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Speaker 1: Demetrius Knight, selected in the second round out of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Knight is a twenty five year old married father of
Speaker 1: two and spent the last six years playing college football
Speaker 1: for at Georgia Tech, one at Charlotte, and last year
Speaker 1: with the game Cocks, where he was a captain on
Speaker 1: one of the stingiest defenses in the country. Is South
Speaker 1: Carolina finished twelfth in points allowed. The former high school
Speaker 1: quarterback has excellent size at six two two thirty five,
Speaker 1: flash sideline to sideline speed, and is known for his
Speaker 1: physicality and toughness. He was projected to go later the
Speaker 1: number forty nine overall, but Al Golden and Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: say they were sweating it out that he would still
Speaker 1: be there when the Bengals were on the clock.
Speaker 2: It was stressful. It was stressful. Again he was he
Speaker 2: was the guy.
Speaker 3: Uh And again it could have went a number of positions,
Speaker 3: you guys, you know, you know all the positions that
Speaker 3: we're looking at. It could have went, you know, one
Speaker 3: way or another with another position. But in terms of
Speaker 3: that position, that was the guy. When we woke up
Speaker 3: this morning and I'm I'm glad he's here.
Speaker 4: You know, Alan and I were just talking walking down here.
Speaker 4: It felt a lot like waiting for Logan a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago and just letting all those picks take off.
Speaker 4: But he's a tremendous fit for us, someone that we
Speaker 4: had an extremely high opinion of, Very thankful that he
Speaker 4: was there when we picked walks in the door, A
Speaker 4: mature leader. You know, so many people we talked to
Speaker 4: this is one of their favorite people that they've been around.
Speaker 4: And just the leadership qualities, the football and tangibles, the
Speaker 4: football makeup, the talent that he's got. He's gonna walk
Speaker 4: in the door and and fight for a way to
Speaker 4: contribute immediately. And I fired up to watch that happen.
Speaker 3: The first thing that jumps out is his characters make
Speaker 3: up his ability to become a captain in a short
Speaker 3: time frame. He's the MVP of the best one of
Speaker 3: the best defenses in the country. And again, just like
Speaker 3: yesterday's piece, is really really hard to find, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: a combo de end if you will, a guy that
Speaker 3: can play inside or outside. This guy is hard to find.
Speaker 3: They just don't make him this long. He's played at
Speaker 3: two forty five. He's got enough length to go to
Speaker 3: the edge when you want to go to a five
Speaker 3: down look or or play some outside back or for you.
Speaker 3: So that's a pivotal piece for us. His pro day
Speaker 3: was excellent, you know, just a just a competitor. Loved
Speaker 3: his movement in space, sudden Blitzer could spy a quarterback
Speaker 3: on third down, gifted and coverage, you know, and again
Speaker 3: you're talking about you know, just shy of six to
Speaker 3: two thirty three inch arms, you know, two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty pounds and just love, love where he is as
Speaker 3: a player right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we want to make sure it's the right guy,
Speaker 4: you know, just not any guy. And this is one
Speaker 4: that we feel like can come in and compete to
Speaker 4: contribute immediately. And of course we're not We're not designing
Speaker 4: anybody any jobs right now, but he's a gut we
Speaker 4: think has to make up to walk in the door
Speaker 4: and compete immediately.
Speaker 2: We feel like we.
Speaker 3: Got a clean character kid. He's healthy, hasn't been playing
Speaker 3: linebacker all too long, so from that standpoint, although you
Speaker 3: know he's twenty five, he is a sending. I feel
Speaker 3: like we got him right at the right spot in
Speaker 3: his career, and I'm not concerned at all about the age.
Speaker 3: I think what we have is a guy who's got
Speaker 3: his priorities right. He's gonna be ready to come in
Speaker 3: and fight for a job.
Speaker 1: Night will be in the mix with free agent acquisition
Speaker 1: Owen Burks to potentially started linebacker next to Logan Wilson,
Speaker 1: and he could also contribute immediately on special teams. Jermaine
Speaker 1: Pratt has been a solid starter for six seasons, and
Speaker 1: his playoff ist of Las Vegas quarterback Derek Carr ranks
Speaker 1: among the most memorable moments in team history. But Jermaine
Speaker 1: is coming off an inconsistent year and has requested a
Speaker 1: trade amid speculation that he could be a cap casualty.
Speaker 1: Night looks like his eventual successor. He spoke by phone
Speaker 1: with Cincinnati reporters after the pick, and here are a
Speaker 1: few of his comments.
Speaker 5: I'll describe my game as nasty. I like to say
Speaker 5: when I'm going out there on the field that I
Speaker 5: like to hunt because if I don't hunt any you know,
Speaker 5: my family doesn't eat. So I've become the hunter out there.
Speaker 5: Whether what I say about my family and put the
Speaker 5: helmet on, I switched to that mean tell you, Okay,
Speaker 5: now I have to go hunt, and I'm gonna do
Speaker 5: whatever it takes to make sure we come back with
Speaker 5: a wing. To make sure my family and everybody else,
Speaker 5: which this didn'taty family, now make sure that we all eat.
Speaker 1: From your pre draft contact with the Bengals, could you
Speaker 1: sense their interest?
Speaker 5: I could had a meeting with those guys previously here
Speaker 5: close to pro day, so I had a food. Maybe
Speaker 5: there was interest. I didn't didn't hear too much from
Speaker 5: you other than that, but I knew that when it
Speaker 5: comes to the draft, anything and everything is possible, especially
Speaker 5: after watching you know guys go Mett and right the
Speaker 5: first night with you know, different things different from my
Speaker 5: draft that I was seeing. So that's what I just
Speaker 5: told myself the first night. You know, anything happens. So
Speaker 5: they're keeping the options open and You'm glad we got
Speaker 5: we ended up in positioning that.
Speaker 6: We are a lot of players. Demetrius in your position,
Speaker 6: are twenty one two coming into the NFL. You're twenty
Speaker 6: five with as you just admitted, acknowledged a lot of
Speaker 6: different life experiences. How do you think that affects you
Speaker 6: coming into the NFL?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. I don't think it affects me pretty
Speaker 5: too much. I believe it gives it gives me an
Speaker 5: edge telling a lot of guys that's my edge on team.
Speaker 5: That's my edge because I have I.
Speaker 2: Have a wife.
Speaker 5: I'm the other guys and young guys have wives as well,
Speaker 5: but my family is my wife. The why get up
Speaker 5: and go do what I do? And then you know,
Speaker 5: being able to play in college for that as I did,
Speaker 5: I've seen I've seen the good bear football. So I'm
Speaker 5: not a guy that team's gonna have to bates it
Speaker 5: hold hands with.
Speaker 1: One of the Bengals starting linebackers has requested a trade.
Speaker 1: Are you aware of the Jermaine Pratt situation and what
Speaker 1: opportunity do you think is going to be waiting for
Speaker 1: you in Cincinnati?
Speaker 5: I was not aware of that. I've just been trying
Speaker 5: to stay out of the media as much as possible
Speaker 5: and let the lower handleware wherever you're gonna place me,
Speaker 5: and uh, I believe that an opportunity, there's always a
Speaker 5: mentality of makes man up, but also embraced the opportunity.
Speaker 5: If you got one seven teens and that started, that's
Speaker 5: backup and that thirst. You got an opportunity to play,
Speaker 5: you gotta go to be your best moment. You have
Speaker 5: to the best of my ability, wherever they whatever, whatever
Speaker 5: they tell me, if I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: In the third round, with pick number eighty one overall,
Speaker 1: the Bengals selected Georgia offensive lineman Dylan Fairchild. He was
Speaker 1: the second team All American last year and the bulldogs
Speaker 1: starting left guard for the past two seasons. He's six'
Speaker 1: five three twenty five with a brawling wrestler's, mentality, and
Speaker 1: according To Pro Football, focus did not allow a single
Speaker 1: sack in more than seven hundred pass blocking snaps in
Speaker 1: his college. Career, ironically a lot of mock drafts had
Speaker 1: The bengals taking His georgia Teammate Tate, ratledge wound up
Speaker 1: going To detroit in round, two offensive Coordinator Dan pitcher
Speaker 1: traveled To george's pro day to take a first hand
Speaker 1: look at.
Speaker 7: Both we went down there with an open. Mind there's
Speaker 7: Other they got other guys too that we went down
Speaker 7: there to, see, Right so it's definitely a worthwhile visit
Speaker 7: for a. Coordinator but we just came away super impressed
Speaker 7: With dylan, again enjoyed our time in the classroom with.
Speaker 7: Him we felt like he was able to really articulate
Speaker 7: his role within their, offense what he was asked to.
Speaker 7: Do he was able to point, out you, know some
Speaker 7: of the errors that he, made how he would correct
Speaker 7: them moving. Forward and then, again the physical component of
Speaker 7: his play style just really fits.
Speaker 2: Us he's.
Speaker 7: Tough the intangibles are through the. Roof you, know we're
Speaker 7: talking about like an undefeated high school. Wrestler you really
Speaker 7: feel that, strength you feel that the will to move.
Speaker 7: People it's all there With. Dylan so we're super excited
Speaker 7: to have.
Speaker 4: They'll come in and compete to startup left guard right. Away,
Speaker 4: again just the, intangibles we. Like his skill set fits,
Speaker 4: us fits our, division fits our. Scheme so again we're
Speaker 4: really excited At dylan to the.
Speaker 7: Decks he's a guy who battled and played through an,
Speaker 7: injury who played less than one hundred percent but just
Speaker 7: toughed it, out was able to show that he could
Speaker 7: correct in areas maybe early in the year where he
Speaker 7: struggled a little. Bit and he's a guy with tremendous.
Speaker 7: Upset he's twenty two years, old he's got two years
Speaker 7: of starting football under his. Belt he's got a great
Speaker 7: physical skill, set and we think all the again intangibles
Speaker 7: to realize that.
Speaker 4: Potential there's a lot of scenarios out. There, obviously we
Speaker 4: want to take the best players that are. Available and
Speaker 4: we're very thankful of that linebacker that we really coveted
Speaker 4: in a guard that we really cover. It we're both
Speaker 4: there and so again that's a good day for.
Speaker 7: Us you, KNOW i think he's a player that can
Speaker 7: compete right. Away as we mentioned, before he's immediately thrown
Speaker 7: right in the mix at left, guard and he's a
Speaker 7: player with a lot of upsize upside yet to. Realize
Speaker 7: so you, know, well we're going to demand it out
Speaker 7: of them. Early we're Not we're not. Waiting you, know
Speaker 7: he's he's going to show up and the demands are
Speaker 7: going to be, clear and and we're going to ask
Speaker 7: him to go do it right, now but we know
Speaker 7: that there's there's a process there too for him to
Speaker 7: grow and ultimately become an excellent player in this.
Speaker 1: League it clearly appears that the starting spotted left guard
Speaker 1: is Fair child's to lose as a, rookie and The
Speaker 1: bengals invested a third round pick on an interior offensive
Speaker 1: lineman in hopes of landing a reliable building block that
Speaker 1: will help Protect Joe burrow for years to. Come here
Speaker 1: are some Of fairchild's comments when we caught up with
Speaker 1: him by.
Speaker 5: Phone oh, Man i'm just so honored to be taken
Speaker 5: WHERE i, was and you, know just super super excited
Speaker 5: to be next to guy as you Know i'm familiar,
Speaker 5: with super excited to be with Men's Chas, peters all
Speaker 5: the guys in this. Organization it's just a blessed to
Speaker 5: be taken by this.
Speaker 1: Franchise offensive Coordinator Dan pitcher just, said left guard is
Speaker 1: yours to. Win have they communicated.
Speaker 2: That to, You?
Speaker 5: Uh, no no so or not. Yet but you, Know
Speaker 5: i'm going to go in there and you, know do
Speaker 5: What i'm do It i'm called to, do you, know
Speaker 5: and just compete and do What i'm supposed to do
Speaker 5: every single day and give it my all day in
Speaker 5: and day.
Speaker 1: Out how would you describe the responsibility of trying to
Speaker 1: Protect Joe.
Speaker 5: Burrow, oh it's an. Honor you, Know it's an honor
Speaker 5: and it's something That i'm going to live and die
Speaker 5: by every single. Day you, Know it's the biggest honor
Speaker 5: of my. Life and you, Know i'm just super excited
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 8: It stealing The bengals throw the ball and Drop joe
Speaker 8: back more than any other team in THE. Nfl how
Speaker 8: comfortable are you in an offense that's heavily predicated on
Speaker 8: the passing.
Speaker 5: Game, YEAH i, MEAN i think it's just my play. Style,
Speaker 5: well you, know kind of in these previous. Questions you,
Speaker 5: know it's something THAT i want to improve, on as
Speaker 5: that run, blocking you, know but just being a pass
Speaker 5: every TEAM i think is just my play, style you. Know,
Speaker 5: SO i, MEAN i think that this is going to
Speaker 5: be a great. MATCH i JUST i just went went
Speaker 5: into it with a with a with an open. Mindset you.
Speaker 5: KNOW i, wasn't you, know leaning towards any. TEAM i
Speaker 5: wasn't going to try and fall in love with, anybody you.
Speaker 5: Know but now, now, now felling in love And i'm married.
Speaker 2: Now so.
Speaker 1: With The friday's, picks we'll travel To cincinnati On saturday
Speaker 1: to meet with the local media and the draft rezooms
Speaker 1: at noon with rounds, four, five, six and. Seven as of,
Speaker 1: now The bengals only have three more. Picks, safety running
Speaker 1: back and more help in the. Trenches all seem like strong.
Speaker 1: Possibilities coming up next analysis From Dave. Lapham but first
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Speaker 1: his thoughts on third round Selection Demetrius.
Speaker 2: Night i'm a sure, guy married a couple of.
Speaker 9: Kids you, know anybody that has related To Gladys knight
Speaker 9: is okay by, me and yeah, YEAH I Anaretha, franklin
Speaker 9: no doubt about. That he's you, know older. PLAYER i
Speaker 9: think he's twenty five years. OLD a downhill, player to
Speaker 9: say the, least comes downhill and hits with a lot of.
Speaker 9: Power he's very. Intense he can. Blitz he was a
Speaker 9: high school, quarterback so you know.
Speaker 2: He's got an.
Speaker 9: Athleticism he runs a four to five eight forty or
Speaker 9: one point five eight ten yards.
Speaker 2: Split pretty good numbers, there eighty one inch. WINGSPAN i,
Speaker 2: mean he is. Long he's one of.
Speaker 9: Those guys that can tie his shoelaces without bending. Over
Speaker 9: it's it's. Incredible he's he's a. LEADER i think he's
Speaker 9: got some nastiness to. Him the way he seems to
Speaker 9: comport himself on the football. Field bit all, legal of,
Speaker 9: course very passionate about the game of.
Speaker 2: Football looks like he's.
Speaker 9: A pretty fluid, athlete and he's got good football.
Speaker 2: Instincts there's no question about. That he sees.
Speaker 9: Things he's got good, eyes he, diagnoses he almost sees
Speaker 9: things before they. Happen and he's one of those guys
Speaker 9: that sometimes he comes downhill and hit you right in the,
Speaker 9: mouth and other times he'll he'll slip the block on.
Speaker 9: You so he'll he'll change things, up and he's got
Speaker 9: different techniques and how he attacks linemen and other blockers
Speaker 9: in the right, game and on top of his, physicality he's,
Speaker 9: got you, know ability to to run from sideline to.
Speaker 2: Sideline.
Speaker 9: UH i think he's A i think he's a you,
Speaker 9: know he's he's a good. Fit Al golden talked about
Speaker 9: solidifying the middle of the.
Speaker 2: Defense.
Speaker 9: Uh they Signed slayton uh in free, agency and then
Speaker 9: they Draft stewart with the first, pick And stewart can
Speaker 9: play outside or, inside and, uh HE'S i think he
Speaker 9: plays the run pretty darn. EFFECTIVELY i think that's, uh
Speaker 9: that's definitely a a plus on on his his side of.
Speaker 9: Things AND i JUST i just think, that, uh That
Speaker 9: Demetrius knight is going to be a guy That Al
Speaker 9: GOLDEN i think is identified as somebody that loves the
Speaker 9: game of football and somebody that understands the game of
Speaker 9: football and will be able to communicate, uh everything That
Speaker 9: Al golden is trying to get across to his football.
Speaker 9: Team i'm not saying he's going to be another assistant,
Speaker 9: coach BUT i think he's got the, leadership the, maturity
Speaker 9: all those kind of things where his teammates are going
Speaker 9: to really respect him and trust. Him AND i think
Speaker 9: Probably Al golden was sold on him after sitting down
Speaker 9: with him and finding out what this young man is all.
Speaker 1: About you brought UP. Tj. Slayton so they signed a
Speaker 1: massive noseguard as a free, agent their first round draft,
Speaker 1: Pick Shamar stewart six.' five he'll play somewhere between two
Speaker 1: seventy and two eighty And Now demetrius knight is a
Speaker 1: big man, at linebacker somewhere between two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five and two hundred and forty. Five pounds is there a?
Speaker 1: Message there Have the bengals gotten away from like speed
Speaker 1: speed speed in recent years and decided they needed to
Speaker 1: be a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, BEFIER yeah i mean THAT'S The.
Speaker 9: AARC north i mean the physicality OF The. AFC north
Speaker 9: i mean you look at you look at what everybody
Speaker 9: did in the first round On. Draft day everybody chose
Speaker 9: defensive players and you know there were, you know they're
Speaker 9: only like.
Speaker 2: Sixteen and a half defensive.
Speaker 9: Players chosen as one, YOUNG man i, you know basically
Speaker 9: count him as. Both sides the way he is able
Speaker 9: to get.
Speaker 2: To get things done as as.
Speaker 9: A wide receiver. IN cornerback, i mean he's just he's
Speaker 9: a different breed. A cat there's no question. About that but,
Speaker 9: YOU know i think obviously you have to be able
Speaker 9: to handle that aspect, of things and you have to have,
Speaker 9: the physicality you have to have, the size you have
Speaker 9: to have, the ATHLETICISM and I think i think that's.
Speaker 9: The thing these are all, big people but with that
Speaker 9: size comes pretty good ability.
Speaker 2: To move and, YOU.
Speaker 9: Know I Think demetrious knight is a is a guy
Speaker 9: who he basically is a sideline the, sideline guy and
Speaker 9: he's a, you know he can he can come downhill and.
Speaker 2: Thump. You uh he can also play, you, know.
Speaker 9: LATERALLY and I just i think when you have a
Speaker 9: guy that size that one snap is. A lineman you
Speaker 9: come out on him and he just takes your right
Speaker 9: down the middle of. Your snout and so now you
Speaker 9: come out and you're you're ready to brace to that
Speaker 9: big hit and he pulls the slip.
Speaker 2: On you those guys drive.
Speaker 9: You NUTS and i think he does a pretty good
Speaker 9: job of mixing, it up giving people. Different looks and,
Speaker 9: YOU know i think when you when you look, At
Speaker 9: It al golden said before the draft wants to get
Speaker 9: better defensively and starts up. The middle and he in,
Speaker 9: free agency, of course he like we talked about he
Speaker 9: signed a big horse in free agency up, the middle
Speaker 9: and now he compounds that or adds to that was
Speaker 9: do it and now back that up with a, you
Speaker 9: know a two hundred and thirty five and forty pounds,
Speaker 9: you know middle linebacker who is the quarterback of. THE defense,
Speaker 9: i MEAN that's i think that's the other thing To
Speaker 9: Probably al golden Liked About demetrius knight as HIS. Football
Speaker 9: iq and, You know i'm sure when they had their
Speaker 9: interview and any testing that was done that that probably
Speaker 9: came out very.
Speaker 2: VERY forcefully.
Speaker 9: I think i think, this guy, you know, understands scheme
Speaker 9: understands what an offense is trying to do to to
Speaker 9: take a part, of defense understands what a defense needs.
Speaker 2: To do to. Counter that and, you know he's a
Speaker 2: guy he's the quarterback of.
Speaker 9: The defense, you know the quarterback obviously quarterback of. The
Speaker 9: offense but a guy Like This, DEMETRIUS knight, i mean
Speaker 9: he's a guy that's going to take control of the
Speaker 9: huddle and he's going to be the, unquestioned Leader And
Speaker 9: al golden's going to be, you know stay going verbally
Speaker 9: or in students or whatever on the sideline and To
Speaker 9: meeteus knight is going to take that take that information
Speaker 9: and imparted to his teammates in a very, confident manner
Speaker 9: and then he's going to make any necessary adjustments that
Speaker 9: he has to make based on what the offense does
Speaker 9: at the line.
Speaker 2: Of SCRIMMAGE so i think.
Speaker 9: A guy of his age has got a lot of experience,
Speaker 9: football experience. Life experience AND like, i said the dude's
Speaker 9: married with a couple. OF kids i mean that's a
Speaker 9: that's a different dynamic a lot of these. YOUNG bucks,
Speaker 9: i mean some of these his teammates are going, to be,
Speaker 9: you know barely twenty. Years OLD so i think they're
Speaker 9: going to look at him as somebody that commands respect
Speaker 9: and they're going to trust him because, you know he's
Speaker 9: the world league guy, as such both on and off the.
Speaker 1: FOOTBALL field i Thought the bengals were going to take
Speaker 1: a guard in the. Second round that, didn't happen but
Speaker 1: they got one in, Round Three dylan fairchild Out of georgia. Six'
Speaker 1: five depending on what roster, you look at somewhere between
Speaker 1: three point fifteen and, Three twenty five what do You Think? Of,
Speaker 1: DYLAN fairchild.
Speaker 2: YEAH i think i, think this one this one's. An intriguing.
Speaker 9: Pick You, know the BENGALS like like, I Mentioned, earlier al,
Speaker 9: golden you know wanted to improve the Defense. And the
Speaker 9: bengals the first two picks were defensive picks at the
Speaker 9: defensive line and then at the at. The linebacker position
Speaker 9: so it was time to address the area that didn't
Speaker 9: needed to be addressed, the most offensive and that was
Speaker 9: the interior of. The Offensive Line and dylan fairchild is.
Speaker 2: He's he's, a football. PLAYER you, know i mean.
Speaker 9: This guy is a, is a passionate passionate guy about the. Game,
Speaker 9: of football wrestler highly acclaimed, High schoo wrestler Every wrestler
Speaker 9: that i've seen and played against on, the football field
Speaker 9: they all have unbelievable balance and a lot of them are.
Speaker 9: FREE damn NASTY i think i think he's got. Both
Speaker 9: of those and they also part of the balance is the. Ability,
Speaker 9: TO recover, So I mean tim crumrie is. A great,
Speaker 9: example i mean you Could Not get tim krumrie. Off his,
Speaker 9: feet it's, like you know he dug holes and buried
Speaker 9: his feet and planted his feet.
Speaker 2: In the dirt it was amazing trying to get.
Speaker 9: Him off balance and when he did get a little,
Speaker 9: bit off balance he's. RECOVERING a, heartbeat i mean his,
Speaker 9: recovery was instantaneous and they just. Have an understanding wrestlers
Speaker 9: have an understanding of leverage and body mechanics and what
Speaker 9: to do to counter something.
Speaker 2: That you're doing.
Speaker 9: And he is that's that's extremely valuable as a result
Speaker 9: of the balance and the body mechanics and recovery abilities.
Speaker 2: And all that he's a.
Speaker 9: HALACIOUS pass Protector I Mean pro football focus gives him
Speaker 9: a great at eighty nine point two since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9: THIS past season i think you get a rating and
Speaker 9: hide like ninety. Seven or something and you know what
Speaker 9: he does is, as ar wrestling he is not going
Speaker 9: to allow the. Pocket to collapse he's gonna firm. That
Speaker 9: pocket up he's going to keep the depth. Of the
Speaker 9: pocket quarterbacks appreciate, the offensive tackles keeping the width, of
Speaker 9: the pocket keeping those edge rushers as, wide as possible
Speaker 9: and then the center, and the, guards you know making
Speaker 9: sure that the. Pocket is firm they, take people on
Speaker 9: they use hands and lock. Their arms out he's not
Speaker 9: the longest in, terms of arms but he's got very
Speaker 9: quick hands and. He's very, comfortable you know, if in
Speaker 9: fact a guy you know snuggles up his pass rush
Speaker 9: a little bit, of defensive linemen he gets pretty close
Speaker 9: and tight to his body because of.
Speaker 2: His wrestling, background you know. Wrestlers like that wrestlers like to.
Speaker 2: Grapple like that it.
Speaker 9: Doesn't it doesn't bother him if he. Doesn't have separation
Speaker 9: but he does. Have quick hands, he will strike will he,
Speaker 9: will you know separate when when. WHEN he CAN i
Speaker 9: just i just think that it's not that he's a,
Speaker 9: terrible RUN blocker but i think he's such a. Superior
Speaker 9: pass protector you know that that's what. Gets Talked About
Speaker 9: and joe burrow was stacked forty eight, times last year,
Speaker 9: so you know firming up that pocket is going to be.
Speaker 2: A big deal the other thing that that is of
Speaker 2: some Intrigue Is a marius, wms his teammate.
Speaker 9: And you know he had some of his staffs at that,
Speaker 9: right guard position which would be Right Next. To Marius
Speaker 9: memes and i'm sure you know they have a good feeling.
Speaker 9: About each other i'm sure there's a. Respect level there
Speaker 9: there's a trust level there from, not only games but
Speaker 9: practices and getting to know your teammate not only as,
Speaker 9: a football player but, as a, person you, know over
Speaker 9: time so that's that can't be anything but a.
Speaker 1: Plus As well, dan pitcher said left Guard is fair.
Speaker 1: Child's to win what your reaction to a third round
Speaker 1: draft pick being penciled in is the likely starting left
Speaker 1: guard In Front. Of, JOE burrow.
Speaker 9: Yeah i, Think You know cordell wilson obviously had issues
Speaker 9: last year and he was removed from. That starting lineup,
Speaker 9: and you, know the thing THE thing That I think
Speaker 9: dylan fairchild does pretty well is from the. Wrestling as
Speaker 9: well understands leverage and understands his pad level.
Speaker 2: And getting his pad.
Speaker 9: Level underneath people and that was An area, where volson,
Speaker 9: struggled you know.
Speaker 2: Last, YEAR mightily actually i mean it.
Speaker 9: Was a, problem for him and the problem grew is the,
Speaker 9: season one along, and you know you have to be
Speaker 9: able to bend at the knees and not. At the
Speaker 9: waist and one thing that wrestlers normally are is they've.
Speaker 9: Got body Flexibility And watching dylan fairchild, a little bit looks.
Speaker 2: Like he does have a lot.
Speaker 9: Of body, FLEXIBILITY so YEAH i think i don't think
Speaker 9: that that challenge will be too. Big FOR him and
Speaker 9: i Do Think that joe burrow will appreciate his talents
Speaker 9: as a past protector if in fact he does.
Speaker 2: Win the, job you know.
Speaker 9: Quarterbacks love a firm Pocket, man and, joe you know,
Speaker 9: As we know joe loves to climb in the pocket
Speaker 9: late and have his eyes downfield.
Speaker 2: The whole time as he's.
Speaker 9: Climbing the pocket, when he's climbing he's not necessarily. Looking
Speaker 9: to run more, times than not he's got his eyes
Speaker 9: down the football field and he'll, deliver a, strike you
Speaker 9: know from a platform that's, that's not, uh you, know
Speaker 9: defensive players it's not conduced to accurate.
Speaker 2: Delivery with a.
Speaker 9: GREAT follow, Through, i mean joel he's thrown off, his front,
Speaker 9: foot you know his balance will look.
Speaker 2: Awkward or whatever man he's he's. Accurate as hell he
Speaker 2: does it as well or.
Speaker 9: Better than anybody and he can climb that pocket and
Speaker 9: he can find a lane to take advantage of and.
Speaker 9: Run if necessary but a lot of times he's just
Speaker 9: trying to find that lane to buy a little bit
Speaker 9: extra time and have those eyes down the field.
Speaker 2: The whole time and uh and and and put.
Speaker 9: The ball right on the, money with, that you know
Speaker 9: drop a din accuracy, that he HAS and SO i think.
Speaker 2: I THINK it's a i think it's.
Speaker 9: A good fit i Think that the bengals obviously like,
Speaker 9: throwing the football and they put a lot of money
Speaker 9: into their quarterback and two receivers, and tight end and
Speaker 9: you know they intend on throwing football and hurting people.
Speaker 9: Through THE air and i think. That's Right Up Dylan.
Speaker 2: Sia charles alley there's.
Speaker 1: One Day left the bengals have picks, in, round four.
Speaker 1: Five and six here are some of the names that are.
Speaker 1: Still Out there ohio, State Edge, Rusher Jack sawyer south,
Speaker 1: Carolina Edge, rusher kyle Kinnard Running backs cam Scataboo Out,
Speaker 1: Of Arizona state corey KINER out of uc. And Many,
Speaker 1: others Jack Kaiser, Linebacker, notre dames kentucky three hundred and forty,
Speaker 1: Pound Defensive, tackle dion, Walker Offensive lineman Jared, Wilson From
Speaker 1: georgia Luke, Candra from cincinnati Marcus Bow from Purdue Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Safety billy bowman do any names or position groups rise
Speaker 1: to the top of your list for something you'd like
Speaker 1: To see the bengals Get, DONE on saturday i.
Speaker 2: Would go back to the defensive.
Speaker 9: Side of football the, football you know they did the,
Speaker 9: first two picks and now they addressed the interior of,
Speaker 9: the defensive line they addressed the. Inside linebacker position they
Speaker 9: went to the interior or the offensive line with. THEIR
Speaker 9: third pick i would continue that trend and and solidify
Speaker 9: the middle of the defense with the best safety. On
Speaker 9: the board if they're you don't like what is out
Speaker 9: there at, the safety, position you know maybe. YOU go corner, i,
Speaker 9: do Think though that i'm a firm believer in being strong,
Speaker 9: up the middle both. Offensively, and defensively uh you haven't
Speaker 9: been involved with the game of baseball for a good part.
Speaker 2: OF your life, i, mean catcher, shortstop second.
Speaker 9: Base center field when you've get those positions in control
Speaker 9: in the middle of, your defenses sound you're going to
Speaker 9: have pretty good numbers on the defensive.
Speaker 2: Side of things it's it's like. THAT in, football i mean.
Speaker 9: If you've, got you know, interior defensive linemen then they
Speaker 9: can win at the, line of scrimmage a linebacker that
Speaker 9: they can come downhill, and wreck plays and you know
Speaker 9: safeties that. Are just headhunters it's it's that that's that's
Speaker 9: the makings of. A GOOD defense so i would have
Speaker 9: no problem with them going back on the to the defensive,
Speaker 9: side OF it and uh and going.
Speaker 2: With, the you know with. The safety, Position you know scat,
Speaker 2: was an.
Speaker 9: Interesting interesting. Guy you know the one thing at the
Speaker 9: running back POSITION at the uh, at the combine there
Speaker 9: were more. QUALITY running backs i think it was thirty
Speaker 9: one running backs showed up, at the combine and really
Speaker 9: they're looking at him. A little bit i mean there
Speaker 9: were ten or, eleven of them, and, that's like eh
Speaker 9: you've can take a second or third, look at. This
Speaker 9: You know and i'm not saying that they're going to
Speaker 9: take a running back with, the next pick but it
Speaker 9: would not surprise me before the drafts over that running.
Speaker 2: Back is selected and then if for some.
Speaker 9: Reason it's not college free agency in the in the
Speaker 9: second phase of, unrestricted free agency there there may be
Speaker 9: somebody that that would peak. Peak the interest so there's
Speaker 9: still miles to go before they rest in, assembling a
Speaker 9: roster and there's still a couple of a, couple of
Speaker 9: areas and you've got to finish, the draft obviously and then,
Speaker 9: unrestricted free agency, and you know after you finish the
Speaker 9: draft on a round, by round basis there's college free,
Speaker 9: agency as, well and honestly you Look At, the cincinnati
Speaker 9: bengals it is a it's, A destination now i mean
Speaker 9: around the league, in college football, it's you Know You
Speaker 9: heard schuman, stewart.
Speaker 2: Talking about yeah you.
Speaker 9: Know You met joe burrow and how how excited he
Speaker 9: Was About.
Speaker 2: Meeting joe burrow, and you know people want To Play.
Speaker 2: With joe burrow it's no.
Speaker 9: No shot there and everybody that follows football knows That
Speaker 9: They resigned joe burrow's top two targets at, The Receiver,
Speaker 9: position jason higgins and They resigned to sickie at the.
Speaker 9: Tight end position, who's you know a dynamic receiver at
Speaker 9: the tight end position and basically lines up in.
Speaker 2: SPOTS like, receivers, i mean so.
Speaker 9: If you're a, college football player you want to be
Speaker 9: Drafted By.
Speaker 2: The cincinnati bengals.
Speaker 9: If you're an umber, restricted free agent you'd love to
Speaker 9: be Contacted By, the cincinnati bengals and you'd love to
Speaker 9: Visit With the cincinnati bengals, because you know number nine is.
Speaker 9: The real deal he's proven it and He's got the
Speaker 9: bengals has done a good job of making sure that
Speaker 9: he's got weapons to throw.
Speaker 2: The football too and now they're making.
Speaker 9: Sure That with dylan fairchild being selected in, the third
Speaker 9: round adding to the interior of, the offensive line and
Speaker 9: they want to make sure they. Protect those investments and,
Speaker 9: then you know the offensively do.
Speaker 2: Every thing they possibly can to take care of that
Speaker 2: side of the.
Speaker 9: Football and don't get caught, in the, shootouts you know
Speaker 9: don't don't be in, these.
Speaker 2: Forty, one you know.
Speaker 9: THIRTY eight contests I, mean the bengals what they have
Speaker 9: five games where they scored thirty points or more and
Speaker 9: certainly didn't, live them, all you know so it.
Speaker 2: Might have been.
Speaker 9: More than that they might have lost some games where they,
Speaker 9: scored thirty more. That's for sure, so you know it
Speaker 9: takes both sides of the football to be a. Championship
Speaker 9: football team And And with al golden and new members
Speaker 9: of the defensive coaching staff and what they're what they're.
Speaker 9: Looking to INSTALL that's why I Think these notre dame
Speaker 9: players have a little bit of intrigue because obviously they
Speaker 9: come in there with.
Speaker 2: A leg Up they.
Speaker 9: Understand al, gold and system they understand his language that
Speaker 9: is communicated, within that system.
Speaker 2: AND that's big i mean that.
Speaker 9: That gives you a head start, against you know other
Speaker 9: players that are coming in off the street and have
Speaker 9: not had any kind. Of exposure whatsoever now not saying
Speaker 9: they can't, catch off quickly, But You know al golda
Speaker 9: not only that, aspect of it but he knows what
Speaker 9: they're like under fire in the. Heat of battle they
Speaker 9: know what he's like under fire in the, heat of battle.
Speaker 2: And all of that, Stuff has value. There's no question
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 9: Know those those those relationships and the dynamic of those
Speaker 9: relationships are what football.
Speaker 2: Is all.
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