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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: From Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. All right,

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Speaker 3: here we go our number two, since he three to sixty,

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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. Let's get it started

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Speaker 3: with our guy from Fox nineteen. A ton of stuff

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Speaker 3: going on at Fox nineteen. We'll get to that with

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Speaker 3: Joe danim and he joins us right now, Joey D what's.

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Speaker 1: Up forty years old?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tough one today, Joe emphasis on.

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Speaker 1: All it's not a tough one.

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Speaker 3: Forty is a tough one.

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Speaker 1: The great number forty is a tough oneeven.

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Speaker 3: Okay, oh wow, I'll take that. I'll take that.

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Speaker 1: How are you celebrating tonight?

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Speaker 3: Well, the wife text me yesterday and she said, I

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Speaker 3: thought it'd be fun. We can go play nine holes

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Speaker 3: of golf.

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Speaker 1: Off.

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Speaker 3: I got a babysitter, so she she's got nine holes playing.

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Speaker 3: But she originally planned it for four point thirty, and

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Speaker 3: I said, look, I appreciate this. We've got to get

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Speaker 3: it till after five because the Bearcats play at three,

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Speaker 3: so we're gonna watch the Bearcats, then we're gonna go

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Speaker 3: play nine holes of golf.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be better to not watch them and just

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Speaker 2: play golf.

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Speaker 3: That's a fair argument. That is a fair argument.

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Speaker 1: Bearcats will win today. They'll win today, and you'll enjoy

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Speaker 1: your golf.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, there is a ton going on from what

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Speaker 3: the Bengals did yesterday, which we'll get to in just

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Speaker 3: a minute, Joe. But what we learned earlier today, the

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Speaker 3: developments and the updates around Hunter Green. He's gonna get

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Speaker 3: the elbow scope tomorrow fourteen to sixteen weeks. And I thought,

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Speaker 3: in reading our good friend Charlie Goldsmith on Substack with

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Speaker 3: Charlie's chalkboard, Austin and I talked about it earlier. Terry

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Speaker 3: Francona alluded to the fact that Hunter never really told

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Speaker 3: him any of this information directly. Let's start with there,

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Speaker 3: let's start with the chain of command. Do you find

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Speaker 3: that odd at all of hearing what Terry Francona had

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Speaker 3: to say talking about Hunter Green going back to last year.

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Speaker 1: Sure, I do. I do find it odd, especially considering

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Speaker 1: at one point the Reds made decisions not to move

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Speaker 1: up a Hunter Green start at the end of the

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Speaker 1: season to get him more stars to get the team

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs, so it certainly was talked about amongst

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Now, in that quote, if you read

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Speaker 1: between the lines, it sounds as if Hunter Green was

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Speaker 1: communicating with Derek Johnson about what was going on the

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Speaker 1: pitching coach, and that was I would guess, being relayed

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Speaker 1: to Terry Francona. But if a situation were to present

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Speaker 1: itself where your star pitcher has an elbow issue and

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Speaker 1: he's feeling it, you would think the chain of command

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Speaker 1: would be a conversation with the manager. It doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: like that happened, and I find that to be a

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Speaker 1: bit odd, considering his importance in considering the ramifications of

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Speaker 1: an injury like that. The other piece of it, too,

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Speaker 1: is is why wasn't this taken care of earlier? But

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Speaker 1: I think we all understand that major League baseball players

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Speaker 1: don't want to have surgery if they don't have to

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Speaker 1: have it, and I think they thought the injection would

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Speaker 1: help and maybe take care of it. It obviously hasn't, and

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Speaker 1: here we are, And when this news came out, I

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Speaker 1: believe a week ago, the understanding was that Hunter wasn't

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Speaker 1: I thought maybe miss a month, maybe miss six weeks.

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Speaker 1: This is pretty significant, and you're talking about an early

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Speaker 1: end of the sixteen weeks. So it's disappointing. You can't

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Speaker 1: Rhet Lauder and Brandon Williamson and Jase Burns for death

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Speaker 1: from the starting rotation, Hunter Green is supposed to be

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Speaker 1: the guy that takes the ball in Opening Day and

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Speaker 1: I do believe they are. But you can't replace a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's a tough way to start a

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Speaker 3: And you kind of alluded to the names that will

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Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Reds. But I think all in all, Joe

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Speaker 3: a very positive day for the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday and

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Speaker 3: what they were able to do and who they addressed

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Speaker 3: their needs with. What was your overall takeaway? What was

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Speaker 3: your overall grade you would have given the Bengals for

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Speaker 3: what they did yesterday and adding two players.

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Speaker 1: I thought yesterday was a great day because it's set

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Speaker 1: a tone. This team had deficiencies and boxes that need

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Speaker 1: and immediately upgrade their defense. I think if you look

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Speaker 1: where the Bengals were yesterday, they are significantly better on

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Speaker 1: it at in a minus just because they didn't land

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Speaker 1: a home run when they could have gotten Devin Lloyd.

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Speaker 1: If they would have gotten him, you're looking at an

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Speaker 1: AA plus for a first day a free agency. But

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Speaker 1: when you start the offseason saying, Okay, what do we

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Speaker 1: have to be better at? If you're in the Bengals

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Speaker 1: front office. We've got to be better at disrupting and

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Speaker 1: affecting the quarterback. They've done that. They've gotten better there.

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Speaker 1: Boy A Motte immediately becomes this team's best pass rusher. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we got to be better tacklers, and we have to

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Speaker 1: upgrade the safety position. They're immediately checked both of those

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Speaker 1: bosses by bringing in Brian Cook now Kobe Bryant press conference.

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Speaker 1: Job's not finished, the job finished. Job's not finished. They

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Speaker 1: still have more work to do. But for day one,

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Speaker 1: where it felt like some people were starting to panic

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Speaker 1: these guys were going off the board, you guys kill,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals set the tone that they understand the assignment,

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Speaker 1: they understand the urgency. We all inferred that from everything

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Speaker 1: that Duke Tobin said leading up to the start of

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Speaker 1: free agency, that the Bengals got it. They were going

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Speaker 1: to go for it. They understood they had to fix

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Speaker 1: the defense through free agency. Yesterday was a great first

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Speaker 1: I said before the week started, I think the Bengals

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Speaker 1: have to find four new starters in free agency and

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Speaker 3: That's where I was going to go with that, because

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Speaker 3: if you if you start the off season, you've got

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Speaker 3: a to do list. Dalton Reisner was on that list,

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Speaker 3: with those three things already checked, when you start looking

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Speaker 3: to today and on what's next? What position are you highlighting?

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Speaker 3: Is there a player out there or players that you've highlighted?

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Speaker 3: the Bengals to get done.

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Speaker 1: I think it's Leo Chanell from Kansas City, the linebacker,

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Speaker 1: a big linebacker, six three, two point fifty. He's bigger

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Speaker 1: than Demetrious Knight. He's significantly bigger than Barret Carter. He's

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Speaker 1: got juice in the run game, he's got juice in

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Speaker 1: the pressure game. For him to come from Kansas City

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Speaker 1: the word pedigree again, Austin, but they added dice yesterday

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Speaker 1: that won Super Bowls and that matters, and you can

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Speaker 1: and won at high levels, and you see what Leoschanell

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Speaker 1: I think the linebacker situation, to me is still the

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Speaker 1: one that I have circled underline and star that has

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Speaker 1: to be fixed in free agency defensive tackle. I think

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Speaker 1: a weak defensive tackle free agency class. But there are

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Speaker 1: some juice in the cover game. So there are different

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Speaker 1: guys that think the Bengals can target. They didn't get

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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, who I thought would be the guy that

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Speaker 1: Leo Chanell, a guy that when he was drafted by

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Speaker 1: He loves violence and physicality. If you add that to

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Speaker 1: this defense, you add a guy like Boye Maffe who

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Speaker 1: But linebacker certainly is someone I'm looking for the Bengals

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Speaker 1: because I just don't think a guy like Sonny Styles

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Speaker 3: Speaking of who could be there at number ten, Austin

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Speaker 3: and I just had this discussion, and I'll ask you

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Speaker 3: they went and got Brian Cook yesterday. We've heard a

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Speaker 3: lot and we've talked a lot about Caleb Downs leading

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Speaker 3: up to the draft process. Does what they did yesterday

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Speaker 1: It doesn't, because I think what you wanted to do

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Speaker 1: not to be drafting for a position, but to be

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Speaker 1: drafting for the best player. And you know, best player

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Speaker 1: comes with a bit of nuance, right, that's the best

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Speaker 1: players at quarterback. You're obviously not taking a quarterback, but

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Speaker 1: just about every other position this football team needs help at,

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Speaker 1: needs death, or needs difference makers. And if you're able

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Speaker 1: to address all of this in free agency and Caleb

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Speaker 1: Downs is the best player on the board, absolutely take

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Speaker 1: Caleb Downs. Because what's the death look right now in

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Speaker 1: the safety room. Tyson Anderson's not for sure coming back

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Speaker 1: with Brian Cook, Dejon Anthony and Jordan Battle. You need

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Speaker 1: death and you need good football players, and if Caleb

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Speaker 1: I just think it's important to go into draft night

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Speaker 1: with through flexibility to draft good players, not necessarily draft

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Speaker 1: job on Day one addressing some of those needs, they

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Speaker 1: still need to do more when they to get themselves

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Speaker 1: set up for the draft, because quite honestly, you could

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Speaker 1: in free agency. Orlando Brown's becoming somewhat of a question

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Speaker 1: by getting the work done.

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Speaker 3: This week in free such I was going to say,

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Speaker 1: That shouldn't surprise us. No, it's just here in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Big day, I got a big tag tapping tomorrow night

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Speaker 1: Let's go, and you're gonna be on TV where you belong.

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Speaker 1: It's a big weekend. We're gonna celebrate Tony Firs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? The big news right opening Day back on Fox nineteen.

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Speaker 1: to fill a thirty minute show. So last one this Friday,

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Speaker 1: but the final quarter continues after that in a fifteen

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Speaker 1: minute capacity until football season.

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Speaker 3: Joe Daneman, Fox nineteen, Joe, you're the man. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: again soon. Happy birthday, ye, Joey d Fox nineteen. Always

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Speaker 3: appreciative of Joe's time. Next, We're also appreciative of your time.

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Speaker 3: It's Talkbacks on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station