Bengals Booth Podcast: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

pads as we meet rookie linebacker Jermaine Pratt. All of that is straight ahead, but first, 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, Stitch, your Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since Christmas tree ornaments from family vacations, So whenever I travel with my wife and son, we pick out a Christmas tree ornament wherever we go as

a lasting reminder of our vacation. For example, there's a little miniature saxophone from a trip to New Orleans, A tiny wooden lobster buoy from a journey to Maine, and a small pint of guinness from a more elaborate adventure to Dublin, Ireland. So, if you haven't done so, already turned decorating the Christmas tree into a travel scrap book. It's a great an inexpensive way to remember family vacations. Now, let's get to football. Sunday's game against the Patriots did

not start well for the Bengals. New England got the ball to begin the game and reach the end zone in three minutes. In sixteen seconds, Brady waiting for a shotgun snap, Edelman goes in motion. They fake it to Edelman. Here's a swing pass to the left. It is caught by White. He makes it to the twenty fifteen ten five touchdown call. That's just a great misdirection call. They got the Bengals defense totally full. When the Bengals got the ball, they weren't looking to fool anybody. They were

looking to run it down and the Patriots throats. Here's a pitch to the right. Mixon starts right, looks to cut back, breaks through a tackle, runs to the four d to fifty feet, cutting back toward the numerals and Mixon gets tackled at the Patriots thirty two yard line by Stefan Gilmore. That looked like it was going to be a three yard loss. Guess what, it's a thirty seven yard game. Should have been should have been a three yard loss. You should have been tackling the backfield.

We've seen Joe Mixon do this multiple times. After running for a career high one hundred forty six yards last week in Cleveland, Joe ran for seventy two in the first quarter against the Pats and finished with twenty five carries for one hundred thirty six yards. And to my hatshops at all line, man, they played that today and you know it was getting down and dirty, and you know, salute the old line coach all week. You know that's

what he wanted to do. You know, gotampose our wheel and for me, you know, I wanted to set the tone and I felt like that's what I did today even though we came up short. I mean it's eleven man, bab, but you know, like I said, man, i'm guys and the old line they did their thing tight ends was blocking hard, and you know the receivers that was blocking on the perimeter. Man, I was just making them play, so I said, my hats off to all of them. They did a great job. The Bengals first five plays

of the game were runs by mixing. Their next three were runs by Giovanni Bernard, moving the ball inside the Patriots ten yard line. Eight straight runs to begin this drive. Now it's third down in three at the eight yard line, empty backfield, two receivers left, three out to the right. Dalton catches a shotgun snap, cocks the yard. Bros caught that boyd. It spends away from a defender and runs into the end zone for a Bengals touchdown. That's Sethan Carter.

I beg your pardon eighty two, not eighty three, Sethan Carter. Chathan Carter spun away from Jonathan Jones, makes the catch and just tight spin move inside leaves Jonathan Jones in the dust. That tied the game at seven, and on the Bengals second drive of the day, they took the lead. Huber wiping his hands off on his pants. Now he catches the snap, puts it down, bullocks kick floating on

its way. It is good and the Bengals have taken a three point lead with fourteen seconds left here in the first quarter, two drives, two scores, and the Bengals third drive looked promising as well. On fourth and less than a yard at the New England thirty, Cincinnati passed on a forty eight yard field goal attempt and decided to go for it. And he's in the shotgun Mixing to his left. Dalton gives it to Mixing and Joe

did not get it. He stopped Danny Shelton plugging the metal to make the tackle and the Patriots will take over on downs. It's easy to second guess the play call. For example, why run out of the shotgun instead of either trying a quarterback sneak or have Andy Dalton under center and then turn and hand it to a charging Mixing. Here's Joel. I don't really care if I'm a shotgun or you know, under center, But I mean what I prefer being undersinder? Hell yeah, but I mean I don't

really care about it, honestly. Why why why is it such a big difference. If it is under center, then it's not a shotgun. I mean, at the end of the day, it's it's solid about an attitude, you know what I'm saying on how you going to approach. You know that next carry and you know when it comes about, you know, your mindset is in a shotgun. You know you gotta come across and then you gotta read how you got to read your keys out. But at the same time, when you're behind center, Eli r it's downhill.

This is what we're doing. That's what we got to get. And you know that's just what it is. But I mean, shot I thought it was a great call. It's just you know, one of our men got beat up front, and you know them guys get paid on the other side too. They made a hell of it. They made a hell of a play. That's not what determined game, but it did help swing the momentum. A Patriots field goal tied the game at ten. Then, with less than two minutes to go in the half, the Bengals made

a costly mistake. Jake baileywell punt catches at his own twenty steps into it. The Bengals came close to blocking it. Alex ericson calls for a fair catch. No, he lost the ball. We've got a pile at the twenty three yard line. Now the officials are digging in to see who came up with that football at the twenty three yard line. The Patriots had begun celebrating and they have the football. Well, let's see if they may. Can you review this and see if he was interfered with an

opportunity to make a catch. Matthew Slater did make contact with Ericson just as the ball arrived, but no penalty was called. Ericson came out of the pile with the football, but the officials credited the recovery to New England's Justin Bethel that led to a field goal in five seconds left in the half, giving the Paytree. It's a thirteen to ten lead. Here's Ericson on his fumble. It was

a bang bang play. My hands were on it under the pile and they kept saying Patriots ball, but I just kept hold on to it and then I came out of the stack with it. But I don't know what the ruling is on all that they gave the ball to the Patriots. Did the officials say anything after the fact about what they saw on the contact. I think they just said it wasn't he didn't interfere with me, and then I don't know what they said about me coming off the ball. I think they determined that they

determined that he recovered it. I guess somehow. Yeah, I don't know. It's obviously playing the game, you know, you can't make the mistake. The Bengals were only down by three, but the game quickly spiraled out of control in the third quarter. Third down in six, the Bengals hit their own twenty nine, trailing by a field goal thirty seconds into the second half. Shotgun snap five man Rush Dalton with time count and it is intercepted by Stefan Gilmore.

He looked like the intended receiver he was in front of Tyler Boyd. Boyd tried to break it up and Gilmore was there to pick it off. Well. Andy Dalton, for whatever reason, ended up going a little bit back shoulder and Gilmore was playing back shoulder technique. So he goes back shoulder to throw the football the completion, but Gilmore is playing the road perfectly for that. Seven plays later,

the Patriots lead was ten. Brady drops back to throw, looking looking, bouncing in the pockets, Still looking, Brady throws into the end zone, touchdown in the back of the end zone to nikkil Harry too much time Dan tom Brady was reading a class bied Ads, drinking a cup of coffee. The pressure has been good most of the day, but on that play, way way too much time for tom Brady. Brady's stats were modest fifteen for twenty nine for one hundred twenty eight yards with two touchdowns and

no i nts. Here's Sean Williams. He doesn't have to force anything with a defense plan. The way to the plan, you can just run the ball and you can take your shots. When you can pick and choose, and when you take your shots, and that's what you do. And they were allowed. On the running game. The three backs did good today. They did enough to get him to win. And that's that's all that matters. It doesn't matter how pretty, how ugly it is. As long as you get to

win all that people remember, that's all that matters. Gilmore's interception set up that score, and a few plays later, staffind Gilmore became happy. Gilmore Andy ready for the shotgun. Snappy has the ball, a blitz coming quick throw and it is intercepted Gilmore streaking down the sideline. He's gonna take it to the house for a pick six. On his second interception in his many possessions. I'll tell you what. He bade it a big time. That made it twenty

seven to ten, and the Patriots secondary wasn't finished. One deep safety for New England. Dalton drops back to throw against the four man rush, chucks it deep down field and it is picked off at the ten yard line by J. C. Jackson, a little bit over for thrown Dalton chucking it off his back foot and that's interception number three all in the second half. That was three in the third quarter, and that pick came in a pass intended for Alex Ericson. We gotta make a play

for the ball. We gotta run better routes, we gotta get separation, so I you know, I know, as a receiving corps, we're taking those three. And it wasn't good enough from us today, and you know the scoreboard reflected that, and um, you know, we gotta we gotta get back to work and you know, figure it out. And it just wasn't good enough as a receiving corps to day,

and we gotta be better as a group. A Randy Bullock field goal cut the deficit to fourteen in the fourth quarter, but after a comically bad on side kick spun to a stop after traveling just five yards. A former Bengal put the game away. Burkhead, the running back on first and ten at the thirty three yard line, Brady hands it to him. Berke finds a haul up the middle east to the twenty oh running at the fifteen, the ten, the five, and he races into the end

zone for a thirty three yard Patriots touchdown. That made it a twenty one point lead, and the Bengals would get no closer. Dalton's going to air it out deep down the left sideline for Ross. It is intercepted again. This time it's picked off by J. C. Jackson and he'll run out of bounds at the twenty five yard line. Oh Man Andy Dalton tied a career high with four interceptions, and the Patriots won the turnover battle five nothing. Here's

Sean Williams. They want to turnover battle, and when you win that seventy percent at the time, you win the game. And the rate that they did it, that's one hundred percent of the time where you have five turnovers five takeaways, you should not lose the game. The final score thirty four to thirteen. Patriots. New England clinched it's eleventh straight playoff appearance, while the Bengals fell to one and thirteen. Here are Joe Mixon and Alex Ericson. Do you know what?

They feed off of turnovers and they make you pay for him And they've been like that since I probably first started playing football. I mean, I don't really know too much behind that, but you know them guys, I mean they've been like that since I was little man. And you know that's a discipline football team. Autumn guys gonna be in their gap. They all gonna play. They they all gonna do their job and they do it

to the best of their ability. And uh, you know, I, like I said, I tipped my hat off to him. And they created a lot of turnovers and they didn't make not one, you know what I'm saying, So we gotta be better. You respect the success that they've sustained. Um, you know the way they do it year after year. Um, obviously you gotta respect that. UM, but you know it was a competitor too. You gotta we gotta find a way to you get If you want to be the best,

you gotta beat the best. And um, they came in today and uh, they beat us, and we UM gotta look ourselves critically see how we can fix it and get better from it. And UM obviously are a good football team. We know that. We knew that coming in. But you can't you can't turn the ball over, you can't make critical airs like we did today and to

expect to win the game. There were positives. The defense held the Patriots to two hundred ninety one yards and only seventeen points that weren't the direct result of turnovers, and Joe Mixon topped one hundred yards rushing for the second straight week. He needs seventy five yards over the final two games to reach one thousand for the season. But the bottom line for the Bengals is the league's worst record by two games since the Giants beat the

Dolphins on Sunday. Following the game, Dave Lapham spent four and a half minutes with head coach Zach Taylor. We're just talking to Joe Mixon coach for a little bit. And man twenty five carries one hundred and thirty six yards five point four. Care you guys came out eight runs in that first drive. You were you were making a statement, and you were living by that statement you

were making. Yeah, it's unfortunate that we couldn't finish their game the same way, you know, and we got down too far, and in the fourth quarter of the run game, you know, we're down three scores, we guys start throwing it. That's unfortunate because we went in this game, no one was gonna be bloody, no one was going to have to be some ugly runs in there. I thought Joe and they all line and Joe did a great job

mashing up in there. A tight ends were involved, and we just unfortunately couldn't sustain the whole game with that philosophy because of the way it turned out. I thought your tight ends, as you mentioned, Sethan Carter, cj Z, they were doing a good job on the edge. I thought, with those two stand up guys, it's gonna be hard to run outside on the Patriots, and you guys, you guys got outside on them pretty darn well. I was

impressed him. And then you were hammering them up inside as well, So I mean they were kind of on their heels a little bit. You guys were attacking them multiple ways. I thought Jim Turner had had a great plan in the run game, and Bron Callahan and our guys executed it well. They believed in it, they knew what they were doing, they executed it. Again, it's just some fortune that we couldn't find a way to be

able to rely on that throughout the game. We had to start throwing themll in the fourth quarter, and that's what hurt us obviously. In the number that jumps out, you don't have to be a football line stein to figure out that you can't go minus five against the Patriots and expect to win a football game. Oh That's that's what it came down to. You know. That's um They've they've led the league in turnovers for a long time,

and that's what they did to us today. You know, when it was a lot of them were just one on one. It wasn't I wouldn't say they were bad throws. It was just we had some one on ones that we had to take some chances at and those guys

went and made the plays and we didn't. So you're looking at your offensive line, I think is really starting to build some confidence and I think you know in a season like your experience and you're looking for things to hang your hat on as a as a group, and I know as an offensive lineman, I want to get Joe mix in a thousand yards next week against Miami, and I want to get it for him early in that football game. Our guys kind of rallying around that.

Do you think it's not something we've talked about. We're just trying to win a football game and and be successful enough on offense to give ourselves a chance. And because our defense is really playing their tails off right now, and they're they're playing winning football and you know, we put them in a buying today, and so that that's

what our focus has been. Tom Brady fifteen or twenty nine, one hundred and twenty eight yards now, he did have two touchdowns, he didn't turn it over, no no turnovers, and you sacked him twice and hit him. I bet you hit him at least eight times. I mean you were making everybody was making their presence felt around him. Even you get rid of it's like, yeah, Tom, we're here. I thought the defense, the plan was great, the guys executed it. They got the run run off at the

end of the game of Burkehead there that scored. That was disappointing, but they again, they gave us a winning effort and they probably scored seventeen points off the turnovers. They had the onside cake in which they capitalized on which led that big round. There's twenty four points right there. So our guys, our guys did enough to give us chance to win this game. No, no sacks and one

quarterback hit. Based on that running game, you know, you get the line of scrimmage established hard for guys to tee off, and the pass rush although like you said, you get down the number of scores you have to throw it. And I thought the offensive line still hung in there pretty well. Protection wife, I thought our guys up front gave us a chance to win the football game. And again it just comes out of the turnovers. But

they executed the plan that we had in place. We felt good about it going in a halftime and came out the second half, just had too many turnovers. Yeah, so what do you what do you tell guys after a game like this, because like you said, it wasn't lack of effort, played hard, just didn't play intelligent enough. What do you tell the guys that's the championship teams win the Turnamer Battle, and that's that's what happened to day.

You might have walked out of here feeling like you had a winning effort, but we can't be pointing fingers. You gotta you gotta still look deep down and figure out what what could I have still done better that could have made this game to go the other way. And it's just it's a hard lesson for us to learn right now, but we need to learn it. We need to learn from this experience. Defensively, you had the fourth down stop and then you moved it and they stopped you on like fourth and a foot, and then

it just seemed to fall apart from there. They didn't fall apart after they're stop on fourth down, but it seemed like fell apart a little bit after that stop on fourth down. Is it? It seemed like momentum really shifted back. Is that accurate? Yeah? I mean we had that one last drive after that at the end of

a half. We went three and out punted and then came out the second half and just had two turners right away, And so that's I felt like we were still being a phishing on offense on the first and second down plays for the most part, it's just we had too many turners. Yeah, in the first half, your average, like I think it was five point five per play on first down and eleven runs one passed. I mean, you guys were pounding them on first down in that

running game with regularity. I thought our guys really responded the challenge up front and again believed in what we were doing, understood what we were doing. Joe and ger were doing a great job running and so that part was really good to see earlier. The Bengals have two games left, on the road at Miami next week and a home game against Cleveland to end the season. If they lose either of those games, the Bengals will have

the number one pick in next year's draft. Now time for postgame analysis with lab If people want to know how the Patriots have wrapped up a playoff berth and how they can be eleven and three despite the fact that Tom Brady has the poor statistics of his NFL career, this was the game. They followed the formula to a t Oh, don't have to be a football Einstein to digest this one. They were plus five in the turnover battle. The Bengals mine five. I mean game ball game. I

don't care. You'd have to outgain them by three hundred yards to make up that difference. I mean, you win the turnover ratio plus five, it's ninety nine point nine nine nine if done one hundred percent time you win the football game. You know, the Bengals may have out distanced them with yards might out of this out that doesn't matter. You go minus five and you give them extra possessions, and you give them short fields. With those extra possessions, you're just barking up the tree of defeat.

And it's unfortunate because the defense continues, in my opinion, to play winning football. Brady was under fifty percent or just over fifty percent, four hundred and twenty eight yards. You know, two touchdown passes, no interceptions, no turnovers by the New England Patriots. So they're saying, we're winning with our special teams in our defense and we're just aren't going to screw it up offensively. They are now plus twenty four in the turnover department the Bengals on the

season or minus sixteen. That's a forty differential that I mean, that says why one team's in first place, why the other teams in last place. It's interesting and looking at this Patriots defense. Most teams prioritize pass rushers edge rushers. The Patriots not so much. They spend their money on linebackers in corners. Their linebackers can move up front and play on the defensive line. And it's a formula that works incredibly well. For New England. They prioritize two things,

intelligence and versatility. You have to be smart as a whip because Bill Belichick gives you a lot. You have to be able to digest a lot of things. And then he wants position versatility because he gives you so much, he wants you to be able to do more than one thing. You know, he's got linebackers playing defensive end. He's got safety's playing linebacker and vice versa. I mean, you know, he basically breaks a lot of your rules that you've got from a blocking assignment standpoint. You can't

go buy numbers anymore. You have to go buy positions. That's not a safety anymore, that's a linebacker. That's not a linebacker anymore, that's a defensive end, and adjust accordingly. And he puts a lot of pressure on you. And I thought, you know, I mean Joe Mixon goes twenty five carries, you know, over one hundred and thirty yards five point four carry. He's got overtunityy yards rushing in the last two football games. I thought the offensive line

played winning football. They no quarterback sacks, one quarterback hit, and it's easier to pass walk when you have Joe Mixon getting off like he is. But man, you know, I think some of the interceptions Dan were a two pronged thing. Did Andy make the greatest rows? No, not necessarily. Did his receivers fight like hell to make sure he

didn't have an interception, No, not necessarily. So the only guy that I thought reverse roles and played defensive back, Tyler Boyd, prevented another interception, prevented a fifth interception and a sixth turnover by reversing roles because the defensive back had better position on him at the end of the route than he did. But he made sure he didn't

come up with it. Spoke to Alex Eric sit after the game about one of the key plays, the punt that he was not able to handle that was recovered by the Patriots borderline, whether there was interference as he tried to make the catch, it wasn't called he comes up with the ball at the bottom of the pile. It was credited to the Patriots on their recovery. That's a key play that that helped the Patriots wing this game.

Two things happened in that play, and it's in the last two minutes of the half, so the Bengals can't challenge. It comes, you know, from the booth down rather than the field up to the booth, and it goes back to New York City. Did Slater get his hand on Ericsson before he fielded the football? Did he grab him prematurely to interfere with his opportunity to make a play on it? Again, it is his bang bang, but it looked like it could have been called. And then you

can't blow. You can't decide too soon about possession because sometimes the strongest hands and the strongest risk win in the tug of war in the bottom of a pile, particularly a guy that's got adrenaline pumping because he's so upset that he fumbled the football. You know, I'm sure he's like, I gotta get that football, and you're doing everything you can to get that football. So they blew it dead before obviously before he came up with the possession of the football. So there was a two part

series to that turnover. In both part went against the Bengals. There were two fans in attendance at Paul Brown Stadium today wearing Patriots jerseys that traveled here from Hawaii because they wanted to see Tom Brady in person at age forty two, just in case they won't have many more opportunities. They didn't see him have a great statistical game, but they did see him improved a seven and one against Cincinnati seven and one courtesy of the secondary. Each cornerback

had two interceptions. Those guys were unbelievable. I mean their secondary you talk about blanket coverage, my goodness, you know, it was like it was like they were spray painted on them. I mean there was a velcrow, there was no separation. A lot of times they ran the route better than the receivers did. I mean they would take over and be I'm the guy running the round, I'm the primary receiver run this football play. So that comes

with film study, good coaching preparation. They made plays they made, They made plays they had to make to win the football game. They got stopped on fork down equivalent to a takeaway for the Bengals defense. They didn't panic. The Bengals get on the field, they get stopped on fourth and a foot out of the shotgun instead of under center, which is going to be questioned forever, but at any rate, they make a play and at that point the game turned.

They didn't panic when the Bengals stopped them on downs. They stopped the Bengals on downs. And then a floory of turnovers and maladies and everything else followed for the Bengals, and the Patriots just keep their poise, take snapper after snap, finish the game go eleven and three. Bill Belichick improved a sixteen and four in his career against the Bengals, and it hasn't mattered whether he was coaching in Cleveland

or New England. He was eight and two as the Browns head coach, and now he's eight and two as the Patriots head coach. Now time for this week's fun facts conversation as we get to know the person under the pads. This week, it's a third round pick in this year's draft out of NC State. Time for some fun facts with Bengals linebacker Germaine Pratt from high Point, North Carolina, not too far from Greensboro. I read an old interview where you said you grew up in a

rough part of high Point. Tell us a little about it. I mean like every city had like a rough part of somewhere. You know, grow up in property, growing up with my mom and my brothers and my grandma. I mean, things tough for us, like all of us of a time pit. You know, you go through lights, rough times, and you learn from an experience and apply it to your life. So old time learn how to get through. Adversely,

like I'm dealing through now. Just's learn how to get through it and still find that joy and love for the game He's and every day. Your mom worked three jobs to try to make two for you and your brothers. Correct, yes, she write three jobs, like to help us to get what we wanted when we was on. How much respect and admiration do you have for her for what she did when you were a kid? I have a two minutes like it's unconditional much of respect I have for

unconditional love I have for my own. I read that one of your goals in trying to get to the NFL was the hope of being able to provide a better life for her. Yes, absolutely, that's my main focus, like in college, is providing a new family, like a new place for us to live safety. I can go back home if you feel comfortable where we live at.

And I had the opportunity to do this before the season started to get how I move her to Charlotte now Carolina and better to give her a safe place when my niece and them can come out and be able to play in the backyard and stuff without anything going around. How great is that? I mean, that must be the greatest feeling in the world to be able to do that. I mean, yeah, it's great. It's a great feeling. You know, unreal. We're doing fun facts with

Jermaine Pratt. Tell me some of the things you were interested in as a kid. Football, of course, like sports. I liked basketball, I like baseball, and I played and I went a little bit of track. Were you the best player on the team and pretty much anything you played? I would say I was like the most athletic, like fast and quick and like grass the thing just like

catch up on things, quit and not to play. So after a great high school career, you elected to go to NC State which isn't too far from where you grew up. You could have gone just about anywhere. I'm sure, why did you choose NC State close to home? Like from a mom and my family who comes to the game. I thought it would be a great place. Isn't it too far? Because I was like a moment's boy, like I was. I didn't want to leave home, but I didn't want to love to fly, so I just went

to NC State. So you show up there at one hundred and ninety five pounds if I've read correctly, and it didn't take you long to start adding weight and muscle. I went in earlier. I got away high school early in the nine row. By the spring semester of spring while I was like two thirty, so I gained a lot of weight fast. And was it strictly a matter of you've got the training table that a college athlete has access to, and really, for the first time in your life, you were able to to feast on on

some of these healthy foods. Yeah, I would say that, like they had a great program over there, you know, just and be able to eat three times a day was something I wasn't used to. Most of the time, I eat like once or twice. Because I played football throughout. I didn't like being at home because it wan't really much to do at home, so I always played football or basketball or rand track, so I was gone most of the day, so I was always on the run. Like you know, when you little, you having fun, you

forget eat. So yeah, that was the most of the part. You started out, this is safety. Did you like it? Yeah? I liked it. Athy I mean, I like it to be back there and having fun, you know what I mean? Because I liked every the way he played. He was a ball hall, so I would love the way he played a game. So I always wanted to be a safety, and then I didn't. Then they switched me to linebacker, which was a great decision. Were you happy about that decision right off the bat or were you initially a

little bit reluctant. I really didn't know too much about linebacker, but I was a little bit edited. But I knew for me to make it to this level, I had to switch to linebacker. So then I got injured going to the juniors on season, so I embraced it. Started embracing it, started working with the string coaches like you get rehabbing stuff and then moving the linebacker was the best thing I did. How did you juggle football and

school work at NC State? I say, they got a great program over there, so they'll get you all the twols that you need to be successful. It's up to you to do it. You know, we got the academic system is hug was there. You know most of the all people that I went to college when I first got there, they least got a degree. So it's huge there, Like he'll get your degree before you leave as at a program like that. Describe your draft experience. My drafts friends,

was crazy. I mean I would say like it was something I always prepared for all my whole life. But it's hard and real, like you just waiting, then you finally get that call and then joy, You're just so happy for a team to believe in you and this wants you to be successful and people just call you. The coach ca your phone and telling hey, we're going to pick you at third round and save me two pick I was so, you know, it was unreal. Just get your name called on TV and then there's bad

to work. Basically, we're doing fun facts with your main prat what's the best part in your opinion about being an NFL player, I mean the game. I mean, the best part is just always just playing football. You know what I meant coming to work and each and every day comes to work something that you love to do, you know what I mean. Matter if things going wrong or not, you're still playing the game you love. You know, you got a group of guys and they're still fighting.

You know, things that going right for us this season, but they they're still in that fighting, still loving the cone work, and still have joy in their life. You know what I mean. Some people get down and stuff because what they go through at work and stuff. But you have a group of guys and they still love this game and this game bringing so much to them that they don't never let loose sight out of it. You're a goal setter, correct? Yeah? Did you write them down? Yeah?

I was writing it down and then I just started like this, this is how to go day by day. Now do you check them off when you reach them? I did in college? I did. Yeah, a few more fun facts for Jermaine Pratt. What do you like to spend your money on? My money? I say, most of my money go to my family. I say I haven't spent that much because it ain't I don't really do that much. So I'll just be like food and then like just give my mom money like stuff, and then

my nieces. I actually went shopping for them for Christmas. Oh yeah, most of my money go to my my family. Do you have a guilty pleasure when it comes to food? Is there's some unhealthy thing that you just have a hard time saying no too? I say sweets like little Debbie Kate, like Omel Kates, and then like honey moneys

and stuff. You work it off, you'll be fine. If you could meet anybody in history, famous athlete, politician, historical figure, religious figure, whoever it might be, who would that person be? Lebron James Lebron is who's romandling today's society. The way he carried hisself and the way he give bet to the community. Ohio. On this building the foundation for kids, you know, the school is a huge part. Getting that foundation early. You're learning how to read and write and

how to add and stuff. That's huge. I appreciate your time. You're off the hot seat. Best of luck. All right, thanks, that's your main pratt. Here's a quick invitation to join us on location this week on Friday afternoon from three to six, we'll be at Buffalo Wings and Rings back at Ridge Location for the Bengals pep Rally show. A player will join us in the final hour and we'll have plenty of giveaways too. That's going to do it

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