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

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Welcome to the Working Week addition,

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Speaker 1: Os Now. Time for this week's guests, beginning with running

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Speaker 1: first down. From sixth round pick to rookie contributor to

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Speaker 1: being counted on at a key Super Bowl moment, what

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Speaker 1: did that mean to you? It means a lot coming

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Speaker 1: from wrong, coming from and the adversity I went through,

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Speaker 1: just being a little piece of the puzzle to you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Being a Super Bowl is huge

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Speaker 1: to me. So I just my role, I just I

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Speaker 1: did it take for the Super Bowl sting to go away?

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Speaker 1: If it has, it's ain'tle with you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: We we I think we'll get our slight revenge when

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Speaker 1: ring saying, that's how I look at it. But chatting

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Speaker 1: You probably got your first break after a football season

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Speaker 1: anything fun? Oh? I was. I was selling the running

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Speaker 1: with one of this year's most intriguing undrafted rookies, defensive linemen,

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Speaker 1: Tyrekus Tisdale, out of All miss If you watch him

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Speaker 1: at practice alongside the two defensive linemen the Bengals drafted

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Speaker 1: this year, third round pick Zach Carter and seventh round

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Speaker 1: selection Jeffrey Gunter, you might think that Tisdale was the

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Speaker 1: most highly touted of the three. He's six five, two

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Speaker 1: and ran a four six three forty. It is pro day.

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Speaker 1: I spoke to Tyrekas about his path to Cincinnati. Tyrekas

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Speaker 1: she signed to the Bengals as a college free agent.

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Speaker 1: Why Cincinnati? What appealed to you about this franchise? Um?

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Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, this scheme fits me

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Speaker 1: the best. On being versatile, Like if I could play

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Speaker 1: inside and out on the coaches Coach Hobby On and

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Speaker 1: Mark Duffner, I feel like those are great guys to

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Speaker 1: learn from them, and great guys to get opportunity from

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Speaker 1: him and the vets her great guys I could learn

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Speaker 1: from down the road. So I know Coach Duffner in particular,

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Speaker 1: was really excited that you signed with the Bengals. Tell

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Speaker 1: me a little bit about your relationship with him leading

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Speaker 1: up to a draft time. Um, so, men, Coach duff

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Speaker 1: actually had a relationship for for a pretty good a

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Speaker 1: while now. We stayed in touch, um from up until

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Speaker 1: Pro day, from before Pro day up until Pro day,

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Speaker 1: after Pro Day, up into the draft. Like, we stayed

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Speaker 1: in touch, you know, talked on the phone, like tell

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Speaker 1: me he'd love for me to be a Bengal and

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Speaker 1: he wanted me here, And you know, I just felt

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Speaker 1: like that relationship, in that connection really is what drew

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Speaker 1: me here. You look the part. You're a big man.

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Speaker 1: I know you ran a four six forty that you're

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Speaker 1: pro day. Do you feel like, just based on the

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Speaker 1: practices you've taken part in so far, that you belong Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: I would definitely feel like I belong here. I'm obviously

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Speaker 1: still learning, trying to give him a learned the game,

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Speaker 1: learn the scheme, and learn from the people around me

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Speaker 1: for sure, like not you know, not trying to rush things,

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Speaker 1: but also trying to stay stay ahead of things. At

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Speaker 1: the same time, we're chatting with tyrekas Tisdale, you had

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Speaker 1: some injuries at all, Miss, I think you only played

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Speaker 1: eleven games the last couple of years. How is your

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Speaker 1: health and how much did that impact like your draft stock?

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Speaker 1: Do you think you would have been selected had you

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Speaker 1: been healthy? On my I definitely feel like that if

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Speaker 1: I if I stayed healthy and that I would have

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Speaker 1: been I would have been a draft pick. But you know, God,

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Speaker 1: God has a plan for everything, and everything happens for

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Speaker 1: a reason. Though, um, I definitely feel like it. This

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Speaker 1: happened for a reason and now I'm here for a

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Speaker 1: reason today. One hundred percent now, yes, one hundred percent healthy.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to get to You're practicing with surreal pros

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Speaker 1: Jay Reader, Sam Hubbard, B J. Hill. The list goes

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Speaker 1: on and on. What are you picking up from being

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Speaker 1: around those guys. I'm just just little things that that

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Speaker 1: just can help my my hand placement, my footwork on

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Speaker 1: pat love with just little things that I've always known

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Speaker 1: I needed to work on. And they're just give me

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Speaker 1: key tips that they learned over the years. Day helped

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Speaker 1: them with it, and that's helping me a little more.

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Speaker 1: How about coach Haba, well known as an excellent d line, coach,

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that he's stressed to you so far,

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Speaker 1: things that you picked up from him, just you know,

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Speaker 1: just you know, not not overthinking, not thinking too much.

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Speaker 1: He just tells me not to think too much. You know,

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Speaker 1: just played a game and you know, hell, coach, up

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Speaker 1: the little stuff. You've joined a team that went to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl a year ago. Does anything stand out

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Speaker 1: in this locker room? Do you get the vibe of

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Speaker 1: a team that was less than two minutes away from

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Speaker 1: winning it all? You can definitely tell that everybody in

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Speaker 1: this building is about business. They mean business and that

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Speaker 1: day they was supposed to be in a super Bowl

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Speaker 1: when they was close to one and it last year

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Speaker 1: and I don't and I definitely agree that that that

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Speaker 1: this team can make it. Bag there as we're chatting,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald got paid yesterday. I think I read an

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Speaker 1: interview with you prior to the draft that that's your guy.

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Speaker 1: That's so you admire the most. You know, you can't

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Speaker 1: you can't win without the big boys up front, so

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Speaker 1: you gotta pay. Yeah. Unfortunately, he made life miserable both

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Speaker 1: for the Bengals in the Super Bowl, but he does

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Speaker 1: that pretty much everybody as we're here in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: You've got a twenty two necklace on. That was your

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Speaker 1: number at all missed unusual D line number. I was

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Speaker 1: a running back my whole entire career up until college,

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Speaker 1: and twenty two was my number, and I stuck with

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Speaker 1: it throughout high school throughout college. I knew coming to it,

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Speaker 1: I knew that was finally going to change. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm still rotting the necklace just for remember you must

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Speaker 1: have been a big running back six four two forty,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, do you miss him? I think I could

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Speaker 1: still have told it a little bit goal line fullback.

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Speaker 1: We might have a possible position for you. There's another

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Speaker 1: old Miss guy that signed to the Bengals after the draft,

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Speaker 1: Ben Brown. M Did you expect him to be selected

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Speaker 1: and what do you think of his potential as an

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Speaker 1: NFL old lineman? Um Um. I know being had an

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Speaker 1: injury early mid season, and I definitely feel that if

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Speaker 1: he didn't have the injury, he would have been a

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Speaker 1: draft pick as well. He's one of the best best

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Speaker 1: old lineman I played against throughout college. From the time

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Speaker 1: I foot on campus, Um, I always thought he was

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Speaker 1: the best old lineman I was going against every day.

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Speaker 1: So I know that once he's once he gets his feet,

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Speaker 1: when it gets back in the room, that you know

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a great opportunity for him as well.

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Speaker 1: I know the real dream come true is playing in

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Speaker 1: an NFL game, making the team. But what has practice

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Speaker 1: been like and signing that contract and at least as

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Speaker 1: of right now, being a Cincinnati Bagel A dream, a

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Speaker 1: dream come true of a childhood dream. It's something that

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Speaker 1: I've turned up my whole life. Me and my family

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Speaker 1: had dreamed of a whole life. I mean, I always

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Speaker 1: knew of a as a high school football player at

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Speaker 1: this time will come. I knew junior college, college and

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Speaker 1: SEC at this time will come. It's just a matter

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Speaker 1: of way. Am I getting your first name right? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Tyrekas Yes, sir, that's correct. I feel good. I imagine

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Speaker 1: that's been said many ways, so that yes, the first

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Speaker 1: is somebody to get it right at the first drive. Hey,

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Speaker 1: best of luck to You're great to have you on

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Speaker 1: the team that's going to do it. For this episode

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