WEBVTT - Chick Ludwig Sports Talk -- 12/13/25 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:05.120 Four point fifty four in the Queens City of Cincinnati. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:10.400 Chick Ludwigs seven hundred WLW. This is Sports Talk. Sean 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.840 McMahon is tonight's producer. We're going all the way to 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.320 six o'clock and that's when Sterling takes over these airwaves. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.880 And folks, let's face it, it has been an unbelievable 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.279 week in the world of sports. And that's putting it mildly. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:31.120 It started on Sunday with the college football playoff reveal 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.320 in all the upset Notre Dame fans, and then the 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:41.440 Bengals thirty nine to thirty four devastating loss to the 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.320 Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York. Then came the 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:51.080 shocking events at the University of Michigan with the firing 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:57.040 and arrest of head football coach Sharon Moore. And how 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.120 about Joe Burrow's introspective news conference. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:03.480 Is he bengalized? 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.480 The definition of bengalized is when all the life gets 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:09.319 sucked out of you. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.440 Is that what happened to Joe Burrow? 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.080 The Indian app was cold signed forty four year old 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:22.480 quarterback Philip Rivers, who's made over two hundred million dollars 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.360 in his career. He hasn't taken an NFL snap since 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.679 two thousand and we could very well see him play 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.880 quarterback at the age of forty four for the Colts 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:42.880 against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday afternoon. Xavier's seventy five 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.520 to fifty seven victory over Missouri State on Friday night 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.800 push the Musketeers record to eight and three with their 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.720 fifth straight win. It is the final tune up before 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.600 the Big East Conference starts up Wednesday night at home 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:05.760 against the Creighton Blue Jays. The Cincinnati Cyclones fell on 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.959 Friday night at home at the Heritage Bank Center to 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.320 the Kalamazoo Wings three to two in overtime on the 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:20.440 Griswold Christmas Friday Night Extravaganza, and the Clones are back 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.040 in action tonight against the Indie Fuel at the Fishers 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.840 Events Center in suburban Indianapolis. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.119 And then we come to today. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.079 Big doings at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:40.680 presented by Dinsmore deck the Hall from noon to three today. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.400 There was Santa, there were Reds mascots, there were kids 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:50.679 activities and appearances by former Reds catcher Tucker Barnhardt and 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.840 pitcher JJ Hoover would love to hear from you if 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.560 you attended Deck the Hall at the Cincinnati Reds Hall 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:06.440 of Fame Museum. And then we come to today and 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.400 the University of Cincinnatis eighty four to sixty five loss 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.119 to the Georgia Bulldogs. Hey, I've got my coffee, I've 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.239 got my computer. All I need is you at five one, three, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.280 seven four, nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred The Big 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.120 One Chick Ludwig Sports Talk seven hundred WLW. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:31.400 Breaking now. Scientists have reluctantly confirmed it's snowing. Keep it 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.440 here for the latest from your Severe Weather station. Seven 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.160 hundred WLW. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.840 Do you own a small business? 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That's when Sterling takes over these airwaves 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.800 and you'll hear Donna d from nine to midnight tonight. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.320 I just gave you the rundown of this incredible week 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:48.359 in sports, and we've got We've even got the Army 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.320 Navy game going on right now, and Man Army's got 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.200 it going on with a sixteen to seven lead over 0:04:54.640 --> 0:05:00.719 the Navy Midshipman at M and T. Banks Stadium in Baltimore. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:05.760 But this is the place to vent about your University 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.839 of Cincinnati Bearcats. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.800 The final from Atlanta, Georgia. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:16.880 The Georgia Bulldogs eighty four the UC Bearcats sixty five. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.440 You see, got off to a great start and led 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.920 at the seven to twenty seven mark of the first 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:30.800 half by eleven thirty three to twenty two, and then 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:36.520 promptly got outscored by thirty points sixty two to thirty 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.920 two the rest of the way sixty two to thirty 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.120 two the final twenty seven minutes and twenty seven seconds. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.599 I'm here to tell you that Ed Jucker and George Smith, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.800 who coached Oscar Robertson at the University of Cincinnati, they 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:03.960 are spinning in their graves. Quote from Terry Nelson, you 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.599 can't win at this level with the IQ that this 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:16.880 team plays with. They play well in spurts, and then 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:25.000 they just dissolve. There is some tremendous athletes on this team, 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:30.400 some tremendous individual talent, but they are not playing as 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.520 a team. They don't shoot the ball well and they 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.599 certainly don't shoot their free throws very well. But to 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.680 see this total breakdown, and if I heard it correctly, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.799 the spread in this game pregame was like seven points. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:52.480 Are you kidding me? That is a layup for sports investors. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.039 The Georgia Bulldogs are averaging ninety nine point nine points 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.600 per game. Their average margin of victory is twenty eight 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.000 point seven points a game. Twenty two percent of their 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:15.160 two point baskets are dunks, and they wind up blowing 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.320 out You see by nineteen after UC led by eleven 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.720 midway through the first half. This is the placed event 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.240 five one, three, seven, four nine seven one eight hundred, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.040 The big one. Keith in Coleraine Township has been waiting 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.600 a while. Keith, Welcome to seven hundred WLW Hello chick. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.280 Look, it's way past time for the President of the 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.320 University of Cincinnati and the Board of Trustees to step 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.920 in and in this embarrassing three ring circus clown show. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.840 The school athletic director needs to be hot fired for 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.040 hiring this clown show. Wes Miller needs to be fired. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.480 Maybe he can recruit, but he's turnet, does know what 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.880 to do with players after he recruits, and Scott Stink 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.320 up to joint the football coach. He's doing the same 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.960 thing that he was doing at Louisville with the team 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.400 losing and che could tourch the end of the season. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.640 And the more this keeps going on and on, the 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.040 more and more embarrassed it's going to get. So they 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.960 need to end this three ranked circus clown show as 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.440 soon as possible. This is ridiculous. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.920 Well, I appreciate this event as a lifelong even though 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.440 I graduated from the Ohio State University, I was on 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.720 scholarship up there, the chick Evans Golf Caddy scholarship. I 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:44.240 am a lifelong die hard UC basketball fan and I 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:50.239 can't stand this. Next up is Alabama State on Wednesday. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:09:04.520 Then in Greenville, South Carolina, they play the Clemson Tigers beat. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.280 Georgia by three. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:14.600 This Georgia team defeated Xavier by just one point, and 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:21.920 Xavier now has five consecutive victories, and you see, man, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:27.840 this was a great opportunity, absolutely blown today. You've got 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:36.000 NBA scouts all over the place at State Farm Arena today. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.480 Bob Bob Miller. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.280 Had ten points in eleven and ten minutes in this game. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.720 First ten minutes he had ten points. He was everywhere, 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.800 he was dunking the basketball, and you just wish it 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:58.160 could have continued. But in his final twenty three minutes 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:07.760 he scored exactly one point point. Jalen Celestine hit a 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:13.560 three point shot with fourteen forty nine to go to 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.280 pull UC within two at forty nine forty seven, and 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:24.880 then Baba Miller misses two free throws. It just you 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.640 heard the stats from Dan Horde, the voice of the Bearcats. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.840 You see shot thirty five percent from the floor twenty 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.040 three of sixty five, seven of twenty seven from three, 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.720 that's twenty six percent, and once again horrible from the 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:48.000 foul line twelve of twenty one, while the Georgia Bulldogs 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:56.240 were hitting twenty of twenty six free throws. Georgia shot 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.640 fifty percent from the from the floor thirty of sixty 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.319 but we're only four of twenty one. That's nineteen percent. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:10.840 From three point range once again. You see led thirty 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.480 three to twenty two at seven twenty seven and then 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:21.560 got outscored by thirty sixty two to thirty two. The 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:30.320 final twenty seven twenty seven just absolutely brutal. And you 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.800 heard Wes Miller after the game. He's very, very angry. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.640 Can't say really what he wants to say for fear 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:44.680 that he will be reprimanded. We have to be better, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:55.040 good in stretches, but got to be more consistent. And 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.440 he said it. The Bearcats lost. We lost our minds 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:05.679 on all offense. We won't rest, we won't accept it. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:13.960 We'll go back to work. And Terry Nelson's comment that 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.240 you can't play and win at this level with the 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:21.360 IQ that this team plays with, and that came when 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:27.080 Buck Harris drove into the lane and put up a spinning, twisting, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.760 off balance wild shot in the lane that that I 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:38.520 don't believe it hit the rim with four to twenty 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:45.800 four to go in this game, day Da Thomas fouls 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.560 out with five to eleven to go. But the big 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.920 time turning point in this bear Cat loss came at 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.000 the seventeen point fifty seven mark of the second half. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.240 Bob Bob Miller finished that first half with one foul. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.960 Bearcats are up forty one to thirty seven. They scored 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.280 the first four points of the second half. The score 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:17.320 was tied at thirty seven at halftime, so use's up 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.640 forty one to thirty seven. Bob a gets called for 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.880 a foul, He says something to the referee, then he 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.160 gets hammered with a tech right away. He went from 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.320 one foul to three fouls and was in and out 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.560 of this lineup in the second half, only scoring one 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:40.360 point in his final twenty three minutes. And coach Miller 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.559 was right that put u se in what he called 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:49.480 a predicament that's not fair to the team. This is 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:54.880 the place to vent. You're listening to sports talk until 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.960 six o'clock. Chick Ludwig seven hundred at WLW. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.599 Is it true Tom Brenneman was the bass player in 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.480 a punk band called Mash Potato. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.840 That is mostly not true. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.400 Is it true that Tom Brenneman can speak to dolphins 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.400 but chooses not too because of their attitude? It sounds possible, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.120 but not true. Is it true that listening to Tom 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:21.040 Brenhaman makes your morning better? That one is true? 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.120 Please join me in the morning for the latest news, weather, traffic, sports, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.800 at a truckload more to get your day started. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.960 Right Tom Brenneman Monday morning at five am on seven 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.440 hundred WLW. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.200 MVT is given away a Ford F one. On December 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.280 twenty seven, you. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.080 Could drop in the Queen City of Cincinnati, Chick Laudwig 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.080 seven hundred WLW. This is sports Talk And in case 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.440 you missed it and just joining us, do you see 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:53.000 Bearcats fall today to the Georgia Bulldogs in a quote 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:57.200 unquote neutral site game at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:06.000 home of the NBA Atlanta. Plenty of NBA scouts were 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:11.320 on hand to check out these fine athletes, including Bob A. Miller, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.480 who got off to a terrific start five for five 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.720 with it in his first ten minutes and then one 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.800 point his final twenty three minutes. And if you think 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.440 things are bad now, folks, oh, it's gonna get worse, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:34.000 starting with Houston in the Big twelve opener at the 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.040 Third Arena on January third. Let's go out to the phones. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.720 Jeff is in Dayton, wants to talk Bearcats. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.880 Hi, Jeff, Hi, chicks, always good to talk to you. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:48.040 My old friend right back at you. I love you 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.160 see basketball. I love uc in a high state basketball, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:57.080 I really do. And what I saw today was the man. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.800 The man worked for a long time. But then once 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:08.200 Georgia gotta made the adjustments on that man, the man 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.320 were uh. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.400 They were just killing it. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:12.960 And I think he waited. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.600 Too long to go to in his zone. I don't 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.640 even know if that would have helped. Georgia can score, yes, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.480 who they really can't. So I don't what is Georgia ranked? 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.040 Are they in the top fifteen? 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.840 You know what? I look at the rankings here. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:31.840 I was just checking out the Big twelve standings, okay, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.120 and there's six teams in the top nineteen in the country. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.400 Wow, in the Big twelve. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.760 So that's gotta be as good a conference in basketball 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.200 conference and anything in the nation. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.040 Oh absolutely, it truly is. Uh wow. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.920 And you know what I'm looking at the Yeah, I'm 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.200 looking at the rankings right now, and gosh, what the 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:56.880 even ranked? 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.280 Really they were the national sporm. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:11.480 You know what, they're listed among others receiving votes. Wow, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.680 they're out in the top twenty five. Yeah, yeah, this. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.200 Should boost them at least in the top twenty five 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.919 I mean they I watch them that they got NBA 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:20.840 size too. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.159 They do. Yeah. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.080 So anyway, I want one other thing I want to 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.080 say is he's a here's a trade. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:30.200 I got through. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:35.160 Bangs all right, now follow me. Now, the Bengals trade 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:40.720 disgruntled Joe Burrow to the New England Patriots for Drake 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:41.840 May and. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.720 Other draft picks. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.960 Now, I think it's a win win for both. Burrow 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.200 gets to go up there and play for Mike head 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.320 coach up there, and they got a good offensive line. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:56.880 Look, they're in the right direction. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.520 Joe Burrow could probably take him over the top. And 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:05.040 the Bengals now have a rookie that's a great potential. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.440 He could be in the top five or six in 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.280 a couple of years, who knows on his rookie contract. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.560 So that can free up some money to maybe help 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.280 the Bengals acquire some some players that could help the 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:19.040 team as well. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:20.880 What do you think of that, Chick. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.000 Well, we've reached I will address this after the bottom 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.919 of the We just hit the bottom of the hour news, 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.240 so I will check it out. I disagree with you, Jeff, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.960 but I love you still. So Hey, it's chick. Ludwig 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:40.879 and you're listening to sports talk on seven hundred WLW 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:46.040 five point in the Queens City, chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:51.560 I hope everyone is safe out there brutal driving conditions. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.280 With the winter storm warning. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:19:02.040 Remaining in effect until seven am on Sunday, Jeff from 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:09.280 Dayton proposed to trade Drake May of New England to 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:15.600 the Cincinnati Bengals for Joe Burrow. It can't happen. It 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:21.919 cannot happen for economic reasons. Joe Burrow is signed with 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.439 the Bengals through the twenty twenty nine season at an 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:31.280 average of fifty five million dollars per year. That includes 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.439 base salary, per pro rated signing bonus, the whole nine. 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.960 Drake May is in his second year of a four year, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:47.440 thirty six and a half million dollar contract. His base 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:52.399 salary is nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars this year. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.960 He's twenty three years old. Joe Burrow is twenty nine. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:04.760 There's no way that that trade could possibly happen, so 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.560 let's forget about that. I love Joe Burrow. I want 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:17.080 him to remain in Cincinnati. I want him to be happy. 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:22.200 Bearcats leading at the seven to twenty seven mark of 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:26.160 the first half today against Georgia, thirty three to twenty two. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:31.600 They're up eleven. They lose by nineteen eighty four to 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.520 sixty five. In the final twenty seven minutes and twenty 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.760 seven seconds of this game, you see got outscored by 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:45.800 thirty sixty two to thirty two. Everybody's angry. Let's go 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.640 out to the phones. Brian is in Eastgate, Hi, Brian. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:51.960 Hey, check, how you doing? 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:52.800 Oh good? 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:53.440 Good? 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.480 I hope I can get back to the Miamisburg War 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:56.679 room safely tonight. 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.000 Well, yeah, lit the weather, it's like a white death. Yes, 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.800 I was just wanting to know if you see it 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.440 was up thirty three twenty two. Is that just bad coaching? 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.440 Or how do you blow at eleven point lead like that? 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.120 It's just they didn't have a good Wes Miller's offense bad. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.000 You're you're exactly right about that. And Terry Nelson and 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.920 Dan Horde talked about it. This weave at the top 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.520 of the circle, in around the perimeter, this weave, it's 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.720 not working. The ball has to go inside for Ucy 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:36.760 to take advantage of its length and size inside. A 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:41.479 problem today came when Bob Bob Miller lost his mind 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.000 and gets called for a technical foul less than three 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.760 minutes just passed. Two minutes into the second half, and 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.440 he picks up. He picked up a foul that gets 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.399 hammered with a tech. That's a personal foul. So he 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.320 goes from one foul to three. He's got to come out. 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.840 He's in and out of the line up. They need 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.719 him in there. He's their best player. But what I 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.480 see from this team, I don't see a leader. I 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:14.879 see five individuals on the floor attempting to impress the 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:20.600 pro scouts with auditions at how awesome athletically they are. 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.000 But as a cohesive team, forget it. 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.159 Yeah I have he's like a McDonald's All American. It 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:29.920 seems like West doesn't give him up out of those 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:31.560 fit talent he has. 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:32.600 He's got a lot of talent. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.359 He does have a lot of it's the yeah and 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.040 and these guys are thrown together this year from all 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.960 these different programs. It's taking forever to mesh and but 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:45.600 Xavier is able to do it. 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:49.600 He's available to do. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.960 What I want to talk about sports Cincinnati sports. But 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.320 I just think Xavier with Brick Petina, Richard Patino. He's 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.800 he's got Xavier playing as a team. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.920 That's exactly right. They're getting better every game. UC's getting worse, 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.000 and it's going to get bad. It's really going to 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.680 get bad. They've got Alabama State Wednesday night at home, 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:15.920 a neutral site game against Clemson, which handed Georgia it's 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.680 only loss, so you can imagine what that's going to 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.840 be like. That's in Greenville, South Carolina, a week from tomorrow. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.720 Then the Bearcats come home and play Lipscomb out of 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:32.800 Nashville at home. Then the UC Bearcats host the Houston 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:38.359 Cougars on January third in the Big Twelve opener. And 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:41.399 there are six Big twelve teams not only in the 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:45.960 top twenty five, but in the top nineteen in the country. 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:49.760 Well, I'm most all a while to go switch scarers 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:52.560 and talk about the Bengals. I was thinking about how 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:55.240 the Bengals they had. They went all in on offense 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:59.679 this year, but is there anything about you know why 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:02.399 they so bad on defense? It seems like they just 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:04.239 didn't get enough players. 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.840 They don't have enough. They don't have enough good players. 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.239 I think what needs to happen in this offseason. You 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:13.280 have to sign a free agent a good one at 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:16.719 really all phases of the defense, the front, the middle, 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.360 and the back end. And then you've got to go 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.879 draft heavy with defense. You're not going to hit on 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:26.920 every one of them, but you've got to remake this defense. 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.080 Well, they need to get better interior up front, like 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:34.200 in the trenches on defense, No doubt they never after 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:36.800 you lose Trey Hendrickson, who do you get? I mean, 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.360 those are players that Bengals could go after the gate. 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.480 I just don't understand what the Bengals are playing is. 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:43.200 Yeah not right now? 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:47.000 Proof, Yeah, you lose, you lose a quality pass rusher 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:49.840 like Trey Hendrickson who had seventeen and a half sacks 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:52.840 last year. And then he fleeces the Bengals for a 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:57.000 thirteen million dollar raise on top of the sixteen million 0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:00.359 that he was going to make and hold out because 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:04.679 he was unhappy with sixteen million. So he fleeces the 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:07.320 club for twenty nine million and he's injured and he's 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:11.200 done for the year. Now he becomes an unrestricted free agent. 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:13.880 I hope the door doesn't hit him in the butt 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:16.280 on his way out. There's no ways coming back to 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:21.159 Cincinnati next year. So he'll rehab. So he will rehab 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:26.040 and get ready for his next contract with the next team. 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:29.000 He's going to believe the Bangles plays somewhere for a 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:33.440 couple more years and then I guess I'll get more money. 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:40.040 Uh not Trey Hendrickson, that's for sure. So oh yeah, yeah, 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:41.840 he's done after this year in Cincinnati. 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:44.879 Done. He was motivated. 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:46.959 It wasn't even motivated. I think he just wanted them 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:50.440 pay raise. He didn't really even show up on defense. 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:52.439 No, he was a hold in. 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:56.720 So he's he was in training camp and he was 0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:01.080 helping guys like Miles Murphy. He was my credits him 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:04.360 with being kind of with being a mentor and helping him. 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:10.600 But yeah, he gets injured and uh yeah, and he's done. 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:11.880 Chi chick. 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:13.720 What do you think about Bengals even firing their a 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:15.200 GM and hiring a new. 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:17.800 Well, they don't have GM. 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:20.600 Well, they don't have a GM, and I don't see 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:22.200 any front office changes. 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:24.920 That's not that's not a good. 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:27.880 That's not that's not good. That's not a helping them, tam. 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:32.760 Hey, they've got to get better on defense, They've got 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:36.000 to get better on defense, and and hey, but. 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:36.840 It's not Mike Brown. 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.119 I'm such saying it's not Mike Brown's m O to 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:44.440 hire a GM. No regular get get better drafts, draft 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:45.960 picks and talent. 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:47.240 That's that's right. 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:50.399 That's how they That's how they that's how they roll. 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.960 And if you remember correctly, when they went to the 0:26:55.000 --> 0:27:01.480 Super Bowl and lost to the Los Angeles Rams in 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:05.920 that run to the AFC title, some of the talking 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:09.680 heads are saying, Hey, the way that Cincinnati Bengals are 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:15.320 doing business might not be all that bad, okay, but 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:20.040 a series of poor draft picks. When you don't hit 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:27.560 on your draft picks, it's a struggle. Miles Murphy, Shamar Stewart, 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:34.280 Dax Hill, They're just not good enough on defense. 0:27:34.400 --> 0:27:36.280 They need better players. 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.479 And with that, Jeff I got a run or Brian 0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:42.560 appreciate the call from E Skate, thank you very much. 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:51.320 And Yesterday, December twelfth, was the twenty sixth anniversary of 0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:57.760 the final game at Riverfront Stadium slash Synergy Field Bengals 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:02.560 forty four. Brown's twenty eight Corey Dillon rushes for one 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:08.840 hundred and ninety two yards and three touchdowns. CD and 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:13.960