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you're interested, just search for Sinci shirts. Coffin Nails. It's right up there with the Master's green jacket and Paul Brown's sideline fedora is one of the greatest items of clothing in sports history. Now let's get the Sunday's game. The Bengals starting lineup consisted of only three players who started last week, our offensive lineman Isaiah Prince and Hikimadenagy and wide receiver Jamar Chase. Here's Zach Taylor on the decision to rest the starters even if it meant hurting

the Bengals chances of gaining a higher playoff seed. No perfect decision there, but just felt like we need to be healthy, perfectly healthy going into next week, and there were so many things out of our control in terms of where the seating was going to be that we just fellow's best to rescue. Jamar Chase was an exception for one reason. He entered the game needing just twelve yards to break Chad Johnson's team record for receiving yards in a season first and ten Bengals at their own

twenty eight. Alan throws a screen caught by Chase, gets a block right at thirty five forty. He's got the team record down the sideline past midfield, and he goes out of bounds at the Cleveland forty eight. Great news, some random out. So that catch for a twenty four yard game gives Jamaar Chase the Bengals all times single season record for receiving yards in a year. I achieved a lot of stuff that I wanted to do this year. I still got a lot more to do. Hopefully I

can break some playoff records. When we drafted him, he said he was going to break all the records, and it was hard to know if that was gonna be

true or not. But he's put himself in a position to do that, not just relying on his talent, but becoming a professional really since day one, and its consistency over the course of the season, and that's one of the reasons why you want to play him in a game like this, for an opportunity to get a couple more yards, to put himself in a position to do something really special, because he's about what we want to

be around, you know. We want our best players to have the best work ethic and come to work every single day and be consistent with their demeanor in their actions, and Jamar has been that for us, and I'm just really proud of him in the season that he's had. Jamar finished the regular season with one thousand, four hundred fifty five yards. He finished eighteen yards short of the NFL's all time rookie record, set by Houston's Bill Groman

in nineteen sixty. That catch was one of very few offensive highlights for the Bengals in the first half, as they punted on all six of their possessions. The Browns punted on their first two before taking the lead late in the first quarter. Keenom back to throw, looking down field, fires Landry, makes the catch at the seven, swerves toward the forward pilot, and takes it into the end zone

for a twenty six yard Cleveland touchdown. Case Keenom started at quarterback in place of Baker Mayfield, but aside from that, Cleveland played nearly all of its starters, including an offensive line that paved the way for two hundred five rushing yards against the Bengals backups. Browns goat tempo. They handed off to de Ernest Johnson. He runs straight up that

gotten into the end zone for a Cleveland touchdown. So the Browns have scored on back to back drives and have taken a thirteen point lead pending the extra point. De Ernest Johnson carried twenty five times for one hundred twenty three yards. But even though the Browns dominated statistically, the Bengals were able to stay in the game thanks to two big plays on defense. Now Keenom in trouble loses the ball, Cincinnati scoops and the Bengals are running

it back. Henderson to the ten five touchdown. Bengals why and Ray knocking the ball away from Case Keenom and safety Travie On Henderson with the scooping score. Here's Trayvon Henderson on the first touchdown of his NFL career. Honestly, Mount really didn't know if it was a fumble than not. You always taught these defensive players to just scoop the ball just in case. And when I crossed the line, honestly, I thought there was he can be passed. He had

his arm going forward, and they said it was. It was a diffil sure. It was fourteen seven with three and a half minutes left in the half. The Browns answered by driving to the Bengals eleven with nine seconds remaining. Case Keenom drops back to throw. He fires over the middle ter two yards deep in the end zone. The Bengals are running it back. This is Hilton to the twenty five. The thirty gets tripped up and goes down at the thirty two yard line. The ball appears to

have come out, but the clock is at zero. We've got the penalty flags down. As players are trying to pull players off the pile. That's a penalty, but the end zone interception by Mike Hilton keeps the Cleveland Browns from adding to their lead, and it was fitting that Mike Hilton got the pick. He only played because two members of the secondary, Ricardo Allen and Vernon Hargrave, suffered injuries, meaning Hilton was the only defensive starter who was pressed

into service. Oh, it was one, but you know, being a profession, you gotta be ready at all times. And the coaches threw me in there knowing, you know, they fell comfortable with me being out there with whoever. But no, this is just always being ready for your moment. It

was fourteen seven Cleveland at the half. After only having three first downs in the first half, the Bengals put together a long drive on their first possession of the third quarter, a fourteen play march down to the Cleveland ten before having to settle for a field goal try. This will be a thirty six yard field goal attempt for Elliott Frye and his Bengals debut supping today for Evan McPherson. The snap to put down the right Foote

kick and it is good. It hits the crossbar and bounds forward Elliot Fry makes it from thirty six yards out. It was closed, but he got it to bounce over and the Bengals have pulled within four. That made it fourteen ten. Going to the fourth quarter and with roughly thirteen and a half minutes to go, the Browns fumbled on a punt return near midfield. Unfortunately for the Bengals,

Cleveland managed to recover and soon capitalize. Bird down in nine from the ten, Keenom throws a screen to Felton running down to the five to the goal line, touchdown Cleveland. Good call. That made a twenty one ten With about seven and a half minutes to go. To have any chance to win, the Bengals needed to answer, and they did with a seventy five yard touchdown drive. Game on the line right here, fourth down and one at the Cleveland four yard line. The Bengals need a yard to

stay alive. Alan is under center. He takes the snap, rolls out to the right, throws forever it's caught us to two, then he runs into the end zone. Touchdown. Bengals with two twenty six to go. Now the line up and go for two to try to make it a three point game. A little naked bootleg there. The Cleveland Browns get good pressure, but not good enough. Chris Evans caught the touchdown pass, but a two point conversion

throw for Trent Taylor fell incomplete. The Bengals were down by five as they lined up for an on side kick with two and a half minutes to go. He kicks the top of the ball. It bounces up if I cleaned on it. The ball is loose at the forty nine yard line. There's a giant pile at the forty nine of Cleveland. The Bengals have started celebrating thing from the officials. Yet Bryant was the guy that failed to field the ball that was kicked right to him.

It's short hopped in front of Bryant and he couldn't handle that short hop fry immediately. I'm telling you, Dan, I've been in these pile ups as the tug of war gone on now, and the guy that originally has the football sometimes doesn't end up with it. It took about a minute and a half for the refs to rule that Cleveland recovered it. The Browns ran out the

clock to win the game twenty one sixteen. You know, the season's always full of its ups and downs, and it really comes down to which teams you can handle diversity the best, and and to never get too high and never get too low. And I thought our team did a great job of that, responding in the face of some tough adversity and handling success some moments well. And we finished the season, you know, aside from the lost day, on a really good note with a lot

of confidence. And that really does matter in this league to finish going into January and been January and the playoffs, you know, feeling like we're playing our best football and playing with a lot of confidence. Our guys really feel that right now, and so you know, it is the biggest game that any of these players have ever had. We're in the Bengals Jersey next week at our home stadium.

You know, we had tremendous crowds these last couple of weeks when we're at home, and we're expecting our best one yet whenever we find out when we're playing and who we're playing, and our guys are excited for that opportunity. So now it's onto the playoffs. After having the first pick in the draft prior to last year and the fifth pick in the draft prior to this year. The Bengals will host the Raiders on Saturday. Here are Mike

Hilton and Zach Taylor. We know we were one of the most talents teams in the league, and we have opportunity to do that against the other most talented team in the league. I feel like when when the playoffs come, it's scheme can only take you far so far. So we know with players you have to win those one on one matchups. We have to make those big plays

on both sides of the ball. So we feel confident in the guys we have in this locker room, and we're all excited about the opportunity because a lot of them haven't been as far, so I know they'll be looking forward to it and they know it's a lot on the line. This is what we've been struggling for all long, to be quite honest with you, and we've we've been our guys, been on our guys to be consistent with how they practice every day and raise the standard so that when you get to this moment, we

don't have to change what we're doing. And I think that that's that's why I've got a lot of confidence in the group of men that are in that locker room, because I don't need them to raise their standard of play and how they practice and how they may They've been doing that all year, and that's why we're in the physicians. We're ending, and that's going to service wall, you know, and we'll just we'll see how plays out.

But our guys are gonna be ready. As you may have heard, the Bengals haven't in a playoff game since the nineteen ninety season, dropping their last eight postseason games. That's thirty seasons without a playoff win, the longest such streak of any team in the NFL. But most of the Bengals players weren't even born when that streak started. Sometimes they don't know what they don't know, and that

can be a really good thing, you know. You certainly can't avoid some of the narrative that surrounds us sometimes with their playoff experience. But again, these guys don't have that playoff experience, you know. So there's a lot of things they've done this year to change some of those things, and this week will be no different. You know. They don't feel that pressure, they don't think about that stuff

at all. That there's more just stories and people maybe who have been here longer than we have talked about it. But I can promise you that it doesn't have one effect on this football team and in our approach going forward this week or how they'll feel on game day. I'll take it a step further. If anybody thinks Joe Burrow is going to feel burden because of the Bengals playoff droute, they haven't been paying attention to Joey franchise.

The Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free to play fantasy football game. Ultimate Bengals awarded a weekly winner during the course of the season with tickets, autograph merchandise, and money can't buy experiences all up for grabs. Find Ultimate Bengals in the app Store and Google Play. Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham So lap The regular season ends with a twenty

one to sixteen loss in Cleveland. The one thing the Bengals could guarantee today was that if they didn't play guys, those guys would not get hurt. That was the route that Zach Taylor chose, and I think it's a wise one. You know, I think there's a lesson to be learned

by what happened to the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, could they potentially have a buy maybe, But if they don't, I mean, what if Kelsey's limpen and gimp and you know in their playoff game, what if Hill would that heal injury and bruced heal those things those things link. That's a cautionary tale right there. And I think I think that they made the right moving particularly both teams, I mean Cleveland Browns and Bengals both had guys going down in weather conditions like this, playing this type of

football game. So in the Bengals situation, I can see why they made the decision that they made and we'll see if it pays dividends when they take on whoever it is next week. There were a few solid performances in the loss defensively, Mike Hilton with an end zone interception, Trevion Henderson with the scoop and score after Wyatt forced the fumble. Marcus Bailey had eleven tackles, Clay Johnston had ten. Offensively, Chris Evans thirty five rushing yards, twenty four receiving yards

and a touchdown. Mike Daniels was active when he was in the game. Yeah, I mean, I think at the line of scrimmage, Cleveland Browns had three hundred and seventy seven yards on sixty six snaps. The Bengals had one hundred and eighty two yards on fifty one snaps. Three point six yards her play. The Cleveland Browns averaged over five yards to carry running the football. The reason the Bengals were in the football game is they wanted to turnover ratio by two and they had a fourth down

stop in the red zone. So they had three possessions that ended with no form of a kick, and the Cleveland Browns had no takeaways and no fourth down stops. So I think, you know, the Bengals went for it once on fourth down and converted, and Cleveland didn't when they tried it on fourth down in the red zone. So I think that's why the football game stayed close

and got to give the Bengals credit. I mean, one of those takeaways, as you mentioned, you know that I thought that was one of the big things I talked about before the game, and the keys to the game was that they could get some kind of unconventional unscripted score like Cleveland got in the first matchup with the Bengals early in the game. That would that would make

things a lot more palatable. And they got it done, and because they were down fourteen at that point and it was looking a little bleak, but they cut the lead in half. And you know, it's just like in the first matchup. I mean, the Bengals going to twelve place, seventy five yard drive, throw a pick six, then they going to nine place, seventy five yard drive, twenty one snaps, one hundred and fifty yards and the scores seven to seven, and Cleveland has run a snap, So those unconventional scores

can be big, and the Bengals got themselves on. Nearly all of the Bengals starters sat out the regular season finale in Cleveland, but there were exceptions on the offensive line. Isaiah Prince played right tackle, I came I Dentogy played right guard. And then there's the situation with Jackson Carmen. If Quenton Spain does not recover quickly enough from his ankle injury, chances are Jackson Carmen will be playing left guard. Yeah,

there's there's a good strong chance of that. And it was good early for Isaiah Prince and Identogy to you know, get more snaps together. They're both young guys and they're going to be going, say, say it's Noringham Patriots for example, They're going to be tested both mentally and physically. So the more snaps that they can get under their belt, the better off they'll be. Um And we'll just have to just have to have to see. I mean, it's a Trey Hopkins has been limping and gimping a good

part of the season. He's being held together I think by Scotch tape right now, and so will he be able to you know, bounce back and have a strong performance. I highly doubt Quentin Spain's going to be able to play in the Patriots game or whoever it is, that first round of the playoffs if he. If he does, it would be a mild upset, I think, not a major upset. Not impossible, but he's He's got a pretty good acts spring. So the Bengals have gone thirty years,

thirty seasons without winning a playoff game. The last time they did January sixth, nineteen ninety one. It hasn't been a topic of conversation all year, which is kind of good. Back in the early part of the twenty ten decade, that was storyline from the first day of training camp during that stretcher where they went went to the playoffs five years in a row and did not win. In this case, it's gonna come up this week. It's not been this big albatross hanging over them all year long.

And Zach Taylor made the point during his postgame news conference after the game in Cleveland to say, this team is the twenty twenty one Bengals. It has nothing to do with any Bengals team that's failed in the playoffs before. That's true. And the football team that went out on the football field against the Cleveland Browns this afternoon, all the stats that had been generated by the Bengals offense had nothing to do with the team that went out

on the field this afternoon. I mean, it's just it's it's not even it's not even close to the same guys out there working the way they worked all season long. So that's it's there's no question about it. These guys are going to carve a history of their own. Other guys that played on those football teams carve that history these guys have nothing to do with that history, and you can't. What you can't do is fall in the negativity of oh man, you know, you haven't won in

thirty one. You know the last time on a playoff game January of nineteen ninety one. Are you kidding me? You can't fall in that negativity. That can that can be a rabbit hole you don't want to fall through, you know, fall into mentally, There's no question about it. And I don't think this group will. I think Zach made another good point. A young football team sometimes it's good that they don't know what they don't know. Just just continue to play. They're confident, continue to play with

confidence and let the chips fall where they may. Speaking of history, even though Joe Burrow did not play, he finishes the year with four thousand and six hundred eleven passing yards. That's a Bengals single season record, thirty four touchdown passes, also a Bengals single season record, pass a rating of one h eight point three that's a single season Bengals record. Also the first Bengals corp back ever to be sacked fifty times in a year. Fifty one

turned out to be the final number. And then there is Jamar Chase with his two catches in Cleveland eighty one catches, one thousand, four hundred and fifty five yards in thirteen touchdown passes, all records for a Bengals rookie. The fourteen fifty five a single season record period for a Bengals wide receiver. He was everything the Bengals dreamed he would be and more. There's no doubt. I mean, Jamar Chase, you made a decision, all right. Our offensive

line needs some fortification. Pinney Sell could have provided that he had a good year. This guy is a playmaker, a touchdown maker extraordinaire. He is amongst the most explosive players in the National Football League immediately right now in his first year, and I think opposing defensive coordinators and opposing defensive players would would say the same thing. I mean, this guy's gonna draw a lot of attention. And the chemistry, the magic, the intangibles that exist between Joe Burrow and

Jamar Chaser a site to behold. They really are. And I don't think they're gonna get worst in They're only going to get better. If anything. Next week we get the opportunity to call a Bengals playoff win. It's been too long. With Joe Burrow it in charge. It's gonna happen sometime soon, and hopefully it happens in his first crack at it next week. I think they have a really good shot. I mean, I think he's playing at his high a level as any quarterback in the National

Football League right now. I really do mentally, physically everywhere you can. And I think he's as important. I mean, quarterbacks are all important to a football team, but he is as important as any quarterback is to his football team. And I'm excited to see him play. I think it's going to be a show. More on Sunday's game and the play off game to come join Lap and Lance McAlister for Bengals Line Monday night from six to nine

on seven hundred WLW. Now time for this week's fun Facts segment, where you get to know the person under the pads hand. In this case, it's the player who scored the Bengals only offensive touchdown on Sunday. Time for some fun facts with Bengals running back Chris Evans from the so called racing capital of the World, Indianapolis, Indiana. What do you love about your hometown and what were some of the things you enjoyed doing as a kid.

A couple of things that I loaded about my hometown is just basketball is just a big thing, you know what I'm saying. Everybody who played basketball, and from if you know all your friends to the person that you don't know to the person that you know the best. Everybody knows how to play basketball some some capacity. So I love that. And um, I also just love just you know what I'm saying, Um like being around the coats.

You know what I'm saying, the coat Um during that time when Peyton Manning was there, he like was the mayor the city, you know what I'm saying. And we always loaded to see him and watch him play. And they went through them won the Super Bowl and I was just exciting to see as a kid. We're doing fun facts with running back Chris Savans. You started a youth football program for kids when you were still a kid, and it's really taken off. What were the orange origins

of Ceast Stars and what is it grown into? Um? The origins was I'm pretty much I got one of my little brothers and his friends. I was a janitor. Um at an elementary school and in my city. Um, Like before I went to college, I wanted to get some money. So I get some shoes and some clothes and stuff, um, and have my own money so my little brother and his friends can't. We'll come up to my job after I'm done cleaning our classrooms and we'll

do some football drives. I don't like, Okay, we got enough kids, we might as well just see what we can get into. So we started playing in the league. I'm about seventeen eighteen at the time, and were just playing. We was winning, and I was like, dang, like I'm about to go to college, so we're gonna have to like put this on whole. So I started started a team in college. I got sponsorships and stuff like that, and I I called my friend, I'm back at home, best friend I grew up. Was like, we got to

keep those same kids going. So as soon as we opened up a trial, we had like forty kids come out. And now we just expanded to three states. We have a Kentucky team, We're starting to Cincinnati team this year, Indianapolis, and still up in Michigan. UM, so we have over about three hundred kids in the program now, and um, it just gives them the opportunity and a platform to be able to continue to get better in football over the offseason and mainly focus. You know what I'm saying.

We have tutors and stuff to help them with their grades and stuff. So, UM, just the whole picture of a student athlete and raising like a young man pretty remarkable considering how young you are. And the name is interesting because you outfoxed the NCIA. Yeah, I now seeing that with the NIL and seeing all these guys making all this all this money is I'm happy for him, but I wish I could you know, we had an opportunity,

but um it was named ce Stars. Um. I was talking to one of my mentors and it's like, I should be aild it, use my aim to get this, you know what I'm saying. But then they that came at me and then um, on the spot, UM, I told him, hey, it's not Chris Evans is collectively evolving and they were like, well, I guess that, you know, I mean, I guess you're not in trouble anymore. So He's like, yeah, and as of right now, UM, it's

still collectively evolving. But you know, what I'm saying to see is my initials, So I kind of some people know, some people don't know. So that's good stuff. We're visiting with Chris Evans. He loved the Ohio State as a kid, but wound up going to Michigan. So you said yes to Jim Harbaugh and know to Urban Meyer. Explain yourself to the Buckeyes fans listening. I was a Hog State fan, was um, but just I just when I went to Michigan, I gave my commitment to coach Hardball and I just

I just knew. I just knew it was good energy. You know what I'm saying With Coach Hardball and Michigan. Just now like at the end of the day, all the tales was perfect and it was like I feel like there was nothing like you know what I mean that he was hot in or anything like that. So yeah, in your first college game at Michigan with the official attendance one hundred ten thou two hundred and twenty two in the Big House, eight carries for one hundred and

twelve yards, describe that day. Um, it was. It was a crazy day. Um. I didn't know I was gonna put that much over the forest and running back. Our first ring got UM. He messed up his ribcage and UM that game it was a blowout. So it was just him saying, let everybody get some touches, and I got my aid and just took advantage of him, you know what I'm saying. So it was a good day. I read that your cell phone died from all of the messages. Literally it was it was my phone was

kept on. When I was looking at my phone, I was getting message after missus, call after call, and it was just it was crazy just to see just it was just it was the beginning of it all. Your life could be an inspirational movie because of how you dealt with a problem that you had at Michigan. You got suspended for a year due to plagiarism, but the way you dealt with it is remarkable to me. Now this is only two years ago. Describe two thy nineteen

and what you did. Um. I went through some adversity UM that I feel like a lot of people wouldn't be able to come back from. UM got to spend it for a year. Instead of going home, I stayed in my at my house that I was in and in Harbor and I got a couple of jobs. Um delivery driver, special teams, coach at a high school, and contract their assistant. You know what I'm saying, I'm just I'll just be sitting. They'd be like, give me the

screw driver, and I just gotta find it. I give it to him, or I'll be holding drywall up and stuff like that and doing a little nuance stuff. But it taught me a lot, just taught me about just keep my head down and keep pushing. And I mean, now, just with those skills, I can like fix things in my own them own house, so and my mom's house. I fixed her drywall last last year, and I was like, I know how to do this stuff. So it was good.

And also I just used my resources too, just as much resource as I had, Like I worked at the delivery delivery spot, so I could eat three meals a day. You know what I'm saying, that I had to pay for so um, I just used everything just to save money. I was actually in the real world and I was like, I'm gonna stay away from this as long as I can.

You know what I'm saying, I gotta work real real job or sweating and holding stuff and that's something that I don't want to do, and my dad taught me not to, Like, that's not what you want to do. You want to be doing what you want to do and not you know what I'm saying, heavy lifting and stuff like that. So that's what I took from it. So you overcame at you earned your scholarship back, You earned your degree. Does that mean that much more considering

the path you had to go through to get there? Yeah, I mainly just wanted to graduate. I mean it was a COVID year. Seasons I canceled and uncanceled. Then it was just a but I just knew taking twenty one credits this last semester, I was like, this is the this will truly like showed it, Like I really got through this, you know what I'm saying. Because a lot of guys leave school and don't get the degree and then they gotta go back or the end don't end

up going back. And I was like, not all this out, tutors, all that stuff, and just just get it done so I can get up out of here. So after your senior year at Michigan, you earned an invitation to the Senior ball and knocked it out of the park. How did that impact your life? It impacted crazy. Um. I was about to go back home. Um, Jim Nagie called me and it's like, do you want to over to wing him one more time? And I was like definitely.

So when I went down there, I was like, literally, I can't go wrong down here, Like you know what I'm saying, I'm not. I wasn't even supposed to be here. So I'm just gonna take advantage of everything I can get, you know what I'm saying. Coaching and stuff like that. So UM, that's one reason that UM coach Seck Taylor said to help me, you know what I'm saying, because he asked me to draw up a protection and when I was drawn, I kind of like seeing her face I was. I was drawing because I was kind of

like that whole time. I was nervous, really, but I didn't I didn't expect that i'd be here in Cincinnati. So you impressed them Inmobile. They selected you in the sixth round. Describe your draft experience. The Falcons was telling me that they were gonna draft me for sure. So they had two picks in the fifth, They had two picks in the fifth back to back and I was like, oh, I'm sure gonna get down. So then, um, they didn't get I didn't there, they didn't get the call. So

and I had two phones at the time. I got one phone just for all the teamside a number of them. So um, after those two picks, I was like, man, I got all these people at my um at my house, and I just hope I get drafted because I don't want to go and drafted. So UM, I went outside, I took a walk with my mom, and um, some Cincinnati number calls my other phone. I'm like, all all the teams got this number, but so I called it and he's like, this is Zach Taylor and with the

Cincinnati Bengals, and I was like, oh snap. But it was like we was walking. It was about a hundred yards from my house, and I told my mom like, yo, we gotta get back, you know what I'm saying before it come on. So we just running down the street and I told everybody I cut the music off, like in turn the TV up, you know what I'm saying stuff like that. So it was, um, it was a crazy experience and I was one of them, the most stressful times in my life, like that whole day, like

I couldn't it was it was crazy. A few wild card categories to wrap things up with. Chris Evans, your Twitter handle is kidden play Underscore ABC one two three. I assume it's a reference to your high top fade, similar to the kid from the Wrap two Kiddn't Play. I made that handle when I was a little Oh well, I'm about eighth grade, ninth grade or seven eighth grade when I first got my haircut, and yeah, I just I love that show. I love Fresh Prince of bel

Air and all stuff like that. So that was the inspiration behind it. Do you have any hidden talents? Hidden talents? I can fix it whatever you need, I got it. I can fix a tire, I can fix a I can do a lot of stuff, a lot of handy stuff. And I feel like my hidden talent is h when something goes back, Like when something goes wrong, I'm good at um like making it work, you know what I'm saying.

So like just in an everyday situation, if something happens, it doesn't happen, and I can just keep the keep the group come like okay, Like this is what we're gonna do. You know what I'm saying, just because I like to keep one. I like that. Don't get hired, don't get too low, you know what I'm saying, And just keep stay steady and just just stay locked in. You're a problem solver. Every group needs a problem solving. Where are you terrible? App I'm terrible at getting shots.

I don't like getting shots like the like I hate needles. I hate hate stuff like that. And I just I was the kid that they had to get the big nurse to go hold me down to get to get my shot. So I hate I hate needles. All right, you just became my wife's favorite player because she hates

getting shots. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, politician, religious figure, whoever it might be, who would that person be mon Luther King owning me mon Luth the King just because I on the and not just about just what he did and how he did it, just but like I love the process and I love just it's not what you see on Sunday, it's what you see through you know what I'm and Monday to Saturday. That's why I like, I mean some of them, like Joe

Mix it. For example, he practice hard every day, you know what I'm saying, So having a little Sunday is just what he's been doing all week. So just to see how intriguing like his process was, just being all the adversity he had to go through and him being a leader, and you know what I'm saying. So I don't want to meet him. You were off the hot seat. I appreciate your time. That's to fluck the rest of the year, I said, appreciate it. That's going to do it.

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