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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The will I'm a steamroll of Babe,

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Speaker 1: the greatest thing since Mark Duffner's Locker Room cry. For

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Speaker 1: much of this year, NFL experts have warned us that

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Speaker 1: the second half of the season was going to be

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Speaker 1: tough for the Bengals because of their difficult schedule. So

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, at a team meeting the night

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Speaker 1: before a road game at Tennessee, Zach Taylor told his

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Speaker 1: players that it was their opponents that should be worried

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Speaker 1: because they have to play Cincinnati. After the Bengals beat

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Speaker 1: the Titans, that came up in the locker room celebration

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Speaker 1: they've got to play us was sixty nine year old

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Speaker 1: assistant coach Mark Duffner, who's in his forty eighth year

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Speaker 1: in coaching. So last week, after the Bengals beat the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor requested a repeat performance by the coach universally

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Speaker 1: known as duff A heavyway battle right there. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: guys went toe to toe, he came out on top.

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Speaker 1: It took everybody in this locker room. What do we say, Dolf?

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Speaker 1: It has become the slogan for this year's team, and

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Speaker 1: it was the first thing brought up in the locker

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Speaker 1: room after Sunday's win over Cleveland. Dufner began his coaching

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Speaker 1: career as a graduate assistant at Ohio State under Woody Hayes.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, I talked to him about becoming a social

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Speaker 1: media sensation all the credit ghost of the head coach,

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Speaker 1: of course, after we won that ball game, everybody was

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Speaker 1: the the originator and the inventor, if you will, is

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor. I just had to be a you know,

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Speaker 1: second time it was a pond request. Yeah, that's exactly right,

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Speaker 1: he did, you know, he just said Duff And I

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Speaker 1: think that this theme is appropriate for kind of what

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Speaker 1: This is a team that cares a lot about itself,

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Speaker 1: every week. Do you want to give me one, not

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Speaker 1: They've got to play us. Now, let's get to the

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Speaker 1: highlights from Sunday's thirteen point win in the Battle of

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Speaker 1: Ohio first and ten. At the fifteen of Cleveland nine

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Speaker 1: First and ten at the Cleveland forty five yard line,

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Speaker 1: But today was a good start. The win ended a

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Speaker 1: Browns couldn't cover Jamar Chase. Joe Burrow only completed eighteen passes,

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Speaker 1: where we'd put him. He's got all sorts of motions,

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Speaker 1: injury ravaged receiving cords, the Bengals leaned heavily on the

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Speaker 1: don't know that we'd be the same team had we

427
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Speaker 1: not lost some of those early games. And of course

428
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: you'd love them, so you could have already won all

429
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Speaker 1: the things that come with that. But sometimes it's it's

430
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 1: necessary evil we try to win every game. I don't

431
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 1: want to lose, but we certainly learned a lot from

432
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Speaker 1: those early season losses that have helped us be the

433
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Speaker 1: team that we are today. And finally, this game up

434
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 1: and when you played them up in Cleveland, it was

435
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Speaker 1: a you know, cold water in the face. It was

436
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 1: kind of what it was seemed to be a wake

437
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Speaker 1: up call, and everybody responded the way. I'm sure you've hooked.

438
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 1: You've won five in a row since five and a

439
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,360
Speaker 1: row up and out of eight, what is it? Nine

440
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 1: out of eleven now, I mean, it's crazy. You're on

441
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: a nice run. It's a confident team that's playing with

442
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 1: right edge and preparing with the right edge, and I

443
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,640
Speaker 1: believe that we won't lose. That our guys are focused

444
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: on how to do things the right way, and I'll

445
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: be ready to go on the road next week against Tampa.

446
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: Bengals remain tied for first with Baltimore, as the Ravens

447
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: managed to win in Pittsburgh sixteen fourteen despite having their

448
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 1: third string quarterback on the field for most of the

449
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Speaker 1: second half. Lamar Jackson missed the game of a knee

450
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Speaker 1: injury and Tyler Huntley suffered a concussion, meaning the Ravens

451
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: had to turn to undrafted rookie Anthony Brown. It will

452
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Speaker 1: be interesting to see who plays quarterback for Baltimore next

453
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Speaker 1: week at Cleveland. Now time for the radio guys recap.

454
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Speaker 1: The Bengals are off the schneide. Their five game losing

455
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 1: streak head to head against the Cleveland Browns is over

456
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: in convincing fashion, twenty three to ten. Where should we begin.

457
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Speaker 1: How about the running games? Cincinnati one thirty six yards

458
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: on the ground, Cleveland seventy one. I wonder how many

459
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: times the Browns have essentially been doubled up in the

460
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: running game and the Kevin Stefanski era. I mean, you

461
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: look at the first game. Cleveland ran the ball forty

462
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: four times. The Bengals ran at ten. I mean, in

463
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: this football game, the exact same number of carries. Chubb

464
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 1: fourteen carries, thirty four yards. He had a thirteen yard

465
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 1: rush and a seven yard rush, So on two of

466
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Speaker 1: his carries he had twenty of the yards. The other

467
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: twelve carries fourteen yards. What that's unbelievable. DJ Reader, full

468
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: grown man, unbelievable. What he does, makes plays himself. I

469
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: mean he'll make tackles, but to keep people off of

470
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Speaker 1: his teammates and linebackers like he does. I mean, Logan

471
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Speaker 1: Wilson had a day at halftime, he ends up with

472
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Speaker 1: fourteen unassisted tackles, seventeen total tackles on the day. Amazing.

473
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: That's just that's unbelievable. And it's all about DJ Reader

474
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: two pow. I mean, not having those guys in that

475
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 1: game proved to be a big, big difference obviously, and

476
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought that was a huge difference in

477
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: the football game. And I mean Deshaun Watson, he does

478
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: add a little quarterback run package that's going to be

479
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: I think, a very tough thing to defend, you know,

480
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: complimenting a supplementing job. But the Bengals had the answers

481
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: today and it was just an unbelievable defensive performance because

482
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: when you look at all the starter, all the skill

483
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: guys going down Dan defensively, they knew we have to

484
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 1: step up. I mean, our offense is in a little

485
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: bit of trouble here, and in the early stages it

486
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: was you know, stuttering, sputtering along, and defense carried the day.

487
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: Tee Higgins dealt with a sore hamstring on Thursday and

488
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: Friday wounded up playing one snap. I believe Tyler Boyd

489
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 1: got hurt on the second offensive play. So you alluded

490
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: to it. Two of your best pass catchers weapons in

491
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: the offensive game weren't available. They managed to score three

492
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 1: touchdowns against a pretty good defense, no, no question. And

493
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: you know, I thought that other guys stepped up and

494
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: made plays just like they have, you know, all season long.

495
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: I mean, the flea flicker was called at just the

496
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: most opportune time that it could have been called. I mean,

497
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Speaker 1: Trent Norwin has a forty five yard reception where he's

498
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: opened by ten yards and he said that he can't

499
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: remember being that open at any level of football. Just

500
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: a tremendous, tremendous call. Because they were bringing people to

501
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: stop the run. They were bringing eleven guys and the

502
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: safeties were hitting. I mean, there's no question about that.

503
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 1: And Trent Norwyn said, you know, he and Johnson had

504
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,719
Speaker 1: had a few collisions. He knew when they called it.

505
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 1: When he came flying down like he did, all he

506
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: had to do was bluff that block and was off

507
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: to the races, and that's exactly what took place. Deshaun

508
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: Watson a lot better in Game two than he was

509
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: in Game one. He threw for two hundred and seventy

510
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: six yards a touchdown, one pack passer rating of seventy

511
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: nine point one. Should the rest of the AFC North

512
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Speaker 1: be worried about Deshaun Watson eventually? Yeah, I mean I

513
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: think his skill set is, you know, kind of jumps

514
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: off the you know, the field at He's he's a

515
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: gifted guy. But um, like we were talking about during

516
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: the game, loui Ana Rumo has been masterful at confusing

517
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have played at a pretty high level for

518
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: the you know, not just this year, but I mean

519
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: seven hundred days, he hadn't played a game. They played

520
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: a lot of games in seven hundred days, and lou

521
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: Louiana Rumo had them confounded a little bit. So I'm

522
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: sure the shot Watson was like on the pressure packages

523
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 1: the coverages was like, WHOA, what's going on here? What

524
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: am I looking at um so. I do think that

525
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: lou and Rumo continues to be a factor, and his

526
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: players are definitely responded to. I mean, they're they're believing

527
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: in everything that he's saying. They're buying what he's selling,

528
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. And he's selling a lot

529
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: and they're buying a lot. Man, They've got an unlimited budget.

530
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: The players, they are just um. The amount of inventory

531
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Speaker 1: that they have to draw from pressures and coverages and

532
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: everything else is pretty pretty staggering. And to have guys

533
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: and have the confidence not one of them is going

534
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: to make a mistake is very, very impressive. We said.

535
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: One of the things the Bengals had to do to

536
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: end this streak of five straight losses to Cleveland, don't

537
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: beat yourself. Don't have a bunch of giveaways. They only

538
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: had one giveaway on a deflected pass that was intercepted.

539
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: Don't have a bunch of penalties. Well, that was very

540
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: much in their favor. Nine penalties ninety eight yards for Cleveland,

541
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: four penalties thirty six yards for Cincinnati, and on the

542
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: Bengals first touchdown drive after they had sputtered coming out

543
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: of the gate on their first three diet drives. They

544
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: were gifted four penalties fifty eight yards, including a roughing

545
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: the punter that kept the drive alive, a thirty three

546
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: yard pass interference penalty that helped the Bengals get the

547
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: ball rolling. And once they had the league, you never

548
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: really had the feeling that they were going to give

549
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, I agreed, Dan, I mean, they had

550
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: total control of the football game, and the self destruction

551
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: was significant, not by turnover like you said, just one,

552
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: but hoball on four down to the Bengals. Cleveland's three

553
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: for six on fourth down. So those three stops on

554
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: fourth down or equivalent to turnovers, it's like, you know,

555
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: a fumble that you don't there's no yardage shift or anything,

556
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: but you lose possession on the football. Three times the

557
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns ended up possession without a kick, without a punt,

558
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: extra pointer, field goal. That's huge. So in my mind,

559
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: the Bengals were plus three in that football game in

560
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, the one takeaway and then the

561
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: three fourth down stops the Bengals they weren't involved in

562
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: any fourth down action that way, they had the one giveaway.

563
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: And the other thing was in the first game Cleveland

564
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: went four for five in the red zone five trips,

565
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: four touchdowns today one for three, major difference. The Bengals

566
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: went two for three, got their three times scored twice,

567
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: and they were one for one in the low red

568
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: zone and the gold situation, Cleveland was over in that

569
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: goal to goost situation. That was one of the fourth

570
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: down stops. So, I mean, that's impressive. I thought that,

571
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: you know, this game was going to come down to

572
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: again who was more physical at the line of scrimmage

573
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Speaker 1: in particular, and I thought the Bengals won the let

574
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage again, I really do. I thought

575
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: they controlled things up front and it's it's impressive to

576
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: watch it. And the Bengals, you know, they did have

577
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of a boy I got to navigate

578
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: this ship back on course when you know, some key

579
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: players go down. Tyler Boyd. I asked Zach in the

580
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: post game the extent of the injury, and he said

581
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: that there was a dislocation, but they, you know, want

582
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,959
Speaker 1: to make sure there's nothing more than that. And you know,

583
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: obviously as a receiver that's a real problem. So I

584
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: wonder how much time, if any, he's gonna miss I mean,

585
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: if they get it put back in place and there's

586
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: no fracture. But if there's some soft tissue damage, you know,

587
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: what do you do? Do you splint them together? There's

588
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: there's ways to go ahead and go out there and playing.

589
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: He's a tough guy. I think he's probably gonna try

590
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: to play if he possibly can, particularly with the football

591
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: teams playing five straight wins, seven out of eight, you know,

592
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: nine out of eleven, they're on a run. There's no question.

593
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: Do you have a theory for me on what Kevin

594
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: Stefanski was thinking on the opening drive. They marched down

595
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: the field eight plays, fifty one yards. It's fourth and

596
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: one at the Bengals twenty five. They decide to go

597
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: for it. They take to Shaun Watson out, they put

598
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette in. He's under center. I'm thinking, well, maybe

599
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: they think he's better at the quarterback sneak or something

600
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: like that. He drops back and throws it into the

601
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: end zone incomplete, his only play of the day. What

602
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: on godscreen earth were they doing? I have no idea.

603
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: I really don't. I mean I cannot. That one is

604
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: mind boggling. I'm thinking, well, maybe he's that much better

605
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: in the hard count than Watson is. I'm thinking, maybe

606
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: he's going to try to draw him, you know, and

607
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, well, maybe the fact that he's

608
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: substituting a quarterback. Oh there's a special play that might

609
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: get them amped up even more to jump offside. But

610
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: you know, they held their water well, and I'm thinking,

611
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: you know, why take a guy that quarterback sneak? He's

612
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: better at quarterback run game, He's better at you know,

613
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: you go to the perimeter with a two way go

614
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: with chubbing Watson. I mean, you know, there's there's so

615
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: many other things you can think of that they might

616
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: try to do on that fourth down play. Um, maybe

617
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: even you know, some sort of a gadget play that

618
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: they had in their playbook somewhere on the game plan.

619
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: But to just just to run a street drop back

620
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: and heave it to the corner of the end zone.

621
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Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, I don't that that one is

622
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: mind bagging. I'm gonna be very interested here what Stefanski

623
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: has to say on that explanation, because that one, that

624
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: one was crazy. I'm thinking, first question in the Cleveland

625
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: postgame news conference, I agree wholeheartedly. There's no doubt. You know,

626
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: my first thought was maybe they were going wildcat and

627
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: they just hadn't repped it with Watson, and obviously they didn't,

628
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: but that was the first thing that came to mind

629
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, I mean that that's another another potential out.

630
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: But then you would think, you know, they'd have hunt

631
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: in chub in there, you know, both of their backs,

632
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: and if you're wildcat, and because now you have got

633
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: their quarterbacks out there, he's a waste, you know, he's

634
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: just out there doing nothing, and they didn't do I mean,

635
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: it was weird just the way though. He just run

636
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: in the quarterbacks on and off the field, no other substitutions, Like,

637
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: what the hell? Crazy? All Right, So next week it's

638
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: off to Tampa, probably the last warm weather game until

639
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: the Bengals go to Arizona for the Super Bowl, he says, hopefully,

640
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: but probably realistically and honestly, the one and only time

641
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow and Tom Brady will go ahead to head. Yeah.

642
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: And I think there's so many similarities between those two guys,

643
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: I really do. I mean, not the way they came

644
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: into league. Obviously, you know, one came in as a

645
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: sixth round pick, the other one came in as a

646
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy, first pick of the draft kind of guy.

647
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: But but the way they approached the game, what the

648
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: game means to him, their protocol of preparation, it's, uh,

649
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, it's second to none. And I think there

650
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: were more similarities to than than differences in what they

651
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: think about the game, how they think about the game,

652
00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: how they play the game. There's just a lot of things. Obviously,

653
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: Joe's much more mobile than Tom. Tom is just he's

654
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: from Jump Street, pocket quarterback. Only we saw again today.

655
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: You know, Joe Burrow can hurt you with his feet

656
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: and legs, there's no doubt. And I thought a big

657
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: factor in the game today was going to be who

658
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: when the first play is taken away, how do you

659
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: create an extend on additional plays? Joe Barrow had an

660
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: eight yard run on a scramble. He kept plays alive,

661
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, manipulating the pocket. So Tom Brady's not going

662
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: to do that stuff. Tom Brady is as good as

663
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: there is ever though, in getting the ball out of

664
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: his hand right now. I mean, he's an offensive lineman's

665
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: best friend. It's like two point three five, you know,

666
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: and it's out. I mean you can almost whiff and

667
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: get beaten, and he's going to have the ball out

668
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: at those kind of numbers, and Joe's very similar to that.

669
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: Joe gets the ball out, but if he doesn't like it,

670
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: you know, he can, you know, go to a second

671
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: play and create a second play. Tom doesn't do that,

672
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: but nobody reads the field better than Tom Brady. Joe

673
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: burrows right there though, and then makes a quick decision

674
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: based on assimilating that information so rapidly, and it's nine

675
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: point nine percent of the time the right decision. It's

676
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: it's incredible to watch those two guys just see the

677
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: field deliver. It's amazing. The AFC North is three and

678
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: oz against Tom Brady. This year, Steelers, Ravens, Browns all

679
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: beat Tampa Bay. We'll see if the Bengals can make

680
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: it four for four sweep. How about a divisional sweep?

681
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: That would be big Man Tom Brady at forty nine

682
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: ers on the road and then the Bengals come down

683
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay Man and that, you know, it looked

684
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: like they're gonna be a you know, a slam dunk

685
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: playoff team. Now it's going to be very interesting depending

686
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: on what happens in San Francisco here later today, is

687
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: he playing for a playoff opportunity? I mean, will this

688
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: be a must win situation for Tom Brady. That's a

689
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: tough opponent when you're in a must win situation. And

690
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow reminds me of Tom Brady two in the

691
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: fact that when the game's on the line, fourth quarter,

692
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 1: he's like otherworldly. Brady has been that way his whole career.

693
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 1: I mean, Brady's got what forty four come from behind victories.

694
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: I think it is ridiculous. Joe Burrow can do that

695
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I don't know if he's going to

696
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: play a thousand years like Brady, but I mean he

697
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: can do the same thing. The great ones play their

698
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: best at the most important times, the most necessary times

699
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: to play their best. They realize it and step up

700
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: and do it, and they do it at a high

701
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: percentage of the time. And these two are two of

702
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 1: the best ever doing it. Tampa Bay's game in San

703
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: Francisco turned out to be a disaster. The bus got

704
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: blown out thirty five to seven. Is Tom Brady threw

705
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: a pair of interceptions. Tampa Bay is six and seven

706
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: and yet still in first place in the NFC South,

707
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: one game ahead of Carolina ended Atlanta. The Bengals open

708
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: as a three point favorite for next Sunday. Finally, time

709
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: for this week's fun Facts interview, where we get to

710
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: know the person under the pads. Time for some fun

711
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: facts with Joe Bacchi from brook Park, Ohio, a little

712
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: bit south of Cleveland. Your dad, Joe Senior, was a

713
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: concrete worker and a football coach, and he says that

714
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: he brainwashed you from an early age. What did you

715
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: learn from your dad? My dad saw me a lot

716
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: in my life, him and my mom and my dad.

717
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: He always pushed toughness, you know, mental toughness well as

718
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: physical toughness, and kind of everything you do. We're a

719
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: real blue collar family, kind of that whole hometown brook

720
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: Park areas like that. And I think that's kind of

721
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: how I play my game, and that's how I've tried

722
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: to you know, my work ethic and how I approached

723
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 1: a lot of things. It's just you know, your mental

724
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: toughness and just coming up with that blue collar mindset

725
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: every day. It sounds like he coached you in just

726
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: about everything. And it also sounds like he wasn't the

727
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: type of guy that if you struck out three times,

728
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: it was going to pat you on the back and say,

729
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: that's okay, son, Yeah that I never really got the

730
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: pad on the back, that's okay. I'll tell you that.

731
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: He was definitely always a little harder. I mean, he

732
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: was my coach in basketball, baseball, football from I would

733
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: say six seven eight years old all the way through

734
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: high school. He was always my coach. And by the

735
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: time high school was ending, I was probably ready for

736
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: it to be over with him being my coach. But

737
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't change anything about it, for sure.

738
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: So I read that as a junior in high school,

739
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: you're playing linebacker and tight end and there's a game

740
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: where the starting running back gets hurt in the pregame

741
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: warm ups, so they throw you in there at running back.

742
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: You didn't even really know the plays, right, I can

743
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: remember it. We get we actually was right on the bus.

744
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: He goes, hey, I don't think our running back and

745
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: go today, And I said, and I used to play

746
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: it all the time, and I enjoyed playing running back

747
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: for sure, and he just goes, all right, we just

748
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: got no inside zone, right, we got no power, we

749
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: got a no counter. I'm like, all right, that'll work.

750
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was definitely a fun game. It was

751
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: a muddy game, and you know, the six touchdown game.

752
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: It felt good for sure, playing a little running back again.

753
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: Five touchdown runs, one touchdown reception not bad, yep, I'll

754
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: take it. I was. Yeah, I was kind of all

755
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: over the place and offense back in high school. I

756
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: thought I was an offensive guy. I always did. I

757
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: never never really wanted to continue to play defense. But

758
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: the smart decision was the transition to that linebacker and

759
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: play linebacker for visiting with Joe Bacchi. So where you

760
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: grew up near Cleveland is Ohio state country. Sounds like

761
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: you would have loved to have been a Buckeye. It

762
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: didn't work out that way. How disappointing was that? Uh?

763
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: It was? It was definitely disappointing for sure. Um, I

764
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: loved everything about Michigan State, don't get me wrong at all.

765
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: I m We went down for a junior day. You know,

766
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: I knew a couple of guys down. There was me

767
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: and my mom, my dad, and I think we drove

768
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: two hours down, probably only stayed for about an hour

769
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: and a half, turned around, drove two hours back. You know,

770
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: once you know, they kind of had their mind made up.

771
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: They're going in a different direction, and you know, I

772
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: got that message. It was, you know, it was time

773
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: to move on. And once that happened, uh, you know,

774
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: that was definitely motivation moving forward for the next four

775
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: or five years and into college. And like I said,

776
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: I love Michigan State though. That was a perfect spot

777
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: for me. Just a hard nose old school coach d

778
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: Antonio ken manny how they run everything there when I

779
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: was there, it was a perfect program for me. You

780
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: had a great career, you were a two time captain.

781
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: Folks around here no and love Mark D'Antonio from his

782
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: time at the University of Cincinnati. What was the highlight

783
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: of your Michigan State experience. I know this is kind

784
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: of cliche, but I think it was just the guys,

785
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: Like I had no complaints about any of my friends,

786
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: you know, and it made go into the buildings so

787
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: much fun every day and we enjoyed it. And that's

788
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: kind of what I get with this team a little bit.

789
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: There's a lot of the guys are just you know,

790
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: we're all friends, like we like to We enjoy being

791
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: around each other, and that's what really makes football fun.

792
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: And you know, in Michigan State, it was every day

793
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 1: with me and my roommates were out there. He's starting

794
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: defensive end, my other one's a safety, that that one

795
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: was a quarterback the old line, and you know, it

796
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: was just a great experience there. Like I said, I

797
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't change any of it. You didn't get drafted after

798
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: playing at Michigan State, but a lot of teams were

799
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: interested in signing you as a college free agent. You

800
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: started out with the Saints on their practice squad, then

801
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: you got picked up by the Eagles, and you made

802
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: your debut for Philly in December of twenty twenty. What

803
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: do you remember about taking the field in that first

804
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: game and knowing that you had made it to the NFL?

805
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: That was That was a weird week for me when

806
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: they came and when they picked me up that Monday

807
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: morning they claimed me off the practice squad and I

808
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: get up there. It was weird because COVID I wasn't

809
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 1: allowed to go into the building at all during Philly,

810
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: so I didn't get to go meet anyone until Sunday

811
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: when we were playing actually New Orleans, so I didn't

812
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,720
Speaker 1: go to the building one time. First time seeing everyone

813
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: was actually in the stadium in the locker room on Sunday,

814
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, here you go. You're

815
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: gonna kickoff return and punt return to start, and it

816
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: was it was definitely sounding like I said, I'm not

817
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: going to forget that because that it was just a

818
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: wild experienced the whole COVID situation anyways, in twenty twenty

819
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: as a whole. But yeah, that that's not how I

820
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: pictured it happening, But you know, you'll take it anyway.

821
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 1: At this point, what was your reaction to getting picked

822
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: up by Cincinnati the next year? Like I said, I'm

823
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: from Cleveland, I was a Browns fan growing up. That

824
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: kind of wore off one thing at the college. You know,

825
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Detroit games on. I was itchin state,

826
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: and you know, I really just whatever team is gonna

827
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: pick me. If I was the NFL wasn't be great

828
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what to expect it I came here.

829
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: I just knew this is already my third team and

830
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: basically a year and a half and you know, I

831
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: got to prove, you know that I'm willing to you know,

832
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm a guy that can play in this league and

833
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: ever since I've been here, you know, I've enjoyed it

834
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: more and more every day, and a lot of the

835
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: guys in there just made it a lot easier for

836
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: me to transition over here, for sure. So last year,

837
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: you moved into the starting lineup during a stretch where

838
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: Logan Wilson was hurt, and in your second game you

839
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: got hurt. You tore your ACL at Denver. It was

840
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: on the same play where Teddy Bridgewater had to be

841
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: carted off and a mobilized, so kind of the focus

842
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: was on him, and obviously you were in pain as well.

843
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: I watched the replay. I couldn't really tell how it happened.

844
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: It wasn't like your knee collided or anything like that.

845
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: That was a weird experience for me, just because I've

846
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: never had a true serious like knee injury like that

847
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: knock on wood. But yeah, when that happened, I knew

848
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: something was wrong, so I haven't had that feeling before.

849
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Speaker 1: And it was just off a little plant. I kind

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00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: of was baiting him in cutting back and I was

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Speaker 1: hoping he was going to do that, so it was

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Speaker 1: it happened. I put my left foot in the ground

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Speaker 1: and I felt it and I put my shoulder on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of going over top of me,

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Speaker 1: but I knew it right away something was wrong. I

856
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Speaker 1: walked off the field. I remember walking back into the

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Speaker 1: locker room. You know, I got up relatively quick cause

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Speaker 1: I just was freaking out on the field. This goes

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Speaker 1: back to my dad when I was younger and never

860
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Speaker 1: been laying on the field. So when I was down,

861
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Speaker 1: that's all I could think about, You gotta get off

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Speaker 1: the field now. So I remember going back into the

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Speaker 1: X ray room. I take a look up at the

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Speaker 1: screen and Teddy was being carted off, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what's going on. I had no idea he got hurt

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Speaker 1: on the same play and they're like, no, it's still

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Speaker 1: the same play. I'm like, oh my god, this was

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Speaker 1: That was a messbul play. But yeah, that's not a

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Speaker 1: great feeling when that happened. What was the toughest part

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Speaker 1: of rehab for you? The mental part of it for sure,

871
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: and just being consistent. You know, how many times can

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Speaker 1: you do these same exercises over and over and over

873
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: again during the week, and you're doing the same type

874
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: stuff four or five days a week, and you're really

875
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: you gotta push it because you gotta get your muscles

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00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: all back and you get everything working again. But I

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Speaker 1: said it was the mental part of it, and pushing

878
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Speaker 1: through a lot of it taught me a lot about myself.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's hit some wildcard categories now for Joe Bacci.

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Speaker 1: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?

881
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: And why I got two? I was a big Peyton

882
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: Manning fan growing up. That's what I alse thought I

883
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: was gonna play quarterback. But then being from Cleveland, I

884
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: was always a Lebron fan and he was always like,

885
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, as a kid in Cleveland, you're playing basketball,

886
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: you're being Lebron James out there in the backyard or

887
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And he was kind of a guy

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Speaker 1: that I always, you know, enjoyed watching for sure. Were

889
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: you able to attend Browns, Calves, Indians games things like that?

890
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Speaker 1: Is kid? Uh, we didn't. I think that time we

891
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: actually played in Cleveland this year is probably my third

892
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: time in that stadium ever, Like we never went. It

893
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: was you know, you pay for parking, then you pay

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00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: for me and my brother and my dad. It's I'm

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00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: gonna get a drink and something. Just spending a couple

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00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: hundred bucks there. You know, weird never knew that we

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00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: were watching the game from the couch at home on Sundays.

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00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: But I got to a couple of Indians games, a

899
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Speaker 1: couple of Calves games, just from no one people and

900
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: having some connections there back home. When the Cavs finally

901
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: won the NBA title, what did that mean to you

902
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 1: as a Clevelander. I was actually in college. I enrolled early,

903
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: left high school early, so all my buddies were just

904
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: finishing up high school and they were all downtown sending

905
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: me videos and everything that was going on. It was

906
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: chaos down there. I'm actually glad I wasn't down there

907
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: and then for the parade and all that, but I

908
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 1: aren't being at Michigan State and you know and watching

909
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: with my roommates at the time, and I lost my

910
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: mind when they wanted, you know, come back from three

911
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: one like that, and for the city of Cleveland, that

912
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: was awesome. Do you have any hidden talents? I don't,

913
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: But I wish if I was talented anything. I wish

914
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: I could sing. I do it enough where I should

915
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: be better, but I'm just not. I just don't have

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Speaker 1: a singing voice. I would say in the shower, though,

917
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: Are you belting it out when there are no witnesses? Yeah,

918
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm great in the shower and usually in the truck alone.

919
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at it to singing some country songs,

920
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: but other than that, I you know, maybe on the

921
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 1: boat when everyone's singing, I'll be singing a little bit.

922
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Speaker 1: But that's about it for me. What do you like

923
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: to spend your money on? Really nothing. We are trying

924
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: to save up right now, me and my girlfriend. But

925
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: I'm not a big designer brand anything. You know. I

926
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: still got the same pair of shoes I kind of

927
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: wear to the billity of the best two years. I

928
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Speaker 1: don't really change my style much. If there's one thing

929
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Speaker 1: that gets me every time I walk in there, every

930
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: time I walk into Lulu Lemon, for some reason, I

931
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Speaker 1: ended up grabbing a couple of things and it's a

932
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Speaker 1: little pricey in there. Do you get annoyed when people

933
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Speaker 1: mispronounce your last name? It's happened my entire life, you know, Bacchi,

934
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: Bacchi whatever you hear over there, and it's I'd like

935
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: to know. At this point, I'm hoping people are starting

936
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: to know my name by now that it's Joe Bacci.

937
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: They should. I hope so, especially in college, and I

938
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 1: have the wrong in college, but come on, I'm one

939
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: of the better players. I think in the Big Ten.

940
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: You got to know my name by now, but I

941
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: hope they know it by now. All right, Final fun fact,

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Speaker 1: This one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody

943
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: in history, athlete, actor, statesmen, whoever that person might be,

944
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: who would you want to meet? I like to think

945
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: of some historical figure, but then I always go back to,

946
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: like I would really like to meet Mark Wahlberg. I

947
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: think I feel like that'd be an interesting person to

948
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Speaker 1: meet and sit down with. Um, maybe i've dinner, maybe

949
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: have a drink with him and talk with him. See.

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00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: I feel better now because when I think about this

951
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: question for myself, my guy is Steve Martin. I love

952
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: Steve Martin, and I feel guilty like it should be

953
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: George Washington. So I feel the same way, like I could.

954
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: I could definitely do that, but I just for some

955
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: reason that kind of always goes back to that, or

956
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: you know someone else who I think would just be

957
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: a good time. That's That's kind of where I'm going

958
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: with this. I want to who would be a good

959
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: time to sit down with and talking. I feel like

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00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: he'd be an interesting person. Mark Walburg. Yeah, Mark Walburg,

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Speaker 1: there it is, Joe. I appreciate your time. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Best to look the rest of the year.

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