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Speaker 1: greatest thing since Fossils is Christmas Gifts. When Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: appeared on the Netflix Quarterback Series over the summer, we

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Speaker 1: learned that he's interested in fossils. Here's a clip from

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Speaker 2: We went to the Natural History Museum. They took us

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes and showed us some really cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's like a library of fossils that they don't show

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Speaker 2: everybody else. It was like you go to the shoe

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Speaker 2: store and they're like, maybe we have it in the back,

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Speaker 2: and it was like all the fossils back there.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty sick.

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Speaker 2: Why were fossils on my mind? I don't know, because

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Speaker 2: they're cool. When aren't fossils on your mind? They go

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Speaker 2: back millions of years.

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Speaker 4: That's sick.

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Speaker 1: With that in mind, I guess we shouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: surprised when Joe gave his offensive lineman fossils as Christmas

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Speaker 1: gifts this year. Dave Lapham and I discussed it with

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Speaker 1: rookie O lineman Dylan Fairchild on the Bengals pep Rally Show.

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Speaker 1: So it's Christmas week. It's become customary in the NFL

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Speaker 1: for quarterbacks to get Christmas gifts for their offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: Your quarterback is Joe Burrow, who goes above and beyond,

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Speaker 1: at least when it comes to finding something unique. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: last year he gifted the offensive Lineman samurai swords. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know how he is going to top that this year,

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Speaker 1: and I guess he has. He got you guys fossils.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yeah, they were pretty awesome too.

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Speaker 1: What is your fossil? Because they're unique, they're not all

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Speaker 1: the same, No, they're not.

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Speaker 5: I got a t Rex.

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Speaker 1: Tooth, really Rex tooth fossil.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's honestly one of the coolest things I've ever

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Speaker 5: That's probably the coolest thing I've ever had possession of.

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Speaker 1: I mean, talk about a conversation piece when people visit

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Speaker 1: your house. What is that? That is a t Rex

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Speaker 1: tooth gifted to me by Joe Burrow and it.

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Speaker 4: Was t Rex tooth.

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Speaker 5: And then another three D printed replica of I believe

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Speaker 5: the most put together t Rex fossil, the most put

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Speaker 5: obviously the real thing is like probably two hundred plus pounds,

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Speaker 5: so they sized it down, gave it, you know, got it,

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Speaker 5: tooth and then another claw of another dinosaur that lived

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Speaker 1: Amazing Yeah, that is unique to say the least, no doubt.

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Speaker 6: I just wonder what is the thought process when Joe

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Speaker 6: all that sort of thing to my offensive linemen. What

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Speaker 6: do you think he's thinking when man and he gives that.

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Speaker 5: I think he loves them, and I can see why

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Speaker 5: they're really cool, like again, the really cool conversation starters. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: number one, I just think they're really cool. You know,

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Speaker 5: giving us a unique opportunity to own one of those

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Speaker 1: So you know, Joe was featured on that Netflix quarterback

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Speaker 5: No, it's really cool too. You know, it's he went

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Speaker 1: So you're a married man as an NFL rookie. What

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Speaker 1: and said, guess what, honey, we have a fossil. We

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Speaker 5: I mean she's obviously I probably found it cooler than

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Speaker 5: I mean, we're gonna get a nice display case and

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Speaker 1: Samurai swords last year, fossils this year. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what Joe will give his own lineman next year, but

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Speaker 1: Bengals quarterback. Now, time for the radio replays from Sunday

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Speaker 1: She lacking at pay Corpse Stadium. It is the final

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Speaker 1: Sunday of December, but it sure doesn't feel like it

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Speaker 1: here in Cincinnati. Positively, ball me in the jungle with

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Speaker 1: a temperature of sixty five degrees, A great day to

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Speaker 1: watch Joe Burrow and the Bengals as they take on

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, And it is time for the pigskin

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Speaker 1: to fly here at Bay Corpse Stadium. Four first downs

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Speaker 1: on the opening drive, the Bengals have it first and

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Speaker 1: ten at the fourteen of Arizona. Mitch Tinsley goes in

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Speaker 1: motion from left to right. Burrow throws the screen out

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Speaker 1: to the left. Jamar Chase makes the first man mess

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Speaker 8: p Ryan is the tailback. Burrow takes the snap, gives

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Speaker 8: zone with ease. Bengals up by two touchdowns. As golly,

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Speaker 8: I don't want to even add up right the combined

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Speaker 8: tonnage out there, man, I mean we're talking.

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Speaker 6: About a lot of big bodies.

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Speaker 1: Call that play the Cincinnati Zoo.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen nothing Bengals the score. We're three minutes into the

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Speaker 1: the gun, fakes a hand off to Carter, drops back

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Speaker 8: Man Rico ready to hold on the logo a fifty

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Speaker 8: It has the distance. It is good.

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Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. The Bengals go with an empty backfield from

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Speaker 8: Burrow fires toward the end zone. Caught a slam to

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Speaker 8: Jamar Chase. He's got his second touchdown catch of the

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Speaker 8: day and he does a jungle jump into the stands

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Speaker 4: That is totally awesome right there.

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Speaker 6: And here's a guy that has not had a touchdown

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Speaker 1: Well, that's over first and goal from the six. After

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Speaker 8: Bengals Chase Brown with a tremendous jump cut after taking

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Speaker 8: that handoff from Joe Burrow, and he scores his fourth

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Speaker 8: touchdown in two weeks. Cody Ford lines up as a

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Speaker 8: the fifteen, the ten, the five. He's tackled around the

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Speaker 8: all time highlight reel. As Burrow threw it to Cody

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Speaker 1: Burrow is under center. Sixth offensive lineman Lucas Patrick goes

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Speaker 8: up for a second touchdown of the game. Flacco takes

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Speaker 8: the snap, takes a knee, tosses the ball to the

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Speaker 8: off the clock. As the Cincinnati Bengals dominate their opponent

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Speaker 8: for the second week in a row. They beat the

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Speaker 8: Dolphins by twenty four last week. They'll beat the Cardinals

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Speaker 8: by twenty three Today back to back wins by forty

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Speaker 8: seven points as Cincinnati beats Arizona thirty seven to fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow threw for three hundred and five yards with

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no picks, and a passer rating of one

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Speaker 1: twenty nine point one. Over the past two weeks combined,

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Speaker 1: Joe's completed seventy eight percent of his passes for six

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Speaker 1: hundred nine yards with six touchdowns and no picks. No

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Speaker 1: for one hundred one yards and added forty as a

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Speaker 1: It's the eighth time in his last ten games that

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Speaker 1: Chase has topped one hundred scrimmage yards, and after going

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Speaker 1: seven games without catching a touchdown pass Jamar Chase reeled

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Speaker 1: in two that gives him seven this season. Finally, it

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Speaker 1: was the eighth time this year that the Bengals have

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Speaker 1: scored thirty or more points, matching their total from last year.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at the roster, every starter on

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Speaker 1: offense is under contract for next season except for one,

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Speaker 1: right guard Dalton Reisner. I spoke with him after the

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Speaker 1: game Talton Bengals won by twenty four last week, twenty

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Speaker 1: three this week. That's hard to do in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: How do you guys feel about the way you played

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Speaker 1: these last two weeks?

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Speaker 4: Obviously you feel great.

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Speaker 9: I mean, like you said, it's tough to win in

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Speaker 9: the NFL, so we worked so hard. But dand day out,

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Speaker 9: the coaches, this whole organization. We take pride in man,

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Speaker 9: Cincinnati Bengals, So when we're able to win like this, man,

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Speaker 9: it makes it so much sweeter.

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Speaker 4: But I can tell you that the losses, they suck.

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Speaker 9: But sometimes when you lose those games, you're wondering what's wrong,

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Speaker 9: and it's a tough week and people are asking questions,

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Speaker 9: and I just say that it's a great feeling to

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Speaker 9: be where we're at right now because we're winning football games,

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Speaker 9: we're playing well as a unit, we're feeding off of

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Speaker 9: each other, we're having fun doing it, and it's just

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Speaker 9: it's special, man, And you can't take it for granted.

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Speaker 9: I know that we're out of the playoffs. I know

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Speaker 9: we're six and ten, but it's still special.

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Speaker 1: Does it feel like a sign of things to come?

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Speaker 1: For twenty twenty six percent?

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be that guy.

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Speaker 9: I know that, especially with like last year I followed

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Speaker 9: the Cincinnati Bengals. I've always been a Bengals fan, But regardless,

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Speaker 9: I saw the way last year ended on a really positive.

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Speaker 4: But we really are rolling.

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Speaker 9: Know, this is the best rhythm we've been in this

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Speaker 4: Man, I love these guys.

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Speaker 1: You were facing a team today that came in with

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Speaker 9: I think that's always the thought process. But you never

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Speaker 9: the Cardinals came to play today. We came to play

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Speaker 9: we're done. Those guys kept fighting, and that's what we

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Speaker 9: and keep it. But man, we were just rolling today.

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Speaker 9: It was the Bengals day to day. Hats off to

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the Cody Ford pass. When did this

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Speaker 4: All week, talked about it all week.

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Speaker 9: We wanted to do a little bit of big personnel

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Speaker 4: Just an awesome moment for him on his twenty ninth birthday.

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Speaker 9: He's been a really selfless guy all year, in my opinion,

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Speaker 9: And then also see what he did after it is

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Speaker 1: For drawing it to Joe Burrow the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: He's an ultimate competitor.

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Speaker 9: I really do love Joe the way that he goes

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Speaker 4: And how dialed he is. You can see why the

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Speaker 9: I mean, you kind of just block your tailoff back there,

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Speaker 4: And hitting guys right where they.

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Speaker 4: So love blocking for the guy. Got a tremendous amount

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Speaker 9: You can see why he's had the success that he's

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Speaker 4: I just hope I could be a part of it

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Speaker 1: I would assume there's mutual interest in having you return

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Speaker 4: Would be great. Man, keep pulling for me. Let's get

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Speaker 1: Man Weisner is thirty years old and is the Bengals

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Speaker 1: highest graded offensive lineman this year according to Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: a few points ahead of a Marius Mims. I obviously

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Speaker 1: if possible. While the usual suspects on offense made spectacular plays,

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Speaker 1: the moment that everybody in attendance we'll be talking about

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Speaker 7: It was drawn up earlier in the week and like

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Speaker 7: So that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: And are you getting the ball if they basically don't

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Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't know the number I was

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Speaker 1: The yards after catch were impressive. I didn't realize you

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'm an athlete. Everyone was like, why you

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Speaker 7: whatever happens happens.

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Speaker 4: Came in were you were you nervous? What was the

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Speaker 7: he kind of just threw it to my test, but

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Speaker 5: Was the likely split up?

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Speaker 4: I mean all by yourself.

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Speaker 7: Dream come true? I guess this every lineman's dream to

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Speaker 1: You think the coach is knew it was your birthday?

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Speaker 7: I think they did. I think they did.

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Speaker 2: Always lying.

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Speaker 7: No, I was a tight end in junior high in

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Speaker 4: Who is your last catch against?

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Speaker 7: Uh frame? Middle school?

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, so you lined up at fullback on

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Speaker 7: No, but I've been trying to give them the I've

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Speaker 1: Hey, based on your yards after catch, I think the

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Speaker 1: full back handoff must happen. I think so. As good

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Speaker 1: as the offense was, the defense might have been even better,

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Speaker 1: holding Arizona to just two hundred and thirty three yards,

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Speaker 1: easily the fewest the Bengals have allowed in a game

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Speaker 1: this year. Arizona was three for thirteen on third down conversions,

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent a

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Speaker 6: How proud of you what your offense was able to

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Speaker 10: Yeah, really proud, you know, just scoring touchdowns on six,

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Speaker 10: And so I was just really proud of our team

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Speaker 6: Today, Joe Burrow is playing some phenomenal football. Quarterback rating

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Speaker 6: last week of one forty six plus, quarterback rating this

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Speaker 6: week of one thirty six plus against You know, pretty

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Speaker 6: good defense is well put together, good schemes, play hard.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they're solid defensive units. What makes Joe Burrow

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Speaker 10: Oh, he's an elite processor, elite competitor, elite accuracy, incredible

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Speaker 10: athleticism for the position. And I think what people won't

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Speaker 6: Drives, touchdowns, fourteen points. What is to do for you

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Speaker 6: Joe Burrow and your offense and your defensive football team

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's important. I mean, that's why we took the

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Speaker 10: It's critical that we put pressure on them traveling across

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Speaker 6: What is it what has been unlocked is what is

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Speaker 10: We have unbelievable chemistry amongst the coaches and players. I

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Speaker 10: I think our coaching steps is a job applaying to

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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys.

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Speaker 10: We can attack teams in a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 6: Well, it's like Bengel fans, probably players and coaches. I

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Speaker 6: great football. It's entertaining. I mean, it's fun to watch

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Speaker 6: it's all about. Coach, How how much are you looking

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Speaker 10: Well, I want to finish this off the right way.

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Speaker 10: fans to get another Divisional win and finish forward to

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Speaker 10: the division and Sweet Cleveland and finish this thing the

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Speaker 10: right way, and then we'll focus on all that other

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Speaker 10: stuff next year. But right now, the important thing is

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Speaker 10: that we finish this off at home in front of

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Speaker 10: our fans the right way.

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Speaker 1: the radio guys recap lapt For the second straight week,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals dominate and win. It was twenty four points

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Speaker 1: last week, it's twenty three points this week. They're throwing

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Speaker 1: passes to three hundred and fifty pound offensive linement. It

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Speaker 1: was a fun, fun day on a beautiful weather day

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Speaker 1: for the fans of Cincinnati and a chance, as we've

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Speaker 1: talked about in recent weeks, to end the season with

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Speaker 1: a three game winning streak and momentum.

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Speaker 6: And it's all huge. I mean momentum, three game winning streak.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's a celebration. There hasn't been a lot

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Speaker 6: to celebrate this season, and Bengal fans and players and

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Speaker 6: coaches are just ready to celebrate. Joe Burrow's played the

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Speaker 6: quarterback position down the stretch here as well as I

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Speaker 6: ever ever seen a quarterback play, never mind for a month.

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Speaker 6: I'm talking about in individual games, putting together three or

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Speaker 6: four games in a role like that is not an

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Speaker 6: easy accomplishment. And his quarterback rating in the last two

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Speaker 6: weeks one forty six plus one thirty six plus.

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Speaker 1: One thirty eight point seven, don't overdo it, lap them.

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Speaker 6: I mean, just amazing though. It really is unbelievable. He's

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Speaker 6: doing everything at such a high level. But the biggest

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Speaker 6: thing that he does is throw the ball straight accurately

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Speaker 6: with touch. He sees the field. He's a processor, high

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Speaker 6: level processor. Things that he sees. Other quarterbacks just don't

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Speaker 6: it just they just never get there. And the Bengals

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Speaker 6: are very fortunate to have a guy like Joe Borrow

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Speaker 6: at the quarterback position and he's going to be around

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Speaker 6: for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just giving the numbers for the last two weeks,

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Speaker 1: forty nine for sixty three. That's seventy eight percent, six

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Speaker 1: hundred nine yard, six touchdowns, no picks, one thirty eight

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Speaker 1: point seven, which is awesome. The first thing I asked

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Speaker 1: you on the pregame show today night, minutes before kickoff,

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Speaker 1: was to take me into the mindset of a professional

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Speaker 1: football player getting set to take on a team that's struggling,

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Speaker 1: bunch of injuries late in the season, nothing to play

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Speaker 1: for and you said, that's a team you got to

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Speaker 1: jump on. You got to demoralize them, don't give them hope.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the first quarter today, the Bengals

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Speaker 1: had run twenty three plays, the Cardinals had run three.

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Speaker 1: They did exactly what you said they had to do.

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Speaker 6: They did, I mean case clothes there. You talk about

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Speaker 6: jumping down the throats or sting, stepping on the throat,

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Speaker 6: stepping on the neck of an opponent and not letting them,

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Speaker 6: don't pick your foot up and reposition it and allow

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Speaker 6: them to breathe. The Bengals gave them no breathing room whatsoever.

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Speaker 6: And honestly, I really I don't think that Arizona expected

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Speaker 6: that kind of a tidal wave. I don't think they

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Speaker 6: were thinking that the Bengals were going to come out

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Speaker 6: of the locker room like the you know, Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 6: of the Pittsburgh Steelers, of their multiple Super Bowl winning teams,

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Speaker 6: and they did. I mean, the Bengals here down in

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Speaker 6: the last couple of weeks have looked like a much

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Speaker 6: different football team, looks more like the team that everybody's

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Speaker 6: expecting them to be. To start the season off, they

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Speaker 6: did win their first two games and then injuries, you know, injuries,

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Speaker 6: and just never did kick that injury bug. It just

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Speaker 6: kept showing up and taking another key player out. But

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Speaker 6: they dominated in every way you can dominate in that

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Speaker 6: football game. Time of possession, third down, red zone, every

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Speaker 6: key statistical area that determines the outcome of football game.

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Speaker 6: The Bengals won it, and won it handily.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals offense isn't great, but last week against the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: I think they scored on their first four drives and

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Speaker 1: on the next two they missed field goals, so they

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Speaker 1: weren't punting. They only punted once in the game. I

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Speaker 1: was amazed by how many three and outs the Bengals

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Speaker 1: defense got today. I mean most of the Cardinals possessions

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Speaker 1: were one, two, three kick.

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Speaker 6: Really and that again, on third down they were a juggernaut.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the Cardinals could not figure out what al

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Speaker 6: golden the Bengals defense were doing on third down. And

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Speaker 6: then the only time they were able to convert and

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Speaker 6: stay on the field and move the chains is when

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Speaker 6: they went for it on fourth down and succeeded. Other

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Speaker 6: than that, they're either putting the football or they were

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Speaker 6: losing the ball on downs. That's like a turnover. I mean,

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Speaker 6: that's a takeaway. So I agree with you, Dan. I

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Speaker 6: think the Bengals defense played maybe their best football game today,

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Speaker 6: and they kind of building to a crescendo. I mean,

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Speaker 6: every single week for the last month or so, it's

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Speaker 6: gotten better and better and better. And now are they there? No,

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Speaker 6: But I think Al Golden is pleased with the progress

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Speaker 6: that they've made. I think the position coaches are pleased,

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Speaker 6: and I think they're looking forward to what this defensive

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Speaker 6: football team can do in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: We've been singing DJ Turner's praises a lot, and deservedly so.

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Speaker 1: He's a pro Bawl alternate for a reason. Today it

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Speaker 1: was Dax Hill who stood out. He had multiple pass

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Speaker 1: deflection It seems like he was stapled to whoever he

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Speaker 1: was covering during the course of the game. Now that

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Speaker 1: you've got those two guys as your outside corners, DJ

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Speaker 1: on one side, Dax on the other side, does that

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Speaker 1: look like one of the best corner tandems in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: AM I being premature and saying that.

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Speaker 6: Dan, you know your football. You've seen a lot of football,

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Speaker 6: You've done a lot of NFL games, and I love

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Speaker 6: doing football games with you because you know what you're

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Speaker 6: looking at and you know what you're seeing. And I

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Speaker 6: do think that these guys are playing very well together.

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Speaker 6: They kind of play off each other pretty darn well.

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Speaker 6: I think Al Golden is more than happy with what

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Speaker 6: he's getting out of that cornerback, that cornerback to that

557
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Speaker 6: cornerback tandem. I think he feels really good about them

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Speaker 6: in twenty twenty six, and he feels like they're going

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Speaker 6: to be, you know, leading his defensive charge next season.

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Speaker 6: We can get more consistent pass rush. The pass rush

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Speaker 6: has gotten better. Am I saying that it's there? No,

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Speaker 6: it hasn't arrived yet, but it's getting better. And if

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Speaker 6: they can get more of a consistent significant pass rush inside,

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Speaker 6: I think it would really help the cause because you know,

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Speaker 6: if you can muddy the pocket up by pushing the

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Speaker 6: pocket in the quarterback's face, I mean it's over. Quarterbacks

567
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Speaker 6: are gonna make mistakes. They're gonna throw the ball too early.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna throw it prematurely. You're gonna put it in

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Speaker 6: the spots they don't really want to put it in

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Speaker 6: because they can't see. So I think the draft in

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty six and free agency signings in twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: six are going to be big for the Bengals defensive

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Speaker 6: football team. I think if that's handled appropriately and they

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Speaker 6: do get some significant additions that can really help this

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Speaker 6: defensive football team, watch out. It might be damn good.

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Speaker 6: In twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Amarus Mems suffered a shin injury today, came back and

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Speaker 1: played some IJP Ryan. It looked really bad when it

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Speaker 1: was wincing on the bench. He came back and played.

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Speaker 1: How significant is that when you have no chance of

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Speaker 1: making the playoffs and these important players refuse to call

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Speaker 1: it a day.

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Speaker 6: I think it's been I think you can build off

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Speaker 6: of that. I think it's really huge. I mean it's

585
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Speaker 6: like this football team doesn't quit on each other, you know.

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Speaker 6: I think they think a lot of each other. I

587
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Speaker 6: think they think the world of each other. I think

588
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Speaker 6: they respect each other as people and in football players.

589
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Speaker 6: I think they're all smart football players. They have high

590
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Speaker 6: football IQs and they understand reasons why they lost football

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Speaker 6: games and why they didn't play as well as they

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Speaker 6: had hoped they were going to play. I mean, they

593
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Speaker 6: start the season off to and oh and you lose

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Speaker 6: people to injury, like we've already talked about earlier in

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Speaker 6: this show. And you lose Joe Burrow, I mean you've

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Speaker 6: lost one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. That

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Speaker 6: hurts you. I mean that kills you. It doesn't just

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Speaker 6: hurt you, It dissects you. Man, it just cuts you up.

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Speaker 6: So you know, I do think that they've got players,

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Speaker 6: and you know, again if they can supplement and add

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Speaker 6: to it with free agency in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Watch out as a former, are you jealous that they

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Speaker 1: drew up a play for.

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Speaker 6: Cody Ford tremendously?

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Speaker 1: Lam would have scored.

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Speaker 6: I'm telling you, man would have taken it to the

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Speaker 6: house because I mean, in high school you play multiple sports.

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Speaker 6: Cody I'm sure did too. He probably wrestled and played whatever,

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Speaker 6: put the shot through the discus whatever. I did all

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Speaker 6: that stuff too, And uh, you know it's like, yeah, man,

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Speaker 6: you know, give me a chance. I can show you

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Speaker 6: something I can catch. That was great. That was great

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Speaker 6: for all big men. I'm sure William the Refrigerator Perry

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Speaker 6: was like, yeah, man, that's what I'm talking about. That's

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Speaker 6: what he was. The pioneer of the Daniel boone of

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Speaker 6: the big guys, you know, making plays and scoring touchdowns.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it was. And I thought it was funny

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Speaker 6: too when he went to the sideline and he gave Zach,

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Speaker 6: you know, a high five, and then he came out

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Speaker 6: later It's like, come on, Zach, excuse me yet, I'm here,

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Speaker 6: I'm ready. I'm ready to do it for you. I

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Speaker 6: can score again. So uh, that was a I think

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Speaker 6: that was a big That was an energy boost, you know.

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Speaker 6: I think everybody, everybody kind of reveled in the in

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Speaker 6: the excitement that Cody Ford was feeling what he was experiencing.

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Speaker 6: And plus, I mean it helped the football team. That's

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Speaker 6: a surprise attack. I mean they didn't stop it, they

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Speaker 6: didn't defend it. That dog will hunt all day long.

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Speaker 1: So the Bengals beat a three and twelve team today.

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Speaker 1: They face a four and twelve team next week in

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. The Browns are feisty, Shador Sanders is

632
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Speaker 1: trying to earn a job for next year. They beat

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, upset the Steelers today to force a critical

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Speaker 1: game next week between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. I would not

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Speaker 1: expect the third straight blowout of twenty plus next Sunday.

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Speaker 6: I agree. I think you gotta get ready for a slabyknocker.

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Speaker 6: Pittsburgh went into Cleveland and Cleveland ends up winning the

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Speaker 6: football game. That's that's big though. I mean, you know, Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 6: they went, they win, They're in. I mean, that's that's like,

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Speaker 6: come on, now, they got Aaron Rodgers at the quarterback

641
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Speaker 6: position and Cleveland has to have a four down stop

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Speaker 6: at the end of the football game to secure that victory.

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Speaker 6: A lot of good things happened there, things that the

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Speaker 6: Cleveland Browns can build off of. And and you're right,

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Speaker 6: I mean, this rivalry, I know from the playing days,

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Speaker 6: this one is personal. This one is heightened because Paul

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Speaker 6: Brown founded both franchises. Man, whenever the pit that's Cleveland

648
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 6: Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals went at it. If you

649
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 6: split felt, you know, like that's pretty good. Defend your

650
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Speaker 6: home turf, if you swept the Cleveland Browns, we were like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: that's I mean, there's some things, certain things you want

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Speaker 6: to do to consider a successful season. That was always

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Speaker 6: in Paul Brown's book. That was that was up on

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Speaker 6: the list up there. And you look at it, Dan,

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Speaker 6: the AFC North. You know, it's not a bunch of

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Speaker 6: slaps man, it's not. You know, these guys are good

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Speaker 6: football players, good coaches, play good so solid sound football.

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Speaker 6: So that bodes well for the future too.

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Speaker 1: As I record this podcast, we still don't have a

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Speaker 1: game time for the season finale versus Cleveland. I can

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Speaker 1: tell you that Cincinnati opens as a seven point favorite.

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Speaker 1: That's a wrap on the Arizona win. Up next, it's

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Speaker 1: this week's Fun Facts Conversation, where you get to know

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Speaker 1: the person under the pads. Tip for some fun facts

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Speaker 1: with defensive end Isaiah Foski from Antioch, California, which is

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Speaker 1: not too far from San Francisco. I feel like when

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Speaker 1: people are asked what's your favorite city in the US,

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Speaker 1: more often than not, San Francisco is on the list.

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Speaker 1: What do you like about being from northern California?

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Speaker 3: Oh? The food for sure? Like every time I go

671
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: back to back home Mcalli, I get Mexican food every

672
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 3: single time. Go to any random food truck, you just

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00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 3: gonna hit every time, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I read that your dad served in the Navy. Did

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Speaker 1: that result in a disciplined childhood for you?

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Speaker 3: For sure? Because he was in the Navy. Then he

677
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 3: was a police officer, So I don't Yeah, I don't

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00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 3: even have to say much after that. So yeah, it

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00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 3: was like really disciplinary type of parenting and I just

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Speaker 3: follow on. I's just a person I am.

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Speaker 1: Now we're chatting with Isaiah Foski. According to a pre

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Speaker 1: draft scouting report, you started getting attention from colleges in

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Speaker 1: middle school and got your first college offer in eighth

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Speaker 1: grade from Kansas. Is that true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. I didn't even know what a scholarship was.

686
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 3: I was just prepared for high school and they came

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Speaker 3: out of pretty much nowhere. Is this offer me like

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00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 3: through someone else telling me. They couldn't like talk to

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00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 3: me directly, and they say, yeah, we're offering you. I

690
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 3: didn't even know what Kansas was like back then. I

691
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 3: was bad at geography, so they gave me to offer.

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Speaker 1: You played high school football at one of the most

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Speaker 1: famous programs in the country, Day La Salle, a school

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Speaker 1: that once famously had a one hundred and fifty one

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00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: game winning streak. How did playing there prepare you for

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Speaker 1: college and what you're doing now?

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00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 3: I feel like playing at Dale Cell, playing at Notre Dame,

698
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 3: how my parents taught me, and just being buy the books,

699
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 3: doing everything right, working hard. I feel like that was

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00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 3: just the backbone of everything the Dale Cell, like mentioned,

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Speaker 3: being a man of integrity. That's like the one big

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00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 3: thing that I brought from Dale Sell and I brought

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Speaker 3: it all into the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: We're visiting with Isaiah Foski. You could have gone just

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Speaker 1: about anywhere. Your final five schools included Ohio State and Michigan,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately, as you mentioned, you chose Notre Dame. Why

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00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: the fighting Irish, like I was.

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00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 3: The same everything from Dale South and Notre Dame. They

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00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 3: just pretty much just went hand in hand, like they're

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00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 3: pretty much the same ZAC school. So I just felt

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00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 3: really comfortable there, and once I went there, it was

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00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:46,280
Speaker 3: just amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to hold an all time record at

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00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, but you do. You are the all time

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Speaker 1: sax leader at that school, which is pretty remarkable. Describe

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00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: the feeling when you broke Justin tucks all time record.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great. That was like such an amazing,

718
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 3: surreal moment because that year I was really starting to

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00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 3: get to talk to Justin Tuck and he was just

720
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: telling me how much he wanted me to be his record.

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Speaker 3: That was like before the season and like just talking

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Speaker 3: to him He was helped me throughout that season, and

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Speaker 3: then when I finally got it, I was just it

724
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 3: was a snow game too, first time ever playing the

725
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 3: snow on the senior night, and I got it, and

726
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: then the whole stadium in erupts. All my teammates started

727
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 3: giving me high fives and it was just amazing.

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Speaker 1: Will you be as gracious if somebody comes close to

729
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: breaking your record? Or secretly, will you say no, no,

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Speaker 1: finish with twenty six? No?

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Speaker 3: I want someone to beat my record.

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 3: I feel like there's a lot of talent at Nordon

734
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Speaker 3: that someone could beat it.

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Speaker 1: What did you enjoy most about four years in South Bend?

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Speaker 3: The people like, not much to do in South Bend.

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Speaker 3: It's really just Notre Dame itself, and it's just the

738
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 3: people at Norday was really what makes nor Day nor Dame.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a tiny play like a champion today

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Speaker 1: signed in your house?

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Speaker 3: I don't have it here, but I had it at

742
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 3: my dad.

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Speaker 1: Would you were selected in the second round of the

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00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three draft by the New Orleans Saints number

745
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: forty overall. Describe that day leading up to getting that

746
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: phone call.

747
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 3: God, that day, I was I was hoping I was

748
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 3: gonna go first round, but you know it'll end up

749
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 3: that way. But going uh the fortieth pig to the

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Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints, that was just a crazy experience having

751
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 3: all my friends and family next to me, have my

752
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 3: wife now right next to me too, which is a

753
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 3: crazy experience. I will never forget that moment.

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00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: Super stressful.

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00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it was. But then my thing it was

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00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 3: wherever I go. I know, God just put me in

757
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 3: this place for a reason and that's what kind of

758
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 3: like eased me down and just just leaning all my

759
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 3: faith throughout all of it.

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Speaker 1: New Orleans is very different from South Bend. How did

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00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: you enjoy two years in the big easy?

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Speaker 3: Like I said, how I like California their food, New

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00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 3: Orleans their food big foodie. Though New Orleans food was

764
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 3: it was great, but it was it was a little

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00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 3: bit of adjustment. Humidity that was the biggest adjustment. That

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00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: was when I first got there. That was killing me.

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00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 3: But then after a while you kind of got used

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00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 3: to it.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah. After a couple of years with the Saints, you

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00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: joined the Bengals early this season. You were reunited with

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00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: your defensive coordinator from your final year at Notre Dame

772
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: Al Golden. Did you feel like you were now playing

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00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 1: for a coach or playing for a coach again who

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00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: really knew what you were capable of doing? Oh?

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00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. He saw me at my high in college,

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00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 3: so you knew what I was capable of. And just

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00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: being able to just see him again run his defense again,

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00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 3: it's just my first came roun. I was like, oh yeah,

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00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 3: I remember all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, because I remember

780
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 3: that play and it was just all like a familiarity

781
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 3: with all.

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00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: You had to bide your time on the practice squad

783
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: for a while. You've been active on the bengals fifty

784
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,479
Speaker 1: three man roster in recent weeks. Tell me a little

785
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: bit about your experience of being a Bengal so far.

786
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 3: Oh, it's been great so far. I've been started, like

787
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 3: pretty much started from the bottom going squad, but just

788
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 3: waiting my turn, making the most of my opportunities, even

789
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 3: it's a special teams or one player on defense, just

790
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 3: making most of my opportunities.

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00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: All right. A few wild card topics now with Isaiah Foski.

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00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport

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00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: and why.

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00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 3: This might be a crazy one, not even crazy but

795
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: I will always I got to Calvin Johnson probably love

796
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 3: watching his film. I was a tight end back in

797
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 3: high school, and when I was younger, I always wanted

798
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 3: to be a tight end, even though he wasn't tight.

799
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 3: I just love watching Calvin Johnson and Adrian Peterson. I

800
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 3: was like, once I get the ball, I want to

801
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 3: run like Adrian Peterson.

802
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: Don't we all?

803
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 7: So?

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00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: You're six'. Five were you megatron like as a high

805
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: school tight?

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00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 3: End, Yeah that's WHY i always watched. HIM i was,

807
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 3: Like i'm Gonna i'm gonna Make megatron type touchdowns in

808
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 3: the end.

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00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: Zone If i'm not. Mistaken you have three older. Sisters

810
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: did they accuse you of getting special treatment as the

811
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: first boy in the. Family, yeah they probably still.

812
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 3: Do they probably know not, no BUT i get like

813
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 3: a little bit of special treatment every TIME i come

814
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 3: back home If i'm not even at home a lot of,

815
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 3: times especially ONCE i left for, college but in high school,

816
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 3: TOO i was just always the only, boy always hanging

817
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 3: out with my mom and my, dad and he's just

818
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 3: a little bit of special.

819
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: Treatment your family's not. Nearby did they get the chance

820
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: to come to many of your?

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00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 3: Games, nah they haven't beigures there was playing on going

822
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 3: To New orleans for some, games and then ONCE i came,

823
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 3: here it was just a little bit a little bit

824
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 3: harder for them to come out. There But i'll be

825
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 3: able to go out there off, Season.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah other than playing, football what are you good? At?

827
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Speaker 3: Say i'm good at a lot of, things BUT i

828
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 3: am good at, suggesting suggesting movies to?

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Speaker 1: You all, Right i'm. Game oh, uh.

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00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: Probably Slum Dog. Millionaire that's one of you know what that.

831
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: Is i've seen Slum dog million are fantastic.

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00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 3: Movie, YEAH i don't know, WHY i really do. NOT

833
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 3: i don't know, why but that's one of my favorite

834
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: movies to. Watch and Den watchington. Movie that's, like that's

835
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Speaker 3: just a Euc denza watching.

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00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 7: It go watch.

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Speaker 1: IT i think we are very similar when it comes

838
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: to our taste in. Movies my wife was In San francisco.

839
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: Recently she used the self driving taxi. Service have you

840
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: tried it?

841
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 3: YET i have?

842
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: Not are you?

843
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 3: WILLING i don't want to see?

844
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 4: It i'm.

845
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 3: GOOD i either take the train or HAVE i guess

846
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 3: someone else's. Driving if youcures The sanrancisco kind a little

847
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 3: bit dangerous to leave your car out, there BUT i

848
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 3: usually just take a train or something like.

849
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Speaker 1: That my wife, says, way moll is, Fine SO i don't.

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Speaker 1: Know the next TIME i, VISIT i might give it a.

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00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: Shot all. Right final fun fact For Isaiah. Foski this

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Speaker 1: one's a little bit. Deep if you could meet anyone in,

853
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: history living or, deceased who would that person?

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00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 3: BE i will probably say my, grandfather my dad's. Dad

855
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 3: BUT i want to know how he raised my. Dad

856
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,959
Speaker 3: even Though i'm gonna be a father NOT i. Don't

857
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 3: my wife is not pregnant right, now but we're hoping

858
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 3: that she will be pregnant in one day have a

859
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 3: son or. DAUGHTER i just want to know how he

860
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 3: raised my. Dad y'all want to raise my son or

861
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 3: my daughter just how you raised. Them he passed me

862
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 3: FOR i was. WORSE i was never able to meet.

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00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: Him i've enjoyed this very. Much best of luck the

864
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: rest of the, year and thanks so much for your.

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Speaker 3: Time, youah, no prone that's.

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