WEBVTT - 10-13-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.280 Bill cunning in The Great American. Of course, yesterday in 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.479 Green Bay was not a complete disaster of a moral 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.360 victory at shorts. And Thursday night the Steelers are in town. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.880 That could begin the renaissance of your Cincinnati Bengals. I 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.079 see a flickering candle in the darkness. His name is 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.759 Joe Flacco. Somehow in the second half, great things happened 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.960 which no one anticipated, especially at halftime. And Moeger, can 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.000 I share with you the stats in the first half 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.440 as opposed to the stats in the second half and 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.400 see if you can see a difference. Okay, in the 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.440 first half with the Bengals they scored zero points. In 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.280 the second half they scored eighteen. Do you see that 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:46.080 as an improvement? 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.000 Yes? 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.200 Yes, So that means in the next half they play, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.320 they'll score thirty six. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.200 Now you're thinking like the Great American. As far as 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.520 yards gained, in the first half, they had sixty five 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.480 yards and the second half they had two hundred and three. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.440 Do you see an improvement there? 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:06.720 I sure do. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:07.119 Willie. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.119 By the way, it's scary when you say that. I'm 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.080 starting to think. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:10.759 Like you now. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.280 Number three, in the first half they had four one, two, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.520 three four first downs I think three were on penalties, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.960 and anyway, they had four first downs and the second 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.880 half they had sixteen. Now that's an improvement. Now, time 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.000 of possession in the first half they had eight minutes 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.200 and sixteen seconds of possession out of thirty and the 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.880 second half they had nineteen and dominated possession in the 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.160 second half. So they had eighteen points to zero, two 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.080 hundred and three yards to sixty five, sixteen first downs 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.319 to four, and time of possession nineteen minutes to eight minutes. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.800 Do you see an improvement there across the board? 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:51.200 I do, Willie. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.200 Yes, you're paying a very rosy picture for this team. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.960 That's what I'm doing. Is it justified? Do you think 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.320 that Joe Flacco and I think Micah Parsons had no sacks, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.160 no individual tackles, helped on maybe two or three, completely irrelevant. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.280 And Orlando Brown wasn't so much of a swinging door, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.919 allowed one or two, but that's about it for him. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.799 That's not bad. So what hope do you have Thursday night? 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:19.000 Well? 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.760 I looked at this game as one the Bengals were 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.760 probably not going to win. Vegas told you as much. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.280 They were fourteen and a half point underdogs. They were 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.760 using a quarterback who showed up on Tuesday night, They're 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.040 playing a team coming off of bye, and they don't 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.120 have a great defense. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.480 So I looked at this game as. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.679 Basically a preseason game for Joe Flacco. Start to get 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.880 on the same page with your wide receivers. They were 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.160 not in the first half, felt like they were in 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.960 the second half. Expand the playbook as the game goes on. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.080 So like they did that in the second half, And 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.800 so I viewed. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.480 The Green Bay game as one. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.400 Where they could plant the seeds for success moving forward. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.240 And now they've got a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.280 And quite frankly, if Pittsburgh is not going to run 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.280 away and high in the AFC North, it's going to 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.560 be because the Bengals beat them on Thursday. And so 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.480 I think, suddenly we have an interesting. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:11.680 Game, right. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.360 Is there an added degree of comfort that Joe Flacco 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.480 will have with a few more practices. I'lbeit on a 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.120 short week playing at home against Pittsburgh, can they expand 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.640 upon some of the things they did in. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.960 The second half, And I'm hopeful that. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.960 They can, and if they can, and if they can 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.280 get a victory in that game on Thursday, which. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.919 They're five and a half point underdogs. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:33.760 Then you have the quote. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.640 Mini buy no game this weekend. Then you'll host the 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.880 New York Jets. That's a winnable game. Then you'll host 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.360 the Chicago Bears. That's a winnable game. And you could 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.960 start to talk about the Bengals at least staying afloat 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.440 between now in mid December, when hopefully Joe Burrow comes back. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.080 I still wonder, I still worry about Joe Flacco's immobility. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.920 I still don't think this defense is good enough to 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.880 get stops when the game demands they do, and yesterday 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.280 was proof of that. There were a number of times 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.480 where it felt like if they could just get a stop, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.080 they've got a shot here, and time and again they 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.200 could not. That's been a team all season long. But 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.680 if you were looking for nothing more than improved quarterback 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.000 play from what they were getting, I think they got 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.720 that yesterday. And I think in that regard, as much 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.000 as I am not into moral victories by any stretch 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.760 of the imagination, I do think there are some things 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.360 they can build upon moving forward. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.240 Well, there's hope because Aaron Rodgers doesn't look good. And 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.120 let's face it, the surprise of this year has been 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.920 the Baltimore Ravens. I think they're one in four, one 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.240 in five. They stink, they're terrible, they're lousy. This division 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.000 is eminently winnable and it's going to I'm going to 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.080 make a prediction now that I may be held to 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.400 account for later, but the Bengals will beat the Steelers 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.520 on Thursday. Here Joe Flacco will leave them to glory. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.840 Then they're going to beat the Jets, and then they're 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.120 likely to beat the Chicago Bears. And at that point 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.240 they're going to be four and four or five and four, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.600 in which case they're set for greatness. And then they 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.200 get to a bye week and they're ready to go. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.400 And doctors have tell told me that the great number nine, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.279 Joe Burrow, is going to be back the first week 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.560 or two of December. So we need some help just 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.880 for the next six weeks or so. And this, you know, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.240 the Bengals do not do well against the Steelers at all, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.720 but the Steelers aren't very good and the Browns thinks, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.159 so I have hope. And one thing I'd like to 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.440 bring up is what happened how do they handle Michael 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.160 Parsons so well? What happened? I thought he was going 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.279 to cause damage and wreckage in the backfield. It didn't happen. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.640 They had a good game plan for him. I would 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.640 stop short of saying that the offensive line played great, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.760 but I thought Joe Flacco for the most part, looked 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.880 comfortable behind it. I felt like the Bengals had a 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.120 good plan for Michael Parsons. I think the one thing 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.000 that would make this easier would be if they could 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.679 run the football at all. And that's that's just, frankly, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.240 not going to be so much the case. But you 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.040 go from Michael Parsons on Sunday to now t J. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.960 Watt On on Thursday Day and a Pittsburgh defense that 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.920 has experienced and hard hitting and is going to be 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.919 a challenge. But you know, I think there's a glimmer 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.440 of sunshine, as hard as that might be to believe 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.520 for a team that has lost four consecutive games. The 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.680 AFC talked a bottom is not very good. She talked 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.800 about the Baltimore Ravens to a mess right now. The 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.520 Kansas City Chiefs are starting to play really, really well, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.279 but are just three and three there's a playoff spot 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.520 to be had. Again if they lose to Pittsburgh, which 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.320 I don't think would surprise anybody, So then the mask 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.760 gets really really difficult and the margin for error shrinks. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.800 But again, if you were looking at that game yesterday too, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.240 the same lens I was, which is Okay, you're probably 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.560 not going to win, so you basically use it as 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.640 a preseason game for Joe Flacco to get comfortable, to 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.520 get on the same page with his wideouts, to learn 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.720 the offense in an actual game environment. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:06:59.440 I think that happened, and I. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.479 Think there are some things they can build on. I 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.560 don't think the Steelers are great. They did take care 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.760 of business at home yesterday against the Cleveland Browns, but 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.320 I don't think anybody's used that team right now as 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.800 like leghitimate Super Bowl contenders. Aaron Rodgers has played well 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.400 through a couple of touchdown passes yesterday, DK Metcalf had 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.200 a big game, and so you know, I mean, he's 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.800 Aaron Rodgers, but he's not Aaron Rodgers search to twenty nineteen. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.840 He's not the Aaron Rodgers who was winning MVP awards, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.320 and so yeah, I think there is a ray of 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.560 hope for this team going into Thursday night. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.200 If things go awry, and right now, what a two 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.320 and four? If they lose Thursday night, they're two and five, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.000 then you got the weak part of the schedule coming up, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.200 Jets and the Bears. Who knows about that? Are there 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.320 going to be calls for Zach Taylor's departure if this 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.640 thing goes awry? Does he have excuses or does he 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.800 not have excuse? I don't think he's real popular among 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.920 the faithful right now. But is this a Zach Taylor 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.120 kind of a situation. You have to be careful. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:02.520 Well. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.040 At the end of the day, the coaches are judged 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.400 on their wins and losses. Do they get into the postseason? 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.640 Do they contend for championships? And I think any coach 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.040 who doesn't make the playoffs for a third consecutive year 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.040 is going to have folks wondering should his seat be hot. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.640 I don't think Zach Taylor gets excuses. I think he 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.560 gets some slack. You know, he's had to make it 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.840 up as he's gone along this year with Joe Flacco 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.880 and with Jake Browning before him. To me, I think 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.720 the true test is going to be if this thing 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.360 unravels to the point that the locker room fractures, that 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.080 singers are being pointed that the effort is being compromised. Look, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.720 the team itself, top to bottom, isn't great. I think 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.960 if there's one thing the last four weeks I've told 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.920 us is they're way to reliant on Joe Burrow to 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.000 elevate everybody else. I put that a lot more on 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.040 Duke Tobin than I do Zach Taylor. I think with 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.760 Zach what I have not really seen over the course 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.400 of his six plus years is a team that has. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.240 Ever quit on him. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.680 I've never gotten the sense that the culture has fallen apart. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.400 So I think if this spirals out of control, and 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.760 it may begin to if they lose on Thursday, then 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.960 I think you start to wonder about the coach losing 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.680 the team, the coach losing the locker room. For me, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.200 the biggest issues with Zach are I'm not convinced that 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:22.920 he should be calling plays. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:23.800 And that's not me. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.760 Look, I think that the lamest thing that fans do 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.240 sometimes is talk about play calling, because none of us 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.560 have any idea what goes into calling a play. But 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.439 I do think that there have been even when the 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.640 Bengals have been at their best, when Joe Burrow has 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.920 been healthy, there have been these lulls in the production 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.640 of the offense that I've always wondered, you know what, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.720 a different way of operating on the sideline, with a 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.040 different voice in the headset, would a different play caller 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.040 get rid of some of those lulls until this team 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.720 maximizes its offensive potential. I will always wonder would Zach 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.240 Taylor be better off and would the team bet her 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.760 off if he wasn't calling plays and instead was managing. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.480 The game, was you know, handling the all. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.480 The different things and all the different decisions that a 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.920 head coach has in front of him, and obviously has 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.760 input in the offensive game plan, but isn't the guy 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.720 calling plays. I think it would be interesting to see 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.320 what would happen if they would make a change doing that. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.280 Zach Taylor said last week that's not going to happen. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.280 I think it is. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.920 Completely fair to wonder if this thing unravels, what's that 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.640 going to mean for him? But I don't know that 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.719 there's a track record of that happening for us to 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:35.560 assume that it will. 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.679 Let's change gears a little bit. I first met, by 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.920 the way, Jim Kelly Junior, as you know, died this 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.960 morning after a long fight with cancer. You see a 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.840 football color analyst. I met his father, and I was 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.400 a boy. As you know, Jim Kelly Senior began his 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.360 career as a football coach and administrator at Deer Park 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.880 High School, and I met him as a boy. I 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.199 did not know his son at that point. And Jim 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.200 Kelly Junior has been connected to U SEE football as 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.400 a color analyst since at least nineteen eighty eight. He's 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:11.440 been connected to UC since the early nineteen seventies when 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.720 I was operations manager. I want to meet with Jim 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.280 Kelly as I did with Xavier analysts, to see what 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.440 the direction is and do this or do that. As 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.000 soon as he told me that he went to Saint 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.520 Xavior Grade School as a Golden Bear and played sports there, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.839 and then I made the connection quickly with his dad 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.439 from Deer Park High School. I said, we're going to 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.520 continue with you as long as you can do the job, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.840 and he did it quite well until very recently. What 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.680 are your memories of Jim Kelly Junior and what he 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.360 meant to UC football. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:47.319 Athletics synonymous with the school, synonymous with the program, and 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.920 you know that goes back. Jim was a ball boy. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.080 You know, you think back to Jim Kelly Senior started 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.600 as a player at UC in nineteen forty seven, was 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.960 a coach, was an administrator all the way up until 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.080 nineteen ninety four, and so Jim Kelly Junior's relationship with 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.040 the schools started when he was a little kid as 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.480 a ball boy. Jim is one of the great high 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.840 school football players in Cincinnati history. A terrific player at Moler, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.120 part of teams in the early seventies led by Jerry 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.319 Falf where you know, Jim ended up having the kind 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.199 of career for the Crusaders that has put him in 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.320 Mohler's Hall of Fame. You see, when he left, you know, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.240 that was not a program that threw the ball a bunch. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.000 But when Jim graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.280 nineteen seventy five, he was the school's fourth all time 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.480 leading receiver, and so he was a terrific high school 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.640 and college football player. I went to training camp with 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.200 the Chicago Bears, spent a year as a graduate assistant 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.240 at UCEE, but most of us know him obviously from 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.280 his work in the broadcast booth, and I've had a 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.120 chance to be in that booth for the last twenty 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.040 four years, and it's been it's been awesome. It's been 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.720 awesome to work with somebody who was so knowledgeable but 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.760 equally as passionate. I don't know, Willy, anybody who cared 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.960 more about the Bearcats. And when I say care about 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.719 the Bearcats, I mean care about you know, did they 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.920 win or lose? But care about the young men that 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.640 he got a chance to know, and care about the program, 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.280 care about the coaches, and that came through every broadcast, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.160 including the three that we were fortunate enough to be 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.000 with him for before he stepped aside last month. You know, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.720 those last three games he did the first three games 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.000 in this season. The voice was a little bit weaker, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.760 but the analysis was just as sharp, and the enthusiasm 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.080 for the program was there. But you know, in our business, Willy, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.880 there are not many people that if you ask about them, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:48.040 you hear no negative words. And I've never heard anybody 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:49.840 say a negative thing about Jim Kelly. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:50.960 He was a guy. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.760 And I put this on social media. You know, twenty 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.319 four years of spending time with Jim, dozens and dozens 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:03.120 of road trips, Invariably conversation would drift toward Jim's family, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:08.040 his wife, his four boys, his grandkids, the kind of 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.800 family man that you said, you know what, I want 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.160 to be like that. And so the football part of 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.079 this is important, and the broadcasting part of this is significant, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.840 and that's why we all know who Jim is. But personally, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.560 for me, I just think of an amazing family man 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.960 and somebody whose company I'm going to miss, and somebody 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:33.520 who you know, again, as a UC fan is more 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.560 synonymous with that football program, maybe more synonymous with with 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.920 that athletic department than I think any Bearcat ever. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.560 Think about eighty years connected with a Kelly family. His 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.440 father started with the Bearcats in nineteen forty seven, So 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:53.160 between nineteen forty seven and today, the Kellys have been 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.880 instrumental in promoting UC athletics. Speaking positively, I don't know 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.960 how many football and basketball coach have gone through since 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.880 nineteen forty seven. I would say there's probably dozens and 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.560 dozens and dozens, and of all those who dealt with 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.960 senior or junior, not one person could say anything negative 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.320 about either. One of them, and every institution needed someone 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.800 like Jim Kelly Senior and Jim Kelly Junior to represent 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.640 their university. The Hall of Fame is named after his dad, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.040 and Jim Kelly Junior will be missed. With his band, 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.200 he enjoyed the rock and roll a little bit, but 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.760 mainly he was a good husband, a good father. He 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.560 was a good man and his passing today will be 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.360 felt by everyone that knew him. All right, MO, thanks 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.120 for coming on a little bit of sadness there with 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.840 the passing of Jim Kelly Junior. But the beat goes on. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.960 The old man Rivers just keeps on rolling, and many 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.000 of us get on a boat and we go downstream 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.880 a little bit, then we get off and someone else 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.640 gets on. But I'm not sure anyone in the history 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.760 of US athletics will have the same connection to that 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.120 great university more than Jim Kelly Senior and Jim Kelly Junior. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.560 And may rest in peace today at the age of 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.240 seventy two. And he used those seventy two years in 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.320 a positive way that lit up the live for many 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.080 he came in touch with. And he will be missed, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.200 and may his memory be a be a solace for 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.520 those who are hurting this morning. His memory is so positive. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.520 And once again, Moeger, thanks for coming on the Bill 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.560 Cunningham Show. And that's Ruin Homa a winner for you. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:17.920 See. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.720 Who do they play next? By the way, who's usual 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.160 football play next? If anyone? 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.960 Well, the bear Cattle have won five consecutive games, are 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.160 going to be at Oklahoma State on Saturday night at 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:34.800 eight o'clock. And it is my sincere wish that they 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.840 get a win for number seven because I know he's 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.200 going to be looking down and and we're going to 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:42.920 miss him. Man miss him a lot. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.520 Oklahoma States thinks I think Gundy got fired, didn't he. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.040 I don't know if they want a game. I don't know. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.360 I don't know if they want a game. If they 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.760 won a game this year and still water, I don't think. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.480 Well, they're zero and three in the Big Twelve. They've 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.120 lost those three games by an average of more than 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.160 twenty two points. Earlier this season they lost by sixty 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.040 six O Oregon. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:04.360 Oh uh oh. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.160 Mike Gundy was let go a few weeks ago. Cincinnati 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.360 on the road is I looked this morning a twenty 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.280 and a half point favorite with really needless to say 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.840 most they've ever been favored in as Big twelve members. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.880 So yes, this is a game the Bearcatch should win. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.240 And if they do, then I think it gets fun 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.520 because we'll talk about some of the more difficult teams 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.840 they have on their schedule. But I think we're going 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.359 to talk about them being a factor in what feels 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.160 like a wide open Fix twelve race. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.560 Give me a Big twelve championship. Mo, what do you think? 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.280 Tie me up, Willie. I'd be all about that. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.679 Well, Hi, Mo. The beat goes on, and thanks for 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.960 coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We'll talk later about 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.399 Jim Kelly Junior, also the services that are plant, et cetera. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.040 But Moe, have a great afternoon. Thank you. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:52.040 Okay, Willie, thank you. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:57.760 Let's continue. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred Wow. All right, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.760 Dave Keaton hit the music Monday afternoon, the Tri State 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.719 Walk Together in time, You and I. Big things happening 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:11.639 all over the world and important stuff happening. I would 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.200 give a little bit of credit on this to Hillary Clinton. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.280 Not much do I do that, But she's issued numerous 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.440 missives and given a couple of interviews in which she 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:28.760 gives complete credit to Donald Trump, and it's incredible, and 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:34.080 actually even Kamala Harris has commended Trump for the peace plan. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.840 A few of the Democrats had, but of course not 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.320 Steve Roberts of ABC News this morning with Tom Brenneman, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.639 the Great Brenneman, acting as if this was some diversion 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.280 from the problems at home. Well, why can't you give 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.760 it up? And say, who said nine months into this 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.280 it'd be peace in the Middle East? Nobody? And by 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.040 the way, it's not permanent. I can't imagine having gone 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.360 through now. Stage one is not quite completed. Say one 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:06.359 also involved the giving back of twenty eight deceased hostages, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.040 and that hasn't happened by a noon today, which would 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.560 have been noon at their time. Right now, it's about 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.240 seven thirty eight in the evening there and they hamas 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.919 released so far for the twenty it expected remains of 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.360 dead hostages. They're saying they cannot be located, which might 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.000 be the case. I don't know, maybe they're obliterated, but 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.040 they're in violation of part one, Phase one of the agreement. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.520 The rest of that has been has been met. And 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.800 it's sad that I am sure that some point soon 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.080 that we're going to find out that Joe Biden and 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.320 Anton and Blincoln the Secretary of State are mainly responsible 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.440 for all this. Of course it's a lie, but who's 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.280 gonna who's going to actually report lies when the true 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.720 and the truth doesn't work very well. So we'll see 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.720 what happens. But you know, Phase one involved ceasefire and 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.919 the IDF pullback that happened, Amas releasing all the living 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.880 twenty hostages. The video of this is incredible. That's happened. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.840 Israel releases two hundred and fifty prisoners. That is ongoing, 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.000 and they may be somewhat recalcitrant in releasing up to 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.800 two thousand prisoners, many of whom are the worst of 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.760 the worst mass murderers serving life sentences in Israel without 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:25.000 possibility of parole because Hamas has not returned the bodies 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.320