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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Thinking and a Praying, wishing

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and now become the world's biggest fans of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Jets. On Sunday, coming up, radio replays, locker

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now time for the radio relays from Saturdays.

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Speaker 1: Had to have it win in Pittsburgh. It is the

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Speaker 1: final night of the regular season for the Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 1: and in order to have any chance of advancing to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs next week, they must beat the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: tonight on a bitterly cold and wintry evening in the

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Speaker 1: Steel City. And it is time for the pig skin

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Speaker 1: to fly. Here at Akroshure Stadium, second down and three

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Speaker 1: at the twelve yard line of Pittsburgh Burrow looking to

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Speaker 1: pass again. He first a strike god Jamar Chase with

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. The Bengals score on their opening drive, and

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase has just made franchise history. It's his seventeenth

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Speaker 1: touchdown catch of the year, tying Carl Pickens single season

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Speaker 1: franchise Mark Russell Wilsonson's pickins in motion. He's back to throw,

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Speaker 1: looking scrambling, pucking hands. Sack Hendrickson, who began the game

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Speaker 1: tied for the NFL lead in sacks with Miles Garrett

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Speaker 1: fourteen apiece, get this fifteenth of the year, and.

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Speaker 2: That was really a good rush by everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if he can come through from forty eight

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Speaker 1: yards away. Adamidas, who played here at pitt snaps it back.

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Speaker 1: The kick is on its way. It is good. Kay

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Speaker 1: New York comes through and the Bengals have taken a

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Speaker 1: ten nothing lead. First and goal from the one for

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Speaker 1: a handoff the Najie Harris and he goes into the

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Speaker 1: end zone standing up for a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown. Ryan

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Speaker 1: Rico will punt for the first time tonight. Calvin Austin

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Speaker 1: is the returner for the Steelers. He's dangerous. Rico, the

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Speaker 1: pedaling all the way to the twenty five. To catch

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Speaker 2: I saw a fall on it.

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Speaker 1: Higgins out to the left, Three receivers out to the right,

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Speaker 1: play on fourth and one. He touches both sides of

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Speaker 1: They stopped him.

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Speaker 1: comes a thirty five yard field goal attempt for Cad York,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers by nine, sixteen to seven. It is second

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Speaker 1: down and five from the Pittsburgh forty one. Chase goes

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Speaker 1: goal of the game. It's a twenty three yard try

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Patterson lines up in the backfield Wilson to

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Speaker 1: On second to nine, Russell Wilson to throw. Trey hendricks

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Speaker 1: sacked Russell Wilson. Boswell has made forty field goals this year.

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Speaker 1: That is a Steelers single season record. Here comes his

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Speaker 1: fifty four yard attempt. It's on its way. It is good.

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Speaker 2: Yep, unreal. I mean in this weather for him to

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Speaker 2: hit that thing like he hit that, Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: That's like hitting the brick.

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Speaker 1: Clock is running thirty one seconds to go. They still

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Speaker 1: goal range. Bryan Mos thirty five seconds to go. Shotgun snap,

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Speaker 1: The Bengals playoff fate comes down to this play, fourth

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Speaker 1: down and twelve with fifteen seconds to go. If they

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Speaker 1: Hope alive. Wilson sends two receivers out to each side

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Speaker 1: a pass incomplete. Friarmouth couldn't hold on hand with eleven

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Speaker 2: That is coffin nailam, bam bam.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals playoff hopes are still alive, and tomorrow at

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Speaker 1: four in the afternoon, we are all about to be

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Speaker 1: the world's biggest fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets, needing those two teams to win

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Speaker 1: in order for the Bengals to deep playing. The final

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Speaker 1: score Cincinnati nineteen Pittsburgh seventeen. The Bengals end the regular

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Speaker 1: season with a five game winning streak and the Steelers

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Speaker 1: end with a four game losing streak. Speaking of streaks,

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Speaker 1: Joe burrows streak of consecutive games with three touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: on the Bengals offensive line, Joe was outstanding, completing eighty

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Speaker 1: the season with franchise records for passing yards with four thy,

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Speaker 1: four five twenty on Sunday night against the Vikings, and

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Speaker 1: he'll lead the league in touchdown passes unless Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: tosses five on Sunday afternoon against the Saints. Here are

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Speaker 1: some of the things Burrow told reporters after the game.

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Speaker 4: You know, our execution in the red zone wasn't good enough.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of.

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Speaker 4: The story of the game. I'm not sure how many

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Speaker 3: That's a different game.

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Speaker 4: You know, I would like to have finished that game

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Speaker 3: But our our defense stepped up and picked up the slack.

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Speaker 4: Guys and guys that have played great in the past

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Speaker 4: have have started playing well. And then Trey Henderson, you know,

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Speaker 4: after tonight, I don't know who else is gonna win

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Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Year other than him. He was

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Speaker 4: incredible tonight. Any time that he didn't have chip help,

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Speaker 4: he was getting to quarterback. Anytime you don't make the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: it's a failure. That's what you're you're aiming for every year.

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Speaker 4: That's why you work so hard as to be at

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Speaker 4: your best at in the end. And you know, these

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Speaker 4: last five weeks we have been we just you know,

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Speaker 4: weren't able to find an extra win early in the

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Speaker 4: You know, I know that, you know, if we get

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Speaker 4: and we can make some noise with with the players

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Speaker 4: just gotta hope for hope for some hell tomorrow and

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Speaker 4: I'll sit back and watch it. I thought i'd have

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Speaker 4: my best year. I think I did. H The year

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Speaker 4: after a ligament injury like that is always better. You know,

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Speaker 4: I threw it well this year, I don't think. I

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Speaker 4: still think I can throw it way better.

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Speaker 4: You know, early in the season you're still getting a

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Speaker 4: field for for how that risk is feeling. You're breaking

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Speaker 4: up scar tissue, you're doing a lot of different things

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Speaker 4: to to help it, and it gets better as the

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Speaker 4: season goes. So I expect next year to be better.

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Speaker 4: That's that's how it was with my knee. That's how

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Speaker 4: ligament injuries typically go. So I'm expecting to to grind

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Speaker 4: this offseason and take a jump next year.

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Speaker 1: The man is never satisfied. His favorite target, Jamar Chase,

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Speaker 1: had ten catches for ninety six yards and a touchdown

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Speaker 1: and has a healthy lead in all three triple crowned

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Speaker 1: categories with one hundred and twenty seven catches for one thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and eight yards and seventeen touchdowns. My postgame

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Speaker 1: interview with Noumero who Know, begins with Jamar praising the

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Speaker 5: They've been stepping up tremendously a lot the past couple

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Speaker 5: of weeks. Trey going trade dangs today, but you know

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Speaker 5: they always find way to getst the ball back.

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Speaker 1: You finish the season with the five game winning streak,

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 5: Everybody happy? We just got this winning in Pittsburgh. So

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Speaker 1: Ten catches just under one hundred yards and a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: It was pretty challenging mentally wise, you know, just standing

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Speaker 1: So the peasants of the game, is that seventeenth touchdown

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Speaker 5: Because I dropped two touchdowns in the past two weeks?

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Speaker 3: So what that would have been?

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Speaker 1: Nineteen seventeen's not bad. Nineteen sounds better though, hard to dispute.

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Speaker 1: All right, So what's tomorrow going to be like? Needing

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Speaker 3: Who knows?

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Speaker 5: You know, hopefully postably we get what we want. And

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Speaker 1: Joe started the game by completing his first twelve passes

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Speaker 5: Game, I was going to have a I thought it

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Speaker 1: All right? If my math is correct. You lead in

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Speaker 5: It feels good, you know that I finally haven't on

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Speaker 5: I'm excited that I got to appreciate Joe and the

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Speaker 1: It comes in if you can get in, if you

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Speaker 5: They gotta take a one game at a time, you know,

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Speaker 1: Where about what we.

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Speaker 1: As for the defense, I told Trey Hendrickson after the

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Speaker 6: Well, first and foremost, I want to thank my Lord

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Speaker 6: All glory to God and my wife. She's been amazing

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Speaker 1: To the playoffs. He finished the season on a five

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Credit to Loui an Arumo doing his job, you know,

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, we got a chance to redefine our

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Speaker 1: So credited leaders in this locker room.

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Speaker 6: Like Sam Hubbard keeping us together even though he went

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Speaker 1: I can continue to.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen and a half sacks Miles Garrett didn't have any today,

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Speaker 6: It gives me a platform to glorify the Lord. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's not about me selfishly, there's eleven other or ten

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Speaker 1: You guys did your part. You need help tomorrow. What

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Speaker 6: Well as far as our twenty twenty four defense, it's

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Speaker 2: What we'd like to say.

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Speaker 1: We give it her all.

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Speaker 6: Some things are out of our control right now, but

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Speaker 1: A heck of a game and an unbelievable season. Congratulations Tray,

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Speaker 2: Things head coach Zac Taylor, congratulations, sir, thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's good to good win man.

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Speaker 7: It's hard to win on the road in the ANFC North,

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Speaker 2: Give me your first reaction when you had time to

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Speaker 7: This is what we visualized. You know, there was no

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Speaker 7: We fully expected to win this game, and our guys

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the grit and the determination defensively,

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a problem with special teams, you know,

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, you know, I thought, I thought in all three phases,

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Speaker 2: Got a lot of respect for the offensive line. You know,

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Speaker 2: I just think, again, in my mind watching this football

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Speaker 1: I did too.

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Speaker 2: You know, to me, that's that's a credit to everybody,

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Speaker 7: It's a huge credit to Justin Hill. I mean, he

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Speaker 2: in the rib k?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he got a nice rib shot.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to block him one on one,

443
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Speaker 7: so sometimes you got to call in some reserves to

444
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Speaker 7: help from the side, and he got that today, and

445
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Speaker 7: so he just needed to play to get his breath back.

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Speaker 2: So where do you think the turning point or if

447
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Speaker 2: there was one, I mean that that wasn't again another

448
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Speaker 2: roller coaster. I think there was never more than a

449
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Speaker 2: ten point lead. I don't think for anybody.

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Speaker 7: Right we did, you're up nineteen seven. But the end

451
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Speaker 7: of the first half was a huge moment for us

452
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Speaker 7: to get the stops, to get the offense the ball

453
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Speaker 7: back in good scoring range. It's a windy day, it's

454
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Speaker 7: a cold day. It's not going to be one of

455
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Speaker 7: those five hundred yard performances, and so the field position

456
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Speaker 7: was critical. Defense got his field position, put three points

457
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Speaker 7: on the board to go up thirteen to seven. So

458
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Speaker 7: you started to feel like you were going to get

459
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Speaker 7: control of the game. And that was a big moment

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Speaker 7: for us.

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Speaker 2: To me, when the defense third and one, fourth and one,

462
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Speaker 2: you get the football back. I was like, man, I'll

463
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Speaker 2: tell you what, you know, a much maligned group. Boy,

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Speaker 2: they stood up large.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge.

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Speaker 7: You know, that was an unexpected situation, you know, the

467
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Speaker 7: fourth and one on our side of the field, and

468
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Speaker 7: so you know, really I just thought they were trying

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Speaker 7: to draw us off sides, to be quite frank with you,

470
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Speaker 7: and I thought, our guys, so when you think that's happening,

471
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Speaker 7: you're not firing off the ball.

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Speaker 1: Like you normally would.

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Speaker 7: And so for them to be able to get that

474
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Speaker 7: stop in a situation where you're not firing off the

475
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Speaker 7: ball because you're not expecting to snap it, I thought,

476
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Speaker 7: really speaks volumes bet our guys.

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Speaker 2: And finally, Coach, I mean, I've played in cold weather

478
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Speaker 2: games and you know, obviously that fifty nine blow is

479
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Speaker 2: like a you know, ridiculous, but I mean nine to

480
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Speaker 2: nine below raw temperature.

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Speaker 7: Older every year that passes, we're.

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Speaker 2: Stuck at that fifty seven. I wanted to get it

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Speaker 2: into the sixties. But uh, I know what it's like

484
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Speaker 2: when you're and you're still playing very physical football, but

485
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Speaker 2: when you're hitting like that and that kind of weather, man,

486
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Speaker 2: I take my cap off to the tip my cap

487
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Speaker 2: to the guys. Because I know what it feels like.

488
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Speaker 2: And man, it was physical out there. I mean, guys

489
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Speaker 2: were getting after it.

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Speaker 7: Listen, I had two pairs of gloves on and I

491
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Speaker 7: can't feel my fingers, So I can't imagine doing what

492
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Speaker 7: these guys did, you know. And and so again just

493
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Speaker 7: the mentality that they had all season long, to be

494
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Speaker 7: quite frank, and especially these last five weeks, to know

495
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Speaker 7: that we couldn't afford to lose another game, and so

496
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Speaker 7: they just buckled up and got it done.

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Speaker 2: Five straight wins, four straight seasons with winning records. Pretty

498
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Speaker 2: good coach.

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Speaker 7: It's not easy to do in this league. And now

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Speaker 7: we just cross our fingers and become fans tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you guys, are you gonna have the You guys

502
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Speaker 2: gonna all get together there somewhere if you thought about that,

503
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Speaker 2: or what do you think.

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Speaker 7: Coaching Stuf's working on the Buffalo Bills. I mean, we

505
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Speaker 7: know who our opponent would be, and so we'll be

506
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Speaker 7: in the office working on Buffalo. The games will certainly

507
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Speaker 7: be on the background, there's no doubt about that. Probably

508
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Speaker 7: be a little bit scheering involved, and then we'll just

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Speaker 7: go from there.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully the work he and his staff put in preparing

511
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Speaker 1: to face Buffalo next week will prove necessary. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: for the radio guys recap laft. That was a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. The Bengals end their regular season with a

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Speaker 1: five game winning streak, a winning record, and a prayer

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Speaker 1: of advancing to Buffalo next week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Unfortunately, they don't control their own destiny. They're gonna

523
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 2: have to rely on other people and you hate to

524
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Speaker 2: have to be in that situation. But they took care

525
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Speaker 2: of their share of it. They're part of the business.

526
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Speaker 2: They had to get the win, and winning in Pittsburgh

527
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Speaker 2: it's not easy. I mean, Mike Tomlin's record in the

528
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Speaker 2: last game home game, he was eight to no. I mean,

529
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Speaker 2: he hadn't lost a football game. So to get this

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Speaker 2: one done it was pretty extraordinary. They had a sixteen

531
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Speaker 2: minute time position advantage. They basically ran away with the

532
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Speaker 2: court of the football game. You know, they had seventy

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Speaker 2: one snaps to their fifty eight. I mean, it was

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Speaker 2: it was an impressive performance. I thought it big, a

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Speaker 2: big deal. Third and one, fourth and one. The Bengals

536
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Speaker 2: defense stood up and showed themselves in that and that

537
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Speaker 2: little sequence and really over the five game winning streak,

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Speaker 2: I thought the defense played really well. I mean, there

539
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Speaker 2: were so many examples of complimentary football offense, defense and

540
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Speaker 2: special teams. When you win five in a row in

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Speaker 2: this league, you know that's the case. And defensively that

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Speaker 2: they certainly did up there under the bargain.

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Speaker 1: That's on the short list of best defensive performances by

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Speaker 1: an individual that I've seen. Trey Hendrickson three and a

545
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: half sacks against this team under these circumstances in this building,

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Speaker 1: that's a memorable one for me. It is.

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Speaker 2: And and he was getting chipped, he was getting in fact,

548
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Speaker 2: he had a little bit of a rib issue he got.

549
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Speaker 2: He got hit pretty good. He said, he gets stroked

550
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Speaker 2: in the side pretty good when he get chipped one time.

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Speaker 2: So they were paying some attention to him. But I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you, boy, when he turns it on and he

553
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 2: comes around that edge and he he shrinks that edge.

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Speaker 3: He does.

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Speaker 2: He compresses and shrinks the edge about as well as

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Speaker 2: I've seen man when he when he has the least

557
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Speaker 2: a little the smallest little bit of advantage, he turns

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Speaker 2: in into a huge advantage. He's he's really gifted and

559
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Speaker 2: talented that way, he really is. He can make himself

560
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Speaker 2: small and accelerate and yeah, he just he doesn't really

561
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Speaker 2: give you a whole lot of target to punch and

562
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Speaker 2: to hit. He does it right.

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Speaker 1: So Burrow did not extend his touchdown streak. He only

564
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Speaker 1: had one tonight, so that ends at eight consecutive games.

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Speaker 1: He did best for more than two hundred and fifty yards,

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Speaker 1: but considering the state of his offensive line, the weather conditions,

567
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Speaker 1: the defense that he was facing, that was one heck

568
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Speaker 1: of a performance. It was.

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Speaker 2: I thought that the number of snaps, time of possession

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Speaker 2: showed that they controlled the line of scrimmage. I thought offensively,

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Speaker 2: Cody ford Man showed the versatility. I mean, he can

572
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Speaker 2: play both guards, he can play both tackles. He's done

573
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Speaker 2: it well. You know. Amarius Mems did come in when

574
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Speaker 2: needed and held down the fort at the right tackle

575
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Speaker 2: position as well. I get a lot of respect for,

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Speaker 2: you know, how those guys stepped up and played honestly

577
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Speaker 2: as a football team. They were pretty beaten up, they

578
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: really were, and Pittsburgh wasn't. I mean, Pittsburgh had all

579
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Speaker 2: hands on deck and the Bengals you know, didn't. And

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Speaker 2: then during the course of the game things cropped up

581
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Speaker 2: that you know, caused some problems. But I mean, these

582
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Speaker 2: guys all they were all ready to go. I think

583
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Speaker 2: it's a tribute to the to the players. Everybody prepares

584
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Speaker 2: like they're a starter. The coaches prepare the players like

585
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Speaker 2: their starters, and everybody when they get their opportunity to perform,

586
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Speaker 2: go out there and perform at the at the best

587
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Speaker 2: level they possibly can. And man, there's a lot of

588
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Speaker 2: depth on this football team, and it showed today.

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Speaker 1: Quite a few unsung heroes in this game. I thought

590
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: Shaka Hayward several tackles and a forced fumble. Cade Yorke

591
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Speaker 1: bounces back from his doink in overtime last week, boots

592
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Speaker 1: four field goals and four tries, and as you pointed out,

593
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Speaker 1: with some of the injuries that they had, guys had

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Speaker 1: to step up. Given their opportunity, and they did.

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Speaker 2: They really did. And uh, you know, I thought that

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Speaker 2: it looked to me like the weather conditions bothered the

597
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 2: Steelers a little bit more than it did the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I really believe that.

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Speaker 2: And you know, they they're in a situation where if

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Speaker 2: they win that football game, you know they're going to Houston.

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Speaker 2: Now if the Bengals aren't in the playoffs, they're still

602
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Speaker 2: they're going to Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Unless the Chargers lose, but they probably won't take the

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Speaker 1: Raiders right right.

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, they had a lot to play for,

606
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Speaker 2: and they played hard. I mean they didn't they didn't

607
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Speaker 2: fold their tents. They didn't start pulling players or anything

608
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Speaker 2: like that. They played it right to the right to

609
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 2: the end as hard as they possibly could. But you know,

610
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Speaker 2: the Bengals realized, the first thing you have to do

611
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Speaker 2: is to win this football game. If you don't, it's

612
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Speaker 2: all a moot point. Now, at least you can you

613
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Speaker 2: can live for at least one more day.

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Speaker 1: So it won't be satisfying if they don't get the

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Speaker 1: help they need tomorrow. But they do wind up with

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Speaker 1: a winning record after an zero to three start, four

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Speaker 1: and eight after twelve games, they wind up nine and eight,

618
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Speaker 1: fourth straight year with a winning record. Again, we won't

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Speaker 1: savor that, certainly if they don't wind up in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But it is an accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: It is, And honestly, you know, this is a good

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Speaker 2: football team. It really is. And I you know, the

623
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Speaker 2: rest of the league knows that. That's all you're hearing from.

624
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Speaker 2: You know, every media source. Nobody wants to play the

625
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Speaker 2: Bengals right now. The Bengals are on a run and

626
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: they are I mean, they're playing as well or better

627
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 2: than anybody in the league right now. So Pittsburgh Steelers

628
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Speaker 2: are a limpit and gimpet into the playoffs. I mean,

629
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Speaker 2: four game losing streak and to lose to their division

630
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Speaker 2: rival at home. That's not a great way to stride

631
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Speaker 2: into the playoffs. So they're leaking oil. In fact, I'm

632
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 2: not sure there's any oil left in the engine. We'll see,

633
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Speaker 2: but you know, the hopefully the Bengals can get in

634
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 2: because they're playing at a pretty high level.

635
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Speaker 1: The Steelers not only finished with a four game losing streak,

636
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: never led in any of those games.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing, isn't it. I Mean, this is the first

638
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 2: game that they were within a score to finish the

639
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 2: see the games, I mean they're outscored ninety to fifty

640
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 2: in the games before this one. I mean that's that's

641
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: not just getting beaten, that's getting thrashed. So the Bengals

642
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: finished it off. It was great anytime you can come

643
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh and quiet those terrible towels. Boy, that stadium

644
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: at times was I mean you could hear a pin

645
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,239
Speaker 2: drop out there, you know, and there's nothing better than

646
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: that in Pittsburgh to hear the quiet.

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Speaker 1: When we walked into the locker room, we were among

648
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Speaker 1: the first reporters to get in. They were playing Renegade.

649
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: The Steelers got a theme song that they played, a

650
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Speaker 1: fire up the fans in the second half and a

651
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: little bit of a dig as. That was the first

652
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Speaker 1: song playing in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's apropos as they say. I mean, yeah,

654
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Speaker 2: it's this this uh, this football team. It's it's crazy.

655
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Speaker 2: I mean again, you can look back the four and

656
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Speaker 2: eight part of the season. Any it's just one game

657
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Speaker 2: had gone differently. Now and if they had ten wins,

658
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Speaker 2: they'd be in. They'd be in just one and honestly,

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Speaker 2: they could be sitting with twelve or thirteen wins, but

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Speaker 2: just one to get into ten wins. That's why every

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Speaker 2: win you get in this league you have to treasure

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Speaker 2: and relish, because man, it's tough to get him.

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Speaker 1: For everybody but Kansas City, that is. But get this,

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Speaker 1: the fifteen to one Chiefs are an eleven point underdog

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Speaker 1: on Sunday in Denver. That's because the Chiefs arresting Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, and as many key starters as possible.

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Speaker 1: Here's hoping Carson Wentz plays the game of his life

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Speaker 1: for KC. Since the Bengals need Denver to lose, the

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Speaker 1: Bengals also need the Dolphins to lose, and they aren't

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Speaker 1: expected to have two Atungo Vai Looa due to a

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Speaker 1: hip injury. The four and twelve Jets are now a

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Speaker 1: one point favorite over Miami in that game. Both games

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Speaker 1: kickoff at four twenty five, and if they go the

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Speaker 1: Bengals way, the impact of me jumping up and down

675
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Speaker 1: in my family room might register on the Richter scale.

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Speaker 1: That wraps up the Pittsburgh game. Now time for this

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Speaker 1: week's fun fact segment, where you get to know the

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Speaker 1: person under the pads, time for some fun facts with

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Speaker 1: running back Khalel Herbert from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I read

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Speaker 1: an article about you where you refer to yourself as

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Speaker 1: chubby and slow as a kid, which is definitely not

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Speaker 1: the case. Now, were you a late bloomer?

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 8: You know, I don't think I got my speed until

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Speaker 8: tenth eleventh grade. But you know, growing up, I was

686
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Speaker 8: always on the O line, D line. I played a

687
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Speaker 8: lot of guard in the defensive end, and then you know,

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Speaker 8: eventually started moving to full back as I you know,

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Speaker 8: as I got a little bit faster, and then uh

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Speaker 8: running back when I was in tenth grade.

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Speaker 1: So did you grow out of it naturally or did

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Speaker 1: you have to work at it?

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Speaker 3: I definitely had to work at it. You know.

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Speaker 8: I was always I was big as a kid, so

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Speaker 8: I used to shot put in stuff, but I feel

696
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Speaker 8: like everybody caught up to me, so I thought I

697
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 8: was gonna be a lot taller than But definitely like

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Speaker 8: my speed, I always ran track and you know, just

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Speaker 8: eventually just keep working at it and was able to

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Speaker 8: finally get some speed and the rest came just working

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Speaker 8: at it, working at.

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Speaker 3: It every weekend.

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Speaker 1: Did you do any other extracurricular activities as a kid

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Speaker 1: or was it strictly sports.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, strictly sports, football, track, I mean, yeah, video games.

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Speaker 1: We're visiting with Khalil Herbert. You played high school football

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Speaker 1: as a senior at American Heritage School, the alma mater

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Speaker 1: of former Reds Rookie of the Year Jonathan India, among others.

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Speaker 1: But here's what I found amazing in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: when you were drafted by the Bears, there were six

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Speaker 1: players taken from your high school that year. That's unusual

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Speaker 1: for a college, much less a high school. Is it

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Speaker 1: amazing to you guys, the guys that are on that team.

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Speaker 8: It definitely is, But it's it's kind of, I guess,

715
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Speaker 8: regular to us down there, especially in South Florida. You know,

716
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 8: we produce a lot of NFL talent, but you know,

717
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Speaker 8: it's something that we we strive and pride ourselves on

718
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Speaker 8: just being able to produce NFL talent. And like you said, yeah,

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Speaker 8: we had six in the draft. I think we got

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Speaker 8: ten current or eleven current guys. So it's something that

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Speaker 8: we pride ourselves on, going getting to go back to school,

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Speaker 8: go back there. You see our posters and banners on

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Speaker 8: the walls of the fields, so it's always cool.

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Speaker 1: When it came time to pick a college, you chose Kansas.

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Speaker 1: How'd you wind up in Lawrence? From South Florida?

726
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Speaker 8: So I trained with Tony Sans. He played the running

727
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Speaker 8: back at Kansas. Kind of connected me with some people

728
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Speaker 8: at Kansas. Kansas is my only power five offer, so

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Speaker 8: it was kind of a no brainer. You know, I

730
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Speaker 8: want to play power five ball. Even though they weren't

731
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Speaker 8: doing so well, I figured I could go there and

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Speaker 8: help change the culture.

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Speaker 3: So that's why I chose there.

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Speaker 1: We're chatting with Kalol Herbert. In your sophomore year against

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Speaker 1: West Virginia, you had a game with two hundred and

736
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Speaker 1: ninety one yards and thirty six carries. What are your

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Speaker 1: most vivid memories of that day.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I just remember afterwards I was tired, but nah,

739
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Speaker 8: I just remember I was trying to help my team

740
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Speaker 8: win anyway.

741
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Speaker 3: It just, you know, just so happened.

742
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Speaker 8: I was able to break a couple of runs that

743
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Speaker 8: game and just able to ride the hot hand there.

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Speaker 8: So but it was it was a crazy day just

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Speaker 8: to be I think I'm third and ku in single

746
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Speaker 8: game Russian, So just being able to be up there

747
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Speaker 8: with some great some crazy great names.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was a memory I'll never forget.

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Speaker 1: Did you know how close you were to three hundred? No?

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Speaker 8: I wish I I wish I did.

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Speaker 3: I wish I did.

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00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 8: But again, we were losing the game, so it was

753
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 8: like we just started throwing the ball, trying to get back,

754
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 8: trying to win the game. But I don't even I

755
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 8: don't know if anybody knew, because no one was keeping

756
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Speaker 8: track of the time. I didn't find out un till

757
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Speaker 8: I got on Twitter. Afterwards.

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Speaker 1: You decided to transfer to Virginia Tech for your final

759
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 1: college season, and that turned out to be a great move.

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00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: You finished fifth in the nation and rushing that year.

761
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Speaker 1: What did that season do for you and your NFL dreams?

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Speaker 8: Just definitely helped me get to where I am right now.

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Speaker 8: You know, I played with some great guys. I think

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Speaker 8: my whole whole line is in the NFL right now,

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Speaker 8: So that kind of shows the kind of talent I

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Speaker 8: was with, you know, a bunch of guys on the

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Speaker 8: team or in the league. But just being around those

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Speaker 8: guys and helping me just that coaching staff allowed me

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Speaker 8: to just be me and go play, and you know,

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Speaker 8: they trusted me to take games over and finish games out,

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Speaker 8: so you know, with that belief in me, just able

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Speaker 8: to go out there and play my game.

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Speaker 1: You were drafted by the Bears in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Describe your draft weekend and what it was like to

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Speaker 1: get that call.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was it was a long weekend. It

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Speaker 3: was a long weekend.

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Speaker 8: I think that was the end of the sixth so

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Speaker 8: you know, it was a lot of waiting, a lot

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Speaker 8: of waiting, you know, especially here you could go day two,

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00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 8: day three, like, so you're just waiting around, but you know,

782
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Speaker 8: they called.

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Speaker 3: I got a call from.

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Speaker 8: I'm trying to remember the city, but it was Illinois,

785
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Speaker 8: but uh no, it was. It was a crazy, crazy

786
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Speaker 8: wave of emotions, like, you know, whole family was.

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Speaker 3: There at my at my mom's house.

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Speaker 8: So it was just cool just to have that moment

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Speaker 8: with everybody, and you know, especially after how long the

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Speaker 8: weekend had felt like, just finally end with some happy

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Speaker 8: tears and you know, figure out where I was going

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Speaker 8: to play.

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Speaker 1: How'd you like living and playing in Chicago? Oh? I

794
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Speaker 1: loved it.

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Speaker 3: I loved it.

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Speaker 8: You know, great area out there. They Bengals came out

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Speaker 8: there during preseason, so a lot of guys talk to

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Speaker 8: me about the area. But you know, the city great food.

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Speaker 8: I love foodie, so I love food. But yeah, I

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Speaker 8: loved it out there.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a favorite spot?

802
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Speaker 3: I had a couple.

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Speaker 8: I like steakhouses, so I tried down near every steakhouse

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Speaker 8: in Chicago, but downtown I'd either go Maple and Ash

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Speaker 8: or Ocean Prime.

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Speaker 3: Those are my top two.

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Speaker 1: You spent three and a half years with the Bears

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Speaker 1: before getting traded to the Bengals at the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: this year. What's the hardest part about being traded in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a season.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I feel like just two things, like relationships

812
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 8: and then learning plays but just like, you know, not

813
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Speaker 8: being able to say goodbye to people, meeting new people,

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00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 8: trying to learn new faces, new names, as well as

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Speaker 8: trying to learn a playbook, so trying to just cram

816
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Speaker 8: as much as you can in a short amount of time.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like those are two hardist things.

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Speaker 8: But you know, I feel like everybody here has done

819
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Speaker 8: a great job of allowing me to learn and slowly.

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Speaker 3: Teaching me things and learn this stuff each week.

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Speaker 1: So all right, some wild card topics. Now for Colol Herbert,

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Speaker 1: describe your experience as an Uber driver.

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Speaker 8: So I worked Postmates. I actually I did Uber too.

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Speaker 8: I did Postmates. I delivered food and I did Uber.

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00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 8: I was an Uber driver just needed extra money, like

826
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Speaker 8: you know, college, Like we weren't getting crazy nil bags

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Speaker 8: like these guys are now. So especially during springball, you know,

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Speaker 8: spring summer, not much going on.

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Speaker 3: We just work out in the morning. I would Uber.

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Speaker 8: And it stopped because I picked up this group of people.

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Speaker 8: One time person threw open my car and that was

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Speaker 8: the last time at Uber. And then I just started

833
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Speaker 8: delivering food after that.

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Speaker 1: So I was going to ask you for your worst

835
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Speaker 1: Uber horror story. I think I just heard it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so after that, no more picking up people. I

837
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Speaker 8: would just I would just deliver food, and uh yeah

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Speaker 8: that was a lot better.

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Speaker 1: Did you get good ratings?

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Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah all the time. You know, I feel

841
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 8: like I got some good tips too. Once people realize,

842
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 8: you know, I was delivering food, they're like, oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: So all right, who is your all time favorite athlete

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Speaker 1: in any sport? And why?

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Speaker 3: I mean lt uh lt. I grew up.

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Speaker 8: I was born in April twenty first. I worked twenty one.

847
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Speaker 8: Growing up, I worked twenty one at VT. It was

848
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Speaker 8: retired at Kansas, so I couldn't work. I work twenty

849
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Speaker 8: one in high school. Part of reason him, part of

850
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 8: reason because I was born that day. But I was

851
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Speaker 8: my favorite player growing up.

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Speaker 1: So we should probably clarify Ladanian Tomlinson as opposed to

853
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor.

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00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ladanian Thomason.

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Speaker 1: According to Wikipedia, you have Jamaican and virgin Island. Do

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Speaker 1: you still have family there?

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00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, especially in the VIRGINI it's most of my family

859
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 8: from Jamaica is in South Florida now, but growing up

860
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 8: would always go back.

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Speaker 3: I spend summers over there all summer, so until high school.

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00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 8: Then I started playing football, but still got some family

863
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 8: over there. Trying to go back this offseason, so take

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Speaker 8: my son out there for the first time.

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Speaker 1: What unhealthy food do you find hard to resist unhealthy?

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Speaker 8: I really know if it's unhealthy. I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm Jamaican, so I eat ox till.

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Speaker 3: I don't really feel like that's unhealthy though.

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Speaker 1: Is it Fatty's?

870
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 3: But it is fatty It's kind of like I mean,

871
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 3: I guess it's like I could be like barbecueish beef.

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00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 3: So I guess it can be.

873
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Speaker 8: But ox Hill, I mean anything fried, I work it off.

874
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Speaker 8: So you know, every now and then I enjoyed. I

875
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 8: enjoy a nice meal, but as you should.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd say those What do you like to spend

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00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: your money on?

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Speaker 3: Ah See, I'm a.

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Speaker 8: Kid at heart, so like like electric go carts, electric bikes,

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Speaker 8: that kind of stuff. I mean, I just got into

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Speaker 8: watches again. I got a son now, so he's gonna

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Speaker 8: get a lot of those electric Like I just got

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Speaker 8: him elect I got him a trike, so those kind

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Speaker 8: of things. I like to just spun money on vacations experiences.

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Speaker 1: So your son's gonna love it. A dad who likes

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Speaker 1: electronic things to be perfect for him. Final fun fact

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Speaker 1: for Khalil Herbert, This one's kind of deep. If you

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Speaker 1: could meet anybody in history, living or deceased, who would

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Speaker 1: that person be?

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Speaker 8: Dang, I got two so Jesus and probably like great

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Speaker 8: great grandparents or something, just to kind of see like

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Speaker 8: where my family.

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Speaker 3: I know where they came from, but just like see

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Speaker 3: how it was like living back then on not this

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Speaker 3: and stuff.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, a good answer. Appreciate your time, Thanks so much,

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