Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: feels like you have to go back that far to
Speaker 1: remember a Bengals win. As Cincinnati fell to Owen seven
Speaker 1: on Sunday. With a twenty seven seventeen loss to Jacksonville
Speaker 1: coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments, and
Speaker 1: Dave Lapham will join me for postgame analysis plus and
Speaker 1: this week's fun facts conversation. We'll meet the person under
Speaker 1: the pads as I'll talk to William Wilson Webb better
Speaker 1: known as b W Webb, a Bengals newcomer this year
Speaker 1: who is out there playing every week with a broken
Speaker 1: bone in his right arm. All of that is straight ahead,
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Speaker 1: let's get to football. The first quarter of Sunday's game
Speaker 1: against jackson could have been a disaster. The Jags out
Speaker 1: gained the Bengals one ten to eleven. Cincinnati's four running
Speaker 1: plays went for minus six yards, but thanks to a
Speaker 1: great goal line stand, Jacksonville didn't score. Now they're going
Speaker 1: to give it to Fournette. He leaps and he did
Speaker 1: not get in. No Bengals with a goal stop Preston
Speaker 1: Brown bub meeting Leonard Fournette in mid air and perfecting
Speaker 1: the Jaguars from scoring. It starts with the defensive line.
Speaker 1: You have to get penetration and push re established the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage backwards. They do that and allows Preston
Speaker 1: Brown to get airborne and meet him before the goal line.
Speaker 1: He jumped Mike Tournette did a couple of Brahma bulls
Speaker 1: hitting above the line of scrimmage. That's basically how the
Speaker 1: first half went for the Bengals defense. They allowed a
Speaker 1: whopping three hundred nine yards in the half, but Jacksonville
Speaker 1: drove into the red zone three times and came away
Speaker 1: with just six points. Here's Jesse Bates, I thought we
Speaker 1: did a really good at field goals. You know, it
Speaker 1: looks kind of bad on papers. We give up a
Speaker 1: lot of yards and stuff like that, but um, I
Speaker 1: think we did a really good job of field goals, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and just continue to fight. The Bengals, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, struggled to move the ball in the
Speaker 1: first half, hunting on their first five possessions, but with
Speaker 1: two fourteen left in the half, they finally got something going.
Speaker 1: Dalton back to throw against the four man rush. The
Speaker 1: protection is good. Fires a fastball over the by ericson
Speaker 1: you get into Jack's territory at the forty near sideline.
Speaker 1: Thirty pushed out of bounds at the twenty. A big
Speaker 1: play at last, Jared Wilson shoves Alex Rikson out of
Speaker 1: bounds right at the twenty yard line forty eight yards
Speaker 1: on the play. Andy Dalton's first six pass completions all
Speaker 1: went to Alex Erickson for one hundred ten yards, and
Speaker 1: he's only other pass completion of the first half gave
Speaker 1: Cincinnati the lead. Dalton throws a pass it is caught
Speaker 1: touchdown Joe Mixon. If you can't run it in, throw
Speaker 1: it to all right, and he catches a two yard
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to give Cincinnati the lead. The Bengals had
Speaker 1: a seven six halftime lead and got the ball to
Speaker 1: begin the third quarter. To put it mildly, they did
Speaker 1: not capitalize. First, Alex Rikson dropped a perfectly thrown deep
Speaker 1: ball that would have gained at least thirty yards. Then,
Speaker 1: after a long pass was completed to Audumn Tate, the
Speaker 1: Bengals had a free play when Jacksonville jumped off sides
Speaker 1: and Dalton tried to pull an Aaron Rodgers by throwing deep.
Speaker 1: Not only was his pass incomplete, but the Bengals didn't
Speaker 1: even get the five yard penalty because a chop block
Speaker 1: by Joe Mixon superseded it for a loss of fifteen.
Speaker 1: What else could go wrong? The Bengals found out on
Speaker 1: the very next play, tightly clustered formation, quick throw out
Speaker 1: to Tyler boy boy breaking a tackle right, he did
Speaker 1: a fifty still on his feet to the Jacksonville forty
Speaker 1: five ball. The ball comes out Jacksonville recover at the
Speaker 1: forty four yard line. Tyler Boyd also dropped at least
Speaker 1: two passes, and his fumble led to a field goal
Speaker 1: that gave the Jags and nine to seven lead. Here's
Speaker 1: Alex ericson on the Bengals offensive ineptitude. That's been our problem.
Speaker 1: Can't make the plays, you know, looking at myself right there. Um,
Speaker 1: gotta make that play. Gotta you know, get his jump
Speaker 1: start in the second half, and UM, you know it's
Speaker 1: just it's been sort of over season, not building making
Speaker 1: enough plays, and um, today it was no different. Um
Speaker 1: just pointing out myself on that one. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta make that play. And I know a lot of
Speaker 1: other guys are saying the same thing about other players
Speaker 1: out the game, and UM, you know, when it's you're
Speaker 1: in the battle of you know, trying to get a win. Um,
Speaker 1: every plays every play matters, um and we're not good
Speaker 1: enough to overcome, you know, the bad plays right now,
Speaker 1: So we gotta be able to really locked in and
Speaker 1: just make every play. It was ten nine Cincinnati going
Speaker 1: to the fourth the third time this year the Bengals
Speaker 1: have had a lead in the fourth quarter, but as
Speaker 1: was the case against Seattle and Buffalo, they could not
Speaker 1: hold on to it. Mins she was ready, catches the ball,
Speaker 1: drops to throw Lobs went toward the back right corner
Speaker 1: of the end zone. It is caught and it's a touchdown.
Speaker 1: A two point conversion made its seventeen ten Jacksonville, but
Speaker 1: the Bengals immediately answered by driving into the red zone.
Speaker 1: The Bengals habit first and ten at the fifteen yard line,
Speaker 1: Bernard and Mixon both in the game. Dalton is back
Speaker 1: to throw Cocks the arms intercepted by Miles Jack. Linebacker
Speaker 1: Miles Jack cutting in front of Tyler Boyd to pick
Speaker 1: off a pass that was slightly underthrown. It was only
Speaker 1: the tenth red zone interception in Dalton's nine NFL seasons,
Speaker 1: and it was a killer. The offense got the ball
Speaker 1: back with about five minutes left, and things went from
Speaker 1: bad to brutal Dalton sets up a screen. Is it
Speaker 1: right to Jacksonville? It's a pick six for Yannique in Goackway. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who the key guy was on that one,
Speaker 1: Brian Travan. Brian had the quick pressure and as a
Speaker 1: result of the quick pressure, Andy Dalton throws it where
Speaker 1: he thinks he's going to have a receiver and instead
Speaker 1: of a receiver it turns out to be in Gotway.
Speaker 1: The defensive ends twenty three yard pick six made it
Speaker 1: twenty four to ten. And when it rains it pours.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is ready for the shotgun, Snap catches the ball,
Speaker 1: he is back to throw, flames it off of the middle.
Speaker 1: It is intercept and can running it back to the
Speaker 1: fifty down to the Bengals forty and the Bengals will
Speaker 1: bring down Ronnie Harrison after Jacksonville's third interception in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Wow, that led to a field goal and
Speaker 1: made it twenty seven ten and the game was out
Speaker 1: of reach. The Bengals made the final score a bit
Speaker 1: more respectable with less than a minute to go, third
Speaker 1: and goal from the one. It is a quarterback sneak.
Speaker 1: They pushed Dalton from behind and he goes into the
Speaker 1: end zone for his third rushing touchdown of the year.
Speaker 1: The only Bengal who has scored a touchdown on the
Speaker 1: ground in twenty nineteen. Crazy Joe Mixon leads the AFC
Speaker 1: and rushing last season. Joe Mixon far from a threat
Speaker 1: to do that this year and doesn't have a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown in seven football games. Speaking of Mixon, he carried
Speaker 1: ten times for two yards. Giovanni Bernard had four carries
Speaker 1: for zero two. Jets sweeps for Alex Erickson went from
Speaker 1: minus two that sixteen running plays for a total of
Speaker 1: zero yards. Here's offensive lineman Alex Redman on the sad
Speaker 1: state of the Bengals running game. I mean, every football
Speaker 1: team has got to assert some kind of run game,
Speaker 1: unless obviously you're one of the aired out kind of teams.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that's crucial for us just to
Speaker 1: find that rhythm and flow. Unfortunately we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to find it. No, they have not. The Bengals are
Speaker 1: on a pace to rush for eight hundred fifty yards
Speaker 1: this season. The lowest rushing total for a season in
Speaker 1: team history was nine hundred forty nine yards, set back
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two. So that was ninety nine more
Speaker 1: yards than the bengals current pace. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty two was a strike season and the Bengals
Speaker 1: only played nine games. The final score Sunday was twenty
Speaker 1: seven seventeen as the Bengals fell to O and seven.
Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, the worst start in team history
Speaker 1: is and ten in nineteen ninety three. The bengals next
Speaker 1: three games are against the Rams in London, the Ravens
Speaker 1: at home, and the Raiders in Oakland. Barring something unforeseen,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati will be an underdog in all three games. After
Speaker 1: Sunday's loss, Lap spent three and a half minutes with
Speaker 1: head coach Zach Taylor. Coach a tough one, particularly in
Speaker 1: that in that fourth quarter when you have, you know,
Speaker 1: three interceptions in like a five pass attempt sequence. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to hard to stay stay in a game
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Really, sorry, you know, we knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna be tough. Game is gonna be come down
Speaker 1: a field position and turnovers, and unfortunately we had four.
Speaker 1: They had none, and that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: Fuel position. In the early stage of the game, Kevin
Speaker 1: Hubert was pinning them. He was booming kicks. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys had a big, huge field position advantage even
Speaker 1: though they were generating yards. I mean, defense is playing
Speaker 1: good red zone defense enough putting points on the board,
Speaker 1: you get your you know, first red zone opportunity to
Speaker 1: throw seven on the board and take a lead. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the field position part of it, you know,
Speaker 1: was working pretty well. But again, you know, the turnovers
Speaker 1: basically unfold everything. Yeah, I thought the defense, you know,
Speaker 1: they gave a lot of yards on the first drive.
Speaker 1: They had the great goal on stand. They've done a
Speaker 1: good job in the little red zone, and then they
Speaker 1: got some good backed up stands back there and then
Speaker 1: having the pun team, we're doing a great job put
Speaker 1: him down. We just didn't get anything going on offense
Speaker 1: give ourselves a chance to get points on the board.
Speaker 1: Particularly you know, the running game once again, I mean
Speaker 1: I think Joe had two yards on ten carries. I
Speaker 1: think the positive yards I mean Andy Dalton had. I
Speaker 1: think he ended up with thirty Stomwad yards and they
Speaker 1: were all Andy Dalton. I mean, the running backs were
Speaker 1: negated by tackler for loss. Any positives they had on
Speaker 1: attempts was negated by by negatives. So I mean when
Speaker 1: you can't get the running game unlocked at all, I mean,
Speaker 1: playing one hand behind your back like that is tough
Speaker 1: in this league, and it's hard. We gotta win our
Speaker 1: matchups up front. And there are plenty of times when
Speaker 1: you could see there, there's a good run there, and
Speaker 1: at the last second we're getting defeated on a block.
Speaker 1: And so we got to step up and take ownership
Speaker 1: and figure out a way to fix it, because that's frustrating.
Speaker 1: That's a tough way to play when you can't run
Speaker 1: the ball. So Alex Erickson steps up and makes some
Speaker 1: plays for you. Eight catches one hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 1: yards And talked to him earlier, and you know, he's
Speaker 1: obviously the kind of guy he is. He's lamenting the
Speaker 1: ones that he could have had. You know, he could
Speaker 1: have had about a two hundred yard day if he
Speaker 1: catches everything. And but that's I guess, you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of the story. You know. It's like when
Speaker 1: you when you need to have plays made, they're not
Speaker 1: always being made, are there? In these tight games, every
Speaker 1: play matters, And so h felt like we maybe had
Speaker 1: six or seven drops today that hurt us a couple
Speaker 1: times up front. You know, maybe a guy went the
Speaker 1: wrong way on some runs. That hurt us. And so
Speaker 1: that's a tough way to play game. And a game
Speaker 1: like this, when you know it's gonna be tough, it's
Speaker 1: a tough to you're funny, gets a good defense, and
Speaker 1: that hurt us. You played the position. When a quarterback
Speaker 1: is trying to make a play in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and maybe trying to do too much to make a
Speaker 1: play in the fourth quarter, is that what you have
Speaker 1: to fight. It's hard well to take a look at
Speaker 1: you know, one of them is a screen pass the
Speaker 1: backgut picked off and um, so it's a pick six.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's not what I put on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's that's everybody up front. And then the other two
Speaker 1: we got to look at those. Those are tough. You know.
Speaker 1: It's we're in the red zone, um, about to score,
Speaker 1: and defense made a play and it was a real
Speaker 1: drive killer. So you're looking at everybody's defense up front
Speaker 1: seems to be you know, a cut above. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're every every card carrying giant seems to be playing
Speaker 1: in the National Football League and their athletes to boot
Speaker 1: you know on that side of the football. You know,
Speaker 1: next time, next week's game in London against Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: you're all familiar with that. I mean that dude defensive
Speaker 1: MVP twice as a defensive tackle. I mean, people are
Speaker 1: putting four hands and four eyes on him and he's
Speaker 1: still he's still killing people. That that guy's He's a
Speaker 1: unique talent, a real challenge in her hands. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best players I've ever been around. Um, I
Speaker 1: think anyone who's ever coach on the same team he's
Speaker 1: on played again, someone would say that. And so let's
Speaker 1: figure out a way to be a ficial on offense.
Speaker 1: Now time for some postgame analysis, and we start with
Speaker 1: the bengals sputtering offense. Cincinnati is averaging sixteen points and
Speaker 1: three hundred five yards a game, only fifty three of
Speaker 1: those yards on the ground, and the problems begin up front.
Speaker 1: Lap We know the offensive line isn't good. They've been
Speaker 1: battered by injury. They got some guys out there that
Speaker 1: have not done well in a Bengals for him since
Speaker 1: they've been here. But is that it is that the
Speaker 1: reason why the Bengals offense is struggling, or as the
Speaker 1: play calling doesn't question the ball. Has Andy Dalton been
Speaker 1: bad bad? What would you say? I would say all
Speaker 1: of the above is true, but it starts with the
Speaker 1: offensive line is the head of the snake. When the
Speaker 1: offensive line is struggling, everybody else struggles. When the offensive
Speaker 1: line plays well, everybody eats. Everybody plays well. When the
Speaker 1: offensive line is playing well, your whole playbook's open to you.
Speaker 1: As a play caller, you can call anything you want.
Speaker 1: When it's not playing well for you. As a play caller,
Speaker 1: you're limited, and you're struggling. As a quarterback, your clock
Speaker 1: has changed. You're struggling even when you're not being pressured.
Speaker 1: Do you think you are? You're seeing ghosts, you know,
Speaker 1: in the pocket and all those kind of things. I mean,
Speaker 1: it has such a huge ripple effect. Receivers running routes.
Speaker 1: Who is the indy under pressure? Who I need to
Speaker 1: I better try to you know, cut this rout off
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit soon, a little bit quicker. It
Speaker 1: just has a huge trickle down effect, and it leads
Speaker 1: to what happened in the in the fourth quarter three
Speaker 1: interceptions because you know, Jacksonville's just pinning their ears back
Speaker 1: and teeing off. You know the Bengals defense was on
Speaker 1: the field too long because the offense of ineptitude. And
Speaker 1: again it all starts with not getting enough done up
Speaker 1: front on a consistent basis, and it's got a huge
Speaker 1: ripple effect throughout the whole team. The rushing numbers were
Speaker 1: mind boggling in this game. It's been a problem all year,
Speaker 1: but nothing like it was in this game. To sixteen
Speaker 1: rushing yard for Jackson Bill, thirty three for Cincinnati, all
Speaker 1: thirty three for Andy Dalton. The Bengals tried sixteen running
Speaker 1: plays to either Joe Mixon, Giovanni Bernard and Alex Erickson
Speaker 1: and did not gain a single yard. Incredible. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't make it up. It's almost impossible to comprehend.
Speaker 1: And Andy Dalton had his third rushing touchdown. Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: Giovanni Bernard none. They don't have a rushing touchdown other
Speaker 1: than the quarterback. So it's I don't care who you're
Speaker 1: playing against defense in the National Football League, when you
Speaker 1: have no running game, I don't mean just you're struggling
Speaker 1: running it. I mean no running game zero other than
Speaker 1: your quarterback running in the football that's one and a
Speaker 1: half hands tied behind your back. You're in trouble. And
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter it finally, you know, the dam
Speaker 1: broke and Andy threw the interceptions. You know, the one
Speaker 1: screen pass, he's under pressure. They don't even slowing up
Speaker 1: guys on the screen pass, and the back gets picked
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, runs into a defensive lineman and
Speaker 1: he's just trying to get rid of the ball to
Speaker 1: the screen area. There's no screen receiver and it's a
Speaker 1: pick six. So you know, that's the drive that kind
Speaker 1: of is a nutshell of the season. And me, it
Speaker 1: was the first drive at the third quarter, Alex Derickson
Speaker 1: drops the ball that was for big yards, comes right
Speaker 1: back to Audum Tate completes the ball down the football field.
Speaker 1: Defense Jaguars jump offside. They call him a legal chop
Speaker 1: block on Joe Mixon. So Andy thinks he's got a
Speaker 1: free play. It doesn't take advantage of the free play
Speaker 1: down the field. But instead of the five yard penalty
Speaker 1: first and five, they were kind of lized fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and it's first and twenty five and then the fumble,
Speaker 1: So yeah, should have had that completion. I'm still going forward.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get one penalty sets me back behind
Speaker 1: the chains like I've been almost all year long, and
Speaker 1: then a fumble, So that to me encapsulates the offensive
Speaker 1: struggles all year long, setting themselves back behind the chains,
Speaker 1: you know, turning the football over. Whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: it's just not good enough. You mentioned that fumble early
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. It was committed by Tyler Boyd,
Speaker 1: who had a rough game couple of drops plus the fumble.
Speaker 1: He's obviously been the Bengals best offensive player to this
Speaker 1: point of the season, but he wasn't today. After the game,
Speaker 1: sat at his locker, back to the rest of the room,
Speaker 1: staring down. I asked him if he was up for
Speaker 1: talking about the game. He said no, which I guess
Speaker 1: is understandable. But if Tyler Boyd struggles the way this
Speaker 1: offence is going right now, it is going to be
Speaker 1: hard to get anything going. Yeah, And then that's where
Speaker 1: Alex Rikson tried to step up. Tyler Boyd was struggling.
Speaker 1: Alex Rikson eight catches f one hundred and twenty three yards,
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty seven yards whatever it was. But he'll
Speaker 1: be the first to tell you he could have a
Speaker 1: couple of hundred if he catches everything, and he had
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of drops, Tyler Boyd, A couple
Speaker 1: of drops, you know, that's the thing. I mean, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton probably suffered half a dozen drops or more during
Speaker 1: the course of the game. And then you start to press,
Speaker 1: You start to press as a quarterback in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: trying to make plays. Tyler Boyd starts to press. You know,
Speaker 1: he let's one drop turn into another. And that's that's
Speaker 1: where you have to have that selective amnesia. Put it aside.
Speaker 1: I can't let one bad play turn into multiple bad plays.
Speaker 1: And that's what's happening to this football team individually and
Speaker 1: collectively right now, offensively, and it happened on defense too.
Speaker 1: B W. Webb, who's out there gutting it out with
Speaker 1: a broken bone in his right forearm. He missed an
Speaker 1: opportunity to possible pick six on Jacksonville's opening possession and
Speaker 1: had another opp tunity at an interception later in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, Jesse Bates was saying that Minshew put
Speaker 1: three up there. There's three that they had their hands
Speaker 1: on that they feel like, you get your hands on him,
Speaker 1: you got to catch the football. And it's ironic that
Speaker 1: the great Ken Riley was here as one of the
Speaker 1: legends for this football game because he had sixty five
Speaker 1: interceptions where people throwing the ball maybe twenty times a game,
Speaker 1: and he had sixty five picks. So when it was
Speaker 1: there for him to catch it, he caught it. And
Speaker 1: that's the bottom line. When opportunities there, take full advantage.
Speaker 1: Don't let them fall by the wayside. There was a
Speaker 1: positive on Sunday against Jacksonville. The old Geno Atkins was bad.
Speaker 1: He was I mean, he bowled a couple of offensive
Speaker 1: lineman big time, threw him around. He had two quarterback
Speaker 1: sacks early in the football game. Gino played played pretty
Speaker 1: darn well. The other guy, I'm going to give a
Speaker 1: nod to Kevin Huber. He dictated field position now, I
Speaker 1: mean Kevin Huber boom the ball. His average was forty
Speaker 1: eight point three, his net was forty five point eight
Speaker 1: inside the twenty no touchbacks. So he pinned. He pinned
Speaker 1: them back. I mean he was making them go long field,
Speaker 1: you know, and they were. They were gained in yards.
Speaker 1: I mean they had an over three hundred yards in
Speaker 1: the first half and had six points. And it was
Speaker 1: all because Huber was pinning them back so deep they
Speaker 1: had to go more first downs than they really felt
Speaker 1: like they were going to have to score points. So
Speaker 1: Kevin Huber played well as well Alex Darks, and there's
Speaker 1: a few you know, spots guys that you can say
Speaker 1: played played decently, but as as as a totality, nowhere
Speaker 1: near good enough. Next, Zach Taylor's current team faces his
Speaker 1: former team, the defending NFC champion La Rams, who improved
Speaker 1: to four and three on Sunday by blowing out the
Speaker 1: Falcons thirty seven to ted. Now time for this week's
Speaker 1: fun facts interview, where we get to know the person
Speaker 1: under the pads. This week, it's a defensive back who
Speaker 1: joined the Bengals as a free agent this offseason and
Speaker 1: has been playing since Week two with a broken bone
Speaker 1: in his right arm. Time for some fun facts with
Speaker 1: Bengals cornerback b W Webb. Your given name is William
Speaker 1: Wilson Webb. Why b W? People always forget the junior? Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's all good, but um um named under my father.
Speaker 1: So uh no, he goes by Bill and Bill sore
Speaker 1: for williams. So I just go I should go by
Speaker 1: b W. It's got a nice ring to it, I
Speaker 1: must say, Oh yeah, sure, sure your parents have a
Speaker 1: military background. Is that correct? Yeah, yeah, both retired military,
Speaker 1: military and army. So the stereotype is military parents are
Speaker 1: very strict. Was that the case with you? I couldn't
Speaker 1: get away with anything. I feel like I couldn't do
Speaker 1: anything when I was younger, But it is what it is.
Speaker 1: We're doing fun facts with b W web. You're from
Speaker 1: the Tidewater region of Virginia, Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, etc.
Speaker 1: It's a pipeline for great athletes. Michael Vick, Bruce Smith,
Speaker 1: Alan I ver Send, Purnell Whittaker. Is that a big
Speaker 1: point of pride for you for sure? Man? You know,
Speaker 1: always tell people man like yo, your favorite athlete is
Speaker 1: probably from a seven five seven. But h yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we breathe, we breathe athletes down there. Man. Something we
Speaker 1: take a lot of pride about. And most of the
Speaker 1: guys who make it out get it tatted somewhere on them,
Speaker 1: you know, either they're a city or the seven five seven,
Speaker 1: So we take big pride in Is there a seven
Speaker 1: five seven tattooed on Knew somewhere one one hundred percent
Speaker 1: right over my chest? In addition to being a great
Speaker 1: high school football player. You were an All American in track.
Speaker 1: Were you always the fastest kid in the neighborhood going up? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much. Manum, it was crazy. I was always the
Speaker 1: smallest guy too. Man. I didn't hit my little gross
Speaker 1: spurt until college. But yeah, I was always a fast guy. Man.
Speaker 1: I think I got it from a mom. So you
Speaker 1: went to William and Mary, and one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why you wound up there was the fact that you
Speaker 1: weren't very big. I have read five nine, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five pounds when you went to college. Is
Speaker 1: that accurate? Yeah, it might have been even you know,
Speaker 1: they try to give you a couple of pounds. So
Speaker 1: one I really remember is like when I first got there,
Speaker 1: I think I was like five nine one forty seven.
Speaker 1: It was It was crazy. Man. I never really lived
Speaker 1: at ways until I got to UH college, so I
Speaker 1: helped out. We're talking to B. W. Webb. Few players
Speaker 1: in college football history have had a better first game
Speaker 1: than you had. Describe what you did in your college debut. Man,
Speaker 1: we were playing UVA at their place. First game. Had
Speaker 1: the Jitters ended up with three interceptions, one took back
Speaker 1: all the way for a touchdown, man, and gave us
Speaker 1: to win. So, uh yeah, it was great. It was
Speaker 1: a great first in present. So William and Mary knocks
Speaker 1: off Virginia. You have three interceptions, including a pick six,
Speaker 1: and after your very first college football game, you were
Speaker 1: the National d Offensive Player of the week. Yes, sir, man, Man,
Speaker 1: it was a dream come true. Man, all the hard
Speaker 1: work I put in and man, just a chip I
Speaker 1: had on my shoulder. Man from other colleges that overlooked
Speaker 1: me told me I was too small, So that was
Speaker 1: my thing. I wanted to prove everybody wrong. You had
Speaker 1: eight interceptions your freshman year, and then teams started throwing
Speaker 1: at the opposite direction. Right, you didn't have many passes
Speaker 1: thrown in your direction. Oh yeah, for sure. They learned
Speaker 1: their lesson that first year. Well man, they went a
Speaker 1: smart way. But uh yeah, I mean that was that
Speaker 1: was big for me, man. It kind of show that
Speaker 1: teams respected me. We're chatting at b W Webb. William
Speaker 1: and Mary is a very prestigious academic institution. It's the
Speaker 1: second oldest college university in the country behind Harvard. How
Speaker 1: challenging was the school work for you? It was tough, man,
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't a big like football school, so
Speaker 1: you know, we really didn't get passes on you know,
Speaker 1: no teachers looking out for grades or everything. Man. Everything
Speaker 1: we had to do ourselves. Man. So uh you know,
Speaker 1: going from class to practice and trying to get your
Speaker 1: work done, trying to watch film. And it was tough, man,
Speaker 1: you know, but I got the hang of him in,
Speaker 1: stayed on top of everything and just made the best
Speaker 1: of my opportunity. What does a William and Mary degree
Speaker 1: mean to you everything? Uh No, It's it's kind of
Speaker 1: crazy because you know, it's such a small school, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people knew a lot about it. And
Speaker 1: I really didn't understand that until after I graduated, and
Speaker 1: you know, I got to speak with people in they
Speaker 1: would like, oh, you want to William and Mary. But
Speaker 1: um man, it's big, man. So many connections people that
Speaker 1: you you meet at school. Uh No, Coach Duffner here,
Speaker 1: he went to William Mary. Robert Livingston went to William Mary.
Speaker 1: Potts went to William and Mary. So it's a big,
Speaker 1: traditional school. Man. So after a great college career, there
Speaker 1: you are a fourth round draft picked by the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: America's team in twenty thirteen. What was your draft experience? Like?
Speaker 1: It was amazing, man, it was a dream come true,
Speaker 1: something that I wanted to do for a long time.
Speaker 1: But it was kind of it sounds weird, man. It
Speaker 1: was kind of bittersweet because on the plane ride, like
Speaker 1: actually going to Dallas, I was sad, man because it
Speaker 1: was my first time like being away from home, Like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, home from whim Mary was thirty minutes so
Speaker 1: I could drop by get a meal from my mom. Man. Man,
Speaker 1: I think, Man, I went to Dallas. It was like
Speaker 1: twenty two hours away and it was just crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, I was gonna miss my parents, family and friends.
Speaker 1: But man, I got over it. So I'm s all right.
Speaker 1: You have had an unusual NFL career because you basically
Speaker 1: changed teams every year, six teams in six years. What
Speaker 1: is the most difficult thing about that? And Arthur any
Speaker 1: positives to bouncing around from place to place? For sure? Um,
Speaker 1: the most challenging thing, man. You have to pick up
Speaker 1: the playbook and go ahead and be able to roll
Speaker 1: with the punches. But I don't know for me. I
Speaker 1: mean I took it as a challenge, man, Um. I
Speaker 1: didn't hang my head. I didn't feel bad for myself.
Speaker 1: I just seemed as another opportunity to go out there
Speaker 1: and showcase my skills. It mean you meet a lot
Speaker 1: of people, So I mean I've definitely met a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the league. Man, been around a lot
Speaker 1: of places, became good friends with a lot of people. So, uh,
Speaker 1: some positives that came out of it. Looks like you're
Speaker 1: traveling days are over for a while. The bank all
Speaker 1: signed you to a three year contract as a free agent.
Speaker 1: Was that a relief to have that stability one hundred percent? Man?
Speaker 1: Just to be able to grow with the team was
Speaker 1: big to me. And be able to have that relationship
Speaker 1: with coaches and you know, for them to actually learn
Speaker 1: like who I am and not gonna learn who they are,
Speaker 1: what they like, what they don't like. It was very
Speaker 1: big to me. And you know, God bless me to
Speaker 1: sign that contract for three years, so I was looking
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. A few more fun facts for
Speaker 1: b W Web. If people in Cincinnati see a guy
Speaker 1: with long drags riding around on a motorized unicycle, chances
Speaker 1: are it's you. You seem to really enjoy that thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's easy man. I don't gotta you know,
Speaker 1: I don't spend too much money on gas. I get
Speaker 1: I get from here to my apartment. Quit not in
Speaker 1: any traffic. I don't have to wait in any traffic.
Speaker 1: So it's all good for me. Man. I get around
Speaker 1: the city, man, because I have a big truck, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to park it everywhere. And Man, with my
Speaker 1: little scooter, I just get in and out. I read
Speaker 1: somewhere that you were a roller skater as a kids.
Speaker 1: Who have you always been into things on wheels like that? Uh? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Newport News every Sunday. You know, we all
Speaker 1: go to the roller skating ring. Man have a time.
Speaker 1: So that's what we did in my area. Man, everybody
Speaker 1: seems like roller skated, and uh that was my thing.
Speaker 1: That was our little getaway from from sports or something
Speaker 1: back in the day. I can I still do it
Speaker 1: to this day. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, politician,
Speaker 1: religious figure, whomever it might be, who would that person be?
Speaker 1: Tupac Corp. I don't know him ever since I was younger, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I loved his music. Man. He was a
Speaker 1: very smart person man, very gifted person. And I mean
Speaker 1: I just always just wanted to sit down with him, man,
Speaker 1: just kind of pick his brain. Man. But that's one
Speaker 1: person for sure. You've done some great things in the
Speaker 1: community back home where you're from, celebrity basketball, game, football
Speaker 1: camp for kids. What is the crux of your message
Speaker 1: when you talk to young people coming out of Newport
Speaker 1: News in a seven five seven area. Everybody knows it's
Speaker 1: not the best area in the world, and a lot
Speaker 1: of kids get caught up, you know, doing dumb things,
Speaker 1: getting caught in crimes and everything like that. And I
Speaker 1: just want to show him that it's a way out. Man.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be a part of all that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's guys like myself, Michael fitt Al Narverson
Speaker 1: who who came out of this area and we followed
Speaker 1: our our dreams, our goals and got to where we
Speaker 1: wanted to get. And you know, at times it seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, we might just be a face on TV
Speaker 1: and and we're not real people. But you know, I
Speaker 1: just want to come back and show him that, hey, man,
Speaker 1: like I was in the same situation y'all was, and no,
Speaker 1: I found the way I made it out. Got a
Speaker 1: scholarship so my parents didn't have to pay for a
Speaker 1: school because I was the biggest thing. And man, just
Speaker 1: to keep grinding, man and no sin, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: doubters along the way and everything that happens along the way.
Speaker 1: May just use that as motivation. I've enjoyed this. Welcome
Speaker 1: to us, Cincinnati. Great to have you part of the
Speaker 1: team and the best of luck going forward. Definitely thank you.
Speaker 1: That's b W Webb. We hope you'll join us and
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