WEBVTT - Steve Hawkins in for Thom Brennaman -- 12/22/25 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.000 Then that could help your money grow. This is the 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.840 Bloomberg moneyment atte on seven hundred WLWY. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.799 Dan Schwartzman in the Bloomberg newsroom with us this morning. Dan, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.440 Can the Supreme Court overturn the tariffs? 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.240 It's a possibility, Steve, Accord to Kevin Hasset, the director 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.360 of the National Economic Council, a Supreme Court ruling against 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.200 President Trump's tariffs would create a major quote administrative problem, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.840 has it said The challenging logistics of refunding tariffs paid 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.480 on goods would deter the High Court from ordering such 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.800 a redistribution. 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You have 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.280 to imagine, Steve, that the Supreme Court look at the 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.640 legality of it, not the logistics of giving money back. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.000 Instacart, they're ending a controversial practice, aren't they. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:54.160 Yeah, they're ending a. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.960 Program where some customers saw different prices for the same 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.880 product ordered at the same time from the same store. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.840 The practice has been widely criticized after a report from 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:07.319 Consumer Reports and two advocacy groups Answercar claims of program 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.360 was meant to help grocers and retailers learn more about 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.200 what kinds of prices customers would pay for items. The 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.040 company says they'll no longer support any item price testing services, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.400 which they've been offering to retailers since twenty twenty three. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.720 Alight and less than ninety minutes, soll open. What are 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:24.160 the futures? 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:24.440 Saying? 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.520 Still knock on wood in the green? The Dow is 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.240 up slightly about a tenth of one percent, and Nazak 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.440 gives up right now six tenths of a percent. Sp 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.240 currently up four tens to one percent from Bloomberg. Dan 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:40.600 Schwartzman on news radio seven hundred WLW. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:46.640 Seven hundred WLW Steve Hawkins in for Tom Brennaman this morning. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.000 He'll be back tomorrow morning to get your role in 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.600 where you gotta go. Time to talk to former Cincinna 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.080 Bengal Grade, Tim McGee with us this morning. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.440 Hey, good morning, Tim. How you doing out there? 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:00.320 Great? 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:00.520 Steve? 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:01.800 How are you good? Good? 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.400 Always like listening to you, so we get to talk 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.160 to you today while Tom's out. The first question I 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.680 have I thought about this all morning. Zero points last 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.160 week forty five points this week. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.160 What the heck happened? This is a tail of two teams. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.640 Well, yes and no. When it was competitive, the game's 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.760 on the line, you you know, you got your playoff hopes, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.000 there's a lot of pressure and your opponent obviously it 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.079 played a major role. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.520 In scoring no point. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.400 And in this case, you had a team in the 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.120 Miami Dolphins. Don't get me wrong, I want to give 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.160 the Bengals credit because they scored the forty five points. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.320 They got to win. However, you got the team in 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.200 the Miami Dolphins that was pretty much shut things down, 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.360 experimental mode. Let's see if we can get another quarterback. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.320 Let's get away from the you know, the heavy burden 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.040 of the salary of Tua for the next four years 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.080 or five years whatever whatever he had remaining on his contract. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.119 So and probably they were looking at draft positions. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.639 Obviously, for every game. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.000 You lose this time of the year, when you're not 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.240 not in the playoffs, you're looking at a you know, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.720 a potential better player, better pick, and more options of 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.760 that pick. So I think that pretty much sums up 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.560 the Bengals play well. And if you pretty much with 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.200 a glorified preseason game the way I looked at it. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.200 Yeah, and then think about that way. That's why we 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.200 talked to the expert. I want to talk offense first. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.600 How good is Chase Brown running? 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.919 You know what he does? 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.320 You give him credit? 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:32.919 Is he one of the premier backs in the league? 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.760 No, okay? Is he a solid back? Absolutely? 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.520 He benefits from the system that the defense has to 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.680 worry about those two premier you know, best wide receiver 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.120 tandem in the National Football League. And obviously what compliments 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:49.680 that is. You got one of the best, if not 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.120 the best quarterback arguably in the in the NFL. So 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.000 obviously you know your tight end position, whoever it may 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.119 be you're running. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.360 Back then will benefit from that. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.440 And that's not to take anything away from his talent. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.520 That's just to say there's going to be some holes 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.600 in the running games because defenses have to honor those 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:07.560 guys outside. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.200 So yes, I mean he's doing it. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.320 He's doing it very well, and give him credit. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.160 I do know. If you saw this stat he's the 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.599 first Bengals in history to have two receiving touchdowns and 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.000 a rushing touchdown in the same game. And he did 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.440 it like in seven minutes in the third quarter yesterday. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.120 You know, again the compliments himself. He's part of the 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.359 and I got to give him credit in another aspect. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.800 He can catch the ball coming out. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:30.600 The backfield if he have to. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.359 Get soft hands, and you know, he performs well in 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.919 the passing game, and that's tough nowadays to see someone 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.760 that could run the ball effectively, throw block effectively, especially 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.840 on third down and being on third down. You look 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.719 at the Ravens, you look at a guy named like 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.960 Derrick Henry. You know, we know he's going to play 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.040 first and second down and third down he's going to 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.240 be off the field less a short distance. So you know, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.760 you get a kid like Chase Brown that his talent 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.240 allows him to be on the football field every single. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.960 Down, and the defense has to respect that. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.400 Joe b What a great game, twenty five for thirty two, 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.360 three hundred and nine yards, four touchdowns. What more can 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.160 we say about Joe Burrow that hasn't already been said? 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.320 Nothing? Absolutely nothing. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.680 We're in repeat mode when it comes to him, and 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.360 that's okay, And I think that's wonderful because you know, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.120 last week I wouldn't say he struggled. He had a 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.800 normal National Football League starting quarterback game. And this week 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.200 he was back to whether the bar is so high 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:31.560 he puts the bar for himself. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.479 He reached that bar. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.280 He played just outstanding football. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:36.600 He was in rhythm. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.480 And you know, I want you guys, all the listeners. No, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.279 this is the difference between planning in cold weather and 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.840 planning warm weather. When you're planning warm weather, that passing 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:48.520 game can. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.880 Be a huge part of your offense. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.280 And when you're planning those inclement weathers up in up 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.360 in Ohio and Buffalo and Seattle, Man, you know, it's 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.800 it's it's just a tough It's just tough, and it's 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:02.760 a huge difference. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.520 I noticed they shoveled the entire stadium in Miami yesterday. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.520 They did, and they did a really good job. And 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.400 I was really surprised, man. And if the sun came 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.159 out and noted all the moisture and for some reason, man, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:17.160 it was amazing. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.520 The pants had on shorts and T shirts and sunglasses. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.720 All right, I want to talk about the defense here. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:27.360 But first off, how important we always talk about turnovers. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.400 Miami had four right there. I think of the third 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.080 quarter turning into touchdowns. How important in the National Football 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.120 League is turnovers. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.880 Well, it's a cliche that you've heard from the Paul 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.920 Brown Bays and you will hear when you know, when 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.080 I'm gone and in a better place. You can't win 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.920 football games unless you win the turnover battle. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.080 And you can't give the ball away. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.520 Because teams are just too good. You're at the you're 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.600 at the pinnacle of success, and to give someone advantage 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.080 by handing them the ball, especially when you give them 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.600 and you give up a field position, that's just kind 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.600 of a two that you're going to pretty much come 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.720 on come out on the short side of that. So 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.960 you know, you got to be stingy with that football. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.640 And typically you see the top teams every single year 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.880 that don't give the ball away, that win the turnover battle, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.000 and you know, you get tied of hearing the cliches, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.880 but it is absolutely true. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.760 You got to you got to have a run game, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.920 you gotta have you got. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.680 To have a great defense, and you got to, you know, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.200 win the turnover game. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:28.400 And if you do those. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.480 Things, you're going to be pretty pretty much successful. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.600 And we've seen that with this team this year with 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.600 the turnovers. But let's move on to the defense. We're 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.400 talking to Tim McGee's former s say, Bengal, what did 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.120 you see about the defense yesterday and your thoughts on that? 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.280 Nothing? Absolutely nothing. The jury's out, They wasn't playing against 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.480 a top notch quarterback. You know, you have to go 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.600 out and do it anyway, and they did for the 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.800 most part. But the first couple of drives, you know, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.600 they look like they're how they've been playing, you know, 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.640 all along and this year, and let's just face it, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.720 they're lasting defense, and they're they're for a reason. But again, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.680 this goes back to Steve where we're looking at a 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.840 glorified preseason. The coaches, the management, the scouts, they're looking 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.600 at who will be on the team in twenty twenty six. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.200 These guys are all of them right across the board. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 They're playing for their jobs. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:22.240 For twenty twenty six. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:23.480 Now, yeah, if. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.880 You're young, you got a fresh contract, you're a high pick, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.680 Yeah you're going to get another opportunity. But if you're 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.520 on the cusp of making teams. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.640 They have to upgrade talent. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.800 And I'm talking on all three levels on defense. So 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.679 I would think anyone would be safe as far as 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.440 a starting position, but maybe, okay, you have a couple 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:40.959 of guys that. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.040 Could play that will be on the team. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.240 Before the most For the most part, if they want 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.599 to compete, especially in the AFC North, they got to 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:48.959 get a. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.520 Defense and they and the defense has to have a major, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.160 major turnaround, all right. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.600 In the next two day games, I guess it's Cardinals 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.880 and then the Browns. Are those, in your opinion, going 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.000 to be like glorified preseason games just looking at people 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.960 to see what they would do and if they fit 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:03.880 the team for next year. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.520 Yeah, but I would add one word, they're gonna be 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.520 glorified high school exhibition games because she's not gonna be 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.319 very competitive. You know, this is the time where you 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.400 can just sit back and walk past the TV one 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.120 hundred thousand times, take a nap for this is probably 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.320 going to be some ugly football the next couple of weeks, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.920 but it's going to determine where they're picking in the draft. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.720 So it's kind of an oxy moron. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.760 They do well the last three game, going to three 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.880 game win streak, and guess what they're picking in them, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.880 you know, towards twelve, eleven, thirteen, somewhere around that. I 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.600 don't guess what if they lose, so you're rooting for 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:38.680 him to win always. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.200 Anytime you put the uniform on, you. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.480 Want to win. But at the same time, you know 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.080 a loss or two losses won't be the worst thing, 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.480 and that could happen as far as draft position and 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:48.080 this concern. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.920 All Right, Tim McGee, former Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver. With this, Tim, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.800 thanks so much. We'll talk to you next week. Okay. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.600 I appreciate your having me, Steve, And get Tom down 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:58.480 at South Florida. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:09:59.720 Get him some sons so he can. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.840 Stop being absolutely that's what I'll tell him, all right, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.560 Thanks man. All right, it's coming up on eight eighteen 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.880 and seven hundred WLW. Chuck Ingram in traffic this morning. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.240 Chuck. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.720 Yes, you see this new survey from Food and Wine. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.360 I did not what you find top holiday drinks around 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.920 the trist oh about around in the United States. But 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:23.839 in Indiana top holiday drink this year was espresso martini 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:29.000 and that was for Kentucky. Also, okay, Ohio's was Amaretta sour. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.360 Really number one holiday drink in Ohio? Is that your drink? 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:34.240 No? 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.680 I thought that was kind of like a drink that 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.839 was from the past, like an old lady drink. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.520 Yeah, nope, it's according to Food and Wine magazine. Huh, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:52.679 what's your drink? 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The chain got its 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.120 start almost a century ago. Cortney Donahope, Bloomberg Radio. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.479 It's eight forty three, seven hundred WLW. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.080 Steve Hawkins and for Tom Brennaman sat for Mondays with Marty. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.520 Marty Brenneman joining me this morning. Hey, good morning, Marty. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:27.000 How are you? 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.920 I'm good, Steve, how are you you too? 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.160 Happy holidays? I want to ask you some college football. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:35.640 I know you're a college. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.520 Football fan, right I am, Yes, I am. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.160 I want to know for me in the basketball tournament, 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.760 I always root for an underdog getting to the sweet 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.280 sixteen or the eight. I got to tell you over 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.400 the weekend, I did not care about a Tulane Ole 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.880 Miss game or a JMU Oregon game. Didn't have an 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.320 interest in it, didn't watch munch, just moved on with 0:15:58.400 --> 0:15:58.800 my life. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.640 Is Is Is that what you thought about it? 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:01.840 Or? 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.840 Did you like having some of these underdogs new teams 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:05.240 in there? 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.600 I like having them in see but I don't and 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.760 and I don't think there's an easy Well, the easy 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.600 answer is neither one of those teams deserved to be 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.560 in it, based on the ability to compete against the 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.840 people they had to play against. Yeah, I mean James 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.480 Madison could not beat Oregon on its best day if 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.600 Oregon played its worst game of the season, And the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.200 same was true with Too Lane. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.760 An Ole Miss. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.280 But I don't think the I don't think that the 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.400 college football people can eliminate that level of division. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.680 Ie if they try to, I. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.320 Think there would be so many lawsuits level against the 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.280 NCAA and everybody connected with college football. I don't know 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:48.280 that you need two of. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.400 Them in there now. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.720 Maybe down the road when they redo this thing for 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.160 the young team time, they will limit it to one 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.640 school because both of those schools had great years against 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.920 the comp petition they played, but they can't play against 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:03.680 that competition. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.840 Sure, did the committee get it right when they put 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.800 when they got rid of Notre Dame and put these 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:10.399 two teams in. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.440 Would you have rather seen a Notre Dame Ole Miss 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.160 or a Notre Dame Oregon. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:20.240 Game without a doubt? You know, I feel the same 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.280 way Notre Dame did. They got screwed in that deal, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.280 and I think it's unfortunate. You know, they lose their 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.080 first two games of the season, and then they run 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.159 off ten wins in a row, and at the end 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.160 of the year they were playing just about as well 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.879 as anybody in college football, with maybe the exceptions of 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.359 you know, the teams at rank one and two, and 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.000 that was Indiana and Ohio State, and I think Notre 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.240 Dame deserved to be in it. And that's why there 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.800 are some things that I think need to be tweets. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.760 If somebody made the recommendation, and I don't know who 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.879 it was, I heard a group of guys talking about it, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.040 they ought to rank the top six teams. It makes 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.000 no difference what conference you're from. You know, just right 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.400 one to sixteen and let it. That's it, and then 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.919 you go to the final twelve that play for the 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.560 College football Championship. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:15.480 To me, that's simple. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.280 I'm sure there's some shortcomings to that too, but the 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.960 system still is not right, and they've worked like a 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.040 dog to get it right and they haven't been able 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:24.640 to do it yet. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.440 But do you see suggestions and changes coming for next year? 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.439 I think they could add four more teams maybe, and 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.000 I don't know what that would do except maybe mundy 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.040 to water even more. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.840 But I like the idea. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.520 I like having a playoff like this, I think it 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.800 sustains interest in college football rather than having a high 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.480 number of games, you know, the normal traditional bowl games 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.960 on New Year's Day, Rose Sugar and all the Fiesta Bowl, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.679 all the rest of those games. And I think it 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.719 maintains interest up till I think the championship games like 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.720 on January the twentieth or something like that. But they will, Yes, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.040