WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: One Of Us 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.600 Hi again, everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:12.479 The Bengals Booth Podcast, the like one of us edition. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.800 As I talk to the delightful k Adams about her 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.880 connection to Bengals fans, Dave Lapham joins me to review 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.800 Wednesday's joint practice with the Packers, and finally, I'll chat 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.600 with an undrafted wide receiver from just up the road 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.680 at Miami University who will take the field for the 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.159 first time in an NFL game on Friday night, Mac Hippenhammer. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.800 The Bengals Booth Podcast is brought to you by Alta Fiber, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.640 future proof fiber Internet capable of delivering multi gigabit speeds 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.599 designed to take your home, business, and community to a 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.080 new level. Elevate your connection with Alta Fiber. 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After Ka interviewed 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.480 players and coaches on Monday, she sat down with me 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:14.760 for a one on one conversation. All Right, Kay, you 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.880 didn't grow up in Cincinnati. From Chicago. You don't live 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.560 in Cincinnati. I live in LA But Bengals fans think 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.400 that you're one of us. Yeah, what's the origin story? 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:25.239 How did that happen? 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:26.680 I mean, I lived in New York for over a 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.520 decade and between there's also but I saw something in 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.280 this team that made a lot of sense to start 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.359 rooting for them. When everyone was excited about Ben Roethlisberger's 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.160 last year as a Steeler, and everyone was talking up 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.079 Lamar and everyone was mentioning the Bills and every other 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.120 team in the AFC except for the Bengals. It just 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.800 didn't make sense to me. With Joe Burrow following the injury, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.840 knowing what he was on the college level, a champion, 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.680 a sort of a strange cat who I still haven't 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.000 met and want to get to know. The talent was there, 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.080 Who's bringing his wide receiver of course over from LSU. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:00.440 It made too much sense. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.519 And then all of a sudden, nobody on the national 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.720 level ever spoke about the Bengals for the longest time 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.320 unless it was something that was critical, And this fan 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.360 base sort of pulled me in, so I you know, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.640 it's not that I was driving here, it was that 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.480 I was being magnetically pulled by this amazing fan base 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.280 that really won me over because they weren't saying we 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.600 deserve it, and they weren't expecting the. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:23.200 Sky to fall. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.880 And Jets fans, over the years, it's mostly enjoying the 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.040 present moment as it was happening, and that's what I 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.639 think willed them to the Super Bowl that year that 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.799 I said they'd go deep into the playoffs. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.080 Bengals fans feel like they don't get enough respect from 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.960 the national media. Are they right? 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.680 Look at last year, ninety percent of sports media picked 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.760 the Bills to win. A lot of strange things happened 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.960 last year between the Bills and the Bengals, but they 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.600 came out on top. And you know, I think the 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.560 Bengals last year, from the inside of locker room, were 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.360 growing a little bit frustrated, but also feeling themselves, which 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.720 I don't like. I'm glad that borrowad is over. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.720 No one's talking about it. I haven't heard the words 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:01.320 while I've been here. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.760 I haven't seen it in the media, And it seems 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.840 like a lot of the teams in the AFC are 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.840 now joined against a common foe named the Jets, who 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.440 are out of nowhere getting all of the hype. Of course, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.720 they're stacked and they're built to go to the Super Bowl. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.760 But I think you know those comments that coach Sean 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.000 Payton made as the head coach of the Broncos, Now 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.919 that is a sentiment that I think is echoing and 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.200 permeating through the AFC. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.839 What are the Jets? Give me a break? 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.960 And I think it allows teams like the Bills, like 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.000 the Bengals, like the Ravens, your division foe, to sort 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.040 of get in the lab work on what needs to 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.600 be worked on. And I'll say that just being here 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.280 today and talking to the DJ readers of the world, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.520 Sam Hubbard, it's business as as usual. Jamar Ches, young player, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.520 just twenty three. But I keep asking what's unique about 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.159 this camp? After facing so much adversity after a Super 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.360 Bowl loss. Nobody seems to have the thing where they're 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.120 cursed or there. We can't get there. We're not going 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.839 to cash in on this. Everyone's really positive and doing 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.679 their own work to be better as a whole. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.440 So anytime you post something on social media that's Bengals related, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.680 the response from the fan base is unbelievable. How would 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.400 you describe that exchange you have? 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.200 Would it's just the best fan base. I don't know 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.520 how else to describe it. I think there's other fan 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.040 bases that have been through it. The Vikings, my hometown 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.760 Bears fans are you know, every time I've post something 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.840 nice about the Bengals, I get the opposite end too 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.080 from everybody in Chicago, and I'm excited for them. But 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.839 there's something special about this squad. I love what Elizabeth 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.159 Blackburn has done. She inspires me, so she sort of 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.120 pulls me in as far as my interest and my 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:39.520 attractiveness to the organization and the culture change that she 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.800 sort of evolutionized, I'd say over the past several seasons 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.839 to make it even better experience for the fans. You 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.159 just love to see it because it's why I love 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.839 the NFL, and the blink of a hat, you could 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.279 have an NFL team go from nothing to the Super Bowl, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.800 or go from being hopeless to making a twenty seventeen 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.720 eight championship run like the Jaguars. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:02.760 Di it. It can happen. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.400 It takes a lot of work behind the scenes, but 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.640 I will always root for it when that happens. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.440 That was twenty twenty one for the Bengal Yeah, four 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.680 wins the year before Super Bowl in twenty twenty one, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.680 you were the ruler of the jungle for one of 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.960 the games that year, and you dove in head first. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.280 You're hanging out at Bengal Jim's tailgate, You're having cocktails 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.400 with Bengals fans before the game. What about that experience? 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:26.800 What do I remember? 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:27.080 Yeah? 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.640 I mean do you remember? I mean way beyond what 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:31.320 you expected. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.760 It was as welcoming as the social media response is. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.200 I think there's a little bit of no one talked 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.480 about us, but there was reasons to be talked about, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.440 which is the most frustrating thing. Wait, we have a 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.000 great quarterback. Wait, we have really dynamic receiving options. We 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.640 have a coach that we believe in, Zach Taylor, coach 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.080 lou This is the sixth best defense in total scoring 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.720 last year, and nobody talks about it. It's on heralded now. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.000 Seventy five percent of that secondary has been overhauled. There's 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.480 a lot of changes, and there are certainly question marks, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:06.200 but just the lack of being talked about motivates the team. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.280 I hope the Bengals stay in that mindset and as 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.000 far as this season is again nationally, I don't think 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.760 many people are talking about what this team can do. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.040 How did you refer to Burrow as an interesting cat? 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.160 Was that your expression? 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:18.840 I've ready met him. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.120 I'm just going to keep saying I've never met I've 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.880 met his family members, I've met his lovely girlfriend, I've 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.120 met all sorts of people near and dear to him, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.360 his favorite wide receiver from back in college. Of course, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.360 he's a bit of a mystery. He's so good at 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.080 keeping things separate. It is a wild thing for him 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.080 to play in the super Bowl, where you know, I'm 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.080 having Sam Hubber tell me like jay Z was right there, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.040 and Justin Bieber was right there, but Joe's like, I 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:47.120 don't care. He truly is the coolest, most interesting cat around. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.800 So when you see the footage of him hopping on 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.000 one foot on day two of training camp, what went 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:53.640 through your brain. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.560 I was on the phone with my producer Matthew Hamilton 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.000 when we were lively going through the all of the 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.200 drama of it, and we of course noticed he had 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.520 a sleeve on his caps like, why is that they're 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:04.000 wise that there? 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.200 Should they put them out here? Whyse? 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.000 And it just seems to me a strange blessing in disguise. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.440 I thought what I was watching over and over again, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.600 is him put a little weight on that foot when 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.920 he was hopping onto the cart and I right away said, okay, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.320 I like this. And then to hear things like al 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.360 Jamar Chase come out and say get your rest, to 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.400 hear the confidence of this locker room, even after dealing 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.160 with so much adversity and saying we've got you. I 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.560 sort of think Joe at this point, after missing a 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.760 rookie season, after dealing with injuries that have kept him 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.720 sideline at times, that he wanted to build more chemistry. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:34.199 With his guys out there. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.760 He's probably a really hard player to get off the 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.160 field and stay off the field. I'm sure you know 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.600 people have to protect him from coming back too early. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.040 I think those were the words that Jamar Chase was 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.160 trying to, you know, to tell everybody. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.080 We've got you. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.439 You get better through the Browns, through the Ravens, through 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.480 Monday night football with the Rams, We've got you. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.720 So Chris collins Worth on your show, which the Bengals 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.720 to win the Super Bowl, and one of the biggest 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.800 reasons why was Burrow finally has a healthy training camp. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.199 He can get in all those reps that he hasn't 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.600 been able to get. It's almost almost felt like a 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:09.480 little bit of a jinx. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.400 He's a curse. It's the Chris Collinsworth curse. He doesn't say. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.640 I will say this about Chris Collinsworth. I think when 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.680 you are from the team and then you are on 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.760 something like Sunday Night Football, you almost talk about the 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.040 other teams a little more to you know. I'm from Chicago, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.280 and I think that's why Bears fans think I hate them, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.520 because I don't talk about them very much because I'm 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.720 from there, and I you know, I don't want to 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.679 make any sort of perception or appearance that I favor them, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.680 or that I know them even better than other teams 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.720 or whatever. So I think Chris collins is a bit 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.000 of a victim of that, a little bit of him 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.960 trying to be objective and maybe over correcting. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:46.199 That in some way. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.200 But I had no idea that Bengals fans felt this 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.560 way about Chris. And then he came on my show 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.240 and he cursed everything. Collins Worthworth pff around here, I mean, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:59.000 drive down there. I'll throw Greater's ice cream raspberry snowballs 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:00.880 at the office. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.960 Now, now it sounds like It's kind of like coaching 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.920 your kid in youth sports. You know you don't want 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.320 to favor your own kid, right, that's similar. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.880 There's something like that going on. But I mean, Chris 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.760 had a great point. If you look at the numbers, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.520 and they do bear out, they're not super fun if 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.400 you're a Bengals fan to see Joe Burrow the first 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.520 four weeks, first eight weeks of the season versus the 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:26.240 last half has hotter last halfs his numbers really all 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.679 across the board. I wouldn't say slow starts, but certainly takes. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:31.720 A bit of a warm up period. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.560 That could be for a ton of reasons, of course, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.880 but is it chemistry. Would it hurt for him to 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.400 be out there right now? No, of course not. But 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.280 it's also not the worst thing that Trevor Simeon's getting 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.880 some getting some love and refs out there, and he's 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:43.920 one of the better backups. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.600 I think everybody loves Joe Burrow for obvious reasons. Chase 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.160 Higgins mix and you know, they're great star players on 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.880 this team. But you referenced some of the guys that 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.640 you talked to while you were here for training camp. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.959 Is there a Bengal or a couple of Bengals that 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.240 you think this guy deserves a lot more attention then 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:00.760 he gets. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.040 I'm really excited about the offensive line. I think maybe 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.560 I think it's obviously a huge question mark, but we're 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.000 seeing Jonah, who could have been more disgruntled than he 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.439 was for a moment, now saying all right, I'm good, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.000 I'm fine. Orlando Brown's here, a very versatile player who 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.839 feels very comfortable in position that he's in, in a 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.080 veteran with championship pedigree coming into the building, and I 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.280 think that offensive line should be much improved. I actually 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.240 think it's the best one that Joe Burrow's played with, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.360 and so that's always the low hanging fruit for poking 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.880 at this team. You're gonna hurt Joe Burrow, You're gonna 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.440 let him get hit and sacked. I think it should 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.800 be stronger out the gates, and it's been in previous years. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.360 That should help all around. Joe Mixon. I think top 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.719 five year, no question, it should be available for him 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.800 to go out there and get that. And I just 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.319 think that one of the things that's flying under the 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.600 radar is that you know there's always going to be 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.200 salary cap issues on any team, especially a championship caliber team, 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.840 and trying to keep everybody in the building. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.720 It's not possible. Dan. So the fact that. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.680 Even if the t Higgins thing doesn't work out, just 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.040 the fact that he is showing up. That says a 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.800 lot about Joe. It says a lot about everybody in 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.480 the locker room. It says a lot about Zach Taylor. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.880 And you know, guys like Jamar Chase are watching that. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.240 Jamar Chase is seeing, Hey, I'm going to deal with 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.880 that next year. I'm going to deal with my business. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.280 And I'm seeing how a guy like Tea sort of 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.360 handles that. You have the same thing. Obviously they paid 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.920 Logan Wilson. I loved seeing Tea say congratulations, I'm happy 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.520 for you, fully knowing we don't know what's ahead, we 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.600 don't know what the future is. So them being able 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.920 to as an organization sort of handle what. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:31.480 Could be. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:37.840 Rapid and wide ranging disgruntlement among these players like a Jonah, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.440 it sort of gets nipped in the butt, and that 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.080 is teamwork that takes everybody. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.080 So if the Bengals are the team to beat in 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.640 the AFC North, who do you think is their biggest 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.400 competition this year Baltimore, Cleveland or Pittsburgh. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.520 Collinsworth was really selling me on Cleveland, but I don't 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.880 talk about Cleveland. So I'm going to say the Ravens 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.240 their Week two opponent, because you can't deny it. They 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.160 build themselves little super team. I think if the world 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.480 wasn't enamored and solely focused on the Jets, the Ravens 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.080 would be the story of the off season. Wow, who else? 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.800 What would it be if you took the Jets stand 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.960 off the table? What's the story of the NFL right now? 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.240 It's not on the homes. They're good, they're boring, they're set. Lah. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:19.440 It's the Ravens. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.000 It's them bringing an Odell. Odell is always a headlining act. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.240 All of a sudden, he's not only because Aaron now 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:26.439 is in the AFC. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:26.760 And in New York. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.160 He said in an interview on Monday that had he 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.760 stayed healthy in that Super Bowl two years ago, the 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.199 Rams would have won forty two seventeen. Really, we've had 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.400 fifteen catches for two hundred and fifty yards. That was 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:37.960 his quote. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.920 See, but I didn't even see me. I didn't even 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.240 see that because they're really flying. They really are flying 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.160 under the radar and they're trying to build and they've 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.360 got a couple of great running backs as well. I mean, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.240 Lamar has to stay healthy, but I think he's got 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.160 a little something to prove. And they went through They 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.360 just had a bizarre year last year. They always have 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.400 weird injuries that keep them sidelined, but there was this 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.600 some soullessness going on. There were just weird things energetically 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.840 that you were seeing on the sideline harbor, and you 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.200 know at halftime that I forget which game it was 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.880 Hamilton that they sort of were. Their vibe was so 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.079 off the Ravens. I forget which game it was, but 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.560 you could just tell this is not the team that 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.439 you're used to. So if they can get back, I 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.640 would say they're that definitely the toughest competition. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:18.800 Don't sleep on the. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.880 Steelers though, either They're never going to lose a season, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.640 and I think they're on the way up. They and 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.040 they down the stretch one a ton of games, so 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.120 if they pick up where they left off, you can't 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:29.840 sleep on Talmlant. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.520 It's a gauntlet of a division, all right. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:38.800 Wild Card topics. Do you have any hidden talents. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.720 Oh man, I know Morse code really? 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.960 Yes, awesome. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:45.760 That's so weird. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.200 My grandmother in Poland made me learn it in case 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.280 the Soviets came. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.320 Back and took over Poland and I was sucking to 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.000 forest somewhere. I literally know Morse code. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.000 Yeah, that is true. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.640 I haven't exercised that ever, but if I'm ever in 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.400 a bad spot, I'm surviving the zombie apocalypse, all right. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.760 So some people can do sos, but you're you're well 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:04.080 beyond that. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:04.480 Correct. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.440 That's awesome. Who is your all time favorite athlete in 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.600 any sport? And why, oh my. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.280 Gosh, in any sport, I would say, I'm just going 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.760 to go. The first game that popped in my head 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.080 was Matt Fote. I think he's why I fell in 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.600 love with the NFL, because there was so little to 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.920 root for and he was so fun and electric and 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.080 I was on my couch jumping up and down when 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.560 he Obviously Devin Hester too, but I got more of 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.400 Matt Forte, and he was so involved in changing the 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.760 complexion of what the whole offense looked in any game 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.480 that he played. So Matt Forte off the field, on 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.920 the field was sort of the person who got me 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.640 into loving the NFL on the level that I did. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.360 The greatest former two lane play NFL history cam sample 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:47.720 from very good. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.280 We got a shout out about Camp samp. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.720 I think Sam Hubbard today gave him a really nice 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.520 shout out for how he's looked at camps. We're excited 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.160 to see what sample looks like in the NFL. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:57.960 Having a very good camp. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:58.320 All right. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.840 Final one, If you could meet anybody in history, I 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:09.640 hate these questions athlete entertainer. Who would that person be? Mine? 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.360 Is Steve Martin? 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.800 By the way, is it really we were. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.240 Just talking about Steve Marron. Stay tuned, you'll know why 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.320 we were talking about Steve Martin. Bengals fans just a 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:22.120 couple of days. Julia Louis Dreyfuss I would say loved Seinfeld. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:23.120 I think she's brilliant. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.920 She's so understated and makes such a big impact in 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:27.800 the community around her, and. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:28.760 I just love her. I would love it. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.000 I'd get nervous if I met her. I've met a 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.720 lot of people and I've definitely heard parts of it, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.720 but I think I'd get nervous to meet her. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.560 Yeah, Oh, I'd be a babbling idiot. Around Steve Martin. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:39.160 Yeah, it's okay. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.200 People want to meet like Taylor Swift. I've met her. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.680 She's lovely, but there was no freak out about it. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:45.040 I think. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.840 I changed my answer. Colleene Bennis, get out of here, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:50.640 Joe Burrow. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.400 I have to meet Joe Burrow. What's it going to 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.400 take Dan, he's one room away. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.960 Let's you know, let's see if we can get him 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:58.240 to drop. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.360 Yeah, him to heal up. That's what I keep saying. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:02.840 They won't let me talk to him, but I keep saying, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.239 I'm going to let him. I'm gonna let him heal up. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.200 That's my That was my pr spintch like he wants 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.879 to talk to me, but I said, you need to. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.280 We need to be on ice buddy, get back on 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:14.000 the training table. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.359 We're so happy to have you back in Cincinnati. You 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.800 are my wife's favorite NFL broadcaster. Myself included your way above. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:21.639 Damn. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.000 I will get you your forehead signed bobblehead. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.080 You promised this, okay, And you said I heard graters 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:31.080 called you this morning. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.200 They reached out to me to see if I could 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.359 smuggle you in some ice cream. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:35.600 Isn't that hard? 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:36.320 Things? 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:37.119