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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals boot podcast. The these a Better Days edition

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Speaker 1: so much excitement and optimism for Bengals fans. Number one

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Speaker 1: facts interview where the topics range from honey Chris Bapples

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Speaker 1: Then I'll be joined by Dave Lapham to discuss the

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Speaker 1: schedule release and the latest Bengals news. And finally I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to Todd Archer, who covers the Dallas Cowboys for ESPN,

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Speaker 1: about Andy Dalton heading to Dallas. The Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: if you're on Facebook, you've undoubtedly received on this Day

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Speaker 1: epic Bengals birthday cake that he requested and received eight

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Speaker 1: Now you can resume conquering the planet. Let's get to football.

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Speaker 1: If you've listened to this podcast or Bengals radio shows

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Speaker 1: You're about to hear the first fun Facts interview that

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Speaker 1: pick in the twenty twenty NFL Draft, quarterback Joe Burrow. Joe,

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the famous cigar picture after

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Speaker 1: How did it happen? And did you have any idea

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Speaker 1: the cigar company. So he was passing around in the

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Speaker 1: capturing a picture, great video, great picture. It's on T shirts.

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Speaker 1: a little bit of extra leeway. Joe on Draft night,

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Speaker 1: You have stated publicly that your big splurge with your

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Speaker 1: the SEC media days, you use the term superluminal time travel.

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Speaker 1: Here's a quick reminder that you can take your Bengals

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Speaker 1: There's you know, the three division teams or the Banks

429
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Speaker 1: played three division games in the first half of the season,

430
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Speaker 1: they played Cleveland twice, they played three division teams the

431
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Speaker 1: second half of the season, and they play Pittsburgh twice.

432
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Speaker 1: So it's it's it's you know, it's it's laid out

433
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Speaker 1: very very evenly, like we talked about after the home

434
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 1: open or four of their next five are on the

435
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Speaker 1: road after the bye week, which is very beneficial for

436
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Speaker 1: the Bengals to fall right in the middle of the season. Again,

437
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Speaker 1: I mean, you'd like it to be eight games, take

438
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Speaker 1: your break, eight more games. Well, when they start the

439
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: next eight, three of the next three of those four

440
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Speaker 1: are on the road. So finally, you know what you say,

441
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Speaker 1: all right, well, finish in the season. What's it looked

442
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: like it looks good. Three of those last four at home.

443
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: You know, two of the last three or at home,

444
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: and two of them are division games. Those two games,

445
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 1: so if they can stay in the hunt, if they

446
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: can stay competitive, you know, the month of December could

447
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: be very very intriguing, and you know, finish it off

448
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: on January third, very very intriguing. Let's talk about how

449
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: difficult and or easy this schedule is. If you go

450
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Speaker 1: by winning percentage from last year, it's the sixth easiest

451
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Speaker 1: schedule in the NFL. If you judge it by how

452
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Speaker 1: Vegas expects these teams to be by looking at the

453
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Speaker 1: preseason over unders, Jay Morrison from The Athletic points out

454
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Speaker 1: that it's the thirteenth hardest. So it's difficult to say

455
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: for sure. But I look it over and I think, okay,

456
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Speaker 1: this is reasonably easy in my opinion. Do you agree?

457
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think it could be a

458
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Speaker 1: hell of a lot worse I am. I guess I

459
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 1: don't like falling on the trap of oh, I'll this

460
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: NFL schedule disease. This one haven't played. Man, they can

461
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: all be tough. You know, when you think it might

462
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: be a little bit of either here you can get

463
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: your get smoked. I mean it can back up and

464
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: backfire and blow up on you in a heartbeat. But yeah,

465
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: it stands to reason. But you know, you looked at

466
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: it then and the Bengals two and fourteen. Every single

467
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: team is circling when they play the Bengals, and then

468
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: the division arrivals are circling them twice saying okay, there's

469
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Speaker 1: a w Well look what they've done, you know, in

470
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Speaker 1: terms of free agency and the draft and changing their

471
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: whole football team. And you know every team does the

472
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, they make as many changes as possible.

473
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: Indianapolis has got a whole new quarterback room with Rivers

474
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Speaker 1: in Easton, Baltimore. They get Klais Campbell to add to

475
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Speaker 1: the mitch. Know that their defense. Cleveland signed Conklin as

476
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Speaker 1: a tackle and drafted Wills. So I mean everybody's made,

477
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Speaker 1: you know, made changes, and you're going by last year's records.

478
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Speaker 1: I think can be kind of sometimes a trap. You know,

479
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: get getting into this trap. You don't want it to

480
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: snap on you. So I think, you know, it stands

481
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 1: to reason that you should be able to compete in

482
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,239
Speaker 1: most of these football games. But boy, The thing is,

483
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: we don't know what any of these players look like.

484
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: We're hopeful that there's upgrades, and it stands for reason

485
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: there will be. But until you get out on the

486
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: field and the coaches see the players play, and the

487
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: players see their teammates playing, how they can mess with

488
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 1: you and kill all that process, all that dynamic takes

489
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: effect and takes hold. It's pure speculation for sure. Yeah,

490
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: I agree, you cannot completely base it on the team's

491
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: records from last year. I do think it's interesting when

492
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Speaker 1: you look at the NFL Draft, the Bengals face the

493
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Speaker 1: team that had the second pick, Washington, the fourth pick,

494
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: the Giants, a fifth pick Miami, the sixth pick, the Chargers,

495
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: the ninth pick Jacksonville, and the tenth pick Cleveland twice.

496
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: So that does underscore they face some of the very

497
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: weakest teams from last year. Agreed, And it's interesting, Um,

498
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,479
Speaker 1: you know, in the month of November and November, then

499
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: into December twenty second November, they face young second pick

500
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Speaker 1: of the draft, Joe Burrow, the first pick the very

501
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: next week to twenty ninth, Like you said, play the

502
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: Giants Andrew Thomas, the fourth pick of the draft, and

503
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 1: then on December sixth, down in Miami, face two. Potentially,

504
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 1: you know, if they don't read shirt him, So you

505
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: got you got the second, fourth and fifth pick of

506
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 1: the draft three straight weeks going against the number one

507
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. So that's that's kind of an

508
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic. And I guess the other thing I look

509
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: at Dan now that I'm broadcasting instead of playing. I

510
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: looked at it when I was playing as well, the holidays.

511
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna be home for the holidays. Well, it's good

512
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: for us. You know, we're home for Christmas, we're home

513
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving, you know, home for Halloween unless you have

514
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game most years anyway. But that that

515
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: part of it's all good. And then when you look

516
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: in December, man, you get Dallas in Pittsburgh, you go

517
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: to Miami, you have Dallas in Pittsburgh here, and you

518
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: go to Houston and the Dome. So I mean it's

519
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: the potentially, you know it's going to be cold here

520
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: in December, obviously, Dallas, that's going to be a little

521
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: bit of advantage. Dallas Bey and a Dome team come

522
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: up to the Steelers, no advantage. Baltimore January third, no

523
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: big advantage. But playing in the Dome against the Texans

524
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: on the twenty seventh and playing down in Miami on

525
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: the set. Now Miami, and look at there is a

526
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: big advantage because cold weather team, the blood sticking a

527
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: little bit in the month of Sember, they have to

528
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: come down to Miami. They may die in the vine

529
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: and the heat and humidity. But from the broadcast standpoint,

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00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: a dog, let's go to Miami, let's go to Houston.

531
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Speaker 1: Let's go on those nice, nice weather places or domes

532
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: down that's great for us. One last thought on the schedule.

533
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: If you go back to Andy Dalton's rookie year, one

534
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: of the reasons why he was so successful and the

535
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Speaker 1: team made the playoffs is that the schedule turned out

536
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: to be very soft. And as we're pointing out, some

537
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: of these teams that you're looking at that were lousy

538
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: last year are going to be much improved. Some of

539
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: the ones you expect to be really good, we'll have

540
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: injury problems or whatever and they won't be really good.

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Speaker 1: But back in two thousand eleven, the Bengals won nine games.

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00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: They did not beat a single playoff team. They only

543
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: had one win over a team that finished with a

544
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: winning record, and that team was nine and seven. So

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00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: they beat Cleveland twice four wins, Baltimore six, Jacksonville five,

546
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: Seattle seven, Saint Louis two, Arizona eight, Indianapolis two. It

547
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Speaker 1: just worked out that in Andy's rookie year, every card

548
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: fell perfectly in terms of the schedule and they were

549
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of it. Yeah, as as as

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00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: it turned out, like you said, you know, nine and seven,

551
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: they only beat one team with a winning record. They

552
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: beat the teams they were supposed to beat and struggled

553
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Speaker 1: against the teams that they weren't necessarily are supposed to beat.

554
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Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, the perfect every every team

555
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: the NFFL, it looks for every team to finish eight

556
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: and eight. That would be the perfect world for the

557
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: National Football League. Everybody's in the hunt every you know,

558
00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: total parody, that's what they're looking for. And the last year,

559
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: now that there's an extra playoff team, last year to

560
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: eight and eight teams were to made the playoffs, the

561
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers and there in the Rams they would have

562
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Speaker 1: been in the playoffs eight with eight and eight records.

563
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: So you know, you think, oh, we're gonna get ten

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Speaker 1: wins to make the playoffs. Not really, I mean nine

565
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: to seven more than one nine and seven team made

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and won the division. Um, you know in

567
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: eight and eight teams would have been the final, the

568
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: final playoff qualifier. So I mean that's the that's all.

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Speaker 1: You take care of the games. When the season unfold

570
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: and you really see what teams are like and how

571
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 1: they're playing, take care of the ones that you're supposed

572
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: to take care of, and you know you'd be in

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Speaker 1: the hunt. You'll be in the You'll be in the

574
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: in the in the race, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: I want to get your reaction to a couple of

576
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: recent interviews. First, Jeff Hobson's story on Bengals dot com

577
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: where he interviewed AJ Green. In that interview, AJ said, basically,

578
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Speaker 1: I will meet Joe Burrow to work out wherever he

579
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: wants to whenever that's allowed. So for anybody that thought

580
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: being franchise tagged was somehow going to cause a problem

581
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: between AJ Green and the Bengals, I think he shot

582
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: that that down pretty successfully. Yeah, and then then you wonder,

583
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: because he's gonna, you know, risk injury doing that. If

584
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: there are OTAs which there won't be so, I mean,

585
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: I guess because of the coronavirus this year, all the

586
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Speaker 1: question of whether A j was going to show up

587
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,239
Speaker 1: for OTAs and then he can what he didn't have

588
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, he's well within his rights not

589
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: to not to show up and risk injury. Um. And

590
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that the termination on that I think

591
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: is going to be a boot point because I don't

592
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be any of those anyway. But the

593
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: fact that that he is, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna

594
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: work with this guy. I'm gonna, you know, we'll go

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Speaker 1: wherever Joe wants us to go. He's the quarterback, he's

596
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: the leader. Will he has to destinates place, we'll go

597
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: there and we'll throw with with Joe Burrow. That's a

598
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: that's a huge sign. And I think now you know,

599
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: he's just like every other athlete and fan in the country,

600
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: tomping at the debt, you know, I mean, obviously have

601
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: read read the same article hops into a great job

602
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: as usual, which is the man and you know his

603
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: wife's working him out and he's working hard, and you know,

604
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: I've felt all along of you mentioned to the Seat

605
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: Times in my opinion that I think he's gonna have

606
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Speaker 1: a huge year. I think he's gonna have a banner year.

607
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna stay healthy and he is going

608
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: to be the age eight Green of you know, six

609
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: consecutive Pro Bowls before he started having having an injury

610
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: in susan Um. I don't think he's he's lost anything

611
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: in terms of the elite athleticism. Injuries have kept him

612
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: out for a year and a half. But I think

613
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a huge year. And I do think

614
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Speaker 1: that no one age Green the way we know him,

615
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Speaker 1: it's not a surprise to me. I mean, he's he's

616
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: about his He is the most I don't know, likable, humble,

617
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: perfect superstar you want to have on your team in

618
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: your locker room. I mean when when guys come into Cincinnati,

619
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: other media people and you know, get people out there,

620
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: no players that you know, interactalent for the front, they

621
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: can't believe it. They can't believe the kind of guy

622
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: that this dude is. So's it's no shocker, but it's

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Speaker 1: still a real positive, real good for sure. Lance McCallister

624
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: did a great interview with Duke Tobin on Seven Under WLW.

625
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: I thought Duke was unusually candid, and one of the

626
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: topics they covered was the possibility of bringing in a

627
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: veteran mentor quarterback to work with Joe Burrow. Duke pretty

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00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: much shot that down. Yeah, it doesn't surprise me because

629
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Speaker 1: I think the maturity of Joe Burrow and Joe Burrow

630
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: is older, you know, than Mahomes, older than Lamar Jackson.

631
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's twenty three years old, and he's been

632
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: through a lot, you know, he's been through the ups

633
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: and downs. He's Richard, I mean, he's he's got a

634
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: lot of experiences, life experiences as well as athletic experiences,

635
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: positively negative. And I think he's not your typical rookie

636
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. I mean, I think with

637
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: his football IQ and his maturation and everything that goes

638
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: along with it. Plus you know the fact that you know,

639
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: Pitcher played the position, Callahan played the position, Zach Taylor

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Speaker 1: played the position, Duke Jogan played the position, Mike Brown

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Speaker 1: played the position. We probably have more quarterbacks throughout the

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Speaker 1: organization than any team in the National Football League haven't

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Speaker 1: played that position. So um, I thought that if Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton somehow came back to Cincinnati and filled that role.

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Speaker 1: It would have worked out well because we know Andy Dalton.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't have liked it, but he would have grinned

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Speaker 1: and bared it. And um, you know, I'm gotten through

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Speaker 1: it and gotten through the process, and I think he

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Speaker 1: would have been a great, uh, you know, a great

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Speaker 1: veteran presence for for for Joe Burrow. But Joe Barrow,

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Speaker 1: I'm not asked him brought to Andy Dalton in that situation.

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Speaker 1: I remember the presser he said, you know, if there's

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Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback like that, you know, I'll a gapped

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Speaker 1: if there's not all a gap to that as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's got that earned confidence, as Zach

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Speaker 1: Taylor labeled it, because of all of his experience and

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Speaker 1: you know in life and football. I think so I'm

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Speaker 1: not I'm not overly concerned that there's not that there's

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Speaker 1: not a veteran quarterback like that. It fee almost like

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Speaker 1: I remember talking to Tom Moore when Peyton when he

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Speaker 1: coached Peyton Manning, and you know we talked about what

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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback you know, had an influence on Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: as he goes, he goes man, dude, Peyton Mannings he

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Speaker 1: came into the lake. It's like, you gotta you have

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Speaker 1: a you know, a brilliant genius in your room, and

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Speaker 1: he knows all the answers. You're the coach. You gotta

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Speaker 1: be on your a game. Peyton Manning made me a

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Speaker 1: better coach because Peyton Manning would find mistakes that I

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Speaker 1: made and point them out and make me feel like

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Speaker 1: a pool, make me feel like an idiot. I think

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Speaker 1: Joe Barrow has some of that in him, you know

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Speaker 1: so I think that he'll probably probably take control of

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Speaker 1: the quarterback room in a lot of ways like Peyton

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Speaker 1: Manning did. I'm not saying, you know that he becomes

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Speaker 1: the coach, but I mean that's what Tom tom Moore said.

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Speaker 1: Nothing you wouldn't believe. Early in his career. He said,

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Speaker 1: I'm standing there with my arms fold. He's run in

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Speaker 1: the whole damn show. Oh. I mean he's he's putting

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Speaker 1: together periods of practice that he wants. He's out there

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Speaker 1: on the field conducting it like a like a master

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Speaker 1: conductor of the orchestra. Was unbelievable. I think Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: has some of those counsels. Oh, I've bet Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously he was in a much different situation

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Speaker 1: coming as a sixth round kick. But his comment, you know,

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Speaker 1: we went up to cross the interence that you just congratulation,

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Speaker 1: you just made the best draft. It just selection you've

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Speaker 1: ever made. I mean, I bet he was capable of

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Speaker 1: doing those kinds of things. So some of those guys

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Speaker 1: have the get factor, you know, they've got they've got

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Speaker 1: whatever that takes. And I think Joe Burrow does agree.

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Speaker 1: Duke Tilbyn was also pretty definitive in expressing the Bengals

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Speaker 1: desire to get a deal done with Joe Mixon prior

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Speaker 1: to this season. Great. I mean, it's that's uh that

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Speaker 1: that's a big priority. And you know, nothing makes any

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Speaker 1: quarterback a better quarterback than a sound running game, particularly

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Speaker 1: the young quarterback. You know that there's high expectations for

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Speaker 1: this coming off a Heisman Trophy record breaking season as

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Speaker 1: a college quarterback, the best year of quarterbacks ever had

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Speaker 1: playing in the UNC Double A or the LSU. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the expectation is going to be off the charts, and

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Speaker 1: to have a running back like Joe Mixon in the

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Speaker 1: fold for not just your first year, but you know

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Speaker 1: the first few years in the National Football League. You

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Speaker 1: can't ask for anything more. You know, we talk about

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Speaker 1: the receiver corps, you know, with with te Higgins being drafted,

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Speaker 1: everything that's returning, and we talked about Joe Mixon and

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Speaker 1: Giovanni Bernard. I mean, that's a hello, one two punch.

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Speaker 1: Gio is so smart. He understands every nuance of football.

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Speaker 1: Geo's a common influence in the huddle to a young

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Speaker 1: quarterback as well in terms of let's pick up, He's

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Speaker 1: not going to go the wrong way, let's pick up.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be where he's supposed to be when

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Speaker 1: he's supposed to be there, doing what he's supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: You know, all of those things. And having Joe burrowing

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Speaker 1: the fold man, it makes uh, you know, it lists

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Speaker 1: the whole boat. We see. Joe is not only you know,

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Speaker 1: physical talent, but he's a he's an inspirational guy. He's

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Speaker 1: an emotional guy in the positive way. You know. He

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Speaker 1: gets everybody up in the bit as such, and and

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Speaker 1: his teammates respond to him. So that would be a

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Speaker 1: huge deal to get that extension done for sure. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's wrap things up with some questions from Twitter followers

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Speaker 1: under the hashtag ask lap our. First question comes from

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Speaker 1: man Abel Hoosen. Do you think the Bengals might add

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Speaker 1: another veteran offensive linemen to help mentor and develop the young,

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Speaker 1: hopefully emerging linemen on the roster. What do you think

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Speaker 1: It's not an impossibility? You know, I think I think

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Speaker 1: that that that you know, makes some sense if iff

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Speaker 1: in fact, the economics dictate that that that could be

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Speaker 1: the case. I mean, they're not gonna They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: go then gonna go trade or anybody or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: And usually to get it off of the waiver wire,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's it's it's a veteran like that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's put it out on number eighteen, you know. I

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Speaker 1: mean he's towards the end of his of his career physically.

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Speaker 1: So it is a young group though, but there's no question.

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Speaker 1: But again, Trey Hopkins, I'll take that guy's mindset, in

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Speaker 1: his makeup and his disposition over a twenty five year

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Speaker 1: of veteran. I mean, he's one of those guys that

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Speaker 1: you know, they say about Joe Burrow when the coaches

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Speaker 1: talked to Joe Burrow when they interview him, he was

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Speaker 1: like a ten year of veteran. Trey Hopkins was like

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Speaker 1: that the first time I talked to him, you know,

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Speaker 1: even back in coming down to Texas as a college

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Speaker 1: tree years and even when I was doing games of Texas,

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Speaker 1: this dude was like mensa, mensa, mensa. So sometimes leadership

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Speaker 1: isn't just veteran age, you know, in terms of years

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Speaker 1: in the league. Some guys are you know, talented physically,

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Speaker 1: can stay in the league for a while, but they're

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Speaker 1: not the sharpest knife in the drawer. And Trey Hopkins

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Speaker 1: talks about how smart Bobby Hart is and how Bobby

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Speaker 1: Hart knows the offense inside. Um, Bobby Hart can make

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Speaker 1: all the all the calls. So you know, those those

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Speaker 1: two guys and the coaches the same thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: both of them. Both of those players get get high

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Speaker 1: praise from the offensive line coaches in terms of being

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Speaker 1: football smart, in overall high iqes and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, I don't know anything about

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Speaker 1: Xavier Sua Flow obviously at this point in time, but

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Speaker 1: I think they do. And knowing Jonah Williams like we do,

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Speaker 1: Dan Jona Williams is not your typical rookie. This dude

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Speaker 1: is like, you know, he made up his spreadsheet when

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Speaker 1: he was in college. I mean that was revolutionary, never

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Speaker 1: done before. And this guy takes football serious as a

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Speaker 1: heart attack. So even though they might be young calendar wise,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that, you know, they're lacking leadership, they're

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Speaker 1: lacking focus, they're lacking guys are gonna be like glong guys,

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Speaker 1: let's get after this be done and let's get it done.

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Speaker 1: I think they get guys that can get do that

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Speaker 1: for him. And you mentioned Xaviers Sue a Philo and

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Speaker 1: that's a three year deal and he's been around the

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Speaker 1: block with a few different teams, so certainly he will

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Speaker 1: add some veteran experience. Next question comes from Joy Fields.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Bengals offense will take more chances

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Speaker 1: down the field with Burrow and Higgins now in the

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Speaker 1: mix or do you see more short and intermediate plays

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Speaker 1: being called? Well, I do think that that Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: does have immense accuracy with his deep ball, and you

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Speaker 1: know that's something that was that was talked about with

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrows a great year at LSU, and Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: admitted that he didn't need to have, you know, a

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Speaker 1: little chuck down throws to get his confidence to see

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Speaker 1: a completion. I mean he going to games. He went

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Speaker 1: into the Clemson game, you know, ripping the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field like the very first series of the game.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's not trying to hit the back out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield a little a little h you know,

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Speaker 1: hook to the tight end the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: just to you know, just as like a basketball player

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Speaker 1: wants to see the ball go through the coopie quarterback

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Speaker 1: wants to see a completion. Bader, He's not. He's not really,

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Speaker 1: that's not a big part of his makeup. UM. So

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Speaker 1: he will. He will attack the football field. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he'll get it down the football field. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that they will. They will stretch the field

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Speaker 1: if they particularly, you know, with aj greenback able to

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Speaker 1: stretch to gen Ross is healthy, able to stretch at

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Speaker 1: key Higgins. I mean literally, I don't I don't think

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Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback could ask for much more than than

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Speaker 1: what Joe Burrow may have from a skill position standpoint,

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Speaker 1: Like we talked about earlier, UM with Joe Mixon and

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Speaker 1: Joe in the backfield and others and the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: corps and the tight ends that that they've got to

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Speaker 1: can you know, be complete tight ends, catching and block

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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, it's it's a pretty damn good

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Speaker 1: skill group. The key is going to be that offensive

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Speaker 1: line that we just talked about, will that old line

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, you know, the opportunity to get the ball

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Speaker 1: down the football field because you know, most times you

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Speaker 1: need a little bit more protection obviously to get the

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Speaker 1: ball but down the field. But with Joe Burrow, he

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Speaker 1: reads so quickly, he does get the but he throws

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Speaker 1: with great anticipation in accuracy, So that's going to help

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Speaker 1: the offense as well. The next question comes from the

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Speaker 1: initial d We kind of covered this, but his question

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Speaker 1: was he wanted an update on Mixon and a possible holdout,

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Speaker 1: and then ask is this the crucial item for the

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Speaker 1: organization to get accomplished? I think it's a. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a huge priority. If it's not priority number one,

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Speaker 1: is priority number one A you know, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think I think they're probably still um in talks with

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Speaker 1: AJ obviously in Joe Mixon. Those are those are the

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Speaker 1: two I think that they'd like to uh, they'd like

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Speaker 1: to get done with the cap room that they've got

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Speaker 1: left extend those guys um and like like see happened

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Speaker 1: in both cases and c and it is. It's a

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Speaker 1: huge priority. It's a huge priority for a lot of reasons.

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Speaker 1: I mean Joe Mixon as alignment. I can tell you

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Speaker 1: that when you're blocking for guys like Joe Mixon, you

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Speaker 1: feel like a much better player because it's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to give this guy a chance. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to dominate my guy. I don't have to handcake

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Speaker 1: my dude. I just have to give jo all a

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Speaker 1: defendative free and then just watch that twenty eight disappear,

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Speaker 1: the twenty er his backside, Just watch it run away.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that gives you an injection of confidence.

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Speaker 1: You know, your adrenaline starts pumping. And I mean it's like,

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Speaker 1: you don't, you don't. All you have to do is

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Speaker 1: do your job. Nothing more. You don't, you don't. Just

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Speaker 1: make sure you don't screw it up. As an offensive warning,

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Speaker 1: don't screw it up. Joe makes someone makes something happen.

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Speaker 1: Next question from Greg Luther, who, in your opinion, is

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Speaker 1: the biggest steel out of all of the draft picks.

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Speaker 1: The biggest steel out of all the draft picks. Boy, well,

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Speaker 1: I guess when you when you look at it, um,

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Speaker 1: the one that probably jumps out the most is Marcus Bailey.

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Speaker 1: If Marcus Bailey doesn't have the knee injuries, but if

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Speaker 1: in Butler Candy, and that's it's Christmas every day he

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Speaker 1: does have him, you know, if he they had him

850
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: as a solid third round pick, and a third round

851
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: pick for them is like a late two. So they

852
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: had him as a solid third round pick, and with

853
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: the first pick of the draft this year, that is

854
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: like a late two, as I said. And if he

855
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: pans out physically, if he can, if he can hold up,

856
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: he can do a lot of things for you. He

857
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: gives you that position versatility that all defensive coordinators are

858
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: looking for. Bill Belichick's you know, won a lot of

859
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: championships because of the position versatility of his defensive players,

860
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: and they're they're kind of like the gold standard. And

861
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: everybody wants to be able to do a lot of

862
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: things without having to make substitutions of personnel. And this guy,

863
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, can do that. So you look at somebody

864
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,959
Speaker 1: that you've had, you know, late two, solid three, whatever

865
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: the case may be, and you get him as a seventh,

866
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: seventh round to him, that one could be could end

867
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: up being the steal just on that art alone. You

868
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: know what, I think lap one of these linebackers, at

869
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: least one of them is going to work out. Oh

870
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean it may be more than one,

871
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,760
Speaker 1: but I feel confident that at least one of these

872
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: guys is finally going to really work out. I agree

873
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: with you, Dan, I think I think it's going to be.

874
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: You know, the more I hear people that know a

875
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: little bit about Logan Wilson and and uh, you know,

876
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: he seems to be around the league. There was no

877
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: shock obviously with Logan Wilson when when when he gets

878
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: selected by the Bengals, A lot a lot of teams

879
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: in the league thought a lot about this. Uh, this kid,

880
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: there's no question about it, and it could work out,

881
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: just like we talked about a bunch of times when

882
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: Kio spikes Brian Simmons Foley, Uh, Adrian Ross. When those

883
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: guys three draft picks and a free agent get the

884
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: three draft picks and watch for this, Uh Marcel Spears,

885
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: this kid from Iowa State, He'll rip your face off. Now,

886
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: this dude will hit you. So, you know, I think

887
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: this guy could be you know they had three successful

888
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: draft picks and a college free agent in that rebuilding

889
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: the linebacker room. They have three draft picks in this

890
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: in this generation other and the potential free age and

891
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: think restructure when redo the line by real and it's

892
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting to watch. Final ask lap

893
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: question comes from Sean Jackson. Who will be the starting

894
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: five offensive lineman? And how good do you think the

895
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: offense will be? I think the offense will be as

896
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,919
Speaker 1: good as the offensive lineman allows it to be. Said

897
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: group Lab. I do think they have a huge They

898
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: have a high floor and a high ceiling with the

899
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: skill players, and it's going to be the offensive line

900
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: is going to be the ones that determine is going

901
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: to be closer to the high floor or will they

902
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: allow it to generate and grow and blossom to the

903
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: high ceiling. I think it's gonna be Jonah Williams, Michael Jordan,

904
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,760
Speaker 1: Trey Hopkins, Xavier Sue Philo and the right tackle position,

905
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: that's the interesting one. That's the battle royal. And I'm

906
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: telling you I would not I would not dismiss Fred Johnson.

907
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: You know, I do think the staff likes Bobby Hart.

908
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: You know, they think he graded out better than a

909
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: lot of people think that he grades out, and he

910
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: continues to do that. He's the incumbent, But Fred Johnson

911
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: made himself some money by playing as well as he

912
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: played last year. He proved you could play left tackle.

913
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: Don't don't dismiss the big boy out there at the

914
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: right tackle position and that and I think, as I

915
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: said earlier, I mean, I think it is going to

916
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: be a derby. I think a came identity is going

917
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: to be out there as well, and best man wins.

918
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 1: I mean, the right tackle position is the one that's

919
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: going to be under microscope, telescope, arthroscope and every kind

920
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 1: of scope. He can sign. All right, buddy, you're off

921
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: the hot seat. Hope to see you on something other

922
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: than a computer screen sometime soon. Look forward to that.

923
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: Dan the Man. My final conversation this week is with

924
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: Todd Archer, who used to cover the Bengals for the

925
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: old Cincinnati Post. Now he's on the Dallas Cowboys beat

926
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: for ESPN, and I spoke to him this week about

927
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 1: the signing of Andy Dalton. When the Bengals released Andy,

928
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: it was widely assumed that he would sign with either

929
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: of the two teams that would p eventually give him

930
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: the opportunity to compete for a starting job Jacksonville, where

931
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator is Jay Gruden and the starting QB

932
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: is Gardner Minshew, a sixth round draft pick from last year,

933
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: or New England, where at least for now, the starting

934
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: QB is Jarrett Stidham, a fourth round pick last year

935
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: out of Auburn who has thrown all of four passes

936
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and one of the four was a

937
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: pick six. Instead, Andy wound up back home in Texas,

938
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: and I asked Todd Archer if there was any inkling

939
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: in Dallas that if and when the Bengals released Andy Dalton,

940
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would be interested. Maybe a little bit. But

941
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are under the same

942
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: assumption that you were, that he would want to go

943
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: to a spot where you could compete to be the starter,

944
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: and that's not the case here. But I do think

945
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys perspective, the organization perspective, they kind of

946
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: got lucky that he lives here. He lives in Dallas,

947
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,919
Speaker 1: He's a TCU guy that, you know, with what's going

948
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: on in the world right now, he might have said

949
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,280
Speaker 1: to himself, do I really want to take my family

950
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: somewhere for a year or two whatever, not knowing what

951
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: the situation is going to be, and try this. And

952
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys benefited from from that and the

953
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: fact that he'll have to drive a half hour up

954
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: the road to their facility in Frisco, Texas. And yeah,

955
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: he'll be Dack's back up. And Dak hasn't missed a

956
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: game in his career, but he's still going to be

957
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: home and he's going to be able to be around

958
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: his family, and maybe sitting back for a year will

959
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: be a good thing for him to rejuvenate him going forward.

960
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, we're talking to Todd Archer, who

961
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 1: covers the Cowboys for ESPN. The Cowboys of franchise tagged Dak.

962
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: He has not signed beyond this year at least so far.

963
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: Does this have anything to do with his contract situation? Yeah,

964
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: I wrote about that today on ESN dot com. And

965
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: there's no this isn't a leverage played by the Cowboys

966
00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: to say, oh, we got Andy Dalton in here, now

967
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: you better sign. If this is a we've made the

968
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: team better move. If you go look at the Cowboys

969
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: backup situation, their guy before Andy Dalton was Cooper Rush.

970
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: He's thrown three more passes than me and you have

971
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: in his NFL career, So you know they've gotten infinitely

972
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: better right now at this spot with a guy almost

973
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: thirty two thousand passing yards and two hundred and four

974
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. But it is not a sign of unhappiness

975
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: of where these negotiations are. And there will be people

976
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: I think, oh, sure, yeah, whatever, of course if the

977
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: leverage play, because now that if Dak holds out, well,

978
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: then they can go with a guy like Andy Dalton

979
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: and Dak's leveragees is lessened. Dak's not going to hold out.

980
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: He played for two million dollars last year. Why wouldn't

981
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: he played for thirty one million dollars this year? And

982
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: Dak needs another good season if he doesn't get this

983
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: contract extension to go forward to get it either from

984
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, get tagged again, or maybe hit the market

985
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one after this season. So there's a

986
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: lot of things that still say Dak is going to

987
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: be this team's quarterback for twenty twenty and beyond, and

988
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: this is just a situation where it's taken longer. I

989
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: think everybody thinks, but I always find it funny Dan

990
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: that people are saying, well, the Cowboys must not like

991
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: him since things this has taken so long. They've made

992
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: him an offer that, at least we think would make

993
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: him the second highest paid quarterback in the NFL. If

994
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: you don't like a guy, you're not offering a guy

995
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: thirty four million dollars a year, So that notion is

996
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: always kind of I found it funny when when you

997
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 1: hear people say there's got to be something the Cowboys

998
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: don't like about Dak. They've made him a pretty substantial

999
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: offer and to just kind of working through some points

1000
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: to get to a deal they hope before July fifteen.

1001
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: I read somewhere, and it may have been in your reporting,

1002
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys want him to sign for five and

1003
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: he wants to sign for four to get the free

1004
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: agency faster. Is that where that they pulled up is

1005
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:02,479
Speaker 1: right now? Not d hold up, but it's a hold

1006
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: up the length of the deal. He clearly would want

1007
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: a shorter deal and to be able to get out

1008
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: there again by the time he being what thirty two

1009
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 1: thirty three years old, and the Cowboys want him around

1010
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: longer because if you're going to spend that kind of money,

1011
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: you want to have some ability to have some flexibility

1012
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: in the early years to spread some money around. But

1013
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: that's not the only issue going on. That's kind of

1014
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 1: been painted around from a lot of people here locally

1015
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: and nationally that it's just the length of the deal

1016
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: they can I mean, that's not the only thing. There's

1017
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: average per year, there's guaranteed money, there's the cash flow

1018
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: of this. There's a lot of elements to it. But

1019
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 1: the length of the contract is part of the deal,

1020
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: but not the sole reason why there's not a deal

1021
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: done yet. Andy is from Katie, Texas, which is near Houston.

1022
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: But as we pointed out, he played for TCU. He

1023
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: has a home in the Dallas area. How popular is

1024
00:54:56,120 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in Dallas. That's a great And then there's

1025
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: a pretty big we joked about the Xavier Cincinnati thing

1026
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: right to start, there's a pretty big divide between Dallas

1027
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 1: and Fort Worth. In my view, like people in Dallas

1028
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 1: don't really look at Fort Worth very much, like it's

1029
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: not a big deal. But people I know in Fort

1030
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: Worth they don't call it DFW. They call it FWD.

1031
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: So there's the Dallas Morning News doesn't really cover TCU.

1032
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: Now the Four Words Star Telegram does, but they don't

1033
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: cover FMU. So he's popular because he's he did great

1034
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: things that DCU for. Gary Patterson won a lot of games.

1035
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: And it's interesting that two of his coaches he's played

1036
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: in Bowl games against in Scott Coldean and Kellen Moore,

1037
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: and he I think he went two and one against

1038
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: those guys. Maybe help me out. Did they beat Wisconsin

1039
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: or did they lose to Wisconsin? They've been Wisconsin in

1040
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: the Rose Bow. Okay, he went two and one against

1041
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: his now coaches on this staff. But he's fair fairly popular,

1042
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: and look from a playing perspective, you know, maybe it's

1043
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 1: because I covered the Bengals and I have strong feelings

1044
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 1: for the Brown family, and I realized they've done some

1045
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: things that haven't gone well for a long amount of

1046
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 1: a good amount of time. But Andy is a guy

1047
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: who went to the playoffs for five straight years. One

1048
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys last done that. I honestly don't I

1049
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: don't even know if they did that with Jimmy, so

1050
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, now he didn't want a playoff game. Don't

1051
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: get me wrong, the cow but the Cowboys haven't been

1052
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: to an NFC title game since ninety five. It's been

1053
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: a while since the Cowboys have been the Cowboys. So

1054
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: I think this move though, is viewed as a positive

1055
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys because, yeah, and he's from here and

1056
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: he lives here. He had success at TCU, but mainly

1057
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: because they finally feel like they have a backup quarterback.

1058
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: If something were to happen to Dak, that they'd be covered.

1059
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,439
Speaker 1: TCU beat Wisconsin twenty one to nineteen in that Rose Bowl.

1060
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: By the way, last question for Todd Archer, who covers

1061
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for ESPN. Dax had four very productive years

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Speaker 1: in Dallas, and he's got nine years of experience under

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Speaker 1: his belt. Do you think that Dak will be picking

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Speaker 1: his brain a lot? I mean, clearly they signed Andy

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Speaker 1: to have a good insurance policy if something happened to Dak.

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Speaker 1: But do they like the fact now that for the

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Speaker 1: first time in Dak's career, he's got kind of a

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Speaker 1: veteran mentor to work with. Yeah. Absolutely, I think that

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Speaker 1: is part of it. And you know, he was Kellen

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Speaker 1: Moore's teammate here for his first couple of years before

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Speaker 1: Kellen moved on to the coaching staff, so they have

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Speaker 1: a really tight connection in tight boon. And when he

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Speaker 1: took over in twenty sixteen, Romo was still here, but

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Speaker 1: Romo wasn't around much during the week to it with

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Speaker 1: his rehab coming from the back, so they'd got Mark

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Speaker 1: Sanchez was really a guy that Dak relied on a

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Speaker 1: then it's been Cooper Rush as the backup, an undrafted

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Speaker 1: But Dak is a one of his best traits is

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Speaker 1: as a listener and seeking people out and trusting what

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Speaker 1: they see. And Andy has seen probably just about everything

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Speaker 1: in his career. And you know, this is something that

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys had with Romo. They had John Kitten, another

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Speaker 1: former Bengal. They had Brad Johnson, they had Kyle Orton

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Speaker 1: as his backup, so guys that could test Romo academically

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Speaker 1: in some respect in the room and while also pushing

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Speaker 1: him on the field too to be better. So I

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Speaker 1: think the Cobs are hoping that they would get the

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Speaker 1: same out of Andy Dalton here this year. Whenever we

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Speaker 1: can play football again and whenever dak is around this team.

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Speaker 1: If you get the long term deal or if he's

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Speaker 1: playing on the franchise tech, that's going to do it.

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