 We've got another young guy that has been on your list, wants to be on your list, and he's gonna get there next year. One of the most confident rookies I have seen huge play against the bills to get to the AFC Championship game. We will say bye to you, Darius Butler. Yeah, Cam Taylor Britt, Cam Juice, joining us after this. Here he is. What a year. Our next guest, I'm so excited to get to meet here and bring to you on Up and Adams. He is a defensive superstar in the making. He didn't even get to start. When he started this rookie season, this Bengals team traded up to get him. He's a rookie for the Bengals. Please welcome to the show, Cam Taylor Britt. Hey, Cam. Thank you. Thank you. How you doing? I'm good. I'm so good. Now, is it Cam or Cam Juice? Because I don't think I can pull off saying Cam Juice. Tell me about what that juice means to you. Yeah, the juice means a lot, man. I feel like, you know, I bring that to my game and to the team. That was one thing that I could do. I would go out and bring the juice on the sideline and make sure my teammates were always, you know, into the game. And anytime something was wrong, you know, I just tried to be there for them. I mean, and this is no joke right here. And then you have your momager and your dad, you call Pops Juice? Oh, yeah. This is them my people, man. My mom is my day one, Pops Juice. Yeah, he has that name forever. So let's talk about this IR situation. You, yeah, there we go. And with the advice that they gave you, because there's all of these shots that we were seeing while you were on IR and every Bengals fan is like, I want to see him. I want to see him out on the field. And it's a major setback. Let me tell you, all of the greats that I talk to, they say that those moments are, they make them great. They'd say, I'm going to turn this into my advantage. I'm going to sit back and learn. So when you look back now, after you're making these big plays on these big stages, what was that experience like? And what did you, how did you use your time to make yourself a better player? Honestly, I just used that time to make sure that, you know, I had that playbook down, but when did I did, when I did get the opportunity to get in the game when I got off IR? That, you know, it wouldn't be a downfall. I knew that I, you know, I would be in rotation or anything. But, you know, when Cheeto got hurt, you know, I was thrown into the fire. So I was glad that I was, you know, on my P's and Q's and, you know, just trying to be the best person that could be, you know, while on, while on IR, you know, so that was the biggest thing for me. Ken, what did you learn about yourself during that period? And I love that you, I've read that you said that your parents are really supportive of you then. One thing I learned about myself, you know, you know, just being a great teammate, that's, that's a big thing to me. You know, that's one thing that I try to do, you know, on the field and off the field. Anybody needs something, you know, while we're off the field, you know, I just try to be there as well because we're brothers at the end of the day. You can, you should be able to call them in at the time. So you get off IR, you focus on the playbook, you get out on the field, y'all get into the playoffs. A lot of things are messy, not really for you for the Bengals. We're not going to get into that. And then you go up to Buffalo. It's snowing. You're a Nebraska boy, you're used to the cold elements. All time moment for Bengals fans. It's living in their heads. They're going to tell their kids about it. Talk me through your first career interception against this bill's team. Let's take a look. Talk me through it. All right. Well, honestly, yeah, I believe we're in cover two, man. You know, just wanted to keep, you know, safety's high and kind of run the reel on the outsides as a corner. You know, one thing that Josh did struggle with was the cover two. So I just want to kind of bait him. And I didn't think he was going to throw the ball, but you know, at the end of the day, he trusts his arm, you know, more than he trusts the DB making play. And, you know, when I saw the ball, I was like kind of shocked that he threw it. I was like, oh, it's time to make a play. And I laid out for it. And when I, when I caught the ball, it was just, you know, it's surreal that, you know, my parents were there. It was a, you know, a crazy game, you know, in a big way. So, you know, I was glad that, you know, that I was able to see that. You're smiling as you catch the ball. It's, you see, you see all of your teeth. I've never seen that. Do you remember what you were thinking? You were thinking, I can't believe he threw that. Yeah. And I was like, I really caught this ball in this game. You know, you, last year around that time, you know, I was watching, you know, the NFL football games, not knowing where I would be. And just I have the opportunity to, you know, be on that field and be around the guys. You know, it was a happy moment. Because I literally just sat on the sideline. I was like, I got to end the game. Go ahead and end the game. You know, we're, we're playing around with too much. Let's go and get off the field and, you know, get this over with, go back to Cincinnati with the dub. And through the ball, it happened. And they were like, you just said this. I was like, yeah, it's crazy. And you had, and I love, I love that your parents were there. I didn't know that you had this PBU in this game. I love Gabe Davis, but it was, I heard, I heard it. It was crazy. You play honestly, like, Cam, you play a real physical game. You don't see at your position. It reminds me a little bit of Marlon Humphrey. Nobody ever wants none from prime Marlon Humphrey. What, what, what happens to you out there? What is that switch that blips? Man, I've always been that physical guy. Even while playing quarterback on the opposite side of the ball, just kind of want to bring that to the game. A lot of corners, you know, don't bring that to the game. When you mention the physical part of it, yeah, you bring up the covering part. You can bring up, you know, a few guys most definitely, but just been on the outside and sending the edges and, you know, wanting to tackle. I want to bring that to the run game, of course. Yeah. And we love seeing it. It's, it's something that nobody out there wants to see. Here's my question. You're on IR. So you have, you have a minute. You're sitting back. You're learning to play book, all of that. And now you're warming up in the snow, in Buffalo for this game, or in Kansas City, ahead of the AFC championship game. Do you feel so much more comfortable? Like talk me through a rookie and what you felt like that first game, that first couple of games, that first start when you got some action to what you feel like now and how you're going to carry that over. How much more comfortable do you feel, Cam? That was a big, you know, jump, you can say, from my very first game, playing the Falcons game, rotating, playing most of those snaps that game. So I can say I was, I had the jitters, you know, I wasn't, I say, quickest I am now with calls. You know, I was looking around, you know, just wanted to play fast and play top down. But just now I'm way more comfortable when I'm getting the calls out. Sometimes before the safety does, if I see it, I'm able to call it out and, you know, just, you know, go out there and play free. I'm not thinking about everything, not a half second late because I thought this was called or this or that. So, you know, just be able to move, you know, a lot faster and get on my breaks faster because I know what's going on and know where my help is on this defense. You know, I don't have to work as hard. Yeah, it's so funny to hear. I did not think that you were going to say that you had the jitters because everything that I know or I think I know or I read all of your coaches, all of your teammates say you were the most confident rookie. Like you just have confidence. And that's at your position. I can't even imagine. That's maybe one of the most important qualities you have to have. Where does that come from? Like I said, I play quarterback, man. And I kind of just carry my life, you know, that way of being having that high attitude like a quarterback has and carries itself. But, you know, kind of throw the spice on it with the attitude part and the physical part as a DB. That's where, so that's where it kind of comes from. I just feel like my preparation is a lot better than yours. And I put in the work just like you put in the work and I feel like once you step on the field, you can't mess with me. So that's how it kind of goes with me. Well, they're lucky to have you and you know, you're confident and you've got that spice or juice or whatever you want to call it. But you also have a heart cam. So you can't even hide that for me. This moment that you had in Kansas City, where you pulled, by the way, I would be so scared. You should have pulled him out of the stands where the parents like, excuse me. Nah, so I actually knew him from Nebraska. So I've known him Chase since he was like two years old. I watched him grow up through, you know, his lifetime at Nebraska. So while I was number five, he had the Taylor Brit, you know, five jerseys in Nebraska. And this was his first NFL game. So it was a good moment for both of us, man, just to see him grow up and, you know, still continue to support me throughout this time. I loved seeing it. It was such a cute moment. And then after there's this hard loss that happens, a hard loss that I think this team's going to get better from. You know, I support the Bengals. It was such a good season, so much to build off of almost everybody will be able to come back. I'll just ask you, how are you feeling? Like I know it's still very fresh, but like what are the feelings that you're having? I feel good, man, especially, you know, just ending this season off, you know, that with the way that we did, you know, of course we didn't get the win, but you know, just having the opportunity to be in this locker room with these specific guys, you know, it's never, it never would be the same. A lot of guys said this in their interviews, man, it's, it's, you've never been a part of a locker room like that, you know, just that tight knit. And even outside of the football, you know, is you have guys tasting you, trying to see what you're doing just to hang out, man. Like it's a different feeling, you know, being around these guys and I wouldn't try it for the world. I love hearing that DJ Reader popped on last week and you know, he spent a lot of his career with the Texans, they didn't have success. And he said the difference really is that locker room. Everybody's saying, want to play chess, want to hang out, want to do this, checking in with each other. What, what, what was the message? Or what was, what, I know it was probably a bad vibe in that locker room after the game, but what was the message from the veterans, from coaches, as you guys left? Honestly, that we will be back. We know we need to do the, to get back. We won, it was 10 or 11 games in a row. That's a huge mark for the Bengals. And you know, as his team, it shows, you know, something about it. So, you know, one thing that we will have to do when we come back in is get straight to work. We plan to have these long seasons, you know, every year and plan to make it, you know, past where we just were. So we have to, you know, prepare for that and you know, stay on top of it. You were drafted by the Bengals in the second round. They moved up to get you, was weirdly something with the bills too, so that's sort of weird because you guys got the win over them. You're saying everybody's friends in there. You got to go up against Chase and Higgins every day. All right, are y'all friends? So you guys, you guys get along? How much better do they make you? Made me a lot better, man. Yes, we are friends. We're trying to hang out here and there, you know, outside of the stadium, but you know, just while we're in that building, you know, we're working. It's always, you know, competition at the end of the day and we want to make each other better. Those guys give me tips all the time, you know, what I can do better, you know, in my press man or, you know, getting out the break, what was I doing here in order for him to, you know, be open. They always, you know, just keep me on my peas and queues because those guys are some of the top guys in the league. Who do you want one-on-one next year? We were looking at it, we have a, like a meeting, like you guys, we have a meeting before the show when we were looking at some of those receivers. You probably haven't seen this, so let me tell you. Justin Jefferson, Cooper Cup, DK Metcalf, DeAndre Hopkins, Stefan Diggs, Debo Samuel. Y'all are facing all of them next year. I like that. Who you want? Who you want, Taylor Britt? Oh my God, it doesn't matter. I love following the top guy. That was one thing that we did when we played the Bills. So I followed Stefan. That was the first game that, you know, they trusted me to, you know, actually, you know, and follow a guy wherever he was on the field. You know, once he hit the slot, you know, I didn't get a chance to guard him then, but, you know, if he switched sides, you know, I wanted the best guy on the field. And I want to continue to do that. So all the guys that you name, I'm playing to guard all of them. I'm excited to guard them here. Stefan out there talking to you in that snow. What was Stefan like? Stefan, he'll talk. He was talking more crying than anything, but, you know, he was all right. Taylor, I don't know what to say. I'm just going to leave that one alone. Well, listen, because you let your game speak, you're very confident, but I mean, and I know that you're, I saw, I know your boys with the Eli Apples tweet, and you were gassing them up, though. I didn't need that, Taylor, but you got to help me. You can't, I saw you with the tweets, and then you got Hilton with the brother. Like you, you, they got to be a little more like you, I think. It was kind of weird though, because while we're on the sideline and the Bill's game, when Mike said Borough head, I didn't know he said Borough head. I thought he said, you know, we're going to Arrowhead and, you know, that's what it was going to be. Then when I saw the video, I'm like, oh, I'm in this viral video saying, you know, let's go to Borough head and this and that. I didn't know what was said, but, you know, that didn't play a part in anything, man. We just got to go up there, you know, and play our game, come in there and play a complete football game as a team. And, you know, just don't worry about the other outside noise. Yeah, Eli Apple, you got to, we got to, we got to get, we got to change his password somehow on that thing. Yeah. You with me? Let's, I'll help me help you sort of thing. He's misunderstood though. I can tell everybody likes him on the team. Man, he's very misunderstood, man. He has a passion for the game that you don't see out a lot of guys and he wears it on his sleeve, man. I wouldn't play, you know, wouldn't want to play without him, you know, on that field. He kind of, you know, I bring a different energy and he has his other energy and kind of, you know, just works for the team, man. And when he says, you know, you're doing good, man, kind of pushes him to be great. He's been doing this for a long time. So, you know, let a rookie come in, you know, and be on his A game. He doesn't have a choice to but to be on his. So, you know, I feel like I kind of pushed him to, you know, become better throughout the season. He's always been great to me as far as giving me tips. Outside of football, we were just playing the game last night. We were talking about football, so he will always be my guy. I love to hear that because I do think he's misunderstood and I'm glad that you said that. That's really important. It's, you know, it's cam juice and apple juice. One last question before I let you go. This has been a lot of fun. What is more difficult? Getting a pick off a borough in practice or winning a game of chess against him? Might be winning the game of chess. It might be winning the game of chess. I know I could probably get him by bailing or something maybe just running through the whole rock because he throws a tight ball, man. Just seeing the ball that he makes in practice or crazy. And then he goes into the game where we're sitting on the sideline. We're like, yep, we've seen that one in practice. So it's just crazy, man. He spent the ball, man. But yes, I don't know about that. We might get me. Yeah, I hear he's really good. I'd like to play him. Okay, listen, you are an absolute stud. Do not listen. When all these things start happening to you, Cam Taylor Britt, because I already know when all the pro bowl and then it's going to be all pro Cam Taylor Britt. And then it just don't forget about little on me. Okay. That's all I need. That won't happen. You're locking up Debo and Cooper cut. Yeah. That won't happen. I promise. I got you. Okay. We appreciate you. Keep getting better. Incredible story. Could not be happier for you. And you have the absolute right attitude. Confidence. And let's go get this thing next year. Yes, ma'am. I really appreciate you having me on here. No problem. Anytime. Cam Taylor Britt, everybody, Cam, juice, future all pro, future pro bowler for the future super bowl winning bangles. Baby, we'll be back after this on Up and Adams.