Bengals Booth Podcast: A Little Bit Longer

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podcasts coming. You never know who's listening. Now Here are the radio calls from the fourth three point game between the Bengals and Chiefs in the last thirteen months. On a worldwide calendar, this is the year twenty twenty three a d but for the Cincinnati Bengals and their fans, it is the year three JB and Joe Burrows. Three seasons, the Bengals have quickly become one of the NFL's best teams, and tonight in Kansas City, they are one win away

from a second straight trip to the Super Bowl. Burrow catches the shotgun snap from the pocket. In trouble, Joe gets away from a hit, but now he gets tomahawk down to the ground by Clark, his thirteenth career postseason sack, and the Bengals will have to punt it away a loss of nine from forty three yards out. The snap, the placement, the swing of the right leg. The kick has plenty of distance and it is oh good, and the Chiefs are on the scoreboard. Max sharping the right

guard gives a hand signal. That's how they're doing a silent snapcount. Burrow gets trilled from behind, Joe had time, couldn't find an open target, and Willie Gay hammers Joe Burrow from behind back to thirty four a six yard sack. This will be a twenty four yard attempt for Harrison, Butker from the right hash on a sharp angle. His kick is up and it is good. So the Chiefs have field goals on their first two possessions and they've taken a six nothing lead. Two deep safeties for the Chiefs.

They fake uplitz up the middle. Burrow with time comes over the middle, caught at the twenty yard line, running toward the fifteen and getting tackled there is Tyler Boyd. He spikes the ball at the fifteen yard line. Justin Reid made the stop. A twenty four yard throw. This will be a thirty yard field goal attempt from the left. Hash for Evan McPherson, whose field goal in this direction sent the Bengals to the Super Bowl in overtime a year ago. True Chris beIN ready for the snap from Ademitas.

He places the ball down. The kick is on the way and it is right down the middle for Evan McPherson, who has never missed a postseason field goal attempt. Mahomes in the gun. Three receivers right, one left. Mahomes rolling to the right looking looking throws into the end zone. Caught Travis Kelsey, boxed out Jesse Bates and caught the touchdown pass. This will be a twenty three yard field goal try for McPherson from the left. Hash the put down the right footed kick. It is good and money.

Mac is now nineteen for nineteen on postseason field goal attempts. Two deep safeties for Ksey, shotgun snap to Joe. He throws it down the left sideline, open catching for a touchdown. Te Hagans full grown man, leaps at the goal line and reels it in for a potential tying touchdown, a twenty seven yard thing of beauty. On the throw from Joe Burrow. Mahomes waits for the shotgun snap. He catches the ball, he's looking left now scrambling, throws it over

the middle, caught for the touchdown. Man Faldez scantling one yard deep in the end zone between the hash marks, made the catch, a nineteen yard touchdown on third and ten, first and ten at the Cincinnati forty six. We're down to one h three to go in the third quarter. The Chiefs up by a touchdown. Mahomes had the ball pop out of his hand, get the Bengals fall on it.

Sam Hubbard bounces on the ball as Patrick Mahomes cocked his arm and the ball just fluttered out and Sam Hubbard falls on it on the Kansas City forty three yard line. Who else? Who else? The local legend, Sam Hubbard burrow in the gun on fourth and six. He catches the shotgun snap, he's back to throw. He flings it deep downfield. Chase makes the touch left the six yard line. He'd beat Brian Cook leaping for the football

at the six and it's first in goal. A thirty five yard gain on fourth and six, and he's double Everard and he jumps between both of them. I mean it's fourth and six. They say, Chase, you're not getting the ball. We got you bracketed deep and Joe Burrow says, now that's Jamar Chase. I'm putting it up. And Jamar Chase says, I'm out jumping everybody and I'm gonna go get the football. What a player. P Ryan in it running back lines up to the right of Joe Burrow.

T Higgins motions from right to left. Joins Chase on that side. Burrow hands it off. P Ryan fighting struggling forward. There's the signal touchdown Bengals on a two yard run by some mad j p Ryan. Third down and three, the Bengals at their own thirty six shotgun snap back to Burrow. Joe standing in the pocket, throws it deep four Higgins broken up and then he accept it picked off by Williams. He gets tackled by Higgins at the

fourteen yard line. Didn't believe he caught that reflection. Third down to eight, the Bengals at their own thirty five shotgun snap back to Joe. It's a deep drop under pressure. Chris Jones nails him for a sack at the twenty seven yard line. Forty one seconds left in regulation. Tied at twenty Drew Chrisman waits back at the thirteen for the snap from Adamitas. Punt protector Michael Thomas directing traffic the snap and the right footed punt, not much hang time,

skymore backpedaling catches at the twenty. His momentum takes him back to the eighteen. Comes to the thirty thirty five forty sideline forty five and knocked out of bounds near midfield. Stanley Morgan made the stop. Drew Crispin did not get that put high enough into the air. Two receivers out to each side. Mahomes with a deep drop now moving in the pocket, running to the right and running well, he's at the fifty. He's trying to run for the first down. He goes, I'm the Bengal push him after

he was out of bounds. Multiple flags are going to tack fifteen yards onto this play eight seconds left in regulation, and with that penalty, the Chiefs will be in field goal range. Man, you have to be more aware. This football team has got a lot of awareness. Not on that play eight seconds left in regulation. Harrison Butker trying to give Kansas City the lead from forty five yards away. Towns in the punter is. The holder looks back at Butcker,

Butcker is ready. Now, the snap, the placement, the kick is up and it is good. Three seconds from eting and the Kansas City Chiefs have a three point lead, twenty three to twenty. Boiled boy, that's that's just that's devastating, devastating. There's no other way to look at it. Kansas City is likely to try a bouncing squib type kick in hopes of getting the final three seconds to run off the clock. Butcker, who just made the go ahead field goal from forty five yards away, has the ball upon

the tea at the thirty five. He approached it and bounces it down the middle of the field. The Bengals pick it up, they will run it back. At the twenty, Irwin throws it back where it caught. At the sixteen, Trent Taylor trying to stay alive. He is tackled, and the Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl. It will be Andy Reid's current team versus his former team. As the Chiefs faced the Philadelphia Eagles, it looked like the stage was set for another dramatic Bengals win over

Kansas City. Cincinnati forced the Chiefs to punt and got the ball at their own six yard line with two thirty to go, and when Joe Burrow found Hayden Hurst for a twenty three yard gain on third and sixteen, the Bengals had a first down at their own thirty three with about a minute remaining, but the drive stalled there and a twenty nine yard punt return by sky Moore gave the Chiefs the ball near midfield with thirty

seconds to go. I asked through Christman about the punt on your last punt, what are you hoping to do there in terms of direction whatever. Certainly you'd love that out of bounds. I mean not deally, either hang it up high where they don't get a return at all, or get out of bounds. And fortunately we got too many on that return for sure. And yeah, I mean five yards further back, I don't know if that field goes in. So certainly you'd love to get a better

net on that last punt there. And so yeah, there's there's certainly some some too correct there. And two plays after that, with seventeen seconds to go, Patrick Mahomes scrambled for five on third down in four and got hit after going out of bounds by Joseph Osi. The fifteen yard penalty set up Harrison Butker's game winning field goal. Now time to take you inside the locker room. We start with Tyler Boyd on the Bengals first scoring drive.

He had two catches for forty yards, but shortly after that, Tyler suffered a fig injury and did not return to the game. For me, it's devastating because I didn't get a chance to just ride out there and stay out there my brothers. Unfortunately, you know, I had an injury late in the second first half, and but I got faith in the guys that we had, you know, Yeah, I came in, did a great job of feeling the void, and we have a lot of confidence in him to go in and do that, you know. But just just

managing the fall short man, it sucks. You know, it's tough, sou At the end of the day, we know how we're built, and we know our legacy, and I'm pretty sure and I know that we'll be back here. You had a sixteen yard catch on third and fourteen, and then immediately after that at twenty four yard catch. Did you feel like the way the Chiefs were playing that there were going to be a lot of opportunities for you today. Absolutely. You know, they played a lot, they

played a lot of too high. So that mean that if they're gonna take out the boundary receiver, whether it's tea or a chase at the time, then us front side, we gotta we gotta produce. And I felt like it was going to be a game for me because I was finding the right voice for jodah uh find me. And man, it just sucks because I couldn't finish and I couldn't stay out there and around my guys. But like I said, man, we got we got so much talent, so much guys. I could come in and feel and

feel the void. Man, But it's just unfortunate. On the one hand, you're one game shorter than last year. On the other hand, you had a ten game winning streak. A lot of positive things obviously happened this year. Did you feel like this was another building block type season? You know, I feel like I still feel like we're the best team in football, you know, but it's hard to say that if we didn't win, you know, and

it was one play away, you know. And then and that's the part where it come in where I feel kind of down, you know, because I didn't get to finish, you know, but I knew I had a serious injury. But at the end of the day, we'll be back. We're we're we're we're built ready for these moments, man, and oh every year we fight the most adversity and we overcome it and we continue to strive. We're gonna keep doing it and next year it's going to be

even better. When the team had the ball with two and a half minutes to go in a tie game, did you figure we're headed to the super Bowl? Absolutely? It wasn't even close. You know, Joe Burrow, the whole world felt that, and I believe that the whole world everybody's watching when we got the ball in two minutes that were going to win. You know, that's just how good we are, how good Joe is as a leader and leading us. But um, we just got one play man.

Just just sucks that we didn't capitalize when we should have. But we know what kind of team we have. We'll be back. The Bengals Booth Podcast just presented by all Ta Fiber future Proof fiber Internet capable of delivering multi gigabit speeds, designed to take your home, business and community to a new level. Elevate your connection with all to Fiber. Joe Burrow through for two hundred and seventy yards with one touchdown and two picks. He was sacked five times

and hit twelve. The old line not only struggled to protect Joe, but couldn't get Joe Mixon going either. He finished with eight carries for nineteen yards. Here's mixing, dude. We thought he was gonna come out with the dub. I mean, our guys got a big, big stop. We had an opportunity and just you know, somebody on their defense made a play and then they had a cused kick return and obviously the end was it was crazy.

But you know, my guys, like I said, they fought they ass off for four quarters and I'm just, you know, so proud of how we battled. We just gotta do whatever we can to, like I said, bounce back anyway possible. And that's pretty much what it is. Do you take some solace or good feeling out of knowing that the Cincinnati Bengals have clearly established themselves as one of the best teams in the NFL. Yeah, know, for sure. I mean our guys. You know them guys. They fought hard

and rightfully. I felt like we earned the right to, you know, hang our hats on. We are the Cincinnati Bengals, and I feel like, you know, that was a great Chiefs team that we lost to, and hopefully, you know, to do whatever they can to win the Super Bowl. I mean, all my hats my hostess tilted off to him. I mean, they deserve it, they earned it, and you know, with my teammates, I just got to try to do whatever I can to keep their spirits alive and um,

you know, try to get over this hunt. Chris Jones is a load. He Uh he was obviously very difficult to handle today. Yeah, for sure he was. I mean he's one of the best detacles in this NFL league. He's a grown ass man, and um he proved that today. Um. But at the same time, I said, our our team, try to do whatever we can to stick together and keep our heads up. Three years into the Joe and Joe era with Joe Mixon and Joe Burrow, two AFC championship trips and a Super Bowl trip, how excited are

you of what stile to come? All hopes was alive for you know, to keep continuing to be a dynasty. And I feel like, you know, with the court, with the guys that we have in this here at locker room, I mean, we're just gonna do whatever we can try to go ahead and keep repeating. That's pretty much about it. On the other side of the ball, it was a heroic performance by Patrick Mahomes. Playing with that high ankle sprain.

He threw for three hundred twenty six yards with two touchdowns, no picks, and a passer rating of one oh five point four. The Bengals were only able to sack him twice. Here's DJ Reader, what can you say about Patrick Mahomes. I mean he looked normal. Yeah, man, hats out there and he's a hell of a player coming what I said, you know, throughout the week, he's gonna be out there and play ball. Get out there, and he did a great job. Man, They all did a great job just

coming out there fighting for a wind. Put this into perspective for us. I know it's hard in the immediate aftermath of coming this close and coming up just a little bit short, But what emotions are going through your mind right now? A lot um just ready trying to comfort the guys make him understand. I don't even know what to give you, to be honest, right now, I can't tell you that emotion. You wouldn't understand unless you played, Unless you've been out there and you've been in those

shoes like you. You don't understand that emotion. You don't understand fighting that hard, blood, sweat and tears all the time, and you know, just just become up short. Somebody's got to do it. You know, it's not just us. There's another team. He felt like us today, and that's what happens, man, there's thirty other teams. You feel like us at home. It's part of this league, and you know you wish you did enough to get it done, and they gotta go back out there and next year you gotta go

do your thing. They only scored twenty three. It's hard to say this after a loss, but did you feel good about how the defense played overall? You know, I felt like we could have tightened up in some situations or they made some places. I don't want to say we gave him anything, but they made some plays, and you know, some places we should have been on we weren't. It happens as a football game man, and they made

a couple more plays than we did. I think they won the turnover margin, right, they want what they do win two one two. Yeah, So we got to do better on defense and get that done. But this is a game, man, It's a hard, funt battle. You know, do you want to come out on the winner side of it? But if you got to watch conference championship, I can't say we didn't get a people a show, you know, just we got to do better. Back to back trips to the FC Championship, it's a heck of

a ride for Bengals fans. We appreciate it. Thank you, Yes, we appreciate y'all. Thank you. The Bengals Booth podcast is brought to you by pay Corps. More than twenty nine thousand customers trust pay Corps to help them recruit, pay, engage, and retain employees. Learn more at paycorps dot com. The Bengals set a team record by winning ten straight games and won playoff games and consecutive seasons for the first

time in franchise history. It was a fantastic season for Zach Taylor's team, and Dave Lapham spent a few minutes with him after the game. I don't know where to begin. All I can say is, you have to be so proud of this football team because you talk about a physically and mentally tough group. They redefined it. Yeah, it's it's a special group. I'm proud to have the opportunity to coach these guys. They fought tooth and nail to

the very last second. We lost for a great football team today, and you know, it's just it's unfortunate this season came to an end. But it's been a special run. It's been a great run, and I appreciate all these guys have been a part of it. Can you tell us what you were told about the clock? SNAPf foo or whatever, whatever the heck you want to call it. They obviously weren't on the same page down there in

the field. But you guys suffer, you know, I mean, they take a play away that's never gonna appear anywhere in NFL history, and you know, replay it down. Well, what did they tell you something about we wanted the seven seconds back, so they're replaying it down so we don't lose the seven seconds. It was a little bit confusing, but it's we had play it down again, and that's just the way it goes. But again, you guys, all right, well one, two, three, we'll do it again. Make him

punt it again. I mean you overcame that as well. I mean that that was a an unsettling situation, and you got everybody handles all that stuff so well. I mean it, how do you get your team to be so poised and methodical about everything when a hurdles on your way, they don't blink, you know, and they just they knock it down and they move on to the next one. And just unfortunately we weren't able to finish

it off the right way today, Patrick Gohomes. I mean, they had forty two yards and twenty carries and they said, okay, Patrick, you're gonna do it. And the guy with the with the messed up ankle and everything else goes out there and throws for over three hundred yards and you know, plays the way he plays. I mean, his legend grows, doesn't it. He's a great player. You know, we got a lot of respect for him and the rest of

their team. And again they just made one more play than we did today, and they get to hear the Super Bowl and we gotta wrap it up, Coach. I just want to say that this football team was so much fun to watch. I mean, gave this city a lot of thrills. The pride I think that the city and the community and the region feels for this football team is obvious to everybody, and you're obviously the biggest part of that. So there's a lot to be thankful for and a lot to be proud about. And these

guys later all on the line for you. We take great pride representing the Cincinnati fan base and love being there, love representing our fans, love interacting with our fans. Sorry, we couldn't get it done, but we're gonna fly to get that done in the future. Now, time for some postgame analysis in the radio, guys, recap after such a strange finality. After that, you've got so much anticipation about the possibility of a return trip to the super Bowl and wham it's over. What did you think was the

bottom line in this game? I thought it was protection pressure issues with the over writing thing. I mean, they're good. They get fifty five sacks during the course of the season led the AFC, and you know they only give a twenty six. They're a plus twenty nine best in

the NFL. And it continued. You know, they got more sacks and pressure than than the Bengals could muster and affected Joe Burrow a little bit more than they were able to affect Patrick Mahomes, and I think, you know, two great players got a tippy captain Patrick Mahomes though doing what he did is is almost ridiculous without any

running game to support him. You know, twenty carries forty two yards and then he goes off for over three hundred and two touchdowns, no turnovers, running around doing things that he did, and then to close the game out, his most incredible run of the day was down the stretch. And then I feel badly for Joseph Pike because he played a good game, and that one's gonna be a tough one to get over. That'll be hard to sleep

tonight because he's so smart. He's such a great, you know, very intelligent player, very aware player, but lost the awareness warriors in the field. And but you know the thing is that people have to remember that obviously that was a big mistake. And you win these kind of games by making plays and avoiding big mistakes and Homes made a play and he made a big mistake. So that was the that was the storyline of that conclusion of the football game. But there were so many other plays

that during the course of the game. You can point to a million things. If any one of them in a different way, wouldn't have been in that situation that he was in. So that's that's the game of football. That's life in the game of football. And like you said, man would it ends. It's like it's like somebody ripped your heart out. There were uncharacteristic mistakes too, that this team didn't make during the ten game winning streaks certainly, and not much during the season. They give up a

long punt return that sets up that final drive. That's something Cincinnati almost never does. One of the least penalized teams in the NFL, as you mentioned, which as if as I makes a mistake in the final minute of the game. Those are the types of things they simply did not do, and then when they couldn't do it, unfortunately made those mistakes right. And it just it shows you that, you know, I mean, the quality of the

opponent I think has something to do with that. You end up maybe trying to do a little bit more. You get outside of yourself a little bit, you know, maybe maybe trying to do too much, and things kind of unravel on you a little bit. But um, the thing, the thing that kept showing up all year long and in this football game was the mental, mental, and physical toughness. You know, it's like, all right, well, we didn't get off to a good start. We've been getting off to

a good start here lately. We didn't today. Let's not panic, you know, let's not throw Let's not throw game plans out of the coach's box and having litter in the field. You know, let's stay with what we're what we're thinking, but make adjustments. And they always make good adjustments and get themselves back on track. And this football team is so mentally and physically to and they believe in their coaches. The coaches believe in them, and they will themselves into

you know, staying in football games. They really do. It's it's a very very special group that way. That's that's really unique. They just nobody gives up on each other, nobody. And it was a very special thing to watch build and grow and become you know, kind of like take on a life of itself in that regard, you know, that was that was the best part of the year in my opinion right there. What ifs are meaningless in sports.

But you can't help but wonder if they had the five offensive linement they had for fifteen games, if the postseason would have gone differently. I mean, it couldn't have gone any better against Buffalo, but certainly in the game against Kansas City. Yeah, you know, it's uh, you do you can. You can drive yourself crazy with what if on a bunch of plays, what if on personnel, what if on on all kinds of things. Um, but you know, even with all that said, it was it was a

coin flip football game. You know, that's what everybody thought going in. The oddsmakers thought it was going to be a dog fight, and it was. I mean, it was. It lived up to his billing. It was exactly what everybody thought it would be. So here for a little a little issue here, a little mistake there, it could be a totally different to us scenario and be starting to prepare for the Philadelphia goes. That's the thing I

felt really badly about. You know, in the post game, I said, you know, I have to ask you this, and I know it's still raw, but now tomorrow you have to all your exit interviews and all that. And they're like, we were planning on game planning for Philadelphia, and you know, we'll think about that tonight. Well it's already early in the morning, so I guess they have those exit interviews tomorrow with the players. And that's always a tough dynamic, particularly after you know, get your heart

ripped out like this game. But I was fully just my mind was going to overtime, know, gosh, I hope they win the coin town and they win the coin toss. You know, I was thinking about all that stuff, and I'll be a son of a gun if oh no, Joseph, Oh no, too bad. I guess one positive out of this season as a whole is that after the Super Bowl last year, there was still the impression for some people at least that there was a bit of a

flukish fast back to last year's Super Bowl run. They kind of came out of nowhere, you know, won these games on last second field goals. Nobody feels that way about the Bengals anymore. They have clearly established that with Joe Burr at quarterback, Zach Taylor at head coach and the players that they have on that roster, this is, without question, one of the best teams in the NFL.

I agree with that, Dan, I mean, I think you know, last year you can say, you know, shoot, there were seven and six, you know, around Thanksgiving and had just gotten handled a couple of times to go to seven and six. You know, there were seven and four and thought, oh, I mean, and now they're seven and six and not doing real well at seven and six, and then they, you know, turn it on again. That just tells you that this football team took the lessons learned from the

prior year and applied them and expanded itself. It's a much better football team than last year's football team. So guys are a year older, guys have banked all those experiences, you know, they're so young, and still they're growing and quickly, and it'll be interesting to see, you know, tweak here, tweak here. Their personnel wise, it's never the same. This football team is not the same as last year's football team personnel wise, and next year's football team won't be either.

But the core, the core is the same, and the core is pretty damn good and I think the whole NFL knows now that this team belonged in the final four. This team was within a whisker going to the Super Bowl, being one of the final two. And I do think that. I don't think anybody's like that was a shot, you know, one hit wonder not anymore. I think they realize just a real deal there, legit. I was looking forward to doing another Super Bowl Now. I can't wait for training camp. Really.

I mean it's I felt so bad walking around the locker room looking at the face. I mean, I can identify with it. I just I never ever felt as bad professionally as I did after that Super Bowl that I played in that we lost. I mean, oh my gosh, man, the pit in your stomach. I mean, you know, losing family members, friends, close friends, all that is. It's a different kind of, you know, low feeling. But man, professionally, nothing's even close to losing that Super Bowl, not even close.

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anybody in your life call you Deantre? Maybe teachers when I was in high school, but anybody else, It's just been ture. So Trey, it sounds like you're from a big family. How many brothers and sisters do you have? And where do you fall on the totem pole? Three brothers, two sisters, and I'm the last one. I'm the last boy. Now, based on what I've read, your older brothers were instrumental in helping you ultimately get to the NFL. How did they motivate and push you? M just about the things

they did to help that they gave me. Just coming out of high school, I enter into college and just seeing both the day life stores each and every day just pushed me and motivated me to finish the deal to get to the NFL. You're six four three thirty five, but there's footage of you on the internet as a peewee football player where you were running back. It's hysterical. You look like a grown man with ten year old kids. Did the parents from the other teams complain every week?

It was a complaint. You need Jacobs Burson tificate all that, so I got all that. You're from Warner Robbins, Georgia, south of Macon. There's a big Air Force base there. Describe your hometown and some of the things you like to do when you were growing up. Oh, actually, I'm not from there. I just went to school there from ten to twelfth grade. But I'm from making Counter, small town, probably a Mexo five to ten thousand people, So I'll stay in the country. Dirt rolls, things of that nature,

so it's pretty nice out there. There's really not a lot to do. But as I'll go up, are you an outdoorsman? Do you like hunting and fishing and things like that. I love fish for bass, bram crappy, all of that. I have never been deep sea fishing though. That's one thing I'm looking to ax off my list this offseason. You were a high school All American and one of the top offensive line recruits in the country. Did you enjoy the attention from college football coaches or

was it stressful? It wasn't stressful. I just knew at the end of the day it was all business. And you know, as you want you recruit things of that nature, they're gonna love all you and do anything to get you and want you. There's basically like, I mean, you're part of the team now, so they don't really have to do all the hugging, kissing up to you, none of that at that point. Just you're trying to play ball and to get to where I'm at today. So during the recruiting process, I mean I took it in.

I took the love all of that in, but at the end of the day, I knew it was all business. I like to save stuff. Have your parents saved all the mail that you received that they're big boxes of stuff from every college football program in the country. Yeah, I got all the boxes. All everything is at my mom's house with the boxes, the jerseys, the everything. So we're visiting the tray hill. So when it came time to pick your school, you did it in a video.

You can still see this on YouTube. There's dramatic music playing, You're lifting weights, you're dripping sweat, you're breathing heavily, and then at the end you simply say, go dogs. Give me the backstory, who came up with the concept and how did you make the video? There comes to obviously from my trainer to god, I still training with Brent Allen. It's basically reper cuff, working hard every day and just

you know the grind that we do every day. You know, not no nothing, no crazy video or not like that, just the thing that we do every day to accomplish that goal. So that's what the video is about. If you search Tray Hill on Google, there are a million things that come back about choosing Georgia that my step been a huge deal where you're from. Yeah, it was huge, dude, because of my hometown, home state. Obviously, I wouldn't stay home.

I wouldn't stay close to my parents. So I'm traveling and not a problem for me, but at that time, I just felt the need to stay home. You enrolled early at Georgia January of what would have been your senior year of high school. See you mess out on some high school activities when you do that? Was that difficult? Oh not at all. I was a later back person. I didn't go to prom, so it was the perfect

opportunity for me to get in college. Really, but my whole plan was coming out of high school due three, can get out of three. So I did that, and I'm thankful for that. You did that and earned your degree in three years. How hard did you work academically to pull that off? I worked very hard. A great thing about it the college class courses that took my last semester of high school, which was my first semester of my twelfth grade year, they counted when I got

to college, so that was a blessing for me. I just wrote it on up basically telling them, I'm like, I don't wan't know. If it ain't got nothing to do my major, I didn't want to be in there. So that's how I got through that. It's quite an accomplishment. We're visiting the Trey Hill. On April twenty seventh, twenty seventeen, you tweeted something that still pinned at the top of your Twitter account. Here's the quote, four more years from today, I'm changing my family's lives and that's on me. You

only missed by two days. April twenty ninth, twenty twenty one, you were drafted by the Bengals in the sixth round. Describe your draft experience and making that dream come true. Oh listen, man, just to hear your name call an NFL draft, you know, it's a dream come true something I've been one as a little kid, and I got it. But obviously the work still not done and I'm still striving for more each and every day. So how did you watch the draft and where were you when you

got the call? I was at home with my parents, my people, everybody came out. Yeah, I was with them having a good time. Who was basically just waiting for the call and we got it and everything, I mean, everything been a blessing every since. So last year as a rookie, you started three games. You played in all four postseason games, including the super Bowl. That's a pretty impressive rookie year. Describe who was at the super Bowl and what it was like for you to come charging

out of that tunnel at Sofi Stadium. It was surreal. Mom and Dad was there. Who was just surreal because just highest level and they don't get no buriered in this. So just coming out to tunnel and experienced that feeling, the atmosphere and all the fans being there, there was a blessing to be out there and looking forward to get back there this year. So you're alma mater has won the last two college football national championships. Those are still your guys. A lot of your former teammates helped

the Bulldogs win those two titles. Have you made it back to a game, and what's it been like for you the last few years to be a and at the former Boltogen It's been nice to just sit back and look at them play because I never got to see that side of it when I was there, so to just you know, sit back, look at what those guys doing. And you know, some of those guys call them from time to time and you know ask me questions like what can they implement in their game or

how can they get better at this and that? And obviously I tell them because those my guys, and hopefully they'll get to this level. All right. A few wild card topics now for Bengals offensive lineman Trey Hill. Who

is your all time favorite athlete in any sport? And why I don't really think I have a all time it's afterte I was more of a guy just looking at everybody and getting nick knacked things from this person and that person, and you know, just trying to implement into my game football wise, But when I look at like other sports, I mean, yeah, I'm a fan of the sport, but I don't think I just got a favorite player. What's the toughest part about being your size

in normal old life? I would say flights if I sit in the regular seats, because that can be a little uncomfortable. But if I sit in first class, obviously that's a good flight for me. But yeah, that's uncomfortable to sit in the regular flight seat for sure. Do you have any hidden talents? Hitting talents? So I don't know if they're hitting. But I played basketball, baseball, and I did track, shot put disc but I don't think that's a hidden talent. There's a basketball hoop in the

Bengals facility. Do you hoop it out put teammates? Yeah, all the time. Last year I used to shoot around a lot with Deontay Smith and Isaiah and Quentinn Spain. That was our weekly routine, so we did that every week before the game. What do you like to spend your money on. I've been getting into properties lately, so that's been a good thing for many stocks. But other than you know, spending money to make money, I'll probably say shoes. Well, if you're purchasing properties, it sounds like

you have an eye on your post football career. Definitely, like I gotta you gotta have longevity in this career area. You know, I'm not the type that's trying to get down with football. And if to jump straight into a job, if anything, I want to you know, we jump straight into being my own boss, doing my own stuff. So that's what I'm looking forward to. And it's, you know, in the future with my money, putting that George education to you. So I like it. Final fun fact, this

one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, entertainer, statesman, whoever it might be, who would that be, Oh, I'll probably say Albert Einstein, just to pick his brain, get his knowledge about everything you thought about, because that was one person that really thunk outside of the box. So you have to get his knowledge, pick his brain. That'll be a good than to do. I like that, Trey Hill,

hanging out with Albert Einstein. That's an excellent answer. I appreciate your time, Thank you so much, best of luck. Just appreciate that's going to do it for this episode of the Bengals Booth Podcast, presented by Paycor, the official HR software provider of the Bengals, by Alta Fiber future Proof Fiber Internet elevate your connection with Alta Fiber, by Kettering Health, the official healthcare provider of the Bengals, and by Bengals Picks and Ultimate Bengals. They're free to play

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