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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast.

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Speaker 2: The Bufffalo Soldier addition, as the Bengals and Bills go

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Speaker 2: toe to toe in one of the most entertaining games

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Speaker 2: of the year before Buffalo comes out on top thirty

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Speaker 2: nine thirty four. Coming up, radio replays, locker room comments

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Speaker 2: and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's

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Speaker 2: Fun Facts Conversation, I discuss winning a Super Bowl, raising

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Speaker 1: It's the greatest.

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Speaker 2: Thing since football in the Snow In Buffalo, The Buffalo

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Speaker 2: Bills are moving into a new two point two billion

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Speaker 2: dollars stadium next year, and despite Buffalo's notoriously bad weather,

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Speaker 2: it will not include a roof. It will feature a

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Speaker 2: large canopy covering about two thirds of the seats designed

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Speaker 2: to protect fans from the elements, but the Bills wanted

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Speaker 2: to keep the field exposed to the weather, which fits

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Speaker 2: the traditional Buffalo football experience. The field has been covered

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Speaker 2: with snow the last two times the Bengals have made

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Speaker 2: the trip to Western New York, and honestly, while the

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Speaker 2: temperature has been cold, the atmosphere has been really cool. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's get to the radio replays from a Sunday shootout

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Speaker 2: that felt like a playoff game this afternoon on a

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Speaker 2: snowy and cold day in Buffalo. It is Joe and

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Speaker 2: Josh Burrow and Alan As, two of the NFL's best

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Speaker 2: quarterback square off in a game with high stakes for

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Speaker 2: both teams. It's the Bengals and Bills, and it is

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Speaker 2: time for the pig skin to fly here at high

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Speaker 2: Mark Stadium, play.

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Speaker 1: Number fourteen coming up.

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Speaker 2: More than half of the first quarter is gone and

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati has it first in goal at the Buffalo five

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Speaker 2: shotgun snap, Burrow hands it off, Chase Brown looked to

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Speaker 2: bounce it wide. Goodn't do it now, just fights toward

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Speaker 2: the goal lines. He's close. No signal yet there it

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Speaker 2: is touchdown Bengals as Chase Brown went low, kept the

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Speaker 2: legs churning, and took it over the goal line for

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Speaker 2: an opening touchdown.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, Dan, that was an unbelievable drive.

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Speaker 2: Buffalo settles for a field goal attempt. It'll be forty

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Speaker 2: one year old Matt Prater again under slippery, snowy conditions,

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Speaker 2: attempting a twenty six yard kick from the right hash.

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Speaker 2: The hold is good, the right footed kick on its way.

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Speaker 2: It is good, yep, and Buffalo scores, but settles for

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Speaker 2: three after driving to the five yard live Chase Brown

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Speaker 2: in the backfield. On second and two, Burrow drops straight

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Speaker 2: back to throw, looking firing for the end zone. T

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Speaker 2: Higgins reaches out, craps the ball. Touchdown. Bengals. Burrow to

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Speaker 2: Higgins a twenty one yard touchdown, and just as they

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Speaker 2: did in the playoffs in January of twenty three, the

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Speaker 2: Bengals scored touchdowns on their first two possessions.

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Speaker 3: And I cannot believe that Joe Burrow through that ball

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Speaker 3: to T Higgins. I did not think that it had

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Speaker 3: a chance.

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Speaker 2: Alan in the gun on fourth and four. He catches

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Speaker 2: the shotgun snap, looking moving to his right, Alan being

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Speaker 2: chased by bj Hill. He throws and it's caught in

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Speaker 2: the end zone by Shit kir As.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen buys time and.

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Speaker 2: Throws a frozen rope to Khalil Shakir for the Buffalo touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable. I mean, Shakier was obviously looking for the football.

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Speaker 3: The Bengals had three defenders in the area and none

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Speaker 3: of them. We're looking for the football. You're gonna turn

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Speaker 3: and find the football.

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Speaker 1: Burro winning for a shotgun snap.

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Speaker 2: He catches, He's looking left, scans the field, pump fakes,

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Speaker 2: looks right, scrambles right, throws toward the pylon, coming back

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Speaker 2: to the ball, sliding for the catch. Yes, Chase Brown,

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Speaker 2: and they are going to give him the catch and

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be spotted inside the one.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals threw the red challenge flag and after looking

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Speaker 2: at the replay, it has been changed to a Cincinnati touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's second touchdown pass of the game. Kincaid motions

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Speaker 2: out to the right, Alan back to throw fires A

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Speaker 2: pass caught by Kincaid got inside of Dj Turner and

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Speaker 2: Cook is the running back back at the nine. They

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Speaker 2: hand it off to James Cook, a knifs forward. The

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Speaker 2: ball comes out run the Bengals every cupboard in the

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Speaker 2: pig and Oran Burks comes away with a football.

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase out to the left.

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Speaker 2: Burrow, under pressure, moves forward throws into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: Taught by Mike Kasiki. Touchdown Bengals. A twelve yard touch

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Speaker 2: pass by Joe Burrow and the Bengals go up by

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Speaker 3: Mike Kasicki dons the gritty honored Jamar.

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Speaker 2: Chase seven forty one to go. Cincinnati leads by ten points. Allen,

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Speaker 2: the thirty twenty ten five touchdown. Wow, forty yards on

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Speaker 2: the run for Josh Allen as Cincinnati blitz and ran

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Speaker 4: They did, they did?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's like locate the quarterback find the football,

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Speaker 2: Two tight ends in the game for Cincinnati, Burrow screens

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Speaker 2: it back Christian Benford being chased by Jamar Chase. H's

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Speaker 2: a touchdown for the Buffalo Bills. Burrow tried to throw

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Speaker 4: And Joe Burrow can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: He's going to the sideline shaking his head like I

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Speaker 3: can't believe what I just saw.

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Speaker 2: Bengals can keep their hopes alive if they can get

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Speaker 2: The Bills line up in an I formation. The full

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Speaker 2: back is Gilliam, the tailback is Cooked. Alan is under center,

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Speaker 2: knocks check that it was a different tight end Haws

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Speaker 2: who went in motion. Alan pump fakes, begins scrambling, throws caught.

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Speaker 1: It is caught by Hawes. It's a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: It's a tight end, and it's a two score lead

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Speaker 1: In the end zone.

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Speaker 2: One hand touch with the right hand, touchdown, Bengals twenty

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Speaker 1: T Higgins with his.

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Speaker 2: Second touchdown catch of the game. The Bengals are not

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Speaker 2: dead yet. Alan touching his rib area. That's a signal

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Speaker 2: throw pump fakes, begins scrambling middle of the field. He

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Speaker 2: is close to the first down. He's got it. Then

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Speaker 2: Buffalo is going to win the game. Josh Allen on

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Speaker 2: third and fifteen scrambles for a seventeen yard game and

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Speaker 2: the Bengals could not stop the clock.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no way the Bengals can do anything about it. Now.

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Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills are celebrating. They're celebrating on the sideline

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Speaker 3: and they're on the field.

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Speaker 2: The final score Buffalo thirty nine, Cincinnati thirty four. The

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Speaker 2: Bengals led for most of the game and had a

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Speaker 2: ten point lead with less than eight minutes to go

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Speaker 2: before three plays a little more than two minutes apart,

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Speaker 2: swung the game in Buffalo's favor. First a forty yard

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Speaker 2: touchdown run by quarterback Josh Allen, then a sixty three

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Speaker 2: yard pick six by Christian Benford that gave the Bills

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Speaker 2: five to go, followed immediately by a tipped pass interception

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Speaker 2: by aj Epanessa that put Buffalo in the driver's seat

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Speaker 2: for good. Here are Joe Burrow and Zach Taylor.

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Speaker 5: Great plays by them. Corner blitz and you know, trying

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Speaker 4: Great play.

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Speaker 5: Next one tipball lands in the run that guy's hands,

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Speaker 5: So yeah, good plays by that.

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Speaker 6: Forty seven just made an outstanding point. That's a big

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Speaker 6: time point in this league. He's playing with a lot

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Speaker 6: of confidence. You don't see a lot of guys be

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Speaker 6: able to make that, and he did it. Man credit him.

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Speaker 2: Burrow threw for two hundred and eighty four yards and

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Speaker 2: four touchdowns with a passer rating of one oh six

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Speaker 2: point seven. Jamar Chase went over one thousand receiving yards

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Speaker 2: for the year, becoming the fifth player in history to

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Speaker 2: top one thousand in each of his first five seasons,

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Speaker 2: a list that also includes AJ Green. Mike Kasiki had

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Speaker 2: his best game of the season with six sketches for

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Speaker 2: Higgins after missing the Thanksgiving night game while he recovered

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Speaker 2: from a concussion, t came back with six catches for

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Speaker 2: ninety two yards and two touchdowns despite several hard landings

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Speaker 2: on the snow covered turf. Tea discussed a tough loss

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Speaker 7: Yeah, man, it's very frustrating. Obviously, nobody wants to lose,

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Speaker 7: especially when he was up the whole game. Uh, those

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Speaker 7: last two turnovers, you know it cost us. Can't have those,

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Speaker 7: but you gotta get a fixed can be better next week.

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Speaker 2: The way you guys started touchdown drives on your first

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Speaker 2: three possessions, did it feel like that playoff game all

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Speaker 2: over again? The way that you came out and really

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Speaker 7: Yeah, man, it felt good. You know, we just gotta

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Speaker 7: keep putting the pressure on you know. You know obviously

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Speaker 7: I got you said to him, Uh, those two turnovers

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Speaker 7: at the end cost us. Uh, we can't have those

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Speaker 7: and just keep putting pressure on them and you know,

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Speaker 7: try to find a win.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't that case really where those turnovers were Bengals mistakes?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Christian Benford, that was a great play, right, Uh, God.

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Speaker 7: Made a hell of a play. You know, so you know,

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Speaker 7: I get gotta get pros. Where whereas when it's due. Uh,

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Speaker 7: he made a hell of a play and made a

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Speaker 7: good ball. They good play on the ball, so you know,

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Speaker 7: and then you know the second one, you know, got tipped.

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Speaker 7: You know, tips and overthrows. You know, it's it's tough,

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Speaker 7: so it's gotta be better.

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Speaker 8: How tough as a t when you see what the

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Speaker 8: offense looks like when you have everybody and you guys

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Speaker 8: who out to score thirty plus points, that it might

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Speaker 8: be too late in the season to get to where

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Speaker 8: you wanna go.

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Speaker 7: Uh, it's tough, you know. You know, we definitely wanted

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Speaker 7: this win today. Uh, but didn't happen.

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Speaker 8: So we we know you came back from the concussion

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Speaker 8: net to missing last week. He took some hard falls,

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Speaker 8: landing on the ground awkwardly. How difficult was it for

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Speaker 8: you to make it all the way through this game?

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Speaker 7: No, I'm a I'm a soldier, know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: So soldiers take hits. You know, it happens. It's football.

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Speaker 7: It's the name of the game. Uh, you gotta get

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Speaker 7: up next play mentality, was there a.

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Speaker 3: Thought, you know, given the history of you saying hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe wanna not playing this given what happened.

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Speaker 9: I mean, how much did you think about maybe sitting

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Speaker 7: Didn't think about that at all? Why cause I'm a

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Speaker 7: I'm a I'm a team first guy, you know what

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Speaker 2: I heard Jamar say to you before the game, Hey,

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Speaker 8: What one had a touchdown catch is that just team

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Speaker 7: We needed to win to you know, have better chances

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Speaker 2: The loss dropped Cincinnati to four and nine, and since

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Speaker 6: Just keep picking each other up. It was it was

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Speaker 5: That's how the cookie crumbled this year.

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Speaker 1: To do it.

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Speaker 2: Sunday's loss ended a streak of eight straight wins with

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Speaker 2: Bengals have had seven such losses over the last two years.

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Speaker 1: Of the Bengals. Now time for the radio guys recap lap.

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Speaker 2: The tough thing for me is that I think of

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Speaker 2: the last two weeks we've seen with Joe Burrow at quarterback,

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Speaker 2: the Bengals can compete and beat anybody, And unfortunately, because

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Speaker 10: You're right, Dan, they put their backs up against the

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Speaker 10: wall with inconsistent play. I guess that's the kindest way

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Speaker 10: to put it. I just didn't finish well enough without

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Speaker 10: his return, he is straw that serves the drink. There

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Speaker 10: is no question about that. He lifts the entire boat.

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Speaker 10: I mean, Offensively, they play at a very high level. Defensively,

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Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean, he's a phenomenal player. He's one

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Speaker 2: The game turned on the pick six by Christian Benford

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Speaker 2: your cap to the other team play. Joe tried to

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Speaker 10: Bingo, you're right there, and that sums it up. I mean,

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Speaker 10: Paul Brown, you know, I remember when I was a rookie,

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Speaker 10: well that didn't go well, Let's see if we can

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Speaker 10: turn this thing around. And uh, and certainly don't quit.

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Speaker 10: That's the one thing I think about this football team

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Speaker 10: is is, uh, these guys just don't quit. Then they

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Speaker 10: They play for each other. You know, they're very close.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's a fun group to cover, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Tight Ends on the other team continue to kill the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: That's been the case this year, It's really seems to

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you've hit it all, Dan, And I

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Speaker 10: You know, I do think rookie linebackers are that that's

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Speaker 10: There's only four games left for them to, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if nothing else, with those two rookie linebackers,

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Speaker 10: I realize that there's there's miles to go before they rest.

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Speaker 2: Big thumbs up to t Higgins today coming back from

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Speaker 2: Te Higgins is a warrior.

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Speaker 10: I took my cap to the guy. I mean, he

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Speaker 10: You know, you don't want to spit the bit. You

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Speaker 2: You've got fifty years of Bengals experience under your belt

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Speaker 10: That's a good term for him. He's a different cat man.

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Speaker 4: KNOW i just think the thing that makes him so

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Speaker 10: A big specimen at the quarterback pos issue is one

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Speaker 10: HIGH i, mean He's. Menza he sees things before they.

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Speaker 2: And his size is helpful because the guy doesn't get

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Speaker 10: YOU i, mean durability is a is a big factor

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Speaker 2: Here it's been several years since The bengals were in

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Speaker 10: hard all week and your you, know your goal is

438
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 10: to win the football. Game but even if you win

439
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 10: the football, game isn't going to be enough because now

440
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 10: you have to, scoreboard watch and what are other teams?

441
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 10: Doing and you you back yourself into that. Corner that's

442
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,639
Speaker 10: a tough dyamics. Man it's it's hard to hard to

443
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 10: crawl crawl out of, that out of that. Situation you

444
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 10: don't want to put yourself in that. Situation BUT i.

445
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 10: DO i do think again that these, guys they're gonna

446
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 10: play every, Snap they're not gonna say hell with, it you,

447
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 10: know let's just close it up for next, Year let's

448
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 10: just close up. SHOP i don't think there's one guy

449
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:44,919
Speaker 10: in that locker room and feels that.

450
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 1: Way did this feel like a playoff?

451
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 4: Game do? You you?

452
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 10: Know it was a lot of guys said. THAT a

453
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 10: lot of guys said, that you know, that the the

454
00:22:55,080 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 10: way it, unfolded the, atmosphere the, crowd the. Weather you,

455
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 10: know they were, like it felt like a nationally televised playoff.

456
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 10: Game you, know it did to me a little bit.

457
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 10: TOO i thought it was a well played. GAME i

458
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 10: thought THE nfl is going to be proud of what

459
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 10: the performance that everybody put on out in that football.

460
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 10: Field SO i DO i think it had some playoff

461
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 10: playoff field to, it for.

462
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 2: SURE i definitely felt that. Way it was a, thrilling

463
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 2: exciting game with a disappointing. Ending see if The bengals

464
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 2: can go home and beat The ravens for the second

465
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 2: time in three games next.

466
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 10: WEEK i like the sounds of. That it might ring,

467
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 10: hollow but beating The Baltimore ravens two times in three

468
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 10: weeks that dog will hunt all day every.

469
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 2: Day The ravens will obviously be. Desperate they've dropped too

470
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 2: straight to follow a game Behind pittsburgh with four to,

471
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 2: Go baltimore opens is a two and a half point

472
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 2: favorite Next, sunday despite losing it home by eighteen to

473
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 2: The bengals a week and a half. Ago that's a

474
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Speaker 2: wrap on The buffalo. Game now for this week's Fun facts,

475
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: conversation where we get to know a forty year old

476
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 2: quarterback who is the oldest player In bengals. History time

477
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: for some fun facts With Joe flacco From, Audubon New,

478
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 2: jersey which is basically a suburb Of. Philly just cross

479
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 2: The Delaware river and you're. There you're from a big.

480
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: Family how big and what did your folks do for a?

481
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 9: Living i'm the oldest of, six got four brothers and a.

482
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 9: Sister my mom stayed at home and, was you, know

483
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 9: responsible for raising us and the people we are and

484
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 9: basically running the entire. Family and then my dad had

485
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 9: his own mortgage business with a couple.

486
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 2: Guys i'm one of, five SO i can identify with

487
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 2: what your mom did for the. Family you're six.

488
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,919
Speaker 1: Six where did you get your?

489
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 9: Height i'm not. Sure we joke, around you, know old

490
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 9: fashioned the. Milkman you. Know my mom's, like you, know

491
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 9: like five, six maybe she's five. Seven my dad's maybe

492
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 9: five or, Eleven so not quite sure where it comes.

493
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 2: From did you have to work hard at being good

494
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 2: at sports or did it pretty much come. NATURALLY i

495
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 2: think you always.

496
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 9: HAD i think when you have an interest in sports

497
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 9: from an early, age you just naturally work hard at.

498
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 9: It it's just what you like to. Do so it's

499
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 9: tough to. SAY i feel Like i've always been good at.

500
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 9: IT i feel like it came. Naturally but at the same,

501
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 9: Time i've always been interested in, it so it was

502
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 9: something THAT i was always, doing always. Developing so, yeah

503
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 9: it's tough to probably.

504
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,959
Speaker 2: Say, honestly you started your college football career At Pitt

505
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 2: you read shirted your first, year and then you were

506
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 2: a backup your second. Year is that what you expected

507
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 2: or were you disappointed that you didn't get a faster.

508
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: OPPORTUNITY i don't know exactly WHAT i.

509
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 9: EXPECTED i probably expected to go in and start as

510
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 9: as quickly AS i. Can at some, POINT i was

511
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 9: hoping to get an. OPPORTUNITY i THINK i was not,

512
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 9: okay but okay with my second year of being WHERE i.

513
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 9: Was but by that third, YEAR i really WANTED i

514
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 9: really wanted to be playing football and it wasn't looking

515
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 9: like that was going to. Happen and that's kind of

516
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 9: what led to go to to go To. Delaware why

517
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 9: did you Choose? Delaware, well, REALLY i mean there was

518
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 9: no portal back in the, day AND i got, recruited but,

519
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 9: LIKE i wasn't like a huge, recruit so it was

520
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 9: tough to really find out if anybody wanted. Me and

521
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 9: you know, what my it wasn't LIKE i really had

522
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 9: very many options or a decision to. Make But delaware

523
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 9: was a team that recruited me a little bit out

524
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 9: of high school as a smaller school that probably understood

525
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 9: THAT i wasn't going to go. There But Casey keeler

526
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 9: was known for kind of getting some, transfers and my

527
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 9: high school coach my senior year played for. Him played

528
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 9: For casey At. ROWAN i don't know if it Was

529
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 9: rowing then Or Glassborough state In South, jersey so there

530
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 9: was a little bit of a connection, there AND i

531
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 9: kind of found out that they were interested in having

532
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 9: me and ended up like late, summer you, know deciding

533
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 9: to go there really because at that point it was

534
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 9: the only, option you, know but they did have a

535
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 9: rich tradition in, football and you, know the state Of

536
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 9: delaware cares a lot about The Blue, hens so it

537
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 9: was a cool place to.

538
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: Go you had a lot of success. There you took

539
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 2: the team to The National Championship game and caught the

540
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: eyes obviously OF nfl. Scouts you went to The Senior,

541
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 2: bowl you went to the scouting. Combine when did you

542
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: realize that you were just as good as the quarterbacks

543
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 2: from the bigger.

544
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 9: SCHOOLS i think there's times where your confidence can kind of,

545
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 9: like you, know maybe you start to question things a little.

546
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 9: Bit BUT i THINK i had a good kind OF.

547
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 4: I don't.

548
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 9: KNOW i THINK i had a good foundation to kind

549
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 9: of still believe in. Myself SO i remember transferring Thinking,

550
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 9: okay maybe you're not going to, be you, know a

551
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 9: high draft, pick but still BELIEVING i had the ability

552
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 9: to go to the next level and just having to

553
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 9: get out there and prove that and see where that took.

554
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 9: ME i never looked at it as, like, Oh i'm

555
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 9: as good as these, guys Or i'm.

556
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 4: As good as that.

557
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 9: GUY i just always believed in myself and BELIEVE i

558
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 9: had the ability to do. It and LIKE i, said

559
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 9: WHEN i transferred down a, LEVEL i fel LIKE i

560
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 9: felt like it'd probably be a different path than MAYBE i.

561
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 4: Imagined and then.

562
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 9: After my junior, year like the second half of my junior,

563
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 9: YEAR i think we really started to hit a. Stride you,

564
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 9: know we didn't really have a great record that, year

565
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 9: but we really did to kind of start to find

566
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 9: an identity and figure out who we were.

567
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 4: As a football.

568
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 9: Team AND i think we kind of rode that into

569
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 9: my senior year and had a really good year and

570
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 9: a lot of really good players in that, team AND

571
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 9: i was able to capitalize on. IT i think by

572
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 9: the end of my junior, year the fact THAT i

573
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 9: was kind of like getting hit hit up by some

574
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 9: agents and, STUFF i knew there'd be some. Interest and

575
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 9: then by the you, know by the end of my senior,

576
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 9: YEAR i was feeling pretty GOOD i was going to

577
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 9: be picked. Somewhere you still don't. KNOW i MEAN i

578
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 9: was a small school, kid and you DON'T i didn't

579
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 9: KNOW i was going to be picked WHERE i, was

580
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 9: even on even the day it. Happened BUT i do

581
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 9: count myself fortunate just for ending ending up At delaware

582
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 9: the TIME i ended up, there because playing quarterback is

583
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 9: so much about the guys around, you AND i happened

584
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 9: to BE i happened to get there when we had

585
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 9: a really good running, back some really good wide, receivers

586
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 9: a really good offense of, line and that really helped.

587
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: Me you wound up being the eighteenth pick in the

588
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 2: draft By, baltimore the second quarterback selected your. Year what

589
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 2: was it like to get that phone call From Ozzie?

590
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 9: Newsom getting that call was. SURREAL i, mean sitting there

591
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 9: with your family and something that you've kind of envisioned

592
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 9: since you can, remember and probably wasn't as really AS

593
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 9: i think it. Was but from the TIME i can,

594
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 9: remember you, KNOW i wanted to be a professional. Athlete you,

595
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 9: know probably started with baseball and went to football and

596
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,719
Speaker 9: baseball and ended up at. Football so to get that

597
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 9: call is obviously very. Special it's something you can probably

598
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 9: take for granted at certain times just because it seemed,

599
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 9: LIKE i don't, know it's at different times you kind

600
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 9: of feel like it's going to happen at some. Point

601
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 9: but looking, back it's one of those things that it's

602
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 9: always going to be really special because it's something that

603
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 9: you envisioned doing from the time you were said when

604
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 9: eight years.

605
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: Old so back, then quarterbacks drafted in the first round

606
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: didn't typically start right, away but you. Did what were

607
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: the circumstances that made you a starter in week?

608
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 4: One, yeah you're.

609
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 9: Right it wasn't like as it was still a thing

610
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 9: to kind of go in and wait a little. Bit

611
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 9: it was actually there was a lot of conversation about.

612
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 9: It what should you? Do you, know, now it's pretty

613
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 9: much understood that you kind of want to get the

614
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 9: guys out there right or. Wrong but the plan for

615
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 9: me definitely was not to go out there right. AWAY i,

616
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 9: MEAN i did want to be out. THERE i felt

617
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 9: LIKE i had the capability of dealing with a little

618
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 9: bit of failure, mentally AND i felt like the experience would,

619
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 9: outweigh you, know the negatives of having to deal with

620
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 9: some of that. Failure but that was not necessarily the.

621
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,719
Speaker 9: PLAN i was there With Kyle bowler And Troy, smith

622
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 9: and it really ended up being a crazy training. Camp,

623
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 9: KYLE i, believe ended up pairing something in his labroom

624
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 9: and his should during one of the, practices and Then

625
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 9: Troy smith ended up getting an, illness which kind of

626
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 9: sidelined them FOR i don't even. KNOW i don't even

627
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 9: remember how long it might have. Been two, months so

628
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 9: what like going into the third preseason, GAME i really

629
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 9: wasn't supposed to play at. All they were going, to

630
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 9: like at the beginning of the, week those two were

631
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 9: going to share that, game like probably play half and.

632
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 9: Half in the morning of the. Game was kind of

633
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 9: when we were starting to find out About troy's illness

634
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 9: a little bit in the morning of the. Game they

635
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 9: told me, Like, joe you're the only guy we got,

636
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 9: Today like you're playing the entire. GAME i remember going

637
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 9: back on that room and you, know your hearts pound

638
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 9: and you're a little bit, nervous and you're, like, okay,

639
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 9: MAN i got to make Sure I'm i'm on top

640
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 9: of all, this and you, know the rest is kind

641
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 9: of is what it. IS i went out there and

642
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 9: played that whole game Against Saint Louis rams and we came,

643
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 9: back you, know a handful of days later In baltimore

644
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 9: and played The Atlanta falcons in our fourth preseason. GAME

645
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 9: i THINK i played like three series in. It we

646
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 9: brought the next guy, in and you, know a week

647
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 9: and a half LATER i was lining up In Baltimore Cincinnati.

648
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: Bengals so you joined a team with veteran superstars with

649
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 2: big personalities Ray, Lewis, Terrell, suggs Ed. Reid was it?

650
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 9: Intimidating, YEAH i think so to a certain extent for. Sure,

651
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 9: anytime especially when you HAVE i think anytime you have

652
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 9: guys like that that have done what had, done what

653
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 9: they had already, done and we're going and you knew

654
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 9: they were going to continue to do and they were

655
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 9: on the other side of the, BALL i think that

656
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 9: can be. INTIMIDATING i do think that's one of my,

657
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 9: strengths is kind of not worrying about that and and

658
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 9: and not, flinching even though maybe INSIDE i am a little.

659
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 9: BIT i think it was important when you when you

660
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 9: when you get around personalities like, that to show that

661
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 9: you can kind of stand tall and handle you, know

662
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 9: the pressure of dealing with those types of, guys and

663
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 9: when they try to put it on you in, practice you,

664
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 9: know even though you're not necessarily gonna have success all the,

665
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 9: time not. Blink AND i think that, definitely you, KNOW

666
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 9: i think that served me well and going into place like,

667
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 9: that because those guys can be very.

668
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 4: Intimidating.

669
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 9: Obviously you, know anytime you're, around anytime you're a young

670
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 9: kid trying trying to come in and prove yourself and

671
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 9: you're around the best to ever do, it you, know

672
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 9: you can get, intimidated or you can kind of just

673
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 9: look at them and look at them as your peer

674
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 9: and your, equal your, teammate and learn from them as

675
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 9: much as you.

676
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 4: Can we're visiting With Joe.

677
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 2: Flacco you took The ravens to the playoffs each of

678
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 2: your first four. Years you want a playoff game every,

679
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: year and then in year five you Led baltimore to

680
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 2: the Super bowl. Title there are thirty five quarterbacks who

681
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 2: have led their team to A Super bowl. Title WHEN

682
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 2: i express it in those, terms what does that say to?

683
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 9: You you, know it's one of those times where you,

684
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 9: don't as a, PLAYER i don't think you do sit

685
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 9: back and reflect enough on how special it is to

686
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 9: get to do what we. DO i don't think you you,

687
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 9: KNOW i don't And i'm not somebody that does it.

688
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 9: EITHER i don't think we sit back and look at

689
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 9: what we just did or what we've done over the

690
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 9: last five. Years and the OLDER i, GET i think

691
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 9: it's kind of important to do, that because when you

692
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 9: don't do, that no matter what you do for a,

693
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 9: living it turned it can turn into a job to

694
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 9: you know at, times AND i think when you hit

695
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 9: me with stuff like, that and when you're able to

696
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 9: sit around some family members and friends and tell stories

697
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 9: and kind of have those little moments where you do

698
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 9: remind yourself of how lucky you, are it puts things

699
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 9: back in perspective and allows you to enjoy it a lot.

700
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 9: MORE i think when you don't do those, things WHICH

701
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 9: i don't naturally like think about those, things UNLESS i

702
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 9: am telling, stories WHICH i like to, do.

703
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 4: It's it's pretty damn.

704
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 9: COOL i, mean you have to go back and put

705
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 9: yourself in the shoes of when you were a young

706
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 9: kid slash teenager and you were hoping to be in

707
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 9: this position one, day and you, know when you hear

708
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 9: things like that from other, people you do turn back

709
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 9: into that kid and you can put it in that

710
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 9: kind of view and that perspective and really enjoy.

711
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: It after eleven years In, baltimore you've bounced around, since

712
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,240
Speaker 2: with six teams over the last seven. YEARS i, suppose

713
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 2: on one, hand it's nice to be a guy that

714
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: plays for one team his entire. Career on the other,

715
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: hand you've made so many friends and seeing how different

716
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 2: teams do. It has that been enjoyable in a certain,

717
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: way for?

718
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 9: Sure, yeah it's a good way to put, it you.

719
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 9: KNOW i think ultimately it would have been great to

720
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 9: play twenty years in one, spot you, know and call

721
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 9: it a. Day but that's not my. Life this is my,

722
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 9: life and you got to look at the positives in.

723
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 9: It AND i do think there are a lot of

724
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 9: positives in going from team to team and meeting different

725
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 9: coaches and seeing how different coaches do, it and meeting different,

726
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 9: players and seeing different locker, rooms and just enjoying different,

727
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 9: cities you, know getting to see different parts of the

728
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 9: country and actually live there for a little bit of.

729
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 4: TIME i think.

730
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 9: BECAUSE i have played a good amount and am a

731
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 9: little bit older, NOW i can enjoy those. THINGS i

732
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 9: think if you were to tell me, that if you

733
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 9: were to tell me there was gonna be positive in.

734
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 9: That WHEN i was twenty, THREE i probably wouldn't have

735
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 9: believed you and wouldn't have wanted to do. That but

736
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 9: there have been. Positives, yeah, LISTEN i wish the last seven,

737
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 9: years you, know with all those, POSITIVES i do wish

738
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 9: the last seven years were probably a little bit different than.

739
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 9: That but definitely a lot of cool things about doing

740
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 9: What i've gotten to do the last few.

741
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: Years when a team picks up a player late in

742
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: the season who hasn't been with another, team the expression

743
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 2: that broadcasters and writers uses they's picked up off the.

744
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 2: Couch In november of twenty, three when you joined The

745
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 2: browns and hadn't been with another team for months leading

746
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: up to, that what had you been? Doing were you

747
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: going to the local high school field and working.

748
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 9: Out it's funny how many people like you know that

749
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 9: is a saying, like you, know, yeah they signed them

750
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 9: off the. Couch but it's funny when you go out

751
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 9: and some people are, like what do they mean they

752
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 9: signed you off the. Couch i'm, like, dude it's just saying,

753
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 9: like it's not. LITERAL i, mean it's kind of, literal

754
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 9: but not.

755
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 4: Really.

756
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 9: YEAH i, listen working out is a big part of

757
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 9: just my life in general these. Days Because i've been

758
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 9: doing it for so, long you end up you start

759
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 9: to enjoy. It and coming into the, league that wasn't.

760
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 9: Me you, KNOW i grew up playing. SPORTS i went

761
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 9: from football to basketball to, baseball and then redid it

762
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 9: all in the, summer and you, know kind of went

763
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 9: through that. Cycle so like being in the weight room

764
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 9: and working, OUT i JUST i grew up working out

765
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 9: on the, field like that was WHERE i learned how

766
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 9: to do. Everything so it wasn't until a few years

767
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 9: into THE nfl WHERE i really started doing getting getting

768
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 9: into like taking care of my body and doing that

769
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 9: kind of. Thing and now Because i've done it for so,

770
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,959
Speaker 9: long it's become such a big part of my life

771
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 9: that that part was natural to. Do and then in

772
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 9: terms of throwing the, football it wasn't super concerned with

773
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 9: like throwing the, football BUT i did want to keep

774
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 9: my arm in. Shape so it was usually twice a

775
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 9: WEEK i would my dad and me and my dad

776
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 9: and my youngest brother would go out to a you,

777
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 9: know a local field AND i would just put them

778
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 9: in spots and my brother would throw a little, bit

779
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 9: and he would catch a little, bit and my dad

780
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 9: would catch some, balls and you, know nothing, crazy but

781
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 9: keeping the arm in shape and making sure that IF

782
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 9: i did get a call THAT i would you, KNOW

783
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 9: i wouldn't embarrass myself And i'd be able to go

784
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 9: in there and pick up a football and start and

785
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 9: start pretty you, know throwing the ball pretty.

786
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 2: Good so kudos to your dad and your brother for helping.

787
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: Out you've got five. Kids they were too young or

788
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 2: not born when you won The Super, bowl so earlier

789
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: this year when you beat The steelers On thursday, night

790
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 2: when you threw for four seventy against The. Bears now

791
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 2: your kids are old enough to watch it and appreciate.

792
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 2: It is that the best part about still playing at Forty.

793
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 9: It's definitely a cool part of, it it really. Is

794
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 9: and they just want, more you, know you do one,

795
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 9: game they want, more they want. More you. Know it's

796
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 9: VERY i think a couple of years, AGO i think

797
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 9: in twenty three WHEN i got signed and went To,

798
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 9: cleveland and that was like the first real time that

799
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 9: they actually, cared you.

800
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 4: Know in twenty.

801
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 9: Nineteen, yeah like by the TIME i Left, baltimore like

802
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 9: they had they were you, know six years. OLD i

803
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 9: THINK i was six or something like. That like you'd

804
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 9: think they'd be old enough to kind of get it

805
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 9: a little, bit but they, don't not until they're nine

806
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 9: to ten, eleven you. Know and twenty three was the

807
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 9: first time where like even THOUGH i signed, late like

808
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 9: WHEN i signed, THERE i was the guy AND i

809
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 9: got to go win and play some good. Games that

810
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 9: was the first real time that they understood what was

811
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 9: going on and got to be a part of. It

812
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 9: and THAT'S i think that was the cool. Part is

813
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 9: you always enjoy sharing these things with and having the

814
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 9: people that you really love and care about be a

815
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 9: part of it with. You and when it's your, kids

816
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 9: that's just a whole other level of like love and

817
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 9: care that you have for. Somebody and it definitely did

818
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 9: make it pretty. SPECIAL i think it was special for,

819
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 9: them but you, know like, whatever they're, kids they're gonna you,

820
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 9: know it was definitely special for me BECAUSE i, think

821
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 9: just LIKE i, said the more people that you care

822
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 9: about that you get to bring in on this thing

823
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 9: and enjoy it with it just makes it that much.

824
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 9: Sweeter if it was just me hanging out, there and,

825
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 9: yeah it would have been fun with my teammates and all,

826
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 9: That but then you go home to an empty house

827
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 9: and you kind of, okay it's. Over when you have

828
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 9: people to enjoy it, with that mean a lot to.

829
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 9: You it definitely means something. Else so that was my

830
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 9: first taste of. It and, yeah it was pretty.

831
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 2: Cool if you wild card topics to wrap this up

832
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 2: With Joe. Flacco you've had hundreds of teammates in THE.

833
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 2: Nfl who are you closest?

834
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 9: To Uh, So Dennis pitt is probably like the guy

835
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 9: That i'm closest. To just reached out To Marshall yanda

836
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 9: and Called Marshall yanda like two weeks ago just to

837
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 9: kind of see what he was doing back on his

838
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 9: farm In. Iowa But dennis is the guy THAT i

839
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 9: you know that you, know we'll fly To california, too

840
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 9: and he'll come out To jersey once an off season

841
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 9: and and things like.

842
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 2: That you went viral several weeks ago for discussing the

843
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: joys of going to a restaurant.

844
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: Alone how did your wife take?

845
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 9: That she, laughed just like everybody. Else, yeah She you,

846
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 9: know we're so past that point where it's.

847
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 4: Like what are you?

848
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 9: Doing you're doing this And i'm doing. That you, know

849
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 9: we've gone through those stages where you may want to

850
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 9: feel a certain way about what the other person's. Doing you,

851
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 9: know we're so past, that, thankfully AND i AND i

852
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 9: think she's at the point, too like she wants to

853
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 9: see me have success and she's she's she's partaking in that.

854
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 9: SUCCESS i, mean she's a huge part of.

855
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 4: That so.

856
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 9: You, know if people are getting a good laugh out

857
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 9: of buy interviews or anything like, THAT i think she's

858
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,959
Speaker 9: kind of enjoying it for the most part.

859
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: Too final fun, fact this one's kind of. Deep if

860
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 2: you could meet anyone in, history living or, deceased who

861
00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 2: would that person?

862
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 9: Be, Wow i'm never good at these. QUESTIONS i don't

863
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 9: know IF i have anybody. Specific you, know we were

864
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 9: just talking about all the unknowns that are in this,

865
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 9: world and, man what would you like answers? To and you,

866
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 9: know what would it be cool if you knew the answers.

867
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 9: TO i, mean, Shoot i'd love to go back to

868
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 9: when those pyramids are built and then talk to somebody

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