WEBVTT - The Morning Show w/ Thom Brennaman -- 1/5/26 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.600 Bonnie money money smell that fresh money news is being served. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.520 This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven hundred WLW. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.480 You always say good morning once more to Denise Pellegreening 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.840 from our Bloomberg newsroom in New York City. Good news, Denise. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.920 For those graduating from some of the nation's elite colleges 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.000 and universities, Yeah. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.120 Those are the lucky ones, because apparently US employers are 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:29.480 really shifting to a more traditional entry level recruiting strategy. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.240 Now they're hiring from just a few select universities again, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.280 instead of from a broad range of schools. Wall Street 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:41.160 Journal says companies are prioritizing applicants who attend prestigious universities 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.400 as you mentioned are, and also schools close to company headquarters. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.040 Recruiters are citing expense savings and also a preference for 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.800 in person interactions during the interview process for scaling back 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:58.000 diversity driven recruiting and virtual events. A survey says one 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.680 in four companies now exclusively recruiting from a short list 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:03.160 of schools. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:03.960 Yeah, okay. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.160 Meanwhile, meat eaters may qualify for some cash in a 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.399 big consumer settlement. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.360 Yeah, if you bought beef between twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:14.640 you might be able to get a piece of a 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:20.120 new cash settlement JBS Food, Swift Beef, Cargill, Tyson Foods, 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.240 a bunch of others. They were all accused and a 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.360 big antitrusted of agreeing to stop competing with each other 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.720 and raising prices on beef instead. A multimillion dollar settlement 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.039 still needs to be approved. If it's approved, then they'll 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.280 be able to start paying out those cash payments. It's 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.840 not sure quite how you prove you bought meat. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.039 Yeah, well, who knows. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.560 There are a lot of people out there that are 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.440 very particular about saving lots of receipts and things like that. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.080 And putting in for claims for any money. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.120 There you go, there you go. And the futures this 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:50.840 morning did ease. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.000 Yeah, Dow futures have now just looked negative. We had 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.680 been saying all morning that investors were pretty much shaking 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:01.800 off events in Venezuela looking at bright tech stocks instead. 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.360 That's still somewhat true because Nasdaq futures are surging one 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.640 hundred and sixty one points, and S and P futures 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.440 are up sixteen. But Dow futures they have now flipped 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.919 negative there down forty eight gold A big winner this 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:18.160 morning from Bloomberg. I'm Denise pebllygreading news Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.800 Alright, eight ten on seven hundred WLW. We do it 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.000 every single Monday. We call it the Morning After, and 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.760 this one will tie a ribbon around what is yet 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.880 another disappointing season for the Cincinnati Bengals. Third straight year 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.519 the franchise is not going to the postseason, and here 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.040 to talk about that, and we're going to break it 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.440 down on a number of different levels. Former Bengal great 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.880 Tim McGee, Tim, belated, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.400 I hope you had a great holiday, my friend. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.200 Oh everything went well, and same to you, my friend. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.400 Life is good. Can't complain. We're all blessed if we're here, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.000 we're blessed. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.639 Amen to that, Amen to that. All right, let's start. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.120 I want to come at this because you are one 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.720 of the most unique people to talk about these different 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.400 areas and levels of things that go on. Of course, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.200 you were a great player for better than a decade 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.680 in the NFL. You later served as a player agent 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.680 for players in the National Football League. So I want 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:22.320 to start with just what is today like for a player, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.640 whether you know you're coming back or not, And maybe 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.200 that would be a distinct difference of whether you're coming 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.639 back or not. Are you coming down there, cleaning out 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.520 your locker, all that kind of thing, spending time with coaches, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:33.399 other players? 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:34.440 What's today like? 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.760 Now you're trying to get the hell away from there. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.080 The atmosphere has been very frustrating. It's been a very 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:46.520 frustrating year for players that had an expectation of success 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:47.720 of going to the playoffs. 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.040 So you're just basically just trying to get away from it. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.160 It's a long. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.800 Season, man, and it's a grind, just like people think 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.840 it's a physical grind, we know, but more so it's 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.720 a mental grind, and you just want to get away. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.480 And I can almost I guarantee you most of the 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.120 players will be in the Caribbeans or somewhere on vacations 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.320 with their families and just kind of relax and getting 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.320 their bodies back together, because again physically and mentally, it's 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.680 a long, frustrating season, so you just want to get 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.840 to get away for a week or so, get your 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.279 body together, get your mind together, and then kind of 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.800 go back and see what you could have done a 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.160 little bit better in the previous year, and then you 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.120 start thinking about the next year in a couple of weeks. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.479 You don't get a lot of time off. You don't 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.640 get a lot of time off from thinking. But right 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.400 now you just trying to get the hell away and 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:33.479 just trying to get some sun. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.800 There's some heat and just get away and relax. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.560 So in other words, and I mean, maybe this is 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.560 a silly question. There's no such thing on a daylight 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.720 today as say a quote unquote exit interview with your 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.720 position coach, head coach, general manager, any of that kind 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.040 of thing. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.440 You know, some teams do that, but and it depends 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.120 on your leadership, and some teams will have the individual 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.520 players come in the day after. But you know, when 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.919 you have a from football team like the Bengals and 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.320 you have the t Higgins and Jambar Chasers and your 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:05.960 Joe Burrows in the locker room, you. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.400 Know, what are you gonna do? Bring them in there, 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.200 and they're gonna they. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.000 If you really don't want them to tell you, to 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.640 tell you how they feel, because you will get an 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.279 air fool. So you know, because again they've been around 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.080 so long and they had the taste of that Super 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.520 Bowl and now they know what it takes to get there, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.839 and unfortunately it's that seem to be trending in the 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.520 wrong direction. So I don't think that would probably be 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.360 a healthy situation to have every single player come in 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.240 and kind of vent their their season and coaches as well. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.599 When you just don't have a very when you have 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.599 a very frustrating season, Tom you just were to it's 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:40.640 just that time, just. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.120 Like in marriages, just like in. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.360 Friendships, you go to your corner, I go to my corner. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.120 We will reconvene at the at the right time. But 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.120 right now, based on their season, based on the way 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.800 their season ended yesterday, based on watching the game last 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.520 night between the Steelers and Baltimore, when you know, damn well, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.159 the Cincinnati Bengals just as that, if not better than 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.520 some of them, than two of both of those teams. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.000 You just want to get away because it's just it 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.360 is frustrating, and you know, men will be men, and 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.880 if they'll they'll you know, the worst wouldn't be kind 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.640 at all. So yeah, it's best just you know, okay, well, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.279 we'll talk about it some other times, you know. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.560 Burrow in the postgame press conference, at least hinted, and 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.239 I don't know if that means today or like you said, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.360 maybe get a week to step away from it all. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.919 Ten days get away from it all. He at least 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.960 hinted that he was going to be sitting down with 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.640 Mike Brown, Katie Brown, Troy Blackburn, et cetera, maybe even 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.680 Duke Tobin uh and and sharing his thoughts on where 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.680 the franchise needs to go. For a guy like him, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.760 might that be something you address sooner rather than later. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:48.440 Oh? 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.480 Absolutely, And because of his personality, not just because of timing, but. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.960 You have to understand something and the listeners please understand this. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.640 And Joe Burrow first three years. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.080 He was what the NFL was all about. Management, was 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:03.720 all about. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.920 Coaches, coaches coming to go free agency. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:05.839 All that. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.000 Now he's there. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.320 He's football mature. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:13.320 You can no longer put the blinders on his eyes 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.760 and say, oh, this is what we're going to do. No, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.960 he is now being assertive to say, no, this is 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.800 what we should be doing, because you are seriously, seriously. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.400 Wasting my talent. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.520 Now you've seen his frustration, you witnessed. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:29.840 It this year. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.440 He is now at the point of his career going. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.200 Come on, I'm in my prime. Every single year, I'm 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.880 getting banged up, I'm getting hurt. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.880 We can't outscore other teams. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.239 That formerly is not working. What are we doing here? 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.000 And what are the plans for free agency? What are 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.880 the plans for the draft? I think they're going to 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.920 be picking somewhere like ten. What are we planning on 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.800 doing with that? Are we trying to win immediately? If so, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:55.920 I want to be a part of that. I want 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.440 to hear it. Now. That's a total oxymoron for the 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.560 Bengals organization. That's not something they genuinely accept a player 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.720 coming in and having that type of pool or leverage. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.080 But when you had the Boomer Siasins, and you had 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.600 the Kenny Anderson, now you have the Joe Burrows. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.000 You better listen because I tell you this. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.080 Since nineteen sixty eight, every single season has ended in 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:25.040 a disappointment. Only one team has a happy season. Yeah, 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.480 and that's the team that won the Super Bowl. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.680 And if you don't qualify for that playoff. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.600 Tom, you're not going to be in that super Bowl. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:30.840 All right? 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.840 Explain this to me, though, Tim, and you were a 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.600 player agent. I'm just curious. You know, you talked about 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.840 Burrow and his experience in the league learning at the start, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.320 they got to a Super Bowl, they got to an 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.960 AFC Championship game. At the end of the day, though, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.000 you know, this was the same guy in Burrow that 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.040 was politicking the organization. Use whatever word you want, urging 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.760 the organization whatever. Maybe politicking is just a bad dirty 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.200 word in this day and age. But you know, look, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.840 he was a guy pushing for Chase to get the deal. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.440 He was a guy pushing for Giseki to come back here. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.439 He was a guy pushing for t Higgins to get 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.440 the long term contract. And you know, I just wonder 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.199 at the end of the day, sometimes you know he 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.480 wants the best players around him on the offensive side 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.200 of the ball, But I just wonder, you know, could 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.440 you put too much stock in what Joe Burrow thinks 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.280 this team needs? 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.160 Absolutely, And that's why they hit coaching position and a 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.400 general manager, whoever's playing that role, whether it's Katie Troyer, 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.280 et cetera. That's why you sit now with Joe. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:43.360 Last year. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:49.400 Last year the organization wanted to give the fans sugar. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.120 They gave him sugar and t Higgins. They gave him 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.280 the spotlight, they gave him the offense, They gave Joe 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.000 Burrow every single thing he wanted. But come on, you 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.840 and I and any person a football IQ over one 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.679 new and understood. Now, the only way they're going to 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.240 win football games is by outscoring. And guess what, that 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.480 did not happen. No, now you're left in a position, 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:13.760 your money is tied up. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.080 On the offensive side of the football. You have this 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:16.959 high draft pick. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:18.160 What are you going to do it? 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.360 Are you going to trade it to get an impact 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.400 player because you only have potentially one impact player on 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.600 the defensive side of the football. So you're so heavily 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.480 weighed on one side you forgot all about the defense. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.640 And let's just face it, it's been proven, Tom, It's 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.000 been proven. I said with passion, you are not going 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.480 to outscore the other three teams in the AFC North 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.520 simply because they're built from. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:45.720 The defensive standpoint. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.080 So it is just not going to happen. And it's 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.840 going to be interesting to see what type of adjustments 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.920 they make as far as personnel and far as strategic 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.520 approach to this coming season. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.040 Yeah, I mean, people can talk about Burrow being hurt. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.360 But the bottom line is when Joe Flacco was in there, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.480 they had three games where they scored thirty five or 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.920 more points and they lost all three games. So you know, look, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.000 they had a hard time scoring against the Browns in 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.840 both the games they played him this year. I don't 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.480 care if it was the last game or not. The 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.040 Bengals still had all their horses out there and they 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.120 couldn't do anything on offense against a great Cleveland defense. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.319 Okay, let's start. If you're the. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.679 General manager, Tim, what are the first two or three 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.200 things that should be on your mind right now for 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.120 this offseason? 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.320 Number one, Trey Henderson. Do you resigned him or not? 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.000 All right, well you number one, what would you do? 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.319 Definitely resign him? Definitely, okay, because you need impact players. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.240 So that's remember something. You're going to flip the script. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.400 If you don't resign him, now you're going to look 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:48.160 for another one. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.280 Yeah, that's right. So now you need three. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.800 You need three impact. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.840 Superstars on defense, preferably on You need one. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.679 On the back line. You need one a linebacker. You 0:11:58.720 --> 0:11:59.240 need one on. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.120 The D line. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:01.440 So you have the D line. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.480 Okay, now you gotta go, what do you do with that. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.599 Tenth pick, do you leverage that to get. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.920 Another impact player on defense or do you make that 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.840 same I'm going to call it. I don't want to 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.000 call it a mistake. I think it's more neutral. You 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.000 got all these young players that you've been picking forever. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.319 In the first round, and they're just not superstar talent. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.000 And you gotta go get a superstar, not a star, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:32.600 a superstar, another superstar to compliment Trey if you resign him. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.920 So I would resign him, then I would get another 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.000 star player. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.960 On defense, and I would get another superstar player on defense. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.199 And that's going to be your one informal. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.280 You have to balance this team's. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.600 Talent out right now, as we said in midya time, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.880 as anyone knows, they're. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.640 Just heavily weighted on the offensive side, and they have 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:51.080 to do. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.160 Something on the defense. And that's what I would primarily 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:53.679 focus on. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.120 Uh Okay, then you get to the offensive line. If 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.120 you're talking about the defensive side of the ball, there 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.400 have been questions for years and years and years. I 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.199 thought the offensive line played much better this year than 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.320 maybe in recent years. I think some of the numbers 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.360 bear that out. You know, Riisner says he wants to 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.200 come back. You've got the tackles in place. Keris, I 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.000 guess has another year that you could conceivably bring him back. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.040 Would you even think about an offensive lineman with that 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:21.680 tenth pick? 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.560 No, no way, there's absolutely no way. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.959 Again. Defense, defense, defense. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.400 Because especially in the AFC North, we know in the 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.959 National Football League, if you don't have a defense. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.079 You're just not gonna win. I mean, you go back 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.720 the history of college football, high school football, pro football. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.080 Of course, just offenses is just not going to win, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.960 especially when you're throwing thirty points, because you're. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.760 Going to have bad days and then if you're in 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:49.679 if you're in. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.440 Bad weather, that's going to factor into it. He just 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:53.040 got it up. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.360 And I'm pretty sure everyone knows and understand this. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.080 It's not rocket sciences. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.600 The defense did not all they are not very well. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.400 You have to go and get some defensive personnel. And 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.400 no matter how tempting it would be, if you're picking 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.719 number ten and you see this offensive line that has 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.840 just fallen down and he's a great player, you just 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.240 got to go, Nah, we need defensive. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:15.760 Personnel, and you got to go. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.520 You've got to be like the Green Bay Packers, you 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.240 got to go get the top players. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.080 You got to go trade for. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.560 Him, you gotta pay him. And that's not something that 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.760 we've seen over the last you know, forty fifty years 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:27.600 with the Bengals. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.200 That's just not therefore tay it. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.480 But if you want to win, why Joe Burrow is 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.640 still in his prime, you're going to have to go 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:34.800 get some defensive players. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:36.480 Last thing I want to ask you about before I 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.080 let you go, and look, you think the world of 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:39.680 Mike Brown. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:40.960 I know that you like him. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.000 You've known him for a long time, you used to 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.560 work for him, you still get together with him periodically 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.480 from time to time. I'm just curious, do you think 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.360 it would behoove Mike Brown, as it was suggested by 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.960 Jason Williams and The Inquirer today to actually hold a 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.960 press conference of any kind here postseason is. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:05.200 Speak to the fans for what I mean, I don't 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.320 know you In. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.800 Other cities where you know, owners have come out, like 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.640 last year, Robert Kraft comes out, writes a letter of 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.720 apology to the fans, as we're going to get this 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.080 thing straightened out. I saw where the Tennessee Titans owner, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.320 she did the same thing two days ago. I'm just curious. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.280 I mean, would that help the franchise? Would that be 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.280 something that would be smart to do at all? 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:31.800 No. And here's why I disagree with just the concept. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.040 It's because Mike and Katie and Troy gave the people 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:41.000 what they wanted. You wanted offense, you got it. Now 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.440 it didn't work out. But now you want to blame 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.560 the owners. You want to blame the general managers, you 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.840 want to blame the coaches, you want the fans. I 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.920 wanted them to resign T Higgins. If I wanted them 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.920 to resign T Higgins, I knew we weren't gonna have 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.560 a very good defense. So I don't think he owed 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.840 the city, city and an apology. I think what they 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.360 need to do it twenty twenty six is upgrade the defense. Danny. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:05.600 Oh. 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.640 If they don't get that right, yes, next year. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.040 But this year he gave them. And I'm not defending 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:11.840 and you know I. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.120 Do not I know that, I know that, But you're 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.280 spot on. I mean, you said at the beginning of. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.800 The year, he gave the fans what they want. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.720 Everybody was like, you gotta sign Joe, you got a sign. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.520 T you caught us sign jamorrow he signed them all 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:26.840 and guess what. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:27.560 It didn't work out? 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.880 Yep, So now you got to go get some defensive players. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.680 Spot on, Tim, you are the best. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.480 I can't thank you enough for taking the time to 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.200 join us every single week. And the very best in 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.119 twenty twenty six to you and your family, my friend. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.160 And the same to you, my friend. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.280 I appreciate you having and there's been a wonderful time. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:45.920 And let's do it. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.120 Again, all right, I'll look forward to it in twenty 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.520 twenty six. It is eight twenty four. Let's check the 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.920 roadways and see what's happening out there, Chuck Ingram, how 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:54.720 we moving along? 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.280 If everything's moving along a bit better since the last 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.960 time we talked this from the U see how TRAMFHIC 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.240 Center u See Health's Weight Falls Center offers surgical and 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.960 medical Obcitcaren expertise caught five one three, nine three nine 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.680 two two sixty three. That's nine nine twenty two sixty 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.360 three southbound seventy five, just a bit heavy out of Lochland, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.879 and that's with an accident near Paddock. Cruise continue to 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.159 clean up a wreck eastbound on the Reagan Highway just 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.960 before seventy five. That's improving from Winton northbound seventy five. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.880 That's clear through the cut and northbound fourth seventy one 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.400 looks much better between Grand and downtown. Chuck Ingram News 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:37.160 Radio seven hundred wlw OUR WCPO nine first Warning forecast. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.040 It is going to be a beautiful day. It's already 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:39.800 a beautiful morning. 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.040 Still a little chilly, but we're warming up under sunny 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.400 skies to date to fifty degrees and then tonight low 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.880 thirty eight. Tomorrow, mix of sun and clouds, a little 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.040 bit breezy. We're all the way up to fifty five tomorrow. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:56.520 Tomorrow night our low is only forty and then on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:01.560 we're anywhere from fifty eight into the city. If you 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.320 can believe that, it will cool down over the weekend 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:11.600 Saturday and Sunday, but at least we will stay dry. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.120 Good news, good news. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.240 Coming up at eight thirty eight, we got Mondays with Marty, 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.639 the Hall of Famer Marty Brenneman to join us. You 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.160 heard Seg talk about earlier. We're less than forty days 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:26.960 away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in Goodyear, Arizona, 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.560 so we'll see what the Reds might have store. Get 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.560 Marty's thoughts on that and his thoughts on the college 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.920 football playoff. He's all in on the Hoosiers, the Indiana 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:41.800 Hoosiers twenty six on seven hundred WLW. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.840 This report is sponsored by Red Pilled America. Why haven't 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:47.440 you listened to Red Pilled America? 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.480 Do what every single Monday? We call it Mondays with 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.119