WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Good Feeling 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.480 Hi, get everybody on dan Horde, and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:12.560 the Bengals Booth podcast. The oh oh sometimes I get 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:17.919 a good feeling. Yeah. Addition, as I speak to a 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.120 current Bengal who has emerged as one of the team's 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.840 brightest young stars, and speak to a former Bengal who 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.840 is among the franchise's all time best. The Bengals Boot 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.960 Podcast is presented by Prime Sport, the official fan, travel 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.120 and hospitality partner of the Cincinnati Bengals. 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Now let's get 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.000 to football. My first conversation this week is with Bengals 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.960 wide receiver Tyler Boyd, coming off a season that saw 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.600 him set new career highs for catches with ninety and 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.960 receiving yards with one thousand, forty six. Tyler lives in 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.280 the Pittsburgh area in the off season, and when we 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.920 spoke this week, I started by asking him what he's 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:40.800 been doing on a daily basis while facing COVID nineteen restrictions. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.040 I'm still working out, you know, run on the field. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.200 You know, I just bought full I'm finally in my 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.000 new house and I got a big backyard. Hasn't been 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.200 running out there each and every day, and I have 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.079 a facility with a trainer that I work out at 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.840 forres not so many people were still limited to work 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.519 out now, So I've still being able to work out 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.000 and train for ball. This time of year, you would 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.080 have been back in Cincinnati for OTAs. Do you miss it? Definitely? 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.000 You know, because of this pandemic. You know, I hate 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.320 to be in the House of twenty four seven on lockdown, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.160 not be able to go nowhere, and I just want 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.160 to be around Mount Boys man and just meet the 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.799 new rookies and just get this thing rolling. Tyler, there 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.440 were plenty of rumors before the end of last season 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.880 that the Bengals were going to draft Joe Burrow, and 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.919 obviously that's the way it played out. Did you start 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.560 paying attention to him last year? Yes, um, I didn't 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.240 know too much about him the year before that, but 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.840 during our LSU run when they started to go about 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.680 eight went streak seven, one, streak ten and so forth. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.240 I started to, you know, realize that he was a 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.560 very special guy, you know, in just every big moment 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.400 each game that he played, and he always delivered. He 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.320 never he never took bad sacks, and he always delivered 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.480 the ball perfectly to the receiver almost every time. It 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.160 was kind of shocking because I just seeing him being 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.360 so poised, man, and it's and it's rare to see 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.720 a guy in college play like that at the speed 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.480 that he was planning to have. You had much contact 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.119 with him, and what are your impressions of him so far? Oh? Yeah, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.960 I had talked to him. We had sent message a 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.800 little bit back and forth before he had got drafted, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.320 but it was just not not nothing too crazy. He 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.280 was talking about him winning the hisman stuff like that, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.919 just joking around. But then when he got drafted, I 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.520 reached out to him, told him congratulations, can't wait to 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.960 see him and play with her man, And uh, just 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.040 right now, I was just just talking to him, actually 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.360 I was. I talked to him last week. He wanted 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.040 to try to get guys together. You can see him 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.840 where I was at. I told him I was back 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:37.960 in fixedbugs. I think he am higher right now, and 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.200 I told him that I had Mike come up this 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.120 weekend because I had to grab some stuff from up 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.520 since you bring back here and if he was around 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.080 that then we could get routes. But he had said 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.919 the supposed to rain all weekend, so he said we 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.719 could just wait. And I ain't really trying to rush it, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.320 you know what I'm saying. So whenever he's ready ready 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.400 to go, we're visiting with Tyler Boyd. So Joe Burrow 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.719 was taken in the first round, te Higgins in the second. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.960 What does he add to the wide receiver room? Man, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.520 he's he's he's kind of like a I won't give 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.039 him like a meeting and a tape factor. You know, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.839 he has tape body, the size and the catching ability 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.080 in the catcher range him Tate and aj them doing 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.680 guys got the got got the size and with me, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.080 you know, he checks the ball very well, he runs 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.440 good routes and uh he uh get guards up to 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.640 the catch. So I feel like he got a little 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.599 of our game in them. You know. That's why I 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.440 feel like we're gonna be more dangerous because we all 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.279 feel like gonna feed off each other and just dude, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.120 we gotta do it to contain to move them sticks. Tyler, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.880 I look at this group. Now, they've got yourself with 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.960 two straight one thousand yards seasons. You've got a seven 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.919 time pro bowler in aj Green, You've got John Ross, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.160 You've got Autent Tate, you got Alex Ericson, now you've 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.479 got T Higgins. Do you think people around the league 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.680 realize how strong this group has become. I don't feel 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.600 like anybody feels straight, and at this moment, you know, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.920 we we have to go out there and improve ourselves. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.400 You know, on paper, we have an all star stock team, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.360 you know, and I felt that last year, but things 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.520 didn't go accordingly. So I mean, I don't want to 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.360 continue to say the same thing each and every year. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.320 So I'm gonna stop saying that we're gonna be the 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.159 best core in the best offense of the league. So instead, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:19.520 I just want to go out there and just and 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.440 just prove people wrong, you know, because we still have 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.240 daughters and everybody's still saying we're going to be the 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.120 weakest team. So you know, with me, um, I just 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.680 love proving people wrong. So that's what we got to 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.680 go out there and do. I mentioned that you were 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.560 coming off back to back one thousand yards seasons and 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.200 yet ninety catches last year, the fifth player in team 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.640 history to have ninety or more in a season. What's 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.800 the next step for you personally? Oh man, just just 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.720 continue to to stay productive, you know, and stay injury free, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.280 you know, and continue to make plays when I got 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.159 to for the team. You know, just just just stay 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.440 reliable and consistent, man, and just continue to build as 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.640 a leader, you know, trying to pick guys up, trying 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.400 to get guys going, you know, when when they're down 0:06:58.440 --> 0:06:59.840 there and when I need somebody to make a place 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.480 with me on offense and defense. So I think this 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.000 year I'll be I want to work on being a 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.040 better leader. How strange is it going to be for 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.440 you not to have Andy Dalton a locker over. Oh man, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.080 It's gonna be very very, very very weird, you know, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.840 because that was a guy that was my locker mate 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.840 coming into my rookie year, that sah they placed me 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.680 next to, and uh, he guided me all the way through, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.600 you know, each and every every one of my years, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.600 even on and off the field. You know, we would 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.600 talk about so much and relationship and he improved my 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.120 game so much. He allowed me to play more freely 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.160 and go off there and be me, you know, and 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.280 just the chemistry you can came to build and building 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.480 when you have that special relationship with a guy that's 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.520 out there playing with you, alongside of you, delivering you 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.960 the football is just like he feels feels like he 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.680 grew up with me all my life, that he's my brother, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.520 you know. So, I mean, I'm gonna miss him a lot. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.080 How eager are you to play with a j again? Man? 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.000 It was tough. You know. He was the guy who 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.440 kind of allowed me to accou and become the player 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.640 I wanted to become, you know, because he um allowed 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.120 me to play more one on one and leave stress 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.320 off him, you know. So I think I helped him 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.280 as well. You know. Just having him back and playing 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.120 alongside of me just makes things a lot easier for 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.360 the both of us, you know, and just just just 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.760 having him in our room, you know, just seeing how 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.400 he works and seeing how he performed and compete. Man, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.520 It's just I ain't never seen a specimen like him. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.240 We're spending a few minutes with Tyler Boyd. The Bengal 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.800 spent more than one hundred and thirty million bucks on 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.679 an unrestricted free agents this year. What was your reaction 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.640 as you saw name after name after name committing to Cincinnati. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.160 I felt I felt pretty great, you know, because of 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.320 the guys who we got, you know, from on the 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.320 defensive standpoint. Um, I feel like those are great guys 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.480 and great players, you know, regardless of what they did 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.640 at the team they was out previously. I just feel 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.800 like those those individuals, those players are just competitive, you know, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.280 and they're just going to compete each and every down. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.480 And that's very much like what I want in the players. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.320 You know. I don't want players to feel like they're 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.120 two good or players that's just out there just going 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.120 with the flow, you know. I want guy who's gonna 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.679 go out to compete, trash talking, just you know, uh, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.000 just battle all day, all night. The schedule came out 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.720 last week. You got a couple of primetime games, Cleveland 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.880 on the road in Week two on a Thursday night, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.240 the Steelers at home late in the season on Monday 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.200 Night football. Did anything about the schedule catch your eye? Well, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.800 I'm gonna say I'm gonna say the first game first 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.160 and foremost, you just simply because it's the first game 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.400 and it's home and I know it's gonna be nuts 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.679 and uh the other definitely the Stiller game, And I'm 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.000 always well any team in the division, I always look 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.160 forward to those games. And a new team that we 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.600 haven't seen in a while with the Cowboys, I'm very 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.320 I'm looking forward to playing them them Boys. I know 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.079 you're not in Cincinnati right now, Tyler, but you are 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.440 on social media. You see how Bengals fans are reacting 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.320 this offseason. Do you sense a building excitement after the 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.600 drafting of Joe, the addition of all of these free agents, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:15.400 a good draft class, the return of aj etc. Definitely, Man, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.800 it's been it's so much tensing, you know, all through 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.320 the internet, all through social media, just everywhere. You know. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.880 So I feel like, honestly, truthfully, I feel like the 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.480 first game was gonna be sold off. You got Aja back. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.360 If we stay a solid core up until that first week, Yeah, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.120 anybody gonna do anything to get their hands, let'm tickets. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.760 We don't know exactly what's going to happen in terms 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:41.360 of training camp, preseason games, regular season schedule. Obviously, the 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.880 NFL is moving forward and hoping that they can start 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:52.440 everything on time. What's your level of concern, nervousness, etc. Um. Well, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.800 I think at the end of the day, every player 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.440 has to continue to train themselves, you know. I know 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.760 that's probably hard, and it's tough for you to just 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.840 go out there and train, you know what I'm saying, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.840 especially when you don't got anybody to push you. You know, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.160 some guys have trainings, some guys don't. So I think 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.400 it's a kind of a weird position for certain players 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.480 because they don't get certain luxury as the players who 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.560 who've been there a while, you know, and can go 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.000 and get trainers and so forth, or is working out 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.240 in their house and stuff like that. But um, I 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.360 just I just want you gotta find a way, you know, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.520 to stay in shape and stay the course. I just 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.240 I just I just think I don't I don't want 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.120 to come back and we rushed into it, you know 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:31.640 what I'm saying. I don't. I don't want us to 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.440 have to come back at the end of June or 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.880 whatever August and jump straight into camp. You know. I 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.640 don't feel like that's going to be healthy for the player. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.400 And I don't feel like guys who will all the 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.160 way be in shape and be ready full camp. So 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.800 that's the nervousness for me going through this pandemic. Understood. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.199 Would you find it difficult to play in front of 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.520 empty stands if the NFL decided to try and do that. Yeah, absolutely, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.360 you know, um, because this is you go out there 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.560 and do it for your family and the fans. You know, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.520 that's what drives you to compete at the highest level. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.559 You know. Not saying that I can't go out there 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.559 and perform at that high level, you know, but when 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.400 you put in all our good work each and every 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.800 week and you do some ridiculous and outstanding you want 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.320 people to see it first sight. You want people to 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.880 recognize the work that you put in. Playing without crowds 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.080 that'd be real tough for some players. Tell you what, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.280 it's good to hear your voice. It's good to hear 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.480 that you're doing well and your family is safe, and 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.600 we look forward to seeing you in person when that's 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:38.200 allowed again. Definitely, Boss, I appreciate you. Tyler is only 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.280 twenty five years old, but he'll be heading into his 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.800 fifth NFL season in twenty twenty, and he signed for 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.640 the next three years after agreeing to an extension prior 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.600 to last season. Before we get to the next segment, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.400 here's a quick reminder that you can take your Bengals 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.160 prior to the next level in twenty twenty with an 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:00.840 official Bengals fan package from Prime Sport. My next guest 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.839 is a former Bengal. He was a three time Pro 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.800 Bowler and a key member of the nineteen eighty eight 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.720 Super Bowl team who recently accomplished something that he is 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.560 as proud of as anything he ever did on a 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.240 football field. We are joined by one of the greatest 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.920 Bengals of all time, voted sixth best among retired players 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.959 a few years ago when the Bengal celebrated their fiftieth season, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.760 the great David Fulture. And we will talk a little 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.880 bit of football in a little bit, But David, my 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.040 primary reason for asking you to be on this podcast 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:39.160 is to congratulate you on a fantastic achievement. This week, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.199 thirty four years after you left Arizona State after your 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:48.079 junior year to turn pro, you earned your college degree. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:54.000 What motivated you to go back to school? Wow, A 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.480 lot of things. The first I think it has something 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.000 to do with watching my daughter Kayla, who graduated from 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:05.200 Thomas Moore UH two years ago, she came up to 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.439 me after she got her diploma and her degree and 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.440 walked across the stage and said, Dad, I think you 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.920 need to finish. And I heard it, but I was like, yeah, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.400 that's I'm not too sure that I want to go 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.000 back to school and do that. And she pushed me 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.760 enough to say that it should be done, and I 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.840 decided to do it. And thank God that I did it, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.360 and I got it now, David, one of the coolest 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.800 things is seeing her Facebook posts because she is so 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.920 proud of you for doing this. Yeah, it's really quite touching. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.000 Yeah it is, man. I saw that, and I didn't 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.880 expect her to do it, and I told him, I said, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.040 I'm not gonna put anything on there, and I saw 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.320 her and my wife collaborating about something. But it was 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.120 it was it was good. It was good to see 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.760 it and the people who responded. And you know, I'm 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.280 not a big social media guy. I think I got 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:01.760 it because I just want to look and see what 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.960 everybody else is doing. And she put it up there, man, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.640 and so many people responded, and she constantly keeps telling me. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.960 Before I even came on here with you, she called 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.840 me and said so what's next? Who else wants to 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.560 talk to him? I said, well, I got something coming 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.920 up at ten o'clock. So but yeah, she's very proud 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.040 of what her dad did, and I wish she was around, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.720 was around to see me play the game right at 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.600 the end of my career when I tried to come 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.960 back and play with the Bengals. She was born in 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.160 ninety five, so she never really saw her dad play. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.280 She just heard about it. But she saw her dad 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.480 through this one. We are visiting with a grade David Fulture. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.200 I try to help my son with his eighth grade 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.720 homework and it's hard for me. So this could not 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.200 have been easy to go back to school thirty four 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.320 years after you were last in college. No, no, this 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.040 was not easy at all. And I encourage who the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.800 people who haven't finished to go back and finished. But 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.960 you need some help. You know, the technology is different. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.440 You know, we got cell phones, we've got Siri, we've 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.040 got echos, we've got all these things. And I had 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.280 a family and I have And the good thing about 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.760 me was I had a daughter who graduated two years ago, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.200 who was still fresh on what she was doing. But 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.960 it didn't matter. She was not going to do the 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.720 work for me. I know that first class I took 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.200 was English one or two and basic English. And let 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.960 me tell you, when I sat down in front of 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.640 that computer and started looking at the work and I 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.560 had to be done, it looked like it was English five. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.960 I had no idea what I was doing. And I 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.760 tried to get her to help me, and every little 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.520 question I asked her was so simple for her to do. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.480 She would looked at me and go, Dad, you know 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.080 that it's easy, and I'm like, no, I don't, and 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.800 we would argue about it, and it got to a 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.639 point where I got tired of asking her how to 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.359 do it, and I just said, I'm gonna do this 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.399 on my own, and whatever happened is going to happen. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.760 And then it was just getting started again, getting back 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.000 into the rhythm of, you know, doing homework, doing papers, 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.920 you know, writing essays, and I'm like, oh, my gosh, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.240 but I signed up for But I did it, man, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.480 And it was, like I said, it wasn't easy. It 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.520 wasn't easy at all. David. I heard in another interview 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.720 that you did that. You actually heard radio ads for 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:38.520 taking courses from Arizona State Online. Yeah, I was driving 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.640 down downtown. I worked with the Hamilton County Justice Sign. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.920 I work with the guys and girls who are incarcerated, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.159 just trying to make a change and change your lives. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.520 And I just happened to hear Arizona State Online, Arizona 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.600 State Online and I and I've been hearing that, and 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.480 I'm like, you know, it's stared. It's gotta be a 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.639 reason why this keeps coming up. And I started thinking 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.600 because my wife and I had talked about who had heard, 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.399 you know, from through the NFL and through the Trust, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.160 players who are finishing school, and we were talking about 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.879 going back and finishing school. But I was thinking, you know, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.679 maybe taking some classes that you see. But then I 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.720 started thinking, man if I take class that you see, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.480 and I finished, I'm gonna graduate from UC and that's 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.040 not the school I went to. So I kept hearing 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.959 that online online, issue online and how to sign up 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.840 and lo and behold, we we looked into it and 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.480 figured it out, and once we knew what to do 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.919 with the issue, then the Trust has a program that 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.960 it helps current and former players who have not finished 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.080 college an opportunity for a scholarship. So we we wrote 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.520 the essay and applied for it, and four months later 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.280 I was approved and school started. So basically showed the 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.840 effort in the NFL is there to help guys go 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.359 back and get their degree. Oh, no doubt, man. I 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.879 mean it didn't take much. And I've explained this to 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.919 guys throughout Cincinnati and guys that I've been friends with 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.879 their online and whatnot throughout the States, and I just 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.399 told them, I said, you know, dude, if you don't 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.000 call them, they're not gonna call you. And that's kind 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.240 of it's almost like, if it's free, is for me. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:24.680 So thinking we're talking to Bengals legend David Fulture, who 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.280 recently earned his college degree from Arizona State. Right now, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.840 college seniors are missing out on their graduation ceremonies unfortunately 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:37.240 because of COVID nineteen. But you plan to eventually walk 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:42.560 across that stage, correct, Yes, I am. In December, they're 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:47.880 going to have a ceremony for the twenty twenty graduates. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.600 Graduates who want to walk across the states. Because I 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:57.119 was supposed to walk on Tuesday of this week and 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:02.040 because of the coronavirus, they canceled everything, and which obviously 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.200 we knew that, so they're still giving us an opportunity 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.440 because they normally graduate, and kids or students who graduate 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.600 normally walk across in May of that year. So I 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.840 need to do it December of this year to walk 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.320 across or next twenty twenty one May. And I don't 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.280 want to wait and then, so we're gonna go down there, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.480 and I'm bringing my Daughter's gonna come with my wife 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.560 and I and my son David and his wife Mackenzie, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.479 and they're two littles, my two granddaughters. I'm gonna fly 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.880 them down. My mom and dad are already in Arizona, 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.200 so it's going to be a good family affair down 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.639 there in December. David, as you mentioned, you have worked 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:44.119 for years counseling inmates about how to re enter life 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:48.880 basically and maintain a positive attitude. Will you use this 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.200 as part of your message going forward? No, no doubt. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.560 I was using it while I was in there and 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.880 telling them that I'm going back to school because it's 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.159 really hard. I'm fifty five years old and this didn't 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.040 come easy. So it's hard for me to get there 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.440 and sit in front of that computer and write a 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.040 twenty five hundred word and say, come on, man, I 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.320 twenty five hundred words on what that's hard to do. 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.840 So I had heard to my telling this. I mean, 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.400 you guys are twenty five years old. You still got 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:19.439