WEBVTT - Pre-Game Sports Talk with Ken Broo -- 12/7/25 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.840 Game A news updates. 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:03.560 We've been clear. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.800 If you're working for a designated terrorist organization and you 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.959 bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:11.480 find you and we will sink you. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.560 With nine o'clock report out of Sandy Collins breaking. Now, 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.320 that is Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary, defending the US 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.520 air strikes in September on that suspected drug runner boat 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.960 in the Caribbean, killing the survivors. Later after the initial strike, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.600 speaking at their Reagan National Defense form in Simi Valley, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.040 Hegseth stands by the attacks. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.760 Amid growing accusations of potential war crimes. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.080 I fully support that strike. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.120 Hegseth, standing by the decision of the admiral who ordered 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.520 the subsequent strike, but hesitating when pressed about releasing the video. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.400 So we're viewing the process and we'll see. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.400 But just days ago President Trump told me he would 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.240 release that full video. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.160 At ABC Seleina Wang, that video showing two initial survivors 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.680 clinging to the wreckage, and we're told some forty minutes later, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.040 after a military discussis another strike was ordered and killed 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.199 those two people. The concern is it's against the law 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.520 to kill defenseless survivors, a policy followed by most of 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.040 the world's military. Latest traffic and weather together, no highway 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:14.520 issues to speak about. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.279 The driving conditions little wet roads out there, do be careful. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.200 Here's the lads for gays. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.000 After a foggy start across the tri States and a 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.800 brief window for wintry mix, we'll have mostly cloudy skies 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.120 and warmer temperatures this afternoon than the low forties overnight. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.399 Some left of a more sh could transition to some 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.360 snow flurries into Monday morning. Meanwhile, we're going to be 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.080 cold on Monday in the lower twenties teen Tuesday morning, 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.560 but warm me up by Wednesday with rain chances. From 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.320 your Severe Weather station. I'm nine first one of meteorologist 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.040 kJ Jacobs's video seven hundred WLW. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:47.760 Checking the radar this morning. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.800 We'd you see that wintry mix in southeast Indiana headed 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:51.280 this way. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.600 Right now in Cincinnati, it's kind of cold, thirty two degrees. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.120 The Bengals game day forecast for this afternoon in Buffalo 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.560 built by American Home Tech. The best of starts with 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.560 a strong roof americanhome tack dot com. 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It's a deal worth billions 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.840 of dollars and it's pretty eye opening since just a 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.200 few years ago, Netflix was a company that rented customers 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.239 their DVDs and mailed them to their home. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.840 A new firestorm is erupting over this news. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.639 The Writers Guild Union says the world's largest streaming company 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.919 swallowing one of the biggest competitors is what antitrust laws 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.079 were designed to prevent? 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.040 Entertainment writer Sean McNulty weighs in. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.560 The writers Guild the teamsters have also raised their objections. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.320 The movie theater runners have also raised their objections. 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You 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.920 know these parameters on this The Bengals have to win 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.000 out and then need some help as well. Right now, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.040 in a seven team race for the playoffs, the Bengals 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.640 are currently twelve, but the magic is in the division, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.800 and winning the division is probably, if not exclusively, their 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.760 best way into the playoffs. It begins today in Buffalo 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.520 out of division, but in conference, and of course conference 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.480 tiebreakers are paramount when you get down to who goes 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.920 and who stays home. They play the Bills. The Bills 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.240 are a team that is not the Bills. You may remember. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.080 First of all, they have a number of injuries. Second 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.280 of all, even when they're constructed, the Bills are not 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.320 the same stout team that they were in the last 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.520 few years. But they are good. Buffalo is eight and 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.160 four right now and sitting right now in the seventh 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.920 and final wild card position, two games back in the 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.240 AFC East from the New England Patriots. There's still hope 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.560 for the Bills to catch the Patriots, but that hope 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.360 is based on a win today against the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.440 And as for the Bengals, well, this week they were 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.320 talking to Jamar, and Jamar Chase says, look, we've been here, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.960 we know the way out. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.480 I mean being here before at the end of the day, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.920 so this adversity is not off for some doing it. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.520 You just got to start off better. In the beginning 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.600 of the season to not put ourselves in this position. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.360 But that's water under the proverbial bridge. Today the bridge 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.400 is closely linked to a playoff spot. We'll get into 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.520 more metaphors and things like that as we get close 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.640 to the game time. First, now, college football from last night, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.200 the Big Ten Championship game was one of the old timers. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.080 Final number two thirteen. That's Indiana, Number one Ohio State 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.240 ten three point win for the Hoosiers in the Big 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.680 Ten Championship game. It is Indiana's first Big Ten championship 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:37.320 since nineteen sixty seven. Big plays abound. Charlie Becker stepped 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.160 up big wide receiver from Indiana, had six catches one 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:45.440 hundred and twenty six one hundred and twenty six receiving yards, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.640 including a thirty three yarder on third down that gave 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.680 the Hoosiers new life and kept the clock going late. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.080 The Ohio State did not perform well inside the red zone. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.360 They had a missed twenty seven yard field goal. They 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.560 failed to convert on a fourth in one from the 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:06.240 Indiana five. All that boiled down to an Indiana win 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.320 and undoubtedly a number one seed when the college football 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.840 playoff rankings come out later on today. Here is their 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.560 quarterback and a man that may just be holding the 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.559 Heisman Trophy by this time next week. Here is Fernando 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.760 Mendoza on why this Indiana team is so good, so effective. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.520 I think it's about being process oriented and never being complacent. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.280 For example, when it was when we beat. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.560 Perdue last week fifty six to three, because they came 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:32.319 into Lockerham. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.160 Said, hey, like, it's a great win. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.280 We're propping up the first time in program history. However, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.560 there's a lot there's gonna be a lot of you know, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.440 things on film that we've got to clean up. And 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.920 I think it reverts back to the Stoke philosophy of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.000 the never ending journey of the process and not to 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.600 be complacent. And I think what Aiden said was beautiful 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.880 of you always want to push yourself every single day, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.360 every single play and every single rep act like it's 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.240 the like it's the final play. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:53.440 Of the game. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.320 I like, it's the most important play of the game, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.240 most important play of your life. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.800 And I think that that has. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:03.559 Helped motivate us and propel us forward from games like Oregon, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.120 where yeah we won, but we weren't complacent. We sild 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.840 a lot of clean up on film and the next week. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.160 We try to get better every single week. And I 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.880 think that our whole thing is not really competing against 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.920 the opponent, which it is, but it's really competing against 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.400 ourselves to be the best version of ourselves. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.079 And I think that's why we're so effective. I think 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.120 that's a pretty good assessment. How about the head coach, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.920 Kirk Signetti. Anybody could have had this guy two three 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.840 years ago. He was ready to leave James Madison, where 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.480 he built a winning program. There, my goodness, James Madison 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.319 may be in the playoffs when the rankings come out 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.320 later on today. He knows how big a win this was, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.640 and he knows how big it is for his program. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.600 Well, I don't know. The time will tell. I mean, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.000 it's hard to speculate. I think it gives us a 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.000 lot more. It was another step we needed to take 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.760 as a program. It's a great win obviously, and we're 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.880 gonna go to the playoffs as number one seed, and 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.480 a lot of people probably thought that wasn't possible. But 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.720 when you get the right people and you have a plan, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.360 and they love one and play for one another, and 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.520 they commit anything's possible, and I think that's what you 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:07.240 saw having here. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.560 Now they get a lot of time off to try 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.560 and get ready for the playoffs. They don't even know 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.280 who they're playing yet. There will be games played before 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.800 Indiana's next game, and the same thing for Ohio State. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.520 Last night's loss was not devastating. Surprising in some ways, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.080 but not devastating. The first loss of this season for 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.880 the bug guys, and they have to regroup and they 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.960 have a lot of time off. They'll most probably be 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.520 the number two seed now heading into the college football 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.520 playoff and Ryan Day knows, Look, a loss is a loss, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.800 but this one last night was particularly hard. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.679 This is a major lesson for this team is that, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.800 you know, it can come down to one play or 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.000 two plays or three plays that decide a game like this, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.000 and so you know, this is a tough lesson to learn. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.000 But you know, we have to be more efficient across 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.920 the board. It can't just be you know, us doing 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.280 our job once or twice, you know, or three times. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.440 I mean, it's gonna be every single time. And that 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.800 didn't happen. And that starts with the coaching and then 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:04.440 goes from there. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.120 Started with the coaching and then went from there, and 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.480 the big plays simply weren't there for Ohio State like 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.920 they were up till almost every game till last night, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.400 just simply weren't there. We talked about the breakdown inside 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.000 the red zone, played the Ohio State big last night, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.120 the missfield goal to tie the game late in the 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.360 fourth quarter. Obviously that played into a strategy in a 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.760 three point game, but there were other plays along the 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.800 way that they could not convert, and so afterwards the 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:36.160 Buckeyes were beginning were left to wonder exactly what happened 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.480 and what to do now. Like I said, they have 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.040 not this is not new terf for them. They were 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.360 in this position last year and they rallied to win 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.520 a national championship. Wide receiver Brandon Innis. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.560 Honestly, I'm not sure, you know. I gotta watch the 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.240 film and see everything. But we just didn't play the 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:56.240 best for our abilities to night. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:57.040 And we know that. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.560 We know we couldn't turn the ball over. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.840 That was on me and I take full responsibility for that, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.240 and now we'll go get it right now. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.680 I thought the quarterback Julian Sayan played very well. I 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.840 thought the defense got dragged up and down the field, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.960 and I didn't think that was all that typical for 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.480 Ohio State. You know, you do get to games where 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.640 it's just one of those nights. And quite frankly, this 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.000 was the game everybody inside the Big Ten was looking 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.000 forward to. Both both teams' fan bases were looking forward 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.600 to it. They didn't play in the regular season. They 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.360 may play again now in the playoffs, who knows, But 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.880 this was the game really, not just inside the Big Ten, 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.360 but all through college football in the last month and 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.760 a half that just about everybody wanted to see. And 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.360 we got a good one last night, a really good one. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.920 But now, like Kurt Signetti, who goes back to Bloomington 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.680 with his team and tries to do a couple of things. One, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.120 get it ready for an opponent that it doesn't even 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.520 know at this point, and also tamp down expectations, because 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.640 the last thing you want anything for a football team 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.600 at this time of the year is to get cocky. Meanwhile, 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.200 on the playing trip back to Columbus, sure Ryan Day 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.720 was already starting to strategize as to what to do next, 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.800 not just for whomever his team will play, like Indiana, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.160 he has no idea at this point, but what he 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.400 can do to self scout and make sure that whatever 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.440 plagued his team last night doesn't plague his team in 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.480 the next game, which will be in the playoffs. Here's 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:24.960 day on what's next. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.320 We got to get back and figure out, you know, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.600 you know why that happened, what the issues were, and 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.480 you know, get it fixed, because you know, the season's 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.440 not over. Got a lot of football ahead of us, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.960 and hopefully we can use this as a way to 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.840 get better as we head into the playoffs. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.120 Joy can do at this point, and that's all they 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.120 will be doing until after the first round of the 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.680 playoffs and then they know who the opponent will be again. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.520 Thirteen ten final Number two Indiana beats number one Ohio State. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.400 Expect them to flip flop in the college football rankings. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.560 Later on this morning, in the SEC Championship game, Number 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:04.440 three Georgia played number nine Alabama and pretty much throttled Alabama. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.520 Twenty eight to seven was the final. In this game. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.680 Georgia is now twelve and one. Alabama is ten and three, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:15.200 teetering at the bottom of the college football Top twelve. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.040 We really don't know at this point whether or not 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.080 they will be in and quite frankly, after what transpired 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.440 last night in the ACC Championship game, and what transpired 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.200 in a couple of other Group of five conference championship games, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.840 it may be another playoff without the Alabama Crimson. Time 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.879 we'll see Gunnar Stockton the George quarterback. Twenty of twenty six, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.480 one hundred and fifty six yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.840 Georgia simply controlled this game. Time of possession the Dogs 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.040 thirty minute, thirty six minutes fifty two seconds, Alabama just 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.560 twenty three minutes and eight seconds of clock time. Georgia 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.720 wins the SEC championship game. Could there be a playoff 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:05.240 without an ACC champion? If just Maywhite might happen. Duke 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.600 twenty seven, number seventeen Virginia twenty that was the final 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.120 in the ACC Championship game last night. Duke is eight 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.720 and five. Duke wins its first outright ACC championship since 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:22.160 nineteen sixty two. Darien Menza to Jeremiah Halsey, a one 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:27.320 yard touchdown run on a fourth down overtime play was 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.000 what won this for Duke twenty seven to twenty in overtime. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.359 But it could very well mean nothing could mean that 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.000 Duke simply is an inn the college football playoff. The 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.360 coach says, how can you not put a Power five 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.280 conference champion in or not or leave them out of 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.639 the playoffs? Very easy? Your team isn't one of the 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.000 top twelve teams in the country. Congratulations on winning your 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:48.960 conference championship. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:49.240 Eight. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.480 You're eight and five In the Big Twelve championship game, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:19:00.359 Texas Tech throttled BYU thirty four to seven. This was 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:04.760 a great quote after the game. Texas Tech is probably 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:10.080 the richest nil driven team in college football. They have 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:15.200 a roster that's somewhere around twenty eight million dollars. It's 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.760 the new way of college football. You may not like it. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.159 A lot of people don't like it. And I understand 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:26.840 the collegiency of college football has been extracted with nil. You're, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.960 in essence the old Seinfeld line. You're rooting for the 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:35.480 uniforms because the players change almost on a yearly basis. Nevertheless, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.240 twenty eight million dollars goes into that Texas Tech football 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.440 roster and it translates into a thirty four to seven 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.879 win over BYU. Great line after this game. Senior linebacker 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:52.919 Jacob Rodriguez, he is a candidate for the Nigersky Award. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.160 He said, if we're going to buy a team, this 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.480 is his quote, If we're going to buy a team, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.760 why not heee the best imagine saying that in college 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:07.040 football even ten years ago, Bringham Young had two hundred 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.960 total yards in this game. They were never in it. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.520 There were two interceptions and two fumbles lost. This loss 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.560 probably knocks BYU out of the college football rankings. It should. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.320 They were number eleven out of twelve, and I don't 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.040 see how this keeps them in the final tally. Texas 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.240 is going to make a case for itself despite three losses. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.399 They're thirteen going into this. Vanderbilt had a terrific season. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.119 They are probably going to be left out. And the 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:41.600 other big consideration here is what about Miami? What about 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.440 Notre Dame? Who despite the fact that each piece together 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.360 decent seasons, were at the back end of the latest 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.639 college football rankings that came out last Tuesday night. The 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.000 only one that counts comes out at noon today. So 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:56.800 I think at noon today, what you're going to get 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:03.600 is Indiana one, Ohio State two, Georgia three, Texas Tech four, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:09.480 Oregon five, and then it'll go from there. Meanwhile, in 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.040 the MAC Championship Game, Miami in it and playing in 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.680 it because of just the tie breakers that exist inside 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:21.280 the MAAC them a in American Conference. Toledo beat Miami 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.840 had the same conference record, did not go. Ohio University 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.360 beat Miami had the same conference record, it did not go, 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.920 but because of record against common opponents, Miami winds up 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.439 winning its half of the MAC. Yesterday, it played in 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.840 the MAC Championship Game and Western Michigan with the win 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:45.399 twenty three to thirteen. Cam Perry seven receptions, one hundred 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:51.359 and one yards for Miami. Terrific game. Western Michigan put 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.400 up two hundred and eighty six rushing yards in Miami 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.520 only rushed for seventy three. In a large sense, that 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.600 was the difference in the game. Miami is still going 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.240 to a bowl game, and like all the other teams 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.320 outside of the College Football Playoff, we'll find out later 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:11.439 today or tonight what bowlgame Miami is going to, but 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.400 Miami will go to a bowl game after another terrific 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.719 season of coaching for Chuck Martin. I said this earlier 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.639 this week and I'll reiterate it again today. He's the 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.760 best coach in the MAC. His teams are always overscheduled 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:27.800 at the early part of the season. They'll take the 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.080 check from the game against the opponent from the bigger conference. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.719 They probably win one of those games and then position 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.159 themselves to win the MAC because of what they do 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.800 in those first three weeks. It's the same Chuck Martin 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:44.399 script that's been written every single season, and I fully 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:46.879 expect Miami to whatever Bowl game it goes to, to 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.760 play really really well. Didn't work out for him yesterday, 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:56.760 Western Michigan twenty three, Miami thirteen. Today is a monumental 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:00.320 day for the Cincinnati Bengals. They have any hope of 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:04.400 going to the playoff, any smidgeon of hope, they have 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:06.760 to win today. 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I'm reading ESPN dot com on this 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:35.240 you could get a final twelve that includes James Madison, 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:39.840 the Sunbelt champ and the American Conference champ two lane. 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:43.920 In fact, the way they've got this scoped out right now, 0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:49.520 Indiana would play the Notre Dame Oklahoma winner at Ohio 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:52.520 State would play the Alabama, Texas A and M winner. 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.320 But you could have a scenario today where you not 0:28:56.440 --> 0:29:01.160 only do not get the ACC champion in there, the 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:05.840 Duke Blue Devils, you may not get an ACC team 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:10.360 period in the College football playoff. Stay tuned. The selection 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:13.760 show begins afternoon. We'll know probably by twelve fifteen, twelve 0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:17.040 thirty exactly who is in The Bengals need a win today. 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:19.000 They need to win in every single one of their 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:22.400 games that's left, and then hope that a certain amount 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:26.440 of things fall right this scenario that, oh, well they 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:29.200 can afford one win, they can afford to lose one 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:31.520 of those five No, no, no, no, no no. You 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:36.360 never bank on an eight win team in a seventeen 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:40.520 game schedule getting into the playoffs, regardless of how underperforming 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:44.720 your conference, I'm sorry, your division may be. And Zach 0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:48.440 Taylor knows that, he also knows this. You can't start 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:50.760 looking ahead, Well, what about that Miami game? 0:29:50.840 --> 0:29:50.920 Now? 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:54.240 If you get by Baltimore next week, you can't. It's 0:29:54.280 --> 0:29:57.800 a cliche, but Taylor knows. You got to take these 0:29:57.840 --> 0:29:58.920 things week by week. 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:01.440 The preaching to the whole team right now, it doesn't 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:02.920 matter what we did last week. We got to keep 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:06.240 doing it over and over again. And so we can't 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:08.240 just assume because we did some good things on Thursday 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:09.640 night that that's gonna curry for Sunday. 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:11.000 I guys understand that. 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:13.320 I think that's why we've always kind of been strong 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:15.000 later in the season. Our guys have had a great 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:17.360 approach to that, and this year's like new year, and 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.480 we're gonna have to dos to the same approach exactly. 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:24.920 A football season is in seventeen games. Football is seventeen 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:30.440 individual seasons, and the latest season begins here about one o'clock. 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:34.560 We'll be back next. Bill Benders Sportingnews dot Com on 0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:37.520 the Bengals, Bills and what lies ahead now for the 0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:41.120 college football Playoff. You're listening to the RNL Carriers pregame 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:44.840 Show presented by your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota Dealers 0:30:45.160 --> 0:30:50.000 on ESPN fifteen thirty and seven hundred, WLW. 0:30:50.280 --> 0:30:55.200 News Traffic and winn This is a game day news update. 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:01.080 Getting mixed signals from Vladimir Putin. This is the nine 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:04.400 point thirty report. I'm Sandy Collins breaking now. This is 0:31:04.440 --> 0:31:07.479 coming as the US works to end years of fighting 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:12.560 over Ukraine. Yesterday another huge attack by Russia. Ukraine reports 0:31:12.560 --> 0:31:16.520 its military complex, energy facilities and ports were targeted by 0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:20.680 the Russians with hundreds of drones. ABC's Danny New on 0:31:20.760 --> 0:31:23.120 the peace talks held in Florida this weekend. 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:26.080 A White House official tells ABC News President Trump, Special 0:31:26.160 --> 0:31:28.760 Envoy Steve Witcoff and Trump's son in law Jared Kushner 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.520 met with Ukrainian officials in Miami. The two sides agree 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.720 on a framework for security guarantees, agreements, and necessary deterrents, 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.720 capabilities they say could lead to a quote lasting piece. 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:40.320 The White House also confirms a two hour call between 0:31:40.360 --> 0:31:43.440 Presidents Lensky, Witcoff, and Kushner earlier in the week. Putin 0:31:43.480 --> 0:31:46.200 met with Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow, that meeting lasting 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:48.960 nearly five hours, the President describing it as a quote 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:49.480 good meeting. 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:51.120 He would like to end the work this with the 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:52.560 net quiz the impression. 0:31:52.800 --> 0:31:57.160 Danny New, ABC News New York, Traffick and Weather together 0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:59.440 here on the big one. We found out yesterday that 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:03.520 the two seventy five westbound lanes will be opened up 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:06.800 over the Combeshail Bridge on New Year's Eve as a 0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:09.239 matter of fact, and then another few months before they 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:11.680 open the eastbound lanes. But that's some good news. Right now, 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:13.400 the highways are moving without delays. 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:15.280 Here's the Ladies forecast. 0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:18.520 Most of the cloudy's guys will continue into the afternoon. 0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:21.040 Temperatures will warm up. We may even carve out some 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:23.800 sunshine now. We will still have that slight chance for 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:28.680 rain today overnight, some snow flurries possible into early Monday morning, 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:32.080 staying cold all day Monday. We'll have a brief warm 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:34.920 up Wednesday with heights in the low mid forties, but 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:37.600 the chances of rain will be with us on Wednesday. 0:32:37.880 --> 0:32:40.000 From your Severe Weather station, I'm nine first one of 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:44.760 meteorologists kJ Jacobs. He's radio seven hundred WLWU. 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:47.120 Radar shows that wintry mix that kJ has been talking about. 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:50.360 It is moving into the Tri State area at this 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:54.960 hour right now, temperatures thirty two degrees. Our Bengals game 0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:57.520 day forecast is built by American Home Tech. The best 0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:00.000 defense starts with a strong roof of American Home Tech 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:04.160 going to be snowy in Buffalo today with temperatures around 0:33:04.480 --> 0:33:05.880 thirty degrees at game time. 0:33:06.160 --> 0:33:07.840 Kick off is at one o'clock. 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I think third quarter, 0:37:34.400 --> 0:37:38.200 five point Bengal lead, and in the waiting seconds of 0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:43.360 that third quarter, andre Yosi vash twenty nine yard reception 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:46.000 from Joe Burrow turned it into a twelve point game 0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:49.800 and the Bengals never looked back. That is our delivery 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:54.760 of the week. Today, it's the Bills. It's one o'clock, 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.360 it's snowing in Buffalo. What would you expect in December? 0:37:57.719 --> 0:38:01.319 Bengals in a must win situation. Last night, as we 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:06.160 have mentioned earlier, terrific Big Ten Championship game. I don't 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:09.080 think anybody thought point total would be twenty three, but 0:38:09.160 --> 0:38:11.120 yet it was. And if it was that low of 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:13.279 a scoring game, I think most people would have said, well, 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:16.919 the Ohio State defense carried the day. Their defense wasn't 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:19.880 bad at all, but Indianas was better. And now what 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:23.960 standing by as a man of great import, someone who 0:38:24.040 --> 0:38:28.600 understands the game of football at all levels, high school, college, professional, 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:32.000 he is handing out a major piece of hardware this 0:38:32.040 --> 0:38:36.040 week O Weekend, the Bronco Nigersky Award. Of course, who 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:40.000 could forget Bronco Nigersky, one of the building blocks of football, 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:44.080 college or otherwise, and a man who was revered nationwide 0:38:44.239 --> 0:38:48.279 for his knowledge of football. Let's bring in from Sportingnews 0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:52.960 dot Com at Ohio University here now, Bill Bender, how 0:38:53.000 --> 0:38:54.600 are you on this glorious Sunday? 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:58.000 Hey, Ken, thanks for having me on. How are you? 0:38:58.280 --> 0:39:00.960 I'm well? First things first, that's the most important thing 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:03.800 of the day. What's happening with the Ohio University head coach? 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:05.880 What is going on in Athens? 0:39:06.760 --> 0:39:10.080 Yeah, this is a bizarre situation certainly and hopefully gets 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:14.080 straightened out. I mean, obviously you know not to deflect, 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:17.200 but you know, seeing Western Michigan win the MAC Championship. 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:20.040 That was a good accomplishment for them. I'm hoping the 0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:23.600 Bobcats can get back to that next season. You know, 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:27.680 obviously a lot of yeah, you know, like I said, 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:31.000 a lot of weird reports coming out of there, and hopefully. 0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:35.720 He just disappeared. He just disappeared. I mean, nobody, nobody, 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:39.040 certainly nobody's talking. It is bizarre. But as you and 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:42.640 I both know from firsthand experience, the words athens and 0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:46.520 bizarre are not often separated. They often intertwined quite a bit. 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:47.560 Uh. 0:39:48.200 --> 0:39:50.319 Indiana thirteen Ohio State ten. 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:51.239 Uh. 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:53.480 You watched this game. I watched this game. It's the 0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:56.600 first Big ten championship outright for Indiana's in sixty seven. 0:39:56.840 --> 0:40:02.480 I thought Indiana's defense was terrific. They got fortuitous with 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.239 the missed field goal by Ohio State, but there were 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:08.200 big plays by the Indiana defense, and there was certainly 0:40:08.200 --> 0:40:11.160 a big play on that fourth and less than the 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:15.640 yard inside the Ohio State five yard inside the Indiana 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:18.360 five yard line where they stopped Ohio State on Saints 0:40:18.640 --> 0:40:21.680 quarterback sneak. I thought the difference in this game was 0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:25.880 Indiana's defense and considering how good Ohio's defense. Ohio State's 0:40:25.880 --> 0:40:29.600 defense is I thought that was kind of surprising to me. 0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:30.399 What about you? 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:37.359 Yeah, and getting the fourth down. Obviously, Indiana has guys. 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:39.480 I mean, we did our All American meeting last week, 0:40:39.520 --> 0:40:41.759 and you know that's not revealed for a couple of weeks, 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:44.839 but there are several candidates from that defense, guys like 0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:49.200 Aiden Fisher and D'Angelo Ponds. And I was wondering myself 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:51.480 coming into the game, Okay, what's going to be different 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.279 than last year? I watched Ohio State beat them by 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:57.960 three touchdowns last year with you know, clearly it's continuity. 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:01.520 I mean, I was impressed with how they just shut 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:04.919 down Ohio State's running game and made it made life 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:07.080 difficult for an offense that hadn't faced a lot of 0:41:07.080 --> 0:41:08.080 difficulty this year. 0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:09.200 So uh. 0:41:09.239 --> 0:41:12.120 And then Fernando Mendoza, you know, his numbers weren't like 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:15.840 up the charts, but he didn't mess it up. He 0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:18.000 made sure as he needed And I wasn't sure he's 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:20.040 gonna get off the turf after that first hit by 0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:20.800 Cayden Curry. 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:24.880 I wasn't either, and he said that there was no 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:27.480 way on God's green earth that he wasn't getting off 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:30.360 the artificial green earth on that one. He's he's a 0:41:30.440 --> 0:41:36.799 he's a tough kid. Do you think Mendoza solidified his 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:39.520 chances for the Heisman or do you think he is 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:41.520 still a long not a long shot, but not one 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:45.440 of the favorites for the Heisman. Next week, I think 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:46.000 he'll win it. 0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:48.520 I think I don't think it's a little bit of 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:53.000 a muddled race. I do think it'll come down to 0:41:53.080 --> 0:41:57.200 probably him and Diego Paviat Vanderbilt, Diego pragg get a 0:41:57.239 --> 0:41:59.399 good chunk of the Southern boat. I'm gonna fill out 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:01.800 my ballot. I typically do it tomorrow morning, once the 0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:07.640 emotion of the weekend wears off, but I would say Mendoza, 0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:10.480 Pavia and then a couple other guys that will be 0:42:10.480 --> 0:42:12.759 in the mix and be like Jeremiah Love, I love 0:42:12.840 --> 0:42:15.600 Jacob Rodriguez, the linebacker for Texas Tech. I don't know 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:19.960 if the linebacker can win it, but he's as good 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:21.520 as linebacker as you can possibly see. 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:24.680 Yeah. He also had the quote of the weekend. I 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:26.839 don't know if you saw this, but he said, if 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:29.600 we're going to buy a team, why not be the best. 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:33.520 They have a twenty eight million dollar roster at Texas Tech. Now, 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:35.839 I know there's big oil money down there, and there's 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:38.520 great among Texas Tech and for that matter, Texas A 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:43.480 and M alumni. There's great motivation to outspend and out 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:46.680 do the University of Texas at any turn. Twenty eight 0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:50.440 million dollars to put a roster together. Bill, This is crazy, 0:42:50.520 --> 0:42:52.920 but that's exactly where it is. And I would imagine 0:42:52.960 --> 0:42:55.080 that twenty eight million goes a hell of a lot 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:57.400 farther up the scale next year, don't. 0:42:57.200 --> 0:43:00.839 You I do too well. I mean, you could argue 0:43:00.880 --> 0:43:03.239 that it paid off because they won the Big twelve 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:07.120 championship and they are in position to make a run 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.399 in the playoffs, and everybody's going to be talking about 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:11.279 this bracket here in a couple hours. I think the 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:15.080 way it's going to situate is Ohio State will priorrupt 0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:18.120 the three, so I mean Texas Tech will be number four, 0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:22.440 and then you know, if the chalk holds, which didn't 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:26.400 last year but it might, you would theoretically get Indiana 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:28.680 Texas Tech on one side, and then Georgia Ohio State 0:43:28.719 --> 0:43:31.439 on the other. So, whether it's Indiana or Texas Tech, 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:35.319 if they take care of their business. One of those 0:43:35.320 --> 0:43:38.000 schools could be playing for national championship, and then at 0:43:38.000 --> 0:43:41.680 that point it's sustainable that it was money well spent. 0:43:41.760 --> 0:43:44.000 I guess. I mean, I don't throw that kind of 0:43:44.000 --> 0:43:47.200 money around, but I don't run a college football program either. 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:50.120 Yeah. I mean, if it does fall that way, you 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:52.680 could get in the final Ohio State, Indiana you got 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:54.080 a rematch in the final, right. 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.319 It very well could and or you know, the team 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:02.080 that I think is going to get into that actually 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:05.160 be wrong because one of them has to get squeezed 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:08.359 out between Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama. And the way 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.640 we did it at Sporting News, I put Notre Dame in, 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:13.520 Miami in. If they put Alabama in over one of 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:15.360 those schools, I'm not going to say, oh boy, I 0:44:15.480 --> 0:44:19.080 was wrong, because it would just mean I was dumb 0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:23.040 because I didn't believe that they would give Alabama preferential treatment. 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:23.839 Again, you know what I mean. 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:28.239 They all three have an argument. I understand it, but 0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:32.120 I know how committees work, and sometimes they take the 0:44:32.880 --> 0:44:35.759 compromise and they get Miami and acc team in, they 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:39.040 get Notre Dame in, and they penalize Alabama a little 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:40.520 bit for getting beat by three touchdown. 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:43.440 What if they squeeze the ACC. I mean there's a 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:46.440 real case for both James Madison and two lane, And 0:44:46.520 --> 0:44:49.640 in fact, some brackets this morning have James Madison in 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:51.360 two lane, twelve and eleven. 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:56.280 I think they'll be the five highest rank conference champion. 0:44:56.400 --> 0:44:59.279 So the squeeze, that's why I think Miami is going 0:44:59.320 --> 0:44:59.839 to get in. 0:45:00.920 --> 0:45:03.800 At Alabama at Alabama's expense, is what you're saying. 0:45:05.760 --> 0:45:08.560 And I think that's the politics of this playoff, you 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:11.000 know what I mean, Like, yes, the ACC might not 0:45:11.160 --> 0:45:15.200 have a team in a couple takeaways from that, ken 0:45:15.560 --> 0:45:20.120 One probably should revise the tiebreaker scenarios to make sure 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:23.680 like they can't have a five lost spoiler. Again, Miami 0:45:23.680 --> 0:45:26.239 probably should have been playing in that a SEC championship game. 0:45:26.920 --> 0:45:30.759 Two conference championships got to go. I've said it. I 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:33.280 liked the weekend. It's not that I don't like watching 0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:36.680 more football, it's they just don't. They don't pair well 0:45:37.080 --> 0:45:41.600 with this playoff because yeah, Alabama will have an argument. 0:45:41.640 --> 0:45:44.920 They'll be like, well, we just won't play in it 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:47.040 because if it's going to cost us a playoff first, 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:49.880 and there's some validity to that too. So my solution 0:45:49.960 --> 0:45:52.640 is pretty simple. Let's go to sixteen, get rid of 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:56.440 the conference championship games, play the first two rounds on campus, 0:45:56.960 --> 0:46:01.240 and then go from there. Make your product as compelling 0:46:01.280 --> 0:46:04.160 as possible. There's a league that plays today that does 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:04.920 that pretty well. 0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:09.000 Yes, it does. The other option is if you if 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:13.440 you're insistent upon playing these conference championship games because they 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.120 are money makers, that's the reason why the conferences have 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.520 gone to these in the first place, then why not 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:24.680 give the team in your conference a buy and they 0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:27.600 don't play in the championship game, and you have your 0:46:27.640 --> 0:46:30.919 second and third place teams play in these championship games 0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:33.600 or call them whatever you want, and in essence, what 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:38.480 they're playing for is either a playoff ranking somebody in 0:46:38.520 --> 0:46:40.799 the field of twelve, or they're playing for the next 0:46:40.920 --> 0:46:43.120 highest bowl game that they can get into. But you 0:46:43.239 --> 0:46:47.919 exempt your best team, so your best team represents you 0:46:47.960 --> 0:46:49.920 in the field of twelve. What about that theory? 0:46:50.800 --> 0:46:53.160 You know, when I first heard this, I thought it 0:46:53.200 --> 0:46:56.839 was absurd, but now it's starting to make more sense. 0:46:57.800 --> 0:46:59.920 If you want, if you really want money on this week, 0:47:00.360 --> 0:47:02.680 you know, play a three, six and a four or 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.320 five game and four Big Ten teams get in. Tony 0:47:05.440 --> 0:47:09.160 TD actually might have a decent idea there, I just 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:14.480 but I still don't. Here's what I would just take 0:47:14.520 --> 0:47:17.440 the top sixteen at the end of the regular season. 0:47:17.840 --> 0:47:19.960 If if it's a year where the ACC is down 0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:22.040 and they only have one, so be it. You know, 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:22.719 like this year. 0:47:22.880 --> 0:47:23.480 If it's. 0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:27.279 A year where the Big Ten has three or six, 0:47:27.880 --> 0:47:30.440 we can move it around. But you can't tell me 0:47:30.480 --> 0:47:33.080 when you look at the final sixteen teams in the 0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:37.719 rankings today versus what the playoff is and you're gonna say, man, 0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:39.680 that one would be better. You know, you would get 0:47:39.719 --> 0:47:41.960 Texas and you would get Miami in. You would have 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:45.560 an incentive. Much like I always say, Ken Ohio High School, 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:48.719 the way that they do their their high school playoffs 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:51.799 pretty good. I like the computer system. It rewards you 0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:55.240 for stepping up and it doesn't penalize you for playing 0:47:55.239 --> 0:47:55.880 the tough schedule. 0:47:55.920 --> 0:47:59.120 It's right exactly. I've always been a big proponent of that. 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:02.839 Another level outside of high school football. Bill Bendersportingnews dot 0:48:02.840 --> 0:48:06.560 Com our guest. We got a massive game from the 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:10.640 Bengals standpoint today in Buffalo. They have to win. The 0:48:10.719 --> 0:48:13.200 Bills are a team that has been giving the ball 0:48:13.239 --> 0:48:15.520 away quite a bit over the last four weeks. It's 0:48:15.520 --> 0:48:18.880 supposed to be cold and snowy, snow to some extent 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:22.600 in Buffalo. Buffalo needs this game because they still think 0:48:22.640 --> 0:48:24.920 and they still do have a shot at catching New 0:48:24.960 --> 0:48:28.799 England for the AFC East title. I'm just wondering your 0:48:28.880 --> 0:48:31.600 thoughts of a Bengals team backed up against the wall, 0:48:31.680 --> 0:48:35.160 but with Joe Burrow back against a Buffalo team that 0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:39.440 always plays well at home that's had trouble controlling the football. 0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:42.360 What do you think on this one today? 0:48:42.400 --> 0:48:46.719 Anything goes Buffalo. I kind of as I've watched them 0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:51.680 this season when they're home run swing the super Bowl, 0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:54.480 but they're just very inconsistent, like you said, and Joe 0:48:54.480 --> 0:48:56.440 Burrow trying to lead this run as they play like 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:58.680 they did against the Ravens, that will be interesting. You've 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:00.840 had the upper hand in the game against the Bills 0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:06.120 to this point. It's an opportunity for certain whether the 0:49:06.239 --> 0:49:07.960 able weather plays a role in that. The last time 0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:09.799 they played there in the weather it didn't matter at all. 0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:12.920 So if the defense holds up on the back end 0:49:13.120 --> 0:49:16.080 and Joe Burrow continues to do what Joe Burrow does. 0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:19.360 He will be making an appearance in a list I 0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:22.160 have coming later this week. It's a big debate in 0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:24.680 the Sporting News office. We ranked the last twenty five 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:27.759 Heisman winners since two thousand and you know, there's a 0:49:28.040 --> 0:49:31.239 considerable back and forth between Burrow and Cam Newton in 0:49:31.239 --> 0:49:35.680 twenty ten. I've always leaned Burrow, but there's a lot 0:49:35.719 --> 0:49:37.080 of people picking Cam on that one. 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:40.920 Are you doing body of work or just like best season? 0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:45.240 How are you doing that the best Heisman Trophy season? 0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:47.840 And you know you got a factor of the playoff 0:49:47.920 --> 0:49:54.960 in right, because I had six thousand yards. His college 0:49:55.080 --> 0:49:58.319 Heisman year stats are literally insane if you really look 0:49:58.320 --> 0:49:59.520 at him. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:08.319 Yeah, wow, yeah, I mean absolutely, Cam Newton was was phenomenal. 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:11.040 I don't think that you're you know that that's that's 0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:13.120 the start of the great debate. You're only going back 0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:15.839 twenty five years. You're going back to ninety, right, You're 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:19.440 going back to ninety on this right, two thousand. 0:50:19.640 --> 0:50:22.919 So we got that's why we're already twenty five years 0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:25.960 into this somehow. So we had some fun with it, 0:50:26.040 --> 0:50:28.600 and you know, there's a lot of good players on 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:29.120 that list. 0:50:29.239 --> 0:50:30.479 You know, you go back and. 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:32.960 Look, Carson Palmer's on that list. 0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:37.000 A lot of Lincoln Riley quarterback and US quarterback. Yeah, 0:50:37.040 --> 0:50:40.280 it's a fun list, but you know, Newton and Burrow 0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:43.759 will generate a lot of discussion. I think Fernando ultimately 0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:48.160 will probably join that list. But just never know, this 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:50.960 is a This isn't quite as open and shut as 0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:52.560 it was with Travis Hunter last year. 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:53.799 No, it's not. 0:50:54.360 --> 0:50:58.440 And to be honest with you, you're talking about I mean, 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:00.560 if you're going to line up numbers and who did what? 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:05.560 I mean, you're you know, Tim Tebow's numbers weren't outstanding, 0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:11.120 but it was his sophomore year. But nobody could nobody 0:51:11.160 --> 0:51:14.080 could deny the fact that that guy was one of 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.600 the great leaders of a team in the last twenty 0:51:17.640 --> 0:51:21.200 five years. Troy Smith, my gosh, what great numbers for 0:51:21.320 --> 0:51:24.640 him back in twenty oh twenty oh six, I believe, 0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:29.400 I mean there's but I mean again, and Carson Palmer, 0:51:29.480 --> 0:51:32.200 who might have been the most accurate quarterback of the 0:51:32.280 --> 0:51:36.080 last twenty five years, to me, would be somebody that 0:51:36.160 --> 0:51:39.319 I think would merit strong consideration. But you have some 0:51:39.360 --> 0:51:41.480 other guys in there maybe that you know, it was 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:43.919 a lean year and they wound up as the guy. 0:51:44.160 --> 0:51:47.560 But we'll see. I'll look forward to that, and I'll 0:51:47.600 --> 0:51:49.279 look forward to what you're putting together here at the 0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:52.120 end of this week too. But Bill Bender, tomorrow night, 0:51:52.160 --> 0:51:55.480 good luck. You're handing out the Nagursky Award, of which 0:51:55.719 --> 0:51:57.640 the man that we talked about just a few minutes ago, 0:51:57.760 --> 0:52:00.879 Jacob Rodriguez from Texas Tech, could very well beholding it. 0:52:01.160 --> 0:52:04.719 Do you have your tuxedo, do you have your introduction speech? 0:52:04.760 --> 0:52:06.880 You're gonna tell some jokes or do you just get 0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:09.080 on and get off the stage? How does that work? 0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:11.560 We'll find out tomorrow. 0:52:11.560 --> 0:52:13.759 I bet we have the meeting tonight. When I get 0:52:13.760 --> 0:52:16.399 into Charlotte, I do have a tuxedo. It does fit. 0:52:16.920 --> 0:52:19.000 I am one of those guys that gets out of 0:52:19.040 --> 0:52:22.479 it as soon as possible, though, like it's I gotta 0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:24.440 get it, you know, get in my warm up pants 0:52:24.440 --> 0:52:27.040 and get ready to go to watch. But no, it's 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:29.280 an honor to do it. I really appreciate you mentioning 0:52:29.280 --> 0:52:31.799 and and I don't get nervous. I'll have a lot 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:34.760 of fun tomorrow down in Charlotte. Brian Bossworth, the keynote speaker, 0:52:34.800 --> 0:52:36.640 he could play a little bit of linebacker two by 0:52:36.680 --> 0:52:37.120 the way. 0:52:37.120 --> 0:52:39.399 You could that's a man that's calmed down later in life. 0:52:39.400 --> 0:52:42.160 What what what? What work? Can we see you? Where 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:44.760 is this available? Is available on some sort of channels 0:52:44.800 --> 0:52:46.200 at ESPN. What does it avail all? 0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:48.360 I think it's being streamed. 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:52.320 I know Adam Zuper is the MC, so you know, 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:54.279 I don't know the answer to that, but I'm sure 0:52:54.719 --> 0:52:58.120 hopefully if I get that, I'll send it to you 0:52:58.200 --> 0:52:59.560 and maybe you can share with your listeners. 0:52:59.560 --> 0:53:00.000 That'd be great. 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:03.080 I have a team on this immediately, I was just told. 0:53:03.120 --> 0:53:04.840 So we'll find out here in the next few minutes. 0:53:04.960 --> 0:53:08.239 Bill bendersportingnews dot Com with some big stuff coming out 0:53:08.239 --> 0:53:10.520 at the end of the week. Bill, thanks for your time, stay. 0:53:10.320 --> 0:53:13.120 Well, hey anytime. Ken, Thanks for having me. 0:53:13.520 --> 0:53:17.239 Bet So that's it. 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I fully support that strike, 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:06.440 except standing by the decision of the admiral who ordered 1:01:06.440 --> 1:01:10.840 the subsequent strike. But hesitating when pressed about releasing the video. 1:01:11.080 --> 1:01:12.720 So' reviewing the process and we'll see. 1:01:12.840 --> 1:01:15.720 But just days ago President Trump told me he would 1:01:15.760 --> 1:01:17.280 release that full video. 1:01:18.040 --> 1:01:20.480 And of course the concern is that it is against 1:01:20.520 --> 1:01:24.480 international law to kill defenseless survivors, a policy followed by 1:01:24.600 --> 1:01:27.760 most of the world's military. 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Well, there's nobody, 1:07:11.160 --> 1:07:15.040 or was nobody hotter last week than quarterback bow Knicks 1:07:15.440 --> 1:07:19.800 the Denver Broncos twenty seven to twenty six win at Washington. 1:07:19.960 --> 1:07:23.800 Bow was twenty nine and forty five for three hundred 1:07:23.840 --> 1:07:28.080 and twenty one yards and an interception. There is only 1:07:28.200 --> 1:07:32.440 one team hotter than his Denver Broncos, who have now 1:07:32.560 --> 1:07:37.120 won nine nine in a row and lead that AFC 1:07:37.320 --> 1:07:40.840 West by two. Nine in a row for the Broncos 1:07:41.200 --> 1:07:43.919 not quite as good as ten in a row. That's 1:07:43.960 --> 1:07:47.960 where the New England Patriots sit. Ten wins in a row. 1:07:48.080 --> 1:07:51.520 For the Patriots, they lead the AFC East by two games. 1:07:51.600 --> 1:07:54.760 That's what the Bills are trying to catch. Patriots have 1:07:54.840 --> 1:07:58.680 the week off, they have a late season by As 1:07:58.800 --> 1:08:01.400 for the Bengals today, well here's the key. They got 1:08:01.440 --> 1:08:05.520 all those turnovers against Baltimore last week, five of them, 1:08:05.680 --> 1:08:09.920 and according to the team, according to people like Jordan Battle, 1:08:10.400 --> 1:08:13.200 let the turnovers keep on coming today in Buffalo. 1:08:13.480 --> 1:08:15.200 You know, just you know, having awareness with the ball. 1:08:15.360 --> 1:08:17.840 You know, it's obviously it's gonna be cold out there, 1:08:18.080 --> 1:08:20.000 you know, Uh, so that the ball might be a loose, 1:08:20.160 --> 1:08:22.080 I mean, it might be a little loose, you know, 1:08:22.320 --> 1:08:24.000 to get the balls a little hard in your hands. 1:08:24.600 --> 1:08:26.040 So you know, you have to take advantage of that, 1:08:26.240 --> 1:08:27.920 you know, as a defense, it's gonna be snow, it's 1:08:27.920 --> 1:08:30.040 gonna be cold. Uh, the ball might be coming out 1:08:30.080 --> 1:08:33.080 fast and might be able to opportunities for tip picks. 1:08:33.080 --> 1:08:34.639 For the balls in the air. So you know, we's 1:08:34.640 --> 1:08:36.920 got to be able to capitalize on all those opportunities 1:08:36.960 --> 1:08:37.360 that we get. 1:08:37.479 --> 1:08:40.719 Get that ball away, turn that ball over, get Joey 1:08:40.800 --> 1:08:45.160 b good field position. Always a strategy on defense. You 1:08:45.280 --> 1:08:48.799 probably saw this week that the two thousand and twenty 1:08:48.960 --> 1:08:53.960 six Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists were released, and 1:08:54.160 --> 1:08:58.000 there are three categories. There's coaches, there's contributors, and there's players. 1:08:58.880 --> 1:09:03.040 And among the three finals for the players, our former 1:09:03.120 --> 1:09:07.679 Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Else Greenwood, former San Francisco forty 1:09:07.760 --> 1:09:11.519 nine or running back Roger Craig, and our own quarterback 1:09:11.600 --> 1:09:15.360 Ken Anderson. Ken Anderson should have been in the Hall 1:09:15.360 --> 1:09:18.720 of Fame ten years ago. He is now a finalist, 1:09:19.400 --> 1:09:22.160 and the chances of him getting into Canton next year 1:09:22.479 --> 1:09:26.519 are not good. They're not good. They simply aren't because 1:09:26.680 --> 1:09:29.680 the voting system was changed by the Pro Football Hall 1:09:29.720 --> 1:09:33.800 of Fame, and why, well, let's find out somebody who 1:09:33.920 --> 1:09:37.160 has a vote. We don't know if he's voting for 1:09:37.280 --> 1:09:39.479 Anderson or not, but he seems to talk very well 1:09:39.479 --> 1:09:42.439 about him. Is someone who has been around a long 1:09:42.560 --> 1:09:46.040 time and knows exactly what this Pro Football Hall of 1:09:46.120 --> 1:09:49.280 fame is all about and who should be in because 1:09:49.320 --> 1:09:52.200 he's a student of the game, even at an advanced age. 1:09:53.200 --> 1:09:55.360 He's a good guest of this program. He's our good 1:09:55.400 --> 1:09:58.240 buddy who's covered many NFL teams over the course of 1:09:58.280 --> 1:10:01.519 his career. He is Clark judge. Let's bring them in. 1:10:01.680 --> 1:10:01.960 Clark. 1:10:02.000 --> 1:10:03.680 How are you on this glorious game day. 1:10:04.280 --> 1:10:07.760 Well, I'm doing well, Thanks very much, can't thanks for 1:10:07.840 --> 1:10:12.240 that intro. Yeah, it's confusing because they changed the process 1:10:12.360 --> 1:10:14.800 and the rules and process last year. So what we 1:10:15.000 --> 1:10:18.160 used to have was a separate seniors committee, a coach 1:10:18.520 --> 1:10:21.240 slash contributor committee, and then we separated the coach and 1:10:21.320 --> 1:10:24.720 the contributors to the three subcommittee, and we bring out 1:10:24.800 --> 1:10:28.479 three seniors, a coach, and a contributor, but they would 1:10:28.560 --> 1:10:33.280 be separate finalists voted on separately. So the seniors voted 1:10:33.280 --> 1:10:37.680 against each other, and the coaches and the contributors voted independently. 1:10:37.920 --> 1:10:39.720 And if you've got eighty percent of the vote, each 1:10:39.760 --> 1:10:42.439 semi voted to those three seniors each got eight percent 1:10:42.439 --> 1:10:45.120 of the votes. They're in. The coach eight percent, he's in, 1:10:45.400 --> 1:10:48.559 the contributed a percent he's in. They changed that last year. 1:10:48.840 --> 1:10:51.320 They say no, we're going to consider them all together, 1:10:51.479 --> 1:10:55.800 all five together, and take the top three. However, top 1:10:55.880 --> 1:10:59.160 three each has to have eighty percent of the vote. 1:10:59.320 --> 1:11:02.600 And as you know, in the first year of implementation, 1:11:02.760 --> 1:11:06.240 which is this year that didn't happen, only one of 1:11:06.360 --> 1:11:09.360 those five individuals got eighty percent of the vote. That 1:11:09.439 --> 1:11:12.880 was Stirling Chubb. So people like my phone grin Ralph 1:11:12.960 --> 1:11:14.760 he is the founder of the league founded, not in 1:11:14.840 --> 1:11:18.000 and didn't get in, and so we really have one 1:11:18.280 --> 1:11:22.240 individual who got in. So it's confusing, confusing some of 1:11:22.280 --> 1:11:24.800 the voters, and so we finally will walk through it. 1:11:24.960 --> 1:11:27.479 But that's the way it goes. Now you have five people. 1:11:27.520 --> 1:11:30.160 Now Ken Anderson is one of the five, but he'll 1:11:30.280 --> 1:11:34.160 be considered along with Els Greenwood and Roger Craig. Those 1:11:34.160 --> 1:11:37.360 are the three seniors, and then he'll be considered votes 1:11:37.360 --> 1:11:40.120 three will be considered along with Bill Belichick the coach, 1:11:40.439 --> 1:11:43.920 and Robert Kraft, the contributor. Finals. You're going to take 1:11:44.040 --> 1:11:47.080 three of those five. So what happened last year was 1:11:47.120 --> 1:11:49.320 they cannibalized each other, and if you do the math, 1:11:49.360 --> 1:11:51.400 you can kind of figure out why this year maybe 1:11:51.479 --> 1:11:54.040 it won't be that way because there's a feeling that 1:11:54.160 --> 1:11:58.240 Craft and belichicking are sort of slamm dunk maybe I 1:11:58.320 --> 1:12:01.360 don't know. Well, that then means you're only what one senior, 1:12:01.680 --> 1:12:04.320 but he has to get eighty percent of the vote. 1:12:04.720 --> 1:12:07.519 And again, they could cannibalize each other so that you 1:12:07.600 --> 1:12:10.519 have only let's say Raft in Belichick vote. That's the 1:12:10.520 --> 1:12:10.960 way it goes. 1:12:11.160 --> 1:12:13.840 Conceivably you could have no one. Am I right? If 1:12:13.840 --> 1:12:16.840 no one get conceivably the class could have no one. 1:12:17.680 --> 1:12:21.800 Yeah, I don't know that that's the case. I would 1:12:21.840 --> 1:12:23.320 have to go back and read the fine print. 1:12:23.360 --> 1:12:23.559 Again. 1:12:23.760 --> 1:12:27.280 I don't think that's the case. But you know, i'd 1:12:27.320 --> 1:12:29.680 say out sensibly the teams that way. I know when 1:12:29.720 --> 1:12:31.760 these rules are drawn up. I had a historian call 1:12:31.880 --> 1:12:33.960 me and say, you know what's gonna happen. You're going 1:12:34.040 --> 1:12:36.720 to get no more than maybe four people for the 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:40.360 entire class. And he was frightening. 1:12:40.680 --> 1:12:42.760 Now we have four people for the fire fall third. 1:12:42.840 --> 1:12:46.200 Past years we had seven. So so that when you 1:12:46.280 --> 1:12:49.320 talk about Ken Anderson, that's going to be the concern 1:12:49.439 --> 1:12:53.080 here if you assume Belichick and Craft are going to 1:12:53.120 --> 1:12:55.120 get in, and some people do this and push back 1:12:55.280 --> 1:12:58.679 on either and it's not that it's not or both. 1:12:58.720 --> 1:13:01.200 But it's not worth going into some perspective. I don't 1:13:01.200 --> 1:13:03.880 think enough to consider that they're going to not get 1:13:04.800 --> 1:13:07.200 twenty percent or eighty percent of that vote that the 1:13:07.400 --> 1:13:09.360 roll if you had twenty five percent vote against and 1:13:09.439 --> 1:13:11.880 you think that's possible, I don't. So you go, there's 1:13:11.880 --> 1:13:14.240 two spots that are taken. So now we got one, 1:13:14.400 --> 1:13:17.679 and of those three, that individual has to get eighty 1:13:17.760 --> 1:13:20.439 percent or more, and it's only one you can't have. 1:13:20.600 --> 1:13:22.680 Let's say you're not going to have all three get 1:13:22.720 --> 1:13:25.559 a eight percent, but let's just say it's Roger Craig, 1:13:25.640 --> 1:13:27.920 but he got seventy five percent not getting in. And 1:13:28.000 --> 1:13:31.519 so those three guys, as I said, could scandibalize each other. 1:13:31.760 --> 1:13:34.960 That happened last year or for the reason still in charge. 1:13:35.520 --> 1:13:37.960 One convinced got in because he was a recent guy 1:13:38.080 --> 1:13:40.360 and people kind of say, look at that record, oh yeah, 1:13:40.400 --> 1:13:43.479 he should get in, all right, but you know what happened. 1:13:43.520 --> 1:13:46.000 He was the only one of five. Did that happen again, 1:13:46.040 --> 1:13:48.000 I don't think so that was crafted in felicheck up. 1:13:48.240 --> 1:13:51.040 So the maximum number that could come out of this 1:13:51.400 --> 1:13:54.960 when you factor in the contributor, the coach and the 1:13:55.600 --> 1:13:59.719 senior committee players, The maximum that could get in would 1:13:59.760 --> 1:14:02.839 be three. Three, is that what we're saying Raft? Okay, correct? 1:14:02.960 --> 1:14:06.519 And so we're thinking here that Kraft and Belichick could 1:14:06.600 --> 1:14:09.479 both go in together. Obviously, that would be one of 1:14:09.520 --> 1:14:11.719 the finest That would be one of the greatest shots 1:14:11.760 --> 1:14:14.120 in the world of Belichick and Craft together on a stage, 1:14:14.520 --> 1:14:18.160 regardless of where it is. But over and above that, 1:14:19.000 --> 1:14:21.960 you've got Anderson, Craig and Greenwood. I mean, all three 1:14:22.000 --> 1:14:24.479 of them are deserving to be in the Hall of Fame. 1:14:24.960 --> 1:14:27.160 But only one of those three then would would then 1:14:27.240 --> 1:14:29.720 be able to qualify. So there's no way you're going 1:14:29.760 --> 1:14:31.000 to get two players out. 1:14:30.840 --> 1:14:34.439 Of there, right, No no way. And that one person 1:14:34.720 --> 1:14:36.920 has to have eighty percent of the votes. He doesn't, 1:14:37.360 --> 1:14:41.360 he's not getting in. So let's just say, and you know, Ken, 1:14:41.640 --> 1:14:43.240 we're on a time to stay. But let's just say 1:14:43.280 --> 1:14:45.200 you like Pelichick and Craft, you go, I want to 1:14:45.200 --> 1:14:47.040 put the men, So you vote for Greenwood. 1:14:47.040 --> 1:14:47.680 Okay, I say the. 1:14:47.720 --> 1:14:50.200 Same thing, But I'm voting for Craig, someone else is 1:14:50.280 --> 1:14:56.360 voting for somebody else's voting for He's voting for Ken Anderson. 1:14:56.520 --> 1:14:59.320 He's okay, we're all I mean, so we're what we're 1:14:59.360 --> 1:15:01.760 doing is we're first in those three votes, so they 1:15:02.000 --> 1:15:04.720 none of them can get eighty percent and and so 1:15:04.840 --> 1:15:08.120 you're left with nothing. And that wasn't the intention. But 1:15:08.360 --> 1:15:11.000 just you know, read the tea leaves to we's getting chafted. 1:15:11.400 --> 1:15:15.160 The seniors are. You know, they're far more qualified seniors 1:15:15.400 --> 1:15:19.439 than there are qualified coaches and contributors. And I've said 1:15:19.560 --> 1:15:21.839 for a long time now, since they change this process, 1:15:22.280 --> 1:15:25.320 let's do what we did when we consider them all together, 1:15:25.479 --> 1:15:29.240 be way back when, but the seniors, coaches and contributors 1:15:29.600 --> 1:15:32.040 all in the same market and in the same back 1:15:32.160 --> 1:15:35.479 and basically and pull out the top three. Okay, and 1:15:35.560 --> 1:15:37.479 there's some years, and there'll be plenty of years when 1:15:37.760 --> 1:15:40.240 you don't have a contributor, you don't have a coach, 1:15:40.320 --> 1:15:44.120 because they just aren't that many. They're over fifty all 1:15:44.439 --> 1:15:49.120 decades players who are sitting there who've never discussed. And 1:15:49.200 --> 1:15:52.040 that's why Ken Anderson's an anomaly. He has been discussed. 1:15:52.080 --> 1:15:54.439 He was discussed as a modern ear candidate back in 1:15:54.520 --> 1:15:56.960 ninety six to ninety eight. He hasn't been discussed in them. 1:15:57.439 --> 1:16:01.920 Yeah, well, okay, okay, there's the what was the idea 1:16:02.000 --> 1:16:04.439 behind them. I mean, would why would it change? Were 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:06.639 there too many people going in? Why would they change 1:16:06.680 --> 1:16:07.080 the process. 1:16:07.840 --> 1:16:10.760 There was a feeling among some people, and I'd say 1:16:10.880 --> 1:16:13.800 probably some Hall of famer's voice it. As we know, 1:16:13.920 --> 1:16:16.679 Dion Standers is one of them, that there were people 1:16:16.920 --> 1:16:20.519 they didn't feel we're qualified who got into the prof 1:16:21.080 --> 1:16:23.559 Hall of Fame. They thought we were letting some people 1:16:23.680 --> 1:16:26.880 in who weren't necessarily a Hall of Fame qualified. I 1:16:26.920 --> 1:16:30.439 would say, I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I 1:16:30.520 --> 1:16:33.240 thought it was a valid point and some that should 1:16:33.240 --> 1:16:35.320 have been considered that all of a sudden we went 1:16:35.400 --> 1:16:38.160 from one end of the spectrum to the other. And 1:16:39.240 --> 1:16:41.640 it happened because the Hall of Fame I think, was 1:16:42.160 --> 1:16:45.479 responsive to what they were saying and heard this from 1:16:45.520 --> 1:16:48.120 other people and said, okay, we probably should up the 1:16:48.240 --> 1:16:50.760 bar a little bit. But they upped it so far 1:16:51.280 --> 1:16:54.600 that the seniors now have a tough time getting in. 1:16:54.720 --> 1:16:57.840 Whereas you know before, when Jim Porter took over, he 1:16:58.080 --> 1:17:01.680 listened to us saying, there's so many qualified seniors, we 1:17:01.920 --> 1:17:03.920 need to get more than one in. Each year was one, 1:17:04.240 --> 1:17:05.840 and then two, and one and then two. They did 1:17:05.880 --> 1:17:10.280 it every of the year of the into but he said, Okay, 1:17:10.320 --> 1:17:13.519 we're gonna do a maximumber three hawlllujah. And and so 1:17:13.720 --> 1:17:15.559 now we got in people like Ken Riley we should 1:17:15.560 --> 1:17:17.760 have been in. Okay, then Riley gets in. But but 1:17:18.000 --> 1:17:20.960 now if Keim Riley comes up under this kind of 1:17:22.840 --> 1:17:25.600 strategy and this kind of scenario, he's going to have 1:17:25.680 --> 1:17:28.120 a tough time getting in. You if you had him 1:17:28.120 --> 1:17:30.240 in this year's plaff, you know, haven't helped the guys 1:17:30.280 --> 1:17:33.400 going against Bill Belichick and Robert Croft, because I think 1:17:33.520 --> 1:17:35.680 there is going to be just a maximum one guy. 1:17:35.760 --> 1:17:37.599 And I would say, honestly written out bright to bet 1:17:37.920 --> 1:17:42.120 let's say being Craft and Belichick and maybe maybe the 1:17:42.240 --> 1:17:45.000 one that would be Roger Craig because he's more recent. 1:17:45.120 --> 1:17:48.439 There is a recency bias for me that bothers them. 1:17:49.000 --> 1:17:51.200 And if I think if you look at the history 1:17:51.240 --> 1:17:54.560 of what we're doing here, to apply uh as a 1:17:54.640 --> 1:17:58.320 senior and played before nineteen seventy, you need not apply 1:17:58.360 --> 1:18:01.519 because you're not getting in, not getting in, And there 1:18:01.600 --> 1:18:03.479 are plenty of guys and you and I are all 1:18:03.600 --> 1:18:06.840 enough to remember Del Shaffer, Jimmy Pang now Wizards guys 1:18:06.880 --> 1:18:09.360 who should be in, and they just don't get anymore. 1:18:09.560 --> 1:18:13.000 Del Schaffner was a wonderful wide receiver, had some medical 1:18:13.080 --> 1:18:15.559 issues during his career and played through them. I thought 1:18:15.600 --> 1:18:18.080 he was thought it was great. Elsie Greenwood. I mean, 1:18:18.120 --> 1:18:20.160 I hate to say it's sitting in Cincinnati. He was 1:18:20.240 --> 1:18:24.680 a massive talent along that Steelers and Craig you know, 1:18:25.000 --> 1:18:27.160 wins a suit he wanted. You might have went on 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:31.160 two super Bowl winning teams. Three there you go. I 1:18:31.320 --> 1:18:33.840 only had him on one three super Bowl winning teams. 1:18:34.120 --> 1:18:36.439 All right, well, we'll hold We'll keep our fingers crossed 1:18:36.479 --> 1:18:40.640 for Ken Anderson. Willie Anderson is still up. I think, Uh, 1:18:40.920 --> 1:18:44.120 he was progressing through the product voting process and getting 1:18:44.160 --> 1:18:47.000 in these rooms closer to it. Uh do you hold 1:18:47.040 --> 1:18:49.000 out hope for him this year or what do you 1:18:49.080 --> 1:18:49.880 think about Willie? 1:18:50.520 --> 1:18:53.680 I hold out hope, but because of this process and 1:18:54.160 --> 1:18:56.240 I don't know what's going on anymore. I mean, we 1:18:56.360 --> 1:18:59.080 used to say, okay, we're putting five modern era guys 1:18:59.080 --> 1:19:02.200 at night five and that's generally was eight people. It 1:19:02.320 --> 1:19:06.040 was five modern era guys and three seniors and or 1:19:06.200 --> 1:19:10.680 coach eight. But then we go we go to and 1:19:10.760 --> 1:19:12.720 we went to FORBI because the projects had changed. So yeah, 1:19:12.720 --> 1:19:14.880 you want to make it tougher. He did make it tougher. 1:19:15.160 --> 1:19:18.040 Yeah, and confusing for the population. You know, the general 1:19:18.120 --> 1:19:22.800 populus just absolutely crazy. We're chatting with Clark Judge. Okay, 1:19:22.880 --> 1:19:25.280 we got Bengals Bills today. There are two key games 1:19:26.280 --> 1:19:29.680 that I'm looking at today. One is Pittsburgh and Baltimore. 1:19:29.840 --> 1:19:33.320 That's in Baltimore, and of course today it's Bengals and Bills. 1:19:33.360 --> 1:19:36.559 We'll leave the Pittsburgh Baltimore game aside. Bengals and Bills. 1:19:36.840 --> 1:19:39.760 Burrows back, it's in Buffalo. They match up pretty well 1:19:39.800 --> 1:19:44.280 with Buffalo. Buffalo doesn't have us. It's big, passing, catching 1:19:44.400 --> 1:19:47.080 tight end. They've turned the ball over a lot in 1:19:47.160 --> 1:19:50.040 the last four games, but still in all, they got 1:19:50.120 --> 1:19:52.320 James Cook and they've got the best rushing offense in 1:19:52.360 --> 1:19:54.160 the NFL. How do you see this thing playing out? 1:19:56.200 --> 1:19:58.639 I see it as they must win for the Bengals. 1:19:58.720 --> 1:20:01.599 I think they've got a chance. I always like Buffle 1:20:01.680 --> 1:20:05.280 at home, always do because they've got Josh Allen, and 1:20:05.520 --> 1:20:08.320 I think Josh Allen is Superman. But you guys have 1:20:08.439 --> 1:20:09.120 got Superman. 1:20:09.240 --> 1:20:09.479 Also. 1:20:09.560 --> 1:20:12.240 When you watch Joe Burrow come back, the impact he 1:20:12.400 --> 1:20:14.040 has on a ball club, all you can do is 1:20:14.080 --> 1:20:16.960 watch that game last weekend and the defense is playing 1:20:17.040 --> 1:20:19.000 much better or yeah, I'm playing better because not on 1:20:19.080 --> 1:20:21.880 the field all the time, and Joe Burrow's moving that 1:20:21.960 --> 1:20:24.360 club up and down the field. And I said this 1:20:24.439 --> 1:20:27.080 to you before we went on the air. I absolutely 1:20:27.240 --> 1:20:29.599 love to watch him play. But I love everything about 1:20:29.640 --> 1:20:32.040 this guy. How many people would have come back from 1:20:32.080 --> 1:20:35.240 that injury before they were supposed to and say, oh, 1:20:35.360 --> 1:20:37.759 why would I think back for a team that's going nowhere? 1:20:38.200 --> 1:20:41.080 Because I love this game and I'm getting paid a 1:20:41.160 --> 1:20:44.040 lot of money to play a kid's game. His attitude, 1:20:44.360 --> 1:20:47.599 it's got to be something that really has an impact 1:20:47.720 --> 1:20:49.320 on every one of those people in the locker room 1:20:49.320 --> 1:20:49.880 and they go, you. 1:20:49.880 --> 1:20:51.439 Know what, we got a shot. 1:20:51.560 --> 1:20:54.559 Now, it's a long shot. They have to win this game, obviously, 1:20:54.880 --> 1:20:57.200 but you look at the rest of the schedule, they 1:20:57.280 --> 1:20:59.839 could last the field. And as you mentioned that Steelers 1:21:00.439 --> 1:21:03.160 Ravens game, that's a big win because, as you also 1:21:03.240 --> 1:21:06.679 mentioned earlier, you can't afford for one of those teams 1:21:06.720 --> 1:21:09.600 this sweet. Both of them are on their heels, and 1:21:09.920 --> 1:21:11.960 there's so much on the heels of people in Pittsburgh 1:21:11.960 --> 1:21:14.320 are saying, hey, it's a time for Mike Tomlin to 1:21:14.360 --> 1:21:17.080 go and Ben Roethlisberger say, I think it is. I mean, 1:21:17.200 --> 1:21:19.080 that's the team that's sort of been dis array, but 1:21:19.160 --> 1:21:22.439 the Ravens didn't look any good last week into the Bengals. 1:21:22.720 --> 1:21:25.920 It's a different Bengals team with Joe Burrow, and it 1:21:26.040 --> 1:21:30.720 should be because he's a senior and elite quarterback. I 1:21:30.840 --> 1:21:34.040 think I still, as I said, I favored Buffalo at 1:21:34.080 --> 1:21:37.040 home only because shot jall On five plays the win there. 1:21:37.160 --> 1:21:38.920 And and I realized, you know, a couple of years 1:21:38.920 --> 1:21:41.960 ago whenever it was that the Bengals didn't win. But 1:21:42.760 --> 1:21:45.000 you've got a pressure Burrow. You've got to if you 1:21:45.080 --> 1:21:48.120 can't pressure Burrow, fix you a part. But I probably 1:21:48.240 --> 1:21:51.519 like the Bills here. I would love love to see 1:21:51.600 --> 1:21:54.080 the Bengals get it because it's a great story. What 1:21:54.560 --> 1:21:57.240 what Joe Burrow is doing is a great story, whether 1:21:57.240 --> 1:21:59.760 it win or lose it. He's coming back with what 1:21:59.880 --> 1:22:02.439 he did terrific. I just I admire the guys. 1:22:02.560 --> 1:22:04.400 Yeah, and it's a big game for the Bills too. 1:22:04.520 --> 1:22:06.320 I mean, they got their heels dug in. They still 1:22:06.360 --> 1:22:08.240 think they got a shot at catching New England. So 1:22:09.200 --> 1:22:11.040 there's there's a little bit on the line for them 1:22:11.080 --> 1:22:13.080 in this game today as well. All right, Clark, we'll 1:22:13.080 --> 1:22:14.800 see how this all plays out with the Hall of 1:22:14.880 --> 1:22:17.160 Fame in the next couple of weeks. Uh, you have 1:22:17.200 --> 1:22:19.519 a great holiday and hopefully you know I can talk 1:22:19.600 --> 1:22:21.799 again closer as we get to the voting. Thanks. 1:22:22.720 --> 1:22:23.479 I look forward to it. 1:22:23.600 --> 1:22:25.240 And did I confuse you subsicion? 1:22:27.040 --> 1:22:30.200 Well, I'm a man who is easily confluted. Confused, Clark, 1:22:30.240 --> 1:22:32.400 So the ball was really really low for me there with. 1:22:32.520 --> 1:22:35.840 But but yes you did. But nevertheless, we'll figure it out. Thanks. 1:22:36.360 --> 1:22:38.040 I got my job done. 1:22:38.320 --> 1:22:39.160 You bet. 1:22:40.479 --> 1:22:40.840 You bet. 1:22:42.240 --> 1:22:44.840 The Bengals have to win today. I think the other 1:22:44.960 --> 1:22:47.439 thing that has to happen, and I don't want to 1:22:47.479 --> 1:22:50.280 get too far ahead of this thing, but Baltimore plays 1:22:50.320 --> 1:22:53.599 Pittsburgh today. They play the Ravens or the Ravens play 1:22:53.640 --> 1:22:57.000 the Steelers again at the end of the season final game. 1:22:57.080 --> 1:23:01.800 That game against the Ravens will be in Pittsburgh. They 1:23:01.880 --> 1:23:03.280 got two games left home and home. 1:23:04.320 --> 1:23:05.639 You don't want. 1:23:06.960 --> 1:23:11.840 Whoever wins today to win again the last game of 1:23:11.880 --> 1:23:14.920 the season. You don't want to sweep by either the 1:23:15.040 --> 1:23:19.080 Ravens or the Steelers. You don't want it sweep gets 1:23:19.240 --> 1:23:23.120 that team to eight wins, and if that's a sweep, 1:23:23.439 --> 1:23:27.000 Pittsburgh's got a game at home against Miami. Yeah, they 1:23:27.040 --> 1:23:29.120 got to play Cleveland. Yeah, they got to go to Detroit. 1:23:29.160 --> 1:23:32.439 You don't want that. Baltimore, you don't want them to sweep. 1:23:33.720 --> 1:23:36.799 After today they come here, then they play the Pats 1:23:36.920 --> 1:23:40.000 not easy at green Bay, and then that game with Pittsburgh. 1:23:40.040 --> 1:23:42.680 You don't want one of those teams to sweep. You 1:23:42.720 --> 1:23:46.439 don't want them to get to eight wins. And then 1:23:46.560 --> 1:23:48.519 all have to they all only have to figure out 1:23:48.560 --> 1:23:50.519 that one team that gets a only has to figure 1:23:50.560 --> 1:23:54.320 out to get one more. 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Junior Josh Allen likes to run. 1:28:34.800 --> 1:28:36.600 He can drop back and throw. He can stay in 1:28:36.680 --> 1:28:39.880 the pocket, but he is more effective outside the pocket 1:28:40.360 --> 1:28:42.479 and then of course when he gets outside the parket 1:28:43.280 --> 1:28:46.800 he can run. And Demitrius Ana was talking about this 1:28:47.400 --> 1:28:48.200 this past week. 1:28:48.680 --> 1:28:51.559 That's a guy you cannot take for granted, especially when 1:28:51.600 --> 1:28:54.680 he scrambling and make it plays on his feet. Got 1:28:54.720 --> 1:28:57.160 a great big arm that people know about, and he'll 1:28:57.200 --> 1:28:59.080 make you pay for it if you're not plastering. So 1:28:59.840 --> 1:29:02.479 just it goes back to you know again, as I 1:29:02.560 --> 1:29:06.200 say pretty much every week, mastering the basics and being 1:29:06.320 --> 1:29:09.880 your new Year one eleven. Whatever your job is in 1:29:09.920 --> 1:29:11.479 that plate you miss, you do it for the best 1:29:11.479 --> 1:29:11.960 of your ability. 1:29:12.120 --> 1:29:14.439 Yes, when he talks about plastering, he is not talking 1:29:14.520 --> 1:29:19.280 about drywalling. He means sticking with Alan regardless of where 1:29:19.720 --> 1:29:24.280 the Bills quarterback may go. Now, what happened in Cincinnati 1:29:24.360 --> 1:29:27.360 sports history on this date? It's brought to you by 1:29:27.439 --> 1:29:30.479 Pedal Windows and Doors making life brighter? Pellow pay later. 1:29:30.560 --> 1:29:33.679 What happened in Cincinnati sports history, Well, let's go back 1:29:34.120 --> 1:29:39.040 eleven years to the twenty fourteen season. The Bengals were 1:29:39.040 --> 1:29:43.680 at home against the Steelers on this particular date, and 1:29:43.880 --> 1:29:48.200 Pittsburgh beat the Bengals forty two to twenty one. Bengals 1:29:48.280 --> 1:29:51.120 went to eight four and one after that they were 1:29:51.240 --> 1:29:54.439 a playoff team. Of course that year Andy Dalton twenty 1:29:54.520 --> 1:29:57.600 one of twenty nine, three hundred and two yards, two touchdowns, 1:29:57.640 --> 1:30:01.040 throwing one touchdown, rushing aj Green as they say, went 1:30:01.280 --> 1:30:05.120 off eleven catches, two hundred and twenty four yards and 1:30:05.160 --> 1:30:09.599 a touchdown. But even even better, fifty years ago today, 1:30:11.240 --> 1:30:13.840 the Bengals flew out to Philadelphia to take on the 1:30:13.960 --> 1:30:17.519 Eagles and won thirty one to nothing. They went to 1:30:17.640 --> 1:30:20.840 ten and two en Roots to an eleven and three 1:30:20.920 --> 1:30:25.479 season and a playoff berth Ken Anderson twenty of thirty five, 1:30:25.600 --> 1:30:28.480 two hundred and twenty eight yards, a touchdown, two interceptions. 1:30:29.040 --> 1:30:33.879 Four interceptions total for the Bengals defense, including left cornerback 1:30:34.000 --> 1:30:37.800 Marvin Cobb for a good cornerback on that team. Two 1:30:37.960 --> 1:30:41.040 interceptions for Cobb in that game in a thirty one 1:30:41.200 --> 1:30:44.280 nothing shutout of Philadelphia. That's what happened on this date 1:30:44.840 --> 1:30:49.240 in Cincinnati sports history. All right, straight ahead, Lee Stirling, 1:30:49.400 --> 1:30:51.960 He's got some winners for you. 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The prosecution of 1:31:19.000 --> 1:31:23.160 former FBI director James Comy has hit another roadblock Yesterday, 1:31:23.320 --> 1:31:27.759 further complicating the case, a judge has dismissed the DOJ's indictment. 1:31:28.120 --> 1:31:31.479 A federal judge on Saturday granted restraining order that temporarily 1:31:31.560 --> 1:31:34.880 prohibits the Department of Justice from accessing critical evidence seized 1:31:34.880 --> 1:31:38.120 from the computer of Daniel Richmond, a professor and confidant 1:31:38.200 --> 1:31:40.920 of KMY who served as his intermediary to the news media. 1:31:41.520 --> 1:31:44.880 Prosecutors had relied on files seized years ago without obtaining 1:31:44.920 --> 1:31:47.320 a new warrant, and the judge ruled that the DOJ's 1:31:47.400 --> 1:31:51.280 retention of those files violated Richmond's Fourth Amendment rights, which 1:31:51.360 --> 1:31:56.240 protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. 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I am Kimber. 1:37:36.760 --> 1:37:40.599 We count out of the Bengals and the Bills. Bengals 1:37:40.680 --> 1:37:41.920 have to win out, but they got to win the 1:37:41.960 --> 1:37:45.360 day to win out right. I mean when a coach 1:37:45.400 --> 1:37:47.880 says take it one game at a time, this is 1:37:48.000 --> 1:37:51.840 exactly what he means. So okay, Joe Burrow, you're back, 1:37:52.080 --> 1:37:55.439 second game back from your toe injury. How do you 1:37:55.520 --> 1:37:56.240 win this one. 1:37:57.040 --> 1:37:58.040 Same way you win any game? 1:37:58.240 --> 1:38:02.960 Just discipline, winning the turnover battle, playing smart, playing physical, 1:38:03.760 --> 1:38:05.679 and going about your business each and every day trying 1:38:05.680 --> 1:38:09.240 to get better. There's no secret formula. You just got 1:38:09.360 --> 1:38:12.799 to go through the process week to week and attack 1:38:12.840 --> 1:38:17.560 the plan with intensity and understand it. Understand it to 1:38:17.600 --> 1:38:18.960 a point that you can go out and execute it 1:38:19.400 --> 1:38:21.000 in front of the world, and that's that's what we 1:38:21.120 --> 1:38:21.479 plan to do. 1:38:22.240 --> 1:38:24.800 Well, let's see if that's what happens. Let's see if 1:38:24.840 --> 1:38:26.360 that's what happens, we. 1:38:26.520 --> 1:38:28.120 Hope, we hope. 1:38:28.600 --> 1:38:31.559 Time now to look for the important piece in this game. 1:38:32.439 --> 1:38:34.080 How do you break it down to just one thing? 1:38:34.760 --> 1:38:39.000 How every piece is important? Brought to you by Denado's Pizza. 1:38:39.080 --> 1:38:43.160 Where every piece is important. Donado's is the official pizza 1:38:43.920 --> 1:38:46.920 of your Cincinnati Bengals go a number of ways on 1:38:47.040 --> 1:38:51.760 this one. I'm looking at the Bells offense. They've got 1:38:51.840 --> 1:38:57.519 a questionable starter at right tackle, Spencer Brown. Dalton Kinkay. 1:38:57.760 --> 1:39:01.880 Their talented tight end is questionable. Although we're told he 1:39:02.040 --> 1:39:03.960 is going to try and give it a go, he's 1:39:04.000 --> 1:39:07.599 got a knee problem. So you got the right side 1:39:07.760 --> 1:39:11.880 of that Bill's offensive line a little banged up, if 1:39:11.960 --> 1:39:16.720 not suspect, I think this is going to be a 1:39:16.880 --> 1:39:25.400 game where it might be the Bengals defensive front that 1:39:25.560 --> 1:39:28.439 will carry this team. Now you're gonna say that's crazy. 1:39:28.560 --> 1:39:31.080 They don't have Trey Hendricks and nobody have Joseph Asai, 1:39:31.200 --> 1:39:35.160 who is terrific against the Ravens on Thursday night of 1:39:35.280 --> 1:39:40.960 last week, Miles Murphy, who has been an underachiever up 1:39:41.040 --> 1:39:43.960 until about the last two games in his time here 1:39:44.040 --> 1:39:47.680 in Cincinnati. This is a door opener for both of 1:39:47.760 --> 1:39:52.519 these guys. If Osai can keep bringing it and can 1:39:52.720 --> 1:39:58.519 contain the quarterback Josh Allen from getting outside the pocket, 1:39:59.439 --> 1:40:01.599 it's going to a long way in the Bengals winning 1:40:01.680 --> 1:40:06.320 this game. So every piece is important, there's no question 1:40:06.439 --> 1:40:11.240 about it. But if you're looking for two, I just 1:40:11.360 --> 1:40:17.880 gave you to Miles Murphy Joseph Osai against a line 1:40:18.000 --> 1:40:21.879 that the Bills have when healthy is a tad suspect, 1:40:22.040 --> 1:40:25.400 but now with their right tackle and their best tight 1:40:25.600 --> 1:40:31.160 end not I think that's that's worth keeping an eye 1:40:31.200 --> 1:40:35.040 on today. It's among five games that our buddy from 1:40:35.080 --> 1:40:38.719 Paramount Sports, Lee Sterling, is watching. He's got five games 1:40:38.760 --> 1:40:41.519 he wants to handicap for you right now that you 1:40:41.800 --> 1:40:45.559 could make big dollars on. Should you choose to wager today? 1:40:46.560 --> 1:40:48.600 Let's bring them in, Lee Sterling, how are you on 1:40:48.640 --> 1:40:49.800 this glorious game day. 1:40:50.520 --> 1:40:56.479 I'm great, well, not so great about watching the Miami Dolphins, 1:40:56.600 --> 1:40:58.840 my team and the Jets, So we'll leave that one out. 1:41:00.240 --> 1:41:03.160 With that one out, so, uh, this was probably going 1:41:03.200 --> 1:41:04.360 to take at. 1:41:04.080 --> 1:41:07.120 The other five and seven. They're still hanging around, aren't they? 1:41:07.240 --> 1:41:08.040 The Dolphins? 1:41:08.960 --> 1:41:09.920 Yeah, they are. 1:41:10.040 --> 1:41:11.160 But I have a nephew. 1:41:11.240 --> 1:41:14.439 He when the Dolphins went one in fifteen that one 1:41:14.520 --> 1:41:18.160 year and Cleo Lemon led them to the win against 1:41:18.600 --> 1:41:19.559 the Ravens, you're. 1:41:19.400 --> 1:41:19.800 Ready for this. 1:41:19.960 --> 1:41:22.559 He predicted they were going to go sixteen and oh 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:26.280 that year. Every single week the Dolphins continue to win. 1:41:26.400 --> 1:41:28.160 He sends me a picture, you know. 1:41:28.320 --> 1:41:31.479 Of all the teams and the Dolphins in the hunt. 1:41:31.680 --> 1:41:34.040 Still mathematically in the hunts. 1:41:34.160 --> 1:41:37.439 So I might take a sedative before that came out. 1:41:37.560 --> 1:41:39.439 What I'm going to do is that's one of the games. 1:41:39.479 --> 1:41:39.960 That's one of the. 1:41:40.000 --> 1:41:42.519 Games I'll tape and watch a day or two later. 1:41:42.880 --> 1:41:45.120 There you go, Well, here's a good one. We got 1:41:45.160 --> 1:41:47.599 the six and six Dealers at the six and six Ravens. 1:41:47.680 --> 1:41:50.040 Ravens are giving five and a half. Baltimore, as we 1:41:50.120 --> 1:41:53.720 both know, was awful against the Bengals a couple of 1:41:53.800 --> 1:41:56.720 weeks ago, but they were awful against Pittsburgh last year 1:41:56.840 --> 1:41:59.680 in that in that wild card game. The thing that 1:42:00.200 --> 1:42:02.400 them was that rushing yards. They rushed for two hundred 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:06.200 and ninety nine against the Steelers, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh takes the 1:42:06.240 --> 1:42:09.240 ball away, and Baltimore turned it over five times against 1:42:09.280 --> 1:42:12.080 the Bengals. So here they are at home the Ravens 1:42:12.200 --> 1:42:13.160 giving five and a half. 1:42:13.240 --> 1:42:16.360 What do you think, Well, I don't think they're going 1:42:16.439 --> 1:42:17.880 to go all of a sudden from turning ball over 1:42:17.960 --> 1:42:18.920 five times to none. 1:42:19.000 --> 1:42:20.879 But with a couple of takeaways. 1:42:20.920 --> 1:42:22.360 Steelers don't have to run the ball here. 1:42:22.479 --> 1:42:24.760 They're only running the ball for ninety seven yards per game, 1:42:24.800 --> 1:42:28.240 which is twenty seventh in the NFL out of thirty 1:42:28.280 --> 1:42:30.440 two teams. Even when they doubled. 1:42:30.080 --> 1:42:33.040 It that rushing output at Chicago. 1:42:32.680 --> 1:42:35.000 They still found a way to lose the game here. 1:42:35.120 --> 1:42:39.479 But I can't trust Baltimore either. What these two teams, 1:42:39.600 --> 1:42:42.040 they're sitting at six and six. They remind me of 1:42:42.200 --> 1:42:45.439 like race horses, you know that had better days and 1:42:45.479 --> 1:42:46.919 they're running around the track. 1:42:47.000 --> 1:42:47.920 At six and six. 1:42:48.240 --> 1:42:49.200 You need to stay alive. 1:42:49.360 --> 1:42:52.040 And they're kind of looking back and they're like, oh, 1:42:52.240 --> 1:42:54.840 Bengals are four and eight, we better get y up 1:42:54.840 --> 1:42:57.719 a little bit. If they win, we could be in trouble. 1:42:57.760 --> 1:42:59.640 I think Baltimore will find a way to win the 1:42:59.680 --> 1:43:02.360 game year twenty seven to twenty three, But I think 1:43:02.800 --> 1:43:05.160 the right side might be to take Pittsburgh plus the 1:43:05.200 --> 1:43:05.800 six and a half. 1:43:06.000 --> 1:43:09.680 So take take the Steelers and the points. Ravens, though 1:43:09.760 --> 1:43:12.479 win the game, which again would put them a leg 1:43:12.600 --> 1:43:16.200 up in the AFC North. I didn't see this until 1:43:16.240 --> 1:43:18.759 I actually researched this next one eight and four Colts, 1:43:18.920 --> 1:43:21.240 eight and four Jags or meeting in Jacksonville to day, 1:43:21.520 --> 1:43:25.479 Jags are getting points point and a half. Indianapolis hasn't 1:43:25.520 --> 1:43:29.720 won in Jacksonville since twenty fourteen. Since twenty fourteen, that's 1:43:29.800 --> 1:43:33.639 just an amazing history. Here's Jacksonville, one of the top 1:43:33.760 --> 1:43:36.840 ranked defenses in the NFL, and the Colts have lost 1:43:36.920 --> 1:43:39.080 two in a row. Man, this could be tough sledding 1:43:39.120 --> 1:43:39.920 again for the Colts. 1:43:39.960 --> 1:43:40.080 Huh. 1:43:41.760 --> 1:43:42.559 Well, that's what I thought. 1:43:42.640 --> 1:43:44.880 And I'm looking at the game and I'm saying, well, okay, 1:43:45.960 --> 1:43:50.120 and I watched last week. Indianapolis had some horrible calls 1:43:50.160 --> 1:43:53.840 against them, and officiating was terrible in their game against 1:43:53.880 --> 1:43:56.479 the Texans. I mean three or four calls that clearly 1:43:56.960 --> 1:43:59.120 either shouldn't have been called or went the other way. 1:43:59.640 --> 1:44:02.879 So that being said here, I still think they're very talented. 1:44:02.960 --> 1:44:05.400 I know Sauce isn't playing he's going to be out 1:44:05.439 --> 1:44:07.960 a little bit. But bottom line is they can run 1:44:08.200 --> 1:44:11.600 and throw the football well, and Jacksonville they need to 1:44:11.680 --> 1:44:13.960 have the running game to set up play action in 1:44:14.000 --> 1:44:17.479 their passing game. On top of that, one key starters 1:44:17.520 --> 1:44:20.599 out for Jacksonville on the offensive line, and they might 1:44:20.720 --> 1:44:24.080 be missing another two. There are some game time decisions there. 1:44:24.800 --> 1:44:26.760 We'll see if they come out and they're able to 1:44:27.040 --> 1:44:29.920 give it a go. But I think they're compromised there 1:44:29.920 --> 1:44:33.320 a little bit here. I like Indianapolis. Here they're begging you, 1:44:33.680 --> 1:44:36.400 begging you to take Jacksonville. They're saying you get a 1:44:36.520 --> 1:44:39.920 home underdog. They're getting one and a half points. They 1:44:40.000 --> 1:44:43.280 have won ten straight. Don't fall for the trap, Indianapolis, 1:44:43.640 --> 1:44:45.360 the right team is favored twenty. 1:44:45.200 --> 1:44:49.559 Seven to twenty twenty seven to twenty Indy. Okay, I'll 1:44:49.600 --> 1:44:52.599 put the calls at nine and four. The AFC South, 1:44:53.240 --> 1:44:56.560 it's a phenomenal division this year. I mean it's so competitive. 1:44:56.680 --> 1:44:59.040 You got the Texans at seven and five. Here they 1:44:59.080 --> 1:45:01.360 are today at the Tree said six and six. Chiefs 1:45:01.400 --> 1:45:04.599 are giving the Texans three. Kansas City's fighting for its 1:45:04.640 --> 1:45:07.720 playoff life. I mean currently they're riding tenth leg and 1:45:07.840 --> 1:45:10.639 out of the money. But here they are giving three 1:45:10.840 --> 1:45:13.320 and they haven't looked good and a Texans team that 1:45:13.400 --> 1:45:16.400 has a defense that will just maul you. What do 1:45:16.479 --> 1:45:16.800 you think. 1:45:18.439 --> 1:45:20.360 I'm going to take a different approach to this game. 1:45:20.479 --> 1:45:22.040 Okay, and here's what I'm gonna do. 1:45:22.600 --> 1:45:25.559 So most people look at this game, they'll say Patrick 1:45:25.760 --> 1:45:29.799 my homes Oh is an e wonderful. They're gonna say CJ. Stroud, 1:45:29.920 --> 1:45:33.320 he's a top ten quarterback. Totals forty two. We just 1:45:33.439 --> 1:45:34.920 need a twenty three to twenty game. 1:45:35.680 --> 1:45:36.519 We'll take the over. 1:45:36.840 --> 1:45:41.000 Well, you got a Houston defense might be the best. 1:45:40.960 --> 1:45:41.920 In the NFL right now. 1:45:42.320 --> 1:45:43.360 You have a Kansas City. 1:45:43.280 --> 1:45:46.519 Defense top five, top six, led by Steve Spagnola, one 1:45:46.560 --> 1:45:49.240 of the greatest defensive coordinators there ever has been. 1:45:49.960 --> 1:45:51.759 And you have both teams. 1:45:51.960 --> 1:45:56.439 Offensive lines aren't good Houston because they're a bottom five 1:45:56.640 --> 1:45:57.679 offensive line. 1:45:57.560 --> 1:45:59.160 In Kansas City because the injuries. 1:45:59.520 --> 1:46:00.519 They might playing some. 1:46:00.600 --> 1:46:04.760 Guys today, but we're on the practice squad a week 1:46:04.840 --> 1:46:05.360 or two ago. 1:46:05.600 --> 1:46:10.360 So with those I think poors offensive lines. 1:46:10.560 --> 1:46:13.320 And also whether it's gonna be cold, I mean it's 1:46:13.320 --> 1:46:16.960 gonna be low twenty for this game, windy, rainy. 1:46:17.680 --> 1:46:19.680 I think it's gonna limit the quarterbacks here. 1:46:20.080 --> 1:46:21.080 Don't fall for the trap. 1:46:21.160 --> 1:46:24.599 Another game, people will play the over, go the under 1:46:24.640 --> 1:46:27.440 forty two total points here in City Houston. 1:46:27.320 --> 1:46:31.240 Take the under. Take the under in this game. Okay, yeah, 1:46:32.320 --> 1:46:34.000 a lot. I don't know. I have a lot of 1:46:34.040 --> 1:46:37.720 friends in Philly and they're so uneasy about this Eagles team, 1:46:38.040 --> 1:46:41.280 and I'm thinking, I'm thinking myself, well, okay, I know 1:46:41.360 --> 1:46:43.639 that they didn't play the run real well against the Bears. 1:46:44.040 --> 1:46:46.240 Bears ran for almost three hundred yards. But they're playing 1:46:46.240 --> 1:46:49.719 a Chargers team today out in LA. Chargers are giving 1:46:50.000 --> 1:46:51.439 or getting two and a half. They're getting two and 1:46:51.439 --> 1:46:55.360 a half. And Herbert just had like fracture surgery out 1:46:55.439 --> 1:46:58.280 his left hand Monday. It looks like he's going to play. 1:46:58.640 --> 1:47:01.679 Why should the Chargers, I mean, I understand why they're 1:47:01.680 --> 1:47:04.479 getting points because of that. Why should Eagles fans feel 1:47:04.479 --> 1:47:05.639 a lot easy about this game? 1:47:07.200 --> 1:47:09.439 Well they should because they're going to be without one 1:47:09.479 --> 1:47:12.200 of their starting defensive tackles, maybe their top two or 1:47:12.240 --> 1:47:14.960 top three player on the team, and Jaylen Carter he's 1:47:15.040 --> 1:47:16.320 out and the. 1:47:16.400 --> 1:47:17.719 Offense can't do anything. 1:47:17.960 --> 1:47:19.160 I mean, this is a game with. 1:47:19.720 --> 1:47:21.759 Where I'm going to take another different approach. 1:47:21.840 --> 1:47:22.479 We haven't done this. 1:47:22.640 --> 1:47:25.320 I don't know if we've ever given out two unders, 1:47:25.400 --> 1:47:28.240 but I think this is a dead under here. I 1:47:28.320 --> 1:47:30.679 think the Chargers are going to play it safe their 1:47:30.720 --> 1:47:33.439 offensive line. They don't want to take a chance with 1:47:33.560 --> 1:47:37.439 a pass rush of Philadelphia. You know, Jalen Phelps came 1:47:37.479 --> 1:47:40.920 over from the Dolphins and he's paying dividends. But this 1:47:41.080 --> 1:47:45.120 total year is at forty one. I think both teams 1:47:45.280 --> 1:47:47.439 just want to make sure they don't turn the ball over. 1:47:47.800 --> 1:47:51.400 They want to protect their quarterbacks here. Both teams can't 1:47:51.439 --> 1:47:54.320 push the ball down the field here, and both special 1:47:54.400 --> 1:47:59.080 teams question marks also under forty one total points here, 1:47:59.320 --> 1:48:01.639 I think we're going to see like a seventeen thirteen game. 1:48:01.720 --> 1:48:04.320 Either way, Why take a chance when you might have 1:48:04.479 --> 1:48:07.439 seven to ten points of leeway here with a total 1:48:07.680 --> 1:48:08.440 or second. 1:48:08.320 --> 1:48:11.760 Under of the show under take the total is forty one. 1:48:11.880 --> 1:48:15.679 Take the under. Well, that just leads us into December. 1:48:15.720 --> 1:48:18.839 Here we are the first games of December. Now, Paramount Sports, 1:48:18.880 --> 1:48:21.599 you guys love to hang a tag on these months, 1:48:21.680 --> 1:48:24.160 regardless of what the months is. What are we calling December? 1:48:24.320 --> 1:48:25.160 Paramount Sports? 1:48:26.280 --> 1:48:27.360 Double down December? 1:48:27.520 --> 1:48:29.479 So do you want to hop on board with us 1:48:29.560 --> 1:48:34.439 one thirty seven, seventeen and one run in the last 1:48:34.520 --> 1:48:38.439 eleven weeks. Let me repeat that, thirty seven wins, just 1:48:38.640 --> 1:48:40.880 seventeen losses and one tie. 1:48:41.439 --> 1:48:43.000 The last eleven weeks. 1:48:43.040 --> 1:48:45.680 We won nine of the eleven weeks. A couple of 1:48:45.720 --> 1:48:46.960 them have been five to oho and. 1:48:47.000 --> 1:48:47.840 Four and one weeks. 1:48:48.240 --> 1:48:50.200 You want to give us a shot, now's the time. 1:48:50.760 --> 1:48:53.800 Five selections today and five selections. 1:48:53.600 --> 1:48:57.080 Every single Sunday through the end of December. How about 1:48:57.120 --> 1:48:59.759 this just one hundred and ninety seven dollars. 1:49:00.120 --> 1:49:01.960 It's called Lee's NFL. 1:49:01.760 --> 1:49:05.360 Sunday Golden Ticket. Just one hundred and ninety seven dollars. 1:49:05.800 --> 1:49:07.559 One place Paramount sports dot Com. 1:49:07.760 --> 1:49:09.760 And again for that one ninety seven, what do you get? 1:49:11.200 --> 1:49:14.439 You get five selections today, my top five plays at 1:49:14.479 --> 1:49:17.800 games that I'm betting you're going to get five each 1:49:18.200 --> 1:49:21.720 Sunday the next four Sundays, going all the way into 1:49:21.760 --> 1:49:22.200 the new year. 1:49:22.360 --> 1:49:23.840 That's great, it's great. 1:49:24.640 --> 1:49:26.879 This is a big game for the Bengals today in Buffalo. 1:49:27.560 --> 1:49:30.800 The Bills are giving five and a half. Buffalo turns 1:49:30.840 --> 1:49:33.040 the ball over a lotly. I mean, they've had six 1:49:33.680 --> 1:49:36.960 in their last ten eleven turnovers in their last four 1:49:37.200 --> 1:49:40.639 and Josh Allen has had six of them. Cincinnati's defense 1:49:40.720 --> 1:49:44.920 look good, got admitted against Baltimore. But I think James 1:49:45.000 --> 1:49:47.000 Cook may have a big day here. It seems like 1:49:47.120 --> 1:49:51.559 Buffalo's got the best rush offense in the NFL. It's 1:49:51.600 --> 1:49:54.800 going to be cold, it's in Buffalo. Huge game for 1:49:54.880 --> 1:49:58.280 the Bengals and they survive Cook running wild on the 1:49:58.320 --> 1:49:58.840 field there. 1:50:00.439 --> 1:50:02.360 Well, I have him in my fantasy and he's been 1:50:02.439 --> 1:50:04.280 the one that's kept me in the top three in 1:50:04.400 --> 1:50:05.360 my fantasy league. 1:50:05.800 --> 1:50:10.160 So I do you know? Obviously, I know that he is. 1:50:10.240 --> 1:50:13.280 That good and he is someone running and catching the 1:50:13.360 --> 1:50:16.040 ball right now. He's in top two, top three in 1:50:16.080 --> 1:50:16.400 the league. 1:50:16.439 --> 1:50:20.040 He is that deadly. But they taught a lot of weaknesses. 1:50:20.240 --> 1:50:23.560 I don't think their offensive line is top tier. I 1:50:23.640 --> 1:50:27.080 think the receivers get very little separation and drop balls, 1:50:27.760 --> 1:50:30.679 and then their defense. They've had a ton of injuries 1:50:30.760 --> 1:50:33.200 here and they're hot and cold. I mean, they've had 1:50:33.280 --> 1:50:36.479 some good weeks. They had a great game planning and 1:50:37.400 --> 1:50:41.160 plays called by Joe Brady last week against a team 1:50:41.200 --> 1:50:43.680 that was giving him the run, daring him to run 1:50:43.720 --> 1:50:45.920 the football and laying back for the past. So what 1:50:46.000 --> 1:50:47.680 did they do they take what they were given. But 1:50:48.320 --> 1:50:50.880 I still don't think Buffalo's top three team in the 1:50:50.920 --> 1:50:55.720 ANFC and Joe Burrow on the field. Cincinnati number one 1:50:55.840 --> 1:51:01.240 in time of possession on the road, so they control 1:51:01.320 --> 1:51:04.160 the ball in the clock. For some reason, the defense 1:51:04.240 --> 1:51:07.439 plays better when Joe Burrow starts. I think they're more 1:51:07.520 --> 1:51:10.480 inspired and they hustle around a little more. And that's 1:51:10.520 --> 1:51:11.920 a lot what defense is about. 1:51:12.800 --> 1:51:15.160 Obviously, talent is number one. 1:51:15.120 --> 1:51:17.559 But after that, it's you know, sometimes you get knocked down, 1:51:17.640 --> 1:51:19.920 getting up off your feet and trying to make the play. 1:51:20.720 --> 1:51:23.559 Sometimes you know when that running back or that receiver 1:51:23.680 --> 1:51:26.360 is trying to get loose here. So I like the 1:51:26.479 --> 1:51:30.240 match up here one team favorite Bengals pull off the 1:51:30.520 --> 1:51:32.040 socker here thirty to. 1:51:32.080 --> 1:51:35.880 Twenty seven, thirty to twenty seven. Yes, sir, keeps the 1:51:36.000 --> 1:51:37.040 hope of the dream alive. 1:51:37.160 --> 1:51:38.400 I love it. I love it. 1:51:38.520 --> 1:51:40.880 Hey, Lee, have a great week. You and I will 1:51:40.960 --> 1:51:43.000 visit next week. Until then, stay healthy. 1:51:42.800 --> 1:51:45.559 Okay, sounds good, Take care see again. 1:51:46.000 --> 1:51:50.519 Okay. So for the record, for the record, he likes 1:51:50.560 --> 1:51:54.840 the Steelers and the points. He thinks the Ravens way 1:51:54.840 --> 1:51:58.400 anybody likes the Steelers with the points. He wants the Colts. 1:51:59.080 --> 1:52:01.680 He says, twenty seven and twenty Colts. Colts, who've got 1:52:01.800 --> 1:52:03.520 to give a point and a half to the Jaguars 1:52:03.560 --> 1:52:05.320 in that game. But he said, go with the Colts. Now, 1:52:05.360 --> 1:52:08.519 He's got two games where the total is in play 1:52:09.160 --> 1:52:12.479 Texas Chief, Texans Chief. He didn't pick a winner. He said, 1:52:12.520 --> 1:52:15.599 the total is forty two. In this game, take the under. 1:52:16.640 --> 1:52:20.559 Eagles Chargers didn't pick a winner. The total is forty one. 1:52:20.720 --> 1:52:23.439 He said, take the under. And then he likes the 1:52:23.560 --> 1:52:27.160 Bengals today and you don't need the points. He says, 1:52:27.200 --> 1:52:31.240 they win straight up thirty to twenty seven. He went 1:52:31.320 --> 1:52:34.439 three and two last week for us. Overall, with the 1:52:34.520 --> 1:52:36.320 rest of his picks he did much better, but for 1:52:36.479 --> 1:52:39.599 our stake last week he went three and two. See 1:52:39.640 --> 1:52:42.160 how he does this week. Let you know next week. 1:52:42.680 --> 1:52:45.519 You're listening to the RNL Carriers pregame show. 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Let's salute the performer of the week. 1:57:12.960 --> 1:57:16.000 It brought to you by Crown Royal, the official whiskey 1:57:16.080 --> 1:57:20.040 of the Bengals, bringing the spirit to every game this season. 1:57:21.120 --> 1:57:23.280 So this is going to be a collective thing. I'm 1:57:23.320 --> 1:57:27.240 going to drop it on the defense against the Ravens 1:57:27.280 --> 1:57:32.160 on Thanksgiving Night, Baltimore had the ball for thirteen series thirteen. 1:57:33.960 --> 1:57:41.680 Six of those thirteen series featured six drives, six drives 1:57:42.840 --> 1:57:49.000 that started with zero or less yards zero or less yards. 1:57:49.080 --> 1:57:54.400 Think about that, thirteen drives, I'm sorry, thirteen possessions. Six 1:57:54.600 --> 1:58:01.040 drives inside those thirteen possessions started on first down with 1:58:01.400 --> 1:58:07.480 zero yards or less. Make a team underperform on first down, 1:58:07.760 --> 1:58:10.080 you stand a better chance of getting off the field 1:58:10.280 --> 1:58:13.520 on third down. Now, Buffalo has got a couple of 1:58:13.600 --> 1:58:17.240 things going forward in this game too. Yes they're eight 1:58:17.280 --> 1:58:21.080 and four, Yes they're two games behind New England in 1:58:21.200 --> 1:58:25.720 the chase for the AFC East Division title. But Buffalo 1:58:25.880 --> 1:58:32.400 has played historically well in December since twenty twenty. Buffalo 1:58:32.680 --> 1:58:39.440 is twelve and one in December twelve and one, and 1:58:39.560 --> 1:58:43.240 why well for a lot of the reasons that they're 1:58:43.280 --> 1:58:48.120 not accomplishing. Now here's Josh Allen on that December record. 1:58:48.560 --> 1:58:50.880 I mean, I don't know the statistics or anything like that. 1:58:51.120 --> 1:58:53.600 I'm assuming that we've done a good job of protecting 1:58:53.600 --> 1:58:58.040 the football, you know, and especially especially games at home, 1:58:58.920 --> 1:59:01.760 being able to use cadence and making sure that we're 1:59:01.760 --> 1:59:02.560 communicating well. 1:59:02.640 --> 1:59:03.760 I think that helps. 1:59:03.800 --> 1:59:06.960 But we got a again daunting task this week against 1:59:07.000 --> 1:59:10.040 a team that's playing really well. Obviously, Joe coming back 1:59:10.200 --> 1:59:15.360 is a huge spark for them, you know, and it's 1:59:15.400 --> 1:59:16.680 gonna be all hands on deck. 1:59:16.880 --> 1:59:22.560 Yes, it is, including it linebacker because Terrell Bernard is out, 1:59:23.400 --> 1:59:26.960 Shaq Thompson has to step in. Aging veteran Shaq Thompson 1:59:27.040 --> 1:59:29.480 has to step in. He knows what his role is today. 1:59:29.720 --> 1:59:33.400 Limited penalties, create turnovers, you know, limit turnovers as the 1:59:33.440 --> 1:59:36.040 offense and you know, just keep putting drives together and 1:59:36.120 --> 1:59:37.840 the defense is just get off the field three and 1:59:37.920 --> 1:59:40.640 ows and create turnovers. Score on defense. You know, that's 1:59:40.680 --> 1:59:42.960 gonna be one way, really to me, the only way 1:59:43.040 --> 1:59:44.720 to separate ourselves. Or even if they get in the 1:59:44.800 --> 1:59:46.720 red zone, you know, three points are less, right, don't 1:59:46.760 --> 1:59:47.240 let them get in. 1:59:47.560 --> 1:59:50.880 Sounds like maybe a strategy for the Bengals as well. 1:59:51.760 --> 1:59:56.320 As we approach the two hour mark before kickoff in Buffalo. 1:59:57.160 --> 2:00:01.240 So which NFL contenders can you actually trust at this 2:00:01.400 --> 2:00:05.520 point of the year. CBS Sports Zach Peerless is next. 2:00:05.600 --> 2:00:08.840 He has sorted out twenty playoff hopefuls and placed them 2:00:09.000 --> 2:00:13.520 in tears in this a parody filled season. Stand By 2:00:13.600 --> 2:00:16.400 It's next on the RNL Carriers pregame show presented by 2:00:16.440 --> 2:00:20.480 your Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Toyota dealers. You're listening to 2:00:20.680 --> 2:00:26.000 seven hundred w WELW and ESPN fifteen thirty. This is 2:00:26.040 --> 2:00:28.400 where they orange into black plays might put it all 2:00:29.000 --> 2:00:39.040 to w WCKWY Cincinnati News, Traffic and Women. This is 2:00:39.120 --> 2:00:41.040 a Game Day News updated. 2:00:44.000 --> 2:00:46.120 A stark to mind on Capitol Hill over the Trump 2:00:46.120 --> 2:00:49.960 administration's both strikes. With the eleven o'clock pregame report, I'm 2:00:50.000 --> 2:00:54.480 Sandy Collins breaking now. Senior lawmakers shown video of multiple 2:00:54.600 --> 2:00:57.640 US strikes against one suspected drug boat back in September. 2:00:57.760 --> 2:01:01.440 On the second that second strike link to survivors, The 2:01:01.560 --> 2:01:04.680 top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee describing that second 2:01:04.720 --> 2:01:08.560 strike as an attack on defenseless survivors, an act that, 2:01:08.800 --> 2:01:12.960 if true, would violate international law, but some Republicans calling 2:01:13.000 --> 2:01:17.080 the four strikes lawful and necessary. Here's Democratic Representative Adam 2:01:17.120 --> 2:01:19.840 Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Armed 2:01:19.840 --> 2:01:21.640 Services Committee, on ABC's This Week. 2:01:22.000 --> 2:01:24.960 If it is a war, then there should be either 2:01:25.040 --> 2:01:29.320 congressional authorization or compliance with the War Powers Resolution. So 2:01:29.440 --> 2:01:32.440 this seems to go directly against Donald Trump's pledge to 2:01:32.640 --> 2:01:34.920 keep US out of wars. He seems to be dragging 2:01:35.040 --> 2:01:37.640 us into one without legal authorization. 2:01:38.040 --> 2:01:42.200 Meanwhile, some Republicans are calling the four strikes lawful and necessary. 2:01:42.680 --> 2:01:45.800 Seventy five percent of Americans support us blowing narco terraces 2:01:45.840 --> 2:01:47.440 out of the water in the Caribbean who are trying 2:01:47.480 --> 2:01:48.560 to poison Americans. 2:01:48.800 --> 2:01:50.960 There's no real legal debate about the ability to do 2:01:51.040 --> 2:01:51.520 that at is. 2:01:51.600 --> 2:01:56.240 Republican Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. Now, the latest traffic 2:01:56.320 --> 2:01:59.960 in weather together northbound seventy five near the Western Hillsvine 2:02:00.600 --> 2:02:03.680 is blocked with an accident on the right lane. That 2:02:03.840 --> 2:02:07.360 is northbound seventy five just before the Western Hills Viaduct, 2:02:07.520 --> 2:02:09.560 So expect to break lights if you're coming up over 2:02:09.640 --> 2:02:13.400 the bridge and into Cincinnati. That's the only problem we 2:02:13.520 --> 2:02:16.120 have right now on the tri state highways. And we 2:02:16.240 --> 2:02:18.920 just got a tipster calling in about a large police 2:02:18.960 --> 2:02:21.920 presence and ambulances at the Route four and Kemper Road. 2:02:22.320 --> 2:02:24.200 We've got a call in to dispatch to find out 2:02:24.240 --> 2:02:26.200 more huge babies forecast. 2:02:26.920 --> 2:02:29.160 After a foggy start across the dry States and a 2:02:29.200 --> 2:02:31.960 brief window for wintry mix, we'll have mostly cloudy skies 2:02:32.000 --> 2:02:35.280 and warmer temperatures this afternoon in the low forties. Overnight, 2:02:35.440 --> 2:02:37.560 some left of a more s could transition to some 2:02:37.680 --> 2:02:41.480 snow flurries into Monday morning. Meanwhile, we're going to be 2:02:41.600 --> 2:02:45.240 cold on Monday in the lower twenties teen Tuesday morning, 2:02:45.280 --> 2:02:47.720 but warm me up by Wednesday with rain chances. From 2:02:47.760 --> 2:02:50.480 your severe Weather station, I'm nine first one of meteorologist 2:02:50.840 --> 2:02:53.520 kJ jcobs New's radio seven hundred w WELW. 2:02:54.120 --> 2:02:56.640 We're above freezing right now thirty five degrees with a 2:02:56.720 --> 2:02:59.080 wintry mix here in the Tri State. From news Radio 2:02:59.160 --> 2:03:02.880 seven hundred WLW. The Bengals game d forecast is built 2:03:02.880 --> 2:03:05.760 by American Home Tech. The best offense starts with a 2:03:05.840 --> 2:03:08.880 strong roof americanhome Tech dot com. 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City council will get an 2:03:43.880 --> 2:03:47.960 update on the situation. Tuesday, I'm Travis Lair News Radio 2:03:48.000 --> 2:03:49.960 seven hundred WLW. 2:03:49.760 --> 2:03:52.560 Our Matt Reese reports on the Heartwell shooting that left 2:03:52.560 --> 2:03:53.640 another Cincinnati and. 2:03:53.680 --> 2:03:54.480 Dead this weekend. 2:03:54.920 --> 2:03:57.920 Friday night, about eight o'clock, Cincinnati police were sent to 2:03:58.080 --> 2:04:02.360 Ferndale Avenue between Vye Street and Burns Avenue in Hartwell. 2:04:02.560 --> 2:04:05.040 There had been a report of a shooting. Police found 2:04:05.040 --> 2:04:07.600 a victim with a gunshot wound and he was taken 2:04:07.640 --> 2:04:11.160 to UC Medical Center where he died. 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He has twelve hundred and twenty eight yards 2:09:53.560 --> 2:09:57.560 so far running the football for the Buffalo Bills, and 2:09:57.920 --> 2:10:02.160 Zach Taylor knows stopping this this guy is job one. 2:10:02.720 --> 2:10:05.880 He's got great patience and vision and quickness and acceleration 2:10:06.080 --> 2:10:08.480 and play strength. So I mean, you can just go 2:10:08.600 --> 2:10:11.480 on and on and name every intangible and physical trait 2:10:11.480 --> 2:10:13.080 you want to running back to have. He has it 2:10:13.880 --> 2:10:16.000 a lot of confidence in the scheme. I know from 2:10:16.120 --> 2:10:18.960 working with Aaron Kromer in the past, the line coach. 2:10:19.000 --> 2:10:21.160 He does a great job and Joe Brady painting a 2:10:21.280 --> 2:10:23.320 vision for what they want in the run game and 2:10:23.680 --> 2:10:25.800 how it's supposed to be from a technique standpoint, where 2:10:25.800 --> 2:10:29.160 we're supposed to hit. And so you've seen back have success, 2:10:29.360 --> 2:10:31.720 you know, and so I don't think that's shocking. And 2:10:31.800 --> 2:10:34.160 it's not even just him. He's a great back, but 2:10:34.240 --> 2:10:36.640 the other backs get in there and do great job 2:10:36.680 --> 2:10:38.840 as well. So really dangerous attack. 2:10:39.120 --> 2:10:41.400 Yeah, got to watch out for him today, particularly on 2:10:41.480 --> 2:10:43.440 a day where the field may be a little slick. 2:10:44.240 --> 2:10:48.480 Ball control for both teams very important. The Bengals chances 2:10:48.520 --> 2:10:52.560 of making the playoffs are slim as of right now. 2:10:52.680 --> 2:10:56.600 There's somewhere between two to seven percent. A lot of 2:10:56.640 --> 2:10:59.360 the models are showing them as long shots. In fact, 2:10:59.520 --> 2:11:03.040 NFL have them at two percent. They got to win 2:11:03.120 --> 2:11:07.360 out get some significant help. If they beat Buffalo today, 2:11:07.520 --> 2:11:10.600 well then that percentage gets a little bit better. The 2:11:10.640 --> 2:11:12.680 bottom line is the only thing they can take care 2:11:12.760 --> 2:11:17.640 of is themselves, and that is worrying about Buffalo. The 2:11:17.840 --> 2:11:20.960 NFL is jumbled this year. This is the first time 2:11:21.000 --> 2:11:25.200 in NFL history where there are five divisions with a 2:11:25.320 --> 2:11:28.720 lead of under one game this late in the season, 2:11:30.560 --> 2:11:33.840 and because of that, predicting who wins what division and 2:11:33.960 --> 2:11:37.280 who the wild cards are are very difficult. Yet there 2:11:37.320 --> 2:11:39.920 is someone at cbssports dot com who is attempting to 2:11:40.000 --> 2:11:43.440 do that. He is Zach Peerless, and he has a 2:11:43.520 --> 2:11:46.520 story out right now that says which NFL contenders can 2:11:46.600 --> 2:11:51.839 you actually trust? Sorting twenty playoff hope falls into tiers 2:11:52.440 --> 2:11:57.560 in this a parody filled season. Zach Peerless checking in 2:11:57.720 --> 2:12:00.920 now from the home office, and it's great to have 2:12:01.080 --> 2:12:04.680 him here on seven hundred WLW on ESPN fifteen thirty. 2:12:04.720 --> 2:12:07.240 And Zach, how are you on this glorious game day? 2:12:08.160 --> 2:12:11.680 I'm great, I'm great. What a wonderful week of football 2:12:11.760 --> 2:12:13.200 we have started to day? 2:12:13.400 --> 2:12:15.840 Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. Now I see this 2:12:16.320 --> 2:12:19.800 this story. I don't see the Bengals on this list. 2:12:20.320 --> 2:12:22.080 So you're not a believer yet, are you? 2:12:23.840 --> 2:12:24.560 Not quite? 2:12:24.720 --> 2:12:26.920 I think that one of the toughest things for me 2:12:27.280 --> 2:12:30.440 is that they've dug themselves such a hole, and believe 2:12:30.520 --> 2:12:33.680 me that they have seen North is certainly not inspiring 2:12:33.760 --> 2:12:35.480 a lot of confidence, right now. 2:12:35.520 --> 2:12:38.560 But it's still just going to be such a call 2:12:38.720 --> 2:12:42.360 task for the Bengals to get there. There's certainly a team. 2:12:42.440 --> 2:12:45.240 I feel like we've had this talk before. They're a 2:12:45.320 --> 2:12:47.600 team that no one would want to see in the postseason. 2:12:47.720 --> 2:12:50.600 The question is did they dig themselves too deep of 2:12:50.680 --> 2:12:52.960 a hole to even be in that postseason? 2:12:53.240 --> 2:12:54.800 Well, they've got to run the table. I mean, there 2:12:54.800 --> 2:12:56.600 are some people in this town that think that if 2:12:56.640 --> 2:12:59.080 they win four of their remaining five that they're going 2:12:59.120 --> 2:13:00.800 to get in. I don't see how a sub five 2:13:00.880 --> 2:13:04.280 hundred record wins. The AFC North is as bad as 2:13:04.360 --> 2:13:09.840 that division has been. But Burrow is back and that's 2:13:09.920 --> 2:13:13.080 certainly a huge plus. Their schedule is not all that 2:13:13.240 --> 2:13:16.080 demanding once they get past this game today against the 2:13:16.160 --> 2:13:19.720 Bills and next week's game here in Cincinnati against Baltimore, 2:13:20.280 --> 2:13:23.320 and then it's Miami, Arizona and in Cleveland. But obviously 2:13:23.600 --> 2:13:26.920 any chance they have spins on these next two games. 2:13:26.720 --> 2:13:31.520 Right, absolutely, one hundred percent, right, I think that. 2:13:32.600 --> 2:13:36.720 Man the Ravens, it's just been one thing after another 2:13:36.840 --> 2:13:39.440 good season, and even as they have sort of steadied 2:13:39.480 --> 2:13:43.760 the ship record wide, their level of play has simply 2:13:43.880 --> 2:13:47.240 not really been close to what we expected. 2:13:47.480 --> 2:13:51.920 The you know, the Steelers, I always had some questions. 2:13:51.440 --> 2:13:56.640 About, and I'm actually in Baltimore today to see their showdown, 2:13:56.840 --> 2:14:00.880 but I just I have not been really impressed by 2:14:00.960 --> 2:14:04.560 the Steelers all season long. Obviously Mike Commlin knows how 2:14:04.600 --> 2:14:08.880 to pull out some smoking mirrors victories, but they just 2:14:09.280 --> 2:14:11.320 it's just not there offensively. 2:14:11.360 --> 2:14:12.120 In the Ravens. 2:14:12.240 --> 2:14:14.880 You look at this team and you've seen this core 2:14:15.040 --> 2:14:17.680 do it before, it just hasn't been the case this year. 2:14:18.160 --> 2:14:19.200 Lamar Jackson just. 2:14:19.320 --> 2:14:23.160 Not really close to the quarterback that he has been, 2:14:23.880 --> 2:14:26.760 you know, for essentially his entire career, but especially the 2:14:26.840 --> 2:14:28.440 past two three years. 2:14:28.560 --> 2:14:30.600 So it's these two games. 2:14:30.680 --> 2:14:34.320 Like the Bengals, they have to do it now, certainly 2:14:34.400 --> 2:14:35.960 if they want to start today. 2:14:37.360 --> 2:14:38.800 The Bills are a beatable team. 2:14:38.840 --> 2:14:41.560 I think that Cincinnati has done a great job improving 2:14:41.640 --> 2:14:44.400 their running game throughout the year, which is kind of 2:14:44.480 --> 2:14:47.280 funny because that's the thing that they always wish they 2:14:47.400 --> 2:14:51.280 had the compliment Joe Burrow, and now they've kind of 2:14:51.360 --> 2:14:54.000 discovered it without him, now that these back will see 2:14:54.360 --> 2:14:56.800 how good that offense could be. Certainly like to see 2:14:56.920 --> 2:15:01.640 them establish the ground game today. The struggling Buffalo defense. 2:15:01.800 --> 2:15:03.480 Well, they rushed for one hundred and twenty eight a 2:15:03.520 --> 2:15:06.400 couple of Thursday nights ago against Baltimore and average about 2:15:06.440 --> 2:15:09.520 four on the ground. But you're right about their defense, 2:15:09.600 --> 2:15:12.240 it's been sub par. So I'm just wondering in your 2:15:12.320 --> 2:15:16.960 opinion was last Thursday night, Thanksgiving night? Was it an 2:15:17.000 --> 2:15:20.320 anomaly the way they played defensively or do you think 2:15:20.400 --> 2:15:24.000 something's happened here where maybe they finally figure this thing 2:15:24.080 --> 2:15:24.840 out defensively. 2:15:26.560 --> 2:15:30.560 I think there were some elements of an anomaly in there. 2:15:30.600 --> 2:15:34.040 I think you've got one punch out right. 2:15:33.920 --> 2:15:36.480 At the goal line, Isaiah likely loses the ball. You 2:15:36.640 --> 2:15:40.440 got kind of a fifty to fifty. Maybe you get it. 2:15:40.600 --> 2:15:43.360 Maybe you don't call on a Zay Flowers touchdowns. 2:15:43.440 --> 2:15:47.160 But having said that, the things that you have to 2:15:47.240 --> 2:15:50.760 do to kind of get off the mass defensively, especially 2:15:50.800 --> 2:15:53.600 in the day's NFL, you have to one get a. 2:15:53.600 --> 2:15:56.600 Little bit lucky because the offenses and the quarterbacks are 2:15:56.680 --> 2:15:59.120 so so good, and two you have to play with 2:15:59.280 --> 2:16:03.400 outstanding effort, and you saw it on the Isaiah likely fumble, 2:16:03.600 --> 2:16:08.400 especially when you have some basic struggles. The Bengals they 2:16:08.520 --> 2:16:11.280 do not tackle well. They have a lot of issues 2:16:11.400 --> 2:16:15.960 kind of over pursuing and there are just some fundamental 2:16:16.080 --> 2:16:19.680 issues that maybe can be fixed here there. But the 2:16:19.800 --> 2:16:22.520 things that have to be right are that is the effort, 2:16:22.880 --> 2:16:26.160 and you certainly saw that, and that's half the battle. 2:16:26.280 --> 2:16:29.800 Sometimes even more especially when you have a good offense. 2:16:30.200 --> 2:16:32.680 Your defense can either be really really good down to 2:16:32.840 --> 2:16:36.280 down which the Bengals they are not trending that way, 2:16:37.160 --> 2:16:39.760 or they can make a big play here or there. 2:16:40.200 --> 2:16:43.440 And that's what you saw Thursday night, is you saw 2:16:43.600 --> 2:16:47.600 the takeaways. You saw the ability to make a play 2:16:47.760 --> 2:16:48.440 here or there. 2:16:48.560 --> 2:16:49.600 And if they can get to. 2:16:49.760 --> 2:16:54.120 That level, if they're bad or mediocre for fifty plays, 2:16:54.200 --> 2:16:57.120 but they can make three or four that you know, 2:16:57.320 --> 2:17:02.039 either stop a drive or turn into points for the offense. 2:17:02.400 --> 2:17:05.640 That's really really important. You have to be able to 2:17:05.800 --> 2:17:09.800 do something, even if it's just a few plays a game. 2:17:10.040 --> 2:17:12.400 That's all that this Bengals offense might need. 2:17:12.680 --> 2:17:16.640 Yeah, yeah, well yeah, that's the hope. In your article, 2:17:16.720 --> 2:17:20.320 you break down tier by tiers, Tier one, tier two, 2:17:20.440 --> 2:17:22.440 all the way to tiers six and tier one is 2:17:22.640 --> 2:17:25.920 inner circle of trustworthiness and you've got the Rams and 2:17:26.040 --> 2:17:31.119 the Packers above everybody else that are right now playoff 2:17:31.240 --> 2:17:34.040 contenders or teams that look like they're certain for the playoffs. 2:17:34.600 --> 2:17:39.439 Tier two is interesting. Quarterbacks can carry them Chiefs, Bills, Chargers, 2:17:40.360 --> 2:17:42.960 Chiefs Bills, Chargers. The Chiefs, as you point out, are 2:17:43.040 --> 2:17:46.000 playing for their playoff lives tonight on Sunday Night Football 2:17:46.040 --> 2:17:49.000 against Houston. We already know about Buffalo, and then there's 2:17:49.080 --> 2:17:52.920 the Chargers and what they have out there. With Herbert 2:17:53.440 --> 2:17:56.520 just wondering about the Bills, let's just keep it focused here. 2:17:57.400 --> 2:17:59.880 Josh Allen is a guy that can throw his team 2:18:00.080 --> 2:18:02.400 on his back. He's also a guy that has been 2:18:02.440 --> 2:18:06.000 giving up the football a little too much via turnover. 2:18:06.280 --> 2:18:11.640 I'm just wondering of the three quarterbacks, Mahomes and Josh 2:18:11.720 --> 2:18:15.720 Allen and Justin Herbert, of those quarterbacks that can carry teams, 2:18:16.080 --> 2:18:18.680 which of those three do you think is the top 2:18:19.160 --> 2:18:20.119 in your Tier two. 2:18:21.959 --> 2:18:24.560 I think I still have to go with Patrick Mahomes 2:18:24.600 --> 2:18:28.000 simply because we've seen it so many times. 2:18:28.080 --> 2:18:29.920 I think that he is there. 2:18:30.440 --> 2:18:34.240 It's so interesting you look at the splits between Mahomes 2:18:34.360 --> 2:18:35.600 versus Josh Allen. 2:18:35.760 --> 2:18:39.080 In the regular season, the Bills win time after time. 2:18:39.600 --> 2:18:42.760 It gets to the postseason and Patrick Mahomes has beaten 2:18:42.800 --> 2:18:47.800 the Bills every single time, so I think obviously you're right. 2:18:47.879 --> 2:18:51.279 The Chiefs have their backs against the wall one hundred percent. 2:18:51.840 --> 2:18:55.280 This is about as close to a must win game 2:18:55.360 --> 2:18:58.959 as it gets for especially this It's late in the year, 2:18:59.040 --> 2:19:02.600 but it's early to have must win games already. The 2:19:02.760 --> 2:19:06.120 Chiefs have run out of roomer error, so I'm really 2:19:06.280 --> 2:19:11.160 interested to see Patrick Mahomes. He was excellent on Thanksgiving, 2:19:11.360 --> 2:19:15.600 they still lost, so questions about the defense have crept up. 2:19:16.440 --> 2:19:19.680 Patrick Mahomes has to be pretty close to perfect, and 2:19:19.800 --> 2:19:22.640 they're gonna have to do it against a very very 2:19:22.720 --> 2:19:25.360 good Texans defense, and the Chiefs are going to be 2:19:25.440 --> 2:19:27.880 down several offensive line starters. 2:19:28.280 --> 2:19:33.080 That's never a good recipe for success against Will Anderson Jr. 2:19:33.120 --> 2:19:33.959 And the Neil Hunter. 2:19:34.240 --> 2:19:37.600 So I'd still take Mahomes, but he might have to 2:19:37.680 --> 2:19:40.360 be as good as ever just to get Kansas City 2:19:40.440 --> 2:19:41.160 to the playoffs. 2:19:41.240 --> 2:19:43.560 We've got a Tier four here, trust the defense, not 2:19:43.720 --> 2:19:46.080 the offense. You have trust the offense not the defense 2:19:46.120 --> 2:19:48.920 in Tier three and you mentioned the Texans there, Seattle 2:19:49.000 --> 2:19:51.959 and Denver are in the trust the defense category. Then 2:19:52.000 --> 2:19:54.320 you have wild cards, and the Ravens are inside the 2:19:54.360 --> 2:19:59.400 wildcard group with Philly, Chicago, San Francisco, the Colts, the Jags, 2:20:00.080 --> 2:20:04.240 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore as we as we mentioned, 2:20:04.480 --> 2:20:07.720 played the Bengals. We could go Thursday night. I don't 2:20:07.840 --> 2:20:10.600 since they can play any worse than what they played 2:20:10.640 --> 2:20:12.160 on that in that game, and a lot of that 2:20:12.280 --> 2:20:15.039 had to do with how the Bengals played against them. 2:20:15.560 --> 2:20:17.800 But as you look at the AFC North right now 2:20:17.959 --> 2:20:20.520 and you've got Baltimore and Pittsburgh in a huge game 2:20:20.600 --> 2:20:23.920 tonight that you're at at Baltimore between the Steelers and 2:20:23.959 --> 2:20:25.879 the Ravens. If you had to look at the AFC 2:20:26.040 --> 2:20:29.480 North right now and pick one of those three teams Bengals, 2:20:29.840 --> 2:20:32.640 Ravens or Steelers to win it, who would it be? 2:20:32.720 --> 2:20:36.960 At this point, I'm still going with the Ravens. I 2:20:37.160 --> 2:20:39.800 just cannot imagine Lamar. 2:20:39.720 --> 2:20:44.320 Jackson continues to be this bad. It's one thing to 2:20:44.560 --> 2:20:47.320 have him be a little bit limited as a runner. 2:20:47.560 --> 2:20:51.440 His progression as a passer throughout his career has been remarkable, 2:20:51.560 --> 2:20:55.600 especially as a downfield passer. Right now, he's not the 2:20:55.800 --> 2:20:58.600 runner that we've seen him be, and he's not close 2:20:58.680 --> 2:21:01.280 to the pass or that we see him be. I 2:21:01.560 --> 2:21:05.920 just don't think that that's really sustainable, though. I think 2:21:06.040 --> 2:21:08.960 that he's going to be better. He has to be better, 2:21:09.280 --> 2:21:12.840 but he's also going to be better just I think 2:21:13.400 --> 2:21:15.680 he has gone through some stretches here. 2:21:16.120 --> 2:21:18.760 Honestly, it seems like almost. 2:21:18.480 --> 2:21:22.400 Every quarterback, except for maybe Patrick Mahomes, maybe Joe Burrow, 2:21:22.560 --> 2:21:25.000 you've been, they go through these stretches where for a 2:21:25.120 --> 2:21:28.119 few weeks it just doesn't look good. You mentioned Josh 2:21:28.200 --> 2:21:30.280 Allen will give the ball to the other team. He'll 2:21:30.320 --> 2:21:33.599 have these stretches where, you know, five or six turnovers 2:21:33.680 --> 2:21:37.200 in three games. Lamar Jackson is just going through a 2:21:37.640 --> 2:21:40.560 brutal skid right now. One of these ones where he says, 2:21:41.080 --> 2:21:42.680 I make these frozen practice. 2:21:42.720 --> 2:21:45.200 He can make these frozen as sleep, and he's not 2:21:45.480 --> 2:21:45.760 doing it. 2:21:45.959 --> 2:21:50.360 You gained, So if you take into account of big picture, 2:21:50.720 --> 2:21:54.080 I think the Ravens defense has improved. I think that 2:21:54.520 --> 2:21:57.640 Lamar Jackson is slumping right now, but there's no way 2:21:58.280 --> 2:22:01.080 this slump and goes through the end of the season. 2:22:01.560 --> 2:22:05.880 And also when it gets cold, when the conditions aren't great, 2:22:07.000 --> 2:22:09.039 I want Derrick Henry in my backfield. 2:22:09.240 --> 2:22:11.480 So that's why I'm still leaning Ravens. 2:22:11.600 --> 2:22:14.400 But we're certainly going to find out today. This is 2:22:14.920 --> 2:22:17.280 a big one, and strange things tend to happen when 2:22:17.280 --> 2:22:19.760 the Ravens and the Steelers meet. 2:22:20.560 --> 2:22:23.600 Yeah, no question about that. Zach Peerless, cbsports dot Com 2:22:23.640 --> 2:22:26.760 as our guest. He is at that Ravens Pittsburgh game. 2:22:27.120 --> 2:22:30.039 All right, I got about a minute here, Zach, give 2:22:30.080 --> 2:22:33.520 me your handicap on these games today, Cincinnati at Buffalo, 2:22:34.000 --> 2:22:37.400 Pittsburgh at Baltimore. End of the day, who's the winner, 2:22:37.600 --> 2:22:39.600 who's the loser in both of those games. 2:22:41.480 --> 2:22:45.119 Here in Baltimore. I'll go with the hosts Baltimore. 2:22:45.360 --> 2:22:47.680 They're too good running the ball, that's been an issue 2:22:47.720 --> 2:22:51.240 for Pittsburgh all year, and Aaron Rodgers playing with a 2:22:51.320 --> 2:22:56.240 broken left rist. Everything that he does so well from 2:22:56.400 --> 2:22:59.840 under center, he's not doing because it's not fun to 2:23:00.280 --> 2:23:03.680 pass under center with a broken ridge, breaking nude. And 2:23:03.840 --> 2:23:07.560 then when we head up to Buffalo, oh man, I 2:23:07.680 --> 2:23:10.280 think it's going to be a good one. I think 2:23:10.320 --> 2:23:12.080 there are going to be a lot of points scored. 2:23:12.200 --> 2:23:15.080 I think at the end though, Josh Allen is going 2:23:15.120 --> 2:23:17.000 to be a little bit too much. I think the 2:23:17.160 --> 2:23:19.240 running game, especially is going to be a little bit 2:23:19.280 --> 2:23:20.800 too much In Buffalo gets. 2:23:20.640 --> 2:23:23.440 The way James Cook and route to it at least 2:23:23.480 --> 2:23:27.360 an eighteen hundred yard season. He's rushed already for over 2:23:27.480 --> 2:23:30.879 twelve hundred. All right, The story again is which NFL 2:23:30.959 --> 2:23:34.320 contenders can you actually trust? Sorting twenty playoff hope pols 2:23:34.360 --> 2:23:39.240 into tears in a parody filled season. Zach Perlis, the author, 2:23:39.800 --> 2:23:42.920 not quite buying into Bengals yet. Maybe we check back 2:23:42.959 --> 2:23:45.400 with him in twenty four hours. Zach, thanks for your time, man, 2:23:45.440 --> 2:23:46.120 We appreciate it. 2:23:47.160 --> 2:23:49.320 Thanks so much for having me. Always a blast. 2:23:49.959 --> 2:23:52.680 Well, we'll see how much of a blast it is 2:23:52.760 --> 2:23:56.240 in Buffalo where the snow is falling. Temperatures as well, 2:23:56.440 --> 2:23:58.760 could be a factor throughout the game. There is some 2:23:58.879 --> 2:24:01.440 breaking news out of Buffalo. I think this is more 2:24:01.560 --> 2:24:04.480 fodder for after the game today and on and through 2:24:04.520 --> 2:24:10.320 the week. 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Let's check 2:26:47.840 --> 2:26:51.200 out today's player Spotlight and that is brought to you 2:26:51.320 --> 2:26:54.000 by Furniture Fair. Get the guaranteed low price or it's 2:26:54.040 --> 2:26:59.720 free at Furniture Fair. I'm gonna give you three. I 2:26:59.760 --> 2:27:02.800 can bring it down to one, and I'm gonna go 2:27:02.920 --> 2:27:07.360 the interior of the Bengals offensive line Dylan Fairschild left guard, 2:27:07.840 --> 2:27:10.800 Dalton Reisner, right guard, Ted Carras center. 2:27:13.560 --> 2:27:13.640 Uh. 2:27:13.800 --> 2:27:16.680 We'll see what kind of outside pressure Buffalo can get 2:27:16.800 --> 2:27:20.680 without Joey Bosa today. But of those three, I think 2:27:20.760 --> 2:27:22.959 if they can keep the front of the pocket clean, 2:27:24.200 --> 2:27:27.760 that will give Joe Burrow plenty of opportunity. He's okay 2:27:27.959 --> 2:27:33.040 against the outside rush usually, but the interior stuff is 2:27:33.080 --> 2:27:36.680 what he has to worry about. And so you're talking 2:27:36.720 --> 2:27:42.440 about Dion Walker, the Kwan Jones uh maybe on on 2:27:42.800 --> 2:27:45.920 uh on occasion, Matt Mulano the linebacker. You've got to 2:27:46.080 --> 2:27:48.040 You've got to keep the front of that pocket clean. 2:27:48.560 --> 2:27:51.080 That's my player spotlight today. By the way, pregame Sports 2:27:51.160 --> 2:27:54.600 Talk brought to you in part by Encore Technologies. Visit 2:27:54.800 --> 2:28:00.240 encore got tech. A lot of injuries are mounting up 2:28:00.240 --> 2:28:02.440 for the Buffalo Bills. They've had their share, and I 2:28:02.600 --> 2:28:04.800 just mentioned one they will not have today and that's 2:28:04.920 --> 2:28:09.480 Joey Bosa. That's a major loss for them today. They're 2:28:09.560 --> 2:28:14.200 great pass rusher as well as their linebacker Terrell Bernard. 2:28:14.320 --> 2:28:17.160 He is out today as well. So Sean McDermott, head 2:28:17.240 --> 2:28:19.599 coach Buffalo, on all the injuries. 2:28:19.360 --> 2:28:21.760 Is the toughness of our football team is what's going 2:28:21.840 --> 2:28:25.280 to drive us as we move forward here with as 2:28:25.320 --> 2:28:29.240 you said, a few of those injuries. So we don't 2:28:29.280 --> 2:28:32.400 have time to be feeling sorry for ourself. We've got 2:28:32.480 --> 2:28:34.320 to get ourselves ready for a big time challenge this 2:28:34.400 --> 2:28:34.880 weekend here. 2:28:35.560 --> 2:28:39.119 As for the Bengals out again with a hip pelvis problem. 2:28:39.320 --> 2:28:42.720 Is Trey Hendrickson doubtful today? Is Shaka Heyward? In fact, 2:28:42.720 --> 2:28:46.600 he's out. So that's the injury report brought to you 2:28:46.760 --> 2:28:49.840 by Postman Law. Injured called eight four to four Postman 2:28:50.280 --> 2:28:54.880 Others promise Postman delivers Postman Law eight for four Postman 2:28:55.200 --> 2:29:02.080 as I said, Others promise and Postman delivers. So Bengals 2:29:02.120 --> 2:29:05.200 have been here before. Maybe last year they learned a 2:29:05.240 --> 2:29:08.640 few lessons about how to rally here late right, Jamarrow. 2:29:10.280 --> 2:29:13.320 As a teeth respective, I would just say, just not 2:29:13.480 --> 2:29:15.360 giving up, you know what I'm saying. That's that's the 2:29:15.440 --> 2:29:17.920 hardest thing, and not putting fingers at somewhere when it's 2:29:17.920 --> 2:29:20.440 not going our way. I'm personal. I was just saying, 2:29:20.640 --> 2:29:24.600 being accountable for yourself and just doing your job at 2:29:24.680 --> 2:29:25.879 the end of the day. That's what it's all about, 2:29:25.920 --> 2:29:26.840 doing your job and winning. 2:29:27.040 --> 2:29:29.959 Yeah, that's what it's all about. In Buffalo at one 2:29:29.959 --> 2:29:36.560 o'clock today, stand By Countdown to Kickoff is next with Champagne, 2:29:36.640 --> 2:29:41.000 Wayne box Miller, that Hall of Fame man about town. 2:29:41.720 --> 2:29:43.960 He'll take you right up to Kickoff with Dan Horde 2:29:44.160 --> 2:29:47.520 and Dave Lapham. 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How's the level North 2:30:32.840 --> 2:30:37.880 or shot the Fengals dot Com slash shot. This is 2:30:37.959 --> 2:30:41.000 the Bengals Countdown to Kickoff on the Bengals Radio Network. 2:30:41.959 --> 2:30:44.080 Good afternoon, and welcome to count Down to Kickoff on 2:30:44.160 --> 2:30:47.320 the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network for today's matchup between the 2:30:47.440 --> 2:30:51.200 Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills. I'm Wayneboxbillity to count 2:30:51.240 --> 2:30:53.200 down the kickoff hosting. I don't know if the Bengals 2:30:53.240 --> 2:30:55.920 have nine lives, but they have number nine and he's 2:30:55.959 --> 2:30:59.920 already transformed his team's productivity upon his return. Now, they're 2:31:00.120 --> 2:31:02.680 another one game season and trying to win two in 2:31:02.760 --> 2:31:05.640 a row against the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen. Both 2:31:05.680 --> 2:31:07.720 teams are trying to get back to consistency and both 2:31:07.760 --> 2:31:11.040 are trying to improve their playoff position. And there's no 2:31:11.160 --> 2:31:13.920 love lost between these teams, as the Bengals played spoilers 2:31:13.959 --> 2:31:16.640 for the Bills and the playoffs. But these two teams 2:31:16.680 --> 2:31:20.320 are inextricably linked forever because of demor Hamblin. But they'll 2:31:20.360 --> 2:31:23.720 go their separate ways today when the game starts. Standing 2:31:23.760 --> 2:31:26.120 by with today's called His Game at high Mark Stadium, 2:31:26.480 --> 2:31:29.800 my colleagues Dan Hord and Dave Lapham, gentlemen, secure the wings. 2:31:31.400 --> 2:31:32.119 Thank you, Bocks. 2:31:32.120 --> 2:31:36.560 Appreciate that today's game demands a weather report at the 2:31:36.600 --> 2:31:39.080 beginning of the broadcast. I am not a meteorologist, but 2:31:39.120 --> 2:31:41.760 I'm about to play one on the radio. Oties twenty 2:31:41.840 --> 2:31:45.080 eight degrees. We have steady snow falling here in Orchard Park, 2:31:45.160 --> 2:31:47.880 New York, which is a Buffalo suburb. When I arrived 2:31:47.920 --> 2:31:50.320 at the stadium on the late team bus maybe forty 2:31:50.360 --> 2:31:53.080 five minutes ago, the field was still bare. Not anymore. 2:31:53.520 --> 2:31:56.760 It is snow coded now. You can see footprints forming 2:31:56.920 --> 2:32:00.360 in this light coat of snow. The forecast the rest 2:32:00.400 --> 2:32:02.640 of the game looks like this. It's not supposed to 2:32:02.720 --> 2:32:05.560 get much colder. It's going to linger around twenty eight 2:32:05.640 --> 2:32:08.960 degrees something like that. But the snow is expected to continue, 2:32:09.560 --> 2:32:12.400 could be up to an inch or two during the 2:32:12.480 --> 2:32:15.119 course of the next several hours. So it's definitely going 2:32:15.160 --> 2:32:16.600 to be a factor today here in Buffalo. 2:32:16.720 --> 2:32:17.960 I agree, Dan, I think it will. 2:32:18.240 --> 2:32:20.560 It will be a factor, particularly if it continues to 2:32:20.600 --> 2:32:25.480 snow at the rate you're talking about that they're reporting currently. 2:32:26.240 --> 2:32:26.400 Yeah. 2:32:26.400 --> 2:32:29.560 I mean, when the numbers disappear covered by snow, and 2:32:29.600 --> 2:32:34.040 when the yard line stripes are disappear because of the snow, 2:32:34.520 --> 2:32:38.480 you know it's serious. And obviously the footy can be 2:32:38.520 --> 2:32:41.680 an issue. And when the footing is an issue, then 2:32:41.720 --> 2:32:43.800 you got to who can run the football? You got 2:32:43.879 --> 2:32:46.840 to rely on the running game, and I think the 2:32:46.879 --> 2:32:48.840 Bengals are going to have to be able to run 2:32:48.879 --> 2:32:52.120 the football against the Buffalo Bills, that defensive football team 2:32:52.120 --> 2:32:54.120 of the Buffalo Bills. The Bengals have been running the 2:32:54.160 --> 2:32:57.040 football better, there's no question about it. I mean, I 2:32:57.120 --> 2:33:00.160 think that's been a reason that they've played better in 2:33:00.280 --> 2:33:03.240 recent weeks, that their offense has been balanced. And even 2:33:03.320 --> 2:33:05.320 with Joe Burrow at the quarterback position, you know, he 2:33:05.400 --> 2:33:07.440 came back to the hell of a job last week, 2:33:07.520 --> 2:33:09.800 the big win against the Baltimore Ravens and trying to 2:33:09.840 --> 2:33:13.080 get another one here in Buffalo, and he's done well 2:33:13.160 --> 2:33:15.840 here in Buffalo playing against the Buffalo Bills. He is 2:33:15.920 --> 2:33:18.520 the straw that stirs the drink. There's no question. He's 2:33:18.560 --> 2:33:20.920 the guy that's going to be the biggest factor in 2:33:21.240 --> 2:33:23.720 determining if the Cincinnati Bengals can get a W today 2:33:23.800 --> 2:33:27.320 or not. But I'm telling you the next biggest key 2:33:28.040 --> 2:33:31.600 is will Chase Brown and shamaj Ap Ryan be able 2:33:31.680 --> 2:33:34.080 to get the running game going? Not just those guys, 2:33:34.400 --> 2:33:37.119 Will the offensive line be able to handle the Buffalo 2:33:37.240 --> 2:33:41.800 Bill's defensive line in the running game. And Buffalo they're stout. 2:33:41.879 --> 2:33:43.840 I mean they play it. They play it pretty well. 2:33:43.879 --> 2:33:46.680 I mean they all you know, take a gap. They 2:33:46.760 --> 2:33:49.720 don't do a whole lot. I mean, Bobby Babbie is 2:33:49.800 --> 2:33:52.800 not a guy that runs a million looks in eighty thousand, 2:33:52.879 --> 2:33:56.680 you know, variations off of that. If you figure something out, 2:33:56.720 --> 2:33:59.760 he's got something that he goes to. They pretty much too. 2:33:59.800 --> 2:33:59.959 Yeah. 2:34:00.000 --> 2:34:01.360 If they take you on there right in the middle 2:34:01.360 --> 2:34:03.960 of your chest and you know, trying to stop you 2:34:04.080 --> 2:34:06.320 and then play off of either side of you to 2:34:06.400 --> 2:34:10.160 stop run the losso one gap, get in gaps and penetrate, 2:34:11.280 --> 2:34:13.520 he will load the box to stop the run. If 2:34:13.560 --> 2:34:15.280 you get that running game going, I think if he 2:34:15.360 --> 2:34:17.960 does start loading the box, it's a great sign because 2:34:17.959 --> 2:34:21.000 that means that the Chase brown Ands Andmajrep Runner are 2:34:21.040 --> 2:34:22.959 getting it done and they're gonna have to put another 2:34:23.040 --> 2:34:25.400 guy in the in the box that he hopes will 2:34:25.440 --> 2:34:29.680 be unblocked that can handle the Bengals running attack. An 2:34:29.720 --> 2:34:32.200 unblocked guy get to the ball, carry and take him down. 2:34:32.600 --> 2:34:35.960 There's player news today involving the Cincinnati Bengals. Wide receiver 2:34:36.120 --> 2:34:39.440 Jermaine Burton has been suspended for today's game. He's obviously 2:34:39.520 --> 2:34:42.120 inactive as a result, he wouldn't have been counted on anyway. 2:34:42.440 --> 2:34:45.240 He's done nothing this year. He didn't make the team flight, 2:34:45.879 --> 2:34:49.080 so it's just another strike against this guy. He's got 2:34:49.240 --> 2:34:51.440 all the talent in the world, but has not been 2:34:51.480 --> 2:34:54.720 a professional in his first two NFL seasons. Laf the 2:34:54.760 --> 2:34:57.680 Bengals have paid him two point nine million dollars so 2:34:57.840 --> 2:35:00.280 far in two years, and the return has it's been 2:35:00.440 --> 2:35:01.520 almost nothing. 2:35:01.840 --> 2:35:05.920 Absolutely, I mean it's it's almost disgusting. Really, here's a guy, 2:35:06.040 --> 2:35:11.879 like you said, Dan, amazingly talented, elite physical abilities. I mean, 2:35:12.080 --> 2:35:14.360 he's got really good size, you know, six to two, 2:35:15.320 --> 2:35:18.960 couple to ten, two fifteen ish, can really run, can 2:35:19.120 --> 2:35:22.680 change directions, stick his foot in the ground and change direction, 2:35:22.800 --> 2:35:26.880 and break open and present himself as a viable target 2:35:26.959 --> 2:35:30.640 for quarterbacks. He's got good hands. You know, he puts 2:35:30.640 --> 2:35:33.000 the football away. But like you said, he can't be trusted. 2:35:33.600 --> 2:35:36.640 And you know he has not learned the playbook either. 2:35:37.000 --> 2:35:39.720 I mean, that's that's that's the big thing. If Joe 2:35:39.800 --> 2:35:43.360 Burrow doesn't trust you, you got problems. And really Joe 2:35:43.440 --> 2:35:46.080 Burrow does not trust Burton at the stage of the career. 2:35:46.560 --> 2:35:49.199 So he's not here today. But T Higgins is. He's 2:35:49.320 --> 2:35:52.200 back from his concussion. He is good to go today. 2:35:52.720 --> 2:35:55.080 As for how he feels about the weather, well, when 2:35:55.080 --> 2:35:57.760 they played the playoff game here in January of twenty three, 2:35:58.200 --> 2:36:02.039 t was captured on Mike saying this weather isn't for everybody, 2:36:02.680 --> 2:36:05.560 and I'm everybody, so it's not his cup of tea. 2:36:05.600 --> 2:36:07.840 But I also heard Jamar Chase say to Ta Higgins 2:36:07.920 --> 2:36:09.840 on the bench just a little while ago, you know what, 2:36:10.360 --> 2:36:12.520 not too bad today. Yeah, So hopefully that's how they 2:36:12.560 --> 2:36:15.640 feel about the weather conditions. The temperature in the high 2:36:15.720 --> 2:36:19.240 twenties and snow falling here in Orchard Park, New York. 2:36:19.560 --> 2:36:20.520 Box Back to you. 2:36:21.280 --> 2:36:23.200 Hey, thank you guys. 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Called Rick reb hooltz at five one, three, 2:38:05.920 --> 2:38:08.200 three eight three seventy five forty seven or visit us 2:38:08.240 --> 2:38:10.400 online at UNITEDELDC dot com. 2:38:13.760 --> 2:38:15.959 Welcome back to col Down to kickoff on the Cincinnati 2:38:16.000 --> 2:38:17.040 Bengals Radio Network. 2:38:17.080 --> 2:38:17.880 I'm Wayne box Miller. 2:38:17.920 --> 2:38:20.160 Glad to have you a bored And I tell you 2:38:20.240 --> 2:38:22.280 what you may not know that BJ Hill and Joe 2:38:22.320 --> 2:38:25.600 Burrow have been teammates for five years, so his perspective 2:38:25.640 --> 2:38:28.560 on the impact of Burrow's return from injury is of value. 2:38:28.959 --> 2:38:31.680 He's standing by with Dan Hort in this week's Waltz 2:38:31.760 --> 2:38:33.400 Business Solution Players Interview. 2:38:34.640 --> 2:38:37.120 BJ, You've been Joe Burrow's teammate for five years. 2:38:37.320 --> 2:38:40.480 When a guy comes back ahead of schedule from an injury, 2:38:40.720 --> 2:38:42.600 what statement does that make to his teammates? 2:38:43.160 --> 2:38:45.280 It means a lot, man, even guys who fight through 2:38:45.320 --> 2:38:49.119 injuries each and every day, seeing them out there practicing, 2:38:49.320 --> 2:38:51.600 seeing out on the games, meaning that they that they 2:38:51.680 --> 2:38:55.160 care for the guys some instance like you can't be 2:38:55.240 --> 2:38:57.480 out there, but guys that you know try to be 2:38:57.520 --> 2:38:59.440 out there, try to do everything's possible to get out there. 2:38:59.520 --> 2:39:00.320 It means to. 2:39:01.800 --> 2:39:02.320 The teammates. 2:39:02.760 --> 2:39:05.800 So I was watching the postgame celebration after the victory 2:39:05.840 --> 2:39:08.840 in Baltimore. The big tur ducking spread out there on 2:39:08.959 --> 2:39:11.160 the field. You were right in the middle of the celebration, 2:39:11.920 --> 2:39:14.680 and then it looked like you bailed before getting a bite. 2:39:15.000 --> 2:39:15.600 What happened? 2:39:16.640 --> 2:39:18.560 I was ready to go go home, man, It was 2:39:18.640 --> 2:39:20.840 a long two days for us, and I was like, 2:39:20.920 --> 2:39:22.880 you know what, let me get in the locker room, 2:39:23.080 --> 2:39:24.680 take a shour, and I'm ready to go. 2:39:24.720 --> 2:39:26.920 Home to get to my family. You got the feast 2:39:26.920 --> 2:39:27.640 the next night, I. 2:39:27.720 --> 2:39:29.920 Did, got up early, even though we got back of late. 2:39:30.040 --> 2:39:32.720 Got up early and I smoked a turkey. 2:39:34.000 --> 2:39:36.240 All right, good to know. We're visiting with DJ Hill. 2:39:36.720 --> 2:39:39.320 Over the last three weeks, the defense has given up 2:39:39.320 --> 2:39:42.320 an average of seventeen point six points. That would be 2:39:42.440 --> 2:39:44.440 number three in the NFL if it was for the 2:39:44.680 --> 2:39:48.439 entire season. What are the biggest reasons for the defensive improvement? 2:39:48.920 --> 2:39:51.040 Yeah, I do the little things right. This was really 2:39:51.120 --> 2:39:52.920 was killing us at the beginning of the year or 2:39:53.560 --> 2:39:56.080 halfway through year whatever. That was a little stretch. We 2:39:56.200 --> 2:39:58.240 just want doing the little things right. And we came 2:39:58.320 --> 2:40:00.840 back and just skip on work and keep on tipping 2:40:00.879 --> 2:40:02.120 at the things that we had to get better. 2:40:02.280 --> 2:40:04.560 And we have a point that we turned around. 2:40:04.720 --> 2:40:06.160 We just gotta keep the moment and going, keep on 2:40:06.240 --> 2:40:10.000 playing defense, communicating and just playing as a team. If 2:40:10.040 --> 2:40:12.039 we keep on doing that, man, I think a lot 2:40:12.080 --> 2:40:13.160 of things to take care of itself. 2:40:13.640 --> 2:40:16.240 Are you seeing the light come on for some of 2:40:16.320 --> 2:40:17.839 your younger teammates. 2:40:18.120 --> 2:40:22.640 H for sure, especially the two rookie linebackers sitting and 2:40:22.760 --> 2:40:25.760 fly around and having fun, being more confident, just being 2:40:25.800 --> 2:40:28.920 there in their role. It's a lot when you come 2:40:28.959 --> 2:40:31.760 in have to play a lot for NFL team, and 2:40:32.120 --> 2:40:36.520 you can see how they matured and take advantage of 2:40:36.560 --> 2:40:39.280 each and every rep even in practice, The way they communicate, 2:40:39.360 --> 2:40:41.680 way they come back to work, just actually just actually 2:40:41.720 --> 2:40:44.640 older guys. Even they asking me questions like I'm like, 2:40:44.959 --> 2:40:46.879 all right, I think you're gonna You're gonna be special 2:40:46.920 --> 2:40:48.720 in this league. Just just keep on working, just doing 2:40:48.720 --> 2:40:51.280 the right things, the little things, over and over and 2:40:51.400 --> 2:40:52.200 never get tired of it. 2:40:52.760 --> 2:40:55.920 Do you think linebacker is especially tough for a rookie. 2:40:55.959 --> 2:40:58.160 I mean Barrett Carter for examples, wearing the green dot. 2:40:58.200 --> 2:41:00.800 He's the guy communicating without golden I think so. 2:41:01.000 --> 2:41:04.440 I think it's it's tough that in safety to play 2:41:04.720 --> 2:41:08.360 by those positions, especially mentally, you got a lot on 2:41:08.480 --> 2:41:11.520 your plate. They're playing the tackle is a rooku. I 2:41:11.560 --> 2:41:13.840 think it's very hard too, but playing a lot, but 2:41:13.959 --> 2:41:15.120 you got a lot on your play. You gotta get 2:41:15.120 --> 2:41:16.520 the calls, you gotta make sure you know what you're 2:41:16.560 --> 2:41:18.600 doing other people are doing mixture in the right spot, 2:41:19.800 --> 2:41:22.680 getting the right calls, the checks and just everything you got. 2:41:22.879 --> 2:41:24.200 You definitely got a lot on the play and you 2:41:24.240 --> 2:41:26.960 can see the way they just improved over the last 2:41:27.000 --> 2:41:29.920 couple of weeks. Man, It's it's very exciting to see. 2:41:30.800 --> 2:41:34.000 We're chatting with bj Hill. Joseph OSEI might have had 2:41:34.000 --> 2:41:36.520 the best game of his career in Baltimore. Two sacks, 2:41:36.600 --> 2:41:39.480 four quarterback hits in a forest fumble. I remember you 2:41:39.720 --> 2:41:42.080 raved about his effort when I asked you about him 2:41:42.320 --> 2:41:45.840 during training camp. How excited were you to see him 2:41:45.879 --> 2:41:47.880 have a game like that on Thanksgiving Night. 2:41:47.920 --> 2:41:50.240 I'd love to see my guys ball, no matter what 2:41:50.400 --> 2:41:52.800 room they and I love seeing Joseph just knowing the 2:41:52.879 --> 2:41:55.960 hard work that he put in over the shoot the 2:41:56.000 --> 2:41:57.840 last couple of years, even this off seasons, the way 2:41:57.879 --> 2:42:02.000 he just attacked each and every day shoot. I mean, 2:42:02.000 --> 2:42:04.400 I'm excited for him, man. It's it's really great to see. 2:42:04.440 --> 2:42:07.000 You love to see guys have success on the field. 2:42:07.400 --> 2:42:09.480 You face the Bills in Buffalo this Sunday. You have 2:42:09.560 --> 2:42:12.120 faced Josh Allen three times before in your career. You 2:42:12.200 --> 2:42:14.840 have sacked him once. What stands out to you about 2:42:14.840 --> 2:42:15.640 the Bills QB. 2:42:17.800 --> 2:42:18.000 Man. 2:42:18.360 --> 2:42:20.600 He's everything you want as a quarterback. He's one of 2:42:20.640 --> 2:42:23.560 the best in the league. He's big, he's strong, he's fast, 2:42:24.360 --> 2:42:27.680 got a good arms. He's one of the guys that's 2:42:28.680 --> 2:42:30.480 like I said, he's one of the best to do 2:42:30.600 --> 2:42:31.119 it in the league. 2:42:31.160 --> 2:42:34.160 Right now. We got a hands full, but I believe 2:42:34.160 --> 2:42:37.039 we got the defense of the in in our room, 2:42:37.520 --> 2:42:38.879 the dude we need to do to win the game. 2:42:39.080 --> 2:42:42.520 What do you remember about that sack? I think I 2:42:42.600 --> 2:42:45.280 said more than one. You don't really count playoffs, but 2:42:45.680 --> 2:42:48.400 you know we got the playoffs there. 2:42:48.440 --> 2:42:48.640 I got. 2:42:49.680 --> 2:42:51.680 Think I got him twice. I think so. 2:42:53.640 --> 2:42:57.520 Remember I believe he's me and Sam run a text game. 2:42:57.600 --> 2:42:59.920 I got vertical Sam wrapped around on a sack. 2:43:00.040 --> 2:43:01.440 You know all right? 2:43:01.520 --> 2:43:04.240 Buffalo ran for two hundred and forty nine yards last 2:43:04.280 --> 2:43:06.760 week and their win over Pittsburgh. James Cook has seven 2:43:06.840 --> 2:43:09.520 one hundred yard games this year. What must do you 2:43:09.560 --> 2:43:12.119 do to slow down that Buffalo rushing attack on Sunday? 2:43:12.320 --> 2:43:12.960 He can do it all. 2:43:13.200 --> 2:43:16.200 Catch out the backfield, run it make you miss, hard 2:43:16.200 --> 2:43:19.120 to tackle. Strong, Like I said, we just got to 2:43:19.160 --> 2:43:21.080 swim to the ball, get all hasts to the ball. 2:43:21.200 --> 2:43:24.480 Tackle somebody MISU tackle, make sure somebody right there hitting 2:43:24.520 --> 2:43:28.720 them right after. I'll be play technic sound. Make sure 2:43:28.720 --> 2:43:31.360 we're staying in our gass and playing good football together. 2:43:31.720 --> 2:43:33.720 Build a wall so you know it's hard for him 2:43:33.760 --> 2:43:36.040 to to you know, cutting them gaps and stuff like that. 2:43:36.200 --> 2:43:37.640 So we played good football for what. 2:43:37.920 --> 2:43:38.880 We can do we need to do. 2:43:39.400 --> 2:43:41.680 There's still a path to win the AFC North, but 2:43:41.840 --> 2:43:46.160 it's narrow. If you win this week, does it really 2:43:46.520 --> 2:43:49.760 feel possible? Does it take a couple of wins Buffalo 2:43:49.840 --> 2:43:53.240 and Baltimore? Where do you stand on the realistic chances 2:43:53.280 --> 2:43:54.280 of still pulling this off? 2:43:56.040 --> 2:43:58.080 My mind right now, just one game at a time, 2:43:58.720 --> 2:44:00.720 look ahead, I'll just come on, play a bis ball 2:44:00.959 --> 2:44:03.920 whatever happens. 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Joe Burrow is back and while at least 2:47:37.280 --> 2:47:40.400 not one hundred percent, he's taken advantage of everything to 2:47:40.520 --> 2:47:43.560 keep his foot in step with the program, including the 2:47:43.640 --> 2:47:46.640 new Cleach he started wearing last week against the Baltimore Ravens. 2:47:47.200 --> 2:47:49.920 He shared that and other insights as to how is 2:47:50.000 --> 2:47:53.879 new cleats working, what they're comprised of to help him 2:47:54.000 --> 2:47:54.800 stay on the field. 2:47:56.480 --> 2:47:59.160 What is in your shoe and that's helping you with 2:47:59.240 --> 2:47:59.640 your toe? 2:48:00.560 --> 2:48:01.640 Carbon fiber plate and. 2:48:01.959 --> 2:48:05.440 Custom or thought what how does that help your ears help? 2:48:05.800 --> 2:48:09.080 Well, they just can't shoe can't bend because my toe 2:48:09.160 --> 2:48:11.480 can't go backwards right now, still a little early for that. 2:48:11.680 --> 2:48:16.520 So just keeps it firm and not bending it back. 2:48:16.879 --> 2:48:17.840 Is it comfortable? 2:48:18.840 --> 2:48:18.880 No? 2:48:20.280 --> 2:48:23.400 Are you wearing different cleaves now when you were before. 2:48:23.440 --> 2:48:24.120 Before an injury? 2:48:24.560 --> 2:48:26.720 Yeah? 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It's almost at time 2:50:59.640 --> 2:51:01.840 of year for Christmas, and you and your wife really 2:51:01.920 --> 2:51:04.039 have something nice you roll out for this community. 2:51:04.280 --> 2:51:04.480 Yeah. 2:51:04.840 --> 2:51:07.680 So actually a week from today, we're doing our annual 2:51:07.720 --> 2:51:11.160 event with since Any Children's where this year we've taken donations, 2:51:11.600 --> 2:51:14.080 We did a couple events and we had some local 2:51:14.120 --> 2:51:17.960 partners with Credo and gold Star that people have donated to. 2:51:18.920 --> 2:51:20.640 So we go out and we buy toys and we 2:51:20.800 --> 2:51:23.879 do a big event at since Any Children's where basically 2:51:23.920 --> 2:51:25.840 everyone who's staying at the hospital is able to come 2:51:25.920 --> 2:51:28.279 down and basically shop, get. 2:51:28.200 --> 2:51:29.560 Gifts, toys, whatever. 2:51:29.680 --> 2:51:29.840 We have. 2:51:30.040 --> 2:51:32.400 We have a huge amount of a huge rive of 2:51:32.520 --> 2:51:35.840 options for them, which is which is great. And so yeah, 2:51:35.840 --> 2:51:37.960 they get to come down and basically shop, and you 2:51:38.040 --> 2:51:40.400 know it's for people that you know, some of these 2:51:40.600 --> 2:51:43.600 kids and families and you know, even teenagers have been 2:51:43.800 --> 2:51:47.240 in the hospital for you know, months, weeks, some were 2:51:47.280 --> 2:51:49.360 in and out for years, and you know, just talking 2:51:49.440 --> 2:51:51.600 to people and you know some we've talked to some 2:51:51.720 --> 2:51:54.440 families where you know, sometimes so like it's Christmas is 2:51:54.440 --> 2:51:55.880 the last thing on my mind just because of the 2:51:55.959 --> 2:51:56.680 health and whatever. 2:51:56.879 --> 2:51:59.200 So just trying to you know, trying to brighten their day. 2:51:59.240 --> 2:52:01.520 And I guess one of the reasons I started it 2:52:01.680 --> 2:52:04.440 was because all three of my girls spent time, you know, 2:52:04.959 --> 2:52:07.160 at children's for various reasons, So it's something near and 2:52:07.200 --> 2:52:07.800 dear to my heart. 2:52:07.920 --> 2:52:08.120 Yeah. 2:52:08.440 --> 2:52:10.640 I would imagine by now you've done this so much 2:52:10.720 --> 2:52:12.880 that you get excited about the giving point. I do. 2:52:13.040 --> 2:52:13.959 I do get really excited. 2:52:13.959 --> 2:52:16.959 It's fun every year, honestly, especially with the support we've 2:52:16.959 --> 2:52:18.440 had from the community and even. 2:52:18.280 --> 2:52:19.280 My teammates and whatever. 2:52:19.840 --> 2:52:21.680 Is to go out and see year to year, like 2:52:22.280 --> 2:52:24.720 how much better the gifts have gotten, how much more 2:52:24.800 --> 2:52:26.920 stuff we can get, because you know, as a kid 2:52:26.959 --> 2:52:29.200 who doesn't love to have a big haul from Christmas, 2:52:29.320 --> 2:52:32.320 especially when you're you know, when you're battling, whether it's 2:52:32.600 --> 2:52:35.560 you know, surgeries or illnesses. 2:52:35.280 --> 2:52:37.240 Or you know, whatever, whatever the case may be. So 2:52:37.480 --> 2:52:38.760 it's special, you know. 2:52:38.920 --> 2:52:41.600 I always think that this game of football turns into 2:52:41.680 --> 2:52:44.640 a business of football. And for you, you've seen the 2:52:44.760 --> 2:52:47.560 highs and lows of this game. What would you say 2:52:47.640 --> 2:52:49.840 to young guys, is they come in about the business 2:52:49.920 --> 2:52:50.520 of this game? 2:52:51.320 --> 2:52:52.359 Yeah, I mean, I think. 2:52:54.160 --> 2:52:57.080 It's definitely different when you're when you're young, you're you're 2:52:57.160 --> 2:52:58.800 naive to a lot of that. Obviously, you want to 2:52:58.800 --> 2:53:01.800 come in, you want to play football and anything. At 2:53:01.840 --> 2:53:03.200 the end of the day, that's still kind of what 2:53:03.280 --> 2:53:05.240 it's about. But as you get older, you kind of just, 2:53:05.760 --> 2:53:08.280 you know, you understand the different nuances and things, and 2:53:08.480 --> 2:53:10.959 a lot of the decisions and reasoning behind the decisions 2:53:11.040 --> 2:53:14.120 is kind of that part of it. But I think 2:53:15.000 --> 2:53:17.000 it's something you just get used to, and especially when 2:53:17.120 --> 2:53:18.960 in certain scenarios, it's something that you kind of just 2:53:19.000 --> 2:53:21.920 tune out. And you know, I you know, love playing 2:53:21.959 --> 2:53:23.240 football and at the end of the day, that's what 2:53:23.280 --> 2:53:25.480 you're here to do. And the things outside of that, 2:53:25.600 --> 2:53:27.560 especially the things that you can't control, you know, that 2:53:27.680 --> 2:53:29.160 kind of falls into that category. 2:53:29.240 --> 2:53:29.640 Sometimes. 2:53:29.879 --> 2:53:32.240 I talked to Chase Browns as a dad now and 2:53:32.640 --> 2:53:35.880 he understands the nuances now of work life balance. 2:53:35.959 --> 2:53:38.840 You've got your daughters. How did that work life balance 2:53:39.000 --> 2:53:40.360 put life in perspective for you? 2:53:40.840 --> 2:53:44.120 Yeah, I mean, I think obviously growing up and. 2:53:45.760 --> 2:53:48.520 Having that football being such a huge part of your life, 2:53:48.560 --> 2:53:50.440 and then getting married and that becomes a big part 2:53:50.440 --> 2:53:53.240 of your life, and then having you know, children, obviously 2:53:53.280 --> 2:53:55.280 it changes things a lot. But I think that doesn't 2:53:55.280 --> 2:53:57.560 take away from, you know, the love and the work 2:53:57.600 --> 2:53:59.400 that I put into the game, but it just allows 2:53:59.640 --> 2:54:02.120 especially where I'm at my career, there's definitely, you know, 2:54:02.280 --> 2:54:05.400 moments where I feel comfortable, you know, being able to 2:54:05.480 --> 2:54:07.480 step away and spend time with them, or knowing when 2:54:07.480 --> 2:54:09.520 I get home it's like I had put football side 2:54:09.560 --> 2:54:12.080 and really enjoy those moments, especially as they get older, 2:54:12.959 --> 2:54:14.199 especially around the holiday season. 2:54:14.320 --> 2:54:16.640 That's like, you know, as a kid and for me, 2:54:16.720 --> 2:54:18.080 that was always my favorite time of year. 2:54:18.080 --> 2:54:20.480 And so being able to to, you know, now experience 2:54:20.520 --> 2:54:22.240 that with my kids and do all these special things 2:54:22.280 --> 2:54:23.680 with them is always awesome. 2:54:23.959 --> 2:54:25.600 All Right, I'd like to do something this year called 2:54:25.600 --> 2:54:29.200 the Gratitude Games. I'll ask you three people you're grateful for, 2:54:29.720 --> 2:54:32.960 two things that you're thankful for, and then one thing 2:54:33.000 --> 2:54:35.680 you're hopeful for. Okay, So if I asked three people 2:54:35.760 --> 2:54:41.200 you're grateful for, who would that be? Definitely grateful for 2:54:41.280 --> 2:54:44.080 my wife. You know, she's she's our rocket home. We've 2:54:44.080 --> 2:54:47.680 got three three kids, three under seven now, so I 2:54:47.760 --> 2:54:49.959 mean we have we have, we have a lot going 2:54:50.000 --> 2:54:50.440 on at home. 2:54:50.560 --> 2:54:52.120 So she's she'll always be my rock. 2:54:53.400 --> 2:54:56.760 And honestly, you know, I'm super grateful for for the 2:54:56.800 --> 2:54:58.800 rest of my family, for my parents, for her parents, 2:54:58.959 --> 2:55:01.600 for you know, even brothers and sisters, everyone that kind 2:55:01.600 --> 2:55:04.840 of contributes to our you know, our village because you. 2:55:04.879 --> 2:55:07.640 Know, it's it's chaotic. Sometimes I'm traveling, she's traveling. We 2:55:07.720 --> 2:55:10.240 got different things. So and then. 2:55:11.600 --> 2:55:13.920 Another person I'm thinking for, I'm thinking for James Casey. 2:55:15.280 --> 2:55:17.320 You know, he's been my obviously my coach for the 2:55:17.400 --> 2:55:19.240 last seven years. But what he's been able to do 2:55:19.360 --> 2:55:21.320 and the things that he I think brings to our 2:55:21.400 --> 2:55:23.040 room and brings to me as a player is something 2:55:23.080 --> 2:55:24.039 that I'll always. 2:55:23.800 --> 2:55:26.000 Be thankful for, you know, in the good times and 2:55:26.040 --> 2:55:26.360 the bad. 2:55:26.480 --> 2:55:29.119 He's super consistent, and he's always someone that you can, 2:55:29.360 --> 2:55:32.959 you know, look for having played and having gone through it. Okay, 2:55:33.000 --> 2:55:35.640 what was the next to two things that impacted you? 2:55:38.800 --> 2:55:41.600 You know, I think just being able to be here 2:55:41.840 --> 2:55:45.280 for seven years. I think that's something that has impacted me, 2:55:45.760 --> 2:55:47.680 seeing all the guys that have come through and and 2:55:48.000 --> 2:55:51.600 seeing how, you know, how not normal that is in 2:55:51.760 --> 2:55:52.360 certain places. 2:55:52.440 --> 2:55:53.240 So I'm thankful for. 2:55:53.280 --> 2:55:56.080 That, you know, being able to go through a lot 2:55:56.080 --> 2:55:59.879 of highs and lows here and just to get different perspective. 2:56:00.040 --> 2:56:02.680 I'm like, you know, that's that's that's not normal, not 2:56:02.879 --> 2:56:06.120 having to whether that's changed offenses, change cities, whatever, just 2:56:06.160 --> 2:56:08.160 for me as a you know, for me and my family, 2:56:08.280 --> 2:56:10.160 and for you know, me as a player. I'm I'll 2:56:10.200 --> 2:56:11.880 always be grateful for that and hopefully, you know, we 2:56:12.000 --> 2:56:12.480 keep it going. 2:56:14.240 --> 2:56:15.680 And then another one of. 2:56:15.680 --> 2:56:17.880 Those, yeah, another things that they impacted you. 2:56:20.160 --> 2:56:22.440 I mean, I think I think my kids have had 2:56:22.600 --> 2:56:23.440 a bigger impact. 2:56:23.560 --> 2:56:25.879 And you know, I always wanted to be a dad, 2:56:26.040 --> 2:56:29.120 but then actually going through that process three different times 2:56:29.200 --> 2:56:32.440 with three different you know, three different girls, three different personalities, 2:56:32.520 --> 2:56:35.520 three different whatever. You know, it's good and it's so 2:56:35.600 --> 2:56:38.400 much fun being able to experience that in their own way, 2:56:38.920 --> 2:56:40.920 especially as they've gotten older and gotten into sports and 2:56:41.040 --> 2:56:44.080 gotten into school and you know, doing parent teacher conferences 2:56:44.160 --> 2:56:46.480 and things like that, where you know, things get put 2:56:46.520 --> 2:56:48.920 in perspective really quickly, and that's something that's you know, 2:56:49.680 --> 2:56:52.080 going forward to my life. I'm super excited to be 2:56:52.200 --> 2:56:54.039 such a good part of my life outside of football, 2:56:54.520 --> 2:56:56.760 and I think that's impacted me in. 2:56:56.800 --> 2:56:59.160 A positive way, both alling them off the field and I. 2:56:59.200 --> 2:57:02.879 Astually one thing you're hopeful for, well, I'm. 2:57:02.720 --> 2:57:05.520 Hopeful that we keep winning and we finished the season 2:57:05.640 --> 2:57:08.840 on a good and I'm hopeful I stay healthy. No, 2:57:09.000 --> 2:57:13.280 I'm I'm hopeful that, you know, for us as a team, 2:57:13.320 --> 2:57:16.240 I think we've we've slowly started to turn the page. 2:57:16.280 --> 2:57:18.480 And obviously Joe came back. I think that's that's awesome. 2:57:18.920 --> 2:57:21.200 And you know, he looks like Joe Burrow, so he's 2:57:21.280 --> 2:57:23.280 only going to get better, I think. So, you know, 2:57:23.320 --> 2:57:24.800 I think one game at a time for us, but 2:57:24.879 --> 2:57:26.519 I'm hopeful that we can continue. 2:57:26.200 --> 2:57:29.320 To stat games like we have, you know, as as 2:57:29.360 --> 2:57:31.560 a team really you know, offense, defense, special teams. I 2:57:31.600 --> 2:57:33.680 think that was our best game in all phases. And 2:57:33.800 --> 2:57:36.720 so I'm hopeful that we can continue that. And I'm 2:57:36.720 --> 2:57:38.920 hopeful that a week from today we have a great 2:57:39.160 --> 2:57:41.240 holiday event where all the kids come out, they get 2:57:41.560 --> 2:57:43.680 they get as many toys as they can carry down 2:57:43.760 --> 2:57:46.480 or whatever it may be. And you know, I hope, 2:57:46.600 --> 2:57:48.600 I'm hopeful that I can make their holiday season a 2:57:48.600 --> 2:57:49.119 little bit better. 2:57:49.360 --> 2:57:49.920 Thank Joe. 2:57:49.959 --> 2:57:51.760 We're thankful for you as a player, but more so 2:57:51.840 --> 2:57:52.360 as a person. 2:57:52.440 --> 2:57:54.000 Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. 2:57:54.000 --> 2:57:55.960 All right back with more countdown to kickoff right here 2:57:56.000 --> 2:57:57.160 on the Cincinnati. 2:57:56.760 --> 2:57:57.959 Bengals radio network. 2:57:58.920 --> 2:58:03.199 My name is Toast, and recently I negotiated massive tax 2:58:03.280 --> 2:58:07.040 relief for a former Cincinnati football star. My playbook worked perfection, 2:58:07.200 --> 2:58:09.720 and the irs was left watching as my celebrity client 2:58:09.840 --> 2:58:12.400 ran free into the end zone and celebrated with tears 2:58:12.400 --> 2:58:12.720 of joy.