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Speaker 2: All Right, good afternoon, Happy Monday, Happy Victory Monday. The

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Speaker 2: Monday Midday Quarterback starts right now on the Home of

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Speaker 2: the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. I'm Tony Pike.

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Speaker 2: Austin Elmore is with us. We have a lot of

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Speaker 2: ground to cover, hoday, I've got two hours to do

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Speaker 2: it and then I'm heading to Florence for the Tony

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Speaker 2: and mo Christmas Football Show from three to six, Austin.

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Speaker 3: Will have It's not Christmas yet, man, Well, it's our

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Speaker 3: Christmas Show. It's the last show we do before Christmas.

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Speaker 3: You guys should do a show together on Christmas. Well

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Speaker 3: we are.

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Speaker 2: Christ Well you're going to join Lance and on Christmas

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Speaker 2: Day we're going to do a show.

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Speaker 3: You guys should do a three to six that day.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, But for those that are that are wondering, this

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Speaker 2: is our last since e three sixty before Christmas, you

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Speaker 2: might say, well, why what about tomorrow? Well, tomorrow Kentucky

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Speaker 2: host Bellerman at one o'clock. That means the pregame starts

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Speaker 2: right when we would come on air, So you're not

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Speaker 2: going to get us tomorrow. You'll get the Kentucky Bellerman game.

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Speaker 2: And then Wednesday's Christmas Eve, Thursday's Christmas Day. We're off

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Speaker 2: on Friday. So this is the one and only time

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Speaker 2: Austin that we'll be together this week. We've got to

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Speaker 2: make the most of it. We'll take your phone calls five, one, three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. More importantly, we'll take your talkbacks in hour

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Speaker 2: number two. Open the iHeartRadio app, hit the microphone, leave

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Speaker 2: us a talkback. We'll get to those in hour number two.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot to break down from a victory

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Speaker 2: Sunday for the Bengals, Joe Burrow had fun. I think

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Speaker 2: that's the most important thing. He threw four touchdown passes

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Speaker 2: and won for over three hundred yards. Chase Brown had

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Speaker 2: a third quarter that some in the National Football League

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Speaker 2: would give their career for sure. Chase Brown was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: T Higgins after seeing a specialist and getting a different

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Speaker 2: helmet and a new outlook on things was awesome. Jamar

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Speaker 2: Chase for the twenty seventh time since he's been a

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengal, eclipsed one hundred or more yards. The defense

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Speaker 2: forced three turnovers yesterday. It's a good day to just

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Speaker 2: feel good. I get it. The season has been a struggle.

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Speaker 2: The season has been a grind. I get that. There

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Speaker 2: are folks out there that say, well, it was against

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Speaker 2: a backup quarterback, and you can't let that cloud I agree,

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Speaker 2: that can't cloud what the rest of the season has been.

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Speaker 2: But for this week and for right now, let's enjoy

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Speaker 2: what the Cincinnati Bengals were able to do yesterday. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about that all throughout our one and a little

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Speaker 2: bit of hour number two. We also need to look

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Speaker 2: around what happened in the rest of the NFL. We'll

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Speaker 2: do that at the top of the second hour. We

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Speaker 2: will whip around not only the AFC North, but we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about the Jaguars, the Bears, the Chargers, the Panthers,

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Speaker 2: and so much more in the National Football League. We'll

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Speaker 2: get you ready for the forty nine Ers and the

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Speaker 2: Colts tonight. It was an impressive win as the Kentucky

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Speaker 2: Wildcats are now healthy, getting guys back healthy, including Jay

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Speaker 2: and Quinn, who was awesome against Saint John's. A huge

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Speaker 2: second half propelled Kentucky over Saint John's. On Saturday, the

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Speaker 2: Xavier Musketeers went on the road and literally made Ed

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Speaker 2: I watched on Saturday night when Texas Tech beat Duke.

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Speaker 2: The Bearcats, who at one point trailed in their game

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Speaker 2: Always the grass is always greener. Sure, yeah, Austin, listen.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't watching that game yesterday because who watches college

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Speaker 3: They don't know if you'd see this or not.

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Speaker 2: They beat the Hawks one fift to one fifty. Michael,

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Speaker 3: That's a regulation score, defense optional in Atlanta, one fifty

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Speaker 2: Post game with Cleveland's coach who's just like, we just

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Speaker 3: Defensively, yeah, I mean very few teams do. I mean

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Speaker 3: And it was very reminiscent of the highlights I saw

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Speaker 2: The thing is for for a Walker or for Wilder.

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Speaker 2: He ain't getting a board and going right up with it.

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Speaker 2: He wants to get he wants getting, he wants get outside.

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Speaker 2: He wants to shoot what he calls three pointers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's been watching too much Steph Kurk's been watching a

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Speaker 3: gonna work on the celebrations. I think as a Christmas

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Speaker 3: the young man down and show him some Michael Jordan highlights,

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Speaker 3: I swear, and show him that mid range from Mike Jordans.

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Speaker 3: I swear.

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Speaker 2: We were sitting there Saturday morning and he's eating breakfast.

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Speaker 2: I said, what do you need to do to get

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Speaker 2: on Michael Jordan highlights?

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're good. I am.

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Speaker 2: I was proud. I'm like, we're done. And I was like, Mayor, Babe,

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Speaker 2: we're good. Let's move on to the next kids. Wilder

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Speaker 2: set he wants to watch MJ before his game.

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Speaker 3: There is no greater confirmation that you have done well

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Speaker 3: as parents they're doing, Meredith than to hear that come

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Speaker 3: out of the mouth of Wilder Pike. It was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Some other moves that happened. You see what Bill Belichick's done?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bobby Petrino is gonna be the OC. Yeah, what

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Speaker 2: what could go wrong? Whoa Bobby Petrinos joining Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 3: Busy weekend in Major League based anybody called to get

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Speaker 3: Mike Zimmer's reaction yet not yet either. Those who don't know,

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Speaker 3: just google Mike Zimmer, Bobby Patrino and get back to me.

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Speaker 2: The Red Sox have acquired Wilson Contreras in a trade

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Speaker 2: with the Cardinals. The home Run Record Center center in Japan.

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna butcher this. Munataka Mourakami okay has joined

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Speaker 2: the Chicago White Sox of all teams, Wow, how are

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Speaker 3: Because I think it was a two year deal where

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Speaker 3: thirty four million dollars Okay, is that correct? That would

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Speaker 3: clearly major league teams did not think as high of him,

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Speaker 3: that's not a very big posting fee that they're getting.

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Speaker 3: But I've already seen the conspiracy theorists out there that

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Speaker 3: and he, you know, figures out life in the big leagues,

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Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman will be retiring and the Dodgers will be

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Speaker 2: He'll the Dodgers already lead the Major League Baseball with

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty nine million dollar luxury tax. Also

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Speaker 2: from South Korea, infielder Sung mn Song okay has signed

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Speaker 2: a four year, fifteen million dollar with the Padres loaded

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Speaker 2: with incentives.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so there's more time. Can give me the name

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Speaker 3: one more time? That is Sung Mon song Okay song?

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Speaker 3: That's beautiful, four year, fifteen million Can he sing? You'd

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Speaker 2: Now, I wanted to rap segment one here with your

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Speaker 2: to college Football's credit, Austin Friday night was good. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an insane, insane gap in between games, and

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Speaker 3: I would say Indiana. I was thinking Indiana too, but

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Speaker 2: All the way Ole Miss. I was impressed with all

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Speaker 2: One that is the highest spread mentioned. Texas Tech is

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Speaker 2: So a full new year of college football coming your way.

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Speaker 2: We'll take me some time in an auto parts store.

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Speaker 3: Over the weekend. Okay, okay, I got real blue collar

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Bengals win and so many bright

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Speaker 2: spots to take out of the Miami victory on this victory. Monday,

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Speaker 2: the Monday Midday Quarterback on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 6: Hey, it's Mall Lagger. Join.

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Speaker 7: This is Football in the Natti, brought to you by

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Speaker 7: Postman Law on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home of

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Speaker 7: the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Football in the NATI.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Monday Midday Quarterback, ESBN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: This is simple, Austin. The Bengals dominated yesterday. They dominated,

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Speaker 3: Twenty one nothing in the third quarter. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Chase Brown Baby four touchdown passes on the afternoon for

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Speaker 3: It's amazing how he holds on to the ball. He won.

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Speaker 2: Nine different Bengals made catches yesterday, led by Jamar Chase

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Speaker 3: Absolutely ridiculous. You know who almost got up over one

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Speaker 3: Gave was sacked twice yesterday. One of those Orlando Brown yikes.

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Speaker 2: before that. He's twenty three years old. But I think

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Speaker 2: the Bengals found something at Marius Mems.

435
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Speaker 3: And a little bit banged up going into that game

436
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Speaker 3: and was still able to play as well as he did.

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Speaker 2: I you can't you can't help, and I hate to

438
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Speaker 2: do it, but wonder if if the offense could just

439
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Speaker 2: be healthy together for seventeen games what it would look like.

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Speaker 3: I do think, you know, going as we go into

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Speaker 3: the offseason, we'll have to talk a lot about the

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Speaker 3: word that is a really boring offseason topic. Depth, And

443
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 3: that's really the only thing we'll have to talk about

444
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Speaker 3: on offense. A third wide receiver, tight end, offensive line depth,

445
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Speaker 3: but depth in general, especially at the wide receiver position.

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Speaker 3: If Higgins goes down, you know, or Andre josavash or

447
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Speaker 3: whatever it might be, they need depth to be able

448
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Speaker 3: to sustain that offensive output if anybody goes down, and

449
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Speaker 3: offensive line is a huge part of that.

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Speaker 2: Defensively, three takeaways for the Bengals defense. Yesterday, Barrett Carter

451
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Speaker 2: had an interception on a tipball. Jalen Davis played a

452
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Speaker 2: ball to Jaylen Waddall, but as good as you can

453
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Speaker 2: play it as a second Do.

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Speaker 3: You remember during training camp I was pounding the drum

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Speaker 3: on Jalen Davis and I was a little surprised that

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Speaker 3: he didn't get an opportunity none. And he spent like

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Speaker 3: the first ten weeks of the season on the practice

458
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Speaker 3: squad and he has come in and immediately been one

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Speaker 3: of the best players on the field, whether he's playing

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Speaker 3: in the nickel or he's gone outside. He's been a

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Speaker 3: short tackler, Like I remember watching him the last couple

462
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Speaker 3: of years and thinking, that is a dude that has

463
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Speaker 3: a role on a good defense in the NFL, and

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Speaker 3: he didn't get that chance at all this year. And

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Speaker 3: I don't quite understand it, but I thought over all,

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Speaker 3: the cornerbacks, all of them had a good day, and

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Speaker 3: especially gutsy from DJ Turner trying to play through the

468
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Speaker 3: flu and finally Zach Taylor told him just go get

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Speaker 3: some fluids and get out of there. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: mean the corner's played great. Miles Murphy another good game.

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Speaker 3: My favorite story of the twenty twenty five big.

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Speaker 2: Tackle for a loss on third and short, had a

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Speaker 2: quarterback hit, recovered a fumble yesterday, five tackles on the day.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Battle led the way with ten tackles. Dj Ivy, Barrett, Carter,

475
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Speaker 2: Shaka Hayward all showing up on the stat sheet. One

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Speaker 2: player that I don't see here on the stat sheet

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Speaker 2: Austin Geno Stone. Yeah, after that a chain run, I

478
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Speaker 2: was like, oh boy, here we go Geno Stone with

479
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Speaker 2: an absolute whiff. But out that and again I know

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Speaker 2: this is prefaced and I heard it yesterday. You can't

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Speaker 2: take it these on. You're playing against QUINNYA. That's fine,

482
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Speaker 2: rookie quarterback or not making his first start or not.

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Speaker 2: The defensive effort in performance yesterday needs to be recognized

484
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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and specifically, you know, I think they did some

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Speaker 3: stuff schematically against the tight end Darren Waller, who clearly

487
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Speaker 3: was a big part of the Miami plan for quinn Ewers,

488
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Speaker 3: and the Bengals did a good job taking that away.

489
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Speaker 3: He got a couple, made a couple of good plays,

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Speaker 3: and players in the NFL do that. Waller was as

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Speaker 3: good as any for a couple of years ago. So

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Speaker 3: but overall, I think the the execution of that, the

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Speaker 3: ability to respond to Zach Taylor at halftime challenging them

494
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Speaker 3: to create turnovers, and they did that. You know, the

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Speaker 3: turnovers weren't really because of a rookie quarterback. Now, the

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Speaker 3: one that was tipped by Josh Newton and intercepted by

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Speaker 3: Barrett Carter, Yeah, that's a ball the probably shouldn't be thrown.

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Speaker 3: But the Jalen Davis play is a great athletic play.

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Speaker 3: The forced fumble by Jordan Battle is a great play.

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Speaker 3: Those things have nothing to do with their being a

501
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Speaker 3: rookie quarterback. That was being an instinctive and aggressive defense

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Speaker 3: that was opportunistic and to circle back really quickly to

503
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Speaker 3: Miles Murphy, speed, power, instincts, smart football like his development

504
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Speaker 3: this year is the perfect encapsulization. I think I made

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Speaker 3: that up. Encapsulation. Who cares of what they are looking

506
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Speaker 3: for on defense? Ye Like, it's hard to get that

507
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Speaker 3: from six guys yep. So they're obviously gonna have to

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Speaker 3: supplement that in the offseason. But that's what they've been

509
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Speaker 3: looking for, for that light bulb to come on for

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Speaker 3: multiple guys, and I'm glad it has. I also saw

511
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Speaker 3: a lot of pokes.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about why didn't Han get more carries with

513
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Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback only got fifteen on the day average

514
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Speaker 2: five point four carry. He did have a forty eight

515
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Speaker 2: yarder in there. But Mike McDaniel after the game talked

516
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Speaker 2: about the run defense of the Bengals giving them some

517
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Speaker 2: fits and the way they schematically attack them is something

518
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Speaker 2: they hadn't seen much, and that was a successful Miami

519
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Speaker 2: running attack for much of the year. So some good

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Speaker 2: things to build on.

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Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel's quote on that after the game. For the

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Speaker 3: first time really that I can remember this season, it

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Speaker 3: felt like we had the opportunities to run and we

524
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Speaker 3: were getting out techniqued. That's it. They had a good plan.

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Speaker 3: They wanted to be on the finer details a little

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Speaker 3: bit more than we did. End quote Dolphins head coach

527
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Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel. Yah, not often you get out techniqued. And

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, good day at the office. One for one

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Speaker 3: four yards. Yeah, that's good work, right. Shout out to

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco. I bet his body was loving that humidity.

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Speaker 3: Ye couldn't agree more. We'll break.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next the Monday midday Quarterback ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 7: You've been listening to Football in the Nattie on ESPN

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Speaker 7: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: My name is Whitney Allen.

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Speaker 8: ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 9: Third down and ten shotgun snapped to Burrow. He drops

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Speaker 9: back five steps, He's in trouble, rolls right, throws back,

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Speaker 9: caught Bigaseki, all sorts of running room.

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Speaker 6: He's at the twenty. The fifteen the ten.

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Speaker 3: And he gets tackled near the ten yard line.

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Speaker 9: Has Burrow rolled right and then chucked its sideways to

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Speaker 9: the left. It's actually Drew Sample night Mike Kaziki, and

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Speaker 9: it becomes a huge gain on third down and ten.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you're right, Danna bey your descriptions. Right on, he

548
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Speaker 10: climbs the pocket, works as well, right, throws back across

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Speaker 10: his body to between the hash marks, finds Drew Sample.

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Speaker 3: After the races goes true sample.

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Speaker 10: I mean, Joe Burrow has vision, he has patience, He's

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Speaker 10: got it all so good.

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Speaker 2: That was his Joe Burrow, my favorite player of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: vintage Burrow. Find him at the last second and Drew

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Speaker 2: Ample rumbling and stumbling. That's why they thought it was

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Speaker 2: Gasicki at first, because of the speed samples exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean a site no defense wants to see.

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Speaker 2: Now you think of Darnell Washington, No, no, no, but

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Speaker 2: of phone calls here and our number one as we

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Speaker 2: move along, Rob is calling in.

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Speaker 3: Hey Rob, Hey, guys, how you doing. What's up? Man?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 11: I just want to say Bengals, good job. I'm happy

570
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Speaker 11: to Burrow and the team. You know, he's get his

571
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 11: head right when is fun on to that. Offensively, they

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Speaker 11: did good. I'm glad that they did what they did.

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Speaker 11: As far as next year, offensively, I'm not too worried

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Speaker 11: about it. I think we need, like you guys said

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Speaker 11: debut at the offense tackle Tenner. I think we got

576
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Speaker 11: a few centers that are capable of doing it eventually.

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Speaker 11: But my main things defense and I love the fact

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Speaker 11: that Murphy's coming along. The thing about him what's gonna

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Speaker 11: make him good is he can stop the run. Yeah,

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Speaker 11: He's got the capability of the roofs endless for him

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Speaker 11: in pass rushing once he figures that out. Defensive end, mars,

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Speaker 11: I think we're good. Maybe bring back Aside if we can.

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Speaker 11: But as far as the draft is concerned, I wanted

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Speaker 11: to throw a few names out you guys, probably top

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Speaker 11: ten tick probably top fifteen. We're gonna be picking right.

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Speaker 11: So we got Reuben Bain Junior from Miami, the sack guy.

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Speaker 11: He's proven sacks. His numbers are there. Peter Woods, defensive

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Speaker 11: tackle from Clemson Athletic. Big guy can create some pass rush,

589
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Speaker 11: stop the run. Of course, Caleb downs, but I don't

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Speaker 11: think he's gonna be there. The one thing I like

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Speaker 11: about this guy Kendrick Falk from Auburn. He can play

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Speaker 11: defensive tackle too, and I think that's a big position

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Speaker 11: in the NFL where they're having defensive end hybrid as

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Speaker 11: defensive tackles. And then Caden McDaniel from the High State,

595
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Speaker 11: big old plug in the middle. If you gotta plug

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Speaker 11: in the middle, you can. You can make our linebackers

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Speaker 11: look Just to ask them, Just ask them now. We

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Speaker 11: had DJ Reader forever and our linebackers played like out

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Speaker 11: of their minds. And then Jared McCoy Jamal McCoy from

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Speaker 11: Orion d D. I don't think he'll be there. And

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Speaker 11: Spencer Finila, offensive tackle from Utah. I think he'll be there,

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Speaker 11: but he wouldn't start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Rob, I appreciate the phone call, man, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Rob's already got his big board. Yeah, Rob's big board

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Speaker 2: is up and running. Outside of Caleb downs and final

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Speaker 2: because I watched him dominate the Bearcats, I don't know

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Speaker 2: much about the rest, but I'll take his.

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Speaker 3: Word for it. Yeah, I was doing his research. He's

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Speaker 3: ready to go. Interested in watching Ruben Bain over the weekend. Uh,

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Speaker 3: and then obviously we'll be looking forward to watching him

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Speaker 3: against Ohio State. But yeah, I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 3: that I'm at that point where I'm ready to dive

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Speaker 3: fully into all that stuff yet, but I mean, hell,

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Speaker 3: it's that they're in a position on defense where they

615
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 3: have so many issues that you can take best defensive

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Speaker 3: player available and probably be happy with it. And even

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Speaker 3: if that's a cornerback. I don't think that's necessarily a

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Speaker 3: bad thing. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I uh again, I think we're I'm a little early

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Speaker 2: on the draft stuff, but there's a lot of different

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Speaker 2: ways I think we can be talked into as the

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Speaker 2: draft approaches on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 3: What's going on, John, How are you good?

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Speaker 5: Afternoon?

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Speaker 3: Tony?

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Speaker 12: Good afternoon, Austin, Merry Christmas, Happy holidays.

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Speaker 3: Likewise, thank you too.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 12: I think the Bengals have to higher on He's up

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Speaker 12: the speed already on the draft. I mean, right, that

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Speaker 12: guy would sit in. I mean they need some help

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Speaker 12: in the scouting department.

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Speaker 5: Run's ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah things.

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Speaker 12: First of all, you know, we could talk about Duke

636
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 12: Tobin and Mike Brown and Zach Taylor and everything, but

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Speaker 12: if the quarterback isn't happy and all in, nothing else

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00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 12: really matters. And it was so great to see him yesterday.

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Speaker 12: Looked like himself, even his demeanor, his body language so

640
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Speaker 12: much better. And I think what led him to a

641
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Speaker 12: melancholy place for about ten days was he blames himself

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Speaker 12: for every loss. And he still talks about the loss

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Speaker 12: of the Patriots and the season opener a year ago,

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Speaker 12: and you know that's a long time ago, but he

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Speaker 12: blames himself for every loss. I think he was really

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Speaker 12: hard on himself with the Buffalo loss because they were

647
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Speaker 12: up ten, they had a chance. I think he gets

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Speaker 12: really excited playing against the other top quarterbacks and that

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Speaker 12: would have been a game may propel them into the playoffs.

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Speaker 12: I think that's really where he was that by being

651
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Speaker 12: so down on himself to that particular game. So it

652
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Speaker 12: seems like to recover that from this point going forward,

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Speaker 12: I think what we need to also see happen is

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Speaker 12: I think before every future game, have a national reporter

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Speaker 12: come out and say that the teams that the Bengals

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Speaker 12: are playing that day offered the Bengals four first round

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Speaker 12: picks before the twenty twenty draft to draft Joe Burrow

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Speaker 12: because I think he kind of looked at the team

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Speaker 12: and said, four first round picks, that's not enough for me.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Stephen Ross, the owner of the Dolphins, was

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Speaker 3: watch doubled yesterday thinking we should have offered him eight yep,

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Speaker 3: double it. Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 12: You know that The thing is with Miami too, Uh,

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Speaker 12: they haven't had a star football player really since Stan Marino.

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Speaker 12: I mean, two is not a star superstar like Joe

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Speaker 12: Burrow is. And I think Stephen Ross probably salivates over

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Speaker 12: a player like that, a personality like that, how popularly

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Speaker 12: would be in South Beach. I mean, that's probably why

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Speaker 12: he was ready to fork over all the draft picks, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, going forward.

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Speaker 12: But yeah, I think it was It was great to

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Speaker 12: see finish the season out with a good strong wins

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Speaker 12: and carry it in from there. But it just it

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Speaker 12: was just refreshing to see that yesterday because if he's

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Speaker 12: all in.

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Speaker 3: Then a lot of the problems can be so correct. Correct, John,

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Speaker 3: thanks so much, man, have a great holiday. Yeah you

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Speaker 3: two as well. Thank you. Let's get one more here.

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Speaker 3: Uh Kenny, what's up, hey, Joe.

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Speaker 13: Bengals from yesterday? I man just thinking the defense that

681
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Speaker 13: played for the other part of the season, like they did,

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Speaker 13: you know, last games or so, where we'd be.

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Speaker 14: But my question that the.

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Speaker 13: Quarterback from James Madison, Uh Barnett. Yeah, watching them play,

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Speaker 13: I don't know how they did what they did this year.

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Speaker 13: Is his delivery that dropped them side on them?

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Speaker 15: That?

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Speaker 13: I mean he had passed his knocked down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched. I watched a little bit, and he

690
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: put up good stats this year. I think I think

691
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Speaker 2: twenty eight hundred or so. They were talking about passing,

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Speaker 2: and I know he ran it for over five or

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Speaker 2: six hundred on the year as well. So he's a

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Speaker 2: great athlete. But he does not he does not have

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Speaker 2: a buttoned up delivery. And I'm sure that being on

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Speaker 2: that that type of showcase, he's going to have a

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Speaker 2: lot of offers in the portal of teams that are

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Speaker 2: going to say, hey, we can get him in here.

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Speaker 2: He already has the athleticism, but we can make him

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Speaker 2: more of a passer. Are there are going to be

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Speaker 2: teams that take a chance on him and a lot

702
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Speaker 2: of money at him. But I think what he was

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Speaker 2: asked to do at James Madison, it was it wasn't

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Speaker 2: necessary for him to be as polished at the at

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Speaker 2: the release standpoint. But I watched the same thing. Here's

706
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Speaker 2: a super athlete put up some gaudy numbers, but just

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Speaker 2: from a sheer quarterback standpoint, you could tell he's not

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Speaker 2: done much on the throwing at throwing motion aspect.

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Speaker 13: And I just you know that game looked like playing

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Speaker 13: with boys.

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Speaker 2: Yes it yep. And again as Austin, yeah, thank you, Kenny.

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Speaker 2: As Austin said, thank you, it's not against James Madison.

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Speaker 2: James Madison did what they had to do and they

714
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Speaker 2: capitalized on what the system is. But that was a severe,

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Speaker 2: severe matchup discrepancy. And we knew the old miss was

716
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Speaker 2: going to because we watched the game earlier in the

717
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Speaker 2: ye where they beat him by thirty five. So it

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00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: is at times it was men against boys.

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Speaker 3: And shout out to Lane Kiffin for getting that two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand shout.

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Speaker 2: Out to Lane Kiffin Man unbelievable beeble one final.

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Speaker 3: Bak is this bad? I didn't watch a snap of

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Speaker 3: jmu Oregon. I don't blame you. I didn't watch one

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Speaker 3: second of that because I did a little and it

725
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Speaker 3: wasn't great. I had like it was a family Christmas

726
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Speaker 3: going on, and then by that time the Bears Packers started. Yeah,

727
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Speaker 3: so I was like, I'm not watching this. Yep. I

728
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 3: gave it a chance. Shouldn't have. Uh.

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Speaker 2: We will wrap up our number one when we get back,

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Speaker 2: when we get to our two, a very busy Saturday

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Speaker 2: and Sunday in the National Football League that we'll recap

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Speaker 2: and then get to your talkbacks here on the Monday

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Speaker 2: midday Quarterback on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 6: Hey, it's ma Legger. Join us today at twin peak.

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Speaker 3: There we go. Now we're talking here, Come Tony Klaus there.

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Speaker 16: It is.

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Speaker 2: One final thing here Austin before we get to our two,

738
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Speaker 2: because I want to talk about a day in the

739
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Speaker 2: NFL and many things that happened, what the playoff implications

740
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Speaker 2: look like, will peak ahead to week seventeen as well.

741
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Speaker 2: But one name we did not mention in the first

742
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Speaker 2: hour that I think we should Shamar Stewart, yes two tackles,

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Speaker 2: two solo tackles, one tackle for a loss. I didn't

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Speaker 2: see glaring omissions from Shamar Stewart. I saw him around

745
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Speaker 2: the ball a lot, and I saw him very active

746
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Speaker 2: in his first game back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to go back and look through some

748
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Speaker 3: of it, but from what I remember, he seemed to

749
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Speaker 3: be pretty solid in the run game, which you know,

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Speaker 3: we talked about how well the Bengals defense played in

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Speaker 3: the run game. From what I remember, I thought Chamar

752
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Speaker 3: really held his own and played a pretty good game

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Speaker 3: against the run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, something we hadn't talked about yet, but did make

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Speaker 2: his presence known at times on the field yesterday, and

756
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Speaker 2: he's going to have opportunities down the stretch in these

757
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Speaker 2: final two to find something that they can hopefully build

758
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Speaker 2: on going forward to next year. But I thought it

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Speaker 2: at least necessary to bring up Shamar Stewart did have

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Speaker 2: an impact in that game yesterday as well. Jalen Davis,

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Speaker 2: Miles Murphy, and Shamar Stewart combined for the Bengals three

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Speaker 2: tackles for losses yesterday. They did not register a sack

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Speaker 2: on Quin Yours. But I think that was more of

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Speaker 2: the game plan of what Miami did as well. Not

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Speaker 2: a lot of drop back, deep, deep setting routes. It

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Speaker 2: was a lot of get the ball out quick in

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Speaker 2: play action. But I thought the Bengals defense played good

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Speaker 2: football yesterday. The Bengals offense played elite football yesterday. And

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Speaker 2: one thing we haven't talked a ton about this year,

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Speaker 2: Austin Ryan Rico has been awesome. Yeah, Evan McPherson has

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Speaker 2: been really really Evan McPherson's had a very good bounce

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Speaker 2: back year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I've seen Ryan Rico catch some flack and he

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Speaker 3: does have probably more touchbacks than he needs or should have.

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Speaker 3: But he's also been really good penning teams inside the twenty.

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Speaker 3: All four of his punts yesterday pinned the Dolphins inside

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Speaker 3: the twenty. Again, complimentary football was all over the field

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Speaker 3: for the Bengals yesterday, and that includes special teams.

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Speaker 2: Agreed hour two of the Monday midday quarterback is next.

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Speaker 3: All right, we're back.

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Speaker 2: It is the second hour of the Monday midday Quarterback

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Speaker 2: on the Home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: Thanks as well to.

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Speaker 2: Our friends at since he Shirts, We've discussed the Bengals

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00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 2: from yesterday and listen. It's not to take away from

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Speaker 2: the Bengals win. They are games right now that do

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Speaker 2: not have a bearing on the postseason.

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Speaker 3: For the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: So there is a side of this, Austin, to say,

807
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Speaker 2: let's enjoy the win, let's enjoy the finer things from

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Speaker 2: yesterday's game, but also the expectations and standards going into

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Speaker 2: the offseason must be held much higher than they were

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Speaker 2: last year.

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Speaker 3: I think both those things are true.

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Speaker 2: You can't you can't just rely on yesterday and hopefully

813
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Speaker 2: a good performance against the Cardinals and a good performance

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Speaker 2: against the Browns and say, okay, well we're more further

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Speaker 2: along than we thought, so we don't have to be

816
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Speaker 2: as aggressive. The standards and the expectations have to be

817
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Speaker 2: higher going into the offseason, but you can also enjoy

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Speaker 2: what yesterday was and that is a win for the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals. Austin, do you think that the folks at

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Speaker 2: the National Football League, when they made their Christmas Day

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Speaker 2: schedule viewed what would be at stake this upcoming Thursday.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think they viewed what could you had

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Speaker 2: to have thought like, Okay, Cowboys, Commanders. Those teams will

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Speaker 2: be competing, especially the Commanders. Sure, Lions should be a

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl contender. Lions are essentially out of it. Broncos, Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: There is one playoff team that's going to be playing

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Speaker 2: on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Lions will are technically alive, still alive. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so the Lions can make the playoffs, albeit their chances

830
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Speaker 3: are very slim. It'll be the Broncos and the Lions,

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Speaker 3: only two of the six teams still and some of

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Speaker 3: the quarterback battles as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to start for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know who that guy was that finished

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Speaker 3: that game. I had never heard of him. No Aluacin

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Speaker 3: or something me, no clue past me. So I don't

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Speaker 3: know who Chris Chris Alucan, Yeah, which I would rather

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Speaker 3: probably watch him than JJ McCarthy take another snap. He's terrible,

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Speaker 3: but we'll have to watch him. And they're awful Christmas

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Speaker 3: alternate uniforms that the Vikings will be wearing. I do think,

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Speaker 3: you know, at least the Cowboys offense is fun. The

843
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 3: Lions offense is mostly fun about The Broncos and Chiefs

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Speaker 3: might set football back a couple of years. But here's

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Speaker 3: the thing with the NFL. They they put out bangers

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Speaker 3: in some way, shape or form like Saturday. Both those

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Speaker 3: games were pretty good, and then you know who knows

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen on Christmas Night or Christmas Day?

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Speaker 3: Like you just never know. I remember it was it

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Speaker 3: last year or two years ago the Chiefs knocked off

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Speaker 3: or the Raiders knocked off the Chiefs on Black Friday,

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Speaker 3: and nobody thought that was going to be a good game. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: this coming Saturday, Texans, Chargers, Ravens, Packers, yep so.

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Speaker 2: And Ravens will play that game still alive because they

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Speaker 2: won't know the outcome obviously of the Steelers until Sunday.

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Speaker 2: So the Ravens and we'll let let's get to that

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Speaker 2: schedule in a moment. Let's talk about what happened yesterday

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Speaker 2: across the National Football League. We'll start with with Saturday

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Speaker 2: night Austin. I thought it was a solid performance from

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Speaker 2: the Eagles. Commanders aren't a very good football team, But

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Speaker 2: you want to talk about a will to win and

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Speaker 2: finding a way. The Bears did just that. They convert

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Speaker 2: on a fourth down down the stretch they were covering

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Speaker 2: on side kick, they score a touchdown, and then DJ

865
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Speaker 2: more in overtime on an unbelievable pass from Caleb Williams.

866
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 3: I'm with you. We talked about this before the show. Austin.

867
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm still not yet all the way

868
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 2: sold on the Bears, but my goodness, is Caleb Williams

869
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: improving and that defense and what Ben Johnson has done

870
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 2: is very impressive.

871
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's anybody in the NFC that

872
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,919
Speaker 3: I'm totally sold on other than the Rams, and they

873
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 3: clearly have their deficiencies. I mean, hell, they just lost

874
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 3: to Seattle. I think the Bears are a fun story.

875
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 3: I think they would be really interesting and if Caleb

876
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 3: Williams is going to play like that in their biggest moments.

877
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 3: They do have a run game, at least historically they've

878
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: had a run game. I think their defense has slowly

879
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 3: gotten better. Those two things in and of itself can

880
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 3: make you a team that's dangerous in the playoffs. So

881
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 3: the way that they were able to rally and they

882
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 3: kind of got punched in the mouth after Jordan Love

883
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 3: went out, I thought Malik Willis played really well. Yes,

884
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, Chicago's like, oh crap, this

885
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 3: isn't going to be easy. We got to find our

886
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 3: way through this, and they did. I mean, I'll score

887
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 3: Green Bay by ten in the fourth quarter and then

888
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 3: in overtime. That was That was one of the funnest

889
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:01,919
Speaker 3: games of the year.

890
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 5: Yep.

891
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: Bill's clunky against the Browns devastating.

892
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 13: Uh.

893
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: I hated seeing quin Shawn Juckkins get taken off the

894
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 2: field on an air cast. Shador Sanders keeps showing me

895
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 2: some stuff though. I think Schador's playing pretty well.

896
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.

897
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 2: James Cook was awesome yesterday. Josh Allen was not great.

898
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 2: I don't think he needed to be Chargers double up

899
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: the Cowboys? How good? What's the ceiling for the Chargers?

900
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 2: Omarion Hampton is now back. He changes their run game.

901
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: Herbert was awesome yesterday. What's the ceiling for the Chargers?

902
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 2: The ceiling for the Chargers is they could still win

903
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 2: the AFC West. Yes, if they went out.

904
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: I played they played the Texans on Saturday and then

905
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 3: the Broncos. If they went out, they win the AFC West.

906
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 3: And you know, I think that could be a really

907
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 3: interesting development in the AFC, just because of the home

908
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 3: field advantage that's built in with the Broncos. If that's

909
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 3: taken away from them, different, Yeah, that's an entirely different

910
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 3: team in the postseason. Yep. And now the Chargers may

911
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 3: not really have a quote unquote home field advantage. I

912
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 3: think they have more of one than the Rams do typically,

913
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 3: but still, I mean that could really flip the balance

914
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 3: of power in the AFCU.

915
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 2: Chiefs essentially didn't even show up in Tennessee. Gardan Minshew

916
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 2: also leaves with an acl injury. Titans beat the Chiefs.

917
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 2: Saints might have found something here. Saints are are playing well.

918
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: Tyler shock three in a row, Tyler, what shock? Shuck?

919
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 3: Shuck?

920
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, shucks. They're getting shucked up down there here. Orland

921
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: won over three hundred yards yesterday. Uh, Chris shuck, Chris

922
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: o'lav don't forget to throw him the ball Jets. Jets

923
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: now have gone fifteen games without an interception. Can they

924
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 2: make it the whole year without a pick?

925
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 3: I hope?

926
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 15: So.

927
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 3: I think that'd be really fun.

928
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: Carolina Baby, How about the Panthers taking control of that division?

929
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 3: Man beating the Buccaneers at home a game nobody wanted

930
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 3: to win. Does Baker Mayfield stink again? Are we gonna

931
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 3: hear something about him in the offseason, like some sort

932
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 3: of surgery or something like that got his weapons back

933
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 3: to you know, we talked last week about if Zach

934
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 3: Taylor were to be fired, that the Bengals have maybe

935
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,919
Speaker 3: the most interesting or most desirable job available. If Todd

936
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 3: Bowles gets fired, Tampa's towards the top of that list

937
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 3: as well. That could be a good conversation, be a

938
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 3: fun team to UH to take over. And and I

939
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 3: wonder about a guy like Clint Koubiak in Seattle. Could

940
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 3: he come down there and make some noise with with

941
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 3: that team. But you know, it's getting ahead of myself.

942
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 3: I'm happy for Carolina. Every once in a while you

943
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 3: see these Bryce Young plays that's like, oh, yeah, that's

944
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 3: the Bryce Young. They got picked in the first number

945
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 3: one overalls. It doesn't happen often, but you see it sometimes.

946
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 3: Texans kind of slept walk to a win over the Raiders.

947
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: That was a better game than people thought. I watched

948
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 3: a good chunk of that game. The Raiders were very

949
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 3: much in it. That was one of the worst officiated

950
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 3: games of the NFL season. Was that game in Houston?

951
00:48:58,440 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 3: You know it was really good and just getting wate

952
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 3: right now. Robinson, Yeah, I know that. As a fantasy

953
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 3: owner of Bejon Robinson.

954
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 2: Seven catches for ninety two and a touchdown ran for

955
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 2: seventy six.

956
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: I think Kirk Cousins has played pretty well down the stretch.

957
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 3: By the way, I think that's a name that we

958
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 3: have to watch out for in the offseason. The other

959
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 3: games three that we've not mentioned yet. Let's start Austin

960
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 3: with I'll give you your flowers. Thank you.

961
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 2: The Jacksonville Jaguars, who not only are on a proverbial

962
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 2: heater right now, the Jaguars have won six games in

963
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: a row, six games. That's the longest winning streak in

964
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 2: the National Football League. They did so yesterday by dominating

965
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos in Denver. That Denver defense no answer

966
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 2: for Trevor Lawrence in company. They win thirty four to twenty.

967
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: Jaguars Austin. With the openings in the AFC, no Mahomes,

968
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: no Lamar right now, no Joe Burrow. This is open

969
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: for the Jaguars right now because not playing great football.

970
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 2: That's a team you have to pay attention to in

971
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 2: the AFC.

972
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 16: It really is.

973
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 3: Then they're going to play Indianapolis coming off of a

974
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 3: short week next week, and they finished this season at

975
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 3: home against Tennessee, so you expect them to finish the

976
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 3: year on an eight game win streak at least I

977
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 3: would personally. But yeah, you mentioned I've been high on

978
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 3: the Jags all season long, and part of that equation

979
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 3: was Brian Thomas Junior and Travis Hunter playing well together. Well,

980
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter's barely played. They've done all this without him,

981
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 3: and their best player on offense hasn't been Brian Thomas Junior.

982
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 3: It's been Parker Washington. He's been unbelievable for this team

983
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 3: this year. Over six hundred receiving yards, already four touchdowns.

984
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 3: He's a threatned special teams as well. They do it

985
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 3: in a lot of different ways. It felt like it

986
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 3: feels like the light bulb has come on a little

987
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 3: bit for Trevor Lawrence as well. It's a fun team,

988
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 3: it's a good team, and that was a team with

989
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 3: attitude yesterday that went into Denver and took it to him.

990
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 3: You remember that. I don't know. I don't think we

991
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 3: talked about it on the air, But one of the

992
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 3: dumbest things I've ever heard NFL head coach say was

993
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 3: Sean Payton last week talking about Jacksonville being a small

994
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 3: market team. Yeah, the market size in the National Football

995
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 3: League does not about it at all too and and

996
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 3: he should, and the players going into the locker room,

997
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 3: we're talking about it as well. I'll tell you that

998
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 3: little stuff like that matters. Man, and Jacksonville does kind

999
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 3: of feel like it's them against the world mentality because

1000
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 3: it kind of is nobody really believed them besides me,

1001
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 3: So do vall. Now, we don't got to say that.

1002
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:33,760
Speaker 3: I think that's dumb. That's like us saying Hamilton because

1003
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 3: we're in Hamilton County all the time.

1004
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,439
Speaker 2: Now, the two AFC North games to end the night,

1005
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 2: So let's start with the Ravens, who lose Lamar Jackson

1006
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 2: to a back injury, which was weird because there's times

1007
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 2: he was on the sideline and looked like he was

1008
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 2: coming back in and he never did. And the Patriots

1009
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: look like I thought the Patriots were out of that game.

1010
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 2: I thought Baltimore was going to get themselves a very

1011
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 2: good win. Was it in the fourth quarter alone? Derrick

1012
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 2: Henry ran it in. It was twenty four to thirteen,

1013
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 2: and you thought, man, Baltimore is going to find a

1014
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 2: way to win this. And then Drake May happened, and

1015
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 2: then ramondre Stevenson happened, and then John Harball in the

1016
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 2: offense of the Baltimore Ravens forgot that Derrick Henry had

1017
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 2: carried the ball for seven point one yards per carry

1018
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 2: and just went away from him in the fourth quarter

1019
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 2: and gave the ball more to Tyler Huntley. And that's

1020
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 2: not saying Tyler Huntley was bad. He was nine to

1021
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 2: ten in the game. Why take the ball out of

1022
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 2: Dereck Henry's hands. Zay Flowers fumbled again. He's got more

1023
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 2: fumbles than touchdowns this year. Are the Baltimore Ravens done?

1024
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 2: Does it feel like it? Yes, feels like it's over.

1025
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I believe another weird injury for Lamar And

1026
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 3: now they got to go win at green Bay just

1027
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 3: to keep their season alive. Yeah, and now, and that's

1028
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 3: very possible based off of you know, green Bay's the

1029
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 3: walking wounded right now. I mean they barely got anybody left.

1030
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 3: But still going up to green Bay late in the

1031
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 3: year like this is not going to be easy, especially

1032
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 3: on a shoe.

1033
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 17: Uh.

1034
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 2: And finally, the game that I'm still trying to figure

1035
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 2: out from yesterday, what was the ending of the Lions

1036
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers.

1037
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 3: It was entertaining. It was entertaining, for sure. It was

1038
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 3: miserable having to listen to Jim Nants and Tony Romo,

1039
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 3: who have quickly become one of the worst broadcasting duos

1040
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 3: in sports. That CBS production crew didn't show a replay

1041
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 3: the almost the entire time. That was awful with that.

1042
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 3: That was awful, awful production on that crew. I don't

1043
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 3: know what was going on. And then the way that

1044
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 3: Carl Cheffer's, the referee, explained it at the end was

1045
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 3: just bonkers. The you just you broken up over it

1046
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 3: or I just I it was frustrating watching the end

1047
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 3: of that game because you're You're like, the reason I'm

1048
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 3: watching this is so I should get some kind of

1049
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 3: insight here.

1050
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jalen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell were awesome yesterday for

1051
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

1052
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 3: I've said it before. The Steelers' entire offenses built a

1053
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 3: brown Kenneth Gainwell, I can't, I cannot believe that, but

1054
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 3: it's true. Yeah, Adam Thielan had a big catch.

1055
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 2: Adam Ceiling, Darnell Washington had a big like Detroit couldn't

1056
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 2: get a stop in the fourth quarter. No, they they

1057
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 2: could not get a stop when they needed it the most.

1058
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 2: And I thought the door opened up there at the

1059
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 2: end when Boswell missed, It's like, oh boy, here come

1060
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 2: the Lions. It was a it was a weird game,

1061
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 2: Jamier Gibbs. Austin ran seven times for two yards but

1062
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: caught ten passes for sixty six.

1063
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 3: Yep, that's what killed me.

1064
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just so at the end, Detroit a

1065
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 2: couple of shots at it to win it. I thought

1066
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 2: the offensive pass interference call on the Amen Ross Saint

1067
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 2: Brown touchdown was soft, and I thought the offensive pass

1068
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 2: interference on Aman Ross Saint Brown on the lateral touchdown was.

1069
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 3: Soft as well. I agree just so the fact that

1070
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,040
Speaker 3: they that place should have been blown dead, Yes, it

1071
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 3: would have been cool, no doubt. But and I'm rooting

1072
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 3: against the Steelers, but yeah, just the last two minutes

1073
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 3: of that game was wild, ending bad.

1074
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: And again with that loss, Pittsburgh can now clinch if

1075
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 2: they just beat the Cleveland Browns. By the way, Austin

1076
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 2: death Texas Mike Tomlin over five hundred.

1077
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 3: Nineteen years in a row something like that.

1078
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 2: It looks like they're playing with that understanding and attitude.

1079
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Speaker 2: Like you see the shot of Tomlin walking off the

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00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 2: field in between Rogers and Cam Hayward and Cam Hayward

1081
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 2: and Rogers are both kind of pointing to Tomlin, like, Yeah,

1082
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 2: he's that guy.

1083
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 3: We hear the noise. We're just winning football games. They

1084
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,439
Speaker 3: have certainly seemed to have figured it out yep, over

1085
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks.

1086
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:50,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, frustrating to say the least. We'll take a break.

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Speaker 2: Your talkbacks the Monday Midday Quarterback Edition next on ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Alexa, who's out.

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00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: Here's that hypeer talkbacks?

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00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 18: It's that microphone and record a message, Oh hunters a

1092
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 18: biscil toe. I'd be remission to not keep for this, so.

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Speaker 5: You better not be naughty. That's kind of that hype

1094
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 5: for talkbacks.

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00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: It's the most wonderful time of the show. Austin and

1096
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,760
Speaker 1: Hoy hope you type this very slow today and try

1097
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: not to sabotage it.

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Speaker 3: So fitting on a day.

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Speaker 2: That is our final day Austin before the holiday on

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Speaker 2: Thursday of your talkbacks on the Monday edition of the

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Speaker 2: Monday Midday Quarterback Thanks as well to our friends at Cincy.

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Speaker 19: Shirts excellent to see wheelborrow tune back in yesterday down

1103
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 19: in Miami. Today is my sixty second year on the planet. Wow,

1104
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 19: Merry Christmas, Happiness year to home and always.

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00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 3: Frank him Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday, will crank him up, Jeff,

1106
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 3: frank him, matt.

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00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 20: Hey, fellows, it's Vinnie calling on a victory Monday. How

1108
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 20: about that, Austin. Merry Christmas to you, buddy, and Shabat shalom.

1109
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 20: Happy hone. Cut to you, Tony, my dear friend, Tony Pike. Listen, Tony,

1110
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 20: I do want an apology to me. Austin, Zach Taylor

1111
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 20: and Duke Tobin. We said, let Joey Burr play and play.

1112
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 20: He did, and guess what, he's happy again. Let's finish

1113
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 20: the season strong. Let's do some quality draft picks.

1114
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 2: Let's go who Day shout out, shout out to happy

1115
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 2: Joe Barrow.

1116
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 3: Are you gonna apologize? I'm sorry, Vinnie, Austin, Duke and

1117
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 3: Zech Nope, nope.

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00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 8: Hey guys, it's Jeff and New Rich Jeff, Happy Monday,

1119
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 8: Glad the Bengals won yesterday. Just wanted to do a

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Speaker 8: quick shout out to you guys. Hope you have a

1121
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 8: very merry Christmas, happy New Year, as well as all

1122
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 8: the talkbackers, listeners, everybody involved with your show. Moe and

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00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 8: his show, Chad Brindle, all the guys who fill in

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00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 8: and do a marvelous job.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you, tak Well, thank you, Jeff, Thanks Jeff.

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00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 3: Appreciate those words.

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00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 8: All right, So I left the positive ones. You see

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00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 8: basketball yesterday. Wes Miller is a dead man walking. There's

1129
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 8: no getting around that at this point. My hope is

1130
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 8: that we have to fire John Cunningham before we fire

1131
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 8: Wes Miller, because we cannot let him choose the next coach.

1132
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Speaker 8: Take care, have a great day.

1133
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 3: Just the dead man the dead pan delivery of dead

1134
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 3: Man walking. Gosh, Man's beautiful. He's a dead man walking.

1135
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 21: A big shout out to Jay Way to start the

1136
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 21: day on social media this morning. Yeah, the last paragraph

1137
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 21: of his post about sums up everything and how good

1138
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 21: life can be and how tough today will be.

1139
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know Jay posted it, and we are.

1140
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 2: I am a huge fan and I Austin, I'm sure

1141
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of everything Jay Morrison does and

1142
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 2: his statistics and insights are are so good, Like he

1143
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 2: is the one guy to go to for the most

1144
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 2: obscure stats that you ever want to know. He shared

1145
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 2: on his social media earlier that after undergoing what he

1146
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 2: described as a routine procedure things with his wife of

1147
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 2: I believe thirty seven years, took a turn for the

1148
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 2: worst and that she had essentially been putting on life

1149
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 2: support to be an organ donor. But she is, as

1150
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Speaker 2: Jay mentioned, she was going to be taken off the

1151
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 2: machines today. And I can't one. Jay's such a great guy,

1152
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 2: great family too. I can't imagine what him and his

1153
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 2: family are going through, especially this time of the year,

1154
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 2: and just a loss that you're not ready for that

1155
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 2: comes out of nowhere. So our our thoughts and prayers

1156
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 2: are definitely, I know with with Jay Morrison and his family.

1157
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Jay is just the nicest guy in the world,

1158
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 3: and just to have your your world taken away from

1159
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 3: you like that, it's just unfathomable.

1160
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Speaker 1: Uh.

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01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,959
Speaker 3: And if you in case you missed his announcement, he said,

1162
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 3: he's obviously going to be stepping away from the Bengals

1163
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 3: beat for a while and taking care of his kids

1164
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 3: and trying to put the pieces together. So we're thinking

1165
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Speaker 3: of him and we certainly are give him our condolences.

1166
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 3: I know. Zach Taylor met with the media earlier today

1167
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 3: and did the same thing and said some nice things

1168
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 3: about Jay. So yeah, it's just no easy way to

1169
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 3: talk about it. Awful.

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Speaker 22: Hey it's Greg. You know what I really like about

1171
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 22: yesterday's game. Both sides of the ball were playing like

1172
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Speaker 22: they were still in very very positive I do like that.

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Speaker 15: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We talked last week about the team rollover. There was

1175
01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 2: no rolling over in South Beach.

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01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a week after it felt like they quit

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Speaker 3: on him.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 3: To see them respond that way, especially the second half.

1180
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Speaker 23: Yeah, Hey, guys, Sean form me skate. This might just

1181
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 23: be old man yelling get clouds, but seeing the video

1182
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 23: yesterday of Zach Taylor in his postgame locker room in

1183
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 23: the Bengals social media page with the hashtag locker room, selly,

1184
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 23: what are you celebrating? You're five and ten, You're going

1185
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 23: nowhere for the third straight year. Congratulations, you've hit mediocrity

1186
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Speaker 23: once again.

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01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 3: Celebrating they won. Yep, it's hard of doing the NFL.

1188
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 3: Winning is hard, and obviously this season goes without saying.

1189
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 3: The season is not where anybody wants it to be.

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Speaker 3: But those dudes still go to work every day, they

1191
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 3: still bust their butt and it's easy for them to,

1192
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 3: you know, just pack it in and play like it

1193
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. But I think those guys also understand there's

1194
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 3: a lot going on in terms of decisions being made

1195
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 3: about next year, and so there is a lot to

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01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 3: play for personally. And also, I don't think anybody wants

1197
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 3: to be a team that finishes four and whatever it

1198
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 3: is thirteen. With Joe Burrow at quarterback, I think there's

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Speaker 3: a pride factor, and so it feels good to win.

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Speaker 5: Yep, Hey, guys.

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01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 24: Steve Montgomery stating the obvious. The Bengals need to extend

1202
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 24: Chase Brown and they need to sign Dalton Risner to

1203
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 24: two more years.

1204
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 5: And I just had an abstract idea.

1205
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 24: One way we can improve the entire defense is by

1206
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 24: somehow Bryan Jeffrey Simmons away from the Titans. I know

1207
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 24: it seems pretty unlikely, but they need draft picks and

1208
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 24: they're not going anywhere, and he'd probably relished the idea

1209
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 24: of joining a team with Joe Burrow. I'd offer them

1210
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Speaker 24: our second round pick and maybe another sweetener.

1211
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Speaker 3: What do you guys think?

1212
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 2: Huh, We got a lot of time to throw those

1213
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Speaker 2: things around. But I mean, I'm open to it. I'm

1214
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Speaker 2: open to all possibilities.

1215
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Speaker 25: You see basketball has lost three of their last four games.

1216
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Speaker 22: Extinct West Miller, please.

1217
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Speaker 3: Boyree days about.

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Speaker 26: Hi.

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01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 18: It was good to see the big Ols kind of

1220
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 18: web yesterday. I those they're all but eliminated mathematically, but

1221
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 18: I think our forb the Clover still have a chance.

1222
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 3: It was good to see Teddy Stewart back over the

1223
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 3: film yesterday. They look pretty good on defense.

1224
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 5: Hi did some Jake Cramy palm.

1225
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 3: Today.

1226
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Speaker 27: We laid a rest twenty twenty five fantasy football season

1227
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 27: for Walker and the west Siders. Oh no, he's got

1228
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 27: team Sucon, two Girlies, one Cup Amburro and the Boys.

1229
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 27: All three had a chance to make it into the

1230
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 27: super Bowl next week and we fall short. Josh Allen

1231
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 27: needed to have a pulse yesterday. He did absolutely nothing.

1232
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 27: Ricodowbell nothing, Theo Johnson couldn't catch anything.

1233
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'll take this chance to extend the

1234
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 2: same condolences to my brother Devinpike. Really who who got

1235
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 2: taken behind the proverbial woodshed in our family semi finals

1236
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 2: one fifty two to sixty nine?

1237
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 3: Is that right?

1238
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 2: I also had Josh Allen starting at quarterback for me Walker,

1239
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 2: so uh, some live with excuses others don't. You gotta

1240
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 2: find ways to win. And I'm happy that my team

1241
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 2: will be playing for a championship next week.

1242
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 3: I need twelve points tonight from Tyler Warren to advance

1243
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 3: to the Fantasy Championship. And if so, Ricky Uchino is

1244
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 3: waiting for, oh my goodness, and what will be certainly

1245
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 3: a battle Ricky Ringside, Ricky Ringside against the opt Man. Now,

1246
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 3: if I get in, I'm guaranteed two hundred bucks according

1247
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 3: to Rick and if I win, that's faux hunted. Wow.

1248
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 3: So listen, that's San Francisco. San Francisco favored right now

1249
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 3: by five and a half. Yeah, if they need to

1250
01:04:58,280 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 3: get out the tight end, get out to a leader

1251
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 3: early and just have Phil Rivers back there slanging that

1252
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 3: thing a little bit.

1253
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 2: You gotta think Phil's gonna gonna link up with Tyler

1254
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 2: Warren a lot. I think Tyler Warren is younger than

1255
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 2: one of Phil's kids.

1256
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 3: Even if Tyler Warren has two catches for four yards

1257
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 3: and two touchdowns, that's all I need. That's it, That's

1258
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 3: all I need.

1259
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 17: Hey, fellas, I've been in my ah for quite a while.

1260
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 17: Often knows why, I don't know, if you do Tony,

1261
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 17: but we lost our baby's son, Joshua a few weeks ago.

1262
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 17: It's been really hard. I appreciate all the love and

1263
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,479
Speaker 17: support of everybody has shown. I just want to say

1264
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 17: everybody have to marry Christmas and please check on your

1265
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 17: friends and family and that's having mental health issues this

1266
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 17: time of year. God bless y'all.

1267
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 13: Man.

1268
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 2: Kevin, very very sorry for your loss as well. I

1269
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 2: could not even begin to put into words or thought

1270
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 2: what that would be like to go through. And Kevin

1271
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 2: is obviously a big part of these talkbacks since its inception.

1272
01:05:56,520 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah Yeah, has made it to so many lives shows

1273
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 2: that we've done and always supported us in this show.

1274
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 2: And uh, Kevin, we're certainly here for you in supporting

1275
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 2: you through it. Obviously a very tough time as well

1276
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 2: thinking about your big fellow. Hopefully you find some something

1277
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 2: to be happy and excited about.

1278
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 4: At this point in the NFL season for the Cincinnati Bengals,

1279
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 4: wins our losses, I mean, you got a six win

1280
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 4: team coming here. Since their franchise quarterback brings up a

1281
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 4: practice squad guy the week of why they understand the mission?

1282
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:30,439
Speaker 28: Man?

1283
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 4: Only in Cincinnati, could we make clowns look serious. This

1284
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 4: is just ridiculous, Like to go out and win that

1285
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 4: game this week and then and then to hear the

1286
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 4: media say, oh, this is a glimpse of.

1287
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 3: What might have been. No, no, well, okay, I'm gonna

1288
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 3: talk about this though.

1289
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 29: Ugh, guys, big gohod in Kentucky about that ODDI how

1290
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 29: about them Hurricane that we get the match up with

1291
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 29: Hi's date. Kahuna is wanting to go, but I told

1292
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 29: him now, we're just going to wait for January nineteenth

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Speaker 29: to go to the championship game in the home stadium

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Speaker 29: at hard Rock. I'd like to see the Bengals move

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01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 29: Yoshi out of there, Charlie Jones out of there? What

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Speaker 29: do you think about him? Would you think they could

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Speaker 29: give Tyreek heel and let me when it called to

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01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 29: get him to be the third wife receiver coming off

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Speaker 29: an injury.

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Speaker 5: Would it be a bargain?

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Speaker 3: I don't know that Tyreek would want to come and

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Speaker 3: be a third wide receiver.

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Speaker 30: You.

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Speaker 31: Hello, this is former President Ronald Reagan formally wishing each

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01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 31: and every one of you a very merry Christmas. Oh

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01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 31: and I want to thank you all for the contributions

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01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 31: you make to the show, especially you Tony and you Audie,

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Speaker 31: Happy New Year, Merry Christmas and enjoy the time off.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, mister, appreciate.

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Speaker 28: That Tony Audi right first and foremost.

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01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 30: Merry Christmas to you and yours, all the talkbackers, and

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01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 30: thank you for getting us mail carriers and all sorts

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01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 30: of delivery drivers through this time of year, for the

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01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 30: fact that nobody wants to go out and shop anymore.

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01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 30: And as far as little Ferrell, i' will box his

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01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 30: mother loving ears in and crack him over the head

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Speaker 30: with some downy sprinkles.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I'll tell you what what I think that we

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01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 2: have to have the largest mail delivery service listenership, yeah around.

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Speaker 3: Which it makes sense in our day part where we're at.

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01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 3: And uh man, I love it, and I hope there's

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01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,839
Speaker 3: a little bit more rivalries between them, you know, FedEx

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01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 3: ups Amazon. Doesn't matter, man, let's see it. Go get

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Speaker 3: them and come back.

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Speaker 13: Man.

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Speaker 32: If you want to sit around and talk about Joe

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01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 32: Burrow being injury prone, let's talk about the fans up

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01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 32: in Baltimore with Lamar Jackson. If you say Joe's made

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01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 32: out of glass and then Lamar's made of toothpicks, Lamar

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01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 32: Canning and string together other four games.

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01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 3: They are getting hurt. Ye let them know.

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01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:09,599
Speaker 2: Get on them, Tony and Austin.

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Speaker 26: I just wanted to wish you, all of our talkbackers,

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01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 26: all of our listeners, all of our friends, all of

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Speaker 26: our families are very merry Christmas. Also want to point

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01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 26: out that my Wildcats are back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah they are. Look I think they are. I think

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01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 3: they are. I was rooting for Kens Wildcats in the

1339
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,280
Speaker 3: volleyball National Championship that didn't go too much.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I agree with you guys.

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Speaker 33: One love Jalen Davis, Miles Murphy yesterday. I wish the

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01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 33: light ball k came on sooner for Murphy, but at

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01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 33: least it's on now. Jordan Battle, I said earlier in

1344
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 33: the year, I give up on Jordan.

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01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 3: I'm done.

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01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 33: But I thought he had a real nice game yesterday.

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01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 33: Let's get Bengals defense. Mary Christen, somebody say, not for me?

1348
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 3: Something was going on not for me.

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Speaker 16: Looks like I'm not the only one leaving Florida on

1350
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 16: the high note. In the city out here, Sonny, what up?

1351
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 18: Tony?

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01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 5: What up?

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01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:12,759
Speaker 28: Buddy?

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Speaker 16: Jb Now was on fire yesterday. Chase Brown was lighting

1355
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Speaker 16: them up.

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Speaker 5: Yo.

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Speaker 16: Even Mike g did his kitty gritty that was hilarious.

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Speaker 16: I'm loving everything I saw yesterday from the defense, which

1359
01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 16: she was doing that through the whole season. Yep, wes

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Speaker 16: Man West West West.

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Speaker 3: Good guy to Mike, we gotta talk.

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Speaker 16: This is not working out this time for a breakup

1363
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 16: because his team was overweighted. And yeah, Tony show up.

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Speaker 16: Nothing but Jordan videos g let's call.

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Speaker 34: You know, as I was sitting there yesterday watching the

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01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 34: Bengals just absolutely bludging the Dolphins. I mean, I haven't

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01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 34: seen a mismatch like that since I watched Harambe running

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Speaker 34: around with that poor.

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Speaker 5: Child and top of zero.

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Speaker 9: Gosh, it's meaningless.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 35: I feel like that talk backer that acts like he's

1373
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:04,839
Speaker 35: the board, I feel like it's uninspired as his voice,

1374
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:06,639
Speaker 35: the cadence in his voice.

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Speaker 25: It's just I just felt flat.

1376
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 3: I still feel flat.

1377
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:13,880
Speaker 5: Again.

1378
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 36: Hey, they're Austin, Tony.

1379
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Speaker 3: This is Brandon from Indy.

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Speaker 36: First, I wanted to say wish you you and your

1381
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 36: family's a merry Christmas and happy New Year and a wonderful,

1382
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 36: happy holiday season. Hopefully you guys are safe and God

1383
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 36: bless you both.

1384
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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:31,759
Speaker 36: I'm glad the Bengals won yesterday and Joe Burrow looked great.

1386
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 36: The problem is, I'm not sure why they're playing these

1387
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,719
Speaker 36: guys when they're already eliminated and the games don't matter,

1388
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 36: Breach said, Because they want to play. But I just

1389
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 36: don't want to see any serious injury.

1390
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're you're running a risk of injury

1391
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 2: every time you run on the field.

1392
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Speaker 3: And I get that.

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01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 2: In a game that is seemingly meaningless when it comes

1394
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 2: to no playoff positioning and losing draft capital, you you

1395
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 2: run the risk of that.

1396
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 3: I get that.

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01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:58,680
Speaker 2: I think if you listen to Joe Burrow at all

1398
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 2: in his post game though, you see how much it

1399
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 2: means to him to be able to play in these games,

1400
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 2: and that's hard to take away from him.

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01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 37: Hey, guys, it's the common talkback matters guy. It's been

1402
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 37: a while, and well, I kind of gave up on

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01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 37: the radio station, you know, when they let Tony go

1404
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 37: and then to call Sacramento and have a talk with

1405
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 37: some of the big wags down there. So san Antonio

1406
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 37: saying that I had anything to do with getting his

1407
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 37: job back. But you know, the common talkback matters guy

1408
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 37: really counts a lot.

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Speaker 3: I want to stay happy holidays? Do you guys have

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01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 3: a safe one? Thanks to hear from you? What's up?

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01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 18: Body?

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01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 5: What's up Tony?

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01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:44,680
Speaker 38: When you're not able to celebrate the big victories, you

1414
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 38: have to celebrate the small ones. As a guy that

1415
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 38: just loves football, loves watching the Bengals play, and loves

1416
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 38: watching them play good, I appreciated sitting down yesterday and

1417
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 38: watching that game. I enjoyed watching good football. And that's

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01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 38: all I can ask for right now. We're not making

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01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 38: the playoffs.

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Speaker 28: It is what it is.

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Speaker 38: We move on and we hope they played good football

1422
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 38: this season, and that's all we can do, all right, don.

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01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, fellas here we go again? Winning? Oh cut off?

1424
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 3: Oh no, I had serious watch this doesn't.

1425
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 14: Mean fellas here we go again?

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01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 3: Oh no? And then it's just silence the rest of

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01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 3: the way.

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01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 25: Sorry man, Pick three Monday who Day can't help but

1429
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 25: keep thinking back to the tweet from the Bengals going

1430
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:46,679
Speaker 25: into last year's offseason tackle the off season with everything

1431
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 25: we got a bunch of clowns.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, gosh, hey, guys, just wondered what you thought

1433
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 2: of Miles Murphy moving forward?

1434
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 3: I think we may have something there. What do you think.

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01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I, as we said earlier, big fan of what

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01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy has done, not just what I like the

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01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 2: most Dawston. It feels like he's done it consistently now

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01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 2: and I think that shows the most gross And I

1439
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 2: think he's becoming a guy you can say, all right,

1440
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 2: let's pencil him, is it? And as a guy you

1441
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 2: can rely on next year for sure?

1442
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 28: Joe and Baltimore. I'm glad this is such a good

1443
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 28: win yesterday, probably the most complete game they played in

1444
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 28: a long time. Really enjoyed it. With that being said,

1445
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 28: I just wanted to wish you guys have married Christmas.

1446
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 28: I hope you guys enjoyed the holiday. Also, Jay Morris's

1447
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 28: family than my thoughts of prayers, Man, it's horrible, dudes.

1448
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 28: Who day praying for you? Jay?

1449
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 3: Who Day?

1450
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 39: All right, I'm in semi finals of the Fantasy football playoffs?

1451
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 3: What do you think about this? I'm up twenty eight?

1452
01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:55,719
Speaker 4: I got Juwan James and he has Christian McCaffrey.

1453
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:56,799
Speaker 3: And Michael Pittman.

1454
01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:00,080
Speaker 4: Oh boy, he says, I got a sixty.

1455
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 3: What do you guys? Stay? Am I looking good? Should nervous?

1456
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 2: I would be nervous because Christian McCaffrey has the ability

1457
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 2: to go for thirty five. And I feel like Juwan

1458
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 2: Jennings some games is the guy and other games they

1459
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 2: don't remember he's on the field. I don't know as

1460
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:20,759
Speaker 2: far as Michael Pittman what to see if Philip Rivers

1461
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 2: pushes the ball down the field at all, but I

1462
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 2: would I would be cautiously optimistic.

1463
01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 3: I'm rooting hard for McCaffrey and Pittman. Right done, there we.

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Speaker 2: Go, Uh, we'll break, we'll come back. Maybe one segment,

1465
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 2: maybe two. We'll figure it out as we can, probably two.

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01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 2: We rolled the ball out, and we roll the ball out,

1467
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 2: and we just play on a day like this. Is

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Speaker 2: that a good thing?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that means you're prepared, you're ready to go. On

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Speaker 2: the Monday midday quarterback ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station

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Speaker 2: fort I took a.

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Speaker 16: Vider primalsill very plays depend on each of ocase.

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Speaker 7: Football in the Natty brought to you by Bud Light

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Speaker 7: on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 2: All right, since we will be here the rest of

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Speaker 2: the week, real quick, here with Football in the Nattie

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Speaker 2: Austin Arizona Cardinals coming to town on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: The Arizona Cardinals, who lost one of their starting cornerbacks

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Speaker 3: this weekend to an achilles injury. They also lost their

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Speaker 3: first round pick from a year ago, Walter Nolan defensive

1482
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:25,759
Speaker 3: tackle too. I believe a knee injury.

1483
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said it was a non contact as well.

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01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 3: Not great. They've lost seven consecutive games. Kyler Murray has

1485
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 3: done as the quarterback in Arizona, but I heard over

1486
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 3: the weekend it seems like Jonathan Gannon might be safe

1487
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 3: for some reason. They've lost twelve of thirteen. Not good.

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01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 3: They still, to my knowledge, have Trey McBride. Bengals are

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Speaker 3: currently seven point favorites according to DraftKings if I'm not

1490
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:55,599
Speaker 3: mistaken for Sunday's game against Arizona James Connor.

1491
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Speaker 2: Early in the year, they've been banged up at running back,

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Speaker 2: but again, they do still have Trey McBride.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be actually halfway decent weather for

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01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 3: that game. Yeah, so hopefully whatever issues plagued the Bengals

1495
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 3: during the cold will not plague them again against There's.

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Speaker 2: Five is the high on Sunday. Marvin Harrison junior, Michael Wilson,

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Speaker 2: Trey McBride. There's your scouting report Michael Carter too, don't

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Speaker 2: they Michael Carter, Baby, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's your

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Speaker 2: scouting report on the Arizona Cardinals. Can't wait, need anything else?

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Speaker 2: This has been Read and react, Read and React on

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. The Monday Midday Quarterback

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Speaker 2: will finish up Hour two next on the Home of

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Speaker 2: the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 7: You've been listening to football in the NATI on ESPN

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Speaker 7: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: From the Johnson Heating attempts to all right.

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Speaker 2: Hour two coming to an end on the Monday Midday Quarterback,

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Speaker 2: which means my time here today is coming to an end.

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Speaker 2: On the Home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station, Austin will have Hour number three. I will

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Speaker 2: head to Florence from three to six and be the

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Speaker 2: Tony and Moe Football Christmas Show. You guys are gonna

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Speaker 2: have egg no twin peaks. I don't know. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: Moe's got something in store.

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Speaker 3: I saw the picture on my phone just over the

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Speaker 3: weekend of the last time I one of the last

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Speaker 3: times or one of the first times they came to

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Speaker 3: a Toni and Mo football show and I won the prize.

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Speaker 2: Yep, maybe someone today could win the prize. And somebody

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Speaker 2: could win the prize. I think Moe is keeping this

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Speaker 2: in at least for today, maybe for the rest of

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Speaker 2: the Tony and Mo football shows this year, where Moe

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Speaker 2: will clean your seat when you arrive.

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Speaker 3: Wow. So I know that you guys will have the

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Speaker 3: Zach Taylor press conference. We'll have that and lasted seven

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Speaker 3: minutes today. Wow. So you be ready to talk?

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Speaker 2: Man, we have that, and I'm sure we'll talk about

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Speaker 2: what Moe had to witness yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure. What do you coming? What are you

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Speaker 3: going to tuning in for alone? What are you going

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01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 3: to talk about the next hour? Everybody keeps saying the

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Speaker 3: Bengals won. Yeah, but well but it's the holiday season, man,

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Speaker 3: it's the holidays. Cheer up a little bit. I love it.

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Speaker 3: That's next and nothing changed. How it's funny, Austin. Have

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Speaker 3: a good Christmas, you two Tony Christmas. Well, I'll talk

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Speaker 3: to you for the Christmas show. Yeah, as far as

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Speaker 3: everything else. So this is Chris Austin's next on the

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Speaker 3: Monday Midday Quarterback to fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hello, and welcome into the final hour of Tony

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Speaker 3: Pike's Monday Midday Quarterback. This is ESPN fifteen thirty and

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Speaker 3: my name is Austin Elmore. Forty minutes from right now,

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01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 3: we'll check in with Tony and Mo ahead of the

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Speaker 3: Tony and Mo Football Show Christmas Week edition. They are

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Speaker 3: at the Twin Peaks in Florence following a Bengals victory, Yes,

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01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 3: a victory over the Miami Dolphins yesterday at hard Rock

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01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 3: Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. They'll be breaking it all down.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Moe will talk about his experience calling the

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Speaker 3: Bearcats game yesterday as well. There will be plenty to

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01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 3: talk about this afternoon with them. And there's still plenty

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01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 3: of talking to talk about this afternoon right here, right

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01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 3: now on this show. So I'll reopen the phone lines

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Speaker 3: five one, three, seven, four nine fifteen thirty. That's the

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Speaker 3: phone number. You can also tweet it me at audiell

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Speaker 3: Moore au t y E lmr E. What a difference

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01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:12,679
Speaker 3: a week makes. Bengals last week in frigid temperatures move

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01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 3: the ball pretty dog gone well, but can't get out

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Speaker 3: of their own way and find a way to lose

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Speaker 3: and get shut out for the first time in the

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow era to the Baltimore Ravens, and it felt

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Speaker 3: like rock Bottom felt like to me that the team

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01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 3: had quit on Zach Taylor, and I didn't feel like

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01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 3: that was something I had been able to say really

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Speaker 3: in the previous seven seasons with Zach at the Helm,

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Speaker 3: And it made me wonder about what the future of

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01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 3: he and his staff would be in Cincinnati because of

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Speaker 3: all the crap that went wrong. And then we get

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Speaker 3: the report from Paul Dayner last week that says Zach's

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01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:52,679
Speaker 3: not going anywhere, Duke's not going anywhere, and Al Golden's

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01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 3: not going anywhere. And I found myself wondering throughout the week, well,

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Speaker 3: what exactly is this going to look like come Sunday

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Speaker 3: in Miami, because we know the way they just performed

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01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 3: against the Ravens after they'd been all but eliminated. They

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01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 3: were still alive in that Ravens game, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Now what will they look like in a game in

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Speaker 3: which they're actually eliminated? And I was going back through

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01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:21,560
Speaker 3: and trying to figure out because I kept hearing that

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Speaker 3: stat about Patrick Mahomes and how he'd never played in

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Speaker 3: a game in which the Chiefs were out of playoff contention,

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01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 3: and I wondered, is that true for Joe Burrow? And

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01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 3: I went back and looked, and to my knowledge, the

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01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:39,599
Speaker 3: same thing was true for Joe Burrow. He had gotten

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01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:41,719
Speaker 3: hurt and they were I think two six and one

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Speaker 3: at the time in mid November and twenty twenty, his

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01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 3: rookie season, but they still were mathematically alive although that

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01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:54,760
Speaker 3: team obviously was not very good, and up until yesterday,

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01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 3: Joe had never played in a game in which the

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01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 3: Bengals were not mathematically alive for the playoffs, and for

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01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 3: a lot of guys, they hadn't really experienced that at

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01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 3: all on this team. These guys were here in twenty

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01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 3: twenty three, many of them, and the Bengals were alive

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01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:16,799
Speaker 3: till the very end. These guys were here in twenty

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01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 3: twenty four when the Bengals were alive, and we're alive

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01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,559
Speaker 3: on the final day of the season, and they've all

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01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 3: been here so far this year, and so it made

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01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 3: me wonder, what is this going to look like? If

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01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 3: they quit last week in the cold, what's it going

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01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 3: to look like this week? Especially missing some guys. Chris

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01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 3: Jenkin's not playing, T Higgins status up in the air,

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01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 3: Joseph Osai wasn't on the field. How's it going to

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Speaker 3: look against a Miami team in a run game that

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01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 3: does all the things well that the Bengals don't do well.

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Speaker 3: I wondered if Devin h Chan would run for four

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Speaker 3: hundred yards, if Miami would score forty plus points on

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Speaker 3: this Bengals defense, And what I was met with was

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Speaker 3: a pleasant surprise. I was surprised by how easy the

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Speaker 3: Bengals made it look. They cruised forty five to twenty

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Speaker 3: one over the Dolphins. Joe Burrow looked like his old self,

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01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 3: wearing new cleats for the first time after his toe injury.

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Speaker 3: Appeared to be the same old Joe Burrow and nothing

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Speaker 3: like the Joe Burrow we had seen against Baltimore, much

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Speaker 3: more like the Borough we had seen against the first

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Speaker 3: Ravens game and against the Bills in Buffalo. This is

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Speaker 3: top flight, Joe Burrow, best in the league type of stuff,

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Speaker 3: and it made me feel good to see that, because

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01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 3: I know we talk about how you know momentum going

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Speaker 3: into the end of the year, and I think most

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Speaker 3: of the time that's overblown. But I do think that

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Speaker 3: there is a standard that you have to try to uphold.

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01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 3: If you're Zach Taylor and I have a standard for

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01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 3: the team that is applicable whether or not they are

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Speaker 3: in playoff. If they had lost that game yesterday, I

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01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:06,560
Speaker 3: would have been upset. I would have been angry. I

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01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,719
Speaker 3: would have been trying to figure out how on God's

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01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,599
Speaker 3: green Earth they're going to fix this. But going into

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01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 3: that game, going up against Quinn Yours mostly entirely healthy

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01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 3: on offense. There were no excuses as far as I'm concerned,

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Speaker 3: for the Bengals not to win that game. And they

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01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 3: did what they were supposed to do. They took care

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01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:30,080
Speaker 3: of business. And yet if you look at social media,

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Speaker 3: and I understand that social media does not speak for

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01:25:33,320 --> 01:25:37,439
Speaker 3: every Bengals fan, and it is but a small part

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01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,400
Speaker 3: of the story and the narrative and the discourse around

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01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 3: the Bengals, you would think that they had lost again,

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01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:50,600
Speaker 3: that they'd been shut out again, because the idea of like, oh, yeah,

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01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:54,040
Speaker 3: this is what it's supposed to look like only reminded

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01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 3: people of the fact that they're not chasing anything anymore,

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01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 3: that they are five and ten, that they have let

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Speaker 3: games get away from them, and they couldn't win games

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01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 3: without Joe Burrow with the exception of one, and that's fine,

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01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 3: and that's part of the story and we should all

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01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 3: be reminded of that, because it's the story of the

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01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five Bengals. They just couldn't get out of

1652
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:22,439
Speaker 3: their own way. But if nothing else, if you've switched

1653
01:26:22,479 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 3: to evaluation mode like I have, and you're trying to

1654
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:29,080
Speaker 3: figure out what pieces are a part of this puzzle

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01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 3: going forward. I think you were reminded, at least in

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01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 3: my mind, that they aren't as far away as people think.

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01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:41,080
Speaker 3: Tony and I have debated this, I know Moe has

1658
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 3: talked about this. I don't think they are that far away.

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01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 3: I really don't. I've talked about the cap space that

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01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 3: they have and the draft picks that they're gonna have,

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01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:53,599
Speaker 3: the amount of talent that they have on offense that's

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Speaker 3: going to be returning, the lack of needs that they

1663
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 3: have on offense that you can build on in the

1664
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 3: off season, like all of that, and then over the

1665
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:07,000
Speaker 3: course of the year we have seen some glimmers of

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01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:11,639
Speaker 3: hope on defense. Now, glimmers that are make you feel

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01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 3: comfortable building around next year. Probably not not glimmers that

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01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,599
Speaker 3: are enough to say we're gonna stand pat We're gonna

1669
01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:21,639
Speaker 3: sit on our hands during free agency in the draft. No, certainly,

1670
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:25,839
Speaker 3: not glimmers like that, But glimmer's from Miles Murphy, glimmers

1671
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:30,439
Speaker 3: from Dax Hill, glimmer's from Dj Turner, glimmers from Jordan

1672
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 3: Battle enough to look around and say, Okay, there's a

1673
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 3: starting point for the journey that is going to be

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01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 3: the Bengals offseason to get them back into contention. I

1675
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:45,800
Speaker 3: talked last week about how they have a schedule next

1676
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 3: year that will certainly be in their favor. All these things,

1677
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 3: and when you look at yesterday, when the Bengals defense

1678
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 3: didn't play its best game but played well enough, you're

1679
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 3: reminded of just how good they can be in a game.

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01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 3: I think yesterday the Bengals defense was about as middle

1682
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 3: of the road as you could be. And yes, going

1683
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 3: up against a quarterback making his first NFL start, that's

1684
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 3: probably not good enough. I'm not saying this defense is

1685
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:23,600
Speaker 3: good enough, but for a game yesterday, they looked like

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01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 3: what they're supposed to look like. They forced Miami into

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01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 3: two into converting just two of ten third downs, they

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01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 3: got off the field on a fourth and short. Now,

1689
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 3: total yards still was not great, three hundred and eighty

1690
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 3: nine total yards over the course of twelve drives for Miami,

1691
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 3: still giving up six point seven yards per play, But

1692
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 3: they were opportunistic. They forced three Miami turnovers, they got

1693
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 3: off the field on a fourth down, and the Bengals

1694
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 3: offense made Miami pay on all four of those possessions.

1695
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:05,480
Speaker 3: That is complimentary football. And the more you play complimentary football,

1696
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 3: the better your team is going to be. And that,

1697
01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 3: to me is my takeaway. There are guys on this

1698
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 3: team that know what it takes, and we saw them

1699
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 3: perform at the level that will be required of them

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01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:22,479
Speaker 3: in the future so that they can be relied upon

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01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:27,600
Speaker 3: in games that matter next season. I've already come to

1702
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:31,040
Speaker 3: grips with the idea and with the fact that the

1703
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:33,599
Speaker 3: Bengals aren't going to the playoffs this year. I came

1704
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 3: to grips with that months ago. And so for those

1705
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,439
Speaker 3: of you who are just now realizing, oh, yeah, this

1706
01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:42,240
Speaker 3: is a team that is really good offensively, but they're

1707
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,920
Speaker 3: not going to the playoffs, I don't know where you've been.

1708
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 3: And the idea that them winning has somehow hurt their

1709
01:29:49,320 --> 01:29:54,840
Speaker 3: draft status is not true. They entered yesterday picking ninth

1710
01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:58,400
Speaker 3: in the NFL Draft. They will enter next week picking

1711
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:03,040
Speaker 3: ninth in the NFL Draft. That win had no bearing

1712
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 3: on their draft position next week. By the way the

1713
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 3: New York Giants and the Las Vegas Raiders play, loser

1714
01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 3: of that gets the number one pick in the draft.

1715
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 3: That should be exciting, but either way it didn't matter.

1716
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:22,160
Speaker 3: It does not negatively affect them for next season. If

1717
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 3: you are thinking about next season, which is what you

1718
01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 3: should be thinking about. Over these last three games, this

1719
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 3: was a net positive for them. They won the football game,

1720
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,679
Speaker 3: players that are going to be relied upon in the future,

1721
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 3: performed well, and they didn't negatively affect their draft stock.

1722
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 3: Why can't we be happy with the fact that the

1723
01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 3: team we root for played a good football game when

1724
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:53,040
Speaker 3: you have nothing else, at least we can be happy

1725
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:56,960
Speaker 3: with the fact that the dudes played well. I like

1726
01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 3: to see Joe Burrow perform at a high level. He

1727
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 3: did that. Now, of course we're all disappointed with the

1728
01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:06,880
Speaker 3: idea that they aren't playing for something meaningful, But even

1729
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 3: when the season is lost, there is a standard that

1730
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 3: I feel like has to be upheld, and it felt

1731
01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 3: like to me that they upheld that standard against Miami.

1732
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if you are eliminated or not. You

1733
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:25,960
Speaker 3: should beat somebody who's making their first NFL start, and

1734
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 3: the Bengals did that. They forced him into bad throws

1735
01:31:30,280 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 3: and they took advantage interception by Jalen Davis, which that

1736
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,280
Speaker 3: even wasn't that bad of a throw. That was just

1737
01:31:36,320 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 3: a good play made tipped ball by Josh Newton, intercepted

1738
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 3: by Barrett Carter. Congratulations to Barrett first career interception, forced

1739
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 3: him into a bad decision, took advantage of it, then

1740
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:52,679
Speaker 3: forcing a fumble on the Miami tight end. What's wrong

1741
01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:55,240
Speaker 3: with that? That has nothing to do with the quarterback.

1742
01:31:55,479 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 3: That was being an opportunistic, aggressive defense that responded getting

1743
01:32:01,320 --> 01:32:05,280
Speaker 3: off the field on fourth and short. Let's go like

1744
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:08,440
Speaker 3: those things don't have much to do with the quarterback

1745
01:32:08,479 --> 01:32:10,960
Speaker 3: on the other team. They have much to do with

1746
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:13,720
Speaker 3: how well are your players play in these moments? And

1747
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:18,639
Speaker 3: the Bengals stepped up. This is why I've always said

1748
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:22,679
Speaker 3: that I don't feel like they're that far away from

1749
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 3: being competitive in the AFC. Again, and let me make

1750
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 3: it clear, the bar is not to be competitive in

1751
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:33,800
Speaker 3: the AFC. The bar is to be a legitimate AFC contender.

1752
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:38,240
Speaker 3: Point being, if you're that close to competitive, you're not

1753
01:32:38,360 --> 01:32:41,759
Speaker 3: that far away from contender. And that's my honest feelings

1754
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 3: about where this team is at. And I remembered something

1755
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 3: from last week. I was going to play this. I

1756
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 3: don't think I ever did, but Joe Burrow said something

1757
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:55,040
Speaker 3: similar even after they had gotten smoked against the Baltimore Ravens.

1758
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 3: Joe and his Wednesday press conference was asked about the

1759
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:03,840
Speaker 3: team being not that far away. Here's that exchange from

1760
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 3: last week on Sunday.

1761
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 40: You said not that far when asked how close this

1762
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:10,719
Speaker 40: organization was for getting back.

1763
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 3: To those big stages. Why do you think you guys.

1764
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:15,040
Speaker 14: Are not that far.

1765
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 17: Well, we have young guys that are getting better.

1766
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 41: I think we have really smart coaches. We have a

1767
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:34,679
Speaker 41: lot of highly talented people that go out and perform

1768
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:37,280
Speaker 41: at a high level on Sundays, weekend and week out.

1769
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:42,960
Speaker 41: You know, it's hard for me to It's hard for

1770
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:46,000
Speaker 41: me to talk about the totality of the season this

1771
01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:49,719
Speaker 41: year because I was removed from it for so long,

1772
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:54,840
Speaker 41: and you know, I really have I haven't had a season.

1773
01:33:55,080 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 41: I've played four games and that's frustrating to me, and

1774
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 41: kind of it made me feel like I was on

1775
01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 41: the outside looking in for a lot of it because

1776
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:07,479
Speaker 41: that's what happens. And so I'm just getting my feet

1777
01:34:07,479 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 41: wet again with all this and it feels good. But

1778
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 41: you know, I feel confident in the people that we have.

1779
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 5: That we have here.

1780
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,800
Speaker 3: That's Joe Burrow from last week saying he doesn't feel

1781
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:22,160
Speaker 3: like they're that far away Sunday to me, if nothing

1782
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:27,719
Speaker 3: else is a reminder that they are close. Now close

1783
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:30,840
Speaker 3: might be relative, but I guess the best maybe way

1784
01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 3: to say it is they aren't that far away. And

1785
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 3: you can say what you want about the opponent in

1786
01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:40,880
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins, that's fine. But if the standard is

1787
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:44,120
Speaker 3: the standard, and that is to kick everybody's ass and

1788
01:34:44,160 --> 01:34:47,479
Speaker 3: to be a legitimate contender, even in these games that

1789
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 3: don't matter for the playoffs, the standard should be to

1790
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:54,080
Speaker 3: beat and blow out a team that you are better

1791
01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 3: than from a talent standpoint, And certainly, when there's a

1792
01:34:57,040 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 3: quarterback making his first NFL start, you're supposed to make

1793
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:04,160
Speaker 3: him look silly. The Bengals yesterday checked all the boxes

1794
01:35:04,960 --> 01:35:08,240
Speaker 3: as to what I was looking for, and that counts

1795
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,720
Speaker 3: to something that counts as a win for me when

1796
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out what the path forward is

1797
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,600
Speaker 3: going to be this offseason, and yet it's met with

1798
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:20,320
Speaker 3: this negativity of oh, well, yeah, well it doesn't matter

1799
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 3: because they screwed up this and that and blah blah blah.

1800
01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 3: We know that that's been established. Can't you just be

1801
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 3: happy that your team played well and that there is

1802
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 3: at least some clarity over the final three games. And

1803
01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:36,360
Speaker 3: by the way, they should whoop the ass of the

1804
01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:39,160
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals and then finish it off by beating the

1805
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns. That should be the standard. That's what I want.

1806
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:45,439
Speaker 3: I also don't believe in tanking when you already have

1807
01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:48,919
Speaker 3: a franchise quarterback. That's a debate for later on this offseason,

1808
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:54,760
Speaker 3: but still to me, they checked all the boxes yesterday

1809
01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 3: that they needed to check. We come back. We'll take

1810
01:35:57,360 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 3: your phone calls, and Hodante and Kentucky is waitingationally. You

1811
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:03,400
Speaker 3: also hear from t Higgins, Zach Taylor, and Moore. This

1812
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:06,720
Speaker 3: is Tony Pike's Monday midday quarterback right here on the

1813
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:10,320
Speaker 3: home of the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

1814
01:36:10,640 --> 01:36:11,479
Speaker 6: Hey, it's ma legger.

1815
01:36:11,640 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 39: Join us today at Twin Peaks in Florence for the

1816
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:16,799
Speaker 39: Tony and Moo Football Show as we talk Bengals, Dolphins,

1817
01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 39: actual NFL games that matter, the college football playoff and more.

1818
01:36:21,200 --> 01:36:23,719
Speaker 39: The fun begins at three zero five today on ESPN

1819
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:25,719
Speaker 39: fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

1820
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:35,679
Speaker 3: Man doesn't feel like Christmas. We're trying to get everybody

1821
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:39,120
Speaker 3: in the spirit. Last show prior to the Christmas break

1822
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:42,400
Speaker 3: for us. We'll be back briefly next week. This is

1823
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 3: the Tony Pikes Monday Midday Quarterback Show. I'm Austin Olmore

1824
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 3: no tone right now, big fellow on his way to Florence.

1825
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 3: Tony and Mo Football show coming up this afternoon three

1826
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 3: to six. Phone lines are open at five, one, three, seven, four, nine,

1827
01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 3: fifteen thirty And we go out to Kentucky now where

1828
01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 3: Dante is standing by. What's up? Dante?

1829
01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:08,799
Speaker 5: Hey, what's up? Austin? But and the motor worker Goma

1830
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:11,320
Speaker 5: power with you. Shame, shame, shame.

1831
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:16,840
Speaker 15: A man, you're drinking that kool AIDMA.

1832
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 5: Forgot that new PS five with the man?

1833
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you got? Why am I drinking the

1834
01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:23,679
Speaker 3: kool aid? Explain it, Austin?

1835
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:26,639
Speaker 15: Come on, man, The Bengals do this to us every year.

1836
01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 5: They always let us down and at the.

1837
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 15: End of the year come back strong, give us that

1838
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 15: false hope. I'm telling you, Mike Brown is barning On

1839
01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:35,840
Speaker 15: Bailey a sucker.

1840
01:37:35,560 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 5: Born every minute.

1841
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 15: If you gotta If you got a car, auton and

1842
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 15: it's broke down, if you don't change as far pus.

1843
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:43,959
Speaker 5: As to anything, that car is never.

1844
01:37:43,760 --> 01:37:47,720
Speaker 3: Gone wrong, right, what does what does what does yesterday

1845
01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 3: change about next year?

1846
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 15: Often they played with no pressure, They had nothing to

1847
01:37:54,040 --> 01:37:56,559
Speaker 15: play for, no kind of pressure or nothing. And our

1848
01:37:56,600 --> 01:37:58,679
Speaker 15: coach always told him, I played d one of ut

1849
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:01,400
Speaker 15: and I coach always told us Rusher Bus Pikes, the

1850
01:38:01,479 --> 01:38:04,680
Speaker 15: Bengals weren't playing for nothing yesterday. It wasn't nothing to do.

1851
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:06,960
Speaker 15: They were playing with house money. So of course they're

1852
01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 15: gonna play good.

1853
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll try, I'll try to ask you again,

1854
01:38:11,760 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 3: what does yesterday change about next year? If anything, it doesn't.

1855
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:20,760
Speaker 13: But okay, didn't I say that it did you?

1856
01:38:20,960 --> 01:38:23,479
Speaker 15: But with the fans that are not Eve, they're already

1857
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:25,639
Speaker 15: looking into it like we win in these last three games,

1858
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 15: let's renew I sees and tickets, get back out there

1859
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 15: and have Mike Brown, be Lucy and Pool.

1860
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 5: That's ball the way like Charlie Brown.

1861
01:38:32,960 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 3: Well, I think the season ticket renewals have already happened.

1862
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:41,000
Speaker 3: I think that deadline has passed. And it's not my

1863
01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 3: responsibility to make sure that other people, you know, know

1864
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,559
Speaker 3: what's going on. I'm just looking at it like on

1865
01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:49,960
Speaker 3: an individual basis, the guys that are part of next

1866
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 3: year's team performed well, that's something that we can take

1867
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 3: with us into the off season.

1868
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:58,439
Speaker 15: They do that every year all at the end of year,

1869
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 15: they're perform well. Look at our wreck and we always

1870
01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:03,080
Speaker 15: made the playoffs last year, year before that.

1871
01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:04,680
Speaker 5: I mean, we always do it well.

1872
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:07,759
Speaker 3: Last year. The last five games of last year, Dante,

1873
01:39:07,840 --> 01:39:10,040
Speaker 3: they had immense pressure on them, and they performed in

1874
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 3: every single.

1875
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:14,920
Speaker 15: Game exactly that we would have beat them bombs the Patriots.

1876
01:39:14,479 --> 01:39:17,559
Speaker 5: The first game of the year. We were play but.

1877
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:19,559
Speaker 15: They can't do any they can't do anything with it

1878
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 15: count Our defense is a bunch of gutless wanders. And

1879
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,400
Speaker 15: I was a personally drive Zeno soon out of town

1880
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:28,760
Speaker 15: today and night Brown Cuddy, I'll driving to wherever he

1881
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:31,599
Speaker 15: want to go because he ain't worth the shaman extra

1882
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:32,800
Speaker 15: Softie wipes's butt.

1883
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:36,639
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Now that's now that I think we

1884
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:37,920
Speaker 3: see that the same way.

1885
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:39,599
Speaker 5: Thank you all.

1886
01:39:39,680 --> 01:39:41,200
Speaker 15: I appreciate that's why you're my boy man.

1887
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone called Dante. Yeah, and let's not

1888
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:46,840
Speaker 3: understand I understand the response. I get it. I know

1889
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 3: that's what it sounds like. I had somebody DM me

1890
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:52,040
Speaker 3: on Instagram the other day. It says my Bengal bias

1891
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:55,040
Speaker 3: is showing too much. I don't even know what that means.

1892
01:39:55,120 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 3: I don't have Bengal bias.

1893
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 11: Uh.

1894
01:39:57,080 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 3: There was a caller in the off during the break

1895
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 3: just now now who wanted to know if I pay

1896
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 3: for my own tickets or if I get free passes.

1897
01:40:04,640 --> 01:40:07,840
Speaker 3: The answer is I pay for my own tickets. There

1898
01:40:07,880 --> 01:40:11,639
Speaker 3: are games occasionally where I will work, and when I'm working,

1899
01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:14,240
Speaker 3: I'm not working for this stadium or for this station,

1900
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 3: and I'm not working for the Bengals. I work usually

1901
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:20,080
Speaker 3: for the other teams whenever they need someone. So like

1902
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 3: the vast vast majority of the time, when I'm not

1903
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,240
Speaker 3: working in that capacity, I pay for my own tickets.

1904
01:40:27,600 --> 01:40:29,759
Speaker 3: I don't have season tickets. I've never been a season

1905
01:40:29,760 --> 01:40:33,240
Speaker 3: ticket holder. I bought tickets this year to the Jets

1906
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:40,120
Speaker 3: game that sucked, but I buy tickets almost always, So

1907
01:40:42,560 --> 01:40:43,799
Speaker 3: there's that, I guess.

1908
01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:44,479
Speaker 9: You know.

1909
01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:47,960
Speaker 3: The other thing we talk a lot about is culture, right,

1910
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:51,559
Speaker 3: and I do think after last week I started to

1911
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 3: really question the culture and wonder if it was based

1912
01:40:55,240 --> 01:40:57,040
Speaker 3: off all the Borough stuff and all the talk of

1913
01:40:57,080 --> 01:40:58,800
Speaker 3: the national media and the way that they had lost

1914
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:01,280
Speaker 3: that game. I was going to fall off a cliff,

1915
01:41:01,960 --> 01:41:04,559
Speaker 3: or if there would be any sort of response Zach Taylor.

1916
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 3: If you watched in the postgame locker room video that

1917
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:11,680
Speaker 3: the Bengals posted, he kept bringing up the word response.

1918
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:16,080
Speaker 3: You guys responded to what happened last week and performed

1919
01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:19,040
Speaker 3: at the level that we expect you to perform. And

1920
01:41:19,080 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 3: he was happy about that, and he should be. But

1921
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 3: I do think we saw this week indicators of a

1922
01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:30,960
Speaker 3: strong culture, not just in the way that they performed,

1923
01:41:31,439 --> 01:41:34,640
Speaker 3: but in how they got to this week. Now, the

1924
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:38,080
Speaker 3: season could obviously and technically is over when it comes

1925
01:41:38,120 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 3: to meaningful football, but the way that a guy like

1926
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:46,080
Speaker 3: t Higgins, for example, battled back to play this week

1927
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,680
Speaker 3: wanted to play. Nobody would have faulted T Higgins if

1928
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:53,560
Speaker 3: he would have said, Nah, I'm done, I had another concussion.

1929
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:58,520
Speaker 3: I'm not going to mess around with this stuff. I'm done.

1930
01:41:58,800 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 3: Nobody would have batted an eye t Higgins for saying that,

1931
01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:04,280
Speaker 3: although I'm sure some people would have said, oh, he's

1932
01:42:04,360 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 3: quitting on the team and this guy's not available, blah

1933
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:09,599
Speaker 3: blah blah, because some people just like to hear themselves complain.

1934
01:42:10,200 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 3: But for the most part, you'd been like, I don't

1935
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 3: mess around with concussions no big deal. But T wants

1936
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:19,639
Speaker 3: to play, gets cleared to play, and then the Bengals

1937
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:22,560
Speaker 3: say to him, Hey, you should go see this specialist

1938
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh just for a second opinion. Instead of like

1939
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 3: putting the pressure on him to say we want you

1940
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:31,000
Speaker 3: to play, or we demand you to play, or we

1941
01:42:31,040 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 3: need you to play, blah blah blah, they're like, go

1942
01:42:33,280 --> 01:42:35,240
Speaker 3: talk to this guy, see what he says, and come

1943
01:42:35,280 --> 01:42:38,040
Speaker 3: back with whatever you want to do. And so the

1944
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 3: Bengals send her to Pittsburgh. He talks to this concussion specialist,

1945
01:42:42,439 --> 01:42:44,840
Speaker 3: and this guy clears him and gives him the peace

1946
01:42:44,840 --> 01:42:47,320
Speaker 3: of mind along with a new helmet. By the way,

1947
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 3: that's you know, costs a lot of money that the

1948
01:42:49,520 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 3: Bengals get for T Higgins, and boom, Higgins has the

1949
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:57,559
Speaker 3: peace of mind, the comfort to play and does and

1950
01:42:57,600 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 3: plays well and is healthy at the end of the year.

1951
01:43:00,600 --> 01:43:04,439
Speaker 3: That's awesome. That to me is indicative of a strong

1952
01:43:04,560 --> 01:43:09,960
Speaker 3: culture in the organization. Here's Higgins after the game talking

1953
01:43:10,160 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 3: about all of that.

1954
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:13,000
Speaker 42: No, it was fun, you know, just get back there

1955
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:15,280
Speaker 42: and compete with my guys. And then it's even better.

1956
01:43:15,439 --> 01:43:17,639
Speaker 42: We got a w the w that we got too,

1957
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:21,000
Speaker 42: so uh, you know, shout out to my guys.

1958
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,120
Speaker 3: When you're on the flight to and from Pittsburgh. What's

1959
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:25,760
Speaker 3: going through your head? Like, what's that like?

1960
01:43:26,439 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 42: Honestly, you know, praying that you know, I come back

1961
01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:32,559
Speaker 42: with come here and get positive news and come back

1962
01:43:32,560 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 42: with positive news to tell the team and things like that,

1963
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 42: And that's what it was. I mean, I was very

1964
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:41,680
Speaker 42: you know, obviously I was very anxious and nervous, you

1965
01:43:41,680 --> 01:43:44,920
Speaker 42: know what they was gonna say. But you know, I

1966
01:43:44,920 --> 01:43:47,360
Speaker 42: got a peace of mind and it was okay.

1967
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:48,000
Speaker 6: Any changes that.

1968
01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:51,599
Speaker 25: Makes you want to play when they when they clear you,

1969
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:54,200
Speaker 25: what is it that made you want to say I

1970
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 25: want to finish the season or.

1971
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:57,559
Speaker 42: That at the end of the day, I'm a competitor.

1972
01:43:57,560 --> 01:43:59,599
Speaker 42: I want to compete with the guys. So that's that's

1973
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 42: all I came down to.

1974
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 40: You make any changes. You know, people see Guardian caps

1975
01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:06,920
Speaker 40: out there. Obviously didn't wear ever different. How what's different

1976
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:10,599
Speaker 40: about this helmet? Just more pattern, you know what I mean.

1977
01:44:11,680 --> 01:44:13,479
Speaker 40: Was able to get fitted for one and it came

1978
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:16,439
Speaker 40: in just in time. That is T Higgins after the

1979
01:44:16,479 --> 01:44:18,679
Speaker 40: game on Sunday.

1980
01:44:19,479 --> 01:44:24,320
Speaker 3: So yeah, what's wrong with being positive? A little bit?

1981
01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 3: Sue me? I guess phone lines open five one, three, seven, four, nine,

1982
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:33,120
Speaker 3: fifteen thirty. Back after this with more calls on ESPN fifteen.

1983
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Speaker 16: Thirty, producing.

1984
01:44:37,360 --> 01:44:44,040
Speaker 3: Tony Pikes Monday Midday quarterback, ESPN fifteen thirty. I'm Austin

1985
01:44:44,120 --> 01:44:51,360
Speaker 3: no more appreciate you listening. Bengals victorious yesterday forty five

1986
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:55,599
Speaker 3: twenty one over the Miami Dolphins. Here is the Bengals

1987
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:59,920
Speaker 3: quarterback Joe Burrow after the game talking about having fun. Yeah, fun,

1988
01:45:00,240 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 3: I'm having fun playing football.

1989
01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:07,880
Speaker 41: Not playing football is not fun when you're sending a

1990
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 41: locker room rehabit all days.

1991
01:45:10,600 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 3: And that's not why you do it. This is why

1992
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:14,800
Speaker 3: you do it. Right here, Burrow with three hundred and

1993
01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:18,519
Speaker 3: nine passing yards four touchdowns on the day was twenty

1994
01:45:18,560 --> 01:45:21,320
Speaker 3: five of thirty two. I believe much more along the

1995
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 3: lines of what we're used to seeing Joe from a

1996
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:28,120
Speaker 3: completion percentage standpoint. A couple of career milestones for Burrow

1997
01:45:28,160 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 3: as well. Went up over one hundred and fifty career

1998
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 3: touchdown passes and surpassed twenty thousand passing yards. He's the

1999
01:45:35,880 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 3: fifth fastest in NFL history to reach that mark. Kind

2000
01:45:39,400 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 3: of amazing when you consider all the injuries that he's

2001
01:45:42,400 --> 01:45:45,360
Speaker 3: had for him to be the fifth fastest. Meanwhile, Jamar

2002
01:45:45,479 --> 01:45:49,599
Speaker 3: Chase reached five hundred career receptions in Miami on Sunday.

2003
01:45:49,600 --> 01:45:52,160
Speaker 3: He is the second fastest wide receiver to do that

2004
01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 3: in NFL history. You've got time for a couple of

2005
01:45:55,479 --> 01:45:58,559
Speaker 3: quick phone calls. Let's go to Tony and Florence. What's up, Tony?

2006
01:45:59,479 --> 01:46:02,599
Speaker 13: Hey, y'a great to be on the show. Mary, Christmas

2007
01:46:02,600 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 13: to you and Tony. I just wanted to, uh to

2008
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:09,280
Speaker 13: go back. You asked the color before me about what

2009
01:46:09,360 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 13: did yesterday's win have to do with twenty twenty six.

2010
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 13: I think it's got a bout and I trust me,

2011
01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 13: I love you or Tony Show. I think it's the

2012
01:46:19,680 --> 01:46:22,519
Speaker 13: it's the only three hours. Maybe a little bit of

2013
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:25,240
Speaker 13: motion mixed in there, but your All Show is great.

2014
01:46:25,560 --> 01:46:28,639
Speaker 13: But I disagree, disagree with you. For the first time,

2015
01:46:29,240 --> 01:46:34,479
Speaker 13: I think that I think yesterday's win just this even

2016
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:39,840
Speaker 13: Brown family stance, that that the coach has control of

2017
01:46:39,880 --> 01:46:42,000
Speaker 13: the team and they're playing hard for him and there's

2018
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 13: something to build on and blah blah blah, when when

2019
01:46:45,120 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 13: in my opinion, I know it means nothing.

2020
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:47,840
Speaker 5: But in my.

2021
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:51,400
Speaker 13: Opinion, he's the reason of one of the biggest reasons

2022
01:46:51,439 --> 01:46:54,400
Speaker 13: why we're in the predicament that we're in every single year,

2023
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:56,439
Speaker 13: besides of course Burrow's injuries.

2024
01:46:56,600 --> 01:46:58,639
Speaker 3: Why do you think it like, why do you think

2025
01:46:58,680 --> 01:46:59,719
Speaker 3: he's the biggest reason.

2026
01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:04,600
Speaker 13: I just think his play calling is is is you

2027
01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:07,599
Speaker 13: see level he was terrible at you see ten years ago.

2028
01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:10,439
Speaker 13: He's bad. He's been bad with the Bengals ever since,

2029
01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:12,640
Speaker 13: in my opinions, since he's been there. And I just

2030
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:15,200
Speaker 13: think it's it's time for the a fresh start, it's

2031
01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:18,200
Speaker 13: time for new regime, it's time for new new leadership

2032
01:47:18,240 --> 01:47:21,400
Speaker 13: for the Bengals. And I think again, by the way

2033
01:47:21,439 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 13: the Bengals finished the year every every year, the way

2034
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:27,599
Speaker 13: they finished, Yes, it keeps giving my ground. Hey that

2035
01:47:27,680 --> 01:47:30,559
Speaker 13: you know, we got something to build on. And you know,

2036
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:33,840
Speaker 13: maybe I'm wrong, and I hope I'm wrong. I'm just

2037
01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:35,240
Speaker 13: there that that's the problem.

2038
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:36,920
Speaker 3: I hear you, Tony, thank you for the phone call.

2039
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean my rebuttal to that

2040
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 3: would be what I just said. Joe Burrow just went

2041
01:47:41,720 --> 01:47:44,920
Speaker 3: over twenty thousand yards, fifth fastest NFL history. Jamar Chase

2042
01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:48,559
Speaker 3: five hundred receiver reception second fastest NFL history. We talked

2043
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:50,840
Speaker 3: about the yards and touchdowns that Jamar has had. They've

2044
01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:54,120
Speaker 3: been a top ten, top twelve offense basically every year

2045
01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:57,240
Speaker 3: the last five years. Play calling, to me, is not

2046
01:47:57,360 --> 01:48:01,080
Speaker 3: the issue. Has he had bad moments, Absolutely, he sure has,

2047
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:03,799
Speaker 3: and I have been very critical of those in the past.

2048
01:48:04,439 --> 01:48:07,320
Speaker 3: The biggest issues with the Bengals last year and this

2049
01:48:07,439 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 3: year are not directly because of Zach Taylor's play calling.

2050
01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:15,320
Speaker 3: They're because of the player personnel department's inability to draft

2051
01:48:15,800 --> 01:48:19,200
Speaker 3: the right guys and partially on Zach and his coaching

2052
01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:24,200
Speaker 3: staff's inability to develop them. So he certainly deserves some

2053
01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 3: of the blame. I don't think he deserves all of

2054
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:29,360
Speaker 3: the blame. Brian and Ford Thomas very quickly we got

2055
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:32,040
Speaker 3: about a minute here. What do you got own?

2056
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:36,200
Speaker 14: I have a little bit Mary Christmas first off, and

2057
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 14: you know, I hope you have a great holiday you too,

2058
01:48:38,600 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 14: thanks say so.

2059
01:48:41,520 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 13: I know the call is before.

2060
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:44,760
Speaker 14: You know, we can all wish for that, but we

2061
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:48,120
Speaker 14: know it's not happening, and so it doesn't even what

2062
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 14: we want doesn't matter. Like Zach's here and it's not

2063
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:54,519
Speaker 14: all on him. I just all I wish for is

2064
01:48:54,760 --> 01:48:58,280
Speaker 14: to attack this offseason the way they did when they

2065
01:48:58,439 --> 01:49:01,439
Speaker 14: acquired all this free agency. Will made a big investment

2066
01:49:01,479 --> 01:49:06,160
Speaker 14: in quality people and get back to drafting smartly, don't.

2067
01:49:06,240 --> 01:49:09,519
Speaker 14: I mean, just draft us that tackle in at college

2068
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:12,760
Speaker 14: level and have you know the track record being a

2069
01:49:13,160 --> 01:49:16,720
Speaker 14: you know, a proven, you know, top level player. And

2070
01:49:16,880 --> 01:49:19,280
Speaker 14: I hope, I hope, you know, I think that's the

2071
01:49:19,320 --> 01:49:21,599
Speaker 14: way goes.

2072
01:49:21,920 --> 01:49:22,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I.

2073
01:49:24,520 --> 01:49:26,120
Speaker 3: Agree with you, Brian, Thank you for the phone call.

2074
01:49:26,120 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 3: I'm up against the clock here. Yeah, production in college,

2075
01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:31,760
Speaker 3: you know, shifting that strategy, yes, I think is a

2076
01:49:31,840 --> 01:49:34,360
Speaker 3: huge part of it. The other thing I will say too,

2077
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:36,800
Speaker 3: is as far as like Zach is concerned, Like, yeah,

2078
01:49:37,040 --> 01:49:39,559
Speaker 3: to me, it was already that's old information, Like Zach

2079
01:49:39,680 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 3: is going to be here for the next two years

2080
01:49:41,400 --> 01:49:44,920
Speaker 3: more than likely. And so because of that, I am

2081
01:49:44,960 --> 01:49:47,040
Speaker 3: looking for, Okay, well, how do they respond to this

2082
01:49:47,080 --> 01:49:49,280
Speaker 3: guy who's going to be the head coach? Because last year,

2083
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 3: last week, it felt like they quit on him. Then

2084
01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:54,120
Speaker 3: we get the news Zach is saying, Okay, now, what's

2085
01:49:54,160 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 3: it look like? And I saw the reaction that I

2086
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:01,200
Speaker 3: wanted to see. I saw dudes playing hard, all guys

2087
01:50:01,200 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 3: not you know, just quitting on him and and all

2088
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:09,080
Speaker 3: the things that you look for from a team. And

2089
01:50:09,120 --> 01:50:13,280
Speaker 3: so it is the lens through which I look at

2090
01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:17,600
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six as part of next season. If that

2091
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:19,240
Speaker 3: makes any sense, I don't know if it does. We'll

2092
01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:22,040
Speaker 3: talk to Tony and Mo next on ESPN fifteen thirty.

2093
01:50:23,479 --> 01:50:26,640
Speaker 16: And for a quick hits on Tony Pikes since he.

2094
01:50:28,920 --> 01:50:31,800
Speaker 3: Was looking. Yes, indeed it is time for quick hits

2095
01:50:31,840 --> 01:50:34,680
Speaker 3: as we wrap out a Monday midday quarterback here on

2096
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty. And there's no better way to do

2097
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:40,000
Speaker 3: that than by talking to Tony Pike and Mo Egger

2098
01:50:40,560 --> 01:50:42,800
Speaker 3: at Twin Peaks in Florence ahead of the Tony and

2099
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:45,559
Speaker 3: Mo Football Show. Fellas, how we doing? Where are we at? Mentally?

2100
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:48,880
Speaker 39: I'm in a really good place. Oh, really good place.

2101
01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:50,719
Speaker 39: We're gonna We're gonna have a lot of fun today.

2102
01:50:50,840 --> 01:50:52,920
Speaker 39: We have a lot to talk about. We're at Twin Peaks.

2103
01:50:53,040 --> 01:50:55,679
Speaker 39: And you know, last week we told you about the

2104
01:50:55,680 --> 01:51:00,000
Speaker 39: the Twin Peaks clet seat Guarantee, the Tony and mofoot

2105
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 39: Ball Show clean seat Guaranteed. Just to make people aware

2106
01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:06,720
Speaker 39: also when you come to Twin Peaks in Florence or

2107
01:51:06,760 --> 01:51:09,680
Speaker 39: in Westchester next Week. If you're a customer, no one

2108
01:51:09,720 --> 01:51:11,680
Speaker 39: will take a swing at you. I'm like going to

2109
01:51:11,720 --> 01:51:12,559
Speaker 39: the Pittsburgh Steelers.

2110
01:51:12,640 --> 01:51:14,880
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true. Yeah, no one will take safe here.

2111
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:16,320
Speaker 6: No one will try to punch you.

2112
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:19,000
Speaker 3: Now, for those who maybe haven't listened in the past

2113
01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:22,200
Speaker 3: or attended a Tony and Moe football show, is there

2114
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:25,679
Speaker 3: anything different or special about a Christmas Week edition?

2115
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:26,200
Speaker 18: Yeah?

2116
01:51:26,240 --> 01:51:31,160
Speaker 6: We take gifts, well if you want to.

2117
01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:33,439
Speaker 39: If you want to bring gifts, we will just a

2118
01:51:33,479 --> 01:51:36,080
Speaker 39: week to do it. Any other show, you bring us something.

2119
01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:38,479
Speaker 3: Any gift. No, like a kitten or a snake.

2120
01:51:39,120 --> 01:51:42,160
Speaker 39: A snake, absolutely not kitten. My daughter would love that.

2121
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:44,599
Speaker 39: I don't know that I want to take home another

2122
01:51:44,680 --> 01:51:45,360
Speaker 39: live animal.

2123
01:51:45,400 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 3: We had to turn one down if someone brought you one.

2124
01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:48,800
Speaker 39: But if you brought me like a snake, I'm saying,

2125
01:51:48,800 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 39: first of all, you walk in If you walk into

2126
01:51:50,520 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 39: Twin Peaks with a snake, yes you might, but no, please,

2127
01:51:57,360 --> 01:51:58,560
Speaker 39: no live animals.

2128
01:51:59,280 --> 01:52:02,880
Speaker 3: Okay, Uh, what do you What was your biggest takeaway

2129
01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:03,919
Speaker 3: from Sunday?

2130
01:52:05,600 --> 01:52:08,280
Speaker 6: Well, I think I had a big Yes. Fun to

2131
01:52:08,280 --> 01:52:09,360
Speaker 6: watch Joe Burrow is really good.

2132
01:52:09,400 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 39: It's fun to watch him play offensively when they're at

2133
01:52:11,680 --> 01:52:14,160
Speaker 39: full capacity, and clicking on all cylinders that are a

2134
01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:16,519
Speaker 39: blast to watch. They have some defensive players who played

2135
01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:18,080
Speaker 39: well yesterday the Miami Dolphins quit.

2136
01:52:18,439 --> 01:52:19,760
Speaker 6: I mean, but I don't know that I have like

2137
01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:21,400
Speaker 6: a big large Does it take.

2138
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:24,679
Speaker 3: Away change anything for you about how you feel about

2139
01:52:24,680 --> 01:52:25,240
Speaker 3: the Bengals.

2140
01:52:25,400 --> 01:52:28,880
Speaker 39: No, Joe Burrow's great, they have great offensive weaponry. They're

2141
01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:29,360
Speaker 39: five and ten.

2142
01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:33,000
Speaker 2: I am enjoined yesterday, but I will not allow yesterday

2143
01:52:33,400 --> 01:52:35,880
Speaker 2: nor the final two games of the season changed that

2144
01:52:36,000 --> 01:52:39,080
Speaker 2: the expectations and standards for this team going forward have

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Speaker 2: to be well higher than what they were last year.

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Speaker 39: I'll say this, and I'm going to talk about this

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Speaker 39: with Tony today. I am sort of done with the

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Speaker 39: Joe Burrows psychoanalysis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good with that.

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Speaker 39: I'm like, to me, this is going to take care

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Speaker 39: of itself. If the team is better next year, Joe

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Speaker 39: is going to be in a better place. I don't

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Speaker 39: know that we need to do this every single week

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Speaker 39: where we are just translate. I mean, it's fatiguing. In fact,

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Speaker 39: like I took the Thursday and Friday off. Is off

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Speaker 39: Friday anyway, but I took Thursday off, and I'm like,

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Speaker 39: you know, I love my job I'm glad I don't

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Speaker 39: have to go to work and talk about what's going

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Speaker 39: on in Joe's head today, Like I'm kind of done

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Speaker 39: with it, and fortunately his play and their play has

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Speaker 39: kind of put that conversation on pause. I do understand

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Speaker 39: the hesitancy to totally get excited about late season wins

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Speaker 39: for two reasons. One, it's win number five in game

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Speaker 39: number fifteen. Two, the Cincinnati Bengals have in their history

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Speaker 39: allowed largely meaningless results to impact macro decisions, and I

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Speaker 39: understand there being a fear that that's going to be

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Speaker 39: the case if this team enjoys some late season success.

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Speaker 2: You know what changes the psychoanalysis aspect just winning? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like you mentioned a couple of weeks ago, if we're

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Speaker 2: sitting here again next year and the team's five and ten,

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Speaker 2: there'll be a lot more psychoanalysis going on of Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrow because he's wasted another year.

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Speaker 3: You want to get away from that. You want to

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Speaker 3: avoid that.

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Speaker 2: Win football games and win meaningful football games during the

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Speaker 2: regular season.

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Speaker 6: Stop playing out the string.

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Speaker 3: Is there any harm in them winning the next two games? No?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think there is now. But if you're

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Speaker 2: saying no, now, then you can't be won when the

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Speaker 2: draft happens and Caleb Downs goes two spots ahead of

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Speaker 2: you and you say, oh, if they just didn't win

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Speaker 2: those meaningless games. If you're all in on winning these games,

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Speaker 2: then understand that it comes with something during the draft

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Speaker 2: that there's going to probably be a player that you

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Speaker 2: like or players you like that will be drafted ahead

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Speaker 2: of where the Bengals draft, and you can't be one

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Speaker 2: to say, well, then they shouldn't have won the last

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Speaker 2: three games that didn't mean anything.

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Speaker 39: But what he I mean to me looking at the

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Speaker 39: downside of winning suggests you want the players to not

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Speaker 39: try to win, which is this not realistic? So I

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Speaker 39: don't know that there's a ton to be gained. Like

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Speaker 39: the the only time in my life I have actively

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Speaker 39: rooted against the Cincinnati Bengals, I mean actively was that

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Speaker 39: game in twenty nineteen, the game against the Dolphins, because

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Speaker 39: there was an obvious prize. I don't know picking where

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Speaker 39: in the range the Bengals could pick in that there's

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Speaker 39: an obvious prize. I would love Caleb Downs. Who wouldn't,

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Speaker 39: But is that an obvious prize where you know, if

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Speaker 39: we finished here, he's gonna be there.

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Speaker 6: I don't think so. And again I think tank talk.

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Speaker 2: Well based on Geno stone stat line yesterday, then yeah,

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Speaker 2: you him trying.

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Speaker 39: To tackle Deamon ah Chan and was. But I tank

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Speaker 39: talk I think is overrated. I think it's overrated in

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Speaker 39: this sport. Players care too much, man, players care too much.

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Speaker 39: And like I think the Dolphins looked like a checked

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Speaker 39: out football team yesterday. I think the Bengals last week

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01:55:46,240 --> 01:55:49,160
Speaker 39: against Baltimore looked like a checked out football teams. But

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Speaker 39: I certainly understand. I'm not nuts about Joe Burrow playing

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Speaker 39: meaningless games, but he wants to play, Okay, I can't

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Speaker 39: get that mad about it. Rooting for them lose means

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Speaker 39: you're rooting for players, in my opinion, to not try

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Speaker 39: their best, which is the antithesis of what we want

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Speaker 39: from professional athletes.

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Speaker 3: How much time will be spent on the Bearcat basketball

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Speaker 3: game from yesterday?

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Speaker 18: What?

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Speaker 3: Okay? How much time will be spent on the Xavier

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Speaker 3: victory over the weekend and especially the throwing of the

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Speaker 3: water bottle.

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Speaker 6: I want to know.

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Speaker 3: Also, if you come here today, you will not get

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Speaker 3: anything thrown at you.

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Speaker 39: Oh, correct, nothing will be thrown at you. It's normally

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Speaker 39: not a guarantee. I want to know if that was

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Speaker 39: a coach who has a reputation for being more volatile,

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Speaker 39: and they threw a water bottle into the stands that

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Speaker 39: hit a child, would the reaction and the suspension be

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Speaker 39: greater than it's been with Ed Cooley?

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Speaker 6: If Mick Crona did that, can you imagine? And Mick

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Speaker 6: would get whatever he deserves.

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Speaker 39: If back in the day, Bob Huggins or Bob Nider

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Speaker 39: somebody like that is somebody like that throw a water bottle.

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Speaker 3: First of all, can you.

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Speaker 6: Imagine the think pieces? Can you imagine what.

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Speaker 3: We would be reading today if.

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Speaker 39: Like Ed Cooley has had success may at Providence. Obviously

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Speaker 39: he is working on getting the program going at Georgetown,

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Speaker 39: but can you imagine if that was like a frequent

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Speaker 39: high temper tantrum coach that took a water bottle and

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Speaker 39: threw it into the stands and hit a child. I

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Speaker 39: also want to know this, Had Ed Cooley's players done that,

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Speaker 39: would they get more than one game from their head coach?

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they would have.

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Speaker 27: Mo.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into the psychoanalysis of Ed Cooley this afternoon

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Speaker 3: from three to six Tony and MO Football show.

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Speaker 6: Thanks boys, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: That is Tony and Mo coming up next. Thanks so

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Speaker 3: much for listening. We're done until next week here on

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Speaker 3: SINCY three sixty. Talk to you then on the Home

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Speaker 3: of the Bengals ESPN fifteen.

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Speaker 6: You know, payin has