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

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Speaker 1: and Do It All over edition as we take an

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Speaker 1: in depth look back at Super Bowl fifty six. I'll

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Speaker 1: Let's get to football. Every year during Super Bowl Week,

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Speaker 1: the NFL network runs the thirty minute highlight videos of

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Speaker 1: previous Super Bowls. So this week I taped and rewatched

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Speaker 1: the recap of Super Bowl fifty six between the Bengals

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Speaker 1: and Rams. Despite the outcome, I really enjoyed it, and

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Speaker 1: it got me thinking that there isn't an in depth

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Speaker 1: audio version, So this week I decided to put one together,

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Speaker 1: taking the radio broadcast of the game, some interviews, and

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Speaker 1: a recent look back with Dave Lapham. If the memory

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Speaker 1: is too painful, I understand, and you can return for

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Speaker 1: next week's podcast. But if you decide to keep listening,

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Speaker 1: I think you'll mostly enjoy looking back at Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty six. Let's start with how The Bengals got there

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Speaker 1: a pressure pack thirty one yard field goal try by

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Speaker 1: rookie Evan McPherson in overtime of the AFC Championship game

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City year yars ago. He was a senior

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Speaker 1: in high school in tiny Fort Payne, Alabama. Now the

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Speaker 1: Bengals Super Bowl chances rest on his right foot.

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Speaker 2: The kick is up, yeh ye.

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Speaker 3: Good coffin nows Bam, bam bam.

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Speaker 4: That is unba believable. The Cincinnati Bengals come from behind

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Speaker 4: on the road. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Dan, it is no fluke. It is a fact.

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Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to Super Bowl fifty six.

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Speaker 5: They just redefined the word resilient.

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Speaker 1: After ending a thirty one year drought without a playoff win,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals were headed to the Super Bowl for the

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Speaker 1: third time in franchise history, a gratifying moment for team

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Speaker 6: I am just as pleased as it's possible to be

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Speaker 6: if you're in my position. This is what you're goal

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Speaker 6: is in life, and here we are. We have a

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Speaker 6: great if we could pull it off. But it's an

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Speaker 1: At what point did you think that this team could

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Speaker 1: be a contender.

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Speaker 6: Well, Joe Burrow makes you think you can win any

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Speaker 6: game that you go into, and we have amazing wide outs.

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Speaker 6: We've got three guys that are just tremendous. That gives

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Speaker 6: us a live offense. These days in the NFL, the

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Speaker 6: goal is to score thirty points or more. That's what

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Speaker 6: but if you can get there with enough defense to

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Speaker 6: We did Noise prevail. We went along. Our confidence built

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Speaker 6: these close games and here we are. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: As Mike mentioned, in just his second season, Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: had transformed the franchise. After bouncing back from the gruesome

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Speaker 1: what NBC announcer Mike Tarico called embraceable cockiness. Here's another

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Speaker 7: I wish I were as cool as he is, don't you.

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Speaker 7: I Mean, every once in a while, meet somebody and

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Speaker 7: kid's twentever, twenty five years old, and he is one

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Speaker 8: And the first time I.

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Speaker 7: Saw him wearing some of those outfits and the rose

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Speaker 7: it off the air and say see you guys next season.

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Speaker 7: He's special, right, he is? And I think that I'm

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Speaker 7: trying to make a comparison and maybe Pete Rose, you know,

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Speaker 7: the superstar of the of the favorite franchise and there

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Speaker 7: just isn't a comparison that I can, and it's hard

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Speaker 7: to describe what he means the Cincinnati But I don't

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Speaker 7: know that there's been a football player on the Cincinnati

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Speaker 7: I wasn't around for that, but in its history that

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Speaker 7: would mean more than what Joe Burrow means to this community.

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Speaker 1: Before traveling to LA for the game, Burrow did an

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Speaker 1: interview with a quarterback who won seven Super Bowls, Tom Brady.

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Speaker 9: I think Joe's got some tools that I didn't quite

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Speaker 9: over the years, and you know, two years into his

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Speaker 9: an incredible season. So you know, I always love watching quarterbacks,

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Speaker 9: there's certain ways to play the game, and to play

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Speaker 9: the game at a high level requires a huge commitment.

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Speaker 9: I think Joe, even from when I saw him at LSU,

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Speaker 9: happy for Joe and his team.

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Speaker 6: Joe want to hear those words from Tom. Your reaction is.

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Speaker 8: Well, no, I don't know.

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Speaker 10: I don't know if I can be in the conversation

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Speaker 10: really hard to try, and I think we're off to

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Speaker 1: The Bengals stayed and practiced on the campus of UCLA

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Speaker 1: the day before the game. Dave Lapham sat down in

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Speaker 1: an empty hotel conference room to record his final pregame

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Speaker 1: interview of the year with head coach Zach Taylor, where

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Speaker 1: they discussed one of the biggest keys to the game.

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Speaker 4: Aaron Donald. The guy can be mesmerizing. I mean, your

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Speaker 4: He's one of those kind of players. How do you

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Speaker 4: handle a guy like Aaron Donald? I mean, how big

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Speaker 4: a game wrecker is this dude?

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Speaker 11: He's one of the best to ever do it? You know,

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Speaker 11: and I know I'm only thirty eight years old. It's

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Speaker 11: hard for me to say that I didn't watch all

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Speaker 11: those years before, but I can promise you He's one

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Speaker 1: The game was played on February thirteenth, twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California. I've been asked many

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Speaker 1: times since what it's like to broadcast a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and I compare it to the first Jurassic Park movie

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Speaker 1: when the actor Sam Neil is riding in the back

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Speaker 1: by the site of a live dinosaur. That's what broadcasting

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl is like for me. You almost can't believe

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Speaker 1: it's really happening. In any case, here's how our broadcast began.

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Speaker 1: Fifty four seasons ago, the most innovative coach in sports

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Speaker 1: history brought professional football to Cincinnati, and today the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Bengals get their third opportunity to make Paul Brown's a

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Speaker 1: reality as they face the Los Angeles Rams in Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty six. Shortly after that, we got to Dave

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Speaker 1: Lapham's keys to the game, and as is usually the case,

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Speaker 1: he was right on the money.

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Speaker 4: Dan, This game's gonna be won and lost the trenches

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Speaker 4: like they usually are. I'm gonna talk letter t today.

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Speaker 4: My first tee is trenches. Give Joe Burrow time, another key,

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Speaker 4: and obviously space. The Bengals are seven to zero when

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Speaker 4: Joe gets sacked two times or less, eleven and two

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Speaker 4: when he sacked five times or more, Give him time,

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Speaker 4: give him space.

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Speaker 1: I discuss that pregame analysis with Lap this week. The

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Speaker 1: offensive line for the Bengals in that Super Bowl Jonah Williams,

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Speaker 1: Clinton Spain, Trey Hopkins, Achema, Danegy and Isaiah Prince. Who

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Speaker 1: is in for the injured Riley Reef? Who or what

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Speaker 1: was your biggest concern going in?

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Speaker 4: Who biggest concern? Dan was the connection between the five.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's like blocking your guy. Knowing your assignment

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Speaker 4: and blocking your guy. That's one thing, But you need

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Speaker 4: the steps that he takes. How deep does he set

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Speaker 4: does he double team? Does he want you to totally

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Speaker 4: is he satisfied with you halfway there. I mean there's

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Speaker 8: To get it done a little bit. And that was

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Speaker 4: There wasn't anybody that was right next to each other,

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Speaker 4: of time. I was concerned about that because we're talking

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Speaker 4: not just the one on one of handling Von Miller,

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Speaker 1: As you might expect in LA, the game began with

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Speaker 1: a little Hollywood flare, Ladies.

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Speaker 3: And gentlemen, it is my honor to say, finally it

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Speaker 3: is time by the Superbad.

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Speaker 1: After the Rocks intro, the Bengals won the toss and

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Speaker 1: elected to defer. Trey Hendrickson sacked on the ram opening

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Speaker 1: drive led to a punt, and the Bengals quickly drove

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Speaker 1: to the Rams forty nine yard line. The Bengals are

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Speaker 1: going to go for it on fourth in a long

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Speaker 1: yard at the Los Angeles forty nine. Burrow in the gun,

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Speaker 1: pe Rne stays in. Joe Burrow drops back to throw

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Speaker 1: short pass, pat it away. It's incomplete intended for Jamar Chase,

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Speaker 1: looked like Jalen Ramsey got a hand on it, and

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Speaker 1: the Bengals fail on fourth down and one, Well.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you that's a big momentum turn right there

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Speaker 4: for the Los Angeles Rams. Bengals dude get positive yards

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Speaker 4: on first down, but then just stutter, sputter and stall.

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Speaker 1: So the first big play of the game came on

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Speaker 1: the Bengals opening drive, fourth down and one at the

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Speaker 1: Rams forty nine. The Bengals went for it. Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: threw an incomplete pass for Jamar Chase. He didn't see

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Speaker 1: t Higgins who was wide open and would have had

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Speaker 1: the first down. But going back to the decision in retrospect,

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Speaker 1: did they get it right going forward on fourth and

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Speaker 4: Boy, you can make cases both ways, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I by nature am old school. I know I am.

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Speaker 4: I'm more conservative. You know, Joe obviously his clock was

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Speaker 4: sped up all game long. There's no doubt. I mean,

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Speaker 4: he didn't take a lot of sacks until the game,

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Speaker 4: toward the end of the football game when you'd expect

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Speaker 8: To turn it up, and they did. But he was

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Speaker 8: getting the ball out.

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Speaker 4: He was getting the ball out very quickly, and that

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Speaker 4: might have been part of the reason, you know that

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Speaker 4: he didn't catch up with t over there on the backside.

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Speaker 4: But to answer your question me conservatively, I probably would

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Speaker 4: have punted and buried him inside the ten yard line.

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Speaker 4: But I know analytics day, all the percentages are with

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Speaker 4: you to go for it. But you know, the analytics

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Speaker 4: aren't like Aaron von mill all these guys that you

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Speaker 4: have to make sure you take care of. I didn't

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Speaker 4: have a problem with the play selection, but I had

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Speaker 4: a problem with not a problem. I mean, like I said,

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Speaker 4: I it it wasn't like, oh my gosh, lost the game, now,

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Speaker 4: you know, it wasn't that kind of thing. And honestly, Zach,

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Speaker 4: you've been prett philly aggressive all year long on fourth down.

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Speaker 4: So as a player, all you want is consistency Dan,

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Speaker 4: you know, and if you if he pulled his horns

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Speaker 4: in in the Super Bowl, now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: you think, geez, what's our coach thinking all year long?

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Speaker 4: This is the path we've taken. So based on that,

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Speaker 4: you know, you know, just like with the Detroit Lions,

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're they're super aggressive. They were super aggressive

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Speaker 4: in the in the NFC Championship game that they lost.

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Speaker 4: They converted eighty percent on fourth down in the regular

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Speaker 4: season and they didn't get it done to in less

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Speaker 4: than fifty percent in that in that game. So but

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Speaker 4: as a as a player, it's like my coach was

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Speaker 4: the same guy. He didn't let the game get too

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Speaker 4: big for him. He did what he did all season long,

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Speaker 4: and I'm good with that.

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Speaker 1: Rams took advantage of the short field, putting together a

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Speaker 1: sixth play fifty yard touchdown drive. Third out in a

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Speaker 1: long two at the Cincinnati seventeen three receivers right two left,

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup one of the two receivers out to the left.

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Speaker 1: Stafford back to throw. He's gonna lob it toward the

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Speaker 1: to the ball. It's a touchdown for the Rams, as

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior went up and over Mike Hilton to

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Speaker 5: Just a great throw right there.

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Speaker 4: Stafford put the ball where Beckham Junior could make a

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Speaker 4: play on it. Mike Hilton, obviously, his biggest challenge is

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Speaker 4: verticcality because he's not very tall five foot nine inches.

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Speaker 4: Odell Beckham Junior took advantage of that and ball put

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Speaker 4: up players made. Mike Hilton never sees the football, tries

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Speaker 4: to rip it out of there with the left hand

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Speaker 4: butt O'Dell Beckham Junior drips it tightly to the turf.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's seventh touchdown pass of the postseason. He's only

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Speaker 1: thrown one interception, now Matt Gay in to attempt the

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Speaker 2: His kick his perfect.

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Speaker 1: Rams took a seven to nothing lead on a touchdown

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Speaker 1: catch by Odell Beckham Junior. He said this year that

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Speaker 1: he would have had fifteen catches and maybe two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty yards if he didn't tear his ACL in

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Speaker 2: Was he right?

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Speaker 1: Would the Bengals have been in trouble if Obj did

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you he got off to a great start.

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Speaker 4: And they were using them different ways.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: They were lining them up in different spots, they were

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Speaker 4: emotion them, they were doing everything that they could possibly

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Speaker 8: For the Luanna rum or to get a handle on

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Speaker 8: how to take them out of it, you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it wasn't like he was just lining up

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Speaker 4: in one spot and Luke could you know, roll double

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Speaker 4: coverage over that way or whatever. They had a good

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Speaker 4: game plan. I'm not sure he to have the numbers

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Speaker 4: he's talking about it. I mean, those are those are ludicrous, obviously,

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Speaker 4: but I mean he was playing his tailoff man.

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Speaker 8: He was he was getting it done.

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Speaker 4: I think they would have had difficulty, you know, handling

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Speaker 4: obj the way, the way he got started in that

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Speaker 4: football game, There's no question.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals immediately answered Burrow back.

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Speaker 2: To throw, wants to float it high and deep four

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Speaker 3: The twenty reaches out comes down to the ball at

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Speaker 3: the eleven yard line, a spectacular finger tip catch by

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Speaker 3: Numero who know, and the Bengals will have it at

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Speaker 3: the eleven After a forty six yard bomb from Burrow

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Speaker 1: It gave the Bengals the ball at the eleven yard line,

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Speaker 1: but Burrow through three straight in completions on the last

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Speaker 1: one a penalty could have been called on la third

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Speaker 1: down and ten at the Rams eleven shotgun snap, Burrow

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Speaker 4: Ramsey in coverage again, and then we saw Ramsey in

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Speaker 4: coverage against Jamar Chase. That time they had him inside

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Speaker 1: He got away with a jersey grab that wasn't called

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Speaker 1: stretched cloth normally get penalized for that.

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Speaker 8: It's jan the Rams.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals settled for a twenty nine yard field goal

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Speaker 1: try shooter McPherson swings the right leg a hi spinning

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Speaker 1: end over end kicked. It is good and the Bengals

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Speaker 1: Ramsey got away with grabbing t Higgins Jersey on an

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Speaker 1: incomplete pass at the goal line. The Bengals had to

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Speaker 1: settle for a field goal after that. How did that

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Speaker 1: compare to the penalty at the end of the game

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Speaker 1: that was called on Logan Wilson.

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Speaker 8: I think it was much more egregious, to be honest

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Speaker 4: Of course, you know, I'm looking at it through different

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Speaker 4: colored glasses than the Rams people are, But that I mean,

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Speaker 4: you can see you can see Jersey tug you know.

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Speaker 8: I mean Logan Wilson's was it was.

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Speaker 4: Almost in my mind it was fabricated. I mean, he

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Speaker 4: had his hands on him, but he wasn't grabbing anything,

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Speaker 4: and he wasn't past the five yard area, you know

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Speaker 4: when the penalty flag was thrown, And I mean I

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Speaker 4: have been, and the one that was called on Logan

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Speaker 4: was was you know, a little TICKI tack. And honestly,

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Speaker 4: I know for a fact I've heard this from multiple

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Speaker 4: league sources that once you get into the playoffs and

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Speaker 4: deep into the playoffs in the Super Bowl, the league's

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Speaker 4: pilst me on it is these teams are here for

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Speaker 4: a reason.

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Speaker 8: Keep your flags in your pocket.

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Speaker 1: It was seven three Rams at the end of the

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Speaker 1: first quarter. Two minutes into the second, LA scored again,

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Speaker 1: second down and five from the Cincinnati eleven, the Rams

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Speaker 1: leading the Bengals seven to three. Here in the second quarter,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, under center receiver, goes in motion. They fake

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Speaker 1: a handof Stafford throwing into the end zone. Cooper Cup

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Speaker 1: due to a bobbled snow and led thirteen to three.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals responded with their best drive of the game,

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Speaker 2: The Bengals toss it.

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Speaker 5: To the right.

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Speaker 2: Mixons throws into the back of the end zone and

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Speaker 2: is caught by T. Higgins. Touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Bengals Joe Mixon floating one into the back right corner

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Speaker 4: Talked about trickeration as one of the t keys Joe Mixon.

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Speaker 4: Everybody starts downhill to fill the run. Sweet, they think

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Speaker 4: it's way too late for Nick Scott, and Nick Scott says,

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Speaker 4: As a as a former offensive lineman, I wish that

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Speaker 4: when you have an offensive line that, like we talked about,

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Speaker 4: ground game. I thought Frank Pollack did a great job

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Speaker 4: U unraveled late, obviously down the stretch in terms of

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Speaker 4: But man, my old you know, my old axidom is

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Speaker 4: you can't make yourself want dimensional. You know, if they

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Speaker 1: There was no more scoring in the first half as

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Speaker 1: the Bengals came up with a takeaway just before the

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Speaker 1: two minute warning. Lock running two twelve left and a

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Speaker 1: fires toward the end zone. In intercepted in the end zone.

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Speaker 1: It is picked up by Jesse Bates and the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: We'll get the ball at the twenty year to Fez.

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Speaker 1: They intercept Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 4: Van Jefferson was the intended receiver, and the Bengals rushed

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Speaker 4: three and dropped eight into coverage and Stafford bought time,

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Speaker 4: the football field. Jesse Bates saw him being a traffic

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Speaker 4: cop as well, and he played it perfectly. He ended

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Speaker 4: up being the intended receiver. First turnover of the day

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Speaker 4: goes to the Bengals defense.

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Speaker 1: Now, after the intert the Bengals would have had the

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Speaker 1: ball at the twenty, but they got penalized ten yards

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Speaker 1: because a player came off the bench and joined in

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Speaker 1: the celebration, not a uniform, a guy wearing a Bengals hoodie.

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Speaker 1: I think that might have been Vernon Hargraves, who is

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Speaker 1: inactive for the game today and he just cost his

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Speaker 1: team ten yards. If that's not Vernon Hargraves, I apologize,

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Speaker 1: but that's who it looked like with a brief look

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Speaker 1: at the video monitor.

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Speaker 4: Well it makes sense to Dan, he's the only defensive

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Speaker 4: back that's deactivated.

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Speaker 1: Two years later. Are you ticked off, amused?

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Speaker 2: Or a combination of both?

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Speaker 4: More kicked off than the muse. Yeah, it's like, come on, bro,

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Speaker 4: you know, I understand you're excited.

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Speaker 8: I understand.

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Speaker 4: Come on, man, you got to be smarter than that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the only the only thing that you can

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Speaker 4: do on the sideline is something stupid like that to

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Speaker 4: hurt your football team, and why why do it? Oh

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Speaker 4: my gosh, yeah, that's a critical that's critical. Ten yards

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Speaker 4: there too. I mean, you know, now, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: eighty yards is tough enough. You got to go ninety

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Speaker 4: against that defensive football team with a makeshift offensive line

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Speaker 4: and all the things we've been talking about. Every yard

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Speaker 4: is precious, every first down is valuable, Every first down

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Speaker 4: is gold against a team like that, And you give

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Speaker 4: up a first down in terms of yards because you

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Speaker 4: got a dude in street clothes celebrating on the football field. Man,

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Speaker 4: if I had a rope long enough, I already yanked

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Speaker 4: him back to the sideline myself. I mean, man, I

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Speaker 4: couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: It was thirteen to ten rams at the half as

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Speaker 1: Doctor Dre Snoop Dog Eminem and others entertained. The seventy

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Speaker 1: thousand plus in attendance, including a member of the Bengals.

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Speaker 4: Money Mack watched the whole halftime show. Money Mack's a

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Speaker 4: big fan, and he came.

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Speaker 5: He watched.

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Speaker 4: I guess the darn near the whole thing. That's his

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Speaker 4: that's right his demo, man, that's right in his groove.

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Speaker 1: Were you able to watch and enjoy the halftime show

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Speaker 1: like Evan McPherson did.

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Speaker 4: Uh, I'll tell you damn until until you're there live.

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Speaker 4: You know, halftime is long in the Super Bowl when

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Speaker 4: you're watching them on TV. Well, when you're there live,

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, that bad boy takes forever, doesn't it.

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Speaker 8: I mean it was.

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Speaker 4: It was incredible, the length of that uh length of

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Speaker 4: that halftime show.

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Speaker 8: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was well done, There's no question about it. But

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Speaker 4: Evn had a better seat than us. Man, he was

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Speaker 4: right there.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I barely saw the halftime show between

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Speaker 1: running to the bathroom. Yeah, recapping the first half, trying

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Speaker 1: to get your thoughts together for you know, broadcasting the

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Speaker 1: second half as well as you possibly could. I was

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Speaker 1: kind of aware of what artists were out there, but

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear hardly any of it.

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Speaker 8: I didn't really hear it either all that well. But

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Speaker 8: I saw what was going on.

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Speaker 4: And it was pretty you know, it's pretty uh, pretty

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Speaker 4: high profile, no question about it. That was that was

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Speaker 4: funny see him out there just soaking it all in. Man,

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Speaker 4: it is classic. It was classic.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to the second half, here's a quick

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Speaker 1: reminder that the Bengals booth podcast is brought to you

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Speaker 1: The third quarter began with a bang. Joe Burrow under

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Speaker 1: center on first and ten from the twenty five. The

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Speaker 1: ball is on the right hash Joe Mixon in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: He had forty rushing yards in the first half. They

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Speaker 1: fake to him Burrow and now scrambling fires deep down

518
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Speaker 1: field for Higgins.

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00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 3: Chuck Sick pushes over his defender, catches the ball, runt

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Speaker 3: it into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: There's no, no, no, A seventy five yard touchdown. Burrow two.

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Speaker 3: Higgins as he knocked over Jane Ramsey ran it into

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Speaker 3: the end zone to get the Bengals the lead.

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Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey couldn't find the football and by the time

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Speaker 4: he did, t Higgins found the ball coming side of

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Speaker 4: him and Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 5: How about giving the Bengals lead a one play.

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Speaker 1: Dry It looked like t Higgins grabbed the face mats

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Speaker 1: of Jalen Ramsey threw used it to throw him to

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Speaker 1: the side.

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Speaker 2: It was not called, and the Bengals had the lead.

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Speaker 1: Should it have been offensive pass interference?

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Speaker 4: I'm glad that he kept his flag in his pocket

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Speaker 4: because he didn't call defensive pass interference. So while the

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Speaker 4: offensive passing appearance, I mean, if you're gonna do it,

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Speaker 4: do it both ways.

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Speaker 8: You can make an argument that it could have been

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Speaker 8: called in each instance.

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Speaker 4: And like I said, you know, championship games with the

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Speaker 4: players decide the game. I'm sure the Rams fans are

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Speaker 4: obviously to this day still fuming that that wasn't called.

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Speaker 8: But he deserved it.

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Speaker 4: Have to get and grab like that earlier, I think

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Speaker 4: he deserved an opportunity to use his hands a little

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Speaker 4: bit too.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals led seventeen to thirteen, and on the very

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Speaker 1: next play got the ball right back Stafford in the shotgun.

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Speaker 1: He's got acres to his left. Odell Beckham Junior is

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Speaker 1: not back into the game. Stafford throws over the middle

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Speaker 1: and it is intercepted.

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Speaker 3: It was deflected off Cooper Cup and it's picked off.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals will take over at the thirty two Chita.

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Speaker 3: Bay O Wooja on the deflection off Cooper Cup and

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Speaker 3: the Bengals have the lead and the ball at the

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Speaker 3: Rams thirty two.

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Speaker 1: They quickly drove to the twelve yard line before the

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Speaker 1: Rams pass rush began to take over the game. Third

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Speaker 1: down and four from the twelve of the Rams shotgun snap,

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Speaker 1: Burrow cuts the arm and gets smashed to the ground.

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Speaker 1: Burrow gets sacked back at the twenty yard line Aaron

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Speaker 1: Donald with his second sack of this drive, and the

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Speaker 1: Bengals will have to settle for the field goal try

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Speaker 1: by Evan McPherson.

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Speaker 5: Boy, I'll tell you Joe's upset.

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Speaker 4: He had an opportunity there and he was like, you know,

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Speaker 4: he did a good job holding onto the football.

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Speaker 5: I thought that ball was going to be problematic. A

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Speaker 5: bull rush that time.

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Speaker 4: Agnegy just gets bowled by Aaron Donald and Joe Burrow

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Speaker 4: passed it. When he cocked the football and brought it

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Speaker 4: back down, it was over.

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Speaker 1: This will be a thirty eight yard field goal try

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Speaker 1: from the middle of the field for Evan McPherson. Clark

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Speaker 1: Harris will snap it back to Kevin Huber Hubert looking

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Speaker 1: back at his kicker now turns his head, extends the

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Speaker 1: right hand, catches the ball, puts it down.

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Speaker 2: McPherson's kick lofted and it is good.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he remains perfect in the postseason, and the Bengals

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Speaker 1: have scored seventeen straight to take a twenty to thirteen leave.

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Speaker 1: That was the last time the Bengals scored, and protecting

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Speaker 1: Burrow was the problem. At one point. He was sacked

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Speaker 1: four times in a span of six offensive snaps.

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Speaker 4: The first half, I thought the Bengals offensive line was very,

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Speaker 4: very proficient and productive. But here in the second half,

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Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Rams, they're.

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Speaker 5: More bull rushing.

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Speaker 4: In the first half, they were trying a lot of

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Speaker 4: moves in here in the second half, they've decided a

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Speaker 4: halftime let's just power rush and bull rush these guys,

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Speaker 4: and it's working.

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Speaker 1: Five sacks for the Rams in this Super Bowl, second

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Speaker 1: down and eleven, Burrow catches a shotgunsnap, looks to throw,

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Speaker 1: force to scramble, sacked again as he goes down inside

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Speaker 1: the five.

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Speaker 2: It's starting to get ugly.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals failed to score on their last five drives

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Speaker 1: of the game, and Burrow got sacked a bunch. Defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Raheem Morris started rushing five to create more one

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Speaker 1: on one opportunities for Aaron Donald, von Miller, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: What stood out to you about the Rams pass rush

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Speaker 1: in the second half in particular.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought Raheem Morris might go to that five

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Speaker 4: man rush a little sooner than he did. But it

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Speaker 4: was effective definitely, because obviously there's only five offensive line

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Speaker 4: and when you have five man pass rush, you know,

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Speaker 4: you got everybody singled up. Now you can chiple the

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Speaker 4: tight you know, you can double with the tight end,

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Speaker 4: chip of the back and all those good things. You

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Speaker 4: can still have seven blockers for five rushers. But when

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Speaker 4: you particularly with the interior, if you've got everybody covered

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Speaker 4: up on the inside in the center, there's no uncovered center,

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Speaker 4: no uncovered guard to help it all. And you have

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Speaker 4: a pass rusher like Aaron Donald in there, man, that

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Speaker 4: puts a lot of pressure on that one on one matchup.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I thought that that was that was

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Speaker 4: a good move by Raheem Morris, particularly, you know when

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Speaker 4: they they had the lead, and now the Bengals are

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Speaker 4: the clocks winding down, there's only going to be a

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Speaker 4: few more possessions in the game. That was a wise

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Speaker 4: move by Raheem Morris, and that's why is the Atlantic

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Speaker 4: Falcons head coach.

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Speaker 1: Now, I guess a Rams field goal made it twenty

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Speaker 1: to sixteen midway through the third quarter. The Bengals defense

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Speaker 1: then forced three straight three and outs, but the offense

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Speaker 1: kept giving the ball back to La and finally, with

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Speaker 1: six thirteen to go, the Rams began their game winning drive.

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Speaker 1: It reached a critical point right away. This could be

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Speaker 1: the game. Five oh seven left and the Rams ready

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Speaker 1: to go for it. On fourth and one at their

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Speaker 1: own thirty, Stafford under center. They're going to go with

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Speaker 1: that end a round and it's going to work, as

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup will run it out to the thirty seven

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Speaker 1: yard lives. The first big play on that game winning

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Speaker 1: drive fourth and one at their own thirty, They gave

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Speaker 1: it to Cooper Cup on a jet sweep for a

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Speaker 1: first down. Von Bell was unblocked down the play, but

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Speaker 1: didn't quite have the angle to make the tackle. Is

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Speaker 1: that the play that lou An Arumo replays in his

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Speaker 1: head to this day?

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Speaker 4: I bet that's that's one of them. Dan, I mean,

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Speaker 4: uh man, I was just hoping he'd slip or something.

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Speaker 4: I mean when they when they ran that play, that play,

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Speaker 4: I honestly, it caught me with my pants down. You know,

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Speaker 4: I wasn't thinking, you know, a jet sweep by Cooper

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Speaker 4: up on fourth and one. Wasn't wasn't considering that whatsoever. Uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, I run into the perimeter like that. I

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Speaker 4: mean that that's running sideways for a good bit of

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Speaker 4: time on a fourth and one situation. That's having a

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00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 4: lot of a lot of faith and confidence as an

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Speaker 4: offensive Coordinator's not gonna be any penetration, you know, anywhere,

651
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Speaker 4: and people are gonna win their blocks on the edge

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Speaker 4: and you know, and get it done.

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Speaker 8: You know, kudos to them. That was a.

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Speaker 4: I think a play that lou An Rumo probably didn't think,

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, yeah, this is this is this is it.

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Speaker 4: This is what we have to This is what we

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Speaker 4: have to take care of. This is one of the

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Speaker 4: primary things. I bet it was down the list of

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Speaker 4: things that he was considering that they'd run. It was

660
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Speaker 4: just a good call by them and executed very well

661
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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 1: After that run, Cooper Cup caught four passes on the

663
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Speaker 1: final drive. Stafford in the gun acres to his left

664
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Speaker 1: shot gun snap. Stafford looking to throw inches up in

665
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Speaker 1: the pocket. Oh, this pass caught over the metal Cooper

666
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Speaker 1: Cup inside the thirty and he gets tackled at the

667
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati twenty four yard Live the longest gain on the

668
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Speaker 1: game winning drive was Matthew Stafford's no look pass to

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup to manipulate Von Bell, who is in the

670
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Speaker 1: middle of the field on that play. We couldn't really

671
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Speaker 1: see that watching it live. Do you remember seeing the

672
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Speaker 1: replay later and marveling at the no look pass by Stafford?

673
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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

674
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Speaker 4: You know, it wasn't the first time that he'd done it,

675
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 4: done it many times in practice and had done it

676
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 4: in games before, but to do it in the Super Bowl,

677
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 4: it's gussie guts you to pull that bad boy off,

678
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 4: you know. I mean you have to have you have

679
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 4: to have total faith in your preparation and your repetitions

680
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 4: and all of that sort of thing. And Patrick Maholmes

681
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Speaker 4: and others have taken it to another level. But yeah,

682
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 4: that was that was That was a gutsy, a gutsy

683
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Speaker 4: move by by Matthew Stafford, And to see it unfold

684
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 4: on replay like that, it was something that definitely.

685
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Speaker 8: Was highlight for the La Rams in that football game.

686
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: No doubt coming out of the two minute warning. The

687
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: Rams had it first in goal at the eight. Matthew

688
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 1: Stafford threw an incomplete pass in the end zone, then

689
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: through another where we mentioned something on the radio broadcast

690
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: that wasn't shown or mentioned on TV. Stafford catches a

691
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: shotgun snap, retreats to the seventeen short pass incomplete intended

692
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: for Henderson covered by Jermaine Pratt.

693
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 2: Looks like Sean McVay is.

694
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: Arguing that he was held, but there's no penalty flag

695
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Speaker 1: in its third and goal from the eight.

696
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, McVeigh wanted a call on Jermaine Pratt going over

697
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 4: the back, but no call, and really the.

698
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 5: Ball was thrown into the ground.

699
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 4: Jermaine Pratt did a nice job of leveraging the back

700
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Speaker 4: out of the backfield.

701
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: The Bengals had two defenders around Cooper Cup. They're trying

702
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Speaker 1: to eliminate him in the red zone on third and

703
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: goal from the.

704
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Speaker 5: Eighth, particularly with no Beckham junior out there.

705
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Speaker 1: Cup one of three receivers out to the left, single

706
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: receiver out to the right. Stafford, waiting for the shotgun

707
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: snap from the eight yard line, catches a high snap,

708
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: drops back to throw his pass off of the.

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Speaker 2: Medal swatted down by Logan Wilson.

710
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Speaker 1: There's a penalty flag down as he reached around Cooper

711
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: Cup and swatted the pass down.

712
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 4: They're calling holding on Logan Wilson. Not interference, They're called

713
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 4: they're calling holding.

714
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Speaker 7: Right of the past holding.

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Speaker 2: Take that snipper fifty five, no matter.

716
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Speaker 1: What's that?

717
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Speaker 4: Not not the yardage, but it's it's a new set

718
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Speaker 4: of downs.

719
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Speaker 1: On the play before the Logan Wilson pass interference call,

720
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Speaker 1: there was an incomplete pass to a Rams running back

721
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Speaker 1: and we mentioned on the radio broadcast that Sean McVay

722
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Speaker 1: was complaining to the officials that Jermaine Pratt should have

723
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Speaker 1: been flagged. It wasn't mentioned on TV. They didn't show

724
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Speaker 1: McVeigh on the sidelines. Al Michaels and Chris collins Worth

725
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: didn't talk about.

726
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 2: It, but we did.

727
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Speaker 1: Do you think McVeigh planted a seed that led to

728
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Speaker 1: the call on Wilson on the next play?

729
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, I mean, referees a human and he

730
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Speaker 4: probably you know, was debating if he saw it, and

731
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Speaker 4: I think he did, if he you know, should I

732
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Speaker 4: shouldn't I? And then when McVeigh went absolutely, you know,

733
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Speaker 4: ballistic and getting after him about it. You know, human

734
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Speaker 4: nature is. You know, I got to I got to

735
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Speaker 4: make the restitution for that, the old makeup call kind

736
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Speaker 4: of thing.

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Speaker 8: And man, that was a tough one.

738
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Speaker 4: Logan Wilson paid a big price for, you know, for

739
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Speaker 4: McVeigh politicking as effectively as he did about his partner

740
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Speaker 4: Jermaine Pratt not being not being called. I think I

741
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Speaker 4: think that that did have an influence. So you know,

742
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Speaker 4: he's thinking, all right, well, jeez, I was fifty to

743
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Speaker 4: fifty on calling that one. I didn't fifty to fifty

744
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 4: on this one, because, yeah, he talked himself into into

745
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Speaker 4: a holding penalty.

746
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Speaker 8: I think he.

747
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Speaker 4: I think he basically talked himself and seeing something that

748
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 4: Logan Wilson was doing with his hands that he really wasn't,

749
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Speaker 4: you know. And it's like, man, that was a crusher

750
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 4: going to call that thing in the end zone like that.

751
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Speaker 8: It was nuts.

752
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Speaker 1: Prior to that flag, each team had been penalized twice

753
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Speaker 1: the entire game. On the next play, offsetting penalties were called,

754
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Speaker 1: and on the play after that, Eli Apple was called

755
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Speaker 1: for pass interference, giving the Rams first in goal at

756
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Speaker 1: the one. Here's what Mike Hilton had to say after

757
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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 12: Vb's on both sides were grabbing and you know, a

759
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 12: little pool here and there, and they were like, I said, way,

760
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Speaker 12: We're fine with it throughout the first three quarters, but

761
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Speaker 12: French time, you know, they got flag heavy and we

762
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Speaker 12: just put us in BASD situation.

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor took the high road.

764
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Speaker 8: It's tough.

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Speaker 11: I thought it was a really well officiated game, to

766
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Speaker 11: be quite honest with you, and sometimes it comes down

767
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Speaker 11: to the moments like those. I don't have a great

768
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Speaker 11: look at it, but but I thought the officials did

769
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Speaker 11: a nice show up.

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Speaker 1: In Super Bowl twenty three, it was Montana to Taylor

771
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Speaker 1: with thirty four seconds to go. This time it was

772
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Speaker 1: Stafford to Cup, second down in goal from the one.

773
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Speaker 1: As the Rams look for a go ahead touchdown. Stafford

774
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Speaker 1: is under center, takes the snap, floats a fade into

775
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Speaker 1: the end zone, and it is caught for a touchdown

776
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Speaker 1: to give the Rams the lead. Cooper Cup with the

777
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Speaker 1: catch and the Rams have pulled ahead with one twenty

778
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Speaker 1: five to go. Down by three, the Bengals got the

779
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Speaker 1: ball back at their own twenty five with one twenty

780
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Speaker 1: five to go and two timeouts remaining.

781
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,479
Speaker 2: Burrow ready for the shotgun snap. He has the ball.

782
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: Burrow's quick pass chase with a catch, running away from

783
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Speaker 1: Ramsey to the forty and he runs out of bounds

784
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Speaker 1: to stop the clock at the forty two yard line.

785
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: A seventeen yard play to begin this critical drive first

786
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Speaker 1: and ten Bengals from their own forty two, they need

787
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: to get about twenty more yards. Burrow back to throw

788
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Speaker 1: against the blitz.

789
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Speaker 2: His bo caught at.

790
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Speaker 1: The fifty Tyler Boyd with the catch as the Bengals

791
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Speaker 1: pick up a quick eight.

792
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Speaker 4: Tell you be one of those situations where the Rams

793
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 4: are saying we left Joe Burrow.

794
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: Too much time, But that was not the case. On

795
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: second and one, Burrow threw an incomplete deep ball for chase.

796
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: On third and one, samajp Ryan was stopped by Aaron

797
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: Donald for no gain, forcing the Bengals to call the

798
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: time out. With forty three seconds to go, Burrow and

799
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: the shotgun samajp Ryan to his right. Burrow ready for

800
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Speaker 1: the shotgun snap on fourth of the yard long couch.

801
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: Joe has the ball, drops back to throw, He gets hit,

802
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: he gets rid of the ball. It's incomplete intended for

803
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Speaker 1: p Ryan and the Los Angeles Rams are going to

804
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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl.

805
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 5: Boy, the Rams.

806
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 4: They have the four down stop in the first quarter

807
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,479
Speaker 4: and a four down stop at.

808
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Speaker 5: The end of the football game.

809
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 4: They didn't have any true takeaways, no Fumber recoveries, no interceptions,

810
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 4: but stopping the Bengals on downs twice. And who made

811
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Speaker 4: the sack Aaron Donald. That's his third sack of the day.

812
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 2: Well, it's not a sack because he threw the ball.

813
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, the pressure in the basically equivalent to that

814
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 4: fourth down. Just throwing it out into space stops anything

815
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 4: from happening. But he two quarterback sacks and then the

816
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 4: biggest play of the game, precious Joe Burrow.

817
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 5: And spins him around like a top.

818
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 4: That's a big, big effort by Aaron Donald, and I

819
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 4: think he has a shot to be MVP.

820
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: Agreed.

821
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup will certainly be a candidate as well for

822
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: his heroics on the final drive. As Aaron Donald ran

823
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: toward the sideline, he pointed toward his ring finger. He

824
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: is going to have a Super Bowl ring. On the

825
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: Bengals final drive, Joe Mixon was not on the field

826
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Speaker 1: and it was considered a big deal immediately after the game,

827
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Speaker 1: but then the following season, Sama JP Ryan was fantastic,

828
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Speaker 1: and I guess people stopped complaining about it. Looking back, now,

829
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Speaker 1: what do you think.

830
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Speaker 4: I think that samajp Ryan was real effective as a

831
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 4: blitz pick up, a chip guy. You know, past protection

832
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 4: was a strength a forte of his and at that

833
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 4: point in time, it wasn't one of Joe's. And Joe's

834
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 4: worked on it diligently, and Joe's very effective now, I

835
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 4: mean Joe's Joe's much more consistent and blitz pick up

836
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 4: and helping offensive lineman with defensive lineman, pass rush and

837
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. And I think the way the

838
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 4: game was going, like you mentioned, down the stretch, Joe's

839
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 4: getting sacked a lot, so that last job of the thing,

840
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 4: and they're just going to be teeing off. I mean,

841
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 4: they're not even going to play the run whatsoever. We

842
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 4: need to get our best past protecting group in there,

843
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 4: our best pass protecting tight end, our best pass protecting

844
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 4: running back to help our offensive line. That you know,

845
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 4: is from a matchup standpoint, like we talked about through

846
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 4: the entire podcast, you know, on the short end of

847
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 4: a couple of couple of matchups and like you mentioned,

848
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 4: Daniel Raheem Morris is bringing five and you know your

849
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 4: bring somebody off the ad or a safety blitz or something.

850
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 4: Now all of a sudden, boys like you gotta have

851
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 4: bodies in there that can pick it up effectively.

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00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 8: I think that was part of the thinking on that.

853
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: As we all saw later on replay. On that final play,

854
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey slipped and Jamar Chase is wide open deep.

855
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: But if you look at Joe Burrow, he was looking

856
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: left on that play, not right, and he pump faked.

857
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: It looked to me like his first read was T

858
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: Higgins and c J Uzama's guy left. CJ double teamed T.

859
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: That led to the the pump fake and then ultimately

860
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald was able to get to Joe Burrow. Is

861
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: that how you saw it?

862
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 8: Yeah?

863
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Speaker 4: I did, Dan, And uh, you know it's like T

864
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 4: had already hit him for that bomb. You know, he'd

865
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Speaker 4: already hit him once deep. So they're thinking, you know, okay,

866
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 4: we got to make sure that Raheemors made sure that

867
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Speaker 4: he had some sort of an adjustment where his guy

868
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 4: wasn't out there on an island to be overpowered.

869
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Speaker 8: By the by the size of the T. Higgins none.

870
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Speaker 8: Only the size speed ratio is crazy.

871
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean it was just the luck of

872
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 4: the luck of the play call and the matchup. You know,

873
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 4: looking left initially and blindside, he gets such a great

874
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 4: pass rush pump. They no chance to no chance to

875
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 4: get anything else done. It's just that's life in the

876
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 4: National Football League, man, it's it's sometimes defensive and offensive

877
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 4: coordinators players lay awake at night and see on the

878
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 4: screen all the times where they had poor technique or whatever,

879
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 4: and let them getting beaten. Offensive defensive coordinators, man, they

880
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 4: get a roll of decks in their head. I should

881
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 4: have called this play instead of that one, this play

882
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 4: instead of this one at this time of the game.

883
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 4: I should have set this play up better by calling this.

884
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 4: I mean, you can second guess yourself to death. It's

885
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 4: that's that's why the game is so so intriguing.

886
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: Final score the Rams twenty three the Bengals twenty. Cooper

887
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: Cup was named the MVP, but it easily could have

888
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: been Donald as La tied a Super Bowl record by

889
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: sacking Joe Burrow seven times. Here are Burrow and Zach

890
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: Taylor after the game.

891
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 10: They have a really good front, you know, Aaron Donald

892
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 10: von Miller and Leonard Floyd are you know, three of

893
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 10: the best players in the league.

894
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 4: You know, you do.

895
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 10: We expected that they were going to get some pressure,

896
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 10: so you know, they did a good job. They did

897
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 10: a good job. You know, I was disappointing my performance overall.

898
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 10: I thought I could have played better, give us a

899
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 10: better chance to win. But you know, you live and

900
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 10: you learn.

901
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 11: Every tape we've watched they hit every single quarterback, almost

902
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 11: on every single snap, and so it's a challenge. I

903
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 11: thought our guys a tremendous job early in the game

904
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 11: managing that as the game gets on, you know, they

905
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 11: did a good job creating that pressure. And so when

906
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 11: we had some negative plays in first and ten, you know,

907
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 11: running the ball in second thirteen is gonna be pretty tough.

908
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 1: It was a bitterly disappointing ending to an incredible season.

909
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: Here's Sam Hubbard.

910
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 4: We made a lot of people happy, and you know,

911
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 4: we came up short. But you know, I think people really,

912
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 4: you know, enjoyed cheering for us this year, and you

913
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 4: know the support that we felt I felt from them.

914
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 5: Was amazing, And all I want to do is just keep.

915
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: Playing hard for them and take that next step as

916
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: you watch that rams colored confetti low to the ground.

917
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: Did it take you right back to Super Bowl sixteen?

918
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 8: Bingo?

919
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: Did it?

920
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 8: It did? And and you know it's funny. Dan.

921
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 4: The first thing, you know, like that experience and other experiences,

922
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 4: and to this day when I think about Super Bowl sixteen,

923
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 4: I think about it quite often. The first thing you

924
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 4: think about when you when you lose a football game

925
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 4: like that is the mistakes. You know, win a football game,

926
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 4: the mistakes go away. Lose a football game, mistakes magnify.

927
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,720
Speaker 4: The bigger the game, the more it holds true. Make plays,

928
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 4: avoid mistakes. That's the that's the bottom line.

929
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: There was a big party after the game at poly Pavilion,

930
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: where U.

931
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 8: C l a.

932
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: Basketball plays. Nelly performed Joe Burrow's favorite rapper, kid Cut.

933
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 1: He performed Is there a party of any sort after

934
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixteen when you played the forty nine ers.

935
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 4: I'd call it a gathering. It was not a It

936
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 4: was not like a party atmosphere. It was like and

937
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 4: I didn't even want to go, and Lyn's like, we

938
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 4: got to go, come on, you, you got to go.

939
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 8: Like I don't know.

940
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 4: I'm not in any mood to, but it was it

941
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 4: was very Uh. I'd say solemn is a good way

942
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 4: to put it. You know, nobody was, uh. But as

943
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 4: the evening war on a little bit, and I didn't

944
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 4: stay there long as the hour war on, I think

945
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 4: that I was there. It's like you start to reflect

946
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 4: on you know, yeah, this didn't go like we had

947
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 4: hoped or anticipate of a man, there are so many

948
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 4: things when you sit back and take some time to

949
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 4: think about it, you know, climb the ladder of success,

950
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 4: like you know, one achieved one goal at a time,

951
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 4: win the division, you know, win a playoff game, win

952
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 4: the AFC Championship in fifty nine below weather, and all

953
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 4: these great memories, and it's all spoiled by losing the

954
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 4: damn Super Bowl. Because I can attest to the fact

955
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 4: that as a player, people only going to remember one team,

956
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 4: team that won it, and the team that lost it.

957
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 4: You're a loser, man, and it just it spoils your

958
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 4: whole season.

959
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 8: It's unbelievable.

960
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: The next time we do one of these detailed Super

961
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: Bowl recaps, it's going to be after the Bengals first win.

962
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 8: Love it, my man, love it.

963
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 4: And you know, Dan's let's face it, the Bengals are

964
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 4: still right there. They played both Super Bowl participants on

965
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 4: the road and beat the forty nine ers by two

966
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 4: scores and lost by eight points to Kansas City with

967
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 4: you know, with their backup quarterback and had very multiple

968
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 4: chances to win that football game. Jake Browning, you know,

969
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 4: competed exceptionally. Well, they're right there with anybody. I mean,

970
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 4: got to keep number nine healthy. When he's healthy. Things

971
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 4: like super Bowls we're talking about are right there.

972
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 8: Man.

973
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty six did not result in a victory

974
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: parade in Cincinnati, but it did electrify the fan base.

975
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: For the last word, here's Mike Brown.

976
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 6: This is a wonderful moment for me. What our goal

977
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 6: is beyond winning on the field. That's how you get

978
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 6: to the next goal, which is to excite the city

979
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 6: and get our supporters feeling happy about how it's going,

980
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 6: enjoying it, getting involved in the ways they do that

981
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 6: for me is a real treat. I am enjoying that

982
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 6: part of it as much as anything.

983
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: And that's going to do it. For this episode of

984
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,520
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993
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:26,600
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