Bengals Wide Receiver Tyler Boyd on Sunday Night Football Matchup With Bills
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00:00 In the locker room with Bengals wide receiver Tyler Boyd.
00:01 Tyler, obviously you're facing a Bills team
00:04 that you're familiar with.
00:05 What's the key to keeping this offense rolling
00:07 on Sunday night?
00:09 - Just staying poised, just playing under control
00:12 and just knowing your job, knowing your assignments.
00:14 And I mean, as long as we keep the rhythm going
00:17 and keep drives alive and playing efficient,
00:20 then we should be fine.
00:21 - You've been on both sides of fast starts
00:24 and slow starts offensively.
00:26 The past two games, you guys have started off hot.
00:29 What's the key to that?
00:30 And is there a key to starting off hot?
00:32 Obviously you would do it every week if you could.
00:33 - It's definitely starting fast.
00:35 That's our motto, just start fast.
00:38 'Cause if we start fast and we come out scoring
00:40 with the first blow, first two, three drives,
00:42 it put a lot of stress on teams.
00:44 To put the OC in the back,
00:46 to what you gonna call, you gonna pass the whole time
00:49 or you gonna still play sound football
00:52 and mix it up with the running pass.
00:53 Then on defense, it kind of puts you,
00:55 also put them guys under stress
00:56 because they don't really know what to play.
00:58 They don't really know what call they wanna go with
01:00 'cause Joe is dialing them up.
01:03 - 10 months ago, obviously we know what happened
01:06 with DeMar Hamlin and he's doing much better now.
01:09 But how much do you think you'll think about that
01:13 or anybody in this locker room will be thinking about that
01:15 Sunday before the game?
01:16 - It might touch a few people that day.
01:21 I don't know at what point, but at the end of the day,
01:24 we felt for him, that's my boy.
01:26 And I'm very sorry that that happened to him
01:28 'cause he's a great guy.
01:31 And I ain't just saying that
01:31 because of the position that he's been in.
01:33 'Cause I grew up with him, I know what he's about.
01:35 But we just gonna have to try and win the football game.
01:38 - As far as the game is concerned,
01:41 primetime Sunday night here.
01:43 You guys haven't won a Sunday night game
01:45 in quite some time, certainly in your career.
01:48 How cool would it be to check that off?
01:51 You've checked a lot of boxes during your tenure here,
01:53 but how cool would that be?
01:54 - I mean, we're not really too worried
01:57 about what happened in the past,
01:58 but going against a team like the Bills,
02:00 they're a Super Bowl contender team.
02:02 Top in the AFC and we look at it like
02:05 we gotta get them guys to get to where we wanna get to.
02:08 So that's gonna be a huge matchup
02:10 to determine how good we are.
02:12 - You're looking at the ping pong table right now.
02:16 I know Trent Taylor used to say
02:17 he was the king of the room.
02:20 Do you have the crown now that Trent's
02:22 no longer on this team?
02:24 - I was, but then Mitch started tightening up his craft.
02:27 He got me right now, so I gotta kinda battle back
02:29 to get that spot again.
02:30 - All right, so you're second?
02:31 - Yeah, I can't tell.
02:33 - What's the top five?
02:35 'Cause we only see so much here.
02:36 - I can't even give you top five,
02:37 'cause the ones who really, 'cause Joe's good.
02:40 Joe is probably the top three, but he don't play.
02:42 I mean, Kwame is getting better.
02:44 Hakeem is nice.
02:46 It's just a lot of guys starting to play now
02:49 and getting good, you know?
02:50 But I kinda only play one-on-one with Mitch
02:52 'cause that's the only guy that can compete with me.
02:54 But yeah, I couldn't really give you a top five.
02:56 - I see Chito on the table a lot too.
02:58 Is he not on the top five?
03:00 - They kinda, it's kinda gray area,
03:04 'cause he was getting good, then he stopped playing.
03:07 They start playing again, so it's like,
03:10 you don't really know where guys is ranking
03:11 until they start playing guys.
03:12 That's really good.
03:13 - I appreciate the time.
03:15 Good luck Sunday, and good luck getting your crown back,
03:18 getting that trophy back, that number one spot.