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

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast. The Monday morning you should look fine. Addition,

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Speaker 1: as we get your work week started with an in

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Speaker 1: depth look at last night's preseason lost to the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments

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Speaker 1: and analysis form my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in

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Speaker 1: this week's fun Facts segment, you'll hear from a Bengals

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Speaker 1: Statue of Liberty. The Bengals team hotel this weekend in

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Speaker 1: Jersey City, New Jersey, provided a beautiful view of the

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Speaker 1: New York City skyline and if you stood in the

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Speaker 1: right spot, you could see the Statue of Liberty in

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Speaker 1: the New York Harbor. It's not only a magnificent structure

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Speaker 1: and a symbol of freedom to people all over the world,

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Speaker 1: but it has personal meaning for me. As a young boy.

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Speaker 1: My grandfather arrived in the US on a boat from Sweden,

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Speaker 1: and it was among the millions of immigrants whose first

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Speaker 1: stop in the US was Ellis Island, just a short

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Speaker 1: distance from the Statue of Liberty. Now time to recap

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Speaker 1: Sunday night's game at MetLife Stadium. Here's a stat for you.

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Speaker 1: On the bengals first four possessions. Their average drive start

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Speaker 1: was the Giant's thirty five yard line. They stopped the

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Speaker 1: Giants on fourth and one near midfield. New York's first possession,

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Speaker 1: then came up with a takeaway on the second, second,

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Speaker 1: and fourth. The Bengals forty three play action fake. Here's

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Speaker 1: a throw and it is intercepted by a diving Dax Hill.

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Speaker 1: He's back on his feet running toward midfield and he

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Speaker 1: gets tackled at the fifty. It was a high pass

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Speaker 1: intended for tight end Daniel Bellinger. It glanced off his

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Speaker 1: interception after nearly having an end zone interception in his

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Speaker 1: debut last week. The Bengals first round draft pick came

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Speaker 1: away with that spectacular I NT on Sunday night. Here's

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Speaker 1: fellow safety Michael Thomas Scott limifer kid, I mean, athletic,

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Speaker 1: at practice. But to be able to go make those

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Speaker 1: splash plays coming away with that diving interception today, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's game change. And that's why you know, I told him,

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Speaker 1: him to go make a play like that, I mean

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Speaker 1: in the showcases talents, even in the preseason game. I

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Speaker 1: mean especially you almost had won the first preseason game

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Speaker 1: we played, which would have been phenomenal for him to

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati turned hills pick into points as a fifty yard

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Speaker 1: a short touchdown run gave New York a seven three lead.

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Speaker 1: But for the third straight possession, the Bengals got the

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Speaker 1: Cam Brown saved the touchdown that was a seventy three

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Speaker 1: pritt say it every day, pray, it's all about the ball.

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Speaker 1: Got to get the ball game. Tang that plays on

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Speaker 1: We just got to close the game out. We had

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Speaker 1: It had to be painful. But what hurt Clay the

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen that before in a preseason game. You

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Speaker 1: good enough. Special teams wise. It was probably my worst

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Speaker 1: but this doesn't happen very often in the NFL. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was proud. We were fighting. We just gotta finish.

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Speaker 1: special teams take Yeah, it was. That was not good enough,

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Speaker 1: I'm thankful Clay had practiced the other day. You've had

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Speaker 1: say that guy can't even help it. He just always

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Speaker 1: hits people hard, even when he doesn't want to. What

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Speaker 1: does that mean? To you when teammates, you know, show

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Speaker 1: you that kind of respect and love. Well, I just

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Speaker 1: it's physical, it's time to play play play ball, and

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Speaker 1: I do need to protect our teammates because there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of times I get a little excessive, Like if

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Speaker 1: he had twenty. Even if you're disappointed because of the

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Speaker 1: of practicing against Darren Donald? Actually, Mike Reid was he

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Speaker 1: was something else. Man. When I was a rookie, pass

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Speaker 1: protecting against Mike Read every day was a challenge. Now

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Speaker 1: this guy was the quickest human being and I'd ever

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Speaker 1: gone against. And you know, I'd swear like I know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't close my eyes. How did he get from

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Speaker 1: there to there so fast? But Donald has got that

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Speaker 1: kind of quickness, and he's a bigger body guy. Mike

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Speaker 1: wasn't you know that kind of guy size wise, And

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Speaker 1: you know, this guy's a freak show. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: got you gotta pack it all. You're gonna bring it

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Speaker 1: all against him. Get some sleep, you two man. Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow and most of the Bengal starters are expected to

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Speaker 1: and this week's guest is trying to pull off a

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Speaker 1: rather remarkable feat conference and fun Facts with defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: Dominique Davis number seventy two, one of the great stories

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Speaker 1: in this Bengals training camp. We're three weeks away from

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Speaker 1: the start of the NFL season, but you have already

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Speaker 1: played a professional football season this year. You were a

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Speaker 1: member of the Houston Gamblers of the Reborn USFL, so

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Speaker 1: you played ten games. Nobody. Now you're trying to play

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Speaker 1: an NFL season. How are you doing it? Oh man?

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Speaker 1: As this is the ground. Man, I know I wanted

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Speaker 1: my dream playing the NFL. You know I've been chasing

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Speaker 1: that since I got drafted. I went on drafted out

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty with the Jets. I was hurt. I

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Speaker 1: took a year off, man to think about is getting back,

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Speaker 1: you know, just coming in a turning camp with the Jets. Man,

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Speaker 1: I was just like dang, like I finally obtained it.

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Speaker 1: So when I learned that I had a foot injury

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, it broke me in. The released me.

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Speaker 1: So I worked so hard as you get back where

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Speaker 1: I am now. You know, I did the USFLS a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity and I dominated if they were all supposed

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Speaker 1: to do. And you know, I got a few observers,

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Speaker 1: few teams look out and I'm just blessed to be

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals and they really believed in me, so

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Speaker 1: they brought me in. So it's really been It's been

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Speaker 1: a ground man. It's not easy. It's not easy at all. Man.

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Speaker 1: I love it though. You you really gotta you really

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Speaker 1: gotta love it. So I love the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to be one of the best. I want

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Speaker 1: to train and do whatever I ask questions, you know,

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Speaker 1: from dj BJ, everybody, all the starters, the team has

479
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Speaker 1: been here, what did they do? And I want to

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Speaker 1: follow them? Save footsteps so I can continue to be here,

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Speaker 1: you know, and these next coming loots manson dream come true.

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Speaker 1: Man for chatting with Dominique David So that you as

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Speaker 1: FL season went from April to mid June. See, you

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Speaker 1: had about a month to get ready for the start

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Speaker 1: of an NFL training camp. How difficult is the physical

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Speaker 1: and mental grind? Um, It's very difficult, man. I can

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Speaker 1: definitely say that it's not for the week at all,

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Speaker 1: definitely not not even just coming in and trying to

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Speaker 1: stick around. But former also, you know, it's very hard.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. When I got done with the USFL,

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Speaker 1: I probably took off like a week or two with

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Speaker 1: my family. They wanted me to relax with them more,

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Speaker 1: but I couldn't. I just knew it was I had

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Speaker 1: a dream, real chance. So it is very hard, man.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just blessed as a thank God for

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Speaker 1: putting me here. Man, give me the opportunity and the

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Speaker 1: strength to continue to grind. Man. So, in your NFL

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Speaker 1: preseason debut last week, you tied for the team leading

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Speaker 1: tackles with five. You had half a sack. How did

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Speaker 1: that feel? Honestly, I didn't even know I tired with

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Speaker 1: the team. The tackles are, man, it ain't really hit

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Speaker 1: me yet. Man. Honestly, I've really been this in the day.

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Speaker 1: She's just going day by the day the training camp.

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Speaker 1: So this is like my second turning camp this year.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just really in that mold man, Like I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know I had that many tackles. I was

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Speaker 1: just out there playing my hardest man, just trying to

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Speaker 1: survive and keep grinding. Man, it's the journey comes through run.

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Speaker 1: We're chatting to Dominique Davis. Let's turn the clock back.

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Speaker 1: You played at UNC Pembruck at Division two school, did

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Speaker 1: very well there, as you noted, got signed as an

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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent by the Jets. That you were hurt

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Speaker 1: and didn't pass the physical as a result. But that

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Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago. What have you been

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Speaker 1: doing the last couple of years after my surgery. It

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00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: took me a long time to get back. Now you're

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Speaker 1: only in shape, but learn how to run, walk, all

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Speaker 1: those functional things that we do every day. It was

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00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: very hard. So it took me almost a year just

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Speaker 1: to learn how to walk and run again. You know,

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Speaker 1: how to break up some of that scar tis when

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Speaker 1: all that, those type of things. So that's really what

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Speaker 1: I was doing, doing that spending time with my son

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Speaker 1: because I knew at the end of the day and

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Speaker 1: I was going to capture my dream. So I wanted

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Speaker 1: to spend as much too that time to spend as

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Speaker 1: must time with family because in a moment like this,

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Speaker 1: how I'm gonna be able to see him? So that's

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Speaker 1: what killed me going Man, based on what I've read,

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Speaker 1: you are the classic late bloomer type story. You're a

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Speaker 1: big man now, three hundred and twenty five pounds, But

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Speaker 1: what were you wish a high school senior. High school senior,

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Speaker 1: I was like six foot two forty five, Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: I was basically a defensive man, and then when I

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Speaker 1: got to college, I just blew up through fourteen, eight,

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Speaker 1: three or five. So, as I mentioned, you were with

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Speaker 1: the Houston Gamblers at the USFL earlier this year, but

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Speaker 1: it was Houston and name only. The whole league was

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Speaker 1: based in Birmingham, Alabama. Eight teams all practicing playing games

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Speaker 1: in Birmingham. Was that odd just being with this massive

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Speaker 1: group of teams and players. Yeah, it was definitely I expected, man,

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00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: it was definitely odd, but I adjusted to it, you know,

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Speaker 1: being up getting at the Turning film. We don't spending

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Speaker 1: in our own houses and stuff like that, so that

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Speaker 1: kind of made it less odd and you know, but

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Speaker 1: it was weird just playing at one stadium man Birmingham.

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Speaker 1: But it was definitely a blessing. You know, played a

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Speaker 1: lot against a lot of guys, a lot of NFL people,

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Speaker 1: people that was playing last year, and it was a

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Speaker 1: great experience. Man, doing fun facts that Dominique Davis. On

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Speaker 1: March twentieth, you sent out a tweet that read back

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Speaker 1: from the Dead. It included some pictures of you on

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Speaker 1: a practice field doing some football drills. Is that how

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Speaker 1: you feel as a football player, like you're back from

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Speaker 1: the dead? Yes, sir, I feel like right now, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a resurgence. You know. I felt like I took

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Speaker 1: some time off and a lot of people forgot about me,

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Speaker 1: and you know it's basically signalized, you know, dead to

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Speaker 1: the world. So now I'm getting back out here and

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm resurgeon and back from the dead. Man.

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Speaker 1: I was just continue to work and come back a

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Speaker 1: lot and continue my dreams. Man. I believe twenty one

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Speaker 1: guys that played in the USFL this year. Are in

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Speaker 1: NFL camps right now, including your Bengals teammate t Gray Scales.

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Speaker 1: What is the bond like between all of you as

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Speaker 1: you try to pull off this incredible feat of playing

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Speaker 1: ten professional games from April to June and starting right

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Speaker 1: back up and playing in the NFL. It's really a

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Speaker 1: blessing to have somebody that too, is just playing with

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Speaker 1: another league come along, went to because he knows me.

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Speaker 1: We were cool then, we were hanging out then and

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Speaker 1: then coming in and you know, honestly, you see how

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Speaker 1: it gets down. It's very mental and physical. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a grind from going one season and nobody we've

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00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: known anything and they're going straight to the NFL. So

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Speaker 1: he picked me up. Man, let's keep going, keep doing it,

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00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: keep doing a thing. So he's a he's a big

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Speaker 1: motivator for me right now. Man, he's definitely watching over

579
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Speaker 1: a come on league, let's go, you know. So it's great, man,

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Speaker 1: it's a great feeling. Can you describe what it was

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Speaker 1: like the charge out of the tunnel last Friday night

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Speaker 1: for your first NFL preseason game? It was unreal. It

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00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: was very unreal, Like it's just an a mean of

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00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: trying to stay focused and then it's like you want

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00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: to cry at the same time, like he's just you

586
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: just wanted it so bad and you finally get it.

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Speaker 1: What you gotta keep going. It's so hard, just a

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00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: mix up motion. Man, I wanted to cry, but I

589
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: just couldn't. I just know how to stay focused, get

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00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: ready and try to dominate in this game so people

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Speaker 1: will know who I am and and like you said,

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Speaker 1: she my name or surging. When camp first started, was

593
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Speaker 1: there a little bit of an awe factor being around

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Speaker 1: guys you've watched on TV in the Super Bowl and

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00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: so forth, and now being your teammates. Yeah, definitely, all

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00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: like looking at some of these guys. That's like I

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00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: watched I was sitting on the college last year seeing

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Speaker 1: the Zoe so Jermaine Pratt, he's a hill, the's a reader.

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00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: I always watching these guys. So to come int locker

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Speaker 1: room and you know these some of these people know

601
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: your name and it's crazy to me, you know, I

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00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: get a little star struck sometimes. Man. Still, I'm always

603
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: got start. I've always been star sted. Well, there's no

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Speaker 1: difference out in the roster between seventy two and anybody

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Speaker 1: else there. You're one of the guys. You've earned this

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Speaker 1: best of luck and I appreciate your time. Let's serve

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Speaker 1: thank you appreciate it. That's kind. Nae Davis Dominique had

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Speaker 1: two tackles on Sunday night against the Giants. That's going

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