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Speaker 1: radio replays from Thursday night's win in Baltimore. It is

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night in Baltimore and Cincinnati Bengals fans are counting

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Speaker 1: their blessings to have a quarterback who is is obsessed

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Speaker 1: with being the best in the game, obsessed with leading

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Speaker 1: his teammates, and obsessed with ultimately winning a Super Bowl. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: that quarterback, Joe Burrow, is back as the Bengals take

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Speaker 1: on the Baltimore Ravens in a primetime showdown here at

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Speaker 1: M and T Bank Stadium. Here's a toss sweep to

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Speaker 1: the left to the twenty fifteen ten five touchdown. The

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Speaker 1: King Derrick Henry goes twenty eight yards for the game's

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Speaker 1: first touchdown. Cincinnati's showing pressure. On third down and nine,

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Speaker 1: they send five Lamar Jackson from the pocket. He is

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Speaker 1: hit and he goes down. The ball comes out and

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Speaker 2: About it.

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Speaker 1: Joseph Osai punched it out and Cedric Johnson recovered. The

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Speaker 1: Bengals will have it inside the five. They're gonna spot

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Speaker 1: it around the three yard line. Jackson catches a shot

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Speaker 1: gun snap from the pocket, inches up, now throws and

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Speaker 1: it is caught on the run at the thirty twenty

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Speaker 1: end zone. Touchdown. Baltimore forty three yards on a short

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Danny came underneath and came all the way

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Speaker 3: across the football field, and boy, he lost control of

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Speaker 3: the football before he crossed the goal line.

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Speaker 1: Shotgun snap to Burrow, fakes to Chase Brown. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: fling it deep down the field for Jamar Chase. What

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Speaker 1: a catch over the shoulder, blanketed by Marlin Humphrey. One

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Speaker 1: man on the face of the earth can make that

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Speaker 1: catch and his name is Jamar Chase. Forty three yards.

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Speaker 2: And Humphrey can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: This will be a twenty four yard field goal try

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Speaker 1: from the right hash Evan McPherson looking for his third

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Speaker 2: He's got it.

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Speaker 1: Wow, touchdown Bengals. What an adjustment to the ball by

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Speaker 1: Hudson and he knocks over the back right pylon for

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Speaker 1: a fourteen yard touchdown. Joe Burrows first since returning from

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Speaker 1: running to the five to the goal line, touchdown Ravens.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals flowed in the wrong direction and when they

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Speaker 2: Bam, bam, bam.

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Speaker 1: This will be field goal trying number six from forty

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Speaker 1: one yards out. Wagner's snap Pato Rico and Moneymax kick

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Speaker 1: and leaves Baltimore with an eighteen point win.

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Speaker 4: There's no better feeling than that, you know, putting in,

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Speaker 4: putting in work for for a long time and going

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Speaker 2: Just just this. There's just no feeling like going.

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Speaker 4: Out in front of the world with a group of

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Speaker 4: games and going out and putting on a good performance

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Speaker 4: and winning that game. You know, obviously we got a

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Speaker 4: lot of games left, but we're gonna enjoy this one

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Speaker 4: on this on this little mini by weekend, and everybody's

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Speaker 4: going to go and have Thanksgiving with their families and

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Speaker 2: Good about it.

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Speaker 4: Certainly hasn't been easy on me through through six years

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Speaker 4: worked really hard to put myself in position to be

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Speaker 4: gone into this and you know, I'm proud to be done.

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Speaker 1: Burrow finished twenty four for forty six for two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty one yards, with two touchdowns, no picks, only

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Speaker 1: Chase Brown had seventy eight rushing yards and thirty five

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Speaker 1: receiving yards for a total of one thirteen, his sixth

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Speaker 1: straight game with one hundred or more scrimmage yards. That's

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Speaker 1: a new team record. Jamar Chase had seven catches for

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Speaker 1: grats on the touchdown catch. What a night for everybody

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Speaker 1: on this team. You talk about a team victory, Christ

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Speaker 5: Oh, it really was. I mean all around, having having

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Speaker 5: go back the way you know, we just rallied around,

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Speaker 5: rally around everybody, the way the defense play to night.

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Speaker 5: It's a really really good.

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Speaker 2: Win for this team.

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Speaker 5: Uh, just how this season has went, it feels really good.

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Speaker 1: Can you quantify what Joe's return did for the team

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Speaker 1: just in terms of lifting everybody's spirits and energy level.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, when you got a guy that's arguably

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Speaker 5: elevate everybody's play, whether whether you're thinking about it or not.

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Speaker 5: So I'm bringing someone with someone like that back. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it made a whole lot of team all right.

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Speaker 1: So you came back to Baltimore tonight last year on

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Speaker 1: two point conversion at the end of the game, they

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: Could have been about six penalties called on the play.

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Speaker 1: None were You come back and make a spectacular touchdown catch.

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Speaker 1: Describe to play and what that moment meant.

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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I mean third and nine. You know, it's

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Speaker 5: a play that we worked on this week, and going

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Speaker 5: through my head, I just had certain ways I knew

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Speaker 5: that I wanted. Joe put up a great ball that

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Speaker 1: Joe was good. I feel like he's just going to

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Speaker 1: keep getting better. Considering that he missed nine games with.

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Speaker 2: It pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 1: How he did the first night back.

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Speaker 5: It is remarkable, But it's also he I think he

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Speaker 5: is the best quarterback league. So I think for him

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Speaker 5: that's probably his standard is just a beat great and

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Speaker 5: that's what he came out here he did.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys feel like you're back in the hunt

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Speaker 5: In the hunts? Oh, we're never This team has never

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Speaker 5: out of it. This team the way that we like

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Speaker 5: Zach always says, the way that we come to pract

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Speaker 2: There's there's no.

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Speaker 5: Quid in the team and we're just going to continue

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Speaker 5: to push and win games.

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Speaker 1: This again did it in one of the biggest spotlight

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Speaker 1: nights that the NFL has, the Thanksgiving night national TV.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the country of the world is watching this one.

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Speaker 1: Does that make it a little extra special?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's always fun to play. I mean,

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Speaker 2: The night game.

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Speaker 5: You know, everybody's stuff sitting on the couch and they

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Speaker 5: got the game on, whether they're asleep or actually watching it.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's to come out in front of the

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Speaker 5: whole world and put on that kind of performance as

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Speaker 5: a team. Yeah, that's what you want.

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Speaker 1: Congrat some spectacular touchdown, catching a great win.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Then there's the Bengals defense. It's not enough to say

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Speaker 1: the defense has been much maligned. They've been mocked and ridiculed.

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Speaker 1: But for the third straight week, the Bengals held the

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Speaker 1: other team's offense under twenty one points, and the fourteen

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Speaker 1: up all year. Five takeaways was the big key, and

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Speaker 1: a strip sack by Joseph Osai was the first. Joseph Osai,

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Speaker 1: what a knight. Two sacks, four quarterback hits, a force pumble.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was the best game of your NFL career.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling right now?

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Speaker 6: Feeling great, Very thankful for these guys, thankful to God

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Speaker 6: most importantly, very thankful for my teammates, Thankful that you know,

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Speaker 6: it's been it's been a rough couple of weeks, but

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Speaker 6: they come to word every day and there's no quick

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Speaker 6: there's no nobody's checked out, and it's it's it's beautiful

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Speaker 6: to see it come to for tuition.

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Speaker 2: Like that on the field.

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Speaker 1: For sure, it's been a challenging year for the defense.

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Speaker 1: What's it mean to do it in this circumstance? Thanksgiving night?

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Speaker 1: Everybody watching a great team on the other side.

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Speaker 6: Uh, he's the world means the world.

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Speaker 2: It has been a challenging here. It's to me more

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Speaker 2: specific job, challenging a few leagues.

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Speaker 6: But you know, we're we're in a bucker mentality right now.

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Speaker 2: Shut up the outside noise.

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Speaker 6: Nobody but us, nobody but us.

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Speaker 2: Take this just like we took the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: That's all five takeaways, including four bumbles. You guys work

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Speaker 6: Giving the younger guys hope to keep working at it

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Speaker 6: You know, you know what I know, that's Joe Burrs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 6: When you when you see your brother defensive offense, when

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Speaker 2: You just see his heart. You see his heart you.

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Speaker 6: Want to go ball and and even more with within

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Speaker 2: So it's great. It's great having me back.

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Speaker 3: A lot, yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: And it was a beautiful team win for sure.

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Speaker 6: Topped the bottom when we needed them to get pinned,

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Speaker 6: When we needed to stop, defense did exactly that. You know,

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Speaker 2: That is trust. He trusts us. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: It was a turnover right there on the goal line,

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Speaker 6: But I said to the defense, that is trust, he

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, what are you gonna do

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Speaker 1: The win improves the Bengals to four and eight and

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Speaker 3: We heard all the celebrating that was going on in

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Speaker 3: It sounded. I mean, I remember what that was like.

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Speaker 7: I didn't notice that. I saw him on the field

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Speaker 3: What about Joe Burrow, I mean, this guy is special.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no I can't think of another tip

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Speaker 7: He He was? And not to stick away from that,

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Speaker 3: And number one, Jamar Chase has had big games against

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Speaker 3: was just so good to see those guys number nine

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Speaker 7: It is you know, Jamar's you wouldn't trade him for

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Speaker 3: Drew Sample I thought stepped up big tonight. I mean,

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Speaker 7: He does all the dirty work, you know, and appreciate

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Speaker 3: You mentioned your defense, How well your defense played, I

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Speaker 2: How big was that? It was awesome?

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Speaker 7: You know, I thought our defense just really came out

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Speaker 7: Six six? I mean it's assuming it gets a franchise record.

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Speaker 3: I think it is. It might be seven for seven.

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Speaker 3: I think Dan mentioned the guy wins seven for seven

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Speaker 3: There you got one more.

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Speaker 7: But these conditions weren't easy. I mean, it wasn't there

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Speaker 7: You know, he's back to the Evan that we've always

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Speaker 3: So if Pittsburgh loses to Buffalo, the best record in

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Speaker 7: We're just gonna keep fighting one week at a time.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 7: We got Buffalo at ten days from now. That's our focus.

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Speaker 7: We just try to control that. Don't worry about the

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Speaker 3: And finally, what are you going to do during the

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Speaker 3: to chill with the family.

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Speaker 7: Man, Just chill with the family. You know, it'll be

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Speaker 7: good to see him over the holidays, and just blessed

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Speaker 1: These two teams meet again at pay Court Stadium in

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Speaker 1: two and a half weeks, but up next it's a

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Speaker 2: Lap. That was one.

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Speaker 1: Happy locker room because every guy on offense, defense, and

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Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more, Dan, I mean that

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Speaker 3: you can have games like this And this is a big,

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Speaker 2: And really, if.

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Speaker 3: If Pittsburgh loses to Buffalo, best recommend Division six and six,

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Speaker 3: the Bengals are right in the hunt. I mean they're

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Speaker 1: How much of an impact did Joe Burrow have. I'm

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Speaker 3: There, unbelievable, as big as I've ever seen. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I mean, as Joe Borrow goes, so go the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: In my conversation with Zach and the postgame show, and

439
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Speaker 3: I said, you could see where eventually Joe started getting

440
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Speaker 3: a rhythm and felt the timing the ball was coming

441
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 3: out of his hand well, you know, it seemed like

442
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Speaker 3: it started to get free and easy for him, and

443
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Speaker 3: Zack said he couldn't agree more. And for Joe to

444
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Speaker 3: play as well as he played with all the circumstances

445
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Speaker 3: that we talk about, coming to Baltimore and having to

446
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Speaker 3: play against this football team, it's no easy task and

447
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Speaker 3: he handled himself very well.

448
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Speaker 1: Al Golden has had these guys doing turnover drills from

449
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Speaker 1: the first day of OTAs. Before practice begins, they're out

450
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Speaker 1: there practicing, ripping the ball, punching the ball, doing everything

451
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Speaker 1: they can to try to get takeaways. Really hasn't paid

452
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Speaker 1: off much until tonight and then on Thanksgiving Night with

453
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Speaker 1: the world watching, they get five takeaways.

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Speaker 3: It was unbelievable to watch, really, I mean, and as

455
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Speaker 3: the old saying goes, they come in bunches, you know,

456
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Speaker 3: once they start to come, they just seek. The Spickett

457
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 3: gets turned on, you know, and the Fawcett starts overflowing.

458
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Speaker 3: And everybody contributed, every level of the defense. Defensive line

459
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Speaker 3: did their thing. Everybody played their gap control responsibility. They

460
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Speaker 3: knocked the ball out. Miles Murphy was great. Joseph a

461
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Speaker 3: side maybe had the best game that I've ever seen

462
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Speaker 3: him play, and then you know, the young linebackers were

463
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Speaker 3: flying around the football field. Man, they were playing fast,

464
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Speaker 3: they were playing confidently and with great speed. And then

465
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Speaker 3: on the back end, I thought, you know, I thought

466
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Speaker 3: dj was phenomenal. I thought he had his best game.

467
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Speaker 3: I've seen him play, play tackling, and everybody made plays.

468
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Speaker 3: That's the thing, Like you said, everybody contributed to this

469
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Speaker 3: football game. It was a team win. It was probably

470
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Speaker 3: the best definition of a team win I've seen in

471
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Speaker 3: a while.

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Speaker 1: Burrow wound up throwing the ball quite a bit. He

473
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Speaker 1: threw forty six passes in the game, but he was

474
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Speaker 1: under center a decent amount. He only got sacked once.

475
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Speaker 1: Did we start to see maybe a little bit of

476
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Speaker 1: an evolution with some of the stuff that Joe Flacco

477
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Speaker 1: did during the six games where he played.

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering, you know, it seemed like they incorporated some

479
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Speaker 3: of that stuff. And I know the Joe's have been talking,

480
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Speaker 3: you know, Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco about football, everything

481
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Speaker 3: about football. You know, the only disadvantage with getting under

482
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Speaker 3: center is when you play action fake, you turn your

483
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Speaker 3: back and you turn.

484
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Speaker 2: Your head to the defense.

485
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Speaker 3: And I think Joe likes the shot comes for that reason,

486
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Speaker 3: he's always looking to seeing what the defense is doing.

487
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Speaker 3: And you know he has the same picture that he's

488
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Speaker 3: looking at the whole time, instead of the picture changing

489
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Speaker 3: when you turn your head like that. But yeah, it's

490
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Speaker 3: it's I think I think that to have the ability

491
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Speaker 3: to do both, I think he's going to stand him

492
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Speaker 3: in good stead as the season progresses, because, let's face it,

493
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Speaker 3: then they got to go six and zer, they got

494
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Speaker 3: to win them all.

495
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have said, well, I play them

496
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Speaker 1: if the games, you know, don't have impact on the

497
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Speaker 1: playoff race. I'll say this, Let's say that they beat Buffalo.

498
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Speaker 1: Let's say that they beat Baltimore in the rematch, and

499
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Speaker 1: they still don't make the playoffs. How much better would

500
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Speaker 1: you feel going into next year beating teams like that,

501
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Speaker 1: having Burrow back, hopefully continue to see progress by the defense.

502
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Speaker 1: I mean, I would feel a million times better about

503
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Speaker 1: the prospects for net Seaton next season if those types

504
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Speaker 1: of things happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it wouldn't be like you know, coach speak, it

506
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Speaker 3: wouldn't be like high this guy they did it. They

507
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 3: would have gone out and beaten these teams when the

508
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Speaker 3: games mean something when the game's on the line, when

509
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 3: these teams have to win games to get the seed

510
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Speaker 3: they want to get to go into the playoffs, and

511
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Speaker 3: you spank them, you slap them, you knock them back.

512
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Speaker 3: That's that's important. And there's no way that Joe Burrow

513
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Speaker 3: wasn't going to play. I mean he was. He feels

514
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Speaker 3: like he was one hundred percent, and you know, the

515
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 3: medical people and everybody agreed. So he played, and he

516
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Speaker 3: played at an extremely high level. I mean, this football

517
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Speaker 3: team loves their quarterback, I mean loves their quarterback like

518
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Speaker 3: nobody loves their quarterback. And I think I think Joe

519
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Speaker 3: Flacco is in a good situation. I mean he's there

520
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Speaker 3: if something happens to Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco is right

521
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Speaker 3: there to pick up the pieces, you know. And Bengals

522
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Speaker 3: find themselves in a pretty damn good situation at the

523
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Speaker 3: quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: In the words of Bill Murray and Stripes, an army

525
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: without a leader is like a foot without a big toe.

526
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Speaker 1: The big toe is back, is big toe is healthy.

527
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Speaker 1: Bengals have their leader.

528
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Speaker 2: Bingo. I love it, Dan.

529
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Speaker 1: That's a wrap on the Baltimore game. Now time for

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Speaker 1: this week's fun Facts conversation where we get to know

531
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Speaker 1: a Bengals linebacker who has faced Kansas City in each

532
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Speaker 1: of the last two Super Bowls. Time for some fun

533
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Speaker 1: facts with linebacker Orren. Burke's from Lorton, Virginia, not too

534
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Speaker 1: far from Washington, d C. What were some of the

535
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Speaker 1: things you enjoyed about growing up there.

536
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one just had a lot of family there.

537
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Speaker 8: Just I feel like the DMV as a whole, just

538
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Speaker 8: a lot of culture there, music, food, You're close to

539
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Speaker 8: a little bit of everything, a lot of politics, a

540
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Speaker 8: lot of military. But yeah, I just have great memories

541
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Speaker 8: growing up there. A lot of history there as well

542
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Speaker 8: in the DC area, So I feel like I didn't

543
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Speaker 8: appreciate it as much as I do as an adult

544
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Speaker 8: now going back and like really seeing how cool of

545
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Speaker 8: the city it is.

546
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Speaker 2: So love living there.

547
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Speaker 1: For visiting with Ooron Burr. When did you start to

548
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Speaker 1: stand out as an athlete?

549
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was very active early played baseball, soccer, basketball,

550
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Speaker 8: and then ended up playing football. Basketball was definitely my

551
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Speaker 8: my number one kind of growing up, and I had

552
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Speaker 8: a lot of big cousins that played basketball.

553
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Speaker 2: As well and wanted to be like them, you know.

554
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Speaker 8: They ended up playing in college and some in the

555
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Speaker 8: pros and and abroad as well, but.

556
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Speaker 2: My path ended up being football.

557
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Speaker 8: I started playing football my freshman year in high school

558
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Speaker 8: and just wanted to make some friends going into the year,

559
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Speaker 8: and I just knew that was gonna be a great

560
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Speaker 8: opportunity to meet guys and you know, bond that way,

561
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Speaker 8: and eventually fell in love with the game. But just

562
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Speaker 8: always was very athletic and loved basketball, like I said,

563
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Speaker 8: And I feel like that's where I got my grade.

564
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Speaker 8: I wasn't always like the best player on the team,

565
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Speaker 8: but just really learned like how to hustle and just

566
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Speaker 8: like find a way to add value to a team.

567
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Speaker 8: And you know that that's carried over to everything that

568
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Speaker 8: I do. So I really enjoyed my you know, my journey.

569
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Speaker 8: And I feel like a lot of kids now they

570
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Speaker 8: special lies like really early into sports, and like I

571
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Speaker 8: just enjoyed playing all the sports and being competitive, and

572
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Speaker 8: I feel like that really has worked out in my

573
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Speaker 8: in my favor.

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Speaker 1: There's an old picture of you on the internet from

575
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Speaker 1: being the homecoming king at your high school. Were you

576
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Speaker 1: involved in other activities as well? Are pretty much sports only?

577
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Speaker 8: Yeah, A lot of sports I was involved with FCA

578
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Speaker 8: at our school, as much community service as I can

579
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Speaker 8: get into, and just very social we had. We had

580
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Speaker 8: a really really cool high school experience with just everybody

581
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Speaker 8: supporting each other with sports and academics. Was a huge

582
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Speaker 8: pieces for me. My family as well obviously ended up

583
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Speaker 8: going to Vanderbilt, so that was a big piece for

584
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Speaker 8: me moving into college. Uh, and my sister went to

585
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Speaker 8: Stanford play softball there as well. So we're always student athletes,

586
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Speaker 8: and I just really appreciate my my upbringing. My parents

587
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Speaker 8: let enforced that really early into us, just having great

588
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Speaker 8: values and knowing that it's beyond sports and just having

589
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Speaker 8: the impact in your community and beyond.

590
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that was a big piece of me.

591
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Speaker 1: So with you at Vanderbilt and your sister at Stanford,

592
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: did your folks more or less tell you make this

593
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Speaker 1: choice as much about the academics as the athletics.

594
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Speaker 8: Not directly, but definitely kind of indirectly. They were like,

595
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Speaker 8: you know, just think about the long term situation, what's

596
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 8: your major, what you want to do, you know, beyond

597
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 8: playing the game, because you know, like the numbers tell

598
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 8: you that, you know, you're probably not going to play

599
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Speaker 8: in the NFL.

600
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Speaker 2: Or for her, professional sports, but.

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Speaker 8: Just having a backup plan when that does come. And

602
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Speaker 8: you know, I feel like that has allowed me to

603
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Speaker 8: be a well rounded individual. Just just really taking intent

604
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 8: about my my academics has helped me tremendously, you know,

605
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Speaker 8: just the way I process thing, the way I learn,

606
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Speaker 8: and just again just being a well, well arounded individual.

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Speaker 1: You started out as a safety at Vanderbilt. How did

608
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Speaker 1: you become a linebacker and how did you feel about it?

609
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was actually a recruiter as a linebacker.

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Speaker 8: I was James Franklin. I know, he's a Virginia technologis

611
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 8: last recruiting class at Vanity before he went to Penn State.

612
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 8: I was a linebacker that year. We had a new

613
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Speaker 8: just have come in with coach Mason and he saw

614
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Speaker 8: me as a safety.

615
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Speaker 2: So I played safety.

616
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Speaker 8: I was middle posts, like running all over the place

617
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Speaker 8: for two years, and then I played a hybrid outside

618
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Speaker 8: inside position, and then I played inside my last year.

619
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Speaker 8: So really all over the field. But for me, it's

620
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Speaker 8: just about find a way to get on the field,

621
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Speaker 8: add value, make plays, and I feel like that allowed

622
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Speaker 8: me to have the skill set. You know, this this

623
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Speaker 8: league has changed a lot at the lineback position, being

624
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Speaker 8: able to run and cover, and I feel like that

625
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Speaker 8: safety background has definitely helped me in terms of like

626
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Speaker 8: seeing the game from a different perspective.

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Speaker 1: We're chatting with Orrin Burks as we do this interview.

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Speaker 1: Your alma maters ranked twelfth in the country in college football.

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Speaker 1: How much fun is it for Vanderbilt grads to see

630
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Speaker 1: this rise of the commodorees in college football?

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Speaker 2: Man, it's been it's been a long time coming.

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Speaker 8: Just so proud of the guys, Coach Lee leading the

633
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Speaker 8: way and having the opportunity to be around them during

634
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Speaker 8: the spring and in the summer, just seeing like the

635
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Speaker 8: culture that they're building, and just just so proud as

636
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Speaker 8: a loan to go to see them, you know, thriving

637
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 8: on the field and doing it at a high level

638
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 8: and getting you know, the exposure from the national media.

639
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Speaker 8: But just always had faith in you know, this program

640
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 8: doing it the right way, and the city of Nashville

641
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 8: is getting behind them as well. So it's been really

642
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 8: cool to see the guys take off this year.

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Speaker 1: You're drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the third

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Speaker 1: round in twenty eighteen. How stressful was that day leading

645
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Speaker 1: up to getting the phone.

646
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Speaker 2: Call I wasn't very stressed.

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Speaker 8: I feel like I had you know, at that point,

648
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Speaker 8: you do everything you can to put yourself in the

649
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Speaker 8: best situation in terms of being drafted, and I felt

650
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Speaker 8: really good about my draft process. I played well in

651
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Speaker 8: the senior ball as a laid ad there, did well

652
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Speaker 8: in the combine. I felt like I did well in

653
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Speaker 8: my interviews, and my tape was my tape from college.

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Speaker 8: You know, I had a lot of versatility from the

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Speaker 8: safety to the inside and outside, and I felt like

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Speaker 8: I had kind of like done everything I could and

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Speaker 8: just really had a sense of like this freedom, you know,

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Speaker 8: just like being able to surrender the outcomes of where

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Speaker 8: I would land. You have no idea where you're going

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Speaker 8: to be, so like it's not even worth you trying

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Speaker 8: to guess for the guys that are going through that

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Speaker 8: process coming up. But yeah, I just felt like I

663
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 8: had done everything I could and was excited for the

664
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Speaker 8: opportunity to land anywhere, you know, in the NFL and

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Speaker 8: make my mark.

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Speaker 1: The Packers missed the playoffs your rookie year. Since then,

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Speaker 1: you've been on six consecutive playoff teams with Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco and Philly. You've played in the last two

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls. What have you learned about the most important

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Speaker 1: traits of winning teams?

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Speaker 8: Man, it's a lot. I'll say first, it's just culture

672
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 8: is so important. Just the standard for play, play style,

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00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 8: not even just scheme, just the way that you play

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Speaker 8: the game, the way that you prepare your process. It

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00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 8: bleeds over to everybody into the building. It includes the

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Speaker 8: front staff, the back, like everybody has to be bought

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Speaker 8: in for you to really make a run. And I

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Speaker 8: feel like that has improved my process as well. It

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Speaker 8: made me a better person, maybe a better man, in

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Speaker 8: terms of like the accountability that it takes, the effort

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Speaker 8: that it takes, and ultimately vulnerability like this game, like

682
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Speaker 8: you're exposed every every Sunday, You're out there and you

683
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Speaker 8: know the whole world is seeing you. So you're just

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Speaker 8: trying to put your best foot forward for yourself and

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Speaker 8: for your brothers next to you. So I don't know,

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Speaker 8: just taking that approach, as you know, it had it's

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Speaker 8: better in my life, you know, in terms of me

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Speaker 8: having to be better for my brother right next to me.

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Speaker 8: So I just really enjoyed that about football, the challenge

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Speaker 8: that it is every weekend and week out, it's find

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Speaker 8: a way to get better.

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Speaker 1: I work with Dave Lappam on the broadcasts. He was

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Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl team in nineteen eighty one with

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Speaker 1: the Bengals lost to the forty nine Ers. It still

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Speaker 1: hurts to this day. You played on the losing team

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and then the next year

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Speaker 1: we're on the winning team with the Philadelphia Eagles. How

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Speaker 1: did that feel, considering that you still had that fresh

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Speaker 1: wound from the year before.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just I feel like I just had

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Speaker 8: the mindset I have to see it through, you know,

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Speaker 8: just having an opportunity and coming up short with the

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Speaker 8: Niners and then having the opportunity the next year against

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Speaker 8: the same team that that very rarely happens, so it's

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Speaker 8: a different locker room. But you know, they had kind

706
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Speaker 8: of experienced the same thing a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 8: is losing to the Chiefs as well, So I felt

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Speaker 8: like there was a lot of joint motivation towards, you know,

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Speaker 8: getting it right this time. And Yeah, just just wanted

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Speaker 8: to leave it out there on the field everything I could,

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00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 8: you know, preparation and just knowing what to expect for

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl week as well. It was really important

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00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 8: in terms of sticking to your process. The craziness outside

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Speaker 8: and you know that that goes into that week as well.

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Speaker 8: Just being able to keep your head down and work

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00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,439
Speaker 8: towards the ultimate goal because afterwards there's no greater feeling.

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00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 8: And then then host hoisting that that Lombardi Trophy and

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00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 8: being with your brothers in the in the locker room.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, just looking at looking to repeat that field.

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Speaker 1: He Sean Nixon is deep and we're underway another game

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League postseason. Nixon will take it

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Speaker 1: on the far side outside of numbers.

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Speaker 3: To the twenty on a diagonal twenty five, and he

724
00:34:58,920 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 3: is smashed.

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00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: I lost the football.

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00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 3: It's inside the thirty and recovered by the Eagles. Or

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00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 3: and Burkes knocked it loose.

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00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 2: Boy, what a hit that was.

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00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: Orrin Burkes just laid an unbelievable shot on Keyshawn Dixon

730
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: to knock that ball out. Holy cow, it's not quite

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00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: the Philly Special, but you made a play that Eagles

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00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: fans will be talking about for decades. You force the

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Speaker 1: fumble on the very first play of the playoff run

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Speaker 1: with a jarring hit to the Packers kick returner. How

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00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: cool is it? To have a moment like that that

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Speaker 1: anytime you go back to Philly, somebody's going to say,

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Speaker 1: Orrin Burks, wait to force that fumble.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's special. It's special, you know, going into playoffs.

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Speaker 8: I played in a lot of playoff games before that,

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Speaker 8: and I just remember myself telling myself that week, just

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Speaker 8: find a way to make a player is going to

742
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Speaker 8: change the game. And what better way to change the

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Speaker 8: game than the opening kickoff, forcing the fun will getting

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Speaker 8: the ball out and we go down to drive start

745
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Speaker 8: and score right there, just to get a quick jump

746
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 8: on it. Setting the tone for the playoffs the place.

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Speaker 8: Like again, the play style that we wanted to have,

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Speaker 8: the physicality that we wanted to have. It's super cool.

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Speaker 8: I still get like d ms every once in a while,

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Speaker 8: Like I'll never forget that, you know, that play that

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00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 8: you were talking about, the opening kickoff of the of

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00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 8: the Packers game. So yeah, just definitely still feel the love,

753
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 8: you know, from from Philly fans and beyond, you know,

754
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 8: for you know, making a play that you know change

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00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 8: the game.

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00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 2: But yeah, just just a really cool moment.

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Speaker 1: All right, a few wild card topics now for Orrin Berks,

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00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport.

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00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 2: And why obviously Michael Jordan.

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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 8: Just like his competitiveness, you know, that's that's hard to emulate,

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00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 8: and just like his his his drive to hold the

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00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 8: others around him accountable. The same with Kobe, like kind

763
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 8: of that that mindset. So yeah, I probably have to

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Speaker 8: go with those two Jordans in Kobe.

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Speaker 1: You earned your degree at Vanderbilt. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: you want to do after football?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm you know, figuring it out. I do a

768
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 8: little bit of real styling side, but I really enjoy

769
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 8: this business, the critical thinking around that, using business tactics

770
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 8: to attack social problems and create change in the community.

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00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 8: So definitely things around that. That's that's kind of what

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00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 8: I'm looking at. But you know, I'm enjoying my time

773
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 8: in the league, and you know, I'll have so many

774
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 8: doors that are going to be opened, you know, when

775
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 8: when the time comes after I retire.

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Speaker 2: But I just focus on now.

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Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken. Your wife was a college volleyball player.

778
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: How did you two meet?

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00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 8: Yeah, we met through FCA, so we did a joint

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00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 8: fellowship called One City, One God. She was one of

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00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 8: the leaders for Belmont and I was one for Vanderbilt,

782
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 8: and we had lipscumb Tribeca, Fisk. There's so many schools

783
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 8: right there in Nashville, so planning that and yeah, just

784
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 8: ended up meeting her and didn't want to be the

785
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 8: guy that, you know, hitting on girls at FCA. But

786
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Speaker 8: you know, that's that's ultimately where you want to find

787
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 8: somebody that has like like minded and you know, ultimately

788
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 8: we have a beautiful family now, been mary s years

789
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 8: and a little girl, and it's it's just it's a

790
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 8: beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: Aside from sports, what are you good at?

792
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm good with people.

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Speaker 8: I truly enjoy the team aspect of sport, and I

794
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 8: try to carry that into my relationships with my wife,

795
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 8: with my friends, with my family, and just try to

796
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 8: pull the best out of people. So that's I feel

797
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 8: like that's what I'm good at all.

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Speaker 1: Right, final fun fact for Orrin Burks. This one's kind

799
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Speaker 1: of deep. If you could meet anyone in history, living

800
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: or deceased, who would that person be?

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00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, probably be probably Jackie Robinson. Most people don't know.

802
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 8: That's the reason I wear forty two. So coming to

803
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 8: the league, you have to have a forty or fifty

804
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 8: number to be linebacker, and you know that was presented.

805
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 8: You know that thought would be cool to pay homage to,

806
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 8: you know, one of the first black athletes in professional sports,

807
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 8: and like all that he had to go through, the

808
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 8: mental fortitude that he carried and the poise that he

809
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 8: carried as well. So I feel like that would be

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00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 8: really cool to hear his story.

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Speaker 1: Like first, I love it and I will definitely mention

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Speaker 1: it the next time number forty two makes a tackle

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Speaker 1: Orren Burt's appreciate your time, best of luck the rest

814
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Speaker 1: of the year.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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