Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Bengals Steelers and do it with
Speaker 1: the guy I was thinking about when I was in
Speaker 1: Knoxville over the weekend. He's a connoisseer of Arby's, and
Speaker 1: when I saw in Arby's with an old school sign,
Speaker 1: I had to take a picture for him. He covers
Speaker 1: the Bengals for Bengals Talk dot Com. The Growler podcast
Speaker 1: he does with Paul Danner Jr. Is a must listen,
Speaker 1: especially the walkout after each game. We must be talking
Speaker 1: about one man. That would be Jay Morrison. How are you.
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: Laughs. There's not a lot of those Arby signs around anymore.
Speaker 1: That's right, absolutely, all right, take me back through the week.
Speaker 1: How surprising was Joe Burrow's return to practice some fifty
Speaker 1: seven days after toe surgery.
Speaker 3: Funning. I mean, it's a timeline alone, it was surprising
Speaker 3: based on what the initial reports were, but then you think, okay,
Speaker 3: if it's a piece of starting to get close, where
Speaker 3: it's gonna leak out? And Jamar Chase had no idea,
Speaker 3: Ted Carris had note, Ted Higgins Higgins had no idea.
Speaker 3: They were all as fun as the rest of us were,
Speaker 3: so it was it was really surprising. And it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3: Maybe not because it's Joe Burrow and and we know
Speaker 3: he heals fast and he's gonna work his butt off
Speaker 3: to get ready. But still, when they were talking mid
Speaker 3: December and here we are in mid November, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Jay Thanksgiving Night, Obviously, it would be quite a stage
Speaker 1: for the return of Joe Burrow against the Ravens. As
Speaker 1: the week is unfolded and you've thought about it and
Speaker 1: you've watched does it Does that feel realistic.
Speaker 3: In his mind? It does. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 3: know that that's where the organization's gonna go because I did.
Speaker 3: I ask him that in the press conference and he
Speaker 3: and he said it would be very meaningful to come back.
Speaker 3: No one is history in Baltimore. The fact, he's said
Speaker 3: in the past how much he would love to play
Speaker 3: one of those national TV games on Christmas or Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: But it just feel timeline wise that that more likely
Speaker 3: is going to be Buffalo. Now we'll see. You know,
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco's playing through a lot, and if something happens
Speaker 3: to him where he's maybe iffy in that game, then
Speaker 3: that maybe that could change. But if I were if
Speaker 3: I were laying a bet right now. I would say
Speaker 3: he makes the return in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: No Trey or Shamar this weekend. Does that make for
Speaker 1: a big opportunity on Sunday for somebody like said Johnson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, He's he's really been impressive. And you know
Speaker 3: he he had five pressures in the final three games
Speaker 3: last year and he did that on twenty six snaps.
Speaker 3: Joseph o Sis had a couple stretches of three games
Speaker 3: this year with five pressures and it's coming one hundred
Speaker 3: and eight, one hundred and twenty snaps. It's the thing
Speaker 3: as good as said has been. The thing that people
Speaker 3: may forget is he had one padded practice since last
Speaker 3: year's season finale before he stepped on the field to
Speaker 3: play against the Bears. So he still doesn't have his
Speaker 3: his sea legs, so to speak. And Darren Simmons is
Speaker 3: using him a lot. He played twenty eight snaps on
Speaker 3: special teams, so I think that's going to kind of
Speaker 3: cut into how much he's he plays on defense too.
Speaker 3: But I'm really interested to see if he getting pressure
Speaker 3: on quarterbacks like this, is he gonna is he gonna
Speaker 3: start taking some reps away from guys like Miles Murphy
Speaker 3: and Joseph A Side.
Speaker 1: You wrote an excellent story on andre Yosibasha must read
Speaker 1: about and he's gone through clearly some challenging stretches this year. Jaye,
Speaker 1: How's he handled it and what's he's what's he's learned
Speaker 1: from it all?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's he's learned not put other people's
Speaker 3: opinions and have those effects of value he puts on himself.
Speaker 3: And he said he got just unbelievable online hate after
Speaker 3: the Green Bay game when he had three drops and
Speaker 3: then he had that really bad drop against the Jets
Speaker 3: where if he comes down with that their infield goal position,
Speaker 3: they probably win that game. And it was really trying,
Speaker 3: you know, people were saying he should be benched. He
Speaker 3: got booed when he ran out when they announced the
Speaker 3: offensive starters for the Chicago game. It's it's been really
Speaker 3: hard on him, and it's it's tough to see because
Speaker 3: he's he's just such a bubbly personality and so happy
Speaker 3: to go lucky, and he works his butt off. He
Speaker 3: does everything right, and it was just puzzling to him,
Speaker 3: why is this happening when I worked so hard and
Speaker 3: then when the moments come, I can't make it happen.
Speaker 3: And then he has that great game against New England
Speaker 3: and or not New England against the Bears, and really
Speaker 3: that touchdown with fifty four seconds left should have been
Speaker 3: a really special moment at game winner and then the
Speaker 3: defense blew it. But it's still even though he didn't
Speaker 3: win the game, he got his confidence back on that
Speaker 3: touchdown pass and then that game as a whole with
Speaker 3: how well he played first time around for Bengals.
Speaker 1: Steelers T and Jamar combined thirty three targets twenty two
Speaker 1: catch He's got to figure Steelers tried to do something
Speaker 1: different this time. It would seem to lead to a
Speaker 1: third option like Andre being a big piece of the
Speaker 1: puzzle for Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely they If they're gonna double both those guys,
Speaker 3: it is it's no Offen, it's Tanner Hudson, or it's
Speaker 3: Andrea Yoshibas and and I don't know what we'll see.
Speaker 3: It might be the Steelers have a lot of aperience
Speaker 3: in that secondary and and maybe they they only go
Speaker 3: double team on both those guys on third downs, but
Speaker 3: they are they've got to do something. I mean, Jamar
Speaker 3: Chase just lit them up, and you know, Joe Flack
Speaker 3: is going to keep leaning into that. So I'm interested
Speaker 3: to see how the Steelers are going to approach this.
Speaker 3: But I still think no matter what they do, Jamar
Speaker 3: is going to get his targets.
Speaker 1: Eight games still left, but nobody know. Ane of the
Speaker 1: players seem to be shying away from the importance of
Speaker 1: Sunday in terms of the playoff picture. The M word
Speaker 1: was used and kind of accepted this week.
Speaker 3: It seems, Yeah, it was surprising. A lot of times
Speaker 3: they shy away from that. They say, it's not a
Speaker 3: must win until you're actually eliminated from playoff contention with
Speaker 3: the loss. And Jamar leaned into a Tea, leaned to
Speaker 3: and do it. Ted Carris leaned into it. They they
Speaker 3: know what it is, and it's it's it's really kind
Speaker 3: of stunning to think about that. If they win this game,
Speaker 3: they're a game out of first place, and if they lose, conversely,
Speaker 3: I mean three games out, seven to go, it would
Speaker 3: pretty much be over not just what they'd be one
Speaker 3: game out at first. If they win, maybe three to
Speaker 3: zero in the division. This is setting up to be
Speaker 3: a really really important game, and it's a tough place
Speaker 3: to play, but the Bengals have done pretty well in
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh since Zach and Joe Burrow arrived.
Speaker 1: Jay Aside from Joe Flacco's playing career, I've said my
Speaker 1: extent of working knowledge of him was just clips and
Speaker 1: sound bites. Over the years, as the weeks have gone
Speaker 1: on and he's talked more and you've been around him more,
Speaker 1: what are your impressions of the Joe Flacco beyond just
Speaker 1: the quarterback playing on the field.
Speaker 3: Oh, thoroughly impressed, and just his manner, the way he
Speaker 3: handles himself, the way I kind of wrote in that
Speaker 3: Yoshi VA's story where he saw Yoshi getting all those
Speaker 3: hard questions and when the interview broke up, he walked
Speaker 3: over and said, hey, how are you doing and checked
Speaker 3: on him because he knew that was a tough interview.
Speaker 3: And then just when he sits up with there at
Speaker 3: the podium, you know, sometimes Joe Burrow's great on the podium,
Speaker 3: but you see his eyes looking at the clock from
Speaker 3: time to time, and Joe Placo never does that. He
Speaker 3: gives us all the time in the world. It seems
Speaker 3: like he's kind of enjoying this process too, gives really
Speaker 3: thoughtful answers, and he's been a joy to work with.
Speaker 1: He's Jay Morrison, radiom at Bengals Talk dot com. Follow
Speaker 1: him on x at buy Jay Morrison, and certainly listen
Speaker 1: to the Growler podcast he does with Paul Dayner Junior. Hey,
Speaker 1: I know it's a Friday night, busy weekend. Thank you
Speaker 1: for making time tonight.
Speaker 3: Hey anytime, Lamb's good talking to you.
Speaker 1: Right, good talking to you, Jay Morrison checking in little
Speaker 1: Bengals and Steelers tonight. All right, more ahead, have about
Speaker 1: a little Bearcats and Cardinals one week from tonight they
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Speaker 5: Pushback and calling for more names from the Epstein files
Speaker 5: with the six thirty report. I'm Jack Crumley breaking Now.
Speaker 3: The list of clients that went to the island has
Speaker 3: not been made public. Yeah, it's very interesting, isn't It
Speaker 3: Probably will be, by the way, So if you're able to,
Speaker 3: you'll be Yeah, certainly take a look at it.
Speaker 5: That was President Trump more than a year ago on
Speaker 5: the Lex Friedman podcast. In multiple truth social posts this morning,
Speaker 5: President Trump urged Republicans to not fall for what he
Speaker 5: called the Epstein hoax. Also said that he will ask
Speaker 5: the Justice Department to investigate ties between Jeffrey Epstein and
Speaker 5: Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, JP Morgan, and others. The emails
Speaker 5: released so far have come from the Epstein estate via
Speaker 5: the House Committee investigating. The Justice Department still has tens
Speaker 5: of thousands of documents.
Speaker 2: Does raise the question why the White House and the
Speaker 2: Justice Department are being so are so hesitant to release
Speaker 2: all of the other files that are in the Department
Speaker 2: of Justice possession if they really do think that none
Speaker 2: of these files and this separate tranch of documents show
Speaker 2: that the President did nothing wrong, as the White House
Speaker 2: would say.
Speaker 5: That is ABC's Catherine Folders. The House is set to
Speaker 5: vote on the release of the full Epstein files in
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Speaker 6: all blocked off and also a fifteen minute delay from
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Speaker 6: Avenue northbound seventy one seventy five, seeing some slow traffic
Speaker 6: between Donaldson and twelfth a five to ten minute delay,
Speaker 6: and eastbound seventy four slow traffic from North Bend to
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Speaker 5: There's also been a new accident reported southbound seventy five
Speaker 5: in the construction zone just south of Ronald Reagan that
Speaker 5: has things backed up well through the Lachland Split. You
Speaker 5: start to hit the brakes just south of Glendale, Milford
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Speaker 5: Clear skies tonight, a low of fifty three degrees, a
Speaker 5: mix of sun and clouds tomorrow with a high of
Speaker 5: seventy then on Sunday, sunshine and a high in the
Speaker 5: mid fifties. On Sunday, the Bengals play the Steelers in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: We are looking at some rain potentially before kick off
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Speaker 5: Radart right now showing clear skies in the Tri State.
Speaker 5: It's fifty nine degrees for Employees at Roberts Academy are
Speaker 5: now on leave after the parents of a six year
Speaker 5: old student posted pictures last week of how the boy
Speaker 5: was sent home with his wrists and ankles tied with socks.
Speaker 5: The district previously said there was an investigation going on,
Speaker 5: putting out the word about lane restrictions and closures this
Speaker 5: weekend that will likely back up traffic try and cross
Speaker 5: the Ohio.
Speaker 7: River concrete repair work on I seventy five both directions
Speaker 7: near the Brent Spence Bridge could cause travel delays this weekend.
Speaker 7: The Ohio Department of Transportation will have the southbound side
Speaker 7: of the highway down to one lane from the Third
Speaker 7: Street Overpass to south of the merger with I seventy one,
Speaker 7: and that will start at nine o'clock tonight. Access from
Speaker 7: seventy one southbound to the Brent Spence Bridge will be
Speaker 7: blocked off and those restrictions are going to be in
Speaker 7: place until six o'clock in the morning on Monday. Meantime,
Speaker 7: there will be a double lane closure on the lower
Speaker 7: deck to the Brent Spence Bridge starting at eleven o'clock tonight,
Speaker 7: with those northbound lanes staying closed through Saturday evening. There
Speaker 7: will also be a single lane closure seventy five northbound
Speaker 7: and southbound between the Eighth Street Viaduct and the Western
Speaker 7: Hills Viaduct that will be in effect all weekend long.
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Speaker 5: On Wall Street today, the Dow ending down three hundred
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