WEBVTT - The Bill Cunningham Show -- 10/27/25 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.000 Win one thousand dollars. 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.640 Enter this nationwide keyword on our website. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.880 Man, cash, that's cash. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:17.440 Enter it now, My Billy Cunningham, the Great America, welcome 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.919 this Monday afternoon. The Triesday's picking up the pieces of 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.560 mother debacle at pay four and more. Of course, the 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.040 Ute's and UC Bearcut's can visit the Utes on Saturday. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.840 It's going to be a big game. The Chicago Bears 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.280 earned down. But Moe, with your permission, Man, I share 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.120 with you a couple of my tweets. One was somewhat optimistic, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.680 the other not so optimistic. Are you prepared? I am 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.080 ready at the half Bengals beating up on the lowly 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.440 Jets twenty four to thirteen. I know you may snicker, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.720 but with the same team, Flacco has played much better 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.760 than Burrow. If the Bengals are ten and five, when 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.240 Burrow can play after one of as many injuries, do 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.160 you bench Flacco number one? Answer that one before we 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.480 go to two and three. My tweets, it got worse 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.160 over the next two hours. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.760 They're not mentioning Joe Burrow for Joe Flacco with Joe 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:07.360 Burrow's helping. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.520 Secondly, here's my next tweet Booze rained down and pay 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.200 corps crippling loss to the worst team in the NFL 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.760 with no clock management, drop passes no defense ten days 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.720 to prepare his Bengals to peer clueless. How does Zach 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.959 Shula keep his job after this debacle? I put that 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.360 in Capitol letters, by the way, just like Trump. Capitol 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.000 debacle lows thirty nine to thirty eight? Should Zach be fired? 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:33.240 Answer that question? 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:39.800 Moo well, I don't have a problem with the notion 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.920 that he should be. I kind of put more on 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.560 the person who put together the roster because this is 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:46.840 the frustrating thing. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:47.600 For me, Willie. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.560 All off season, so many of us wondered, why aren't 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.520 you doing more to make the defense better? Why aren't 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.960 you being more proactive? Why aren't you finding some players 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.120 in the secondary. Why should we trust your drafting of 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.200 defensive players when you haven't been able to find solutions 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.040 on defense for years? And so the frustrating thing to 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.919 me is when something happens that you saw coming from 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.640 a mile away, we thought this defense was probably going 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:17.560 to be really bad. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.079 Why did we think that? 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.160 Number One, because there were a lot of guys on 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.359 it who were on last year's defense, which was terrible. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.280 Uh so we suspected it. Also we kept talking about, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.120 how you know, all you have to do is have 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.880 a league average defense. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:36.120 Right. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.520 How many times did you hear that just need a 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.400 league average defense because of their offensive weaponry as well? 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.960 When best cases league average, the more likely cases well 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.760 below league average, right. And so that's what's happened. The 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.080 ceiling for this defense was always really really low, which 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.040 told you the floor was also really really low. And 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.720 so that's the thing to me. And plus, you've watched 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.000 them this year when they've needed to get stopped, when 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.480 they've needed to give the offense a chance to win, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.840 when they've needed to close out a game that the 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.400 offense has put them in a position to win, they 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.520 have failed pretty much every single time. They failed against Pittsburgh. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.320 The good news is the Bengals pretty much got the 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.200 ball last, aside from an Aaron Rodgers held mary. They 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.120 failed the game before that against Green Bay. All those 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.000 missed opportunities in the second half to give the Bengals 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.600 the ball back down by a possession. They failed late 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.840 in the game against Detroit when they pulled within eleven 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.800 points in the fourth quarter, ten and a half minutes 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.160 to go and allowed the Lions to score in six 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.280 plays without even getting to a third down. They failed 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.800 against Denver, they failed against Minnesota. Heck, if not for 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.760 a Brian Thomas dropped pass, they failed. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.120 Against the Jacksonville Jaguars. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.600 And so the frustrating thing for me is nothing about 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.520 yesterday was all that eye opening. Nothing about it was 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.320 all that surprising. But that doesn't make it any less. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.360 Madning, I go from optimus him to pessimism. Here's my 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.560 last tweet. Yesterday Bengals give up five hundred and two 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.680 yards in total offense, losing a fifteen point lead in 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.640 the fourth quarter at home to a winless team that stinks. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.240 Zach says, this is unacceptable. This is unacceptable. Really, did 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.800 Duke Tobin or Al Golden or a Zach step up? 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.320 Who's in worst shape? May have Tab pureval or Zach 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.839 Shuler answer that question? 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.320 I have Tab's got problems of his own. There's no 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.160 question about it. This is Zach Taylor's team. This is 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.440 Duke Tobin's team. Last year of the solution, at the 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.960 end of the season, the solution for fixing the defense 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.280 was we need a new defensive coordinator. Who, by the way, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.920 is leading a defense on a team that's seven and. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:44.680 One right now. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.120 So they scapegoat Luana Rumo. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:48.760 By the way, maybe. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.920 It was time for lu to go, but they scapegoat 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:56.880 Luana Rumo. Changing defensive coordinators hasn't worked, And so how 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.960 many more defensive coordinators is a head coach going to get? 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.040 How many more defensive coordinators is Duke Tobin gonna get? 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.679 And look, Zach Taylor deserves whatever fire is being aimed 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.320 at him. I think he would be the first to 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.320 tell you that. I look at Duke Tobin, I look 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.880 at the person in charge of the roster. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.320 Look at all of the. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:22.080 Failed draft picks on defense since twenty twenty one. Look 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.520 at all of the entire draft classes that have yielded 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.800 next to nothing. Look at this year's draft class. Remember, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.359 the Bengals were not uber active in free agency, but 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.400 what they were gonna do was fortify the defense through 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.000 the draft. They were gonna get players who can make 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.560 an immediate impact. Is Shamar Stewart making much of an impact? 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:41.680 No? 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.960 Is Demetrius Knight making much of an impact? Who is 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.279 Brett Carter making much of an impact? 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:47.960 Never heard of. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.760 Last year's secondary. Last year, the Bengals had a terrible secondary. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:56.640 It's stunck. Did the Bengals add a cornerback this offseason, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.520 either a free agency or in the draft. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:05:58.800 No? 0:05:58.800 --> 0:05:59.000 No. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.240 Did they add safety either in free agency or in 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:02.679 the draft. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:03.400 No. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:08.840 So it's the stuff they have tried as a track 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.039 record of not working. And then there was a whole 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.280 bunch of stuff they didn't try because they brought back 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.320 pretty much the same unit in the back end of 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.280 the defense that was here last year. They have tried 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.599 to make the pass rush better Miles Murphy, failed draft 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.040 choice Samar Stewart, I won't say failed draft choice has 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.400 yet to make any kind of an impact. They've been 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.159 trying to make the pass rush better for years. They 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.760 haven't had any success. They continue to tackle poorly, They 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.799 continue to be a step slow on defense. They continue 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.800 to provide no resistance. These aren't issues exclusive to twenty 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.960 twenty five. They were issues last year. They were glaring issues. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.520 They kept the Bengals from the postseason during a year 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.960 where Joe Burrow played out of his mind. Those defensive 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.640 issues caused last year's defensive coordinator his job, and yet 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.520 nothing has changed. That is first and foremost a direct 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.279 reflection of the poor work game done by Duke. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.359 Togin Tamar Stewart's on his way, he's tracking his total 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.400 number of sacks at LSU, which is in the crapper. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.320 His name wasn't called at all. And I think I'm 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.480 right in saying this that last week the Jets lost 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.480 to Carolina, I think they had ten yards of passing 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.120 and like, am I right? So they kind of told 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.640 the quarterback at that point a week ago, We're going 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.240 to replace you at quarterback. They didn't have their two 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.080 wide receivers, didn't have the starting quarterback, and they put 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.760 up five hundred and two yards against the Bengals defense 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.240 as if there wasn't one. And I'll give you another fact. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.920 We are you ready for an important fact? Yes, since 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:49.160 twenty sixteen, the Bengals have played ten games having had 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.880 a Thursday game, then they've been off for ten days 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.480 to get ready. So in that time, the Bengals are 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.240 zero nine and one and the ten times they've played 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.880 Thursday night game they have ten days to get ready 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.360 for the next game. They haven't won one game in ten. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:05.320 What does that say? 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:10.920 Moe says a lot of different things. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.680 I think primarily they're not using the extra time to 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.400 their benefit, and I think that's frustrating, right because we 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.320 talked about the Steelers game point. If you could just 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.080 get this one now, you have a chance to take 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.880 your breath, enjoy a little bit of time, you know, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.800 get healthy, euro though this game is not that banged up, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.520 and then come back and play a really bad team. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.160 Justin Fields last week was benched. Not only was he benched, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.720 he was called out by the team's owner, Woody Johnson, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.360 for his poor play, not only that he didn't have 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.960 his top two wide receivers to throw to, not only 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.280 that they've put him behind a bad offensive line. Like 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:47.240 if ever, there was a recipe for a defense to 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.360 enjoy success for the first time since Week one, it 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.480 was this. If you were watching yesterday's game and knew 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.040 nothing about the New York Jets, you wouldn't know that 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.920 Justin Fields was benched last week. You wouldn't know that 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.000 all week long, Aaron Glenn, the head coach, was noncommittal 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.600 as to whose quarterback was going to be. You wouldn't 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.679 know that his team's owner had publicly called out the 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.560 quarterback in ways that owners don't call out their players. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.559 You wouldn't know they were without their top two wide receivers. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.520 And yet you know this came up last week, right, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.120 who would you rather face Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.640 My answer was, it doesn't matter because this defense is 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.240 so bad. This defense is so poorly constructed. Who the 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.559 personnel is on the other side of the ball is irrelevant. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.480 They can make a good quarterback look great, they can 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.000 make a bad quarterback look good. They can make a 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.800 team without any kind of legitimate offensive weaponry suddenly look 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.480 like they're impossible to defend. And that's exactly what happened yesterday. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.920 So what changes, Tony Bender wants to know what changes? 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.560 Nothing changes this year. Nothing. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.959 They'll try to outscore people if they nearly did yesterday. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.840 They'll continue to, as did Joe Flacco, to do more 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.280 than he's probably capable of doing over the course of 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.280 the next five or six games, and they'll continue to 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.040 put a defense on the field that is completely and. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.800 Totally not trustworthy. They've tried stuff. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.160 They've benched Cam Taylor britt, they've played Cam Taylor brit. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.280 They reduced Logan Wilson's playing time, They've tried to play 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.760 the younger guys like within the framework of what. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.720 They have Al Golden. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.080 Has sought answers. He just hasn't been able to come 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.079 up with any And some of that is on him. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.120 Much of it is on the roster he was given. Again, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.959 who built the roster. Who's in charge of the roster. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.000 It's Duke toben Oh, which is simply have to get better. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.079 This is unacceptable, which is a firm grasp of reality. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.400 One last thought, the last two games, the Bengals defense 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.760 has given up seventy points, and they weren't playing some 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.280 great offenses. Pittsburgh's middling at best. And then of course 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.080 the Jets are the worst to give up seventy points. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.520 And I looked online the Bengals have given up more 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.920 points than any team in the National Football League. Given 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.520 up seventy points in the next two games. And now 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.720 we have coming into town the Chicago Bears. They're not 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.880 very good either. Who knows what's gonna happen with them. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.640 They just lost to Baltimore, and Baltimore maybe getting their footings. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.760 And so for long suffering Bengals fans, with a team 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.360 that's given up seventy points in two games, is their hope. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.200 Do you have hope? 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.480 I don't have hope because a lot. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.000 Because hope hope, hope is in the track record. Right, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.000 you have to earn my trust, you have to earn 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.959 my hope. So here's what the Bengals have chosen to do. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.640 We're gonna pay a handful of guys one area of 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.480 the team, which is fine. I don't really have any 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.680 issue with that, as long as you're good at doing 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:48.960 two things. One replacing good players who leave. Well, we're 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.760 still talking about Jesse Bates, who last played here three 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.000 years ago. We're still talking about how they couldn't replace them. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.880 We're still talking about how they couldn't replace DJ Reader. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.080 We're still to a degree talking about how they they 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.679 can't replace Herobiahuzii. Welly, we're still talking about how they 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.000 can't replace Andrew Whitworth, who left nine years ago and 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.920 has been retired for four years. Started there, right, If 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.240 you can't pay them, all players are gonna leave, that's fine. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.680 You have to be able to replace them. The Bengals 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.800 cannot Number two. If you're gonna pay a handful of 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.960 players all this money, you have to nail it in 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.960 the draft. This league is about two types of players, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.760 superstars and cheap labor. The middle class player is being 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.000 squeezed out. The Bengals have paid their stars. They have 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.760 paid their stars, Okay, that's fine. You then need to 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.440 supplement them with the cheap labor provided to you in 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.920 the draft. The Bengals have a third round tack from 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.959 last year who hasn't played yet. They have a fourth 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.040 round pick from last. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.199 Year who never plays. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.960 They have a first round tick from twenty twenty three 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.160 who's been a total bust. They have entire draft classes 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.240 that have yielded next to nothing. They've drafted offensive liman 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.200 that have failed. They have drafted defensive players that have failed. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.200 So the trust lies in this track record is Tobin. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.680 His best two draft choices have been obvious, Joe Burrow 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.439 and Jamar Chase. Right, yeah, I could have made those. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.160 I could have taken Tea Higgins with the first pick 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.360 and round two. What work are you doing to get 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.880 players who can come in and make an immediate impact 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.000 in the draft, Duke Tobin has done none. The proof 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.520 is in the putting Willie. The struggles on defense are 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:36.400 directly related, can be directly attributed to the shoddy drafting. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.560 The poor decision making and the lack of development with 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.480 the players they have developed on defense. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.000 Are you ready for the big question? 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:44.880 Yes? 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:50.080 Does the Brown family brain trust know of which we speak? 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.440 Do they know what we're saying the ones who make 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.680 the ultimate decision makers? Does the Brown family brain trust 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.680 know what we're saying? 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:02.520 They know what we're saying. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.920 I'm not sure it's going to compel them to make 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.559 any changes, but I got to be honest. Man, if 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.199 I'm Mike Brown, or if I'm Troy Troy Blackburn or 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.240 Katie Blackburn, Duke Tobin is sitting in my office today 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.160 and I'm asking him, why can't you fix this? 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:17.920 Why? 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.120 Why can't you? 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:20.440 Why can't you fix this? 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.960 In the absence of a good answer, I don't I 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.640 don't know how you give him more opportunities to fix 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.240 something that has been broken for a while. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.680 Let's move on quickly to you see and Brendan Sorosby 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.400 was unbelievable once again. A second year here, they're well 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.000 above expectations. Seven games in a row. They should have 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.760 beaten beaten Nebraska to start things off, they'd be eight 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.120 and no. But now they got the intractable foe in 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.360 the land of the Mormons in Utah. They're going to 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.120 play late on Saturday night. All the all the nation's 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.320 eyes are going to be upon you see. Give me 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.520 an update on that game. How does it look? And 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.360 can sores be maybe substitute for the Bengals when he 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.560 comes back on Saturday night late? Could he play Sunday 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.480 at pay cor If he has to answer the second part, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.200 then the first part, then I have a third part. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.640 You want Brendan Sooresby to play for the Bengals? 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:15.560 Yes, okay, Well as Flacco he's hurt. I guess his 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.040 shoulder hurts him. And Henderson he was cheap shot. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.960 Yeah, I thought for a second Jake Browning was gonna 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.800 have to play yesterday. Oh this has been This has 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.480 been a really fun UC football season, Willie. And you know, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.440 I I I know there's a lot of folks who 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.800 when Scott Satterfield was hired either shrugged their shoulders or 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.640 thought that John Cunningham made a mistake. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:39.960 And the job is not done. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.040 You know, they have four games remaining. But I think 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.480 you have to give Scott Sadderfield a lot of credit 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.960 for building a football team. I'm not sure offensively what 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.120 their weaknesses you know, they came into this week with 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.640 statistically the most balanced offense in college football, and the 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.800 good thing about having a balanced offense is one one 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.480 area isn't working, you can lean on the other. So 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.600 this Saturday against Taylor, they ran the football well. They've 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.120 committed one turnover in six games. Their offensive line has 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.360 been terrific. Brendon Soresby came into the game on Saturday 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.400 having been sacked just two times, and so start there. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.040 It's a really well put together, well coached offense and 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.920 Scott Saderfield is that's that's where his discipline lies. I 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.720 think they've done a really good job of building a 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.920 goods They have some issues on defense. They need don 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.080 Kae corleone healthy upfront, but this is a good roster, Willie. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.600 It's a team that's obviously, you. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.600 Know, on the pick of the hunt in the Big twelve. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.040 They have a very tough game on Saturday against the 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.920 Utah team that can run the ball really well hard. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.080 We'll see if the Bearcats can slow it down. But 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.480 to story and look, man, all I heard for three 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.760 years was coach prone. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:51.680 They should have hired. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.280 Dion Ye wonderful, wonderful, not. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.680 A not a lot of hype around Dion Sanders these days. Meanwhile, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.160 Scott Saderfield as a team seven straight games. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.560 Twenty seconds remain. It is Sunday morning, Soresby's landing to CVG. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.399 Joe Flacco can't play here. We got Jake the Snake 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.480 Browning to play the Bears. Would you rather have Brendan 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.600 Soresby or Jake the Snake to take it? Take a 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.960 snap at one oh five on Sunday, Soresby's available, put 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.560 them on the roster, coach them up real quick, Soresby 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.040 or Browning quickly. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.320 I'd rather have Jake the Snake Roberts than Jake Browning, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.840 So I'll take Brendan Soresby ahead of Jake Browning. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.880 Moe, thanks for your insight on these important matters. Thank 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.920 you very much. All right, Willie see, let's continue with more. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.280 Now that would be a story. News next, it's our 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.399 home of the home of the Reds, Bengals, bear Cats 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:49.239 and the Musketeers. News Radio seven hundred WLW. You hit 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.680 the music. Hit the music a little more upbeat, at 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:56.200 more positive. God knows. I'm looking for positivity and non negativity. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.080 And now I get with Moe. He's very informative. He's 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.160 forgotten more about works and most of us know. And 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.960 what happened yesterday was the debacle of historical proportions. Tanye 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.639 Rourke made a posting it says the low point of 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.240 the Bengals season, and then she said, no, since they've 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.080 been here. The low point the low points for the 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.600 losing the Super Bowls all three, when two of the 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.080 three they were up with a minute or two to 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.679 play in each one of them then lost. But this 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.200 point just feels differently because it's the Joe Burrow era. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:32.440 Joe Burrow turns thirty years old next year. He's got toe, calf, knee, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:37.280 and wrist, toe, calf, knee, and wrist. What's left? I 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.120 guess the shoulders coming up next. He's getting killed out 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.920 there being a quarterback, and the poor guy is now 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.520 walking around without a boot wanting to play, but he's 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.960 at least another six weeks away from playing. Maybe I 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.000 know many of us are optimistic he can come back 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.720 in the middle of December, but what difference does it make. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.760 He didn't play middle linebacker, so I don't know. And 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.760 as you recall, we sign up the Bengals for another 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.080 ten years, so the tax Beyers are putting in all 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.679 in well over a billion dollars, I said, a billion 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.879 dollars of our money in order to incentivize the Bengals 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.439 to put on the field of winning team. And at 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.119 this point they're not being real successful, shall we say, 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.560 But we'll see what happens on Sunday. The Bears are 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.920 in town. Joe Flacco supposedly is going to play Hendrickson, 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.040 who knows that was a cheap shot by the way 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.680 that took him out of the game, and away we go. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.840 In the last two games, the Bengals had given up 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.040 seventy points. I said, seventy points to two bad offenses. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.400 And the Jets offense was historically bad. Last week against Carolina, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.159 they had a total of eleven yards passing, and they 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.080 took down the quarterback. Taylor couldn't play, and then he 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.359 turns up lame this week, so they put him the 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.000 second stringer who they didn't want him to play, and 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.080 the two best wide receivers the Jets had were on 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.680 the DL. So this was a second team Jets offense 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.760 that had not won a game all year. They come 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:03.359 to Cincinnati and just take down the Bengals unbelievable. You know, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.640 insanity is anticipating different things, engaging in the same behavior, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.280 hoping for a different result. And I don't know what 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:15.320 to say, but the beat goes on. Secondly, all the 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:19.200 news is a flutter with this government shutdown. The government shutdown, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.000 if the last until Tuesday of next week, eight days 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.359 from now, it'll be the longest one in American history. 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.040 And the only party responsible, of course, of the Democratic 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.600 Party members who refuse to continue the Biden budget, let 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:36.159 me explain, I have millions and millions of Democrats and 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.040 Liberals that listen to me. The CR, the continuing Resolution, 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.439 would continue the spending of Joe Biden that was in 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.440