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At some point in 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.360 those zoom interviews, the subject will be asked about Joe Burrow, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.880 and I thought it would be illuminating to pick out 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.880 some of the most interesting responses. We start with von Bell, 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.240 who has known Joe Burrow since twenty fifteen, when the 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.560 safety was a junior at Ohio State and the quarterback 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.079 was an incoming freshman that year. Burrow would occasionally practice 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.840 against the starting defense with no protective jersey, and Bell says, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.560 he's come a long way since. I think you weren't 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.840 even sliding back there, you like, he's now he was 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.960 trying to do the truck stick, but now you know, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.120 he's progressing the field way better. He knows what the 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.919 defense had given him, he knows what he can take. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.040 He knows when to take the shot, he knows when 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.680 not to. Sam Hubbard was one year ahead of Burrow 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.600 at OSU, and the two became close friends as Buckeyes. 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.480 Hubbard says that winning a national championship and the Heisman 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.720 Trophy haven't gone on to Burrow's head. I think that's 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.680 one of the most impressive things about him is he 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.680 hasn't changed at all. He's got the same mentality as 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:12.480 he was a third string, you know, backup at Ohio 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.880 State as a freshman, still fighting every day to you know, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.240 get on the field and make his name known. And 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.920 he's takes that mentality and you know, the level headedness 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.680 of where he's been to you know, to where he's 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.200 at now. It became obvious toward the end of last 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.280 season that the LSU quarterback was almost certainly going to 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.280 be selected number one overall in this year's draft. That 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.080 meant Bengals wide receivers like John Ross were able to 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.840 watch burrows record setting performances in the College Football Playoff 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.600 knowing he was likely to be their next quarterback. That 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.720 was definitely the biggest story. Every time you're watching the games, 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.760 it's like, Joe Burrow has three hundred yards, twelve completions 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.880 that have time, you know, four or five touchdowns and 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.640 these are playoff games, you know, and it's like that's crazy, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.400 you know. And just getting to work out with him 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.480 in California before he was dragging and to see him now, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.040 it's like, it's good to see how how well he 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.360 works the offense and how good he is where there's 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.680 twenty fourth birthday coming up in December. Burrow is actually 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.400 older than nineteen players on the Bengals roster, including Jesse 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.800 Bates and Auden Tate. Here are the two of them 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.799 on their new QB. You can just feel his presence 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.280 in the room. You got that swagger about itself. You know, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.320 he's young kids still. You know, he got a lot 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.120 of proof. He has a lot to prove. You know. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.359 I was talking to my mom the other day and 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.120 he's talking. She was talking about an interview he did 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.279 or something like that about not being nervous. Have you 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.120 guys ever seen him nervous? And I thought that was 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.800 very funny, awesome that I have that type of He 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.599 has that type of confidence in itself. So yeah, I 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.839 feel really good about Joe. He's been moving me around 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.960 in the middle of field a little bit more than 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.599 a lot of quarterbacks that have been experienced in this league. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.280 So um, you guys can expect a lot of good 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.880 things coming out of Joe this year. Just like his 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.320 natural swagger, you know, how you walk around and stuff 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.240 like that, How he approached the huddle, how he comes 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:06.719 into the huddle. You know, you don't come in like 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.520 a rookie. You come in almost like a vet. Like 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.240 he's been number four, so you know, just that calmness 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.680 that he has, you know, it's just everybody can feel it, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.520 so we'll make everybody else. The scouting report on Burrow 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.480 coming out of LSU is that he threw the ball 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.440 with great timing and accuracy, but didn't necessarily have a 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.880 rocket for a throwing arm. Here's the player drafted in 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.720 the second round to be one of his primary targets 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.680 in the years to come. Tee Higgins. The first time 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.640 he threw the ball, he threw a bullet in. You know, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.719 it shocked me, but I called it. He throws he 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.320 throws great balls, always where they need to be. He 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.920 rarely throw that boss rarely, but it does happen. In 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.960 one of the Bengals first practices in pads, Burrow was 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:54.560 intercepted by veteran linebacker Josh Bines. Joe immediately responded by 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.960 completing deep balls to Tyler Boyd, Mike Thomas, and c 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.760 ju Zama. Then he approached Binds and picked his brain 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.400 about the interception. The thirty one year old linebacker hadn't 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.400 seen that before, and not a rookie quarterback. I don't. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.359 I don't think I've had a rookie quarterback came up 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.120 to me. You know, maybe I had a few veit 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.520 seria there, but definitely not to do the quarterback. But 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.440 you could tell he's hungry and wants to get better. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.760 And that's what I like about it. And as I 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.800 think everybody's knowing that, especially offense, they're gravitating towards him 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.479 because right now he has to lead the way for 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.680 this offense. And we're looking forward to it. That's the 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.520 type of thing that earns the respect of his teammates. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.520 According to head coach Zach Taylor, you don't do it 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.520 by walking in and open your mouth and saying a 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.080 lot of things before you actually earn it. You had 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.039 to do it through your leadership, you showing you know 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.800 exactly what to do when your numbers called. You do 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.040 it through proving your toughness, you know, which which he 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.320 hasn't quite had the opportunity to do yet with our 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.240 guys because he hasn't he hasn't got knocked on his 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.280 butt yet. Hits on Burrow are strictly off limits a 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.680 training camp, and that's the first thing that offensive coordinator 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.280 Brian Callahan mentioned when I asked what Burrow would miss 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.960 by not having any preseason games getting hit for the 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.200 first time. That's usually that's usually a big part of it. Um. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.880 You know, all quarterbacks kind of have those little jitters. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.800 They don't get touched very often in practice. They don't 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.720 feel a live rush, especially for a kid hasn't played 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.360 NFL football, a rookie quarterback. Generally, that first time that 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.360 rush comes live as the full speed is a little 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.760 bit different than college. Now, he was playing against great 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.360 players in the secats. It's that's as close as you're 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.880 going to ever get probably to NFL speed and tempo. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.760 But that first that first pass rush, that first hit, 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.280 that first time they get jolted around, Uh, kind of 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.200 reminds him that it's time to play football again. So 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.000 you'd like that to happen obviously before the opener um, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.559 but that don't. We don't get that this year. Burrow 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.840 isn't getting tackled at practice, but he does face a 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.640 pass rush. The coaches blow the whistle to stop the 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.520 play if he would have been sacked. As a result, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.840 Joe's had plenty of opportunities to move around in a 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.760 muddy pocket and also scramble left or right before making 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.920 Tyler Boyd says that's one of Burrow's biggest strengths. Extended 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.080 plays is the biggest key of um of keeping an 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.040 office on the field. I mean, we really didn't have 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.320 too much scramble throws and scrambled touchdowns last year was 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.080 very limited. But I think I think that's that's that's 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.080 the key of winning. Like you got the Russells, you 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.520 got um Lamar. Everybody scrambles around, try to make plays 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.800 and and a lot of receivers to work and create separations. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.280 So I mean, Joe, I believe he's a great fit 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.800 for a guy like that, not a utilize his ability 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.520 in the pocket to maneuver and get away from Toddler 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.520 so he can extend plays that we continue to move 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.920 the ball. Burrow hasn't only impressed his teammates on the 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.520 practice field. Over the past few months, the rookie has 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.440 used his large social media platform, including nearly four hundred 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.640 thousand followers on Twitter, to speak out against racial injustice 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.400 that resonated in the locker room. According to A J. Green, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.079 oh Man, that's what you want to see. You want 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.520 to see that quarterback position step up because those are 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.199 guys that drive lead. And um, when you have guys 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.280 like that stepping up at that young of an age 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.520 and um reason, I really haven't shown anything in the 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.120 NFL yet, it speaks volume, especially to the guys in 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.120 the locker room. You want to rally behind guys like 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.280 that who's speaking up um and being a you know, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.840 not an African American male man, being a white male. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.400 He's speaking up for you know what We're trying to 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.440 create and when you have the guy like that, you 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.520 know you just want to rally behind him. Joe Burrow, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.839 He's not taking a snap in an NFL game. Man. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.800 There are sure to be ups and downs in his 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.719 rookie season, much like there were in his first year 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:44.400 at LSU, but he's done everything right so far. According 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.720 to current Bengal and former Auburn Tiger c j Uzama, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.160 is an absolute piece. He's an animal out there. Um yeah, uh, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.760 you know, you see you see college, you see what's 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.840 going on. You you watch him beat your alma mater 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.960 and and do so and convincing fashion. You're like, dang, 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.439 this sucks, you know, But um, that just I mean, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.760 he's he's he's he's that guy. Man. He's making all 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.719 the right reads. He's getting us in and out of 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.720 the right protections and making all the right checks and 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.040 certain checks that I didn't even know we could we 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.280 were allowed to check into. He's like, why not go 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.080 out there and do this or come in here and 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.760 do this or Um it's been a lot of fun, Honestly, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.240 it's been a lot of fun to um to build 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.320 a relationship with him, build that chemistry with him, and 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.959 see how how he operates and how he wants certain 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:37.800 routes run on certain coverages, and um, it's he's He's 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.600 he's the real deal. I'll say that Bengals fans certainly 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.760 hope he's the real deal. They are counting on number 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.719 nine to put them on Cloud nine. Before we get 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.880 to Dave Lapham, here's a quick reminder that you can 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.440 take your Bengals pride to the next level in twenty 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.400 twenty with an official Bengals fan package from Prime Sport. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.280 The Bengals will be scrimmaging inside Paul Brown Stadium on 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.120 Sunday night and will have live coverage. LAP and I 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.520 will be joined by Marissa Contapelli from six to seven 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.960 thirty on the radio at seven LW, online at seven 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:18.480 DWLW dot com, and on the iHeartRadio app. Following the 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.040 Bengals practice on Friday, Lap and I discussed the latest 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.760 Bengals news and answered the ask Lap questions that you 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.600 submitted on Twitter. Lap On Friday, the Bengals were scheduled 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.000 to practice at two fifty in the afternoon, They moved 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.960 it up to eleven o'clock in the morning to try 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.560 to beat the potential of bad weather. But before that happened, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.480 there was a team meeting in the morning. Everybody on 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.040 the roster with ownership. Mike Brown was present. The players 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.760 requested on Thursday to meet with Mike Brown. He made 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.400 that happen on Friday morning, and it sounds like it 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.160 was a highly productive meeting for what's going on in 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.400 this country. Yeah, you know, and Mike Brown has got 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.880 an enormous amount of history. I think that the players 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.040 were very responsive to. I mean, Paul his dad obviously 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.040 when he was with the Cleveland Browns, Bill Willis Hall 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.960 of Fame defensive lineman, Marion Motley Hall of Fame fullback. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.000 These guys were some of the initial black football players 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.559 in the National Football League. And he had one in college. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.240 He had one on his military team that he coached 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.520 before he got to the All American Football Conference then 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.840 eventually the National Football League. But he brought them to 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:33.440 the AAFC initially and then into the National Football League. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.400 That was like the Jackie Robinson of you know, professional football. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.400 So I think the players that didn't know that were 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.040 duly impressed by that. And Mike Brown lived it. And 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.160 Mike Brown has told me stories many times over the 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.360 years about you know, as a young young child going 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:55.079 to Cleveland Brown's training camp and with the players that 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.920 he adored and worshiped. His heroes were these guys, and 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.400 he spent all kinds of time with them. So, you know, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.640 Mike Brown from the time he was hid or grasshopper 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.880 and didn't see color, you know. And so I think 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.360 I think that locker rooms, and not just NFL locker rooms, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.320 but locker rooms in general, are you know, just a 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.920 great example of what society could be like in terms 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.320 of it's a it's a meritocracy. It's not anything about color. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.720 It's not anything about religious you know, a preference, it's 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.520 not anything about sexual preferences. It's all it is is 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.080 can you get the job done and help us achieve 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.960 the goal. So we want to achieve as a group, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.760 as a team, all of us. It's a big melting 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.440 pot and man if if some of that could pour 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.599 out into the country and the world in general, be huge. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.240 We've heard from several players in recent days talking about 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.400 these issues, Carlos dunlap Aj Green, Trey Hopkins. Today, it 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:57.160 underscored to me how smart and how caring the guys 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.560 are in this locker room. I don't know if that's 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.040 the case all over the place in the National Football League, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.560 but the Bengals are blessed to have really epathetic, smart 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.800 and caring players. You're right, dan Um Trey Hopkins. I 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.120 was going to ask him when he was done with 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.840 his Zoom conference if he'd run for president, and the dude, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.959 the dude as sharp, sharp as attack, and they are. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.400 They're all educated guys. But the thing that is amazing 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.840 is um the experiences that they have. And I kind 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.080 of heard from some of them when I was playing, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.880 particularly you know, in the National Football League. Vernon Holland 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.160 became a really good friend of mine. I was the 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.240 only white person he invited to one of his birthday parties, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.000 and I got a little taste of what it was 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.720 like to be maybe the different color of everybody else. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.600 But they were all very welcoming and that that was 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.840 a unique experience for him. That that was an eye opener, Um. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.520 But to hear these guys talk about things that you 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.760 take for granted that you never even thought about having 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.880 to worry about, like with their children and telling their 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.240 children make sure that you don't do anything that can 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.760 be interpreted any other way, but the way that you're 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.120 actually thinking, which is harmless, you know, because you know 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.040 there's there's a dual standard here, unfortunately, and you have 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.120 to have those difficult conversations and then have experienced them themselves. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.560 I mean, I heard, you know, from a lot of guys, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.520 you know, Isaac Curtis, Kenny Riley, Vernon Holland teammates that 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.480 became pretty good friends, and some of the experiences, and 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.120 it's just that's what they're talking about now. And I 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.080 bet it is eye opening. I mean, Zach's not that 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.760 old guy, really, And I bet Zach Taylor and other 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.160 coaches and other people in the organization when they hear 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.640 some of these stories that these guys, you know, had 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.400 to had to go through with their families, with their 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.640 loved ones, with their friends, it's it's it's mind boggling. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.920 It's really an eye opener, for sure. When George Floyd 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.920 was killed, Joe Burrow is one of the first prominent 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.560 quarterbacks in the National Football League to tweet something about it. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.040 And I remember how thoughtful I was at the time, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.720 how thoughtful, what thought it was at the time. And 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.800 one of the things that he said, very simply was 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.840 this isn't politics, it's human rights. And he tweeted again 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.240 this week on this subject and it really has resonated 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.520 inside of his own locker room. There's no doubt. I mean, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.600 I think that you know, you can have swagger, you know, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:23.240 because of your football accomplishments, and you know, swagger in 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.960 a good way. Swagger, not in an obnoxious way, but 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.840 the urned confidence swagger because you got some skins on 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.960 the wall. You want a national championship, you won the 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.680 Heisman Trophy, you want undefeated and so doing, you set records, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.160 you know, all these touchdowns and all all the things 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.480 that go along with it. Those are huge skins on 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.520 the wall from a football standpoint. But but Joe Burrow 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.720 what he did during his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech, you know, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.760 for his community, you know, the food food banks there 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:58.000 and just the amount of money the response over six 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.040 hundred thousand dollars responded, you know, based on what he did. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.800 So you know, Joe is obviously this isn't the first 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.200 time that he stepped up and said I care about everybody. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.040 I care about you know, those less fortunate than me 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.919 and those that are in more difficult situations than me, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.000 and all of a sudden, Now he becomes a leader 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.040 in his teammates eyes, not just the leader in the 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:26.120 huddle as a quarterback, but the leader of the organization, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.480 in the community, in the league, in the country, in 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:33.640 the world. I mean, he takes on a mega leadership role. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.200 And I think he's up to it. I think he's 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.600 up to it big time. I agree one hundred percent. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.040 All right, let's turn to some training camp issues, and 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:42.680 I want to start with one of the training camp 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.520 battles that I expected to see, and that was Bobby 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.879 Hart versus Fred Johnson at right tackle. But until Bobby 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.560 briefly was nicked up and had to miss a practice, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.800 he had been getting virtually all of the reps with 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.960 the starters at right tackle. What happened to that petition? Yeah, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.280 and big Fred was kicked inside a little bit to guard, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.639 you know, because I you know, I think they're thinking, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.119 you know, is Fred's showing himself to be one of 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.840 the five best. Well, if that's the case, see if 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.119 you can play guard, see if you can play tackle. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.480 And Fred's played a little bit of everywhere too. I mean, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.200 a lot of these guys have been, you know, required 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.720 because again Michael Jordan, the birth of the child, and 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.119 the injury, like you mentioned the calf injury to Bobby 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.800 Hart A guy's there's been a little bit of musical chairs, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.320 but that's what you have to have. On game day. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.760 There's going to be seven, maybe eight at the most 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.080 offensive linemen, So guys have to show the multiplicity in 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:48.359 their versatility of position ability, so you know it. Fred 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.679 Fred's an interesting study because Fred against Cleveland showed in 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.399 an NFL game against the NFL competition he could do it. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.800 But one game there's not a career make and he 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:05.120 has to. He's like, in my mind, all the offensive 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:11.760 lineman Dan, I watch him very inconsistent. Got to show consistency. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.240 Have to show consistency as a group. All five guys 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.159 have to play as a as a group to you 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.800 and not have four do it and one, three do 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.520 it and two and then then the next play the 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.639 two that they're good and the other one of the 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:31.080 other ones. All everybody has to have consistency. It can't 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.320 be big ups and downs. And Fred's had some really 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.840 good showings and then he's had somewhere, you know, head 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.280 scratcher showings, and and it's almost that way I'd say 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:45.160 Trey Hopkins has probably been the most most consistent guy, um, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.480 you know, on a on a day by day basis, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.800 and you know it's everybody has to strive for that. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.200 And you know Bobby had I should say, Fred has 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.600 to realize Bobby's played quite a few games in the NFL. Now, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:06.720 is he better than average NFL tackle? Some people think so, 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.560 some people don't. You know, I'm enjoys having nuts mounds don't. 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.879 But what Fred has to do is Fred has to 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.040 win it out right and honestly right now, I don't 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.080 think the competition should be over and I don't think 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.960 in my mind when I when I played, I was 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.760 like every day I thought, man, I got to bring it. 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.240 If you don't bring it, somebody's breathing down your neck. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.920 So Bobby has to realize Fred's breathing down his neck. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.920 Fred has to try to play as well as he can, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.720 consistently as he can to capture it. And like we 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.800 said earlier, I think the tiebreaker right now is it 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.159 Bobby's smart. Bobby's like Trey in terms of football, you know, 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.480 making calls and stuff. And that's a comforting feeling for 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.680 a line coach when you get two guys out there 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.639 that know every nuance of it, you know, and I 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.920 don't think Fred's at that level in terms of the 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:04.520 mental part of it. So unless he outright handles it physically, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.400 it's got to be knockout. That's that's what he's looking at, 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.000 I think. So we expect the starting OH line for 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.200 the Chargers game to begin the season to be Jonah 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.720 Williams left tackle, Michael Jordan left guard, Trey Hopkins center, 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.880 Xavier sue Philo right guard, Bobby Hart right tackle. If 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:22.760 that's the case, and again it could change, But if 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:26.679 that's the case, who's the best backup interior guy and 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.520 who's the best backup tackle? I'd have to say that 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.560 I'd probably think Fred would probably be that third tackle 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.960 since he's you know, he played left tackling in Cleveland. 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.080 He's battling Bobby at right tackle. Now. If he doesn't 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.480 win one of those starting spots, you know, it would 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:50.240 probably be Fred at the tackle position. Inside inside, Billy 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.920 Price is the backup center. Is Billy Price the best 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:57.320 backup guard? You know? That's that's a big question. What 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.280 about Alex Redmond. If Alex Redman is cleared at the 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.399 end of this week or the beginning of next week, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.399 and he shows that that elbow is totally healed and 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.000 that he can go out and perform. He's a starting 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.800 caliber guard in the National Football League, So you know, 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.399 he starts to come into the mix. And I'm telling you, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.080 I'm not saying he's ready right now, but Kim Identagy, 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:23.919 he's he's the guy once because of the Michael Jordan, 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.400 you know, the birth of the child and Bobby Hart 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.400 having the calf, other lineman had to move all over 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:32.760 and Identagy, I'm watching him play guard. I'm watching him 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.160 play tackle. He's just covering people up. He's got really 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:40.200 good feet. He's taken great sets, you know, but again consistency. 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.159 One time his jam is really good, next time it's not. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.880 They're in his chest. You can't allow these defensive lineman 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.040 in your chest of rabbing your shoulder pads or whatever. 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.240 So you know, it's I'm not saying that he's there now, 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:53.600 but I know he has feet, and I know he 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.000 has intelligence because he's not like it's not too big 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:58.719 for him. He's not in the huddle when they call 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.760 a player looking at his centers tackle when he's playing guard, 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.000 like what do I do And he's not doing that 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:05.960 at the line of scrimmage when the audible or whatever. 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:11.120 So to me, he has some potential and I don't 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.200 know how quickly it can be developed, but I think 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.800 he does have potential. Tremendous left round, late round. Fine. 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:20.720 You know, he looks like a second or third round 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.160 guy the way he moves. I mean, he's right now. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:31.359 I know it's early stages, but Keema Dentogy, Dave Lapham's 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.000 guy right now at Chima Dentogy. All right, Let's turn 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.800 to the starting linebackers, and most days that's been Josh 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:38.959 Bines and Jermaine Pratt. But there's been a ton of 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.760 mixing and matching going on at that position. Out of 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:46.080 the three draft picks, Logan Wilson, A Keen, Davis Gaither 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:50.399 and Marcus Bailey, have any stood out more than the others. 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.879 They've all stood out, which is good. You know, I 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.679 don't think there's been a front runner's like whoa, you know, 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.720 he's like light years better than the others. But the 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:03.680 all they're always advertising that's a good thing. Logan Wilson 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:08.240 is and and Dan I'm going to obviously coat this 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:12.639 with the caveat that. Haven't tackled anybody yet, you know 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:14.880 an opponent, haven't taken an opponent to the ground, haven't 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:18.240 played an NFL snap yet, haven't gotten that NFL game 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:21.320 where I'm telling you the adrenaline rush you your first 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:26.560 NFL game, It's ridiculous. It's it's ridiculous. You feel like 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:28.919 you can lift the stadium, but you got to make 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:30.680 sure you can find it, you know. I mean, it's 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:33.560 like you get you just have to. You have to 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.560 make sure that you're not out of your mind because 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:37.880 your body is telling you. You know you can. You're 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:41.080 a superhero. You can do anything, and but you have 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:42.920 to you have to stay focused and make sure that 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.760 you're doing the right things that you're supposed to be doing. 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:49.760 And that's that's you know, when the truth will be 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:53.400 told when they line up against the Chargers. M Are 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:55.760 they taking the proper angles to pursuit are they Are 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.959 they getting people on the ground? Are they not breaking 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:01.159 down on assignments so they where they're supposed to be 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:02.679 when they're supposed to be there, and doing it how 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.359 they're supposed to do it, all of those things. But 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:10.439 looking at them, watching them run, watching them take proper 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:13.480 angles in pursuit and doing some of these things. Looks 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.159 like they're going to translate, you know, it looks like 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.760 they're going to translate well, and all three of them, 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:22.560 you know. And obviously Bailey hasn't, you know, he had 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:26.879 the injury. So but I think he might be close, 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:29.960 but maybe not where the other two are at this point. 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:32.359 But I know one guy that's salivating and drooling and 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:36.760 everything that you can do is Darren Simmons. Because the 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:40.640 last few years Dan linebacker special team snaps have been 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:43.800 probably the fewest in the league from a position group standpoint, 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:47.760 not anymore. If they can't run, it's hard to use 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:50.320 them on special teams. And these guys can run. All right. 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.240 Let's talk about AJ Green. He's been back on the 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:54.800 field after missing about a week with a sore ham string. 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:57.160 He says he wants the reps at practice, he wants 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:01.040 to play in the scrimmage on Sunday and the following Thursday. 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:05.919 Should they play him, I think if the player is 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:09.080 that adamant, I think they need to listen to him. 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:12.680 I've heard his position coaches over the years say Aj 0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:16.280 is a rep guy. AJ himself said, I'm a REP guy. 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:20.960 You know, some people don't need dress rehearsal and they're 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:24.359 ready for Opening night. Other guys need dress rehearsal plus 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:26.399 to get ready for Opening night. And you have to 0:26:26.400 --> 0:26:30.040 know which you are. And AJ knows. AJ knows he's 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:33.640 a REP guy, and I think he's gonna feel not 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:37.920 quite there if he doesn't get some reps. So whether 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:42.480 it be in thump, which is everything's live except taking 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:45.280 him to the ground, and that's that's fine, because they're 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:47.719 gonna get their hands on him, you know, reroute them, 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:49.679 bump and run, chuck them, all that kind of stuff, 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:51.840 and they're gonna close on him, but not take him 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:53.439 to the ground. He's gonna get hit, he's gonna get 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:55.960 Joss all those good things. I think he needs that. 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.600 So wouldn't shock me if on Thursday night or Sunday 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:03.360 night Sunday that he does some thump, maybe not full scrimmage, 0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:07.840 taking to the ground, and then on Thursday, if they 0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:12.040 expose him at all, it might be very little exposure 0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:15.639 on Thursday if he if he begs for it, because 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.800 Zach Taylor would just help put him in moth balls 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:22.080 and make sure he's ready for the thirteenth. You have 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:25.119 to listen to the player though, too. And um, you know, 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:28.280 I think I think a j when when you have 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:30.480 a player come out and say I asked him that 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:33.640 in a zoom conference and he said, you know, would 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:38.240 you be No, No, I need I need reps. That's reality. 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:43.000 He's realistic about his needs and his uh what he 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:46.280 has to do to get ready for the opener act Accordingly, 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:50.120 how about we tackle him into one of those bags 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:53.920 they use for stunt men jumping off buildings, or put 0:27:53.960 --> 0:27:55.800 him in one of those big donut things, you know, 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.359 let him, let him catch, let him catch it, and 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.919 then just him inflated. Yeah, as soon as he catches it, 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:05.679 it triggers something and inflates his big bubble, you know, 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.600 and he's like, can't again hurt him, can't take him 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:12.359 to the ground hard. I'm game. The Bengals primary offensive 0:28:12.400 --> 0:28:15.480 grouping last year was three wide receivers in one tight end, 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:18.760 and when we looked at the top three wide receivers 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:20.640 this year, we all kind of assumed, all right, Aj 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:23.560 Green clearly number one, Tyler Boy number two, and then 0:28:23.600 --> 0:28:27.159 interesting battle between te Higgins and John Ross perhaps to 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:32.320 be the primary number three guy. Is Auden Tate their 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:35.200 third best wide receiver. Man, I'll tell you the reps 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:38.160 he's putting up a training camp. He's he's making noise. 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.480 But I don't think i'd have him, you know, as 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:46.400 the number three receiver. But I would look and say, man, 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:51.760 I might go big at times a six four t 0:28:52.320 --> 0:28:56.479 six four Tate six five. And we've seen Joe Burrow 0:28:56.920 --> 0:28:59.800 with Tate. I mean, he has a great feel for 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:03.400 where to put those contested catches. If you've got basically 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:07.720 an NBA front court, you know, down the football field 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:10.320 with these six foot to you know, five eleven to 0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:15.520 six one defensive backs, Man, I might want to go big. 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:18.840 And if I go big, An He's shown it, Man 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:21.760 he can and AJ climb the ladder. I mean AJ 0:29:21.880 --> 0:29:24.680 can do it. I'm I can't wait to see Aj 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:28.040 Sky for one of those Joe Barrow big parabolo you know, 0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:31.080 contested catch deals. Tee Higgins is shown it can do 0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:34.640 the same thing. So there's gonna be packages. There's gonna 0:29:34.680 --> 0:29:38.560 be times where it's like, yeah, Taylor, he fits in this, 0:29:38.760 --> 0:29:41.400 and you know, and the more reps he gets in 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:44.680 training camp and delivers on him again, another guy when 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:49.680 opportunity knocked, he stepped up. Alex Erickson took advantage of opportunities. 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:51.520 That's what you have to do to stay in the league. 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:54.960 The Mayde has been doing zoom calls with a couple 0:29:55.000 --> 0:29:58.000 of players a day on average, and everybody that they 0:29:58.040 --> 0:30:00.520 trot out in front of us gets asked about Joe 0:30:00.520 --> 0:30:04.240 Burrow and they all gush with their praise. Has anything 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:09.000 in particular caught your ear? The biggest thing that the 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:15.640 teammates almost universally man leader. You know, he's got the swag, 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:20.080 you know, and it's it's not being said like, you know, boy, 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:22.160 you know this guy, he's a cocky sucker. You know, 0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:27.120 never heard cocky, never never earned confidence. That's what it is. 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:30.800 And and because he's does he has skins on the wall, 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:34.960 there's no doubt about it. I mean, he's but he 0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:38.240 came in and and has handled everything the right way. 0:30:38.240 --> 0:30:40.760 He has such good people skills. You know, he's not 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:43.320 He's not going to just walk into the room with 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:45.600 his chest out and like, hey there's a new marshal 0:30:45.640 --> 0:30:47.680 in town and you guys are nothing. You know, it's 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:52.240 not gonna He's not like that. And I think what 0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:54.800 what he does is brings out the best in everybody 0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:58.320 and makes them feel confident in themselves. He kind of 0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:02.760 like just exude this earned confidence that's contagious, you know, 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:05.840 and I think they talk about it all the time. Man, 0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:07.760 he came into that huddle and just took control of 0:31:07.760 --> 0:31:10.400 the huddle. Whoever, I don't know if it started with 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:14.480 his dad or Zach whoever, whoever told him, and I'm 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:16.240 sure he probably did the same thing at LSU, So 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:20.520 it started long before here with the Bengals. That that is. 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:22.800 That's a fact though, Dan, particularly when you're on the 0:31:22.880 --> 0:31:26.080 road in a hostile environment, when your quarterback comes into 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:30.080 the huddle like John Wayne, we're gonna kick some tail boys, 0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:33.720 and this is how we're gonna do it. It's like, yeah, 0:31:33.760 --> 0:31:37.000 you know, instead of coming in with eyes wide and 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:40.600 let's go eighty three x, say on two, ready break, 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:43.000 I mean, that's not going to cut it. So it's 0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:46.880 just it's just exuding that that confidence, that presence, And 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:49.240 I think that's the biggest thing about him. He does 0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:52.920 have a presence, he really does. I mean, Guys, he 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:55.760 walks into the room, guys notice, guys gravitate toward him, 0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:59.040 and I think that's the thing almost every one of them. Man, 0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:02.200 he's taken control the huddle. He's like a ten year 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:05.280 said he's going to play fifteen. A's gonna run in 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:07.560 for fifteen already that dog and hunt right there. But 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:10.440 I think that's the biggest thing about him. We've heard, 0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:13.760 going back to the zoo zoom calls that the players 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:17.080 and coaches did in lieu of OTAs and mini camps, 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:20.120 that he had a tremendous command of the offense right away. 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:23.280 And you know, I thought that was impressive, But then 0:32:23.320 --> 0:32:26.800 it really hit home for me how impressive that actually 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:30.320 is when we were watching practice with former UC quarterback 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:32.760 Tony Pike and he was talking about in his first 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:36.760 NFL camp with Carolina, he was just hoping to be 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:39.760 able to spit out a play. It was so much 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:43.200 more complicated. And for Joe Burrow to have all of 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:45.800 this down and be able to make checks and changes 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:48.440 at the line of scrimmage like he's been playing for 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:53.120 five years is truly different from the norm, no question. 0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:56.680 And he's manipulating safeties with his eyes and his shoulders. 0:32:57.040 --> 0:32:59.360 You know, he's doing all these things that are you know, 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:04.320 danced graduate school stuff. You know, instead of just I'm 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:06.160 gonna take make sure I don't fumble the snap and 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:08.600 first thing I see, I'm going to throw to, you know, 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:12.320 type of read. It reminds me of I had an 0:33:12.320 --> 0:33:15.800 opportunity to do an NFL game when Peyton Manning and 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.360 Tom Morton were together early in Peyton Manning's career with 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:22.600 the Indianapolis Colts, and Tom Moore said, I'm telling you, 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:27.040 man early on, this kid was like what he's got, 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:30.480 He's got such commands, such a football iq. He goes. 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.200 He made all of us better, he said, including me. 0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:35.160 It's like, you know, the smartest kid in the room. 0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:37.960 No coach, that's that's wrong. This is the way he goes. 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:41.320 This kid now and he made me a better coach. 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:44.040 I was more prepared. And he said, Peyton Manning lifted 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:46.720 everything and everybody. And he said it got to the 0:33:46.720 --> 0:33:48.560 point where instead of me and stall in the offense 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:50.920 said Peyton go do it. He said, Peyton would get 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:53.120 up and I just kind of he said, I don't 0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:54.920 know what they were paying me to do. And I 0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:58.360 think that's what Joe Burrow is about. Peyton Manning kind 0:33:58.360 --> 0:34:03.840 of re wrote preparation, you know, rewrote the first guy in, 0:34:03.960 --> 0:34:06.520 last guy to leave, and just you know, grind it, 0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:08.880 you know, learning how to be a grinder and loving 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:12.319 the grind. Joe Burrow is cut from that cloth, and 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:17.399 I think that, you know, as he advances and even 0:34:17.440 --> 0:34:19.479 into his early in his rookie year, I'm not saying 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:21.120 that he's ready to do what Peyton Manning was doing 0:34:21.120 --> 0:34:24.000 with Tom Moore right now, because he's going to see 0:34:24.000 --> 0:34:27.480 coverages and defensive configurations that he hasn't really seen yet. 0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:30.640 But you know, I mean, Tom Moore said Peyton Manning 0:34:30.680 --> 0:34:33.000 adjusted though so quickly. I think this kid's going to 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:36.200 do that, and I think fairly early on. The coach 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:38.160 is going to have to try to figure out ways 0:34:38.560 --> 0:34:42.120 to keep him real interested and motivated like Tom Moore was, 0:34:42.400 --> 0:34:47.360 because the sucker is he's smart now, he definitely is. 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:49.000 All right. I'm gonna put you on the spot a 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.440 little bit here. I want you to give me a 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:55.959 random observation about a player a coach from training camp 0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.000 that you find interesting, and I'll give you an example 0:34:58.000 --> 0:35:01.440 of what I'm talking about. When the defense takes the 0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:04.839 field for their reps in eleven on eleven drills, I've 0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:08.120 noticed that more often than not, Mike Daniels is usually 0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:10.280 the first guy that runs out there. He's three hundred 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:12.839 and ten pounds, he's thirty one years old, He's been 0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:15.520 to the Pro Bowl, He's logged a great career, largely 0:35:15.520 --> 0:35:17.680 with the Green Bay Packers, and yet he shows his 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:21.120 attitude and his enthusiasm by running out there and being 0:35:21.160 --> 0:35:24.240 the first guy out there much of the time. So, 0:35:24.480 --> 0:35:27.640 has anything little and interesting caught your eye like that? 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:31.400 Well to feed off of that, Gino Atkins has responded 0:35:31.440 --> 0:35:35.000 to it. In my opinion, Geno Atkins is killing it 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:38.360 in one on one pass rush. And Geno Atkins reached 0:35:38.400 --> 0:35:44.600 out to him because way back, Marshall Yonda, the legendary 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:48.160 alignment for the Baltimore Ravens, went to Iowa, as did Daniels, 0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:51.959 and Marshall Yonder reached out to Daniels and Io grad 0:35:51.960 --> 0:35:54.880 and said, look, you have the same body type as 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:57.160 Gino Atkins, who I have a tremendous amount of respect for, 0:35:57.320 --> 0:36:00.560 and he's unbelievable and I play against the year blah 0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:03.719 blah blah and um. So they kind of reached out 0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:06.799 to each other and they became you know, friendly, and 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:09.040 and Gino would say, hey, you know why don't you 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:11.439 come here? Why don't you come here? So now they're here, 0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:16.880 Now they've you know, they're together, and it feels so good. 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:19.319 You know, it's like these two guys, you got a 0:36:19.360 --> 0:36:23.719 tandem of the same type of defensive tackle. Uh low, 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:29.879 center of gravity, powerful, And I think Gino is he's 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:32.600 hit the fountain of youth. I mean he'll he'll win 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:36.560 a pass rush, sprink back like Sam Hubbard. Gino last 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:41.279 year could barely walk. I mean he was. He was 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:43.440 playing way too many snaps. He played like seventy percent 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:45.520 of the snaps. And I mean I thought that. I 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:51.080 thought he was on the back nine, putting out on seventeen. Now, shoot, 0:36:51.120 --> 0:36:53.360 he's making the turn. He's looking like he's, you know, 0:36:53.560 --> 0:36:55.959 just get nine done and gonna play a solid back nine. 0:36:56.239 --> 0:36:59.680 I mean he's he's he's back. He's rejuvenated. And I 0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:01.799 think it was an offseason to work. I think they 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:04.400 are going to monitor or snaps, but I think Daniels 0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:07.719 and the enthusiast DJ reader Daniels, I think he's like, 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:12.080 he's rejuvenated. It's a different Geno. I like it made 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:14.600 the turn. Had a gatorade, had a hot dog, or 0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:16.759 a brought it's back on the card. Ready to play 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:20.440 the tenth hole? Right up my alley. All right, Time 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:23.719 for a new batch of ask Lap questions that were 0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:28.040 submitted by Bengals fans on Twitter. Our first question comes 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:33.080 from New Day Dusty. His question reads, where do you 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:36.680 predict the offensive line ranks by the season's end, and 0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:39.360 if they can rank somewhere in the middle of the pack, 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:43.400 how high is the offensive ceiling? Well here here on 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:50.040 your observation. My hope is that they become, you know, 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:55.440 an average offensive line, maybe even like a super Gift 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:58.440 would be a cut above. But if they're just middle 0:37:58.440 --> 0:38:00.680 of the pack, which is good, I mean the middle 0:38:00.680 --> 0:38:03.759 of the pack offensive line is a good unit. With 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:07.360 the skill position players they have, they could be damn good, 0:38:07.800 --> 0:38:13.120 I mean really good. We talked about it before Joe 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:16.480 Burrow won the Heisman. The Bengals had two quarterbacks won 0:38:16.520 --> 0:38:20.480 the NFL Heisman MVP Ken Anderson, Boomers Siason. They both 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:24.200 had running games. You know, we had Pete Johnson with 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:29.759 Kenny Anderson Boomersiason had Icky Woods and James Brooks. So 0:38:29.920 --> 0:38:31.399 you have to be balanced. You have to be able 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.359 to do both. And the offensive line has to win 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:36.480 at the line of scrimmage, get a running game going 0:38:36.800 --> 0:38:38.920 help a rookie quarterback, so they don't come with all 0:38:38.960 --> 0:38:42.919 these exotic packages and blitzes and everything else. It minimizes 0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:45.319 what they can do because we can't get too small 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:48.400 there pound than us, you know. And then you control 0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:51.399 the clock and you start to wear their defense out 0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:54.239 and the Bengals defense is rested. I mean, when you 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:57.719 can run the football, everybody benefits the entire team. The 0:38:57.760 --> 0:39:02.080 ripple effect is huge, so offensive line be able to 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.600 run it, and then it's easier for you to pass block. 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:07.279 If you're a third and seven or more man, it's 0:39:07.280 --> 0:39:10.640 a beast in the National Football League. So if they 0:39:10.640 --> 0:39:13.200 can get to middle of the pack or scoch better, 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:18.040 they could be really good, really good. We talked about 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:21.400 some of the individual offensive lineman earlier, but Steve oh 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:25.120 has this question, how is O'Shea dogas playing in practice? 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:32.280 O'she Dugas is a big, strong, bodied guy, not tremendous mobility, 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:34.920 struggling a little bit from a mobility stampoint. But I'm 0:39:34.920 --> 0:39:37.560 telling you that you can't bull Russ Duga. Oh Man, 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:42.080 do Gas a load? He's a load. But the thing 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:48.719 that there's more guys able to go position versatility than him, 0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:51.279 And I'm not sure if that's just physical or if 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:54.120 it's physical and mental. You know, he may not be, 0:39:54.719 --> 0:39:56.560 you know, as as sharp as some of the other 0:39:56.560 --> 0:40:01.160 guys in terms of comprehending and you know, entire schematics 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.240 and packages where you can play anywhere in the offensive line. 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:06.480 And I'm not really familiar with that side of it. 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:11.759 But yeah, he's he belongs in an NFL camp, that's 0:40:11.800 --> 0:40:15.279 for sure. He is one big, powerful human being. The 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:18.120 next question comes from our buddy, Man, have any of 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:22.000 the undrafted free agents stood out? Well, I'm not sure 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:30.360 if they're undrafted before they came, but man, running back Patrick, 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:36.360 I mean Patrick Patrick is a guy that had a 0:40:36.360 --> 0:40:38.960 big scrimmage, had the big run and had a good scrimmage, 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:41.960 but he stacked a bunch of good practices together. You know, 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:44.360 it hasn't just been a one hit wonder. You know, 0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:49.359 he's he's two hundred and thirty pounds and he's got 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:51.560 some he can run, he's got some good feet, he's 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:54.600 got a little making missibility, he's solid and blitz pickup 0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:57.440 that I've seen. He catches the ball well. He played 0:40:57.520 --> 0:41:00.400 special teams at Florida State, he played special teams in 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:04.080 the XFL, so he could help maybe Darren Simmons. He's 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:06.719 kind of caught my eye. And it was not just 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:08.960 you know that one run in the in the scrimmage 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:11.640 that he had and another guy that's kind of stood 0:41:11.640 --> 0:41:14.640 out to me a little bit. With their problem at 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:19.160 defensive tackle, Tupo opted out Glasgow who didn't pass his 0:41:19.320 --> 0:41:22.719 physical and then when you know it has to have surgery, 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.160 this kid Bledsoe from Oklahoma. You know, I start watching 0:41:26.200 --> 0:41:27.960 him a little bit. Yeah, man, he's kind of he's 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:30.520 hanging in there, he's competing. You know, he's looking like 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:35.319 there's a possibility there. They signed McKenzie, who you know, 0:41:35.360 --> 0:41:37.160 it was in the NFL camp as a guard. That's 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:39.360 Regie McKenzie's son, by the way, he played at University 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:41.920 of Tennessee, and they signed him just have you know, 0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:44.880 training camp bodies. But I'm thinking, you know, could Bledsoe 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:48.319 be another guy in the defensive tackle rotation if they 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:50.719 decide to go, you know, with that many with four 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:53.959 you know, we already talked about the three good ones, 0:41:54.160 --> 0:41:57.319 all Pro Bowl caliber guys, but Bledsoe is kind of 0:41:57.320 --> 0:41:59.319 an interesting guy. I'm gonna watch him a little bit 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:04.920 more again. These next few practices and two scrimmages separate 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:07.320 the men from the boys. Then Dan, I'm worthy on 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:10.120 running back Jack Patrick number thirty one. He was Odd 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:13.400 and Tate's roommate for a while at Florida State. All Right, 0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:17.400 our next ask lap question comes from a celebrity Bengals 0:42:17.440 --> 0:42:21.520 fan of sorts, New York Times best selling author and 0:42:21.640 --> 0:42:25.040 former Sports Illustrated writer Lars Anderson, who happens to be 0:42:25.160 --> 0:42:29.000 a huge Bengals fan a good friend to Paul Brown. 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:32.480 Here comes this question, what was the best game you 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:36.600 saw Joe Burrow play last year? And why? Here it 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:39.200 is as I'm going through my memory bank, it was 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:45.759 the National Championship game. All right, blitz package early on 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:48.480 from Brent Vanables. Brent Vanibles, I sought Oklahoma. He's a 0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:51.440 hell of a defensive coordinator. He's a coordinator at Clemson, 0:42:51.920 --> 0:42:55.839 and Clemson's up seventeen seven. Borrow through a touchdown pass, 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:57.800 but he's down ten points and this is the second 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:00.839 quarter I'm watching. Burrow goes to the sideline and he's 0:43:00.880 --> 0:43:05.080 on the headset with Joe Brady and Poker face. You 0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:07.759 can't tell if he's losing by ten, winning by ten, 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:09.640 or anything in between. And that's what I really liked 0:43:09.680 --> 0:43:13.600 about burrows whole career. Aol issue, same face, Go put 0:43:13.600 --> 0:43:18.520 on the headset, make adjustments, keep sawing wood again. Joe 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:22.600 Burrow's game is poised. No panic. It didn't panic, three 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:25.560 yard touchdown run, two touchdown passes all of a sudden, 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:29.600 It's twenty eight seventeen at the half, and then Clemson 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:33.520 scores a touchdown two point conversion. It's twenty eight twenty five. 0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:36.239 They come back a little bit. Joe Burrow finishes two 0:43:36.280 --> 0:43:40.520 touchdown passes, forty two to twenty five, five touchdown passes, 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:44.399 one touchdown running, no gives. But at one point down 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:48.719 seventeen seven to Clemson in the second quarter, you know, 0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:51.480 it's like man our protections, We're not picking up these 0:43:51.520 --> 0:43:56.000 blitz packages. A lesser man may have crumbled a little bit, 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:59.200 but Joe Burrow stood tall, and he and Joe Brady 0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:03.759 made a just and they kicked Venable's packages right in 0:44:03.800 --> 0:44:06.279 the tail. And that was impressive to me in the 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.759 biggest game of the year, to be able to do that, 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:11.880 make the adjustments and then go and finish and finish 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:15.760 Big was massive. I'm gonna say the previous game against 0:44:15.840 --> 0:44:18.400 Oklahoma because when he threw seven touchdown passes in the 0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:21.920 first half, I needed a drool bucket to control myself. 0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:28.000 Next question, definitely, definitely all right. This question comes from 0:44:28.040 --> 0:44:32.080 Steve in Kenwood. Are the Bengals watching hard knocks to 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:36.399 scout their Week one opponent the Chargers? I'm sure they are, 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:42.800 but the uh, the Chargers and HBO and when the 0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:46.840 Bengals didn't Marvin Lewis and HBO and the Bengals. You 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:51.359 they have they have the option of editing everything. If 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:54.480 there's anything on tape in the background or whatever that 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:57.279 they don't want out there, it's on the on the 0:44:57.400 --> 0:45:00.759 editing floor does not make the broadcast. So I'm not 0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:02.520 sure that a whole hell of a lot is gonna 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:06.480 gonna get there from a football scheme schematic standpoint a 0:45:06.560 --> 0:45:10.160 tip as such. Um, I think all the stuff that 0:45:10.200 --> 0:45:15.239 they show football stuff is very very you know, pattent, 0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:18.920 go drill routine, warm up stuff. There's not gonna be 0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:21.319 a whole lot of things they're gonna They're gonna really 0:45:21.320 --> 0:45:25.160 show themselves, but you never know. They may they may 0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:28.359 who knows somebody screws up and you know, oh yeah, 0:45:28.400 --> 0:45:31.480 we'll take that out, but they don't. So it's worth watching. 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:35.160 Plus it's it's also you know, you're getting in the 0:45:35.920 --> 0:45:39.360 understand what the coordinators, how they think a little bit um. 0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:42.080 Maybe you already know them, maybe you don't. Any Any 0:45:42.160 --> 0:45:44.560 edge you can get in this competitive environment in the 0:45:44.640 --> 0:45:50.040 National Football League is worthwhile. This Bengals question comes from 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:54.839 Bearcat Steve. How much will lack of crowd noise accelerate 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:59.400 a rookie quarterbacks development? Yeah, that's that's an interesting question. 0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:02.279 I mean, I think that that the biggest thing that 0:46:02.320 --> 0:46:04.759 the rookie quarterback you know, has to deal with. And 0:46:05.160 --> 0:46:08.880 in Joe Burrow's case at LSU, crowd noise wasn't that 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:11.080 big a deal because everything was hand signals and everything 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:13.800 was cards from the sideline. Now there aren't going to 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.520 be cards from the sideline in the NFL or with 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:19.960 the Bengals, but you know, it may be when you're 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:23.359 in a noisy environment, it's all it's all signals, all 0:46:23.440 --> 0:46:26.240 hand signals and all that sort of thing. Now, Joe Burrow, 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:29.680 I think with his poison maturity, like retiring, I think 0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:31.880 he's going to be able to handle all that. But 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:34.880 the crowd noise issue is a good question, and we've 0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:38.720 you know, Bross a couple of times. Will they allow 0:46:38.840 --> 0:46:42.200 will the league allow the home team to not just 0:46:42.719 --> 0:46:46.120 you know, run crowd noise like all thirty two teams 0:46:46.120 --> 0:46:48.360 in the NFL, whether you're home or away, you have 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:50.759 a soundtrack and just running it. Or will they allow 0:46:50.800 --> 0:46:54.600 the home team an advantage of crazy crowd noise, you know, 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:57.040 when the opposition has the football like there would be 0:46:57.040 --> 0:47:00.000 in a sold out crowd. That's that hasn't been the term. 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.799 And yet that hasn't as far as I know. There's 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:06.319 no definitive answer to that. In the Bengals man going 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:09.680 to Cleveland, going to Philadelphia, they can pump in all 0:47:09.719 --> 0:47:12.840 the noise that those crowds make Joe Burrow in the 0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:16.439 Bengals offense. Yeah, it's a factor, There's no question about 0:47:16.440 --> 0:47:18.799 It's a good question. All Right, We've got a couple 0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:21.160 more questions, and our next one comes from our friend 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:24.840 and a very talented reporter in our own right, Lindsay Patterson. 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:26.760 I think this one's for the two of us, really 0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:32.240 your favorite call together. So we've been broadcasting the games 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:35.120 for nine years together. What's your favorite call that we've 0:47:35.120 --> 0:47:40.200 had together. My favorite call was the Packers game in 0:47:40.239 --> 0:47:43.960 twenty thirteen. The Bengals went two and one with the victory. 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:48.560 It was back and forth thirty four thirty final. Bengs 0:47:48.560 --> 0:47:51.600 were the first team ever to win, leading by fourteen 0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:55.239 and trailing by sixteen in that football game. And it's 0:47:55.280 --> 0:47:57.800 thirty to fourteen in the second half, Cincinnati cuts the 0:47:57.880 --> 0:48:01.479 lead to thirty to twenty eight. Packers fumble. Our boy 0:48:01.560 --> 0:48:03.960 Terence Newman picks it up and goes fifty eight. I 0:48:04.040 --> 0:48:07.600 lost my cookies. Man. It was like the ball is out, 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:11.760 the ball is out out. Oh man, he's oh, Terence 0:48:11.800 --> 0:48:15.040 is got. I'm thinking, this is unbelievable. What and Aaron 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:17.680 Rodgers was at his at his peak, and I'm thinking 0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:21.200 this is a huge win. This is unbelievable. And the 0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:23.359 Bengals had four turnofs. They couldn't get out of their 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:25.600 own way. I mean, that's that's why how the Packers 0:48:25.600 --> 0:48:27.719 took the big lead on them, and then they mounted 0:48:27.760 --> 0:48:30.480 the comeback and they went it on a defensive turnover 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:34.200 touchdown fumble recovery fifty eight yard johned by Terrence Newman. 0:48:34.640 --> 0:48:37.000 I remember that that game was fun because it was 0:48:37.160 --> 0:48:38.759 back and forth. It was it was a hell of 0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:42.879 a game. I'm going to Christmas Eve two twelve, next 0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:45.200 to last game of the regular season. The Bengals go 0:48:45.280 --> 0:48:48.800 to Hines Field. If they win, they clinch a playoff spot, 0:48:48.920 --> 0:48:52.799 and they knock the dreaded hated Steelers out of the 0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:55.600 playoffs on their home field. Less than a minute to go, 0:48:56.239 --> 0:49:00.000 Roethlisberger tries to buy extra time and a typical Rothless 0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:04.240 Burger way, he's scrambling around. Finally, he throws downfield, intercepted 0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:07.319 by Reggie Nelson, his nemesis. On the next play, Andy 0:49:07.360 --> 0:49:09.960 Dalton connects to aj Green to get them within field 0:49:10.000 --> 0:49:15.240 goal range, and Josh Brown delivers to give the Bengals 0:49:15.239 --> 0:49:19.640 their second consecutive playoff berth and a rare victory over 0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:21.840 the Steelers since we've been doing the games together. Yeah, 0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:25.040 I win in Pittsburgh is memorable. There is no question 0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:29.560 about that. Like you said, I went over Pittsburgh at all. Yeah, 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:32.200 there's been there's been some fun games. I'll tell you. 0:49:32.239 --> 0:49:34.880 We're a nice little playoff run. To start our little 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:36.800 tenure here, we gotta get back on a like a 0:49:36.920 --> 0:49:40.600 nice little five year run again, A men to that. 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:45.120 I also want to join Phil sapp as the only 0:49:45.200 --> 0:49:48.720 Bengals play by play announcer to call a playoff victory. 0:49:49.080 --> 0:49:50.839 Phil's had them all so far. I want to join 0:49:50.920 --> 0:49:54.080 that club. All right, here comes our final question. This 0:49:54.120 --> 0:49:59.399 one is from Thomas, directed specifically to you. Do you 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:06.440 like I'm okay with Getta? You know, it's not like 0:50:06.520 --> 0:50:09.719 it's not like I gotta have Ghetta, but yeah, I'm 0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:12.480 okay with it. I mean it's uh, there's not a 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:16.799 whole lot of things I don't like, and uh, yeah, 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:19.000 I like it as a breakfast food. I'm okay with it. 0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:21.200 I love Getta? Do you? And on one of the 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:25.880 not really, although I'll eat it pretty much in any form. 0:50:25.920 --> 0:50:28.239 I like it in omelets. Yeah, I can eat it 0:50:28.280 --> 0:50:30.719 with cheese on it. But on one of our stops 0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:35.160 on our Wednesday night Game Plan shows last year, they 0:50:35.200 --> 0:50:37.279 had a Ghetta sub Do you remember that? And it 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:40.560 was tremendous. It was that was that was as good 0:50:40.560 --> 0:50:46.280 as Getta gets. Not healthy, but tasty, very very tasty. 0:50:47.040 --> 0:50:50.399 Don't forget. We'll have live coverage of Sunday Scrimmage from 0:50:50.480 --> 0:50:54.560 six to seven thirty on the radio at seven UNDERWLW, 0:50:54.719 --> 0:51:00.400 online at seven UNDERWLW dot com, and on the iHeartRadio app. 0:51:01.040 --> 0:51:02.920 That's going to do It for this episode of the 0:51:02.960 --> 0:51:06.279 Bengals Booth Podcast, brought to you by Prime Sport, the 0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:10.880 official fan, travel and hospitality partner of the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:51:11.160 --> 0:51:14.040 If you haven't done so already, please subscribe and if 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:16.000 you have a minute, give it a rating or share 0:51:16.040 --> 0:51:20.200 a comment that helps more Bengals fans find this podcast. 0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:23.160 I'm Dan Horde, and thank you for listening to The 0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:25.040 Bengals Booth Podcast.