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Again, that's 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:36.840 nlfurniture dot Org. Now time for two very special guests. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.840 The Bengals Ring of Honor began in twenty twenty one 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.640 with a quartet consisting of three Pro Football Hall of 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.640 famers Paul Brown, Anthony Munos and Ken Riley, and a 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.240 fourth player who deserves to be in Canton, Ken Anderson. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.680 The following year, Bengals fans selected Willie Anderson and Isaac Curtis, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.240 and last year's inductees were Boomer Assiazin and Chad Johnson. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.960 The fourth Ring of Honor class was announced today Thursday, 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:11.920 July eighteenth, and features Corey Dylon and Tim Crumrae. Dylan 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.680 was the Bengals' second round pick in nineteen ninety seven 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.080 and ran for more than one thousand yards in each 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.120 of his first six seasons. Along the way, he set 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.799 two NFL records. Corey broke Jim Brown's single game rushing 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.640 record by a rookie when he ran for two forty 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.320 six against Tennessee. Three years later, he broke Walter Payton's 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.880 record for rushing yards in a game when he went 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.920 for two seventy eight against Denver. While those records have 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.440 since been broken and are currently held by Adrian Peterson, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.880 who had a two hundred and ninety six yard game 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.600 as a rookie for Minnesota, Dylan still has two of 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:55.639 the top seventeen single game rushing marks in league history. Unfortunately, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.239 the team struggled for much of Corey's time in Cincinnati, 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.880 and he wasn't always a happy camper, But those squabbles 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.080 were more than twenty years ago and don't diminish the 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:12.800 fact that he is among the greatest players in team history. Corey, Congratulations, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.400 I'm being chosen for the Bengals Ring of Honor. How 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.480 did you get the news and what does this honor mean? 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.440 Well, I got a personal call from Mike Brown himself 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.440 and he said, well, Corey, we got some good news 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:31.720 for you, and he let me know I was going in. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.720 Saw Dude, that was a great day. I was actually 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.600 scramming around the house. I was just about to go 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.960 to the golf range, and then as I was getting 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.600 my golf equipment, man I just checked my phone and 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.520 I've seen the message and it was from five to 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.360 one three, and I'm like, uh, who could this be? 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.960 So he left me a message. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:54.760 I called him back, man, and he told me the 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.120 good news, and dude, I almost broke down that day. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.880 Man, that was one of those days. You know what. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.680 That wasn't great news? Great news? And ay, it was 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.360 music to my ears. So I was, I was. I 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.760 was a happy man that day. Still am still am, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:12.480 to be honest with. 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:17.280 You, it is richly deserved. Mike Brown, since you mentioned him, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.640 has a very interesting memory of you. He recalls watching 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.920 you at practice and when you ran by, he said 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.680 it felt like the earth moved. He says that that's 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.080 the only time that's ever happened to him as long 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.920 as he's been watching football practices. How would you describe 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.160 your running style? 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:37.800 Aggressive? 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.320 That's how I would call it, man, This is I mean, 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.240 growing growing up, we played street football religiously. So man, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.160 I'm and people got to understand, Man, I got two 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.599 older brothers, so they're like five or seven years older 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:52.800 than me. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:54.760 I'm the youngest. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.400 So in order to play with them, guys, I had 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.640 to be a little different, you know, they're not. There 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.240 was't gonna let me play with them if I was 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.520 gonna be crying and and can't go out there and 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.240 keep up with them. So, man, I learned early so 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.400 so that that little that that being running stout definitely 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.320 comes from them and playing with the kids in the neighborhood. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.160 We could see opponents that didn't want to tackle you 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.080 in the third and fourth quarters. Did anybody ever say 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.400 anything amusing about that? No? 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.640 No, I think that was just kind of I am 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:33.000 oh man, Like when when the game starts getting late, man, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.960 I'm I'm just getting warmed up, so you know, and 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.800 it's it's all about you know. I had a bag 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.880 of tricks with me too, so I was like, you know, 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.520 maybe the first quarter, first two quarters, you know, I 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.560 dance around you for a little bit. But when them 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.920 later quarters start start start coming, man, it's it's time. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.120 It's kind of pounding ground. And that's what I was 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:55.400 known for doing. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.479 Ry. You were voted in by Bengals fans. You are 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.440 the first running back selected for the Bengals Ring of Honor. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.400 There was a period where you weren't sure how Bengals 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:08.480 fans felt about you. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.039 Correct, Correct, I mean I was. I was on my 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:17.160 Hyaenus for about a decade, so I just came out 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:22.000 my CuPy Old a year ago. So yeah, man, just 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.920 just on how things ended, you know. I mean, it 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.839 wasn't the best of terms. I mean to me, it 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.000 wasn't It wasn't all bad, but it wasn't all good. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:38.080 So and then, you know, for me, just like taking 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:38.640 a break. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.520 From football for a long long time. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.760 You don't you don't know how you gotta be received. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.880 So at first, yeah, it was I wrote for them 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.799 a couple of people of fetus, But you know, that's 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.719 that's the nature of it. I mean, until you get 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.480 to understanding where I'm coming from, and you heard me 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.799 throughout this whole year, I think people kind of warmed 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.240 up to me and kind of got where I was 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.320 coming from. And ever since then things been good. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.039 I think people understood. Even back then, they may have 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.160 been frustrated because they didn't want you to leave, but 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.680 you had the misfortune of being on some bad teams. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.000 It got to you. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.240 Are all the old wounds healed. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.480 They're done, They're done. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:26.440 I mean, just just alone, I think puts everything the 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.080 rest in you know what, as far as me and 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.920 organization go. I think we're moving forward in a better, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.600 better spot, which that's what I wanted initially. So hey, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.640 you won't hear from me, and I definitely don't think 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.920 you hear anything from them. So it is it's water 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.960 under the bridge, man, And I'm looking forward to seeing 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.800 these young Bengals go out there and try to win 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:50.440 a Super Bowl. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:51.600 Ory. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.400 You enter the Bengals Ring of Honor with Tim Crumrai, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.760 who is the Bengals defensive line coach for your first 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.200 six seasons in Cincinnati. He was known as a play 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.480 for many of the things that you were known for. Toughness, physicality, relentlessness. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.680 What do you admire and respect about Tim krumright? 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:10.200 Everything? Man? 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.440 Just what you mentioned, man, and I mean me and 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.600 him done has a lot of lot of deep conversations 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:21.160 other than football, man, And he was always someone I respected, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:23.640 always someone who would listen. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:25.880 Just a sound guy. Man. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.160 He always gave me good advice man. So other than 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:35.520 his football skills, man, he's a real good person. And 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.000 me and me and Crumwright had an excellent relationship. Bible 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.240 was there in Cincinnati, Corey. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:45.160 Let's talk about few specific moments during your Bengals career 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.280 beginning in week fourteen of your rookie year. In the 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.920 first half of that season, you barely got the ball. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.600 You had thirty nine carries in your first day games. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.679 But on that Thursday night in December, you had thirty 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.160 nine carries in the game against Tennessee. You set the 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.040 rookie rushing record at the time of two hundred and 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.600 forty six yards. Do you feel like that game established 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.000 you as a force to be reckoned with in the NFL? 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:09.720 Hey, that was just loo. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.600 I just felt like I was doing my job. I mean, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.760 I don't know about a force to be wreckoning with. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.920 You know what, I was just happy getting getting the 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.440 opportunity to go out there and play and show what 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.400 I can do. And you know what, it turned into 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.920 one of those magical moments where, you know what, we 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.240 set a record and we were just clicking. Man, everything 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.679 was working. Take nothing away from Tennessee. I think there 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:43.520 were probably the third rate defense in the league. So 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.280 it wasn't easy, but that night we made it seem 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.800 a little easy. So and you know, the guys up front, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.800 the Hags up front was man just giving me opportunities 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:55.719 to run wild. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.959 And I took advantage of it. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.040 I went back and watched the game. Se the offensive 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.120 line react when you broke the record was really cool 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.920 because they were so fired up to be part of it. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:10.280 Yeah. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.120 I mean, you know what, because we didn't even know 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.800 we were embarking on a record and Tod we were 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.960 over on the sideline and they were like, yeah, you're 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.080 close to a record, and I was like, well, hell, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:22.920 let's go back in. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:23.680 There try to get it. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.840 So as well at that point, everybody knew the situation, 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.880 and you know what, they were just as fired up 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.439 as I was trying trying to chase down that record 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:38.079 mand and we got it. And dude, that was special 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.000 moment between not only me and the whole team, but 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:46.120 that offensive line and those offensive players. Man, something I 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.520 remember a lifetime, to be honest with you. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.319 So you broke Jim Brown's record that night, and then 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.640 three years later, you broke the record for most rushing 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.480 yards in a single game that had been held for 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.400 more than twenty years by Walter Payton. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:00.959 It was an amazing day. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.280 It was the first game that the Bengals won at 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.360 then new Paul Brown Stadium exactly. The team was zero 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.880 and six at the time, you're facing an excellent Denver 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.440 team that wound up going eleven and five. They had 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.600 a top ten rushing defense, and you went for two 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.080 hundred and seventy eight yards. What are your most vivid 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:19.080 memories of that day? 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.400 You know what it felt like. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.880 I know when you hear when athletes say like in 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.880 the zone, That's how I kind of felt. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:28.120 You know. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.560 It felt like everything was moving slow and I was 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:38.120 moving at a different pace than everybody else. And I 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.839 kind of noticed it early, like, you know, they were 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:45.920 over pursuing heavily. So what I would do is, you 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.600 know what, start in one direction and if I see 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.319 a cutback ray man, I'm gonna take it. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.079 And it was working. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.640 I mean by the time I cut back, man, the 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.080 holes were so wide up and I was just running 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:57.640 for daylight. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.760 So it worked the whole game. It turned out to 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:03.600 be one of those. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.880 Games again where you know what, up front, we were 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.960 gaping holes and all I had to do was just, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.480 you know, make one cut and try to make it 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:12.800 happen to me. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:17.040 It's one of those accomplishments that actually gets more remarkable 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.240 as time goes by. Because the Bengals had no passing 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.760 attack that day. Two pass completions in fourteen attempts in 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.600 the entire game. You had five runs in that game 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.600 of thirty or more yards. The Bengals had two all 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.800 of last year. You had five in that game. Does 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.600 it add to the satisfaction for you that the Broncos 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.000 knew what was coming and couldn't stop it. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:47.199 Yeah? Yeah, So, I mean that was that was us, Like. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.640 We're gonna run the ball. You know, we're gonna run 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.520 the ball, and if you stop was a good job. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.960 But you know what, we're gonna keep coming at you. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.679 So and and that was our attitude, that was our identity. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.320 That's offensive line. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:02.720 Knew that. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.640 I knew that, Like, yeah, we're gonna face some eight 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.240 to nine men front all the time, but and man, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.600 we're gonna go out there try to endure our best 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.559 and try to get the win. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.360 So it turned out good on that day. It turned 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:17.480 out real good that day. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:22.480 So yeah, and all the success I had, man, it's 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.280 it's more it's more team success than anything, man, because 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.960 you know what, we were all prepared, We all knew 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.480 the situation and and none of us waivered. We knew 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.320 what we were, what we was gonna face going out there 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.880 and you know what, we got the job done. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.400 I'll never forget the visual of you at the end 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.040 of that game on the sideline. You're on your knees, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.960 your helmets on the ground, you appear to be sobbing. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.320 What were your emotions in that moment. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.839 I don't believe it, Like it didn't even it didn't 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:01.720 even appear to me. I had the many yards, you know, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.560 I wasn't tired. I was just like, you know what, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.720 I was more focused on winning the game than anything else. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.520 So actually after that last run, coming to the sideline 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.400 and I see it, I see it on the jumble 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:19.040 trun and I'm like, oh wow, you know wow, that's unbelievable. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.240 And then you know, and then I kind of felt 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.760 some type of way because I know, walk just passed 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:29.040 that year, and to me, man in a weird way, man, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.880 I felt like some records don't need to be broken, 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.840 you know, and why me type things? So I was 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.440 always I was overwhelmed and emotional. But you know what, 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:46.280 ay turned out we got that that that win, that 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.200 was that was number one. We got the win and 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.040 then in the process we we accomplished a great record. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.320 So that was That was a great day. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.840 You got to seventy eight on only twenty two carries. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.080 Ten of those carries were for two yards or less. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.000 Do you ever look back and think, man, if I 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.520 had had thirty, I would have set a record that 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.920 would have never been broken. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:17.240 That part, that part, and I do recall there was 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.520 one carry call back where I it was a thirty 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.560 yard game. So realistically, in my mind that could have 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.520 been like twenty three carries for three h eight something, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.640 you know, something ridiculous like that three eighteen who knows? 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:38.280 So unfortunate that, you know what, we broke the record 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.480 as a team. I think we had like four hundred 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.880 and seven yards rushing. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:47.880 That day and ultimately, man, we got the win. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.280 Man, that's that the win starting off four to six 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.640 and getting your first win the other season in that 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.840 fashion amazing. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.440 You actually did not have the longest run by the 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:02.480 Bengals in that game. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.480 Peter Warwick had like an eighty yard. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.360 Yes, absolutely absolutely. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.200 Corey Dylan is our guest. I am a firm believer 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.600 that you should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.240 I've made that case on this podcast before. You ran 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.000 for more than eleven thousand yards two of the best 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.000 games in history, you won a Super Bowl? Ring are 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.920 you hopeful that this honor might help? 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:28.479 Absolutely? 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.000 You know what? The funny thing. The funny thing about 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.680 it is, I was talking. I was talking to Adrian 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.920 Ross and Joey Porter. We was all on the line 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.080 one day and he said something to me that and 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.360 it struck me. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.960 It was like, and we were talking about the we 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:45.880 were talking about the Hall. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.400 Of Fame thing as well, and he said, how are 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.000 you supposed to get into the Pro Football Hall of 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.120 Fame when your own team doesn't hony, you know what 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.600 I mean? And I sat there and I thought about 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.160 it was like, damn, we got an excellent point. That 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.639 is there is true to that. So for this to 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.160 be actually happened for me, I think, I think it's 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:11.160 a it's a boost. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.040 It definitely helps the case. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.480 And and I hope, I hope. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:19.600 I'm hopeful. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:25.200 I'm hopeful that you know, this process will shed some 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:30.440 light to everybody case, I mean all the Bangles at least, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.919 I mean, uh man, there's a lot of great players 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.440 that played for the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't I don't 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.320 know what the hold up is as far as getting 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.439 in but there's a lot of there's a lot of 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.080 us sitting there like trying to figure out the process 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:53.000 and hopefully hopefully we get in and see it, you 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.400 know what I mean that part of it. So yeah, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:01.439 I think this this Elizabeth by starting it, Man, it's 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.960 that was great, man, This is this is this whole process. Yeah, 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.119 it may not happen when I wanted to happen, but 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.520 it happened right, and it's only it's only a plus 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.280 of helping us get that out of his jacket as well. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.840 So yeah, I love it. I think it was a 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:25.360 great idea. I'm thankful they started it. And we'll see 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:26.880 you definitely see. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.880 We talked about Tim Crumrai, your fellow twenty twenty four 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.840 inductee a little bit earlier. You also played with three 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.160 other members of the Bengals Ring of Honor. Right going 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.360 to ask you to share some thoughts about each of them, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.720 beginning with your teammate, your rookie year Boomer asiasin. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.399 Man Ah Man, he said something to me, Man that 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.199 I will never forget. Yeah, and. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:54.080 It drove me, It kept me going. He was like, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.520 he said, this is what he said to me. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.199 He said, Corey, it doesn't matter around you when then 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.080 what matters is what you do while you're here. And 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.119 I just looked at him. I looked at him and 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.000 was like, Man, damn. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:08.240 You're right. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:15.080 You're absolutely right, and you know, so there's something that 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.960 I was like, Man, hey, do what you gotta do 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.200 right now. You know, it doesn't matter what brown you 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.640 went in. So that kind of that kind of put 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.520 things in perspective for me and I had ever since then, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.360 me and Boomer been been real cool. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.600 We used to run a second team together, so too. 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:33.120 Hey. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.520 We kind of got our start at the same time 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.560 in ninety seven, Man, and and we went on a 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.639 great run Man, and it was it was It was 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:43.679 fun being a part of that. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.920 Man. I wish you could have played more with us. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:47.840 I definitely do. Man. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.120 I was my rookie year was amazing, and I had 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.400 that guy leading us, leading us to the promised Land 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.880 that that that year, Man was something I always remember. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.600 And he spoke from experience where the draft was concerned 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.399 because he was the second round pick and was pissed 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.320 off about it the rest of the career. And you 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.680 had the same chip on your shoulder from last year. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.919 Round too, Yeah, Man, So a great guy, great leader, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.600 man of wisdom as you can see. And man, it 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.359 was it was just fun fun being a part of 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:29.760 that man. Like I said, Man, I wish we could 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.160 have got a couple more years out of boom. Who 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.000 knows what happened in ninety eight, Man, But I'm always 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.800 enjoy and chairs that time and the opportunity I got 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:40.600 to play with that guy. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:41.800 Man, one special. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.879 Dude, former teammate number two in the Ring of Honor, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.080 your close friend and one of the guys who paid 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:48.520 the way for you, Willie Anderson. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:53.160 Ah. Man, Dude, what can I say about this guy? Man? 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:54.160 An awesome dude. 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:59.280 And hey, man, even in retirement, he's still opening opening 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:04.640 up holes for me. So Man, one great guy, ultimate 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:11.520 ultimate leader, great great guy to know. And dude, I'm 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.320 I'm I'm just honored to be even you know, I'm 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.200 I'm in there with these guys now, man. 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:17.960 And and it's well deserving. Man. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.000 He deserves his he deserved his arm his Hall of 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:23.240 Fame rights too. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:23.520 Man. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.040 We were we're in this boat together. Man, we're trying 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.879 to figure a way to get to the get to 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:30.760 the finish line. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:30.960 Man. 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.400 And for a guy to have every box and everything 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:36.200 checked right. 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:38.720 It's disappointed. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:44.240 It's disappointing not seeing him get in there like everybody 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.680 knows he should. So I'm I'm an advocate for him. 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:53.120 I believe he's he should have been in there. And 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.800 like I said, he's he's been paving the way. 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.160 For a long long time, just on and. 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.359 Off the field for the Bengals. Man, he should be 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.320 honored in every aspect. 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:08.960 He's been a Hall of Fame finalist the last three years. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:12.480 I think his day is coming, hopefully next year. There 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.280 weren't any offensive lineman pick this year this year, so 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:17.760 I think they will include an offensive lineman next year, 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.760 and it should be Willie. How hard did Willy work 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:26.240 to try to help convince you that Cincinnati Bengals and 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.840 the city of Cincinnati had great feelings about you and 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:31.800 that it would be good to reconnect with the franchise 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:32.360 in some way. 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:37.880 Oh, Man, if it wasn't for will I don't know, man, seriously, seriously, man, 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.479 Me and him talk, Me and him talk for a 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:45.520 long long time. Man, And it was him, it was 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:51.000 him who who convinced me, like, Cory is not what 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.800 you think. So and you know what, I took his 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.600 word for it, and I'm glad. I'm glad I took 0:22:58.600 --> 0:22:59.480 his word for it. 0:22:59.600 --> 0:22:59.800 You know. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.720 So yeah, man, if it wasn't if it was for 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.560 Will reaching out and we having the deep conversations of 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:13.480 everything and you know, just just being us, having our 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:14.240 men and men talk. 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.800 Yeah, Man, who knows Man, So I owe him a lot, 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:20.080 o him a lot. 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.600 Your third former teammate that's in the Ring of honor, 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:24.920 Chad Johnson. 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:30.240 Oh, Man, I guess said Chad something else? Man, I 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:32.760 could get two words out of that guy. What when 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:36.600 I like, look at look at this man. Now, look 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.600 at him. Man, I'm so proud of him. Man. Everything 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:41.840 he's doing on and off the field, man is such 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:43.600 a such a beacon. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:43.840 Man. 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:47.159 He's doing him and he's enjoying his life. Man, and 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:52.359 that's what it's all about. So Chad, from where he 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:57.000 started to where he's at now, I'm man, unbelievable, one 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:02.080 remarkable person, hell of a person as everybody knows. And 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:07.919 real cool dude. I mean we always been. We always 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:09.840 been cool, every single one of the us. We always 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.480 been cool, even though life took us on our different journeys. 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:14.480 Man. 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:17.119 At the end of the day, man, we all respect 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:21.479 each other's game and and respect each other as people. 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:26.960 So I'm I'm truly honored. I'm truly honored to be 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:29.600 going in after these guys. 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:33.040 Man. So yeah, man, it's gonna be a great day. 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:36.960 On the twenty thirty, After seven years in Cincinnati, you 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.760 get traded to the Patriots. Your first year with New England, 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.720 you set their single season rushing record. You still hold 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.560 that record. You won a super Bowl under Bill Belichick. 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:48.520 What did that season mean? After the tough times that 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:49.840 you would endure it up till then? 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:54.920 Oh man, it was just well, as you know, I 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.520 was hurt, so the year before I was hurt. 0:24:57.520 --> 0:24:58.440 Man, it was just like. 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:05.240 Me coming back and being healthy and lasting the whole 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.760 year was satisfying to me. And then to top it off, 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:12.600 you know what, not knowing what to expect, and I 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.560 don't think people know how difficult it is like going 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.879 to a team that just won the Super Bowl. The 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:24.440 expectations is super high and you kind of you get 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:28.040 the feel of like you gotta you gotta integrate yourself 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:31.879 in the whole new system and. 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:33.560 And fill it out. Man. Was nothing. There was nothing 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:35.600 easy about that whatsoever. 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:39.200 So you know what, it turned out to be one 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:42.119 hell of a run and you know, actually getting up 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:45.239 there man, and integrating with them guys and learning their 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:50.000 ways and getting comfortable with the system. And dude, we 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.680 went on a run want to run and actually won 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:58.040 the Super Bowl. Kind of it mundicated the whole oh 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:00.680 three year where I was I was hurting and beat down. 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.040 I couldn't I couldn't go out there and prove my 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:07.280 point because of injury. So I think that made up 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:11.320 for the year I was hurt. 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:12.240 I let O three go. 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:14.480 I had to let that go. I mean, I was 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:16.800 rewarded and oh for I will take it. 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.439 You helped Tom Brady win one of the seven Super Bowls, 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:23.200 and back then he wasn't the goat as we think 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:26.159 of him now. I mean you were the heart and 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:29.800 soul of the offense of that twenty fourteen Hey. 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:32.560 But nobody will tell you that. No. 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:37.639 You know what we gotta saying, man, just doing doing 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:41.840 your job, man, And honestly, that's what I That's what 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:42.640 I was doing, man. 0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:45.280 It's it's the way they lay it out for you, 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:45.720 is hey. 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:50.600 Man, everybody just worry about doing their job and everything 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:53.719 to be take care of himself and for the most part. 0:26:53.880 --> 0:26:56.359 That's what we all did. But at the end of 0:26:56.359 --> 0:27:01.359 the day, we all held each other accountable. So it 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:05.000 worked out to you know what. We fourteen and two 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:08.320 in the regular season. Then we went on the the 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:13.480 playoff runs against we got you know, super super talented 0:27:13.480 --> 0:27:17.120 team with the coachs. We asked them out and then 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:21.040 we was in a heavyweight fight with the Steelers and 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.800 we got past them. They rumped us pretty good in 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:27.800 the regular season, so actually go up the hindsfield and 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:32.840 get some redemption up there with sweet and then you 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:38.280 know what, played a one tough, sound football team in Philly. 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:45.440 I mean, any red coach team is gonna be good 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:49.000 on both sides, man, and we squeaked one out by 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:53.200 a field goal down in Jacksonville. So you know what, 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:55.960 it brought my whole career, that little six year old 0:27:56.040 --> 0:28:01.399 kid running around visualizing winning a Super Bowl, like every 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:04.439 level I've been through, winning that Super Bowl kind of 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:07.640 took care of all that. Everything I went through, good 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:11.320 and bad. It was in that one moment. One moment 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:15.439 solidified everything for me. So yeah, man, it was it 0:28:15.480 --> 0:28:18.159 was It was special. It was a special moment for me. 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:21.879 For your last game was an AFC Championship game in 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:26.400 two thousand and seven. You retired at thirty two. I'm 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:29.160 sure you could have kept going. Why did you stop then? 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:31.920 Just tired? I was tired, man. 0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:36.400 I mean at some point, man, I you know, even 0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:38.959 going into that that that last year, I was I 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:43.160 was even I was contemplating, like, you know what, if 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:45.280 I get through this whole year healthy, man, I'm gonna 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.080 have to start making a decision, because, you know what, 0:28:48.240 --> 0:28:52.960 there's more to life than football. So and I mean 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:57.080 like football has consumed majority of my life. I'm like 0:28:58.200 --> 0:29:02.480 I hadn't accomplished a lot, and I wish I could 0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:05.280 have went out with another Super Bowl. 0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:05.520 Man. 0:29:05.560 --> 0:29:08.640 I wish we were so close. Man, we were so close. 0:29:10.320 --> 0:29:12.440 I'm pretty sure would we would have whooped the Bears 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:14.880 too or whatever whoever they played the coach I think 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:15.800 it was the Bears. 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:17.880 I wish I would have got out of there with 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:20.000 another woman, but it wasn't in my cards. 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:20.240 Man. 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:23.000 I just felt like, you know what, this is the 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:27.640 best time to step away from me. I mean, keep playing, 0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:35.000 keep playing long enough and over overstaying your You're welcome, man, 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:36.400 You're gonna catch your injury. 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:36.600 Man. 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:40.680 So I've been fortunate enough and blessed enough that I 0:29:40.680 --> 0:29:43.320 didn't really have no major injuries, and I just thought 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:46.120 it was the right time for me, and time to 0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:50.640 go home and be with my young guarters and rebuild yourself, 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:54.880 you know, you know, find some find something else that 0:29:55.000 --> 0:29:58.520 gave you, gave you that passion to want to be great. 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:03.000 So yeah, man, And as you can see, it took 0:30:03.000 --> 0:30:04.400 me to last year to go. 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:06.960 To come back. 0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:11.080 So I've been okay, man, I've just been trying to 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:14.640 be normal Corey and try to live my life accordantly 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:18.520 and man, and they keep my health up good and 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:22.160 things of that nature. Man, So it's been it's been 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:25.520 one hell of a journey. I wouldn't I wouldn't change anything. 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:28.200 I wouldn't change nothing, nothing about it. 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.800 How closely do you follow the Bengals now? And what 0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:32.680 do you think A Burrow? 0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:33.760 Oh? 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:38.200 Man, dude, thank you, thank you, mister Burrow. I'm gonna 0:30:38.200 --> 0:30:40.680 tell you what man, I and I told I told 0:30:41.720 --> 0:30:45.880 some others about this man. That man has literally changed 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:52.040 the perception of the Bengals by himself. So just for 0:30:52.080 --> 0:30:56.240 that man, keep doing you, Joe, seriously, man, he's one 0:30:56.240 --> 0:31:00.280 helbl of quarterback. I believe he will lead to the 0:31:00.360 --> 0:31:04.960 Super Bowl soon. So and I can't wait for that day. 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:05.160 Man. 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:09.160 So I love the young man. Want to help a player, 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:16.000 great competitor, great leader. And you know what, me and me, 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:19.720 me and some of the old teammates. Man, we're sitting back. 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:22.200 We're just we're having fun seeing these young guys go 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:25.680 out there and and and and and put in work. 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:27.920 So it's it's awesome to see. 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:30.920 What was it like for you to watch Super Bowl 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:33.320 fifty six? Were you screaming at the TV when the 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:35.080 Bengals said took on the Rams? 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:35.840 Oh? 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:36.640 Man, I was. 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:38.960 It was a nailby I Man, I got anxiety. I 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:42.600 was like, man, come on, let's go, let's go. So 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:46.960 I know the magnitude of winning one, what it would 0:31:47.000 --> 0:31:50.240 mean for the for the Bengals, So yeah, man, I was. 0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:52.680 I was rooting for them, harm and it was very disappointing. 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:56.120 Comes down to the last play man and in the 0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:57.360 Rams edge of Mountain. 0:31:57.360 --> 0:31:57.520 Man. 0:31:57.640 --> 0:32:00.680 So I was heartbroken. But I you what, man, We're 0:32:00.680 --> 0:32:03.440 gonna have many more opportunities to get one. 0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:04.640 Yeah. 0:32:04.640 --> 0:32:07.280 The Bengals all time leading rusher, you have the most 0:32:07.320 --> 0:32:10.240 one hundred yard rushing performances, you have the longest run, 0:32:10.280 --> 0:32:15.280 the ninety six yard touchdown run against Detroit. Is there 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:18.680 anything of all of the accolades that means the most 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:19.640 to you? 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:21.240 You know what sticks out to me? Man? 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:25.720 And this and this shows the character of the team 0:32:25.960 --> 0:32:26.920 and my teammates. 0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:28.800 I think. 0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:34.720 I think Baltimore was like on a fifty three gang 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:38.960 streak of not allowing one hundred yard rusher. Me and 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:41.840 the boys went down there and broke that, man, and 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:46.000 that sticks out to me. Of like, and now, listen, 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:50.480 in those fifty games the Ravens back then were they, man, 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:54.560 they were tough at they're stingy, they played. They seen 0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:59.040 a lot of great running backs in that fifty game stretch. 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:03.400 And for us to go actually down into Baltimore work 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:08.640 and go down there, I know we took a loss, 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:11.400 but hell, for us to go down there, show up, 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:15.440 break they street. That sticks out to me. That that 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:19.760 show's character, you know what I mean? So that sticks out, 0:33:20.000 --> 0:33:22.239 that sticks out the most. Yeah, I know, I got 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:25.080 the two forty six and the two seventy eights and 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:29.680 this and that, I that sticks out more than of 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:30.080 it to me. 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:36.160 Marvin Lewis was the defensive coordinator of those Baltimore teams. 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:38.520 Right right, Oh hey, trust me, I let them know 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:39.560 what when you got. 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:42.880 I'm sure you did. 0:33:43.120 --> 0:33:45.240 I let them know. I let them know. 0:33:46.480 --> 0:33:50.560 Your girls were young. I think your your oldest daughter 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:53.400 was just born around the time that you ran for 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:54.320 two seventy eight. 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:59.360 Yeses around three? Okay sound three? Yeah? 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:00.880 Does this, Honor? 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:03.800 Hey, you know, help you make the case to your 0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:06.880 girls that see, dad was one heck of a player. 0:34:07.760 --> 0:34:11.879 Hey, hey, hey, yeah, I'm I tell them all the time, 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:13.640 your dad was pretty good. I know you wasn't that. 0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:18.560 I know you wouldn't, I said. I mean, I mean, 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:21.359 I said, you better go check out them highlights. Oh Dad, 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:26.200 I'm not gonna do that. So no, I don't they 0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:30.560 they understand the My oldest definitely understand the magnitude of 0:34:31.719 --> 0:34:34.759 getting into this ring, Honor. Not only that, I mean 0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:37.680 just just my family, like my brothers and my whole 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:41.800 supporting cast. They they know like, this is this is 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:47.120 big time, this is this is it man, And you've 0:34:47.120 --> 0:34:49.880 been waiting on this, this is what you've been waiting on. 0:34:50.320 --> 0:34:53.200 I mean, I don't think people will get like you 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:56.480 don't get it sometimes until you it takes until you retire, 0:34:56.680 --> 0:34:59.480 you you start looking back on all the great things 0:34:59.480 --> 0:35:03.520 you did and some things you did wrong and all this, 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:07.600 and you start putting your own career into perspective. Man, 0:35:08.719 --> 0:35:11.920 this this is solidifying my legacy and I and I 0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:15.080 love it. This is this is this is one step 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:18.919 to getting that getting that that other jacket as well. 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:21.320 So we're all happy. 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:26.560 Man, That Dylan clan is can't be more happier than 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:27.480 they are right now. 0:35:27.560 --> 0:35:30.960 So yeah, I wish my mom was here to see it. 0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:31.239 Man. 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:34.000 I know she's looking down and and she's smiling too. 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:37.400 So it's gonna be a great It's gonna be a 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:38.760 great day on the twenty thirty. 0:35:39.239 --> 0:35:42.160 Absolutely, Corey, this has been great. 0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:43.640 I really appreciate your time. 0:35:43.760 --> 0:35:46.680 Congratulations on this well deserved honner, and we look forward 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:48.480 to seeing you at halftime of that game at pay 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:49.320 Course Stadium. 0:35:49.680 --> 0:35:49.839 Oh. 0:35:49.920 --> 0:35:52.239 I will be there. Just indeed, thank you. 0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:58.120 As I said in that interview, I believe that Corey 0:35:58.200 --> 0:36:01.759 Dylan belongs in the profile Ball Hall of Fame. He's 0:36:01.800 --> 0:36:04.960 twentieth all time in rushing yards, ranking ahead of several 0:36:05.000 --> 0:36:09.280 Hall of famers including OJ Simpson, Earl Campbell, Terrell Davis, 0:36:09.480 --> 0:36:13.760 and Floyd Little. In fact, Corey ran for nearly five 0:36:13.840 --> 0:36:17.600 thousand more yards than Little. He's a four time Pro bowler, 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:21.000 a Super Bowl champion, holds the career rushing record for 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:25.759 the Bengals and the single season rushing record for the Patriots. Yes, 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:28.800 Corey rubbed some people the wrong way during his playing career, 0:36:29.120 --> 0:36:32.319 but the Hall of Fame shouldn't be a popularity contest. 0:36:32.760 --> 0:36:36.320 The stats don't lie, and Corey's rank with the best 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:40.200 running backs to ever play. The Bengals Booth Podcast is 0:36:40.200 --> 0:36:42.120 brought to you by pay Corps, Proud to be the 0:36:42.160 --> 0:36:46.760 Bengals Official HR software provider, by Alta Fiber future proof 0:36:46.760 --> 0:36:49.920 Fiber Internet designed to elevate your home, business and community 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:53.360 to a new level, and by Kettering Health the best 0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:57.000 care for the best fans. Kettering Health is the official 0:36:57.320 --> 0:37:01.440 healthcare provider of the Bengals. The second player chosen for 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:04.640 the Ring of Honor this year as Tim Crumrae. Despite 0:37:04.680 --> 0:37:08.000 being a first team All American at Wisconsin, Crumrie was 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:11.200 not considered to be a top NFL prospect at nose 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:14.239 tackle because he was six to two and came out 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:18.279 of college weighing roughly two hundred and fifty pounds. The 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:21.560 draft lasted for twelve rounds back in nineteen eighty three, 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:25.760 and Cincinnati selected Tim in round ten with pick number 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:29.919 two seventy six. Overall, he ranks among the greatest late 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:34.120 round steals in NFL history. Crumrie was a two time 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:37.680 pro bowler who earned first team All Pro honors in 0:37:37.760 --> 0:37:40.200 nineteen eighty eight, and the Bengals might have won the 0:37:40.200 --> 0:37:43.439 Super Bowl that year if Tim didn't break his leg 0:37:43.600 --> 0:37:49.239 in four places on the forty nine ers second offensive possession. Remarkably, 0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:51.960 he was back in time for the season opener the 0:37:52.000 --> 0:37:54.840 next year, and other than a couple of games with 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:59.240 replacement players during the nineteen eighty seven player strike, Crumrie 0:37:59.360 --> 0:38:03.760 played in all one hundred and ninety three regular season 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.759 in playoff games that he could have appeared in in 0:38:06.800 --> 0:38:12.880 his twelve NFL seasons, Tim, Bengals fans have spoken, they 0:38:12.880 --> 0:38:15.360 have selected you for the Ring of Honor. What was 0:38:15.400 --> 0:38:17.279 your reaction when you got the news. 0:38:17.120 --> 0:38:19.920 Well, it's amazing coming from Mike Brown. I knew it 0:38:19.920 --> 0:38:22.640 was Mike Brown calling right away, but we had little 0:38:22.640 --> 0:38:24.560 trouble getting through. But finally we got through to Mike 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:26.640 and he said congratulations, and he's so proud of me 0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:29.400 because his family for a long time. No, but it's 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:30.960 a great honor to be part of this deal, and 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:33.560 it's gonna be exciting, get a bunch of family coming in, 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:35.239 and it's going to be a great thing for the 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:37.040 city and my fans. I think the fans are great. 0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:39.600 And thank you for once again the fans for doing it. 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:42.280 And then basically, thank you very much for the Brown family. 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:44.640 They are family to me. We have a lot of 0:38:45.200 --> 0:38:47.600 history backing over the years, so it's so thank you 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:48.160 for them too. 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:51.960 Let's turn the clock back to the nineteen eighty three 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:56.080 NFL Draft, known as maybe the greatest quarterback draft of 0:38:56.160 --> 0:38:59.680 all time, John Lway, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, and others. 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:03.640 Despite your college football Hall of Fame career at Wisconsin, 0:39:03.760 --> 0:39:09.080 you lasted until round ten. Were you pissed? Were you confused? 0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:10.399 What was going through your mind? 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:11.360 All the above? 0:39:12.880 --> 0:39:14.600 Well, it was one of those deals that unfortunately I 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.200 was drafting the tenth round, too short, too slow, and 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:20.400 too late. Well, you can't judge heart and desire, and 0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:22.000 I had to ship on my shoulder from day one 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:23.359 because I was drafted too late. 0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:24.640 I thought I was going to go a lot earlier. 0:39:25.000 --> 0:39:28.439 But I had some good people that saw me, dickle Bow, 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:32.400 Paul Brown, those people seen me play before and then 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:33.560 they picked me late. 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:35.120 But the rest is history. 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:38.080 I guess the Bengals first round pick that year was 0:39:38.440 --> 0:39:41.520 Dave Remington, the center out of Nebraska. To this day, 0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:44.400 the Dave Remington Award goes to the best center in 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:48.879 college football. You famously made his life a living hell 0:39:49.400 --> 0:39:52.319 in that first training camp. What were you out to prove? 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:54.520 Actually it was the Oklahoma drills. 0:39:54.560 --> 0:39:56.560 It was a tenth round pick, goings against number one, 0:39:57.239 --> 0:39:58.719 and I didn't get a turn, didn't get a turn, 0:39:58.800 --> 0:40:01.240 and then I turned to Jim McClair. 0:40:02.239 --> 0:40:06.280 He hold on cowboy, hold on last one. Dave Vermonton 0:40:06.360 --> 0:40:07.120 went up. I went up. 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:11.000 I had a good wrestling move, took him over backwards 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:13.799 and Forrest Greg started yelling to go again, go again. 0:40:13.880 --> 0:40:14.600 Did it three times? 0:40:15.120 --> 0:40:16.920 So if I made an impact on Dave Evermont to 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:18.680 the number one pick, I think I had a good 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:19.640 shot at making a team. 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:25.040 Dave Lapham says, you treated every practice like it was 0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:28.880 a game. You had no neutral gear. What was your 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:30.759 thinking where practice was concerned. 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:33.640 Well, practice was part of the game for me because 0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:36.080 I thought if I practice half speed, I'd play half speed. 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:38.879 It was Friday Temple. I have no Friday Temple. Yeah, 0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:41.760 Friday Temple. Leave me in the locker room. No Friday. 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:43.800 But that was part of the That was part of 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:44.080 the thing. 0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:45.680 And I want to say one thing before I get 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:50.160 too far into this about me practicing against Dave Lapham. 0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:54.440 All those fine alignment made me a better player by far. 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:57.719 Because play practice against the best you go in a game. 0:40:58.480 --> 0:40:58.960 It's easy. 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:01.560 So that one thing I'll make sure I say about 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:03.680 the offensive line I prated against when I play here. 0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:08.040 How much of your approach came from wrestling and a 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:09.160 wrestling mentality? 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:12.400 Number one, It was easy when you go into wrestling 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:14.759 matches one on one and I thought, when I lined 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:17.399 up on an offensive lineman, if I beat him, I'll 0:41:17.440 --> 0:41:17.799 be fine. 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:19.560 That's why mentality all the way through. 0:41:19.680 --> 0:41:21.799 There's a long lot of stories on how I had 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:26.440 ability to hand placement by pummeling, hit movements, single take, 0:41:26.480 --> 0:41:28.399 now on throwing your hip on a double, All those 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:31.239 little things wrestling really made important. I think if any 0:41:31.280 --> 0:41:35.200 athlete now, high school, college, whatever it is, has an 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:37.920 opportunity to wrestle as a key, as a big edge 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:38.440 in football. 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:43.719 You led the team in tackles five times as a noseguard, 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:47.080 which is basically unheard of. The first time was in 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:51.000 your third season. When did you realize that you could 0:41:51.120 --> 0:41:53.080 dominate at the NFL level. 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:55.840 Well, it was after probably my second or third season. 0:41:56.160 --> 0:41:57.920 You have to understand, and I want to make this 0:41:58.080 --> 0:42:00.959 very important. I played nose tackle straight up on the center. 0:42:01.320 --> 0:42:03.880 That's two gap. I means eight two A gaps. That's it, 0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:06.720 both sides of centers. The A gap had both gaps. 0:42:07.000 --> 0:42:09.560 For me to have that many tackles, it's unbelievable because 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:12.279 it's the wrestling metality. I beat him, Well, here comes 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:13.520 a double, I flip my hips. 0:42:13.719 --> 0:42:14.239 I'm good to go. 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:17.279 But making those tackles, it was game after game, and 0:42:17.320 --> 0:42:19.880 I think the biggest thing is play every snap like 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:22.360 it's last, and you'll have success. 0:42:22.920 --> 0:42:24.480 Play every snap like it's your last snap. 0:42:25.560 --> 0:42:28.279 Everything came together for the team in the nineteen eighty 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:31.120 eight season. You went twelve and four, You advanced to 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:35.120 Super Bowl twenty three. What are your most vivid memories 0:42:35.280 --> 0:42:36.040 of that season? 0:42:36.360 --> 0:42:38.200 Well, we were just my wife and I sure we're 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:42.400 having a discussion coming down driving traffic and probably the 0:42:42.480 --> 0:42:45.240 best memory is we were in a Boomer's size's basement 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:49.839 and we said we're going to super Bowl. We had 0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:52.000 to in factor that everybody's in. There was no I, 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:54.879 it was we. We were all in the same place 0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:56.200 and we all wanted to have success and go to 0:42:56.239 --> 0:43:00.239 Super Bowl. Boomer was the MVP that year. It was 0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:01.920 Boomer's ion in nineteen eighty eight. 0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:03.319 He always says, I'm not paying the butt. 0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:08.040 He may be right, sure El's here, she can attest. 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:12.239 No Boomer is on the He said, he he's a 0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:14.400 great quarterback. I like playing the Boomer because he's got 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:16.839 the factor. He's a he's a coach's coach, and he's 0:43:16.840 --> 0:43:18.640 a players player. I mean, you can talk to him easy. 0:43:19.200 --> 0:43:21.279 The funniest thing about it his lockers right next to mine. 0:43:21.920 --> 0:43:24.200 I said, well, when the press come around, Boomer's got him, 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:28.040 I'm gone. So but we have a good relationship now 0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:30.560 and stuff like that. But actually him getting the Raguana 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:32.000 is a great honor too. I talked to him before 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:33.680 he went in. I was happy that he got in. 0:43:33.800 --> 0:43:36.480 Also, yeah, he went into the Ring of honor last year. 0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:39.560 What was his leadership like in that nineteen eighty eight season. 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:42.320 It was fantastic and he was always I mean I 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.279 actually when I was a defensive lineman, I'd always you know, 0:43:45.360 --> 0:43:47.640 I would watch the offense, you know, I watched practice 0:43:47.960 --> 0:43:49.560 and in the games and stuff. He can't really watch 0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:52.640 too much. But actually when they had come off the field, 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:55.200 they're running off the field, running on the field as 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:57.839 a team, as a group. That's that's camaraderie, and that's 0:43:57.880 --> 0:44:01.000 how the team is built. And the whole group of 0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:06.520 offense and defense and special teams, it was us us, 0:44:07.560 --> 0:44:10.360 not I us. And that's important how he build and 0:44:10.440 --> 0:44:11.000 has success. 0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:14.640 So a big part of your legacy is obviously what 0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:18.600 happened in that Super Bowl, the broken leg, and your 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:24.680 remarkable recovery after it happened thirty six years later. Do 0:44:24.800 --> 0:44:27.800 you think about it, do you dream about it? What 0:44:28.040 --> 0:44:31.040 comes to mind when you think back to that unfortunately 0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:31.840 gruesome injury. 0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:35.759 I mask about it every day, every time, every time 0:44:35.840 --> 0:44:39.000 we go to a function. How's your leg? My leg 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:42.280 is just fine. I had some great doctors. Doctor Michael 0:44:42.280 --> 0:44:44.040 Welts took care of it. I wanted to. 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:47.040 I actually saw him last weekend and anyway, but he 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:48.640 did a good job and the surgery and stuff. But 0:44:48.719 --> 0:44:52.480 The key on that was, I should say is in 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:57.080 my mind was the willpower I'm coming back. I didn't 0:44:57.080 --> 0:44:59.960 miss a game, even with after I played five or 0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:02.839 six years with that nail amount tibia. But the thing 0:45:03.000 --> 0:45:05.359 is on that after that injury, you get you get 0:45:05.600 --> 0:45:07.560 woken up a little bit. But it was just my 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:10.320 mindset and mental toughness. Every day when I was in 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.839 physical therapy, I'm coming back, I'm coming back. I'm coming back. 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:15.240 There was no doubt. 0:45:16.120 --> 0:45:18.080 It wasn't easy. There was days it felt like you 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:19.840 know what, it starts with an S. I can't say it, 0:45:21.600 --> 0:45:24.279 but no, that was That's one of the things that 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:26.800 people now can of recognize me for. But the thing is, 0:45:26.920 --> 0:45:29.800 I want to recognize for the mental toughness. 0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:30.120 Of my game. 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:33.120 I have the ability to use a beep button, so 0:45:33.280 --> 0:45:36.200 feel free to use any language you would like. What 0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:39.600 was the rehab like following that injury, because as you mentioned, 0:45:39.600 --> 0:45:40.600 you were back for week one. 0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:44.640 Well, actually I left Cincinnati went back to Claire, Wisconsin, 0:45:45.280 --> 0:45:47.759 and that's where I did my physical slerapy. I started 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:51.480 out there and I was on crutches and one of 0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:55.040 the craziest things, and I don't remember every moment of it. 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:59.040 But the craziest one was I walked behind a snowballer 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:03.080 instead of crutch walk behind the snowboard, not flowing snow, 0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:03.880 just walking. 0:46:03.640 --> 0:46:07.799 Behind it and stimulating that bone. Actually, it's like a. 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:12.719 Deer, a dog. They get hit by a car. They 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:14.800 step in that leg, step on that leg, step in 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:17.120 that leg. I did the same type of thing. Stepped 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:19.880 down it, step down it, step down it. And that 0:46:20.000 --> 0:46:22.640 was the key to stimulating that bone to grow. 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:27.560 You famously refused to take painkillers in the locker room 0:46:27.600 --> 0:46:30.040 after it happened. You wouldn't have gone to the hospital 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:31.960 if they didn't make you go in the fourth quarter 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:35.359 to try to avoid traffic exiting the Super Bowl. Why 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:36.440 was that so important to you? 0:46:36.719 --> 0:46:39.440 Well, the most important part was, you know I had 0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:43.040 a TV on. Male remember the game, and they said 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:45.719 we have to set it. We're gonna get paid if 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:46.400 we said it. 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:47.520 Well, I remember the game. 0:46:48.120 --> 0:46:52.640 He goes, Nope, I said, said it without pain killers. 0:46:52.680 --> 0:46:55.360 No pain killers. But what did the old cowboys do? 0:46:56.440 --> 0:46:59.120 Bite a bullet the place, I should say, the placement. 0:46:59.200 --> 0:47:01.160 I can't give you a ball, Well give me a tall. 0:47:01.239 --> 0:47:04.000 Then I got a tall A tall he said it. 0:47:04.160 --> 0:47:06.719 He said it and then actually I think it was 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:11.560 just before the third quarter started, mid third quarter says. 0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:14.000 We have to the animals. Driver in the paramedics. They 0:47:14.040 --> 0:47:16.560 were fantastic, they said, Tim, we're gonna have to get 0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:18.200 you out of the locker room for traffic. 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:22.480 We have to eat hopital. But we have a problem. 0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:26.600 I was kind of delirious. Still, what's the problem. We 0:47:26.760 --> 0:47:30.960 have to go over speed bumps, all right? So the 0:47:31.000 --> 0:47:35.880 first speed bump went mmm, man, second. 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:42.920 Bump went, WHOA, give me the drugs? Right, So it 0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:44.600 was like he drug me up. 0:47:45.560 --> 0:47:49.480 I had enough to so speed bumps. We finally learned 0:47:49.560 --> 0:47:53.480 the thing exactly. I've learned Tim Camerid's weakness. After all 0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:57.960 these years, What if anything do you miss about playing football? 0:48:00.120 --> 0:48:00.560 Practice? 0:48:01.080 --> 0:48:01.600 Practice? 0:48:02.080 --> 0:48:05.239 I love practice. Practice is fun to me, and it was. 0:48:05.320 --> 0:48:05.799 It was fun. 0:48:06.120 --> 0:48:08.360 Their games are fun and probably the big The coolest 0:48:08.400 --> 0:48:11.080 thing is you know, the super Bowl is the coolest thing. 0:48:11.440 --> 0:48:14.359 Get introduced it. That's the coolest thing. Having an accomplishment. 0:48:14.360 --> 0:48:17.279 I think, practice and a camaraderie. And it wasn't a 0:48:17.520 --> 0:48:19.320 it wasn't a job for me. I had fun doing it. 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:21.400 It wasn't like it was a hardship. You ever go 0:48:21.480 --> 0:48:24.640 to Wilmington and come out of the locker room sweating 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:28.000 like a you know what, that's got to be fun. 0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:29.440 And I had fun because. 0:48:29.239 --> 0:48:31.040 Actually, you know, we had a lot of good, good 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:34.520 camaraderie with my teammates and stuff, you know, and Chris 0:48:34.600 --> 0:48:37.040 collins Worth unfortunately Turk sh owners not hearing, but he 0:48:37.160 --> 0:48:39.040 was my roommate in college and stuff like this. 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:42.480 But uh, I had fun. I had fun practicing, and 0:48:42.520 --> 0:48:43.120 I'd found. 0:48:42.960 --> 0:48:45.279 The games and and actually the I would get so 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:48.120 fired up in the games that one time I remember 0:48:48.200 --> 0:48:50.040 coming off and I looked at Jim Breach and I. 0:48:50.000 --> 0:48:52.680 Said, was the score? He was, You know, no, I 0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:53.600 don't cool it. What's the score? 0:48:54.960 --> 0:48:55.400 He tell me. 0:48:55.719 --> 0:48:57.279 I guess you didn't look up there? No, I'm not 0:48:57.360 --> 0:48:59.239 looking up there. So focused on it. 0:48:59.280 --> 0:49:01.279 But I miss I missed the games. And I go 0:49:01.360 --> 0:49:02.839 to practice here once in a while. But still when 0:49:02.840 --> 0:49:04.319 the season comes around, I. 0:49:04.400 --> 0:49:05.160 Still get that itch. 0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:10.760 Every offensive lineman you ever played with is thinking. Of course, 0:49:10.840 --> 0:49:14.759 he said, practice is what he misses. If anybody's going 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:16.560 to say they missed practice, it was CRIMRAI. 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:21.440 That's probably right, because actually there were the guys that 0:49:21.560 --> 0:49:28.239 price against Ay Anthony and all the guys Max, they 0:49:29.160 --> 0:49:29.759 thought I. 0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:32.640 Was crazy because it was hell of practice. Now I 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:33.359 was going wide open. 0:49:34.080 --> 0:49:36.560 So and then, actually, the the funny of the stories, 0:49:36.560 --> 0:49:38.879 a lot of the dvs go you were painting the butt. 0:49:38.920 --> 0:49:39.120 Tim. 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:41.319 We have to watch the film on you running down 0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:42.480 to damn field, get the tackle. 0:49:45.280 --> 0:49:48.239 You got tackles right, all of a sudden you show up. 0:49:48.920 --> 0:49:50.560 I said, Well, I guess I wanted to get there. 0:49:52.200 --> 0:49:55.040 So you played twelve years for the Bengals and retired 0:49:55.080 --> 0:49:58.600 at a relatively young age. When did you know that 0:49:58.719 --> 0:49:59.920 it was your time to hang them? 0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:05.840 Well, I was always a believer in my body, and 0:50:05.960 --> 0:50:09.920 my body wasn't working correctly. I lost a step. I 0:50:09.960 --> 0:50:13.560 couldn't get that left, but the leg I broke. I 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:16.600 couldn't get that step up. It wasn't coming fire. One fire, 0:50:16.680 --> 0:50:18.400 one fire. And I got to the point there I 0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:20.279 wasn't doing this stuff I used to do, And I said, 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:23.640 I want to be remembered as the best of the best. 0:50:24.000 --> 0:50:24.920 That's why he hung it up. 0:50:26.320 --> 0:50:29.880 You got a motorcycle at your retirement game. I know 0:50:30.040 --> 0:50:34.200 that you loved riding your bikes after your playing days. 0:50:34.320 --> 0:50:36.840 Whatever happened to that motorcycle. 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:39.680 Well, so actually I got the motorcycle on the field. 0:50:40.040 --> 0:50:44.320 The person in nineteen ninety four was I retired. I 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:47.000 had fourst grag one year. I had him come back 0:50:47.040 --> 0:50:49.160 and introduce me after one year that he's the most 0:50:49.200 --> 0:50:52.879 impact coach I had. So anyway, I got the motorcycle, 0:50:53.680 --> 0:50:57.399 drove it off the field into the tunnel and total security. Guy, 0:50:57.719 --> 0:50:59.160 We're gonna win the game. Keep it here and I'm 0:50:59.200 --> 0:51:03.320 doing a victory lap. What so we want to do 0:51:03.600 --> 0:51:05.880 victory or okay, back out? 0:51:08.920 --> 0:51:11.040 Why did Forrest make such a big impact on you? 0:51:11.160 --> 0:51:13.840 Because when Forrest I had him one year and he 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.200 was kind of the I was young, but I watched 0:51:17.280 --> 0:51:23.000 him coach and was mannerisms meaning his temperament, my way 0:51:23.120 --> 0:51:26.759 or the highway type of deal. And when I ever thought, 0:51:26.800 --> 0:51:29.240 I said, I coached on a coach like him, stern 0:51:29.400 --> 0:51:33.480 to the point, no, bs, you get this way, we're 0:51:33.680 --> 0:51:34.279 not going to work. 0:51:34.840 --> 0:51:36.920 And I really respected Forrest Gregg for what he did 0:51:36.960 --> 0:51:37.920 to means for his first year. 0:51:39.160 --> 0:51:41.600 After living in Colorado for many years, you moved back 0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:45.360 to Cincinnati a few years back. Bengals fans are delighted 0:51:45.400 --> 0:51:48.400 to see you at various Bengals events. What's it been 0:51:48.520 --> 0:51:50.360 like for you to be back around the franchise and 0:51:50.719 --> 0:51:52.640 to see the current team led by Joe Burrow. 0:51:52.960 --> 0:51:54.759 Well, this is the this is the reason we moved 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:56.239 back is for I could go to the football games 0:51:56.239 --> 0:51:58.359 and stuff. I enjoyed the games and watching the games. 0:51:58.400 --> 0:52:01.799 And one thing I'm going to say about Joe, he's 0:52:01.800 --> 0:52:05.320 a fantastic football player, but he's a factor. He's got it. 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:08.080 He's got it. How did the rest is like, he's 0:52:08.120 --> 0:52:11.080 got it. You just see on that mannerisms. I've seen 0:52:11.120 --> 0:52:11.640 a lot of players. 0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:13.640 Now he's got it. So that's so it's said as 0:52:13.640 --> 0:52:15.160 simple as that he's going to be a great player 0:52:15.200 --> 0:52:15.879 for a long time. 0:52:16.480 --> 0:52:18.080 How quickly did you see it? 0:52:18.960 --> 0:52:22.600 National Championship game? I know if you we get him, 0:52:23.160 --> 0:52:23.840 we're set to go. 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:27.359 And you knew they were going to get him because 0:52:27.360 --> 0:52:30.200 they had the number one pick. You're in the Wisconsin 0:52:30.280 --> 0:52:32.359 Hall of Fame, You're in the College Football Hall of Fame. 0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:34.520 Now you're going to be in the Bengals Ring of Honor. 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:37.439 How does this honor compare to some of the things 0:52:37.480 --> 0:52:39.320 that you've been honored for in the past. 0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:42.320 It's one of those things that you know, high school 0:52:42.400 --> 0:52:44.080 and college I have a lot of honors and all 0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:46.880 of those and this is kind of just a closure 0:52:46.960 --> 0:52:47.160 for me. 0:52:48.680 --> 0:52:50.719 We have to ring and honor, and there's one other 0:52:50.800 --> 0:52:52.359 thing maybe we'll have someday. 0:52:52.880 --> 0:52:56.520 Canton, one more to go, Tim, As I said at 0:52:56.560 --> 0:52:59.719 the top, Bengals fans have spoken. A few years ago 0:53:00.080 --> 0:53:03.520 the team celebrated its fiftieth season. You were chosen as 0:53:03.560 --> 0:53:06.600 the third greatest player of all time by Bengals fans, 0:53:07.000 --> 0:53:10.120 and they've spoken again, selecting you for the Ring of Honor. 0:53:10.280 --> 0:53:15.279 Congratulations on this well deserved honor, and for being the 0:53:15.320 --> 0:53:19.800 player that many consider to be the toughest in franchise history. 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:22.080 Here's the thing everybody asked me about my broken Leagan 0:53:22.120 --> 0:53:25.759 super Bowl twenty three. You can quote this. You can 0:53:25.840 --> 0:53:27.200 break my other leg and put me in the Super 0:53:27.200 --> 0:53:27.680 Bowl again. 0:53:30.320 --> 0:53:32.000 You would break the other one if you could play 0:53:32.000 --> 0:53:34.239 in another, break the other one. 0:53:35.640 --> 0:53:38.840 Here's a stat that Pro Football Hall of Fame voters 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:43.960 need to consider. According to Pro Football Reference, crumbrise oney 0:53:44.239 --> 0:53:48.920 seventeen career tackles are the most ever by an NFL 0:53:49.080 --> 0:53:53.160 defensive tackle, and he did it as a noseguard, taking 0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:58.120 on double teams on virtually every snap. Here's hoping he'll 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:01.080 get strong consideration for a goal jacket and canton in 0:54:01.160 --> 0:54:04.359 the near future. But in the meantime, Tim has two 0:54:04.480 --> 0:54:07.440 honors to look forward to this fall. In addition to 0:54:07.560 --> 0:54:11.040 joining the Bengals Ring of Honor, Mondovi High School back 0:54:11.080 --> 0:54:15.359 in Wisconsin is retiring his uniform number. Tim war number 0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:20.040 forty four back then as a fullback and linebacker. 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