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Speaker 2: Can the Supreme Court overturn the tariffs?
Speaker 3: It's a possibility, Steve, Accord to Kevin Hasset, the director
Speaker 3: of the National Economic Council, a Supreme Court ruling against
Speaker 3: President Trump's tariffs would create a major quote administrative problem,
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Speaker 2: Seven hundred WLW Steve Hawkins in for Tom Brennaman this morning.
Speaker 2: He'll be back tomorrow morning to get your role in
Speaker 2: where you gotta go. Time to talk to former Cincinna
Speaker 2: Bengal Grade, Tim McGee with us this morning.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Tim. How you doing out there?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 6: Steve?
Speaker 4: How are you good? Good?
Speaker 2: Always like listening to you, so we get to talk
Speaker 2: to you today while Tom's out. The first question I
Speaker 2: have I thought about this all morning. Zero points last
Speaker 2: week forty five points this week.
Speaker 4: What the heck happened? This is a tail of two teams.
Speaker 5: Well, yes and no. When it was competitive, the game's
Speaker 5: on the line, you you know, you got your playoff hopes,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of pressure and your opponent obviously it
Speaker 5: played a major role.
Speaker 7: In scoring no point.
Speaker 5: And in this case, you had a team in the
Speaker 5: Miami Dolphins. Don't get me wrong, I want to give
Speaker 5: the Bengals credit because they scored the forty five points.
Speaker 5: They got to win. However, you got the team in
Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins that was pretty much shut things down,
Speaker 5: experimental mode. Let's see if we can get another quarterback.
Speaker 5: Let's get away from the you know, the heavy burden
Speaker 5: of the salary of Tua for the next four years
Speaker 5: or five years whatever whatever he had remaining on his contract.
Speaker 5: So and probably they were looking at draft positions.
Speaker 7: Obviously, for every game.
Speaker 5: You lose this time of the year, when you're not
Speaker 5: not in the playoffs, you're looking at a you know,
Speaker 5: a potential better player, better pick, and more options of
Speaker 5: that pick. So I think that pretty much sums up
Speaker 5: the Bengals play well. And if you pretty much with
Speaker 5: a glorified preseason game the way I looked at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then think about that way. That's why we
Speaker 2: talked to the expert. I want to talk offense first.
Speaker 2: How good is Chase Brown running?
Speaker 5: You know what he does?
Speaker 7: You give him credit?
Speaker 5: Is he one of the premier backs in the league?
Speaker 7: No, okay? Is he a solid back? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: He benefits from the system that the defense has to
Speaker 5: worry about those two premier you know, best wide receiver
Speaker 5: tandem in the National Football League. And obviously what compliments
Speaker 5: that is. You got one of the best, if not
Speaker 5: the best quarterback arguably in the in the NFL. So
Speaker 5: obviously you know your tight end position, whoever it may
Speaker 5: be you're running.
Speaker 7: Back then will benefit from that.
Speaker 5: And that's not to take anything away from his talent.
Speaker 5: That's just to say there's going to be some holes
Speaker 5: in the running games because defenses have to honor those
Speaker 5: guys outside.
Speaker 7: So yes, I mean he's doing it.
Speaker 5: He's doing it very well, and give him credit.
Speaker 2: I do know. If you saw this stat he's the
Speaker 2: first Bengals in history to have two receiving touchdowns and
Speaker 2: a rushing touchdown in the same game. And he did
Speaker 2: it like in seven minutes in the third quarter yesterday.
Speaker 5: You know, again the compliments himself. He's part of the
Speaker 5: and I got to give him credit in another aspect.
Speaker 5: He can catch the ball coming out.
Speaker 7: The backfield if he have to.
Speaker 5: Get soft hands, and you know, he performs well in
Speaker 5: the passing game, and that's tough nowadays to see someone
Speaker 5: that could run the ball effectively, throw block effectively, especially
Speaker 5: on third down and being on third down. You look
Speaker 5: at the Ravens, you look at a guy named like
Speaker 5: Derrick Henry. You know, we know he's going to play
Speaker 5: first and second down and third down he's going to
Speaker 5: be off the field less a short distance. So you know,
Speaker 5: you get a kid like Chase Brown that his talent
Speaker 5: allows him to be on the football field every single.
Speaker 8: Down, and the defense has to respect that.
Speaker 2: Joe b What a great game, twenty five for thirty two,
Speaker 2: three hundred and nine yards, four touchdowns. What more can
Speaker 2: we say about Joe Burrow that hasn't already been said?
Speaker 7: Nothing? Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5: We're in repeat mode when it comes to him, and
Speaker 5: that's okay, And I think that's wonderful because you know,
Speaker 5: last week I wouldn't say he struggled. He had a
Speaker 5: normal National Football League starting quarterback game. And this week
Speaker 5: he was back to whether the bar is so high
Speaker 5: he puts the bar for himself.
Speaker 7: He reached that bar.
Speaker 5: He played just outstanding football.
Speaker 7: He was in rhythm.
Speaker 5: And you know, I want you guys, all the listeners. No,
Speaker 5: this is the difference between planning in cold weather and
Speaker 5: planning warm weather. When you're planning warm weather, that passing
Speaker 5: game can.
Speaker 7: Be a huge part of your offense.
Speaker 5: And when you're planning those inclement weathers up in up
Speaker 5: in Ohio and Buffalo and Seattle, Man, you know, it's
Speaker 5: it's it's just a tough It's just tough, and it's
Speaker 5: a huge difference.
Speaker 2: I noticed they shoveled the entire stadium in Miami yesterday.
Speaker 5: They did, and they did a really good job. And
Speaker 5: I was really surprised, man. And if the sun came
Speaker 5: out and noted all the moisture and for some reason, man,
Speaker 5: it was amazing.
Speaker 8: The pants had on shorts and T shirts and sunglasses.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to talk about the defense here.
Speaker 2: But first off, how important we always talk about turnovers.
Speaker 2: Miami had four right there. I think of the third
Speaker 2: quarter turning into touchdowns. How important in the National Football
Speaker 2: League is turnovers.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a cliche that you've heard from the Paul
Speaker 5: Brown Bays and you will hear when you know, when
Speaker 5: I'm gone and in a better place. You can't win
Speaker 5: football games unless you win the turnover battle.
Speaker 7: And you can't give the ball away.
Speaker 5: Because teams are just too good. You're at the you're
Speaker 5: at the pinnacle of success, and to give someone advantage
Speaker 5: by handing them the ball, especially when you give them
Speaker 5: and you give up a field position, that's just kind
Speaker 5: of a two that you're going to pretty much come
Speaker 5: on come out on the short side of that. So
Speaker 5: you know, you got to be stingy with that football.
Speaker 5: And typically you see the top teams every single year
Speaker 5: that don't give the ball away, that win the turnover battle,
Speaker 5: and you know, you get tied of hearing the cliches,
Speaker 5: but it is absolutely true.
Speaker 7: You got to you got to have a run game,
Speaker 7: you gotta have you got.
Speaker 5: To have a great defense, and you got to, you know,
Speaker 5: win the turnover game.
Speaker 7: And if you do those.
Speaker 5: Things, you're going to be pretty pretty much successful.
Speaker 2: And we've seen that with this team this year with
Speaker 2: the turnovers. But let's move on to the defense. We're
Speaker 2: talking to Tim McGee's former s say, Bengal, what did
Speaker 2: you see about the defense yesterday and your thoughts on that?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Absolutely nothing. The jury's out, They wasn't playing against
Speaker 5: a top notch quarterback. You know, you have to go
Speaker 5: out and do it anyway, and they did for the
Speaker 5: most part. But the first couple of drives, you know,
Speaker 5: they look like they're how they've been playing, you know,
Speaker 5: all along and this year, and let's just face it,
Speaker 5: they're lasting defense, and they're they're for a reason. But again,
Speaker 5: this goes back to Steve where we're looking at a
Speaker 5: glorified preseason. The coaches, the management, the scouts, they're looking
Speaker 5: at who will be on the team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: These guys are all of them right across the board.
Speaker 5: They're playing for their jobs.
Speaker 8: For twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7: Now, yeah, if.
Speaker 5: You're young, you got a fresh contract, you're a high pick,
Speaker 5: Yeah you're going to get another opportunity. But if you're
Speaker 5: on the cusp of making teams.
Speaker 7: They have to upgrade talent.
Speaker 5: And I'm talking on all three levels on defense. So
Speaker 5: I would think anyone would be safe as far as
Speaker 5: a starting position, but maybe, okay, you have a couple
Speaker 5: of guys that.
Speaker 8: Could play that will be on the team.
Speaker 5: Before the most For the most part, if they want
Speaker 5: to compete, especially in the AFC North, they got to
Speaker 5: get a.
Speaker 7: Defense and they and the defense has to have a major,
Speaker 7: major turnaround, all right.
Speaker 2: In the next two day games, I guess it's Cardinals
Speaker 2: and then the Browns. Are those, in your opinion, going
Speaker 2: to be like glorified preseason games just looking at people
Speaker 2: to see what they would do and if they fit
Speaker 2: the team for next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I would add one word, they're gonna be
Speaker 5: glorified high school exhibition games because she's not gonna be
Speaker 5: very competitive. You know, this is the time where you
Speaker 5: can just sit back and walk past the TV one
Speaker 5: hundred thousand times, take a nap for this is probably
Speaker 5: going to be some ugly football the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: but it's going to determine where they're picking in the draft.
Speaker 7: So it's kind of an oxy moron.
Speaker 5: They do well the last three game, going to three
Speaker 5: game win streak, and guess what they're picking in them,
Speaker 5: you know, towards twelve, eleven, thirteen, somewhere around that. I
Speaker 5: don't guess what if they lose, so you're rooting for
Speaker 5: him to win always.
Speaker 8: Anytime you put the uniform on, you.
Speaker 5: Want to win. But at the same time, you know
Speaker 5: a loss or two losses won't be the worst thing,
Speaker 5: and that could happen as far as draft position and
Speaker 5: this concern.
Speaker 2: All Right, Tim McGee, former Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver. With this, Tim,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. We'll talk to you next week. Okay.
Speaker 5: I appreciate your having me, Steve, And get Tom down
Speaker 5: at South Florida.
Speaker 8: Get him some sons so he can.
Speaker 2: Stop being absolutely that's what I'll tell him, all right,
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Speaker 2: Steve Hawkins and for Tom Brennaman sat for Mondays with Marty.
Speaker 4: Marty Brenneman joining me this morning. Hey, good morning, Marty.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 12: I'm good, Steve, how are you you too?
Speaker 2: Happy holidays? I want to ask you some college football.
Speaker 2: I know you're a college.
Speaker 6: Football fan, right I am, Yes, I am.
Speaker 2: I want to know for me in the basketball tournament,
Speaker 2: I always root for an underdog getting to the sweet
Speaker 2: sixteen or the eight. I got to tell you over
Speaker 2: the weekend, I did not care about a Tulane Ole
Speaker 2: Miss game or a JMU Oregon game. Didn't have an
Speaker 2: interest in it, didn't watch munch, just moved on with
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 4: Is Is Is that what you thought about it?
Speaker 7: Or?
Speaker 2: Did you like having some of these underdogs new teams
Speaker 2: in there?
Speaker 12: I like having them in see but I don't and
Speaker 12: and I don't think there's an easy Well, the easy
Speaker 12: answer is neither one of those teams deserved to be
Speaker 12: in it, based on the ability to compete against the
Speaker 12: people they had to play against. Yeah, I mean James
Speaker 12: Madison could not beat Oregon on its best day if
Speaker 12: Oregon played its worst game of the season, And the
Speaker 12: same was true with Too Lane.
Speaker 6: An Ole Miss.
Speaker 12: But I don't think the I don't think that the
Speaker 12: college football people can eliminate that level of division.
Speaker 6: Ie if they try to, I.
Speaker 12: Think there would be so many lawsuits level against the
Speaker 12: NCAA and everybody connected with college football. I don't know
Speaker 12: that you need two of.
Speaker 6: Them in there now.
Speaker 12: Maybe down the road when they redo this thing for
Speaker 12: the young team time, they will limit it to one
Speaker 12: school because both of those schools had great years against
Speaker 12: the comp petition they played, but they can't play against
Speaker 12: that competition.
Speaker 2: Sure, did the committee get it right when they put
Speaker 2: when they got rid of Notre Dame and put these
Speaker 2: two teams in.
Speaker 4: Would you have rather seen a Notre Dame Ole Miss
Speaker 4: or a Notre Dame Oregon.
Speaker 12: Game without a doubt? You know, I feel the same
Speaker 12: way Notre Dame did. They got screwed in that deal,
Speaker 12: and I think it's unfortunate. You know, they lose their
Speaker 12: first two games of the season, and then they run
Speaker 12: off ten wins in a row, and at the end
Speaker 12: of the year they were playing just about as well
Speaker 12: as anybody in college football, with maybe the exceptions of
Speaker 12: you know, the teams at rank one and two, and
Speaker 12: that was Indiana and Ohio State, and I think Notre
Speaker 12: Dame deserved to be in it. And that's why there
Speaker 12: are some things that I think need to be tweets.
Speaker 12: If somebody made the recommendation, and I don't know who
Speaker 12: it was, I heard a group of guys talking about it,
Speaker 12: they ought to rank the top six teams. It makes
Speaker 12: no difference what conference you're from. You know, just right
Speaker 12: one to sixteen and let it. That's it, and then
Speaker 12: you go to the final twelve that play for the
Speaker 12: College football Championship.
Speaker 6: To me, that's simple.
Speaker 12: I'm sure there's some shortcomings to that too, but the
Speaker 12: system still is not right, and they've worked like a
Speaker 12: dog to get it right and they haven't been able
Speaker 12: to do it yet.
Speaker 4: But do you see suggestions and changes coming for next year?
Speaker 12: I think they could add four more teams maybe, and
Speaker 12: I don't know what that would do except maybe mundy
Speaker 12: to water even more.
Speaker 6: But I like the idea.
Speaker 12: I like having a playoff like this, I think it
Speaker 12: sustains interest in college football rather than having a high
Speaker 12: number of games, you know, the normal traditional bowl games
Speaker 12: on New Year's Day, Rose Sugar and all the Fiesta Bowl,
Speaker 12: all the rest of those games. And I think it
Speaker 12: maintains interest up till I think the championship games like
Speaker 12: on January the twentieth or something like that. But they will, Yes,
Speaker 12: there will be changes, I would imagine next year.
Speaker 6: I think so yeah, all.
Speaker 4: Right, this week a couple of big games.
Speaker 2: Does Alabama have a chance against Indiana and Miami against
Speaker 2: Ohio State on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4: What do you feel with these games?
Speaker 6: I think no and no. You know, I watched the Miami.
Speaker 12: The Miami game was really interesting football game against Texas
Speaker 12: A and m.
Speaker 6: And whoever they play. I forget.
Speaker 12: Alabama was just very impressive after falling behind by seventeen
Speaker 12: to nothing score. But I don't think either one of
Speaker 12: those teams can play against Indiana or Ohio State. I
Speaker 12: really don't. I really think that. You know, Oregon is
Speaker 12: a team that you need to keep an eye on.
Speaker 12: That's good football team, but whether or not they can
Speaker 12: play with the top two when it gets down to
Speaker 12: the end.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but I don't I don't think.
Speaker 12: I don't think either one of those teams can can
Speaker 12: play with Indiana and in Ohio State. And of course
Speaker 12: they've had two weeks or more to rest and get ready.
Speaker 6: And uh, I'm looking.
Speaker 12: Forward to seeing both of them because I've got a grandson,
Speaker 12: Thomas Sons, a junior. In fact, he's doing the Rose
Speaker 12: Bowl game that's this weekend on January on January one
Speaker 12: on the campus radio station in Pasadena. Yeah, and so
Speaker 12: I'm rooting for Indiana and I'm rooting for Ohio State
Speaker 12: down the stretch.
Speaker 4: Do you think they're going to meet again for the
Speaker 4: championship game.
Speaker 12: I think they've got a real good chance of playing again,
Speaker 12: And quite honestly, if they do, I don't. I don't
Speaker 12: like Indiana's chances of beating Ohio State a second time.
Speaker 6: I really don't. But we'll see a great matchup.
Speaker 2: Talking to Marty brenhaman another minute or some are the
Speaker 2: Reds out of money?
Speaker 4: Are they going to make more moves? What are you
Speaker 4: seeing there?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 12: I think they got to. I mean they've talked. I
Speaker 12: think everybody knows that. For the last two or three years,
Speaker 12: the one thing they really needed worse than anything was
Speaker 12: a power hitter in the middle of the lineup, and
Speaker 12: so far they've not been able to do it going
Speaker 12: into twenty four, and they weren't able to do it
Speaker 12: going into twenty five, and it hurt them as far
Speaker 12: as run production is concerned. They've got as good a
Speaker 12: pitching rotation as I think there is in their own division,
Speaker 12: and one of the best in Major League Baseball. But
Speaker 12: they've really got to find somebody that can hit the
Speaker 12: ball consistently out of the ballpark to take some of
Speaker 12: the pressure off the young guys that they've got that
Speaker 12: that would be surrounding him. They'll figure out some way,
Speaker 12: I'm sure to come up with an addition to this
Speaker 12: club before the season begins in late March.
Speaker 2: I would think so, yeah, yeah, But they, if I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, they don't have a lot of money to
Speaker 2: spend anymore.
Speaker 4: Is that the way to say it?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 12: It looks like that, But there are ways around that.
Speaker 12: You deferred money and all kinds of things. You know that,
Speaker 12: being in the financial business, how that works. Yes, I
Speaker 12: think I think they Yeah, I think they can figure
Speaker 12: that out. Not to the point where they could sign
Speaker 12: a Kyle Schwarber or somebody like that, but I think
Speaker 12: they can figure that part out.
Speaker 4: Marty, a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2: Have a great Christmas season, and hopefully we'll get to
Speaker 2: talk to you next Monday, all right, I.
Speaker 12: Hope, so Steve, happy Merry Christmas and hopefully we'll chat again.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much. Monday's with Marty right here.
Speaker 2: Gay pal Tom Brenneman showed Tom's out today. He should
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow morning at five oh six. Somebody that
Speaker 2: did come in today, it was Chuck Abra.
Speaker 5: Chuck.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you made it, and we've been talking all morning.
Speaker 2: You're expecting a slower, less busy week in traffic this week.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I was leaning towards when you asked
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Speaker 9: convinced of it, because, for instance, you wouldn't even see
Speaker 9: southbound seventy five wide open through Lachland. If this were
Speaker 9: a normal day, you'd have a huge delay there, and
Speaker 9: I haven't seen break lights there all morning long. That's
Speaker 9: how quiet things have been given a couple of accidents.
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Speaker 9: You seehealth dot com. And even where there were recks,
Speaker 9: traffics getting better, like northbound two seventy five. What's left
Speaker 9: to the accident after you got past twenty eight in Milford.
Speaker 9: It's on the right shoulder. There's minimal delays to get
Speaker 9: by now north bend seventy five. They cleared the accident
Speaker 9: at Town Street a while ago. That's looking good. Out
Speaker 9: of Saint Bernard into Lachland. Chuck Ingram, News Radio seven
Speaker 9: hundred WLW all.
Speaker 2: Right, the WCPO First WARNT nine First Warning Weather Forecast
Speaker 2: Center says it's going to be an overcast day today, milder.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to about forty eight degrees. I like
Speaker 2: to call that near fifty. And then tonight isolated showers
Speaker 2: moving in rush hour coming out home tonight after five,
Speaker 2: Some sprinkles out there, not too concerning, she says, So
Speaker 2: showers can continue throughout the night. Low about forty three
Speaker 2: cloudy tomorrow and fifty six. You're ready for Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: looks like mostly cloudy, scattered rain, possible late high of
Speaker 2: fifty six, and then Christmas Day you.
Speaker 4: Ready for this.
Speaker 2: Christmas Day should be mostly cloudy, scattered rain, possibly all
Speaker 2: day long. High on Christmas Day will be sixty three,
Speaker 2: which is likely one of the warmest Christmases on record.
Speaker 4: Wow, at least to being the top five.
Speaker 2: They think it's still twenty eight At your severe weather
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