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Speaker 2: but without further Ado, let's talk to you see Bearcats
Speaker 2: number twenty one in the country, winners of sixth straight,
Speaker 2: one of two unbeatens in the Big twelve, and at
Speaker 2: home at Nippered for homecoming on Saturday versus the Baylor Bears.
Speaker 2: For more on that from Bearcat Journal Chad Brendle. How
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 3: I'd like to request the trade.
Speaker 4: What franchise would you go to? Chad?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so when Nick got hired at UCLA, I
Speaker 3: got offered the site to be the publisher of the
Speaker 3: UCLA site, but Kelly was sick at the time, and
Speaker 3: Kelsey was little and I couldn't do it. So, you know,
Speaker 3: give me another year or two, and I'd love to
Speaker 3: go back to la I lived out there in my
Speaker 3: twenties and it was fabulous there.
Speaker 4: You go, very cool.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Since I'm gonna ask you, and we're gonna talk a
Speaker 2: lot about offense, let me start with defense because you're
Speaker 2: the perfect person to ask this because you deal with
Speaker 2: it every day. There is a there is a a
Speaker 2: certain level of hand ringing within the fan base with
Speaker 2: this bend. But don't break three three five defense? Is
Speaker 2: it is it nitpicky or is their merit to concern
Speaker 2: for the defense in your.
Speaker 3: Mind, well as a fan, it is incredibly annoying. Let's
Speaker 3: just acknowledge that right out front, like the other team,
Speaker 3: almost every time they touch the ball, good duc territory
Speaker 3: to the thirty five to forty yard line, and then
Speaker 3: some action happens. Then they start tightening up. They're getting,
Speaker 3: you know, getting off the field on third and fourth down.
Speaker 3: Although it feels like nobody's kicked a field goal against
Speaker 3: Cincinnati all year, everybody goes for it. I think there's
Speaker 3: they've played seven games. It's either twenty three or twenty
Speaker 3: four fourth down attempts in seven games, which feels like
Speaker 3: a ton. So I think that adds to it. The
Speaker 3: main thing for me is are they keeping teams out
Speaker 3: of the end zone? Are they limiting because the point
Speaker 3: of playing this defense is to keep teams from getting
Speaker 3: over the top of you, beating you deep. And really,
Speaker 3: outside of the two plays against Kansas, they haven't given
Speaker 3: up a ton of explosives. They have kept teams in
Speaker 3: front of them, made teams work long drives down the field,
Speaker 3: you know, and you're more likely at some point in
Speaker 3: time to make a mistake when you have to do
Speaker 3: that every series throughout a game, so in that sense
Speaker 3: it's working, but I get it. It drives me nuts
Speaker 3: sometimes as I'm watching a game, like are they ever
Speaker 3: going to get off? Like this offense is hot? There
Speaker 3: have been two games where they you know, the Iowa
Speaker 3: State game, in the UCF game, the other team had
Speaker 3: the ball at the end of the half, the other
Speaker 3: team had the ball at the start of the second half,
Speaker 3: and they went over an hour without the offense touching.
Speaker 3: That is annoying, but the end result is they are
Speaker 3: fifth in the Big Twelve in points allowed, and that's
Speaker 3: the point. You're keeping the other team off the scoreboard.
Speaker 3: Does it drive you crazy to watch? Is it? Is
Speaker 3: it viewer friendly? No? Absolutely not. But it's effective and
Speaker 3: with the talent that they have right now, they're working
Speaker 3: with what they've got.
Speaker 4: And chat. I'll tell you this just from talking with
Speaker 4: defensive coordinators you know for the last however many years.
Speaker 4: You know, the guys they've been around a while used
Speaker 4: to say or they would say, you know, you used
Speaker 4: to you know, kind of care how many yards you
Speaker 4: gave up and what your passing yard was. And they're like,
Speaker 4: with with modern rules and modern offense, it's do they
Speaker 4: score touchdowns? That that's all you care about, right, you
Speaker 4: know the stats for these defensive coordat and the ones
Speaker 4: that understand that and don't go crazy when oh my god,
Speaker 4: we gave it four and fifty yards of offense, but
Speaker 4: one was it. Don't go crazy on that are the
Speaker 4: ones that are going to stick around for a while.
Speaker 3: And this is why this defense was designed. What people
Speaker 3: forget or don't really consider. This defense was designed by
Speaker 3: Matt Campbell and his staff at Iowa State that included
Speaker 3: Tyson Bite. In a period of time where Big twelve,
Speaker 3: almost every score was fifty six to fifty three, you know,
Speaker 3: and they had to come up. They came up with
Speaker 3: something that they felt like would put an umbrella on
Speaker 3: the other team's offense and limit the explosive plays, limit
Speaker 3: the fifty sixty seventy yard touchdowns. And that's what's happened
Speaker 3: in Iowa State has been the best defense in this
Speaker 3: conference year over year for the better part of a
Speaker 3: decade playing this defense because they don't let you put
Speaker 3: points on the board. Cincinnati has played seven games the
Speaker 3: opponent has scored twenty or less in five of those
Speaker 3: seven games. It's working now you're playing better offenses coming
Speaker 3: up down the stairs. So we'll see. But so far
Speaker 3: it's working all right.
Speaker 2: On the offensive side, they have so many different weapons,
Speaker 2: and I was struck by something Scott said and his
Speaker 2: coaches show this week that they don't with all the weapons,
Speaker 2: they don't feel the need to have to feed somebody
Speaker 2: to keep them happy. That a Cyrus Allen can go
Speaker 2: from one catch for I think minus three yards against
Speaker 2: UCF to three touchdowns last week, and there's just that
Speaker 2: general shared success of those weapons on that offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean Rocky can probably speak to this
Speaker 3: a lot better than me. When you go into a
Speaker 3: team meeting and you're scouting the next opponent, the number
Speaker 3: one thing is the previous game, right. Cyrus Allen was
Speaker 3: teams at the beginning of the year. Coming into the year,
Speaker 3: they bracketed Joe Royer because Joe Royer was the big
Speaker 3: name returning guy. They bracketed him, tried to take him away,
Speaker 3: and then other guys started having success, mainly Cyrus Allen.
Speaker 3: So then team started saying, all right, we're gonna roll
Speaker 3: coverage desires Allen now, Jeff Caldwell's open now, Noah Jennings
Speaker 3: is open now, Caleb Good is open now, Joe Royer
Speaker 3: is back open again. And that's one of the great
Speaker 3: parts about Sorsby is he does a really and more importantly,
Speaker 3: maybe the offensive line because Sorsby is having time back
Speaker 3: there to read the defense. I mean, you go back
Speaker 3: to that third and sixteen that really kind of put
Speaker 3: things on ice against Oklahoma States. Or he said that
Speaker 3: was his third read Jeff Caldwell over the middle for
Speaker 3: six for thirty eight yards in a first down. He
Speaker 3: doesn't get to his third read if he doesn't have
Speaker 3: the time that the offensive line is giving him. So
Speaker 3: it's a it's a multi faceted deal. And I mean
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty one guys aren't going to be happy
Speaker 3: with me, and we'll see how they finish. But right now,
Speaker 3: I think this is the best offense I've seen at
Speaker 3: U seasons two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, big statement. Ched. Look, obviously this time of year,
Speaker 4: as you're getting into November, health is a big part
Speaker 4: of this thing. You look at the UC injury report,
Speaker 4: no injuries they you know Corleone's back that had no
Speaker 4: real devastating injuries. How big of a factors I'm moving forward.
Speaker 3: It's a major factor. And it's a huge testament to
Speaker 3: Nico Palace that eat the strengthen conditioning coach, to Aaron Hendler,
Speaker 3: who I've never been around someone better at their job
Speaker 3: than Aaron Himler is at his He's phenomenal. And also
Speaker 3: there's a reason you spend one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 3: dollars on that training facility because those guys get to
Speaker 3: get in there on Sunday and Monday and Tuesday and
Speaker 3: they're in the recovery tubs, and they're they're in the
Speaker 3: cryo chambers, and they're doing all the different things that
Speaker 3: help guys rest and recover. So you're not playing on
Speaker 3: lingering injuries as much as maybe you have been in
Speaker 3: the past. I think it's been a huge factor, all
Speaker 3: three of those things working in Unison to have gotten
Speaker 3: them to this point. They're seven games in knock on Wood.
Speaker 3: They haven't really dealt with it. A Ton.
Speaker 2: Baylor's offense productive, Baylor's quarterback dangerous. Yeah, tell Bearcat fans
Speaker 2: what they need to know about that Baylor offensive attack.
Speaker 3: Well, if you didn't like the defense giving up a
Speaker 3: bunch of yards, might want to watch something else. Saturday
Speaker 3: at four because Baylor's gonna get a lot of yards.
Speaker 3: But guess what, when you dig into the numbers, they
Speaker 3: are not good scoring touchdowns in the red zone. And
Speaker 3: that has been one of the strengths of Cincinnati's defense.
Speaker 3: So keep an eye on that. If they don't, let
Speaker 3: you know, they can keep Baylor from doing what Kansas
Speaker 3: did and hitting a couple of those splash touchdowns. If
Speaker 3: they can make them work all the way down the
Speaker 3: field and get into the red zone and score, that's
Speaker 3: been a strength of Cincinnatis. It's been a weakness of bailers.
Speaker 3: It also means the bailer's going to chew up a
Speaker 3: crap ton of yards between the twenties and you're probably
Speaker 3: gonna want to pull your hair out. But that's where
Speaker 3: Cincinnati can win this game. They kick a lot of
Speaker 3: threes and leave points on the board when they do
Speaker 3: get into the red zone, because obviously the field shrinks
Speaker 3: and now you've got eight guys in coverage and people
Speaker 3: aren't running into open spaces, and you can make them
Speaker 3: earn it a little bit more in the red zone
Speaker 3: and Sorwyer Robertson's not standing back there just picking you apart.
Speaker 3: So that's gonna be the interesting part for me. But
Speaker 3: they've got a great quarterback, they've got really good wide receivers,
Speaker 3: and the running game is okay. But they run so
Speaker 3: many plays that they're still averaging one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: yards a game on the ground, So you can't forget
Speaker 3: about the run game. But they want to pass, make
Speaker 3: no mistake. They want Robertson to stand back there and
Speaker 3: throw the ball all day long. You just have to
Speaker 3: make sure it's for ten fifteen yards, not forty fifty.
Speaker 2: Last question, it's got to be about hoops. And as
Speaker 2: much as I learned my license last year of not
Speaker 2: putting much stock in exhibition games, after what they did,
Speaker 2: do Oiowa State give me a takeaway, just something that
Speaker 2: jumped out at you. In the win over Michigan last week,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: Really impressed with there's two true freshmen and a red
Speaker 3: chair freshman. I was really impressed with how they handled
Speaker 3: the atmosphere. Shawnabajev, Keshan Tillery, Tyler McKinley. I thought all
Speaker 3: three looked like they belonged the other big thing for me,
Speaker 3: and those three were a part of it. There were
Speaker 3: moments that different guys took over and had their little window.
Speaker 3: They had their period. It was bobon Miller early and
Speaker 3: Shawnabiev right before halftime, and Dayde Thomas towards the end,
Speaker 3: and Kurt Curse. They hit a couple of big shots.
Speaker 3: We talked at nauseum last year about that team just
Speaker 3: failed to have others step up. Felt like every game
Speaker 3: and there was one guy that was playing well, one
Speaker 3: guy's playing okay, and then like seven guys that couldn't
Speaker 3: Tyler shoe and chew gum at the same time. This
Speaker 3: team needs three for I mean, there were six guys
Speaker 3: in double figures against you know, a Michigan team that's
Speaker 3: gonna be really good. Nobody's good at defense right now.
Speaker 3: They're not where they need to be yet. But I
Speaker 3: felt a lot better about the number of guys that
Speaker 3: have the ability to step up and have those four
Speaker 3: or five minute stretches where they're playing really well.
Speaker 2: All right, tell everybody about Bearcat Journal dot com. Keagan
Speaker 2: Nickolson been kicking butt this week, and while I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of it, congratulations on the the five hundredth edition of
Speaker 2: the Bearcat Journal podcast last night.
Speaker 3: Nice that's a lot of Dave Simone and I talking
Speaker 3: like I is. Thank you, thank you for all the
Speaker 3: people that have listened. But my god, what are you
Speaker 3: doing with your life? Kegan? I missed being in my
Speaker 3: early twenties, Lance, I said, Keegan to Kansas City. So
Speaker 3: he's driving sending to Kansas City for Basketball media Days,
Speaker 3: he laughed, basketball media days today. When to Sayethville, Arkansas.
Speaker 3: They'll be there for the UC Arkansas exhibition tomorrow night
Speaker 3: and then he's got roughly sixteen hours to make the
Speaker 3: ten hour drive back to Cincinnati. He said his goal
Speaker 3: is to be in his seat at four o'clock for homecoming.
Speaker 2: Holy cow man.
Speaker 3: Oh to be twenty four again, no doubt about that,
Speaker 3: no doubt he is.
Speaker 2: Chad Brendel, Bearcat Journal, Bearcatjournal dot com. Yes, finish your
Speaker 2: thought up.
Speaker 3: Sorry, go and support Kegan. He's working his butt off,
Speaker 3: no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 3: Thanks gentlemen, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Chack Brendel, Bearcat Journal, Bearcat Journal dot Com. Up next,
Speaker 2: a little bit of what Charlie Goldsmith told me last
Speaker 2: night on Sports Talk about this Bengals run game. The
Speaker 2: decision to go with you from the defensive side of
Speaker 2: things and thoughts on what has happened to Cam Taylor Britt.
Speaker 2: That is all Ahead, He's rocky, I'm Lance.
Speaker 3: It's long.
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