1
00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,200
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the

2
00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:14,319
Speaker 1: Bengals Booth Podcast, the one Last Time edition, A little

3
00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,560
Speaker 1: dose of Hamilton for you there. As we are down

4
00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,000
Speaker 1: to the final game of the season, the Bengals will

5
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,680
Speaker 1: take a six and nine record into it after losing

6
00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,160
Speaker 1: in Cleveland on Sunday twenty six to eighteen. Coming up,

7
00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,160
Speaker 1: you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from key players,

8
00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,360
Speaker 1: and Dave Lapp them will join me for postgame analysis. Plus,

9
00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,400
Speaker 1: in this week's fun Facts interview, you'll get to know

10
00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,000
Speaker 1: quarterback Jeff Driscold. Among other things, we'll discuss the three

11
00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,800
Speaker 1: years he spent living in Japan between the ages of

12
00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,800
Speaker 1: eight and ten. All of that is straight ahead, but first,

13
00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,159
Speaker 1: here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest

14
00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,880
Speaker 1: edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet,

15
00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,880
Speaker 1: or computer by subscribing on iTunes or pod Bean. It's

16
00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,360
Speaker 1: the greatest invention since stores that will wrap the gift.

17
00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,560
Speaker 1: I do some things well, but rapping presence is not

18
00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,520
Speaker 1: on the list. No matter how hard I try, a

19
00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:20,080
Speaker 1: Dan Horde wrapped gift always looks hideous. So thank you

20
00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,319
Speaker 1: to the stores that make my presence look nice and neat.

21
00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,800
Speaker 1: Now let's get to football. The first time the Bengals

22
00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 1: faced Cleveland four weeks ago, the Browns were unstoppable in

23
00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,760
Speaker 1: the first half, scoring on their first four drives to

24
00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,240
Speaker 1: take a twenty eight nothing lead. That was not the

25
00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,039
Speaker 1: case in the rematch, as the Browns punted on their

26
00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,920
Speaker 1: first two possessions and did not score in the first quarter. Unfortunately,

27
00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 1: the Bengals didn't exactly capitalize. Driscoll wants a shotgun, snap,

28
00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,040
Speaker 1: stomps the right foot, catches the snap, drops back, that's hit,

29
00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,320
Speaker 1: fumbles the football and it's recovered by the Bengals at

30
00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,680
Speaker 1: the forty nine yard line. Joe Schobert with a sack

31
00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,160
Speaker 1: to dislodge the ball from Driscoll, and Giovanni Bernard fell

32
00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,320
Speaker 1: on the bouncing pick. The Bengals finished the first half

33
00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:14,880
Speaker 1: with minus fifteen yards passing. You heard me, minus fifteen,

34
00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,400
Speaker 1: and once the Browns started to click offensively, they scored

35
00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,040
Speaker 1: on five straight drives. Duke Johnson lining up to the

36
00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,880
Speaker 1: right of Baker Mayfield. Here's a law for Najoku. He

37
00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,640
Speaker 1: high points the ball and pulls down the touchdown. That

38
00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,400
Speaker 1: was the first of three touchdown passes for the first

39
00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,440
Speaker 1: pick in this year's draft, Baker Mayfield. Here's Bengals rookie

40
00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,480
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard. You know he talks a lot, but obviously

41
00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,399
Speaker 1: he backs it up and the way to get them

42
00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,160
Speaker 1: to quiet down and beat him, and that's what we

43
00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,000
Speaker 1: gotta do. One of the reasons Mayfield is thriving is

44
00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,440
Speaker 1: the creative play calling of new offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens.

45
00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,839
Speaker 1: And he dipped into his bag of tricks the next time.

46
00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,600
Speaker 1: The Browns had the ball first and ten from the thirty,

47
00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,440
Speaker 1: the Browns leading seven nut thing. Here is a double

48
00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,440
Speaker 1: reverse and now Landry wants to throw guns it deep

49
00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,080
Speaker 1: down field. It is gone man Calloway running inside the

50
00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,400
Speaker 1: ten and he will be tackled at the seven yard line.

51
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,040
Speaker 1: Make that Perryman on the catch. A double reverse and

52
00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,400
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry stepped into a deep ball and gunned it

53
00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,880
Speaker 1: with a left hand way down field for the completion

54
00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,120
Speaker 1: to Preshad Perryman. Jarvis Landry's option pass went for a

55
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,120
Speaker 1: sixty three yard gain. Here's Will Jackson. They did a

56
00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,600
Speaker 1: lot of trickery plays which we knew he was gonna get.

57
00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,880
Speaker 1: We knew he was gonna get that. It's crazy, but

58
00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,040
Speaker 1: it's a great pass and it's set up the brown

59
00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,040
Speaker 1: second touchdown. Mayfield fakes a handoff, rolls to the right,

60
00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,720
Speaker 1: sprinting toward the sideline, throws and it is caught for

61
00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,720
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Fells with a touchdown catch one of the

62
00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,120
Speaker 1: three tight ends. Baker. Mayfield sprinting down the field pumping

63
00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,480
Speaker 1: his arms, and the Browns have taken a thirteen nothing lead.

64
00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,720
Speaker 1: Oh Baker Bayfield bought time, bot Time bought time. Cleveland

65
00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,680
Speaker 1: missed the extra point, but kicker Greg Joseph made his

66
00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,880
Speaker 1: next attempt, a thirty seven yard field goal with ten

67
00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,880
Speaker 1: seconds left in the second quarter that made the halftime

68
00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,600
Speaker 1: score sixteen nothing. Here's Marvin Lewis. When you get a position,

69
00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,200
Speaker 1: then we're gonna make the play. Because we didn't make

70
00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,680
Speaker 1: the plays early in the game. That's what I said

71
00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,960
Speaker 1: at halftime. As they've had they made all the plays.

72
00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,239
Speaker 1: We're gonna make some place. There was only one scoring

73
00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,400
Speaker 1: play in the third quarter, and the Bengals didn't make it.

74
00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,880
Speaker 1: Mayfield holds up his left fist before catching the shotgun

75
00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,359
Speaker 1: snap his pass caught over the middle. Higgins, racing inside

76
00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,920
Speaker 1: the ten the five, extends the ball in his left

77
00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,440
Speaker 1: arm toward the pylon and it is a touchdown for

78
00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,960
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. The Bengals trailed twenty three nothing going

79
00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,760
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, and their first objective was to

80
00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,680
Speaker 1: avoid being shut out for the first time since the

81
00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,720
Speaker 1: two seventeen season opener at home against Baltimore. A fifty

82
00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,560
Speaker 1: one yard attempt Harris to snap, Hubert to hold. Here

83
00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,000
Speaker 1: comes the kick. It's got the distance and it is

84
00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,480
Speaker 1: yes good, So the Bengals avoid the shutout. As Randy

85
00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,239
Speaker 1: Bullet connects from fifty one yards away, they are booing

86
00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,280
Speaker 1: here in Cleveland because the Bengals have managed to score.

87
00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland answered with a field goal to make a twenty

88
00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,400
Speaker 1: six to three midway through the fourth quarter, and it

89
00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,359
Speaker 1: certainly didn't look like the Bengals would have a chance

90
00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,880
Speaker 1: to win, but to their credit, they made it interesting.

91
00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,600
Speaker 1: Drisco waits for a shotgun snap, Billie Price ready fires

92
00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,479
Speaker 1: it back. Drisco back to throw good pocket throws toward

93
00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,480
Speaker 1: the end zone. Usama leaps and pulls it in. It's

94
00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:46,080
Speaker 1: a Bengals touchdown with four fifty six to go. Jeff

95
00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,599
Speaker 1: Driscle's touchdown pass to Cjuzama made it twenty six to

96
00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,760
Speaker 1: ten and one minute later, the Bengals came up with

97
00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,080
Speaker 1: a big play on special teams. Here comes the bullets

98
00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,400
Speaker 1: blocked by Clayton Fetulum, and the Bengals are going to

99
00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,039
Speaker 1: take over for the twenty three yard line of Cleveland.

100
00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,120
Speaker 1: As Clayton Vegulum named a first alternate to the Pro Bowl.

101
00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,200
Speaker 1: Is a special teams ace blocked the coal quit punt

102
00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,000
Speaker 1: and the Bengals take over deep in Brown's territory. Clayton

103
00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,000
Speaker 1: Vegelum says Sam Hubbard deserves the credit for the block punt.

104
00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,560
Speaker 1: We schemed it up pretty well, and it was really

105
00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,360
Speaker 1: it all happened to the Sam. You know, Sam beat

106
00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,080
Speaker 1: the snapper across his face and took the PP out

107
00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,599
Speaker 1: of it. All I had to do is run forward

108
00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,760
Speaker 1: and take the ball off his foot. So it was

109
00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,080
Speaker 1: a great plan and then with Sam and then just

110
00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,920
Speaker 1: it is a great execute play. The PP, by the way,

111
00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,080
Speaker 1: stands for personal protector. And three plays after the block punt,

112
00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,640
Speaker 1: the Bengals found the end zone again, two receivers to

113
00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,440
Speaker 1: each side of the formation. Second down in goal from

114
00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,000
Speaker 1: the Cleveland three yard line, Driscoll catches a high shotgun

115
00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,240
Speaker 1: snap in trouble. Scrambling left throws into the end zone

116
00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,840
Speaker 1: touchdown Sean Ross running along the back line of the

117
00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,919
Speaker 1: end zone, and the Bengals have scored back to back tds. Now,

118
00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,880
Speaker 1: if they go for two, they could make it a

119
00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,280
Speaker 1: one score game. They could pull within eight if they

120
00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,280
Speaker 1: can convert a two point conversion. Paul Is placed at

121
00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,160
Speaker 1: the two yard line. Driscal Is under center, takes the snap,

122
00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,440
Speaker 1: fakes to mix and looking throws. It is got by

123
00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,600
Speaker 1: Cody Core for a two point conversion and the Bengals

124
00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,600
Speaker 1: pull within eight with two minutes and fifty six seconds

125
00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,000
Speaker 1: to go. Man, where is this been? The Bengals were

126
00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,560
Speaker 1: down by eight with two fifty six to go and

127
00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,640
Speaker 1: no timeouts remaining. Marvin Lewis elected not to go for

128
00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,640
Speaker 1: an onside kick and the Bengals never got the ball back.

129
00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,480
Speaker 1: At a short pass by Mayfield to tight end David Najoku,

130
00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,360
Speaker 1: Jesse Bates gambled and tried to make a diving interception.

131
00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,720
Speaker 1: It didn't work. Najoku turned it into a sixty six

132
00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,320
Speaker 1: yard gain down to the Bengals three yard line, and

133
00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,200
Speaker 1: the Browns elected to run out o clock for an

134
00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,600
Speaker 1: eight point win. After going one and thirty one over

135
00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,280
Speaker 1: the last two years, the Browns improved to seven seven

136
00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,200
Speaker 1: and one. They also swept the Bengals for the first

137
00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,840
Speaker 1: time since two thousand and two, the year before Marvin

138
00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,200
Speaker 1: Lewis became head coach. The Bengals are assured of finishing

139
00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,360
Speaker 1: with a losing record and in last place in the

140
00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,800
Speaker 1: AFC North. Here's Joe Mixon. It was very frustrating. Man.

141
00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,480
Speaker 1: I've never been a part of a losing program, and

142
00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm never gonna get comfortable with being a

143
00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,600
Speaker 1: part of it. At the end of the day, man,

144
00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,600
Speaker 1: you only take it for what it is. This year building,

145
00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, try to get better, get ready for next year.

146
00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,760
Speaker 1: But I mean, we still got another week coming up.

147
00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,480
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a big one, man, But I

148
00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,160
Speaker 1: promise you we ain't gonna be in this for long.

149
00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,439
Speaker 1: And that's mixing. By the way, finished with sixty eight

150
00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,640
Speaker 1: yards on seventeen carries to go over one thousand yards

151
00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,000
Speaker 1: for this season, despite facing a Browns defense geared towards

152
00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,920
Speaker 1: stopping him. You seen how it was. I mean it's

153
00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,920
Speaker 1: nine ten man, bucks. I mean, I'll still was busting

154
00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,200
Speaker 1: out there. So I mean it's it's hard, you know,

155
00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,520
Speaker 1: to get through that, but you know, you can only

156
00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,319
Speaker 1: hope to contain me. You're not gonna stop me, j

157
00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,000
Speaker 1: which is a diminish the accomplishment of having a thousand

158
00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:20,720
Speaker 1: yards that it came in the game in a loss.

159
00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I told you I don't care about the

160
00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,360
Speaker 1: individual stats, so we can't get to win. I I mean,

161
00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,800
Speaker 1: I don't give it down with some players, I wouldn't

162
00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,000
Speaker 1: buy that. With Mixon, I absolutely do. For the second

163
00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,160
Speaker 1: straight year, the Bengals will go into the final game

164
00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,560
Speaker 1: of the season facing questions about the future of Marvin Lewis.

165
00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,560
Speaker 1: ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Sunday that if the Denver

166
00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,280
Speaker 1: Broncos fire head coach vans Joseph, he is expected to

167
00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,120
Speaker 1: emerge as a candidate for the Bengals defensive coordinator job

168
00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,960
Speaker 1: and potentially eventually the head coaching job when Marvin decides

169
00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,280
Speaker 1: he has had enough of coaching again. All of that

170
00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,600
Speaker 1: was according to Adam Scheff. The Bengals have not said

171
00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:06,360
Speaker 1: anything about Marvin's status Following the game. Carlos Dunlap was

172
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,040
Speaker 1: asked about the only head coach he's had in nine

173
00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,800
Speaker 1: NFL seasons. When you have three straight losing seasons, obviously

174
00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,160
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating. You get the questions about Marvin Lewis,

175
00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,640
Speaker 1: what is your confidence in him returning next season? I

176
00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,280
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, this is the professional football league.

177
00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,800
Speaker 1: A lot of things happen. You know, everybody's making business decisions.

178
00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,760
Speaker 1: I have confidence in the football team and the players

179
00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,559
Speaker 1: that we have here that we can do what we

180
00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,160
Speaker 1: need to do. We've been there before, so you know,

181
00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,520
Speaker 1: you can make arguments anyway, but you know, I just

182
00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,679
Speaker 1: want to get back to it, whatever it takes to

183
00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,240
Speaker 1: get back to where we started off here, the habits

184
00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,439
Speaker 1: that we created. I want that feeling back, and today

185
00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,920
Speaker 1: is not the feelings. Regardless of the head coach. Next year,

186
00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,600
Speaker 1: you feel like this team is built to win again.

187
00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,280
Speaker 1: Say what, regardless of the head coach, you feel like

188
00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,640
Speaker 1: the team is built to win again if we have

189
00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,360
Speaker 1: the players on this team to do whatever we need

190
00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,040
Speaker 1: to do. I'm not in charge of deciding who it is.

191
00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,280
Speaker 1: We've done it with the coast that we have and

192
00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,000
Speaker 1: we played hard today, So you can look at it

193
00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,839
Speaker 1: and spending all kinds of different ways as you want to.

194
00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,000
Speaker 1: I just know that we have the talent in this

195
00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,880
Speaker 1: locker room to do it, and we've done it with

196
00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,360
Speaker 1: the coaches that we have here as well, So it's

197
00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,679
Speaker 1: not my decision to make. I just want to get

198
00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,280
Speaker 1: back to it. However, we need to get back to

199
00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,080
Speaker 1: it now. Time to bringing my broadcast partner Dave Lapham

200
00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,880
Speaker 1: for postgame analysis and we start with a depleted Bengals offense,

201
00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,040
Speaker 1: managing just two hundred and nine total yards multiple times

202
00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,760
Speaker 1: mentioned during the course of the game. I mean, it

203
00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,079
Speaker 1: was like the Bengals weren't a sword fight with a

204
00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,720
Speaker 1: pocket knife, you know, in terms of weapons the Browns

205
00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,360
Speaker 1: had available to them and as opposed to weapons the

206
00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,920
Speaker 1: Bengals had available to them. And uh, it took it

207
00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,679
Speaker 1: took a little too long for the Bengals to open

208
00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,839
Speaker 1: it up a little bit and get some things going.

209
00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,760
Speaker 1: I gotta give credit though, to CJ. Zama and other

210
00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,840
Speaker 1: guys for you know, fighting to the finish and showing

211
00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,079
Speaker 1: h you know, showing that they're they're not going to

212
00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:00,320
Speaker 1: quit no matter what. CJ. Zama playing with a badge shoulder.

213
00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,240
Speaker 1: As we said, Dan for quite a while. It was

214
00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,760
Speaker 1: good to see him get rewarded with some players because

215
00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, it was tough for him out there physically,

216
00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure unlike the first meeting, between these two teams.

217
00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,520
Speaker 1: The Bengals defense stopped the Browns early in the game,

218
00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,719
Speaker 1: but once the Browns got rolling, much like that first game,

219
00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 1: they had a stretch where they marched right up and

220
00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,200
Speaker 1: down the field. Yeah, I mean the second quarter belonged

221
00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,080
Speaker 1: to the to the Cleveland Browns. You know, they've outscored

222
00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,439
Speaker 1: the Bengals sixteen nothing. I think it was in that

223
00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,559
Speaker 1: second quarter, maybe sixteen three in the Bengals put Browns

224
00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,000
Speaker 1: put up sixteen points to second quarter. Bengals put put

225
00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,200
Speaker 1: up eighteen points in the fourth quarter of the football

226
00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,760
Speaker 1: game or something like that. But at any rate, the

227
00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,000
Speaker 1: Bengals second quarter has been their achilles heel. They've allowed

228
00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,439
Speaker 1: two hundred points in the second quarter. Now with this

229
00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,000
Speaker 1: adding today's total to it, and I mean they've scored

230
00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,440
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen. That's pretty good. They've been outscored

231
00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,640
Speaker 1: by eighty five points, allowing two hundred points in one quarter.

232
00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,400
Speaker 1: Fifteen games, fifteen quarters, they've allowed two hundred points. It's

233
00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,640
Speaker 1: almost incomprehensible. It's really mind boggling. And that's what's put

234
00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,199
Speaker 1: them in the eight ball. You know, many times down

235
00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,160
Speaker 1: the stretch here after that four and one start, the

236
00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:09,760
Speaker 1: Bengals had minus fifteen yards passing in the first half.

237
00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,840
Speaker 1: What did they do in the second half to at

238
00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,000
Speaker 1: least get something going? Yeah, I think I think part

239
00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,760
Speaker 1: of it was, you know what Greg Williams decided to do.

240
00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, when when he was going eight and nine

241
00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,000
Speaker 1: guys in the box with one safety deep, you know,

242
00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,240
Speaker 1: he had ten guys, you know, within five yards of

243
00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,280
Speaker 1: line screamings because a lot of times with one receiver's

244
00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,360
Speaker 1: playing press coverage, everybody's up there tight, so it's like

245
00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,439
Speaker 1: they were operating in a box in a closet, And

246
00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,320
Speaker 1: that's how the Bengals were kind of playing. And then

247
00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,640
Speaker 1: he started, you know, with a comfortable lead, he changed

248
00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,600
Speaker 1: his mindset a little bit and uh, loosening things up

249
00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,439
Speaker 1: in the Bengals by formation, loosen some things up, and

250
00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,599
Speaker 1: they took advantage of some opportunities that were presented. I

251
00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,200
Speaker 1: will have to say, though, honestly, in eight quarters of play,

252
00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,400
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield's maybe the most accurate quarterback I've seen this year.

253
00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,839
Speaker 1: I mean, some some players were there wide open, but

254
00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,480
Speaker 1: other plays he made unbelievable throws and his receivers rewarded

255
00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,679
Speaker 1: him with great catches, and you know, I asked Marvin

256
00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,640
Speaker 1: about all the all the Gadget plays, uh, you know

257
00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,439
Speaker 1: the coach Kitchens had and he said, you know, we

258
00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,319
Speaker 1: worked against all of them. You know, they they'd seen

259
00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,079
Speaker 1: them all on tape. It was nothing that was a

260
00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,880
Speaker 1: big surprise. They just got out executed. And when you

261
00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,920
Speaker 1: think about it, they were in position to make plays

262
00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,160
Speaker 1: on a lot of them. But you know, Landry made

263
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,200
Speaker 1: as good to throw as any quarterback can make. He

264
00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,120
Speaker 1: threw the ball on the money. They threw it as

265
00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,000
Speaker 1: far as he could and it was a strike. It

266
00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,760
Speaker 1: was it was dropped into perfect spot. So got to

267
00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,840
Speaker 1: give the Browns credit. You know, they made plays and

268
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,400
Speaker 1: the Bengals didn't, and they won the football game. Beast

269
00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver arms since Bahabbit sent out Yeah, I'm telling

270
00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,720
Speaker 1: you he just he did. He can he can chuck

271
00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,280
Speaker 1: it in the lefty too. I mean he's like a

272
00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,680
Speaker 1: snake stabler of of of wide receivers. It was in

273
00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,240
Speaker 1: Michael Vick, you know, throwing the ball. It was it

274
00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,760
Speaker 1: was impressive to watch that play. But they you know,

275
00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,760
Speaker 1: Cleveland's a good football team. And eight quarters they didn't

276
00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,120
Speaker 1: allow a quarterback sack. They didn't turn the football over

277
00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win you a lot of football games. They'll

278
00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,720
Speaker 1: go hand in hand. When you're not getting consistent pressure

279
00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,600
Speaker 1: from the quarterback, He's not gonna put the ball in jeopardy.

280
00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,240
Speaker 1: In Baker Mayfield didn't. He had time envisioned to top rate,

281
00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,840
Speaker 1: and when you give him that, he's deadly. He puts

282
00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,560
Speaker 1: the ball in tight spots. Next week, season finale in

283
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,720
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has been flexed from one in the afternoon to

284
00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,520
Speaker 1: four twenty five, and it's become a must win game

285
00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,360
Speaker 1: for the Steelers just to make the playoffs. After losing

286
00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,000
Speaker 1: to the Saints on Sunday, Pittsburgh is a half game

287
00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,040
Speaker 1: behind Baltimore in the AFC North and a half game

288
00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,600
Speaker 1: behind both Tennessee and Indianapolis in the battle for the

289
00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:34,800
Speaker 1: last wild card spot. Those two teams face each other

290
00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,400
Speaker 1: next week, so unless they tie, the winner is guaranteed

291
00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,480
Speaker 1: to finish ahead of the Steelers. Therefore, for the Steelers

292
00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,640
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, they have to beat the Bengals

293
00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:51,120
Speaker 1: and hope that the Cleveland Browns can upset the Ravens

294
00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,760
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. It's hard to believe, but the Steelers could

295
00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,200
Speaker 1: miss the playoffs. They were six two and one before

296
00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,960
Speaker 1: dropping or out of their last five games. Now time

297
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,040
Speaker 1: for this week's fun facts segment, where you get to

298
00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,880
Speaker 1: know the person under the pads. In this case, it's

299
00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,520
Speaker 1: the twenty five year old that took over at quarterback

300
00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,880
Speaker 1: when Andy Dalton broke his thumb. Time for some fun

301
00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,040
Speaker 1: facts with Bengals quarterback Jeff Driscoll. Your hometown has listed

302
00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,480
Speaker 1: as oviatoh, Florida, near Orlando, but you moved around a

303
00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,880
Speaker 1: lot as a kid, right, Yeah, So my dad was

304
00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,040
Speaker 1: in the Navy, long military background, both grandparents in the Navy.

305
00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,200
Speaker 1: Dad in the Navy, and so he was stationed in

306
00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville I was born, and then his final tour was

307
00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,080
Speaker 1: in Japan. So I lived there when I was eight, nine, ten,

308
00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,120
Speaker 1: and then he retired in Ovido, which is right outside Orlando.

309
00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,640
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about that experience in Japan.

310
00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,720
Speaker 1: Did you live on a naval base where you know,

311
00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,240
Speaker 1: apartment with a family. How did that work out? The

312
00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,440
Speaker 1: waiting list to live on There was two navy bases

313
00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,920
Speaker 1: in the town. We were in Sassebo, and so we

314
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,080
Speaker 1: had to live off the base for about a year

315
00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,200
Speaker 1: and a half and they called him chose each and

316
00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,800
Speaker 1: had their own neighborhood and it was called a chow

317
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,440
Speaker 1: and and we lived in a house for you know,

318
00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,040
Speaker 1: about a year and a half, and there was a

319
00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,000
Speaker 1: high school bus stop right outside our house, so we

320
00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,200
Speaker 1: would always see the Japanese kids when they were getting

321
00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,200
Speaker 1: out of school and stuff in their uniform. So it

322
00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,359
Speaker 1: was different. But you know, I enjoyed it, but definitely

323
00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,240
Speaker 1: happy to move back to the back to the States,

324
00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,840
Speaker 1: for sure. We're doing fun facts with Jeff driscoll. Your

325
00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,639
Speaker 1: dad signed you up for a little league, which is

326
00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,320
Speaker 1: like a full time job in Japan, and he says

327
00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,800
Speaker 1: you towered over the Japanese kids so much that they

328
00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,560
Speaker 1: called you Godzilla. Was that the case? Yeah, I was

329
00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,960
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger than the other kids my age there.

330
00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,679
Speaker 1: And like you said, full time job, we practiced. I mean,

331
00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,200
Speaker 1: like I said, eight nine and ten years old, we

332
00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,200
Speaker 1: practiced from nine to five on Saturday and Sundays with

333
00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,600
Speaker 1: an hour lunch break. So it was a wild different

334
00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,960
Speaker 1: animal over there. No wonder the Red Sox drafted you

335
00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,000
Speaker 1: with that kind of work ethic, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

336
00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,679
Speaker 1: So I got burnt out a little bit there, all right,

337
00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,640
Speaker 1: I know you're not going to do it for me here.

338
00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,000
Speaker 1: But can you still sing Silent Night in Japanese? I

339
00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,040
Speaker 1: can say it, but like you said, I'm not gonna

340
00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,000
Speaker 1: do it. I can. I don't know if it's right,

341
00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,879
Speaker 1: but from what I remember that those are the words.

342
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,520
Speaker 1: But like you said, no chance I'm singing it. With

343
00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,720
Speaker 1: your dad's naval background, safe to assume that discipline was

344
00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,280
Speaker 1: pretty strict in the Driscoll household. Yeah, I mean no,

345
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 1: I'd no more, no less than you know, most other

346
00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,120
Speaker 1: kids my age. And you know, I think my dad

347
00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,680
Speaker 1: did or my parents did a did a really good

348
00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,119
Speaker 1: job of instilling disciplined and values like that when me

349
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,879
Speaker 1: and my brother were young. So I'm sure that had

350
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,719
Speaker 1: to do a little bit with the navy and how

351
00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,440
Speaker 1: he was brought up as well. Your brother, Jason was

352
00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,520
Speaker 1: a college quarterback, had a great run at Florida Atlantic

353
00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,399
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. They won eleven games, they

354
00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,200
Speaker 1: won a bowl game. How competitive were you two guys

355
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,920
Speaker 1: as kids? Yeah? Very competitive. You know, like any other

356
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,400
Speaker 1: older brother younger brother combination. You're always gonna compete in everything.

357
00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,440
Speaker 1: And the big brother is gonna beat up on a

358
00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:53,920
Speaker 1: little brother a little bit, but it's only going to

359
00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,600
Speaker 1: help him out in the long run. And yeah, Jason

360
00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,920
Speaker 1: had had a real nice career at FAU and you

361
00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,720
Speaker 1: enjoyed his time there or visiting with Jeff Driscoll. You

362
00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,159
Speaker 1: became the starting quarterback at your high school as a

363
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,080
Speaker 1: ninth grader, had a great high school career, National Player

364
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,600
Speaker 1: of the Year your senior year. I'm trying to picture

365
00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,520
Speaker 1: what recruiting must have been like when you are one

366
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,399
Speaker 1: of the top high school quarterbacks in the country. It

367
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,960
Speaker 1: was crazy, you know, you see all this stuff on

368
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 1: Instagram and social media now with all these kids who

369
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,440
Speaker 1: have boxes and boxes and boxes a mail and offers

370
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,440
Speaker 1: from people that they never talked to. And you know,

371
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,440
Speaker 1: I kind of had that same recruiting story, and you know,

372
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,920
Speaker 1: you don't really know when you're that age, you don't

373
00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,040
Speaker 1: really understand it, and you think it's really cool, but

374
00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,679
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know you want

375
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,200
Speaker 1: to go to somewhere that fits and you can. You

376
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,320
Speaker 1: can only play for one team, so it doesn't matter

377
00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:43,879
Speaker 1: how many you get, and you just got to make

378
00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,000
Speaker 1: the most out of your opportunities. But yeah, the recruiting

379
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,400
Speaker 1: process was nuts. I picture the first few letters being awesome,

380
00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,440
Speaker 1: and then just the whole thing becoming overwhelming. Yeah, I

381
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 1: mean you definitely hit it on the head. You know,

382
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 1: the first letter you get, you think you're going there,

383
00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,919
Speaker 1: and that's not how it played out. But it definitely

384
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 1: got to be a lot, and I was ready for

385
00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 1: it to be over, to be honest with you. You

386
00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,160
Speaker 1: committed to Florida to play for Urban Meyer and then

387
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 1: he left. He resigned cited health problems. Eventually year later

388
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,600
Speaker 1: wound up coaching at Ohio State. But I mean one

389
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,040
Speaker 1: of the reasons why you choose the school, I assume

390
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the coach. When that happens,

391
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 1: how tough is it? Yeah, I mean it's tough. You know,

392
00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,200
Speaker 1: they they spend a lot of time with you and

393
00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,399
Speaker 1: your family, and you know, you kind of get to

394
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 1: know him as people, and then you play for somebody else.

395
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 1: It's tough, but that's I mean, that's the business of it.

396
00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe as a seventeen year old kid,

397
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 1: you don't understand that, but when you look back on it,

398
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,119
Speaker 1: you know, you totally understand that that things happen and

399
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 1: you move forward and you know it worked out just

400
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 1: how it was supposed to. So your sophomore year, you

401
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 1: lead Florida to eleven wins and a trip to the

402
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl. The team was ranked number two in the

403
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 1: country at one point that season. The following year, emergency

404
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,320
Speaker 1: appendeck to me prior to the season broken leg in

405
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 1: Week three. How did those setbacks impact you? The appendicitis

406
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 1: that wasn't a big deal. That was surprisingly only a

407
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 1: couple of days in training camp, So it was an

408
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: awesome job of the doctors diagnosing that getting a fix

409
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 1: as soon as possible. And then the broken leg was

410
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: was tough. You know. I was, you know, coming off

411
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: a decent year and feeling comfortable going into my junior season,

412
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 1: and yeah, I ended up breaking my leg and getting

413
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,560
Speaker 1: a red shirt year for that year. But it was tough.

414
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 1: But that happens in football, you know, every year somebody

415
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 1: that happens to, you know, a bunch of people. So

416
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 1: you just have to be able to, you know, not

417
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,919
Speaker 1: let it get you down and be able to come

418
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: back and respond. You walked off the field with a

419
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 1: broken leg, I did. I did. I don't know how

420
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 1: smart that was? Not very I thought I'd be a

421
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 1: tough guy at the moment, but I don't know how

422
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: smart that was. You finished your college career at Louisiana

423
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,879
Speaker 1: Tech Rust in Louisiana through for more than four thousand

424
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 1: yards your senior year year. What was that season like

425
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,720
Speaker 1: getting that opportunity and taking advantage of it. Yeah, it

426
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 1: was awesome. I got there and they're on the quarter

427
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 1: system there, so I think it was February, which was

428
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 1: February March. It was the first day of spring spring practice,

429
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: so you know, have to having to learn everything all

430
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: at once, and it was it was awesome. The people

431
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: there made it really fun. The coaching staff, the players,

432
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 1: and the people in the town made it awesome. And

433
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 1: then you know, us playing pretty well made it fun too.

434
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 1: We had some really talented players, guys that play against

435
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: in the league, so that that was really really special season,

436
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm happy that it worked out like

437
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: it did. Jeff, for those who don't know, you are

438
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: under contract to two professional sports teams, the Bengals and

439
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox. Explain how it happened. You've told

440
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: us on radio shows before, but people might be listening

441
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 1: now that haven't heard that explanation previously. Definitely got a

442
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: little bit overwhelmed, not overwhelmed, but a shock in my

443
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: junior junior year in college. You know, I was watching

444
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: the draft of my phone because I had a bunch

445
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: of buddies that we're going to get drafted. And you know,

446
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: when you're in the twenty whatever round in the MLB draft,

447
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: picks are flying off the board left and right. So

448
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 1: you know, I see you, buddy get drafted. You know,

449
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: text them whatever, go back in, look at the look

450
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: at the tracker, and I see my name, and I

451
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: was like, what in the world is going on And

452
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was real or I didn't know

453
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 1: what was going on. And a couple days later, I

454
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: got a call from them say, hey, you know, we

455
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 1: drafted you. You know, and I thought to myself, why

456
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: would you draft me? I'm a football player, and that's

457
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: what I told them, and they said, um, hey, just

458
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: in case you ever want to play football, we wanted

459
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: to be for the Red Sox, so I said, yeah,

460
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,360
Speaker 1: I'll sign, so, you know, not not looking to play baseball,

461
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: but if I do, it has to be for the

462
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: Red Sox. Kind of a cool trivia nugget. Yeah, no doubt.

463
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: All right. Last thing for Jeff driscoll, you and your

464
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: wife tarn became parents this year your daughter was born

465
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: earlier this season, how his fatherhood impacted you. Oh man, it's,

466
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, one of the greatest things that could ever

467
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 1: happen to me, you know, aside from from getting married.

468
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: That's the best day of my life. Um, and it's

469
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: it's been awesome. You get to go home every day,

470
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: good day, bad day, okay day, it doesn't matter. Um,

471
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, your family is happy to see you. And uh,

472
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: you know, it just really puts everything else in perspective

473
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:23,719
Speaker 1: that the most important thing isn't in this building and us.

474
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: It just helps you keep it, keep it in perspective

475
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: and m it really gives you a reason to go

476
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: out and do what you do and h and provide

477
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: for them. Well, put you're off the hot seat. Happy holidays,

478
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Thanks Dan, And that's going to do

479
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: it for this episode of the podcast. If you haven't

480
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: done so already, don't forget to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher,

481
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: or pod being and give it a rating or leave

482
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: a comment. Your feedback is always appreciated, and five star

483
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: ratings help more Bengals fans find this podcast. I'm Dan Horde,

484
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: wishing you a merry Christmas and thanks for listening to

485
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: the Those Booth podcast m