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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Happy Monday, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: To December, and welcome to the Monday Midday Quarterback on

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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. Thank you for tuning in,

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Speaker 3: Thanks for listening along on this the home of the Bengals, where, yes, Austin,

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Speaker 3: we can celebrate it as a victory Monday today. If

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Speaker 3: you remember what seems like decades ago, the bear Cat

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Speaker 3: or the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, already started with the Bearcats.

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Speaker 4: I was about to ask, does this count as a

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Speaker 4: victory Monday?

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Speaker 5: If theory?

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Speaker 4: What happened in Clifton over the weekend. I'm not trying

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Speaker 4: to stir stuff up. I think we're all a little upset. Yeah, maddening.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that that I'll say about

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Speaker 4: the Bearcats as we get into today. But if you

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Speaker 4: are a Bengals fan, if you're a Muskies fan, a

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Speaker 4: Louisville fan, I'm not sure what the norse did.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: If you're a Miami Redhawk fan and you're going to

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Speaker 3: another MAC championship game, then it is a victory Monday, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and we'll celebrate accordingly. It does it. It feels like

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Speaker 3: this game happened like a week ago. The Bengals beat

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Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving Night, which I thoroughly enjoyed

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Speaker 3: being able to sit back after food had settled and

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Speaker 3: watch the Bengals take the field at eight thirty.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed that.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into the ins and outs of the actual

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Speaker 4: We will you by the way they beat up on Boston.

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Speaker 2: There it is.

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Speaker 4: That's one, two, three, four, five straight victories. Wow for

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Speaker 4: the Mighty Norsemen, and Horizon League play is about to

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Speaker 3: That is a lot of victory. Monday talk for teams

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Speaker 3: outside of Clifton. So we'll discuss the Bengals. We'll discuss

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow's return, We'll talk about the offensive line, the defense,

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson, and we'll talk about a playoff scenario. Yes,

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Speaker 3: well we'll take We'll take the bait, we'll drink the

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Speaker 3: kool aid. We'll talk about a path to the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: As Austin was working on the playoff simulator earlier today,

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Speaker 3: we'll dive in to all of that as we go,

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Speaker 3: and we will discuss a Bearcats loss on the road

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Speaker 3: at TCU Saturday, which pushes the Bearcats to their fourth

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Speaker 3: straight loss, and they finished with a seven and five record.

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Speaker 3: If you're a Bearcat fan, what I'm most interested in

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Speaker 3: having a day or so to sleep on it was

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Speaker 3: this a successful season for the Bearcats. Because I think

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Speaker 3: said seven wins, a lot of people would have said, yes,

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Speaker 3: that is success. But how it happened and how this

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Speaker 3: I think the answer is a little bit different. So

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Speaker 3: is it a successful season for the Cincinnati Bearcats. We'll

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Speaker 3: look ahead to what's next and Bowl game possibilities. Before

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Speaker 3: we get to any of that, a lot has happened

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Speaker 3: since the last time we spoke on these airwaves, Austin.

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Speaker 3: And the first thing that happened, it happened on Wednesday night,

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Speaker 3: and it was another disaster. The Cincinnati Bearcats in what

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Speaker 3: half point favorites against Eastern Michigan, the EMUs, who on

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Speaker 3: the season had losses to pitt to Louisville and I

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Speaker 3: You Indy, IU Indy. Austin went to Eastern Michigan and

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Speaker 3: beat them ninety to eighty three. The Bearcats hosted Eastern Michigan,

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Speaker 3: and after trailing thirty six to twenty three at a half,

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Speaker 3: Michigan sixty four to fifty six. I put this on

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Speaker 3: social media act to the game, Austin. I think it

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Speaker 3: And I still stand by that. And people were very

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Speaker 3: I also remember that was year one of the John

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Speaker 4: Who did you say, John Brannon? John Brannon, Yes, okay,

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Speaker 4: Louisville staff now, and he's this is you know, he's

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Speaker 2: But that's just me.

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Speaker 3: I say the worst loss because one and talk to

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Speaker 3: Moegger about this a lot. There are times like you

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan only made seven threes in the game. They

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Speaker 3: they didn't have one player score over fifteen points. The

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Speaker 2: It was hopeless. It was lifeless.

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Speaker 3: And in a season where expectations are not only get

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Speaker 3: Big twelve play with Houston. This thing has a chance

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Speaker 3: think it was the worst loss I've seen. They plummeted

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Speaker 3: Austin to number one fifty four in the net rankings.

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Speaker 3: The team they played tonight, Tarleton State one fifty eight

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Speaker 4: So it should be a good game. So it should

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Speaker 4: be a good game tonight, a couple of evenly matched

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be a game at the Sinas Center today

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Speaker 3: as well. You see and Xavier both with their final

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Speaker 3: Sant Francis tonight, the Muskies playing much better basketball than

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Speaker 3: they were just seemingly ten days ago. Also shout out

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Speaker 3: They will play for state championships this upcoming weekend. Anderson

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Speaker 3: a winner, sat X a winner. Now San next beat Middletown. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Anderson beat up on Sunbury Big Walnut sx is take

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Speaker 3: you serious, right if your name is Sunbury Big Walnut,

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Speaker 3: agree with the utmost respect. Yeah, I have something Middletown related. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I just saw this for some reason. Jeff Passon, who

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Speaker 3: he was posting on threads and not on Twitter, and

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Speaker 3: he wrote about Kyle Schwarber on there. Now listen, Jeff

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Speaker 3: Passon is legit. He knows people who know like this

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Speaker 3: is Adam Schefter of Major League Baseball. He talks about

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Speaker 3: Kyle Schwarber on a Threads post. He's the Bellweather of

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Speaker 3: the class. His market is healthy, He's going to get

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Speaker 3: years AA V and at this point the likeliest of

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Speaker 3: the big free agents to sign first. Unclear if something

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Speaker 3: happens before meetings, but I'd be surprised if they end

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Speaker 3: and he doesn't have a team.

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Speaker 4: Now here's the special part already for this love special parts.

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Speaker 4: The Phillies remain the favorite, with Boston, Cincinnati, the Mets,

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Speaker 4: and others we can't be.

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Speaker 2: Hold on.

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Speaker 4: Jeff Passon mentioned four teams in his post kicking the tires,

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Speaker 4: the Phillies, who are a scurrent team, Boston, the Reds,

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Speaker 4: and the Mets. That's got to count for something, all right.

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Speaker 4: That would be more than kicking the tires. At least

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Speaker 4: be a test drive, wouldn't it, well, said kick the Tires.

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Speaker 4: He interviewed him last week. If Jeff Passing is tweeting that,

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Speaker 4: I'm just I want everybody to, maybe, you know, make

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Speaker 4: a note of this, jot it down that last night,

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Speaker 4: November the thirtieth. That would be pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: It would be I absolutely agree, that would be phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: I'm all for it. Over the college football weekend Austin,

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Speaker 3: there are new faces and new places. John Sumraw from

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Speaker 3: Tulane is now the head coach of the Florida Gators,

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Speaker 3: but he will remain with Tulane to coach here down

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Speaker 3: the stretch, so some rawl to Florida. Tulane still with

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Speaker 3: Texas a slight favorite against some raws to Lane Green Wave.

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Speaker 3: Also new face, new place. Lane Kiffin has left Old

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Speaker 3: He has been hired next coach at LSU. Now there's

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Speaker 3: a couple things to this, Austin. One, I agree with

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Speaker 3: And Lane Kiffin kind of made this, at least what

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Speaker 4: Now, I do think I'm not trying to say that

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Speaker 4: it just doesn't make sense and good for Old Miss

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Speaker 4: I do want to finish what I've started, and you

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Speaker 4: the way that the calendar works in college football.

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Speaker 3: What was which is a major issue? Seven years twelve

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Speaker 4: Kelly, seven for ninety one, so about thirteen mil.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that probably could help people be persuaded into where

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Speaker 3: they're going to go. Also, Michigan State can there head coach.

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Speaker 3: They owe him thirty three million dollars and Pat Fitzgerald

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Speaker 3: former Northwestern coach. Do we have the cannon ready, Austin.

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Speaker 2: Oh, do you want the cannon?

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Speaker 3: I think there are some people a little bit in

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Speaker 3: you later, Mark Stoops. Mark Stoops has been relieved of

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Speaker 3: not feel bad for Mark Stoops because Mark Stoops Austin

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Speaker 2: I know who's good. Who's that Joe Burrow. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Monday Midday Quarterback ESBN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for listening along the Tony and Most show takes

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Speaker 3: field goals. They led twelve seven at the break, but

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Speaker 3: in the second half they converted Tanner Hudson on an

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Speaker 3: unbelievable catch on a pass from Joe Burrow. Yoshi vash

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Speaker 3: had the big time catch to make it twenty six

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Speaker 3: to fourteen. Then they added on with McPherson late twice

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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. But getting back to what they

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Speaker 3: need to do in the red zone, I thought was

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Speaker 3: a good sign to start the second half of that game.

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Speaker 3: While we do give Joe Burrow credit, Austin, let's also

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Speaker 3: give credit where credit is due to the offensive line

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Speaker 3: of the Cincinnati Bengals, a much maligned offensive line for

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Speaker 3: a lot of the season. They had seemingly turned a

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Speaker 3: page around Joe Flacco. And then again, you quarterback dropped

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Speaker 3: back forty six times to throw and was only sacked

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Speaker 3: one time in the game, and you ran the ball

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Speaker 3: as a team for three point nine yard three point

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Speaker 3: nine yards of carry. Your lead back ran it fifteen

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Speaker 3: times for seventy eight yards. That's over five yards of carry.

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Speaker 3: I just look at this team and this offensive line

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Speaker 3: up front. Austin Albeit Burrow was hit seven different times,

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Speaker 3: sacked once, but on the night everything they were dealing with,

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Speaker 3: not knowing if Burrow was going to be compromised at all,

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Speaker 3: I thought the offensive line did more than their part

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Speaker 3: on Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you.

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Speaker 4: I mean the way that Dylan Fairchild continues to progress

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Speaker 4: a Marius Mims feel like we never say his name,

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Speaker 4: which is the ultimate compliment to a right tackle. Yep,

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Speaker 4: run game still effective, as you mentioned, and you know

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Speaker 4: it wasn't. I think we all worried about, Okay, well,

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Speaker 4: when the pocket collapses, how is Joe going to react?

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Speaker 4: And I think you had a little bit of happy

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Speaker 4: feet early, understandably, but he really didn't have to worry

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Speaker 4: about that very much. It wasn't like he was having

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Speaker 4: to to make a bunch of guys miss back there

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Speaker 4: and put some pressure and stress on that foot. So

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Speaker 4: they deserve a ton ton of credit. I'm sure there's

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Speaker 4: something to that too, of like, hey, we know this

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Speaker 4: guy is coming off of surgery, we know all the

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Speaker 4: stuff that he's been through. We got to really focus

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Speaker 4: up here and take care of this. And you know,

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Speaker 4: it might have been the perfect storm too, because Baltimore

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Speaker 4: really hadn't been very good rushing the passer this year,

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Speaker 4: and so this kind of maked a lot of made

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Speaker 4: a lot of sense to maybe put Joe Burrow out

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Speaker 4: there for this game, obviously coming past the New England game.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, more that we'll talk about this week as

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Speaker 3: the matchup with Buffalo is concerned.

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Speaker 4: But why do you think Chase Brown and Samaj p

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Speaker 4: Ryan are getting an even.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That was one of my thoughts. P Ryn had to

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Speaker 3: fumble as well. Now penetration led to that in the game,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know, because Chase Brown's been so effective

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Speaker 3: and p Ryan was just getting back fifteen carries to

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Speaker 3: fourteen with Brown and p Ryan. I didn't understand that,

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Speaker 3: especially because Brown was significantly better on Thursday night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's something that's another one of those Earmark yeah,

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Speaker 4: come back to it later things, because I don't know,

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Speaker 4: it's not like Chase Brown has carried the ball an

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Speaker 4: overwhelming amount of times, you know, this season.

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Speaker 3: And it's also like it's it's more than evident they're

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Speaker 3: comfortable with him as a three down back because he

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Speaker 3: was targeted seven times and caught.

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Speaker 4: All of them, maybe hundred scrimedy yards scrimmage yards, and again,

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Speaker 4: I think the sixth straight game that's been the case,

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Speaker 4: which I believe is a franchise record. So I just, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's something that didn't quite make sense to me. If

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Speaker 4: we're nitpicking stuff for Thursday, it was that.

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Speaker 3: Let's switch sides to the ball when we come back,

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Speaker 3: let's talk about the Bengals defense that we saw on

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Speaker 3: display in Baltimore on Thursday night. We will get to

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Speaker 3: your phone calls as we go.

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Speaker 3: It's the Monday midday quarterback ESP fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station.

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Speaker 10: Throwing the shotgun, pe Ran to his right, shotgun staff

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Speaker 10: Joe under pressure, flings it down the middle of the pow.

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Speaker 11: Yo c Bosh leaves at the three and takes it

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Speaker 11: into the end zone a twenty eight yard touchdown to

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Speaker 11: Andre Yo c Bosh, and the Bengals lead is back

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Speaker 11: to eleven with a pat coming up.

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Speaker 1: I love the way Yoshi caught the football, get up

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Speaker 1: and just you know, quietly let the ball roll off

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Speaker 1: his hand and looked at the crowd. The Baltimore Crowns

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Speaker 1: just did.

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 5: Throw?

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Speaker 2: That ball just dynamite, such good good the read.

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Speaker 3: I am like Roquan Smith is showing blitz and then

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Speaker 3: he's trying to get into a tampa too, but he's

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Speaker 3: he's too close to the line.

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Speaker 2: Burrow recognizes that.

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Speaker 3: He makes sure he's protected and then the touch on

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Speaker 3: the ball to get over Roquan Smith, but also have

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Speaker 3: enough on it that the safety can't make a play

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Speaker 3: is so brilliant from Joe Burrow. It's our Win Schulers

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow. And we also think Dan Horden and Dave

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Speaker 3: Lapham for the call yes on said touchdown yo oh

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Speaker 3: oh yeah. We're there for the holiday season now or

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Speaker 3: in full swing now again. What I think is important

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Speaker 3: to note through all of this is it is I

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Speaker 3: get it. It's a one game sample size, right, there's

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Speaker 3: still a lot that this team has to show. This

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Speaker 3: defense while playing a little bit better, I still think

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Speaker 3: they need to do more. But when you look at

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Speaker 3: what the defense did, I think the defense I think

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Speaker 3: they did enough against the Patriots. If Joe Burrow were

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Speaker 3: able to play that game, I think they could have

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Speaker 3: beat the Patriots. You know, if that was a defensive

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Speaker 3: performance that they would have gotten against the Jets or Bears,

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Speaker 3: they would have won those games. Now why it took

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Speaker 3: that long or what has changed, I don't know. In particular.

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Speaker 3: I do know that in the last couple I feel

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Speaker 3: like Al Golden has emptied the playbook a little more.

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Speaker 3: I feel like he's been more inclined to dial up pressures,

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Speaker 3: and I think it starts in stops with the fact

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Speaker 3: that they're actually getting some consistent performances on the defense line.

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Speaker 3: We talked a lot about how good DJ Turner has been.

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Speaker 3: I thought Jordan Battle was awesome on Thursday night. Ten

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Speaker 3: tackles in the game. Dax Hill had two passes defended

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Speaker 3: along the six tackles.

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Speaker 2: But Battle had a great effort play on the Isaiah

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Speaker 2: likely play to force that touchback too, Yeah, forces the touchback.

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Speaker 3: Miles Murphy has put together a good, good group of

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Speaker 3: games where he was able to have a couple tackles

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Speaker 3: but also defended a pass. He's been close to the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: And then Joseph Osai. I don't know what else you

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Speaker 3: could have asked for Osai on Thursday night four tackles,

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Speaker 3: two sacks, two tackles for a loss. Four of the

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Speaker 3: five quarterback hits the Bengals registered came from Joseph Osai.

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Speaker 2: Austin.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's anything more than just guys

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Speaker 3: getting more comfortable in a system and guys progressing. But

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Speaker 3: we have criticized, and rightfully so, this defense a lot

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Speaker 3: of times this year, and I'm not ready to say

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Speaker 3: that the defense is back, and I'm not ready to

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Speaker 3: see that this is the defense. We'll see a lot.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna learn about who the defense is in Buffalo

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Speaker 3: on Sunday. Yeah, but what we watched on Thursday night,

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Speaker 3: that is more than enough from this defense to be

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Speaker 3: able to get wins for this football team.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've kind of seen the narrative popping up

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Speaker 4: again that early in the season al Golden kept the

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Speaker 4: defense simple. I don't know how to feel about that.

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Speaker 4: It almost makes me feel like it's saying, oh, these

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Speaker 4: guys are too stupid. And clearly the way that they've

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Speaker 4: gotten a little bit more complex, a little bit more exotic,

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Speaker 4: you might say, crowding the line of scrimmage, making it

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Speaker 4: tougher on the offense itself, they've been more successful. And

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's because they've played a quarterback

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Speaker 4: like Drake May who's still understanding the NFL game, a

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Speaker 4: quarterback like Lamar who clearly is not one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: right now, I don't know, but the way that they

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Speaker 4: performed over the last three weeks night and day difference.

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Speaker 4: So whatever happened in the bye week when they were

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Speaker 4: doing a self scout stretching stretching true, how golden stretching

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Speaker 4: Like whatever he's done. It feels like he's finally like,

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Speaker 4: all right, screw it, I'm gonna empty the clip here

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Speaker 4: and see what we can do. And I wish that

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Speaker 4: that mindset would have happened a little bit sooner.

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Speaker 2: Agreed. But again, we've.

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Speaker 4: Talked about how they just need to be an average defense,

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Speaker 4: right well, I mean, all the numbers over the last

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Speaker 4: three weeks really would point to them being right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not talking about why they've won games. We're

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Speaker 3: not talking about the worst defense in the history of

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Speaker 3: the league right now. No, we're talking about a defense

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Speaker 3: that has played some winning football and made some winning plays.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like there's one specific thing to point to.

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Speaker 4: Is the turnaround?

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Speaker 2: Right you know? You could unit they're getting better. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you could say, Okay, Burrow came back.

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Speaker 4: You could say, okay, Genos Stone has like decided to

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Speaker 4: tackle better. I don't know, it's just all it felt

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Speaker 4: like all of a sudden, the light bulb came on.

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Speaker 2: It is just so strange.

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Speaker 3: It's so strange, also, Austin, because we mentioned it to

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Speaker 3: get at the start. It's just parody in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: The whole season's been weird again, like who who is

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Speaker 3: your favorite right now? Who is clear cut above everyone

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Speaker 3: else in the league. There's just parody. And I know,

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Speaker 3: and we'll get to it at the top of our

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Speaker 3: number two. What the playoff path? What has to happen?

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Speaker 3: It's still a ton all right? This still this team

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Speaker 3: is still well on the outside looking in. But again

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Speaker 3: Denver and New England at the top of the AFC.

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville's eight and four, Baltimore is fourth. That's the team

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Speaker 3: we just watched on Thursday night. Chargers just a ton

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Speaker 3: of injuries, culture trending in the wrong direction. I'm not

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Speaker 3: sold on Buffalo. I love Houston's defense, not sold on Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 3: not sold on Kansas City. There's there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: parody in the NFL. And all you can hope for

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Speaker 3: as a Bengal fan is for that door just to

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Speaker 3: continue to be slightly open, and with each passing week

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Speaker 3: you got a chance to crack that door open a

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Speaker 3: little bit more, and that's what the Bengals have in

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Speaker 3: front of them on Sunday on the road at Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: Things could clear up a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: After that. It's a tall task.

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Speaker 3: There are a six and a half point underdog, but nonetheless,

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Speaker 3: they've played themselves into a position where we can at

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Speaker 3: least talk about what that path can look like. We'll

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Speaker 3: get to that as we get to our number two.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll wind down our number one

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Speaker 3: with your phone calls on the Monday Midday Quarterback ESPN

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Speaker 3: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. A Bengals win means we

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Speaker 3: the postseason becomes possible. We're going to lay that out

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Speaker 3: for you at the top of our number two and

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Speaker 3: we'll dive in, unfortunately to what happened in Fort Worth,

655
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Speaker 3: Texas on Saturday. Before we get to that, let's open

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Speaker 3: up the phone lines for the first time this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: What's up, John, Happy Monday, Fellas, Happy Monday?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 12: Feels good to have the best quarterback in the NFL

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Speaker 12: back under center right, You ain't kidding absolutely one thing.

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Speaker 12: First of all, to mention the defense, let's not forget

662
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Speaker 12: now the last three weeks they've given up twenty points

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Speaker 12: to the Steelers, nineteen to the Patriots, which is the

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Speaker 12: Patriots lowest all point of the season, and fourteen to

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Speaker 12: the Ravens. So it's trending in the right direction. And

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Speaker 12: my conspiracy theory is any coincidence that the defense has

667
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Speaker 12: played much better with us Shamar Stewart.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's it's been more reps for Miles

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Speaker 3: Murphy and Joseph Osawa, so yeah, that it might be

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Speaker 3: allowing those guys to get a little more comfortable. You

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Speaker 3: can make the same with Trey Hendrickson not being in

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Speaker 3: there and those guys just being your consistent every day guys.

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Speaker 2: That's the word I was gonna use.

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Speaker 4: Those guys I think are more consistent than Shamar is

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Speaker 4: as a player, like snap to snap, you don't really

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Speaker 4: know what you're gonna get from him, and sometimes it's

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Speaker 4: really good, sometimes it's really really bad. So I think

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Speaker 4: the consistency of Osai and Murphy have been huge.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, he's like a puppy chasing a ball in traffic

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Speaker 12: at times, yeah, it looks cute and he's really effective,

681
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Speaker 12: and other times he's completely out of position and that

682
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Speaker 12: could lead to those long runs that you saw against

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Speaker 12: the Jets or the Bears or several other teams. So

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Speaker 12: I just think less of him the better because he's

685
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Speaker 12: just not ready to play at this level.

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Speaker 2: You look at the paths, and.

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Speaker 12: I know you guys are going to talk about it.

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Speaker 12: There's certainly a path if they went out, I think

689
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Speaker 12: they win the division because Baltimore and Pittsburgh play a

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Speaker 12: couple of times. Baltimore still has to play the Patriots

691
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Speaker 12: and the Pack is Pittsburgh has to go to Cleveland,

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Speaker 12: which is always a tough place to go. So I mean,

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Speaker 12: there's certainly a path to get to nine and eight

694
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Speaker 12: and scare the hell out of everybody in the AFC.

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Speaker 12: But obviously the best thing to see Thursday night was

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Speaker 12: Joe Burrow back at quarterback understanding. Like you said, Tony

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Speaker 12: and Austin. He looked so comfortable there, which is great.

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Speaker 12: I love when they get him out on boot actions.

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Speaker 12: He throws the ball more accurately than anybody in the league.

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Speaker 12: And he also throws the ball more accurately than anybody

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Speaker 12: in the league on the move. I mean, yeah, maybe

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Speaker 12: he's not going to roll right and throw it seventy

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Speaker 12: two yards to his left, which I'm sure he can do,

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Speaker 12: but you know, Mahomes and Josh Allen do that and

705
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Speaker 12: ever goes all crazy. But as far as him rolling

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Speaker 12: right and hitting Jamar Chase on the sideline, that stuff's

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Speaker 12: the thing of beauty.

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Speaker 2: I think the.

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Speaker 12: Completion percentage was low for a few reasons. Obviously knocking

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Speaker 12: up some of that rust, but also I was so

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Speaker 12: impressed that he's getting rid of the ball real quicker

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Speaker 12: than he usually does, and.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a good sign.

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Speaker 12: Right, So that's going to lead to maybe a couple

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Speaker 12: of more incompletions, but less it's less sacks, and I

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Speaker 12: think he was more comfortable in doing that once he

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Speaker 12: gets Higgins back. Once he gets that timing back with

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Speaker 12: Jamai Chase, you'll see that completion percentage go through the room.

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Speaker 13: And as far as that touchdown pass to yose.

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Speaker 12: Oh my god, Yeah, that thing was just absolutely beautiful.

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Speaker 12: I think there's only one other quarterback in the league

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Speaker 12: that can make that play. It's probably Matt Stafford. Now

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Speaker 12: I think Aaron Rodgers obviously his prime. Did that a

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Speaker 12: lot to the other three guys, the young guys along

725
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Speaker 12: with Borrow, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen. They don't

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Speaker 12: have his accuracy, but I don't think they can do

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Speaker 12: pre snap what he does. He was toying with Roquan

728
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Speaker 12: Smith and with several of the defenders are all Pro

729
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Speaker 12: caliber defenders. I mean, Kyle Hamilton's an all Pro caliber defender.

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Speaker 12: He was moving him around like a chess piece. So

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Speaker 12: that throw was just spectacular. And it's so great to

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Speaker 12: see him back manding the huddle the way he does,

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Speaker 12: the way he's on the line of scrimmage, and look,

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Speaker 12: he gives you a puncher's chance in every game, and

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Speaker 12: I think they have a chance to get back to

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Speaker 12: the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you, John, Thanks so much, man. We

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Speaker 3: appreciate your phone call. Have a great you too, Awesome,

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Speaker 3: awesome stuff. I'm with you. I just think the the

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Speaker 3: play at the line of scrimmage Austin was more impressive

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Speaker 3: than what I imagine he would be. Just the command,

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Speaker 3: the level of comfort. I think it just says a

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Speaker 3: lot about It's one thing to work your tail off

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Speaker 3: to get back healthy. It's another thing to work and

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Speaker 3: make sure mentally you're there as well. Right, And I

746
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Speaker 3: think that's just as impressive with what he was able

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Speaker 3: to put together on Thursday night.

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Speaker 4: We've said many times in the past Burrow doesn't have

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Speaker 4: that physical superpower that Mahomes or Allen or Jackson might

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Speaker 4: have with athleticism or arm strength or ability to run

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Speaker 4: the ball. But what he does have from a superpower

752
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Speaker 4: standpoint is his brain and his ability to process at

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Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage after the snap, all of it.

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Speaker 4: And you know that that gives them a chance, you know,

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Speaker 4: every single down, yep, to get into the right look

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Speaker 4: into the right play.

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Speaker 3: And that's the thing. They have a chance on every play. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because of what he's doing pre snap. What's going on, Mike,

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Speaker 3: how are you?

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, Hope you had a good Turkey day. Austin's

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Speaker 5: excited about the snow. This confirms Austen is nuts. But

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Speaker 5: that's okay.

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Speaker 2: I'm just a big polar bear, Mike.

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Speaker 5: You just go out there and build your little snow man.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully your neighbors won't think you're whacked. But that's okay, Hey,

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Speaker 5: It's to each his own. My sister likes snow. But

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Speaker 5: she lives in Hawaii, but she goes up to the

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Speaker 5: mountain there on the Big Island and the snow's at

769
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Speaker 5: about eight thousand feet up, about fifteen feet deep. Tony

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Speaker 5: talked earlier about this might be that Bearcats most devastating

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Speaker 5: loss or disappointing loss, and you're right, it was because

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Speaker 5: it was such a shocker number one on the basketball

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Speaker 5: game yep. But my most devastating Bearcats and I know

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Speaker 5: I'm going to get right to football, but my most

775
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Speaker 5: devastating Bearcat basketball loss was when they were going for

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Speaker 5: the three teat. They had beat Ohio State sixty and

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Speaker 5: sixty one back and back, and they were going for

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Speaker 5: a three teat and they lost to Loyal of Chicago

779
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Speaker 5: in overtime. They had an All American named Jerry Harkness.

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Speaker 5: But that was my biggest disappointing. I was like Ken

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Speaker 5: or something, I guess, I don't know. I cried like

782
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Speaker 5: a baby, cried like a bag.

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Speaker 3: Just I've watched so much UC basketball and I've I've

784
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Speaker 3: been such a fan of UC basketball, and certainly I've

785
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Speaker 3: had my heart broken with it. But just a the

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Speaker 3: lack of competitiveness against a team you were twenty three

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Speaker 3: and a half point favorites against that. That to me

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Speaker 3: is so alarming. Again, if a team comes in and

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Speaker 3: makes twenty threes and just has a good night, so

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Speaker 3: be it. If they've got a player that goes off

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Speaker 3: for forty points, so be it. They made seven threes,

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Speaker 3: they had no player over fifteen points. It was It

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Speaker 3: was a demoralizing game in more ways than one.

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Speaker 5: It was almost like the fix was in, like somebody,

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean, somebody get paid or so.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I know that doesn't happen, but yeah, in

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Speaker 5: college football real quick, I think Texas Tech is number

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Speaker 5: two in the country.

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Speaker 2: Are good.

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Speaker 5: I don't care who is number two, because nobody, but nobody,

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00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 5: who's beating Ohio State. I mean, unless they have major injuries.

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Speaker 5: Who who do you see possibly that can even play

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Speaker 5: with them?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's Indiana. Uh maybe Georgia because of

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Speaker 3: the style in which they play, but I don't I

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00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 3: don't see a clear I see it as Ohio State

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Speaker 3: and then a significant gap and and then you kind

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Speaker 3: of reset the rest of the field. But I think

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Speaker 3: I think Texas Tech is every bit as good as

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Speaker 3: as what people think they are. I think they're a

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Speaker 3: little bit undervalued in a sense. Uh, they had nothing.

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Speaker 3: I mean that they were already in the Big twelve

813
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Speaker 3: championship game and they still went out and beat West

814
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Speaker 3: Virginia forty nine to nothing. They've got a legit, I

815
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Speaker 3: think outside Heisman dark Horse at Lime, their defense, their offense,

816
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Speaker 3: they're balanced. It's a it's a good football team. But

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Speaker 3: I think there's a sizeable difference between them and every

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Speaker 3: other team being Ohio State and every other team in

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Speaker 3: college football.

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Speaker 5: No, I do too, But really, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 5: Joe was so impressive Damian Woody this morning on Get

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Speaker 5: Up and they were asking this, anybody gonna win this

823
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Speaker 5: AFC North, And he said, the only team I seen

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Speaker 5: one in the AFC North really is the Bengals. Yeah,

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00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 5: he said, because and Lamar is not right. We know

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Speaker 5: that Lamar is not right. He is hurt somewhere.

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Speaker 8: He is not the normal guy.

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Speaker 5: But like Austin said a few minutes ago, Joe's brain

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Speaker 5: is really his attribute and his his when he would

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Speaker 5: know this, his quickness and analyzing things, the processing thing

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Speaker 5: is probably it is elite.

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Speaker 14: Right.

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Speaker 5: You may not we may have seen a guy like

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Speaker 5: this even Stafford. I don't want to talk about Stafford.

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Speaker 5: They just seem too lightly yesterday they took him too lightly.

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Speaker 5: That would agree they setting the post games. But I

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Speaker 5: think that likely fumble was a real turning point in

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Speaker 5: that football game yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the likely fumble. They got Zay Flowers on

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Speaker 3: a touchdown with an offensive pass interference.

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Speaker 2: But I'm with it.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't look like the same Lamar Jackson to me,

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00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 3: He's not as willing to run the ball. Accuracy seems

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Speaker 3: to be an issue. It just doesn't look it like, Oh,

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Speaker 3: he's comfortable in their system right now, which is a

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Speaker 3: major problem going forward with the Baltimore Ravens because I

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Speaker 3: think coming up, I don't have it in front of me, Austin.

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Speaker 3: I know they have the Packers, the Patriots, the Steelers

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Speaker 3: twice in the Bengals again, so they've got a tough

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Speaker 3: five games slate to finish off the regular season, and again,

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Speaker 3: anything can happen.

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Speaker 2: Three those are on the road.

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Speaker 5: But ye hey, real quick, I know you got to go.

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Speaker 5: The thing that worries me really is this Buffalo game

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Speaker 5: this way, Because if Buffalo's running game yesterday was just depressive,

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Speaker 5: wasn't it Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have to stop the rushing attack for sure.

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Speaker 5: That's a bad bunch of boys. Thanks guys, Thanks Mike.

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Speaker 2: Have a good one.

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Speaker 3: We'll get some more phone calls in in the top

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Speaker 3: of our number two, as well as diving into a

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Speaker 3: little bit of the playoff conversation that everyone seems to

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Speaker 3: be jumping in on now as it relates to the

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: It's our number two of the Monday midday quarterback and

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Speaker 3: you are listening on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. We will get to a couple

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Speaker 3: more of your phone calls in just a few moments.

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Speaker 3: But Austin, now, ever since Thursday, everyone has been talking.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's been asking the same question, what about the playoff odds?

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00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 3: Are they still there? Can this team still go to

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00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 3: the playoffs? They have a chance now following the Bengals

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Speaker 3: win and then the Steelers lost yesterday, they have a

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Speaker 3: six percent chance right now to make the playoffs. That

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Speaker 3: is six more percentage points Austin than zero, which means yes,

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Speaker 3: they still have a path to the playoffs. And Joe

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Speaker 3: Burrow said, you've you've got to take it one game

893
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Speaker 3: at a time. You pretty much got to win every

894
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Speaker 3: game at this point. And that is one thing we

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00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 3: didn't mention with Joe Burrow Austin both after the game,

896
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Speaker 3: in the postgame, and on the field when he was interviewed.

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Speaker 3: That is just genuinely an appreciative and I think happy

898
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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow that we saw and listened to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the moment kind of caught up to him.

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Speaker 3: Just all the work that it took getting back to

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Speaker 3: where they are, the win, being out there, with this team,

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Speaker 3: being there, like.

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Speaker 4: With Melissa Stark, and you could tell there was just

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Speaker 4: a moment where his voice kind of cracked a little bit. Yeah,

905
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Speaker 4: and he was looking around like, dang, I just I

906
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Speaker 4: just made a dream come true. He's talked a lot

907
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Speaker 4: about wanting to play on holidays and in these standalone

908
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 4: games and on that in that moment growing up being

909
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 4: a kid, you know, watching games on Thanksgiving and to

910
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 4: see that and almost like in the realization of I

911
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Speaker 4: just did something really crazy and I just like made

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Speaker 4: a dream come true.

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Speaker 2: That was cool.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 3: There's an interactive tool, was it on the Athletic that

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Speaker 3: you can mess around as a playoff simulator?

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Speaker 13: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I like to use the Athletic and ESPNS. You were

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Speaker 3: doing that today when you got into studio. What did

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Speaker 3: you come up with?

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Speaker 4: Well, there's multiple viableath so viable for the Bengals to

922
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Speaker 4: make the playoffs. Okay, I don't know if I would

923
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Speaker 4: consider them realistic, but I would at least consider them viable.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we talked about Baltimore's schedule Pittsburgh, Cincinnati on

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Speaker 4: the road, New England at green Bay at Pittsburgh, and

926
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Speaker 4: that green Bay game, by the way, is going to

927
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Speaker 4: be like December twenty seventh in lambeau Field. Like the

928
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Speaker 4: way that Lamar has looked, the way that they don't

929
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Speaker 4: get a pass rush. None of those games are automatic

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Speaker 4: wins for the Baltimore Ravens. I was actually just during

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Speaker 4: the commercial break going through a scenario of what if

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Speaker 4: the Ravens were to lose out. Oh, if they were

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Speaker 4: to lose out, there's still a possibility the Bengals get

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Speaker 4: in at eight and nine.

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Speaker 2: And it's like, it's not crazy that the Ravens could

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Speaker 2: lose out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if they split with Pittsburgh, the Bengals could still

938
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Speaker 4: get in at eight and nine. Yeah, Like there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of different possibilities, whether it's nine and eight or

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Speaker 4: eight nine, where it's like, oh, that that could happen

941
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Speaker 4: nine and eight they went out, what would that take

942
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Speaker 4: their playoff chances to ballpark? If they if the Bengals

943
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Speaker 4: were to just win out, yep, it would be obviously

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Speaker 4: considering the other games, it would be eighty three percent

945
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Speaker 4: according to the Athletic Okay, and that doesn't that doesn't

946
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Speaker 4: include Steelers, Ravens, what everyone else is doing. So if

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Speaker 4: you look at it from that perspective, if the Steelers

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Speaker 4: were to beat the Ravens this week, then it would

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Speaker 4: drop to seventy four percent. If the Ravens are to

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Speaker 4: beat the Steelers, it goes up to eighty seven percent. Okay,

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Speaker 4: So again, if you're gonna win out, you're gonna need

952
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Speaker 4: a split by those two. Now, if the Dolphins, who

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Speaker 4: have played a lot better, beat the Steelers three or

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Speaker 4: four in a row in week fifteen, then it goes

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Speaker 4: up to ninety person.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there are a long story shot, there's chances

957
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Speaker 3: out there there are this isn't done yet.

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Speaker 4: Again, and even if if the Cardinals beat the Texans

959
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Speaker 4: in week fifteen, it jumps up to ninety three percent.

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Speaker 2: Like, there's a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 4: Now you could then in this particular scenario, you go

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Speaker 4: to week sixteen, you know, the Bengals could basically get

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Speaker 4: in with the Patriots victory over the Ravens. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 4: seventeen the Packers victory over the Ravens, and even if

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Speaker 4: the Ravens win that game, it'd still be at seventy

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Speaker 4: five percent. Like, it's not crazy. There are paths there, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: there is. Because of what everyone else has done, there

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Speaker 4: are openings to be add out there, and I think

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Speaker 4: it's just fun to think about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows the possibilities.

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Speaker 4: And obviously you know, I can't help but think we're

972
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Speaker 4: going to get to the end of the year and

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Speaker 4: it'll be very similar to what we saw a year ago.

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Speaker 2: Well, they'll be eliminated on the.

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Speaker 4: Last day of the season and we'll be thinking, gosh,

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Speaker 4: if not for that Bears game, not for that Jets game,

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Speaker 4: whatever it might be. But still in the meantime, let's

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Speaker 4: have fun. It's possible, just and from what we've seen

979
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Speaker 4: across the NFL, you never know what's gonna happen. Like

980
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Speaker 4: week to week man, like Joe Burr said, you got

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Speaker 4: to take each game one at a time. I know

982
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 4: it's cliche, but it really has to be one at

983
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 4: a time and then re evaluate then and right now

984
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 4: again that they're going on the road against Buffalo, it's

985
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Speaker 4: a good Buffalo team. They're six and a half point underdogs.

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Speaker 4: This math doesn't math as easy if you lose on Sunday,

987
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Speaker 4: but if you win, we get to have more of

988
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Speaker 4: these conversations. Let's keep the conversation going with some callers here,

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Speaker 4: gunn or what's.

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Speaker 15: Up, hey guys?

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Speaker 16: How are we doing to day?

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Speaker 15: Happy Monday?

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00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 2: Likewise, Man, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 16: This this coach man, he's still he gets me. Just

995
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Speaker 16: you know, one minute, you want him gone, you want

996
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 16: him fire, you want to out him here, and then

997
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Speaker 16: he pulls off a victory like this on Thanksgiving night,

998
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Speaker 16: and then most of that that goes to, you know,

999
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Speaker 16: to Burrow, and I think, just I know he's not

1000
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Speaker 16: Tom Brady, and I know we obviously we all compare

1001
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 16: him a lot to Brady, But I think that when

1002
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Speaker 16: he plays, man, every single player on that field.

1003
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Speaker 2: Believes they can win.

1004
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Speaker 16: The rotational pieces on defense, right, You're seeing guys just

1005
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Speaker 16: fire off the line faster, and you know, I think

1006
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Speaker 16: that really has an impact on the whole team. I

1007
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 16: think that's why you're starting to see some of these

1008
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Speaker 16: guys play better, because they really truly believe they can

1009
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Speaker 16: win any game within a quarterback. But I still I

1010
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Speaker 16: still kind away frustrated that game with the coaching staff.

1011
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Speaker 16: I'm wondering if you guys have some of the same thoughts.

1012
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Speaker 16: I don't know if Al Golden, if someone you know,

1013
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 16: family member the day before Thanksgiving gave him.

1014
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Speaker 5: A book on blitzing.

1015
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Speaker 16: That was interesting to see though during the game. I

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Speaker 16: hadn't seen that for ten games all season, and then

1017
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Speaker 16: they come out and blitz and you know, really flummocks

1018
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Speaker 16: a successful and good quarterback. I don't I don't know

1019
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Speaker 16: where that's been all season. It seemed to make things

1020
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Speaker 16: a little bit easier. And again, just some of the

1021
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Speaker 16: same stuff with Taylor. I know he had we won

1022
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Speaker 16: the game and everything, but you know, it's five turnovers

1023
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Speaker 16: by the Ravens. I mean, they really shot themselves in

1024
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Speaker 16: the foot that game. I thought, I know the Bengals

1025
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Speaker 16: players made a lot of those turnovers, but they couldn't

1026
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Speaker 16: seem to get out of their own way. And I just,

1027
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Speaker 16: you know, some of those small coaching mistakes that we

1028
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Speaker 16: that still creep.

1029
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Speaker 13: Up with him.

1030
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Speaker 16: I think, you know, I'm just hoping they don't come

1031
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Speaker 16: back to bite us, right to still inability to get

1032
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Speaker 16: play calls in and wasting time outs on big third

1033
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Speaker 16: downs where he just doesn't seem like he knows what

1034
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Speaker 16: he wants to call. The red zone issues still there

1035
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Speaker 16: and then and my biggest issue, And I know we

1036
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Speaker 16: won the game in Burrows healthy, but I don't know

1037
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Speaker 16: how you you have him throw the ball thirty two

1038
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Speaker 16: times in the first half, especially when they were running

1039
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Speaker 16: the ball the way that they were. So I'll happy

1040
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Speaker 16: celebrating the win, but I'm still I'm still this concerned

1041
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Speaker 16: about this coaching staff and you know, these games coming

1042
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Speaker 16: up and how they might squander them like they did

1043
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 16: the you know, the games in the past that they

1044
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Speaker 16: should have won, right obviously the Bands and the Jets.

1045
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Speaker 16: So I'll hop off let you guys discuss.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate it.

1047
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Jo, welcome back. Appreciate that.

1048
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Speaker 3: Look, it's hard to say, well, had the Ravens not

1049
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 3: turned it over, I think the Bengals had to hand

1050
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 3: in a lot of that. I think there were some

1051
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Speaker 3: individual plays made. I will say Austin that there was

1052
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Speaker 3: a point in the game where I was nervous, as

1053
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Speaker 3: mentioned about the inability to score in the red zone

1054
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Speaker 3: in the first half, especially when you start a drive

1055
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Speaker 3: on the three yard line. Yeah, you need to score

1056
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 3: in situations like that, but This, to me is how

1057
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 3: it's going to have to be for the next five

1058
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's with this team. It's not going

1059
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Speaker 3: to be pretty. But each individual game, can you just

1060
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 3: find a way to win? Yeah, and you know what,

1061
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Speaker 3: Baltimore turned it over five times. Evin McPherson had a

1062
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 3: big night, so be it. But they found a way

1063
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Speaker 3: to win. And that is going to have to be

1064
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 3: more of the theme as this team goes forward. How

1065
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Speaker 3: can you find a way to just be want to know?

1066
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Speaker 3: This week against Buffalo?

1067
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think part of that too is you know,

1068
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Speaker 4: you mentioned going on the three yard line or two

1069
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 4: yard line and not being able to punch it in.

1070
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Speaker 4: If your defense is going to be opportunistic like they

1071
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Speaker 4: were against Baltimore, you've got to convert those into touchdowns.

1072
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Speaker 4: You can't let teams hang around if they play a

1073
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Speaker 4: similar game against Buffalo. You can't let Buffalo hang around

1074
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Speaker 4: because Buffalo will find a way to beat you. That's

1075
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Speaker 4: who they have been all season long. So that to

1076
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 4: me is the next step. Okay, let's say that the

1077
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 4: last three weeks of the defense is more, you know,

1078
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Speaker 4: closely aligned with what we're going to see over the

1079
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Speaker 4: last five weeks. Okay, great, You've got to be able

1080
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Speaker 4: to capitalize on that offensively. And I think I feel

1081
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Speaker 4: better about that with Burrow obviously than I did with

1082
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Speaker 4: anyone else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is going to be week to week.

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Speaker 2: How can you get by at this point? What's up?

1085
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 17: Coop?

1086
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 5: Hey, what's going on? Tonny?

1087
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 2: What's up?

1088
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 14: And I was talking to a good friend of mine, Sindar.

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Speaker 15: That's besides the point.

1090
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 18: But what we were what we were talking about was

1091
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 18: this UC Athletic department, and it's it's discouraging to me.

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Speaker 5: I think they have a defeatist.

1093
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 13: Attitude, the attitude that you know.

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00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 18: We don't have the money to pay the players, we

1095
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 18: can't afford to buy out.

1096
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 19: It's just a whole attitude.

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Speaker 14: I think that needs to change. I don't think they

1098
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 14: think outside the box. I don't think they create buzz.

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Speaker 14: I don't think they need an ad. I think they

1100
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 14: need a marketing do rum? Is there any buzz around

1101
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 14: this program? Are they going out to the community. I

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00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 14: think they need to change how they do everything in

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00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 14: order to compete. Yeah, I would say, maybe you know

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00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 14: you're gonna laugh, but look at the Savannah Bananas. How

1105
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 14: they do things Okay, I'm not saying they need to

1106
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 14: be doing macarina in between plays, but.

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Speaker 17: They make it all about the total experience. They're not

1108
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 17: just rolling a ball out there. They're doing things beforehand,

1109
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 17: they're doing things after the game. It's a whole experience.

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00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 17: It's a show, and I think they need to drastically

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00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 17: change how they do things. I think they have a

1112
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 17: defeatist attitude just hoham, will roll the ball out there

1113
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 17: and play. It doesn't work, We're not going to be

1114
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 17: able to compete.

1115
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Coop, I appreciate that.

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00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 3: It feels at this point Austin, that Coop and his

1117
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 3: sentiments are closer to where this university is right now

1118
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 3: than the other.

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00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean starting November, the Bearcats were seven and one,

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00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 3: they were ranked in the top twenty five, and they

1122
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 3: had a path to play in a Big twelve title game.

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00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 3: They have lost all four Scott Sadderfield's one to eleven November,

1124
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 3: He's winless when trailing at the half. Now, they've played

1125
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 3: better teams down the stretch, but you got to beat

1126
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 3: better teams. And for Wes miller a lost to Eastern Michigan,

1127
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 3: there is there's no excuse for it. And there is

1128
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 3: there is a complete lack of buzz and excitement around

1129
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 3: this team right now. And there's also a player tonight,

1130
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 3: Austin Deor Johnson. In games this year, do your plays

1131
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 3: for Tarleton State. He scored twenty three against SMU and

1132
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 3: then he had forty two against Baylor. Tarlton State is

1133
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 3: one fifty eight in the net you see as one

1134
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 3: fifty four. We're at a point Austin where I have

1135
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 3: to be concerned on if the Bearcats can win against

1136
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: Tarleton State. That is a dark place to be. Let's

1137
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 3: take one more, John moon Ding, what's up.

1138
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 13: To hi?

1139
00:59:58,040 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: John?

1140
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 2: Hello, Jonathan.

1141
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 19: Okay, let's hear it, Bud, I'm taking my medicine.

1142
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 13: Let's hear it.

1143
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 2: Odd, No man, how has it been?

1144
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 4: I don't have anything to say, John, You know I

1145
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 4: really I aligned with head coach Ryan Day.

1146
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 2: We win with humility.

1147
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 19: All that's spoken like a true idiot buck.

1148
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 8: I can't.

1149
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 2: Pretty good though. He's he's a real good man.

1150
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 19: I'm glad you brought him up.

1151
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 2: I was good like.

1152
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 19: You got you guys a green town. I say this

1153
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 19: all the time. I stay in my lane with basketball.

1154
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 19: I like watching football. I listened to guys like, well,

1155
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 19: sometimes you gots more often than not other people. But anyways, no,

1156
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 19: I can't, I can't, I can't.

1157
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 8: Uh.

1158
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 5: And it's like, first of all, we're.

1159
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 20: Paying all these kids millions of dollars and again they're like,

1160
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 20: he's got receivers open downfield.

1161
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 19: You gotta start the freaking ball rolling out. Let's get

1162
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 19: some off script plays going here. He threw the ball

1163
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 19: five times in the first half, five.

1164
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 20: And you kicked three field goals. That's gonna get you

1165
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 20: an L mark Ingram set up best. If Michigan wants

1166
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 20: to win this game, they got to score touchdowns.

1167
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 19: They did not, and the result is what it was.

1168
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:23,439
Speaker 19: Now I would like to see with both running backs healthy.

1169
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 19: Down to your third string isn't good. But yeah, I agree, Audie.

1170
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 19: That's the scary part about nil man.

1171
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 20: You're paying up these high school kids millions and millions

1172
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 20: of dollars and they haven't thrown.

1173
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:34,919
Speaker 19: One collegiate pass.

1174
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 4: Do you have any comment on the power going out

1175
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 4: repeatedly on the Ohio State sideline during the game.

1176
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 19: WHOA, oh, yeah, Connor Stallions, he was definitely behind it.

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01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was told, you know, Connor Stallions was outside

1178
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 4: Michigan Stadium because I don't think he's allowed in with

1179
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 4: military grades comms devices down the Ohio State communication I

1180
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 4: don't know if that's true or not.

1181
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 19: She was stealing electric outside.

1182
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 2: Do you honestly believe in Sharon Moore?

1183
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 19: No, here's the problem.

1184
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 20: Another thing I've talked about with a couple buddies, and

1185
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 20: I'm gonna preface this or relate.

1186
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 19: It to Ohigo State. Do you, I don't know how

1187
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 19: much you follow. Do you believe in the de Blarer kid?

1188
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 19: They're basketball coach?

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01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 15: Uh.

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01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I believe. I like him, believe.

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01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 20: I think we're in the same boat now. The d

1192
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 20: bler kid earned his right to coach that team when

1193
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 20: he took it over a couple of years ago. Correct, Yes,

1194
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 20: same thing with Sharon Moore. Unfortunately, it's almost like and

1195
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 20: I see the same path four for kind of the

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01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 20: guy at Penn State.

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Speaker 21: If they hire him, it's like the kids are rather

1198
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 21: behind him. Yeah, that's fine, dandy and good, but at

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Speaker 21: the same time, you know something, You got to get

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01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 21: the best coach in there.

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01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 18: Now.

1202
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 19: Sharon Moore is an absolute stud recruiter. I don't think

1203
01:02:58,360 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 19: he is a great head coach.

1204
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 2: Hmm, I've heard of those I've heard of those folks before.

1205
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 19: Yeah, watching Bud on your team though, I was watching

1206
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 19: that game. It's the same old song and dance with

1207
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 19: that team.

1208
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 3: They can't shift, nope, Andy, They're supposed to have shooters

1209
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 3: on the roster, a little a little.

1210
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 20: Bit of a zone and they don't attack gaps. They

1211
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 20: don't move to basketball like you got to make two

1212
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 20: people guard one in the zone.

1213
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: So they don't do that.

1214
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 19: It's one on one, fire up a twenty five foot

1215
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 19: three and hope it goes in. Yep, just's I am.

1216
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 19: I don't know that was the World Ball.

1217
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 3: I'm at a point where I'm concerned about Tarlton State tonight.

1218
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 2: And that's bad.

1219
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 19: Yeah, man, I hate that.

1220
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 2: That's bad.

1221
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 13: I'm sure you do. I can send No, I'm being serious.

1222
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 4: I really do hate that that's where it's gotten because

1223
01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 4: I really like West Miller.

1224
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 2: I do too, And I just hate that. This is

1225
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 2: like a real conversation we're having. Oh it's real, it's real.

1226
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 2: They could lose this tonight.

1227
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 19: Oh, there's no doubt. I'm decent. Buddies with a dude

1228
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 19: that may or may not be a significant donor down

1229
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 19: there and they love him, but they also said, this

1230
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 19: is uh, this is a prove it year. If he

1231
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 19: doesn't prove it, he's gonna be gone. And I'm like, yeah, well,

1232
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 19: I mean but I agree with you, guys.

1233
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 14: I like him.

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01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 19: I think he's a good basketball coach.

1235
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 17: I just I don't know what the hell is going

1236
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 17: on down there, buddy, you and me both.

1237
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 4: It's good to hear from you and me both. Thanks

1238
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 4: for facing the music. That's impressive.

1239
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think congratulations And yeah, I don't know who

1240
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 19: can beat him, but I do think Indiana's pretty good.

1241
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 19: I haven't watched enough of everybody else, so ah, side note,

1242
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 19: Jeremiah Smith, he's really good.

1243
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 2: He's pretty good player.

1244
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 15: Okay, bye bye.

1245
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 3: Al Golden could have probably let Michigan know and wink

1246
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 3: Martindale don't go one on one the word against Jeremiah Smith.

1247
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 4: The name stink Fartindale was being thrown around at where

1248
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 4: I watched the game at.

1249
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 3: We will be back with your talkbackspartin day next on

1250
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 7: Hey it's ghost Joe Burrow is back and he plays

1252
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 7: here on ESPN fifteen thirty. The Official Hall of the

1253
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 7: Cincinnati Bengals.

1254
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 9: It's that time for talkbacks.

1255
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 22: Press the microphone and record your message for Austin In tone,

1256
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 22: Please keep it clean and don't be mean at a

1257
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 22: sprinkle sprinkle, drip drips.

1258
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 2: It's that time for talkbacks.

1259
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 22: It's our favorite parter Sincy three sixty.

1260
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 6: So Austin buddy, play those.

1261
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 22: Talkbacks on your screen and please drive out to sabotage the.

1262
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 2: Monday edition and for most the victory Monday edition.

1263
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 3: But I'm sure we'll have a few talkbacks that aren't

1264
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 3: celebrating a victory Monday as Bearcat fans. Regardless of that,

1265
01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 3: Thanks for tuning in. It is the Monday midday quarterbacks. Hey,

1266
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 3: thanks to our friends at Cincy shirts as well. Here

1267
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 3: are said talkbacks.

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01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 23: James Madison Bloomington undefeated, Ohio at Columbus undefeated. I hope

1269
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 23: the Hoosiers are ready for the test and be competitive

1270
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 23: against the buck Eyes this Saturday for the Big Ten

1271
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 23: Championship at the Dome in ND Austin.

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01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 2: Good luck. I know who you're for, you know who

1273
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 2: I'm for. Crank them up, crank them up.

1274
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 4: We can get into it as the week goes along.

1275
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 4: I'm curious if these two teams treat this as like

1276
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 4: a preseason game they could meet again.

1277
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a I think there's a path

1278
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 2: to that is.

1279
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 4: Kurt Signetty gonna show you everything. Is Ryan Day gonna

1280
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 4: show you everything when there's a real opportunity that they

1281
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 4: meet again in the playoffs and the result of this

1282
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 4: game does not matter.

1283
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair.

1284
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 4: I'm really I'm actually so curious to see what the

1285
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 4: the strategy looks like from both sides. He also unrelated,

1286
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 4: but I missed the RCA Dome in Indianapolis.

1287
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 24: Hey, guys, it's the George from the Valley. I'm gonna

1288
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 24: talk about Michigan. Never gonna beat him again. Now Moon

1289
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 24: owned up to it. Yeah, we'll see if George George.

1290
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy as it sounds.

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01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 25: There's last moving parts this season than there were last

1292
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 25: season in order for the Bengals to make the playoffs.

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01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: Pretty wild.

1294
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 25: But if our defense keeps playing like they did the

1295
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 25: last couple of weeks, I mean, it's not out of

1296
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 25: the reml possibility.

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01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 19: Guys, we can do this.

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01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 25: All we need is Baltimore and Pittsburgh to split their

1299
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 25: series and Spurred to lose to the lions, and I

1300
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 25: mean this sounds crazy.

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01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,439
Speaker 2: Here we are here, we are.

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01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 25: Real talk though, Has anybody seen the footage that Cam

1303
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 25: Heyward is accusing Josh Allen of doing needing him and

1304
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,640
Speaker 25: the abdomen, which is more egregious bitting.

1305
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 2: On somebody or needing them in the abdomen, you.

1306
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 25: Know, obviously spread disease and be very insulting. But a

1307
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 25: need to the adamant could cost physical trauma.

1308
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:29,480
Speaker 6: So does that warrant.

1309
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 2: Josh Allen?

1310
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 25: And if it does, are you guys paranoid that if

1311
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 25: we play a backup quarterback then we are going to

1312
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 25: get stopped.

1313
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 4: Yes, I would be paranoid of that, but I'd rather

1314
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 4: take my chances with Check's notes. Is it case Keenum

1315
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:45,839
Speaker 4: the backup in Buffalo?

1316
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 15: Is it is?

1317
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 17: He?

1318
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 4: And I don't know's no, It's truebisky, Yeah, Josh can

1319
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 4: take the Just take the weekend off, man, go visit your.

1320
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 26: Fiance man A Simpsons given thanks again this past weekend

1321
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 26: thanks to I'm longest running cartoon, matt Eva, thanks to

1322
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 26: the Cincinnati bingo din Ond bug Life just past Thursday one.

1323
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,200
Speaker 2: Being a rap by variety and you.

1324
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 13: Know, being a traditional TACKI now a boy from Kyle.

1325
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:20,519
Speaker 2: You founder know that Tony Park and Joe Borrows, they

1326
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 2: both had picky food pounce all right, man, all right.

1327
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 4: Then Joe's like the only one that will let get

1328
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 4: away with like publicly shaming Cincinnati style Chili's he gets

1329
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:32,719
Speaker 4: a pass.

1330
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 27: Yeah, you can't put in Notre Dame and leave out Miami.

1331
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 16: Boy, forget about it.

1332
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 27: Shot, you can't do it. They both got two losses.

1333
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 27: It's not like Miami is bowling green or something. They

1334
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 27: played in the acc.

1335
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 2: They both got two losses and they beat them.

1336
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 26: Sorry Notre Dame.

1337
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 28: Sorry, but no, it's ridiculous.

1338
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 27: If you're gonna leave Miami, you gotta leave Notre Dame

1339
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 27: out and put in Texas or Vanderbilt or whatever.

1340
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 2: See here's the thing. I haven't even gotten to that

1341
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 2: point yet.

1342
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 3: I think Notre Dame would be favored against all but

1343
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 3: three teams in the playoffs.

1344
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 2: Who would those three teams be?

1345
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 3: Ohio State, Indiana and maybe Georgia. I think they would

1346
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:18,520
Speaker 3: be favored over Oregon, Tech, Old, miss A, and mkas

1347
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:20,600
Speaker 3: I do, I do.

1348
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:24,720
Speaker 2: I don't think Miami would be Didn't Texas A and

1349
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 2: M beat him head to head? A and M and

1350
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 2: Miami beat him had to head.

1351
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 12: Yes, Hey Greg Sharonville, Hey Tony Saturday, I listened about half.

1352
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 3: The game on the radio.

1353
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:40,879
Speaker 13: You do an excellent, excellent job, well done.

1354
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 2: Thank you, Greg.

1355
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:47,720
Speaker 28: Hey, it's me John Cunningham's lab dog, Chad Brindill.

1356
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 29: Here.

1357
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 28: For those that didn't listen to my live podcast last night,

1358
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:57,759
Speaker 28: here's a summarye U see athletics leadership is the greatest

1359
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 28: leadership in college sports. U see fan base is delusional

1360
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 28: and how dare they value and care about wins and losses?

1361
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:11,880
Speaker 6: Well, Johnny Boys calling me right now?

1362
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 28: Oh man, Hey, it's me John Cunningham's lap dog again.

1363
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:21,720
Speaker 13: Chad bringdal here.

1364
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 6: Just wrap the phone call up with Johnny Boy.

1365
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 28: He wanted me to remind everyone day one ready means

1366
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 28: day nine hundred Ready go bear Cats.

1367
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:32,600
Speaker 13: I guess.

1368
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 8: My goodness, former President Ronald Reagan and wal the Bengals

1369
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 8: playoff chances look about as good as Aaron Rodgers knows.

1370
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 8: But fortunately everyone else in the AFC North stinks right now.

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01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 8: And Will everyone knows that as long as there's a

1372
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 8: chance to sniff the postseason, Will that's nothing to sneeze at.

1373
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,360
Speaker 8: If I had to pick a team that will top

1374
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 8: the division.

1375
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:03,759
Speaker 2: It's the Bengals.

1376
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 8: I wonder what booger McFarlane thinks.

1377
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:07,759
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's creative.

1378
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:11,560
Speaker 4: The book's well done there, the booger's fired up. You

1379
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 4: got Lane Kiffin, Tony awesome.

1380
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 30: Don't know if you guys are working today with all

1381
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 30: the holiday stuff going on and we're here, Hey, I'm

1382
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,519
Speaker 30: hoping you guys saw the Bengals at the end of

1383
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 30: the game surrounding the turkey with Melissa what's her face?

1384
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:36,639
Speaker 30: Was there a better moment on National TV? I thought

1385
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:40,720
Speaker 30: that was just awesome. Yeah, pretty proud.

1386
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: Of the boys.

1387
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 2: Cool moment. I thought it was really cool. It was cool.

1388
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 4: It was a group of dudes that had lost a

1389
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,839
Speaker 4: lot of football games and been through a tough stretch

1390
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 4: and they got to have their moment on TV. I mean,

1391
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 4: William Wagner got some got the top. He was, he

1392
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 4: was out there. I mean, Evan McPherson, all of them,

1393
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 4: and I thought it was funny. Mike Tirico said, Zach

1394
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 4: Taylor's probably thinking, where's my team back in the locker?

1395
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 31: Guys, I think you got to extend Sadderfield. I mean,

1396
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 31: he keeps getting better year over year. You're not gonna

1397
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,639
Speaker 31: sell a stock when it keeps growing year over years,

1398
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 31: So why would you fire Sadderfield? And while we're at it,

1399
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 31: let's extend west Miller too. Dude's been doing great. He's

1400
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 31: been beaten behind.

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01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 6: I mean.

1402
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:28,679
Speaker 8: Net ranking.

1403
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 31: It's gonna be a Q three game for Xavier, Go Muskies.

1404
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 2: Only one way to go in the net.

1405
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 4: Who would you rather have? That's up right now, Wes

1406
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 4: Miller or Richard Patina. Richard Patino's team is getting better

1407
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 4: right now. Lot to see what Tarlton brings.

1408
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 17: Tonight started Fairfield Township.

1409
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 32: The thing that is most upsetting to me about UC

1410
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 32: Clifton is their defeatist attitude.

1411
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 2: We don't have the money for the buyout. We can't

1412
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 2: afford to pay the players. We've upgraded in conference. What

1413
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 2: do you expect? They need a marketing drew, not an ad.

1414
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 6: Are they going out and engaging with the public. Are

1415
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 6: they creating a bus?

1416
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 15: No?

1417
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 33: Are they going after captains of industries?

1418
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 2: Power players?

1419
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,320
Speaker 6: Know they just roll the ball out.

1420
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 2: There and expect people to show up.

1421
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 6: It doesn't work.

1422
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 2: Sounds early like Coop who called in. It really was

1423
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:20,639
Speaker 2: Luckily for Sharon Moorett snowed on Saturday.

1424
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 24: Now he can use some of that snow to ice

1425
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:24,759
Speaker 24: those cheeks that were clapped.

1426
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 2: Come on, come on with it.

1427
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 34: Now, what's up, guys, big jahodig Tony, I'm not seeing

1428
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 34: anything about John Brandon being on Louisville staff. Says he

1429
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 34: helped the Daton in twenty two twenty three. But I'm

1430
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 34: not seeing anything on his staff. But over the summer,

1431
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:42,680
Speaker 34: I was at a Rents game down there and went

1432
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 34: over to the casino after, and there walked by John Brannon,

1433
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 34: looks like he was having a good time with a

1434
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 34: drink in his hand, and.

1435
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:58,600
Speaker 2: Never know, Oh my gosh, you'll you'll be nice to

1436
01:14:58,680 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 2: my guy, John Braden.

1437
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 3: I thought John Brannon, for whatever reason, I thought he

1438
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 3: was there or like on against Louisville. I thought he

1439
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 3: was on the Louisville bench. I think you made that up, brother,

1440
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 3: all right.

1441
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:14,799
Speaker 33: Tony Audi TJ east Side Best of the weekend, Brutus

1442
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 33: doing the script Ohio by the goal line pylon, then

1443
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 33: exiting out the M and the ends and on National TV,

1444
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 33: pure gold, Tony, I think you'll appreciate this. My son

1445
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 33: was back from Tampa. He said, Dad, we need a

1446
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 33: QB on my team for Turkey football. I'm forty nine

1447
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 33: playing a bunch of eighteen year olds, were won the

1448
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 33: rubber match and doublet to take the Turkey Trophy. Best

1449
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 33: Thanksgiving with my son in ages. Couldn't walk for the

1450
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,839
Speaker 33: next two days. But feeling young again and playing football

1451
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 33: with boys and known since Kindergarn for a few hours priceless.

1452
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 2: That's all nice. Nice. Don't like playing a little Turkey

1453
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:44,679
Speaker 2: day football?

1454
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 35: I respect we did a thank four weeks ago. We

1455
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 35: sat on top of the Big twelve and now he

1456
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 35: early is tenth in the freaking league.

1457
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 2: But hey, improven right even five seven?

1458
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 12: Be happy with what we got.

1459
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 13: No, but they're all serious.

1460
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 35: Since Tony, do you think there's any chance that Pento

1461
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 35: would move on from John Conningham start a proper search

1462
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 35: for placement in basketball and football? I know Mailer would

1463
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 35: be the first to go. I think Saderfield's in for

1464
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 35: at least one more. Hopefully they'd at least move on

1465
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:11,799
Speaker 35: from their defensive coordinator.

1466
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 2: But just give me some hope here, please. I don't

1467
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:17,920
Speaker 2: think so fresh out of hope, Yeah, I hope. I'm

1468
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:25,719
Speaker 2: training aid, Tony.

1469
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 29: I was at Fifth Third Arena with your favorite automotive

1470
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 29: GM on Wednesday.

1471
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 2: No, and I could not agree more. That was the worst.

1472
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 29: Basketball game in the history of the Cincinnati Bearcats. Dude,

1473
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 29: I know onen one cares, but I am completely out

1474
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 29: on anything you see athletics until I see change.

1475
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, my guy, my Ma walking, Grandpa and Gary Allen

1476
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 3: over at Jake swingey Man.

1477
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 2: Listen.

1478
01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,839
Speaker 3: I talked so much about this with over the weekend

1479
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 3: because Mo and I like are very open that we

1480
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:07,160
Speaker 3: are just die hard basketball fans at U see, Like,

1481
01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:09,759
Speaker 3: that's to me that's been at the top of my life.

1482
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:15,759
Speaker 3: Played for UC, but basketball was first. And I've watched

1483
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 3: a lot of games, and I remember a lot of

1484
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 3: bad losses. I genuinely think Wednesday was the worst one

1485
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 3: I've seen.

1486
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 2: Joe until after crab snip it and put it back

1487
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 2: down on the plate. That's a no bueno move. Come

1488
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 2: to beat.

1489
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 12: Sometime over the summer, we'll teach you how to pick

1490
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 12: crabs delicious food.

1491
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 2: No, see, I probably would have done the same thing Joe.

1492
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 3: I respect because he did the same thing I did

1493
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 3: at like Big East Media Day at nine when they

1494
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 3: had this big like crab bake. I put that thing up,

1495
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 3: ripped it apart, and went right down on my plate,

1496
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:47,760
Speaker 3: spread apart.

1497
01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 2: I think it's good. I don't know how to pick

1498
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 2: it though.

1499
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 10: Hey, Austin, Hey Tony, who would have ever thought the

1500
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 10: Bengals would have actually sparked this team to actually go

1501
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:59,919
Speaker 10: out and beat Baltimore in Baltimore?

1502
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 2: It's all you like that.

1503
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 10: If I would have known this would have happened the

1504
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:04,880
Speaker 10: way it did, I would have given up on him

1505
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 10: a long time ago, and we wouldn't be suffering like

1506
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 10: we have been.

1507
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 5: All Right, you know that?

1508
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 2: Positive Paul, Hey.

1509
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 8: Guys, groove.

1510
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 36: What a great day to be the Kentucky Wildcat fan.

1511
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 35: All the rumors coming around will Stein and the most

1512
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 35: logical one, Brian Hartline to Kentucky.

1513
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:27,599
Speaker 16: Let's make it happen.

1514
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: Go big blues.

1515
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 2: Hartline's good people.

1516
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:35,880
Speaker 3: There's nothing, Austin, There's nothing that quite matches. Airport watch.

1517
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 3: We got all these folks on social media now that

1518
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 3: are that are chartering playing where's this plane taking off from?

1519
01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:44,879
Speaker 3: Where's it landing? There's a lot of Lexington to Columbus

1520
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:45,639
Speaker 3: chatter happening.

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01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1522
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 2: Now will they let him coach Ohio State through the playoffs?

1523
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 2: I welcome that? Please do.

1524
01:18:54,640 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 6: Heartline day?

1525
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 37: Yes, I have to give a shout out to Money

1526
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 37: Mac on Thursday night. I think you should help job

1527
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 37: for us as well. Yeah Bengals, Yeah yeah.

1528
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 38: Anytime the Bengals win is a fantastic day. And I

1529
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 38: was so happy about that. But what worries me is

1530
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 38: exactly what Tony just did talking about the changes to

1531
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 38: the defense and what they did from the other previous

1532
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 38: games to that game, and Duke Tobin sitting in his

1533
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 38: office with his feet on his desk saying, see guys,

1534
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 38: everything's fine. It's just bring it all back next year.

1535
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 38: I don't know it deal with the devil we need

1536
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 38: to make, but we could get Caleb downs with you.

1537
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 1: Great.

1538
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did a whole segment on this. I think

1539
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 4: it was either you had left for a Tony and

1540
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 4: Most show or you were sick that day. But that's

1541
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,680
Speaker 4: one of my biggest fears in all of this is

1542
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 4: you can't let the last five or six games, if

1543
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 4: they play really well, you can't let that wash out

1544
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 4: what you saw for the first ten or eleven games.

1545
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:58,320
Speaker 4: Like and they used that excuse last year, they can't

1546
01:19:58,439 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 4: use it again.

1547
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 39: Steal got Strutton. I'm repping that city out here, Sonny,

1548
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 39: hot Zona what up, Tony?

1549
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:03,640
Speaker 5: What up?

1550
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 6: Boddy?

1551
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:07,599
Speaker 39: Our gold Defensey'll love pressure at the right time. That's

1552
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,719
Speaker 39: exactly what we needed, Yo, Teddy Kate Chill, Gee, Chill.

1553
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 39: General Joe got this five four through.

1554
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 2: We got plenty of time too, one man. I love that.

1555
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That's what you want your

1556
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 2: quarterback to do, dropping downs like that.

1557
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 39: The yo see Bis and Chase Buffalo, y'all want this

1558
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 39: smoke were coming, y'all.

1559
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 6: Haven't flashback from a couple of years ago.

1560
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 2: Get ready here we come. Let them know.

1561
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 4: I saw a lot of good memes over the weekend.

1562
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 4: Uh with Joe Burrow counting down the play talk for Ted.

1563
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 32: Care good, Tony Otter, Ryan v Yellow Springs, all right,

1564
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 32: my god, right side of the rivalry, balance restored to

1565
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 32: the forest.

1566
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 2: Anything you need to say, unbelievable.

1567
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 32: So happy for Coach Day, So happy for Buckeye Nation.

1568
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you may think we're calling in the klote

1569
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 2: or something today. Absolutely not. We're taking the high road, yep.

1570
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 32: As Coach Day said, We're gonna win with humility. We're not,

1571
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 32: you know, like any of those guys up in an

1572
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 32: arbor and just the trashy stuff.

1573
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 2: We've seen the last couple of years. We went with

1574
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 2: class obviously. Yep, Ryan gets it, he gets it.

1575
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,879
Speaker 6: Hey, they're terrific. Tony in Austin.

1576
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 28: How about Sadafield or should I say Sad He's still there?

1577
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 40: Oh, Tony Addie, it's me dumb Boy's Michigan fan here,

1578
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 40: and Yep, I just needed to leave my talk back.

1579
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 2: Today to just say, coach Day is my daddy.

1580
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 17: We've known it for years, but it's tinally fine.

1581
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:38,400
Speaker 40: Me dumb boys Michigan fan and all my friends and

1582
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 40: family could admit that, you know, the Buckeyes are the

1583
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 40: how dogs and our little flash of the pans over

1584
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 40: and man, they really taught us a lesson winning with humility.

1585
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 2: Anyway, dumb Boy's Michigan fan here.

1586
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:58,760
Speaker 36: Gosh, this DJ like to think that, you know, Joe

1587
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,759
Speaker 36: look great Thursday night. I like to think Joe watching

1588
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 36: Flacco run the offense and just use his weapons helped

1589
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 36: Burrow somewhat. I hope that can carry forward. It helps

1590
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 36: that the offensive line is playing better, and obviously that

1591
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 36: the defense is Hopefully the defense playing better is not

1592
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 36: fools gold.

1593
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 2: We'll find out Sunday. So Joe Burrow learned from Joe

1594
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:23,599
Speaker 2: Flacco to throw the ball to Jamar Chase.

1595
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 41: Okay, hey Audie, Tony, it's Jeff in Lex.

1596
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 2: Jeff.

1597
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 41: Time since I left you a message. But after I

1598
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:40,520
Speaker 41: heard your excellent prediction last Wednesday, Audie picking the Bengals

1599
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,600
Speaker 41: to knock off the Ravens, I have to give you

1600
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 41: prompts and kudos because you absolutely knocked it out of

1601
01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 41: the park and so did the.

1602
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 13: Bengals who day.

1603
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeff. There we go.

1604
01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 6: When I saw Santa at the Macy's Day parade, I

1605
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 6: asked him to give fan in early Christmas present and

1606
01:23:02,720 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 6: damn it, Santa Claus came through.

1607
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:13,040
Speaker 19: Okay, Okay, Hey guys, Ashley from Landing Week Martindale, do

1608
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 19: you know how many times you.

1609
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 9: Have to inappropriately week at somebody.

1610
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 16: Before the world just starts calling you.

1611
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 15: Guys?

1612
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 2: Happen to see the catches by Pook and a Coola,

1613
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 2: Trailing Burn and Rock Bowers over the weekend. I think

1614
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:34,080
Speaker 2: Trailing Burke's was the best. I literally said wow out loud,

1615
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:34,719
Speaker 2: it was awesome.

1616
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 26: Yeah, hey Tony, I heard you guys talking about us

1617
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 26: on the radio Saturday.

1618
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 13: Just wanted to give you a quick update.

1619
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:42,680
Speaker 2: We're still out here pushing.

1620
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:45,759
Speaker 30: Water out of the tunnel with a squeegee, making serious,

1621
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:46,839
Speaker 30: serious progress.

1622
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 13: Thanks for the shout out, guys, too bad y'all lost

1623
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:50,839
Speaker 13: horn from.

1624
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 3: So there was during the rain delay, the lightning delay.

1625
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 3: It rained sideways and there was legitimate flooding happening at

1626
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 3: different points of the stadium. And one was like right

1627
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,560
Speaker 3: where the Bearcats come out of the tunnel. It was

1628
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 3: probably like if you stepped in at Austin, it would

1629
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:16,599
Speaker 3: go over your ankle.

1630
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 2: Wow, it was that deep, that quick.

1631
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 3: And TCU's answer for that was just like two windows

1632
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 3: squeegees that they just had guys out there pushing.

1633
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:29,599
Speaker 2: The water around. You gotta do something.

1634
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 3: It took him probably forty five minutes because they would

1635
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 3: the squeegee was so small the water would come right back.

1636
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 3: It provided Dan, Moe and I at least twenty minutes

1637
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 3: of enjoyment. And I appreciate them listening.

1638
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 15: In and in Austin.

1639
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 42: It's Joe in Baltimore, Joe a fun walk back to

1640
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 42: the car Thursday night after the game in Baltimore, walking

1641
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 42: to the car, everybody was talking so much saying how

1642
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,800
Speaker 42: bad the Ravens were gonna beat us. On the walk

1643
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 42: back quiet as a mouse man.

1644
01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: I loved it.

1645
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 2: Wudeh go bangles, silence, silence. That was our last one.

1646
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 2: Very good. So I was really hoping to hear from

1647
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:09,200
Speaker 2: George today.

1648
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, where's George? I was really, George has been so

1649
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 3: so adamant. Yeah, to leave talkbacks for years. There's an

1650
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 3: old saying out there, Tony, do you know the face

1651
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 3: of a coward? It's the back of his head as

1652
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:24,120
Speaker 3: he runs from war.

1653
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 2: So I said, shout out to Johnny Moon today for

1654
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 2: calling in. Yeah he did. He said, Austin, what do

1655
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 2: you got? He faced the music didn't have anything for him. George, Oh,

1656
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 2: George is probably on the Dayton Flyers.

1657
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:36,840
Speaker 4: Now I would have at least super fan George and say,

1658
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 4: you know what, Austin, good game will get you next.

1659
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 2: Year, Dayton should call in and give you more Dayton

1660
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:45,760
Speaker 2: takes take a break. You don't know anything about Dayton

1661
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 2: fly football.

1662
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 6: In the NATTY.

1663
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:51,320
Speaker 3: Will do one segment. I'm assuming one segment. We return

1664
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:55,919
Speaker 3: on the Monday midday Quarterback ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

1665
01:25:56,240 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 7: In the NATI in part by Blood and by Oakley

1666
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 7: Greens On ESPN fifteen thirty, The official home of the

1667
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 7: Cincinnati Bengals.

1668
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back. It is football in the Natti.

1669
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 3: It's the Monday midday Quarterback on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

1670
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:15,679
Speaker 3: Sports Station. Just a couple minutes here and I will

1671
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:19,599
Speaker 3: I'll devote a couple minutes to what happened on Saturday.

1672
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 3: Bearcats fall on the road at TCU. If you didn't

1673
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 3: watch the game, you didn't listen in. One of my

1674
01:26:29,120 --> 01:26:34,720
Speaker 3: keys was starting off fast and playing clean football. The

1675
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 3: Bearcats did not do any of that. The Bearcats won

1676
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 3: the toss and they took the ball. I don't mind

1677
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:46,680
Speaker 3: that they ran their first three plays. I'm sorry they

1678
01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 3: ran their first two plays face to third and medium.

1679
01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 3: Cyrus Allen catches a third down pass from Brendan sorosby

1680
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:55,519
Speaker 3: about a yard and a half past the first down marker,

1681
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 3: runs backwards and sets up a fourth down on about

1682
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 3: the thirty four and a half yard line. The Bearcats

1683
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 3: don't convert. TCU takes the ball in. A few plays later,

1684
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:07,040
Speaker 3: they score a touchdown on UC's second possession.

1685
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:08,599
Speaker 2: You can't make this up.

1686
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 3: Third down, they throw a pass, receiver catches it two

1687
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:17,599
Speaker 3: yards pass the line of the line to gain runs

1688
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 3: backwards and does not pick up the first down. Bearcats

1689
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 3: punt rain delay happens. TCU never looks back after that.

1690
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 3: UC's defense was bad all night. The three three five

1691
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:35,559
Speaker 3: was not good, and on the one time the Bearcats

1692
01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:39,560
Speaker 3: did get a stop, the Bearcats dropped the punt and

1693
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:44,519
Speaker 3: TCU recovered and took it over. Josh Hoover was ready

1694
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 3: for this Austin nineteen of twenty two in the game

1695
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 3: for three hundred and six yards and four touchdowns. It's

1696
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 3: pretty efficient. Thanks Jeremy Payne, who is the backup running

1697
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 3: back for TCU because their starting running back was injured.

1698
01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:00,640
Speaker 3: Jeremy Payne carried the ball twenty sixth times for a

1699
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 3: career high one hundred and seventy four yards and two touchdowns.

1700
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 3: He averaged six point seven yards per carry. Sowersby was

1701
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 3: okay twenty three to thirty three for two eighty two

1702
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 3: and three touchdowns. He was also the team's leading rusher

1703
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 3: in the game. This to me, was again more about

1704
01:28:17,240 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 3: sloppy play from the Bearcats. It was more about the

1705
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:23,800
Speaker 3: defense not being able to get stops and a slow start,

1706
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 3: which did the Bearcats in. They gave up five hundred

1707
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 3: and forty four total yards. They allowed a quarterback to

1708
01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:35,599
Speaker 3: go nineteen for twenty two. They gave up two thirty

1709
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 3: eight on the ground. They lost the turnover battle, they

1710
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 3: lost the time of possession battle. It's just been one

1711
01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:47,600
Speaker 3: thing after another. And here's the biggest issue Austin. Now,

1712
01:28:47,640 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 3: when you look back on the season again, going into

1713
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 3: the season, they hit the win total.

1714
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 2: If you'd have said.

1715
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 3: Going in right before Nebraska, this team's gonna win seven games,

1716
01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 3: I think a lot of Bearcat fans would have signed

1717
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 3: up for it. The issue is this team was seven

1718
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 3: and one going into the month of November and lost

1719
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 3: to Utah, Arizona, BYU, and TCU. Now I'll give them

1720
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 3: credit because I thought they were much harder games down

1721
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:15,679
Speaker 3: the stretch. Arizona and BYU were extremely winnable football games.

1722
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 3: TCU can argue, I'll give them Utah that was a

1723
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 3: bad matchup. Utah played well. But as I look at

1724
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 3: how things unfolded and this team has lost four games

1725
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 3: down the stretch, I wonder, Austin, do more people view

1726
01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:35,400
Speaker 3: this as a disappointment or a successful season. U sees

1727
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 3: big twelve wins this year have come against Baylor, who

1728
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 3: finished three and six, and missed a bowl game in

1729
01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 3: the league. Kansas, who also finished three and six and

1730
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:47,200
Speaker 3: five and seven overall, missed a bowl game. There is

1731
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 3: UCF that was a win. They're two and seven in

1732
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 3: the league, five and seven overall, and they beat Oklahoma State,

1733
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:58,280
Speaker 3: who was oh nine in the Big Twelve. So their

1734
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:02,160
Speaker 3: one Big Twelve win over a team with a winning

1735
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 3: record was Iowa State who was playing shorthanded in the game.

1736
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 3: Their best opponents were Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, BYU, and TCU,

1737
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 3: and they lost all five of those games. I thought

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01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:21,840
Speaker 3: Keegan Nickoson wrote very well about it that this roster,

1739
01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:26,879
Speaker 3: when you look at what happened Corleone, Golday, Royer, sowersby

1740
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 3: the o line all coming back, seven should have been

1741
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 3: more than a successful season. This should have been a

1742
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 3: nine win team. And now you wonder how they formed

1743
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,639
Speaker 3: that team next year. There's a lot of questions around

1744
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:46,960
Speaker 3: the University of Cincinnati athletically West Miller and now with

1745
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:51,599
Speaker 3: the Scott saderfield as well. The Bearcats all wait where

1746
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 3: they will be playing postseason football won't be in the

1747
01:30:55,120 --> 01:31:01,439
Speaker 3: College Football Playoff. The Bearcats finish at the bottom or

1748
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 3: near the bottom of the Big twelve at five and

1749
01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 3: four and now wait their Bowl fate. Losers of four

1750
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 3: in a row and from seven to one ranked nationally

1751
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 3: to seven and five, one and eleven for Scott Saderfield

1752
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:22,320
Speaker 3: in the month of November, winless for Scott Satderfield when

1753
01:31:22,360 --> 01:31:25,800
Speaker 3: trailing at halftime. I think it's a fair question to

1754
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 3: ask what's next for the Cincinnati Bearcats. What's next on

1755
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:32,680
Speaker 3: this show is Austin Elmore. Austin, what do you got

1756
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 3: coming up in the next hour. I'm going to talk

1757
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:38,719
Speaker 3: about Joe Burrow being back. Okay, that's next, Yeah, Austin

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01:31:38,760 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 3: from two to three. I'm with Moegger from three to

1759
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,280
Speaker 3: six at Twin Peaks in Westchester. Hope to see you there.

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Speaker 3: If not, listen in right here on ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 7: You've been listening to Football in the NATI on ESPN

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Speaker 7: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 4: BI Hello and welcome in Tony Pike's Monday midday quarterback.

1775
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,839
Speaker 4: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. My name is Austin Elmore.

1776
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:55,680
Speaker 4: I am not Tony Pike. Tony on his way to

1777
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:59,680
Speaker 4: the Tony and mo Football Show from Twin Peaks in Westchester.

1778
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 4: That's coming your way at three o'clock this afternoon. Tony

1779
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 4: and Moe will be live from three to six. You'll

1780
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 4: hear from Bengals head coach Zach Taylor. Zach Taylor meeting

1781
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,639
Speaker 4: with the media in a couple of about an hour

1782
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:18,080
Speaker 4: or so, and you will hear that on ESPN fifteen thirty.

1783
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:20,560
Speaker 4: I want to talk Bengals. I want to open the

1784
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:23,559
Speaker 4: phone lines up to you at five point three seven

1785
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 4: four nine, fifteen thirty and get your reactions and how

1786
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 4: do you feel about this team after the Baltimore game

1787
01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 4: thirty two to fourteen the final, it never really felt

1788
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:41,960
Speaker 4: like the Bengals took control of the game, but it

1789
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 4: never really felt like Baltimore was all that competitive in

1790
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:50,439
Speaker 4: the game. And it was just an impressive performance once

1791
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:54,760
Speaker 4: again by the defense to be opportunistic, to force turnovers,

1792
01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 4: to hustle and make all the plays necessary to give

1793
01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:02,679
Speaker 4: their offense a chance. And they did it repeatedly, even

1794
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 4: when the offense didn't quite show up, especially in the

1795
01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 4: red zone and especially as Joe Burrow was knocking off

1796
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 4: rust in that first half. And if you listen to

1797
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:18,040
Speaker 4: this show, you know I love the playoff predictors. I

1798
01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:20,599
Speaker 4: love the simulators. I love trying to find the path.

1799
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:24,360
Speaker 4: I love the excitement of this time of year in

1800
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 4: the NFL. And while I hate the fact that we're

1801
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 4: talking about a four and eight Bengals team and we

1802
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:31,800
Speaker 4: should at the minimum be talking about a six and

1803
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 4: six Bengals team, that's neither here nor there. The point

1804
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:40,519
Speaker 4: is they are alive. They do have a chance, and

1805
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 4: based off of what we've seen in the AFC North,

1806
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 4: I don't think it's ridiculous to think that it's a

1807
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:52,679
Speaker 4: realistic opportunity. And here's what I think is most fun

1808
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 4: about it is once you're one of those teams who

1809
01:34:56,800 --> 01:35:01,960
Speaker 4: has your franchise quarterback, it makes every single game fun.

1810
01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 4: And this is part of the reason why I pushed

1811
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 4: for and was okay with and didn't mind Joe Burrow

1812
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 4: playing at any point this season, because no matter how

1813
01:35:12,439 --> 01:35:15,240
Speaker 4: bad the defense might seem, or no matter what the

1814
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:18,680
Speaker 4: injury outlook might look like, or how frustrated we might

1815
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:21,000
Speaker 4: get with Zach Taylor, or with Duke Tobin, or with

1816
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:24,639
Speaker 4: ownership or anything, when Joe Burrow is on the field,

1817
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 4: you feel like you have a chance. And as a

1818
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:32,320
Speaker 4: fan of a football team, if you feel like you

1819
01:35:32,479 --> 01:35:37,759
Speaker 4: have a chance, that's fun. I like having fun watching football,

1820
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:40,559
Speaker 4: and I love watching Joe Burrow play.

1821
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 6: Now.

1822
01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:44,600
Speaker 4: I didn't necessarily love thirty two pass attempts in the

1823
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 4: first half coming off a toe injury, but I love

1824
01:35:48,360 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 4: watching Joe Burrow play. And the more that that game

1825
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 4: went on and the more reps that he got and

1826
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 4: the more that he settled down, the more you remembered, oh, yeah,

1827
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:01,240
Speaker 4: this dude is one of the best, if not the best,

1828
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 4: in the National Football League. And what I think is

1829
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 4: really unique about Joe that only a couple of teams

1830
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:15,560
Speaker 4: in the NFL fan bases can say this. When you

1831
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:20,439
Speaker 4: have that quarterback or that player, you don't fear anybody.

1832
01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:25,799
Speaker 4: Buffalo fears no one with Josh Allen, Kansas City fears

1833
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:31,840
Speaker 4: no one with Patrick Mahomes. Baltimore went Healthy fears no

1834
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 4: one with Lamar Jackson. Now, I don't know if Houston

1835
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 4: fans can say that about C. J.

1836
01:36:37,640 --> 01:36:38,040
Speaker 2: Stroud.

1837
01:36:38,240 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 4: I don't think Colts fans can say that about Danny Dimes.

1838
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 4: Jags fans certainly can't say it about Trevor Lawrence. Pittsburgh

1839
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:48,080
Speaker 4: can't say it, Miami can't say it. New England they're

1840
01:36:48,120 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 4: probably pretty close to saying it. But I think it's

1841
01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:55,920
Speaker 4: too early. Philadelphia, there's serious concerns about Jalen Hurts. You

1842
01:36:56,160 --> 01:36:59,360
Speaker 4: might say it if you're a Cowboys fan. The Commanders,

1843
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 4: it's too early to tell, you know. Chicago, Green Bay, Detroit,

1844
01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:07,560
Speaker 4: Minnesota all can't say that. Tampa can't really say that,

1845
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 4: but Baker would make a case. Stafford with the Rams,

1846
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:15,000
Speaker 4: you could probably say that about him. But there's what

1847
01:37:15,280 --> 01:37:18,840
Speaker 4: three four quarterbacks in the NFL you can say that about,

1848
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 4: and so you know, in weeks past and in years past,

1849
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 4: we've been going into a big game and I've been

1850
01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:32,000
Speaker 4: fearful of it. I've been fearful of Oh gosh, this

1851
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:34,680
Speaker 4: is gonna be tough, this is gonna be brutal. How

1852
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 4: are they gonna find a way to win this game?

1853
01:37:37,160 --> 01:37:39,160
Speaker 4: I'm fast forward to this week. You got a chance

1854
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:42,920
Speaker 4: to go to Buffalo playoff ramifications and we got number nine.

1855
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:47,840
Speaker 4: I'm excited, Like, how cool is that you get that opportunity?

1856
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 4: And I don't fear Buffalo, And obviously the recent history

1857
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 4: between the Bengals and the Bills would give you plenty

1858
01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:58,120
Speaker 4: of reason not to fear the Buffalo Bills and the

1859
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,680
Speaker 4: way that they played yesterday, not with st It's not

1860
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,479
Speaker 4: like they've been a dominating team. Tony and I talked

1861
01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:08,760
Speaker 4: about the parody of the NFL this year. How cool

1862
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:09,000
Speaker 4: is that?

1863
01:38:09,200 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 6: Though?

1864
01:38:09,520 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 4: As a Bengals fan, we've got Joe Burrow. I don't

1865
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:18,880
Speaker 4: fear anybody. Oftentimes you maybe look within and fear your

1866
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:22,320
Speaker 4: own players, fear your own defense, fear your own miscues,

1867
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:25,800
Speaker 4: but you don't fear an opponent. Because of Joe Burrow

1868
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:30,120
Speaker 4: alluded to it earlier, I think the impact of having

1869
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 4: him back and what that has done to the entire

1870
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:40,000
Speaker 4: team and lifted the focus and lifted the standard, and

1871
01:38:40,160 --> 01:38:44,200
Speaker 4: lifted the energy and lifted the belief to say, oh, wait,

1872
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 4: we do have a chance. And I think you started

1873
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:50,280
Speaker 4: to see it in that New England game. I remember

1874
01:38:50,360 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 4: talking with some people prior to the Patriots game and

1875
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 4: we were thinking, maybe that's the game where they finally quit.

1876
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:01,320
Speaker 4: And then the Borough News came out and it felt

1877
01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:04,760
Speaker 4: like there was this jolt of energy within the organization

1878
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:07,439
Speaker 4: and they nearly knocked off and probably should have knocked

1879
01:39:07,479 --> 01:39:12,920
Speaker 4: off New England. And then you go through the week

1880
01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:17,320
Speaker 4: leading up to Baltimore and finally see him play, and

1881
01:39:17,439 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 4: they just found a way to win. Good teams in

1882
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 4: the NFL have imperfect performances, but you find a way

1883
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 4: to win. And a great quarterback is the great equalizer

1884
01:39:31,160 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 4: when it comes to that. And so when I think

1885
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:36,479
Speaker 4: forward to Sunday against the Bengals and the Bills, I

1886
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 4: don't think, oh gosh, this is gonna be brutal. Got

1887
01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:41,400
Speaker 4: to go to Buffalo, It's gonna be cold, and Josh

1888
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 4: Allen James Cook just ran for two hundred yards.

1889
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:47,600
Speaker 2: No, dude, I'm like, let's go.

1890
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:50,960
Speaker 4: We get an opportunity to play meaningful football, two of

1891
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:53,920
Speaker 4: the best quarterbacks in the NFL in front of one

1892
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 4: of the best crowds in the NFL, in a stadium

1893
01:39:57,040 --> 01:40:01,680
Speaker 4: in its final year with legitimate playoff ramifications for the

1894
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 4: Bengals and for the Buffalo Bills.

1895
01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:05,560
Speaker 6: How cool is that?

1896
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:08,799
Speaker 4: How exciting is that? And how great of a feeling

1897
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 4: is that as a Bengals fan to know we've got

1898
01:40:14,439 --> 01:40:18,800
Speaker 4: our quarterback, we have a chance. I would understand if

1899
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:19,920
Speaker 4: you gave up on this team.

1900
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:20,960
Speaker 6: I did.

1901
01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 2: At one point.

1902
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:23,920
Speaker 4: I didn't think Joe was coming back, so I kind

1903
01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 4: of closed up shop and was like, well, let's see

1904
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:28,599
Speaker 4: what we'll learn about him between now and the draft.

1905
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:31,920
Speaker 4: But all of a sudden, the way the defense has

1906
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,680
Speaker 4: played over the last three weeks, you look at it

1907
01:40:35,760 --> 01:40:40,479
Speaker 4: and say, okay, well, if that can continue, then maybe

1908
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 4: we have something here. And as I said earlier, you

1909
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:48,000
Speaker 4: should not allow the final five to eight weeks of

1910
01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 4: the season. You should not allow that to determine your

1911
01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:55,719
Speaker 4: offseason plan. You should not allow that to wash away

1912
01:40:55,840 --> 01:40:58,559
Speaker 4: what you saw in the first eight, nine, ten weeks

1913
01:40:58,600 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 4: of the season.

1914
01:40:59,120 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 2: You shouldn't.

1915
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:03,080
Speaker 4: That would be irresponsible. And that would be stupid if

1916
01:41:03,120 --> 01:41:05,599
Speaker 4: you're the Bengals, if you're Duke Tobin, if you're Zach Taylor.

1917
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 4: You shouldn't forget all of what you've seen so far.

1918
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 4: But you can look at the adjustments that have been

1919
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:16,719
Speaker 4: made post by week and say, Okay, maybe we found

1920
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:17,320
Speaker 4: something here.

1921
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 15: Now.

1922
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:19,720
Speaker 4: I hate that it took ten eleven weeks for it

1923
01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:22,920
Speaker 4: to happen, But if it's happened and there's still meaning,

1924
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:26,240
Speaker 4: meaningful football still to be played, that's a good thing

1925
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 4: and that should excite you. If you're a Bengals fan.

1926
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:36,360
Speaker 4: It excites me. And I hope that what we're learning

1927
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:38,120
Speaker 4: about this defense, and we'll get into some of the

1928
01:41:38,200 --> 01:41:41,080
Speaker 4: numbers later on. I hope what we're learning about this

1929
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:45,720
Speaker 4: defense is that Miles Murphy finally the light bulb came

1930
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:49,919
Speaker 4: on Joseph Osai. Maybe there's a chance, in the absence

1931
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 4: of Trey Henderson that you can get him on a

1932
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:55,400
Speaker 4: deal that makes sense for both sides and he can

1933
01:41:55,479 --> 01:41:59,600
Speaker 4: be a productive pass rusher. Maybe Demetrius Knight Junior has

1934
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 4: taken step forward. Maybe Barrett Carter has cleaned up his tackling.

1935
01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 4: Maybe Chris Jenkins, who doesn't feel like he's done much,

1936
01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:14,360
Speaker 4: but has at least been active and impactful at times

1937
01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:17,080
Speaker 4: over the last couple of weeks. Maybe there's something there.

1938
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 4: Dax Hill was challenged on Thursday night Baltimore stayed away

1939
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:26,360
Speaker 4: from DJ Turner again. By the way, nobody's throwing a

1940
01:42:26,479 --> 01:42:30,120
Speaker 4: DJ Turner. He's averaging like twenty five yards per game

1941
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:32,799
Speaker 4: given up over the last six weeks or something stupid

1942
01:42:32,880 --> 01:42:38,559
Speaker 4: like that, Like that's in and of itself, that's one

1943
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 4: that you hang your hat on. DJ Turner's development. Okay,

1944
01:42:42,280 --> 01:42:44,800
Speaker 4: Dax Hill was challenged and for the most part met

1945
01:42:44,880 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 4: the challenge. Jordan battle hustle play, makes and forces a

1946
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:53,560
Speaker 4: fumble that results in a touch back and gets the

1947
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:58,360
Speaker 4: Bengals another possession. This team hasn't quit and for the

1948
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Speaker 4: first time over the last three weeks, you feel like

1949
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:06,080
Speaker 4: there is legitimate signs of progress on defense. Now, is

1950
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Speaker 4: it going to be enough? Nobody knows. And I think

1951
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Speaker 4: it's a very tall task, a very tough hill to climb,

1952
01:43:12,479 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 4: no doubt about it. But is this not what we

1953
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:20,320
Speaker 4: asked for an opportunity in the final five weeks of

1954
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:23,000
Speaker 4: the season. This is exactly where we were a year

1955
01:43:23,080 --> 01:43:26,880
Speaker 4: ago at four and eight, had to go and win

1956
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:29,280
Speaker 4: the last five and see what happens, and it's probably

1957
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,880
Speaker 4: going to be something similar if they have any chance.

1958
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Speaker 4: And what's crazy enough is there's a decent possibility even

1959
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 4: at eight to nine. That's the ridiculousness of the NFL

1960
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Speaker 4: this year. That's why the Bengals never quit. That's why

1961
01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:45,920
Speaker 4: the Bengals traded for Joe Flacco, That's why Joe Burrow

1962
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:49,960
Speaker 4: busted his ass to get back. I understand that it

1963
01:43:50,120 --> 01:43:54,800
Speaker 4: is a tough, tough task, it's a tall hill to climb,

1964
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 4: however you want to say it. But is this not

1965
01:43:57,320 --> 01:44:01,719
Speaker 4: what we ask for as football fans? I mean, compare

1966
01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,160
Speaker 4: it to how you feel about UC football right now?

1967
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 4: Going nowhere feels like it's stuck in the mud. No

1968
01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:12,360
Speaker 4: belief in Scott Saderfield, no belief in the people above.

1969
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Speaker 4: And while some of those sentiments might be shared about

1970
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:19,320
Speaker 4: Zach Taylor and the Bengals front office, you at least

1971
01:44:19,400 --> 01:44:24,880
Speaker 4: have great players and signs of progress in recent weeks

1972
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 4: that make you feel like, hey, they can do this,

1973
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:29,280
Speaker 4: and oh, by the way, we've seen them do it

1974
01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 4: before several times. So in a season that at what point,

1975
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:38,559
Speaker 4: at one point felt like it was completely lost. Now

1976
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:43,520
Speaker 4: has a jolt of energy, has fresh life that reinvigorates

1977
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Speaker 4: me as a sports talk radio host. It reinvigorates me

1978
01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 4: as a football fan and gets me excited as hell

1979
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 4: for the final five weeks of the season because your

1980
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:57,200
Speaker 4: best player is back and the game still means something.

1981
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Speaker 4: I want to know what you think. Five point three

1982
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Speaker 4: seven four fifteen thirty. We'll take a break, We'll come back.

1983
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Speaker 4: This is Tony Pikes Monday Midday Quarterback on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 6: Hey, it's Moweger. Hope you had a great weekend. Join

1985
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Speaker 6: us today at Twin Peaks in Westchester for the Tony

1986
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Speaker 6: and Moo Football Show as we talk about the Thanksgiving

1987
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Speaker 6: Night Bengals win over Baltimore, starting at three to five

1988
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Speaker 6: on ESPN fifteen thirty. Cincinnati Sports Station Football Barton.

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Speaker 7: Joe Burrow is back and he plays here on ESPN

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Speaker 7: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back Tony Pikes Monday Midday Quarterback, ESPN fifteen thirty

1992
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Speaker 4: on Austin Elmore talking Bengals. Here in our number three

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Speaker 4: five one three seven four nine, fifteen thirty is the

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Speaker 4: phone number.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Brian in

1996
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Speaker 2: Fort Thomas. What's up, Brian?

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Speaker 13: Oh, not too much?

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Speaker 2: How you doing? I'm doing all right, man? What's on

1999
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Speaker 2: your mind?

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Speaker 13: So regarding the game is I'm hiding a curse? What

2001
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Speaker 13: I would? Watched me in about fifteen minutes and I

2002
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 13: was like, what the plus is this team doing? I

2003
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:08,840
Speaker 13: haven't seen this team all year. It's totally different. It

2004
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:11,040
Speaker 13: was a me and my wife are seeing like it's

2005
01:46:12,160 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 13: the defense actually, like you know, if they missed tackles,

2006
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Speaker 13: and of course they made mistakes, but they still, you know,

2007
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Speaker 13: caught caught people from the backside and made plays. I

2008
01:46:21,080 --> 01:46:23,719
Speaker 13: don't know if you can call the play where there's

2009
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Speaker 13: a big, big giant, the big giant running back.

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Speaker 2: For Baltimore, Dereck Henry.

2011
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Speaker 13: You remember there's a play where he ran off for

2012
01:46:33,479 --> 01:46:35,800
Speaker 13: a big clip across the field, but they call him

2013
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Speaker 13: from the backside and topt him a touchdown and I

2014
01:46:38,360 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 13: square two weeks ago three still you didn't see any

2015
01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:43,720
Speaker 13: of that. You never saw him, I mean, and that's

2016
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 13: a big best man. I was like, what is this team?

2017
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Speaker 13: I haven't seen them all week?

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Speaker 4: It seemed like there was so much more energy so

2019
01:46:51,120 --> 01:46:54,559
Speaker 4: much more effort. That play was made by Miles Murphy

2020
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Speaker 4: and the other play with Isaiah likely forcing the fumble

2021
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:01,040
Speaker 4: was made by Jordan Battle, and you know both of

2022
01:47:01,080 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 4: those are just pure hustle plays, like finishing the play

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Speaker 4: all the way down to the other side of the field.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, And it was just like, this is yes all

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Speaker 13: I want. I just want to see effort and yeah,

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01:47:12,600 --> 01:47:15,040
Speaker 13: this is this is way more fun than watching them

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Speaker 13: play terrible and being you know, embarrassing, not looking like

2028
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:23,479
Speaker 13: professional team. So I'm you know, very excited about it.

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Speaker 13: And the who's the uh, who's the first round pick

2030
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Speaker 13: that's on I R now.

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Speaker 2: Shamar Stewart Keaton does not mean to.

2032
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Speaker 13: See the field if if they played this much better

2033
01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:38,160
Speaker 13: with him off the field, like what are we doing?

2034
01:47:38,320 --> 01:47:42,280
Speaker 13: Like there has to be something to that, you know,

2035
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Speaker 13: him being off the field is being a positive for

2036
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Speaker 13: the team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there might be something to that.

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Speaker 4: I mean they've played the last three games without him

2039
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Speaker 4: and they've looked like an entirely you know, different and

2040
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Speaker 4: much better defense without him taking snaps away from Osaiah

2041
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Speaker 4: and Murphy.

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Speaker 2: So I think there's there might be something to do that.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, And what do you think about number eight for

2044
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Speaker 13: LSU the linebacker. I mean he looks like he's he's

2045
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Speaker 13: gonna be pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a monster. He has a chance to be

2047
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Speaker 4: the number one overall pick in the draft. I mean

2048
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:20,800
Speaker 4: he's a Miles Garrett like physical phenom and just size, speed, athleticism.

2049
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Speaker 4: He drops back into coverage, he rushes the pastor he

2050
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Speaker 4: stands up, he puts his hand down in the dirt.

2051
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Speaker 4: I mean he's a freak of a player. Rvel Reese

2052
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Speaker 4: is his name. Yeah, he's a beast.

2053
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Speaker 13: Yeah, and there's I don't know, I just seems like

2054
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Speaker 13: maybe the only I just want them to do something

2055
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Speaker 13: different in the draft and just find production and not

2056
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Speaker 13: go after trades because yeah, I don't think that's a

2057
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Speaker 13: good way to go to think that you can, you know,

2058
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Speaker 13: turn someone into something they weren't in four years three

2059
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Speaker 13: years of college.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it, Brian, thank you for the phone call.

2061
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Speaker 4: I think, specifically with pass rushers, I would like to

2062
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Speaker 4: see them change that draft strategy because they have gone

2063
01:49:00,600 --> 01:49:03,920
Speaker 4: after production guy or they've gone after traits guys over

2064
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Speaker 4: production guys, and it's taken them a little bit longer

2065
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Speaker 4: to develop guys like Miles Murphy, guys like Shamar Stewart.

2066
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Speaker 4: Now it's way too early to call off the dogs

2067
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Speaker 4: on Shamar Stewart, and hopefully a full off season where

2068
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:19,040
Speaker 4: he's healthy and isn't distracted by off field stuff and

2069
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:22,720
Speaker 4: has an NFL offseason plan, he comes to de camp

2070
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:26,240
Speaker 4: much better. But you saw how many snaps it's taken

2071
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Speaker 4: for Miles Murphy for the light bulb to seemingly come on.

2072
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Speaker 4: Now the Bengals can't afford to wait that long with

2073
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Speaker 4: Shamar Stewart. But you would hope that they've learned something

2074
01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:37,120
Speaker 4: over the last couple of years when it comes to

2075
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:40,680
Speaker 4: drafting these guys, that it's less about the traits and

2076
01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:44,599
Speaker 4: more about the actual production when you are in college.

2077
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Speaker 4: Let's go back to the phones. Let's talk to Doug

2078
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Speaker 4: in Colorado Springs. What's up, Doug.

2079
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Speaker 18: Hey, Austin, Rocky Mountain, Buckeye Bengal Red Sprinkle of Summer

2080
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Speaker 18: School Bearcat.

2081
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Speaker 19: So I'm sitting there.

2082
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Speaker 18: I'm sitting there watching the game. I moved between games

2083
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 18: yesterday and I've been playing around with chat GPT, so

2084
01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:08,920
Speaker 18: I plug in. Okay, what are the chances of the

2085
01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 18: Bengals making the playoffs and they give me two point

2086
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Speaker 18: two percent and then.

2087
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Speaker 19: I sit there.

2088
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Speaker 18: Some of the quotes from chat GPT are actually funny,

2089
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 18: and one of them is win every game and hope

2090
01:50:25,120 --> 01:50:32,400
Speaker 18: the division cannibalizes itself just right, And I thought, that's perfect.

2091
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Speaker 18: And I'm looking at this thing. We beat the Bank,

2092
01:50:37,240 --> 01:50:40,800
Speaker 18: we beat the Ravens, we beat the Steelers again, we

2093
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:43,240
Speaker 18: beat the I mean, we can win this thing with

2094
01:50:43,400 --> 01:50:44,000
Speaker 18: eight and nine.

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01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:44,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

2096
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Speaker 4: I was saying that earlier, like there's a realistic path

2097
01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:51,800
Speaker 4: based off of the schedules that Baltimore has, which is

2098
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:55,639
Speaker 4: really difficult. Pittsburgh, who really doesn't look like a viable

2099
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:58,320
Speaker 4: team at all right now, and the way that the

2100
01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:01,639
Speaker 4: Bengals especially finish up this season with Arizona and Cleveland

2101
01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:04,599
Speaker 4: like and Miami in there as well, Like, it's it's

2102
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Speaker 4: not out of the realm of possibility to win the

2103
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Speaker 4: AFC North with a losing record.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 18: So my final thought is, you know, we went five

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01:51:13,320 --> 01:51:17,280
Speaker 18: and oh last year and with the way the defense looked,

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Speaker 18: and I'll hang up, is do you if they just

2108
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:24,479
Speaker 18: keep that up, they can win five and oh.

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Speaker 19: If they win five and oh, they can they win

2110
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Speaker 19: the thing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And I'm right there with you, Doug, and thank you

2113
01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:34,920
Speaker 4: for the phone call. And yeah, I mean, in its

2114
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:37,880
Speaker 4: simplest form, your best chance is to obviously win all

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Speaker 4: five games.

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Speaker 2: Is that going to happen?

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Speaker 4: Who knows, But there are at least some things to

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01:51:43,520 --> 01:51:46,479
Speaker 4: point at to say, Okay, this has gotten better. I

2119
01:51:46,560 --> 01:51:51,000
Speaker 4: saw Paul Danner Junior post this earlier on his Twitter

2120
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Speaker 4: page that over the last three weeks, the Bengals are

2121
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Speaker 4: now fifteenth in the NFL in defense. In EPA per play,

2122
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 4: that's almost dead center. They're thirteenth in points per drive.

2123
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Speaker 4: Their success percentage is twenty third, their rush success percentage eleventh.

2124
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:14,240
Speaker 4: Explosive play percentage still bad at thirtieth, but they're tied

2125
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Speaker 4: for the fourth best red zone defense. Their turnover margin

2126
01:52:18,479 --> 01:52:22,679
Speaker 4: is tied for eighth. Like we have said multiple times,

2127
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Speaker 4: they do not have to be the best defense in

2128
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Speaker 4: the NFL.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to be one through ten.

2130
01:52:28,280 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 4: Can they be somewhere in thirteen to eighteen? And if so,

2131
01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 4: with your offense, you have a chance to win every

2132
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Speaker 4: single game. And that's why I have been adamant on

2133
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Speaker 4: this show and others over the course of this season

2134
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Speaker 4: that based off of what they have next year and

2135
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Speaker 4: financially where they stand. I don't think it's crazy to

2136
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:53,679
Speaker 4: think that they can improve over the course of one offseason,

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01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:57,480
Speaker 4: and I don't know that a rebuild, as some have theorized,

2138
01:52:57,640 --> 01:52:59,760
Speaker 4: is really necessary for this team.

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Speaker 5: Now.

2140
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Speaker 4: Again, them performing well over a stretch doesn't mean they

2141
01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 4: should forget what happened the first ten games. But still

2142
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:10,519
Speaker 4: at least there's something to go off of here which

2143
01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 4: we haven't had in the past. And overall, I mean,

2144
01:53:16,080 --> 01:53:19,439
Speaker 4: the last three games have made you excited because you're

2145
01:53:19,479 --> 01:53:24,840
Speaker 4: putting an offense in a difficult spot. You're creating confusing

2146
01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:27,880
Speaker 4: looks at the line of scrimmage. Your cornerbacks have been

2147
01:53:27,920 --> 01:53:31,160
Speaker 4: playing well, which bodes well when you're giving those type

2148
01:53:31,160 --> 01:53:34,920
Speaker 4: of looks, and you've tackled better and at the bare minimum,

2149
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:37,160
Speaker 4: that just gives you more chances. And on top of that,

2150
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Speaker 4: as we talked about earlier, the hustle and the effort

2151
01:53:40,439 --> 01:53:43,360
Speaker 4: running down plays, forcing a fumble at the goal line,

2152
01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:48,240
Speaker 4: chasing down Lamar Jackson sideline to sideline speed, like all

2153
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:51,160
Speaker 4: of it. It's like, yes, finally, that's what we've been

2154
01:53:51,200 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 4: waiting for. And I hope it's not just Oh Joe

2155
01:53:54,040 --> 01:53:56,400
Speaker 4: Burrow's back, so we should try harder. Lord help them

2156
01:53:56,400 --> 01:54:00,240
Speaker 4: if that's the case. But I mean, hell, the way

2157
01:54:00,280 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 4: it's looked, let's go more phone calls when we get back.

2158
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Speaker 4: This is ESPN fifteen thirty Heat.

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Speaker 1: This week, the Bengals are bringing their own brand of

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Speaker 1: football to Buffalo when they go hunting for a win.

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Speaker 1: Did I tell you about the last time I was

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Speaker 1: in below my eight fifty wings sleethered in hot sauce.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say I had to stampede my way to

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Speaker 1: a stall in the men's room. The Bengals Pattle the

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Speaker 1: Bills beverage begins at nine APP Sunday, stream for free

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Speaker 1: on the new and improved iHeartRadio app or ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 1: the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 4: Final hour of Tony Pike's Monday midday Quarterback I'm Austin

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Speaker 4: home more ten minutes from right now, TONI and Mo

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Speaker 4: will join us ahead of the Tony and Mo Football

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Speaker 4: show Ball. Do quick hits after the long Thanksgiving weekend.

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Speaker 4: Hope you had a great Thanksgiving with your family. Obviously,

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01:55:00,160 --> 01:55:02,760
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving night worked out pretty well with the Bengals beating

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Speaker 4: the Baltimore Ravens and giving themselves a chance in the

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Speaker 4: stretch run here in the AFC North. Let's go back

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Speaker 4: to the phones, five on three, seven, fifteen thirty. Let's

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Speaker 4: go to Rodney out in Arizona listening to the show.

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Speaker 4: What's up Rodney? What's on your mind?

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Speaker 15: Hey, what's up? Boston? Do they enjoyed you on the

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Speaker 15: after postgame show on Thursday?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 15: Just two quick questions, So, uh who first? Who am

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Speaker 15: I rooting for Sunday between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. And since

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Speaker 15: we'll take it one week at a time and it

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Speaker 15: may not matter, but anyway, And in second, I thought,

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Speaker 15: I watched a little bit of the game yesterday. I

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Speaker 15: was at the casino, the Pittsburgh Baltimore and What's I thought? Uh,

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Speaker 15: Buffalo had more weapons. It seems to me if we

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Speaker 15: can stop the run and shut and kind of hold

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Speaker 15: the quarterback down a little bit, we got a chance.

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Speaker 15: And what do you think off the air?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate your show, Rodney. Thank you. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: your kind words. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So we'll start with with the first question about who

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Speaker 4: to root for Baltimore and Pittsburgh. It really doesn't matter

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Speaker 4: the ideal thing is that they split. So whoever wins

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Speaker 4: this game, you want the other team to win the

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Speaker 4: next game, So they play twice between now in the

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Speaker 4: end of the season. That's the easiest way for the

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Speaker 4: Bengals to do it. I think the next easiest would

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Speaker 4: be for Pittsburgh to win both games and then lose

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Speaker 4: the other games on their schedule. They played Detroit and

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Speaker 4: some teams like that. I don't know, so you're not

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Speaker 4: really it doesn't really matter as you just need both

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Speaker 4: teams to lose to each other once.

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Speaker 2: That would be ideally.

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Speaker 4: And then the second question, which I'm I'm struggling to

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Speaker 4: try to remember. Oh about Buffalo's team. Yeah, they ran

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Speaker 4: for I'm gonna see if I can pull it up

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Speaker 4: here real quick, almost two hundred and fifty yards on

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Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh, which that hasn't happened since

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Speaker 4: before the Steel Curtain defense, Like, that's insane for Buffalo

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Speaker 4: to do what they did. Josh Allen threw the ball

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Speaker 4: just twenty three times for one hundred and twenty three yards.

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Speaker 4: He completed just fifteen passes, one touchdown, one interception. James

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Speaker 4: Cook thirty two carries, one hundred and forty four yards.

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Speaker 4: As a team, Buffalo ran it fifty one times for

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Speaker 4: two hundred and forty nine yards. That's crazy, number one

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Speaker 4: to do that in Pittsburgh. As I said, it just

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Speaker 4: never happens. Hasn't happened since before the Steel Curtain, way

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Speaker 4: back in the day. So that's Buffalo's bread and butter.

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Speaker 4: They went at Pittsburgh and said, we don't think you

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Speaker 4: can stop us when you do this, when we do this,

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Speaker 4: so here's how we're going to do it. With the

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Speaker 4: game against the Bengals, I expect them to go at

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Speaker 4: the linebackers a little bit more. I think there is

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Speaker 4: a misconception in the league about how the Steelers defensive

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Speaker 4: line is.

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Speaker 2: TJ.

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Speaker 4: Watt hasn't been great. Cam Hayward's one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: years old. I think there is a belief by a

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Speaker 4: lot of people that Pittsburgh's defensive line is still just

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Speaker 4: this unbelievable group. I think Buffalo's all weakness and said

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Speaker 4: we're gonna run right at it. The weakness for the

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Speaker 4: Bengals is still their linebackers, So I expect them to

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Speaker 4: go to runs to the boundary to get guys out

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Speaker 4: in space, quick passes, screen passes, toss plays, reverses guys

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Speaker 4: to try to try to get those linebackers out of position.

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Speaker 4: I also think because Buffalo is so good at running

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Speaker 4: the ball, you can get the Bengals out of those

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Speaker 4: looks where they've got a bunch of people crowding the

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Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, and that's where Cincinnati has had some success.

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Speaker 4: So I think if Joe Brady is smart, that's they're

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Speaker 4: gonna start with running the football. I think there's gonna

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Speaker 4: be misdirections. I think there's gonna be counters. I think

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Speaker 4: there's gonna be some read option with Josh Allen, all

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Speaker 4: of that stuff to try to get the Bengals' biggest weakness,

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Speaker 4: which is their linebackers, out of position and try to

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Speaker 4: get to the second level up against them and create

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Speaker 4: those holes. That's what I think Buffalo is going to

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Speaker 4: try to do. And so you're right though, because weapons wise,

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Speaker 4: Keon Coleman, their wide receiver has been a bit of

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Speaker 4: a bust. Khalil Shakur has been solid for them, but

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Speaker 4: nothing sensational. They've still got good tight ends and as

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Speaker 4: we know, the Bengals are the worst defense in the

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Speaker 4: NFL when it comes to defending tight ends. So still

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Speaker 4: a long way to go, and Buffalo still has some weapons.

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Speaker 4: And I mean James Cook not only did he lead

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Speaker 4: him in rushing, he let him in receiving yesterday as well.

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Speaker 4: But it's not a group of guys that keep you

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Speaker 4: up at night in the pass catcher room. So the

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Speaker 4: bengals Number one priority is going to have to be

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Speaker 4: let's stop the run, and let's trust that DJ Turner

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Speaker 4: and Gino Stone and Jordan Battle and held Jalen Davis,

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Speaker 4: who earlier today the Bengals signed the practice the active

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Speaker 4: roster off the practice squad and even Dax Hill. Let's

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Speaker 4: trust that those guys continue the upward trajectory that they've

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Speaker 4: been on, that Miles Murphy and Joseph Oside can continue

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Speaker 4: to set the edge, and that with that the Bengals

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Speaker 4: can kind of continue down the path they've been on. Defensively,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be a great cat and mouse game. I

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Speaker 4: don't think it's gonna be a real high scoring game,

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Speaker 4: to be completely honest with you, I think it's gonna

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Speaker 4: be a really fun game up against Buffalo. All Right,

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Speaker 4: we'll take a break, we'll come back when we do.

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Speaker 4: Tony Pike and Moe Egger they will join us from

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Speaker 4: Twin Peaks in Westchester this afternoon. It's the Tony and

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Speaker 4: Mo Football Show and they'll be on from three to six.

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Speaker 4: We talk to them for quick hits next right here

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Speaker 4: on the Home of the Bengals, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: Fifty Quick Hits on ESPN fifteen thirty list.

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Speaker 2: Indeed it is.

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Speaker 4: And when it's time for quick hits on a Monday,

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Speaker 4: that means we go out to Twin Peaks, this time

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Speaker 4: in Westchester to connect with Tony Pike and Moegar ahead

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Speaker 4: of the Tony and Mo Football Show.

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Speaker 2: Fellas, how we doing.

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Speaker 3: Major major thanks to the Cincinnati Bengals. Yes, because without

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Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday, this could have been a

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Speaker 3: dark day.

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Speaker 6: It could have been a dark day. But I want

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Speaker 6: to thank the Ohio State Buckeyes. Oh sure, because they

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Speaker 6: they beat Michigan. And so we are spared having to

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Speaker 6: hear you and I, Tony and others who aren't Ohio

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Speaker 6: State fans. We are spared having to hear how you

2296
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Speaker 6: guys just don't understand. Yeah, you guys don't understand. And

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Speaker 6: we don't have to hear that today, So it's great.

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Speaker 3: It's been a good day. I fully understand what I've

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Speaker 3: watched with the Bearcats.

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Speaker 6: So do you, because I'm not sure I do.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing. It's led me to a point mo

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Speaker 3: where I'm watching and reading up on Tarleton State to

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Speaker 3: hope that Deor Johnson is not playing Billy Gillespie. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm worried about this one tonight, and I think that

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Speaker 3: says the state about where we're at right now.

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Speaker 6: Somebody I saw somebody describe it as their last crosstown shootout.

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Speaker 3: Tune up, Sure, tune up, got win the game? Match

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Speaker 3: up tonight.

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Speaker 4: Which program is more concerning to you right now? Football

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Speaker 4: or basketball?

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Speaker 2: For me, it's a hard question. Basketball.

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Speaker 3: I think it's basketball because I know that they've they've

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Speaker 3: put a lot into building the roster and there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of resources that have been collected for that, and

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Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like they're improving at all. It feels

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Speaker 3: like kind of the same version of the team I've

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Speaker 3: watched for the last couple of years. Whereas football, you know,

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Speaker 3: there were some points there, there were some things that

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Speaker 3: you could cling to that has come crashing down but neither.

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Speaker 2: Are a great option right now.

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Speaker 6: I think basketball for me is more concerning because Big

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Speaker 6: twelve basketball is better than Big twelve football. Like, I

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Speaker 6: think that the scary thing about And look, they didn't

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Speaker 6: have Boba Miller against Eastern Michigan. That's a big piece.

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Speaker 6: He is their best player. But I think the frustrating

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Speaker 6: thing about watching them through seven games is you look

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Speaker 6: at it and go, how are they gonna beat Houston?

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Speaker 6: How are they gonna beat BYU? How are they gonna

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Speaker 6: beat Texas Tech? How are they gonna beat Kansas? Like

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Speaker 6: that to me, like, I think this year was a

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Speaker 6: massive missed opportunity for UC football. Kegan nickoson and we'll

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Speaker 6: talk about it. You have as well. The colin he

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Speaker 6: wrote after the game, I think was I think it

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Speaker 6: was fair because you see his best players this year

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Speaker 6: are all set to leave. Yeah, and so it felt

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Speaker 6: like they had been building to this point and then

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Speaker 6: seven wins. That's really as good as it's gonna get

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Speaker 6: before you have to go into rebuild mode. But nothing

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Speaker 6: against Texas Tech or BYU. I think winning in the

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Speaker 6: Big twelve is attainable. Winning big in the Big twelve

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Speaker 6: is attainable, Not easy, yep, and many are gonna say

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Speaker 6: it's not attainable with the current head coach. But winning

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Speaker 6: in the Big twelve in basketball, legitimately winning, legitimately winning

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Speaker 6: to the point that you're you can compete for a championship,

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Speaker 6: or legitimately winning in the Big twelve where you talk

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Speaker 6: about them in a top five seed in the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 6: That feels far away, and nothing about the first seven

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Speaker 6: games of the season would make anybody think or say otherwise.

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Speaker 4: Your favorite part of the Bengals postgame interview after the

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Speaker 4: victory on Thursday night.

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Speaker 13: Was what.

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Speaker 6: The fact that all the guys hovered around the turkey. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: it was like forty of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that was fun. Yeah, William Wagner a little less Wagner.

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Speaker 3: I just thought it was the genuine I thought joy

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Speaker 3: and appreciation that a guy who doesn't show a ton

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Speaker 3: of emotion Joe Burrow showed.

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Speaker 6: And I thought my favorite part of the Joe Burrow

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Speaker 6: experience was postgame, but also pregame, because that's what you

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Speaker 6: want to hear. Look, I get paid a lot of

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Speaker 6: money to play a kid's game. At the end of

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Speaker 6: the day, as fans, we just want to hear athletes

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Speaker 6: have that kind of perspective and you cannot. You may

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Speaker 6: not think Joe Burrow is the best quarterback in the NFL.

2365
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Speaker 6: That is fine. You may think that Oburrow is to

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Speaker 6: blame for his injuries. I think you're wrong, but that's okay.

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Speaker 6: I do not know how you look at him and

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Speaker 6: don't come away with some appreciation for how much he cares,

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Speaker 6: how hard he works, how much winning matters to him,

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Speaker 6: and how I think guys gravitate to him. That team,

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Speaker 6: which has been atrocious for most of the season, played

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Speaker 6: with a little extra punch, and the Ravens were complicit,

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02:05:25,320 --> 02:05:27,880
Speaker 6: played with a little extra punch because I think they're like, man,

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Speaker 6: we got our guy back.

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Speaker 3: I also questioned the turkey itself, Yeah, because it seemed

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Speaker 3: like Joseph osaih was chewing that piece of turkey for

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Speaker 3: two minutes. Does he could not answer a question because

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Speaker 3: of one bite of turkey.

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Speaker 6: Turkey tradition like the turnduck in turkey tradition. I'm kind

2380
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Speaker 6: of good on the John Madden thing. Really, look no

2381
02:05:48,680 --> 02:05:51,640
Speaker 6: bigger fan of John Madden than me. Like that's past summer.

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Speaker 6: All in John match are voices of my youth. Right,

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02:05:54,680 --> 02:05:58,120
Speaker 6: John Madden has retired, he has passed. You would have

2384
02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:00,840
Speaker 6: thought he just he just died. Like on he gets

2385
02:06:01,040 --> 02:06:05,480
Speaker 6: he gets a year? Yeah, yeah, do we do we

2386
02:06:05,560 --> 02:06:05,800
Speaker 6: need it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I think that's summer past summer all was one half

2389
02:06:08,280 --> 02:06:09,960
Speaker 6: a Mandon summer role. Do we do a day for him?

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Speaker 2: True?

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Speaker 5: Huh true?

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Speaker 6: So I just like I'm I'm kind of good. Like

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Speaker 6: Jason Garrett was talking about. It was Jason Garrett actually

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02:06:17,520 --> 02:06:19,000
Speaker 6: showed personality during the broad day.

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Speaker 2: He was actually good. Yeah, it was real good.

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02:06:21,360 --> 02:06:23,720
Speaker 6: I mean, and like he and Roger Goodell are the

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02:06:23,760 --> 02:06:26,000
Speaker 6: two people who like when they smile, it looks like

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Speaker 6: it's hurting that. Yeah, something going on, Like when Jason

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Speaker 6: Garrett smiles like you, you almost get the sense like

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02:06:32,280 --> 02:06:34,840
Speaker 6: he's being stuck in the back with a pin or something.

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02:06:35,400 --> 02:06:37,600
Speaker 6: But yeah, to me, the fact that all the guys

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02:06:37,720 --> 02:06:40,560
Speaker 6: hovering around the turkey and I don't know, like I

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02:06:40,720 --> 02:06:42,960
Speaker 6: watched that and there was just this sense of relief, like,

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02:06:43,040 --> 02:06:44,560
Speaker 6: all right, we got through this game and now we

2405
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Speaker 6: get a little mini by our guys back now here

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Speaker 6: we go.

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Speaker 2: What was your favorite part of the lane Kiffin to

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02:06:50,920 --> 02:06:52,040
Speaker 2: l s U Saga.

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Speaker 6: All the people on ESPN carrying his water.

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02:06:57,280 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 3: To me, it's been the Lane Kiffin victim. Yeah, you know,

2411
02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:04,120
Speaker 3: I wanted such a tough decision, and I wanted nothing

2412
02:07:04,200 --> 02:07:06,800
Speaker 3: more than to coach the game, and they won't let

2413
02:07:06,920 --> 02:07:11,440
Speaker 3: me do that. It's just look, for years we've talked

2414
02:07:11,440 --> 02:07:13,440
Speaker 3: about coaching changes in college football.

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Speaker 2: This is just the latest.

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02:07:14,520 --> 02:07:17,000
Speaker 3: But let's not let's not act like this is Lane

2417
02:07:17,080 --> 02:07:19,720
Speaker 3: Kiffin's first dip into these waters.

2418
02:07:19,880 --> 02:07:21,839
Speaker 2: Right, He's not had.

2419
02:07:22,480 --> 02:07:25,560
Speaker 3: Good breakups anywhere, And like we made this point before, MO,

2420
02:07:26,120 --> 02:07:28,520
Speaker 3: there's not a lot of coaching breakups that end well. No,

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02:07:28,920 --> 02:07:30,560
Speaker 3: there's not a lot that are like man, that's just

2422
02:07:30,680 --> 02:07:32,880
Speaker 3: peaceful on both sides, most of them in like this.

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02:07:33,680 --> 02:07:35,280
Speaker 3: This to me is a lot of the problem when

2424
02:07:35,600 --> 02:07:37,800
Speaker 3: the portal opens and the time it does, and the

2425
02:07:37,840 --> 02:07:41,280
Speaker 3: college football playoffs happening, that this can't happen. But this

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02:07:41,520 --> 02:07:44,920
Speaker 3: whole Lane Kiffin I'm the victim thing I thought was ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: I'm usually the guy willing to cut the coach some slack.

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02:07:47,720 --> 02:07:50,200
Speaker 6: Not so much here because of how this just played out.

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02:07:50,240 --> 02:07:52,920
Speaker 6: I guess the two takeaways for me. Number One, it's

2430
02:07:52,960 --> 02:07:55,080
Speaker 6: gonna be fascinating to see what the committee does with

2431
02:07:55,160 --> 02:07:58,040
Speaker 6: Old miss because based on what happened with Florida State

2432
02:07:58,080 --> 02:08:00,240
Speaker 6: two years ago, you're gonna be able to say, and

2433
02:08:00,320 --> 02:08:03,680
Speaker 6: I don't like this, but hey, what you were during

2434
02:08:03,720 --> 02:08:06,240
Speaker 6: the season isn't what you are now, and we're selecting

2435
02:08:06,320 --> 02:08:08,400
Speaker 6: and seating based on what you are now. That is

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02:08:08,640 --> 02:08:11,560
Speaker 6: dramatically unfair to Old Missus players. But it happened to

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Speaker 6: Florida State now. The difference is, of course Old Missus

2438
02:08:14,800 --> 02:08:18,160
Speaker 6: in the SEC. I also thought the way that Kirk Kurbstreet,

2439
02:08:18,240 --> 02:08:22,640
Speaker 6: Herbie and Nick Saban just blatantly embarrassed themselves in the

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02:08:22,680 --> 02:08:25,400
Speaker 6: pocket of Lane Kiffin and his agent on Saturday on

2441
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Speaker 6: college game Day. Look, kirkurbs Street is an awesome broadcaster.

2442
02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:32,000
Speaker 6: For years was college football's best analyst. Joel Klatt now

2443
02:08:32,040 --> 02:08:35,360
Speaker 6: owns that distinction. But I thought the way Kirk kurbs

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02:08:35,360 --> 02:08:38,240
Speaker 6: Street and Nick Saban blatantly carried the water. Can you

2445
02:08:38,360 --> 02:08:41,440
Speaker 6: imagine if like old Missus quarterback was like, you know what,

2446
02:08:42,280 --> 02:08:45,360
Speaker 6: I want to go play next year for Tennessee, sure

2447
02:08:45,680 --> 02:08:49,960
Speaker 6: or Mississippi State. But can you imagine how those guys

2448
02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:52,680
Speaker 6: would be frothing at the mouth on television. But because

2449
02:08:52,680 --> 02:08:56,400
Speaker 6: it's their boy and their boy has the same agent.

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Speaker 6: They carried the water. I thought two distinguished guys, Nick Saban,

2451
02:09:00,800 --> 02:09:04,120
Speaker 6: arguably the greatest coach in the history college football, and

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02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:07,960
Speaker 6: Kirk kurbs Street, who has established himself for decades as

2453
02:09:07,960 --> 02:09:10,520
Speaker 6: an awesome college football analyst, one of the faces of

2454
02:09:10,560 --> 02:09:13,760
Speaker 6: college football. I thought on TV on Saturday, those two

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02:09:13,880 --> 02:09:15,280
Speaker 6: dudes embarrassed themselves.

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Speaker 4: I'm finding myself. I think we get a little too

2457
02:09:18,360 --> 02:09:23,520
Speaker 4: much Herbie kind of how you feel, like how you

2458
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:25,720
Speaker 4: feel about the Madden thing. I kind of feel that

2459
02:09:25,800 --> 02:09:27,160
Speaker 4: way about Herbie, and I like him.

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02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:31,680
Speaker 6: Kirk kurbs Street is awesome at what he does. I

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02:09:31,840 --> 02:09:34,480
Speaker 6: do think there's a little bit over the top Kirk

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02:09:34,520 --> 02:09:35,600
Speaker 6: kurbs Street saturation.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, here's the deal, man. I don't need every week

2465
02:09:38,360 --> 02:09:40,240
Speaker 6: to hear about how your travel schedule is going to be.

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Speaker 13: I know it.

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Speaker 6: You have a game on Thursday, you got game day

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02:09:43,760 --> 02:09:45,880
Speaker 6: on Saturday, and then you jump on a private plane.

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02:09:45,920 --> 02:09:48,160
Speaker 6: But by the way, not exactly sitting in seat thirty

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Speaker 6: one f that was me. That was me, not exactly

2471
02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:54,720
Speaker 6: sitting with your seat, you know, adjacent to the laboratory.

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02:09:55,400 --> 02:09:57,880
Speaker 6: Every week I go, here's what Kirk kurbs Street's travel

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02:09:57,960 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 6: is going to be this week?

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Speaker 3: Well, guess what do you breakdowns? They do where they're

2475
02:10:01,320 --> 02:10:05,440
Speaker 3: drinking and laid back relaxing doesn't look stressful.

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02:10:05,600 --> 02:10:08,040
Speaker 6: I mean, you know they're they're not exactly gonna go

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Speaker 6: through TSA. Speaking of in group boarding group G speaking

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02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:13,640
Speaker 6: of air travel.

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Speaker 3: Any plane spotted leaving Cincinnati heading to Lexington, that would

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02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:21,959
Speaker 3: be the Wildcats are looking at Scott's Hadderfield?

2481
02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:26,000
Speaker 6: Are the bear Cats looking at Mark Stoops? Stoops?

2482
02:10:26,760 --> 02:10:27,400
Speaker 2: Swap it out?

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Speaker 6: We're going to talk about We're gonna talk about the

2484
02:10:30,400 --> 02:10:32,360
Speaker 6: the Kentucky game. What I want to know is, hey,

2485
02:10:32,520 --> 02:10:36,360
Speaker 6: will Mark Stoops appear on my show now? Because we

2486
02:10:36,560 --> 02:10:39,080
Speaker 6: literally we stopped a few years ago, but we started

2487
02:10:39,200 --> 02:10:41,080
Speaker 6: year one asking him to come on, and every year

2488
02:10:41,120 --> 02:10:44,160
Speaker 6: he would say no. B Well, Kentucky's new head coach,

2489
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Speaker 6: come on the radio station, carry the games.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Scott Saderfield.

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02:10:48,600 --> 02:10:51,440
Speaker 6: Has been on h I have a little bit of

2492
02:10:51,480 --> 02:10:53,760
Speaker 6: an in with Mark Pope. Brian Hartline should be the guy.

2493
02:10:53,880 --> 02:10:55,800
Speaker 2: Scott Cudderfield, he should have been the guy here.

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Speaker 3: Three five today the V.

2495
02:11:03,680 --> 02:11:06,000
Speaker 6: And byte stands for five. It's a Roman normal five

2496
02:11:06,120 --> 02:11:07,440
Speaker 6: five dbs can't guard it.

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Speaker 4: Oh goodness, Tony Mo Football Show coming up this afternoon.

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Speaker 4: There will be no weather delays inside Twin Peaks in Westchester, Fellas,

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Speaker 4: thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: We'll be listening. Yes, sir, that is Tony Pike and

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Speaker 2: Moe Egger.

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Speaker 4: I am back solo for Tony Pikes since e three

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Speaker 4: sixty tomorrow, looking forward to talking to you at noon.

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Speaker 4: Will be joined by our guy Joe Danoman as always

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Speaker 4: in our number two. Tony and Moe are next. This

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Speaker 4: is ESPN fifteenth.

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Speaker 9: Thirty w CKY, Cincinnati and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human ESPN

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Speaker 9: fifteen thirty I Heard Radio.

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Speaker 2: Everyone loves the football season