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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 Homewood Bound edition. As the

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Speaker 1: Bengals earned the right to open the playoffs in the

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Speaker 1: Jungle by beating Baltimore twenty seven to sixteen, they'll face

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Speaker 1: the Ravens again next weekend. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays,

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Speaker 1: one on one locker room interviews and analysis from my

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

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Speaker 1: Every season, each NFL team picks a Fan of the

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Speaker 1: go to Phil am Rin's Facebook page. His last name

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Speaker 1: is spelled am R e I N. Now let's get

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Speaker 1: to the highlights. Of Sunday's win over Baltimore. It'll be

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Speaker 1: a thirty four yard attempt for Evan McPherson, cal Adamitas

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Speaker 1: it back. Chrispin puts the ball down. Evan McPherson's kick

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Speaker 1: The final score was twenty seven to sixteen and Normally,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals broke out celebratory cigars in the locker room

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Speaker 1: obviously did not look good. Max Sharping, who has claimed

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Speaker 1: He's really been playing unbelievable all year. Kappa's one guy

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Speaker 1: Max has played a lot of football and you know

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Speaker 1: a the Bengals lost l Collins with a knee injury

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Speaker 1: Bengals app. Joe Burrow told reporters after the game that

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But you know, you still have a

428
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Speaker 1: lot of work to do. So it's not like let's

429
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Speaker 1: just roll our hats out there and we know we

430
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Speaker 1: can beat them. They know they have to play much

431
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Speaker 1: better than they played today to beat the Baltimore Raven

432
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: team that's showing up next week. Alex Kappa departed on

433
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Speaker 1: a cart with a left ankle injury in the locker

434
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Speaker 1: room after the game. He was there with his teammates celebrating,

435
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: but he was on one of those little scooters keeping

436
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: the left ankle off the ground. That certainly doesn't bode

437
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: well for the round first ground of the playoffs. No,

438
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: it doesn't. In the way he was, you know, his

439
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: fellow offensive line war you know, shaking his hand and

440
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Speaker 1: saying some of the things they were saying to him.

441
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: It was almost almost I don't want to speculate, but

442
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: they knew the severity of it. Let's put it that way.

443
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 1: They have an idea that he's definitely not playing next week.

444
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 1: I think they know that for sure. And other than that,

445
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: they'll be waiting for final news. I mean, I'm sure

446
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: there's other MRIs x rays, all kinds of pictures that

447
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 1: they'll be taking. For all we know, they may not

448
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 1: need to take anymore. They may already know. And I

449
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Speaker 1: will give Alex Kappa credit. He was trying to keep

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Speaker 1: the stiff upper lip as best he could. You know,

451
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: he was smiling. He was very uh, you know, effusive

452
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Speaker 1: in the praise of his teammates, and I mean it

453
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh poor me, poor me. I heard him

454
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: say a couple of times, that's football. That's football, guys.

455
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Speaker 1: So in my mind, I've been involved in some of

456
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Speaker 1: that kind of situation. In my mind, that means, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: I have no control over this, and it doesn't look

458
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Speaker 1: like it's very good. I mean, that would be awful

459
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Speaker 1: if he's out for the postseason, because he's got a

460
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he

461
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 1: got hurt in the first playoff game and wasn't able

462
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Speaker 1: to play in the Super Bowl. One of the reasons

463
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Speaker 1: why he's with this team is that he saw that

464
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Speaker 1: it was a contender and he wants to get back

465
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Speaker 1: and play this time. Yeah, and you look at it

466
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Speaker 1: from an offensive line standpoint, first fourteen games of the season,

467
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Speaker 1: plus you know you have your whole line intact. You

468
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Speaker 1: lose your right tackle Collins, then you have a game

469
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Speaker 1: that doesn't count, and then you lose your right guard.

470
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Speaker 1: I mean, so after going the entire season with the

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Speaker 1: offensive line taken every snap together up until the very

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Speaker 1: end of it, here the final two games where they

473
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Speaker 1: played games, they lose their starting right side that they

474
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Speaker 1: got in free agency who were playing well for him,

475
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: callus in Kappa the Sea Brothers. I mean, that's a blow.

476
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Speaker 1: If indeed that's the fact. Last year, the Bengals destroyed

477
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Speaker 1: the Ravens offensively. Now, in the second of those two games,

478
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: Baltimore is ravaged by injuries. The Bengals were playing the

479
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: B squad, but the first time around, the Ravens were

480
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Speaker 1: largely healthy. In the two meetings this year, Baltimore's defense

481
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: gave Cincinnati a lot of trouble. Joe Burrow through for

482
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Speaker 1: two of his four lowest passing yardage games this year

483
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: in those two games against Baltimore. I think it's I

484
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: think it's a philosophy of defense. McDonald is a guy

485
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: that he's not gonna let teams get over the top.

486
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Speaker 1: And they tried a few times, Joe Burrow trying to

487
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: get over the top multiple times with various receivers, not

488
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: just one receiver, multiple receivers, and there was always somebody there.

489
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Speaker 1: There was nobody running wide open. There was one where

490
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: maybe the ball was under thrown a little bit, put

491
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: a little bit too much air under it. But their

492
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: combination of disguising pressures, they'll they'll put five, six, seven

493
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Speaker 1: guys in the box and they'll only rush three or four,

494
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: you know, and you don't know which ones are coming,

495
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: and you don't know how they're coming with twists and

496
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: everything else. And they got consistent pressure with that. And

497
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: but then at the snap of the football, they're dropping

498
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: multiple people back and they're playing very deep umbrella coverage

499
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: and then people had taken underneath stuff running under after

500
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: the snap of the football, they have a good scheme.

501
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: They really do. And McDonald I think he's grown to

502
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Speaker 1: the job. I think he's gotten more confident as the

503
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: season's gone on. I think his players are more confident

504
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: than him. He's more confident in them. They're playing much

505
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: better football than they were in the beginning of the season.

506
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm impressed with what they've done defensively, and they are

507
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: not going to be an easy football team to deal

508
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Speaker 1: with next week in the playoffs. I can tell you

509
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: that I don't want to tack your voice much longer.

510
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,360
Speaker 1: But do you think the Ravens head back to Baltimore

511
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: feeling good about today, even though they lost by double digits.

512
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: I think they feel like they learn some things. I

513
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: think they feel like we've got some intel. We've got

514
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: things that we know that we can expand upon. Things

515
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,479
Speaker 1: we know we can take too, you know, the second

516
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: level of what we showed. You know, there's always cat

517
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: and mouse going on, and I've been there. When you

518
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Speaker 1: play a team at the end of the regular season,

519
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: it's the first one you face in the playoffs. I mean,

520
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: you drive yourself nuts thinking are they going to abandon everything? No,

521
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna be who they are. They have an identity.

522
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna do things they know they do well, but

523
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: they're always tweaks, you know, a package to the second

524
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: and third level, and what is that second and third level?

525
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: And that uncertainty is what drives you crazy as you

526
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: try to prepare and anticipate what they might be doing. So,

527
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: I mean, what you have to do is just study,

528
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: study tape you know of them all year of the

529
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: progression and what they've done through the end of the season,

530
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: including your football game. And Frank Pollock established rules as

531
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: best you can to recognize and communicate what they're doing

532
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: and keep the rules as few and as simple as

533
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Speaker 1: you possibly can. Fortunately, you're not on the road dealing

534
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: with that crowd noise in Baltimore and having to deal

535
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: with all that crap. So having the home field advantage

536
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: I think is a big plus in that regard, you know,

537
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: and that's where it's going to start, you know, particularly

538
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: when you got guys you know that don't have any

539
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 1: just minimal snaps. The only snaps they have together at

540
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: right guard and right tackle. So what took place today

541
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Speaker 1: against the Ravens, you know, So, man, it's going to

542
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: be a challenge for Frank Pollock and so all year long,

543
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: it's been next man up, not just next next man

544
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: step up. Next man's gonna step up big time in

545
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: this one. I think if I'm the Ravens, I'm thinking

546
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: we started our third string quarterback and his first NFL start.

547
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: We rested our best running back, we rested one of

548
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: the best tight ends in the NFL, and we made

549
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: him sweat and if not for short fields and a

550
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: defensive touchdown, their offense didn't do that much against US.

551
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: I think that boosts Baltimore's confidence heading into the playoff rematch.

552
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, when you look at it in the

553
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: second half, three and out, two plays, fumble, eight plays,

554
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: subtle for a field goal, three and out, three and out,

555
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: four downs, lose the football three and out three to

556
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: the last four possessions or three and outs, you have

557
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: a four down stop. I mean they shut him down.

558
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: They shut him down defensively. It it is going to

559
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: be It is going to be a challenge. I mean,

560
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Speaker 1: I think you won the football game, but I don't.

561
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: I don't think those guys were in there celebrating win

562
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: against the Ravens like you said before. I think they

563
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: were celebrating the entirety of the season, particularly after what

564
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: happened Monday night. I think they're just saying, man, after

565
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: we dealt with that, you know, we still won it.

566
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Speaker 1: We still finished it. We did what we needed to do.

567
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Speaker 1: We don't have to have a coin flip to decide

568
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: where we're playing. We have a pretty good idea of

569
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: who we're playing and where we're playing them. We just

570
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: don't know when. So um, yeah, it was. It was,

571
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Speaker 1: particularly when I was looking at the offensive lineman and

572
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: talking to those guys. I mean, I've been there. I

573
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Speaker 1: know what that's you know, it's like you're you're content

574
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: about a lot of things, but you know you may

575
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: have lost a comrade, a comrade in arms, and that's

576
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: never good, never a good feeling. So they were having

577
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: an emotional tug of war. I could see it, I

578
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: could feel it. I've been there. I know what it's like.

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Speaker 1: learn more. Finally, it's time for this week's fun Facts interview,

585
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Speaker 1: where we get to know the person under the pads.

586
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with defensive tackle BJ Hill.

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Speaker 1: If the Internet is accurate, your full name is Bobby

588
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: Jean Hill Junior. Have you always been called BJ? Oh? Yeah? Um,

589
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: this is always born. It was called Bjum Bobby, Um,

590
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: my dad's that's his name. 't just go BJ. So

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00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: how about on the first day of school when they're

592
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: reading off names, did the teacher used to say Bobby

593
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: Hill and your your schoolmates chuckle? They did even still

594
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Speaker 1: to this day when people always did like, oh, your

595
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: name is Bobby, but yeah, my name is Bobby. But yes,

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Speaker 1: that's why I go by go by b J. Yeah,

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00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: we're doing fun facts with b J. Hill. Your mom

598
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: was asked once to describe you when you were little,

599
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: and she interrupted the reporter and said, he was never little.

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Speaker 1: Did you always tower over the other kids? I did.

601
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: I was always the big guy in the room playing

602
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: sports too. I always stood out, you know, I was

603
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Speaker 1: always I was always big. Everybody was just way way

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Speaker 1: smaller than me. Did you like it? I loved it,

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00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: you know, I always came in handy playing sports, you know,

606
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: just have a recess and stuff like that. I loved

607
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: you were from Oakboro, North Carolina, a town of about

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Speaker 1: two thousand people forty five minutes or so from Charlotte.

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00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: Describe Oak Borrow, Um, it's a small town, hard working

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Speaker 1: people who love each other. One real light. I think

611
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: they might put two and just a couple years ago.

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00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: But this is a great town that I love. The

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00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: supported me so much. U. I love going back. I

614
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: love going back to elementary school there that I went to.

615
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: I've going back to my high school that I went there.

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00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: This is a great town that you you would love

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Speaker 1: to live in. Oak Burrow is very proud of you.

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Speaker 1: I believe Super Bowl Sunday was renamed B. J. Hill Day.

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Speaker 1: Will you always go back always? That's mess my hometown

620
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Speaker 1: for sure. I always got special place in my heart.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I will always go back and get back

622
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Speaker 1: to my community there. You attended West Stanley High School,

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Speaker 1: where you scored a thousand points in basketball. You played baseball.

624
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: You remember the track and field team. You obviously excelled

625
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Speaker 1: in football. When and why did football become the sport

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Speaker 1: you emphasized like basketball is my first sport. And now

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Speaker 1: I know, like my probably my sophomore junior year stopped growing.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I don't think basketball is

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Speaker 1: gonna be before me. So I was like, you know what,

630
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Speaker 1: I think football. I think football is the sport. When

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Speaker 1: it came time to pick a college, you chose NC State,

632
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: about two hours away from home. Y NC State, UM

633
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: just felt right. Um, the coaches there, UM, the recruiting

634
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: classes there, we was recruiting it. It was just perfect,

635
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: perfect time and perfect great group of guys. Um. I

636
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: did grow up with the you know, the light blue

637
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: school fan. I'm not gonna say in the name, but

638
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: it just felt right. I just fell in love with

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Speaker 1: the coaches there and the culture and it just felt

640
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: like more like home. Um. And she stays like more

641
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: like a country type of vibe and that's what I

642
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: grew up on. One of your college roommates was one

643
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: of your current teammates, Jermaine Pratt. Were you roommates by choice?

644
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: And why did you hit it off? Um? They just

645
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: put us in the room. To be honest, We graduated

646
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: at high school early and UM, January they drew us

647
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: in the room. Four of us. UM, it just popped

648
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: off met him. So it was four roommates met him.

649
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: Was on one side and the other two on the

650
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: other side of the apartment. So it's just so it

651
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: worked out. Man, it was perfect. I'm glad to be

652
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: here with him. It has been great. So after four

653
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: great years at NC State, you were drafted in the

654
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: third round of the twenty eighteen draft by the New

655
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: York Giants. Describe your draft experience. Um, it was awesome. Like,

656
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: like I said, oak burw was behind me. It was.

657
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: It was one of the biggest days of my life

658
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: for sure. Um, you know, just a great opportunity to

659
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: go to a big city to show my talent. Um. Um,

660
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: it was really a great experience. Emotional, No, I didn't

661
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: get really emotional, but you know I was, you know,

662
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: very excited. Um, Like my family is very excited. They

663
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: just knew how much work I put in. I mean,

664
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised because I knew how much work I

665
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: put in to get to get there. So, as we mentioned,

666
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: you're off to the big city, New York City. Might

667
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: it changed from two thousand people in oak Borough? What

668
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: was that like for you? It was definitely different. You

669
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: see this is way more. It's just way faster. Um,

670
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of traffic, A big

671
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: shitty I'm like, what is going on? But I just

672
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: fell in love with I loved I loved the New

673
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 1: York it was it was great. Uh the food there

674
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: was amazing. Just going to city, take the train in

675
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: or take the waterway, the boat over, it was, the ferry,

676
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: it was. It was great. The Giants have had some

677
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: of the best pass rushers in history, Lawrence Taylor, Michael Strahand,

678
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: and others. The team record for single game sacks by

679
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: a rookie is held by you. You had three against

680
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. What stands out about that game? I

681
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: was on fire. That game as one of the probably

682
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: one of my best games. Um, I don't even say

683
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: it was. It was a good game. I was just

684
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: on fire. Everything it was clicking. Um. I did hold

685
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: the rookie record for the season, but somebody broke it

686
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 1: I think two years ago. He's actually really a really

687
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: good pass rusher. But yeah, it was great. Like I said,

688
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: everything was clicking on the on the day. What's the

689
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: opposing offensive lineman look like when you are torching him

690
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: that badly? This is a long day for him. Man,

691
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: it's when you get three Saxons and one day. A

692
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: lot of people haven't done it, and I was fortunate

693
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: to be one of those guys that done it. It

694
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: was amazing. So you spent three years with the Giants,

695
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: you went through training camp before year four, and then

696
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: just before the start of the season you got traded

697
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 1: to the Bengals in August of last year. It's obviously

698
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: worked out great for you and for the team, but

699
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: that's a whirlwind situation. Was it difficult at first? It

700
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: was because you're just leaving a place which that you

701
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: knew for the last three years, you grew upon with

702
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: these guys on your D line. It was just doubt.

703
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: That kind of sucked is knowing that you were leaving,

704
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: Especially when I got told I didn't know I was

705
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: going to first, and then when I found out where

706
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: I was going, I was like, you know what Blues here,

707
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: he's a d C. He he's seen me play before. Jemaine.

708
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: I called him. He's like, man, you're not coming here.

709
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: You're not getting trade. It was like, all right, you

710
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: see the next day. Then I was like one of

711
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: the flight the next day came here. He met me here.

712
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: It was like it was everything just worked out perfect, man,

713
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: everything lined up how I was supposed to be. Just

714
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 1: grateful to be here. Man. They gave me a chance

715
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: to show my talent. Yeah, you had a great season.

716
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: You were into contract extension, and in the AFC Championship game,

717
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: you made one of the biggest defensive plays in franchise history.

718
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: Down by eight in the third quarter, you intercept Patrick

719
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: Mahomes to set up the game tying touchdown. Were you

720
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: surprised when you jumped up and the ball SMATs you

721
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: right in the hands for that pick? I knew the

722
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: ball is coming out fast a place, so I knew

723
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: I had to get my hands up, just get my

724
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: just get a tip if I want to call it,

725
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: or a tip. That trade had been right behind me

726
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: to pick it off. So it was a pretty cool

727
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: play to make, especially in that time where we needed

728
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: to turn over the get to start it. And it

729
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: was just a great play, great great timing. Right there

730
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,720
Speaker 1: after that play and after some of your other big plays,

731
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: you do. The rock the Baby celebration is their personal

732
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: meaning behind that. I'm a Russell Westbrook fan. Um. I

733
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: just like the way he plays basketball, the way he

734
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: dominates the way he you know, just go about the

735
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: way he's stuff. And I see him do it, and

736
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: when he does it, like it just likes to fire

737
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: in me. I was like, I like that, So I look,

738
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: he stole it from him, not even looky hiki, I

739
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: stole it from him, And um yeah, it's I just

740
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: I just look what he does on the court. So

741
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: while we're on the subject of celebrations, earlier this year,

742
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 1: you tried to do the equivalent of a Lambeau leap

743
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 1: at pay Course Stadium. I guess it's a jungle jump

744
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: when it's in Cincinnati. It did not go particularly well.

745
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: Is that harder than it looks it is. I'm gonna,

746
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll get it turned over. This week.

747
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it again, see see if I can

748
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: make it. But it is, it is very high. Um,

749
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: I was shocked out how it wasn't for I'm like, oh,

750
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: I can make it anything. I don't think I'll be

751
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: able to get up there. So what will be your

752
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: technique if you try again? Well, you do more of

753
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 1: a kind of a pull up move. I'm gonna tell

754
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: somewhere to push me up there, give me up there.

755
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: Help me out, have me throw me up there something

756
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: all right? A few wildcard topics now for b J. Hill.

757
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: What do you like to spend your money on food?

758
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: Like fancy restaurant food or buying stuff that you you know,

759
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: prepare at home during the season. Fancy food all season.

760
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: I like I like to grill. I like the going

761
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: and grill a little bit. BJ Hell is a grill

762
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: master just a little bit. Do you have a go

763
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: to one of my favorite things that cooks that everybody

764
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: loves my chicken wings? Like cook a little secret sauce

765
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: I can't tell you about, but yeah, it's pretty good.

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00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: All right. I'm salivating just at the thought of it.

767
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: You host a football camp for kids, a free football

768
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: camp back home in North Carolina. What's your message to

769
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: those kids? Um, just a dream big and that you

770
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: can do anything you put your money into. You don't

771
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: have to be football, You don't have to be any sports.

772
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: It can be a teacher, it can be a fight

773
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: to fight, it can be a police, whatever it is.

774
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: I just like whatever you pig just be great at

775
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: be successful, And you don't have to make a lot

776
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: of money to be successful. I think being successful is

777
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: up to you. It's what you think successful of being

778
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: successful is. And UM, that's why I tell them all

779
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: the time, even when I do other little events back

780
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: at home. I work with another another nonprofit that back

781
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: at home I do a lot of work with. UM,

782
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: tell them the same thing. UM, just just dream big

783
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: and you can do anything you want. It's a great message.

784
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: Final fun fact for b Jhill, and this one's kind

785
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, an athlete,

786
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: an entertainer, a statesman, who would that person be. Hmm,

787
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: that's a great question. I'm gonna say my grandparents. I

788
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: never met my grandparents. They're all past and I heard

789
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: I heard a lot of great stories of how hard

790
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: they worked, Um, what they did to provide for our family.

791
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: Just just talk to them and just see how life

792
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: was and like what they did to you know, profile

793
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: from my family. I'm sure they would be very proud

794
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,720
Speaker 1: of their grandson and the success he's had in the NFL.

795
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. Best of leuct the rest of

796
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: the year. Well, thank you, sir. That is Bobby gene

797
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: Hill Junior. That's going to do it for this episode

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