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Speaker 1: A new product?
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Speaker 2: Alrighty eight ten. We do it the morning after is
Speaker 2: what we call it. The morning after the Bengals play,
Speaker 2: and we're kind enough to kind enough to join us
Speaker 2: is a former Bengal Great wide receiver and return man,
Speaker 2: Tim McGee. Tim, the last three games, the Bengals have
Speaker 2: been outscored one hundred and thirteen to thirty seven. They've
Speaker 2: been outscored in the first half sixty nine to nine,
Speaker 2: and they've been outscored in the first three quarters of
Speaker 2: those games ninety seven to nine.
Speaker 1: How does that happen?
Speaker 4: Well, you lose arguably the best quarterback in the National
Speaker 4: Football League, and you face the reality that when you
Speaker 4: lose that that special, special player, and he is a
Speaker 4: special player, maybe you know there may be three of
Speaker 4: them out there. The whole dynamics of your team changes.
Speaker 4: The expectation levels should change if you're very realistic. But
Speaker 4: when there's emotions in tax and that's your team, that's
Speaker 4: your hometown team, that's your favorite team, you go, oh
Speaker 4: my god, this team we're still going to do.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen.
Speaker 4: And all you got to do, Tom, we talked about
Speaker 4: this last week. What all you got to do is
Speaker 4: when you take the emotions out, like say Baltimore last
Speaker 4: week on the show, I said, if Lamar Jackson or
Speaker 4: Josh Allen gets hurt, you'll be like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: this team they're done.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: It's no different here. I mean they were not a
Speaker 4: power broker team in the beginning, and now without the
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow because he brings so much to the table.
Speaker 4: And we're talking about time clock management eating up the
Speaker 4: clod scoring points, where now the defense is out there
Speaker 4: so much that yeah, teams are going to score a
Speaker 4: lot of points because the offense. You know, when you
Speaker 4: turn the ball over the offenses on the football field
Speaker 4: too much.
Speaker 2: If you're in that locker room today and they're off tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but they do come in today, are you expecting a
Speaker 2: change at quarterback.
Speaker 4: No, no, you know that's that's another thing that people, you know,
Speaker 4: the the your fan base, they want you to get this,
Speaker 4: the management, to get this, this, fix this right now. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, there's a reason if a guy's on the street,
Speaker 4: there's a reason he's on the street. So to pull
Speaker 4: someone off the street, you're probably not going to get better.
Speaker 4: Jake has been around, he knows the offense. Yes he's struggling,
Speaker 4: there's no question about it. But you know, when you're
Speaker 4: making that calculated guess, a guy that's been in the
Speaker 4: locker room for the last three years is much better
Speaker 4: than the guy that you're trying to get from Woming
Speaker 4: that's sitting on a weak farm right now, and you're
Speaker 4: going to throw him in there. So you just can't
Speaker 4: play musical tears with the quarterback position. So it's just tough.
Speaker 4: It's really, really, really tough to evaluate the team that
Speaker 4: lost their best player.
Speaker 2: But but Tim, I mean, look, I mean, I hear
Speaker 2: you in ninety nine point nine percent of his situations
Speaker 2: out there about another quarterback. But Russell Wilson is a
Speaker 2: guy granted in recent years has maybe not been the
Speaker 2: same guy, but in a game earlier this year, he
Speaker 2: threw for over four hundred yards in a game on
Speaker 2: a bad team. The guy can still move around. He
Speaker 2: he's an accomplished, proven winner. I have to believe, even
Speaker 2: though he's just sitting on the couch right now, that
Speaker 2: he's at least an option to try and get you
Speaker 2: a little bit better. We're five games into this year,
Speaker 2: with twelve games left to go, and a lot of people,
Speaker 2: maybe even in that locker room, are losing hope.
Speaker 4: Well they lost hope when they lost Joe Burrow. But
Speaker 4: to your point, yes, there is a point in time
Speaker 4: you do go look and see if you can kind
Speaker 4: of energize the team with a different look but in
Speaker 4: a different faith. Someone that comes in that can make
Speaker 4: it a little bit fresher. However, it's too early, or
Speaker 4: it was too early when you got a guy that's
Speaker 4: when you looked at Jake Brownie's record from two years ago,
Speaker 4: You're like, Okay, we got a serviceable guy here. Maybe
Speaker 4: he can you know, maybe we can go five Hundredcuse
Speaker 4: the division is so bad right now, maybe we can
Speaker 4: just hold on until Joe Burrow comes back.
Speaker 1: If he comes back.
Speaker 4: So to your point, yes, I get it, But now
Speaker 4: time I think we're creeping very very close to that
Speaker 4: time to go try to make that change and get
Speaker 4: someone in the locker room. But where do you find
Speaker 4: that guy? Where do you find him?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this though. Look, you know Mike Brown,
Speaker 2: you know him well. You and I have talked about
Speaker 2: this before. You get together with him at least once
Speaker 2: a year, if not more than that. We both agree
Speaker 2: that he is a fine man. He is a good man,
Speaker 2: a really good man. But at the same time, he
Speaker 2: owns a local football team, and you are five weeks,
Speaker 2: as I just said, into a season, and Tim, you
Speaker 2: can't have your fan base lose hope. I mean, two
Speaker 2: and three is not the end of the world, but
Speaker 2: it just doesn't look like their show up for games
Speaker 2: prepared to play the game. I mean they are getting
Speaker 2: boat raced in the opening quarter of these games.
Speaker 5: Well, Tom, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think that's based on when you look at the record,
Speaker 4: the Bengals conceivably have not won a game.
Speaker 1: At this point time.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you look at the Cleveland game
Speaker 4: missfield goal, okay, and you look at the Jackmanville Wild game,
Speaker 4: a drop pass.
Speaker 5: Those were the.
Speaker 4: Two plays that they ended up getting two wins out
Speaker 4: of so again, it disappoints me, but it doesn't shock
Speaker 4: me that these things are occurring. They're just not the
Speaker 4: team that we thought they were going to be coming
Speaker 4: into the season. But nevertheless, we didn't expect. We shouldn't
Speaker 4: have expected a whole lot more. They didn't make a
Speaker 4: lot of changes. You know, they resigned their top four
Speaker 4: players obviously over the last couple of years, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 4: t Higgins, Jamar Chase, and Trey They resigned them. But
Speaker 4: there's not been any additions that we can go, Wow,
Speaker 4: that offensive line is really good.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that.
Speaker 4: Big defensive tackle we picked up from such and such
Speaker 4: is really really really going to help us. We don't
Speaker 4: have any of that. So again, I think we need
Speaker 4: to manage our expectations and hope some changes can be
Speaker 4: made and some improvements can be made, because right now
Speaker 4: it's just not looking good for the home team.
Speaker 1: You know, offense.
Speaker 2: Inside, now, if Zach Taylor were to come to you
Speaker 2: and say, hey, look, you know, look, I need some
Speaker 2: help here, you know, tell me one thing that they
Speaker 2: could be trying, that would be a little bit different
Speaker 2: on offense and people getting worked up about the offense
Speaker 2: showing up and Zach coming out. I'm really proud of
Speaker 2: my guys. I mean, give me a break, give me
Speaker 2: a break. What would there be one thing that you'd say,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's at least try this.
Speaker 4: They have to run the ball. They have to run
Speaker 4: the football, they have to keep the defense off football field.
Speaker 4: They have to establish run. We know what Jamar Chase
Speaker 4: and t Higgins can do. But if they have these
Speaker 4: explosive plays that don't lead to seven points, the defense
Speaker 4: is given up seven points, that means that's a four
Speaker 4: point difference in a scoring match to match the match.
Speaker 4: So I would try to really emphasize on running the ball.
Speaker 4: But that's just not Dak. Taylor's in the DNA. We
Speaker 4: know that he wants to be creative. The offenses is
Speaker 4: about him. So you know you have that maybe ego,
Speaker 4: maybe confidence, maybe creativity, but that alone is going to
Speaker 4: be a major mountain to overcome to say, let's just
Speaker 4: change our strips and let's commit to the run. No
Speaker 4: running game equals no wins.
Speaker 2: Did you think the defense played better yesterday? I mean,
Speaker 2: let's face it, with all the turnovers, they were really
Speaker 2: put behind the eight ball. But did you feel like
Speaker 2: there was some improvement on the defensive side yesterday.
Speaker 4: I think we have to kind of narrow down what
Speaker 4: was improvement. On one side, I think they hung in there.
Speaker 4: They you know, they were that ben but don't break.
Speaker 4: But on the other side, you see so many mistackles,
Speaker 4: bad angles, bad calls, just you know. So I don't
Speaker 4: think when you have a loss as sizeable as it was,
Speaker 4: I think it was more of Detroit kind of lost
Speaker 4: focus of their execution. But Bengals actually were taking plays,
Speaker 4: so you know, Trey made a couple of big plays.
Speaker 4: But all in all time, I just don't think it's
Speaker 4: a very talented unit that you can really expect them
Speaker 4: to really go out and perform at a high level
Speaker 4: that well, that they can win football games.
Speaker 2: What would you say, Tim mcgehan, and you talked about
Speaker 2: expectations and maybe that word is the answer. What would
Speaker 2: you say to the Bengal fan out there? And there
Speaker 2: are a ton of us, you and me included, that
Speaker 2: we're excited about the season, thinking hey, okay, maybe this
Speaker 2: would be a playoff team. But now, as you point out,
Speaker 2: your best player's gone down, what would you say to
Speaker 2: the Bengal fan out there right now, and how they
Speaker 2: should view games beginning this Sunday against Green.
Speaker 4: Bay manager expectation, this is not the team that with
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow. More than likely, depending on your opponent, get
Speaker 4: excited about the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Races and
Speaker 4: the Cleveland Browns, because those are rivals that no matter
Speaker 4: what the records are, they're gonna come out and they're
Speaker 4: gonna play on a high level and it's going to
Speaker 4: be competitive. But for the most part, when they're playing
Speaker 4: as your top notch players, I mean top notch teams,
Speaker 4: they're probably gonna struggle. They just you know, it's a
Speaker 4: scenario yesterday. Let's look at it this way, Tom yesterday
Speaker 4: scenario for the Bengals to win. If Detroit had to
Speaker 4: play below seventy percent of their capabilities and the Bengals
Speaker 4: had to play above ninety percent, well, guess what, what
Speaker 4: are the likelihood of that happening? So when you go
Speaker 4: into a game as a former player, when you go
Speaker 4: into a game, you're very realistic about your chance to
Speaker 4: go win it.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 2: Right, Tim, you're the best joining us every single Monday, Buddy,
Speaker 2: I hope you have a great rest of your Day,
Speaker 2: and we'll catch up with you next week.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time, Tim McGee, all right, Tom,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: All right, Tim McGee one of the Bengal Greats wide
Speaker 2: receiver and return man.
Speaker 1: Love that dude. He's on top of his game.
Speaker 2: I'd tell you, I don't know if you're a subscriber
Speaker 2: to The Athletic. If you love sports, it's worth the money.
Speaker 2: And I'm not getting paid by these guys. I pay
Speaker 2: my money, I don't get it free. There is an
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible article in there about Ryan Day, the football
Speaker 2: coach at Ohio State, and the way he goes about
Speaker 2: his work week. You know, when the season began, you
Speaker 2: had Clemson, you had Texas, and you at Penn State,
Speaker 2: all ranked in the top four. They're a combined eight
Speaker 2: and seven this year, and Ohio State's undefeated and they
Speaker 2: can stub their toe anytime.
Speaker 1: We know that. I'm not suggesting that they're the be
Speaker 1: all end all, but when.
Speaker 2: You read about what Ryan Day does with his team
Speaker 2: every Sunday after they play on a Saturday, and they're undefeated,
Speaker 2: their ranked number one in the country. But let's remember
Speaker 2: they lost fourteen players to the NFL last year. Fourteen
Speaker 2: of them, and they have a freshman quarterback who had
Speaker 2: never started a game in his collegiate career, and right
Speaker 2: now he is the number one rated passer in all
Speaker 2: of college football, completing almost eighty percent of his passes.
Speaker 2: A lot of that has to do with how Ryan
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Speaker 2: If not, find a way to check it out, because
Speaker 2: it is I mean, it is big time coaching stuff.
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Speaker 2: Alrighty eight forty four. We do it every single Monday.
Speaker 2: We call it Mondays with Marty. Most of the time.
Speaker 2: He's joining us from his home right here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: every now and again from Salisbury, North Carolina. But today
Speaker 2: he is joining us, as they say, from across the pond.
Speaker 2: How is everything in London?
Speaker 5: Everything in London is spectacular, As I've often said, it's
Speaker 5: my favorite city in Europe. And we've had a very
Speaker 5: enjoyable time here in and up the locales around the
Speaker 5: United Kingdom.
Speaker 2: But you are just getting started on this trip that
Speaker 2: began in New York, on to London, and then.
Speaker 5: And we leave tomorrow morning and fly out to Barcelona,
Speaker 5: spend two nights there, and then get on a cruise
Speaker 5: ship and sail the Mediterranean, going into Lisbon, Portugal, and
Speaker 5: then we go on to Morocco before coming home.
Speaker 2: I hear that Lisbon might be one of the top
Speaker 2: five cities in the world.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been there.
Speaker 5: I've not been there, but as I said to some
Speaker 5: folks this morning here, I've never had a negative reaction
Speaker 5: to traveling Intusdain or to Portugal, but Portugal's kind of interest.
Speaker 5: I'm told that in the last decade it is the
Speaker 5: city with the largest number of retired Americans of any
Speaker 5: other country in Europe. Obviously, it has a lot to
Speaker 5: do with the prices, which are relatively low compared to
Speaker 5: other countries. That probably will change as more and more
Speaker 5: Americans come over there to retire. But I'm looking forward
Speaker 5: to going to both of them because of the great
Speaker 5: reputation that people have had from traveling in there.
Speaker 2: Let's tire Ribbon and we'll talk, obviously through the off
Speaker 2: season about what the Reds decide to do or not do.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's one of those where it's a
Speaker 2: glass half empty, glass half full.
Speaker 1: Kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, they were
Speaker 2: a five hundred team tea basically when all of a
Speaker 2: sudden done they won in Milwaukee at the end of
Speaker 2: the year to get in. We know about the Mets collapsing.
Speaker 2: You add all those things up, the bottom line is
Speaker 2: they made the playoffs. It was over in two quick games.
Speaker 2: How would you, at the end of the day view
Speaker 2: this twenty twenty five Reds season.
Speaker 5: Well, I think they made strides in certain areas Tom
Speaker 5: and I think they obviously continued to have problems that
Speaker 5: so far they've not been able to address, most notably
Speaker 5: the fact that their offense is brutal, and in order
Speaker 5: for them to take another step forward, they've got to
Speaker 5: improve the offense. And how they do that, I had
Speaker 5: no idea, but there has to be a certain commitment
Speaker 5: on the part of everybody there, ownership and baseball operations
Speaker 5: that we have to go out and get a guy
Speaker 5: who has a reputation for hitting balls out the ballpark
Speaker 5: and also driving in runs. It's easy to overlook the
Speaker 5: fact that it's a very young team, even though they
Speaker 5: quote young players have in a large part have had
Speaker 5: two or two or two plus years of experience in
Speaker 5: the major leagues. I don't think this team has to
Speaker 5: do a whole lot in order to improve itself. I
Speaker 5: think they're pitching a solid I think that when they
Speaker 5: traded for the kid from Key Brian Hayes from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 5: they've solidified to a great extent their defensive play on
Speaker 5: the infield. Their outfield is still somewhat shaky, but I
Speaker 5: really believe that what they have to do this winter
Speaker 5: is far, far far from having wholesale changes to cover
Speaker 5: some deficits all over the ball club. I think they're
Speaker 5: in pretty good shape now, but now you find out
Speaker 5: whether or not they're willing to make a commitment get
Speaker 5: a guy in here that can do what I was
Speaker 5: talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, I have made the comment, You've heard me make it,
Speaker 2: and I'll say it again right now as we sit
Speaker 2: here in October. That another thing that is going to
Speaker 2: be an issue for this team, and it has been
Speaker 2: for the last three or four years, the inability of
Speaker 2: their starting pitchers, primarily Lodolo and Hunter Green, of not
Speaker 2: being able to pitch barely one hundred and fifty innings
Speaker 2: in a season, and generally the you know, pretty much
Speaker 2: thinking around baseball circles is you don't ask a guy
Speaker 2: to pitch more than ten to fifteen percent more innings
Speaker 2: than he did the year prior. Hunter Green spent two
Speaker 2: months on the disabled list. Nick Lodolo finally got to
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty innings in a season, making twenty
Speaker 2: eight starts. We'll see how that goes. But I want
Speaker 2: to ask you about two topics in particular. Number one,
Speaker 2: do you think the Reds should move positions for Elie
Speaker 2: de la Cruz.
Speaker 5: I'm no question whatsoever they should. I mean, I think
Speaker 5: everybody has seen enough of his play at shortstop, and
Speaker 5: somebody commented me, well, go back and look at Barry
Speaker 5: Lark and he had twenty eight errors first, Yes he did,
Speaker 5: and then he made vast improvements from that point on.
Speaker 5: This kid has not made vast improvements defensively a shortstop,
Speaker 5: and I think he hurts them more than he helps them.
Speaker 5: And I said two years ago that they should move
Speaker 5: him to the outfield, and they have made a very
Speaker 5: strong commitment to him playing the position. He has played
Speaker 5: exclusively since coming up out of the system. But I
Speaker 5: think they hopefully have come to the realization that we
Speaker 5: have to do something about the position. Thank god, he
Speaker 5: has the kind of ability with speed in his arm
Speaker 5: and everything that goes into picking him a special player
Speaker 5: that he can go to the outfield and not have
Speaker 5: a problem at all. We've seen Martee do it. He
Speaker 5: had mistakes out there in right field this season, understood
Speaker 5: because he never played there before, as as de la Cruze.
Speaker 5: But he can learn, and I think they need to
Speaker 5: make that change sometime during the offseason. If it sends
Speaker 5: him to what's going on down in Arizona right now
Speaker 5: with young aspiring major leaguers, then they have to start
Speaker 5: from day one in spring training.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I always find it so interesting in
Speaker 2: that the stars of teams, and frequently will the field
Speaker 2: manager or the baseball operations people, they're hesitant to go
Speaker 2: to a guy like that who's more quote unquote established.
Speaker 2: And the example here you just referenced it. They had
Speaker 2: no problems at all going to Marte and saying, hey, look,
Speaker 2: you're moving into the outfield. But a lot of teams
Speaker 2: are hesitant to do that with a guy who's quote
Speaker 2: unquote established. I mean, you and I remember were old
Speaker 2: enough to remember Robin Yeut, great shortstop, right, and he
Speaker 2: moves to center field, he wins the MVP. We've seen
Speaker 2: it with guys like Sean Dunstan, we see it.
Speaker 1: With Pete Rose.
Speaker 2: I mean, he changed seemingly every other year over the
Speaker 2: course of his career. Then we get to Matt McLean
Speaker 2: And I know you're a big Matt McClean fan, And
Speaker 2: in my recent conversation with Nick Crawl, he believe eves
Speaker 2: that his shoulder will be fully healthy next year and
Speaker 2: he'll come back and play. And boy, the Reds better
Speaker 2: hope he does, because if you're gonna take a very
Speaker 2: light hitting third baseman who's very good on defense, you
Speaker 2: better make up for it somewhere else. And a big
Speaker 2: chunk of that might fall on the shoulders of Matt McClain.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't disagree with that at all. I mean,
Speaker 5: I've been a number one proponent of this young man's abilities.
Speaker 5: I think defensively he's great at second base, but offensively,
Speaker 5: it's just a confounding situation when you watch him take
Speaker 5: great pitches to hit and then he will lunge at
Speaker 5: breaking balls in the dirt. I'm surprised they ever throw
Speaker 5: him a strike because he has that reputation. Now you
Speaker 5: pitch him down on the way, he's going to swing
Speaker 5: at that ball, and the majority of those pitchers are
Speaker 5: not in the strike zone. I think it's going to
Speaker 5: be a very important spring training for him next spring.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, I'm not willing to give
Speaker 5: up on him because I do think he's got great ability.
Speaker 5: And going back to your previous question, if they move
Speaker 5: bay La Cruise to the outfield, I think the most
Speaker 5: likely prospect to take that position on will be Matt mcclens. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's proven in the past he's an outstanding defensive shortstop.
Speaker 5: He's got the arm to play there. I don't think
Speaker 5: they're willing to give up on him, and I'd be
Speaker 5: a little bit concerned about giving up on him now.
Speaker 5: Now what happens If we see the same thing in
Speaker 5: the spring, and if they go with it long enough
Speaker 5: into the early season, then admittedly they've got real problem.
Speaker 5: But they have to have a backup plan that if
Speaker 5: they make that move and keep them and put him
Speaker 5: back at second or move him to short, if they
Speaker 5: move the other guy to the outfield, they've got to
Speaker 5: keep that backup playing quiet because they don't want to
Speaker 5: put any undue pressure on him. He knows he's got
Speaker 5: to get it done or else he's going to be replaced.
Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you before I let you go.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, who wins a National League.
Speaker 5: I think the Dodgers will, okay, I really do you know?
Speaker 5: And and I know how people feel about that. And
Speaker 5: I'm prejudiced because I you know, if you're a Red
Speaker 5: Skuy as long as I've been, you're not a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of Dave Roberts, and I say
Speaker 5: that unabashedly. I think he's a fine manager. I think
Speaker 5: he's a class act. If any I can't imagine anybody
Speaker 5: beating them in Milwaukee. I think will run out of
Speaker 5: chances when if they get as far to play the
Speaker 5: Dodgers in the National League Pendant Series, But I think
Speaker 5: they'll win.
Speaker 1: It, okay. And how about in the American League.
Speaker 5: Hell, I don't know the way Toronto's they're changing a
Speaker 5: lot of people's opinions. This is what they've done against
Speaker 5: the Yankees in the first two games. I don't know,
Speaker 5: It's amazing, how impressive they have been in that series,
Speaker 5: So I really I think it's a toss up in
Speaker 5: the American leg it may end up being Toronto. If
Speaker 5: it is, it will be a pick that nobody ever
Speaker 5: dreams would come to that.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, all right, we'll have a great trip.
Speaker 2: Be careful, God speed ahead, and we'll catch up with
Speaker 2: you next Monday.
Speaker 1: Please be careful.
Speaker 5: We love you.
Speaker 1: I love you too. We'll talk to you later, all right.
Speaker 2: Eight fifty five Mondays with Marty wrapping up that and
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