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Speaker 2: What's up? Welcome in, James Repene in Frolance Acholic. So

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Speaker 2: this is Sports Talk on seven hundred wl W. So

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Speaker 2: excited to be here on Christmas Eve. Shout out to

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Speaker 2: tearin Bland for producing today's show, and shout out to you.

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Speaker 2: I really hope you and your family have a wonderful

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Speaker 2: Christmas season, a wonderful holiday season, and obviously a happy

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Speaker 2: New Year. And really really grateful and thankful to be

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Speaker 2: here and to be talking with you on these airwaves

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Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW and the iHeartRadio app. I'm James Orpene.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know me, why cover the Bengals every

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Speaker 2: single day Bengals Talk dot com. You could check us

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Speaker 2: out there and certainly check out all of our content

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Speaker 2: on the YouTube channel Cincinnati Bengals Talk as well, and

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Speaker 2: that's where we're going to start today's show. It is

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Speaker 2: with the Bengals and anytime I anytime I'm on these airwaves,

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Speaker 2: I tried to share thoughts about the Bengals that you

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Speaker 2: might not have heard from Lance, or might not heard

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Speaker 2: from Moe down the Hall or Toty from down the Hall.

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Speaker 2: And I was in Miami for the game on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: and I watched Joe Burrow do what he did, complete

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Speaker 2: twenty five of thirty two passes for three hundred and

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Speaker 2: nine yards, four touchdowns, have a one forty six point

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Speaker 2: five passer rating, the second best of his career. And

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Speaker 2: to me, it was a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, we

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Speaker 2: look a lot of times during the holiday season for

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Speaker 2: a reminder of, oh, well, why you should cherish these

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Speaker 2: moments or these times, and when it comes to football,

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Speaker 2: and this has nothing to do with the holiday season,

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Speaker 2: but when it comes to football, the ultimate goal is

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Speaker 2: to what to win a championship. And I can for

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Speaker 2: sure tell you that every team that doesn't have a

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow feels like they are nineteen thousand, five hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty two but jillion miles away from winning a championship.

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Speaker 2: But if you have a Josh Allen or a Patrick

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Speaker 2: Mahomes or a Joe Burrow, you feel like you're close,

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Speaker 2: You feel like you have a chance, you feel like

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Speaker 2: there's a real shot at doing just that, of getting

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Speaker 2: to the mountaintop. And that's what Sunday reminded me, because

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow played well, but the Dolphins just never had

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Speaker 2: a chance. There was never a moment in that game,

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Speaker 2: even when it was fourteen to ten where I thought

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Speaker 2: that Quin Yours and the Dolphins were gonna beat Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrow in the Bengals. And so you're like, James, what

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Speaker 2: does that mean? What are you say? I'm saying that

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Speaker 2: it doesn't need to be rocket science for the Bengals

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Speaker 2: this offseason. It doesn't need to be so hard, and

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Speaker 2: it feels like they're really really far away. But when

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Speaker 2: you have Joe Burrow, you're born on third base. You

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Speaker 2: have a shot to completely revamp things very very quickly.

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Speaker 2: And I know Bengals ownership has really done the opposite

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Speaker 2: of going all in. They've tried to build this sustainable winner.

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Speaker 2: They've tried, They've tried to do this thing where they ah,

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Speaker 2: we're going to try to keep ourselves in the mix

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Speaker 2: for as long as possible. And that sounds good, But

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Speaker 2: when you have Joe Burrow, it needs to be about

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. When you have Joe Burrow, it needs to

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Speaker 2: be about Joe Burrow in building around him and putting

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Speaker 2: the team around him that can contend year in and

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Speaker 2: year out. How do you get there year in and

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Speaker 2: think about Joe Burrow, and I think about how they're

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Speaker 2: four and two with Joe Burrow at quarterback this season,

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Speaker 2: I think, man, oh man, if you had just been

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Speaker 2: slightly under five hundred without him, they were one and

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, things feel, look and are so much different.

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Speaker 2: And you're right there, You're in the hunt. You feel

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Speaker 2: crown right now, and that's who's more than likely he's

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Speaker 2: going to win it. But they weren't built correctly, they

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Speaker 2: weren't coached correctly. There were mistakes all around, and it's unacceptable.

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Speaker 2: That's what the reminder was for me the other day

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Speaker 2: watching Joe Burrow pass the twenty thousand yard mark, fifth

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Speaker 2: fastest in NFL history to do so, third fastest in

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Speaker 2: He's had one hundred and fifty two touchdowns. The time

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Speaker 2: is now, not later.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I wrote a book about the Bengals. A lot of

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Speaker 2: you have probably followed the Cincinnati Bengals for your entire life.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you can get it at Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 2: book dot com. It's called Enter the Jungle wherever books

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Speaker 2: are sold. This Bengals franchise has never had a quarterback

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Speaker 2: Burrow era where every year you should be winning eleven, twelve,

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Speaker 2: thirteen games, not six, not seven, not five and ten,

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Speaker 2: that's their slow this year. That can't be unacceptable. And

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Speaker 2: so this holiday season, this Christmas season, when we're all

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Speaker 2: not rocket science. You can fix it. You can be

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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl contender a year from now. And when

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Speaker 2: I'm on these airwaves next to Christmas Eve filling in

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Speaker 2: for Lance McAllister on Sports Talk. We can be talking

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Speaker 2: about man, oh man, they have a real shot out

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Speaker 2: winning a Super Bowl. That's the standard. Everything else is hogwash,

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Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins. James are pen in for Lance McAllister today,

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. The Miami Dolphins would trade their entire roster

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Speaker 2: in multiple years, of their entire drafts to get Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: Tiggins coming up. You have all these pieces in their prime.

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Speaker 2: You have to take advantage of it. You have to.

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Speaker 2: And so for me, Sunday was a reminder of that.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, Joe's on the field with those weapons. Good luck,

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Speaker 2: good luck. You got a young, feisty defense that has

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Speaker 2: a lot of you will probably thinking, oh, well, Joe

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Speaker 2: they shouldn't have paid this guy that they have plenty

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Speaker 3: Plenty of money.

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Speaker 2: They have plenty of money and plenty of cash. I

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Speaker 2: they should to the Joe Burrow era, Failing in this

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Speaker 2: got to get a super Bowl, you gotta win the championship.

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Speaker 2: that's what's scary now because they're committed to Zach Taylor,

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Speaker 2: They need to be active in free agency, There's no

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow was on his rookie deal and then they

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Speaker 2: to Joe Burrow's extension, and those those feet are frozen

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Speaker 2: right now, even though those temperatures outside are mighty mighty

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Speaker 2: I'm James or Peen in for Lance. This is Sports Talk.

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Speaker 2: with you here on Christmas Eve plenty to discuss We're

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Speaker 2: be five and ten. The Cincinnati Bengals would be five

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Speaker 2: this franchise needs to be able to build an average

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Speaker 2: instead they're like that. One of the nf eose worst

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Speaker 2: noteworthy to me twofold, there's a lot of narratives about

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Speaker 2: And that's what's tough is that's when the season really

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Speaker 2: Zach Taylor for Monday.

430
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Speaker 12: You know, we've always wanted to be a relentless defense,

431
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 12: something where the effort flies off the tape and you

432
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,479
Speaker 12: see guys forming the ball. So I think those are things.

433
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 12: When I watched the tape yesterday is you see everyone

434
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 12: in the picture, everyone after first contact trying to get

435
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 12: in the mix, make sure the ball carry gets down.

436
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 12: They got the one run on us. That was a

437
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 12: big run, and you can't excuse that because we got

438
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 12: to get him on the ground. We had opportunities to

439
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 12: do it, could have knocked it down. We didn't. This

440
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 12: court touchdown. But you look at the mixture runs after that,

441
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 12: and they're tough. They scheme your runs up, they give

442
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 12: you a lot of different looks, a ton of different

443
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 12: personnel groupings. I thought our defense did a great job

444
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 12: getting that run game settled down. And minimized toward the

445
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 12: second half. You know, you got to make them throw

446
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 12: the football and we were able to get the ball

447
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 12: off of them that way. So just overall really impressed

448
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 12: with the growth of our defense and how these guys

449
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 12: are responded. They understand the scheme, the communication has been

450
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 12: really good, and again you know, taking the ball off

451
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 12: the people, you know, so there's that confidence to scoring

452
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 12: there as well, And so it's been fun to watch.

453
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Speaker 13: That's a line a pretty good game yesterday and starts

454
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 13: of containing the run between the tackles.

455
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 12: Doing a great job, playing with their hands, understanding the

456
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 12: techniques for asking them to play and and so again

457
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 12: you're just seeing guys grow. A ton of guys grow.

458
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 12: Getting Tamar back was fun to watch yesterday. I thought

459
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 12: Cedric played a good game yesterday. Miles continues just to

460
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 12: just have a really good season right now with where

461
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 12: he's at, and so again it's just and there's as

462
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 12: I'm not even naming, you know, I thought everybody played

463
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 12: really well yesterday. So just fun group to watch them

464
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 12: continue to grow and as sand and that's all we're

465
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 12: asking for them right now is just get better every

466
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 12: single week and minimize your mistakes and we're seeing that

467
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 12: from those guys.

468
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Speaker 14: Think Higgins said he saw specials to go when you

469
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 14: go to see Thursday morning, okay, and kind of what

470
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Speaker 14: what led to y'all come to that conclusion and saying, hey,

471
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 14: I still have this shut down and kind of walk

472
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 14: us through that cross.

473
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that it was the doctors, you know, I think

474
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Speaker 12: just making sure tea in conjunction with our doctors, just

475
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 12: making sure you got that final checkpoint there to make

476
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 12: sure we're seeing everything. And the clearance was appropriate. I

477
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 12: think with the two issues he's had, you know, that

478
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,239
Speaker 12: was the appropriate way to do it.

479
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 7: And so.

480
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Speaker 12: Getting out there quite really was. It was a bang

481
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 12: bang Thursday morning, got out there, got back before I

482
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 12: wasn't expecting about practice, and there he just walks in

483
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 12: the door, you know, right after stretch. So that was

484
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 12: I think it's good for him to hear that too.

485
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 12: He could probably answer that better than I can, but

486
00:26:58,560 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 12: we just want to make sure we were doing right

487
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 12: by him. If he's going to go out there and

488
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 12: play that everybody feels good about it. He feels good

489
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 12: about it, family feels good about it. And he went

490
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 12: out there and to my eye, felt really good.

491
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 14: Clear Saturday and Sunday morning in order to finally have agree.

492
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 12: I don't know what the final hurd it was. I

493
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 12: mean I felt good Friday. I wasn't gonna tell everybody that,

494
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 12: but you know, it's it's kind of nice for you

495
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 12: to have te Higgins walk on the field Sunday morning

496
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 12: when no one's exactly sure if he's going to play.

497
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 7: I knew he was going to play at that point, but.

498
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,239
Speaker 12: You know, so it's good to get tea back out there,

499
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 12: and I know we got a lot of confidence when

500
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 12: he's out there.

501
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 15: Jalen Davis in November camp, Tilbert gets hurt. You were

502
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 15: going young in a lot of different positions. You had

503
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 15: young corners, and obviously it's worked out with Jalen. What

504
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 15: made Jalen the guy that you wanted to put in

505
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 15: the lineup when you looked at your options.

506
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 12: At that He's always he's always been a dependable guy.

507
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 12: We've seen it for him in training camp, for preseason games,

508
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 12: and the opportunity he's gotten over the years, you know,

509
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 12: to play in a real game and uh.

510
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 7: You know, just tremendous locker room guy.

511
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 12: I think he's he's a fan favorite in the locker room,

512
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 12: tremendous energy, just does what it takes to win and

513
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 12: help our team, whether that's been as a practice squad player,

514
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 12: bringing energy every single day and being consistent and being

515
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 12: ready when his numbers called, and so then his numbers

516
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 12: finally called in November. He just goes out there and

517
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 12: just plays with a ton of confidence, a ton of awareness,

518
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 12: great communication skills, leadership on defense, has an act for

519
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 12: making plays on the ball, has an act for pressuring.

520
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 12: A lot of similarities Mike Hilton, you know, and whether

521
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 12: that's because they were together for a long time, and

522
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 12: that's a huge compliment, you know, because Mike obviously had

523
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 12: tremendous career, and so JD's out there doing his own

524
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 12: thing and really just happy to see him take on

525
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 12: that role and do it with a ton of confidence and

526
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 12: make a lot a place for us and have a

527
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 12: lot of success.

528
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 7: He's earned that hard. You describe Fairchild's rookie.

529
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 12: Good, you know, I think he's playing between Orlando and

530
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 12: Ted has been a really good for him. Played with

531
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 12: really good physicality, and you know, seeing a lot of

532
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 12: stuff over the course of this season, being able to

533
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 12: be available and and I you know, really I think

534
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 12: he's got a really high ceiling and and you know

535
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 12: I felt the line as a whole. You know, we're

536
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,479
Speaker 12: talking about Maricus, we're talking about Dylan. I've just had

537
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 12: a ton of confidence all year. You know, whatever we're

538
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 12: calling that there's gonna be great protection for quarterbacks. That

539
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 12: the run game. You know we're gonna have success in

540
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 12: our runs that we're calling. And so just you know,

541
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 12: that speaks to Dylan, that speaks to the whole group.

542
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 12: I just as a head coach, as a play caller,

543
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 12: have a lot of confidence in the unit.

544
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 13: How much do you like watching so Tay that duo

545
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 13: blocked head and Dylan had We're smashes touchdown.

546
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 12: H It's great, and it's you know when you get

547
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 12: a drive mull Over drives. The second half started around midfield,

548
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 12: which was was just great. But you know, you hit

549
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 12: them in the past game and you kind of got

550
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 12: teams on their heels, and then you get to hit

551
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 12: them on two runs as you get lower in there

552
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 12: and scored on two runs. You know from you know,

553
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 12: inside the fifteen, inside the five. It's good because now

554
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 12: you know you're having a lot of success in the

555
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 12: past game. So they got to respect that, and then

556
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 12: you know you hit them with with some of the

557
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 12: runs we hit them on and the guys are able

558
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 12: to come off the ball and drive them off the ball,

559
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 12: and it's it's that's a great way to finish drives.

560
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 3: Yah.

561
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 16: When it's a season that hasn't gone well for you guys,

562
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 16: there's a lot of talk about a meaningless season, but

563
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 16: for you, you look at a different as a coach,

564
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 16: I know, where do you see the most growth on

565
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 16: a team even though this season hasn't been great.

566
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,719
Speaker 12: Well, I think we've played a lot of young guys,

567
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 12: you know, and these guys have just gotten better and better,

568
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 12: and so our future is really right that way that.

569
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 7: Every player, you.

570
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 12: Know, first, second, third year player, I really feel like

571
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 12: has made huge strides this season as they've gotten more

572
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 12: reps and more opportunity. And so we have a lot

573
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 12: of confidence in those guys. And then and then you

574
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 12: blend it with the veterans that we've got that are

575
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 12: playing at a high level. So I feel really good

576
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 12: about the direction this team. And and you know, it's

577
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 12: all we can control is this week we got Arizona.

578
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 12: This week, we got to put our best at four.

579
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 12: Forget about what's going on around us. Just focus on

580
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 12: great game plan, having a great week of practice. Winning

581
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 12: the game went in two games in a row. The

582
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 12: feeling we had in the locker room responding with another

583
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 12: way to win back to back games is all we

584
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 12: can control right now. Okay, you know, I know Jay

585
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 12: Morrison and his family are dealing with something tough right now.

586
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 7: Jays, as you all know, one of the greatest guys

587
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 7: in this business.

588
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 12: So thought some prayers with him and his family, and

589
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 12: I hate that he's got to go through that, but

590
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 12: I know we're all here for so I just want

591
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 12: to make sure he knows that his family knows that.

592
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 2: That last bit is the most important bit there of information.

593
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: I thought it was so so classy of Zach Taylor

594
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: to say that about Jay Morrison and his wife Nikki,

595
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 2: And really, ever since I heard the news, I haven't

596
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: been able to stop thinking about it and love Jay obviously.

597
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 2: I've worked with Jay for many, many years and I

598
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 2: consider him a great friend. And it's it's heartbreaking. It's

599
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 2: heartbreaking because it's rare to see a couple that you

600
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: know just fits and works perfectly, and so when tragedy

601
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 2: happens like this, and and for those of you that

602
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 2: don't know, Nicky Morrison passed away earlier this week, really

603
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: suddenly during a procedure that that went wrong. And it's

604
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: not something that anyone anticipated, expected or could have thought

605
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 2: was coming. And so when something sudden like this happens,

606
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: you know, you you reflect. And and the thing that

607
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: I continue to go back to is what Jay and

608
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 2: Nicky had. You could see was so special from the

609
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: moment that you talk to Jay about anything, any of

610
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: his hobbies, any any thing. And they were just a

611
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: perfect couple that that supported each other and loved each other.

612
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 2: And this is it's just awful, awful news. And some

613
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: things in life you can't explain why, and it's really

614
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 2: hard to understand the why with with something like this.

615
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: So love Jay, love Nikki. We're thinking about the entire

616
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 2: Morrison family. But I thought it was really really classy

617
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: of Zach Taylor to to say that at the end.

618
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 2: And that's why I mean, he talked today, but that's

619
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: why I wanted to to play what he said Monday

620
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: in its entirety. I thought there were some key nuggets

621
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 2: in there about t Higgins and other things like that,

622
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: plus what he said about Jay and his family. So

623
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 2: obviously we're thinking about the Morrisons during this time, and Jay,

624
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 2: we we love you for sure. It's it's something that

625
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: I can't stop thinking about, and I'm not going to

626
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 2: stop thinking about. So make sure that you give Jay

627
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: your well wishes this holiday season and the tire Morrison

628
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: family and we will we will continue the show coming

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Speaker 2: Well w It's great to be here. Really appreciate each

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Speaker 2: and every one of you for listening at this holiday season.

657
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: And if you're looking for more on the Bengals, and

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Speaker 2: obviously that's what I'm known for, make sure you check

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Speaker 2: out Bengals Talk dot com, Cincinnati Bengalstock on YouTube, the

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Speaker 2: Lockdown Bengals podcast. But let's dive in here because I

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00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 2: think one thing that I, for lack of a better term,

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Speaker 2: love is seeing star players fight, battle, compete, eat the edge.

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Speaker 2: What drives them all of those things and a guy

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Speaker 2: like T Higgins, like we've talked a lot about Joe

665
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Speaker 2: Burrow and should he shut it down? Should he not?

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Speaker 2: You know, there's been so much discussion there, but a

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Speaker 2: guy like T Higgins, that dude could have easily shut

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Speaker 2: it down this season and no one would have blamed him,

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Speaker 2: No one would have questioned it. Everyone would have said

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Speaker 2: yeah to you, like do it. And instead this guy

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Speaker 2: is battling, doing everything he can to get back on

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Speaker 2: the field, going to see a specialist in Pittsburgh. He

673
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 2: suffered a concussion a month ago now against the Patriots

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Speaker 2: a little over a month ago and missus a game.

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Speaker 2: Comes back after that Thursday game, comes back the following

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Speaker 2: week and plays great against the Bills, gets concussed in

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00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 2: that game and doesn't have symptoms or at least passes

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Speaker 2: protocol and doesn't have symptoms to get yanked out of

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Speaker 2: the game until after and goes back into protocol after

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Speaker 2: the game. This is the second Ravens game, and to me,

681
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 2: it's cool is the wrong word. But I just think

682
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Speaker 2: he deserves praise or fighting the way he has to

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Speaker 2: get back on the field. And what we should hear

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Speaker 2: from T Higgins. This is what he said to me

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Speaker 2: after the game in the locker room in Miami, after

686
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Speaker 2: having a great game including a thirty five yard catch

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00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: and outstanding touchdown grab his tenth of the season, which

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00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 2: ties a career high like t is a problem on

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Speaker 2: the field, and that's a great thing for the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Here's what T. Higgins had to say after the game.

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Speaker 18: Now, it was fun, you know, just get back there

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Speaker 18: and compete with my guys and then it's even better.

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Speaker 18: We got a W.

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Speaker 2: The W that we got too.

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Speaker 18: So you know, shout out to my guys.

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Speaker 19: When you're on the flight to and from Pittsburgh, what's

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Speaker 19: going through your head?

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Speaker 3: Like, what's that like?

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Speaker 18: Honestly, you know, praying that I know I come back

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Speaker 18: with come here and get positive news, to come back

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Speaker 18: with positive news to tell the team and things like that,

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Speaker 18: and that's what it was.

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Speaker 3: Your racking or I mean I.

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Speaker 18: Was very you know, obviously I was very anxious and nervous,

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Speaker 18: you know to what they was gonna say. But you know,

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Speaker 18: I got a peace of mind and it was okay.

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Speaker 19: Changes that makes you want to play when they when

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Speaker 19: they clear you, what is it that made you want

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Speaker 19: to say, I want to finish the season.

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Speaker 18: At the end of the day of a competitor. I

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Speaker 18: want to compete with the guys. So that's that's all

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Speaker 18: it came down to.

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Speaker 2: You make any changes. You know, people see guardian caps

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Speaker 2: out there. Obviously didn't work every different. What's different about

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Speaker 2: this helmet.

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Speaker 18: Just more pattern, you know what I mean. I was

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Speaker 18: able to get fitted for one and it came.

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Speaker 2: In just in time.

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Speaker 20: Here's that feel.

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Speaker 18: Much of your feels great, honestly, h It's comfortable. So

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Speaker 18: that's all that about it.

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Speaker 10: It's the scariest part of the symptoms that you felt.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of headaches.

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Speaker 18: The first one was a little bit since the light,

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Speaker 18: but other than that, Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: Can you take me through the art of the t

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Speaker 2: Higgins contested catch because it feels like it's evolved from

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Speaker 2: a few years ago to now and it seems like

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Speaker 2: you're making them look so routine.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, man, I just that's my job to go up

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Speaker 18: there and catch the ball, and you know, Joe gives

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Speaker 18: me a great boss to where I only I can

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Speaker 18: catch it, and you know it's either me or nobody.

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Speaker 21: So is it kind of just uplifting exciting to be

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Speaker 21: able to come back from what you did and have

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Speaker 21: the type of game that you did to that.

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Speaker 18: I mean definitely is definitely a you know, a bonus. Obviously,

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Speaker 18: I wanted to come out and try to dominate personally.

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Speaker 18: But we was able to do that as a whole

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Speaker 18: today and you know the results.

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Speaker 2: So here's why I love T Higgins and that entire video.

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Speaker 2: You could check it out Cincinnati Bengals talk on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: I love that tee. It's like, oh man, I'm a competitor.

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00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: Of course I want to apply. Why wouldn't I play?

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Speaker 2: And I just I think that deserves praise. Now they've

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Speaker 2: taken the precautions and he's gotten examined and went to

747
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Speaker 2: a specialist in Pittsburgh and we heard from Zach Taylor

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Speaker 2: on that earlier this hour. But the other thing that

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Speaker 2: this to me reminds me of, and I think Sunday

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Speaker 2: was a big, an important reason behind it and why

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Speaker 2: you do pay T Higgins because that's still a discussion,

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Speaker 2: especially with the defense being the way it is, and

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00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 2: the Bengals had plenty of money last year and they

754
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Speaker 2: just didn't spend enough of it, maximized their cap all

755
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Speaker 2: of those things on defense. They could have done everything

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Speaker 2: they did on offense and added a bunch on defense.

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Speaker 2: They didn't do that. But this is why you keep T.

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Speaker 2: Higgins because he's a in his prime monster and they've

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Speaker 2: failed to draft enough monsters to say, oh, well, you

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Speaker 2: can let this guy in his prime go. It'd be

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Speaker 2: one thing if they had four defensive linemen and two

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Speaker 2: corners and a bunch of stuff that they had to

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Speaker 2: pay and they couldn't make it all work with Tea.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have any of that they didn't like. If

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Speaker 2: you don't pay T Higgins, you just lose T Higgins.

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Speaker 2: And so to see him fight, to see him play

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Speaker 2: at a high level, and to see him matter, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's the thing he matters so much in

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Speaker 2: this offense because if you want a double Jamar, well

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Speaker 2: then fine, you got to deal with Tea. And if

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Speaker 2: you're going to play one high and put T Higgins

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Speaker 2: and Manda man coverage, well good luck, because he's as

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Speaker 2: good as anyone right now in the NFL at the

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Speaker 2: jump ball, in making plays on the ball deep down field.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that catch, that fifty to fifty ball the

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Speaker 2: other day is just insane. That he gets up there

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Speaker 2: makes that play and you heard him just doing my job. No, like,

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Speaker 2: no one can do that job. There's like four people

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Speaker 2: on the planet that I think are capable of doing

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Speaker 2: that job.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times, it's it's easy to say, oh,

783
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: the Bengals want the flashy way. They're paying two receivers,

784
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: they're paying their quarterback, they're not built the right way.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe that one bit. Like I think t

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Speaker 2: the exact guy you do pay. I also thought Jesse

787
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Speaker 2: Bates and DJ Reader were guys you pay and you

788
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 2: keep guess what they could have done all of it.

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing that I really want to hammer

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00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 2: home this holiday season, especially going into the offseason. It's like, oh, well,

791
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 2: you know, the Bengals, they spent here, but they needed

792
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 2: to spend there. They could have done all of it.

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Speaker 2: And that's the standard when you're trying to win Super Bowls.

794
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 2: Guess what you're trying to do all of it, not

795
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 2: some of it, not a little bit of it, all

796
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: of it. And that's been the theme of this show.

797
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 2: And the reason it's been the theme of this show

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00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 2: is because this Bengals franchise with Joe Burrow should be

799
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Speaker 2: contending for Super Bowls every single year. And when I

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Speaker 2: think about Jamar Chase and t Higgins and Tea battling

801
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Speaker 2: back and doing what he is doing at such a

802
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: high level, it shouldn't be to get to five and

803
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Speaker 2: ten on the season. It shouldn't be with nothing to

804
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Speaker 2: play for. This better be the last season we're talking

805
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 2: about this ever in the Joe Burrow Jamar Chase t

806
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 2: Higgins era. Ever, otherwise they've failed massively, like this should

807
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Speaker 2: be impossible. And I don't mean like last year where

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00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 2: they're rallying for a playoff spot. Next year we should

809
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 2: be talking about playoff positioning. Oh well, they're pretty much

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Speaker 2: wrapped up the division. Are they going to get the

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Speaker 2: one seed or the two seed or how do they

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Speaker 2: stack up in the AFC? Like that's the standard. And

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Speaker 2: so when I see a guy like T Higgins fighting

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Speaker 2: his tail off, doing everything he can to get back

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Speaker 2: on the field and what is essentially meaningless games, those

816
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 2: are the type of guys you build around. And so

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00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: when someone says I'm not sure they should have paid

818
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: T Higgins, well yeah, they should have paid T Higgins.

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Speaker 2: They got that right. There's a lot of things the

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Speaker 2: Bengals have gotten wrong. They got that right, even if

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Speaker 2: they needed to be nudged by Joe Burrow along the way.

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Speaker 2: They got that right. It's time for them to get

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Speaker 2: the rest of it fixed. This offseason. James Arepine in

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Speaker 2: for Lance. This is Sports Talk on set one hundred WLW.

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Speaker 3: News Traffic and Weather. News Radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati, Hey.

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Speaker 8: Vehicle goes airborne and a deadly Christmas Eve crash near

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Speaker 8: Kenwood Town Center with the eight o'clock report, I'm Sean

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Speaker 8: Gallblagher breaking now. Utility companies continue tonight to replace and

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Speaker 8: rewire utility polls after a single vehicle crash left one

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Speaker 8: person dead and another critically injured.

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Speaker 22: Late this morning, WDSA had cars speeding on Montgomery Road clipped.

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Speaker 22: Another vehicle left the road and went airborne, hitting trees

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Speaker 22: into utility poles, bringing down power lines. The driver, twenty

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Speaker 22: eight year O'Connor Walshley, died from his injuries, while his

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Speaker 22: passenger remains in critical condition. Both were visiting from South

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Speaker 22: Carolina for the holidays. I'm Brady Hopkins News Radio seven

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Speaker 22: hundred WLW.

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Speaker 8: P Montgomery between Galberth and Coogler Mill expected to be

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Speaker 8: reopened by eleven o'clock tonight. Now the latest traffic and

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Speaker 8: weather together and right now taking a look at the

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Speaker 8: major interstates in highways. They were dealing with that closure

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Speaker 8: earlier this evening along seventy five southbound off ramp to

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Speaker 8: westbound seventy four and so I need to see if

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Speaker 8: it has reopened at this time, and cameras were showing

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Speaker 8: that it looks like traffic was starting to move again

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Speaker 8: seventy four westbounds, so it appears that they might have

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Speaker 8: been able to clear that accident on the off ramp.

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Speaker 8: The right lane of the highway had also been blocked

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Speaker 8: by the ramp to seventy four west from seventy five south.

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Speaker 11: Now, the latest forecast from the No Feared Dentist Weather

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Speaker 9: Temperatures will be climbing quickly into Christmas morning as we

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Speaker 9: rebound well into the fifties to start things off, but

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Speaker 9: that scattered rain will also continue into the morning, likely

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Speaker 9: ending by the early afternoon. But we'll keep it cloudy

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Speaker 9: and warm for your Christmas afternoon Highs near fifty nine

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Speaker 9: degrees heading into Friday morning, well cool off to forty

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Speaker 9: six from your severe weather station, I'm nine first Warning

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Speaker 9: met Religius. Mark Stintz News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 8: Radar at this time is showing a fair sky and

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Speaker 8: crash Ley, a Cincinnati radio and television personalities work being

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Speaker 23: Christmas for those of us of a certain age growing

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Speaker 23: up in the trash State and meant the radio where

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Speaker 23: TV tuned in every day at noon to Ruth Lions.

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Speaker 23: She was a favorite of Baby boo Er Moms of

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Speaker 23: the Christmas songs she wrote form the songbook for local

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Speaker 23: holiday celebrations. Joined by cast members like Ruby Wright, Marian Spellman,

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Speaker 23: and Bob Brown, the Fifty to fifty Club became musty

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Speaker 23: daytime TV. At one point there was a two year

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Speaker 23: on Christmas Day. Wowt looking back at our legacy with

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Speaker 23: specials about her career. Brian Colps News Radio seven WLW.

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Speaker 8: The iconic Cincinnati sign on the newly renovated Downtown Convention

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Speaker 8: Center backup in time for the holidays is the LED

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Speaker 8: sign facing I seventy five on the west side of

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Speaker 8: the convention Center, and the convention Center set to reopen

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Speaker 8: January seventh, one of the big changes with the sign

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Speaker 8: is that every letter on it is customizable and can

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Speaker 8: play video. And Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow named the AFC

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Speaker 8: Offensive Player of the Week after throwing four touchdowns in

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Speaker 8: last Sunday's forty five to twenty one win at the Dolphins.

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Speaker 8: The Bengals will host the Cardinals this Sunday, kick off

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Speaker 8: one o'clock on the Big One. Our next update is

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Speaker 8: at eight thirty. I'm Sean Galbager News Radio seven hundred

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the hour to James or team in

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Speaker 2: per lance. This is seven hundred that wl W. It's

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Speaker 2: great to be with you. This is sports Talk. Merry

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. I hope you're having a great one with

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Speaker 2: you and yours and plenty to discuss this hour with

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Speaker 2: you til nine o'clock. There's a growing sentiment. I think

901
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: at least it feels this way, and this sort of

902
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: happened last year, and I don't want to fall into

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00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 2: the trap this year, and so I want to make

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Speaker 2: it very very clear now with the Bengals two games

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Speaker 2: to go, they force a bunch of turnovers in the

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Speaker 2: third quarter against the Miami Dolphins, and they've been opportunistic

907
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Speaker 2: in recent weeks, and it feels like this defense is

908
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Speaker 2: coming along. It feels like this defense is coming along,

909
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 2: and that very well could be true. I think there

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Speaker 2: are building blocks on this defense, or one of them

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Speaker 2: pro bol snub by the way. I think Miles Murphy

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Speaker 2: one of them, but Dax Hill one of them. To

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Speaker 2: be clear, I mean, there are guys that should be

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Speaker 2: starters next year on this team, but they also need

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Speaker 2: help at all three levels the defensive line room. You

916
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Speaker 2: need another pass rushing defensive end that you really feel

917
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Speaker 2: confident in, could be your number one edge rusher. You

918
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Speaker 2: need a true push internally at that defensive tackle spot

919
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Speaker 2: from a pass rush perspective. That's not news. That's something

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Speaker 2: they tried to get with Sheldon Rankins. I believe they

921
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Speaker 2: were interested in adding that in the draft this past year.

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Speaker 2: They haven't done it. That's something they have to do

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Speaker 2: this offseason. Linebacker, I don't think you can say oh,

924
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Speaker 2: Demetrius Night and Barrett Carter Boom were set Orren Burks

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Speaker 2: is under contract, We're set. I don't think that's the

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Speaker 2: case at all. They need help at linebacker and Gino

927
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Speaker 2: still and should not start on Sunday. So when you

928
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Speaker 2: look at it, the Bengals need help on all three

929
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Speaker 2: levels of their defense, even with like no matter what

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Speaker 2: happens over the final few weeks, that's the case. But

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Speaker 2: don't take my word for it. I caught up with

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Speaker 2: Tony Pike last week on my YouTube channel, Cincinnati Bengals Talk,

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Speaker 2: and you could check it out on YouTube. You could

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Speaker 2: check it out wherever you get your podcast. By the way,

935
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Speaker 2: James or Pen and Falance McAllister here on seven hundred WLW,

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Speaker 2: and this was part of our conversation about the Bengals defense.

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Speaker 2: How many new pieces do they need on defense and

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Speaker 2: how many of them should be free agents improven pieces,

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Speaker 2: because I would go really, really in all three levels

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Speaker 2: investing in free agency in the defense.

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Speaker 25: You know how many years out are we and we're

942
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Speaker 25: still talking about this team never replaced Jesse Bates. You

943
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Speaker 25: want to dive into x's and o's the touchdown before

944
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Speaker 25: the half that Baltimore scored inexcusable on Genostone's behalf on

945
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Speaker 25: the back end, there was no inside threat. He should

946
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Speaker 25: have been widened. He should have made the angle on

947
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Speaker 25: Za Flowers. He should have That should have been an incompletion.

948
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Speaker 25: It should have been seven to nothing or ten nothing

949
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Speaker 25: at halftime. You need help on the back end, you know.

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Speaker 25: I think Jordan Battle's taking some good steps as of late.

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Speaker 25: I think you can see pieces with Dax Hill, certainly

952
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Speaker 25: DJ Turner. The evaluation that linebacker is gonna be key

953
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Speaker 25: for me because I don't see it with with Barrett Carter.

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Speaker 25: Demitrius Knight, I thought had his best game as a

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Speaker 25: Bengal against the Baltimore Ravens. So certainly I can say, okay,

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Speaker 25: year one, guys, let's run it back and see what

957
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Speaker 25: we have. But I would certainly have a contingency plan there.

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Speaker 25: And I think defensive line is fascinating. I love what

959
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Speaker 25: Miles Murphy's done, But Miles Murphy was good down the

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Speaker 25: stretch last year as well. Why does it take three

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Speaker 25: quarters of the season for Miles Murphy to start playing well?

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Speaker 7: You know?

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Speaker 25: Can can you get that Miles Murphy to start next year?

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Speaker 25: Josepho size in a contract year. What are you gonna

965
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Speaker 25: do with him? The Trey Hendrickson? Do you run the

966
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Speaker 25: risk of tagging Trey Hendrickson and going through more drama

967
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Speaker 25: in the offseason. You have to evaluate what you have.

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Speaker 25: But I'm so past the draft a guy, an immediate

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Speaker 25: impact player. I want proven players on the defensive side

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Speaker 25: of the ball. And that's the other aspect we didn't

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Speaker 25: talk about. This team has struggled in the draft for

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Speaker 25: the most part in recent years. And are we really

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Speaker 25: willing to risk finishing the season seven to ten and

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Speaker 25: dropping in the draft order and trying to get a

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Speaker 25: mid round steal instead of a top ten pick who

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Speaker 25: you know? You know, based on teams that are quarterback driven,

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Speaker 25: there's going to be some quarterbacks reached for in the

978
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Speaker 25: first round. You're probably going to get a very good

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Speaker 25: position player in that top ten that falls.

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Speaker 3: Into your lap.

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Speaker 25: Do you want to run the risk of another draft

982
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Speaker 25: a guy and sell it to the fate? We al,

983
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Speaker 25: Shamar Stewart, the measurables. No, give me a proven guy

984
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Speaker 25: in the draft. So I think there are some pieces

985
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Speaker 25: on defense that I'm willing to run the you know,

986
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Speaker 25: run it back with or roll the dice on. But

987
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Speaker 25: for the most part, their scheme with their personnel needs

988
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 25: to match up way better than it does.

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00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 2: That entire thing. On my YouTube channel, Cincinnati Bengals Talk,

990
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 2: James are pen In for Lance a look that they

991
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 2: need help. They need to add bona fide players at

992
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 2: all three levels of the defense, regardless of what happens

993
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 2: over the final few weeks. I think that that's kind

994
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 2: of a moot point, because your defense is a big

995
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 2: reason why you're in this position, not the only reason,

996
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 2: a big reason. And one thing that I'm going to

997
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 2: talk about this hour that I hit on last hour

998
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 2: is if you're going to build a competent team that

999
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Speaker 2: is competent regardless of whether or not Joe Burrows on

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Speaker 2: the field or not, that's something you need to do.

1001
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Speaker 2: You need, not want, not hope not. You need to

1002
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 2: build a defense that is going to be able to

1003
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Speaker 2: carry you at times, not all the time, but at times.

1004
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 2: And this defense doesn't. This defense has plenty of holes,

1005
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 2: plenty of flaws, plenty of weaknesses, and we saw those

1006
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 2: on Sunday in Miami. Even a game where the Bengals win,

1007
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,959
Speaker 2: you I see the issues that they have defending the run,

1008
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 2: tackling Gino Stone open field, no chance at stopping a

1009
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Speaker 2: chand and yeah, Devin ah Chan is one of the

1010
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 2: best running backs in the game. Don't get shaken so

1011
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 2: much that you end up in a blender out of

1012
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 2: your cleats and have to put your cleats back on

1013
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 2: on the field. And I'm exaggerating a little bit, but

1014
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 2: not really. It was awful. And so the Bengals need

1015
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 2: to address safety, they need to address defensive tackle, they

1016
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 2: need more pass rush everywhere, and they need linebackers that

1017
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 2: can be reliable. It doesn't mean that Barrett Carter and

1018
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 2: Demitrius Knight can't be contributors, but I don't think either

1019
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 2: one you can pencil in as a starter next year.

1020
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Speaker 2: And that sucks because that's a second round pick and

1021
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 2: a fourth round pick that you just used. Doesn't mean

1022
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 2: they won't start. It doesn't mean they can't earn that.

1023
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean Shamar Stewart, by the way, pass rush

1024
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 2: wise won't take another step. He had to tackle for

1025
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 2: loss the other day. That's fine. But even though Miles

1026
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 2: Murphy has emerged, and even though Shamar Stewart could very

1027
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Speaker 2: well be much improved in year two. You need a

1028
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 2: bona fide number one pass rusher to bank on. That

1029
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 2: is the NFL. That is that's it. You need to

1030
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 2: be a physical, nasty defense that can put pressure on

1031
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 2: opponents and have playmakers and fly around and make plays

1032
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Speaker 2: and tackles and so like a guy like Jordan Battle,

1033
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Speaker 2: say what you want about him, and he's a frustrating

1034
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 2: player because he's up and down, but he at least

1035
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 2: makes splash plays. He does do that, and that works

1036
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Speaker 2: for me. Like I can deal with Jordan Battle being

1037
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Speaker 2: a starting safety on my defense. Is he going to

1038
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Speaker 2: be the best player on a winning defense. No, but

1039
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Speaker 2: he's going to be the eighth best player in a

1040
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 2: winning defense and he's going to make some splash plays

1041
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 2: and he's going to try hard. And yeah, some of

1042
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,800
Speaker 2: those plays that he misses are going to be painful,

1043
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 2: but guess what, he's not gonna have to make as

1044
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 2: many of those plays if your linebackers are better, if

1045
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: your defensive front's better. And that's probably what Geno Stone

1046
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 2: is saying every time I rip him. But man, he

1047
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 2: doesn't make those splash plays. He did that in Baltimore.

1048
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 2: He did it at the end of last year. He

1049
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 2: hasn't made those splash plays this year outside of a

1050
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 2: game here and there. He's so inconsistent and the lows

1051
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: are so low that it's over. The Bengals should certainly

1052
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 2: move on from him. So the Bengals defense, no matter

1053
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 2: what they do. They could win forty nine to nothing

1054
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 2: against the Cardinals and shut out Jacoby Brisset, who's playing

1055
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 2: really well for Arizona right now. Don't buy it. They

1056
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 2: could kick the crap out of Shador Sanders and pitch

1057
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 2: back to back shutouts after doing what they did to Miami.

1058
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 2: I won't buy it. They need to aggressively address all

1059
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Speaker 2: three levels of their defense this offseason, and anything other

1060
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Speaker 2: than that, honestly is unacceptable. Merry Christmas Eve. I'm James Orpine,

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Speaker 2: in for a lance with you till nine o'clock. We're

1062
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Speaker 2: just getting started here in hour two. Make sure you

1063
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Speaker 2: check out that full interview in my full conversation with

1064
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Speaker 2: Tony Pike on my YouTube channel, Cincinnati Bengals Talk Up

1065
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Speaker 2: Next will continue the Bengals conversation, and yeah, happy to

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Speaker 2: be with you here on Christmas Eve. I'm James Earpen

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Speaker 2: and this is Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 3: Spreading holiday year the way I spread mayonnaise on a

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Speaker 3: BLT thick and sloppy. Ho ho ho from seven hundred

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Speaker 3: Yardcare Holiday Sale, Limited Time Act.

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Speaker 2: Now one hundred WLW. I'm James Epene Infra Lance with

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00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 2: you till nine o'clock. And the Bengals they kick the

1074
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 2: crap out of the Dolphins the other day, and a

1075
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 2: lot of you feel a lot of you, I'm sure,

1076
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 2: felt good about it, Some feel bad about it, Some

1077
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 2: worry about draft position. The Bengals still set to pick

1078
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 2: ninth overall in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. My

1079
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 2: thoughts on it, I mean, I think it's interesting. I

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00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 2: think there's there's an argument that can be made that

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00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 2: you want the Bengals to lose games. There's an argument

1082
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 2: that can be made that you want them to win

1083
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 2: down the stretch and send everyone home happy, and they've

1084
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 2: done that in their history. And I see both of it.

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00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 3: I was in.

1086
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 2: Miami with a game on Sunday, and I watched Joe

1087
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 2: Burrow do what he did, complete twenty five of thirty

1088
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: two passes for three hundred and nine yards four touchdowns,

1089
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 2: have a one forty six point five passer rating, the

1090
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 2: second best of his career. And to me, it was

1091
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 2: a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, we we look a lot

1092
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 2: of times during the holiday season for a reminder of, oh, well,

1093
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 2: why you should cherish these moments or these times and

1094
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 2: when it comes to football, and this has nothing to

1095
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: do with the holiday season, but when it comes to football,

1096
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 2: the ultimate goal is to what to win a championship.

1097
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 2: And I can for sure tell you that every team

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00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 2: that doesn't have a Joe Burrow feels like they are

1099
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 2: nineteen thousand, five hundred and fifty two bajillion miles away

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00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 2: from winning a championship. But if you have a Josh

1101
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 2: Allen or a Patrick Mahomes or a Joe Burrow, you

1102
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 2: feel like you're close. You feel like you have a chance.

1103
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: You feel like there's a real shot at doing just that,

1104
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 2: of getting to the mountaintop. And that's what Sunday reminded me,

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00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 2: because Joe Burrow played well, but the Dolphins just never

1106
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 2: had a chance. There was never a moment in that game,

1107
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 2: even when it was fourteen to ten, where I thought

1108
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: that Quin Yours and the Dolphins were gonna beat Joe

1109
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 2: Burrow in the Bengals, and so you're like, James, what

1110
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 2: does that mean? What are you saying? I'm saying that

1111
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 2: it doesn't need to be rocket science for the Bengals

1112
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 2: this offseason. It doesn't need to be so hard, and

1113
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 2: it feels like they're really really far away. But when

1114
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 2: you have Joe Burrow, you're born on third base. You

1115
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 2: have a shot to completely revamp things very very quickly.

1116
00:59:54,520 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: And I know Bengals ownership has really done the opposite

1117
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 2: of going all in. They've tried to build this sustainable winner.

1118
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 2: They've tried, they've tried to do this thing where they are,

1119
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 2: we're going to try to keep ourselves in the mix

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Speaker 2: for as long as possible, and that sounds good. But

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01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 2: when you have Joe Burrow, it needs to be about

1122
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. When you have Joe Burrow, it needs to

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01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 2: be about Joe Burrow in building around him and putting

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01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 2: the team around him that can contend. You're in and

1125
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 2: you're out, how do you get there? You're in and

1126
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 2: you're out? Because when I look at this and I

1127
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,919
Speaker 2: think about Joe Burrow, and I think about how they're

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01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 2: four and two with Joe Burrow, at quarterback this season.

1129
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 2: I think, man, oh man, if you had just been

1130
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 2: slightly under five hundred without him, they were one and

1131
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 2: eight without him, you have been four and five without

1132
01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. Things feel, look and all are so much different.

1133
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 2: And you're right there, You're in the hunt. You feel

1134
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 2: like you could go to Buffalo and win. You feel

1135
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 2: like that you're competing with the Steelers for the division

1136
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 2: crown right now, and that's who's more than likely he

1137
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 2: is going to win it. But they weren't built correctly,

1138
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 2: they weren't coached correctly. There were mistakes all around, and

1139
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 2: it's unacceptable. That's what the reminder was for me the

1140
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 2: other day watching Joe Burrow pass the twenty thousand yard mark,

1141
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 2: fifth fastest in NFL history to do so, third fastest

1142
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 2: in NFL history to throw for one hundred and fifty touchdowns.

1143
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 2: He's had one hundred and fifty two touchdowns. The time

1144
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 2: is now, not later.

1145
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 3: Now.

1146
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: I wrote a book about the Bengals. A lot of

1147
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 2: you have probably followed the Cincinnati Bengals for your entire life.

1148
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 2: By the way, you can get it at Cincinnati Bengals

1149
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 2: book dot com. It's called Enter the Jungle. Wherever books

1150
01:01:54,400 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 2: are sold. This Bengals franchise has never had a quarterback

1151
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 2: like Joe Burrow and gone all in on winning, and

1152
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 2: they need to do that. The time is now to

1153
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 2: do that. Teams that have gone all in and I

1154
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 2: say that in quotes like the Los Angeles Rams, guess

1155
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 2: what they've rebounded from their all in mode and they're

1156
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 2: still good. You can be sustainable. This is the Joe

1157
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 2: Burrow era where every year you should be winning eleven, twelve,

1158
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 2: thirteen games, not six, not seven, not five and ten,

1159
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 2: five and ten? When will we be great again? Like

1160
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 2: that's their slogan this year. That can't be unacceptable. And

1161
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 2: so this holiday season, this Christmas season, when we're all

1162
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 2: spreading cheer and we should be the thing that I

1163
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 2: want to spread. The message I want to send when

1164
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 2: it comes to the Cincinnati Bengals is that this is

1165
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 2: not rocket science. You can fix it. You can be

1166
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl contender a year from now. And when

1167
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 2: I'm on these airwaves next to Christmas Eve filling in

1168
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 2: for Lance McAllister on Sports Talk, we can be talking about,

1169
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 2: man oh man, they have a real shot out winning

1170
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 2: a super Bowl. That's the standard. Everything else is hogwash.

1171
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 2: Everything else is a failure. It comes up short. The

1172
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 2: standard is really really high because of who you have.

1173
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,960
Speaker 2: The Miami Dolphins. James are being in for Lance McAllister today,

1174
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. The Miami Dolphins would trade their entire roster

1175
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 2: in multiple years, of their entire drafts to get Joe Burrow.

1176
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,919
Speaker 2: You have Joe Burrow, Jamar, Chase T Higgins. We're gonna

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01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 2: hear from Ti Higgins coming up. You have all these

1178
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 2: pieces in their prime. You have to take advantage of it.

1179
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 2: You have to. And so for me, Sunday was a

1180
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 2: reminder of that. Oh man, Joe's on the field with

1181
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 2: those weapons. Good luck, good luck. You got a young,

1182
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 2: feisty defense that has some real proven pieces. And that's

1183
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 2: what they need to add this offseason, real proven pieces.

1184
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 2: That's it. It's on ownership to do that. And I

1185
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:06,919
Speaker 2: don't want to hear a lot of you are probably thinking, oh, well,

1186
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 2: Joe makes this amount of money or Jamar or t

1187
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 2: and they shouldn't have paid this guy that They have

1188
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 2: plenty of money, plenty of money. They have plenty of

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01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 2: money and plenty of cash. I hear that a lot

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01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 2: o the Bengals owners they don't have as much cash.

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01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 2: There's a salary cap, plenty of cash. They have plenty

1192
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 2: of cash, plenty of ways they can maximize the cap.

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01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 2: They don't. They don't do that, and they should. It's

1194
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 2: the Joe Burrow era. Failing in this era and not

1195
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 2: winning a super Bowl is far worse than having one

1196
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 2: year or two years where you're in cap purgatory where

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01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 2: your salary cap is preventing you from doing what you

1198
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 2: want to do. Down the line. You gotta get a

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01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 2: super Bowl, you gotta win the championship. You gotta be

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01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 2: willing to push the chips in And that's what's scary

1201
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 2: now because they're committed to Zach Taylor, they're committed to

1202
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 2: this coaching staff, they're committed to this front office. And

1203
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 2: so if that's the case, then what's going to change.

1204
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 2: What needs to change is their desire to go all

1205
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 2: in on winning and that is the standard. They need

1206
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 2: to be active in free agency, there's no doubt about it.

1207
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 2: And by active, I mean active like they were in

1208
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one and twenty twenty when Joe Burrow was

1209
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 2: on his rookie deal, and then they got cold feet

1210
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, a little bit. They were able

1211
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 2: to get a couple of linemen, but you could see

1212
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 2: the feet getting colder as we got closer to Joe

1213
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 2: Burrow's extension, and those feet are frozen right now, even

1214
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 2: though those temperatures outside are are mighty mighty nice for

1215
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 2: this time of year in the Queen City. I'm James

1216
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 2: or Peen in for Lance. This is Sports Talk. Tweet

1217
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 2: me on x at James or Peen. Also check out

1218
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 2: all of my Bengals coverage Bengals Talk dot com. Really

1219
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 2: happy to be with you. You're on Christmas Eve plenty

1220
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 2: to discuss. We're gonna hear from Zach Taylor T Higgins

1221
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 2: on a Christmas Eve edition of Sports Talk. I'm James Arpene,

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01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us right here on seven hundred WLW.

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01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 3: News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati.

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01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 8: Americans on the move, but the A thirty report, I'm

1225
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 8: Sean Gallagher breaking now hey, record number of Americans expected

1226
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 8: to travel during the holiday season now into New Year's

1227
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 8: traffic analyst said that today was a good day to travel,

1228
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 8: with later traffic on the roads. Roads also expected to

1229
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 8: be less busy on Christmas Day for those only having

1230
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 8: to make a short trip to their holiday destination. But

1231
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 8: after the Christmas Day celebrations the calm coming to an end.

1232
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Speaker 26: Rush picks back up on Friday. Airlines for America says

1233
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 26: December twenty sixth is shaping up to be one of

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Speaker 26: the busiest flying days of the holiday period, along with

1235
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 26: December twenty eighth for return travel. And it's not just

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01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 26: the airports. Roads will be crowded to so if you're

1237
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 26: driving Friday in Rick says the worst travel times are

1238
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 26: between eleven am and eight pm. The best time to

1239
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 26: hit the road before eleven am. Bottom Line, plan ahead

1240
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 26: and of course, travel safe everybody.

1241
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 3: ABC News is Stephanie Ramos.

1242
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 8: For those in Ohio who hit the road earlier this

1243
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 8: week enjoyed lower gas prices, but in the last forty

1244
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 8: eight hours they've gone up about a quarter, entering today

1245
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 8: two dollars seventy nine cents.

1246
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 3: But there's an upside.

1247
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 8: Motor is still paying less of the pump compared to

1248
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 8: last Christmas, when the average was twenty eight cents higher.

1249
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 8: The nationwide average also down nineteen cents from the holiday

1250
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Speaker 8: season a year ago. Now the latest traffic and weather

1251
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 8: together and right now taking a look at the major

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01:07:58,440 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 8: interstates and highways.

1253
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 3: No new accidents now both lateis forecast from the Train

1254
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 3: Heating and Cooling Weather Center on news radio seven hundred

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Speaker 3: wl W.

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Speaker 9: After briefly dropping down into the upper forties versus Santa

1257
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 9: we quickly pushed into the fifties by the time most

1258
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:16,679
Speaker 9: of us wake up Christmas morning. That scattered rain will

1259
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 9: also be out there Thursday morning, but should be out

1260
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 9: of here by early afternoon. While gloomy at Christmas afternoon,

1261
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 9: it will be warm highs near fifty nine and we

1262
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 9: only cool off to forty six into your Friday morning.

1263
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 9: From your severe weather station, I'm nine first warning meter

1264
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 9: rebly just Mark Stitz, News Radio seven hundred WLW.

1265
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 8: Radar showing a fair sky right now. It's forty three degrees.

1266
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 8: Ay crash late this morning in Sycamore Township near Kimwood

1267
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 8: Town Center, leaving one person dead and another critically injured.

1268
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,639
Speaker 8: The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office was called out around eleven

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01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 8: o'clock to the intersection of Montgomery and Galbreth Roads late

1270
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 8: this morning. They say that twenty eight year old Connor

1271
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:55,919
Speaker 8: Walshley was driving to the highway to speed on Montgomery

1272
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 8: when he clipped another vehicle on Galbreth went off the

1273
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 8: road and hit a curb, sending his sh his sending

1274
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:03,639
Speaker 8: his sedan airborne as he struck several trees in two

1275
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 8: utility poles. He and a passenger had to be extricated

1276
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 8: from the vehicle. Whilsley died from his injuries while the

1277
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 8: passenger was taken to UC Medical Center. Montgomery rode between

1278
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 8: Gilbert and Couglar Mills, still shut down, expected to reopen

1279
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 8: around eleven o'clock tonight. Is Duke Energy and Ulti Fiber

1280
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 8: replace and Rewire utility polls. Elwa Jones, whose murder case

1281
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 8: was dismissed earlier this month, the rest of this afternoon

1282
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 8: after allegedly driving while under the influence, and was also

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Speaker 8: allegedly involved in a crash at the intersection of East

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Speaker 8: McMillan and would Burn Avenues.

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Speaker 3: There were no injuries in that crash.

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Speaker 8: Jones now charged with obi leaving the scene of a

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Speaker 8: crash in failure to control a motor vehicle. Jones had

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Speaker 8: been convicted in the nineteen ninety four beating death of

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Speaker 8: wrote To Nathan, sentenced to death, but was granted a

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Speaker 8: new trial in twenty twenty two, after new evidence surface

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Speaker 8: that the prosecution never disclosed to the defense during the trial,

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Speaker 8: Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillage, after a month's long intensive review,

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Speaker 8: dismissed the case with prejudice. Something to check out for

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Speaker 8: those with time off during the holidays or the looking

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Speaker 8: for something to do with their kids while they're on

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Speaker 8: winter break.

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Speaker 20: remember first seeing the trains.

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Speaker 3: Breath is a confidence killer. You could have the best outfit.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Sports Talk. I'm James Rpene and this is

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Speaker 2: seven hundred wl W. Merry Christmas Eve in for Lance McAllister,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's time to have a discussion about

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Speaker 2: Zach Taylor. We're gonna hear from Zach Taylor in just

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Speaker 2: a second. I think it's tough. It's tough when you

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Speaker 2: understand the human side of things to a degree, and

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Speaker 2: Zach obviously has a high leverage position. And I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to, especially on Christmas Eve, talk about job security

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Speaker 2: or whether he should be here or not be here.

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Speaker 2: I know everybody has strong opinions about that, and there's

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Speaker 2: a time and place for it. I'm not sure Christmas

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Speaker 2: Eve is that time. I will say this and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna play what Zach Taylor had to say on Monday

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Speaker 2: after the game. Some injury stuff, obviously health updates, the

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Speaker 2: insight he had on t Higgins. I think it's important

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Speaker 2: for everyone to hear that as Tiggins made it through

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Speaker 2: concussion protocol. But the end of what Zach had to say,

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Speaker 2: I think is really really important too. So this is

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Speaker 2: it's about seven minutes. It's Zach Taylor on Monday, and

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Speaker 2: let's get to that and then we'll react to what

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Speaker 2: he said at the end of his Monday news conference.

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Speaker 2: James Arpine in for a lance, here's Zach Taylor for Monday.

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Speaker 12: You know, we've always wanted to be a relentless defense,

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Speaker 12: something where the effort flies off the tape and you

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01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:26,799
Speaker 12: see guys forming the ball. So I think those are things.

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Speaker 12: When I watched the tape yesterday is you see everyone

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Speaker 12: in the picture, everyone after first contact trying to get

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Speaker 12: in the mix, make sure the ball carry gets down.

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Speaker 7: They got the one run on us.

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Speaker 12: That was a big run, and you can't excuse that

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Speaker 12: because we got to get him on the ground. We

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Speaker 12: had opportunities to do it, could have knocked it down.

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Speaker 12: We didn't. This core touchdown. But you look at the

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Speaker 12: mixture runs after that, and they're tough. They scheme your

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Speaker 12: runs up, they give you a lot of different looks,

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Speaker 12: a ton of different personnel groupings. I thought our defense

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Speaker 12: did a great job getting that run game settled down

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Speaker 12: and minimized toward in the second half. You know, you

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Speaker 12: got to make them throw the football and we were

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Speaker 12: able to get the ball off of them that way.

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Speaker 12: So just overall really impressed with the growth of our

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Speaker 12: defense and how these guys responded. They understand the scheme,

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Speaker 12: the communication has been really good, and again, you know,

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Speaker 12: taking the ball off the people, you know, so there's

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Speaker 12: that confidence to scoring there as well, and so it's

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Speaker 12: been fun to watch.

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Speaker 13: That's the line had a pretty good game yesterday in

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Speaker 13: terms of containing.

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Speaker 7: The run between the tackles, doing.

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Speaker 12: A great job playing with their hands, understanding the techniques

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Speaker 12: for asking them to play and and so again you're

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Speaker 12: just seeing guys grow. A ton of guys grow. Getting

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Speaker 12: Tamar back was fun to watch yesterday. I thought Cedric

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Speaker 12: played a good game yesterday. Miles continues just to just

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Speaker 12: have a really good season right now with where he's at.

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Speaker 12: And so again it's just and there's guys I'm not

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Speaker 12: even naming, you know. I thought everybody played really well yesterday.

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Speaker 12: So just fun group to watch them to continue to

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Speaker 12: grow and as send and that's all we're asking for

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Speaker 12: them right now is just get better every single week

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Speaker 12: and minimize your miss aches.

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Speaker 7: And we're seeing that from those guys.

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Speaker 14: I think after Higgins said he saw specialists to go

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Speaker 14: what see Thursday morning, okay, and kind of what what

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Speaker 14: led to y'all come to that conclusion and saying, hey,

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Speaker 14: let's go have this check down and the kind of

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Speaker 14: walk us through that cross yeh.

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Speaker 12: It was the doctors, you know, I think just making

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Speaker 12: sure tea in conjunction with our doctors, just making sure

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Speaker 12: you got that final checkpoint there to make sure we

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Speaker 12: were seeing everything and the clearance was appropriate. I think

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Speaker 12: with the two issues he's had, you know, that was

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Speaker 12: the appropriate way to do it.

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Speaker 7: And so get him out there quite really was.

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Speaker 12: It was a bang bang Thursday morning, got out there,

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Speaker 12: got back before I wasn't expecting about practice, and there

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Speaker 12: he is, walks in the door, you know, right after stretch.

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Speaker 12: So that was I think it's good for him to

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01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 12: hear that too. He could probably answer that better than

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Speaker 12: I can, but we just want to make sure we

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01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 12: were doing right by him. If he's going to go

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01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 12: out there and play that everybody feels good about it.

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Speaker 12: He feels good about it, family feels good about it.

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Speaker 12: And he went out there and to my eye, felt

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Speaker 12: really good.

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Speaker 14: Clear Saturday and Sunday morning in order to finally have

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Speaker 14: agree like it for something.

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Speaker 12: I don't know what the final hurt it was. I

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01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 12: mean I felt good Friday. I wasn't gonna tell everybody that.

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Speaker 3: But.

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Speaker 12: You know, it's it's kind of nice for you to

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01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 12: have t Higgins walk on the field Sunday morning when

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01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 12: no one's exactly sure if he's going to play.

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01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 7: I knew he was going to play at that point, but.

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Speaker 12: You know, so it is good to get Tea back

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01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 12: out there, and I know we got a lot of

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01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 12: confidence when he's out there.

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Speaker 15: Jalen Davis in November camp, Tilbert gets hurt. You were

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Speaker 15: going young at a lot of different positions, You had

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01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,120
Speaker 15: young corners, and obviously it's worked out with Jalen. What

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01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 15: made Jalen the guy that you wanted to put in

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01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 15: the lineup when you looked at your options at.

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Speaker 12: That He's always he's always been a dependable guy. We've

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Speaker 12: seen up for him in training camp for preseason games

1419
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 12: and opportunity he's gotten over the years, you know, to

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01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 12: play in a real game, and uh, you know, just

1421
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 12: tremendous locker room guy. I think he's he's a fan

1422
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 12: favorite in the locker room. Tremendous energy, just does what

1423
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:55,680
Speaker 12: it takes to win and help our team, whether that's

1424
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 12: been as a practice squad player, bringing energy every single

1425
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 12: day and being consistent, being ready when his numbers called,

1426
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 12: and so then his numbers finally called in November. He

1427
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 12: just goes out there and just plays with a ton

1428
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 12: of confidence, a ton of awareness, great communication skills, leadership

1429
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 12: on defense, has an act for making plays on the ball,

1430
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 12: has an act for pressuring. A lot of similarities Mike Hilton,

1431
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 12: you know, and whether that's because they were together for

1432
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 12: a long time, and and that's a huge compliment, you know,

1433
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 12: because Mike obviously had tremendous career, and so JD's out

1434
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:33,719
Speaker 12: there doing his own thing and and really just happy

1435
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 12: to see him take on that role and do it

1436
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 12: with a ton of confidence and make a lot of

1437
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 12: place for us and have a lot of success.

1438
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Speaker 7: He's earned that. How'd you describe Fairchild's rookie good?

1439
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 12: You know, I think he's playing between Orlando and Ted

1440
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 12: has been a really good for him. Played with really

1441
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,759
Speaker 12: good physicality, and you know, seeing a lot of stuff

1442
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 12: over the course of the season, being able to be

1443
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 12: available and and I you know, really I think he's

1444
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 12: got a really high seat, and you know I felt

1445
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 12: the line as a whole. You know, we're talking about

1446
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,840
Speaker 12: a Marius, We're talking about Dylan. I've just had a

1447
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 12: ton of confidence all year. You know whatever we're calling

1448
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 12: that there's gonna be great protection for quarterbacks. That the

1449
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 12: run game, you know we're gonna have success in our

1450
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 12: runs that we're calling. And so just you know that

1451
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 12: speaks to Dylan, that speaks to the whole group. I

1452
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:24,680
Speaker 12: just as a head coach, as a play caller, have

1453
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 12: a lot of confidence in the unit.

1454
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 13: How much do you like watching take that duo blocked

1455
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 13: head and Dylan had We're small chase touchdown.

1456
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 12: It's great and it's you know when you get a drive,

1457
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 12: mull it over drives. The second half started around midfield,

1458
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 12: which was just great. But you know, you hit them

1459
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 12: in the past game and you kind of got teams

1460
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 12: on their heels, and then you get to hit them

1461
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 12: on two runs as you get lower in there and

1462
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 12: scored on two runs. You know from you know, inside

1463
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 12: the fifteen, inside the five. It's good because now you

1464
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 12: know you're having a lot of success in the pass game,

1465
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 12: so they got to respect that, and then you know,

1466
01:17:58,479 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 12: you hit them with with some of the runs we

1467
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 12: hit on and the guys are able to come off

1468
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 12: the ball and drive them off the ball, and it's

1469
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 12: it's that's a great way to finish drives.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, when it's a season that hasn't gone well for

1471
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 16: you guys that there's a lot of talk about a

1472
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 16: meaningless season, but for you, you look at a different

1473
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 16: as a coach, I know, where do you see the

1474
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 16: most growth on a team even though this season hasn't

1475
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 16: been great.

1476
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Speaker 12: Well, I think we played a lot of young guys,

1477
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 12: you know, and these guys have just gotten better and better,

1478
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 12: and so our future is really right that way that

1479
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 12: every player, you know, for a second third year player,

1480
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,639
Speaker 12: I really feel like has made huge tries this season

1481
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 12: as they've gotten more reps and more opportunity, and so

1482
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 12: we have a lot of confidence in those guys. And

1483
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 12: then and then you blended with the veterans that we've

1484
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,479
Speaker 12: got that are playing at a high level. So I

1485
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 12: feel really good about the direction this team. And and

1486
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 12: you know, it's all we can control is this week

1487
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 12: we got Arizona. This week we got to put our

1488
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 12: vestent forward, forget about what's going on around us, just

1489
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,519
Speaker 12: focus on great game plan, having a great week of practice,

1490
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 12: winning the game went in two games in a row.

1491
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 12: The feeling we had in the locker room responding with

1492
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 12: a way to win back to back games is all

1493
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 12: we can control right now. Okay, you know, I know

1494
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 12: Jay Morrison and his family are dealing with something tough

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Speaker 12: right now. Jays, as you all know, one of the

1496
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 12: greatest guys in this business. So thought some prayers with

1497
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 12: him and his family. And I hate that he's got

1498
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 12: to go for that, but I know we're all here

1499
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:22,600
Speaker 12: for him, So I just want to make sure he

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01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:23,759
Speaker 12: knows that and his family knows.

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01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 2: That that last bit is the most important bit there

1502
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 2: of information. I thought it was so so classy of

1503
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor to say that about Jay Morrison and his

1504
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:39,679
Speaker 2: wife Nikki. And really, ever since I heard the news,

1505
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 2: I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. And

1506
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 2: love Jay obviously. I've worked with Jay for many, many

1507
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 2: years and I consider him a great friend. And it's heartbreaking.

1508
01:19:54,080 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking because it's rare to see a a couple

1509
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:07,640
Speaker 2: that you know just fits and works perfectly, and so

1510
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 2: when tragedy happens like this, and and for those of

1511
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:14,719
Speaker 2: you that that don't know. Nicky Morrison passed away earlier

1512
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:19,479
Speaker 2: this week, really suddenly during a procedure that that went wrong,

1513
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 2: and it's not something that anyone anticipated, expected or could

1514
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 2: have thought was coming. And so when something sudden like

1515
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 2: this happens, you know, you you reflect, and and the

1516
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 2: thing that I continue to go back to is what

1517
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,879
Speaker 2: Jay and Nikki had. You could see was so special

1518
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:46,919
Speaker 2: from the moment that you talked to Jay about anything,

1519
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 2: any of his hobbies, any anything, and they're just the

1520
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 2: perfect couple that supported each other and loved each other.

1521
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 2: And this is, uh, it's just awful, awful news, and

1522
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 2: some things in life you can't explain why, and it's

1523
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 2: really hard to understand the why with with something like this.

1524
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 2: So love Jay, love Nikki. We're thinking about the entire

1525
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,479
Speaker 2: Morrison family. But I thought it was really really classy

1526
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 2: of Zach Taylor to say that at the end. And

1527
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 2: that's why I mean, he talked today, but that's why

1528
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 2: I wanted to play what he said Monday in its entirety.

1529
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:27,639
Speaker 2: I thought there were some key nuggets in there about

1530
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 2: t Higgins and other things like that, plus what he

1531
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 2: said about Jay and his family. So obviously we're thinking

1532
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 2: about the Morrisons during this time, and Jay, we we

1533
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 2: love you for sure. It's it's something that I can't

1534
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 2: stop thinking about and I'm not going to stop thinking about.

1535
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 2: So make sure that you give Jay your your well

1536
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 2: wishes this holiday season and the entire Morrison family, and

1537
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 2: we will continue the show coming up next. James Repine

1538
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 2: in for Lance. This is seven hundred Wow Penn Station

1539
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:05,720
Speaker 2: rewards on seven hundred at WLW. We've had plenty of

1540
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 2: Bengals conversation naturally, and well, if you're just joining us

1541
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 2: and you're like, who the heck is James or Pen?

1542
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 2: Why cover the Bengals Bengals Talk dot Com, Cincinnati Bengals

1543
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 2: Talk on YouTube, and the Lockdown at Bengals Podcast. One

1544
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 2: thing that I, for lack of a better term, love

1545
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 2: is seeing star players fight, battle, compete, the edge, what

1546
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 2: drives them all of those things? And a guy like

1547
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 2: T Higgins, Like we've talked a lot about Joe Burrow

1548
01:22:41,479 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 2: and should he shut it down? Should he not? You know,

1549
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 2: there's been so much discussion there, but a guy like

1550
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 2: T Higgins, that dude could have easily shut it down

1551
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:55,600
Speaker 2: this season and no one would have blamed him. No,

1552
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 2: one would have questioned it. Everyone would have said yeah

1553
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 2: to you, like do it, And instead this guy is battling,

1554
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:05,200
Speaker 2: doing everything he can to get back on the field,

1555
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 2: going to see a specialist in Pittsburgh. He suffered a

1556
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 2: concussion a month ago now against the Patriots a little

1557
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 2: over a month ago, and missus a game. Comes back

1558
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 2: after that Thursday game, comes back the following week and

1559
01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:25,759
Speaker 2: plays great against the Bills. Gets concussed in that game

1560
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 2: and doesn't have symptoms or at least passes protocol and

1561
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 2: doesn't have symptoms to get yanked out of the game

1562
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 2: until after and goes back into protocol after the game.

1563
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:40,680
Speaker 2: This is the second Ravens game, and to me, it's

1564
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 2: cool is the wrong word. But I just think he

1565
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 2: deserves praise for fighting the way he has to get

1566
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 2: back on the field. And what we should hear from

1567
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 2: t Higgins this is what he said to me after

1568
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 2: the game in the locker room in Miami, after having

1569
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:01,360
Speaker 2: a great game, including a thirty five yard catch and

1570
01:24:01,439 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 2: outstanding touchdown grab his tenth of the season, which ties

1571
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:08,679
Speaker 2: a career high, like T is a problem on the field,

1572
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 2: and that's a great thing for the Cincinnati Bengals. Here's

1573
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 2: what T Higgins had to say after the game.

1574
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 3: No, it was fun.

1575
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 18: You know, just get back there and compete with my

1576
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 18: guys and then it's even better.

1577
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 2: We got a wu the w that.

1578
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 18: We got too, So you know, shout out to my guys.

1579
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 19: When you're on the flight to and from Pittsburgh, what's

1580
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 19: going through your head?

1581
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 2: Like, what's that like?

1582
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 18: Honestly, you know, praying that you know, I'll come back

1583
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 18: with come here and get positive news, to come back

1584
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 18: with positive news to tell the team and things like that,

1585
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 18: and that's what it was. Your racking or I mean

1586
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 18: I was very you know, obviously I was very anxious

1587
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 18: and nervous, you know what they was gonna say. But

1588
01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 18: you know I got a peace of mind and it

1589
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:48,719
Speaker 18: was okay.

1590
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 19: Changes that makes you want to play when they when

1591
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 19: they clear you, what is it that made you want

1592
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 19: to say, I want to finish the season.

1593
01:24:57,960 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 18: In the man at the end of the day of

1594
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:01,639
Speaker 18: a competitor, I want compete with the guys. So that's

1595
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:02,640
Speaker 18: that's all it came down to.

1596
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 2: You make any changes, you know, people see guardian caps

1597
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 2: out there. Obviously didn't work every different. What's different about

1598
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 2: this helment.

1599
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 18: Just more pattern, you know what I mean, was able

1600
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 18: to get fitted for one and it came in just

1601
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 18: in time.

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01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 7: Who's that feel?

1603
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 18: It feels great, honestly, Uh, it's comfortable. So that's all

1604
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 18: that about it.

1605
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 10: It's the scariest part of the symptoms that you felt.

1606
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 18: There was a lot of headaches. The first one was

1607
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,519
Speaker 18: a little bit sensitive to light. But other than that,

1608
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:35,679
Speaker 18: see that is Can.

1609
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:38,599
Speaker 2: You take me through the art of the T Higgins

1610
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:42,479
Speaker 2: contested catch because it feels like it's evolved from a

1611
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 2: few years ago to now and it seems like you're

1612
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 2: making them look so routine.

1613
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:46,719
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1614
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:49,200
Speaker 18: Man, I just that's my job to go up there

1615
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 18: and catch the ball, and you know, Joe gives me

1616
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:52,680
Speaker 18: a great boss to where I only I can catch it,

1617
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 18: and you know it's either me or nobody.

1618
01:25:55,479 --> 01:25:59,679
Speaker 3: So is it kind of just uplifting?

1619
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 21: So to be able to come back from what you

1620
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 21: did and have the type of game then you did,

1621
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 21: to know, I.

1622
01:26:05,280 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 18: Mean, definitely is definitely a bonus. Obviously I wanted to

1623
01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 18: come out and and try to dominate personally, but who

1624
01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 18: was able to do that as a whole today and

1625
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 18: you know the results.

1626
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 2: So here's why I love T Higgins and that entire video.

1627
01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:21,719
Speaker 2: You could check it out Cincinnati Bengals talk on YouTube.

1628
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 2: I love that Tea is like, oh man, I'm a competitor.

1629
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:29,760
Speaker 2: Of course I want to apply. Why wouldn't I play? And

1630
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 2: I just I think that deserves praise. Now they've taken

1631
01:26:32,800 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 2: the precautions and he's gotten examined and went to a

1632
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 2: specialist in Pittsburgh and we heard from Zach Taylor on

1633
01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 2: that earlier this hour. But the other thing that this

1634
01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 2: to me reminds me of, and I think Sunday was

1635
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:49,920
Speaker 2: a big, an important reason behind it and why you

1636
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 2: do pay T. Higgins because that's still a discussion, especially

1637
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 2: with the defense being the way it is, and the

1638
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 2: Bengals had plenty of money last year and they just

1639
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:59,640
Speaker 2: didn't spend enough of it, maximized their cap all of

1640
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,680
Speaker 2: those things on defense. They could have done everything they

1641
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 2: did on offense and added a bunch on defense. They

1642
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 2: didn't do that. But this is why you keep T.

1643
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:13,799
Speaker 2: Higgins because he's a in his prime monster, and they've

1644
01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 2: failed to draft enough monsters to say, oh, well, you

1645
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 2: can let this guy in his prime go. It'd be

1646
01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 2: one thing if they had four defensive linemen and two

1647
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:23,519
Speaker 2: corners and a bunch of stuff that they had to pay,

1648
01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 2: and they couldn't make it all work with Tea. They

1649
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:28,720
Speaker 2: didn't have any of that they didn't like. If you

1650
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 2: don't pay T Higgins, you just lose T Higgins. And

1651
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 2: so to see him fight, to see him play at

1652
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 2: a high level, and to see him matter, and I

1653
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:39,600
Speaker 2: think that's the thing he matters so much in this

1654
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,679
Speaker 2: offense because if you won a double Jamar, well then fine,

1655
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:45,000
Speaker 2: you got to deal with Tea. And if you're going

1656
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 2: to play one high and put T Higgins in Manda

1657
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 2: Man coverage, well good luck, because he's as good as

1658
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 2: anyone right now in the NFL at the jump ball,

1659
01:27:55,120 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 2: in making plays on the ball deep down field. I mean,

1660
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,120
Speaker 2: that catch that fifty fifth ball the other day is

1661
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,799
Speaker 2: just insane. That he gets up there makes that play

1662
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 2: and you heard him just doing my job. No, like,

1663
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:10,759
Speaker 2: no one can do that job. There's like four people

1664
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 2: on the planet that I think are capable of doing

1665
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 2: that job.

1666
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:14,479
Speaker 7: And so.

1667
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 2: A lot of times it's it's easy to say, oh,

1668
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:25,680
Speaker 2: the Bengals want the flashyway. They're paying two receivers, they're

1669
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 2: paying their quarterback. They're not built the right way. I

1670
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 2: don't believe that one bit. Like I think Tea's the

1671
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 2: exact guy you do pay. I also thought Jesse Bates

1672
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:37,599
Speaker 2: and DJ Reader were guys you pay and you keep

1673
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 2: guess what they could have done all of it. And

1674
01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 2: that's the thing that I really want to hammer home

1675
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:49,400
Speaker 2: this holiday season, especially going into the off season. It's like, oh, well,

1676
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,800
Speaker 2: you know the Bengals, they spent here, but they needed

1677
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:53,479
Speaker 2: to spend there. They could have done all of it.

1678
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 2: And that's the standard when you're trying to win super Bowls.

1679
01:28:56,840 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 2: Guess what you're trying to do all of it, not

1680
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 2: some of it, not a little bit of it, all

1681
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:06,599
Speaker 2: of it. And and that's been the theme of this show.

1682
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:08,599
Speaker 2: And the reason it's been the theme of this show

1683
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:13,560
Speaker 2: is because this Bengals franchise with Joe Burrow should be

1684
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 2: contending for super Bowls every single year. And when I

1685
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,360
Speaker 2: think about Jamar Chase and T Higgins and Tea battling

1686
01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 2: back and doing what he is doing at such a

1687
01:29:22,280 --> 01:29:26,559
Speaker 2: high level, it shouldn't be to get to five and

1688
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 2: ten on the season. It shouldn't be with nothing to

1689
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 2: play for. This better be the last season we're talking

1690
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 2: about this ever. In the Joe Burrow Jamar Chase t

1691
01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 2: Higgins era. Ever, otherwise they've failed massively, like this should

1692
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,800
Speaker 2: be impossible. And I don't mean like last year where

1693
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 2: they're rallying for a playoff spot. Next year we should

1694
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 2: be talking about playoff positioning. Oh well, they're pretty much

1695
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 2: wrapped up the division. Are they going to get the

1696
01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 2: one seat or the two seed or how do they

1697
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 2: stack up in the AFC? Like that's the standard. And

1698
01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 2: so when I see a like T Higgins fighting his

1699
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:03,720
Speaker 2: tail off, doing everything he can to get back on

1700
01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:08,880
Speaker 2: the field and what is essentially meaningless games, those are

1701
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,559
Speaker 2: the type of guys you build around. And so when

1702
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:14,760
Speaker 2: someone says I'm not sure they should have paid T Higgins, well,

1703
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 2: hell yeah, they should have paid T Higgins. They got

1704
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 2: that right. This has been a lot of fun. Thank

1705
01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 2: you so much for listening and following along wherever you

1706
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,760
Speaker 2: were listening going to and from. I hope you have

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Speaker 2: a wonderful holiday season. I hope that the Bengals give

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Speaker 2: you and bring you whatever you want. That the teams

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01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 2: in this town certainly treat the fans by doing everything

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Speaker 2: they can to win, and I think that's what everybody

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Speaker 2: would probably want and does want that's listening right now.

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Speaker 2: So this is always fun filling in for Lance here

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Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW on Sports Talk. I do not

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Speaker 2: take it lightly to get this opportunity. I like to

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Speaker 2: make the most of it, even on a Christmas Eve

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Speaker 2: where I'm sure you're busy. Everyone's busy. So thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for listening and until next time. For our

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Speaker 2: producer Tarren Bland, I'm James Epene, thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for listening to Sports Talk right here on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 3: News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred w l W, Cincinnati.

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Speaker 8: Leo delivers his first Christmas Eve message with the nine

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Speaker 8: o'clock report. I'm Sean Gallagher breaking now, Pop Leo the

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Speaker 8: fourteenth leading his first Christmas Eve Mass as pontif tonight

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Speaker 8: at Saint Peter's Basilica and Vatican City, delivering a message

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Speaker 8: saying that the story of Christmas should remind Christians of

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Speaker 8: their duty to help the poor and strangers. The Pope

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Speaker 8: was made care for immigrants and the poor, key issues

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Speaker 8: in the early months of his papacy. Leo, who has

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Speaker 8: seen who has been critical of President Trump's divisive immigration crackdown,

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Speaker 8: quoted a line from the late Pope Benedict the sixteenth,

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Speaker 8: lamenting that the world does not care for children, the poor,

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Speaker 8: or foreigners, saying quote, while a distorted economy leads us

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Speaker 8: to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us,

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Speaker 8: revealing the infinite dignity of every person. Meanwhile, Saint Patrick's

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Speaker 8: Cathedral in New York expected to be packed as it

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01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:17,559
Speaker 8: will mark the final midnight mass for outcoming Cardinal Timothy Dolan,

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Speaker 8: who's set to retire. Tickets for the service in high

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Speaker 8: demand as they are placed in a lottery system.

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Speaker 3: Now, the latest.

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Speaker 8: Traffic and weather together and taking a look at the

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Speaker 8: major interstates and highways right now, no new accidents now.

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Speaker 11: The latest forecast from the No Fear Dentist Weather Center

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Speaker 11: advanced dentistry the thought of the dentist making you a

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Speaker 3: No Fear Dentist dot Com will.

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Speaker 9: Be climbing quickly into Christmas morning as we rebound well

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01:32:45,400 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 9: into the fifties to start things off. But that scattered

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01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 9: rain will also continue into the morning, likely ending by

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01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 9: the early afternoon, but will keep it cloudy and warm

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01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:57,719
Speaker 9: for your Christmas afternoon hies near fifty nine degrees heading

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01:32:57,760 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 9: into Friday morning, we cool off to forty six. From

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Speaker 9: your severe weather station, I'm nine First Warning met ROBA

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01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:06,839
Speaker 9: just Mark Stitz News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 8: And radar at this time is showing a partly cloudy

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01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 8: sky and our current temperature is coming in at forty

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Speaker 8: four degrees as we're actually seeing more clouds develop Hereing

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01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 8: the last hour or so, two people hospitalized after a

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Speaker 8: crash on the Interstate seventy five southbound up to seventy

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Speaker 8: four West. Both were adults on suffering serious injuries, while

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Speaker 8: the other head injuries believed to be non life threatening.

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Speaker 8: The ramp closed for some time this evening as Cruz

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Speaker 8: cleaned it up, but that has since reopened. Now what Jones,

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Speaker 8: whose murder case was dismissed earlier this month, the restident

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01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 8: now facing new charges after allegedly driving under the influence

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Speaker 8: and leaving the scene of a crash late this afternoon.

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Speaker 8: Cincinnati police say the accident happened near the corner of

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Speaker 8: East McMillan and Woodburn Avenue around five o'clock, as Jones

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Speaker 8: allegedly crashed into a poll. Jones was released after being

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Speaker 8: charged with obi leaving the scene of a crash in

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Speaker 8: failure to control the motor vehicle, now due in court

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Speaker 8: December twenty ninth. Police say that he refused to breathalyze

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Speaker 8: your test. Jones was