WEBVTT - Eddie & Rocky -- 12/22/25 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.240 Back on the Big one seven hundred w l W would 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.280 see Eddie and Rockney Show, Dan Carrol, Jason Williams in 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:10.080 for Eddie and the Rock. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.120 How it's been a little while, it has, you know, 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.599 but it wouldn't holiday. It wouldn't be a holiday without 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:18.720 you and I being here, all right? 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:19.160 How many? 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.439 How many years? Now? This is our fourth straight season? 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:22.400 Is it our fourth year? 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:23.000 Year? 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.720 Season? Season? Season? 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.280 Is the right word? You say Merry Christmas to people? 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:34.519 Are absolutely you impressed me as a happy Holidays. Merry Christmas. No, yeah, 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.520 I'm kidding, No, merry Christmas. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:37.400 Remember that. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:39.800 I remember that one year when it was like, oh, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.559 it was like you're offending everyone by saying Merry Christmas 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.599 to people. I think we've I think we've crossed that bridge. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.920 But that I mean that was in the rear view mirror. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:54.760 Now yeah, oh yeah, Merry Christmas, the merry Christmas to you. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.160 Happy. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.959 We will be here through Christmas a year and right 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.280 up until the New year. Keep so I'm looking forward 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.080 to that. I'm also looking forward to talking about what 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.000 happened on Sunday. By the way, Austin Elmore is front 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.480 of the Big board absolutely seven today. So we always 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.640 appreciate Austin being here. And in the meantime, we had 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.720 a Bengals game yesterday, Bengals down in sunny Florida looking 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.679 looking pretty good out there in the in the sunshine, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.880 and the Bengals winning game. And here to break it 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.720 down is uh, they like to call him Trags, but 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:32.119 he's also known as Mike Petralia and uh it's Sincincy 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.880 dot com c L c l n S. Since I'm 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.399 reading this wrong, aren't I that c L what's the trags? 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.160 What does cel n S stand for? 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:43.479 This is good? 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.800 So I'm gonna give you guys a little bit of 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.960 a Christmas treat. I've never I don't think, talked about 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.480 this on the air, but yeah, the c l n 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.840 S stands for Celtics Late Night Show. It's a Boston 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:02.920 based digital platform company, obviously since expanded to Cincinnati circa 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:07.640 twenty twenty one, but it was founded a digital platform 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.160 company founded in the wake of Kevin Garnett and the 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.680 Big Three in Boston winning a Celtics championship in two 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:15.440 thousand and eight. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.000 How about that? Love it? So now a little a 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.240 little history lesson to start off the day. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.800 There you go, that's on s. Yeah, but I'm looking. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.600 I'm looking at this and the headline on this is 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:31.000 that's how it's supposed to look. And uh, and I 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.080 was thinking, and I was thinking during the game, and 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.240 Jason Williams, tell me if you were thinking the same thing, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.520 that it's amazing how when Joe Burrow was on his game, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.960 when when everyone else is on their game, and when 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:49.400 the defense is playing moderately, Well, it's amazing how easy 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:50.679 they make it look. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.120 It's how you drew it up, isn't it though? I 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.040 mean no, but tracks, let me ask you this. It doesn't. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.320 Yeah, I wasn't thinking that, but yes, well, I mean, look, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.040 I mean it's great. They they had, they had a 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.040 great outings. They put up what forty five points? The 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.160 defense only gave up twenty one, which in a lot 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.079 of cases, you know, won't won't win your football game. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.440 But in any case, these are now meaningless games. What's 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.880 what's the upside to them winning games now? When you 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.360 know the playoffs is in the rearview? 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:20.520 Mare? 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.720 Okay, so I'm going to go all coach speak on you. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.600 I'm going to use one of the great cliches in 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.840 all of football. None of these games are meaningless to 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.040 the players playing them. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.960 Now, why is that relevant to the Bengals Because you 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.000 have a lot of young players on defense who need 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.880 to show their legitimate players and contenders for a roster 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.240 spot in twenty twenty six. And one of those players 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:50.200 spoke today, Jordan Battle. Jordan Battle can be a good 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.800 player if you put veterans like and maybe perhaps a 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:59.000 different veteran safety along with him in the secondary. Another 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.640 two other players that you should keep an eye on 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.000 in the final two games Dax Hill and DJ Turner. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.480 Dax Hill could be your starting outside corner opposite DJ 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.520 Turner next year. That is something I think that the 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.720 Bengals are seriously giving thought to, and that would mean 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.039 they'd of course have to come up with a nickel corner. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.359 But those are two players who have a lot at stake. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.960 Another player that has a lot of steak is Shamar Stewart, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.960 the first round pick out of Texas A and M 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.840 the defensive edge that hasn't been able to get on 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.760 the field except for six games this year. He needs 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.400 to show something in the final two games of the season. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.320 All of these players happen to be on the defensive side. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:43.880 Of the ball. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.760 But I do think that the Bengals need to show 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.040 that their defense has playmakers on it, even if it's 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.279 against three and twelve Arizona, even if it's against three 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.159 and twelve Cleveland. These defensive players need to show that 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.080 they belong on the roster going forward. To me, and yes, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.640 draft position is at stake, and I get all that 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.680 better draft pick if you lose the last two games, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.600 But to me, the bigger picture is getting these younger 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.440 second and third year players to show that they belong 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:18.200 in the NFL. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.000 I liked your column Day Drags. I always like your 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.800 columns because you I appreciate that you often have a 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.240 very different viewpoint than I do, and like Dan, I 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.800 appreciate different viewpoints. I want to read this what you 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.320 wrote here a chunk out of your column. Quote everything 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.880 the Bengals did on defense in the third quarter, forcing 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.120 three turnovers and turning the Dolphins over on downs on 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.279 another drive set the Bengals up to succeed on offense. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:53.159 Say it together, complimentary football quote. That's how it's supposed 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.240 to look like. Joe Burrow said that bingo. That was 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.839 spot on, because that's that's been the talk all year. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.800 And this comes a week after Joe Burrow said, you know, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.600 called them a bad football team, called the Bengals a 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.000 bad football team because they hadn't in part because they 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:18.800 hadn't played complimentary football they did yesterday and that I 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.920 guess wrote. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:21.680 A go ahead. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.760 Yeah, not not to jump in here, Jason. I also 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.800 wrote the problem with that is it took sixteen games 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.320 to get to that point. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.840 And I'm glad you answered my question, Yes, why did 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.600 it take you? 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.719 Well, that's a good that is your what's the cap 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.760 number this year that they have to spend? That's the 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:45.599 one and ten dollar question to be answered in the offseason? 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.680 W who is responsible for jump starting? And actually that 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.560 was the question today. I asked Jordan Battle in the 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.040 locker room, so what do you guys need to do 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.800 next year to be better? Like what are you setting 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.240 your sights on? And he said, well, it's going to 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.440 sound cliche and we've said this before, but this has 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:05.120 to start at the. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.560 Beginning of the year, and yes it does. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:13.080 The key to me for the Bengals next year will 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.000 be the offseason. What kind of veterans do they bring 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:20.559 Dj riederback from Detroit and doesn't appear to be ending 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.640 very neatly there in the Motor City. Do they bring 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.800 an established leader, already a known commodity in the Bengal 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.320 locker room back to Cincinnati at the age of thirty one? 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.120 How much gas is left in the tank. Could he 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.680 be a player they bring back to solidify the defensive 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.280 line and the locker room in general. I think that's 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.720 a possibility. But they've got to bring in several players 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.800 like they did in twenty twenty in twenty twenty one 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.760 and not put it all on rookies and first year 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.160 second year players. That's to me, the big problem this 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.160 year is you had a first year defensive coordinator. You 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.920 had at least six players, seven players starting on defense 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.480 who were either in there first, second, or third year 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.200 of the NFL. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.360 That's wait, You're not going to win many games like that. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.440 Tracks you do a lot of shows, you sit in 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.680 from Olegar, you hear from You're here for Lance from 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.120 time to time, and a lot of times Friday night, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.760 Yeah he was here that last Friday. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.320 Yeah, I was listening to me too, and. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.880 I hear those guys talk a lot about the play 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.320 calling and the lack of creativity and you know, why 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.000 are we running on second down and eight things like that. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:42.000 Was the play calling that much different yesterday that it 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.359 made such a difference. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.840 I think not really. I just think the execution was better. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.280 They got inside, they got in the red zone, inside 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.240 the twenty yard line the opponent's twenty, and scored all 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.960 six times with touchdowns, and you know it was plenty 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.000 After the game yes today, Zach Taylor admitted that he 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.320 went up to Jamar Chase I think it was Jamar, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.760 and said, please come down and punch me in the stomach, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.440 but I don't call this certain route down the field 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.880 for a pass play. And I'm sure Jamar laughed at 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.600 him and said, you you sure about that? 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.679 But at least Zach has an awareness. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.880 And you can criticize Zach Taylor all you want, but 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.520 in terms of play calling offensively, I think he does 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:30.160 a pretty good job. He knows what these weapons are 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.640 supposed to look like when they are fully healthy and 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.319 fully productive. He knows what the offense is supposed to 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.640 look like, and I give Zach credit for that. It's 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.640 on the defensive side of the ball where I think 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.400 they've asked the offense to cover up for too many mistakes, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.640 and then the offense gets out of rhythm. They start 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.200 forcing things down the field instead of just trying to 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.319 manipulate the field ten and fifteen yards. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:00.320 At a pop. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.520 That to me, that that's how I would change things 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:04.560 going into next year. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:06.560 Trags. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.760 We can't talk about the Bengals and and what they 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.559 did yesterday without the fact that Joe Burrow played well 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.080 and and and bounced back and had a nice game. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.080 And you know that one at one play where he's running, uh, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.800 scrambling around one way and he throws it back across 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.319 his body and uh, I believe that was to sample 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.679 right the tight end. It was, yes Uh that that 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:32.440 was that was fun to watch. And I guess my 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.160 question to you is looking back over the last couple 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.960 of weeks and Joe Burrow coming back, and it looked 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.480 it looks like he clarified what he was saying even 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.360 more that he was it's not fun sitting out and 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:49.120 rehabbing injuries insummation here and then looking back on everything 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.400 that he said over the last few weeks and taking 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:58.000 how he played yesterday, where like this, where do you 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.280 feel about how do you feel about Joe moving forward? 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:01.600 Now? 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.080 I think a lot of it has to do with 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.920 how the team looks next year, frankly, and I'm not 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.640 going to go beyond next year. And I think Joe 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.200 Burrow answered Paul Danner Junior's question perfectly. He said, I 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.240 don't see myself anywhere but Cincinnati next year. But beyond that, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.000 I think about a lot of things. We think about 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.920 a lot of things. And I think that was his 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.320 way of saying, let's fix it next year so we 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.840 don't go through this again. That's where I think Joe 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.320 Burrow's mind is at. Certainly he was. I think one 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.800 phase of the grief that he went through this year, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:42.560 the football grief, was rehabbing another injury. He's had four. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.080 I think it is significant surgeries that takes a toll, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.400 not only physically, but as he told us, mentally, the 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.440 mental rehab. To not only get back on the field, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.400 but get back on the field about a month ahead 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.240 of schedule each and every time requires a lot of work, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.439 a lot of emotional energy, and that's when he puts 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.240 forth that energy. And Denny sees, like the rest of 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.960 the team, there's no apparent urgency from the rest of 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.720 the organization to build up the defense to sign guys 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.640 on defense to compliment what they're doing on offense. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.800 And I don't buy the fact at all. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.520 For a millisecond do I buy the fact that, well, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.679 you spend the money on Joe Burrow, T Higgins and 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.280 Jamar Chase, you don't have anything left. Of course, they 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.920 had money left, and they could have been more aggressive 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.360 in building the roster on the defensive side of the ball, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:37.120 but they chose to take a gamble, a calculated gamble 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.160 that they thought they could be the Philadelphia Eagles draft 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.600 all of their young players on defense and they'd all produce. Well, 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.920 what happens is when you miss in the draft, like 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.680 the Bengals have the last four or five years, in 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.839 the second and third rounds. You can't do that because 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.760 the players aren't good enough. And you know, I think 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.040 Joe Burrow wants a different approach to this offseason, and 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.240 so that's what I think all of it is about. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.680 And I think, you know, he is a very deep 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.280 thinking young man, Joe Burrow is, and and I think 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.160 that's what you saw in the last couple of weeks. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.560 Real quick tracks where we get to trafficking weather here, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:17.840 piggybacking off of that. What would what does Joe burrowes 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.920 does he does he say, uh, front office, you need 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.920 to fix this, you need to go get this guy 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.800 like and how much will they listen to him? I 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.720 know he's a guy they've listened to more so than 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.200 any other player in franchise history. But what do you 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.120 see him having influence there and fixing or at least 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.040 trying to address some of these needs. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.839 Like last year with t Higgins and Jamar Chase when 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.679 he went to back for them. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.560 Yes, I do think he has a voice. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.160 He has a voice that's not like Jalen Davis in 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:48.880 the locker room. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.959 Jillen Davis isn't going to the. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.120 Front office, or neither is daxx Hill. But Joe Burrow 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.240 does have a voice, and he has acknowledged as much 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.040 to us in his Wednesday prescotference it says I have 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.640 a voice. I let them know, but I'm not the 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.600 general manager. I leave them that up to the football 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.480 decision makers and what they decide to do. It's out 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.760 of his hands. And Joe Burrow has also made that 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:13.880 much clear as well. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.720 All right, trags, we got to run, But I want 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.600 to thank you for the time. Will you be gracing 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.160 the airwaves here or down the hall anytime soon down 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:21.800 the Hall. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.680 Wednesday afternoon, I'm filling in for the one and only 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.040 Tony Pike noon to. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.600 Three on the SPN fifteen thirty. So thanks for asking. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.440 Dan, outstanding outstanding trag. You know you do a great 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.800 job on the radio and filling it for Tony Pike. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.280 Is that that's some big shoes right there, because that 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:37.680 guy I. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:38.560 Like they are. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:43.320 Indeed, Happy Holiday Gaith on Twitter, Happy Merry Christmas to 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.000 you all the best of your trags. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.480 Christmas. All right, Chris, there you go. Thank I love that. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.560 Guy's analysis and he does a great job whenever he'sa 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.760 on there. Absolutely three twenty three, let's do a little 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.280 traffic and weather together on seven hundred WW. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.520 From the you See Health Traffic Center. At you See Health, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.960 you'll find comprehensive care that's so personal it makes your 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.240 best tomorrow possible. That's foundless care for better outcomes, expect 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.600 more at ucehealth dot com. Southbound seventy one seventy five 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.400 the off ramp to southbound seventy one that's at the 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.640 split in Walton and blocked off due to an accident 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.840 as well. Traffic backed up from rich Wood Road. Delays 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.840 have gone down a little bit right now, a five 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.760 minutes slow down. Also on westbound two seventy five, the 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.000 right lane blocked off from a disabled vehicle between Lebanon 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.160 and Mostellar Road. Traffic running slow northbound seventy five between 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.600 Mitchell and Paddock, and more slow traffic southbound seventy five 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.120 from Zer Charles Drive down to Fort Washington Way. I'm 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.360 at Ezebek on news radio seven hundred WLW. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.840 Here's the nine first one forecast. Some light sprinkles, showers 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.680 maybe moving through the tri State tonight, nothing all that heavy. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.760 We're going to have an overnight low fifties. I'm sorry, forty, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.160 not fifty six. Tomorrow's highest fifty six under mostly cloudy skies. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.720 Tomorrow night cloudy, cool, the overnight low forty, and then 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.000 Christmas Eve we're looking at a high under cloudy skies 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.720 of fifty six and maybe even in the sixties. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.960 For Christmas Day it is forty four at seven hundred WLW. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.000 This report is sponsored by Jake Sweeney Automotive, serving the 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.720 tri State for over one hundred years. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.440 It's red Tag time at Jake Swinny Chevrolet Together let's 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:28.480 drive and get. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.840 All right back on the big one seven hundred WLW 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.600 three forty on this Monday afternoon. What have we got 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.640 two days? Two days before Christmas? 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.320 Today's the twenty second, So you got the twenty second, 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.080 the twenty third, and then the twenty fourth. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.280 So I guess what. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.200 And it's past twelve noon already, so about two and 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.480 a half days of Christmas. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.720 That sound right? That sounds right. Two and a half days. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.440 You and I will be here all week except Christmas Day. Yeah. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.520 The seven hundred WLW what do they call Christmas Spectacular 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.600 will be happy. Yeah, So we're going to do our 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.399 It's I think this is at the very least our 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.680 fourth year. Is our fourth year to do this week. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.880 I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying this that 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.399 you're probably right. At one year, it was one of 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.439 those days. It was rough. Remember my furnace broke a 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.040 couple of years ago, three years ago, it was that 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.680 was some nasty weather. But we're talking about temperatures in 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.520 the sixties. It's crazy sixties for Christmas. Unbelievable. I may 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.399 I did not ride the motorcycle today. I may do 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.520 it one day this week because it's not calling for rain, 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.560 cloudy skies. You know tomorrow's high what fifty six? 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.440 What's supposed to be on Christmas? Sixty three? 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.480 Fifty six on Christmas Eve? And then they're talking right now, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:50.640 they're saying sixty two for Christmas Day. Bring that on? 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.959 I can can I call? Can we carry that all 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.560 the way through January? Can I call one of the 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.000 betting services and bet a high? Can you bet on 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.240 the weather? Can you bet on the high temperature. 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.960 Day? That's a good Probably. I don't know. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.639 I don't want to venture to know. You do you 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.480 do a lot of shows with Rocky and you do 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.680 some with Eddie. I do Do they get into the 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.240 sports book, into the sports betting? 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.320 Do they they? I mean, I don't want you to 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:17.680 talk out of school or anything. No, no, no. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.400 They always have the weekly segment with Jason hoffin which 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.880 you and I should do since it's a big football time, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.880 we should do that. Maybe sometime this week have him 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.600 have him on to uh give us his picks. So 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.360 they always do that every Thursday. Well, I am enjoying 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.320 the famous Idaho Potato Bowl. That is on the monitor. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.320 It's on behind me. Yes, it's halftime you're not missing 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.800 Utah State. You'd Washington State in Utah State. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:44.320 There we go. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:50.879 You know who went to Utah State? Yeah, I just 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.280 it just it just it to me. See is this 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.840 a political pro No, No, it's it's it's somebody we 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.720 know in his name just walked right out of my head. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.960 Also we know well, I mean someone that is that 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.280 is very well known in Cincinnati. Who's who's a great 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.680 analysis and a great sports sportscaster in his own right 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:12.359 Utah State. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:16.000 And I'm trying. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.919 I can see I'm drawing a blank right now. I 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.600 feel so stupid for saying that. But the phone lines 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:24.879 are open five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.240 Now you got me stumped. Man under the baby. Maybe 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:28.840 it'll come to me. Maybe a caller will call in. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:29.399 Let us know. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.720 I don't know that he probably knows he's holding out. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:33.720 That's just good. Let us let us sit here and 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.680 guess I know what Beth is on the line. Beth, 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:37.280 how you doing? 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.600 Hi? I'm doing great, Bene Barlington. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.000 Yes, they talking to you, fellas. I love listening to 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:50.240 whoever occupies this hour or two hours, whoever it may be, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:58.800 whether it's whoever it may be, however called that. Forgive 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.520 me because I just I just tuned in and I 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:07.720 don't even know. I'm I'm not quite sure who's on today. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.680 I'm Dan Carroll, give me, he's Jason william. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.680 Dan Carroll, I grew up in the neighborhood of yours 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.280 years ago. Did I swam at the same swim club 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:20.560 as you? 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.200 How about that well swim club? Back? 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:25.480 Of course? 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:25.639 Some? 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:30.080 Yeah, of course. So the reason is, who's on with you? 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:30.480 Rocky? 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.879 No, this is the Rocky and Eddie Show. It's it's 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.040 Dan Carroll and Jason Williams sitting in for us. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.880 Okay, Hi, Jason h James Williams, and I love listening 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.680 to you as well. So let me just mention. 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:53.600 We go way back, you know, Doctor Anderson, Redskins, the 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:54.440 Redskins Baby. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:21:01.000 Once a redskin, always a redskin. Were I went to mcnick. Oh, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.359