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Speaker 1: Hi and everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading the Bengals Booth Podcast.

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Speaker 2: The Everything's Gonna be ah right. Addition, as the Bengals

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Speaker 2: open the season with a lackluster performance, to put it nicely,

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Speaker 2: losing their opener at Cleveland twenty four to three. Coming up,

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Speaker 2: you'll hear radio replays and locker room comments from players

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Speaker 2: and coaches. Then, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, team

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Speaker 2: president Mike Brown joins me to discuss high expectations, the

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Speaker 2: Hope to see you there. Now, let's get to Sunday's

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Speaker 2: frustrating season opener. On a dreary, rainy and gray day

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Speaker 2: in Cleveland, the Bengals got the ball to begin the

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Speaker 2: game and immediately connected on third down and nine on

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Speaker 2: a twelve yard pass from Joe Burrow to Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 2: That was their longest pass completion all day and their

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Speaker 2: only third down conversion in eight tries in the first half.

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Speaker 2: Shotgun snap blitz coming Burrow in trouble and Joe will

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Speaker 2: be sacked. Didn't lose much. He lost two yards as

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Speaker 2: he tried to run forward, but he does get sacked

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Speaker 2: by Okunquo. A free agent acquisition, and the Bengals will

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Speaker 2: bring in rookie punter Brad Robbins. That was a familiar

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Speaker 2: theme as the Bengals punted on their first seven possessions.

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Speaker 2: Here's Tyler Boyd on floundering on third down.

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Speaker 3: That hurt us a lot.

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Speaker 4: Does We've got ourselves on stand out there and converted,

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Speaker 4: you know, and third down especially because we know that's

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Speaker 4: when man covers is gonna come in. That's when the

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Speaker 4: one on one upportunities come in. That's when we make

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Speaker 4: the big plays. Let's us see, and you didn't say

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Speaker 4: because they got the best of us.

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Speaker 2: The Browns weren't much better in the early going. Their

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Speaker 2: first six drives included four punts and a fumble, but

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Speaker 2: they did manage to get on the scoreboard early in

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Speaker 2: the second quarter. The snap, the placement, the right footed kick,

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Speaker 2: given the Cleveland Browns a three to nothing lead. It

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Speaker 2: the Browns put together the best drive that either team

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Speaker 2: had all day. It featured five first downs covered sixty

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Speaker 2: seven yards and ended with the game's first touchdown, second

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Speaker 2: and ten from the Bengals thirteen. Watson's a quarterback draw.

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Speaker 2: He's at the ten to five touchdown Cleveland. The Browns

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Speaker 2: led ten to nothing at the half. The Bengals defense

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Speaker 2: was playing okay, but the offense was anemic. Here's Ted karras.

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Speaker 5: Our defense was executing. They gave us a lot of

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Speaker 5: chances to win the game.

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Speaker 6: We didn't do it.

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Speaker 2: Second half highlights in a moment, But first reminder that

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Speaker 2: offense came to life to begin the second half, getting

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Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of day, it was a

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Speaker 2: If he hadn't, it probably would have been a game

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Speaker 2: four shotgun snap to borrow. Joe scrambling to the.

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Speaker 2: It'll give the Browns the ball in the red zone,

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Speaker 2: The Browns won it twenty four to three, and it

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Speaker 2: was a brutal day for Joe Burrow. Unlike last season's opener,

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Speaker 2: where he threw four interceptions, Joe didn't have any turnovers,

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Speaker 2: but he only completed fourteen of thirty one pass that's

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Speaker 2: less than half of his throws in fifty NFL starts,

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Speaker 2: His previous low was one forty eight, and Joe's passer

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Speaker 7: They got really good corners. You know, Denzel and Emerson

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Speaker 7: and in our one on one situations. We just didn't

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Speaker 2: But as good as the Browns were defensively, Burrow just

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Speaker 7: The quarterback doesn't perform in training camp. You know, that

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Speaker 7: was obviously something that I would have liked to have done.

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Speaker 7: But there's no excuses. It's obviously not very good today,

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Speaker 2: Consider the Joe threw eight passes for t Higgins and

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Speaker 2: didn't complete any of them. He threw nine for Jamar

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Speaker 2: Chase and completed five for thirty nine yards. And Chase

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Speaker 2: is now public enemy number one in Cleveland after making

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Speaker 2: last week that was turned into bulletin board material. I

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Speaker 2: was among the reporters who talked to Chase after the game.

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Speaker 2: We're not accustomed to seeing the offense struggle to the

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Speaker 2: extent that it to today. How would you describe today's game?

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Speaker 3: Went too good on offensives. I fell into some conditions

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Speaker 3: who weren't ready for for real, so they got to

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Speaker 3: be ready to execute the next time.

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Speaker 2: Conditions as in weather yep? Did you just feel flat?

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Speaker 2: How would you describe how it felt out there?

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Speaker 3: None just was going always for real. We had good

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Speaker 3: Lott Hag opportunities they play man, I mean, we had

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Speaker 3: good looks. We just didn't execute on'em.

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Speaker 2: Jill missed about five weeks. Were you guys are little

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Speaker 3: Probably that's probably what it was. Probably that, you know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, I don't, don't. Nobody really knows to

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Speaker 3: we look at the film. You gotta execute. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: keep blaming that on the conditions, but that's what they

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Speaker 8: Do you think the offense was just out of sync

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Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't get a lot of stuff going

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Speaker 3: our way, you know what I'm saying. We had a

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Speaker 3: couple of drop passes on boats on our end, which

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Speaker 5: What about their defense? They seemed to be real aggressive

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Speaker 5: With was the weather of factor there? Did you decide

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Speaker 3: Do you think the game plan for what they defense

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Speaker 9: More exact said after the game that this was not you,

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Speaker 9: This performance was not this team. Yeah, what do you

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Speaker 9: think when you put your finger on why you guys

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Speaker 9: just worked yourselves today.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 9: Honestly, we saw this team last year started to go

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Speaker 9: and too, and you guys still in the AC Championship.

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Speaker 9: We know slow starts are going to derail the season,

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Speaker 9: which is how frustrating is it to have the build

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Speaker 10: Not play well.

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Speaker 3: It's frustrating because I called the ass l's and we

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Speaker 3: just lost to some ls. So I'm pissed on my party.

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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm pissed on that. And like I said, man,

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Speaker 3: we got missed opportunities. We didn't capitalize on that and

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Speaker 3: we lost. So that's how we lost. John, I guess.

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Speaker 8: Bullet and more Maiturion with all the el stuff and

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Speaker 8: all that, what do you what did you make of

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Speaker 8: all that?

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Speaker 10: Did you drop the league?

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Speaker 5: Made up?

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Speaker 3: He just want to have some attention, so he just

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: How prepared are you for the for the blowback that

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Speaker 7: might come with the comments you made and then the

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Speaker 7: result of this game.

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Speaker 3: We'll blow back. I mean, did you say, if he

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Speaker 3: got me saying something I'm saying right now, he's soft.

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Speaker 3: If they soft with me saying l's and that the soft.

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Speaker 2: Then there's a gigantic ELF in the middle of the

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Speaker 2: field in Cleveland. It's not like Chase just randomly called

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Speaker 2: the Browns elves. But whatever, Cleveland won the game, their players, coaches,

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Speaker 7: Week one doesn't define anybody's season. Obviously, not very good

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I don't want to use the word frustration.

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Speaker 4: I mean, It's it's other games and we'll have other

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Speaker 7: So it's one week obviously not up to our standard,

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Speaker 2: the dismal opener. I'm sure that was the total opposite

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we came out we were a little

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Speaker 5: But that's tough for you. Got to get back to.

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Speaker 6: The drawing board. I know it's such a cliche you're saying.

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Speaker 6: I hate saying that obviously, but we got I'm not

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Speaker 1: Lot of good balls.

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Speaker 6: We just gotta go out there and do it. The

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Speaker 2: Is it fair to wonder if the Bengals need to

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Speaker 6: I don't know if that's it. I think it's more

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Speaker 5: You need the reps.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 6: I know people talk about that, but the fu Yeah,

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Speaker 6: There is language. Nobody has like a what happened? We

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Speaker 6: And unfortunately that's how it's going on our opening the

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Speaker 6: Time, Nah, cause we came out and gotta stop. So

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Speaker 6: I don't. I wouldn't call it that, you know what

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Speaker 6: We came out and gotta stop three out the next

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Speaker 6: I think, well, we just didn't do it. His great

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Speaker 6: that's just really what happened.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 6: I don't think that that kind of that moment was

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Speaker 2: You didn't play in the game here last year, but

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's really frustrating. You never wanna go anywhere and

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Speaker 6: play powardly. We talk like you didn't start riding fortunately

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Speaker 6: we gotta come to us next. You can't really gotta

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Speaker 6: scrap this game, you know, I can't really think.

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Speaker 2: We know with this offense, it's only a matter of

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Speaker 6: Know what they're used to and you know, we just

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Speaker 6: I just wentting this Sunday. So guys gotta get back

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Speaker 6: a good thing for us. You know, we've been able

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Speaker 6: the last two years, so we'll be able to get it.

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Speaker 2: Does appreciate your time, Thank you to out no Doubt.

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Speaker 2: to say after the game, as he spent a couple

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Speaker 5: Obviously, twenty four to three outcome wasn't what you were

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Speaker 5: the good news just seemed to come out of it

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll look at that, but obviously we want to

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Speaker 8: But it's a long season, so we got to make

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Speaker 5: In your mind, what are some of those corrections that

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Speaker 8: There's gonna be a lot of hidden yardage in just

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Speaker 5: Clean up defensively, particularly in the first half. Two takeaways.

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Speaker 5: You didn't turn the football over, you went plus two.

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Speaker 5: You know, that's that's going to win you some football

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Speaker 8: There's no question, you know they did. They did what

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Speaker 5: If I'm not mistaken, I think Joe put a glove on.

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Speaker 5: I mean, what was it that bat out there with

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Speaker 8: It was as bad as as we've had since I've

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Speaker 8: those little small thrings in all three phases to help

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Speaker 5: Did Cleveland do anything defensively that surprised you at all,

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Speaker 5: So now as you get ready for the for the

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Speaker 8: We got to clean this thing up tomorrow, put this

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you're exactly right. I mean, the last two

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Speaker 8: Yeah. People will make a lot of it because it's

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Speaker 2: Baltimore opened the season with a twenty five to nine

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Speaker 2: are a couple of takeaways from Sunday's loss. Number One.

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Speaker 2: People are not going to want to hear this, but

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Speaker 2: I am more concerned about how good the Browns looked

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Speaker 2: Bengals will bounce back, they always do, but the Browns

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Speaker 2: twenty three. Deshaun Watson didn't throw the ball very well,

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Speaker 2: lousy opener. It's impossible to say for sure, but Zach

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Speaker 2: It's probably worth changing the preseason plan just a bit

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Speaker 2: on the board. Observation number three. If the new starting

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Speaker 2: I thought they got off to a great start. Dax

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Speaker 2: matching Jermaine Pratt. I also thought rookie DJ Turner looked

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Speaker 2: guest this week is Bengals President Mike Brown, and I

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Speaker 2: should point out that our conversation was recorded before the

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Speaker 2: team's record setting contract extension with Joe Burrow. Here's Mike, Mike.

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Speaker 2: This is the Bengals fifty sixth season. Joe Burrow's got

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Speaker 2: three years of experience under his belt. Your coaching staff

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Speaker 2: is in its fifth year together. Basically, I don't see

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Speaker 2: any glaring weaknesses on the roster. Does this year feel

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Speaker 2: different to you in terms of expectations.

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Speaker 10: I know better than to have expectations. We've played well

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Speaker 10: the last two years. We had good teams. We went

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Speaker 10: to the Super Bowl, too, AFC championship games, and we

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Speaker 10: won the divisional title back to back. That's pretty good

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Speaker 10: recognition that we had a good team. But when you

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Speaker 10: look forward, you have to be careful not to claim

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Speaker 10: too much. You have to go out and do it again.

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Speaker 10: You have to prove it over. It's never easy. Those

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Speaker 10: other teams they think that they're just as good or better,

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Speaker 10: And I know we have good teams in the division

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Speaker 10: to contend with. It will be a real challenge, but

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Speaker 10: I also know that we have a pretty good base

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Speaker 10: to start after it.

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Speaker 2: It's not in your nature to make bold proclamations. Was

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Speaker 2: your dad the same way, Oh?

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Speaker 10: He was much more so. He used to as a

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Speaker 10: coach always make sure that if they won a game,

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Speaker 10: that was a great victory and everyone should recognize. It

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Speaker 10: is the case that some of the people in the NFL,

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Speaker 10: the league, they go out and beat their own tub,

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Speaker 10: hoping that people won't come. I've seen that done by

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Speaker 10: some very successfully for some reason. When they go down,

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Speaker 10: it's been so long since they were bragging about their

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Speaker 10: future that hardly anyone remembers it. But to me, that

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Speaker 10: would be embarrassing. And I was raised by my father

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Speaker 10: to the less you say, the better.

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Speaker 2: Your daughter, Katie has been praised league wide for her

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Speaker 2: ability to manage the salary cap. Are you amazed by

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Speaker 2: her grasp of a very complicated matter?

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Speaker 10: Well, I know, Katie, I'm not amazed. She was a

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Speaker 10: math major and an economics major in college. She's quite

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Speaker 10: bright enough. She can figure that stuff out. Sometimes I

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Speaker 10: think she thinks I'm too dumb to understand it. But anyway,

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Speaker 10: I rely on her, the team countseling her to handle this.

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Speaker 2: The NFL is approaching twenty billion dollars a year in

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Speaker 2: annual revenue. What do you make of the popularity and

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Speaker 2: scope of the NFL in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 10: Well, I can't count to twenty billion, But I don't

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Speaker 10: think about the money. I honestly got down. I just

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Speaker 10: think about having it run the right way. That means

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Speaker 10: you win. It means you people behave and live the

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Speaker 10: way they should and are part of the community. It

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Speaker 10: means you keep the contentious stuff restrained, and money seems

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Speaker 10: to have a way of being contentious. The less said

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Speaker 10: about it, the better. As far as I'm concerned, Let's

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Speaker 10: just focus on the games. That's what people really are

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Speaker 10: interested in.

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Speaker 2: You've been known over the years to read and respond

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Speaker 2: to the letters sent to you. We're living in an

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Speaker 2: email world. Now do you still get letters and respond

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Speaker 2: to them?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 10: I do. Just a short while ago, lady that I

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Speaker 10: wrote back to said, well, you like maps, so here

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Speaker 10: here's a map, and it's a map of the settlement

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Speaker 10: of Ohio. And how that was, how that went forward,

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Speaker 10: and it's really quite fun for me to look at it.

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Speaker 10: I do like it. Also sent a book to read.

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Speaker 10: I hesitated getting books from people because I like to

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Speaker 10: pick my own. But anyway, yes, I correspond to people

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Speaker 10: and occasionally I run aground, but more often not it

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Speaker 10: works out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the NFL allows cameras everywhere. In this day and age,

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Speaker 2: we've got hard knocks. Netflix recently had a multi part

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Speaker 2: quarterback show that was very entertaining. Do you watch any

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Speaker 2: of that.

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Speaker 10: Stuff less than I probably should? I watched some of

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Speaker 10: When we were on the Hard Knock Show. It got

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Speaker 10: to be a trial. You'd be in your office and

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Speaker 10: these guys would just march right in and PLoP down

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Speaker 10: and take pictures of whatever you were doing. Then a

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Speaker 10: lot of it. Most stuff with me just got cut

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Speaker 10: out because there wasn't anything that anyone wanted to say.

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Speaker 10: But it could be Oh, I wouldn't say annoying, surprising.

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Speaker 10: Let us say you knew what was going on, so

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Speaker 10: you had to be ready to handle it. But it

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Speaker 10: was it was different.

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Speaker 2: We're having this conversation just before the beginning of training camp,

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Speaker 2: which obviously takes place across the street from pay Course Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Do you miss going to places like Wilmington and Georgetown?

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Speaker 10: I do. I happened to like the old ways. I

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Speaker 10: don't know at this stage whether I would be up

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Speaker 10: to it, but training camp had a way about it

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Speaker 10: that was integral to the life, the football life, and

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Speaker 10: it was fun to be around the players. And quite honestly,

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Speaker 10: if you talk to the old ones, they liked it.

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Speaker 10: They talk about what they did at training camp and

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Speaker 10: the pranks they played on each other and stuff like that.

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Speaker 10: It's conducive to wonderful memories. I'll say that. Yet I

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Speaker 10: like this way too. It's certainly nice to be able

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Speaker 10: to go home at night and we're right across the

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Speaker 10: street from the practice field. It's good for the people

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Speaker 10: here in Cincinnati. They can come down and watch if

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Speaker 10: they choose. So there are a lot of pluses to

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Speaker 10: having it the way it is now.

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Speaker 2: We've all heard the staying patience is a virtue. Many

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Speaker 2: of your fellow owners aren't very patient with their coaching staffs.

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Speaker 2: You historically have been. Do you feel like you were

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Speaker 2: rewarded with your patients. For Zach Taylor and seeing how

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Speaker 2: he's grown, was acs.

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Speaker 10: An excellent coach. The first two years here were hard.

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Speaker 10: He was a young coach. He's probably getting hold of himself,

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Speaker 10: but it took a while for him to put the

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Speaker 10: team together the way it worked for him, and I

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Speaker 10: think that's been accomplished. We have some good players. The

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Speaker 10: problem going forwards will be to how do we keep

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Speaker 10: the good players enough of them? That's what I worry

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Speaker 10: about these days. Zach has proven himself. If you have

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Speaker 10: a coaching record like his, where you go to a

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Speaker 10: super Bowl, where you go to a couple of AFC

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Speaker 10: championship games and win the division back to back, you

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Speaker 10: have proven your merit.

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Speaker 2: Part of the fun of being a sports fan are

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Speaker 2: the rivalries. Who do you consider at the Bengals' biggest

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Speaker 2: rival these days?

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Speaker 10: Whoever we play next? But our natural rival is Cleveland,

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Speaker 10: But somehow Cleveland has drifted off to consider the Steelers

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Speaker 10: their natural rival Baltimore and we pound on each other

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Speaker 10: pretty good, yet we're sort of far away. And now

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Speaker 10: Kansas City Mahomes told Joe that I guess we were

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Speaker 10: going to have a rivalry or something like that, So

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Speaker 10: now we have another one to be a rival with.

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Speaker 2: You said to reporters earlier today, this is a time

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Speaker 2: for Cincinnati sports to shine. Clearly, you're cognizant of the Reds'

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Speaker 2: recent success. I know how closely follow the Reds, but

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Speaker 2: also FC Cincinnati. You see going to the Big twelve

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Speaker 2: xavior basketball's historical success. You seem to be kind of

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Speaker 2: caught up in all of it.

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Speaker 10: Well, it's quite extraordinary. A lot's going on in Cincinnati

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Speaker 10: in sports, good things, and I think that this adds

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Speaker 10: to the life here in town. I like sports. I

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Speaker 10: think a lot of men doing women as well. It

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Speaker 10: just lifts the spirits of the community when it goes right,

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Speaker 10: and right now it looks like it's going right.

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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to pick your brain. Appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Mike, good to be with you. That's going to

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