Bengals Booth Podcast: Another One Bites The Dust

analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll get to know a Bengals team leader who definitely has the Mamba mentality, Safety Bond Bell. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals. The Freedom Play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now from the App Store and Google Play. And here's a reminder that you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing

wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since cold Pizza. I recently had a mid morning slice of cold pizza for the first time in ages. The crust was stiff as a board, the cheese was congealed, and yet it was inexplicably delicious. It's good to know that my college age hungover taste buds many years ago were not wrong. Now let's get to Sunday's lion taming. Heading into the game, the Bengals were one of only five teams that hadn't scored on their opening drive all year.

After an eight play sixty one yard drive, you can scratch Cincinnati off that list. Burrow with a play clock in one, extends the hands, catches the snap, no flag floats Akata sideline ever make baby match with his arms fully extended. Touchdown Bengals one. A catch by rookie Chris Evans a twenty four yard touchdown pass. There are very few running backs in the National Football League with hands

like that. With samaj ap Ride on the COVID list, Chris Evans got the most snaps of his NFL career and finished with fifty seven combined rushing and receiving yards. Here's Joe Burrow on the rookie running back. He's just getting better and better every single week. You know, you see what he can do. In the past game, he got one on one and you know, really really ran a great route and scored a touchdown for us. But after the fast start, the Bengals offense went bone dry,

empty backfield, five wides. Third down in twenty Burrow drops back to throw the Lions rush three cover with eight damn the passes intercepted. The Lions have it at the thirty, running down to the twenty five and the tackle has made At the twenty three. It was deflected and Amani o'er Warrior comes up with his third interception of the year and returns at sixteen yards. There's a penalty flag in the secondary. The penalty was after the interception, so

the Lions had the ball in Bengals territory. Two plays later, Cincinnati took it back. Golf drops back to three fastball over the metal caught at the twenty five yard line, but the Bengals take the ball away. Logan Wilson has it top out that are they blowing it dead early on the field has been changed to an interception. It's first intense for Cincinnati at the twenty three yard line.

That gives linebacker Logan Wilson four interceptions this year. That second in the NFL behind the Cowboys Trey Von Diggs, who picked off his sixth pass on Sunday. Here's Chitabey a wooge on Logan Wilson. We marveled at him. You know, I don't know what he's doing, just be in my position and that ball sticking to his gloves and all that kind of stuff. And credits to Vam on that play as Will forgetting the ball out. But yeah, it's

great to have Logan making those type of plays. We need them, and it's been changing the game every time the score remains seven nothing while Cincinnati's offense spot after Burrow's interception, the Bengals had three straight three and outs and with less than thirty seconds to go in the half, they face third and long, third down and ten. The Bengals at their own forty one deep safety now for Detroit,

nine defenders up on the line. Burrow back to pass, throws a deep down field four Chase Ye Jamarrow makes the catch inside the thirty and goes out of bounds at the twenty six yard line of Detroit. He beat Jerry Jacobs for a thirty four yard game, and that means Jamar Chase has had a catch of at least thirty four yards in every game he's played in in the National Football League. And Dan the throws unbelievable. Running

the sideline has covered two. You got a safety coming over the top, a corner underneath safety over the top. You have to keep it as close as you can to the sidelines so the safety can't get there. Joe Burrow dropped it perfectly. That long pass allowed Evan McPherson to kick a thirty eight yard field goal on the final play of the half to give Cincinnati Attend nothing lead. Here are Chase and Burrow on Jamar's latest big play just before halftime, with this footnote, heasy stands for hesitation.

I just gave the defender m hesy stepped at the top of my route. Um, they'll cause him to slow down, and it didn't. After that, I just sped up and ended up being wide open. The safety was looking back in the backfield at Joe. He went't too worried about what I was doing. And you gotta downfill. Jamar just keeps being that spark for us, you know, they he keeps finding his opportunities when he gets one on one

to win win down the field. And you know, when we have a guy like that, it's and when we have the connection that we have, you know, you can't can't fall asleep on defense when you have that guy. Since the Bengals won their eleventh consecutive coin toss to begin the day, the odds of that are one. In two thousand and forty eight. They got the ball to begin the third quarter and scored again thanks to a brit call on fourth and less than a yard. Detroit

has several defensive live and right over the ball. The receiver goes in jet motion BA right over. He throws it's caught Mixon streaking down the sideline to the twenty. Chase span runs it into the end zone. What a call, What a block? Touchdown Cincinnati. That forty yard touchdown made it seventeen nothing. And after the game, everybody was talking about the downfield block by Jamar Chase, including the guy that scored the touchdown, Joe Mixon. That's what a Bengal is.

A physical, hungry, accountable teammate that's gonna get to do whatever it gets a job done. And I thought, you know, he came down, man made a hell of a block. I mean it was crazy. Um, I got the ball, made a made a run. I seen Jamar try to set up his blood and he came down running and he just threw him down. I was like, oh yeah, but I mean that's what that's what makes him a great player. I mean, you know, here Ricky and things like that, he don't play like it. I mean, that's

like a Jerry Rice play. It was like an all around performance for him on the perimeter, catching the ball and blocking up. Like I said, I thought he did a great case finished with four catches for ninety seven yards, and Mixon finished with eighteen carries for ninety four. Joe added five catches for fifty nine more yards to wind up with one hundred and fifty three yards of total offense. So what did Joe think of his performance? I think it was average. It could have been it could have

been a lot better. But to be honest, man, we got the dub. I thought the offensive line did a hell of a job. Then boys on a perimeter do a hell of a job out there, and I was just capitalizing on my opportunities, but left a lot of yards out there, and uh, you know, going forward has got to figure out way to make those plays. But I like the way we had it right now. Nevin McPherson field goal made it twenty nothing going to the fourth quarter and the Bengals quickly put the game away.

Third down and goal from the three. Burrow under center fakes to mix and looking back to the left, throws into the end zones, caught for the touchdown out C j U Summer started on the right side of the line, snuck out to the left hand, hauled in Joe burrows third touchdown pass of the game. I'll tell you to keep block Joe Mixon these running backs. It was a

play action passed the fake to Joe Mixon. He chopped down the edge rusher chopped into the ground, gave Joe Burrow time an opportunity to find Cgozamba on that crossing route. Outstanding blocking going on by all of these running backs protecting their quarterback big time. Burrow passed for two hundred and seventy one yards and had a passer rating of one fifteen point seven. He's thrown at least two touchdown

passes in every game this year. In the sky's the linen for you know, linen, some of those things that happened in the first half. You know, plaly score fifty points today, but you know it's the SNFL. I'm never gonna be upset about a thirty four point game and you're winning by as much as we did. But you know, we do have to get some things corrected, and when

we do that scared. The Lions finally got on the scoreboard midway through the fourth quarter on a field goal by Austin Seibert, but even with Brandon Allen at a quarterback, the Bengals offense kept rolling. Allen takes the snap run to the right, No, he faked, he's looking at throw. His pass caught and Audun tap takes it into the end zone. Touchdown. Bengals Allen with his first touchdown pass of the year, and Audun Tate calls it in that put the Bengals over thirty points for the first time

this season. The Lions scored a touchdown and added a two point conversion with about two minutes to go to put a little lipstick on Miss Piggy, making the final score thirty four eleven. It was the bengals seventh straight win over Detroit dating back to nineteen ninety eight, and it dropped this year's Lions two oz and six since Jacksonville one on Sunday. The Lions are the only team

in the NFL without a win. By the way, Jacksonville's win over Miami was in London, so I think it's safe to say that urban Meyer went home on the team plane. The Bengals improved to four and two, and after the game, Laps spent four minutes with Zach Taylor a winning coach. Yeah, it's good, you know, I like

the way our team finished it out. I know they scored there at the end, those eleven points, but really our defense came out ready to play to start the whole game, and our offense finally caught a rhythm there going into halftime and was able to score in every possession after that. You know what I like as a form alignment, When I see Jamar Chase in front of Joe Mixon making a big block. When I see Joe Mixon after a run fake cutting down the edge rush

or making a big block. When I see Evans picking up strong blitz pick up giving Joe Burrow an opportunity to make a big throw down the football field, I'm saying, man, everybody's doing the little things you got to do right. Our players are selfless, you know, they care about others more they care about themselves and that's the sign of a team that's head in the right direction. Really proud of our guys and all three phases today and it was a complete team effort and it was good to see.

So you score over thirty points. Joe Mixon eighteen this is unofficial eighteen carries ninety four yards, Joe Burrow almost three hundred yards, passing two seventy one three touchdowns, interception, Chase four catches for ninety seven yards. I'll tell you man, Burrow and Chase, it's magic. I mean the throw he made before the safety could get there, took it to the sideline as far as you could because you knew the safety was coming over the top, put it in

a porthole out there. You saw a lot better than I did. You know it was on the other sideline. So I'm still not quite sure what unfolded there. But those two have great chemistry. They know where they're going to be, and Jamar's continue to make plays when numbers called. So is Jamar? What's Jamar like? You know, during the course of the game on a sideline, does he come off the field and say, I got this dude? Man? I mean, I can do anything I want to what's

the feedback like with him Oliver. Receivers are pretty calm, you know, and they give the information to Troy or myself, and so we always feel like we know what the receivers are seeing and doing and saying with Burrow and it's just really good communication all the way around. In the second half, I think for the second time, you scored on just about every drive, you know, And when you're doing that, I'll tell you what that's You guys

are a handful and it's hard to handle at that point. Yeah, we just, you know, kind of shot ourselves in the foot there in the first half with some silly penalties and mistakes like that, and so we need to hit a rhythm sooner faster. But again, proud of the way that our guys came out the second half and executed. What about your defensive football team pitching a shot? I mean at one point, I know, I think it was

like two hundred and ten yards to like fifty. I mean, it was just they were they were suffocating the Detroit Lions. They couldn't get anything done, They had no points in the boarding, like you said, scored eleven late. But how about that defensive performance. How inspirational is that they've always had confidence in themselves, but I can see it growing from week to week. You know, now they're expectations coming. We're not gonna allow any points, We're not gonna give

up any big players. We're going to create more turn rivers than we have been and so that that's really good to see. We've got great leadership on that side of the ball and really good chemistry. So at what point did you feel like this is going to be a special day? I mean, was there any point during the course of the game in the sideline when you

thought might that this might be something extraordinary? Well, we felt like when it was seventeen nothing, we had them on the mat and we need to finish them off, you know, And that's that's kind of the killer instinct we're trying to develop at this team. And our defense went out there, got to stop. Our offense went out there and kicked to field goal. We would have liked to touch down there. I think we had a drop

on that series. But that's the next step for us, is getting pains down and then just just finishing them off. The finishing blow there in the second half. How rewarding is it a play caller. When Joe Mixon is so wide open for his touchdown, Evans makes an unbelievable catch, you know, the back half of the football for his touchdown. How rewarding is it when you dial it up and the players executed it the way they did, it feels good, you know. That's that's where all the work comes in.

And so again, our players understand what we're asking them to do. They're doing it with great detail and precision, and big players are going to come from that. Well. Four and two now thirty four eleven victory done with the NFC North, even Stephen two wins, two losses could have been in. We're not going to go backwards though, as you look forward to the Baltimore Ravens. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the Baltimore Ravens Right now? We got to be strong

in our division and this is our second opportunity. We want to know this is a big road test again for us, and our guys will be ready, but this is a big game for us. There's no question. First place Ravens are five and one after humbling the Chargers thirty four to six on Sunday, The second place Bengals are one game behind Baltimore and one game ahead of Cleveland after the Browns got crushed at home by the

undefeated Cardinals thirty seven fourteen. Baker Mayfield dislocated his left shoulder in that game, but expects to be able to play with the injury. Now time for some postgame analysis with Dave Lapham. I'll be honest, I thought the Bengals were going to win, but I didn't expect it to be as dominant as it turned out. How about you?

I agree with you, Dan. I mean, within thirty yards of a three hundred yard passer, you know, less than ten yards, within what six yards or whatever it was of one hundred yard rusher, in the same one hundred yard receiver, you have three hundred, one hundred, one hundred. That's a big it's a big offensive performance. And defensively they suffocated them. You know, they really when the game was on the line, when the game meant something, they just they didn't give an inch. It was. It was

an impressive performance all the way around. There was complimentary football played, you know, between phases of the thing and within the phase, you know, running game, supporting passing game, and the thing I liked in reflection talking to some of the guys in the locker room, Jamar Chase making the block for Joe Mixon's touchdown, Joe Mixon after the play action fake making the block, allowing a touchdown pass to occur. Evans Blitz pick up allowing Joe Joe Burrow

to throw a touchdown pass. So the detail of things that needed to be done were done at a very high level, and there was complimentary football played there too. That's good stuff. I thought the game really swung on one play less than a minute ago. Second quarter, Bengals up seven nothing. They had had three straight three and outs, three straight punts. It's third and ten. Looks like they're gonna punt again. Joe Burrow drops a perfect pass to Jamar Chase for a thirty four yard game, moving it

from the Bengals forty to the Lions twenty six. That leads to a field goal that makes it ten nothing. That gives the Bengals momentum, and they come out in the second half and score three touchdowns in a field goal in their first four drives. It's crazy. I mean, they score another three points in the final two minutes, of the first half. They've scored thirty one points now in the final two minutes of the first six football games. Nuts, then they come right out and score, you know, to

start the third quarter, which they've done. That's that's such a huge energy emotion, you know, everything you can think of, such a huge boost in the throw extraordinary. I mean, it's a porthole. It's not a window, it's a porthole down there. It's like you got to go over the corner and before the safety can get there, get it

close as close to the sideline as you can. Chase ran a route that was along those lines and exactly where we were supposed to run it, and Joe put the ball such an unbelievable place, I mean it was. That's one of those where you say, man, these guys are good, These NFL players, these guys are good, no question. Unbelievable catch by Chris Evans for the bengals first touchdown. I'm saying you can't count on both hands the number of running backs that can make a catch like that,

Maybe one, not both. Do you think the Bengals need to find ways to get him more involved on offense? Yeah, I mean, you look at him and you see, you know, a potential Giovanni Bernard, you know where. And the thing that I was impressed with his blitz pickup was good, not just the one on the Joe Borrow touchdown. There were other instances of blitz pickup where he was, you know, unashamedly, but he his nose right in the middle of somebody

and that was good to see. So I think, um, you know, the only thing you can do as a player is have some patience, wait for your opportunity. Know you're prepared as well as you possibly can for your opportunity, and capitalize on your opportunity. So therefore you can get more opportunity. And that's kind of the process he's going through as a young rookie, and he's earning it. He's earning his chance, he's earning his snaps. I don't have

team stats in front of me. I'm pretty sure it's less than fifty rushing yards in the game for the Detroit Lions. Awesome job and run defense. Of course, late in the game when I got lopsided, they stopped running. But in any case, it's been excellent by and large for the most part this year, and it was the best it's been all year. Today. Yeah, nothing leaked out, you know, that was that was the thing everybody was.

You know, we talked about in the in the pregame that these guys like to cut, you know, cut block, and uh, that's that's their head coach Dan Campbell is that type of player, you know, he's a it's not dirty, it's just it's physical, it's aggressive, and guys stayed on their feet, stayed in their gaps, didn't give them much opportunity to run the football. And yeah, defensively I thought, you know they were, they were extraordinary in the NFL.

I don't care how bad the offense is struggling. You know, it's like they pitched the shutout for almost three quarters you know, of the football game. Or maybe it wasn't to the fourth quarter. I think it was three plus quarters. They pitched a shut out. When you do something like that, you've done a lot of things right. They beat a winless team. People are going to poop poo the victory, but the dominance is what stands out to me. Like we said at the very beginning, we both thought they

would win. But when you dominate like that, it makes you think, Okay, this team might be able to sustain this and stay in the playoff hunt. The good thing is it was the first time for them this year where they found themselves up seventeen and at that point, what do you do. Do you let a team back in the game or do you finish it? And they

finished it. That's a good sign, he said. Maybe not the best team by far that they're going to play, but when you when you're up, you have a team down, like Forrest, Greg used to say, finish him, you know, don't reposition yourself and let them get a breath and get back in the football game. So I thought that was a positive sign as well. Bring out the Ravens man. I hope that that run defense is I hope we play the best gap control, responsibility running game defense we've

ever played. Because when I mean, they're they're so unusual with they're eleven on eleven, having a quarterback like that that can run it. I mean, I look at him, Dan as you know, at least a top twenty running back in the league, you know, I mean, dude, he's he's always statistically he's in the top twenty rushing even though he's a quarterback. He's legit. From a talent standpoint, he's legit top twenty, maybe even a little higher in terms of a running back can make guys miss and

everybody's like, oh, he's going to get hurt. That dude, he's not going to get hurt. Doesn't give anybody a flush shot on him. He is unbelievable. Yeah, that that's a good football team. If you combined his passing yards in the rushing yards going into the weekend, he had more yards by himself than eighteen NFL teams. It's extraordinary. I mean, that's that's ridiculous. You have to look at it from the Bengals perspective. They're one and on the division.

You know, they beat Pittsburgh on the road. If you can go into Baltimore and beat them on the road, be two and on the division. They're two road games to boot Man and sitting five and two overall. Then you start to think we might have something here. It's nice to be in the hunt, isn't it? It is it is. Let's just let's keep enough AMMO to get through the hunt. You know, let's keep having enough we

can reload and just keep shooting. Man mar Jackson has started five games against the Bengals, and the Ravens have won all five. The first two were close. The combined score in the last three meetings is eighty four to nineteen. The Bengals are an early six and a half point underdog. Next week, the Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals,

the free to play fantasy football game. Ultimate Bengals will be awarding 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 stores now. Now time for this week's fun Facts segment, where you get to know the person under the pads. Time for some fun facts with Bengal safety Von Bell. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, before playing high school football just

across the state line in Rossville, Georgia. Describe where you grew up. Was it a city environment, was it a country environment? And what was young Von Bell into as a kid. Oh, you know, it's a very small city like owing it. But the key you know, I was just very competitive, just being around my older brother and just being around sports all my life. And we're just going out to hemphone just being a kid when it comes to sports, was football always your number one love?

It was basketball? And I was multi sported, you know, play tennis, I was on the swim team, all types of sports, so I was were around it tennis and swimming. Oh yeah, a little soccer there too, So yeah, I'm pretty skilled. Do you ever pick up a tennis racket anymore? Yeah? I still watch it, you know, like the openings and all that, so I keep up with that. So I think out there and do a little bit. We're doing

fun faction with von Bell. You were famously an early riser, waking up at four working out at five while most of us are sound asleep. When and why did you start doing that? Um? It really just came from my family. Really. It was always an early rising family, getting our chores done early, and really just getting our work done earlier really too. So it's ingrained in me. And I just

took that over the ball. And I'm always thinking, early worm gets the worm, early bird gets to worm, so and that's my mentality always, So I'm always on the first one up getting it. And I just feel like I'm making dreams others are dreaming so and it's um as going my mentality, So so I think about I'm making dreams while others are dreaming. That's tremendous. Do you ever sleep in and if so, how late are we talking? Joey,

you know, the head Strip coach. He tried to get me to sleeping on Saturdays and only sleeping in my setn clock and so that's my sleeping day. So he said, maybe some rest recovery. I said, I get that. We still gotta make some more. We gotta make some more jackiep on pushing, and so that's my sleeping day. We're chatting a von Bell. You know, you're a highly touted recruit. When the announcement is carried on live TV, you could

have gone anywhere. Was it stressful or fun? It was both, But you know, seeing different paths with coaches and players across you know, in the National Football League now we all had the same story just seeing each other on recruiting visits and everything and getting me different coaches, families and what they're beliefs in that background. So it was kind of stressful at times. It was a little bit overwhelming, but I had fun at all end and I want to change for the world. But it was it was.

It was a good time. You chose to head north and play for Ohio State, part of a twenty fourteen national championship team. What did you enjoy most about your three years of the Buckeyes. M my, my recruiting class. We did what we said we're gonna do to bring a championship back to Columbus, Ohio and really did that.

Made a brotherhood and relationships that will last forever. And now winning that championship and being bound for sure, that was the biggest thing because it was hot and rolling for years to come and all the nay says say we couldn't do it, and we did and that would resonate with me and stick with me forever. Do you have a favorite Ohio State football tradition? Oh, it's me.

It's man in the school session when we wake up early morning, we got chugged water down steps with the strung staff, the championship walk in the morning with coach Mayer what we did and uh, you know, and the fridays we eat at the Jack Nicholas, that Jack Nicholas golf course and really just um, really fellowship with your brothers and really just talk and we have a special speaker every week, and that's what we look forward to for sure. We're talking to vine Bell. You turn pro

after your junior year. The Saints traded up to select you in the second round of the draft. How did you spend the draft and what did that moment mean to you and your family? Um? I spend with my family for shure back in Chattanooga, and the moment everything, you know, surreal moment. It was speechless because everything that you work for as a little kid dreaming and it's

now surreal. And now you go and change the lives and do what you do at a high level and take care of the ones around just loved ones around you. So there was a real moment for me. Blessed and m You have cute journey going New Orleans is one of my favorite places to visit, but I've never lived there. You spent four years in New Orleans. What was it like to be a resident during the football season. Oh,

it's good. You know, the city behind you, the food for sure, and the southern the Southern hospitality, and it's really just being back home for sure. And you know, warm weather always, but the food for sure. It's nothing like I'm with you one hundred percent. But I'm not a professional athlete that you have to be careful about some of those caloric Cajun delicacies. For sure, you gotta be careful, But I know it was all love at

the end of the day. And I was really out in the community, always giving back on Tuesdays, going to schools. I'm just talking just being around the city, and that's what we really feel the love, and that's where you feel the city behind the teams back always. So you signed us a free agent with the Bengals in twenty twenty and gave Cincinnati fans an iconic moment with your fumble forcing hit on Juju Smith Schuster after he did a TikTok dance on the Bengals logo before the game.

That image is on T shirts. It's a popular gift for Jeff. I'm not sure how people pronounce that. Where's that play rank for you among your NFL highlights? It's up def for sure, But it's still more to go. And I always just say the next play is the biggest play, and that's all Hume and Grain. I always look back. I'll look back when I retire, probably, but I still trying to make more memories then, but it's

up dere for sure, but it's more to come. Have you seen that T shirt on somebody or on a you know, a shelf for anything, and they've seen it to bring a grin to your face? For sure? For sure? And people sending it to me, Mom, send it to me. Oh God, tell the stay off that. But for sure and uh, like I said, as many more memories to go. All right, let's do some wild card categories of von Bell. You are an avid reader. What typically do you go

for and do you have a few all time favorite books? Oh? Man, what I typically go for? I like uh, I like like inspirational, my mind stimulation books and I always just sharpened the sword of my mind. And and business books too, always a businessman off the field and growing the empire. So uh and re Endless by Tim s Grover. It's one of the all time favorites. You always talked about the grace and the sport Kobe Jordan d Wade and the guys he worked with, so and the energy bus.

I like that book too. So yeah, have your business ventures started? Have you already begun to work on your post football career? For sure? It's always when we walk outside these halls, you got to come to the business side and the real life sets in and you always gotta always start that early on. Really invest yourself, invest your time, and that's true, your finances, and I really

just stimulate your mind outside of the game. Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport and why I love Kobe That's my favorite all time athlete for sure. Just the mindset. You know, he was still on the worst schedule like I was down, and that's how he was at the Lakers, and always just looking forward to him, always having an ear to what he says, and really just going out there and just trying to have the momentality for sure. Do you have any hidden talents alive?

Sounded everything good at bowling? Is there anything you are absolutely terrible at? I don't know. I'm pretty competitive everything I do. Like I would challenge somebody in chugging and water bottle like I don't know. If I wasn't good, I would find my way to get good at and challenge you again. Yeah, I like that. That's a great mentality. Last thing for von Bell. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesman, whatever it might be. Who

would that person be? I'm not a lot of people mental boma. How was that? It was cool? You know at the one and added I got to know, Oh this is tough. I gotta thank God Jesus. But uh, I don't know. That's a good one. That's a good one. Did you get to meet Kobe? No? I didn't. I will yeah, I would love to meet Kobe. Got to meet Lebron will Smith too, though we're pretty cool. But he talented. Man, I don't know. That's a good question right there. It's pretty deep by now, that's a deep

that I'll say. Covid officiore. This has been great. I appreciate your time. It's great to have you on this team. Best of like the rest of the year. Thank you so much. Finally, here's an invitation to join lapping me on location for the Bengals game Plan Show this Wednesday night from six to eight. We'll be at the Establishment on Wasson Road in Hyde Park with lots of giveaways

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