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Speaker 1: Radio seven hundred w l W presents Sunday Morning Sports

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Speaker 1: Talk with your host Ken Brew on News Radio seven

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Speaker 1: hundred w l JEM and here we go, Here we.

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Speaker 2: Go, Good morning Sunday Morning, Ump and Adam, let's go.

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Speaker 2: It's Flaco Sunday. It is Joe Flaco Sunday. Just stand

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Speaker 2: there for a second and listen to this. If somebody

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Speaker 2: told you before the season that Joe Burrow was going

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Speaker 2: to get hurt and there was a good chance he

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Speaker 2: was not going to be able to finish a season

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Speaker 2: for the third time in his career, he probably would

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Speaker 2: have said, Man, you know, I mean, look at the odds,

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Speaker 2: look at the times that happened. Yeah, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: I can see where it could happen. Somebody stopped you

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Speaker 2: on that same day and said, and would you believe

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Speaker 2: that Joe Flacco would be the starting quarterback of your

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals by middle of October? What would you have said?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: You would have told whoever said that to you, you

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Speaker 2: must be on crack, because there's no way on God's

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Speaker 2: green earth Joe Flacco is going to start for the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals this year or any other year. But yet,

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Speaker 2: here we are on this Sunday as the team gathers

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Speaker 2: in Green Bay to take on the Mighty Packers. It's

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Speaker 2: a Joe Flacco Sunday. It's one of the overriding stories

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Speaker 2: in this show today between nine and now. The other

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Speaker 2: is college football. And there's something happening here in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: If you're a UC fan, you know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: But if you're just a casual football observer, or if

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Speaker 2: you're listening from someplace other than the greater Cincinnati area,

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Speaker 2: maybe on the iHeartMedia app, there's something going on here

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Speaker 2: with the University of Cincinnati football team, and it is

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Speaker 2: all good. You see one. It's fifth game of the season.

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Speaker 2: They beat Central Florida last night, twenty to eleven. And

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Speaker 2: if you look at the Big Twelve standings right now,

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Speaker 2: BYU first place six and oh three and oh inside

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Speaker 2: the Big twelve, Texas to second place. In reality tied

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Speaker 2: for first six and oh three and oh inside the

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Speaker 2: Big Twelve. And then there's U see a team that

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Speaker 2: was picked again before this season to finish in the

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Speaker 2: second tier of the Big Twelve. Yet here they are

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Speaker 2: on this Sunday off that win yesterday five and one,

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Speaker 2: three and oh inside the big twelve. It was just

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Speaker 2: twenty points, but it was good enough for UC to

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Speaker 2: win it to twenty eleven. You see up seventeen to

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Speaker 2: three at the half. Brendan soars beyond the day. Twelve

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Speaker 2: passes completed, twenty one attempts, one hundred and ninety one yards,

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Speaker 2: two touchdowns, no interceptions. Jeff Caldwell three receptions fifty eight yards,

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Speaker 2: two touchdowns. Caldwell after the game on the enormous amount

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Speaker 2: of weapons that you see has on offense that Brendan

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Speaker 2: Soresby can use to matriculate the ball down field. Caldwell

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Speaker 2: himself was even in awe after the game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, when you have a player like Cyrus,

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Speaker 4: my goodness, you gotta put two over them.

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Speaker 3: But he's in the slot, so you can't really, you know.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, I just feel like when they're taking

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Speaker 4: make a play. So I mean, whether that'd be Goody,

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Speaker 4: Noah's Isaiah, you know who, you name it, We're I

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Speaker 4: just feel like we're already.

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Speaker 2: Look at this. You see, if had a seventeen play

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Speaker 2: drive in the third quarter, nine minutes consumed, they get

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Speaker 2: no points out of it. They had a nineteen play

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Speaker 2: both instances mitigating factors as to u se and not

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Speaker 2: getting more than twenty. I mean, if you just look

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Speaker 2: at it, Central Florida had more passing attempts in this

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Speaker 2: game forty nine than you see had actual plays, which

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Speaker 2: and herein lies Scott saderfield.

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Speaker 5: That we didn't we ran forty four plays, you know,

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Speaker 2: No how many plays we run forty eight.

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Speaker 5: Part of that was that we didn't run many plays,

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Speaker 5: and then part of that was lack of execution three

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Speaker 5: But you know, certainly something pretty go back and try

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Speaker 2: Get better at. But look, it was good enough to

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Speaker 2: The quarterback very happy.

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Speaker 3: We're happy with the win, but nobody's satisfied.

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Speaker 6: Nobody feels like, we just went out there and played

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Speaker 2: So going forward, we know the standard of what we

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Speaker 6: So we got to get back to that, you know,

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Speaker 2: And it would be criminal to overlook what the University

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Speaker 2: of Cincinnati defense did yesterday. It played really, really well.

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Speaker 2: And when you only put twenty up, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: who you're playing. When you only put twenty up in

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Speaker 2: college football in this day and age, regardless of opponent,

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Speaker 2: it puts a little pressure on the defense. The defense

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Speaker 2: had trouble on those drives getting off the field, but nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: when it had to play well, it played very well.

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Speaker 2: Here's Soresby again.

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Speaker 6: You don't win the game if it's not for our defense,

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Speaker 6: you know, playing really well and keep them out of

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Speaker 6: But we got to find a way whenever they are

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Speaker 6: to put points on the board and build momentum off

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Speaker 6: of it. We can't just you know, have three and

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Speaker 2: We know this is the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 6: We know offenses are good and they're going to find

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Speaker 6: a way to put points on the board. It's just

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Speaker 6: the nature of it. So props our defense. They played

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Speaker 6: really well today and they got us this.

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Speaker 2: One, five and one overall, three and oher inside the

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Speaker 2: Big twelve and a trip to play at embattled Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: State this coming Saturday night. Remember, Oklahoma State is just

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks down the road from firing longtime

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Speaker 2: coach Mike Gundy. That team is reeling. But as for

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Speaker 2: a kapper on Saturday at Nippert, Scott Sadderfield said, Okay,

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Speaker 5: Bottom line is, you know, we're sitting here at five

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Speaker 5: and won our third conference game in a row, and

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Speaker 5: we got a lot of things we can get fixed.

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Speaker 5: That's a good that's a good thing to happen. We're

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, out on the planes of Illinois, number one, Ohio

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Speaker 2: State thirty four, number seventeen, Illinois sixteen. This game was

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Speaker 2: nineteen of twenty seven one hundred and sixty six yards

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Speaker 2: Saying was talking about his defense after the game.

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Speaker 7: We did we did a good job of starting fast

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Speaker 7: and the defense played really well today. You know, Creton

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Speaker 7: turnovers like that gave us a short fields. You know,

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Speaker 7: we did some good things offensively, but a lot of

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Speaker 7: stuff to clean up, and you know, we're gonna watch

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Speaker 7: the tape and see how we can get better. C. J.

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Speaker 2: Donaldson had a couple of rushing touchdowns. This was the

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Speaker 2: tenth consecutive win for All High Date over the ALIGNI

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Speaker 2: tenth consecutive win, Ryan Day, he knows what it is.

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Speaker 2: Road wins any conference anywhere, tough to come by.

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Speaker 8: It's a good sign when you have to go into

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Speaker 8: a locker room after a win like this and kind of,

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Speaker 8: you know, make sure everybody understands what a great win

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Speaker 8: it was, because I think we all felt like we

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Speaker 8: left a little bit on the field. But all that

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Speaker 8: being said, I thought the effort was excellent and you know,

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Speaker 8: I like to look in our eye, defense created a

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Speaker 8: bunch of turnovers, which when that happens, the chances of

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Speaker 8: winning are going to be, you know, obviously in our favor.

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Speaker 8: And then it feels like, you know, on offense, when

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Speaker 8: the day like that, you know, certainly good things are

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Speaker 8: going to happen.

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Speaker 2: And now it's a trip to play Wisconsin on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: The road just gets a little bit tougher for Ohio State. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: according to day, they're ready.

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Speaker 8: As time goes on. Everyone has expectations when they come

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Speaker 8: into a game. When they're not met, it's easy to

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Speaker 8: start pulling in different directions and that selfishness.

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Speaker 2: And I think our guys are very unselfish.

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Speaker 8: I think you're coming together as a team, and that's

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Speaker 8: going to be one of the things that we have

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Speaker 8: to mixture as an advantage.

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Speaker 2: A huge win for Indiana yesterday, Miami gets back to

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Speaker 2: break even, and we'll tell you how some of the

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Speaker 2: local teams do when we come back in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: It's Sunday morning Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW. Wouldn't

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Speaker 2: do any good anyway, can't change what happened. All I

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Speaker 2: tell a team that doesn't need a lot of fixing.

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Speaker 2: It's Indiana University, number seven in the country, but who

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Speaker 2: knows where later on Today they go out to Oregon

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Speaker 2: take on the number three Ducks and win it by ten. Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: thirty to twenty, Indiana six and three inside the Big

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Speaker 2: five and one. Fernando Mendoza twenty of thirty one two

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Speaker 2: home to take on Michigan State this coming Saturday. Kurt Saghetti,

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Speaker 2: You did not have to tell Kurt Signetti anything after

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Speaker 2: the game. He knows what's up with his team.

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Speaker 9: Well, it depends on what we'd do with it from here.

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Speaker 9: You know, it's a great win against the number two

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Speaker 9: an eighteen game home winning streak.

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Speaker 3: Right, and.

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Speaker 9: It puts us in position, you know, if we can

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Speaker 9: continue to be successful, which means we have to show

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Speaker 9: up to work on Monday as a team, humble and hungry,

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Speaker 9: ready to go against Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: All business for Kurt, and the business is turning out

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Speaker 2: very well. Six and all number seven probably climbing into

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Speaker 2: that top five, one would think, if not today, very soon. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Miami on the road at Akron yesterday goes to three

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Speaker 2: and three, two and zero inside the MAC. Twenty to

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Speaker 2: seven was the final over Akron. That is nine conference

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Speaker 2: wins in a row, nine conference wins in a row

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Speaker 2: for the RedHawks dating back to October of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Head coach Chuck Martin.

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Speaker 10: Just another hard fought team, winners, kind of ugly, but

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Speaker 10: that's kind of this league right now, Like you just

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Speaker 10: got to fight and scratch a lot. Halftime, I was like,

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Speaker 10: this is what we talked about all week, Like it's

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Speaker 3: A hard game.

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Speaker 10: It's people are gonna think that, oh Miami. Ah, Like

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Speaker 10: it's just just find a way to get a hard

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Speaker 2: Now comes home to play Eastern Michigan up in Oxford

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Speaker 11: Definitely didn't have this on my list of things that

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Speaker 2: He was benched in Cleveland. Got the phone call and

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Speaker 12: He's a great passer, and again, we've got to expand

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Speaker 2: And in Green Bay, how do they see it? Defensive

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Speaker 2: I had a lot of people say that, but they

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Speaker 3: I'm going to find ken how to think of you.

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Speaker 2: Well, we got Joe Flacco. Let me ask you this question.

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Speaker 13: I mean got a couple ones there another few big games.

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Speaker 13: I'd leave us a percentage I was able to do

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Speaker 3: They can find a way.

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Speaker 2: know what Joe Flacco brings to this team. What should

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Speaker 2: the expectations be here in Cincinnati? Flacco has been everywhere,

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Speaker 2: He's like that Johnny Cash song. Should he should we

439
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Speaker 2: expect the what he did last year? As you say,

440
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Speaker 2: helicoptered into Indianapolis, got him a couple of wins. What

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Speaker 2: what's realistic here in Cincinnati with him?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean you're hoping the same thing obviously.

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Speaker 13: Uh uh, you know he's I keep seeing people saying that,

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Speaker 13: you know, he's already beating the Brown Browns once. I

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Speaker 13: don't know how how much credit I want to give him,

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Speaker 13: I'm sorry, beating the Packers once. Obviously, they're playing today,

447
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Speaker 13: so at least there's a level of familiarity there. I

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Speaker 13: mean after that, I mean, you have to get the

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Speaker 13: three game homestand in the bye week. That's not gonna

450
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Speaker 13: be enough to get you back to Joe Burrow. But Steelers,

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Speaker 13: Jets and Bears at home. I mean, I would hope

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Speaker 13: they could maybe get to pardon you can to two

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Speaker 13: of those three games, and then you know, we'll see

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Speaker 13: what happens on the other side. I mean, the untilant

455
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Speaker 13: Joe Burrow is gonna be back before mid December, and

456
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Speaker 13: you've got you got at Baltimore and at Buffalo. You

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Speaker 13: know at the end of the stretch that that's par two.

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Speaker 13: So you know, I think I think one of the

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Speaker 13: better things going for the Bengals right now too, is

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Speaker 13: that there is at least a little bit of chaos

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Speaker 13: at the moment in AFC, with the Chiefs not playing

462
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Speaker 13: particularly well, the Bills losing their first game. You know,

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Speaker 13: it seems like the Pack is still pre clustered, and

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Speaker 13: then the Bengals are are part of it. But obviously

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Speaker 13: you can't you can't lose touch with too much of it.

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Speaker 13: You know, kind of kind of unexpected results in the

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Speaker 13: AFT South to with two foreign teams there. I mean,

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Speaker 13: they gonna come back or not, We'll see, but but

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Speaker 13: you know, hopefully he can keep you around five hundred

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Speaker 13: or so as long as he's in there. And then

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Speaker 13: you know, we'll see whether they you know, whether it's

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Speaker 13: fours brings Joe Burrow back or not, if he's.

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Speaker 3: Even going to be available available.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to leave pass past today, by the way,

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Speaker 2: with Chad with Nate Davis USA Today and USA Today

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Speaker 2: dot Com. I don't want to leave past this game

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Speaker 2: today against the Packers. But they have a Thursday night

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Speaker 2: game next week against the Steelers. Are the Steelers for real?

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Speaker 2: Are they a mirage? And your point and from your point,

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Speaker 2: does Aaron Rodgers come back down to earth, because that's

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Speaker 2: a team that always seems to have a lot of

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Speaker 2: injuries as the season wears on. But are you taking

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Speaker 2: them for real at this point?

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Speaker 13: You know, I had pegged the Steelers for about eleven

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Speaker 13: wins this year. I mean they were I think they

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Speaker 13: were ten and seven a year ago. And I'm not

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Speaker 13: a Russell Bulson believer, and I thought that they made

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Speaker 13: a fundamental error footing away from from rustin fields, which

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Speaker 13: I wrote that in foresight, and I'm play I think

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Speaker 13: Aaron Rodgers is, you know, an incremental upgrade over Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 13: I mean, not Aaron Rodgers even four years ago. But

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Speaker 13: I think that they're for real in that they you

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Speaker 13: know where we are right now, you know, week six.

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Speaker 13: You know, they're certainly the favorite at this moment in

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Speaker 13: the AFC North. And I think that, you know, it's

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Speaker 13: with more reps and more time with with Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 13: the familiarity that Aaron Rodgers frankly get get better. I mean,

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Speaker 13: it's been pretty muted results with him so far. It's

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Speaker 13: been fine. It's been a lot of meat stuff. He

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Speaker 13: had the one big play with DK metcalf in the

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Speaker 13: double game, but that was really you know, a slant

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Speaker 13: that the DK DK did most of the work, and frankly,

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Speaker 13: I give the Steelers credit, you know, I mean, Aaron

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Speaker 13: the Jets were over relying on them last year, and

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Speaker 13: I think, I think through the ball more than any

506
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Speaker 13: other team, and that's kind of why his stats look

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Speaker 13: decent at the end of the year with the Jets

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Speaker 13: twenty twenty four. But I mean, if if you watch

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Speaker 13: the product in the field, if it wasn't great, I

510
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Speaker 13: think the Steelers are just much more balanced than are

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Speaker 13: asking them to manage games and make plays he can

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Speaker 13: and if they get their run game going a little

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Speaker 13: bit more, I mean, I do think this team has

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Speaker 13: the talent and maybe finally break with what's what's coming

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Speaker 13: up closer year on a ten year drought without a

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Speaker 13: playoff win for them, I mean, I think they they

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Speaker 13: got a to be at least the final fourteen in

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Speaker 13: the AFC depending on the way things.

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Speaker 2: Great well, that and the AFC North is looking like

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Speaker 2: a one one slot in the playoffs right now. At

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Speaker 2: least Nate got a couple of minutes here. Can you

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Speaker 2: handicap this game today? For US Packers and Bengals. Packers

523
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Speaker 2: are an overwhelming favorite. Of course, their defense with micaeh

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Speaker 2: Parsons now is just suffocating. How do you see this

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Speaker 2: playing out today?

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Speaker 13: Well, yeah, I think I think they're catching the factors,

527
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Speaker 13: probably at the wrong time. And you know, we talked about,

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Speaker 13: you know that they the Browns kind of I don't say,

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Speaker 13: ambush them. The Packers kind of gave that game away

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Speaker 13: in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago. But uh that

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Speaker 13: that's forty forty game in Dallas, but more like the

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Speaker 13: loss that it's.

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Speaker 15: High I think.

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Speaker 13: So, I think the Packers are probably going to come

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Speaker 13: in coming in as a pretty salty product coming off

536
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Speaker 13: the week off can be healthier. I mean, some guys

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Speaker 13: really banged up on both lines, particularly the offensive line,

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Speaker 13: and you know, Mike Pardon is still kind of working

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Speaker 13: through that back injury.

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Speaker 14: So I.

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Speaker 13: Don't know that the Packers are going to win this

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Speaker 13: game by fourteen points, but I you know, I feel

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Speaker 13: pretty good that they will. They will probably get the

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Speaker 13: w today. You know, Joe black aside, we need to

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Speaker 13: see the Bengals balance at that offense with a better

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Speaker 13: running game, and then of course it's the same story

547
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Speaker 13: with the defense, and then the Packers a lot of

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Speaker 13: playmakers on the off side.

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Speaker 3: Of the ball. So you got to be you gotta

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Speaker 3: be worried about that too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, yeah. One one player does not a

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Speaker 2: football team. Fix. Hey, listen, Nate, great stuff, Thanks for

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Speaker 2: your time as always, Nate Davis USA today by the paper,

554
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Speaker 2: he would appreciate that, but if not read them online.

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Speaker 2: All right, Nate, thanks, we'll visit down the road hopefully,

556
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Speaker 2: and thanks for your time today.

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Speaker 3: All right, can appreciate it, you bet.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I think the Bengals who are going to

559
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Speaker 2: give you today. I think number one, the reads by

560
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Speaker 2: the quarterback are going to be better. I think he's

561
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Speaker 2: going to be able to make the progression through his

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Speaker 2: through his reads a lot better than what you were

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Speaker 2: getting with Jake Browning. I think that's number one. I

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Speaker 2: think number two, Yeah, Flacco is going to throw interceptions,

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Speaker 2: but he is not going to throw horrific interceptions. He

566
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Speaker 2: will throw the ball away, He'll put the ball in

567
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Speaker 2: the ground. I don't think he's going to dazzle anybody

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Speaker 2: with three hundred and fifty yard passing, three touchdowns or

569
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Speaker 2: anything like that. But I think if anything else, he

570
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Speaker 2: is going to cut down on mistakes, maybe not lose

571
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Speaker 2: the field position battle, and maybe at least give his

572
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Speaker 2: team a chance late in games to somehow, some way

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Speaker 2: find a way to win games. There's talent on this

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Speaker 2: Bengals team. It's not playing well right now, and yes

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Speaker 2: that's a direct reflection on the coaching staff, but there's

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Speaker 2: talent on that team and somebody needed to come in

577
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Speaker 2: to settle the danged thing down on offense. That I

578
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Speaker 2: think is is Joe Flacco's job number one. We'll see

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Speaker 2: how it plays out. This is a big, big ass

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Speaker 2: of him today in Green Bay. Just five days in town, really,

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Speaker 2: three practices under his belt. Big ask. We'll see though.

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Speaker 2: If nothing else right, it's interesting. Nine fIF two News

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Speaker 2: Radio seven hundred WLW pond in England at Tottenham Stadium,

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Speaker 2: home of the Tottenham Twkspurs in the EPL. You got

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Speaker 2: the Jets, you got Denver, you got a six three

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Speaker 2: Jets with about five minutes to go in the first quarter,

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Speaker 2: first game of the day underway. Jets and Broncos baseball

588
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Speaker 2: playoffs are set. Milwaukee wins it last night three to

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Speaker 2: one over the Cubs. They take the series three games

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Speaker 2: to two, and now the American League and National League

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Speaker 2: Championship series are set. American League Championship series Seattle at Toronto.

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Speaker 2: First game in that series is at eight o'clock to night,

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Speaker 2: and then tomorrow Seattle at Toronto, Game two that series

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Speaker 2: at five, followed by an eight h eight start in

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee between the Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers. So baseball

596
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Speaker 2: is winding down at season with four teams still left

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Speaker 2: standing for the championship. One other thing I wanted to

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Speaker 2: mention now again, if you're under the age of fifty,

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Speaker 2: bear with me just for a second, But there was

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Speaker 2: a time in this town when we thought we were

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Speaker 2: going to get a National Hockey League franchise. In nineteen

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one, plans were unveiled to build the

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Speaker 2: Riverfront Coliseum. It was built on spec. Built on Spec means,

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Speaker 2: it was built without a tenant, but with the idea

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Speaker 2: that we would pursue a National Hockey League franchise. We

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Speaker 2: were about to lose our NBA franchise because we simply

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Speaker 2: didn't have an arena that was up to date. The

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Speaker 2: gardens were well what the gardens were, and the royals

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Speaker 2: left and they went to Kansas City. So we turned

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Speaker 2: our attention the time in this town to the National

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Speaker 2: Hockey League. It was expanding by two teams. Three cities

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Speaker 2: were buying for franchises, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: Kansas City and Washington DC got the franchise and we

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Speaker 2: got stuck holding an arena with no tenant. But there

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Speaker 2: was an upstart hockey league called the World Hockey Association.

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Speaker 2: It fancied itself as taking on the NHL and at

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Speaker 2: the very least forcing a merger. Well, it got that merger,

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Speaker 2: but we got the Stingers. That was our team in

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Speaker 2: the WHA, and fifty years ago last night, the Stingers

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Speaker 2: began their existence with a one nothing win over the

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Crusaders. Terry Slater was the head coach of the Stingers.

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Speaker 2: They finished thirty five forty four and won that season

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Speaker 2: dead last in their division. We had the Stingers, and

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Speaker 2: as the WHA progressed, we thought, here in this town,

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Speaker 2: you know what, when that merger comes, we might just

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Speaker 2: be a part of it. Well, we weren't big ticket

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Speaker 2: drive to try and sell as many tickets as possible

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Speaker 2: to impress the NHL, and it fell short. Bil Deowitch Junior,

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Speaker 2: who would go on to own the Saint Louis Cardinals,

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Speaker 2: was part owner of the Stingers, and at the end

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Speaker 2: of their existence, so too was Bob Castellini. So hockey

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Speaker 2: skatered out of this town. Big time hockey skatered out

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Speaker 2: of this town in nineteen seventy nine. But fifty years ago,

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Speaker 2: last night, the Stingers were born. And I didn't want

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Speaker 2: today to go by without at least mentioning that. Stand

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Speaker 2: by up next, Ian Hartitz. He has all of your

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Speaker 2: fantasy football answers. He's a man who can marry fantasy

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Speaker 2: with reality, and we'll talk about the reality of the

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Speaker 2: Bengals today in Green Bay. It's all next Sunday Morning

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Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: Oh seven hundred WLS Sunday Morning Sports Talk with your

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Speaker 1: host Ken Brew on News Radio seven hundred w LW.

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Speaker 16: Yes it is.

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Speaker 2: It is also ten oh eight, and good morning on

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Speaker 2: this Sunday morning. Great to have you with us. Gorgeous

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Speaker 2: day ahead for us and up at Lambeau Field in

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Speaker 2: Green Bay. Not a bad day at all to play

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Speaker 2: a little football. They're saying upper sixties by kickoff time.

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Speaker 2: And quite truthfully, you go about a month from now

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Speaker 2: and things will probably be dicey when it comes to

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Speaker 2: the weather. But right Now this is what you call

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Speaker 2: a break for the Bengals in this game today, and

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Speaker 2: you'll hear it here on seven hundred WLW. In a moment,

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Speaker 2: Ian Hartitz is going to join us from Matthew Berry

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Speaker 2: Fantasy Live, one of the guys that can marry fantasy

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Speaker 2: to reality. It is no fantasy. Jamar Chase will play today.

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Speaker 2: But here's the deal. He missed whatever limited practice time

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Speaker 2: that Joe Flacco had with this team. He missed this

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Speaker 2: week Chase because of an illness. Well, the illness is

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Speaker 2: apparently subsided, and he will play today in Green Bay,

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Speaker 2: albeit without a lot of synergy built so far between

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Speaker 2: he and the Bengals new quarterback. But this week, Chase

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Speaker 2: was talking about how he found out that Joe Flacco

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Speaker 2: was traded to the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 17: He called me first, and I was like, you bsking

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Speaker 17: me for real? But I didn't really know what was

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Speaker 17: going on. I thought the team was just playing with me.

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Speaker 17: And then, like I would later, Zach called me and

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Speaker 17: told me what was going on. So, I mean, it

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Speaker 17: was just a lot going on by you know, enjoying it. No,

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Speaker 17: I appreciate organizations trying to make this work.

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Speaker 3: So you got to make it work.

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Speaker 2: Imagine what the reaction was in Green Bay. I mean,

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Speaker 2: here they are two three weeks down the road from

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Speaker 2: facing Joe Flacco when he was the starting quarterback for

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Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns. This has to be a first. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure somebody has researched it. If it's not a first,

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Speaker 2: it's a rarity. A quarterback that will face another team

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Speaker 2: with different teams. He is quarterbacking inside of three weeks.

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Speaker 2: That's what Flacco is doing today. So up in Green

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Speaker 2: Bay they were kind of like, okay, I mean on

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Speaker 2: a number of levels, it may make sense.

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Speaker 18: I think the hardest thing for them is going to

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Speaker 18: be just the nuances with your cadence, your snap count,

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Speaker 18: the rapport.

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Speaker 2: You have with the other players.

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Speaker 18: Now he's pretty fortunate, he's got some good guys to

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Speaker 18: certainly throw it to. So yeah, I think either way,

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Speaker 18: whoever the quarterback is, you gotta go against what they've

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Speaker 18: traditionally put on film over a long period of time.

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Speaker 2: So what can we realist By the way, that was

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Speaker 2: Matt LeFleur, a head coach of the Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 2: But what can we realistically expect from Flacco today? And

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Speaker 2: I mean realistically not pie in the sky. Not Hey,

695
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Speaker 2: he's been here a month. He knows exactly what it is,

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Speaker 2: what it isn't. I think the biggest problem he's going

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Speaker 2: to have today is terminology. Now I'm sure he can

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Speaker 2: memorize things, and I'm sure he can call plays in

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Speaker 2: the huddle, but you get to the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 2: and you may have to audible out of a play

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Speaker 2: just because of what the look is you're getting from

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Speaker 2: the defense. Does the terminology here in Cincinnati as it's

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Speaker 2: sunk in yet or in the midst of this game

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Speaker 2: with a crowd cheering and screaming and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: now you've got to process all of that stuff. Look,

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Speaker 2: he's a savvy veteran, he's been around since twenty oh eight.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, really, this is, as I said before,

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Speaker 2: a big ask for this guy. But still at all

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Speaker 2: I kind of think it's a little bit better situation

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Speaker 2: for Cincinnati than what it's been the last three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring in somebody who might know even better. He

712
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Speaker 2: is a man who can marry fantasy with reality, And

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Speaker 2: let me just point out, in a lot of cases

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Speaker 2: that's not a great thing. But nevertheless, when it comes

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Speaker 2: to football. There's nobody better at that that Ian Hartitz

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Speaker 2: of Matthew Berry Fantasy Live. He is standing by to

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Speaker 2: join us, a man who is forgotten more about football

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Speaker 2: than most of us know. And Ian Hartts, how are

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Speaker 2: you on this glorious Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Ken.

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Speaker 16: I also use that same line usually when I'm trying to,

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Speaker 16: you know, critique anything about NFL head coaches, because at

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Speaker 16: the end of the day, I'm.

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Speaker 14: Just a losive fancy analysts.

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Speaker 16: So people like Sean Payton will certainly forget more about

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Speaker 16: football than I'll ever know, but I appreciate the time working.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure I completely agree with this, but

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Speaker 2: let me ask you a little fantasy question here. Would

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Speaker 2: you recommend at this hour that if in need of

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Speaker 2: quarterback for your fantasy team today, you should pick up

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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 16: So I'm in plenty of leagues where it is super flexed,

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Speaker 16: where you can actually actively start two quarterbacks during any

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Speaker 16: given week. In those formats, yes, I actually will go

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Speaker 16: ahead and do that, because again, pickings are very very slim,

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Speaker 16: and honestly, if anyone out there listening in the same situation,

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Speaker 16: we always have this guy named Blake Stims geting on

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Speaker 16: a team popping off at the top and all the

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Speaker 16: other quarterbacks are gone. So again, not exactly a situation

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Speaker 16: where beggars can be choosers in those streets. But with

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Speaker 16: Blaco as bad as he has been this year, guys, look,

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Speaker 16: he's used to playing behind a horrendous offensive line, you know,

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Speaker 16: everything that the Bengals are not good at. Really, the

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Speaker 16: Browns have also been equally bad. Hopefully, getting Lucas Patrick

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Speaker 16: back this week or soon after, we'll be helping thanks

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Speaker 16: Sissus Smith and Sincy. And also the schedule will finally

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Speaker 16: start to lighten up, because that really has been the

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Speaker 16: double edged sword here.

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Speaker 14: Obviously we expect to drop off.

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Speaker 16: From Burrow that Jake Browning, but man, having to go

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Speaker 16: in Minnesota against the Broncos and then the Lions and

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Speaker 16: package in these last four games really has just been

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Speaker 16: absolutely brutal. So going to be a reduced Steelers defense

754
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Speaker 16: is a little bit banged up right now. It's well

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Speaker 16: from seven Jets and Bears before that week ten buys.

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Speaker 16: So again, Blaco, a lot of stats say that he's

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Speaker 16: even the worse than Jake Browning this year, but I

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Speaker 16: think getting Jamark Jason see Higgins throw to will make

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Speaker 16: a pretty big difference. Then let's you forget Ken as

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Speaker 16: much as Blacko is this forty year old, you know

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Speaker 16: guy well past the come next thing. I did it

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Speaker 16: thirty eight and thirty nine year old Joe Blacko led

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Speaker 16: the NFL in terms of passing years to start and

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Speaker 16: wasn't exactly in pristine offensive in Cleveland or Indianapolis about it.

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Speaker 16: So I'm cautiously authimistic that even if the real life

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Speaker 16: results aren't exactly going to have, since you sitting there

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Speaker 16: as a contender, I do think that we could get

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Speaker 16: something close back to you know, the last couple of

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Speaker 16: years of Spangles team, which is a fun, bad an

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Speaker 16: offense that can at least close the point.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is where I want to marry fantasy

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Speaker 2: to reality because you just touched on it.

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Speaker 19: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Flacco put up nice numbers in Indianapolis did not always

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Speaker 2: translate into wins. So if you're looking at him from

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Speaker 2: a reality standpoint, this is a guy that's probably going

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Speaker 2: to give you a lot of passing yards, probably finding

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Speaker 2: t Higgins and Jamar Chase a lot better than Jake Browning,

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Speaker 2: but also a guy that's capable of throwing the ball

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Speaker 2: away too or three times. So it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: Browning without the mobility, but with the points and still

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Speaker 2: some of that back end problems that Browning had, but

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Speaker 2: it's an upgrade. Would we at least agree on that?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, No, I think you're spot on. Honestly, when the

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Speaker 16: trade happened, one of the first things I want to

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Speaker 16: out there and tweet it was just that Joe Blackli's

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Speaker 16: kind of Target brand. Jameis Winston.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm a fan of Target. I go there all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 16: So again, not even trying to hit on one of ours.

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Speaker 2: What does Jamis shop? But what I don't mean for

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Speaker 2: free kramb legs, I mean where does Jamis show?

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Speaker 3: You know, that's a good one.

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Speaker 16: But I will say again like just it's not going

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Speaker 16: to be pretty. We're gonna have some turnovers and give

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Speaker 16: me some plays where you go what were you thinking there?

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Speaker 16: But there will be some good times to be had

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Speaker 16: there along as well. And that's kind of been the

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Speaker 16: thing with James wants. I'm not so sure how you know,

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Speaker 16: like Cleveland Brown's fans actually saw Washing go out there,

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Speaker 16: but hey, us, you know, Red Zone viewers just looking

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Speaker 16: at entertainment or you know, fay managers. We can take it.

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Speaker 16: At the end of the day, Jack don't lead any

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Speaker 16: negative fansy points interceptions growing minus one, so those negative

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Speaker 16: unfortunately don't being quite as much as you think they

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Speaker 16: wouldn't say.

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Speaker 2: There are other things that are in play here too.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the offensive line, and yes it is. It

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Speaker 2: is not played well and I'm not sure what its

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Speaker 2: capabilities are to be frank with you, uh, for the

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Speaker 2: rest of this season. I think that requires major work

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Speaker 2: in the upcoming offseason. You also mentioned the fact that

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Speaker 2: you know the running game is not as it should be.

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Speaker 2: We haven't even gotten into defense. The defensive secondary has

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Speaker 2: forgotten how to tackle. So I guess my question is

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Speaker 2: intangible results of today, of next Thursday, and then of

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Speaker 2: course little time off and then those a couple of

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Speaker 2: home games that are coming up after that. Intangible results,

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Speaker 2: what should we what should we look for from Joe Flacco?

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Speaker 2: Give us something tangibly we think he can deliver here

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Speaker 2: in terms of wins.

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Speaker 16: In terms of wins again, I mean again it's Steelers,

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Speaker 16: Jets and Bears. I would like to think you can

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Speaker 16: win two of those games and they're probably going to

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Speaker 16: be favored against the Jets. We'll see how the Bears

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Speaker 16: look coming out of there by They've been a little

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Speaker 16: bit up and down all so kind of hit us

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Speaker 16: similar molible. Caleb Williams and company can do some good

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Speaker 16: things at offense, that defense can't quite slow down anyone.

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Speaker 3: So Steelers, you know, as we know.

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Speaker 16: A lot of these days signals games in our division

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Speaker 16: kind of turns the rock Fikes anyway, wouldn't be surprised

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Speaker 16: if the Bengals could at least flit with them. So

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Speaker 16: it's gonna be interesting. I would say if they can

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Speaker 16: go ahead and again with two of these next four

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Speaker 16: before they're by okay, as dat is, things where to

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Speaker 16: be sitting there four and five and even coming out

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Speaker 16: of to buy man Steelers Patriots. Hopefully they can build

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Speaker 16: on that. Things get a little rough, you know, with

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Speaker 16: the Ravens and Bills games following there. But I'm not

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Speaker 16: exactly sure when the earliest we can expect Joe Burrow

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Speaker 16: back potentially is probably not until December. So I'm a

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Speaker 16: little you know, I got pessimistic that we're actually going

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Speaker 16: to see Blacko keep the ship upfloat long enough for

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Speaker 16: them to stay in contention. But I would just be

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Speaker 16: hopeful that we can actually just get some as semblance

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Speaker 16: of fun in this offense because as much as Browning

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Speaker 16: you know, look good back in twenty twenty three, and

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Speaker 16: honestly that gave me a lot of respect for Dak

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Speaker 16: Taylor in this offense seeing how much Browning was able

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Speaker 16: to still thrive ro toipy. Still I can add you

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Speaker 16: have it like a direct attempt without Joe Burrow. Like,

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Speaker 16: to me, that is the sign of a really good offense.

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Speaker 16: That's another reason why I have so much respect from

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Speaker 16: that before lovedness a lot of time last year the

856
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Speaker 16: things he did change the offense in the league Willis

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Speaker 16: really were awesome. But man, and the more I just

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Speaker 16: kind of get into it, and I'm trying to look

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Speaker 16: at some of these different you know, team wide offense

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Speaker 16: that's success ray, explosive play ray and even just you

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Speaker 16: know the easy button play action. How much do you

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Speaker 16: use increasing map shift in motion. The amount of times

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Speaker 16: I see the Bengals and the Titans right next to

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Speaker 16: each other, man just really makes me concern about the

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Speaker 16: entire Zach Taylor Tooching three. So obviously, now again the

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Speaker 16: two most talented you know, offensive environments going on with

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Speaker 16: Brian Callahan Titans. Well, obviously the Bengals is you know,

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Speaker 16: san Still Burrow and everything, but really into a situation where, unfortunately,

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Speaker 16: I'm thinking this is going to be more of a

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Speaker 16: twenty twenty fifty and tender them at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid. I'm afraid. So Ian Hart. It's

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Speaker 2: Matthew Berry. Fantasy Live is where you can find him.

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Speaker 2: You can find him on Twitter at ian Hart. It's great.

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Speaker 2: Follow all right, handicap this game today? We got we

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Speaker 2: got green Bay and it's a late start and green

876
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: Bay is probably seething a little bit with the way

877
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Speaker 2: things turned out in Dallas, and their defense is pretty

878
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 2: darned good with Michael Parsons probably healthier than he's been

879
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Speaker 2: all year. I'm just wondering how you see this game

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Speaker 2: playing out today.

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Speaker 3: I think the.

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Speaker 16: Packers are probably gonna roll in this one.

883
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Speaker 19: Man.

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Speaker 16: They're you know, fresh coming off to buy and this

885
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 16: is another team where, similar to the Bengals, like, they've

886
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Speaker 16: actually been dealing with a lot of injuries up front.

887
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Speaker 16: Josh Shacops is very talented and running back that he

888
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Speaker 16: hasn't really get calling I think more so is due

889
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Speaker 16: to those offensive Love injuries. They got wid deceiver, I mean,

890
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Speaker 16: Christian Watson didn't eat out and it just hasn't matter

891
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Speaker 16: for Jordan Love.

892
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Speaker 14: Again.

893
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Speaker 16: He had the one bad game against the Browns, but hey,

894
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 16: you guys saw what the brown said the Bengals in

895
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Speaker 16: week one.

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Speaker 14: I'm Miles garren a really beat.

897
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Speaker 16: They can end up passing the game to day in

898
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Speaker 16: a hurry. But even including back in ken when you

899
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Speaker 16: look at Jordan loveamunk thirty two qualified quarterbacks, he is

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Speaker 16: top four and EPA per drop back PFF pass day

901
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Speaker 16: the artist for a time passerating whatever nerdy attens down

902
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Speaker 16: you want to throw out. Jordan Love is going with

903
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Speaker 16: the top five quarterback in honestly refreshing to see because

904
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Speaker 16: he had the twenty twenty three seasons first year the

905
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Speaker 16: full starter was very mediocre in the first half, and

906
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Speaker 16: then just caught absolute flames during the second half. That

907
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Speaker 16: third twenty twenty four with a much more average campaign,

908
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Speaker 16: I was thinking it was more so due to injuries.

909
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Speaker 16: He got injured and not slippery Brazilian turf, you know,

910
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Speaker 16: in week one, and then had another growing issue in

911
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Speaker 16: the mid season, And I really do think that. Again,

912
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Speaker 16: through five weeks of this year, we have seen them

913
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Speaker 16: look far more like the honestly juggernaut that he was during.

914
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Speaker 14: That back half of the Solost year as a starter.

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Speaker 16: So Jordan loving the Tackers team.

916
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Speaker 14: Man.

917
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Speaker 16: I wouldn't say if there's a you know, front runners

918
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Speaker 16: of the NFC or anything like that, but if they

919
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Speaker 16: can get healthy down the stretch here, I do think

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Speaker 16: they might offer the best chance to knock off Tea.

921
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Speaker 2: And as you see it right now, is the AFC

922
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Speaker 2: North a one team playoff division? And is it the Steelers?

923
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Speaker 16: I think so, man, I mean just the Ravens likely

924
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Speaker 16: entering there by one and five. As soon that Lamark

925
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Speaker 16: Daks is going to be able to get out there

926
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Speaker 16: and that defense remains so banged up, that's just going

927
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Speaker 16: to be. So it's a toffe you know mountains an

928
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Speaker 16: MP able to overcome. So Steelers. So into my there

929
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Speaker 16: marching towards you another nine to eighth finish. So I

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Speaker 16: just still have them. Man, My father in law of

931
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Speaker 16: a Steelers fan, and just you know, seeing what he

932
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Speaker 16: has to go through every year where yeah, but every

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Speaker 16: single time again in January, whether it's Aaron Rodgers Russell Wilson,

934
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Speaker 16: Mason Ardolf, the lever. They're just bringing a nice to

935
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Speaker 16: a gunfight once they actually get off again to one

936
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Speaker 16: of these patch the home Josh Allenovlamar Jackson sort of

937
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Speaker 16: juggernaut offensive. So probably just the Steelers and this year,

938
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Speaker 16: we'll see what happens in four and twenty sixty beyond.

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Speaker 2: He is a man who can make every one of

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Speaker 2: your fantasies come true, at least in football. I don't

941
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Speaker 2: know in real life, Ian and I are not that close. However,

942
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Speaker 2: we may be closer, and I can bring you more

943
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Speaker 2: information on that at a later date. But for this date,

944
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Speaker 2: on this day, Ian, thank you for your time. We

945
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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

946
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Speaker 16: Appreciate you ken enjoy We tick that one.

947
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Speaker 2: Yeah you bet, you bet? Uh yeah. The Steelers are

948
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Speaker 2: at home today against the brown and the Browns are

949
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Speaker 2: oh and seven against the spread in their last seven

950
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Speaker 2: road games. And you know, besides the Flaco deal which

951
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Speaker 2: was big here, I don't think it was that big

952
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Speaker 2: in Cleveland other than it establishes Dylan Gilbert as the

953
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Speaker 2: starter and Shudoor Sanders is the backup. They got rid

954
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Speaker 2: of Newsom this week. That was kind of a headline.

955
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 2: You wonder if this team now is just in a

956
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Speaker 2: cell mode. But oh and seven against the spread in

957
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Speaker 2: their last seven road games. That's the longest streak in

958
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Speaker 2: the NFL, and I don't see that changing today. The

959
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Speaker 2: line on that game is Pittsburgh minus six. I think

960
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh covers, particularly against Dylan Gabriel, a quarterback. But yeah,

961
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Speaker 2: right now the AFC North, it looks like one team

962
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Speaker 2: out of there, at least now one team out of

963
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Speaker 2: there in the playoffs ten twenty three. It is News

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Speaker 2: Radio seven hundred wl W W waylcome Back. I am

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Speaker 2: Ken Brew Sunday Morning Sports Talk. One of the great

966
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Speaker 2: rock and roll songs of all time by a rock

967
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Speaker 2: and roll Hall of Fame band. These would be the

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Speaker 2: Moody Blues. I don't know what you are, but I'm

969
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Speaker 2: just a singer in a rock and roll band. We

970
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Speaker 2: lost a legend on Thursday. John Lodge, arguably one of

971
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Speaker 2: the top ten bass guitarists in the history of music,

972
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Speaker 2: passed away. He was eighty two years old, and, among

973
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Speaker 2: other things, with the Moody Blues, he wrote this song,

974
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Speaker 2: I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.

975
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Speaker 2: I had John Lodge on the show. Gosh, it's been

976
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Speaker 2: about five or six years ago, and it might have

977
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Speaker 2: been because the Moody Blues were putting together some sort

978
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Speaker 2: of compilation album. I don't think Lodge was coming through town,

979
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Speaker 2: but hard to remember, but I had him on the

980
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Speaker 2: show I want to say, back in twenty nineteen and

981
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Speaker 2: I asked him about that song he wrote that song,

982
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Speaker 2: I'm just a singer in the rock and roll band.

983
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Speaker 2: I said, John, how did how did that song come

984
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Speaker 2: to you? Here's his answer.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, in the seventies, it was a strange time, you know,

986
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Speaker 20: because people were sort of saying, oh, the Moody Blues

987
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Speaker 20: know the answer to everything. And I remember coming on

988
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Speaker 20: through a tour and outside of my house was a

989
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Speaker 20: whole load of people and I said, I what's happening

990
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Speaker 20: And they said, oh, we've come because you're going to

991
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Speaker 20: be flying the spaceship to save the Earth. And I said,

992
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Speaker 20: I don't think so. I actually don't like flying. But

993
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Speaker 20: it was just the case of I think I'm going

994
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Speaker 20: to just tell everyone I'm just a singer in a

995
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Speaker 20: rock and roll band. I play my bass, sing my song,

996
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Speaker 20: and at the very end, you know, we say we're

997
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Speaker 20: all just seeing as in a rock and roll back,

998
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Speaker 20: and I think that's the important thing.

999
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Speaker 3: You know, We're all in this together, not anymore.

1000
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Speaker 2: John Lodge leaving this earth on Thursday at the age

1001
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Speaker 2: of eighty two. He was a great, great musician. As

1002
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Speaker 2: you know, I am passionate about a lot of things,

1003
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Speaker 2: sports and music and what I drive. And I only

1004
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 2: drive BMW's from the BMW store right here in Cincinnati.

1005
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 2: Do you know there are over three hundred and fifty

1006
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Speaker 2: BMW centers in the United States. There's only one BMW store,

1007
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Speaker 2: and it's right here in Cincinnati, ten minutes north of downtown,

1008
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Speaker 2: just off that Stuart Road exit. I've often said this

1009
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Speaker 2: many times. I will say it one more time. If

1010
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Speaker 2: you're writing through life, you might as well ride through

1011
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 2: life and luxury. You'll always find that at the BMW store.

1012
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 2: Lee Sterling, next five games he's convinced will win money

1013
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: for you today in the National Football League on seven

1014
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Speaker 2: hundred w l W pitty l W. Lee Sterling standing

1015
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Speaker 2: by to join us here in just a moment or two,

1016
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Speaker 2: Handy capping five games he's convinced will come home as

1017
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Speaker 2: winners for you. A lot of talk, a lot of concern,

1018
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Speaker 2: this week after the trade for Joe Flacco was announced

1019
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Speaker 2: about Flacco's mobility, He's has all the mobility of a

1020
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Speaker 2: kitchen appliance, let's be honest. But Zach Taylor didn't seem

1021
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Speaker 2: all that concerned about that when he weighed in on

1022
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Speaker 2: the trade to say.

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Speaker 12: That mobility was ever his number one strength dating back

1024
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Speaker 12: to when I want to coach against him in twenty

1025
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Speaker 12: twelve and thirteen. I don't know that we were ever

1026
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Speaker 12: worried about Joe breaking free for a fifteen yard game.

1027
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Speaker 12: So I think his placetyle has been his place off

1028
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Speaker 12: for a long time, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Obviously,

1029
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Speaker 12: we got to do great job around him in the

1030
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Speaker 12: run game and protection and all that kind of stuff.

1031
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Speaker 12: But he understands, he understands our concepts already. It's a

1032
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Speaker 12: lot of things he's done, some things he's called the same,

1033
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Speaker 12: So again, we'll do it suits his best ultimately, at

1034
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Speaker 12: the end of the week, what are you not comfortable with?

1035
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Speaker 12: Are there some things we've called during the week that

1036
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 12: you know we should put on the shelf? Which is

1037
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Speaker 12: never an issue. We got plenty well now.

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Speaker 2: On his third starting quarterback of the season, t Higgins

1039
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 2: was holding court with the media this week in the

1040
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 2: locker room, and the question to him was, Okay, so

1041
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Speaker 2: now it's Joe flag Oh. Before it was Jake Browning,

1042
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Speaker 2: Before that it was Joe Burrow. I mean, have you morphed?

1043
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 2: Have you changed? Have goals changed inside this locker room? Now,

1044
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 2: what's going on? Not at all? You know, the vet

1045
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 2: that he is. You know, we expect him to come

1046
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 2: in and.

1047
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 21: Be that leader like he always have been, you know,

1048
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 21: and it definitely doesn't change the expectations for us. Our

1049
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 21: expectations is really just go out there and keep being

1050
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 21: us and just keep putting our best pook for and

1051
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 21: try to.

1052
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Speaker 3: Get a w a game.

1053
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Speaker 2: Bengals are a fourteen point underdog in this game today

1054
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 2: in Green Bay. Of course, our expectations don't change. We

1055
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Speaker 2: expect and he delivers every Sunday at this time to

1056
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 2: come on in and handicap some winners for us. From

1057
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Speaker 2: Paramount Sports, here's the guru, here's Lese Turling lo well,

1058
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Speaker 2: and here's the other thing about Lee. Lee's on a roll.

1059
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Speaker 2: I just want to make maybe he'll mention it here,

1060
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:22,959
Speaker 2: but I'm telling you he's on a roll lately.

1061
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Speaker 15: Lee.

1062
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Speaker 2: How are you on this glorious Sunday?

1063
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 3: I am great and excited to get going. How can

1064
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 3: I not be? Can Three weeks ago, you know, we

1065
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Speaker 3: have this five for fifty five dollars special.

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Speaker 19: Three weeks ago, go five and oh, and I'm feeling

1067
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Speaker 19: great and I'm like, uh, I'm setting myself up. Two

1068
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Speaker 19: weeks ago, I somehow went five and oh there was

1069
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Speaker 19: a couple plucky breaks.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie to you. It seems like one

1071
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Speaker 3: every week.

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Speaker 19: And then last week Third Street we clewent five and

1073
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Speaker 19: oh we are fifteen and oh the last three weeks

1074
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Speaker 19: on our NFL five for fifty five, So.

1075
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Speaker 3: We're on an incredible run.

1076
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Speaker 16: I hope I didn't jinx myself, but I think I

1077
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Speaker 16: know these.

1078
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Speaker 3: Teams pretty well inside now.

1079
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Speaker 19: So if I go five and zero again, and I'm

1080
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Speaker 19: gonna bet them all.

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Speaker 3: And I've even had some I've had.

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Speaker 19: Some of my clients and some your listeners that have

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Speaker 19: contacted me and said they played five team parlays.

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00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we may not be doing a segment next week, but.

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Speaker 15: At twenty and oh, I'm probably gonna be I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know which island, but I will be in the suite.

1087
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:31,959
Speaker 2: You know those penthouse suites all.

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Speaker 3: The way at the top.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, so yeah, it's available, unavailable Carmount sports dot com.

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Speaker 2: You'll be the king of South Beach, baby, You'll be

1091
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 2: the king of South Beach. Hey, let's go with the

1092
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: Browns and Steelers off the top. This game's in Pittsburgh.

1093
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 2: Steelers are three and one. They're giving five and a half,

1094
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers sixty nine percent completion rating, eight touchdowns, three interceptions,

1095
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 2: and the Browns of they're reshuffling. They sent Flacco here

1096
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 2: and Greg Newsom has been sent elsewhere on This looks

1097
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 2: like a setup. The Steelers giving five and a half

1098
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 2: to a Browns team that is still pretty down good defensively,

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00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 2: what do you think they are?

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Speaker 19: And here's what's crazy is Browns generally have had that

1101
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 19: great defense. No team has allowed fewer first downs going

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00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 19: back to Believe right to the start of twenty and

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Speaker 19: twenty four. Unfortunately, that has yet to translate into wins

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00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 19: because their lack of offense consistently puts the defense in

1105
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 19: really tough spots. So they've scored a total of seventy

1106
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 19: three points on the season, ton average up fourteen point

1107
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 19: six points per game.

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00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 3: You mentioned Aaron Rodgers. Yep.

1109
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 19: In that doublin game two weeks ago against the Vikings defense,

1110
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 19: he completes eighty one point eight percent of his passes

1111
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 19: for nine yards per pass attempt.

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00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 3: Steelers going to more of a.

1113
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 19: Two tight end set and it helps protect Rogers and

1114
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 19: he's thrown in the middle of the field a lot

1115
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 19: more to those big targets here. And how about this

1116
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 19: that quarterbacks making their first or second start on the road.

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00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 19: Thirteen and thirty six, Sorry Cleveland, Pittsburgh, big here, thirty eight.

1118
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 2: Ten, thirty eight, ten Steelers to go four and one.

1119
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 2: They're in here next Thursday night, Lee. I watched the

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Speaker 2: Dolphins game last week. I know you did too. It's

1121
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 2: one of the games I watched. Two is banged up,

1122
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 2: that's nothing new. But then I watched this team and

1123
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 2: even though the Chargers coming into this game today against

1124
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 2: the Dolphins have lost a couple in a row, the

1125
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 2: head coach in Miami looks lost. I mean, he looks

1126
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: like a deer in the headlight. And that the owner

1127
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 2: calls him in for a meeting this week. Is this

1128
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 2: a make or break game for him? Either getting four

1129
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 2: and home today with the Chargers in.

1130
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Speaker 19: Town, Well, let's hope Chris Greer, the GM gets the

1131
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,760
Speaker 19: X first, and you think, you know, the coaching staff

1132
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 19: has got problems the GM. I mean, the guys are

1133
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 19: bringing in they should have known cornerback with a horrible,

1134
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 19: horrible weakness. Here, they're playing guys that wouldn't even make

1135
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:57,280
Speaker 19: the practice squad.

1136
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 3: They probably wouldn't make it in any of those leagues.

1137
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 3: I don't know whether you call them the.

1138
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 19: UFL, the WFL, the CFL, the USFL.

1139
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 3: None of these guys are players.

1140
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 19: I mean, they're getting called for defensive holding interference and

1141
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 19: that's why Carolina came back last week. Now on the

1142
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 19: other side, and they're even missing their right guard, their

1143
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:20,280
Speaker 19: right tackle.

1144
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 3: On top of that, look at the other team. Look

1145
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 3: at the Chargers.

1146
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 19: They're missing their top two offensive lineman, three three starters.

1147
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 19: They're down, They're down their top two running they're playing

1148
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 19: running backs.

1149
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:32,760
Speaker 3: You know from the practice squad.

1150
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 19: I can't lay four points here in the Chargers on

1151
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 19: the road. There's gonna be they're gonna announce sixty five thousand'll.

1152
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 3: Probably be about forty eight thousand.

1153
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 19: Actual lost souls that show up to the game, and

1154
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 19: they'll be sitting there taking Delphi's.

1155
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 3: All game long. I've turned down three offers.

1156
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 19: Free Ticke tickets, even in in a box where they're

1157
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 19: catering the food. No way, Jose, Here, Chargers win twenty

1158
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 19: three to twenty four points is too much here. This

1159
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 19: is the field goal game here. Either way take the

1160
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 19: points and the Dolphins. I don't know if either point

1161
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 19: team can get to the mid twenties with all these injuries.

1162
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'll tell you. I franchises bill code trouble.

1163
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 2: So the Cowboys are two two and one, They're at

1164
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 2: the Panthers today. They're two and three. Panthers are getting

1165
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 2: three at home. Dak's hot, I mean, Dak is rolling

1166
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 2: right now. But Bryce Young, I mean, what did I

1167
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: see this at He completed seventeen of his last twenty

1168
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 2: six attempts last week for two touchdowns. So if Dak's

1169
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: hot and Bryce Young has found his stride, this could

1170
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: be one of the more entertaining games of the day. Today.

1171
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 2: Panthers plus three at home against the Cowboys. What do

1172
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 2: you think?

1173
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 19: Well, here, here's the thing with Dak. Dak plays great

1174
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 19: against teams with the losing records. I mean, that's how

1175
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 19: he got the contract. A lot of guys that never

1176
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 19: going to win the championship, but they perform when you

1177
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 19: know the brightest lights are not on them. Dak Is

1178
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 19: thirty three, eighteen and two against his Breadwood teams are

1179
00:57:54,720 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 19: the losing records. Carolina benefitted from Miami's cornerbacks just being horrendous,

1180
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 19: and the Dolphins, when they're up seventeen to nothing, went into.

1181
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 3: An absolute shell. Here Dallas, I like what they did

1182
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 3: last week.

1183
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 19: After throwing sixty five percent of their passes on offense,

1184
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 19: they went to a twenty nine twenty nine run split,

1185
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 19: even though they had injuries on the offensive line. Deavonte

1186
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 19: Williams looked like a grapevine. Ran for one hundred and

1187
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 19: thirty five yards.

1188
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 3: Here.

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 19: Recout Battle is not going to run for two hundred

1190
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 19: yards again. Remimy could have put up fifteen guys on defense.

1191
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 3: They weren't stopping him. They're so bad. I like Dallas

1192
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 3: thirty one twenty four.

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00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 2: Dallas thirty one twenty four on the road today. We

1194
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 2: had the Lions in here last week. I'm sure you

1195
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 2: know that they're banged up. They're missing a couple of

1196
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 2: starters in their secondary. They got a left tackle. It's

1197
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 2: probably not going to answer the bill today. Chiefs under

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00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,919
Speaker 2: five hundred this late in the season for the first

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Speaker 2: time since twenty twenty one, and the Chiefs at home

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00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 2: were giving two and a half to the Lions. Now,

1201
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 2: I know they played the Bengals last week. The Lions

1202
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 2: looked on I'm just wondering, what are we looking at here?

1203
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 2: This line smells a little bit to me? Analyze this

1204
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: for us?

1205
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So here's the deal with the Chiefs.

1206
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 19: I think their offense is getting better, and in two

1207
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 19: weeks with Rights back, they're going to be probably clicking

1208
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 19: on all cellars and be a big problem. But their defense,

1209
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 19: they just don't have enough guys they can swap in.

1210
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 19: You know, they're coming off a Monday night game. They

1211
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 19: were gassed. You saw the last couple drives. I mean,

1212
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 19: they couldn't stop anyone.

1213
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 3: They were just a day late and a dollar short.

1214
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 3: So that's a problem here.

1215
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 19: I think Detroit's weapons on offense are elite, maybe some

1216
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 19: of the best Tus've ever seen. I think they've got

1217
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 19: two of the top ten running backs. I think they're

1218
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 19: top two receivers or maybe top two, top three in

1219
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 19: the league.

1220
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Speaker 3: They're almost unguardable here, and they get pressure on the quarterback.

1221
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 3: Those edge rushers.

1222
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 19: You can compensate a little bit for injuries at the cornerback.

1223
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 3: Position if you got edge rushers.

1224
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 19: So since Detroit went in there a couple of years

1225
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 19: ago after the Super Bowl went for the Chiefs opening

1226
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 19: week in one, it's not a fluke anymore. How about this,

1227
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Speaker 19: Since two and twenty one, this team led by Dan

1228
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 19: Campbell fifty one twenty one and two against the spread

1229
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 19: at seventy one percent.

1230
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Speaker 3: No team in the last forty years even approaches that record.

1231
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 3: We're going Detroit.

1232
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 2: Here thirty eight thirty thirty eight to thirty Detroit third

1233
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 2: road team to win here on this Sunday. You mentioned

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Speaker 2: five for fifty five. You go to Paramount sports dot com.

1235
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 2: It's right there. It's so easy. It's a drop down box.

1236
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 2: You got five games that Lee is confident in fifty

1237
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 2: five dollars. As you heard him say it was five

1238
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 2: and oh a couple of weeks ago. He's roll and

1239
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 2: rolling the guys l perfecto and over and above all

1240
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 2: of this. We're in lo October, so give us the

1241
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 2: edit value here in Loctober.

1242
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Speaker 16: Lee.

1243
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Speaker 19: Yeah, So if they if they want to get to

1244
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 19: five for fifty five.

1245
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 3: It's available. We're on a fifteen toh oh run never

1246
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 3: done that before. Who knows, Maybe we go nineteen oh one, twenty.

1247
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Speaker 19: And oh I love the games here also if you

1248
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 19: want to get my phone service all the college games.

1249
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 19: There's games every single day through the end of the month.

1250
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 19: That's right through the thirty first. It even goes almost

1251
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 19: to the end of November. I think we've got like

1252
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 19: forty five straight days of football here every Tuesday and Wednesday.

1253
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 3: There's no break.

1254
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 19: You can get the entire package through the end of October.

1255
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 19: We don't call it October, called October.

1256
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 3: Use coupon code. Saved two hundred just for your show.

1257
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 19: Only saved two hundred, two hundred and ninety seven dollars

1258
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 19: for our phone service. Like I said, for the next

1259
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 19: three weeks of action Paramount sports dot com.

1260
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go, and here we go.

1261
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 2: We got the Bengals and Packers later on this afternoon

1262
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 2: here on seven hundred at WLW, Packers off. The by

1263
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 2: last time they played was that forty to forty tie

1264
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 2: at Dallas. You know, Lee, I just I have to ask.

1265
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 2: There was a rumor going around this town that before

1266
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 2: the Bengals signed Joe Flacco. They called you to see

1267
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 2: if you were available to come here in quarterback this team.

1268
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 2: So A is that true? And B does that hurt

1269
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 2: that you lost out to Joe Flacco?

1270
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 19: All right, So I might have been able to evade

1271
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 19: the rush, but I'm the opposite of Joe Flacco.

1272
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 3: I got wheels but no arm, So that was a problem.

1273
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 19: One of the few quarterbacks in mind. The actually ran

1274
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 19: a legitimate at four four. But if I can only

1275
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 19: throw the ball more than fifty yards, I would.

1276
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 3: Have been at the next level.

1277
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 2: So it's a problem.

1278
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Speaker 19: It's a problem here for Cincinnati. I mean, Joe Flacco

1279
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 19: probably going to be able to absorb forty to fifty

1280
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 19: percent of the offense, but he faced him a couple

1281
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 19: of weeks ago, I mean with Cleveland, and.

1282
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Speaker 3: They were lucky.

1283
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 19: They were down ten nothing middle of the fourth period

1284
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 19: and somehow, you know, Love just gifted them in an

1285
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,919
Speaker 19: interception when it was ten to three. So that's a big,

1286
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 19: big problem here. So I'm going to look at it

1287
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 19: at the Packers here because they're off a tie in

1288
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 19: a loss and then a bye, so you got to

1289
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 19: think that they're.

1290
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 3: Going to be ready to go here. They're usually their.

1291
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Speaker 19: First ten to fifteen play calls from the they're head coaching,

1292
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 19: their offensive coordinator are usually next level here.

1293
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Speaker 3: If they get the lead.

1294
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Speaker 19: Cincinnati, you have to throw early and often, and you

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Speaker 19: know what they say when you throw the ball that often.

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Speaker 16: Usually bad things happen.

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Speaker 19: Two out of three times incomplete and interceptions. So love

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Speaker 19: the receivers to Cincinnati. But Joe Flaccoll may just not

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Speaker 19: have time here.

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Speaker 2: I think it's Green Bay thirty four fourteen, thirty four fourteen,

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Speaker 2: and that that minus fourteen for the Packers. Don't worry

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Speaker 2: about it, all right, Lee, Well visit next week. Well

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Speaker 2: god knows who will be the quarterback here, but we'll

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Speaker 2: visit next week.

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Speaker 3: Yep, Yeah, look forward to it.

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Speaker 15: And everyone's stay shaped.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you too, you toobe all right. He likes the

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Speaker 2: Steelers over the Browns today thirty eight to ten. Don't

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Speaker 2: worry about the points. Chargers at the Dolphins to pull

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Speaker 2: it off twenty three twenty. But that means take the

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Speaker 2: Dolphins plus the points. Cowboys at Panthers. Panthers are getting three.

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Speaker 2: So what he says, Cowboys thirty one twenty four. He's

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Speaker 2: got the Lions beating the Chiefs in Kansas City. Kansas

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01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 2: City's giving the points. He says, the Lions don't need them.

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01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 2: Lions win thirty eight to thirty. And he says the

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Speaker 2: Packers cover and beat the Bengals today thirty four or fourteen.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how he does and let you know next week.

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Speaker 2: It is ten fifty two News Radio, seven hundred wl W.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, So we count down to the pregame show.

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Speaker 2: It's coming up at noon or at least after the

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Speaker 2: noon news, and that'll take you right down to countdown

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Speaker 2: to kickoff. We've been, you know, talking a lot about

1323
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 2: Flaco today and rightfully sold. But there are other things

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01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 2: and other angles on this game that I think you've

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01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 2: got to be aware of if you're the Bengals. First

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01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 2: of all, the Bengals have trouble, well they have trouble

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01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 2: with everything on defense, but the run has given them trouble.

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Speaker 2: And they face the guy today in Josh Jacobs, who

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Speaker 2: has four rushing touchdowns averaging not great three point three

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Speaker 2: yards per carry, but that's their guy. You know, if

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01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 2: you follow football, you know what kind of a running

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Speaker 2: back Josh Jacobs is. You know, he'll be all handed

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Speaker 2: to him, He'll wear you down and wear you down,

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01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden boom, you get popped for

1335
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 2: a big, big game. Now, Listen, TJ. Slayton knows all

1336
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Speaker 2: about the Packers, right, got a history with the Packers.

1337
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 2: He was talking about Jacobs this week. It's right now

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Speaker 2: for me, it's Josh.

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Speaker 22: We gotta stop Josh, uh, just because not even like

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01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 22: the old line and like their gameplay and everything. Like,

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01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 22: like Josh is a guy, you know what I'm saying. Like,

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Speaker 22: so we got to stop him. Like for a guy

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01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 22: like Josh, he don't need no line, he can get

1344
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 22: it done in itself. So like we gotta stop him.

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01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 22: We gotta bring him down. We gotta get him down

1346
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 22: on the on the first tackle. Uh, and then we

1347
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 22: gotta get a lot of pressure. We gotta get some pressures.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Packers have got some injury issues.

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Speaker 19: Uh.

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01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 2: Anthony Belton, backup right tackle, is out for this game.

1351
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,919
Speaker 2: Defensive tackle Vonte Wyatt has been hurt for a while.

1352
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 2: He starts for them, but he ain't playing a day

1353
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 2: and a lot of other question marks at corner. Nate

1354
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 2: Hobbs is questionable for this game today. Their kicker Brandon

1355
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 2: McManus injured his squad on Wednesday, I want to say

1356
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 2: so his status for this game not known at this hour,

1357
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 2: but we do know this Packers have a good defense.

1358
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Speaker 2: Despite the fact that they're two one and one, their

1359
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 2: defense is good. It's been bolted bolstered by Micah Parsons.

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01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 2: Rashawn Gary is their big sack guy, four and a

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01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 2: half sacks so far this season. Here's Jamar Chase on

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Speaker 2: that Packers d.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, Green big got a nice I mean they you

1364
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 17: could obviously see they heavy investment into their front. On

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Speaker 17: their front, pretty good. Linebackers are good too. They got

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Speaker 17: you know, mckaine back.

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Speaker 2: Day, he's a great safety.

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Speaker 17: You know Washington, Marland, I mean Alabama a little bit

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01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 17: played against in one year, so they got a great

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01:06:56,600 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 17: defense man. They particularly tooth plays on a lot. So

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Speaker 17: that's all a little bit of film. They put a

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01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,640
Speaker 17: little man on third down sometimes, but other than that,

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01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 17: they got a great defense, great great effort.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, keep your eye on that kicker situation. They signed

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Speaker 2: a kicker late this week, Lucas Haversik, and they'll see

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01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 2: where McManus is come game time or come time to

1377
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 2: release their inactives. Could be a big play in this

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Speaker 2: game today, all right, straight ahead on this audition of

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Speaker 2: Sunday Morning Sports Talk. The Bengals now have Joe flatcgo

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Speaker 2: now what Jeff currscdssports dot Com standing by to join

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Speaker 2: us next on seven hundred.

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Speaker 3: W l W.

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Speaker 1: Now News Radio seven hundred w LW presents Sunday Morning

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Speaker 1: Sports Talk with your host Ken Brew on news Radio

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Speaker 1: seven hundred w LW.

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Speaker 2: Across the pond in England, it is at the have

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Speaker 2: Denver ten, the Jet six and a rip roarin affair

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01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 2: at Tottenham Stadium, home of the EPLS Tottenham Hotspurs ten

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01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 2: to six Denver Now as they get ready to kick

1390
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Speaker 2: off the second half. Of course, all the games that

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Speaker 2: begin at one o'clock and two that we keep an

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01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:16,600
Speaker 2: eye on here just because of division rivalries. Cleveland at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: Cleveland in that game is a six point underdog, and

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01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 2: then Baltimore is at home with the Rams. Baltimore which

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01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 2: has I think they have statistically the worst or the

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01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 2: second worst pass defense in the league. Plus seven at

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01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 2: home is what Baltimore is getting. So we'll keep an

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01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 2: eye on those in every other tilt throughout this NFL Sunday.

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Speaker 2: The thing about Green Bay is they traded for Michael

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01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 2: Parsons and he's been good. There's no question about it.

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01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 2: He's still not completely one hundred percent. He's had back issues,

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01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 2: but Michael Parsons has two and a half sacks and

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01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 2: eight tackles so far this year. They saw Flacco. He

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01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 2: saw Flacco three weeks ago with Cleveland. Now they see

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Speaker 2: him again with the Bengals. And here's Parsons on that dynamic.

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Speaker 23: No offense to Cleveland, but nobody got two receivers like

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Speaker 23: the Bengals. Yeah, I mean, this is going to be

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Speaker 23: a complete different quarterback. I spect him to feel confident

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01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 23: in the guys. He's starting to, you know, even some

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01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 23: of the guys with friends a little better, a little

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01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 23: bit more healthier. So I think we're going to see

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Speaker 23: a different side of Flacco. So you know, we got

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Speaker 23: to be anticipated for that.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's no doubt about it. And I think if

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Speaker 2: you press Flacco to be completely honest in his career,

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01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 2: in his career, he hasn't had two wide receivers like

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01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 2: he has now at Higgins and Chase. He's had some

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01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 2: good ones, but two like those, No, probably not. We'll

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Speaker 2: see how that chemistry works again. Chase has been sick

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01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 2: most of the week and so he has not really

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Speaker 2: had any of that synergy developed limited as it would

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Speaker 2: have been anyway, So we'll see how it plays out

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Speaker 2: beginning at four twenty five this afternoon. Stand By, he's

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01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 2: one of the top sports writers in the country. He

1425
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 2: knows football inside out, can break it down and make

1426
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 2: it in not just interesting, but understandable at a level

1427
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 2: where you're not bombarded with stats that make your eyeballs

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01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 2: roll in the back of your head. This guy knows

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Speaker 2: how to talk to the proletariat, and he is Jeff

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Speaker 2: Kerr from cbssports dot Com, The Militariat Jeff Eorrio of

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Speaker 2: this glorious Sunday.

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Speaker 24: Hey, Ken, I need you to be my hype man

1433
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 24: when I'm coming out on the basketball work.

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01:10:35,479 --> 01:10:37,799
Speaker 2: I'll do whatever you want me to do. Buddy, Nobody

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01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 2: writes like you do. Now listen, I'm reading you this week.

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01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 2: You don't seem to be a big fan of this

1437
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 2: trade between the Bengals and the Browns that brought Joe

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01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 2: Flacco to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 24: Why so, you know what can Honestly, I just feel

1440
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 24: like it's kind of a wash, right you know, Cleveland

1441
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 24: gets rid of a guy they work on a fly

1442
01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 24: and Cincinnati he's just looking at that.

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Speaker 3: It was, well, well, I guess.

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Speaker 24: Anybody's better than Jake Browning at this point, then I

1445
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 24: guess what are your old Joe Flacca works. And what

1446
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 24: intrigues me with this whole thing is because you and

1447
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:11,639
Speaker 24: I both know Joe Blacker could still sling a football.

1448
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 24: I saw him do it this summer when Browns and

1449
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 24: Eagles had joined practices. But he'll get to sling it

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01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 24: to Jamar Chason t Higgins now as opposed to Jerry

1451
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 24: Judy and whoever he was thrown it to in Cleveland.

1452
01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:27,639
Speaker 24: But with the Bengals offensive line, I just think it's

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Speaker 24: going to be a disaster.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the reason why they signed him, and

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01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,040
Speaker 2: I think you just hit on it, is he can

1456
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 2: give them a puncher's chance. He can throw the ball

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Speaker 2: downfield and get t Higgins in a jump ball situation,

1458
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 2: or as Joe Burrow used to say, just throw it

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Speaker 2: up there. Jamar's out there someplace, he'll catch it. I

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Speaker 2: think I think basically that's what they're thinking is here.

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Speaker 24: And I agree with you, right, you know, with Jake

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Speaker 24: Browning Jamar Jason T. Higgins just they weren't as effective

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Speaker 24: as they could be. And now, at least with Fly,

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Speaker 24: Like you said, Ken, you got a puncher's chance now

1465
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 24: and you got nothing to lose. Right, you're two and three.

1466
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Speaker 24: You're just trying to salvage whatever you can.

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Speaker 15: Out of this season.

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Speaker 24: And I was, as I was telling you before we

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Speaker 24: went on, it's a shame because this is a team

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Speaker 24: that started to and oh, they seem to be doing

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Speaker 24: everything right in terms of getting off to that beast start,

1472
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Speaker 24: and the season just kind of went off the rails.

1473
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Speaker 24: And I thought Jake Bryant would be okay, but he's

1474
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Speaker 24: been one of the worst quarterbacks in football.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he's been one of the worst quarterbacks in the

1476
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 2: history of football. And if you if you go back

1477
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Speaker 2: just a few years ago, when Burrow was out with

1478
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Speaker 2: another injury, as a wrist injury, he did okay. He

1479
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 2: didn't know great, but he did okay. And then they

1480
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Speaker 2: re signed him to a new contract and they had

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Speaker 2: all those preseason games that he played in. How could

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Speaker 2: a franchise not know that a quarterback was that bad

1483
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Speaker 2: and keep signing him and keep throwing him in there.

1484
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Speaker 2: When Burrow got hurt. How can they How can you

1485
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 2: not know that going into going into a season where

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Speaker 2: you know there's a pretty good chance that Burrow will

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Speaker 2: miss some time with injury. I mean, how could they not.

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Speaker 24: Know that or dress someone then develop them right, Like?

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Speaker 24: I like, look, a couple of years ago, Eagles trained

1490
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 24: for Kenny Pickett, you know, former first round picker. Like,

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Speaker 24: why don't you have Kenny Pickett? We have Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, well, Kase Jalen.

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Speaker 24: Hurts misses the game or two. You got a guy

1494
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 24: that you can develop and get his confidence back and

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01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 24: play in there. And Kenny Pickett parlay that into a

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Speaker 24: trade rough Cleveland. He started at least seventeen games against

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Speaker 24: the Cowboys last year, and Pickett was incredible. He threw

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Speaker 24: two touchdowns, he ran for oh and he Brocus Rigs

1499
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Speaker 24: in that game and was doing and was still able

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Speaker 24: to do that. I don't know why Cincinnati just does

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01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 24: have the force like to make a trade like that,

1502
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Speaker 24: or you can't. Picket got traded to Vegas this year.

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Speaker 3: They could have had him.

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Speaker 24: I mean, look, they just made the division trade for

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Speaker 24: the Browns.

1506
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 16: Why not.

1507
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're that quarterback dependent it's almost kind of

1508
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 2: outrageous that you're you're not going to have somebody that

1509
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 2: can can at least come in and pick up the slack. Now,

1510
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 2: I'm again, they're defaulting to twenty twenty three. They're also

1511
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 2: probably defaulting to whatever they saw on training camp. But

1512
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:10,679
Speaker 2: it's just astounding watching him over the last three games

1513
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 2: and then seeing him as just a broken man in

1514
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 2: the news conference after his last game, where it was

1515
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 2: literally he was doing self psychology on himself. It was

1516
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 2: just a stunning turn of events. Now you mentioned something

1517
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 2: else because you're an a student writer and an observationist

1518
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 2: of this game of football. The Bengals offensive line, all

1519
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 2: of this wasn't Jake Browning's fault. The players were there,

1520
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:36,720
Speaker 2: he didn't make them, but he also didn't exactly have

1521
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 2: the best protection in the world. So what now of

1522
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 2: a forty year old man that is not fast standing

1523
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 2: behind that offensive line. I mean, you just can't let

1524
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:48,800
Speaker 2: him go back there and be a statue, can you?

1525
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:50,680
Speaker 3: No, you can.

1526
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 24: I mean it's gonna be like backyard football. Literally, it's

1527
01:14:53,439 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 24: just grip it and rip it right. And I guess

1528
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 24: that's the plan. And you know what, when they were

1529
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,720
Speaker 24: making the calls for Joe Burrow to be MVP. Last year,

1530
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 24: I was in defensive it said, you know what, it's

1531
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 24: not far fetched. If you look at the Bengals team

1532
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 24: as a whole and their offensive line and how bad

1533
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 24: their defense is and how they were just competent with

1534
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:19,640
Speaker 24: Joe Burrow, You're start saying to yourself, Okay, that's the

1535
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:23,200
Speaker 24: one guy in this league, no matter what, that can't

1536
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:26,559
Speaker 24: get hurt. I could say the same about Lamar Jackson Josh,

1537
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 24: but Joe Burrow was the guy and the offensive line

1538
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 24: failed him in Game two.

1539
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 3: I mean, he in the last two games and now

1540
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 3: he's done.

1541
01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 16: And.

1542
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 24: It's going to be a disigist with Joe Flacco.

1543
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 16: I mean that.

1544
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 24: I think it'll work for me.

1545
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 3: Maybe a week or two, But I mean, can you

1546
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 3: just stand out.

1547
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 24: Bad that offensive line doesn't I just don't get how

1548
01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 24: a franchise can just get hit on picks like Joe

1549
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,560
Speaker 24: Burrow and Jamar Chase and T Higgins and get a

1550
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,839
Speaker 24: couple of things right and then you just totally ignore

1551
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 24: so many other acts to the ball. Ken I'm wondering

1552
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 24: if like this all goes south over the next two weeks,

1553
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 24: Like if if Trey Henderson is going to be on

1554
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 24: this team.

1555
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 3: Of the month.

1556
01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a legitimate question because let's let's

1557
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 2: let's be honest here, They've got green Bay today at

1558
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:17,719
Speaker 2: green Bay, then they come home on four days rest

1559
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 2: and play the Steelers here in Cincinnati, and then they

1560
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 2: they get some time off. But you're you're absolutely right

1561
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,639
Speaker 2: if they if if if this thing does go south

1562
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks and they're looking then at

1563
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 2: two and five, what would be the sense of holding

1564
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 2: on to Trey Hendrickson? Even with the AFC North in

1565
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 2: shambles as it is, you might as well cut your losses.

1566
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 3: At that point.

1567
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 24: Yeah, give whatever you can. I mean, look, I'm a

1568
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 24: Philly he who's definitely being outside that.

1569
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:48,719
Speaker 3: The bill.

1570
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 2: The rich get richer, right, Jeff, Yeah, exactly.

1571
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:55,599
Speaker 24: And look, the Bengals could probably get a day two, Griff.

1572
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 24: I would still try to get a first, but.

1573
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 3: Because it's that good.

1574
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 24: But it's just amazing to me how I've been so

1575
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:06,960
Speaker 24: high on the Bangles for a lot of years and

1576
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:08,560
Speaker 24: I'm just way important.

1577
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:08,560
Speaker 14: To do it.

1578
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 24: And I don't know, like, what what's the vibe there? Like,

1579
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 24: do they think Zach Taylor's going to survive this.

1580
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 2: I think Zach Taylor from a fan base standpoint and

1581
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 2: not the not the franchise standpoint, but the fan base

1582
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 2: view him as as somebody who's on shaky ground. Now,

1583
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 2: you and I both know the history of that front

1584
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 2: office is stability in the coaching ranks. In my lifetime

1585
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 2: here in Cincinnati, they've made two in season coaching changes,

1586
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 2: one when they got rid of David Shula, two when

1587
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 2: they got rid of Dick Lebaux, and after that it's

1588
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 2: just been sailing with Marvin Lewis and now into Zach Taylor.

1589
01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 2: They just don't They don't do things like that. But

1590
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 2: the fan base is there's unrest, but they view this

1591
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 2: track of a Flacco trade as well. At least they

1592
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 2: did something. At least they didn't just roll Browning out there.

1593
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 2: So I think I think you're going to get a

1594
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 2: little slack here. I also think what you're going to

1595
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 2: get is a lot of all right, that's it. If

1596
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 2: this slack that they've got with Flaco over the next

1597
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:10,640
Speaker 2: several weeks doesn't work out, I would describe that as

1598
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 2: the tenor of the town. Yeah, by the way, was it?

1599
01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 24: You know, it's funny too because with this AFC North

1600
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:23,839
Speaker 24: Cleveland even making moves. Right they traded Flaco away expected,

1601
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:27,640
Speaker 24: but now you traded Greg Newson to Jacksonville, which is

1602
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 24: kind of a shocking, you gotta type of camel back

1603
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 24: and technill just find that guy to an extension like

1604
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:33,680
Speaker 24: less than a year ago.

1605
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 3: It may have been two years ago at this point.

1606
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,599
Speaker 24: I'm trying to remember. But it's weird how the AFC

1607
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:43,719
Speaker 24: North is just making all these moves because it seems

1608
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 24: like everybody's just going to defer the division of Pittsburgh

1609
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 24: at this point.

1610
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Pittsburgh has shown, at least through the

1611
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 2: early part of the season to be the team to beat.

1612
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 2: But I want to ask you one more question than

1613
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 2: that is about the AFC North. Uh, there's a belief

1614
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 2: here that if Flaco can keep this team at level

1615
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,439
Speaker 2: until and if Burrow gets back, and again I think

1616
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 2: Burrow back in December is really really optimistic, but let's

1617
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 2: just say that works. Are you somebody that's looking at

1618
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 2: this division right now as nine wins wins? It would

1619
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,560
Speaker 2: it be that low considering what's going on in Baltimore

1620
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:22,040
Speaker 2: and all the injuries there, and even with that defense, healthy.

1621
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 2: It wasn't very good. And considering that you've got Aaron Rodgers,

1622
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 2: another octogenary in a quarterback out in Pittsburgh, does nine

1623
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 2: wins win it?

1624
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 3: Now? I may win it.

1625
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 24: I still think it's going to be ten.

1626
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 3: But you're on the something there, Ken.

1627
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 24: Look, I said a couple of weeks ago, I don't

1628
01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:43,200
Speaker 24: think it deniers of Lamar Jackins healthy. Baltimore's defense is terrible.

1629
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 24: I mean I think they're done I really do. And

1630
01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 24: it's hard to think that because I am a believer

1631
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 24: in the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and a lot of.

1632
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 3: What they do.

1633
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 24: But look, I watched every game this year.

1634
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:56,719
Speaker 3: Their defense is terrible.

1635
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 24: It's one of the worst defenses I've ever seen. So

1636
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 24: they're done.

1637
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 19: You know, Cincinnati is.

1638
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 24: You feel Baffore now have Burrough. I mean, they're a

1639
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 24: tough walk right now.

1640
01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 3: Cleveland's Cleveland.

1641
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 24: I mean, this is a rebuilding year. It's look at

1642
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 24: Pittsburgh just takes care of business here that they're gonna

1643
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 24: win this division easily. But like you said, can you

1644
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:19,639
Speaker 24: trust Aaron Rodgers to take care of business?

1645
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 14: Right?

1646
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 2: One good hit and he's done. Uh, it's just and look,

1647
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 2: it's gonna be the same way with Flacco two. I mean,

1648
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 2: it's just astounding. Everybody said before this season the AFC

1649
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 2: North may be the best division in football, and right

1650
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 2: now people who said that are looking pretty dumb. But

1651
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 2: we'll see. As you know, Jeff, that's why they play

1652
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:41,760
Speaker 2: the games, Jeff kursbssports dot com. You need to read

1653
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 2: them on a daily basis. He's that good, all right, Jeffrey,

1654
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 2: Stay well, We'll be in touch.

1655
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 24: It sounds great, Ken, big week for the Bengals, Yes

1656
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:49,799
Speaker 24: a way.

1657
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:53,759
Speaker 2: Yes it is. Yes, it is Denver ten Jets nine.

1658
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 2: This is with about ten and a half minutes to

1659
01:20:56,360 --> 01:21:00,960
Speaker 2: go third quarter over in Tottenham, Denver ten Jets nine,

1660
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:03,680
Speaker 2: So the Jets aren't going away. It could be a

1661
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,320
Speaker 2: problem for Denver. As this progresses, we'll let you know.

1662
01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 2: It is now eleven twenty one already on seven hundred

1663
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:17,439
Speaker 2: WLWD seven hundred WLW eleven twenty seven on this Sunday morning,

1664
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 2: Good Morning Bengals pregame show after the news at the

1665
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 2: top of the hour. Standing by to join us in

1666
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 2: about ten minutes is college football guru Ben Kirchible from

1667
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 2: cbssports dot com. I want to get into why not

1668
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:36,560
Speaker 2: you see winning the Big Twelve Championship. They've got some

1669
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 2: pretty good matchups later this season that might determine exactly that.

1670
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 2: But they also have some games that you look at

1671
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,599
Speaker 2: and you say to yourself, they ought to be favored

1672
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 2: and favored heavily in these games. Why not you see

1673
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:53,600
Speaker 2: winning the Big Twelve Championship. We'll get into that and

1674
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 2: see what his top four teams are in the country

1675
01:21:56,640 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 2: minoror different than what you might see in any particular

1676
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 2: pole now USA Today or Associated Press. So you got

1677
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 2: the Bengals and you've got the green Bay Packers later

1678
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 2: on this afternoon. Each head coach has something to worry about.

1679
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:15,160
Speaker 2: First of all, if you're Zach Taylor, you're worried about

1680
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 2: that Green Bay defense. Now with Micah Parsons just an

1681
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 2: added value to that group up there, to a defense

1682
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 2: that was pretty darn good before he showed up. Here's

1683
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:28,320
Speaker 2: Taylor on that Green Bay defense earlier this week.

1684
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 12: Well, it's a great defense, number one. Uh, And with

1685
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:35,840
Speaker 12: Micah it continues to be a great defense, and he

1686
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:37,720
Speaker 12: does a great job affecting the passer. They all do

1687
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,599
Speaker 12: up front. That's a really good unit there. Well, coach

1688
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 12: halfway does a great job. Matt does a great job.

1689
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:45,599
Speaker 12: These guys are in sync with each other and they

1690
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 12: do a great job effecting the passer. So Michael Parsons,

1691
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:49,560
Speaker 12: obviously the lead player in this league, got to be

1692
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,479
Speaker 12: very aware of him. They had other guys you got

1693
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:54,040
Speaker 12: to be aware of too, so big challenge for us.

1694
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, he mentioned Matt. Matt is Matt LeFleur, the head

1695
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 2: coach of the Packers now again. They just saw Joe

1696
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 2: flack O's three weeks ago with the Cleveland Browns. Here

1697
01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 2: he is again now with the Bengals, and they asked

1698
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 2: Lafleur this week, what is that, what changes with Blaco

1699
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:14,719
Speaker 2: and whether or not he's in sync with t Higgins

1700
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,000
Speaker 2: and Jamar Chase just.

1701
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 18: In terms of they can get the ball to Jamar

1702
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 18: in a variety of different ways. It could be a

1703
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 18: run alert where he's running a bubble screen or just

1704
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 18: a little flat route and it looks like it's bottled

1705
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:30,160
Speaker 18: up and the next thing you know, he gets out

1706
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 18: the back end he takes to the house. So both

1707
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 18: those guys are extremely dangerous. Tea is as good as

1708
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 18: anybody in fifty to fifty balls. I mean, it's not

1709
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 18: even a fifty to fifty ball when he's out there,

1710
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,599
Speaker 18: So you got to be super conscious about what you're calling.

1711
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 18: You gotta, I think you gotta try to keep him

1712
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 18: as off balance as possible, throwing different looks at those

1713
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:55,519
Speaker 18: guys and just be hyper aware of where they align

1714
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 18: on each and every play.

1715
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 2: Sounds like he's talking to himself and maybe saying the

1716
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:04,000
Speaker 2: same things. Come game time, we'll see it's time for

1717
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:07,640
Speaker 2: the news. After that, we'll have Ben Kerchible and do

1718
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 2: a little college football analysis straight ahead on seven hundred

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Speaker 2: w LW. Seven hundred w LW Welcome Back, I Am

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Speaker 2: ken Brew Countdown to kick Off, preceded by the Bengals

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Speaker 2: pregame show All on the Horizon coming up as the

1722
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Speaker 2: Bengals get ready to take on the Green Bay Packers

1723
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Speaker 2: later on this afternoon with Joe Flecco at quarterback. Be

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Speaker 2: still my beating heart. You see, with a big win yesterday,

1725
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 2: it was not one of those games you look at

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Speaker 2: and say, wow, look at what the offense did. You

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01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:46,920
Speaker 2: could look at their defense and say, you know what,

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01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 2: that was a pretty danged good effort. Central Florida had

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Speaker 2: quarterback issues. There's no question about that. Their defense. Central

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Speaker 2: Florida's defense is very good. You see with the twenty

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Speaker 2: to eleven wins now five and one and three and

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Speaker 2: oh in the Big Twelve Scott center Field after the game.

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Speaker 5: You know, the bottom line is, you know, we're sitting

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Speaker 5: here at five and one and we just you know,

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Speaker 5: finished this game in won our third conference game in

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Speaker 5: a row, and we got a lot of things we

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01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 5: can get fixed. That's a good thing to happen. We're

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Speaker 5: excited about this opportunity we have coming next week.

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Speaker 2: So you got BYU at six and oh three and

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Speaker 2: oh in the conference, Texas Tech at six and oh

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01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 2: three and oh in the conference, and you see at

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01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 2: three and one, three and oh in the conference en

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Speaker 2: route to Oklahoma State for a night game next week

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01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 2: against the Cowboys. Why not start thinking about and talking

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Speaker 2: about the University of Cincinnati winning the Big Twelve Conference?

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 2: I mean, look at what they've done so far. You

1748
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 2: know what, you play that first game against Kansas again

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Speaker 2: where you keep the danged thing here in Cincinnati, and

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01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 2: maybe it's not five and one, maybe it's six and oh.

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01:25:57,479 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 2: Standing by the way in on all those things, perhaps

1752
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 2: some fantasy, perhaps some reality is one of the college

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Speaker 2: football gurus in this country, a great mind when it

1754
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 2: comes to one of the greatest sports that we ever

1755
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 2: have had on this planet, somebody that knows college football

1756
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 2: inside and out and can deliver it on a very

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Speaker 2: very understandable basis. He is, among other things, the college

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Speaker 2: football editor at cbssports dot Com. He's our good buddy,

1759
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Speaker 2: Ben kerchieble Ben. How are you on this glorious Sunday, man,

1760
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:31,679
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 15: Not as good as the Bearcats at the moment. Y'all

1762
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 15: feeling yourself? You're feeling yourself.

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Speaker 3: That's good.

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Speaker 15: You should because this conference, outside of Texas Tech, which

1765
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 15: I want to say, has the best roster that money

1766
01:26:45,880 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 15: can buy in the Big Trove. And I don't mean

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Speaker 15: I don't mean that in a derogatory way. The game

1768
01:26:51,080 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 15: has changed if you can spend the money to get

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Speaker 15: the roster. Texas Tech certainly has it. But outside of them,

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Speaker 15: if you got to about a dozen teams in the

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Speaker 15: Big Twelve going well, why can't it be me? And

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01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 15: the Bearcats have about as good a case as any well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, let's just look at it. I don't know

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01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 2: what he'll be this week, but last week Brendan Sorosby

1775
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:20,679
Speaker 2: was the number one rated quarterback per Pro Football Focus

1776
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 2: when they mix in all of their metrics and whatnot.

1777
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Speaker 2: I don't sense he'll be there this week. I mean,

1778
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 2: his numbers were not great yesterday, but good enough to win.

1779
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:32,680
Speaker 2: I think all things are possible in college football in

1780
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 2: this day and age if you have a veteran quarterback

1781
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,760
Speaker 2: who stays in a system for more than one year.

1782
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:41,680
Speaker 2: And this is year two for Soresby. They gave them

1783
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 2: people to throw to and all of a sudden they're

1784
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 2: scoring points and not relying on their defense to be

1785
01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 2: out there trying to win games for them. How about

1786
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 2: Soorsby in the grand scheme of things in college football.

1787
01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:58,080
Speaker 15: Yeah, Sorsby not real flashy yesterday, like you mentioned, but

1788
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 15: Verry workmanlike and it helps me. You got a good

1789
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 15: running game, they do have one, and he's certainly a

1790
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 15: part of it. But he's got targets. He's just been,

1791
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 15: you know, good decision making, pretty accurate, confident. I mean,

1792
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 15: there are few quarterbacks in college football. And I think

1793
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 15: this is more of a grand view of college football

1794
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:22,759
Speaker 15: than anything, but there are very few quarterbacks in college

1795
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 15: football win Situationally, You're like, hey, I feel really good

1796
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 15: about my guy to make good decisions and to make

1797
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:32,640
Speaker 15: plays when you absolutely have to have them. Soorsby is

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Speaker 15: one of them. And you know, a coupled with some

1799
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:38,439
Speaker 15: other things, I think Cincinnati's defensive front can go up

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01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 15: with just about anybody in the conference when you're when

1801
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:46,280
Speaker 15: you're playing at a high level in a few select areas,

1802
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 15: trenches being one of them, quarterback being another. Especially in

1803
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 15: a wide open league like this, you've got to feel

1804
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,639
Speaker 15: really good about your chances week in and week out.

1805
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 15: Maybe outside of a game or so, for the rest

1806
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 15: of the season, I think Cincinnati is going to be favored.

1807
01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:02,879
Speaker 15: Sooresby's part of the reason why.

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01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 2: They don't play Texas Tech in the regular season. You know,

1809
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:07,760
Speaker 2: I don't want to get ahead of my skis here,

1810
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:10,120
Speaker 2: but if they get to the championship game, maybe it

1811
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Speaker 2: is Texas Tech. But nevertheless, they don't play Texas Tech.

1812
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State is in shambles. So yeah, that's the game

1813
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 2: that I would look at and say, you know what,

1814
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 2: that's very winnable. Baylor will be interesting. There are a

1815
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 2: lot of four and two teams here in the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at that Utah game in three weeks, which

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Speaker 2: could be. I mean that should be if things continue,

1818
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:34,599
Speaker 2: that should be a primetime game. You see it five

1819
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 2: and one, you taught five and one, you tak game

1820
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Speaker 2: behind in the Big twelve Conference. I mean, that's just

1821
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:43,640
Speaker 2: crying for an ESPN prime time game, is it not.

1822
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,560
Speaker 15: Yeah, it is probably be a rock fight too. I

1823
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 15: think those are two teams that can win with defense.

1824
01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 15: Don't mind playing possession football, don't mind running the ball.

1825
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 15: You tass tough place to play. It's a fun place

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01:29:57,479 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 15: to go at night. It's not always like fun when

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01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:02,760
Speaker 15: you're a visiting team because of the atmosphere, but it's

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01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:05,800
Speaker 15: just it's a great college football atmosphere. To get that

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01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 15: game in timetime, it would be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 15: And like I mentioned just a second ago, you're probably

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Speaker 15: going to be favored in most of your remaining games.

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Speaker 3: That might be one where you're not.

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Speaker 15: You might be a slight dog there, but you start

1834
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 15: to listening off some of those teams, you know, byus

1835
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 15: coming to Cincinnati later that month, you got to finish

1836
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,639
Speaker 15: the season at TCU. There are so many even though

1837
01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 15: you again you probably will be favored, there are so

1838
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:33,879
Speaker 15: many coin flip games in this conference. I mean, Iowa

1839
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,679
Speaker 15: State looks like a real contender. They've lost the last

1840
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:41,880
Speaker 15: two against you know, against Colorado and Cincinnati. So it's

1841
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 15: sort of like Nascar, like you get out of the

1842
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 15: pack a little bit. It's real easy to suddenly find

1843
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 15: yourself sort of falling behind in the shuffle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no though though it is and predicting what eighteen,

1845
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 2: nineteen and twenty year old kids are going to do

1846
01:30:55,160 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 2: is I mean, if you've ever raised kids, is a

1847
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 2: real roll of the dice. But you're right. I look

1848
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:05,280
Speaker 2: at football in this day and age, and a guy

1849
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 2: like Scott Centerfield probably would have if not been on

1850
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 2: his way out. Certainly the heat would have been enormous

1851
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 2: right now with him because of what transpired before the season.

1852
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Speaker 2: The game's changed remarkably. We all know the portal has

1853
01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 2: changed everything. So really that becomes the most important thing

1854
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 2: you do is getting players into the portal from the

1855
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:31,759
Speaker 2: portal and keeping your players from going into the portal.

1856
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:34,600
Speaker 2: The portal is where it's at. It's not necessarily the

1857
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:36,920
Speaker 2: roll of the dice on an eighteen year old kid

1858
01:31:37,479 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 2: that may or may not develop the way you think

1859
01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 2: he is. So it's portal first, and then fill in

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Speaker 2: the blanks with with with recruits now from high school?

1861
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Speaker 2: Am I right?

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Speaker 15: I don't think so.

1863
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Speaker 2: I would.

1864
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Speaker 15: I would say you still need to develop.

1865
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:53,840
Speaker 3: You're going to lose.

1866
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Speaker 15: You are going to lose people with the portal, and

1867
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:59,560
Speaker 15: you're going to have additions from the portal. But I

1868
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 15: think it needs to be a bit of a supplement because,

1869
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:06,439
Speaker 15: for example, we talked about offensive linemen.

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Speaker 16: I think that's an.

1871
01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 15: Area where you still need to develop. Really good offensive

1872
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:13,400
Speaker 15: linemen who are going to start from you out of

1873
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 15: the portal are very few and far between, and this

1874
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 15: is not meant to be disrespectful, but they're probably not

1875
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:22,680
Speaker 15: going to be coming to Cincinnati and droves. So that's

1876
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:24,759
Speaker 15: an area where you still need to be able to develop.

1877
01:32:25,640 --> 01:32:30,280
Speaker 15: You can get spot help in the portal. You can

1878
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:33,639
Speaker 15: get great receiver help, you can get great defensive back help.

1879
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 15: There are some areas where it can help. A good

1880
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:42,639
Speaker 15: quarterback coming in as a missing piece can do wonders

1881
01:32:42,720 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 15: for you. Cincinnati doesn't have that problem. It's really nice,

1882
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 15: but I do think it's a little bit more. I'm

1883
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:51,680
Speaker 15: not good at percentages and throwing percentages on this. I

1884
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 15: still think it's a little bit more fifty to fifty

1885
01:32:54,320 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 15: if you go portal first, maybe like if you're in

1886
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 15: a year one where you just know that this is

1887
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:03,599
Speaker 15: a completely blank slate and it's a new team. Anyway,

1888
01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 15: you might be able to do that. West Virginia did

1889
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:09,120
Speaker 15: that with Rich Rodriguez. Obviously, Dion Sanders kind of set

1890
01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 15: the tone a few years back when he did that

1891
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 15: at Colorado. You can do it, but I don't know

1892
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:20,120
Speaker 15: that you're going to have immediate overwhelming success with that mentality.

1893
01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:21,719
Speaker 15: I still think you need to be able to recruit,

1894
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 15: still need to be able to develop. You can certainly

1895
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:27,600
Speaker 15: get more help available now than you could, you know,

1896
01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:31,439
Speaker 15: five ten years ago, but I wouldn't say it's your

1897
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:34,040
Speaker 15: only option. I mean, Layane Kiff and we always talk

1898
01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:36,719
Speaker 15: about him being like the king of the Transfer Portal.

1899
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 15: They're good, They're obviously still very good. But if the

1900
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 15: ceiling has not necessarily been raised on that program just

1901
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:46,720
Speaker 15: because of that mentality, but you.

1902
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 2: Almost do have to go I think this is what

1903
01:33:49,320 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 2: you just said again, correct me if I'm wrong, But

1904
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:57,719
Speaker 2: you look at the portal as you get key pieces

1905
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 2: from there. In other words, if you can get a

1906
01:34:00,520 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 2: veteran quarterback to come in and you've got younger players

1907
01:34:05,160 --> 01:34:09,360
Speaker 2: around him that just need a steady hand. That's where

1908
01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:12,600
Speaker 2: you go. If you need wide receivers to complement a

1909
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 2: quarterback that simply doesn't have wide receivers, you can do that.

1910
01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 2: It sounds like what you're saying is offensive line maybe

1911
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:23,160
Speaker 2: into a degreat defensive line. I mean that's still a

1912
01:34:23,320 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 2: function of recruiting in high school. Am I right? Is

1913
01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 2: that what you're saying?

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Speaker 15: Yeah?

1915
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:28,280
Speaker 3: Just there.

1916
01:34:28,360 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 15: I think the availability of some of those players to

1917
01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 15: come in and be an impact starter out of the portal,

1918
01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:37,560
Speaker 15: I would say offensive line more than anything else. You

1919
01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 15: could probably get other positions a little bit easier than that.

1920
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:44,920
Speaker 15: But I would agree with the general idea that you

1921
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 15: shouldn't be ignoring the portal. You should not be pulling

1922
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:50,880
Speaker 15: a Davo Sweeney. You should not be pulling a Mike

1923
01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 15: Gundy where you just thought, Wow, the portal and nil,

1924
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:57,200
Speaker 15: that's that's going to be it when this whole Internet

1925
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 15: phase is done, Ken, it's you know, it's that's not

1926
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:03,880
Speaker 15: how it works. The game has changed, So yes, there

1927
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 15: needs to be an acceptance and a willingness to play

1928
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:10,960
Speaker 15: the game. But I don't think going all in equates

1929
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:12,640
Speaker 15: to success.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think that's fair. I don't know there's any question.

1931
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:20,040
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. All right, let's talk about teams

1932
01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:22,519
Speaker 2: that you got near the top here, and we know

1933
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 2: twelve make the playoff. I'm going to give you my

1934
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:30,240
Speaker 2: top four. You tell me why I'm wrong. Okay, Ohio

1935
01:35:30,360 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 2: State one. I think Ohio State is clearly the best

1936
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 2: team in the country. Miami two. In fact, I think

1937
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 2: Miami has has taken a few people by surprise. I

1938
01:35:41,280 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 2: would slide ole Miss up to three and put Indiana

1939
01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 2: at four. Am I wrong?

1940
01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:53,760
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'd switched three and four India three. Need Yeah,

1941
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:56,759
Speaker 15: I have Indiana three. Oh Miss needed to escape Washington

1942
01:35:56,880 --> 01:35:59,800
Speaker 15: State now they were looking ahead. They weren't playing their

1943
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 15: best game. They got Georgia next. Lank again Lane Kiffin,

1944
01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:05,880
Speaker 15: since we're I guess dogging on him this morning. I

1945
01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:09,679
Speaker 15: mean his teams have a tendency to fumble a little

1946
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:12,639
Speaker 15: bit when it comes to those really winnable games. Washington

1947
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:16,200
Speaker 15: State was like almost a five touchdown dog and ole

1948
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:18,479
Speaker 15: Miss needed to escape with their life. Old Miss is

1949
01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:22,680
Speaker 15: clearly a better team than Washington State, but the consistency

1950
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 15: just isn't there. Indiana. If you made an argument for

1951
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:29,960
Speaker 15: Indiana at number two. I would hear it. They have

1952
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:34,680
Speaker 15: the best win of the season going to Oregon, and

1953
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:39,240
Speaker 15: that wasn't just a fluke or escaping by the skin

1954
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:44,120
Speaker 15: of their teeth. They went in and defensively they played

1955
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:47,360
Speaker 15: really well. They had Oregon's offense and Dante More just

1956
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:50,400
Speaker 15: kind of been shambles a little bit, and they didn't

1957
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:55,600
Speaker 15: play their cleanest game themselves. But they they squared up

1958
01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:58,160
Speaker 15: and they won that game. And that's something that even

1959
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:01,000
Speaker 15: last year when they made the playoff, that.

1960
01:37:01,080 --> 01:37:02,320
Speaker 2: They weren't able to do.

1961
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:05,280
Speaker 15: They had a really easy schedule to start, like first

1962
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:07,600
Speaker 15: nine or ten games, and then they got to like

1963
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:11,200
Speaker 15: Michigan and Ohio State, and you saw that the bodies

1964
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:13,960
Speaker 15: just weren't there in the trenches. They just they didn't

1965
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:17,360
Speaker 15: have the size everything else that they needed to really compete.

1966
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 15: That's changed this year. They've gone into Oregon and walked

1967
01:37:21,240 --> 01:37:24,120
Speaker 15: away with it again a singular most impressive win of

1968
01:37:24,200 --> 01:37:27,160
Speaker 15: the year. They'll probably be at number three in the

1969
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:30,479
Speaker 15: AP poll today and that that would be the highest

1970
01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:32,519
Speaker 15: ever for that program, and I think that slots them

1971
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 15: about right.

1972
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 2: All right, I got about a minute left. How serious

1973
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:39,880
Speaker 2: a candidate or where do you well, where do you

1974
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:43,400
Speaker 2: place at this point understanding where you know, five games

1975
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 2: sit into a college football season. How serious a candidate

1976
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:49,640
Speaker 2: is Fernando Mendoza for the Heisman.

1977
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:53,960
Speaker 15: As serious as anybody else. Now, like you said, we're

1978
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:56,040
Speaker 15: halfway through the season. We got a whole second half

1979
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 15: to go. I mean, these things are not one in

1980
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:02,640
Speaker 15: September or early October. Over Uh, Mendoza played again, you know,

1981
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:06,160
Speaker 15: maybe not amazing yesterday, but I think he has he

1982
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 15: has what what work did not have last year. I mean,

1983
01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:11,479
Speaker 15: he has the ability to really make some of those

1984
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:16,360
Speaker 15: wow plays, wow throws. It's Indiana keeps winning, he keeps

1985
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:18,599
Speaker 15: playing at a high level. He checks off all those

1986
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:20,680
Speaker 15: boxes that Heisman voters seem to look for him. He's

1987
01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 15: a quarterback on a winning team and he's a big

1988
01:38:23,040 --> 01:38:26,080
Speaker 15: part of their success. Yeah, he absolutely can be in

1989
01:38:26,120 --> 01:38:26,759
Speaker 15: that conversation.

1990
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

1991
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 2: I every time I see him, and obviously we live

1992
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 2: in close proximity to Bloomington, every time I see him,

1993
01:38:34,320 --> 01:38:38,400
Speaker 2: I am just absolutely astounded at what he can do.

1994
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:41,840
Speaker 2: You know what the other thing, too is it's it's

1995
01:38:41,880 --> 01:38:43,920
Speaker 2: a it's you know, it's it's scheduling. But it's a

1996
01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:46,000
Speaker 2: shame they don't play Ohio State this year. I think

1997
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:47,599
Speaker 2: that would be a great game to see.

1998
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:50,800
Speaker 15: But you know, we'll probably get him Indianapolis and.

1999
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:54,879
Speaker 2: Probably get him in Indianapolis, is right? Absolutely? All right, Benjamin,

2000
01:38:55,120 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 2: it's good to hear your voice again. How are you doing? Otherwise?

2001
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 15: Good and playing Life's good?

2002
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 20: Man?

2003
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 3: We're great.

2004
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 2: Thank you for having who'd listen if you complained? That's

2005
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 2: that's that's what I say. People as me, would any

2006
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,320
Speaker 2: complaints I who listen? Nobody's gonna listen, right, Just put

2007
01:39:10,360 --> 01:39:11,400
Speaker 2: your head down and do your job.

2008
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 15: Would you know what people really love is somebody. It's

2009
01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 15: somebody complaining for hours on it. That's what everybody loves.

2010
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how you doing? And then you just have

2011
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:22,120
Speaker 2: a litany of things that's wrong with you? Watch the

2012
01:39:22,200 --> 01:39:24,680
Speaker 2: other person run the hell away from you? All right, Ben?

2013
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 2: Stay well, we'll be calling. Thanks. I'm on CEA ben

2014
01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 2: Kourchiable cessports dot com. Yeah, next time people say how

2015
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 2: you doing, just unload on them. It's eleven fifty two

2016
01:39:39,240 --> 01:39:44,479
Speaker 2: news Radio, seven hundred WLW, so little do.

2017
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:46,240
Speaker 12: It like you.

2018
01:39:46,439 --> 01:39:53,400
Speaker 2: I'm eagerly anticipating what may transpire in Green Bay later today.

2019
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 2: I don't you know, Again, this is a tough ask

2020
01:39:57,200 --> 01:39:59,559
Speaker 2: for a quarterback to come in, pick up an offense,

2021
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 2: particularly the terminology, and then convert that on the field

2022
01:40:04,439 --> 01:40:08,680
Speaker 2: to meaningful plays and a win particularly you want. It's

2023
01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:13,679
Speaker 2: a team that you just played three weeks ago, albeit

2024
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:19,000
Speaker 2: with a more inferior team in Cleveland, but still to

2025
01:40:19,080 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 2: come back now and do something different, even though you

2026
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 2: have different players around you and better players around you.

2027
01:40:25,920 --> 01:40:28,760
Speaker 2: To ask a quarterback to do that is a really,

2028
01:40:28,840 --> 01:40:33,479
Speaker 2: really tough thing. So again my expectations with Blaco today.

2029
01:40:34,200 --> 01:40:36,160
Speaker 2: He is going to try and get the ball to

2030
01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:40,960
Speaker 2: Chase into Higgins. The Bengals can't run the fall. They

2031
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:43,599
Speaker 2: can't run the ball. They just can't. They're not set

2032
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 2: up to be a running team. This is a past

2033
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 2: team set up in and around Joe Burrow, so they'll

2034
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:52,680
Speaker 2: have to try to run. I don't anticipate it being

2035
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:55,559
Speaker 2: different than any of the last three or four games.

2036
01:40:56,280 --> 01:40:58,240
Speaker 2: They're going to try and get the ball to the

2037
01:40:58,360 --> 01:41:03,000
Speaker 2: Higgins and to Chase and Kyseke and the Yosi Vosh.

2038
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:05,640
Speaker 2: They're going to try and push the ball downfield like

2039
01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:09,160
Speaker 2: this team was constructed to do. But I think to

2040
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:13,559
Speaker 2: do that with only three, maybe four, but certainly three

2041
01:41:13,680 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 2: practices underneath the quarterback's belt who's never been involved in

2042
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:20,160
Speaker 2: this offense before. That is a really, really tough ask.

2043
01:41:21,080 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 2: I've seen it happen, though, yes I have. I'm just

2044
01:41:25,200 --> 01:41:27,800
Speaker 2: not so sure we're going to see it today. Time

2045
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:30,200
Speaker 2: to stand up and salute the greatest country that's ever

2046
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 2: been on the face of this earth. And then Bengals

2047
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Speaker 2: pregame show on seven hundred WLW