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

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The I Want to Be your

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Speaker 1: end game addition, as the Bengals end the season on

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Speaker 1: a positive note and with a winning record by beating

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Speaker 1: Cleveland thirty one to fourteen. Coming up radio replays, locker

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Speaker 1: room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then in

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Speaker 1: this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll get to know the

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Speaker 1: newest player on the Bengals roster, Travis Bell. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: thing since Tony to Tiger the Ruler of the Jungle.

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Speaker 1: Before the Bengals final home game of the year, is

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Speaker 1: Traditionally they're Fan of the Year, and this year that's

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Speaker 1: Anthony Brooks, better known among Bengals fans as Tony the Tiger.

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Speaker 1: You know who I'm talking about, the guy who uses

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Speaker 1: face paint and an orange wig to turn himself into

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Speaker 1: a ferocious tiger at Bengals games and events. Tony is

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Speaker 1: not just a loyal fan, he's a generous one, using

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Speaker 1: his platform to help charities and providing tickets for children

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Speaker 1: who have never attended an NFL game. It was sixty

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Speaker 1: eight kids this year. So thanks Tony for being a

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Speaker 1: great ambassador for the Bengals and enjoy that all expenses

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Speaker 1: paid trip to the Super Bowl for being the Bengals

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Speaker 2: Three Fan of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Now time for the radio replays from Sunday's season finale

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Speaker 1: at fay Corse Stadium. It's the final day of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. While the Cincinnati Bengals will now go to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs in twenty twenty three, they do have two

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Speaker 1: very specific goals today. To finish the season with a

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Speaker 1: winning record and to beat a rival that has dominated

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Speaker 1: their head to head meetings in recent years, the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: It is the one hundred.

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Speaker 1: And first Battle of Ohio, and it's time for the

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Speaker 2: Here in the jungles.

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Speaker 1: Third down and four for the Browns from their own

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Speaker 1: twenty nine Driscoll to throw, floating it deep down the

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Speaker 1: Has his first NFL interception. The Bengals bring in a

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Speaker 1: sixth offensive lineman, Cody Ford. They will toss it right

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Speaker 1: to Joe Mixon. He woe waltz into the end zone

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Speaker 1: as their team has avoided his shutout today. Driscoll catches

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Speaker 1: It was quite a day for Joe Mixon. He ran

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Speaker 1: for one hundred eleven yards on fourteen carries, his first

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Speaker 1: Joe's two touchdowns gave him twelve this season, and that

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Speaker 1: Joe, the season ended on a great note for you,

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Speaker 1: a one hundred yard rushing performance a way one thousand

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Speaker 4: I felt like we went out in a great fashion.

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Speaker 4: Obviously it's not the outcome that we wanted, but at

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Speaker 1: Late in the game, they showed on the video board

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Speaker 4: Man, that's one thing about them fans that's been in

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Speaker 4: first year to this last year, they always been very

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Speaker 4: thank them enough for all the love and support that

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Speaker 4: And I'll never take that for granted. And I just

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Speaker 4: So I'll try to just try to do whatever I

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna just you know, do whatever I can

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: So this is a great thing. Joe.

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Speaker 1: You are climbing a lot of the Bengals all time list.

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Speaker 1: You're now number two in rushing touchdowns. You're about I

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Speaker 1: You're closing in on Pete Johnson's record for combining touchdowns

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Speaker 1: rushing and receiving. You had two of those today. How

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it's definitely a great achievement. I never

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Speaker 4: really reflecting over these seven years, man, and you know,

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Speaker 4: And that's something that you can never take for granted.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's always been the best feeling, you know,

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Speaker 4: knowing that you know, one day you obviously have to

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Speaker 6: Keep thinking the football guys for allowing.

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Speaker 1: Me to play this game nine and eight and a

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Speaker 1: winning record? Was that what you were striving for at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, obviously, but it is an achievement.

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Speaker 1: I mean, to get through an NFL season when your

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Speaker 1: how do you feel about that?

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Like I said, it's not the season that we wanted.

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Speaker 4: definitely a blessing to be able to say that we

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 4: So we're just gonna keep on doing whatever we gotta

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Speaker 4: whatever we can, you know, and let our presence be

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Speaker 4: and do whatever we can and enjoy my teammates.

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Speaker 1: Awesome finish for you. Congratulations on a great day and

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Speaker 1: another one thousand yard season.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 1: There's Jake Browning, who tied his career high with three

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes before leaving the game late in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: For the season, Jake completed seventy percent of his throws

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Speaker 1: and had a passer rating of ninety eight point four,

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Speaker 1: that's seventh best in the NFL. He discussed the win

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Speaker 5: It's good to finish with the win.

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Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I think it's mixed feelings because, yeah,

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Speaker 8: we beat them, but I'd rather be in the playoffs

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Speaker 8: and so, uh, yeah, it's good to finish with the win,

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Speaker 8: but wish we're still playing. Kind of sucks.

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Speaker 9: What about your stretch, I mean, going into this football

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Speaker 9: game in the last six weeks, you have the best

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Speaker 9: completion percentage in the NFL, thrown for the most yards

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Speaker 1: Nobody is going to complain about a thirty one to

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Speaker 1: In the season, you played on great teams at Alabama

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to a great finish on a very good first year.

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Speaker 9: Coach that couple football game, I mean got stepped up.

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Speaker 10: I think in my whole career, I've only been on

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Speaker 10: It took like, you know, eight or nine minutes, kind

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Speaker 10: anybody else. Everyone always took accountability. And I'm proud to

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Speaker 10: be a coach of a locker room right that, proud

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Speaker 10: to represent a coaching staff that's like that in an organization.

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Speaker 5: And we'll be back. We're going to put in the work.

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Speaker 10: This is a bitter taste in our mouth to end

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Speaker 10: it today and not be able to play in the playoffs,

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Speaker 10: and that'll not that we need any motivation, but we

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Speaker 10: certainly want to get back in contention to play for

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Speaker 10: more meaningful things.

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Speaker 9: Do you remember being in a game before where each

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Speaker 9: team had an interception on their first possession of the game.

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Speaker 5: Not not that stands out to men?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that's that's rare.

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Speaker 5: That's kind.

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Speaker 9: But you guys compartmentalize put it away in three straight

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Speaker 9: touchdown drives. I mean, how important was that just to

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Speaker 9: move on?

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Speaker 5: It was good.

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Speaker 10: You need and in a game like this, you need

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Speaker 10: to get them momentum eily, you know, and because they're

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Speaker 10: they're playing with house money, you know they're gonna have

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Speaker 10: a lot of energy on the sideline. This guys getting

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Speaker 10: opportunity to play, and so it's important to get on

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Speaker 10: a team like that early and and try to squash

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Speaker 10: that hope, and our guys did a good job of

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Speaker 10: that and I think maximizing their opportunities today.

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Speaker 9: You came out of it really well physically too. I mean,

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Speaker 9: it doesn't look like there's anything significant that you have

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Speaker 9: to worry about going into the offseason physically, we tried to.

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Speaker 10: Do a good job in the second half when when

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Speaker 10: we got control of it, you know, to try to

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Speaker 10: get some guys out and get some other guys some opportunities.

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Speaker 9: Coach, Thanks for a great season, honestly, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 9: it didn't work out the way everybody had hoped. But

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Speaker 9: I mean this football team gave every ounce that they had,

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Speaker 9: every single snap of every single game, and to me,

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Speaker 9: that's all you can ask for. And it didn't work out.

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Speaker 9: The football gods weren't going to be as kind to

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Speaker 9: us as they were to others. But Appreciate the effort

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Speaker 9: you guys gave. Appreciate you making yourself available to us

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Speaker 9: after the game every game like this, and you're a

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Speaker 9: class actor.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate saying that you guys are easy to work with.

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Speaker 9: Appreciate you, Coach.

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Speaker 1: Thanks tav Sunday's results determine the draft order for the

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Speaker 1: teams that missed the playoffs, and the Bengals will have

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Speaker 1: the eighteenth pick in this year's draft. For the fun

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Speaker 1: of it, I went to the PFF mock Draft simulator

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Speaker 1: for the first time this year and selected offensive tackle

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Speaker 1: A Marius Mims from Georgia. He's six seven, three hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty pounds and can be a plug and play

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Speaker 1: starter at right tackle if Jonah Williams leaves in free agency.

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Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap. We nobody was exactly jumping

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Speaker 1: for joy in the locker room after the game, but

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Speaker 1: there was a feeling of it beats the alternative to

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Speaker 1: finish on a winning note, to finish with a winning record,

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Speaker 1: and to avoid losing every game in the AFC North

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 9: I think no doubt about it. I think a feeling

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Speaker 9: of satisfaction. You know, it wasn't like, uh, you know,

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Speaker 9: raised the raised the flag, we beat the we beat

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Speaker 9: the Cleveland Browns, but to go over in the division

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Speaker 9: is something you don't want to be part of. And uh,

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Speaker 9: the players understand that, and they get the they get

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Speaker 9: the victory that they needed. I mean, I think the

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Speaker 9: AFC North is you know, respected throughout the league, and

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Speaker 9: to have three AFC North teams in the playoffs is

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Speaker 9: a is a testament to that. To have to have

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Speaker 9: three teams with double digit wins and then the last

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Speaker 9: place team to have a winning record says a lot

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Speaker 9: about a lot about the division for sure, or so yeah,

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Speaker 9: it's everybody that I talked to is like, you know, ah,

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Speaker 9: this is good, but we didn't. We didn't make the playoffs.

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Speaker 9: I mean that that bottom line was the number one

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Speaker 9: goal you go into training camp is to win the

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Speaker 9: division and then next somehow make the playoffs, you know,

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Speaker 9: wild card, whatever the case may be. And their top

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Speaker 9: two goals they didn't get. Now, I'm sure a five

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Speaker 9: hundred record was down the line, so they achieved the

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Speaker 9: goal that was definitely down the line.

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Speaker 1: Jake Brown, he certainly finished on a positive note, three

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes, a passer rating of one thirteen point nine.

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Speaker 1: The job he did in the seven games he started

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Speaker 1: in Joe Burrow's absence is certainly one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: positives of this year.

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Speaker 9: No question. I mean, the guy he completed, he did

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Speaker 9: in the seven games he started over seventy five percent

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Speaker 9: of his passes. That could very well be in that

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Speaker 9: seven game stretch number one in the league. I'd be

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Speaker 9: surprised if it's not. He didn't throw for tony yards

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Speaker 9: in this game, one hundred and fifty six yards, but

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Speaker 9: he had the most yards in the six weeks prior

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Speaker 9: of any quarter, well over seventeen hundred yards. So he's

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Speaker 9: looking at, you know, close to two thousand yards passing

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Speaker 9: in a seven game stretch. And I think the other

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Speaker 9: thing too, was you started start the game with a

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Speaker 9: turnover drive, put it away, and he did, I mean

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Speaker 9: next three drives or touchdowns. He ends up with three

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Speaker 9: three passing touchdowns. There's something to be said for that

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Speaker 9: as well. And you know, he'll be the first to

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Speaker 9: tell you that you get that running game going for

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Speaker 9: over one hundred and eighty yards. It might have slipped

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Speaker 9: below that toward the end when Cleveland was bringing everybody

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Speaker 9: there were run blitzing every snap at the end of

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Speaker 9: the football game. But Joe Mixing fourteen carries, one hundred

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Speaker 9: and eleven yards and a touchdown that you can build

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Speaker 9: off of that during the game.

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Speaker 1: He also had a touchdown catch in the game finished

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Speaker 1: the season with more than one thousand rushing yards. It's strange,

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Speaker 1: it never really seemed like Joe is having a great

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Speaker 1: year this year, But when you add up the numbers,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be about fourteen hundred combined rushing and

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Speaker 1: receiving yards, double digit touchdowns. He may not be what

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Speaker 1: he once was, but he's still pretty solid, especially if

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Speaker 1: you can combine him with a guy like you know,

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Speaker 1: Chase Brown and use that duo.

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Speaker 9: I think that's why I think the coaches appreciate him

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Speaker 9: so much, because you know, they know that he's going

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Speaker 9: to show up. They know he's going to show up

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Speaker 9: every game. He's going to give everything he's got every game.

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Speaker 9: I mean, you know, knock on wood, he doesn't fumble

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Speaker 9: the football, you know, I mean his ball security. I mean,

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Speaker 9: he's responsible for his higher percentage of the rushing game

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Speaker 9: than any running back for his team's rushing yards in

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Speaker 9: the National Football League. I mean, he's he's the guy,

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Speaker 9: and you know he doesn't give the football away. That's

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Speaker 9: a big deal. They only fumbled the ball seven or

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Speaker 9: nine times all year and lost two of them. That's

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Speaker 9: crazy to lose two fumbles in seventeen football games. I

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Speaker 9: think that ties the lowest the Bengals have ever had

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Speaker 9: in franchise history, and you have to go back a

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Speaker 9: long way to find the time that had happened earlier.

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Speaker 9: But to lose two fumbles in seventeen games, now that's

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Speaker 9: the most games in a season to not lose a

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Speaker 9: fumble obviously, So to me, that's the record.

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Speaker 1: This was a good day for the Bengals rookie class.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Jones had a thirty five yard catch, andre Yosi

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Speaker 1: Vash had a pair of touchdown catches. Brad Robbins had

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Speaker 1: a good day punting the ball. Jordan Battle had an

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Speaker 1: interception and a sack. Those guys showed up in a

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Speaker 1: big way in the season finale.

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Speaker 9: They really did. And you know, second year players have

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Speaker 9: started to you know, expand their roles and show what

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Speaker 9: they're about. And I consider Osiah's second year player because

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Speaker 9: his rookie year was gone to injury, so I mean

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Speaker 9: he's had two years to you know, show his whears,

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Speaker 9: and unfortunately this year he got hurt early on that

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Speaker 9: kind of curtailed his his contributions. He could make, you

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Speaker 9: know this season, but man, this guy has got some

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Speaker 9: special traits to him, and and uh, you know, I

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Speaker 9: think they're doing a good job of developing them, developing

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Speaker 9: those traits. He just needs to stay healthy. But that

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Speaker 9: guy is explosive. He can close, you know, tackle for loss, pressure,

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Speaker 9: deflected pass for an interception. I'll take an interception over

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Speaker 9: sack if you're responsible for it any day of the week.

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Speaker 9: And he's the one that hit the arm that caused

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Speaker 9: the you know, the erratic, inaccurate throw. So I thought

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Speaker 9: he had a difference making football game, you know, as

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Speaker 9: a defensive football player, and going into the offseason on

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Speaker 9: an uptick like that individually as well as collectively with

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Speaker 9: the team. I think is big for him and just man,

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Speaker 9: get bigger, stronger, faster, and he does have size speed

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Speaker 9: ratio ridiculousness, but you know, keep working on that. He

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Speaker 9: could have a big year next year. He could be,

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Speaker 9: you know, part of a significant rotation. And I gotta

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Speaker 9: I got a really give kudos to Sam Hubbard. I

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Speaker 9: asked him after after the game in the locker room,

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Speaker 9: I said, how many games where's your ankle? Messed up?

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Speaker 9: Got high ankle sprain? Seven? He played seven games with

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Speaker 9: an ankle that he's having surgery. On it said, is

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Speaker 9: it Tuesday, Wednesday said Wednesday's gonna have surgery. Wednesday, He's

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Speaker 9: gonna have the tightrope surgery. You know, tibium fibula pull apart,

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Speaker 9: soft tissue damage is gonna tighten that stuff back up.

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Speaker 9: But I mean for him to go out and perform

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Speaker 9: like he had a sack today and uh, you know,

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Speaker 9: gave him tough snaps. That guy I've got. I had

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Speaker 9: an unbelievable amount of respect for him, and I guess

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Speaker 9: it's gonna increase if it possibly can. But that that's

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Speaker 9: just I mean, as a former lineman, I can't tell

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Speaker 9: you how impressed I am with that.

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Speaker 1: I'll say similar things about Jamar Chase. Played the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks with a sore shoulder, clearly wasn't himself,

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Speaker 1: but he still got the four catches he needed to

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Speaker 1: gay to get to one hundred four of the season.

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Speaker 1: And considering that, you know, Joe Burrow wasn't himself in

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Speaker 1: the first four games of the season, didn't play the

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Speaker 1: last seven games of the year, and you still had

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Speaker 1: one hundred receptions in the season. H Jamar Chase is special.

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Speaker 9: He is he is He's He's a unicorn. You know,

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Speaker 9: he's one of a kind. He is so different. I

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Speaker 9: don't think there's another receiver in the league that has

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Speaker 9: the mix of things physically and mentally that this guy has.

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Speaker 2: He is.

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Speaker 9: He's a rare, rare breed. And let's face it, when

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Speaker 9: Joe Burrow has had healthy seasons, this team has gone

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Speaker 9: to the SC Championship in the Super Bowl when he

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Speaker 9: hasn't had healthy seasons. You know, it's obviously the difference.

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Speaker 9: Gotta get Joe Burrow healthy, keep him healthy, do everything

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Speaker 9: you possibly can to keep him healthy. Uh, whether it's

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Speaker 9: schematically as well as execution of everybody around him. But

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Speaker 9: that dude is special, and uh, you know, and we

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Speaker 9: already gave kudos to Jake. Jake played an unbelievably high level.

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Speaker 9: But Joe Burrow is highest paid, you know, one of

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Speaker 9: the highest paid players in the history the National Football

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Speaker 9: League for a reason. That dude, again, you talk about

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Speaker 9: a unicorn, that that guy is rare and unique and special.

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Speaker 9: And I mean Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase, that combination

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Speaker 9: is hard to beat in the league.

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Speaker 1: How much respect do you have for the O line

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Speaker 1: answering the bell seventeen games they started every game. They

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00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: took almost every snap together for seventeen games, and nobody

658
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: talked about whatever bumps and bruises they had, but you

659
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: know they had plenty.

660
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 9: No doubt plenty is right. And I mean I know

661
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 9: Kappa Kappa was you know, limping and gimping for a

662
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 9: while there down the stretch. He had you know, he

663
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 9: had a foot issue, at an ankle issue. He had

664
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 9: different different things and everybody does though a lot of times,

665
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 9: offensive line injuries aren't the type that you up in

666
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 9: the injury report, but you're either in the whirlpool or

667
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 9: in the ice bath or you know, contrast treatments, just

668
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 9: trying to take care of your body. And that offensive line.

669
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 9: I've been around some offensive lines that you know, grew

670
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 9: really close and were like inseparable. That's what this group is.

671
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,239
Speaker 9: This group is a very very close unit. I mean, uh,

672
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 9: you mess with one of them, you're messing with all

673
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 9: of them kind of thing. And and I thought that

674
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 9: they played that way, and you know, I was glad

675
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 9: to see them have a big running day and have

676
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 9: Joe go well over one hundred and rush for you know,

677
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 9: well over one hundred and fifty themselves as a unit.

678
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 9: I thought that, you know, that was I guess that

679
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 9: was football justice because they have they've they've taken a

680
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 9: lot of heat, and you always do as an offensive lineman.

681
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 9: I mean, I've always talked about the offensive line. It's

682
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 9: like mushrooms, you know, they they keep in the dark.

683
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 9: They don't you never see the you never see any sun,

684
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 9: you don't get water, you don't you know, it's like

685
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 9: you just you have to just exist. But obviously it's

686
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 9: an important part of the football team offensively for sure.

687
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: It ends with a nine and eight record, no trip

688
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: to the playoffs for the first time in three seasons.

689
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: But they'll be back at it in the spring for

690
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: OTAs and then many camps and then training camp at

691
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: the at the end of lie and I can't wait already.

692
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: It's fun to finish today, it is.

693
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 9: And that you know, that's the thing, even though you

694
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,959
Speaker 9: know it's bitterly disappointing not to not to you know,

695
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 9: be in the playoffs and reach the goals. You know

696
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 9: that this football team can be elite, and I really

697
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 9: believe that. I think it can be elite. And one

698
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 9: thing that I'm looking forward to already is the maturation

699
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 9: of the safeties where they're going to be able to

700
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 9: recognize and communicate and you know, not allow these explosives.

701
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 9: I mean, seventy nine plays of twenty yards or more

702
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 9: going into this football game, you know, almost five a game.

703
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 9: You just can't. You can't survive that way. And having

704
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 9: an offseason to reflect back on it, you know, work

705
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 9: on the things that you need to work on and

706
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 9: improve on, and come back, you know, a different football

707
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 9: player with much more experience and savvy under the belt.

708
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to what this secondary could be because

709
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,719
Speaker 9: they call it run Dan. It's ridiculous how they can

710
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 9: all run. Looking at the big jump for the secondary

711
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 9: as a group next year.

712
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: Finally, it's time for this week's fun Facts conversation, where

713
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: you get to know the person under the pads. Time

714
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: for some fun facts with defensive tackle Travis Bell from Montgomery, Alabama,

715
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: the capital of that state. What do you love about

716
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: your hometown, Travis?

717
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 5: I just love the people.

718
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 11: There, man, the support I get from my hometown. Oh

719
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 11: and we got a baseball team, the Biscuits.

720
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 5: Man.

721
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 11: I used to love going to the baseball games when

722
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 11: I was a little boy.

723
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: You and your sister were raised by your mom, describe

724
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: your relationship with her.

725
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 5: My mom is my world, man. She's everything to me. Man.

726
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 11: She took care of me when I was a little boy.

727
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 11: Me and my sister taught me everything I know, even

728
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 11: some of the stuff I do on the field.

729
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 5: Man, she taught me. So I appreciate her a lot.

730
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: Was football always your number one sport?

731
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 11: Sad to say, No, it was baseball. I I love baseball, man.

732
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 11: I was a left hand pitcher and I played a

733
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 11: little first base. But as I got to high school,

734
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 11: I kind of got away from baseball and tried to

735
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 11: focus more.

736
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 5: You know, on football.

737
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: You're an NFL defensive tackle. But I read that in

738
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: middle school you were a punk passing kick champion. Is

739
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: that true?

740
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 5: Yes? I was. How you find it out? That's crazy?

741
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 11: Yeah, Man, I went to a camp, and you know,

742
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 11: I showed that I was an athlete.

743
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 5: Man, I could do it all. Yeah.

744
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: Did you ever punt after that?

745
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah, I punted a little bit.

746
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 11: I punted a little bit in uh middle school, and

747
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 11: uh that was the end of the road for me.

748
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 11: After middle school and I got to high school, I

749
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 11: was focused strictly on defensive line.

750
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: Man, were visiting the Travis Bell you had an excellent

751
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: high school football career, but you weren't heavily recruited. Was

752
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: that confusing to you?

753
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 11: It kind of was. But my coaches, you know, they

754
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 11: explained how it works. Man, undersized guys kind of go

755
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 11: under the radar sometimes, and a lot of school asked

756
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 11: me how would I feel switching positions? And I told

757
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 11: them all the same thing. Man, I'm a d lineman

758
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 11: at heart. Whatever happens from there, you know, it is

759
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 11: what it is. But who knew in the future I

760
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 11: would be, you know, playing the position that they told

761
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 11: me I shouldn't play, you know, in the league.

762
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 5: So it's a blessing overall.

763
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: Re Visiting with Travis Bell or you wound up in

764
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: Kansas State in Georgia, but you almost left your freshman year.

765
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: Why did you consider leaving and why did you ultimately stay?

766
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 11: I consider leaving because, man, that was that was probably

767
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 11: one of the hardest things I ever had to do

768
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 11: in my life. Man, playing up there in Kinnessauwa coach

769
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 11: bow and I was just looking forward to you know,

770
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 11: I put in a lot of work during that, during

771
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 11: far camp and stuff like that, I put in a

772
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 11: lot of work. I expected to play my first year

773
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 11: and he read shirt in my whole class. So I

774
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 11: was kind of upset about that, and I was, you know,

775
00:36:58,520 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 11: getting home sick.

776
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 5: It was a lot that played a part into that decision.

777
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 11: But man, my mom told me like, hey, you can

778
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 11: drop out of school, but you can't come back here.

779
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 5: So I had no choice but to stay in school.

780
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 1: We call that tough love.

781
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 5: Tough love.

782
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 11: Man, I ain't understand it, but I appreciate my MoMA

783
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 11: for telling me that that's the That's the best advice

784
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 11: or best thing she probably ever told me.

785
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: Man, playing college football is like a full time job.

786
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 1: But in your case, you had a job while playing.

787
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 5: What did you do?

788
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 7: Uh?

789
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 5: I was?

790
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 11: I worked for like a logistics medical company, our Ventures Medical.

791
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 11: We'll go pick up medical equipment and store, you know,

792
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 11: like go to healthcare doctors, doctors, doctor's office, hospitals, We'll

793
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 11: go drop off medical equipment or pick it up store.

794
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: So what was the schedule like between class football and

795
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: having a job.

796
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 5: Well, six in.

797
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 11: The morning, I'll wake up and I'll go work out,

798
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 11: and after my workout, I go to work. And I

799
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 11: had online classes at the time, so it was pretty

800
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 11: smooth for me. Even when I didn't have online classes.

801
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 11: My boss was pretty flexible with me, and he's a

802
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 11: real good friend.

803
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 5: We still talk.

804
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: Where'd the money go?

805
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 5: Where the money go? The money went to bills and

806
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 5: to family. My mom.

807
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 11: Yeah, So I had to, you know, spread the love

808
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 11: with that. I had to help keep afloat.

809
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: So in your senior year at Kennansas State, you play

810
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: that Cincinnati facing a school that had been in the

811
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: college football playoff the year before. What stands out about

812
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: that experience?

813
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 11: That was probably one of the best experience I had,

814
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 11: because I always wondered like where I stood when it

815
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 11: came to, you know, the playing against the top tier guys.

816
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 11: So them coming off a playoff run and getting the

817
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 11: opportunity to play against those guys let me know that

818
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 11: I could do it.

819
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to Travis Spell. You earned your

820
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: college degree at Kennansas State. How important was that to

821
00:38:59,200 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: you and your family?

822
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 5: Man?

823
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 11: That was real important, man, that was that was well

824
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 11: my mom wanted My mom really wanted me to get

825
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 11: that degree.

826
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: Man.

827
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 11: So I stayed true to it, and she's still proud

828
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 11: of me. She still talk about it. Her friends still

829
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 11: call me and tell me they proud of me. About

830
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 11: getting my degree because it was a real struggle for

831
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 11: me back in my gummy man. A lot of people,

832
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 11: you know, counted me out and.

833
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 5: I made it happen, man. So yeah, that's that was

834
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 5: a real blessing.

835
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: After your great college career. You were drafting the seventh

836
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: round this year by the Chicago Bears. You told reporters

837
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: that as soon as you got the call, you cried.

838
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: Described that draft experience.

839
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 5: I thought I was gonna be taken late in the

840
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 5: sixth round.

841
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 11: I heard a little chirping about that, and I seen

842
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 11: I didn't get getting get picked up. So I was

843
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 11: kind of hurt, and uh and I just cut the

844
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 11: TV off, man.

845
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 5: I was, I was.

846
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 11: I was done watching the draft. I just was waiting

847
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 11: on the call for after the draft or whatever. And

848
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 11: as soon as I cut the TV off, man, I'm

849
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 11: talking about literally soon I cut the TV off.

850
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 5: My girl she was with me at the time.

851
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 11: She walked out and went to the store, and I

852
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 11: got the call from Ryan Poles and I was like.

853
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 5: No way, no way, this is happening right now.

854
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: Man.

855
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 11: Every I'm talking about everybody I talked to, most almost

856
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 11: every team I talked to told me that I was

857
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 11: gonna go undrafted. So, man, he made my dreams come true. Man,

858
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 11: he made me a kind of of a legend, you

859
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 11: know in Kinnisaure right now.

860
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: So the first Kinnesas State player ever selected in the

861
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: NFL draft.

862
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 11: Yes, sir, yes, sir, blessing true, blessing. Man, I got

863
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 11: pictures on the wall. And we had a guy that

864
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 11: went to the league before me, a Zoya Alufa Ha.

865
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 11: It's like a big brother, and he always talking me like, man,

866
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 11: you can do it, you can do it. And I

867
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 11: stayed true to it, man, and lo and behold, I

868
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 11: did it. Man, I'm here for not for a good time,

869
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 11: but for a long time.

870
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: Man with Travis Bell. So after being drafted by the

871
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: Bears and spending training camp with them, you got cleaned

872
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: off their practice squad by the Atlanta Falcons and major

873
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: NFL debut with Atlanta in December. What will you always

874
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: remember about your first NFL game?

875
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 11: The atmosphere, man, h Just how calm I was before

876
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 11: the storm.

877
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 5: Man.

878
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 11: I remember just sitting in my locker, man, just thinking about,

879
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 11: you know, all the hard times, everything I went through

880
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 11: to get to this moment, you know, and it was

881
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 11: real emotional for me in the locker room. But I

882
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 11: was able to, you know, get out there, get the

883
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 11: butterflies out after the first and up in the rest's history. Man,

884
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 11: it was just football at the end of the day.

885
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: Describe your first NFL tackle.

886
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 11: I honestly, I was so caught up in the moment.

887
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 11: I wasn't even worried about the tackle. I was just

888
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 11: trying to get them off the field because boy, I

889
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 11: really wanted to win. I wanted my first debut game

890
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,959
Speaker 11: to be a win. But fortunately we fall short. But uh,

891
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 11: that first tackle was a blessing. We I went and

892
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 11: looked back at it out like, dang, he looked. It

893
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 11: looked pretty good. You know, it's shit, and so yeah, man,

894
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 11: I was pretty happy with that first tackle. I got

895
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 11: a lot of buzz about that.

896
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 5: Man.

897
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 11: A lot of people's calling me say they've seen it

898
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 11: and how proud of how proud of uh they was

899
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 11: to me.

900
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 5: So it was. It was a sweet moment, man.

901
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,919
Speaker 1: A few wild card topics now for Travis Bell, who

902
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: is your all time favorite athlete in any sport? And why.

903
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 11: I'm gonna have to say ray Lewis just because of

904
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 11: his mentality, what he brought to the game. What type

905
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 11: of leader he was. He just brought everybody along. You

906
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 11: had no choice but to jump on that bus, you

907
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. And Uh, once I figured myself out,

908
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 11: I feel like I end up being that type of

909
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 11: guy as well. But you know, you gotta earn trust,

910
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 11: you gotta earn respect. There's a lot that come with it.

911
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 11: I work hard, so I know it's gonna come.

912
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: Now that you mentioned that, I saw some footage of

913
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: your sack celebration at Kenansas State. It was a little

914
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: bit of the ray Lewis pregame dance. Man.

915
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 11: Yeah, man, I ain't still it from ray Lewis. No,

916
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 11: I ain't take that from ray Lewis. Man, but it's

917
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 11: kind of just like, you know, just kicking in the

918
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 11: door for me, man, and my first second in preseason,

919
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 11: that's what I everybody, all the guys I played in college,

920
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 11: they were like, hey, man, you gotta your first sec.

921
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 11: You gotta you gotta pull it out. And I was like, no,

922
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 11: not in the preseason. They're like, bro, I don't care, Bro,

923
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,919
Speaker 11: you gotta do it. So I went on and did it, man,

924
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 11: And and it was a trend for a little bit

925
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 11: in Chicago.

926
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: So so now I know when you have your first

927
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 1: sack as a Bengal, it is they kick the door

928
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: in celebration. Duly noted. Kansas State plays its games at

929
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: Fifth Third Stadium. Do you know that fifth Third Bank

930
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: which started in Cincinnati and it's headquartered here.

931
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 11: No, I did not know that, but I did see

932
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 11: the building and I was like, damn, I might need

933
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 11: to do some research on that.

934
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. But yeah, I did not

935
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 5: know that at all.

936
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Speaker 1: I made your research easy for you. You don't have to

937
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: do it. Now, do you have any other talents other

938
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: than playing football?

939
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 5: You're gonna put me on the spot.

940
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 11: I feel like, if I tell you this, the next thing,

941
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 11: you know, I'm gonna have to do it, and maybe

942
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 11: in front of the team. But I can sing a

943
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 11: little bit, man, don't be so, I mean, don't be surprised. Man,

944
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 11: I can blow a little bit.

945
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 5: Man. I had to sing.

946
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 11: We had to do the talent show, you know, the

947
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 11: rookies had to do the talent show. And I went

948
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 11: up there and I did a little singing and I

949
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 11: got some good feedback.

950
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 5: You know, it's always good feedback if the quarterback.

951
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 11: Come up to you just to feel like, hey, man,

952
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 11: you can you can do a little bit.

953
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 5: I was like, I appreciate it. Appreciate it.

954
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 1: You feel like giving us a little sample.

955
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 5: See, that's why you want to tell you. That's why

956
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 5: you want to tell you.

957
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: Maybe another day, man, all right, I'll look for when

958
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: you show up at a karaoke contest and I'll bring

959
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: a taper quarter final question for Travis Bell, and I

960
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. This one's kind of deep. If you

961
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: could meet anybody in history, living or deceased, who would

962
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: that person be?

963
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 11: I probably would have to say Kobe Bryan Kobe, because man,

964
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 11: it's like every time I watch him just for like

965
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 11: motivational purposes, it's just get me fired up and just

966
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 11: to I feel like just that being his presence would

967
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 11: make me a better person, you know, better player, better person,

968
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 11: better son, everything.

969
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 5: So Kobe, for sure.

970
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: You have the mamba mentality.

971
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 11: Hey, I'm trying to have that mentality. I am trying

972
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 11: so hard to have that mentality. Uh that's that's that's

973
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 11: discipline on another level.

974
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: Man.

975
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 5: So you can't teach that. Man, you just got it.

976
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 5: Just gotta be in you. You know what I'm saying.

977
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: Even though you wouldn't sing for us. This has been great.

978
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time, Happy holidays and best of life.

979
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, thank you, thank you for having me.

980
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: Man, that's going to do it for This episode of

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