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Speaker 2: This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: You always say good morning once more to Denise Pellegreening
Speaker 2: from our Bloomberg newsroom in New York City. Good news, Denise.
Speaker 2: For those graduating from some of the nation's elite colleges
Speaker 2: and universities, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Those are the lucky ones, because apparently US employers are
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Speaker 3: Now they're hiring from just a few select universities again,
Speaker 3: instead of from a broad range of schools. Wall Street
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Speaker 3: Recruiters are citing expense savings and also a preference for
Speaker 3: in person interactions during the interview process for scaling back
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Speaker 3: in four companies now exclusively recruiting from a short list
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, meat eaters may qualify for some cash in a
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Speaker 3: not sure quite how you prove you bought meat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, who knows.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people out there that are
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Speaker 3: And putting in for claims for any money.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. And the futures this
Speaker 2: morning did ease.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dow futures have now just looked negative. We had
Speaker 3: been saying all morning that investors were pretty much shaking
Speaker 3: off events in Venezuela looking at bright tech stocks instead.
Speaker 3: That's still somewhat true because Nasdaq futures are surging one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty one points, and S and P futures
Speaker 3: are up sixteen. But Dow futures they have now flipped
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Speaker 3: morning from Bloomberg. I'm Denise pebllygreading news Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Alright, eight ten on seven hundred WLW. We do it
Speaker 2: every single Monday. We call it the Morning After, and
Speaker 2: this one will tie a ribbon around what is yet
Speaker 2: another disappointing season for the Cincinnati Bengals. Third straight year
Speaker 2: the franchise is not going to the postseason, and here
Speaker 2: to talk about that, and we're going to break it
Speaker 2: down on a number of different levels. Former Bengal great
Speaker 2: Tim McGee, Tim, belated, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: I hope you had a great holiday, my friend.
Speaker 5: Oh everything went well, and same to you, my friend.
Speaker 5: Life is good. Can't complain. We're all blessed if we're here,
Speaker 5: we're blessed.
Speaker 4: Amen to that, Amen to that. All right, let's start.
Speaker 2: I want to come at this because you are one
Speaker 2: of the most unique people to talk about these different
Speaker 2: areas and levels of things that go on. Of course,
Speaker 2: you were a great player for better than a decade
Speaker 2: in the NFL. You later served as a player agent
Speaker 2: for players in the National Football League. So I want
Speaker 2: to start with just what is today like for a player,
Speaker 2: whether you know you're coming back or not, And maybe
Speaker 2: that would be a distinct difference of whether you're coming
Speaker 2: back or not. Are you coming down there, cleaning out
Speaker 2: your locker, all that kind of thing, spending time with coaches,
Speaker 2: other players?
Speaker 4: What's today like?
Speaker 6: Now you're trying to get the hell away from there.
Speaker 6: The atmosphere has been very frustrating. It's been a very
Speaker 6: frustrating year for players that had an expectation of success
Speaker 6: of going to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: So you're just basically just trying to get away from it.
Speaker 5: It's a long.
Speaker 6: Season, man, and it's a grind, just like people think
Speaker 6: it's a physical grind, we know, but more so it's
Speaker 6: a mental grind, and you just want to get away.
Speaker 6: And I can almost I guarantee you most of the
Speaker 6: players will be in the Caribbeans or somewhere on vacations
Speaker 6: with their families and just kind of relax and getting
Speaker 6: their bodies back together, because again physically and mentally, it's
Speaker 6: a long, frustrating season, so you just want to get
Speaker 6: to get away for a week or so, get your
Speaker 6: body together, get your mind together, and then kind of
Speaker 6: go back and see what you could have done a
Speaker 6: little bit better in the previous year, and then you
Speaker 6: start thinking about the next year in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: You don't get a lot of time off. You don't
Speaker 6: get a lot of time off from thinking. But right
Speaker 6: now you just trying to get the hell away and
Speaker 6: just trying to get some sun.
Speaker 5: There's some heat and just get away and relax.
Speaker 2: So in other words, and I mean, maybe this is
Speaker 2: a silly question. There's no such thing on a daylight
Speaker 2: today as say a quote unquote exit interview with your
Speaker 2: position coach, head coach, general manager, any of that kind
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 6: You know, some teams do that, but and it depends
Speaker 6: on your leadership, and some teams will have the individual
Speaker 6: players come in the day after. But you know, when
Speaker 6: you have a from football team like the Bengals and
Speaker 6: you have the t Higgins and Jambar Chasers and your
Speaker 6: Joe Burrows in the locker room, you.
Speaker 5: Know, what are you gonna do? Bring them in there,
Speaker 5: and they're gonna they.
Speaker 6: If you really don't want them to tell you, to
Speaker 6: tell you how they feel, because you will get an
Speaker 6: air fool. So you know, because again they've been around
Speaker 6: so long and they had the taste of that Super
Speaker 6: Bowl and now they know what it takes to get there,
Speaker 6: and unfortunately it's that seem to be trending in the
Speaker 6: wrong direction. So I don't think that would probably be
Speaker 6: a healthy situation to have every single player come in
Speaker 6: and kind of vent their their season and coaches as well.
Speaker 6: When you just don't have a very when you have
Speaker 6: a very frustrating season, Tom you just were to it's
Speaker 6: just that time, just.
Speaker 4: Like in marriages, just like in.
Speaker 5: Friendships, you go to your corner, I go to my corner.
Speaker 6: We will reconvene at the at the right time. But
Speaker 6: right now, based on their season, based on the way
Speaker 6: their season ended yesterday, based on watching the game last
Speaker 6: night between the Steelers and Baltimore, when you know, damn well,
Speaker 6: the Cincinnati Bengals just as that, if not better than
Speaker 6: some of them, than two of both of those teams.
Speaker 6: You just want to get away because it's just it
Speaker 6: is frustrating, and you know, men will be men, and
Speaker 6: if they'll they'll you know, the worst wouldn't be kind
Speaker 6: at all. So yeah, it's best just you know, okay, well,
Speaker 6: we'll talk about it some other times, you know.
Speaker 2: Burrow in the postgame press conference, at least hinted, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if that means today or like you said,
Speaker 2: maybe get a week to step away from it all.
Speaker 2: Ten days get away from it all. He at least
Speaker 2: hinted that he was going to be sitting down with
Speaker 2: Mike Brown, Katie Brown, Troy Blackburn, et cetera, maybe even
Speaker 2: Duke Tobin uh and and sharing his thoughts on where
Speaker 2: the franchise needs to go. For a guy like him,
Speaker 2: might that be something you address sooner rather than later.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And because of his personality, not just because of timing, but.
Speaker 5: You have to understand something and the listeners please understand this.
Speaker 5: And Joe Burrow first three years.
Speaker 6: He was what the NFL was all about. Management, was
Speaker 6: all about.
Speaker 5: Coaches, coaches coming to go free agency.
Speaker 4: All that.
Speaker 6: Now he's there.
Speaker 5: He's football mature.
Speaker 6: You can no longer put the blinders on his eyes
Speaker 6: and say, oh, this is what we're going to do. No,
Speaker 6: he is now being assertive to say, no, this is
Speaker 6: what we should be doing, because you are seriously, seriously.
Speaker 5: Wasting my talent.
Speaker 6: Now you've seen his frustration, you witnessed.
Speaker 4: It this year.
Speaker 6: He is now at the point of his career going.
Speaker 6: Come on, I'm in my prime. Every single year, I'm
Speaker 6: getting banged up, I'm getting hurt.
Speaker 5: We can't outscore other teams.
Speaker 6: That formerly is not working. What are we doing here?
Speaker 6: And what are the plans for free agency? What are
Speaker 6: the plans for the draft? I think they're going to
Speaker 6: be picking somewhere like ten. What are we planning on
Speaker 6: doing with that? Are we trying to win immediately? If so,
Speaker 6: I want to be a part of that. I want
Speaker 6: to hear it. Now. That's a total oxymoron for the
Speaker 6: Bengals organization. That's not something they genuinely accept a player
Speaker 6: coming in and having that type of pool or leverage.
Speaker 6: But when you had the Boomer Siasins, and you had
Speaker 6: the Kenny Anderson, now you have the Joe Burrows.
Speaker 5: You better listen because I tell you this.
Speaker 6: Since nineteen sixty eight, every single season has ended in
Speaker 6: a disappointment. Only one team has a happy season. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that's the team that won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: And if you don't qualify for that playoff.
Speaker 6: Tom, you're not going to be in that super Bowl.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Explain this to me, though, Tim, and you were a
Speaker 2: player agent. I'm just curious. You know, you talked about
Speaker 2: Burrow and his experience in the league learning at the start,
Speaker 2: they got to a Super Bowl, they got to an
Speaker 2: AFC Championship game. At the end of the day, though,
Speaker 2: you know, this was the same guy in Burrow that
Speaker 2: was politicking the organization. Use whatever word you want, urging
Speaker 2: the organization whatever. Maybe politicking is just a bad dirty
Speaker 2: word in this day and age. But you know, look,
Speaker 2: he was a guy pushing for Chase to get the deal.
Speaker 2: He was a guy pushing for Giseki to come back here.
Speaker 2: He was a guy pushing for t Higgins to get
Speaker 2: the long term contract. And you know, I just wonder
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, sometimes you know he
Speaker 2: wants the best players around him on the offensive side
Speaker 2: of the ball, But I just wonder, you know, could
Speaker 2: you put too much stock in what Joe Burrow thinks
Speaker 2: this team needs?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And that's why they hit coaching position and a
Speaker 6: general manager, whoever's playing that role, whether it's Katie Troyer,
Speaker 6: et cetera. That's why you sit now with Joe.
Speaker 4: Last year.
Speaker 6: Last year the organization wanted to give the fans sugar.
Speaker 6: They gave him sugar and t Higgins. They gave him
Speaker 6: the spotlight, they gave him the offense, They gave Joe
Speaker 6: Burrow every single thing he wanted. But come on, you
Speaker 6: and I and any person a football IQ over one
Speaker 6: new and understood. Now, the only way they're going to
Speaker 6: win football games is by outscoring. And guess what, that
Speaker 6: did not happen. No, now you're left in a position,
Speaker 6: your money is tied up.
Speaker 5: On the offensive side of the football. You have this
Speaker 5: high draft pick.
Speaker 4: What are you going to do it?
Speaker 6: Are you going to trade it to get an impact
Speaker 6: player because you only have potentially one impact player on
Speaker 6: the defensive side of the football. So you're so heavily
Speaker 6: weighed on one side you forgot all about the defense.
Speaker 6: And let's just face it, it's been proven, Tom, It's
Speaker 6: been proven. I said with passion, you are not going
Speaker 6: to outscore the other three teams in the AFC North
Speaker 6: simply because they're built from.
Speaker 5: The defensive standpoint.
Speaker 6: So it is just not going to happen. And it's
Speaker 6: going to be interesting to see what type of adjustments
Speaker 6: they make as far as personnel and far as strategic
Speaker 6: approach to this coming season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, people can talk about Burrow being hurt.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is when Joe Flacco was in there,
Speaker 2: they had three games where they scored thirty five or
Speaker 2: more points and they lost all three games. So you know, look,
Speaker 2: they had a hard time scoring against the Browns in
Speaker 2: both the games they played him this year. I don't
Speaker 2: care if it was the last game or not. The
Speaker 2: Bengals still had all their horses out there and they
Speaker 2: couldn't do anything on offense against a great Cleveland defense.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's start. If you're the.
Speaker 2: General manager, Tim, what are the first two or three
Speaker 2: things that should be on your mind right now for
Speaker 2: this offseason?
Speaker 6: Number one, Trey Henderson. Do you resigned him or not?
Speaker 6: All right, well you number one, what would you do?
Speaker 6: Definitely resign him? Definitely, okay, because you need impact players.
Speaker 6: So that's remember something. You're going to flip the script.
Speaker 6: If you don't resign him, now you're going to look
Speaker 6: for another one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. So now you need three.
Speaker 6: You need three impact.
Speaker 5: Superstars on defense, preferably on You need one.
Speaker 6: On the back line. You need one a linebacker. You
Speaker 6: need one on.
Speaker 4: The D line.
Speaker 5: So you have the D line.
Speaker 6: Okay, now you gotta go, what do you do with that.
Speaker 5: Tenth pick, do you leverage that to get.
Speaker 6: Another impact player on defense or do you make that
Speaker 6: same I'm going to call it. I don't want to
Speaker 6: call it a mistake. I think it's more neutral. You
Speaker 6: got all these young players that you've been picking forever.
Speaker 5: In the first round, and they're just not superstar talent.
Speaker 6: And you gotta go get a superstar, not a star,
Speaker 6: a superstar, another superstar to compliment Trey if you resign him.
Speaker 6: So I would resign him, then I would get another
Speaker 6: star player.
Speaker 5: On defense, and I would get another superstar player on defense.
Speaker 6: And that's going to be your one informal.
Speaker 5: You have to balance this team's.
Speaker 6: Talent out right now, as we said in midya time,
Speaker 6: as anyone knows, they're.
Speaker 5: Just heavily weighted on the offensive side, and they have
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 6: Something on the defense. And that's what I would primarily
Speaker 6: focus on.
Speaker 2: Uh Okay, then you get to the offensive line. If
Speaker 2: you're talking about the defensive side of the ball, there
Speaker 2: have been questions for years and years and years. I
Speaker 2: thought the offensive line played much better this year than
Speaker 2: maybe in recent years. I think some of the numbers
Speaker 2: bear that out. You know, Riisner says he wants to
Speaker 2: come back. You've got the tackles in place. Keris, I
Speaker 2: guess has another year that you could conceivably bring him back.
Speaker 2: Would you even think about an offensive lineman with that
Speaker 2: tenth pick?
Speaker 6: No, no way, there's absolutely no way.
Speaker 5: Again. Defense, defense, defense.
Speaker 6: Because especially in the AFC North, we know in the
Speaker 6: National Football League, if you don't have a defense.
Speaker 5: You're just not gonna win. I mean, you go back
Speaker 5: the history of college football, high school football, pro football.
Speaker 5: Of course, just offenses is just not going to win,
Speaker 5: especially when you're throwing thirty points, because you're.
Speaker 6: Going to have bad days and then if you're in
Speaker 6: if you're in.
Speaker 5: Bad weather, that's going to factor into it. He just
Speaker 5: got it up.
Speaker 6: And I'm pretty sure everyone knows and understand this.
Speaker 5: It's not rocket sciences.
Speaker 6: The defense did not all they are not very well.
Speaker 6: You have to go and get some defensive personnel. And
Speaker 6: no matter how tempting it would be, if you're picking
Speaker 6: number ten and you see this offensive line that has
Speaker 6: just fallen down and he's a great player, you just
Speaker 6: got to go, Nah, we need defensive.
Speaker 5: Personnel, and you got to go.
Speaker 6: You've got to be like the Green Bay Packers, you
Speaker 6: got to go get the top players.
Speaker 5: You got to go trade for.
Speaker 6: Him, you gotta pay him. And that's not something that
Speaker 6: we've seen over the last you know, forty fifty years
Speaker 6: with the Bengals.
Speaker 5: That's just not therefore tay it.
Speaker 6: But if you want to win, why Joe Burrow is
Speaker 6: still in his prime, you're going to have to go
Speaker 6: get some defensive players.
Speaker 2: Last thing I want to ask you about before I
Speaker 2: let you go, and look, you think the world of
Speaker 2: Mike Brown.
Speaker 4: I know that you like him.
Speaker 2: You've known him for a long time, you used to
Speaker 2: work for him, you still get together with him periodically
Speaker 2: from time to time. I'm just curious, do you think
Speaker 2: it would behoove Mike Brown, as it was suggested by
Speaker 2: Jason Williams and The Inquirer today to actually hold a
Speaker 2: press conference of any kind here postseason is.
Speaker 4: Speak to the fans for what I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: know you In.
Speaker 2: Other cities where you know, owners have come out, like
Speaker 2: last year, Robert Kraft comes out, writes a letter of
Speaker 2: apology to the fans, as we're going to get this
Speaker 2: thing straightened out. I saw where the Tennessee Titans owner,
Speaker 2: she did the same thing two days ago. I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: I mean, would that help the franchise? Would that be
Speaker 2: something that would be smart to do at all?
Speaker 6: No. And here's why I disagree with just the concept.
Speaker 6: It's because Mike and Katie and Troy gave the people
Speaker 6: what they wanted. You wanted offense, you got it. Now
Speaker 6: it didn't work out. But now you want to blame
Speaker 6: the owners. You want to blame the general managers, you
Speaker 6: want to blame the coaches, you want the fans. I
Speaker 6: wanted them to resign T Higgins. If I wanted them
Speaker 6: to resign T Higgins, I knew we weren't gonna have
Speaker 6: a very good defense. So I don't think he owed
Speaker 6: the city, city and an apology. I think what they
Speaker 6: need to do it twenty twenty six is upgrade the defense. Danny.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 6: If they don't get that right, yes, next year.
Speaker 5: But this year he gave them. And I'm not defending
Speaker 5: and you know I.
Speaker 4: Do not I know that, I know that, But you're
Speaker 4: spot on. I mean, you said at the beginning of.
Speaker 5: The year, he gave the fans what they want.
Speaker 6: Everybody was like, you gotta sign Joe, you got a sign.
Speaker 6: T you caught us sign jamorrow he signed them all
Speaker 6: and guess what.
Speaker 5: It didn't work out?
Speaker 6: Yep, So now you got to go get some defensive players.
Speaker 4: Spot on, Tim, you are the best.
Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough for taking the time to
Speaker 2: join us every single week. And the very best in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six to you and your family, my friend.
Speaker 5: And the same to you, my friend.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you having and there's been a wonderful time.
Speaker 5: And let's do it.
Speaker 2: Again, all right, I'll look forward to it in twenty
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Speaker 2: the Hall of Famer Marty Brenneman to join us. You
Speaker 2: heard Seg talk about earlier. We're less than forty days
Speaker 2: away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in Goodyear, Arizona,
Speaker 2: so we'll see what the Reds might have store. Get
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Speaker 2: Marty with the Hall of Famer Marty Brenneman. How was
Speaker 2: your holiday and Happy New Year?
Speaker 1: Well, Holliday was fond, The New Year Year was equally good.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's so busy
Speaker 1: and so for neetic, and you're being pulled in different
Speaker 1: directions or allowed yourself to be that way, because it's
Speaker 1: what holidays are all about. Once Sarah over, you're glad
Speaker 1: they're gone.
Speaker 2: Yep, you're right about that. Well, Happy New Year and
Speaker 2: love you, thank you. And seg mentioned this morning with
Speaker 2: the Bengals season now officially over, no trip to the
Speaker 2: playoffs three years in a row, he mentioned it's thirty
Speaker 2: some odd days until pitchers and catchers report to spring
Speaker 2: training out in Goodyear, Arizona. I'm curious, you know, look,
Speaker 2: the team has gone out and you know they traded
Speaker 2: for outfielder Dane Meyers. Another outfielder they brought in on
Speaker 2: a one year deal looks like more of a versatility
Speaker 2: kind of thing than than a big offensive boost, although
Speaker 2: I guess time will tell. They bring in a guy
Speaker 2: what a good year in Japan for the bullpen. They
Speaker 2: bring back Pegan, they signed Caleb Ferguson. I mentioned all
Speaker 2: those names because at the end of the day, do
Speaker 2: you expect a lot more forthcoming between now and the
Speaker 2: start of spring training from this team?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I would hope so, because I don't think they've yet
Speaker 1: accomplished what they need to. You put a batting order
Speaker 1: together with this team and you speculate on what might
Speaker 1: be the opening day lineup. I saw one of these
Speaker 1: Reds blogs or websites or whatever you call them, put
Speaker 1: one out yesterday, and the thing that jumps out at
Speaker 1: you is this club's going to have trouble score and
Speaker 1: runs again, because the one thing they've needed this is
Speaker 1: a third year in a row. Now is a veteran
Speaker 1: with a track record of being able to hit home
Speaker 1: runs and drive and runs to take some of the
Speaker 1: pressure off a still relatively young team, and they go
Speaker 1: out and they sign these guys that they hope and
Speaker 1: that's the keyword, that they hope can produce to the
Speaker 1: point where the struggle they had all year long frescore
Speaker 1: runs will be non existent. I still maintain that they
Speaker 1: need what they needed for three years, and that's the
Speaker 1: aforementioned You would assume alfielder who can do some things
Speaker 1: that no one else in this club has been able
Speaker 1: to do. And if you have to rely on pitching again,
Speaker 1: and the pitching is awfully good, but the results are
Speaker 1: going to be the same that they've been and that
Speaker 1: is you get great pitching, but you have trouble producing
Speaker 1: runs to make them winning pitchers. So I would like
Speaker 1: to think something will happen between now and the opening
Speaker 1: game of the season.
Speaker 2: Help me with this guy's name. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: you pronounce it because I've been away from it for
Speaker 2: so long. Now, is it Luis Robert or Luis Robert?
Speaker 2: Which is it? Do you know the guy from the
Speaker 2: White Stars?
Speaker 1: Correct pronounce it? I think yourrect pronunciation is Robert.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well I want to talk about him
Speaker 2: for a minute, because this is a guy who early
Speaker 2: in his career, All Star, Gold Glover, Silver Slugger Award,
Speaker 2: all that kind of thing, combination of power, speed and defense,
Speaker 2: and the Rens for whatever reason, have been linked at
Speaker 2: least in trade rumors that they're interested in this guy.
Speaker 2: But again, you're coming back to a guy of hoping
Speaker 2: there's upside left in him because he's coming off a
Speaker 2: terrible year. Terrible year hit two twenty. Yeah, only hit
Speaker 2: fourteen home runs in the White Sox ballpark. That's a
Speaker 2: big time home run hitters ballpark. And he only knocked
Speaker 2: in fifty three runs.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it goes back to what you just stated
Speaker 1: and what I talked about a moment ago. This is
Speaker 1: a guy that, you know, all things being equal, he
Speaker 1: could be the answer. But again, you've got then you
Speaker 1: have to make a determination based on you know what
Speaker 1: you're going to have to get up to bring him
Speaker 1: into the Reds camp. Is he going to turn the
Speaker 1: clock back to when he was one of the more
Speaker 1: favorite hitters in the American League. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the reasons were that he fell off so
Speaker 1: drastically last year, but uh, you know, he put he
Speaker 1: posts terrible numbers for a team that arguably was the
Speaker 1: worst team in Major League Baseball or awfully close to it.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 1: So, I don't know what do I think he's UH
Speaker 1: an improvement? I can't answer that question. I wish I
Speaker 1: could say, yes, I think he is. But again, it's
Speaker 1: the old the biggest single word in the baseball language
Speaker 1: for clubs that are in the reds position, and that
Speaker 1: is the inability to produce a kind of dollars. It
Speaker 1: would bring in someone that would, without a doubt, barring
Speaker 1: injury or some unforeseen seidback, help this club immensely. And
Speaker 1: getting to the UH to the postseason is if everybody
Speaker 1: they bring in, this guy could really help us. If
Speaker 1: nobody comes in here and says this is it here,
Speaker 1: this is the guy. So I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to get to the college football playoff
Speaker 2: for a minute. And Indiana, I mean, you know, look,
Speaker 2: you have a grandson that goes there, my son, so
Speaker 2: we're all heavily invested in seeing them do well.
Speaker 4: But I mean, can you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And Urban Meyer and I have talked about this, He's
Speaker 2: talked about this on the air. I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's ever been a turnaround in the history of sports
Speaker 2: like there is with Indiana football right now. This is
Speaker 2: the second losingest college team in the history of football
Speaker 2: and they have lost two games in two years.
Speaker 5: Well, no, I.
Speaker 1: Don't disagree with that probability at all. The turnaround has
Speaker 1: been incredible, and quite honestly, I don't think you'd be
Speaker 1: out of line as saying that you can foresee I
Speaker 1: don't know that you'll see this dominance over the rest
Speaker 1: of Signett's career as a coach at at Indiana, but
Speaker 1: I think you can see that this is the beginning
Speaker 1: of a long run of success for this program and
Speaker 1: and and a way of a new respectability when people
Speaker 1: talk about the Indiana Hoosiers football program. Uh, I watched
Speaker 1: him the You know, I'm a big fan for the
Speaker 1: reason the fact that Luke is there and heavily involved
Speaker 1: in broadcasting, and in fact, I don't I'm proud to
Speaker 1: say that he broadcasts a Rose Bowl with two of
Speaker 1: his teammates on the campus radio station, and we'll do
Speaker 1: the same at the Peach Bowl. So I'm a fan
Speaker 1: and I love to watch him play. They may complete
Speaker 1: unmitigated believer out of me, and the way they won
Speaker 1: the game, they played last weekend, so I I I
Speaker 1: can see that this team will be greatly successful in
Speaker 1: an incredibly difficult and competitive conference like the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: Uh again, and people have not seen him play. Do
Speaker 1: yourself a favor and watching play this weekend or Friday night,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, because they really are fun to watch play.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to get your predictions on the
Speaker 2: semi final games. We'll start with the other game, which
Speaker 2: will be Miami of Florida taking on Old Miss, and
Speaker 2: hopefully Old Miss will have enough coaches to play in
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel kind of sorry for that bunch. And
Speaker 1: I guess, in the darkest of night, if you'd asked
Speaker 1: all those assistant coaches what do you think about this
Speaker 1: game coming up? And they say we're going to Georgia
Speaker 1: will beat us, and then we can go away and
Speaker 1: go on down to Baton Rouge and take over on
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's staff. Now they got to worry about whether
Speaker 1: they have jobs. You know, I don't you made a
Speaker 1: believer out of me as far as Miami is concerned,
Speaker 1: because you tip me off the don't be so cocky
Speaker 1: about Ohio State beating them. It's a thump of the road.
Speaker 1: You made a believer out of me. I picked Miami
Speaker 1: because their defense is so blasted good. Ye yeah, they
Speaker 1: are awfully good, and I think they will score enough
Speaker 1: points and play shutdown defense to beat ale Miss.
Speaker 4: All right, let's shift gears.
Speaker 2: Then to the F fourmentioned rematch earlier this year, Indiana
Speaker 2: went to Oregon snapped a long winning streak on Oregon's
Speaker 2: home field. Out there, what do you think You're round
Speaker 2: two in the semis?
Speaker 1: Well, just like the rematch, things scares me to death.
Speaker 1: Just like when Indiana and Ohio State played, I thought
Speaker 1: Ohio State would win, but then I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: to be the team as good as Indiana two times
Speaker 1: in the same season with the same personnel basically is
Speaker 1: tough to do. I think that will be an exception here.
Speaker 1: I think Indiana will have whatever it takes, and however
Speaker 1: big that might be and however little it might be,
Speaker 1: depending upon the way they play and the way they
Speaker 1: handle Oregon, it'll be a game that I think the
Speaker 1: Hoosiers will emerge with a win. They have no weakness.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about that team that just man,
Speaker 1: I told some folks we live down in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: In the last three a few days.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen a college football team
Speaker 1: tackle as well as Indiana tackles. Yeah, it's unreal. I
Speaker 1: mean their technique. You know, rarely you see a guy
Speaker 1: go for the upper part of a player's body with the.
Speaker 4: Ball who they're trying to break down.
Speaker 1: Their technique is incredible, and that to me is as
Speaker 1: big an example of the coaching staff and their abilities
Speaker 1: to impose their will on young men to teach them
Speaker 1: the right way to play the game. I think Indiana
Speaker 1: will beat Oregon.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll get your prediction on the championship
Speaker 2: game next Monday. Have a great rest of you day.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the time. As always, Dad, I'll talk to
Speaker 2: you later.