Speaker 1: Scott Sloan show back Friday morning seven hundred Wow, not
Speaker 1: just any Friday morning. We lead off and will not
Speaker 1: bury the lead this morning the big store, of course,
Speaker 1: super Bowl sixty coming up Levi Stadium in San Francisco
Speaker 1: six thirty. By the way, on Sunday, the pregame started
Speaker 1: I think three weeks ago, if not mistaken, Seattle and
Speaker 1: the Patriots in a rematch from well over a decade ago.
Speaker 1: Patriots won that one on a I believe it was
Speaker 1: the Malcolm Butler interception game is what that was. And
Speaker 1: this time around Seattle favored by four and a half points,
Speaker 1: and the total by day total points lois total since
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen set at forty five and a half on
Speaker 1: this and more is the living legend himself, the voice
Speaker 1: of your Bengals. That would be our good friend Dan Horde,
Speaker 1: Dan welcome, how are you? Everything is well here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: Ohio where I am. I don't know what sunny climbs
Speaker 1: you're in right now. Probably still you're on a beat
Speaker 1: somewhere with a my tie.
Speaker 2: You just cut out there. I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm sorry about that. I said, you're probably on
Speaker 1: a beach somewhere with a my tie.
Speaker 2: Right, I wish. Unfortunately that is not the case. You know,
Speaker 2: we both have Upstate New York in our background, having
Speaker 2: lived in the Buffalo area. When I moved to Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: I thought I was moving through a tropical paradise, and
Speaker 2: more often than not, the weather here is quite mild.
Speaker 2: But this winter winter is kicking my tail. Unlike you,
Speaker 2: I do not enjoy shoveling.
Speaker 1: I don't mind it. I got the snowblower that broke,
Speaker 1: and I'm working with broken. So I'm thinking about getting
Speaker 1: a plow for my truck because I got a couple
Speaker 1: of properties. I got to take care of them. Like,
Speaker 1: maybe I get a ply She think I should want a.
Speaker 2: Plow, Dan, I think you should get a plow, and
Speaker 2: I will give you my address. I've got a big
Speaker 2: day and I appreciate if you would make regular visits.
Speaker 1: I mean, my wife told me, she said, you know,
Speaker 1: I tell her about it. I'm like, I'm doing the math.
Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, I'm like, for you know, a couple
Speaker 1: two three years pay for itself. And she's like, I
Speaker 1: know you You're gonna go plow everybody's driveway. Your plow
Speaker 1: ours and you'll go do all your friends, will do
Speaker 1: all the neighbors, and you're not. It's not going to
Speaker 1: pay for itself. You're going to wear it out because
Speaker 1: you like doing this stuff, because you're stupid. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, that is the best analysis I think
Speaker 1: you've ever offered me in the last year. That she's
Speaker 1: spot on too.
Speaker 2: I do everybody so her she's very wise. However, what
Speaker 2: she didn't say is that all of those friends whose
Speaker 2: driveways you are about to shovel when you get this
Speaker 2: plow are going to love you even more than they
Speaker 2: already do. And what's more important than.
Speaker 1: That that's true? Well, I mean I get certainly I
Speaker 1: abuse them, and so the karma comes back and I'll
Speaker 1: have all all evens out even I'll never have to
Speaker 1: buy a drink again for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: It'll be fantastic. Let's get in the super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: biggest star of the Super Bowl, Dan of course is
Speaker 1: and I'm sure people are hanging on this your take
Speaker 1: on the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Speaker 2: I have no problem with Bad Bunny performing, and I
Speaker 2: don't understand why this is a controversy. Right, he is
Speaker 2: a huge international star. I don't care that he apparently
Speaker 2: sings some of his songs in Spanish. I mean, I'd
Speaker 2: never really listened to Bad Bunny. But why is this
Speaker 2: such a big deal. I mean, the NFL has been
Speaker 2: trying to pick popular acts for at least the last
Speaker 2: ten years or so. Prior to that, I think they
Speaker 2: went for the old time legends. But they're trying to
Speaker 2: appeal to a younger audience by picking acts that you know,
Speaker 2: younger folks listen to. Now clearly they're listening to Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2: Why is that a controversy? It actually kind of annoys me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on it. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: I know one of his songs. I can't say I'm
Speaker 1: a huge Bad Bunny fan that I'll go and download
Speaker 1: his music because of this.
Speaker 2: I won't.
Speaker 1: But it's fifteen minutes and it's time for me to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom anyway, because I'm watching the games
Speaker 1: and commercials. You can't take a break. The only time
Speaker 1: I could take a break is halftime. I got to
Speaker 1: go my blatters full and I'm old. If you look
Speaker 1: at the TV ratings, which are still a thing, NFL
Speaker 1: is still in the top one hundred, like most of
Speaker 1: the top one hundred shows are NFL football games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the top ninety.
Speaker 1: The top one hundred, right, And you can't get any
Speaker 1: more saturated. You cannot get any more market share in
Speaker 1: the United States than you already are with the NFL.
Speaker 1: So the only way to expand and make more money
Speaker 1: is to go intional to Latin America. And so you
Speaker 1: put bad Baby on, who's a Grammy winner, who also
Speaker 1: is the most streamed artist. It's a slam dug. It's
Speaker 1: not about you know, old white people in America watching
Speaker 1: football anymore. It's about women, it's about young people. It's
Speaker 1: about emerging markets. That's why they're doing this.
Speaker 2: You know, Bad Bunny is hosted Saturday Night Live. That's
Speaker 2: my only exposure to Bad Bunny, and he was funny.
Speaker 2: He was good on Saturday Night Live. So, like you,
Speaker 2: I don't know how closely I'll be watching the halftime show.
Speaker 2: That's a great opportunity to head to the kitchen and
Speaker 2: store up on another round of unhealthy food, which is
Speaker 2: what I do best during the Super Bowl. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure I'll catch some of it, and who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: some of the people that are so offended by the
Speaker 2: fact that he's going to perform at halftime, will come
Speaker 2: around and say, you know what, that guy's.
Speaker 1: Not that bad, or they'll turn around and watch Kid
Speaker 1: Rock and Lee Greenwood or whatever that is, and it's
Speaker 1: an opportunity, you know, or the Puppy Bowl or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell it is. I don't know. I'm here to
Speaker 1: watch football and commercials in that order, by the way,
Speaker 1: and probably one of the very few times, Dan, you
Speaker 1: get to actually just a I don't watch a football
Speaker 1: game without putting your Bengals hat on. So let's get
Speaker 1: at it. Seattle and New England. I think the big
Speaker 1: question here is Drake May. Which Drake May shows up?
Speaker 1: He has not been good in the playoffs. That's a
Speaker 1: huge problem going to this for the Patriots.
Speaker 2: I think that's the big question for both teams, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, will Sam Donald turn into a pumpkin? Sam
Speaker 2: Donald actually accounted for more turnovers than any other quarterback
Speaker 2: in the NFL this year during the regular season twenty
Speaker 2: when you add up his interceptions and his bumbles, and
Speaker 2: then Drake May, as you pointed out, has had some
Speaker 2: shaky moments in the postseason. He's fumbled six times in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. So which of those two guys makes a
Speaker 2: couple of big mistakes that hurts their team. I think
Speaker 2: that that ultimately could be the key to the game.
Speaker 1: Well, we saw Donald in the NFC Championship performance against
Speaker 1: the Rams, and they're very aggressive in the co And
Speaker 1: you know, I guess the question is does he reverted
Speaker 1: to his second half struggles against New England. Was that
Speaker 1: a one off in the NFC Championship game or was
Speaker 1: he able to maybe turn that worm turned a little
Speaker 1: bit for him? We'll find out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was awesome in that game. That might have
Speaker 2: been his best game all year. I'll say this for
Speaker 2: Sam Donald, I've been a skeptic really for two years now.
Speaker 2: He led the Vikings to fourteen wins last year, he
Speaker 2: led Seattle to fourteen wins this year. Now, he had
Speaker 2: the benefit of really good defenses on both of those teams.
Speaker 2: But still I think he's the only quarterback other than
Speaker 2: Tom Brady to ever do that. That's pretty impressive. So
Speaker 2: I guess at some point we have to say, you
Speaker 2: know what, maybe that Donald guy is pretty good after all.
Speaker 1: All right, So who's less questionable for you then, Drake
Speaker 1: may or Sam Donald.
Speaker 2: I probably still have more doubt about Sam Donald. But
Speaker 2: I still think Seattle will win, just because Seattle is
Speaker 2: the better overall team and much more battle tested. The
Speaker 2: NFC was vastly superior to the AFC as a conference
Speaker 2: this year, and Seattle was in a division where two
Speaker 2: other teams won twelve games. I mean, they made it
Speaker 2: through the NFC West with the Rams and the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers, and at the end of the day, with
Speaker 2: the number one seed in the NFC, they went fourteen
Speaker 2: and three, and their schedule was much tougher than New England.
Speaker 2: New England's had one of those years where everything seemed
Speaker 2: to fall right into their credit. You still got to
Speaker 2: go out and win those games, and they beat good
Speaker 2: teams in the playoffs. But Seattle, week after week, it's
Speaker 2: facing really good teams and beating them. I find it
Speaker 2: hard to imagine that Seattle's going to lose. The one
Speaker 2: thing that kind of creeps into the back of my
Speaker 2: mind is the fact that the underdog is one four
Speaker 2: out of the last five Super Bowls. So strange things
Speaker 2: happen on Super Bowls Sunday. But I still think Seattle's
Speaker 2: going to win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you look at like even the last three, well,
Speaker 1: how you can go back to like the last five
Speaker 1: years their record is, you know, they're twelve and four
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty nine, couple nine and eighties and ten
Speaker 1: and seven. This season they come out and it feels
Speaker 1: like New England. Dan, It was like the Bengals when
Speaker 1: we went to the Super Bowl, right, you know, they're
Speaker 1: terrible and all of a sudden, nowhere they just go
Speaker 1: on a heater, they go on a run. And we
Speaker 1: saw the Bengals, as you know, in that Super Bowl
Speaker 1: against the Rams, a blank of an eye. It could
Speaker 1: have been a Bengals world championship had had things fall
Speaker 1: into place, because it was literally an eyelash away from
Speaker 1: winning that football game and they didn't. Lost by three.
Speaker 1: But it reminds me the New England team come out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, reminds me of the Bengals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did basically the exact same thing. The year
Speaker 2: before the Bengals went to the Super Bowl in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, they won four games. That was what the
Speaker 2: Patriots did. They've done from four wins to a division
Speaker 2: title and an appearance in the Super Bowl. Maybe unlike
Speaker 2: the Bengals, they're able to win one more game and
Speaker 2: add another freaking Super Bowl to the wall in New England.
Speaker 2: That doesn't annoy me at all, but we'll see, you know,
Speaker 2: Seattle to me is the better team on both sides
Speaker 2: of the ball, so I'll think they'll win. And part
Speaker 2: of that I think influencing my decision is when the
Speaker 2: Bengals played the Patriots this year, New England won, but
Speaker 2: they didn't play very well march down in that game,
Speaker 2: Drake May threw a pick six, they settled for a
Speaker 2: bunch of field goals inside the red zone. They won
Speaker 2: because the Bengals couldn't cover tight ends really for the
Speaker 2: entire year. And Hunter Henry Hunter Henry had one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifteen receiving yards in that game. But New England
Speaker 2: didn't allow me seeing them, you know, in person, So
Speaker 2: that probably has a big impact on my thought that
Speaker 2: they're going to lose the game as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that and that spread feels about right to me.
Speaker 1: Dan Horde, voice of the Bengals. Chopping up the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl on Sunday six thirty, We'll have it for you here,
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty on seven hundred WLW if you can't
Speaker 1: watch it on TV. And the other thing I'm going
Speaker 1: to look up front two is what is Will Campbell
Speaker 1: the rookie, how he holds up against that interior pressure
Speaker 1: Seattle has because the throw stunts at the highest rate
Speaker 1: in the league, and that's gonna be kind of overwhelming.
Speaker 1: That's a whole different ballgame for him. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: adding now, Drake may can certainly scramble for sure, but
Speaker 1: you can't only do that so much before it comes
Speaker 1: back to bite you. We'll see how that that part
Speaker 1: of the line holds up for them.
Speaker 2: He's the left tackle. He was helped off the field
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, got injured in that game. It looked at
Speaker 2: the time like it might be season ending. Fortunately for
Speaker 2: the Patriots, Campbell was able to come back and return.
Speaker 2: But since he's been back, he hasn't been very good.
Speaker 2: So we'll see. I agree with you, I think that's
Speaker 2: going to be a key matchup in the game.
Speaker 1: All right on this side of it? Should should New
Speaker 1: England copy what like the Rams tried to do attack
Speaker 1: in Seattle with a lot of those in routes and
Speaker 1: going after the zone really really hard in Typically an
Speaker 1: NFL team will look at that, watch the film and go, uh,
Speaker 1: we got to try and figure out if our personnel
Speaker 1: can execute like the Rams because they're pretty close.
Speaker 2: Listen to you, listen to you going all collins Worth nowt.
Speaker 1: I mean you you can if you watch it right,
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, you just basically it's like anything, if
Speaker 1: it works, you try to replicate it and build office.
Speaker 1: That's what they're going to do.
Speaker 2: That is correct. Yeah, the Patriots are certainly going to
Speaker 2: look at things that work for the Rams and try
Speaker 2: to incorporate some of them. Now, the Rams have Puka
Speaker 2: Nakoa Natua and DeVante Adams and the Patriots don't have
Speaker 2: weapons like that. I think the Patriots are going to
Speaker 2: rely on the running game more than the Rams did
Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship game. But sure, anytime you see
Speaker 2: a team have success, you try to find some of
Speaker 2: those things that apply to your team, you know, when
Speaker 2: you compare the personnel and see if you can use
Speaker 2: some of those things to your advantage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, we can talking much about well Sam Darnold,
Speaker 1: but Seattle's offense they can beat you a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different ways.
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker is awesome, the beast. They call him K nine.
Speaker 2: He's a great running back. Now, they were able to
Speaker 2: share the load during the course of the season with
Speaker 2: Zach Charboney. He's hurt, he won't play in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: so puts more of the load on Walker. But that
Speaker 2: might be a good thing. I think he's tremendous. He
Speaker 2: might be top two or three in the NFL and
Speaker 2: yards after catch, once you get the ball in his hands,
Speaker 2: he's electric. And that's going to be a real key
Speaker 2: for New England in this game because he's the type
Speaker 2: of guy that could easily put up you know, one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty combined rushing and receiving yards.
Speaker 1: Right, what about the special teams factor? Do you think
Speaker 1: that could make a difference in this game? Because you know,
Speaker 1: you think, all right, Sam Darnold, Drake May, you know,
Speaker 1: two guys at not the best quarterbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: certainly not. You know, there was MVP talk for Drake May.
Speaker 1: That's over at this point. Did this come down a
Speaker 1: special teams play or Seattle? Just do you see this
Speaker 1: like as a blowout?
Speaker 2: I don't see it as a blowout. Special teams could
Speaker 2: be a factor. The Patriots have a rookie kicker that
Speaker 2: could be you know, significant in a Super Bowl. Maybe
Speaker 2: the collar gets a little bit tight. We'll see. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't have that circle as like this game is
Speaker 2: going to come down to a field goal, but I
Speaker 2: do think it's going to be relatively close, and who knows,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe a rookie kicker in that moment does
Speaker 2: not deliver. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking back to that the Bengals Super Bowls, like, well,
Speaker 1: that was very close to went by field goal for
Speaker 1: crying out loud, and could have been the Bengals ball game.
Speaker 1: If and when we're able to complete a pass there
Speaker 1: with you just need to you just replay it over
Speaker 1: in your head, right, you need a quarter more of
Speaker 1: a second and it's a touchdown. But yeah, of course
Speaker 1: it feels like the same game.
Speaker 2: It's a really good point because what did that game
Speaker 2: ultimately come down to. Yep, the Bengals inability to protect
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow when they had to in the second half.
Speaker 2: I mean, Aaron Donald wrecked that game. And the Patriots
Speaker 2: offensive line against this great Seattle defense, that's the biggest
Speaker 2: matchup in this game. Seattle is number one in the
Speaker 2: NFL in scoring defense, number one in rushing defense. They're
Speaker 2: really good at getting after the quarterback. Drake May got
Speaker 2: shacked a lot, he'll hold onto the ball, not unusual
Speaker 2: for second year QB. So that's going to be a
Speaker 2: huge key on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll see how plays out too. As an
Speaker 1: AFC guy, we're both AFC guys to watch Drake May
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious and I think the strength of
Speaker 1: schedule criticism is valid and Mike put into context their
Speaker 1: playoff offensive struggles. I just want to see, like this
Speaker 1: is a good test, and I think next season I
Speaker 1: need a whole nother season to watch Drake made it
Speaker 1: to see if he's a real deal.
Speaker 2: Well, he's the eighth quarterback to make the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: in the second year of his career, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Companies on the list with Joe Burrow, Tom Brady, Dan Marino,
Speaker 2: Ben Roethlisberger, so his career is obviously off to a
Speaker 2: great start. I'm buying Drake May. You know, I think
Speaker 2: there's a tremendous draft pick. That quarterback draft is looking
Speaker 2: better and better. Caleb Williams was the first pick. He
Speaker 2: was great for the Bears this year. Jayden Daniels was
Speaker 2: the second pick. He was incredible last year and then
Speaker 2: got hurt this year, and then he had Drake may
Speaker 2: come after that. So I think all three of those
Speaker 2: teams are really happy with their choice. And Drake may
Speaker 2: is the first of the three to get to a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question. Then there's always guys like I don't know,
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford and Baker Mayfield. So we'll see where he
Speaker 1: ends up. I mean, you know he's going to be
Speaker 1: in the league for a while, that's for dang sure.
Speaker 1: So Super Bowl Sunday it is sixered. What is a
Speaker 1: food of choice? And don't tell me toast by the way,
Speaker 1: when you're sitting back, kicking back and just watching the
Speaker 1: games of fan, don't hit me while I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: I'm having a toast buffet.
Speaker 2: You know how I love toast. I know you're going
Speaker 2: to be at the grand opening of my Toast restaurant
Speaker 2: the Coast of the Town. I know you're very excited
Speaker 2: about that bread bread that's their slogan. On Super Bowl Sunday,
Speaker 2: I will be beginning my day with some toast as
Speaker 2: I begin every day. I'm definitely a toast for breakfast
Speaker 2: kind of guy. But you know, when the Super Bowl arrives,
Speaker 2: I gotta have wings. You know, we both have Buffalo
Speaker 2: in our past, in a Buffalo area in our past.
Speaker 2: So even though I miss Western New York wings as
Speaker 2: opposed to Cincinnati wings, I like Cincinnati wings, but they
Speaker 2: try to make them too healthy. Here. Everybody's baking their wings,
Speaker 2: you know. I want deep fried, I want a christy edge.
Speaker 2: But in many cases, yes, there will be wings at
Speaker 2: my Super Bowl spread.
Speaker 1: What do you have a spot? Do you mind plugging
Speaker 1: like you do? Since he light, I.
Speaker 2: Will probably be getting Eli's barbecue wings. I did that
Speaker 2: last year for the Super Bowl and they were excellent,
Speaker 2: so I think that's probably what we're doing good. Matt.
Speaker 1: I am a huge, huge Eli's Wings fan. I think
Speaker 1: they're among the best. If you can get to the
Speaker 1: West Side and get to to well to Mike's that's
Speaker 1: a different story, but I would say Eli's is definitely
Speaker 1: definitely up there. Definitely up there. Shooters is okay, but
Speaker 1: I'm an Eli's guy for sure, unless I'm making my own.
Speaker 1: But you can't get the big wings like you get
Speaker 1: in a restaurant. That's a hard but all like like
Speaker 1: pigeon wings. I hate that. I need some meat. I
Speaker 1: need some meat on I don't have.
Speaker 2: A deep Yeah, I don't have a deep fryer, so
Speaker 2: I don't make my own. And at Eli's they're not
Speaker 2: deepried either, but they're really really good. Oh, Tavern's got
Speaker 2: great ones or town. Look, Tavern's got really good one.
Speaker 2: So I've got some good offs all right on the
Speaker 2: east side of town. But I'm leaning Eli's cheese or ranch.
Speaker 2: Oh blue cheese. God, yeah, this is don't insult me.
Speaker 2: This ain't Cleveland, I insinuating. Dan Horde, the Voice of
Speaker 2: the Bengals. Always love chatting with my man. Thanks so
Speaker 2: much for jumping on this morning, and uh we'll talk
Speaker 2: again soon, Dono, thanks for having me on you Well, toast.
Speaker 1: And wings sounds like, uh, that sounds awful. Actually together,
Speaker 1: I have the wings. I'll skip the toast. Sloaney Home
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