WEBVTT - The Nightcap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 12/16/25 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.600 Stepping in and a guy who's on the phone, as 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.720 you can hear, chomping at the bitch to get to 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:08.680 whatever it is we're going to talk about. You know, 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.680 a lot of times he is at the back end 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.080 of the show, and if you're on the back end, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.800 the view always looks the same. But if you're on 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.120 the front end, you're the first, it means that you 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.639 have a level of importance that is unparalleled in the 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.920 rest of the three hours. When you are the first guest, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.639 you are the setting the table for the rest of 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.880 the show. And how this interview goes will dictate how 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:40.120 great this show is or maybe not. Well, we're about 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.240 to find out. So this is not a test, Ladies 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.000 and gentlemen, This is Andy Furman with Gary Jeff on 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:47.800 the Nightcap. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:49.320 Welcome sir. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.200 First of all, get your lips off my dery air. Okay, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.960 of course, it doesn't work that way. It's like a crescendo. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.240 It's like the worst guest is first, and it gets 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.200 better if it goes on. Get it okay, But I'm 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.040 glad to do it. I get it over with. That's 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.679 the way I feel right now. The way you introduce me, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.679 don't don't. Don't put it in a pecking order. I 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.040 just happen to be on and I'm on now, all right. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.080 I mean a happy happy Holidays to you, Merry Christmas 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:20.600 to you, Happy happy birthday. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.000 Today's my birthday too. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.200 Happy birthday. Mine is next Monday. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.680 I know it is. And I say, I'm going to 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:27.360 be there with you. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.160 I want you to be there. I want to just 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.120 celebrate together with the with the music professor. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.479 And I love it. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.720 Yeah, And you can tell, you can tell Seg how 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.560 much you love him, because this. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.160 Is I do love Seg, I really do. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.480 This is the this is the time of year for 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.039 Sega clause. Do you think that Joe Burrow is just 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:47.640 happy to get the season over? 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.680 Uh? You know, I'm not going to be like every 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.880 other media person in this town psychoanalyzing Joe Burrow. It's 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.040 not my job. Okay, it's not their job either. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:57.400 You know. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.280 Their job is to see him play football. And he 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.800 didn't play well on Sunday, and he admitted that let 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.440 it go, you know, and now in a speculation, he's 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.520 not gonna play yet, he's gonna leave you. You know what, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.040 I get it. It's good take, it's good clicks. That's 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.359 what it is. We live in a society of clicks. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.239 People live on that media. People love that. They don't 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.400 have to be correct. They just want people clicking on 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.600 their site, on their social media platform. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:19.280 That's all it is. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.320 I refuse to do that. I will not do that, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.119 you know. And it's not a question of my being 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.920 right anymore. It's a question of being first. That's what 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.960 people want, you know that, And I want that, and 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.440 I've seen it, and I've seen it happen. I think 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.400 it's disgusting, you know, I'm hearing sports took people behind 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.000 the microphone with no sense or responsibility saying Joe Burrow 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.119 has bigger problems than football. I wonder what it could be. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.280 It's not football related? And will he leave here? He 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.320 doesn't like it here is Look, you're the same people 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.240 that were pounding saying that Joe Burrow tells the organization 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.239 what to do. Well, you know what, maybe it was 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.200 a good thing that Joe Burrow had a piss poor 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.560 game on Sunday because now he doesn't have to tell 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.639 the organization what to do. He needs to go back 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.240 to the drawing board and do it himself. Okay, I'm 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.120 kind of happy in a way that he proved that 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.440 he's not Superman with the Cape, He's no longer. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:05.600 He's a great quarterback. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.079 He may very well be the best quarterback on Bengal history. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.080 But he's normal like everybody else. 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.840 No, Josh Allen's Superman. You can't have two the same 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.040 superhero in one league. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:16.760 I mean you're gonna have. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.679 You may be right about that and what he did, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.040 and this New England on Sunday may very well be Superman. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.480 Maybe Joe Burrow as Batman. Maybe Joe Burrows. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.760 And maybe I'm robbin. I don't know, but I will 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.160 tell you this much. I'm happy about one thing you 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.880 can talk about, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow. I like old 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.440 guys because I'm an old guy right now, and people 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.000 love old guys making young guys look silly. And Phil 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.680 Rivers came back there. Philip Rivers at forty four our grandpa. Okay, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.080 he doesn't play his twenty twenty, hasn't played in five years, 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.000 forty four years of age, playing for the Indianapolis Coat 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.200 look good. Coach's loss on a heartbreak with the field goal. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.360 But he's going to play Monday night against the forty nine, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:55.640 it's got to be musty TV. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:56.520 And here's a. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.760 Quarterback who once played an AFC championship game, get this 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.119 one week after he tore an anterior cruciate ligament. And honestly, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.000 that just shows you the toughness, the toughness and the 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.360 pride that he has. You know why I say that 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.360 this guy's on the cusp of the Hall of Fame 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.360 in Canton, Ohio, and now that he's played, he's gonna 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.200 years to get get nominated, to get back in again. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.320 You love them? Do you have people gonna deny that 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.200 to me? But see, I want to hear your take 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:23.120 on Philip Rivers. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.840 Well, do you think that he is Hall of Fame 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.040 worthy before this? 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.120 No doubt, come back, no doubt. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.240 I got the stats for him, I really do. And 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:32.800 I wish I had a vote for the Hall of Fame. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.400 I have a vote for the Heisman, but I don't 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.640 have the vote for the Hall of Fame. And I'll 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.160 tell you why. Eli Maning on two Super Bowls and 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.960 normally right now, that's a ticket for the Hall of 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.800 Fame and the name Manning is going to get him 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.760 in there. Right The Philip Rivers through forget this, four 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.400 hundred and twenty one touchdowns, which is sixth on the 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.360 old time list. Okay, he threw for sixty three thousand 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.720 fortune and forty yards with is seventh on the. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:53.360 Old time list. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.000 Don't she had twenty nine fourth Well, go ahead. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.760 No, I said, no kidding, I didn't know. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.120 Oh yeah, he delivered twenty nine fourth quarter and that's 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:02.560 more than Joe Montana. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:03.080 Okay. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.600 He finished as one of two quarterbacks in the NFL history. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.040 Right far was the other one to start these two 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.200 hundred and fifty consecutive games, including the postseason and including 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.359 the AFC title game at New England in January of 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.360 two thousand and eight when he played one on one 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.480 leg against the unbeaten New England Patriots. Played on one 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.400 leg that game. This guy's a warrior. I love the guy, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.040 I really do. And since twenty twenty, where he retired, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.359 he's been coaching at Saint Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.600 Alabama with one of his ten children, and one of 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.960 them is Gunner, who happens to be a big time 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.279 college prospect. To get this, what position? Quarterback? Of course? 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.800 Well, no, I'd say that's gold jacket worthy, the stats 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.200 and the place in NFL history. Sure, but now, as 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.320 you mentioned, he's gonna have to wait another five years. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.640 They got to have a waiver rule for stuff like that. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.760 But you know, there are plenty of examples of old guys. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.359 I'm the same way. If there's a guy who was, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.279 you know, getting on in years and supposedly passed his prime, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.160 I'm all always rooting for I'm all in for him 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.560 every time. But then I think to myself, and my 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.160 wife reminds me, yet you call him the old guy. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.960 He's forty four, You're gonna be sixty five. So I mean, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.799 maybe I'm just trying to live as an older guy 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.919 through vicariously through these old guys who supposedly can't do 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.360 it anymore. And there are plenty of examples through history. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:34.120 As I got. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.000 Him, I got you. I'm glad you mentioned I got 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.120 him for you. You know I love the old guys 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.760 and that come back. George Foreman reclaimed the heavyweight championship 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.560 at the age of forty five. Remember that Jack Nicholas 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.760 won his sixth and last Master's title at forty six. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.280 Tom Brady won his seventh and final Super Bowl at 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:50.839 forty three. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:51.560 Get this one. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.919 This ute Cody Howe from the Detroit Red Wings scored 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.120 fifteen goals and passed the twenty six at sists in 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.080 an NHL season that he fin is at the age 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.080 of Are you ready for this? Fifty two? 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:04.000 How do you? 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:04.640 Watson? 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:05.840 How do you play hockey? 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:06.599 At fifty two? 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:08.960 Tom wats play hockey at twelve? 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:09.640 Right? 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.679 Tom Watson was one put away from winning the British 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.280 Open at his ninth major when he was fifty nine. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.480 All right, so old guys can do what they want 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.640 to do. I think there's a lot to do in 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.880 your chest, in your heart, more than athletic skill. I 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.360 really do. You gotta want to do it. Philip Rivers 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.120 wants to do it. I love that he's doing this. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:27.760 I really do. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.600 Well, you got to have it in your heart and 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.560 your tika, as they say, but you GOLs, You've got 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.200 to have the talent in the first place. And the 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.760 fact that all that talent hasn't run out of the 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.840 hourglass yet for somebody like Philip Rivers, I think it's wonderful. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.160 I mean, Joe Flaccoy played pretty well for the Bengals 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.000 at forty two, and there's another old guy that shined 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.200 last night in another Pittsburgh Steelers victory in Aaron Rodgers. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.760 Oh yeah, I agree, yeah, And I don't think the 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.120 general public or at least the media don't understand. You know, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.080 the skill set is one thing. I remember when Joe 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.680 Flackhall came back to the Cleveland Browns, they just called him. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.720 He was on the couch. I mean, the guy has 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.680 never picked up a football to come and give me 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.240 a phone call and do it and play and play respectively. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.560 I mean, I don't It's an amazing thing. I mean, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.600 Philip Rivers was not playing, and it's one thing to 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.600 be forty four and like, you know, you got from 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.280 one team A to team B and you're still playing. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.400 You're going to practice. You know a place he came 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.240 from nowhere. You know, he was at his house with 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.840 his kids, coaching high school football and they say, hey, 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.360 you want to play. You know, we need you. I mean, 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.559 that to me is amazing. It's amazing that even thought 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.200 of him, and he thought of me coming back. Yes, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.199 that to me is an amazing situation. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:43.000 It really is. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.400 It's that time of years. It's almost like a Hallmark movie. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.360 Andy, Oh, don't go to that. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.360 Come on, really, you know, stuck, don't get mushy on me. Really, 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:53.120 come on. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.480 But it's still in all. I mean, the Joe Borrow situation. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.439 It just it bothers me that everybody is cycle analyzing 0:08:59.520 --> 0:08:59.920 Joe Burrow. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.240 Leave him alone. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.559 You know, there's a reason why. Can I tell you why? 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.000 I hope the media in this town is listening. There's 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.080 a reason why Joe Burrow does not to get this. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.480 Joe Burrow does not do one on ones with the 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.360 local media. He does one on one with the national media. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.240 And maybe the NFL kind of requires that to some extent. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.200 I did some pr work when I was with the 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.679 Dolphins and the fourth Loodoville Strikers. They kind of lean 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.520 on you a little bit because they're paying the freight. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.520 Like the Foxes of the world, you know, the CPS's 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:27.880 of the world. They wanted to do the one on 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.200 ones and they'll do them. But he won't do anyone 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.760 on ones locally, you know, the one on one people 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.520 here in town. They just back off a little bit. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.280 There are bigger fish to fry. There are bigger stories 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.480 out there. You know, if you're really concerned with Joe 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.400 Burrow and the problems that maybe not football related. Do 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.720 some homework, get off your rear end and find out. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.600 You know what I was My first thought was, and 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.120 I hate to even bring this up, but I can 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.559 tell you because you don't like my coffee down. When 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.480 he said the problems and they said, well, Joe, are 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.080 they football related or others? A little bit of each. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.480 I pray to God. I pray to God that there's 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.240 no problem health wise with his parents. Think about that, really, parents, 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.320 Because he's twenty nine. His parent's got to be close 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.000 to sixty, right, Hope everything's okay at home. That's going 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:10.760 to be wearing on you. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:17.160 Two of it is maybe Andy the losing paired with uh, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.960 the realization that, to me, Joe Burrow is one of 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.360 those guys and you almost have to be to get 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.440 to the place that he's gotten to. To be so 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.280 proficient and so good, Football has been everything to Joe Burrow. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.280 I'm just guessing since he was a very young child 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.040 and he's been in all kinds of situations where he 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:45.160 won playing this game that has defined him. Maybe as 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.760 he approaches thirty, Joe Burrow is realizing what we all 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.160 realize at a certain point that what we do does 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.320 not necessarily define all of who we are. And maybe 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.200 Joe Burrow is starting to figure out that football's not 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.959 the only thing in life and there are more things that. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:04.400 Can be important. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.000 Now you like everybody else, now, your psychoanalytic, No, football 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:09.560 is the only thing in his life right now, and 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.120 that's why he's upset because it's the only His life 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.040 revolves around football. The way he has, the way he 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.440 trains for it, the way he plays it. He's got 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.560 his cook you know, the way he gets up in 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.880 the morning for practice. It is his life. And why 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.120 he's upset is because his life is going down the 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.280 cropper because of the teammates he plays with. That's why, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.880 all right, And he's realizing that now And basically he 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.600 could summon up with one more because he's seen it. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.880 He had before time and again he's been bengalized. Want 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.120 to get up every day and every Sunday, put that 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.720 uniform on, knowing that you don't really have a fighting 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.760 chance to win. It's embarrassing that they didn't score a 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.400 point against the Baltimore Ravens, a team that they beat 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.120 two weeks ago on Thanksgiving Eve. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.280 What I'm embarrassing. 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:57.240 What I'm wondering is is the entire Cincinnati sports environment bengalized? 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.359 I mean, has this contagion? Is it like an outbreaking 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:06.559 epidemic that has spread from the Cincinnati Bengals to Cincinnati Reds, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.280 to the UC Bearcats to the Cyclones. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.520 I mean, is the whole town bengalized? Andy? 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.920 You know what, I think there's more of a of 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.920 an emotional hate, and I hate to use the term hate, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.839 an emotional hate towards the Bengals than other teams when 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:24.319 they lose. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.520 Obviously, the town has split collegiately, I guess because Xavier 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.880 and you see. So I don't think there's a big 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.560 pushback on you see when they don't do when they 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.640 do poorly. So if the Reds a concerned, I don't 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.320 think there's that much emotion as Reds fans, and I 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.400 think people got the Reds games not with that rooting 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.560 when they go home after the game, they did down 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.560 to down this the depression as they do in the 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.840 Bengals game. Because the season is so long. I think 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.839 baseball is one of those games that you go out 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.160 there just to enjoy the sunlight. You go out there 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.240 in the summertime. I have a couple of bruces skis 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.080 and sit out there and enjoy the game, and you 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.760 go home. It's entertainment more than a battle, if you 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.800 know what I mean. He ain't playing April, you're also 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.000 playing again in October. I mean, come on, it's a 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.600 long stretch. But football is only seventeen games? 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:07.680 Is eight or nine at home? 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.400 Every game means so much, and they've seen so much 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.520 disappointment and they expect so much. That's the thing they 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.000 expected so much with Joe Burrow. These people in this 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.160 city have to take a step back and take the 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.240 brother and say, hey, we're so Joe. He's normal, he's human. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.679 He kind of a bad game. They've just tool when 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.360 they went to the super Bowl in twenty twenty two, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.600 that's going to be a yearly thing. It doesn't work 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.800 that way. Look at the Detroit Lions. Did they've hit 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.559 the Skins? Look at your Kansas City cheese. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:33.040 It's over. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.760 Oh oh Andy, I'm glad you brought up the Chiefs 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.599 because I just want to get this out of my 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.480 as system once and for all. I am so thrilled 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.000 to have been a Chiefs fan for the last seven years. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.160 And rooting the Super Bowls. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:47.959 You're going to stop ruining it. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:48.440 No, no, no. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.920 No, I'm just saying that that ride, that ride I'm 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.120 realizing is over, and I'm I'm happy with that. I 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.360 can rest on the laurels of those Super Bowls and 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.319 all those AFC championships now because we got him in 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.439 the bank. But I think that the window is closed 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.319 for these Kansas City Chiefs. Maybe not for Patrick Mahomes. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.760 He's such a dynamic player. Maybe they will be able 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.760 to revitalize their running game next year. You know, Andy 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.600 Reid's going to be back. He's an excellent coach, but 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.640 you know, you kind of feel like the window of 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.840 opportunity is closing and almost and you almost feel like 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.000 that for Joe Burrow and the Bengals. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.800 He's twenty nine years of age. He's going to be 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:31.320 in the next day. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.560 Marino man, Marino wants to want Super Bowl and that 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.920 basically was it. But you got to say Dan Marino 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.200 basically was the godfather of the poet pass. He throw 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.480 for five thousand yards and after that, the basic game 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.680 was dominant in the National Football League. But I'll tell 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.680 you this much, I think that the biggest key in 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.520 all of sports is choosing the right people, not so 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.080 much the personnel and the players, And that's important. I 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.280 think the leaders. And what I mean by that, I 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.080 mean like the Bengals, you know, the hired of guy 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.360 and Zach Tail and again we've gone down this row. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.160 There's a good guy, he's a good father, he's just 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.600 a nice man. But he's not a head coach. I mean, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.320 he looks like a deer in the headlights on the 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.240 sidelines right now. He looks like he doesn't know what 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.400 he's doing. I mean, it's embarrassing. He's learning on the job. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.920 And I think you have to make the right pick. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.280 And if I was, if I was general manager or 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.360 in a position to hire a coach at you at 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.040 the Bengals, I would go after Kurt Signetti, the coach 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.480 at Indiana. So what he did and I saw in 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.120 the Heisman Trophy the show on Saturday night, they interviewed 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.520 him and they showed tape when he was hired in Indiana. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.600 You know what he said, He said, what do you 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:31.320 expect here? 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:32.680 And the media was asking him. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.360 He said, you know, I expect I expect to win. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.080 Yeah, I expect to win. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.560 That's the same thing Bob Hawkins said when he came 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.520 here and they scoffed him. They left it him at 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.040 his first year. They made the nip the first year 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.760 after five and twenty season with Tony eight, he rested. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:47.560 They went to then and you. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.840 Never got this out is Zach Taylor when the Bengals 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.840 hired him. But when Kurt Signetti got hired, he went 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.840 out under the basketball floor at IU before a Hoosiers game. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:05.040 He said, produce, so produce sucks and and he was right. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:06.760 I mean, do you want a guy like that to 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.160 to wake up to? And they asked why he did that. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.760 He says, I want to see if the fans were 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.400 dormant or not. He the guy's a mastermind. It's all 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.200 about psychology. Every coach knows exerson O's But it's how 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.240 you translate that, how you sell it, how you sell 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.080 it to your team, how they respond to you. That's 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.680 the I just responded to. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.440 I just found it ironic that on the sideline on Sunday, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.520 and I brought this up earlier, Zach, Zach Taylor's wearing 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.000 a sweatshirt that says inspire change. I said, well, you 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.320 certainly do inspire change. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.360 Since that you wearing that shirt, maybe to the unemployment. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.960 So I hate to say that. I hate to say. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.560 I look, I've been down that road. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.040 You've been too. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.800 When you work in radio, you're going to get canned. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.440 That's the name what happens. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.040 And it's not a pleasant thing. And I don't want 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.120 to use the power of a microphone to say a 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.520 guy should be fired. All right, I'm just saying he 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.160 should be evaluated, all right, keep them keeping with them. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.120 I mean, you're not going to keep him on if 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.920 he's not the head coach, that's for sure. You're not 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.600 going to give them a silliary position, which is embarrassing. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.080 But honestly, if you don't do the job, I mean, 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.720 I'm sorry. If you didn't do the job at seven hundred, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.919 you be gone. You're doing the job right, you've been 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.120 Saturday morning. Got almost thirty years, Yeah. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.719 Coming up on twenty nine. That's that's for sure. So 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.160 you may thirty. Your birthday is today, Happy. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.040 Birthday, Yes it is, Thank you very much. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.879 What's wonderful? What are you doing? What did you do 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.479 on your special day? Andy? 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.840