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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike sincey three sixty about Cincinnati. From Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: sponsored in part by Skyline Chili. Stop by Skyline Chili

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Speaker 1: for a three way or cheese cony today. Feeling good,

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Speaker 1: it's Skyline Time. This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Happy Thursday, and welcome in to Cincy three

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Speaker 2: to sixty thanks to Skyline Chili. Anytime you're feeling good

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Speaker 2: and hungry, it's always Skyline time. But I didn't get

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Speaker 2: to ask you, Austin, did you finish? Did you complete

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Speaker 2: the babble headset?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: You did not.

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Speaker 4: After our attempt at one time, that was this futile

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Speaker 4: I gave up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy how easy it was to get to Borough.

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Speaker 4: I'm thankful that Burrow was the first one. Yeah, but

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Speaker 4: I do have that one.

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Speaker 4: I was going to try to get Higgins, but you know,

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Speaker 4: just didn't happen. Didn't happen all right?

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks to our friends at Skyline Chili. I can't

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Speaker 2: wait for next year. Thank you for listening in, and

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Speaker 2: we got a heck of a Thursday show ahead. Phone

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Speaker 4: I have an idea for Skyline Okay special Edition Joe

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Speaker 4: Flacco bobblehead Man, how quick can you get a printed?

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Speaker 4: Except instead of it's you know him right there, it's

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Speaker 4: eating a three way, eating a three way. Yep, boom,

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Speaker 4: You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: While immediately resonnated with so many people by just a

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Speaker 2: someone stardom shoot up so much higher in the span

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Speaker 2: of a day. It's ours.

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Speaker 4: Really, It's been cool to hear Ravens fans be like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: like we love this guy yep, and just to he's

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Speaker 2: It's been awesome. Yeah. It just to me, it just

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Speaker 2: And uh again, just people Joe cool. I think so

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Speaker 2: much about what makes him Joe cool is that he's

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Speaker 2: relatable to a lot of people, and uh man, yesterday

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Speaker 2: was awesome. We'll play some Joe Flacco audio from yesterday today.

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Speaker 2: We also have some Wes Miller audio about five minutes

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Speaker 2: of what Wes Miller had to say a big twelve

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Speaker 2: media day. We have John Shearon aight is E Sports

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Speaker 2: is going to join us at one o'clock this afternoon,

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Speaker 2: and uh so much more. We're gonna read and react

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Speaker 2: today to everything Bengals. What else is happening in the

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Speaker 2: sports world? NBA night too, last night Austin, NBA Night two,

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Speaker 2: Here come the Chicago bull Yeah. I mean that's out

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Speaker 2: of everything that happened last night, that's easily the lead Bulls.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about Luke and Cooper, flag wimb and all

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Speaker 4: these great young players. They can't hold a candle to

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Speaker 4: Matas Boozalis. How about that of the Chicago Bulls. Shout

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Speaker 4: out Matas. Yeah, shout out what he was able to

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Speaker 2: Good. Yeah, oh and one pal good. Shout out to

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Speaker 2: There is a lot going on in the NBA. Uh.

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Speaker 2: Victor Webbin Yama last night Austin forty points, fifteen rebounds,

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Speaker 2: also just want to say I appreciate that. I haven't

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Speaker 4: And maybe that's just because they're appreciative because of what

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Speaker 4: the NBA, absolutely, we like talking about the NBA. Uh

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Speaker 4: and we hope that maybe you'll give it a chance too.

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Speaker 4: Had put a couple wagers on your favorite team.

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Speaker 2: Had some debuts last night? Jock what was it? Jocks

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Speaker 4: I heard a crazy stat this morning about Brandon Jennings.

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Speaker 4: In his fifth career NBA game, he had fifty five points.

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Speaker 2: And then news broke today. Oh boy. Other NBA news,

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Speaker 2: betting for Terry Rozier and rigged poker games backed by

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Speaker 4: There's a lot going on with this man. There's like

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Speaker 4: and insider information and overlap. And some people are speculating

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Speaker 4: that Gilbert Arenas, who has busted for poker games not

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Speaker 4: to crack this case wide open. Oh I don't know

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Speaker 2: You when it comes to the NBA, which.

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Speaker 4: Continues to have a gambling problem, why why is that?

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Speaker 2: Why in today's sports, knowing what we've seen, is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it just a sickness that people can't stay away

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Speaker 4: Sure, it's definitely a sickness, like gambling is a legitimate addiction,

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Speaker 4: and it's a major issue. But I also think that

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Speaker 4: It's been them gambling on other stuff, you know, on

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Speaker 2: Nope. Groundbreaking stuff in Major League Baseball as well Austin.

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Speaker 2: We've got new managers across baseball. On one end, the

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Speaker 2: Angels have a new manager. It's Kurt Suzuki, longtime Red's Killer, Curtins,

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Speaker 2: their Austin sixth manager in eight seasons. Really weird. The

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Speaker 4: They deserve credit because they were like the only organization

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Speaker 4: who was willing to let Shoheo Tani try to do

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Speaker 4: just dealing with stuff constantly. Like the Tyler Skaggs case.

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Speaker 2: Mike Trout just testified in that case like two days ago.

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Speaker 2: Like that organization's just in shamble. Suzuki said, I've been

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Speaker 4: It feels like so there's a series he was playing

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Speaker 2: Dude, own the Reds. Yeah. And then Austin, you get

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Speaker 2: this Tennessee volunteer coach Tony Vttello, how about this? Wins

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Speaker 2: the men's College World Series in twenty twenty four, now

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Speaker 2: Giants for this. Sure, I've talked about this before. There

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Speaker 2: I like this approach from the Giants. I commend them.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about the Pro Bowl games moving

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Speaker 4: Good makes sense, supposed to be that way. Yeah, all

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine them just giving something up. They don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Leonel Messi has been extended Withinner Miami. There was

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Speaker 2: go elsewhere, maybe he'd be done. He has now signed

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Speaker 2: end of the twenty twenty eight MLS season. So more

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Speaker 2: Messy in the MLS, yeah, and more hell is real

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Speaker 2: is going to be a phenomenal sports weekend here locally.

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Speaker 2: Bearcats are home, Bangles are home. FC Cincinnati is home.

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Speaker 2: Much in between all that, Nate Bargatzi's in town. Oh,

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Speaker 2: to go Sunday night to see him. Wow. So we

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Speaker 2: were looking forward to that. Yeah, I think tickets are

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Speaker 2: Luayna Rumo's got working with the Indianapolis Colts and look

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Speaker 2: Kind of snuck up on me. Who do you like?

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Speaker 2: now for the NA Any guess on your behalf where

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Speaker 4: I think the big thing is the schedule and the

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Speaker 4: There's a couple of difficult offenses that they have to face,

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Speaker 2: It's easier for a quarterback to navigate that in the

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Speaker 2: NFL if you've got to move around just one guy.

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Speaker 2: The problem becomes if you've got to push up and

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Speaker 2: now there's pressure up the middle, or you push up

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Speaker 2: and spin out and there's another pressure waiting for you.

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Speaker 2: Far too many times, in my opinion, the Bengals have

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Speaker 2: that initial pressure where it needs to be, and then

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Speaker 2: there's just no secondary help. They can't find guys that

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Speaker 2: win multiple times on a play, and that puts them

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Speaker 2: in a tough situation. Now, Lawson tweeted last night, you

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Speaker 2: or him? I do.

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Speaker 4: Carl Lawson tweeted back where it all started, praying hands emoji.

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Speaker 4: Oh so what I did is, of course, the former

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Speaker 4: Bengals draft pick out of Auburn. I went over to

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Speaker 4: the NFL transactions and I call him. Through all the workouts,

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Speaker 4: the tryouts, the visits. Carl Lawson nowhere to be found.

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Speaker 4: But he was okay last year with the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: He said that he was thankful for the opportunity he

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Speaker 4: got in Dallas. He believes he's twice the player he

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Speaker 4: was even last year due to a healthy offseason. So

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Speaker 4: would you take a flyer on Carl Lawson?

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Speaker 2: Yes, take a flyer on anybody. I mean, based off

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Speaker 2: of the conversation we just had. I mean, it can't

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Speaker 2: be any worse. Can't be any worse. Carl Lawson last year,

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Speaker 2: according to Pro Football Focus, fifty nine point seventh grade. Okay, right,

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Speaker 2: kind of in the middle of the pack of defensive

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Speaker 2: ends in the NFL. It's probably not that much worse

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Speaker 2: than most of what the Bengals have. No, and if

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Speaker 2: it was him coming home, sign me up for it.

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Speaker 2: Bring him home. You'll be having those conversations.

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Speaker 4: I do think the Cedric Johnson thing is is noteworthy

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Speaker 4: because he did play well towards the end of last

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Speaker 4: season him and Joseph said both and I would imagine

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Speaker 4: they'll Bengals would stick with Cedric Johnson over Cam Sample

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Speaker 4: because Cam Sample really just hasn't been the player I

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Speaker 4: expected him to be coming off of that Beteller Tendont

467
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Speaker 4: injury and hasn't. I don't know if he's gotten a

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Speaker 4: fair share of it of opportunities, but yeah, these are

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Speaker 4: the things we talked about a lot this week. Of continuing,

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Speaker 4: continuing to make your team better and improve the bottom

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Speaker 4: of your roster, you got to consider, you know, Cedric Johnson,

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Speaker 4: Carl Loss and those type of guys.

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Speaker 2: Depth is a major conversation in the National Football League.

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Speaker 2: As we talked about yesterday, something that everyone's talking about

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Speaker 2: from yesterday, what Joe Flacco had to say when we

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Speaker 2: come back, Let's get the Joe Flacco audio and let's

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Speaker 2: react to that as well. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: You've been listening to football in the NATI on ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is since he three sixty our number one,

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Speaker 2: that's right, ESPN fifteen thirty. That's the home of the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: You still say it's sixty. Say whatever we want. Let

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Speaker 2: just go with it. I'll tell you who's speaking in

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Speaker 2: a way that I think a lot of us can

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Speaker 2: appreciate is what Joe Flacco had to say yesterday, And

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Speaker 2: not just as comment that we're going to get to about,

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Speaker 2: you know, getting out to dinner and being able to

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Speaker 2: sit by yourself and kind of collect your thoughts, but

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Speaker 2: what he had to say from his press conference yesterday Austin,

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Speaker 2: I believe, what do we have six or seven minutes

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Speaker 2: of Joe Flacco from yesterday? Yeah, we got a few

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Speaker 2: minutes of Joe Flacco. Let's dive into some Joe Flacco

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Speaker 2: speaking to members of the media yesterday.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, it was nice to have a little

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Speaker 8: like to be able to breathe a little bit this weekend,

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Speaker 8: and you know, it feels like I was we were

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Speaker 8: just out in the practice field and it feels like,

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Speaker 8: you know, I've barely been there it, so, yeah, it's

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Speaker 8: good to kind of get back in the normal rhythm

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Speaker 8: of a Monday, Tuesday and now actually going out there

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Speaker 8: in the practice field on Wednesday field and prepared with

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Speaker 8: a normal week.

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Speaker 2: You feel like you're operating the way you want to.

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Speaker 9: You know you're not going to get a full training camp,

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Speaker 9: but how do you feel like you're out there?

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Speaker 8: Yes, I mean so far, still learning and trying to

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Speaker 8: pick up everything, and you know, just play as fast

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Speaker 8: and as smooth as I can and using just the

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Speaker 8: same I'm going to try to keep my process the same,

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Speaker 8: you know, and use these walkthroughs and the practices to

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Speaker 8: get used to calling it and seeing it, and you know,

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Speaker 8: just try to keep keep it at a basic level

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Speaker 8: and keep going from there.

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Speaker 10: So much focused kill you getting accustomed to your weapons,

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Speaker 10: running backs obviously, the wide receivers, what about the offensive line,

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Speaker 10: what side, you know, getting use to them, playing in

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Speaker 10: front of them, and life.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's been great.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think you can tell that those guys

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Speaker 8: are a hard work, hard working group. And I think

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Speaker 8: the biggest thing is for those guys to get comfortable

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Speaker 8: with each other. And now, you know, the way you

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Speaker 8: get good at playing with each other is just trust,

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Speaker 8: you know, trust between everybody trust that they're going to

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Speaker 8: do their job. They have the trust that I'm going

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Speaker 8: to do my job and get the ball out and

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Speaker 8: and you know, no, you know, maybe know when we're

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Speaker 8: getting the ball out in quick game, know when we're

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Speaker 8: maybe dropping a little bit deeper. I think as long

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Speaker 8: as they're nobody can do that and trust each other

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Speaker 8: to do their job and not try to get cute

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Speaker 8: and make up for something here and make up for

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Speaker 8: something there, you know, then then we'll grow together and

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Speaker 8: be happy with it.

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Speaker 11: Hey, you guys avoid the obligatory letdown game that comes

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Speaker 11: after a mini by facing a winless team. How do

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Speaker 11: you guys keep the moments and going on offense from

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Speaker 11: what you had in Vintsburgh.

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Speaker 8: Just go out and take every day by itself, prepare

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Speaker 8: Wednesday like you always do, Thursday like you always do Friday,

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Speaker 8: and then ultimately win the football game. A lot of

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Speaker 8: that stuff is just talk, and you know, you don't

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Speaker 8: have to answer it unless you don't go out there.

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Speaker 8: You know, unless you don't go you go out there

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Speaker 8: and don't play well. So it's simple. You can't worry

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Speaker 8: about what the result is at any point, but definitely

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Speaker 8: not on Wednesday. He's got to go out there and

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Speaker 8: prepare and then on Sunday, same thing. You got to

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Speaker 8: go play each play and you know, just keep getting

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Speaker 8: up and doing the same thing over and over again,

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Speaker 8: having the best play that you can possibly have in

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Speaker 8: that moment. The results come when you when you're able

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Speaker 8: to be in the moment and focus on the task

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Speaker 8: at hand.

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Speaker 12: So your offensive line, have you had a chance to

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Speaker 12: kind of we moved with the Orlando and just a.

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Speaker 13: Kind of shaking heads and saying, well, here we are,

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Speaker 13: and yeah, I've been able to have that moment yet or.

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Speaker 8: A little bit, Yeah, because he's very willing to come

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Speaker 8: up to me and and talk about certain things like

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Speaker 8: that and just kind of ask me how it's been

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Speaker 8: going in Cincinnati and yeah, So like I think he's

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Speaker 8: probably driven that conversation, but we've been able to talk

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Speaker 8: a little bit about it.

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Speaker 14: You mentioned one of the game has struggled for the

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Speaker 14: most part this year before you got here, suddenly starting

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Speaker 14: to click a little bit, and you think what you've

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Speaker 14: done in the past game has opened up the run

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Speaker 14: game or the one game up open up some things

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Speaker 14: for you Thursday night.

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Speaker 8: The past game, it's tough to say it's it's one game.

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Speaker 8: I do think the run game early on in that,

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Speaker 8: like I think initially the run game did spark us

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Speaker 8: that little that thirty yard run we had, and that

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Speaker 8: was our first scoring drive, I believe, and then and

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Speaker 8: the next one we came out and have another little

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Speaker 8: chunk run. Anytime that you can, you know, get some

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Speaker 8: of those games in the running game, it's going to

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Speaker 8: help your offense out a lot. So I think in

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Speaker 8: Thursday's case, the run game definitely helped us out. But

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Speaker 8: we just got to, you know, like I said, we

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Speaker 8: got to just continue to work at it and have

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Speaker 8: faith that you know, we're getting better, and you know,

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Speaker 8: one game doesn't necessarily indicate what the next is going

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Speaker 8: to be. And and just like I said before about

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Speaker 8: you know, the process of it all, I don't think

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Speaker 8: we can really worry about that. I think we just

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Speaker 8: got to continue to work on getting better and trust

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Speaker 8: that we're doing the right things, and then on Sundays

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Speaker 8: it'll show up.

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Speaker 12: Is the biggest way a quarterback can help a run game,

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Speaker 12: un to think of it that way, but the other

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Speaker 12: ways beyond you obviously talking and running again in that way,

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Speaker 12: you know, what are the biggest ways quarterbacks can help.

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Speaker 2: Keep a running game efficient.

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Speaker 8: Well complete passes when you get the opportunity to do it,

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Speaker 8: you know, stay ahead of the stakes, you know, of

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Speaker 8: the sticks, you know, first, first and second down, especially

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Speaker 8: first down. When you have easy completions and and you

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Speaker 8: can keep your helpself ahead of the sticks, then it

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Speaker 8: gives you the chance to be multiple and and not

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Speaker 8: you know, be kind of forced into being one dimensional

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Speaker 8: because you weren't able to do what you were supposed

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Speaker 8: to do on early downs. I think that's probably the

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Speaker 8: biggest thing. Other than that, maybe I would say just

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Speaker 8: the just the operation of it all, gett into the

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Speaker 8: line of scrimmage, snapping the ball, having good rhythm with that.

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Speaker 15: This is obviously a very unique situation where you have

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Speaker 15: to leave your home and income here the way you did.

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Speaker 13: How are you navigating a dad?

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Speaker 8: Well, the good thing I guess, I guess you could

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Speaker 8: say is that I was in Cleveland by myself, you know,

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Speaker 8: my family was in New Jersey. We decided to do

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Speaker 8: that this year because last year we decided to do

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Speaker 8: it the other way, and this year we just said, hey,

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Speaker 8: let's keep the kids in their routine and you know,

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Speaker 8: see how that goes, and there's been a challenge just

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Speaker 8: with that.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 8: I love being there and around them and doing all

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Speaker 8: those things. But at the same time, like they get

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Speaker 8: in their routine and they're having a lot of fun

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Speaker 8: back at home, and early on in the season they

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Speaker 8: came out to Cleveland and they're gonna come out to

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Speaker 8: this week's game. And I think there's always a challenge

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Speaker 8: of sitting in a room by yourself and being lonely.

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Speaker 8: So for me, it's trying to find ways to maybe

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Speaker 8: stay over here a little bit longer and then you know,

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Speaker 8: just kind of take myself out of that mindset, call home,

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Speaker 8: go sit at a restaurant by myself and realize that, man,

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Speaker 8: that's pretty enjoyable to do, you know. After there's not

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Speaker 8: too many situations, I tell you, I tell people all

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Speaker 8: the time. I used to see guys sitting at a

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Speaker 8: bar by themselves, or you know, just sitting by themselves

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Speaker 8: eating and grabbing a little meal, and like, man, I

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Speaker 8: feel so bad for that guy. You almost want to

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Speaker 8: go join them. And now I realize, like that dude

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Speaker 8: was in heaven and and and not to say that

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Speaker 8: that's that's obviously not what I want I'd rather. I'd

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Speaker 8: rather be at home, sitting at the dinner table with

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Speaker 8: my kids and hearing what the hell they were talking

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Speaker 8: about all day. Uh, but there are but but if

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Speaker 8: but if you have to do it, then you might

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Speaker 8: as well take advantage of it. So, you know, just

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Speaker 8: little things like that.

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Speaker 16: Or Cincinnati and is starting to see you at restaurants

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Speaker 16: and take pictures and say hello.

650
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 2: I guess so maybe a little bit.

651
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 5: I try to get there early.

652
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 8: You know, I'll go eat the four thirty dinner and

653
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 8: and and and beat and and beat everybody up, beat

654
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 8: everybody out of out of work and out of the house.

655
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: So all right, so that is uh so much good

656
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: stuff from Flacco. Let's start with what the end there.

657
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 2: It's such a relatable thing, and I I really do

658
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: think relatable because Austin, I know you tweeted out about

659
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: it and and something that you actually will do to

660
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 2: to go sit somewhere, watch football, have a couple of drinks,

661
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: eat and and at times not have to say anything. Yeah,

662
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: you know, there's something in this line of work as well.

663
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: My wife would probably totally disagree if she's listening right now.

664
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: But there are times like when you get done talking

665
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: for three straight hours on the radio. Sometimes I just

666
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 2: want to go home and be quiet, And sometimes that

667
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: can get like construed as are you upset or you

668
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: in a bad mood or like no, sometimes do you know,

669
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: just sitting in your silence is a good thing. Yeah,

670
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: And you know for Flacco, because I used to think

671
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 2: the same thing, man, what's that? What's that person? Known

672
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 2: by themselves? Why are they eating by themselves? And now

673
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 2: you see that? Or now even if I have a

674
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 2: chance to do that, it's like and this is kind

675
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: of nice right now. And he did a good job

676
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 2: because he he went back and you know, if he

677
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: had the choice, he'd obviously love to be with his family.

678
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 2: But to make the most of a situation and be

679
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: able to sit in silence sometimes is something that I

680
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: think a lot of people relate to.

681
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think a lot of people understand, like

682
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 4: part of what he was trying to say is to

683
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 4: alleviate the loneliness of the ice you might feel just

684
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 4: going out in public and being in that environment, even

685
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 4: if you're not with somebody else, can still be really enjoyable.

686
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 4: To your point, though about after you get done talking

687
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 4: for three hours a day, So like my schedule normally,

688
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 4: as I do this and then I go produce another

689
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 4: show for another three hours, and so I'm constantly listening

690
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 4: to the radio, and I'm listening for if something's going wrong,

691
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 4: if there's silence, if there's a word, if I'm hearing

692
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 4: myself talk or you talk, or other people talk. I'm

693
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 4: constantly monitoring that. And so my drive home every afternoon

694
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: is complete silence. It's the best thing in the world

695
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 4: to just have that complete silence. But yeah, man, I

696
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 4: mean like this past weekend, I went out to a

697
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 4: local establishment that's my favorite wing place in Cincinnati to

698
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 4: watch the Ohio State game. And I was just had

699
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 4: a couple of beverages, had twelve wings, just watched football,

700
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 4: didn't really interact with anybody on me. It was so nice,

701
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 4: but also alleviates that, you know, loneliness that I feel

702
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 4: from you know, doing and living alone and all that. Yeah,

703
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 4: So that sort of thing.

704
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: It's where it's just a like people all the time

705
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 2: are like, what else do you listen to? And I'm like, honestly,

706
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: I don't listen to a ton I When I'm done

707
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 2: with this, I'd like the quiet. I like listen in

708
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: the morning I listened to MO in the afternoons, usually

709
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: if I'm on my way home or doing it and I'm

710
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 2: out and about. But outside of that, I don't mind

711
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: the silence. And that's different for me because I used

712
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: to be one that like always has to be going,

713
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: always has to be active. You learn as you get

714
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 2: older to appreciate the silence too. Yeah, and I thought,

715
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's why that resonates from

716
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 2: what Joe Flacco said and why it's blown up the

717
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 2: way it has.

718
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 4: It's also like fun for me again, just looking from

719
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 4: our perspective on all of this thing is like I

720
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: can't tell you how many times I'll come home and

721
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 4: I'll sit down on the couch or lay down under

722
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 4: whatever and have my phone or my iPad or whatever.

723
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 4: I don't even turn a TV on. Yeah that's crazy.

724
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 4: I don't, Or if I do, I'll mute it. It'll

725
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 4: be on in the background and I'll just like if

726
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 4: I'll look up or whatever. Yeah, you know, there's I

727
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:15,959
Speaker 4: appreciate how genuine and refreshing and open Joe Flacco is. Yeah,

728
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 4: And I do think you know, a lot of people

729
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 4: want to immediately want to start talking about Joe Burrow

730
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 4: because everybody thinks that this has to be a comparison.

731
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 4: First of all, comparison is a thief of joy. Second

732
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 4: of all, is it not a good thing for Joe

733
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 4: Burrow to have an older, wiser, veteran quarterback around, right,

734
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 4: somebody that has been there and seen it and has

735
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 4: lived the life both the life that Burrow's living right now,

736
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 4: in an entirely different life over the course of his

737
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 4: twenty plus years. It seems like in the NFL, like

738
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 4: everybody wants to say, oh, there's a quarterback controversy.

739
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 2: No there's not.

740
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 4: Or this guy's such a better person than Joe Burrow.

741
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 2: No he's not.

742
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 4: They're different personalities. They can both be good for each

743
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,959
Speaker 4: other and ultimately good for the football team.

744
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: Right. If Joe wanted to do it, I would do

745
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 2: everything I can to have him back next year. He's

746
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: a backup, I agree. I mean, just what a perfect

747
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: role that would be if he wants to continue on there.

748
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: There are some other things he said too that I

749
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: thought are interesting. He talked about the process of still learning.

750
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: He used the term the process a lot. What's different

751
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: about Flacco than I think a lot of other quarterbacks Austin.

752
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be like a normal live practice

753
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 2: for him to be getting better, just normal walkthrough stuff

754
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 2: where he can just get a play call in his

755
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: ear and talk that play call through in the huddle. Yeah,

756
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: like that's hard for him. He's still learning that he's

757
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: seen everything else, so just the process of learning working

758
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 2: on his calls. And then he mentioned one of his

759
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 2: biggest things, play fast. Even if that's dumbing it down,

760
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: even if that's simplifying things, we've talked about them before

761
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 2: on the show. There's something to be said about playing

762
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 2: fast and not over complicating things. Jamar Chase is really good.

763
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: Te Higgins is really good. Your running back's good. Don't

764
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: over complicated, simplify it and go play fast.

765
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 4: I thought it was interesting earlier this week they I

766
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 4: guess Joe had previously talked about getting the play call

767
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 4: in from Zach and like certain F and X and

768
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 4: other parts of the play call sounding familiar due to

769
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 4: Zach's accent. I never knew Zach had an accent, right,

770
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 4: but apparently he does. And those little things they called

771
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 4: an Oklahoma accent. This is the first I've ever heard

772
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 4: of that. Yeah, is that what thing? But when he

773
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 4: was talking about the other day. I'm like, man, those

774
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 4: letters do sound like I had never heard of that.

775
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,879
Speaker 4: You know that that little stuff is interesting, those little

776
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 4: intricacies of how you're learning a playbook and spitting it

777
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 4: back out or I'm fascinated.

778
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: By that stuff. I also think his his comment about

779
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: you know why why the running game success, It's also

780
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 2: something we talk about a lot. Staying ahead of the sticks,

781
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: you know, finding ways to get in second, manageable, third

782
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: manageable where they've run is just as much an option

783
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: as the pass gives you an opportunity to succeed. Jets

784
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes Austin said of Jamar Chase, a

785
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: potential Hall of Famer. Let's get there and work our

786
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 2: way down. Also said on Joe Flacco that you could

787
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: pretty much put him in Canton as well.

788
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know about that, but also sure.

789
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 2: Also, Jets will likely be without Sauce Gardner for this game. Okay,

790
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: but linebacker Quincy Williams should be back well. Sauce needs

791
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 2: to take as much time as possible. Take your time,

792
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 2: be healthy, come back for enjoy homecoming. Maybe on Saturday.

793
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, play a long career, he could. Yeah, I would

794
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 4: imagine the Jets will be here by that time. I mean,

795
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 4: come on in, if he travels with the team, you

796
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 4: don't have to worry about playing on Sunday. Yeah, relax.

797
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 2: Can he play for the Bearcats against the number one

798
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: against the number one passing attack in the country. He

799
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: might need him healthy enough to do that. Great question.

800
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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, Joe Flacco forty seven thousand yards in the

801
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 4: NFL in sixty four touchdown nuts, super Bowl champ, Super

802
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 4: Bowl MVP, Comeback Player of the Year. I don't know

803
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 4: that he's a Hall of Famer. Forty seven thousand yards,

804
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 4: that's insane. That's twenty six miles. He's thrown twenty six

805
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 4: miles of passes. That's pretty good. Let's take a break.

806
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 4: We'll finish up hour one.

807
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Speaker 2: Next. John Shearon from Ada his Esports will join us

808
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 2: at one o'clock. We have talkbacks when we get to

809
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 2: our number three. We've got some West Miller audio, we've

810
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: got read and react, and we've got your phone calls

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816
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817
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Speaker 2: It's Skyline at the time. From the Pro Football Hall

818
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: of Fame, Austin. Following a second reduction vote of candidates

819
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 2: in the seniors category, thirty four former players remain under

820
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: consideration for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of

821
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Out of those thirty four, Isaac Curtis

822
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 2: Leap and Lamar Parrish and Ken Anderson all move on.

823
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: Oh wonderful, So they are in to at least the

824
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 2: round of thirty four. It was hogwash earlier this week

825
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: when they went down to the fifty disgusting for the

826
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: modern era and the only Bengal candidate was Willie Anderson.

827
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: It is nonsensical that Geno Adkins did not get at

828
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 2: least past that fifty two. Now, I didn't expect Gino

829
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 2: to be a first ballot Hall of Fame. I don't

830
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 2: know that anybody did.

831
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 4: But some disrespect from Geno Atkins is it's a bunch

832
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 4: of hogwashes.

833
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 2: What it is. I saw this floating around earlier because

834
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 2: we always asked the question, like, you know, if you

835
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 2: could bring back one player to today's team, who would

836
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 2: it be? And there are so many Bengals of the

837
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 2: past that would make sense. I don't know how you

838
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: could ever go against just bringing back a guy like

839
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 2: Anthony Munhos to a team. I think there's something about

840
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 2: this year's team where you could make the argument that

841
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 2: if you could bring back one, it would be Geno Atkins.

842
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no doubt. I mean, based on how we

843
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: talked about this team and their inability up front to

844
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 2: do much right now, he might be at the top

845
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 2: of the list.

846
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 4: Pass rush from the middle of the defensive line, yep,

847
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 4: would change this defense.

848
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 2: Especially with Trey Hendrickson and the pressure rate we just

849
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 2: talked about earlier with Joseph Oosai. Who would be some

850
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: others on your top of your list? Munyo's obviously, Yeah,

851
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: I mean that's a good one.

852
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 4: If I could bottle up twenty or two thousand and five,

853
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 4: Odell Thurman on the team, Okay, sideline to sideline linebacker

854
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 4: at with that guy was a beast.

855
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 2: I thought Logan Wilson was a sideline, a sideline guy

856
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 2: who was a couple of years ago.

857
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 4: Can I get twenty twenty one Logan Wilson. I'd take

858
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 4: him the Rocks, Yeah, I mean if we just replaced him.

859
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of some other I mean obviously

860
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 4: Ken Riley, Yeah at corner, if you were to pair

861
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 4: him with DJ Turner right now.

862
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way Turner Turner's playing. Yeah, I don't think

863
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Speaker 2: anyone on the offensive side of them thinking all defense.

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Speaker 7: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Maybe Jesse Bates maybe, Yeah, Jesse Bates would be a

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Speaker 4: good one. Tyler Eifert from twenty fifteen would be a

867
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Speaker 4: fun one.

868
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Speaker 2: With offensively, yeah, I think we forget how good that

869
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Speaker 2: dude was. Health man yep, just the health Uh. John

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Speaker 2: Shearon eight is E Sports standing by to join us

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Speaker 2: tonight at the NFL level as well. But before we

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Speaker 2: do any of that, let's go to our guy from

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Speaker 2: Ada Z Sports covering the Cincinnati Bengals. John Sharon is

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Speaker 2: with us.

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Speaker 13: What's up, John, Hey, Tony, good to talk to you again, man.

892
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 2: Always always good to talk to you, John. Before I

893
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: even talk to you about the Cincinnati Bengals, how about

894
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Barricks. Are you buying what the Bearcats are

895
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 2: putting together right now? And are you buying the Bearcats

896
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 2: as Big twelve contenders?

897
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 13: I really don't want to, but I also really really

898
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 13: want to. So you know what, I'm just gonna I'm

899
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 13: just gonna let go. I'm gonna let go. I'm gonna

900
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 13: let them hurt me again. You know I've put off

901
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 13: these walls. They're tearing down right now. I'm just I'm

902
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 13: just going with it. We'll see what they do against

903
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 13: Utah and a coup in I guess a week or so. Yeah,

904
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 13: I'm just like, let's just ride out. Let's just see

905
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 13: what happens.

906
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 2: Take care of business against a very talented offense on Saturday,

907
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 2: and uh and see what happens on the road in

908
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: Utah against a good squad. We know what happened last Thursday.

909
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,280
Speaker 2: Bengals pick up a win against the Steelers. Joe Flacca

910
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 2: was amazing. He is now the darling based on his

911
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 2: press conference from yesterday where it feels like so many

912
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 2: people can relate to what Joe Flacco was talking about

913
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: as it relates to the field. John, where did you

914
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 2: see the ability for Joe Flacco to have as much

915
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Speaker 2: success as he did.

916
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 13: I think the more time on TAC that he had

917
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 13: in practice his receivers, the better the timing was. And

918
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 13: I just think it's so impressive how quickly he was

919
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 13: able to get the ball out of his hands, but

920
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 13: also to be able to push the ball down the

921
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Speaker 13: field and hit some of those windows and some of

922
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Speaker 13: those in breaking routes to either Jamar Chase or t Higgins,

923
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Speaker 13: So the offensive line looked better because the ball was

924
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 13: getting out quicker, but also he knew where where to

925
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Speaker 13: go with the ball. And I think that's just what

926
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Speaker 13: the Bengals had envisioned with bringing in a new quarterback

927
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 13: instead of Drake Jake grinding someone who played on time

928
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 13: and just he didn't have to be He doesn't have

929
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 13: to be completely accurate, didn't have to have Joe Burrow

930
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 13: type accuracy to make this offense work, but recognizing when

931
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 13: he's got when the receivers have inside leverage and knowing

932
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Speaker 13: that you know those windows are going to open up

933
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Speaker 13: in a fraction of a second, and getting the ball

934
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Speaker 13: out and just still putting it on, you know, on

935
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Speaker 13: other guy's hands, like they're some of the best hands

936
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 13: catchers in the NFL. So it's just it's all about

937
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 13: just making sure that you're into on time and in rhythm,

938
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 13: and that's just how you had that success. And obviously,

939
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 13: you know, the Steelers did him a favor by just

940
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Speaker 13: spamming man coverage over and over again and just not

941
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Speaker 13: really adjusting in that regard, And that's kind of how

942
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 13: that day happened, but I was very impressed by how

943
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 13: well he played on time and in rhythm throughout the

944
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 13: entire game. That's just what allowed the consistencyccesps to keep lowing.

945
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Speaker 2: You mentioned the Steelers playing man coverage. I was surprised.

946
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 2: Not only that, but when you think about a team

947
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 2: playing man, you think that they're committing more to the

948
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 2: box to stop the run. And yet Chase Brown ran

949
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 2: for nine point eight yards of carry. They ran it

950
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 2: as a team for six point two yards per carry.

951
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 2: Anything that you can point to as to why they

952
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 2: were all of a sudden able to find success on

953
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Speaker 2: the ground.

954
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Speaker 13: I think the blocking was just better. I think they

955
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 13: found some concepts with flatko under center, because obviously the

956
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 13: Bengals run game with Burrow, it's been mostly in the

957
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 13: pistol around the shotgun because he doesn't have as much

958
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 13: comfort you under center. But Joe Flacko, obviously he's played

959
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 13: a long time, He's been around that scheme a while,

960
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 13: and I think he finds some comfort in it, and

961
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 13: they can kind of marry the pass and run game

962
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 13: a little bit coming out from that formation, and you know,

963
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 13: they were able to kind of stretch steel it out

964
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 13: a little bit horizontally, and I think Donal Ryther had

965
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 13: a good game walking next to round a bround and

966
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 13: that opens up some holes for Chase Brown. So you

967
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Speaker 13: know the Steelers, we talked about it with Austin last week.

968
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Speaker 13: They're really aggressive and how they defend the run. Sometimes

969
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 13: they can get a little bit over aggressive, and I

970
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 13: think the Bengals just found a nice rhythm and flow

971
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Speaker 13: with some of the concepts that they had under center,

972
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Speaker 13: and that's what led to that success. It didn't really

973
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Speaker 13: matter where in the game it was, or the Bengals

974
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Speaker 13: were up, or if they were trailing or anything like that.

975
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Speaker 13: I think walking was just better.

976
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 4: You mentioned Dalton Risner. Zach Taylor has not announced or

977
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 4: won't announced exactly who his starting guards are going to be.

978
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Speaker 4: Do you expect there to be a short leash for

979
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 4: those guys and the Bengals kind of keep rolling through

980
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 4: whoever they feel like is playing good at the moment.

981
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Speaker 17: Yeah.

982
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 13: I was a bit surprised that Riisner got the start

983
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 13: last week, considering that Fairchild. He seemed to be practicing

984
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 13: and able to play. He was active. I think it

985
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 13: was more just the fact that it was a short

986
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 13: week and Fairchild was coming off that knee injury, and

987
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 13: maybe they didn't think they had enough time to actually

988
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 13: practice enough to play. But then Riiser, you know, even

989
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 13: natural left guard, that's where he's played ninety percent of

990
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 13: his snaps, and I think he looked better and there

991
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 13: compared to right guard in some of the first couple

992
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 13: weeks where he was starting. I would imagine that fairy

993
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 13: Child is going to take that spot back now that

994
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 13: he's fully healthy, just because I don't think he was

995
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 13: playing bad enough to warrant being benched, and I think

996
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 13: they value Risner just being the guy that can fill

997
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 13: in either spot in a pinch if some guy gets hurt.

998
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 13: I'm really interested to see in the least with Jannon Rivers.

999
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 13: I think that's a case where they really liked what

1000
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 13: he did in preseason, and then the first chance that

1001
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 13: they felt like he deserved in the regular season in

1002
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 13: Week four, that he got that chance, and I don't

1003
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 13: think they wanted to take him out until maybe something

1004
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 13: drastic happens. But I would imagine that we're going to

1005
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 13: see both rookies out there this week when they're both healthy,

1006
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 13: and maybe it's just about giving Rivers a little bit

1007
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 13: more time to see if he can kind of stabilize himself,

1008
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 13: and if not, then that's where you have Lucas Patrick

1009
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 13: or Dalton Riisers to fill in for that spot.

1010
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 2: One other thing on the offense, and then I'll switch

1011
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 2: it over the defensive side of the ball. You mentioned

1012
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco and the ability to go under center in

1013
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 2: the running game. We've seen this now from different sample sizes.

1014
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 2: When Jake Browning took over years ago, they did found

1015
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 2: some success, find some success in the running game, and

1016
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 2: a lot of it was drawn to the under center run.

1017
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 2: I know that Joe Burrow doesn't want to get under

1018
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 2: center much. You watch what he did at LSU. They

1019
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: were rarely ever under center. When it comes down to

1020
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 2: Zach's scheme versus what Joe Burrow wants to do. How

1021
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 2: did those conversations eventually go, Because I wonder if if

1022
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: Zach has tried to do more under center, and you

1023
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 2: speculate as if Joe doesn't want to do that and

1024
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 2: just wants to stay and gun, or how do you

1025
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 2: think that dynamic works or needs to adapt when Joe

1026
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 2: Burrow is healthy to find success in the running game.

1027
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 13: Still, you know, Zach Taylor, we knew that he came

1028
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 13: from the seaw Mcbaby coaching tree, and that entire offense

1029
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 13: is just based off of being under center and just

1030
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 13: having blu legs and playofttacking wide zone. And we saw

1031
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 13: that the first year that Taylor was here in twenty

1032
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 13: eighteen with Amy Baldon, and we knew that the offense,

1033
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 13: like you said that Burrow was coming from with Joe Brady,

1034
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 13: it didn't really feature in that and try to maximize

1035
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 13: the strengths of that offense with its receivers in the

1036
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 13: passing game and the ability for Burrow to examine the

1037
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 13: defense from the gun, to never turn his back from

1038
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 13: what the defense is showing him, and to know where

1039
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 13: the ball is supposed to go at all times, which

1040
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 13: is how he can operate behind a bad offensive line

1041
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 13: and he can just still have an efficient day out

1042
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 13: there even without a reliable running game, because it is

1043
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 13: hard to find a reliable running game when you're never

1044
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 13: under center, right. So that's always been the weird thing

1045
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 13: that they've tried to balance. And I think Taylor in

1046
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 13: his offense is in a scheme, has really adjusted to

1047
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 13: what Burrow does well. But it is hard to sustain

1048
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 13: that success over years and years, because eventually defenses are

1049
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 13: going to be able to pick up on it, and

1050
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 13: it's just easier to defend because there's not as much

1051
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 13: the diversity. It's a lot more predictable to defend against.

1052
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 13: So I think the conversations has always been how can

1053
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 13: they maximize Burrow because he's the most valuable person in

1054
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 13: that building and they want to make sure that he

1055
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 13: plays it as best and he's in a scheme that

1056
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 13: maximizes that. But it's always been a weird thing to

1057
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 13: balance in terms of trying to do what is best

1058
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 13: for just you know, countering what defenses are doing to you,

1059
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 13: but also making sure that you're not putting him in

1060
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 13: a position where he's not like at his best. So

1061
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 13: I think when we see sometimes when different quarterbacks are

1062
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 13: in there and they have different strengths, sometimes we see

1063
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 13: different aspects of the offense, and that's kind of what

1064
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 13: we're seeing right now.

1065
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 2: How do you characterize what's going on the defensive side

1066
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 2: of the ball right now? We have talked for weeks now,

1067
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 2: John about at times Logan Wilson's snap count, Cam Taylor

1068
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: britt is now a healthy scratch. It feels like at

1069
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: points there they're going to the young guys, They're giving

1070
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 2: them as many opportunities as possible, Yet at the same

1071
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 2: time guys are being held accountable. But Gino Stone is

1072
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 2: still playing a lot and he struggled at times. So

1073
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 2: how do you categorize what you're seeing on the defensive

1074
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 2: side of the ball as a whole? With Al Golden, I.

1075
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 13: Don't think it's too dissimilar to when lu Narumo first

1076
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Speaker 13: took over. After you know, the coaching change there, we remember,

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Speaker 13: like obviously what happeneding Carlo has done that right, Like

1078
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Speaker 13: that was a guy that was phased out, someone who

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Speaker 13: is well respected in the locker room, and unfortunately, you

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Speaker 13: know's diff diference of what the defense the new defensive

1081
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 13: coordinators fall on him. I think that's kind of what

1082
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,720
Speaker 13: we're seeing a little bit with Al Golden and Logan

1083
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 13: Wilson and some other guys as well. It came to

1084
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 13: the rec could be another example as well, even though

1085
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 13: he was benched obviously by the previous if that's the coordinator,

1086
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 13: so again, it's it is still surprising to see what

1087
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Speaker 13: is happening with Wilson, But I think that's just the

1088
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 13: reality that they're accepting and they deemed that Bear Carters

1089
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 13: is better in that role. And I think in general,

1090
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 13: the defense is still really trying to find himself and

1091
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 13: just really they're capitalizing on the times when they do

1092
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 13: find the ball and like their best games have been

1093
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 13: when they can capitalize on turnovers and when they can

1094
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 13: you know, really make the most of those opportunities. It

1095
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 13: is still a matter of trying to find consistency in

1096
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 13: terms of getting stops when they need to. That's what

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00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 13: they did against Pittsburgh at the end of the day

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Speaker 13: and at the end of that game, and that's how

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Speaker 13: they're able to get their offensive chance to kind of

1100
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Speaker 13: win them at the end. But yeah, it's still I

1101
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Speaker 13: think very much of a work in progress of figuring

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Speaker 13: out which players are best there. And with Gina stone

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00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 13: it is tough to put a new safety in there

1104
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 13: and try to make sure that the communication is, you

1105
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 13: know what, the same as it is. So, you know,

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Speaker 13: I think stone Neat still needs to just prove it

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00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 13: himself and be more consistent. But it meant something that

1108
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 13: he was he's still here and that they brought him

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Speaker 13: back and retained it, even just by the pay cut.

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Speaker 2: I do wonder you know. I saw there's the back

1111
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 2: and forth this week about preparing for Tyrod Taylor or

1112
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 2: preparing for Justin Fields. I know that's difficult, and you

1113
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 2: can speak to maybe what that challenge presents itself for

1114
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 2: the Bengals and not really knowing who's going to be

1115
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: the quarterback. But against a team like the Jets who

1116
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 2: are struggling in the passing game, could you make the

1117
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 2: point that maybe now would be a good opportunity to

1118
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 2: give someone else an opportunity if if it's not the

1119
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,760
Speaker 2: most elite passing game you're going to go against on Sunday.

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Speaker 13: I think the counter actually makes a lot more sense

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00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 13: if you. I mean, obviously there's respect for everybody that

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00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 13: you go against, right and I don't think the Bengals

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00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 13: can afford to look anybody in the eyes and say

1124
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Speaker 13: we don't respect you. And this is going to be easy, right.

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Speaker 13: I think when you're facing a team clearly struggling and

1126
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 13: is trying to find answers, that's a good time to

1127
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 13: really test the guys that need to prove themselves, like, hey,

1128
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Speaker 13: like this is an opportunity for you to really shine,

1129
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Speaker 13: because admittedly, like this should be a game that you

1130
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 13: should do well against. And I think when it comes

1131
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 13: to Geno Stone and other guys who have a lot

1132
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 13: to prove, this is the time for them to really

1133
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 13: show why they should still be.

1134
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Speaker 7: On the field.

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Speaker 13: And I think even like last year when the defense

1136
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 13: really ended things on a high note in those final

1137
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 13: five or six games, they did not go against the

1138
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 13: best offenses or the best quarterbacks, but you saw their

1139
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 13: abilities really show themselves in those opportunities. Because sometimes in

1140
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 13: the NFL, when parody is king and everything like that,

1141
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 13: there's still, you know, massive disadvantages that your opponents may

1142
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 13: have to deal with. And I think that could be

1143
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 13: a case this week where you really give some of

1144
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 13: those guys a chance to just just play their hearts

1145
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 13: out and play above what they've been doing so because

1146
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 13: that should be the expectation against teams like the Jets

1147
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 13: who are winless.

1148
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 4: We saw the Bengals struggle to get any type of

1149
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 4: pass rush with Al Trey Hendrickson on Thursday, I expect

1150
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 4: him to be on a bit of a pitch count

1151
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 4: against the Jets. How can they do a better job

1152
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 4: of getting passed rush? Should Al Golden Blitz more When

1153
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 4: Trey Hendrickson is not on the field or just blitz

1154
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 4: more in general to try to speed up the quarterback.

1155
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 13: It's tough. I feel like these kinds of questions are

1156
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 13: always to ask in the middle of the soon, and

1157
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 13: the answer is that some of these problems needed to

1158
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 13: be solved in March and April, where they just don't

1159
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 13: have like the bodies that can, just like it is

1160
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 13: hard to scheme pass rush when you don't have guys

1161
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 13: who can, like they should be in avotated situations anyways,

1162
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 13: because it's a lot easier being a defensive lineman than

1163
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 13: an offensive lineman. That's just an inherent advantage in today's games,

1164
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 13: despite how quickly the ball is getting out of your hands,

1165
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 13: And if you don't have guys in the building who

1166
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 13: can just win one on one as pass rushers, there's

1167
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 13: not much you can do schematically as a coach to

1168
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 13: get around that. You can try games and stunts and

1169
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 13: blitzes and twists all you want, but teams can also

1170
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 13: adapt to that, and if you just don't win in

1171
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:00,919
Speaker 13: a quick man or if you don't have the guys

1172
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 13: who can do that, it is really tough in order

1173
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 13: to do that. So that's why it still comes down

1174
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 13: to the players actually performing up to their draft status,

1175
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 13: and that's still not quite what we've seen from the

1176
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 13: most part of the likes of Miles Murphy and Schmarsti

1177
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 13: and everything. And there's still time for those guys to

1178
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 13: continue flashing and turning those slashes into consistency. But that's

1179
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 13: why we're not really seeing it, and it's just not

1180
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 13: that much that the coaches can do.

1181
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: We are a couple weeks away now from the deadline

1182
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 2: fore or trade deadline in the NFL. The Bengals obviously

1183
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 2: sit at three and four, but a winnable game on Sunday,

1184
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 2: I think the Bears is going to be an interesting matchup.

1185
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 2: What do you need to see over the next two

1186
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 2: weeks and if you see enough over the next two

1187
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 2: are you buying at the deadline? If you're the Bengals' on.

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00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 13: The Bengals, I would always be trying to make proactive moves.

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00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 13: It's just not what I quite expect them to do.

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00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 13: I think they're only their definition of proactive is, oh,

1191
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 13: a travesty happened in terms of an injury, and we

1192
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 13: need to find a quick solution to that. I think

1193
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 13: that you can equip to what happened with Joe Plato, right.

1194
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 13: I think when the opportunity arises when they can offload

1195
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 13: a player that is no longer a value to them

1196
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 13: for a player that they could find value. We talked

1197
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 13: about Billy Price for bj Hill, right, that could be

1198
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 13: what they look at and maybe a potential Logan Wilson

1199
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Speaker 13: type trade.

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Speaker 18: Right.

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Speaker 13: I think those opportunities are always there and they're always looking,

1202
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 13: But I don't know if I'm really looking for anything

1203
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 13: in the next two weeks in terms of like, yes,

1204
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 13: they need, they absolutely need to be buying here. I

1205
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 13: think if they find ways to win without a reliable

1206
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,959
Speaker 13: pass rush, that's still something that I would like to see,

1207
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 13: but we've yet to really seen them explore that position

1208
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 13: in terms of these deals. But yes, finding additional pass rush,

1209
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 13: whether it be on the edge or the interior, that

1210
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 13: should be somewhat of a priority, just to see, just

1211
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Speaker 13: to test the waters, to see if there's anything out

1212
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 13: there that they can get, because I think still this

1213
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 13: defense needs to take that next step and just finding

1214
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 13: a better pass rush. But other than that, I'm not

1215
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 13: really expecting much in terms of them buying regardless of

1216
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 13: the next two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Ago John You're the absolute best man. It's so good

1218
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 2: to catch up with you and look forward to doing

1219
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 2: it again next week. What's the easiest way to follow

1220
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 2: along with everything you got going on with your coverage

1221
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 2: of the Bengals.

1222
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 13: Absolutely a sports dot Com, backslash Cincinnati, Eies Sports Cincinnati

1223
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 13: on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, wherever you get your short form

1224
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 13: video content.

1225
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 5: We're all over the place.

1226
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 2: Love it, John, Thanks you, John, appreciate you.

1227
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 6: Man.

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01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 2: Go bear Cats as well.

1229
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 19: Cats.

1230
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Speaker 2: Let's go all right, we need to get the talkbacks. Yeah.

1231
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 2: Sorry that long pause there, I uh my microphone on

1232
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 2: my uh headphones unplugged.

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01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 4: You did that yourself? Yeah, accidentally pulled them? Yeah, I've

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01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 4: done that, pulled the chair out, and it's a play.

1235
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 4: It's a panic because it goes from just complete silence.

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01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I did. I don't know if John was

1237
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 2: still talking. I don't know if you said something. So

1238
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 2: there's just awkward silence. Done that, You're like, all right,

1239
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 2: we're gonna get the talkbacks. Uh next, even though I

1240
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 2: had no idea what was said in the last four seconds.

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Speaker 2: Those are next. Thanks to our friends at CINCI Sharts,

1242
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Speaker 2: Thank you for listen. Neil the Home of the Bengals

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01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:02,919
Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Centcinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 20: Now your chance to win up bouts, Go and grab

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Speaker 20: your phone and record a message.

1246
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Speaker 2: Just hit that microphone.

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Speaker 19: Please keep it clean and nope mean and those spreakael

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Speaker 19: sprinkle drip drip drifts.

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Speaker 5: It's at Tuspert Tompbacks.

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Speaker 19: It's duck favorite party since three sixty So Austin buddy,

1251
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Speaker 19: play those talkbacks on your screen and please drive nowt

1252
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 19: to sabotage it's.

1253
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Speaker 2: It's so good, it's refreshing. It almost has a holiday

1254
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 2: type jingle to it as well. Yeah, that's what I

1255
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 2: think that when I think of like the holidays, much

1256
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 2: like Joe Flacco. It's a breath of fresh air.

1257
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 13: It really is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks to our friends at Sincy Shirts. Uh these

1259
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Speaker 2: are talkbacks.

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Speaker 21: Shout out to you two Gee's big pimping there at

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Speaker 21: the Kinwoods Studios and shout out to the fifth but

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Speaker 2: Okay, what do you make of the we mentioned the

1268
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 2: fist pump yesterday. I use the term alligator arms to

1269
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 2: kind of just because you described the Oh you're pimping

1270
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 2: fist pump. Why no, it's a bump, not a pump.

1271
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 2: Why does no one who's different, Why wouldn't you want

1272
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 2: to extend on a fist pump. I don't know. I

1273
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 2: don't know why that person does. I feel like the

1274
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Speaker 2: best fist pumps are those where both are extended. Yeah,

1275
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 2: and you extend out at the same time. Matt, it

1276
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 2: feels like you're sharing a connection. Yes, it's a moment

1277
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 2: if I've got to reach like Crew far in awkward

1278
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 2: basically gotta put my hand in your pop losing balance.

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Speaker 22: Man.

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Speaker 23: I do feel bad for Joe Flacco, just sitting here

1281
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 23: thinking about him missing his family and his children, and hell,

1282
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 23: he just made the entire Pittsburgh Steelers secondary his step

1283
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 23: chill an last Thursday and then day up and leave

1284
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 23: town too.

1285
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 13: It's just just.

1286
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 2: Sad feel back for that guy.

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Speaker 6: Yep, step children, Hey, Tony, Hey Austin, Jeff and you Richmond.

1288
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 6: Happy Thursday, guys, Hope you've had a great week so far. Tony,

1289
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 6: welcome back to the radio. It's awesome to have you.

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Speaker 6: I am really excited about the bearcat scheme this weekend, Tony.

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01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 6: I'm excited to see you get inducted into the Hall

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01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 6: of Fame. And finally I might be coming around on

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01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 6: the Scott Saturday Home an apology.

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Speaker 2: He's doing it. Yep, Wow, cold day in health. It's

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01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 2: apology season. Whold day in health. Yes, it's apology season.

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Speaker 24: Hey, thank you for the kind words yesterday, Evan from Evandale.

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Speaker 2: What a nice sentiment.

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01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 5: Can't we all just get along?

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01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 2: Unfortunately not today's world.

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Speaker 25: Yeah, Tony, I loved the Marshall story yesterday. I put

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01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 25: a smile on my face. Man, you you want to

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01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 25: keep a receipt longer than ninety minutes.

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01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 5: I know you know.

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01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 2: I'm sixty one.

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01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 5: I'm running out of time.

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01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 25: You still got time. You can be a full flats adult.

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01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 25: Let's scout out to wem beIN Yamba and edge Combe.

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01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 26: Yeah.

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01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 25: I think Jimmy Clausen was a great quarterback in the

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01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 25: eighth grade.

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01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 2: He probably was nasty and he had to be, had

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01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 2: to be. But yeah, hey, I normally keep her seats

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01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 2: just Hey, ton I wanted to mention to you yesterday.

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Speaker 27: You know I've lived in my house for twenty three

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01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 27: years with no issues, and the day that Jenna and

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01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 27: Roman move across the street, my car is stolen.

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01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 2: What's going on? Is Emmy back in town? See you

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01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 2: the voice cut? His car stolen? Can I just can

1319
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 2: I tell a story real quick? We're putting we got

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01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 2: a little brotherhood work. Let me tell you this. So

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Speaker 2: uh before today's show, I was at, unfortunately a funeral

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01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 2: a good, good family friend of ours, Abbie Morgan, who

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01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 2: lost her dad, Richard Morgan, who a lot of people

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01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 2: know here in the city, especially if you're reading or Cincinnati,

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01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 2: and a terrible loss. She lost her mother recently as well.

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01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 2: We had a funeral earlier today for her. And Abby

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01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 2: has been so awesome to our family that my sister,

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01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 2: like Abby, lives like two blocks over from where my

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01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:25,040
Speaker 2: parents live, and we did that benefit for Roman to

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01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 2: get Roman and my sister somewhere where they can deep

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01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 2: clean and keep somewhere that's kind of like a place

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01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 2: for themselves, so she can keep it clean, sanitary and

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01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 2: not rely on on what everyone else is tracking in.

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Speaker 26: And so she is now.

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01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 2: Renting Abby's parents place. So awesome of Abby to help

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01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 2: make that happen. But it happens to be right across

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01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 2: the street from the Voice. The Voice has lived in

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01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 2: his place for twenty three years, has never had any problems.

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01:06:56,520 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 2: The day that Jenna and the Pikes started moving stuff

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01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 2: in his car was stolen from his driveway.

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Speaker 4: I don't mean to laugh, because I've experienced it myself

1342
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 4: and it sucks.

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01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 2: There's nothing worse, but he said, from for twenty three years,

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01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 2: nothing and on the day the Pikes came into the

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Speaker 2: neighborhood stolen and I loved it. First thing, let's leave

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01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 2: a talkback. He was there this morning. He said, I

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01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 2: hope you know I'm leaving a talkback because the riff

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Speaker 2: raft that's coming into the neighborhood can't stand. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 9: I just one thing on the Bengals too.

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01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 7: They just talked about Ted Carris.

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Speaker 13: Obviously he's a great dude.

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01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:39,960
Speaker 28: He comes from a great line, great people.

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Speaker 9: I mean, besides the fact.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what he's talking about. He left his

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01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 4: talkback yesterday too. I'm just not gonna play it. I

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01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 4: don't know what he's talking about. Later on in the

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01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 4: in the talkback, I just.

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Speaker 2: One thing on the left it again.

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Speaker 4: Listen, he's still with his mom, but he left it

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01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 4: three times according to this all right, we're gonna keep moving.

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Speaker 2: Gary del High.

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Speaker 29: Hey, shout out to Joe Flacca with one of the

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01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 29: best Bengals quotes of all time. H On a side note,

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Speaker 29: I meant the core earlier, but a couple of weeks ago,

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01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:22,639
Speaker 29: I tuned in late and I thought, what was Austin

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01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 29: telling Tony's eulogy? I thought he died. I didn't hear

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01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 29: the first part of the show. He had to go

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01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 29: on Twitter and find out he was still alive. But anyway,

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Speaker 29: welcome back, Tony, back from the dead. I guess great

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Speaker 29: to have you back on the show.

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Speaker 2: I clarified you did about halfway through. I clarified halfways.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever seen We're six alive?

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Speaker 30: No, never mind, Hey, good afternoon, fellows, run Wisconsin on

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Speaker 30: to us, say, I'm glad to hear Tony Springfield Pike

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01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 30: is back on the air.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 30: Love listening to you guys.

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01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 2: And uh go Springfield Pike. I like that one too.

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Speaker 31: Okay, Hey guys, Hey, anyways, keep my name out your mouth.

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01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 2: Or I'll pour a bottle down that throat.

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Speaker 31: Be Ah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means either.

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01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 16: Tony Austin, Shotty, Austin, did you say a couple of

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01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 16: days ago that like they should let their kid have

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Speaker 16: a choice of what team they root for. Man, you

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01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 16: really aren't a Bengals fan. Some days you gotta just

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Speaker 16: ruin that kid's life and make him a Bengals man.

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Speaker 16: Come on, Columbus three to sixty as a finess. That's

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Speaker 16: why they took the football away from you, Austin, That's

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01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 16: why Tony's now Tony pist three sixty. Tony can force

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Speaker 16: all his kids to be Bengal fans.

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Speaker 2: To be miserable, you won't.

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Speaker 4: Wilder's gonna play in the NFL. There is gonna play

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Speaker 4: for a different team.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen this clip going around about the Jets

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01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 2: fan who's like a teenager. No, So he's going into

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01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 2: the game and he's essentially asked, like, you know, why

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Speaker 2: are you a Jets fan? He said, I have to be,

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Speaker 2: He said, I've been one my whole life. Even though

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Speaker 2: I hate this team. They make me sad, they make

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Speaker 2: me miserable, but I'll always be a fan. Yeah, And

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01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:16,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, that hits different. I think I get that.

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Speaker 4: I think you should allow like give your kids again

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Speaker 4: I'm not a parent, so what most people have already

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01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 4: stopped listening. Give your kids a chance to choose between

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01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 4: well run organization. Yeah, like we let Wilder decide the

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01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 4: Eagles the Packers. You know, some team that is well run,

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01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 4: highly functional. My wife's a Buckeye fan. I'm a bear Cat.

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01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 4: I said, Wilder, you could pick whoever you want. He

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01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 4: despises the Buckeyes, okay, and for that reason, he's going

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01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 4: to spend a lot of time in the fall, you know,

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01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:55,880
Speaker 4: just trying to do the math on how he can

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01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 4: get into the college football playoffs at six to seven wins.

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Speaker 2: Math is mad.

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Speaker 18: I'm in the coffee shop, so I'm trying to whisper

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:03,879
Speaker 18: the best I can. You know, I'm reading about Socrates

1417
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 18: and trying to understand the meaning of life. I understand

1418
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 18: my spot in the world. And just goes with the NBA.

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01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 18: What's going on today and all these crazy charges against

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01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 18: these athletes and gambling. Tony Pike, I know you were

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01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 18: a college athlete when all of it was offshore gambling.

1422
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 18: Did you have any experiences with people asking you to

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01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:20,960
Speaker 18: throw a certain amount of passes and no prop becks

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01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 18: and everything weren't as Big twy, not one hundred years ago,

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01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 18: but fifteen, or if you had any experience people asking

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01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 18: you about plays.

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01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:29,679
Speaker 4: You don't have to answer this, I don't you should.

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01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 4: I would at least wait until you're officially in the hall.

1429
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 4: Should I recuse myself before you answer this question.

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Speaker 2: That new chicken chili from Skyline looks foul? Well, you're oh,

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01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 2: I get it. Foul like fowl nice. It's awesome play

1432
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:50,520
Speaker 2: on words. We love Thoset.

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Speaker 13: This is a double Please go ahead and delete me.

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Speaker 32: I'm just trying to figure out why the Bengals seem

1435
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 32: to never give up on players that have.

1436
01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 13: Never shown anything on the field.

1437
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 32: Yet they're put a guy like cam Tiller Britt in

1438
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 32: the doghouse and seemingly not working on his confidence or

1439
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 32: his abilities at all.

1440
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 2: And he's shown it on the field.

1441
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 9: And I know DJ Turner is good.

1442
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 32: Bugs with him and he's getting him to watch film

1443
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 32: with him and trying to keep him motivated. But the

1444
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 32: kit coverage team, really, why are we giving up on

1445
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 32: the guy he's at least shown up before.

1446
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 2: Special teams aren't important. I would say there's probably something

1447
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 2: more to the story that we don't know. I would

1448
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:25,600
Speaker 2: agree Hello, this.

1449
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 29: Is former President Ronan Regain.

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01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 27: I'm just sitting here at Skyline in Florence eating a

1451
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:34,600
Speaker 27: wonderful lunch alone.

1452
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:40,799
Speaker 2: Mister President, mister president, leave me alone. Leave me alone.

1453
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:45,640
Speaker 23: Man, Man, Somebody go check on Logan Wilson, because that

1454
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 23: was nasty work by John to compare him to Billy Price.

1455
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 2: I thought, I'm having a rough day.

1456
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 4: Man, Billy Price. Good people. Oh no, you know who

1457
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 4: just went in the Ohio State Hall of Fame, Billy Price.

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01:12:58,439 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 33: Donny Audie.

1459
01:12:59,320 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 34: What up?

1460
01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 33: It's a great interview with my man, John Sheer and

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01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 33: I literally just had him on my podcast yesterday. Everybody

1462
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 33: should be following him at a disease sports. With that

1463
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 33: being said, like he was talking about with this past rush,

1464
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:18,640
Speaker 33: I don't know what you do. The only thing that

1465
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 33: we can hope for is maybe Shamar Stewart is the

1466
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:26,640
Speaker 33: pass rusher we drafted him to be.

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01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's obviously still time with Shamar, Like

1468
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:33,640
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's hitting the panic button yet, but

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01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 2: you want to see some production here at some point.

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01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 35: Yes, Seth and Siems Township. Last week was the best

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Speaker 35: week of my life. It's back to normal now, everything's

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01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 35: back to same old, same old Boston. I met my

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01:13:55,920 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 35: second wife at the Oval office. My third wife is

1474
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 35: from Wisconsin Dolls. But anyways, talk to you later.

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01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 26: Thanks. Thanks, Hey, Tony, it's old man grumpy old up Austin.

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01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 26: Hello to Tony. I don't know what in the world

1477
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 26: have happened these last couple of weeks, but it was

1478
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 26: sad when you left, and I'm certainly pleased at your back. Austin.

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01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:27,759
Speaker 26: This is the week Friday Night Piqua gets its revenge

1480
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 26: against the Yellow Jackets. For all the nonsense you've been

1481
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:33,440
Speaker 26: talking for years.

1482
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 5: Go in.

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01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, whoa story for you?

1484
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 28: WHOA.

1485
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 2: I was in high school. We were really bad. I've

1486
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 2: told this before.

1487
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:45,719
Speaker 4: We lost twenty straight games, and one of those twenty

1488
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,719
Speaker 4: was a loss at the hands of the pickw Indians,

1489
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,599
Speaker 4: which are our big rival. We are not their rival,

1490
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:54,719
Speaker 4: but they are our rival. It's a little man center,

1491
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 4: but they put up seventy five on us. They could

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01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 4: if they wanted to Friday Night score one hundred against Sydney.

1493
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 4: I'm whatever the Pickwood team total over is, take it

1494
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 4: because they are going to beat Sidney to a pulp.

1495
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 2: What was the when the twenty game streak was ended. Yeah,

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01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:16,720
Speaker 2: what was the what was the aftermath?

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01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 34: Like?

1498
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 4: Oh man, it was legit like this. I know this

1499
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 4: is gonna sound ridiculous. It was one of the best

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Speaker 4: days of my life.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 4: I couldn't even play though I had a broken arm.

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01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 4: But Andre Spillers kicked the game winning field goal in

1504
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 4: overtime on the roads to uh the Custodian. We called

1505
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 4: him the Custodian, Andre Spillers, and uh he cleaned up

1506
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 4: the mess and uh put us back into w column.

1507
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 2: And then we beat Belle Fountain next week, So we

1508
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 2: go from Fountain. I thought it was Bellefonte, not even close.

1509
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 2: Bell Fountain.

1510
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 4: We'd lost twenty straight and then rebounded with back to back. Yeah,

1511
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:55,519
Speaker 4: you better watch out here come the Jackets finished four

1512
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 4: and eight after that or whatever?

1513
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:00,600
Speaker 2: What about twenty thirteen? Vontees perfect? Get him back to

1514
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 2: the Bengals. I still think I'm Cadell Thurman over him.

1515
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 13: It's a good one, Tony.

1516
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 32: I top in Virginia. Really great to have you all together.

1517
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 32: Got a question, Tony that I'd never thought i'd ask. Okay,

1518
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,360
Speaker 32: is Brandon soarsby a Hasman candidate? This is legit, This

1519
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 32: is for real boys playing out of his mind. Love

1520
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 32: to hear your take. Thanks, guys, go cat.

1521
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 4: I think who's the favorite to win the Heisman right now?

1522
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 4: Let me pull up the current Heisman odds because it's

1523
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 4: not Jeremiah Love and it's not Arch Manning.

1524
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be. Julian saying, not yet right now, Ty Simpson, Oh,

1525
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 2: the kids from Alabama. Fernando Mendoza, all right, who's he

1526
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 2: played for? He's the Indiana quarterback, okay, Julian saying his

1527
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 2: third Oh, Diego Pavia interesting is currently fourth. Okay, let

1528
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 2: me see if they even have They have Gunner Stockton

1529
01:16:58,800 --> 01:16:59,679
Speaker 2: listed as fifth.

1530
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 4: I think if you're going to put all those guys

1531
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:04,080
Speaker 4: on the list, you can at least put Sorsby on.

1532
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:09,160
Speaker 2: Sworsby right now is plus ten thousand, okay, sprinkle sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle,

1533
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 2: drip drip, Hey, Mike an Independence.

1534
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 36: I know, earlier in the show, you guys talking about

1535
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 36: Baltimore's chances of making the playoffs, and I don't think

1536
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 36: Lamar is gonna be playing this week. I know he's

1537
01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 36: taken reps at practice, but I think they're you know,

1538
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:26,439
Speaker 36: second string reps, not with the first team.

1539
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 2: From what I understand it, could.

1540
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 37: Be wrong on that.

1541
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 2: And then mister Pip, you're a fifth bump guy.

1542
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 9: Doesn't he listen to the show?

1543
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:36,599
Speaker 36: Sure he figured out by now you are talking about

1544
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 36: them during the last two shows listen.

1545
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:43,560
Speaker 2: He definitely does not listen. There's there's not a guarantee

1546
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 2: that even if you work in this so there are

1547
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 2: some people that may work here that don't even know

1548
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 2: this shows on from noon to three.

1549
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there is what just yesterday, somebody thought

1550
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 4: that we go on at twelve oh six. They thought

1551
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 4: we had the same clocks as the other stations. We don't, yep,

1552
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 4: So which might just be beautiful peak into our world.

1553
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:09,800
Speaker 38: Tony Austin, Why is nobody noting that Shamar Steward.

1554
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 2: Is coming off an injury?

1555
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 38: I said that, you know, maybe he just wasn't able

1556
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 38: to really go on and maybe he can be that

1557
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 38: past rush disruption we need.

1558
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 13: I kind of think he's got that in him, for.

1559
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 2: Sure, He's got that dog. Ian puts your ears on,

1560
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,919
Speaker 2: big boy, you think he's got that dog said that already.

1561
01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 2: Shamar Stewart on the season less tackles than Jamar Chase.

1562
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:42,479
Speaker 2: For sure, he has two tackles on the year. Uh,

1563
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:45,680
Speaker 2: Now he's only played in three games, so I get

1564
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:48,839
Speaker 2: that that he doesn't has not had a lot of opportunities. Correct,

1565
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 2: it was our last one. Let me see some more,

1566
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 2: give me a little bit more. Let's look at what's

1567
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 2: coming up on the weekend ahead, college and NFL coming

1568
01:18:56,760 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 2: up next. He SPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station with.

1569
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,640
Speaker 28: Dave Lapham's enshrinement into the Bengals Ring of Honor. We

1570
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 28: pay tribute to the life of lap presented by Skyline.

1571
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 2: Feeling good against Skyline Time. Now here's Dan and d Lap.

1572
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 27: You were the starting left guard in the Bengals first

1573
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 27: Super Bowl appearance. Describe running out of the tunnel to

1574
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 27: face the forty nine ers that day in Detroit.

1575
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 39: Man, I don't think my feet at the ground one time. Really,

1576
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 39: it was such a surreal experience. I mean, putting on

1577
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 39: cloud nine. I was definitely on cloud nine, maybe ninety nine.

1578
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 39: It was amazing. Thing I remember most about that year,

1579
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:38,759
Speaker 39: not that family wasn't a big part of the football,

1580
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 39: In playing football, they obviously really were excited about watching

1581
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 39: me play at whatever level it was high school, college

1582
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 39: or NFL. But to play in the Super Bowl, and

1583
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 39: I remember my grandfather saying I cannot believe and I'm

1584
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,679
Speaker 39: watching a grandson of mine play in the Super Bowl

1585
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 39: in the National Football League?

1586
01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 26: What is going on?

1587
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 28: For more on the life laugh, keep it here on

1588
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 28: ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals

1589
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:07,799
Speaker 28: at Genesis Diamonds.

1590
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 2: We tell you the inside secrets.

1591
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Speaker 1: This is Football in the NATI, brought to you by

1592
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Speaker 1: bug Light on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home of

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1594
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome back. Football in the NATI is right thanks

1595
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1596
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Speaker 2: Fort Mitchell location and get yourself fitted up for game day. Now,

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Speaker 2: do it now. College and NFL Slate coming up. We

1602
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 2: mentioned Thursday Night Football Tonight Austin. As you look through

1603
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 2: a week eight schedule in the National Football League, any

1604
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 2: specific games stand out to you, like is Buffalo? Are

1605
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 2: people at all worried about Buffalo at four and two?

1606
01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 4: I think Buffalo fans are worried about their offense. I

1607
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 4: don't know league wide that anyone's really worried about them. Yeah,

1608
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:14,599
Speaker 4: back to back of trust that they'll figure it out.

1609
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 2: I mean that their wins, they put up forty one, thirty,

1610
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 2: thirty one and thirty one back to back losses, scoring

1611
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 2: twenty and fourteen. They do go to Carolina and take

1612
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 2: on the upstart four and three Carolina Panthers this weekend.

1613
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 4: Andy Dalton lead Panthers can't be out for a smidge

1614
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 4: due to a high ankle sprain. But outside of that,

1615
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously the big one is Green Bay and Pittsburgh.

1616
01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 4: I want to see Aaron Rodgers up against the Packers.

1617
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 4: Packers have changed. They're now going to wear their all

1618
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,880
Speaker 4: white uniforms because of too much yellow on the field

1619
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,839
Speaker 4: because of the Steelers wearing their throwbacks with the yellow helmets.

1620
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 4: Outside of that, though, I really am not that interesting.

1621
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,360
Speaker 2: Commander's Chiefs loses a little bit because Daniels is out.

1622
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 4: Jayden Daniels isn't playing. To me, it's it's how does

1623
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:58,760
Speaker 4: Baltimore look against Chicago And obviously looking ahead of the

1624
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 4: Bengals playing Chicago next week, how those two teams face.

1625
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 2: Enough, I'm looking about that game more about Chicago than Baltimore.

1626
01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, okay, fair enough. Yeah, Baltimore is still six

1627
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,240
Speaker 4: and a half point favorites, which I'm still confused by.

1628
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 4: But it does look like Lamar's coming back. And then

1629
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:18,520
Speaker 4: charge Giants for real? Okay, they are going into Philadelphia

1630
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 4: against the Eagles, who aren't great right now. They do

1631
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 4: this every year. They go through this low where they're

1632
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 4: trying to figure it out and then they get hot

1633
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 4: towards the end of the season. So can Jackson Dart

1634
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:34,560
Speaker 4: rebound from costing his team the game last week? And

1635
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 4: can they go into Philly and win? And if they do,

1636
01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 4: I think the NFC East becomes a lot more interesting.

1637
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:42,679
Speaker 2: When does maction start?

1638
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:43,680
Speaker 17: Is that soon?

1639
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 2: I think it already?

1640
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 5: Did?

1641
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 7: Oh?

1642
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 2: Really? Okay? The RedHawks take on Western Michigan at Yager

1643
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 2: Stadium on Saturday. I know there's a bunch of Tuesday games. Yes,

1644
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 2: there's a lot going on. Does UCLA keep this ride?

1645
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 2: Do they keep things close against Indiana?

1646
01:22:58,680 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 35: No?

1647
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,680
Speaker 2: Twenty five and a half is comfortable. No, Old Miss

1648
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 2: Oklahoma feels like a playoff elimination game. Would you agree

1649
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 2: it would be both teams second loss in the SEC.

1650
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 2: Are we surprised that Oklahoma is favored by five and

1651
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 2: a half, Yes, that is surprising to me. A lot

1652
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 2: of buzz Austin as a playoff contender outside of that

1653
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 2: power grouping South Florida, I think this is a tricky

1654
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 2: one for him. They're only four and a half point

1655
01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 2: road favorites, but they head into Memphis. If South Florida

1656
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:33,920
Speaker 2: takes care of business against Memphis, I don't know if

1657
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 2: they lose the rest of the way. I think this

1658
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 2: is their toughest remaining game. South Florida's good. I mean,

1659
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:44,639
Speaker 2: they are a talented, talented team. That's a game of note.

1660
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 2: Remember how much buzz South Carolina had to start the year.

1661
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 2: That's all gone. They're one and four in the SEC.

1662
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 2: And remember how much negativity was around the Alabama football program.

1663
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:57,679
Speaker 2: All of a sudden four and zero in the SEC.

1664
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:01,839
Speaker 2: Fourth ranked team in the country, Missouri travels to Vanderbilt.

1665
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:03,599
Speaker 2: I would say I would say that as well. Austin

1666
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 2: as an elimination game for the playoffs. Both teams with

1667
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 2: one loss fifteen verse number ten BYU, the eleventh ranked

1668
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 2: team in the nation and undefeated in the Big twelve

1669
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 2: goes to Iowa State. B yu's got back to back

1670
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 2: road trips at Iowa State at Texas Tech. That's a

1671
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 2: tough stretch right there. Wisconsin team total seven and a

1672
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 2: half travels to Aughtson Stadium to take on Oregon. That's

1673
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 2: a thirty one and a half point number. Texas A

1674
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:39,599
Speaker 2: and M and LSU another big one over the weekend.

1675
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 2: Texas A and M is a favorite. That's the third

1676
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:44,519
Speaker 2: ranked Texas A and M team in the country. If

1677
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 2: LSU loses this, austin validitally, Brian Kelly might lose his job.

1678
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:52,280
Speaker 2: I hope. So yeah, I want to start rooting for

1679
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 2: LSU again. I can't do it with him at the Helm.

1680
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 2: The Louisville coming off a win over number two Miami

1681
01:24:57,520 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 2: host Boston College, Michigan Michigan State, Kentucky welcomes Tennessee to

1682
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 2: the Commonwealth as well, and UH Arizona State, rounding out

1683
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 2: the top twenty five slate host six and one Houston,

1684
01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:16,599
Speaker 2: Ohio State gotta buy this week they do. Okay, what's

1685
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 2: their remaining schedule? U Penn State, But yeah, that loses

1686
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 2: a little bit of luster. Yeah, it's not quite the same.

1687
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 2: UH and then I don't Purdue.

1688
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:27,080
Speaker 5: You see.

1689
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 2: Game focus on one game at the time, getting ready

1690
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 2: for the Nitney Lions and yeah, all that sort of

1691
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 2: who's coaching them now? Knowles, I don't know what a

1692
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 2: fall from grace that guy's had.

1693
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, like I outside of like a little

1694
01:25:45,360 --> 01:25:47,920
Speaker 4: bit of Ohio State and paying attention to you see,

1695
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,799
Speaker 4: I feel very disconnected to the rest of college football.

1696
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 4: Like I've obviously been watching the Big Twelve because of

1697
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 4: the NFL Ohio State a little bit. Yeah, I mean

1698
01:25:57,400 --> 01:26:00,439
Speaker 4: I've been I've been down in the NFL. But all right,

1699
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 4: college football it's tough for me because there's it's tough

1700
01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 4: to follow because I don't know any of the players

1701
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 4: anymore because they jump around everywhere and the sec every

1702
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,599
Speaker 4: team is the exact same, so you never know what's

1703
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 4: going to happen on a week to week basis, which

1704
01:26:20,280 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 4: is entertaining at the very least. But like there's more

1705
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 4: the regular season feels less important.

1706
01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:31,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's more parody, but I think there's validity to

1707
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:33,719
Speaker 2: what the voice said yesterday when he called in about Xavier.

1708
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 2: So he was listening in the car the other day

1709
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:39,559
Speaker 2: and baskets were being made and he's listening to Byron

1710
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 2: and Joe and didn't know if the basket was made

1711
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,320
Speaker 2: by Xavier or the other team. Like it's hard to

1712
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:47,759
Speaker 2: follow now, Yeah, it's it's a lot different in today's

1713
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 2: day and age of college athletics.

1714
01:26:50,760 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 4: And not every school has like a dedicated beat reporter

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Speaker 4: that is there every day and can make it easy

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Speaker 4: to at least in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, phyllbe I'm wrong. Let's uh, let's finish

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Speaker 2: up our number two. When we come back. We'll close

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Speaker 2: the door on hour two. We've got west Miller audio

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Speaker 2: an hour three, We've got some read and react in

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Speaker 2: our number three, and we've got your phone calls five one, three, seven,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. All still ahead on this the Thursday edition

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Speaker 2: of since E three sixty on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: You've been listening to Football in the NATI on ESPN

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Speaker 5: com NA A strong one.

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Speaker 2: I gotta have some fun tonight. This welcome back, finishing

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Speaker 2: up our number two, Since the three sixty home of

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Speaker 2: the Bengals ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. We'll grab

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Speaker 2: some phone calls in our number three five, one, three, seven,

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Speaker 2: four nine, fifteen thirty. How about this, Austin, I saw this.

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Speaker 2: Kirk Kurbstreet was talking about this just a few moments ago.

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Speaker 2: Veteran SEC official Ken Williamson has been permanently suspended from

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Speaker 2: officiating conference games. The decision to remove the longtime referee

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01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:21,960
Speaker 2: comes in the immediate wake of an SEC review of

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Speaker 2: eleven complaints against Williamson and his crew during the Auburn

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Speaker 2: Georgia game earlier this month. Nine of those complaints were validated.

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Speaker 2: This is something Austin we've not seen much of, Kirk

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01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:36,120
Speaker 2: Krbstreet said, I can't remember seeing something like this happening

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the season. It's an eye opener

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Speaker 2: and interested to see what this leads to.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 2: We've talked for years about the accountability for officials. Like

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01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 2: the officials, I've always thought for years they should have

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Speaker 2: to ask answer questions after games, just like players and

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01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 2: coaches should.

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Speaker 4: Well, they do talk to the pool report, right, at

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Speaker 4: least in the NFL they do. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: they do that in college football.

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Speaker 2: It's rare. I do think that this happens.

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Speaker 4: It's rare that we hear about it now, A full

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01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 4: fledged suspension where a guy just stops working. Maybe not,

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Speaker 4: Maybe we don't hear about that, or maybe that doesn't

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Speaker 4: happen as frequently. But I mean, I know that they're scolded,

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Speaker 4: I know that they're graded, I know that they're talked

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Speaker 4: to about their performances. It must have been pretty egregious

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Speaker 4: to do this.

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Speaker 2: That was my thought.

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Speaker 4: I also wonder too, in the light of everything that's

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Speaker 4: happening in the NBA right now, you have to be

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Speaker 4: on top of this, yep. With your officials, even if

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Speaker 4: they're not doing anything bad, you cannot create the image

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Speaker 4: that this person may or may not be connected to gambling.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 4: That was part of the deal you signed up with

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Speaker 4: when you got into bed with these companies, is that

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Speaker 4: everybody's going to have to be cleaned up. And even

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Speaker 4: if what's his name, Ken Williamson, Yes, even if he's

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Speaker 4: not involved in gambling whatsoever. If you even show the

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Speaker 4: perception that you're so bad at your job that that

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Speaker 4: conversation starts popping up, you got to get.

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Speaker 2: Rid of that. Yeah, that was a game at one

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Speaker 2: point that Auburn led ten to nothing eventually lost the

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Speaker 2: game twenty to ten. Eleven penalties for one hundred and

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Speaker 2: three yards were called on Auburn in that game, six

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Speaker 2: penalties for sixty yards were called on Georgia. Again, if

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Speaker 2: if nine of the eleven complaints made were kind of

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Speaker 2: cooperated by by those that listen to those complaints, I

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Speaker 2: would say that that is substantial and something we have

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Speaker 2: definitely not seen a lot of. And to your point

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Speaker 2: with where sports gambling is and where that looks like,

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Speaker 2: I think it's something we might see more and more of, because,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, you can't give the you can't give

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Speaker 2: any indication that something like that is happening or could

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Speaker 2: even happen in today's sports world. Let's take a break

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Speaker 2: our three your phone calls, Read and React Coming up

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Speaker 2: It is the third and final hour of today's show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, Thank you for being a part

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Speaker 2: of it. We'll get to your phone calls in just

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Speaker 2: a few moments. We'll check in with mo Ager as

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Speaker 2: we go at the end of our number three and

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01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:56,560
Speaker 2: quick kits. But for now, we do this each and

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Speaker 2: every Thursday. It's called Read and React. Austin, what do

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01:32:02,360 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 2: we have for this week as it pertains to Jets

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Speaker 2: the Bengals. We got four of them.

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Speaker 4: Jets, Bengals, Insights from our friends at NFL Pro and

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Speaker 4: next Jin stats.

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Speaker 2: Are you prepared? Let's go? All right?

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Speaker 4: Let's start with Jamar Chase and T Higgins. Jama, Jamar

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01:32:20,800 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 4: and t have each averaged over twice as many receptions

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Speaker 4: per game and receiving yards per game with Joe Flacco

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Speaker 4: as the starter, then with Jake Browning as the starter.

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Speaker 4: Chase has averaged one hundred and one hundred and twenty

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01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:41,439
Speaker 4: seven point five receiving yards per game. He had sixty

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Speaker 4: one with Browning. Higgins has averaged seventy nine receiving yards

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Speaker 4: per game with Flacco as the starter. He had twenty

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Speaker 4: three with Browning.

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Speaker 2: Man your reaction, I go back immediately to what we

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Speaker 2: heard from Joe Flacco today talking about he's still learning,

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Speaker 2: he's still working on the call, but his goal is

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Speaker 2: to play fast and simplify things at the very simplest form, Austin,

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Speaker 2: what gives you, as a quarterback on the Bengals the

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Speaker 2: most chance to succeed. Get the ball out of your hands,

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Speaker 2: Get the ball out of your hands and throw it

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Speaker 2: to those two guys. And as lucrative as it's been

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Speaker 2: for Jamar Chase and you could argue it's helped Jamar

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Speaker 2: more than anyone, how big has this been for t Higgins?

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Speaker 2: You said twenty three yards per game with Jake Browning,

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01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:31,400
Speaker 2: twenty three yards per game with Jake Browning to the

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Speaker 2: guy you just gave that contract to. Like that to me,

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Speaker 2: this is I think a good spot for T Higgins.

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01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 2: Jamar AFC Offensive Player of the Week sixteen catches, twenty

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01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 2: three targets. Sauce Gardner likely not going to play in

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Speaker 2: this game. You're down your starting corner. You're not going

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Speaker 2: to go man against Jamar Chase. You're gonna send help

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Speaker 2: to him. I think, Austin, this is a big week

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Speaker 2: for T Higgins. Joe Flack understands double teams. He obviously

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01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,800
Speaker 2: understands brackets and what defense are trying to take away.

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Speaker 2: I think this is one of those vintage T. Higgins

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01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:10,360
Speaker 2: games where a lot of the attention goes to Chase

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Speaker 2: and Higgins thrives.

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Speaker 4: Well, you mentioned man coverage. That's the subject of our

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01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:18,519
Speaker 4: next insight. The Jets have played man coverage at the

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01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 4: seventh highest rate in the NFL oh thirty five point

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01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:25,120
Speaker 4: eight percent of the time, and they have allowed six

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01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 4: point nine yards per play when they are in man coverage.

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01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:33,559
Speaker 4: That's the seventh highest amount of yards per play. Entering

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01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:37,639
Speaker 4: Week seven, Jamar Chase was targeted on just twenty one

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Speaker 4: percent of his routes against man coverage, and he averaged

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01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 4: less than a yard per route, the third lowest mark

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Speaker 4: among receivers with at least fifty routes run against man

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Speaker 4: coverage this season. However, in Week seven, Chase was targeted

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01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:57,599
Speaker 4: on half of his routes against man coverage, twelve targets

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Speaker 4: on twenty four routes, totaling eight for seventy six yards

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Speaker 4: and a touchdown against man coverage.

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Speaker 2: I think so much of the struggles of Chase. I

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01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:12,400
Speaker 2: hate to do it because it's the easy target, but

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01:35:12,439 --> 01:35:15,880
Speaker 2: I put more on Jake Browning ball placement, timing, when

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01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 2: the ball's coming out. I look more at what Chase

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01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:22,880
Speaker 2: did last week. And we've mentioned a lot. Why did

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01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh stay in man to man? Maybe because Pittsburgh was

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01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:28,720
Speaker 2: going off those insights as well. Maybe that's what they

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01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:33,760
Speaker 2: were reading into and they obviously didn't react during the game. Look,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter manners own. Jamar is gonna have success.

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Speaker 2: It's just how can you mitigate that success that he has.

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Speaker 2: What I think is interesting, Austin, you said the Jets

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Speaker 2: play man at the seventh highest rate. That's correct, but

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Speaker 2: they allow the seventh most yards per play win in man.

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Speaker 4: Correct, And as you mentioned a moment ago, I'm gonna

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01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:56,680
Speaker 4: have Sauce Gardner this this week more than more than

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Speaker 4: likely not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, by all reasons, then that number has to go

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01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:03,720
Speaker 2: way down. You would think there's no way, there's no way,

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01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:07,000
Speaker 2: seeing what the Bengals did against man last week, knowing

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01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:09,160
Speaker 2: that you might be without Sauce Gardner and you're giving

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Speaker 2: up the seventh most yards per playing man. No chance

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Speaker 2: you go against this Bengals team and Joe Flacco and

1879
01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:14,519
Speaker 2: play man.

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Speaker 4: And after what we saw last week, especially towards the

1881
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:18,960
Speaker 4: end of the game, if you go man, I mean,

1882
01:36:19,040 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 4: Flacco's just gonna tuck it and run.

1883
01:36:22,160 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 2: It's just gonna take off your back to him. That's it.

1884
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:28,200
Speaker 2: You blink a couple times and he's gone two more.

1885
01:36:28,280 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 2: Let's go to the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 4: In Week seven, without Trey Hendrickson, the Bengals averaged a

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01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:39,080
Speaker 4: time to pressure of three point two seconds, their longest

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01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 4: time to pressure of the season and nearly half a

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01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 4: second longer than their average entering the week, which was

1890
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:50,719
Speaker 4: two point seven to four. Entering Week seven, Hendrickson accounted

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Speaker 4: for twenty four point seven percent of the Bengals pressures,

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01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:59,160
Speaker 4: generating twenty total. Joseph Osai now leads the team with

1893
01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:03,479
Speaker 4: twenty one pressures entering week eight. The next closest Bengals

1894
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 4: defender is bj Hill, who has generated ten pressuresy.

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Speaker 2: I think that encapsulates every single thing we've talked about

1896
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:16,599
Speaker 2: this week about the Bengals defense and where they struggle

1897
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:20,600
Speaker 2: for what it's worth. The average time to pressure in

1898
01:37:20,680 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 2: the NFL is about two point eight seconds. A quick

1899
01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 2: pressure is defined in the NFL as two point five seconds.

1900
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:33,760
Speaker 2: To put that into perspective, the average time to throw

1901
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 2: in a clean pocket for quarterbacks about one point four seconds.

1902
01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:42,040
Speaker 2: So three point two zero not good enough. What was

1903
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 2: more demoralizing about the three point two zero, Austin, is

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01:37:44,840 --> 01:37:48,560
Speaker 2: it came against Aaron Rodgers, forty one years old, not

1905
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:50,600
Speaker 2: nearly as mobile as he used to, and he was

1906
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:52,559
Speaker 2: able to stand in the pocket and dance around as

1907
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:57,720
Speaker 2: long as he wanted. That is a staggering, staggering statistic,

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01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:00,679
Speaker 2: and it's an indictment on everyone on this defensive line

1909
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,759
Speaker 2: not named Trey Hendrickson. And we did talk Joseph Osias

1910
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,920
Speaker 2: twelfth in the NFL in pressures. He's not getting home

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01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 2: nearly enough. But they're just not putting multiple pressures together.

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Speaker 2: On any given play. You might get one guy to win,

1913
01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:18,599
Speaker 2: you might not. They rushed three a lot last week. Also, Austin,

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Speaker 2: does you you watch a lot of football? I watch

1915
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,519
Speaker 2: a lot of football. Do you see as any other

1916
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:26,680
Speaker 2: teams dropping defensive ends in lineman into coverage as much

1917
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 2: as we see from the Bengals. I don't know if

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01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:32,640
Speaker 2: i'd say I see it as much. I do see it,

1919
01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:36,400
Speaker 2: You'll see it, but not I mean that much is incredible.

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Speaker 4: I know Joe Barry, who was one of my biggest

1921
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:42,880
Speaker 4: fears on Planet Earth last year at the Bengals hiring

1922
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 4: Joe Barry, Yeah, I think he's with the Dolphins now

1923
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 4: that he used to do that a lot with the Packers.

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Speaker 26: But no, I don't.

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01:38:50,160 --> 01:38:52,160
Speaker 4: I don't see it as much maybe as I do

1926
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:54,720
Speaker 4: with the Bengals. And again I think that is a

1927
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Speaker 4: reflection of the personnel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I think Al Golden is trying to figure

1929
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Speaker 2: something out. Yeah, you can tell that by personnel. You

1930
01:39:02,720 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 2: could tell by scheme. You can tell by who they're

1931
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Speaker 2: starting and who they're benching there. They're just I like

1932
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:10,720
Speaker 2: that they're operating with urgency, but there's not a lot

1933
01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:12,559
Speaker 2: of rhyme or reason to back it up right now.

1934
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Speaker 4: And going back to the conversation with John Sheer, and

1935
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Speaker 4: I asked if he thinks the Bengals should blitz more

1936
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Speaker 4: just because of how much they have struggled to get home.

1937
01:39:21,400 --> 01:39:23,640
Speaker 4: And I think it's difficult when you don't have a

1938
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 4: ton of faith in Geno Stone to be in the

1939
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:28,400
Speaker 4: right position, and Jordan Battle to be in the right position,

1940
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:32,320
Speaker 4: Cam Taylor Britt and Josh Newton and Marco Wilson and

1941
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 4: that disaster on that side of the field. You really

1942
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 4: have confidence in Dax Hill and Dj Turner. That's like

1943
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Speaker 4: the only people you feel confident and especially if you're

1944
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:47,400
Speaker 4: gonna be playing two rookie linebackers, and so that makes

1945
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 4: it more difficult to blitz. One of your best blitzers

1946
01:39:50,479 --> 01:39:52,559
Speaker 4: is Dax Hill, and do you really want to take

1947
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:55,960
Speaker 4: him out of coverage. So it is again looking at

1948
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 4: the personnel that the Bengals have. This is beating a

1949
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 4: dead horse over and over and over again. But it's

1950
01:40:01,360 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 4: a fact of the matter. They don't have good enough

1951
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:06,000
Speaker 4: players to be able to do exactly what Al Golden

1952
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 4: wants to do or maybe what would be best for

1953
01:40:08,080 --> 01:40:12,679
Speaker 4: the defense. Yeah, final one, and to your previous point

1954
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Speaker 4: about a potential get right game for this defense, the

1955
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 4: Jets starting offensive line of Fashanu Simpson, Myers and Tipman

1956
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:27,559
Speaker 4: and membu Oh has played a league high ninety seven

1957
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:29,879
Speaker 4: point four percent of plays together.

1958
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Speaker 31: Wow.

1959
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Speaker 2: This season.

1960
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Speaker 4: Some continuity on that line, however, they have allowed a

1961
01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:39,760
Speaker 4: pressure on nearly half of the Jets dropbacks forty nine

1962
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Speaker 4: point eight percent of dropbacks. That's the second highest mark

1963
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Speaker 4: among offensive line combinations who have played at least one

1964
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Speaker 4: hundred snaps together.

1965
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Speaker 2: Well, if not this week, then win because you know

1966
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:58,799
Speaker 2: we've said a lot of the year Austin Shamar Stewart

1967
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:00,679
Speaker 2: Legacy game. Well, we've set a lot of the season

1968
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:04,280
Speaker 2: just bad matchups, bad matchups. This isn't a bad matchup.

1969
01:41:05,120 --> 01:41:07,880
Speaker 2: This is a matchup where you should be able to

1970
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 2: win more often than not. And if you go up

1971
01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 2: against an offensive line who is giving up pressures on

1972
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:19,000
Speaker 2: nearly half of their dropbacks and you can't find a

1973
01:41:19,080 --> 01:41:22,560
Speaker 2: way to get home consistently on Sunday, I don't know

1974
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 2: how you figure it out. If you're out Golden with

1975
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 2: the current roster makeup, you would have to go get

1976
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:32,760
Speaker 2: help because there's nothing that can overcome a like that.

1977
01:41:33,160 --> 01:41:35,320
Speaker 2: And I think the reason they highlight the continuity. There's

1978
01:41:35,320 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 2: an a lot of offensive lines where you're just rotating

1979
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:38,880
Speaker 2: guys and you're trying to figure out the five, you're

1980
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,360
Speaker 2: dealing with injuries. These guys have been together and they

1981
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:47,080
Speaker 2: still stink like you got to win. You got to

1982
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 2: win matchups this weekend. Let's read and react Bengals Jets.

1983
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:55,960
Speaker 2: Let's react to what a phone call has to say.

1984
01:41:56,360 --> 01:41:58,200
Speaker 2: John is calling in. What's up John?

1985
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:00,680
Speaker 5: So the room fell us?

1986
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:01,400
Speaker 2: How are you good?

1987
01:42:01,439 --> 01:42:01,720
Speaker 16: How are you?

1988
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:03,760
Speaker 13: We're hanging in there.

1989
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Speaker 24: That clip that you retweeted yesterday with Flacco was awesome.

1990
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 24: He is such a likable feels like just a normal

1991
01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:13,360
Speaker 24: guy that you know, goes through things like any forty

1992
01:42:13,439 --> 01:42:16,040
Speaker 24: year old with kids and the wife and the career

1993
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 24: and kind of juggling at all. And I think he's

1994
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,720
Speaker 24: a breath of fresh air. And I really hope that

1995
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Speaker 24: he stays on as a backup going forward, even in

1996
01:42:23,120 --> 01:42:25,120
Speaker 24: the next year, because I think it'd be great for

1997
01:42:25,200 --> 01:42:28,320
Speaker 24: Joe Burrow to have a veteran quarterback like that who

1998
01:42:28,720 --> 01:42:30,360
Speaker 24: in a pinch can come in for a game or

1999
01:42:30,439 --> 01:42:33,040
Speaker 24: half and do such a great job. But also maybe

2000
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:34,880
Speaker 24: to be kind of like a big brother to him

2001
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 24: and maybe talk some sentence him in terms of you know, look,

2002
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,400
Speaker 24: it's better that you get under center somewhat. This offense

2003
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:43,880
Speaker 24: is very quarterback friendly, and this is to keep you

2004
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:45,640
Speaker 24: upright and look at what we can do with you

2005
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:48,680
Speaker 24: hundred center rather than just being in the gun. And

2006
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:52,360
Speaker 24: I know compared Burrow a lot to Brady. He's got

2007
01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:55,719
Speaker 24: a little Aaron Rodgerson too, in terms of he's extremely smart,

2008
01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:59,320
Speaker 24: maybe a little stubborn, and do we know smart people

2009
01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:01,920
Speaker 24: could be tough to move off of the way they feel.

2010
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 24: So maybe this could be a breat thefeshal air and

2011
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 24: get him to be a little bit more simplified in

2012
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:09,439
Speaker 24: the offense. You talked about that with flack of simple

2013
01:43:09,479 --> 01:43:11,240
Speaker 24: and quick. Well, I would like to see more of

2014
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:13,519
Speaker 24: that when number nine comes back, because I think at

2015
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:16,519
Speaker 24: times not that he complicates things, but he's so bright.

2016
01:43:16,720 --> 01:43:19,559
Speaker 24: If he's playing chess and everybody else is playing checkers,

2017
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:20,800
Speaker 24: what good does it do?

2018
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Speaker 31: You know?

2019
01:43:21,400 --> 01:43:23,719
Speaker 24: It would help that they were all on the same page.

2020
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 24: So I think Flacco could be a guy going forward

2021
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:29,280
Speaker 24: to be kind of like a conduit of assistant coach

2022
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:32,040
Speaker 24: who's won a Super Bowl, and you know, the quarterbacks

2023
01:43:32,080 --> 01:43:34,160
Speaker 24: respect each other more so than say the coaches or

2024
01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:36,960
Speaker 24: anyone else. I think he'd be a valuable, valuable weapon

2025
01:43:37,040 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 24: going forward. And one final thing Tony is obviously you

2026
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 24: guys comment on this. The whole idea of you have

2027
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:46,200
Speaker 24: to turn you back when you're under center. I mean,

2028
01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 24: I'm ancient. You go back and look at some of

2029
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:50,720
Speaker 24: the old quarterbacks. They would be under center and then

2030
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:53,280
Speaker 24: they would take the snap and then they would go

2031
01:43:53,400 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 24: back parallel to the offensive mind they would still be

2032
01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 24: surveying the entire field while looking at it rather than

2033
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:01,320
Speaker 24: turning it back on. So, I mean, it's one thing

2034
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 24: that we don't see a lot now with quarterbacks, but

2035
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:05,280
Speaker 24: it is an option. I get that when you're going

2036
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:07,280
Speaker 24: to run play action, you do at some point you

2037
01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:09,599
Speaker 24: have to turn to fake to the handoff. But even

2038
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:10,920
Speaker 24: if you're in the center and you don't have a

2039
01:44:10,960 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 24: run play action, that is also an option. Go back

2040
01:44:14,160 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 24: to look at old Terry Bradshaw stuff and then they

2041
01:44:17,479 --> 01:44:18,559
Speaker 24: did it then and you know, a.

2042
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:19,320
Speaker 7: Five step drop.

2043
01:44:19,360 --> 01:44:21,400
Speaker 24: I think that that's something that could also work.

2044
01:44:22,080 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm one hundred percent with you, and I

2045
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:27,599
Speaker 2: do agree. The mentorship, John, thank you for the call.

2046
01:44:27,640 --> 01:44:28,960
Speaker 2: I want to I want to dive into that here.

2047
01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:33,000
Speaker 2: The mentorship Austin I think is so valuable for Burrow

2048
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:35,679
Speaker 2: because we've heard in the last couple of years Burrow

2049
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:38,800
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, taking on more role as a leader,

2050
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 2: you know, kind of getting out of his comfort zone.

2051
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:46,720
Speaker 2: It's not like Flacco is this like uber, out going guy,

2052
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:49,880
Speaker 2: but he's just got this sense about him that, you know,

2053
01:44:49,960 --> 01:44:51,960
Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit of resembment like that.

2054
01:44:52,080 --> 01:44:54,639
Speaker 2: They call Burrow Joe cool for a reason as well,

2055
01:44:55,200 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 2: you know, just never never able to affect them and

2056
01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:01,880
Speaker 2: pressure all. He's keeping the same mentality. But I think

2057
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:04,920
Speaker 2: there is a lot and I'm not just talking about

2058
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:07,120
Speaker 2: what's on the field, and that could could be vital

2059
01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:10,280
Speaker 2: as well, but I think there's a lot that Joe

2060
01:45:10,360 --> 01:45:13,360
Speaker 2: Burrow could take in and learn from a guy like

2061
01:45:13,479 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco as his backup. Yeah.

2062
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:17,280
Speaker 4: I mean what I think about, and you would know

2063
01:45:17,439 --> 01:45:20,240
Speaker 4: much better than me, is what are those meetings like,

2064
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:24,599
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know, the meetings in the quarterback room

2065
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:28,599
Speaker 4: with you know, having him to lean on if you're

2066
01:45:28,680 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow or Jake Browning or whoever is critical because

2067
01:45:32,520 --> 01:45:34,560
Speaker 4: you got Zach Taylor in there, and he's just a

2068
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 4: smidge older than Joe Flacco, right. Brad Cragthorpe's the quarterbacks coach.

2069
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:43,280
Speaker 4: He's thirty three years old. Dan Pitcher's thirty eight Yearshd's

2070
01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 4: the veteran. Joe Burrow is twenty seven or twenty eight

2071
01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 4: or whatever it is, and obviously the other guy. So like,

2072
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:52,240
Speaker 4: there's not that you know, being an older person automatically

2073
01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:54,639
Speaker 4: makes you better at the at the job or gives

2074
01:45:54,680 --> 01:45:58,760
Speaker 4: you a leg up because age oftentimes doesn't matter, but

2075
01:45:59,280 --> 01:46:03,800
Speaker 4: agent do this experience does. And having been there, done that,

2076
01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:06,360
Speaker 4: and gone throughout.

2077
01:46:06,920 --> 01:46:09,120
Speaker 2: Your career in so many different ways and stops and

2078
01:46:09,200 --> 01:46:12,639
Speaker 2: places and offenses and people, just that as a resource

2079
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:14,000
Speaker 2: in and of itself is.

2080
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:18,600
Speaker 4: Helpful now and will be helpful in the future. With

2081
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:21,800
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow as the quarterback, or if Joe Flacco is the.

2082
01:46:21,840 --> 01:46:24,960
Speaker 2: Quest I think the point that John brought up, like, hey,

2083
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:27,639
Speaker 2: you know, I never like to go under center either,

2084
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:29,800
Speaker 2: but this has really opened some things up for me.

2085
01:46:30,160 --> 01:46:33,960
Speaker 2: You should try it. Or man, we ran this, We

2086
01:46:34,120 --> 01:46:36,479
Speaker 2: ran this concept eight years ago, and I ran this

2087
01:46:36,560 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 2: twelve years ago. We ran this in the Super Bowl.

2088
01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:40,600
Speaker 2: Like they don't have anyone on this staff that can

2089
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:41,840
Speaker 2: have that conversation with Burrow.

2090
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:46,240
Speaker 4: Or even if Joe Burrow is like, hey, I don't

2091
01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:49,760
Speaker 4: I've never loved turning my back to the defense, how

2092
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 4: do you deal with that? Those are the questions Joe

2093
01:46:52,960 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 4: should be asking Flacco yep. And it's like, why do

2094
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 4: you feel more comfortable turning your back to the defense

2095
01:46:59,080 --> 01:47:01,080
Speaker 4: and how do you like, what do you base that

2096
01:47:01,240 --> 01:47:03,000
Speaker 4: off of or where do your eyes go or how

2097
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 4: do you approach this? And again this is not saying

2098
01:47:05,920 --> 01:47:08,599
Speaker 4: Joe Flacker is a better quarterback, but it's like, oh,

2099
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:11,360
Speaker 4: there's a different way of doing things.

2100
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:14,800
Speaker 2: I think there's something to be said Austin along the

2101
01:47:14,840 --> 01:47:21,800
Speaker 2: same lines of Andy Dalton with Bryce Young. Different stages, sure,

2102
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:25,639
Speaker 2: but you know, Bryce Young sang the praises of Andy

2103
01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:29,879
Speaker 2: Dalton of the role that he played in the leadership,

2104
01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:32,240
Speaker 2: and when asked, Dalton went in and did the job.

2105
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 2: But you know, with a guy like Flacco, if your

2106
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:37,560
Speaker 2: burr like, you're not looking over your shoulder, you're not

2107
01:47:37,560 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 2: worried about him taking your job. But and again I

2108
01:47:41,160 --> 01:47:43,280
Speaker 2: don't want to make this take a shot at Jake Browning.

2109
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:46,639
Speaker 2: How much can Joe really lean on Jake and say, hey, Jake,

2110
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:49,720
Speaker 2: what do you think here? What do you seen? Have

2111
01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:52,479
Speaker 2: you seen this before? Like you just can't do that

2112
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:56,840
Speaker 2: with Joe Flacco you can, And I think that just

2113
01:47:56,960 --> 01:48:00,880
Speaker 2: makes so much sense for this organization. Uh, let's take

2114
01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:04,599
Speaker 2: Mike is calling in as well, what's up, Mike, Hey.

2115
01:48:04,439 --> 01:48:04,800
Speaker 9: What's going on?

2116
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:05,240
Speaker 5: Guys?

2117
01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:10,680
Speaker 9: I was just sitting here thinking what a whirlwind for

2118
01:48:10,960 --> 01:48:14,040
Speaker 9: for Joe Flecko. I mean, he gets binged for Dylan Gabriel.

2119
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:17,360
Speaker 9: He's the man here and now he's on podcast. Everywhere

2120
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:21,240
Speaker 9: I turned on social media, he is talking on Whiting

2121
01:48:21,320 --> 01:48:24,160
Speaker 9: fit story, He's got clipped from his uh from his

2122
01:48:24,360 --> 01:48:27,320
Speaker 9: h interviews going on. His media days are posted all

2123
01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:30,320
Speaker 9: over the place. I mean, his kids are probably, you know,

2124
01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:33,559
Speaker 9: just soaking it all up with just so much going

2125
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:36,360
Speaker 9: on with him right now, just right back into the limelight.

2126
01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:38,599
Speaker 9: Just amazing what has happened in a couple of weeks

2127
01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:39,080
Speaker 9: for this guy.

2128
01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:43,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I just think he I think the

2129
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:47,280
Speaker 2: reason it's coming across that way is he is just

2130
01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:52,760
Speaker 2: one relatable, but two he's just he just seems like

2131
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:56,160
Speaker 2: a guy who's genuinely grateful and living in the moment

2132
01:48:56,240 --> 01:49:00,479
Speaker 2: and very appreciative of where he's at. Nothing things too

2133
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:03,760
Speaker 2: big for him. He's not big time in anyone. It's

2134
01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:06,000
Speaker 2: he's just kind of savoring the moment that he's in.

2135
01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 2: And I think for a lot of people to just

2136
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:09,879
Speaker 2: make him it makes him so relatable.

2137
01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's really enjoying himself for sure. All Right, y'all

2138
01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:14,839
Speaker 9: have a good afternoon.

2139
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:19,040
Speaker 2: Mike, appreciate it. Man, Thank you. All right, a break,

2140
01:49:19,720 --> 01:49:22,519
Speaker 2: come back. Let's switch gears just a little bit. Austin.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday was Big twelve media day. We talked to Keegan Nicholson.

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Speaker 2: We did not hear any of Wes Miller from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We have about five minutes of that. We'll get to

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

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station. Now your chance to.

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Speaker 37: Win Upton Sincy three sixty is back on ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 37: Cincinnati's Sports station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, since he three sixty ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: These Sports station misspoke Austin Moe is not in today.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, right, It's Chad Brendle who's in today. Correct.

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Speaker 2: I just saw Chad a moment ago, So Chad is

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Speaker 2: in for quick hits today. Chad Brendle quick hits more

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Speaker 2: talking about the Bearcats coming up this afternoon. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Brendan Soorsby leads the Big Twelve in total QBR and

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Speaker 2: PFF raigning. He also leads the country in total touchdowns

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Speaker 2: just throwing that out there. Brendan soarsby doing big things

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Speaker 2: for the Cincinnati Bearcats. Obviously, it's a Bearcat team Bowl

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Speaker 2: eligible for the fifteenth time in twenty years. You see

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Speaker 2: right now in conference games, leads the Big Twelve in

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Speaker 2: scoring thirty six per game. Baylor is number two in

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Speaker 2: that as well. Baylor is a team though, that has

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Speaker 2: scored two defensive touchdowns and can throw it around. They

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Speaker 2: lead nation in passing. Brendan Soorsby is tied nationally with

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Speaker 2: baylors Eorse. I'm sorry Leeds now because they moved one

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Speaker 2: of the rushing touchdowns to a passing touchdown. Swersby's twenty

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Speaker 2: four touchdowns one behind Baylor and their quarterback Robertson, who's

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Speaker 2: got twenty three touchdowns. That's number one and number two

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Speaker 2: in the nation. So it's gonna be a good one

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Speaker 2: on Saturday between the Baylor Bears and the UC Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: It's also going to be good to be able to

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Speaker 2: see more of the Cincinnati Bearcats coming up. Their season

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Speaker 2: just ready to get underway. I believe November three is

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Speaker 2: the first official game of the season, but before that,

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Speaker 2: the Bearcats are in Arkansas. They take on John Jan

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Speaker 2: John Calipari's Arkansas Razorbacks. That is a exhibition that's going

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Speaker 2: to take place tomorrow night as well. And for the

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Speaker 2: UC basketball program, I believe much different than the vibes

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Speaker 2: that we have discussed with Xavier yesterday. Doesn't feel like

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Speaker 2: a get in the tournament and it's a success. It

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Speaker 2: feels like get in the tournament and figure out a

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Speaker 2: way to win a game in the tournament. For Wes Miller.

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Speaker 2: This year, for the UC Bearcats, they have already lost

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Speaker 2: Big Slime. They're projected one of their projected big man's

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Speaker 2: no timetable on his return. But this is a talented roster.

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Speaker 2: They need to win and they need to win now.

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Speaker 2: Wes Miller caught up with folks at Big twelve media

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Speaker 2: day yesterday. Here's a couple of minutes of what Wes

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Speaker 2: had to say.

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Speaker 34: The depth of the league. It's not just great at

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Speaker 34: the top, which it is, it's great all the way through.

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Speaker 34: There's unbelievable coaching, there's unbelievable players.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of older players.

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Speaker 5: In this league.

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Speaker 34: I mean, you get guys in their fourth and fifth

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Speaker 34: year that are old, tough, talented and smart. And then

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Speaker 34: this year we're going to have so many great young

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Speaker 34: players as a part of that. It's awesome though, Like

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Speaker 34: there's challenges every single night, but it's an awesome opportunity

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Speaker 34: every night. I think more than anything, after two years,

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Speaker 34: there's just a better perspective of how to prepare for it,

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Speaker 34: and I think that's what we've been excited as we

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Speaker 34: tack our preseason at Cincinnati.

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Speaker 22: I just happened to be at Cincinnati last week for

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Speaker 22: two days and spend time with this gentleman and was

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Speaker 22: very impressed with the team depth. He lost a player

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Speaker 22: in Jalen Haynes, but you have so much depth this year.

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Speaker 22: How will that impact how you play? Trying to play

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Speaker 22: with the unbelievable pace. We've always wanted to try to

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Speaker 22: push the pace as a program. This should be the

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Speaker 22: fastest we've ever played. I mean that we've done that

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Speaker 22: throughout our summer and our preseason, and some of its depth,

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Speaker 22: some of it is our personnel. You don't bring kerk

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Speaker 22: Crisha to your team if you don't want to play fast.

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Speaker 22: I mean, he he wants to play fast every possession,

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Speaker 22: but he also makes people want to play fast with

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Speaker 22: him because he advances the ball so well.

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Speaker 34: So I think pace will be big. We're going to

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Speaker 34: be trying to be very nected on both sides of

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Speaker 34: the floor. And it's intentional, like we're not just saying

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Speaker 34: be a connected group. We're trying to be intentional about

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Speaker 34: it from day one. And then there's an aggressive We're

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Speaker 34: at Cincinnati, there's an aggressive approach to our community when

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Speaker 34: it comes to sports. We're going to be an aggressive team.

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Speaker 34: So whether that's being aggressive offensively, being aggressive on the

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Speaker 34: offensive glass, making sure we do some things to make

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Speaker 34: our defense more aggressive, and I think we have the

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Speaker 34: versatility defensively to do that as well.

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Speaker 17: You talked about pace at times last year your offense

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Speaker 17: got stuck. How is this year's roster difference just besides pace?

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Speaker 17: What are the pieces look like that make you believe

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Speaker 17: that when the game does get slowed down or gets

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Speaker 17: tightened up in conference play, your guys are going to

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Speaker 17: execute in those moments.

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Speaker 34: We had our first exhibition and it's just an exhibition,

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Speaker 34: and you guys know this stuff that don't count in October,

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Speaker 34: but we scored one hundred. I don't know if we

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Speaker 34: could have scored a hundred against anybody last year. So

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Speaker 34: I think we have much more skill across the board.

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Speaker 34: I think we have more decision making just with some

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Speaker 34: of the pieces that were added. So I think we

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Speaker 34: can generate offense in different ways. We can play through

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Speaker 34: the post with Mustapha Cham I mean, he can score

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Speaker 34: down there and that's been exciting because he's evolving as

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Speaker 34: this young player. But you can throw it to him

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Speaker 34: and he can do things over both shoulders. Jalen Haynes

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Speaker 34: was a guy we were going to do that with

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Speaker 34: a lot. But we can score in the front court

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Speaker 34: Baba Miller, through the post, we can generate through pick

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Speaker 34: and roll, or through space. We can generate with cutting,

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Speaker 34: and then we have a lot more shooting as well.

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Speaker 34: And you know, listen, I want to get easy ones

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Speaker 34: early in the clock and we're going to really try

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Speaker 34: to push the pace. I think that's where we can

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Speaker 34: be different in all those areas.

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Speaker 3: And then you've got a good returner in Dana Thomas

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Speaker 3: returning with some big twelve experience, fifty games that he's

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Speaker 3: played there with Cincinnati gets the extra year with the

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Speaker 3: DJUCO grandfathered in a clause.

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Speaker 2: What does he bring back and how important is it

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Speaker 2: to have him?

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Speaker 34: And Fran knows this, but every question about Dada Thomas

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Speaker 34: makes me smile and makes.

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Speaker 2: Me appreciate the question what he means.

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Speaker 34: Like somebody said, you don't have many returners, We have three,

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Speaker 34: but Daday's worth three himself. I mean, he's been in

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Speaker 34: our program now for two years, he's played two years

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Speaker 34: in the Big Twelve. He represents everything that we value

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Speaker 34: in Cincinnati basketball, and he's learned now how to lead

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Speaker 34: and project those things onto his teammates.

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Speaker 5: So he is so important to us.

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Speaker 2: I will say this as a player.

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Speaker 34: He's playing his best basketball of his college careers healthy again,

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Speaker 34: so I'm really excited.

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Speaker 2: And then Fran knows this.

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Speaker 34: In our league, you're just gonna have possessions that get stalled,

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Speaker 34: and we don't want to have as many as we

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Speaker 34: had a year ago, but it's sometimes the chips are

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Speaker 34: down and you have to have guys that can go

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Speaker 34: make a play without an advantage. Dada can do that,

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Speaker 34: and he's doing it better now than he ever has.

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Speaker 34: And then we have a young player in Sean Abaya

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Speaker 34: that can do that as well. So we have a

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Speaker 34: couple guys for the first time that the chips will

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Speaker 34: be down, and it's going to be fun to watch

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Speaker 34: them go create offense when offense isn't there.

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Speaker 22: Sean had fifteen. I think in the first half against Michigan.

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Speaker 22: What did you see from him, both good and bad,

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Speaker 22: that you're excited about, and then you're looking for improvement

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Speaker 22: as he becomes more experienced.

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Speaker 34: I saw a confidence he has a and I want

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Speaker 34: to say this first, the most impressive thing about SHAWNA.

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Speaker 34: Bay of today is the way he's walked through the door, humble,

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Speaker 34: head down. He's challenged our our locker room to be

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Speaker 34: the hardest worker on the team as an incoming freshman,

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Speaker 34: and he's earned the respect of his teammates Keishan Tillery

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Speaker 34: or other freshmen to fit into that same category as well.

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Speaker 34: I've been so impressed with the way they've walked in

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Speaker 34: the door as highly touted recruits. They've earned the other

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Speaker 34: players respect. But in the game, you see the shot making,

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Speaker 34: you see his confidence in the moment's not too big,

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Speaker 34: even this early. But the little things have to get better. Friends,

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Speaker 34: the stuff he can control, how hard he runs the floor,

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Speaker 34: the way that he defends, which, by the way, is

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Speaker 34: improving all these things at a rapid rate. But I

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Speaker 34: think he'll have some really good moments here early, wait

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Speaker 34: till January and February. If he keeps his coach the

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Speaker 34: same way, I think he could be very good.

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Speaker 2: All Right. So that's some stuff from Wes Miller at

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Speaker 2: Big twelve media Day. Two things that stand out to me, Austin. One,

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Speaker 2: how many times last year did we talk about the

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Speaker 2: pace at which they played and just not finding easy shots.

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01:58:16,200 --> 01:58:19,600
Speaker 2: I think moving and pushing the pace should help them

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01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:23,040
Speaker 2: a lot. Second, and I think the biggest question I

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Speaker 2: want to know, Austin, if the shot clock's winding down,

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01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:29,760
Speaker 2: do they have a dude that you can throw the

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01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:31,240
Speaker 2: ball to then go get his own bucket?

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like I remember Jared Cumberland. I knew that if things

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01:58:36,720 --> 01:58:38,720
Speaker 2: were breaking down, you could get Cumberland the ball with

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Speaker 2: eight to ten on the clock and he could go

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Speaker 2: find a way to get a bucket. He could create

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Speaker 2: a shot. Do they have that on this roster? Because

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Speaker 2: if not, regardless of how good of a team you are,

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Speaker 2: regardless of how much you do push the pace, you

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Speaker 2: have got to be able to have someone that can

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Speaker 2: go get his own basket.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, thinking back to last year's team, some of

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Speaker 4: those possessions were like pulling teeth. Oh, just you can

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Speaker 4: tell what's coming. Yeah, And I thought they played way

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01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:08,400
Speaker 4: too slow. So it's good to hear Wes say we

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Speaker 4: want to play fast and we want good shots early

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Speaker 4: in the shot clock. Not being afraid to doesn't matter.

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01:59:15,160 --> 01:59:17,600
Speaker 4: If there's twenty five seconds left, I got an open shot,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna hit it like that

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Speaker 4: sort of pace, that sort of get it moving quickly,

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01:59:22,120 --> 01:59:24,520
Speaker 4: get those open shots, good shots early in the in

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Speaker 4: the shot clock.

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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna bode well for you. Yeah, Chad

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Speaker 2: Brenda will join us for quick hits in a bit.

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Speaker 2: Before that, we'll grab a phone call or two. Next

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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, with.

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Speaker 28: Dave Lapham's enshrinement into the Bengals Ring of Honor, we

2344
01:59:39,160 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 28: pay tribute to the Life of lap presented by Skyline

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01:59:43,280 --> 01:59:45,240
Speaker 28: Feeling Good Eats Skyline Time.

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Speaker 2: Now Here's Dan.

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Speaker 27: Indeed, Lap you are known for your boisterous enthusiasm in

2348
01:59:50,640 --> 01:59:52,920
Speaker 27: the booth, but there's no better x as and O's

2349
01:59:52,960 --> 01:59:56,640
Speaker 27: analyst in the NFL, describe your approach as a broadcaster.

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01:59:56,840 --> 01:59:58,080
Speaker 2: It's probably a lot like yours.

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Speaker 6: Dan.

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Speaker 39: I mean, we both went to the New How School

2353
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Speaker 39: of Communications at Syracuse University. The best there is preparing

2354
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Speaker 39: people to enter the broadcast world knowing everything there is

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Speaker 39: to know about what you're doing, what you're broadcasting, I

2356
02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:14,000
Speaker 39: don't care if it's tittleywinks or you know, the Super Bowl,

2357
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Speaker 39: having an understanding of who the competitors are, what makes

2358
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Speaker 39: them great and honestly, I mean, it's just managing enthusiasm

2359
02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:23,720
Speaker 39: for the game. Just comes from love with the game

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Speaker 39: and do it in a way that you know the

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Speaker 39: audience appreciates that.

2362
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Speaker 2: Oh man, he really likes the game.

2363
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Speaker 28: For more on the life of Lap keep it here

2364
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Speaker 28: on ESPN fifteen thirty, The official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 37: Cincy three sixty continues on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, we are rolling. It's already Thursday, already nearing

2367
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Speaker 2: the end of our three The hell of a week,

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Speaker 2: hell of a week, hell of a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Chad Breundle standing by next. Got to talk to Chad

2370
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Speaker 2: Brenda last night on his uh on his podcast with

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Speaker 2: barcat Jordan dot Com Awston, they had their five hundredth episode.

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Speaker 2: The BCJ five hundredth episodes the congrats and we'reder to

2373
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Speaker 2: celebrate he's in here today. Every once in a while,

2374
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever told Chad this, but

2375
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Speaker 2: every once in a while, I'll be on YouTube looking

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Speaker 2: for something and I'll see the BCJ.

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Speaker 4: Is live, and so I'll just flip over check out.

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Speaker 4: I'll watch for a few minutes. Yeah, you know, just

2379
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Speaker 4: peruse the comments, see what people are saying, and uh, yeah,

2380
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Speaker 4: I listen. I get once in a while, I know

2381
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Speaker 4: what's going to get the Cats.

2382
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Speaker 2: We listen. We listened to callers as well. What's happened

2383
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Speaker 2: in Mike?

2384
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Speaker 7: Hey, guys, thank you appreciate it. Hey up talking about

2385
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Speaker 7: the Bearcats.

2386
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Speaker 16: Uh.

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Speaker 40: I think this prediction that Patino's gonna finish eighth in

2388
02:01:53,960 --> 02:01:56,120
Speaker 40: the Big East is grossly wrong.

2389
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Speaker 7: I think he'll surprise a lot of people. I'm not

2390
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Speaker 7: saying they'll win the league the Big East, but he's

2391
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Speaker 7: going to surprise some people.

2392
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Speaker 40: You know why, because he is one hell of a

2393
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Speaker 40: coach and he had the.

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Speaker 7: Best teacher you could ever have. So watch out their

2395
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:14,960
Speaker 7: catch because his team. You might beat him this year,

2396
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Speaker 7: but I don't know about next year. So I'm just

2397
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Speaker 7: calling it like I see it. I think the Xavier

2398
02:02:20,960 --> 02:02:23,320
Speaker 7: gets the short end of the stick sometimes here, but

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Speaker 7: I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: That's what that's what rot for both teams. But that's

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Speaker 2: what shocked me yesterday is I opened it up because

2402
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Speaker 2: I'm genuinely curious, and to hear a couple of Xavier

2403
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Speaker 2: fans call in and say, you know, somewhere around the

2404
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Speaker 2: five hundred mark, that surprised me a little bit.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and maybe it's true stance, it's this first year,

2406
02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:45,160
Speaker 7: but once he gets settled in, this guy is as

2407
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Speaker 7: good as it gets with the x's and o's. And

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Speaker 7: he's also a very good recruiter, very good. I mean,

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Speaker 7: if you can recruit recruit kids to New Mexico, for

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Speaker 7: crying out loud, you can, you know, get him to

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Speaker 7: the Big East or wherever. The other comment I'm to

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Speaker 7: make it kind of shocked me Dat Wescott, who I'm

2413
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Speaker 7: not a fan of anyone with the Cowboys, but this

2414
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Speaker 7: guy is having a hell of a year. And when

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Speaker 7: they run play action, he's sixty one for seventy pass

2416
02:03:15,320 --> 02:03:20,480
Speaker 7: completions with seven touchdowns and zero interception. Is that impressive?

2417
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Speaker 7: And not ever hear anybody talk about it.

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02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:27,920
Speaker 2: And not exactly dominant in the running game as well,

2419
02:03:27,960 --> 02:03:29,520
Speaker 2: that you would think that teams are just having to

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Speaker 2: bite up on the run.

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Speaker 7: Fake Yeah, so uh. And Pickens has made a different

2422
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Speaker 7: form and ceedee lamback of course is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: They're a good offense. They're an elite offense. Their defense

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02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:42,520
Speaker 2: not so much. But that's a good offense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. Their defense probably around like the Bengals defense. I guess,

2426
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Speaker 7: Maggie probably somewhat comparable. I'll have to look at up

2427
02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:54,360
Speaker 7: and tomorrow's art of the World series. Hallelujah. I can't wait.

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Speaker 7: I'm so excited. I just wish Vin Scully was still

2429
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Speaker 7: around to be able to do play by because he's

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Speaker 7: the greatest I ever heard. Marty was good, but even

2431
02:04:03,440 --> 02:04:05,560
Speaker 7: Marty will tell you Ben Sculley is the best ever.

2432
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Speaker 7: So go Big Blue and all you people have hate

2433
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Speaker 7: the Dodgers. You know why you hate him because you're envious.

2434
02:04:12,120 --> 02:04:13,240
Speaker 7: That's why you hate him.

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Speaker 2: You're envy.

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02:04:14,240 --> 02:04:17,160
Speaker 7: You're Greek with envy. You don't even like yourself. That's

2437
02:04:17,200 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 7: why you don't like the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: They used to say, don't hate us because you ain't us.

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Speaker 7: That's a good one.

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Speaker 11: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thanks I have a good one. Chad Brendle

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Speaker 2: hanging by. We'll join us next quick hits to finish

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Speaker 2: off today's edition to Sincy three sixty. You're listening on

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

2445
02:04:41,680 --> 02:04:42,760
Speaker 2: Station thanks to Penn Station.

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Speaker 37: Since he three sixty continues on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's

2447
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Speaker 37: sports station, it's time for Cincy three sixty Quick Hits

2448
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Speaker 37: on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: I was looking for Mo. Moe's not here. We know

2450
02:04:56,960 --> 02:05:00,480
Speaker 2: where Moe is today, probably golfing. Oh the company off outing,

2451
02:05:00,560 --> 02:05:03,480
Speaker 2: I think so, I don't know if that's where. What

2452
02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:07,400
Speaker 2: are we doing here working? Oh no, they didn't know

2453
02:05:07,440 --> 02:05:09,160
Speaker 2: you were a golfer. They probably didn't know I was

2454
02:05:09,160 --> 02:05:10,800
Speaker 2: going to be with the company. That's right, you did,

2455
02:05:10,960 --> 02:05:14,440
Speaker 2: so you were out in the invite days. Yeah, that

2456
02:05:14,560 --> 02:05:18,120
Speaker 2: got changed around a little bit. Chad Breundle is in

2457
02:05:18,320 --> 02:05:22,000
Speaker 2: for uh Mowgar today celebrating. But last night was number

2458
02:05:22,040 --> 02:05:23,839
Speaker 2: five hundred, five hundred shows.

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02:05:24,040 --> 02:05:26,120
Speaker 20: Wow, it's a lot of It's like ten years where

2460
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Speaker 20: me and Dave Simone dunking bearcats crazy and now to

2461
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Speaker 20: celebrate you're here today.

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Speaker 2: You want to hear a funny story.

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Speaker 7: Yes.

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Speaker 20: So when they originally like asked me to do this show,

2465
02:05:38,560 --> 02:05:41,200
Speaker 20: it was right before everything happened. Yeah, so they had

2466
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Speaker 20: asked me because Austin was going to be going to

2467
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Speaker 20: Green Bay. They were like, can you do Thursday? Right,

2468
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:50,040
Speaker 20: and then also can you do October twenty third? When

2469
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Speaker 20: everything happened, I forgot about October twenty third. Yeah, completely

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Speaker 20: was out of my mind.

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Speaker 17: Right.

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Speaker 20: My dad calls me last night and he's like, hey,

2473
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Speaker 20: do you need me to pick Kel's you up from

2474
02:06:00,640 --> 02:06:01,400
Speaker 20: school tomorrow?

2475
02:06:02,120 --> 02:06:04,480
Speaker 2: And I was like no, why. He's like, you're on radio.

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Speaker 18: I was like no.

2477
02:06:06,680 --> 02:06:09,080
Speaker 2: He's like, well, both thinks you do. I was like,

2478
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Speaker 2: what do you mean.

2479
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Speaker 20: He's like, he's said on the radio, Chad Brendle is

2480
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Speaker 20: in tomorrow. And I was like, I guess you got

2481
02:06:15,800 --> 02:06:17,360
Speaker 20: radio show to plan. Oh yeah, if you could pick

2482
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:21,320
Speaker 20: her up that in planning said show, what do you

2483
02:06:21,360 --> 02:06:23,600
Speaker 20: got on the show today? We're going to talk about

2484
02:06:24,000 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 20: the transition. There's a transition, right, we are going from

2485
02:06:28,480 --> 02:06:34,360
Speaker 20: Joe cool to Uncle Joe and the dynamic of like, look,

2486
02:06:34,640 --> 02:06:37,080
Speaker 20: you know your cool cousin like that everybody wants to

2487
02:06:37,120 --> 02:06:40,520
Speaker 20: be like your cool cousin. But there's also that cool

2488
02:06:40,640 --> 02:06:44,080
Speaker 20: uncle that, like you know, you're looking forward to as

2489
02:06:44,120 --> 02:06:50,440
Speaker 20: you get older. Like with with the cool uncle, it's

2490
02:06:50,480 --> 02:06:55,400
Speaker 20: a different dynamic, but both everybody loves the cool uncle

2491
02:06:56,280 --> 02:06:58,680
Speaker 20: and you look forward to learning from that guy and

2492
02:06:58,760 --> 02:07:01,160
Speaker 20: being around that guy. And I think we're starting to

2493
02:07:01,240 --> 02:07:04,800
Speaker 20: see that in the Bengals locker room, people being impacted

2494
02:07:04,880 --> 02:07:08,560
Speaker 20: by having a different voice. Not that it's better or worse.

2495
02:07:09,520 --> 02:07:10,800
Speaker 20: Sometimes different is okay.

2496
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Speaker 2: And it's it's interesting too because like when you win,

2497
02:07:15,240 --> 02:07:17,760
Speaker 2: it helps make this even sure. If you lose, it's

2498
02:07:17,800 --> 02:07:21,000
Speaker 2: like all right, man, whatever, yeah, win anyway, it's awesome. Yeah,

2499
02:07:21,200 --> 02:07:23,080
Speaker 2: and it just adds to it. And it's a.

2500
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Speaker 20: Big one this week because the vibes will remain high

2501
02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:29,720
Speaker 20: with a win. You lose to the Jets, especially if

2502
02:07:29,760 --> 02:07:32,120
Speaker 20: Sauce isn't playing. Yeah, you all just to the Jets.

2503
02:07:32,400 --> 02:07:32,520
Speaker 7: Uh.

2504
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Speaker 2: Oh, So it's it's an interesting week. Yeah, And again

2505
02:07:36,520 --> 02:07:38,600
Speaker 2: it opens up things to maybe do it the deadline,

2506
02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:39,920
Speaker 2: if you can win another one, if you can get

2507
02:07:39,920 --> 02:07:40,960
Speaker 2: yourself back to five hundred.

2508
02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:43,120
Speaker 20: I'm not I'm done trying to talk myself into the

2509
02:07:43,120 --> 02:07:44,879
Speaker 20: Bengals are going to make it trade at the deadline.

2510
02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:49,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. If you're not going to use them,

2511
02:07:49,240 --> 02:07:52,640
Speaker 2: trade them the Bearcats. Yes? Is this real?

2512
02:07:53,320 --> 02:07:56,880
Speaker 20: Because last year we were in a similar spot right

2513
02:07:56,960 --> 02:07:59,920
Speaker 20: now five and two, they had just beaten Arizona State.

2514
02:08:00,680 --> 02:08:02,640
Speaker 20: We knew that the back half of the schedule was

2515
02:08:02,720 --> 02:08:06,640
Speaker 20: the tougher portion of the schedule. But hey, there's some optimism.

2516
02:08:06,720 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 20: Maybe Scott Sidderfield is getting some things figured out. What's different?

2517
02:08:10,880 --> 02:08:13,960
Speaker 20: Why is it different? And again, the back half of

2518
02:08:14,000 --> 02:08:18,840
Speaker 20: the schedule is by far the tougher portion of the schedule. Yes,

2519
02:08:19,880 --> 02:08:24,160
Speaker 20: But what's different about this team that's going to allow

2520
02:08:24,280 --> 02:08:26,840
Speaker 20: this team to navigate this better than they did last year?

2521
02:08:26,880 --> 02:08:30,520
Speaker 20: Because look, I don't think anybody's really expecting this team

2522
02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:32,200
Speaker 20: to go eleven and one, ten and two.

2523
02:08:33,120 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 2: Would it be great if they did? Sure, and track

2524
02:08:36,240 --> 02:08:38,360
Speaker 2: record in the Big twelve two years ago, TCU came

2525
02:08:38,400 --> 02:08:41,440
Speaker 2: out of nowhere one last year comes out of nowhere

2526
02:08:41,520 --> 02:08:44,040
Speaker 2: wins it. There is a track record there that's that

2527
02:08:44,200 --> 02:08:47,360
Speaker 2: somebody's gonna do it. And your toughest game on your

2528
02:08:47,360 --> 02:08:51,840
Speaker 2: schedule remaining his home. Yeah, so's there's a path. But

2529
02:08:53,040 --> 02:08:56,080
Speaker 2: what makes this team different? What makes this team able

2530
02:08:56,160 --> 02:08:59,000
Speaker 2: to sustain that? I think it comes down to two things.

2531
02:09:00,040 --> 02:09:03,920
Speaker 2: Special teams and taking care of the football. Yeah, I mean,

2532
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 2: which they've been great at both. This team has been

2533
02:09:06,200 --> 02:09:10,240
Speaker 2: historically good. Yeah. Can you imagine making it seven games,

2534
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:11,480
Speaker 2: Tony with only one interception?

2535
02:09:11,680 --> 02:09:11,720
Speaker 35: No?

2536
02:09:13,240 --> 02:09:19,040
Speaker 2: No, I can imagine playing some yardage, but no, like

2537
02:09:19,760 --> 02:09:23,200
Speaker 2: they've been so good in that. But at the same time,

2538
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:27,720
Speaker 2: like they've they've just found rhythm at the right times.

2539
02:09:27,760 --> 02:09:29,360
Speaker 2: And I think the biggest thing they've played from ahead,

2540
02:09:29,760 --> 02:09:32,560
Speaker 2: that's been like we talked about that the last few years. Right,

2541
02:09:32,640 --> 02:09:36,960
Speaker 2: that's key. But but turnovers and special teams, why you

2542
02:09:37,080 --> 02:09:38,040
Speaker 2: get to play from ahead?

2543
02:09:38,120 --> 02:09:38,240
Speaker 7: Right?

2544
02:09:38,520 --> 02:09:42,200
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm interested with an elite passing attack coming

2545
02:09:42,280 --> 02:09:44,880
Speaker 2: in on Saturday, can they still play from ahead?

2546
02:09:44,960 --> 02:09:48,440
Speaker 20: I'm interested to see what what mother nature does to that. Yeah,

2547
02:09:48,640 --> 02:09:51,480
Speaker 20: because did you see that the temperature in Waco yesterday? No,

2548
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:55,480
Speaker 20: eighty eight degrees. I was just reading right here. We

2549
02:09:55,600 --> 02:09:58,280
Speaker 20: get these on our desk every morning. Uh the nine

2550
02:09:58,400 --> 02:10:01,120
Speaker 20: first Warning weather presented by Jennifer catch Mark. You see

2551
02:10:01,240 --> 02:10:07,040
Speaker 20: game day Saturday, dry stayin Chili, high sixty one, low

2552
02:10:07,120 --> 02:10:11,440
Speaker 20: forty one, So four o'clock, Yeah, it's supposed to be

2553
02:10:11,440 --> 02:10:13,360
Speaker 20: a little cloudy, so that sun's not going to be

2554
02:10:14,120 --> 02:10:17,320
Speaker 20: you know out full perfect football weather as a fan,

2555
02:10:17,440 --> 02:10:20,320
Speaker 20: but a team coming from Waco. The low in Waco

2556
02:10:20,480 --> 02:10:21,520
Speaker 20: yesterday was sixty four.

2557
02:10:21,720 --> 02:10:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a look like the South Florida teams in

2558
02:10:23,920 --> 02:10:25,280
Speaker 2: the Big East would come up late in the year

2559
02:10:25,280 --> 02:10:25,560
Speaker 2: and with.

2560
02:10:25,600 --> 02:10:27,880
Speaker 20: The years, it would be fifty eight degrees and they

2561
02:10:27,920 --> 02:10:31,360
Speaker 20: would have the jet engines blowing heat on the sideline.

2562
02:10:31,360 --> 02:10:34,880
Speaker 20: So I'm interested in that because if it's if it's

2563
02:10:34,960 --> 02:10:38,120
Speaker 20: competitive and close, that's not a factor. Sure the other

2564
02:10:38,200 --> 02:10:41,120
Speaker 20: team gets up a little bit and it's cold, I'm cold.

2565
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Speaker 20: Those guys want to go home, yep. So I think

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02:10:43,800 --> 02:10:45,280
Speaker 20: that's gonna be fun as well. We're gonna talk to

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Speaker 20: to Kean Nicholson, who was at Big twelve Basketball media

2568
02:10:49,520 --> 02:10:51,640
Speaker 20: days yesterday. You guys talked to him yesterday, Yep. I'm

2569
02:10:51,640 --> 02:10:54,400
Speaker 20: gonna talk to him today. Why he's now on his

2570
02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:57,640
Speaker 20: way to Fayettville, Arkansas. Oh yes, scrimmage for the UC.

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Speaker 20: I don't want to do this today. I don't want

2572
02:10:59,760 --> 02:11:02,040
Speaker 20: to get excited about the exhibitions. It must be nice

2573
02:11:02,080 --> 02:11:03,480
Speaker 20: to be young again, because you know what he's doing.

2574
02:11:03,560 --> 02:11:06,040
Speaker 20: Then after the exhibition come back, he's getting in his

2575
02:11:06,160 --> 02:11:08,840
Speaker 20: car and he's driving back to Cincinnati and planning to

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02:11:08,880 --> 02:11:10,160
Speaker 20: be at homecoming at four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Good for him. In my twenties, like this, this would

2578
02:11:13,040 --> 02:11:14,240
Speaker 2: have been the dream road trip.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, right, days and Casey, then you see Arkansas on

2580
02:11:19,120 --> 02:11:22,839
Speaker 20: Friday and then back home for homecoming against Baylor on Saturday,

2581
02:11:23,240 --> 02:11:24,880
Speaker 20: Like there would have been no doubt in my mind.

2582
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Speaker 2: Like, let's go the sports weekend, the exhibition Friday, Bearcut Football, Saturday,

2583
02:11:30,440 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 2: Bengals Sunday, hell Is Real Monday.

2584
02:11:33,280 --> 02:11:35,880
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's a nice little week. It's a nice four day,

2585
02:11:36,040 --> 02:11:37,360
Speaker 20: nice four day stretch, four day.

2586
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:38,160
Speaker 2: We'll get to all that.

2587
02:11:38,320 --> 02:11:41,520
Speaker 20: Like I said, Jeff Carr, talk a little bit of Red's,

2588
02:11:41,880 --> 02:11:44,400
Speaker 20: a little bit of Reds three hours, three F's Jeff

2589
02:11:44,880 --> 02:11:47,800
Speaker 20: Jeff ff Car. Uh, he's gonna talk some Reds with us.

2590
02:11:47,880 --> 02:11:54,120
Speaker 2: The Black Hour. Wow, we've got Lee Stirling wagering like it.

2591
02:11:54,320 --> 02:11:56,760
Speaker 2: And then Dan Klaskins to talk some fantasy football as

2592
02:11:56,800 --> 02:12:02,080
Speaker 2: well with uh, with this bearc game on on Saturday. Yes,

2593
02:12:02,640 --> 02:12:06,000
Speaker 2: what do you view as the hurdles going forward? Because

2594
02:12:06,040 --> 02:12:09,400
Speaker 2: I look like I'm almost more nervous about Saturday, and

2595
02:12:09,480 --> 02:12:12,120
Speaker 2: I hate putting this out there. I'm almost more nervous

2596
02:12:12,120 --> 02:12:15,320
Speaker 2: about Saturday than I am against Utah because I've watched

2597
02:12:15,400 --> 02:12:19,240
Speaker 2: enough Utah that their quarterback play just isn't great. Yeah,

2598
02:12:19,400 --> 02:12:21,080
Speaker 2: And so I go into a game like, I think

2599
02:12:21,200 --> 02:12:24,480
Speaker 2: UC's offense can score with anybody. That way's play is

2600
02:12:24,560 --> 02:12:27,040
Speaker 2: really it's good. But I'm more worried about a team

2601
02:12:27,400 --> 02:12:30,880
Speaker 2: that can come in and put up you know, forty

2602
02:12:31,000 --> 02:12:33,760
Speaker 2: or fifty on any given day. That makes me a

2603
02:12:33,760 --> 02:12:37,960
Speaker 2: little bit nervous from a from a stretch standpoint, because again,

2604
02:12:38,400 --> 02:12:41,560
Speaker 2: I think Arizona's an improved team. They're home. I think

2605
02:12:41,640 --> 02:12:44,640
Speaker 2: BYU is a good football team Knippert Stadium, and maybe

2606
02:12:45,360 --> 02:12:46,800
Speaker 2: I mean, can we get a nip and night at

2607
02:12:46,840 --> 02:12:50,680
Speaker 2: any point? Maybe, I don't know, maybe, but I will

2608
02:12:50,720 --> 02:12:52,960
Speaker 2: take four though. Yeah, four is great, and then you

2609
02:12:53,040 --> 02:12:55,520
Speaker 2: finish at TCU. But like, if you look at the

2610
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Speaker 2: Big twelve right now, Arizona State's in third, Texas text

2611
02:12:58,640 --> 02:13:01,800
Speaker 2: and fourth, Houston's in fifth. You miss all those, yeah

2612
02:13:01,920 --> 02:13:04,000
Speaker 2: that you don't play them in the regular season. So

2613
02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:06,600
Speaker 2: the schedule plays out perfectly.

2614
02:13:07,400 --> 02:13:10,600
Speaker 20: Really, even if hypothetically you win this week, you go

2615
02:13:10,680 --> 02:13:13,280
Speaker 20: to Utah and lose two losses.

2616
02:13:13,440 --> 02:13:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, so well they have the two b y, you

2617
02:13:15,440 --> 02:13:17,440
Speaker 2: still got to go to Texas Tech next week. Yeah,

2618
02:13:17,840 --> 02:13:20,400
Speaker 2: I've got Iowa State at Iowa State this week. I

2619
02:13:20,560 --> 02:13:23,480
Speaker 2: just I think there's a lot of openings the window.

2620
02:13:23,640 --> 02:13:26,160
Speaker 2: There's a window for this team, Arizona State. I don't

2621
02:13:26,200 --> 02:13:28,960
Speaker 2: know what they have coming up, but and look here's

2622
02:13:29,040 --> 02:13:29,320
Speaker 2: the thing.

2623
02:13:30,920 --> 02:13:35,640
Speaker 20: There has always been a surprise, right Like Fickles first

2624
02:13:35,680 --> 02:13:38,320
Speaker 20: team was a surprise double digit win team. Now that

2625
02:13:38,440 --> 02:13:40,960
Speaker 20: was right when UCF was rolling. Sure, so they didn't

2626
02:13:40,960 --> 02:13:43,200
Speaker 20: make the conference championship, but that was a surprise team.

2627
02:13:43,600 --> 02:13:47,200
Speaker 20: The two thousand and eight team came from nowhere, like

2628
02:13:47,520 --> 02:13:49,480
Speaker 20: you were there, used why the season started the way

2629
02:13:49,520 --> 02:13:52,080
Speaker 20: the season started, and then kind of on the ropes

2630
02:13:52,120 --> 02:13:56,080
Speaker 20: a lot through that season, and you guys endured and

2631
02:13:57,000 --> 02:13:59,800
Speaker 20: found a way to get in. Is this that year

2632
02:14:00,040 --> 02:14:02,840
Speaker 20: for Scott Sidderfield where they find a way to shock

2633
02:14:02,920 --> 02:14:06,440
Speaker 20: everybody and have the type of season that that nobody envisioned?

2634
02:14:06,520 --> 02:14:09,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? I hope. So what I also hope is people

2635
02:14:09,240 --> 02:14:11,800
Speaker 2: will quit just gambling on sports that are playing sports

2636
02:14:12,280 --> 02:14:15,400
Speaker 2: or coaching sports. Well know, a lot of this like poker,

2637
02:14:15,520 --> 02:14:19,720
Speaker 2: illegal poker. Can you imagine like anytime like Rosier I

2638
02:14:19,800 --> 02:14:22,960
Speaker 2: think is Rosier I think is a handbibling problem. If

2639
02:14:23,000 --> 02:14:25,600
Speaker 2: you're Chauncey Billups and you're talking about ties to the mafia.

2640
02:14:25,880 --> 02:14:30,440
Speaker 2: Run poker. Good luck, man, I'm out splashing the pot.

2641
02:14:30,680 --> 02:14:34,800
Speaker 2: I'm out on that, and I'm also out now your next,

2642
02:14:35,280 --> 02:14:38,720
Speaker 2: Chad Brenda's next. We're done. Bock got it again for

2643
02:14:38,800 --> 02:14:41,280
Speaker 2: the Friday football Frenzy tomorrow on the Home of the Bengals,

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2645
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Speaker 2: of your Thursday.

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