Bengals Booth Podcast: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

and a whole lot more. After that, I'll talk to one of the most interesting stories on this year's roster, Winston Rose. He was among the best players in the Canadian Football League last year and now he's looking to prove that he can make it in the NFL. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Prime Sport, the official fan,

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are a training camp. In order to watch practice this week, Dave Lappleman I had to test negative for the coronavirus three times in a five day period. Then on Thursday morning, we entered the practice field through a separate gait and watched from a platform behind one of the end zones, never getting close to a player or coach. Normally we would be right on the sideline with the freedom to get right up close to the drills. But I have

no complaints. It was great to be standing next to Lap, well technically six feet away from Lap, with our masks on, watching Bengals football Lap. On Thursday, we were able to attend practice a training camp for the first time, and that meant we got our first ever look, at least in a training cap atmosphere at quarterback Joe Burrow. What'd you think? I was duly impressed in, you know, watching him throw the football is really a beautiful site. Really

from a football standpoint. He's got a very tight spiral. He's extremely accurate with the football. His mechanics are very very tight. When he decides to start a s throwing motion, to the conclusion of it, that ball is out and you know, I noticed whenever he's taken drops from center and taking his three step five step drop, stating and throwing the football, he's always the first one to have it out and that those tens of a second are

extremely important. A lot of times it's it's a difference between you know, having a seventeen yard completion down the football field and getting hit for a seven yard sack. I mean there are those. Every tenth is massive, and he has a very very quick decision making process and a delivery, and then when he gets it down the football field, he's not making his receivers work. You know, they don't have to slow down to catch the football, they don't have to overextend to catch the football. He's

hitting them in stride. I mean, he's not thrown into bay windows. He's thrown into portholes. He's thrown into very very tight windows. Reminds me a lot of Kenny Anderson. You know, I've mentioned before that I'd worked at camp with them in Connecticut. It's called the Offense Defense Camp, and he would just want to work on his throwing, you know, just get some throws in, keep that arm limber.

And it was unbelievable. I'd be twenty five thirty yards away from and he'd throw it and he'd say right shoulder, boom, naval boom, left shoulder, you know, right hip, and hit those spots even though they're so close together. My hands would be right there in the ball would be at that spot. He was. He was unbelievable. And boy, if Joe Burrow can play as long as Kenny didn't have the accuracy Kenny did and everything else that Kenny Anderson did,

I think the Bengals would be extremely happy. He reminded me a lot watching old fourteen slinging a little bit. That is obviously very high praise, especially considering how close you are to Ken Anderson. We should clarify he was not throwing against defenses. He is throwing on air, as they say, so really all you can determine from watching that is how does the throw look, how quickly does he get it out, etc. And just based on how

much he could impress us. He was very impressive. He was dan And you know the thing that the receivers used to I hear receivers all the time when they talk about Kenny Man his ball so catchable. It's like it's like a mattress. It's so soft, man. It comes in there and it's not going to dislocate your fingers, break your fingers. You know, it's he's not gonna you know,

split your the webbing in your finger. I mean, I've seen guys receivers actually have the webbing in their fingers split catching fastballs from these guys who are trying to throw the ball through the wall. You know, and I'm not saying that, you know, a strong arms not good. But you know, Kenny's arm was plenty strong enough. I think Joe's is going to be plenty strong enough. Why because they put it in such tight spots. I mean,

they know where they're going to football. They're putting into such a spot the defense has very little time to react to it, you know. I mean, I think accuracy makes up for a lot of things, including you know, maybe a little bit less arm strength. But they have plenty enough arm strength, and receivers appreciate the fact that they can pluck the football. They don't have to catch it and give and be in pain doing it. You know, It's it's very easy for him. It's just like you know,

picking cotton. They're out there just picking fruit. You know, it's like it's just pick. They're picking footballs out of

the air. It's very easy. They're just plucking it. So there are four quarterbacks in training camp, and as we watch these drills, Joe Burrow would go first, Ryan Finley sack and Jake Dolagala third, and then the fourth guy was very interesting to watch Brandon Allen, the quarterback who started a couple of games for the Denver Broncos last year, because he is definitely being quarantined, at least in a

sense at practice. Yeah, he is. I don't know. I guess they're probably keeping him pretty isolated in the building because he's being as isolated as possible on the football field. He never got in a huddle, Dan, He never set the huddle, never called a play in the huddle, never broke the huddle, never came to the line of scrimmage with the team and executed a play. The other three

quarterbacks all took turns in rotation of running plays. And four quarterbacks, that's hard to get a lot of equal snaps. It's impossible, and you want to get Joe as many as you can at some point in time. So divving up four quarterbacks snaps in an hour practice is tough. So the way they're doing it, and it serves multiple purposes, is they're quarantining him as such, like you say, keeping him behind all that action. He's back there with the

coaches and the other players. And then he goes through. Here's the call. They break the huddle, goes to the line of scrimmage. He's acting like he's under center, takes the snap, and then he goes through his progression. He does his footwork on a running play. I saw him doing the reverse pivots footwork, all that sort of thing. Quarterbacks getting out of pocket on bootleg. He's doing that, and then he's simulating a throw though throwing motion, not

throwing the football. That was some of the time. Other times he would throw the football, he'd throw the football to another receiver. He'd see who the quarterback was throwing too. You know, there's three or four options on every route. He'd get out of pocket, run behind the quarterback, so he had the exact same vantage point as the quarterback. When it was out of pocket, quarterback would hit one,

he'd go to the intermediate with quarterback. When deep, he'd go short, just the opposite so quarterbacks are getting more work, receivers are getting more work, they're running their routes, and it's not just you know, running around and not getting rewarded. Two guys are catching the football instead of one. More quarterbacks are. You know, he's getting tons of reps mental reps because he's doing it with every guy. And then he stayed after practice to getting more physical work and

throw the ball after practice more. So it was very interesting to watch how they're doing that kind of thing. And he's got a pretty good understanding Zack's offense anyway, having been involved with that concept offensively before. So very interesting. In order to be able to watch practice on Thursday, we had to pass three COVID nineteen tests in a five day period Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We are also wearing connection ki n e x O N devices at practice,

and these are little flashing devices. If we get within six feet of certain employees, they start flashing and beeping. If we get within ten feet of other employees, they start flashing and beeping. So obviously the NFL is being very careful about people potentially passing the virus from one person to the next. Additionally, at practice, we were behind one of the end zones on a platform quite a long distance away from the actions, so some drills you

can see well, others you can't. Fortunately, the wide receivers got very close to us and we got a great look at aj Green. We really did Dan and man, he looks world class to me. I mean, to me, he could be on an Olympic track and field team watching that guy. It is. He worked. It's obvious he

works so hard in the offseason. I can remember what he looked like in Cleveland at the end of last year running routes down in the field before the game, like a good iro and a half poor kickoff, and he looked so smooth and explosive coming out of his routes. He's even even more so now. I mean, he's worked so hard and he's in tremendous shape, and man, it's like he's the if you look look up fluidity in Webster's his pictures right there. In terms of running routes,

it's unbelievable to watch him effortless. It's really it's it's it's like watching a professional dancer do his thing. He gets in and out of cuts so well at his height to do the things that he does. The separation and he gets and then catching the football. You know, they were running routes and like end zone crossers down in front of us and he just when he catches it, it doesn't make any noise. It's it's silent. He just plucks it. It's it's like it it gets absorbed into

an amba or something. I mean, where does that football go? And and he only he flashes his hands up there and it's it's out of the air. It's it snatches it. It's it's just it's amazing to watch him just snag a football the way he does it, and his skill set is definitely off the charts. And I'm rooting for him big time. I know, as every Bengal fan is there, you know he's he's on a one year deal. He's on a one year proved deal. Mike Daniels on a

one year proved deal. You know, these guys, they're they're playing for something. They're playing for their playing for a continuation of their career. They're planning to provide for their families. They're planning for personal pride, and nobody has more personal pride than Adril Jeremiah Green. As you call him. And AJ is not the only guy who got into tiptop shape.

I mean he's always in tiptop shape. But a couple of guys who stood out from where we were for transforming their physiques linebacker Jordan Evans and offensive lineman Billy Price. There's no doubt. And uh, you know it's it's Billy Price obviously realized that that coach Turner likes big bodies, particularly inside. He likes the big body type. So Billy he looks every bit of three twenty five, three thirty. He's put on put on some so and it's not sloppy,

it's it's he's stick. I mean, it's it's good weight. He's blown up, there's no question about it. But you know, as as a teammate and as a coach, his reaction is what's your hope for instead of sulking poor me, feeling sorry for yourself assuming the fetal position. All right, I can either accept this or I'm going to do something about it. He did something about it, So he's he changed himself, changed himself physically. Is that what it's

going to take? I mean, obviously, Billy Price another prideful guy, and it hasn't gone with injury and other reasons, hasn't gone the way he's wanted it to to this point in time. But he's not quitting on it. He's going to try to do something about it and see if he can, you know, restart it and reboot and and uh, you know, the new and improved, the different Billy Price. Look at Billy Price and Jordan Evans is definitely trimmed. I mean, Jordan Evans played on the back end in

high school. Jordan Evans played defensive back and just kept you know, he's got a big frame and just kept growing and growing. His dad was a great player at Oklahoma as well, and he knew Jordan was going to be a bigger guy eventually. And now he's decided that he was going to trim down a little bit, lose some of the maybe a little bit of body fat.

But he looks good. He looks good out there running around at that number fifty fifty Jersey On, you know, so Jonah Williams, you know, we got to look at him as well. Jonah's redone himself, So it's good. I mean, guys have put the work in, and when you put the work in in the offseason and particularly with the COVID nineteen. You know, it wasn't easy. Like Mike Daniels built a gym in his house, tore it down, you know,

moved it from Michigan to Green Bay, rebuilt it. I mean, guys are are making commitments and fighting through adversity and all that sort of thing. And it's good to see you guys doing that and trying to make twenty twenties as good as season as they possibly can for themselves in their football team. The Billy Price situation is interesting to me because when you look at projections of the Bengals starting offensive line, I haven't seen Billy Price listed.

Trey Hopkins got a contract extension. I think we assume he's going to be the starting center. They signed Xavier Sue of Philo to potentially be the starting right guard. But clearly, in Billy Price's mind, he's not conceding any of that, whether it's winning the center position back or beating out Xavier Sue of Philo and others to be

the right guard. Billy Price showed up with the intention of winning a starting job back, no doubt about it, Dan, you know, and he and Michael Jordan probably going to be in a pretty good battle at that left guard spot. Former Buckey's both of them, Michael Jordan's a much different body type Mike Jordan. Michael Jordan's got the length and strength. Billy Price has the strength, not as much the length. So you know that's that's what he's fighting. I think

as much staying. But you know what, there's nothing wrong with being number six, particularly if you're the best at if you're the number one guy at center, in both guards, the chances of all three guys playing every snap for sixteen games, you know, in a perfect world, great, it doesn't always happen. So you don't want to go from you'd like to go one to one A, not one to off the depth chart, like what's this guy? You can coaches like, how are we gonna win with this

guy at the position? So you want to be and you don't want to let your teammates down if a starter goes down. You don't want to be a guy to come run into the huddle all your team is going, oh jesus, this guy, I mean, we got no shot. You don't want to be that guy. You want to you want to be a guy like, hey, I'm as good. You know. It's it's just it's all us a flip of the coin. Guys. I can play. I'm not going to let us down. I can show you I can play.

There's nothing wrong in a perfect You want to have eight linemen that you can rely on to play and not have any qualms whatsort of one wine coach. Just go out there and play right tackle, You're fine. Let's go out there and play left guard. You're fine. That's what you want to have. You want to be able to have and still be able to operate not miss

a beat. So Billy's going to provide that. One thing I've enjoyed over the years at training camp, and I know you have too, is the opportunity to walk up to team president Mike Brown and pick his brain and listen to his stories. And it's always enjoyable to spend some time with Mike in this environment. Not sure we're going to get the chance to do that this training camp because he positions himself between the practice field so

he can swivel and watch drills in all directions. But it was interesting to see him in the year twenty twenty wearing a mask watching a football practice. The number of decades that he's been involved in football is staggering, you know, I mean as a player and uh, and now all the way up to being an owner. It's got to be from the forties. You know, I'm not I'm not thinking late thirties. I don't know. I don't. I don't think he goes back and going back that far,

he's what eighty four, I mean he could be. I mean, I know he's in training camp in the forties. You know, so forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, twenty tens, twenty, that's unbelievable. That's a lifetime of football. And he's still you know, every every training camp it's like Christmas. Every training camp to him is like, Okay, let's let's unwrap the presents. Look at oh, we we think we did

a good job. Santa Claus was good to us, and uh in free agency, in the draft, we think we have some good press. We have some good items. Okay, let's unwrap them. Let's see if there's assembly required or are they a finished product or do we have to develop them and assemble them a little bit, or do we have to move him you know too well, what are we going to do with these things? Are? Are they just plug and play? Do we have to move people around? We have to change the way we operate

from a philosophical standpoint or schematic standpoint. And he loves all that stuff. He loves he loves to see the beginning stages offseason obviously of putting it all together and then seeing it start to unfold on the field and the evolution and development all that. He's a very intelligent man, as we know, and that that whole dynamic fascinates Mike Brown. You know, all the trying to meld all the different personalities,

the different quirks, the different everything. I mean, you know, you're taking you're taking people from all walks of life in terms of their background when they grew up and putting them all under one roof and trying to make a football team out of them. One more topic, and that's Mike Daniels. On last week's podcast, I brought up the possibility of signing Demata Peco to add depth on the defensive line. They had lost Josh Tupo who opted out.

Ryan Glasgow got cut after failing the physical and when I brought up Domata. You said, well, I wouldn't completely rule it out, but I don't think he would be at the top of their list of options. Well, you were right. They went out and got Mike Daniels, four years younger, a better player. He's been a pro bowler. He was on the top one hundred list from his peers three years in a row, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen. To me, that really again represents a change in how

the Bengals are operating. I think in the Marvin Lewis era particularly, they would have gone out and gotten Domata Peco, known quality, great guy. They love him, they know him, he knows the system. It's comfortable, he's comfortable. Instead, they go out and get the better player, the more expensive player, the younger player, and in my opinion, the guy that's going to be able to help them a heck of

a lot more. I agree with all that, Dan, and I'll guarantee you that Mike Daniels wanted more than two point seven or two point eight million dollars and he wanted a longer contract, but they got it done, and I think he he is the aj green of the defense. Two Pro Bowls seventeen and eighteen injured nineteen You know you injured part of eighteen injured nineteen year and a half he's lost due to injury. Aj Green year and

a half lost due to injury. Pro Bowl high caliber, Top one hundred player who has missed a year and a half. A one year show me contract. One on offense, one on defense. You know one skill player you know at the receiver position, one of the best in league. The other one in the trenches. You know a black and blue guy. You know, it's just gonna you know, Malia he Dan watching tape of this guy when he was at his best. He inverts an offensive line penetration disruption.

Oh my gosh, man, he was. He's a load. He and Geno Atkins. You know, he talked about it on his on his zoom conference called that he and Gino have kind of texted and fantasized about playing together for a while. Now Here it is. Here it is, and man, you throw Daniel in it as well. Gosh, man, I'm telling you that's name me another defensive tackle. Three man defensive tackle rotation. There are other good ones in the league, but man, Bengals got nothing to be embarrassed about. Rolling

those three beasts out there. Okase you missed it. Lapp and I did a live training camp report with practice video on Thursday, and we'll be doing two a week for the rest of training camp. Our next live report will be on Tuesday afternoon, which will be the first day that the team is in full pads. Ah yes, real football. You can watch those reports on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,

and all of the Bengals platforms. Before we get to our next conversation, here's a quick reminder that you can take your Bengals pride to the next level in twenty twenty with an official Bengals fan package from Prime Sport. Unfortunately, even though there's been no significant in contacted training camp so far, the Bengals already have a significant setback as cornerback Trey Waynes suffered a pectoral injury that reportedly happened

while he was lifting weights. The free agent, who signed a three year, forty two million dollar deal in the offseason, could miss a couple of months. One of the players who will try to fill the void is Winston Rose, who signed a two year deal with the Bengals in late December after spending the last three seasons in the Canadian Football League. Rose led the CFL with nine interceptions last year and had five the year before. Here's Bengals

head coach Zach Taylor. Fourteen picks is fourteen picks, no amount of what league you're playing, and that's exciting. And when we worked him out, he had great twitch, great explosiveness, had a good knack for the ball in really good hands, and so now we'll get a chance to see him really full speed playing the NFL this training camp. Rose is six feet tall, one hundred eighty pounds and wearing

the number thirty nine at training camp. I spoke to the twenty six year old defensive back this week Wednesday. You signed with the Bengals on New Year's Eve after a tremendous season in the Canadian Football League. What opportunities did you have in the NFL before ultimately choosing Cincinnati. I wasn't talked with the Philadelphia Eagles, and I had to a workout with the San Diego Chargers. So those those teams and why did you decide to go with Cincinnati.

I just felt comfortable with the coaches and with the skin and from the workout talking to coach Luke, it is just in light um after the workouts. You know, Um, I talked to coach Luke, like I said, it's just just just going over what Cincinnati did the year before. Just you know the success they head towards the end of the season is this. I was just I was just ready for the rebuild to be part of the rebuilding. Did it make for a nice New Year's celebration signing

with an NFL team on New Year's Eve? Yeah? Yeah, it definitely did. To silence person to twenty um in the NFL. UM it was it was a dream come true. Man Um, Everything I worked, you know saying worked hard for and it worked towards. So to sign it just it was like the chairy on top. We're visiting the Bengals. Cornerback Winston Rose. You led the CFL with nine interceptions

last year. You had another one in the postseason. Did you do anything differently or were you used any differently that helped you get your hands on so many passes last year? Ultimately, I'll just give credit to my coaches and my teammates Land. My coaches called the right play and you know, my teammates just playing playing a party. As far as like the d line, the front seven, linebackers and even a safety communicate to me, Um, I'll

give on the success to them. Um. I feel like the rush play a key party with the dbs and coverages. So if you get impressure, the quarterback is going to throw it up because you know what I'm saying. You know you don't to take a sex so he might just give that fifty fifty block to one of his receives that he feels comfortable with. So just having that pressure with my d line and linebackers, uh, clearing on the quarterback to make my job easier. Wedinston. For people

who have never watched the CFL game, it's different. You've got twelve players on each side, the field is bigger, the wide receivers can get a running start before the ball is snapped. How is playing quarterback different in the CFLs from the NFL, I, like always tell people, is really the intensive to details, the techniques, techniques and just a little the little things that I will show up on game day. Um, I definite lot of people. Uh no, no, m you have to give every receiver a yard off

the ball room. So you know how like we pressed, you could be all in a receiver face in the NFL and the candidate thing in ANCFL, No, you gotta get you got to get to play a yard off. And then on top of that, at M I feel like the offense being advantage because the receivers have that head start. So say you're saying, you're a player that's on the line and you're pressing and you got a player that's coming at you full speed running start, that get kind of like, you know, scary at some point.

But once she once she just learned the techniques and you know, the detail in the game, everything, everything just slowed down for you. Do you think that style of play made you better? Does it help a cornerback in particular to have to deal with all of those difficult challenges in the CFL? I definitely, I definitely can say

being in the CFL definitely was what I needed. Um, what I'm saying is it definitely like makes you keen to your technique, keen to the little petition to details and really just um playing the call with them, playing the call within the system. You don't want to get your own thing. And then next you know, you give a pro touchdown And in the CFL that's that's a momentum switcher. But that's a that's that's a sports and

you know it's a momentum switcher. So you definitely, um, don't want to be on the spotlight, but at the same time, you feel like you feel like if you don't, you know, can't block in and pay attention, and you're definitely gonna be on the spotlights. We're visiting with Winston Rose. You've been in NFL training camps before, with the Rams and the Colts. What stands out from your previous experiences

and does it feel different this time? I feel like the difference from my first UM training camp is I was a rookie, I was specially out of college and I didn't I didn't have no experience under my belt, and being through I would say like for a training camp so far, Um, they definitely give me that experience to you know, not every night, not every day it's perfect and you can't make every play perfect, but what you can do is control what you can control, just

give up and to give maximum efforts. So UM, that's that's that's That's where I'm just um going into the training camp is I know, I know it's not a sprint. Its a marathon. So I can't just think I'm gonna get everything. I'm gonna know everything all in one day to take time, and you definitely got to wrap it out too. So I'm controlling what I can control and doing my part. And as far as like whatever the coaches want me to do, I wanted to do it.

So do what the bankers were Winston. When you signed in December, you were at Paul Brown Stadium and you expected to be back in April for OTAs. Where did you wind up spending the off season and what did you do to prepare in a pandemic situation? UM? I was. I was back at home in Los Angeles, Phenerma City area. UM and what I did was, I just went back

to the basic. UM. As far as like training or like conditioning, I was training with my high school coach from Saint Jenner in high school much high school track coach doing doing cardio work with him. And also UM as far as lifting, I would I would lift. I have one of my one of my cousin's friends, garage Jim. He had like you know, squire, rag bench and pretty

much everything I needed to to sustain my strength. So um yeah, I just I just made sure that that every day I may count I didn't take one, I take a day off. Um and just and just and just kept that rhythm. Um I would well, actually I would actually wake up early in the morning, like start my day in like around five thirty and that specific time, so just I can train myself to get ready for when I come over to Ohio that I know it's

three hours different. So then when it's time to wake up any morny, I won't be too drag because I'm already used to waken up early and California. So it was just it was just little things like that that I kept in my program. Good thinking of the body clock. And it sounds like that was kind of old school going to a friend's house who had weights in his garage, right right, right, yeah, yeah, exactly what I said, right back to the basics, like you don't need you know,

that big gym to get working. You can still get working with some gunbills, a squad, wreck, a bar and you know, there's little things like that. We're visiting with Winston Rose. Unfortunately, the first serious injury of training camp was to somebody in your position group. Trey Waynes. It looks like he's likely to be out for a couple of months. I know you feel badly for him, but do you look at it like a starting job is

now up for grabs. To be honest, I have no idea what's going on, so I can't speak on that. All our numbers that I'm trying to get better, to do whatever it takes to help the team win and con sure what I can control. Let's talk a little bit about last year you won the Gray Cup, Canada's super Bowl with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Described that experience being professional to win the championships like everything you put put the work in with your teammates, even off season,

that you put in to ultimately reach that goal. So um, it was. It was definitely a movie with Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Our season was it started off hot five and five and then we went through our adversity upper down. But I feel like those diversities that we went through it in the season prepared us for playoffs and compared to be the champions because we knew, we knew how to come back from behind, we knew how to you know,

university strikes in the game, not to quit. Um to lean on, lean on to our brothers and play for each other. So ultimately, yeah, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Seaton last year was a movie. And I'm blessed. I'm grateful, grateful for the Winnipeg organization to bring me in after one year. Year. Um, um, blessed to have to be part of that group. To you know what, I think it was twenty six years or twenty nine years since the last championship championship went

through that city. So to be part of that that's historical, um and multiple. Ultimately, Man, for the fans of Winnipeg, I feel like they deserted to as well. Um, the city, the city itself is uh, it's it's it's birth taking in because it's it's like the fans and the people they just so genuine. That's and that's just in general in Canada that I had got being over there, that the people in Canada is so genuine and so sincere.

So um, yeah, man, it was. It was. It was a movie, man, a movie that definitely that definitely get an Oscar. You must have been very popular in Winnipeg to be there for a year, to lead the fl and interceptions and be part of a team that won the Great Cup. You must be quite a celebra in Winnipeg. I wouldn't say. I wouldn't say a celebrity, But I'm just Winston man. I'm just Western road man from Los Angeles, just doing my part, uh, you know, keeping God first

and everything I do and just just being mean. And I feel like, ultimately, um, that's what Winnipeg. Uh, let me let me do then let me be myself. They didn't. Um, you know, like I said, I played it. I played a game within a system, but ultimately it was just just go out there and do what you do and the rest was The rest was history. And I feel like every every every player to say that, Um, and

we ultimately, we ultimately did it. Man. We ultimately reached that goal that couldn't we couldn't be reached for a long time. So so to be part of that, it's it's it's a further grateful forever grateful. I'm thankful as well too, Winston. Just to wrap things up, describe how you're feeling now that you're here. You're in the early stages of training camp, trying to be a part of this franchise. Going forward. I'm just grateful and grateful every day to get this opportunity to go out there and

you know, just putting down in the football flum. So I'm just taking each day one day at a time, um and lemonade mistakes, keen in details, you know, practicing like a champion and just coming in and trying trying to do my part. Just whatever the caause, like I said, whatever the coaches need me to do, I wanted to do. So. I just want to bring that energy to the team and just show the other coaches and show everybody that I'm a team player. I'm just here to you know, serve.

We're excited to see you do your thing. Have a great camp, stay safe, and I appreciate the time. Thanks Winston, Hello, thank you. Either way, the quarterback of that Great Cup championship team in Winnipeg last year was former University of Cincinnati Bearcat Zach coll Mars. That's going to do it for this episode of the Bengals Booth Podcast brought to you by Prime Sport, the official fan, travel and hospitality

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