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Let's get to the radio replays from Sunday's win over Jacksonville.

After starting the season with a win in Cleveland, the Bengals look for another in a jam packed pay Corpse Stadium.

The noise level will be deafening today as the Bengals open the home schedule in orange against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and it is time for the pig skin to fly.

Here in the jungle horn stop straight back to throw pressure coming his past interceptment in the end zone.

Trey Hendrickson d great pressure and the throw went right to Dax Hill for an end zone takeaway.

Burrow in the gun with p Ryme to his left, Jamar Chase out to the left.

Three receivers, including Higgins out to the right.

Burrow looking for Chase Slamm bye touchdown.

Jamar Chase cutting inside of Tyson Campbell from the left.

He's doing the gritty and the Bengals have scored.

Third down and six.

Lawrence back to throw penalty flag down pass some of the middle is intercepted.

The Bengals have the ball Shortan battled with the pick and he's tackled at the thirty yard line.

First and ten from the thirteen yard line at Cincinnati looks for a tying touchdown.

Browning floats it toward the end zone and it is caught for the touchdown.

Mitch Tinsley with his first NFL catch and it goes for a touchdown in the back right corner of the end zone.

Harris snaps it back to Browning from the pocket.

He flings it deep down the sideline, chased with a catch still on his feet, Nacon Higgins.

He'll walk into the end zone for a Bengals touchdown.

The Bengals can't flinch.

I'm fourth down and five.

Hold your water.

O'clock is at five.

They snap it to Trevor Lawrence.

He's looking.

He throws and it's dropped.

Thomas dropped it at the three.

I can't believe that Jacksonville did not kick a field goal to go up by six.

Now the Bengals could force overtime with a field goal or win the game with a touchdown.

Fourth and five, Browning to throw.

He floats it high and deep for Yo Sivosh.

There's a penalty flag down Travis Hunter in coverage, Andre yupsee Vosh interfered with in field goal range.

Third down, end goal inches away, nineteen seconds on the clock.

Jake Browning will be under center.

Chase brown lines up behind.

Now Sample goes behind the quarterback and shoves him.

It's a touchdown.

Shake Browning, with eighteen seconds left in regulation, has given the Bengals their first lead all day.

Jacksonville will flood the right side of the field with wide receivers Lawrence waiting for the shotgun snap with eighteen seconds left.

The Bengals leap by four deep top Hendrickson nails him and that is Coffin nails Bam, bam bam, and the Cincinnati Bengals are two and zero.

It wasn't easy, but they get the job done thanks to Shake Browning fast start check as the Bengals beat Jacksonville thirty one to twenty seven.

As you know, Joe Burrow left the game of the toe injury at the eight thirty six mark of the second quarter and did not return.

Ian Rappaport from the NFL Network reports that it's turf toe.

We'll get more from the Bengals on Monday, but one thing's for certain.

The Bengals can win games while he's out.

Jake Browning went four and three as a starter when Joe hurt his wrist two years ago, and rallied the Bengals from four different deficits in the win over Jacksonville, overcoming three interceptions to direct the fifteen play ninety two yard drive to win the game.

He talked to Dave Lapham after the.

Victory unbelievable football game.

I mean it's one of the craziest games I've ever seen.

Back and forth we go.

I mean, the Bengals take their first lead with eighteen seconds to play, win the game by four points.

I mean, what were you thinking?

What was going through your mind when you were in the huddle quarterback in this football team down the stretch?

Really the whole time you were playing.

You were in the game a significant amount of time.

Office you were the guy.

You had a hell of a game.

Yeah, I mean I've just tried to keep a level ahead.

Obviously have some players on want bag.

Not my best game, but you know, I think the defense did a really good job of obviously forcing turnout is our fourth down stop was huge.

And for me, it's just, you know, especially at the end of the game, it's like, don't shell up, like stay aggressive, you know.

I mean I threw three picks, which is pretty bad, but it's like, all right, we got a chance to go win it, Like, don't shell up and get tentative.

Now, like go win the game.

And so, uh that's what that's what we did.

We did.

I mean, it was really fun to play again.

That's gonna be so tough.

I mean you're you're you're getting ready to play the Jaguars.

I mean, you were in all the meetings, all the practices, are all that sort of thing, the limited snaps with guys who were in the huddle with trying to execute to win the football game.

How do you how do you put all that aside?

How do you focus?

How do you get your mind right to go out there and play at the level that you played at?

I mean I go into every every game as a backup, like going through in my head, like what's this gonna be like if I get thrown in?

Because I mean, that's that's the point having a backup is being ready to go.

And you get thrown in, and so, uh, you know, like I know everybody else is really shocked, but like that's really the only thing I've prepared for all week is getting thrown in.

And so obviously unfortunately what happened to Joe and hope he's okay.

But that's that's the purpose of having a backup is be ready to get thrown in.

And so for me, it's just stay calm, go through reads, and stay aggressive.

You know I know that, Uh, the offensive line, they love you and they love you and huddle, they love what you're all about.

Uh, they want to play for you.

They want to win football games with you at the at the quarterback position.

I'm sure to a man they'd say we didn't have our best game.

We didn't play as well as we can play in front of Jake, and we when we know we can play better and we know we'll play better if Jake's quarterback next week, which looks like very well could be the case, we're gonna come out, we're gonna play better.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't play great either, So I'm not gonna sit here and say anything about the old line.

I'm pretty focused on, you know, trying to do my job.

And yeah, I think we're all tied up in here for a while.

A lot of the same guys have been here for a while, and so you know, I think anytime you win a game and NFL like Sundays are are happy.

But you know, I think tomorrow we definitely got to come back and be critical of even though there's this emotional high of making sure we make the adjustments and improvements or any.

Me included adjustments you talk about and then discipline, what what does it take to be disciplined enough to say, all right, well that didn't go well.

That series didn't unfold the way I really wanted it to.

You know, made a mistake here and made a mistake there.

But you put all that aside, and there's one drive to win a football game.

One drive.

That's it.

If you don't win it, you're done.

You lose the football game.

What's it like to get your mind right to execute that in that in that stage, on that stage.

Yeah, I mean, I feel fortunate to throw three picks and still have the chance at the end of the game.

And I think it's because our defense played really well and had some big stops, some big turnovers, and uh yeah, I mean I think, especially in two minutes, a lot of your base stuff and so I got a lot of reus in that.

Like, you know, I didn't practice any of the game band players this week, but I've been in the offense for a while, and so when you get on the ball and call the simple you know, basic stuff, I feel pretty good about it.

And try to stack completions like we got so many weapons, just get them the ball.

You mentioned that you got so many weapons.

Jamar Chase t Higgins and a whole bunch of others.

What's it like to go into a football game looking in the huddle?

You got number one, Jamar Chase, number five T Higgins looking back at you, and you know they're giving you a smile and wink.

You know they're ready to go, They're ready to play.

Well, what kind of a feeling, a feeling of confidences that give a quarterback?

I mean, I don't really know how the Scott the Felix.

I felt confident when I went in, and you know how they feel about it all that, you'd have to ask them.

But for me, it's just distribute the ball.

Get it to T, Jamar, my Chase, Samaji was running.

Through everybody today, Drey.

I mean, there were so many people that we have so many weapons.

It's just like, don't sit back there with the ball forever.

Just get it to them and let them do their thing.

And you know, especially especially tomorrow and teams special I know.

And finally, this is the last question.

Zach Taylor.

I know that a couple of times, you know, you guys talked about things and I could see, you know, he gave you a couple of nuggets and you kind of nodded your head and like your cool thumb up, I got it.

Kind of thing he knows as a head coach, with you at quarterback, he does not have to do anything differently, not a damn thing.

He knows that he can run the offense.

Did you guys have been running all week long?

He knows you're gonna run it at a very high level.

He knows you're gonna be professional.

He knows you're not gonna make mistakes.

He knows you're gonna get all your teammates involved.

What's what's that feeling like when you know the head coach has that much confidence in you.

I mean, I think the main thing is, like I've said a few times, got through three picks and I never felt like he lost as cool.

I mean, I've never seen him lose the school ever.

And so when you get thrown into a game and kind of a tough situation, you know, it's not surprising that we always, you know, generally do all these games and final way to stick around because our head coach never loses his school.

So I throw my third pick.

It looks like we just lost the game, and he's still just steady.

And so as a quarterback.

It's like the nicest thing ever where you know, not making my job any harder by screaming at me on the sideline or anything.

And so probably deserved it, but it was nice that he didn't.

He's like, hey, next play, here we go.

And you just feel like that's steady calmness that allows you to play like that, And so I think it goes to the whole staff, but it really starts with Zach Jake.

Unbelievable game.

Go home, rest up, get some get some good grub, get some rest.

You deserve, man, well.

Earn and well deserved.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Jake completed twenty one out of thirty two passes, that's sixty six percent for two hundred and forty one yards, with two touchdown throws and the game winning touchdown run.

And Jamar Chase had an incredible game with fourteen catches for one hundred and sixty five yards and a touchdown a few feet away from Browning in the locker room.

The Bengals offensive linemen were more subdued.

It's a terrible feeling when your quarterback leaves with an injury, and that feeling is ten times worse when that quarterback.

Is Joe Burrow finally coming off a normal training cap.

Here's my conversation with team captain Ted Karris, Ted, that's a heck of a win.

What can you say about Jake Browning and the resiliency that he showed today.

I mean, anytime he comes in the game obviously is not something we want, but when he comes in, he wins ball games for us.

So I'm no fear, no panic, and got it done.

That's that's my guy.

Give us inside the huddle, feel you take over it your own.

Eight three forty two to go, needing a field goal.

What's the talk, what's the mood?

How did you guys attack that final drive?

You know, I told everyone at halftime they were really they were going off our calls, so there was no more calls being called.

So everyone just know what to do.

Everyone really responded, and I just had a feeling we're gonna win the game.

I tried to feel, you know, whatever that energy he was and we went and got it done on a QB SNEA.

So very proud of the guys today.

There are a lot of quarterbacks that come off the bench for somebody like Joe Burrow and lead ninety two yard drives in the final four minutes.

Do you feel like you have the best backup quarterback in the NFL.

I think that's pretty obvious, you know.

I think he's obviously a starter in the league, and we're blessed to have good depth there.

Really sucks that we have to test it.

So hope Joe's okay.

We'll see him tomorrow.

Is the joy muted by the fact that he had to exit the second quarter.

Absolutely, it's the best player in the world.

You're two and oh.

Everybody talked about a fast start.

Neither game was easy, but the bottom line is you're the only team in the AFC North off to a two and oh start.

What's the satisfaction level there?

You know, I just want to go three to zero against a good Minnesota team that we got to go up there, so.

Gotta go get it done.

So we're gonna go watch this film.

First half was a nightmare, and h luckily we all responded.

No one, you know, no one flinched, So you know, we'll get back tomorrow and watch this and figure out what's next.

Congrats on the win.

Thank you.

Now let's hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent four minutes with lap after the game.

It was a crazy game, back and forth it went.

You took your first lead with eighteen seconds to play.

That's that's mind boggling.

I've never been in a situation like that as a player, high school, college, or NFL where trailed the whole game and just stayed after it.

Showed the guts and determination to stay after a discipline and then take the lead and win the game with eighteen seconds to play.

What does that mean to you as a head coach?

Well, just a halftime.

We're sitting there down seventeen to ten, and I just told the guys, this is a great opportunity for us to be in right now, and we'll find out what this team has made of early in the year.

I'd rather find out earlier than late.

And so all they did was respond and find the way to get us a win late and really proud of these guys.

So different players obviously stepped up for you on different levels areas of the football team, offense, defense, and special teams.

Give us your take as you reflect back on the football game on guys that had special performances for you.

Too many to truthfully name Jamar obviously stands out.

We're gonna find as many ways to get Jamar chase the ball as possible because it always pays off for us.

Mitch Tinsley with his first career catch, first career touchdown on a run play that Jacob I heard if he had the confidence, Jake's confidence and given Andrea one on one up fourth down on the last drive to draw a DPI, changing the route to go to him, the lineman stepping up and protecting in the second half and giving Jake an opportunity there in the second half to help us go win the game with the clean pocket defensively, just Dax Hill and Jordan Battle creating two turnovers for us in huge situations, the whole defense rising up after a sudden change that was going to end the game down there in the ten yard line and getting a stop on fourth down that allowed us to go score touchdown and win the game, not tye go win the game.

And so really proud all and their kickoff return team, and we're getting a great yardage on the kickoff return with all those guys out there.

So just overall really pleased with the way the coaches and the players finish the game.

Were you surprised that the Jaguars went forward on fourth down?

I think Liam, you know, he's got a new staff and he's setting a tone for his team that we're gonna be aggresive and go win the game.

And sometimes that's I've lived that life.

Sometimes at backfires on you, and that's just that's part of coaching.

And again, if they convert there, it's a ten point game, the game's over and it's a great decision.

And when they don't, he'll he'll catch his heat for it.

But Liam, Liam's a great coach.

I mean, two games in, he's got the team playing the way.

He's already got a plan.

So again, that's the team that's gonna have a great year coming out of the AFC South.

They got a chance to win that division just after playing them one time.

They got great coaches and players, got a lot of respect for that group.

And so again it's just proud of our guys were the ones that rose up and made a play and gave the offense the ball.

Bet.

I know you're not a doctor, and I know you don't talk about injuries with Joe Burrow, pretty important guy.

I mean he's a big player with the football team.

There's saying as to toe injury you is there anything else you can further information?

No, I really don't.

You know, We'll just we'll figure out more information later.

And what about the upcoming opponent?

You can go three and oh in the National Football League.

H that's not easily done.

That takes takes a lot, takes a lot of resolve, takes a lot of discipline, a lot of desire, execution, I mean all kinds of things.

What will it take for your football team to go three and oh.

True resilience.

This is going to be maybe the lottest environment we'll ever plan, you know, going on the road to Minnesota.

I don't know what the record.

I don't know if they've already played it they or not, but they played at night, so we'll see.

We know we're gonna get their best.

They got a great coaching staff, really good players.

They make life really difficult for you with their defense.

We'll put together a great plan and go attack them and work come being three and oh.

Heck of a football game two and oh start.

You can't ask for anything better.

Did you feel like during the course of training camp this might be a special group.

I know we have a lot of special players, and it's how are they going to come together that remains to be seen.

Training camp is easy in the sense that there's not a lot of real adversity.

Now we face real adversity the last two weeks, and then I've seen how this team response to that, and so I'm happy to pack them up and take them on the road next week to Minnesota.

Two weeks into the season, the Bengals are alone on top of the AFC North with their two to zero record.

The Ravens are one and one after a forty one to seventeen win over Cleveland, The Steelers are one and one after losing by fourteen at home to the Seahawks, and the Browns are zero to two.

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Now time for the radio guys recap lap I feel like I can safely say the Bengals not only have arguably the best quarterback in the NFL, but they arguably have the best backup quarterback in the NFL.

It wasn't perfect, Jake Browning threw three picks, but when you can take a team on a fifteen play ninety two yard drive in the final three minutes and forty two seconds to win a game, there aren't many guys that can do that.

I agree.

I mean that takes guts, determination, savvy confidence.

He's got a tremendous amount of confidence.

I mean, you have to believe in yourself, and Jake brown believes in himself.

There's no doubt.

If you don't believe in yourself, it doesn't matter if everybody else does.

You got to be the one to step up first and say, you know, I know I can get this done.

I've done it before, I can do it again.

And the thing that impressed me the most as a form alignment, if you're seeing him come into the huddle the way he does, total poise, extremely calm, very matter of fact.

Guys, were gonna get this done, and here's how we're gonna do it.

I mean, you respond to a guy like that, and they do.

They respond to Jake brown They like him, They like him as a person, they love him as a as a quarterback.

They love the way he leads the football team.

He's a guy that knows his role, doesn't try to overstep uh anything or anybody.

He's uh He's a great teammate, greatest spree to core guy.

He's he's all about, you know, making sure that the team's upbeat, enthusiastic about the upcoming opponent.

And this might be his job for a few weeks.

I mean, Joe's got a too injury that those things can be, you know, dangerous, they can be iffy, and you don't know necessarily until you know, maybe a couple of three days.

I'm sure he's gotten an MRI I already.

I don't know what the damage has shown, if any, but you know he's going to be off that thing for a while.

There's no doubt that's the The only way it's going to get better is to is to give it rest and relaxation.

So it's gonna be Jake Browning's football team.

Jake's the guy for a while.

And that's the life of a backup quarterback.

Ever.

Know, when when the call is going to come.

How long the call will be?

Uh, it might, it might be for for a lot longer than you think.

Uh.

He's the kind of guy though, that it's got He's got it in him to have a great season and to lead the Bengals to a you know, a really good season in the playoffs and maybe ultimately the super Bowl.

Who knows.

Hopefully Joe's not out for all that long.

There's no official word on that yet, but the last time that Jake Browning played an extended period of time was two years ago.

Started seven games, won four.

One of those wins was a tremendous win over Jacksonville, so he's done that twice.

The next game is against Minnesota, which was another tremendous performance by Jake in a memorable game at pay Corp Stadium, where afterward he screamed at the cameras to remind the Vikings that they let him go.

So he'll be facing the team that he started his NFL career with, assuming that Joe is not back next week.

And that means something to a guy.

You want to go out and perform well against the team that believed in you enough to bring you to their organization from the collegiate level.

And uh, believe me, you want to beat them.

You want to you want to thump them if you possibly can.

And uh, Jake Browning is gonna want to thump the Minnesota Vikings.

You can be you can rest sured about that.

Uh.

He's he's competitive.

That's that's the thing that I admire about about him the most.

I mean, you know, he's not gonna feel like he's second fiddle to anybody.

And he knows he's got weapons.

He knows he's got teammates that can perform at an unbelievably high level.

He knows if he gives them the opportunity, they're going to step up and perform for him.

They're gonna win football games for him.

So, uh, he knows his role and and he's he's good at it.

He really is.

Jamar Chase is good at his role.

Fourteen catches one off his career high, which is the Bengals single game record one hundred and sixty five yards.

Jamar has done better than that before, but it's still incredible, and his first touchdown of the season.

This was one of those games where it felt like even though Jacksonville knew it was coming and designed its defense to try and stop it from happening.

Jamar Chase just said, you know what, I'm better than you guys.

I'm going to catch the ball, drag three guys, getting extra five to ten yards, and just keep doing it all day.

Yeah.

And that's the thing with Jamar Chase.

He's such an unbelievable physical talent.

He's better than everybody.

He's physically better than everybody, everybody at his position group, everybody goes against in the defensive back position group.

And you know, to me, it didn't look like you know, when Joe was in there, he didn't obviously, and then when Jake went in there, Jake wasn't trying to force feed the ball to Jamar Chase.

It just was part of the natural flow of the offense.

And honestly, until I remember a couple of times you updated the stats that Jamar was accumulating during the course of the game, and I'm like, jeez, that's a little bit more like, you know, I'm trying to remember all those catches and you know, and you can remember some, obviously, they're all great.

And he plays he plays a beautiful game of football, you know, every catch he makes, it seems to be memorable.

You know, he always he always has something to do.

He plays with such a flare, such a panache.

You know, it's like, uh, he's he's a superstar.

That's that's the bottom line.

He he he dots every eye, crosses every t that you have to have to be a successful wide receiver from the National Football League.

Last year, the Bengals had some breaks that didn't go their way.

Missed field goal in overtime against Baltimore, fourth and sixteen penalty against Kansas City in Week two.

Well, we're two weeks into this season and some key breaks have gone their way.

The Browns kicker choked in Week one.

Today, fourth and five, less than two minutes to go, and the second pick in the draft, Travis Hunter commits a pass interference penalty on Andre Josibash to keep the Bengals alive.

The Bengals today capitalized on every mistake that was made by the Joshuville Jaguars, and unfortunately, you know, to start the seasons in prior years, that's what the opponent was doing to the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Bengals and key moments would make huge mistakes, monumental mistakes, you know, and not be able to recover.

Well, that's ultimately what Jacksonville did.

They made enough mistakes where they kept the Bengals in the football game.

I mean, they never trailed by more than seven points.

And you know that's kind of crazy when you look at some of the numbers in the first half, second half, you know, it was a little bit different.

But I just thought that for them to hang in there the way they did, to show the mental toughness that they did, the intestinal fortitude and everything that goes along with it, I thought, you know, mentally and physically, I think this football team has what it takes.

I think this could be a special year.

You know, I was part of a team in eighty one that went to the Super Bowl, and was a broadcaster in a team in eighty eight that went to the Super Bowl and then Super Bowl fifty four here recently it's a broadcast.

So this team has what it takes.

This team has the intangibles, has the has the the things that are needed, uh to you know, keep winning games, keep winning at a high level, doing what's necessary to get out of a out of a game with the victory that he had no right doing.

This is the first example of it.

I think there are going to be a few more examples of it during the course of this season.

Doctor Ted Karris after the game on the postgame show, he was not joyous.

When you're an offensive lineman and you are blocking for one of the best quarterbacks in the world, are you gutted when he exits the game?

Regardless of the outcome.

You are an offensive lineman's main job is to protect the quarterback, and uh, you know, number nine is the best quarterback in my mind in the National Football League, and his lineman believed that.

Obviously they think he's the best, uh and and they want to protect him at all costs, and when it doesn't happen, they're crushed, devastated, destroyed.

You know.

It's an emotional it's emotional downer.

I mean, it really is.

There's no other way to put it.

And uh, you know that that's probably that does not allow them to celebrate victory because it costs them.

That victory, costs them their star quarterback and it's their fault and they're not happy about it.

Based on what Ted was saying, it sounded like Jacksonville's front had to read on the Bengals calls in the first half, and they were getting good jumps as a result.

It sounded like the Bengals mixed that up in the second half.

But does that happen.

Are there games where for whatever reason, the other team kind of has a feel for that and and consistently gets good jumps on you.

Yeah, it's happened.

I mean, I remember, you know, back in the playing days, when when teams feel like from film study, uh, and then sometimes you know, they can pick up the audible, the sound, the audio of the and they hear the snap count and can really you know, get a beat on it.

And there's so dam athletic, so quick, and they're off in that ball before you know, you can even get out of your stands.

So I think it was all of that, you know.

I think the fact that they were gifted athletically.

They have a good defensive football team.

They've spent high draft picks on their defensive front, on the defensive line, and it's paid off for them.

And I think they had a pretty good handle on what the Bengals were doing.

And then the Bengals made some adjustments in terms of probably snap count and how they aligned themselves formationally, personnel wise, configurations, all of that to keep them on their heels a little bit, because man, they were teeing off and you just can't allow that to happen in the NFL.

If Joe Burrow's out next week, we'll see if Jake Browning can take the Bengals on the road and lead them to a three and oh start.

That would be magnificent.

I think Jake has got what it takes, man.

I think he's all about guts, determination, positive attitude.

Players on to him.

He's a leader.

Oh put my money down on Jake Brownie.

Up next a road game against the Minnesota Vikings.

That's a one o'clock kick on Sunday with Jim Nantz and Tony Romo on the call for CBS.

Now time for this week's fun fact segment.

In last week's season Openers, starting right guard Lucas Patrick exited the game of a calf injury early in the second quarter, and in came the recently signed Dalton Reisner.

He had only had two padded practices since January, but Reisner played the rest of the game and played well, allowing just one quarterback pressure.

On twenty four passing plays.

His effort drew praise from Captain Ted Karras.

In the case of Dalton Reisner, I thought it was one of the most stunning displays of football professionalism that I've ever seen.

Yeah, you know, I think he's been in pads twice in eight months.

And then you know, puts puts the fifth overall pick, you know, and Handcuffs really really had a solid game.

You know, I think, you know, Mason Graham's gonna be really good, but Dalton came out and did we need to do so we could rely on them, knew the communication had to handle the silent count.

I was really really happy, kind of blown away by the amount of, like I said, professionalism that he showed going out there helping us win a football game.

Now, let's mate the thirty year old offensive lineman in his seventh NFL season.

Time for some fun facts with offensive lineman Dalton Reisner from Wiggins, Colorado, a small town about an hour away from Denver.

I've read that you grew up on a farm.

Was that the case?

And do you fit the stereotype of being country strong from working on the farm as a kid.

I'd say most definitely.

You know, I always have to say we didn't grow up on a farm.

We grew up on a ranch because we had fifty head of cattle, pigs, horses, dogs, the whole get out, and we had one hundred acres right and I was bull riding.

I was a bull rider up.

I barrel raced.

I tried to rope calves at one point.

And I grew up working on farms.

So you know farms when it comes to wheat harvest and corn and.

Millet and you name it out there, you know.

I worked for a bunch of farmers I worked.

I worked at a dairy farm growing up as well.

So whether it was building barbarire fence, branding cattle, scoop and poop at the dairy farm, or walk into wheat fields for.

Rye, That's what I grew up doing.

So any type of physical strength I have, I'm gonna have to attest it to that.

Just how small is Wiggins?

Wiggins is about When I was going to school there, it was about eight to nine hundred people in the whole town.

I want to say it's about fifteen.

Hundred or more now I haven't looked it up, but when I was going to school there, was one A football, so it was the slow It was the smallest classification of eleven man football.

There were seventeen guys on my football team.

So I was on kickoff, kick return, punt return, I was linebacker on defense.

You played every single way, so up until college, I was like, oh, I only have to play one way.

This is wild.

So you had to be in very good shape.

Obviously the level of athleticism wasn't very good at the one A level, but regardless, that's how small it was.

There's no stoplights, one.

Restaurant, count two if you count the chicken tenders at the gas station, which I love.

The chicken tenders at the gas station, stubs, gas and oil shout out.

Other than that, there is a hardware store, a school, and all the farmers and ranchers that live in the town.

That's about it, man, that's the size of Wiggins.

Your dad was your coach in high school?

Did he treat you like everybody else?

Or was he especially hard on you?

To make a point, Oh, he gave me the special treatment.

And by special treatment, I don't mean he gave me anything.

Man.

He was hard on me.

This is back when coaches could grab you by your face mask and get in your face.

That's not really allowed nowadays.

But my dad created the pee wee football program in our small town.

When we moved to Wiggins, there was no pee wee football program, so he started a peew football program.

I'm one of five boys, so I was the third boy in line, and we all went through the football program.

When the two older boys got to junior high, he became the junior high coach.

He coached me through junior high and by the time I was getting to eighth grade, he wanted to become the high school football coach in Wiggins.

You have to be on the teaching staff to be a football coach.

My dad the guy he is, and this is why he is a full time job, right, And he goes and petitions and gets the whole town of eight hundred people.

I think he got six hundred signatures to take to the school board to say that they wanted him to be their head high school football coach.

And he kind of strong armed the school board and he became the head football coach.

Without happened to be at the school and yeah, coached all of us five boys through high school, went to a state championship had some success.

The voters spoke the voters.

When it came time to pick a college, you chose Kansas State, about seven hours away yk State.

You know, Kansas State was one of those teams I just felt like fit my mold.

It was a blue collar program.

It was run by Bill Snyder at the time, and I felt like the staff was more interested in molding me into a young man and a follower of Jesus and just a good human being, maybe as a father and as a son before a football player.

And not everything glitters it glows.

But I really enjoyed my time at Kansas State.

It was perfect for me.

I was a kid that needed time to grow, so I red shirted, and you know, it was seven hours up the road from where I lived in Wiggans, Colorado, and it just kind of it kind of fit the mold for a kid coming from Wiggins, Colorado.

You had a great career at Kansas State, and then after that a dream came true in twenty nineteen in the NFL Draft when you were selected by your childhood team, the Denver Broncos in the second round.

Describe that draft experience.

Oh was wild.

I mean, I'm such a competitor.

I remember I was so ticked off that night because I felt like I should be a first round draft pick.

Looking back, I'm like, man, you should have been jumping up and off the walls, which I was so excited.

John Elway called me when I was at Elway's in downtown Denver and you know, was talking about getting a flight.

I said, brother, I'm already at Elways downtown.

That's why I'm celebrating.

I just got to drive thirty minutes in the morning to get the playbooks.

So for me, I grew up in a family that didn't have much.

You know, there was a time where we were getting Christmas presents dropped off on our doorstep.

This is way when we were.

Young, young, young, And you know, I got to go to maybe two or three Bronco games growing up, but it was always what I wanted to do.

I mean I remember looking down at the Broncos just being like, that would be sick if I could do that someday.

And I was always kind of the kid that dreamed big.

So for me, when I got drafted, to like actually put on the helmet and be a part of the program and do it for four years and run out of the tunnel was absolutely surreal, and that opportunity in two weeks to go back.

It won't be my first time, but it's gonna be another cool opportunity to be back there.

How crazy was it to have John Elway as a boss?

Oh?

It was wild.

I mean I grew up watching the guy.

I mean that's that's the jersey that you see growing up, right, Everyone's talking about Elway, and that's what Grandpa was talking about, and that's who mom likes and all these different things.

And for John Elwie to be the guy that picked you, it sure meant a lot.

And I created a relationship with him to where my time in Denver.

You know, I talked to him on the phone and we text, and yeah, I had a lot of respect for I have a lot of respect for him.

I read a story where you said the following, I hope scouts watch my tape and say, Reisner must have been ticked off.

Do you become a different person on the field?

Oh?

I tried to man, I don't know when that quotes from.

That's hilarious.

But I've always tried to play with a extra level of grit or work hards to me, But yeah, you can't be mister nice guy when you're in a football field.

You're trying to put food on the table and the plate for your family, and you're trying to make a career out of the job that you're doing.

And being in the league seven years you understand, and being on the street two weeks ago you understand how hard this job is and you understand that it waits for nobody and I don't care who you are, So yeah, a level of change when you cross those white lines is needed for a guy like me.

Offensive line is interesting in that sense because it's obviously very physical, but there's also a tremendous x's and o's chess match going on at that position.

Which part of it do you like more?

The easier one for me is the chess match because it's all between the ears, and that's something you can prep for throughout the week, and the more you study it, the more you dial in, the more you lock in.

I feel like the more that you can edge out your opponent mentally, the physical side sometimes, in my opinion, it's not a work hard standpoint.

Sometimes you know.

You got the kid from Wigans, Colorado going against the five star recruit from Gosh knows where.

So I think the physical thing, the physical side of things can be harder at times, but that's also one that with a great respons great responsibility comes great reward because you get to go against these great players and when you find yourself blocking them up, it's a great feeling too.

We're visiting with Dalton Reisner.

After four years in Denver in two years with Minnesota Vikings, you were a free agent this past offseason and didn't sign until late August.

How did you stay ready?

Man?

Great questions.

It's hard to talk about because, man, I am so grateful for the way that I did approach things, and so grateful for a wife that you know, supports me each and every day, even when sometimes the dream seems a little bit far fetched, because you know, there were I'm waking up at six am every day and I'm going out to my garage and I'm putting the garage door up, and I'm doing an hour lift, and I'm putting my cleats on.

I'm walking through the neighborhood over to the local like that.

It was where the mail boxes are in our neighborhood and there's an area between the mailboxes and the pickleball slash basketball court and it's about twenty yard patch of grass that gets mowed every two weeks and sometimes the grass is up to your past your ankles, and you know, I do fifteen to twenty sprints every morning and then I run through inside zone, tight zone, pass block right guard, left guard.

It's about a thirty to forty five minute deal and it's muggy as hell.

That's why I do it at six am in Florida.

But regardless, I had this whole you know, order in which I did things, and it was from like six to ten in the morning, end with sauna, end with cold tub.

And it's cool to look.

Back on because if I didn't do that every day, no one was watching, no one cared, right, there were times where who knows if I was going to get picked up.

Or you didn't know your future.

So there were so many mornings where you question, why am I doing this, you know, and is it really gonna matter?

I mean, we're in late August here, guys, and went through a whole training camp, and you know, if I didn't do that, there's no way in heck.

I could have stepped in against the Browns.

There's just no way.

And if I did didn't do it, I bet the Bengals wouldn't have even trusted me too, because my workout probably wuldn't have been good and I probably would never have gotten signed, or I would have been here and they knew I wouldn't.

Have been ready and they would put someone else in.

So just really grateful for a wife that supported me through that, and for just the willpower to, you know, do that when no one was looking.

So nobody was looking in terms of NFL teams, but what about neighbors and passers by?

Did they see this gigantic human being doing past blocking drills against nobody?

Oh yeah, I remember, like a week before I came out here, a guy walked by and he said, that must be one hell of a fantasy football team you're on and you know the human nature, and you said, wants to bark back and say, I'm a six year NFL vet.

You know I could be on multiple teams.

I'm in contract negotiation, but get into it right, and you just laugh.

And every morning there's the grandma's walking their dogs.

And they poop in the grass that you're working out in and they just stare at you, and you know they're going back and they're chattering about what's that big, huge man doing in the grass, grunting and making all that noise.

But when you love something enough and you care about it enough, you'll find a way.

So after two padded practices with the Bengals, you suit it up in the season opener, and two and a half minutes into the second quarter, Lucas Patrick suffered a calf injury, and you're in.

You're gonna play the rest of the game.

Ted Carris called it a stunning display of football professionalism.

This was your ninetieth NFL game, including the playoffs.

Is it among the most memorable in light of the circumstances.

Oh, it's one of the most memorable.

For me.

Two years ago, I signed late with the Minnesota Vikings, and I think two weeks later I started Monday night football against the forty nine ers.

That was a absolutely surreal experience.

So that's up there, number two, the first start in Mile High Stadium, that's up there, and then this one is top three.

Those are all my top three.

I mean to be able to be with a different team, different organization, guys that you barely know and step in in a way of like that is truly an unreal feeling.

I talked to you guys earlier in the week, but what Ted said meant a whole lot to me, not only because the player he is, but the man he is.

And I take it very seriously to step in here and be a guy that guys can count on.

So I know that I'm getting more time underneath my belt, more times working with the ones, So I got to continue to elevate my game, which I will.

But yeah, it was an unbelievable experience.

Awesome words that Ted said something I'll never forget.

A story I'll tell the kids and the grandkids, and I'll probably stretch it.

So two days after that, you spoke to kids at a local elementary school.

Tell us a little bit about the Riisner Up Foundation and its mission.

Yeah, you know, I kind of told you a little bit about where I come from and the humble beginnings and the roots of where I'm from.

So when it comes to giving back to other people and the type of people we are off the field, that means more to me, And I have no problem saying that means more to me.

You don't care if you call me in five years and say I was one of the best guards to ever come.

Through as a Cincinnati bank.

I don't care.

It doesn't matter the awards, the trophies.

I don't even remember what awards I got in college, nor do you care.

If I ask you right now, tell me every award I got in college, you wouldn't be able to do it because it doesn't matter to you.

But when you go home and talk to your wife or your kids and they ask you about Dalton Reisner, You're.

Probably gonna tell them about maybe the heart that I have, And I hope that that's a good thing.

And that's why I do those things in.

The most genuine way.

I mean, let's be honest.

When you go do that for kids, a lot of those kids want to They want to know Joe Burrow and how much money Joe Burrow makes.

Those are the questions you get, right, But there might be one kid that's like, Wow, like that NFL football player, I would have done anything for ANFL football player to show up to my school.

I've done anything.

So for me, it's like, Man, if there's one kid that could have used this today, it matters for me.

And even if it didn't matter even if the kids got nothing from it.

And I give a whole speech, I signed autographs.

I did the whole deal for me morally to say, hey, little Dalton, little kid that had dream to be in the NFL.

You know, just know that when you made it like you're a good dude and like you're still giving time to other people.

That's awesome.

Yeah, I appreciate.

Here come a few wild card topics.

Now to wrap things up with Dalton Reisner.

Is it true that you got free pizza from memorizing Bible versus as a kid.

That is very true, hundred percent Tostino's pizza.

So there were days where I'd get three or four Tostinos.

Miss Segura shout out Summit Baptist Church.

Miss Segura, Wigans, Colorado.

You said in an interview a few years ago that you want to open a restaurant when you're playing days or finished.

Is that still the case and what type of restaurant would it be?

Great question.

I love the research you did.

You did a great job.

No, definitely not anymore.

I think starting a family is really important to me.

Being a father is really important to me.

I would love to speak at churches, men's group.

I've already done sermons at Sunday churches, so I'd love to do that men's groups, youth groups, you name it, as well as pickleball.

I'd love to do that competitively with my wife.

But three twenty doesn't go well with pickleball.

So I have searched high and low for a picture of you with no beard unsuccessfully.

When was the last time you were clean shaven.

Since I grew the beard?

I've never done a clean shaven you know, as an offensive lineman.

That scary stuff.

Buddy.

You know you look good, you know you're brave, You're a fit dude, But when you weigh three and twenty pounds, even though you're married, that's a risk you don't take.

Was this college or high school when the beard?

I think I started to finally grow it, like red shirt freshman year in college, and all the pictures you can see before that look pretty dang bad, so I'm not going back to it.

Roughly, how many tattoos do you have?

Oo?

I got about twenty Bible verses, so about maybe twenty three twenty four tattoos.

I got a family tree in my right arm with you know, buddies that have died or you know, family members that are still alive or not alive, and then everything else is Bible versus some stuff about my marriage.

So yeah, probably it depends on how much you want to break it up, you know what I mean.

I have two full arm sleeves and I have a little bit on my legs, So.

Regardless, it could be you could call it five big, huge pieces, or you could call it a hundred.

Are there more to come?

I think I'm done.

I want to do the neck, and my wife really shut things down.

She said, we're not going to the next So I said, okay, all right.

You know, I was just gonna get something about Jesus.

Man.

I love Jesus so anywhere, but the neck.

Final question for Dalton Riisner, this one's a little bit deep.

If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased.

Jesus done deal, Jesus done deal.

I know that's cliche, man, but maybe not cliche, but maybe corny.

But for me it's Jesus.

I mean, dear Gosh, and I am gonna be able to meet him, but I don't want to.

I don't it'd be cool not to have to meet him, because then I know I'm dead.

So it would be really cool if you're telling me one person right now, just dead or living, that I could have and I could chat with Are you kidding me?

Bro?

I would ask him so many questions and he be sick of me, Like, how about that one prayer?

Man?

Did you not listen?

You don't want it to happen?

Or about the game this weekend?

Who's gonna win?

Jesus?

Am I gonna play?

Well?

Could you really just have me lock up this guy?

Please?

No?

I'd ask him much more deeper questions in that.

But it'd be cool to meet Jesus.

I think I'd like to witness that conversation.

It'd be cool, man, It'd be a fun one.

It'd be a fun one.

This has been a fun one too.

Appreciate your time.

Thank you so much, Ben, really appreciate you.

God bless I.

Think you'll agree that Dalton Reisner is an easy guy to root for.

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