awesome to have you here. T welcome, congratulations on,
all your success
Bengals. Looking good arrow pointing up. How you feeling,
feel good, man, you know, thanks to Old Spice for having
me here, you know, he's already a pro were look at this. He go
writings, I got business
to take care of,
all right, give us your Spiel. Then tell us to sell us some
Old Spice right off the bat. They always keep me fresh with
their Swagger's, mayonnaise. Just, you know, put it on every
morning.
Yeah, even before games man, always feeling good, right?
Yeah, I'm a I'm old. I've done this with everybody up here
this week. I'm gonna do it again. Just so you know it goes
on the it's he doesn't know. What goes
on the inside, makes me smell good.
Good.
Now I got some Swagger. All right, first off, I mean,
are you gotten to this point where it's just like, Hey, Jo
doesn't matter. I'm double team but just throw it up to me,
huh? Yeah man, I mean
sometimes you just like bro, give me a chance, right? I'm
gonna make that play,
you know, it's up to me. It's 80/20. Yeah, it's 80/20. It's
not that. The, I like that. So what about? I'm always
interested because you look like you can jump through
the roof like
we talking any dunk we want on the basketball court. Oh yeah,
he's pretty much anything, man. I was, I would love to know
what that feels like, how competitive are the receivers
among each other because you got three great ones. All
right.
How do you guys interact and you know who makes the big
catch or practice or whatever you guys have that rivalry
going internally? Yeah, for sure, definitely coming into
every game.
We always have a little side bet, you know who's going to
have the most yards, who's going to have most touch.
Bounce.
I feel like that helps us stay competitive and helps to stay
in the game. You know, when one's going off we return for
one another
no matter what. So
you you
bitter right now little, you know, that you're not here
a little bit. Yeah, I mean, you know, that it comes with it
but, you know,
at the end of the day, you know, I got some friends on
the chief. So you know, I'm probably those guys as well.
Yeah. Alright, so you talk about the Chiefs a little bit,
you know? I mean, you got the best of them the last few
times, all right? You gotta go.
Great rivalry. Like what? You got? Your bolt Super Bowl
caliber teams. What what makes them, you know? Special or
better, maybe this year than they were even
last year in your mind and it was just, you know,
able to finish. You can tell that together as a team. Yeah,
they just got that mindset that they're going to get it done
and finish at the end of the day, like you guys a lot of
ways. Yes, was able to finish right? Well, and I also feel
like
the way that you guys got treated in the aftermath of
the game, that was cancer.
I feel like everybody in the organization.
He's upset and kind of used it as a galvanizing force is
a motivator. Like Hey, we're getting the short end of it
here. Like we're going to do it coin flip, maybe to see if we
have to go play in Baltimore, even though we wanted to
vision and then they're not talking about neutral site for
a. We gotta go on the road and did how much of that really
provided kind of that that
you know, that kick in the ass?
Well, in the postseason but definitely,
you know, with the coin flip thing,
obviously, no one like that, but
we ended up winning that game then getting at home playoff
game, but
Just have to play it like, you know,
I mean the rules are the rules, they got the rules there for
a reason and we just have to just just be us at the end of
the day and just go out there and bought
you.
I want to jump off that a little bit. Like, you guys seem
like one of the closest teams there is no, what, what is it?
What is it about? You Jamar Joe, that it seems like there's
no egos. You're just in it right?
You hang on. Hang out with each other a lot off the field too.
Yeah, we definitely try to do that and I'll meet me Jamar Joe
Yo, TB,
sometimes the running backs we do taco. Tuesdays, almost every
Tuesday. Okay, you know, just to keep that, you know that
connection. Yeah. Your beef, your chicken shrimp. What do
you put in the tacos? All of it. All of it.
I switch it up. Sometimes I have be. Sometimes a shrimp,
you know. Chicken
and my favorite though is taco salad taco salad.
I ordered one for lunch today.
Does that mean you got taco salad? All right. So wait, tell
us to because we're were fans of you guys. I mean we talked
about you and Jamal
Joe talked about Joe and just what, you know, what is it
about? The jobber. Oh Magic. That kind of seems to you know
kind of permeate through the team to give you
guys confidence.
He's just one of those leaders that you can see the poison
within them you know.
He comes in same time early
you know he's gonna do what he needs to do
even though the field and if a guy's not you know having
a good practice, he's going to speak up he will like he'll
mother F some guys every now and this is something he will
like
it was one time where Where a guys like going in the Huddle
slow,
right? And he's letting us know, like,
and it's a championship week and get your butt in and out of
the Huddle, we gotta get some paste. Yeah. And, you know, you
always want a guy like that running the shows, right,
right. When it's cigar time,
do you smoke one? When he breaks them out?
I didn't this year last year. I did.
Did you like get sick to the stomach? First time you had one
and I like, yeah, right. I'm with you had to Chris like
Chris likes a difference. I like the other kind of cigars
but the green stuff inside.
Like
you know, something weird happened last week to all of
a sudden your name was trending because somebody reported
something like you're going to be traded instead of getting
a contract, whatever, what's your reaction? When you see that
just
kind of come up out of the blue, that kind of
BS Hasina? Obviously, I ain't say nothing about it. Nobody
within my, within my team, say anything about it. So when
I seen it was
shocking to me, but at the end of the day, I know what I got
going on internally with the organization. And, you know,
I love Cincinnati. OH,
I love being there
and hopefully we can.
Hopefully I'm there for you know,
most of my career
I mean you gotta feel like something special is brewing,
right? For sure. I mean tip of the iceberg, right? So give me
like you know, he asks you about Jamar Chase. What's one
thing?
You wish you could take from Jamar, Chase. And one thing you
think he probably wants to take from you? Yeah.
You know his route running is this precise, it is right?
I would definitely,
you know, take that from him. I guess a billy just to stick
the foot in the ground. 90 degree turn then especially as
his yacht is running out to catch. Yeah, he's really good
at that the acceleration. Right? Yeah. And I think
one thing he could take me is you know obviously the high
point here you are the high point, right?
He can't mess with you in that department on. I got that
good good, you know, one other thing I want to say and we're
glad you're here.
The stuff that happened with Tamar Hamlin. And I'm not going
to name names, but there were some folks in our business that
were stupid for spreading some b*******. Yeah. And it was some
dumbass stuff. It was a normal play
that play happens all the time. Every game, every time it gets
played of every level, it was the flu. Key is to the fluke
things. So, and again, I don't know how much that got you had.
I been,
I mean, I know that you're the one who is the person who hits
him, you're going to be feeling it, but it's it just happens.
There's no fault. There's no one to blame. It just happened.
So so basically, what up with all that
obviously, you know, I'm the one that, you know, initiated
the contact, right?
Just trying to make football. Trying to get extra yard, catch
the ball, tuck your head down time, right? Exactly. And
obviously I've seen the comment but I don't really think
nothing of it. I mean that's just a pain. Other people had
their opinions
and I know what happened. I know what
what type of player was, I know what I was trying to do
and I'll talk to the family and everything was all good. Yeah,
it's good. You take the high road. I mean not. Everything is
subjected to opinions. Sometimes there can only be one
opinion, and the other one is just b*******, and that's what
this one was. So I'm glad you're handling it. Well,
because I know how I'd feel.
I know how we Called feel if we were the ones who just happen
to be in that wrong place at the wrong time, and it's good
that he's doing well.
The nflpa is doctor said yesterday. He's going to play again,
guaranteed. He's going to play again. That's awesome. That's
the first time I heard this right. All right. Well, while
we're on that subject, like give us like just a little
minute spiel about how that kind of
like, all right, he goes down right? And you're probably
like, okay he
got a head thing or whatever. Right.
So basically, when did you know of our? We got real or so to
play when, when he talked with me? Yeah, he was
Something me obviously
you don't want to buy Young some like, you know, get up
off. Yeah right. And so he gets up stood upright and I see not
fall but I'm thinking
that one of my, one of my teammates like bumping, he just
flops, right? Look back, like I'll, he's hopping like it up.
Yeah. That's and then I look back again, right. That's where
everybody. Joe mix-ins. Like, we gotta get people's my little
series. I was like, oh no right
to turn my head. Right. Okay. So you think it's serious then
but then you weren't thinking like oh man, it's a heart
attack, right? You're not thinking, wow.
Thinking nothing crazy. I just thought like, you know, say
maybe a compelling issue, has whatever, right? Little woozy
and then, all right. So how many minutes go by to where it
starts? Do now the Bangles sideline starts to go.
Oh wait. This is like this. It's probably
probably like three minutes. Three to four minutes. Go by
the everybody was like whoa what's going on?
And then obviously me job mixing and some of the guys
telling the other guys what happened and right and it was
just crazy. Yeah, man,
well, it was a weird night. A strange night unprecedented for
a Out of us and I'm just glad you're doing well.
Everybody focused on to Mars, we should but you were part of
it too. And I'm glad that you're doing well and you're
doing well on the field. Bengals are doing well.
We say this to all the guys who make the players, we don't want
to see you here next. Yeah, don't be here, but won't be any
package in this way time to get paid.
Send me one of those necklaces. When you do, I got you. I got
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