1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: Four point fifty four in the Queens City of Cincinnati. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: Chick Ludwigs seven hundred WLW. This is Sports Talk. Sean 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: McMahon is tonight's producer. We're going all the way to 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: six o'clock and that's when Sterling takes over these airwaves. 5 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: And folks, let's face it, it has been an unbelievable 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: week in the world of sports. And that's putting it mildly. 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: It started on Sunday with the college football playoff reveal 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: in all the upset Notre Dame fans, and then the 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: Bengals thirty nine to thirty four devastating loss to the 10 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York. Then came the 11 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: shocking events at the University of Michigan with the firing 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: and arrest of head football coach Sharon Moore. And how 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: about Joe Burrow's introspective news conference. 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: Is he bengalized? 15 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: The definition of bengalized is when all the life gets 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: sucked out of you. 17 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: Is that what happened to Joe Burrow? 18 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: The Indian app was cold signed forty four year old 19 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: quarterback Philip Rivers, who's made over two hundred million dollars 20 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: in his career. He hasn't taken an NFL snap since 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: two thousand and we could very well see him play 22 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: quarterback at the age of forty four for the Colts 23 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday afternoon. Xavier's seventy five 24 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: to fifty seven victory over Missouri State on Friday night 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: push the Musketeers record to eight and three with their 26 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: fifth straight win. It is the final tune up before 27 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: the Big East Conference starts up Wednesday night at home 28 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: against the Creighton Blue Jays. The Cincinnati Cyclones fell on 29 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 1: Friday night at home at the Heritage Bank Center to 30 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: the Kalamazoo Wings three to two in overtime on the 31 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: Griswold Christmas Friday Night Extravaganza, and the Clones are back 32 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: in action tonight against the Indie Fuel at the Fishers 33 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: Events Center in suburban Indianapolis. 34 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 2: And then we come to today. 35 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: Big doings at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, 36 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: presented by Dinsmore deck the Hall from noon to three today. 37 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: There was Santa, there were Reds mascots, there were kids 38 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 1: activities and appearances by former Reds catcher Tucker Barnhardt and 39 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: pitcher JJ Hoover would love to hear from you if 40 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: you attended Deck the Hall at the Cincinnati Reds Hall 41 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: of Fame Museum. And then we come to today and 42 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: the University of Cincinnatis eighty four to sixty five loss 43 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: to the Georgia Bulldogs. Hey, I've got my coffee, I've 44 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: got my computer. All I need is you at five one, three, 45 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: seven four, nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred The Big 46 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: One Chick Ludwig Sports Talk seven hundred WLW. 47 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: Breaking now. Scientists have reluctantly confirmed it's snowing. Keep it 48 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: here for the latest from your Severe Weather station. Seven 49 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 3: hundred WLW. 50 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: Do you own a small business? A seismic shift is coming. 51 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 2: It's time to get super short coming soon. 52 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 4: Send the taste of home to those special people on 53 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 4: your out of town gift list by sending you sincey 54 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 4: favorite holiday gift collection, including my. 55 00:03:50,000 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 5: Five oh eight in the Queens City of Cincinnati. 56 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: Chick Ludwigs, seven hundred WLW. This is Sports Talk. 57 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: Sean McMahon is tonight's producer. We're going all the way 58 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: to six o'clock. That's when Sterling takes over these airwaves 59 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: and you'll hear Donna d from nine to midnight tonight. 60 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: I just gave you the rundown of this incredible week 61 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: in sports, and we've got We've even got the Army 62 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: Navy game going on right now, and Man Army's got 63 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: it going on with a sixteen to seven lead over 64 00:04:54,640 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: the Navy Midshipman at M and T. Banks Stadium in Baltimore. 65 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: But this is the place to vent about your University 66 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: of Cincinnati Bearcats. 67 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: The final from Atlanta, Georgia. 68 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: The Georgia Bulldogs eighty four the UC Bearcats sixty five. 69 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: You see, got off to a great start and led 70 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: at the seven to twenty seven mark of the first 71 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: half by eleven thirty three to twenty two, and then 72 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: promptly got outscored by thirty points sixty two to thirty 73 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: two the rest of the way sixty two to thirty 74 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: two the final twenty seven minutes and twenty seven seconds. 75 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you that Ed Jucker and George Smith, 76 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: who coached Oscar Robertson at the University of Cincinnati, they 77 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: are spinning in their graves. Quote from Terry Nelson, you 78 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: can't win at this level with the IQ that this 79 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: team plays with. They play well in spurts, and then 80 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: they just dissolve. There is some tremendous athletes on this team, 81 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: some tremendous individual talent, but they are not playing as 82 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: a team. They don't shoot the ball well and they 83 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: certainly don't shoot their free throws very well. But to 84 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: see this total breakdown, and if I heard it correctly, 85 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,799 Speaker 1: the spread in this game pregame was like seven points. 86 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? That is a layup for sports investors. 87 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: The Georgia Bulldogs are averaging ninety nine point nine points 88 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: per game. Their average margin of victory is twenty eight 89 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: point seven points a game. Twenty two percent of their 90 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: two point baskets are dunks, and they wind up blowing 91 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: out You see by nineteen after UC led by eleven 92 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: midway through the first half. This is the placed event 93 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, four nine seven one eight hundred, 94 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: The big one. Keith in Coleraine Township has been waiting 95 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: a while. Keith, Welcome to seven hundred WLW Hello chick. 96 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 6: Look, it's way past time for the President of the 97 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 6: University of Cincinnati and the Board of Trustees to step 98 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 6: in and in this embarrassing three ring circus clown show. 99 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 6: The school athletic director needs to be hot fired for 100 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 6: hiring this clown show. Wes Miller needs to be fired. 101 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 6: Maybe he can recruit, but he's turnet, does know what 102 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 6: to do with players after he recruits, and Scott Stink 103 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 6: up to joint the football coach. He's doing the same 104 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 6: thing that he was doing at Louisville with the team 105 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 6: losing and che could tourch the end of the season. 106 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 6: And the more this keeps going on and on, the 107 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 6: more and more embarrassed it's going to get. So they 108 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 6: need to end this three ranked circus clown show as 109 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 6: soon as possible. This is ridiculous. 110 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate this event as a lifelong even though 111 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: I graduated from the Ohio State University, I was on 112 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: scholarship up there, the chick Evans Golf Caddy scholarship. I 113 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: am a lifelong die hard UC basketball fan and I 114 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:50,239 Speaker 1: can't stand this. Next up is Alabama State on Wednesday. 115 00:08:52,720 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: Then in Greenville, South Carolina, they play the Clemson Tigers beat. 116 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 2: Georgia by three. 117 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: This Georgia team defeated Xavier by just one point, and 118 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: Xavier now has five consecutive victories, and you see, man, 119 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: this was a great opportunity, absolutely blown today. You've got 120 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: NBA scouts all over the place at State Farm Arena today. 121 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: Bob Bob Miller. 122 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: Had ten points in eleven and ten minutes in this game. 123 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: First ten minutes he had ten points. He was everywhere, 124 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: he was dunking the basketball, and you just wish it 125 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: could have continued. But in his final twenty three minutes 126 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: he scored exactly one point point. Jalen Celestine hit a 127 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: three point shot with fourteen forty nine to go to 128 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: pull UC within two at forty nine forty seven, and 129 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: then Baba Miller misses two free throws. It just you 130 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: heard the stats from Dan Horde, the voice of the Bearcats. 131 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: You see shot thirty five percent from the floor twenty 132 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: three of sixty five, seven of twenty seven from three, 133 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: that's twenty six percent, and once again horrible from the 134 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: foul line twelve of twenty one, while the Georgia Bulldogs 135 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: were hitting twenty of twenty six free throws. Georgia shot 136 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: fifty percent from the from the floor thirty of sixty 137 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: but we're only four of twenty one. That's nineteen percent. 138 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: From three point range once again. You see led thirty 139 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: three to twenty two at seven twenty seven and then 140 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: got outscored by thirty sixty two to thirty two. The 141 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: final twenty seven twenty seven just absolutely brutal. And you 142 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: heard Wes Miller after the game. He's very, very angry. 143 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: Can't say really what he wants to say for fear 144 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: that he will be reprimanded. We have to be better, 145 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: good in stretches, but got to be more consistent. And 146 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: he said it. The Bearcats lost. We lost our minds 147 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: on all offense. We won't rest, we won't accept it. 148 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: We'll go back to work. And Terry Nelson's comment that 149 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: you can't play and win at this level with the 150 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: IQ that this team plays with, and that came when 151 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: Buck Harris drove into the lane and put up a spinning, twisting, 152 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: off balance wild shot in the lane that that I 153 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: don't believe it hit the rim with four to twenty 154 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: four to go in this game, day Da Thomas fouls 155 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: out with five to eleven to go. But the big 156 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: time turning point in this bear Cat loss came at 157 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: the seventeen point fifty seven mark of the second half. 158 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: Bob Bob Miller finished that first half with one foul. 159 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: Bearcats are up forty one to thirty seven. They scored 160 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: the first four points of the second half. The score 161 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: was tied at thirty seven at halftime, so use's up 162 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: forty one to thirty seven. Bob a gets called for 163 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: a foul, He says something to the referee, then he 164 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: gets hammered with a tech right away. He went from 165 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: one foul to three fouls and was in and out 166 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: of this lineup in the second half, only scoring one 167 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: point in his final twenty three minutes. And coach Miller 168 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: was right that put u se in what he called 169 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: a predicament that's not fair to the team. This is 170 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: the place to vent. You're listening to sports talk until 171 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: six o'clock. Chick Ludwig seven hundred at WLW. 172 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,599 Speaker 3: Is it true Tom Brenneman was the bass player in 173 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 3: a punk band called Mash Potato. 174 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 2: That is mostly not true. 175 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 3: Is it true that Tom Brenneman can speak to dolphins 176 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 3: but chooses not too because of their attitude? It sounds possible, 177 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 3: but not true. Is it true that listening to Tom 178 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 3: Brenhaman makes your morning better? That one is true? 179 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 4: Please join me in the morning for the latest news, weather, traffic, sports, 180 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 4: at a truckload more to get your day started. 181 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 3: Right Tom Brenneman Monday morning at five am on seven 182 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 3: hundred WLW. 183 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 2: MVT is given away a Ford F one. On December 184 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 2: twenty seven, you. 185 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: Could drop in the Queen City of Cincinnati, Chick Laudwig 186 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. This is sports Talk And in case 187 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: you missed it and just joining us, do you see 188 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: Bearcats fall today to the Georgia Bulldogs in a quote 189 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: unquote neutral site game at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, 190 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: home of the NBA Atlanta. Plenty of NBA scouts were 191 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: on hand to check out these fine athletes, including Bob A. Miller, 192 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: who got off to a terrific start five for five 193 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: with it in his first ten minutes and then one 194 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: point his final twenty three minutes. And if you think 195 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: things are bad now, folks, oh, it's gonna get worse, 196 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: starting with Houston in the Big twelve opener at the 197 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: Third Arena on January third. Let's go out to the phones. 198 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: Jeff is in Dayton, wants to talk Bearcats. 199 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 7: Hi, Jeff, Hi, chicks, always good to talk to you. 200 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 7: My old friend right back at you. I love you 201 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 7: see basketball. I love uc in a high state basketball, 202 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 7: I really do. And what I saw today was the man. 203 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 7: The man worked for a long time. But then once 204 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 7: Georgia gotta made the adjustments on that man, the man 205 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 7: were uh. 206 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 2: They were just killing it. 207 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 8: And I think he waited. 208 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 7: Too long to go to in his zone. I don't 209 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 7: even know if that would have helped. Georgia can score, yes, 210 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 7: who they really can't. So I don't what is Georgia ranked? 211 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 7: Are they in the top fifteen? 212 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 2: You know what? I look at the rankings here. 213 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: I was just checking out the Big twelve standings, okay, 214 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: and there's six teams in the top nineteen in the country. 215 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: Wow, in the Big twelve. 216 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 7: So that's gotta be as good a conference in basketball 217 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 7: conference and anything in the nation. 218 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, it truly is. Uh wow. 219 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: And you know what I'm looking at the Yeah, I'm 220 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: looking at the rankings right now, and gosh, what the 221 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: even ranked? 222 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 2: Really they were the national sporm. 223 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: You know what, they're listed among others receiving votes. Wow, 224 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: they're out in the top twenty five. Yeah, yeah, this. 225 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 7: Should boost them at least in the top twenty five 226 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 7: I mean they I watch them that they got NBA 227 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 7: size too. 228 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 2: They do. Yeah. 229 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 7: So anyway, I want one other thing I want to 230 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 7: say is he's a here's a trade. 231 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 2: I got through. 232 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 7: Bangs all right, now follow me. Now, the Bengals trade 233 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 7: disgruntled Joe Burrow to the New England Patriots for Drake 234 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 7: May and. 235 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 2: Other draft picks. 236 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 7: Now, I think it's a win win for both. Burrow 237 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 7: gets to go up there and play for Mike head 238 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 7: coach up there, and they got a good offensive line. 239 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 2: Look, they're in the right direction. 240 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 7: Joe Burrow could probably take him over the top. And 241 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 7: the Bengals now have a rookie that's a great potential. 242 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 7: He could be in the top five or six in 243 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 7: a couple of years, who knows on his rookie contract. 244 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 7: So that can free up some money to maybe help 245 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 7: the Bengals acquire some some players that could help the 246 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 7: team as well. 247 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 2: What do you think of that, Chick. 248 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: Well, we've reached I will address this after the bottom 249 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 1: of the We just hit the bottom of the hour news, 250 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: so I will check it out. I disagree with you, Jeff, 251 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: but I love you still. So Hey, it's chick. Ludwig 252 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: and you're listening to sports talk on seven hundred WLW 253 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: five point in the Queens City, chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW. 254 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: I hope everyone is safe out there brutal driving conditions. 255 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 2: With the winter storm warning. 256 00:18:54,040 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: Remaining in effect until seven am on Sunday, Jeff from 257 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: Dayton proposed to trade Drake May of New England to 258 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals for Joe Burrow. It can't happen. It 259 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: cannot happen for economic reasons. Joe Burrow is signed with 260 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 1: the Bengals through the twenty twenty nine season at an 261 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: average of fifty five million dollars per year. That includes 262 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: base salary, per pro rated signing bonus, the whole nine. 263 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: Drake May is in his second year of a four year, 264 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 1: thirty six and a half million dollar contract. His base 265 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: salary is nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars this year. 266 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: He's twenty three years old. Joe Burrow is twenty nine. 267 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: There's no way that that trade could possibly happen, so 268 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: let's forget about that. I love Joe Burrow. I want 269 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: him to remain in Cincinnati. I want him to be happy. 270 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: Bearcats leading at the seven to twenty seven mark of 271 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: the first half today against Georgia, thirty three to twenty two. 272 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: They're up eleven. They lose by nineteen eighty four to 273 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: sixty five. In the final twenty seven minutes and twenty 274 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: seven seconds of this game, you see got outscored by 275 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: thirty sixty two to thirty two. Everybody's angry. Let's go 276 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: out to the phones. Brian is in Eastgate, Hi, Brian. 277 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 8: Hey, check, how you doing? 278 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: Oh good? 279 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 8: Good? 280 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: I hope I can get back to the Miamisburg War 281 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: room safely tonight. 282 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 8: Well, yeah, lit the weather, it's like a white death. Yes, 283 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 8: I was just wanting to know if you see it 284 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 8: was up thirty three twenty two. Is that just bad coaching? 285 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 8: Or how do you blow at eleven point lead like that? 286 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 8: It's just they didn't have a good Wes Miller's offense bad. 287 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: You're you're exactly right about that. And Terry Nelson and 288 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: Dan Horde talked about it. This weave at the top 289 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: of the circle, in around the perimeter, this weave, it's 290 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: not working. The ball has to go inside for Ucy 291 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: to take advantage of its length and size inside. A 292 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,479 Speaker 1: problem today came when Bob Bob Miller lost his mind 293 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: and gets called for a technical foul less than three 294 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: minutes just passed. Two minutes into the second half, and 295 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: he picks up. He picked up a foul that gets 296 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: hammered with a tech. That's a personal foul. So he 297 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: goes from one foul to three. He's got to come out. 298 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: He's in and out of the line up. They need 299 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,719 Speaker 1: him in there. He's their best player. But what I 300 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: see from this team, I don't see a leader. I 301 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: see five individuals on the floor attempting to impress the 302 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: pro scouts with auditions at how awesome athletically they are. 303 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: But as a cohesive team, forget it. 304 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 8: Yeah I have he's like a McDonald's All American. It 305 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 8: seems like West doesn't give him up out of those 306 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 8: fit talent he has. 307 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 2: He's got a lot of talent. 308 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: He does have a lot of it's the yeah and 309 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: and these guys are thrown together this year from all 310 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: these different programs. It's taking forever to mesh and but 311 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: Xavier is able to do it. 312 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 2: He's available to do. 313 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 8: What I want to talk about sports Cincinnati sports. But 314 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 8: I just think Xavier with Brick Petina, Richard Patino. He's 315 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 8: he's got Xavier playing as a team. 316 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: That's exactly right. They're getting better every game. UC's getting worse, 317 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: and it's going to get bad. It's really going to 318 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 1: get bad. They've got Alabama State Wednesday night at home, 319 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: a neutral site game against Clemson, which handed Georgia it's 320 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: only loss, so you can imagine what that's going to 321 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: be like. That's in Greenville, South Carolina, a week from tomorrow. 322 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: Then the Bearcats come home and play Lipscomb out of 323 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: Nashville at home. Then the UC Bearcats host the Houston 324 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: Cougars on January third in the Big Twelve opener. And 325 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: there are six Big twelve teams not only in the 326 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: top twenty five, but in the top nineteen in the country. 327 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 8: Well, I'm most all a while to go switch scarers 328 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 8: and talk about the Bengals. I was thinking about how 329 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 8: the Bengals they had. They went all in on offense 330 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 8: this year, but is there anything about you know why 331 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 8: they so bad on defense? It seems like they just 332 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,239 Speaker 8: didn't get enough players. 333 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: They don't have enough. They don't have enough good players. 334 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,239 Speaker 1: I think what needs to happen in this offseason. You 335 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: have to sign a free agent a good one at 336 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,719 Speaker 1: really all phases of the defense, the front, the middle, 337 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 1: and the back end. And then you've got to go 338 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: draft heavy with defense. You're not going to hit on 339 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: every one of them, but you've got to remake this defense. 340 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 8: Well, they need to get better interior up front, like 341 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 8: in the trenches on defense, No doubt they never after 342 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 8: you lose Trey Hendrickson, who do you get? I mean, 343 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 8: those are players that Bengals could go after the gate. 344 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 8: I just don't understand what the Bengals are playing is. 345 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 2: Yeah not right now? 346 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: Proof, Yeah, you lose, you lose a quality pass rusher 347 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: like Trey Hendrickson who had seventeen and a half sacks 348 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: last year. And then he fleeces the Bengals for a 349 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: thirteen million dollar raise on top of the sixteen million 350 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: that he was going to make and hold out because 351 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 1: he was unhappy with sixteen million. So he fleeces the 352 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: club for twenty nine million and he's injured and he's 353 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: done for the year. Now he becomes an unrestricted free agent. 354 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: I hope the door doesn't hit him in the butt 355 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: on his way out. There's no ways coming back to 356 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: Cincinnati next year. So he'll rehab. So he will rehab 357 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: and get ready for his next contract with the next team. 358 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 8: He's going to believe the Bangles plays somewhere for a 359 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 8: couple more years and then I guess I'll get more money. 360 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: Uh not Trey Hendrickson, that's for sure. So oh yeah, yeah, 361 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: he's done after this year in Cincinnati. 362 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 2: Done. He was motivated. 363 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,959 Speaker 8: It wasn't even motivated. I think he just wanted them 364 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 8: pay raise. He didn't really even show up on defense. 365 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 2: No, he was a hold in. 366 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: So he's he was in training camp and he was 367 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: helping guys like Miles Murphy. He was my credits him 368 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: with being kind of with being a mentor and helping him. 369 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: But yeah, he gets injured and uh yeah, and he's done. 370 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 7: Chi chick. 371 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 8: What do you think about Bengals even firing their a 372 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 8: GM and hiring a new. 373 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: Well, they don't have GM. 374 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: Well, they don't have a GM, and I don't see 375 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: any front office changes. 376 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 8: That's not that's not a good. 377 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 2: That's not that's not good. That's not a helping them, tam. 378 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: Hey, they've got to get better on defense, They've got 379 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: to get better on defense, and and hey, but. 380 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: It's not Mike Brown. 381 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 8: I'm such saying it's not Mike Brown's m O to 382 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 8: hire a GM. No regular get get better drafts, draft 383 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 8: picks and talent. 384 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 2: That's that's right. 385 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 1: That's how they That's how they that's how they roll. 386 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: And if you remember correctly, when they went to the 387 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: Super Bowl and lost to the Los Angeles Rams in 388 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: that run to the AFC title, some of the talking 389 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: heads are saying, Hey, the way that Cincinnati Bengals are 390 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: doing business might not be all that bad, okay, but 391 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: a series of poor draft picks. When you don't hit 392 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: on your draft picks, it's a struggle. Miles Murphy, Shamar Stewart, 393 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: Dax Hill, They're just not good enough on defense. 394 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 2: They need better players. 395 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,479 Speaker 1: And with that, Jeff I got a run or Brian 396 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: appreciate the call from E Skate, thank you very much. 397 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: And Yesterday, December twelfth, was the twenty sixth anniversary of 398 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: the final game at Riverfront Stadium slash Synergy Field Bengals 399 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: forty four. Brown's twenty eight Corey Dillon rushes for one 400 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety two yards and three touchdowns. CD and 401 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: I were texting earlier today. I congratulated him on that 402 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: wished he made Happy Holidays, and he texted me back 403 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: and said, yes, sir, remember that game. Well, Happy holidays 404 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,959 Speaker 1: to you as well. CD my buddy. Wow, he was 405 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: Jim Brown reincarnated. Now, all Notre Dame fans are upset 406 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: rightfully so that they are not in the College Football 407 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: Playoff and at the very what the eleventh hour last Sunday, 408 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: the flip flop choosing the Miami Hurricanes over Notre Dame 409 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: when Notre Dame had been ranked ahead of Miami for 410 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: several weeks. There is one reason why Notre Dame is 411 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: not in the College Football Playoff. 412 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: Money. 413 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: That's it money, because as an independent, they would have 414 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: gotten all their money and not have to share it 415 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: with anyone. All the other teams in the College Football 416 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: Playoff share the money with the conference, four million for 417 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: each of the twelve teams that make the CFP, four 418 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: million for each of the eight teams that make the quarterfinals, 419 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: then six million to the four teams that make the semifinals, 420 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: and then six million for each of the two teams 421 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: that make the College Football Playoff National championship game. Notre 422 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: Dame would have kept all the money and they got 423 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: punished for being an independent. 424 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 2: Right or wrong. 425 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: And lastly, Terry Nelson picked his three top dunkers in 426 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: college basketball or pro basketball whatever, Vince Carter, Shaquille O'Neil, 427 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: and Lebron James. I would like to counter with my 428 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: three Dominique Wilkins, Clyde Yeah, he was the human Highlight 429 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: Film Clyde the Glide, Drexler and Donctor duncan Stein himself, 430 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: Darryl Griffith and until next time, thank you so much 431 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: for listening to the Home of the Reds and the 432 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: best Bengals coverage with the Chickster on seven hundred WLW. 433 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 4: Now frying in beef tallow only at steak and shake 434 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 4: taste the difference this is Jim Hello. 435 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 2: Jim started advertising with I