Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to Renee all day.
Speaker 2: Joining me right now?
Speaker 1: It Jermaine Pratt, Hi, Hey, what up?
Speaker 3: What's up with you?
Speaker 2: Just hanging out?
Speaker 1: Getting to hang with you? Last time I had you
Speaker 1: on here, I had you and bj on together. But
Speaker 1: now I get to just this, just me and you
Speaker 1: here today.
Speaker 2: Feeling good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, feeling good?
Speaker 2: You look cozy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta be you, gotta be you, gotta be. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you have been on this team for five years? Now?
Speaker 1: What is it about the Cincinnati Bengals in that locker
Speaker 1: room and those fans in this city that you love?
Speaker 3: Is that match? You know? Just being around a group
Speaker 3: of guys that love football. I love to kind of work,
Speaker 3: love to compete. You know, it's our mats.
Speaker 2: And what about your loyalty to this team?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Lloyd's is big. You know, anything
Speaker 3: that you deal with in life, you think about loyalcy,
Speaker 3: like being around somebody you truly understand them, on knowing them,
Speaker 3: growing up with him, and then playing like playing football,
Speaker 3: you want to be loyal to the person besides you.
Speaker 3: You're not knowing that you be able to count on
Speaker 3: him in any moment.
Speaker 2: Go to war together?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Yeah, whoever you want to have in your thoughts.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, absolutely totally talk to me about your
Speaker 1: relationship with Lou cause that was that a big part
Speaker 1: of a reason why you wanted to be here as well.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, I would say I was his
Speaker 3: first pick. You know, in twenty nineteen, him and Zach
Speaker 3: they picked me. I was his first, like you want
Speaker 3: to say football, I was this new born. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: him being the first first year, he being and coordinated.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, he choosing me, you know it's huge. You know,
Speaker 3: better to talk a little better, understand why he call
Speaker 3: him the player and understanding his terminology, then you know,
Speaker 3: him just helping me develop as a player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, certainly.
Speaker 1: No, it's cool to be able to see those relationships
Speaker 1: all flourish, which of course brings me to your your
Speaker 1: guy b J. Hill, who shaved his hat when you
Speaker 1: re signed? What's the story behind this is what happened?
Speaker 3: I mean he said he shaved he was shave my
Speaker 3: head if I signed back, which he shaved it somewhat,
Speaker 3: but he didn't really like shave it. Shave it. As
Speaker 3: a ball head, you gotta do steps, and he didn't
Speaker 3: take all the steps necessary to have a ball head?
Speaker 2: What are the steps necessary? Walk me through it?
Speaker 3: I mean you gotta, you gotta. He just did the
Speaker 3: little thing like you just basically this razor used the
Speaker 3: clippers to cut his hair, you know, down to a
Speaker 3: low and then still have a hairline with.
Speaker 2: But he needed to get in with this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he needed to get like a real shave, like a.
Speaker 1: Because we're gonna shave my head today. Just kidding doing that.
Speaker 3: No, that would be using shaving cream and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: He gotta take the steps, you know, putting this razor
Speaker 3: bump stuff on your head and getting it out all
Speaker 3: up and shuff and shiny, which is the best haircut
Speaker 3: you can ever have a ball head.
Speaker 2: But not everybody can pull it off.
Speaker 3: I mean you gotta have a confidence to pull it off. Sure,
Speaker 3: having a ball head, that's like you a confident man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way about having short hair as
Speaker 1: a woman.
Speaker 2: You got to just sometimes he's got to chop it off. Ye,
Speaker 2: chop it off and feel liberated, let it go.
Speaker 1: So you weren't satisfied with what Bja did.
Speaker 2: No, it didn't count.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't count.
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Speaker 2: So you're a hard guy to find some information on.
Speaker 1: Like obviously, football wise, I can find all sorts of
Speaker 1: information on you, but you off the field not as
Speaker 1: easy to find information on. But one of the things
Speaker 1: that kept popping up was you guys being miked up
Speaker 1: of course during the games. Is it stressful to be
Speaker 1: wearing that mic pack during the game.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's stressful. You know, you just play
Speaker 3: and then go out there and make plays and then
Speaker 3: people just see the real you in between the plays
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I always see in these videos you guys are like,
Speaker 1: you're miked up. You're the fed.
Speaker 2: I've got to give.
Speaker 1: Everyone the got it.
Speaker 3: You gotta get people's head up because they might say
Speaker 3: something like whoa, whoa, what are you saying? Everybody say
Speaker 3: something to you today, like you'd be like what So
Speaker 3: you got to just be one, you know with you
Speaker 3: the FBI to day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've definitely.
Speaker 1: I did a reality show once and you forget that
Speaker 1: you're wearing the mic.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you start talking about some stuff you're like, oh no,
Speaker 2: who got to hear what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it can be very stressful. So have you ever
Speaker 1: said anything miked up that you really can?
Speaker 2: Naht that out?
Speaker 1: It's all right, okay for you and BJ your friendship
Speaker 1: of course, you guys were roommates in college together. You're
Speaker 1: here at the Bengals together. What is your guys perfect
Speaker 1: day together?
Speaker 3: Perfect day?
Speaker 1: It was a perfect day for you and BJ together?
Speaker 2: Would you guys be doing?
Speaker 3: I think a perfect day with me? And BJ? Is like,
Speaker 3: it's hard with him because he just he does a
Speaker 3: lot of different things than I will do. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm the guy that stay in the box. I don't
Speaker 3: get out of the so he'll go muddy. And I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know if I want to go
Speaker 3: that do that? But and then I just go because
Speaker 3: last year we went it was.
Speaker 2: What happened last year?
Speaker 3: It was him. I don't I don't want to say
Speaker 3: what it was. It was him because we went to
Speaker 3: his land. Actually, you know, guys like he really from
Speaker 3: the country and stuff, so go to his land and
Speaker 3: then he got like a hundred acres of land and stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what, man, he ain't got no honey. But
Speaker 3: I just so I'm going to go see that. But
Speaker 3: he got everything you can go shoot guns and stuff,
Speaker 3: which he he made me get guns. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 3: I don't mess with him. I don't wan to tut guns.
Speaker 3: But we shooting guns. And then he got a side
Speaker 3: by side, so the side by side crazy. I ain't
Speaker 3: never really being in one.
Speaker 2: Wait, how does that work? Like the little sidecar thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, little car things with the big wheels and stuff.
Speaker 3: But his really time, yeah, like his really fast and stuff.
Speaker 3: So when we going around and stuff, you know, he driving,
Speaker 3: I'm just smiling because like the little kid been at
Speaker 3: that because I ain't didn't want before, you know, I
Speaker 3: ain't grow up like like with side by sides and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So I'm going in. So he asked
Speaker 3: me to drive, so yeah, I'm a drive. So when
Speaker 3: I'm driving and I'm driving, I'm going around fast and
Speaker 3: then we just spin. That was serting. You know, I
Speaker 3: can't talk what happened after that.
Speaker 4: We can guess.
Speaker 2: We can imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but I met mess up is caught.
Speaker 1: Did you have to get that thing? Fax?
Speaker 3: I have to get it fixed? You know that's what
Speaker 3: he got rich friends for.
Speaker 2: You know, man, nothing fair enough. What does he do
Speaker 2: that gets on your nerves?
Speaker 3: Everything? It ain't nothing that he don't get on your nerves.
Speaker 3: You know, everybody in the room feel the same. Everybody
Speaker 3: in the locker room feel the same way.
Speaker 1: What do you do that gets on his nerves?
Speaker 3: I don't do nothing. I'm a good guy. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm this guy.
Speaker 2: You seem pretty self aware.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's gotta be something that you know that
Speaker 1: if this is the thing I do or say, it's
Speaker 1: gonna drive him nuts.
Speaker 3: This Bobby Bobby Jane, Bobby Jean. Yeah, what name they saying? Bobby?
Speaker 1: It's a nice thing we like to get Bobby Bobby.
Speaker 3: That's like a nineteen seventy named Bobby Jean.
Speaker 1: Okay, so NC State wolf pack. Who's in your wolf pack?
Speaker 1: Who's going to be in your fox hole with you?
Speaker 3: Oh? Say, the guys that came in with me the
Speaker 3: two thousand and fourteen recruiting class, I say it was
Speaker 3: a lot of us. We was all this like had
Speaker 3: that mindset of like loving the game, playing the game football.
Speaker 3: We all like came in with the mindset that we
Speaker 3: wanted to change something. You know, they came we was
Speaker 3: there was three and something I don't know. They lost
Speaker 3: a lot of games, so we just wanted to change
Speaker 3: what was there. So I would say it was like
Speaker 3: BJ of course. Then my roommate on Steph. Yeah, then
Speaker 3: got Boom, then got Dat's, got Chubbed, the got Jalen Samuels,
Speaker 3: got J Matt. You got a lot of people like
Speaker 3: we Well, you got a lot of people that was there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we came in together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great answer.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: What are some of your hobbies?
Speaker 1: What else are you doing aside from ripping it up
Speaker 1: over at BJ's hundred acres? What else do you do
Speaker 1: when you're not playing football?
Speaker 3: I'll say album, I like red wine?
Speaker 2: Love that? What you have a favorite wine?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Nickel?
Speaker 1: Nickel, I say, okay, love a good cabernet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then I say I like Oski music, So
Speaker 3: about that. Then with my lady will be like, go
Speaker 3: to a little spot, listen to music and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: What a romantic you are? Little cats and old school music?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I like nineties. I like the little nineties, little
Speaker 3: baby making music.
Speaker 1: That's why say us, I love that? What what's what's
Speaker 1: like a quick little playlist? If you don't forgive me
Speaker 1: the whole thing but put together like three songs. You
Speaker 1: and your girl are getting together, having the wine. What's
Speaker 1: the first thing you want to crack?
Speaker 3: Mmmm? I say, Jojasy, come and talk to me. I
Speaker 3: mean no, not not, that's not coming top to me.
Speaker 3: But uh, I ain't mean to say that, but I'll
Speaker 3: say it, Josy. Okay, something with Josy. Then I listen
Speaker 3: to Keith Sweat, I get all my love oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and damn what else? I'll say something with Mary j love.
Speaker 1: It, love it, a little key, sweat up in the room.
Speaker 1: Get some of that planing. Can we start like feeding
Speaker 1: that into the music.
Speaker 2: You're not married yet? When's that happening? What's going down?
Speaker 2: You were engaged last time?
Speaker 1: I think it had just kind of happened last time
Speaker 1: I spoke to where we at.
Speaker 3: You got on the woman when the woman's right, Okay,
Speaker 3: I mean you got a planet. Yeah, I know, you
Speaker 3: know it just got a planet. Because it's the right moment.
Speaker 3: You like, go to the place. They don't like the
Speaker 3: place because it's construction behind it. It's the time of year,
Speaker 3: the flowers ain't right. It's all things that dies in
Speaker 3: or being like ready for a wedding because you know
Speaker 3: it's her day. You know, won't do whatever it takes
Speaker 3: to make her day happy, make her happy, you know,
Speaker 3: wine and down her it's hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys could just a lope.
Speaker 3: Just be the two of you. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3: You just have one person to say, yeah they got married.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what we did. It was great.
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Speaker 1: Look good game, good pregame meal.
Speaker 2: What are you eating before game?
Speaker 3: Uh? Premt meal. I barely eat, but like home games.
Speaker 3: Then my lady got to cook breakfast. It's mandatory because
Speaker 3: you know how it is spread. Look like it gotta
Speaker 3: be the pancakes or French sast. I mean not French sauce,
Speaker 3: but like some some yeah, French toast. Yeah, but I'd
Speaker 3: say that. Then ed's bacon, and then some grits I
Speaker 3: just like it, and then probably some sausage you put.
Speaker 2: In your gruts, cheese, okay, and salt and pepper.
Speaker 3: Got it.
Speaker 2: People put sugar in their gruts?
Speaker 3: Yeah, some people. Yeah, I don't do it, but that's
Speaker 3: people that like possible. It's possible.
Speaker 1: Pre game tune that's not Keith Sweat. Maybe it is
Speaker 1: a little Mary Jay. What are you listening to right
Speaker 1: before you walk out?
Speaker 3: Depends on my mood, you know. I don't like sometimes
Speaker 3: I don't like to be rowdy, like how everybody else.
Speaker 3: I don't think rowdy is yo get you like Pomp Boom? Yeah,
Speaker 3: being rowdy the whole day. I still listen to like
Speaker 3: R and B right through it out, like this mellow
Speaker 3: that this metal in my mind is putting myself at peace,
Speaker 3: because when you're playing, you want to be at peace.
Speaker 2: It's smart. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: You got to kind of like harness that energy a
Speaker 1: little bit, save it for when you need it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tap in after the game. What do you do immediately
Speaker 1: post game? What does that look like for you?
Speaker 3: M depends on the thing. But we I try to
Speaker 3: eat Rue Chris. I like ru Chris a lot. We'll
Speaker 3: go too like the dinner and eat with my girl
Speaker 3: and my kids and whoever comes with us.
Speaker 1: It's a little post game meal. So talk to me
Speaker 1: about the development of the rookies so far this season.
Speaker 1: Who have you been the most surprised by?
Speaker 3: M hmm, I just focus on like the ones that
Speaker 3: I've been around most just like DJ. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: you got Jay Black, Jordan Battle just seeing them like
Speaker 3: develop understanding the game, you know, just understanding our defense.
Speaker 3: They keep on growing each and every week. You know,
Speaker 3: Jay Black stepped in and being like the start of this.
Speaker 3: I think this would be the second game. You know,
Speaker 3: he's each of the week, he's getting better. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: know he's competing. Yeah, he tackling well, he does. He
Speaker 3: doing a lot. And then you got DJ. You know
Speaker 3: guy that that love being the man coverage. You know,
Speaker 3: I can see a guy that you can put on
Speaker 3: an island and not not worry about. I truly see
Speaker 3: him like this being one of the top guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, certainly, no doubt. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people can see that in them. From this season. The
Speaker 1: thing that I keep seeing online is a lot of
Speaker 1: football players stepping into the booth recording some Christmas songs?
Speaker 2: Would you do this?
Speaker 1: Are you seeing this?
Speaker 3: No? I would not seem I don't think so. I would.
Speaker 1: But if you're listening to these R and B tunes,
Speaker 1: maybe you go a little vibe in there.
Speaker 2: You can just let it loose.
Speaker 3: Nah, I ain't got men, I ain't got man. Singing
Speaker 3: one of my things. I ain't got one of them things.
Speaker 1: But is there somebody in the locker room you think
Speaker 1: could belt out a great Christmas tune?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Jordan Battle, oh yeah? Or dj Ippen.
Speaker 1: Okay, knock out some tunes. Guys, note it, we'll get
Speaker 1: we'll get it up and running. I love that. Do
Speaker 1: you have any New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 2: Are your resolution?
Speaker 1: Guy?
Speaker 3: I'm no. I think east and never year. You got
Speaker 3: to improve yourself as an individual. Then you get as
Speaker 3: because I say like you improve as a person, you
Speaker 3: grow as a as a man. You know, each and
Speaker 3: every year a man get wiser.
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 3: Being down Earth? You learn from women?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Growing up in the house we all women and stuff.
Speaker 3: You learn from them because they they are quick learners.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, we we adjust. We are always listening, always
Speaker 1: paying attention. Very true. Okay, you've been on the team,
Speaker 1: uh for quite a while. Now, when are you going
Speaker 1: to go from playoff p to Uncle Pee? Is that
Speaker 1: going to be a thing?
Speaker 3: Uncle plete? I think I'm already probably Uncle Pete to
Speaker 3: some people, you know, but I think I'll probably be
Speaker 3: somebody you know. They probably think I'm alridy old. If
Speaker 3: I don't shave my head and stiff walking around like
Speaker 3: like dang boy, because I ain't gotten here in the middle.
Speaker 4: So i'd say, yeah, yeah, how does it feel you
Speaker 4: Are you feeling that like that age of being on
Speaker 4: the team for you know, the five years to having
Speaker 4: some of these newer guys come in.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling that age gap between you guys?
Speaker 3: Not somewhat because I ain't the oldest. Nobody's really it's
Speaker 3: really still young and I'm still young.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course. I mean, yeah, you're still young obviously.
Speaker 1: But sometimes when I come in here, I'm like looking
Speaker 1: at someone's date of birth, I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're so young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're still young, but we still young. Like it's
Speaker 3: not like we ain't got nobody, you just got old
Speaker 3: it or might might say it's really old, but nobody's
Speaker 3: really that old, because.
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy because what's old, Like what's who's
Speaker 1: the oldest on the How old is.
Speaker 3: I don't know how, thirty thirty.
Speaker 1: Something, thirty two something like that, thirty.
Speaker 3: Two, I don't know how. Oh yeah, yeah, it's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So I think, like it's not that too
Speaker 3: many people, oh because a lot of kids are staying
Speaker 3: in college. Yeah, and they come here like twenty four
Speaker 3: to twenty five. I'm not but twenty seven, so I
Speaker 3: ain't that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, not at all. But sometimes that when
Speaker 1: I see like twenty one twenty.
Speaker 3: Two, I'm like, yeah, you got the outliers a baby
Speaker 3: you know he was first guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you want your legacy to be in football?
Speaker 1: What do you want to leave on the sport?
Speaker 3: I'll say a legacy. I just leave this like I
Speaker 3: was a great teammate. It's a guy that that was dependable,
Speaker 3: you can count on, and this is that you can hit.
Speaker 3: So that a guy that loved football.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What about after football? Who do you want to
Speaker 1: be after football?
Speaker 2: What do you want to do? I stay at home, dad,
Speaker 2: great answer I was saying.
Speaker 3: I'd say they stay at home somewhat stay at home.
Speaker 3: But you gotta figure out a balance between that, you know,
Speaker 3: because I see what my kids do. Because after that,
Speaker 3: I know what I really want to do because I
Speaker 3: be around my kids and they if they playing sports,
Speaker 3: I'm going to everything because I'm I'm not going to
Speaker 3: some job and just sit there. I'm like, oh, my
Speaker 3: kid got a game. I'm going to my kid game.
Speaker 3: I'm stopping everything go see them. Because I didn't have
Speaker 3: that father figure going to the game and stuff, and
Speaker 3: then I just had my mama was always working. But
Speaker 3: we understand that because when she had three kids and
Speaker 3: but me, you're there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what that's like too. It's like
Speaker 2: to be that kid.
Speaker 1: All you want to do is look up in the
Speaker 1: stands and see who's there watching for you, rooting for you,
Speaker 1: giving some advice.
Speaker 2: How old are your kids?
Speaker 3: Three and two?
Speaker 1: Little babes are they? Well, I mean they're so little,
Speaker 1: but are they doing any kind of activities right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Everything just running, jumping, jumping out anything anything they
Speaker 3: want to do.
Speaker 1: Just put my daughter in gymnastics and she's like two
Speaker 1: and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a trip, that's.
Speaker 3: What That's what I was planning on doing when we
Speaker 3: got back. Yeah, whatever this in and stuff. I was
Speaker 3: a player at the gymnastic because she got an older
Speaker 3: cousin that's doing it now and she made States with
Speaker 3: aau So wow, yeah, get.
Speaker 1: Out there, yeah, get it awesome. Well, Jermaine, thank you
Speaker 1: for hanging out with me.
Speaker 2: Best of luck the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: And hey, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, Marry Christmas to you,