Bengals Booth Podcast: I Wanna Get Better

and Dave lapp them will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, we'll meet the person under the pads as I'll talk to rookie Stanley Morgan Junior, who is obviously the son of Stanley Morgan, but not the former Pro Bowl wide receiver. We'll get to know

the Bengals Stanley Morgan in just a bit. 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, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or Podbean. It's the greatest thing since the search tool on Pro Football Reference

dot Com. When Lamar Jackson rushed for one hundred eleven yards in the first half against the Bengals, on Sunday, it occurred to me we should probably know the NFL record for rushing yards by a quarterback just in case. So at halftime, I went to Pro Football Reference dot Com, clicked the play index, and then went to the player gamefinder. I entered any year quarterbacks only, regular season or playoffs rushing yards equal two or greater than one fifty and

hit search. In a split second, I had my answer. Colin Kaepernick rushed for one hundred eighty one yards in a playoff game and Michael Vick rushed for one seventy three in a regular season game. Lamar Jackson ran for one fifty two against the Bengals on Sunday, so he did not set a new record, but I was ready if he did, thanks to the search tool on Pro Football Reference dot Com. Now let's take a closer look

at this week's game. In addition to being the greatest field goal kicker of all time, Baltimore's Justin Tucker has become a weapon on kickoffs. Last week and the Ravens went over the Steelers. Tucker floated extremely high kickoffs near the end zone but not into it, forcing the Steelers to return the kicks three times. Pittsburgh was pinned inside its own fifteen yard line. Tucker tried to do the same thing to begin Sunday's game against the Bengals, but

with a very different result. Wilson catches at the eight charges past the twenty twenty mery, go Brandon, who We'll take it to the house. As the attempted kick inside to ten fails miserably for Justin Tucker and the Baltimore Ravens, Brandon Wilson sprinting ninety two yards untouched for a Bengals touchdown. That was the bengals first kickoff return touchdown since two thousand and nine, when Bernard's Scott ran one back against the Steelers. It gave the Bengals a seven nothing lead

without running an offensive play. Here's Alex Ericson on Brandon Wilson's return. Yeah, it's a huge spark anytime he started the game off seven nothing with twelve seconds off the clock or whatever. It was great play by him. Guys up front didum blue jab as always, and obviously his explosiveness and all that and his instincts took over and he was able to make a play and helped us, helped us put us in position to you know, win

the game. And anytime he scoring special teams and I don't know what the statistics are, but I guarantee you it raises your chance of winning by quite a bit. But it's not enough if you can't stop the other team from running the ball. Jackson keeps on a run to the left, crosses the thirty thirty five forty Now, Lamar Jackson is sprinting down the field. Trade Kirkpatrick runs him down and makes the tackle at the thirty nine yard line of Cincinnati, a thirty six yard run on

Lamar Jackson's first attempt of the day. The Ravens drove seventy five yards for a touchdown on their opening possession, and seventy one of the seventy five yards came on running plays. Now, it's a pistol formation with a side car. Lamar Jackson keeping to the left. There's nobody there for the Bengals defensively. Lamar Jackson running toward the forward left pylon,

and it's a touchdown for Baltimore. Jackson ran for one hundred nineteen yards in his only previous start against the Bengals and had eighty five at the end of the first quarter on Sunday. Here's Sean Williams. He's special. I mean he can hit the edge and run like no quarterback that I've ever played against, but I can remember at this moment. So, you know, hats off the hand. We we just got to go back into the game plan. We face him the gain and we kind of know

the recipe. You know, We've got to stop him the first second down, get him in the third down, third down long, and keep him in the pocket and making throw and beat us. But you know, when he steps outside the pocket, he's as good as anyone, you know, and he also may throws us out to pockets. So they kind of won that today. Yes, Jackson can also throw the ball. On the Ravens second drive, he completed four in a row, setting up and easy touched down

first and goal from the two. The Ravens line up in an eye formation, they give it to mark Ingram, He goes low and he gets into the end zone for a Baltimore touchdown. It was fourteen seven Baltimore at the end of the first quarter. The Bengals not only did not have a first down and they didn't have a single yard passing, but that began to change in the second quarter, Dalton drops back to throw. The protection is good. He fires over the middle of eight field one,

a catch by Auden Tate, diving arms fully extended. He came up with a football at the Ravens thirty eight. There's a penalty flag thrown late. The catch stood for a seventeen yard gain, and Tate finished with five catches for a career high ninety one yards. Here again as alex Ericson obviously has the size and the physical ability that a lot of us wish we had, being six

five and whatever. He ways, and you know, Annie and him got a good relationship of you know, and where you know, Tate feels comfortable and Taitan knows where Annie feels comfortable. So they do a great job feeding off that. And he was able to find him and you know, really helped us drive it down, drive down the field at the end, especially. Each team added a field goal in the second quarter, and it was seventeen ten Ravens at the half. In the second half, Baltimore played keep away.

In the third quarter. The Ravens held the ball for more than ten minutes, as the Bengals only had one possession another Tucker field goal made it twenty to ten. Then in the fourth quarter, Baltimore put together an eighteen play drive that took nine minutes and forty six seconds off the clock. For the game, the Ravens finished with two hundred sixty nine rushing yards and held the ball for just under forty minutes. Here's linebacker Preston Brown. It's tough.

We think you have still bottle up guys going the other way. They're stopping going all the way around, and then sometimes just miss tackles. So we got to go to the drawing board and see exactly how people keep hitting these runs, because every week you look up and it's a lot of restaurants, and that's something that you never want to happen. Is it a scheme thing? Is it something where they catch you off guard? I mean, what's kind of been the issues presidents. I don't know.

I don't think it's a scheme thing. I think coaches do a good job every week of preparing us for what we have, but we just gotta make plays when they presented to us, when we have tackles, because sometimes we have guys in the hole or but sometimes they do a great job of getting outside of us, and no one even touches the guy. So we gotta find ways to beat our blocks, beat our man to tackle the guy with the ball justin. Tucker's third field goal of the game made it twenty three to ten with

three forty nine to go. For the third straight week, the Bengals offense failed to score a touchdown in the first three quarters, but as was the case last week against Arizona, the offense finally came to life in the fourth, putting together at twelve play seventy five yard touchdown drive Bernard in the backfield. As Dalton waits for the shotgun snap back at the seven yard line, Trey Hopkins fires it back. Dalton back to the ten, steps up, rambles

running toward the goal line. He's in for a Bengals touchdown. Second rushing touchdown of the year for Andy Dalton, the only two that the Bengals have on the ground this season. The extra point made a twenty three seventeen with one twenty eight left, meaning the Bengals still had a chance if they could recover an onside kick. Sure enough, Brandon Wilson did recover Randy Bullock's kick, but the ball only

traveled nine yards it has to go ten. That gave the Ravens the ball and they ran out the clock for a six point win. The Ravens had five hundred yards of offense before neildowns on their last three plays took the total backward to four ninety seven, but after scoring touchdowns on their first two drives, they didn't add another on their last eight. Here's Sean Williams. The one thing I feel like we could have focused on more

was keeping Lamar in the pocket way. You know, he's he's a great athlete, he's a good quarterback, so he makes that team run. But in the second half and when we made adjustment, we really played well, held them to three. They're in NFL two, They're gonna get their yards. But at the end of the day, we got stopped from third down and we held them, held them to

three when they did get get scoring his own. Lamar Jackson finished with one hundred and fifty two yards rushing in two thirty six passing, the first quarterback ever to top two hundred yards passing and one hundred fifty yards rushing in a regular season game. It all added up to the bengals sixth loss in a row to begin the season here again as Cincinnati native Preston Brown, Yeah, it's tough. I mean I grew up seeing two and fourteen teams and stuff that I never wanted to be

a part of. So now I'll definitely try each and every game try to get that first win because we know the whole city what they want, and we got to get this win because the whole city is down because we're not getting winning against Since the Redskin and Jets both got their first wins of the season on Sunday, there are only two winless teams left, the O and five Dolphins and the Owen six Bengals. After the game,

Dave Lapham spent five minutes with Zach Taylor, coach. I know, a uh, you know, another another day of frustration for sure. I mean, their their game plan that has been all year is to take the air out of the out of the ball and then control the clock. And they were number one in the NFL time of possession in the in the per game and in the second half.

I mean like a nine minute, nine and a half minute advantage in the second half of football games, and I think it was only three possessions for the offense in the second half, they did a pretty good job of playing keep away they did. You know, we really touched the ball for the third time there with around two minutes left, had that eleven play drive no points for play drive no points obviously, and then got to touch on it that at the end. So that was

that was a unique game. And to be quite honest, yeah, they at the time of possession, they ate it up. Our defense really gave up six points after those first three dives. They were up some shots, but holding them to fewer points and trying to allow our offense to get back in the game. And it's just too a

little too eight. So offensively, I mean, you got a new guy at the at the left tackle position and John Jerry and you have you know, a guy at the right guard position, Alex Redman, that just is back from serving a suspension because of the growing injury to John Miller. So you know, and I know that everybody's like, oh, you know, make an excuse. So these are facts, you know, and I know you have to deal with him. It's

National Football League. But man, it's issues. It's tough. It's got to find a way, you know, it's we can't run the ball for a few yardages we're going to and so we continue every week to re examine how we're going about it and what players are going to be most efficient for us. And we got to search and find that answer. And when we do, it's gonna be productive. But right now it's it's been tough autumn.

Tape stepped up five catches ninety one yards. I think he was targeted twelve times, and you know, he drew some interference penalties and stuff too. He's such a big body for guys to deal with and they make that early contact on him and they're in trouble. He did. I thought he played well when he was targeted and made some great fifty He didn't have any easy catches. There's a bunch of fifty fifty balls that he came up with. And so thirty and eighty nine shop with

Tyler Boyd. It looked like Humphrey obviously was with him a good part of the day. They also kind of tilted things to him a little bit. They doubled him a little bit more than he had been. That's something they'd shown in the past with some elite receivers and Tyler's certainly been a really productive guy, good leader for us, and that wasn't anything that surprised us. That's something that they'd shown and we anticipate. That's why guys like odd

and have to step out. Third phase of the game, Special Teams ninety two yard kickoff returned to get the game started. I mean that lights a fire under everybody, and Wilson makes a great play there and then he almost makes a great play on the book end and the backside of it with that on side kick. He was just a yard too early making that jumping recovery of the football. But the kid really played hard for you. Special teams and defense, didn't he he did? That was

a great spark. You know, Brandon's his error has been going up. He's been doing a great job for us and a lot of different areas, and that looked like the spark we were going to need there to start the game and just couldn't hold it up. I know it rings hollow, but you know you're missing some key contributors, some key components, and hopefully some of them will start

to come back here. And when they come back, the fact that other guys had to step into roles that they necessarily weren't targeted to do at the start of the season, I mean, getting some snaps and in the long haul, I mean there could be some positive but as it's unfolded now, it's going to be frustrating as

hell to go through it. Well, a lot of young guys are getting asked to step up and play, and that's why they're playing the NFL, that's why they're on our roster, and we expect a lot out of them, and some of them are gonna have to keep growing faster than they anticipated. But again, there's there's been no lack of fight from anybody who's walked on the field for us. And I'll keep going a battle with these

guys any day of the week. Yeah, I mean you'll look at today, you know, six point loss, in a four point loss, been a three point loss, been a one point loss. I mean it's um, you know, it's the defense, like we talked about earlier, gave up a lot of yards, but the game's not decided by yards. It's decided by points. And ultimately, you know, they kept kept the game close enough to if you guys to almost pull it out. They did, They did. We just

needed more points on offense. But I thought the defense really in the second half, the end of the the second quarter really stepped up and did a did a much better job. And finally, uh, Jacksonville the next opponent. And I know that's you know, you guys haven't started. Oh you probably haven't known the NFL started on some of

that preparation. But it would be like to finally maybe have an offense that runs a different you know, you won't see all the gimmicks in the in the bells and whistles that you've been seeing, and the quarterback's not going to be some kind of freakazoid that can kill you with his legs and throwing arm as well, and more of a traditional NFL type thing. That will that be a little bit different week for you guys as

you're prepping for him. It'll be different. I know that Jacksonville is still a really solid, well coached football team, physical team. They'll present challenges in other ways obviously, but it'll be a change of pace. Certainly, they're what they do schimmatically. Yeah, I mean it's been it's been almost like trying to defend a relay team out there. I mean, these these guys are at the quarterback position. I mean, you get an anchor anchor on a by one hundred

relay team than anybody would take. It's been. It's been a heck of a stretch for your defense, hasn't it? It does? It has, But again they keep trying to respond to the challenge, and Ken in the second half without their sponse was good. They kept the points off the board, and we just gotta find a way to win us a team. Now, time for some postgame analysis, and I began my conversation with lap by asking him

about the disparity in the running game. Forty three carries for two hundred and sixty nine yards for the Ravens. That six point three yards per carry. Thirty three yards on fourteen tries for the Bengals. That's two point four per attempt. Take away a jet sweep Alex Rickson a seventeen yards thirteen carries sixteen yards for the Bengals. In the ground, I mean, you you just can't. You can't

compete when it's that type of situation. Ravens ran at forty three times for two sixty nine well over six yards to carry a couple of touchdowns. You know, there. I'm always to run away with the football. Play keepaway, play hide. Bengals had three drives in the second half, so you know you're in a point where you have to get on the football field to try to amount a comeback. They did score a touchdown, but it was you know, too little, too late. As we said so

many times during the course of this football game. I mean, the Baltimore Ravens basically played the game on their terms, and the Bengals have not been able to play any game on their terms this whole season. And you know, they've lost by one point, three points, four points, six points, but you know this one, this one didn't seem like it was just six points. Lamar Jackson is so tough. If he stays healthy, it's an incredible weapon. But it's

dangerous to have a quarterback run that much. But not only do you have to worry about him taking off and running, he's hard to rush because as a pass rusher, you don't want to blow by him. And then when you're trying to cover people in the secondary, you always have to keep an eye open just in case he takes off and runs. Well, I think the twenty four yards scramble that the Arizona Cardinals had at the end of the game, were lost in ripped up the football

field and rushed past Murray and Gino. Atkins took an inside rush and he went twenty four. And that made an impression on some guys. And now I start to mush rush. I call it a little bit where you're not rushing past the quarterback. You're trying to stay in your lane, put pressure on him and trying to squeeze the pocket on him. But he's clever, you know. I mean, he still finds rush lanes. He's still he's a lot more he's looking at a lot more reads down the

football field. But eventually, if he doesn't like what he sees, he's going to tuck that thing and try to hit a distorted rush lane and he's going to kill you. I mean, the guy he's he did basically what he's fifty carries coming into today's game, and a lot of them were off scrambles, and there were a few design quarterback run calls. There were a few, but not many. I mean last year, fifteen to seventeen times a game design quarterback runs. I think this year it's probably closer

to ten. Coming into today's game. I don't think there were ten today design quarterback runs. And then he's when he scrambled, he's just I mean, he's such a weapon. I mean, he's dynamic, there's no electric I mean, anything you can think of. Kid is just he's an incredible football player. Nothing has come easily on offense right now. It seems like every yard is pulling out wisdom teeth. Joe Mixon eight carries for ten yards in the game. We know how good he is. Is what I'm talking about.

Basically the result of having an offensive line that just he is not that strong. Offensive line that's not that strong, and your two deep receivers aren't in the football game, one drive it was a one yard completion, a three yard completion, a five yard completion, a thirteen, and then back to a six. I mean it was you know, Andy Dalton was seven for eight for forty yards five

yards an attempt. You know, it's basically part of your outside running game is throwing the ball in these outs and because you don't, I mean, they're they're they're crowding you, and you know you don't have anybody to run behind them. Stretch the football field and put it over their heads. So as a result the fact that they're crowding lines, they're also crowd in the box when you I mean, if you have somebody that can stretch the field, it opens the box up too, So now you don't have

any speed on the football field. The trickle down effect is huge. I mean, when you don't have your two year three best receivers AJ Green and John Ross and those two guys, the outside guys that stretch it and everything else becomes easier in the middle of the football field when you don't have the stretching. The middle of football field is high traffic now, I mean it's heavy traffic pattern. It's tough. That's why it is. It's like

it's like root canal surgery every single drive. It's like you have to be perfect and there's only a few things you can do. Baltimore Ravens game plan was wide open to them. Bengals game plan was like, I can't do this, can't do that. Game. All of a sudden, you get two options. Baltimore's got ten choices on you know, third and four, third and two. Bengals have two choices on third and nine, third and eight. It's totally different dynamic. I mean, hopefully they start to get some weapons back,

and you know, not to mention the offensive line. John Jerry did everything he could. That's the fourth guy at the left tackle spot. And Alex Ridden has been back a week and he's you know, he's playing in the right guard spot because I've injured or John Miller soo, I mean, more issues in a magazine, stand man, The Bengals did not have AJ Green, they did not have John Ross, and the Ravens did a good job of taking Tyler Boyd away. He got to throw it to somebody.

And Auden Tate had the best game of his young NFL career. He did targeted twelve times, five catches ninety one yards made contested catches. He also drew interference penalties and you know, illegal use down the football field of hands and early hits and all that sort of thing. He's so big. I mean, these defensive backs trying to get around him are having difficulty and really, you know, the silver lining, although it's a tough one in your

own six, when AJ Green and John Ross do return. Now, Auden Tate has had experience that he never would have had otherwise, and his NFL careers accelerated. You know, he's been out there having to make plays as the morn guy. That bodes well. But man, gonna get those other guys back to stretch the field if they can stretch it, Odd and Tate, Tyler, Eiffort, CJ. Zama, all these guys that have a much different look in the middle of

the football field and they're having right now. The last thing one positive, The Bengals have found a kick returner. Brandon Wilson had a fifty two yard or last week, ninety two yards for a touchdown today, the first Bengals and kick returner to take onto the house ince two thousand and nine. He's impressive. I mean, he makes a decision, he goes. I mean he would no wasted time. He

can scoot, he can fly. He almost had a bookend of excellence in special teams at the very end of the game and the onside kick when Airbourne made a great play as a yard short of the ball, advancing ten yards though, so they don't get the football and they're penalized. It didn't it didn't go ten yards for the onside kick opportunity, but he was close. He almost made a dynamic play there, and he gave him a boost. There's no question about it. He gave him a lift

on that kickoff return. You know, you get an unconventional, unscripted score like that. That's what kept the game close in the first half. I mean at halftime, the numbers were nuts, but that kickoff returning. The Bengals, you know, their defense, they're allowing tony yards track meet between the twenties, but they're not allowing a whole lot of touchdowns. They're keeping the game, you know, close enough if the offense could do anything. Up next a home game on Sunday

against the two and four Jacksonville Jaguars. The Bengals will honor ten of their all time greatest players at halftime of that game, including Ken Anderson, Anthony Munio's, Willie Anderson, and Chad Johnson. Now time for this week's fun Facts interview, where we get to know the person under the pads. This week it's a member of the Bengals rookie class who, among other things, has never tasted chocolate. Time for some

fun facts with Bengals wide receiver Stanley Morgan Junior. Your dad is obviously Stanley Morgan, but not that's Stanley Morgan, not the former Pro Bowl wide receiver with the New England Patriots. How often have people expected that to be the case? Well, draw up my whole combine, you know process. Every coach set interview with actually had that on their paper. So I get that a lot. Have you taken an interest in that Stanley Morgan as a result since you

play the same position. I mean I looked at his fume back in the day, but I mean, I you know, just just resemble his name. Were visiting with Stanley Morgan, the Bengals wide receiver. You're from New Orleans. Tell us a little bit about where he grew up. I grew up in seven Ward, Gentile area with my mom, and New Orleans is a great place. You know, it's no

place like it. It's different. It's very different growing up with my grandparents too, going to the all boys school, Santa Gustin High School was a historical all black male school. It was real. It was real tough, you know, in New Orleans, but you know, you find your ways and it's a great place. It sounds like you are from a gigantic family. Oh yeah, My grandmother has fifteen brothers and sisters. My Grandpa has seventeen brothers and sisters and

that's not even including my dad's side. That's amazing. How is your family impacted by Hurricane Katrina. I remember it like it was yes today. I was just starting the second grade. We left that next day. We lost everything we lost, you know, we lost everything in our house. We had to rebuild. We stayed in bat Rugs for about two to three years and came back home and you know, rebuild everything, just like everybody else. We're visiting

with Stanley Morgan. You have an interesting tie to the Bengals. When you were ten years old, your youth football team played at halftime of a game in the Super Dome turned out to be a Bengals Saints game. Where are your memories of that day? I remember just coming out there with you know, playing with my youth team before the national anthem, and uh, standing there right behind me was a chattel to a single and that was, you know,

amazing to me. You know, he tapped me on a hit and I remember it's like yesterday, you know, he just say, keep working a little man, you know, I remember like it was yesterday. Did you tell your mom after that game that this is what you want to

do for a living to play in the NFL. Oh of course, I mean we it was a two lane camp, you know, we all we did it like three years in a row after that, you know, and that's just what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, you know, being in a dorm and just seeing it and it was amazing. Stanley, you mentioned that you played at Saint Augustine High School. One of your teammates was Leonard Fournette, the great LSU running back who's now in the NFL with Jacksonville. What was he like as a

high school kid. It's funny because he always looked that way, but he was very, very, very humble guy. You know, he's very you know, young active, you know, as a kid, you know what I'm saying. In high school he was very loving and and and just being active and fun around his teammates. But he's a different guy, you know, when you get to know him, he's he's like one of my best friends. Back he had to be intimidating

for the high school teams you played against. Oh yeah, of course, I mean, we will give it to him. On fourth and fifteen. He would get a first down. Sometimes you get a touchdown. You know. He was very intimidating. So you were a great high school player and could have gone just about anywhere. Ohio State, Clemson, Florida, Georgia, they were all interested, but you visited Nebraska and it sounds like it was love at first sight. It was my only official visit that I took. It was love

at first sight. Coming out of that tunnel, I read carpet touching that harsh shoe. I mean, it was no place like it, and I couldn't you know, leave without staying there, you know, and not being a part of that. Why is that the perfect fit for a kid from New Orleans just, you know, just to get a different view of you know, being in New Orleans. You know, it's kind of like a fishboat down there. You know,

it's hard to get out of there, you know. So I had my chance to get away from New Orleans and really focus on myself and focus on my craft. And I had a great coach out there, so that was a right away for me to go. We're chatting with Stanley Morgan. You are the all time leader in Nebraska history and catches receiving yards or the first wide receiver to have a one thousand yards season for the corn Huskers. What do all of those achievements mean to you?

It's such a historical program. It means everything to me. I mean, becoming the first person in a thousand yards in a season, that's, you know, something nobody can ever take away from me. You know, coming out of that school, being the all time leading receiver and receptions. I mean, that's them doing that. You know, you dream about and then when it comes to reality, is it's so real,

you know, and it's amazing. You know, it's I think it's just you know, my family behind me that pushed me, and everybody from New Orleans that pushed me, you know, and everybody from New Orleans that's behind me. I read a story where you said you would rather throw a big block than catch a touchdown pass. I'm calling bs, how could that possibly be true? I mean that's I mean, it's it's it really isn't. I mean I fell in love with blocking just because of that guy you name earlier,

I mean Leonard Fronette. I mean it, you really you really find who's love you know, who's different about the game. You find your love for the game and My love for the game is just seeing everything go right for my teammates, and not only just myself, it's my teammates, you know, my team player. So that does make me feel great. Looking back at scouting reports going into the NFL Draft, you were widely projected to go somewhere between the fourth and sixth round and then wound up going undrafted?

Was that betterly disappointing? To be honest, when it happened, it was, you know, kind like, you know, kind of sad, you know, but then the next day I just kind of swiss it, you know, like, this is this an opportunity for me, You know, this is an opportunity to make history again, you know, coming coming from out the bottom and really grinding it up and really focusing on my graft, and this can be another step in history

for me. You know. The Bengals were delighted that you were available and signed with them as a free agent. What appealed to you about Cincinnati Just opportunities here and the coaching staff met with those guys at the combine and just knowing opportunities here and coming in, I mean, it was everything I expected. The teammates are are great, you know, they help and the coaches are great, you know. So it was it was a person fit. You got activated to the fifty three man roster before Week five

against the Cardinals and made your first NFL catch? Was that on your first offensive snap? Yeah? It was, Actually it wasn't my first offensive offensive snap. That's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Did that reinforce to you when you make that first catch? That all right, I've made it? Yeah? That getting that first catch was it was all right, Yeah, you know you've made it. Now it's time to step

it up and us. You know, let's let's turn one catch into two, two into three, three into four and you know, next next thing, I know, I can be a no more receiver on the team one day. A few more fun facts for wide receiver Stanley Morgan. If you could meet anybody in history, athlete, politician, religious figure, whatever it might be, who would that person be? It would probably be Shack. Shack, Yeah, White Shock, I don't know.

Shack is just like my favorite all times person. I mean not just person, but just all the time at LEAs is he's a fun guy. You know, he's had he has a character off the field. You know, he's he's he knows how to brand himself. He's just he looks like a fun guy to bear around all the time. You know, I just respect this game too. I just I don't know. I just like Shaq. I like Shaq too.

I used to live in Boston. In one time when he was playing for the Celtics, he went to kind of a famous public square in Boston and pretended to be a statue for an hour. He just sat there without moving. People came up, they tried to get him to smile or talk and took pictures with him. To me, that was a perfect Shack moment. And that's why I would love to be Shake. That's perfect. That's a perfect example. Do you have any hidden talents? I can sing a

little bit, I guess. Do you want to show off? Na? Na? I mean I have a yes about it. I mean I never ate chocolate before in my life. You've never eaten chocolate? Why? I just don't like to smell it? Just greeze me out. Wow, you are the first person to ever tell me they have never eaten chocolate. Someday

we'll break you down, all right. If singing is your hidden talent, is there something that you are absolutely terrible at I'll have to say basketball, really, I cannot shoot, say in my life, but I could go up and get a rebound. That's about it. Called me a blur man. But anything else I am terrible. Did you play as a kid, I'll played basketball as a kid. I was just rebound this year out. You know. I give about

fifteen rebounds a game and that's about it. See the guys on the team that can shoot love to play with a guy like you. They'll just do the dirty work. Oh yeah, well it makes sense. If you prefer blocking more than catching touchdown passes, then being the rebound and pass it out guy is a perfect fit. I enjoyed this best of luck this season, and thanks for the time. Thank you so much. All right, that's Stanley Morgan Junior. We want to remind you to come out and join

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