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Speaker 1: seventeen loss to the New York Giants. Coming up, you'll
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Speaker 1: The worst kept secret of the week was that the
Speaker 1: Bengals starting quarterback would be Brandon Allen and not Ryan Finley.
Speaker 1: The former Arkansas star has been on the practice squad
Speaker 1: all season, but prepared for the possibility that he could
Speaker 1: be thrown in there at a moment's notice. I think
Speaker 1: you always have to have that onset, you know whether
Speaker 1: you're the second string or the third sharing. I think
Speaker 1: you have to go in meeting every week and know
Speaker 1: that you're one play away, regardless of the position. So
Speaker 1: that's how I've always prepared, whether I was on freshwater
Speaker 1: or not. So I think that that's the only way,
Speaker 1: the only mindset to have in the backup position rule.
Speaker 1: But it took a while for Alan to even get
Speaker 1: into the game. First, the Giants took the opening kickoff
Speaker 1: and marched right down the field to score a fifty
Speaker 1: three yard pass to tight end Evan Ingram, who beat
Speaker 1: Von Bell on the play put the Giants inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line. Good Jones sneak from here and Steady
Speaker 1: hands off again, this time going airborne Golman into the
Speaker 1: end zone for a Giant touchdown. Wayne Gallman's one yard
Speaker 1: run made it seven nothing, but that lead only lasted
Speaker 1: for eleven seconds. Brandon Wilson from a couple yards deep
Speaker 1: in the end zone, he will take this out, his
Speaker 1: nineteenth return of the year, and he's put it right
Speaker 1: between the hatch, put it he chokes in. It's three minute.
Speaker 1: It's Wilson going all the way inside the Tenny won't
Speaker 1: be caught. Touchdown Cincinnati. That one hundred three yard kickoff
Speaker 1: return by Brandon Wilson is a new Bengals record, topping
Speaker 1: the one hundred two yard return that Eric Bienimy had
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven, also against the Giants. It's Wilson's
Speaker 1: second kickoff return touchdown and that ties the franchise mark
Speaker 1: held by Tremaine Mack. It tied the game at seven,
Speaker 1: and Josh bind says it gave the Bengals a huge lift.
Speaker 1: I think it just gave some juice to the team.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I think it propelled everything for us.
Speaker 1: And Brandon just a heck of a player. I love him,
Speaker 1: and he just a great player, return man, gunn er,
Speaker 1: whatever you wanted to do on special teams, and he's
Speaker 1: just done an awesome job. And that play right there
Speaker 1: was definitely something we talked about all week, and we
Speaker 1: know Brandon's capable of it. I was on the other
Speaker 1: end of it last year when I was in Baltimore
Speaker 1: and he housed on when I was there last year,
Speaker 1: and just to see him do it again because you
Speaker 1: know he has great capabilities and great speed obviously because
Speaker 1: you see nobody caught him. It was just so amazing.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, for the Bengals to win behind a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, they were probably going to need big plays
Speaker 1: on special teams and defense. Wilson came through in the
Speaker 1: first quarter and Bell delivered in the second. It's a
Speaker 1: fake handoff from Jones, fires into the zone and completes
Speaker 1: at the fifteen, and that ball came lows. It's recovered
Speaker 1: here by Vaughan Bell. Bell cutting back inside the numbers
Speaker 1: at the forties and from behind brought down at the
Speaker 1: forty five. They're marking it. Nope, they're not. They're saying
Speaker 1: it's a fumble. He's not spotting the ball. That's a fumble.
Speaker 1: It gave the Bengals the ball near midfield, and after
Speaker 1: a couple of first downs by the offense, the Bengals
Speaker 1: took the lead. If it's a forty four yard field
Speaker 1: goal off the left, hash Huber gets the snap, it's
Speaker 1: a good one. This is away from Bullock and he
Speaker 1: nailed it right down the middle. That made a ten
Speaker 1: seven Bengals. But that was it for the offense in
Speaker 1: the first half, and since Natty managed just sixty six yards,
Speaker 1: a Graham Gadot field goal with twenty one seconds left
Speaker 1: and a half tied the game at ten. Here's Zach
Speaker 1: Taylor on his team struggles on offense. Yeah, we never
Speaker 1: found our rhythm, you know, and again our first down
Speaker 1: efficiencies really where it got us. We were in a
Speaker 1: lot of second eight, second nine, second ten, it felt like,
Speaker 1: and that's not a girt risky against that defense. The
Speaker 1: Bengals ran nineteen first down plays for a total of
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards. That's three point one yards per first
Speaker 1: down play. Twelve of those nineteen plays went for two
Speaker 1: yards or less, and yet they were in it. The
Speaker 1: Giants took a three point lead on their first drive
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, but lost quarterback Daniel Jones on
Speaker 1: the drive due to an injured hamstring. Thirty four year
Speaker 1: old backup Colt McCoy doesn't exactly strike fear into the opposition,
Speaker 1: but rather than move the ball, the Bengals started coughing
Speaker 1: it up under forty seconds to go in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: dropping the throw in this gun over the middle and
Speaker 1: a gam popped up and is this time intercepted by
Speaker 1: the Giants diving effort at the forty and yes it was.
Speaker 1: It's picked off by New York Niko Lalos with a
Speaker 1: diving I N T in his NFL debut. It led
Speaker 1: to a fuel goal in a sixteen ten New York lead.
Speaker 1: Down by six with less than five minutes to go,
Speaker 1: the Bengals turned it over again four twenty four to go,
Speaker 1: running clock fourth quarter, Bengals down six, with the ball
Speaker 1: second and three from their own twenty one, Brandon Allen
Speaker 1: throws short and Sample loses the football and Logan Ryan
Speaker 1: pops on top of it, and it has a fumble
Speaker 1: at the nineteen that led to another field goal that
Speaker 1: made it nineteen ten. The Bengals were down but not
Speaker 1: out as they put together their first touchdown drive of
Speaker 1: the day. Off motion, fakes the handoff, looking left, does
Speaker 1: an epernard, trailing away throws into the end zone, caught
Speaker 1: touchsdown T Higgins one yard touchdown pass made at nineteen
Speaker 1: seventeen with two and a half minutes to go. The
Speaker 1: defense got a three and out, forcing the Giants to
Speaker 1: punt from deep in their own territory, and it's driven high,
Speaker 1: spiraling and long trailing all the way back to the
Speaker 1: twenty three yard line, picked up by Ericsson across the
Speaker 1: thirty stutters outside the thirty five. He's got a Bok
Speaker 1: forty in fo He's wrapped up at the ankles at
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line. He was nearly gone still. That
Speaker 1: twenty nine yard return by Alex Rickson gave the Bengals
Speaker 1: the ball at the fifty with roughly a minute to go,
Speaker 1: needing one first down to give Randy Bullock a shot
Speaker 1: at a game winning field goal. Try fifty seven six
Speaker 1: to go, first and ten from midfield Allan, with Bernard
Speaker 1: on his right, takes the snap clean pocket and now
Speaker 1: he's under pressure. He lost the football still lose him
Speaker 1: recovered by the Giants at the thirty seven yard line.
Speaker 1: The fumble was forced by Jabaal Sheard, even though the
Speaker 1: ben those chipped him with a tight end on the play.
Speaker 1: He got by Drew Sample and then Jonah Williams to
Speaker 1: force the fumble that basically ended the game. Here's Brandon Allen.
Speaker 1: I knew we only needed about fifteen yards to get
Speaker 1: with him field goal range. Had a little miscommunication with
Speaker 1: me and TV. You know, I was expecting one thing
Speaker 1: and he read a different way, and obviously I kind
Speaker 1: of got stuck on him. And then from there, I
Speaker 1: just gotta do a better job to take care of
Speaker 1: the ball. Was trying to scramble and make a play,
Speaker 1: but you know, in that situation, investing just trying to
Speaker 1: get forward as far as I could. Allan finished seventeen
Speaker 1: for twenty nine for one hundred and thirty six yards
Speaker 1: with one touchdown, one interception, and the fumble. Here's how
Speaker 1: he and Zach Taylor evaluated the quarterback Cincinnati debut. I'm
Speaker 1: my own worst critics, so There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I think I can do better. Obviously
Speaker 1: the interception, putting a better ball placement where it's only
Speaker 1: he can get a hand on it. And then obviously
Speaker 1: the last play of the fumble was what cost us
Speaker 1: the game. So um, there's definitely gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I'll that I'll find on tape and
Speaker 1: things I can get better at, whether that's a read
Speaker 1: to throw or what. But I'll definitely get better from this.
Speaker 1: I thought he did enough, you know, for us, and
Speaker 1: the guys around him gonna step up. Two. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: we had we had several drops, holding penalties when we
Speaker 1: would get a completion, and you know, we only had
Speaker 1: three possessions there in the first half, it felt like
Speaker 1: we hardly ever had the ball, and then the second
Speaker 1: half just never found a rhythm. But um, again, when
Speaker 1: we would get something positive, it seemed like something on
Speaker 1: the same play sent us back the other way. You know,
Speaker 1: whether it was the there was there was three drops,
Speaker 1: there was two holding penalties, there was a fumble on
Speaker 1: a positive play, and you know it that'll hurt us.
Speaker 1: New York's nineteen seventeen win puts the Giants in first
Speaker 1: place in the NFC East with a four and seven record.
Speaker 1: They take a tiebreaker with Washington by winning their two
Speaker 1: meetings this year. The Bengals are two eight and one
Speaker 1: and playing for pride. Here are Josh Bndes and Zach Taylor.
Speaker 1: Everybody got to do their job and their role, That's
Speaker 1: pretty much what I'm saying, and execute at a higher
Speaker 1: level and not keep shooting ourselves in the foot making
Speaker 1: big mistakes and no big mistakes turned into big plays.
Speaker 1: And it just and it hurts us and we you know,
Speaker 1: and we sit on this other side of the of
Speaker 1: an l and it just sucks each and every week
Speaker 1: because you know, guys are giving all the effort and
Speaker 1: studying their behinds off and we just follow one one
Speaker 1: place short. You're down nineteen to ten in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and role, your offense hasn't done anything the entire game.
Speaker 1: But but everybody just kept kept grinding and trying to
Speaker 1: make plays that they were capable of making. And then
Speaker 1: you look at it. The defense got a huge stop.
Speaker 1: You know, offense goes down and score seven points. Defense
Speaker 1: gets a monster stop there on the backed up situation.
Speaker 1: Point return team gets a huge point return and put
Speaker 1: your offense in the position to go win the game,
Speaker 1: and it just didn't work out that way. But that
Speaker 1: tells you everything you need to know about these these
Speaker 1: players in this locker room and everything that I see
Speaker 1: every day and know, and um, they're playing hard for
Speaker 1: each other and it's going to turn for us at
Speaker 1: some point, you know. That's why I told him. It's frustrating,
Speaker 1: your sick, your stomach, so it's not fun to lose.
Speaker 1: But we know that this tide is going to turn
Speaker 1: for us, and we're gonna look back on this and
Speaker 1: this is a necessary part of our growth, but we
Speaker 1: need to get some wins to show for all the
Speaker 1: work that we're putting in, because it's makes it tough
Speaker 1: when you finish games like this. Since the start of
Speaker 1: last year, the Bengals are one thirteen and one in
Speaker 1: games decided by one score. Now time for postgame analysis
Speaker 1: with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. The Bengals have followed
Speaker 1: the formula pretty closely. They got his special team score.
Speaker 1: The defense played well, but the offense simply didn't do
Speaker 1: enough to get over the top against the Giants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that saysn't in a nuts y'all, Dan, no question. I
Speaker 1: mean Brandon Wilson hunting three yard kickoff return, you get
Speaker 1: an unscripted, unscheduled score that way. I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: what the doctor ordered. Defense gets to take away. You
Speaker 1: get three points off of that. Offense takes advantage of it.
Speaker 1: And then Kevin Huber was unbelievable. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: forty six forty seven yards a punt maybe more three
Speaker 1: or four times, pinned them down not only inside the twenty,
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. I think it was the
Speaker 1: eleven yard line once and the ten yard line a
Speaker 1: couple of three times. I mean he was incredible putting
Speaker 1: them on long field, So all of that was part
Speaker 1: of the formula. Put them on long field, try to
Speaker 1: get some short fields, get an unscripted score. But offensively,
Speaker 1: way too many three and outs and no no rhythm,
Speaker 1: no no timing. Everything was definitely hit or miss offensively.
Speaker 1: What'd you think of Brandon Allen? I think that he
Speaker 1: did everything he could. I don't think the support system
Speaker 1: was there Offensively, no running game. I don't care who
Speaker 1: the quarterback is. When the longest run I think was
Speaker 1: the fake punt. You know that was another play Darren
Speaker 1: Simmons crew came up with that was a critical extension,
Speaker 1: you know, of a series with the fake punt. Keep
Speaker 1: the offense on the football field. Now, can you throw
Speaker 1: interceptions and have fumbles in those kind of things and all?
Speaker 1: You'd like to have ball security in that regard. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to be his own worst critic,
Speaker 1: but boy, there wasn't any running games, so they were
Speaker 1: teeing off in that front four. They're big, powerful, They
Speaker 1: pushed the pocket rushers. They'll twist and stunt. They don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to blitz. They rushed four and they played
Speaker 1: very deep zone coverages instead. You're not throwing the ball
Speaker 1: over our head. We're keeping everything in front of us.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to beat us with short, intermediate throws
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to do it a lot. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go on long, extended drives, and we
Speaker 1: don't think you can do it. And that was their
Speaker 1: game plan and they ended up being right. Last week
Speaker 1: against Washington, the Bengals had two hundred and forty seven
Speaker 1: yards of offense in the first half after Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: went out eighteen plays seventeen yards. This week, forty six
Speaker 1: plays one hundred and fifty five yards. That's one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy two yards basically in six quarters, an average
Speaker 1: of two point seven yards per play. It shows you
Speaker 1: just how value well Joe Burrow is to this offense.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt. I mean, he's a dynamic football player,
Speaker 1: and honestly, everything was tilted toward him getting ready to
Speaker 1: do those things. So any quarterback that was on the
Speaker 1: roster was not getting a whole lot of snaps, a
Speaker 1: whole lot of reps, and it showed. And Ryan Finlay
Speaker 1: went in there, and I think, you know, Brandon Allen
Speaker 1: will be better next week than he was this week.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that he's playing a pretty damn good defense,
Speaker 1: though the Miami Dolphins have a pretty good squad as well.
Speaker 1: They win games with special teams and defensive excellence. So
Speaker 1: the Bengals are going down there to Miami to face
Speaker 1: the same type of thing. So that's life in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And yeah, I mean, Joe Burrow is
Speaker 1: really really special in terms of the way he sees
Speaker 1: the football field, makes quick decisions and moves his football team.
Speaker 1: And it was very evident that they're lacking without him
Speaker 1: under center or in the shotgun formation. I hate to
Speaker 1: pay an overly a row the picture after a game
Speaker 1: like that. Did the fight show you something? It did?
Speaker 1: You know? I think that it's it's awful easy to
Speaker 1: just coast the game out, you know, and not you
Speaker 1: know it's over, and you know and this and here's
Speaker 1: another one. You know, this one, this one's out out
Speaker 1: of reach, particularly when they kicked the field goal and
Speaker 1: they went up two scores. But they finally put together
Speaker 1: a drive, big big pass interference penalty and the touchdown
Speaker 1: passed to t Higgins and and then you know the
Speaker 1: fact that instead of the onside kick, they decided to
Speaker 1: kick it deep and play defense and it worked out
Speaker 1: and they get a good return. Alex Erickson does a
Speaker 1: good job. There's another special teams play. I mean, Darren Simmons'
Speaker 1: group did everything they possibly could. It was by far,
Speaker 1: in my estimation, by far, the best special team's performance
Speaker 1: of the season. And it couldn't have come at a
Speaker 1: more necessary time to have that type of performance. And
Speaker 1: I thought that third of the three three phases of
Speaker 1: football was the best today. And then defense number two
Speaker 1: and offense are very very very very distant third. This
Speaker 1: was the seventh different starting offensive line in eleven games.
Speaker 1: Quinn Spain got the started left guard in place of
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, and then during the game Alex Redmond suffered
Speaker 1: a concussion. Spain went back to the right side, Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan came in on the left side. What did you
Speaker 1: think of the way the O line played? The pass
Speaker 1: protection was tough? I mean the fact that they could
Speaker 1: not get the running game going any modicum of success.
Speaker 1: You know, now you're in a situation where defensive linemen
Speaker 1: are just teeing off on you. It's like pass rush drill.
Speaker 1: And that's the toughest drill to handle as an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman when there's there's a total disregard for the run
Speaker 1: and all you're doing is pinning yours back and getting
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. And that's what the Bengals faced offensive
Speaker 1: line wise for most of the football game. Some of
Speaker 1: that their own doing, obviously, by not being able to
Speaker 1: form enough creases in the running game to get the
Speaker 1: running game was some kind of modicum of success. And
Speaker 1: with that, defensive line's pretty good. Some beast that can
Speaker 1: push the pocket and they don't blitz much, but they'll
Speaker 1: twist and stunt up front and make life tougher that way,
Speaker 1: and they make you make you earn everything in terms
Speaker 1: of pass protection, and I thought that, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there were sometimes there was there were pockets, but a
Speaker 1: lot of times Brandon Allen did not get through every
Speaker 1: Every play has a three progression read and then the
Speaker 1: fourth wants to check down then run. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he was getting all three through, all three progressions before
Speaker 1: he had to check it down or try to run
Speaker 1: the football, and then he was getting hit in the
Speaker 1: pocket and didn't have ball security well enough at the
Speaker 1: end of the football game. We saw Ryan Finley make
Speaker 1: three starts last year and play the second half last week.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I feel better about the
Speaker 1: Bengals chances of winning a game that Brandon Allen had
Speaker 1: quarterback instead of Ryan Finley based on what we saw today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the two that I mean Brandon Allen lit
Speaker 1: it up at practice Wednesday's practice. He did not have
Speaker 1: an in completion and I think that he bought he
Speaker 1: won some guys over that way. I think there was
Speaker 1: a validation there. I think they know he can spin it,
Speaker 1: he can zip the ball. I think they know he
Speaker 1: can be accurate. But you know, it's not just one guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody has to help Brandon Allen, and I
Speaker 1: think they like his way, his demeanor, the way he
Speaker 1: leads the football team, the way he takes control of
Speaker 1: the huddle. So yeah, and Zach Taylor has already said
Speaker 1: that Brandon Allen's the starting quarterback in Miami. So see
Speaker 1: if they can start to build on the experience that
Speaker 1: they were exposed to here against the New York Football Giants,
Speaker 1: who's a pretty darned good defensive football team. That's there's
Speaker 1: no question about it. I think that that's as good
Speaker 1: an overall defensive football team as the Bengals might have
Speaker 1: played this year. That's a little disappointed in the play
Speaker 1: of the wide receiving crew. Te Higgins was targeted five
Speaker 1: times and caught all five, including his touchdown, but Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd had a big drop. AJ Green did not have
Speaker 1: a catch when he was targeted three times. I'm sure
Speaker 1: some of that is different timing with a different quarterback,
Speaker 1: but those guys are going to have to step up
Speaker 1: and play great in order for the Bengals to win.
Speaker 1: I agree, it's going to have to be a scenario
Speaker 1: like that even the very sure handed Giovanni Bernard dropped
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, out of the backfield on a
Speaker 1: third and one. I think if he catches it, you know,
Speaker 1: he probably the chains are probably moves. So yeah. It's
Speaker 1: the thing is, you're in a situation offensively, and it's
Speaker 1: a very tough situation. You know, During the course of
Speaker 1: a ten year, actually a twelve year career in professional football,
Speaker 1: I've been in situations where you have no margin for error,
Speaker 1: and man, that's a brutal way to have to try
Speaker 1: to play football. It's like, it's it's it's impossible. Really,
Speaker 1: there are going to be mistakes made, and all you
Speaker 1: hope for in that situation is that it doesn't become
Speaker 1: contagious multiple mistakes are made, or the mistakes that are
Speaker 1: made become catastrophic and they are monumentally huge mistakes. You know,
Speaker 1: again margin for errors and impossibility, but you hope that
Speaker 1: the error that you make is not game deciding error.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Bengals are looking at offensively right now.
Speaker 1: You know, they just don't want to make mistakes that
Speaker 1: lose the football game and hope that defense and special
Speaker 1: teams give them enough support where they can win a
Speaker 1: couple of football games. Well, I'll tell you this, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of fun watching on TV. So I
Speaker 1: look forward to being back in the booth hopefully next
Speaker 1: Sunday as the Bengals head to Miami. I can tell you,
Speaker 1: my partner, you are sorely missed. You are the best
Speaker 1: in the business, and I look forward to doing a
Speaker 1: game with you against the Dolphins. Thanks buddy, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are seven and four after beating the winless
Speaker 1: Jets on Sunday twenty to three. Two A Tungo Vloa
Speaker 1: missed the game with an injured left thumb, but head
Speaker 1: coach Brian Flores says if he's healthy, he'll start against
Speaker 1: the Bengals next week. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented
Speaker 1: by Bud Light Seltzer. It's light and refreshing with a
Speaker 1: fruit flavor. Now time for this week's fun Facts segment,
Speaker 1: where you get to know the person under the pads.
Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with offensive lineman Akim Identagy
Speaker 1: from Garland, Texas. I came, I've read that your mom
Speaker 1: is from Nigeria, where she was a TV news anchor.
Speaker 1: How did the Identagy family wind up in Texas. About
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. My mom and dad you know, decided
Speaker 1: to come out to America just for you know, the opportunities,
Speaker 1: and thirty years later here we are. Tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about growing up in Garland and what your
Speaker 1: interests were as a kid. Oh man, I was big
Speaker 1: into sports obviously, football, basketball, you know, just everything, video
Speaker 1: game guy, nothing crazy. I love to cook a lot
Speaker 1: and no did a lot of things from my big
Speaker 1: brother too. You love to cook. Do you have a
Speaker 1: go to dish? I'm really creative with it and so
Speaker 1: I like to mix it up. I wouldn't say I
Speaker 1: had a specific go to this, just really I like,
Speaker 1: you know, mixing it up, trying new things, being creative,
Speaker 1: learning new recipes, different cultures, this and that. We're doing
Speaker 1: fun facts with it came identagy. You're a large man,
Speaker 1: six four, three hundred and two pounds. Were you always
Speaker 1: the big kids in the neighborhood? I kind of was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't always the biggest though. I was always like,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty big up there, but I was never
Speaker 1: like the biggest one. I had like steady growth. So
Speaker 1: that's that. How do you compare with your older brother
Speaker 1: I'm bigger than him now. I remember he's well, he's
Speaker 1: considerably smaller than me now at this point, but I
Speaker 1: probably he's six two, maybe two fifties now. He doesn't
Speaker 1: play football anymore. But I passed him up probably when
Speaker 1: I was about thirteen years old. I came when did
Speaker 1: you start playing football? And when did you start dreaming
Speaker 1: about the NFL? Man, I've been playing football since I
Speaker 1: was five six years old, and ever since then, it's
Speaker 1: always been my goal. Just you know, growing up in Garland,
Speaker 1: in the Dallas area, I watched the Cowboys. I was
Speaker 1: a big Cowboys fan growing up my whole life, and
Speaker 1: watching my brother play, I always wanting to do what
Speaker 1: he did, and so you know those things right there.
Speaker 1: Ever since you know, I started playing, it's been a
Speaker 1: dream of mine for you know, almost two decades now.
Speaker 1: Your older brother played at air Force and you were
Speaker 1: going to follow him there, and then a few weeks
Speaker 1: before you were set to report, everything changed. Describe what happened, man,
Speaker 1: So you know, I still remember this day because it
Speaker 1: was just such a big turning point. I got an
Speaker 1: email saying that my medical way was declined because I
Speaker 1: have a cashiology, which is self seems small, but you know,
Speaker 1: you know, the military, they have their certain rules and
Speaker 1: things like that, and the football coaches couldn't do anything
Speaker 1: about it. And so being at the Air Force, a
Speaker 1: lot of schools had already reported, and I was waiting
Speaker 1: to go into you know, basic training. So we're we're
Speaker 1: a month into you know, most freshman being on campus
Speaker 1: for football activities, and I have no clue where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. When did you learn of your cashew allergy
Speaker 1: and what happens if you eat one? I learned pretty early,
Speaker 1: not that early, I guess, I would say maybe around
Speaker 1: nine ten years old when I just like I had
Speaker 1: I never knew which specific that's it was, but I
Speaker 1: mean I remember, you know, on a few instances, having
Speaker 1: like small amounts of it and then just throwing up,
Speaker 1: nauseating all of this, and I'm just like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can't do this. So I pretty much stayed away from
Speaker 1: all of them until I finally got tested and realized
Speaker 1: it was just just cashews. But yeah, I mean, when
Speaker 1: I have them, intis not good, even like the smallest
Speaker 1: amount can trigger a pretty big reaction. We're doing fun
Speaker 1: facts with a chem identity. Do you look at labels
Speaker 1: really closely to make sure that you never accidentally have one.
Speaker 1: If there's anything that I know might having in there
Speaker 1: or I'm at a restaurant, I'm very skeptical, especially with like, um,
Speaker 1: some cultural dishes, like whether it be like a Mediterranean
Speaker 1: type of dish. I'm very like cheating because I know,
Speaker 1: you know, certain people like to cook with certain foods.
Speaker 1: So the air force went down the drain because of
Speaker 1: the cashew allergy and you wound up at Kansas. What
Speaker 1: was your initial impression of Lawrence, Kansas? It was different.
Speaker 1: It was different from what I'm used to. There's not
Speaker 1: nearly as much to do out there, but you know,
Speaker 1: ultimately I had a lot of fun and made a
Speaker 1: lot of friends and had a lot of good time.
Speaker 1: What was the best part of your college experience? Me
Speaker 1: and my girlfriend who who probably be my wife here
Speaker 1: soon and that I definitely that takes the cake for sure.
Speaker 1: That's a good answer, especially if she's nearby and can hear.
Speaker 1: So the basketball team was a powerhouse you were in Kansas.
Speaker 1: Did you go to the games at Alan field House
Speaker 1: and become buddies with any of the basketball players. I
Speaker 1: went to a few games. I didn't go to a
Speaker 1: whole lot just because it gets so packed in there
Speaker 1: and you have to get you have to get to
Speaker 1: the game like maybe three four hours before to even
Speaker 1: get a decent seat, and obviously we have stuff to do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I got I have one real
Speaker 1: good friend that he's in the same class, and so
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be getting drafted here pretty soon, my boy, dope.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, he's a real good friend. And the
Speaker 1: basketball games were always fun. There were such a such
Speaker 1: a good team. Do you know why KU fans say
Speaker 1: rock chalk Jayhawk? I found out and I don't remember,
Speaker 1: though I remember when I heard the reasoning behind it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that significant to me, but it sounds cool.
Speaker 1: Though it does sound cool. It's one of those stories
Speaker 1: where the answer is not that great, so I can
Speaker 1: understand why you would forget so original late it was
Speaker 1: raw raw Jayhawk, and then a professor suggested they change
Speaker 1: it to rock chalk Jayhawk because there's limestone in the area.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, good, Okay. Now if you get
Speaker 1: quized on that again, you'll be all set unless I
Speaker 1: forget again. Describe your NFL draft experience, Man, This year
Speaker 1: was was so different because of you know, COVID and
Speaker 1: then just everything going on. Um, it was. It was
Speaker 1: fun though. I mean I always say that, you know,
Speaker 1: I tell my buddies in this draft class and everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm like, we're gonna be able to say we had
Speaker 1: the first virtual draft, Like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be wild. Yeah, hopefully the first and only.
Speaker 1: Yeah for real, but we'll be you know. That's that's
Speaker 1: pretty special though, I think so. All right, a few
Speaker 1: more fun facts for Hakimadnagy? What do you like to
Speaker 1: spend your money on? I am cheap. I did not
Speaker 1: like to spend my money at off. I like to
Speaker 1: spend my money on my bank account and just put
Speaker 1: it in there. If I don't have to spend money,
Speaker 1: I won't. I guess if I had to say something
Speaker 1: I like to spend my money on, you know, if
Speaker 1: I had to get something nice from my mom and
Speaker 1: my brother and my girlfriend. I find more pleasure in
Speaker 1: that than just spending my money on me. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's frugal. That's not cheap. That's frugal. That's fine. Who
Speaker 1: is the greatest athlete in any sport? That has to
Speaker 1: be Lebron James for sure, he has to be. He's
Speaker 1: just he's a freak. Uh, he has the production to
Speaker 1: back it up. Just I mean, you just watch him.
Speaker 1: I think we'll look back one day and be like,
Speaker 1: you know how how the old folks before is they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we saw George, We're gonna be like we saw Lebron.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna You're never gonna get this again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those old folks that would have said
Speaker 1: that about Jordan. So so you go on, Jordan and Lebron.
Speaker 1: You know what, this championship this year swung me over
Speaker 1: to Lebron. Okay, this one broke the tie. All right.
Speaker 1: Final fun fact for Hakim Idenagy. If you couldn't meet
Speaker 1: anybody in history, athlete, entertainer, statesman, whatever, who would that
Speaker 1: person be. Oh, that's a good question. Anybody in history.
Speaker 1: I guess the person who invented football. I don't even
Speaker 1: know who that is. It's simple, but it's very There's
Speaker 1: so many things too us. So I'll say, yeah, you
Speaker 1: are officially off the hot seat, Hakim. I appreciate your time,
Speaker 1: best of luck the rest of the year. Thanks Dan,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Here's a quick reminder to join lap
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