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

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast the h fetwo days. Addition, as

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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham joins me to break down the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three schedule, we'll discuss the big picture and take a

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Speaker 1: week by week look at the Bengals path to winning

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Speaker 1: the AFC North for the third straight year. Plus a

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Speaker 1: pair of one on one conversations with a pair of

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Speaker 1: Bengals draft picks. Cornerback DJ Turner, who tells us about

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Speaker 1: like a lunar eclipse, happens about twice a year. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's get to football. We learn the Bengals regular season

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Speaker 1: schedule on Thursday night. We already knew the who and where,

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Speaker 1: Now we know the when. Here's a closer look with

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Speaker 1: my broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lap. We'll get into some

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Speaker 1: of the specific details about the schedule here as we speak,

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Speaker 1: but big picture, when this thing came out, my first

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Speaker 1: thought was, this is pretty favorable for the Bengals. There

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Speaker 1: are no three game road trips, there are no West

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's a very acceptable schedule on many

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Speaker 2: I think the rubber meets the road after the bye

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Speaker 1: I was really surprised that they only got four primetime games. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining about it. I think it's good for

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Speaker 1: All right, let's start from the top. Week one is

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Speaker 1: Cleveland has been the closest thing to Joe Burrow's kryptonite

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Speaker 2: You do have to take care of business. As far

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Speaker 2: the sixteenth of November, two months, two months, and then

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Speaker 1: So that season opener last year against Pittsburgh was the

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Speaker 1: worst game statistically of Joe Burrow's career. He was coming

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean last year they didn't do anything as

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Speaker 2: They'll be much more ready. I think, lesson learned and

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Speaker 2: Deck to me, I mean, you know you can't control

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Speaker 2: to start off in your division, well it is tie breakers.

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Speaker 2: a great start to a season.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm glad you mentioned Lamar Jackson and Baltimore

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Speaker 2: these new wide receiver weapons. I mean, I wonder, I

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Speaker 2: And if that is the case, that's crazy, and they're

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Speaker 1: Week three the first primetime game, a home game on

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty six, a Rams team coming off of five

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford only played in nine games. Cooper Cup only

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Speaker 1: That franchise is going through a turnover. They're going to

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Speaker 1: a much younger roster. They've lost a lot of their

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Speaker 1: And I imagine that Monday Night home game in Week

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Speaker 1: three is probably going to be the Ring of Honor

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, Dan, I think that is

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Speaker 2: the crowd big time. It should be a big factor

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Speaker 2: in that regard. Just got to go out and play

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Speaker 2: Bengals will beat the Baltimore Ravens. You'll be able to

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Speaker 2: still lick their wounds. As such, it will be a physical,

433
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Speaker 2: physical altercation, there's no two ways about it. And then

434
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Speaker 2: get ready for Pittsburgh. And the fact is, you know,

435
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise as well as you know any franchise.

436
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Speaker 2: So you have a long weeks it's you know them cold.

437
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,959
Speaker 2: You have time to rest your bodies, rest your minds,

438
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Speaker 2: and get ready to play as good as you possibly

439
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 2: can at the end of November on the twenty sixth,

440
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Speaker 2: against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: No games against Pittsburgh in the first ten games of

442
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Speaker 1: the season, and then two games against Pittsburgh in a

443
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Speaker 1: five week span, basically, you know, two games in one month.

444
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's going to be a really interesting team to me.

445
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: They started two and six, they finished seven and two

446
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Speaker 1: to extend Mike tomlin streak of never having a record

447
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Speaker 1: below five hundred. I still don't quite know what to

448
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: make of the Steelers. Are they back to being really

449
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,439
Speaker 1: good with Kenny Pickett? Are they just going to be

450
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: you know, five hundred or slightly above. I'm not sure.

451
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not either. I don't think they're gonna look

452
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Speaker 2: to Kenny Pickett to be the savior. I don't think

453
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Speaker 2: he's gonna throw everything on his shoulders. But I do

454
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Speaker 2: think that he is capable, and I do think that

455
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Speaker 2: he's a quarterback that can adapt to you know, not

456
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Speaker 2: being not being second fiddle as such, but knowing that

457
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steeler philosophy organizationally is We're going to run

458
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 2: the football, and I'm going to compliment and supplement that

459
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Speaker 2: running game with a passing attack. And I think Kenny

460
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Speaker 2: Pickett has the mindset to take on that role and

461
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Speaker 2: to execute it at a very high level. I think

462
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Speaker 2: he's got his ego and check. I don't think that's

463
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Speaker 2: going to be an issue, and I think he might

464
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Speaker 2: be the perfect fit for what they're trying to do

465
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Speaker 2: from an organizational standpoint. But will that be enough in

466
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Speaker 2: the era of these great quarterbacks. I mean, you're talking

467
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Speaker 2: nine quarterbacks NAFC potentially could uh you know, could make

468
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Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl if they have great years and all

469
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Speaker 2: of them aren't going to make the playoffs. And he's

470
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Speaker 2: not one of those nine, you know, he'd be the

471
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Speaker 2: next level guy. So it's going to be interesting to

472
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Speaker 2: see what transpires.

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Speaker 1: With Pittsburgh, depending on their health and how their team

474
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Speaker 1: is doing at the time. The Bengals could face Pro

475
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Speaker 1: Bowl quarterbacks twelve of their seventeen games, including the next

476
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Speaker 1: one on the list. Their twelfth game of the year

477
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Speaker 1: is at Jacksonville, on Monday Night football. Trevor Lawrence went

478
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Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl for the first time last year,

479
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: just like Pittsburgh, the team they faced the week before.

480
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Speaker 1: This is a Jacksonville team that started poorly three and seven,

481
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Speaker 1: finished strong six and one, rallied from twenty seven nothing

482
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Speaker 1: to beat the Chargers in the first round of the

483
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Speaker 1: playoffs and then had Kansas City on the ropes in

484
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Speaker 1: the second round of the playoffs.

485
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Speaker 2: They were playing their best football at the most opportune time.

486
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 2: You know, every team hopes to peak at the right time.

487
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: The Jacksonville Jaguars peaked at the right time. They have

488
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Speaker 2: a coach they believe in, they have a quarterback they

489
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Speaker 2: believe in, and in this era of the National Football League,

490
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 2: the head coach and the quarterback are huge. I mean

491
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 2: they're huge factors. And Jacksonville feels like they're on the

492
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Speaker 2: right track. There's no doubt about it. They've got, you know,

493
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 2: good players on a lot of places. This is a

494
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 2: solid roster up and down their roster and all three

495
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 2: phases of their football team can be a big factor

496
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Speaker 2: in winning football games. And nothing to sneeze a Monday

497
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 2: night football in Jacksonville. Challenged to say the least to

498
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Speaker 2: start the month of December.

499
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Speaker 1: After that game, the Bengals come home for back to

500
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Speaker 1: back home games, beginning with a rebuilding Indianapolis team in

501
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Speaker 1: Game thirteen. The Colts only won four games last year.

502
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Speaker 1: They drafted Anthony Richardson number four overall, and I've got

503
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Speaker 1: to think by December tenth, Anthony Richardson will be their

504
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback. I could see Gardner Minshew to begin the season,

505
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Speaker 1: but you gotta think thirteen games in, a guy taking

506
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Speaker 1: fourth overall will be the starting QB.

507
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I mean, no one nursay a

508
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: little bit, and he will be very impatient. I think

509
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Speaker 2: in that regard, they are high on Anthony Richardson. They're

510
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 2: high on what he can bring him bring that football team.

511
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Speaker 2: I should say he is a freak of an athlete.

512
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Speaker 2: He's a big guy and his athleticism is off the charge.

513
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: But seen it before. Sometimes it just doesn't translate totally.

514
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: But I think he has the ability. His floor is

515
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 2: so high, he's nowhere near his ceiling. You know, I

516
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: think he's he's going to be I don't know how special,

517
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 2: but he's going to be unique. He's going to be different.

518
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: He's going to be Cam Newton like, will he perform

519
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: at his higher level as Cam Newton did. I think

520
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: he has the potential the ability to, But it'll the

521
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: proof will be in the pudding. But it'll be very

522
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: interesting the Indianapolis Colts at that stage of the season.

523
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Speaker 2: I think at that point in time, Anthony Richardson will

524
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Speaker 2: not only be starting, I think he'll have a few

525
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 2: starts under his belt.

526
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Speaker 1: So the week after that, we know the Bengals have

527
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: a home game against the Vikings, a team that won

528
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: thirteen games a year ago and made the playoffs before

529
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Speaker 1: losing to the Giants. But we don't know when it is.

530
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Speaker 1: Could be December sixteenth Saturday, could be December seventeenth Sunday,

531
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Speaker 1: could be primetime, depends on how good the teams are.

532
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Speaker 1: The one thing we do know is that with Kirk

533
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: Cousins and Jefferson and their skill position talent, that is

534
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: going to be a difficult game for the Bengals defense.

535
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Speaker 2: It will Bengals defense is going to be challenged. Minnesota

536
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 2: Vikings defense stunk, There's no doubt about that. They struggled

537
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 2: last year. How much of an improvement can they make

538
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Speaker 2: That's going to be the key because this one could

539
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 2: literally be a track meet. I mean, Kirk Cousins and

540
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow could put up crazy numbers. And I have

541
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Speaker 2: confidence in the Bengals defense at home to not let

542
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins go wild. I think Joe Burrow, if the

543
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings played defense like they played last year, Joe

544
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 2: Burrow could tear them apart. And if Kirk Cousins can't

545
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 2: keep up on a score by score basis, there's a

546
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: lot of pressure on the road, you know, to do that,

547
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: particularly if both teams are a vying for the playoffs.

548
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 2: If the Bengals were making a playoff push, we know

549
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 2: pay Corps is going to be rocking man, It's going

550
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: to be going wild. It's gonna be tough for Kirk Cousins.

551
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: So the next two after that are on the road

552
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Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh at Kansas City. The Pittsburgh game is on Saturday,

553
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: December twenty third, at four point thirty in the afternoon.

554
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: That's going to be a huge TV game on NBC.

555
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: It's interesting Christmas falls on a Monday. This year, there

556
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: is a Christmas triple header for the second year in

557
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: a row. I think the NFL loved the way that

558
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: that worked out last year. They are full slate of

559
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: Sunday games on Christmas Eve, the Bengals get to play

560
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: on December twenty third, which you know, it's a nice

561
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: thing for family members of the players and coaches, and

562
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: in a high, high profile game at Pittsburgh.

563
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to maximize the NFL as a five

564
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 2: hundred pound marketing grill, and they're going to maximize everything

565
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: Black Friday. They're taking advantage of this year from a

566
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Speaker 2: scheduling standpoint, So expect the NFL to not be tunnel

567
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 2: vision in terms of when they're going to play games,

568
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: where they're going to play games, and everything that goes

569
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 2: along with scheduling, because revenue is the objective. There's no

570
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: question about it. It's it's my Sunday's birthday. He's mad

571
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: that it's in Pittsburgh. He was hoping that it was

572
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: going to be a game. If they were going to

573
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: play on that Saturday, it would be here in Cincinnati.

574
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 2: But four point thirty on NBC, the rematch with Kenny

575
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: Pickett and that Pittsburgh Steel a running game and that

576
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 2: very salty defense that they always have and and Mike

577
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 2: Tomlin will have his team playing very intelligent football. One

578
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 2: thing that you can count on. The Pittsburgh Steelers, traditionally

579
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 2: at this stage of the season, are not going to

580
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 2: beat themselves. I mean, they're gonna make you finish them.

581
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: They're gonna make you knock them out. They are not gonna,

582
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 2: you know, let their guard down and let you take

583
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: a haymaker on them. It's not gonna happen.

584
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Speaker 1: The next last game of the regular season is at

585
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Speaker 1: Kansas City on New Year's Eve at four to twenty

586
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Speaker 1: five in the afternoon. The NFL did a solid for

587
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Speaker 1: CBS to give them that game and that window. I

588
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Speaker 1: think many of us wondered really from months Cincinnati would

589
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: be Kansas City's opponent in the kickoff game on that

590
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: Thursday night before the first weekend of the regular season. Instead,

591
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are going to open up at home against

592
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Speaker 1: the Lions, and the NFL is putting Cincinnati Kansas City

593
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: in the sixteenth game of the year, thinking this could

594
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: very well be for the number one seed.

595
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: No question, this is a potential seeding game in their

596
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: estimation of things that go. According to Hoyle, in the

597
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 2: Bengals right now, Joe Burrows serene won against Kansas City

598
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 2: just lost in the playoffs to Patrick Mahomes last year

599
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 2: in a three point game. I mean, they've been just

600
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 2: riveting contests. It's just I think every fan in the

601
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: National Football League is going to circle that December thirty

602
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Speaker 2: first game at four to twenty five, that second game

603
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: of the doubleheader with CBS Must See TV. That is

604
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: going to get stupid numbers. It's going to get probably

605
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 2: record setting numbers for a time frame of a Sunday afternoon.

606
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: Would not surprise me whatsoever. It's a football game that

607
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 2: people can't wait for, and it's going to be right

608
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: and a very very significant decision making potentially time frame

609
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Speaker 2: of the season for two franchises that have been battling

610
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: out the last few years.

611
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: And then a home game against Cleveland to wrap up

612
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: the regular season. No word yet on when that game

613
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: will be played. The NFL saves times and Saturday or

614
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: Sunday for based on how things look going into that

615
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: final week of the season. My dream is that the

616
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: Bengals clinch the number one seed against Kansas City on

617
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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, and then, as they did two years

618
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: ago when they ended the regular season in Cleveland, they

619
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Speaker 1: can rest a bunch of guys before getting a playoff.

620
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: By three of the first five games of the season,

621
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Speaker 2: the Bengals are on the road. Three of the last

622
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 2: five games of the season, the Bengals are at home,

623
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Speaker 2: and they finish up in a in a division game

624
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: at home against Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns. Uh.

625
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 2: Be interesting. I can't remember a time where a division

626
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: opponent you started the season and ended the season with

627
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 2: the with the same division opponent. That's that's very unusual

628
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: to have bookends games like that. For the Cincinnati Bengals.

629
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Speaker 2: The Battle of Ohio Part one is going to be

630
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: right away, the Battle of Part two is gonna be.

631
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to hang on for a while. And

632
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 2: uh and it's not It's not what it used to be.

633
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: The Battle of Ohio used to be unbelievable. It's lost

634
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: some of its luster. Uh And I hope it does, Honestly,

635
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: I hope that it doesn't. It doesn't become what it

636
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 2: was when both of those franchises were playing at that

637
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 2: high level. I mean, I don't think everybody in the

638
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 2: AFC North can be a playoff uh contender. I mean,

639
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: somebody's gonna take up the rear somewhere, so hopefully Cleveland

640
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: might stay there for a while. That would suit me fine.

641
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: There are four opponents hosting international games. The Bengals were

642
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: not selected to either go to London or Germany. Dave

643
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: Lapham is not heartbroken by that development.

644
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: No, not heartbroken whatsoever. And the way you, as busy

645
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: as you are during the fall season, that's got to

646
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 2: be a relief for you from a scheduling standpoint, travel

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Speaker 2: standpoint as well. I did get my fill of York

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Speaker 2: travel doing NFL Europe games, and I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, at this stage, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Dan.

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Speaker 2: I think next year though, how do we miss it?

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Speaker 2: Next year?

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Speaker 1: Well, next year the Bengals only have eight home games,

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Speaker 1: so they can't host an international game. They could travel.

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Speaker 1: Two years from now, when the Bengals have nine home

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Speaker 1: games and it will be nine years since they gave

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Speaker 1: up a home game to go to London to play Washington,

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Speaker 1: I think you can virtually guarantee go ahead and book

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Speaker 1: your tickets. Well, we don't know where it would be,

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Speaker 1: but I bet two years from now they're hosting an

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Speaker 1: international game.

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Speaker 2: So in that case, maybe next year was safe. I

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Speaker 2: don't know, if they'd put them on in Europe two

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Speaker 2: years in a row. They could though, because I mean,

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Speaker 2: obviously it's it's one of the franchises everybody wants to see,

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Speaker 2: including people in Europe, and they want to waive the

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Speaker 2: the marketing banner as much as they possibly can to

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Speaker 2: expand the National Football League. So it's going to be

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Speaker 2: interesting to see how that how that all shakes down.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any memory of getting the schedule and

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Speaker 1: you're playing days? Was it, you know, a phone call

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Speaker 1: at some point in the offseason. It certainly wasn't a

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Speaker 1: nationally televised TV show.

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Speaker 2: Basically, the the local newspapers found out before anybody. Just

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Speaker 2: check your paper find out who we play. Oh well yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean the writers they had the information distributed to

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Speaker 2: them from the from the teams, the league, to the

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Speaker 2: team's teams to the to the writers, because I mean

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Speaker 2: in the radio there were radio shows, but not like

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Speaker 2: it wasn't sports talk, you know and all that sort

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Speaker 2: of thing. I mean, it was it was crazy. I

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Speaker 2: mean the daily newspaper literally was the bible. It was

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Speaker 1: Things have changed, who have they ever? A couple of

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Speaker 1: follow ups on that conversation, Lapp was right. In their

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Speaker 1: twenty seven year history, the Baltimore Ravens have never had

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Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl wide receiver. Devin DuVernay was chosen last year,

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Speaker 1: but as a return specialist, not as a wide out.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, the Ravens have had four quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: go to the Pro Bowl, including Tyler Huntley. Yes, Tyler Huntley,

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Speaker 1: who went last year despite finishing forty eighth in passing

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Speaker 1: yards in a thirty two team league. And this is

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Speaker 1: not the first time that the Bengals will open and

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Speaker 1: close the regular season against the same opponent. It's happened

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Speaker 1: three times before, most recently in twenty seventeen, when the

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Speaker 1: opening and closing foe was Baltimore. That was the year

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Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton Tyler Buyoyd knocked the Ravens out of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs on New Year's Eve. The Bengals Booth podcast

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Speaker 1: three day rookie mini camp on Friday, and we were

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Speaker 1: allowed to observe them on the practice field for about

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Speaker 1: one hour. Here's an observation about each draft pick. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to see why Miles Murphy was their first rounder

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Speaker 1: at six five, two seventy. He's extremely quick, and in

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Speaker 1: individual drills he showed the ability to bend low to

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Speaker 1: the ground coming around the edge like a motorcycle racer

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Speaker 1: making a turn. We know that second round pick DJ

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Speaker 1: Turner ran a four two six forty at the Combine,

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Speaker 1: the fastest of any player in Indianapolis this year, but

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Speaker 1: it was interesting to see him run. He goes from

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Speaker 1: zero to six in a heartbeat and has long, fluid strides.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear him talk about that in just a bit.

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Speaker 1: I was eager to meet third rounder Jordan Battle after

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Speaker 1: hearing coaches and scouts rave about his in person interview

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Speaker 1: at the Combine. When I asked him if he could

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Speaker 1: tell how impressed the Bengals were at the time, he said, quote,

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Speaker 1: that was the goal going into every interview. How can

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Speaker 1: I make these guys like me? How can I make

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Speaker 1: them want to draft me? Unquote? He's a smart kid.

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Speaker 1: I spent quite a bit of time watching wide receivers

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Speaker 1: Charlie Jones and andre Yosi Vash, chosen in the fourth and

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Speaker 1: sixth rounds, respectively. Jones showed his quick feet and ability

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Speaker 1: to get in and out of cuts. Yosi Vosh is

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Speaker 1: all of six three two oh five and can really run.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing Jones return punts in the

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Speaker 1: preseason fifth round. Running Back Chase Brown is chiseled and

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Speaker 1: I love his attitude. When I asked him about being

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Speaker 1: in the locker room for the first time, he said,

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Speaker 1: the first thing I did when I came in here

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Speaker 1: was to take a picture. I sent it to my

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Speaker 1: mom and put it on my social page. It's unreal.

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Speaker 1: Not only am I in the locker room, but my

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Speaker 1: name is on a locker I love that. While most

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Speaker 1: of the players worked out in the indoor bubble, punter

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Speaker 1: Brad Robbins kicked outdoors with special teams coordinator Darren Simmons.

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Speaker 1: Reporters weren't there to observe, but one onlooker told me

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Speaker 1: that Robin's hangtime was consistently around five seconds. Leading NFL

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Speaker 1: punters typically have an average hangtime of about four point

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Speaker 1: eight you'll hear from Robins in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: And finally, I watched cornerback DJ Ivy do some boxing

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Speaker 1: type drills with cornerbacks coach Charles Burks, and you can't

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Speaker 1: help but notice his length. He's six ' one and

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Speaker 1: his arms are nearly thirty three inches long. He has

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Speaker 1: longer arms than two offensive linemen who were drafted in

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Speaker 1: the top fifty, Peter Skoranski, who went eleventh overall and

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Speaker 1: Cody Mack, who has chosen forty eighth. The Bengals Booth

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Speaker 1: for grabs. Find both inside the Bengals app. Now time

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Speaker 1: for my conversation with second round draft pick DJ Turner.

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Speaker 1: This is like getting to know you type weekend. You're

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Speaker 1: meeting new teammates, you're meeting new coaches, you're meeting new staff.

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping to accomplish? I guess, for lack

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Speaker 1: of a better word, in this opening weekend, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean just get laying, just get comfortable around here, looking

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Speaker 3: forward to meeting the Holy sam It is doing the

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Speaker 3: Rocky so far, and you know, just having to a

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Speaker 3: relationship everybody in the building.

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Speaker 1: You're sitting in front of your new Bengals locker, you

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Speaker 1: got Bengals gear on. Does that make it all seem real? Nah?

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Speaker 3: Definitely does, definitely does. And you know in the NFL

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Speaker 3: Bengals the logo like it definitely does.

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Speaker 1: Since the draft, how have people reacted to you being

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Speaker 1: selected by Cincinnati?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Man?

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Speaker 3: Good? I mean just on my former teammates all happy,

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Speaker 3: you know, and my teammate here, you know, Chris Sevens, Dax,

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Speaker 3: you know, they they're all happy, my family, you know,

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Speaker 3: and they're just like this what you worked for. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, just great that it's all worked out.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned Chris Evans because everybody has talked

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Speaker 1: about how you and Dax we're teammates of Michigan, but

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Speaker 1: you've got another guys that you spent a considerable amount

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Speaker 1: of time with.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean because being absolutely in the

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Speaker 3: same secondary. So but not me and Chris Sevens. He

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Speaker 3: was there my sophomore year, came back when he came back,

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Speaker 3: and we have relationships. As soon as I got drafted,

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Speaker 3: he texted me too, called me and so yeah, now

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Speaker 3: you just like, let me know you get here, all

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Speaker 3: kind of stuff like that. So I just said, it's good.

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Speaker 3: You know, I already have relationships with people in the

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Speaker 3: locker room before I even can.

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Speaker 1: For visiting the DJ Turner. The forty yard dash time

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Speaker 1: at the combine speaks for itself. But just seeing you

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Speaker 1: run around out in this initial rookie workout, the amount

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Speaker 1: of ground did you gobble up with every stride really

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Speaker 1: stood out to me. It seems to just flow so easily.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's actually why I hold when people don't

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Speaker 3: really know I am that fast because I gain so

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Speaker 3: much ground and not really look like I'm straining. And

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Speaker 3: so unless you really look at how far around or

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Speaker 3: because you know, some some people take small, like short strides,

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Speaker 3: so it makes them look faster, but I don't. I

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Speaker 3: take long strides, not just cover ground, so you might

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Speaker 3: not know. But yeah, like I said, since the forty

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Speaker 3: it's on everybody radar now, so it's noticed now.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, are you looking to put on weight in

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Speaker 1: the NFL?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'll put on a little bit of weight,

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Speaker 3: but like I said, I don't want to put on

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Speaker 3: too much weight because speed is my thing wet size

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Speaker 3: isn't so, but of course, you know, always trying to

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Speaker 3: get bigger and stronger, faster.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it seems like, based on everything that I've

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Speaker 1: heard and read, despite the fact that you're not a

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Speaker 1: two hundred pound guy, you have no problem sticking your

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Speaker 1: head in there and tackling people.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have no problem with that. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: it makes it gain fun. You know sometimes that corner.

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Speaker 3: You might go a couple of series without some action,

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Speaker 3: but you know, it just makes you get involved a game,

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Speaker 3: so you're not falling asleep.

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Speaker 1: Since the pick. Have you studied the guys in the

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Speaker 1: Bengals secondary and tried to find okay, you know who

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Speaker 1: can I learn from? How do I fit in? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure. I've been watching film. I mean,

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Speaker 3: like just the Corners Wooziah, he had vet Mike Hilton.

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Speaker 3: He from Georgia, so he trained with my trainer back

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Speaker 3: at home, Cam Taylor Bread. I remember playing him at

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Speaker 3: when we played Nebraska, so I remember him all the

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Speaker 3: way back then, So I was watching him last year.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, No, it was just everybody you know, DA

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Speaker 3: said I'll played with him, So I just been looking

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Speaker 3: at everybody.

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Speaker 1: My final thing for DJ Turner, tell me about your

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Speaker 1: first name and why you go by DJ.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my first name is one Drego. I go

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Speaker 3: by DJ just because it was easier as a kid.

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Speaker 3: Nobody can say my name for real, and I was

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Speaker 3: gonna frustrated, so I just said DJ. But everybody who

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Speaker 3: knows me, everybody who like knows my name, they call

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Speaker 3: me one. It's either one, one, Drego or Drego. So like,

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Speaker 3: if you go back to my high school, I MG Michigan,

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Speaker 3: like Dax, don't call me DJ, Like you know what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying. Like it's if you know my real name

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Speaker 3: and won't calls me one, Draco or Drego something like that.

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Speaker 3: But DJ is just you really don't know me for real.

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Speaker 3: That's really what it is.

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Speaker 1: So when I'm broadcasting the games on the radio and

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Speaker 1: you have your first NFL pick six, do you want

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Speaker 1: a touchdown one Drago Turner or should I stick with DJ?

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Speaker 3: This is no I like my name.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You said one Drago, DJ Draco.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I know I'm cool one though, Uh yeah, So like

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Speaker 3: I said, that's what I'll go. But I mean literally,

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Speaker 3: like even even here, I'm watch, I'm gonna go about

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Speaker 3: one dre here because there's three DJs on the team,

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Speaker 3: so I already know. Like once once they hear Dax

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Speaker 3: call me Drego, be like, why is he talking about

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Speaker 3: my name with one Drago? About one Drego?

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Speaker 1: And then watch.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you it happens every every single place I'm at.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Unique names than are great, Welcome to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the team. Look forward to

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Speaker 1: getting to know you better.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, the Bengals had AJ Green, AJ McCarron,

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Speaker 1: and AJ Hawk. Now they have DJ Reader, Djivy, and

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Speaker 1: DJ Turner. He's right, I suspect his teammates and coaches

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Speaker 1: we'll be calling him Drago. The Bengals Booth Podcast is

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Speaker 1: after they drafted punter Brad Robbins when he got the

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Speaker 1: call from Zach Taylor it sounded like he thought he

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Speaker 1: might be getting punked bred.

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Speaker 4: This is Zach Taylor at the Bengals. Oh, Zach Tayror,

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Speaker 4: how's it going. How I'm doing?

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Speaker 1: Great? Man?

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Speaker 4: You want to come by a Bengal?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, all right.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna drop you right here.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, sir, appreciate.

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Speaker 2: That you're up in Columbus right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm up in Columbus. Awesome, awesome.

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Speaker 2: We we're happy to have you, and we're gonna put the

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Speaker 2: pick in right now and then we'll be in touch

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Speaker 2: with you later.

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Speaker 4: Holy appreciate that. All right. We might have to edit

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Speaker 4: that out on the video, but that's great, man. I'm

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Speaker 4: fired up that you're fired up. Thank you, fired up,

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Speaker 4: thank you.

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Speaker 1: I discussed that phone call and much more with Robbins

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Speaker 1: when we met on Friday. Will your fellow rookies were

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Speaker 1: working out in the practice bubble. I saw that Darren

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Speaker 1: Simmons pulled you away to do something outdoors. I guess

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Speaker 1: what were you guys up to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we were just punting a few balls up in

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Speaker 4: the air. Got over to the stadium. Uh was pouring

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Speaker 4: down right a little bit earlier, so we had the

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Speaker 4: chance to be able to get out there and hit

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Speaker 4: a few balls, get some holes in and all that

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Speaker 4: kind of stuff and wait for the returners towards the

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Speaker 4: end of practice to come over there and catch the

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Speaker 4: balls for us.

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Speaker 1: He probably liked the opportunity to get you out and

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Speaker 1: inclement weather.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, nothing different from me being from

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Speaker 4: the North, you know, and well originally from Ohio. I

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Speaker 4: live for this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: You've got kind of a petuall ear to ear grin

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Speaker 1: going on right now. You're pretty excited to be here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, definitely a dream come true. Definitely the best

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Speaker 4: case scenario for me. I just feel like overall, being

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Speaker 4: from the Midwest, I've always wanted to stay in the Midwest,

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Speaker 4: close to home, being from Ohio, would like to come

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Speaker 4: back to Ohio, right I'm just really excited to, you know,

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Speaker 4: kind of play my role and do what I can

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Speaker 4: do to help the team and just be a member

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Speaker 4: of the culture and help create a positive culture.

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Speaker 1: We're visiting with Brad Robbins, everybody here. It's it's an

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Speaker 1: incredible accomplishment to be in an NFL camp. In your case,

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Speaker 1: you're competing for one of thirty two jobs in the world.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to be an NFL partner. To make it

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Speaker 1: this far has to be incredibly gratifying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, and especially after, like you know, the draft

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Speaker 4: and stuff like that. I allowed myself about two hours

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Speaker 4: to kind of let it set in, and you know,

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Speaker 4: my mindset is just like I'm ready to get to

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Speaker 4: work and show what i can do and prove I

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Speaker 4: can be the guy and just enjoy the competition and

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Speaker 4: join the environment. Right.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, definitely. I'm guessing that most of the people

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Speaker 1: listening to this have seen the video of the phone call.

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Speaker 1: People are wondering if you thought you got pranked? Did

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Speaker 1: you think that was the real Zach Taylor? What was

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Speaker 1: going on in your mind?

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Speaker 4: It was a little surreal, I mean, just thinking about it.

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Speaker 4: I have a lot of friends down in Cinci and

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Speaker 4: I had expressed to them I was like, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: would really I think this situation could happen. I would

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Speaker 4: really like to be in this situation, and it wouldn't

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Speaker 4: be far fetched for one of them to call me

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Speaker 4: and kind of, you know, egged me on a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And I still didn't really believe it until I saw

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Speaker 4: it on the TV and I was like, ah, wow,

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Speaker 4: really yeah, yeah, let's go. You know. But at the

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Speaker 4: end of it all, you know, I'm just really excited

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Speaker 4: to be a part of this culture and what a

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Speaker 4: great opportunity to be. I think it was one of

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Speaker 4: three guys that were drafted this year's as punters, and

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Speaker 4: definitely very blessed, very fortunate, and uh, just excited to

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Speaker 4: get to work.

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Speaker 1: So you didn't see the pick on TV until after

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Speaker 1: you hung up the phone with the person you were

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Speaker 1: quite sure was Zach.

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Speaker 4: It was about it was about twenty second. I was

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Speaker 4: pretty convinced at the end of the phone, cause like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that is Zach Taylor, that was that was probably Zach Taylor,

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Speaker 4: and you know all that kind of stuff. Then I

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Speaker 4: saw my name on TV and my parents are pretty excited,

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Speaker 4: and I was pretty excited. But yeah, just allowed myself

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Speaker 4: to settle in and take about two hours and then

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Speaker 4: you know, it's right, it's time to get to work.

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Speaker 1: They've given you Kevin Huber's number. I'm not reading too

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Speaker 1: much into that. There are only so many available for specialists.

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Speaker 1: Was that a choice? Did you want ten or did

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Speaker 1: you just show up and see ten?

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, the story behind it, I mean I was

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Speaker 4: texted like, here's a list of numbers, pick what you want.

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Speaker 4: I hadn't been number ten yet, and I think it

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Speaker 4: had slipped my mind that he, like Kevin Huber, was ten, right,

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Speaker 4: So I was like, ten is probably the best option here.

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Speaker 4: I think that would be good. But I'm not too

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Speaker 4: picky or particular about numbers. I kind of just closed

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Speaker 4: my eyes and picked one. I was like, ten works,

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Speaker 4: you know, And sure enough I googled, like punters that

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Speaker 4: were number ten, Let's see who I can endulate here,

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Speaker 4: and it was I think one of them was like

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Speaker 4: Johnny Hecker, but the first guy that popped up was

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Speaker 4: Kevin Hubert. And I was like, it's gosh, Dart, So

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Speaker 4: I can just blend in. You know, the fans won't

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Speaker 4: know who it is. Maybe just sneak in and you know,

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Speaker 4: hopefully continue to you know, have a have a good career,

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Speaker 4: long lasting career.

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Speaker 1: You punt right footed, though right right footed, they'll know,

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Speaker 1: they'll know, they'll know, Well, he was the last punter

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Speaker 1: they drafted and he had the job for fourteen years,

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Speaker 1: so that's pretty good, mo job.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, guy never left Cincy. And you know, I

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Speaker 4: think definitely this this environment. I think the Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 4: in general. This is just my thought process really, Like

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Speaker 4: especially specialists from like the Midwest, North all that kind

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Speaker 4: of stuff that kind of grew up and punning in

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Speaker 4: this you know, challenging conditions, especially you know, the division war,

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Speaker 4: and it's all the games are outside. All the games

997
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 4: are tough. There's always challenging wins. So growing up and

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Speaker 4: being in that and always uh, you know, learning in

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Speaker 4: that environment I think will benefit me as well as.

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Speaker 1: The other guys in the specialist room. I've asked several

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Speaker 1: of your fellow draft picks this question. You're in front

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Speaker 1: of your locker, You've got the name tag, you've got

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Speaker 1: the gear. Does it make it all seem more real? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's a step in the right direction.

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Speaker 4: I'm never going to be a finished product. Just in

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Speaker 4: my mind, I think I have plenty of room to grow.

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Speaker 4: You know, my dad tells me, once you know everything,

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00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 4: you can't learn anything, right, So just taking that attitude

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Speaker 4: of being really approachable and coachable by all the coaches

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Speaker 4: and just in all the vets and players and stuff

1011
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Speaker 4: like that, and just whatever I can, however, I can

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Speaker 4: be a sponge to them and just kind of soak

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Speaker 4: in what what I can learn to stay in the

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Speaker 4: league and on this team as long as I can.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to try to take that and run with it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Cincinnati, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 4: Thank you as well.

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