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broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll get to know a member of this year's rookie class who has made an immediate impact defensive lineman Cam Sample. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now from the App Store and Google Play. 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 wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since minimal traffic. Spending twenty four hours in the New York City area is a reminder that traffic jams suck. I lived in Boston for five years, where my ride to work was forty eight minutes on a good day and two hours on a bad one. So yeah, occasionally traffic on seventy one and seventy five can be a bit slow, But trust me, we have it great in Cincinnati. Now let's get to Sunday's less than great performance in

the Big Apple. With rookie quarterback Zach Wilson out with a knee injury, Mike White made his first NFL start for the Jets. Facing one of the NFL's stingiest defenses through seven weeks. The former Western Kentucky star went seven for seven on New York's opening drive as the Jets took an early lead. He's in the shotgun, he catches the ball, It's a toss suite to the left. Michael Carter has a haul night thing into the end zone, touchdown New York Jets, the first time in seven games

the Jets have scored in the first quarter. White actually completed his first eleven passes, but his streak ended on the jets second drive, first and ten at the Bengals. Forty five White passes and it is an accepted fuction fate sprinting b the side, nice catch back at the eighteen and gets tackled inside the five. They'll mark him down at the one. Wow. It was first and goal inside the one, but a run by Joe Mixon lost a yard. Another run by Joe lost an additional yard.

A third down pass was dropped in the end zone by Jamar Chase, and the Bengals decided to try for that touchdown one more time. So rather than taking the easy field goal, the Bengals line up to go for it on fourth down and goal from the three. The crowd going bananas here in New Jersey. Burrow extends the hands, catches the shotgun snap, he's back to throw, he's in trouble, and he gets sacks back at the fifteen yard line. An absolute disaster for Cincinnati. After the interception by Jesse Bays,

Nieseman got the sack. And now that's just the New York Jets. You can't play any better goal line defense than that. It's first and goal the one. On that series, the Jets physically dominated up front. Joe Mixon says, blame it on locker room leaders like himself. We got to have our team, you know, ready to go, and today we just wasn't ready. Who came out flat? They wanted it more and that's just what it was. Still, it looked like the Bengals would overcome their early game duldrums.

Second down and four, the Jets at their own twenty one White with a seven step drop. He throws it short and it is inter second baby, he was off the fingertips of Carter the running back, right into the midst of a Bengals linebacker and Jermaine Pratt picks it off. The Bengals will start from the Jets fifteen. This time, the Bengals cashed in in the shotgun Mixon to his right,

second and goal inches away. Burrow hands it off, Mixon runs it in the touchdown Bengals as Joe started right, cut it back toward the middle and lunged forward for the Bengal score that tied the game at seven, and after stopping the Jets on their next two drives, the Bengals took the lead. Late in a half, Burrow fakes a handoff to Mix and, looking for an open target

scrambling left, throws for Chase. He's got it. Touchdown Bengals, as Burrow bought time and fired a strike to the forward left pylon, hauled in by Jomar Chase for his seventh touchdown catch in eight games. Right, and that's just being physical. That made it fourteen seven Bengals. And on the jets next possession, Von Bell forced and recovered a fumble for Cincinnati's third takeaway of the first half. With the ball near midfield, the Bengals tried a Halloween trick

and the result was a tree. Burrow catches a chest high snap, throws it backward for Boyd he wants to pass, throws it across the field of mix it three blockers show down the sideline to the thirty hand offended inside the ten yard line. Oh Man. That forty six yard pass made it first in goal at the seven, but three in completions by Burrow forced the Bengals to settle for a field goal and a seventeen seven lead. There were less than two minutes to go in the half.

The Jets hadn't scored on their previous five drives. Mike White promptly carved the Bengals defense up. Mike White, in an empty backfield, catches the shotgun snap. He will plot it toward the end zone. No pot Pie Barrios touchdown. New York Jets that was right on the sideline and Barrios, according to the nearest official, got two feet down for the score that made it seventeen fourteen. His White passed for two hundred and seventeen yards in the first half.

Here's Sam Hubbard. Yeah, it was a lot of you know, screens, misdirections, checkdowns and forcing us to come up and get get to a rally tackle. Um, you know, you know it's it's really just about us. You know, we got to make the plays to get off the field. Their game plan was good, but um, you know, there's no excuse for our mental errors and every single one of us on the defense I'm speaking defensively, could have made a play or had a mistake that cost us, including myself.

So that's all. That's all on us. In the third quarter, the Jets tied the game on a field goal by Matt Amondola, and Joe Burrow went to work. A fifty four yard pass to Tee Higgins was the key play on a seventy five yard drive for the league. Burrow back to throw in the class pick touchdown pat goals as he ran through a tackle at the two and carried it into the end zone. For the score. Cincinnati

took a seven point lead to the fourth quarter. The Jets kicked another field goal to make a twenty for twenty, and Burrow answered again with another seventy five yard drive that put the Bengals in the driver's seat. Two receivers left, one right. Boy goes in motion. He'll line up to the right. Burrow drops back to throw from the pocket. Pump Fix scrambles right, keeps his eyes down field. So

yone touchdown Tyler Boy near the sideline. Burrow buying time, and he delivers the ten yard td that made it thirty one twenty with seven and a half minutes to go against the league's lowest scoring team and its backup quarterback. The next eight plays were all short passes and the Bengals couldn't stop any of them. Mike white is Ready's catches the shotgun, staff back to throw again, short pass caught by Ty Johnson's logan. Wilson fails to tackle him.

He tight ropes the sideline and a pair stepped out of bounds at the two. After review, the runner did not step out of bounds. It is a touchsdown. Yeah. The Jets went for two and failed it was thirty one twenty six Bengals with four and a half minutes to go. Here's Zach Taylor. You know that that's where we needed a big stop. And they went down and scored the six points to miss the two board version, but they went down and scored, and really a stop

right there would have done it for us. And there's a lot of misstacles on the drift, a lot of miss tackles. In spite of everything, the Bengals were still up by five with the ball in Burrows hands. But even Joey franchise is human. Burrow under center on first and ten fakes it tossed to the fuck that intercept head Burrows pass was batted up in the air and Shock Losson picks it off at the Cincinnati fourteen yard line.

Oh man, that's about the third or fourth deflection. And what you don't want to have happen is that the Bengals defense needed to hold the Jets to a field goal try two receivers left, three right, White catches the shotgun, snaff cocks the arm clicking left throws into the twk by Tyler Crows for a touchdown to get the Jets the lead with three forty five to go, White open broken coverage a Keen Davis Gaither trying to react back,

but way too late. The Jets added a two point conversion by running the Philly Special as wide receiver Jamison Crowder threw the ball back to the quarterback White to make it thirty four to thirty one. Mike White finished thirty seven for forty five that's eighty two percent and passed for four hundred and five yards. That's the second most yards in history by an NFL quarterback in his first start. Cam Newton holds the record with four twenty two.

According to ESPN Stats and Information, not one of White's thirty seven completions traveled twenty yards in the air. Here's Joe Burrow. They really well, and you know I told him that after the game. You know, congrats to him for start playing that way against our defense, who's been really really good, you know, all seasons. No congrats to him. Nice excigning for him and his family. The Bengals still had a chance. They were down by three with three

forty five to go. If they could get to roughly the Jets forty, Evan McPherson would be within field goal range. But after driving to the fifty, the Bengals had to punt and never got the ball back. They stopped the Jets on third and eleven with one fifty three to go and all of their time outs left, but Mike Hilton was called for a questionable helmet to helmet hit that allowed the Jets to run out the clock. Here's

Jesse Bates on the penalty. We were told not to speak on that, but I mean you'll see that play. You'll turn on any game in this whole world. You'll see that same exact play and covered two happens at least ten times a game. The final score New York thirty four, Cincinnati thirty one. The players and coaches said all the right things during the week about respecting the Jets and avoiding a letdown, but still allowed it to

have happened. Here's Sam Hubbard. I mean, you can talk about all you want, Um, you know, until it happens. You know, it's doesn't seem real, Like still doesn't seem real, but um, you know it's it happened. No matter what you say, it's all about what you do. So that's that's the reality of the situation. After the game, Tyler Boy, Jesse Bates and Joe Mixon did something highly unusual. They walked into the press room together. You know, we take

full responsibility for how we play. You know. I just felt like like Joe was saying, like the message, um, then correlate to what we want to go out there and do you know? But um, I don't. I'm not worrying. I know these guys not wearing either. We know what type of a team we are. You know, we're not personally. I think we came out flat, but I think we turned up after the first quarter offensively, you know. But

um again, they they they played a great game. But at the end of the day, we know we're a better team. I think we came up here together because these are guys that's been here. We've been through the bad part of this, you know, organization, and we know that we got the right guys in here to do the right thing. So hopefully the coaches can just continue to believe in us as players and as players put it out there on the field. So we're excited, Like I said, we're gonna go into next week to do

what we want to do. We gotta win our division and that's going through and knowing the division going into a bide weekend will be huge. So, like I said, these are my brothers, Um we get thirty four points. I'm sure they a little pissed off about that, as they should m But like I said, we gotta get better. We're together, and uh I got his back, he got my back, saying with everybody and at the end of

the day, as captains, we gotta step up. We gotta step up as leaders, and we gotta make sure the team following and said, we got a huge game right in front of us coming up, and I'm sure they just came off of a loss and they're gonna want us just as bad as we want them. So to be honest, like I said, we together, we know what to expect next week. We know we gotta play better. We gotta be better, and we would make it happen. We gotta bounce back and we're gonna do it with

a vengeance. The Jets outgained the Bengals five eleven to three, eighteen and one the time of possession battle by nearly thirteen minutes. After the game, Dave Lapham spent a few minutes with Zach Taylor that was a tough one, man. I mean, that's a that's a hard one to take. I mean, particularly the way at the end of the football game. I mean, and I know it shouldn't have come down to that put in the officials hands, but man, when it was put in his hands, that's a tough

call to make on Mike Hilton. I'm Mike played it pretty well, but we shouldn't be putting ourselves in that position for that cold matter. You know. On offense, we left eleven points on the field and that should have been enough to put this game wide open. Defensively or tackling wasn't good enough. Special teams, we gave up return before the half to put them in a position to go score, and so we just didn't play well enough to win on the road. Yeah, you mentioned just a

few right there. This is one of those games where you can go back and you can find you a myriad of things that you can say, Boy, we shouldn't let it come down to this because of that, and how all of that all of that works. Three takeaways in the first half, I mean, they come in bunches, and they came in a pretty good bunch there in

the first half. Of you. Yeah, you get three terms in the first half, you should put a lot of points on the board, you know, So to be on the inch hard line come away with nothing on that first turnover that they got Jesse's pick, and then you know, we had another red zone third down where we should have scored a touchdown and we didn't, you know, and

so we had to kick a field goal. And as a four point player right there, so we should have capitalized on those turnovers and try to put them away quickly, and we didn't. The running game, or lack there of, obviously, was a huge factor in the football game. It was. It wasn't really much that you could lean on in that running game, was there. Yeah, you know, they do a good job there. Interior defensive line's pretty good. We

just never gotten a great rhythm that first quarter. We kind of got out of there with two normal down calls in the first quarter, and so you know that the second third quarter we had some decent runs in there mixed in. We felt good about some of the stuff in the past game. We just need to score more points. Our defense is bailed us out plenty of times, and we need more than thirty one points today. Yeah, that I guess that people are going to be like, well,

what's what's up with that? I mean, Mike White is his first NFL start. He throws for over four hundred yards. They get over five hundred yards as a as a football team. But you saw, I mean Carter that that dude, I mean that dude finish runs angry boy. He was a finisher running the football. But like you said, the tackling mechanics were less something to be desired. Yeah, they played well in space. I thought our guys were oftentimes a good position. Um again, I was happy that they

made those turnovers. We've been preaching that all week. We need a big turnover game. They got us three of them. Offense should have given more and defense got to do a better job tackling there in second half. So schematically, did they do anything differently than you anticipated? I mean, I know the linebacker position got revamped on heartbeat. I mean, you know, fifty seven comes back. That's a that's a

different deal. When he's out there on the football field, he's a pretty good football player, as we know from watching him in Baltimore. Their guys played hard. You know they are in this one today. Give the credit to them. We did do enough to get the victory, and we gotta be able to put this one behind us pretty quickly and refocus on Cleveland. Yeah, that's that's I guess. The thing is the bounce back opportunity with the Cleveland Browns.

You're two and on in the division. You get Cleveland at home and can make a you know, a big statement in terms of division scenario with the three and oh mark halfway through it. How how tough it will it be for this football team. I mean, you know them better than anybody, and you've talked about how you know the the intangibles are so high with this football team in terms of mentality and caring for each other and all those kind of things. Bounce back quickly, do

you think? Yeah, that's what you're counting on, you know, with guys leading the charge on a loss like this, to be able to quickly refocus and get focused on a new divisional opponent that we haven't played at the shore. I'm confident that our guys will appreciate it. Coach, Okay, thanks, Rounds lost at home to the Steelers on Sunday fifteen to ten, So Cleveland will come to Paul Brown Stadium

next Sunday. With a four and four record, Baker Mayfield is playing with an injured left shoulder that will eventually require surgery, but if anything will make it feel better, it's the prospect of facing Cincinnati. In six starts against the Bengals, Mayfield is five and one with seventeen touchdown passes and a passer rating of one to eleven point four.

Now time for postgame analysis with lab all right, Lap, you know it's going to be said after this game, coast to coast, the Bengals were sniffing the fumes of success. They didn't want it enough. Whatever expression you want to use, how fair are those criticisms today? They're going to be fair, you know, because they had an opportunity right there waiting for him, and they decided to push, you know, push

away from the table. They were in the table of feast or famine, and they decided to push away and go famine for a week. It was unfortunate. I just keep going back to the It doesn't come down to one play, but I just keep going back to the Mike Hilton hit call off setting. He lowered his head, Hilton lowered his They both lowered their head. It can be called on a running back who lowers his head to target on the perimeter as well. If you're going to make a game changing call like that, don't make

it game changing one way. You know, if you thought you saw something that looked a little if you call it off setting, call it both ways and let the players decide the game. But they shouldn't have been in that position. They shouldn't have put in that's themselves in that position anyway. But with that said, the officials, you know you don't as an official. If I were an official, I would not want to be the guy that, basically, in a lot of people's opinion, determined the outcome of

the game. So and I think there was a way around it. I call it off setting penalties. As I look back on it, I thought it was a bad call, no if sands or butts, But it sounds like whining when you're on the on the wrong side of a call like that. I thought the Jets, for lack of a better term, were the more violent team. They were physical upfront, they're running back ran angry. I just thought in every way they were the team that just had

that edge more in this game. I agreed, Dan, you know, and I give credit to the entire Jets organization, their head coach, all these all the coordinators, all the assistance. The Jets played like the game was more important to them than the five and two number one seed in the AFC, Cincinnati Bengals, And how can that be? How

can that be? So I agree with you. They came out and after being embarrassed by the Patriots, their professional pride was wounded and sometimes wounded animals the most dangerous animal there is. And they were I mean they were. They wanted to make restitution, and they played harder and I thought they they you know, they set the tempo. They were there. They're more physical football team, particularly at the line of scrimmage, at both sides of the line

of scrimmage. We talked about that a bunch during the course of the game, and I mean, you're first in goal on the inch line and you're going backwards, come on, man, you know just that the tone was set on that goal line standing. I mean that that's when they got on a score and then the reception puts them with their backs against the wall and they said, we're fine. I mean that that sent at that point, you know, or you should know, you have a fight on your hands.

And and you know, I got the Bengals righted themselves and took double digit leads more than once in the game. Got to give the Jets credit, though, they came back and won the football game. And that's a nature abuse in the National Football League. I know, I said it a bunch during the broadcast. What I gotta say it again. I cannot believe they had three takeaways in the first half and scored fourteen points because the takeaways were short field.

I mean camping in shorter field in this side, in the one yard line and then they're inside the twenty again in the red zone on a takeaway. You know, to throw away short field field position opportunities like that are going to come back to bite you. And it bit them squarely on the cheeks. So Mike White in his first start passed for four hundred and five yards. The Jets had five twelve. As a team, they came

in averaging about two seventy five. Nobody saw that coming against the Bengals defense that's really been great in the first seven weeks. What was the biggest problem was it tackling after the short passes. What stood out to you the most from a bad standpoint on defense, I think it was that. I think it was tackling, and again that that's want too. You know, they wanted to break tackles more than we wanted to tackle. It looked like, I'll tell you what, Carter. I mean, that guy, man,

he's a little dynamoll, five eight over twound pounds. I mean, if he's six feet tall, he's two twenty. He's a he's a physical guy. He's short, but sometimes that can be to your advantage. And man, in space, they were the much better football team in space the whole day, no question about it. And I give White credit for hitting guys in stride though. I mean he realized what he's gotten Carter and never made him turn for the ball, stopped for the ball. He just sometimes those those passes.

You talked to a lot of quarterbacks, those those swing passes, you know you have to put them in just the right spot, and he did time after time after time. It really was incredible. And talking to guys in the locker room out of the game, I mean, it wasn't anything that surprised them. He did it the week before he checked it down seventeen times. They knew what they were looking at. But these guys were great, not just good, they were great after the catch, run after catch was phenomenal.

If you had told me before the game that the Bengals would score thirty one points, I would have predicted they would win by at least two touchdowns. I'm still a little shocked that thirty one was not enough to get it done against this team. I agree. I agree

with you wholeheartedly. And you know it's it's mind blowing. Really, a team that hadn't given up twenty five all year long gives up thirty four to a team that was averaging thirteen points a game, and like you said, two hundred and seventy plus yards and they get five hundred. I mean they doubled down or tripled down on things. So it's just like, as the old saying goes, you just you never know. You stay around long enough, you're going to see things in the National Football League you

didn't think you'd see. And that's why it's such an exciting sport. It's the number one sport in the country because of a lot of it is because of the uncertainty of it. It really is. And I feel my heart was breaking in the locker room for these guys because you know, they put themselves in a really good position beat in Baltimore like they did, and they just gave it all back by throwing it away to the Jets. Now it's going to be the burdens on them to

do what the Jets did. The Jets got embarrassed by a division rival, and they came back and put it on the Bengals. The Bengals get embarrassed by a one in five football team, and now they get Now they get an opportunity to go three and o on the division. At the halfway point, you know, of six division games, they could be undefeated. And that's what they have to focus on now. And that's what guys were talking about

putting this aside and getting onto that. But I've found you got you gotta let you have to suffer by this for a little bit at least tonight. You have to. You have to miss some sleep tonight, and hopefully a lot of guys will because they should. I know I would. I wouldn't. I wouldn't even be able to close my eyes tonight. My eyesballs would be two movie projectors, just looking at everything man and thinking through things, and these kind of games, they're tough on you. They are tough.

First place was fun while it last. Did the Bengals fall a half game behind Baltimore. The Ravens are idol Since the Steelers won in Cleveland, the brow and shockingly are in last place in the division. They're coming to Paul Brown's stadium next week and look out for the resurgence. Steelers given up for dead early this year. Just like that, they're a game over five hundred and breathing down the

Bengals next. When you got a defense like that and a quarterback that's got the tracker that that quarterback has, that's that's That's two pretty good ingredients for a pretty good recipe. And yeah, you can never count them out. All I can say is anybody in the division is alive. Nobody's worse than five hundred. It's gonna be a dog fight to the end down the stretch, and teams are going to be knocking each other off left and right.

I mean it's going to be it's gonna be like the old AFC North days where guys beat each other up and be a physical division. I know one thing this Cleveland Brown's offensive line's no joke. The Jets offensive line took care of business. If they think that's the best they're going to see, they're going to see a better one next week. Those guys do not mess around. And if you think that, and I don't want to

diminish you know what Carter did. He's great. They got two of the best running backs in the league if they're back. If they're they get two of the best in the league. And I think for the division game they probably will be would not shock me. And they have the best tanem of edge rushers in the league. They got a lot of components. You know, they might be they might be four and four, but they're a good football team and the Bengals are gonna The Bengals

already realized they're a good football team. And that's just life from the National Football League. Bengals are an early two and a half point favorite for Sunday's game against Cleveland. 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 to some fun facts with defensive Lineman cam sample from Snellville, Georgia, not too far from Atlanta. Tell us a little bit about where you grew up. Was it city, suburbs, country, and what were some of the things you're into when you're a kid. Yeah, definitely, I'll probably say it's right

that fine line between city and suburb. You know, downtown is probably fifteen twenty men's away, but it's not, you know, in the heart of Atlanta, So I mean it's different some of the stuff I'm into. I mean I was really neither playing ball and hanging out with friends, so you know, real a bad just like to have fun. Right after the draft, you said something that I thought was great. You were speaking to reporters and you said about your parents, this is just as much their accomplishment

as mine. Can you articulate what they did to help you get here? Yeah, I mean, hats off to them. My parents got the voice when allars two and you know, growing up, I've seen a lot of situations that gets really ugly for the kid in the relationship. But I mean, again, hats off to them. They really came together, made it work for me, were there with me every step of the way. So I mean they raised me up, brought me as far as that's what I'm saying, it's all

of our accomplishment. For sure. We're doing fun facts with cams. Sample. You attended Shiloh High School, the alma mater of former Bengal David Pollock, but despite earning all region honors, you were not recruited by the powerhouse schools in the South. Was that a big disappointment at the time, I mean, yeah, definitely. Growing up, you know, you um watching college football. You know you see the big time programs. You know that's every kid's dream to get recruited by one of those.

But my high school coach at the time said, you know, it just controlled your control. So I went out there playing my butt off to have the offers I took. You know, I feel like two of was my best opportunities. So I just put my head down them and right back to work once I got there. So as you mentioned you wound up going to Tulane, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country, and you madejored in finance. What was the hardest course you took a

two Lane man? About everyone when you get in the business world, it's a really hard school. I mean, you know they it definitely tests you. Um, you know, you have all everything going on with football. They have a you know, a rigorous academic program like that definitely kept getting your toes a bunch of long nights by me. Shout out to the academic staff there. Can you know

they helped me get through it. So New Orleans is one of my favorite places to visit with the nightlife and the French Quarter and the music and the food. As a two Lane student, do you get to enjoy that stuff? Man? That that's part of the selling process with two Lane man. You know the city, I mean, it's a it's a culture I'm like none other. I say, if you haven't been there, you got to go out there. The foods different, their culture is different. Monte Grass second

line and all that. I mean, it's definitely a full experience going to two Lane for four years. So you were apparently two hundred and thirty five pounds when you got there and you're about two hundred and seventy five pounds. Now, was it an easy transformation for you or did you have to eat even when you weren't hungry? Um? Yeah, you know, I didn't even really try the game away.

It doesn't actually happened. I mean, I guess with the Way program there, how much food they're giving us, and then just the food in New Orleans period, I mean, I mean it's kind of hard not to gainway there. So I mean I just grew into it, and I mean I just accepted, you know, me changed positions once the Way can After your senior year of two lane, you got invited to the Senior Bowl and you knocked it out of the park. You re name the defensive MVP.

How much did that week change your life? That we probably did more for me that I can probably even realize right now. I mean, just because the big knock on me coming out was I mean, he did he had a great career at two lane, a great senior year, but can he do it against power five opponents all week? So I mean that senior ball really took that. As our punities show everybody what I could do, and like you said, I had a great week and it just you know, projected me very well coming into the draft.

The Bengals were obviously impressed. They selected you in the fourth round. Describe your draft experience. The draft experience was great. Um. I was at home in Atlanta, had a couple of close friends, some family members there. You know, We're just sitting around waiting for the call and then you know, when it finally came and vibrating, I mean, everything just kind of went slow from me, like, man, this is it.

So answered the phone as coach Taylor in there saying, you know, Cam, and you're ready to be a bank I said, man, let's get it, let's go. So, I mean, it's it's really even hard to put into words the emotions, but I mean it was a great experience. By the way, do you have a preference between Cameron and Cam? Cam? Cam for sure? All right, let's do some wildcard cat theories with Cam. Sample who is your all time favorite

athlete in any sport. I'll give it to Floyd. I just like you know he uh, I like the way he markets himself. He hell of a box or defensive fighter and all that. He's just it's always entertaining watching Floyd, whether it's an interview or in the rings, I'll probably have to say, Floyd, do you like boxing, MMA? All types of fighting? Yeah? Yeah, I like boxing. I actually try to tune in when I can. I'm not as caught up on everybody, but especially the top dogs. I

definitely try to watch their fights. All right. Do you have any hidden talents? Ooh, I don't know. If it's hitting. I talked so much trash, but I think I'm the best at video games on the team. I tell anybody they want, they want them problems, they could come see me about it. So I mean, I'm just I'm good at video game. Now. Mixing says he's unbeatable and maddened.

Has there been a matchup? I've heard mints unbeaten. I haven't played mad as much this year, but once I start playing, I'll definitely go see him in the undefeated street. Where are your games of choice? Call of Duty two K and then Madden's probably last? All right, So if you're grade at video games, what are you terrible at? Oh? Singing? I cannot sing, but if my song comes on after I'll sing my heart out, but it's not it's not

the best. I'll give him my best shot to keep it in the shower, even in oh of course, and as it turns into American idol in there, I gotta sing, all right, what do you like to splurge on? What do you spend your money on? Oh? Um, I'm a shoe guy. I like shoes. So I mean if I if I see a pair of shoes I like. I mean, I'm try to find survisor. Might killy if I'm gonna try to make it work so I can go get them. Do you wear them or do you just display them? Both? Um?

You know, definitely, I definitely get them to wear them. I'm just not gonna leave it up some you know, you can't wear as much as other ones when they're those special ones. But I like to wear my shoes. Is there anybody in the NFL that you are particularly excited to meet? I wouldn't say meat, I mean I'm just excited. Um. You know, growing up watching all these guys who have great careers and just you answer to play against them, you know, like the Tom Brady's, you know,

Lamar Jackson. I mean, he's always just exciting to be able to play against other good football players. Did you know anything about Cincinnati or the Bengals before you got here? Nothing too heavy. Chad Johnson is a very loud, you know, proud former member of the Bengal so you know he always brought some attention here. But I mean as I got here, you know, I'm learning as I go for sure. All right, this is a tough one. This is deep.

If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesman, religious figure, whoever it might be, who would that person be. I'll probably have to say Martin Luther King, just because he was a great leader, and you know he wasn't really going with the flowid things. You know, he was going against the grain and facing a lot of adversity. So just to see his thought process going through that when when things aren't looking good, I'd just love to

see where his head was at during that time. It's an excellent choice and a great way to wrap up our fun facts. I appreciate your time, best of luck the rest of the effort. So no problem and having me who here's an invitation to join lapping me on location for the Bengals Game Plan show this Wednesday night from six to eight will be at the Wishbone Tavern on del High Pike with lots of giveaways during the

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