Scribe Session 7.31: Reactions to Week 1

One week into camp Paul Dehner Jr., and Richard Skinner react to the camp intensity kicking up, realistic expectations for Geno Atkins and discuss players that have caught our eye during camp.
On this episode of Scribe Session presented by the Joseph Auto Group you wilil hear interviews with Wallace Gilberry, DL coach Jay Hayes, Mohamed Sanu and Marvin Lewis. Also, we take you inside the candid conversation with Devon Still discussing his daughter's fight with pediatric cancer.
Plus, judge how our fancy new equipment sounds.
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Scribe Session 7.23: Training Camp Preview

The new season is upon us and so is the first podcast of the new season. Paul Dehner Jr., and Richard Skinner offer up discussion about Andy Dalton, Vontaze Burfict, Mike Brown and other elements of the new season in this training camp preview.
You'll hear interviews with Brown, Marvin Lewis and Paul Guenther, including Lewis picking up where he left off with my predecessor with a new edition of the railroad special for me.
Plus, we have a flashy new open and sponsorship from JosephAuto.com. Look at us!
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Scribe Session Series: Joe Walter

The Scribe Session podcast series catching up with former Bengals from the 90s and early 2000s concludes this week with the sixth and final edition to see what they are up to now, hear stories from old days, opinions on what went wrong (and occasionally right) as well as the challenges in the changing landscape of post-football life.
This week I chat with offensive lineman Joe Walter. A 1985 Cincinnati draft pick he spent his entire 12-year career with the Bengals amassing 166 games played and 136 starts. He was a starter at guard for the 1988 AFC Championship team and hung around through the bottom falling out into the mid-90s.
These days he works as a Vice President at Forcht Bank in Kentucky.
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Adrian Ross (6.5.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Ashley Ambrose (6.12.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Tony McGee (6.19.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Akili Smith (6.26.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Lee Johnson (7.3.14)
Walter discusses his transition from football into the banking world, the reaction when Sam Wyche began installing his revolutionary offense and, of course, how he came up with the sandwich that bears his name at Izzy's.
Mostly notably though, Walter discusses why the back end of his career ended up shrouded with losses and the frustration and sadness watching those great teams from 80s quickly dismantled.
In answering a question many still ask today regarding Dave Shula, Walter offers when he believes the young, inexperienced head coach lost control of the team.

"He lost the team, I would say, from the get-go. The very first meeting that we had you had those (overhead projectors), he was sweating so bad and so nervous that everything was wiped off before you could see what it was. So right then you lose your guys because you see your head guy that nervous. What's that telling you? How's he going to run the club? What's he going to be like in a stressful situation? Dave was a great guy, a really good guy. He would talk to me quite a bit, call me up, have me come in the office, talk things through me, I was the old head. But there was no way he was going to win. He was done before he even got started."

Walter offers this and much more about Shula, suspicions the coaching staff was plotting against the head coach in his later years, the significance of this box score, discusses the good guys that graced the locker room -- and spills those who weren't so good. Regardless, a fantastic 30-minute look inside the transition from Super Bowl to super bad.
Keep an eye out next Thursday as the series will offer a best-of podcast for those of you slackers who haven't been paying attention. I'll pick out the best parts of each of the six throwback podcasts and splice them together for you. Clip Show!
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Scribe Session Series: Lee Johnson

The Scribe Session podcast series catching up with former Bengals from the 90s and early 2000s continues with the fifth edition to see what they are up to now, hear stories from old days, opinions on what went wrong (and occasionally right) as well as the challenges in the changing landscape of post-football life.
This week I chat with punter Lee Johnson, he spanned nearly the entire life of The Lost Decade in his 11 seasons from 1988 to 1998, totaling 1,266 career punts. The 1985 selection of the Houston Oilers eventually rounded out his career with the New England Patriots and then enjoying a playoff run with the Eagles in 2002 at age 41.
These days he works as an Associate Athletic Director in charge of development at his alma mater BYU in Provo, Utah.
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Adrian Ross (6.5.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Ashley Ambrose (6.12.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Tony McGee (6.19.14)
Scribe Session Podcast Series: Akili Smith (6.26.14)
Johnson discusses the feelings joining the Super Bowl team in the tail end of 1988, his record for longest punt in a Super Bowl which still stands, the disbelief in the Stanley Wilson story and his theory on why players struggle to deal with post-football life.
Mostly, though, Johnson discusses his time in Cincinnati, his theory on why he holds the record as the losingest player in NFL history and the details on his controversial dismissal over words stated postgame that irritated management to the point of cutting him the day after they were spoken.
Johnson still holds regret over what he said answering questions about the funk of the franchise in 1998 that led to this Paul Daugherty column.

"We played the Bengals three years later when I was with the Patriots and I met Mike and John Sawyer and some of the owners at the 50-yard line and apologized. Look, Mike was great to me and my family and just to think that I was released because of comments that I made that made me seem so ungrateful for the opportunity. What I loser I was to come across that way. I was answering questions in a way I thought were truthful answers, but not vengeance, not spiteful, not bitter."

Johnson went on to discuss the situation further later in the podcast noting he never did speak with Mike Brown about the tone of his comments:

"He didn't want any part of me. He pulled me out of a meeting. I think it was a ploy to do all they could do to embarrass me. They knew exactly what they were going to do in terms of how they were going to cut me. It was a team meeting started, they grab me and pull me and Jim Lippincott ... pulled me out and let me go. I never talked to Mike. He didn't want to know how I felt. I think he felt like I betrayed him. And he was really good to me. Really, really good to me. One day I'll run into him again and I'll give him a hug and he'll probably hit me (laughs). I'll go buy him some Montgomery ribs or something."

Keep an eye out next Thursday as the series continues with offensive lineman Joe Walter.
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