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

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The only the beginning of what

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Speaker 1: I want to feel forever. Addition, as we look back

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Speaker 1: at Super Bowl fifty six, a thrilling experience for the

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Speaker 1: Bengals and their fans, but ultimately one that ended in disappointment.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments and analysis

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Speaker 1: And by the way, they taste as great as they look.

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Speaker 1: Now time for an extensive radio replay of Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty six. Fifty four seasons ago, the most innovative coach

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Speaker 1: in sports history brought professional football to Cincinnati, and today

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals get their third opportunity to make Paul

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Speaker 1: Brown's dream a reality as they face the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Rams in Super Bowl fifty six. The Bengals are going

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Speaker 1: to go for it on fourth in a long yard

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Speaker 1: at the Los Angeles forty nine. Burrow in the gun,

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Speaker 1: p Rhyn stays in. Joe Burrow drops back to throw

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Speaker 1: short pass it's pattered away. It's incomplete, intended for Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 1: Looked like Jalen Ramsey got a hand on it and

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Speaker 1: the Bengals fail. On fourth down and one Stafford back

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior reaches up and comes down to the ball.

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Speaker 1: It's a touchdown for the Rams as Odell Beckham Junior

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Speaker 1: game's first touchdown. Burrow back to throw, wants to float

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Speaker 1: Bengals will have it at the eleven After a forty

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Speaker 1: six yard bomb from Burrow to Chase, Oh flip the

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Speaker 1: football field almost half a field. He's working against Ramsey

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Speaker 1: one on one. Ramsey falls down. He turns to try

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Speaker 1: in Jamar Chase finds the ball, tracks the ball, makes

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Speaker 1: a diving catch one on one against Jalen Ramsey. First

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Speaker 1: opportunity Jamar Chase for forty six big yard and that

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Speaker 1: The Bengals are on the scoreboard. A second down in

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Speaker 1: five from the Cincinnati eleven, the Rams leading the Bengals

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Speaker 1: Talked about trickeration Joe Mixon. Everybody starts downhill to fill

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Speaker 1: and the Bengals have scored seventeen straight to take a

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Speaker 1: Rams get points, but they do not get even. Rams

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Speaker 1: They need to gain about ten more yards to be

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty six. Burrow ready for the shotgun snap on

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Speaker 1: fourth in the yard long count, Joe has the ball,

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams are going to win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: In the final score, the Rams twenty three the Bengals twenty.

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Speaker 1: time for postgame comments. The first topic the dominant play

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Speaker 1: of Aaron Donald and the Rams defensive front, as they

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Speaker 1: finished with seven sacks and eleven quarterback hits. Here are

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow. Every tape we've watched, they

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Speaker 1: hit every single quarterback almost on every single snap, and

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Speaker 1: so it's a challenge. I thought our guys would tremendous job.

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Speaker 1: You know, they did a good job creating that pressure,

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Speaker 1: and so when we had some negative plays in first

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Speaker 1: just being more efficient in the second half of first

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Speaker 1: and ten would have helped us. They played really well

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Speaker 1: that they fought all season. So we all have to

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Speaker 1: get better individually and myself included. Between the regular season

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Speaker 1: and postseason, Burrow was sacked seventy times. Here c j Uzamba,

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Speaker 1: you're one your quarterback to get hit one time, let alone.

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Speaker 1: However many times it was you know, not even coming

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Speaker 1: So it has been tough. You know, there's I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a franchise, right you don't want to see your

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Speaker 1: And that's probably gonna be a point of emphasis coming up.

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Speaker 1: Improving the line will definitely be a point of emphasis.

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Speaker 1: But despite the rams pressure, Burrow threw for two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty three yards with a touchdown, no picks, and

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Speaker 1: wasn't afraid to challenge Jalen Ramsey. Te Higgins had that

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Speaker 1: four catches for one hundred yards. And Jamar Chase had

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Speaker 1: with five catches four eighty nine. Here's Zach Taylor. Our

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Speaker 1: guys weren't afraid of anybody. You know. We've got tremendous

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Speaker 1: narrative of all the things that other teams are going

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and are gonna stepped up and make plays.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals were only penalized four times in the game,

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Speaker 1: but three of the flags came back to back to

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Speaker 1: Instead of having to score a touchdown on the next

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Speaker 1: down and scored a few plays later. Here are Mike

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Speaker 1: Hilton and Zach Taylor. Honestly, they was letting his play

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Speaker 1: all three quarters, and when got down today fourth, they started,

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Speaker 1: just named a game man. We just got to find

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Speaker 1: ways to win. I thought it was a really wall

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Speaker 1: it comes down to moments like those. I don't have

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Speaker 1: a great look at it, but but I thought the

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Speaker 1: officials did a nice show. And despite the call on Wilson,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals still had a great opportunity to at least

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Speaker 1: force overtime. A seventeen yard passed to Chase and a

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Speaker 1: Ryan then got stopped for no game on a running

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineties is gone. Sincinnati has fallen back in love

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Speaker 1: with this football team. It really has. And I think

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Speaker 1: I think a performance. You know, one thing about these

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Speaker 1: They're very pretty. I think they probably got a respect

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Speaker 1: full advantage of it, and they almost won a Super

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Speaker 1: national television in terms of Sunday night or Monday night

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Speaker 1: fallen in love with Joe Burrow and this football team,

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Speaker 1: Air and everybody sure has. But um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: do I do think that. I do think they've made

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Speaker 1: ratings aren't record because you know, over three out of

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Speaker 1: every five TV sets watched the playoffs during you know,

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Speaker 1: the playoff games, and they were all come down to

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Speaker 1: the wire. Well, this is the super Bowl, this is

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Speaker 1: interest is at an all time high. I mean in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, it's like it's like IBM used to be.

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Speaker 1: You know, you say ib Everyone's like, ooh, well now

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Speaker 1: it's the NFL. Man, It's it's not Fortune's Fortune five.

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Speaker 1: I mean everybody's like all National Football League, anything associated

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Speaker 1: with the NFL get some big time respect these days,

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Speaker 1: for sure. But more on the super Bowl and what

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Speaker 1: lies ahead. Join Lap and Lance McAlister. For Bengals Line

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night from six to nine on seven hundred WLW.

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