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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 oops I did it again addition,

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Speaker 1: as the Bengals come from behind to beat the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs for the third time this year, all by

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Speaker 1: three point margins the final score in this case twenty

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Speaker 1: seven twenty four. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, one

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Speaker 1: on one locker room interviews and analysis from a broadcast partner,

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Speaker 1: Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun fact segment, you'll

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Speaker 1: get to know an undrafted rookie out of Vanderbilt who

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Speaker 1: made his NFL debut a few weeks ago, Alan George.

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since inexplicable Hot Streaks.

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Speaker 1: I am a mediocre pool player. In fact, I might

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Speaker 1: not even be mediocre. But recently, my wife Peg and

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Speaker 1: I went out to a bar and decided to play pool.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: and played like I was Minnesota Fats in his prime.

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Speaker 1: Bank shots, sharp side pocket shots that required Joe Burrow accuracy,

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Speaker 1: you name it, I did it, and the game was

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Speaker 1: over in record time. Peg wanted a rematch. I told

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Speaker 1: to spoil the memory of that performance for at least

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Speaker 1: another week. Now, let's get to the radio replays from

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Speaker 1: the Bengals' latest thrilling win over Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: Kansas City four, eight fifty four left in the first quarter,

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Speaker 1: Burrow runs a quarterback draw shoe, sacing toward the end

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Speaker 1: touchdown Bengals as they go seventy five yards to begin

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Speaker 1: Touchdowns pangals as the Bengals score touchdowns on their first

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Speaker 1: You had great coverage by man, but Tee Haggins was

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Speaker 1: Whoa gutsie to say the least, of course, it's much

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Speaker 1: executed by Joe Burrow. The Bengals quarterback, who turns twenty

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Speaker 1: So what was it like out there? Man? Take us

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you, thank you, welcome back, Appreciate it. Jason was back,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's valuable. Sabaj's one hundred yard rushing performance

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Speaker 1: learn more. The Bengals made two huge defensive plays in

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Speaker 1: And that was about as fun as it gets. What

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Speaker 1: a decision that turned out to be the own decision

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Speaker 1: that would have blown that play up, and he made it.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes came into the game with a career passer

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Speaker 1: rating of one oh five point seven, best in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: One of the interesting things about it. His regular season

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Speaker 1: passer rating is one oh five point seven. His postseason

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Speaker 1: passer rating is one oh five point seven. The guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals held him a little below that today at

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Speaker 1: ninety eight point two. Joe Burrow outplayed him twenty five

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Speaker 1: for thirty one two hundred and eighty six yards, two touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: no picks, passer rating of one twenty six point six,

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Speaker 1: ran for more than forty yards, ran for a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: We said it earlier in the week, when you take

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Speaker 1: on the Chiefs, your quarterback doesn't necessarily have to have

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Speaker 1: better stats, but he's got to match him to a

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Speaker 1: certain degree, and Burrow legitimately outplayed him. He did and

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Speaker 1: he's done it three straight times. I mean he's been

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Speaker 1: the victor in terms of not only the team winning

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Speaker 1: the football game, but him matching up with a great

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Speaker 1: quarterback equaling that effort or exceeding that effort. That's hard

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Speaker 1: to do three times in less than a calendar year

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Speaker 1: or so. Hats off to Joe Burrow. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: way he his poise is spectacular, There's there's no question

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Speaker 1: about it. And his patience is sometimes you have to

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Speaker 1: have a hurried patience, and I know that sounds contrarian,

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Speaker 1: but you can't be overly patient. He has just enough

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Speaker 1: patience where he takes it to the last instant and

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Speaker 1: then makes the perfect decision at the last instant. It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: The way he just strings the defense. He's gonna marna

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Speaker 1: yo yo, and he strings them along as long as

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Speaker 1: he possibly can, and then a high, high, high percentage

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Speaker 1: of the time does exactly what he should do in

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Speaker 1: that situation. It is mind boggling. Jermaine Pratt leads to

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Speaker 1: the Bengals in tackles this year. He made the play

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Speaker 1: of the day defensively today, ripping it away from Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: then recovering the fumble. Is Jermaine Pratt the Bengals defensive MVP.

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Speaker 1: I know we've got, you know, several games to go,

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Speaker 1: so this is not a final decision. But to this point,

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Speaker 1: is he the Bengals defensive MVP? I mean he's he

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Speaker 1: makes the flash splash plays as well as, like you said,

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Speaker 1: he's the leading tackler on the football team as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: Logan Wilson missed some time with the shoulder injury. I

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Speaker 1: would not trade that Tannemal linebackers for any really in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. I mean, you know, the offensive

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Speaker 1: line is playing so very well together. That linebacker group

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Speaker 1: is playing so very well together, particularly those two, those

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Speaker 1: two guys leading the way. But yeah, I mean you

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Speaker 1: can make a case that Jermaine Pratt could be defensive MVP.

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Speaker 1: But what you like about this football team, you can

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Speaker 1: throw a few hats in the in the ring, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not just one guy in a landslide

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. Everybody's doing some things and a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that are very very high level. They're they're

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Speaker 1: a fun team to watch, There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: And man, they just they look adversity square in the face.

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Speaker 1: And say, bah, better luck next time. Let me follow

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Speaker 1: up on the old line. Kansas City came in fifth

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Speaker 1: in the the NFL and sacks more this year than

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Speaker 1: they had all of last year. The only sack today

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Speaker 1: was when Joe gave himself up at the two minute warning.

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones was neutralized. They had a one hundred yard rusher.

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Speaker 1: I mean the offensive line played a tremendous game today.

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Speaker 1: They did. I mean, coming into the football game the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, they were plus eighteen in the sack department.

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Speaker 1: And so they say that the Chiefs got two sacks,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals had one, so they were plus one in

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Speaker 1: that Bengals allowed one. Oh no, the Bengals were plus one.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs allowed two, the Bengals allowed one. So the

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Speaker 1: Bengals go plus one in a situation where the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: had accumulated thirty five and given up seventeen, and they

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Speaker 1: were plus eighteen, which is, you know, third in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So that protection pressure ratio, they were dominant in it.

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Speaker 1: And I thought that the Bengals stepped up, and I

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Speaker 1: thought the offensive line controlled line of scrimmage. You ever

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Speaker 1: running back average five yards of carry, you have a

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Speaker 1: quarterback that basically for a good part of the game,

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Speaker 1: well into the fourth quarter, they have not allowed a hit,

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Speaker 1: a quarterback hit, or a quarterback sack against that football team.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at it, I think this football

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00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: game came down to two things. The guy you had

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Speaker 1: to deal with offensive Lewis Kelsey. They neutralized them. Guy

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Speaker 1: you had to deal with defensive was Jones. They neutralized them. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, both sides from a game plan standpoint and

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Speaker 1: the execution of the game plan standpoint, they took those

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Speaker 1: two guys contributions and minimized them big time. So in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the Bengals have owned the Kansas City Chiefs. Now,

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Speaker 1: next week they've got to try to beat the team

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Speaker 1: they can't beat, the Cleveland Browns. Joe's offer against the Browns,

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Speaker 1: and he's undefeated against Patrick Mahomes. And who have the

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Speaker 1: quarterback's been with Cleveland Browns. That's the National Football League

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Speaker 1: in a nutshell, it is gray z. But this football

516
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Speaker 1: team's played at a much different level than they were

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Speaker 1: when they went up to Cleveland. And they were playing well,

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Speaker 1: but you know, and you have stinkers. They happen. Man,

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00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: everybody was so upset. The stinker happened on national TV

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Speaker 1: and primetime against that Cleveland Browns, of all people, knock

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Speaker 1: him the river. You couldn't knock him in the lake

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00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 1: up there, but knock him in the river down here. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Browns gave up a ton of money and maybe

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Speaker 1: more gets the little of their soul and making the

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Speaker 1: trade for Deshaun Watson. They gave up a ton of

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Speaker 1: draft picks as well. Now we've got the first Watson

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Speaker 1: versus Borough game coming up next Sunday. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: bet the speed of the game was an adjustment for Watson.

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Speaker 1: It would not surprise me if they move him out

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Speaker 1: of pocket and cut the field in half and allow

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Speaker 1: him to make easy reads to one side of the

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Speaker 1: football field instead of you know, having to look at it,

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Speaker 1: particularly the way Lou and Rumo is mixing things up

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Speaker 1: with quarterbacks that have played multiple games in the last

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Speaker 1: seven hundred days, not like, uh, you know, Watson, who's

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Speaker 1: played one game in the last seven hundred days. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting. I

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Speaker 1: think the the pressure packages, how how they're going to

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Speaker 1: rush Watson and maybe try to make him play left

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Speaker 1: handed That's what Loui and Rumo does so well. He

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Speaker 1: makes teams play left handed. They take Kelsey away and

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00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: make him play left handed. You know, they take away

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Speaker 1: their their star player. They take away the quarterback strength

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00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: and make the quarterback play left handed. Whether it's with

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Speaker 1: his feed or his throwing arm. You have to, you know,

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Speaker 1: minimize one and make him make you beat you using

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Speaker 1: the one that's not as good. He's in a Rumo

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Speaker 1: has done an unbelievable job of putting together game plans,

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00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: and I know his players appreciate it, respect it. I

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00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: think he's the best thing since slice bread. And they

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Speaker 1: want to go out there and play hard for him,

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00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: and they certainly are. You know what I want to

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Speaker 1: do tonight, go back and watch this game again. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, Instant Classic. It's the third Instant Classic in

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00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: less than a calendar year against the same team. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: So Cleveland comes to town next week looking to beat

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Speaker 1: the bank Those for the sixth consecutive time and for

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Speaker 1: the ninth time in their last ten meetings. Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: made us return to the field on Sunday after sitting

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Speaker 1: out for nearly two years, and the Browns one at

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Speaker 1: Houston twenty seven to fourteen. Watson was clearly rusty. He

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Speaker 1: threw for one hundred thirty one yards with no touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: one pick, and a passer rating of fifty three point four.

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Speaker 1: for this week's fun Facts interview, where we get to

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Speaker 1: know the person under the pads. Time for some fun

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Speaker 1: facts with cornerback Alan George from Andalusia, Alabama, small town

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Speaker 1: in the southern part of the state, not too far

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Speaker 1: from the Florida line. Describe Andalusia and what it was

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Speaker 1: like growing up there. And Lousia is a very quaint city,

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Speaker 1: super small, like less than nine thousand people. Um, everybody

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Speaker 1: knows your business, whether it's good or bad. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: that could be a good or bad thing. But it's

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Speaker 1: a good place to raise kids to get like a

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Speaker 1: firm foundation. Not a lot of trouble goes on down there. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I enjoyed living there growing up. There's there's it's

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Speaker 1: a there's maybe like six to nine stops lights in

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Speaker 1: the entire city. Um. So it's just kind of like

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Speaker 1: a carefree, little little world because you're like thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: away from the nearest interstate almost so um yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like your own little world because you don't

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Speaker 1: really get to see much of the outside world unless

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Speaker 1: you intentionally try and go out. How about shopping and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. How far did you have to go

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Speaker 1: to get good gear and things like that? Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: like there's a couple, like we have these stores downe

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Speaker 1: are called Hibits Sports. Um, there's just like a maybe

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Speaker 1: like two two of them in the city. But other

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Speaker 1: than that, if you're gonna like go big time shopping,

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Speaker 1: as we like used to call it, you had to

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Speaker 1: go to Dothan, which is like an hour drive away,

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Speaker 1: maybe like hour fifteen. So yeah, it's it's not like

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Speaker 1: we're so secluded. We're so away, far away from everything

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Speaker 1: we're visiting with Alan George, you are a four year

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Speaker 1: starting point guard in high school. Was basketball your first love? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah it was. Um, it wasn't the first ward I played,

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Speaker 1: because I played baseball. Um, but when I started playing

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Speaker 1: basketball in fifth grade. I was just looking for something

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Speaker 1: to get me out of Andalusia of sports wise, um,

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Speaker 1: and I thought basketball was my ticket. And I loved

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Speaker 1: it completely because I didn't start playing football util later,

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Speaker 1: so it literally took over my whole life. Everything I

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Speaker 1: thought was one of the ball as life kids wearing

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Speaker 1: like sleeves and headbands the class and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: and I really thought that was like, that was gonna

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Speaker 1: be my way out, but it obviously was not. What

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Speaker 1: changed um my dad really I stopped growing um and

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Speaker 1: my dad was like, son, you're either gonna be uh,

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Speaker 1: You're either gonna be an average height um point guard

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Speaker 1: or you're gonna be a big corner. And he's like, you,

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Speaker 1: you can either stay out here and maybe maybe get

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Speaker 1: a chance to go play like community college in basketball,

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Speaker 1: or give yourself a good chance to make it pro

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Speaker 1: and in football, because that's just how the game was

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Speaker 1: changing at the time with big, bigger corners. UM. So

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Speaker 1: he kind of saw it saw to the future for

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Speaker 1: me at a young age. So I very much thanking

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Speaker 1: for that. Your dad is a wise man. We are

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Speaker 1: talking to Alan George. When did colleges start to show

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Speaker 1: an interest? Oh, that's a that's another one. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: I didn't start playing FOOTBA until I was fifteen. Uh,

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Speaker 1: So I didn't get the typical fifteen year old star

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Speaker 1: in high school. UM, I didn't get that type of recruitment. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Because a lot of people get their their recruit or

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Speaker 1: their their offers and stuff like early junior year and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I didn't get my first offer

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Speaker 1: until um second semester, like basketball season of my senior year. UM,

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Speaker 1: I was just at lunch one day and I got

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Speaker 1: a call from Jacksonville University down in Florida. And from

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Speaker 1: that point on, I literally thought I was the top

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Speaker 1: of it. I thought I was the creaming a crop

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Speaker 1: at that point, and I was my thought none. My

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Speaker 1: stuff didn't stink at all, and it was it was

637
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Speaker 1: just it was. It was good to be able to

638
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: get noticed because, like like I said, not that many

639
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: people ever get to make it out from sports. So

640
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: I was happy to get at least one school. So

641
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: you ultimately chose Vanderbilt playing in the SEC while also

642
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: attending one of the most prestigious academic universities in the country.

643
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to balance football in class at Vandy?

644
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: It's it's by far the hardest thing I've ever done

645
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: in my entire life. Um. It's you won't ever know

646
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: how it actually is unless you are in it. Um.

647
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: And I can't even speak for like those who go

648
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: to Duke or Stanford or Northwestern and stuff like that,

649
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: but I can't imagine that there's just pretty similar to ours,

650
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: so that maybe those are the only type of people

651
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: who would really understand, because it's it truly is extremely

652
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: extremely hard for especially for you're not You're not as

653
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: as wise as you think you are whenever you're a

654
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen year old coming in. So when you

655
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: get up there and you have to make that crazy

656
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: adjustment to time management, it's it's so so so hard.

657
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: So I I think, I think myself that I got

658
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: through it, and I think the university and my support

659
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: system for everything that helped me get through. But it's

660
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: extremely trying. And if I had to go back, like

661
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 1: knowing what I know now, if I went back to seventeen,

662
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: there's no way that I would I could think that

663
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: I would put myself through it because it really is

664
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: so hard and I didn't know if I was that

665
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: mentally tough to put myself through it. Honestly, let's specifically

666
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: talk about football. We've all heard the old saying what

667
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: doesn't kill you makes you stronger. When you're at Vandy

668
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: and you're playing in Alabama, LSU, Texas A, and n

669
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: et cetera on a weekly basis, how tough is that knowing,

670
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: quite honestly, going into the game that you're a long shot. Yeah,

671
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: it's it's give and take. Really. You kind of listened

672
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: to the outside crowd a little bit, and maybe some

673
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: people use that as motivation, but it's it's kind of

674
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: like a they're not playing and we are, so we

675
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: have to be the ones to change the narrative on everything.

676
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: So we take it with a tip on our shoulder.

677
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: Every game, whether we're the favorite, which might be never um,

678
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: but whether the favorite or not, we're gonna go into

679
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: the game with the utmost confidence. There's never a game

680
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: that I went into or that anybody at Vandy that

681
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: I know of went into and felt like, why are

682
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: we even playing this game? We know we're gonna lose.

683
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: We always thought that we had a great chance of winning.

684
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: We always felt prepared. UM. So we really don't take

685
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: that much outside noise, and we just kind of worry

686
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: about what we went on, what went on in the

687
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: locker room, and like our preparation, it's get or baking stronger. Yeah.

688
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: And I was telling people that here when I was

689
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: in training camp, because they like to rag on me

690
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: going to Vandy and supporting my college and I was

691
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. I was telling them

692
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: and we were two and old and stuff like that,

693
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: and uh they were they were like, yeah, you went

694
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: to Vandy. It doesn't really matter, but it I was like,

695
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: it definitely made me stronger because going there, you don't

696
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: always get to play with extreme high level NFL prospects

697
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: that go day one and stuff like that. So whenever

698
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: you do end up making it to the other side

699
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: and you are one of the ones that gets to

700
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: go to the NFL, um it kind of I wouldn't

701
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: say it makes you more comfortable, but it definitely lightens

702
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: your load because you're not used to playing with so

703
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: much help everywhere. Um So, whenever I got up here

704
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: and I was like, dang, my d line is superior,

705
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: Like they get after the quarterback my offense. I know

706
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: if I get them the ball, they're gonna score so

707
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: it makes me, It makes doing my job a lot easier.

708
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: I feel like it gives it just gives me a

709
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: lot more confidence. So at Vanderbilt in twenty nineteen, you

710
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: faced the LSU, the team that went on to win

711
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: the national championship. Joe Burrow through six touchdown passes that day.

712
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: He did it to everybody, So don't feel bad. What

713
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: did you learn about Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase from

714
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: competing against them? I just learned they're different, And I

715
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: mean that in the way like they're like different different,

716
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: like they their preparation mentally is insane, and their chemistry

717
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: together is also just off the charts. You can't really

718
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: beat somebody once there, Once you have chemistry down, it's

719
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: really unbeatable. Honestly. Um So, I that was a day

720
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: that I took all the good things to learn from,

721
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: but I just threw the rest out because it's not

722
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: a memory that I even want to go back to.

723
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: I sometimes I just can't even think about it. Sorry

724
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: to bring it up when we're doing fun Facts with

725
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 1: Alan George. So in July, before you're finally you're a Vanderbilt,

726
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: you got married to a Vanderbilt cheer leader. What was

727
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: it like for the two of you to be married

728
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: as college students? Yeah, um, I mean I'm On and

729
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 1: Caitlin's relationship. Uh, definitely, it started spring semester my freshman

730
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 1: year or our freshman year, and yeah, it just blossomed

731
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: into something that we could have never imagined. It was.

732
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: We we went into it intentionally dating, and we both

733
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: date with intentions, not to just have fun or just

734
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: to have a companion and stuff like that, but it

735
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: was with the intention to marry and we and we

736
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Um so it didn't come to our

737
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: surprise as a or to us. And going to Vandi

738
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: at a private university of such a tight knit community, uh,

739
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: it kind of forced us to be around each other

740
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: more and advance and grow up faster than the normal

741
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: twenty one year old. So um, I would say that

742
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: that helped accelerate our marriage, or at least the engagement process.

743
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: Uh So, a lot of people they used to like

744
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: come joke in and be like, oh, you got married

745
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 1: too young, You got married too young, You have no clue.

746
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: We just wait till you start living with her and

747
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But we were already kind of living

748
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: to like like I know a lot of people say that,

749
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: but we were already kind of living together at Vandy,

750
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: and we were both away from our family in different states,

751
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: so we leaned on each other a lot for like

752
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: our independent nature. So it definitely helped us out. If

753
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: anybody wants to know how you pop the question, they

754
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: can watch it online. Describe how you set up kind

755
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: of a fake photo shoot and then videotaped your proposal. Yeah,

756
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: I was, Um, so we had the COVID year that happened,

757
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: and I was planning that year to propose. I knew

758
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: I was going to propose that year because I wrote

759
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: it in my notes. Um back in like twenty nineteen

760
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: that in my phone, I wrote that I was I

761
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: had to propose to her. At least I think I said,

762
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: marry her by so and so so and so and

763
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: I had a date then, But um, yeah, I was

764
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: planning to propose to her at the Mercer game. We

765
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: had Mercer to play that year, and since she's from Beaufort, Georgia,

766
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, this is a great game to

767
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,919
Speaker 1: get her family and friends to come up. She won't

768
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: even suspect it. Maybe that you think they're coming up

769
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: to see their friends play at mercer or something. Um.

770
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: But I was like, dang, they just cut our schedule

771
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 1: and we don't have mercer anymore. We're playing a SEC

772
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: only schedule. So I just started thinking fast on my

773
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: feet and then she hit me up and she was like, hey, uh,

774
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: we aren't traveling to all the away games this year

775
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: as cheerleaders, but I want to get one more picture

776
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: with you in our uniforms, just to do like a

777
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: senior photo shoot. And I was like, okay, great. As

778
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: soon as soon as she said that, I got the

779
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: phone with her, and I was like, I started calling

780
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: all my teammates. I was trying to put it all together,

781
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: and then yeah, it just worked out that one of

782
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: my teammates he he was like starting his YouTube channel

783
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: at the time, and I was very good friends with

784
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: our photographer at Vandy and she, um, she was she

785
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: was like Andrea the other teammates. She was like, Andre,

786
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: can you um just act as if you're you're trying

787
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: to learn how to use your cameras and she just

788
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: got it for your YouTube channel. And I told Caitlin

789
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: I was I was like, she's uh. I was like,

790
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 1: Eric is gonna be filming us or shooting for us.

791
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: But Andre is gonna just be there trying to learn

792
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: from her. He's just like an apprentice, and she was

793
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: all in for it, and so he didn't suspect anything.

794
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: So when we got out there on the field, we

795
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: stayed the whole thing, and Erica helped out a lot,

796
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: and she told her to turn around and flip her hair,

797
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: and I was just sitting there right behind her. So

798
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: it all worked out really great. I recommend checking it out.

799
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: Easy to find on the internet if you search for

800
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: Alan George's proposal or something along those lines. Are you

801
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: a big goal setter what you just shared about writing

802
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: down that you planned to propose. Do you write down

803
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: long term goals and things like that? Yeah? I do.

804
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: I do try to live in the moment as much

805
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: as I can, but when it comes to things that

806
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: are way down the line, or I feel like they're

807
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: way down the line, I do end up trying to

808
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: trying to I'm a big list maker. I make a

809
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: lot of lists. There's so many lists on my phone,

810
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: so I do kind of chart out things, and my

811
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 1: wife also helps me out with that a lot. She's

812
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: a huge planner. She loved the plan so we have

813
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: like a year, like a life plan all the way

814
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: up to like twenty thirty. So just to trying to

815
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: kind of give us a base so where we're headed,

816
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: and need to introduce you to my sixteen year old son.

817
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: He could use some goal setting, trust me. So you

818
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: signed to the Bengals as a college free agent. Did

819
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: you expect to get drafted and when that didn't happen,

820
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: why did you sign with Cincinnati? Yeah? I did. Uh,

821
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: I did expect to get drafted. Um And a lot

822
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: of people might hear that as a surprise or something.

823
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: But I just believe in myself to the utmost high.

824
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: And I just when I came out, I was I

825
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: was told my coaches at Vandy like I'm doing this

826
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: for me, and you can believe in me or not.

827
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bettle myself to win and if it doesn't

828
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: work out, then it doesn't work out. But there's not

829
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna leave any room for the what ifs,

830
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: like what if what if I didn't or what if

831
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: I did go out this year and stuff like that.

832
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I just I just fully bet it.

833
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: I bet on myself to win and come out on

834
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: top and when it didn't happen on draft day, I

835
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: had all my friends there, um big room and the

836
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: top of my apartment complex, and it was just like

837
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: it was probably one of the most sad days of

838
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: my life. Um because I just I, like I said,

839
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: I fully invested in myself and my wife did also,

840
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: and we were all the way up and then when

841
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: no one called, um because I talked to like seventeen

842
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: sixteen teams all leading up to draft day. People are

843
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: asking for my numbers and stuff like that so they

844
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: can reach me. Uh, and then none of them ended

845
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: up contacting me and my agent. So I just I

846
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: kind of just my dad said, I held it together

847
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: really well because I didn't. I didn't really show a

848
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: chink in the armor at all, but inside I was

849
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: just killed. And um, I kind of rolled onto the

850
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: very last Like as soon as the last draft pick

851
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: went across the screen, my agent called and he was like,

852
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: all right, well, we got these teams set up, so

853
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: these teams set up, so it uh, it didn't it

854
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: didn't go the way as planned, but um, God made

855
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: away and that's all I could really ask for. You

856
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: signed with the Bengals. He had a great training camp,

857
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: he played almost every snap in the preseason, and then

858
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: you made your NFL debut in Week nine against Carolina.

859
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: Can you describe the emotions that went through your mind

860
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: and your heart as you got to make your NFL

861
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: day deal. I was just thinking, like, dang, I'm about

862
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 1: to run out in the field in the black jersey

863
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: at first, because I was like, we were white all preseasons,

864
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: so I was just super naive. I guess in the moment,

865
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, we haven't won the black. They

866
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: haven't seen me in the black at all. I haven't

867
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: even seen myself. So I was just happy to be

868
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: out there rocking the black jerseys. Um. And then when

869
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: I finally got out onto the field, everything just kind

870
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: of it didn't feel like super preseasonist, but I definitely

871
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: felt more comfortable just in that setting instead of just

872
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: standing on the sideline street clothes or something like that.

873
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: I felt like, I, oh, man, this is where I

874
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: belong because I truly do feel that I belonged out

875
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: on the field, UM, and so I just I just

876
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: want to help out in any capacity really, whether it

877
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: be on actual defense or on special team. So, um,

878
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm here to help. I'm here to serve. I'm gonna

879
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: give my effort, my best effort every single time I'm

880
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 1: out there. So I just take every single play, whatever snap,

881
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: however many snaps I get. If I get one snap

882
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: or if I get eighty, I'm gonna be I'm gonna

883
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: be thrilled, and I'm gonna give all I got. All Right,

884
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: a few wildcard topics for Alan George to wrap things up.

885
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: Do you have any hidden talents? I'm I'm I'm learning

886
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: ASL right now. UM. I've been learning the sign language

887
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: since I was maybe my mom, she's she kind of

888
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: got us into it. She's a teacher and she got

889
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 1: us into it, um whenever she was getting her her masters.

890
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: And it's just kind of something that I fell in

891
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: love with. And I'm pretty pretty adept in it, I

892
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: would say, but not anywhere where I need If I

893
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: if I was surrounded by a harder hearing people or

894
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: anybody that was deaf, but they probably would just make

895
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: fun of me because I signed, I signed super slow

896
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: right now. But I'm still learning um. But then other

897
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: than that, I guess I just play a lot of

898
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: video games. UM. And I love Call of Duty a lot. Uh,

899
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 1: And I was about. I was like on the semi

900
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: pro amateur UM level for a good bit, like almost

901
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: about the turn pro when I was fourteen years old.

902
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: Um uh so I was. I was pretty serious about

903
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: playing competitive call of duty for a long time, and

904
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: now East Sports has taken off to a level that

905
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: we did not imagine it back then. So I just

906
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: wonder like, maybe if I would have stuck with that,

907
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: maybe I would have been professional in two things and

908
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: that would have been kind of like a Bow Jackson

909
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: story or something like that. Well, I think it worked

910
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: out well for you, but maybe someday you can go

911
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: back and turn pro and East Sports. Who is your

912
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: all time favorite athlete in any sport and why? It's

913
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: probably super cliche, but I would just have to say Lebron.

914
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: Um love Lebron and everything he stands for. Really, he's

915
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: I can't imagine having that much pressure on me when

916
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: I was when I was eighteen years old, having the

917
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: whole world watch you since you were eighteen, and you

918
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: just really don't make the like super super wrong moves

919
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: off the court and on the court. So, I mean,

920
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: he's been criticized obviously for like things like maybe going

921
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: to the heat and stuff like that and starting these

922
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 1: super teams. But when you judge his character, I feel

923
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: like there's really not any flaws, which is it's kind

924
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: of hard to even wrap your mind around that that

925
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: somebody that's been media glorified since they were eighteen, that

926
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: you can't really find any flaws or some dirt or

927
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: bad articles on the news and stuff like that. So

928
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 1: I just I'm also looking at him for his character

929
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: and off the field than on the field. What do

930
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 1: you like to spend your money on. I'm pretty frugal.

931
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: I would say my wife is She's probably gonna hear

932
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: this or or reading, and she's gonna be like, yeah,

933
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: he does it. He hates any type of money being spent.

934
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: He looked at the bank account every day and if

935
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: something goes out, he's he's complaining about it. But I

936
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: would say I like to spend money on. I really

937
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: do love to spend money on shoes. I kind of

938
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: calmed that down once I started dating Caitlin Um because

939
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: I just realized it was bigger than me. Um. But

940
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: whenever we do have kids down the road, I can't

941
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: wait to buy them shoes I buy. I get Kaitlin

942
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: a new pair, I think two pairs of shoes every year.

943
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: Um went for a birthday and then went for Christmas.

944
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: So I just try to I just I love buying

945
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: shoes and whether they're for me or anybody else. All right,

946
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: final fun fact, This one's kind of deep. If you

947
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: could meet anybody in history, who would that person be? Oh,

948
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: my goodness, gracious, I think I'd go with Martin Luther

949
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,439
Speaker 1: King maybe pick. I just want to pick his pick

950
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: his brain about how he dealt with what he dealt

951
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: with and how he how he could even have the

952
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: mindset to deal with it that way, because you could

953
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: have went you could have went with it in so

954
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: many different avenues. Um, maybe just sit down and have

955
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: lunch with him one day or something. That would be

956
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: so cool to just talk with him for like an

957
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 1: hour and just kind of soak up as must knowledge

958
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: and information that I could. So I would say him

959
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: if I had to do it off the cuff or

960
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: on the spot, and then I would just say him

961
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: it's an excellent answer. This has been fun. I appreciate

962
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: your time. Best of luck the rest of the year. Yeah,

963
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate it. That's going to do it

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