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Speaker 1: Hi again everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth podcast The Oh won't You stay just

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Speaker 1: a little bit longer. Addition, as the Bengals announced that

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman Dalton Reisner has agreed to a one year

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Speaker 1: contract extension. Coming up. Two conversations with Reisner. First, my

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Speaker 1: one on one visit shortly after he put pen to

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Speaker 1: paper on the new deal, and later, in case you

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Speaker 1: missed it, my fun facts conversation with him from earlier

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Speaker 1: this year. And in between those two interviews, I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to NFL network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland. The Bengals Booth

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Speaker 1: Ever Ate, and then prepare to have a snack because

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Speaker 1: it's impossible not to munch on something after watching the show. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's get to Dalton Reisner. For the first time in

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Speaker 1: the Joe Burrow era, the Bengals starting offensive line will

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Speaker 1: return intact. Now. Admittedly, they were looking to upgrade in

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Speaker 1: previous offseasons, but that wasn't necessary this year. Beginning with

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay game in mid October, so we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the final twelve games of the year. Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus had the Bengals O line graded sixth in the

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Speaker 1: league in pass protection. Sixth, not top half. We're talking

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Speaker 1: in the top twenty percent. And again it's not a

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Speaker 1: small sample size. That was for a dozen games. Dalton

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Speaker 1: Reisner started nine of them, and we'll be back at

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Speaker 1: right guard for at least one more year. One day

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Speaker 1: after the season ended, Amarius Mims cam pain for the

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Speaker 1: Bengals to bring Reisner back.

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Speaker 2: I want him back. I want to do my right

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Speaker 2: I really, like I said, I really hope he can

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Speaker 2: get signed back. But in about thirty minutes, I'll be

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Speaker 2: posted that Darton Rosely back, So that will be happening today.

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Speaker 1: Best starting right guard in the NFL. That's a strong statement.

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Speaker 3: My opinion.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like, you know, weekend and week out,

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Speaker 2: I'll stand on it.

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Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher didn't go so far as calling

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Speaker 1: does a lot of little.

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Speaker 4: Things that are unspectacular, but they matter. He just brings

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Speaker 1: Doesn't affect the execution of what just happened in the play,

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Speaker 1: but it absolutely affects the health of the team and

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Speaker 1: And so he does a lot of little things on

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Speaker 1: top of just being a good football player. Reisner signed

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Speaker 1: Last year you signed eleven days before the start of

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Speaker 4: Wait, nice job looking at the days. That's crazy six

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Speaker 3: You know, it's so tough. The last three years, I've.

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Speaker 4: And I take so much pride in how hard that

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Speaker 4: play for these different teams. But regardless, this is where

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Speaker 4: it is such a blessing. And taking a league minimum

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Speaker 4: not playing the best in your second game, thought I

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Speaker 4: played well in Cleveland, but not playing well and kind

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Speaker 3: You know, it didn't look it didn't look good from.

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Speaker 4: Where Dalton Riser was at, and I just am so

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Speaker 4: grateful to be sitting here today, and I feel overwhelmed

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Speaker 4: signing a four year extension that is ridiculous money, but

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Speaker 3: The story and the journey that I have, I'm so

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Speaker 4: Be here and so grateful for like everybody man like

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Speaker 4: to everyone in the media department and Jeff and Dan,

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Speaker 3: Everybody Like I wish that the cafeteria was.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the season, you told me the

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Speaker 1: following quote, I feel overwhelmed by the unwavering love and

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Speaker 1: How did they show that to you?

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Speaker 4: They showed it by being so outspoken about wanting to

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Speaker 4: they loved me and that's a really cool thing and

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Speaker 4: Joe Burrow doesn't really didn't really ever maybe say it

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Speaker 4: Joe Burrow was contacting me throughout the whole offseason, staying

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Speaker 4: And Scott Peters and Zach Taylor, and yeah, it's really

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Speaker 4: cool that they all said that, but it's so cool

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Speaker 3: In and really wanting this thing done.

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Speaker 4: And I think you always see if people really mean

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Speaker 4: check in, do they continue to wonder, they continue to

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what they did.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I feel the way I do today

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Speaker 4: is because of all the people that made this happen.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't just Dalton Reisner having a good season and

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Speaker 4: the Bengals wanting to re sign me. That's what the

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Speaker 4: story will be, but there was a lot more behind

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, As you mentioned, you basically played for

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Speaker 1: the veteran minimum last year. You don't get to do

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Speaker 1: this for wherever. Did you feel like you had to

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Speaker 4: And you know, in this league, you always have so

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Speaker 4: many people that doubt you. And when I took this deal,

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Speaker 4: I won't say any names, but there was a few

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that I knew I was gonna defeat that,

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Speaker 4: when I was binged and I was on a league

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Speaker 4: minimum deal and I was in year seven, you have

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what I did.

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Speaker 4: And man, I'm just so grateful that I did, because

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Speaker 3: The way I played.

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Speaker 4: It was my teammates, it was my coaches, it was

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Speaker 4: give a huge shout out to the fan base. I

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Speaker 4: want to talk about unwavering love. I mean, man, they've

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Speaker 4: been so supportive, not only this year and last year,

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Speaker 4: draft process. You know, these guys were pounding the table

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Speaker 4: it's time to put on the.

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Speaker 3: Stripes again, and I couldn't agree more. Man, it's time

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Speaker 3: to do that.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about how you played. Your overall Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus grade was the highest of your career. Does this

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Speaker 1: offense suit your skill set particularly well? Did Scott Peters

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Speaker 4: Before I answer this, make sure that this segment gets

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Speaker 4: to Scott Peters because this means a lot to me.

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Speaker 4: Scott Peters and Mike McCarthy believed in me from whenever

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Speaker 4: I came in, and they gave me an opportunity. And

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Speaker 4: that's them, that's pitch and that's Zach too. But the

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Speaker 4: way in which they coach. Scott Peters believes in what

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Speaker 4: I've told so many people since the season was over,

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Speaker 3: And I'm going against a guy Naed John Allen.

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Speaker 1: As you noted, Amarus Mims publicly campaigned for you to

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Speaker 4: He is going to be an All Pro tackle and

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Speaker 4: Like you said, he's so young. Mims is literally the

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Speaker 4: I think it matters a lot because of the makeup

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Speaker 3: If I lose a.

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Speaker 4: To me, that's more important than even the game itself.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not perfect at it and I can always

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Speaker 4: But it was so cool that he noticed that, Like man,

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Speaker 4: So I don't know I'm not trying to get too deep,

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Speaker 4: I've told everybody that this whole offseason, like I've never

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Speaker 1: The second half of the season, the Bengals offensive line,

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Speaker 4: You know, we're not gonna We're not gonna push the agenda.

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Speaker 3: Why, because we have work to do.

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Speaker 4: We're not satisfied, So we're not going to go out

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Speaker 4: because we're eighth, Because we want to be better than eighth.

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Speaker 3: The story I'll tell itself.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the best quarterback in the league. Where's your fossil?

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Speaker 4: Where's my fossil? It's back in Florida. Actually it's not

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Speaker 4: Where does a huge bullhead with horns belong. I think

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Speaker 3: That's one of the coolest gifts.

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Speaker 4: I've gotten from anyone in the NFL and one of

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Speaker 3: He got us a gift that he would love. He

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Speaker 4: Everyone knows Burrow could write a check for a golf cart.

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Speaker 3: Burrow can write a check for anything. You could just

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Speaker 4: But he took time to say, let me go and

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Speaker 4: So I'm stoked about it.

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Speaker 1: You'll have a story forever.

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Speaker 3: Yep, you're dang right, a three million year old story.

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Speaker 1: Final thing for Dalton Reisner free agency league wide is

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Speaker 4: You're dang right, I did. Man, You're dang right I did.

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Speaker 4: I got to the point where I was like, let's

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Speaker 4: that information because this is where I wanted to be

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Speaker 4: and I want to make sure that people know that.

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Speaker 3: And I'm a man of my word.

444
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Speaker 4: When I left, I said this is where I wanted

445
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Speaker 4: to be, and I wasn't kidding, so I could care

446
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Speaker 4: less if another NFL team wanted to get me on

447
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Speaker 4: a two or three year deal or maybe pay me

448
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Speaker 4: a little more cash per year. Cincinnati Bengals is the

449
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Speaker 4: team I wanted to be a part of, so I

450
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Speaker 4: think there'll be some big moves made and let's go.

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Speaker 3: Win some football games.

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Speaker 1: Man, Like your teammates, coaches and Bengals fans, I am

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Speaker 1: thrilled to have you back. Congratulations, thanks brother, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Dan, God bless.

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Speaker 1: After our conversation, I told Dalton that when his playing

456
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Speaker 1: career is finished. He could have a very bright future

457
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Speaker 1: in broadcasting. He's articulate, interesting, entertaining, and honest. And later

458
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Speaker 1: to come on this podcast, you'll hear an encore presentation

459
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Speaker 1: of My fun Facts interview with Dalton from early last season, where,

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Speaker 1: among other things, you'll learn about his childhood and a

461
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Speaker 1: no stoplight one restaurant hometown, and how he earned pizza

462
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Speaker 1: as a kid by memorizing Bible versus but First, at

463
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Speaker 1: the NFL combine last week, I caught up with NFL

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Speaker 1: network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland to discuss what it's going

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Speaker 1: to take to get the Bengals back into Super Bowl contention. Cynthia,

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Speaker 1: in your first mock draft, you had the Bengals selecting

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Speaker 1: Ohio State safety Caleb Downs. He is probably the number

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Speaker 1: one player that Bengals fans would like to see wind

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Speaker 1: up in Cincinnati. Explain your process and how you wound

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Speaker 1: up with Caleb Downs and the Bengals.

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Speaker 5: I use the analytics process, which basically uses a lot

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Speaker 5: of numbers to so I don't blind myself to the

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Speaker 5: jersey right.

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Speaker 6: Ohio State.

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Speaker 5: It's a great school, great reputation, awesome, but Caleb Downs

476
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Speaker 5: is so special.

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Speaker 6: My stuff loves him for safety, for nicol, like you

478
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Speaker 6: name it.

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Speaker 5: He's just so multiple and versatile. So there's a little

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Speaker 5: s next to his name. But I don't really know.

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Speaker 5: I mean nickibn Ware, I think is a good example

482
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Speaker 5: of like I think you played like twelve snaps at

483
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Speaker 5: true safety last year for the Seahawks, and you saw

484
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Speaker 5: how effective he was ever round. So that kind of

485
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Speaker 5: profile added to where the Bengals are maybe having looking

486
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Speaker 5: to fill some holes, is how it paired them together.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals took Shamar Stewart in the first round last year,

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Speaker 1: a guy known more for his traits than his college production.

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Speaker 1: Keldric Falk from Auburn is a similar type of guy.

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Speaker 1: This year, some people are saying he would be a

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Speaker 1: possibility for Cincinnati at number ten. Where are you on

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Speaker 1: the traits versus production debate? From an analytical standpoint, what.

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Speaker 5: I've noticed in this year's draft, now that the transfer

494
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Speaker 5: portal is in full swing, everybody's production looks thinner, so

495
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Speaker 5: you don't see as many different situations or scenarios, or

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Speaker 5: perhaps the playbook.

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Speaker 6: Isn't as thick.

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Speaker 5: I'm not entirely sure how it's all happening like this,

499
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Speaker 5: But people moving school so often, you have to imagine

500
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Speaker 5: they're not able to fully learn a system. So you

501
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Speaker 5: have to go more on trade now than you ever

502
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Speaker 5: have before. However, I think it's like six to one,

503
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Speaker 5: half a dozen of another. I think it depends on

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Speaker 5: the position and all these interviews and all the thirty visits.

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Speaker 6: In your building. Let's go watch some film together. Let's

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Speaker 6: see if you.

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Speaker 5: Pick up all the different things that you're supposed to

508
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Speaker 5: be picking up. Can you learn our system and.

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Speaker 6: Can you execute it? That's where the magic of scouting

510
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Speaker 6: really comes in.

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Speaker 1: So we're here at the combine. Everybody's obviously talking about

512
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Speaker 1: the draft, but for the Bengals, the mission this offseason

513
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Speaker 1: is really to fix the defense. They know the offense

514
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Speaker 1: is fine, they need to get better on defense. So

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Speaker 1: there's a free agency component that's coming up soon. Should

516
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Speaker 1: a team sign a star or are you better off

517
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Speaker 1: using those dollars on several mid tier guys? For lack

518
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Speaker 1: of a.

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Speaker 5: Better word, Am I living in a world where a

520
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Speaker 5: Tree Hendrickson has gone?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm living in a world where he's gone. Okay,

523
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Speaker 5: So I just I don't know where we are with that,

524
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Speaker 5: but I think you need to mix both. You need

525
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Speaker 5: the right people who are average that in your system

526
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Speaker 5: operate in above average ways.

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Speaker 6: But you do need a few anchor positions. I mean,

528
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Speaker 6: think about the team.

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Speaker 5: We were talking about Jamar Chase and how great you

530
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Speaker 5: do radio calls for Jamar Chase right and Joe Burrow obviously,

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Speaker 5: but if you don't have a few of those on

532
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Speaker 5: the defense, it's much harder to live, especially I don't know.

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Speaker 6: It's like, wouldn't you like to maybe sack Lamar Jackson?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: It just seems like a good idea to me.

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Speaker 5: Seems like a smart idea.

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Speaker 1: Definitely a great idea when possible. We're visiting with Cynthia

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Speaker 1: Freeland from the NFL Network. The Bengals are mostly a

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Speaker 1: stick and pick team in the draft. They generally don't

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Speaker 1: do a ton of wheeling and dealing. Maybe a one

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Speaker 1: trade per draft. Should a team, as a general rule,

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Speaker 1: trade down to try to get as many picks as possible.

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Speaker 6: It depends on the construct of your team.

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Speaker 5: Now, I will say it probably from ten makes like

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Speaker 5: there's a weird like cliff that happens. So a lot

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Speaker 5: of people use a Jimmy Johnson trade chart to kind

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Speaker 5: of evaluate the equity of all right, I'll give you

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Speaker 5: my ten to trade down to seventeen, and this is

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Speaker 5: what those seven picks are worth.

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Speaker 6: And there's kind of a cliff that happens after ten.

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Speaker 5: So I will say you could exploit the fact that

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Speaker 5: you're in the top ten, maybe a little bit more

553
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Speaker 5: like you're picking eleven. It's a different trade component that

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Speaker 5: you get more for your You get more bang for

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Speaker 5: your buck at ten, right, So I guess it would

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Speaker 5: depend on what someone was offering.

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Speaker 6: Now I know we're in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 5: That deal that the Colts made for Sauce Gardner, that's

559
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Speaker 5: set a weird precedent because that's a lot of picks

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Speaker 5: and a player.

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Speaker 6: It's just a lot.

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Speaker 5: So perhaps the world is resetting, the market is resetting

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Speaker 5: for how many picks go for players in positions?

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure. But ten is a good spot.

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Speaker 5: So someone's gonna give you something crazy for it, then

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Speaker 5: it'd be hard to turn that down. However, you need

567
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Speaker 5: to know what crazy really is defined as for your team, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't get the sense that there's a likelihood that the

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Speaker 1: Bengals could pull off a trade for Max Crosby. But

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Speaker 1: if they did, it would probably involve giving up the

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Speaker 1: tenth pick. And you just talked about the value of

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Speaker 1: that selection. What do you think, I mean, would it

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Speaker 1: be worth giving up a pick that valuable for a

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Speaker 1: guy that's going to be twenty nine at the beginning

575
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Speaker 1: of the season. Even as great as he is.

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Speaker 5: The thing that I really think about Max Crosby is

577
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Speaker 5: the ability to stop the run as well. You know,

578
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Speaker 5: since he's entered the league seven seasons no defensive end,

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Speaker 5: so someone who plays where he plays has been better

580
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Speaker 5: against the run. I understand he's paid to rush the passer,

581
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Speaker 5: but let's talk about being multiple. So I think he

582
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Speaker 5: is one of those very special players that is a

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Speaker 5: tone setter. He shifts a culture, He creates the opportunity

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Speaker 5: to be a different defense very fast. So I actually

585
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Speaker 5: think he might be because I'm looking at some of

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Speaker 5: these picks and who could be available at ten. There's

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Speaker 5: a lot of people who, at least right now, kind

588
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Speaker 5: of feel like Tweeners.

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Speaker 6: And I don't know how that. I'm not a defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 5: I don't get paid to do that, but I don't

591
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Speaker 5: know how that all fits together. Given the complexion of

592
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Speaker 5: what they're It's hard to know, and I don't meant

593
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Speaker 5: to offense. Hard to know what the Bengals defense was

594
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Speaker 5: trying to do last year, right, I'm unclear? Right, So

595
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Speaker 5: given that, I don't know what they're trying to do

596
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Speaker 5: this next year. So if you add pieces that are

597
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Speaker 5: tweeener pieces to you don't have the right vision for them,

598
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Speaker 5: then you're not really adding a top ten pick. You're

599
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Speaker 5: adding something you basically the production you could have gotten

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Speaker 5: in the twenties, and that would be a miss. Max Crosby,

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Speaker 5: you know what you're getting, and apart from being from Michigan,

602
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Speaker 5: he's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to prior to last year

604
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Speaker 1: because you always do a column where you project the

605
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Speaker 1: ceiling for teams and the floor for teams, and for

606
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Speaker 1: the Bengals, prior to last year, you were like Noster

607
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Speaker 1: Damas because the ceiling was nine point nine, the floor

608
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Speaker 1: was six. It wound up being six, but your rationale

609
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Speaker 1: for that floor was spot on because you did a

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Speaker 1: model for what a team looks like with Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: at quarterback and what a team looks like with just

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Speaker 1: an average Joe at quarterback.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it turns out Joe Burrow's really good news flash.

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Speaker 6: Yeah no, But I think part of the difference is

615
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Speaker 6: my model did not like the Bengals defense. I don't

616
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Speaker 6: think I'm alone in that without Joe Burrows.

617
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Speaker 5: So if you kind of like we're, you know, like

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Speaker 5: the scales of justice right, like on one side, you're

619
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Speaker 5: weighing Joe Burrow's capabilities, and he can right a lot

620
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Speaker 5: of wrongs, but if he's not there, the wrongs compound

621
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Speaker 5: and it's really hard. Like there aren't thirty two men

622
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Speaker 5: who are qualified to play quarterback. There aren't ten guys

623
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Speaker 5: who are.

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Speaker 6: Great at quarterback. There's like four. We were trying to

625
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Speaker 6: name who are guys who you could start a franchise with?

626
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Speaker 5: And I'm sitting there and we're it was smartest people

627
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 5: in the league, and we named four.

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Speaker 6: Four. Obviously, of course Joe's one of the four.

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Speaker 5: But apart from that, it's you're like, well, in this system, nope,

630
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Speaker 5: So Joe's the big X factor.

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Speaker 1: So every year in the NFL, there's a team or

632
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Speaker 1: a few teams that go from being bad to being great.

633
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Speaker 1: Patriots won four games two years ago. They went to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. The last time the Bengals went to

635
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They won four games the year before,

636
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Speaker 1: So it always happens to somebody. The Bengals are hoping

637
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Speaker 1: to go from six wins to the Super Bowl next year.

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00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: What do they have to do. If you are in

639
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Speaker 1: charge of the Cincinnati Bengals, how do you get them

640
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: back to that level?

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Speaker 6: Well, you got Joe. Let's keep him playing and healthy.

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Speaker 6: That's number one.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's one of my favorite players mentally because

644
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Speaker 5: I am from the state of Michigan and Matthew Stafford

645
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 5: was in Michigan for a long time and got clobbered

646
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 5: and his toughness was always a huge deal.

647
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Speaker 6: Joe Burrow is.

648
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Speaker 5: Like, he doesn't even flinch. It's pretty amazing. So keep

649
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Speaker 5: Joe healthy. And number two, got to like win the

650
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Speaker 5: games you're supposed to win, and a lot of that

651
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Speaker 5: will be incremental benefits on defense. Just get a little

652
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Speaker 5: bit better on defense. You have the offensive pieces in place.

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Speaker 5: Keep Joe Burrow healthy. Don't ask him to throw for

654
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Speaker 5: five thousand yards. I mean, okay, five thousand maybe don't

655
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Speaker 5: ask him to throw over six thousand yards?

656
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Speaker 6: How about that? About that? And then that will really

657
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Speaker 6: help things.

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Speaker 1: What do you get out of the combine, What do

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Speaker 1: you like to look at, who do you like to

660
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Speaker 1: talk to? What do you get from being an Indy

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Speaker 1: in Indy?

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to especially this year with ten new head coaches,

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to get a sense of what are people's

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Speaker 5: philosophies and not what are they like saying, but like

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Speaker 5: what are they doing?

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Speaker 6: Because everyone will tell you I'm this I come from

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Speaker 6: a McVeigh tree or a Shanahan tree. Everyone would like

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Speaker 6: to do that. Everyone would love to play with a

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Speaker 6: Joe Barrow, everyone would love to have Christian McCaffrey. We

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Speaker 6: get it, But what is your real strategy when the

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Speaker 6: rubber meets the road? Meaning do you have the vision

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Speaker 6: or not?

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Speaker 5: We were talking last night about you know, Sean Payton

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Speaker 5: made a big decision to get rid of Russell Wilson

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Speaker 5: with a massive contract still left on the table. He

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Speaker 5: and We're like, does he loved Bonix as much as

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Speaker 5: he says? And I'm like, I think he had to

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Speaker 5: convince himself he did because that was the structure of

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Speaker 5: offense he could get by with given this horrible cap

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Speaker 5: hit that he had to take away from.

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Speaker 6: I can win with this guy. I therefore I love him.

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Speaker 5: So what are your actual strategies and how are you

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Speaker 5: looking at this new crop of guys coming in and

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Speaker 5: seeing who fits those strategies in a way that makes

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Speaker 5: sense for your team.

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Speaker 6: So you know, no one cares about the measuring. No

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Speaker 6: one cares about that. It's fun. We love a good

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Speaker 6: fast run, like we've been doing.

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Speaker 5: You how many years have you been here? I mean

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Speaker 5: a lot of years, right, So it's fun when they

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Speaker 5: do crazy athletic feats. But ultimately, what you're looking at

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Speaker 5: is like, all right, so who's got a cohesive strategy

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Speaker 5: that makes sense and is going to stick with it

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Speaker 5: even if like someone they never thought would be able

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Speaker 5: to be achieved at such a high position was a

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Speaker 5: bit I don't know.

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Speaker 6: We'll see. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: Three of those ten new head coaches are in the

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Speaker 1: AFC North, So the Bengals are the only team that's

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Speaker 1: got their guy back. Do you think that's an advantage

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Speaker 1: in the short term?

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Speaker 5: I do actually think it's an advantage because it often

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Speaker 5: what you see, like people always like the season doesn't

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Speaker 5: start till October? What season doesn't Some people say till Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 5: But you have to win those initial games and there

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Speaker 5: will be a learning curve even for teams with.

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Speaker 6: A really great quarterback or whatever.

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Speaker 5: I'm very interested to see some of the strategic decisions

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Speaker 5: that are made. I mean, Jesse Minter does come from

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Speaker 5: a Ravens mold, so perhaps that goes a little bit faster,

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Speaker 5: But I certainly, I certainly think that.

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Speaker 6: You know, what do I feel about the Steelers? Confused?

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Speaker 6: I don't know what their defense is?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 6: Is Aaron Rodgers coming back? For sure?

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Speaker 5: He's gonna make us wait until July? You know that, Like,

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Speaker 5: that's just for sure gonna happen. What's going on with

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Speaker 5: the Browns? Okay, let's just put them aside? Like, so

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Speaker 5: the question is is to me, can the Bengals beat

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Speaker 5: the Ravens? And if you get off to a good

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Speaker 5: start early, that's a good strategy, a good plan to

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Speaker 5: make that happen.

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Speaker 1: Cynthia, thank you for coming over to my little corner table.

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Speaker 1: It really appreciates you. Enjoy your work. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 6: I love the radio calls. It's my favorite thing to

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Speaker 6: listen to.

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Speaker 5: So now I'm going to be like whenever whenever I

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Speaker 5: hear the Jamar Chase touchdown or whatever, whoever touched out,

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Speaker 5: I'm going to be like, Oh, he's the best.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: promised one of my favorite fun facts interviews from last

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Speaker 1: season as we get to know the person under the pads.

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Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with offensive lineman Dalton Reisner

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Speaker 1: from Wiggins, Colorado, a small town about an hour away

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Speaker 1: from Denver. I've read that you grew up on a farm.

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Speaker 1: Was that the case and do you fit the stereotype

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Speaker 1: of being country strong from working on the farm as

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Speaker 1: a game, I'd.

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Speaker 3: Say most definitely.

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Speaker 4: You know, I always have to say we didn't grow

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Speaker 4: up on a farm. We grew up on a ranch

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Speaker 4: because we have fifty head of cattle, pigs, horses, dogs,

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Speaker 4: the whole get out. And we had one hundred acres

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Speaker 4: right and I was bull riding. I was a bull

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Speaker 4: rider growing up, I barrel raced, I tried to rope

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Speaker 4: calves at one point. And I grew up working on farms,

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Speaker 4: So you know farms when it comes to to wheat

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Speaker 4: harvest and corn and millet and you name it out there,

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Speaker 4: you know, I worked for a bunch of farmers I worked.

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Speaker 4: I worked at a dairy farm growing up as well.

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Speaker 4: So whether it was building barbari fence, branding cattle, scoop

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Speaker 4: and poop at the dairy farm, or walk into wheat

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Speaker 4: fields for rye, That's what I.

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Speaker 3: Grew up doing.

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Speaker 4: So any type of physical strength I have, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: have to attest it to that.

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Speaker 1: Just how small is Wiggins?

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Speaker 4: Wiggins is about When I was going to school there,

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Speaker 4: it was about eight to nine hundred people in the

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Speaker 4: whole town. I want to say it's about fifteen hundred

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Speaker 4: or more now I haven't looked it up. But when

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Speaker 4: I was going to school, there was one a football,

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Speaker 4: so it's a slow. It was the smallest classification of

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Speaker 4: eleven man football. There were seventeen guys on my football team.

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Speaker 4: So I was on kickoff, kick return, punt return, I

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Speaker 4: was linebacker on defense. You played every single way, so

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Speaker 4: up until college. I was like, oh, I don't have

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Speaker 4: to play one way.

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Speaker 3: This is wild. So you had to be in very

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Speaker 3: good shape.

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Speaker 4: Obviously the level of athleticism wasn't very good at the

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Speaker 4: one A level. But regardless, that's how small it was.

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Speaker 4: There's no stoplights, one restaurant, count two if you count

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Speaker 4: the chicken tenders at the gas station, which I love

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Speaker 4: the chicken tenders at the gas station, stubs, gas and

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Speaker 4: oil shout out. Other than that, there is a hardware store,

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Speaker 4: a school, and all the farmers and ranchers that live

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Speaker 4: in the town.

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Speaker 3: That's about it, man, that's the size of Wiggins.

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Speaker 1: Your dad was your coach in high school? Did he

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Speaker 1: treat you like everybody else? Or was he especially hard

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Speaker 1: on you?

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Speaker 4: To make a point, Oh, he gave me the special treatment.

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Speaker 4: And by special treatment, I don't mean he gave me anything. Man,

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Speaker 4: he was hard on me. This is back when coaches

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Speaker 4: could grab you by your face mask.

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Speaker 3: And get in your face. That's not really allowed nowadays.

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Speaker 4: But and my dad created the pee wee football program

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Speaker 4: in our small town. When we moved to Wiggins, there

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Speaker 4: was no pee wee football program, so he started a

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Speaker 4: pee wee football program. I'm one of five boys. So

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Speaker 4: I was the third boy in line, and we all

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Speaker 4: went through the Pew football program. When the two older

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Speaker 4: boys got to junior high, he became the junior high coach.

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Speaker 4: He coached me through junior high and by the time

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Speaker 4: I was getting to eighth grade, he wanted to become

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Speaker 4: the high school football coach in Wiggins. You have to

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Speaker 4: be on the teaching staff to be a football coach.

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Speaker 4: My dad the guy he is, and this is why

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00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 4: he is a full time job, right And he goes

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Speaker 4: and petitions and gets the whole town of eight hundred people.

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Speaker 4: I think he got six hundred signatures to take to

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Speaker 4: the school board to say that they wanted him to

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Speaker 4: be their head high school football coach. And he kind

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Speaker 4: of strong armed the school board and he became the

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Speaker 4: head football coach without happened to be at the school.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, coached all of us five boys through high school,

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Speaker 4: went to a state championship, had some success.

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Speaker 1: The voters spoke the voters. When it came time to

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Speaker 1: pick a college, you chose Kansas State, about seven hours away.

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Speaker 4: Y k State, you know, Kansas State was one of

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Speaker 4: those teams I just felt like fit my mold it

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Speaker 4: was a blue collar program. It was run by Bill

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Speaker 4: Snyder at the time, and I felt like the staff

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Speaker 4: was more interested in molding me into a young man

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Speaker 4: and a follower of Jesus and just a good human being,

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Speaker 4: maybe as a father and as a son before a

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Speaker 4: football player. And not everything glitters it glows. But I

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Speaker 4: really enjoyed my time at Kansas State. It was perfect

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Speaker 4: for me. I was a kid that needed time to grow,

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Speaker 4: so I red shirted and you know, seven hours up

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Speaker 4: the road from where I lived in Wiggans, Colorado, and

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Speaker 4: it just kind of it kind of fit the mold

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Speaker 4: for a kid coming from Wiggins, Colorado.

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Speaker 1: You had a great career Kansas State, and then after

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Speaker 1: that a dream came true in twenty nineteen in the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft, when you were selected by your childhood team,

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos in the second round. Describe that draft experience.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was wild. I mean, I'm such a competitor.

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Speaker 4: I remember I was so ticked off that night because

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Speaker 4: I felt like I should be a first round draft pick.

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Speaker 4: Looking back, I'm like, man, you should have been jumping

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Speaker 4: up and off the walls, which I was so excited.

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Speaker 4: John Elway called me when I was at Elway's in

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Speaker 4: downtown Denver and you know, was talking about getting a flight.

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Speaker 4: I said, brother, I'm already at Elways downtown. That's why

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Speaker 4: I'm celebrating. I just got to drive thirty minutes in

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Speaker 4: the morning and get the playbooks. So for me, I

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Speaker 4: grew up in a family that didn't have much. You know,

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Speaker 4: there was a time where we were getting Christmas presents

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Speaker 4: dropped off on our doorstep. This is way when we

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Speaker 4: were young, young, young, And you know, I got to

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Speaker 4: go to maybe two or three Bronco games growing up,

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Speaker 4: but it was always what I wanted to do. I

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Speaker 4: mean I remember looking down at the Broncos just being like,

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Speaker 4: that would be sick if I could do that someday.

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Speaker 4: And I was always kind of the kid that dreamed big.

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Speaker 4: So for me, when I got drafted to like actually

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Speaker 4: put on the helmet and be a part of the

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Speaker 4: program and do it for four years and run out

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Speaker 4: of the tunnel was absolutely surreal.

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Speaker 3: And that opportunity in two weeks to go back.

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Speaker 4: It won't be my first time, but it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: another cool opportunity to be back there.

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Speaker 1: How crazy was it to have John Elway as a boss.

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Speaker 3: Oh it was wild. I mean I grew up watching

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Speaker 3: the guy.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's the jersey that you see growing up, right,

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Speaker 4: Everyone's talking about Elway, and that's what grandpa's talking about,

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Speaker 4: and that's who mom likes and all these different things.

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Speaker 4: And for John Ellie to be the guy that picked you,

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Speaker 4: it sure meant a lot. And I created a relationship

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Speaker 4: with him to where my time in Denver. You know,

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Speaker 4: I talked to him on the phone and we text,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, I had a lot of respect for I

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Speaker 4: have a lot of respect for him.

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Speaker 1: I read a story where you said the following, I

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Speaker 1: hope scouts watch my tape and say, Reisner must have

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Speaker 1: been ticked off. Do you become a different person on

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Speaker 1: the field.

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Speaker 4: I tried to man, I don't know when that quotes from.

878
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 4: That's hilarious, But I've always tried to play with an

879
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 4: extra level of grit or work hards to me, But yeah,

880
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 4: you can't. You can't be mister nice guy when you're

881
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 4: in a football field. You're trying to put food on

882
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 4: the table and the plate for your family, and you're

883
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 4: trying to, you know, make a career out of the

884
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 4: job that you're doing and being in the league seven

885
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 4: years you understand, and being on the street two weeks

886
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 4: ago you understand how hard this job is and you

887
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 4: understand that it waits for nobody, and I don't care

888
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 4: who you are. So yeah, a level of change when

889
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 4: you cross those white lines is needed for a guy

890
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 4: like me.

891
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: Offensive line is interesting in that sense because it's obviously

892
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: very physical, but there's also a tremendous x's and o's

893
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: chess match going on at that position. Which part of

894
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: it do you like more?

895
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 4: The easier one for me is the chess match because

896
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 4: it's all between the ears, and that's something you can

897
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 4: prep for throughout the week, and the more you study it,

898
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 4: the more you dial in, the more you lock in.

899
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 4: I feel like, the more that you can edge out

900
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 4: your opponent mentally. The physical side sometimes, in my opinion,

901
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 4: it's not a work hard standpoint. Sometimes you know, you

902
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 4: got the kid from Wigans, Colorado going against the five

903
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 4: star recruit from Gosh knows where, So I think the

904
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 4: physical thing, the physical side of things can be harder

905
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 4: at times, but that's also one that with a great,

906
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 4: great responsibility comes great reward because you get to go

907
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 4: against these great players and when you find yourself blocking

908
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 4: them up, it's a great feeling too.

909
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: We're visiting the Dalton Reisner. After four years in Denver

910
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: in two years with Minnesota Vikings, you were a free

911
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: agent this past offseason and didn't sign until late August.

912
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: How did you stay ready?

913
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: Man? Great question.

914
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 4: I It's it's hard to talk about because, man, I

915
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 4: am so grateful for the way that I did approach things,

916
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 4: and so grateful for a wife that you know, supports

917
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,439
Speaker 4: me each and every day, even when sometimes the dream

918
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: seems a little bit far fetched, because you know, there

919
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 4: were I'm waking up at six am every day and

920
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 4: I'm going out to my garage and I'm putting the

921
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 4: garage door up, and I'm doing an hour lift, and

922
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 4: I'm putting my cleats on. I'm walking through the neighborhood

923
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 4: over to the local like that. It was where the

924
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 4: mail boxes are in our neighborhood and there's an area

925
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 4: between the mailboxes and the pickleball slash basketball court and

926
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 4: it's about twenty yard patch of grass that gets mowed

927
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 4: every two weeks, and sometimes the grass is up to

928
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 4: your past your ankles, and you know, I do fifteen

929
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 4: to twenty sprints every morning and then I run through

930
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 4: inside zone, tight zone, pass block, right guard, left guard.

931
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 4: It's about a thirty to forty five minute deal and

932
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 4: it's muggy as hell. That's why I do it at

933
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 4: six am in Florida. But regardless, I had this whole

934
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,919
Speaker 4: order in which I did things, and it was from

935
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,760
Speaker 4: like six to ten in the morning, end with sauna,

936
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 4: end with cold tub.

937
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 3: And it's cool to look.

938
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 4: Back on because if I didn't do that every day,

939
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 4: no one was watching, no one cared. Right, there were

940
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 4: times where who knows if I was going to get

941
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 4: picked up, or you didn't know your future, So there

942
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 4: were so many mornings where you question why am I

943
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 4: doing this? You know, and is it really gonna matter?

944
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 4: I mean, we're in late August here, guys. I went

945
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 4: through a whole training camp, and you know, if I

946
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 4: didn't do that, there's no way in heck I.

947
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: Could have stepped in against the Browns. There's just no way.

948
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 4: And if I did didn't do it, I bet the

949
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 4: Bengals would't have even trusted me too, because my workout

950
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 4: probably wuldn't have been good and I probably would never

951
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 4: have gotten signed or I would have been here and

952
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 4: they knew I would have been ready and they would

953
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 4: put someone else in. So just really grateful for a

954
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 4: wife that supported me through that and for just the

955
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 4: willpower to, you know.

956
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:44,959
Speaker 3: Do that when no one was looking.

957
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: So nobody was looking in terms of NFL teams, But

958
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: what about neighbors and passers by. Did they see this

959
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: gigantic human being doing past blocking drills against nobody?

960
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember, like a week before I came

961
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 4: out here, a guy walked by and he said, that

962
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 4: must be one hell of a fantasy football.

963
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 3: Team you're on.

964
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 4: And you know the human nature, and you set wants

965
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 4: to bark back and say, I'm a six year NFL vet.

966
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 3: You know I could be on multiple teams.

967
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 4: I'm in contract negotiation, but get into it right, and

968
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 4: you just kind of laugh. And every morning there's the

969
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 4: grandmas walking their dogs and they poop in the grass

970
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 4: that you're working out in and they just stare at you,

971
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 4: and you know they're going back and they're chattering about

972
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 4: what's that big, huge man doing in the grass, grunting

973
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 4: and making all that noise. But when you love something

974
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 4: enough and you care about it enough, you'll find a way.

975
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: So after two padded practices with the Bengals. You suit

976
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: it up in the season opener, and two and a

977
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: half minutes into the second quarter, Lucas Patrick suffered a

978
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: calf injury, and you're in. You're gonna play the rest

979
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: of the game. Ted Carris called it a stunning display

980
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,760
Speaker 1: of football professionalism. This was your ninetieth NFL game, including

981
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Is it among the most memorable in light

982
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: of the circumstances.

983
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 3: Oh, it's one of the most memorable. For me.

984
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 4: Two years ago, I signed late with the Minnesota Vikings,

985
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 4: and I think two weeks later I started Monday night

986
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 4: football against the forty nine ers. That was a absolutely

987
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,439
Speaker 4: surreal experience. So that's up there, number two, the first

988
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 4: start in Mile High Stadium, that's up there, and then

989
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 4: this one is the top three.

990
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 3: So those are all my top three.

991
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 4: I mean to be able to be with a different team,

992
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 4: different organization, guys that you barely know and step in

993
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 4: in a way of like that is truly an unreal feeling.

994
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 4: I talked to you guys earlier in the week, but

995
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 4: what Ted said meant a whole lot to me, not

996
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 4: only because the player he is, but the man he

997
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 4: is and I take it very seriously to step in

998
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 4: here and be.

999
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 3: A guy that guys can count on.

1000
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 4: So I know that I'm getting more time underneath my belt,

1001
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 4: more times working with the ones, So I got to

1002
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 4: continue to elevate my game, which I will. But yeah,

1003
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 4: it was an unbelievable experience. Awesome words that Ted said

1004
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 4: something I'll never forget. A story I'll tell the kids

1005
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 4: and the grandkids, and I'll probably stretch it.

1006
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: So two days after that, you spoke to kids at

1007
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 1: a local elementary school. Tell us a little bit about

1008
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: the Riisner Up Foundation and its mission.

1009
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I kind of told you a little

1010
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 4: bit about where I come from and the humble beginnings

1011
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 4: and the roots of where I'm from. So when it

1012
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 4: comes to giving back to other people and the type

1013
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 4: of people we are off the field, that means more

1014
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:15,959
Speaker 4: to me. And I have no problem saying that means

1015
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 4: more to me. You don't care if you call me

1016
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 4: in five years and say I was one of the

1017
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 4: best guards to ever come.

1018
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 3: Through as a Cincinnati bank. I don't care.

1019
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the awards, the trophies. I don't even

1020
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 4: remember what awards I got in college. Nor do you

1021
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 4: care if I ask you, right now, tell me every

1022
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 4: award I got in college. You wouldn't be able to

1023
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 4: do it because it doesn't matter to you. But when

1024
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 4: you go home and talk to your wife or your

1025
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 4: kids and they ask you about Dalton Reisner, You're probably

1026
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 4: gonna tell them about maybe the heart that I have.

1027
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 4: And I hope that that's a good thing. And that's

1028
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 4: why I do those things.

1029
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 3: In the most genuine way.

1030
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 4: I mean, let's be honest. When you go do that

1031
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 4: for kids, a lot of those kids want to They

1032
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 4: want to know Joe Burrow and how much money Joe

1033
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 4: Burrow makes. Those are the questions you get, right, But

1034
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 4: there might be one kid that's like, wow, like that

1035
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 4: NFL football player. I would have done anything for ANFL

1036
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 4: football player to show up to my school.

1037
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 3: I've done anything.

1038
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 4: So for me, it's like, man, if there's one kid

1039
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 4: that could have use this today, it matters for me.

1040
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 4: And even if it didn't matter, even if the kids

1041
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 4: got nothing from it. And I give a whole speech,

1042
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 4: I signed autographs, I did the whole deal for me

1043
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 4: morally to say, hey, little Dalton, little kid that had

1044
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 4: a dream to be in the NFL. You know, just

1045
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 4: know that when you made it like you're a good

1046
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 4: dude and like you're still giving time to other people.

1047
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

1048
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate.

1049
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: Here come a few wild card topics. Now to wrap

1050
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: things up with Dalton Reisner. Is it true that you

1051
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: got free pizza from memorizing Bible Versus as a kid.

1052
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: That is very true.

1053
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 4: One hundred percent tostinos pizza. So there were days where

1054
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 4: I'd get three or four tostinos. Miss Segura shout out

1055
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 4: Summit Baptist Church, Miss Segura, Wigans, Colorado.

1056
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: You said in an interview a few years ago that

1057
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: you want to open a restaurant when you're playing days

1058
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: or finished. Is that still the case and what type

1059
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: of restaurant would it be.

1060
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 4: A great question. I love the research you did. You

1061
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 4: did a great job. No, definitely not anymore. I think

1062
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 4: starting a family is really important to me. Being a

1063
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 4: father is really important to me. I would love to

1064
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 4: speak at churches, men's group. I've already done sermons at

1065
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 4: Sunday churches, so I'd love to do that men's groups,

1066
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 4: youth groups, you name it, as well as pickleball. I'd

1067
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 4: love to do that competitively with my wife. But three

1068
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 4: twenty doesn't go well with pickleball.

1069
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: So I have searched high and low for a picture

1070
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: of you with no beard unsuccessfully. When was the last

1071
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: time you were clean shaven?

1072
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 4: Since I grew the beard? I've never done a clean

1073
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,359
Speaker 4: shaven you know, as an offensive lineman.

1074
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 3: That scary stuff. Buddy.

1075
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 4: You know you look good, you know you're brave, you're

1076
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 4: a fit dude. But when you weigh three undred twenty pounds,

1077
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 4: even though you're married, that's a risk you don't take.

1078
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: Was this college or high school when the beard?

1079
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 4: I think I started to finally grow it, like red

1080
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 4: shirt freshman year in college, and all the pictures you

1081
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 4: can see before that look pretty dang bad, so I'm

1082
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 4: not going back to it.

1083
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: Roughly, how many tattoos do you have?

1084
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 6: Oo?

1085
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 4: I got about twenty Bible verses, so about maybe twenty

1086
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 4: three twenty four tattoos. I got a family tree in

1087
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 4: my right arm with you know, buddies that have died

1088
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 4: or you know, family members that are still alive or

1089
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 4: not alive, and then everything else is Bible versus some

1090
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 4: stuff about my marriage. So yeah, probably it depends on

1091
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 4: how much you want to break it up. You know what,

1092
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 4: I mean, I have two full arm sleeves and I

1093
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 4: have a little bit on my legs, so regardless, it

1094
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 4: could be you could call it five big, huge pieces,

1095
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 4: or you.

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00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: Could call it one hundred.

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00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: Are there more to come?

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00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 4: I think I'm done. I want to do the neck,

1099
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 4: and my wife really shut things down. She said, we're

1100
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,959
Speaker 4: not going to the next So I said, okay, all right.

1101
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 4: You know, I was just gonna get something about Jesus.

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00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 2: Man.

1103
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: I love Jesus so anywhere, but the neck. Final question

1104
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: for Dalton Reisner, This one's a little bit deep. If

1105
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased.

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00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 3: Jesus done deal, Jesus done deal.

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00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 4: I know that's cliche, man, but maybe not cliche, but

1108
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 4: maybe corny.

1109
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 3: But for me, it's Jesus.

1110
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 4: I mean, dear gosh, and I am going to be

1111
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 4: able to meet him, but I don't want to.

1112
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 3: I don't. It'd be cool not to have to meet him,

1113
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 3: because then I know I'm dead.

1114
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 4: So it would be really cool if you're telling me

1115
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 4: one person right now, just dead or living, that I

1116
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 4: could have and I could chat with Are you kidding me?

1117
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 3: Bro?

1118
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 4: I would ask him so many questions and.

1119
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 3: He'd be sick of me?

1120
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 4: Like, how about that one?

1121
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: Prayer?

1122
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 3: Man? Did you not listen? You don't want it to happen?

1123
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 3: Or what the game this weekend? Who's gonna win? Jesus?

1124
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 3: Am I gonna play?

1125
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 6: Well?

1126
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 3: Could you really just have me lock up this guy? Please?

1127
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 4: So no, I'd ask him much more deep questions than that.

1128
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 4: But it'd be cool to meet Jesus.

1129
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 1: I think I'd like to witness that conversation.

1130
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 3: It'd be cool, man, It'd be a fun one. It'd

1131
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 3: be a fun one.

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00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: This has been a fun one too. Appreciate your time.

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00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, man, really appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: God bless that's going to do it for this episode

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