totally, invested
Speaker 5: your heart and, soul everything is with that particular, team
Speaker 5: with that football, team and it can be a bonding
Speaker 5: a bonding thing with families and, neighborhoods. FRIENDS i, mean you,
Speaker 5: know a professional team in your city can be a
Speaker 5: bonding scenario for the entire.
Speaker 4: City, YEAH i was going to get back to that playoff.
Speaker 4: Picture one of the THINGS i was thinking about, was you,
Speaker 4: know this week The bengals, win they could probably leap
Speaker 4: frog over The, dolphins and then they get The, ravens
Speaker 4: who are two spots ahead of, them, right and you
Speaker 4: go after. Them buffalo is, struggling but then you get
Speaker 4: The ravens in two more. Weeks you think about just those,
Speaker 4: three the two Opportunities New england And, baltimore and you
Speaker 4: play one game at a. Time But i'm just looking
Speaker 4: at this pair of. Games you win those two, games
Speaker 4: the playoff, picture, yeah turns significantly towards you because the
Speaker 4: two people that you beat are ahead of.
Speaker 5: You, yeah they're ahead of. You and uh and and
Speaker 5: then of Course baltimore is in your. Division so you,
Speaker 5: know you take care of business.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 5: Man, now now you're in very high, cotton you. Know So,
Speaker 5: YEAH i, mean it's it's far from. Over it's it's
Speaker 5: not a foregone conclusion that The Cincinnati bengals are done
Speaker 5: for the season in terms of playoff. Possibilities they have
Speaker 5: a long road ahead of. Them you're gonna have to
Speaker 5: run about six in a. Row, Yeah i'd love to
Speaker 5: see him going a six game winning.
Speaker 4: Streak that would be.
Speaker 5: Great it's it's a. CHALLENGE i, mean no one's no
Speaker 5: one's saying it's gonna be. Easy that's for damn sure of.
Speaker 13: That.
Speaker 5: Uh you, know take them one at a time and
Speaker 5: see how many you can stack, together no.
Speaker 4: Question just to give you an idea That lap has
Speaker 4: always talked about winning these division games and how important they.
Speaker 4: Are here are the tiebreakers and how it goes down
Speaker 4: head to, head best one lost time percentage game between the.
Speaker 4: Clubs best one lost time percent is played within the, division,
Speaker 4: right so up, there, yeah third. Tiebreaker, yeah and so
Speaker 4: you're looking at that head to, head so you, know
Speaker 4: if you can beat them in head to, head you
Speaker 4: will go. Too and oh against The ravens and you're,
Speaker 4: tired you're out right. Away if, not then they're gonna
Speaker 4: look at what you both did in the same. Division.
Speaker 5: Right so if you go two and, oh that's. Great
Speaker 5: but if you're one and, one now what's the overall?
Speaker 5: Division right, now you're start incorporating other, teams you, know
Speaker 5: it's it's not just it's not just The, ravens The,
Speaker 5: Ravens steelers And.
Speaker 4: Browns. Yeah then after that best one lost time percentage
Speaker 4: in common, games so obviously in your, division and then
Speaker 4: everybody that you, played and then after that best one
Speaker 4: lost time percentage games played within the. Conference so we're
Speaker 4: talking about winning THOSE afc, games how critical those. Are
Speaker 4: but the division starts. First you gotta win those games
Speaker 4: in the, division. Right. Uh and like you, said if
Speaker 4: you can go two for in the, division, man which is,
Speaker 4: oh that's. Big and and really you look.
Speaker 5: At how THE nfl schedules now the entire, division, uh,
Speaker 5: direct the teams they play are not just the division,
Speaker 5: teams but the out of division teams are the. SAME
Speaker 5: i mean top to, bottom you, know so they can
Speaker 5: go through all those tie, breakers you can get to
Speaker 5: tie breaker number, six seven to eight because they're all common,
Speaker 5: opponents you, know so the only the only. DIFFERENCE a
Speaker 5: lot of, times THE afc stays similar throughout the entire,
Speaker 5: schedule THE, nfc The National Football conferences that may you may, have.
Speaker 4: You, know two out of four that are.
Speaker 5: Similar three out of four, maybe but there's gonna be
Speaker 5: one or two that don't have a there's no common
Speaker 5: denominated from a tiebreaker, standpoint.
Speaker 4: No question about. It. Uh this is another example of
Speaker 4: one game season is because you go To, pittsburgh it
Speaker 4: didn't turn out. WELL a lot of things happen that second,
Speaker 4: half especially with points off. Turnovers england is dead even you,
Speaker 4: know they don't have a plus one or minus. One
Speaker 4: we're at a, differential you. Know my, say so this
Speaker 4: is a. Game but one of the stats that stuck
Speaker 4: out to me lap was the defense for The patriots
Speaker 4: is ranked thirty first in the league in the red
Speaker 4: zone as far as. Touchdowns so if you can get
Speaker 4: in the red zone against this. Team statistically, right you
Speaker 4: should be able to put some sevens up instead of.
Speaker 4: Threes and that surprises me a little. Bit with me,
Speaker 4: TOO i will WHEN i saw.
Speaker 5: That, Yeah and you, know usually it's Like ben but don't,
Speaker 5: break you, know Or Mike rabel defense will between the.
Speaker 5: Twenties it'll be a track. Meet and then you get
Speaker 5: in the in the red, zone inside the twenty and
Speaker 5: inside the, ten the low red, zone they buckle, down you,
Speaker 5: know and you might you might be able to kick
Speaker 5: a field. Goal and that's that's about. It so, yeah
Speaker 5: it's going to be. Interesting hopefully the hopefully The bengals
Speaker 5: can put a few tuddies up on the. Board man
Speaker 5: love to see them score four touchdowns in that game
Speaker 5: against The patriots and kick a field old the boot
Speaker 5: and win the game like, thirty.
Speaker 4: No question about. It we'll take a, break come. Back
Speaker 4: we're waiting on air. Call he's en, rude he'll be joining.
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Speaker 4: Chicken wayne Box pill Of Dave. Lap i'm soon to
Speaker 4: be arriving their call. Traffic give him a. Break you
Speaker 4: know so much going on downtown. Today the weather's. Ugly
Speaker 4: it doesn't. Matter we had a big football game coming.
Speaker 4: Up it is a one game season yet. Again AND
Speaker 4: i remember last Year, lap this was the same scenario
Speaker 4: and his team got, hot and they got on the
Speaker 4: roll and they start, winning but unfortunately they was in
Speaker 4: the hands of somebody other than. Them and you've preached
Speaker 4: That i've been doing in radio with you for a long.
Speaker 4: Time you've preached that at the beginning of every, season
Speaker 4: you don't want to put it in the hands of somebody.
Speaker 5: Else the old, saying And Paul brown was the FIRST
Speaker 5: i ever heard say. It, men we want to control
Speaker 5: our own. Destiny we don't want others to have to
Speaker 5: win football games and beat teams that they have to
Speaker 5: beat for us to advance to the. Playoffs we want
Speaker 5: to control our own. Destiny we don't want to rely
Speaker 5: on anybody. Else that's dicey. Business he used that, term
Speaker 5: that's tight dicey. Business when your approach is like. That
Speaker 5: take care of your own. Business go out there and
Speaker 5: play your brand of, football and go into the playoffs,
Speaker 5: hot going to the playoffs.
Speaker 4: On an, uptick going to the playoffs on a four.
Speaker 5: Or five game winning. Streak love to see The bengals
Speaker 5: on a six game winning. Streak they went out that
Speaker 5: dog would hunt right, there.
Speaker 4: No, question you. Know looking back at That jets game
Speaker 4: when they Played New, England New england only averaged two
Speaker 4: point four yards on the ground. RUSHING i, mean Trade
Speaker 4: Bon henderson had a big. Game he had three, touchdowns
Speaker 4: two rushing and one, catching but Even may only had
Speaker 4: one touchdown. Throwing it wasn't a stellar. Performance you look
Speaker 4: at the score twenty seven to. Fourteen it wasn't like
Speaker 4: they just blew the doors off the. Game but they're very.
Speaker 4: Efficient they win when the opportunity is there for them to.
Speaker 4: WIN i think that's the mark of a variable team
Speaker 4: is they don't beat. Themselves it may be, ugly it
Speaker 4: may not be, pretty but they have some soft spots
Speaker 4: on both sides of the ball that The bengals can capitalize.
Speaker 5: On, yeah they, do and most teams in THE nfl.
Speaker 5: DO i, mean there are matchups that The bengals are
Speaker 5: gonna be able to take advantage. Of and the key
Speaker 5: is will you be able to take advantage of them
Speaker 5: to the point where you can win the football? Game
Speaker 5: is is it going to be that big of a difference?
Speaker 6: Maker The.
Speaker 5: Patriots have done a good. Job all three phases have
Speaker 5: supported each. Other, offensively they've been dynamics some games are
Speaker 5: the games just average and the games that their average
Speaker 5: defense has been, dynamic the games when they're they're. Dynamic
Speaker 5: the offensively the defense is. AVERAGE i mean that to
Speaker 5: me is the sign of a very good football, team
Speaker 5: because you're not gonna have all three phases clicking at
Speaker 5: the highest possible level on an every week. Basis you
Speaker 5: could do you know you're gonna go on the. Feeder
Speaker 5: you're gonna be the you, know Dub bears or somebody like, that,
Speaker 5: right and those those type of seasons are few and far.
Speaker 5: Between so it's which team can play complimentary? Football which
Speaker 5: which team can have one phase support the other and
Speaker 5: get through the season with as many victories as.
Speaker 4: Possible, well here's a stat of it throw out at.
Speaker 4: You The jets in That thursday night game twenty eight
Speaker 4: carries one hundred and forty yards average five yards of
Speaker 4: carry against this, defense and the Way Chase brown has been,
Speaker 4: running there could be some big plays waiting to.
Speaker 5: Happen, Yeah, Chase Chase BROWN i think has had a
Speaker 5: very very good year for The Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: BENGALS i, Mean chase is a five foot eight five.
Speaker 5: Foot nine hundred and fifteen pound. Juggernaut the dude is
Speaker 5: A he's he's just.
Speaker 4: A ball of. Energy.
Speaker 5: Man he he plays the game. Hard he plays every
Speaker 5: snap like it's his. Last yes and uh. Man he
Speaker 5: he cherishes every opportunity that he gets to run the,
Speaker 5: football and he wants to maximize. It he wants to
Speaker 5: finish every single run as hard as he possibly. Can
Speaker 5: he wants to fall forward with the football every time
Speaker 5: he's carrying the, football not get knocked.
Speaker 4: Back.
Speaker 5: Uh he he also is a is an outstanding receiver
Speaker 5: of the. Football he catches it well out of the.
Speaker 5: Backfield he's he's as good as there is in the
Speaker 5: league as a running back catching the ball out of the,
Speaker 5: backfield runs good routes out of the. Backfield he's got tremendous.
Speaker 5: Speed he Can. Uh sometimes running backs that are fast
Speaker 5: don't necessarily run good football, routes, right he, does he,
Speaker 5: does he changes, direction he he he gets things done
Speaker 5: in terms of route running and breaking himself, open particularly
Speaker 5: when they decide, to you, know play one on one
Speaker 5: coverage on, him which they do a. Lot a lot
Speaker 5: of running backs get one on one coverage out of
Speaker 5: the backfield and. Uh and then the final thing he,
Speaker 5: does which is really. Outstanding he'll stick his nose right
Speaker 5: in the middle of a linebacker's chest and When blitz
Speaker 5: pick up and slimmy, him stunn, him knock him. Backwards
Speaker 5: he's a complete football player.
Speaker 4: Now he does it. All AND i like his north
Speaker 4: to south running out Of. Toude you know a lot
Speaker 4: of running backs want to dance and look for that perfect.
Speaker 4: Hole and, Yeah Jase brown gets the ball and he
Speaker 4: makes a. Decision you, know nine tunds out of, ten
Speaker 4: he's not going to. Change he's going for like you,
Speaker 4: said he's. Juggernaut but and the great thing is he's so.
Speaker 4: Close last week it was three or four times man
Speaker 4: with just almost oh my, goodness, man one last, guy
Speaker 4: one last. Guy he gets it. DONE i think that
Speaker 4: whoever the quarterback is this, WEEK i think AND i
Speaker 4: say that because we don't, know but whoever the quarterback
Speaker 4: is this, WEEK i think that he's going to be
Speaker 4: a vital part of that passing game because a lot
Speaker 4: of times that With Jamar chase gone AND T higgins out, There,
Speaker 4: Yo Si vosh, obviously and whoever becomes that third, receiver
Speaker 4: he may be the third receiver in choice out in,
Speaker 4: lineup but in. Choice so getting him out in open, space,
Speaker 4: man there's going to be an opportunity for him once,
Speaker 4: again that guy could get if he be set first
Speaker 4: guy with his speed and his north south, running he
Speaker 4: could have some big plays.
Speaker 5: Well and you got a case Where Zach taylor And
Speaker 5: Dan pitcher will they'll put him in the slot as
Speaker 5: a slot. RECEIVER i mean they've they've done. Him line
Speaker 5: them up, there you, know intentionally and saying you know,
Speaker 5: what go ahead and walk your linebacker out, there because
Speaker 5: if he's a running, back have two backs in the,
Speaker 5: backfield you got have two linebackers in there and walk him.
Speaker 5: Out get a matchup on a linebacker and or you,
Speaker 5: know if it's only he's the single back and you
Speaker 5: go empty backfield and put him out, there you got
Speaker 5: a safety on him and they feel comfortable that he
Speaker 5: can win those one on one matchups against linebackers and,
Speaker 5: safeties and he's gonna win a big number of.
Speaker 4: Them So.
Speaker 5: Brown is going to be a very very key integral
Speaker 5: part of this football. Game keep an eye on. Him
Speaker 5: if he rushes for one hundred yards and catches the for,
Speaker 5: Fifty bengals. WIN i Think bengals win by a.
Speaker 4: Score. Yeah you, know one of the THINGS i was
Speaker 4: looking at that game against The. Bengals you, know we
Speaker 4: like those miscellaneous, stats AND i looked at how many
Speaker 4: big plays The steelers had against The, bengals and you,
Speaker 4: know it's always a tail tale sign you just can't
Speaker 4: have that many big. Plays and seemed like to jump
Speaker 4: off the page with this team if you can cut
Speaker 4: down on three or four big, plays even Because i've
Speaker 4: always Believed eric Et, thomas WHO i used to do
Speaker 4: radio WHERE i say boxes is gonna come down to
Speaker 4: a couple of big plays in a game and you
Speaker 4: just have to make them and keep them from making
Speaker 4: them right right.
Speaker 5: ON i, Mean et knows exactly what he's talking. ABOUT
Speaker 5: a great player for a long time for The Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: Bengals and, man if you, can you, know get three
Speaker 5: or four players of fifty yards or more makes the
Speaker 5: game a hell of a lot. Easier you, know it's
Speaker 5: much easier on the play. Caller and sometimes they come,
Speaker 5: by you, know simon error by the. Defense sometimes it
Speaker 5: comes by excellence of execution by the offensive. Player but,
Speaker 5: man if you can bust one fifty yards and more
Speaker 5: for a, touchdown or bust one fifty yards more put
Speaker 5: you in the red zone inside the twenty or low
Speaker 5: rid zone inside the ten and finishing off with a
Speaker 5: touchdown and not a field, goal you're in high.
Speaker 4: Cotton. Man, yeah speaking of high, cotton let's praise a
Speaker 4: special teams. MAN i tell you, What they've had a
Speaker 4: really good. YEAR i, Mean Charlie jones is the big.
Speaker 4: Return But ivan McPherson looks like they have a mcpheerson
Speaker 4: from a couple of years. AGO i, mean looks, good his,
Speaker 4: motion his, form looks like he's just comfortable out there.
Speaker 4: Kicking but they've also not given up a big play
Speaker 4: on the special.
Speaker 5: Teams, Yeah Darren simmons is done a good. JOB i
Speaker 5: don't think there's a better special teams coach in The
Speaker 5: National Football league Than Darren. Simmons nobody puts more time into.
Speaker 5: It nobody's more dedicated to it Than Darren. SIMMONS i,
Speaker 5: mean he burns the midnight. Oil he eats up hours
Speaker 5: putting together game plans for his special teams. Unit And
Speaker 5: Charlie jones ninety eight yard kickoff return touchdown. Huge but you're,
Speaker 5: Right Money mack is knocking the heck out of the football.
Speaker 5: Man and he's getting quick. Elevation he's getting quick height
Speaker 5: on his field, goals not just, length but getting that
Speaker 5: ball up quickly so people can't deflect it or block.
Speaker 5: It AND i watched him on the sideline of practice
Speaker 5: and pregame during the, game the actual, pregame and then
Speaker 5: prior to his kicks on the sideline during the. Game
Speaker 5: he'll put like a bottle down and snap and hold
Speaker 5: and he'll kick his kicking. Motion that bottle's right next
Speaker 5: to the football where the ball. Spotted really and if
Speaker 5: his his if his mechanics are off at, all he's
Speaker 5: kicking that plastic bottle and it's going to distort the whole.
Speaker 5: Thing and he's a. Machine he's. Kicking his his swing
Speaker 5: is the exact. Same it's, like, man this looks like
Speaker 5: a mimorigraph. Machine it's unbelievable and uh, yeah that's a
Speaker 5: that's a nice little trick he's got.
Speaker 4: Yea and the other PERSON i wanted to talk about
Speaker 4: Was Ryan. Rico fifty three point one you talked. About
Speaker 4: you always say he's got a howartz are hanging off
Speaker 4: of that, foot but he can get that ball in
Speaker 4: the air and get it. Deep but people don't realize
Speaker 4: fifty three point one is a magical. Number That's Pro
Speaker 4: bowl type. Number it really.
Speaker 5: Is and he's another one that gets some significant. HEIGHT
Speaker 5: i mean he crushes the ball both distance and. Verticality
Speaker 5: AND i don't think there's a tandem of a duo
Speaker 5: of kickers in The National Football league that get the
Speaker 5: hangtime and the height on their kicks both place kicking
Speaker 5: and punting the football as the two that The Cincinnati
Speaker 5: bengals have working for, them no question about.
Speaker 4: It we'll take a break and come back here. Again we're.
Speaker 4: Waiting our tight end is on the way en. Route
Speaker 4: we got the message from, him so be pacing with.
Speaker 4: Us we'll take a. Break you're listening to The. Bengals
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Speaker 4: Park Court, Street wayne Box, Millow Dave lapham and our
Speaker 4: special guests in the. Building, yes sir From Fairfield High
Speaker 4: school by wayam Michigin. Iowa ladies dum And. Eric oh, Sure,
Speaker 4: eric all in the, house, baby get your headphones, on
Speaker 4: get your set. Up, MAN i know traffic was. Crazy
Speaker 4: thank you for making the, effort, MAN i appreciate. It
Speaker 4: how are you doing? Well i'm, good, Man i'm. Good it's,
Speaker 4: uh it's good to have you. Here and you, see
Speaker 4: the fans are happy to have you. HERE i told
Speaker 4: them that there was a guy on the team that
Speaker 4: looked almost as good as. Me so we can settle
Speaker 4: the argument right. Now see who y'all.
Speaker 6: THINK i think you?
Speaker 1: Got, well let's get to the first.
Speaker 4: Thing how how's rehabbing going?
Speaker 10: On?
Speaker 4: Everything?
Speaker 6: Oh really really?
Speaker 1: Good, no, no really huge, complaints you know, besides you,
Speaker 1: know getting a little irritated here and. There BUT i
Speaker 1: feel fun And i've been. Running i've been ACTUALLY i
Speaker 1: THINK i might be faster THAN i was BEFORE i got, Heard,
Speaker 1: yeah that's. Great things are things are going.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah that's what we were talking about a little,
Speaker 5: bit the way medical medicine is. Today, said you, Know, Eric,
Speaker 5: oh when this is all, done he may be faster
Speaker 5: than he was when he when he started his career
Speaker 5: here with The Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Bengals.
Speaker 1: YEAH i THINK i THINK i, am especially from SINCE
Speaker 1: i WAS i was a little bit, faster you, know
Speaker 1: WHEN i was At. Iowa But i'm putting up higher
Speaker 1: numbers THAN i did last year so, far so on
Speaker 1: the little catapult figures that we, Were.
Speaker 5: How frustrating is it because you're in speaking with the,
Speaker 5: coaches you're you're a guy that can catch the football
Speaker 5: and block and do both proficiently at a very very,
Speaker 5: high high, level whereas the other guys in the tight
Speaker 5: end Group Drew samples a blocker more than a, Receiver
Speaker 5: mikeasicki's more of a receiver than a. Blocker but they
Speaker 5: were looking at you as the guy who's going to
Speaker 5: get a high percentage of the snaffs.
Speaker 4: Because your ability to do both equally.
Speaker 5: Well and at a high. Level how much does it
Speaker 5: stink that you get hurt and can't have that kind of.
Speaker 1: Season, well you, know it's it's kind of tough because
Speaker 1: you know It's god's plan and you, know you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i just really believe, that you, know he has a
Speaker 1: plan for. Me so you, know it's it sucks to
Speaker 1: not be able to, play but you, KNOW i JUST
Speaker 1: i just, trust you, know The, lord and And i'll
Speaker 1: Be i'll be, fine no question about. It and you,
Speaker 1: know we got we gotta we got no, offense and
Speaker 1: he he does both pretty.
Speaker 4: Well and AND i forgot about.
Speaker 6: Knowing And, Mike, mike he's he's actually out out right,
Speaker 6: now but he should be back.
Speaker 1: Soon but those guys are those guys are are doing
Speaker 1: are doing, well and and The titans aren't really The
Speaker 1: titans haven't really fell. Off you, know if if whether
Speaker 1: IF i was there and, not you, know we would
Speaker 1: always be.
Speaker 4: Fine so, yeah you're you're from a city where high
Speaker 4: school football is, big you, know big games tonight and
Speaker 4: not just down To, acre but Also middletown's playing a
Speaker 4: night and you a fair. Field you guys were, competitive
Speaker 4: you were all. State uh just talk about high school
Speaker 4: football in this. Area, man it's a big deal in.
Speaker 6: It, yeah, YEAH i grew up off of.
Speaker 1: It that's you, Know my first love for football was you,
Speaker 1: know being being little and going to the games On
Speaker 1: friday and you, know seeing all my friends.
Speaker 6: Were the kid that was under the bleachers playing too and.
Speaker 6: Tag it's just it's.
Speaker 4: Great you.
Speaker 1: Know, UH i haven't really been out to too many
Speaker 1: games this year because of my knee and, all but
Speaker 1: last YEAR i was pretty much at a at a
Speaker 1: high school game every. Week and it's still it's still the,
Speaker 1: same getting packed and a lot of.
Speaker 4: People when the recruiters come To. Cincinnati, man, yeah you
Speaker 4: get people coming from, everywhere right they they do so
Speaker 4: looking looking at, YOU i, MEAN i look at.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 5: Man you're A you're a big. Guy you're a big, physical,
Speaker 5: uh strong bodied. Guy and and to be able to
Speaker 5: to do you know what you do at the tight end,
Speaker 5: position like we're talking, about able to catch the. Football,
Speaker 5: uh you, know have the athletic ability to do, that
Speaker 5: have the ability to run good, routes be able to
Speaker 5: change the, direction get yourself, open snag the, football pluck
Speaker 5: it out of the, air put it. Away nobody can
Speaker 5: knock it out of your. Possession and and then and
Speaker 5: then you, know getting the line of scrimmage is like
Speaker 5: a third tackle and and at the end of the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage and knock people, around or you, know
Speaker 5: even as they've utilized you out in the, slot put
Speaker 5: you out in the slot and, say, okay, long you're
Speaker 5: gonna move a linebacker out there and, Cover you're gonna
Speaker 5: bring safety?
Speaker 4: Down what are you gonna do to to cover Eric?
Speaker 4: ALL i know the coaches.
Speaker 5: Feel like we were so looking forward to having Having
Speaker 5: Eric all doing all this for. Us how anxious are
Speaker 5: you to get back into the action and show JUST
Speaker 5: i haven't lost the. Thing in, Fact i'm better THAN i,
Speaker 5: was you know before the.
Speaker 6: Injury you, know it's it's.
Speaker 1: There I'm i'm really eager to get back and and,
Speaker 1: everything especially now you, know not actually being, hurt LIKE
Speaker 1: i feel fine on running routes and you, know doing
Speaker 1: all these different drills that you, know so it's it
Speaker 1: kind of it leads a nasty taste in my, mouth you,
Speaker 1: know BECAUSE i can be out, there but IT'S i just.
Speaker 1: Can't it's just how it, WORKS i. Guess you, know
Speaker 1: once you're once you know have that you, know significant
Speaker 1: of an. Injury you, know they don't they don't want
Speaker 1: to rush you back or, anything but you, Know it
Speaker 1: sucks just every day just going into the facility and
Speaker 1: just knowing that you're, fine knowing that you can, play
Speaker 1: and but you you gotta, wait ye get that green.
Speaker 4: Light, well you can do commercials in your spare. Time,
Speaker 4: Well i'm saying that many people don't know That eric
Speaker 4: AND i did commercials. Together, yeah we did a commercial
Speaker 4: for a doctor Swap Kingdom. Family that's been like four years.
Speaker 6: AGO i think that's been or maybe. Longer, yeah what is?
Speaker 6: That was krobab of like twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Two, yeah commercially annist commercial and it.
Speaker 4: Was a kid From Ohio state because she so here's the,
Speaker 4: thing she has a practice with another. Dentist she's A
Speaker 4: michigan grand And michigan throwing through and the other dentist
Speaker 4: Is Ohio state. Grad and so it was a playoff the,
Speaker 4: rivalry but they're running back From Ohio. STATE i Came
Speaker 4: Williamson williams and SO i was a reporter and he
Speaker 4: did a great, jobs like football is. OVER i mean
Speaker 4: you may have have it in his. Future.
Speaker 6: Man it was like a whole acting.
Speaker 4: Job it was we had scripts the whole. Night that's, cool. Man,
Speaker 4: Yeah and so that that was. FUNNY i have to
Speaker 4: resurrect that and upload that again on social.
Speaker 6: Media, yeah it's on My it's On.
Speaker 4: Instagram, okay, yeah you have THE cot tag me on
Speaker 4: that SO i can put. ON i don't need the extra.
Speaker 4: Attention you know, what one of the things THAT i
Speaker 4: like about you and have always liked about you WHEN
Speaker 4: i met you was it's such a gracious young. Man
Speaker 4: you had such a tough, story you, know your, life
Speaker 4: the way your life, unfolded and you know your faith
Speaker 4: In god had to be ever presentent you and the
Speaker 4: people around you to get to where you. Are but
Speaker 4: just talk about how your faith has carried you through
Speaker 4: the ups and downs of. Life even like you, said right,
Speaker 4: now your faith is, there but it's really grounded to.
Speaker 1: THIS i, mean when you really believe that you know That,
Speaker 1: god That, god it really has your. Back it's really
Speaker 1: there's really nothing nothing really like, it because you, can you,
Speaker 1: know you can go through all these different types of
Speaker 1: things and and different, setbacks but when you Know god
Speaker 1: has your, back it brings this this great feeling of
Speaker 1: relief over over.
Speaker 6: You and and really like WHEN i got, hurt.
Speaker 1: You, know it sucked AND i was in the locker
Speaker 1: room upset and and you know by the end of the,
Speaker 1: game you, know it's just you're just, like, well this
Speaker 1: is what you this is what.
Speaker 6: Happens it's the.
Speaker 1: Cars you've been dealt when you when you put your
Speaker 1: faith In god and you go to church and and you,
Speaker 1: know and you pray and you don't you don't really
Speaker 1: worry about those type of. Things you, know you, know
Speaker 1: he has your best. Friend you know who you, are
Speaker 1: and as long as you get out and work and
Speaker 1: live your life through, him you know you'll be.
Speaker 4: Fine all, right, Man we'll take a. Break come. Back
Speaker 4: we're With Eric. Hall since At bengals Is Wayne Box,
Speaker 4: Smeller Dave lap them The bengals Pep rowley is show
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Speaker 4: smell of The Dave Lap i'm tight. Ended Eric, All
Speaker 4: Uh cincinnati kid And uh just a delightful young. Man
Speaker 4: i'm so happy to have him here with.
Speaker 6: Us.
Speaker 4: Uh one of the THINGS i wanted to ask you
Speaker 4: about this locker. ROOM i tell people all the, Time
Speaker 4: I've i've been around football for a long time in,
Speaker 4: sports but the chemistry in this locker. Room AND i
Speaker 4: saw something today because people, think, oh the losing, Probably,
Speaker 4: no this team is so close and so. Cool today at,
Speaker 4: LUNCH i saw uh tight ends eating with offensive, linemen
Speaker 4: eating with defensive, backs eating with. It just guys like
Speaker 4: each other in this locker, room don't They.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah of course they. Do you, know it's many different,
Speaker 1: positions you, know they come. Together and that's rare because
Speaker 1: WHEN i was in, college it was kind of like
Speaker 1: the tight ends stuck with the tight, ends the line
Speaker 1: stuck with THE o. Line maybe the tight ends might you,
Speaker 1: know get to talking with THE o, line but, never
Speaker 1: rarely did you see the wide receivers and the tight
Speaker 1: ends and the dbs and the. Linebackers but when you get,
Speaker 1: here like everybody talks to. Everybody everyone's cool with, everybody
Speaker 1: and no matter if someone's making hundreds of millions of,
Speaker 1: dollars just kids in the locker room that are making you,
Speaker 1: know like ten thousand, dollars and yet you they still
Speaker 1: talk to each. Other everyone is cool and and everyone
Speaker 1: is welcoming AND i think it's a great environment for, Sure.
Speaker 4: New England patriots first game you. Played, Yeah SO i
Speaker 4: saw that today AND i looked AT i, said, man
Speaker 4: has got to bring a smile to your. Place do
Speaker 4: you remember the feeling you had that you out on
Speaker 4: the field and you're making your first, Place LIKE i
Speaker 4: am AN nfl player as of right, now it was it.
Speaker 1: Was i'm trying to remember because you know when you're
Speaker 1: that nervous and hitting, things so BUT i remember just
Speaker 1: wanting to get out there and hit somebody and just
Speaker 1: to see what it was like at that in this.
Speaker 1: Level AND i was kind OF i was kind of
Speaker 1: unimpressed BECAUSE i was expecting for it to be a lot,
Speaker 1: better BUT i was going against the kind of like
Speaker 1: a smaller type of D. N but BUT i remember
Speaker 1: it being being really fun and it's it being like
Speaker 1: the game's ending.
Speaker 6: A lot earlier than they do in.
Speaker 5: College so, Yeah so the tight end position with The
Speaker 5: Cincinnati bengals in, general the tight end position in THE
Speaker 5: nfl is a very unique important. Position can be a
Speaker 5: third tackle in the running, game you made an extra
Speaker 5: receiver in the passing. Game you know the versatility that
Speaker 5: it requires to play that. Position how important is the
Speaker 5: tight end position to The Cincinnati bengals offense, Specifically it's really.
Speaker 1: IMPORTANT i feel like a lot of the, times you,
Speaker 1: know the tight end position is kind of slept, On
Speaker 1: like the things that that we have to do is really.
Speaker 1: Important like you know past pro or you, know a
Speaker 1: backside of a of a run. Play things like that
Speaker 1: are very important, because for, example the backside of the
Speaker 1: inside zone the D. N if you if you ain't
Speaker 1: blocking that D, n he's there every, time and that's
Speaker 1: really jump starts to.
Speaker 6: Play it's like the most important block on the on the.
Speaker 6: Play but.
Speaker 1: BUT i feel LIKE i love it, because you, know
Speaker 1: we it's a gritty you gotta be, real real. Tough
Speaker 1: you gotta be you can't be. Soft you can't just
Speaker 1: go out there and run route like Even Mike disicky
Speaker 1: has the block and he. Does, Yeah and you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i love being like the position on the team to
Speaker 1: have to know everything on the, field well when it
Speaker 1: comes to the offensive side of.
Speaker 6: Things but it's just it's a unique position for.
Speaker 4: Sure do you think The Big, ten because it's more
Speaker 4: of a physical football, conference really helped you in that
Speaker 4: respect that in A Big ten you have to block
Speaker 4: Because Big ten loves to run the. Football until do
Speaker 4: you feel like being At michigan And iowa where they
Speaker 4: both like to run the. Football when you got here
Speaker 4: and they were, like, oh we need you to, Block you're, like, okay.
Speaker 6: That's What i've been.
Speaker 4: Doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah it helped me out a, lot, because especially WHEN
Speaker 1: i was At, michigan the coaches, demanded, like you for
Speaker 1: in order for you to be on the, field you
Speaker 1: have to really.
Speaker 6: Block, Yeah like there was no just receiver tight. Ends.
Speaker 1: YEAH i think we did have a receiver type style
Speaker 1: tight end who was really good at just kind of
Speaker 1: like kind of Like, mike you, know he's more so
Speaker 1: of a catch the ball, guy but he never really
Speaker 1: played because he didn't he couldn't really block that. Well
Speaker 1: so that helped out a. Lot and WHEN i got,
Speaker 1: THERE i was undersized and and they really had to
Speaker 1: teach me from square one To, MICHIGAN i. WAS i
Speaker 1: remember being too. Too OH i was either two five
Speaker 1: or two o. Eight, YEAH i, WAS i, WAS i was.
Speaker 1: DOWN i WAS i was pretty small.
Speaker 6: Weight.
Speaker 4: Man, YEAH i mean good weight muscle. Man what are you?
Speaker 6: Now all?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: NOW i got up to like to eighty did you eighty. Three,
Speaker 6: YEAH i got up to. Eighty i'm back down to sixty.
Speaker 4: Five. Though you're a good looking to sixty. Five not
Speaker 4: look too, SICK i, know i'd say, down you. KNOW
Speaker 4: i mean you carry it, well, man you really.
Speaker 6: Do.
Speaker 4: Thanks so let me ask you when you were growing up.
Speaker 5: You sports, junior high, school high, school in. College how
Speaker 5: many other sports did you? PLAY i mean a lot
Speaker 5: of guys in THE nfl played you, Know, YEAH i
Speaker 5: played high school, basketball, MAN i was all. State, YEAH
Speaker 5: i was An all state center field of shortstop in.
Speaker 5: Baseball you, know did you play other sports as?
Speaker 1: Well, YEAH i played a lot of. SPORTS i played, tennis, uh.
Speaker 1: Soccer soccer was the first Sport i've ever. Played, BASEBALL.
Speaker 6: I played. IT i played a bunch Oft DID i
Speaker 6: say hockey?
Speaker 4: Already?
Speaker 6: Hockey you?
Speaker 4: Didn't?
Speaker 6: Basketball, FOOTBALL i played a bunch of different.
Speaker 4: Sports, athlete you were. BUSY i have often Said eric Et,
Speaker 4: thomas who played for The bengals some years, back when
Speaker 4: we had this argument all the, time, man that these
Speaker 4: coaches that get heavy handed on not letting guys play other,
Speaker 4: sports like you're only going to play, football or you're
Speaker 4: only going to play, Basketball you're hurting hid because he
Speaker 4: needs to develop other twitch. Muscles AND i think that
Speaker 4: the muscles you develop another sports will always help you
Speaker 4: as you go to the next.
Speaker 1: Sport and only, THAT i think sports help, you like
Speaker 1: especially like, especially like if you're a kid is, younger
Speaker 1: like it could help them with like just life things
Speaker 1: like just working hard to get to get the spot
Speaker 1: and you, know just being on top of, it being.
Speaker 1: DISCIPLINED i think it helps out with real life stuff.
Speaker 1: Too BUT i agree with. You one of my best,
Speaker 1: friends he played baseball and football in, college joyed the
Speaker 1: last quest and he ended up transferring To Ohio state
Speaker 1: and From, michigan which was which is a, note which
Speaker 1: was not. Allowed, yeah and obviously he had some other
Speaker 1: things going on where he had to be. Home he's From,
Speaker 1: columbus but he he played baseball and football and was
Speaker 1: completely busy the year, in year and year. Out he
Speaker 1: was just you couldn't you couldn't get a hold of.
Speaker 1: Him he was either at football or baseball or at
Speaker 1: or he had both.
Speaker 5: Day so you're a very well spoken. Guy obviously heard
Speaker 5: you many. Times you comport, yourself carey yourself really. Well
Speaker 5: when you're done playing all kinds of, opportunities all kinds of. Avenues,
Speaker 5: broadcasting there's one, potential you, know, television radio broadcasting games
Speaker 5: or programming associated with football or other. Sports or maybe
Speaker 5: you want to get into. Coaching coaching another avenue THAT
Speaker 5: i think you'd be good. AT i think you, know
Speaker 5: you very. Intelligent you understand the, game you can communicate the.
Speaker 5: Game what are you thinking about? Doing And i'm not
Speaker 5: saying you're done, playing but when you are done, playing
Speaker 5: what are you thinking about?
Speaker 1: Doing potentially definitely coaching or really, YEAH i want TO
Speaker 1: i want to be a head, coach either in college or.
Speaker 6: Football but that's like a that's like the next step for.
Speaker 4: Me right for, sure rights down the.
Speaker 6: Road and what helped me up to that was during this.
Speaker 1: Offseason you, KNOW i couldn't do a whole lot so
Speaker 1: AND i had to stay, here SO i was helping
Speaker 1: out With Fairfield High school and and helping those guys,
Speaker 1: out and that really opened my eyes to it a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 6: More AND u that's WHAT i THINK i want to?
Speaker 4: Do hands on action. There, yeah it was. Fun it
Speaker 4: was probably give you some new found respect for coaches.
Speaker 1: Too oh, yeah it's part of it, too was just
Speaker 1: like you, know just seeing like just what they talk
Speaker 1: about and things like that.
Speaker 6: Helped it helped a. Lot it helped he that it
Speaker 6: was pretty.
Speaker 4: Cool all, right we'll take a. Break we'll come back With.
Speaker 6: Eric.
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Speaker 4: After thanksgiving as. Well and as we wrap up the,
Speaker 4: show getting ready for The New England, patriots they're trying
Speaker 4: to get to nine and two of The bengals trying
Speaker 4: to get their fourth. Win, eric one of the THINGS
Speaker 4: i wanted to ask about the Pay court. Crowd, MAN
Speaker 4: i tell You Cincinnati bengal fans really get after it
Speaker 4: for their home. Team. Yeah you when you walk out
Speaker 4: and you hear, like especially when the intros come this
Speaker 4: this crowd man like on a white out night and
Speaker 4: all those. Things, uh pretty pretty.
Speaker 1: Impressive, yeah it never used to be like, that, Right,
Speaker 1: yeah because you grew up, here so you know what
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 4: Like uh with this newfound uh, fandom but, uh it
Speaker 4: is great to see the energy in that. Stadium yeah it.
Speaker 6: Is it's really. Cool so.
Speaker 5: What's it like to be part of a group at
Speaker 5: the tight end position where guys are so? Close you
Speaker 5: got you guys are all little dancing. Machine get a free,
Speaker 5: SHOW a little free. Show, actually that's pretty good. Moves
Speaker 5: i'm gonna have to take that in the. Road that's
Speaker 5: the next touchdown. Dancer, yeah just.
Speaker 1: Another.
Speaker 5: Question but, so so, uh your, group everybody kind of
Speaker 5: uh wants the other guy to do.
Speaker 4: Well you, know obviously you want to do well.
Speaker 5: Yourself you want to be a contributor and win the football,
Speaker 5: game be a factor in the in the in the
Speaker 5: win and, uh but it seems like the tight end,
Speaker 5: position these guys are happier when other guys are doing.
Speaker 5: It is it that close as the group that?
Speaker 4: CLOSE i think?
Speaker 13: So?
Speaker 1: Yeah and then you know you can tell when you
Speaker 1: know when people are you, know kind of just like
Speaker 1: fake about, it but these these guys actually care about. You,
Speaker 1: know the team winning and and everybody you know getting
Speaker 1: paid and doing their job and you, know and and
Speaker 1: an another great thing about the room is that we
Speaker 1: hold each other. Accountable and Especially, drew he holds he
Speaker 1: holds the guys. Accountable but sample, yeah and.
Speaker 6: He's it's really.
Speaker 1: Cool it's really, cool especially you, know going into, it
Speaker 1: you hear so much like bad, things like, guys you,
Speaker 1: know they look out for. Themselves you, know guys are making,
Speaker 1: money so they're like not as. Cool, selfish, yes selfish
Speaker 1: and and BUT i haven't like with this, team you,
Speaker 1: know you don't feel like that at, All like guys
Speaker 1: Like Joe burrow And Jamar, Chase MIKE yasicki these guys
Speaker 1: are big name, guys but they treat you just like
Speaker 1: how they would treat, you, know their own.
Speaker 6: People so AND i think that's pretty. COOL i.
Speaker 4: Guess, well question about it With. Eric thank you for joining, us,
Speaker 4: man and first of, all thank you for navigating through
Speaker 4: traffick and all that just to get down here and
Speaker 4: be with, us, ladies and, dull let's get a big
Speaker 4: ham For. Eric all, sir join us today And i'm
Speaker 4: sure you'll be able to sign a few things before
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