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Speaker 2: Hi, Hello, welcome in our number three Tony Pikes since

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Speaker 2: e three sixty. Here on ESPN fifteen thirty. I'm Austin Olmore,

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Speaker 2: No big fella today, Tony Beck tomorrow for a Friday

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Speaker 2: football frenzy. And it's been a frenzy, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Whether you're talking football or basketball, Bengal dumb or Bearcat Land,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot going on. I always think back to

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Speaker 2: what Moegar says, be good or be interesting. Well, the

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Speaker 2: Bengals and Bearcats have not been good, but they have

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Speaker 2: been interesting. And you see last night got a little

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Speaker 2: bit more interesting. So we go to Bearcat Journal dot

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Speaker 2: COM's Keegan Nickoson to join us now and talk about

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Speaker 2: the Bearcats. Keegan, are you keeping up with all the

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Speaker 2: stuff going on in Bearcat world right now? Barely?

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Speaker 3: I'm hanging on by a string. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: Of keeping up with everything that's going on at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with last night, Jigsel James returns. I think

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Speaker 2: my question is simple, how did we get here with

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Speaker 2: Gigsel James.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he was dismissed from the team in

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Speaker 3: August and then he spent a lot of time in

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Speaker 4: Which kind of specializes.

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Speaker 3: In rehabbing NBA and college players. And I think he

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Speaker 4: Around Louisville the Louisville game.

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Speaker 3: And then ever since that Louisville game, you've had some injuries,

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Speaker 3: some guys who haven't been able to stay healthy and

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Speaker 3: be Before that, you lost Jalen Haynes for the year.

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Speaker 3: Lucas Atari from I believe he's from Brazil, came to

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Speaker 4: And then Jisel was told that he wasn't going.

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Speaker 3: get ready for next season. But then Wes Miller is

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Speaker 3: kind of putting this impossible situation where he has this

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Speaker 4: He can kind of figure out a way to make it.

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Speaker 3: it's been a really, really long road and I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: A desperation player by Wes Miller.

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Speaker 3: But there was a lot more that went into it

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Speaker 3: to make sure that it was a decision that he.

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Speaker 4: Could make that wasn't the best interest of both.

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Speaker 2: His team and Jigsel James, Well, that's what I was

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Speaker 2: about to ask you, because that's the word I've seen

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Speaker 2: the most is desperation for Cincinnati. And I think it's

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Speaker 2: Do you think it's a desperation move and how much

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Speaker 4: I do think it's a desperation move at this.

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Speaker 3: Point in the season, Like Tyler McKinley didn't play, and

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Speaker 3: Kerk c Reaese is shooting under thirty percent from three.

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Speaker 4: I think he just went one for eight last night.

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Speaker 4: That it's a desperation play.

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Speaker 3: But it's not just this thing where Gisel was away

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Speaker 3: And go through the right processes and take the necessary

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty confident that he wouldn't be playing right now.

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Speaker 2: By no means, I am not a basketball expert, but

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Speaker 2: it feels like in the West Miller era offense has

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Speaker 2: a struggle. Why do you think that is.

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Speaker 4: I really I don't know. I think his best offense.

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Speaker 3: bonkers from three, made a ton of shots, and then

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Speaker 3: And that's on coaching. That's not me throwing the players

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Speaker 3: An interview between innings and says, Yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: think of Gisel James, who was supposed to be the

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Speaker 3: Dylan Mitchell didn't have a great offensive season last year.

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Speaker 3: The assistant coaches or there isn't just a great offensive plan,

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Speaker 4: But then you don't get them.

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Speaker 3: hasn't been great. And then Shawnabaiah, who's supposed to be

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Speaker 4: Which no one would have pictured two years ago.

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Speaker 3: So I think a lot of it is it's development,

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Speaker 3: lot of it is just you're not making shots. And

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Speaker 3: that's going to go back to what what are you practicing,

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Speaker 2: How would you assess the season that we've seen from

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Speaker 2: Shaunabaiah this year.

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Speaker 3: I think I unfairly kind of saw him being.

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Speaker 4: One of the highest rated recruits to come to Cincinnati

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Speaker 4: and said, okay, well, he's just going to be the

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Speaker 3: To do much more, knowing that he was a really

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Speaker 3: and then you just kind of think about that and

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Speaker 3: I think he definitely has to play better. And I

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Speaker 4: If you ask Wes.

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Speaker 3: Miller, both of them would say no, and that he

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Speaker 4: I mean, Wes Miller said last night he's going to

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Speaker 4: shoot the ball well this season. Take that to the bank.

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Speaker 4: And you know, Wes has also said that about free throws.

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Speaker 3: And it hasn't really come true. So I don't know

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Speaker 3: how much credence you can give it. But I think

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Speaker 4: I think he's a smart player.

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Speaker 3: I liked seeing him against Alabama State be aggressive on

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Speaker 4: And not just settle for threes.

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Speaker 3: Because he's been a very, very high volume three point shooter,

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Speaker 3: Anyone who says, you know, we saw the Michigan game

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Speaker 2: Talking to Kegan nickoson Bearcat Journal dot Com, let's flip

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Speaker 2: over to football. There's a lot going on as the

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Speaker 2: Bearcats get set for the Liberty Bowl. The big news

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Speaker 2: this week, of course, Brendan Sorosby going into the transfer portal.

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Speaker 2: What did we learn from Scott Saderfield when he talked

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Speaker 2: earlier this week about Sorsby and about what the plan

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Speaker 2: might be to replace him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean what we learned is that Cincinnati put

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Speaker 3: together a very competitive package and finance.

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Speaker 4: Wise to compete with other schools. But at the end

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Speaker 4: of the day, I just think this.

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Speaker 3: Was I think Brendan Soorzy wanted to play somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it was a thing where he was

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Speaker 3: I know for a fact after last season he turned

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Speaker 3: down higher paying offers because he saw.

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Speaker 4: What they were building.

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Speaker 3: He saw Joe Royer, he saw the wide receivers they

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Speaker 3: he saw Evan Pryor the offensive line, and he knew

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Speaker 4: And then you know, kind of.

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Speaker 3: Just looking at the situation and going in the next year,

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Speaker 4: How much can I raise my stock for the NFL?

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Speaker 3: And at this point he thinks he's either going to

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Speaker 3: else and try to raise.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Keegan, appreciate your time. Before I let you go.

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Speaker 2: quick update from Bengals practice. Earlier, I told you've been

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Speaker 2: A lot of college basketball being played in the area.

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Speaker 7: They responded in a big way. But you know, we

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Speaker 7: Really really swallow our pride tomorrow and watch this film

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Speaker 7: and we're gonna have to learn from it. So certainly,

442
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Speaker 7: very very disappointed, appreciative of the fans. Apologize to them

443
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Speaker 7: that they didn't show up to watch that, But there's

444
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Speaker 7: nothing we can do about it besides learn from it

445
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Speaker 7: and get back to work.

446
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Speaker 2: Xavier head coach Richard Patino. Following Xavier's loss, the Muskies

447
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Speaker 2: are back in action. On Saturday, they traveled to Georgetown

448
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Speaker 2: to take on the Hoyas, and finally, last night, Cincinnati,

449
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Speaker 2: the only team in the area to win, took down

450
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Speaker 2: Alabama State. Now, Alabama State is one of the worst

451
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Speaker 2: defensive teams in the country, but who cares. If you

452
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Speaker 2: need a get right game. The Bearcats got one last night,

453
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Speaker 2: the return of Gisel James, a great performance from Bob

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Speaker 2: Bob Miller. Here is Wes Miller's opening statement following a

455
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Speaker 2: Bearcat victory.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

457
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Speaker 8: I thought we talked to the guys about taking a

458
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Speaker 8: step as a team tonight, and I thought the guys

459
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Speaker 8: prepared the right way, and I thought for the most

460
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Speaker 8: part they did that. There's always things as a coach

461
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Speaker 8: that you can nitpick that you want to be better.

462
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Speaker 8: But I liked the way that we approached it tonight.

463
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Speaker 8: I like some of the things that happened. I thought

464
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Speaker 8: we took a step. Alabama State played in this with

465
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Speaker 8: tournament last year, They'll play in it again this year.

466
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Speaker 8: I was concerned about the game. You know, they went

467
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Speaker 8: at UAB and everybody here knows Andy Kennedy's a really

468
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Speaker 8: good coach. Everybody knows him around here. And they go

469
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Speaker 8: win at UAB. Mike Roberts, who is probably my best

470
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Speaker 8: friend in coaching, is an assistant at New Mexico, and

471
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Speaker 8: New Mexico's really damn good. And they go into the

472
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Speaker 8: pit and they had a lead for thirty eight minutes

473
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Speaker 8: or something like that, and to almost get a win

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Speaker 8: at New Mexico. I think it's an eight point game

475
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Speaker 8: in Missouri this weekend, and so I have a lot

476
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Speaker 8: of respect for Alabama State, and I think they're a

477
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Speaker 8: really good team. And I thought, you know, we played

478
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Speaker 8: well enough that it didn't appear that way at times tonight.

479
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Speaker 8: We were able to take them out of things. So

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Speaker 8: for that reason, I'm pleased to Boba Miller. You know,

481
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Speaker 8: when he's playing with the right intention and right mentality,

482
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Speaker 8: he's pretty special. And I thought he he strung together

483
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Speaker 8: twenty six minutes to play in the right way tonight.

484
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Speaker 8: And I challenged them a little bit this morning about

485
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Speaker 8: being consistent with the things that matter.

486
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Speaker 2: So it's really good to see it.

487
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Speaker 8: But you look down in twenty six and fourteen, guys,

488
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Speaker 8: I mean that's that's something else. And eleven for twelve

489
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Speaker 8: from the field, and those good to.

490
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Speaker 2: See he can shoot. He can shoot.

491
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Speaker 8: I mean he shoots like over seventy percent in our practices,

492
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Speaker 8: in all our shooting drills, but.

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Speaker 2: He hadn't made them to start the year.

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Speaker 8: And you know, it was great because the first one

495
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Speaker 8: came inside out, and I think when you when you

496
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Speaker 8: get to the basket and you get to the paint,

497
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Speaker 8: the ball comes out, those are easier shots.

498
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Speaker 2: And it was a nice inside out.

499
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Speaker 8: Play for MoU and it was good to see one

500
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Speaker 8: go down and good to see him make some free throws.

501
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Speaker 8: But I thought Bob's performance was great. I love twenty

502
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Speaker 8: five assists. That they're a really good rebounding team, and

503
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Speaker 8: in the other high major games they've been effective on

504
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Speaker 8: the board, and you know, if that was something we challenged.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad we won the board.

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Speaker 8: I'd like us to win it more significantly. I don't

507
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Speaker 8: like their seventeen offensive I got they got three in

508
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Speaker 8: one possession, for God's sakes in the second half, but uh,

509
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Speaker 8: that was something we were talking about a lot.

510
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Speaker 2: And then I don't know if I said it.

511
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Speaker 8: Yet, but twenty five assists that's always a good thing

512
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Speaker 8: when you see.

513
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Speaker 2: That Bearkatz back in action against Clemson on Sunday. It

514
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Speaker 2: is the Greenville Winter Invitational game being played in Greenville,

515
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Speaker 2: South Carolina, up against the Tigers. They are nine and

516
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Speaker 2: three this season. We'll take a break, we'll come back.

517
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Speaker 2: We got John in Boston, we got Mike in La.

518
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Speaker 2: We got time for you. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,

519
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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen to thirty

520
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Speaker 2: home stretch of a third hour here on Tony Pike,

521
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Speaker 2: since he three to sixty on Austin on more time

522
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Speaker 2: for phone calls before we go to Chad Brindle for

523
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Speaker 2: quick hits. Chad, of course, in FROMO this afternoon. Let's

524
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Speaker 2: start up in Boston and talk to John. John, you're

525
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Speaker 2: on the program. What's up, dude, Good afternoon, Austin. How

526
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Speaker 2: are you. I'm wonderful man. What's on your mind? Sounds good?

527
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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 9: I think first of all, what we have to look

529
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Speaker 9: at is down the stretch is the health of Joe Borrow,

530
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Speaker 9: making sure that he's upright and healthy going into next season.

531
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Speaker 9: That goes without saying I think we can all agree

532
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Speaker 9: with that, but I'd love to see him kind of

533
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Speaker 9: come back and get that draid back to playing football.

534
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Speaker 9: And the only thing I could take away from it

535
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Speaker 9: is he's such a competitive guy and really cherishes winning

536
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Speaker 9: so much.

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Speaker 2: Look back at his career, I.

538
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Speaker 9: Think he lost one game in high school. I think

539
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Speaker 9: while he was at Ohio State, although he didn't play much,

540
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Speaker 9: they only lost five games in three years, and then

541
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Speaker 9: four games at LSU. So when he came into the NFL,

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Speaker 9: he's only been ten losing games, and this year the

543
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Speaker 9: Bengals are four and ten, so that has to wear

544
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Speaker 9: on him. I'm so old to remember that Larry Bird

545
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Speaker 9: when he went undefeated and he had a state in

546
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Speaker 9: nineteen seventy nine, lost the championship game for Magic Johnson,

547
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Speaker 9: and then he came to the Celtics to turn them around.

548
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Speaker 9: They won sixty plus games. And the question that was

549
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Speaker 9: asked to him after the season, when it was the

550
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Speaker 9: toughest pride adjusting from college to pros.

551
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Speaker 2: Is losing this much?

552
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Speaker 9: He nearly lost like twenty games in a basketball season.

553
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Speaker 9: Those types of guys who are really competitive, I think

554
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Speaker 9: it just wears on them after a while. So that

555
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Speaker 9: to me is really what I would love to see

556
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Speaker 9: happen in the last three week, keep him healthy and

557
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Speaker 9: make sure that his back would be himself, because yeah,

558
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Speaker 9: we can sit here and talk about offensive lind and

559
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Speaker 9: linebackers and everything else. If he's not all in and

560
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Speaker 9: he's your guy, then you got to start back at

561
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Speaker 9: square one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think part of it too, is now

563
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Speaker 2: two years in a row in which you're missing the playoffs.

564
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Speaker 2: I know it's ultimately three years in a row. The

565
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Speaker 2: first year they were playing pretty good and that was

566
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Speaker 2: just like a crazy injury, and then to play as

567
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Speaker 2: good as he did last year, I think there's at

568
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Speaker 2: least okay, I can hang my hat on. I had

569
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Speaker 2: an awesome season, but we just didn't have the horses.

570
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Speaker 2: And now it's like I got hurt again. I still

571
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Speaker 2: feel like I'm good enough, and it feels like we're

572
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Speaker 2: further away on defense than we were a year ago.

573
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Speaker 2: And that's got to be difficult for him to deal with,

574
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Speaker 2: especially losing the way they did at Buffalo. So I'm sure, yeah,

575
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Speaker 2: that losing just wears on you. And when he is

576
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Speaker 2: responsible and a lot of people felt like he was

577
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Speaker 2: for the way that things went in Buffalo and then responsible,

578
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Speaker 2: but for the way things went against Baltimore. It's just

579
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Speaker 2: a tough few weeks for the guy.

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Speaker 10: Sure.

581
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 9: In that Buffalo game, you got nine minutes left, he's

583
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Speaker 9: giving you twenty eighteen lead, and then you let Buffalo

584
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Speaker 9: score a touchdown on four plays, a forty yard touchdown

585
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Speaker 9: run by Josh Allen. He's probably like, can we do

586
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Speaker 9: better than that? I mean, he's gonna probably score a

587
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Speaker 9: touchdown there, Josh Allen. But let him go nine, ten,

588
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Speaker 9: eleven plays, like you and Tony talked about right after

589
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Speaker 9: the game. Let's not make it look like a Maddens

590
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Speaker 9: I think. Uh. And then all of a sudden, the

591
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Speaker 9: bad read and then the pick pass, and it all

592
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 9: falls on him like it always does. He almost has

593
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Speaker 9: to play perfect, or he has to play perfect for

594
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Speaker 9: them to win. That's an incredible amount of pressure on

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Speaker 9: one person.

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Speaker 2: It is. And John, thank you for the phone call.

597
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Speaker 2: And I agree, like if you're if that's part of

598
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Speaker 2: the pressure, you know that that can wear on someone

599
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Speaker 2: as well, and you know he's a human being just

600
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Speaker 2: like the rest of us. Let's go to Mike in LA.

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Speaker 2: What's up, Mike.

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Speaker 10: I hope my buddy John's still listening up in Boston.

603
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Speaker 2: Boston.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, the good God, John, I've learned to like you,

605
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Speaker 10: but typically I don't like any Celtics fans. I hate

606
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Speaker 10: the fans and the bull creptionnanigans. You folks who to

607
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 10: pull up there in the garden with the crappy little

608
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Speaker 10: dressing rooms and turn off the air conditioning. Just a

609
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Speaker 10: bunch of hoodlums in Boston. I'm sure you're not one

610
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Speaker 10: of them, John, But have a great Christmas.

611
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Speaker 4: Well, you know that.

612
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Speaker 2: You know how it is up there. You know the

613
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 2: Belichick stuff, you know, cheating Football's Spygate. That's just what

614
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Speaker 2: they do up there, Mike.

615
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Speaker 10: They're all paranoid. Yeah, sorry, John, I'm sorry, buddy. We

616
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Speaker 10: love you, John. I'll tell you what we with the

617
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Speaker 10: Dreaded Hornets about him.

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Speaker 4: Stay with Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think I think they're like three and nineteenth on

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Speaker 2: the kin Palm defensive rankings.

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Speaker 4: So and west Miller does.

622
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Speaker 5: Really you're a pretty good rebounding team. Yeah, when they played,

623
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Speaker 5: when they played in JV teams or whatever. But I'll

624
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Speaker 5: tell you I still follow Nick Cronin because I just

625
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 5: love Nick and he's I finally got some shooters out

626
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 5: there now, and he has really never had many shooters.

627
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Speaker 5: So he's finally got some shooters. And of course he

628
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Speaker 5: always you know, his team's always played good d So

629
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Speaker 5: they whipped a snot out of Arizona State, which is

630
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Speaker 5: pretty good team last night. So I just always root

631
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Speaker 5: for Mick, and you should like Mick. He's in the

632
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Speaker 5: bad club brother.

633
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Speaker 2: That's right, we got our bald brothers, got to stick together.

634
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Speaker 2: I got no beef with Mick. I like Mick.

635
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Speaker 10: Mick's old school man. I loved the dude. If you

636
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Speaker 10: had to pick now, who would be your Super Bowl picks?

637
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Speaker 2: I would say, right now, I'm going to say Seahawks

638
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Speaker 2: and Bills.

639
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Speaker 10: Wow.

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Speaker 5: Well, I can understand that completely. And the reason you're

641
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 5: picking Buffalo over h Denver is because of the offense, right.

642
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna trust Josh Allen and that's tough

643
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Speaker 2: because that, I mean, that defensive front in Denver is

644
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: so good. Sean Payton obviously is experienced, but I feel

645
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 2: like maybe the just the year that Buffalo gets over

646
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: the hump. And then you know, I'm assuming Seattle is

647
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: going to win tonight. So if Seattle wins tonight, I

648
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 2: think they have the easiest past, easiest pass the Super Bowl.

649
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think without DeVante that is going to make

650
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 10: a difference for them tonight. Do you think Houston front

651
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 10: four is better than Denver's? Do you think Houston's is

652
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 10: the best in football?

653
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 2: I do. I don't know that. I think it's a

654
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 2: pretty close, uh comparison, but I do think I would

655
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Speaker 2: give it to Houston by a couple.

656
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Speaker 10: And actually the Rams front four is pretty good. It's

657
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Speaker 10: a miracle how they got both those kids out of

658
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Speaker 10: Florida State in the same year.

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Speaker 4: Verse and fisk, Yeah, first.

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Speaker 10: Verse is it beast? Didn't they? But that doesn't happen

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Speaker 10: too often, does it.

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Speaker 4: All?

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Speaker 10: We'll pay two linemen in the same draft. Oh, that

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Speaker 10: was another sparkling conversation on my behalf.

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Speaker 4: So you have a good I.

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Speaker 2: Enjoyed it, Mike, Thank you, buddy, and is our guy

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Speaker 2: Mike in Los Angeles. We'll go from one sparkling conversation

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Speaker 2: to another. We go from Mike in LA to Chad

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Speaker 2: Brindle Bearcatjournal dot Com and sitting in the big chair

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Speaker 2: for Moegar this afternoon. He's next for quick hits right

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Speaker 2: here on the Home of the Bengals ESPN fifteen.

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Speaker 11: Thirty WCKY, Cincinnati and iHeartRadio station Guaranteed Human ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for quick hits on Tony Tikes since

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Speaker 1: e three sixty.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed it is. Normally we'd be looking for Moe,

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Speaker 2: but now we've got Chad Brendle. Chad in the seat

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Speaker 2: for Moe this afternoon for the Moegger Radio Show. Hi Chad,

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Speaker 2: how are you? I'm delightful.

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Speaker 11: I feel like it's been a long time since I've

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Speaker 11: seen you. Haven't been around much lately, and it feels

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Speaker 11: like the days like we've missed each other.

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Speaker 2: You guys are out out or you're you know, well,

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Speaker 2: some would say at this time of the year, you're

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Speaker 2: busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger.

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Speaker 11: It's crossover season is a lot. It's a lot, but

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Speaker 11: you know it's you make up for it, like in

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Speaker 11: the summer when you can go do things and have

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Speaker 11: a little bit of a life, not a lot of

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Speaker 11: a life, but a little bit of a life.

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Speaker 2: You pay for it. Sure, yeah, did we like learn

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Speaker 2: anything about the Bearcats last night. I mean, Alabama State stinks,

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Speaker 2: but like, probably not. How much of a difference does

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Speaker 2: Jisel James make? Look do we know it makes a difference.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much yet, but let's let's be

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Speaker 2: honest about something. Austin. Okay, you know.

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Speaker 11: Where they rank in the Big twelve and two point

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Speaker 11: field goal percentage?

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Speaker 2: Probably not not at the top. Last.

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Speaker 11: Oh, you know where they rank in the Big twelve

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Speaker 11: and three point field goal percentage.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say last. Last. You know where they rank

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Speaker 2: in the Big twelve and free throw percentage? Last? Definitely last.

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Speaker 2: You know where they rank in turnover percentage? First? Last?

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Speaker 11: Oh, they turn it over more than anybody in the

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Speaker 11: Big twelve. Like this offense stinks. Yeah, so if you

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Speaker 11: can bring back your leading scorer from last year, it helps?

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Speaker 2: How much?

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Speaker 11: Like my biggest concern with jigsel James all along, jiggle

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Speaker 11: jiggle James.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I like that. Yeah, that's better than Jesus Smith's version.

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Speaker 2: Jiggle James.

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Speaker 11: Jingle James, Jingle James. It's his efficiency. He has not been,

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Speaker 11: to this point in his UC career an efficient player.

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Speaker 11: He shoots under thirty percent from three. He loves long twos.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 11: He doesn't get to the free throw line, so those

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Speaker 11: are all like, yeah, other than that, how is to

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Speaker 11: play missaken?

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. So there are still concerns.

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Speaker 11: But you add another guy that can get you fifteen twelve,

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Speaker 11: fifteen points a game on average.

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Speaker 2: Uh, with as bad as the offense has been, it's

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Speaker 2: gonna help some What if Bob Bob goes for twenty

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Speaker 2: six and fourteen every night.

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Speaker 11: If he gets eight dunks and goes eleven to twelve

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Speaker 11: from the field, I feel pretty good about.

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Speaker 2: Eight dunks is a pretty good night.

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Speaker 4: Pretty good.

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Speaker 11: That's one thing I do love, you know how, like

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Speaker 11: fans generally don't grasp the concept of like you're playing

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Speaker 11: really high level basketball, you don't get just dunk it.

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Speaker 11: Bob Out genuinely is one of those guys that does

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Speaker 11: what fans want to do. Like he tried to dunk

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Speaker 11: in at every opportunity. I can appreciate that. So he

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Speaker 11: did it last night. Eight dunks is usually pretty good.

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Speaker 11: I said last night on the aftermath our postgame show,

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Speaker 11: He's probably not going to have eight dunks in the

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Speaker 11: game the rest of the year, and Aaron said, why not? Well,

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Speaker 11: it's hard to have eight dunks in the gamer, so

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Speaker 11: everybody would do it. Yeah, but it was at least

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Speaker 11: for a night. Look, man, they got twenty games left right.

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Speaker 11: Eighteen of them are big twelve games. One of them

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Speaker 11: is Clemson on Sunday. The other is lipscumb who gave

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Speaker 11: Duke fits the other night. So you got twenty difficult

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Speaker 11: games left. We might not get to have a whole

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Speaker 11: lot of happy postgame shows. Sure, between here and the

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Speaker 11: end of the season, I'm gonna enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: For a day. Have you, at any point in your

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Speaker 2: life ever been able to dunk on a ten foot room?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 2: I could. Back in the day, I could, like fingertips,

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Speaker 2: I could. I could. What's your single greatest athletic accomplishment?

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Speaker 2: A laser time four three nine. Really you was picking

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Speaker 2: them up and laying them down.

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Speaker 11: I was really fast, especially short, like like a hundred

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Speaker 11: when you ran one hundred meters. Sure, the guys with

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Speaker 11: the long legs would eventually overtake me at about eighty meters,

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Speaker 11: but off the start and to like the halfway point,

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Speaker 11: I could pick them up and put them down. I

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Speaker 11: never got caught stealing a base respect in baseball now,

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Speaker 11: how often did you get the first base?

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Speaker 2: Were, you know, like a Billy Hamilton thing or not?

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Speaker 2: You know what I was? I was a master bunter.

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Speaker 11: Oh I could bunt to get way to pause there, Yeah,

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Speaker 11: master bunter.

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Speaker 2: I could.

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Speaker 11: I could put it third, short, second, first, like I

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Speaker 11: felt the advance base your sport?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I did not. I want to.

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Speaker 11: I want to not hoole City Championship. Did you really

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Speaker 11: that's a big deal in master jewelers. Oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 11: master bunters, master master jewelers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I had one home run in my whole career.

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Speaker 11: I hit it into the wind at CUVCAF High School

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Speaker 11: and we were playing like our rival. It was like

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Speaker 11: our big rival, and you know it's kids, you know,

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Speaker 11: on both teams, and literally everybody in the entire place

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Speaker 11: when that ball went over the fence, including me, looked

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Speaker 11: at each other.

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Speaker 4: And went, what just happened?

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Speaker 8: What?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 11: That's awesome? What do you got coming up on the

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Speaker 11: show this afternoon. We're gonna talk some We're gonna talk

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Speaker 11: some bear Cats, talk some Muskies. Look, man, Mama said

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Speaker 11: there'd be days like that.

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Speaker 2: There's these they're just not great teams, either of them.

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Speaker 11: So there are gonna be nights that that nothing goes

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Speaker 11: right correct, and last night was a nothing goes right

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Speaker 11: night for Xavier.

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Speaker 2: You gotta kind of roll it up and throw it away.

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Speaker 2: This is what I will say.

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Speaker 11: What have we seen so far through the first thirty

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Speaker 11: plus percent of the season for Xavior? Richard Patino's had

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Speaker 11: some answers. Yeah, true, he's been able to course correct,

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Speaker 11: He's been able to get him back on track.

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Speaker 2: Last night was frustrating last night.

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Speaker 11: I didn't get to see it because I was obviously

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Speaker 11: at the return of Jiggle, James Jim, but just from

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Speaker 11: the sounds and reading everything about it, just a night

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Speaker 11: where absolutely nothing went your way. And sometimes that happens.

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Speaker 11: So we'll talk about that. I've got a I've got

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Speaker 11: a I'm interested to hear your your take on this.

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Speaker 11: We've heard a lot about the the inner workings of

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Speaker 11: Joe Burrow's brain and what it means in terms of

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Speaker 11: the Bengals and the front office and what he's happy

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Speaker 11: with and what he's not happy with.

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Speaker 2: How much of that do you think is Joe going

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Speaker 2: some of it me.

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Speaker 11: I've asked for a lot, They've given me everything I've

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Speaker 11: asked for and this ain't exactly working the way that

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Speaker 11: it should. Do You think some of that introspection is

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Speaker 11: him dealing with I'm not a general manager, I'm not

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Speaker 11: a coach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a quarterback. I'm sure that there is self

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Speaker 2: reflection at all levels. We haven't talked about that quarterback, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we haven't. And I think there's a lot of people

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Speaker 2: out there that don't know Joe Burrow, that think they

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Speaker 2: know Joe Burrow. That has led to a lot of

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Speaker 2: this conversation and nobody really knows him. But it's good stuff.

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Speaker 2: We'll be listening this afternoon. Thanks Chad, Oh, thank you, Austin.

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Speaker 2: Tony's back tomorrow for a Friday football frenzy on the

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Speaker 2: home of the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen Tony Pikes since

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Speaker 2: he three six