WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Better Days 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.240 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:11.959 the Bengals boot podcast. The these a Better Days edition 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.080 as I visit with a young man who has generated 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.120 so much excitement and optimism for Bengals fans. Number one 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.360 draft pick Joe Burrow. He joins me for a fun 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.640 facts interview where the topics range from honey Chris Bapples 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.440 to Julius Caesar, a wide ranging conversation to say the least. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.960 Then I'll be joined by Dave Lapham to discuss the 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.160 schedule release and the latest Bengals news. And finally I'll 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.040 talk to Todd Archer, who covers the Dallas Cowboys for ESPN, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.160 about Andy Dalton heading to Dallas. 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Let's get to football. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.639 If you've listened to this podcast or Bengals radio shows 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.720 in the past, you're probably familiar with my fun Facts 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.440 interviews where we get away from the xes and o's 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.160 and try to get to know the person under the pads. 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.880 You're about to hear the first fun Facts interview that 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.680 I've attempted over the phone. It's with Joe Burrow. And 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.960 while it's not quite the same as when you're sitting 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.919 right next to the person and seeing how they react, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.920 he was a great sport about answering a wide variety 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.519 of questions. Time for some fun facts with the first 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:24.160 pick in the twenty twenty NFL Draft, quarterback Joe Burrow. Joe, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.760 I want to start with the famous cigar picture after 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.800 the National Championship win over Clemson. It reminds me of 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.239 Joe Namath in the bathing suit by the pool before 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.919 Super Bowl three. It's like the epitome of cool incompetent. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.600 How did it happen? And did you have any idea 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.240 in the moment? How big of a deal that would 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.720 become one of our strength? In turns his family on 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.080 the cigar company. So he was passing around in the 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.640 locker room and we were spoken them and then they 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.160 told me the time for media and you want to 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.440 just put it out and they have to relite about myself. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.120 I was kept smoking it and so I'll end up 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:09.239 capturing a picture, great video, great picture. It's on T shirts. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.480 It's one of the most popular gifts out there. That 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:18.520 thing has become hugely viral. Yeah. I mean this is craziness, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.200 and I don't think we're allowed to smoke inside. But 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.000 I think the New Orleans costs. Let us let's get 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.760 away with one. Yeah, win a national championship, you get 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.919 a little bit of extra leeway. Joe on Draft night, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.680 the Heisman trophy made a nice decoration in your family 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.560 living room. How heavy is it? And how do you 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.960 travel with the Heisman Trophy? I think it's about thirty 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.200 pounds thirty or forty, and they gave us a nice 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.760 little case with the walk on it that we can 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.640 travel with, so nobody will take it from us. So 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.800 when you haven't been able to go to fitness centers 0:03:54.160 --> 0:04:00.240 during this pandemic situation, you can lift the Heisman trophy good. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.120 You have stated publicly that your big splurge with your 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.400 rookie contract is going to be a personal chef. Are 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.680 their candidates already and what must they be able to cook? 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.440 Getting resumeates for a long time or since I first 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.920 said that? So now now is the time where parmy 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.920 starting to go through the wall. I'd have to think 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.640 about my case has been changing lately. Some things that 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.560 I used to like I don't really like as much anymore. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.520 So I think my options are pretty open. I have 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.279 heard this isn't something that a chef will be required 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.240 to prepare, But I have heard that you have a 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.960 passion for the Honey Crisp apple easily the best apple 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.280 correct by far number one of all the apples. Are 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.800 signing close. We have that in common, Joe, you have 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:58.480 been described as being compulsively competitive. What loss still stings 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:04.360 the most? Every one of them. There's not any particular 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.760 losses that I hurt more than others. Losing this isn't 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.240 very fun, and that's why I like to work as 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.240 hard as I can to try to win as many 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.400 games as possible. On the flip side, is there a 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.400 win in something other than a big sporting event that's 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.760 still deeply satisfying? Enjoy beating people in ping pong? That's 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:31.280 that's pretty satisfying. As we always have a family ping 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.440 pong tournament on vacation, I usually win it. You'll be 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.000 happy to know if you didn't already, there's a ping 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.320 pong table in the Bengals locker room. I'll be frequenting 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.240 that table. I want to go back to a game 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:49.000 in your junior year at LSU seven overtimes Texas A 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.720 and m ultimately won seventy four seventy two. It's the 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.680 highest scoring game at FBS history, nearly five hours long, 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.800 and you physically crashed at the end of that game. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.240 How serious was that? Still? Too seriously, thought a little 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.920 little blood sugar. I don't like to eat directly before games, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.000 so the last time I had eaten was lunch, and 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.039 we ended up getting enough to feel like one am. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.120 So that's I didn't need anything at halftime. So that's 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.200 the only reason that I had passed out in a 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.239 locker room. When you decided to transfer from Ohio State, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.000 your final two choices were the University of Cincinnati or LSU, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.120 and you obviously made the right choice. But I understand 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.000 that had you transferred to UC there was a thought 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.600 process that Andy Dalton actually might serve as a mentor 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.320 or a sounding board since you would have been in 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.120 the same city. Was that an appealing possibility? And did 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.599 you two guys ever make contact? You didn't before the 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.320 last couple of days. Um, that was in discussion that 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.360 they have never really crossed my mind that that was 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.880 going to play a part in my decision making. You know, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.279 my goal was always in a national championships. That's the 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.160 reason that I picked the LSU. Joe. By referencing families 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.680 living in poverty where you grew up during your Heisman's speech, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.720 you helped raise more than half a million bucks for 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.760 the food pantry in Athens County. Was that an eye 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.560 opening moment for what you might be able to do 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:24.040 going forward for people with the platform you're going to have. Yeah, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.160 it really was, and I'm excited to kind of come 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.840 up with some more things to help more people that 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.000 hopefully we can do here in the next couple of years. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.760 All Right, a few wild card topics for you. Your 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.880 dad was drafted by the Packers and played in the 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.960 Canadian Football League for five years. Your brothers played big 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.160 time college football at Nebraska. But the best athlete in 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:51.040 your family might have been your grandmother, right, Yeah, she 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.360 dropped eighty two in a game in high school one time, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.560 eighty two points in a high school basketball game. And 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:01.280 I've read that she averaged fifty plus. Yeah, yeah, she 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.680 did as you were growing up in the driveway or 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:09.120 anything like that. Did Grandma Dot ever toss a ball? No, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.240 I've never seen her. I've never seen her do it. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.760 I'll find out for some film of her doing it 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.720 one of these daies. I understand that you are a 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:24.000 huge Cleveland Cavaliers fanatic, and rumor has it. I don't 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.400 know if this was in the first finals against the 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.920 Warriors of the second one, but you didn't leave your room, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.600 you didn't change your clothes something like that for good luck, explain. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.800 I didn't quite go that far. I just wore a 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.520 Matthew Doble's over shirts and I wore for every during 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.800 every game when you were a kid. Did you have 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:57.439 any memorable meetings with a really famous athlete at my 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.400 cousin's wedding in Calciforny? And yeah, Peyton Manning attended a 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:08.440 cousin's wedding. No, he was just at the hotel that 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.840 it was happening at h Do you think you resemble 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.960 Macaulay Culkin? Yeah, yeah, i'd say I'd say so now 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.120 and I can't can't hid you that on thinking a 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:25.880 little better looking. Now, what are you bad at? Because 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.400 obviously you were a great athlete in every sport that 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.040 you've played. We understand you're good at ping pong. You 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.360 referenced playing chess when you spoke to reporters after you 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:41.840 were selected by the Bengals. What are you lousy at golf? 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.000 If I might do something, I have to pick up 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.120 and cracktic is quite a bit at the once. At 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:53.960 the SEC media days, you use the term superluminal time travel. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.640 Are you a science nerd? I am a science nerd. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.880 I wish I had more time to kind of study it, 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.560 but yeah, I'm into all those science documentaries and stuff 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:13.040 like that. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, politician, entertainer, whomever, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:19.160 who would that person be. Julius Caesar? Why Julius Caesar. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.480 Here's a great conqueror, and obviously to do that you 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.319 got to be a really good leader of men. So 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.839 I'd be interested to just spend spend a couple of 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.680 days with them. All right. Last thing, you attended the 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.800 Super Bowl in Miami. You were hanging out with your 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.120 buddy Sam Hubbard, and I heard that you were a 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.120 little bit taken aback by the fact that famous people 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:49.880 have now started recognizing you and showing their excitement about 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:55.400 meeting you. What's that like when you first realize, huh, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:00.959 my life has changed. I mean it was crazy people 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.199 who you grow up watching and listening to, and that 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.199 they're just coming up and introducing himself to me. I 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.160 mean it was. It's been a crazy experience so far. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.520 All right, you're off the hot seat. I appreciate the time. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.240 I look forward to meeting you in person. Joe has 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.160 been bombarded by media requests beforehand after the draft, and 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.080 I appreciate him taking time out for that fun facts 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.960 conversation and hopefully at some point we'll do a second 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.520 version face to face before we get to our next segment. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.960 Here's a quick reminder that you can take your Bengals 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.800 pride to the next level in twenty twenty with an 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.320 official Bengals fan package from Prime Sport. The Bengal schedule 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.160 was released on Thursday. It begins with a home game 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.160 against the Chargers and ends with a home game against 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.800 the Ravens. I discussed that and more with my broadcast 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.040 partner Dave lapham Lap when the schedule came out. What 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.600 were you looking for and was there anything you were 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.280 hoping for? Well, I was looking to see what they 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.000 might do and terms of um getting Division games and 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.120 AFC games in the back half of the schedule if 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.199 in fact they weren't going to play, you know, an 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.680 entire season. I thought they'd backload it, and it turned 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.400 up to be just the opt There's only one NFC 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.000 opponent in the first half of the season, the Bengals 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.560 go to Philadelphia. There's three NFC opponents in the second 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.080 half of the season. So you know that theory of 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.040 mine kind of went could put. But I do know 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.040 I'd noticed that none of the no team had to 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.439 buy in weeks one through four, so you know, if 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.800 they have to, if they have to manipulate move things around. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.360 They can also play during the bye week instead of 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.800 having to buy if they shorten the season, or or 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.800 even if they don't, they just have to go back 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.240 to the old, old kind of ideal where you don't 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.280 have a bye week. So there are some built in 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.640 contingent season and you know, they still have some some 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.520 fiddle room, you know, moving a couple of weeks towards 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.360 the end of the season if they need to, or 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.560 only playing twelve games if they need to. But yeah, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.360 this is kind of an interesting, interesting season. I mean, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.640 the Bengals after that opener against the Chargers down they 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.800 go on the road four out of five games, man, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.840 and the last two on the road at Baltimore at Indy. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.360 And that's on October eleventh and October eighteenth. That's that's 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.000 tough sledding right there. But as a former player, the 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.880 first thing I do is, Okay, where are the grass fields? Oh, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.040 go to Cleveland week two. That's crazy, that'll be And 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.920 that's a short week, so you know you have to 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.080 h you play the charge in the opening, you have 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.320 to travel on a short week and right now, Thursday 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.200 night road teams, it's a heavy, heavy underdog. I mean 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.920 the home team on third men and our short weeks 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.600 has one high, high percentage of the time. But let's 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.440 face it, as a shorter trip as you can get 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.960 going to Cleveland, and if there is, if the dog 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.720 Pound has the socially distance, it'll be a different dynamic. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.240 It won't be as crazy. If the stadiums aren't full, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.920 particularly at the beginning of the season, road games won't 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.280 be that big a deal. Home home crowded pimases will 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.360 be nullified. The Bengals did not have a Thursday night 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.800 game last year, but the last two times they played 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.360 on Thursday night. It was the first Thursday night game, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.920 Week two against Baltimore in twenty eighteen, Week two against 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.360 Houston in twenty seventeen. Here we go again. The first 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.400 Thursday night game is a Bengals game, as you mentioned, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.120 on the road at Cleveland. Yeah, that's that's an interesting, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.360 interesting thing. And the reason is this one is the 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.680 case is exactly one hundred years to the day that 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.120 the NFL came into existence. So there's going to be 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.720 a big celebration in Canton. I mean, it's it's a 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.320 historical day, the one hundred year mark boom on that 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.400 particular night, So why not have the Cleveland Browns play 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.400 and the Cincinnati Bengals play. Paul Brown all the connections, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.400 all the historic stuff, all of fame hundred year anniversary. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.600 So I guess it makes a lot of sense for 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.880 that to be the first Thursday night game this year 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.280 when you take into the into account what that particular 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.120 date September seventeen hundred years ago. As you mentioned, Thursday 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.400 night road games are tough. The home team overwhelmingly wins. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.280 But I guess when I look at this one, not 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.720 only is it nearby in Cleveland, but it's against a 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.600 new head coach. And if you go back to last year, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.640 there were eight new head coaches in the NFL last year, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.640 including Zach Taylor. Five of the eight did not get 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.080 a win in the first four weeks of the season, 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.600 and seven of the eight finished with losing records. For Cleveland, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.880 this is the eighth head coach in the last twelve years, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.760 So I guess if you have to play a Thursday 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.920 night road game, it's good to be competing against the 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.920 team with a new coaching staff. In a year where 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.680 it might be harder than ever to have a new 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.360 coaching staff. Yeah, I mean you look at you look 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.800 at the situation Cleveland, a new head coach and a 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.280 first time head coach. Stefanski has never been a head 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.880 coach before, Whereas in Dallas, you know, McCarthy has been 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.560 the Giants brand new. Judge never had been a head 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.600 coach before, Washington Rivera has so you know, in those 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.400 in those businesses, there's some experience there, you know, as 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.720 a head coach. So I think I think that that 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.760 is needs to transition. Then the first time ever being 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.480 a head coach, you're dealing with the coronavirus, you're dealing 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.040 with all these different things. I just think that that 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.320 that's a that's a tough dynamic and uh and in 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.640 the Bengals to catch the Cleveland Browns early in that 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.880 in that kind of scenario when everybody's still in a 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.200 dealing out process, because let's go to it. I think 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.320 the preseason games are in jeopardy. Everything's to be determined 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.800 there the dates, you know, where they're the only thing 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.720 in the preseason that's definite is on on August twenty eighth, 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.000 The Bengals got down to Atlanta as the CBS nationally 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.840 televised game tentatively, but I think the preseason games are 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.080 in jeopardy. So if they don't, if you don't have 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.560 any preseason games and you've never coached before as a 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.200 head coach, and the you know, Bengals get one of 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.920 those scenarios. Now, good that Taylor is only in his 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:00.280 second year and uh, but but to be that new 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.320 at it, I think there is a slight edge there, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.200 you know. I think it nullifies a lot of things. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.560 One of the big things that stands out to everybody 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.560 is the fact that the Bengals get a rare season 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.359 opener at home just the second time in the last 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.600 eleven years, and the last time was specifically for the 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.280 fiftieth season of Bengals football. That one didn't go well 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.480 in twenty seventeen when they got shut out by Baltimore. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.359 But do you think it's helpful for Joe Burrow to 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.600 play his first NFL game at home? I do. I 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.840 think it is helpful, you know. I think that he 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.880 does have a contingent from nations that will be coming 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.600 to that football game, including family, you know, And that's 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.480 just a small piece of it, but I think that 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.760 that will give him a little bit of comfort, and 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.080 you know, he may be I wonder I would think 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.560 that Taylor, particularly with the dynamic of this coronavirus, Taylor, 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.199 you know, in my mind, more than likely will be 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.520 the guy to line up instead of Justin Herbert. Now 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.680 I'm not saying that's not an impossibility, but if you 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.880 have two rookie quarterbacks, you know, on the first pick 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.879 of the draft and one of the sixth pick of 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.879 the draft going head to head in that in that opener, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.920 and I think CBS, you know, made it a four 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.119 or five game, made it the doubleheader game, in the 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:15.080 late game, and maybe an anticipation of not only Joe 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.400 Burrows first game as a rookie in the National Football League, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.080 but potentially going against another highly touted rookie at the 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.840 quarterback position. There's a lot of sex appeal to that. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.080 So you know, that makes some sense from a from 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.320 a scheduling standpoint as well. And how about this, If 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:35.439 Safford say that the Pittsburgh Steelers signed Cam Newton, there'd 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.160 be three Heisman Trophy quarterbacks in the division. That would 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.359 be That would be nuts. No, that there'd be four 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.920 Heisman Trophy quarterbacks in the division with Cam Newton. Joe 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.359 Barrow is a Heisman Trophy winner, first pick of the draft. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.080 Same with Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson Heisman Trophy winner, you know, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.239 last pick of the first round. And then Ben with 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.160 all his experience, talk about a quarterback division when we're 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.040 talking about quarterbacks, that would be nuts. But even if 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.680 that's not the case, you know, you have all four 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.440 quarterbacks or first rounders, two of them are first picks 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.919 of the draft, three of them are Heisman Trophy winners, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.280 and it's turned into a quarterback division for sure. You 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.120 also have RG three backing up in Baltimore, there's another 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.240 Housing Trophy winner. True. Do you think there's a chance 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.600 lap that Cam Newton will sign with Pittsburgh. I think 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.040 there's a I think there's a chance. I mean I 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.800 did not see the Andy Dalton signing with Dallas. You 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.040 know scenario It makes a lot of sense after the fact, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.919 but I didn't see it before the fact. And it 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.240 all depends. I mean, the only scenario there is. You know, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.600 Jamis Winston took a million dollars to go with the 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.200 New Orleans Saints because they had cap issues. Pittsburgh's got 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.439 the cap issues with Cam Newton. Not only you know, 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.760 swallow the the ego hit of not being a starting quarterback, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.880 but taken that kind of a compensation to I don't 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:56.800 know that. I think that one's kind of a launch shop. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.880 The boy strands of things have already happened, I guess. 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.720 In terms of this season, it's been the strangest offseason 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.520 in NFL history for the quarterback position. There is no 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.000 question about it. I was shocked by Andy going to Dallas. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:10.920 I thought for sure he would go to the place 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.280 that gave him the best opportunity to play. My question 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.040 for you is, he's not going to play in Dallas 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:21.520 unless Dak Prescott gets hurt. Has Andy Dalton already entered 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.720 the veteran backup phase of his career for the rest 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.359 of his career. I think his mindset was that the 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.520 Bengals didn't do him any favors by you know, Delane 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.840 the process, and he felt like, you know, it was 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.400 it was such a bad market. Signed a one year 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.800 contract and you know, then see what the market looks 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.320 like next year and see if he can restart, you know, 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.919 jump start his career. As a potential starting quarterback against 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.560 somewhere else, depending on one unfolds during the course of 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.120 the season with injury and everything else, everything else involved. 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.760 And you know, to Dallas Cowboys, they're looking at it 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.280 is we have the best backup in the league in 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:08.240 our opinion. Plus, if some some teams quarterback goes down 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.800 to injury, we have a valuable asset to trade because 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.920 his contract is very very you know, franchise friendly right now, 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.480 and you don't you don't wish harm and anybody else. 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.320 But if somebody, somebody gets hurt, they trade Andy Dalgon. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.640 He plays well and extends you know, a contract somewhere else. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.800 All those all those scenarios are in play as much. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.120 In worst case scenario, he stays in Dallas for a year, 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.680 colectus three million, doesn't have to relocate. His family, Stanleys, friends, 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.520 everybody are are right there for him. Um, you know, 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.840 and he makes a close contact with the guy named 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.320 Jerry Jones, who when your post football career is over, 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.879 and there's not a better guy in the world to 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.560 know probably than Jerry Jones in terms of business contacts 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.320 and everything else. So when you look at a real big, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:54.880 big picture like you start to do, you know, when 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.080 you're on the back nine of your career, makes a 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.080 lot of sense on a lot of ways, like you 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:05.119 playing for Donald Trump in the USFL. Right, we mentioned 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.400 the one primetime game at Cleveland in Week two. Let's 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.920 talk about the other the week before Christmas at home 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.360 against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football. This will 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.560 be the third straight Monday Night game that the Bengals 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:22.120 have played against the Steelers. They lost at Pittsburgh last year, 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.760 didn't have one in twenty eighteen, lost at home to 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:30.080 the Steelers in twenty seventeen. So when Monday Night Football 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.240 is looking to put the Bengals on, they're typically looking 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.360 to put them on against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, they are, 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:40.760 and they they've had some some barn burners, for sure. 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:43.840 I think they like everything that's gone down in those 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.159 games in Pittsburgh Monday Night in the twenty first. Like 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:49.240 you say, then they have the short week. They have 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.880 to go down to Houston and play at one o'clock game, 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:56.600 twelve o'clock kickdown there at Houston in battling Christmas as well. 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:59.320 Short week. So it's not only a short week because 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.000 of Monday night foot ball. But Christmas usually, you know, 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:05.000