WEBVTT - Rocky & Donna D -- 12/5/25 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.640 All here we go. It's Eddie and Rocky Show. Eddie's 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.560 out today. I'm alongside Donna. D Donna, how are you? 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.880 I am so good? It's a great sports weekend, Donna, 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.840 oh man. I mean tonight we got the Crosstown shootout, 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.119 we got the Saint Xavier Bombers try to go for 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:21.360 the state title, and then tomorrow there's many championship games 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.240 Ohio State Indiana is the big one. Of course, Bengals 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.280 game on Sunday, so let's dive right into it with 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.880 our normal Friday guests at this time, the one the 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:31.639 only Richard Skinner, Skinny, how are you? 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.200 I'm doing great? It is a great sports weekend. I mean, honestly, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.600 kind kind of starry last night with Anderson playing in 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.199 the state championship game. I mean, you got it? 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.879 Yeah, no, I watched that game. By the way. That 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.000 Avon team is just really really good, you know, and I. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.040 Want yeah, I watched it too. I mean it's like 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.520 they couldn't get a stop and it wasn't of Anderson stinks. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.880 I mean their defense, while a lot of stuff about 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.360 their offense, their defense was really good. Was just that good? 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.800 Yeah? Yeah, they were good and they got out to 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.800 that big lead early and it was tough, but I 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.759 was proud of Anderson. I thought that was a great 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.920 team and a little short, but they'll probably be back 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.520 next year, so we shall see. I guess let let's 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.080 start with a crosstown shootout here tonight. And I mean 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.039 the big stat that sticks out to everyone is you 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.360 see is not one at the Centas Center since two 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.240 thousand and one. And we talked to Terry Nelson yesterday 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.160 about that. What's the deal? And he said it does 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.600 kind of get in guys heads a little bit. What's 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.360 your thought on this matchup as you see it here tonight. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.480 Yeah, I don't know if he gets in these guys' 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.520 heads because they haven't been a part of this, most 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:39.760 of them. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:40.399 Yeah. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.520 I do think he gets in west Miller's head though, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.039 because you know, the loft Eastern Michigan has put him 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.920 clearly on the hot spot. And now you have to 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.000 go beat your rival on the road who you haven't 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.160 beaten on the road as a head coach, right or wrong, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.440 you probably coached differently. I use analogia on my podcast today. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.400 I can still remember Marvin Lewis during Steelers week saying 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.440 this is not this is like any other week. No, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.760 it wasn't. Man, you never coached like that during that week. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.720 I mean, you could have driven a spike up his 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.639 rear end he's being so tight. I mean, you really 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.240 could have. And and so I do think I do 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.679 think guys coach differently when there's a pressure on you. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.440 And that's where I think tonight, that's the that's the 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.320 one difference. I think you see has a better roster. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.079 I think you see has better players. But right now 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.400 that the old adage of the trend is your friend. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.440 The trend for Xavier is they're trending up where the 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.360 trends that you see is a kind of trending downward. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.080 And with a coach who is kind of on the 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.840 hot seat in a spot where he can't handle the heat, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.440 I think it's a fascinating If it's one of the 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.040 it's always a fascinating ride. But I love rivalry games. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.280 I love the fact that we have one of the 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.040 best rivalries in college basketball in our city. And I 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.800 love the fact the way the fans embrace it like 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.919 there's legitimate hate right or Cincinnati or Northern I'm in 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.440 North Kentucky, but North Kentucky is right, and we all 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.959 kind of bond together because we love this area. Except 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.280 when something like this happens, then one side hits the 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:02.320 other and it's kind of cool. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.760 I agree, And I guess point number one is yes, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.959 Wes Miller on the hot seat, not having a great 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.560 year of a boy. If there's ever a way to 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.160 get off it, it is to win this game tonight. Right, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.880 that could just totally change his fortune. Is the team 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:15.440 and everything? 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.679 No, Right, you know they don't have a ton of 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.840 swings at the acts with big opponents. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:21.440 I'm not sure that. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.440 I mean not going to be probably a resume building 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.080 win for Yuzka. Zager's probably not gonna win a ton 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.080 of games, especially when they get in the Big East Conference. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.600 But I just think, just for a sheer, take a 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.960 deep breath for a moment. Okay, the Eastern Michigan loss 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.640 is ugly, it's bad, but you kind of bounce back 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.440 from that with a win over your rival. You got 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.280 a couple more swings at decent competition before you get 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.920 into the big twelve play And I do think it. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.640 I think this would literally be I don't remember the 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.120 Herb Brooks moment in the movie Miracle where Miracle on 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.920 ice when they won, and he goes behind, he goes 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.720 like underneath the stands and literally leans against the wall, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.960 and it was like somebody pulled a pin and every 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.520 amount of pressure just let out of his body. I 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.600 could see West Miller do that guy tonight if he 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:04.200 wins the game. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.320 I agree. You make a good point about how you 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.560 know the rivalry there's no And I said this yesterday. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.480 I had a college coach, a very good college coach, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.640 tell me one of the problems with football today in 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.159 this case, or is in general sports, is there's not 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.800 the hatred there. And that's because these kids aren't at 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.240 places long enough to build that up. But there's only 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.440 one guy of either u See or Zavier that's played 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.719 in a crosstown shootout before, right, I mean, do you 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.560 think that's a greater, like a potential huge problem with 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.400 some of these rivalries that we all get into. But 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.320 the players don't hate the other team as much as 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.760 the fans hate the other team. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.640 Right to some degree, yes, But because the fans have 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.360 such the disdain for each other, that rivalry is always there. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.200 But I mean I can't remember you know when, And 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.800 again this is going to sound like the old guy 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.360 yell at clouds, and I don't want to be that guy. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.440 But you know, when you had three and four year players, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.440 they would play not only against each other, they play 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.360 against each other in pickup games. They play against each 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.200 other in the old Devereux Summer League. And so that 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.680 always kind of built over time, Like you know, you're 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.799 a freshman class, we're never gonna lose. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.560 The zavier, and that built up over time. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.840 Now it's guys coming in and going, yeah, I know, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.120 where are they located? 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:17.680 Yea. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.479 So my friend, my friend Tom Gamble said to me 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.760 this morning, and I think he said this on another 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.840 radio station today. He said, if you gave players on 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.960 each team, he said, go find the other campus without 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.480 getting a map on your phone. Do you think either 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.159 a male of kids could find the other campus. I'm like, no, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:35.719 probably not. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:36.599 That's a good point. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.400 I think that's I think it's kind of where we 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:39.400 are today. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.320 So it's great that you know Joe Burrow killed it 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:45.360 on Thanksgiving. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:46.560 What a great game. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.560 We haven't seen the Bengals plays feels like forever now. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.039 Because we haven't seen them. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.280 On Sunday, they're playing the Bills and Joe Burrow has 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.520 a pretty good record against Josh Allen. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.320 What do you think about that game, Richard? 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.360 Yeah, I mean Buffalo has been weirdly inconsistent, like they 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.640 played great one week, bad, the next week great, one 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.520 week bad, the next week. Well, they played great in 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.400 Pittsburgh this past weekend. And some of that's because Pittsburgh 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.320 feels like it's falling apart and crumbling. But because of 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.120 that inconsistency, and Josh Allen has been a little turnover 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.520 prone and they've gotten you know, teams have gotten to 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.200 him sackwise. Yeah, I think there's some truth to that. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.240 I mean, Joe Burrows great in December, he's great in 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.920 cold weather, he's great against the Bills. He's he's won, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.960 he won a big playoff game in Buffalo. Uh, and 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.440 you know he feels good. You know, I was really 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.839 interested to hear when we talked to him on Wednesday, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.560 you know, kind of how he felt, because we asked 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.159 Zach Taylor on Friday, the day after the game. You know, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.200 how does Joe feel? You know, you, as Rock, you 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.920 knows you can get to a game with whatever pain 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.039 medication you have and a trenone and all that stuff. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.880 Then the next day it's like, oh, brother, and that game. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.200 I think he gave an honest hans because I really 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.240 haven't seen him, but I don't know. And so when 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:53.720 we talked to Joel, Lenday said, I feel great, but 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.400 feels great. Toe feels great, and I believe that. I mean, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.559 watching him play on Thursday, he looked he had rushed. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.560 I mean the first half, clearly he missed four or 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.039 five throws, but I guess that's not total related. I 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.160 just think that's rust related. And then he shook the 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:07.800 rust off and he was nine to fourteen in the 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.320 second half through two really nice balls on touchdown passes. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.440 And that's the Joe Burrier hoping for. And I think 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.920 it's not just Joe being back and being Joe Burrow. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.480 It's the fact that defense has actually played pretty good 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.720 the last three weeks and probably played arguably it's best 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.280 game against Baltimore. Do I think it's turning a corner. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:24.320 I don't know. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.720 I mean, it's a small sample size, but they are 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.000 playing better. They're utilizing the blitz more often. You know, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.200 some young guys are starting to get more time on task. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.160 I know a couple of us wrote a story on 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.680 Miles Murphy this week. The twenty twenty three first round 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.000 draft picked the sensive end who was just, honestly and 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.920 I'm miittiging a disaster for two and a half years, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.240 and then the last three weeks suddenly he's turned into 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.040 a capable defensive end in this league. He's got fourteen 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.520 quarterback pressures. He kicked the Lamar Jackson pass in that 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.920 Thursday night game that Demetrius Night intercepted. He had six 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.560 pressures against the Steelers, six or eight pressus against the Steelers, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.280 played really well against New England, had a sack again. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.000 I don't know if he's turn the court, but at 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.480 least he's showing some signs of life. And I think 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.720 as much as as Burrow being back, the defense having 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.280 some success. You're the last three games and you got 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.360 to take away some defensive touchdowns at Pittsburgh scored and 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.440 New England scored. The defense itself give up twenty points 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.360 to Pittsburgh, nineteen points in New England, fourteen points to Baltimore. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.520 If you get Joe Burrow and now a healthy T 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.080 Higgins who's going to play this weekend with Jamar Chase, 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.120 if you give up twenty points or less. Joe Burrow 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.000 isn't losing many games, He's just not agreed. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.120 And to Miles Murphy, yes, playing better. And I've often 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.360 found that, you know, sometimes it just takes doing it right, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.280 Like you think you can do it, but then it 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.280 hasn't happened. But then you go do it, you can 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.640 now all of a sudden something in your mind triggers 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.760 where it kind of clears the deck and Okay, I 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.840 can do this moving forward. Do you think the fact 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.960 that I mean Trey Henderson at this point is all 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.040 but an afterthought? Is that helping Miles Murray, that Miles 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.280 Murphy that you know that Trey Hendrickson is like no 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:01.679 longer part of the picture anymore? 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.720 Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. I asked him that, like, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.640 you know, is it is it more you're just getting 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.400 consistent reps? And he said, you know, it's one thing 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.160 to talk and watch film in a dim room and 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.160 feel like I know it. It's another thing to just 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.079 go out there and do it and then do it again, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.880 and then do it again and then do it again. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.120 And I do think that that's again the time on 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.680 task of finally getting some consistent reps, and I'm not 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.439 here to tell he deserved consistent reps. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.160 This is kind of by. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.240 Default because Tray's out. But once he got consistent reps, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.680 it's okay. I'm seeing it now. I know that you 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.520 know what. I'm not coming out after two plays, right, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.120 I feel like I'm about to get into a rhythm 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.400 and I'm going to show this tackle my next move 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.040 because I didn't get to my next move. I only 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.319 got to my one move and I get a chance 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.120 to show a different move. I do think there's there's 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:49.680 some truth to that, and I understand again why he 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.360 didn't get those reps or didn't get those snaps on 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.920 a consistent basis. But now that by the fault he's 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.400 gotten them, I think it's helped him a ton. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:58.120 Well. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.720 I was just gonna ask Richard, listen, this is a 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.319 really big game for the Bengals. I feel like they 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.480 have to win this. What happens if they lose to 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.040 the Bills on Sunday, believe it or not, they still 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.640 have a chance to play. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.720 I can't believe, but yes, I. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.920 Wrote this. I wrote a story about this on Sunday 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.040 that literally, if they win out, they probably will make 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.920 the playoffs at nine and eight, because you will give 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.040 Baltimore a seventh loss. Baltimore and Pittsburgh played twice each. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.280 You know somebody's losing at least one of those games, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.440 if not two of those games. Baltimore still has to play. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:31.719 I'm doing this off the top of my head. I 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.080 always get this confused. Baltimore still believe has to play 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.400 the Patriots and at the Packers or might be vice versa. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.520 And yeah, the Steelers will have to play at the 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.520 Lions and at the Browns. And at the Browns is 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.440 not going to be easy for a Pittsburgh offense. It 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.800 isn't very good. So you can see them getting to 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.960 at least eight, possibly nine losses. If the Bengals go 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.559 eight and nine with a win over Baltimore and a 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.040 win over Cleveland, if they lose to Buffalo, they'll have 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.280 a five and one division record and they'll hold all 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.800 the tiebreakers in the division with that five one division records, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.640 so eight and nine could get them in. So this 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.000 is not a must win. I will say this, This 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.400 is a win. This is a needed win because a 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.360 it kind of reinforces Burrows back defense playing better. We're 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.280 gonna get on a roll like we did last year. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.040 And I also think just from a variable standpoint, it 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.480 avoids the fact that if you do lose this game, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.520 you need a lot of help and you just can't 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.400 always count on that. You may think you'll get it, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.839 and you're hoping you'll get it, and maybe the other 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.040 team showed it that they can beat them and get it, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.240 but you don't want to have to count on that. Again, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.320 I think they went out at nine and eight. I 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.880 think they get at least again. That would give the 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.600 Ravens a seventh loss. The Ravens are losing at least 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.680 one other game other than that to eight. You go 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.000 to nine and eight, Pitchborg's at least losing eight. You're 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:44.560 getting in. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.760 Yeah, and for what it's worth, and again a small 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.400 sample size, my eyes tell me the Bengals are the 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.960 best team in the AFC North right now? Right, I mean, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.520 you know, in terms of who would you rather not 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.559 play of the AFC North teams, if you're an opponent, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.240 you'd say the Bengals. Right now, I think no, no, 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:02.679 no doubt. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.520 And again that can change with Lamar Jackson's health. I 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.679 don't think Lamar's right. I think we saw that on 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.200 Thursday night the Thanksgiving that game, he just did not 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.240 look right. And a lot revolves around Lamar. I mean, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.200 he's a big part of what they do. It's not 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.719 a great Baltimore defense to you that can carry them. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.960 It's good enough. And they had the five game winning streak, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.800 but go look back at the quarterbacks they played in 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.440 that five game winning streak. No knock. I mean, schedules 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.080 all shape up differently, but yeah, they're no juggernaut, and honestly, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.840 Pittsburgh just looks an absolute mess at the moment. Now, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.840 Mike Tom's a genius that find out the ways they 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.320 have winning records. But even if he goes to nine 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.360 and eight, when the Bengals go to nine and eight, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.280 they split, the Bengals would go five and one in 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.200 the division. The Bengals would have the tiebreaker. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.559 Well, skin Out, I want you to enjoy the games 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.800 tonight and then tomorrow around eleven fifty, I want you 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.840 to lay down the couch with a glass of bourbon, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.719 and I want you to come off that couch to 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.640 about I don't know, ten pm Sunday, All right, does 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.280 that sound good? 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.000 So Rocky, that is my witness. That's probably what's gonna happen? 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.080 What are you doing on Saturday? And I literally I went, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.880 I don't know. What are you know? She's well and 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.240 she said, my oldest daughter and we're going to the 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.400 theater and going to dinner late after they go. Good enough, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:10.679 I'll watch it all Street. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.800 Gotcha, I'm good. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.079 I got everything at home. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.480 Yes, well, Skin, enjoy the games, brother, I early appreciate 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.520 you today and thanks so much. I have a good guys, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.160 stick h Richard Skinner and Local twelve. It is a 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.040 great weekend for sports if that's your thing. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.719 We got a healthy Joe Burrow. And you know, even 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.960 if they don't win, they still have a chance. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:31.480 Very chance. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.520 It's unbelievable. All right, let's check some trafficking weather. 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You know, that's 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.640 kind of the big trend is you know you ask 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.480 AI to you know, I my wife, she likes horses 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.640 and and this, and she's such and such years old, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.440 and boom, it just tells you the perfect gifts. Yeah, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.200 And I don't know how you feel about it, But 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:12.640 I'm like, can we do anything ourselves anymore? Seriously? Like 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.840 we use AI for I don't use it a lot, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.000 but I know, I know people use AI for a 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:18.720 lot of things. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.960 But what's your thoughts? Well, I actually agree with you 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.960 on this, Rockey. We don't agree on everything, but I do. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.080 It's like, where is the huge there? AI can do 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.000 quite a few things, but there's no emotion in AI. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.280 No human humans. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.240 I'm gonna bet on humans every time. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.160 I know people are all in on AI and you 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.240 can make so much money and you're gonna do this 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:45.040 and people are already missing the human interaction. There you are, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.920 So I'm putting my money on human interaction. I feel 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.480 like there's gonna be a certain surge in AI, especially 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.280 maybe not so much in twenty twenty six, but twenty 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.280 seven and beyond. And these robots are pretty scared and 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.760 they're so human like, but people are going to miss 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:10.879 that human the flaws of humans, the the compassion, the 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:11.879 the sarcasm. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.560 The robots don't have that. AI doesn't have that. So 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.720 when you go analytical boom right right, wrong? 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.399 Yes, No, what makes sense for a Christmas gift for 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.760 your wife? If she's a horse lover. Fine, give you 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.400 ten ideas, but what if it's something that you thought 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.639 about that only you know about. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.560 We'll always say the thought that counts, which maybe it's not. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.960 Maybe people just like a good gift, but it's like, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.480 you know, you give that gift to my wife, just 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.119 oh that was how thoughtful. And it's like, well, I 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:47.639 didn't think of it the computer exactly. You thank the 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.000