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Speaker 1: Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals boot Podcast. The I get knocked down, but

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Speaker 1: I'll get up again. Addition, as Dave Lapham joins me

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Speaker 1: to discuss the Bengals first scrimmage of training camp. With

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Speaker 1: no preseason games, NFL teams have to do some tackling

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Speaker 1: at practice this year, and we'll tell you who stepped

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Speaker 1: up when the Bengals started knocking teammates down. Plus, I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to former NFL GM Charlie Casserleigh, now with the

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Speaker 1: NFL Network and NFL dot Com. If he had been

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Speaker 1: in charge of the Bengals going into this year's draft,

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Speaker 1: would he have taken Joe Burrow or traded the pick?

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Speaker 1: He'll answer that question. And finally, this week's one on

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Speaker 1: one player interview is with c j Uzama, now the

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Speaker 1: old man in the Bengals tight ends room. Those were

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Speaker 1: the greatest thing since a golf lesson. I love golf,

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Speaker 1: and at various points in my life I've been a

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Speaker 1: decent player, certainly not great, but somebody who could pretty

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Speaker 1: consistently shoot in the low eighties with the occasional round

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Speaker 1: in the seventies. Well not this year. I stink so

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Speaker 1: much so that when I've had the chance to play,

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Speaker 1: the round. So this week I broke down and took

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Speaker 1: a lesson from my friend Doug Martin, the former PGA

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Speaker 1: Tour player who is now the head coach at UC.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome and in one hour I felt like

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Speaker 1: I was back on track. So if you're a struggling golfer,

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Speaker 1: don't give up. Take a lesson. After just one hour,

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Speaker 1: I think that I no longer stink. Now, let's get

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Speaker 1: to football. On Friday morning, Joe Burrow faced his biggest

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Speaker 1: test of training camp to date as the Bengals held

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Speaker 1: their first scrimmage. The rookie quarterback even got tackled by

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Speaker 1: a Gatorade cooler that Burrow tripped over on a scramble

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Speaker 1: out of bounds, Joe cool hopped right up and after

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Speaker 1: third play of an eleven play touchdown drive. Quite a

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Speaker 1: talk about it when the scrimmage was finished. Lap at

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Speaker 1: the NFL scouting combine, we learned Joe Burrow's hand size. Well.

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Speaker 1: Now after seeing them scrimmage for the first time, we

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Speaker 1: I'm obviously being facetious, but he was really impressive today.

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Speaker 1: He was out there for five drives in the scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: The Bengal scored three touchdowns and two field goals on

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Speaker 1: And you know, Zach has got a scoring system on

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Speaker 1: said hell, like, dude, don't do that to me again.

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Speaker 1: You know, receivers to a quarterback, and Joe's I think,

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Speaker 1: nice pin blocks, you know, and and uh, you know

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Speaker 1: space as a pulling lineman led to a you know,

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Speaker 1: one of their touchdowns. And it's it's encouraging to you know,

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Speaker 1: to see these these young players. I mean, that's who

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Speaker 1: that's who the Bengals are. When when you look at

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Speaker 1: a lot of the positions that that guys were playing.

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Speaker 1: We talked about Jonah Williams, Michael Jordan, Trey Hopkins has

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Speaker 1: not been He's not a you know, a grizzle veteran guy,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean that offensive line. Bobby Hart's the

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Speaker 1: oldest player that offensive line. He's not, you know, not

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Speaker 1: a graybeard, um, Drew Sample, CJ's It's they this roster,

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Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of guys they're counting on in

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Speaker 1: the early stages or in the prime stages of their career.

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Speaker 1: Prime for me as a as a foreign player is

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Speaker 1: like years four to seven, but now they're playing so

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Speaker 1: much longer. It might be four to nine or four

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Speaker 1: to ten because they are playing, you know, so much longer.

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Speaker 1: But in the way nutrition and weight training on all that,

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Speaker 1: the way they're taking care of themselves. Um, and they're

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Speaker 1: getting paid so much, do have to worry about offseason jobs.

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Speaker 1: So it's a it's a different animal. But they're a

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Speaker 1: lot of young players are gonna be given the keys

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Speaker 1: to the car as such, and they're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: learn to drive quickly, all right. Final thing, T Higgins

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Speaker 1: has been going through wide receiver drills prior to this

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Speaker 1: scrimmage type stuff at practice for the last few days.

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Speaker 1: He'll be back out there soon unless there's a setback,

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Speaker 1: and there's no reason to fear that there will be.

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Speaker 1: We happen to see AJ Green rehabbing on the Paul

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Speaker 1: Brown Stadium field inside of the stadium prior to our

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Speaker 1: video report yesterday, so AJ's getting closer. John Ross is

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Speaker 1: back in town going back through the COVID nineteen testing protocol,

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Speaker 1: so within a few days he's likely to be back.

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Speaker 1: So I think sometime next week we're going to see

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow throwing to all of his weapons. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's going to be potentially this next scrimmage

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Speaker 1: Priday United Paul Brown Stadium. I think that'll be preseason

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Speaker 1: game number three as such, where you know, everybody gets

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Speaker 1: quite a few you play first half, who down, warm

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Speaker 1: back up, play a series in the third quarter. I

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Speaker 1: think that they'll, within reason, they'll they'll play you know,

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Speaker 1: quite a few of these guys. I mean, John Ross

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Speaker 1: they said he was looking really good physically, and he

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Speaker 1: knows the offense. I mean, he participated in it last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Tea Higgins, how quickly do you want to

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Speaker 1: get him out there? I'm sure you want to try

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Speaker 1: to get it out there as quickly as possible with

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Speaker 1: you know, Joe Burrow and get him indoctrinated into the

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Speaker 1: tempo and speed of the game in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: And you know, interesting to see how much AJ Green

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Speaker 1: will play, you know, if they continue to maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: treat him with kid gloves a little bit and make

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Speaker 1: sure the one thing I know they want to make

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Speaker 1: sure of his AJ Green is available for the opener

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers. They all with scrimmages, you know, whatever else.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure that you've got him tracking h to

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Speaker 1: participate and make plays in that season open against the

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Speaker 1: LA Chargers. But you know, Joe Burrow and aj Green,

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Speaker 1: they'd like to get some timing, you know, and some repetitions.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited about seeing the true number ones. And

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Speaker 1: like we said, you know what, if you're a pro,

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Speaker 1: if those guys aren't playing, the thing you have to

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Speaker 1: do is take advantage of opportunities presented to yourself. Untake

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Speaker 1: Alex Erickson. Good job, You'll sleep well tonight. You took

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Speaker 1: full advantage. As Lap referenced, we will be broadcasting an

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Speaker 1: upcoming scrimmage on the radio that will be on Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: August thirtieth. Before we get to our next conversation, here's

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Speaker 1: a quick reminder that you can take your Bengals pride

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Speaker 1: to the next level in twenty twenty with an official

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Speaker 1: Bengals fan package from Prime Sport. If you had to

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Speaker 1: pick one decision in Bengals history that the team would

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Speaker 1: most like to have back, it was probably back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine when they turned down a bunch of

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Speaker 1: draft picks, including multiple first round selections from the New

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, and drafted achiey Smith number three overall. Washington

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Speaker 1: had the fifth pick in that draft and wound up

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Speaker 1: making the trade with New Orleans getting six picks in

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Speaker 1: the ninety nine draft plus first and third round selections

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Speaker 1: in the two thousand draft. In other words, Washington traded

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Speaker 1: one pick for eight, including two first rounders. Washington's general

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Speaker 1: manager at that time was Charlie Casserley, now an analyst

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Speaker 1: for the NFL Network and a columnist for NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He joined me for this week's podcast. Charlie, any Bengals

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Speaker 1: related interview going into twenty twenty has to begin with

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Speaker 1: a discussion about Joe Burrow. What did you think of

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Speaker 1: him as an NFL prospect and as a former GM

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Speaker 1: would you have drafted him number one overall or look

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Speaker 1: to trade the pick from multiple number ones. I would

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Speaker 1: have taken him. I thought he was the best quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the draft. You know, there's always a risk with

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Speaker 1: a rookie whether he's going to develop or not. But

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Speaker 1: I liked them. I wouldn't take the chance of multiple picks.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what's going to happen with them, and

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Speaker 1: if you have a quarterback, you'd like you'd take them.

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Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two would I like about him?

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Speaker 1: I think intelligence, his study, habits, his field, vision, anticipation,

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Speaker 1: poison the pocket. I mean, I saw this guy standing

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Speaker 1: there with people coming right at him and he never flinched.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say he has a top arm, but there's

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with his arm to make all the throws. So,

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Speaker 1: like we're talking to former NFL GM Charlie Castleley, with

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Speaker 1: no OTAs or mini camps and now no preseason games,

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Speaker 1: what are your expectations for his rookie year. Well, Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton came in without an offseason, but he had preseason

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Speaker 1: games and he went on and was I think he

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Speaker 1: was twenty touchdown masses over three thousand yards throwing. Those

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Speaker 1: are ballpark figures of what he did, but I know

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Speaker 1: they're close, but I'm not sure. It's just hard to

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Speaker 1: say at this point in time. I think he's smart.

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Speaker 1: I think that the offense will grow throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: I think that you'll be You'll be putting it in

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Speaker 1: as you go and I don't think there's any other

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Speaker 1: way to do it. Don't know will load the guy.

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Speaker 1: What he can do you execute? You know, I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of it's going to depend upon you know,

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Speaker 1: does he does he have everybody healthy with him? You

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Speaker 1: know when Andy Goldon excelled, AJ Green excelled too. They

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Speaker 1: were both rookies at the same point in time. So

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Speaker 1: he needs a healthy AJ Green, a healthy Joe Mixon,

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Speaker 1: and a healthy offensive line. And if he's got everybody healthy,

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Speaker 1: I think the offense can grow and he can do well.

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Speaker 1: If I'm evaluating him, does he execute the offense? Make

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Speaker 1: sure I don't have overloaded. And from his point of view,

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Speaker 1: he can't try to make every play a home run.

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Speaker 1: He can't run around there forever in the backfield if

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Speaker 1: it's not there to throw it away, run even if

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Speaker 1: you have to take the sack, live for another day.

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the things he's going to have

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Speaker 1: to learn, Charlie. As you know, the Bengals have historically

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Speaker 1: not been a big spender in free agency, but they

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Speaker 1: dove in head first this year. What was your reaction

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Speaker 1: and was there an addition or two that you especially liked. Well,

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Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a surprise, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you have a second year head coach. You're trying to

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Speaker 1: win here, and you've got the first pick in the draft,

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Speaker 1: and you got a quarterback, so I could see what

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Speaker 1: they were doing. I think DJ Reader to me, was

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Speaker 1: the best free agents they signed. This is this guy's

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Speaker 1: a complete player. Scott can play the run, he's strong inside,

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Speaker 1: he can give you a push on the pocket, he's

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Speaker 1: got some pass rush ability. You know. He was the

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Speaker 1: one guy that that stood out to me that every

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Speaker 1: team in the league would have won to have. We're

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Speaker 1: talking to former NFL GM Charlie Casserley. You wrote a

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Speaker 1: column for NFL dot com about a week ago looking

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Speaker 1: at all four teams in the AFC North and it

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Speaker 1: included some key position battles. What positions in Cincinnati do

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Speaker 1: you have your eyes on. Well, they got to sort

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Speaker 1: the offensive line out. I think that that that's probably

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Speaker 1: the key one when you look at it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the linebacker position, the all three boy of

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Speaker 1: positions are wide open. You've got to Jermine, Josh Bines,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Evans, and you got the rookies Logan Wilson, who

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Speaker 1: I like. I gotta believe he'll find a starting position.

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Speaker 1: And then you got a couple of other rookies in there,

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Speaker 1: really your center and your left tackle a set, I think,

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Speaker 1: and then everything else is up for grafts. So then

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Speaker 1: you get that settled in there. Were you a big

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Speaker 1: Jonah Williams guy going into last year's draft. I liked them.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was an excellent prospect. I thought he

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Speaker 1: was a good pick. I thought I had him rated

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Speaker 1: in the first round. I thought he was a left tackle,

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Speaker 1: and I think that that's a very unfortunately missed his

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Speaker 1: rookie year. So again, it's awfully hard to sit there

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Speaker 1: and evaluate how these well, these guys who are gonna

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Speaker 1: play in September with fourteen padded practices and no games.

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Speaker 1: So I think we're all gonna have to be a patient.

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Speaker 1: The offensive line is always the slowest group to come together,

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Speaker 1: even with a full preseason in September, it's probably the

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Speaker 1: lowest performing or at least performing level off a group

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Speaker 1: of any on the team, and that especially hurts a

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. So it's a group that's going to take

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Speaker 1: some time to come together, but not unlike many other

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Speaker 1: lines in this league. Charlie Joe Mixon is due to

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Speaker 1: be a free agent at the end of this year.

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Speaker 1: As a former team builder, how do you feel about

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Speaker 1: paying running backs? Well, it's one of those things. The

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Speaker 1: second contracts always tricky because a lot of them don't

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Speaker 1: make it through the second contract. But if you're getting

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Speaker 1: a guy that's young and not twenty eight when he

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Speaker 1: signs the second contract, I'd absolutely sign him to the

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Speaker 1: second contract because the age is in your favor there.

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Speaker 1: You know, Mixon is an outstanding player. He's one of

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Speaker 1: the better young backs in the league, and you want

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Speaker 1: to have him. The problem is, I don't know where

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Speaker 1: they are financially or what Mixon wants that that always

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Speaker 1: becomes an issue in the thing. But I'm sure they

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Speaker 1: want to sign him and be sure that they would

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Speaker 1: love to have him because he's an excellent player. We're

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Speaker 1: talking to former NFL GM Charlie Casserley. If you were

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Speaker 1: running a team under these circumstances, what are some of

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Speaker 1: the things you would be worried about going into this year. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it starts with the building. Do we have

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Speaker 1: the building safe? And I think teams have done an

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Speaker 1: outstanding job with that and and so that's your credit

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Speaker 1: to the teams. That's number one. Number two, the players

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Speaker 1: when they were away from the facility. Are they going

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Speaker 1: to be disciplined enough. We've taken care of one. We

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Speaker 1: got them in here and got them out of every

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Speaker 1: days safe. Are they going to be safe when they

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Speaker 1: go away? And that's going to depend on the character

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Speaker 1: of the individuals, the maturity of the team. The team

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Speaker 1: that does that the best is going to have a

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Speaker 1: decided advantage this year. You can't have any situations where

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Speaker 1: you're losing a number of players for a week or

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Speaker 1: two at a time, and that's going to kill you.

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Speaker 1: I think the other thing is flexibility in scheme and leadership.

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Speaker 1: Mental toughness. I don't want to say that. I guess

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Speaker 1: a mental toughness might be a right word, but no excuses.

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00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: Mentality by the coaching staff and flexibility otherwise meant we're playing.

639
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling the players. The bus is leaving,

640
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: You're gonna be on it. It's your job to be

641
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: on it. That's one. But number two, what I'm gonna

642
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: tell the coaching staff, as you know that sixty ninth

643
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: player we have, I expect him ready to start on Sunday,

644
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: because he might have to. So the coaches are gonna

645
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: have to get every player ready and have a plan

646
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: to get every player ready with creative practice schedules. I

647
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: suggested to the teams split up into smaller groups in

648
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: the early part of preseason to get more instruction for

649
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: the bottom level. A lot of times of practice, squad

650
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: players don't get coached and prepared. They have to be

651
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: prepared this week this year because they may have to play.

652
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: You may have some positive tests on Sunday Saturday that

653
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: don't turn around for Sunday, so you're gonna have to

654
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: put some guys on the field. So those are the

655
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: principles and position flexibility. Your linebacker has got to play

656
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: every position. Your defensive backs have to be at playovery position.

657
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: But as a coach, this is my last point. You

658
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: got to be flexible. Now, hey, we lost three wide

659
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: receivers here, Well, maybe we got to play more to

660
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: two tight ends. Maybe we got to use a running

661
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: back at receiver. We lost our tight ends, well we

662
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 1: better have an offensive lineman or two then go play

663
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: tight end. We've better be able to go four wides.

664
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: We lose our running backs, do we have somebody that

665
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: a wide receiver or tight end. It can play running

666
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: back for one week. You better train these guys to

667
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: do multiple things because you could have that happen to you.

668
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: That's quite a list, and it seems like flexibility. Is

669
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: that the key word in all of that. No, it

670
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: absolutely is. And and smart practicing during the week and

671
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: otherwise socially distancing maybe some of your players. What what

672
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: the experts believe is this is that playing football will

673
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: not transmit the disease U. Contact tracing I was told

674
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: by the CDC begins with fifteen minutes. The NFL is

675
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: beginning in a ten minutes. But it's continuous, is what

676
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: we're being told. There's no continuous contact on the field

677
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: for ten minutes. Now, what the bench do You have

678
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: your bench spread out? You might put people in the

679
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: stands like they do in baseball. I watched some of

680
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: the highlights I watched in practice. I don't see people

681
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: spreading apart the way they should did drills. I know,

682
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: when you get to eleven or eleven, you know you're

683
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: playing football, but you're doing drills, you're not playing football,

684
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: and you're staying on the sideline. You're not playing football.

685
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: So those are the things that you're gonna have to

686
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: be disciplined about through the week. And people talked about

687
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: maybe quarantine the quarterback, the third quarterback. But if you

688
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: do all your meetings virtual and they don't come near

689
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: each other in practice okay, and they wear masks except

690
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: when they don't have to, then it's inexcusable or a

691
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: player to miss. I'm saying this, and I've told some

692
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: teams this. With what you set up and you go

693
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: test during the season, which I think you have to do,

694
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: and what I would do, I put him in a

695
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: hotel on Thursday night, I start a bubble. It's inexcusable

696
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: to miss a game this year. Charlie assess the Bengals

697
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: competition in the AFC North Plus up Division Up Division.

698
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: You know, Baltimore I think is going to be right

699
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: where they were a year ago as a top team. Now,

700
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: whether they have the same record, I don't know. Can

701
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: teams catch up to their offense? Probably hard to do

702
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: it no offseason and limited training camp because that's where

703
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 1: you spend your extra time on practicing. Defending the Ravens

704
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: option offense, which is unique to the NFL, is the

705
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: only one run like that. I think Pittsburgh will be

706
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: back with Ben a quarterback. All the all reports are good,

707
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: all reports in the off season where they we're going

708
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: to be good. So I expect them to bounce back.

709
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they came close last year, so I think

710
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in it. And Cleveland has enough talent

711
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: to win ten games. Now when are they're going to

712
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: do it this year? I don't know, Okay, new coaching staff.

713
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: Offensive lines got some issues right now with the center

714
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: a treader out and the wills of the first pick

715
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: trying to learn left tackle when he played right tackle

716
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 1: in college, so the offensive line may not be as sharp.

717
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: Linebackers is a question for him. But they're they're good.

718
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: You know, Cincinnati's fourth, but they're not a bad team.

719
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: So I think that it's a very competitive division. That's

720
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Charlie Casserley, who has obviously spent a

721
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: lot of time thinking about what it's going to take

722
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: to play football this year, and according to Pro Football Talk,

723
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: Charlie is going to be part of an eight person

724
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: committee that will be advising NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on

725
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: issues related to the coronavirus. Marvin Lewis is also reportedly

726
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: a member of that committee. Now time for a one

727
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: on one player interview, and early this week I caught

728
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: up with tight end c j Uzoma is he begins

729
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: his sixth year in Cincinnati. It's obviously drastically different from

730
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: the previous five, and I asked CJ if the current

731
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,479
Speaker 1: protocols are starting to feel like the new normal. Yeah.

732
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: I think the first the first few days, I mean

733
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: even even now a few of the things that we

734
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: have to do to make sure that we're um, you know,

735
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: staying a safe distance away from one another and working

736
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: out and wiping the bar down after every rep touch

737
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: stuff you kind of forget to do. You're you're trying

738
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 1: to make sure that you don't forget to do certain things.

739
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I think this is the new norm,

740
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: and um, we're kind of adapting as best wee king.

741
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: Did you have any reservations about trying to play football

742
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: in a worldwide pandemic? Um? Oh, no, I mean I

743
00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: think m being in Nashville and during everything and kind

744
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 1: of seeing how other cities were dealing with things. It's

745
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: kind of like being in Cincinnati was my best bet

746
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, quarantining thing away from people

747
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: just because when people were going crazy just being out,

748
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: and you know, it's kind of fifty fifty whether or

749
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: not you're gonna people were staying home and trying to

750
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: stay safe or going out and just carrying wrong going

751
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: to bars and stuff. So I think, yeah, I was ready. Honestly,

752
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: I was just ready to get back and get started.

753
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: We're visiting me the Bengals tight end c j Uzama.

754
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: Let me ask the question that you probably get from everybody,

755
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think of Joe Burrow? I think, yeah,

756
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 1: I've gotten that a lot. Yeah, I think he's bright.

757
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: You know, we were kind of talking about it today

758
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: w TD AJ Joe Bobby. I mean, a bunch of

759
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: the guys Joe were like, you know, coming in, obviously

760
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, and we know that we had a

761
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: very successful college career, but you know we're still thinking, man,

762
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. Yes, run the plays, you know, the checks,

763
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: all these things, and he he is killing it to us.

764
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: You know, I think, um, you know, he's leads and

765
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: bounds what anybody had expected him to be. Um in

766
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: terms of mentally, you know, we knew what he could

767
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: do physically, with don and putting upon certain areas and positions.

768
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: But um, I think mentally he's is what's um been

769
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: the most surprising and in the best way. By the

770
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: time we got to the National Championship game last year

771
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: between LSU and Clemson, it was pretty obvious that Joe

772
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: Burrow was likely to be the number one pick in

773
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: the draft and wind up being your NFL teammate. Did

774
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: you watch him use tight end Thaddeus Moss? I think

775
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: he had two touchdown passes in that game, and get

776
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: excited by his use of the tight end, Yeah, for sure,

777
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: I did. I think the two things that really excited

778
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: me about tight ends were, yeah, him using Moss and

779
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: then you know, I think then this, uh during or

780
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: when ots be going on and during the off season,

781
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: he was kind of throwing with two hometown tight ends

782
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: that he had, and um, you know, hearing both of

783
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: those things and seeing that happen, I was like, Man,

784
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: this is gonna be this should be fun. You know.

785
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to be sure to keep getting in

786
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 1: his ear a little bit just to just how he knows. Hey,

787
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: I'm we're chatting with c j Uzama. This is the

788
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: first time in your Bengals career. That your buddy Tyler

789
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: Eifert is not part of the tight end room, How

790
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 1: does that impact you? Yeah, it's it's different it. Um,

791
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I was, um a critical and crucial

792
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: pardon in the tight end that I've become just because

793
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: I've had a fear too, you know, a person just

794
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: to pick his brain every now and then, and um

795
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: having him around was always amazing. He's He's going to

796
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: be a lifetime, lifelong friend for sure. But UM, yeah,

797
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: it's it's it's put um a different types of you

798
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: know deal on my plate right now. I think, you know,

799
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: being the oldest in the tight end room now and

800
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: um kind of having that weight on my shoulders, I

801
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: kind of like it going out to practice and knowing that, um,

802
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: you know right now I'm that guy. So we have

803
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: a really good tight end room. I'm really excited about

804
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: everyone we have and um yeah, I'm looking forward to

805
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: honest I think we have we have a we have

806
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: some we have some good things coming from the Titans. CJ.

807
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: You're only twenty seven. You never have to use the

808
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: word oldest, at least not yet. Wait, No, it's crazy

809
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: to me. I'm thinking to myself. Man, yeah, I'm the

810
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: oldest one in the room, but I'm not old. I

811
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: am convinced. I am telling myself right now, I am

812
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: not old. Um. It is funny to think that I'm

813
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: the oldest one in that room. I tell myself that

814
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: I'm not old all the time, but in my case,

815
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: I am Unfortunately. Let's talk about another guy. That's talk

816
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: about another guy in the room, and that is Drew Sample.

817
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: He missed the second half of the season basically last year,

818
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,439
Speaker 1: his rookie year, but it looks like he's come back

819
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: and in tip top shape, a little bit stronger than

820
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 1: he was as a rookie to get ready to block

821
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: some of those big defensive ends in backers. What do

822
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: you think of Drew? Yeah, I think, um, you know

823
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: that second years where you make the biggest read in

824
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: terms of um reproduction and kind of slowing down the

825
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: steet of the game. I think so. Um yeah, I've

826
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: been I've been pleasantly pleased with you know, how how

827
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: are he's um the set that he's taken and like

828
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: you said, he's gotten done, stronger, gotten faster. Um. You know,

829
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: obviously we've only had really one day against the defense

830
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: really where we're going full for for an hour and

831
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: a half, but um, the route that he's running are

832
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: more crisp, and UM, yeah, I'm I'm excited to see

833
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: kind of what he has in store when we put

834
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: those full pads on, because I know he's Um, he's

835
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a force for sure. Spending a few minutes

836
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: with c j Uzama. During your time in Cincinnati, the

837
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: Bengals have historically resigned the best players on the roster,

838
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: and you were a guy that earned a nice second

839
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: contract so far in Cincinnati, but this offseason, the Bengals

840
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: were among the big free agent free agent spenders in

841
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: the NFL, DJ Von Bell, Trey Wayne's, most recently, Mike Daniels,

842
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: What was your reaction to that free agent spending spree.

843
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 1: I think my reaction was just like everyone else who's

844
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: been here for you know, fifteen fifteen years, so we're

845
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: very surprised in the best way, you know, we're I

846
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: called Geo after one of the days and I was like, Bro,

847
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: what is what's going on? Like this is I didn't

848
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: know this was gonna happen, Like I was. This is

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Speaker 1: very unexpected, and um, you know, I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking to Coach Taylor and the coaching staff. You know,

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Speaker 1: they just wanted to get the best guys with the

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Speaker 1: best character, and that's what we brought in honest. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know Vaughan has had his interview, and I know

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Speaker 1: if you don't know, Vawn wakes up at like four

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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning sometimes beforehand because he beats his alarm.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's those kind of guys that I want.

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Speaker 1: I want to play next to that that makes me

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Speaker 1: want to play harder for the defense and the guys

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Speaker 1: across the ball, just because you know they're bringing that

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Speaker 1: work ethic and that that killer mentality of you know,

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Speaker 1: I want, I want to be the best. I want

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Speaker 1: to do every thing I can to make this team

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Speaker 1: the best. So, um, I'm I'm high. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: we got some good guys in there. Um, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of new faces for shared going into the locker

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Speaker 1: room and now getting it being able to interact with

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Speaker 1: the guys. But um, I can tell their high quality

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Speaker 1: and I mean from what I from what I've seen

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Speaker 1: so far, they're really good. You referenced your good buddy

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Speaker 1: Giovanni Bernard. Is he still rocking that full mustache. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, we I mean, can we get a petition

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Speaker 1: to get that thing removed? What's going on here? He's

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Speaker 1: still he's still rocking the mustache. He's gonna rock it

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Speaker 1: for a while. I think that's his wife. Chloe likes it,

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Speaker 1: so that's the only opinion he cares about. I can

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Speaker 1: come in and rag him every day, but so why

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Speaker 1: he likes it. He's fun with it, so um, I

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna let it rock for a while. Happy wife,

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Speaker 1: Happy life. True. Our words were never spoken. C c J.

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Speaker 1: You are a world traveler. In a normal year, in

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Speaker 1: the off season, you would go see someplace you've never

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Speaker 1: seen before, do something interesting in the off season. I

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Speaker 1: always always enjoy hearing about your escapades. Were you forced

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Speaker 1: to just stay in Nashville this whole off season? So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was actually supposed to go to Australia for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and that trip is now halted until next year. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I was actually able to go to Jacksonville, Wyoming,

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Speaker 1: and I was able to go to ask you for

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Speaker 1: X games, and right when I got back, everything got

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Speaker 1: shut down. So I was able to travel twice, and

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Speaker 1: then I thought I was grounded in Nashville. Not your

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Speaker 1: normal off season, but hopefully you'll be able to get

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Speaker 1: to Australia and knock that off the bucket list sometime soon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks the c j Uzama, Charlie Casserley and Dave Lapham.

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Speaker 1: And that's going to do it for this episode of

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