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Speaker 1: Now time for the radio replays from Sunday's win in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: This afternoon from Music City USA, Nashville, Tennessee. The Bengals
Speaker 1: will look to keep their playoff hopes alive as they
Speaker 1: take on old friend Brian Callahan and the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: And it is time for the big skin to fly
Speaker 1: here at Nissan Stadium. Second down and ten Bengals from
Speaker 1: their own twenty burrow to throw against the four man
Speaker 1: rush passes over the middle and it is picked off
Speaker 1: by the Tennessee Titans. A pass intended for Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford, an interior linebacker, went to the ground and
Speaker 1: intercepted it for Tennessee. One of the best defensive linemen
Speaker 1: in the NFL checks in on offense, Jeffrey Simmons. He
Speaker 1: will line up as a fullback in front of Pollard.
Speaker 1: On second down in goal from the three. That is
Speaker 1: a gigantic fullback. Levis gives it to Pollard running up
Speaker 1: the middle, touchdown Tennessee Hurst and goal from the Tennessee six.
Speaker 1: Burrow and the shotgun back at the eleven. Joe extends
Speaker 1: the hands, catches the ball back to throw looking still
Speaker 1: looking now backs up, gets away from a hit, still looking,
Speaker 1: escapes another hit, throws into the end zone, touchdown to
Speaker 1: Chase Brown. The remarkable Joe Burrow buying time, escaping two
Speaker 1: possible sacks, and delivering a strike to running back Chase
Speaker 1: Brown for the Bengals touchdown. Will they give it to
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons to try to score a touchdown? That would
Speaker 1: be interesting. They do not. They give it to Tajy Spears.
Speaker 1: He goes airborne and he sticks the ball forward for
Speaker 1: the Tennessee touchdown. Burrow under center an I formation backfield
Speaker 1: behind him, the tailback is Chase Brown. Burrow fakes a handoff,
Speaker 1: throws a pass Sam Hubbard with the catching touchdown Bengals.
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard raising the football over his head and spiking
Speaker 1: at Gronk style after the first catch of his NFL
Speaker 1: career third down and seven. As the result of that
Speaker 1: five yard penalty, Levis to throw his pass, picked off
Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Britt at the fifty, running back down the
Speaker 1: sideline of the thirty five thirty and shoved out of
Speaker 1: bounds near the twenty. A late penalty flag thrown Will
Speaker 1: after the play, but a great interception for Cam Taylor
Speaker 1: Britt and the Bengals get their second takeaway. Burrow ready
Speaker 1: for the shotgun snap Drew Sample in the backfield with him.
Speaker 1: Burrow has the ball. It's a deep drop he throws
Speaker 1: before Gunning hit got deep ball for Higgins. He catches
Speaker 1: hip touchdown Bengals. Burrow flattened at the fifty and on
Speaker 1: his back, he holds up the touchdown signal after connecting
Speaker 1: with the Tennessee kid t Higgins. Taja spears in it
Speaker 1: running back lines up to the right of Will Levis,
Speaker 1: who taps both sides of his helmet as he waits
Speaker 1: for the shotgun snap. The former UK Wildcat back to throw,
Speaker 1: deflected and intercepted. Mike Hilton grabs the ricochet. I think
Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Brett tipped it to him and the Bengals
Speaker 1: have intercepted consecutive throws by Will Levis. This will be
Speaker 1: a twenty one yard try from the left hash for
Speaker 1: Cad York. Ryan Rico is the holder, the snap, the placement,
Speaker 1: the kick is up and it is good. With two
Speaker 1: seconds left.
Speaker 2: In the half.
Speaker 1: The Bengals have gone up by ten points and Levis
Speaker 1: under center again, turns around, fakes a hand off to Pollard,
Speaker 1: wants to throw, fires intercepted, Stone running it back. Gino's
Speaker 1: at the twenty five twenty battle in front to block.
Speaker 1: He's to the five to the goal line, touchdown Bengals.
Speaker 1: Geno Stone with a pick six and the Bengals have
Speaker 1: their fourth takeaway of the day. Rudolph catches the shotguns,
Speaker 1: hands it off the balls on the ground, but Pollard
Speaker 1: no I thought he recovered.
Speaker 3: He did not.
Speaker 1: It's being run back by Jorge down the sideline of
Speaker 1: the thirty. The twenty gets away from Rudolph, who touchdown. Wow, Bengals.
Speaker 1: Another defensive touchdown for Cincinnati. Has Pollard fumbled the ball,
Speaker 1: failed to scoop it up, and Battle ran it back
Speaker 1: for the score.
Speaker 3: McKinley Jackson stripped it. McKinley Jackson got penetration and he
Speaker 3: stripped the thing and man once that thing was on
Speaker 3: the ground. Oh, he dropped, lost control of it before
Speaker 3: he crossed the goal line. He started a celebration. Ooh,
Speaker 3: he's at the half yard line. I'm not sure he
Speaker 3: crossed the goal line before that ball came out of
Speaker 3: his hands.
Speaker 2: Ooh.
Speaker 1: Seven catches for Oconquo. Rudolph will throw high pass baked off.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are running it back. This is Josh Newton
Speaker 1: and he goes down at the twenty eight yard line.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Four interceptions for the Bengals today. Ten takeaways for the
Speaker 1: two defenses combined. Second down and ten at the eighteen
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, the Bengals up by seventeen points. Rudolph to
Speaker 1: throw short pass of the middle, caught on the run.
Speaker 1: Tajy spears inside the five, spins away from Jordan Battle
Speaker 1: and runs into the end zone for a Tennessee touchdown.
Speaker 1: Third down and goal from the five for Row takes
Speaker 1: the snap, hands it off. Chase Brown lowers the shoulder pads,
Speaker 1: fighting for the goal lines. He's in touchdown Bengals with
Speaker 1: one oh nine to go, the second touchdown of the
Speaker 1: day for Chase Brown. Five seconds to go. This will
Speaker 1: be the final play of the game. The Bengals lead
Speaker 1: thirty seven to twenty one. Rudolph to throw under pressure.
Speaker 1: Scrambling around to the left points into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Throws and it is caught for a touchdown by Josh Wiley,
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati native, with his second career touchdown catch. They
Speaker 1: have both come against the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans end the game with a touchdown that makes the
Speaker 1: final score a little bit closer. The final was thirty
Speaker 1: seven twenty seven Bengals. Despite playing on the sore left knee,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was terrific again, throwing three touchdown passes to
Speaker 1: raise his league leading total to thirty six. That's a
Speaker 1: new Bengals singles He's a record, topping Joe's previous high
Speaker 1: of thirty five and twenty twenty two. He's also thrown
Speaker 1: at least three touchdown passes in each of the last
Speaker 1: six games, one of them on Sunday, went to his
Speaker 1: old Ohio State college buddy Sam Hubbard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was big playing the game. You know, I
Speaker 5: had faith and Sam to go make that play. He's
Speaker 5: got good hands and it's a play we've talked about.
Speaker 5: So I think that was a four down situation. That's
Speaker 5: why we ended up going with that one, and it
Speaker 5: felt good. Yeah. I mean I stayed in Sam's dorm
Speaker 5: on one of my first visits to to Ohio State.
Speaker 5: He's been part of part of my life for a
Speaker 5: long time. He's been a great friend, and you know,
Speaker 5: really a guy that you can look up to when
Speaker 5: you're young because he does things. He does things the
Speaker 5: right way, works really hard, He's about the right things,
Speaker 5: and you know, when you into the league, helps you
Speaker 5: with your process. All the off field stuff that I do.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of it I got from Sam.
Speaker 5: And you know, he's just a pros pro, has been
Speaker 5: for a long time, works really hard at it, plays
Speaker 5: great when he's in there. You just can't say enough
Speaker 5: good things about him.
Speaker 1: Hubbard left the game shortly after that with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: He told reporters after the game that he'll get an
Speaker 1: MRI done to determine the severity. Jabar Chase finished with
Speaker 1: nine catches for ninety four yards and still leads the
Speaker 1: Triple Crown categories with one hundred two catches for one
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirteen yards and fifteen touchdowns. Then there's
Speaker 1: t Higgins from oak Ridge, Tennessee, about two and a
Speaker 1: half hours from Nashville. He had five catches for eighty
Speaker 1: eight yards and a touchdown. And I caught up with
Speaker 1: Tea after the game. See, you're back in the stadium
Speaker 1: where you were honored twice as mister Football in the
Speaker 1: state of Tennessee. What's it like to then come back
Speaker 1: in here and have a big game.
Speaker 6: That's always fun coming back home, you know what I mean. Shoot,
Speaker 6: the past two times, you know I've been back and
Speaker 6: i'd have a good game, So you know, man, it's
Speaker 6: always fun coming to play back home and find the
Speaker 6: family from in front of friends and man, it's just,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm grateful for for everything.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the deep touchdown pass you caught from Joe.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's seen a replay or anything yet,
Speaker 1: but he got flattened. He's on his back, he throws
Speaker 1: it up to you and the next thing we know,
Speaker 1: he's on his back giving the touchdown and signal because
Speaker 1: you made a play for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Actually just saw that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: You know, he trusted me. You know, give me a ball.
Speaker 6: You'll go working on that in all weekend. You know,
Speaker 6: he trusted me, and you know I just came down
Speaker 6: and make it play.
Speaker 1: Devin Cochrane started at left tackle today. He had one
Speaker 1: offensive snap in his NFL career prior to this. I
Speaker 1: thought he and the entire offensive line did.
Speaker 2: A nice job.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they did a hell of a job, you know,
Speaker 6: you know game and gave room for chasing run and
Speaker 6: you know, hass Off to down and haus Off to
Speaker 6: Chase Brown as well.
Speaker 1: I never asked you this question. When you're playing on
Speaker 1: the road, wearing the helmet and all the noise you
Speaker 1: hear down on the field, can you hear the Bengals
Speaker 1: fans that travel and say tea every time you make
Speaker 1: a catch?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you know, you know Cincinnati fans they travel,
Speaker 6: will you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Any in every.
Speaker 4: Game and you know, and they.
Speaker 3: Have that team.
Speaker 6: You know, it's just a good filly, you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: especially back home.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: It's like I feel like even NY fans with saying
Speaker 6: te just because I know I'm back home.
Speaker 1: So it's been an interesting week beginning on Monday night,
Speaker 1: your quarterback publicly campaigning in hopes that you'll continue to
Speaker 1: be a Bengal going forward.
Speaker 2: What has the week been like for you?
Speaker 6: For me, it's just been folks on ball of trying
Speaker 6: to put my best foot forward to get a win.
Speaker 1: Tea recently changed agents and now shares one with his
Speaker 1: running mate Jamar Chase. On defense, Mike Hilton had an
Speaker 1: interception and three tackles in the backfield. Tennessee was also
Speaker 1: the site of his huge playoff interception in the red
Speaker 1: zone in twenty twenty one. I talked to the Bengals
Speaker 1: fearless slot corner Mike Hilton. I thought you had one
Speaker 1: hell of a game today. You were in the backfield
Speaker 1: multiple times, you had one of four Bengals interceptions. Describe
Speaker 1: but your own performance today, what'd you think?
Speaker 7: You know, this is one of my better performances of
Speaker 7: the year. For some reason, when we come to Nashville,
Speaker 7: I feel like I always have some of my best games,
Speaker 7: and you know, I was just out there making plays
Speaker 7: for my team and trying to help us win.
Speaker 1: Your timing was so good on some of your blitzes today.
Speaker 1: Did that have anything to do with Fastinger Brian Callahan
Speaker 1: coach team and kind of knowing what he likes to
Speaker 1: do offensively?
Speaker 4: Yeah, really, that's just me doing what I do.
Speaker 7: Best, you know, getting in the backfield time and know
Speaker 7: if this is making plays. I know I'm a guy
Speaker 7: that team's game playing for, so I know they kind
Speaker 7: of focus on me and I just try to keep
Speaker 7: my belts.
Speaker 1: Four interceptions, six takeaways. The defenses obviously had some games
Speaker 1: they didn't go very well, but you made the plays
Speaker 1: today that helped Cincinnati overcome so turnovers and penalties.
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, we haven't played to our standard throughout the year,
Speaker 7: but these last two games we've been playing well, uh,
Speaker 7: getting off the field, getting turnovers, and you know, we've
Speaker 7: been able to win a couple of games.
Speaker 2: So we just gotta keep stacking.
Speaker 1: And keep working. Gino still had a pick six, Jordan
Speaker 1: Maddele should have had a touchdown. You're shaking your head.
Speaker 7: Man, disappointed? Man, that's you know, that was the moment
Speaker 7: he those type of guys live for, and he just
Speaker 7: gotta be smart and you know, taking them all through
Speaker 7: the end zone.
Speaker 1: You know, it's easy for me to say, right, I
Speaker 1: always wonder why guys don't wait and told her like
Speaker 1: twill yards into the end zone before they start thinking
Speaker 1: about a celebration.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, you you those chansus. You just try
Speaker 7: to take advantage of it and you celebrate a little
Speaker 7: prematurely and stuff like that happens.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: Uh, he definitely feels bad for it, and everybody's been
Speaker 7: making them here, but we know next time, you know,
Speaker 7: he'll he'll take it all the way through.
Speaker 1: Two wins down, you hope for three to go to
Speaker 1: keep her a playoff hopes alive. You got the first
Speaker 1: two done and now you got a chance with two
Speaker 1: home games coming up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know we still we're still alive, you know,
Speaker 7: still fighting for our playoff lives. Man, he's last two
Speaker 7: Winston in Big fours. Man, you know we got a
Speaker 7: deep division games Sunday, so we got to prepare and
Speaker 7: then make sure we gonna go out.
Speaker 1: Next Keu, congrats on the pick and the tackles for
Speaker 1: loss and most importantly to win.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 4: I keep going.
Speaker 1: Then there's Jordan Battle, who had ten tackles and should
Speaker 1: have had a touchdown, but after picking up a fumble
Speaker 1: and returning at sixty yards, he lost control of the
Speaker 1: ball at the one yard line. Battle insists it was
Speaker 1: not a premature celebration, just you know.
Speaker 8: Trying to switch the ball on to my to my
Speaker 8: left man. Uh no, no, trying to intuitly drop the ball.
Speaker 8: I know that's what y'all want, oil, But I no,
Speaker 8: I did not. I did not intendinately drop the ball,
Speaker 8: just trying to switch it over to my opposite hand,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 1: I just you were not beginning a celebration.
Speaker 8: No, never, I was just trying to cross the line
Speaker 8: and didn't celebrate. I was gonna celebrate regardless. But after
Speaker 8: I crossed the line, not before.
Speaker 1: Did you know right away that you weren't in when
Speaker 1: it slipt out?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know if y'all saw, like if
Speaker 8: they can see it on the TV. But like if
Speaker 8: you saw like on like the Titans, the Titans big screen,
Speaker 8: you see me like telling I think Michael's right there,
Speaker 8: he's trying to celebrate me. I'm like, nah, nah, I
Speaker 8: think I just dropped the ball. So I'm not celebrating
Speaker 8: right now. We got the w and that's all I wanted. Man,
Speaker 8: So I'm excited. It's my birthday or my birthday weekend.
Speaker 8: My birthday yesterday, So that's all I wanted this weekend
Speaker 8: with my birth was a birthday gift.
Speaker 3: Uh with a W.
Speaker 2: We got it.
Speaker 1: You might have got a birthday gift, g I f
Speaker 1: because you lost the ball.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I might. I might have got a bunch
Speaker 8: of gifts.
Speaker 2: I already know. I know they're coming at me, but
Speaker 2: I'm not looking.
Speaker 8: I'm not looking.
Speaker 2: I'm enjoying the win.
Speaker 1: Hey, six takeaways for the defense.
Speaker 8: Thank Yeah, Yeah, we love it. That's that's what we
Speaker 8: love to see, Cities takeaways. You know, obviously you've been
Speaker 8: selling you know, early season and mid season, but just
Speaker 8: to see the last two games, how he progress.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we keep doing that, you know, these next.
Speaker 3: Next three or three or three games? Yeah, next three game.
Speaker 8: I hope we keep doing this next three games, you know,
Speaker 8: keep building and the season the right way.
Speaker 1: Battle by the way, turn twenty four on Saturday. The
Speaker 1: win keeps the Bengals playoff hopes alive, as they pulled
Speaker 1: even with the Dolphins and Colts, who both lost on Sunday.
Speaker 1: All three teams are six and eight. Denver one to
Speaker 1: improve to nine to five, and the Chargers lost to
Speaker 1: fall to eight and six. So here's what has to
Speaker 1: happen for the Bengals to make it. They need to
Speaker 1: win their last three games and hope that Denver loses
Speaker 1: its last three or that the Chargers lose their last three.
Speaker 1: Those two teams face each other next week. A Denver
Speaker 1: loss would probably be more helpful. Additionally, the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: Colts need to lose at least one of their final three.
Speaker 1: Now let's hear what Zach Taylor had to say. Is
Speaker 1: he spent a few minutes with Dave Lapham after the game.
Speaker 3: On seven straight possessions after they scored their second touchdown,
Speaker 3: they went fumble interception, interception, three and out, pick six,
Speaker 3: fumble interception, seven straight possessions.
Speaker 9: Are defense did a great job taking it off of them,
Speaker 9: you know. So you got to catch the ones that
Speaker 9: throw to you and find ways to create the fumbles
Speaker 9: the loose balls, and our guys did that and for
Speaker 9: the most part finished with them. You know, I know,
Speaker 9: we had the one that's unacceptable. We can't have the touchback.
Speaker 9: But my point is returned those for big gains, you know,
Speaker 9: and put us in really good field possessional offense.
Speaker 3: The penalty is uncharacteristic. I think it ended up fourteen
Speaker 3: for one hundred and fourteen yards for the Bengals, in
Speaker 3: twelve for at least one hundred might might have been
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty or one hundred and ten anyway
Speaker 3: for a Tennessee. So, I mean it was a strange game.
Speaker 3: Double digit turnovers and then both teams having double digit
Speaker 3: penalties with over one hundred yards apiece.
Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot of those were embarrassing. You know, we
Speaker 9: can't have the procedural self that we had happened today
Speaker 9: that set us back and put you into second fifteen
Speaker 9: and the next thing, you know, it's the possessions dead.
Speaker 9: And so we got to be better. We pride ourselves
Speaker 9: on being great in that area, being best in the league,
Speaker 9: and today wasn't up to that.
Speaker 3: Stow Devin cockran and I caught up with him as well.
Speaker 3: I mean I took my cap to the kid. I know,
Speaker 3: the first the first series maybe a little bit goosey,
Speaker 3: but I mean he settled down and I thought I
Speaker 3: thought he was very solid out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I thought he really calmed down as the game went on,
Speaker 9: and we tried to help him the best we could.
Speaker 9: But he did a good job. He's earned that opportunity
Speaker 9: and we had confidence in him. That's why we elevated
Speaker 9: him and signed him into the fifty three and trusted
Speaker 9: him to go out there, and he did a great
Speaker 9: job for us.
Speaker 3: Chase Brown continues to impress. I mean, ninety seven yards
Speaker 3: on twenty five carries and had it. You know, he's
Speaker 3: a threat out of the backfield catching the football as well.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you have the weapons you have in
Speaker 3: the passing attack and he's part of it, and then
Speaker 3: him complimenting in the running game, it's tough.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just anyway you can get him the ball. You know,
Speaker 9: he's another weapon we have that has an opportunity to
Speaker 9: be explosive, and you know, we're happy to have him
Speaker 9: and we try to find out as many ways as
Speaker 9: we can to use him.
Speaker 3: Okay, everybody, everybody wants to know what you and Kelly
Speaker 3: talk about when you guys caught up pregame or post
Speaker 3: game or was it just all football all the time?
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 9: We talking now off to where there's no major conversations.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm happy for the opportunity he has and
Speaker 9: pulling form the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: I know, you guys not just football friends, but you know,
Speaker 3: are really close, really really good friends as well. And
Speaker 3: I know you you mentioned it, you've you've played, had
Speaker 3: to coach against friends in the past, and I mean
Speaker 3: that it's interesting I'm having to come up with that
Speaker 3: kind of focus. And is it tough to do or
Speaker 3: the more you do it repetition breeds comfort level?
Speaker 2: What's it like?
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, it's happened so many times for me that
Speaker 9: it's just another game. You know, it's almost it'd be
Speaker 9: awkward for a week to go by that I didn't
Speaker 9: wasn't so close to someone on the other team. You know,
Speaker 9: at this point the league is very small. Worked for
Speaker 9: several different teams now and had a lot of people
Speaker 9: I respect in the industry, and this staff was one
Speaker 9: of those staffs.
Speaker 3: So early in the football game, you you fall behind,
Speaker 3: but you know you come come roaring back and and
Speaker 3: and you know when the football game handily, the last
Speaker 3: possession was kind of crazy how they how they score
Speaker 3: on that one. But overall, give me your assessment. I mean,
Speaker 3: Obviously we talked about some things. I know you want
Speaker 3: to get clean dump to turnovers, the penalties, but how
Speaker 3: about from an execution standpoint, anything to stand out to
Speaker 3: you very positively.
Speaker 9: I think, aside from the pildies, we executed really well
Speaker 9: on offense and to create turnovers. I mean, that's the
Speaker 9: name of the game on defense, and so those guys
Speaker 9: did that and we're able to give us five extra
Speaker 9: possessions and that's you can't ask for much more from
Speaker 9: the defense that way. So there's a lot of positives
Speaker 9: there to build from, and then there's some things that
Speaker 9: will clean up as well.
Speaker 3: So you won two straight road games. I don't care
Speaker 3: where you're playing the National Football League.
Speaker 4: You went on the road.
Speaker 3: That's an accomplishment done two weeks in a row. Now
Speaker 3: you go back to pay Corps the two straight home games.
Speaker 3: Crowd better be in full throat because here come to Bengals.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 9: You know, it's a divisional game, big one for us,
Speaker 9: chance to go to and over, it's the divisional rival,
Speaker 9: chance to win three games in a row, chance to
Speaker 9: get back on track at home. There's a lot of
Speaker 9: reasons why this needs to be our best week.
Speaker 2: Can appreciate you, coach, all right, thanks sav Up.
Speaker 1: Next the one o'clock home game next Sunday against the
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Speaker 1: and was sacked five times in fourteen point loss to
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Speaker 1: recap Dave Lapham. That game was insane. Ten turnovers, more
Speaker 1: than twenty penalties, a touchdown that didn't count because the
Speaker 1: guy running into the end zone lost control of the
Speaker 1: ball inside the one. This thing had just about everything,
Speaker 1: but most importantly from the Bengals perspective, they came out
Speaker 1: on top by ten.
Speaker 2: No question.
Speaker 3: I think it came down to a seven possession sequence.
Speaker 3: After the Titans scored their second touchdown, they went fumble interception, interception,
Speaker 3: three and out. Punt the football away, pick six, bumble interception.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you're playing a pee wee football team,
Speaker 3: You're not gonna win in the NFL doing that.
Speaker 2: But the Bengals had their share of blunders as well.
Speaker 3: And you know, we mentioned during the broadcast, you have
Speaker 3: four turnovers in a game as a player and your
Speaker 3: plus two. It's like, what I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 3: sign of a crazy day, and it certainly was.
Speaker 1: That Tennessee had one sack and six quarterback hits and
Speaker 1: the Bengals had their third team left tackle out there,
Speaker 1: Devin Cochrane. He had played one offensive snap in his
Speaker 1: NFL career prior to today. How much credit does he
Speaker 1: deserve for this win?
Speaker 2: I think a ton and Frank Pollock two.
Speaker 3: I tried to get Frank to the three of Us talk,
Speaker 3: and Frank's like, I appreciate that, he said, but the
Speaker 3: kid deserves to to.
Speaker 2: Get the love.
Speaker 3: Go talk to to Cochran and and I totally agree
Speaker 3: respect Coach Pollock's sentiments there. You know, I think he
Speaker 3: was a little bit jumpy, you know, at first, but
Speaker 3: gonna into a groove and settled down a little bit,
Speaker 3: and he was very effusive in his praise of how
Speaker 3: Frank has developed him, and you know, he feels like
Speaker 3: he knows the offense, and that part of wasn't going
Speaker 3: to be a problem. He didn't find out until in
Speaker 3: the locker room before the game, like three hours before
Speaker 3: the game, that he was actually going to start the
Speaker 3: football game. Everybody was crossing their things that Cody Ford
Speaker 3: would be able to make the dance, because sometimes those
Speaker 3: mixers can be miraculous. But it wasn't to be, and man,
Speaker 3: he got an opportunity. He stepped up and took full advantage.
Speaker 1: We got off the bus about the same time and
Speaker 1: walked out out of the field before the game, and
Speaker 1: it just so happened. We were walking out behind Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow as he went out to warm up, and he
Speaker 1: looked like a basketball guard who was doing kind of
Speaker 1: like a crossover dribble where he would shift his late
Speaker 1: weight to one side then go back to the other side,
Speaker 1: and he was clearly testing how his left knee was
Speaker 1: going to feel. Had a brace on that knee. But man,
Speaker 1: watching him play, you really wouldn't know it much.
Speaker 3: He played great, he really did. I mean he uh,
Speaker 3: you know, he got out of pocket when he had to.
Speaker 3: He didn't do it as much as he normally does,
Speaker 3: but when he did, you know, he's putting in a
Speaker 3: pretty good gear and he's still he has that you know,
Speaker 3: elusiveness to climb the pocket and just the uh he
Speaker 3: has the eyes and the sides in the back of
Speaker 3: his helmet and when to step up and slidestepping those
Speaker 3: kinds of things.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, a guy.
Speaker 3: Like him, I can't tell you the inspiration that gives
Speaker 3: you in a huddle. You know, it's everybody this time
Speaker 3: of year. We've talked about it before them. Everybody's kind
Speaker 3: of beating up. Everybody's kind of you know, man, these
Speaker 3: are the dog days. Man, you gotta get through it.
Speaker 3: It's like, suck it up, get get loose, get going,
Speaker 3: and you get your quarterback who's hurt, I mean legitimately
Speaker 3: hurt and just doing everything he can to get out
Speaker 3: there and play football. And I think part of it,
Speaker 3: all that movie he is doing, is just getting ready,
Speaker 3: getting used to the apparatus that was on his knee
Speaker 3: and seeing the differences in the field of it and
Speaker 3: all that all that kind of thing. But players respond
Speaker 3: to that. I mean, that's leadership to you. Just it's priceless.
Speaker 3: You can't put a tag on it.
Speaker 1: And with his sore knee, the Bengals have to feel
Speaker 1: great that they're not playing on Thursday night this week
Speaker 1: is originally scheduled against Cleveland. The game got moved to Sunday,
Speaker 1: and Joe gets a few extra days for that need
Speaker 1: to feel better.
Speaker 2: Great point.
Speaker 3: Great point, you know, because he's at a stage now where,
Speaker 3: all right, he injured, it, went through some rehab, now
Speaker 3: went out and tested it again, and it doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like or seem like, you know, it got worse. So
Speaker 3: now he'll be able to rehab from a higher recovery
Speaker 3: point and even be better for Sunday. Thursday might have
Speaker 3: been a little doubtful in terms of how much better
Speaker 3: it was going to be with those extra days.
Speaker 2: Every day in an injury like this, every day is significant.
Speaker 1: I spoke to Mike Hilton after the game. He said
Speaker 1: he thought this is one of his best games and
Speaker 1: a Bengals unicorn.
Speaker 2: I can't dispute that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Louis an Roumo to him remarkably well, like
Speaker 3: he always does. I mean, once once he starts getting
Speaker 3: on a roll with Mike Kilton, Mike Hilton responds Blue
Speaker 3: response to Mike. Mike responds to Lou And it's like synergistic,
Speaker 3: you know, one plus one equals three. They're going to
Speaker 3: be making a lot of plays together, beautiful music together.
Speaker 3: And I think, you know, he gets to a point
Speaker 3: where in the huddle just call him a number again.
Speaker 3: Hey man, this is great. You just go out there
Speaker 3: and make him look good and respond and make a play.
Speaker 1: Tennessee's a bad team. That's eleven losses, but it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: They went on the road and beat Houston a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, a very good team. So you'll happily take
Speaker 1: a road win anytime you can get one. With back
Speaker 1: to back road wins, now at Dallas and at Tennessee,
Speaker 1: the Bengals have put themselves in a position to go
Speaker 1: home win a couple of games if they can, and
Speaker 1: be five hundred to the one game to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know that's they dug a hole, there's
Speaker 3: no question. But now you can at least see light,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, it's so deep in the whole
Speaker 3: that the light's hard to find. And keep prowling, keep
Speaker 3: working your way up the sides of that hole, and
Speaker 3: pretty soon you know, you stick your head out over
Speaker 3: the top. I mean, if they could run the table
Speaker 3: and finish with a winning record, who would have thunked
Speaker 3: at better?
Speaker 1: Try to cut down on those penalties next week though,
Speaker 1: at home against the Browns.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean you're to have four turnovers and I think
Speaker 3: it's I think they ended up with twelve penalties. Yeah,
Speaker 3: twelve penalties for one hundred and ten yards. That doesn't
Speaker 3: computer victory very often. Not only did a computer victory
Speaker 3: a computer to two score victory a ten point win
Speaker 3: because the opponent was worse. I mean they had six turnovers,
Speaker 3: they had fourteen penalties.
Speaker 2: For more yards. I mean that was crazy with the
Speaker 2: capital C.
Speaker 1: That puts a rap on the Tennessee game. Now it's
Speaker 1: time for this week's fun facts segment, where you get
Speaker 1: to know the person under the pads. Time for some
Speaker 1: fun facts with wide receiver Jermaine Burton. You were born
Speaker 1: in Georgia, but played high school football for a while
Speaker 1: in California. What do you consider to be home now.
Speaker 4: Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 10: You know, I did my last years of high school
Speaker 10: out in California, my last junior year and senior year
Speaker 10: out there. You know, I've made a lot of great connects,
Speaker 10: network with a lot of great people.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, Atlanta's still home to me.
Speaker 10: I just you know, football kind of brent and branched
Speaker 10: me away from it, but you know it's where my
Speaker 10: family is resides and you know still list to this day.
Speaker 1: Those are both warm weather destinations. How do you deal
Speaker 1: with cold?
Speaker 10: I deal with it accordingly, you know, however cold it is.
Speaker 10: You know, I dress accordingly. You know, I might do
Speaker 10: the most some times even if it's not that cold.
Speaker 10: But overall, I think it's kind of dope. I think
Speaker 10: it's kind of fun when you kind of get your
Speaker 10: blood for on and you know, you realize you're out
Speaker 10: there playing in some really cool weather.
Speaker 4: So it's a mind thing.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're really close with your mom and
Speaker 1: your sister. Tell us what you love and respect about
Speaker 1: those two women.
Speaker 10: No matter what that they let me grow up and
Speaker 10: be a man on my own and let me make
Speaker 10: my own decisions and trusted me in every decision I
Speaker 10: made and was right there with me to support me
Speaker 10: every step of the way.
Speaker 1: We're visiting the Jermaine Burton. You were one of the
Speaker 1: highest rated recruits in the country. Do you remember your
Speaker 1: first college offer and how you felt when you received it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's from the University of Florida. It was dope.
Speaker 4: It was actually a crazy feeling.
Speaker 10: I was a freshman in high school and I went
Speaker 10: on a seven on seventh trip and on that trip,
Speaker 10: we were touring around like UCF Florida, even though we went.
Speaker 4: To FIU were FAU one of those.
Speaker 10: At the time, Florida was my dream school because just
Speaker 10: because like my cousin played there.
Speaker 4: He also played for the Steelers as well.
Speaker 10: So my family is big fans of you know, Florida
Speaker 10: and the Pittsburgh and.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I thought that was kind of a dope feeling.
Speaker 1: So if that started in ninth grade, it had to
Speaker 1: be be crazy. Did you enjoy the recruiting process or
Speaker 1: did you find it to be stressful?
Speaker 4: Maybe towards the end. Overall, I enjoyed the entire process.
Speaker 10: But maybe towards the end it probably was stressful because
Speaker 10: there were so.
Speaker 4: Many coaches texting and calling my phone.
Speaker 10: And I didn't kind of know what I I didn't
Speaker 10: know where I was at.
Speaker 4: Mentally, I was like, I don't know where else would go.
Speaker 1: So so in twenty nineteen, you went on a visit
Speaker 1: to LSU and that was their undefeated national championship year,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow at quarterback, Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase among
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. What do you remember about that visit
Speaker 1: and seeing those guys at that stage of their life.
Speaker 4: It was dope. You know.
Speaker 10: I spent a lot of time with Jamar and Justin
Speaker 10: on those visits. Yeah, that on my visit there, Jamar
Speaker 10: had hosted me, and yeah, it was vibes.
Speaker 4: It was a great time. We were chilling. Yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of fun memories.
Speaker 1: We're hanging out with Jermaine Burton. You wound up spending
Speaker 1: two years at Georgia and two years at Alabama. You
Speaker 1: were part of a national championship team at Georgia. How
Speaker 1: did playing for Kirby Smart and Nick Saban and playing
Speaker 1: with so many great players prepare you for the NFL?
Speaker 4: I would say a lot of.
Speaker 10: A lot of IVE seen a lot of players go
Speaker 10: through a lot of different things. You know, whether if
Speaker 10: I was on Georgia or Bama, I've seen a lot
Speaker 10: of players go through so many things and have to
Speaker 10: make kind of decisions that you know, young grown men
Speaker 10: usually don't make, but you know, they have to make
Speaker 10: for their family.
Speaker 4: So I've I've had a lot of.
Speaker 10: Talks and advice from into this day from those guys
Speaker 10: from from the Georgia and Bama team. So it helps
Speaker 10: me a lot because I feel like I have a
Speaker 10: lot of more resources than people think I pretty much.
Speaker 10: And you know, I have players on every team like that.
Speaker 10: I've teammates on every team in the NFL, and you know,
Speaker 10: I'm close with a lot of them, and so yeah,
Speaker 10: I think it's.
Speaker 4: A dope feeling to me.
Speaker 10: More importantly, I feel like I've networked in and connected
Speaker 10: with a lot of those guys, So I have a
Speaker 10: lot of resources, you know, from those guys, I can
Speaker 10: reach out to them anytime if I need anything or
Speaker 10: you know, have a question or this or anything, you know.
Speaker 10: So I think that's pretty dope. I think that's a
Speaker 10: big plus side to my career.
Speaker 1: Before the draft, he trained with former Bengals wide receiver TJ.
Speaker 1: Hushman Zada, and the three of us did a podcast
Speaker 1: together earlier this year. TJ was a seventh round pick
Speaker 1: by the Bengals. He could name every wide receiver taken
Speaker 1: before him in the draft that year. I'm guessing he
Speaker 1: probably still can do that. You were a third round pick.
Speaker 1: There were twelve Rode receivers taken before you. As those
Speaker 1: names were going off the board, were you getting ticked
Speaker 1: off by seeing some guys that you thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm better than that guy?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, And you know, everybody's story is different. Everybody, everybody's
Speaker 10: legacy is different, and it's so special to them and
Speaker 10: unique to the to them and each and everybody individually.
Speaker 10: But yeah, one I felt that there was definitely a
Speaker 10: fire in my heart. And you know, regardless of what
Speaker 10: anything happens, you know, I'm still working and working and
Speaker 10: working and working and working.
Speaker 4: And that's one thing that's not going to change.
Speaker 10: And one thing I learned about that when I was younger,
Speaker 10: the more I kept working and working and working, I
Speaker 10: might not have seen the results as quickly as I
Speaker 10: wanted to, but they eventually came. And that's one thing
Speaker 10: I truly believe in because there's nothing else you can do.
Speaker 10: It's one thing that you can control of. You know
Speaker 10: how much better you are getting. So yeah, I feel
Speaker 10: like I felt like my story is going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Some wild card topics now for Jermaine Burton. Your Twitter
Speaker 1: handle is NASA main three, a reference to your interest
Speaker 1: in space. When did that start?
Speaker 4: When I was a kid? I don't know what.
Speaker 10: It was, probably right before I kind of hit my
Speaker 10: teenage years, probably, I don't know, Probably when I was
Speaker 10: like nine, ten eleven. I just used to be on
Speaker 10: YouTube watching a bunch of random stuff and looking up
Speaker 10: a bunch of different random stuff. So I got into
Speaker 10: like a bunch of space like videos and it turned
Speaker 10: into that, and something was about it just had a
Speaker 10: certain kind of interest to me, like I wanted to
Speaker 10: know more about like space and all kinds of stuff
Speaker 10: and what's going on out there.
Speaker 4: And it was just.
Speaker 10: Something that was kind of like became a hobby to
Speaker 10: me of like, uh, looking up all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 10: Like like that's why when like space ex became a
Speaker 10: thing with Elon Musk and stuff like that, I was
Speaker 10: so I was so heavily invested into that because I thought,
Speaker 10: I truly believe that Elon Musk is like gonna take
Speaker 10: our technology and our and what we can do until further,
Speaker 10: like further. So I'm excited to see what he'll do
Speaker 10: with that. But overall, it's just an interest. Like that's
Speaker 10: something that just caught my eyes and young and then
Speaker 10: still does to this day.
Speaker 1: You know, you told me during during training camp that
Speaker 1: you believe in aliens. Let me be more specific, do
Speaker 1: you think there's intelligent life on another planet?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: For sure percent.
Speaker 10: Though, you know, I feel like there's just so many
Speaker 10: things that has happened in different scenarios, especially that has
Speaker 10: even come out with like.
Speaker 4: That the government has released.
Speaker 10: That's like there's just some things that you just don't like,
Speaker 10: you know, some things are like yeah, it's one thing
Speaker 10: to be like, oh yeah, it's just UFOs or alien
Speaker 10: It's like yeah, bull crap. But it's like some stuff
Speaker 10: that actually happens, and like some stuff that actually happens
Speaker 10: in our world and it's kind of unexplainable. So it's
Speaker 10: like it leaves me for a room of belief that
Speaker 10: there is I read.
Speaker 1: An old interview with a youth football coach of yours
Speaker 1: who said your nickname was Lemonade.
Speaker 10: It came from Uh, it was just because like I
Speaker 10: was light skinned and I was like sweet on my
Speaker 10: feet because I got that nickname that Hatevielle Charter out
Speaker 10: of school in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You had a signed Chad Johnson jersey in your locker
Speaker 1: during training camp. Technically it was the Ocho Cinco version.
Speaker 1: How did you get it? And describe meeting Chad once
Speaker 1: you got here.
Speaker 10: I got it at the NFL Rookie Premiere and I
Speaker 10: told myself, I'm gonna get as signed when I get
Speaker 10: whenever I catch him. And it was when he was
Speaker 10: back in town for training camp. He had like a
Speaker 10: soccer tournament. He was in the he was in the
Speaker 10: locker room, and well, actually I met him at the
Speaker 10: hotel that we were staying at. He was downstairs at
Speaker 10: one time, and I talked with him and that stuff
Speaker 10: like that, and I told him whenever he come by
Speaker 10: the facility, I gotta get him a sign my jersey.
Speaker 10: Seeing him the next day and I got him to
Speaker 10: sign it.
Speaker 4: So I thought that was dope.
Speaker 1: Where do you like to spend your money on?
Speaker 10: Like my hot I like to buy clothes different kind
Speaker 10: of like what I'm styling in. I like to Yeah,
Speaker 10: I like to spend my time on fashion. Sometimes if
Speaker 10: a new game comes out or something like to play
Speaker 10: the game.
Speaker 11: Food bills, that's something we don't like to spend our
Speaker 11: money on, but we have to all right.
Speaker 1: Final fun fact for Jermaine Burton. This one's kind of deep.
Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased,
Speaker 1: who would that person be?
Speaker 4: Probably President Eisentower.
Speaker 10: Because apparently he was the one that had the meeting
Speaker 10: with the aliens so back in like nineteen sixty seven
Speaker 10: or something, So I need to see if that's true
Speaker 10: or not.
Speaker 1: You could get to the bottom of it once and
Speaker 1: for all.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would rather have a conversation with him because
Speaker 10: there was something that went down with him and like
Speaker 10: some crazy thing with alien, like some crazy conspiracy aliens,
Speaker 10: and I just want to ask him about it.
Speaker 4: So if I had to choose right there as of
Speaker 4: right now, yeah, him, right now.
Speaker 1: That's a fun answer. I appreciate your time. Best of
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the year.
Speaker 4: Thank you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this episode of the
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