1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,359 Speaker 1: Hi again, everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: the Bengals Booths Podcast, the Dream on Dream On, Dream 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: On Dream until your dream Come True. Addition, as the 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the Super Bowl, let me 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: say that again, the Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham after a 8 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: thrilling overtime win over the Chiefs in Kansas City. Then, 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll hear from a 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: guy who just joined the team last week and has 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: made an impact in the first two road playoff wins 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: in team history. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: Ultimate Bengals, the free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game, 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: downloaded now from the App Store and Google Play, and 15 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: by on Location, the official hospitality partner of the NFL. 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: Fell Visit on location exp dot com for exclusive access 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,119 Speaker 1: to the biggest events in the NFL all season long, 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: including Super Bowl fifty six. And here's a quick reminder 19 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: that you can have the latest edition of this podcast 20 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: delivered write to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since 22 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: burnt ends. Burnt ends are a barbecue specialty in Kansas City. 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: Here's a description that I found on the internet. The 24 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 1: ends of a brisket are thinner than the middle part 25 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: and therefore cook faster, and after long hours in the smoker, 26 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 1: the ends get well burnt. These crunchy, heavily caramelized, intensely 27 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: smokey endpieces are delicious and I had them at lunch 28 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: and dinner the day before the AFC Championship game. It 29 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: was the second best part of my trip to Kansas City, 30 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: a very distant second best. If you listen regularly to 31 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: this podcast, you know that I usually do a very 32 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: detailed recap of the game, mixing highlights with postgame interviews. 33 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: With a six am flight to catch on Monday, I'm 34 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: going to make it a little less time consuming this week. 35 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: You'll get all of the radio replays first, followed by 36 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: some of the postgame comments. After that, it's analysis from 37 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: Dave Lapham, and then a really good edition of fun 38 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: Facts with Bengals newcomer Zach Kerr. First, the highlights of 39 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: the Bengals' biggest win in thirty three years. Today, for 40 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: the first time in thirty three years, the Cincinnati Bengals 41 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: are one win from going to the Super Bowl. But 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: to get there, they will have to beat one of 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: the game's all time greatest coaches and a twenty six 44 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: year old quarterback with supernatural talent, and they'll have to 45 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: do it in the world's loudest outdoor stadium. It's the 46 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game and it's time for the pigskin to 47 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: lie here at Arrowhead Stadium. Mahomes drops back to throw, 48 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: looking over the middle, scans left, scans right, takes off 49 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: running toward the sideline, chucks it into the end zone, 50 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: caught near the back pylon by Tyree Hill. Touchdown Kansas City. 51 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: A thirty two yard try from the right hash for 52 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: Evan Almighty Evan McPherson. He has been perfect in the postseason. 53 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: Kevin Huber ready for the snap, catches, puts it down. 54 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: Evan McPherson's kick launched high and true. It is good 55 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: and the Bengals are on the scoreboard. With thirty six 56 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: seconds left in the first quarter, third down in two 57 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: from the five, Mahomes back to throw, does a little 58 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: shoulder shake a hunder pressure running backward. He's at the nineteen, 59 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: now charges forward, throws into the end zone. Touchdown. Travis Kelsey. 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: That's just backyard ball. That's out of the schoollyard in 61 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: the plate ground. Mahomes under Summer Clyde Edwards Hilaires the 62 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: running back. They fake to him. Mahomes throws it, is 63 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: caught and it's a touchdown. McCall Hardman racing toward the 64 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: forward right pylon, caught it at the one and ran 65 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: it in for the three yard score. You know the 66 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: thing about this Kansas City Chiefs offense talk about speed. 67 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: Speed can stretch you vertically, it can also stretch you horizontally. 68 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: I mean they are so fast you burrow back to 69 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: throw short pass caught by p Rhyan p Rhyne down 70 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: to the thirty sideline. Twenty fifty and ten five touchdown 71 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: Bengals some Maj p Rhyne taking a short pass forty 72 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: one yards to the house from the one yard line 73 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: with five seconds left and a half. Mahomes throws Hill, 74 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: catches at the six and gets tackled thin bounds and 75 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: the cock rights out. A very questionable decision by the 76 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. They threw it sideways to Tyree Hill 77 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: and the Cheetah could not get in or get out 78 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: of bounds. Eli Apple with a tackle at the one 79 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: and the Bengals dodge a bullet as Kansas City drives 80 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: to the one, runs two plays and fails to score. 81 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: This will be a thirty one yard attempt from the left. 82 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: Hash mc pherson one for one in this game, nine 83 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: for nine in the postseason. Clark Harris snaps it to 84 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: Kevin Huber. The kick is on its way from mc 85 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: pherson and it is good and the Bengals have pulled 86 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: within eight. Shotgun snap Mahomes passes defected and ticked off 87 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: the Bengals half the ball half the twenty seven b J. 88 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: Hill comes away with a football and the Bengals get 89 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: a takeaway, down by eight. With two eighteen left in 90 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: the third quarter, third down in goal, the ball just 91 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: inside the Kansas City three. Shotgun snap to Burrow, throws 92 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: it into the end zone for Chase. He leaps, He's 93 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: got it, touchdown down Bengals with fourteen seconds left in 94 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: the third quarter, and now the Bengals can go for 95 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: two to try to tie this game. Trent Taylor goes 96 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: in motion from right to left. He's in the game. 97 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: Shotgun snap, Burrow throws the Taylor might open. He's got 98 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: it now the forward left pylon. It's a two point 99 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: conversion and the Bengals have climbed back from a twenty 100 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: one to three deficit to tie this game. I'll tell 101 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: you what, just the simple out route and they lost him. 102 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: They lost track or Trent Taylor. Third down and seven 103 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: for the Bengals at their own twenty three. Burrow waiting 104 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: for a shotgun snap. Samaj A p Rhyme lines up 105 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: to his left. Two receivers left, two out to the right. 106 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: Burrow back to throw. Burrow grab gets away from a sack, 107 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: scrambling left, being chased, gets away again, hunting up the sideline, 108 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,119 Speaker 1: sticks out the ball with his right hand and gets 109 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: the first down. Just passed the line to gain. Chris 110 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: Jones had him dead to rights. Jones gets to his 111 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: feet and he can't believe he did not get Joe 112 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 1: Burrow to the ground. Sneaky. This is a fifty two 113 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: yard try for the twenty two year old kid from 114 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: Fort Payne, Alabama. The snap, the put down, the kick, 115 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: It has the distance. Baby it is good God. The 116 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,239 Speaker 1: Bengals have the lead for the first time with six 117 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: minutes and four seconds to go. On third and goal 118 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: from the nile. Mahomes catches the shotgun snap, retreats back 119 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: to the eighteen, looking around in the end zone. Nobody 120 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: opened yet no pressure at all. Now here comes the rush. 121 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: Mahomes way back at the twenty five. It loses the ball. 122 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: The Chiefs fall on it at the twenty six, two 123 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: seconds on the clock and regulation. Butcker is ready the snap, 124 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: the put down. The kick is on its way. It 125 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: is good and we are headed overtime. Tied at twenty four, 126 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: the Bengals send three cover with eight Mahomes deep down 127 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: field for the Cheetah. It's deflected and intercepted by von Bell. 128 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: Bell running in the middle of the field of the 129 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: forty forty five, taken down with a high tackle by 130 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: Kelsey at the forty five yard line. No penalty flag, 131 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: but the Bengals come up with an overtime interception and 132 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: now could win the game on a field goal. Four 133 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: years ago, he was a senior in high school in 134 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: tiny Fort Payne, Alabama. Now the Bengal Super Bowl chances 135 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: rest on his right foot, the kick is up. Yeah, 136 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: if good Coffin nails, bam bam. That is unblievable. The 137 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals come from behind on the road, unbelievable. Dan, 138 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: it is no fluke, It is a fact. The Cincinnati 139 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: Bengals are headed to Super Bowl fifty six. They just 140 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: redefined the word resilient. 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Now time to 146 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: hear from several Bengals, beginning with Cincinnati native Sam Hubbard. 147 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: The Chiefs had the ball at the four yard line 148 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: with one twenty six to go before Hubbard came up 149 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: with back to back sacks that knocked Kansas City backward 150 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: and forced the Chiefs to settle for a game tying 151 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: field goal. I mean, we're going to the Super Bowl, 152 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: and it sounds crazy to say that. I think when 153 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: you say that, it's just hard to believe. And we're here, 154 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: you know. I love this team, I love this city, 155 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: and we got one more to get to get it all, 156 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: and I'm just on cloud nine right now. The Chiefs 157 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: won the coin toss in overtime, but unlike last week 158 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: against Buffalo, did not drive for a game ending touchdown. Instead, 159 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes was intercepted by Von Bell. They're gonna make plays. 160 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: You know, they're here for a reason. You know, they've 161 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: been in the Super Bowls, They've been in the big games. 162 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: They know how to win. They're gonna find a guy. 163 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: They're gonna make plays. But we're gonna make plays too. 164 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: And when you have the opportunity to go out there 165 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: and make them and seize the moment. And like I said, 166 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: it's calmed down, make the plays that come to you, 167 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,599 Speaker 1: and everything else go unfold. High posts unfold. And we 168 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: just stuck to it. Man. We never batted eye, never 169 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 1: had doubt, lean on one another, just going out there, 170 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: just having fun playing with each other. For the fifth 171 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: time this year and the second week in a row, 172 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: the game ended on a game winning walk off field 173 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: goal by Mick Fearless Evan McPherson, who has made all 174 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: four of his field goal attempts in three straight playoff wins. 175 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: I didn't say anything this week, but you know, it's 176 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: going through my head that there's probably a good chance 177 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: that we're going to go into the super Bowl, And 178 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's so surreal that, you know, 179 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: this game came down to a field goal. And obviously 180 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: it wasn't just me. You know, our defense put us 181 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: in a great position with the interception, and then our 182 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: offense obviously I had a lot of commidants in them 183 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: that they were going to drive it down, and you know, 184 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: either I thought we were gonna score. You know, that's 185 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: what I was telling a lot of people, you know, 186 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: were this game You're gonna do on a on a touchdown, 187 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 1: not a field goal. Joe Burrow completed twenty three of 188 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: thirty eight passes for two hundred and fifty yards, with 189 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: two touchdowns and one interception. He was only sacked once 190 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 1: and hit four times. But here's the stat that really matters. 191 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: Burrow has already led the Bengals to three playoff wins 192 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: that ties Boomer as Siason's team record, and like Boomer 193 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: and Kenny Anderson, Burrow is taking the Bengals to the 194 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: super Bowl. I wouldn't call it surreal. I would say 195 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: it's exciting. You know. I think if you would have 196 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: told me before the season that we'd be going to 197 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: the super Bowl, I probably would have called you crazy. 198 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: But then you know, we played a whole season and 199 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: you know, nothing surprises me. Now I know the kind 200 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: of guys that we have and the team that we have, 201 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 1: so you know, there's there's still one left. We're excited 202 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: about this one, but you know, we'll celebrate to nine 203 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: and then move on. The final word comes from head 204 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: coach Zach Taylor. First of all, I'm happy for this 205 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: team and everyone in an organization. But you can't help 206 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: but think about all the people back in Cincinnati celebrating 207 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 1: right now, and all the people that were here. It 208 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: felt like half the stadium, you know, at the end 209 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: of the game, when the game was over and all 210 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: of our fans got down there. Uh, it was. It 211 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: was a special moment. So happy for the city of Cincinnati. 212 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: They've waited for this moment, they've supported us waiting for 213 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: this Momentum couldn't be happier that that. Hopefully we can 214 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: get them all out to LA We can figure that out, 215 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: get the planes, the shuttles, the trains. Whatever we gotta do. 216 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: We gotta get all this people out to LA because 217 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: we know we're gonna be playing a California team. And 218 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: I know the fans were all probably hoping for the 219 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, because what better way to go than 220 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: than the most recent one that they had um But 221 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: either way, it's it's gonna be fun and we're gonna 222 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 1: have to have our best on that Sunday in the 223 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So appreciate the fans. Couldn't wouldn't be here 224 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: without them. The Bengal Super Bowl opponent will be the 225 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams on the Rams home field, the second 226 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: year in a row that the NFC champion his host 227 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: did the Super Bowl. The Rams advanced with a twenty 228 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: to seventeen win over the forty nine Ers. That means 229 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: Zach Taylor will be coaching against his former boss Sean McVeigh. 230 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 231 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: Lap I got the impression that at the end of 232 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: the game, you're feeling was the same as mine. I 233 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: can't believe that this team is going to the Super Bowl. 234 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 1: I really can't either, Dan. I mean, you look at it. 235 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: Two years ago, the Drugs of the NFL two wins, 236 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: I'm going eleven to begin with. Yeah, I mean, it's 237 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: as dramatic a turnaround as in the NFL has ever seen. 238 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: It really is. It's indescribable. Hat's off to all of them. 239 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: Hat's off to everybody. The thing, the thing that they've 240 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: done so well is when they had when they got 241 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: the opportunity, they enjoyed it, had fun, maximized it, played loose, 242 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: were resilient. All the things you needed to do they did. 243 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: It's it's just it's mind boggling. And when you think 244 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: about how young they are at key positions, at key spots, 245 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: the coaches too. I mean, it's really wild, it really is. 246 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: It's a It's a heck of a story. Hollywood and 247 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: could Hollywood could not write a better script than what happened. 248 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: It's it's amazing. So in the first half, the Chief's 249 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: offense was a hot knife through butter. First drive eighty 250 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: four yards touchdown, Second drive seventy five yards touchdown, Third 251 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: drive seventy two yards touchdown. Fourth drive, long drive down 252 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: to the one yard line, and they get nothing. How 253 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: much did that play and that decision change the momentum 254 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: of this game. I think it was the determining factor. 255 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: I think it was the turning point in the football 256 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: game for them to uh, you know, three touchdown passes 257 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: in the red zone from a home bone bone bone 258 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: and then get in the red zone and trying to 259 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: kind of outthink himself be a little bit too cute? 260 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: Did Andy Reid and that play? The design of that play, 261 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: it's all or nothing and they got nothing out of it. 262 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: And honestly, you can question a lot of things. You 263 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: can question the decision to do it, the play selection, 264 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: and it's amazing that Eli Apple made the play they 265 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: made in space on a guy that's is incredibly athletic, 266 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: is Tyreek Hill. I mean, I don't know, if you 267 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: throw it out there a hundred times, you think Tyreek 268 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: Hill would probably make the play a high high percentage 269 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: of it of the time. But Eli Apple, when it counted, 270 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: you step it up and made the play. And really 271 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: in the playoffs, he's been a big playmaker. I mean 272 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: he has made he's he's flashed, I mean, he's he's 273 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: jumped off the tape, There's no question about it. It 274 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: was also his past interference penalty to put the ball 275 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: at the one yard line. So you talk about making 276 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: up for your mistake, Holy cow, no question, no question. 277 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: And that's that's the epitome of resiliency. You know, it's 278 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: like compartmentalizing, all right. You know, I've can't do anything 279 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: about what I've done. All I can do is what 280 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: I'm about to do and try to make restitution. All 281 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: I can control is the future. The past is done, 282 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: no more control of that anymore. And man, to think 283 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: of all the guys that made how about Sam Hubbard 284 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: back to back sacks at the most crucial time of 285 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: the football game. That's just amazing. When they rushed through 286 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: and drop eight, I mean, plastering the receivers, Holmes having 287 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: nowhere to go at the football. They really must have 288 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: disguised things a lot differently in the second half, because 289 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: it looked like it was a puzzle that he couldn't 290 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: even come close to solving, whereas in the first half 291 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: he was just decisive and ripping it. In the second half, 292 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: he never felt good about anything that he was looking 293 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: at down the football field. So hats off to lou 294 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: Anna Rumo the defensive staff for tweaking things, making the 295 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: adjustments that they made. And making life tough on Mahomes 296 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: and for the players for executing it all. But man 297 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: twenty one to three close to the end of the 298 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: half and to score, you know, to make it an 299 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: eleven point game at halftime. You thought, well, you know, 300 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: they get the ball to start the third quarter. If 301 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: you can stop, make a stop there and cut it 302 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: to a one score game, you have a shot. And 303 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. Crazy. So in the first meeting, 304 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: twenty eight points in the first half, three in the 305 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: second half, and this one twenty one points in the 306 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: first half, three in the second half. But the difference 307 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: is in that first game, the Bengals offense held the 308 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: ball for almost the entire second half. The Chiefs only 309 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: had three possessions. This time, the Chiefs got the ball 310 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: plenty of times. Punt, punt, interception, punt, punt, field goal interception, 311 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: seven drives, three points, two turnovers with Mahomes, Kelsey Hill, etc. 312 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: It really is incredible. Uh, you know, you look at 313 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: the turnovers and then the play at the at the 314 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: end of the first half that we talked about with 315 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: Andy Reid's decision where no points in the red zone. 316 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 1: I mean that's three takeaways. You talk about three possessions 317 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: that you that you steal without allowing any points to 318 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. That's what you had to have 319 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: happened that that was one of the pieces of the 320 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 1: formula I think for success. And I was absolutely stunned though. 321 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: You know, Bengals come from behind fourteen nothing, twenty one seven, 322 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: twenty eight, fourteen in Cincinnati, that's one thing. But to 323 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: go on the road at Arrowhead and be down twenty 324 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: one three in that place and to come back and 325 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: uh and win the football game. It's it's just it's 326 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: incomprehensible and describable. It's in everything. I mean, it's it 327 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: is as wild a script as I've ever seen written, 328 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 1: that's for sure. What can you say about Joe Burrow, 329 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: I mean, for what he's done for the city, for 330 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: the franchise, for the future of the franchise, It's really 331 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: hard to put into words it is. I mean, I 332 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: don't think i've ever seen well I shouldn't say, because 333 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: you know, I haven't been in Bengals history anyway, but 334 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,199 Speaker 1: I'm sure it was that way with Peyton Manning. But 335 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning's rookie year, he led the NFL in interceptions, 336 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: you know, and they won two games. But you know, 337 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: you could see what you might have in Peyton Manning. 338 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. I mean, in the ten games he played, 339 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: he was he was making noise, as he would put 340 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 1: it at that time. Right away, he just jumped right 341 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: in and was he was getting it done. Yeah. I 342 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen one piece as impressive and 343 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: as important as what Joe Burrow has done. I mean, 344 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: he believes, so they all believe, you know, as as 345 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: the great Paul Brown said, winning makes believers of us all, 346 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: and Joe Burrows a winner. Joe Burrow, you know he 347 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: got to the state championship game, lost in the shootout, 348 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: to put up crazy numbers. What he did at LSU, 349 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: what he's doing here. This guy. The bigger the game, 350 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: the more he steps up, the more he believes, and 351 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 1: it's contagious and teammates believe at that point in time. 352 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: You've known Mike Brown for nearly fifty years. What do 353 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: you think's going through his mind? Yeah? I think he's 354 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: He's desperately wanted this to happen, I think for a 355 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: long time, and I think he's just his mind's probably blown. 356 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 1: I mean, it is mind boggling to think that this 357 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: year that they took it as far as they did. 358 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I think he was expecting improvement, like all 359 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: of us. But I don't think that in his wildest 360 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: dreams he could think could have thought that back in 361 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: August and September that this team was going to the 362 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I just you know, it's I don't know 363 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: how you can go there, how you can get there. 364 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: You can hope, but to actually, you know, have a 365 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: true feeling, true belief that that was going to be 366 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: the case. So, I mean, I would think at the 367 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: stage of his life that he's at, there could not 368 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: be a better gift from Mike Brown than what he's 369 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: experiencing right now. I mean, he probably feels like a 370 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: kid again. And it was pretty cool to see him 371 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: up on that stage hugging Zach Taylor, hugging Icky Wood, 372 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: saying what a moment for Mike Brown and h and 373 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: everybody in his family. And then there's Zach Taylor six 374 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: twenty five and one in his first two years that 375 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: ranks with among the worst records of any coach in 376 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: history in their first two years, and now in year three, 377 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: he's taken this team to the super Bowl, and these 378 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: guys love them. You know, It's it's amazing. Like Zach 379 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: has said, if you were with almost any other organization 380 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: in the NFL, he wouldn't have gotten a third body 381 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: of the Apple, wouldn't have gotten a third year. But 382 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: Mike Brown believed, and Mike Brown is patient and persistent 383 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: in his belief. So you look at what kind of 384 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: a feeling must there be between Zach Taylor and Mike 385 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: Brown right now? I mean that's you talk about bonds 386 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: that are made. That's that's a bond that is unique. 387 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,479 Speaker 1: It'll it'll never be broken. They'll never forget any of it. Uh. 388 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: It's it's life changing, to say the least. Just to 389 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: imagine the resiliency and the determination that it took to 390 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: get from where they were to where they've gotten to 391 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: in such a short period of time. I mean, the 392 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: perfect storm had to happen. It was the perfect year 393 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: to go too and fourteen because you got Joe Barrow 394 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 1: and then you know, make some improvements and you can 395 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: get a guy like Jamar Chase and it's like wow. 396 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: But then all the other stuff they did in free 397 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: agency and the draft, they just made a lot of 398 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: really good decisions in a short period of time here 399 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: to turn this thing around. It's almost it's almost impossible 400 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: to you know, predetermined or track of course that they took. 401 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: And man, they hit everything out of the park. Everything 402 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: they did, not everything, but a high, high percentage of 403 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: most things they did turned out to be the right thing. 404 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: Just unbelievable. Here's a stat that speaks to the resiliency. 405 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: That's only the second time in the last thirteen postseason 406 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: overtime games that the team that lost the coin toss 407 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: won the game. Second time in the last thirteen postseason 408 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: overtime games. It's such a huge advantage to get the 409 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: ball first, where you can score a touchdown and win, 410 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: or maybe get two possessions of one whatever it might be. 411 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: For the Bengals to come up with the interception first 412 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: Von Bell and then to calmly drive down the field 413 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: into chip shot field goal range is remarkable. It is 414 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: it is, I mean, to get a turnover after you 415 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: lose the coin toss is you know, I don't know 416 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: what the analytics guys would say, but it's got to 417 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: be minuscule percentage wise for that to take place. And man, 418 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: Von Bell, he got his, finally got his, you know, 419 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: I mean, Jesse Bates had gotten his, Pratt had gotten his, 420 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: Wilson had gotten his. So in the middle of the 421 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: football fields where a lot of that stuff takes place normally, 422 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: and you know, I was hoping Von Bell might get 423 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: his and in the red zone before the end of 424 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: the football game. But it was the next possession, and 425 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: it was a massive possession for him to take the 426 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: football away like he did, and for the Bengals to 427 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: finalize it. They were man once they started sensing that 428 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: they could finish the football game. I mean, I've been 429 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: there and that you start to swell up a little bit, 430 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: you know, you come off the scrooms a little bit harder, 431 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: and Joe Mixon was running a little bit harder, and 432 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: then it's like, you know, now we got it. We 433 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,959 Speaker 1: got these guys on our heels and on their heels, 434 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: and we're gonna finish this thing. We're gonna finish in 435 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: a big way. How about b J Hill too? More 436 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 1: return on that trade for Billy Price. Just before the 437 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: start of the regular season, Tips have passed to himself 438 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: intercepts it at the Kansas City twenty seven leads to 439 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: the tying touchdown in two point conversion with fourteen seconds 440 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: to go in the third quarter. I mean a lot 441 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: of times, you know, it's always like who's going to 442 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: make a play? What player is going to make a play. 443 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: And if you had said before the game, if you 444 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: took a poll of I don't know the entire Bengals nation, 445 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,239 Speaker 1: how many people would have said, BJ Hill is going 446 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: to tip a ball to himself and set the team 447 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: up for a huge play. I mean, that's that's the 448 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 1: beauty of a team sport like that. You know, you 449 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: have twenty two moving parts and everybody's capable. And BJ 450 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: Hill he had his moment and when his moment basically 451 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 1: made itself present to him, he capitalized, you know. I 452 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: mean the thing is he not only tipped it to himself, 453 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: he followed it, caught it, finished it. I seen many 454 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 1: times we've gotten, you know, the particularly lineman and tip 455 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: it to themselves and can't even really finish the play. 456 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: But BJ Hill it was. That's that's something that Hill 457 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: remember the rest of his life. He will always be 458 00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: when they show highlights of the AFC Championship game in 459 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: twenty two season, b J Hill will be a guy 460 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: that they show that was amongst the big plays in 461 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: that football game. It's huge. Here's something I would like 462 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: to know. What made the coaches think to put Trent 463 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: Taylor into the game for the two point conversion? The 464 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,959 Speaker 1: dude barely plays on offense. I don't think he had 465 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: to catch other than the Cleveland game where the subs played. 466 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: They put him in in that crucial situation. Eddie's wide 467 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: open to catch the two point conversion. What made them 468 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 1: think of Trent Taylor in that situation? That's a good question. 469 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: I wonder how long they had worked on it. I 470 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 1: wonder how many reps that he had taken. Yeah, all 471 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 1: those things are her good questions. But boy, he answered 472 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,479 Speaker 1: the bell. And here's a guy you talk about steady Eddie. 473 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: Darren Simmons says all the time the number one thing 474 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,880 Speaker 1: I want him out of my return guys to handle 475 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: the ball to the official. And he has been flawless 476 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: in his you know, his handling of the football as 477 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 1: a punt returner, catching everything, making good decisions, making a 478 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: good decision when to let one hit the ground, and 479 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: you know or not, all those kind of things have 480 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: been a big deal. Uh, he did a nice job 481 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: at bluff On on the one, the one that ended 482 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: up in the end zone. I mean, he had a 483 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: lot of people believe and he was going to catch 484 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: that and return that thing. He knows what he's doing. 485 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a clever guy, smart guy. 486 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: Um understands, you know, all the little nuances and man. 487 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: And there's another one. I mean there's another guy that 488 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: as in history. As you look at at the at 489 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: the scoring summary of the of the championship game, there 490 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: is with a huge two point conversion and that was huge, massive, 491 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: And there's Trent Taylor. So we got b J. Hill, 492 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: we got Trent Taylor. Yeah, automatic that was going to happen. 493 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: You knew those two guys were gonna make huge plays 494 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: and to determine part of the outcome of the game. 495 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: And then there's Avin McPherson flying in with his pairs 496 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: on the flight. Dad's a dead Ringer is the slightly 497 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: older version. But I can't get over the fact that 498 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 1: the dude looks like he's fifteen years old. He was 499 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: in high school four years ago and now he's twelve 500 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 1: or twelve in the postseason, hitting him from fifty plus, 501 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,360 Speaker 1: hitting him to win games. His level of composure and 502 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: the clutch gene is remarkable. It is. And you talk 503 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: about Joe Burrow with the ner in confidence this guy, yeah, 504 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 1: I mean he believes he can do anything and he 505 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: probably can't in terms of kicking the football. It is 506 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: just it's phenomenal. And sat right behind his dad talked 507 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: to him on the flight quite a bit. He's got 508 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: a son that just committed to Auburn and he just 509 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: broke his brother's record. He was the holder when Evan 510 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: hit the sixty yarder in high school and he just 511 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: hit one from sixty one. And Evan had made it 512 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: from sixty eight in high school but not in a game, 513 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: and seventy five at Florida but not any game. It's crazy. 514 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what the mcphersons are 515 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: feeding their sons, but man, they've got bionic legs. There's 516 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: no no two ways about that. So yeah, it's and 517 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: he just he's another one, Joe Burrow, Evan McPherson. When 518 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: normally people's heart rates accelerate and it's a big moment, 519 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: and you know, you just you start thinking about too 520 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: many things. These guys just slow down their breathing rate, 521 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: slow down their heart rate, and just step up and 522 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: make plays. It's incredible. For more on the win and 523 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: an early look ahead to the Bengals Ram Super Bowl matchup, 524 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: join Lap and Lance McAlister for Bengals Line Monday night 525 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: from six to nine on seven WLW. This podcast is 526 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: sponsored in part by on Location, the official hospitality partner 527 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: of the NFL. Visit on location exp dot com for 528 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: exclusive access to the biggest events, including Super Bowl fifty six. 529 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun Facts segment, and my 530 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: guest is a guy who joined the team just in 531 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: time to head to the super Bowl for the first 532 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: time in his eight year NFL career. Time for some 533 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: fun facts with Bengals newcomer Zach Kerr, who joined the 534 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: team just before the playoff win over Tennessee. Zach, your 535 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: teammates are jokingly calling you two checks Kerr, as in 536 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: two paychecks, because you are in the Cardinals payroll the 537 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: week before for their playoff game. Earlier this year, you're 538 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: with another team that's still alive in the playoffs, San Francisco. 539 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: Can you describe the whirlwind that this season has been 540 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: for you? To be completely honest with you. I really 541 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: can't describe it. It's been crazy, you know for me 542 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: and my family. You know. So it's the first time 543 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: in my career where I've actually been you know, bounced 544 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: around like this. You know, the first six years of 545 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: my career, I was a stagnant uh you know, two teams, 546 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: you know, that's it. And then these last few years 547 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: I just kind of been bouncing around. But this year 548 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: was really special because you know, it was it's my 549 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: eighth year and you know, you know, you know what 550 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: they say about when you know, when you start to 551 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: get up there in those years as an NFL player 552 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: and you kind of see it a little bit. But 553 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: then you know, it was just so crazy to play 554 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers who are playing for a 555 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: chance to you know, finish, finish strong, and then being 556 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: with the Cardinals who had a chance to finish strong, 557 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: and now you know, with the Bengals to you know, 558 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: we're still playing as well. So it was just crazy 559 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: just to see how that transition happened. And um, you know, 560 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: it could have been any three teams and it's thirty 561 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: two of them. It could have been any three teams 562 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: in the NFL. But it just happened to be these three, 563 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: and um, you know, I feel like my last stop 564 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: has been the best one so far, so I'm excited 565 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: about it. Man, So you played in a playoff win 566 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: over the Titans. Did you even know most of your 567 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: teammates at that point? From a few practices, I had 568 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: no idea who I was out there playing with. Man, 569 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: I knew I knew a few guy just being in 570 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: the building for you know, two three days. Some guys 571 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: I knew from other places and just being in the 572 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: NFL and being around them. But for the most part, 573 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was just like those guys 574 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: that know who I was either you know what I'm saying. 575 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: So there was a lot of communication, and then I 576 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: couldn't have walked into a group of better guys. To 577 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: be honest with you, I felt like I'd been here 578 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: the whole season away last game went, and these practices 579 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: have been going. So it's really cool to see what 580 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: they what they built here in Cincinnati, and I'm just 581 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: happy to get a part of them. We're visiting with 582 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: Zach Kerr. From reading a little bit about your background 583 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: in your life story, your life could be a movie. 584 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: There's been a heartache. There's been a hardship, but ultimately 585 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: there's been triumph with eight years in the NFL and counting. 586 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: When you share your story with kids, where do you 587 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: begin and what's your message? Where I begin is telling 588 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: them that I actually, you know, they see this NFL 589 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,719 Speaker 1: player here right now, but I didn't atually start playing football, 590 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: so I was at junior high school. So I kind 591 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: of give him that part of it first, to tell 592 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: them that, to show them that you don't gotta you 593 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: don't gotta do with your whole life like everybody. Um. 594 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: And I also tell them that to give them the 595 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: idea that sometimes it just happens, you know, like I 596 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: can't I try to, you know, make up this crazy well. 597 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: You know, I worked super hard, obviously I did, but 598 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: it just happened, you know. I just happened to be 599 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: good at football my first couple of times playing it. 600 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: I happened to be the size I happen to be, 601 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: you know, athletic. It just you just win the you know, 602 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: you win the lottery, g and and and that's and 603 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: that's pretty much what it is. And then what I 604 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: try to explain to him is that you can do 605 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. It doesn't have to be 606 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: an NFL football player, doesn't have to be you know, 607 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: a professional athlete for any other, um, you know, any 608 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: other sports. But I just tried to explain to him 609 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: that whatever you really want to do, put your mind 610 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 1: to it, you can do. And I think that's what 611 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: my story shows. It just happened that I played football. 612 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: But I put my mind to it that I wanted 613 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: to be an NFL football player, and it happened. So 614 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: I just try to tell them that I really try 615 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: to leave football out of it, because that's some anomally 616 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 1: for some guys. You know, part of the hardship you 617 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: had to overcome with a period of homelessness as a kid. 618 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: What was the low point for you? I don't know. Um, 619 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if I had any low points. Man. 620 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: My mom did a really good job of keeping us 621 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 1: together as a family. She she did a really good 622 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: job of not really um allowing us to know what 623 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: the situation was. You know, to me, I was in 624 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: the I was I was around my families and my 625 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: sisters and my mom. So that was a great thing. 626 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: I always had food, I always had clothes, you know 627 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I don't think there was so 628 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: much of a low point. The low point is now 629 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,239 Speaker 1: that we're all older, we don't get to be around 630 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: each other so much, you know what I'm saying. That's 631 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: the low point for me that you know, I gotta 632 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,760 Speaker 1: you know, they always all the way across the country 633 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: or something like that, and you know, we're adults. We 634 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: got our own lives now, so it's a little different 635 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,359 Speaker 1: because I'm so used to being a close knit group 636 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: and being in the same room and same living room 637 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: with the same people and uh and now it's just, 638 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: you know, we're all going out separates and doing good 639 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: things with our lives. So that's the low point is 640 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: that I don't get to see as much as I 641 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: used to chatting with Zach Kerr. So as you know 642 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: that you didn't play football until the eleventh grade, I 643 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: read that you're in the tenth grade, you're in the 644 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: school band. You're not on the football team until a 645 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: college coach shows up and gives you advice to change 646 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: your life. Right, yep. Ralph Frigent was was the guy 647 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: who I like to give credit to. It was a 648 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: couple of other people in my high school that my 649 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: high school head coach. He had been telling me to 650 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: play fool, but like, look, bro, you big, you athletic, 651 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: you need to come get it a shot. But it 652 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: was until Ralph walked in and he told me. He 653 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: asked me, he just he just explained it to me 654 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,359 Speaker 1: a little. This It made sense to me the way 655 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: he said it. He asked me if I wanted to 656 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: go to that first thing. He says, said you want 657 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: to go to college. I say, yeah, I'd like to 658 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,800 Speaker 1: go to college. Said you want to go for free? Yeah, 659 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,360 Speaker 1: I'd like to go to college for free. That sounds 660 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: like a big idea, you know, that sounds funny. And 661 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: he told me, he said, well, you can go to 662 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: college for free if you play football. He said, I'm 663 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,800 Speaker 1: telling you it could happen. You can change your life. 664 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: You can change your family's life by just changing your 665 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: decision making. And when he told me that, I kind 666 00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: of looked at him like, hey, nobody ever really broke 667 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: it down something like that. It was just play football, 668 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: you big, play football, you big, you know, And it 669 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: got to a point where I was like, you know 670 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: what this is, this is what I need to do. 671 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,840 Speaker 1: I got my grant. I was ineligible because I was. 672 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: I didn't care about anything. I was just going to school, 673 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: being a high school student. I got eligible and the 674 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: next shot I played football, and he told me. It 675 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: was two schools. They told me, they said, you get 676 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,400 Speaker 1: eligible to play football, you don't have a scholarship from 677 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: us your first date being eligible, and it was a 678 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: University of Maryland and Penn State. And those two schools 679 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: stay true to me throughout the hometown process and all 680 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 1: to me. I went to Maryland coming out of high school. 681 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 1: So it was just crazy how everything I took place 682 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,799 Speaker 1: in my life. It's I guess it can be a movie, 683 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,360 Speaker 1: but to me, it's just normal. It was supposed to 684 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: happen away. That's how I look at it. Well, if 685 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: it becomes a movie, I'm going because I appreciate that. 686 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: Come to the movie. I'm contacting. You gonna get a 687 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: percentage of Now I'll finance the movie or your kidding, 688 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: let's steal it. But the movie aspect isn't finished yet. 689 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,440 Speaker 1: Because you went to Maryland. You had some success, but 690 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: two years in they make a coaching change and the 691 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 1: new coach says, you know, maybe you'd be better off 692 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: going elsewhere. So now you've got to start over again. 693 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: How difficult was that? That was probably that when you 694 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: asked about the low point, that was a low point 695 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 1: for me. I remember leaving college, I mean leaving to 696 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: go to college. I told my mom to give my 697 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,000 Speaker 1: room to my little sister. Said I'm never coming back home. 698 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 1: I'll never live with you again, like I'm a man now, 699 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 1: And two years out of me saying that, I was 700 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: right back in the house, you know what I'm saying, 701 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: and you know, sleeping on the floor, all types of stuff. 702 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 1: It was crazy now that I look back on it, 703 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: But I mean it was tough for me because you know, 704 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: you get to a point in your life where you 705 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 1: think you figured it out right and life humbles you 706 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,800 Speaker 1: and now you got to fight your way about it. 707 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: That it yet, so all it really showed me was 708 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 1: that I could do it and I wouldn't give up 709 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,840 Speaker 1: on myself. You know. That's that's that's what that showed me. 710 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 1: But that was a low point for me, and it 711 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 1: was tough because I didn't know if I was gonna 712 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: get back into school. I didn't know, you know, I 713 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: didn't even have anybody that was showing interest at that 714 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 1: at that time, so I just went back to my 715 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: high school, started helping out with practice with the d 716 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: line and running sprints with them after practice and stuff 717 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: to stay in shape. And one of my one of 718 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: my high school and college teammates, who was already at 719 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 1: Delaware gave gave one of the coaches who was at 720 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 1: Maryland a call and told him, Hey, looks that's trying 721 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 1: to get back into school. So the coach called him, 722 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:17,960 Speaker 1: was like, Hey, what do you want to do. I'm like, 723 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 1: if y'all want me, I'm mad. I don't got no 724 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,080 Speaker 1: other you know, I don't got any other, no other offer, 725 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,760 Speaker 1: so um everything. I had to go to online school 726 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: and you know, pay for that myself and all types 727 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: of things, and uh, you know, we ended up working 728 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: out for the best two years at Delaware and you know, 729 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 1: eight years later, we're still we're still doing the thing. 730 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 1: It just shows me that I won't ever give up 731 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 1: on myself. So you signed with the Colts. You played 732 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 1: a significant role right off the bat as a rookie. 733 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,839 Speaker 1: What did it mean to you the first time you're 734 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: standing on the out on the sideline in the NFL uniform, 735 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 1: after all you overcame. I cried like a baby man. 736 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,400 Speaker 1: To be completely honest with you, I cried like a 737 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 1: baby because I knew what I had to overcome and 738 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: I knew what my family had though, because that's all 739 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: I was thinking about, was you know, my family was 740 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: up in the stairs. Everybody was dan. I was like, dang, 741 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,879 Speaker 1: we had to do so much for me, not for us, 742 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,799 Speaker 1: for me to get to this point. I still think 743 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 1: about that every once in a while. Man, before a game, 744 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 1: I think about that, and I still tear up because 745 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,799 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a dream. I tell my mom 746 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 1: all the time. I think about my dad. I think 747 00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: about my mom, and I'm like, Dank, they sacrificed so 748 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 1: much for me to get here, and I'm out here 749 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: playing the game, just a game, and it brings everybody 750 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,839 Speaker 1: so much joy. So it was I still get him. 751 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 1: I'm getting emotion now, man, I don't ask me questions, 752 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,480 Speaker 1: all right, you'll like this then, because we're gonna finish 753 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,719 Speaker 1: this up with a few wild card questions and these 754 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: ones are not emotional, Okay, Which You're all time favorite 755 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: athlete in any sport and why Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson, 756 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,400 Speaker 1: Mike Tyson, any sport, every sport. It don't matter Mike Tyson. 757 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because he 758 00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:01,120 Speaker 1: went through so much. You know, he showed his whole career, 759 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: he showed resilience. And it wasn't just boxing, it's outside 760 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,320 Speaker 1: of it. It's boxing's life in general, just all the 761 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,720 Speaker 1: stuff he had to endure, his mental health, all that stuff. 762 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It's not easy. It's not 763 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 1: easy being a you know, almost being a billionaire and 764 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 1: losing it all and then still get you know, find 765 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,280 Speaker 1: a way to climb out of that. That's not easy. 766 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,439 Speaker 1: You know, it's not easy to have your entire life 767 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 1: put on display. And that's why I enjoy Mike Tyson 768 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,359 Speaker 1: because all that happened to him. You're getting the ring 769 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,239 Speaker 1: with him, you're trying to take your head off, and 770 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: he'll trying to do the same thing in life. And 771 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,160 Speaker 1: that's why I love him. He's gonna be that, He's 772 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 1: gonna be the same person all the time, and you 773 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,320 Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get from him mine and and 774 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,239 Speaker 1: I could I can go to world with a guy 775 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,279 Speaker 1: like that all day. Next wild card question. You are 776 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: a large man. What is the biggest inconvenience in regular 777 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 1: everyday life for somebody or size clothes, finding clothes that 778 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,279 Speaker 1: are fit, you know. To be completely honest, I'm a 779 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 1: stylished guy. I like I like looking like. I'm not 780 00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 1: a big guy that like looking slop. I like to 781 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: look nice because if you beg you can't be slopping, 782 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,560 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I like to look 783 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 1: I like to look nice and sake care of myself 784 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,319 Speaker 1: and um. The hardest thing for me, man, is just 785 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: just going into a stone and knowing that they don't 786 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 1: have anything there that face. That's probably what it is. 787 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,560 Speaker 1: Do you use Zach Kerr have a hidden talent? I 788 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 1: can't impersonate people really well. I say a hidden talent. 789 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. I got an impersonation gene. I 790 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: guess I say that one. You're gonna get me one. 791 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 1: I can't see. Look, I don't he's gonna ask you 792 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 1: to do that. It's on the spot, man, I don't 793 00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 1: know who I would impersonate, you know, for you to 794 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 1: be like okay, I know who that is, you have 795 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,239 Speaker 1: to be somebody that you know. I was gonna say, 796 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,880 Speaker 1: do you have a Mike Tyson? I mean, if that 797 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,400 Speaker 1: your guy, can you do typon. Let me do you, 798 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 1: let me do you a good Mike Tyson. Let me 799 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,960 Speaker 1: see which what's a good quote from him? See his 800 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:44,799 Speaker 1: quotes are crazy. Man, I don't know if I can 801 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 1: say that was on the radio. I got some Mike 802 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,440 Speaker 1: Tyson for you, but I don't know if I can 803 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: get you on the radio right now. Dad, and I 804 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,160 Speaker 1: ain't a lot to you. We've got that beep button, 805 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 1: but I'll wait until we're talking face to face and 806 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,400 Speaker 1: there's no microphone nearby, and then I'll have you do 807 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,840 Speaker 1: your mic. That final thing for Zach Kerb this is 808 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 1: kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesmen, 809 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:14,920 Speaker 1: famous politician, whoever that might be, who would that person be? Honestly, man, 810 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: it'll probably be my father. My dad passed away when 811 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,880 Speaker 1: I was young, so I never got a chance to 812 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 1: meet him with no him. But everybody tells me and 813 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,479 Speaker 1: I'm with the same zat person. You know what I'm saying. 814 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:29,439 Speaker 1: So probably my Pops, Man Restipes and Weston Kerr. Zach. 815 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,520 Speaker 1: This has been great. Welcome to Cincinnati. Thank you so 816 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,520 Speaker 1: much for your time and best of luck. Thank you, Dan. 817 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,960 Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on them. 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