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The first full squad workout 12 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 5: of the first workout, I guess will be on Wednesday. 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 5: We are inching closer to the start of the Cactus 14 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 5: League season, which begins in less than two weeks. Today, 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 5: outside by the way, when I left my house at 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 5: twelve twelve, I don't know why I picked twelve twelve. 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 5: It was twelve twelve today's weather. It felt almost tropical, 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 5: like thirty seven degrees. Legitimately, I walked to the end 19 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 5: of the driveway to get my garbage can and it 20 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 5: almost felt like warm. Thirty seven degrees. That's how cold 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 5: it's been here. But maybe there's light at the end 22 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 5: of the tunnel. The Reds are going through baseball activities, 23 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 5: so to speak, in goodyear. A lot on them today 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 5: between now and six o'clock. Show preview is available on 25 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 5: Twitter at Mulleger. Thanks to shareffacs credit union, you know 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 5: what you should do this week? Make a goal to 27 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 5: go to shareffacts dot org and learn about the benefits 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 5: of membership at shareffac's credit union. You can become a 29 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 5: member just like me. Go to sharefax dot org. So 30 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 5: give it up to the Seattle Seahawks defense, which was remarkable. 31 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 5: I don't know that the box score, I don't know 32 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 5: that a simple game summary will do justice what we 33 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 5: saw from Seattle's defense last night. And I don't know 34 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 5: that there's any grand takeaway from what the Seahawks did 35 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 5: to the Patriots or what they did all long. It 36 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 5: would be I think a little bit of a misnomer 37 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 5: to talk about how well, you know, Seattle had a 38 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 5: great defense and they could be sort of the inverse 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 5: of the Bengals, where they have a great defense and 40 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 5: a league average offense. There are some metrics where the 41 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 5: Seattle Seahawks were awesome on offense. EPA per play EPA 42 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 5: per Dropack Jackson Smith and Jigbo was the NFL's offensive player. 43 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: REVW. 44 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker was the MVP of a game last night 45 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 5: that was dominated by Seattle's defense, but they it it 46 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 5: was extraordinarily well executed. They didn't have to reinvent the wheel. 47 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 5: They could rush for right, they could keep Drake May 48 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 5: from scrambling, and they kept the Patriots for the most part, 49 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 5: from getting any separation downfield. Stefan Diggs was a non factor. 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 5: Drake May's running was a non factor. And so congratulations 51 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 5: to the Seahawks. One of the most dominant defensive performances 52 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 5: we've had in recent history in the Super Bowl and 53 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 5: a team that is probably not going to go anywhere, 54 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 5: a testament to the coaching of Mike McDonald, a testament 55 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 5: to the the deafness of handling the roster by the 56 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 5: general manager John Schneider. 57 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 2: They win a terrific division. 58 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 5: They dominated that game last night, dominated it. That game 59 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 5: was not as close as the final score would indicate. 60 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: Drake May was terrible. The Patriots game plan. 61 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 5: Chris Collinsworth talked about this like in the midway through 62 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 5: the first quarter of the game last night, that they 63 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 5: were on offense at least coaching as if it was 64 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 5: the Denver game with all the bad weather, or they 65 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 5: were basically saying, we're not going to move the ball. 66 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 5: We can't move the ball, we can't do anything on offense. 67 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 5: Maybe we can get a special team's mistake by Seattle. 68 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 5: Perhaps we can get their offense to make a mistake. 69 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 5: Think about that for a second. That is an offense 70 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 5: that went into a shell with the guy who was 71 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 5: this close to being named the league's MVP. That's how 72 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 5: good Seattle was last night. It's how uninspiring the Patriots 73 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 5: were last night, and frankly, from our perspective in Cincinnati, 74 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 5: no knock on Seattle. A well earned, well deserved championship. 75 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 5: Thoroughly impressed all season long by their defense. We talked 76 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 5: about them going into the postseason that at times, if 77 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 5: you watched them at the end of the season against 78 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty nine ers, it felt like they 79 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 5: had like thirteen defensive players on the field. Now the 80 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 5: Rams tested them a little bit, but still reasonably dominant run. 81 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 5: They're the one seed, great home field advantage, destroy a 82 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 5: short handed San Francisco team and beat pretty handily. Although 83 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 5: the score was at least somewhat in doubt, the game's 84 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 5: outcome at least somewhat in doubt if you looked at 85 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 5: the score in the fourth quarter last night, their defense 86 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 5: was dominant. From a New England perspective, though, that's the 87 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 5: best the AFC had to offer. It illustrated last night. 88 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 5: Why this season and you could say this in Cincinnati, 89 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 5: You could say this in Buffalo, you could say this 90 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 5: in Baltimore. Maybe you could still say it in Kansas City. 91 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 5: It illustrates why this season was so frustrating. That's the 92 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 5: best the AFC had to offer. Now, Mike Vray Bowl 93 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 5: is a terrific coach. Drake may is a very good player. 94 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 5: I'm not convinced he was one hundred percent last night. 95 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 5: The Patriots are probably gonna be a force to be 96 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 5: reckoned with for quite a while. But that is the 97 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 5: current barometer in the AFC that goes into the offseason 98 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 5: to a degree at least as the team de beat 99 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 5: in the AFC. That's the bar that everybody else in 100 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 5: the AFC. With Joe Burrow and with Patrick Mahomes, and 101 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 5: with Josh Allen, and with Lamar Jackson and with Justin Herbert, 102 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 5: And to what degree you want to say this? 103 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 6: C J. 104 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 5: Stroud in Houston and Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville and a 105 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 5: handful of other places. I guess maybe you want to 106 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 5: throw Pittsburgh into the conversation. By all means, go for it. 107 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 5: I'll leave them out for now. The bar you have 108 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 5: to clear was rendered useless offensively. 109 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 2: In the Super Bowl last night. 110 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 5: So it is going to be fascinating this offseason to 111 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 5: see which teams in the AFC are best positioned to 112 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 5: knock that team off its perch. And by the way, 113 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 5: you might go, well, wait a minute, hang on a second. 114 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 5: And the regular season it was the Denver Broncos, okay, 115 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 5: and the Denver Broncos, unfortunately for them, had to play 116 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 5: the AFC Championship game without their starting quarterback, Bo Nicks. 117 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 5: And who knows how that game unfolds If Knicks plays, 118 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 5: who knows how that game unfolds. If weather isn't a factor, 119 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 5: who knows how that game unfolds. If Sean Payton decides 120 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 5: to kick a field goal with his team leading by 121 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 5: seven points early fifteen days ago, we don't know. But 122 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 5: the thing that made this season so frustrating and This 123 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 5: was talked about in real time. This was talked about 124 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 5: as the season was unfolding. The thing that made this 125 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 5: season so frustrating is you looked at the AFC and 126 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 5: you said, it's either wide open or not very good. 127 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 5: It was wide open. It wasn't very good. And the 128 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 5: team that represented that half of the league in the 129 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 5: Super Bowl last night offensively because I thought New England's 130 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 5: defense did play pretty well last night, but offensively was 131 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 5: entirely non competitive. Now it's a second year quarterback, it's 132 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 5: a new head coach. The Patriots were in many respects 133 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 5: ahead of schedule. I think we know what that feels 134 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 5: like here, right the Bengals in twenty twenty one, we 135 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 5: talked about him being ahead of schedule. And the Patriots 136 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 5: will probably be back in the postseason next year. 137 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: And we'll see, we'll see. 138 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 5: But I watched out last night, going man, this conference 139 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 5: was there for the taking. The fact that this is 140 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 5: the best the AFC could do makes them all the 141 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 5: more painful. If you had a team that you thought 142 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 5: had a chance before the season, but that didn't take 143 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 5: advantage of that chance. 144 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: Thirteen minutes after three o'clock. Our lines are open today 145 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 2: Today is a guest free Monday five one, three, seven, four, nine, 146 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 2: fifteen thirty will get you in eight seven, two, three, seven, 147 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 2: seven six works as well. 148 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 5: We have a lot of ground to cover. The weekend 149 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 5: that was in college basketball with a UC win, another 150 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 5: Miami win, another Kentucky win, and Xavier playing tonight. Updated 151 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 5: AP Top twenty five rankings. Uk is back into the 152 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 5: top twenty five and twenty fifth, Miami unmoved at twenty third. 153 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 5: All of that to get to a little bit later on. 154 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,119 Speaker 5: Reds pitchers and catchers have reported in goodyear. We also 155 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 5: have reports indicating two different things about the Bengals. One 156 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 5: the teams are gonna call about Joe Burrow. We can 157 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 5: laugh at that. The other one, I think is a 158 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 5: pretty interesting discussion to tag or to not tag Trey Hendrickson, 159 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 5: because there were reports over the weekend indicating that the 160 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 5: Bengals are at least open to the idea which on 161 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 5: February then ninth, why wouldn't they be. We'll spend some 162 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 5: time on that a little bit later on. 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Taren, what are we listening to 175 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 5: right now? 176 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 2: One of bad bunny songs for doing not perform? Oh boy, 177 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 2: oh no, oh man? Oh. You know, I don't do 178 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: culture wars. Don't get involve in culture wars. I have 179 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 2: a very very happy life, very happy. And one of 180 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 2: the reasons for my happiness is I I don't. I 181 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 2: don't fight culture wars. It is it is a blissful existence. 182 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: It is awesome. 183 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 5: And so here's here's my commentary on the halftime show. Okay, uh, 184 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 5: if you watched the Super Bowl halftime show, awesome. Western 185 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 5: civilization did not come to an end because of the 186 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 5: halftime show. And if you chose not to watch the 187 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 5: halftime show and saw it's some sort of alternate programming. 188 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 2: Awesome, that's cool too. Western civilization didn't come to an 189 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: end because you didn't watch the halftime show and chose 190 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 2: something else. There you go, that's that's that's what I got. 191 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 2: That's what I got for you. 192 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 5: As it relates to the to the to the halftime show, 193 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 5: I don't need it was fine. 194 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 2: It was the halftime show for me. 195 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 5: For the most part. Is is filler. And that's no 196 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 5: knock on anybody who has performed it. It is often 197 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 5: not aimed at me. That is okay, that's fine. I 198 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 5: don't need everything aimed at me. I didn't know much 199 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 5: about Bad Bunny going into the halftime show. I don't 200 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 5: know that much about it now. The halftime show is on. 201 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 5: In my house. During halftime, we were also getting my 202 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 5: daughter ready for bed and doing some reading, and I 203 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 5: had to take the garbage out and I did a 204 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 5: round of dishes because I wanted to be locked in 205 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 5: for the third quarter. But when it was on, it 206 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 5: was on, and like looked okay. I don't know. 207 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 6: I just. 208 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 5: Everybody settled into their respective roles last night, and the 209 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 5: people who wanted to get mad about it, who were 210 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 5: always looking for reasons to. 211 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 2: Be mad, they got to performatively be mad. 212 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,839 Speaker 5: And the folks who wanted to convince those who were 213 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 5: mad about it that they were missing the greatest halftime 214 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 5: show of all time went on social media and talked 215 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 5: about how it was the greatest halftime show of all time, 216 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 5: and that's awesome whatever. For me, it was fifteen minutes 217 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 5: that was on my television, and Western's civilization did not 218 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 5: come to an end because of it. That's all I 219 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 5: got for you as it relates to the halftime If 220 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 5: you enjoyed it terrific, if you tolerated it terrific, and 221 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 5: if you didn't like. 222 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 2: It, that's fine too. That's fine too. 223 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 5: I don't know when we determined that the halftime show 224 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 5: had to become a cultural touchstone. Bigger cultural touchstone for 225 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 5: me is pictures and catchers report more fun talking about 226 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 5: that in goodyear than any culture war. 227 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 2: Yep, forty eight years old. I've never fought a cultural war. 228 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 2: Pretty damn happy, thank you. 229 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 5: I will let them, I'm sure. Down the hall. That's 230 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 5: the talking point today, being angry. And you know the 231 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 5: folks who were angry about the halftime show, I'm guessed 232 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 5: didn't need to watch the halftime show to be angry 233 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 5: about it. So I'm sure that's happening down there. That's 234 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 5: your thing, man, go for it at a what we 235 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 5: do here. So I just talked about it for two 236 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 5: and a half minutes, even though I wasn't going to 237 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 5: twenty three minutes after three o'clock. Five point three seven, 238 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 5: four nine, fifteen thirty is our phone number. They are 239 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 5: They are reporting in goodyear. Our friend Pat Brennan, who, 240 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 5: by the way, Terry get Pat Brennan on the show 241 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 5: this week for the first time in like forever. He 242 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 5: tweeted out video of like bullpen sessions and games of 243 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 5: catch being had and that is like ASMR for people 244 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 5: like me. So we're inching closer to the start of 245 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 5: the Cactus League schedule. The question that looms over the 246 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 5: start of spring training is simple, have they done enough? 247 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 5: Have they done enough on one level at the end 248 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 5: of the season last year, If one would have asked 249 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 5: what do the Rights need to accomplish this offseason, I 250 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 5: think the basic answer would have been, make the bullpen better, 251 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 5: make the bullpen deeper, go find a guy who can 252 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 5: hit home runs. That happened like that is that is 253 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 5: a thing the Reds did, and yet I still would 254 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 5: would find it understandable if you said, you know, they 255 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 5: did go and get the baseline, uh, sort of bare 256 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 5: minimum things they needed, but you know what, they could. 257 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: Use a little bit more. I understand that as well. 258 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 5: The success of this team this year is going to 259 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 5: be largely dependent upon whether or not people who were 260 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 5: on the team last year or part of the organization 261 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 5: last year, end up doing more this season. 262 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: Like they're gonna put more. 263 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 5: Than they ever have on Ellie de la Cruz, and 264 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 5: understandably so, this is the guy they've wanted to make 265 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 5: the highest paid player in franchise history. Okay, can his 266 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 5: production justify that? Can he take a major leap forward, 267 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 5: hopefully with better health and hopefully with better management of 268 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 5: whatever health issues he has? Can the Reds get better too, 269 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 5: whole production? Like, I don't know that the equation is 270 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 5: that complex. For success for this year, the starting pitching 271 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 5: needs to be healthier than it has been. For as 272 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 5: as awesome as Hunter Green can be at times, he 273 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 5: has not gotten through a full big league season without 274 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 5: getting placed on the injured list. For as reliably good 275 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 5: as Nicolodolo can be, you're still wondering, can he get 276 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 5: through a full big league season? They have a lot 277 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 5: of depth, they have a lot of quality, But can 278 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 5: can some of those dudes get through a full big 279 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 5: league season? And I'm led to believe that at the 280 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 5: answer is yes, this team will be even better because 281 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 5: those are good pitchers. Obviously those are only two of them. 282 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 5: But there's there's a basic equation for me. Sounds basic. 283 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 5: It maybe isn't nearly as much. Can the starting pitchers 284 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 5: get through the big get through the season with minimal 285 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 5: stays on the injured list? Can their depth be not 286 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 5: tested nearly as much? Can that group of guys stay healthy? 287 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 5: And can the two through five spots in the batting 288 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 5: order this year be better than last? If the answers 289 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 5: are yes, this team can challenge for a National League 290 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 5: Central Division title. Other things would have to go right. 291 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 5: The Cubs would perhaps have to be not as good 292 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 5: as some expect. The Brewers would have to come back 293 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 5: to Earth, which I think most expect to happen at 294 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 5: least to a degree. But if those two things happen, 295 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 5: and like there's a lot of nuance inside those things, 296 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 5: Like you talk about two through five in the batting order. Well, gee, 297 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 5: that's four out of the nine spots. But if you 298 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 5: go back to last year, the one thing that I 299 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 5: think has happened, as we've talked about the Reds needing 300 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 5: a bat in the pursuit of Kyle Schwarber, what they 301 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 5: were gonna do when they didn't get them. Should they 302 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 5: trade for Luis Robert? Is there another free agent out there? 303 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 5: And then obviously ultimately the signing of a Euhanio Suarez. 304 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 5: I think we've talked so much about the Reds offense 305 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 5: and needing to improve upon what it was last year 306 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 5: that we've almost framed last year's offense as being bad. 307 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 5: It wasn't bad. It wasn't as good as we would like, 308 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 5: and it was bad at times. It was bad in 309 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 5: extra innings, it was bad at time in close games. 310 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 5: But they were like fourteenth in the league in run 311 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 5: scored per game last season, which isn't great, It's not awful. 312 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 5: You're not trying to improve upon a team that was 313 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 5: league worst. You're not trying to improve upon an offense 314 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 5: that was bottom five in the sport. They were kind 315 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 5: of middle of the pack. Can that be a little 316 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 5: bit better this year? Well, the answers will be yes. 317 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 5: If the two hole production is better. Last year, Red's 318 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 5: two hole hitters were second to last in OPS. Three 319 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 5: hole hitters that's obviously mostly not entirely, but mostly l 320 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 5: twenty second cleanup hitters, twenty first. If each of those 321 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 5: three things improved this year, this offense will be better. 322 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 5: We could talk about where the home runs are gonna 323 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 5: come from, and can Sal Stewart make the club, which 324 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,959 Speaker 5: I think he will and hit twenty five to thirty? 325 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 5: Can Ellie hit a few more? Can Gino hit thirty 326 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 5: to thirty five this year? But as a general rule, 327 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 5: like I'll make it sound simple, although it's not. Two 328 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 5: through five, better starting staff, minimal injury issues, this team 329 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 5: can challenge for an NL Central title. In the absence 330 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 5: of that, then you know it's gonna be a little 331 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 5: bit difficult. I think one of the things that's going 332 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 5: to be interesting about this year's team, and our friend 333 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 5: Charlie Goldsmith wrote about this when they got a Johaniosuarez. 334 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 5: Can they be better in extra inning games than they 335 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 5: were last season? It was uncanny how bad they were 336 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 5: an extra They were good in one run games twenty 337 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 5: two and twenty two that's maybe not good, but it's 338 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 5: not atrocious. But they were if I recall three and 339 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 5: twelve and extra inning games last season. So let's say 340 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 5: you're gonna play and you know, anywhere from fifteen to 341 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 5: twenty extra innings games. Can they be better if the 342 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 5: overall offenses better, chances are the answer is yes. But 343 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 5: I think that's the question that kind of hovers over 344 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 5: the team as spring training begins. Look at what they 345 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 5: were last year, look at what they are this year. 346 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 5: Have they done enough in terms of outside acquisitions? And 347 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 5: then once the games begin in a month and a half, 348 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 5: which players who are part of the team last year 349 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 5: do more this year? And ultimately that's probably going to 350 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 5: have a lot more to do with this team's level 351 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 5: of success than anything they acquired in the offseason. Now, 352 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 5: Gino being in the order every day and being as 353 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 5: good at hitting the ball out of the ballpark. 354 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 2: As he has been should only have an effect a 355 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 2: positive effect on the others in the lineup. We've talked 356 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 2: a lot about protection for Elie della cruise, but have 357 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 2: they done enough? You're willing and welcome to answer at 358 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: five point three seven four nine fifteen thirty at Muger 359 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 2: on Twitter, I have a Super Bowl guarantee I'll give 360 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 2: you coming up in the four o'clock hour, and speaking 361 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 2: of questions to tag Trey Hendrickson or nod tag Trey 362 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 2: Trey Hendrickson, which I can't even say. 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The Pirates get their hitter, Marcelo 387 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 5: Zuna signs a one year contract worth twelve million dollars 388 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 5: to play for the Buckos. And this was an interesting deal. 389 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 5: The Brewers have traded third baseman Caleb Durbin, who finished 390 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 5: sixth in the National League Rookie of the Year voting, 391 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 5: to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for lefty Kyle Harrison. 392 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 5: There were a whole bunch of other players involved in 393 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 5: the deal as well, but those of the two main particulars. 394 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 5: College basketball Tonight at Madison Square Garden, Xavier is taking 395 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 5: on Saint John's. The Red Storm came back to win 396 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 5: the first game against Xavier at the Sintas Center tip 397 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 5: off at six thirty Tonight the game's live on seven 398 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 5: hundred wlwpre game with Joe and Byron at six pm. 399 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 5: Also tonight, Indiana takes on Oregon Late latest AP Top 400 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 5: twenty five. Men's Poul Kentucky is in its sliding in 401 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 5: at twenty five after another come from behind victory in 402 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 5: their denim uniforms on Saturday over Tennessee the Mark Pope 403 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 5: Show tonight at six on ESPN fifteen thirty. Following that'll 404 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 5: be the NKU Coaches Show at seven on ESPN fifteen thirty. 405 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 5: By the way, Miami holds steady at twenty third in 406 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 5: the AP Top twenty five. The RedHawks win at Marshall 407 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 5: in convincing fashion on Saturday. One NFL note Clint Kubiak, 408 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 5: as everybody expected, the offensive coordinator of the Seahawks leaving 409 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 5: to become the head coach of. 410 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 2: The Las Vegas Raiders. 411 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 5: Twenty three away from five o'clock, phone calls coming up 412 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 5: five point three, seven, four nine, fifteen thirty the College 413 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 5: troops from over the weekend. You know, sometimes if you 414 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 5: follow something solely on social media, you will think it's 415 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 5: worse than it is, which is why you shouldn't follow 416 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 5: things solely on social media. I follow a fairmount of 417 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 5: Kentucky fans. I have a lot of Kentucky fans in 418 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 5: my life. You would think that team has four wins. 419 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 5: They win again. They've won eight out of nine. Come 420 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 5: from behind, down fourteen at half at the half against Tennessee. 421 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 5: They're now a half game at a first place. They 422 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 5: do not look like they're among the nation's elite. They 423 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 5: have played shorthanded most of the season. They can go 424 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 5: through these lulls, especially on the offensive end, where what 425 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 5: you're supposed to get from a Mark Pope coach team 426 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 5: is not what you get here. They are in the 427 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 5: middle of February. If you look at like most bubble 428 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 5: Watch pieces that come out this time year, in as 429 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 5: a lock to make the tournament and more than an 430 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 5: outside chance to win the SEC. 431 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: SEC is not as good this year as it has been. 432 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: Have game at a first place. 433 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 5: You see yesterday, Look call it what it is. They 434 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 5: play at home. They played better at home than away 435 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 5: from home. They're twelve and three at home. They haven't 436 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 5: bet anybody in any game outside of Fifth Third Arena. 437 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 5: Last night and Tony and I were talking about this 438 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 5: What makes them so frustrating is they're a good defensive team. 439 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 5: Your eyeballs tell you that, metrics tell you that, math 440 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 5: tells you that yesterday they defended, but they also made shots, 441 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 5: and they spread their scoring a bunch of amongst a 442 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 5: whole bunch of guys, and just for an afternoon, looked the. 443 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 2: Part to improve to twelve and twelve. 444 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 5: There was a nice bounce back after the ugliness, if 445 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 5: you will, of Thursday night. We played the postgame audio 446 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 5: of Wes Miller kind of bearing his soul. Was totally 447 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 5: fair to wonder after that game, like, all right, now, 448 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 5: what's this going to look like? Well, for a day, 449 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 5: the answer was pretty good. You see wins. Xavier plays 450 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 5: Saint John's tonight. As we talked about the first game, 451 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 5: the Red Storm came back after Xavier was in control 452 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 5: at halftime. I am a big defender of the college 453 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 5: basketball on court product because as much as you hear 454 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 5: about the sports issues and the sport has issues, as 455 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 5: much as you hear about how it's being ruined, one 456 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 5: people don't stop watching. Ratings are incredible for college basketball 457 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 5: this year. Two, the on court product can still be 458 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 5: so good. Exhibit number four hundred and six this season, 459 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 5: Yukon and Saint John's on Friday Night, a game that 460 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 5: felt like a Sweet sixteen or Elite eight game. Saint 461 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 5: John's has gone with a bigger lineup here. Recently they 462 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 5: have crushed teams on the glass and a major reason 463 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 5: why is Dylan Mitchell. And we don't have to do 464 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 5: this every time a former Bearcat plays a really good game. 465 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 2: But there were. 466 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 5: Folks who when Dylan Mitchell left at the end of 467 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 5: last season, We're like, yeah, good riddance. How many have 468 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 5: watched him this year playing a major role on a 469 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 5: ranked team. Tip Off tonight at six thirty from MSG 470 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 5: again pregame at six on seven hundred WLW five point 471 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 5: three fifteen thirty. I believe back from the Super Bowl, Mike, 472 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 5: go ahead, you're on ESPN fifteen thirty. 473 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 3: Hold on, I'm sorry just one second. You got me 474 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 3: off guard a little bit. Well, we're still traveling back 475 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 3: from uh from the Bay Area, and what I got 476 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 3: some picks. I'm gonna say, yeah, I just forgot. I 477 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 3: haven't had time, but I got a bunch of good 478 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 3: ticks and treated my buddies to some stuff. But we 479 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 3: had so many cool things happen. First of all, No, 480 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 3: the weather was sensational, sensational. It couldn't have been better. 481 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 2: You know, you send me an you send me an 482 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 2: email from the game talking about the weather. And then 483 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 2: he took a shot at Cincinnati. 484 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 3: Oh, I probably did. 485 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: You did? 486 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 5: You told me to move because there are better places 487 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 5: to live than someone else. 488 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's better weather. Yeah, because you like warm weather, 489 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: and I wish you could someday get out of here 490 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 3: and get out of there and go where you like 491 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 3: the warm weather. It's just something I yearned for you 492 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 3: to have moment in your beers. Okay, so we're in 493 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 3: this disabled section around I guess around the thirty two 494 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 3: to thirty three art lines and about halfway up maybe 495 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 3: third of the I don't know, but not the great 496 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 3: seats I'm not. And guess who came to visit us? Well, 497 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 3: because I I have. I finally got Greg Cosell's email, 498 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 3: and I've been emailing him off and on for the 499 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 3: past year and sometimes he'll respond and sometimes he won't. 500 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 3: And uh, he came down. He got my latest email. 501 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 3: He came down because his brother got killed in Vietnam. 502 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 3: He came down and took all of our hands and 503 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 3: gave gave us one hundred dollars bill and said to 504 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 3: you know, just have fun. And we said, no, we 505 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 3: can't take it. He said, no, I answys please take it, 506 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 3: and he gave us autographs. And what a sweetheart of 507 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 3: a guy. 508 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 2: That's very cool, very he's very good. 509 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 3: Friends with Sal pal Antonio. Evidently you know Sal was 510 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 3: Sal was a Navy seal. 511 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 5: He was, yeah, yeah, and with with Terren's dad. 512 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 2: Apparently, how about that. 513 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 3: Exactly? That's that's uh, that's more impressive than being a 514 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 3: football player, baseball player, basketball player. Those guys are way 515 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 3: copper than. 516 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 2: Any of those, no question about that. 517 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 3: Yes, but anyway, he uh, I didn't know this, mom. 518 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 3: He has the longest running show on ESPN. He started 519 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 3: his Sunday morning show what's it called NFL. 520 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 5: Today or an NFL NFL Matchup? That show has been 521 00:28:58,760 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 5: on since I was a. 522 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 3: Kid, since nineteen eighty four. 523 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 2: Wow, And he invented. 524 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 3: It, he started it, and now he doesn't do it. 525 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 3: He doesn't produce it anymore. He has somebody else. But 526 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 3: I said, are you nineteen eighty four, mister Cosell. He said, yes, 527 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 3: my friend, nineteen eighty that's pretty incredible when you think 528 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 3: about it, isn't it moment? 529 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 8: It is? 530 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 5: And so that show is important. It's important television, and 531 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 5: it's always been buried like early on Sunday morning before 532 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 5: you know NFL Countdown or any of the pregame shows. 533 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 5: But you know, we're in this era now and it's 534 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 5: great where you have a lot of folks breaking down 535 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 5: the all twenty two and talking about schemes and strategies 536 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 5: on a more advanced level. That show, which when I 537 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 5: was a kid, it was called Edge NFL Matchup and 538 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 5: it had Ron Jaworski and then Merril Hodge was on 539 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 5: it for a while. That was the first show that 540 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 5: I could recall that really did that and did that 541 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 5: like I didn't know it went back to eighty four, 542 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 5: but I remember being a kid in the late eighties 543 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 5: early nineties watching that show on Sunday mornings and it 544 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 5: was insanely ahead of its time. 545 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 2: Now there's like a million people doing that. 546 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 5: That show that I could recall was one of the first, 547 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 5: and it's still going to this day and it's still 548 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 5: given an awful time slot. 549 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I wonder how cool maybe because it's just 550 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 3: been so successful in that times. Well, I don't know, 551 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 3: because there's nothing else on. Then maybe I don't know. 552 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 3: You know better than me about that stuff. But check 553 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 3: this out. So so I was more than benevolent to 554 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 3: my friends, and I would have been that way anyway, 555 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 3: But and they told me to tell you. Thank you 556 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 3: for your suggestion, Tarren Bland. I got you a beautiful 557 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 3: ball cap, commemorative ball caps, got to play Patriots logo, 558 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 3: got the Seahawks logo on the back, that's got the 559 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 3: NFL logo. It's all cotton, it's not got an adjustable strap. 560 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 3: You gave me your size, so I hope the damn 561 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 3: think fits. Wow, but you told me your size. 562 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 2: How much did a hat tossed at the Super Bowl? 563 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 3: You really want to know? 564 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? The seventy dollars seventy dollars hat. Wow, unbelievable. 565 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 6: Yeah. 566 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 3: Oh, Karen deserves it, you know, for what the last 567 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 3: fifteen years on the radio with you. But the food 568 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 3: I had, I felt like I was at a fine 569 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 3: dining restaurant, and it's the same way at Oracle, I 570 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 3: had the best ah sushi. I've one of the best 571 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 3: I've ever had in my life. And I've had a 572 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 3: lot of sushi, and I had they have a goat 573 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 3: burger with goat meat blackened goat burger. It's the best 574 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 3: beef I've ever eaten in my life. 575 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 2: Wow, unbelievable. 576 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 3: Then I had abalony, which is like a mollusk. You know, 577 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 3: it's not like people think it's like calamari, but it's 578 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 3: not like klamari squid. Avalony is much harder to catch 579 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 3: and it's it's a sea snail. It lives on the rocks. Yeah, 580 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 3: and they have to beat the hell out. But I 581 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 3: just couldn't believe the food that was available. So that 582 00:31:59,120 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 3: was cool. 583 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 5: Way to the football, the Levi Stadium sells a goat burger. 584 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 585 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 2: Do they sell that for like a regular forty nine 586 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 2: Ers game? 587 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 3: I assume it looks like you know, it looked like 588 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 3: it had been on the menu on the board. 589 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 5: Do they serve Do they serve like a like a 590 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 5: regular hamburger made out of cow? 591 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 6: Yeah? Sure. 592 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 2: Oh, so you have options. 593 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 5: You can get a you can eat a goat, or 594 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 5: you could eat a regular beef. 595 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can eat very or they have a veal burger, 596 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 3: which is basically a baby calf, which is a calf, 597 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 3: you know, gotcha bum bums me out. I hate to 598 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 3: eat something that's only a baby. 599 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 2: But now I have a question. 600 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 5: I like, when you say goat burger, does that mean 601 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 5: greatest of all time burger and it features goat cheese 602 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 5: or is the meat actual goat because I am skeptical 603 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 5: that the meat is actually goat meat. 604 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 3: The meat is actually goat meat, which is extremely popular 605 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 3: in countries like Pakistan, India, all over the Middle East, 606 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 3: and there's a lot of people from all over the world. 607 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 3: That was in San Francisco, of course, And so the 608 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 3: guy told me they tested it out about three years ago. 609 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 3: The response was if he at the beginning because people 610 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 3: had to get over the goat thing. But then when 611 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 3: they did, they thought, well, what the hell's the difference 612 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 3: cal goat? 613 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 2: Do they have goat cheese on the Do they have 614 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 2: goat cheese on the goat burger made of goat meat? Yes, 615 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,719 Speaker 2: very well, unbelievable. 616 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 3: And the goat cheese has cranberry and pistachios. 617 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 5: And on the high levels it really it does sound 618 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 5: high level. Yeah, no, no question about it. Well, I'm glad, 619 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 5: I'm glad you had a From a culinary perspective, how 620 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 5: much of the gotburger. 621 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 3: Cost It was twenty two dollars. 622 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 2: Twenty two bucks, gotcha? 623 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 3: Okay, right, so check this out. We have one little 624 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 3: miss out. Oh so this guy. All the Seahawks fans 625 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 3: were very nice people with Patriot fans. Everybody was really cool. Yeah, 626 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 3: there wasn't anything crazy. A little bit of craziness with 627 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,959 Speaker 3: the drunkenness. But this one guy was pretty lit up. 628 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 3: He was probably in his forties. And my one buddy 629 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 3: doesn't have any legs. Okay, he lost his legs in Vietnam. 630 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 3: This a hole. I didn't use the word a hole. 631 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 3: He can't. He started he was drunk and a monkey. 632 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 3: He started saying in my buddy, whose name is buddy? Uh, well, 633 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 3: I'm sick of pan taxes to support you veterans, you bastards. 634 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 3: I'm tired of it. You don't deserve anything. We work 635 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 3: hard to just And finally the security guard had to 636 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 3: come down and take him away because I mean, we 637 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,839 Speaker 3: can't do anything to defend ourselves. 638 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 5: Really, so some rando decides to come up and start 639 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 5: harassing a bunch of veterans at the Super Bowl. 640 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, drunk as hell. Looked like he had money, 641 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,240 Speaker 3: like he was dressed very uh well. 642 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 5: I mean, if if he was a fan at the 643 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 5: Super Bowl, he's he's probably not destitute. And and you 644 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 5: said your your your buddy's name is buddy. 645 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know his real names. That's probably nickname. 646 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 2: God, I understand. 647 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 3: I don't answer. 648 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,439 Speaker 2: You. Guys are obviously very close. Well. 649 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 5: And so the game itself was was a good time. 650 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 5: And are you are you back in so Cow? Are 651 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 5: you en route? 652 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 6: What? 653 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 2: What were you now? 654 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 3: So we're we're just pretty everybody's sleeping in exhausted. We're 655 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 3: in the we're in the van. We left Big sir, 656 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 3: and now we're down around Santa Rosa, which is central 657 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 3: the central coastline of Pacific Coast Highway. I can't sleep 658 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 3: because the scenery is just so spectacular. I have to 659 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 3: be able to look at it until I just fall asleep, 660 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 3: which I will appreciated. But I'll tell you what I 661 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 3: got to ask you football question. This mister Kenneth Walker 662 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 3: the third, he is laid beyond, he makes lady and 663 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 3: Bell looks fast. 664 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:52,280 Speaker 6: Fuck. 665 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 3: This guy is unreal. Moe, uh, commit the audience what 666 00:35:58,760 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 3: I'm talking about. 667 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about. 668 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 5: What I could tell you, though, is this that I 669 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 5: felt stupid not not betting on him to be the 670 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 5: game's MVP. Me too, I felt dumb not betting on 671 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker. And it was abundantly clear. Look, the Seattle's 672 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 5: defense was awesome last night. It seemed far fetched that 673 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 5: they were going to pick a player, although I think 674 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 5: Witherspoon had a chance. I so they were not going 675 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,839 Speaker 5: to pick a defensive player. They weren't going to pick 676 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 5: the kicker. It was pretty clear as the game unfolded 677 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 5: it wasn't going to be JSN, especially because he had 678 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 5: lee for a while after getting into an incident with 679 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,799 Speaker 5: the concussion tent. But Kenneth Walker was terrific last night, 680 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 5: and I watched that game unfold and I thought, like, 681 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,719 Speaker 5: I'm dumb for not betting on him to be the 682 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 5: game's MVP. 683 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 3: Me too, Well, I hit I had one of the 684 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 3: only really smart bets I had was jsnun under ninety 685 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 3: four and a half. Yes, I got lucky on that, Yeah, 686 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 3: but listen to me. It was New England. My most 687 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 3: renowned whiteout is Stephan Daves. You're in trouble. 688 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I don't disagree, Mike we have to run. 689 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 5: I appreciate you regaling us with tails from the Super 690 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,320 Speaker 5: Bowl and hopefully you arrived back at your residence in 691 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 5: one piece. 692 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 3: Thanks for chiming out, and I'll send you these picks 693 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 3: before the shows over. 694 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 5: I can't wait. Mike, thanks, thanks very much, and get 695 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 5: Tarn his seventy dollars hat. Terry again, a seventy dollars 696 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,719 Speaker 5: hat for Mike. How about that shot the Mike, I 697 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:37,399 Speaker 5: am skeptical that the Goatburger included goat meat. Just I'm 698 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 5: gonna put that out there. He was there, I wasn't. 699 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm skeptical that the the goat Burger g 700 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 5: O A T could have stood for the greatest of 701 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 5: all time. I'm sure it had goat cheese. Goat cheese 702 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 5: is awesome. I'm I'm gonna. I'm gonna stop short of 703 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,280 Speaker 5: totally buying the fact that the goat Burger had goat meat. 704 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 5: Eight from four o'clock, So the Bengals tag Trey Hendrick 705 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,240 Speaker 5: and we'll get to that amazing sports talk radio topic 706 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 5: at four h five on ESPN fifteen thirty station. 707 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: Now here's your chance to win one thousand dollars. Just 708 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,160 Speaker 1: answered this nationwide keyword on our website. 709 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 2: Bonus. That's bonus. Enter it now you bons. 710 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,760 Speaker 4: ESPN fifteen thirty got. 711 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 5: A couple of bull questions. One of them is about 712 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 5: Trey Hendrickson. According to a Mike Garoffalo of the NFL 713 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 5: Network during one of the many shows that that network 714 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,360 Speaker 5: aired from the Super Bowl, said, our understanding is the 715 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 5: Bengals are still considering using the franchise tag. It could 716 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 5: be a tag and trade possibility. Perhaps sounds like all 717 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 5: options are on the table, but it is not a 718 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 5: foregone conclusion that his time in Cincinnati is over all, right, 719 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 5: why would it be Now they have a couple of 720 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 5: weeks for the NFL franchise tag deadline to get here. 721 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 5: There are some options. They do have options for Trey Hendrickson. 722 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 5: This is this is I think more interesting than some 723 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 5: will make it out to be. And I don't know 724 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 5: if I put that in the most eloquent way, but 725 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 5: Trey Hendrickson is regarded, despite the injury issues of this 726 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 5: past season, and despite his age he's thirty one, he 727 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,800 Speaker 5: will be thirty two by the end of next season, 728 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,759 Speaker 5: is still regarded as one of the best two or 729 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 5: three available free agents this offseason. Like, if you look 730 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:34,479 Speaker 5: at any ranking of this offseason's free agents, you will 731 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 5: find lists, and they're all subjective. Some of them come 732 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,080 Speaker 5: from a more informed place than others. But you'll find 733 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,920 Speaker 5: lists and have him as the best free agent available, 734 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,640 Speaker 5: and others will say, well, he's maybe not the best, 735 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 5: but he's one of the best two or three free 736 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:55,840 Speaker 5: agents available regardless. It feels like, and who knows, maybe 737 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,319 Speaker 5: we're wrong about this, but it feels like there's a 738 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 5: very very very good chance that Trey Hendrickson as a 739 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 5: free agent will have a lot of suitors, a lot 740 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:13,640 Speaker 5: of teams interested. To a large degree, you could understand 741 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,479 Speaker 5: why you watch the guy play. I watched the guy play. 742 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 5: You know what he can do. Even last year before 743 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 5: he got hurt, it wasn't like he was a non factor. 744 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 5: So you can understand why right teams need edge rushers. 745 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,280 Speaker 5: Trey is a year removed from being a Defensive Player 746 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,040 Speaker 5: of the Year finalist, so it would make sense that 747 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,759 Speaker 5: he has a lot of suitors. If you're running the 748 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:41,640 Speaker 5: Bengals and you understand that here is a player who's 749 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 5: going to have a lot of suitors who are gonna 750 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:50,719 Speaker 5: come after him, why then wouldn't you want them approaching you? Like, 751 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,240 Speaker 5: let's say there are six teams and I'm just making 752 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 5: that number up. Maybe the number is higher, maybe the 753 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,920 Speaker 5: number is lower. Let's say there are six teams that 754 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,279 Speaker 5: are gonna approach Trey Hendrickson about him signing with them. 755 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,879 Speaker 5: If you're Duke Tobin and Mike Brown, don't you want 756 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,080 Speaker 5: those teams approaching you? 757 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 2: If you tag them, they have to approach you. You 758 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 2: control where he goes. That makes sense. 759 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 5: Hey, wait a minute, we can get something for an 760 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 5: asset that a lot of teams are gonna want. That 761 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 5: would make sense. However, let's be honest. Over the last 762 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,320 Speaker 5: couple of years, maybe the Bengals haven't led the league 763 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 5: in offseason drama, but it certainly has felt like they're 764 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 5: the They're among the leaders in offseason drama, and one 765 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 5: of the players around whom the most drama has swirled 766 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:57,359 Speaker 5: has been Trey Hendrickson. Trays of our lives, I mean, 767 00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,400 Speaker 5: the ordeal these last couple of off seasons, they've taken 768 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 5: on lives of their own. We joke all the time, like, 769 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,800 Speaker 5: if we were to ever have an ESPN fifteen thirty 770 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,240 Speaker 5: Ring of Honor, Trey Hendrickson goes in on the first 771 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:16,000 Speaker 5: ballot because of all the different segments and all the 772 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 5: different shows and all the different just you know, bits 773 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 5: we've gotten off of Trey Hendrickson. His contract issues have 774 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:30,000 Speaker 5: taken on lives of their own. Do you really want 775 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,200 Speaker 5: to sign up for more of that? Because the moment 776 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,239 Speaker 5: you decide to tag them. And by the way, Paul 777 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,279 Speaker 5: Danner Junior's on the show tomorrow has like a ten 778 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 5: step guide for the Bengals to use this offseason to 779 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 5: get to the super Bowl. And one of the things 780 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,640 Speaker 5: he writes about is tag Tray and trade him for 781 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:45,600 Speaker 5: a third round pick. 782 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,600 Speaker 2: Sign me up, right, who wouldn't want that? I get 783 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,040 Speaker 2: trade Tray and get in a year where I got 784 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 2: to nail it in the draft, I get one more ticket. 785 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 2: I get one more raffle ticket. 786 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,239 Speaker 5: Right, Like, that's if you're bad at drafting, the best 787 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:02,880 Speaker 5: way to not be bad at drafting is to have 788 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,080 Speaker 5: as many picks as possible because at some point you'll 789 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:09,600 Speaker 5: get some picks. Right, So yeah, man, and just the 790 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,880 Speaker 5: basics of it, Well, if you tag them now, instead 791 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,359 Speaker 5: of all those suitors coming to Trey, now, maybe not 792 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:18,799 Speaker 5: all of them, but a few of them are going 793 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,680 Speaker 5: to have to come to you, and then you know, 794 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 5: you could weigh the offers that are out there. And 795 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,920 Speaker 5: my guess is there would be offers out there, So 796 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,759 Speaker 5: I guess, and you can tell me if you think 797 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,040 Speaker 5: I'm wrong. Like some market assessment is in play here, 798 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 5: you have to assess the market correctly. If we tag him, 799 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 5: will the potential trade market be there? And can we 800 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:49,360 Speaker 5: capitalize by getting something of value in return? If the 801 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 5: answer is yes, then why wouldn't you tag and then 802 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,719 Speaker 5: look to trade Trey Hendrickson. Now, if you tag him, 803 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 5: he could always side the franchise tag offer and then 804 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 5: you're stuck with the guy for close to thirty million bucks. Now, 805 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,000 Speaker 5: there are worse players to be stuck with, right, But 806 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,160 Speaker 5: then there's the other part of this. So the Bengals clearly, 807 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,320 Speaker 5: for years, and we've talked about this a bunch, but clearly, 808 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,160 Speaker 5: for years, the Bengals have not had plans for Trey 809 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,440 Speaker 5: to be on the team in twenty twenty six. Whether 810 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:30,080 Speaker 5: that point of view is correct, incorrect, off base, unfair, legitimate, 811 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:36,640 Speaker 5: whatever it is. For years, among all the different Trey 812 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:42,520 Speaker 5: Hendrickson things that have been out there, the easiest conclusion 813 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,719 Speaker 5: to draw has been Bengals do not have Trey in 814 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:51,920 Speaker 5: their plans for twenty twenty six, So what's changed? 815 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:53,359 Speaker 2: Right? 816 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,480 Speaker 5: Like, if you're gonna tag him, you have to at 817 00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,120 Speaker 5: least grasp the possibility that he decides to Okay, fine, 818 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,600 Speaker 5: I'll come back and play for a year. 819 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,279 Speaker 2: We can debate whether or not he would do that. 820 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,879 Speaker 2: My guess is he would not. But if you if 821 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:07,600 Speaker 2: you tag him, you at least have to confront the 822 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 2: possibility that the guy still ends up being your player 823 00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,720 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. Are you suddenly comfortable enough. 824 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,200 Speaker 5: With him being a player in your team in twenty 825 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,200 Speaker 5: twenty six after spending the last two years not being 826 00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,359 Speaker 5: comfortable with him being on the team in twenty twenty six? 827 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,000 Speaker 5: Five point three, seven, four nine, fifteen thirty vote. Now 828 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,560 Speaker 5: at Moegar, we have two pole questions thanks to United 829 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,440 Speaker 5: Heartland Insurance. I've talked for years about United Heartland Insurance 830 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,000 Speaker 5: and what they could do for you to help you 831 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,320 Speaker 5: pay less for your insurance. Why not check out uhis 832 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,600 Speaker 5: dot com. Uh There's two pole questions, one about the Reds, 833 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,359 Speaker 5: which we'll get to here in a bit, but one 834 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,719 Speaker 5: of them is what should the Bengals do with Trey Hendrickson, 835 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,240 Speaker 5: and God knows, I've gotten a lot of pole questions 836 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,520 Speaker 5: about Trey Hendrickson. I've gotten a lot of pole questions 837 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,160 Speaker 5: out of Trey Hendrickson. I should say, should they tag 838 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 5: him and trade him, should they tag him and keep him, 839 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 5: or for the love of God, just move on. And 840 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:05,920 Speaker 5: that's the other part of this. It feels like among 841 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,520 Speaker 5: the many things the Bengals need to try to accomplish 842 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:15,520 Speaker 5: this offseason is to finally have a drama free offseason. Now, 843 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,279 Speaker 5: I think you have to admit that to expect any 844 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,440 Speaker 5: relevant team to have a drama free offseason every single 845 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,880 Speaker 5: year is unrealistic. If you have good players, and the 846 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,640 Speaker 5: Bengals have had some good players, and if you have 847 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,200 Speaker 5: a lot of good players, invariably there's gonna be somebody 848 00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:37,840 Speaker 5: who's not happy, who wants more, who believes they're undervalued, 849 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,279 Speaker 5: that wants to stay with the team, but the team 850 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 5: doesn't want to keep them. Like whatever it is that said. 851 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:50,000 Speaker 5: In recent years, the contract issues, the stalemates with players, 852 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:55,480 Speaker 5: the public negotiation ploys, the weirdness of the Shamar Stewart situation, 853 00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,920 Speaker 5: like all of those things have dominated the Bengals discourse. 854 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,080 Speaker 5: Bengal should have a goal this offseason, and it should 855 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,400 Speaker 5: be to make my job in the off season difficult 856 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,399 Speaker 5: because it hasn't been. Not that this is a hard job. 857 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,960 Speaker 5: It clearly is not, although I make it sound hard, 858 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,520 Speaker 5: but I mean that the treasure trove of stuff we've 859 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,520 Speaker 5: had to talk about, whether it's been Jesse Bates or 860 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:22,600 Speaker 5: t Higgins or Jamar Chase or Joe Mixon or Trey Hendrickson, 861 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,799 Speaker 5: it's been. It's been one after the other after the 862 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,080 Speaker 5: other after the other. One of the goals for this 863 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 5: off season should be, let's get through it where the 864 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,719 Speaker 5: focus is solely on who are adding and what we 865 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,239 Speaker 5: could do with who we add, and let's leave all 866 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,040 Speaker 5: of the distractions. Let's let's leave all that in our 867 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,960 Speaker 5: rear view mirror. Now, that's gonna be hard to do, 868 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,880 Speaker 5: especially if it's you know, let's let's sign DJ Turner 869 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,200 Speaker 5: then sit on our hands when it comes to Dax 870 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,240 Speaker 5: Hill or vice versa, or not offer a contract extension 871 00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,840 Speaker 5: to Chase Brown, like somewhere you can help. But wonder 872 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,480 Speaker 5: is there gonna be with a guy who's under contract 873 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,600 Speaker 5: right now, who's eligible for an extension, is there going 874 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,520 Speaker 5: to be some sort of standoff. Is there going to 875 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,160 Speaker 5: be some sort of issue. Is there going to be 876 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,440 Speaker 5: a holdout or a hold in? If you tag Trey 877 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,799 Speaker 5: Hendrickson and you don't get a deal done, you are 878 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:23,240 Speaker 5: probably signing up for a whole offseason of more trays 879 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,400 Speaker 5: of our lives Copyright Paul Danner, Junior. Four coming up 880 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:31,319 Speaker 5: with that, is that really what you want? And so 881 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 5: like there's a big part And I've got three choices 882 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,880 Speaker 5: on the poll. One is tag him and trade him, 883 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,360 Speaker 5: one is tag him and keep him, and the other is, 884 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,360 Speaker 5: for the love of God, just move on. For the 885 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,560 Speaker 5: love of God, just move on. Makes sense too for 886 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,799 Speaker 5: a couple of different reasons. One is what we just outlined, Like, 887 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,120 Speaker 5: you've had all these issues with him, It's time to 888 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,480 Speaker 5: put those in the rear view mirror. It's time to 889 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,839 Speaker 5: get through an offseason where there are no contract squabbles, 890 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:59,200 Speaker 5: there are no hold ins, there are no holdouts, there's 891 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:00,880 Speaker 5: none of that in the easiest way to do that 892 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,080 Speaker 5: is to move on from a guy who has been 893 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,680 Speaker 5: at the center of all those things. But also, like, 894 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,120 Speaker 5: if you legitimately believe in what you have and what 895 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,799 Speaker 5: you can go get you don't need to wrestle with 896 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:19,800 Speaker 5: Trey Hendrickson's twenty twenty six by using the franchise tag 897 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:25,040 Speaker 5: on him. Like if you believe, and I'm among those 898 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,520 Speaker 5: who do, who believe that Miles Murphy is ready to 899 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,840 Speaker 5: take a major leap in his fourth NFL season, And 900 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,360 Speaker 5: by the way, just because he was a non factor 901 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,279 Speaker 5: for his first two years doesn't mean you have to 902 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,520 Speaker 5: discount what he did this past season. If you believe 903 00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,960 Speaker 5: that what we saw from Miles Murphy is the beginning 904 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,040 Speaker 5: of a guy who's going to prove that he was 905 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 5: worth taking with a first round pick in twenty twenty three, and. 906 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,800 Speaker 2: If you believe, as we could argue they shouldn't. But 907 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:57,360 Speaker 2: if you genuinely believe that Shamar Stewart is ready to 908 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,440 Speaker 2: enjoy a coming out party in twenty twenty seve and 909 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,319 Speaker 2: prove that he was deserving of being a first round 910 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,719 Speaker 2: pick of this team. And if you believe that we 911 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,239 Speaker 2: could use free agency to find a player that we 912 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,200 Speaker 2: can at least add to the mix to be helpful 913 00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,239 Speaker 2: in our pursuit of a better pass rush. And if 914 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,200 Speaker 2: you believe in your ability to draft edge rushers or 915 00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,320 Speaker 2: even interior players on the defensive line to bolster the 916 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,799 Speaker 2: pass rush this year. Then aren't you comfortable simply moving on? 917 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,279 Speaker 2: I can only speak from my perspective. I could be 918 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:36,400 Speaker 2: talked into either. I can be talked into either tagging 919 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,600 Speaker 2: him and trading him, because I believe there's a world 920 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,480 Speaker 2: where the market materializes to the degree that the Bengals 921 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 2: get something good out of a Trey Hendrickson trade. But 922 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,920 Speaker 2: I've also watched Trey be at the center of a 923 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,239 Speaker 2: lot of different sort of off field distractions of it 924 00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,640 Speaker 2: the last couple of years, and an objective for this 925 00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,759 Speaker 2: team this offseason is to be free and clear of 926 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,640 Speaker 2: off season distractions. On one hand, I think everybody would 927 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,680 Speaker 2: breathe a sigh of relief if they just moved on. 928 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,240 Speaker 2: On the other hand, any good NFL team maximizes markets 929 00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:17,479 Speaker 2: and assets, and if you could tag him and trade 930 00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,440 Speaker 2: them and flip what you got for him into a 931 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,680 Speaker 2: player who could help you this year, then that's all 932 00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:30,680 Speaker 2: for the better. But if you tag him, who knows, 933 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,640 Speaker 2: if the market doesn't materialize, if there's not a deal 934 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,920 Speaker 2: that you really won, if he goes ahead in sciences 935 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:42,160 Speaker 2: franchise tag offer, Okay, there's some good to that maybe 936 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,880 Speaker 2: it's a fully healthy, fully rejuvenated Trey Hendrickson in twenty 937 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,759 Speaker 2: twenty six. But then there's all the potential baggage that 938 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,840 Speaker 2: comes with it. I think it's a more interesting question 939 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:58,640 Speaker 2: than one might have theorized two months ago. Five went, three, seven, four, nine, 940 00:51:58,680 --> 00:51:59,279 Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. 941 00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,000 Speaker 5: Other pole question about the Reds in twenty twenty six, 942 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:04,960 Speaker 5: the Reds will I'll give you four choices win the 943 00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,359 Speaker 5: National League Central, make the playoffs as a wildcard, finish 944 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,359 Speaker 5: above five hundred, but no playoffs, or finished be low 945 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:11,040 Speaker 5: five hundred. 946 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:12,440 Speaker 2: Vote now at moegar. 947 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:18,160 Speaker 5: Both poll questions at moegar Thanks to United Heartland Insurance. 948 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,399 Speaker 5: Your phone calls are coming up at seventeen after four 949 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,440 Speaker 5: o'clock on moegar. 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It's after Norwood lateral on that Ezelic with 959 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:01,320 Speaker 8: track this week. 960 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:05,120 Speaker 9: Free agency to the draft and everything in between. We've 961 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,800 Speaker 9: got the Bengals off season covered on ESPN fifteen thirty, 962 00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:11,960 Speaker 9: the official home of the Bengals. 963 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,319 Speaker 2: Forty five percent of you say the Reds is going 964 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,000 Speaker 2: to make the playoffs as a wild card. Hired I 965 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,600 Speaker 2: said like a broadcaster. Fourteen and a half percent of 966 00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,400 Speaker 2: you say win the National League Central, Thirty one percent 967 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,520 Speaker 2: say finish above five hundred, but no playoffs, which will 968 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,520 Speaker 2: be like they last year won eighty three games, but 969 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,319 Speaker 2: they don't get in. And then nine and a half 970 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,960 Speaker 2: percent of you say finished below five hundred. 971 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,080 Speaker 5: I think we'll all be better equipped. Admittedly, we'll all 972 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,959 Speaker 5: be better equipped to answer this question in a month 973 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:44,200 Speaker 5: or so. 974 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:48,320 Speaker 2: But if I. 975 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,200 Speaker 5: Have a wager on the Reds to make the postseason 976 00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:53,279 Speaker 5: this year, and me I always bet on them to 977 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,279 Speaker 5: hit the over for no other reason other than I 978 00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,360 Speaker 5: want something to pay attention to it September. 979 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,640 Speaker 2: Not that you wall always do, but you often do. 980 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,759 Speaker 2: This year, I'm comfortable doing to make the playoff bet. 981 00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:08,640 Speaker 2: What I think is going to be. 982 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,480 Speaker 5: Interesting if you go back to last year, So the 983 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,080 Speaker 5: Reds were twenty two and twenty two in one run games. 984 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,439 Speaker 5: Sometimes you'll see in a season where like a team 985 00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,719 Speaker 5: is really really, really good in one run games, and 986 00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,440 Speaker 5: that doesn't really carry over often from year to year 987 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,200 Speaker 5: across a lot of different sports. So sometimes the team's 988 00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,640 Speaker 5: really bad in one run games and that often usually 989 00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,359 Speaker 5: doesn't carry over from year to year. 990 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,000 Speaker 2: Again, regardless of sport. 991 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,640 Speaker 5: You see this in the NFL, where a team that 992 00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,400 Speaker 5: is awesome in one score games one season ends up 993 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,680 Speaker 5: being awful in one score games the next year. Everything 994 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,080 Speaker 5: sort of regresses to the mean if you go back 995 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,840 Speaker 5: to last season. One of the things, one of the 996 00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:48,880 Speaker 5: things that made the Reds easy to admire or hard 997 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,359 Speaker 5: to give up is, you know, we did the whole 998 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,840 Speaker 5: thing where, hey, they went like five months without losing 999 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,480 Speaker 5: a series, and it got to be sort of a trope. 1000 00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,640 Speaker 5: We kind of made fun of it, but it's if 1001 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,840 Speaker 5: you never lose a series, you can never really go 1002 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,359 Speaker 5: on a long losing streak. So there was something to that, 1003 00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:10,320 Speaker 5: There was something to that that spoke to that team's 1004 00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,799 Speaker 5: resiliency if you want to go from a far more 1005 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,400 Speaker 5: intangible perspective, but it spoke to the quality of a club. 1006 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,719 Speaker 5: They might not always be playing at their best, but 1007 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,120 Speaker 5: they're good enough to just salvage games here and there. 1008 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,640 Speaker 5: So they never have a nine to ten game losing streak. 1009 00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,600 Speaker 5: The longest losing streak the Reds had last season was 1010 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:33,719 Speaker 5: five games. But conversely, the longest winning streak they had 1011 00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:37,239 Speaker 5: last year was five games. And this is part of 1012 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:41,000 Speaker 5: what made them at times so deeply frustrating. They never 1013 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,680 Speaker 5: like went on a run. They never went on and look, 1014 00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:46,319 Speaker 5: you could go on a run where you win like 1015 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,919 Speaker 5: thirteen out of fifteen, and that is great, and maybe 1016 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,680 Speaker 5: it's broken up by you know, you win four games 1017 00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,320 Speaker 5: and then you lose one, then you win four more games, 1018 00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,560 Speaker 5: and then you lose one, and then you what am 1019 00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:57,200 Speaker 5: I looking. 1020 00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:57,879 Speaker 2: For five more? 1021 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,160 Speaker 5: And but they they never did either, right, They never 1022 00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:06,840 Speaker 5: had this long, drawn out spell where they lost seventeen 1023 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,160 Speaker 5: out of twenty and lost so many games in a 1024 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,240 Speaker 5: short amount of time that it just drilled them from 1025 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,560 Speaker 5: the playoff race. But they also never went on a run. 1026 00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,120 Speaker 5: They never went on a run where they were able 1027 00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,399 Speaker 5: to close the gap between them and Milwaukee. They never 1028 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:21,759 Speaker 5: went on a run where they were able to close 1029 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,320 Speaker 5: the gap between them and the Chicago Cubs. They weren't 1030 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:28,880 Speaker 5: good enough, they weren't consistent enough. Their offensive limitations usually 1031 00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,440 Speaker 5: are what kept that team from going on a prolonged 1032 00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,840 Speaker 5: stretch of winning. Their longest winning streak last season was 1033 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,960 Speaker 5: as long as their longest losing streak five games. 1034 00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:41,560 Speaker 2: So that's one of the questions this year. 1035 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,000 Speaker 5: Now you in the same baseball season, it's long enough, 1036 00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,440 Speaker 5: you could have a ten game winning streak and you 1037 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,120 Speaker 5: could have a ten game losing streak. But which of 1038 00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:55,400 Speaker 5: those two things is more likely to not be the 1039 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,000 Speaker 5: case this year after it was the case last year 1040 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,759 Speaker 5: in fact, that they kept coming off the mat, you know, 1041 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,440 Speaker 5: the whole cockroaches thing, because you couldn't sweep them. They 1042 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,640 Speaker 5: never had a long, prolonged stretch where they just sunk 1043 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:15,560 Speaker 5: their chances. Good starting pitching is usually gonna be what 1044 00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,200 Speaker 5: keeps you from going through a long stretch of losing. 1045 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:24,640 Speaker 5: Bad offense or mediocre offense, more accurately, is gonna keep 1046 00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,680 Speaker 5: you prevent you from going on the long. 1047 00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,720 Speaker 2: Stretch of winning. That was missing last year. 1048 00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,360 Speaker 5: So this season like I'd be willing to bet this 1049 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,720 Speaker 5: is the bet I'd be willing to make. 1050 00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:39,520 Speaker 2: They will not have their longest streak. 1051 00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:46,520 Speaker 5: Be fewer than six games, meaning the longest winning streak 1052 00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,560 Speaker 5: ain't gonna be five, and the longest losing streak isn't 1053 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,560 Speaker 5: gonna be five. They're gonna have something this longer, maybe 1054 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,840 Speaker 5: a winning streak, maybe a losing streak. One of the 1055 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,280 Speaker 5: keys to the season is which is it? And I 1056 00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,720 Speaker 5: think on a larger scale, it's like, do they have 1057 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,400 Speaker 5: a three week period where it feels like they never lose, 1058 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:04,520 Speaker 5: or do they have a three week stretch where it 1059 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,440 Speaker 5: feels like they never win. The twenty twenty two season 1060 00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,960 Speaker 5: was sunk because they lost twenty one out of twenty 1061 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,400 Speaker 5: two at one point after they started two and two, 1062 00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,240 Speaker 5: and the twenty twenty three team took off because they 1063 00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,560 Speaker 5: had a twelve game winning streak and in the month 1064 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,120 Speaker 5: of June into early July it felt like they never lost. 1065 00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:27,400 Speaker 2: What do they have this season? Is the offense going 1066 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,840 Speaker 2: to be good enough that they have a stretch three 1067 00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,720 Speaker 2: weeks a month, whatever it is, where they go and 1068 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,040 Speaker 2: again make up your number, they win eighteen out of 1069 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,200 Speaker 2: twenty one. They win twenty two out of twenty six, 1070 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,040 Speaker 2: so they win nine out of ten, or they win 1071 00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:47,080 Speaker 2: like eight in a row, or on the other end 1072 00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:51,000 Speaker 2: of it, do they go through a collective slump and 1073 00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,720 Speaker 2: fail to have their pitching carry them through a stretch 1074 00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:58,520 Speaker 2: where the offense isn't as good, and instead of continually 1075 00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:04,400 Speaker 2: avoiding sweeps, they get swept in some series and they 1076 00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:08,960 Speaker 2: lose fourteen of sixteen, seventeen of twenty nine in a row, 1077 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:09,760 Speaker 2: that sort of thing. 1078 00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,000 Speaker 5: There's going to be a streak longer than five this year. 1079 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,760 Speaker 5: I don't have the answer. I'm not sure anybody does. 1080 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,240 Speaker 5: I'd be willing to bet I guess that. If I 1081 00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:20,680 Speaker 5: had to pick one or the other, I would say 1082 00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,320 Speaker 5: they're more likely to win more than five consecutive games 1083 00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,919 Speaker 5: than lose more than five consecutive games. And again, maybe 1084 00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,320 Speaker 5: they do both. It doesn't necessarily have to be either or. 1085 00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,240 Speaker 5: But if you believe the offense is gonna be dramatically improved, 1086 00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,800 Speaker 5: fair to wonder if it will be. But if you 1087 00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,880 Speaker 5: believe the offense is gonna be dramatically improved largely because 1088 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,720 Speaker 5: dudes who were on the team last year are better 1089 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:43,880 Speaker 5: this year, then I think you feel like they're gonna 1090 00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:47,040 Speaker 5: have a longer than five game winning streak, or if 1091 00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,640 Speaker 5: you feel like the offense has not been dramatically improved, 1092 00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,480 Speaker 5: or they're gonna be still too prone to these long 1093 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,840 Speaker 5: stretches where it feels like they never score and that's 1094 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,680 Speaker 5: fair too. Chances are you feel like the longest streak 1095 00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,840 Speaker 5: of losses is going to be more than five, But 1096 01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,520 Speaker 5: the longest streak they go through this season will not 1097 01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:06,520 Speaker 5: be five games. 1098 01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,080 Speaker 2: I don't make many guarantees. I'll make that one. 1099 01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,840 Speaker 5: Their longest streak this season, losing or winning will not 1100 01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:18,720 Speaker 5: be five? Which is it more likely to be? Four 1101 01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,720 Speaker 5: thirty seven, four nine, fifteen thirty. I got folks waiting. 1102 01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,520 Speaker 5: I will stop babbling and take some phone calls after 1103 01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,680 Speaker 5: sports headlines on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1104 01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:32,400 Speaker 4: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic. 1105 01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,120 Speaker 8: Buick Center at the UC Health Backneck and Spine Center. 1106 01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,160 Speaker 8: Spine care is never one size fits all, from non 1107 01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:43,960 Speaker 8: surgical treatments to the most complex cases. They've mastered what's 1108 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:47,439 Speaker 8: best for you. Learn more at ucehealth dot com. One 1109 01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,120 Speaker 8: accident now cleared away that was on southbound seventy one 1110 01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,480 Speaker 8: after Norwood Lateral. Police are on the scene of another 1111 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,640 Speaker 8: accident though northbound seventy five before Norwood Lateral. That one 1112 01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:02,040 Speaker 8: off on the right shoulder. I'm at Ezelak with traffic 1113 01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:02,960 Speaker 8: this report. 1114 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:08,080 Speaker 4: He is sponsored ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. 1115 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,080 Speaker 5: Sports headlines are service to Kelsey Chevrolet, home of lifetime 1116 01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:15,800 Speaker 5: powertrain protection and guaranteed credit approval from their family to 1117 01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:17,280 Speaker 5: yours if. 1118 01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:19,600 Speaker 2: Kelsey chev dot com. 1119 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,160 Speaker 5: Reds pitchers and catchers reporting today to a Goodyear Red 1120 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,440 Speaker 5: Spring training complex and Goodyear. They'll undergo physicals tomorrow, they'll 1121 01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:28,840 Speaker 5: have a workout on Wednesday, the first Cactus League game 1122 01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,280 Speaker 5: twelve days away, twelve days away, and Goodyear Reds and Guardians. 1123 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:35,880 Speaker 5: I believe the Reds will be the road team for 1124 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:40,680 Speaker 5: that tilt. A couple of other baseball stories, Pirates get 1125 01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,000 Speaker 5: their slugger Marcelo Zuna, who I didn't want one year, 1126 01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:48,680 Speaker 5: twelve million dollars. Also, the Milwaukee Brewers have traded away 1127 01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,640 Speaker 5: their third baseman, Caleb Durbin, to the Red Sox for 1128 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,120 Speaker 5: Kyle Harrison, who's a lefty. Whole bunch of other players involved. 1129 01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:59,240 Speaker 5: Those are the two main particular's. College basketball Tonight, Xavier 1130 01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,000 Speaker 5: takes Hans Johns at Madison Square Garden tip off at 1131 01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:05,880 Speaker 5: six point thirty on seven hundred WLW. Also tonight, Indiana 1132 01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:10,000 Speaker 5: battles Oregon. Latest AP Top twenty five Men's college basketball poll. 1133 01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:14,400 Speaker 5: Arizona continues to be a unanimous number one. Arizona and 1134 01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,160 Speaker 5: Kansas hookup tonight in a battle of top ten teams. 1135 01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,280 Speaker 5: This evening, We've got the Mark Pope Radio Show at 1136 01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:24,160 Speaker 5: six o'clock on ESPN fifteen thirty. The Wildcats with another 1137 01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,320 Speaker 5: come from behind victory, this time at home over Tennessee 1138 01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:30,280 Speaker 5: to a sweep the season series against the Volunteers. The 1139 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,920 Speaker 5: NKU Coaches Show is tonight at seven o'clock. Darren Horn's 1140 01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:38,040 Speaker 5: team ended a five game losing streak on Saturday. Dan 1141 01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:42,280 Speaker 5: Grezger with twenty two norse beet Milwaukee AP Top twenty 1142 01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:45,520 Speaker 5: five Men's college pole. Kentucky is twenty fifth, the Miami 1143 01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:49,720 Speaker 5: RedHawks holding at twenty third. Travis Steeles team in action 1144 01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,720 Speaker 5: next on Friday for a late night nationally televised tilt 1145 01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:59,800 Speaker 5: against the Ohio University Bobcats. There you go with sports headlines. 1146 01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:04,280 Speaker 5: Let's take a phone caller too. Huh five point three thirty. 1147 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,760 Speaker 5: Uh Steven Montgomery, thanks for hanging on Steve. 1148 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:11,520 Speaker 6: Go ahead, Hey Mo, Sorry to jump back around to 1149 01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:16,760 Speaker 6: the Trey Hendrickson potentially the franchise tag. One thing that 1150 01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,920 Speaker 6: I'm not sure you know is I believe February nineteenth 1151 01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,160 Speaker 6: is the first day you can tag a player. Yes, 1152 01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:24,880 Speaker 6: and you have a two week time frame. And keep 1153 01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:28,000 Speaker 6: in mind, within this two week time frame, the combine 1154 01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:29,960 Speaker 6: is going to occur where every GM is going to 1155 01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,160 Speaker 6: be located. They could tag him and they could be 1156 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,880 Speaker 6: at that combine and every other team would come to them. 1157 01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,280 Speaker 6: They'd be right there talking to him. Well, we might 1158 01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,680 Speaker 6: go a third rounder. You know, while you're a good team, 1159 01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:42,600 Speaker 6: your third rounder is low. We might wait and hear 1160 01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,960 Speaker 6: somebody's got a higher third rounder something, and then the 1161 01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,960 Speaker 6: Bengals can he send the tag before that two week 1162 01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,400 Speaker 6: timeframe is up, and then there don't have the obligation 1163 01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,400 Speaker 6: of being stuck with them. So I think it's a 1164 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:58,120 Speaker 6: great opportunity to try and just get something for the match, because, 1165 01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,640 Speaker 6: like you said, I think the ship is out. I 1166 01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:01,680 Speaker 6: don't really want him in the locker room. I don't 1167 01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,200 Speaker 6: really want him on the team this year. I like 1168 01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:06,480 Speaker 6: the idea of going young. You finally saw what Murphy 1169 01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,000 Speaker 6: and O so I could do when given the full 1170 01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:11,680 Speaker 6: time jobs. And one other last thing on the Bengals. 1171 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,400 Speaker 6: And I know I'm just preaching to the choir. You've 1172 01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,120 Speaker 6: been a fan forever, remember we used to sit in 1173 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:20,800 Speaker 6: the same section. And if they look at this, it's 1174 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:24,960 Speaker 6: almost just like typical Bengals history. Leon Hall and Jonathan jokes. 1175 01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:29,560 Speaker 6: If they signed one, you've got your cornerback problems solved. 1176 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,400 Speaker 6: Dax Hill and DJ Turner could both be extended in 1177 01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,280 Speaker 6: this offseason. If they don't, they're going to draft a 1178 01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,640 Speaker 6: corner in the first round and they're still just plugging 1179 01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:42,520 Speaker 6: a hole in a bucket. But it's so maddening to 1180 01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,000 Speaker 6: think it's right there in front of them. They have 1181 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:47,600 Speaker 6: the money, they have the talent, they know this scheme, 1182 01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,800 Speaker 6: they're a perfect fit. Put those guys and lock them 1183 01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:52,880 Speaker 6: up for four years, and then you go into the 1184 01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,760 Speaker 6: draft wide open. If the d tackle's there, you take him. 1185 01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,160 Speaker 6: Get a safety in the second round. You can get 1186 01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,400 Speaker 6: Kobe Bryant as a safety in a free agent great, 1187 01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,800 Speaker 6: get a safety in the third round. It's just one 1188 01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,920 Speaker 6: of those things that I could see so often. If 1189 01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:07,160 Speaker 6: they just get this done. 1190 01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:14,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, but what you just outlined sounds and seems 1191 01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,760 Speaker 5: really easy. What it feels like the Bengals mo has 1192 01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,440 Speaker 5: been has been to take the easy and make it 1193 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,160 Speaker 5: more complex. And so what you can help but wonder 1194 01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,400 Speaker 5: is how will they take this reasonably easy thing, which 1195 01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:30,320 Speaker 5: is DJ Turner played like one of the best corners 1196 01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,360 Speaker 5: in football last year, So go ahead and lock him in, right, 1197 01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:35,280 Speaker 5: go ahead and pay him like one of the best 1198 01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,520 Speaker 5: corners in football, and maybe at a at a slight 1199 01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,919 Speaker 5: discount relative to what you would have to pay next year. 1200 01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,720 Speaker 5: But get that done, and you have finally found a 1201 01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:46,040 Speaker 5: home for Dax Hill, and it finally feels like you 1202 01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,520 Speaker 5: have carved out the right role for him, and it 1203 01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,240 Speaker 5: feels like he's still an as sending player. Go ahead 1204 01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:53,240 Speaker 5: and get him done, and then you don't have to 1205 01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:56,480 Speaker 5: touch corner and you could sort of streamline your priorities 1206 01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,880 Speaker 5: on defense with the draft and with free agency. Sound. 1207 01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,720 Speaker 5: But a lot of things that have sounded easy for 1208 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:06,680 Speaker 5: the Cincinnati Bengals they have unnecessarily made more complex. And 1209 01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,800 Speaker 5: that's the question this offseason, how will they make something 1210 01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:10,919 Speaker 5: more complex than it. 1211 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:11,240 Speaker 2: Needs to be. 1212 01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:15,560 Speaker 6: It has to be done. They have to take care 1213 01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,960 Speaker 6: of their own before free agency. Then free agency is 1214 01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,840 Speaker 6: wide open, then the draft is wide open. Hit those 1215 01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:25,520 Speaker 6: three things. I don't see any way with a with 1216 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:29,440 Speaker 6: a sixteen game or seventeen game burrow. They're not in 1217 01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,919 Speaker 6: the playoffs and making a run next year. If they 1218 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:35,120 Speaker 6: just get those things done, every other team would love 1219 01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,320 Speaker 6: to have an offense like they do going into the season. 1220 01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,880 Speaker 6: The Bengals really only have to focus on one side 1221 01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:42,240 Speaker 6: of the ball minus adult and Resnor extension. It should 1222 01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:46,240 Speaker 6: be such a layup. Even the Brown family could nail it. 1223 01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,800 Speaker 6: I'm just begging and pleading, like this is the opportunity 1224 01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:55,200 Speaker 6: everybody seems down right now. Everybody's either cap crashed or 1225 01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:58,120 Speaker 6: they've got talent that's old and they're moving on, like 1226 01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,840 Speaker 6: in Baltimore. The other thing of doing that with the 1227 01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,720 Speaker 6: franchise teak is you would dictate where Hendricksing goes. 1228 01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:05,600 Speaker 3: You don't want them to go to Baltimore. 1229 01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:07,840 Speaker 2: H Yeah, you're exactly right. 1230 01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,520 Speaker 6: It's like we keep saying, it's not rocket science. Just 1231 01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,720 Speaker 6: get to work early, don't let it come to you, 1232 01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:17,800 Speaker 6: be proactive, go after it. If they do those things that, 1233 01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,840 Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure they already sold out on season tickets, 1234 01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,440 Speaker 6: but I think people will be scratching and clawing to 1235 01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,960 Speaker 6: get into the stadium again, which is what they claim 1236 01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,920 Speaker 6: they really need, and they'll get more primetime games and 1237 01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,840 Speaker 6: everybody will be hyped for the season. And we do 1238 01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:34,280 Speaker 6: have continuity in our coaching, so we don't have that 1239 01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,480 Speaker 6: strike against us. But at least we know on the 1240 01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:40,000 Speaker 6: offensive side of the ball it works. We saw improvement 1241 01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,800 Speaker 6: on the defense side of the ball with a pretty 1242 01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:47,760 Speaker 6: big darth of talent that disappeared aged overnight. But I 1243 01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,960 Speaker 6: think if they can just get those guys first and 1244 01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,040 Speaker 6: not be focusing on potentially drafting a corner, that's a 1245 01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:54,080 Speaker 6: huge first step. 1246 01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:57,720 Speaker 5: Steve made it sound easy and I could not agree more. 1247 01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:01,040 Speaker 5: Thanks very much, Thanks mo I guess, I guess On 1248 01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:05,240 Speaker 5: the tray thing, it's like, boy, there's exasperation with it. 1249 01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,480 Speaker 5: But if you know there's going to be a market 1250 01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,960 Speaker 5: for the guy, if you know there's going to be 1251 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:12,520 Speaker 5: teams interested, would you rather those teams come to him 1252 01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:14,280 Speaker 5: or come to you? By the way, there is something 1253 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,160 Speaker 5: to be said about controlling where he goes. If you know, though, 1254 01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,600 Speaker 5: there's going to be a market for Trey Hendrickson, and 1255 01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:22,080 Speaker 5: it is still impossible for I think most of us 1256 01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:25,519 Speaker 5: to imagine there won't be one. Would you rather tray 1257 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,559 Speaker 5: have the suitors come to him, or would you rather 1258 01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,160 Speaker 5: have the suitors come to you and then you can 1259 01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,479 Speaker 5: figure out a way to get a prime asset for 1260 01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:38,360 Speaker 5: him this year this year. But it's one of the 1261 01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:41,920 Speaker 5: central questions of the off season. Beyond that, right, Like, 1262 01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:44,840 Speaker 5: they have a lot of money to spend, tons to 1263 01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:48,200 Speaker 5: spend relatively speaking in free agency, but tons to spend 1264 01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,920 Speaker 5: relative to the team needs. Like it's one thing to 1265 01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,680 Speaker 5: have a lot of cab space, it's something else to 1266 01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,360 Speaker 5: have a lot of cap space and one half year 1267 01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:02,240 Speaker 5: team basically set. Now, that does not mean they're not gonna, 1268 01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,080 Speaker 5: you know, draft to tackle the future. It does not 1269 01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:08,920 Speaker 5: mean that they wouldn't you know, be willing to sign 1270 01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,800 Speaker 5: a wide receiver who may represent an upgrade from what 1271 01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,839 Speaker 5: they have lower on the depth chart. But generally speaking, 1272 01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,479 Speaker 5: you don't really have to do anything with the offense. 1273 01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:22,840 Speaker 5: So they're in a very enviable spot. Lots of money 1274 01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:26,639 Speaker 5: to spend, lots of money to spend, and really only 1275 01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:28,280 Speaker 5: one side of the ball to spend it on. 1276 01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:31,080 Speaker 2: That's really good. That's really good. 1277 01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:38,120 Speaker 5: So there will be players, I believe starting caliber players 1278 01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:42,080 Speaker 5: who come to Cincinnati to help on defense, and then 1279 01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,840 Speaker 5: you obviously get the draft, above and beyond what they 1280 01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,719 Speaker 5: do in the draft, how do they take the simple 1281 01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:55,920 Speaker 5: and make it more complex than they need to. Which 1282 01:09:55,960 --> 01:10:01,240 Speaker 5: of those possible contract extensions turns into a thing, Which 1283 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:06,720 Speaker 5: of those possible contract extensions turns into the sort of 1284 01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:12,200 Speaker 5: you know, hold in, hold out, standoff as, so whatever 1285 01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:17,679 Speaker 5: it is that leaks into the OTAs and then leaks 1286 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,719 Speaker 5: into Miniicamp and then leaks into training camp. 1287 01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:23,400 Speaker 2: Like again, it takes two to tango. 1288 01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,400 Speaker 5: Maybe DJ Turner is like, dude, all I want to 1289 01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,320 Speaker 5: do is hit free agency one day, and so I'll 1290 01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,200 Speaker 5: play out my last year here and then, assuming you're 1291 01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,599 Speaker 5: not gonna tag me, I'll go ahead and hit free agency. 1292 01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,439 Speaker 5: And maybe they haven't seen enough from Dax Hill that 1293 01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:39,959 Speaker 5: compels them to want to pay him. I would argue 1294 01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,120 Speaker 5: there are very few places on your defense where it 1295 01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:43,960 Speaker 5: feels like you could be set, and not that they 1296 01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:45,920 Speaker 5: can't use a corner. Who's going to be the slock 1297 01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:50,280 Speaker 5: corner next year is a question, But those two players, 1298 01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,040 Speaker 5: like I think with DJ dj Turner, I think you 1299 01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,639 Speaker 5: saw enough this year and Dax Hill, like you did 1300 01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,439 Speaker 5: invest a first round pick in him. You've put up 1301 01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,920 Speaker 5: with the ups and downs of position and moves, scheme changes, 1302 01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:06,360 Speaker 5: defensive coordinators, an injury two years ago. Like it feels 1303 01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,600 Speaker 5: like he has a home. Shouldn't shouldn't he keep that 1304 01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,840 Speaker 5: home on your team? We'll see. But the Tryandrickson thing, 1305 01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:16,479 Speaker 5: like if you can, if you can get past the 1306 01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:21,559 Speaker 5: exasperation that I think everybody feels with just the the 1307 01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:25,360 Speaker 5: general topic of Trey Hendrickson's future, and you understand that 1308 01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,320 Speaker 5: there's going to be a market for him. 1309 01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,200 Speaker 2: Do you want that market coming to you? Do you 1310 01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:35,360 Speaker 2: want that market existing elsewhere? Vote now? 1311 01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:38,720 Speaker 5: At Malegger, It's fourteen away from five o'clock. I have 1312 01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:40,680 Speaker 5: a Super Bowl guarantee. 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Is this really going to be 1330 01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:44,880 Speaker 2: that much of an obstacle for any couple that's like, 1331 01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,920 Speaker 2: you know, sort of solid in their relationship. Is the 1332 01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:51,439 Speaker 2: super Bowl happening on a Sunday evening on Valentine's Day 1333 01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,880 Speaker 2: going to cause a problem? Yep? 1334 01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:56,240 Speaker 3: Really? 1335 01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:01,840 Speaker 5: Can't you celebrate Valentine's Day the night before, like if 1336 01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:07,240 Speaker 5: if it's like, you know what the game is on Sunday, 1337 01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,280 Speaker 5: We're gonna watch the game on Sunday. The next day 1338 01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,200 Speaker 5: is gonna be President's Day, which is going to solve 1339 01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:18,120 Speaker 5: an entirely different issue. Can you not have your Valentine's 1340 01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:22,800 Speaker 5: Day date on Saturday the thirteenth and have it be 1341 01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:28,439 Speaker 5: any less meaningful? Like is there especially knowing like there's 1342 01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:33,720 Speaker 5: a year to prepare? Is this going and granted there's 1343 01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,520 Speaker 5: gonna be people who you know they enter new relationship, 1344 01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:40,360 Speaker 5: enter new relationships between now and a year from now. 1345 01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:43,160 Speaker 5: But that could also be something you negotiate when you 1346 01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:46,080 Speaker 5: enter hey, which I think is good to do anyway. 1347 01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:50,040 Speaker 5: Like my wife and I don't really really do Valentine's Day. 1348 01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:53,120 Speaker 5: We buy each other cart or something well by my 1349 01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:56,200 Speaker 5: daughter of Valentine's Day present, because I think that's cute. 1350 01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:58,680 Speaker 5: But you know, we're not in high school anymore, so 1351 01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:02,240 Speaker 5: Valentine's Day isn't quite the thing that maybe it would 1352 01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:04,599 Speaker 5: have been when we were seventeen years old. Like we're 1353 01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:07,759 Speaker 5: folks in our forties. We have busy lives, we have jobs, 1354 01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,479 Speaker 5: we have a kid to raise, like we do date night, 1355 01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,200 Speaker 5: but Valentine's Day itself isn't a huge deal, and so, 1356 01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:15,920 Speaker 5: you know, maybe we're the exception. 1357 01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:16,439 Speaker 2: I don't know. 1358 01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:18,439 Speaker 5: I just I find it hard to believe that any 1359 01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:21,840 Speaker 5: couple that's in good standing with itself, with each person 1360 01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:24,839 Speaker 5: in good standing with the other, that that a football 1361 01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,600 Speaker 5: game being played on February the fourteenth is somehow going 1362 01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,439 Speaker 5: to ruin the relationship. I could be dead wrong about this. 1363 01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:31,559 Speaker 2: I don't know. 1364 01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:35,759 Speaker 5: I will say this. I don't know if our school 1365 01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:37,320 Speaker 5: district is the only one. 1366 01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:38,680 Speaker 2: I know we're not. 1367 01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:41,000 Speaker 5: Because I have a coworker with kids in a different 1368 01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:44,599 Speaker 5: district and we were talking about this today. Bengals made 1369 01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:48,800 Speaker 5: the Super Bowl in January of twenty twenty two. Ever 1370 01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:52,519 Speaker 5: since then, our school district has had an in service 1371 01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:55,320 Speaker 5: day the day after the Super Bowl. That is deft 1372 01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:58,760 Speaker 5: smart planning by the folks in our district. So like 1373 01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:03,040 Speaker 5: my daughter did not of school today, now I'm right, 1374 01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,719 Speaker 5: So this has become a thing now right where school 1375 01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:09,000 Speaker 5: districts are planning in serviced. I don't know really what 1376 01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:12,080 Speaker 5: happens during an in service day. I would imagine it's 1377 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:14,439 Speaker 5: a lot less stressful than it is than when the 1378 01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:19,640 Speaker 5: kids are there. This isn't coincidental, right you could put it? 1379 01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:22,920 Speaker 5: And by the way, Monday's a holidays, so no school 1380 01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:26,280 Speaker 5: for President's Day. That has been a thing since the 1381 01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,080 Speaker 5: year after the Bengals made the Super Bowl. 1382 01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:29,920 Speaker 2: Dumb. 1383 01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,400 Speaker 5: I will guarantee you this also because this gets asked 1384 01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:39,160 Speaker 5: every year. I had a friend of mine who texted 1385 01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,200 Speaker 5: me last week and said she was at lunch with 1386 01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:44,559 Speaker 5: a bunch of like business leaders who wanted to know 1387 01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,040 Speaker 5: why the Super Bowl is not on Saturday. And there's 1388 01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:51,000 Speaker 5: two basic reasons for this. One is the host city 1389 01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:53,639 Speaker 5: wants the game on Sunday because a lot of people 1390 01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:56,679 Speaker 5: who come into the host city for various activities don't 1391 01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,559 Speaker 5: stay for the game, and so they don't want those 1392 01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,920 Speaker 5: people on Saturday morning. They want the Saturday night's day. Also, 1393 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:06,160 Speaker 5: the TV networks, whoever carries the game, Sunday is a 1394 01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:07,080 Speaker 5: better TV day. 1395 01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:07,559 Speaker 2: Saturday. 1396 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,960 Speaker 5: There's more people out, they want more people watching at home. 1397 01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:14,040 Speaker 5: This is simple. In our lifetime, this is my guarantee, 1398 01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:18,519 Speaker 5: in our lifetime, we will never have Super Bowl moved 1399 01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:20,160 Speaker 5: from Sunday to Saturday. 1400 01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:21,400 Speaker 2: Ever. 1401 01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:24,120 Speaker 5: And by the way, like I get it, you know, hey, 1402 01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:26,800 Speaker 5: you want the day off, take a vacation day. 1403 01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:29,160 Speaker 2: I hear this. 1404 01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:32,479 Speaker 5: My colleague Lance McCallister complains about this every single year. 1405 01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,320 Speaker 5: Every single year. Super Bowl should be on Saturday night, 1406 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:38,160 Speaker 5: because you know, going to work the next day stinks. 1407 01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,799 Speaker 5: You're allowed to take a vacation day. The NCAA tournament 1408 01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,240 Speaker 5: the Thursday and Friday. The Thursday, we do a show 1409 01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:48,559 Speaker 5: at the Holy Grail in the morning and then I'm 1410 01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:51,960 Speaker 5: done for the weekend. I take a vacation day on 1411 01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:54,679 Speaker 5: Friday because I want to go watch basketball. I don't 1412 01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:59,280 Speaker 5: want to be on opposite my favorite sporting event, so 1413 01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:03,200 Speaker 5: I use it vacation day. Some American workers get more 1414 01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:06,639 Speaker 5: than others, but there's always stories about how American workers 1415 01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:08,880 Speaker 5: aren't using all their vacation day which, let me tell 1416 01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:14,160 Speaker 5: you something, use all your vacation days. Rule Number one 1417 01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:17,240 Speaker 5: in the American workforce should be use all your vacation days. 1418 01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:20,519 Speaker 5: If you're going to go crazy on Super Bowl Sunday, 1419 01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:25,000 Speaker 5: use a vacation day. Except now we're just going to 1420 01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,200 Speaker 5: close the schools anyway, so we might as well make 1421 01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:31,840 Speaker 5: it a holiday. I don't know, but I really appreciate 1422 01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:35,200 Speaker 5: the forward thinking by area school districts. Maybe not all, 1423 01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:40,360 Speaker 5: maybe not most, but there are some that have in 1424 01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,960 Speaker 5: service days now on the Monday after the Super Bowl, 1425 01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,280 Speaker 5: and I know it's done in case the Bengals make it. 1426 01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,400 Speaker 5: The day after the super Bowl is a little bit 1427 01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,680 Speaker 5: different if your team isn't it. Unfortunately ours was not. 1428 01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,519 Speaker 5: But we are not ever going to get a Saturday 1429 01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,800 Speaker 5: night super Bowl. So it's why that topic is never 1430 01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,800 Speaker 5: brought up on this show. Number one, others own it. 1431 01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:03,760 Speaker 5: Number two, it's a non starter because it's never going 1432 01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:09,559 Speaker 5: to happen. Ever, there's my guarantee. If I'm wrong, burn 1433 01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:12,880 Speaker 5: the tape, so to speak. Come away from five o'clock. 1434 01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:15,559 Speaker 5: By the way, a name was mentioned before that we 1435 01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:17,559 Speaker 5: have to keep talking about. We'll tell you who it 1436 01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:20,200 Speaker 5: is at five oh five on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1437 01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:25,000 Speaker 1: Now here's your chance to win one thousand dollars. Just 1438 01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:27,560 Speaker 1: enter this nationwide keyword on our website. 1439 01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,439 Speaker 2: Dollar. That's dollar. Enter it now. 1440 01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:34,760 Speaker 5: Look, I'm hearing from folks on social media and on 1441 01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:38,759 Speaker 5: email about Valentine's Day. Like we like Valentine's Day, don't. 1442 01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:42,040 Speaker 5: We don't dismiss, we don't ignore. 1443 01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:44,960 Speaker 2: We celebrate Valentine's Day like we do Saint Patrick's Day. 1444 01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:50,040 Speaker 2: Friday is coming? What's that? What's coming Friday? This Friday? 1445 01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:52,040 Speaker 5: Are you gonna be playing a bunch of sexy time music? 1446 01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,759 Speaker 5: I get it, that's a that's a staple on this show. 1447 01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,640 Speaker 5: If not on Valentine's Day, which is you know, on 1448 01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,639 Speaker 5: a Saturday this year, the day before, you could play 1449 01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:04,280 Speaker 5: all your sexy time music. Like I just I don't 1450 01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:08,080 Speaker 5: know that for that many couples, Valentine's Day coinciding with 1451 01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:10,960 Speaker 5: the Super Bowl is gonna like be a problem I 1452 01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:15,360 Speaker 5: could be. Maybe I'm using my limited relationship experience as 1453 01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:19,160 Speaker 5: a guide. I just know that most people that I know, 1454 01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:23,360 Speaker 5: you know, we'll do We'll do dinner, we'll do something 1455 01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:26,639 Speaker 5: for Valentine's Day to recognize. My wife last year bought 1456 01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,920 Speaker 5: me three cigars for three cigars that I really wanted 1457 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:33,200 Speaker 5: for Valentine's Day, and we had a nice dinner. But 1458 01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:35,080 Speaker 5: if there happened to be a football game on, well, 1459 01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:36,559 Speaker 5: that would have been okay. And there might have been 1460 01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:38,640 Speaker 5: a sporting event on last year in Valentine's Day. For 1461 01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:42,040 Speaker 5: all I can remember, I just don't Valentine's Day is great, 1462 01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:43,519 Speaker 5: celebrated however you want. 1463 01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:44,439 Speaker 2: We don't ignore it. 1464 01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:46,680 Speaker 5: We just don't make it out to be the sort 1465 01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:48,920 Speaker 5: of thing that like gets in the way of of 1466 01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:53,640 Speaker 5: everything else. In this country, the two biggest holidays are 1467 01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:58,599 Speaker 5: Christmas and Thanksgiving. Correct we play NFL football on those days. 1468 01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,519 Speaker 5: One of those days has long been all about football 1469 01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:06,240 Speaker 5: for a lot of families. The other has quickly become 1470 01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:08,879 Speaker 5: about football. We now have games on Netflix on Christmas, 1471 01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,160 Speaker 5: and I know those are regular season games, so people 1472 01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,719 Speaker 5: are checking in and checking out, and you know, maybe 1473 01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:16,560 Speaker 5: it's on in the background and the super Bowl is 1474 01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:18,240 Speaker 5: a little bit different. But if we can find a 1475 01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:23,080 Speaker 5: way to have the NFL coincide and coexist with Thanksgiving 1476 01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:25,559 Speaker 5: and Christmas, we can figure out a way to make 1477 01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:30,679 Speaker 5: the biggest sporting event in this country coexist with Valentine's Day. 1478 01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,400 Speaker 5: That's that once, by the way, not every year. Once 1479 01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,880 Speaker 5: it will be okay, that's it, like Valentine's Day getting 1480 01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:40,639 Speaker 5: beat up for I didn't criticize the day that all 1481 01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:45,040 Speaker 5: criticizes Sweetest Day. Sweetest Day is unrecognized in our house. 1482 01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:48,680 Speaker 5: We've never recognized it, never will recognize it. It's as 1483 01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:52,960 Speaker 5: if it never was invented. Valentine's Day will do Valentine's Day. 1484 01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:56,280 Speaker 5: We'll get a hard shape pizza from Lorosa's. We'll do 1485 01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:59,360 Speaker 5: small gifts for each other, but it's not like Christmas 1486 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,320 Speaker 5: where you're buying like nineteen things with the other person. 1487 01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:05,840 Speaker 5: And if the super Bowl is happening on Valentine's Day, us, 1488 01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,519 Speaker 5: like most families in this country, will figure out a 1489 01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:12,559 Speaker 5: way to make Valentine's Day coexist with the super Bowl. 1490 01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:18,719 Speaker 5: Thank you, seven after five o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. 1491 01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:23,120 Speaker 5: Name was mentioned before congratulations to a former Bearcat Kobe Bryant. 1492 01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:27,439 Speaker 5: Kobe playing safety for the Seahawks and coming pseudo close 1493 01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:29,920 Speaker 5: to a couple of picks in the game last night 1494 01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:34,000 Speaker 5: wins a ring congratulations to him. When he was at 1495 01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:40,360 Speaker 5: u SE, he willingly played robin to Sauce Gardner's batman. 1496 01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:46,040 Speaker 5: Sauce Gardner was awesome, was an awesome college football player, 1497 01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:51,040 Speaker 5: and you See's had some good corners. Mike Mickens what 1498 01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:54,080 Speaker 5: he did at you See goes without saying, but Sauce 1499 01:21:54,120 --> 01:22:01,200 Speaker 5: Gardener his like last two years, you See's opponent openly 1500 01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:04,840 Speaker 5: decided to not throw his way. It was comical how 1501 01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,240 Speaker 5: much they would avoid throwing to his side of the field, 1502 01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:10,559 Speaker 5: And so naturally, if teams were gonna throw, they had 1503 01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:12,280 Speaker 5: to throw to Kobe Bryant's side of the field. 1504 01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:16,800 Speaker 2: And he answered the bell man like to a degree, 1505 01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,599 Speaker 2: you think about it, like teams aren't even trying to 1506 01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:25,759 Speaker 2: test Sauce. They're trying to test me, and I respond, 1507 01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,800 Speaker 2: And I put together a great college football career and 1508 01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:32,040 Speaker 2: was tied for the nation's lead in interceptions in twenty 1509 01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,200 Speaker 2: twenty the weird COVID season, and was one of the 1510 01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:38,439 Speaker 2: best players on a team that went undefeated and yet 1511 01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,880 Speaker 2: sort of faded to the background behind what Sauce was 1512 01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,240 Speaker 2: able to do. And Sauce had the nickname and a 1513 01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:48,000 Speaker 2: neat persona, and again like he was a remarkable college player. 1514 01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:53,479 Speaker 5: But I always love how Kobe kind of handled that. 1515 01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:58,800 Speaker 5: And on passing downs, you often knew as everybody did. 1516 01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,120 Speaker 5: And maybe he didn't know the ball is coming his way, 1517 01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:04,800 Speaker 5: but I could tell you where it wasn't going. And 1518 01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:06,560 Speaker 5: if I could tell you where it's not going, I 1519 01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,000 Speaker 5: can tell you where it's more likely to go. And 1520 01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:12,320 Speaker 5: so he had a terrific college career playing corner. Gets 1521 01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:15,400 Speaker 5: drafted by the Seattle Seahawks, and I don't remember who 1522 01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:18,160 Speaker 5: it was, but the last time the Bengals played Seattle, 1523 01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:22,160 Speaker 5: you know, we always try to get somebody who covers 1524 01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:24,240 Speaker 5: the other team, and I don't remember who he got on, 1525 01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:27,519 Speaker 5: but Kobe was having a hard time getting playing time, 1526 01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:30,000 Speaker 5: and I remember getting whoever it was, I should go 1527 01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:32,880 Speaker 5: look it up. And I asked about Kobe Bryant. He's like, dude, 1528 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,599 Speaker 5: he's going to be a really good player. They've got 1529 01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,519 Speaker 5: to find a home for him, but they love so 1530 01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:40,320 Speaker 5: much about him. He has since been moved to safety 1531 01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:43,720 Speaker 5: and now he's a free agent, and this is an 1532 01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:47,559 Speaker 5: easy thing to do here, But the Bengals need a safety. 1533 01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:54,519 Speaker 5: They need like an established safety who may still be ascending. Now, 1534 01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,680 Speaker 5: I know that's the description of Geno Stone when he 1535 01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:00,960 Speaker 5: was a free agent. You know, Stone was a seventh 1536 01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:07,360 Speaker 5: round pick. Kobe Bryant was the fourth round pick. There 1537 01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:12,439 Speaker 5: are other safety options available. But would you be a 1538 01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:15,679 Speaker 5: post to Kobe Bryant helping solve the Bengal safety issues? 1539 01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:19,559 Speaker 5: I would not, so anyway, congratulations to him, and now 1540 01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:23,600 Speaker 5: he hits free agency and I would expect is going 1541 01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:25,800 Speaker 5: to have a lot of lucrative offers come his way. 1542 01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:31,080 Speaker 5: Sign me up for Kobe Bryant as a Cincinnati Bengal. 1543 01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:34,599 Speaker 5: The game itself last night, the story was Seattle's defense 1544 01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:40,240 Speaker 5: in real time. It it was abundantly clear early in 1545 01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,320 Speaker 5: the game, and collins Worth mentioned this on NBCs. I 1546 01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:46,000 Speaker 5: thought it was abundantly clear early in the game. Patriots 1547 01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:47,599 Speaker 5: were not going to be able to move the football 1548 01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:52,360 Speaker 5: and so in the absence of Seattle making a critical 1549 01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:56,160 Speaker 5: mistake on special teams or on offense, the Patriots were 1550 01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:58,080 Speaker 5: not going to win that football game. And collins Worth 1551 01:24:58,120 --> 01:25:00,479 Speaker 5: talked about this early in the broadcast aut at how 1552 01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,960 Speaker 5: you know, early in the game they had a possession 1553 01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:06,479 Speaker 5: that it kind of felt like the game hinged on that, 1554 01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:08,680 Speaker 5: and early in the game it felt like they were 1555 01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,320 Speaker 5: managing the game the way they did the Denver game 1556 01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,639 Speaker 5: with all the weather. The weather last night in Santa 1557 01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:18,040 Speaker 5: Clara was darn near perfect. This story was Seattle's defense. 1558 01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,400 Speaker 5: I'm not sure the final score. I'm not sure the 1559 01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:24,600 Speaker 5: box score is going to entirely encapsulate how good and 1560 01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:29,120 Speaker 5: how dominant Seattle's defense was. Now there's room for multiple truths. 1561 01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:34,400 Speaker 5: Seattle's defense rushing with four, keeping Drake May from scrambling, 1562 01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:38,840 Speaker 5: being excellent on the back, ending coverage, all of that 1563 01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:44,120 Speaker 5: well established. Drake May was also terrible and maybe physically 1564 01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:47,000 Speaker 5: compromised with that shoulder that he was weirdly not asked 1565 01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:49,120 Speaker 5: about before the game on NBC. 1566 01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,920 Speaker 2: There's room for multiple truths. Usually in life, there are. 1567 01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:58,040 Speaker 2: He was atrocious. New England's offensive game plan seemed atrocious. 1568 01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,080 Speaker 2: New England didn't seem like they were at all willing 1569 01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:05,080 Speaker 2: to be aggressive with fourth and short or with throwing 1570 01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:09,760 Speaker 2: the ball at times on third downs. You couldn't help 1571 01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,840 Speaker 2: but do this either. This is maybe not the most 1572 01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:13,439 Speaker 2: fair thing. 1573 01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:17,360 Speaker 5: The Patriots future is probably very bright, and Drake may 1574 01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:21,000 Speaker 5: did finish this far away from winning the NFL's MVP, 1575 01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:22,559 Speaker 5: and there's a lot of teams that would love to 1576 01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,519 Speaker 5: have him at quarterback. And by the way, when they 1577 01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:29,600 Speaker 5: did pseudo mount to comeback last night, Dre dropped a 1578 01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:30,360 Speaker 5: couple of times. 1579 01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:33,360 Speaker 2: But you couldn't help but watch. 1580 01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:38,240 Speaker 5: The Patriots scheduled this year was historically weak in the postseason. 1581 01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,519 Speaker 5: They caught some breaks a Chargers team that was not 1582 01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:43,920 Speaker 5: at all equipped to play ont offense in the first 1583 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:47,800 Speaker 5: round of the postseason with a woefully decimated offensive line 1584 01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,679 Speaker 5: and a quarterback who was physically compromised. In the second round, 1585 01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:55,479 Speaker 5: c J. Stroud was horrific. He was really bad against 1586 01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,919 Speaker 5: Pittsburgh and round one. He was worse against the Patriots 1587 01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:02,200 Speaker 5: in round two. So weather was a factor. New England 1588 01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,360 Speaker 5: beats Denver playing with Jared Stidham in a game dominated 1589 01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,640 Speaker 5: by snow in the second half, like a lot of 1590 01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:12,760 Speaker 5: stuff went their way. But that's okay. All you can 1591 01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:15,000 Speaker 5: do is play who the schedule gives you. All you 1592 01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,800 Speaker 5: can do is take care of the opponent in front 1593 01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:19,080 Speaker 5: of you. The Patriots, up until last night did that 1594 01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:23,519 Speaker 5: at the same time, you couldn't help but watch that 1595 01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:28,320 Speaker 5: game last night and go, that's that's the AFC's best. 1596 01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:33,639 Speaker 2: That's the AFC's best. So it does two different things. 1597 01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:36,520 Speaker 5: I think it illustrates how much of a missed opportunity 1598 01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:40,360 Speaker 5: this season was for a whole bunch of AFC teams. Obviously, 1599 01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,080 Speaker 5: you could put the Bengals in that conversation. It could 1600 01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,599 Speaker 5: also include the Bills and the Ravens, and could include, 1601 01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:50,760 Speaker 5: if you want, the Chargers, and you can make it 1602 01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,519 Speaker 5: about the Texans if you want. The AFC was down. 1603 01:27:55,680 --> 01:28:00,000 Speaker 5: The AFC's one seed was the Denver Broncos. The AFC 1604 01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:05,240 Speaker 5: two seed was that Patriots team from last night. Also 1605 01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:11,400 Speaker 5: might illustrate how relatively easy it may be to get 1606 01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:13,960 Speaker 5: back to the top in this conference for any number 1607 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:18,520 Speaker 5: of teams. Kansas City perhaps should lead that conversation. Baltimore 1608 01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:21,720 Speaker 5: should lead that conversation. The Buffalo Bills will be in 1609 01:28:21,760 --> 01:28:24,280 Speaker 5: that conversation. The Bengals should be as well. I'll say 1610 01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:28,120 Speaker 5: this this morning on FanDuel, the Bengals odds to win 1611 01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:35,599 Speaker 5: the AFC were at plus thirteen hundred plus thirteen hundred 1612 01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,080 Speaker 5: if you are bullish on the Bengals today. 1613 01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:41,479 Speaker 2: You should If you're a gambler, you should buy that now. 1614 01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:45,439 Speaker 5: If you're not, that's okay, because I don't think those 1615 01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:48,559 Speaker 5: odds are going to get any longer. I don't think 1616 01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:50,280 Speaker 5: that's going to go to plus fifteen hundred. I don't 1617 01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:52,200 Speaker 5: think that's going to go to plus sixteen hundred. 1618 01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:52,639 Speaker 2: Now. 1619 01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:54,840 Speaker 5: They might not be the odds on favorite to win 1620 01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,280 Speaker 5: the AFC. In fact, I'd be stunned if they were. 1621 01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,520 Speaker 5: But those odds will only get shorter as the offseason 1622 01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,920 Speaker 5: unfolds because they're gonna add people. 1623 01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:05,559 Speaker 2: They're not trading Burrow. 1624 01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:08,360 Speaker 5: You know you've read this weekend about how teams are 1625 01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:10,040 Speaker 5: gonna be calling the Bengals about Joe Burrow. 1626 01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:10,559 Speaker 2: That's neat. 1627 01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:12,720 Speaker 5: I can call a lot of people about a lot 1628 01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:16,679 Speaker 5: of different things. Doesn't mean they're gonna say yes, Joe 1629 01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:19,000 Speaker 5: Burrow will play for the Bengals in twenty twenty six. 1630 01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:22,040 Speaker 5: He's also probably not gonna sit out the season, so 1631 01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,200 Speaker 5: don't worry about any of that. So he is gonna play. 1632 01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,800 Speaker 5: They're gonna do nothing but add. They're not gonna lose 1633 01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:30,200 Speaker 5: a key guy in free agency, even Trey Hendrickson's departure 1634 01:29:30,960 --> 01:29:32,960 Speaker 5: We're talking about a guy who was here for less 1635 01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:34,719 Speaker 5: than half of the season in twenty twenty five. 1636 01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:39,360 Speaker 2: The question is. 1637 01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:43,880 Speaker 5: Can they go from a six win team this year 1638 01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:47,480 Speaker 5: to being where the Patriots were this year and leapfrogs 1639 01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:51,000 Speaker 5: some of the teams in the process. But it it 1640 01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:53,439 Speaker 5: is not often felt like the AFC is now wide open. 1641 01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:55,400 Speaker 5: In recent years, we've talked about there being a big 1642 01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:57,679 Speaker 5: three or a big four, and the Bengals at times 1643 01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,680 Speaker 5: have been in that small grouping. I don't know if 1644 01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:04,640 Speaker 5: there's a big anything in the AFC right now. By 1645 01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,440 Speaker 5: the way, we could have said that had the Patriots 1646 01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:09,240 Speaker 5: won that game last night. The fact that they played 1647 01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:11,439 Speaker 5: the way they did, the fact that they were as 1648 01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:16,080 Speaker 5: offensively inept as they were, will only amplify those conversations. 1649 01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:19,840 Speaker 5: Sixteen minutes after five o'clock, a couple of po up 1650 01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:23,000 Speaker 5: questions for your entertainment at Moulagar. One is about Trey 1651 01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:24,600 Speaker 5: Hendrickson and what the Bengal should do with ny. The 1652 01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:26,160 Speaker 5: other is about where the Reds are going to finish 1653 01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:29,200 Speaker 5: uh in the National League Central this year at Moulagar 1654 01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:33,920 Speaker 5: Thanks to United Heartland Insurance go to uh I NS 1655 01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:37,000 Speaker 5: dot com. Five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty 1656 01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:40,080 Speaker 5: is our phone number. They are playing catch and getting 1657 01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:43,080 Speaker 5: ready in goodyear. Spring training is about to start for 1658 01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:48,439 Speaker 5: the Reds. Reasons to feel bullish. 1659 01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:50,639 Speaker 2: And then one reason to maybe not feel so bullish 1660 01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:52,320 Speaker 2: coming up on ESPN fifteen. 1661 01:30:52,120 --> 01:31:00,759 Speaker 7: Thirty, WCKY Cincinnati and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed humanesp in fifteen 1662 01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:02,719 Speaker 7: thirty I Heart Radio. 1663 01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:06,280 Speaker 2: If you miss anything on this show, how dare you? 1664 01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:09,240 Speaker 5: The good news is we record everything and we put 1665 01:31:09,240 --> 01:31:13,160 Speaker 5: it on the internet, and we've got an app, the 1666 01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:17,080 Speaker 5: iHeartRadio App, And you know it would be cool if 1667 01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:19,000 Speaker 5: you go to the app and you could set us 1668 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:24,720 Speaker 5: as a preset. Thanks very much. In advance, we put interviews. 1669 01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:27,439 Speaker 5: We had a bunch of really good ones last week. 1670 01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:31,480 Speaker 5: Number of you have said nice things about our conversation 1671 01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:35,960 Speaker 5: with Jeene's territor. Our guy Sean Saya joined us to 1672 01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:38,880 Speaker 5: discuss some of the lessons that the Bengals can learn 1673 01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:40,920 Speaker 5: from the teams that were in the Super Bowl. Our 1674 01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:43,880 Speaker 5: friend Evan Cohen from ESPN Radio was with us as well. 1675 01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:46,320 Speaker 5: All of that and so much more. Ron Harper our 1676 01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:50,160 Speaker 5: interview with him that's available on the iHeartRadio app. Podcast 1677 01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,160 Speaker 5: of this show. Our a service of long Nex Sports Grow. 1678 01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:55,920 Speaker 5: By the way, the new location in Hebren is open 1679 01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:59,280 Speaker 5: and can't wait to check that out later this week. 1680 01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:02,400 Speaker 5: They've got a great deal all three long Next locations 1681 01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:07,639 Speaker 5: this week with Valentine's Day coming up. Two entrees, one 1682 01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:12,360 Speaker 5: appetizer and one dessert for forty five bucks. How about that? 1683 01:32:12,560 --> 01:32:16,760 Speaker 5: So date night at Long Necks, Wilder, Hebron or rich Wood. 1684 01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:20,000 Speaker 5: And again, congratulations to the folks at Long Necks for 1685 01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:24,479 Speaker 5: the reopening of the grand reopening of their Hebren location. 1686 01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,920 Speaker 5: I think that's the best way to phrase that. Five one, three, seven, 1687 01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,960 Speaker 5: four nine, fifteen thirty and eight sixty six seven two 1688 01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:33,240 Speaker 5: three seven seven six works as well. 1689 01:32:33,320 --> 01:32:34,760 Speaker 2: You know the Reds. 1690 01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:39,040 Speaker 5: Thing with the offseason, pitchers and catchers reporting in in goodyear. 1691 01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:42,439 Speaker 5: This is the year where twenty twenty five we're going 1692 01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:45,400 Speaker 5: to determine whether last year was a success. This is 1693 01:32:45,479 --> 01:32:48,000 Speaker 5: a different type of spring training, This is a different 1694 01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:49,200 Speaker 5: type of rollout to the. 1695 01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:52,679 Speaker 2: Season where they made the postseason last year. 1696 01:32:52,840 --> 01:32:54,880 Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, if you listen to a 1697 01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:58,760 Speaker 5: lot of the offseason discourse, much of which I participated in, 1698 01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:01,920 Speaker 5: that exactly feel like they were a playoff team last year, 1699 01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:04,840 Speaker 5: but they were now be the first to admit, if 1700 01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:07,880 Speaker 5: they win eighty three games this season or only eighty 1701 01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:11,040 Speaker 5: three games this season, it's gonna be hard to imagine 1702 01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:15,759 Speaker 5: this team playing in the postseason. But it does feel 1703 01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:22,679 Speaker 5: like this season that a we're going into it talking 1704 01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:26,400 Speaker 5: about their like bona fides as far as getting to 1705 01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:29,400 Speaker 5: the playoffs and advancing in the playoffs and winning the division. 1706 01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:32,479 Speaker 5: Not really sure we were doing that as much last year, 1707 01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:38,040 Speaker 5: despite hiring Terry Francona. Now it's how do they use 1708 01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:42,920 Speaker 5: last year as a jumping off point? The offense last year, 1709 01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:47,280 Speaker 5: as frustrating as it was, as at. 1710 01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:49,120 Speaker 2: Times punchless as it was. 1711 01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,960 Speaker 5: What's kind of neat about the Uhenio Suarez pickup is 1712 01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:56,479 Speaker 5: they're adding him to an offense that top to bottom 1713 01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:59,760 Speaker 5: wasn't atrocious last season. Now, there were times it was, 1714 01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:02,920 Speaker 5: but they were fourteenth in the league and run scored. 1715 01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:08,280 Speaker 5: They're not league worst. They're not the Bengals defense where 1716 01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:11,519 Speaker 5: you're building from, you know, a place at the very 1717 01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:16,120 Speaker 5: very bottom of the league. There are a lot of 1718 01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:22,240 Speaker 5: reasons to believe that team offensively could be better. The improvement, however, 1719 01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:25,280 Speaker 5: is going to come from within that's no knock on 1720 01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:28,519 Speaker 5: euhanios Wuarez. You were hoping he can hit you thirty 1721 01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,280 Speaker 5: to forty home runs, and playing in the ballpark the 1722 01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:33,400 Speaker 5: Reds play in, there's a very good chance that can happen. 1723 01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:36,760 Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, like dudes who 1724 01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:40,080 Speaker 5: have been here now for a while, like you realize 1725 01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:44,559 Speaker 5: how long ago twenty twenty three really was. Matt McClain 1726 01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:47,880 Speaker 5: was the Red's best player then because of a year 1727 01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:49,800 Speaker 5: where he doesn't play and then a year where he 1728 01:34:49,840 --> 01:34:52,439 Speaker 5: does play but doesn't play well, it feels like that 1729 01:34:52,600 --> 01:34:55,880 Speaker 5: was forever ago. Can you imagine what it would mean 1730 01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:59,160 Speaker 5: to this team if the Reds get the Matt McClain 1731 01:34:59,560 --> 01:35:03,519 Speaker 5: this year they clearly thought they were getting going into 1732 01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:10,120 Speaker 5: last year. It's a game changer that maybe he doesn't 1733 01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:12,960 Speaker 5: hit second at the beginning of the season, but that 1734 01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,200 Speaker 5: doesn't mean he can't be in assets somewhere else in 1735 01:35:15,240 --> 01:35:21,479 Speaker 5: the order. Can you imagine if a year of full 1736 01:35:21,520 --> 01:35:25,720 Speaker 5: health for Elie Dela Cruz, if that translates into like 1737 01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:30,040 Speaker 5: legitimate superstardom, aided by the fact that he's got somebody 1738 01:35:30,120 --> 01:35:34,679 Speaker 5: hitting behind him who's a legitimate long ball threat. Imagine 1739 01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:37,040 Speaker 5: what that looks like what it can mean for this 1740 01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:41,320 Speaker 5: team this year. Noelve Marte Offensively, I think Noel A 1741 01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:43,519 Speaker 5: Marte was the best feel good story on the team 1742 01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:47,200 Speaker 5: last season. Dude, who could not have been deeper in 1743 01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:49,800 Speaker 5: the doghouse during spring training and at the end of 1744 01:35:49,840 --> 01:35:52,200 Speaker 5: the season. You couldn't have imagined them without him. Can 1745 01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:57,880 Speaker 5: you imagine Sal Stewart hitting thirty home runs for this team? 1746 01:35:58,320 --> 01:36:00,880 Speaker 5: Talked about this on Friday. If you want to do 1747 01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:04,200 Speaker 5: this from a gambling perspective, plus eight hundred for him 1748 01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:06,880 Speaker 5: to be National League Rookie of the Year. I think 1749 01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:11,280 Speaker 5: that value is absurd because we saw he can hit 1750 01:36:11,320 --> 01:36:13,439 Speaker 5: the ball out of the ballpark at the big league 1751 01:36:13,560 --> 01:36:16,479 Speaker 5: level in the month he was up last season, hitting 1752 01:36:16,479 --> 01:36:19,720 Speaker 5: in this ballpark, maybe in a lineup that provides him 1753 01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,400 Speaker 5: a little bit more protection. There's a whole lot of 1754 01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:27,280 Speaker 5: things that singularly, if they happen, make total sense. 1755 01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:30,559 Speaker 2: The question is can all of them happen? 1756 01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:34,240 Speaker 5: And if they all happen at the same time, you know, 1757 01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:36,000 Speaker 5: I think the idea of this season is to go 1758 01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:41,120 Speaker 5: from eighty three last year to ninety. All those things happen, 1759 01:36:41,160 --> 01:36:48,160 Speaker 5: that's more than doable. Question is, while some of them, 1760 01:36:48,240 --> 01:36:51,240 Speaker 5: may will all of them and if not, then what. 1761 01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:54,160 Speaker 2: I just believe this. 1762 01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:56,800 Speaker 5: Man, Like, it's easy to be down on the Reds 1763 01:36:56,800 --> 01:36:58,680 Speaker 5: for a lot of different reasons. It's been thirty years 1764 01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:01,400 Speaker 5: since they've advanced in the playoffs. The brand of the 1765 01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:05,160 Speaker 5: franchise isn't awesome. Folks are still pissed off at ownership. Like, 1766 01:37:05,479 --> 01:37:10,800 Speaker 5: there's a lot there. But if you took I don't know, 1767 01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:17,280 Speaker 5: twenty teams that last season didn't win a championship, didn't 1768 01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:21,080 Speaker 5: really come that close to winning a championship, but believe 1769 01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:23,519 Speaker 5: they can do better this season and at least make 1770 01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:28,080 Speaker 5: the playoffs. How many of them will start spring training 1771 01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,360 Speaker 5: from a place where they have a really good idea 1772 01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:34,280 Speaker 5: of who four of their starting pitchers are going to be. 1773 01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:37,880 Speaker 5: How many of them have the starting pitching options the 1774 01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:41,240 Speaker 5: Reds have. How many of them have a chance for 1775 01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:45,519 Speaker 5: the high end the rotation here has the potential for 1776 01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:50,479 Speaker 5: like that's kind of, you know, part of what made 1777 01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:53,360 Speaker 5: so many of the discussions this offseason so frustrating when 1778 01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:56,639 Speaker 5: it came to the search for a home run back right, Like, boy, 1779 01:37:56,680 --> 01:37:58,960 Speaker 5: the starting pitching is top notch. They have a lot 1780 01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:01,120 Speaker 5: of guys, a lot of a lot of talent, a 1781 01:38:01,120 --> 01:38:03,240 Speaker 5: lot of potential, a lot of guys in your team 1782 01:38:03,240 --> 01:38:05,639 Speaker 5: control for a long time, if the offense could only 1783 01:38:05,680 --> 01:38:08,400 Speaker 5: be you know, okay. By the way, this sounds a 1784 01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:11,040 Speaker 5: lot like the Bengals when it comes to their offense 1785 01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:16,720 Speaker 5: and lack of defense. But there are a whole lot 1786 01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:19,599 Speaker 5: of teams that I believe are starting spring training from 1787 01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:22,200 Speaker 5: the position of strength the Reds are starting from with 1788 01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:27,000 Speaker 5: their starting pitching. And even if you can wonder about, 1789 01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:28,639 Speaker 5: you know, how the Reds are going to fill out 1790 01:38:28,640 --> 01:38:30,640 Speaker 5: the two through five spots in the batting order, if 1791 01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:32,719 Speaker 5: they're going to be collectively better at getting on base, 1792 01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:34,880 Speaker 5: if they're really going to see an uptick in the 1793 01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:39,719 Speaker 5: mental home runs they hit. I think to a degree, 1794 01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,040 Speaker 5: they're starting from a pretty enviable place with the guys 1795 01:38:42,080 --> 01:38:45,120 Speaker 5: they have most ideally filling out those roles. 1796 01:38:45,120 --> 01:38:47,760 Speaker 2: Five point thirty at moeggor on Twitter. Vote now. 1797 01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:50,479 Speaker 5: We'll update the poll questions here after sports headlines. College 1798 01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:52,160 Speaker 5: basketball coming up will get to that as well. On 1799 01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:54,440 Speaker 5: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports. 1800 01:38:54,200 --> 01:38:59,840 Speaker 4: Station Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic. 1801 01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,840 Speaker 8: Do you see health traffic center at the UC help 1802 01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:06,280 Speaker 8: backneck and spine Center. Spine care is never one size 1803 01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:10,240 Speaker 8: fits all, from nonsurgical treatments to the most complex cases. 1804 01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:13,080 Speaker 8: They've mastered What's best for You or more at U 1805 01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:16,200 Speaker 8: seehealth dot com. There is a new accident in on 1806 01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:20,479 Speaker 8: eastbound two seventy five after coal rain. Also a crash 1807 01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:24,479 Speaker 8: southbound seventy five between Shepherd Lane and Cooper Avenue. Police, 1808 01:39:24,520 --> 01:39:27,599 Speaker 8: fire and ems are all there on scene. I'm at 1809 01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:29,000 Speaker 8: ezelic with traffic. 1810 01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:34,599 Speaker 9: This raised athletes the world's biggest stage stay with ESPN 1811 01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:37,520 Speaker 9: fifteen thirty were the latest Olympic updates. 1812 01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:44,280 Speaker 2: Do the updates involve people who would ordinarily have no 1813 01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:49,920 Speaker 2: interest in skiing getting madelins Yvonne mad at her for 1814 01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,640 Speaker 2: what they were mad at her because she tried to 1815 01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:59,000 Speaker 2: compete despite having an ACL injury. I did not see 1816 01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:02,639 Speaker 2: the injury happen real time, but I woke up yesterday morning, 1817 01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:06,679 Speaker 2: and you know, I was having a cup of coffee, 1818 01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:10,320 Speaker 2: kind of enjoying the quiet. My daughter had had friends over. 1819 01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:13,200 Speaker 2: They were in the other room, they had spent the night, 1820 01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:15,120 Speaker 2: and I, you know, I had to go. We had 1821 01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:18,559 Speaker 2: a basketball game, you see, played and so I thought, ye, 1822 01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:20,599 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do what I often do if I can 1823 01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:23,559 Speaker 2: is just I'm gonna take ten to fifteen minutes and 1824 01:40:23,600 --> 01:40:26,680 Speaker 2: I read stuff and I go. Sometimes I'll look at 1825 01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:30,040 Speaker 2: Twitter first, and sometimes I don't. Yesterday was one of 1826 01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:32,519 Speaker 2: those mornings where I looked at Twitter first. And on 1827 01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:35,360 Speaker 2: a day where you knew Twitter for much of the 1828 01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:37,559 Speaker 2: Super Bowl was going to be an angry, angry place 1829 01:40:38,080 --> 01:40:40,720 Speaker 2: yesterday morning, you know, you get folks, they need that 1830 01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:45,120 Speaker 2: dopamine head of just being angry at things online. And 1831 01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:48,200 Speaker 2: apparently Lindsay Vaughn's crash, which I don't really think had 1832 01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:50,160 Speaker 2: anything to do with her knee injury, and I do 1833 01:40:50,280 --> 01:40:54,960 Speaker 2: not closely follow downhill skiing, but I like to watch 1834 01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:57,800 Speaker 2: it during the Olympics because the Olympics are cool and 1835 01:40:57,880 --> 01:41:02,000 Speaker 2: because it's a very dangerous looking space. So she has 1836 01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:04,840 Speaker 2: an injury and it wasn't enough to go man. That 1837 01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:05,679 Speaker 2: stings for her. 1838 01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:09,519 Speaker 5: Folks, big man, big big man at the media for 1839 01:41:09,560 --> 01:41:12,320 Speaker 5: Oprah over hyping it, of course, and then big mad 1840 01:41:12,400 --> 01:41:14,760 Speaker 5: at her for taking up a spot that they thinks 1841 01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:18,519 Speaker 5: should have gone to somebody else, big big, big mad 1842 01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:21,599 Speaker 5: on social Yes. So then I quickly decided I'm gonna 1843 01:41:21,600 --> 01:41:23,519 Speaker 5: go read something that has nothing to do with this 1844 01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:30,640 Speaker 5: Sports Headlines, earth service of Kelsey Chevrolet. I do, like, 1845 01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:34,600 Speaker 5: I don't really have these people in my life, but 1846 01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:37,680 Speaker 5: I one of these days I'm going to identify somebody 1847 01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,320 Speaker 5: because I see some of these folks online and they're 1848 01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:42,280 Speaker 5: for the most part, not people I follow, because I 1849 01:41:42,280 --> 01:41:45,200 Speaker 5: don't really follow people like this, but like you just 1850 01:41:45,280 --> 01:41:46,800 Speaker 5: you get the sense there are some of these folks 1851 01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:50,120 Speaker 5: that like every day their sole reason for existing is 1852 01:41:50,160 --> 01:41:55,200 Speaker 5: to find things to be mad at. So they they 1853 01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:58,000 Speaker 5: they look, they spend all day looking for things that 1854 01:41:58,040 --> 01:42:01,160 Speaker 5: they could use to just express they're angered. They get 1855 01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:03,800 Speaker 5: that temporary hit, and I just one of these days, 1856 01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:06,760 Speaker 5: I'm gonna, like, like just embed myself with them for 1857 01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:08,800 Speaker 5: a day, just to see what life in the real 1858 01:42:08,840 --> 01:42:11,680 Speaker 5: world is actually like. Sports Headlines are a service at 1859 01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:14,479 Speaker 5: Kelsey Chevrolet, home of lifetime power train protection and guarantee 1860 01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:17,559 Speaker 5: credit approval from their family to yours for life. 1861 01:42:17,720 --> 01:42:18,960 Speaker 2: Kelsey chev dot Com. 1862 01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:22,880 Speaker 5: Reds pitchers and catchers are reporting to us spring training 1863 01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:28,120 Speaker 5: in goodyear physicals tomorrow, So turn your head and cough 1864 01:42:28,240 --> 01:42:30,400 Speaker 5: and then the first workout is going to be on Wednesday. 1865 01:42:30,439 --> 01:42:34,200 Speaker 5: Of course, the first Cactus League game against the Guardians 1866 01:42:34,240 --> 01:42:36,400 Speaker 5: is going to be on February the twenty. 1867 01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:41,519 Speaker 2: First, in goodyear or twelve days away. What else do 1868 01:42:41,560 --> 01:42:44,880 Speaker 2: we have? A couple of baseball notes. Pirates have signed 1869 01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:48,640 Speaker 2: Marcelo Zuna, who was a player that some thought the 1870 01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:50,240 Speaker 2: Reds might be interested in. 1871 01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:55,639 Speaker 5: Hard pass on him. Meanwhile, this raise some eyebrows. Today, 1872 01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:58,559 Speaker 5: the Red Sox have acquired Caleb Durbin a third basement 1873 01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:01,719 Speaker 5: from Milwaukee Brewers. Who finished I said six before thirty 1874 01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:05,000 Speaker 5: the National League Rookie the Year voting last year in exchange, 1875 01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:08,000 Speaker 5: Boston sends to Milwaukee lefty Kyle Harrison. 1876 01:43:09,320 --> 01:43:10,799 Speaker 2: What else do we have? College basketball? 1877 01:43:10,840 --> 01:43:14,720 Speaker 5: Tonight it's Patino Bowl two as Xavier takes on Saint 1878 01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:17,599 Speaker 5: John's at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, 1879 01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:20,559 Speaker 5: tip off tonight at six thirty. That game can be 1880 01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:23,599 Speaker 5: heard on seven hundred WLW with Joe and Byron pregame 1881 01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:27,719 Speaker 5: coverage starting Ainst six pm. Also tonight, Indiana takes on Oregon. 1882 01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:31,160 Speaker 5: I believe I should have checked this. They are celebrating 1883 01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:35,080 Speaker 5: the undefeated seventy five seventy sixteen. I believe that's happening tonight. 1884 01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:38,040 Speaker 5: I don't know college basketball? 1885 01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:39,840 Speaker 2: What else we have? The AP top twenty five men's 1886 01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:40,360 Speaker 2: pull is out. 1887 01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:43,519 Speaker 5: Kentucky slides into twenty five after another come from behind win, 1888 01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:47,320 Speaker 5: this time again over Tennessee on Saturday. More tonight on 1889 01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:51,400 Speaker 5: the Mark Pope Show at six pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1890 01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:54,120 Speaker 5: After that, it'll be the NKU Coaches Show, the Norse 1891 01:43:54,120 --> 01:43:59,040 Speaker 5: winning on Saturday, Darren Horn's team beating Milwaukee. He'll talk 1892 01:43:59,080 --> 01:44:01,479 Speaker 5: about that in so much more at seven o'clock to 1893 01:44:01,479 --> 01:44:04,719 Speaker 5: the Miami RedHawks are twenty third in the AP Tops 1894 01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:07,439 Speaker 5: twenty five poll, holding steady where they were last week. 1895 01:44:07,680 --> 01:44:13,160 Speaker 5: Miami beat Marshall on the road. Kenpalm dot com has 1896 01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:17,400 Speaker 5: and you can go overboard with this, but kenpom dot 1897 01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:22,360 Speaker 5: com predicts Miami to win each of their remaining games, 1898 01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:24,839 Speaker 5: which obviously, if they did, they would finish the regular 1899 01:44:24,880 --> 01:44:31,960 Speaker 5: season undefeated. They give Miami no worse than a sixty 1900 01:44:32,080 --> 01:44:35,040 Speaker 5: seven percent chance to win each of their final seven 1901 01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:38,080 Speaker 5: remaining games, including an eighty eight percent chance to beat 1902 01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:42,679 Speaker 5: Ohio You on Friday night. RedHawks have had some close 1903 01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,880 Speaker 5: calls in this quest for an undefeated season. The two 1904 01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:48,400 Speaker 5: back to back overtime games against Buffalo and Ken State. 1905 01:44:49,800 --> 01:44:54,120 Speaker 5: The return game against Buffalo, which Miami made it closer 1906 01:44:54,160 --> 01:44:56,120 Speaker 5: than it needed to be, but they did hang on 1907 01:44:56,200 --> 01:45:00,479 Speaker 5: to win the UMass game, which they We play U 1908 01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:05,600 Speaker 5: Mass a week from tomorrow in Amherst. Now the OU 1909 01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:08,320 Speaker 5: game is going to be here on Friday. That's the 1910 01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:11,840 Speaker 5: nationally televised game. That U Mass game is going to 1911 01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:16,479 Speaker 5: be tough. And then it's Terrence Bowling, Green Falcons, Eastern Michigan, 1912 01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:20,000 Speaker 5: Western Michigan, Toledo, and then the second of two games 1913 01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:23,720 Speaker 5: against Oh You and Athens, which I would imagine if 1914 01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:27,639 Speaker 5: Miami is undefeated and they play the Bobcats in Athens 1915 01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:31,000 Speaker 5: the last game, that atmosphere is going to be fun. 1916 01:45:31,840 --> 01:45:34,000 Speaker 5: But Ken Palm likes them to win every game and 1917 01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:37,200 Speaker 5: gives them no worse than a six sixty seven percent 1918 01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:42,320 Speaker 5: chance of winning. This is I think the most interesting 1919 01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:45,519 Speaker 5: story in college basketball right now. And you know we 1920 01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:48,840 Speaker 5: were making fun last week of I guess there are 1921 01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:51,479 Speaker 5: some Arizona Wildcats fans who have decided to pick a 1922 01:45:51,479 --> 01:45:54,120 Speaker 5: fight with Miami and folks who like the RedHawks. And 1923 01:45:54,720 --> 01:45:58,040 Speaker 5: the cool thing about college basketball is not every undefeated 1924 01:45:58,080 --> 01:46:02,439 Speaker 5: season is the same. The Arizona Wildcats are awesome. Now 1925 01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:05,960 Speaker 5: they play in what is going to be another fun 1926 01:46:06,080 --> 01:46:08,840 Speaker 5: night of college basketball. They play what I think most 1927 01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:11,560 Speaker 5: would agree is a must watch game against Kansas, a 1928 01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:14,479 Speaker 5: Jayhawks team that has very quietly snuck into the top ten. 1929 01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:17,360 Speaker 5: That game is in Lawrence tonight, So by the end 1930 01:46:17,360 --> 01:46:20,240 Speaker 5: of this evening, it is plausible that Miami will be 1931 01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:25,599 Speaker 5: the nation's only undefeated team. Arizona is better than Miami. 1932 01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:28,160 Speaker 5: And you don't need me to say that. I don't 1933 01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:29,880 Speaker 5: need to say it. You don't need to hear me 1934 01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:33,080 Speaker 5: say that. But the cool thing about this sport is 1935 01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:36,479 Speaker 5: there's lots of room for different types of stories. There's 1936 01:46:36,560 --> 01:46:39,280 Speaker 5: lots of room for different types of really good teams. 1937 01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:43,040 Speaker 5: There's lots of room for fans to be really excited 1938 01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:47,360 Speaker 5: about their respective teams. And I think I talked about 1939 01:46:47,360 --> 01:46:50,240 Speaker 5: this last week, but if I didn't, I'll say it here. 1940 01:46:50,360 --> 01:46:52,880 Speaker 5: I think the cool thing about Miami isn't so much 1941 01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:56,960 Speaker 5: that they're undefeated, although because they're undefeated, there are a 1942 01:46:57,000 --> 01:46:59,160 Speaker 5: lot more on people's radar than they would be if 1943 01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:02,040 Speaker 5: they had two lost. What I think is cool is 1944 01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:05,200 Speaker 5: this is the continuation of something that started last year. 1945 01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:10,000 Speaker 5: Miami University basketball has been dormant for most of this century, 1946 01:47:11,680 --> 01:47:15,280 Speaker 5: and you know, Malette Hall has been empty, and the 1947 01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:19,759 Speaker 5: sport Miami basketball, in the local sports landscape in recent 1948 01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:23,120 Speaker 5: years has not really been on the grid. And now 1949 01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:27,120 Speaker 5: the campus community is excited. Miami alums are fired up. 1950 01:47:27,400 --> 01:47:31,639 Speaker 5: More people are going to games like that's awesome when 1951 01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:34,160 Speaker 5: it happens, and you could acknowledge that. 1952 01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:36,719 Speaker 2: Even if that's not your team. 1953 01:47:36,760 --> 01:47:39,479 Speaker 5: And I've read over the last day or so a 1954 01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:42,200 Speaker 5: lot of stories about Sam Darnold being the Super Bowl's 1955 01:47:42,200 --> 01:47:43,759 Speaker 5: greatest ever redemption story. 1956 01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:46,200 Speaker 2: And maybe he is, and it's a neat story that 1957 01:47:46,280 --> 01:47:47,280 Speaker 2: this guy was. 1958 01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:49,599 Speaker 5: Kind of left for dead in multiple places and he's 1959 01:47:49,640 --> 01:47:54,000 Speaker 5: associated with seeing goats, seeing ghosts when he was with 1960 01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:56,000 Speaker 5: the Jets and they were playing the Patriots. And now 1961 01:47:56,360 --> 01:47:58,120 Speaker 5: I don't think he was awesome last night, but he 1962 01:47:58,200 --> 01:48:01,240 Speaker 5: is a super Bowl winning quarterback. That is an awesome story. 1963 01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:06,160 Speaker 5: Travis Steele not getting the job done at Xavier and 1964 01:48:06,200 --> 01:48:09,280 Speaker 5: then getting another chance in the same part of the 1965 01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:11,840 Speaker 5: country and making the most of. 1966 01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:13,559 Speaker 2: It is also a cool story. 1967 01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:17,200 Speaker 5: I don't know why Miami being undefeated has to make 1968 01:48:17,240 --> 01:48:20,600 Speaker 5: anybody who roots for another really good team feel uncomfortable. 1969 01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:23,240 Speaker 5: I do think, though, the biggest story in the sport 1970 01:48:23,320 --> 01:48:28,640 Speaker 5: right now is the distinct possibility that you'll have a 1971 01:48:28,760 --> 01:48:32,599 Speaker 5: team that wins every regular season game and yet if 1972 01:48:32,600 --> 01:48:36,479 Speaker 5: they don't continue perfection in their conference tournament, they may 1973 01:48:36,479 --> 01:48:41,160 Speaker 5: not make it. And you know, we're talking about humans 1974 01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:45,640 Speaker 5: on the selection committee, and each one applies different criteria. 1975 01:48:46,640 --> 01:48:56,559 Speaker 5: It would be unsurprising if someone on the selection committee said, look, yes, 1976 01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:59,920 Speaker 5: the schedule is really weak, and it is by everybody's admission, 1977 01:49:01,400 --> 01:49:08,800 Speaker 5: and yes they uh, getting through the MAC undefeated is 1978 01:49:08,840 --> 01:49:12,479 Speaker 5: different than getting through the Big twelve, SEC, Big East, ACC, 1979 01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:13,120 Speaker 5: et cetera. 1980 01:49:13,320 --> 01:49:13,920 Speaker 2: Undefeated. 1981 01:49:14,880 --> 01:49:19,160 Speaker 5: But they did go undefeated. Are we essentially going to 1982 01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:23,320 Speaker 5: nullify all of that because they lost one game, especially 1983 01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:26,200 Speaker 5: in the conference tournament title game. There have been lots 1984 01:49:26,240 --> 01:49:28,840 Speaker 5: of really good teams that didn't make the Big Dance 1985 01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:32,320 Speaker 5: because they lost their conference tournament title game. I don't 1986 01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:38,000 Speaker 5: know that there's been an undefeated one. You will have 1987 01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:41,360 Speaker 5: folks on the committee who I believe, say, look, yes, 1988 01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:44,360 Speaker 5: schedule is what it is, net is what it is. 1989 01:49:44,400 --> 01:49:47,280 Speaker 5: They're eighty ninth today, but come on, man, they won 1990 01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:50,320 Speaker 5: every game. And then you're gonna have folks on the 1991 01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:55,320 Speaker 5: committee who go, look, good team, great season, but look 1992 01:49:55,360 --> 01:49:59,920 Speaker 5: at the metrics. The metrics, and if you just look 1993 01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:03,599 Speaker 5: look at the pure metrics of it, Q one wins 1994 01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:08,479 Speaker 5: or lack thereof net ranking Ken Palm, and you just 1995 01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:11,519 Speaker 5: you don't even consider that there's a zero in the 1996 01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:14,160 Speaker 5: lost column. And then you look at the schedule and 1997 01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:16,040 Speaker 5: how it's weighted down and the fact that they've played 1998 01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:18,160 Speaker 5: three games that don't even count when you look at 1999 01:50:18,200 --> 01:50:21,240 Speaker 5: their resume. You are going to have people if this 2000 01:50:21,479 --> 01:50:25,080 Speaker 5: is what happens, where they win all their games and 2001 01:50:25,080 --> 01:50:28,240 Speaker 5: they still have seven to go and then lose in 2002 01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:31,640 Speaker 5: the conference tournament title game, which nobody here wants that 2003 01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:35,639 Speaker 5: you're gonna have folks on the committee who go neat story, 2004 01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:41,280 Speaker 5: good team, but you can't put them in because of 2005 01:50:41,320 --> 01:50:44,840 Speaker 5: the because of the metrics. It's gonna be fascinating, and 2006 01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:47,599 Speaker 5: it might be a moot point because maybe Miami loses 2007 01:50:47,640 --> 01:50:51,400 Speaker 5: and still wins the MAC Tournament, or maybe Miami wins 2008 01:50:51,439 --> 01:50:53,439 Speaker 5: all their games and still wins the MAC Tournament and 2009 01:50:53,479 --> 01:50:57,280 Speaker 5: they go into the NCAA Tournament with an undefeated, unblemished record, 2010 01:50:57,320 --> 01:51:02,000 Speaker 5: then it's gonna be fascinating to see what seedet and like, 2011 01:51:02,160 --> 01:51:04,200 Speaker 5: who knows, maybe they lose like five of their next 2012 01:51:04,280 --> 01:51:06,320 Speaker 5: seven and then get smoked in the first round in 2013 01:51:06,320 --> 01:51:08,000 Speaker 5: the MAC Tournament. It doesn't matter at all, but we 2014 01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:11,639 Speaker 5: are we are certainly with each success of Miami victory, 2015 01:51:13,240 --> 01:51:15,960 Speaker 5: we are closing it on the possibility of them going 2016 01:51:15,960 --> 01:51:19,120 Speaker 5: into the MAC Tournament with an undefeated record and still 2017 01:51:19,640 --> 01:51:22,000 Speaker 5: at least not a lock to make the Big Dance 2018 01:51:22,600 --> 01:51:25,080 Speaker 5: and maybe a good bet to not make it if 2019 01:51:25,120 --> 01:51:25,679 Speaker 5: they lose. 2020 01:51:27,360 --> 01:51:31,679 Speaker 2: We'll see ut the college basketball, the New England Patriots 2021 01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:33,960 Speaker 2: a college basketball Yeah, there you go, there you go. 2022 01:51:35,120 --> 01:51:37,639 Speaker 5: The Bearcat came yesterday. I don't know that we need 2023 01:51:37,680 --> 01:51:39,200 Speaker 5: to make a bigger deal out of it than it is. 2024 01:51:39,240 --> 01:51:42,120 Speaker 5: They're twelve and twelve, but a solid performance at home. 2025 01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:44,120 Speaker 5: The Bearcats are twelve and three at home this season. 2026 01:51:44,160 --> 01:51:47,360 Speaker 5: The issue has been among many they haven't won away 2027 01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:50,720 Speaker 5: from home. I know my colleague Tony Pike, who's as 2028 01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:53,439 Speaker 5: big of a Bearcat fan as I am, wants to 2029 01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:55,160 Speaker 5: cling to the idea that this team is going to 2030 01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:56,800 Speaker 5: run the table. In order to do that, you have 2031 01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:58,840 Speaker 5: to win away from home. They haven't done so this year. 2032 01:51:58,880 --> 01:52:01,439 Speaker 5: I do think, I do think they should win the 2033 01:52:01,479 --> 01:52:04,600 Speaker 5: next two games. What is so frustrating about the Bearcats? 2034 01:52:04,600 --> 01:52:06,240 Speaker 5: And again there's a lot of different things. What is 2035 01:52:06,280 --> 01:52:09,639 Speaker 5: so frustrating about the Bearcats is on the defensive end, 2036 01:52:10,439 --> 01:52:13,720 Speaker 5: they're a good team. Like on the defensive end of 2037 01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:18,880 Speaker 5: the floor, metrics, eyeball test, are they perfect? No, they're 2038 01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:23,160 Speaker 5: really good. What was so tantalizing about yesterday is you 2039 01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:25,400 Speaker 5: saw what a good defensive team can do when they 2040 01:52:25,400 --> 01:52:28,320 Speaker 5: shoot the ball. Well, they weren't perfect on the offensive end, 2041 01:52:28,680 --> 01:52:31,880 Speaker 5: but they shot close to sixty percent. I'm not entirely 2042 01:52:31,960 --> 01:52:35,200 Speaker 5: sure how good that UCF team is. They're a tournament 2043 01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:39,719 Speaker 5: team today, but back to back losses. Cincinnati did whatever 2044 01:52:39,720 --> 01:52:42,679 Speaker 5: they won on the offensive end last night, shot sixty 2045 01:52:42,720 --> 01:52:46,720 Speaker 5: one percent from behind the arc, and they had like 2046 01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:49,040 Speaker 5: five guys in double figures. If you knew nothing about 2047 01:52:49,040 --> 01:52:52,400 Speaker 5: the Bearcats but watched the game yesterday, you would think 2048 01:52:52,400 --> 01:52:53,720 Speaker 5: that's a team that's got a chance to make the 2049 01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:54,759 Speaker 5: NCAA tournament. 2050 01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:57,040 Speaker 2: Alas that is not the case. 2051 01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:01,439 Speaker 5: We have to go tomorrow on the show, Paula on 2052 01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:04,360 Speaker 5: his h excuse me, ten point guide for the Bengals 2053 01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:05,479 Speaker 5: to get back to the super Bowl. 2054 01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:07,439 Speaker 2: What else do we have? 2055 01:53:08,080 --> 01:53:09,800 Speaker 5: Oh, Jordan Bishwell is going to be on the show 2056 01:53:09,800 --> 01:53:12,200 Speaker 5: that you U see baseball coach, our friend Stewart W. 2057 01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:15,040 Speaker 5: Penrose from the Manila Lag Group on a handful of 2058 01:53:15,880 --> 01:53:19,560 Speaker 5: sports legal issues, including the possibility that y Selpuig is 2059 01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:21,679 Speaker 5: going to go to federal prison for a really long time, 2060 01:53:22,200 --> 01:53:24,519 Speaker 5: that uplifting story in so much more. 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