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Josh Johnson Praises Bengals' Young Receivers After Win over Bears in Preseason
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00:00The touchdown throw to him, the Colby, did he give him, I mean, it looked like he kind of gave
00:04him an inside move a little bit.
00:05He was patient. His patience was awesome. We talk a lot about patience versus press, and a lot of young
00:10guys typically struggle with that because they just want to go now.
00:13But what he did, he worked it, and he stopped his feet, and to me it was a nice throw
00:18to judge where he's going and lead him and let him go make the play.
00:21Then you went right back on that first drive, and he threw it to him, and he kind of lost
00:26the contested ball,
00:27and then you went right back to him on almost the same play. I think that was a third and
00:32fourth team.
00:32He had the same defense, same look. Pitch called a great call, and to me that's where the ball was
00:37supposed to go.
00:38Let him go do his thing, and he did it.
00:40But what did you see from him on that? Why was it supposed to go to him?
00:43Just the way the coverage. I had options to go to either. Well, the first one, it was a call
00:47for him.
00:48The second one was options to go either side. To me, corner game was the same look.
00:53I don't see no reason why not to go at it again. He missed the first one, he'll get the
00:56second one.
00:57Shout out to him.
00:59As a third-string quarterback, Josh, you don't get a lot of reps in training and practice.
01:03How do you come out and perform so well when you don't get a lot of reps?
01:08For me personally, myself, it's all God, man. I'm grateful.
01:15Because my whole career has kind of been like this.
01:20If you're a man of the faith or have any relationship with God, the things he put us through is
01:24for a reason.
01:25And now I'm 40, I can look back at things I was going through at 22 that's helping me now
01:31in how I prepare, how I understand the reps might not be there for me,
01:36but how there's other ways that I can still have opportunities to just bring a comp to yourself to go
01:40out there and play confidently.
01:41And so for me, that's just all a gratitude to God because he kept nudging on me to say, like,
01:47you know, this might be what it is for you, but there's a will, there's a way.
01:52And my whole career has kind of just been like, you've got to get it out the mud.
01:55And that's just kind of what it is.
01:56And now I'm just kind of used to it.
01:57Did you do anything tonight that impressed yourself at 40?
02:03Great move on Bush.
02:04I think it's always good to go out there and show you can still make it.
02:09In this business, people want to put labels on you and put tags on you.
02:13Everybody thinks they have the right answers.
02:16And to me, like I said earlier, the one person I know has the answers is the man above.
02:21And for me, when I wake up with opportunity, that means purposeful.
02:24And so the purpose for me is to go out there and do whatever my God of ability allowed me
02:29to do.
02:30I might not be able to take it to the house no more, but I can still make plays and
02:33move the chains.
02:34And then just went with my mind, allow these guys to be great at what they do, make plays.
02:3912, my dad, 12, my dad.
02:41Say one more time.
02:42How do you have the opportunity to play tonight?
02:44How do you think you play?
02:45I think we play well.
02:46My job is to go out there and play clean.
02:48Get us in and out of the huddle, execute.
02:50Our coaches do a great job of putting us in a great position.
02:53This is a very quarterback-friendly offense.
02:55There's two throws that I really want back.
02:58The flat route to Dante that could have been explosive when they cornered Catadus.
03:02And then the slam route right after that.
03:03That was one of my best throws of the night.
03:05We wish I could have those back.
03:07But overall, we play good.
03:08It's not about me, man.
03:10I can't do nothing without the other ten guys going out there really fighting and being on top of their
03:14job.
03:15You went right to the dart.
03:16Did it come out well?
03:17It felt good.
03:17The ball felt great.
03:18Shout out to Ryan, Adam, and then they had the balls buffed up real good.
03:21It was spinning.
03:22It was spinning the night.
03:23You went right to Dante right away in that first drive.
03:26I mean, it was like, you know, I mean, I guess what he carried over from practice.
03:30No, for sure.
03:31The play call was for either him or Eric.
03:33The way the defense expanded, they took Eric away.
03:36Dante presented himself in the right spot.
03:38To me, it's throwing him a great ball that he can talk with and talk to him and spin him
03:41to the space.
03:42And he spins to the space and got the yards.
03:45So, it's all Dante, man.
03:46It's all the receivers.
03:47Because if he saw hisihen Gold image on aolar level.
03:47That means the suspension of confidence is going through.
03:47And this becomes the chair of
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