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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, y'all, you know, happy New Year's all that, sir,

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Speaker 1: Hey Matt, what does today's performance to come back by

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Speaker 1: the defense the offense? Everyone say about this team because

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Speaker 1: it was more than just a particular game, but the

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Speaker 1: week's leading up of the season as a whole. And

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Speaker 1: for the players to never see that fight go away.

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Speaker 1: We adjust a resilient group. Man. Stuff ain't been going

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Speaker 1: our way, bro, it ain't been going our way. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes you have games like that and it seems like

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Speaker 1: we're having a season like that. But the one thing

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Speaker 1: we won't do is quit. We can control our effort,

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Speaker 1: we can control our energy, and we can control our emotions.

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Speaker 1: So if it's if it's still time left on the clock,

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Speaker 1: unless the opponent's taking a knee, we out there strapped up,

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Speaker 1: ready to go. And what did you do for the

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Speaker 1: defense to see the offense respond the way they did?

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Speaker 1: And a particuler for you to see Mac through everything

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Speaker 1: you went through in the first half, the chance whatnot

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Speaker 1: to be resilient as well. That's what you gotta do, man. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's really only people when it's building and excuse me,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I know y'all love us and everything,

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Speaker 1: But the people that sit in these seats and team meetings,

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Speaker 1: that's all we care about. That's all we care about. Man. Uh,

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Speaker 1: y'all gonna y'all gonna write a narrative, the fans gonna

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Speaker 1: write a narrative, and everybody gonna tell their own story, right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But us we come together in the hot days a summer,

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Speaker 1: summer camp OTAs and then the dog days and we're

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Speaker 1: out there playing in seven degrees today. We were a family.

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Speaker 1: And so when they come when they come back like that,

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Speaker 1: we expect it. We expect it, and then they expect

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Speaker 1: us to get get the ball back and uh hold

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Speaker 1: hold up post an offense. So we have expectancy for

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Speaker 1: each other and we hold each other to a higher

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Speaker 1: standard than everybody else. Will question and Matt first off,

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Speaker 1: looking good with the code apprecia, Nick, thank you, And

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Speaker 1: earlier Marcus was mentioning that with the receiver's ball security

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Speaker 1: or something that you identified as something that you could

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Speaker 1: potentially exploit in this game, how did you how do

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Speaker 1: you all go about identifying sort of openings like that

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Speaker 1: when you think you can target something like that, And

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Speaker 1: can you take us through what you saw on the

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Speaker 1: play with a force fumble on Chase un. Chase is

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Speaker 1: a great player, really good athlete, and he makes a

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Speaker 1: lot of people midsu and he just exposed the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dave telling me it was a mistackle, but

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Speaker 1: you can't get one of those when you force a fumble.

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Speaker 1: I just grabbed onto whatever I could grab onto and

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Speaker 1: uh just my momentum carried the ball out and uh man,

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Speaker 1: Marcus bro Marcus is always in the right spot at

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Speaker 1: the right time, and he makes the correct plays. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can ask more from a guy,

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Speaker 1: but every week we do and he delivers, and I

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Speaker 1: just that's that's what That's what you do. Man. We

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Speaker 1: put the pressure on each other, we put the expectancy

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Speaker 1: on each other, and I think every week Marcus has

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Speaker 1: came out and delivered. It's kind of related to that

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Speaker 1: forced fumble. I think a couple of steps beforehand, it

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Speaker 1: looked over at the bench and you were behind the

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Speaker 1: bench leading the fans, imploring them to get louder the

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Speaker 1: energy and transferring the energy, you know, from that spot

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Speaker 1: onto the field. And as a game starts to turn

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Speaker 1: and you're starting to you know, force turnovers and get

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Speaker 1: the offense of the Bengals off the field. How how

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Speaker 1: does that build on itself and how did you guys

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Speaker 1: as a defense, you know, seize the momentum to pick

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Speaker 1: six and build on it from there. Uh, when we

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Speaker 1: get to crowd behind us, man, we have great fans

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Speaker 1: and we have very passionate fans and fans that's seen

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Speaker 1: a lot of winning. So when they get behind us, Uh,

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Speaker 1: regardless of where we at, regardless of how the games

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Speaker 1: going highest looking, when they get loud that that affects

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Speaker 1: with the quarterback and here and with the running backs

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Speaker 1: and our receiver can hear. It affects all the checks

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Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. So regardless if I'm in

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Speaker 1: the game or out the game, we got great players

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Speaker 1: out there playing. And Uh, I was just trying to

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Speaker 1: and just trying to create a little bit of noise.

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Speaker 1: Matthew at seven and eight, what is you know, your

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Speaker 1: assessment as to who this team is at this point?

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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, there's been obviously some um challenging

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Speaker 1: circumstances you guys are facing the last couple of games.

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Speaker 1: I think you watched this team here and that's who

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Speaker 1: we are. When we consistent, it looked good. When we

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Speaker 1: we not, it doesn't. And uh, that's that's who we are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, you showed your hand. And

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Speaker 1: so as a team, we just got to come back

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Speaker 1: and be consistent for the rest of the games we

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Speaker 1: play and the rest of the time we hear. But uh.

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Speaker 1: You know also as a team, man, we just a

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Speaker 1: band of brothers, and we stand behind each other. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, we expect each other to play

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Speaker 1: better every game. It don't matter you know, how many

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Speaker 1: tackles you got, how many yards you got, how many

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Speaker 1: And that's that's how you lean on each other and

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Speaker 1: become a good team. Matthew. Obviously in the first half,

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Speaker 1: you know, Joe Burrow came out Twitter if I'm fired there,

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Speaker 1: I was just curious for your impressions of him as

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. You guys to face some elite quarterbacks this year. Uh.

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Speaker 1: As far as quarterbacks and toughness and reading in defense,

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Speaker 1: he's up there, he's up there. You don't. You don't

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Speaker 1: carry your team to a super Bowl. If you're not

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Speaker 1: a good quarterback, and I believe Joe Burrow is a

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Speaker 1: really good quarterback, you will before a long time in

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Speaker 1: this league. He had that's great wide receivers. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's just a good football team. And you and you

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Speaker 1: gotta fight. You gotta fight. Like they came out and

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Speaker 1: they had a passing game going. Uh, they was hitting.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like they was hitting all the marks. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta fight. In the second half, we did better.

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Speaker 1: We did much better on that and we made some

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Speaker 1: place Andy Matthew, um lating the game, you appeared to

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Speaker 1: you ever see me go down to the locker room,

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Speaker 1: I gotta use the bathroom. Uh I've i've I've be

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Speaker 1: hydrated and we gotta uh we got a bathroom like

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Speaker 1: right off there. So yeah, Matthew, you just said something

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Speaker 1: very interesting. You said, when we're consistent and locked in

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Speaker 1: suggesting that there are times the team is not consistent

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Speaker 1: or locked in. Why is that? Um? I think us

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Speaker 1: an error? Right? We all humans, We all be having

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Speaker 1: I think just we all humans. Uh, if we was robots,

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Speaker 1: And that's why we played the game. And that's why

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Speaker 1: so many emotions involved in this game. That's why you

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Speaker 1: see turns like it did in the second half, because

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Speaker 1: we all human. The final question, what's up, Matthew? I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to ask you. You know, we've talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about you finishing the season strong, you know, and

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Speaker 1: finishing the season differently than last year, and today at

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Speaker 1: the sack and the and the strips forst fumble, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: just how does it feel for you to go out

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Speaker 1: out there knowing that that's sort of a narrative. I

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Speaker 1: think we're in a position I am, and you know,

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Speaker 1: teammates look for you to make plays, and coaches look

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Speaker 1: for you to make plays, and h you've been making

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Speaker 1: plays all year. You've got to continue to be that person.

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Speaker 1: And I try to come in here and be as

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Speaker 1: consistent as a person, as a player, as a teammate,

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Speaker 1: as a friend. Uh, it's possible day in and day out,

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Speaker 1: and I think just I think with that that I

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Speaker 1: throughout the season and stuff. You know, I get different

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Speaker 1: I get different blocks, and I get different looks, and

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Speaker 1: I get to slid and all that and just going

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Speaker 1: out there getting Saxon, hitting the quarterback. It's what I

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Speaker 1: need to do. But a play like making a chase fumble,

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Speaker 1: it's something that changed the game, and uh, you know

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Speaker 1: it ended how it ended, but that those are game

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Speaker 1: changing plays in the fourth quarter when you're down for

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Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all. Man Happy, Happy Christmas, Mary, New Year

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Speaker 1: in person, Filam