Bengals Booth Podcast: Haven't Got Time For The Pain

players and coaches, and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lappo. Then, in this week's fun facts segment, chitubay A Wouge tells us the all time worst mispronunciation of his name. It is guaranteed to make you chuckle. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by bud Light Seltzer. Refreshed to game and here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify,

or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing sin Breakfast on the Road with Mike Brown and Dave Lapham. You might have heard me mentioned this before, but when the Bengals play a road game, one of the joys of my job is having an early breakfast on the morning of the game with Bengals president Mike Brown, his close friend Jack Schiff, and my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. It's basically an hour of gut busting laughter as Mike and lap

share stories from the remarkable football lives. This week's topics included NFL games played years ago at Wrigley Field, Paul Brown ripping a young Lap in front of the rest of the team, former Bengals who comically struggled to deal with crowd, noise and laps days as a fourteen year old moving company lugger. Trust me, I wish I could record these breakfasts because it would make a great podcast.

Now let's get to Sunday's game. Chicago Bears fans have been clamoring for the team to yank Andy Dalton and make rookie Justin Fields they're starting quarterback. In fact, the talk all week in Chicago was that Dalton would be loudly booed as soon as he made a mistake. The headline in the Chicago Sun Times on Sunday read as follows, Dalton can't afford a dud on the Bears opening drive Dalton was more stud than dud and he has the ball, he's packed to throw his pass pot for a touchdown

five Allen Robinson. Quite a start for Andy Dalton and the Bears as they marched seventy five yards to score. Well, I'll tell you that was a dart right there. I mean, he put the ball right where he needed to. And the crowd right now in full support of Andy Dalton, how can you not be? Dalton got some help on the opening drive, a thirty two yard pass interference penalty on Eli Apple when it was third and twelve. Here's linebacker Logan Wilson on the bengals lousy start on defense.

They just made some place. You know, I think that's just just the nature of this team. It's you're always going to be faced adversity. And you know, they scored and that's that's not the way we wanted to start. But you know, we rebounded, and I think that that's the most important thing. The Bengals did not allow another offensive touchdown, partly because they knocked Dalton out of the game.

Second and eleven, Dalton back to throw, and he has sacked back at the forty five yard line, a tremendous pass rush by DJ Reader, who DJ won quickly and Andy Dalton gets up limping. Dalton hurt his knee and while it didn't appear to be too severe, he was done for the day with five and a half minutes left in the half. Alas, the red rifle wasn't the only quarterback getting hit. Burrow clapping his hands on third and ten, he catches the shotgun snap under pressure and sacked.

Paris ran a little twist up front and Robert Quinn comes up with his eighty third and a half NFL sacked After getting sacked five times in Week one, Burrow was sacked four times and hit nine times in Shook. You live really good players up front, Hickson, Mack and then Robert Quinn and Nichols because are big guys that they're playing really sound. They got some really good players up front, and you know they're making plays. I gotta give credit to them. It was seven nothing Chicago at

the half. The Bengals got the ball to begin the third quarter, received a gift when Robert Quinn shoved Burrow when he was clearly out of bounds for a fifteen yard penalty and quickly got on the scoreboard on Evan McPherson's second fifty three yard field goal in as many weeks. To snap, the put down the spot, the kick on its way, the distance not a problem, and the kick is good. That made it seven three, And moments later the Bengals defense almost took the ball away from Fields

and he's straight back to throw. The Bengals send five, Fields loses, the football gets on the ground. The Bengals were all to scoop it up. Logan Wilson went for the scoop and s but didn't pick up the ball and Fields falls on it at the thirty two. It's still a seventeen yard loss and the Bears will have to put could have been a defensive score, but you know coaches will say fall on the football. Here's Wilson

on his attempted fumble recovery. At the time when I saw the ball, there wasn't anyone around it, which is usually for us that signifies an opportunity to try to scoop and score. Had there been people around it, that's when you kind of want to dive on it. I wouldn't say it was necessarily like obviously you want to score on defense as much as we can. But at the end of the day, if I was able to just get the ball back to our offense, that'd have

been the most important. And while the Bengals failed to recover the Bears fumble, Chicago did not have the same problem. Burrow back to throw his pass over of the middle, caught at the fifty by two bumbles the football. The Bears come away with it and running it back his Houston Carson. He's to the Cincinnati forty and he gets pulled down Bear. That turnover led to a Chicago field goal, and early in the fourth quarter the Bears were up

ten three. The Bengals quickly drove to midfield and a twenty two yard pass to Tyler Boyd, but ran into trouble when Burrow tried to find Boyd over the middle again, Hopkins fires the snap back Burrow under pressure, he throws intercepted. The Bears have it at midfield, running it back to the forty, now down the sideline to the thirty, the twenty, the ten and into the end zone for the score. Roe Kuan Smith intercepting burrows pass at midfield and running

it in for a defensive touchdown. Just a great read by roe Kuan Smith. That was burrows first interception in five games going back to last year and the first pick six of his NFL career. He made a really good play. Intel. It's he studied that play before and he's seen it, and he pushed really really fast, and he's been a really good play. Rokuan Smith's fifty three yard pick six made it seventeen to three and ended burrows streak of two hundred consecutive passes without an interception.

It also started a very different streak. Burrow fakes to mix and throws it toward the left sideline, intercepted again as the Bears pick it off at the Cincinnati thirty seven Jalen Johnson jumping the route and coming up with another takeaway for the Bears defense. Burrow stomps the right foot, extends the hands, catches the snap, looks to throw his pass batted, intercepted again Holloway Mackerel right into the hands of Angelo Blackson as it was batted out of burrows hands.

Interception number three in a row for Chicago, and he has tackled at the nine yard line. Burrow not only through multiple interceptions for the first time in an NFL game, three passing attempts in a row were picked off. The last one led to a field goal that gave the Bears a twenty to three lead with six forty to go. No, that's just me trying to force the ball, trying to get something going. You want a lessen today that you know, when your defense is playing as good as they are,

you don't have to force those balls. You can kind of just let the game come to you. They're playing really sound. They got some really good players up front, and you know they're making plays. Yeah, gotta give credit to them. At that point, the Bengals appeared to be toast, but Burrow is not about to go down without a fight. Bengals have five receivers spread out. Burrow's gonna fling it high and deep for Chase. He's got to step on

his defender again. Catches at the ten, Two defenders go down, and Chase runs it into the end zone for a forty two yard Bengals touchdown. How about that two games in the NFL too long touchdown catches for Jamar Chase. That's my expectation. I'm playing on scoring every game. I'll play on every time I touched the ball and make a big plane. I'm saying, that's that's my objective. Dest Burrow through thirty passes in the game and only three

were deep balls. It allowed the Bears defensive backs to sit on the shorter routes, and Joe and Jamar agree that throwing deep has to be a bigger part of the Bengals game plan. You gotta throw the ball their head, and you know, at least make them. I feel like you you're gonna be able to do that and call some plays that they go over their head. He needed two last minutes to take shots. You know what I'm saying.

You knew what they was sitting the whole game, and I was telling Joe t knew, So you know what I'm saying, We just got a capitalize on the stuff we see. Early in the game, the long touchdown passed to Chase made it twenty to ten and gave the Bengals a glimmer of hope with four thirty nine to go. One minute later, it was more than a glimmer. He feels back to throw. Here comes a blitz. His pass

intercepted began Wilson running the ten. He gets tackled at the nine, and the Bengals have it first in goal at the nine after an interception by Logan will Said Burrow in the gun mix into his right, Burrow has it, He drops back to throw, he passes it is taught touchdown. Bengals t Higgins right at the goal line, using that big frame to box out a defender, and the Bengals have pulled within four, pending the with three thirty nine

to go. How about that after throwing picks on three straight passes, Burrow through touchdown passes on his next two to make it a three point game with three thirty nine left. If the Bengals could get the ball back, they wouldn't need to drive very far to give mcfierson a chance to force overtime. But Justin Field saved the game for Chicago with his legs escaping a tackle attempt by Trey Hendrickson and running for a ten yard gain on third and nine. The Bears ran out the clock

from there to win the game twenty to seventeen. Here are Zach Taylor and Logan Wilson. It's a seventeen game season. We just lost a tough game on the road. We lost the tourna got killed in the turn of o battle and just the margin frayer in this league is razor thin. You know, I don't think anyone can question the heart on this team. Shoot, we were down twenty to three and we came back and gave us all the chance. Obviously we didn't get a win, but there's

no question we have hard on this team. We just got to clean some things up offense, defense and special teams, and which I know we will. And we got a big challenge next week at Pittsburgh. So we're gonna watch the film in tomorrow. I learned from it and move on. The Bengals held the Bears to a meager two hundred and six yards and just one offensive touchdown. Perhaps Chicago fans should be careful what they wished for. Fields had

a passer rating of twenty seven point seven. Dalton's was one eighteen point two, but the difference in the game was obviously turnovers. The Bengals committed four and forced one. As a result, the record is one and one. Now time for postgame analysis with lap lab. Let's start with pass protection. Four more sacks today, nine quarterback hits. I

know you haven't looked back at tape yet. But it does it feel to you like guys are getting beaten one on one or that they are making mistakes in communication leading to guys having the ability to get to Joe Burrow. Yeah, I mean there were a couple of a couple of twists, a little te stunts that they didn't pick up well enough, but overall, I mean those were an issue. But overall I thought the push was

way too much on a regular basis. I mean, at some point you have to stand and and form the depth of the pocket, and Joe Burrow just didn't have any kind of a pocket that he felt comfortable, you know, manipulating stepping up and moving up into um and you know, it's it's it's not a it's not a good feeling for him. He's just doesn't look comfortable out there. And the vision becomes an issue, the interception you don't see people.

I mean, when the when the push is in the quarterback's face and he doesn't have vision down the field, the vision's obstructed. You know, same thing happened to fields he didn't see Wilson. So the pressure doesn't necessarily always have to be a sack. It might speed up the the read process of a quarterback causing incompletion. It may make him throw the ball where he thinks he's gonna be fine and he's not because he can't see the

field well enough, like on those interceptions. So until the late touchdown pass to Jamar Chase, there's a lot of dinking and dunking going on by the Bengals. It was kind of similar to what we saw and watching the Bears game last week against the Rams, particularly when they go to these empty backfields with five receiving targets, you pretty much know that it's going to be a short throw to the first person that Joe thinks is open.

And Jamar Chase was kind of critical of it after the game, saying that the Bengals should have tried for some more deep shots earlier in the game. Is that just a matter of the coaching staff fearing that if they have Joe try to throw deep, they're exposing him to more hits. Yeah, I think that's probably part of it, you know, And I think that you know, they saw that,

you know. On the reverse part of it, Andy Dalton was fairly effective with that type of an offensive mindset against the Rams, who have a good pass rush, and he took care of the football pretty well and dingked and dunked. No big plays down the football field, but they moved the ball, they possessed the football, they had nineteen more snaps, had the ball for a good amount of time, longer, and all those things that can help you win a football game. But I guess going into it,

the coach has probably had their fear of pressure. That was going to be an issue to deal with, and that was the game plan that they felt they needed to come up with. And you know, I appreciate Chase's criticism, but block somebody on fourth down. You got to drive stand alive there too, So you better watch out when you point fingers, there's three pointing right back at you. So make sure that you take care of all your

business before you start calling other people out. To his credit, he did acknowledge that he did not do a very good job in the blocking game, so at least he owned up to it. Let's talk about the defense. They gave up a seventy five yard touchdown drive to begin the game. After that, they were fantastic to keep the Bengals alive. That was the only touchdown they gave up, and despite being put in bad positions numerous times because of three interceptions at a fumble, they kept the Bengals

in the game. It really did. I mean, when you give up less than turn in ten yards offense in today's National Football League, and you have three opportunities in the red zone, you give up a touchdown on one of them. They only scored touchdown thirty three percent of the time. You know, another time, one of the interception was taken back for a pick six. Other interception went to the nine yard line and they held that to a field goal. So inside the ten yard line, the

deep red zone, they were outstanding on that drive. They played well enough to win. I mean literally, you only hang ten points on them, basically. You know, of the twenty points that were scored ones a pick six and a return inside the ten yard line, well heck, if you don't take the football away on a turnover, you're gonna give up a field goal in today's league. So they played well those kind of those kind of numbers and they lose a football game. That just tells you

that there was no complimentary football played today. The defense played well enough to win. Special teams didn't. An offense sure didn't. Yeah, special teams. I'm glad you brought that up because McPherson crushed another fifty three yard field goal that was great. But Brandon Wilson had a couple of mistakes and the kick return game and early in the game, and the Bengals repeatedly had terrible field position. He was

responsible for a couple of them. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, you put you put yourself on a long field in a noisy stadium, a home opener against the defensive football team that has some talent. I mean, they've got some players you're asking for trouble, and that's exactly what they got, you know. It's it's just it's an unfortunate situation that the defense, playing as well as they played, didn't come away with a w. Because, you know, playing like that

on the road, I think is bodes well. Again, though, I think that Andy Dalton going out of the football game when he did it was a big factor because he was hot and he was playing well, and that first drive they had, I mean, he just he ripped him down the football field and fields has got a package that they're getting him ready for on a weekly basis.

But I don't think he feels totally comfortable with the entire offense yet, and I think they were hamstrung with some of their play calling and it showed up a little bit. But you got to credit the defense. They took advantage of it and they slammed the door. I mean they suffocated him in the running game too. They did a great job of Montgomery. The quarterbacks hurt him.

Andy Dalton had a couple of scrambles for double digit yards on scrambles and fields had you know, had a big one on third and nine that they got him a big first down when they just could not Hendrickson could just not quite get there. So the quarterbacks were the ones that did the most damage. I think on just improvisational, you know, creating and extending the play as such. Hendrickson wasn't able to make that play, but in large

he was terrific. Again today that's looking like money well spent. I agree. I think he's he's prideful, he plays hard. There there's no doubt. I think he's a you know, he extends expends every ance of energy he's got on a snap by snap basis, and it means it means a lot to him. You know, he's um he only started one year down there on New Orleans and had a big year the year he started. And he relishes the fact that he's a starting defensive end in the

National Football League. He appreciates it and it meets a lot to him. And you can tell by the way he plays. Jamar Chase hauls in a forty two yard touchdown pass and in his first two NFL games a fifty yard TV in a forty two yard TV. They didn't go to him very much in the game in Chicago, but based on the first two weeks, he's given them the deep threat that was sorely missing. Yeah, he really has. And he did it two different ways. His verse one was just to flat out a little stutter step and

just beat him deep with pure speed. This one, he tracked the football and adjusted to the football. Safety never found the football. Cornerback was playing outside technique, knew he had inside help from the safety. Safety never found the ball, took a horrible angle. Jamar Chase tracked the ball perfectly, came underneath and adjusted around the safety, mated playing on the football and took it at the house. So, yeah, he's a He's a threat down the football field. There's

no two ways about that. Let's go back to the O line for a second. Xavier Suafilo got a little banged up early in the game. He was limping pretty noticeably after one of the players, but he stayed in there. He gotted it out, to his credit, but it seemed like a tough day for him. Again, without going back and looking at the tape of the game, yet, do you think that Jackson Carmen at some point relatively soon

might move into that right guard spot. You know, you have to you have to weigh, all right, the veteran, experienced, the savvy, the knowledge not busting plays. How how much more important is that than having a better physical potential specimen in there at the guard position, particularly a suel of Field is limping around because it's it's a tough situation. He knows what to do and how how to do it, just can't get there sometimes, you know, And so that

that's a little bit of an issue. But you know, is Pittsburgh in playing the Steelers in Pittsburgh with that defense and the things that they can do from a multiplicity standpoint, in versatility standpoint, is that is that a good situation to put Jackson Carmen in there and say, boy, I hope we don't have too many free runners, you know. I mean, that's that's kind of the risk that you take there. But it's going to be interesting to monitor

because Suephilo, he was playing against a horse. Now Hicks is a beast, flat out beast. And it was a long day at the office for X. So it was a road game where they were a slight underdog. They wound up losing by three points. Gets it's not a shocker, but with Andy Dalton going down at about five and a half minutes to go in the half, that game was there for the taking and they did not come away with the win. Absolutely. And you know, we've seen

two weeks in a row. I've seen things I've never seen before, and come to find out, you know, the field goal at the end of regulation by one kicker and then the other kicker winning the game and overtime at the gun had never happened before. And I'd be shocked if you have a quarterback that throws three straight passes that are picked off and then comes back and throws two straight passes that are touchdowns. I don't think

I've never seen that before at any level. And I've never seen kickers do what they did the week before at any level. So one thing that's going on with these Cincinnati Bengals, Man, there's first happening every single week. It seems like and uh Man, that one that was really crazy Joe Burrow three straight passes picks and one to the house, one to the nine yard line. Those are those are brutal picks. And then to come back and throw back to back touchdown pass us on his

next two throws. It says something about him, says something about the team, says something about a lot of things. But this game, like you said, Dan, this was a winnable football game. They should have won the football game, and they didn't win the football game. How bad will it hurt? Next a road game at Hines Field, where the Steelers lost their home open er twenty six to seventeen to the Raiders. T J. Watt suffered a groin injury in that game, so the Bengals might not have

to face the NFL's reigning sack leader next week. The Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Bud Light Seltzer. It's light and refreshing with a hint of fruit flavor. Now time for this week's fun Facts segment, where you get to know the person under the pads. Talk for some fun facts with Bengals cornerback chitabey A Wooge. I read that when you were a kid, you were so rough and tough that you weren't allowed to play certain things with their kids. Was that true and what happened? Yeah,

it's true. I think it wasn't really a rule set by a school or by a teacher or a parent. It was kind of you know, the kids that I was playing with didn't want me to play with them because I was everything. Home i played, someone was getting hurt or injury was happening. So yeah, you know, I think that definitely led me into football. It seems like the perfect outlet to take out that aggression. Your parents are Nigerian immigrants who earned college degrees in the US.

How did their values in their work ethic impact you? It impacted me so heavily. I definitely grew up with the duality of being Nigerian American to the tea. When I was home raising the Nigerian home, my Auntie's uncles, cousins, we'd go to parties on the weekend, whether it be a meeting or a celebration. The Nigerian culture definitely was in me. And then when I would go into school and I'd get a very good taste of the American culture.

So um, definitely that duality has raised me to understand others, to be heavy on family, to have faith in God, and you know, just to always work hard. Have you made it to Nigeria to see where your family's from? I have. I have. The first time I went was my sophomore year in high school. I was sixteen or fifteen or something like that. And you know, it was beautiful just to see cousins who I've never met before, family members, see where my parents grew up, and see

where my grandparents and my leney has basically started. You know, we have a village house in the village of Football here and that's where everybody congregated and it was just a beautiful, beautiful time in my life. We're visiting with chittabe A Wugia. Many stories about you say that your first name means God will guide me. Do you take that to heart? Oh? I definitely do. And my culture,

the Ebo culture, this our names me and everything. And you know, my brother has a similar name, my mom, dad, sister. All of it usually resonates with something to do with God. You know, we're very spiritual people. So yeah, I think my name prays for me every day and when they able to live comfortably. Because you grew up in near San Jose, California, what were some of the things you were interested in as a kid. As a kid, I was very impressionable. I love watching things on YouTube and

just learning about different things, especially dance. You know, where I grew up, I had a dance called turfing, and they had this thing called the Hype movement, and the LA had crump and the South had crump, and I was interested in just like all the cultures, just everything you know that was happening. So I think when I was a kid, I was just very impressionable when it came to hip hop culture, dance culture. Yeah. So so if you have a pick six, is there a dance

in mind for the celebration. I've been thinking, man, I've been trying to plan it out already. I got a lot. I gotta I gotta do something honor the African people, So I gotta dance it there I gotta do something under the area people to dance it there. So yeah, I'm gonna plant. I'm playing something out for sure. We're chatting with chitabey A Wouje. You attended Oak Grove High School, where you ran for more than a thousand yards or senior year, but you also blocked ten kicks. How do

you block ten kicks? I mean, honestly, just being an athlete and then having a good get off, And I don't know. I think it was just something I found out I was good at thinking my sophomore year in high school. I would just rush off the ball real fast and then block block punts, kicks, field goals, And yeah, I wonder why they have me do that more in college or NFL. But it's all good. I think I sell it in that corner pretty good. So I'm playing this for Darren Simmons to make sure that he's aware

of that. You chose to attend the University of Colorado. What did you enjoy most about college? The thing I enjoyed most about college was to come Arderie. I got to see and be a part of something real special. Came into a program that I was rebuilding, and by

the time my senior year happened. You know, we started to win, ended up being seventh in the rank, seventh in the country at one point, and those guys, you know, that's something that I think will always hold on to just how we had all those experiences that led to that point, and that's led us to be great friends. Even now to this day. That senior class, I'm blessed to play with Josh Tupo, who was on that team. We still have that connection and you know, all those

guys have that connection. So that camaraderie was very something that that taught me a lot how to be a team. And you know when I got to the NFL in your sophomore year, you lacerated your kidney. That's serious stuff. How bad was it? It was bad, man, It was bad because I didn't understand what it was or the severity of it. I guess when I fail, and it happened.

You know, I just went to the bathroom in the locker room, and you know, I started to see blood in my us, you know, in my in my pea and went back up and I said, Yo, this is happening. Took me to the hospital and thank God that they took it serious enough to where I was able to we're able to diagnose it properly, and you know, that helped me out for the last three games with my sophomore year. And it was just a real interesting time, first time that I really had an injury that kept

me out of football and I could walk. I mean, I could think I could do everything. I just couldn't. I had to be careful, you know, and I just want I realized that, you know, football is such a precious sport to me. I don't want to not play. So from that time, I started to be real conscious of, you know, every step I take. We're doing fun facts

with Chitabe Woujia. You were a second round draft pick by the Dallas Cowboys in twenty seventeen, and there was a memorable moment in the NFL draft history because it was in Philadelphia. Cowboys legend Drew Pearson announced the pick and he took the occasion to troll Eagles fans. Are you amused or did it kind of detract from your moment? Noah, Man, I'm all for the splendor and the and the joy and the hate that he got for that too. I know drew from that moment I got to know Drew Pearson.

You know, it's a great guy, great energy, obviously a Hall of Fame player now who thank God that he was able to make it in this year. I know it meant a lot to him, and it means a lot to me and my family, you know, because we're forever tied with that momentum. I think they also, you know, put people on notice that they Drew's not in the Hall of Fame yet, like, let's you know what I'm saying, like,

let's get him in the Hall of Fame. I think, um that that that that just a lot of good came from that moment, and I'm glad that I was part of it. The Dallas Cowboys are known as America's team. Their fan base is really worldwide, not the US wide. What was it like to be a Cowboy for four years? Oh? It was a blessing. Um. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Um that picked me obviously from UH College and that moment will always hold hold dirt in me, and those moments that I shared with that team will always hold there to me. So I'm always thankful for the Dallas Cowboys. A lot of my friends were still on that team. So I'm a fan of those guys and you know, ruin for them for the best. So you became a free agent and it sounds like the Bengals really came

after you with a lot of passion. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's one thing that stuck out to me was how much they wanted me here and everything that coach Zack, coach Lou, coach Jackson, all the guys who I talked to, even the front office people, was about the culture here that they're starting to get the coachure right, the locker rooms good, all this kind of stuff. And when I was able to visit here and be here now, it

all holds true. You know, I really believe that I'm in the perfect place right now to be my best and hopefully to help this team be their best. So I'm real excited for things to come. I'm real comfortable here already. You know, the guys are real cool, the coaches are cool. So just excited to get this stand rolland all right, a few non football topics to wrap things up with. Chittobey Wouje, you are an avid chess player. How did that start and what you enjoy by chess.

So chess started in college when me and my teammates slash peers in my class. It used to be kind of bored in class. We had our laptops out, and you know, during a subject that maybe we knew about already, we would play some chess, you know, virtually on our laptops, and it is real competitive, and you didn't want to lose, because if you lose, chess kind of makes you feel like something smarter than you, and that that doesn't really feel going when you know that something smarter than you.

So we would compete there and then it kind of died down. And then when I got to the Cowboys, there was a couple of chess players and again real competitive, don't want to lose. And I think I fostered a lot of relationships through chess. I've learned a lot about life, how to put things in order. You don't want to lose your queen. You want to lose obviously, don't want to lose the game by losing your king. You know, the rook's worth more than the pond and the bishop

in the night. But each piece moves, you know, in great symmetry. To um have a full team basically, so, Um, I think it's helped me articulate and put things in order very well. Are you the grand Master of the Bengals locker room. I wouldn't disrespect the name grand Master up I put in my name next to it, but I will say that I don't think anyone can beat me on this team. So yeah, all right. If you could meet anyone in history, athlete, actor, statesman, politician, whatever

it might be, who would that be. That's a very deep question, um. To be honest, the first name of POPTI my mind was Muhammad Ali. But as you finished the question, I think my real answer would probably Jesus. I think that would mean that I made it to heaven. It should be a good thing, So I think, yeah, those would be. That was my first reaction, and when I got my thoughts together, it was like, yeah, Jesus, two great answers. Last thing, what's the all time worst

mispronunciation of chittlebay wuje? Dang? It's been a lot, man. I'll say this. One time someone couldn't say my name in elementary school that instead of calling me chuddle Bay, they called me cheddar bay biscuits. So that was my nickname for that guy called me Cheddar Bay biscuits from Red Lobster, So hey, you should get an endorsement deal out. Hey man, I enjoyed them. They are good. Yeah, yeah, they are really good. They're really good. So is this.

I appreciate your time. Have a great season. Appreciate it. That's what you're doing for This episode of the Bengals Booth podcast, brought to you by bud Light Seltzer, refreshed the game. If you haven't done so already, please subscribe and if you have a minute, give it a rating or share a comment that helps more Bengals fans find this podcast. I'm Dan Hoard and thanks for listening to the Bengals boot Podcast