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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast. The I said you want to

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Speaker 1: be stot in something, you got to be stot in something. Addition,

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Speaker 1: as Dave Lapham joins me to discuss our first day

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Speaker 1: at Bengals training camp in twenty twenty. Yes, we were

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Speaker 1: there on Thursday meeting. We got our first look at

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and a Bengals uniform, albeit from a distance.

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Speaker 1: We'll share our observations about him, a j Green, Billy Price,

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Speaker 1: and a whole lot more. After that, I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: one of the most interesting stories on this year's roster,

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Speaker 1: Winston Rose. He was among the best players in the

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Speaker 1: Canadian Football League last year and now he's looking to

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Speaker 1: I can confidently state that I am COVID free to

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Speaker 1: give you an indication of how strict the NFL protocols

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Speaker 1: are a training camp. In order to watch practice this week,

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Speaker 1: Dave Lappleman I had to test negative for the coronavirus

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Speaker 1: three times in a five day period. Then on Thursday morning,

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Speaker 1: we entered the practice field through a separate gait and

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Speaker 1: watched from a platform behind one of the end zones,

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Speaker 1: never getting close to a player or coach. Normally we

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Speaker 1: would be right on the sideline with the freedom to

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Speaker 1: get right up close to the drills. But I have

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Speaker 1: no complaints. It was great to be standing next to Lap,

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Speaker 1: well technically six feet away from Lap, with our masks on,

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Speaker 1: watching Bengals football Lap. On Thursday, we were able to

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Speaker 1: attend practice a training camp for the first time, and

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Speaker 1: that meant we got our first ever look, at least

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Speaker 1: in a training cap atmosphere at quarterback Joe Burrow. What'd

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Speaker 1: you think? I was duly impressed in, you know, watching

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Speaker 1: him throw the football is really a beautiful site. Really

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Speaker 1: from a football standpoint. He's got a very tight spiral.

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Speaker 1: He's extremely accurate with the football. His mechanics are very

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Speaker 1: very tight. When he decides to start a s throwing motion,

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Speaker 1: you know, I noticed whenever he's taken drops from center

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Speaker 1: throwing the football, he's always the first one to have

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Speaker 1: You know, I've mentioned before that I'd worked at camp

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Speaker 1: He never got in a huddle, Dan, He never set

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Speaker 1: he looked so smooth and explosive coming out of his routes.

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Speaker 1: He's even even more so now. I mean, he's worked

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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable to watch him effortless. It's really it's it's

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Speaker 1: when we worked him out, he had great twitch, great explosiveness,

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Speaker 1: had a good knack for the ball in really good hands,

425
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Speaker 1: and so now we'll get a chance to see him

426
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Speaker 1: really full speed playing the NFL this training camp. Rose

427
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 1: is six feet tall, one hundred eighty pounds and wearing

428
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Speaker 1: the number thirty nine at training camp. I spoke to

429
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Speaker 1: the twenty six year old defensive back this week Wednesday.

430
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Speaker 1: You signed with the Bengals on New Year's Eve after

431
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: a tremendous season in the Canadian Football League. What opportunities

432
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: did you have in the NFL before ultimately choosing Cincinnati.

433
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: I wasn't talked with the Philadelphia Eagles, and I had

434
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Speaker 1: to a workout with the San Diego Chargers. So those

435
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 1: those teams and why did you decide to go with Cincinnati.

436
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: I just felt comfortable with the coaches and with the

437
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 1: skin and from the workout talking to coach Luke, it

438
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: is just in light um after the workouts. You know, Um,

439
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: I talked to coach Luke, like I said, it's just

440
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: just just going over what Cincinnati did the year before.

441
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: Just you know the success they head towards the end

442
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: of the season is this. I was just I was

443
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: just ready for the rebuild to be part of the rebuilding.

444
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: Did it make for a nice New Year's celebration signing

445
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 1: with an NFL team on New Year's Eve? Yeah? Yeah,

446
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: it definitely did. To silence person to twenty um in

447
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: the NFL. UM it was it was a dream come true.

448
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: Man Um, Everything I worked, you know saying worked hard

449
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 1: for and it worked towards. So to sign it just

450
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: it was like the chairy on top. We're visiting the Bengals.

451
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: Cornerback Winston Rose. You led the CFL with nine interceptions

452
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Speaker 1: last year. You had another one in the postseason. Did

453
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Speaker 1: you do anything differently or were you used any differently

454
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: that helped you get your hands on so many passes

455
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: last year? Ultimately, I'll just give credit to my coaches

456
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: and my teammates Land. My coaches called the right play

457
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: and you know, my teammates just playing playing a party.

458
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,719
Speaker 1: As far as like the d line, the front seven,

459
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: linebackers and even a safety communicate to me, Um, I'll

460
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: give on the success to them. Um. I feel like

461
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: the rush play a key party with the dbs and coverages.

462
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: So if you get impressure, the quarterback is going to

463
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: throw it up because you know what I'm saying. You

464
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: know you don't to take a sex so he might

465
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Speaker 1: just give that fifty fifty block to one of his

466
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: receives that he feels comfortable with. So just having that

467
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: pressure with my d line and linebackers, uh, clearing on

468
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback to make my job easier. Wedinston. For people

469
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Speaker 1: who have never watched the CFL game, it's different. You've

470
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: got twelve players on each side, the field is bigger,

471
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: the wide receivers can get a running start before the

472
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Speaker 1: ball is snapped. How is playing quarterback different in the

473
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 1: CFLs from the NFL, I, like always tell people, is

474
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Speaker 1: really the intensive to details, the techniques, techniques and just

475
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Speaker 1: a little the little things that I will show up

476
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Speaker 1: on game day. Um, I definite lot of people. Uh no, no,

477
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,120
Speaker 1: m you have to give every receiver a yard off

478
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Speaker 1: the ball room. So you know how like we pressed,

479
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: you could be all in a receiver face in the

480
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Speaker 1: NFL and the candidate thing in ANCFL, No, you gotta

481
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Speaker 1: get you got to get to play a yard off.

482
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Speaker 1: And then on top of that, at M I feel

483
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: like the offense being advantage because the receivers have that

484
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: head start. So say you're saying, you're a player that's

485
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Speaker 1: on the line and you're pressing and you got a

486
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: player that's coming at you full speed running start, that

487
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: get kind of like, you know, scary at some point.

488
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: But once she once she just learned the techniques and

489
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: you know, the detail in the game, everything, everything just

490
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: slowed down for you. Do you think that style of

491
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Speaker 1: play made you better? Does it help a cornerback in

492
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: particular to have to deal with all of those difficult

493
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: challenges in the CFL? I definitely, I definitely can say

494
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: being in the CFL definitely was what I needed. Um,

495
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is it definitely like makes you keen

496
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: to your technique, keen to the little petition to details

497
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: and really just um playing the call with them, playing

498
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: the call within the system. You don't want to get

499
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Speaker 1: your own thing. And then next you know, you give

500
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Speaker 1: a pro touchdown And in the CFL that's that's a

501
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: momentum switcher. But that's a that's that's a sports and

502
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: you know it's a momentum switcher. So you definitely, um,

503
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 1: don't want to be on the spotlight, but at the

504
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: same time, you feel like you feel like if you don't,

505
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: you know, can't block in and pay attention, and you're

506
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be on the spotlights. We're visiting with Winston Rose.

507
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: You've been in NFL training camps before, with the Rams

508
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: and the Colts. What stands out from your previous experiences

509
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: and does it feel different this time? I feel like

510
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: the difference from my first UM training camp is I

511
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: was a rookie, I was specially out of college and

512
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't have no experience under my belt,

513
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: and being through I would say like for a training

514
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: camp so far, Um, they definitely give me that experience

515
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 1: to you know, not every night, not every day it's

516
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: perfect and you can't make every play perfect, but what

517
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: you can do is control what you can control, just

518
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: give up and to give maximum efforts. So UM, that's

519
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: that's that's That's where I'm just um going into the

520
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: training camp is I know, I know it's not a sprint.

521
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: Its a marathon. So I can't just think I'm gonna

522
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: get everything. I'm gonna know everything all in one day

523
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: to take time, and you definitely got to wrap it

524
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: out too. So I'm controlling what I can control and

525
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: doing my part. And as far as like whatever the

526
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: coaches want me to do, I wanted to do it.

527
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: So do what the bankers were Winston. When you signed

528
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Speaker 1: in December, you were at Paul Brown Stadium and you

529
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: expected to be back in April for OTAs. Where did

530
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: you wind up spending the off season and what did

531
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: you do to prepare in a pandemic situation? UM? I was.

532
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: I was back at home in Los Angeles, Phenerma City area.

533
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: UM and what I did was, I just went back

534
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: to the basic. UM. As far as like training or

535
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: like conditioning, I was training with my high school coach

536
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: from Saint Jenner in high school much high school track

537
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: coach doing doing cardio work with him. And also UM

538
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: as far as lifting, I would I would lift. I

539
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: have one of my one of my cousin's friends, garage Jim.

540
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: He had like you know, squire, rag bench and pretty

541
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: much everything I needed to to sustain my strength. So

542
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: um yeah, I just I just made sure that that

543
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: every day I may count I didn't take one, I

544
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: take a day off. Um and just and just and

545
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: just kept that rhythm. Um I would well, actually I

546
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: would actually wake up early in the morning, like start

547
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: my day in like around five thirty and that specific time,

548
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: so just I can train myself to get ready for

549
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: when I come over to Ohio that I know it's

550
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: three hours different. So then when it's time to wake

551
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: up any morny, I won't be too drag because I'm

552
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: already used to waken up early and California. So it

553
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: was just it was just little things like that that

554
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: I kept in my program. Good thinking of the body clock.

555
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: And it sounds like that was kind of old school

556
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: going to a friend's house who had weights in his garage,

557
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: right right, right, yeah, yeah, exactly what I said, right

558
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: back to the basics, like you don't need you know,

559
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: that big gym to get working. You can still get

560
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: working with some gunbills, a squad, wreck, a bar and

561
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's little things like that. We're visiting with

562
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: Winston Rose. Unfortunately, the first serious injury of training camp

563
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: was to somebody in your position group. Trey Waynes. It

564
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: looks like he's likely to be out for a couple

565
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: of months. I know you feel badly for him, but

566
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: do you look at it like a starting job is

567
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: now up for grabs. To be honest, I have no

568
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: idea what's going on, so I can't speak on that.

569
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: All our numbers that I'm trying to get better, to

570
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to help the team win and

571
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: con sure what I can control. Let's talk a little

572
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: bit about last year you won the Gray Cup, Canada's

573
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Speaker 1: super Bowl with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Described that experience

574
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: being professional to win the championships like everything you put

575
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: put the work in with your teammates, even off season,

576
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: that you put in to ultimately reach that goal. So um,

577
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely a movie with Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

578
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: Our season was it started off hot five and five

579
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: and then we went through our adversity upper down. But

580
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: I feel like those diversities that we went through it

581
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: in the season prepared us for playoffs and compared to

582
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Speaker 1: be the champions because we knew, we knew how to

583
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: come back from behind, we knew how to you know,

584
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: university strikes in the game, not to quit. Um to

585
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: lean on, lean on to our brothers and play for

586
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: each other. So ultimately, yeah, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Seaton last year

587
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: was a movie. And I'm blessed. I'm grateful, grateful for

588
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: the Winnipeg organization to bring me in after one year. Year. Um, um,

589
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: blessed to have to be part of that group. To

590
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: you know what, I think it was twenty six years

591
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: or twenty nine years since the last championship championship went

592
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: through that city. So to be part of that that's historical,

593
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: um and multiple. Ultimately, Man, for the fans of Winnipeg,

594
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: I feel like they deserted to as well. Um, the city,

595
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: the city itself is uh, it's it's it's birth taking

596
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: in because it's it's like the fans and the people

597
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: they just so genuine. That's and that's just in general

598
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: in Canada that I had got being over there, that

599
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: the people in Canada is so genuine and so sincere.

600
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Speaker 1: So um, yeah, man, it was. It was. It was

601
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: a movie, man, a movie that definitely that definitely get

602
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: an Oscar. You must have been very popular in Winnipeg

603
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: to be there for a year, to lead the fl

604
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: and interceptions and be part of a team that won

605
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: the Great Cup. You must be quite a celebra in Winnipeg.

606
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say. I wouldn't say a celebrity, But I'm

607
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: just Winston man. I'm just Western road man from Los Angeles,

608
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: just doing my part, uh, you know, keeping God first

609
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: and everything I do and just just being mean. And

610
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: I feel like, ultimately, um, that's what Winnipeg. Uh, let

611
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: me let me do then let me be myself. They didn't. Um,

612
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I played it. I played

613
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: a game within a system, but ultimately it was just

614
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: just go out there and do what you do and

615
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: the rest was The rest was history. And I feel

616
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: like every every every player to say that, Um, and

617
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: we ultimately, we ultimately did it. Man. We ultimately reached

618
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: that goal that couldn't we couldn't be reached for a

619
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: long time. So so to be part of that, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's a further grateful forever grateful. I'm thankful as

621
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Speaker 1: well too, Winston. Just to wrap things up, describe how

622
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: you're feeling now that you're here. You're in the early

623
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: stages of training camp, trying to be a part of

624
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: this franchise. Going forward. I'm just grateful and grateful every

625
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: day to get this opportunity to go out there and

626
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: you know, just putting down in the football flum. So

627
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: I'm just taking each day one day at a time,

628
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: um and lemonade mistakes, keen in details, you know, practicing

629
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: like a champion and just coming in and trying trying

630
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: to do my part. Just whatever the caause, like I said,

631
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: whatever the coaches need me to do, I wanted to do. So.

632
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: I just want to bring that energy to the team

633
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: and just show the other coaches and show everybody that

634
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm a team player. I'm just here to you know, serve.

635
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: We're excited to see you do your thing. Have a

636
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,959
Speaker 1: great camp, stay safe, and I appreciate the time. Thanks Winston, Hello,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Either way, the quarterback of that Great Cup

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