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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth

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Speaker 2: Podcast the because I gotta have faith. I gotta have faith. Addition,

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Speaker 2: as the Bengals look to improve to three to zero

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Speaker 2: with Jake browninghead quarterback, as they head to Minnesota to

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Speaker 2: to football. Beginning with his first NFL start two years ago,

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Speaker 2: Jake Browning has taken the majority of the snaps at

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Speaker 2: quarterback in eight games for the Bengals, including last week's

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Speaker 2: win over Jacksonville. In those games, the Bengals are five

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Speaker 2: and three, a winning percentage that would get a team

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs. That's why the players and coaches are

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Speaker 2: confident that Jake will keep the team in the hunt

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Speaker 2: until the return of Joe Burrow. I discussed it with

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Speaker 4: He knows it. The coaches know it, his teammates know it,

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Speaker 4: the fans know it, ownership knows it, management knows it.

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Speaker 4: He's been there, done that. It's nothing foreign to him.

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Speaker 4: It's nothing that is overwhelming him. He's not like petrified,

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Speaker 4: ready for this? He knows he is. He has full

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Speaker 4: He knows that his teammates know that he can get

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Speaker 4: it done. And that is something that's very comforting, you know,

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Speaker 4: when you're put in a position where you're replacing a

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Speaker 4: level physically, mentally. I mean, Joe Burrow is as good

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Speaker 4: But is it something that Jake Browning shies away from.

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Speaker 4: No, he will meet the challenge. I think he'll play

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Speaker 4: very good, you know, borderline extraordinary. He's capable of that

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Speaker 4: He throws the ball well. He can hit tight spots

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Speaker 4: down the football field and a ways down the football field,

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Speaker 4: not dink and dunk stuff. I like Jake Browning makeup.

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Speaker 4: I like everything about him. I think he's got leadership qualities.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati sports fans have dealt with their share, more than

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Speaker 2: One of the most devastating about twenty five years ago

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Speaker 2: Bob Huggins said to us, Hey, what if I pop

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Speaker 1: He did it.

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Speaker 6: A lot of confidence in themselves and each other, a

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Speaker 6: right now is just being three now. It's a tremendous

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Speaker 2: I like that you don't have to say, hey, we're

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Speaker 2: not to mention last Sunday, the ninety two yard fifteen

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Speaker 4: This absolutely, And I mean I don't think John Q

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Speaker 4: I mean, no flies on Jake Browning. Now he knows

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Speaker 4: exceeding well. I'll be shocked that he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: When he filled in in those seven games back in

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Speaker 2: They made slight adjustments to what he does best. Little

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Speaker 4: No, true, I mean he does understand the screen game.

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Speaker 4: He is very very competent. The way he sets up

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Speaker 5: It's really not.

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Speaker 4: There's an art form. There's a skill set to setting

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Speaker 4: all that down. That that part of it is is

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Speaker 4: attack the field deep. He throws the ball well. His

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Speaker 4: his accuracy is phenomenal. The seventy percent. You know how

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Speaker 4: That's that's a tribute to UH, to Jake Browning, who

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Speaker 2: I was talking to one staff member and he said,

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Speaker 2: the ultimate cliche to me. But then you look at

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Speaker 2: a lot to me about Jake Browning it does.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he took a good program and elevated it,

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Speaker 4: I think he can do a lot. I think his

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Speaker 4: think they like him. All those components you have to

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Speaker 2: That's a good segue for this, let's hear from Andre

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Speaker 3: Because we've seen him do it before.

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Speaker 7: And you know, just because he's a backup doesn't mean

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Speaker 7: he doesn't have starting potential. You know, we have one

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Speaker 7: of the best qbs in the world at the Helm,

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Speaker 7: and you know, Jake is not able to be a

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Speaker 7: he is, and we all are confident in him because he's.

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Speaker 1: A great player.

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Speaker 7: He plays, you know, a gunslinging type of play. So

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Speaker 2: Zach Taylor pushed back on the term unslinger a little

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Speaker 2: Not gunslinger in that sense. But guy carries himself like

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Speaker 4: And he does he and his teammates know he does.

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Speaker 4: He knows he does. He knows that his teammates know.

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's no surprise that Jake Browning can win

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Speaker 2: Jim Nance. Jim, I thought about introducing you with your

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Speaker 8: Ah, thank you and hello friends. Great to be on

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Speaker 2: Jake Browning led them to a four and three record

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Jamar Chase, you've been behind the mic for

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Speaker 2: CBS is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the NFL today

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Speaker 2: this Sunday, Retro Graphics Old Music Brent Musburger is going

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Speaker 8: Wilson was a blast to get to know. Through this process.

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Speaker 8: The show ended up being the number one episodic streaming

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Speaker 8: show I Believe of the year. So it's been already

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Speaker 8: picked up for a second season and you know, I'm

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Speaker 8: looking forward. We've already been told we're back, we got

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Speaker 8: we got a recurring role.

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Speaker 1: Dan.

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Speaker 2: Final thing for you and I appreciate your time. Owen

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Speaker 2: Wilson went on Stephen Colbert's show. Steven asked him what

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Speaker 2: happens when we die and he said, I think you

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Speaker 2: hear a voice and that voice sounds like jim NANTZ.

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Speaker 2: What do you think when Owen Wilson said that.

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Speaker 8: First off, I have a lot of people that got

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Speaker 8: it very excited about the fact that Owen said that.

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Speaker 8: He said, Yeah, there's like a voice of God and

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Speaker 8: it's almost like they welcome you in my voice, he said,

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Speaker 8: and now on the first t welcome Owen Wilson.

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Speaker 1: And the place is the only he can say, and

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Speaker 1: the place goes crazy.

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Speaker 8: You know, he has this ability to really express himself

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Speaker 8: but never pitch his voice at a very high level.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of softly said, the place goes crazy. I

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Speaker 1: thought that was cool, honor unexpected.

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Speaker 8: Again, one of the many things that have happened in

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Speaker 8: my life in forty years of living my childhood dream,

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Speaker 8: right down to the very network that I work for,

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Speaker 8: is exactly what I wanted to do. And I'm grateful, grateful, grateful,

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Speaker 8: and never take it for granted, never any sense of

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Speaker 8: being entitled to have had this life and this opportunity.

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Speaker 8: But the things that have come with it fall well

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Speaker 8: beyond just calling the games. It's been amazing getting to

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Speaker 8: know so many interesting people along the way to have

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Speaker 8: done unimaginable things. As a kid, you can play act

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Speaker 8: and imagine in your head that one day maybe you're

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Speaker 8: going to be sitting at a game or at the

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Speaker 8: master's golf tournament. You're going to be calling these events,

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Speaker 8: and then you have when you get hired. And I'm

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Speaker 8: just a few years out of college, again, it was

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Speaker 8: forty years ago.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about it this weekend.

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Speaker 8: There's a little bit of an imposters syndrome that you

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Speaker 8: go through for a few years, like, really.

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Speaker 1: What am I doing here? Don't they know? I'm only

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Speaker 1: twenty six years old.

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Speaker 8: And I never had thought about the weight of it

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Speaker 8: and the expectations and the feedback, the number of people

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Speaker 8: that would see it and talk to you about It's

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Speaker 8: less to be able to work with great people and

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Speaker 8: then on a side to do things like with Owen Wilson,

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Speaker 8: to have play golf with four US presidents, to have

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Speaker 8: actually set it a table and had dinner with five

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Speaker 8: US present, have had dinner with the Queen of England

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Speaker 8: sitting right directly across from her at a small round table.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are bizarre things that I'm saying. I

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Speaker 1: had a total.

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Speaker 8: Appreciation and gratitude, not name dropping, even though you could

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Speaker 8: build a case for that too.

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Speaker 1: But it has been. It has been amazing.

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Speaker 8: But at the core of it all, Dan, is the

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Speaker 8: excitement for the process of putting a board.

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Speaker 1: Together, which I'm starting on right now. For this week's game.

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Speaker 1: That was Cincinnati's offense, that is Minnesota's defense.

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Speaker 8: The process all week of reading, reading, reading, talking, talking, talking,

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Speaker 8: getting prepared, and then executing the game broadcast.

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Speaker 1: It's not about being on TV. It's not about any

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Speaker 1: of that other stuff I mentioned that came with it.

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Speaker 8: About the joy of Hey, I get to be in

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Speaker 8: Minneapolis this weekend and I get to see Cincinnati and

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Speaker 8: Minnesota play a football game, and I get to tell

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Speaker 8: the story.

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Speaker 1: So grateful heart, big time gratefulness.

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Speaker 2: I share that joy, and I'm grateful for my yearly

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Speaker 2: opportunities to visit with you. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: your time. Look forward to seeing in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Dan.

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Speaker 1: One last thing for the fan base.

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Speaker 8: I don't think things are going to change, but we're

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Speaker 8: going to be right back with Cincinnati on week six

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Speaker 8: up at Green Bay. That'll be a national doubleheader game.

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Speaker 8: So let's get these Bengals going. Let's get the Jake

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Speaker 8: Browning three months. He can handle these rains. I gave

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Speaker 8: you the game plan, you know, go six and six,

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Speaker 8: seven and five. We'll see where this team is and

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Speaker 8: I'll be catching up with them in the postseason if

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Speaker 8: that's the case.

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Speaker 2: The last two times the Bengals made it to the

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Speaker 2: AFC Championship Game, Jim nance was behind the mic, and

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Speaker 2: here's hoping he's doing it again. On January twenty fifth

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Speaker 2: of twenty six. The last two times the Bengals played

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings, they won both games in overtime by

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Speaker 2: the same final score. The first of those games was

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Speaker 2: on Opening Day twenty twenty one. It was Evan McPherson's

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Speaker 2: NFL debut. The Bengals field goal unit is lined up

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Speaker 2: and ready to go at thirty three yard try to

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Speaker 2: win the game for Evan McPherson, fifth round draft pick

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Speaker 2: rookie out of Florida. Clark Harris thirteenth year pro, will

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Speaker 2: snap it back to Kevin Hubert, thirteenth year pro. The snap,

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Speaker 2: the put down, the swing of the leg, the kick

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Speaker 2: on its ways good. The Bengals win it.

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Speaker 9: On the final playoff overtime, Evan McPherson poisted it onto

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Speaker 9: the shoulders of his teammates as Cincinnati pulls it out

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Speaker 9: twenty seven to twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Then, two years ago, with Jake browninghad quarterback Money Mack

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Speaker 2: did it again against the Vikings from twenty nine yards away.

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Speaker 2: Evan's off to a perfect start this year, but hasn't

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Speaker 2: attempted any long field goals yet in a season where

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Speaker 2: we've already had a sixty four yarder by the Cowboys

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Speaker 2: Brandon Aubrey and a sixty yarder by Pittsburgh's Chris Boswell.

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Speaker 2: There's an explanation for that, and it has to do

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Speaker 2: with the footballs. That's one of the things I discussed

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Speaker 2: with the Bengals twenty six year old.

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Speaker 1: Kicker this week.

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Speaker 2: Having the first couple of weeks of the NFL season,

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Speaker 2: it's been kickers gone wild. There have been seventeen field

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Speaker 2: goals of fifty plus, ten field goals of fifty five plus.

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Speaker 2: In the kicking fraternity, what is considered a long field

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Speaker 2: goal now.

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Speaker 10: I think we're getting to the point where I would

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Speaker 10: consider like a fifty seven to fifty eight yard field

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Speaker 10: goal probably long. The way it's trending now, Once our

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Speaker 10: team crosses the fifty, I feel like we're kind of

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Speaker 10: expected to go out there and make the kick, and

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Speaker 10: honestly think it's not a bad assumption.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a bad all.

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Speaker 10: I feel like once our team crosses fifty, I feel like,

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Speaker 10: as an NFL kicker, you should have the ability to

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Speaker 10: go out there and hit any kick that they throw.

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Speaker 10: You out there for and I think it's fun. You know,

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Speaker 10: I enjoy long kicks. I haven't gotten to experience one

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Speaker 10: this year. I'm sure it's coming, but I always enjoy

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Speaker 10: the longer kicks, you know. I struggled a little bit

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Speaker 10: last year, but just looking forward to getting back, you know,

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Speaker 10: behind the forty yard line and just letting it eat.

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Speaker 2: The NFL record is sixty six yards by Justin Tucker.

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Speaker 2: Cam Little of Jacksonville made a seventy yard or in

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Speaker 2: the preseason, but that doesn't count because it was a

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Speaker 2: preseason game. Will that regular season record fall this year.

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Speaker 10: I'd say there's a really good chance, especially with a

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Speaker 10: new k ball rule. And I'm not saying that we're

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Speaker 10: doctor and the balls up to where they're just absolutely

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Speaker 10: the juiciest things in the world, but I mean it

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Speaker 10: does help, like practicing with your balls that you're gonna

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Speaker 10: kick within the game and just make sure the leather's

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Speaker 10: broken in and soft and kind of out of the

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Speaker 10: quarterbacks and receivers get to practice for their football is

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Speaker 10: kind of all week, and we're kind of getting do

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Speaker 10: the same thing and making sure those things are prepped

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Speaker 10: and ready for the game to give us the best

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Speaker 10: opportunity to go out there and make every kick and

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Speaker 10: you know, hit every punt ninety yards down the field.

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Speaker 10: And so I feel like it's helped a lot of

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Speaker 10: teams out for sure, just getting just being able to

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Speaker 10: break in the balls and practice with them and kind

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Speaker 10: of make the ball softer and having them compress a

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Speaker 10: little bit a little bit more. I think you're going

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Speaker 10: to see a lot more as we've already seen longer

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Speaker 10: field goals. And I think that the I think the

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Speaker 10: NFL record has no chance of standing here, and if

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Speaker 10: this year and the next couple of years, I think

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Speaker 10: someone is definitely gonna break it pretty easily.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me follow up because I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: everybody is aware of the rule change that the NFL

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Speaker 2: made prior to this year. In the past, you got

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Speaker 2: the kicking ball, the k ball on game day and

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Speaker 2: you had like an hour to prep it the way

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Speaker 2: you wanted it, break it in, so to speak. This year,

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Speaker 2: you got sixty before training camp to prepare them to

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Speaker 2: your liking and with them, do you notice a big difference.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely do.

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Speaker 10: It's impressive how much more the balls jump this year

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Speaker 10: compared to the year's past. And you know, it's really

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Speaker 10: just based off use. Obviously the years pass. Like we

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Speaker 10: like you say, we got the balls fresh out of

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Speaker 10: the box. They laid them on the table and I

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Speaker 10: think the home team got the first pick at three,

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Speaker 10: and then the away team got the the second three

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Speaker 10: and then they had like forty five minutes to break

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Speaker 10: them in and get them ready, and so it's like back,

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Speaker 10: you know, last year, a couple of years ago, like

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Speaker 10: the leather was just a lot firmer than it is

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Speaker 10: this year. We're you know, we're able to soften the leather,

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Speaker 10: get it compressing a lot easier.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what the NFL wants.

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Speaker 10: I think the NFL wants longer field goals made, and

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Speaker 10: it's kind of like entertainment in a way, and I

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Speaker 10: think people enjoy seeing that. So I think it's a

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Speaker 10: good rule change and I'm all in favor for it.

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Speaker 2: I bet you are. We're visiting with Evan McPherson. Do

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Speaker 2: you prepare the ball yourself or do you have the

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Speaker 2: equipment staff do that?

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Speaker 10: The equipment guys they do a really good job of

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Speaker 10: doing it. Obviously they've done it ever since they've been here,

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Speaker 10: so they do a really good job, and then we

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Speaker 10: just kind of look at them and if we think

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Speaker 10: there needs to be any modifications from there. They're good

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Speaker 10: about getting it exactly the way.

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Speaker 7: We like it.

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Speaker 3: So they've done a really good job at that.

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Speaker 2: What's legal and what's illegal.

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Speaker 10: I probably need to study it a lot more on

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Speaker 10: what is legal what's illegal, but I can say that

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Speaker 10: we follow the rules. I don't want to toe the

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Speaker 10: line and have any Patriots football controversy.

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Speaker 2: You know, no deflate gate.

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Speaker 3: No deflate gate, So we're by the book.

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Speaker 10: But I definitely I don't know if there's like a

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Speaker 10: actual like rule sheet. All I know is the rests

644
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Speaker 10: they like, okay, the balls before the game, so they

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Speaker 10: have the ability to throw one out if they don't

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Speaker 10: think it's up to standard, if they think it's been

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Speaker 10: doctor a little too much. So to my knowledge, you

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Speaker 10: can do pretty much about anything you want. Then it's

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Speaker 10: just up to the rest to put in the game

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Speaker 10: or not.

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Speaker 2: We're chatting with Devin McPherson. You're off to a perfect

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Speaker 2: start this year on field goals and pats both in

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Speaker 2: the preseason and the regular season. Five for five on

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Speaker 2: field goals, fifteen for fifteen on pats and you've gone

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Speaker 2: back to the approach you used as a rookie. Correct, Yeah, no.

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Speaker 3: That's correct.

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Speaker 10: And I think the biggest shift I've made is mentally

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Speaker 10: mentality going out there on the field and just going

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Speaker 10: out there with the belief that, you know, I can

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Speaker 10: do it. And I think last year I struggled with

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Speaker 10: the belief side of the kicking, in the middle side

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Speaker 10: of kicking, and you know, I feel like a lot

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Speaker 10: of people don't see that or understand, like the you know,

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Speaker 10: NFL players, they could still get i don't know, distraught

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Speaker 10: or lack of confidence kind of and like self confidence

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Speaker 10: in themselves.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like that's kind of what.

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Speaker 10: I went through last year, is hoping that I was

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Speaker 10: going to make the kick instead of knowing that I

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Speaker 10: was going to make the kick in my head. And

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Speaker 10: so this year is my biggest change is just you know,

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Speaker 10: self affirmation out there on the field at all times.

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Speaker 10: And while I'm walking out on the field, I'm focusing

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Speaker 10: on my few key points and you know, I'm just

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Speaker 10: telling myself, you know you got this, you know you're

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Speaker 10: here for a reason. And I have this mental vision

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Speaker 10: that I kind of run through right before the kick

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Speaker 10: and you know, I try to see the kick go in.

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Speaker 3: Before I've kicked in. So that's something I've changed.

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Speaker 10: I feel like mentally is just going out through a

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Speaker 10: lot more confidence this year, and.

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's worked for me so far, like.

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Speaker 10: In practicing games, and I'm just hoping to continue and

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Speaker 10: hoping I don't forget about it.

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Speaker 2: Did a sports psychologist help or did you figure that

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Speaker 2: on your own?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: No, I talked to doctor Ganchert a little bit. Obviously,

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Speaker 10: he's he's here with the team, and he's definitely helped

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Speaker 10: me navigate like certain thoughts that I had and turn

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Speaker 10: them into the thoughts that I have now and just

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Speaker 10: challenge me to turn those negative thoughts in my head

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Speaker 10: to challenges and answering those challenges with like, you know,

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Speaker 10: you got this, you're gonna make it, you're gonna crush it,

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Speaker 10: stuff like that. And when you have those negative thoughts,

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Speaker 10: just turning them into positive reinforcement is the biggest thing.

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Speaker 10: So because those negative thoughts, they don't stay away, they

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Speaker 10: always come come around whenever you don't need them. So

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Speaker 10: I've really been learning ways to just counteract them and

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Speaker 10: use them to help me.

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Speaker 2: You missed the last five games last year with a

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Speaker 2: groin injury. What are you doing to prevent a reoccurrence?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I'm doing a lot more like pre

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Speaker 10: impost kicking now, making sure that my body's completely warmed

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Speaker 10: up ready to go, and if I do feel any

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Speaker 10: tightness or anything like that, make sure I'm doing a

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Speaker 10: lot extra. But I'm trying to stay on top of it,

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Speaker 10: stay ahead of it, and make sure my body feels

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Speaker 10: the best.

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Speaker 3: Because when I'm realizing.

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Speaker 10: That, I'm not saying I'm old, but I'm not as

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Speaker 10: young as I used to be, so it takes a

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Speaker 10: little bit longer for my body to get going. And so,

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Speaker 10: like I said, pre post kicking, I got everything I

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Speaker 10: do at my house before I go to bed, and

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Speaker 10: just kind of all the body maintenance stuff that I

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Speaker 10: wasn't doing originally. I'm kind of adapting and adopting this year,

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Speaker 10: and it's.

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Speaker 3: Been really good.

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Speaker 10: My body feels great going into week was a week

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Speaker 10: three and then I guess week six with preseason and

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Speaker 10: then training camp and all that. You know, We've been

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Speaker 10: kicking for a long time and my body feels really good.

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Speaker 10: So I'm just gonna keep doing it, you know, not

725
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Speaker 10: get bored with the process because you can come in

726
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Speaker 10: and do the same thing over and over every day.

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Speaker 3: It gets kind of boring.

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Speaker 10: So I'm just trying to make it up, make it interesting,

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Speaker 10: and just have a little fun with it.

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Speaker 5: You're definitely not old.

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Speaker 2: So last week the team had the high of a

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Speaker 2: thrilling victory, scoring the game winning touchdown with eighteen seconds

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Speaker 2: to go, and then the crushing news later that Joe

734
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Speaker 2: Burrow is likely to miss several months due to his

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Speaker 2: toe injury. How long does that disappointment linger?

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Speaker 3: I don't think very long.

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Speaker 10: I think as soon as Jake got in there, you know,

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Speaker 10: I feel like there's a sense of, you know, we

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Speaker 10: can still do this.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't.

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Speaker 10: I think we got a really good team. I don't

742
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Speaker 10: think anybody should be counting us out or doubting us.

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Speaker 10: I think We've still got a lot of talent.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 10: Jake's a really good quarterback. He's I like say, he's

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Speaker 10: really aggressive, which is good, and I really.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy watching him play.

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Speaker 10: And like twenty twenty three season was arguably I feel

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Speaker 10: like my best season, and that was with Jake at

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Speaker 10: the helm for the most part that year, and I

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Speaker 10: feel like we finished the season strong with with Jake

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Speaker 10: that season, and honestly have no doubt for the rest

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Speaker 10: of season that he's.

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Speaker 3: Going to lead this team well for however long it is.

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Speaker 10: And I think all our expectations and our goals that

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Speaker 10: we set at the beginning of the season, I think

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Speaker 10: they're still definitely in sight. I think this team still

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Speaker 10: has a lot of confidence in each other, and we're

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Speaker 10: just gonna go out there and kind of give it

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Speaker 10: the best we we got and go from there.

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Speaker 2: Final thing, you face the Vikings this week. You face

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Speaker 2: them twice previously and you were the hero both times.

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Speaker 2: Overtime field goal in your NFL debut, another overtime game

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Speaker 2: winning field goal in twenty twenty three with Jake Browning

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Speaker 2: head quarterback. Well that cycled through your head when you

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Speaker 2: see those Vikings uniforms.

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Speaker 3: You definitely think about that.

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Speaker 10: Like every time we've played the Vikings, it's been a

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Speaker 10: game winner, and I think, I mean, it could end

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Speaker 10: up the same way three for three, or you know,

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Speaker 10: I could see our offense kind of lighten it up

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Speaker 10: and our defense is playing really well. So you never

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Speaker 10: really know, I don't know, you just kind of go

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Speaker 10: out there and see. But I do have a good

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Speaker 10: track record against the Vikings, so hopefully we can keep

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Speaker 10: it going.

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Speaker 2: I'll be ready to call another game winner. Best of luck,

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: In his career, Evan is twenty four for thirty five

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Speaker 2: from fifty plus. That's sixty nine percent with a career

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Speaker 2: long of fifty nine yards. The Bengals Booth Podcast is

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Speaker 2: provider of the Bengals. Now time for this week's Know

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Speaker 2: the Faux Segment. The Minnesota Vikings went fourteen and three

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Speaker 2: last year, losing twice to the Lions and once to

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Speaker 2: the Rams. They faced the Rams again in the playoffs

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Speaker 2: and quarterback Sam Darnold struggled in a twenty seven to

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Speaker 2: nine loss, so at the end of the year, the

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Speaker 2: Vikings let Darnald walk as a free agent and handed

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Speaker 2: the keys to the car to JJ McCarthy, the tenth

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Speaker 2: pick in last year's draft who missed his rookie season

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Speaker 2: with a knee injury. Well, in his first two starts,

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Speaker 2: McCarthy has had one great quarter where he threw two

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Speaker 2: touchdown passes and ran for another score, and seven lousy

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Speaker 2: quarters where the Vikings as a team haven't scored a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Now he's out with an ankle injury, and ten year

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Speaker 2: VET Carson Wentz is taking over. Wentz was not in

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Speaker 2: NFL training camp this year before signing with Minnesota in

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Speaker 2: late August. Pete burs Itch is the Vikings radio analyst

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Speaker 2: and discuss that and much more when he joined Dave

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Speaker 2: Lapham and me on the Bengals Game Plan Show.

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Speaker 11: You look at how the Vikings offense has preceded the

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Speaker 11: first two weeks of the season. We haven't thrown the

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Speaker 11: ball nearly as much as Kevin O'Connell likes to, and

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Speaker 11: when we do throw it's a completely different type of

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Speaker 11: Look the big question, Yeah, Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz is

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Speaker 11: going on this Sunday. He will start for his fix

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Speaker 11: different team in six seasons. No other quarterback in the

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Speaker 11: Common Era has done that. So that's a record that

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Speaker 11: he has. So this is a shot at redemption, and

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Speaker 11: you know, look you look at what Sam Darnold did

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Speaker 11: a year ago. You know, can can Carson Wentz do

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Speaker 11: the same thing? Now, Carson Wentz was with the Los

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Speaker 11: Angeles Rams two seasons ago, so there's some similarity and

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Speaker 11: carryover because that's where Kevin O'Connell got his you know,

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Speaker 11: got his start as a coordinator and the verbiage and

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Speaker 11: those things. Hopefully there's some carry out. He's only been

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Speaker 11: here for about four weeks. It'll be about four weeks

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Speaker 11: once the game starts, but because of his strengths, which

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Speaker 11: hopefully are still just the ability to read a defense

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Speaker 11: very quickly, be accurate, and have the arm strength. Now,

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Speaker 11: he played one game last year against Kansas City was

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Speaker 11: a week eighteen you know, doesn't matter type game where

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Speaker 11: he started for the Kansas City Chiefs against the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 11: I mean, he hasn't started consecutive games since twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 11: So you know, you can't you can't guarantee that he's

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Speaker 11: going to look anything like he did a year ago

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Speaker 11: or two years ago. But if by by by by

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Speaker 11: some means he does, you know, you don't you don't know.

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Speaker 11: I mean the Bengals could see a completely different offense

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Speaker 11: than what they've seen the last couple of weeks. I mean,

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Speaker 11: just how long is Justin Jefferson going to be happy

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Speaker 11: k catching four balls a week?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 11: I mean, it's just this offense has changed so much

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Speaker 11: to a comedy for JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 5: And then with our offensive.

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Speaker 11: Line issues, we've given up nine sacks in two games,

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Speaker 11: second most in the NFL. I mean, there's a cavalcade

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Speaker 11: of reasons as to why the Vikings are one and

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Speaker 11: one right now, and Carson Wentz turned that around.

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Speaker 5: You know, we will see, but.

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Speaker 11: Who's starting to left tackle is going to be the biggest,

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Speaker 11: biggest deal I think for the for the Sunday game.

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Speaker 2: Glad you brought that up, Pete. I see that Christian

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Speaker 2: Darisa was a full participant in practice today after not

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Speaker 2: playing in the first two games, so it looks like

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Speaker 2: he's trending in the right direction. Unfortunately for Cincinnati, Ryan Kelly,

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Speaker 2: who's from Cincinnati former Pro Bowl center, suffered at concussion.

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Speaker 2: He's had some concussions in the past, didn't practice today,

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Speaker 2: So maybe that one's more of a question mark. But

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Speaker 2: tell us give us like a big picture on the

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Speaker 2: offensive line. They tried to fix the middle through free

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Speaker 2: agency in the draft this year. How do you feel

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Speaker 2: about that offensive line going forward?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean if we just need to keep the

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Speaker 11: same five guys, yet they have consistency among the group.

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Speaker 11: Those guys, you know, you don't practice and you don't

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Speaker 11: practice as much as you used to. You definitely don't

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Speaker 11: practice and pads as much.

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Speaker 5: As you used to.

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Speaker 11: So so those guys getting the field for playing together

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Speaker 11: is going to take some time. You know, Ryan Kelly,

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Speaker 11: he's been a big physical part of the offense. Michael

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Speaker 11: Jergens comes in to replace him, a guy that we've

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Speaker 11: had here for a couple of years. Will Fry's doing

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Speaker 11: a good job at a right guard. Brian O'Neill a

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Speaker 11: right tackle. He's pretty stalwart, but we're looking at maybe

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Speaker 11: a replacement center for this game. Donovan Jackson, our left

875
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Speaker 11: guard first run draft kite from Ohio State, had a

876
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 11: really good evening against the Bears on Monday night. I

877
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 11: think he regressed a little bit on Sunday night against

878
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 11: Atlanta and then left tackle. Uh, we've been you know,

879
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 11: darrisaw heard his their tour ligaments and his knee around

880
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 11: weeks I think it was Week six or it was

881
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 11: a Thursday night game Week six or seven last year,

882
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 11: and he hasn't been back. He's been he practicing training

883
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 11: camp a little bit. They just want to make sure

884
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 11: that when he does come back, he can stay back.

885
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 11: And in the meantime, just In School was the guy

886
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 11: who's been filling in for him, and then ultimately he

887
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 11: got contested in the last game.

888
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 5: And then Walter Rouse.

889
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 11: Four year guy at Stanford went to one year at Oklahoma,

890
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 11: ended up finishing the game. So we were not We

891
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 11: were on our third string left tackle by the end

892
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 11: of the game against Atlanta. You know, again, that group,

893
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 11: the unique consistency they need to play together. Hopefully will

894
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 11: be Christian deisow back, that'll be a huge shot in

895
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 11: the arm, but will probably be starting Michael Michael Jurgens

896
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Speaker 11: at center.

897
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Speaker 4: Again, how's JJ McCarthy performed. He does have some skill players,

898
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 4: I mean, Justin Jefferson's as good as there is. He

899
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 4: does have skilled players to throw the football to. Has

900
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 4: he had enough time and I don't. Obviously there have

901
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 4: been times where he hasn't. But overall, from a percentage standpoint,

902
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 4: do you feel like the offensive line has done a

903
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 4: decent job or has it been subpar.

904
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 11: No, I think they've done a decent job, especially in

905
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 11: the running game. Getting Jordan Mason in free agency. He

906
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 11: was just started the season last year at tailback for

907
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 11: the San Francisco forty nine ers. Aaron Jones has been good.

908
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 11: Aaron Jones right now as currently has a hamstring tweak,

909
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 11: so you know, his status for Sunday is going to

910
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 11: be very much up.

911
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 5: In the air, you know.

912
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 11: For JJ and for this offense, it's kind of it's

913
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 11: kind of been like whack them all right. Sometimes it's

914
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 11: on JJ's JJ McCarthy's the young quarterback. Sometimes when he

915
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 11: gets the top of his drop, the protection's bad and

916
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 11: he's getting hit right away. It's it's like you can't

917
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 11: put a finger on it. I think that's the most

918
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 11: frustrating part, you know, for fans in Minnesota. Unfortunately, when

919
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 11: things are good or when things are bad, the quarterback

920
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 11: gets too much credit or too much blame. But there's

921
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 11: there's a lot of things that need to be fixed.

922
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 11: We haven't run more than.

923
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 5: I think forty six or forty seven plays.

924
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 11: In a game yet offensively, so we have not been

925
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 11: able to, you know, stat good plays. We scored twenty

926
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 11: one points in the fourth quarter against the Chicago Bears

927
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 11: two through the year and then one with JJ McCarthy

928
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 11: on the ground. We haven't scored another in the other

929
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 11: seven quarters that we've played. We haven't scored another touchdown,

930
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 11: only only four field goals. So the consistency, the moving

931
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 11: the chains, the stacking of good plays, ending drives of touchdowns,

932
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 11: things that are kind of hallmarks for Kevin O'Connell offense,

933
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 11: just we just haven't seen it yet. And you know,

934
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 11: to say one guy or one thing is the problem

935
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 11: is probably a little premature.

936
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 5: It's like, you know, we've talked about the offensive.

937
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 11: Line, you know, young quarterback now we have a new

938
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 11: call he's a veteran, but we have you know, a

939
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 11: new one at Carson Wentz coming in this week. So yeah, it's, uh,

940
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 11: we don't we We've been going into we've gone two

941
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 11: weeks now going into games and having no idea what

942
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 11: we're going to get or what we're going to do.

943
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 11: This is going to be week number three of the

944
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 11: same thing. I mean, it's it's just we just don't

945
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 11: know what this offense is going to look like because

946
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 11: it's going to have to change due to injury, and

947
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,720
Speaker 11: you know, brand new quarterback with a different skill set,

948
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 11: different set of experience, and different offensive line again and

949
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 11: then you know, uh, maybe just one running back going

950
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 11: into it. So you know, every we both have our

951
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 11: have our our beers to cry into.

952
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 5: Right, both teams.

953
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 11: Accurate, Both both teams are facing a lot of adversity,

954
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 11: no question, but there's still gonna be a game Sunday.

955
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 5: You still got to find a way to win. You know.

956
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 11: For some reason, we just are struggling with stopping the

957
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 11: run a lot that has to do with being on

958
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 11: the field and I average like another like twelve more

959
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 11: minutes than the offense the last couple of games. That

960
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 11: wears down a defense. Uh, so you know, we we

961
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 11: have we have things to fix now. You guys like to,

962
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 11: you know, throw the football a lot, and we haven't

963
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 11: faced a ton of of passing the last couple of weeks.

964
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 11: So Bira Murphy and Isaiah Rodgers holding up against your group.

965
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Jamar Chase T.

966
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 11: Higgins. We might get Harrison Smith back. That could be

967
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 11: a shot arm for what we need in the back

968
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 11: end of this defense.

969
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 5: But we're gonna be without play Cashman, and we really.

970
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 11: Need Andrew vandinkel back because he's he's definitely fits the system.

971
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 11: He was out last week with a concussion, so I

972
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 11: think we were down five total starters going into the

973
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Speaker 11: game last week, and hopefully we'll get a few of

974
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Speaker 11: those guys back.

975
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Speaker 2: I think my last question has to do with defensive

976
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 2: coordinator Brian Flores. I believe he had the highest blitz

977
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 2: percentage of any DC in the NFL last season. Facing

978
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 2: Jake Browning this week, what would you expect.

979
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 11: Flores has had the highest blitz percentage I think over

980
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 11: the last three seasons. And for Flores, it's it's about

981
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 11: getting pressure on the quarterback and he'll blitz. He'll blitz

982
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 11: enough to get a certain level. He wants a certain

983
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 11: level and if you can't get it just playing base defense,

984
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 11: then he's going to have to blitz.

985
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:51,439
Speaker 5: Now.

986
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Speaker 11: The crazy thing with Jake Browning is you look at

987
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 11: his game against Jacksonville.

988
00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 5: I mean, he did better.

989
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 11: He's more explosive against the blitz than he was against

990
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 11: the four man rush.

991
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 5: However, if you.

992
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Speaker 11: You know and and I just released a YouTube video

993
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 11: on this. However, if if you get pressure on him,

994
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 11: that's when he makes his mistakes normally when he when

995
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 11: he's rolling on and so however, whatever it is you

996
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 11: have to do, and however it is, you have to

997
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 11: get to him. You got to make him feel the pressure.

998
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 11: If you blitz and and don't and and somehow don't

999
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 11: get there, well you know, he can throw a fade

1000
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 11: on the outside and and you know, turn it into

1001
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 11: a forty seven yard t Higgins touchdown like you saw

1002
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Speaker 11: last week. So you you have to be pretty prudent,

1003
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 11: I think with with him and say, yeah, well we're

1004
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 11: gonna we want to get pressure on him. However, you

1005
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 11: can't just you know, pin your years back and give

1006
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 11: away or play the hand, or let him know before

1007
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 11: snaff what exactly he's gonna get, because you know, he knows,

1008
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 11: he knows what he's doing with the football, and he's

1009
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 11: got a great receiving corps. So no matter what, you're

1010
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 11: just one pass, one explosive play away from putting up

1011
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 11: a touchdown. So I think he'll be a little my overall,

1012
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 11: I think he'll be a little more prudent and maybe

1013
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 11: a little bit less aggressive against Jake Browning this week.

1014
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