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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 Booth Podcast the Hoo are you Hoo hoo

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Speaker 1: hoo hoo admission as we take a look at the

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Speaker 1: biggest plunge the Bengals have ever taken in free agency,

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Speaker 1: one that's caused many Bengals fans to excitedly ask, who

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Speaker 1: are these guys coming up? I'll spend forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham as we discuss DJ

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Speaker 1: reader Trey Waynes, Von Bell and the other free agent pickups,

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Speaker 1: and then take your questions under the hashtag ask lap

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Speaker 1: and Yes, in case you're wondering, Joe Burrow does come up.

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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham Lap. As we sit down to do this recording,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals have spent approximately one hundred and thirty five

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Speaker 1: million dollars on free agents from other teams. What has

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Speaker 1: gotten into our beloved Cincinnati bengk I'll tell you Dan,

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Speaker 1: it's incredible. I mean, the overhaul continues. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think there's potentially five defensive starters in that in

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Speaker 1: to be a starter at the at the right guard position. Tentatively,

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Speaker 1: you know, you got to you got a starting cornerback

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Speaker 1: I think Dray Kirkpatrick's future is dim in Cincinnati. I

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Speaker 1: don't I think it's going to be short lived. Um

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Speaker 1: William Jackson, I believe would be the other the other corner.

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Speaker 1: It's it's incredible vom Bell, who has made a lot

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Speaker 1: of plays in New Orleans Saints. I mean, he's a

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Speaker 1: he's a quality safety and he played well up in

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Speaker 1: know his his contributions. DJ Reader is a high level

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Speaker 1: I know, I know a lot of people are going

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Speaker 1: You know. The thing is simple math. When you look

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Speaker 1: at the linebacker position in free agency, it wasn't as

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Speaker 1: deep as the draft is potentially. When you look at

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Speaker 1: the sheer numbers, almost every package three or four or

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Speaker 1: times two linebackers. So sheer numbers say that if you've

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Speaker 1: got a prospect that you can upgrade in the defensive

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Speaker 1: I do think that the drafted linebackers deep enough where

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Speaker 1: back to at the turn of the century, nearly two thousands,

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Speaker 1: drew and Ross as a free agent. They redid their

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Speaker 1: with jeff Nor on the staff in terms of rebuilding

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to DJ Reader, probably the

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Speaker 1: do you a double reader? Do you double gino? You

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Speaker 1: big ripple effect with Reader for sure. Since we've been

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Speaker 1: think of Simms. Sims. Yeah, Leshawn Simms. His position coach

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Speaker 1: you have an obvious connection to Steve Jackson. You know,

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Speaker 1: A lot of times. Is Xavier sewer Feelo a significant

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Speaker 1: nine obviously his career. But he run on that Super

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Bengals splurge in free agency was

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Speaker 1: of the defense is remarkable. Like we said, five, you know,

426
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Speaker 1: five potentially five defensive starters in free agency, not not

427
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: counting the draft, and in one offensively. So you know,

428
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: when you're when you're signing guys, uh, and you're signing

429
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: guys that you think you're gonna make major contributions. And

430
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: I think the facelift is extreme. Uh, this this football

431
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,439
Speaker 1: team is gonna look at hell of a lot different

432
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 1: than at the conclusion of last year. I mean when

433
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Speaker 1: you like, you know, we've we've already talked about the

434
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: guys that aren't going to be around Dinard Eifford Um,

435
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: the visual billing, scheduling. I mean, it's you know, it's

436
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good number. So guys are guys

437
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: that have been moved on, some their choice, some others

438
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: b W. Webb has moved on as well. Uh, it's

439
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 1: they've definitely definitely overhauled it. And I think there's there's

440
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 1: a myriad of reasons. I think the staff is is

441
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 1: is uh working in concert better than than put together

442
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: so late last year. And I think the organization is

443
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: saying we got to do some things. Next question comes

444
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: from Ronald. Is Sean Williams moving to linebacker after the

445
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: Von Bell signing? Yeah, they played a lot of three

446
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: safety packages last year and uh, you know Feglam was

447
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: the third safety and now in my mind, Von Bell,

448
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: Uh it is gonna Von Bell and Jesse Bates will

449
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: be the primary guys. Uh. I'll tell you what, Sean

450
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: Williams loved the guy. It played tough, tough, soign of

451
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: a gun played hurt, I mean hurt badly. Leg injuries

452
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: when you're when you when you're playing on the back

453
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: end and you're you know, dragging a leg. Tough thing

454
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: to do. But he did it. And it just goes

455
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,239
Speaker 1: to tell you if they didn't have anybody else they

456
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: could throw in there where they were on the back end.

457
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, I do think Sean Williams can can be

458
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: that you know, that time sub package linebacker type guy

459
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: and do it very well. Now, the thing is that

460
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: this is the last year of his contract and it's

461
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: a five million dollar contract, So now you have to

462
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: think a little bit, all right, can we will he agree?

463
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,719
Speaker 1: Can we talk about a new contract that maybe uh

464
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: you know, isn't isn't quite as prohibitive in terms of

465
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: dollars this year. If that role is going to change

466
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe stay for a longer period of time,

467
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't surprise me if they asked him to come

468
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: to the table. And if in fact that doesn't occur,

469
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: now they have to make it. Make a tough decision

470
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Speaker 1: with respect to Sean Williams, because he's he's liked by

471
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: his teammates and liked and respected by his teammates, his coaches.

472
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: I mean, he's all about football. Football is very important

473
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: to this guy, and you know, you like guys like

474
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: that in your locker room. But I think he's gonna

475
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: have a different role for sure. All Right, similar questions

476
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: from Cullen and Steven. I'm going to specifically read what

477
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: Cullen wrote. He said with the Bengals saying they plan

478
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: to keep Drey and with all of the signings they've

479
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Speaker 1: made in the secondary, does this point to them looking

480
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: to move Will Jackson or does it point to them

481
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: running more Nickel or maybe moving a safety to linebacker.

482
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: And then Stephen basically was wondering if will was going

483
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: to be traded. Let me backtrack to the beginning of

484
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Speaker 1: what Cullen said he started out by writing with the

485
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: Bengals saying they plan to keep Drey. They haven't said

486
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Speaker 1: that as far as I know. I know Jeff Hobson

487
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: has written that it's possible and until they do something,

488
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: it's certainly possible. Paul Dayner Junior from the Athletic has

489
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: more or less said there's no way they're going to

490
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Speaker 1: keep Dre, not with two years and more than nineteen

491
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: mill left on the deal. So let's talk about those

492
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: two things separately. Number one, in your mind, any chance

493
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: that Drey is back? And number two, any chance that

494
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Speaker 1: Will Jackson gets dealt. I think the only way Dray

495
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: Kirkpatrick is back is if he agrees to come to

496
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: the table and doesn't take a hair Kurt, he agrees

497
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: to shave his head. I mean, they're gonna have it's

498
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: gonna have to be a hell of a lot less

499
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: than that ten million that he's you know, come to

500
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: it the cap. I think it is this year, um

501
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: Will Jackson. I think I think in my mind the

502
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: guy that's more vulnerable UH is Dray Kirkpatrick and Will Jackson.

503
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: I do think that you know that they still value uh.

504
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: Will Jackson's abilities at this stage a little bit higher

505
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: than Drey's, and both of them had their injury issues.

506
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean, both of us their share of time, but

507
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: will Will has been a little bit more durable you

508
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: know lately. Um so, I yeah, I do believe that

509
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: that Drey is probably the more vulnerable of the two.

510
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know what kind of trademarket the'd

511
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: be out there, um, you know, for for you either one.

512
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: I think teams once, once, teams around the league start

513
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: to see what you've done and how that affects other players.

514
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: Like we talked about, it's like they're not going to shoot.

515
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: Like the Andy Dalvon situation, a team trades for him,

516
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 1: they have to give up capital in the former drafted

517
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: plus they have to take on the contract. You wait

518
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: for a team to waive a guy, there's no compensation

519
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: and you can redo the contract. You know, have to

520
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 1: absorb the contract you don't take the contract on. So

521
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how it all unfolds. Will

522
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: Jackson is younger, and Will also has the one great

523
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: season on his resume. He has not been able to

524
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: back it up since unfortunately, but at least the one

525
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: year he showed the potential of being one of the

526
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: better cover corners in the NFL, Whereas Dre has had

527
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: his moments. I would say throughout his career he's certainly

528
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: been above average, but there has not been a season

529
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: where you thought, all right, this guy could be one

530
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: of the best in the league. I think that I

531
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: agree with you, Dan, and I think if you're paying

532
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and eleven million bucks a year, you expect them

533
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: to tackle and you expect them to find the football.

534
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: And both of them have had their issues in both

535
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: those areas. I mean, you know a lot of times

536
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: it's like you're you're in position, find the ball and

537
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: then you know that's I think that's what that's what

538
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 1: they've done. Um. You know, in terms of a lot

539
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 1: of the people that they signed on the back end,

540
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: they'll tackle, Like we talked about, uh Trey Waynes and

541
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: McKenzie Alexander, who is there? What team are there with Minnesota?

542
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: Mike Sander. You don't tackle, you don't play. These guys

543
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: will tackle, Von Bell will tackle um and then ball skills,

544
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, find the football, making a play on Winston

545
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: Rome was a guy they signed from the CFLs the intersection.

546
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: Leabel in in that league. So and and you know

547
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: Trey Trey Waynes can find the football. And this really

548
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: have to be improved is turned taking taking the football away.

549
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: When the ball, when you have your chance to make

550
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: a play on the football, find it and make the play.

551
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,719
Speaker 1: And when you have to get somebody on the ground,

552
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: get them on the ground. No miss tackles or minimize

553
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: miss tackles. There are far too many miss tackles last year.

554
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: Next question comes from Brian. With all of the new faces,

555
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: how does coach Taylor expect to build a team when

556
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: they can't even be in the same room. Yeah, that's

557
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. That's the interesting part of it. And

558
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, and you're talking about a rookie quarterback that

559
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: hasn't experienced the NFL at all. At least these guys

560
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: have played in the National Football League and they do

561
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: have experience, you know, at the highest level. Um and

562
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: and again they've they've been I'd rather have guys that

563
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: that I'm going to have a short period of time

564
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: to build a culture in a chemistry those two important

565
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: C words the most important. You know, you want to

566
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: be a C square team. Culture and chemistry is huge. Guys,

567
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: that come from winning programs already have that. You know,

568
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: they they they've they've experienced it, they've assimilated it. It's

569
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: part of their DNA. So I think that's a that's

570
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: a plus for a short period of time to put

571
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: it all together as you've got guys that that know

572
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: what you have to do, the sacrifice you have to make,

573
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the the old corny you know,

574
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's we us, it's not. I mean,

575
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: you have guys that that have have seen that happen,

576
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: and as a result of seeing an experience in it,

577
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: they taste the sweet nectar of a playoff, you know,

578
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: playoff appearances. I think that's a big plus when you

579
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: look at this, uh, you know, potentially shortened time frame,

580
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: all right, similar questions from Eric and Jerry. Eric writes,

581
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: even though you have stated stated previously you're all in

582
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: on Joe Burrow, would you at least listen to offers

583
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: from other teams? And then Jerry's a little bit more specific.

584
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: He said, would you trade the number one pick if

585
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: Miami offered its first six picks and Miami's first six

586
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: picks or three first rounders, two second rounders, in a third.

587
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: So what do you think of those two questions? Man?

588
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: Two three first rounders, two seconds and a third? How

589
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: do you not not think about pulling the trigger on

590
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: that bad point and you're you're falling to the to

591
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: the number five spot. Um, you know at that point

592
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: in time, are you still in the marketplace for TA

593
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: Probably not. You know they're talking about you're gonna have

594
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: to move up to number three and maybe even number

595
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: two to make sure a number three doesn't get them.

596
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: I mean, um, basically, what you're doing to move back

597
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: to the at least to the Miami's number five spot.

598
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: You're you're potentially saying, I'm not just giving up on

599
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: Joe Barrow, I'm giving up on two twa as well.

600
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: Uh Am, I okay with you know, with with other guys,

601
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: and you know, okay, if you're if you're okay with

602
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, and then you can get all these draft kicks.

603
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: I guess you got to think about it a little bit. Um.

604
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: Obviously you'd have to do your due diligence and just

605
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: out of you know, you can't just say I don't

606
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: even want to think about it. You know, I'm done.

607
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: Everything has its price, but I do think, and I know,

608
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are are. You know,

609
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: the Joe Ball's arm strength in a small hand is

610
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: going to be the two things people beat the hell

611
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: out of him about. And the fact that he had

612
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: one successful year. And why did that one successful year happen? Well,

613
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of reasons that happened, but the

614
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: fact is it did. And it wasn't just successful. It

615
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: might have been the greatest year and sure, most people's opinion,

616
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: including mine, the best year the college quarterback ever had

617
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: in NCAA history. And you know the thing about him, Dan,

618
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: it is more to hear about him. He's not just

619
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: a competitive football player. To dude, it's a competitive learner.

620
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he has an insatiable appetite for football and

621
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: he cannot get enough of it. He cannot learn enough

622
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 1: of it. And the great ones, great Peyton Manning, you know,

623
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: not not the greatest arms in the National Football League,

624
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: but men's men's men's unbelievable minds for the game of football.

625
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: And you know you can, you can. You'll find guys

626
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: that are gonna be bigger, stronger, throughout, harder, maybe run

627
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: faster than than those guys. All of them. But nobody,

628
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: nobody is gonna work harder to be prepared mentally and

629
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: be able to comprehend and assimilate the game of football

630
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: better than those guys. I put Joe Burrow in that

631
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: classroom when I'm hearing, I mean, he is just he's

632
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: a competitive learner. You can't have enough competitive learners man,

633
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: particularly at that position. And I mean Peyton Manning. You know,

634
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: his his arm would be categorized as a pop gun

635
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: compared to a lot of guys. But look at look

636
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: at how he played, uh, Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Joe

637
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Speaker 1: Montana did not you know, I watched Joe Montana play

638
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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of games, and you know

639
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: his arm arm was adequate, But it wasn't a Howard

640
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: strip with Joe Montana mensa mensa menza and a guy

641
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: like DoLS, you know, feeding him all this information. I mean,

642
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: those are those are the kind of things that you

643
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: that you got to have. And in my mind, it's

644
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker. And I think T is strong in those

645
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 1: areas as well. But everything I'm hearing and reading about

646
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is man, he's just he's off the charts,

647
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: all right. I was going to save this next one

648
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: for last, but after what you just said about Joe Burrow,

649
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick this in right now because this

650
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: comes from a J. Smith. He's a very passionate Bengals

651
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: fan who is also very passionately against drafting Joe Burrow.

652
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: In fact, he goes so far overboard that I can't

653
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: tell if he's like pulling a skip Bayless lebron Stinks

654
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: kind of take to get a reaction, or if he

655
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: really means it. But this is what AJ wrote with

656
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: lap recommend a quarterback with one great season, small hands,

657
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: below the average arm strength, and more seasons is a

658
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: bench warmer than a performer. You can't work him out.

659
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: He sat for the combine in the Senior Bowl. Do

660
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: you risk thirty six million plus on a prospect like that? Well,

661
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: I guess you know, what does he does? He totally

662
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: disregard with those nine inch hands and the you know,

663
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: the weak arm and everything. What the personify season he

664
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 1: did have? You know, I mean it's you know, and

665
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: like I said, there's there's a there's a lot, there's

666
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: a lot of weak I mean, Joe Brady's a reason

667
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: Joe Brady obviously got a coordinate a job with the

668
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. He had great weapons, so did TA. You

669
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: don't think TWA had great weapons at Alabama? I mean

670
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: dog sometimes? Okay, Tom Tom Brady, how do how do

671
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: you put Jet Tom Brady to have the career that

672
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: he has has had in the National Football League. You

673
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 1: can't until you get your opportunity. And finally Joe Barrow

674
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: got his opportunity. What what do you are? It's an

675
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: ask for It's an opportunity. And when opportunity knocks, you

676
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: open the door. He normally opened it. He kicked it in.

677
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: I mean, greatest greatest season in college football in history,

678
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: and I always talked about it before. You look at

679
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: the college, the College, the SEC championship game, and then

680
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: the two games in the in the playoffs, including in

681
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: the National Championship game in the NCAA. Those three games,

682
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: sixteen touchdowns rushed to two more, no fumbles, no interceptions.

683
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: All I can say with those nine inch hands, he

684
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: didn't turn it over. He has two hands on the football.

685
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: He knows, he knows how to protect the football. And

686
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: this is playing at the highest level of football in

687
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: the SEC. And then the best teams you know, in

688
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: the in the tournament to win the NC Double A championship.

689
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I've got people that know

690
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: a lot more about quarterback in the need that I've

691
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: talked to. When they watched Jafe, they say it might

692
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: have been the perfect, most perfect season they've ever seen

693
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: a quarterback hal h at any level of football, and that,

694
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, that's saying something. Sorry to disappoint you. Aj

695
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: Lap remains all in on Joe Burrow. All right, We've

696
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: got a bunch of questions from people about the offensive line,

697
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: Scott CM, Michael Alexander, and others. I'll kind of condense

698
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: it into what Scott wrote. He asked, have the Bengals

699
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: done enough with the offensive line and free agency where

700
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: they can draft somebody to complete the job of turning

701
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: that group around. Yeah? I do. I think that. I

702
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: think that, you know, you look at a lot of

703
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: things that have that have gone on there. The eleventh

704
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: pick in the draft didn't play a snap last year

705
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: obviously due to injury, is going to be back, you know. Um,

706
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: he's that other guys that that stepped up during the

707
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: course of the season and made themselves h you know,

708
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: made made themselves some money and are going to be

709
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: in the in the track Johnson in the competition that

710
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: the right tackles as I think he's gonna got up

711
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: big and uh, you know, and makes some noise there. Um,

712
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: Xavier will be competing a guard with Redmond and Jordan.

713
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the offensive line is gonna look

714
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: a lot different. Could have a different right tackle, could

715
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: have it's gonna have a different right guard. I'll have

716
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: the same center it price plates excuse me, Jordan plays

717
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: from left guard team Billy Price. His dead guys be

718
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: battling and out probably for that that particular spot, you know.

719
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: And then then you get you get your eleventh pick

720
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: of the draft. Like having two number ones this year,

721
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: you have a first round draft pick just outside of

722
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: the top ten. It's gonna be lining up at the

723
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: left tackle position. So both your tackles could be different.

724
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: Your right guard's gonna be different at sixty percent of

725
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: your offensive line right there. So I'm thinking that that

726
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: they've done done quite a bit, and um, you know,

727
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: Isaiah Prince are going to take a look at obviously.

728
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they've they've got they've got options there, and

729
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: I think the draft they will Um expend at least

730
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: to pick I think on the offensive line, William asks

731
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: if there's any chance the Bengals signed Jason Peters to

732
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: play right tackle. Tim asks, if there's any chance that

733
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals acquire Trent Williams to play right tackle. I

734
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: think with what the money they've spent, I don't. I

735
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: don't think they've got the money to do it. I

736
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: really don't. Um, I don't. I don't necessarily you know,

737
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: see that to be the to be the case. I

738
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Speaker 1: don't think those and unless there's a huge deal to

739
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: be had, you know, unless free agency, uh, if if

740
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Speaker 1: those guys were of value what they're uh, what they're

741
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: presenting right now, they'd already be teams knocking doors down.

742
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: And you I don't know, I don't know exactly what's happening.

743
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of talks going on. And

744
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Bengals were one of the

745
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: teams that initially you know, Gutton talks about those players.

746
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: But UM, you know the thing that the thing that

747
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: you do have to remember is, you know, Trent Williams

748
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: in particular company, he's a serious injury that we're talking

749
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: about now. You know, is he gonna be one hundred

750
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: percent from this, you know, cancers, tumor on his head, um,

751
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: you know that that Sometimes sometimes you just you just

752
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, where where is there's gonna be

753
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: X number of years in a career, and what's going

754
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: to take you down the backside slope of that that

755
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: career and when is it going to happen? Both of

756
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: them are are a little bit long in the tooth.

757
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: To me, I would I would feel a little bit

758
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: better about Trent Williams. I guess maybe I I've seen

759
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: him play. I mean, he was the most athletic, dominant

760
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: lyman I saw playing college for a good number of years.

761
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: When he was in Oklahoma, he was he was unbelievable,

762
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: unbelievable when he was playing there. Just a stud. Got

763
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: a ton of questions about the thirty third pick in

764
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: the draft. I'll had condense it down to a couple.

765
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: Dum pointed out that on a previous podcast, you had

766
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: suggested that you thought the Bengals were likely to go

767
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: with the best defensive player on the board at number

768
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: thirty three. Do you still feel that way in light

769
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: of the free agent acquisitions and similar thought from O

770
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: b With all the defensive additions in free agency, are

771
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: we going offense with the first three picks? Well, I,

772
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: like I said before, I still think that they have

773
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: to get another linebacker, more than one. They have to

774
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: get another starting linebacker, another sam backer. Now is he

775
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: would he be the best guy? You know? A guy

776
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: like oh, Logan Wilson out of Wyoming. Is you know

777
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: somebody that I think is a good player, Zach Bond.

778
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: Both of these guys were at the Senior Bowl. I

779
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: thought both of these guys were really good linebackers, really

780
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: good players. You know, Zach Bond was a high school

781
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: quarterback one time. And you know, I remember when I

782
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: was playing at Syracuse, Jolly Perturno would take high school

783
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and converted the linebacker. And they're always great players,

784
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: you know, big body guys that filled out and had

785
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: great football sense and instincts. And I think Zach Bond

786
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: has got a little bit of that out of Wisconsin.

787
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: And Logan Wilson's a foreign a tackle guy. You know,

788
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 1: he went to UH College at while he's one hundred

789
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: and ninety five pound defensive back, wide receiver and now

790
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: he's like two fifty and six two two fifty and

791
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: he's you know, three year captains. So I'm not still

792
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: if if those guys, if thirty three is too rich,

793
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe move back, if one of those

794
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: two guys is going to be there later in the

795
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: second round, moved back, pick up an additional draft pick

796
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: and take take one of them there and move one

797
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,919
Speaker 1: of those guys or another guy at linebacker or any

798
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: other person they may have evaluated higher than that. I

799
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: do think that linebacker will be paid attention to in

800
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: the draft. Other than that, I do think that to

801
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: go offensive line and wide receiver, you know, wide receiver draft,

802
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: it's the It's as deep as there's been in many,

803
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: many years. And I do think at some point in time,

804
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: there's gonna be in any one of the rounds, particularly

805
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: because like we talked about so many times day, and

806
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: they're so high, they're so high every round. It's gonna

807
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: be every time they reshuffled their board. Damn, I can't

808
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: believe that receiver is still there. And then people are

809
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: gonna be calling them, you know, to you and you know,

810
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know if they'd be going off to

811
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: the same receiver the Bengals that targeted, but you know,

812
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: having that first tick in every round is a good

813
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: place to be. And uh, and you're gonna be able

814
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: to get whoever slid when they reshuffle their boards after

815
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: that round is done, you know you're gonna have the

816
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: first crack at it. So I'm sure there will be

817
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: a wide receiver at some point that they're gonna say,

818
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: we can't pass on this guy. But you know that

819
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: every every Bengal fan is probably feeling the same way.

820
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,439
Speaker 1: Is this year that Adrian Ross, excuse me, John Ross

821
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: and he Jay Green play significant number snaps together on

822
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: the field at the same time. It hasn't happened. I mean,

823
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. And then Tyler Boyd, you know, I

824
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: mean that if they can Tyler Boyd obviously has giving

825
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: them a lot of good. If they can have that

826
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: those three guys just for one year, particularly with a

827
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: new quarterback, potentially you know, coming into the mix man

828
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 1: make all the difference in the world. You know. But um,

829
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: if you can improve that line back, that wide receiver position,

830
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: and that's the best player on the board at thirty

831
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: three and you can't move back, do it? Do it?

832
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: You always take the best player? Well, there two more

833
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: of these from the audience from Kadiki. How many draft

834
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: picks will the Bengals wind up with? That's a great question.

835
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: I think more than seven. I'm I'm I'm almost hoping

836
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: that it's closer than nine. I'd I'd like to see

837
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: him come come away with nine draft picks in this

838
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: year's draft. That that would uh, you know that that

839
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: could make some sense to me? All right? Final ask

840
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: lap question. This one comes from Daniel not Horde. With

841
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: linebacker issues, would there be any thought of bringing back

842
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: Vontes Perfect, Boy, I don't see it. I really don't

843
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: see that. I was just gonna go with no, yeah,

844
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: I did. That would be a you know, in in

845
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: this in this year or football, like we said before, Um,

846
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: it's you know, you're playing with two linebackers a lot.

847
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: And Vontz obviously he was one of those two linebackers

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Speaker 1: a good part of his career here and since Nattie.

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Speaker 1: But I mean he's you know, he he's getting longer

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Speaker 1: need to then they need to get some young bodies

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Speaker 1: in here they can run and uh and go that way.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the way the National Football League's going. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is everybody's trying to spread you out in isolation space.

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Speaker 1: And uh, the linebacker position, there's not there's not a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of uh, you know, Dicktka's rain Nichkey, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know numbers downhill knock your block off linebackers in

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Speaker 1: this league anymore? All right? I look forward to when

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Speaker 1: we can do this sitting side by side in our

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Speaker 1: cubicles as opposed to long distance. I hear you, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I hope uh, I hope you and the Horde family

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Speaker 1: are all staying staying healthy and happy and uh getting

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Speaker 1: through this the best you possibly can. Same to you.

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Speaker 1: Careful and hopeful are my slogans. I like it. I

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Speaker 1: like it. There's no no doubt about it. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you though it is boring, isn't it holy? It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about stir crazy. I mean I've

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Speaker 1: got I have fanny fatigue. Man, I get to get

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Speaker 1: up and move start moving around a little bit more. Man,

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Speaker 1: I got f squared fanny fatigue disease. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to haul one of the worst symptoms of home confinement,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Thanks all right, Dan, have a great one.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for This episode of the

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