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Speaker 1: German for awesome. Now let's get to football. This will

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Speaker 1: be the bengals fifty sixth season and going back to

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Speaker 1: to have a media luncheon with management and coaches just

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Speaker 1: before the start of training cap. I approach this year's

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Speaker 1: luncheon looking for feedback on what I consider to be

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Speaker 1: the eight biggest question marks heading into the season. The

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Speaker 1: first one is obvious and towers over any other topic,

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Speaker 1: the contract status of Joe Burrow. Here's team president Mike Brown, but.

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Speaker 2: Joe's the heart of the team, and everybody in Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: don't have anything to say on this negotiation. We've agreed

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Speaker 2: We do it privately. We think that gives us the

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Speaker 1: Of course, Burrow is not the only player the Bengals

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Speaker 2: We have good players that need to be signed and extended.

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Speaker 2: All this is part of a puzzle, if you will,

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Speaker 2: I don't know where it's going to end up because

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Speaker 2: depends someone what they're asking. We have them all here

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Speaker 2: this year, so that's the good thing. What the future

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Speaker 1: As for the feasibility of extending Burrow and Higgins this

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Speaker 2: You just hit the daily worry for me. I want

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not out looking to replace them with other guys.

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Speaker 4: It's a passing league now, I mean it's I think

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Speaker 1: One contract situation has been resolved, the restructuring of Joe

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Speaker 3: Joe was real professional about that. We appreciated that. I

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Speaker 4: He still is a very good catcher of the football out

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Speaker 4: All those things still remain. I'm excited he's back with us.

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Speaker 4: I think Joe's going to bring everything he always does

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Speaker 2: The thing with Joe was to get his deal at

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Speaker 1: I still think a Borough deal will get done before

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Speaker 1: what I consider to be the seven biggest on field

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Speaker 1: question marks heading into camp. Up First, getting the safeties

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Speaker 5: Well, the good news is they work together in the sprint,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of us assume it's going to

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Speaker 5: You know, I just think that the faster the better.

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Speaker 1: Sticking with defense, the next question mark involves the Bengals

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Speaker 1: pass rush. Cincinnati had just thirty sacks last year. Only

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Speaker 4: We're gonna let a play out. I mean, there's no

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Speaker 1: Then there's tight end. The Bengals re signed Mitchell Wilcox

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Speaker 1: training camp question marks. The final two are on special teams.

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Speaker 6: We track everything from a data perspective so that the

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