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First, can you let us know what you’ve been doing since you’ve retired?

Well I’m just living my life – I’m retired of course and enjoying spending time with my grandchildren when I can see them. I live in Florida now and also get out and play some golf now and then.

I wanted to begin by discussing how you got started in coaching  – what prompted your coaching start?

Bill Walsh is how I got started. I played for the Bengals for eight years and Bill was the offensive coordinator there – he and I became good friends.  I retired from playing and had moved to California. I had just sold a chain of five delicatessens when Bill happened to call me in 1980. He asked if I would be interested in coaching – he had just started the coaching intern program and asked if I wanted to come in and coach during camp to see if I liked it.

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First, tell me about your media career and how that got started?

Well, went I went to Syracuse I started off as a pre-law major, but I decided I didn’t like the law books and studying law. I was playing football and thought that if I didn’t get into coaching maybe broadcasting would be a direction to go. I got my degree in PR and communications at the Newhouse School at Syracuse after that.

After that I tried to understand more about the business and did substituted some  for Bengals radio during the week. Paul Brown after I retired asked if I wanted to color for their radio broadcasts so I interviewed and got the job.

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First, you’ve been winning a lot of close games this season against good teams – what’s been that big difference for you guys this year?

I just think it’s all about Josh Allen. He was the most scrutinized and criticized Buffalo player going into this year. Was he good enough was the question. A lot of the time he carried the day last year but then he’d make a bonehead play – like that reckless backward pass in the playoffs. But then he’d come back and make a great pass to John Brown.  He was just too up and down.

So what’s changed?

This year his mechanics have changed – he worked hard in the offseason with quarterback guru Jordan Palmer. Palmer filmed him in 15 different camera angles to look at his mechanics and learned that Josh Allen wasn’t using his hips properly when he threw the ball – his shoulders and arms beat his hips when he released the ball which accounted for many of the poor and under-thrown passes.

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First, can you tell us how you got started in speed painting and what exactly speed painting is?

I started in college. I played football in college and was looking for other things to do besides playing football and studying in a small school town in Kentucky. Drawing was always a hobby for me. I started hanging out with some local musicians and painted while they did their thing. It turned into speed painting – it just became this weird thing. It was like a performance art thing keeping up with them.

Over time, it took off. I saw speed painting before but I never thought to do it myself. I looked it up on Youtube to learn how, like everyone does these days. I worked at it every day – it was a natural growth. I got better at it over time and found my own style.

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First, coming off a couple of wins, well-rested and Alex Smith playing good football, you feel good about Monday’s game – especially with the Steelers being less rested?

The rest is a good thing but I think it would be much different if the game were being played Sunday instead of Monday. I watched the Baltimore game Wednesday – I think the score made the game look closer than it was.

Pittsburgh is coached extremely well – they are a lot more talented than Washington in just about every area. So while the rest is one area you can look at and draw a conclusion that it’s a big advantage for Washington, I think the pedigree and leadership in Pittsburgh makes it less of a difference-maker. I would like to think it would – maybe if it were the Lions – but not with the Steelers. They do things right – Tomlin will have them ready for Washington.

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