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Speaker 3: this Wednesday afternoon, ESPN fifteen thirty. It is Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: it's always Skyline time. Let me tell you what I

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Speaker 3: can't wait for. Austin. You see Colorado tonight at the

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Speaker 3: fifth third Arena. All right, I like to get there

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Speaker 3: looking forward to about that. I like to get there early.

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Speaker 3: I like to see warm ups. There's a happy hour

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Speaker 3: that happens before the game. And if you are like

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Speaker 3: me and you enter the arena right by the Oscar

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Speaker 3: Robertson statue. Of course, right when you walk in, right

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Speaker 3: ahead of you Skyline Chilly. Nothing goes better in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: then grabbing a couple Cony's getting to your seat a

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Speaker 3: few minutes early without a paper bag over your head

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Speaker 3: and watching the UC Bearcats tonight.

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Speaker 4: That's what I think.

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Speaker 5: This paper bag thing is bothering. It is insane. I

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Speaker 5: don't understand why.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm hearing from I'm hearing from basketball players that

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard from in ages. I'm seeing their social media.

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Speaker 3: Last night, Austin, what's the big deal? Last night? Kenyon

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Speaker 3: Martin followed me on social media?

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Speaker 5: Cool?

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Speaker 3: Been a big fan of Kenyon. Not your why he's

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Speaker 3: following me? If he wants to come on and talk

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Speaker 3: about the paper bag.

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Speaker 5: You can check your DMS.

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Speaker 3: People are big. Did he try to reach out? I

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Speaker 3: checked the DMS? There was no reaching out. All right,

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Speaker 3: folks are big mad about this paper bag thing.

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Speaker 6: Get it.

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Speaker 3: I think it's dumb. But as MO said yesterday, you

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Speaker 3: want to do something with your money, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I think the idea of oh it would upset the players.

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Speaker 5: Who cares? Do the players make a ton of money?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 3: Do collegiate athletes? Do collegiate students know even more to

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Speaker 3: get paper bags anymore?

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Speaker 5: Probably? Yes, that's they have the Internet. They could figure

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Speaker 5: it out. Yeah, I mean, if they've ever been to Kroger,

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Speaker 5: they've seen them. It's a long time coming, but Amazon

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Speaker 5: probably delivered like three hundred four hours.

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Speaker 3: I look, as Mo said yesterday, I understand if you're

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Speaker 3: not if you're not bothering anyone, do what you want

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Speaker 3: at the game. Like again, I'm not going to do it.

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Speaker 3: I go and I go to as many games as

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Speaker 3: I can. I support the university because I'm I'm passionate

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Speaker 3: I can tell people what to do or not to

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Speaker 3: do with their money or their time. I think booing

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Speaker 3: sends a good enough message. I think it's a bad

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Speaker 3: look for the university if if everyone's showing up in bags.

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Speaker 3: But what's the.

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Speaker 5: Worst look for the university people showing up in bags

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Speaker 5: or the basketball program slipping further into irrelevance?

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Speaker 3: Well, the basketball program slipping away, okay.

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Speaker 5: Like I think booing is directly pointed at the players

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Speaker 5: think there's a difference between the two. I saw, like

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Speaker 5: Jacob Evans talking about recruits, recruits don't give a damn

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Speaker 5: recruits care about money. It's over now, like that that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you know a lot of people that I've seen,

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Speaker 3: Damar Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Jacob Evans, Nick Van Exel, a

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Speaker 3: Sure I thought they weren't playing hard. That to me

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Speaker 3: is a former player, that would be what I was

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Speaker 3: upset about that it doesn't represent what I think UC

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Speaker 3: think they've played their tail off. The last couple of games,

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Speaker 3: very interesting to watch going forward. But speaking of interesting, Austin,

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Speaker 3: this team's an eight and a half point favorite tonight.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't understand that. I hope they win by

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Speaker 5: eight and a half. That would be great. It would

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Speaker 5: especially be funny if people were brown b bags and

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Speaker 5: they blew out Colorado at home. That would be especially

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Speaker 5: you know, people used to wear paper bags over their

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Speaker 5: heads to go watch the Bengals in the nineties. Sure

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Speaker 5: you know what fixed that? Teams started winning games. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: paper bags, which has got changed. Organization changed, people stopped

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Speaker 5: going to games, they started winning, and people don't wear

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Speaker 5: are you winning or are you not?

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Speaker 5: And again, I think it's severely misguided to think that

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Speaker 5: that is aimed at the players. It is not aimed

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Other college hoops action tonight, Xavier's at home at the

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Speaker 3: Cintas Center against sad Mada and the Butler Bulldogs.

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Speaker 5: Fad sad coming into the Sentax Center. Forgot all about

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Speaker 5: fad Mon. Yeah, well ours, how's Butler doing this? They're

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Speaker 5: one and four in the Big East. They are a

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Speaker 5: one and a half point favorite tonight, So Xavier is

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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk college hoops, college hoops at one with

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Speaker 3: our guy, Paul Frischner. Yes, is going to join us today.

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Speaker 3: I'm referred to him as mister college Basketball. I think

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Speaker 3: that's catching on. Last night college basketball action, Louisville fell

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Speaker 3: at home in a top twenty matchup to Virginia. Iowa

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Speaker 3: State is no longer unbeaten as they lose to Kansas.

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Speaker 3: Yukon rolled Houston Road, Nebraska rolled Michigan State dominant in

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Speaker 3: to move to eighteen and oh. There are more and

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Speaker 3: more people picking up on the RedHawks being eighteen and oh.

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Speaker 3: Scott Van Pelt has picked up on it. SVP has

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Speaker 3: picked up on Travis Steele's bunch, it's time to rank

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Speaker 3: these guys. A lot of folks are saying eighteen and

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Speaker 3: talk more about college basketball as we go this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Now there are paper bags, there's also booing. Did you

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Speaker 3: see what happened in Milwaukee last night?

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Speaker 5: What happened?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 3: Janis antoton Cumpo. Yes, I just like saying that name.

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Speaker 3: Janis antoton Cumpo and the Milwaukee Bucks last night played

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Speaker 3: host to the Minnesota Timberwolves. At halftime last night, it

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Speaker 3: was seventy six to forty five in favor of the

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Speaker 3: away team, Minnesota. As the Bucks were leaving the court,

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Speaker 3: the booze rang down from the heavens on Milwaukee. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Coming out in the third quarter, Janis makes an a

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Giannis, the.

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Speaker 3: Bucks are seven and seventeen and twenty three. They're not

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Speaker 3: playing good basketball? Sure, Yannis? After the game set if

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Speaker 3: someone boos me, I boo them back.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's fair. He's allowed.

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Speaker 3: What do you make of that? Yeah, go ahead, what

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Speaker 3: do you make of the Bucks head booed by their

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Speaker 3: own player, Yiannis Antonton Compo Antington Cumpo.

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Speaker 5: He's booing the fans, right, He's not booing his teammates.

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Speaker 5: Ye fans, okay one on twenty thousand. Yeah, they had

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Speaker 4: Boo.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what. I don't know what they're getting.

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Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of booing. I like the boo

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Speaker 5: seventeen thousand. My standard is not being met.

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Speaker 9: Boo.

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Speaker 5: I will boo boo. I'm a boo type of man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, boo. Who Major League Baseball news, Uh, The New

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Speaker 3: York Mets are the latest in the Kyle Tucker sweepstakes.

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Speaker 3: It is being reported by ESPN's Jesse Rogers that the

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Speaker 3: Mets offer to Kyle Tucker is believed to be worth

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Speaker 3: other team that's in right now on the the Kyle

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Speaker 3: Tucker sweepstakes? The Toronto Blue Jays. Of course they are.

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Speaker 3: You just mentioned Toronto has already spent a ton of money. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're still trying to land more. It brings us into

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Speaker 3: a conversation. We'll have later this afternoon more a hour

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Speaker 3: number three, we'll look at what the NL Central has

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Speaker 3: done this offseason and we can try to project the

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Speaker 3: red starting lineup for this year. You know, we're under

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Speaker 3: a month now from pitchers and catchers reporting.

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Speaker 5: That's right. The Reds made those official, those dates official, yeah,

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Speaker 5: yesterday with an announcement that the World Baseball Classic players

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Speaker 5: and pitchers and catchers will report on February ninth. First

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Speaker 5: workout for pitchers and catchers will be February eleventh. Position

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Speaker 5: players report on Valentine's Day, the fourteenth. The first full

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Speaker 5: squad workout is February sixteenth, and then, of course tone

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Speaker 5: one month and one week from today, the first Cactus

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Speaker 5: League game, the opener. Let's go against the Cleveland Guardians.

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Speaker 5: Let's go. I got I can't wait. I'm excited. Spring

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Speaker 5: training takes forever.

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Speaker 6: It is.

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Speaker 3: I remember I used to you, what do you dislike

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Speaker 3: more spring training? Or when the NFL did the four

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Speaker 3: preseason games spring training? Yeah, spring training hasn't changed. It's

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Speaker 3: been forever for a long time.

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Speaker 5: Arizona is not so bad because, like you know, I

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Speaker 5: think it's interesting, Like all the teams are right next

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Speaker 4: It's awesome.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but like it just that is the longest month

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Speaker 3: Steve BUSCOTTI yesterday? I loved him.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 3: He was asked about John Harball and if the kick

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Speaker 3: bluntly said he'd be the coach for another week, which

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Speaker 3: I think is hilarious. He was asked how much say

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson has on the new coach and he said, quote,

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Speaker 5: I did learn that over the course of everything happening

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Speaker 3: I think it would be fun today Austin. We talked

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Speaker 5: Now that's more than half your season.

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Speaker 3: It is now. Six of those nine are against three

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would rather not see as you mentioned Flores,

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Speaker 3: right now, and Dan Graziano put this out here. Let

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Speaker 3: If he landed in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: Harbaugh and Michigan, although he seems to have landed on

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Speaker 5: his feet pretty well because she positioned with the guy

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Speaker 5: who helped him cheat in Jim Harbaugh in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I think he was a guy who I mean,

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Speaker 5: he's got some pelts on the wall himself, really good

442
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Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, and he's somebody that I wouldn't want to

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Speaker 5: see in this division.

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Speaker 3: You know, there are also names out there that.

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Speaker 5: I'm starting to think, who I do want to see?

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you know who I'd like to

447
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Speaker 3: see like Matt Naggy. Matt Nagy, he's out there for

448
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Speaker 3: a bunch. Like Matt Eberfluse, Ye be the next coach

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Speaker 3: of the Browns.

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Speaker 5: Throw eber Flus out. Arthur Smith gets the job in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Listen, there is no one I'd rather see in the

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Speaker 3: AFC North than Arthur Smith. I don't get the affinity

453
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Speaker 3: for him across the NFL getting a couple head coaching jes.

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Speaker 3: I mean that Steelers offense was terrible, like him, Matt Naggy,

455
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Speaker 3: any guys like that that that names have been recycled.

456
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Speaker 3: I'm good if they get hired. But I'm with you Stefanski.

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Speaker 3: I would I would rather see go outside the North Flores.

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Speaker 3: I would like to see go outside the North, but

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Speaker 3: I would I would be okay with some of the others.

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Speaker 3: I think Mike McDaniel and Cleveland would be interesting.

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Speaker 5: What do you yeah, I think it would be. I mean,

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Speaker 5: he obviously has some history in Cleveland. What do you

463
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Speaker 5: think of Cliff Kingsbury because some have said his style

464
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Speaker 5: of offense with Lamar Jackson would be a fit.

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Speaker 3: I could see that, you know. I think him though,

466
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Speaker 3: like he to me just seems like one of those

467
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Speaker 3: guys better coordinator than head coach for whatever reason. There's

468
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Speaker 3: a lot of him out there, and he wasn't a

469
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Speaker 3: good coordinator. Yeah, it just it feels to me though,

470
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Speaker 3: seeing what he did as a head coach and what

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Speaker 3: he did as a coordinator, especially year one with Jayden Daniels,

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Speaker 3: I think he's just a better coordinator in the NFL. Yeah,

473
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Speaker 3: it's just it's interesting because you hear names and you're like, oh,

474
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Speaker 3: here we go again with that name again, and then

475
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Speaker 3: you hear some names that you know come across more

476
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Speaker 3: off the wall. But I saw that yesterday and I

477
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Speaker 3: saw Floraes and I saw a picture of him with

478
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Speaker 3: and I'm like, I just don't want to see floras there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, if you remember what, he kind of

480
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Speaker 5: took a gap year right with Pittsburgh with Mike Tomlin

481
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Speaker 5: before he came back and was the defensive coordinator of

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Speaker 5: the Viking. So I mean there is some familiarity there,

483
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Speaker 5: and I think it would be not all that dissimilar

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Speaker 5: to what they have had with Mike Tomlin in terms

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Speaker 5: of like the culture. Yeah, I don't know how Pittsburgh works, Like,

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Speaker 5: I don't know if they want to kind of continue

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Speaker 5: down this path or if they understand that it's gonna

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Speaker 5: take some time.

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Speaker 3: I am I'm blanking on the name right now. The

490
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Speaker 3: Packers defensive coordinator, Jeff Hafley. Yeah, I've seen his name

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Speaker 3: out there as well. No thanks, yeah, no, thanks, as

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Speaker 3: you don't want to see him wind up in the.

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Speaker 5: North, correct, Yeah, he can go be like with the

494
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Speaker 5: Cardinals or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fascinating because it always feels like I feel

496
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Speaker 3: like in the coaching search, when when the first chip falls,

497
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Speaker 3: everything starts to line up. Who is it?

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Speaker 4: Is?

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Speaker 3: A Harball that's been reported that the Giants are pursuing

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Speaker 3: pretty heavily right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's turning into college football today. There are flight.

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Speaker 3: Trackers following my favorite.

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Speaker 5: The Giants private plane flew to Baltimore today and it's

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Speaker 5: back in New York or New Jersey or however you

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Speaker 5: want to say it. So seems like Harball is going

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Speaker 5: to New York. They'll get the first crack. There seems

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Speaker 5: to be mutual interest in the Falcons and Titans as well.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that Harball has interest in any of

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Speaker 5: the other jobs. You know, a job we just don't

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Speaker 5: talk about.

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Speaker 3: The Raiders.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got the number one in the draft. Nobody

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Speaker 5: is talking about that job. And I don't know if

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Speaker 5: that's because they have become unfortunately largely irrelevant, or if

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Speaker 5: there's just no smoke there, or Tom Brady has gotten

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Speaker 5: people to button the organization up a little bit to

517
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Speaker 5: where we're not hearing any leaks I'm not sure, but

518
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Speaker 5: that feels like a job that should be talked about more.

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Speaker 5: With the number one overall pick.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to know Graziano's prediction for the Raiders?

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Speaker 3: Who's he got? Robert Sala?

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Speaker 5: Oh okay?

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Speaker 3: Interesting? He puts out also Vance Joseph Matt Naggy, Clint Kubiak,

524
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Speaker 3: Mike Lafleur, Kevin Stefanski as other names that could be linked.

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Speaker 3: And again you're you're essentially walking into Fernando Mendoz as

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Speaker 3: your quarterback.

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Speaker 5: I would want the best offensive mind I could get

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Speaker 5: because I think from Nando Mendoz is a really smart

529
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 5: guy yep, and can learn any type of offense. Now,

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Speaker 5: is he going to be able to produce at this level?

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Speaker 5: Who knows the speed? And different set of question for everybody,

532
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 5: for sure, every quarterback has to deal with that. But

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Speaker 5: if you pair a really smart head coach with a

534
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Speaker 5: really smart quarterback, I feel like that's half the problem

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Speaker 5: right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll break, we'll come back, we'll open up the

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Speaker 3: phone lines. We'll tie this into a Zach Taylor topic

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Speaker 3: coming up as well. Plenty more still ahead back since

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Speaker 3: he three to sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: The Myth on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back since he three to sixty ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati Sports Station, thanks to Skyline Chilly. We'll get to

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Speaker 3: your phone calls in just a few moments. One other

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Speaker 3: follow up, because I think the the idea around Zach

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Speaker 3: Taylor is an interesting one because there is a there

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Speaker 3: is an angle to it that has been spun as

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Speaker 3: a good right and you've mentioned the word a lot

548
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Speaker 3: Austin continuity. Right, continuity around a team that is going

549
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Speaker 3: into a division next year where there will be three

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Speaker 3: new head coaches, and yet at the very core of it,

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Speaker 3: you have continuity in Cincinnati, Zach Taylor, Duke Tobin, the staff,

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Speaker 3: your core group of players. That is reassuring to some

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Speaker 3: because you're not going through what to some could be

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Speaker 3: a very scary process of the unknown of a new

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Speaker 3: head coach or a search that causes and brings an

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Speaker 3: uneasiness about it at times. So to those in the

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Speaker 3: Zach Taylor dynamic, it's good because you have continuity. There

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Speaker 3: is the view of it that you could say, well,

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Speaker 3: that's pretty rough. John Harball has won a super Bowl,

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Speaker 3: He's won six AFC North Division titles. He's been the

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Speaker 3: number one seed twice, He's been to the AFC title

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Speaker 3: game four times. He's gone Mike Tomlin hasn't had a

563
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Speaker 3: losing year in nineteen years. Kevin Stefanski's a two time

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Speaker 3: Coach of the Year. That the optics aren't good because

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00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor hasn't done any of that. He's made it

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Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl, he's won the AFC, he's got

567
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 3: a couple AFC know but the optics around sticking with

568
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 3: that coach could be bad to some. And there's a

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Speaker 3: perception that accompanies that that here go the Bengals after

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00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 3: a six win season're just running it back and doing

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00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 3: the same thing. Duke Tobin's press conference, I think, while appreciated,

572
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Speaker 3: didn't necessarily ring the alarms that there's going to be

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Speaker 3: a lot of changes. The scouting staff will remain the same,

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Speaker 3: The assistant tree outside of Dan Pitcher, if he gets

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Speaker 3: a job, will stay the same. The head coach, Duke

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Speaker 3: Tobin is going to be there, so to me, Austin,

577
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 3: it's not a bad now. But if you get to

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Speaker 3: the end of next year and we're not talking about

579
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Speaker 3: the Bengals winning the AFC North. Then you go back

580
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: to this offseason cycle and then you can argue that

581
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 3: it gets ugly. Right, you have the advice you should

582
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: have the advantage with Zach Taylor coming back and playing

583
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Speaker 3: three teams in the AFC North that have new staffs

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00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 3: that they're putting together. So to me, I view this,

585
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 3: and everyone's got their own opinion on it. I view

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00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 3: this with Zach Taylor as the excuses are gone, the

587
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 3: seat is hot. It should be uncomfortable for Zach Taylor

588
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 3: and the Cincinnati Bengals going forward. There's some good to it,

589
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 3: there's some bad to it. But if we're having the

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Speaker 3: same conversation around this time next year, then there's an

591
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 3: ugliness to it. And that's the roll of the dice

592
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: that the Bengals are making right now again, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh.

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00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: That's six games next year against teams that will be

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Speaker 3: entering in your division with a new coach. The Tennessee Titans,

595
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Falcons, and Miami Dolphins are on your schedule.

596
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 3: They'll all have a new coach. You should have an

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00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: advantage theoretically with Zach Taylor back and the keyword and

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Speaker 3: Austin You've referenced this the continuity across this organization.

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Speaker 5: I've referenced that. I think it's a crutch, an excuse,

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00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 5: and I don't like it. Yes, just to be clear,

601
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 5: it is something that now is going to be even

602
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 5: more of a talking point because of those other teams.

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00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 5: I'd have to go back and look, but I don't

604
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Speaker 5: feel like his record against first year head coaches is

605
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 5: all that great. I would I'll have to go back

606
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Speaker 5: and look at that and see if I can find it.

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00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 5: But you're right, it's already been used as a crutch.

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Speaker 5: It's already been used as an excuse. It's already been

609
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 5: one of the buzzwords of this offseason. And again, I

610
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 5: think it sets up for if they fail, he's going

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Speaker 5: to be gone. I don't think we'll be having these

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Speaker 5: conversations next year if they missed the playoffs again. I

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Speaker 5: think we'll be talking about, Okay, well, should the Bengals

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Speaker 5: trade for Mike Tomlin. That's gonna be the conversation that

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Speaker 5: we're having a year from now if the Bengals missed

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Speaker 5: the playoffs again. So yeah, I mean I get where

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00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 5: people are coming from it, and a lot of people

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Speaker 5: are dunking on the Bengals after Tomlin and Harball and

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Speaker 5: Stefanski are gone and Zach is the only one left.

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Speaker 5: And I get it, But anyone who knows this organization

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Speaker 5: shouldn't be surprised. And I truthfully look around at this

622
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Speaker 5: group of candidates and I don't feel like that any

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Speaker 5: of them would would get me all that excited to

624
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Speaker 5: come in here and totally not flip Joe Burrow and

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Speaker 5: the Bengals offense on its head.

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Speaker 3: That's the dynamic that I don't think people are talking

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Speaker 3: about as much. Maybe there's just not as many of

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Speaker 3: the top tier names out there this year, and you

629
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Speaker 3: know what next year is going to bring as well,

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Speaker 3: And there's always wild cards. Marcus Freeman was a candidate

631
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Speaker 3: that a lot of people talked about for different jobs

632
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 3: for a while, someone through the Kurt Signetti name out

633
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: there with the Las Vegas Raiders. So there are always

634
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 3: going to be new and unique names that enter into

635
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 3: the fray, and they are going to be teams that

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00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: move on from coaches that become a surprise, just like

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00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 3: this year. But if you look at the overall talent

638
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 3: pool of coaches that are out there, you look at

639
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 3: the roster you have in place, you look at what

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00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 3: needs to be done. The Bengals, as Austin has mentioned

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Speaker 3: in Austin, I know you used the cruct The Bengals

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00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 3: are banking on continuity. Yep, they're going to tie themselves

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Speaker 3: to that in either next year you celebrate the continuity

644
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 3: and said, man, it worked. It worked because this team

645
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 3: got back to where they needed to go, or they're

646
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 3: going to be crushed for it.

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Speaker 5: Last year they blamed getting unlucky and the coaching of

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Speaker 5: lou Anarumo. The year before that, they blame the Joe

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00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 5: Burrow injury. They were still right there at the end

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00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty three. There aren't excuses anymore, and now

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00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 5: they're trying to turn it around. It and Duke has

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Speaker 5: said it, and Zach has said it about missing Burrow

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Speaker 5: and Hendrickson for most of the season, and that is

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Speaker 5: I think a legitimate excuse, but not going to be

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Speaker 5: an excuse next year.

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Speaker 3: The ramifications if you don't make it to the playoffs

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Speaker 3: next year, another year of now wondering what Joe Burrow's

658
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Speaker 3: psyche is like. We already saw that this year, and

659
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Speaker 3: how many folks will say, man, Cincinnati had the opportunity

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Speaker 3: to reset after the twenty twenty five season, and they

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Speaker 3: wasted that opportunity and another year of Joe Burrow. That

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Speaker 3: will be the talking point. Yeah, if you miss the

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Speaker 3: playoffs next year, and they'll get crushed for not making

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Speaker 3: a coaching change, and.

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Speaker 5: Zach will get fired, and you know especially they will

666
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Speaker 5: especially get crushed if somebody comes into Cleveland or Baltimore

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Speaker 5: or Zachsberg and turns it around right away. But will

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Speaker 5: also be talking about how maybe the Bengals are the

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Speaker 5: bell of the ball. Yeah, everybody wants to come to

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Speaker 5: Cincinnati to be the new head coach.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be fan. It's gonna be fascinating

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Speaker 3: to watch as this unfolds. Of course, a big part

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Speaker 3: of that is going to be NFL free agency. We'll

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Speaker 3: dive into that topic later on today, we'll look at

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Speaker 3: the rookie class rankings, we'll talk some Major League Baseball

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Speaker 3: one o'clock, we're going to talk to Paul fritzch and

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Speaker 3: we have your talkbacks right after that, and we'll get

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Speaker 3: caught up on phone calls. Next finish up our number

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Speaker 3: one on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Hey, Alexa.

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Speaker 3: What's going on in baseball Meating?

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Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty from iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, cinty three to sixty thanks to Skyline Chili.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening on the Home of the Bengals,

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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. We got a couple

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Speaker 3: of phone calls we will try to get in the

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Speaker 3: year before we get to the top of the hour.

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Speaker 3: Let's start in Fort Thomas. What's up, Brian?

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Speaker 12: Okay, Hey, hey, Austin, just out here using my turn things. Yeah,

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Speaker 12: the curzy wave is my personal pet peeve. I cannot

691
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Speaker 12: stand we let people over or let someone do something

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Speaker 12: and not get.

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Speaker 10: The courtesy wave.

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Speaker 3: I like that, good one, Brian.

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Speaker 12: So my call is actually I have actually two comments

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Speaker 12: or one about the Bengals. I just think it's just

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Speaker 12: a put up or shut up year, Like as a

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00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 12: fan base will give them pass, we'll support them, but

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Speaker 12: they better get done next year or else it's just

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Speaker 12: gonna really be hard to continue supporting and following his team.

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Speaker 12: And then regarding the Bearcats and the bag thing, who like,

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Speaker 12: if you if you're so upset that you want to

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Speaker 12: wear a bag to a game, why are you going

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Speaker 12: to the game and wasting your time and money to

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Speaker 12: do that. You could just punch yourself in the face

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Speaker 12: and be just the same. Why would you do that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 12: As an adult, I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I thank you for the call, Brian. I

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Speaker 3: think that the bag stuff students are gonna do what

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Speaker 3: students do. I again, we we we addressed the bag

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Speaker 3: thing at the at the front at the top of

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Speaker 3: the show. I do think Austin and as Brian mentioned,

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Speaker 3: the amount of pressure that will be on the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty sixth season for the Bengals will be immense, and

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people view it as Brian does.

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Speaker 3: This is kind of the put up or shut up

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Speaker 3: time for this organization and the the super Bowl window

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Speaker 3: which we often refer to. Mike, what's going on.

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Speaker 11: I'm sorry, I had the blow on my nose.

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Speaker 4: It was critical, no worries.

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Speaker 11: Why the guy. I know you and Moe are really

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Speaker 11: high on Houston college basketball. I got five teams better

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Speaker 11: than Houston that could beat Houston. I think I think

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Speaker 11: you're a little overrated myself. I think they're a little

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Speaker 11: as they played Grade D, but they're a little slow

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Speaker 11: and uh, I'm won't bother you with the five teams

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Speaker 11: that I think are better. I'll text you, but I'm

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Speaker 11: not I'm not as big on Houston as you guys are.

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Speaker 11: Now to the Bengals, you know, if we don't have

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Speaker 11: Burrow and Chase, we are the Arizona Cardinals at the

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Speaker 11: Tennessee Titans. Well we're not much without those two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And.

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Speaker 11: So they better be real careful on this Burrow because

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Speaker 11: you know, I know, I never heard him say I'll

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Speaker 11: be a Bengal for life. I never heard him say

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Speaker 11: anything like that. So you know, if they don't do

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Speaker 11: something next year, don't be surprised. If he goes I

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Speaker 11: want out of here, I wouldn't surprise me a bit.

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Speaker 11: And Mike Brown, I'm sorry, Mike Brown's got to get

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Speaker 11: over this sentimentality crap. He adopts the employees like they're

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Speaker 11: his family. That's not good, that's stupid. It takes away

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Speaker 11: all objectivity. And I'm not buying. We want to win,

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Speaker 11: of course you want to win, but you're not what

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Speaker 11: you have to do to win, like where you're going

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Speaker 11: to hurt somebody's feelings, you're a little upset, or you're

747
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Speaker 11: going to have to pay a little more money if

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Speaker 11: you cut Zack out and you got to give it

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Speaker 11: a different coach. But this is what the problem is.

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Speaker 11: This is the problem. It's the essence of the problem.

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Speaker 3: It feels like they are he said, it feels like

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Speaker 3: this is the tip, like the point of the iceberg.

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Speaker 3: Right now. That's going to kind of set in motion

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Speaker 3: the future of this organization because if we're back next

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Speaker 3: year and the playoffs have started and we're talking about

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Speaker 3: the Bengals not getting ready for a game but in

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Speaker 3: their off season mode, then that's another year of Joe

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Speaker 3: Burrow in all likelihood being upset. It's another season of

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Speaker 3: wasted talent at the quarterback position. And if that's the case,

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Speaker 3: based on what we heard this year, those conversations will

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Speaker 3: be louder and more real than ever if it gets

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Speaker 3: to that point next year, because they rolled the dice

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Speaker 3: this year, that's going to have to be something that

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Speaker 3: they answer to.

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Speaker 11: But if you think that they will, this is what

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Speaker 11: I'm afraid of. I don't know if they'll just disregard

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Speaker 11: public cinema. I mean, the only way you could really

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Speaker 11: make an impact is a quick going to the games.

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Speaker 11: I guess I don't know any other way you can

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Speaker 11: get through to this guy in his family. I'm sure

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Speaker 11: they're nice people and blah blah blah. Doesn't matter. This

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Speaker 11: is they're trying to put together winning teams and they

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Speaker 11: just keep scrolling it up. Now, how do you think

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Speaker 11: they're going to do in the draft this year? Do

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Speaker 11: you think it's going to I'm not trying to be negative.

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Speaker 11: Do you think there'll be a marked improvement or not?

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Speaker 3: I to me, it's you have to watch and see

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Speaker 3: because the scouting departments not changing, the decision makers aren't changing.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if their evaluation changes, if what they

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Speaker 3: value changes, but the optics are that they've done nothing

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Speaker 3: from an organization standpoint to change how they address the draft.

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Speaker 3: So you hope that they fix the draft? Do you

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Speaker 3: hope that they draft better? But everyone at this point

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Speaker 3: kind of just on that wait and see mentality.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Tony's right. I will say this. I think their

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Speaker 5: odds of doing better are much better, mainly because they're

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Speaker 5: picking in the top ten of every round because of

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Speaker 5: how bad they were, So just for that alone, you

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Speaker 5: would expect better players to be available.

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Speaker 11: Now do you think they should? And I know you

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Speaker 11: got to go. But this is my last question, if

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Speaker 11: you don't mind, do you think they should go keep

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Speaker 11: being so insistent on these perfect character people that have

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Speaker 11: never had a bad experience or done something wrong in

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Speaker 11: their life.

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Speaker 13: I know, I think it.

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Speaker 5: I think they should get back to that because when

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Speaker 5: they started to stray away from it, they failed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The only thing I'm interested in can the can the

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Speaker 3: player produce? And did the player produce in college?

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Speaker 11: Yeah? Because the Eagles have drafted some questionable people and

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Speaker 11: they turned out to be all pros and whatever. So

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Speaker 11: maybe it's a blocked maybe it's superlocker, or maybe it's

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Speaker 11: just going to a winning organization. I don't know, but

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Speaker 11: that that's always bothered me because I mean, you don't

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Speaker 11: want to bring some guy in that's got domestic violence

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Speaker 11: and stuff, but diesel piece, have you got a traffic ticket?

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Speaker 11: Or you know, I'm just worried about being two picky

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Speaker 11: too too picky? Sure, thanks guy.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Mike.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, it's more about can can the player produce?

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Speaker 3: And did they produce in college? And not about the

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Speaker 3: measurables or the combined numbers.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: One more here before we get the break. What's up?

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Speaker 3: John Good?

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Speaker 13: Afternoon, Tony and Austin. How are you guys?

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Speaker 14: Good?

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Speaker 3: How are you We're hanging in there.

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Speaker 13: I think that Zach Taylor, being the lone survivor in

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Speaker 13: the AFC North, has a disadvantage, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 13: because we've seen what first year head coaches have done

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Speaker 13: this year. Right Ben Johnson double the win total in Chicago.

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Speaker 13: Liam Neeson went from four wins to thirteen wins in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 13: I know Mike Drebel coach for five years in Tennessee,

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Speaker 13: but his first year with the Patriots, he got them

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Speaker 13: at fourteen and three, and now they're playing in the

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Speaker 13: divisional rounds. So first year head coaches can come in

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Speaker 13: because they're kind of like mystery men. We don't know

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Speaker 13: what they're going to assemble as a coaching staff and

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Speaker 13: what exactly they're.

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Speaker 11: Going to do.

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Speaker 13: Sure, and you're playing the Bengals and the AFC North,

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Speaker 13: you know exactly what the Bengals are going to do.

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Speaker 13: It's been the same offense for seven years, and now

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Speaker 13: you're defensive coordinator for the second straight year. So I

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Speaker 13: think that could be certainly a disadvantage going forward.

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Speaker 11: I just wanted to.

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Speaker 13: Abloviate a little bit about John Harbaugh. I hadn't realized

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Speaker 13: that Vince Lombardi and Paul Brown's grandson had become available on.

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Speaker 4: The coaching.

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Speaker 13: Territory. But look, in the last thirteen years, despite loaded rosters,

844
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Speaker 13: the Ravens was a one AFC championship game the Bengals

845
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Speaker 13: went to two. Twelve times in the last five years,

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Speaker 13: he's lost double digit leads as late as the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 13: including this year against the Patriots when they were up

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Speaker 13: eleven late in the game and they never ran Derrick

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Speaker 13: Henry again and they ended up losing AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 13: Two years ago, he decided not to run the ball

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Speaker 13: because they wanted to show that Lamar Jackson was a

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Speaker 13: pocket passer. Well, he took away one of his great strikes.

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Speaker 13: And also the final game this year, guys, the potential

854
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 13: game winning field goal went up with thirteen seconds left

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Speaker 13: on the clock in a timeouts the one his pocket.

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Speaker 13: So I'm not sure why everyone's all excited about John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 13: I think he's probably missed his prime a little bit.

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Speaker 13: And I just had one other question, fellas, are the

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Speaker 13: Bearcat basketball players part taking in happy hour?

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Speaker 7: Is that an issue?

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Speaker 3: Good question?

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Speaker 13: I mean that could be slow starts right.

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Speaker 5: It might explain the free throws not going in.

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Speaker 3: It might be it.

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Speaker 5: John makes a good point too about and John, thanks

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Speaker 5: for the call.

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Speaker 11: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: John makes a good point about John Harball. Like he

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Speaker 5: has a two time MVP quarterback, usually a really good defense,

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Speaker 5: he's got less to show for it over the last

871
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Speaker 5: eight years than Zach Taylor does. Sure, and Lamar, you

872
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 5: could make the argument should have been the MVP a

873
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 5: year ago, and he's got less to show for it.

874
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 5: So it brings up a good point. I think maybe

875
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 5: it is one of those situations where it was just

876
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 5: time to go and time to move on. And clearly

877
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 5: Bescatti and he were maybe going in different directions about

878
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 5: how they see the franchise. I think the big issue

879
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 5: with Harball over recent years has been his inability to

880
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 5: hire coordinators.

881
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's heard it.

882
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 3: I saw that as well. Like we talked about coaching

883
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 3: trees often, where's the last major successful Mike Tomlin coaching tree?

884
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 6: Member.

885
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 3: Sure, they're just not many of them. It's crazy in

886
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 3: that sense, and I know they're both highly regarded, but

887
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 3: we got to get to a break. Paul Fritchner will

888
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 3: join us when we get back, we'll talk some college hoops,

889
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 3: talk some Xavier Musketeers, lit Miami RedHawks as well. Next

890
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 3: on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, Welcome back. It

891
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 3: is our number two on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

892
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: We've got plenty still to go. This afternoon, we are,

893
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 3: believe it or not, with reds Fest coming up on

894
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 3: Friday and Saturday, we're gonna spend some time on a

895
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 3: projected Red starting lineup. This afternoon, we're gonna look at

896
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 3: the NL Central and what the offseason has brought for

897
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 3: all five teams in the NL Central. I think teams

898
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 3: you could argue all kind of going in different directions

899
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 3: right now as it relates to the upcoming baseball season.

900
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 3: And of course plenty more on the Bengals NFL free agency.

901
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 3: There is a twenty twenty five rookie class ranking out

902
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 3: there from ESPN dot com in which they talk about

903
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 3: the rookie classes of all thirty two NFL teams, and

904
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 3: we'll keep you up to date on where the Cincinnati

905
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 3: Bengals falling that as they head to an extremely extremely

906
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 3: important twenty twenty six NFL Draft, And of course, in

907
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 3: just a moment here we'll talk to Paul Fritzner, who

908
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 3: you can find covering local Cincinnati collegiate basketball every day

909
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 3: on the Rebound Rundown. So we'll get with Paul ideally

910
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 3: here in just a few moments. We will talk about

911
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 3: some upcoming games tonight locally, a big one at Fifth

912
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 3: Third Arena, a big one at the Sinas Center. Xavier

913
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 3: is in action tonight. They host the Butler Bulldogs. Butler

914
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 3: comes in with one Big East win on the season. Xavier,

915
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: of course, has two after their most recent win against

916
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 3: Providence at home. Xavier is a slight underdog in the

917
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 3: game tonight. Cincinnati, somehow, some way, is now up to

918
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 3: eight and a half. I don't get it, and we're

919
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 3: not going to talk as much when we get to

920
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 3: Paul about the Bearcats as we are about Xavier. But

921
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 3: I don't understand a team in Colorado who's going to

922
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 3: come into this game tonight with twelve wins on the

923
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 3: season in the Big Twelve play alone. They have a

924
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 3: win at Arizona State where they put up ninety five points.

925
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 3: They have a home win against Utah where they won

926
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 3: by twelve, and in their most recent game, they took

927
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 3: on the fourteenth ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders, and they

928
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 3: lost seventy to seventy one. Yet, somehow, some way, they

929
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 3: come into fifth third Arena tonight against the Cincinnati bearcatch

930
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 3: or owen three in the Big twelve eight and eight

931
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 3: overall the line opened. I believe for you see Colorado

932
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 3: at six and a half. It is now since climbed

933
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 3: to eight and a half. I don't know where it

934
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 3: comes from. I don't know how it has come about,

935
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 3: but some way people believe that Cincinnati is going to

936
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 3: get it done tonight. I would ask what has shown

937
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 3: you that they will. I know they're going to compete.

938
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 3: At least I hope they're going to compete, because I've

939
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 3: seen that from this team more often than not this year.

940
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: And one ward you argue, if they were to compete

941
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,919
Speaker 3: at the way they have for the last three games,

942
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 3: then they probably would have entered Big twelve. Play a

943
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 3: little bit better in the non conference, and oh and

944
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 3: three is oh and three anyway you slice, But at

945
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 3: least at the Big twelve level, if you handled your

946
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 3: business in the non conference against Eastern Michigan, against Xavier,

947
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 3: against maybe Georgia or Clemson, you would be in a

948
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:17,240
Speaker 3: situation where it doesn't feel like your season is already

949
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 3: spiraling out of control. It wouldn't be in a situation

950
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 3: where there are fans that are talking about showing up

951
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 3: in paper bags to watch the team play. And it

952
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 3: certainly wouldn't reach the levels of I think despair and

953
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 3: anxiety and stress that you see coming from West Miller

954
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 3: on a game in, game out basis. And if you're

955
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bearcats, let's call it what it is. It's

956
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 3: a must win. It's as much of a must win

957
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 3: as you will have in a college basketball season.

958
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 5: You think the line is inspired by the you know,

959
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 5: the motivation of the paper bags, maybe since it apparently

960
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 5: means so much for the players.

961
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 3: Now, we often resort back in days like this to

962
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 3: the great Dan Horde whenever a line just doesn't make

963
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 3: sense and has you questioning everything you think you know

964
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 3: or don't know about sports gambling. Normally someone knows something

965
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 3: that you don't it's true, And my gosh, I hope

966
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 3: that's the case today.

967
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 5: It would be very funny.

968
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 3: It doesn't get any easier. Saturday, they're going to welcome

969
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 3: in the number two ranked team in the country. Now, Saturday,

970
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 3: they will be ranked number two next week. They won't

971
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 3: because they did just suffer their first loss last night

972
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 3: on the road against Kansas The issue. Without Austin, I

973
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 3: would have almost rathered Iowa State come in undefeated because

974
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 3: now they get the first loss out of the way,

975
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 3: they get back to work, and the next game they

976
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 3: play is going to be on the road again. Cincinnati

977
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 3: now coming off a loss for the Bearcats. After Iowa

978
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 3: State comes into town on Saturday, they will head to

979
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 3: Arizona and take on the unanimous number one one team

980
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 3: in the country next Wednesday, a week from today at

981
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 3: nine o'clock. From there, a short trip to Arizona State Baylor,

982
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 3: number seven ranked Houston West Virginia, who already beat him, UCF,

983
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 3: who already beat him at Kansas State Utah, they take

984
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 3: on the Jayhawks. In Kansas, they take on Texas Tech

985
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 3: BYU comes to fifth third Arena. Oklahoma State's a good team.

986
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 3: It has to happen because if not. The one thing

987
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 3: that I will say about the Cincinnati Bearcats up to

988
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 3: this point is they have continuously shown the ability to

989
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 3: play hard. Eventually that's going to fall off if you

990
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 3: keep losing basketball games. There's a lot of games left.

991
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 3: That's going to fall off if you continue to lose games.

992
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 3: So hopefully Vegas knows something. Hopefully that is on display

993
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 3: tonight and tomorrow we're playing west Miller's postgame comments after

994
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 3: a win and talking about this team's opportunity with a

995
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 3: top five team coming to fifth third Areen on Saturday.

996
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 5: A bit of an update on our friend Paul. Apparently

997
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 5: there's a widespread Verizon wireless outage. Oh no, right now,

998
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 5: and Paul is being impacted by that. God's He's connected

999
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 5: to a Starbucks Wi Fi right now, so he's able

1000
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 5: to text. Poor guy is Apparently it's across the country

1001
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 5: right now where a bunch of phones are getting sos

1002
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 5: and not able to receive calls or make calls.

1003
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 4: Dang.

1004
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:46,399
Speaker 5: So we're going to try to talk to Paul at too. Okay,

1005
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 5: we're going to reconvene. Hope that an hour from now

1006
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 5: it will be a fixed.

1007
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 3: We'll reconvene the tall fault.

1008
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 5: No, it's just a bad timing.

1009
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 3: We'll talk to Miami RedHawks, We'll talk some Savior Musketeers.

1010
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 5: What do you make this was one of my questions

1011
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 5: for Paul. What do you make of the folks saying

1012
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 5: that they're eighty eighth and Ken pomp so they're not

1013
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 5: actually good talking about the RedHawks.

1014
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you know Scott Van Pelt said last night,

1015
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 3: it's not their fault that they couldn't get anyone else

1016
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,280
Speaker 3: to play. They've handled their schedule and they've gone eighteen

1017
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 3: games without a blemish on the schedule. And I don't

1018
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 3: care who you're playing against. That's hard to deal.

1019
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 5: I don't know if you you heard the segment with

1020
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 5: Scott Van Pelt last night, but I think it was

1021
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 5: revealed that he's a listener to since he three to sixty.

1022
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:39,240
Speaker 5: Oh really, yeah, take a listen to uh sdv Pelt

1023
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 5: and Stanford Steve last night on sports since.

1024
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 15: Speak Ohio seventeen and oh apparently not good enough for

1025
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 15: spontani eight people.

1026
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 4: What are we doing?

1027
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 3: No one will.

1028
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 15: Play Coach Steels teams. You know why because they don't

1029
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 15: want to get beat the first team to be seventeen

1030
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 15: and oh since Alkhorn stayed in the late seventies to

1031
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 15: not be ragged.

1032
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 3: It goes through the highlights.

1033
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 4: Just sick.

1034
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 15: At Maryland swim team were absolutely lunatic maniacs.

1035
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,399
Speaker 3: I'm sure at Stafford is a little different. Your level

1036
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 3: of swimming a little higher. There, They're good.

1037
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 15: Shout out to Sanaki. One hundred to sixty one is

1038
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 15: your final Steve, you're the official.

1039
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,720
Speaker 13: Rank them first, Yeah, rank them?

1040
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 16: Look at rank them?

1041
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 4: Come on, what are we doing?

1042
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 17: Man?

1043
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 6: Rank them?

1044
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 3: How hard is this?

1045
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 6: They the lost the game?

1046
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 15: Nobody will play them. Were you scared of, Steve?

1047
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 3: It is clear that they are listeners to Cincy three

1048
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 3: to sixty.

1049
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 5: Great for Miami to get some national pub like that,

1050
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 5: and great for us to know that SVP is a

1051
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 5: fan of the show.

1052
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 3: Rank them. We'll dive into this with Paul at two.

1053
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 3: But you mentioned the Ken Palm. They are forty fourth

1054
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 3: in the net. You want to talk about efficiency. Effective

1055
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 3: field goal percentage fourth nationally, three point percentage thirteenth nationally,

1056
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 3: two point percentage eleventh, free throw percentage third nationally. It

1057
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 3: is legitimately statistically one of the best offenses in the country.

1058
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 3: We'll talk about Miami, we'll talk about Xavier at ideally

1059
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 3: two o'clock with Paul Fritzner.

1060
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 5: How much does stuff like this scare you? Because I

1061
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 5: know you're a bit of a conspiracy theory guy, you know,

1062
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 5: worried about the end of the world type of thing.

1063
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1064
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 5: Does it freak you out like that all of a

1065
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 5: sudden our phone can just and all communications?

1066
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look what it's torn to us right now?

1067
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 3: How can the show go on?

1068
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 5: We did just get a tweet from Paul. Oh, so

1069
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 5: at least that's working, okay, where he said, sorry, big

1070
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 5: Verizon doesn't want us to hear the.

1071
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh goodness, you know I'm not an Horizon customer.

1072
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 5: Now we are able to, I guess receive a phone call.

1073
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 5: Oh from someone who's maybe not a Verizon customer. All right,

1074
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 5: now I will say this, it's not everybody because I'm

1075
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 5: on Verizon. Oh, and I have Do you think this?

1076
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 5: This could be the government trying to shut Paul down?

1077
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 5: I have three bars.

1078
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1079
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 3: Maybe Paul knows too much. Maybe the voice is getting

1080
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 3: too loud.

1081
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 5: Do you want to try to take a phone call?

1082
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 7: Sure?

1083
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 5: Okay, let's go to Jeff in New Richmond.

1084
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 7: Hello Jeff, Hey, guys, how are you wonderful?

1085
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 11: Hey?

1086
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,439
Speaker 18: So you guys were talking about the whole paper bag

1087
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 18: thing tonight and that was shut down early this morning.

1088
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Speaker 7: You see, came out with a press.

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Speaker 18: Release and said that nobody would be admitted with paper bags.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy.

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Speaker 18: So so they came out and released that early this morning.

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00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,439
Speaker 18: It was on seven hundred Wow's News, like at seven

1093
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 18: point thirty this morning is when I heard that.

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00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 7: But yeah, so even if people.

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00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 18: Wanted to come and do that, they couldn't do it anyway,

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00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 18: So you know, I just I was gonna try to

1097
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 18: chime that in a little bit earlier. I called and

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00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 18: couldn't get through. But but yeah, so that's what's going

1099
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 18: on with that. But yeah, as far as the Tomlin thing, yeah,

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00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 18: I'm glad he's gone.

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00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 7: I agree with you guys.

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00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 18: The pressure on Zach now there there is no safety

1103
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 18: net now, so you know he pretty much that was

1104
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 18: eliminated when they got rid of the other three coaches,

1105
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 18: so you know, he should feel like he's coaching for

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00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 18: his life next year.

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00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 7: What would be really.

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00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 18: Interesting is if they don't make the playoffs and they

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00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 18: retain him that last year because he's under contract, so

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00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 18: that that would be interesting sports talk radio for you

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00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 18: guys that had happened. So but anyway, just wanted to

1112
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 18: call in real quick let me know about the paperbag thing.

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00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 18: And like I said yesterday on my top back, I'd

1114
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 18: never do it. I agree with the former players. It's disrespectful,

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00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 18: but you know, I don't think honestly, at the end

1116
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 18: of the day, it's really not pointed at the players,

1117
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 18: the current ones, or the coach. Even at this point,

1118
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 18: I think it's directed more at the administration and the

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00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 18: athletic you know, director.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, Jeff, I appreciate the phone call man.

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00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, no problem, you guys have a great afternoon.

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00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,919
Speaker 5: All right, thank you. Now let's say no, I can't

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00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 5: find a press release.

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00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 3: I just see.

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00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 5: I don't know if you have one in your inbox,

1126
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 5: But would it say that that they can't. If you

1127
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 5: do have one, you'll be thrown out because how are

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00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 5: you gonna like? People can get paper bags in if

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00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 5: they want to.

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00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 3: That's my thing.

1131
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 5: It's not hard. I'm not saying people should. I'm just saying,

1132
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 5: like if I was, if I was in there trying

1133
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 5: to figure out how to stop this.

1134
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 3: I almost dislike that more than anything else.

1135
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, because now you're you're because.

1136
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 3: Now you're opening the door for for people to like, hey,

1137
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 3: we heard this and we're gonna try to shut it down.

1138
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 3: And you know, if anyone that has kids or any

1139
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 3: different scenario, A lot of times if you say don't

1140
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 3: do something, it opens the door for them to want

1141
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 3: to do it more. And if you're like to me

1142
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 3: as a university, I just wouldn't have addressed it, you

1143
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Yeah, I get that, like addressing

1144
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 3: it and saying it. And again, I don't know where

1145
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 3: that's at. If they might have mentioned it on Wow

1146
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 3: today don't I don't know. But if that's out there,

1147
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 3: then then that to me is, Hey, we're acknowledging that

1148
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 3: we're hearing this and we're going to shut it down,

1149
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 3: which I think incites more people to want to do it. Sure,

1150
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 3: that's what I would stay away from. That is where

1151
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 3: I would stay away from.

1152
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 5: I'm looking at a outage map across the United States. Sure,

1153
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 5: well Over, Well, I wouldn't say well Over, but probably

1154
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 5: close to forty percent of the country does not have

1155
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 5: their VERIZA.

1156
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,479
Speaker 3: This tells me that Paul knows too much.

1157
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul is being targeted by the government.

1158
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 3: And we were gonna talk with Paul about Xavier and Miami.

1159
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 3: This makes me feel bigger conspiracy around why Miami's not ranked.

1160
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 5: Does this maybe mean that Cincinnati put the hit out

1161
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 5: on ball Wow because they don't want the other teams

1162
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 5: getting some pub Now, see, now we're digging. They want

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01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 5: us to keep talking about paperbacks.

1164
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 3: We just do it. I mean, we could do like

1165
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 3: ten more minutes on conspiracies.

1166
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 5: Don't get that's the that's an off season topic for sure.

1167
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 3: Well we're in the off season.

1168
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think off season starts until the Monday

1169
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 5: after the Super Bowl. Okay, personally cynically though, I know

1170
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 5: that's not correct.

1171
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 3: Since we're gonna have or hopefully have Paul at two o'clock.

1172
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Speaker 3: Let me spend just a minute or so here. On

1173
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Speaker 3: ESPN dot com, they ranked the rookie classes from twenty

1174
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 3: twenty five. Aaron Shatz ESPN dot Com ranked the rookie classes.

1175
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 3: So what he did He started with what's known as

1176
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 3: Sports Info Solutions Total Points metric that is every element

1177
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 3: of a play and uses data to evaluate each player

1178
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 3: on a scale that compares between positions and other players.

1179
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 3: So this ties in that this is a lot of

1180
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 3: analytics that goes into this. Do you want to guess

1181
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 3: any team that's in the top three twenty twenty five

1182
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 3: draft the Cleveland Browns Cleveland's number two. Okay, the number

1183
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 3: one team is a team that found their quarterback.

1184
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 5: This year, found their quarterback this year.

1185
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 3: They drafted quarterback last year and they have now found

1186
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 3: their quarterback in the future. So that would be the Patriots. Saints. Oh,

1187
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 3: the Saints. Yeah, Saints are one. Giants are three. You

1188
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 3: think of Abdull, Carter Jackson, Dart, cam Skataboo and others.

1189
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 3: The Patriots are four, and I think that ties in

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01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 3: essentially to their success. And that's with Will Campbell, who's

1191
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 3: out and Jared Wilson is out.

1192
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 5: Are you fully convinced on the Giants young players not

1193
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 5: yet Dart and Scataboo. I mean we saw Skataboo for

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01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 5: half the season. Yeah, Dart missed a bunch of games

1195
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 5: for concussions. He played relatively well. I think you have

1196
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 5: a good young concussions already worry me for Dark. Yeah,

1197
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 5: they have a good young Titan in Threeo Johnson.

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01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 3: They did a lot of the year without Molakue Neighbors.

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01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 5: Right, you assume when he comes back the offense will

1200
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 5: look a lot different because just teams have to prepare

1201
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 5: for the threat of neighbors. I don't know that I'm

1202
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 5: one hundred percent convinced. Yeah, on those two Dart and Scataboo.

1203
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 5: At the moment.

1204
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, some other teams up there, Carolina five, Atlanta six,

1205
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 3: Chicago seven, Chargers eight, Ravens nine, and the Jets ten.

1206
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 3: For the Bengals, Aaron has them ranked at number twenty three.

1207
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 5: Where would they be without Dylan Fairchild?

1208
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 3: Listen to this. The top Bengals rookie was second round

1209
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 3: linebacker Demetrius Knight, oh Okay one hundred and six to

1210
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 3: come on tackles, three sacks, two interceptions. Barrett Carter got twelve.

1211
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 5: So they don't even have fair Child up there.

1212
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 3: Fairchild is listed as a third round guard who started

1213
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 3: fifteen games, but was below average in both past block

1214
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 3: and run block win rate.

1215
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 5: There are some ways in which it is very easy

1216
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 5: to tell who looks at the numbers.

1217
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 3: Correct, who looks at the tape correct. This would be

1218
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Speaker 3: one of this, listing top rookie as Demetrius Knight and

1219
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 3: almost shutting down Dylan Fairchild's season because of past block

1220
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 3: and run block win rates. To me call in more

1221
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 3: to question Aaron's point of view in this.

1222
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean both of those dudes have rookie moments,

1223
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 5: that's what rookies do. And Dylan Fairschild had a couple

1224
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 5: of times where his guy, yeah would bat a ball

1225
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 5: into the air and it would get intercepted and stuff

1226
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 5: like that, and other times where he got beat. It

1227
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 5: happens for every offensive lineman.

1228
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1229
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 5: I think Demetrius Knight through the first seven or eight

1230
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 5: games had no idea what he was doing. He was

1231
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 5: like that mister Crabs meme where he's like looking around

1232
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 5: and everything is like fuzzy around him. I think he

1233
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 5: settled down a little bit in the second half. I

1234
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 5: think he wasn't as I think he played more under control.

1235
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 5: I thought he was a better tackler. I don't know

1236
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 5: that he had the best rookie season of all the

1237
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 5: Bengals rookies. I don't think that's sure.

1238
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 3: What's interesting is the bottom four on this list. Pittsburgh

1239
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 3: twenty eight, Okay Twmhere twenty nine, Green Bay thirty Minnesota.

1240
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 3: Listen to these last two, Jacksonville thirty one. What do

1241
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 3: you make a Travis Hunter?

1242
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's tough to evaluate.

1243
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1244
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 3: Outside of that, the top Jaguars rookie was fourth round

1245
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 3: running back Michelle Touton.

1246
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was good. He had a good year, and.

1247
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 3: Then number thirty two the Rams. They were number one

1248
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,240
Speaker 3: on this list a year ago. Wow, but they didn't

1249
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 3: have a first round pick and their second round pick,

1250
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 3: Terrence Ferguson, missed a lot of games. So okay, take

1251
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 3: that for what it's worth. Maybe nothing, But that's what

1252
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 3: happens me when Verizon has an outage and we've got

1253
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 3: to make some chicken salad happen before we get the talkbacks,

1254
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:17,959
Speaker 3: which happened next on the ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1255
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 4: It's that time for talkbacks.

1256
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 17: Press the microphone and record your message for Austin in tone,

1257
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 17: Please keep it clean and don't be mean at a sprinkle, sprinkle,

1258
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 17: drip drip.

1259
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 4: It's that time for talkbacks.

1260
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 17: It's our favorite part of since three sixty.

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01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 19: So Austin, buddy, play those talkbacks on your screen and

1262
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 19: please try not to sabotage.

1263
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 3: All right, all right, here we go the Wednesday edition

1264
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 3: of your talkbacks on the Home of the Bengals, ESPN

1265
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:56,600
Speaker 3: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 19: Hey f ours is BigGAN, and I'm listening to these

1267
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 19: clouds on the radio talking about how teams are potentially

1268
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 19: toning up a first round draft pick for Matt Lafleur,

1269
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 19: and I got to thinking dead gum with Duke Tobin.

1270
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 20: I mean he's apparently the trade master. He's wheeling and

1271
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 20: dealing before the trade deadline. Let's make it happen, dude,

1272
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 20: Zach Taylor's got a Lamar Hunt Trophy, almost won the

1273
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 20: Super Bowl. I bet we could get two first rounds

1274
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 20: for him, maybe even three with Duke Tobin finessing it.

1275
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 20: Call the Steelers, call the Ravens, call the Browns, make

1276
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 20: it happen.

1277
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:28,959
Speaker 3: What do you think a team would give up for Zach?

1278
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 2: Uh?

1279
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 5: Probably not very much. I like the idea that how

1280
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 5: much would you hate it if Zach was a head

1281
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 5: coach of one of the other teams, I'd be all right.

1282
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 5: You want to talk about giving up points behind his

1283
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 5: defense would get toasted by Zach Taylor.

1284
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 8: Simple ball boys are back, baby, Sony open. Hawaii's starting

1285
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:48,800
Speaker 8: with the winners.

1286
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 21: I like Ben Griffin aka Death Taxes and Griffin aka

1287
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 21: Benny Griffler when Scott He's not playing this dude's unreal

1288
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 21: shades on Hawaii's vacation mode to top three. I like

1289
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 21: him to win eighteen to one. I also like Kegan Bradley. Yes,

1290
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 21: you got embarrassed on a national stage in the Ryder Cup.

1291
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 8: He's coming out hot.

1292
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 21: When this dude's putter is going, you'll see on Thursday

1293
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 21: Friday when he's got it running.

1294
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 8: This dude's coming.

1295
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 5: Okay, now if they heat up the flat stick. If

1296
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 5: you're not familiar, we're back.

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01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 3: I have no idea what that means.

1298
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 5: The Sony Open in Hawaii and what the Sony Open

1299
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 5: Hawaii golf is back. Now you want to talk to

1300
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 5: the funniest thing of all the words, you can't say

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01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 5: Hawaii is the funniest Hawaii. There you go.

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01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 3: You want to talk about a why a degenerate level

1303
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 3: you're if you're betting on the Sony Open in Hawaii.

1304
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 3: Listen to that talk back again.

1305
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 5: Well he's he left the second one.

1306
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 8: Oh you mess around and not have a dimple ball parlay.

1307
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 8: I like nationality props. Gotta go with Rico Hughey, as

1308
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:56,599
Speaker 8: the Spanish would say. If you want to be rich, bett.

1309
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 21: Rico dude basically playing against two people. I don't like

1310
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 21: he's inconsistent.

1311
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 8: Fade him. And I also like Harry Hall. Every time

1312
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 8: I bet against this dude, he throws putts. Expect him to.

1313
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 21: Do it again. Two teamer European winner Hall and Asian

1314
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 21: winner Rico Hughey going off at forty eight to one.

1315
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 3: Bag it can you do that? Can you bet on Jill? I?

1316
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 3: Can you bet on a nationality that is.

1317
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 5: Like a foreign language to me?

1318
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 3: Whatever? We're talking dimple balls?

1319
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 5: Now, what is that? That's a golf ball? Dimple Is

1320
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 5: it a brand?

1321
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 9: No?

1322
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 5: The ball has dimples in it. Okay, dimple ball, man,

1323
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 5: I've never heard a golf ball referred to as a

1324
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 5: dimple ball.

1325
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:36,839
Speaker 3: Well, that's why you're not joining many putts.

1326
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 5: I brought the flat stick out since I drained that

1327
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 5: second I am.

1328
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:43,719
Speaker 3: I am so ready for golf to be back.

1329
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 17: Hello. This is former President Ronald Reagan, and well, do

1330
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 17: you realize that the last time this city experienced a

1331
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,799
Speaker 17: professional championship, I was only two years out of office

1332
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 17: and no one had even heard of Bill Clinton. Yet

1333
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 17: Tony was just a little four year old running around

1334
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 17: reading learning the English language and wail Audi Audi was

1335
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,440
Speaker 17: still five years away from being produced.

1336
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:11,480
Speaker 4: Wow, yep, that's insane.

1337
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 22: Is you see in Clifton or in communist Russia? Because

1338
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 22: we got these paper bag bands? Any paper bags brought

1339
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,759
Speaker 22: and will be confiscated. Any signs will be confiscated unless

1340
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:24,520
Speaker 22: they're pre approved. I mean, I thought this was America,

1341
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 22: and you sees out here just scared of its students.

1342
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 14: I guess it's.

1343
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 22: Pretty weak if you ask me.

1344
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 14: University of Chicks.

1345
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 3: Gosh man, University of cheeks. Wow, I can't believe this

1346
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 3: is what it's come to.

1347
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 5: All that is, that's brutal.

1348
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 3: I can't believe where we're at right now.

1349
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 5: Would you rather? Are you an arena full of people

1350
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:53,679
Speaker 5: with paper bags and signs or an arena with about

1351
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 5: five hundred people in it? Listen, which would you rather?

1352
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 5: As a UC fan, I would still goes. I would

1353
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 5: still go signs because I like the old adage of

1354
01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 5: as long as people are angry, they still care. If

1355
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 5: only five hundred people are showing up, no one cares,

1356
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 5: then you're in a much much.

1357
01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:19,919
Speaker 9: To chounny from out healthy here. I'm calling for advice.

1358
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 9: I got a friend named Nate to me is kind

1359
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 9: of a big wig in Indianapolis for a particular company,

1360
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 9: and all the people he oversees are Colts fans. He's

1361
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:33,800
Speaker 9: a Bengals fan. He's from northern Kentucky, big Bengals fan.

1362
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 9: Just want your advice. How would you if you were

1363
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 9: in this position, you know, a different city, different fan base,

1364
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 9: handle your subordinates. What's your advice for Nate.

1365
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm just not in a position that I have

1366
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 3: those I don't know.

1367
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to like

1368
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 5: to be in charge of people right at the professional level,

1369
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 5: you know, I like about that. Speaking of adages, I'll

1370
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 5: just keep going. I like to worry about myself. Yeah,

1371
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 5: I like to make sure I'm doing what I need

1372
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:06,919
Speaker 5: to do. Yeah, maybe lead by example, I think, maybe

1373
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 5: just kind of find a way to connect to connect

1374
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:11,839
Speaker 5: with them with like a mutual hatred of Chris Ballard.

1375
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 5: I don't think any Colts fans like him, so maybe

1376
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 5: find a way to connect with him in that way.

1377
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 9: And also just curious for hypothetical reasons. None of it's

1378
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 9: gonna happen. But if the Bengals were right now, say

1379
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 9: screw Zach Taylor, we're getting rid of you, and we're

1380
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 9: gonna pick one of the other three AFC North coaches.

1381
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 9: Which of the three AFC North coaches do you think

1382
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 9: is exactly what this team needs right now? Is it

1383
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 9: a Kevin Stefanski, is it a Mike Tomlin, or is

1384
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 9: it a John Harbaugh. You have to pick those three.

1385
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,759
Speaker 9: Those three only those are your interviews. Who are you picking?

1386
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:46,760
Speaker 3: I would say Stefanski because he's one Coach of the

1387
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 3: Year twice and I don't ever think he has the

1388
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 3: roster advantage.

1389
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,680
Speaker 5: I would say John Harball because he would help with

1390
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 5: and bring the experience of a top of the line

1391
01:12:57,439 --> 01:12:59,639
Speaker 5: front office that knows how to acquire talent.

1392
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 2: Hey, Tony and Austin. Hope all is well with you guys.

1393
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 2: Happy New Year.

1394
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 23: I have a couple of.

1395
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 2: Questions after Tomlin stepping down, even though I know it

1396
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 2: can't happen. Who would you rather have this coach for Bengals,

1397
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 2: Tomlin or Hollball. Just curious and I have a sneaky suspicion.

1398
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 2: Did Baltimore reach out to Tomlin for the opening for

1399
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 2: the Ravens job? Wondering about that Now.

1400
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 3: They wouldn't be able to reach out to Tomlin. They

1401
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 3: would have to reach out to the Steelers, and I

1402
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 3: don't think the Steelers would ever make that move inside

1403
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 3: the division. I would actually take Tomlin over Harball. I

1404
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 3: know Austin is opposite of that, but that's just where

1405
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:45,200
Speaker 3: I was at. Hello, everybody, It's your favorite mccafew man

1406
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 3: may creamby.

1407
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 14: Able to champions.

1408
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 24: I'm glad I was able to shad o my own

1409
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 24: personal bodyguard team to rescue Hank Ball.

1410
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,880
Speaker 25: He up in the pictures yesterday and getting back to

1411
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 25: doing hawkbacks.

1412
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 3: What's everybody coating order?

1413
01:13:58,800 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 4: Kentucky?

1414
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:03,640
Speaker 6: Who can afford to go to these national champions.

1415
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:03,679
Speaker 4: I don't have these, Tony Fike.

1416
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 10: And who knew all it took us three firings for

1417
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 10: Zach Taylor to be the best coach.

1418
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 5: Any Let me tell you what I tweeted that yesterday.

1419
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 5: If people got big mad at me.

1420
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 3: I could at this current point in the price and

1421
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 3: cost of living, I don't think I could just park

1422
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 3: at the national title game?

1423
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 7: All right, guys, continuity on.

1424
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 26: Pur Yeah, Mike an Independence, Hey, Tony A Austin, what's

1425
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 26: going on? I do not want to see Dan Pitcher

1426
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 26: coaching in this division against US. H Too much intricate

1427
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 26: knowledge of Joe Burrow, you know, been with my quarterback

1428
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 26: coach and then offensive coordinator.

1429
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:47,599
Speaker 3: Just so much history there.

1430
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 26: I don't want him in the division against US.

1431
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:54,680
Speaker 16: Anybody else will see what happens. Hopefully don't use an

1432
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 16: excuse new systems, new coaches.

1433
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:00,639
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1434
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 27: You know, recently my wife told me I have to

1435
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 27: start doing my own laundry, and she's not cooking dinner

1436
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 27: every single night like she used to. And yesterday I

1437
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 27: had to run a vacuum, you know, and I'm starting

1438
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 27: to wonder what the heck is going on around here,

1439
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,520
Speaker 27: But then I remember, you know, we always have continuity

1440
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 27: to fall back on. True continuity is a very very

1441
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 27: strong thing, and it's not something to be taken for granted.

1442
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:22,879
Speaker 27: So I understand the continuity of Zach Taylor the Cincinnati

1443
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 27: Bengals in the front office. I'm happy that Zach Taylor

1444
01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 27: is still here, and I'm happy I got to learn

1445
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 27: to run a vacuum.

1446
01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 3: Okay, well done.

1447
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 14: Start bench cut, wearing a paper bag to a game,

1448
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 14: trying to stop people from wearing a paper bag to

1449
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 14: a game, and sending out an ill timed letter of

1450
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 14: confidence to your fan base.

1451
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 3: I think all of them are bad.

1452
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start wearing a paper bag. Gosh, I'm gonna

1453
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 5: bench trying to stop people from wearing a paper bag,

1454
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna cut selling out sending out an ill

1455
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 5: timed letter right after the guy used to said can't

1456
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 5: lead the football program wins the Rose Bowl.

1457
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 23: Hey, guys, great show today. I do agree. I think

1458
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 23: the writing is on the wall for Zach Taylor. Another

1459
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,639
Speaker 23: misplayoff season or just you know, disaster im floating season,

1460
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 23: I think he's gone. My question is what will it

1461
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 23: take for too Tobin to be finally fired. I mean,

1462
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,720
Speaker 23: he's been here since the nineties and they've probably had

1463
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 23: two rosters they were good enough to win the Super Bowl?

1464
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 23: That is eight out of twenty five plus years. What

1465
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 23: will it take?

1466
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 5: I would say three, Not that it matters, but I

1467
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 5: would say three. What what? What years would you say, Tony?

1468
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I don't know.

1469
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:43,919
Speaker 5: Twenty one, twenty two, and twenty fifteen.

1470
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 3: Those are the only three that I think could win

1471
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 3: Super Bowl.

1472
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 28: Guys, appreciate what you do.

1473
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 5: Collectively, go ahead, I think okay, hot take twenty two

1474
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 5: team was better than twenty one teams.

1475
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 28: Guys, appreciate what you do. I think collectively, as a city,

1476
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,120
Speaker 28: both the fan base and the media, we need to

1477
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 28: turn up the pressure dial more and more and more

1478
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 28: on Zach Taylor, Duke Tobin, Mike Brown and this whole

1479
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 28: Bengals franchise going into the offseason, into the summer into

1480
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 28: the fall. Turn up the heat, turn up the pressure

1481
01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 28: more and more and more. There's no excuse for this

1482
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 28: team not to get back to the playoffs next year.

1483
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:26,040
Speaker 10: Turn it up.

1484
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 3: I feel like the heat Greg has properly applied on

1485
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 3: this show. I agree. Yeah.

1486
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 5: When John called in just a little while ago, did

1487
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 5: he call Liam Cohen?

1488
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 4: Liam Neeson?

1489
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 8: He did?

1490
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 3: I mean Frank he did? Yeah. I just let it slide.

1491
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:47,559
Speaker 3: But I'm like, all right, we'll go with that today.

1492
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it happens sometimes. Just ask Stephen A.

1493
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 4: Smith.

1494
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 24: Too much the city out here, No way I'm disrespecting

1495
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:00,640
Speaker 24: my program. There's no way I'm disrespecting the city I

1496
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 24: love with a bag over my head. Come on, come on, Yeah,

1497
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 24: we better than that. Wes No, he out the door.

1498
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 24: He know his seat is hot. Just continue on booing.

1499
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 24: But I ain't telling you how to spend your money.

1500
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 24: It's just about since he pride with me. Is it

1501
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:14,960
Speaker 24: baseball season yet? Because it's time. I'm ready for the

1502
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,600
Speaker 24: Reds already. And uh yeah, Zach is under pressure. Well,

1503
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 24: all the coaches gone in the division. No excuses, Jake,

1504
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 24: you better win.

1505
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 4: Yes, sir.

1506
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,360
Speaker 3: I like it when somebody calls another person. G I

1507
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 3: wonder if Ron wore the paperback to work.

1508
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:28,360
Speaker 5: Oh, he said he wouldn't do that.

1509
01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 29: No, hey, guys, Steve Montgomery, just an idea for the

1510
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 29: defensive line before the draft.

1511
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 8: DJ Reader is a free agent.

1512
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 29: I know he's not thirty years old anymore, but he

1513
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 29: still had a pretty solid season. And I can't help

1514
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 29: but think if you put him next to Slayton on

1515
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 29: first down, there'd be no running lanes at all.

1516
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm open to it, sure, I just can't rely

1517
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 5: on him to play every snap.

1518
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:54,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, or at the level he played when he was

1519
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 3: here the first time.

1520
01:18:55,479 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 30: Correct foul us, Hank kill here and hoboim. I'm gonna

1521
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 30: tell you I'm headed down to the game tonight. No

1522
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 30: paper bag. And yes, Peggy, I know that you know

1523
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 30: that I didn't take the trash out.

1524
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 7: Thank you.

1525
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,799
Speaker 30: Get out of here, Gonna stop by the Holy Grail

1526
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 30: and smash a couple of pints with the fellows. And yes, Peggy,

1527
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:17,719
Speaker 30: just like I know that you didn't have a headache

1528
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 30: on Tuesday night. Follows, let's get a.

1529
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:23,400
Speaker 5: W I'm told that Hank will be over at the

1530
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:24,599
Speaker 5: left hand side of the bar.

1531
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 16: Oh, hey, it's Lee Roy down here in Falmouth.

1532
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 11: What up?

1533
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 16: Hope you boys are having a great afternoon, Tony and Austin.

1534
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 16: Who would have thought that Zach Taylor will be the

1535
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:40,839
Speaker 16: last coach Denning in the AFC North up there, grinning

1536
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 16: like he's a pass of meeting a sweet tater. I

1537
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 16: don't know about all that. And if anybody wants to

1538
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 16: buy some bags for the UC game tonight, I got

1539
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 16: a special right now at the flea market. Stop buy

1540
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:54,719
Speaker 16: and see me man.

1541
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 5: I hope my dad is listening, because grinning like a

1542
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 5: possum is one of my dad's faceavorite terms to use.

1543
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 5: Hey guys, Ryan, Yeah, I want to just give to

1544
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 5: Johnithan Balt and he had some breaking news that leam

1545
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 5: Neeson is a coach in the NFL.

1546
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 31: I didn't know that.

1547
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 4: That's pretty funny.

1548
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 5: I love the culture that we've created on this show

1549
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 5: is you cannot mess up.

1550
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 3: You mess up your your margin for air is minuscule.

1551
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 5: Love it so much.

1552
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 7: It's the Lord in heaven?

1553
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 8: Is it true?

1554
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 30: DJ Reader is a free agent and could you tell

1555
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 30: us should or will be resign?

1556
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 7: DJ Reader?

1557
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 3: You would know more than anyone else.

1558
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:41,400
Speaker 9: You know.

1559
01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 5: What is amazing about this guy is you know he's

1560
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 5: he's the Lord, and he's supposed to be omnipotent and

1561
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 5: all knowing and ever present. He asked so many questions

1562
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 5: that are easily googled, like it gets so easy to

1563
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 5: know the answer to. I don't know if he's listened

1564
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,639
Speaker 5: not on social media, or if he doesn't have access

1565
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 5: to the Internet. I mean clearly he does. He's leaving talkbacks.

1566
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:09,240
Speaker 5: He asked some interesting questions.

1567
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 3: We have a buy a buddy like that.

1568
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 5: Very easy to find the answers too.

1569
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 3: I have a buddy like that in a group chat.

1570
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:15,640
Speaker 5: I use the group chat as Google.

1571
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 3: And it's like it. There's no way that it wouldn't

1572
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 3: take you less time to just google it. Or you

1573
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 3: can even talk into your phone now, yeah, to get

1574
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 3: an answer before sending it out on a group chat

1575
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 3: and waiting for that answer.

1576
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 5: Is DJ Reader a free agent?

1577
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 3: Yeah? I just don't get why people will do that.

1578
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 5: Well, that guy's mike didn't work, sorry, Ryan.

1579
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 27: Dad Mada Man.

1580
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 32: I've heard that name for a while, Dylan Fairchild. That

1581
01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 32: sounds like a conspiracy to say that Night had a

1582
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 32: better rookie year than he did. Maybe I was watching

1583
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:02,760
Speaker 32: a different game, That's what I thought, I think there's

1584
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:06,599
Speaker 32: brown paper bags and conspiracies all over the place.

1585
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 3: Well said, I was wondering if DJ E Train will

1586
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,679
Speaker 3: work that into maybe the game tonight.

1587
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 5: It's been a while since we've had a report from

1588
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:25,720
Speaker 5: sponge bottom. Yeah, you know what E Train. I know

1589
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 5: he listens. Let's get creative for once, Sara. Any you know,

1590
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do some SpongeBob and I'm gonna I'm gonna

1591
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 5: put some pressure on on E Train as well.

1592
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:35,599
Speaker 3: More.

1593
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 5: Is there any songs I'm trying to think that mentioned

1594
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 5: in a brown paper bag?

1595
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 3: I think there's paper bag boy.

1596
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 5: Okay, he don't got the guts to do that. They

1597
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,799
Speaker 5: would fire hang.

1598
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,639
Speaker 16: The iba blush.

1599
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:53,440
Speaker 25: Anyways, quick koit for Tony.

1600
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 4: And Austin.

1601
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 25: Our best fast food in Hawaii. It's Zippies.

1602
01:22:59,680 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 16: You got.

1603
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 25: I got to check out Zippies, real comfort food, Polynesian style.

1604
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 25: It's delicious. I wish they had one on the mainline.

1605
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 25: Actually they doing Las Vegas, but that's the only other

1606
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 25: place outside of Why.

1607
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 3: No, Tony, do you like Polynesian food?

1608
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 4: No, of course no.

1609
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 33: As a Bearcat fan old enough to have lived through

1610
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:26,800
Speaker 33: the Tony Yates years, I don't see bags on your

1611
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 33: head for an eight and eight record. For three to

1612
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 33: five years, we prayed for an eight and eight record.

1613
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 5: Okay, but that's fine, but the standard has risen like

1614
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:41,880
Speaker 5: you can't you can't just go back to that.

1615
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 31: Yes, yes, yes, Austin, you are correct. Twenty two team

1616
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 31: was better than the twenty one team, Hayden Hurst, are

1617
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:57,759
Speaker 31: you kidding me? A twenty fifteen team was good, Tyler

1618
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 31: Hoiford and two thousand and five team that could have

1619
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:04,080
Speaker 31: won a.

1620
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 3: Super Bowl as well.

1621
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,200
Speaker 5: I do think the two thousand and five team could

1622
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 5: have won this.

1623
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 3: It was good, but it was good.

1624
01:24:12,640 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 5: So maybe four teams covid up into the right duke.

1625
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,000
Speaker 6: Hey, guys, as your friend Jeff in Fairfield.

1626
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 10: So I just want to say that I agree with

1627
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 10: that guy earlier who said that he can't wait for

1628
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 10: baseball season.

1629
01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 5: I can't either go right o man, all right, Jeff,

1630
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 5: I love you, buddy, good friend, Jeff, friend of the show.

1631
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:35,439
Speaker 27: Poor guy, Willam, What makes you think you can coach

1632
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 27: in the NFL?

1633
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 3: I have a particular setup.

1634
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 17: Yeah, I was wondering. Can you tell me what year

1635
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 17: William Howard Daft was born?

1636
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, all right, those are last that is so good.

1637
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 3: I love you people. By the way, I looked up Austin.

1638
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, what year power Taff was born?

1639
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 3: Average cost to get a car out of the impound lot? Yeah,

1640
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 3: your towing fee is anywhere from fifty to two hundred

1641
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:10,799
Speaker 3: dollars depending on the distance away from the lot. Daily

1642
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:14,839
Speaker 3: storage fifteen to seventy five dollars, and there's an admin

1643
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 3: processing fee between twenty and seventy five dollars. Okay, so

1644
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:21,680
Speaker 3: that four hundred bucks. Yeah, that's well under what you

1645
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 3: would pay to park at the National Championship Game. It's

1646
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:27,400
Speaker 3: a good point there. You go thinking outside the box here.

1647
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 3: Speaking of thinking outside.

1648
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:33,640
Speaker 5: Of the towing companies are probably now encouraging this, right absolutely,

1649
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 5: it could be a big weekend for them.

1650
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 3: What if you did this? What if if your U

1651
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 3: see you announced that, hey we've heard the pushback, Wes

1652
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 3: Miller will coach with a paper bag on ooh but

1653
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 3: no fans can wear one?

1654
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 4: Interesting?

1655
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,920
Speaker 5: Then what what would be It would be funny? What

1656
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:53,680
Speaker 5: if now we're spitballing.

1657
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 3: What if the team came out with warmed up in them,

1658
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 3: warmed up and they were just like lights out and

1659
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 3: warm ups. Yeah, h you know there was a point.

1660
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 3: It was like this offseason or last offseason, or maybe

1661
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 3: during the season where the team, like it was reported

1662
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,720
Speaker 3: they were playing dodgeball at practice and they came out

1663
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:12,600
Speaker 3: and won a few games. Yeah, we even talked to

1664
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 3: Bob Mangen about it. Gosh, this would have been a

1665
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 3: great time for them to plant that story. Right now.

1666
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 3: What are they doing? What did they do at practice

1667
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:24,720
Speaker 3: this week that has Vegas putting them in an eight

1668
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 3: and a half point favorite, many are speculating, few know.

1669
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 3: Tune in tonight to find out.

1670
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:32,880
Speaker 5: You think Bob would wear a brown paper bag?

1671
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I mean, he's a Steeler fan. He's probably done

1672
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:38,080
Speaker 3: it before. He uses a different type of brown paper

1673
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:40,080
Speaker 3: He's done it before with the Steelers. I wonder what

1674
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 3: he thinks about Tomin. It's a great question. We gotta

1675
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 3: get Bob on this week too. Plenty more still to come,

1676
01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:48,760
Speaker 3: Paul Fritchner, if Verizen can get their stuff together, more

1677
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,479
Speaker 3: in the NFL. More on the reds Moagger and Your

1678
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:53,719
Speaker 3: Phone Calls five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty

1679
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 3: at Cincy three sixty on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1680
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 3: I'm back since he three sixty on ESPN fifteen thirty

1681
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:05,719
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Sports Station.

1682
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 4: We're the home of the Bengals.

1683
01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 5: Pay Corpse Stadium is the home of the Bengals.

1684
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 4: Oool.

1685
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:16,479
Speaker 5: Yesterday, Tone, I got my tickets for Chris Stapleton wow

1686
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 5: at pay Corpse Stadium on August first.

1687
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 4: Nice.

1688
01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 5: Now, Verizon apparently can't put together a network that works,

1689
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:28,679
Speaker 5: but they do allow exclusive access pre sale for customers. Okay,

1690
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:31,480
Speaker 5: and that's what I was able to log onto yesterday

1691
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 5: and get tickets for Chris Stapleton. I'm okay, so fired up.

1692
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,479
Speaker 5: This is just like a no brainer.

1693
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 8: Bang.

1694
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, can't wait a little give and take, Yeah, a

1695
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:42,679
Speaker 3: little give and take.

1696
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 5: It's gonna be now, it'll probably thunderstorm and the whole

1697
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 5: night'll be ruined because it's your life. But hey, you

1698
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 5: never know. I saw are you gonna go? I don't

1699
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 5: know yet.

1700
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:54,760
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't get the presale ticket.

1701
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 5: Did you go to Luke Holmes when he was here?

1702
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:57,680
Speaker 2: No?

1703
01:27:57,920 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you did.

1704
01:27:59,200 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 24: No.

1705
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 3: I'm more of a well I don't I like a

1706
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:05,640
Speaker 3: good old fashioned like Riverbend concert.

1707
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 11: Oh.

1708
01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 3: The stadium concerts are tough.

1709
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:11,760
Speaker 5: I've seen I've never been to like a stadium concert. Yeah,

1710
01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 5: but I have seen Stapleton at Riverband. It's unreal.

1711
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 3: I I'm fascinated by it, and as the time gets closer,

1712
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:22,320
Speaker 3: I'll probably get tickets because I think Staple and Stapleton's

1713
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:24,719
Speaker 3: one of the guys I've never seen. Oh dude, yeah,

1714
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:27,920
Speaker 3: I've not seen Stapleton yet. Yeah, you got to go him.

1715
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 3: Zach Bryan's on my list. I think seeing him live

1716
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 3: would be great. I think. I mean, I saw Morgan

1717
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 3: wall In live once was awesome. I've seen Zach Brown

1718
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:38,760
Speaker 3: band a ton. I think I think seeing them at

1719
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:39,639
Speaker 3: the Sphere would be awesome.

1720
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 5: I think Landy Wilson's gonna kick ass.

1721
01:28:42,120 --> 01:28:46,680
Speaker 3: She's awesome. Okay, she opened. I saw Luke Combs at

1722
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:49,679
Speaker 3: the Young Center probably three years ago and she opened,

1723
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:56,799
Speaker 3: and her and Jordan Davis. Yeah, yeah, they both opened

1724
01:28:56,800 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 3: at the Young Center for U for Luke Combs.

1725
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:02,920
Speaker 5: Do you consider Chris Stapleton country music?

1726
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 3: I think so. I think so, I do, do you.

1727
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 5: I think it's more of like a rock with a

1728
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 5: country twist.

1729
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 3: I get that.

1730
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 5: I think Laney is obviously more country music. But because

1731
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:21,480
Speaker 5: I got that twang, she do, she do got that twiny.

1732
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 5: I feel like I only listen to country music like

1733
01:29:25,479 --> 01:29:27,599
Speaker 5: one or two months out of the year, and it's

1734
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:31,560
Speaker 5: usually sometime in the summer time. I can't listen. I

1735
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:33,639
Speaker 5: can't listen to it that much because it makes me sad.

1736
01:29:34,479 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 5: But I have a friend who used to call it

1737
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:38,679
Speaker 5: tear in my beer music.

1738
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 3: There's different times too, like there are different artists. I

1739
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:43,759
Speaker 3: can't listen to it unless I'm like if I'm going

1740
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,519
Speaker 3: on vacation, like especially like somewhere like a beach. It's

1741
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 3: like Chesney, Sure, like that's just the beach vibe, little

1742
01:29:51,280 --> 01:29:54,200
Speaker 3: Jimmy Buffett, Little Jimmy Buffett. But I find it a

1743
01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:56,559
Speaker 3: little more depressing to listen to like Chesney in January

1744
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:57,600
Speaker 3: when I'm here in Cincinnati.

1745
01:29:57,640 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 5: Sure, I get that. I think we're on the same

1746
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 5: no shoes, it was no shirt, what, no problem? Yeah,

1747
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:05,599
Speaker 5: it is a problem. You'd be freezing. Do you remember, Like, uh,

1748
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,439
Speaker 5: are you planning on taking another vacation this year?

1749
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:09,320
Speaker 3: I don't know. We don't.

1750
01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:10,840
Speaker 5: We don't plan on if we go to the beach.

1751
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:13,080
Speaker 5: We don't plan ours properly at all. It was it

1752
01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 5: was a big hit last time you sent us a

1753
01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:16,720
Speaker 5: picture from the beach while you were gone.

1754
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, do.

1755
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,960
Speaker 5: You plan on taking all your vacation at one time

1756
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:21,720
Speaker 5: again this year?

1757
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 3: I like to. We like to do that. It's just

1758
01:30:25,640 --> 01:30:29,080
Speaker 3: it's hard. Like with the kids, you don't like really

1759
01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:31,920
Speaker 3: you get a chance to do a big vacation. If

1760
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:33,600
Speaker 3: you're taking the kids and you're only there for like

1761
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 3: four days, it doesn't even seem like you have time

1762
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 3: to decompress. Sure, now, if it was just, you know,

1763
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 3: an adult trip, it'd be different. But I'm a fan

1764
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:44,479
Speaker 3: of the use up vacation at once.

1765
01:30:44,600 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 5: Dude, I screwed up last year. I didn't use all

1766
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:47,599
Speaker 5: my vacation days.

1767
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:49,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't get him back. I lost them. I

1768
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 3: learned that the hard way.

1769
01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 4: At one point.

1770
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 5: I can't believe I did that. I have a long

1771
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:55,800
Speaker 5: standing policy of don't do that, and I did it,

1772
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 5: and it kind of snuck up on me at the

1773
01:30:57,400 --> 01:30:59,160
Speaker 5: end of the year and I was like, damn it. Yep,

1774
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 5: I'll be doing that this year. They may not see

1775
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 5: me much during June, I'll tell you that much. The

1776
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 5: who will be a good teammate things out the window

1777
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:11,360
Speaker 5: for me. There.

1778
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:14,080
Speaker 3: Uh, there you go, quick ready.

1779
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:15,760
Speaker 5: To learn Chad Brindle Buddy.

1780
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:20,800
Speaker 3: Quick injury update. As if maybe you're wondering why the

1781
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 3: number is eight and a half at Fifth third Arena.

1782
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:24,840
Speaker 3: Kirk Crease is not going to play tonight. Jalen Haynes

1783
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:27,679
Speaker 3: is still out, but Jalen Holland is the only starter

1784
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 3: out for the Colorado Buffalo, so it doesn't appear that

1785
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 3: it's injury related that the number is what it is tonight.

1786
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:39,679
Speaker 3: I'll be fascinated to get down to fifth third Arena

1787
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:42,720
Speaker 3: and check out more. Almost as fascinated if we'll get

1788
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 3: to talk to Paul Fritz than when we get back.

1789
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:46,920
Speaker 5: I'm fascinated by that. I'm also fascinated by the fact

1790
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:51,519
Speaker 5: that on January ninth, which was five days ago, Moe

1791
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 5: made a funny tweet in response to me about Duke

1792
01:31:54,160 --> 01:31:57,320
Speaker 5: Tobin mentioned the moon landing and Neil Armstrong. I don't

1793
01:31:57,320 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 5: know if you saw that tweet.

1794
01:31:58,840 --> 01:31:59,080
Speaker 3: Yes.

1795
01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:01,599
Speaker 5: Well, in the five days since then, there has been

1796
01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 5: an ongoing argument about whether or not the moon landing

1797
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 5: was real. Oh and it's still happening. These guys are

1798
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 5: still tweeting back and forth arguing about it five days later.

1799
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 3: In my mentions, man, good for the brand.

1800
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 5: In the words of Tommy Tubberville, get a job, get

1801
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:23,280
Speaker 5: a job. We can me fight about the moon landing

1802
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:25,679
Speaker 5: on Twitter for five days in a row.

1803
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 3: But was it real? I leave your comments at audio more.

1804
01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:30,960
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, here we go plenty more where that

1805
01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:33,679
Speaker 3: came from. We'll hopefully get to talk to Paul Fritchner

1806
01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 3: when we get back on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1807
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 3: Free is here. Thank you for joining us, Thank you

1808
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,759
Speaker 3: for listening on the Home of the Bengals ESPN fifteen

1809
01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 3: thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Of course, what everyone wants to

1810
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:54,040
Speaker 3: know now, Austin, are we back up? Is Verizon back up?

1811
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:59,000
Speaker 5: The answer is no, Oh gosh, but because Paul Frichner, is.

1812
01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 3: You mean Paul fritch know the rebound rundown?

1813
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:06,840
Speaker 5: Yes, he's resourceful, he's focused. What was it, Duke Tobin

1814
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:11,360
Speaker 5: said last week, Focus, strain and finish. Yeah, Paul has

1815
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:14,439
Speaker 5: found someone on the T Mobile network. Oh wow, which

1816
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 5: I don't know. If you know those Billy Bob Thornton commercials,

1817
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 5: I think we're supposed to ask him you you won't

1818
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 5: believe where I'm at or something like, I don't know.

1819
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:23,519
Speaker 5: Paul found somebody with a T Mobile phone and he's

1820
01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 5: borrowing their phone. That's how badly he wants to be

1821
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:28,640
Speaker 5: since three sixty and he's with us. Now, Hi, Paul.

1822
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:31,639
Speaker 10: Fellas, I think I'm just gonna have to keep these

1823
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 10: answers short so that Big Verizon can't keep me down,

1824
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:37,599
Speaker 10: they can't mute me. This is just one word answers

1825
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 10: for the next ten minutes.

1826
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:40,719
Speaker 3: What do you know that they want to take away?

1827
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:43,639
Speaker 3: Obviously someone out there doesn't want you to mention something

1828
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:46,320
Speaker 3: on air today? Is it that the RedHawks in Miami

1829
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 3: are eighteen and zero and they're still unranked?

1830
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 24: Is it?

1831
01:33:48,439 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 3: Is it something that Xavier has unlocked? What is it

1832
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 3: that you know that we don't now?

1833
01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:56,920
Speaker 10: I think the Associated Press is purposely muting any kind

1834
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:59,760
Speaker 10: of media that would just, you know, subvert what they

1835
01:33:59,840 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 10: are doing to Miami right now and not putting them

1836
01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:04,320
Speaker 10: in the top twenty five. So yeah, I think you

1837
01:34:04,400 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 10: hit the nail on the head with that one, Tony,

1838
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 10: this is disgusting.

1839
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 3: Has has this last hour plus? Are you? Are you

1840
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 3: contemplating a switch from Verizon? Are you looking to maybe

1841
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 3: add a second phone to your arsenal? What does the

1842
01:34:17,160 --> 01:34:18,960
Speaker 3: future look like for Paul and Verizon?

1843
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 10: Well, I was debating going into Kroger and getting like

1844
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:25,120
Speaker 10: a track phone or something, and then just snapping it

1845
01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:27,639
Speaker 10: and throwing it into the woods, like you know, breaking

1846
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:31,760
Speaker 10: bad or something. Fifteen thirty burner good.

1847
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 5: I have to ask Paul, Who's whose phone are you borrowing?

1848
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 10: So I'm at lunch right now with Connor Onion who

1849
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 10: has the SS one call with Xavier tonight. So we're

1850
01:34:44,200 --> 01:34:47,879
Speaker 10: sitting here at lunch and Austin's texting me and everything.

1851
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 10: The weird thing was, I had service until you would

1852
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:52,640
Speaker 10: call me, and then it would kick me off. So

1853
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:54,280
Speaker 10: I'd see your call and then it would go to

1854
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 10: SOLS And I said, Connor, can I just borrow your

1855
01:34:56,920 --> 01:34:57,559
Speaker 10: phone real quick?

1856
01:34:57,640 --> 01:34:57,920
Speaker 17: Wow?

1857
01:34:58,120 --> 01:34:59,240
Speaker 11: Yeah? Sure, what a guy?

1858
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 3: What a guy. Shout out to Connor for his help

1859
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:04,760
Speaker 3: and making this happen. Let's dive into some basketball here, Paul.

1860
01:35:04,840 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 3: Let's start with the RedHawks moving to eighteen and oh

1861
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:10,840
Speaker 3: last night, and people they want to chop down the

1862
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:14,320
Speaker 3: schedule that's not to their own doin. It's not like

1863
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:18,280
Speaker 3: Miami didn't try to schedule differently than how this has

1864
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:20,360
Speaker 3: played out. It's just kind of how the chips fell correct.

1865
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:23,679
Speaker 10: Yeah, and you know, I remember talking to Travis Steele

1866
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 10: about this way back in the summer when I had

1867
01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:27,200
Speaker 10: him on the rebound rundown in June and I was

1868
01:35:27,240 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 10: asking him about scheduling, and he was telling me, you know,

1869
01:35:30,360 --> 01:35:33,360
Speaker 10: you get into scheduling some of these Power Conference programs,

1870
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:35,400
Speaker 10: and the problem is when you're in that you know,

1871
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:38,439
Speaker 10: one hundred to one fifty range, it's hard to sell

1872
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:41,800
Speaker 10: yourself as a program because the upside is not there

1873
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 10: for the Power Conference team, and all of the downside

1874
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:46,800
Speaker 10: is there if you lose that game. Now you look

1875
01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:50,000
Speaker 10: at a team like you know, Akron, they did play Perdue,

1876
01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:51,759
Speaker 10: and there are teams in the MAC that have played

1877
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:54,000
Speaker 10: some of those higher level games, and I know that

1878
01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:56,800
Speaker 10: Travis did try and go out and get those games,

1879
01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:58,800
Speaker 10: and those teams just didn't want to play them because

1880
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:01,719
Speaker 10: there was an unknown way. It's Miami, right, they're bringing

1881
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:04,200
Speaker 10: back some talent, they get some talent out of the portal.

1882
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 10: What's Miami going to be? The predictive metrics really liked them,

1883
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 10: and now it's bearing itself out. They're eighteen and no

1884
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 10: I understand they played one of the worst schedules in

1885
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:16,799
Speaker 10: the country, but they're doing what they can. They're winning games,

1886
01:36:16,880 --> 01:36:19,680
Speaker 10: and they're getting national buzz. They're eighteen and oh, rank

1887
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:22,760
Speaker 10: the Red Hawks, Tony, thank you here rank them?

1888
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:25,799
Speaker 3: What is it about this team? I know that again

1889
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:29,600
Speaker 3: people may not be privy to it yet, explain just

1890
01:36:29,680 --> 01:36:31,800
Speaker 3: how dynamic this team is for Travis Steel on the

1891
01:36:31,840 --> 01:36:32,800
Speaker 3: offensive side of the ball.

1892
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:35,800
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's the most fun part about it

1893
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,479
Speaker 10: is that they're not winning these games like fifty to

1894
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,400
Speaker 10: forty five, and they're grinding you out, and it's you know,

1895
01:36:41,479 --> 01:36:44,719
Speaker 10: they're winning, but it's kind of ugly. I was talking

1896
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,479
Speaker 10: to Mike Lettulap, who's a good friend of mine. He

1897
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:50,640
Speaker 10: had the CBS broadcast the other day against Toledo, and

1898
01:36:50,680 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 10: we were talking about the game on Friday where they

1899
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 10: went up and just blitzed Toledo, and his point to

1900
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:59,400
Speaker 10: me on the rebound rundown was how fun this team

1901
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 10: is to watch. Like they go out there every single

1902
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 10: night and put up a million points and they're not

1903
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:07,040
Speaker 10: just winning, they're winning by a lot and they want

1904
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:09,440
Speaker 10: to go out and blow you out. They're top fifteen

1905
01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:12,520
Speaker 10: in the country and three point percentage, two point percentage,

1906
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 10: free throw percentage they're what fourth in the country, and

1907
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:17,120
Speaker 10: affect the field goal percentage. They're one of the best

1908
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:20,559
Speaker 10: offenses in the country, and so it's really fun to

1909
01:37:20,680 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 10: watch and it's the credit to what they've developed up there.

1910
01:37:24,840 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 3: Miami's next opportunity to move to nineteen and zero comes

1911
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:33,240
Speaker 3: up against Buffalo in just a couple of days. In

1912
01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 3: other news, local college basketball, Paul these Xavier Musketeers in

1913
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:40,320
Speaker 3: action tonight at the Cintas Center. They welcome a familiar

1914
01:37:40,360 --> 01:37:42,920
Speaker 3: face back, Thad Mada and the Butler Bulldogs come to

1915
01:37:42,960 --> 01:37:45,800
Speaker 3: the Cintas Center. One win so far in the Big

1916
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:49,759
Speaker 3: East for Butler Xavier at two. Talk about the Muskies

1917
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:53,120
Speaker 3: and what you've seen since Big East play has started.

1918
01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:55,479
Speaker 3: Because there's obviously been the bad and some games that

1919
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:58,200
Speaker 3: got away from them, there's also been some good, good

1920
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,880
Speaker 3: wins mixed in and players playing at a much higher level.

1921
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:03,600
Speaker 3: How do you just kind of encompsulate the start of

1922
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:04,799
Speaker 3: Big East play for Xavier.

1923
01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:07,559
Speaker 10: Yeah, the biggest thing that you're watching the rest of

1924
01:38:07,560 --> 01:38:10,760
Speaker 10: the season for Xavier is who can return next year

1925
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:12,679
Speaker 10: and play at a Big East level. And you saw

1926
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:16,760
Speaker 10: that on Saturday against Yovonn Milichevich. Are against Providence with

1927
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:19,519
Speaker 10: Yovann Milichevich. I know Providence has really struggled in the

1928
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:22,400
Speaker 10: Big East, but at the same time, you know, Yovonne

1929
01:38:22,400 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 10: hadn't scored in double figures yet in Big East play,

1930
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 10: and then he goes out and puts up twenty two.

1931
01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:28,680
Speaker 10: I mean, he had twenty two points combined in the

1932
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:30,679
Speaker 10: start of Big East play and then he scores twenty

1933
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:35,400
Speaker 10: two on Saturday. So you're starting to see some progress there.

1934
01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 11: And to me, for.

1935
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 10: Xavier, you got to rebound the basketball better. But they

1936
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 10: at least took some steps on Saturday against Providence. Butler's

1937
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:46,080
Speaker 10: gonna be a good test there without their point guard

1938
01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:48,479
Speaker 10: who only played six games this year, Jalen Jackson got

1939
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 10: hurt in November, kind of threw a wrench into what

1940
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:52,040
Speaker 10: they wanted to do. But they're one of the best

1941
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 10: offensive rebounding teams in the country. So it'll be a

1942
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:56,679
Speaker 10: good test on the glass for Zavi tonight.

1943
01:38:57,120 --> 01:39:00,320
Speaker 3: When things are going well for Xavier and you look

1944
01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 3: at what they did against Providence, you put ninety seven

1945
01:39:02,560 --> 01:39:05,519
Speaker 3: points on the board when they're playing at their best,

1946
01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 3: What is it about the offensive side of the ball

1947
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:09,720
Speaker 3: that they're doing that maybe they haven't been able to

1948
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:11,080
Speaker 3: do as consistently in the losses.

1949
01:39:12,479 --> 01:39:14,599
Speaker 10: Yeah, they're shooting the three well, and I think that's

1950
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:17,960
Speaker 10: been a pretty big sticking point. They have shot the

1951
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 10: three well and they've taken care of the ball well

1952
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:22,720
Speaker 10: this season, one of the best in the country at

1953
01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 10: both and you know, they've also assisted on a lot

1954
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:28,320
Speaker 10: of their made shots. Now that's a product of making threes, right,

1955
01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:30,959
Speaker 10: a lot of threes you're not you know, you're assisting

1956
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 10: on threes a lot. So from that perspective, one kind

1957
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 10: of feeds into another. But Providence is one of the

1958
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:38,920
Speaker 10: worst teams in the country defending the three, I mean

1959
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:41,839
Speaker 10: twentieth worst in the country going into that game on Saturday,

1960
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:43,559
Speaker 10: and Xavier made them pay for it. That's been a

1961
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:46,479
Speaker 10: huge issue for Providence and so if Zager can get

1962
01:39:46,520 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 10: back to making threes consistently. Malik Messina Moore did not

1963
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 10: play well in the non conference shooting the ball. He's

1964
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:55,800
Speaker 10: playing much better now. He's been very consistent for Xavier

1965
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:57,840
Speaker 10: in the Big East. Just need more of that from

1966
01:39:57,920 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 10: guys like Malik and Trey Carroll.

1967
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 3: When when you look at Richard Patino and again it's

1968
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:06,920
Speaker 3: it's a six game sample size in the Big East,

1969
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:09,720
Speaker 3: and it's such a unique year because when he gets

1970
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:12,519
Speaker 3: to Xavier and how the roster is assembled and knowing

1971
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:14,519
Speaker 3: there are going to be some growing pains along the way.

1972
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:17,439
Speaker 3: But when you kind of take a step back and

1973
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:19,639
Speaker 3: just look at the season so far as a whole,

1974
01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 3: what do you what do you you make so far

1975
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 3: of Richard Patino and this team's improvement from the first

1976
01:40:26,200 --> 01:40:28,559
Speaker 3: game against Marist to where they're at right now getting

1977
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:29,439
Speaker 3: ready to take on Butler.

1978
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think the most intriguing thing to me about

1979
01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:37,000
Speaker 10: this coaching staff and what Xavier's doing is that they've

1980
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:39,920
Speaker 10: shown an ability to adapt on the fly and make

1981
01:40:40,040 --> 01:40:42,800
Speaker 10: changes both but in the season or even within the

1982
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:45,120
Speaker 10: game that sometimes you don't see all that much at

1983
01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:46,920
Speaker 10: the college level. Like a lot of times you have

1984
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,679
Speaker 10: coaches who just you know, they're going to run a system,

1985
01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:51,880
Speaker 10: they're going to do what they feel like they need

1986
01:40:51,920 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 10: to implement, and then they hope that the players adapt

1987
01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:57,600
Speaker 10: to that. But you know, Richard Patino has taken it

1988
01:40:57,640 --> 01:40:59,679
Speaker 10: on this year to say, Hey, we're going to adapt

1989
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 10: things quickly to the skill set that we have. And

1990
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:04,799
Speaker 10: that's a mark of a good coach. And it sounds

1991
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:07,599
Speaker 10: really obvious, Tony. We're like, hey, as a coach, adapt

1992
01:41:07,600 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 10: to your players, right, But I think you'd be surprised

1993
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:12,639
Speaker 10: at this level the amount of coaches that just hope

1994
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 10: at some point it's going to mold the other way

1995
01:41:15,479 --> 01:41:17,759
Speaker 10: that the coaches will you know, or that the players

1996
01:41:17,760 --> 01:41:21,000
Speaker 10: will adapt to that system. So from Xavier's perspective with

1997
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 10: Richard Patino, I think it's really encouraging that once they

1998
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:26,560
Speaker 10: get higher level talent in. You know, they got to

1999
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:28,280
Speaker 10: hit in the portal, they got to go out and

2000
01:41:28,320 --> 01:41:30,599
Speaker 10: get some more Big East level talent. But once they

2001
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 10: do that, now I think this coaching staff shown an

2002
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:35,560
Speaker 10: ability to develop some of these guys this year and

2003
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 10: win games with what they have.

2004
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:41,920
Speaker 3: The opponent tonight sad Mada's Butler Bulldogs an interesting start

2005
01:41:41,960 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 3: to their year. They beat right now top twenty ranked

2006
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:47,760
Speaker 3: Virginia early in the year, they have a win over

2007
01:41:47,840 --> 01:41:50,960
Speaker 3: South Carolina. They opened Big East Play with a one

2008
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 3: thirteen to one ten victory over Providence. Since then, they've

2009
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:57,800
Speaker 3: lost to Yukon, to Creighton, to Villanova and Saint John's.

2010
01:41:57,800 --> 01:42:00,639
Speaker 3: They're one and four in the league. When you look

2011
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:02,680
Speaker 3: at Butler coming in tonight, I know you said a

2012
01:42:02,720 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 3: little bit shorthanded. What is the biggest key for Xavier

2013
01:42:05,960 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 3: that they need to focus on in this one tonight.

2014
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 10: Yeah, I have to rebound the ball. Like I said,

2015
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:15,600
Speaker 10: offensive glasses where Butler really really thrived. Michael Ajai is

2016
01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:18,760
Speaker 10: a special player. He gives them a dynamic that I

2017
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:20,559
Speaker 10: know a lot of Big East teams would like to have.

2018
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 10: He's a great player. Finley Bizjack is back, he can

2019
01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:26,240
Speaker 10: shoot the ball well. Jamie Kinzer is kind of a

2020
01:42:26,320 --> 01:42:28,840
Speaker 10: you know, a guy that will go down and hit

2021
01:42:28,880 --> 01:42:32,120
Speaker 10: some threes when he needs to. But you know, this

2022
01:42:32,160 --> 01:42:34,680
Speaker 10: is a very winnable game for Xavier. It's a cossup game.

2023
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:36,360
Speaker 10: I think the line's just right there in that one

2024
01:42:36,439 --> 01:42:38,960
Speaker 10: and a half range. That's where it was last night.

2025
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 10: So it's a winnable game. But Xavier has to do

2026
01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:44,400
Speaker 10: better on the glass than they've done in Big East play.

2027
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:47,719
Speaker 3: The Big East as a whole, you have Seaton Hall,

2028
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:49,760
Speaker 3: who had just cracked the top twenty five. They lose

2029
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 3: to Yukon. Yukon sits alone at the top and seven

2030
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:53,720
Speaker 3: and zero in the conference and the third ranked team

2031
01:42:53,720 --> 01:42:56,360
Speaker 3: in the country. But some of the teams you normally

2032
01:42:56,360 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 3: see at the top of the Big East. Marquette one

2033
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:02,200
Speaker 3: league win, Providence one league win, Butler, one league win,

2034
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:05,719
Speaker 3: uh Creighton already has two losses, Setonaw has two losses,

2035
01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:08,799
Speaker 3: You get Saint John's Nova and Yukon. But as a whole,

2036
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 3: what do you make of this version of the twenty

2037
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:14,000
Speaker 3: twenty five twenty twenty six Big East.

2038
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:17,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think the Big East is definitely it's been

2039
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:19,800
Speaker 10: a bad narrative about the Big East this year, and

2040
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:23,480
Speaker 10: I think part of it is because the traditional powers

2041
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 10: of the Big East haven't necessarily been playing to their

2042
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 10: level and it's kind of flipped right like Marquette's having

2043
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:30,800
Speaker 10: a down year this year. They're a team that was

2044
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:33,240
Speaker 10: a top ten team in the country at points last year.

2045
01:43:33,560 --> 01:43:35,840
Speaker 10: But now I still think the Big East that for

2046
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:38,400
Speaker 10: as bad as the narrative has gotten about the conference,

2047
01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 10: they're still probably going to see him get four bids

2048
01:43:41,960 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 10: into the NCAA tournament. I think Seaton Hall is a

2049
01:43:44,439 --> 01:43:48,720
Speaker 10: tournament team, Yukon's national title contender, Villanova is right there

2050
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:49,760
Speaker 10: of course, and St.

2051
01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 4: John.

2052
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:53,320
Speaker 10: So I think those are four tournament teams for the

2053
01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:55,280
Speaker 10: Big East. Now, how many games they win in the

2054
01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:57,639
Speaker 10: tournament's going to develop, are going to, you know, kind

2055
01:43:57,640 --> 01:44:00,519
Speaker 10: of show what the conference is Tony once you get

2056
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:04,719
Speaker 10: into March. But at least going into yesterday on Ken Palm,

2057
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:07,679
Speaker 10: the Big East was rated higher than they were last year.

2058
01:44:07,880 --> 01:44:11,800
Speaker 10: So the teams that are generally good teams in the

2059
01:44:11,840 --> 01:44:14,519
Speaker 10: Big East have flip flopped this year. Seaton Hall was

2060
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:17,320
Speaker 10: picked eleventh in the conference and you're seeing them, you know,

2061
01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:20,000
Speaker 10: compete for a tournament bid and almost beat yukon last night.

2062
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:22,719
Speaker 10: So it's been a weird year for the Big East.

2063
01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:24,640
Speaker 10: But I think the narrative at points did kind of

2064
01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:26,559
Speaker 10: get a little out of control with how bad it was.

2065
01:44:27,560 --> 01:44:29,560
Speaker 3: Just the importance of tonight again, you mentioned it's a

2066
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 3: winnable game for Xavier, and you look at what's upcoming,

2067
01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 3: a road trip to Creyton and we know the first

2068
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:37,799
Speaker 3: go around with Creighton wasn't good, a very anticipated matchup

2069
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 3: with Richard's dad, Rick Patino coming in with Saint John's

2070
01:44:41,760 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 3: at twenty fifth ranks Seaton Hall, you got a road

2071
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:47,320
Speaker 3: trip to yukon a quick turnaround against Saint John's. Just

2072
01:44:47,360 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 3: from a sheer Big East standings and momentum point for Xavier,

2073
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:54,479
Speaker 3: how important does a win tonight kind of propel them

2074
01:44:54,560 --> 01:44:56,439
Speaker 3: forward coming off a win against Providence.

2075
01:44:57,200 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's huge. You go into your bye week,

2076
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:02,439
Speaker 10: you get a win Butler, I think if you want

2077
01:45:02,479 --> 01:45:05,920
Speaker 10: some momentum going forward, right and you have a really,

2078
01:45:06,040 --> 01:45:09,160
Speaker 10: really difficult part of your schedule, I mean, these next

2079
01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:12,639
Speaker 10: three weeks for Xavier are I don't want to say impossible, Tony,

2080
01:45:12,680 --> 01:45:15,559
Speaker 10: but they might be impossible. Where you're gonna have, like

2081
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 10: you said, Saint John's Creighton, you're gonna have Villanova mixed

2082
01:45:18,479 --> 01:45:20,240
Speaker 10: in there. I mean, this is a really tough part

2083
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 10: of the season upcoming for Xavier. So to go into

2084
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:25,120
Speaker 10: it with a bye week with a win over Butler,

2085
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:27,719
Speaker 10: I think it'd be huge. Butler's a pretty competitive team

2086
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:30,240
Speaker 10: to Xavier as far as you know the balances here

2087
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:32,240
Speaker 10: in the Big East. So yeah, I think it would

2088
01:45:32,240 --> 01:45:34,479
Speaker 10: be a really important win for Xavier tonight. Is Xavier

2089
01:45:34,479 --> 01:45:37,720
Speaker 10: a tournament team? No, probably not. But for the confidence

2090
01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:39,680
Speaker 10: of these guys going forward, I think it is a

2091
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:40,160
Speaker 10: big game.

2092
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,439
Speaker 3: Speaking of confidence. Before I were to let you go, Paul,

2093
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:46,320
Speaker 3: I have to ask, because it's a huge game at

2094
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:48,760
Speaker 3: fifth third tonight, you see desperately needs their first win

2095
01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:53,360
Speaker 3: of the Big twelve season. What is your stance on

2096
01:45:53,560 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 3: paper bags being brought to games?

2097
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:56,160
Speaker 4: Oh?

2098
01:45:56,720 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 10: Oh, they're not going to actually do it, right?

2099
01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:00,479
Speaker 3: I hope not.

2100
01:46:00,840 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 5: Apparently there's not a niche put on this by UC leadership.

2101
01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:09,720
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean, I hope not.

2102
01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:12,759
Speaker 3: Like I think you strike me as an anti paper

2103
01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:13,200
Speaker 3: bag guy.

2104
01:46:14,200 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean.

2105
01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 10: Everybody around the program knows the situation right now. What

2106
01:46:18,479 --> 01:46:19,360
Speaker 10: gave it away, Tony?

2107
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:23,080
Speaker 3: I just think the way you carry yourself. I think,

2108
01:46:23,120 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 3: first of all, being a Verizon customer says a lot.

2109
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:28,440
Speaker 5: It seems like the type of guy who uses reusable bags.

2110
01:46:28,120 --> 01:46:30,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and reusable cell phones.

2111
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:32,680
Speaker 10: As a Verizon customer today, I'll put a bag on

2112
01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:33,040
Speaker 10: my head.

2113
01:46:34,800 --> 01:46:35,960
Speaker 3: Don't go to Clifton then.

2114
01:46:37,560 --> 01:46:40,639
Speaker 10: I wouldn't even I wouldn't wouldn't do it. No, not today.

2115
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 10: No paper bags in Clifton today.

2116
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 3: It is. I know that you guys with the rebound rundown,

2117
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:48,479
Speaker 3: you cover all the local teams, but real quick on

2118
01:46:48,520 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 3: the Bearcats, it's unique, Paul, because you look at their

2119
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:55,160
Speaker 3: three big twelve losses. It's sixty to sixty at the

2120
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,200
Speaker 3: end of four mark with Houston and they lose sixty

2121
01:46:57,240 --> 01:47:00,559
Speaker 3: seven to sixty. They lose by a point to UF,

2122
01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:03,120
Speaker 3: they lose by two to West Virginia. I know, no

2123
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:06,879
Speaker 3: one cares about how hard you play when you're losing games.

2124
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 3: But have you seen anything when you've had a chance

2125
01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:11,240
Speaker 3: to watch, you see that that does give you any

2126
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,920
Speaker 3: reason for optimism or some hope going forward.

2127
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:17,240
Speaker 10: The tough thing. It's funny you say that, Tony, because

2128
01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:19,560
Speaker 10: I was talking about it on the Rundown the other day.

2129
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:22,679
Speaker 10: You see is a couple bounces of the ball away

2130
01:47:23,200 --> 01:47:25,760
Speaker 10: three to zero in the Big twelve with the win

2131
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:28,800
Speaker 10: over Houston, and at that point, the entire season's back

2132
01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:31,640
Speaker 10: on right, everything's in front of you, You're competing for

2133
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 10: an NCAA tournament birth And instead the narrative is still

2134
01:47:35,040 --> 01:47:37,479
Speaker 10: what it's been the last four or five years with

2135
01:47:37,520 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 10: this program, and they can't win the game, they can't

2136
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:42,040
Speaker 10: close it out, they can't score at the end when

2137
01:47:42,040 --> 01:47:45,160
Speaker 10: it matters, and it's the same thing over and over again.

2138
01:47:45,200 --> 01:47:47,640
Speaker 10: And that's where you get frustrated. That Like today on

2139
01:47:47,640 --> 01:47:50,200
Speaker 10: the show where I'm previewing the Cincinnati game, I'm saying, look,

2140
01:47:51,080 --> 01:47:53,120
Speaker 10: there's a good chance this game comes down to the

2141
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:56,360
Speaker 10: end again, and are we going to be sitting here

2142
01:47:56,439 --> 01:47:59,519
Speaker 10: tomorrow morning saying the same thing? Where the players on

2143
01:47:59,600 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 10: this Cincinnati roster are talented enough to win all of

2144
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:05,719
Speaker 10: these games, but at the end of the day, there's

2145
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:08,240
Speaker 10: just some sort of block there that they can't do it.

2146
01:48:08,280 --> 01:48:09,520
Speaker 10: I don't get it.

2147
01:48:09,520 --> 01:48:12,640
Speaker 3: It is remarkable And for those listening that may just

2148
01:48:12,680 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 3: want more college basketball consumption on a daily basis, I

2149
01:48:16,920 --> 01:48:19,400
Speaker 3: know you provide that as well as so many other

2150
01:48:19,439 --> 01:48:21,240
Speaker 3: things that you got going on. What's the easiest way

2151
01:48:21,280 --> 01:48:24,479
Speaker 3: to keep track for listeners of everything that you have

2152
01:48:24,760 --> 01:48:25,720
Speaker 3: your hand in right now?

2153
01:48:26,479 --> 01:48:29,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, The Rebound Rundown. It's an audio only show with

2154
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:31,519
Speaker 10: the interviews that go up on YouTube. So just subscribe

2155
01:48:31,560 --> 01:48:36,360
Speaker 10: to that cover Cincinnati, Xavier, Miami, NKU dating all those

2156
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:40,680
Speaker 10: schools every single day, Kentucky, Louisville. Short podcast for a

2157
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:44,080
Speaker 10: morning commute. So just subscribe to The Rebound Rundown and

2158
01:48:44,120 --> 01:48:46,400
Speaker 10: hopefully next time I'm on here, Tony, I can call

2159
01:48:46,439 --> 01:48:47,719
Speaker 10: in audio only.

2160
01:48:47,960 --> 01:48:50,719
Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about doing one of the shows

2161
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 3: with a paper bag on?

2162
01:48:53,439 --> 01:48:54,000
Speaker 17: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, should I do that tomorrow morning? I can do

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Speaker 10: a YouTube segment tomorrow morning with a paper bag on.

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Speaker 3: If it goes poor, tonight might be the move.

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Speaker 10: Okay, I'll report back.

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01:49:04,840 --> 01:49:07,640
Speaker 3: Paul, you're the man at tell me Connor reappreciate him

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 10: Thanks Connor, I got you I'll relay the message.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. That is that's Paul Fritchner with an assist

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Speaker 3: from Connor Onion Onions Onions.

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Speaker 5: That was fitting, isn't it.

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01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:22,599
Speaker 3: It is a Sincy three sixty peppers, plenty more to go.

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Speaker 3: Yes thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, welcome back. Just the optics

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Speaker 3: Austin of what Paul Fritchner pulled off today.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, very impressive.

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Speaker 3: Verizon outach can't get him at one o'clock. Verizon's still

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01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 3: not working. A lot of folks would have just said, hey,

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Speaker 3: let's just scrap it today, We'll come back and do

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01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:50,880
Speaker 3: it again another time. He says, no, let me go

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01:49:50,920 --> 01:49:54,120
Speaker 3: get Connor Onion. I'm having lunch with him. I'll grab

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01:49:54,160 --> 01:49:56,439
Speaker 3: his phone. Connor nice enough to offer it up, and

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01:49:56,479 --> 01:49:59,120
Speaker 3: we get a great segment from Paul. Big time stuff man.

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01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 3: That that's how the world goes around right there, that's

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01:50:03,200 --> 01:50:08,639
Speaker 3: how things work. Let's talk about another big time program,

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Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Reds. Is it? That's I'm just thrown it

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01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:19,040
Speaker 3: out there. Let's see what sticks. There was an uh

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01:50:19,200 --> 01:50:25,759
Speaker 3: An article today that focused in on just the NL

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01:50:25,960 --> 01:50:30,400
Speaker 3: Central and the Cincinnati Reds. Well, not just the Reds,

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01:50:30,439 --> 01:50:32,559
Speaker 3: but the Reds are in the NL Central, but it

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01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:37,240
Speaker 3: focused in on what teams have done and what teams

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01:50:37,280 --> 01:50:42,479
Speaker 3: still need to do in the NL Central. They based

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01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:46,040
Speaker 3: this based off a number grading system one to five,

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01:50:46,880 --> 01:50:50,520
Speaker 3: one meaning that the work is basically done. Great offseason

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01:50:50,880 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 3: five it's been a disaster. Can it be turned around?

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01:50:55,320 --> 01:51:02,080
Speaker 3: The Chicago Cubs key additions according to Jesse Rds, Alex Bregman,

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01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:07,920
Speaker 3: Edward Cabrera, Phil Mattin Hunter, Harvey Hoby Milner says the

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01:51:07,960 --> 01:51:12,680
Speaker 3: Cubs have completely rebuilt their bullpen after saying goodbye to

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01:51:12,760 --> 01:51:17,320
Speaker 3: Brad Keller Drew Pomeranz in twenty twenty five, and they

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01:51:17,360 --> 01:51:21,680
Speaker 3: have added obviously Cabrera. It's now as deep of a

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01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 3: rotation as it's been in several years, giving hope for

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01:51:25,840 --> 01:51:29,240
Speaker 3: a seven month season in Chicago because they quite frankly

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01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:32,839
Speaker 3: just ran out of arms last year. They've added Alex Bregman.

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01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,360
Speaker 3: When asked what they could still do, it says the

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01:51:36,400 --> 01:51:38,639
Speaker 3: Cubs have a surplus in the infield. Do you keep

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01:51:38,680 --> 01:51:41,519
Speaker 3: everyone or make a trade and add another piece to

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01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:47,040
Speaker 3: the outfield. That say what you want about the Cubs.

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01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:50,400
Speaker 3: According to this report, their urgency rankings won, their work

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01:51:50,479 --> 01:51:55,120
Speaker 3: is essentially done. Take other teams. The Milwaukee Brewers urgency

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01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 3: rating three, so essentially saying we're going to judge their

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01:51:59,080 --> 01:52:02,360
Speaker 3: winner on where it goes from here. The Pittsburgh Pirates Austin,

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01:52:02,400 --> 01:52:05,360
Speaker 3: who I think have had a very good offseason. They've

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01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:07,320
Speaker 3: had a two outfielders, they've hadded a first basement and

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01:52:07,400 --> 01:52:11,479
Speaker 3: Ryan O'Hearn. They've added second basement Brandon Low and by

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01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:16,200
Speaker 3: this report, they're not done looking for offense. So you

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01:52:16,280 --> 01:52:18,320
Speaker 3: add that with a good rotation, It's been a good

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01:52:18,360 --> 01:52:22,160
Speaker 3: off season for Pittsburgh. Saint Louis has essentially cleaned house,

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01:52:22,479 --> 01:52:26,960
Speaker 3: Sonny Gray, Wilson, Contreras are gone, Nolan Ronado was traded yesterday.

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01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:31,320
Speaker 3: They're still looking at a trade scenario for their second

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01:52:31,320 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 3: basement Brendan Donovan. But you know what the Cardinals are doing,

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01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:37,320
Speaker 3: and I think they've done it successfully a strong winter.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to the Cincinnati Reds, here's what it

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01:52:41,280 --> 01:52:48,439
Speaker 3: says key additions none what they've accomplished so far, they've

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01:52:48,479 --> 01:52:52,519
Speaker 3: rebuilt the bullpen to some extent, Emelio Pagan, Pierce Johnson,

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01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:57,920
Speaker 3: Caleb Ferguson. Outside of that, a relatively quiet offseason after

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01:52:58,040 --> 01:53:03,080
Speaker 3: early flirtation with agent Kyle Schwarber when asked what they

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01:53:03,120 --> 01:53:06,600
Speaker 3: still need to do beef up the offense. It's no

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01:53:06,840 --> 01:53:10,320
Speaker 3: secret the Reds were deficient at the plate, yet they've

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01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:14,559
Speaker 3: failed to make a significant upgrade. Maybe a reunion with

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01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:19,479
Speaker 3: the Johannio Suarez could be in place. But the urgency

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01:53:19,560 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 3: rating for the Cincinnati Reds four meaning we're waiting this

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01:53:27,360 --> 01:53:32,800
Speaker 3: to me, Austin, doesn't come as a surprise. It encapsulates

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01:53:32,840 --> 01:53:36,120
Speaker 3: everything we talked about yesterday. With this team, we are

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01:53:36,160 --> 01:53:40,479
Speaker 3: going to be pitched more on South Stewart Noelve, Marte

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01:53:41,680 --> 01:53:46,200
Speaker 3: Matt McClain bounced back here, Spencer's deer health, Elie de

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01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:48,920
Speaker 3: la Cruz getting his injuries taken care of, and maybe

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01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:52,080
Speaker 3: some more rest days. The fact of the matter is,

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01:53:52,800 --> 01:53:56,360
Speaker 3: it doesn't take someone covering this team locally or looking

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01:53:56,400 --> 01:53:59,599
Speaker 3: at this team at a national level to realize they

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Speaker 3: are extra stremely deficient on the offensive side of the ball. Yet,

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Speaker 3: if you're asking me today, Austin, I would assume that

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01:54:05,720 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 3: the roster today looks pretty much almost completed to what

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01:54:11,080 --> 01:54:14,360
Speaker 3: we'll see on opening day. Would you agree? I would agree,

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01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,840
Speaker 3: and I think for many that would be viewed as

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01:54:17,880 --> 01:54:24,400
Speaker 3: a offseason loss. Would you agree because think think about

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01:54:24,400 --> 01:54:26,599
Speaker 3: what the Reds have done right now Austin is essentially

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01:54:26,640 --> 01:54:30,960
Speaker 3: what the Bengals did last year. Right The Bengals had

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01:54:31,000 --> 01:54:34,080
Speaker 3: a great year from Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and

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01:54:34,080 --> 01:54:37,720
Speaker 3: Trey Hendrickson. They knew they had deficiencies. What did they

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Speaker 3: do to address those deficiencies? Next to nothing? What have

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Speaker 3: the Reds done to address their one major deficiency after

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01:54:45,560 --> 01:54:46,320
Speaker 3: last season.

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01:54:46,120 --> 01:54:48,080
Speaker 5: Ended next to nothing?

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01:54:48,200 --> 01:54:52,120
Speaker 3: Next to nothing? So you saw the results for the

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Speaker 3: Bengals this year, What would lead anyone to believe that

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Speaker 3: the results will be any different for the Cincinnati Reds. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and that's frustrating, and I think rightfully so to a

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01:55:02,280 --> 01:55:03,120
Speaker 3: lot of people.

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Speaker 5: And especially when you consider what you just said, which

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01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:09,000
Speaker 5: is that the other teams in the division are getting

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01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:13,120
Speaker 5: better now. Milwaukee maybe hasn't done much, but we all

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01:55:13,120 --> 01:55:15,080
Speaker 5: know they're going to full around and win ninety games.

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Speaker 5: They always do. Pittsburgh, as we said yesterday, played pretty

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01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:21,560
Speaker 5: good baseball the second half of last year. Really ever

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01:55:21,600 --> 01:55:25,000
Speaker 5: since they fired their manager. They were a formidable team,

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01:55:25,040 --> 01:55:27,480
Speaker 5: and they gave the Reds fits and they have Paul

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01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:32,040
Speaker 5: Skins and they've gotten better. Chicago has gotten better Saint Louis.

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Speaker 5: I think they still have a long way to go,

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01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:36,120
Speaker 5: but it's never easy for the Reds to win in

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Speaker 5: Saint Louis. I think they broke some sort of record

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01:55:38,240 --> 01:55:41,680
Speaker 5: last year when they won a series there. Like the

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01:55:41,720 --> 01:55:45,000
Speaker 5: teams around you that you play the most are getting better.

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01:55:45,400 --> 01:55:47,600
Speaker 5: They are not going to be pushovers. They're not going

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01:55:47,640 --> 01:55:50,080
Speaker 5: to be easy to beat. Yeah, and you really haven't

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01:55:50,080 --> 01:55:52,480
Speaker 5: done anything, and you're going to try to sell Reds

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01:55:52,480 --> 01:55:55,000
Speaker 5: fans on Oh noel v Marte is going to be

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01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:56,880
Speaker 5: in the outfield, and Elie de la Cruz is going

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01:55:56,960 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 5: to come back, and more than anything, Matt McClain, he's

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01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:02,200
Speaker 5: going to be back to normal. And key Brian Hayes,

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01:56:02,240 --> 01:56:04,920
Speaker 5: we're gonna fix him. Because a Chris Valaka can see something,

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01:56:05,640 --> 01:56:08,400
Speaker 5: it's just like, okay, cool, this is an eighty win

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01:56:08,520 --> 01:56:09,000
Speaker 5: ball club.

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01:56:09,160 --> 01:56:13,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, just not as much excitement like you mentioned the Brewers.

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01:56:14,080 --> 01:56:17,320
Speaker 3: The Brewers haven't been very active this offseason. According to

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01:56:17,360 --> 01:56:22,680
Speaker 3: this their left handed pitcher Angel Zerpa is the biggest

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01:56:22,680 --> 01:56:27,720
Speaker 3: addition they've made, but they retained Brandon Woodruff and.

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Speaker 4: They have.

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Speaker 3: The two time reigning MLB Executive of the Year in

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01:56:34,840 --> 01:56:39,720
Speaker 3: Matt Arnold. So in in Milwaukee.

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01:56:39,280 --> 01:56:42,200
Speaker 5: It's manager in baseball. Yeah, Murphy in Milwaukee.

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01:56:42,240 --> 01:56:45,280
Speaker 3: It's different because, like you just said, no matter what,

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01:56:45,360 --> 01:56:47,160
Speaker 3: they'll find a way to win around ninety games.

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01:56:47,320 --> 01:56:47,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:49,400
Speaker 5: I feel like if we were doing this show, if

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01:56:49,440 --> 01:56:52,360
Speaker 5: we were a Milwaukee sports talk show, we other than

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01:56:52,400 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 5: talking about Giannis Boo and the fans would be saying, Man,

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Speaker 5: I wonder how Pat Murphy's gonna make it work this year.

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01:56:58,280 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they.

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Speaker 6: Will, yep.

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01:57:00,560 --> 01:57:02,720
Speaker 3: And that's the thing. Like, and you pretty much know

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01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:04,640
Speaker 3: the direction the Cardinals are in right now. I think

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh has been pretty aggressive. Chicago is clearly being aggressive.

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01:57:09,960 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 3: So what do you expect if you're the Reds. Yeah,

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01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:14,320
Speaker 3: look at what the rest of the NAL Central is doing.

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01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:16,880
Speaker 3: They're moving in one way or the other, and you're

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01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:21,400
Speaker 3: just kind of holding right, You're you're just standing Pat,

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01:57:22,560 --> 01:57:25,720
Speaker 3: and I just it's maddening to an extent. With that

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01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:28,840
Speaker 3: being said, I know you you were doing this a

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01:57:28,840 --> 01:57:31,200
Speaker 3: little bit earlier today. Do you do you have what

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Speaker 3: you think would be the projected opening day lineup? I'm

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01:57:34,560 --> 01:57:36,840
Speaker 3: just sick that you jot some stuff down. I'm sick

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01:57:36,880 --> 01:57:39,160
Speaker 3: in the head. And last night it's like eleven PM.

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01:57:39,160 --> 01:57:41,680
Speaker 3: I'm laying in bed and I just start thinking of

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01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:44,440
Speaker 3: all the stuff I want to talk about today, and

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01:57:44,520 --> 01:57:46,640
Speaker 3: I was like, what would be like the Reds lineup

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01:57:46,680 --> 01:57:49,400
Speaker 3: like Liz I wrote down, like their whole roster and everything.

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01:57:50,480 --> 01:57:53,600
Speaker 5: Here's my lineup. Here's how i'd line them up. Perhaps

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01:57:54,800 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 5: Freedol center field, Okay, dey La Cruz shortstop, Marte at

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01:58:02,680 --> 01:58:05,400
Speaker 5: right field, okatting third. That's your top three. I'd like

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01:58:05,440 --> 01:58:07,160
Speaker 5: to get marks in put where's Mark Att?

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Speaker 3: Yes? I kidding?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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01:58:11,240 --> 01:58:15,800
Speaker 5: Cleanup? D H south Stewart batting fifth, first baseman, Spencer

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01:58:15,840 --> 01:58:21,240
Speaker 5: Steer batting, sixth left fielder, Will Benson batting, seventh catcher,

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Speaker 5: Tyler Stevenson batting, eighth, third baseman, Key Brian Hayes betting, ninth,

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01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:30,600
Speaker 5: second baseman, Matt McClain. It's basically the same lineup for

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01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:33,200
Speaker 5: most of last year. At the end, right, I mean,

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Speaker 5: I think it's disrespectful. You don't have JJ Blede in there.

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Speaker 5: JJ Bledah is a career two fifteen hitter. Let him know,

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01:58:39,560 --> 01:58:42,680
Speaker 5: let the people know he stinks. Yeah, he's not a

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01:58:42,680 --> 01:58:45,920
Speaker 5: good player. And I saw Mark Sheldon on MLB dot

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01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:48,560
Speaker 5: Com put his projected lineup out what's he got? He

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01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:54,040
Speaker 5: put freedom, Marte de la Cruz, Steer, Stewart, Bleda, Stevenson, McLain, Hayes,

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01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:57,880
Speaker 5: And that might very well be the case. I think

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01:58:57,880 --> 01:59:00,880
Speaker 5: I'm going to start pounding the drum for more Will Benson. Oh,

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01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:03,880
Speaker 5: now I've in the past I've been critical of Will Benson.

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01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:06,280
Speaker 5: I do reserve the right to change my mind. I

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01:59:06,320 --> 01:59:09,320
Speaker 5: think I'm going to change it. Will Benson over JJ

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01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:13,320
Speaker 5: Bleday and Dane Myers. Those guys, you're going to be

2340
01:59:13,360 --> 01:59:14,960
Speaker 5: late inning defensive replacements.

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01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:15,280
Speaker 4: Cool.

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01:59:16,680 --> 01:59:18,800
Speaker 3: Let me just stop you there. Okay, we're at the

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01:59:18,800 --> 01:59:22,080
Speaker 3: point now less than a month from opening day, and

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01:59:22,120 --> 01:59:27,760
Speaker 3: your argument is Will Benson over Daane Myers and Jja Bladay.

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01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:32,480
Speaker 3: That right there speaks to the incompetence that has been

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01:59:32,480 --> 01:59:33,880
Speaker 3: shown this offseason by the Reds.

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01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:36,560
Speaker 5: I wish that I was like excited about this team.

2348
01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 3: That's the problem.

2349
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:40,160
Speaker 5: Like I wish they gave me something to be amped.

2350
01:59:39,920 --> 01:59:41,720
Speaker 3: About, Like Reds Fest is in two days.

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01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 5: I could not care less.

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01:59:44,200 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 3: I'm I'm again like you just threw out a position

2353
01:59:50,760 --> 01:59:55,240
Speaker 3: or a battle that you're discussing over Day Myers, JJ

2354
01:59:55,360 --> 01:59:57,200
Speaker 3: Bleday and Will Benson.

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01:59:58,040 --> 02:00:01,120
Speaker 5: Just for comparison, that's where we're at. Last year, JJ

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Speaker 5: Blede played in ninety eight games. Oh boy, Will Benson

2357
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:05,720
Speaker 5: played in ninety.

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Speaker 8: J D.

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Speaker 5: Blade had ninety more played appearances than Will Benson.

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02:00:11,720 --> 02:00:12,120
Speaker 3: He hit.

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Speaker 5: He had just thirteen more hits in those ninety played

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02:00:15,880 --> 02:00:19,120
Speaker 5: appearances than Benson. He had just two more home runs

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02:00:19,360 --> 02:00:23,600
Speaker 5: than Benson. Benson had more rbi, more stolen bases, a

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02:00:23,640 --> 02:00:27,480
Speaker 5: better batting average, a higher slugging percentage, and a higher

2365
02:00:27,520 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 5: OPS than JJ Blade. But this is the guy that

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02:00:31,880 --> 02:00:34,680
Speaker 5: you're gonna bring in to compete with Will Benson to

2367
02:00:34,720 --> 02:00:38,360
Speaker 5: take the outfielder spot just because he's a left handed hitter.

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Speaker 5: I don't quite understand that.

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02:00:41,840 --> 02:00:45,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's maddening. It's absolutely maddening.

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Speaker 5: Give me a moment, I'll get the Dane Myers comparison.

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02:00:48,760 --> 02:00:49,600
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, please.

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Speaker 5: By the way, JJ Bleday had a negative zero point

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Speaker 5: three war. Will Benson had a positive zero point six.

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Speaker 5: These are just baseball, you know, right, and that War

2375
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Speaker 5: an analytics team.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

2377
02:01:04,120 --> 02:01:04,200
Speaker 8: So.

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Speaker 5: Last year, okay, Dane Myers played in one hundred and

2379
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Speaker 5: six games. Will Benson played in just ninety. He had

2380
02:01:13,520 --> 02:01:16,080
Speaker 5: he was a batting average of two thirty five on

2381
02:01:16,200 --> 02:01:20,120
Speaker 5: base percentage of two ninety one, he had eighteen stolen bases.

2382
02:01:20,160 --> 02:01:22,280
Speaker 5: There's a level of speed, there is a very good defender,

2383
02:01:22,760 --> 02:01:26,920
Speaker 5: so those are all better than Will Benson. But Benson

2384
02:01:26,960 --> 02:01:31,120
Speaker 5: destroyed him in slugging percentage and Ops had twice as

2385
02:01:31,160 --> 02:01:35,200
Speaker 5: many home runs Ops plus blew him out of the water.

2386
02:01:36,720 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 5: So obviously there's there was a stretch there where Will

2387
02:01:39,880 --> 02:01:41,960
Speaker 5: Benson was playing really well and was hitting the ball

2388
02:01:42,000 --> 02:01:45,840
Speaker 5: with power. Dane Myers is by no means a power hitter,

2389
02:01:46,840 --> 02:01:49,960
Speaker 5: but for a team that needs offense, yeah, I would

2390
02:01:50,040 --> 02:01:53,080
Speaker 5: lean towards Will Benson more than I would Dane meyers Man.

2391
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Speaker 3: I just can't believe that this is where we're at.

2392
02:01:56,880 --> 02:01:59,480
Speaker 3: Bladet Benson Myers.

2393
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Speaker 5: And like, Who's That's what I was saying, Like, Who's

2394
02:02:01,960 --> 02:02:03,160
Speaker 5: gonna play left field every day?

2395
02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:03,680
Speaker 3: Right?

2396
02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:07,000
Speaker 5: If Fred's gonna play center, this team has mar Is

2397
02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:10,160
Speaker 5: gonna play right. And for what it's worth, if you

2398
02:02:10,160 --> 02:02:14,040
Speaker 5: look at the Red's website and you look at outfielders,

2399
02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:18,560
Speaker 5: they don't list Spencer Steer as an outfielder anymore. They

2400
02:02:18,560 --> 02:02:21,880
Speaker 5: have Gavin lux on there, but they don't list Spencer Steers.

2401
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:23,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't forget about Gavin lux.

2402
02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:26,360
Speaker 5: I think Spencer Steers should maybe get more opportunities in

2403
02:02:26,440 --> 02:02:28,640
Speaker 5: left field, especially if you're gonna play Sol Stewart at

2404
02:02:28,680 --> 02:02:30,960
Speaker 5: first base. They have Ellie listed in the outfield, they don't.

2405
02:02:31,240 --> 02:02:36,040
Speaker 5: Here are the listed outfielders on the Reds forty Man Ross.

2406
02:02:35,760 --> 02:02:37,720
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, outfield was a position of Eve

2407
02:02:37,840 --> 02:02:40,640
Speaker 3: last year. Yes, okay, here are they? Here they are

2408
02:02:41,240 --> 02:02:47,080
Speaker 3: Will Benson, JJ Bledeh, Tyler Callahan who had that nasty

2409
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:52,000
Speaker 3: injury in Atlanta. Maybe there's something there. Blake Done. I

2410
02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:53,840
Speaker 3: think we've seen enough of him at the big league level,

2411
02:02:53,840 --> 02:02:55,640
Speaker 3: although he was unreal in Triple A at the end

2412
02:02:55,640 --> 02:02:56,200
Speaker 3: of last year.

2413
02:02:56,520 --> 02:03:01,160
Speaker 5: TJ. Friedel, Reese Hines, Oh good, I'll throw a slider

2414
02:03:01,200 --> 02:03:02,480
Speaker 5: down and a way and we'll see you later.

2415
02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:03,000
Speaker 3: Reese.

2416
02:03:03,280 --> 02:03:07,480
Speaker 5: Gavin Lux. Gavin Lux looks like you and me trying

2417
02:03:07,480 --> 02:03:10,360
Speaker 5: to play in the outfield. Gosh, Noelvi Marte, Dane Myers,

2418
02:03:10,440 --> 02:03:14,560
Speaker 5: and Hector Rodriguez. Now everybody keeps talking about Hector Rodriguez,

2419
02:03:14,560 --> 02:03:17,680
Speaker 5: Hector Rodriguez, Hector Rodriguez. And I would love nothing more

2420
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:20,120
Speaker 5: than for Hector Rodriguez to make this ball club and

2421
02:03:20,160 --> 02:03:22,280
Speaker 5: be a monster. But I don't think we're gonna see

2422
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:26,200
Speaker 5: him until you know, midway through the season. I would assume,

2423
02:03:29,160 --> 02:03:30,800
Speaker 5: you know, someone brings up a good point. It's a

2424
02:03:30,800 --> 02:03:33,160
Speaker 5: pretty pretty crappy someone.

2425
02:03:33,320 --> 02:03:35,680
Speaker 3: Up put a good point on a DJ on on

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Speaker 3: social media. You know, Garrett Crochet will be the opening

2427
02:03:38,440 --> 02:03:41,720
Speaker 3: day starter for Boston. Oh yeah, we're not going to

2428
02:03:41,760 --> 02:03:43,440
Speaker 3: throw a lefty in the outfield up there to go

2429
02:03:43,480 --> 02:03:44,200
Speaker 3: against Crochet.

2430
02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:48,480
Speaker 5: True. So, so you're opening day lineup where you got

2431
02:03:48,520 --> 02:03:53,120
Speaker 5: Reese Hines, You're probably I would assume Steer would probably

2432
02:03:53,160 --> 02:03:55,480
Speaker 5: be in the outfield in that situation. Yeah, because you

2433
02:03:55,480 --> 02:03:57,720
Speaker 5: don't have anybody else, you know, put Dane Myers up

2434
02:03:57,720 --> 02:04:02,120
Speaker 5: there right, gosh man, or maybe they will because they

2435
02:04:02,120 --> 02:04:04,480
Speaker 5: always start somebody who doesn't belong in a big.

2436
02:04:05,560 --> 02:04:06,960
Speaker 3: Are gonna have a huge opening Day?

2437
02:04:07,480 --> 02:04:09,520
Speaker 5: Well, they'll pinch hit. Here's what's gonna happen. They'll be

2438
02:04:09,600 --> 02:04:13,040
Speaker 5: down one in the ninth and they'll pinch hit one

2439
02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:13,960
Speaker 5: of those two guys.

2440
02:04:14,120 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 4: Yep.

2441
02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:18,880
Speaker 5: Actually, they'll pinch hit bla day and he'll get a single, right,

2442
02:04:19,960 --> 02:04:23,120
Speaker 5: and then they'll put in Myers to try to steal

2443
02:04:23,120 --> 02:04:25,760
Speaker 5: a base, and he will. They'll steal second, and then

2444
02:04:25,760 --> 02:04:30,720
Speaker 5: they'll pop out, strikeout, flyout, game over one, nothing, one

2445
02:04:30,720 --> 02:04:36,320
Speaker 5: nothing loss. Green, frustrating eighty two thirds gave up one

2446
02:04:36,400 --> 02:04:39,640
Speaker 5: bad pitch. Yeah, yep, right, there's probably one bad pitch

2447
02:04:39,640 --> 02:04:42,360
Speaker 5: in the second inning and it landed in between the smokestacks.

2448
02:04:42,440 --> 02:04:43,800
Speaker 3: That's what we should do in the off season. We

2449
02:04:43,840 --> 02:04:48,800
Speaker 3: should just do like day after bad Red loss, projected

2450
02:04:49,040 --> 02:04:52,600
Speaker 3: radio show, just start the show.

2451
02:04:52,640 --> 02:04:54,360
Speaker 5: So we start the show as if a game happened

2452
02:04:54,440 --> 02:04:54,880
Speaker 5: last night.

2453
02:04:54,960 --> 02:04:58,200
Speaker 3: Yep, another tough loss last night, Hunter Green gave him

2454
02:04:58,240 --> 02:04:59,800
Speaker 3: seven great innings.

2455
02:04:59,600 --> 02:05:01,480
Speaker 5: Of Like gosh, people would be calling in, say, is

2456
02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:02,160
Speaker 5: this a replay?

2457
02:05:02,200 --> 02:05:04,280
Speaker 3: What's going on? Let's take a break.

2458
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:06,520
Speaker 5: You know what that's actually got me. You got my

2459
02:05:06,680 --> 02:05:09,320
Speaker 5: mind thinking I'm gonna write this down. I had I

2460
02:05:09,360 --> 02:05:14,720
Speaker 5: have a couple, as you know, great offseason topics. Sure,

2461
02:05:15,760 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 5: random Reds game recap. So here, what if we do this?

2462
02:05:21,640 --> 02:05:23,480
Speaker 5: What if we find I don't know any game from

2463
02:05:23,520 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 5: the last four years, five years, and we just we

2464
02:05:27,600 --> 02:05:29,200
Speaker 5: plug it in, We use it as the call of

2465
02:05:29,200 --> 02:05:32,440
Speaker 5: the day, highlights something happened, and we just break down

2466
02:05:32,480 --> 02:05:33,240
Speaker 5: what happened.

2467
02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:35,440
Speaker 3: In that game, and then the first listener that can

2468
02:05:35,440 --> 02:05:37,440
Speaker 3: tell us what game we're actually talking about.

2469
02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:39,920
Speaker 5: I bet we get Mark calling in. He'd be upset

2470
02:05:39,960 --> 02:05:43,640
Speaker 5: about the lineup that day. I think David Bell should

2471
02:05:43,680 --> 02:05:45,520
Speaker 5: have done. And this is what I didn't like about

2472
02:05:45,600 --> 02:05:48,920
Speaker 5: David Bell it off season. Man, the juice is just

2473
02:05:48,960 --> 02:05:51,360
Speaker 5: get flowing. We got two segments, we got mo we

2474
02:05:51,440 --> 02:05:53,640
Speaker 5: got two segments. Well, we'll do a quick touch and.

2475
02:05:53,560 --> 02:05:56,320
Speaker 3: Go and then we'll get the Mowugger NEXTESBN fifteen thirty,

2476
02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:57,320
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Sports Station.

2477
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Tony Pike. Since he three sixty on

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02:06:03,840 --> 02:06:05,640
Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty.

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02:06:06,920 --> 02:06:10,480
Speaker 3: Welcome back, since he three to sixty. A couple quick

2480
02:06:10,480 --> 02:06:14,160
Speaker 3: things here, Austin double impact Cincinnati teams. That's right. One

2481
02:06:15,200 --> 02:06:17,640
Speaker 3: that team that the Reds open up with, the Boston

2482
02:06:17,640 --> 02:06:20,040
Speaker 3: Red Sox. Yeah, they just got a deal done with

2483
02:06:20,160 --> 02:06:23,600
Speaker 3: Ranger Suarez. Oh one hundred and one hundred and thirty

2484
02:06:23,600 --> 02:06:24,800
Speaker 3: million over five years.

2485
02:06:25,360 --> 02:06:28,320
Speaker 5: So the Reds are gonna see Garrett Crochet and Ranger

2486
02:06:28,360 --> 02:06:32,680
Speaker 5: Swarrenny Gray yep and Ranger Suarez book it.

2487
02:06:34,040 --> 02:06:37,120
Speaker 3: Oh boy, and then some other news Austin. Go ahead,

2488
02:06:37,160 --> 02:06:39,800
Speaker 3: because earlier in the week, Dylan Ryola committed to be

2489
02:06:39,840 --> 02:06:41,680
Speaker 3: the quarterback next year for the Oregon Ducks and then

2490
02:06:41,720 --> 02:06:42,800
Speaker 3: what has happened since.

2491
02:06:42,600 --> 02:06:45,800
Speaker 5: So he's gonna be backing up Dante Moore. Wow More,

2492
02:06:45,840 --> 02:06:49,440
Speaker 5: the Oregon quarterback has decided to return to the University

2493
02:06:49,480 --> 02:06:53,160
Speaker 5: of Oregon. It is a red shirt junior season. If

2494
02:06:53,200 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken there he was many believed to be

2495
02:06:57,800 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 5: a top five pick in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft.

2496
02:07:00,360 --> 02:07:02,920
Speaker 5: This obviously not good for the Bengals. Now they don't

2497
02:07:02,960 --> 02:07:05,200
Speaker 5: need a quarterback. They're in the top ten. Maybe only

2498
02:07:05,240 --> 02:07:07,440
Speaker 5: one quarterback will now go ahead of them. That'll be

2499
02:07:07,440 --> 02:07:10,960
Speaker 5: Fernando Mendoz and number one overall of the Raiders, and

2500
02:07:11,200 --> 02:07:13,160
Speaker 5: the team's ahead of the Bengals. Likely not going to

2501
02:07:13,240 --> 02:07:16,200
Speaker 5: be picking a quarterback. Not great news. But Dante Moore

2502
02:07:16,240 --> 02:07:18,360
Speaker 5: returning to Oregon.

2503
02:07:18,240 --> 02:07:19,480
Speaker 4: Man, how about that?

2504
02:07:22,240 --> 02:07:26,080
Speaker 3: Next we'll have Moeger returning to this show. Quick Hits

2505
02:07:26,960 --> 02:07:30,120
Speaker 3: ESBN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station JO.

2506
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:35,000
Speaker 1: Now it's time for quick hits on Tony Pikes since

2507
02:07:35,040 --> 02:07:38,040
Speaker 1: he three sixty was looking.

2508
02:07:37,760 --> 02:07:40,440
Speaker 3: For mo most here or in the building.

2509
02:07:40,520 --> 02:07:41,080
Speaker 6: How's it going.

2510
02:07:41,240 --> 02:07:44,200
Speaker 3: It's a huge day. We're downed here in our bearcat gear.

2511
02:07:44,320 --> 02:07:47,560
Speaker 3: We are. Tonight's the night I'm ready to rally? When

2512
02:07:48,400 --> 02:07:51,920
Speaker 3: when years from now? Ready to Perhaps the statue has

2513
02:07:51,960 --> 02:07:55,840
Speaker 3: been put up of who wes. Okay, perhaps they're talking

2514
02:07:55,880 --> 02:07:58,720
Speaker 3: about the season turnaround. It will, it will, it will

2515
02:07:58,760 --> 02:08:01,080
Speaker 3: stem from the Colorado game.

2516
02:08:01,240 --> 02:08:04,200
Speaker 6: This is the beginning of a new beginning, is what

2517
02:08:04,200 --> 02:08:08,120
Speaker 6: you're saying. Wow, tonight's when it starts to turn. Yes, okay,

2518
02:08:08,200 --> 02:08:10,120
Speaker 6: I'm in let's go seven and a half, eight and

2519
02:08:10,160 --> 02:08:14,520
Speaker 6: a half pint a half against Colorado to let's go.

2520
02:08:15,400 --> 02:08:17,280
Speaker 6: Let's go. And then you know what I'm gonna do.

2521
02:08:17,720 --> 02:08:21,080
Speaker 6: I'm gonna pack my after game meal and a brown bag.

2522
02:08:22,360 --> 02:08:24,080
Speaker 6: I don't know. That wasn't very good.

2523
02:08:24,400 --> 02:08:26,680
Speaker 5: You have a hard time finding one at the arena, apparently.

2524
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:29,200
Speaker 6: I bet you that is overblown tonight.

2525
02:08:29,520 --> 02:08:30,120
Speaker 3: I hope it is.

2526
02:08:30,200 --> 02:08:31,280
Speaker 6: I bet you that's overblown.

2527
02:08:31,360 --> 02:08:31,880
Speaker 3: I hope it is.

2528
02:08:32,040 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 6: I could be dead wrong. And look, everybody I said yesterday,

2529
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 6: I don't tell people what to do. I don't tell

2530
02:08:38,480 --> 02:08:41,120
Speaker 6: people how to behave. As long as you're not harming anybody,

2531
02:08:41,360 --> 02:08:41,960
Speaker 6: I don't care.

2532
02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:42,120
Speaker 9: Now.

2533
02:08:42,120 --> 02:08:43,960
Speaker 3: Would you be upset though? If you know your seats

2534
02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:45,920
Speaker 3: are very good for the game you're working. I don't

2535
02:08:45,920 --> 02:08:48,080
Speaker 3: know if everyone around this office knows, but you do

2536
02:08:48,160 --> 02:08:53,320
Speaker 3: work these games. Sometimes. The place where I draw the

2537
02:08:53,360 --> 02:08:55,720
Speaker 3: line is if the gentleman or a lady sitting in

2538
02:08:55,760 --> 02:08:56,960
Speaker 3: front of me has got a bag on and I

2539
02:08:56,960 --> 02:08:58,800
Speaker 3: can't see the action. Yeah, and now I'm gonna have

2540
02:08:58,800 --> 02:09:00,400
Speaker 3: to have conversation to me.

2541
02:09:00,200 --> 02:09:03,920
Speaker 6: Your behavior at a game, if you're not causing someone

2542
02:09:03,920 --> 02:09:06,480
Speaker 6: else to not have a good time, I don't care.

2543
02:09:07,120 --> 02:09:10,720
Speaker 6: I don't tell people quote how to fan. So like,

2544
02:09:11,120 --> 02:09:15,120
Speaker 6: if you want to wrap your entire identity around a team, awesome,

2545
02:09:15,720 --> 02:09:17,600
Speaker 6: If you just want to watch the games and not

2546
02:09:17,640 --> 02:09:21,360
Speaker 6: care about the minutia, awesome. I don't tell people how

2547
02:09:21,400 --> 02:09:24,240
Speaker 6: to fan. If you want to go to every game awesome,

2548
02:09:24,480 --> 02:09:27,560
Speaker 6: If you just want to watch on TV, awesome. I

2549
02:09:27,600 --> 02:09:30,000
Speaker 6: don't tell people how to fan. I don't tell people

2550
02:09:30,080 --> 02:09:33,840
Speaker 6: how to behave unless you're harming someone else or getting

2551
02:09:33,840 --> 02:09:36,240
Speaker 6: in the way of their enjoyment. But I'm gonna be

2552
02:09:36,280 --> 02:09:40,280
Speaker 6: willing to bet that the former player pushback has made

2553
02:09:40,360 --> 02:09:43,560
Speaker 6: those who are thinking about wearing the brown backg have

2554
02:09:43,680 --> 02:09:47,000
Speaker 6: second thoughts. I could be dead wrong and whatever. I

2555
02:09:47,040 --> 02:09:49,160
Speaker 6: want them to win the game tonight, correct. I don't

2556
02:09:49,160 --> 02:09:52,320
Speaker 6: care if there's five people in the stands. I was

2557
02:09:52,360 --> 02:09:54,680
Speaker 6: asked by somebody over the weekend who I've yet to

2558
02:09:54,680 --> 02:09:57,360
Speaker 6: get back to. Is it fair for me to be

2559
02:09:57,400 --> 02:09:59,080
Speaker 6: to the point that I'm rooting for them to lose

2560
02:09:59,160 --> 02:10:00,000
Speaker 6: so they make a change.

2561
02:10:00,040 --> 02:10:00,800
Speaker 3: I'll never be there.

2562
02:10:01,120 --> 02:10:04,000
Speaker 6: I can't do that. They're not going to get a

2563
02:10:04,080 --> 02:10:06,480
Speaker 6: better pick in the draft. I'm not there. I'm never

2564
02:10:06,520 --> 02:10:06,960
Speaker 6: going to be there.

2565
02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:09,600
Speaker 3: Austin asked earlier, would you rather five hundred people show

2566
02:10:09,680 --> 02:10:11,760
Speaker 3: up or everyone wear bags? And I'd sad rather everyone

2567
02:10:11,800 --> 02:10:14,800
Speaker 3: wear bags because that way people are still angry about it.

2568
02:10:15,160 --> 02:10:17,480
Speaker 6: If you wear a bag to the game, do you

2569
02:10:17,520 --> 02:10:19,720
Speaker 6: still like cheer and stuff? How do you yell at

2570
02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:20,000
Speaker 6: the ref?

2571
02:10:20,120 --> 02:10:21,320
Speaker 3: What do you eat? What do you drink?

2572
02:10:21,480 --> 02:10:21,760
Speaker 22: Also?

2573
02:10:21,960 --> 02:10:24,240
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, like they serve beer at these games. I'm

2574
02:10:24,240 --> 02:10:27,680
Speaker 6: having a cold one if I can. Yeah, Uh, that's

2575
02:10:27,720 --> 02:10:28,839
Speaker 6: harder to do with a bag.

2576
02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:33,000
Speaker 3: There's also this and as long as I'm able, I'm

2577
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:36,080
Speaker 3: going to games like I love going to UC basketball games.

2578
02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:37,800
Speaker 3: I'll never root for them to lose. But what I

2579
02:10:37,800 --> 02:10:40,600
Speaker 3: did tell my wife this morning, I said we may

2580
02:10:40,680 --> 02:10:43,560
Speaker 3: leave a few minutes later from the house tonight because

2581
02:10:43,560 --> 02:10:47,600
Speaker 3: it was uncomfortable. The booze were uncomfortable to me at Houston.

2582
02:10:46,960 --> 02:10:50,200
Speaker 3: I was taken back by how loud they were, Like,

2583
02:10:50,280 --> 02:10:52,880
Speaker 3: that's uncomfortable for me. I know the coaches here it.

2584
02:10:52,960 --> 02:10:56,160
Speaker 3: I know the players hear it. Your message is getting across. Regardless,

2585
02:10:56,880 --> 02:10:58,560
Speaker 3: I don't even want to be city seated for the

2586
02:10:58,600 --> 02:10:59,600
Speaker 3: booze again.

2587
02:11:00,080 --> 02:11:02,600
Speaker 6: All these things are a byproduct of not winning, correct,

2588
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:04,520
Speaker 6: All of these are These are all the things that

2589
02:11:04,600 --> 02:11:07,680
Speaker 6: come with with not winning. It's like when last month

2590
02:11:07,720 --> 02:11:09,840
Speaker 6: with the Bengals, when people were complaining about the snow

2591
02:11:09,960 --> 02:11:12,960
Speaker 6: not being off the seats, fair criticism. Bengals dropped the

2592
02:11:13,000 --> 02:11:15,360
Speaker 6: ball there. It was amplified by the fact that the

2593
02:11:15,360 --> 02:11:18,080
Speaker 6: team stunk this season. Sure, I put on social media.

2594
02:11:18,440 --> 02:11:21,400
Speaker 6: If the Bengals came into that game leading the AFC

2595
02:11:21,440 --> 02:11:24,600
Speaker 6: North by two, no one would care. No, these are

2596
02:11:24,640 --> 02:11:28,240
Speaker 6: the things that just come with losing, and so booze

2597
02:11:28,240 --> 02:11:31,919
Speaker 6: come with losing. Fan protests come with losing. People deciding

2598
02:11:31,960 --> 02:11:33,960
Speaker 6: to not go to games come with losing. There's only

2599
02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:39,000
Speaker 6: one answer to it's it's winning games. And Wes has

2600
02:11:39,200 --> 02:11:42,839
Speaker 6: clung to the US against the world thing. Cool tonight,

2601
02:11:43,240 --> 02:11:45,960
Speaker 6: let's see it and let's see it results in a victory.

2602
02:11:46,040 --> 02:11:48,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, what you got coming up on your program today?

2603
02:11:48,400 --> 02:11:49,720
Speaker 6: TJ. Friedel's going to join us?

2604
02:11:49,720 --> 02:11:50,000
Speaker 17: Wow?

2605
02:11:50,160 --> 02:11:53,280
Speaker 6: Yes, red center fielder nice he is going to join

2606
02:11:53,360 --> 02:11:57,600
Speaker 6: us at a four thirty Rick browing on Xavier and

2607
02:11:57,840 --> 02:12:01,040
Speaker 6: NKU basketball, the Musketeers getting set to play Butler tonight,

2608
02:12:01,120 --> 02:12:04,640
Speaker 6: the Norse coming off a very frustrating road loss to

2609
02:12:04,680 --> 02:12:07,280
Speaker 6: Doug Gottlieb's a Green Bay team. Rick is going to

2610
02:12:07,360 --> 02:12:10,400
Speaker 6: join us at three forty five. Let's talk about continuity

2611
02:12:10,480 --> 02:12:14,400
Speaker 6: versus change in the NFL. The Bengals continuity, everybody else

2612
02:12:14,400 --> 02:12:17,040
Speaker 6: in the vision change. We'll spend some time on that.

2613
02:12:17,120 --> 02:12:21,240
Speaker 6: I'll run a scenario past you. Let's pretend it's October first.

2614
02:12:21,280 --> 02:12:24,040
Speaker 6: I'll make that make sense in the four o'clock hour.

2615
02:12:24,640 --> 02:12:29,480
Speaker 6: And I've been told show Miami some love. Yeah, okay, well,

2616
02:12:30,480 --> 02:12:32,000
Speaker 6: well Miami fans.

2617
02:12:33,160 --> 02:12:37,960
Speaker 3: Great question. Another resounding win last night, thirty nine point victory.

2618
02:12:38,080 --> 02:12:41,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're fine, shoot the ball, good offensively.

2619
02:12:41,600 --> 02:12:41,760
Speaker 8: Man.

2620
02:12:42,120 --> 02:12:44,480
Speaker 3: We have Paul Frischer on Today's It's not like they

2621
02:12:44,600 --> 02:12:46,880
Speaker 3: chose to schedule the way they did. No, And I

2622
02:12:46,880 --> 02:12:49,200
Speaker 3: think Paul made a good point, like it's a lose

2623
02:12:49,240 --> 02:12:52,360
Speaker 3: lose scenario. You don't get much when you schedule them,

2624
02:12:52,680 --> 02:12:55,000
Speaker 3: and if you lose, the result of the loss is

2625
02:12:55,120 --> 02:12:56,320
Speaker 3: much more damaging.

2626
02:12:56,360 --> 02:13:00,040
Speaker 6: The most overrated trope in sports, and you hear it

2627
02:13:00,080 --> 02:13:04,240
Speaker 6: from coaches and players regardless of sport is will play

2628
02:13:04,400 --> 02:13:08,080
Speaker 6: anybody anywhere, anytime. Oh yeah, Well, if I'm Miami, I'm

2629
02:13:08,080 --> 02:13:12,800
Speaker 6: going okay, where when? And who? Like they could go

2630
02:13:12,960 --> 02:13:16,200
Speaker 6: undefeated this season, and I still don't think it's going

2631
02:13:16,280 --> 02:13:19,200
Speaker 6: to be enough. That is largely a byproduct of their schedule,

2632
02:13:19,560 --> 02:13:22,200
Speaker 6: and to me this represents and the NCAA Tournament is

2633
02:13:22,200 --> 02:13:24,280
Speaker 6: the best event in sports and we do not need

2634
02:13:24,320 --> 02:13:27,800
Speaker 6: to expand. But last year you have a thirteen win,

2635
02:13:28,040 --> 02:13:31,880
Speaker 6: thirteen lost Carolina team playing in Dane. You have those

2636
02:13:31,880 --> 02:13:35,200
Speaker 6: teams every year that are just crappy teams from bigger

2637
02:13:35,280 --> 02:13:38,160
Speaker 6: and better conferences versus a team like Miami. And this

2638
02:13:38,240 --> 02:13:40,920
Speaker 6: is not the only example of this, but it's gonna

2639
02:13:40,960 --> 02:13:43,840
Speaker 6: stink like their entire season, which has been special, where

2640
02:13:43,840 --> 02:13:47,720
Speaker 6: they can't play anybody because nobody will play them. It

2641
02:13:47,760 --> 02:13:49,920
Speaker 6: comes down to three days in Cleveland in March, and

2642
02:13:49,960 --> 02:13:52,040
Speaker 6: I hate that. I hate that for them. N KU

2643
02:13:52,120 --> 02:13:54,080
Speaker 6: Darren Horn if he's here, and this is going to

2644
02:13:54,360 --> 02:13:57,120
Speaker 6: us too, But Travis Steels team is having a special

2645
02:13:57,160 --> 02:14:01,040
Speaker 6: season and you hate it for them that it's almost

2646
02:14:01,080 --> 02:14:03,240
Speaker 6: irrelevant when it comes to the thing in the sport

2647
02:14:03,280 --> 02:14:07,080
Speaker 6: that matters the most. But I would love to see.

2648
02:14:07,160 --> 02:14:09,400
Speaker 6: I would love to see Miami get a chance to

2649
02:14:09,440 --> 02:14:12,760
Speaker 6: play on a regular basis some of the area schools. Yeah,

2650
02:14:12,760 --> 02:14:15,400
Speaker 6: I think it's more fun for college basketball. It's better

2651
02:14:15,440 --> 02:14:18,080
Speaker 6: for college basketball. But if you're going to do the

2652
02:14:18,480 --> 02:14:22,320
Speaker 6: we'll play anybody anywhere, anytime, Sure, Okay, then go down

2653
02:14:22,320 --> 02:14:24,880
Speaker 6: to it, pony up to it, Go play Miami last night,

2654
02:14:25,040 --> 02:14:26,680
Speaker 6: my life. Play him at Mallet Hall.

2655
02:14:26,840 --> 02:14:28,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and get people to show up.

2656
02:14:29,160 --> 02:14:29,360
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2657
02:14:29,360 --> 02:14:31,480
Speaker 5: It's a tough time for your team to be really

2658
02:14:31,480 --> 02:14:32,920
Speaker 5: good when the students are in the middle of that

2659
02:14:33,040 --> 02:14:35,200
Speaker 5: jade term. Nobody's on campus.

2660
02:14:35,840 --> 02:14:38,400
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty one fans at Mallet Hall last night.

2661
02:14:39,240 --> 02:14:44,240
Speaker 3: Last night, Giannis Anto Dekompo booed the Milwaukee fans because

2662
02:14:44,240 --> 02:14:48,080
Speaker 3: they boot him going into halftime. What if Bearcats get

2663
02:14:48,120 --> 02:14:50,280
Speaker 3: a win tonight? Would you be okay if West turned

2664
02:14:50,320 --> 02:14:54,000
Speaker 3: around and booed the crowd? Can you boo after bean Booth?

2665
02:14:54,080 --> 02:14:55,840
Speaker 6: Think it would be best for Wes to focus on

2666
02:14:55,880 --> 02:14:57,520
Speaker 6: the game and the fans that came to watch his

2667
02:14:57,560 --> 02:15:00,800
Speaker 6: team play. And what I would tell Giannis is, baby,

2668
02:15:00,800 --> 02:15:03,240
Speaker 6: come to New York. We're not going to boo you.

2669
02:15:05,720 --> 02:15:08,440
Speaker 6: I haven't followed along with the NBA defensively over the

2670
02:15:08,480 --> 02:15:11,760
Speaker 6: last three weeks since the NBA Cup, an absolute train wreck.

2671
02:15:12,160 --> 02:15:14,400
Speaker 3: Like these, you think it's the NBA Cup hangover.

2672
02:15:14,200 --> 02:15:16,240
Speaker 6: A little bit. No team in the last five weeks

2673
02:15:16,280 --> 02:15:23,360
Speaker 6: has played more games, but defensively, defensively, they are a disaster.

2674
02:15:24,600 --> 02:15:26,680
Speaker 6: Got some help the other night from the Indiana Pacers

2675
02:15:27,240 --> 02:15:30,600
Speaker 6: who beat Boston. So little breathing room between them and

2676
02:15:30,600 --> 02:15:33,880
Speaker 6: the Celtics. I'm still bullish on them, but be honest,

2677
02:15:33,880 --> 02:15:36,000
Speaker 6: if you don't like those fans of Milwaukee, we won't

2678
02:15:36,000 --> 02:15:36,400
Speaker 6: boo you.

2679
02:15:36,600 --> 02:15:40,880
Speaker 3: What would the post game victory paper bag snack look like?

2680
02:15:40,920 --> 02:15:44,200
Speaker 6: Form Moegger, I'm going to Skyline on in Clifton after

2681
02:15:44,240 --> 02:15:44,520
Speaker 6: the game.

2682
02:15:44,840 --> 02:15:46,920
Speaker 3: Best Skyline, Well, there's a lot of good ones.

2683
02:15:47,040 --> 02:15:49,000
Speaker 6: The one that's open till one am. Yeah, I'll be

2684
02:15:49,080 --> 02:15:52,760
Speaker 6: at the go after every weeknight home game, always openly.

2685
02:15:53,280 --> 02:15:56,280
Speaker 6: I'll be celebrating. I'm calling my shot. I will be

2686
02:15:56,360 --> 02:16:01,879
Speaker 6: having a celebratory plate of Skyline cheese cone the Clifton

2687
02:16:01,960 --> 02:16:06,160
Speaker 6: Skyline Wow at about ten o'clock tonight. No paper bag needed.

2688
02:16:06,240 --> 02:16:08,640
Speaker 3: When I get there at six forty. Instead of going

2689
02:16:08,640 --> 02:16:10,800
Speaker 3: and sitting in my seats, I'm gonna go right to

2690
02:16:10,880 --> 02:16:13,200
Speaker 3: that skyline when I walk into the arena, perfect and

2691
02:16:13,200 --> 02:16:15,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a couple of Coney's right there in

2692
02:16:15,320 --> 02:16:15,640
Speaker 3: the waiting.

2693
02:16:15,800 --> 02:16:18,200
Speaker 6: You can't eat cheese Coney's with a paper bag on

2694
02:16:18,240 --> 02:16:21,960
Speaker 6: your head. I know you're not. I know you're not,

2695
02:16:22,080 --> 02:16:24,120
Speaker 6: but like that's the drawback of the paper bag.

2696
02:16:24,200 --> 02:16:27,400
Speaker 3: It's true. Well, nonetheless, I hope we're talking about a

2697
02:16:27,440 --> 02:16:28,160
Speaker 3: uc wind tomorrow.

2698
02:16:28,200 --> 02:16:31,280
Speaker 6: If I was like an average looking person, I would

2699
02:16:31,320 --> 02:16:35,120
Speaker 6: definitely not which I'm below average, but like everybody, wearing

2700
02:16:35,160 --> 02:16:37,080
Speaker 6: a paper bag might make you look better, So don't

2701
02:16:37,080 --> 02:16:37,840
Speaker 6: wear the paper bag.

2702
02:16:37,959 --> 02:16:38,119
Speaker 4: Dal.

2703
02:16:39,160 --> 02:16:41,240
Speaker 6: If I was Wes Miller, I'd show I have a

2704
02:16:41,240 --> 02:16:44,480
Speaker 6: sense of humor. Bag wear a paper bag? Yeah, hey, okay,

2705
02:16:45,280 --> 02:16:47,800
Speaker 6: and then everybody's gonna be like, damn, he got damn,

2706
02:16:47,800 --> 02:16:48,320
Speaker 6: he got.

2707
02:16:48,200 --> 02:16:51,840
Speaker 3: Us, he got us. Mo's next. Good luck to the

2708
02:16:51,879 --> 02:16:53,200
Speaker 3: Barracats and the Muskies tonight