1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody on Dan Hoard and thanks for downloading 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth podcast. The ooch Things agoon to get easier. Addition, 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: as the Bengals lose a tight one in Jake Browning's 4 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: first NFL start, falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers sixteen to ten. 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from 6 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: players and coaches, and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then, 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,319 Speaker 1: in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll get to know 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: a Bengals newcomer in twenty twenty three whose father played 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: the same position for seven years in the NFL. 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Well, now 24 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: there's something called a beer vent calendar, where you open 25 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: the door in a large box and find a different 26 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: beer for each day of December leading up to Christmas Day. 27 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: We got one from Higher Gravity, a bar and bottle 28 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: shop with two locations in the Cincinnati area, and I 29 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: am looking forward to our Christmas countdown. Now, time for 30 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: the radio replays from day's six point loss to the dreaded, hated, 31 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: but grudgingly respected Pittsburgh Steelers. Tomorrow line from an old 32 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: advertising campaign. Today, the Cincinnati Bengals find out what Ken 33 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: Browning do for you as quarterback Jake Browning makes his 34 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: first NFL start nearly five years after his last college start, 35 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: a Rose Bowl matchup against Ohio State. Today it's the 36 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: Bengals against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it is time for 37 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: the pigskin to fly. Here in the jungle. Warren Inted, 38 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: running back on third and two they handed to him. 39 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: Warren does not get the first down. The ball comes out, 40 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: the Bengals pick it up. Turner's running it back, fastest 41 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: man of the combine this year, and he gets tackled 42 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: at the thirty nine yard line by a tight end 43 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 1: Connor Hayward. The ball was punched out on the run 44 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: by Jalen Warren. This will be a forty one yard 45 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: the old goal attempt for Chris Boswell. No kicker in 46 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: the NFL has been better this year than Boswell. He's 47 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: eighteen for nineteen and now he's nineteen for twenty. The 48 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: kick is right down the middle. His only miss this 49 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: year was wide right from sixty one yards away, and 50 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: he was. 51 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 2: Good from fifty six and the penalty went from sixty one. 52 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 3: And he missed. 53 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: This kickoff fielded on a bounce. Travon Williams running back 54 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: to the thirty sideline forty forty five hand tackled just 55 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: shy of midfield by Miles killer Brew. Pittsburgh kicked it 56 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: low and it didn't bother Travon Williams at all. Fielded 57 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: it near the two and ran it back forty five yards, 58 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: his longest kickoff return of the year. Play action fake 59 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: to mix and throw deflected, still caught by Jamar Chase 60 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: on his feet at the Pittsburgh thirty twenty five. Mixing 61 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: down there to block and Chase gets shoved out of 62 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: bounds at the sixteen yard line. Sometimes better to be lucky, 63 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: been good. In this case, Jamar Chase is both caught 64 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: the ricochet and then used his great speed to turn 65 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: that into a thirty one yard game. Browning fakes a handoff, 66 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: rolls left his pass caught at the eleven sample toward 67 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: the end zone touchdown Bengals true sample, knocking over Bowling 68 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: Pins on his way to the end zone as he 69 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: catches his second touchdown of the season and gives Cincinnati 70 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: the lead. Browning has the ball five man rush. He 71 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: throws it deep for Chase. 72 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 4: What a catch. 73 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: He was blanketed by Joey Porter Junior. Threw it right 74 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: over his helmet and Jamar Chase made the catch down 75 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: to the twenty one for a twenty five yard game. 76 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: Browning catches the shotgun snap quick pass interceptive. Jamar Chase 77 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: tackles Trenton Thompson at the twenty one yard line after 78 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: the red zone pick for Pittsburgh. 79 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 3: Can he pick. 80 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: It is under center on first in goal from the five. 81 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,559 Speaker 1: The Bengals lead seven to three. It's a handoff, notje 82 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: Yes bouncing it wide to the left. Touchdown Pittsburgh is 83 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: a penalty flag down. 84 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: That's a hold in the perimeter that's gonna be nullified 85 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: and penalizing. 86 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: There's no foul for holding with over the players a touchdown. 87 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 2: Wow, pick up that talking to picking up that flagged. 88 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: Browning back to throw screens. It caught by mix and 89 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: he has Kappa in front, runs to the forty forty 90 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: five fifty Pittsburgh forty Steelers thirty five and he goes 91 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: out of bounds. They're gonna mark him out at the 92 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: thirty six. So the screen to Joe Mixon results in 93 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: a thirty nine yard game and the Bengals aren't dead yet. 94 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: With two forty to go, Adam Minas snaps it. Here 95 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: comes the right footed kick and it is good. So 96 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: the Bengals make it a six point game, and now 97 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: we'll see if they can recover an on sidekick to 98 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: give themselves a chance for a miracle victory. Mcpheerson again 99 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: adjust the football straight up and down on the tee. 100 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: He's about two steps away. He approaches the ball, now 101 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: changes sides, gets ready to kick it from right to left. 102 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: He kicks the top of the ball, It bounces and 103 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: it's grabbed by Pickings and Jake Browning's first NFL start. 104 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: The Bengals manage one touchdown and one field goal, They 105 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: turned it over in the red zone and they lose 106 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: despite holding the Pittsburgh Steelers to sixteen points by the 107 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: final score of sixteen to ten. We start our postgame 108 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: analysis with the Bengals starting QB. Jake Browning. Stats were 109 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: pretty good. He completed seventy three percent of his passes 110 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: and threw for two hundred and twenty seven yards in 111 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: a touchdown. That's the good news. But Jake held on 112 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: to the ball for two long on some third down 113 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: plays leading to sacks, and his red zone interception on 114 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: third and seven at the eighteen yard line when the 115 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: Bengals had a seven to three lead in the third 116 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: quarter was devastating. Here are the most interesting things that 117 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: Browning had to say in a postgame news conference. 118 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 4: Some ups, some downs. Definitely not my best game. Just 119 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 4: try to keep fighting. I think starting with the first 120 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 4: drive kind of getting settled in. Felt like there were 121 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 4: times where I was settled in. I felt like there 122 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 4: were other times where I needed to play better, but 123 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 4: it was not up to my standard of how I 124 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 4: would have liked to play. 125 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 5: You talked all week. 126 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 6: About the aggressive how do you go out your manage 127 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 6: the line between. 128 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: The push the ball and making them play. 129 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 4: I think that's always kind of hard to snow until 130 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 4: you watch the tape, and it's hard to give a 131 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 4: generalized answer. I think there were somewhere it was good 132 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 4: to be aggressive, and I think there were somewhere you know, 133 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 4: could have just checked it down and maybe not taken 134 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 4: some sacks. But I think part of me getting back 135 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 4: into the groove of playing and stuff like that is 136 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 4: is kind of figuring out like, Okay, where is that 137 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 4: line for me? And where is that line h in 138 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 4: this offense? And what what is that line I need 139 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 4: to play on in order to give us the best 140 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 4: chance to win the game. 141 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: Your reaction was exactly what. 142 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I think I just made the decision too 143 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 4: early in the play, like let the play play out 144 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 4: and let seventeen decide if he's going to cover the 145 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 4: curl or cover the guy in the flat, And I 146 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 4: kind of made the decision without really reading it out 147 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 4: to OK, hey, let's just get the ball. They're very 148 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 4: soft on Jamar. Let's just get the ball to him, 149 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 4: get forward, get three. This is going to be a 150 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 4: game that comes down to you know, it's not going 151 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 4: to be a shootout. 152 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 3: And so. 153 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 4: You know, that was kind of my thought process, and 154 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 4: in hindsight, I guess, play out the play and read 155 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 4: it out, don't just see something pre snap and kind 156 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 4: of make a decision. 157 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 3: I mean after I mean, what. 158 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 2: You last start is what the roller bowl? When you 159 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: have I. 160 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 4: Means, yeah, I mean I think that's a little bit 161 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,719 Speaker 4: of a cop out. Uh for me to sit here 162 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 4: and say that, you know, any any interception was because 163 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 4: I haven't played in a while, Like it's a cop out. 164 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 4: I think I can read out that play and make 165 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 4: the right decision. 166 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 2: Is too early to get a sense of what is 167 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 2: the biggest thing you'll build upon going. 168 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 3: Forward from today? 169 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 4: Uh yeah, probably a little too early. I would say. 170 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 4: There's just some things like maybe that don't show up 171 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 4: on tape, like kind of learning all right, here's what 172 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 4: it looks like to start a game, and and I 173 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 4: think figure out where that like I said, where that 174 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 4: line is I'm playing aggressive, but then also knowing that 175 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 4: this isn't going to be a forty two to forty 176 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 4: five games, So taking some of those sacks, uh, when 177 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 4: you're trying to make the play end up hurting in 178 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 4: some field position stuff. And and I think just the 179 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 4: overall experience I will build from and being able to 180 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 4: see myself on tape and critique it pretty hard will 181 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 4: be good for me too. 182 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: Say you waited so long for this moment? 183 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, now, sure, can you appreciate that? 184 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: Or it does the. 185 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: Longest color over it? Yeah? 186 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 4: I think you know the nex twenty four hours maybe 187 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 4: or at some point it will not feel like just 188 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 4: pissed that we lost. Maybe it'll take a year or two, 189 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 4: but yeah, I think just lost a close game where 190 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 4: you feel like you didn't play your best and we 191 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 4: didn't play well enough on offense and only gave up 192 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 4: sixteen points on defense and we lost. 193 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 3: And so. 194 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's kind of my primary thought in 195 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 4: my head. 196 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: As Browning pointed out, the Bengals only gave up sixteen 197 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: points and that's usually good enough to win. But the 198 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: Steelers went up and down the field, running for one 199 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three yards and passing for two two 200 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: sixty eight. That equals four hundred and twenty one total yards, 201 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: ending Pittsburgh's fifty eight game streak of finishing with fewer 202 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: than four hundred. Every other team in the NFL had 203 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: at least four four hundred yard performances in the same span. 204 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: Tight End Pat Fryarmouth, who had only played in five 205 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: games this year because of a hamstring injury, was the 206 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: star of the show with nine catches for one hundred 207 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: and twenty yards. Kenny Pick had finished with a passer 208 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: rating of ninety seven point eight, and his career passer 209 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: rating and twenty two previous starts was seventy seven point seven. 210 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: Mike Hilton had eight solo tackles, including two for losses, 211 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: and I spoke to him in front of his locker, Mike. 212 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: The Steelers obviously changed offensive coordinators this week. Was their 213 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: offense much different? 214 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 3: Not too much? 215 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 7: They were definitely an only thing I will notice that 216 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 7: they did throw over the middle little more than they'd 217 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 7: done in the pass and they caught us in some 218 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 7: mad spots, and you know, something supposed to plays over 219 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 7: the middle of the field. 220 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: Pat Fryermouth has missed much of this season. He does 221 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: not have the statistics he would normally have, but he 222 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: looked healthy today and obviously he hurt. 223 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 3: He did. 224 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 7: He's one of the better young tight ends in the game, 225 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 7: and they try to featu him as much as possible, 226 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:15,719 Speaker 7: and like I said, they had a good game plan 227 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 7: for him to work the middle of the field and 228 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 7: it has he says doing that though. 229 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: It seemed like third downs in the third and fourth 230 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: quarter were really the key to the game. They converted 231 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: several in a row, and I'll give Kenny pick a credit. 232 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: He made some good throws on those plays. 233 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 7: Yeah, this just you know, them playing good ball early 234 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 7: early in the first half, we were getting off the 235 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 7: field on third down, and second half they just kept 236 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 7: their drives going and kind of put us intel spots 237 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 7: to where we couldn't get off the field and kind 238 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 7: of came back to bite us. So, you know, that's 239 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 7: something we got to go back over the field and 240 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 7: look at and see where we can make corrections. 241 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: What'd you think of Kenny's performance, because he threw a 242 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: couple of deep balls that were really right on the money. 243 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, he's a good quarterback. You know, he 244 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 7: made throws when he needs to, he escapes the pocket 245 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 7: wheel and he just does what he needs to do 246 00:12:58,040 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 7: for their offense. And you know today he had a 247 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 7: good day and you know they gotta go win. So 248 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 7: co rest of. 249 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: Them, what's your mindset after this game now that you 250 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: guys have fallen to five and six. 251 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 7: Uh, just continue to keep going. I mean, we got 252 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 7: a tell thee going out in Jacksonville on Monday night. 253 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 7: But you know, it's the opportunity for us to turn 254 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 7: it around and you know, try to try to get 255 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 7: things on positive noble. 256 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: Now, let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent 257 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: three minutes with lap after the game. 258 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 2: So it's the first thing that I'd like to know 259 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 2: is what the hell did they tell you when they 260 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 2: picked the flag up on the holding call? That's all 261 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 2: I mean. It affects the play, grabs, turns them around, 262 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: spins them around, they score a touchdown right off that 263 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 2: at the point of attack, they throw a flag and 264 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 2: pick it up. What was their explanation on that. 265 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 6: They saw holding and then one of the other officials 266 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 6: said it wasn't holding, so they just discussed it and 267 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 6: they picked up the flag. 268 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 2: That was that was a tough one to say the least. 269 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 2: Did Pittsburgh. I mean, that's a good defensive football team. 270 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: Obviously they don't do anything differently. Did they play more 271 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: man than zone then you thought, or anything like that. 272 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 6: Early in the game, they played a lot more man, 273 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 6: you know, trying to put pressure on us to take 274 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 6: away the run and make us throw the ball in 275 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 6: the rain a little bit as a game win. They 276 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 6: mix it up kind of the things that we'd seen 277 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 6: it on tape, and nothing was such surprise. That's what 278 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 6: they did to Cleveland last week. Early in the game, 279 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 6: backup quarterback played a lot of single high and try 280 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 6: to make him go win. And I thought our guys 281 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 6: handled it really well. I thought the first half we 282 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 6: played the type of game we inventioned it was going 283 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 6: to be, you know, I think I think key situational 284 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 6: things that popped up were, you know, we had a 285 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 6: chance to kind of pin him down there with the 286 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 6: punt under the two minute morning in the first half 287 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 6: and maybe come away with some points there if we'd 288 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 6: get in to stop and so we got to capitalize 289 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 6: on that. And then coming out the second half we 290 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 6: get in the red zone, we got to come away 291 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 6: with points not a turnover, and then there's opportunity. You know, 292 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 6: we we punted the ball down to the eleven and 293 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 6: we can't let him out on the first run. So 294 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 6: I think just as a team, we got to really 295 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 6: assess all three units. We got to do a better 296 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 6: job capitalizing. It might just be one situation a game 297 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 6: that we got to be better at. And that's really 298 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 6: what it came down to today. 299 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 2: Third down, they converted it like a fifty percent clip 300 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: and I think at one point, I know it was 301 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: too nine and they get all four of their sacks 302 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: on third down, they got the red zone interception on 303 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 2: third down. You know that that was a big difference 304 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 2: in the game, was the third down situations when. 305 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 6: Yeah, those are all part of the situations we talked about, 306 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 6: you know, and you got to be great in those areas. 307 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 6: And again it's it's no surprise that the game ends 308 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 6: up being a one score game and the team that 309 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 6: was a little bit better in those areas wins the game. 310 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 2: So the running game obviously left a lot to be desired. 311 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: How tough is that with a quarterback with this first 312 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: NFL start, going against that defense and facing that kind 313 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: of situation. 314 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, we we just we didn't get enough normal down places, 315 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 6: and that part of that is running the ball better 316 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 6: and throwing the ball better and getting first tallensd We 317 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 6: put ourselves in a position to do that. Obviously, it's 318 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 6: a tough sledding going against that front sometimes, and they 319 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 6: try to take you out of your eleven personnel runs 320 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 6: by playing base to eleven, so you got to throw 321 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 6: the ball, and so of course you get big people, 322 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 6: and so again it was it was a challenge. We 323 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 6: got to find more production there. We're going to play 324 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 6: them here in a couple of weeks, and that's something 325 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 6: we're going to have to assess and be better at. 326 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 2: What about field position overall, I mean Treyvon had the 327 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 2: big kickoff returning to cave you a pretty short field 328 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 2: and you capitalized on that for a touchdown. Overall, how 329 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 2: did you see field position unfolding? 330 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought there was a few more opportunities we 331 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 6: could have capitalized on, and it went about the way 332 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 6: you thought in terms of how it shook out. I 333 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 6: don't think he either time either team was really a 334 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 6: huge disadvantage that the kickoff return obviously led to points 335 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 6: for us, and so just moments like that with hidden yardage. 336 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 6: Those are big moments in the game, you know. And 337 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 6: I thought Jamar made some good plays for us. I 338 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 6: got us some chunk plays as well, and stepped up 339 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 6: when we needed them too, And unfortunately we just didn't 340 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 6: get enough of it to get. 341 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 3: Us the one. 342 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 2: They're tied in farm Youth that had missed a good 343 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 2: part of the season with injury. I mean, that dude's 344 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: a weapon. 345 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 3: He is. 346 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 6: You know, He's been a good player and he can 347 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 6: win some one on one matchups. And again we'll see 348 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 6: him a couple of weeks there. We gotta do a 349 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 6: better job. 350 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: The rematch in Pittsburgh is four games away. The Bengals 351 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: have a Monday night road game next week at Jacksonville, 352 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: followed by home games against the Colts and Vikings, then 353 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: road games in Pittsburgh and Kansas City before finishing at 354 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: home again Cleveland. 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Now time for the radio guys recap. 362 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: They are celebrating their new offensive coordinators in Pittsburgh as 363 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: the Steelers come to Cincinnati and beat the Bengals sixteen 364 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: to ten. How big of a factor do you think 365 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: that was? Because the Steelers wound up with four hundred 366 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: and twenty one yards of offense and average more than 367 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: six yards of play. 368 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 2: I think they're fortunate in that they're being promoted to 369 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 2: that position at the expense of Canada's firing coincided with 370 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 2: farm youths coming back and being available to them. He 371 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 2: was huge, huge, I mean, the weapon in the middle 372 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 2: of the field was there the entire game. And the numbers, 373 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 2: the numbers speak for themselves. I mean, I think he 374 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 2: had well over one hundred. 375 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: Yards receiving nine for one for one. 376 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 2: Twenty that's pretty impressive. And early in the game, I 377 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 2: mean twenty four yard completion, twenty nine yard completion, his 378 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 2: first two catches for fifty three yards. I mean that 379 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 2: got them off and running. So I think that was 380 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 2: another common denominator. The Bengals were hope full of minimizing 381 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 2: explosives and Pittsburgh Steelers were able to get too many. 382 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: Again, Kenny Pickett through for two hundred and seventy eight yards, 383 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: no touchdowns. He never seems to throw touchdowns, but he 384 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: didn't throw any interceptions. He set the Steelers record for 385 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: consecutive passes without a pick. But I've got to hand 386 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: it to the guy because he threw about three deep 387 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: balls that were outstanding in this game. 388 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, he really did. I thought he I thought he 389 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 2: played his best football game year overall. He's not a 390 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 2: big touchdown guy. He's not a big interception guy. I 391 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 2: mean he he does take care of the football. And 392 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 2: I think people thought he was being a little bit 393 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 2: too conservative at the quarterback position. I think that might 394 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 2: have been another thing that he was told by the 395 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 2: co coordinators. Air it out a little bit, take some shots. 396 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 2: We're good. We're okay with that. You know, we're never 397 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: gonna make any unless you throw it. And if it 398 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 2: doesn't work out, we have a defense that'll, you know, 399 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 2: back us up. So don't be afraid to take some 400 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 2: hits down the football field. And when he did, and 401 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 2: he hit one, he hit one right away. It's like, 402 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 2: going to do this a little bit more. 403 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: The Steelers ran for one hundred and fifty three yards. 404 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: The Bengals ran for twenty five and eleven carries. I 405 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 1: can't figure it out. Why is this running game so ineffective? 406 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 2: That's a great question. I mean, start the game out, Okay, 407 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 2: we're gonna be big, physical, two tight ends and a 408 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 2: sixth offensive lineman. We're gonna we're gonna get up there 409 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: and mash here. Well, I end up throwing the ball 410 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 2: out of that look. And they didn't go back to 411 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: that look all that often, although they did have the 412 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 2: sixth offensive lineman in there some you know, with another 413 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 2: tight end, but you know, and it was a low 414 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 2: scoring game the entire game. They had the lead, you know, 415 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 2: a good, good part of the game, and just didn't 416 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 2: get back to running the football. Established in the running game, 417 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 2: Joe Mixon has had pretty good games, averaged seventy five 418 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 2: yards a game over the ten games of his career. 419 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 2: Against the Pittsburgh Steelers, he needed seventeen yards to get 420 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 2: to six thousand. He ended up with sixteen. He couldn't 421 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 2: even get there. So it's it's crazy how how well 422 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers made the Cincinnati Bengals one dimensional with 423 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback, and the Bengals goal was to make 424 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 2: Pittsburgh one dimensional with a quarterback who had been struggling, 425 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 2: and one succeeded and the other didn't. 426 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: Jake Browning's numbers were okay, nineteen for twenty six, two 427 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven yards, one touchdown, one very costly pick, 428 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: and a ninety six point two passer rating. But those 429 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: stats don't take into account decision making. Some of the 430 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: times he held onto the ball too long, some of 431 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: the times he didn't throw it away when he should have. 432 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: Things like that were really costly. 433 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know, I know that third down. All 434 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 2: the sacks came on third down, you know, and his 435 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 2: interception came in the red zone on third down. So 436 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 2: one team was dynamic on third down, that being the 437 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. They made money on the money down. The 438 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 2: Bengals went bankrupt on the money down. I mean, they 439 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 2: had all kinds of issues. Pittsburgh was like fifty percent 440 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 2: for the game, I think on third down, and the 441 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 2: Bengals were I know, at one point it was two 442 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 2: for nine, two for ten and all the all the 443 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 2: problems they had on third down, that was just that 444 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 2: was a critical part of the football game. You got 445 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 2: to give you gotta give Pittsburgh credit. They made made 446 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 2: plays when they when they needed to, particularly on third down, 447 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 2: and Jake was trying to I think he was probably thinking, K, 448 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 2: third down, we're plunting the football anyway, let me hold 449 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 2: it a little bit longer. Well, that's fine, but if 450 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 2: it's not there, you know, don't take a seven eight 451 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 2: yard sack and change the hidden yards. You know, even 452 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: more so because sacks that end up affecting the hidden 453 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 2: yards as well as you know, exchanging punts and that 454 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 2: sort of thing. I can understand, you know, during the 455 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 2: flow of the game. Okay, third down, let me just 456 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 2: wait and see if this unfolds the way I'm thinking. 457 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 2: I thought Pittsburgh did a pretty good job. Early in 458 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 2: the game. They were playing a lot of man, a 459 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 2: lot of pressure packages with man coverage behind it, and 460 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 2: then looked to me like they started playing a little 461 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 2: bit more zone and mixed that in a little bit. 462 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 2: So I thought they did a pretty good job mixing 463 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 2: and matching on that side of the football as well. 464 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: The Bengals have the front seven back from a defense 465 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: that's been very good. It's stopping the run. But this year, 466 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: for the most part, it has not been very good. 467 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 1: It's stopping the run. It happened again today one hundred 468 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: and fifty three rushing yards. Nijie Harris wound up with 469 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: ninety nine in the game. I mean, we've heard these 470 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: things over and over again, tackling cutback runs. At some point, 471 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: do you just say, this year it's just not a 472 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: very good run stopping unit. 473 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's It's one of those things 474 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 2: you can talk till you're blue in the face and 475 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 2: show tape all you want about. Okay, look, you got 476 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 2: to stay in your gap. I mean, you can't cheat 477 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,479 Speaker 2: and try to help somebody else. They're going to hit 478 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 2: your gap and try to It's whenever things are going badly, 479 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 2: you have guys that try to do too much to 480 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 2: rectify the problem, and that only compounds it. It doesn't 481 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 2: rectify it. That compounds the problem. And you see it 482 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 2: over and over and over again. But your natural instinct 483 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: as a football player is not Okay, well we're getting 484 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 2: smoked over there, but I'm just gonna stay right here 485 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 2: and I'm going to take this guy on, and you 486 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 2: don't feel like you're in any factor in the game, 487 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 2: in the in the snap, in the game, so your 488 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: instinct is to shed and go make a play and 489 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 2: help your teammates, and sometimes mistackle or whatever, and not 490 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 2: the problem starts to compound itself. Mistackles at the point 491 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 2: of time, and then it cuts back to where you're 492 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: supposed to be and you're the final part of the problem. 493 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: So it just it compounds itself and until you, you know, 494 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 2: take a look at it after the game, it's like, oh, man, 495 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 2: why did I do that? But your natural football instinct 496 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 2: is to try to help alleviate the problem, help your teammates, 497 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 2: and sometimes that's the worst thing you can do. 498 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: I thought last year was Mike Tomlin's best coaching job. 499 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: The year after Roethlisberger started terribly wound up finishing a 500 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: game over five hundred. I don't know how he's doing 501 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: it this year. Three games over five hundred. Then they 502 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: have been outscored for the season. 503 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: It is remarkable, it isn't. I mean, this is the 504 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 2: first game where they should they outgained somebody. When they've 505 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 2: been out gained ten times and one six of the ten. 506 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 2: That's that's almost like, how does that happen? It happen, 507 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 2: And it's not like the Bengals turned it over left 508 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 2: and right. Now, it's critical where they turned it over 509 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 2: and how they turned it over was was critical, but 510 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 2: you know Pittsburgh had a red zone turnover as well, 511 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 2: so that kind of, you know, cancel each other out. 512 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 2: He just believes that if he can stay within a 513 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 2: score himself, his coaching staff, his players are going to 514 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 2: finish the game better than you do. I don't care 515 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,719 Speaker 2: who he's playing against. He just feels like we've been 516 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,479 Speaker 2: together for a long time. We know exactly how this 517 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 2: is going to unfold, and you know, we know what's acceptable, 518 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 2: we know what's not. They're just so confident and their 519 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 2: ability to get that done that it almost it almost 520 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 2: he wills victories. He like he wills the Pittsburgh Steelers 521 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 2: just by his presence and the fact that he's done it, 522 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 2: not just a couple on it over and over and 523 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 2: over again, year after year with the same type of formula. 524 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 2: I mean, it's like it's a self fulfilling prophecy. It's amazing. 525 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: Do you feel like this season at five and six 526 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: is like unveiling more weaknesses than you thought that the 527 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: Bengals had. I mean, going into the season, I didn't 528 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,719 Speaker 1: really see many weaknesses on the roster. Now I'm thinking, well, 529 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,479 Speaker 1: they probably need a little of this, they need that. 530 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: I'm wondering now that if they have a few more 531 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: areas of concern than I would have thought. 532 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that. You know, sometimes when 533 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: you take a good shot, like in a boxing match, 534 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 2: you take a shot, it affects you for you know, 535 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 2: a few more rounds before you can finally compose yourself. 536 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,959 Speaker 2: And I think, you know, things that happened early on, 537 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 2: like you know, Joe's injury. Early on, they staggered, and 538 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 2: then he comes back from that and he starts to 539 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 2: play well, and they know what they've got, and they 540 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 2: go on a four game winning streak, you know, and 541 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 2: then and then they get they get hit in the 542 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 2: mouth by a hot quarterback and their defense has issues, 543 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, the confidence starts to wane. 544 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 2: And the next week you gets you get smoked again defensively, 545 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 2: and now it's like, how do we get that confidence back? 546 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 2: Because now our quarterback's done for the year. So it's 547 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 2: just like man it's a fifteen round actually, in this case, 548 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: a seventeen round fight. Seventeen games, so you know, you 549 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 2: take standing whatever counts and try to come back, make 550 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 2: sure you don't get tko or kod. And sometimes it 551 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: takes a little bit too long to recover, and before 552 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 2: you know it, you've taken too many shots and man, 553 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 2: you're you're down too many points in the fight to 554 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 2: outpoint the guy. So now you've got to try for 555 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 2: a knockout, and then you might get knocked out. There's 556 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 2: a lot of similarities there. 557 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: I think Round twelve in Jacksonville next Monday night. 558 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: Round twelve in Jacksonville. And that's not going to be 559 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 2: an easy, easy situation either. I mean they're in a dogfight. 560 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 2: They're in a dogfight for their division and the playoffs 561 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 2: and everything that goes along with it life in the NFL. DAN, 562 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 2: it ain't easy, right. 563 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: It certainly isn't. Jack him Go by the Way is 564 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: eight and three after beating the Texans twenty four to 565 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: twenty one. That means the Jags have opened up a 566 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: two game lead in the AFC south over Houston and Indianapolis. 567 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: Now time for this week's fun Facts Conversation. Where you 568 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: get to know the person under the pads. Time for 569 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: some fun facts with tight End IRV Smith Junior. You 570 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: are from New Orleans, one of my favorite places in 571 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: the world to visit. What do you love about your 572 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: hometown and what do you miss when you're not there? 573 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 3: Uh? 574 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 5: In New Orleans it's one of a kan It's like 575 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 5: nowhere else in the world. 576 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 3: I truly believe. You know. 577 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 5: We known for our food, so I gotta go. I 578 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 5: gotta go food number one, and I like the fish. 579 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 5: I miss my family on there. So those are probably 580 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 5: probably three to three of the things. 581 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: New Orleans is obviously the home of the Saints and 582 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: the Pelicans and the Sugar Bowl. They frequently get Super 583 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: Bowls and Final Fours and things like that. Did you 584 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: ever have the opportunity to attend any of those type events. 585 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 5: I never got to attend the Super Bowl or anything 586 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 5: like that. I got the attend a few Saints games 587 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 5: when I was younger, and when the Super Bowl was 588 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 5: in New Orleans, I went to like the NFL experience 589 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 5: and stuff like that with my friends. I was in 590 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 5: high school, so it was super cool. But you know, 591 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 5: New Orleans is a city. We love our football we 592 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 5: love our sports and it's something that we pride ourselves on. 593 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: Or if my math is correct, you would have been 594 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: seven when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Were you impacted 595 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: in any way? 596 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 5: My family was. I was actually living in Arizona. My 597 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 5: family they came all came down from New Orleans and 598 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 5: stayed with stayed with us, and it was pretty wild. 599 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 3: My cousins is going to school. 600 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 5: With me, and and it was it was definitely something 601 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 5: that was a tragedy, uh in the city. And you know, 602 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 5: it just shows the resilience of the of the people 603 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 5: in New Orleans. And you know how tough we are, 604 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 5: how how do people bounce back? And my uncle actually 605 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 5: he he stayed. I know many. 606 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 3: People that stayed in and helped save people. 607 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 5: And and and things like that. My uncle he owns 608 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 5: a boat dealership in New Orleans, so he was riding 609 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 5: through the city saving people on airboats and stuff, getting 610 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 5: them out their addicts. 611 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 3: So, you know, that was that was a scary, very 612 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 3: scary times. 613 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 5: But you know, I'm glad that, uh, you know a 614 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 5: lot of people the city was able to rebuild and 615 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 5: bounce back. 616 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: We're chatting with IRV Smith Junior. Your dad Earth's senior. 617 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: It's also an NFL tight end, first round draft pick 618 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: out of Notre Dame, had a great NFL career. You 619 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: were really young when he played. What have you learned 620 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: from others about IRV Smith Senior as a player. 621 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, just as a kid growing up. I 622 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 5: don't really remember too much watching for my dad. So 623 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 5: the the memories that I have from him playing ball 624 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 5: and stuff is from from his friends, from his old teammates, 625 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 5: and from watching some of his films. So, I mean, 626 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 5: my dad he was he was definitely he was fast. 627 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 5: That's why I got a lot of my speed from 628 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 5: great hands, great physical blocker. And he always tells me 629 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 5: he wished he would have played in this in this 630 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 5: time time of football because. 631 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 3: You know back then there it was a lot more 632 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 3: ground and pound. 633 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 5: So you know, he he was a great a great player, 634 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 5: great leader, a great teammate and you know, somebody that 635 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 5: that his coaches and. 636 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 3: Teammates can rely on. 637 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 5: So you know, I try to model my game after that, 638 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 5: and you know, take take anything I can from him. 639 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: What former teammates did you meet? 640 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 5: I've met a lot of his former teammates, Willie Roath, 641 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 5: I mean it goes, the list goes on. I mean 642 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 5: he played for for eight years in the league and 643 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 5: for a Notre Dame, and so just growing up meeting 644 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 5: so many different guys that he played with and just 645 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 5: hearing all the different stories. 646 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 3: It's amazing. 647 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: Did having a dad who played in the NFL make 648 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: that your dream? 649 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 3: Yes, it definitely did. 650 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 5: Just growing up seeing his football is around the house, 651 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 5: his helmets around the house, I put his helmets and 652 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,959 Speaker 5: stuff on. Any any questions, like any anything like that 653 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 5: I could pick his brain on about football, I would. 654 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 5: And I just play Madden and stuff all day, playing 655 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 5: video games when I wasn't at school or at practice, 656 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 5: basketball practice. 657 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 3: Just trying to learn the game as much as I can. 658 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: You played college football at Alabama. What was Nick Saban's 659 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: recruiting pitch? 660 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 3: Coach Saban? 661 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: He was. 662 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 5: He was a great coach, great recruiter as well. Coach 663 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 5: Burns out of he was a running back, running backs coach. 664 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 5: He was from New Orleans as well, so he was 665 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 5: he was kind of hard on me. I was actually 666 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 5: committed at Texas A and M and I ended up decommitting. 667 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 5: And you know when I decommitted, I hit up coach 668 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 5: Burns and was like, you know, are y'all so interested? 669 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 5: And you know, they for sure were, and coach Coach 670 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 5: Saban opened me with with open arms. He actually came 671 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 5: to my high school, him and Coach Burns, and I 672 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 5: was pretty historic, you know, just everybody from my school 673 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 5: was kind of going crazy. And then when I actually 674 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 5: got the band my offer Coach Burns, I came to 675 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 5: one of my practices with like a camera recorder and 676 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 5: basically just came recorded me the whole practice and then 677 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 5: ended up bringing it back to Coach Saban and they 678 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 5: offered me a few days later. 679 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: In your second year at Alabama, the Crimson Tide won 680 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: a national championship and overtime victory over Georgia. What are 681 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: your most vivid memories of that win? 682 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 5: That game was? It was amazing just all of the 683 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 5: things that went into that. You know, it's a NAZA championship, 684 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 5: last game of the year. So when when Tuwak went 685 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 5: back and dropped that pass in the Smitty on that 686 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 5: game win a touchdown, it was it was crucial and overtime, 687 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 5: And what I remember most was after the touchdown, I'm 688 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 5: running trying to chase after Smitty and I ran over 689 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 5: the cameraman. Uh, he had got in a way he 690 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 5: was he was trying to get that shot and I 691 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 5: just ran him clean over and I ain't looked back. 692 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,719 Speaker 3: So that was That was one of my favorite memories. 693 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: Well, part of your job is getting pancakes, so you 694 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: got one, that for sure. So after three years at Alabama, 695 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: you declared for the NFL Draft. You were a second 696 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: round draft picked by the Minnesota Vikings. So much hard 697 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: work goes into that moment. What was your draft experience like. 698 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 5: Of my draft experience, it was it was the biggest blessing, 699 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 5: you know, just just having my family all there with me, 700 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 5: my friends, and you know, everybody that was there for me, 701 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 5: supported me through through all of those years. And you know, 702 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,760 Speaker 5: I ended up falling out of the first round and uh, 703 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 5: in the second round, I didn't really know who was 704 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 5: gonna pick me in Minnesota. Ended up getting a call 705 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 5: from Minnesota, and it was it was a dream from true. 706 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: You don't get to pick the team that drafts you, 707 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 1: but you do get to choose the team when you 708 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: become a free agent, and that was the case this 709 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 1: past year when you signed with Cincinnati. Did you enjoy 710 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 1: free agency or did you find it stressful. 711 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 3: I enjoyed it, you know, watching kind of watching film 712 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 3: and stuff. 713 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 5: Last year when I was going through just going through 714 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 5: the season and when free agency opened up, kind of 715 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,919 Speaker 5: got to pick which you know, got the pick which 716 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 5: team I wanted to go to that was interested in. 717 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 5: And Cincinnati coach Taylor he was he was hard on me, 718 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 5: and you know, just let me know that you know 719 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 5: that that this team they want me and I can. 720 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 5: I can bring a lot and add a lot of 721 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 5: value to this team and help help us win a championship. So, 722 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 5: I mean that stuck out to me and I was 723 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 5: something that was true to my core. You know, I 724 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 5: want to I want to win. I've always been a 725 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 5: part of winning teams, and I wanted to come here 726 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 5: and show that you know, I'm a winner and I 727 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,359 Speaker 5: can help this team win. 728 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: All right, let's do some wild card topics now with 729 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: IRV Smith Junior. Who is your all time favorite athlete 730 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: in any sport? 731 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,760 Speaker 3: All time favorite athlete? 732 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,320 Speaker 5: I have to go either Kobe Bryant or Carmelo Anthony. 733 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:38,879 Speaker 1: Basketball guy. 734 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, basketball. It's hard to pick out of those two. 735 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 5: If I had to pick one and have to probably 736 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 5: be Kobe. 737 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: Though I went to Syracuse. Carmelo would have been a 738 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: good pick. But that's okay. What do you like to 739 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: spend your money on. 740 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 5: I like to take care of my nephews. I like 741 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 5: to play some video games. I like cars, things like that. 742 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 5: I like to travel a lot, so I said in 743 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 5: the off season, taking taking some trips with my family. 744 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 5: I try to save money as much as possible. But 745 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 5: you know, of course, uh, you know, you gotta you 746 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 5: gotta spend a little, so say as much as I can, 747 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,439 Speaker 5: just taking trips and eating too. 748 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite trip you've taken so far? 749 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,800 Speaker 5: Favorite trip? I went to Jamaica this off season. That 750 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 5: was a lot of fun. 751 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 3: The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos. I like the I like 752 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 3: the Islands. 753 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: I don't blame yet other than professional athlete. Have you 754 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: had any other full or part time jobs. No. 755 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 3: I've been dedicated to to sports. 756 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,320 Speaker 5: I mean that's been my grind every weekend, basketball tournaments, 757 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 5: football games, stuff like that. 758 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 3: I was blessed my mom. She she put in. 759 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 5: A lot of work to bring me, be able to 760 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 5: bring me to practices and games and stuff, and be 761 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 5: able to support me so I could I could continue 762 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 5: to follow my dream. 763 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 3: So no, never had a full time job. I you know, 764 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 3: whatever I can. 765 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 5: And to help when I was younger, help earn a 766 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,120 Speaker 5: little money or you know whatever I could do, but 767 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,439 Speaker 5: not a full time job. 768 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 1: Is there anything very few people know about you? Such 769 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,320 Speaker 1: as a hidden talent, a phobia, anything along those lines. 770 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,319 Speaker 5: For the most part, I love football, love basketball, I 771 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 5: love sports. 772 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,400 Speaker 3: I love to hang out with my family, like video games. 773 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,959 Speaker 5: I like the fish, hang out with my girl, those 774 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 5: type of things. 775 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,759 Speaker 1: Last thing, and this one's kind of deep. If you 776 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 1: could meet anybody in history, living or deceased athlete, entertainer, statesman, 777 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: whoever it might be, who would that person be? 778 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 5: It have to be somebody real smart, I say, like 779 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 5: Albert Einstein or something, or maybe Martin Luther King. I'd 780 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,760 Speaker 5: say Martin Luther King. That's number one. 781 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: Either way, would have been a very interesting conversation. I'm 782 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 1: sure I appreciate your time. Best of luck the rest 783 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: of the year, sir. 784 00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 3: Thank you. 785 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 1: That's Church Smith Junior. 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