Speaker 1: Close it in a seven o'clock on this Thursday night.
Speaker 1: It's the roundtable show log Next in Richwood, presented by
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Speaker 1: and we have not we have not mentioned this. Remind
Speaker 1: me Rock, this will be an off air match. Remind
Speaker 1: me to mention our poster giveaway in house when we
Speaker 1: get to the break, because Sean Bolker has a Bengals
Speaker 1: print he's giving away each week here on the show.
Speaker 1: All Right, I think we've got I think we've tracked
Speaker 1: him down. I think we have trags. Do we have trags?
Speaker 2: Trags?
Speaker 1: Are you there?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: I heard a click?
Speaker 1: I think it is he covers the Bengals from c
Speaker 1: l NS since he with a y dot com host
Speaker 1: of the Jungle World podcast on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Would this be Mike Petralia, It.
Speaker 4: Would be indeed, gentlemen, a little bit late, but happy
Speaker 4: to join you.
Speaker 1: It is great to hear from you. It's been a
Speaker 1: busy day. We appreciate you making time. Jamar Chase spoke
Speaker 1: today about speaking up.
Speaker 3: What did he say?
Speaker 4: He wants guys to play with anger and emotion and
Speaker 4: he thinks that's a good sign. Of course, he doesn't
Speaker 4: want his team mates losing control on the field and
Speaker 4: drawing fifteen yard penalties. But in terms of on the sideline,
Speaker 4: I think he wants more vocal leadership. He wants people
Speaker 4: yelling at each other when things are sloppy, like eleven penalties.
Speaker 4: When you have eleven penalties and that's two more than
Speaker 4: first down that you have for a game, that's problem.
Speaker 2: And Monday Night was another.
Speaker 4: Example of the Bengals being sloppy and undisciplined as a team.
Speaker 3: Across the board in all three areas.
Speaker 4: And that's where Zach Taylor knows he has to step
Speaker 4: up and accept responsibility that this team is not prepared
Speaker 4: mentally for a lot of these games. And that's what
Speaker 4: I think a lot of fans can see when they
Speaker 4: watch this Bengals team.
Speaker 2: Yes, they don't have Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: We all understand that, we all understand that they're not
Speaker 4: the same team.
Speaker 2: But with that in mind, all.
Speaker 4: The more reason this team should bear down on the
Speaker 4: fundamentals and execute as.
Speaker 2: Close to flawlessly as possible.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't look like there's an emphasis or a
Speaker 4: priority physically or mentally on doing so.
Speaker 5: Tracked, you're around this team a lot, you know the
Speaker 5: personality you know the players.
Speaker 3: Is there a player too that you can think of
Speaker 3: that maybe you.
Speaker 5: Know has the position and the authority to be a
Speaker 5: little more vocal, but isn't yet like a Ted Carris.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to think of something.
Speaker 4: That's exactly where I was going to go. That's exactly
Speaker 4: where I was going to go. Ted Carris and Orlando
Speaker 4: Brown Junior. They are captains, they are team captains, but
Speaker 4: I think they probably have to be a little more
Speaker 4: vocal on the sideline. Go up and read the Riot
Speaker 4: Act to these linemen, including themselves, and they have to
Speaker 4: say that what we're doing is not acceptable, even when
Speaker 4: they're not committing the penalties.
Speaker 2: When you're getting.
Speaker 4: Blown off the ball constantly, when you can't run the
Speaker 4: ball two and a half yards three yards of carry,
Speaker 4: when you're hoole held to two and a half yards
Speaker 4: of pop, that's unacceptable, especially when you don't have Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: So you know the Bengals is going to have to
Speaker 2: do some soul searching. It's cliche, but it's true.
Speaker 4: And then in terms of getting the defense lined up properly,
Speaker 4: that's again inexcusable.
Speaker 2: I mean that's Pop Warner stuff.
Speaker 4: And if you don't know who's supposed to be on
Speaker 4: the field or where you're supposed to be when you
Speaker 4: get on the field, that's a damning sign that you're
Speaker 4: not well prepared for the game.
Speaker 3: And trags.
Speaker 1: If anybody thought there was doubt, Zach clearly erased it
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 3: He is firmly in the corner of Jake Browning.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think part of that is they don't
Speaker 4: really have another option at this point. I know names
Speaker 4: like Russell Wilson and Jameis Winsday get thrown out there.
Speaker 4: I think this team needs to show that they're worthy
Speaker 4: of the front.
Speaker 2: Office going out and making a move.
Speaker 4: Now that being said, if the front office went out
Speaker 4: and made a proactive mood move, because the division is
Speaker 4: winnable with Baltimore banged up, the Browns to the Browns,
Speaker 4: nobody takes them seriously, and the Steelers have a reputation
Speaker 4: of playing for ten or eleven weeks great and then
Speaker 4: folding down the stretch under Mike Tomlin, they get worn down.
Speaker 4: The division is there to be taken if you just
Speaker 4: play at a good to average level, and the Bengals
Speaker 4: are nowhere close to that maybe a guy like Jamis
Speaker 4: Winston comes in and could make a difference in two
Speaker 4: to three games, but more likely than not, until you
Speaker 4: clean yourself, you clean your act up on both sides of.
Speaker 2: The ball, it probably wouldn't make a difference.
Speaker 1: Treggs, you wrote an absolutely phenomenal story earlier this week,
Speaker 1: headline read It's time for the Bengals to question every
Speaker 1: facet of their football operation because it's broken. There was
Speaker 1: one line I want to highlight and ask you about
Speaker 1: in the story that Rock and I just talked about.
Speaker 1: This line you wrote their history is to act like
Speaker 1: the future is more important than the present. And you
Speaker 1: compare a contrast to that to the Eagles at Howie
Speaker 1: Roseman and it's night and day, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 4: I mean the priority in those cities is to win
Speaker 4: Super Bowls. The priority in Cincinnati is sign your star players,
Speaker 4: put fans in the seats, and hope to win with
Speaker 4: your best players playing at a tip top level. Well,
Speaker 4: the problem with that is if you get one or
Speaker 4: two of your star players go down with injury and
Speaker 4: you haven't signed depth, you haven't scouted properly, you haven't
Speaker 4: done the work you needed to do in free agency,
Speaker 4: which clearly they did not at the Interior guard position offensively.
Speaker 4: Then that's going to leave you short and you're going
Speaker 4: to get exposed. And that's what's happened with these Bengals,
Speaker 4: and it's happened throughout history. I mean, I don't want to,
Speaker 4: you know, rail on the last four decades, but everybody
Speaker 4: listening to this knows what the record is. The record
Speaker 4: is the record. Your history is your history, and that's.
Speaker 2: All I was pointing out.
Speaker 1: Tim Taylor Britt, What do you make of his current status?
Speaker 4: Actually, I should say very shaky. I would say he
Speaker 4: is on the brink of being benched for longer periods
Speaker 4: than just one or two snaps. I think there's a
Speaker 4: possibility if he doesn't pick up his quality of play,
Speaker 4: and now Golden referenced that this week and meeting with
Speaker 4: us on Wednesday. If he doesn't pick it up, I
Speaker 4: think the Bengals are going to just have to sit
Speaker 4: him and go with some younger players, whether it's Marco Wilson,
Speaker 4: he got some time on Monday night.
Speaker 2: Didn't really look great.
Speaker 4: Sick Newton, Josh Big Newton is going to get more
Speaker 4: playing time and certainly DJ, Turner and Hill, assuming they
Speaker 4: don't get hurt, are going to play more, and Cam
Speaker 4: Taylor is going to watch on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: Trag's last question, I want to spend at the Reds
Speaker 1: because you're a multitasker, you cover the Reds as well.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested in after a night to sleep on it.
Speaker 1: Just give me a takeaway, either the playoff series or
Speaker 1: the season for the twenty twenty five Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 4: Fifteen in Game five, bases loaded, nobody out, don't score.
Speaker 4: Ellie Daily Cruz strikes out, singing, you don't put the
Speaker 4: bat on the ball. It's happened countless times. That was
Speaker 4: the end of the series in MAAS estimation.
Speaker 2: That has to be addressed in the offseason. I know
Speaker 2: they're almost.
Speaker 4: Certainly not going to trade Ellie Daily Cruz. I understand that,
Speaker 4: but they have to beef up the bats in the lineup.
Speaker 4: They have to find a way to do that by
Speaker 4: hook or by crook.
Speaker 1: Trags, if those listening want to read, watch, follow and
Speaker 1: know all that you have going on, how would they
Speaker 1: go about doing that?
Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 4: my postgame analysis after every game, but also locker room
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Speaker 3: Pod and a program preview and closing. This is very big.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited. Next week Rock is on assignment.
Speaker 1: I am told by high level sources on condition of anonymity,
Speaker 1: but I'm breaking that that you are going to join
Speaker 1: me in person next week six to seven o'clock at
Speaker 1: this very establishment. Can you confirm I can confirm? Well,
Speaker 1: you paused there for a second. I was getting very nervous.
Speaker 2: Which would be.
Speaker 4: Had the result on parent, had the results in LA
Speaker 4: been different?
Speaker 2: Maybe a different answer, but yes, I can.
Speaker 3: Improm totally understand. All Right, thank you sir, good catching up.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, guys, take care