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Speaker 1: I get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Viva Viva Las Vegas addition,

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Speaker 1: as the Bengals come to the gambling capital of the

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Speaker 1: world and strike at Ridge with a thirty two thirteen

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Speaker 1: win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Coming up, you'll hear

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Speaker 1: radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, and analysis

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Speaker 1: from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's

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Speaker 1: fun Fact segment, you'll get to know one of the

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Speaker 1: heroes from Sunday's win, the Baby Faced Assassin Evan McPherson.

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Speaker 1: flavor of the Brown Bear Bakery cinnamon roll. Now let's

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Speaker 1: get to Sunday's game. It did not start well, as

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Speaker 1: the Bengals coughed up the ball on their opening possession,

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Speaker 1: third down and six from the forty shotgun snap Burrow

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Speaker 1: running it back to the thirty. Now they're twenty coming

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Speaker 1: back to the middle of the field, not the fifteen

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Speaker 1: to ten and tackle made by t Higgins at the

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Speaker 1: nine yard line. Levitt scooping up the fumble and running

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Speaker 1: it back to the nine, but the Bengals defense only

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Speaker 1: allowed the Raiders to gain one yard. Vegas settled for

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Speaker 1: a field goal in a three nothing lead. Here's eli

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Speaker 1: apple sudden change. We already know we gotta stop the

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Speaker 1: bleeding whenever something like that happens as a defense, So

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Speaker 1: I saw The Bengals answered, thanks in part to a

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Speaker 1: roughing the passer penalty on Unique and Goakway. When Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: would have had to punt instead, Evan McPherson got to

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Speaker 1: kick the snap to put down the swing of the

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Speaker 1: right leg. Evan McPherson's kick is good. Yeah. He delivers

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Speaker 1: from fifty four yards away and ties a franchise record

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Speaker 1: for most fifty plus field goals in a single season.

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Speaker 1: It's a record that goes back to nineteen seventy when

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Speaker 1: Horstmuellman made four in one season. That's what Evan McPherson

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Speaker 1: has in his first ten games. Four out of five attempts,

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Speaker 1: four out of five. Unbelievable. It was three to three

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Speaker 1: at the end of the first quarter. Another field goal

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Speaker 1: It was fun while it lasted. When the Raiders got

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati responded with a twelve play touchdown drive, third down

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Speaker 1: that throw for Darren Waller. Eli Apple has obviously faced

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Speaker 1: He can do it all. It ain't just the running downhill.

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Speaker 1: two Trey Hendrickson with a strip sack recovered by his

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Speaker 1: It was a hard fock game. They were a good

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Speaker 1: Just a couple of weeks ago, we went to New York,

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Speaker 1: divisional game this Sunday at our house. Really proud of

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Speaker 1: our guests today. That divisional game is against the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers on Sunday night and took the lead with

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Speaker 1: to thirty seven win. As a result, the Bengals climb

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Speaker 1: back ahead of Pittsburg in the AFC North Cincinnatis in

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Speaker 1: Quite a day coming out of the bye for the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: A thirty two thirteen win in Las Vegas. First time

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Speaker 1: and so everybody goes to that one school, and um,

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Speaker 1: you pretty much know almost everybody in the in the city.

429
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: Sounds like Lakewood, New York, where I grew up. Fort

430
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: Payne is the home of the band Alabama, one of

431
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Speaker 1: the biggest selling country music bands of all time. In fact,

432
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Speaker 1: there is a museum dedicated to the band in Fort Payne.

433
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Speaker 1: Are you a country music guy and have you ever

434
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Speaker 1: gone into the museum? Yeah, I'm one hundred percent a

435
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Speaker 1: country music guy. If you were to get in my

436
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Speaker 1: car with me right now, that's what would be on

437
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Speaker 1: the radio. Um. Yeah, I just grew up listening to it,

438
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: you know, being from FOURT Payins. Like you said, it's

439
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,360
Speaker 1: probably a big part of our culture with the band

440
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 1: Alabama being from Fort Payne, and it's super cool just

441
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: to um, you know, I have them represent Fort Payne

442
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: in a great way and you know, on the national

443
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: country music stage. But I've never been in the museum.

444
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: I drive past it every single day, but I've never

445
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: actually been in it. Something to look forward to on

446
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: your next visit home. We are chatting with Evan McPherson.

447
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 1: You're from a family of kickers. Your older brother was

448
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 1: a college punter. Your younger brother is headed to Auburn.

449
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: He's considered to be the top high school kicker in

450
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: the country. How did the McPherson boys become such good kickers?

451
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it just comes down to us

452
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 1: just playing a lot of sports grown up, and the

453
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: main one being soccer. You know, we were out in

454
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: the yard every day shooting at a goal, just kind

455
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 1: of working on our legs strength then even though we

456
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: didn't really realize how we were going to use it,

457
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 1: you know later down the road. Um, I think it

458
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: just all started, you know, playing soccer at young age

459
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,199
Speaker 1: and just continuing to play it as we grew up.

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Speaker 1: And then, you know, when my older brother got in

461
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 1: the ninth grade, he went out and tried out and

462
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: just saw the the kicker at the time at the

463
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: other field, at the other end of the field kicking

464
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: and he thought it was pretty cool, and so he

465
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: just went over and tried it out. Came home and

466
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: told the family that he was going to be the kicker,

467
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: and he kind of went from there. I mean I

468
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: probably went outside that day and I was like, I've

469
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: never seen this before, and I probably went out and

470
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: tried it, and you know, the rest is history. I mean,

471
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 1: ever since then, we turned our soccer goal into uprights,

472
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: and so that's kind of how it's been since since then.

473
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: I am the least handy person in the world. I

474
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: can barely change a light ball. How did you guys

475
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: turn a soccer goal into basically a makeshift goal post. Yeah,

476
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: so we just had some extra PBC pipe laying around

477
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: the house or around the garage or something, and then

478
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: you just grabbed him, took some bungee cord and wrapped

479
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: it tied around the soccer goal post, and just tied

480
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: it to the soccer goal. And that's kind of how

481
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: we made it work. Described the history of the high

482
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Speaker 1: school state record for longest field goal in Alabama, because

483
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: it seems like it's gone from brother to brother to brother.

484
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: It has. I know, when my older brother was in

485
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: in high school, I think the record might have been

486
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: fifty six fifty six and for him to get the

487
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: fifty seven was huge at the time. You know, we're

488
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 1: all excited for him, and you know, it's really cool

489
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 1: to have your name in a record book, especially for

490
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Speaker 1: for it to be for the longest field goal in

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Speaker 1: state history. And so you know, after you hit that, obviously,

492
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: then my goal is to beat him. And you know,

493
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: I really got fortunate. You know, my coach gave me

494
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: the opportunity to attempt long ones, and my senior year,

495
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: I broke his record, said it with a sixty yard

496
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: field goal. And then obviously from there, my little brother

497
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: now his goal is to break my record. And he's

498
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: had so many attempts over the course of his career.

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00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: I mean, his coaches out there letting him attempt seventy

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00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: yard field goals, which is which is pretty crazy. And

501
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: he almost made the seven yard field goal he attempted,

502
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: but he's just came up a little short. And then

503
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: last week he hits to sixty one yard field goal

504
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, but his teammate false starts so

505
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: back him up to sixty six, came up short, and

506
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,959
Speaker 1: then later in the game he came back and hit

507
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Speaker 1: another sixty one with no false start, and so he

508
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: broke my record. Last last week and so took my

509
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Speaker 1: name out of the record book, but same last name.

510
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm super super excited for him, and

511
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: you know, it just shows it as a good coach.

512
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: So that's awesome. We're doing fun facts with Havan McPherson

513
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: kicker's dream of walkoff kicks that win games. But your

514
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: first walkoff moment in sports was actually in soccer state championship.

515
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: You're a ninth grader. Tell me about the game winning

516
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: goal and what that moment meant to you. That moment

517
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: was super special. We had five freshmen starting on that

518
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 1: team and just growing up with those those guys and

519
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: playing with them ever since we were probably seven years old. Um,

520
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: it was just super special to to honestly win a

521
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: state championship with the team, but and then on top

522
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: of that, to score the game winning goal. It was

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00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: super special, a lot of fun. I mean, I gotta

524
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: give credit where credits to do. I mean, my teammates

525
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: did a great job putting me in the position to

526
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 1: score that goal, a great pass and all I had

527
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: to do was kind of go put my head on

528
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: it and flip it over the goalie. But yeah, that

529
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: was such a special moment for me and I guess

530
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: for my sports career. People can watch the video on YouTube,

531
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: and I recommend listening to the commentators as well. They

532
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: got very excited about that double overtime state championship winning goal.

533
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: We're talking to Evian McPherson. When it came time to

534
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: go to college, you chose to leave the state of

535
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,719
Speaker 1: Alabama and become a Florida Gator. Why. You know, I

536
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: really trusted in everything that coach Mullen was doing. You know,

537
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: I was committed to Mississippi State for over a year,

538
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: and that just kind of came down to I mean, one,

539
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed Startville. I'll talk a little bit about

540
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: Mississippi State, but I really liked Starvilling, the town that

541
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: it was in, and but too like the coaching staff,

542
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: the strength staff. You know, I really blended well with

543
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: those guys and really liked what they were doing, and

544
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: I felt really confident in them, and you know, they

545
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: felt often to me, and so that's really why I

546
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: decide to go there. And then whenever UM coach Mullen

547
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: got the job at Florida, he calls me the day

548
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: landed and offered me a scholarship there. Um. You know,

549
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: I sat there and thought about it for a couple

550
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: of days and then I was like, you know, um,

551
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: where my heart lies was kind of with the coaching

552
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: staff that went to Florida, and you know, I really

553
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: wanted to play in big games, and I thought, um,

554
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: that Florida would give me the opportunity to play in

555
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: a lot bigger games than if I had gone to

556
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. And you know, that's what it kind of

557
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: came down to. And you know I felt, I guess

558
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: a little more comfortable at Florida just because I had

559
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: that that bond with the whole the whole staff that

560
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: was down there. You had a great career for Florida,

561
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: and then the Bengal selected you in the fifth round

562
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: of the draft, the only kicker selected in this year's draft.

563
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Speaker 1: Describe your draft day experience. Draft day was was awesome.

564
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: We had some people get together at the house to

565
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: watch because I had a pretty good idea that I

566
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: was going to get drafted, and you know, I was

567
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: hoping I would just didn't know where. It's kind of

568
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: a mystery, and the whole day it was pretty special.

569
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we had this Mexican restaurant in town where

570
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: I pretty much called my second home. I'm there whenever

571
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm back home. I'm there all the time. And you know,

572
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: they were kind enough to to cater food to the

573
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: house for everybody that was there, and I think, shoot,

574
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: we probably started sitting around the tv, probably fourth round

575
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: and just sitting around, sitting around the TV. Just sitting

576
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: there with all my friends and family that I've all

577
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: supported me throughout my career was super special. And then

578
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, the fifth round, whenever it came around and

579
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: I got the phone call, whole place kind of erupted

580
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 1: and a super special moment for me. Obviously, my fiance

581
00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: sitting around by my side, and she's been with me

582
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: since my freshman year of high school, and so she's

583
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: she's watched me grow and helped me grow, you know,

584
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: into what I am today, And it was honestly just

585
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: a super special moment for everyone involved. Your NFL career

586
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: began with a bang as you kicked an overtime game

587
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: winning field goal to beat the Minnesota Vikings at Paul

588
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Brown Stadium. Who is the most nervous you, your parents

589
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: or your fiance. I would probably say my parents are

590
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: fiance for sure. I can't tell you which one was

591
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: probably more nervous, but I think I was super confident

592
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: in myself, so once I was really nervous at all.

593
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: I know they panned over to me after they called

594
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: the time out, and I was kind of smiling, you know.

595
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I was super confident and my abilities to

596
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: make that kick. It's a pat in my mind and

597
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: on you. I was gonna do everything in my power

598
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: to put it through. You had a walkoff game winner

599
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: in your first home game, a walkoff game winner in

600
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: your second home game, and you thought you had a

601
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: walk off game winner in your third home game before

602
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: a gust of wind led to a miss against Green Bay.

603
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: Do you cringe when you see footage of the postgame celebration.

604
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: I don't think I cringe. I laughed more than everything,

605
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: because you know, you can't really do anything about it now.

606
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: It's it's it's in the past, and so I kind

607
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: of it's honestly more funny than it is cringey to me,

608
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: just based off of what I felt in the moment.

609
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: Thought it hit it well, and I thought it was

610
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: just gonna stay its course and you know, split the uprights,

611
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: but the wind had different plants, and so that's definitely

612
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: something I learned from. And I don't think you'll see

613
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: me celebrate early on a field goal again. I do

614
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: think we will be seeing you celebrate game winning field

615
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: goals again, though, that's for sure. A few wildcard categories.

616
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: To wrap up fun facts with Evan McPherson, You have

617
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: a very youthful appearance. Do you have any amusing story?

618
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: He's about people not buying that you are a professional

619
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: football player. I got a couple. I guess too. Um,

620
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: since I've been here. It's funny because, um, outside the facility, Um,

621
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: Kevin Hubert, he's really you know, taking me under his

622
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: wing and you know, we'll go golf a little. Or

623
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: we went to the Friday night you UC game and

624
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: at the golf course, Um, we were checking in getting

625
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: our golf cart, and the guy that was checking us

626
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: in was like, UM, what he's like, is this your

627
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: son or something? He's like He's like, no, he's just

628
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: a guest. He's with me, all right. That was my

629
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: first experience hearing somebody say something like that about me

630
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: and Kevin. And then at the UC game, the Friday

631
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: night UC game, we go down and um, we're talking

632
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: to Kevin's X neighbor and she asked about it was

633
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: Kevin's nephew. Kevin was like, no, we're He was like, no,

634
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: we're co workers and we go on talking whatever, and

635
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: she didn't believe it whenever he said it, And so

636
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: Kevin's other friends knew who I was and you, I

637
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: was a kicker, and later on she was like, so

638
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: who are you really? Still wasn't still wasn't buying it,

639
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: and his other friends were like, he's the kicker for

640
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: the Bengals and she's like what. She's like, I don't

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Speaker 1: believe you. She's like, you look like you're seventeen. Like yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he looked like I'm seventeen, but I'm twenty two.

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00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: And then the last one I'll give you it was

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00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: when we were at Detroit and I'll walk out of

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00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: the out of the locker room and the security lady

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00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: is sating right there and she's like, do you have credentials?

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00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I'm a player, she said. She

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00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: said nah. She's like, I don't believe you. I need

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00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: to see credentials. And I was like, well, I've a

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00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: picture on myself I could show you because I had

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00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: my phone and so I'll show her a picture. He's like,

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00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: that's not enough, like I need to see credentials. And

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00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: luckily at that time Al Golden was walking out and

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00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: the lady said, hey, sir, is he a player? And

655
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: he's like yeah, and so she'll let me go. And

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00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: finally got onto the field and it was funny. And

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00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: when I got to the field, they were giving me

658
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: a hard time. They wouldn't let me onto the field.

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00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: So those just a couple of instances. But you know, hopefully,

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Speaker 1: like you said, we'll be celebrating a lot of more

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00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: game winners and maybe people start to recognize me a

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00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: little more. Trust me, someday you'll be very happy you

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Speaker 1: have this youthful appearance. Who is your all time favorite

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Speaker 1: athlete in any sport? So I grew up really liking

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00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: it's gonna be funny Tom Brady. I was a Patriots

666
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: fan growing up. I really liked how he competed, in

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00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: what he brought to the team, and obviously how much

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00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: he won. And so he's probably one of my favorite

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00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: athletes growing up. But other than him, a wild card

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Speaker 1: that nobody really think of. His name is Ronald Dino

671
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: and he played for Barcelona ac Milan, and I appreciate

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00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: he played for Brazil national team. He was my favorite

673
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: soccer player, I'd say, and whenever I was growing up

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Speaker 1: playing soccer, he was the guy that I really looked

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Speaker 1: at to. I guess you could say, emulate last thing.

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Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesman,

677
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: historical figure, whoever that might be, who would be at

678
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: the top of your list. Probably God. I think that

679
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: would be pretty cool. You can ask about that gust

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Speaker 1: of wind. Yeah, I'll ask him what was up with

681
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: that gust of wind against Green Bay, because I was like,

682
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: I knew what my mind and what my body was

683
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: telling which way the wind was bon But I was like,

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00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: I guess he had a different, different plan. So I'll

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00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: definitely ask him about that. This has been great. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time. Congratulations on a great start in

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Speaker 1: Best of Black this year. Thank you. That's going to

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Speaker 1: do it for this episode of The Bengals Booth podcast,

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